Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 - Biden Coverup

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Episode: Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 - Biden Coverup
Release Date: April 26, 2025

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The latest episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, hosted by iHeartPodcasts, delves into the pressing issues surrounding President Joe Biden’s mental and physical health, the media’s role in shaping public perception, and the implications of current immigration policies. The discussion is enriched by insights from guest David Zweig, whose recent book critically examines the COVID-19 response and its aftermath.

1. Biden’s Mental and Physical Decline: A Hidden Crisis

Clay Travis opens the discussion by addressing the ongoing concerns about President Biden’s cognitive and physical capabilities. He asserts that there has been a deliberate cover-up by both the media and Democratic figures to obscure the reality of Biden’s decline.

“We knew, you and I early on, that much of the COVID failures were inexcusable, but what is the lesson that will be drawn in the decades ahead for people who are studying this era of history?”
— Clay Travis [02:36]

David Zweig supports this viewpoint by highlighting Biden’s inability to perform presidential duties effectively, suggesting that his administration’s actions were designed to prolong his tenure despite evident decline.

“What you have to remember here is that was he an out and out vegetable? No, he was not. He was able to open his eyes and blink and I did not see an SOS coming from him.”
— David Zweig [08:08]

2. Media Complicity and Media Figures’ Defenses

The hosts critically examine how prominent media personalities have defended Biden’s state, often ignoring glaring signs of his decline. They cite Elizabeth Warren’s interview as a case study of this phenomenon.

“Elizabeth Warren being held accountable for her lies and listen to how she responds to the questions about Joe Biden's physical and mental well being.”
— Clay Travis [07:32]

David Zweig further criticizes figures like Joe Scarborough, who publicly endorsed Biden’s sharpness. He likens the media’s defense to authoritarian propaganda, emphasizing the lack of accountability.

“Biden is in fact the sharpest version he has ever been. Which just goes to show the desperation in the lie, you know, that that's what this really was.”
— David Zweig [12:44]

3. Jill Biden’s Role: Protector or Villain?

A significant portion of the conversation centers on Jill Biden’s role in maintaining her husband’s public image. Clay Travis portrays her as the primary antagonist, responsible for perpetuating the facade of Biden’s competence.

“I think she is the most heinous person in America...”
— Clay Travis [24:31]

David Zweig offers a nuanced perspective, suggesting that Jill Biden acted out of a sense of duty to protect the family's interests, though he concedes that her actions are ethically questionable.

“Jill Biden, yes. In the view of the American people and her responsibility as a citizen, what she did is outrageous.”
— David Zweig [23:48]

4. Immigration Policies Under Biden: A Nation Overwhelmed

Transitioning to immigration, the hosts critique President Biden’s policies, highlighting a significant increase in illegal immigration and questioning the administration’s capacity to manage it.

“They pushed a questionable vaccine, and when we asked for alternatives like Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, they shut us down.”
— Matt Gaetz [20:54] (Note: Although Matt Gaetz delivers a promotional segment, it underscores the broader narrative about distrust in Biden’s policies.)

Clay Travis underscores the long-term consequences of current immigration trends, projecting a 30-year timeline to deport the influx of illegal immigrants under the current administration.

“Their gamble was once these people get here, they're never going home. And eventually there's going to have to be a solution for them.”
— Clay Travis [36:06]

5. Listener Interaction: Real-Life Observations

The episode features a poignant caller, Laura from Pennsylvania, who shares her firsthand observation of Biden’s decline, recounting how even a child noticed changes in the president’s demeanor.

“There's a 12-year-old child who was able to see all the signs, the blank stares, the rise in anger quickly.”
— Travis Holloway (Caller) [46:01]

David Zweig echoes these sentiments, reinforcing the argument that Biden’s decline has been apparent to those close to him.

“We all saw with Biden, everyone. The 12-year-old that Laura just talked about, her daughter saw.”
— David Zweig [47:21]

6. Future Discussions and Guest Appearances

Looking ahead, Clay Travis announces upcoming segments featuring Congressman Chip Roy from Texas and discussions on various geopolitical issues, including the deportation fight over Abrego Garcia and Pentagon-related controversies.

