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Clay Travis
Welcome in third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off now. Appreciate you being here with us, everybody. We've got a lot to dive into still, the speech from last night, some news that has broken this morning. Overall, I think the speech is something that was very effective. I think the numbers show that. I think the perception on the right is that Trump is dialed in and is doing a fantastic job. And Democrats will never admit any of this, of course, but their opposition to him is so lackluster and ineffective that I think that speaks louder than anything they could say, which is proof, further proof that Trump is on the right track. America is back and we are in the dawn of the golden age of America. Clay, I don't think we played this one yet. If we did, apologies, but we could always hit it again. It is CNN's David Challenging. Did we play him in the very beginning of the show? We might have, but here he is. This is cut eight and he's saying according to CNN's snap poll or whatever it is that they do their Insta poll, these are the numbers when it comes to positivity and reacting to Trump's speech. Play it to the results.
Buck Sexton
What was your reaction to Trump's speech?
Clay Travis
44% of SpeechWatchers in our instant poll tonight said say they had a very.
Buck Sexton
Positive reaction to Trump's speech. 25% somewhat positive, 31% negative.
Clay Travis
69% of Americans, this is what it says on the sheet, had a, had a positive or very positive reaction to President Trump's speech. So I don't know, is that incorrect, guys? Because that was the number added up.
Stephen Miller
Strongly positive.
Clay Travis
Right? That's what I thought. So the point here is 69% thought that it was either good or great, which means that you're looking at a 70% approval of the speech overall, the tone overall. It's tough to get 70% of Americans to agree on much of anything these days.
Stephen Miller
Trump has strung together a large coalition built around common sense. And Democrats have combated his common sense revolution by going further over the woke waterfall and again, I think just delegitimizing themselves as a legitimate party. And I know this because I see and hear and meet so many of you out there. This audience for this show in particular is growing in record amounts because the rest of the media has totally lost its mind. And I do think this is significant. You know, more Democrats watch Fox News than watch MSNBC or CNN now. And if you are looking out there, I mean, sometimes I saw Brett Baer's interview with zelensky, had a 75% new share, 75%. And if you are now a Democrat politician, you're like, hey, we should go on Fox News to actually talk to Democrats. I don't think that's crazy for this show either. If I were Eric Adams and I was running for mayor of New York City and I were trying to figure out how to address a huge audience of potential voters, I would be begging to come on W O R, our affiliate in New York City and talk to this audience. Same thing for Andrew Cuomo if you're trying to talk to the biggest possible audience out there. It feels to me like Democrats have painted themselves into a corner and they keep painting themselves into a smaller and smaller corner. And Trump's speech, if you take away Trump's involvement from it. I thought he was great when he pointed it out with RFK Jr. Remember, they talked and wrote about what a masterstroke putting RFK Jr would have been for Obama in his cabinet. And Trump rightly pointed out during the speech that when he gave a shout out to RFK Jr. If Obama had done it, everybody would have cheered like crazy on the Democrat side of the aisle. And the way that this started, Buck, and we talked about this off the top with Al Green and his cane haranguing Trump and being forced to be evicted from the, the, the chambers. Remember, it wasn't very long ago that it was considered uncouth, unacceptable behavior. I believe it was in 2009 for the Republican in the, in the crowd to yell out, you lie to Obama. That was considered to be beyond the pale. He had to apologize. Democrats took a ton of flak for it. Basically there were 30 or so interruptions.
Clay Travis
Republicans took a lot of, a lot of flack.
Stephen Miller
That's what I'm saying. Back in 2009. And now you've got, I don't think it's crazy to say the people who were in that chamber say that much of the disruption wasn't picked up by the audio, but there were constantly people walking out. The Al Green thing was impossible to, to ignore. Democrats have lost their minds and they lost the ability to even connect with their basic humanity when they're not standing up for a 13 year old kid who's being honored as a Secret Service agent because of his commitment, having overcome brain cancer to the police. And I loved that moment, Buck, for many reasons, but in particular because it finally feels. We were talking about BLM Plaza. We're swinging back away from Police are everything that is awful in America. It used to be an aspirational goal to be a police officer for many young kids out there of all different backgrounds. And it feels like we're finally starting to recognize, hey, police are the good guys again.
