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Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H3 - Can You Believe This Question?
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Christiana Amanpour
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Buck Sexton
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Christiana Amanpour
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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Christiana Amanpour
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Buck Sexton
Welcome in hour number three, Tuesday Edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the biggest stories in the world and continuing to battle for truth, justice and the American way. You know, they took that away on Superman. No longer Truth, justice in the American way. But we got a bunch of different stories to dive into with. You should mention Trump is on the ground or en route to Pittsburgh for a big announcement there about major AI related investments that are being made in the state of Pennsylvania. He also recently took a huge medley of questions from the White House press corps right before he left on virtually every subject under the sun. And before I dive into this, this clip that I think is going to blow Buck's mind, this audio that we're going to play for you, are you still kind of surprised that nobody's talking about the decision on Ukraine weapons when you compare it to the huge debate we all had about what was appropriate with Iran? Now Trump is saying, hey, and I think we may have that audio in at some point during the next little bit. He said, hey, I've instructed Zelinsky they're not to reach into Russia and significantly attack there.
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Christiana Amanpour
He's also obscuring, through a really a diplomatic sleight of hand, he is obscuring that these arms are, it's American things that go boom. But we're giving them to NATO to give to Ukraine and NATO is going to pay for them. I think that's the way this has been set up. This is cut 33. This is from yesterday. Play it. Given Russia 50 days, what happens now?
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Donald Trump
Do you talk to Vladimir Putin? Well, at the end of 50 days, if we don't have a deal, it's going to be too bad.
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Christiana Amanpour
Should Zelensky get more aggressive.
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Donald Trump
Yeah, the tariffs are going to go on and other sanctions go on.
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Christiana Amanpour
Should Zelensky target Moscow or deeper into Russia?
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Donald Trump
He shouldn't target Moscow. Well, I don't think 50 days is very long and it could be sooner than that. I don't think 50 days is very long. You should have asked that same question to Biden. Why did he get us into this war? You should ask that question.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Donald Trump
And what did he tell you? Why did he get us into this war? You know why he got us in? Because he's a dummy, that's why. And you don't. And you don't cover it.
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Christiana Amanpour
Right.
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Donald Trump
But you should be asking that question to Biden, why did he get us into this war? Because he's incompetent. It would have never happened if I were president.
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Buck Sexton
Okay, this is all Buck right outside the White House as he was preparing to depart for Pennsylvania.
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Christiana Amanpour
We had something else from yesterday which was him talking about how NATO is going to be the cutout, if you will, and, and will pay for it. So not just a cutout for these weapons. This was. Today. He's on the way to the Pittsburgh Artificial Intelligence and Energy Summit, which is actually, I find very interesting. I'm increasingly. I don't know. This is an aside. This is Buck and soliloquy on radio. To all of you, I think that artificial intelligence is going to become something increasingly that matters in our day to day lives. And I don't mean in 10 years, I mean in 10 months. I think this is going to be happening much more rapidly than a lot of people realize. Anyway, something we might be talking about more on the show because I do believe it's going to be very important. I also think it's going to be incredibly important for the economy and could bring about, well, could bring about a tremendous boom in productivity and wealth for us if we are in the right place and use this the right way. Anyway, that's my aside on that. But, Clay, I think the Russia issue, I'm not surprised by this, that Trump is in a place now where he has tried to get. He has tried to get Putin to at least get to a ceasefire. And the response hasn't just been stalling on the ceasefire, it has been, sure, let's talk. And I'm going to get even more aggressive. It feels a bit like the back of the hand from Putin to Trump. You know, it feels a little bit like he's trying to show Trump in this situation, Putin's the boss. I think that he may regret that. I think that Putin may regret his aggressive approach to his dealings with Trump on this one.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. And look, I think Trump has become. We played audio yesterday of Trump talking about his conversations with Melania, which I thought was interesting because I never really contemplated Melania with her Eastern European background and what thoughts she might have about Russia and other countries that are being impacted.
