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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H2 - Accelerating the Crazy
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Clay Travis
Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now and we said we're gonna dive into it. Clay I kind of want to because I voted for this.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, sure.
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Clay Travis
Way to put it. I voted for this. I did. I I wanted somebody who was going to come in and say this cultural Marxism, this Maoist cultural revolution that was really put in motion by the eight years of Obama but continued during the presidency of Joe Biden. This turning our back on our history, rewriting history, feeling like we should all be, or at least some of us should be, sorry for American history. All this. No, enough is enough. And I think that we reached our fill of that nonsense a long time ago. But here is a moment in time where I actually wasn't even expecting Trump to do this. I didn't know this was going to happen. He has said that it is time for the Washington Commanders to go back to the Redskins. He had a post on Truth Social. He said the Washington Whatevers should immediately change their name back to the Washington Redskins football team. There's a big clamoring for this. Likewise the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams with a storied past. Our great Indian people in massive numbers want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a country of passion and common sense. All caps owners. Get it done. Mr. Clay, is this going to get done? What do you make of this? What do you think of this? Is it possible? And what do the fans want Take me through it.
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Buck Sexton
So I put up a poll and I'm not saying that my audience is 100% representative of the average sports fan, but my poll showed 97% of my audience wanted the name to go back to Washington Redskins. And I asked the question and I, I think it's a good one. Is there anybody out there that even if they are super left leaning, where it would be 97,3 the other way, right? So let's presume Keith Olbermann put up this poll for his audience. I don't think 97% of his audience, even though they are super left wing, crazy, insane people, would vote, hey, keep the Washington commander's name. And I don't know that the team and New York, correct me if I'm wrong, has not commented on this yet. The Cleveland Indians did and they said, we love the Guardians. And everybody listening in Cleveland right now is saying, no, we don't. This is a stupid name. We would much prefer that the Cleveland Indian name came back. But I would say that what is interesting to me about this is twofold. One, Trump is putting it on his shoulders and actually giving the team a little bit of a pass because he's saying, hey, if you want a brand new stadium on federal land in Washington D.C. and you want the federal government and the District of Columbia government to help you and provide hundreds of millions of dollars in financing, then one of the conditions associated with this is I think you should be the Redskins. Again, I don't dislike that. This is not somebody deciding to come into a private business and dictate how they do business. He's saying, hey, if you want the federal government's help to build a great new stadium in Washington D.C. then there are all sorts of conditions that the government as a partner in this negotiation would demand. Returning the name of Redskins, I think is a significant ask, but also a reasonable 1.2. This is, I think, symbolically important because I hinted at this when we went to break. I like to think of myself as a reasonable person. Now some of you out there might say you are crazy. You're not really okay? But I, I think in general I have my pulse on the average sports fan in America. I think I could sit down with them no matter where they're from and we could have a good conversation no matter what their background. Buck points out. And I do think it's true that if you are a college football fan, I feel like I could find common ground with you.
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Clay Travis
Clay is not really a big hug guy, but if you like college football Just give him a hug when you see him. He's fine with it as long as you say you love a college football team, preferably sec. Maybe shake his hand if you're not an SEC fan, but. But if you love college football, you can definitely shake and just give him a hug if you like the sec, he's fine with it.
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Buck Sexton
I think we speak a common language and for a long time I was of the opinion, hey, I'm so tired of the mascot argument. And I think this is the average guy and gal out there that I was reasonable and I said, okay, we'll give up Redskins, we'll give up Indians, we won't fight that hard over this. And it'll just put it to rest forever. And it never does. Because leftists aren't satisfied ever. They never sit back and say, hey, you know what? We're happy. And I would say this. Think about gay marriage. Whatever you think about gay marriage, I thought when gay marriage happened, okay, we've reached the logical extension of the left in America. There is nowhere else they can go. Instead, they weren't happy with that. They decided that men had to win women's championships because men are actually women. And they decided that, hey, also, let's argue that if you don't accept someone else's change gender, you're a bigot. And Buck is right here. I think if they could continue the advance, it would move on to, hey, it's unacceptable if you're a man and you don't want to sleep with a man pretending to be a woman because they're real women too. Chicks with. Are just normal chicks. And that was a bleep. I didn't say it, but that's kind of where we're headed. And, and so my point on this is the crazy just gets accelerated and there isn't a reasonable, hey, okay, once and for all, we've negotiated this like business people would and you say, we're going to put this behind us now. This is a negotiation. They keep asking for more. And so I think instead of giving them more, culturally, you have to take back what you already gave them. And you have to draw the line and say, we're not playing this game anymore.