“We have some great guests lined up for you. We'll talk about the fight over Abrego Garcia's deportation...”
— David Zweig [23:04]

7. Concluding Thoughts

The episode wraps up with Clay Travis emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and addressing Biden’s decline, asserting that the media and Democratic establishment’s efforts to conceal the truth have only exacerbated the crisis.

“If he hadn't debated on June 27, they would have legitimately tried to get him reelected 100...”
— Clay Travis [47:39]

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Clay Travis [02:36]: “We knew, you and I early on, that much of the COVID failures were inexcusable...”
• David Zweig [08:08]: “What you have to remember here is that was he an out and out vegetable? No, he was not.”
• Clay Travis [07:32]: “Elizabeth Warren being held accountable for her lies...”
• David Zweig [12:44]: “Biden is in fact the sharpest version he has ever been.”
• Clay Travis [24:31]: “I think she is the most heinous person in America...”
• David Zweig [36:06]: “Their gamble was once these people get here, they're never going home.”
• Travis Holloway (Caller) [46:01]: “There's a 12-year-old child who was able to see all the signs...”
• Clay Travis [47:39]: “If he hadn't debated on June 27, they would have legitimately tried to get him reelected 100...”

Conclusion

This episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show provides a critical examination of President Joe Biden’s leadership, the media’s role in concealing his decline, and the broader implications of current immigration policies. Through rigorous debate and guest insights, the hosts challenge listeners to reconsider widely accepted narratives and advocate for greater transparency and accountability in governance.

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For those interested in the full discussion, the episode is available on the free iHeartRadio app and other podcast platforms.

Transcript

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome in Tuesday edition, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you out there listening and hanging out with us. We have got a bevy of stories to dive in with all of you today. Congressman Chip Roy, Great state of Texas will join us at 130 Eastern Time. David Zweig, who I would say Buck of the left leaning media may have been the most honest person in the way that he covered Covid for New York magazine, if I remember correctly, back in the day. And he's got a book out that is just savaging the decision to shut down schools that he wrote about for some time, masking all of the chaos that came out of COVID And I think we will enjoy that conversation with him. And I hope that his book, which is designed to be an early version of the historical record of what we went through with COVID will become a clarion call for those who are pursuing truth going forward on the historic record. Because one thing you and I have been talking about for years now is not only we knew, you and I early on, that much of the COVID failures were inexcusable, but what is the lesson that will be drawn in the decades ahead for people who are studying this era of history? And I hope we are starting to get some of that truth out into the public record. As you know, you read the book, the great influenza book that everybody suddenly started buying up during COVID And much of the the way that we responded to the influenza epidemic, the Spanish flu back in the 1919 ish era, unfortunately was reflected 100 years later. And one of the things that you saw, Buck and we'll dive into this a little bit later with David Zweig, but just off the top here, one of the things that you saw was people just didn't want to talk about it. They just kind of put it in the background and pretended that it hadn't happened at all. Now that was much more traumatic in general because the percentage of people who died was higher. The people who died from the Spanish flu tended to be much younger, whereas the people who had Covid issues in this country, thankfully, tended to be on the, on the older end of the spectrum. I say thankfully because you didn't have otherwise fully healthy people dropping who otherwise would have had decades of life, thankfully, Covid did not have hardly any impact at all on the young because if you had reversed this and Covid had had the same impact on the super young that it did on the age, I think the way that America and the world responded would have been very different. But this book that he is writing, I've got a copy of it in my house and I've already started to read it a little bit, is I think an important historic record. So we will talk with him at 2. Speaking of important historic records, all of the books are now being written that we told you would be written in the wake of the 2024 election having to do with Joe Biden and the mental and physical lies about him being at the peak of his abilities are now being exposed. You can go back in time. We told you they would try to protect him as long as they could. They would argue that he was sharp as attack. Now even Jake Tapper who tried to argue that any attacks on Joe Biden for his mental and physical health were cheap fakes, uh, now even he has written a book that is going to be out I think in the next couple of weeks. Uh, and even left leaning media are now holding their politicians feet to the fire when they do interviews. This interview that I want to play for you guys is of Elizabeth Warren. Buck does a very good Elizabeth Warren impersonation, if I must say so myself. This, they, this is. I want to make sure that I give credit because I got an email from these guys saying hey, we're an independent podcast and can you, if you're going to share this, this is on the Talk Easy podcast. This is Sam Gregoso interviewing Elizabeth Warren and they have this exchange about Joe Biden's. Did I mispronounce that?

