Verdict with Ted Cruz - Bonus： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jan 15 2026

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00:00:04.340 Thursday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show.

00:00:09.520 We are off and running many different stories to be tracking.

00:00:14.640 Reports that Trump was prepared, as we talked about yesterday, to strike Iran.

00:00:20.280 And then at the last possible moment, called off an attack after Iran promised that they would not execute any of the protesters.

00:00:30.100 And that that request came at the behest of Saudi Arabia, other Middle Eastern countries.

00:00:37.300 We will continue to follow that.

00:00:40.140 Greenland drama.

00:00:41.560 We will discuss.

00:00:42.760 Kamala Harris has got a new $8 million home.

00:00:45.540 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. 0.98

00:00:53.820 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.

00:01:11.580 Multiple different individuals reportedly attacking an ice agent.

00:01:15.480 He felt compelled to fire as they resisted arrest.

00:01:18.940 He hit someone in the leg.

00:01:21.120 Protests swept through Minneapolis yet anew.

00:01:24.560 And there were ice vehicles that were torn asunder.

00:01:29.600 Different documents that were stolen.

00:01:32.420 Reports that a weapon was stolen from inside of a ice vehicle.

00:01:37.240 It has become downright nasty in Minneapolis on a level, frankly, that does not exist anywhere else in the country.

00:01:46.500 And we have Attorney General Pam Bondi who weighed in on what is going on there.

00:01:52.040 And this is what she said.

00:01:58.080 I believe it was cut six.

00:01:59.400 We had six prosecutors who suddenly decided they didn't want to support the men and women in ice.

00:02:05.480 One of them was busy doing a photo shoot with the New York Times while ice was out there risking their lives.

00:02:11.520 So they came.

00:02:12.680 They said, we want to resign, but we want to use our annual leave up until April.

00:02:17.500 Meaning they wanted the taxpayers to pay for them to go on vacation because they decided they didn't want to support law enforcement.

00:02:24.040 So the breaking news tonight, I fired them all.

00:02:26.520 They're fired from the office.

00:02:28.580 And our U.S. attorney there, Rosen, he's great.

00:02:31.940 He was just confirmed three months ago.

00:02:34.060 So he has his hands full.

00:02:35.560 And that's what we're facing around the country, the deep state, in many of these offices.

00:02:40.340 Okay, Tim Walls is telling everybody, the governor of Minnesota, pull out your phones, record everything that's going on.

00:02:49.620 Buck, this feels like an eerie echo of what happened in 2020.

00:02:54.800 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.

00:03:03.680 They're the reason there's violence in this country. 0.54

00:03:06.000 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.

00:03:21.220 Now, six years later, roughly, it feels to me quite clear that ICE is being targeted in Minneapolis in the same way.

00:03:29.820 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.

00:03:44.460 I think he needs to surge resources.

00:03:47.320 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.

00:03:58.280 And we cannot allow what happened in 2020 to replicate itself back in the summer of 2020.

00:04:03.340 It feels a little bit like the early stages of potentially something similar.

00:04:07.500 Well, this is why on Truth Social, Trump has written the following.

00:04:12.640 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.

00:04:32.380 Clay, I think he should.

00:04:35.160 Yes.

00:04:35.420 I think that this is a pivotal moment.

00:04:40.200 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.

00:04:53.860 They do not get to nullify federal law enforcement efforts.

00:04:58.360 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. 1.00

00:05:14.540 Imagine what the Democrats...

00:05:15.860 By the way, I think the Democrats would have said to the FBI, just open fire on them.

00:05:18.800 I mean, I honestly think they would have been fine with lethal force in that situation. 1.00

00:05:23.160 And unfortunately, I think some of those FBI officials would have done it because they're scumbags. 0.99

00:05:27.180 Some of them have been fired, thanks to the last year. 0.96

00:05:31.740 But, Clay, the Insurrection Act, this is clearly an organized and planned out and widespread effort to undermine the rule of law

00:05:45.700 and to stop the administration from effectively conducting these operations when it comes to immigration enforcement.

00:05:54.860 Whatever resources are necessary should be deployed.

00:05:59.460 Whatever the federal government needs to do here, you know, we've seen this in the past.

00:06:03.980 We've seen how they'll send soldiers to the schoolhouses for the Civil Rights Act. 0.88

00:06:07.980 Whatever they got to do here, they got to do.

00:06:10.700 Is it fair to say that Trump 1.0 may be the most disappointing decision that was made?

00:06:17.900 Not situation that arose, but decision that was made was not aggressively enough trying to stamp out the BLM protests?

00:06:25.440 I think if you go back in time, summer of 2020, I think the Trump team made the decision

00:06:30.220 that this was going to burn itself out more rapidly than it did.

00:06:34.640 And unfortunately, what we got was actual burning of so many different cities.

00:06:38.460 And like I said, you can go back.

00:06:40.320 The data is clear.

00:06:41.820 2020, 2021, murder rates skyrocketed all over the country as police were not allowed to do their job.

00:06:49.700 My concern is that we are seeing the same kind of opposition to ICE that we saw to police in 2020.

00:06:57.140 Let's be honest.

00:06:57.960 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

00:07:04.740 to know exactly who the authorities are that are conducting that raid.

00:07:09.920 And so I think Trump has to come in aggressively.

00:07:13.360 We saw him do it.

00:07:14.540 And I think he set the tone in the agenda and the precedent in L.A.

00:07:19.620 It wasn't that long ago, Buck.

00:07:21.020 Remember when the Waymos were burning and they were throwing things at police officers and at ICE agents like crazy? 1.00

00:07:27.840 And you had Mayor Karen Bass speaking out about how unacceptable it was.

00:07:32.220 Trump surged support for ICE agents in Los Angeles.

00:07:36.640 And by and large, that story vanished.

00:07:39.020 They put in place the rule of law.

