Bonus： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jan 15 2026
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On today's show, Clay and Buck discuss the latest ICE shooting in Minneapolis, and the reaction from the attorney general and the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walrzeda, and President Trump's call for the "insurrection act" in response.
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We are off and running many different stories to be tracking.
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Reports that Trump was prepared, as we talked about yesterday, to strike Iran.
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And then at the last possible moment, called off an attack after Iran promised that they would not execute any of the protesters.
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And that that request came at the behest of Saudi Arabia, other Middle Eastern countries.
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Probably from which she will be planning her big presidential campaign that will get me another fantastic steak dinner at the expense of Buck Sexton.
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But we begin with an actual serious and dark story that continues to unspool itself from Minneapolis, where another ice shooting happened last night because another ice agent was attacked.
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Multiple different individuals reportedly attacking an ice agent.
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He felt compelled to fire as they resisted arrest.
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And there were ice vehicles that were torn asunder.
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Reports that a weapon was stolen from inside of a ice vehicle.
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It has become downright nasty in Minneapolis on a level, frankly, that does not exist anywhere else in the country.
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And we have Attorney General Pam Bondi who weighed in on what is going on there.
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We had six prosecutors who suddenly decided they didn't want to support the men and women in ice.
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One of them was busy doing a photo shoot with the New York Times while ice was out there risking their lives.
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They said, we want to resign, but we want to use our annual leave up until April.
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Meaning they wanted the taxpayers to pay for them to go on vacation because they decided they didn't want to support law enforcement.
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So the breaking news tonight, I fired them all.
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And our U.S. attorney there, Rosen, he's great.
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And that's what we're facing around the country, the deep state, in many of these offices.
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Okay, Tim Walls is telling everybody, the governor of Minnesota, pull out your phones, record everything that's going on.
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Buck, this feels like an eerie echo of what happened in 2020.
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You and I have talked about this a great deal, that in the wake of the BLM protests, what happened was people said, oh, police officers are the problem.
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They're the reason there's violence in this country.
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Police officers were attacked, sometimes physically, often verbally, certainly in the larger court of public opinion by Democrats who did not want prisoners to be put, kept in prison cells and did not want violent criminals to be arrested.
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Now, six years later, roughly, it feels to me quite clear that ICE is being targeted in Minneapolis in the same way.
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And I think President Trump, who said, I may have to put the Insurrection Act in play, I think he has an opportunity now to try to stomp this out before it spreads and before we get worse aspects like this nationwide.
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I think he needs to send a message that didn't happen, frankly, in the early days of BLM, that violence is unacceptable, that we're going to arrest people who engage in violence against ICE officers.
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And we cannot allow what happened in 2020 to replicate itself back in the summer of 2020.
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It feels a little bit like the early stages of potentially something similar.
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Well, this is why on Truth Social, Trump has written the following.
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If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the Insurrection Act, which many presidents have done before me.
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This is a defining moment for whether we are a rule-of-law country, Democrats, the Democrat base of Biden, Kamala, etc., the lawlessness of illegal immigration they have embraced.
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They do not get to nullify federal law enforcement efforts.
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Imagine, Clay, what the response would have been if we had had people ambushing FBI officers who were going in at pre-dawn raids for nonviolent J6ers.
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By the way, I think the Democrats would have said to the FBI, just open fire on them.
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I mean, I honestly think they would have been fine with lethal force in that situation.
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And unfortunately, I think some of those FBI officials would have done it because they're scumbags.
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Some of them have been fired, thanks to the last year.
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But, Clay, the Insurrection Act, this is clearly an organized and planned out and widespread effort to undermine the rule of law
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and to stop the administration from effectively conducting these operations when it comes to immigration enforcement.
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Whatever resources are necessary should be deployed.
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Whatever the federal government needs to do here, you know, we've seen this in the past.
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We've seen how they'll send soldiers to the schoolhouses for the Civil Rights Act.
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Is it fair to say that Trump 1.0 may be the most disappointing decision that was made?
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Not situation that arose, but decision that was made was not aggressively enough trying to stamp out the BLM protests?
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I think if you go back in time, summer of 2020, I think the Trump team made the decision
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that this was going to burn itself out more rapidly than it did.
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And unfortunately, what we got was actual burning of so many different cities.
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2020, 2021, murder rates skyrocketed all over the country as police were not allowed to do their job.
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My concern is that we are seeing the same kind of opposition to ICE that we saw to police in 2020.
