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Leon Nayfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
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Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
All right, third hour of play and Buck gets going right now. Thank you for being here with us. As you know, President Trump is on a huge trip through the Middle East. A lot going on there. Offered a pathway to normalcy with Syria after a long and horrific civil war in that country and US Military operations there against the Cottas. All that stuff. Now perhaps, perhaps no guarantees there could be a better future for that country. He's got deal making happening with the Saudis, deal making happening with the uae, with Qatar, and perhaps with Iran as well. That remains to be seen. Those details remain to be seen. But there's also Trump speaking to the troops in Qatars. You know, we have a very large military base there. And he decided that he was going to address them directly. I wanted to let you hear from some of this. We'll talk about how the military and recruitment and all that is going under the Trump administration as well. But this is cut eight. Trump sang some words to the troops.
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Donald Trump
The real strength of our military doesn't come from its fighter jets. It really comes from our people. That's you. Comes from our people. You're unbelievable people. The aptitude and all of the things you have to do to do what you do. You know, I look at some of those engines and I'm a pretty smart cookie. I would tell you. I'm real smart. And I look at you and you take those engines apart and put them back together blindfolded and fix them up. It's amazing what you're able to do and, and then to fly them. Just incredible. You're incredible. You're a very special group of people. And that's why in my 2026 budget includes across the board, maybe you don't want it. Look, for the good of the country, you don't have to take it. Pay raises for each and every one of you. Substantial pay raises.
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Clay Travis
Pay raise for the military. Clay, you know, recruitment already up substantially under the Trump administration and Secretary of Defense Hegseth's tenure. Turns out that the people that you want fighting your wars or preparing rather the defense of your nation in the event of war want actually the business of the Pentagon to be war fighting and the focus of it to be on war fighting and not a big social justice experiment and a bureaucracy where people just show up and it's not really clear what anybody's doing.
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Buck Sexton
No doubt. And I, I think again, Trump's tour of the Middle east, it has a incredible impact already in terms of what Iran is reportedly willing to do. And also this comes on the heels. Buck, we got more data from April in the economy and I'm looking at this, this article from Axios, Hard data. This is the headline. Hard data suggest tariff driven inflation and recession fears may be overblown. You mentioned earlier the S&P 500, 500 back near 6,000 now over 5,900. And it says new data out Thursday showed steady retail sales and a surprising drop in wholesale prices in April such that there is no evidence that the tariffs are leading to massive increases in cost of goods. In fact, the producer price indexed showed that prices actually fell in April and the cost of goods overall is flat in many ways. And I mentioned, Buck, the price of gas which no one is talking about. Isn't it kind of crazy that all of the headlines we saw about what eggs cost and I don't know what percentage of you buy eggs weekly? Maybe all. I don't know. But I know most of you buy gas weekly. And I know most of you, when you gauge what things cost, you don't look necessarily at one product. When you go to the grocery store, you buy whatever your usual groceries are. And then the price comes up and you're like, boy, that's been a lot more than I expected. Gas is really easy. Remember when people started putting the. I did that picture of Joe Biden next to the gas gauges, Little stickers you would see all over the place. I saw them all over my neighborhood. Gas prices are down 50% since Joe Biden was in office. They're approaching the lows that were set when Trump was in office. And you just played that clip from the Middle East. Well, you know what happens when you have good relations with people in the Middle East. They pump more oil and gas they actually want instead of. They have a cartel they can control basically to a large extent what the price of gas is.
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Clay Travis
OPEC.
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Buck Sexton
OPEC's pretty powerful. And right now they're like, hey, we're, you know, we have a good relationship with the United States. We're fine with producing a lot of oil and gas. It also is cutting the economic engine out of Russia when prices for oil and gas in Iran, which they sell on the black market to a large extent when overall prices are low. The fact that you can get cheaper oil and gas from Russia and Iran because they're having to sell them on the black market means that the money that is pouring into those countries is declining. It should be a massive story what price we're getting for gallons of gas right now. Almost no one's writing or talking about it. And if you really are concerned about the war in Ukraine, do you know one of the best things we could do to cut economic engine and the economic power of Russia away? Lower gas prices. You know the best thing we could do to delegitimize the powers of the Ayatollah in Iran? Lower gas prices. It's a huge frigging story. Google it. Hardly anybody's talking about it. But the price of eggs. Oh, my goodness. We got to know every. We got to know how much your scrambled eggs cost. It's really goes to what stories are focused on. And I'm telling you, yesterday when I saw 265 gallon of gas in South Nashville I bought over the weekend. I think it was 287. Prices keep coming down, Buck. This is where most people, normal people, judge the economy based on what they have to pay to fill their gas tank up. That's just the reality.