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Christiana Amanpour
Right. Slovenian, I think.
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Buck Sexton
I think that's right. Um, and I do think that Trump has become incredibly frustrated with Vladimir Putin. And we asked this question, and I do think it's a. It's a really good one that I haven't heard anybody answer. What does Putin actually want? Right. What is the goal by which he will say, okay, we have achieved in some measure our desired outcome, because they're continuing to advance on Ukraine very slowly and with much loss of life in the process. And, yes, we're in the summer right now, but it hits winter a lot faster over there, and it comes very difficult to move. A part of me wonders, and we can put a flag in this one or a pin in this one, whether his goal at this point is just to advance as far as he can in the summer and then maybe negotiate some sort of settlement in the winter when the overall lines are much more difficult to advance upon, because otherwise, then you're moving into, what would it be, a fourth year, fifth year of actual war in Ukraine, if you're going to re and re begin the process of. Of attack in 2026, and maybe this is where he can get to and then negotiated settlement? I don't know if that's the answer, but I do wonder, because we haven't really been told early it was, oh, he wants to take all of Ukraine, he wants, but that's not going to happen now. It just seems like we're battling out to get to a point where there's going to be a negotiated new boundary that is drawn, new border that is drawn between these two countries. And in the meantime, I have to believe that Trump is of the opinion that basically he wants a stalemate. And if we don't give Ukraine more weapons, a stalemate's harder to hold. And maybe this gets us through into November when things start to slow down. That's my analysis. I don't know if you sign off differently as I try to look at this chessboard and figure out what exactly they are attempting to do.
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Christiana Amanpour
I mean, there's going to be. They want territorial concessions, right? So you're talking about the formalized recognition of the annexation of Crimea, which was taken back 2014, and you're going to have the eastern regions, which were really the first part of this conflict to see combat, the eastern regions of Ukraine, which have been de facto annexed, become officially part of Russia. And I think a guarantee backed by NATO's signatures or whatever, that we're not going to ever try to get any part of Ukraine into NATO and probably an end to sanctions. That would be my sense of what. But maybe Putin thinks he can pretty much take everything up to and including Kiev and then leave kind of a rump state behind. You know, that's the more aggressive, more total approach for Putin. But the fact that this conflict is raging on, as it has, without any End in sight. Look, we talked to Trump about this. When was it? Clay? In Mar a Lago, A couple years ago. And he said he would end it in a day. Now, we knew that was Trump selling it. We weren't like, Trump's really gonna end this in a day. That's how Trump speaks. Sometimes he's a little bombastic about things, or he's trying to maybe put it out there into the universe in the hopes that it happens. He's always selling. But now we've reached the point where it's been months of negotiating and there's nothing to show for it. And if anything, I think this is going to be a challenge because Trump really doesn't. You know, he could say Biden got us into this. And that's true. And Biden was a screw up. And that's true. It's his deal now. You know, he's the commander in chief, just like it's his economy Now US Support to the Ukrainian military is in the hands of Donald Trump, whether it's escalated, de. Escalated, whether, however this thing goes. So I think he deserves the leeway to. Well, he has the leeway obviously, to figure this out the way that he sees fit. But I think that there's going to be, there's a recalibration right now. This thing is not coming to a neat and tidy end because of Trump's diplomatic overtures. I think the only way now, and the problem is you're going to have a lot of people that have been critical of the Trump base on this are going to say, see, we told you so, which is not going to be helpful. But I think there will be this. Clay, the only way to get Putin to stop is to bloody him even more to raise the cost. Now, some people on the MAGA side of this are going to say, well, that's an even worse idea because then things can really get out. You know, escalation. This is tricky. This is tricky stuff. I don't think anybody has clear answers to it, but, you know, I would love to. Maybe we could reach out to, I don't know. We know the Secretary of Defense pretty well. Yeah, get Pete Hex at the Congress.
