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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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Buck Sexton
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
He is the most consequential American leader of the 21st century.
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Buck Sexton
And that's an understatement.
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Clay Travis
President Trump has. Here's a list.
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Buck Sexton
Removed men from women's sports, ended DEI in the federal government and the US Military, Expanded oil and gas extraction to lower prices. Taken steps to end unfair trade practices, Secured trillions of dollars in new investments in American manufacturing.
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Clay Travis
Deported criminal illegal aliens, stood up for.
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Buck Sexton
Religious liberty and rooted out anti Christian bias, combated virulen anti Semitism on college campuses.
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Clay Travis
The list goes on and on and on.
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Buck Sexton
That's just barely scratching the surface.
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Clay Travis
That's in 100 days. We're just getting started.
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Buck Sexton
Just getting started. That was Speaker Mike Johnson talking about Trump's first hundred days. We are at that mark right now. The time is flying by, but certainly a lot already for the Trump administration to tout in terms of accomplishments and a lot more on the way. And Clay, I don't know if you saw this, but our friend Senator Tommy Tuberville, he went full A plus in his grading here, so I scaled mine down to an A because I think you can't really give an A plus. But Senator Tuberville, he thinks you can play 600 days.
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Clay Travis
What do you think?
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Buck Sexton
A plus. What else can he do? Larry, they left it in a total mess. I was up here for four years of Joe Biden. They did not do one thing for the American people or for this country. They actually tried to destroy it and everything went down. Now President Trump has got, got foreign wars, he's got deportations, you know, the border, the tax cuts, trying to save the economy. What a total disaster the Democrats created and they're on the steps of the cap of the Capitol, you know, Kumbaya and all this kind of stuff going on. And they make absolutely no sense of what's, what's happened and they don't know how, they don't have a clue how to fix anything. So they're just trying to create problems. I think that's certainly the case. Democrats are just an opposition party or party of no. Now that when you're out of power is always somewhat true. But you can also say, I don't like what he's doing. Here's what should be done. Democrats just still chant about Hitler and all kinds of exaggerated crazy nonsense to oppose Trump. But Clay, here's one area where they're going after him using numbers. This is cut 16. CNN's Harry Entin yesterday on the 100 day mark saying, or just before the 100 day mark saying that the poll numbers aren't in his favor. Play that one. These numbers are just horrible. There's no way to sugarcoat it. And the first way we'll sort of point that out is we'll look at where Donald Trump is now versus where he was 100 days into his first presidency. And you see it here. You don't have to be a mathematical genius. 41% approve of him now. It was 44% back in 2017 around the 100 day mark. And what's so notable here is that throughout his sense second term as president, he tended to be running ahead of where he was in his first term. No longer is that the case. He has fallen below where he was at this point in his first term. Of course, this is just Trump. Let's compare him to other presidents. And I really think this kind of puts a bow on it. And you can see it here. You see the 41% that is 12 points below Joe Biden. That's three points below where he was in his first term. Shouldn't that tell us, Clay, that it doesn't matter If Biden was 12 points ahead of where Trump is now? He had a failed presidency, he was a disaster and he was hiding dementia from the American people. That's just one example of or one data point toward. I don't care what Trump's poll numbers are right now. I care that Trump is pursuing the agenda. That's what he's supposed to do. And people who are getting weak knees over tariffs need to stiffen their spines a little bit.
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Clay Travis
I also think that poll numbers for presidents only matter if they can run for Reelection. We talked to J.D. vance at the top of the last hour. J.D. vance, I imagine, would like to be the successor of Trump. He is the person who would be running in some way more than anyone on what the legacy of Trump is. If Trump has, as I think he will, a very popular legacy in 2028, then I think JD Vance will win the presidency, because I would expect that JD will be the favorite in 2028, and as the vice president, he will be running on the legacy of the president to some extent. Obviously, you try to also put your own spin forward on things. But look, I mean, this is the challenge that Kamala Harris had. Whatever you think of Kamala Harris, and I think she was a very weak candidate. The reason she lost, in addition to being a weak candidate herself, was because she said there wasn't anything that she would do that was different than what Joe Biden had done. And when you have a profoundly unpopular sitting president and your answer is, hey, more of the same, it's unlikely that the American public is going to respond favorably to you. But, Buck, here is what I think from the poll perspective to the point you said weak need. I think that Trump came in and said, we have major, huge systemic issues that need to be solved. The border, I would argue Buck, is pretty much solved. Now, deportation is a challenge, but in terms of allowing things to get worse, he solved it in the first hundred days. The global trade imbalances, this is a major battle that's gonna continue for a long time, but he took it on. And then the other one is the fact that we have a $36 trillion national debt. He tried to take that on. Where do you think the negativity is coming from? Not the border, where overwhelmingly people agree with him. It's taking big swings and big cuts at global trade and at the overall economic basis of our budget. He's taken some lumps there because he's trying to fix two really substantial issues.
