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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
hour of play and buck kicks off right now. And we know that Hillary Clinton is testifying right now up on Capitol Hill about Epstein stuff. And we're going to bring you this as, as it goes, as it moves forward. But something strange just happened. Play. We're just breaking people the breaking news on this. An advisor to Hillary Clinton said the House Oversight House Oversight Committee's deposition had to be stopped because of an unauthorized photo being shared on social media. Play 33. This just happened. The hearing just went off the record for a moment because it seemed, as some of you may have seen, that there was some, there was some photo shared on social media, which is against chamber rules that were read at the
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top of the meeting.
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Buck Sexton
So the hearing has been paused briefly while they figure out where the photo came from and why possibly members of Congress are violating. I haven't actually seen that. Can you explain what the picture is?
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
If you look, if you look in on your Twitter feed, you know who it came from?
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Caller
It came from Benny Johnson.
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Clay Travis
He said Lauren Boebert gave it. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Look at Benny Johnson's feed. Uh oh, Betty Johnson shared a naughty photo. What happened here? This is. I didn't even know this was a thing. I didn't know this was a. There was some rule about. Anyway, they paused the hearing because someone gave Benny Johnson a photo to share on social media and he shared it. I. I don't know. I guess. Team, take a look. What did Benny share? What is this photo that could pause the hearing?
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Clay Travis
I think it's just a photo of the hearing.
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Buck Sexton
Of, of the hearing. That's it.
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Clay Travis
Because they specifically are doing it without cameras present. So I presume that that was negotiated because they don't want the footage of Hillary Clinton to be used. I don't know if they're going to do a public hearing or not. Tomorrow is Bill Clinton, but I'm guessing somebody snapped a photo of it, it got shared and then it ended up on social media and they've had to stop the hearing as a result. But just a.
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Buck Sexton
What a circus. Oh yeah. Okay. So he shared. He shared a photo. It is just. By the way, we know the team just pulled it. We know it's just a photo of Hillary. But can I just point out it's a photo of Hillary at like a random conference. You can tell me she just got out. This is like a committee meeting of, of mean old ladies who have nothing else to do in Zurich or something like, you have no idea. There's no, there's nothing about this photo that's particularly interesting other than apparently you're not allowed to take photos in the hearing. So that's all.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. And look, far be it for me to defend Hillary Clinton unless they have photos of her on the plane or photos of her with Epstein. It seems like she basically is showing up because Bill Clinton had a relationship with Epstein and she, like she has been doing for the last 40 some odd years, is going to be answering questions about what Bill Clinton did and she may not, may not have a lot of knowledge about some of the things that Bill Clinton did. So it doesn't seem to me like there is much here. And what I will say is there were two things that Democrats seem to be focused on at the State of the Union, if you looked at what their lapels showed and everything else. One was, we saw, we talked about it, the anti ICE pens that people like Rashida Tlaib were wearing. That, that had an expletive followed by ice. Very succinct there. The other one was Democrats have really decided to make this Epstein release their primary method of attacking Trump and Buck. This is starting to have. And by the way, I know all the Epstein people out there will flood it in, but the way that they are sharing these stories, it's starting to feel like the Steele dossier to me. And let me explain what I mean by that. And you can speak to this in, in much more detail because of your background with the CIA. But you basically have now completely unverified allegations which seem to have no substance or validity at all behind them that are now front page of the New York Times today was, oh, there's an accusation against Trump made by what appears to be a crazy person that did not come out until 2019 and appears to have no basis in reality at all. It feels both like the Steele dossier and the Kavanaugh accusations where the media didn't matter how crazy the people were. They treated these accusations all as legitimate. So they seem to have decided this is their angle to go after Trump in, in second term.