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Clay Travis
There's something else that I think Trump instinctively knows and has known his whole life and has lived his whole life, which is that the American economy is the single greatest wealth generation machine ever devised in the history of existence. Ok. Nothing has ever been anywhere near what America has been for, let's say, certainly the last 100 and you know something, years. Okay? America has been an incredible wealth generation machine. If it is allowed to continue to do what it does, it will also continue to make all of us wealthier. And I mean that every single one of us as a people. It means, you know, this is when you start to look at what was the access to. If you look at somebody in the 1950s who was really rich, you look at somebody today, okay? I mean, your, your access to much better healthcare, much better food, much better entertainment, much more comfortable, everything. I mean, we are all wealthier. Actually. This is what people get very much into. And Naval Ravikant, who's a thinker that I sometimes cite on the show, does a very good job of explaining this. We get into status a lot of the time. Wealth and status are not the same thing. Right. You can talk about everybody getting wealthier in a country and there may be people who still say no, no, no, and it's because they don't think that they have more than the people they want to have more than. But that's not the same thing. I think Trump. So that's the status versus wealth paradigm. We all have actually gotten wealthier as a nation. I'm talking about now over 100 years. Yeah. Recently there's been some, or, you know, there have been years. You look at 2008, things have, have turned a bit. But as long as we don't mess up this amazing thing called the American economy too badly, it's going to continue to do what it does, which is create a wealthier and a more prosperous America all the time. Democrats are always so focused, Clay, on hyper regulating it and dividing the spoils within it and finding ways to carve up the pie. They don't even stop to think this pie is getting bigger every year.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, let's.
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Clay Travis
How do we make this, how do we keep this pie growing and getting bigger all the time with, again, the Democrat mindset? Because it's, it's about equality in their Minds. It's about status. And if I don't, if I feel like there are too many people who have. This is why Bernie Sanders goes around. Billionaires have no impact on 99.9% of Americans Day to day lives. Okay. It doesn't matter that there are a thousand billionaires or something like that in this country. But it's a fun way to divert people from, hey, what are you actually paying in, in taxes in your state? How good is your health care that you're being forced to buy because of regulations? What's actually happening with inflation chipping away at your savings? Like those are real things that affect you.
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Buck Sexton
Your analogy on the, the pie is actually the way that I see the country. I didn't like living on the east coast because it felt to me like everybody was like, there's only 12 slices. We're going to have to fight you to see who can get the most slices. Like the East Coast, I would argue of all the parts in the United States is the most focused and status conscious. You getting something means somebody else loses something. Best case scenario, west coast used to be before they destroyed it. Hey, let's build a brand new pie that's way bigger, right? Like the brand new technology. It's not old school. Europe is the worst with you with your pie analogy. South is like, hey, do you want to share? You know, it's like people are just really friendly. They're not necessarily as status obsessed. But what you hit on is so important because we all live. This is a great stat and I think it's still true. The poorest 20% of Americans would be the richest people in almost every country in the world. And one of my favorite stats, I think you may have shared it for the first time. England is poorer than Mississippi.
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Clay Travis
Yep. Per capita. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
And that's a, that's a holy crap moment. If you've been to London. I'm not saying there's not a lot of rich people, but for a long time people dump on Mississippi. It's great state, by the way, a lot of great people. But they would say, oh, it's. And I think it's still Mississippi as the poorest average per capita in the United States. It's richer than, than Great Britain. And that speaks to the wealth overall of the United States that even our poorest state is wealthier than a huge European country on average.