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Buck Sexton
Well, this is where the psychology of propaganda also is so important, because they were talking about a Trump recession or even a Trump depression just a couple of weeks ago when there was a choppy week in the markets. Up, down, up, down. And you could say, well, Buck, clearly we're not in markets up today. We're not, you know, doing backflips over it. But the point is, they can make people feel negatively about things, even when their reporting is premature or just flatly untrue. Right. So if you tell people enough things are bad, you know, they've done interesting, interesting studies about this. If you're a person who is just positive about other people in general, people view you more positively, which makes sense. Right. And if you're somebody who's always talking smack, who's always saying that, you know, Sally from accounting needs to, you know, work harder or, you know, Joe from Accounts Receivable needs to put in more time, whatever, if you're always the negative person, people tend to view you more negatively. Well, this is true of news reporting as well. If you're just talking negative stories endlessly, even if those stories are exaggerated or turn out not to be what you initially reported, you can make people think things are worse than they are. And this is why Democrats also rush with the. And the Democrat aligned media rushes with the negative narrative as fast as they can. They don't want to wait for things to play out because they want to turn the perception against the administration because this is politics.
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Clay Travis
Right?
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Buck Sexton
That's how they view it. They just want people to think things are bad. Number when the Biden, they had this in the opposite direction when for a while Biden's strategy, I think going into the midterms and then afterwards for a while, Clay was the economy's great. People just don't know how great it is. Right? That was the.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, that was their argument.
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Buck Sexton
That was their argument. You don't even know how great things are for you right now. You just need to pay attention to how great they are. It's like, well, that did not exactly resonate. They're trying a different version of sure, you think things are pretty much okay and actually going pretty well. They're actually terrible though. And that's what they've been doing certainly for the last month on the economy. So the long story short, I think the poll numbers don't matter. Why would they matter right now? No one's going to care what the polls were now in six months or even in six weeks. So it's just an effort to try to create negative perception.
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Clay Travis
I think they would matter maybe if there were a more popular politician in America and there isn't one. Right. So I mean, if Democrats, the, the Biden poll numbers always occurred with the shadow of a Trump presidency and a Trump reelection bid hanging out there. I know we talked about Wes Moore in the last hour and who the Democrat, J.B. pritzker. Peter, Mayor Pete, that are trying to kind of set the agenda to try to be the nominee in 2028, who's a more popular politician right now than Trump? Is there any Democrat? I mean the Democrat approval ratings in Congress make The Trump approval ratings look phenomenal. So I, I think you have to look at it in the context of is anyone else doing better? You also hit on something that I always thought was super fascinating. Do you know what the number one likelihood of who was going to get sued as a doctor was? You talked about how people are seen. Do you know what they've studied from a.
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Buck Sexton
If the, if you don't like, if you don't like the doctor, the chance of the doctor, of you suing the doctor goes up like 10x or something.
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Clay Travis
Bedside manner, it's not. Does the doctor screw up a lot? The, the, if the doctor has a likable comportment, the odds of him being sued or her being sued, much lower. The bedside manner aspect there. And so I think that factors in on some level. Trump is now a known quantity. And the thing that Trump got right back in 2016 when he said it is, hey, I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and my base is not leaving me. And I'm paraphrasing him on that quote, but that was basically the quote. The Trump base is not leaving. Now, we've all, we've talked about this for some time. What is the Trump base? I think 40% of America is dyed in the wool Trump team. And so he's going to have that 40% no matter what. He got a big percentage growth, I think, in the 2024 election. And now the question is, I think this is going to ultimately determine everything. What's the economy like? This is what I told you, Buck. I think I said that I was going to tease this and I'll, I told you inflation was number one. I'll hit you with the other things. But it's inflation overwhelmingly. If the price of gas keeps coming down and if the price of groceries does not go up, the average American is going to consider Trump to have done a decent job. I'll also layer on foreign affairs. Doesn't feel like we're very close to a war now. I hope I'm not jinxing it, but it feels like for Americans in terms of our stability and safety around the world, I feel pretty good about that.