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Buck Sexton
I also think there is a little bit of like taking a step back and away from Hillary Clinton talking about Epstein. Apparently she didn't really know Epstein, but you know, they're asking her about this whole thing. Honestly, we're all forgetting the answers and everything else. But I'm also not for not getting the answers. As in like, nothing, nothing is going to come out of this hearing. Just so you just, just so we're clear, just like I told you, nothing was going to come out of the JFK files. Yes, it did, Bucket. No, it didn't. Okay. Nothing is going to come out of this hearing with Hillary Clinton. It's just putting Hillary through it. Hey, look, you could say putting Hillary through it because she would do this to us, whatever. If that's, that's one thing. But if you're waiting, you're waiting for the big Epstein revelation from Hillary Clinton. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. That's not going to happen. But here, here's what I do see happening. And this actually goes to the State of the Union and the state of the Democrats right now. I think they don't know really what to do in a post Trump era. And they're starting to realize that it is coming now. Obviously not before the midterms. They're going to run against Trump as much as they can. They're going to, they're going to use the ICE stuff and they're going to talk about this. But when they're flailing at Trump with Epstein for one, it shows that they've got nothing else. Okay? They got, they have nothing of any real substance to hit Donald Trump with. And I know we're all supposed to sit around and think about like ICE in Minneapolis for the rest of our lives. No, there's other things and more important things that are happening elsewhere. And people have moved on largely. So that's, that's one part of it. I think they don't really know how to position themselves as a party right now at all. I mean, here's CNN talking about Trump after that State of the Union clay. And they have to say that based on the data they're able to pull together, Trump was looking great after that State of the Union play.
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State of the Union Analyst
Five, look at the growth President Trump made over the speech. So pre speech it was. 54% of speech watchers said his policies will move the US in the right direction. After the speech, that number goes up 10 percentage points. So Donald Trump made some progress with people watching the speech from their pre speech expectations to what they saw in the speech itself. And that 64% number, that's pretty much in range across all of his State of the Union addresses in his first term last year, the joint session. That's about what we've seen is roughly 2/3 have walked away from his speeches thinking he's going to move it in the right direction.
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Clay Travis
Look, we played that in the first hour as well, Buck. And I think it's the most important takeaway from the reality of what happened in that speech. Speech. Trump won over viewers. And I. I think it goes into what you're raising is, look, 2026 is going to be the last opportunity for Democrats to run against Trump, and then they have to actually start to argue for things that they believe in. I mentioned that mortgages dropped under 6%. Health care costs are going up. That's largely a function of Democrats having screwed up on health care with Obama. Obamacare. But they're going to try to run on health care. Abortion is gone. I said this yesterday. I understand that they may try to run on it. You know, Kamala made her entire. You talk about funny clips. You were talking about funny clips that we enjoy every single time. Makes me smile to think about it. The social. The political lady who went to go buy her bottle of champagne and lecture the guy.
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Buck Sexton
I said, excuse me, sir, I'm a political analyst and I'm pine champagne, because the women of America are going to be heard.
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Clay Travis
And then Kamala ran her entire campaign on abortion, and it didn't work in 2024. And I think it's even less likely to work in 2026. I mean, if you are out there and you are listening to us and you have daughters or you have granddaughters and they're single, Democrats managed to mobilize single women with the idea that their daughters were gonna get dragged out of. Out of the house by their hair. If you got pregnant, you're not gonna be able to cross state lines. And it may have worked in 22. I think it did. I think it forestalled what otherwise would have been a red wave in 24. They tried it again. It didn't work at all. I don't even know if they can run that playbook in 26. I really don't. I mean, I think the lesson of Dobbs has been that it moved abortion into state legislatures. And if you're desperately focused on that as your right can be, then figure out what your individual state policy is going to be. Fight the battles there. It feels like basically all 50 states have come up with whatever their abortion policy is, and we have 50 different state laboratories dealing with abortion. The number of abortions, despite what was said, really didn't change at all. So if you don't have abortion and if health care actually you're the cause of. Maybe they're going to be able to demagogue health care. I think what you're getting at is a really important part, really important thing. What do Democrats stand for that majorities of Americans agree with? Even the ICE thing, you're opposed to illegal immigrants being removed from the country. That is not something that the vast majority of Americans are in favor of. So what I mean, I mean this. Honestly, what is the Democrat policy that actually majorities of Americans are in favor of? I can name a lot that Republicans are on. Trump is a master of these 80, 20 issues and getting Democrats to take the 20. What is, can you even think. I honestly can't think of one. What is a 60, 40 issue that Democrats are on the right side of Now,
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Buck Sexton
Clay, I sit here and I can't think of a single thing because it really, it was the Democrat Party of the. Let's just look at the Democrat Party of the Obama era for a second and how they position themselves, not what they were and not what they did. How they positioned themselves. First of all, Obama came in as a traditional marriage candidate, which is, which is really interesting. Right. He was like, he was like, no, gay marriage. Can't do that. That was.
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Clay Travis
Obama ran against it.