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Buck Sexton
And Secretary of State so we can probably get some of those guys on to tell us where those guys. I just, I just think that the decision and the goal is if you're going to figure out how to resolve something on some level. And look, I'm not saying that our administration doesn't have this answer, but, but have you heard anybody articulate in a way that you were impressed by what Vladimir Putin's actual goals are at this point in time, Because I have not. And if you're trying to do a negotiated settlement on some level, you have to know what the most aspirational outcome of one side of the table is. We know what Zelinsky wants. His aspirational goal is Russia returns, he gets all of his territory back, and there's no issue that's not going to happen. So what is a negotiated settlement that Vladimir Putin would agree to? I don't have a sense for what his strategic ambition is at this point, and maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's waiting just see how much more land he can get. But until you know what his overall ambition is, I think it's very difficult to figure out how to resolve this. Having said that, I do think we should talk about what's going on in Ukraine, given how much attention we paid to Iran, given. And Israel and everything associated with that show, with that situation and what should happen. I just don't think hardly anybody has discussed the Ukraine situation or a potential acceleration that could be occurring as we are providing them with more weaponry. In fact, I think that we have spent a pinprick of the time talking about this story compared to the blow up that they had in the Oval Office, which, when this is, I think, far more consequential than that blow up was.
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Christiana Amanpour
We're a couple of hundred billion dollars of U.S. expenditures that are official. This isn't under the intelligence auspices. I'm sure there's a lot more going on here, but there's a couple of hundred billion dollars that's already been appropriated and given to Ukraine. Mostly just weapons, but some cash, too. That's, you know, $200 billion, let's call it. It's a lot of money.
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Buck Sexton
It's about how much Trump's gonna bring in in tariffs this year. So basically, all the tariff dollars we got, we've rolled back out to Ukraine. I mean, to contextualize it.
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Christiana Amanpour
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
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Christiana Amanpour
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck, and I want to remind you all to please subscribe to Clay and Buck Podcast Network. It has been fantastic. You will love it. Some people are saying it's the absolute best. And those are the smartest, the best people, because they know we got Tudor Dixon, Dave Rutherford, Carol Markowitz. Who am I? Who am I leaving? There's a lot, a lot on the podcast.
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Buck Sexton
It's fabulous.
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Christiana Amanpour
It's fabulous. Go down with the I Heart app. I love the iHeart app. I use it every day. Big fan of it. And you go to Clay and Buck page. You go to subscribe, and it's a great way to get your friends who are like, wait, who is. Who are these Clay and Buck fellows? Hopefully, no one's asking you that, but if that happens, they've never heard of us. Say, go check out the show on Demand. Also, some other great hosts you can listen to there. Trump. I just want to have some fun with this one because we spoke about AOC before, and I said, I think she's too dumb to be the Democrat leader in general of the country. But, you know, I'm also, I go back and forth on that because she does have some things going for her. And here is Trump. He just weighed in today on AOC. Did you see this? This is cut 36. The commander in chief has some thoughts, and he agrees with Buck, which is not a surprise. Play it.
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Donald Trump
You know, aoc, look, I think she's very nice, but she's very low iq, and we really don't need low iq. Between her and Crockett, we're going to give them both an IQ test to see who comes out best. Now, I took my test. I took a real test at Walter Reed Medical center, and I aced it. I got every one of all those questions. Right now. It's time for them to take a test.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, my goodness. When you say she's very nice, but she's also very dumb, that is very vintage Trump. And I would just point out that right now, the top Democrat, according to polling from the state of Texas in the Senate race next year is Jasmine Crockett. Can you imagine? Run, Jasmine, run. I think the people of Texas need to hear all of your arguments more fully articulated and developed. Um, and I think you would be a sterling representative of the Democrat Party in the Lone Star State. But that is the potential. I mean, a lot of people, I think, are stunned to find out that Jasmine Crockett is from Texas because you think of Texans as not Jasmine Crockett, AOC New York. I think a lot of people are like, yeah, that's New York. And obviously there is no, there is.