Clay Travis
Well, police in America, by the numbers, are phenomenal. And given especially what they have to deal with in high crime neighborhoods, the numbers show that we have an incredibly well trained professional and humane and constitutional law enforcement. But that's not what Democrats want people to believe because it's easier to put the blame on the police than to look at other problems and challenges. But, you know, I was thinking about this, Clay. You probably had this experience. We haven't talked much about our, I mean, you know, high school athletics, but do you remember when you were on a pretty good team and if you lost a close game to somebody when you're a kid, I mean, I'm thinking about, you know, basketball, soccer, sports I played. You were like, oh, man, I can't. You were looking on the schedule and you couldn't wait to play them again. You walked off that field if it was a really tough game and you felt, you know, oh, we were robbed, we could have won. And I don't know if you ever had this. I've also had the other thing where you get so obliterated because you played like the state select team or something, when they're just in another level, you're like, I never want to see those guys again. It's really. That was a real tough one. I don't, I don't want to ever have to come up against. Democrats are looking a little bit like that these days in terms of where they are as a political party. You know, they look like they have been completely gobsmacked. Jake Tapper, who's busy promoting the book on the Biden lie, very suspect here he is saying over at cnn, this is cut four, that the Democrats are totally demoralized.
Stephen Miller
You can really sense Republicans with a pep in their step and Democrats rather demoralized. I mean, understandably so, given the fact that Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House, not to mention a conservative lean on the U.S. supreme Court. But beyond that, even when the Republicans are out of power, you sense like an energy. Quite often when, when, when Democrats are controlling things, the Democrats, not to be cliche about it, but they are in disarray. They do not know how to, how to be the opposition force.
Clay Travis
I mean, here's the easiest way to put it, Clay. We can't. We sit here and it's not even clear who we should be publicly arguing with on the Democrat side to tackle whatever the opposition to Trump's policies may be. There doesn't seem. This is like in Troy when Brad Pitt defeats the giant guy and then he's like, is there anybody else? And no one comes forward. There does not seem to be anybody else on the Democrat side.
Stephen Miller
I like your analogy about the sports. I'll take it to coaching because that's what I've done more recently. I was coaching 12U basketball a couple of years ago, I think, and one of the team we played against, every kid had a mustache. And I don't know how that was possible. But. But any of you who have coached, like, Little league baseball or like, adolescent moving toward. As soon as a kid has a mustache, he's got some testosterone. It's not little boy ball anymore. Somehow we played against the team where every kid had a mustache. And I remember, I told you, I remember taking a timeout and I don't know, we were down like 30 to 6 or something. I mean, these kids were just. I mean, it was like I was like coaching the Washington Generals against the Harlem Globetrotters. Right now it's the Generals, and, and the kids come over and, and. And, you know, as a coach, you just got nothing. Like, there is nothing. You got this. You got the board. You know, Buck, where you're like, hey, let me draw up a play. And the play's not going to work. Like, they don't play is not going to work there. You know, I was joking afterwards of their dads. I was. I think some of these kids. I think some of these kids drove here. You know, it's 12U basketball. Kids, like, pulling up in their own. I think some of them have kids themselves and. And like, I'm sitting there with the dry erase board and. And I feel like the Democrats right now are like me in that game. Buck, they've got the dry erase board. Literally, they had the dry erase boards in the. In the House chamber, and they're just writing like, pay your taxes, Elon steals. And, and, and these are not game plans that are going to work. But they're so utterly defeated right now, they don't even have a strategy to respond to the opposition. And to your point, they don't even have somebody who can step forward and you can be like, oh, that's the guy, or that's the gal who is going to elucidate their worldview better than someone else. I don't ever remember seeing a void like this. In a way, I haven't seen it happen.
Clay Travis
Usually the Leadership of a political party is, in a moment like this, I would say, fractured between a few different competing voices. That would be far more normal.
Stephen Miller
Right.