[David Zweig]

Did you say Grego? I think it's Fredoso. Right.

[Clay Travis]

The way I have it written here is Gregoso. But it's possible our team changed the got the name wrong but Fragoso or Grego.

[David Zweig]

So no, it's so you're right, I should just shut my face. Keep going.

[Clay Travis]

This is, this is the podcast that it's from. I just wanted to give them credit. Elizabeth Warren being held accountable for her lies and listen to how she responds to the questions about Joe Biden's physical and mental well being. This is cut one.

[David Zweig]

Do you regret saying that President Biden had a mental acuity? He had a sharpness to him. You said that up until July of last year.

[Travis Holloway]

I said what I believe to be true.

[Rodney Williams]

And you think he was as sharp as you?

[David Zweig]

I said I Had not seen decline and I hadn't at that point. You did not see any decline from 2024 Joe Biden to 2021 Joe Biden? Not when I said that. You know, the thing is he look.

[Clay Travis]

He was sharp, he was on his feet.

[David Zweig]

I saw him live event.

[Clay Travis]

I had meetings with him a couple of times.

[David Zweig]

Senator, on his feet is not praise. He can speak in sentences. Is not praise.

[Clay Travis]

Fair enough, fair enough.

[David Zweig]

What you have to remember here is that was he an out and out vegetable? No, he was not. He was able to open his eyes and blink and I did not see an SOS coming from him. And so Clay, Clay, I saw him.

[Clay Travis]

On his feet is in all time line. He was able to stand is an unbelievable defense by Elizabeth.

[David Zweig]

It's like the conversation you would have about somebody who was declining and like change their will in the last days. Were they of sound mind or not? Well, I was on his feet. We're talking about the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief, and she is saying essentially he wasn't a full blown vegetable. So don't blame me. I just kept going with the rest of the crowd here. She's not alone. All the rest of them did this too. And I think that more than anything, what happened here, Clay, was that the anti Trump media became so. It was like a river that could only flow in one direction. And nobody was ever, nobody was ever told. What you're saying is too crazy. And I mean nobody at msnbc, nobody in the Democrat Party. New York Times, New York Times, Washington Post, whatever you said about Trump, he's Hitler, he's worse than Hitler. He's a, he's a, he's a monster. He's a. Whatever it was, was actually supported by the infrastructure of the Democrat Party. The apparatus was cheering for it. So all corrective mechanisms were gone. And so when you have that, you can have a situation like exactly what transpired, where they just knew there's no upside to speaking the truth about Biden. Anything that that is going to go against Trump is incentivized within our own ecosystem. And so they all just had their marching orders. As crazy as I was going to say, like lemmings. But as you will see in my new book, which has finally been cleared by the CIA, lemmings don't commit mass suicide, everybody. That's a crazy story. But there's other things that you talk about in the book that you will like as well. Yes, Clay, this was something that they now have to take some degree of accountability for when there's really no pain politically for them because they can't move on without addressing it at some level because people like you and me will just keep on dunking them under the water on this, as we should.

[Clay Travis]

You know, I thought it was interesting too. I saw a graphic, I think it was from Axios this morning that the coverage of misinformation and disinformation has basically ended on CNN and on msnbc. They're not trotting out their fact checkers anymore. I would submit to you, Buck, that the Joe Biden cover up ended the misinformation and disinformation era. Now, Trump winning obviously had a substantial impact on that as. But when the entire left wing media, legacy media lined up together. And I think you're right that maybe the most devastating single statement that anybody made was Joe Scarborough basically lighting his entire career on fire when he said this was the best version of Biden. His show hasn't recovered and those networks haven't recovered from this.