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Christiana Amanpour
No spokesperson or brand affiliation with Crockett Coffee. Just to be clear, totally separate venture we have nothing to do with. Because, you know, Trump's referring to Crockett there. I would love it if he was talking about the Great American Coffee Company of Crockett Coffee. But different, different situation. And there's no, no, no, no relation.
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Buck Sexton
That we're aware of between Jasmine Crockett and Davy Crockett and certainly no relationship with the Crockett Coffee Company. She is definitely in the state of Texas, detracting from the overall brand appeal of the Davy Crockett brand by being the most prominent Crockett in the state. We come back. Buck.
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Christiana Amanpour
Yeah, go ahead, Go ahead.
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Buck Sexton
I am going to play you a clip from Atlanta that I think is going to nearly make your brain explode surrounding the All Star Game that happened yesterday. And I have got all the details on it, and it is absolutely ridiculously indefensible. So that is going to be really pretty, pretty fantastic, I think, for everybody out there.
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Christiana Amanpour
Well, that's quite a.
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Buck Sexton
That's quite a tease. That's quite a tease.
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Christiana Amanpour
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Buck Sexton
Travis Buck Sexton show. By the way, I want to say thank you to everybody who is subscribing to the YouTube channel. We talked about this, by the way, as a good way to help introduce your kids or grandkids if they're not in the car listening to the radio show. If they don't listen to radio very much. Any way, several thousand of you have already gone and subscribed. We will have some sort of signature event. I don't know what that means. When we had 100,000, which is what I want us to hit. We are over 80,000. You can search us out on YouTube and I think that you will find that you are able to share some of the clips that we have on this program with your kids and they may pay more attention there.
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Christiana Amanpour
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Buck Sexton
Yes, for sure. All right, let me dive in here, Buck. All Star Game, you may not even really remember this because I think it was early in when we were starting the show. Might have even been right before we started the show. Major League Baseball pulled the All Star game out of Atlanta. We talked about this yesterday with Governor Brian Kemp because they said that Stacy Abrams and Joe Biden were right and that Jim Crow 2.0, actually Jim Eagle was what it was described as was necessary and they were not allowing minorities to vote. And it's been proven to be 100% not true because the number of voters grew in 2022 and the number of voters grew in 2024. And all the state of Georgia did was strengthen the overall Elections. So a reporter decided that she was going to ask a question of the straight sports event that was going on yesterday, the All Star Game preview. And this is absolutely bonkers. But I want to play this for all of you. This was a mask wearing, some mask wearing reporter to this day, far left wing reporter covering sports. Someone named Jen Ramos Eisenhower writes for a website called Defector. And this person decided that they were going to take over an All Star Game press conference with this question. Buck, get ready. There is a law on the books.
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Christiana Amanpour
Here in Atlanta that is a voter.
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Buck Sexton
Suppression law that, that Joe Biden has.
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Elahe Izadi
Called Jim crow of the 21st century.
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Buck Sexton
Dave, in 2021, the MLB Network special, you said it's about being relentless with our voices and speaking up.
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Christiana Amanpour
And this is not an isolated moment.
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Elahe Izadi
And it needs to be something talked.
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Buck Sexton
About on an ongoing basis and being relentless with it. What happened to being relentless with our voices? And why are we in Atlanta when this law is still on the books? And it is a dangerous situation to be a journalist in Atlanta because Atlanta has detained the most journalists by ice.
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Christiana Amanpour
Respect and appreciate the way you feel about it. And I would assume that there was a reason or some conversation that was had by the MLB and the state that all parties thought that this would be a wonderful host city for the All Star Game.
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Buck Sexton
And I think everybody is all very.
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Christiana Amanpour
Excited to be back in the beautiful city of Atlanta.
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Buck Sexton
All right, so that was Pat McAfee trying to answer the question. That was the host of the event. He works at espn. Can you believe that is an All Star press conference? Buck, All Star Game for Major League Baseball. And this crazy left winger says, how are we here when ICE is arresting journalists? And how in the world can you play a game here when basically this Jim Crow law, which has not, which has been proven to be a lie, it is not decreased voting. Actually voting has increased substantially. I know I have blown your mind several times about sports media and how left wing they are. Can you believe that was the second question at the Major League Baseball All Star Game event yesterday?