00:07:41.620 Now, they file lawsuits and they said, oh, remember, Gavin Newsom said Trump can't call out the National Guard.

00:07:46.680 He doesn't have this authority.

00:07:47.820 He clearly does.

00:07:49.080 He has the authority to call it out.

00:07:51.000 Minneapolis has emerged as the flashpoint, I think, of far left wing activism anywhere in the country.

00:07:56.940 Tim Walls and Mayor Frye are encouraging this in Minneapolis.

00:08:01.400 I think President Trump needs to surge law enforcement resources and needs to send the message.

00:08:06.840 We're not letting this spread.

00:08:08.500 ICE is going to do their job.

00:08:09.980 We've got their back.

00:08:11.280 And we're going to continue to implement the raids and policies that were already in place.

00:08:17.080 This is, to me, a crucible decision for the president.

00:08:20.160 It's also very obviously where the Democrats believe they will break the back of this administration.

00:08:26.940 And turn the tide just in time for the midterms.

00:08:30.560 Yes.

00:08:30.740 They think that they can do two things here.

00:08:33.240 One, energize the Democrat base.

00:08:35.900 Get them all, oh, we're the new civil rights heroes.

00:08:39.580 And they're standing up for illegals.

00:08:41.340 In some cases, these people are preventing arrests of, like, rapists and pedophiles and murderers and gang members.

00:08:46.900 And they think they're heroes for this, which is completely insane.

00:08:50.540 But that's where the Democrat base is.

00:08:52.240 This is all they've got. 1.00

00:08:53.080 I mean, they're not going to win on women can have penises. 1.00

00:08:56.100 I mean, we saw that at the Supreme Court. 0.98

00:08:57.640 That's actually not going to be something.

00:08:58.320 Which is the strong basis of the Democrat Party, to be fair.

00:09:01.560 It turns out that's actually not true, Democrats.

00:09:03.880 And you can keep saying it's true, but it's still not true.

00:09:07.080 And we're not going to change our minds on this one.

00:09:09.340 So they think that immigration is where they can make their stand. 0.52

00:09:13.260 And they also know that this is where Trump cannot break his compact with his voters this time around.

00:09:19.660 First administration, first time, some bumps, some lessons, everything else.

00:09:24.040 This is it.

00:09:25.260 Trump's got this and this term only to figure this out.

00:09:29.060 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.

00:09:39.500 I think Trump knows this is an all in moment for his agenda and for his second term.

00:09:44.880 No doubt.

00:09:45.980 And so, again, we will see.

00:09:48.260 And unfortunately, I think what you are seeing is the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz and Fry, Jacob Fry.

00:09:57.880 They have made ICE agents targets.

00:10:01.180 They are encouraging people to target them.

00:10:04.440 I hate to say it, but unfortunately, it feels self-evident that this is going to happen, Buck.

00:10:09.880 Somebody in Minneapolis is going to open fire on ICE agents.

00:10:13.800 That this is going to happen.

00:10:15.100 It feels inevitable to me. 0.85

00:10:16.540 All of you know it because they are encouraging their crazy supporters, their base, to engage in this kind of behavior. 0.76

00:10:23.480 Remember that lunatic BLM supporter who killed, I think it was, five cops in Dallas? 0.93

00:10:31.800 Yep.

00:10:32.840 And many of us had been saying they're calling for violence against cops.

00:10:36.460 This is going to get out of control.

00:10:37.780 They're calling.

00:10:38.400 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?

00:10:48.800 And sometimes it does, right, that Inglourious Bastards movie or whatever, right?

00:10:53.480 But what do you want to happen?

00:10:54.940 You want someone to take out the evil Gestapo guy.

00:10:57.660 Indiana Jones, what do you want? 0.98

00:10:59.120 The Nazis' faces to be melted off and all that. 0.75

00:11:01.920 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.

00:11:10.820 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.

00:11:20.460 There'll be maniac Kamala voters celebrating it all over the Internet. 0.99

00:11:27.120 All over the Internet.

00:11:27.940 The people that pretended to care so much about the rule of law, oh, the insurrection, January 6th.

00:11:32.820 All of a sudden, law enforcement, they will celebrate the murder of a law enforcement officer if it happens all over the Internet, Clay.

00:11:40.620 You know it and I know it.

00:11:41.680 And that's what they're taking this country to.

00:11:43.540 They're putting targets on all of them.

00:11:45.660 The behavior is unacceptable.

00:11:48.420 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.

00:11:57.460 We can't allow it to spiral and spread.

00:11:59.680 We saw what Trump did in L.A.

00:12:02.200 I think it was effective.

00:12:04.000 And the same thing needs to happen in Minneapolis.

00:12:05.780 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.

00:12:13.200 Because when the George Floyd BLM protests began, it was May.

00:12:17.680 It was May of 2020.

00:12:19.280 Weather was getting better.

00:12:20.500 You've talked about the fact that protesters, by and large, show up in bigger numbers when the weather is good.

00:12:25.740 And it's super cold in Minneapolis, notwithstanding the reaction and the opposition that we're seeing right now.

00:12:32.660 I think it's easier to tamp down this behavior right now than it would be in May or June.

00:12:38.960 I should expect it, though, because we're going into an election year.

00:12:42.180 The timing on this is not coincidental.

00:12:43.740 It's like we were there for the inauguration, and we saw that sad protest that we've talked about on the show before.

00:12:49.360 The old ladies with their teeth chattering, all ten of them, like, free Aboumimiya, free Palestine. 1.00

00:12:56.560 Almost exactly one year ago today, we were doing the inauguration trip to Washington, D.C., and that was what we were seeing.

00:13:04.300 It was exactly that situation.

00:13:06.880 I can't feel my toes, but trans rights are human rights.

00:13:10.280 You know, it was a sad, sad spectacle out there.