[David Zweig]

So, so here's, here's the thing. Elizabeth Warren is trying to rewrite history in real time here in this way. It's not clay that they said the narrative at the time. Go back to exactly what you brought up with Joe Scarborough. The narrative at the time wasn't Biden isn't as bad as they say. He's semi coherent and maybe we can push him across the finish line and then have VP Kamala take over. That would have been somewhat disingenuous or, you know, that would have been dishonest. But on a scale of 1 to 10, dishonesty level 6 or 7, they went to dishonesty level 11, which was Biden is the best he has ever been.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[David Zweig]

Biden is in fact the sharpest version he has ever been. Which just goes to show the desperation in the lie, you know, that that's what this really was. It wouldn't be enough to try to just soft pedal it and say, look, he's lost his fastball, but you know, I think he can still get it done. That's not what they were saying. They're saying Biden's fine. How dare you bring anything up. It was Stalinism level propaganda. It was this guy, it's like Kim Jong Il and un and Kim Il Sung who can all hit holes in one every time they play golf. You know, it was that level madness.

[Clay Travis]

Let me, by the way, you were correct. It is Sam for Goso.

[David Zweig]

Oh, oh, look at the buckster. He thought, you know, he's got a, got a sharp ear. I'M just trying to help.

[Clay Travis]

So our staff, who I'm immediately going to throw under the bus when they write it, they wrote it as Sam Gregoso, but his Sam Vergoso who had that interview, and I do give him credit because anyone who said that Biden was able to serve as president in a fully honest media, they should have to answer for that. They should have to explain why they said that. And not only the, not only the politicians. Have you ever heard Joe Scarborough be asked or pushed in any way on that viral clip where he argued that this was the best version of Biden that had ever existed? Has nobody held Helm accountable?

[David Zweig]

To be fair, I think that he is just trying to ride out things and wait and wait so that by the time anyone asks him about, like I don't think he's putting himself in a position where even Elizabeth Warren, because she's not as bad based on the sound bites with this as some of the others, she's trying to take the medicine. Now, I think Scarborough knows that it's, it's brand annihilation that he faces if the wrong person gets him on the hot seat and asks him this question. You can't come back from that. Why should someone listen to Joe Scarborough about anything? If he's that dumb or that dishonest, why would you care what he thinks about a single thing in existence? I don't want to. I don't care what ice cream flavor he thinks is bad.

[Clay Travis]

I. Yours is answers pistachio. Which is, by the way, maybe even worse than Joe Scarborough's answer would be, to be fair, you see this incoming.

[David Zweig]

That us Pistachio lovers get from Rum Clay and just flute playing ways outrageous.

[Clay Travis]

We'll take some of your calls on this. I do think that these conversations that we're going to have with David Zweig are important. And if you are out there and you argued that this was the best version of Biden, the two by four is coming for you because these books are coming out and everyone in the legacy media is trying to cover their backsides on this. And so they're now covering the release of the books and every little detail. For instance, uh, I'm reading that Biden was supposed to do his prep work from Camp David and he got too tired and he just went outside by the pool and fell asleep. Which is. But remember they were telling everybody his prep has been amazing. And then they tried to say, well, he has a little bit of a cold after the, after the debate performance. Imagine you're trying to prepare the president for debate. And he's like, I'm tired. And he just goes outside by the pool and falls asleep. That's a story that's out there right now.

[David Zweig]

You know, there's a movie, the Death of Stalin, that's actually pretty clever for what it is. And it's, it's a farce, right? But it's. What does everyone do when Stalin dies around him? The Fall of Biden movie that you could make where you basically go Weekend at Bernie's. I mean, you just, it would be if, if anyone in Hollywood wanted to take this idea, it would be utterly hilarious and I think everybody would want to go see it. And you could base it off of the real stories here.

[Clay Travis]

By the way, I will say as we go to break, imagine what Jill Biden saw. Imagine what the wife of the president, the first lady, what she saw. I still think she is maybe the biggest villain here because she was willing to drag his basic corpse right across the finish line so she could keep living in the White House. I mean, she is imagine.

[David Zweig]

Can I have a. I want to just because I feel like fighting with Clay today. I have a very different take on Jill Biden that I would like to share when we come back. I have a very different take than you on this.

