Buck Sexton (3:09)
Indeed. So do us a solid and pre order yours on Amazon today. Welcome everybody to the Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Continuing government Shutdown edition. And I got a lot of news to talk to you about today. And we're going to be joined by a couple senators to discuss some of it. Senator Rand Paul in the second hour, Senator Ron Johnson in the third hour. I am here in our nation's capital so figure should talk to some of the lawmakers and legislators and people making the decisions and they have a little more time on their hands because of this shutdown situation. We've also got Trump weighing in heavily on the National Guard deployment to Chicago. He's got some choice Trump words, James Comey, his trial. I've got updates for you on that. I've also got a, well, some, some Pam Bondi hearing stuff that we can discuss a little bit of. I just wanted to start with this though. DC Is absolutely lovely right now. It is incredible being here. Now some of it might be the increase in safety because of the Trump agenda, but just, just hear me out. The government shutdown means that this city is wide open. There's, there's no one clogging the streets. The roadways are wide open. You can drive anywhere. It is a ghost town in all the best ways. So I'm having a great time. I'm walking around the broad boulevards, barely a soul in sight. The restaurants, you can get a table anywhere. I can drive around. D.C. has among the worst traffic congestion areas in the entire country. D.C. is pretty much always a top five contender and often a top three for the worst traffic. And you have hundreds of thousands of government workers who are currently on furlough, not going into these massive federal buildings, pushing a bunch of paper around. So the city is great. I gotta say, this shutdown, it's a fantastic time to be in this town and having some meetings with various stakeholders and movers and shakers here. Some of it off the record, but it's interesting stuff that's going on. That much I can tell you. Some people are saying very interesting meetings, very interesting for Mr. Buck. But yeah, I have to check in on my people here in D.C. sometimes. I'm just saying it's a great time, but why should you care about that? Well, what do we need all these government workers for if everything seems fine without them going to their jobs? I think it's a fair ask. Remember, the Pentagon is still going public safety. There's essential and non essential services in this town. And the non essential includes a lot of people who I think are remote work, remote workers anyway, or have been. And everything seems to be functioning just fine. I don't know, maybe if you have to wait in line longer than normal or you can't get into the, like the certain areas of a national park, you're upset. But for me, walking around our nation's capital, it feels like the swamp has been cleared. It's great. And I think that it's a reminder that we have a massive and bloated federal bureaucracy. And if there are some changes made to that as part of the shutdown, to me that is a good thing. That is a good thing. But yeah, I think this is one of the. You have perfect weather, no bureaucrats, and you can drive anywhere here in this town now in less than 10 minutes. This is the best version of D.C. i can remember. I mean, this is great. So I'm having a lot of fun here. And I'm down here, of course, in our, in our DC I Heart studio. All right, now with that said, we've got some, some updates on a whole range of things. Oh, this is what I was looking for when I started off the show. Katie Porter. We will discuss this. She's running for governor. She's a congresswoman. She, she is not a particularly affable one and may have done some real damage to her campaign. You're just gonna have to hear this exchange, but I will, I will play that one for you. Has gone mega viral. She can be very nasty, kind of a nasty exchange with a journalist who's trying to ask her some questions. So, so we will get we will get to that as well, that Katie Porter situation. But as I had mentioned to you, we have as of this morning update here on the James Comey trial. I believe it is going to be happening January 5th. It is set for. So that's pretty quick. They're, they're moving pretty fast on this one. And here is FOX News is Bill Hemmer. This is from this morning. Just with that breaking news and laying out some of what's going on here for Sankt Comey. Play it. Here is the breaking news. The former FBI director James Comey in front of a judge moments ago in a hearing that we did not think would last long. And apparently that is the case. He has entered a plea of not guilty to two charges federal level. Now, our producers inside the courtroom say the former director accused of lying to Congress, obstructing aggression, congressional proceeding, end of the plea moments ago in front of the judge Michael Nachman off appointed by Joe Biden, not guilty on both federal charges. He's accused of lying in front of Congress back in 2020. So that is the update inside the courtroom. So now he's going to trial. One of the most hilarious arguments against this that I keep seeing all over the place from the libs is, oh my gosh, the precedent that has been set here. What would you do, Republicans, if people started to use prosecutors offices as weapons of politics? And to this you just want to say, have you been asleep for the last decade? Do you have any idea what has gone on with four different criminal cases brought against Donald Trump, all of which were bogus civil cases brought against Trump by the state of New York in one case and by a woman who claims from 30 years ago, 30 something years ago, Trump, you know, grabbed her in a department store. The stuff that they have done, the lawfare they have done against Trump and his family alone