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Christiana Amanpour
Okay, so I'm. I'm just confused a little bit. Where was this person? What publication was she from? Do we know something?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. Outkick has a story. Because they dove in to figure out, like, who is this person? That person is a writer for a website called Defector. She showed up, which I guess does some sports. I don't know how they got credentialed candidly, but I guess they do some sport. And that person has a. Wore a mask. So this is Not. Some people out there are saying, hey, and I'm one of them. Major League Baseball should have to issue a public apology to the state of Georgia, to. To the city of Atlanta Braves fans for pulling the game out under false pretenses. Right. They were wrong and they've never acknowledged it. But that's not this. This is. Hey, this was the right decision. Why are you guys back here? And, oh, by the way, how can you even come here when journalists are being arrested by ice?
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Christiana Amanpour
Well, imagine if you Imagine if you banned Atlanta from holding sporting events and then open yourself up to the fact that Atlantis is a. As a city I believe is about 50% black.
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Buck Sexton
It's a majority black city. So you're actually harming black people here when you don't have big events in the city.
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Christiana Amanpour
You're so. So the theory among the left or among some of these, this journalist or whatever, this must be an idea that's out there, is let's punish a great American city that is also majority black. And. But we will punish the city because it is. The state of Georgia is racist. That's where we are. We're gonna hurt Atlanta, which is a great city, which is a majority black city. We're gonna hurt Atlanta because we want to show that we disagree with the law in the state of Georgia. Like, I don't even know how that holds together. I mean, put aside that the whole thing is absurd and that actually there's been greater black voter turnout than ever before and there is no voter suppression law in Georgia, and that's all a lie. And the statistics show that. But this is. You know, Clay, some people just want to be mad about things. And I guess this. This journalist had a mask on. Did you tell me that too?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, she had a mask on. And Ali I Defector is an employee owned sports and culture website brought to you by the former staffers of Deadspin.
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Christiana Amanpour
Oh, that is the. Okay. Communist. Evil communist. She's an evil communist. Deadspin. Evil communist. I know. You used to work there, right?
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Buck Sexton
I was, but. Well, back in the day for. This is taking people back into the history of the Internet. Back in like 0809, when I was there, Deadspin was just kind of a bro culture website. Like, hey, let's have fun. Let's kind of laugh about sports. Their trajectory from sports are fun. Let's laugh about them and like them. More to now, this defector site, which is a spin off of Deadspin, to We're going to send an employee in a mask because she's worried about COVID I guess, to grill Major League Baseball about. I mean, there are so many people whose brains have been broken. That this could be allowed to have occurred is actually, it's a fascinating story to kind of look at the way they took over the culture of sport through sports media members who are far more left wing than the average fan, and allowed those sports media members to terrorize so many people from speaking out that we really got to the point where dudes are winning women's championships. I don't think it's coincidental that they tried to take over the culture and they're still trying.
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Christiana Amanpour
I mean, look, just to be clear, I also could tell stories here. Do you know that the Huffington Post. Because the media landscape was very different. You were saying Deadspin was different when you were there. Right. You know that HuffPost Live used to invite me on.
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Buck Sexton
Doesn't surprise me.
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Christiana Amanpour
Live as a conservative. It happened a couple of times because they thought I, they were like, they're like, well, you're, you may be a conservative, but you're smart. That was always the backhanded thing they would say to me, like the different hosts that would have me on. And I was like, well, a lot of us are smart. I think we're smarter than you guys are. But anyway, put that aside. HuffPost Live. Do you remember the site Mike m I c mike.com I probably, yeah, I do, vaguely.
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Buck Sexton
I do vaguely. I do vaguely remember that site.