00:13:12.840 So, yes, protesting in freezing weather is certainly less fun.

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00:13:20.780 In fact, here, I'll tell you something.

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00:13:32.000 I understand.

00:13:32.540 Right now, you're like, gold's gone up so much, 60% last year alone.

00:13:36.320 Yeah, but there's a reason why.

00:13:37.420 It's not because stocks dropped off so much, right?

00:13:40.600 There was a lot of movement in the markets that was positive last year.

00:13:43.320 It's because the long-term thesis for gold remains strong.

00:13:46.340 So, if you're a long-term holder, I'm not saying, you know, get in, get out, like short-term stuff.

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00:15:56.620 Yogi Berra once said it's deja vu all over again.

00:15:59.780 He was a clever fellow, that Yogi Berra.

00:16:02.560 He was a sports fellow, too, Clay, from what I am.

00:16:04.960 Great Yankees catcher.

00:16:07.200 And here we have that feeling because a member of Congress has returned, you will recall,

00:16:15.320 to what a previous member of Congress said, I think it was back in 2018, when AOC was leading the charge on abolish ICE.

00:16:25.920 Aren't you seeing the connections here, my friends?

00:16:29.060 Trump's first term.

00:16:31.220 What was really the first thing that wasn't Russia collusion where they really dug in?

00:16:37.500 Now, that was all a fabrication, as we know.

00:16:39.180 That was a lie.

00:16:40.040 It was deep state, soft coup, and all of that.

00:16:44.140 But it was on immigration, Clay, that they made their first real stand against Trump policy,

00:16:52.260 and it had to do with the family separation policy.

00:16:55.660 That was the thing.

00:16:56.420 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:57.060 And it was AOC.

00:16:58.180 Remember that?

00:16:59.200 Dressed all in white, crying, holding the fence.

00:17:03.580 And you started to hear abolish ICE was the slogan.

00:17:09.780 That was the phrase.

00:17:10.600 We're going to abolish.

00:17:11.440 The problem with that, of course, is why wouldn't you get rid of the law that ICE is enforcing?

00:17:18.780 Well, because then you'd have to just be open borders and everybody would know it.

00:17:22.560 So what they want to do is get rid of the agency that enforces this law,

00:17:27.440 but keep the law on the books because then you won't have to have the political conversation

00:17:31.780 and members of Congress won't have to take votes to show that they are open borders.

00:17:35.780 Anyway, it fizzled, but it is very much now back, this time not because of border enforcement,

00:17:43.360 because Trump got that one down.

00:17:45.160 He figured out.

00:17:45.900 You want to talk about learning from the first time out?

00:17:48.680 Trump 2.0 has locked this border down.

00:17:51.680 It is secure.

00:17:52.680 Trump 1.0, they got them on the family separation issue because this was all being exploited.

00:18:00.840 It was all parts of immigration law that were there's complexities in this.

00:18:04.480 But basically, they figured out if you show up with a kid, you get to just come into the country.

00:18:09.100 So then everyone starts showing up with kids.

00:18:10.700 They go, well, we're going to start processing the parents and the kids are going to be held in a separate facility.

00:18:15.380 And then, oh, my gosh, you're breaking up families, the whole thing.

00:18:18.160 Clay, I bring this up because this guy who's a member of Congress,

00:18:22.380 which is even for Congress pretty hard to believe when you check this guy out, Sri Thanedar.

00:18:29.860 You see this guy?

00:18:31.240 Oh, yeah. 0.95

00:18:31.600 He's the one with the ridiculous hair for people who have, I mean, that's maybe not saying it, 0.98

00:18:36.260 but I mean, this guy looks, his hair may be the most ridiculous wig in all of Congress. 0.98

00:18:42.500 It's pretty remarkable. 0.96

00:18:44.100 He also speaks with a very thick foreign accent.

00:18:49.060 Okay.

00:18:50.220 And he is the guy.

00:18:51.480 So you have the guy with probably the thickest foreign accent in Congress telling everybody

00:18:56.720 that we need to get rid of the agency that enforces immigration law.

00:19:02.460 Cut 12 wants to abolish ICE.

00:19:04.580 Listen to this.

00:19:05.000 ICE is beyond reform.

00:19:07.640 ICE is totally out of control.

00:19:09.940 And this week, I intend to introduce a bill to abolish ICE.

00:19:17.960 We need to make ICE go away.

00:19:20.820 I just want to know.

00:19:24.900 Come on.

00:19:25.920 Clay, they did this before, though.

00:19:27.840 This isn't the first time we've been here.

00:19:30.340 Abolish ICE.

00:19:31.360 So everyone gets to your question before about how many illegals.

00:19:35.800 Everyone gets to stay.

00:19:37.160 Yeah.

00:19:37.340 The Democrat position, you're increasingly seeing all that stuff about how they want to enforce

00:19:42.100 the law, too.

00:19:42.780 And they want secure.

00:19:43.620 They just the immigration system's broken.

00:19:45.480 They want to fix it.

00:19:46.220 No, actually, they want it to be broken.

00:19:47.720 They broke it.

00:19:49.000 Well, they want open borders.

00:19:50.200 And I think that guy we just heard from, if I'm not mistaken, team in New York, you can

00:19:54.260 research it.

00:19:54.920 I think he was the first one to introduce impeachment proceedings against President Trump.

00:20:00.320 I mean, obviously, he did not get very many votes.

00:20:03.100 But that is the reality under which this motivation is occurring because Trump has, for the first

00:20:10.900 time, I don't know if you saw this story out there, for the first time, I think in several

00:20:16.780 generations, I think going back to before Reagan, there were fewer people that came into the

00:20:23.800 country during Trump 2.0, like we actually had a decline in migrants.

00:20:28.920 An entire net migration play is negative in last year for the first time since the 1920s,

00:20:39.880 which is an incredible data point.

00:20:43.400 Yes.