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Clay Travis
A lot of colleges have changed, particularly if they had anything that is Indian or Native American. Relate. A lot of colleges change their mascot. Dartmouth. That's one of the worst examples of this. I think just because they went from, they, they went from their Indian mascot to the big green. What is that? That's not a. That's. I don't even know what. What is the big green. It makes no sense. Yeah, the color. I mean it's, it's also. It makes no sense at all. I'm trying to see some of these other ones here. St. John's I actually had a St. John's Red Men starter jacket growing up just because I thought it was cool. And they changed that one to the Red Storm. UMass was the minute Men. And then they, they got rid of that. What was wrong with the Minutemen? I mean, naming things after colonials.
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Buck Sexton
The colonials are gone. At George Washington, the colonial army was fighting against colonization and they decided cuz it had colonial in it, it had to go. Because people are too much of morons to even understand language these days. And frankly, universities, which should exist to educate morons, aka 18 year olds. I'm still fired up about this. They changed the name to the GW Revolutionaries. And I don't think it's coincidental that the quad immediately got taken over by a bunch of crazy left wings radicals who want to say they. They put the cafe or however you pronounce it on George Washington statue in the center of campus. You can't embolden idiots.
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Clay Travis
I didn't know about this one. Eastern Washington University used to be the mascot was the Savages. That's pretty. That's pretty, pretty badass.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, yes, you know, if you're.
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Clay Travis
If you're on the T. If your team is called the Savages, I feel like you're getting fired up before you get out there on the field there. There's a lot of these. Elon University was the Fighting Christians and they changed that. You can't, you can't even do that.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I mean, there was pressure on Notre Dame, the Fighting Irish, which is one of the great mascots. And again we just. That would be.
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Clay Travis
That would be so to me, the Fighting Irish, they. First of all, no Irish people are actually no people of Irish descent or offended. The whole thing's absurd. A leprechaun. It's cute, it's funny. Until you see the leprechaun movies, which are actually terrifying with Warwick Davis, who you know from Willow, which is a fun movie throwback. But the actual leprechaun movies, very. Have you ever seen them, Clay? Very unsettling. He's a mean little leprechaun. He's not nice.
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Buck Sexton
The horror, not nice.
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Clay Travis
It's a horror movie. Some people are saying the meanest leprechaun. Don't see those. Don't. Don't let your kids see Them either. But you see, the Fighting Irish is such a brand that I think it's safe because it's always about what's the brand value versus what's the outcry going to be. Same thing with. With Yale. As I've pointed out before, Elihu Yale was a slave trader. Yale University is named for a person named for a person who was enriching himself off of the slave trade. So, you know it in some ways, how much worse going to be in this. It's what, you know, you own slaves. That's bad, right? But if you're making money by making sure as many people as possible own slaves, you would think that would be pretty bad. But people go to Yale to say they go to Yale. They don't want to say they go to, you know, southeastern New Haven College of whatever they want to say. They go to Yale. And the Fighting Irish is a great nickname, and there's no reason why anybody should want that to be changed. As I pointed out, though, I was always waiting for the Vikings to come under heat. There's. The Vikings did a lot of. A lot of loot and pillage. A lot of nasty stuff went into, actually, the Irish monasteries looted, those bad things going on there. Vikings were not a bunch of cuddly guys with weird horned helmets on. That's also, by the way, a total anachronism. They never had horned helmets. That comes from opera. Anyway. Whole other thing. But, you know, this is something that finally Trump is saying, this is just crazy town. And whether the team switched back or not, I'm just glad, Clay, that someone's calling this out and saying that it doesn't have to be this way. We don't. We don't have to live our lives walking on eggshells because miserable libs demand it.
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Buck Sexton
Here's a question for the history nerds out there. I have an argument that I think is accurate, but it feels to me like society at large is essentially saying everything that happened from about 2014 to 2022 was completely wrong. And we're in the process of erasing all of it. Whether it's BLM protests, whether it was the response to Covid, whether it was the changing of the nicknames, whether it was Lia Thomas winning a women's swimming championship.
