Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton

Summary

Verdict with Ted Cruz: Bonus Episode – Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton

Release Date: March 6, 2025
Host: Clay Travis
Co-host: Buck Sexton
Featuring: Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

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Introduction

In this bonus episode of "Verdict with Ted Cruz," hosted by Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, the discussion centers around the current political climate, focusing on the Democratic Party's struggles, upcoming midterm elections, media dynamics, and contentious social issues. Senator Roger Marshall joins the conversation, offering his insights on these pressing topics.

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1. The Democratic Party's Identity Crisis

Clay Travis initiates the discussion by highlighting what he perceives as an identity crisis within the Democratic Party. He references the party's recent focus on censoring Al Green and criticizes Democratic congresswomen, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), for attempting to appeal to young voters through unconventional means.

• Notable Quote:
  "The amount of just cringe-worthy videos that I have seen from the Democrat party as they attempt to connect with, I presume, young voters is the idea of what they're trying to, trying to get into the trying to get into."
  [02:00] – Clay Travis

Senator Roger Marshall concurs, suggesting that the party lacks a charismatic leader and relies instead on the broader electorate to define its leadership.

• Notable Quote:
  "I think the voting public right now is what I would say."
  [03:15] – Senator Roger Marshall

Marshall criticizes Democratic leaders for appearing "flabbergasted" and ineffective, noting the lack of strong candidates who can unite the party and present a cohesive agenda.

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2. Leadership and Media Presence in the Democratic Party

The conversation delves into the absence of a clear Democratic leader, with Marshall emphasizing that potential leaders, including Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris, may not effectively rally the party or appeal to a broader electorate.

• Notable Quote:
  "The problem the Democrats have fundamentally is that they became a party led by and led on behalf of weirdos."
  [06:33] – Senator Roger Marshall

Marshalling also touches on the challenges Democrats face in media engagements, predicting that as they venture into traditionally conservative media outlets, their lack of preparedness will become apparent.

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3. The Midterm Elections and Senate Ambitions

Clay Travis and Buck Sexton discuss the strategic importance of the upcoming midterm elections, emphasizing states where Donald Trump secured victories and the potential for Republicans to flip Senate seats.

• Notable Quote:
  "Trump won Nevada, Trump won Arizona. Trump won Georgia. Trump won Michigan. Just those four. They all have double Democrat senators. If Trump can win that state, then to me, a really good, solid Republican candidate in those states should be able to win, too."
  [11:36] – Clay Travis

Senator Marshall elaborates on the Republican goal of securing 60 Senate seats to achieve a filibuster-proof majority, enabling significant legislative achievements without bipartisan support.

• Notable Quote:
  "The big goal here... is to transform things and you can do it without Trump having to even face a reelection, which means things could get."
  [13:44] – Senator Roger Marshall

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4. Media Formats and the Evolution of Political Debate

The hosts and Senator Marshall discuss the current state of media debates, lamenting the decline of substantive, head-to-head political discussions in favor of fragmented, social media-driven content.

• Notable Quote:
  "What I think happened with the Democrat media ecosystem... social media gave them a big jolt of control all over again and then they became these echo chambers of insanity."
  [19:33] – Senator Roger Marshall

They express concern over the lack of quality debate platforms that can effectively challenge Democratic narratives and highlight the importance of authentic media engagement.

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5. Gender and Sports: A Contentious Issue

A significant portion of the episode focuses on the controversy surrounding transgender athletes competing in women's sports. The hosts and Senator Marshall criticize recent Democratic stances and legislative actions, arguing that they undermine fairness in sports.

• Notable Quotes:
  "Kids under 18 to be permitted in any facet to have an elective surgery that would endanger in any way your ability to ever be a father or a mother to me is criminal in nature."
  [43:26] – Clay Travis

  "The Democrats deeply deserve the pathetic and ignominious post-election party that they are mired in right now. It is exactly what they should have."
  [22:37] – Senator Roger Marshall

The discussion highlights the perceived disconnect between Democratic policies on transgender issues and the sentiments of the broader electorate, emphasizing the need for Republicans to address these concerns effectively.

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6. Government Spending and the "Doge" Initiative

Buck Sexton introduces the topic of government spending inefficiencies and the "Doge" initiative aimed at reducing waste, fraud, and abuse within federal expenditures. He cites Senator Marshall's conversations with Elon Musk regarding the potential savings and the importance of a balanced budget.

• Notable Quote:
  "Elon Musk is not out there looking at people's Social Security numbers. He's too busy for that."
  [51:32] – Buck Sexton

They discuss the challenges in achieving significant budget cuts and the necessity of congressional support to implement these measures effectively.

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7. Educational Policy and Executive Orders

The hosts inquire about potential executive orders to dismantle the Department of Education, seeking Senator Marshall's perspective on the feasibility and implications of such actions.

• Notable Quote:
  "They need to just try to be more courteous to each other."
  [34:11] – Senator Roger Marshall

Marshall expresses skepticism about the effectiveness of executive orders in fundamentally altering educational structures, emphasizing the need for legislative action.

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8. Closing Remarks and Additional Discussions

Towards the end of the episode, the hosts and Senator Marshall touch upon various other topics, including President Trump's efforts in Israel, the emotional impact of political defeats, and the ongoing challenges faced by the Republican Party.

• Notable Quote:
  "I just would talk to them both. Look, you don't want this, what I call permanent scar tissue. Once you get a tattoo, it never goes away."
  [46:08] – Buck Sexton

The episode concludes with expressions of solidarity and encouragement, acknowledging the difficulties ahead while maintaining optimism for future Republican successes.

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Conclusion

This bonus episode of "Verdict with Ted Cruz" provides a comprehensive analysis of the current political landscape from a conservative viewpoint. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton, and Senator Roger Marshall critically assess the Democratic Party's strategies, media engagement, and policy positions while outlining Republican strategies for upcoming elections and governmental reforms. The conversation underscores the challenges Republicans face in unifying their base, addressing societal issues, and combating perceived Democratic inefficacies.

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this summary reflect the content of the podcast transcript provided and do not represent endorsements or opinions by the summarizer.