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Buck Sexton
Right, Right. So just start with that. Ok. Now, now we got Joe Biden's White House putting out. Yeah, trans the 12 year olds. Why not? That's what the medicine says. Put me back to sleep. Like, we all know they went completely insane, but they were the health care party. That was really their thing. Oh. Because look, that's the thing that affects everyone. Everyone gets scared. Everyone, everybody wants to know and it's a basic human thing that when they get sick, they're going to have the care they need. I get that. Right. We're in a country now where the problem, like the same way that people, you know, when you're hungry, you want there to be food. We're actually in a country where poor people, the problem is that too much food of low quality that gives them health problems because people get too fat. So no one's actually starving to death. People are malnourished. People have, you know, have, have different kinds of issues with food. But so people want to have health care. And I get that. And Democrats were saying, we're going to
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Clay Travis
make sure you have it.
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Buck Sexton
And they screwed the whole thing up. They've screwed the whole thing up. They've made it worse in every respect. All the, all the health care stuff has gotten worse. That Democrats touched that Democrats were involved in. So that I think. That I think is a hole that they can't fill. Also, Clay, they used to be. We're in agreement with Republicans about securing the border. We just want to do it differently. Now everybody knows that's a lie because they didn't want, you know, they kicked the border wide open. Trump secured it, and they're still complaining about it. Right. So your point about 60, 40 issue. I mean, you just, you have to be ignorant that they have to get people to believe lies for that to be the case. They have to get people to not understand that health care Premiums are up 150 to 200% over the last decade because of Obamacare.
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Clay Travis
And so that's where, I wonder, right now, the only thing that unites the Democrat Party is they hate Trump, and the base of the Democrat Party hates Trump desperately, even in the face of pretty good results coming in now, and the economy is going to be better, I think. So what do they actually stand for? I. I think they're in a tough spot. I don't think. I don't see very many things that they stand for that have majority public approval. And at some point, that's going to blow up in their face. And even more significantly than I think what happened in 24. Look, one of the things I admire is people who are able to build successful businesses. And the founders of Legacy Box, Nick and Adam, fall into that category. I spoke on Tuesday night at a Nashville event that was put on by. By Nick and Adam. That's called in the Black. The goal is, hey, let's just balance the federal budget. And if you are a business owner, small business owner, big business owner, whatever you run, you've likely had to make payroll. You've likely had to do something that the federal government doesn't have to do. You've got to balance your books. You've had to make sure that you bring in more revenue than your expenses. And Legacy Box has built a great business by serving people and helping to digitize their old family photos, their old VHS tapes, their old 8 millimeters, whatever your family's legacy is. Legacy Box can make it digital so it's preserved forever. So you can text your kids and your grandkids that old photo from back in the 1920s or even the 1800s, that old VHS video that you have on those disintegrating VHS tapes from somebody's Christmas back in the 1980s or somebody's birthday party back in 1992. That's what legacy Box does. And right now, you can go to legacybox.com clay get 50% off everything. That's the legacybox.com clay and you will be well on your way to getting hooked up with a great deal. That's legacybox.com clay one more time legacy box.com clay for 50% off stories of freedom, Stories of America, Inspirational stories that unite us all each day. Spend time with Clay and Bucks. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. We got a couple of calls. Let's see Tom and Spokane. What you got for us?
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Caller
Oh, Queen. Buck.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Caller
Anyway, I just wanted to say, you know, Trump derangement syndrome is real, but it goes both ways. People on the left think Trump can do no wrong. People like you two think Trump can do reverse it. Treat people in left think Trump can do no right. And you guys seem to think Trump can do no wrong. I voted for Trump.
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Clay Travis
Okay, well, I mean, I think Trump is imperfect, like all humans. What do you think we should be criticizing him for?
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Caller
Well, okay, just for quick, poignant. He used the word crazy during his State of the Union address.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Caller
Now that's, that's not intellectual.
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Buck Sexton
I think it's accurate. I actually think the Democrats are not. So I. You and I are going to have a difference of agreement, a difference of opinion rather.
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Clay Travis
So you, you're saying that about how
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Buck Sexton
these people are delusional. It's called manufacturing delusion. I highly recommend you get a New York Times bestseller. Everybody.
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Clay Travis
You're concerned that we're supporting Trump too much and that's going to hurt Republicans.
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Caller
Yeah. Buck, I really like the concept of that title of your book, but we have.
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Buck Sexton
You got to read the book.
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Caller
No, I really like.