[Clay Travis]

I did not expect. She is to me the worst villain here. Buck thinks she's a hero. We'll talk about it.

[David Zweig]

No, no, no. That's not the take. You naughty man. We'll come back though.

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[David Zweig]

We got a lot going on here today. We've got some great guests lined up for you. We'll talk about the fight over Abrego Garcia's deportation. We'll get into the kerfuffle over at the Pentagon. Pete Hegseth still sec Deaf today going to be Sec Def going forward as well as we knew media trying an op not successful against him but something's going on over there but first up Clay just to give you a quick a scorching take because I like I like to do scorching takes Clay says that Jill Biden as we're all now looking at the Democrats scrambling for cover on the on the giant and absurd lie that Joe Biden was of sound mind not Just to run for reelection, but for the final year of his presidency, really, I would argue the final two or three years, but they're all scrambling for cover. Jill Biden, Clay says, is the chief villain. I just want to offer this different take on it. Jill Biden, yes. In the view of the American people and her responsibility as a citizen, what she did is outrageous. However, Clay, she had to make sure that he stayed in the saddle long enough to give the Biden family all their pardons to negotiate and exit to. You know, I think that she may have known that things were all crashing down around her and she had to keep the charade going as long as possible for her immediate family, for her son, her son Hunter, and for the rest of the crew. That's my take on this. I think she knew and was scrambling.

[Clay Travis]

Ooh, this is a fun. This is a fun topic. I'm going to come back and tell you why she is the most heinous person in America, but I don't think your defense of her is an awful one. So that is.

[David Zweig]

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[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

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[David Zweig]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program. All right, Buck made a defense of Jill Biden as. Hey, she knew things were coming unraveled, and she wanted to make sure the family at large was taken care of. Whether it's Hunter's pardon, whether it's the pardon for Joe Biden's brother, whether it's the pardons for Biden Corrupt Family, Inc. I don't disagree with that defense. My argument, though, would be all of that could have happened even if Joe did not have to run for reelection. So to me, Joe, better than anyone, had to see Joe behind closed doors when he wasn't shot up with drugs, when he wasn't at his best ability. Remember, he was bad in public. But that was probably the best version of Joe they could put forward. Imagine all the things that she saw, as any spouse would, that showed how rapidly Joe was declining. And unfortunately, I know some of you have probably had to go through this. It's usually the spouse that recognizes dementia before anybody else does, because the spouse, either the husband or the wife, is interacting far more than anybody else would be. And so they pick up on the signals before anybody else would. And sometimes they will help to cover because they don't want to admit what they're seeing. But to me, Jill, certainly by 2022, I think it was reckless for them to run Joe. And I think Joe Biden's mental and physical decline would have revealed itself, Buck, if Covid hadn't happened, because I don't think they would have been able to hide him. And I think on the campaign trail, he would have given away his decline in a way that he didn't when they were having him in the basement. Campaign.

[David Zweig]

Yeah, look, I. I don't want us to go too deep into. Into Bidenology at this phase. He's a complete political irrelevancy. And, you know, we got some big things that Trump is handling right now in this moment. I would. I think that Jill saw this whole thing as the family business extended through old man Biden and wanted to maximize the leverage for him and the family going forward. Clay, I think if they had. If she had talked about it too early, there would have been pressure on him to step down. That's the other part of this, right? There would have been and. And pressure to step down and not do the pardon. You know, think about it, right? Let's say it's January 2024. Finally, she says, look, you know, Joe Biden is. And that would have been late, but not super late. That's what they did. My husband is having, you know, health issues, whatever. Well, if he's not. If he's not healthy enough in January to run. He's not healthy enough to stay as president. He gets pressured to step down, Kamala ascends. Then he, Then they'd say, well, hold on. You will totally hurt Kamala's chances if the corruption of the Biden family is front loaded into the election cycle. So I'm just, I'm just saying, look, is Jill ruthless and awful? Absolutely. Was she playing the hand that she was dealt pretty reasonably? I don't know. A little. I sound like the Biden family lawyer over here, but I think I can see how this went down.

[Clay Travis]

I had this conversation with my wife and I, I believe I've said it on the radio before.