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Clay Travis
Yes. Well, this is also why, you know, we have and this is maybe transitions a little bit in the RFK discussion. We have become a society where the challenges of and the diseases of abundance are far more of a problem than diseases of scarcity, whether it's eating way too much and obesity and the health challenges from that. That's obviously an overabundance issue. I mean, it is. You know, we're talking about the grocery store thing yesterday, and maybe this just makes me sound like I don't know how many ever watch Perfect Strangers, but I sound like Balky Bartokomis, who is the. I think he's supposed to be like a Greek immigrant or something. And he's like, oh, what, you know, amazing country. But I walk into the grocery stores around here, Clay, it's just like a vast reservoir of food. It's unbelievable how much produce and food Americans have access to, and we don't even think twice. And I've been, you know, you've been in places, too. I mean, you go to the Caribbean. Caribbean's poor. A lot of parts in the Caribbean are poor.
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Buck Sexton
I live there.
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Clay Travis
There are some. Yeah, that's what I. That's what I mean. But I'm saying, you know, truly poor, right? I mean, you know, Haiti is one of the poorest countries on the planet. You go around here, you just take all of this stuff, all this stuff for granted a lot of the time. And, And I just think that with Trump, what you have is somebody whose focus is letting the greatest wealth generation machine in human history, which there is no argument that America is that thing. Letting it just do its thing, like ride this. Ride this show horse all the way to the finish line. With Democrats, they sit around and they have committees about, like, well, what about the other horses? Like, how are they going to feel like, what about, you know, no, let's let the American economy. I mean, it's a little bit of a Calvin Coolidge thing. Let the. The business of the American people be business. And I just think that you're seeing the early stages of that, and it doesn't ha. We don't have to have the sclerotic bureaucracy that is choking off so much wealth generation creativity. And when you start to think about this country versus other countries, I mean, you just look at GDP per capita wealth, Clay. You know, China, we think of as our nearest competitor. I think Chinese GDP per capita is like a third of ours. I'm going off top of my head here, but I mean, it's a third fraction of what.
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Buck Sexton
And not only that, what they find is it's very hard to take the proverbial next step to actually challenge us. Because this goes back to historically, Japan was going to pass us. If you looked at all the projections, China's peaked. I think China's already begun to decline. And that's what can make them a little bit scary right now. Because sometimes, as we know historically, it's not when you peak that your power is at its most, it's when you start to lose power that sometimes you overreach, which could happen with Taiwan things.
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Clay Travis
I just think everyone should always be very cautious about listening to the, the catastrophists and the, the high priests of resentment because that again, that gets you back into that status. This is what Marxists do. This is how communism gets going. You know, it's as long as they, they're making the right people miserable, they can make you miserable too. Is kind of the way that, you know, over regulated, over controlled economies function. And Trump takes the approach of how do we, how do we do what is going to be best for the most every, you know, a hundred times out of a hundred, the way to do this is to try to actually grow the American economy and we will all get richer. And there are a lot of ways we can even look at this ourselves. But I just think that the catastrophism stuff is, it's so, yeah, we have to watch the debt. That's what we can't, we can't just let this machine get destroyed. But it actually works. That's my fundamental thing. Like Trump knows that it works.
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Buck Sexton
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Leon Nayfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Clay Travis
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Buck Sexton
No.
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Leon Nayfak
It became known as the Iran Contra.
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Better Man Announcer
Affair and I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second I'm going to ask.
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Leon Nayfak
I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
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Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Some good news for President Trump. In addition to many other things going on well for him right now, he now has an 11th grandchild. His daughter Tiffany has just given birth and announced that they have had a baby boy named Alexander. So grandchild number 11 for President Trump, which is pretty fantastic I would imagine. For those of you out there that have been able to become grandparents, we come back. Jake Sullivan, who according to a new book was called Steve multiple times in a public room where everybody could see, despite the fact that he's known Biden for decades, said he had no idea until the debate that Biden was not doing well mentally. I just think we need to hold these people accountable, be playing all of the things they said which are clear lies. And so we'll hit some of this for you when we come back.