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A lot of times it's difficult when there's a police raid going on or an FBI raid going on or an ICE raid going on
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to know exactly who the authorities are that are conducting that raid.
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And so I think Trump has to come in aggressively.
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And I think he set the tone in the agenda and the precedent in L.A.
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Remember when the Waymos were burning and they were throwing things at police officers and at ICE agents like crazy?
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And you had Mayor Karen Bass speaking out about how unacceptable it was.
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Trump surged support for ICE agents in Los Angeles.
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Now, they file lawsuits and they said, oh, remember, Gavin Newsom said Trump can't call out the National Guard.
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Minneapolis has emerged as the flashpoint, I think, of far left wing activism anywhere in the country.
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Tim Walls and Mayor Frye are encouraging this in Minneapolis.
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I think President Trump needs to surge law enforcement resources and needs to send the message.
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And we're going to continue to implement the raids and policies that were already in place.
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This is, to me, a crucible decision for the president.
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It's also very obviously where the Democrats believe they will break the back of this administration.
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And turn the tide just in time for the midterms.
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Get them all, oh, we're the new civil rights heroes.
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In some cases, these people are preventing arrests of, like, rapists and pedophiles and murderers and gang members.
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And they think they're heroes for this, which is completely insane.
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I mean, they're not going to win on women can have penises.
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Which is the strong basis of the Democrat Party, to be fair.
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It turns out that's actually not true, Democrats.
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And you can keep saying it's true, but it's still not true.
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And we're not going to change our minds on this one.
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So they think that immigration is where they can make their stand.
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And they also know that this is where Trump cannot break his compact with his voters this time around.
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First administration, first time, some bumps, some lessons, everything else.
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Trump's got this and this term only to figure this out.
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And that's why I think that whatever it takes to dutifully and faithfully enforce these laws in Minneapolis and elsewhere is what the administration should do.
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I think Trump knows this is an all in moment for his agenda and for his second term.
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And unfortunately, I think what you are seeing is the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz and Fry, Jacob Fry.
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I hate to say it, but unfortunately, it feels self-evident that this is going to happen, Buck.
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Somebody in Minneapolis is going to open fire on ICE agents.
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All of you know it because they are encouraging their crazy supporters, their base, to engage in this kind of behavior.
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Remember that lunatic BLM supporter who killed, I think it was, five cops in Dallas?
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And many of us had been saying they're calling for violence against cops.
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Not only are they calling for violence against ICE, and this is from across the board and others, because when you say someone is a Gestapo, every movie we've ever seen, what do you want to happen to the Gestapo agents?
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And sometimes it does, right, that Inglourious Bastards movie or whatever, right?
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You want someone to take out the evil Gestapo guy.
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The Nazis' faces to be melted off and all that.
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This is, so when you're calling people Gestapo and Nazis and SS, which is what they're calling ICE, and I mean members of Congress, you want bad things to happen to them.
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And not only do they want bad things to happen to them, if an ICE agent, God forbid, but if an ICE agent is killed in the conduct of his duty, you'll go on Blue Sky if you want that night.
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There'll be maniac Kamala voters celebrating it all over the Internet.
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The people that pretended to care so much about the rule of law, oh, the insurrection, January 6th.
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All of a sudden, law enforcement, they will celebrate the murder of a law enforcement officer if it happens all over the Internet, Clay.
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And that's what they're taking this country to.
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And again, the fact that Minneapolis is sort of the hornet's nest of opposition, I think we have to send a message that this is unacceptable.
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And the same thing needs to happen in Minneapolis.
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I actually think, Buck, the best advantage we have in Minneapolis right now, it's going to sound crazy, is that it's super cold.
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Because when the George Floyd BLM protests began, it was May.
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You've talked about the fact that protesters, by and large, show up in bigger numbers when the weather is good.
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And it's super cold in Minneapolis, notwithstanding the reaction and the opposition that we're seeing right now.
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I think it's easier to tamp down this behavior right now than it would be in May or June.
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I should expect it, though, because we're going into an election year.
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It's like we were there for the inauguration, and we saw that sad protest that we've talked about on the show before.
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The old ladies with their teeth chattering, all ten of them, like, free Aboumimiya, free Palestine.
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Almost exactly one year ago today, we were doing the inauguration trip to Washington, D.C., and that was what we were seeing.
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You know, it was a sad, sad spectacle out there.
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So, yes, protesting in freezing weather is certainly less fun.
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Yogi Berra once said it's deja vu all over again.