00:20:43.740 Here, I've actually got the numbers.

00:20:45.340 There's monthly flow.

00:20:46.460 I've got the monthly flow of net immigration 50.

00:20:49.720 It's basically been 50,000 a year for the last 30 years.

00:20:54.620 And then under Biden, it went to 200,000.

00:20:58.800 Biden just kicked the borders open, everybody.

00:21:00.580 This is what they did.

00:21:01.300 And now with Trump, it's negative 145,000 per month so far in the first year.

00:21:06.700 And now look, the exact numbers, Tom Homan, I actually saw him yesterday at the White House.

00:21:12.040 Tom Homan believes that 2 million people roughly have self-deported, that is, left the country

00:21:18.840 on their own.

00:21:19.920 And we know that there's been deportation of around 600,000 people.

00:21:24.560 So the number out there, I think that that number is based on that you just referenced

00:21:29.560 is roughly 2.6 million people leaving.

00:21:31.900 Now, Tom Homan said that there's 20 million illegals in the country.

00:21:35.920 So roughly that would mean about 10% of the illegal population left in year one.

00:21:42.560 Um, the challenge you're seeing there, if you do basic math on this is even if Trump kept

00:21:48.800 the exact same pace up and the self-deportation percentages remain the same, we're still basically

00:21:56.400 getting to a place where we're narrowly, I mean, we're getting down to 12 million illegals

00:22:02.500 instead of 20.

00:22:03.600 It's a huge number.

00:22:04.720 And this was really the calculus behind Biden opening up the border.

00:22:10.080 It was that when all these people get here, it basically becomes impossible to ever get

00:22:15.820 them to leave.

00:22:16.880 And that's the calculus.

00:22:18.480 This was not a four-year plan.

00:22:21.200 This is a multi-generational plan by which they want to change the character and the populace

00:22:29.180 of the United States.

00:22:30.220 It's very calculated in intent, and Trump is pushing back against it.

00:22:35.060 You have some really crazy and reckless things being said by members of Congress.

00:22:40.540 For example, well, one, here is Hakeem Jeffries, former Speaker of the House.

00:22:46.960 This is cut 16.

00:22:48.460 He's just saying, he keeps repeating this thing about how they're brutalizing immigrant families.

00:22:52.680 Play 16.

00:22:53.480 Clearly, significant reform needs to take place as it relates to the manner in which ICE is

00:22:57.640 conducting itself.

00:22:58.360 ICE is using taxpayer dollars to brutalize American citizens and to unnecessarily and

00:23:06.620 viciously target law-abiding immigrant families and communities.

00:23:10.920 The whole premise that Donald Trump sold to the American people was that this immigration

00:23:15.440 enforcement activity was going to target violent felons.

00:23:18.940 It's not targeting violent felons.

00:23:20.740 They're targeting American families, brutalizing American communities. 0.92

00:23:24.360 And now, as we've seen, killing American citizens.

00:23:27.580 This is out of control.

00:23:30.140 Oh, this is what they wanted.

00:23:32.180 Yeah, this is, look, I mean, Renee Good, deep down, when she was shot, every Democrat politician

00:23:39.360 like Hakeem Jeffries was excited by this.

00:23:43.080 And you can say, well, Clay, you're being cruel there when you say this.

00:23:45.960 Not really.

00:23:47.140 Axios said, they had a story this summer where they specifically laid out that Democrats were

00:23:53.240 training people and they were hoping that there would be a violent act so that they could use

00:23:59.380 that as an argument of a political nature to try to stop these ICE raids from occurring.

00:24:05.800 That is, this was their hoped for action.

00:24:08.920 I hate to say it, but they hope that others will be shot, too.

00:24:13.560 They are willing to sacrifice on the altar of politics life.

00:24:18.320 And it's quite clear because then they can come out and they can say, see, this is what

00:24:23.460 happens.

00:24:24.360 American citizens are being brutalized and killed by ICE.

00:24:28.600 This is unacceptable.

00:24:29.940 This is what they wanted to happen.

00:24:31.200 This is why they're telling everybody to show up with their phones.

00:24:33.760 This is why they're telling everybody to get in the face of all these ICE agents.

00:24:37.980 This is why you have so many people, so many people that have decided to make it their life's

00:24:43.380 work to show up and scream and bang pots and pans and honk horns and insult and spit on all 0.81

00:24:50.440 these ICE agents out there.

00:24:52.080 And they're just making the situation dangerous violence is going to ensue.

00:24:58.320 And this is why I said earlier in the last hour, Buck, I'm already angry because I know

00:25:03.360 that ICE agents are going to get murdered.

00:25:05.480 It's just a question of when we've already seen it.

00:25:08.740 They have they have set the kettle to boil and it's inevitable what's going to happen.

00:25:15.140 You know it.

00:25:15.820 I know it.

00:25:16.660 Every person out there listening knows that we're going to turn on our televisions or

00:25:21.000 we're going to look down at our phones and there's going to be innocent ICE agents

00:25:24.880 murdered.

00:25:25.300 And you pointed out, Buck, on Blue Sky, they'll be tap dancing on their graves.

00:25:30.720 They're also absolutely and they're also preparing to blame ICE and the murdered ICE agents for

00:25:38.860 the violence that you and I both see as imminent against them.

00:25:43.040 Over at CNN, Abby Phillip, the tactics of ICE, that's putting them at risk.

00:25:48.900 Play 14.

00:25:51.660 DHS says that this was a targeted enforcement operation and that the ICE officer was attacked.

00:25:58.120 And I do think that is exactly the type of situation that we want as few of those situations

00:26:04.100 as possible to transpire.

00:26:06.160 And yet it seems like all the time there are all kinds of interactions happening where ICE

00:26:11.660 officers are put in danger.

00:26:13.280 And I'm not sure if it's all just because of, you know, violent people attacking them.