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Buck Sexton
I know you like the concept. I'm saying get yourself a copy of the call back in. We could talk about this because I think you'll see these Democrats are nuts, my friend. I mean, you seem like a good American, a good patriot. I'm telling you, this is not your daddy's DNC. This is not JFK's party. These people are wackadoos.
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Caller
But you're being a little bit extremist to the left or criticizing the right for being extremists and the rate or criticizing.
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Clay Travis
Thank you for the call. I don't even understand what could be called an extremist opinion from Donald Trump. And I'm not even trying to be cocky in saying that. I don't even know what it is.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Joining us now, the chairman of the fcc, Brendan Carr came on last week I believe to talk about the late night TV battle and the fact I think you saw that we'll start there because the primary is Tuesday. It feels to me like that was a clear attempt to help James Talarico in the battle against Jasmine Crockett and that the media was not smart enough to see what was going on in the way that that played out. And I think it's become even clearer since because Talico raised $2.4 million and and the YouTub got watched way more than if he had just been a guest. Nobody would have cared. Nobody would have noticed. And unless I'm wrong, Jasmine Crockett still hasn't gotten an invite yet to appear on the Colbert Show.
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Brendan Carr
Yeah, look, I think you you nailed it. Great to be with you again. This was a really interesting story where one Democrat candidate tried to create a hoax to get clicks and views and money over another Democrat candidate in the primary. And so much of the traditional legacy just played right into it. They're more than happy to do it. What's interesting though is there's now reporting that a number of TV stations in Texas, not the CBS ones but actually Disney affiliated ones, have filed equal time notices with the FCC saying that because of Talarico's appearance on the View, which happened a couple weeks ago. They're offering the opportunity for any other legally qualified candidate, including the Crockett campaign, to reach out and get comparable time and placement. So we'll see if that happens. But it's an interesting development that you've got Texas TV station saying or appearing to say that yeah, the View is not bonafide news programming.
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Clay Travis
Well, and I want to build on that for a sec because I know you're going to talk about a new story that we're super fascinated about here too. But the idea we've got a super competitive Texas primary, we started talking about that on Tuesday and we will soon have a nominee on the Republican side, Democrat side as these primaries play out. Would it be your suggestion contention under equal time based on the way we have seen these late night shows rig super left wing guests without offering an opportunity for the other side that post primary, the equal time doctrine could be in play for if you're going to have on a Senate candidate, let's say from Texas, who's the Democrat nominee, to me it's even more incumbent then that you should offer equal time to the Republican candidate. Cuz I think what we'll see is some of these shows, Colbert and Kimmel certainly where they have a lot of these guys on for the midterms on the Democrat side and don't give any opportunities at all to Republicans.
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Brendan Carr
I think that's exactly what we could see happen here. So remember, Congress passed this law. It wasn't me, it was Congress itself. And Congress was worried. They did not want media gatekeepers to be able to put their thumb on the scale for one candidate or one political party. What they wanted was for individual voters to be able to make their own mind up. And so if you're not a bona fide news program and you have a legally qualified candidate on, then you have to offer comparable time and placement to all others. And that empowers individuals. It's not a censorship provision. It doesn't stop you from having anybody on. And in fact you don't even have to have the other legally qualified candidate on. If Colbert has an issue with Jasmine Crockett, he doesn't have to interview her, but the TV stations do have to give her and other legally qualified candidates equal time. So the FCC's been clear, we're going to start insisting on this. And there's programs out there like the View, like the Late show, that simply have not made the case to the FCC at this point that they qualify as a bona fide news program. And again, the key there is, under the FCC's own test, are you motivated by partisan political motivations or are you really more of a straight news program that asks legitimate, hard hitting questions?
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Buck Sexton
Commissioner, it's Buck. Thanks for being here with us. I have a question that certainly falls under your area, but it's a little bit of a different direction. Has to do with spectrum policy and expansion of the spectrum out there. I mean, essentially with things like satellite to device connectivity. You know, Elon's got all these SpaceX satellites up there now and people are able to get their Internet, you know, directly from satellites. This is increasingly common, even something that we talk about in my little community here in Florida as an option. What role does the FCC play in streamlining, assisting, making sure that as these technologies become more available, basically free, I'm not free. But, you know, super fast, super reliable Internet, everywhere, anywhere, anytime is a reality because I feel like we're getting closer to that technologically. The regulations obviously need to be kept up to that.