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Clay Travis
This is the counter revolution. This is the Trump counter revolution to the Maoist insanity.
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Buck Sexton
What is another American analogy of something like this happening? Because the 1960s is probably the easiest era.
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Clay Travis
I was gonna. Probably Reaganism. Reaganism as a response to all the just degrading and anti American nonsensical radicalism of the late 60s and in. Through the 70s, the Vietnam era.
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Buck Sexton
I think Reaganism was the, was the response to that. But I would say there was actually some good clearly that came out of the civil rights movement. Right? It's good that everybody who's an American citizen should be able to freely vote and everybody. So what is good that came out of 2014-2022 that is a lasting legacy of you? Usually you have progress and people say, okay, that progress is good. And then it goes too far, right? The pendulum swings too far. And you can go from, hey, we should have equal rights in America. Everyone should. That's an aspirational goal. But maybe, hey, you shouldn't define who gets into a school based on the color of your skin. That's swinging it too far. In other words, civil rights, okay, great society, too much with. With. With lbj. What is the good. This is what I think is really kind of fascinating about this. What is something good that happened from 14 to 22? And I'm proliferation.
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Clay Travis
The proliferation of police body cams, which is essentially the end of the anti cop and blm.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, that's a good argument. That's a good argument.
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Clay Travis
So an unintentional, unintentionally unintentional, but that consequence is real. The reason you don't see these huge anti cop protests the way is because the Internet and body camera footage and we see. Oh, I'm actually constantly amazed at how reasonable and even deferential police are in the face of a lot of aggression and disrespect. That's what you actually see when you pay attention to the reality of the video footage on these body cams. And the other thing is when there's somebody who's. When there's a cop who crosses the line, everyone hates that, including cops. They don't want bad cops. They don't want cops who are hurting people when they're not supposed to. So, you know, there's nothing but upside on the body cam.
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Buck Sexton
That's a great, that's a great point. Because BLM basically is getting. Has been destroyed because one, it led to way more death. Everything else. But every time they try to make a viral incident, if it's almost always you're like, man, the cops showed a lot of restraint there, right? I mean overwhelmingly, the person's name goes viral. Social media is like, by the way, what I would say all of this is connected to. And this is for future historians, I think it was. Everybody went crazy because of social media. I think that's the linchpin that under undergirds it all.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis BUCK SEXTON SHOW we are talking about the impact of of Trump's threats on the Redskins name. I really don't know, Buck, how it plays out politically because I think the owner of the Redskins, and I'm just going to keep calling him the Redskins because I think a lot of you still do. And I hate having to change mascot names because I'm used to calling them one thing for years. I think the owner is waiting to see what the political blowback is. In other words, how does the marketplace actually react? He's letting Trump take the fire. But I think most people are in favor of this. And look, the sports media would not be, but I think the power of the sports media as a whole has collapsed because a lot of people are just like these guys are basically cnn, MSNBC, stooges. And I do think it's going to be intriguing to see how that, how that situation continues to develop. We'll talk about that a bit more. Also, the continued fallout. We got some more Hunter Biden clips that are pretty crazy that we will play for you, including him saying, Buck, that one reason his dad didn't perform well at the June 27 debate was because he was on Ambien. Interesting. I remember we talked about that. They keep the drugs from him. They needed to shoot him up with some energy. There's only so much you can do to make your neighborhood safe. Community watch groups, building great relationships with local police, it all helps. But if somebody does break into your home, having the right protection tools is super important. That's why you could use the tools from Saber. They're the number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. We have every one of these products, I think in the Travis household, whether it's door alarms, whether it's tiny little keychain pepper sprays, whether it's the pepper projectile launcher, which basically looks just like a gun, except it is firing pepper spray projectiles. You got teenagers, you got kids, grandkids coming into your home at all hours, setting off Alarms. Maybe you want to protect the home, but you don't want to use anything lethal because you just think, hey, maybe that's my knucklehead teenager coming in. My knucklehead grandkid. You can save 15% off right now at sabre radio.com that's S A B R E radio.com sabradio.com check it out today.