00:26:19.320 Sometimes it's also the tactics that I think are putting them in at risk.

00:26:23.580 The vehicle stops, which there have been some reporting about how these vehicle stops are

00:26:27.660 so dangerous.

00:26:30.480 The vehicle stops are dangerous because the gang members they're trying to arrest don't

00:26:35.860 want to be arrested.

00:26:37.260 Yeah.

00:26:38.200 Yeah.

00:26:38.620 Go figure.

00:26:39.200 This is crazy stuff.

00:26:41.260 That is.

00:26:41.540 But I'm telling you, this is going to be a thing.

00:26:43.080 Well, if they hadn't been in these communities, the terrible thing that you and I think is

00:26:46.320 going to happen.

00:26:47.280 I agree with you.

00:26:48.040 I think it's going to happen.

00:26:48.820 Just a matter of days.

00:26:49.520 If they hadn't been in these communities, it wouldn't have happened.

00:26:52.160 Imagine if we took that approach to straight up like gang enforcement activities by cops,

00:26:57.940 right?

00:26:58.140 Oh, if they hadn't been making those arrests of the Bloods and the Crips, they wouldn't 0.99

00:27:02.620 have had the cops to shoot at in the first place.

00:27:05.560 Well, this is the argument they made in Washington, D.C. when the guy traveled across the country

00:27:11.120 and killed two innocent National Guards people.

00:27:14.460 I guess killed one and severely wounded the other.

00:27:17.020 I believe that's the final result.

00:27:19.660 I think the one of I think they're both from West Virginia, if I'm not mistaken.

00:27:22.840 I think one of those individuals survived.

00:27:25.280 They said this is Trump's fault for calling out the National Guard.

00:27:30.980 They created this situation. 0.79

00:27:34.160 Look, they motivated that crazy person who, if I remember correctly, was an Afghan refugee 1.00

00:27:40.980 who was led into the country without being soundly vetted, who lost his mind, who drove 0.86

00:27:46.240 across the country and killed two or attempted to kill two innocent people, among others.

00:27:51.740 When this happens with ICE, what did they immediately say?

00:27:53.940 Even the media put up like, oh, look, Trump made these people targets by trying to reduce

00:28:00.100 violent crime, by trying to make the city of Washington safe.

00:28:04.060 Notice, Buck, you're not hearing much about how effective that has been.

00:28:09.360 I'm in Washington, D.C. right now.

00:28:11.200 City is way safer statistically than it has been almost in a generation.

00:28:16.880 Nobody's talking about it.

00:28:19.940 This is what the left does, whether it's fighting against any kind of terrorists, fighting against

00:28:26.020 crime.

00:28:26.320 But it's always the thing you're doing to address the problem is the real problem.

00:28:31.940 Yes.

00:28:32.900 The fighting against the bad thing is the cause of the bad thing.

00:28:36.580 Classic communist tactic.

00:28:39.260 Total nonsense.

00:28:40.980 Yesterday, I saw President Trump in the Oval Office, and I actually thanked him for the

00:28:45.980 impact that the surge is having in Memphis.

00:28:48.520 Again, nobody's talking about it.

00:28:50.400 New Orleans, way safer.

00:28:52.040 Washington, D.C., way safer.

00:28:53.840 President wants to go into a lot of other cities and make them infinitely safer, too.

00:28:59.680 You'll notice when he has that success, the story just vanishes.

00:29:03.840 Remember, Buck, everybody said, oh, that's never going to work.

00:29:06.960 Oh, there's no way if you put more people on the streets that things are going to get

00:29:10.140 safer.

00:29:11.080 Actually, things got way safer.

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00:30:34.100 Welcome back in.

00:30:35.140 Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.

00:30:38.200 We'll get into Kamala's $8 million house. 0.86

00:30:41.960 Maybe some in the third hour.

00:30:43.680 We'll talk a little bit about Greenland.

00:30:45.020 I was doing some Greenland research.

00:30:47.180 But Caroline Leavitt is right now in the White House press briefing room.

00:30:52.440 And I believe, boys and girls, we have a couple of cuts of things that she just said.

00:30:56.420 Let's listen.

00:30:57.180 President Trump unveiled a health care plan for America called the Great Health Care Plan.

00:31:01.740 The Great Health Care Plan will accomplish this through four common sense pillars.

00:31:06.720 Number one, permanently lowering prescription drug prices.

00:31:10.140 Congress can get this done by codifying President Trump's historic Most Favored Nation initiatives

00:31:15.520 into law to guarantee Americans the same low prices for prescription drugs that people

00:31:20.820 in other countries around the world pay.

00:31:23.340 Number two, the Great Health Care Plan will stop sending big insurance companies billions

00:31:27.580 in extra taxpayer-funded subsidy payments and instead send that money directly to eligible

00:31:32.960 Americans to allow them to buy the health insurance of their choice.

00:31:36.720 Number three, the Great Health Care Plan will maximize price transparency by requiring any

00:31:42.320 health care provider or insurer who accepts either Medicare or Medicaid to publicly and

00:31:48.240 prominently post their pricing and fees to avoid surprise medical bills.

00:31:53.380 And number four, holds big insurance companies accountable by requiring them to publish rate and

00:31:58.840 coverage comparisons up front on their websites in plain English.

00:32:02.920 Okay, so, Buck, clearly there has been a calculated attempt for the start of 2026.

00:32:09.760 When you look at the president with plans on home affordability, health care, even we had that

00:32:17.560 big discussion about credit card interest debt.

00:32:20.140 The president has decided that affordability is going to be a big part of 2026.

00:32:26.000 And I think he's recognized that it may well decide the outcome of the midterm elections, not

00:32:30.440 necessarily what the data shows, but how people are feeling about the data and whether it feels

00:32:36.500 like he understands the concerns of people like them.