Transcript

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. Buck and I working late into the evening last night in Nashville. Buck now back in Miami. I am still here in Nashville. I spent my morning thank you to my son's 4th grade class at career day. Fun time going in for career day. Lots of the parents are listeners, by the way, so appreciate all of you. I don't know that we have very many fourth grade listeners, but if we do, we love all of you and you're all very smart. Thank you for listening. We got a lot to dive into. We're going to be joined by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas in the third hour. Just FYI, lots of senators wanting to come by and talk with all of you about a variety of different issues that are going on out there. But Buck, I wanted to start with what seems like a clear identity crisis in the Democrat party. Uh, they spent all morning fighting the censure of al green, a 70 some odd year old man who was kicked out of the speech Tuesday night that Trump gave, um, and is now been censured by the House. But really he just looked like a doddering old man kind of waving his cane randomly and haphazardly in the well of the House of Representatives. And this morning I wake up and as I'm getting ready to go talk to the fourth graders at my son's elementary school, I saw a video that I thought was satire, but it's actually a bunch of Democrat congresswomen, including AOC pretending that they are actually boxers ready for the fight. And the amount of just cringe worthy videos that I have seen from the Democrat party as they attempt to connect with, I presume, young voters is the idea of what they're trying to, trying to get into. I just, I. They are lost. And I thought that this was a good representation of the loss. Tim Walls, who is, I would say, a middle aged lesbian woman's idea of a man that will appeal to men. Is that fair? Buck? Does it Tim Walls look to you Like a lesbian middle aged woman would be like, this is a guy that's really going to speak to men.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Your analysis is always astute, sir.

[Clay Travis]

Tim Walls, a middle aged lesbian's idea of a masculine man is asked who is the leader of the Democrat Party? And this is what it sounded like on cnn. Enjoy. Sir, who do you think the leader of the Democratic Party is right now?

[Senator Roger Marshall]

I think the voting public right now is what I would say and I.

[Buck Sexton]

Keep telling that we're not going to.

[Clay Travis]

Have a charismatic leader ride in here.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

And save us from this.

[Buck Sexton]

And I would argue that the Tea Party as it arose out of the aca.

[Clay Travis]

Well, where was that charismatic leader is.

[Buck Sexton]

John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and a.

[Clay Travis]

Whole bunch of angry folks at town halls that had members of Congress like myself answering questions. So when people are looking around, where's.

[Buck Sexton]

The leaders or whatever, they are going.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

To organically step up.

[Clay Travis]

Okay, Buck, the pause was telling. He eventually said the leader is the American public because they picked their ok. But I think the silence was was telling there, Buck, because he didn't say Kamala Harris, which I think would have been an easy answer. And he could have just said, look, she was the nominee for President 2024, she got 75 million votes. She's the most popular Democrat politician right now. Barack Joe Biden and Barack Obama are retired. Kamala would have been an easy answer here. It's not a crazy question to expect that you might get. What is your take on Tim Walls eventually saying, oh, the American people are the leader and what does it say about the Democrat Party right now?

[Senator Roger Marshall]

I think if you ask Tim Walz a really simple and straightforward question, you're unlikely to get a particularly intelligent answer. So to ask him something for which I think to be fair, there really isn't a good answer right now.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Puts him on the spot. To me, it's, it's more about the obvious state of the Democrat Party than it is how Walls answered the question one way or the other. Because to say Kamala would be to steer right into more, more of the defeat that they've already been suffering the aftermath of. So I think that's not where they would want to go. And they're the real answer. I mean the smart answer would be to say, oh, we have and this the Democrat Party until a minute ago would have answered it this way. Oh, we have a deep bench. Remember they used to love to set up we have a deep bench. And they would rattle off a bunch of names. They Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer and Kamala Harris and I can't even. And it's up to the Democrat voter who's going to lead in the next election. But we have so many instead. He looks completely flabbergasted. And I think that a big part of that is any of the people that would come to mind as the names for the Democrat leadership right now, even among Democrats, could be a liability. In just a few months, it could become very clear that this isn't or you don't know when it will become clear that this is not a person that you actually think the Democrats can rally behind and can do anything meaningful to bring their party out of the nosedive that it is still going through. So yeah, I think that when you look at Democrat leadership, you're going to have to see some of these individuals who I just named presenting themselves to unfriendly media, which will be very interesting. I think they're going to have to go outside of the usual left wing ideological bubble zones just in order to make them seem normal. The problem the Democrats have fundamentally is that they became a party led by and led on behalf of weirdos. That doesn't look good. And Tim Walsh of course tried the JD Vance is weird. JD Vance is maybe the least weird politician I've ever seen in my life. That was not a good attack.

[Clay Travis]

Also to me, the answer says Tim Walls may be thinking that he is the answer and that he's planning on running for president. And because if he says someone else, then maybe it's a little bit harder to fundraise. Maybe it's a little bit harder to actually argue that you should be the face of the Democrat Party. To me, when he's saying, oh, it's the people, he's then going to claim, oh, I can go be the voice of the people. I think he thinks that he has a future in the Democrat Party and I think the challenge for him is Tim Walls is not going to appeal to men. And we can maybe get into Gavin Newsom, who I think is trying to come back out of the California Wildfire debacle and reassert himself as a national spokesperson for Democrats and Buck. What is Gavin Newsom trying to claim? That he's actually a moderate, middle of the road, centrist Democrat, which suggests to me that he is aware of just how toxic the left wing of his party has been and that having a fight with them is not necessarily the worst thing that could happen for his political future. I think the problem is, do you really believe that that one Democrats want to Want to put forward a white guy? Maybe they do. Uh, but two, that Gavin Newsom, coming from California, given what just happened to Kamala Harris, is a California Democrat really on the national stage, damaged by what happened with Kamala Harris, or do you think Buck? Kamala is her uniquely own character, and so her background doesn't really matter because she's got to figure out what her next step is, too, which is its own funny story as well.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Well, I think you can only have one alpha dog in any state in American politics right now of the same party. Right. So I think that Gavin Newsom is very clearly trying to. I know he just launched his podcast. Clay, are you going to go on the Gavin Newsom podcast?

[Clay Travis]

I haven't been invited, but I would. I mean, I'll go and talk to anybody. As long as it's not edited. Like, I don't want to talk to somebody for an hour and have them clip six minutes randomly of it. As long as it's the full conversation, I'll go on. Anyone that has a substantial, by the way, substantial audience. I don't want to go on you and your brother's podcast that you just started, but, yes, I'm busy. Yes, I would do it. Would you?

[Senator Roger Marshall]

I would go on you and your brother's podcast. I think Clay is being very mean.

[Clay Travis]

I don't have time to go on you and your brother's podcast unless it was the Kelsey brothers. Maybe they have a big podcast.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Apparently, they have a huge following, which is amazing to me.

[Clay Travis]

I don't understand that at all, because I don't think they have anything interesting to say at all. But evidently it works. What would you do Gavin Newsom's podcast?