has done tremendous damage to the public's faith in all of these different facets of our criminal justice system or just our justice system of the courts, too, because some of it was civilization. This is atrocious. I mean, the things that have gone on here, the precedents that have already been set, now they want to tell us we should be worried about going too far in the other direction. No, they already did this. In fact, what they have done, what the Democrats have done specifically with the targeted lawfare against Donald Trump, among many others, is really Trump and Trump world, everybody who is Trump adjacent all the way to January 6th defendants. Right. It's the whole Trump movement that they have used the prosecutor's office. They have used lawfare as a. As a tool, as a weapon to ruin lives, to put tremendous pressure on people, to financially drain them, to undermine them, to malign them, to defame them. All of that they have already done. They sent an FBI team to Mar A Lago and they went through Melania's sock drawer. And Libs want to lecture us about James Comey, who allegedly lied under oath, facing the music. I'm sorry, is there some special carve out for being a, you know, 6 foot 10 jerk who uses the law in order to puff himself up and as part of his own just malignant narcissism? Is there some carve out where he doesn't have to actually face the music the way that he has made so many others and I think entrapped people and abused the law, most notably General Flynn? I like to fill in these gaps too. So no one can say, well, you just said he's abusing it. No, I like to give you the specifics to remind everybody, to remind everybody that James Comey thought it was funny to use the Logan act, which no serious human being thinks anybody can or would be prosecuted under, as a total pretext. It's like the equivalent of a swatting call. It is a bad faith use of law enforcement to go after the General Michael Flynn, the incoming national security advisor. I know it feels like that was a long time ago, but there hasn't been. Well, maybe you don't feel that way, but they'll say that. But there's been no justice for that. That ambush hasn't been punished. And James Comey thinks that he's a clever guy for the whole thing and he thinks that what was that book, I think was higher power. Is that right? Higher power or something like that? I'm. Now, the real question you might ask is, is James Comey's book a more brutal read than Kamala's 107 days? I cannot answer that question because I haven't read Comey's book. But I will tell you that is some stiff competition that is, you know, Superman versus Iron man with the, like the super suit, you know, I mean, that is tough stuff. Really, really preposterous that James Comey would think anybody would want to read his memoir and on his book tour. But such as things are, he is now facing the music and there's the possibility. I think it's slim. I don't want to over promise and under deliver ever on this show. I think it is slim. But here's what I will tell that, that he will actually be convicted because it's a, it's a Northern Virginia jury. I was just saying how much fun, how much fun DC Is with no government bureaucrats running around. They all live in Arlington mostly. You know, they live a lot of them inside or just outside of the Beltway. It's going to be a very favorable pool for James Comey. But here's why I view this as so important. The message is received whether Comey is found guilty or not. The message is received that there will at least be an effort to hold the other side to the law and not create a system. This is really important, a system where we are held to an extra legal standard and they are held to a sub legal standard. Or rather they get to break the law and get away with it. Meanwhile, they get to prosecute us, Trump, for not breaking the law and we do nothing in response. We have to at least establish that we will bring charges against people who have been involved in this lawfare, involved in using the government, the deep state, however you want to describe it, to take out people for purely political reasons. Well, if they break the law in that process, there will be some form of accountability. And now there is going to be, I think, a pretty high probability just based on the jury pool that Comey will be found. In my mind, he'll be found not guilty, he'll be acquitted on this. But let's see, let's see. It's a pretty straightforward thing. Did he lie or did he not lie? Let's see what kind of case the prosecutor. I know, I don't want to prejudge anything here. Let's see what is produced in that court. You don't need to call me and say, buck, you're already getting ahead of the, you know, cart before the horse here. I know, but I just, I like to manage our expectations for where this is going. It's a, it's still a steep climb. This is a little bit of ice skating uphill here to think that James Comey is going to actually be convicted. But the fact that the charge has been brought alone sends a message. We are not going to just lie down and accept a two tiered system of justice in this town, Washington, D.C. or anywhere else for that matter. And that is important. That is something that we all have to recognize as a necessary step because otherwise it's, you know, heads they win, tails we lose. Did I do that one right? That's always, I always feel like I'm gonna get that one wrong. It's like Bush when he's like, fool me once, can't, can't get fooled again. You know, it's tougher to say it, especially on a live radio show than you think it's gonna be, you know, but that, that's where this is right now, my friends. That is the situation. I was just talking before I came on air today about how much we love our Cozy Earth sheets. And also we've got a blanket. 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