00:32:41.360 We got smoked in the 2018 midterms and the data showed that it was health care.

00:32:46.520 Got smoked.

00:32:47.520 Remember, we're going to repeal Obamacare.

00:32:49.060 We didn't repeal Obamacare.

00:32:51.080 It was a rough one.

00:32:54.500 And so, again, notice Trump, the team, they've learned lessons, which is what you want, right?

00:33:00.240 You want people to understand they're getting ahead of this.

00:33:02.420 They're on it.

00:33:03.820 And I think that really pricing and transparency and making as much of this as more of this

00:33:10.260 market based is those are the basic principles you want to increase.

00:33:14.560 I mean, we have screwed health care up in this country so much, so badly.

00:33:20.600 It's it's pretty astonishing, actually, how and all you do is look at what it costs the

00:33:25.940 government gets involved in anything.

00:33:27.500 Look at what education costs.

00:33:29.800 Look at what health care costs.

00:33:31.440 The more the government decides to wade in on anything that you go look at, like compare

00:33:37.140 health care costs.

00:33:38.560 Buck, I saw a good graphic on this that I thought was super interesting.

00:33:41.100 Compare the pace of health care costs with flaskering televisions.

00:33:46.380 Do you remember a generation ago when a flaskering television basically cost an arm and a leg?

00:33:52.020 I mean, it felt like when you got that first HD flaskering television, it cost four or five

00:33:56.940 thousand dollars was how much those things cost.

00:33:59.200 I remember needing help from friends in college to carry like my big ass TV up the stairs because

00:34:05.160 I think it weighed about a hundred and something pounds.

00:34:07.380 I mean, it was a mess.

00:34:08.240 And now you go to Walmart or you go to Costco or Sam's or any of these places, you can get

00:34:14.600 a 45 inch flat screen television for like 200 bucks.

00:34:17.860 I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:34:19.360 Government gets out of the way.

00:34:20.580 Things get cheaper.

00:34:21.460 Government gets involved.

00:34:22.560 Things get way more expensive.

00:34:24.600 Unfortunately, that's a lesson that a lot of people in on Capitol Hill still haven't learned.

00:34:30.020 We come back, Buck.

00:34:31.280 Greenland.

00:34:32.200 Greenland talk.

00:34:33.860 Kamala Harris, your girl, 107 days.

00:34:36.860 She now has an $8 million house in Malibu.

00:34:40.440 We will dive into both of those stories, among others.

00:34:43.460 We'll keep you updated on what's going on in Minneapolis as well as we roll into the final

00:34:47.820 hour.

00:34:48.300 Thursday edition of the program.

00:34:49.860 I bet they paid her so much for that crappy book, even though it didn't sell.

00:34:54.060 And this is the one this is one of these because a lot of these big publishers, there's run

00:34:58.520 by Libs or Libs, and they will write a huge check to some Democrat politician just as like

00:35:06.820 it's good for the cause.

00:35:08.720 Yes.

00:35:08.900 No way.

00:35:09.280 Kamala's book.

00:35:09.800 I read it.

00:35:10.240 It's terrible.

00:35:11.860 It is terrible.

00:35:13.100 The house, $8 million.

00:35:14.740 She's cashing in.

00:35:15.580 We'll talk about it next.

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00:35:46.460 Welcome back in.

00:35:49.120 Hour number three.

00:35:49.800 Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show, Thursday edition of the program.

00:35:53.520 We appreciate all of you hanging out with us in what continues to be a tumultuous, crazy

00:35:57.800 time with tons of different stories that we are tracking on a minute-by-minute basis,

00:36:04.220 frankly.

00:36:05.340 Minneapolis, you heard us talk at the beginning of the show and quite a lot already in the

00:36:09.940 first couple of hours about the disaster that is unspooling in Minneapolis in the wake

00:36:15.120 of yet another shooting where an ICE agent was attacked.

00:36:19.500 I went on Sean Hannity's show last night.

00:36:21.360 Buck talked about it.

00:36:22.620 And we will continue, I am sure, to update you on that story as we progress.

00:36:28.100 We're also continuing to update you on Iran.

00:36:30.220 Reports, as we talked about in the first couple of hours, that President Trump was poised to

00:36:34.540 attack yesterday.

00:36:35.440 And at the last moment chose not to, based on the fact that Iran made promises through 0.77

00:36:42.940 third parties that they would not be conducting executions of protesters.

00:36:47.100 We will see whether that tamps down the tempest in that relationship right now.

00:36:53.820 Price of oil and gas came down substantially, as maybe there is hope that there is not going

00:36:59.520 to be attacks coming there.

00:37:01.960 As if that were not enough, ongoing discussions surrounding Greenland, as we have talked about

00:37:07.300 during the course of the show as well.

00:37:09.380 Greenland representatives, Denmark representatives in the White House yesterday trying to persuade

00:37:14.220 President Trump that he did not actually need to buy Greenland.

00:37:17.500 And that did not go well.

00:37:18.640 And President Trump still wants to buy Greenland.

00:37:21.380 As we were talking about earlier, maybe we'll dive into this and have a little bit more fun

00:37:24.560 with it.

00:37:24.860 Do you know, Buck, what the number one part of the Greenland economy, according to what

00:37:32.540 I read in the Wall Street Journal this morning, is?

00:37:35.540 So there are 57,000 people who live in Greenland.

00:37:38.240 Obviously, there's lots of talk about the long-term value of the minerals and all the different

00:37:45.160 natural resources that could be associated with Greenland, its location near the Arctic Circle,

00:37:50.800 the impact of that.

00:37:51.640 Trump is worried about Russia or China ending up with Greenland and how that would impact

00:37:56.740 the overall status of the United States.

00:37:59.140 All those things are true.

00:38:00.340 But right now, what is the number one part of the economy of Greenland based on what I

00:38:06.860 read this morning in the Wall Street Journal?