Clay Travis
You look back to Trump's first term, you had, you know, the Obama and Obama ites around him, obviously Joe Biden, you had Elizabeth Warren, you had Bernie Sanders. Now, I understand they're still around, but their potency as political figures has dramatically declined. And with Bernie Sanders, he's just so old, no one thinks he's going to be president. So they're, they're not in. It's not just that they don't have a single person, they don't even have a stable of people who are trying to emerge. And it's not just about those individuals. It's about what the message may be when they do, when they do things like say, Elon is stealing. They're trying to make an argument to normal, everyday Americans that the richest man in the world has decided to put himself in the crosshairs of lunatics because he cares a little bit about the stock price going up on one of his many hundreds of billions of dollar value companies. I mean, they're effectively arguing, Clay, that a literal or soon to be trillionaire needs a 5% bump in a stock when in actuality he's taken on tremendous headaches. This is just an irrational argument, but it reminds me of if you've ever, I don't know if any of you have ever been this position where you've been right, in an argument with somebody, maybe, maybe somebody very close to you, and you're right on the merits, and then all of a sudden it's, I don't like your tone. Their tone, policing Ellen, with oh, but the way he's doing it isn't. I agree with the cuts, I agree with ending the fraud, but I don't like the way he's doing it. It's too haphazard. Clay, that's not a serious argument against it. Right? This is not a, you either want it to happen or not. No one's ever done it before. Do you want it to happen, yes or no? They play this game of, oh, we want the same result. We would just go about it differently. Even though they've never actually done that and all they do is make it harder to get to the result, I think people are seeing through it. So this is why I believe it's also getting increasingly pathetic for them because with, with their arguments being made, it's backing them into a more difficult corner.
Stephen Miller
The arguments are awful. They aren't supported by the vast majority of the American public. And you actually are ending up. I mean, we come back. I'll play audio clip of Jasmine Crockett, who somehow has become a prominent spokesperson for the Democrat Party. She's a moron, and she actually alienates far more people than she would ever bring in. And that's kind of where we are in terms of people clamoring to be the official spokesperson of the Democrat Party.
Clay Travis
You know, you spoke about it as. From the coach perspective. Clay, just real quick. I remember I played in a. In a basketball tournament in the eighth grade when I was playing a fair amount of basketball. So I was very young. Young. I guess I'm 14 or something like that at that point. And someone dunked that we were playing against. Someone dunked.
Buck Sexton
Yeah.
Clay Travis
And I remember it's like it's all over. Just with that, you're like, this is not going to go well. It's a bit like Trump dunked on the Democrats last night. And they're at that phase of basketball where they like to just touch the bottom of the net and think that that's cool. No, no, no, no. You want to be able to dunk.
Stephen Miller
It reminds me somebody yelling back door. You know, where like somebody's. And then you're already dunked on before you can even react. But to your point, I bet that kid had a mustache. And I bet he was pretty far along on puberty. Probably 15 or 16.
Clay Travis
You know what I mean? 15 or 16, big difference from 13 or 14.
Stephen Miller
So, yeah, when you're slapping the backboard on your layup and then somebody else is dunking, you're at a competitive disadvantage. I think that's fair to say.
Clay Travis
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Stephen Miller
You know them as conservative radio hosts. Now just get to know them as guys on the Sunday Hang podcast with Clay and Buck. Find it in their podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. The Talk Back has become a big hit and you guys are often hysterical on them. Producer Greg listening to them all the time. Let's listen to some of your talkbacks. Phoenix kfyi Weigh it in. What you got for us.
Buck Sexton
When you first said that you were fantasizing about Meghan Markle, somebody slammed the door and I thought it was Megan Rapinoe. So I forgive you for at least fantasizing about Meghan Markle.
Stephen Miller
It wasn't a fantasy. It was an uncomfortable dream where we were baking together at an adult extended education camp.
Clay Travis
To be fair, Clay, it was a confectionary fantasy or perhaps a baked goods daydream.
Stephen Miller
Well, which you guys on social media have taken and run with with AI and it is pretty extraordinary, Cece. Let's see. This is, by the way, Megan Rapinoe. That is very funny. Megan Rapinoe, the gay women's soccer player. I have not had dreams about cooking goods with her yet. Who knows? Let's go to Cece. What you got for us?