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Clay Travis
And I again, I just like to make sure we remember what needs to be remembered here to understand the full scope of the deception here. Clay, this is lying about something that's really important. Yes, it's really important whether or not the most powerful person on the planet has a brain that functions.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Reports today, that Jake Sullivan. Jake Sullivan's best call, Buck, probably was when, like, two days before October 7th. He said the Middle east had never been quieter and safer. And then Hamas attacks was unbelievable timing. But he was asked by Politico, hey, and before I play this, there are reports today that Biden multiple times referred to him as Steve. They've known each other for. I'm going to talk about how funny this is in a minute. They have known each other for decades. Jake Sullivan, I w. I'm not saying that you should do. Yes, you should do this. Every. Every time. I don't know how often Jake Sullivan tweets. Every. I'm asking all of you, every time that he tweets for the rest of his career, just respond, thanks, Steve. Like, I want this to be the number one. Every time Jake Sullivan tweets for the rest of his life, I want one of you to respond, at least one of you, thanks, Steve. And if you're not saying, thanks, Steve, I want you to like the first person who was there to say, thanks, Steve. I want every one of his tweets to be outvoted by thanks, Steve. But he was asked, because he's a liar, and he's a shameless liar. And he was asked by Politico, when did you first realize that Joe Biden might not be mentally sharp? And this was his answer just a few months ago.
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iHeart Podcast Announcer
What happened in that debate was a shock to me. I think it was a shock to everybody.
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Buck Sexton
And I've.
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iHeart Podcast Announcer
I've made that point before.
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Clay Travis
Just finally, do you think, in retrospect, given everything that's happened, everything we've talked about today, it was a mistake for President Biden to try to run again?
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iHeart Podcast Announcer
One of the things about being National Security Advisor is that you're mercifully insulated from politics and political decision making. I was insulated from it to the point where while I was National Security Adviser, my spouse was running for Congress. And I had strict rules about what I could even do to support my spouse, let alone be involved in political decision making, political calls in the White House. So I have not weighed in on those issues and would not weigh in on those issues.
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Buck Sexton
Okay, so, Buck, there are reports that he was in the Oval Office and Biden called him Steve. They have known each other for decades now. I want to have some fun with this.
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Clay Travis
Do you think that. Do you think that he stopped and he was like, he's like, do I correct him, or is that just going to make this worse? Like, maybe. Maybe Biden gets really angry if you tell him that you're not Steve. You'd be like, Steve, stop playing games.
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Buck Sexton
Thanks Steve. I want all of the responses to be thanks Steve. But you know what I just love is leave aside the fact that Steve Sullivan here was ready to sell the whole nation down the, down the, down the river so he could be NSA for, for 18 months or whatever the heck he was. Buck, you know when it happened the first time, because the report is that he said, Steve, that Jake Sullivan's heart just dropped because 99.9% of Jake slash Steve Sullivan's self worth is that the President knows who he is. That is like, that is his entire, like his North Star is. Joe Biden knows my name.
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Clay Travis
He claims to be the chief national security adviser to the President. That is actually the role, this notion that he's so insulated from it it's preposterous. But these are. You had to remember all Democrats who have worked in government for the last 20 years, they've all seen the West Wing, they all have the theme to the West Wing playing in their minds when they're walking around the White House. And Jake Sullivan, he's like, here I am, national Security Advisor, tip of the spear, working for Biden. And he's thinking about what he's going to write in his memoirs and he's wondering how his place will be remembered in history in the pantheon of national security giants. And then he walks in, he was Mr. President. And Biden looks at him and goes, Steve, what are you doing here?
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Buck Sexton
And he did it more than once because Buck, I guarantee you the first time he said, Steve, Jake Sullivan, who owes 99.9% of his self worth to the President, knowing his name just pretended it didn't happen. Or like you're looking around, like looking over your shoulder, is there maybe there's some guy named Steven here, Maybe, maybe Biden's really sharp as attack like they've been saying. And he knows one of the random lower level assistants. And then he goes to Jake Sullivan again and calls him Steve. And do you think other people in.
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Clay Travis
The meeting just like went with it? They're like, well Steve, what do you have to bring the President?