00:38:08.920 Do you have any idea?

00:38:10.460 I mean, I know in Iceland, it's the fishing industry.

00:38:13.400 Yeah, I would.

00:38:14.020 I would assume in Greenland, that's a big thing.

00:38:16.460 But also mining would be the next guess that I have.

00:38:19.480 Uh, mining is not very substantial so far.

00:38:22.480 And this is very specific.

00:38:23.660 According to the Wall Street Journal, it is shrimp.

00:38:26.140 It is basically.

00:38:27.400 So I nailed it, actually.

00:38:28.460 Out of the gate.

00:38:29.260 Not bad.

00:38:29.760 Not bad.

00:38:30.220 Shrimp.

00:38:30.760 So we are talking about buying.

00:38:32.920 And the word is, I was actually doing a little bit of Greenland research because I wanted

00:38:36.960 to know more about it, uh, that basically Denmark gives a billion dollars a year to support everyone

00:38:43.740 who lives in Greenland because the economy is otherwise not able to, uh, suffice.

00:38:49.880 Buck, a huge percentage of people in Greenland lack running water and actually shower by melting

00:38:58.960 ice.

00:38:59.460 So if you thought, I just, I read that this morning in the Wall Street Journal as I was

00:39:04.080 getting ready for our show.

00:39:05.040 If you're out there right now and you're like, man, things are really tough for me.

00:39:08.740 I bet you're not showering with melted ice, which I would imagine is pretty cold and, and

00:39:15.660 not an intentional ice bath, uh, as it were.

00:39:18.680 Uh, but I thought that was interesting about Greenland, just kind of giving you an idea.

00:39:22.400 President Trump's idea there is not based on what Greenland is now.

00:39:26.140 It is as many developers and real estate, uh, appraisers and purchasers always do.

00:39:31.700 It's a projection of what the value of Greenland might be a generation from now, two generations,

00:39:37.700 three generations.

00:39:38.340 And remember Buck, and you're a history nerd too.

00:39:41.340 When William Seward bought Alaska, everyone derided the purchase of Alaska as Seward's folly

00:39:48.220 in the immediate aftermath of the, uh, of the civil war.

00:39:52.180 And it ended up being one of the most brilliant acquisitions in the history of the United States

00:39:57.620 because Alaska has become such a beacon of natural resources and such an incredible value

00:40:03.320 play over time.

00:40:05.140 But in the short term, there've been lots of ridicule.

00:40:08.020 Heck, even some people ridiculed Thomas Jefferson when he bought the Louisiana purchase back in

00:40:12.760 1803 from France.

00:40:13.920 So long forward looking, uh, is the decision here as it pertains to Greenland.

00:40:20.600 This is not a short term flip play, uh, as all the housing, uh, shows out there, uh, that

00:40:26.080 everybody likes to watch.

00:40:27.420 You know, I, I'm sure you've seen Buck where the guy's like a painter and the wife is like

00:40:31.420 a daycare worker and their budget's like $800,000 for a house. 0.99

00:40:34.780 And everybody's always like, how is that possible?

00:40:36.540 This is not a fixer upper flopper.

00:40:38.640 This is a longterm play.

00:40:41.220 Absolutely.

00:40:41.700 And real estate in so many ways has been a good longterm play.

00:40:46.800 Donald Trump more than almost anybody knows that.

00:40:49.860 And I would say this clay, maybe things are going to get a little warmer in Greenland because

00:40:55.900 they're the planet.

00:40:56.980 There has been some warming, not that much.

00:40:58.880 It's climate change is not a catastrophe and all that stuff.

00:41:01.740 But let's just say things got a little bit warmer over time.

00:41:04.140 I think it'd be great.

00:41:04.960 There's plenty of reason to believe it would be great.

00:41:07.680 They don't really believe in climate change though.

00:41:09.840 They only believe in climate change when it benefits them, which is my pivot point here

00:41:13.740 to something that I insist we discuss for a moment.

00:41:16.460 Yes.

00:41:17.000 Kamala Harris.

00:41:18.060 I know where you're going.

00:41:19.500 Kamala Harris.

00:41:20.480 I'm going from Greenland to Malibu, baby.

00:41:23.280 I am.

00:41:23.800 I am hopping a jet, taking us all over the world.

00:41:26.940 This is the world tour with the Buckster.

00:41:28.760 We're going from Greenland to Malibu.

00:41:31.440 Really, I will say among the most beautiful places in America, full of people with the

00:41:37.400 worst politics.

00:41:38.320 But Malibu is really nice.

00:41:39.960 Yes.

00:41:40.300 The sushi restaurant there, the Nobu there, very, very spectacular right on the beach.

00:41:45.600 Yep.

00:41:46.120 And here's what I'll say.

00:41:47.660 Kamala Harris just bought an $8 million house with her lawyer husband there. 1.00

00:41:54.680 And I would note a few things.

00:41:56.020 First of all, she's clearly not scared of the erosion of the beaches or the cliffs.

00:42:01.760 Okay.

00:42:02.320 What a shot.

00:42:03.020 You're suggesting that Kamala Harris is not actually worried at all about climate change

00:42:08.440 because she, like all of the other super Hollywood celebs who claim to be worried about climate

00:42:12.700 change, is actually buying a beachside home.

00:42:15.820 Yes.

00:42:16.400 Yeah.

00:42:16.940 It's amazing how that works, isn't it?

00:42:18.700 Remember when Barack Obama, Mr. Climate Change is an existential threat to America.

00:42:24.680 That was the big phrase of the Obama years.

00:42:28.060 There was really an unholy, an evil tripod of Obamaism, and it was health care, amnesty,

00:42:38.260 Obamacare, amnesty, climate change.

00:42:40.420 Those were the three big things.

00:42:42.660 There also was like the George Floyd, not George Floyd, but the BLM, that stuff the first

00:42:48.200 time around.