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Oh, absolutely. I think. Look, I'm. It's funny because they asked if I would. If I would go on Fox this afternoon, Clay, and they have a former Obama. Obama guy. We're going to have some debate or something. I mean, it'll be three minutes long. We'll both get to talk one and a half times, probably. But, you know, I'll make my points. I'll make his points. It's interesting, though, because Fox News for a while was, as you know, frozen out by Democrats. They refused to go on. Really. Generally, the only Democrats who would go on were Clay pigeons. They were there to get blown to smithereens on air and, you know, for the amusement of the audience. And I think that that's changing now because they have to. They have to just switch things up. They can't continue on with the current trajectory because it's not only that their party lost, it's that the. They don't have the same control of the information ecosystem that they used to.

[Clay Travis]

That's right.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

So they can't just rely on the New York Times, CNN axis of evil to propagate all kinds of nonsense all over the country because people aren't watching and people don't care. They don't have the same gravitas that they even were managing, I think, up until this election. So you're going to see more Democrats crossing over into unfriendly media because they have to. Which will expose them, by the way, because most of them are actually not up to the task and not up to the challenge of making their arguments. Tim Walls certainly isn't. I mean, Tim Walls got so schooled by JD Vance in the debate, I almost started to feel kind of bad for him, you know, but then I remind. Then I remind myself that he had a snitch line over Covid. I'm like, nope, nope, he deserves it. Uh, but the Democrats don't have anybody right now who I think is particularly adept in that forum of presentation and exchange of ideas on the political side. I don't think they have. They have a particularly strong team on the media side either, right now. So I sit here and I keep looking for worthy adversaries on the left, and all I see are people who insist on pretending that men don't actually have an advantage over women in sports, etcetera, etcetera. It's sad out there right now for the Democrats, which is why Trump's got to hit the accelerator and keep going.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, not only that, but I really think. I know next year is the. Is the midterm, and a lot will happen between now and the midterms. But if you look at the battlegrounds, Trump won Nevada, Trump won Arizona. Trump won Georgia. Trump won Michigan. Just those four. They all have double Democrat senators. If Trump can win that state, then to me, a really good, solid Republican candidate in those states should be able to win, too. That's eight seats, Buck. That's eight seats. It's not even counting Fetterman. It's not even counting the. The Wisconsin. Other states that Trump won that have Democrat senators. I'm just saying, like, at a minimum, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan and Georgia should have at least one Republican senator, based on the fact of how Republicans have done. And I think that's setting up for a disaster potentially going forward for Democrats.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

The big goal here, because I think that there has been a sense that the best that Trump is going to have for a wide open field is the next 18 months, which I believe is likely to be the case. People are starting to talk about 60 Senate seats now.

[Clay Travis]

I know.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

And that's. Now you're talking about anything the Republicans really want to get done, they'd be in a position to do if they got 60 Senate seats. I know that the midterms feels like it's a long way off now. We just finished this election, but why not have that goal, right? Why not look at it as instead of, oh, we're going to lose some seats in the midterms, which tends to be the historical trajectory, why not say keep the pressure on, keeping the executive orders going, keep Doge flowing, keep it all happening and maybe we can get to 60 Senate seats as the goal and then you can really transform things and you can do it without Trump having to even face a reelection, which means things could get. If you think his executive orders are interesting, just wait until we get to 60 Senate seats and a majority in the House. Although we got to get there first.

[Clay Travis]

60 Senate seats would truly allow transformative outcomes in the United States. As we talked to Senator Thune, the majority leader, that's the number you have to get to, to really be able to get things moving in a rapid fashion in the Senate because otherwise they'll hold it up. Now, Republicans have never had 60 seats in the Senate.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Have they not?

[Clay Travis]

I can, I mean, I, I don't know historically if the Republic. It's a good question for our team to look up. I don't know if historically Republicans have ever had 60 Senate seats. I don't think it's ever happened in anybody listenings recent, like in the last 40 or 50 years. It certainly hasn't ever happened. That's a good question. That, that's why it would be so transformative. Again, we're not talking about simple majority. We're talking about a basically filibuster proof majority, which would be extraordinary.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Yeah, I think the last time the GOP had 56 seats back in 1929.

[Clay Travis]

So that's the high water mark 100 years ago. I mean that's.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

I believe so. I mean that's just me going fast here with, with Google. I gotta start using Grok more. Have you seen what people are pulling with Grok?

[Clay Travis]

Oh, have I seen it? I'm like the.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Yeah, yeah.

[Clay Travis]

You, you are what they're pulling. Yeah, totally.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program. Buck, I asked you as we went to break in the last segment. Certainly Scott Jennings who we've had on this show I think a couple of times has been doing a really good job on CNN as their token Republican defender. And they have an entire panel of Democrat morons who try to argue with them and he often slices and dices them. That is plays well on social media. It hasn't really cut through. If you look at the ratings I saw when Brett Baer interviewed Zelensky, this numbers were out. They were just massive for Brett Baier like all time highs I saw for the President's address on Tuesday and some of you keep him. It was an address to Congress, not a State of the Union. Ok, all right, I appreciate it. The President's basically State of the Union, which is a little bit different because we have the election that happens and it doesn't happen until March. But 10 million people watched Fox, 1.9 million watched CNN, 1.9 million watched MSNBC. We're talking about Fox regularly now posting 70% share on cable news. Do you think there's a market for actual debate which would actually be going back in time? Remember Tucker Carlson used to be on the show Crossfire? You would have a legitimate head to head discussion on cnn. That was the way they covered it back. Even Hannity used to be on with. Was it Combs, remember that?

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Oh, I, I, I was a Hannity. I was an avid Hannity and Combs watcher back when I was in college. Uh, so yeah, I, I remember that.

[Clay Travis]

So those don't really rate and exist now. Is there a market for that, for real debate in your mind or does it only work on social media? Clipped versions.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

You can take it all the way back to what? Firing Line with William F. Buckley and William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal at the convention.