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Brendan Carr
This is one area in particular where I'm really excited about what President Trump is accomplishing. You may recall back during the Biden years, Congress passed this $42 billion program to connect millions of Americans to the Internet and not a single shovel's worth of dirt was turned, not a single home was connected. President Trump has come in and fundamentally transformed that program where we're going to start to see shovels in the ground very quickly here. At the same time, as you noted, Trump has been clear that we're going to get the airwaves out there to power this new generation of low earth orbit satellites. Starlink has this. Amazon's coming online with theirs. And so we are heading in a great direction right now in terms of more spectrum, increased connectivity, real competition. It's a good time to be a consumer. Prices right now are already down significantly year over year because we're getting more spectrum out there and more competition.
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Clay Travis
Okay, let's go into something that's got me super fired up. Whatever you think about me, I'm in the 99th percentile for sports viewing. I watch sports all the time. I know you're a big sports fan too, and it's not moving in a good direction. Put simply, everybody out there who's listening to us right now. In 2010, it was easier, it feels like, to watch your favorite team than it is in 2026. And the cost to do so has been skyrocketing. The number of streaming services, channels, everything else out There continues to grow. The consumer is paying more and getting less. That seems like a bad combination. What are you trying to do now as it pertains to sports rights and looking into this increased cost and, and and not increased ability to, to consume products?
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Brendan Carr
Well, for decades, Americans love to sit down, turn on the TV and just quickly find the game they wanted to watch. And in recent years, it's gotten a lot more complicated. People are having to sign up for bespoke streaming services. They can't find the game they want to watch. They're having to sign up for trials of one platform just to get a playoff game, and they got to remember to cancel it down the road. And to your point, a lot of them are paying more out of pocket, and that's a problem. It's a real frustration. There's a role for the FCC here too, though, because as sports are broadcast over the air on tv, that helps drive advertiser to local broadcasters, and that's what ends up funding local news and local reporting. So we're exploring this relationship between sports and broadcast because a lot of people don't know this, but many years ago, Congress passed a law, the Sports Broadcasting act, that created antitrust exemptions for the sports leagues. And that law was passed when all of the games, if you weren't there in person, were broadcast for free over the year. And so as more and more games start to go behind paywalls, it starts to tug at sunder the some of the underpinnings of that Sports Broadcasting act. I think people are right to start to ask questions of do we have the right regulatory framework right now?
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Clay Travis
Okay, this is very specific, and I don't know how much attention you're paying to this, but 2029, the NFL can opt out of his existing contracts. NFL is the biggest sports league in America. Clearly in terms of audience right now, the games air over the air, free in quotation marks, but on cbs, NBC and Fox, Right? So for a lot of people out there, they watch their favorite local team on cbs, NBC and Fox. There is some talk that the NFL may decide to leave cbs, NBC and Fox. Do you believe the FCC has an interest in the NFL airing on cbs, NBC and Fox? Would the NFL if they just pulled out and said we're no longer going to air on those networks? I don't know. To your point that broadcast television even can exist as a viable business given how much money they make in an audience they grow off of the NFL, are you paying attention to that? Is there a role given those games on cbs, NBC and Fox.
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Brendan Carr
Yeah. This is one of the most significant features of broadcast TV right now. So much that local news and local reporting works and there's funding for it. Because that great relationship between broadcasters in the NFL, as that contract comes due, if too many of those games start to go behind a paywall, it's a problem on many fronts. I think it's a problem for local news and for broadcasters. I think it's a problem problem for consumers who I think continue to be frustrated with an inability to find the games. And again, it starts to undermine some of the reasons why we have that Sports Broadcasting Act. There's some good reasons that come from this as well. There are more games that are available now, so there is some upside, but there's a real consumer frustration. So I hope that the NFL ultimately finds the right balance where we still get these free over the air games. That helps grow the game, it brings additional audience to it. I just don't think it's a great thing if we see a critical mass start to go behind all sorts of different paywalls.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, because I mean, as a sports fan, if suddenly cbs, NBC and Fox don't have games, then you're demanding effectively that everybody go subscribe and it's not better for the consumer. I wouldn't think so that there's a role in theory because of where those games are for the fcc and you're working through on that angle.
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Brendan Carr
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. We're working at all that. I mean, the very first sports game ever to be broadcast went back, I think to the 1939 World's Fair in New York. It was a college baseball game, a barn burner that was won 2 to 1 in 10 innings. And Americans have just had so much fun over the years. Sitting down, grabbing a drink, bowl of chips, watching the game. It's just become a frustrating experience. There's so much in our lives right now that's frustrating that drives Americans apart. I do want to see us continue to have games on the air where lots of different Americans are being brought together. I think it's been a great beneficial relationship for sports leagues, for broadcasters, but really for the American people.