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Christiana Amanpour
They, they brought me in because they wanted alternate voices and they talked to me about writing a column for them. This is like, again, this would have been when you were. Where were you? Dead spin. You were 2011 or something, or 2010 or how far back?
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Buck Sexton
No, even, even younger. I mean, the site launched. I think I was there in like 08. Oh, I was very early in my 20s.
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Christiana Amanpour
So I'm saying when I, when I started doing this stuff, which was 2011, even I was like, HuffPost wanted to talk to me. Mike.com I remember they asked me for my thoughts on police violence. Like, what would you run on police violence? And there, this was the early for. It was the early days of Ferguson. So maybe this was like 2012 and. Or 2011, I can't remember now. And I was like, you guys, I remember being there. I never ended up writing anything for them. Remember just thinking, I was like, you guys are insane. Yeah, they had all this venture capital funding and everything else. Like, the people who work here are crazy. But there was this game of they would have alternate voices and things. The problem is when you let, and this is my real takeaway for all of you, like, why are you telling us this media history? No one needs to know. When you let any leftist into an entity, as I always say, it is like in nature an invasive species. They will, they will not just multiply, they will multiply and intentionally block out those who are not leftists. Right. So the problem with the European house sparrow, fun fact for all of you is that the European house sparrow not only is very hardy as it as a species, but also will destroy the eggs and the nests of other birds so that it will outcompete them in the area. If you let a leftist into your media organization or you let enough leftists get a toehold, they will take it over. This happened at cnn. They will take it over and make it completely insane.
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Buck Sexton
Totally correct. And this is something I've been thinking about a lot because to your point, the culture used to not be like this. And I'm hoping that we're going to come out of it and return. But I think the only way we can do that is by ridiculing stories like these and making it so clear where. Look, if this person wants to share her opinion, then write her opinion. But what she's trying to do is launder her opinion through more famous people and hold their feet to the fire and make them attached to her opinion. Right. My opinion, I'm speaking as if I was this crazy chick. My opinion is that Atlanta should never be able to host the All Star Game because they passed this voting bill and also because journalists aren't safe because ICE is going to arrest them. Okay. Write that opinion. Don't ask people who are famous to endorse your opinion and turn. Does that make sense? It's agenda journalism and I think people see it now. But this has been building for a decade or more. And the goal, I think is quite clear. It's to try to take over big parts of culture and mold them in your direction as opposed to just let people be normal. So I wanted to play that for you because I heard it and even I was like, oh, the second question at the Major League Baseball All Star Game.
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Christiana Amanpour
But you also ask yourself, what is, what does this person even want? So this is what I meant by you're going to punish Atlanta.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. The tangible result of what her position would be would be that a majority black city is not able to host a big sporting event.
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Christiana Amanpour
Huge. Sure to take, take money out of the hands of black business owners in a great American city because you're a misanthrope or a malcontent who just doesn't want to ever be celebrating anything. You're at a sports conference for heaven's.
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Buck Sexton
Sakes, and is wrong like, like whatever. Like you could at least make that argument before the 2022 election and 2024 election happened. Now we know that all that bill did was strengthen the law and that they have actually been proven wrong. The data doesn't lie. Look, Prospect of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas terrorists has slowed down considerably of late. Everyone in Israel desires peace and the chance to reestablish stability within that region of the world, but tensions are still very high. Israelis are recovering from the missile attacks from Iran that affected thousands of innocent civilians a few weeks ago. It was another lesson in what could happen with another hostile force besides Hamas. Your gift to the International fellowship of Christians and Jews has helped countless civilians. With your support, the IFCJ is providing wide scale food wide scale food distribution along with critical first aid and emergency supplies. These items will help Israel's most vulnerable the sick, the elderly, children and families. Your gift today will also help place new bomb shelters across Israel along with necessary supplies for existing bomb shelters. IFCJ there in Israel working tirelessly with you. 888488 IFCJ. That's 888488 IFCJ. You can also go online at IFCJ.org that's IFCJ. Keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history on the Team 47 podcast Clay and Buck Highlight Trump replays from the week Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Christiana Amanpour
Closing up shop today on Clay Ann, Buck, we'll take some calls here to close us out in a second. Also get some of your VIP emails. But I just want to say, you know, if there's any thoughts today, and I don't know, maybe if there's a topic that you particularly want us to discuss tomorrow, you can let us know that if there was anything that was not discussed today you think is important. Throwing that out there. Grant in North Dakota wants to chat. What's going on? Grant, hey, Clay and Buck, love your show. Longtime listener and I'm coming to you from the great northern plains of North Dakota. Yes, Growing wheat, corn, soybeans, flowers, and a couple other varieties. Say when Deere is working on this AI project, John Deere, I mean, and if they start controlling the machines that put everything in the ground and harvest them, which they're doing via data harvesting. And Bill Gates is the largest shareholder of John Deere. Just so you know, they will all the food commodities and they will control the farms and there will be. It's a very dangerous combination. So we must really think about how.