[Clay Travis]

There used to be real debates out there and other than like Bill Maher where you can get a smart, sometimes smart Republican ish person and a smart Democrat ish person, there aren't real debate shows other than what CNN's trying with Scott Jennings.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

What I think happened with the Democrat media ecosystem, which we used to call the mainstream media, but I think rightly people abandon that term because why give them the credibility of calling them the mainstream media? Why are they mainstream? So I agree with that. But the corporate Democrat media, legacy media, however you want to describe it, they used to control so much of the piping, if you will, that the content could be whatever they wanted it to be. And there wasn't really much in the way of an infrastructure on the other side for competition. Exceptions being of course Rush talk radio, Fox News. But those were relatively recent. I mean when you start to compare this to the New York Times, I mean when you compare this to some of the outlets that the Democrats have been able to rely on, they, they've been running this game for a long time. You go all the way back to what's his name, Cronkite. And you go back to the, the days when there were only a handful of TV news anchors that had tremendous sway over, over public opinion. They were libs by the way, but not libs in the current context. Lives back then. And I would just say what's happened Clay, is that the, the social media gave them a big jolt of control all over again and then they became these echo chambers of insanity where you could just start promoting the craziest ideas from college campuses in the, I don't know, I want to say maybe in the early 2000s you start to see this maybe toward the end or middle to end of the Bush administration bubbling up more and more. Obama administration comes along and all of a sudden you have the mainstreaming of socialism, left wing radical ideas, extremely poisonous DEI and race politics. And all of this, you know, gets, gets completely injected into the American body politic for eight years of Obama but, but then things just got crazier and crazier and under Biden, well under Covid really. And then you know, for Biden's term, I think they just reached, I don't know if you know, there's like terminal velocity. Isn't that when you're, you jump out of a plane and you go to the absolute fastest speed that your mass can travel? I think that's terminal velocity. It was, there was a bad movie in the 90s based on.

[Clay Travis]

That's what immediately comes to mind is the movie.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

But yeah, that's terminal velocity. I think Democrats under Biden politically had reached terminal insanity. They got about as crazy as they could be and now they're dealing with the backlash from a majority of the American people of you guys can't just be totally insane. You can't have a dementia puppet as the president. And we all then see it and we all know it and you don't suffer political consequences. The Democrats deeply deserve the pathetic and ignominious post election party that they are mired in right now. It is exactly what they should have. They earned this, they own this. So let them wallow a bit, let them be sad.

[Clay Travis]

They don't make good arguments and to a large extent they don't make good arguments because they don't have to grapple with the other side's argument. Because when you have convinced yourself that your opponent is Adolf Hitler, your argument doesn't have to be that good. Right. I mean, I think that's in their mind, what we saw. Even Gavin Newsom, who I think is a relatively intelligent Democrat, Ron DeSantis wiped the floor with him when Sean Hannity hosted their debate about a year and a half ago, or whatever it was, you remember, that basically came down to Covid leadership, of course.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

But on the Hitler comparison, which we used to talk about here with some frequency in the lead at the election, because it was, it was daily programming at msnbc. It was, he was Hitler, he was Hitler. And it's you really. How can you think you're a serious person? How could you think of yourself as a public intellectual or however they want to, a pundit, whatever, however you want to describe yourself if you're going to say that a, a recent American president who is leading your candidate in the polls, who also happens to be by far the choice of the entire state of Israel, if they were able to. We all know this. I think Trump is outside of America, probably more popular in Israel than any other country in the world.

[Clay Travis]

Not that I generally is popular in Israel, like he's popular in West Virginia or Wyoming, states that he won by the largest ish margins in the 2024 election. That contextualizes it.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

And I just think if you can, if you were trying to be at all a serious person, you'd have to say, I don't think the guy who has the overwhelming support of, of the entire population of the Jewish state is Hitlerian.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

I don't think you could be a serious person. And I, I, if you remember, you know, I, when I had the, the sit down, you mentioned Bill Maher and Bill was trying to be reasonable and there were a couple of Democrats at that table. They were just shrieking about the same nonsense about racism and the insurrection and all this stuff. And they forgot that people actually care about what's happening in the country right now. That's reality to them. They care about the economy, they care about the border, they care about crime. They care about things that are measurable and real, not just narratives that create emotionally destabilized zombies running around talking about the insurrection all the time. And so this is, I think it's, this is my way of saying, clay Democrats need this. It's like a cleansing of their souls that is going on right now. It's A reset that must occur because they really went insane.

[Clay Travis]

I think there's a lot of truth to that. And there is on social media a great demand for the intersection. We'll play some, some Gavin Newsom. And it seems to me that Gavin Newsom is trying to engage in some way with people on the other side of the aisle. I think there's a desperate demand, actually for that. I'm not sure it translates on television because, Buck, you're going to do Fox News in a little bit. And I know Fox News has a massive audience, but from a social media perspective, it often feels like basically television exists so that small segments of television can be clipped and shared on social media, whether it's TikTok, whether it's Instagram reels, whether it's, whether it's Twitter. If you go on and look at oftentimes what is popular or what is trending, a huge percentage of the time it's somebody taking a couple of minutes from video. It doesn't just have to be television. Right. It could be a podcast version of video, whatever else that's popular on YouTube. It is just video that's pulled and then put to circulate on social media. So I guess one of the things I wonder about as we were talking about Scott Jennings is to what extent is what's popular on social media reflective of what would be popular on television? And in many ways, given the fact that television is running into video all over the Internet, what does television even exist and look like in the years ahead? What I do know is Democrats have lost the ability, if you look at that video they put up of all the women boxing and everything else, to connect with younger people on social media. They just look profoundly dorky and unfun. And that is not a good recipe for how to cut through in this current era. And I think it's emblematic of why Republicans have done so well with men, because men look at some of the stuff that's being put out by Democrats and just roll their eyes over the fact that they have gone completely insane.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Yes. And I don't think it's going to get better for them any anytime soon. I think it's likely to continue as it is right now. On the points about Democratic leadership, I mean, Harry Entin, this is Cut five. He says that at the speech, the Democrats reaction to Trump's speech, which we talked to you about earlier in the week, shows just why the Democrat Party is really at its least popular has ever been. This is Cut five. Play it.

[Clay Travis]

There's a reason why congressional Democrats have like a 20% approval rating and even amongst their own party has like a 40%, the lowest Quinnipiac has ever measured. And I think last night and sort of what's been going on over the past few months is a gosh darn.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Good illustration of that Clay. There's, there's really nothing for them to point to right now that that I think is is positive for their party in a broad sense of trying to go into the midterms and the inevitable presidential campaign. I think if anything, they may put themselves in a position where they're preparing to fight the last political war because all they've done now for 10 years is run against Trump unsuccessfully. In the end, I might add, right when push came to shove, Trump beat them and their whole party turned into this anti Trump. They, they have to go through a metamorphosis. There is a transformation that I think Democrats will have to now it's not going to be on every I'm not saying they're going to become a pro life party or you know, they're not going to change that kind of stuff, but in the way they present and in the way they focus on issues and fight the media war to try to sway that middle 3 to 5% of voters, you know, which doesn't it's funny, isn't it? That's all we're really talking about. But they're going to have to change the way that they're presented because there are a lot of people that will vote Democrat no matter what. We know that they just 75 million of them voted for Kamala A cup a quarter of a million people voting for Democrats over Republicans in a few, in a handful of well in half a dozen states would have changed the election toward the Democrats. So it's not like we're sitting here saying the Democrats don't have a massive infrastructure and millions and millions of people who are voting for any Democratic candidate they put up. But how will they not have the same result going forward? And also how will they avoid the public repudiation that comes every time they try to present their arguments now? I mean, you know, their stuff, the stuff they're saying is silly. They look silly.