Clay Travis
There's only one way to explain your Megan Merkel dream. Clearly, Kid Rock dosed you with some hallucinogen last night. So if I were you, I'd be talking to Kid Rock about easing off on the drugs when you're around because you might have sipped the wrong drink last night.
Stephen Miller
I think he's right. I think Kid Kid Rock might have dosed me, and that might be why I was at Kid Rock's Honky Tonk last night.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, joins us right now. Stephen, appreciate you making the time, breaking from your 21, 22 hour work days at this White House to fill us in on. Well, first, the aftermath of a highly successful speech. Did it all come off as you guys intended? And what should we be expecting here in the days ahead?
Buck Sexton
Well, first, it's great to be back on the air with you. I think it's the first time I've been on the air with you since President Trump was inaugurated back into the White House. So it's great to be on with you. And yes, I enjoyed getting the chance to come on your air many times during the four years between term one and term two. And it's very enjoyable to be here now, calling you from the West Wing of the White House. So thank you. The speech last night went more incredibly than we could have ever even hoped. And of course we always know that these massive internationally watched, must see TV events for President Trump are where he truly thrives. But even by those extremely high standards, this speech exceeded their expectations. And of course, at the same time, Democrats humiliated themselves before that same international viewing audience, behaving in a way that really shocks the conscience of the country. I mean, it wasn't just, it wasn't just disturbing, it was really profoundly sinister. I mean, to not stand and honor victims and their families who have been murdered by illegal aliens. To not stand and honor children, a child 13 year old who is battling brain cancer, who's getting to Live out his dream and become, to his surprise, an honorary Secret Service agent. And to see all of the inspiring stories and heroes. And a border agent who exchanged gunfire with, with a cartel. A girl who suffered a severe brain injury because she was spiked in the face by a male athlete. I mean, story after story of people who overcome hardship, adversity, unimaginable loss. I was there last night. I was stunned. The Democrats didn't stand to honor these Americans and their stories.
Stephen Miller
What do you attribute that to, Stephen, do you think? I'm curious. I agree with you. I think it was the best speech that trend. Thanks for coming on and we're proud of all the work you're doing. I think it was the best speech that Trump has ever given in his career, not only based on how he.
Buck Sexton
Did, but I agree with you and I appreciated your, we all appreciate your saying so, posting on X last night. So that's not going to notice. Thank you.
Stephen Miller
Well, it's well deserved. You guys are busting your ass. And I thought it was a stellar performance by Trump and you guys had weaved so many perfect narratives together to give people attention in the, in the gallery there. Why do you think Democrats have so lost their way? Because leave aside politics, Stephen, it's basic humanity to cheer for a 13 year old who's overcome brain cancer. It's basic humanity to cheer for a 95 year old mother who gets her son back from Russian captivity. These are not political related concerns. I talked some with people afterwards and they said the left wing has so taken control of social media that all of these Democrats are terrified to be seen as in any way applauding anything the President does. And also there's a crazy level of groupthink that has destroyed them. What do you attribute this to? Because it's not normal. It's super weird. And I know Tim Walls tried to say Republicans were weird, but it's also profoundly inhumane to me. Leaving aside the politics, well, you're right.
Buck Sexton
I mean, it displays a shocking absence of humanity at a very fundamental level, at a human level. You know, you see these people who have suffered and endured loss and pain that people can't even imagine. How do you not stand and honor them? How do you not show any kind of respect or decency in that moment? It really does defy any attempt to describe it or understand it. President Trump at the beginning of his speech challenged Democrats to for just one night put aside their own petty, impersonal and partisan feelings and celebrate big wins for America. For example, like you mentioned, getting somebody back who is improperly detained in Russia to be reunited with their family would be an example of a big win for America that everybody should stand up and applaud or capturing the terrorists behind the Abbey gate murder of 13 U.S. service members. These are things that you would think everybody would riotously applaud because it's such a huge win for the country, such a huge win for our people. It does defy description. I have to say that I think what's happened is the Democrat Party as an institution has become severely radicalized. I'm not using that term as an insult, although they deserve it. I'm using it clinically. I'm saying they've clinically become radicalized the way that a closed society or a cult or some other social group does. That lacks any kind of outside input, any kind of exposure to alternate points of view. And the more time they spend with each other, and you sort of alluded to it in their closed social media circle as well, too, the more extreme, the more radical they become, to the point in which, here's a good example. Mark Werner, Senator Mark Warner was, was on TV recently. He accidentally said something good the day before about President Trump's work on the border, and then he went on TV the next day to take it back and apologize for ever even implying or suggesting that President Trump had done anything good on the border. Again, this is the same political party, as you know, that has venerated criminals for years and years and years, that has venerated people who have engaged in violent contact like Black Lives Matter rioters for years. And they couldn't even stand for the family of Lakin Riley, who was barbarically murdered by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. It really, it just, it's a crystallizing moment in terms of where we are as a country. We have one political party, the Republicans, led by Donald Trump, that is broadly fighting for issues that 80, 85% of Americans agree on. Then we have another political party that is just lost in the wilderness and has gone completely mad.