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Buck Sexton
We want to go about this. Thank you for the call. Look, I don't think it's just farming. AI is going to trend, I think could be totally wrong. I think AI is going to be transformative for a lot of the jobs that many of you out there listening to us right now have, including potentially our own.
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Christiana Amanpour
Yeah, I know. Well, you know, there's a band, my brother Mason, who's very tech, tech savvy and, and has an entrepreneurial spirit, he explained to me, I can't remember the name of it right now. You know, there's a band that is an AI band and people didn't know that necessarily. I think they have a million or 2 million followers now on, on TikTok. Think about this everybody. It's a band and I heard them yesterday. They kind of sound like the Eagles. I'm just saying, you actually know I was reading bad.
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Buck Sexton
I was reading an article, I couldn't believe it. Somebody created a fake really attractive woman and sent her to Wimbledon on AI and the girl went mega viral. She did not exist. Like they just created a super pretty girl on AI plugged her in as if she were sitting in the crowds at Wimbledon and she went mega viral.
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Christiana Amanpour
And it's called Clay. This, this band, the band is called Velvet Sundown. A million plays on Spotify. I mean that's a great way to give you, on Spotify alone a million people listen to this AI the whole thing is computer.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Christiana Amanpour
There is no band.
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Buck Sexton
So, you know, even in places that are creative or even in places where people typically, you know, you have models that are popular and things like that. I think this is going to be transformative on so many different levels. And the real debate I was reading this morning is going to be is it going to create, as oftentimes technology does, an entire new cadre of jobs or is it going to just eliminate a lot and suddenly a lot of us are not going to have jobs.
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Christiana Amanpour
Clay, that if, if space aliens were to land on the. On earth producer Greg is astutely bringing to our attention that they would have no way of knowing. They would think that Clay Travis was a sports and radio aficionado with a world class flute playing game as well. You know, they have no way of knowing because of all the AI imagery of you with a flute that has now flooded the Internet. So to be fair, they're kind of changing perception and reality with that and I don't know how we can turn that one around.
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Buck Sexton
So I think it's going to be maybe as big as the Internet. And by the way, the Internet, kind of a big deal. There's your big take hot take for the show. We'll be back tomorrow. I'll be at the All Star Game. I can't wait to watch and see how it goes. I know many of you are going to be watching it. I hope you enjoy it. Major League Baseball needs to apologize to Atlanta, to Georgia, Andrew, Braves fans and MLB fans everywhere. See you all tomorrow. Everyone's loving Family Freedom from T Mobile we'll pay off four phones up to $3200 and give you four free phones, all on America's largest 5G network. Visit your local T Mobile location or learn more@t mobile.com FamilyFreedom up to $800 per line via virtual prepaid card typically takes 15 days. Free phones via 24 monthly bill credits with finance agreement eg Apple iPhone 16128 gigabyte $829.99 Eligible trade in eg iPhone 11 Pro for well qualified credits end and balance due if you pay off early or cancel Contact T Mobile When.
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