[David Zweig]

Yeah, that you wouldn't. That she wouldn't let you go and make a total jackass of yourself.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[David Zweig]

Knowing Laura pretty well, I think that is 100% accurate.

[Clay Travis]

If you start, I told her, if you start to recognize that given the job that we have and given the jobs when we're talking in public, if you start to recognize behind the scenes that I am losing it, you need to be the person who says, hey, we're starting to dial back what we're doing publicly now. Laura actually made my wife a really interesting point that I think could actually work towards your Biden family defense argument here. Her defense of Jill was she knows how bad he is, but she has bought into the idea that Trump will destroy the country. And so even though her husband's brain was scrambled eggs, she was thinking to herself, for the benefit of the country. I think this is maybe how she rationalized it. I have to prop up Joe because Trump is so awful. But then Buck, the debate happened, and then I think she shifted her anger from Trump is going to destroy the country to I hate everyone that's coming after my husband, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, probably Kamala, because we've seen the frosty relationships between the two of them. And it seems like a lot of times the spouse is the one who is angrier. Joe Biden can get over people being mean to him. Donald Trump may be able to get over people, meaning being mean to him. It seems quite clear they can. I bet Melania and I bet Jill and some of these political spouses don't get over it anywhere near as well. And they're actually the ones that want to gut the adversaries, metaphorically speaking.

[David Zweig]

I'm sure, I'm sure you have this in your own life, and I'm sure many of the guys listening to this, the same thing. I can walk off even A cheap shot far more easily than my wife will walk off somebody else's cheap shot. Of me. Yeah, of me. Right. Same thing with you. Right.

[Clay Travis]

Media that Laura would. I would not want them to be in the same room with her.

[David Zweig]

Right.

[Clay Travis]

Because of things.

[David Zweig]

It's a different deal.

[Clay Travis]

Like, you and I.

[David Zweig]

You and I might be like, look, you know, whatever, but like the wife in the background is like, oh, I've got your number. Like, they. They don't. It's the same. Same thing here.

[Clay Travis]

And so I think what happened was her anger at Trump pivoted to her anger at the Democrat Party because she thought they were more disloyal to him than even Trump was. And Buck, when you read those pictures, she looked pretty happy when Trump came to visit the White House. I'm sorry, she didn't look like somebody who felt as if she were turning over the keys to the mansion to Adolf Hitler. I think I really. She wore the red dress on election day. Do you remember this?

[David Zweig]

Well, that was after Biden had been completely humiliated and in her mind, I think, betrayed. I also think that, again, I'm not the consigliere of the Biden family. I'm just trying to look at it from their side of the poker table. You know, a little devil, a little Biden devil's advocate here. I think, Clay, that she gets to walk away from this whole thing now and say Kamala completely screwed the whole thing up. You shouldn't have bailed on my Joe. He could have taken it across the finish line. And again, Biden's record one and oh against Trump, people can say that's insane. That's whatever that is actually the historical record. And Jill, I think, sees it that way, too. At least that's the narrative. Look, people tell themselves whatever they want to believe. We all know she his true things.

[Clay Travis]

And they will argue, and I think this is going to be argued for years and years to come, that the Biden people will argue, I think more so in the years to come than they even are now. Hey, picking Kamala was a disaster. We could have dragged Joe across the finish line.

[David Zweig]

Yes, that will be the argument. People, can you and I can sit here and argue about that as we have before, but there will certainly be a Biden camp that says that because you can't prove otherwise. And we know Kamala got. Kamala got crushed, by the way. I don't believe any of the stuff that says Kamala. They want her to run again. You know, we can mark this down. Mark this down, Buck. Prediction all right, there's no way, no way Kamala is going to be their nominee the next time around. But I know that's a ways out.

[Clay Travis]

So here's the other thing. I don't HEAR Anybody defending 81 million votes anymore. Have you noticed how that, like, story just kind of vanished? And, I mean, I, I just finished the new book that I was writing. When you go look at the 81 million votes in the context of the last 10, 10 years, 12 years of American politics, there is no way on the planet, not even Democrats now are looking around like Joe Biden getting 81 million votes is the craziest. Now, look, the rig job, Covid, did they maximize every possible way to get ballots? And yes, did they harvest like crazy. But there's no way buck 81 billion votes ever happened.