[Clay Travis]

I think there are so two things that build out of that. One, they have not reached the look in the mirror and acknowledge that you have a bad message and that's why people didn't vote vote for you, not because your message wasn't heard well enough. That's the debate that they're currently having. Second Part of this, Buck, and this is where I think they're going to end up. I think they will move from Trump is Hitler. Watch how fast this happens and clip this. Save it for a couple of years in the future as we get ready for 28. This pivot's going to happen. They're going to move from Trump is Hitler to Trump is a uniquely talented politician that Republicans cannot replicate and that's why he won in 2016 and 2024. Initially it was Russia. Then it sees Hitler. All of his supporters are racist. Buck, get ready for this. There's Once he's out of the picture, they're going to start arguing how talented he actually was and they're going to argue that Trumpism, the MAGA universe, does not translate to JD Vance or whomever is seen as the successor. And they are going to struggle to produce the support that Trump did. Much like we've pointed out, Obama really didn't have very many coattails. He was a uniquely talented individual politician that was not able to bring his party that much success. They're going to start to argue that Trump is that. Get ready for it. They're going to go from Trump is Hitler. Russia's the only reason he won to boy, he's really good at this. But it's not going to translate to the next Republican. That is, I think, the cope that they will move towards in the wake of the midterm elections when Trump is coming off the ballot.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Senator Roger Marshall]

Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Okay, we're marching our way through to get to exactly the heart of the matter. New York Times, big headline today about Gavin Newsom breaking with his party. I don't think that's what happened just based on what we've already heard. Clay heard the full clip before. I only seen a partial transcript and I didn't hear a break with anything. I heard Gavin Newsom being unctuous, oleaginous Gavin Newsom. I did not hear any, any all of a sudden little hint of bravery coming from him. So with that said. Oh, and also, I would just note we were, we thought today we might be talking about a big executive order that would shut down the Department of Education. Effectively, that has been delayed for now. We don't know. It is being reported. That's not happening today. Was reported last night. It would happen today. So we're on that. We're aware. But for now, that's not going to be a new story we're diving into because it hasn't happened yet. Okay, back to Newsom. Let's play now this clip. Cause, Clay, from what I heard, it's funny. You heard the whole thing. I've just heard pieces. And just from the snippets, I'm going, I don't think this guy Gavin Newsom is changing anything. I think he's playing games here. This is the continuation. He had our friend Charlie Kirk on. This is the continuation of that conversation. Play it.

[Clay Travis]

You right now should come out and be like, you know what? The young man who's about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Right. That's.

[Clay Travis]

That. That shouldn't happen. You as the governor should step out and say no, no. And I appreciate, but like, would you do something like that? Would you say no? Men in female sports? Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

So that's easy to call out the unfairness of that.

[Buck Sexton]

There's also a humility and grace, you.

[Clay Travis]

Know, that, that these poor people are.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

More likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression.

[Clay Travis]

And the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with as well.

[Buck Sexton]

So both things I can hold in my hand.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

How can we address this issue with.

[Buck Sexton]

The kind of decency that I think.

[Clay Travis]

You know is inherent in you, but not always expressed?

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Now that I've heard this, Clay, this is merely a tactical retreat back to what it used to be with this issue, which is what's the. It's about consideration. It's about. Let's just try to be more courteous to each other. So just use the preferred pronoun out of courtesy note. When they could, when they finally got what they wanted with the Democrats, it turned into use their preferred wrong pronoun or you lose your job. Now they're going back to, can we just be courteous to each other? That's what gab. That's the game he's playing now.

[Clay Travis]

I want. I. I agree with you. I think he tried to create space without actually taking a stand.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Yes, this.

[Clay Travis]

And that's why I shared on social media earlier today that exact clip we just played. And I just said, gavin Newsom, yes or no? Should men be able to compete in women's sports now? It didn't even take him saying they shouldn't. This is from the leaders of the LGBTQ caucus in California. This just dropped. Buck, You.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

You. You left out the IA ++. And I'm. I'm literally shaking right now.

[Clay Travis]

Literally shaking. Here's what they said. We woke up profoundly sickened and frustrated by these remarks. All students deserve the academic and health benefits of sports activity until Donald Trump began obsessing about it. Playing on a team consistent with one's gender has not been a problem since the standard was passed in 2013. That is the California Legislative LGBTQ caucus saying they are profoundly sickened and frustrated by the cut that we just played for you now, Buck, the media is actually taking this, I think. I can't believe I'm saying this. They're a little bit taking Gavin Newsom out of context and saying that he basically opposed. I wish he had, trust me. But he didn't really. He kind of played both sides. He listened to this question that Hakeem Jeffries just got on Capitol Hill about these comments. Listen to this, Buck.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

I want to ask about California Governor Gavin Newsom's comments saying that Democrats were in the wrong for allowing transgender athletes to compete in female and girls sports. What is your response to that? After Democrats had opposed the women and girls in sports. I haven't seen his comments. What Democrats opposed was unleashing sexual predators on girls throughout the United States of America. Does he. Honest question. Honest question. Does he just have no idea what's going on? Like is he just not aware?

[Clay Travis]

Total moron. I. That's Hakeem Jeffries. That's the House Minority Leader. Let me say this, Buck. The question was actually wrong. The sport, the. Sorry, the reporter said that Gavin Newsom said something he did not. Right. We just heard the clips. He didn't say.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

But that still doesn't explain the answer from Hakeem. What is he, what is he talking about?

[Clay Travis]

I have no idea. I have no idea what he's talking about.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Sexual predators with the high school sports thing.