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Buck Sexton
As we speak, Canada decides to just get it together and invade us. I am going to blame you for this. Now, just, this will be on me.
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Clay Travis
If Canada or Mexico, Canada or Mexico, Costa Rica decides to finally get an army and decides to try to invade. This will be on me because I just said I feel very safe. But in, in general, I feel like we're a long way from any wars.
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Buck Sexton
Also I would just say, what would people want Trump to be working on right now? Who voted for him?
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
That he's not doing. I think that's an important question to ask at this age. What is the thing that Trump said? I will, in the first hundred days, do the following. Start to do the following. Right. I'm not saying the results are all in or that everything has been accomplished. Far from it. But what is the area of focus where Trump has not focused and we were told he would. I cannot think of it because I don't think it exists. I think he has come out and started going after everything he said he would go after. Deportations are in the early phase, but it is happening. The border is secure. It happened even faster than I anticipated that it would. He's getting the negotiations going on tariffs. He has the negotiations going on Russia, Ukraine. He is looking at Iran and Israel and, you know, Mideast peace, etc. What is he not doing that he said he would do? That's. I think, in a lot of ways, the real test of the first hundred days is that, you know, promises made, promises kept, goes a little bit too far because, well, have we gotten the results yet that we need? No, but focus is important, and the focus has been on what he said it would be. And I think in the first hundred days of an administration, that's about the best you can ask for is you're actually doing this stuff, right? You're trying to do this stuff actively. You're not delaying, you're not prevaricating. You're not saying, oh, I don't want to go as hard in this direction as I said I would. That was just a fool, you idiots, to vote for me. He said, no. Okay, let's go. And so I think that there's a lot of credit that should be given to him on that. And the other stuff, Clay, that we're talking about, with the loss of some support in the polls, a lot of that's media perception. A lot of that is people freak out quickly, okay? You know, they. They hear that there's a recession coming, they go, oh, my gosh, the recession, it's going to be fine. All right, let's talk about preborn for a second here. The preborn network of clinics has a team of people who have a critical mission, saving the lives of unborn babies. They see the access and widespread availability of abortions for pregnant women who are debating such a decision. And preborn steps in and does all they can to help convince that pregnant mom that There's a better option for her than abortion life for her baby. And one way that Preborn achieves this is by giving the gift of an ultrasound. Because that ultrasound allows that mom to meet her unborn child, to hear the heartbeat and see the movements of the child within her. They accomplish this goal with just $28 in expense. Okay, that is fantastic because it allows them to put so much time and effort toward actually the mission helping moms in this process. Preborn operates its clinics in communities across the country where abortion rates are tragically high. They do this on purpose because Preborn gives resources and services to women, including that ultrasound, to help save lives every day. In 20 years, the preborn clinics have saved 300,000 plus babies. To donate securely to Preborn, they need your help the pro life community. They don't get a dollar from the government. Dial £250 and say the keyword baby. That's £250. Say baby or go to preborn.com buck preborn.com B U C K sponsored by.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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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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Buck Sexton
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Clay Travis
No.
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Leon Nayfak
It became known as the Iran Contra.
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Buck Sexton
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, 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.
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Buck Sexton
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
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. I mentioned this poll earlier, and I do think it's interesting. This is from NBC News. They say they surveyed nearly 20,000 adults and asked top economic issue for you and your family, 44%. Buck said inflation. So if I were giving advice to anyone in the Trump team over the next hundred days, I would say maniacally focus on bringing the cost of goods down, because I think that's the number one way that people tend to react right now to the economy. Second is taxes. We know, Buck, that the bill is rolling through, the big, beautiful bill that will enshrine the tax cuts. We'll take some of your calls on that. Third is the national debt. Again, these are big, major systemic issues. And then you get into housing, the stock market, which is in many ways a snapshot of whatever the economy is at any given time. Those are things that I think Trump gets. But if I were saying if you could focus on one thing and solve one thing, inflation is down. But I think if you could change the idea that Biden built in that things are going to cost far too much, that would be the most helpful in the next hundred days. It's what I would say to Trump, hey, if you were going to be judged on something, what would you want to be judged on? Bringing inflation down and cost of goods being not a massive thing that everybody's obsessed with.