[David Zweig]

I'm going to bring us, I'm going to bring us now, Clay, into present day, okay? With Donald Trump this morning, the following. And you could take this and run with it. How can Biden let millions of criminals into our country totally unchecked and unvetted, with no legal authority to do so? Yet, I, in order to make up for this assault to our nation, am expected to go through a lengthy legal process separately for each and every criminal alien. As usual, two different standards only leading to complete and total destruction of the usa and then I love it in all caps, make America great again. I think this is the fundamental question that faces the country right now, more so even than the tariffs and the economy stuff, which I know is getting a bit of focus again, because, you know, the market is, see, sawing down yesterday, up today. Put that aside for a moment. We'll get back to it. Clay, what, what does it mean if, even when you have a Republican administration, the Democrats can flood the country and there's no way to unflood it, which is really essentially what the courts are going to be deciding here. Or at least that's what the courts are lining themselves up for. I don't know what to tell people. I don't know what the answer is. If Trump can't actually do the deportations of the. I'm talking just Biden arrivals now, not talking about, you know, someone's abuelo who's been here since 1992. I'm talking about the people that just arrived illegally as part of this game. We could talk about that other thing later. If Biden, I mean, if Trump can't get rid of them, what do we, what do we do? We have a country really, that is worthy of the Name. What is this place?

[Clay Travis]

No, I mean, this is what I said yesterday, and I probably should just make it simple. It's a math problem. You cannot deport. Right now we're doing around 350,000 people a year. If that is the rate by which we will deport illegal immigrants. Just in the four years that Biden let 10 million-plus in, it will take us about 30 years to get those people out. That's presuming that there's not going to be some other Democrat who opens the borders wide open again. That was their gamble. Their gamble was once these people get here, they're never going home. And eventually there's going to have to be a solution for them. They're playing a game that's generational in nature, and Trump is trying to fight back against it. And the standards that he's allowed to fight with are, are completely different than the ones that Biden was allowed to put in place. Which is while why the Abreu Garcia story is interesting, it's not really about him. It's about what are the protocols and processes by which Trump can accelerate the deportation from people inside the country. Not rejecting people at the southern border, which he has satisfied and now solved that problem. The next equation here is, how do you get the 10 million plus in the last four years out? And to say nothing of what was the number I gave you 25 million and you came up with a number of 30 million. We don't even know what the total number of illegals living in the country right now actually is.

[David Zweig]

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[Clay Travis]

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[David Zweig]

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[Clay Travis]

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[David Zweig]

Let's take some calls here and some talkbacks. Laura in Pennsylvania has a story to share. What's up?

[Clay Travis]

Laura?

[Travis Holloway]

Hi. I'm just getting back to talking about the ridiculousness of people claiming they didn't see the decline of Biden. It was five years ago when my child was 12 years old and we're listening to either a debate or a speech and Joe Biden was up there and her not even paying attention. 12 years old, knows nothing about politics. She stops and she says, mom, why she sound like Pop Pop? I said, honey, because he is like Pop pop. There's a 12 year old child who was able to see all the signs, the blank stares, the rise in anger quickly. And you're telling me that grown adults didn't see this years ago. And for Joe Biden to allow that to happen and the rapid decline, knowing all the stress and everything, I find it despicable because I did everything, I did everything in my power to protect my father from anything, every anything and everything. And I just find it sickening that she stood by and watched it happen.

[David Zweig]

Laura, thank you so much for calling in. Clay. It is, it is true. I even said the same thing on the air that the Biden, some of this stuff reminded me of my maternal grandfather who's a great American, a patriot, a war is know a guy who was a veteran but when he got to a certain age you could just see it. We all saw with Biden, everyone. The 12 year old that Laura just talked about, her daughter saw.

[Clay Travis]

If he hadn't debated on June 27, they would have legitimately tried to get him reelected 100, I mean, which is wild to even think about. Keep rolling here. We got some great guests for you next hour. Chip Roy, Congressman, Texas there's an efficient.

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