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Buck Sexton
I mean, I guess he just went with, you know, it doesn't matter. And I'm somebody who's not great with names, so I could. But if you get somebody's name wrong that you've known for decades, and I'm glad that he was humiliated like this, but I want the rest of you to continue to humiliate him forever. Over this and say, thanks, Steve, anytime he says anything because he's lying. Imagine how shocking it had to be. And deflating and destructive of his entire ego that Biden has no idea who he is. He can't remember his name. And to your point, Buck, he has a really significant job. He's one of Biden's top guys. They've known each other for decades. And Biden doesn't know who he is. And I don't know. So I'm going to go from humor to sadness here. I hope I never know what it's like to have dementia. But anyone out there who has been around someone who does have dementia every now and then, and I saw it with Biden and I said it on this show, you can see the panic in the eyes of the person who has dementia as they are aware, not all the time, but they are aware that their brain does not work like it used to. And they are scrambling to try to keep you from recognizing what they have had that moment of realization of in their own mind. And it is so incredibly sad and so incredibly awful to think about someone doing that. And I gotta say it, Jill Biden put her husband up to this again and again and again. She is an evil witch. I'm sorry. It is impossible for me to defend her as anything other than an awful human being because I can make fun of Steve Sullivan slash Jake Sullivan there, Kamala Harris, all of these other people who owe their power to the proximity of the president, they didn't swear when they got married that they were going to be the partner for the rest of their life like Jill Biden did. Now, I know she's wife number two, but leave that aside. The one person that Joe Biden, probably, whatever you think of him, and I think he's an awful president, whatever you think about him, the one person that he should have been able to rely on, failed him and put him in that position over and over again. Remember that video, Buck, where they're walking in the sand and Biden, every step he takes, he looks like he's going to fall. And Jill doesn't even look back at him. She's. She's completely dismissive of him. She just trotted him out at the View again and had to cover up his answers. All I have to say is imagine what she saw early in the morning, late at night. Imagine what she heard him saying and she was going to try to drag him to the presidency for another term.
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Clay Travis
Well, what you see, and this is not new, and it's not even in any way limited to Jill Biden, but for people who are in this world of national politics and have spent their whole lives pretty much in and around it, which is true of both Joe and Jill, because he's been, how long have they been married? And he's been a senator for, you know, 40 something years. And what matters is being in the game. And she didn't want to give that up. More important to her even than her husband's dignity or any sense of honor or integrity with the American people had to stay in the game. And the part of this that I also think is never going to get enough attention, but I think it deserves a lot of attention. Clay. Yes, you're right. Jill Biden achieved villain in this, although she would justify her actions. You know, if she were, she were standing at the, at the pearly gates and they're asking her, she would say, well, anything would be better than having Trump. Even. This is what Democrats really believe, that Joe Biden with, you know, advanced Alzheimer's is a better option for president than Donald Trump. I think the Democrats believe that. I think they still believe that. And I, so I don't, I don't actually think that they are chastened or feel sorry for what they did. I think they're bothered by losing and the embarrassment of it. They're embarrassed, but they're not, they're not humbled. That's a different thing. But one thing that I have to just remark on here, they had a plan B. The whole system is premised on, hey, we got, you know, things happen to human beings and they get older or, you know, God forbid, something that, you know, someone does something bad to them. We know what happened to that they tried to do to Trump in the summer. That's why you have a vice president. It was all there. They didn't push for Kamala because she's such a disaster, that they also thought Joe with Alzheimer's was a better option than completely like mentally there. Not impressive. But they're Kamala Harris. That is the part of the story they will not want to talk about. But that is the calculation 100% that they made Alzheimer's or dementia Joe better option than Kamala Harris, according to the.
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Buck Sexton
Polyfunctional brain was worse than dementia Joe.
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Clay Travis
Yes, yes. And I think underperformed what he would have performed in the general election. I, I, I still believe that we can't run that experiment.
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Buck Sexton
But yeah, I mean, I, I think it's an interesting, it's an interesting argument. You get nervous, by the way. About your Knicks.
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Clay Travis
A little bit. A little bit.
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Buck Sexton
Little bit nerve, little bit nervous. I think that game's not till tomorrow night, right? Or maybe it's Saturday. I'm not sure what game six the.
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Clay Travis
Problem with the Celtics, Clay, is they are a better basketball team. So, so hoping that your team is going to win when the other team is just kind of better at the sport. It can happen, but it's not easy.
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Buck Sexton
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- [35:46]
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Leon Nayfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
- [36:55]
Clay Travis
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Better Man Announcer
No.
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Donald Trump
No one was let go.