00:42:49.020 But that wasn't so much policy as messaging, or at least not a big law thing that they

00:42:55.780 tried to pass necessarily.

00:42:57.380 Clay, Obama got a, probably it's like a $30 million now, but like a $15 million beachfront

00:43:03.100 mansion in Martha's Vineyard.

00:43:04.660 No one actually believes this.

00:43:06.120 I know we've been talking for a while.

00:43:07.720 It is funny.

00:43:08.180 About climate change has fallen out of the conversation.

00:43:11.640 But this, the climate change, none of the people, the biggest advocates believe this.

00:43:16.140 They all want oceanfront property, and they want it in California and Hawaii and Martha's 0.96

00:43:21.860 Vineyard, low-lying Martha's Vineyard, which is at sea level.

00:43:25.260 They don't care.

00:43:26.120 They don't believe in any of this stuff. 0.91

00:43:27.880 And Kamala also, such a phony. 1.00

00:43:30.820 Oh, it's about rich people paying. 0.98

00:43:32.420 Rich people are so bad.

00:43:34.180 Well, what contributions is Kamala made?

00:43:35.940 You wrote a terrible book, which you made me read, because you goaded me into it.

00:43:39.400 I blame you.

00:43:39.580 You read it on your own.

00:43:40.800 I blame you.

00:43:41.760 Yes.

00:43:42.740 107 days.

00:43:44.120 8 million.

00:43:44.920 I felt like 107 days to read it.

00:43:46.960 $8 million house.

00:43:49.060 And there's, in Malibu, I mean, the most, you know, hoity-toity, fancy-pants place in

00:43:53.880 America, pretty much.

00:43:55.360 And look, you might say, well, Trump lives at Mar-a-Lago.

00:43:57.260 You're going, yeah, Trump doesn't pretend to be something he's not.

00:44:01.380 Kamala, the social justice warrior, she's just been enriching herself her whole life. 1.00

00:44:05.680 I don't begrudge anybody who decides that they want to have a nicer home.

00:44:08.460 I don't begrudge anybody who wants to live near the ocean or near the lake or near anywhere

00:44:12.200 else.

00:44:12.840 But when you have spent much of your career, this is a great point, telling us all that

00:44:17.620 the world is going to end and that climate change, you know, we're all going to be under

00:44:22.200 sea.

00:44:22.600 And if you live in New York City or you live in Miami or you live in Los Angeles or wherever

00:44:27.100 the heck it is on the coast, that at some point you're going to be inundated by rising

00:44:31.180 waters, it is incredible several things.

00:44:34.700 First of all, the prices of real estate on coastal communities continues to skyrocket

00:44:41.640 everywhere in the entire United States.

00:44:43.920 So even if you were, let's pretend that everybody else thought that climate change was real.

00:44:49.940 You would see prices collapsing, right, on the waterfront.

00:44:55.380 Instead, they are skyrocketing.

00:44:57.220 Here's the other thing, Buck.

00:44:58.560 Malibu, if you really thought that the world was going to come to an end because of climate

00:45:04.540 change, right, that it was going to be uniquely destructive.

00:45:07.660 Malibu might be the worst place in America to pay $8 million for a house because they have 0.99

00:45:12.420 the wildfires, as you well know, much of Malibu got hit by the wildfires, which they tried

00:45:17.520 to claim was based on climate change.

00:45:19.980 But as we talked about when it happened a year ago, actually, because of American and

00:45:26.080 human ingenuity, we have limited drastically the amount of wildfires that take place in

00:45:31.900 California, which have been going on since basically time immemorial because of the actual

00:45:37.760 unique geographic constraints of Malibu.

00:45:41.680 But it's not even just the rising seas, Buck.

00:45:44.540 It is that you would look around and you would say, boy, this is a really dangerous place

00:45:48.880 based on wildfires caused by climate change to buy an $8 million home.

00:45:53.820 Instead, she did it.

00:45:55.240 Instead, she did it.

00:45:56.660 And you know what?

00:45:57.400 She's going to be like Bernie Sanders.

00:45:59.060 Remember how Bernie was all anti-homes?

00:46:00.960 How many homes does Bernie have now?

00:46:02.400 Like three?

00:46:02.920 At least three.

00:46:04.160 Yeah.

00:46:04.600 At least three.

00:46:05.340 Socialist Bernie Sanders, yes, has at least three homes.

00:46:08.940 Kamala now has an $8 million beachside manner for her and her lovable Dougie Emhoff. 1.00

00:46:15.560 He likes to slap chicks standards that nobody talks about, right? 0.58

00:46:21.060 And so I hope the two of them live in wedded bliss.

00:46:24.260 And maybe, Buck, maybe this decision to pay $8 million for this home will even more make

00:46:32.520 that steak when I put it to my mouth even taste better when she runs for president in 1.00

00:46:37.520 2028 because she's got to pay for that. 1.00

00:46:38.780 I got a little out of my skis.

00:46:40.100 It's a little aggressive.

00:46:40.900 Look, she's going to get absolutely blown out and she's not going to be the nominee. 0.74

00:46:44.460 But my she's not even going to run call. 0.99

00:46:48.200 Get it nervous.

00:46:48.800 I'm not going to say that, like, don't buy any real estate on Buck Island 2.0 on this

00:46:54.620 one, guys.

00:46:55.220 I may be way off on this one.

00:46:57.140 I meant to mention, by the way, as we go to break here, I was down in the Virgin Islands

00:47:02.900 over Christmas break.

00:47:04.540 There is a Buck Island there.

00:47:06.760 I saw it on the map.

00:47:08.520 So it is still above the water.

00:47:10.060 Now, I think it's uninhabited, as one might expect, given the predictions of Buck Island.

00:47:13.820 But it is still there in the U.S. Virgin Islands, beautiful, yet still uninhabited.

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