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He was a sports fellow, too, Clay, from what I am.
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And here we have that feeling because a member of Congress has returned, you will recall,
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to what a previous member of Congress said, I think it was back in 2018, when AOC was leading the charge on abolish ICE.
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Aren't you seeing the connections here, my friends?
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What was really the first thing that wasn't Russia collusion where they really dug in?
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But it was on immigration, Clay, that they made their first real stand against Trump policy,
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and it had to do with the family separation policy.
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Dressed all in white, crying, holding the fence.
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And you started to hear abolish ICE was the slogan.
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The problem with that, of course, is why wouldn't you get rid of the law that ICE is enforcing?
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Well, because then you'd have to just be open borders and everybody would know it.
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So what they want to do is get rid of the agency that enforces this law,
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but keep the law on the books because then you won't have to have the political conversation
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and members of Congress won't have to take votes to show that they are open borders.
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Anyway, it fizzled, but it is very much now back, this time not because of border enforcement,
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You want to talk about learning from the first time out?
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Trump 1.0, they got them on the family separation issue because this was all being exploited.
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It was all parts of immigration law that were there's complexities in this.
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But basically, they figured out if you show up with a kid, you get to just come into the country.
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They go, well, we're going to start processing the parents and the kids are going to be held in a separate facility.
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And then, oh, my gosh, you're breaking up families, the whole thing.
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Clay, I bring this up because this guy who's a member of Congress,
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which is even for Congress pretty hard to believe when you check this guy out, Sri Thanedar.
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He's the one with the ridiculous hair for people who have, I mean, that's maybe not saying it,
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but I mean, this guy looks, his hair may be the most ridiculous wig in all of Congress.
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He also speaks with a very thick foreign accent.
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So you have the guy with probably the thickest foreign accent in Congress telling everybody
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that we need to get rid of the agency that enforces immigration law.
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And this week, I intend to introduce a bill to abolish ICE.
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So everyone gets to your question before about how many illegals.
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The Democrat position, you're increasingly seeing all that stuff about how they want to enforce
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And I think that guy we just heard from, if I'm not mistaken, team in New York, you can
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I think he was the first one to introduce impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
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I mean, obviously, he did not get very many votes.
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But that is the reality under which this motivation is occurring because Trump has, for the first
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time, I don't know if you saw this story out there, for the first time, I think in several
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generations, I think going back to before Reagan, there were fewer people that came into the
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country during Trump 2.0, like we actually had a decline in migrants.
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An entire net migration play is negative in last year for the first time since the 1920s,
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I've got the monthly flow of net immigration 50.
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It's basically been 50,000 a year for the last 30 years.
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And now with Trump, it's negative 145,000 per month so far in the first year.
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And now look, the exact numbers, Tom Homan, I actually saw him yesterday at the White House.
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Tom Homan believes that 2 million people roughly have self-deported, that is, left the country
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And we know that there's been deportation of around 600,000 people.
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So the number out there, I think that that number is based on that you just referenced
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Now, Tom Homan said that there's 20 million illegals in the country.
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So roughly that would mean about 10% of the illegal population left in year one.
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Um, the challenge you're seeing there, if you do basic math on this is even if Trump kept
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the exact same pace up and the self-deportation percentages remain the same, we're still basically
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getting to a place where we're narrowly, I mean, we're getting down to 12 million illegals
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And this was really the calculus behind Biden opening up the border.
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It was that when all these people get here, it basically becomes impossible to ever get
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This is a multi-generational plan by which they want to change the character and the populace
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It's very calculated in intent, and Trump is pushing back against it.
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You have some really crazy and reckless things being said by members of Congress.
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For example, well, one, here is Hakeem Jeffries, former Speaker of the House.
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He's just saying, he keeps repeating this thing about how they're brutalizing immigrant families.
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Clearly, significant reform needs to take place as it relates to the manner in which ICE is
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ICE is using taxpayer dollars to brutalize American citizens and to unnecessarily and
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viciously target law-abiding immigrant families and communities.
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The whole premise that Donald Trump sold to the American people was that this immigration
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enforcement activity was going to target violent felons.
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They're targeting American families, brutalizing American communities.
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And now, as we've seen, killing American citizens.
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Yeah, this is, look, I mean, Renee Good, deep down, when she was shot, every Democrat politician
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And you can say, well, Clay, you're being cruel there when you say this.
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Axios said, they had a story this summer where they specifically laid out that Democrats were
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training people and they were hoping that there would be a violent act so that they could use
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that as an argument of a political nature to try to stop these ICE raids from occurring.