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Buck Sexton
It would be nice, though, at some point to get a reduction in rates here. That could be. I know Trump has been very vocal about that.
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Clay Travis
I think he's right about that, too.
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Buck Sexton
Free up a little bit of liquidity in our economy would be a good thing. I think people are waiting to make moves based upon this. That could be very helpful overall. So we shall see. But, yeah, the main thing is you don't want overspending like we saw under Biden, because that is what creates inflation. And it really is a tax on the working class and those who are trying to pay bills and maybe even get ahead of bills, that that is what ends up happening. This is your dollars are worth less. You have to pay more for the things that you need. Asset holders do fine. People that have big stock accounts, you know, multiple homes, own businesses, etcetera, they generally do much better when inflation is high, or rather they can weather the inflation much better. But you know, the Treasury Department is going to borrow $514 billion this quarter, according to Bloomberg. Clay, this is a 320% increase from its previous estimate. We're still spending too much money, everybody. But I guess this is the problem, is the biggest challenge I think for Doge all along has been so we can't touch 70% of spending. Let's see what we can do to make the other 30% of spending not so crazy. That's not good enough. But nobody wants to hear it. Nobody wants to hear it.
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Clay Travis
Oh, I mean this is the thing that we're speeding at rapidly is frankly, if you don't address the $36 trillion in debt, sooner or later the bill is going to get paid, maybe by your grandkids. But economic reality doesn't disappear. We can't continue to live on borrowed money.
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Buck Sexton
And yet we're going to try. Yes, this is unfortunately this is what we're doing. So.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, no doubt.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Well, I was going to agree with whatever you were going to give me credit for as soon as you said it was a very astute observation. So I appreciate that. But look, I would encourage the White House these early morning press conferences. And I understand some of you are going to say that's not that early in the morning. Clay, I get up at 4. Trust me. I used to get up at 4am and do a radio show. So I understand that a lot of you out there have very early starts to your day and I know that what that requires. But twice this week that I have noticed, Buck, they have done 8:30am Eastern press conferences at the White House. I love and I'll tell you why. When I did early morning radio, one of the things that I thought Trump did so well in his first term was because the guy never sleeps. I would be on Twitter at, you know, 5:30 in the morning and when I hit the refresh button, the only new tweets that would pop up were from President Trump. He would be up early in the morning and he would set the morning agenda by putting out what he wanted to talk about before they can decide what the story of the day is. Most journalists, I'm just telling you this, are lazy. They don't like getting up super early in the morning and having to go to work. They have their morning calls where CNN executives or MSNBC executives tell their staff, this is the story that we're focused on today. Trump is stealing a march on them by having early morning press conferences. It requires them to be up dressed. It sounds simple. Requires them to be up dressed and ready there to cover whatever Trump wants the story of the day to be. And it puts them behind in advancing whatever their agenda would be. And Buck, let me give you an analogy. This is why some coaches want early morning practices because it keeps their guys out of trouble. You know, and it's a different sort of universe. But when you have to be up at like 6 or 7am practice and I Know some of you who have teenagers. My son this morning during the summer, they already got their schedule. Football practice. He's got to be there early in the morning. Keeps the kids out of trouble. Stinks, right? But when you get home and it's 8:00, you're like, oh, do I want to try to do something that could get me in trouble? Nah, I think I'll go to bed because I got to get up so early and I know how tired I'm going to be busting my ass out there. This takes control of the agenda. I love it. I think they should do more of it.
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Buck Sexton
Well, look at how quickly this White House also jumps on issues. And I do want to get to the sports, women and men and women's sports issue here momentarily. But there was a story out there that Amazon was going to start putting.
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Clay Travis
Yep, perfect example.