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Clay Travis
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. Let's talk about the latest on Russia, gates, Russia, collusion, all that stuff for a sec. Cause there's some new news on this one. As we know, Dni Gabbard, whom I had a long conversation with when Clay and I were in D.C. clay was supposed to be part of that conversation, but he showed up in his timey Bahamas and his flip flops to the White House. And they said, excuse me, sir. Excuse me. No, just kidding. He didn't have his passport, which I remember. Just so you know, I'm not like the guy who leaves his buddies behind in line at the nightclub. I actually asked the Director of National Intelligence. I said, can we go get Clay? He. He doesn't have his passport, but you can just wave him in, right? And she was like, they won't let me in without my passport. And I said, okay, well, in that case you had.
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Buck Sexton
I didn't have real id and then I didn't have my passport with me. And you had to have one or the other to be able to get in. Not.
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Clay Travis
That's what I.
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Buck Sexton
Regular driver's license. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
She said, these rules do not. Do not get waived. Sorry. You know, we love Clay, but he'll come back tomorrow or next time. So. But I long talk with Tulsi, what we talked about off the record. But I asked her, I said, can I say that we hung out and talked for a while about, you know, what's going on in the country. So Tulsi has. Has a mandate within the director, within the intelligence community of cleaning up the mess. It is still a. I can put it this way, the brand. The brand perception of the intelligence community went from post 9 11. Yeah, of course. Huge failure. We get hit on 9 11. So there's that. There's that reality. But then there was a surge of people, including a lot of former military, including a lot of elite military unit special operators who were working hand in glove with the intelligence community to find these guys. Right? I mean, it's CIA SEAL Team 6, CIA Delta Force. I mean, these units or, you know, these entities were symbiotic overseas to doing incredibly important work. In the what I still believe we should just call the war on terror, we don't have a better name for it. The G what? And many of you served in the G what. And I thank you for your service. And I think that that unfortunately has gotten a little bit lost in the shuffle lately. People, I feel like our G what veterans, people, a lot of people in this country are moving on beyond what happened there. We should remember what they did and the sacrifices that they made. But I think, Clay, the intelligence community, because of the Obama years and the weaponization of it against Trump specifically, has now become a broadly distrusted entity. The point where I was only there for gwat years, I see, you know, I'll appear in some show or something, I'll be on Fox, or one of our clips will go somewhere, people will say, you can't trust this guy. He was CIA. I'm like, I remember when I was in the CIA and we're trying to stop bin Laden from blowing up the next plane. And that was a real thing. Okay? So I don't know, but this is what happened. The people who ran the place decided that they were above the law and they were in a position to change election outcomes. Really. And I think that it should be remembered. And I'd give my friend Ben Domenech, who's a Fox guy, I give him credit for this for pointing this out on Twitter over the weekend. Somebody said, I don't know who it was. You know, they tried to use this Russia collusion thing to take Trump down. And Ben wrote, they almost succeeded. I think people forget that now we see this in retrospect, because that's absolutely correct. They almost. This almost worked. They almost used this trap completely successfully to destroy the Trump administration, destroy Trump and his family. So Tulsi Gabbard is now demanding that Cash Patel and Pam Bondi investigate Obama era DOJ officials. She says it's their responsibility, or rather they are responsible. Well, both, both Pam and Cash have this responsibility and these people from the Obama years are responsible. So here we go. Here is. This is cut 14 team. And here's Tulsi laying out what she sees now with access to it all as the Director of National Intelligence, play it.
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Creating this piece of manufactured intelligence that claims that Russia had helped Donald Trump get elected contradicted every other assessment that had been made previously in the months leading up to the election that said exactly the opposite, that Russia neither had neither the intent nor the capability to try to, quote, unquote, hack the United States election for the presidency. Of the United States. So the effect of what President Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert the will of the American people, undermining our Democratic Republic and enacting what would be essentially a years long coup against President Trump, who was duly elected by the American people.
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Buck Sexton
Okay, so I think I speak for average American out there. Is anybody ever gonna get arrested or charged for any of this? Because otherwise, yes, everything that Tulsi just said there I believe is true. I think all of the evidence out there is that the whole Russia collusion lie was manufactured. I think if you just look at basically what went on, they laundered this story through the New York Times and the Washington Post, which gave all of the reporters who wrote it Pulitzers for fundamentally untrue stories that were designed to destroy Trump's ability to be President of the United States for his first term. All of that, I think, is 100% true. I think that this is why there is so much blowback on the Epstein front. I think many people out there look at this and say, I've heard it all before. Nobody ever pays. Democrats indict Republicans like crazy. Perp walk them everywhere, bankrupt them, sit them down, make them get their photos taken, whether you're the President of the United States, all the way down to a grandma who walked into the Capitol on January 6th and was using a selfie, a selfie stick to take pictures. Those people are all held accountable. They throw the entire book at them Democrats, unless they decide somebody's not useful, like Robert Menendez.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
And they just toss him to the side. And then they got a new senator who they bring in instead of basically no Democrat ever suffers any consequences, no matter what crimes they break. Is anything going to happen from this?