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I hate to say it, but they hope that others will be shot, too.
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They are willing to sacrifice on the altar of politics life.
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And it's quite clear because then they can come out and they can say, see, this is what
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American citizens are being brutalized and killed by ICE.
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This is why they're telling everybody to show up with their phones.
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This is why they're telling everybody to get in the face of all these ICE agents.
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This is why you have so many people, so many people that have decided to make it their life's
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work to show up and scream and bang pots and pans and honk horns and insult and spit on all
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And they're just making the situation dangerous violence is going to ensue.
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And this is why I said earlier in the last hour, Buck, I'm already angry because I know
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It's just a question of when we've already seen it.
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They have they have set the kettle to boil and it's inevitable what's going to happen.
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Every person out there listening knows that we're going to turn on our televisions or
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we're going to look down at our phones and there's going to be innocent ICE agents
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And you pointed out, Buck, on Blue Sky, they'll be tap dancing on their graves.
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They're also absolutely and they're also preparing to blame ICE and the murdered ICE agents for
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the violence that you and I both see as imminent against them.
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Over at CNN, Abby Phillip, the tactics of ICE, that's putting them at risk.
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DHS says that this was a targeted enforcement operation and that the ICE officer was attacked.
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And I do think that is exactly the type of situation that we want as few of those situations
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And yet it seems like all the time there are all kinds of interactions happening where ICE
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And I'm not sure if it's all just because of, you know, violent people attacking them.
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Sometimes it's also the tactics that I think are putting them in at risk.
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The vehicle stops, which there have been some reporting about how these vehicle stops are
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The vehicle stops are dangerous because the gang members they're trying to arrest don't
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But I'm telling you, this is going to be a thing.
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Well, if they hadn't been in these communities, the terrible thing that you and I think is
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If they hadn't been in these communities, it wouldn't have happened.
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Imagine if we took that approach to straight up like gang enforcement activities by cops,
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Oh, if they hadn't been making those arrests of the Bloods and the Crips, they wouldn't
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have had the cops to shoot at in the first place.
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Well, this is the argument they made in Washington, D.C. when the guy traveled across the country
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and killed two innocent National Guards people.
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I guess killed one and severely wounded the other.
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I think the one of I think they're both from West Virginia, if I'm not mistaken.
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They said this is Trump's fault for calling out the National Guard.
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Look, they motivated that crazy person who, if I remember correctly, was an Afghan refugee
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who was led into the country without being soundly vetted, who lost his mind, who drove
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across the country and killed two or attempted to kill two innocent people, among others.
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When this happens with ICE, what did they immediately say?
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Even the media put up like, oh, look, Trump made these people targets by trying to reduce
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violent crime, by trying to make the city of Washington safe.
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Notice, Buck, you're not hearing much about how effective that has been.
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City is way safer statistically than it has been almost in a generation.
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This is what the left does, whether it's fighting against any kind of terrorists, fighting against
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But it's always the thing you're doing to address the problem is the real problem.
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The fighting against the bad thing is the cause of the bad thing.
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Yesterday, I saw President Trump in the Oval Office, and I actually thanked him for the
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President wants to go into a lot of other cities and make them infinitely safer, too.
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You'll notice when he has that success, the story just vanishes.
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Oh, there's no way if you put more people on the streets that things are going to get
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But Caroline Leavitt is right now in the White House press briefing room.
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And I believe, boys and girls, we have a couple of cuts of things that she just said.
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President Trump unveiled a health care plan for America called the Great Health Care Plan.
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The Great Health Care Plan will accomplish this through four common sense pillars.
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Number one, permanently lowering prescription drug prices.
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Congress can get this done by codifying President Trump's historic Most Favored Nation initiatives
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into law to guarantee Americans the same low prices for prescription drugs that people
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Number two, the Great Health Care Plan will stop sending big insurance companies billions
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in extra taxpayer-funded subsidy payments and instead send that money directly to eligible
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Americans to allow them to buy the health insurance of their choice.
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Number three, the Great Health Care Plan will maximize price transparency by requiring any
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health care provider or insurer who accepts either Medicare or Medicaid to publicly and
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prominently post their pricing and fees to avoid surprise medical bills.
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And number four, holds big insurance companies accountable by requiring them to publish rate and
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coverage comparisons up front on their websites in plain English.
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Okay, so, Buck, clearly there has been a calculated attempt for the start of 2026.