[Clay Travis]

I have no idea what he is even potentially trying to say in that answer. But this is how cooked Buck they are on this issue that they can't even respond. And by the way, let me say this. Hakeem Jeffries, I'm not sure what his athletic background is. Gavin Newsom was a college pitcher. He played college sports. Every single man in America that played high school or college sports. If you played sports after puberty in high school or college, you know what bs a grown ass man deciding to identify as a woman is every single one. Hakeem Jeffries knows this. Every black dude in America, every white dude in America, every Hispanic dude in America, every Asian dude in America, every single person who played high school or college sports knows this is complete BS but woke mind virus. Buck is so powerful for them that they have to stand up there and lie and sound as crazy as Akeem Jeffries did in order so far to remain in good standing.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Give you another example of this. We had mentioned Bill Maher before who I think is also more making tactical retreats than ideological conversions on issues. But he, he is, you know, he is willing to say and has been before even this election that some of the stuff that his side is doing is just nuts and self defeating. He doesn't like the school marm. You're not allowed to say this. You're not allowed to say that stuff. He's never liked that. He the only place. I mean I think you and him cross over on this clay. I mean, I mean I would, I would largely agree with the two. He's, he's pretty solid on the first Amendment when it comes to free speech. That's about it, right? For a long time. I mean but he's been very solid on that issue for a long time. But here he is, he's talking to one of the pod save bros. These were some of the young Obama White House speechwriters and, and they have a podcast that at one point had a big following and it's, it's gone down a lot from my understanding. But whatever he's talking to him and this is fascinating, there's a long study that was done, a 10 year long study that was done about the outcomes for people that have trans surgeries. And Bill Maher is up, is pointing out that, that this study was intentionally withheld and hidden because the guess what, the outcomes are bad. This is not good because we're told all the time if you don't give gender affirming care, people commit suicide. The worst kind of moral blackmail. In reality, the people who go through the quote, gender affirming care, formerly known as a sex change operation. So we called it, you know, back in the 90s and the, and even before a sex change operation have terrible long term outcomes. And they justify this. Hiding this guy justifies it. Play clip 30.

[Buck Sexton]

There was a very big story this year.

[Clay Travis]

It was in the front page of.

[Buck Sexton]

The New York Times.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

A woman, I forget her name, and.

[Clay Travis]

She had done like it was a 10 year study, did not release it.

[Buck Sexton]

On purpose because she said it would weaponize the argument from the other side.

[Clay Travis]

So in other words, it came out not the way you wanted the study.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

To come out, not what you said.

[Clay Travis]

It is a mixed bag.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

That's true.

[Clay Travis]

Okay, some people, yes, it's the right thing. But to take that risk at that.

[Buck Sexton]

Age before you know about anything, yes.

[Clay Travis]

Sometimes it's pretty obvious. It's a very hard call to make. And again, this was a very long study, very thorough, and they wouldn't release it because it came out with the wrong conclusion.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Well, I also, I wish we had some of his response to it. But anyway, but the point is that guy, then Clay responded to it and he doesn't back down from this. He's like, yeah, no, but you have to do that. Sometimes the greater good is served by hiding the truth from the public on the trans issue.

[Clay Travis]

Look, the data reflects and I, I can't. Some of these issues Trump has been so smart on because they just come down to common sense. No one under the age of 18 should be getting surgery to in any way alter their ability to have children one day. I, I say that as a parent. I can't imagine that any parent out there who is behaving in a rational fashion is looking at their kids and saying, you know what? This 12 year old kid needs to make a choice that could keep them from ever being able to have a baby or ever being able to Be a father. I mean that's crazy town. It actually should. I think if you do something with your children voluntarily that keeps them from having the ability to have children, you should go to prison as a parent. I don't even think that's a difficult call. Let me repeat that because I think almost every parent out there will understand. Kid under 18. I'm not talking about when you're an adult and you get the opportunity to make your own life choices. Sometimes 19 year olds make awful decisions. But we have drawn the line at your age of majority begins at 18 or.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Right.

[Clay Travis]

But for anyone under the age of 18 to be permitted in any facet to have a elective surgery that would endanger in any way your ability to ever be a father or a mother to me is criminal in nature. And the doctor that does it and the parent that allows it because parents have to sign off on minority surgeries, you should go to prison. That should be a felony.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

I would just point out that this is part of why the activists have pushed this so hard so fast because they create a permanent army of parents who have done this and will never want to believe or accept that what they've done to their own children was the wrong thing to do. Yes, so, so you, you for every parent who allows their kid to take puberty blockers and all of this, you now have somebody who for the Next, you know, 40 years will absolutely go to the mat on. You need to be able to trans kids. You have to trans kids. Because they're never going to accept that what they did to their own children because of the Democrat left and the medical establishment that have been co opted by it push them in this direction very obviously. And this is why when you talk about long term outcomes, yet they're just beginning to figure out what the long term outcomes are. Because this whole thing is so new in nature that there have been no long term studies. And so people say things like gender affirming care. If you say that you're a drone with no brain because this is a made up term from just the last few years. Just the last few years. Sex change operation is what it was called for decades. And the reason they don't call it that anymore is because they want to pretend that there's not a change. It's an affirmation of what's already there. And this is also why Democrats are so dug in on this clay. Because if they can get you to agree to this, they can get you to agree to anything. If they can get you to agree to have your kids take puberty blockers at age 14, you'll do anything they tell you they can force you to do anything.

[Clay Travis]

And yes, you're right, because you're making the parents complicit. Which is why again, in my state of Tennessee, I think it should be a crime. And I think a lot of you out there remember when you were 15 or 16, you did a lot of dumb things. You made a lot of poor choices. You may have grown up and had a ton of kids and you thought to yourself when you were 15 or 16 that you didn't want to do that. As you age, you recognize that some of the choices you made when you were younger aren't the most advisable or the most desirable. That's what parents are for, is to try to protect children from making truly life altering decisions. And here they're encouraging it.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

And there's, this is why there's also all kinds of age related restrictions out there. We all know there's tons of different age related restrictions. You know, alcohol, sexual activity, all kinds of things. You know, if you're 13 and you said, I want to get married, people might be like, hold on a second. Like, you can't do that. Like, that's illegal for a good. You know, there are reasons why you can't do this. But if you want to have your breasts removed as a girl because you're, you think you're actually a boy, you can never change that. That's a surgery they can't undo. And with the puberty blockers with it. But that, that you should be able to make the decision at 13. In fact, the state in some places says it should be hidden from parents. Hidden from parents.