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Clay Travis
No.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, see, that's, that's where I think people get so frustrated, I'm sorry to say.
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Clay Travis
And I think that that's. People I know want. They want that to be untrue, what I said. And maybe, maybe it will be. But here's the. Here's the first thing that I would say, okay? The, the only statute that I can think of, like, things like, I don't even know if there is a federal statute for official misuse of position. That was something that I know there is actually, because when I was CIA, we had that right. Like, if you, if you were, if you claimed and you use like your CIA identification to get out of, like a speeding, you know, there were things where you couldn't just say, like, I'm CIA on a covert op, like you can't stop official and you get fired. I mean obviously so official misuse of position. But that's not a huge thing. Meaning you're not going to go to prison for a long time for that. Not going to go to prison at all. Conspiracy. Here's the thing about conspiracy because I think there is a there you could go for conspiracy charges here. Statutes five years. Statutes five years.
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Buck Sexton
So what about leaking what about leaking top secret information to to the press.
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Clay Travis
Statute is I think 10 on that.
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Buck Sexton
So you're still a little bit potentially it's getting close. Depends still potentially be under that depend to track down how the leaking happened.
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Clay Travis
Those are but again those are very difficult cases to prove. But yeah I think the statute on those is 10 years. So but so this is what I just want to break this down for everybody. What Trump is saying that they should be prosecuted. Okay. Should be sure. Should have been definitely. How can they be under the system that we have? I don't see it. And now people I know, I understand I'm going to get immediately with this treason. Treason has a specific federal definition. Treason is not just betraying your country in a general now it's used that way in conversation but there is a specific federal statutory explanation of the charge of treason and I don't think you'll be able to get anywhere near that with these with essentially a a plot hooked up inside the intelligence community with the Obama administration running point on it, using the media to launder it and then putting it out there and then using the Justice Department to try to undermined from the inside the Trump administration. I just I don't see what the statute would and so don't write in and tell me or Clay they betrayed. Yeah I know they betrayed the country. I Trump used to retweet me on this stuff all the time because I knew that they were lying about what's going on the intelligence community. They were lying about their use of Pfizer. They were lying. We know all of that here. What are you going to get them on now? What is the charge going to be? What is the federal criminal indictment going to be against Comey? Name the people involved. What is it? Tell me what it is and if it sounds reasonable, great, then we'll have an answer. But I don't see it and I wish that wasn't the case, but I'm just telling everybody what I know.
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Buck Sexton
I think it would have to be leaking the documents to start the whole process. And that means you go after reporters. That means you go after the New York Times. That means you go after super complicated.
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Clay Travis
To do that, by the way, and causes all kinds of problems.
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Buck Sexton
Those reporters will all scream, hey, we're, you know, we support the First Amendment. Like we're being attacked by the federal government. Sometimes they'll go to prison to avoid, avoid revealing sources.
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Clay Travis
This is where I can remind every people always, always say, no way, Clay. The Obama administration used the Espionage act not just more than any president before him. He used it more than every presidency before him combined. Yeah, think about that.
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Buck Sexton
I just look at this and say it's particularly nasty because you're leaking classified documents which may not accurately reflect overall consensus view, and the reporters who report on it don't have access to all the countervailing opinions that might be inside of an agency. And they take it at face value. And then because it was anti Trump, they gave them all Pulitzer Prizes. Remember, I don't think the Pulitzer has rescinded any of these reports, any of these awards. And they treated them as if they were heroes when all they were doing was laundering inaccurate information designed to destroy the Trump administration. It's actually nasty on a level that I, I am still incredibly frustrated about it. I think it ultimately destroyed the legitimacy of much of the, of much of the reporting universe. And unless you get them for leaking classified documents, I think, unfortunately, this is just another case where we know many crimes were committed and there are no consequences for them. And I think a lot of people throw up their hands and say there is no law that holds Democrats accountable. Meanwhile, whether you're President Trump all the way down to, like I said, a grandma walking into the Capitol on January 6th, you get the book thrown at you and meanwhile, Republicans do nothing, by and large, to Democrats in exchange.