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When you look at the president with plans on home affordability, health care, even we had that
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big discussion about credit card interest debt.
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The president has decided that affordability is going to be a big part of 2026.
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And I think he's recognized that it may well decide the outcome of the midterm elections, not
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necessarily what the data shows, but how people are feeling about the data and whether it feels
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like he understands the concerns of people like them.
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We got smoked in the 2018 midterms and the data showed that it was health care.
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And so, again, notice Trump, the team, they've learned lessons, which is what you want, right?
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You want people to understand they're getting ahead of this.
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And I think that really pricing and transparency and making as much of this as more of this
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market based is those are the basic principles you want to increase.
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I mean, we have screwed health care up in this country so much, so badly.
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It's it's pretty astonishing, actually, how and all you do is look at what it costs the
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The more the government decides to wade in on anything that you go look at, like compare
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Buck, I saw a good graphic on this that I thought was super interesting.
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Compare the pace of health care costs with flaskering televisions.
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Do you remember a generation ago when a flaskering television basically cost an arm and a leg?
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I mean, it felt like when you got that first HD flaskering television, it cost four or five
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thousand dollars was how much those things cost.
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I remember needing help from friends in college to carry like my big ass TV up the stairs because
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I think it weighed about a hundred and something pounds.
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And now you go to Walmart or you go to Costco or Sam's or any of these places, you can get
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a 45 inch flat screen television for like 200 bucks.
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Unfortunately, that's a lesson that a lot of people in on Capitol Hill still haven't learned.
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We will dive into both of those stories, among others.
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We'll keep you updated on what's going on in Minneapolis as well as we roll into the final
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I bet they paid her so much for that crappy book, even though it didn't sell.
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And this is the one this is one of these because a lot of these big publishers, there's run
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by Libs or Libs, and they will write a huge check to some Democrat politician just as like
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Minneapolis, you heard us talk at the beginning of the show and quite a lot already in the
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first couple of hours about the disaster that is unspooling in Minneapolis in the wake
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of yet another shooting where an ICE agent was attacked.
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And we will continue, I am sure, to update you on that story as we progress.
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Reports, as we talked about in the first couple of hours, that President Trump was poised to
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And at the last moment chose not to, based on the fact that Iran made promises through
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third parties that they would not be conducting executions of protesters.
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We will see whether that tamps down the tempest in that relationship right now.
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Price of oil and gas came down substantially, as maybe there is hope that there is not going
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As if that were not enough, ongoing discussions surrounding Greenland, as we have talked about
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Greenland representatives, Denmark representatives in the White House yesterday trying to persuade
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President Trump that he did not actually need to buy Greenland.
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And President Trump still wants to buy Greenland.
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As we were talking about earlier, maybe we'll dive into this and have a little bit more fun
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Do you know, Buck, what the number one part of the Greenland economy, according to what
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I read in the Wall Street Journal this morning, is?
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So there are 57,000 people who live in Greenland.
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Obviously, there's lots of talk about the long-term value of the minerals and all the different
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natural resources that could be associated with Greenland, its location near the Arctic Circle,
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Trump is worried about Russia or China ending up with Greenland and how that would impact
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But right now, what is the number one part of the economy of Greenland based on what I
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I mean, I know in Iceland, it's the fishing industry.
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I would assume in Greenland, that's a big thing.
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But also mining would be the next guess that I have.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, it is shrimp.
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And the word is, I was actually doing a little bit of Greenland research because I wanted
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to know more about it, uh, that basically Denmark gives a billion dollars a year to support everyone
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who lives in Greenland because the economy is otherwise not able to, uh, suffice.
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Buck, a huge percentage of people in Greenland lack running water and actually shower by melting
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So if you thought, I just, I read that this morning in the Wall Street Journal as I was
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If you're out there right now and you're like, man, things are really tough for me.
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I bet you're not showering with melted ice, which I would imagine is pretty cold and, and
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Uh, but I thought that was interesting about Greenland, just kind of giving you an idea.
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President Trump's idea there is not based on what Greenland is now.
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It is as many developers and real estate, uh, appraisers and purchasers always do.
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It's a projection of what the value of Greenland might be a generation from now, two generations,
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And remember Buck, and you're a history nerd too.
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When William Seward bought Alaska, everyone derided the purchase of Alaska as Seward's folly
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in the immediate aftermath of the, uh, of the civil war.
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And it ended up being one of the most brilliant acquisitions in the history of the United States
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because Alaska has become such a beacon of natural resources and such an incredible value
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But in the short term, there've been lots of ridicule.