[Clay Travis]

This is why I always go with the tattoos. My wife would murder me if I came home with a 14 year old who got a tattoo. You cannot get a tattoo for your minor child in many states and the parent can be prosecuted for doing so to allow a permanent sterilization of your child.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

We got to go to a break here. Obviously we get fired up about this topic. I just would say it all just keeps. The circle of lies just keeps going. Because the reason they can't allow it to be an 18 and over thing, Clay, is because then it feels like a lifestyle choice. Then it doesn't feel like an innate characteristic. And they know that for this to be a civil rights issue, it has to be an innate characteristic, even though it's completely based in psychology. Anyway, look, there are lots of nonprofits out there. You could donate to but there's only one that I know of that is saving the lives of tiny babies day in and day out and that's Preborn. Preborn operates clinics in communities nationwide where abortion rates are the highest per capita. And they do it specifically so they can interact with pregnant women deciding between life or abortion for their unborn child. They've been at this for 20 years and have saved 300,000 plus lives to date. The team working at Preborn use your valuable donations in welcoming women who are pregnant and making such a serious decision. By introducing these women to the tiny life growing inside their womb, they are twice as likely to choose life for that baby. Little babies lives are being saved day in and day out and Preborn just does it with love, care and your help. Without you, this doesn't happen at all. You the pro life community support preborn. You've done it for decades. I've donated a preborn. I would ask you to please consider a donation today because they have saved hundreds of thousands of babies and they've brought beautiful families into this world and I've visited the clinic and I've met some of the moms and they are so thankful, so eternally thankful that Preborn was there for them and now they have a little boy or a little girl running around the office when I came to visit. It's pretty amazing thing. Please consider a donation today. $28 a month could be the difference between life and death for so many tiny babies right now. To donate, securely dial pound250 from your phone and say the keyword baby. That's pound250, say baby or visit preborn.combuck that's preborn.com buck Sponsored by Preborn Want.

[Clay Travis]

To be in the know when you're on The Go the Team 47 podcast Trump highlights from the week, Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're joined now on Capitol Hill, I believe by Senator Roger Marshall from the great state of Kansas. Senator, a lot to dive into with you, but earlier this week we talked with Majority Leader Thune and we've been talking about Gavin Newsom and his potential attempts to walk back the idea of men identifying as women being able to compete in women's sports. Newsom today, Governor of California called it completely unfair, yet every single Democrat senator voted to allow it earlier this week. How crazy is that? Were even you surprised that uniformly they were behind that idea?

[Buck Sexton]

Well, I wasn't surprised because they've been very consistently against this. They just seem to be wallowing in their own pig barn, I guess, and they can't get off of this issue. Look, this poll is more like 95 to 5. Back home, 95 of Kansans don't think it's right boys to compete against girls. It's not an 8020 issue. It's at least a 90 to 10 issue. And I think that's why you see Gavin Newsom, who thinks he's the next president of the United States is saying, gosh, I got to walk away from this one. But our Democrats, I was just going to say it, they've got a psychosis right now, not shake this Trump derangement syndrome. This be a very easy issue to get off of for them. And they just, they can't stop. They're in this hole they can't stop digging.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Senator, appreciate you being with us. It's Buck, I think, first time we've got a chance to talk to you on the show. So Doge and what has been accomplished, what will be accomplished? I know you're looking into this. You're involved with and have had recent conversations with Elon Musk, who's filled you in on what's going on with his team. Can you bring us up to speed? Because there's what has been reported and then some of this stuff, some of the numbers get a little bit adjusted about what Doge has done thus far and then what the plans are as you know them and you know, to the best of your ability, what's confirmed so far, you know, what can we know is Solid is the $100 billion of savings. Is that, is that rock solid? Bring us up to speed.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, but I think it's solid in the sense if the, the swamp will do what we've exposed. So look at it this way. Elon Musk is not out there looking at people's Social Security numbers. He's too busy for that. He has chosen some people that are now full time employees of the federal government. They went through all that process you're supposed to and they're in there shining a flashlight. So they find some fraud, waste, abuse, frankly, and confidence, they go back to those agency heads and say, hey, here's some money, here's some opportunities. Why in the world we have 2 million federal employees but over 4 million credit cards? Why in your agency you have 10,000 employees but 20,000 software subscriptions to the same company? So I think that those will come to fruition. But eventually we need to go back to a rescission process. And that's where the president makes a request to rescind this money. And you've seen these lists of things. And then Congress gets to vote on those rescissions. And we'll see if the Democrats can stay together and continue to vote against some of this fraud, wasted abuse. In speaking with Elon just yesterday, he truly believes that there's 15 to 25% of government spending is waste. I think it's more than that. I'll give you a quick example. The Government Accounting Office, not Marshall, not Elon Musk. The Government Accounting Office says last year the Federal government issued $250 billion of improper checks. Not fraud, waste reviews, just improper checks. $250 billion. So we're trying to, you know, track down things like that. The sky's the limit here.

[Clay Travis]

We're talking to Senator Roger Marshall. I think the last time we had. John. Senator, we were up in Milwaukee getting ready for the rnc. Appreciate you joining us again. Let's go into. We were just having a discussion, Buck and I were, about the decision to have kids having surgeries that. There's a new study out that's the precipitating factor of discussion here, saying that under 18, surgeries that change the gender in some way. Gender change surgery is actually incredibly destructive to kids and that they don't actually have better outcomes as adults. I bet in the state of Kansas, it's similar to my home state of Tennessee. If I took one of my boys, they're all under 18, to get a tattoo in addition to their mom killing me, it would be a crime. I can't allow their skin to be altered because they're minors. How in the world is this permissible for parents to sign off on and for doctors to do? I know you have a medical degree. Does this seem as crazy to you as it does to both Buck and I?

[Buck Sexton]

Well, Clay and Buck, this. This is absolutely a child abuse. Again, I'm an OB gyn. I'm just not a doctor. I'm an OB gyn. I've had to work on some young ladies, girls born with ambiguous genitalia. I won't go into the details, but it's a very painful surgery to try to fix things. Any type of surgery. Young ladies I've known and older women have had mastectomies. They have pain the rest of their life. They get lymphedema. The blood doesn't drain. Right. Any of these surgeries. Anyone that's gone through enough surgeries knows that there's going to be chronic pain because of this. And my guess is it'll lead to many, many more surgeries. So I think just from a child abuse standpoint, from a physician standpoint of doing no harm, I don't know why anyone can do this. I can't believe that the governor of Kansas vetoed a bill that would have prevented this from happening as well. And then the mental anguish. Look, I feel for these people that feel like they should be the opposite sex. I mean, there's something going on there. They need some help. But let's not let them do something that's irreversible. You know, a young mom would bring in their teenage daughter to, and you know, talking about, frankly, promiscuity and pregnancy. And I would just, I would talk to them both. Look, you don't want this, what I call permanent scar tissue. Once you get a tattoo, it never goes away. If you get an std, you become infertile for the rest of your life. So these surgeries, they leave them infertile, obviously. And the medical, the medicine they give them lots of times also cause infertility. That's not reversible. And a whole lot of other changes. There's nothing right about this. I just yet, can anyone look me in the eye and say that they think this is a good idea? I don't know where it came from.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Speaking to Senator right now out of. Pardon me. Clay, take this for a second. I got a problem on my earpiece.