Clay Travis
We're speaking to Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff. And Stephen, give us, if you can, I know you can. So give us, if you will, a sense of what is coming next here on the Agenda. We've seen a lot of the executive orders. We didn't get to it earlier today, but a federal judge decided that he could determine on his own that $2 billion must be paid for a USAID contract. Supreme Court 54 has come down and is essentially mandating that payment. So we know that the courts are going to be a battleground. What are you expecting with regard to that? And also what can we expect when it comes to immigration enforcement and some of the major operations that have certainly been hinted at?
Buck Sexton
Well, the district court judge issue is a very severe one, perhaps one of the most severe. So it's important to understand there's 700 more or less district court judges nationwide, or about 700, like 680 district court judges nationwide, a larger number than many people might imagine. And so when you hear the term federal judge enjoying something, you're talking about one person from a pool of almost 700. So largely the number of House Democrats by significant margin, for example, a subset of those federal judges are equally as radical as say, Al Green, who was escorted from the chamber last night, or Ilhan Omar or an aoc, et cetera. And so we have a situation now as a country where again, these are people that Biden or Obama forced through on a party line vote. They got zero national attention because, let's be honest, very little national coverage of a district court judge being appointed to, say, San Francisco. And so you have a single district court judge that represents 1% of the American population ideologically, that gets to assert the powers of the presidency for themselves and says, I'm going to be president now. I'm going to decide what our foreign policy is. I'm going to decide what foreign aid we're going to fund or not going to fund. It's breathtakingly unconstitutional. The Founding Fathers would have been horrified that anything even resembling what I just described could happen. And clearly the Supreme Court is going to need to establish new rules and procedures for district court injunctions because it deprives the American people of their ability to exercise democracy. In other words, you vote for a change in policy, you elect a new president. You can't have district court judges preventing that president from executing the policies that he campaigned on.
Stephen Miller
We're talking to Stephen, real and a.
Buck Sexton
Very serious, very direct threat to democracy and our democratic system of government. And clearly there's going to need to be reforms.
Stephen Miller
We know that you are walk working. Stephen Miller with us now, White House deputy chief of staff hours that are probably extraordinary. I know you have three young kids as well. I know your wife has also been working like crazy. Take it outside of the policy world for us for a moment. What is your average day like right now? There's a lot of parents out there that are have serious jobs. What are you doing on a day to day basis? What is your day like? And Then second part of this, and I texted you about this because before, in the four years when you were on with us regularly, we established your affinity for Karate Kid and the Cobra Kai series, which I sat around on February 13th and watched with my three boys. Have you had any moments of just non work basically since January 20th or frankly, even since November 5th? What's your day to day life like right now?
Buck Sexton
Yes, well, so unfortunately I have not had the chance to watch the last installment. So no spoilers here, please.
Stephen Miller
I will.