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Heck, even some people ridiculed Thomas Jefferson when he bought the Louisiana purchase back in
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So long forward looking, uh, is the decision here as it pertains to Greenland.
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This is not a short term flip play, uh, as all the housing, uh, shows out there, uh, that
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You know, I, I'm sure you've seen Buck where the guy's like a painter and the wife is like
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a daycare worker and their budget's like $800,000 for a house.
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And everybody's always like, how is that possible?
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And real estate in so many ways has been a good longterm play.
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Donald Trump more than almost anybody knows that.
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And I would say this clay, maybe things are going to get a little warmer in Greenland because
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It's climate change is not a catastrophe and all that stuff.
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But let's just say things got a little bit warmer over time.
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There's plenty of reason to believe it would be great.
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They don't really believe in climate change though.
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They only believe in climate change when it benefits them, which is my pivot point here
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to something that I insist we discuss for a moment.
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I am hopping a jet, taking us all over the world.
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Really, I will say among the most beautiful places in America, full of people with the
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The sushi restaurant there, the Nobu there, very, very spectacular right on the beach.
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Kamala Harris just bought an $8 million house with her lawyer husband there.
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First of all, she's clearly not scared of the erosion of the beaches or the cliffs.
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You're suggesting that Kamala Harris is not actually worried at all about climate change
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because she, like all of the other super Hollywood celebs who claim to be worried about climate
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Remember when Barack Obama, Mr. Climate Change is an existential threat to America.
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There was really an unholy, an evil tripod of Obamaism, and it was health care, amnesty,
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There also was like the George Floyd, not George Floyd, but the BLM, that stuff the first
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But that wasn't so much policy as messaging, or at least not a big law thing that they
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Clay, Obama got a, probably it's like a $30 million now, but like a $15 million beachfront
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About climate change has fallen out of the conversation.
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But this, the climate change, none of the people, the biggest advocates believe this.
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They all want oceanfront property, and they want it in California and Hawaii and Martha's
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Vineyard, low-lying Martha's Vineyard, which is at sea level.
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You wrote a terrible book, which you made me read, because you goaded me into it.
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And there's, in Malibu, I mean, the most, you know, hoity-toity, fancy-pants place in
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And look, you might say, well, Trump lives at Mar-a-Lago.
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You're going, yeah, Trump doesn't pretend to be something he's not.
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Kamala, the social justice warrior, she's just been enriching herself her whole life.
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I don't begrudge anybody who decides that they want to have a nicer home.
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I don't begrudge anybody who wants to live near the ocean or near the lake or near anywhere
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But when you have spent much of your career, this is a great point, telling us all that
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the world is going to end and that climate change, you know, we're all going to be under
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And if you live in New York City or you live in Miami or you live in Los Angeles or wherever
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the heck it is on the coast, that at some point you're going to be inundated by rising
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First of all, the prices of real estate on coastal communities continues to skyrocket
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So even if you were, let's pretend that everybody else thought that climate change was real.
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You would see prices collapsing, right, on the waterfront.
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Malibu, if you really thought that the world was going to come to an end because of climate
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change, right, that it was going to be uniquely destructive.
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Malibu might be the worst place in America to pay $8 million for a house because they have
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the wildfires, as you well know, much of Malibu got hit by the wildfires, which they tried
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But as we talked about when it happened a year ago, actually, because of American and
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human ingenuity, we have limited drastically the amount of wildfires that take place in
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California, which have been going on since basically time immemorial because of the actual
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It is that you would look around and you would say, boy, this is a really dangerous place
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based on wildfires caused by climate change to buy an $8 million home.
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Socialist Bernie Sanders, yes, has at least three homes.
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Kamala now has an $8 million beachside manner for her and her lovable Dougie Emhoff.
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He likes to slap chicks standards that nobody talks about, right?
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And so I hope the two of them live in wedded bliss.
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And maybe, Buck, maybe this decision to pay $8 million for this home will even more make
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that steak when I put it to my mouth even taste better when she runs for president in
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Look, she's going to get absolutely blown out and she's not going to be the nominee.
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I'm not going to say that, like, don't buy any real estate on Buck Island 2.0 on this
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I meant to mention, by the way, as we go to break here, I was down in the Virgin Islands
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Now, I think it's uninhabited, as one might expect, given the predictions of Buck Island.
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But it is still there in the U.S. Virgin Islands, beautiful, yet still uninhabited.
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