[Clay Travis]

Senator Marshall from Kansas, as you look at the battle going forward over whether or not the budget priorities of President Trump are going to follow the Senate direction or the House direction, what can you tell us the latest on those proposals? Do you think it's going to be one bill? Do you think it's going to be multiple bills? What should we know about how this is going to end up being reconciled going forward and the timeframe behind it?

[Buck Sexton]

Look, I think there could still be a second and third bite of the apple, but we need to focus right now on giving the President a win. What he's asking is to make his tax cuts permanent. If we don't, then it's going to mean thousands of dollars to hard working families. If we don't make those tax cuts permanent, it'll mean trillions of dollars of lost income to America. So we need to make the tax cuts permanent in this first big beautiful bill. So we're going to take the House bill and try to improve it. So we're going to try to make the tax cuts permanent. The House does a nice job of giving the President enough money to fund building the wall, and also the money to get rid of these criminal, violent aliens that are in the country as well, plus up the military some as well. So I think we got to take what we can get. President Reagan said this. Take 80% if you can get it. I think this will get 90% of what we wanted, and then we're going to have to come back and hopefully find more cuts. Believe it or not, the Senate wants to cut more money than the House does, so we're trying to figure out if there's a way to cut more money. And I talked about these rescissions earlier. To me, this is all one problem. They're all woven together. What can we do to work towards a balanced budget? But we'll take the House bill and see if we can approve it over here on the Senate side. Come back and take a second bite at the apple on some of those other issues that President Trump wants us to get at.

[Senator Roger Marshall]

Senator Marshall, I'm back and now I'll be able to hear your answer. Sorry, earpiece came out there for a second. I don't want to have an interview where I can't hear the other side. Tell me what you think about the executive order that is supposed to come down imminently on, I guess, disassembling the Department of Education. It's not really clear to me what exactly is going to be in it, because it hasn't been released, but I'm sure you're up on it. Is this going to happen? And why is. If it does happen, why is it the right move?

[Buck Sexton]

Look, I think that most of us, especially conservatives, think that education should be controlled at the local level with parents and their local school board, because the federal government is controlling so many of the dollars. They also have rules and regulations that go along with. What I expect this executive order to do is to have Secretary McMahon present a plan to Congress to say, this is how we disassemble the Department of Education. Now, look, this is a sad day for me in the sense that President Eisenhower helped start this Department of Education, but it's just. It's out of control. President Eisenhower also said that he would rue the day when the federal government was giving money to universities and the schools there as well. So I think that she'll present a policy. I think there's limits to what he can do with an executive order, and then it's going to be up to Congress to act on this. But whatever he can do within the constitutional limits of his, of his abilities there to executive branch. I think they're going to push everything they can to the state level school. He can do school choice through an executive order. But we need, I need to check that.

[Clay Travis]

You were Tuesday in the House chamber for Donald Trump's speech. What did you think of the speech and what did you think of Democrat behavior based on being there in person? We're told it was even more egregious in person than it was for those of us watching on television.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, a couple of thoughts. You know, I can feel this momentum from back home that when the night Donald Trump was elected, you could just literally feel this big shift we call America turning in the right direction. I've never been more bullish on America than I am today, that our better days are ahead of us. And you saw, I think, his cabinet. Did you see the interaction, the body language of his Cabinet members up front? That's really different than any I've seen. And I've just been up here for eight years. But these people are godly men and women. They have their own Bible study. I mean, these folks are focused on America first. Now, let's contrast that to the Democrat side. This was rude. You know, I suffered through four years of bonding. The first lady, Mrs. Biden, is introduced. We stand up and politely applaud her. The people he's chosen that Biden chose to come and celebrate their lives. There were great stories, all of them, most of them, and we stood up and applauded them. But when the Democrats wouldn't get up and applaud for a young boy who survived brain cancer, the Secret Service was deputizing him. Another young man, his life dream to go to West Point. And they announced that in front of everybody as well. You know, I understand that they don't like President Trump. They are mistaken on the policies, though. 80% of Americans. I'm going to back up 70% of Americans. I don't want to exaggerate. 70% of Americans at least support President Trump's agenda. If you take them one at a time. 70% of America support those agenda items. The Democrats again, are wallowing there in a pigsty, if you will, and they just can't get out. But it was an embarrassment. It was worse than what you saw on tv. Very petty to see these little signs flashed in front of us.

[Clay Travis]

No doubt. Senator, we appreciate you and we're happy to have you on anytime. Keep up the good fight. And condolences on your Kansas City chiefs going down. I know Kansas City. I know you're a big Chiefs fan. That was a tough one for you.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, I appreciate that. And my Jayhawks and Wildcats Kansas schools aren't doing very well either. Well, we'll live to fight another day. Thanks for giving us a voice. My Kansas. Love listening to you guys. Thank you so much. Have a great day.

[Clay Travis]

Thank you too. That Senator Marshall, great state of Kansas, solid representative for the people there and we appreciate the time. I want to tell you, after we went off the air yesterday, President Trump met with eight freed Israeli hostages, including Omer Shem Tov, the son of the father we met with. And we were in Israel last December with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The hostages there thanked President Trump for his efforts bringing them home. And Trump sent a strong message to the terrorists in Hamas of what would happen if the remaining hostages and the bodies, unfortunately, if some of those hostages aren't released very soon, I'll never forget the time that we spent there. The bomb shelters that we visited, the vehicles that had been rehabbed to allow people to safely try to protect so many people, the food shelter that we went to. We went all over the place so that the IFCJ's work could be seen in its full spectrum. And as Israelis work hard to return to a life of normalcy, the IFCJ has continued to support those in the Holy Land still continuing to face the lingering horrors of war and those in desperate need. Right now, your ongoing monthly gift of $45 can provide critically needed aid to communities in the north and the south devastated by the ongoing war. Visit supportifcj.org to show your support. That's one word. Supportifcj.org 888488 IFCJ. That's 888488 IFCJ News and Politics. But also a little comic relief. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.