Buck Sexton
You're safe for Kai because, because I have not had that kind of time. But maybe I'll be able to get a chance to catch an episode here or there in the near future because obviously I've invested a lot into the series personally and emotionally. So I'm definitely going to finish it. But to answer your other question, look, when you work in the White House, when you work more specifically in the West Wing as a senior, age of the president, you know, you're on 247 and so, and you're on wherever you are, there's no such thing as being off the clock. The notion of working hours and non working hours doesn't exist. If you're awake, you're working, and frankly, sometimes if you're asleep, you're about to be working because you're going to get a phone call while you're sleeping. But that's exactly what we signed up for. That's what the American people expect of us. That's what the taxpayers expect of us. That's what the president expects of us. The people who work in these jobs is to be on call 247 and do everything possible to advance the agenda. And if you look at the scope and the pace of activity over the last six weeks, President Trump has crammed eight years of action into six weeks. But even that understates it, because name any president in the last decades, generations, who's done anything this good in eight years, let alone in six weeks, right? In other words, other presidents come in, they just tinker around the edges or make things dramatically worse. We went in under President Trump's leadership and fundamentally reformed this government at every level. In six weeks. But that is just the beginning. As you said last night, we were just getting started. And you're going to continue to see a flurry of transformative actions that are going to change this government forever. The change that America has been wanting their entire lives, our whole lives. The bureaucracy has been untouched, unbothered, doing whatever they want to do. He's imposing democratic control over the bureaucracy. And you're just seeing the beginning of that effort, completely rewiring our whole US Immigration system to establish a policy of absolutely no unlawful entry into the United States, combined with the mass removal of those who are here illegally right now and having the military be at the front and center of that mission, as we have seen, and by the way, you and I talked about that probably a year, maybe more ago about how central the military is going to be in this operation. And now you've seen how true that is. And President Trump is the first president since Eisenhower to use the military to secure the homeland of the United States from illegal immigration. And on issue after issue, you're going to continue to see that level and scope and pace of change. And so I would just say as excited as you've been these last six weeks, just wait till you see what happens the next six weeks.
Stephen Miller
Outstanding stuff. Stephen Miller, keep up the good work. I hope at some point you get to watch a television show to dial back a bit. But we appreciate everything you and your family are doing.
Buck Sexton
Thank you.
Clay Travis
God bless.
Buck Sexton
Talk to you soon for sure.
Stephen Miller
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Clay Travis
Yeah. And it's the early days for this administration and things are going to get interesting. Uh, they're already very interesting, but I mean they're gonna be battles ahead. They're gonna be very long nights and very difficult discussions and all of that. So we thank those who are working in this Trump White House taking all this right now. It's just taking all the wins and they're not tired of winning. But there will be slings and arrows down the line and we're gonna continue to follow here on Clay and Buck and enjoy every moment of it with all of you. I'm gonna go enjoy Nashville. I hope I don't get burned. Blown away by the wind here though. Clay. You didn't warn me about this. Not used to this in Miami.
Stephen Miller
It's crazy, the wind here this last couple of days. We got a big dinner. Looking forward to that. We appreciate all of you. Enjoy. These are the winning times. We'll be back with you all tomorrow. Thanks for hanging with us.
Podcast Summary: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Episode: Hour 3 - Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Release Date: March 5, 2025
In the third hour of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton engage in a spirited discussion with Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. The conversation delves into the aftermath of President Trump's recent highly acclaimed speech, the current political landscape, the state of the Democratic Party, and insights into upcoming policy agendas. The episode is marked by a critical analysis of Democratic strategies, praise for Republican efforts, and an in-depth look at the administration's future plans.
Clay Travis opens the discussion by highlighting the positive reception of Trump's latest speech. Citing a CNN poll, Clay mentions that "69% of Americans had a positive or very positive reaction to President Trump's speech" (01:31). He emphasizes that achieving a 70% approval rating for a speech is a significant feat in today's polarized climate.
Stephen Miller echoes this sentiment, stating, "Trump has strung together a large coalition built around common sense" (02:03). He critiques the Democrats for their ineffective opposition, attributing it to their "lackluster and ineffective" strategies. Miller asserts that Democrats have "painted themselves into a corner," making it increasingly difficult for them to mount a substantial challenge to Trump's policies.
Notably, Miller criticizes the Democrats for missing opportunities to honor American heroes and victims. He remarks, "It's basic humanity to cheer for a 13-year-old who's overcome brain cancer" (21:12), lamenting the party's failure to connect with the public on non-political, human interest stories.