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Buck Sexton
Tariff pricing on. So, you know, would say, hey, I'm buying this. In my case, you know, giant tub of diapers. This is the kind of stuff that, you know as one, when you have a newborn air, I'm getting a giant tub of diapers. Oh, wait a Second, there's a 15% or whatever. It was going to be tariff pricing increase on this and they were going to show it to you in real time. Trump also reportedly called Bezos right away and said, this is this. I don't think I can repeat on the radio what I'm sure Trump said. I'm sure Trump was not happy about this. And Caroline Levitt also came out this morning and said this is a hostile political act. If that, if that happens. And guess what? Amazon has said, no, we would never, like, dream of such a thing. Well, Clay, if they hadn't gotten out there right away, the story all day would be, oh, my gosh, Amazon, the tariffs, blah, blah, blah. They go right after it. And don't allow these things to be unaddressed. Look, people are going to believe or not believe this White House based on what they think going into this, but at least now they can get. This is kind of like how Trump hacked the media in 2016 by using Twitter in addition to everything else. Because now we know what he thinks. He just tweeted about it.
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Clay Travis
That's right.
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Buck Sexton
We don't have to guess. We don't have to sit there and wait for the Lester Holt interview or whatever it is to come out.
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Clay Travis
And I hated, in many ways, Buck getting up super early in the morning. But what I loved was when I finished my sports show at the time, I felt like I completely set the agenda for what the day's news was going to be in sports. Speaking of Trump right now, by the way, he just admitted that he called Bezos this morning and had a good conversation with him. But let's play. Earlier this morning, Caroline Levitt had this to say about people who are breaking the law. In her opinion, based on federal rules that Trump has put in place executive orders relating to men competing in women's sports. Here's what she said. Same thing with men in women's sports. The President signed a very strong executive order making it the policy of the United States federal government that there are only two sexes, male and female. And we are not going to tolerate biological men competing in sports or impeding in private spaces for women like myself or you. And we've seen states defy this federal order. You've seen the state of Main, unfortunately, because of their liberal governor who nobody in that state disagrees with. I will add, being from New England, I can attest to that. People are incredibly fed up with her trying to oppose this common sense message. You've seen young women who have had to go on television to plead with their governor, please stop letting men play against me in sports. We shouldn't live in a country where that even has to happen. The president deeply understands that. That's why he signed that eo. And when Maine decided not to follow it, the Department of Justice sued them. So anyone who disobeys federal law will be either prosecuted, sued, or say goodbye to your federal funding.
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Buck Sexton
This is so important, Clay, because I do think that the conservative side, for a long time now, we don't want to harass people, quote, unquote, harass people. Like, we don't want to get in other people's business. We don't want to be litigious, meaning we're suing everybody or litigating everything. We have no choice. The other side abuses and weaponizes the law. If we don't insist that the actual law has consequences when you violate it, we're never going to change any of this. Right? This is a. Do you see what I mean? Like, it is not in the conservative mindset to think, you know, we're going to sue, we're going to take you to court, we're going to sue. We're going to have a. We have to do this. We have to do it to places like Harvard that are abusing their access to government funds while violating the Constitution with their racially discriminatory policies and their anti semitic stuff, etc. We also have to do this with title nine. And men in women's sports, notice the other side. They don't miss a beat if they can sue. They have destroyed lots of men's programs, athletic programs. Right. Because they can't spend the money on the women's side of things. So you get all these weird imbalances. The law has all these problems as a result. They never hesitate when they can use the law to their advantage. But I think that our side, until Trump came along, and particularly this Trump administration, has wanted to do this the gentlemanly way. And I'm merely saying, when it comes to this, it's. It's the law now. It's not about being a gentleman. It's about protecting women and protecting our girls.
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Clay Travis
I agree completely. And I, you know, this is a big part of the book that I, that I've just recently finished, Buck. I think this issue, more than any other, crystallizes, if you will argue that a dude can be a women's sports champion. I can't trust you on anything because you have lied to me when it comes to an opinion that you are sharing. And once you have said that, I can't trust you on anything else. And it's especially true when you try to take the next step, Buck, and say, well, you know, how are you sure? Well, because of the whole history of humanity, that's how I'm sure. What's your evidence? Humanity, biology, existing? The fact that if we didn't have men's and women's sports separated, there would be no women who would by and large ever make a team. And let me also tie it in here, Buck. What they are saying, I think is important. We have to escalate the expectation that the executive has the authority to implement law, and if you directly oppose it, you should be held accountable for that. And I think this applies not only in men and women's sports, which is a cultural signpost, but significantly when it comes to immigration. Because we saw that judge in Milwaukee arrested. And as soon as the details came out, Buck, a lot of people, they were having protests. And then that seemed to fade a bit because many people even on the left said, boy, if this judge helped a criminal escape, it's hard to defend that. I mean, if you had somebody who was charged with a crime in your courtroom, leave aside the status, legal or illegal, and you helped them go out a back door when they were going to be charged with an additional crime, most people would say, yeah, that's criminal by the judge. And I understand there are some people who see This, I think you made the analogy as the equivalent of like you're on the underground railroad and you've got to help these illegal immigrants from the ICE raids and everything else. That's not an argument that resonates with very many people out there other than the 10 or 15% of Crazy Town residents. And so I think this is where Trump continuing to accelerate. Put the gas here is good. Let me play this really quick before we go to break. Cause you referenced it. Buck Trump talking to the media. Here's a quick response. He talks about his phone call with Jeff Bezos this morning, which came out of the early morning agenda setting press conference with Caroline Levitt.