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Leon Nayfak
It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Better Man Announcer
And I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Leon Nayfak
I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Fiasco Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
- [37:26]
Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
- [37:37]
Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [37:46]
Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. All right, I think we got a bunch of talkbacks from people out there that wanted to be weighing in. Uh, I'm gonna. If you guys will give me the updates there on what, where those are, I will hit them. But I did want to hit this. This is cut 28. Do you know what Democrats are up to today, Buck? They have introduced a bill demanding trillions of dollars in reparations for slavery. Cut 28.
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Unknown Speaker
There is a debt that does exist. This country has taken so much from black folks and has a debt it owes because for over 400 years into this very day, this country has stolen black labor, black lives, black futures. Industries were built and maintained through the subjugation of black people in this country in wealth was built and maintained through the discriminatory policies that still plague us to this day. And to be clear, some people directly benefited from it or are direct beneficiaries of it. We have systems that create and perpetuate imbalances, imbalances in our society. And you either benefit from it or you are disenfranchised by it. And black people continue to be disenfranchised and harmed by these systems. Others receive advantages from.
- [38:51]
Buck Sexton
Can you believe this is. That this is their focus? This is what?
- [38:54]
Clay Travis
Well, this is. This is an idea. The ideology here, which unfortunately is dominant among Democrats on the left, is just. Just to be constantly soaked in, in resentment and demands for others to do for you whatever it is that you think you need. That's it. It's just, you know, there's a. There's a. It's like the malcontent religion. If you will like that's really what the Democrat left is all about. And all of this, as we've talked about, the administration of such a program, first of all, I think it's inherently wrong, but the administration of such a program would be impossible to do in any way. That is just and we already had the Supreme Court look at this and say, look, you can't have government treating people differently based on skin color and college admissions. We either all learn to live under the same laws or else we're not a rule of law society. And you know, my group, whatever that means to somebody and your group, are not to be treated differently based upon some historical narrative or some grievance or whatever, because all that does is perpetuate the problems and actually exacerbate the problems.
- [40:10]
Buck Sexton
No doubt. Well said. Michael Mansfield, Ohio. EE what you got for us?
- [40:17]
Clay Travis
Hey, Clay and Buck, just quick reminder about all those people who kept saying that Biden's as sharp as attack. Attacks have two sides, a sharp side and a blunt side. Biden was as sharp as the blunt side.
- [40:31]
Buck Sexton
Pretty funny. FF Angie from Memphis, Tennessee, 600 WREC, a lot of listeners down there in Memphis. What you got for us? Hey, Clay, Buck, just wanted to comment.
- [40:42]
On the Republicans holding the hearings on the Joe Biden cover up.
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Never gonna happen.
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Never gonna happen.
- [40:51]
The Republicans don't stand up for anything. I'm afraid Angie's right. And for those of you who missed it right off the top, I said if they can do Jan6 hearings about a day that frankly was nowhere near the worst day in the country since the Civil War, as Biden and Kamala insisted over and over again with us. But if they can do that, put them on in prime time and use them politically, how much more significant is the COVID up of Biden's dementia? Because it definitely leads to the question of who is actually running the country in 2023 and 2024. Who's making these decisions in Nashville? GG Can I just check out for us?
- [41:32]
Clay Travis
I think Steve was making a lot of the decisions.
- [41:35]
Buck Sexton
Well, Steve Sullivan may have been making a lot of the choices. He claims he has no idea what was going on. We'll come back to some of these listeners. By the way, let me tell you this, Buck. You know, I said earlier I wasn't able to watch the Supreme Court hearings or listen to it. While you were doing that, I was at the wax museum, something my fourth grader does. I'm gonna share this picture. Do you know who he dressed up as today, Buck? Davy Crockett and in a perfect, perfect symbiosis there. You need to go check out crockettcoffee.com make sure that you go subscribe. You can get an autographed copy of my book and I will share this picture of my fourth grader. He had a great Davy Crockett coonskin cap on and that's where I was this morning, which was pretty fantastic. Lots of great kids at his elementary school with some amazing costumes. We'll be back with you tomorrow to head back, take you into the weekend and hopefully we'll be celebrating continued good news as Trump completes his tour of the Middle East. All that and more coming your way. Thanks for hanging with us on Clay and Buck.
- [42:38]
Clay Travis
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- [43:09]
Buck Sexton
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- [44:17]
Leon Nayfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra Affair.
- [44:29]
Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
- [44:39]
Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story, listen to Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [44:47]
iHeart Podcast Announcer
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.