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Clay Travis
No doubt we appreciate the time. FCC commissioner Brendan Carr, if people are interested in this, what should they do to let you know their perspectives?
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Brendan Carr
The public notice it was just put up on the FCC's website, FCC.gov, i posted it out on X and people can file their comments in that proceeding. And we're going to take a look at it awesome.
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Clay Travis
We appreciate the time, sir. Keep up the good work. We'll talk to you again soon.
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Brendan Carr
Thanks much. Appreciate it.
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Clay Travis
That's FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Super interesting story there, among many others. When we come back, we'll dive in a little bit into this who's gonna buy Warner Brothers discussion as well as Hillary Clinton testifying. And coming up in the next hour, we got some fun with some hockey reactions. Even in New Jersey, they're fired up with how crazy people have gotten in sports media.
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Buck Sexton
Buck, I've also got a little update on the kerfuffle around the Hillary testimony from from a Mr. Benny Johnson himself. He's saying he's crying foul over their cries of foul.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Travis Buck Sexton show some news for you, something that went mega viral. And we talked about on the program, police officers being pelted by, by bystanders during this big snowstorm in New York City. They shared photos of the individuals that they were seeking to arrest this morning. According to the nypd, they arrested a man named Guzman Koulibaly. That's my best guess, 27 years old. So they tried to say, oh, these were just kids, this 27 year old for assaulting officers. He was one of the guys who had one of the big. It wasn't even a snowball. It was like an ice boulder almost. And we said on the program, hey, or I said, I would bet a ton of money that whoever these guys were that they had criminal charges.
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Buck Sexton
This wasn't a just, you know, I love when you make a long, long shot call. This was a. This was a ten to one in your favor, buddy. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
So the guy was arrested and what do you think? He had, of course, a previous arrest record. Less than three weeks ago, he was arrested for attempted robbery on the transit system. Again, if you are the kind of person to see a police officer and think, I want to pelt these officers with snowballs and continue to do so, then you are the kind of person who likely has engaged in criminal behavior in the past. But again, NYPD has officially arrested this guy. Now we'll see how soon mom Donnie lets him out and whether there is any, any actual process here. But again, 27, they tried to say, we played this cut. Mayor Momdani said, oh, these are just little kids in a snowball fight. 27 year old who had been arrested for armed robbery, probably shouldn't have been out on the street anyway, and he has now been arrested. So I hope mom Donnie will speak out and say, you know, I didn't handle this as well as I could have, but I doubt that he will. There are reports, however, that Mamdani is meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office today. So there is a possibility that he could be asked about this arrest because I would imagine, Buck, that the President and Mamdani might have another one of those joint press conferences reports that the two of them are going to work on trying to build more housing in New York City, which would theoretically bring down the overall cost of rent and, and other aspects associated with residential cost there. So that news is out there as we get ready to go into the third hour here.
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Buck Sexton
Look, bringing down the cost of building residential units, because that's really, you're not really talking so much about single family home in New York, you're going to be talking about apartment complexes. Bringing down that cost would be a remarkably wise thing to do. The cost, Clay, in specifically New York state, or I should say New York City and then across the whole state of California, the additional costs of building places to live that have nothing to do with lumber contract work, like just the environmental crap, the regulatory nonsense, the tax burden, all this. It is astronomical. Yes, astronomical. And what people say is they go, oh well, the rents are so high. It's a market. The rents are high because there's supply and demand and people want to live in these places.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. And they have such zoning restrictions that they will not allow additional housing to be created.
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Buck Sexton
Artificial scarcity and demand. That's why.
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Clay Travis
Demand, it's just supply, demand. I mean, we're not reinventing the wheel here. And remember when they criticized J.D. vance when he said, hey, you know, if we had fewer illegal immigrants, it would mean costs would come down for overall rent. Guess what? Cost in many different places are starting to come down. When we come back, New Jersey stood up and said, stop picking on the US Men's hockey team gold medalist. We've got some fun reaction to that. Also, can we get the audio poll of Kamala Harris saying she might be running? Does Buck want to go ahead and relent and admit that yet again I have won another stake? We will discuss third hour. Rolling in next.
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Buck Sexton
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