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Buck Sexton
Listen, Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific. He solved the problem very quickly and he did the right thing and it's a good guy.
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Clay Travis
Buck, this is interesting. If Bezos had to step in to stop Amazon from doing this one, there's going to be a lot of conversation about the relationship between, between Bezos and Trump, which seems to be very positive at this point because it impacts so many things. The Washington Post certainly, as well as Amazon. But also it suggests that Bezos is continuing to stand up to what I would call the left wing malkatance inside of his corporation in a way that he was not willing to do just a few years ago.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, I think that the heads of companies, much more so than we have seen in decades, feel like they can, they can fall back on this crazy idea of we are capitalists running a business. We are not some kind of social justice nonprofit that you get to shake down whenever you're having a tantrum. Isn't that so much better? Isn't that so much more sensible for all of us?
- [34:22]
Clay Travis
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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.
- [37:28]
Buck Sexton
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
- [37:31]
Clay Travis
No.
- [37:33]
Leon Nayfak
It became known as the Iran Contra.
- [37:35]
Buck Sexton
Affair and I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second I'm going to ask.
- [37:40]
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.
- [37:59]
Buck Sexton
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
- [38:10]
Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [38:19]
Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show we were just talking about off air. The Trump team played this Amazon story masterfully today. They addressed it on the air early in the morning with the press conference Trump calls Bezos. It gets abandoned. It may well have otherwise happen. And they had this all happen before most of the media had even woken up or was aware at all of what's going on. I'm telling you, stealing a march on him early in the morning is incredible. Obviously it works for Trump, cause the guy sleeps like three or four hours. He's right now, by the way, on the road to Michigan for a rally to celebrate a hundred days in office. That's where his final rally was, right before election Day late at night, if you remember. I believe it was in Grand Rapids, if I'm not mistaken, when he did his final rally, probably of his political career. Encourage all of you go subscribe to the Clay and Buck podcast. And if you do, you will make sure and be able to see our two. For those of you who have not been hanging out with us for the last three hours, our two, J.D. vance joined us, Vice President of the United States, to celebrate his 100 days of the Trump Vance administration. So I think you guys will enjoy that.
- [39:39]
Buck Sexton
Did you ever think, Clay, when you were a high school kid playing hacky sack listening to Dave Matthews, did you ever think that our buddies would run the country? Because that's really what's going on here.
- [39:50]
Clay Travis
This is funny because you mentioned this at the inauguration. You are like, man, there's a lot of young people. Do you remember this? You're like, man, there's a lot of young people in this administration. And my wife, as she often does, immediately fired back. It's not that there's a lot of young people in this administration, it's that you guys are old now. Do you remember that?
- [40:10]
Buck Sexton
Oh yeah, it burns.
- [40:13]
Clay Travis
But, but I will say yes. Look, Trump has, I think, not only put together an incredible amount of talent in his cabinet, but it is a far more youthful cabinet than we have seen in a very, very long time. When you think about Tulsi Gabbard, when you think about Pete Hegseth, when you think about J.D. vance as his vice president, people in their 40s still, hopefully at the growth point of their lives and putting all that effort and energy behind the presidency and behind this cabinet, I think it's pretty fabulous.
- [40:47]
Buck Sexton
Yeah, I just meant we've been out drinking with these guys and now they're trying to prevent nuclear war.
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- [41:23]
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.
- [41:35]
Buck Sexton
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
- [41:45]
Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.