A significant portion of the conversation centers on the perceived decline of the Democratic Party. Clay Travis compares the Democrats to a struggling sports team, suggesting they are "looking like that these days in terms of where they are as a political party" (08:32).
Stephen Miller expands on this analogy, describing Democrats as being "completely gobsmacked" and "in disarray" without a clear opposition force (07:28). He likens the party to a basketball team without a game plan, unable to effectively respond to Republican strategies.
Miller further accuses the Democrats of radicalization, stating, "The Democrat Party as an institution has become severely radicalized... the more time they spend with each other... the more extreme, the more radical they become" (22:43). He highlights instances where Democratic figures retract positive statements about Republican policies, illustrating a lack of coherent strategy and internal conflicts.
The hosts and Miller discuss the current perception of law enforcement in America. Clay Travis defends the police, noting, "police in America, by the numbers, are phenomenal" (05:55), and criticizes Democrats for portraying law enforcement negatively.
Stephen Miller adds, "Police are the good guys again," referencing a recent event where a 13-year-old was honored as a Secret Service agent for his bravery (04:52). This shift, according to Miller, marks a positive change in public perception, moving away from previous negative portrayals associated with movements like Black Lives Matter.
Throughout the episode, Clay Travis and Stephen Miller employ sports analogies to illustrate their points.
Clay Travis compares Democrats to a sports team that "look like they have been completely gobsmacked," lacking effective strategies (08:32).
Stephen Miller recounts coaching a basketball team facing an overwhelming opponent, likening Democrats' current state to being "the Washington Generals against the Harlem Globetrotters" (08:32).
These analogies serve to underscore the hosts' views on the Democrats' inefficacy and lack of preparedness in the current political arena.
Clay Travis inquires about the administration's future plans, mentioning recent legal challenges and immigration enforcement strategies (25:53).
Stephen Miller responds by outlining the administration's ongoing efforts to reform immigration policies. He highlights the use of military resources to secure the homeland, stating, "President Trump is the first president since Eisenhower to use the military to secure the homeland of the United States from illegal immigration" (26:36). Miller emphasizes the transformative actions being taken, asserting that six weeks have "crammed eight years of action" and that significant changes are just beginning.
He also addresses the judicial challenges, criticizing a district court judge's unilateral decision regarding a USAID contract. Miller warns of the dangers posed by individual judges overstepping democratic processes, stating, "It's breathtakingly unconstitutional" (28:43).
The conversation shifts briefly to Stephen Miller's personal life. Clay Travis asks about Miller's daily routine and work-life balance.
Stephen Miller responds candidly, noting, "there's no such thing as being off the clock" (29:57). He describes the demanding nature of his role, emphasizing the non-stop nature of working in the White House. Miller details the relentless pace and the continuous effort to advance the administration's agenda, highlighting that "working hours and non-working hours doesn't exist" (29:57).
Additionally, Miller touches on his personal interests, mentioning his investment in the Cobra Kai series and his limited time to watch it due to his professional commitments (29:49).
The episode concludes with Clay Travis acknowledging the tireless efforts of governmental staff like Stephen Miller and the challenges they face. He praises their dedication, stating, "these are the winning times" (35:31), and underscores the importance of supporting those working behind the scenes to enact change.
Stephen Miller reiterates the administration's commitment to transformative policies and the ongoing battle against Democratic opposition, promising continued progress in the weeks ahead.
Positive Reception of Trump's Speech: A significant majority of Americans responded favorably, reinforcing Trump's strong position within the Republican base.
Democratic Party's Struggles: The party is perceived as disorganized, radicalized, and ineffective in mounting a robust opposition to Republican policies.
Law Enforcement Reputation: There is a notable shift towards a positive perception of police, moving away from previous negative narratives.
Upcoming Policy Agenda: The administration is poised to implement sweeping immigration reforms, leveraging military resources to enforce policies and secure the homeland.
Personal Sacrifices of White House Staff: Individuals like Stephen Miller highlight the relentless dedication required to serve in high-level governmental roles, often at the expense of personal time and interests.
This summary provides a comprehensive overview of the key discussions, insights, and conclusions drawn during the third hour of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show featuring Stephen Miller.