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Clay Travis
Right. Well, this is where you get into. So now, because, because again, I feel exactly where you are on this. There's, there's this frustration. We. Our side always gets the book thrown at them, even for. And they always get away with it. Well, here's what they did. Remember, the Supreme Court had to weigh in on this. They treated obstruction as an official proceeding. I mean, they expanded this definition of obstruction of an official proceeding is really meant to prevent people from destroying all the evidence in a federal criminal investigation. And they use this to go after j. Six people. So what they do is really unconstitutionally expand a statute to go after their political enemies and ruin their lives. We could do that too. I mean, but that's what it would require is what I'm saying. If, if you're telling me we're going to use a real statute in good faith and approach it in this way. I don't see how you're going to get not only Comey sent to prison or anything like that. I don't even think he's going to. I don't even think I can bring a charge. I don't know what the charge is. Unless you want to just shoehorn something into it. Maybe some of you do, but that's, I think, what this would require.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, look, and the statute of limitations factors in here in a big way. And I get why all of you are frustrated because I feel like all these things are basically proven and then there are no consequences for them. And so everybody just throws up their hands and says, here we go again. Yes, they did something illegal. No, nothing happens to them.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Look, you're an informed individual. You know how hard President Trump is working to get our economy to the place it is right now and beyond. We're just seeing the early stages of this. But that's something that you can't take for granted. And you can't just think, oh, he's got this covered for me. You have to take action for yourself. Inflation is still going to be a challenge in this country because the $37 trillion of debt's not going away. There's going to be money printing. It's just a question of how much. So how can you diversify and protect a portion of your savings? Gold. Gold is an appreciating asset, up 40% in the last year. And central banks continue to add to their gold reserves. Birch Gold Group is who I trust to get my gold and they can help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA with physical gold. I've got gold in my home. Safe gold bars. Gold coins you can too. My friends, Birch Gold Group is who you should contact. Text my name. Buck to 989898 and Birch Gold will send you a free info kit on Gold A plus rating with a better business Bureau. Tens of thousands of happy customers, including me, take control of your savings today. Text the word buck to 9898 98.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us next hour. By the way, we got a couple of different things that I think are worth talking about more. The Stephen Colbert cancellation has led to abject fury on the left. I do think that basic business is interesting there and I think it also ties in with the WNBA players coming out with the pay us what you owe us t shirts over the weekend. If you didn't see that, I think both of them are kind of emblematic of a lack of understanding of basic economics which unfortunately characterizes the entire left in this country on a day to day basis. I did Buck want to give a positive movie review because I know we talked about Superman. I still have not seen Superman. I imagine many of you have because it's one of the biggest movies of the summer. But I did go see another big movie of the summer and I am not a crazy knowledgeable F1 racing expert. So please, I'm sure many of you out there that love F1 are going to tell me the things you didn't like about the realism associated with the movie. I thought F1 was really good. Brad Pitt, fun, engaging, no like political agenda other than hey, let's just try to make a fun movie. Had elements of Days of Thunder, elements of the Top Gun, Maverick movie, older race car driver, younger race car dynamic and it was super cool. Well done. Enjoyable summer movie. If you need enjoyable summer movie reviews.
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Clay Travis
My brother saw it too. You see it Friday? I think you guys saw Saturday.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, Saturday.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. So he saw it this weekend. He agreed with you. He thought it was good and he said, he said that you would like the movie and I said great, I will watch it at home where I do not have to be around other human beings because they always ruin the movie by talking and being on their phones and doing annoying rude things. So. And he said, ah, yes, I forgot that I was talking to the grumpiest 43 year old ever, but I at.
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Buck Sexton
Least told you it's a good movie, you'll appreciate this. So they had all the movie previews running beforehand and some of them were like the Conjuring, which is one of the scariest movies ever. But then they also showed Downton Abbey down. And I turn to my wife and I'm like, Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey. I was like, why would they be advertising that? She said, oh, every woman in here loves Brad Pitt. And, and that's why they're showing this. And I said, oh, that's interesting. So I said Brad Pitt's a little bit like me. Men want to be him and women love him. And my wife just laughed. She did not have a lot of respect for my Brad Pitt analogy.
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