BONUS： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jul 10 2025
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The world is moving on from the dollar, quietly but steadily. The BRICS nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade, and the U.S. dollar is no longer the centerpiece. But make no mistake, it's already begun.
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It does, but it's actually a big summit going on in Brazil.
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The formal name is BRICS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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hoping to increase their sway in the global financial order.
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He's a precious metal specialist and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group.
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He's on the ground in Rio getting the whole lowdown on what's going on there.
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In fact, a major theme at the summit is how BRICS nations aim to reduce reliance
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Already did, and he left the Clay and Buck audience this message.
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The world is moving on from the dollar, quietly but steadily.
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These nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade,
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Welcome back in, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
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Congrats, as you just heard, Buck Sexton successfully knowing how many points of safety is worth,
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unlike two-thirds of the Jeopardy! contestants.
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he is held up as one of the brainiacs of CNN, right?
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Wouldn't you say that's probably fair to say that Wolf Blitzer is seen
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Well, I don't know if it's as a result of his Jeopardy! appearance,
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but people have been suggesting that he's like the confused fool for a while now.
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I will say, I will say, I have heard from people within the CNN world for a long time.
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He's apparently a good dude, and we're having a little bit of fun at his expense,
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but he's paid millions of dollars, and he's had a good run, and so, you know...
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Unlike most of the CNN anchors, and I could go through chapter and verse,
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And I lost $5,000, it would go insanely mega viral, and I would have to own it, right?
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But all the clips of me missing the questions and everything else, it would actually...
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It would probably be better for me to go and lose a ton of money than to win a ton of money,
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because if I won tons of money, nobody would share it.
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Clay Travis still stupid, meanie head, moron.
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If I lost, like, $5,000, everybody that hates me would share it.
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So, it probably would go more viral for a collapse than actually being successful.
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I got a sense that my take on Superman, the new movie, had gone mega viral,
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because yesterday I woke up and I had an email from a Japan news agency
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asking if they could interview me for my take on the new Superman movie.
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So, when you see the Sontori commercials with Clay Travis in them, or Sapporo,
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In my entire career of telling tons of, sharing tons of opinions on everything under the sun,
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there has never been any request for me to be interviewed by any Japanese news agency.
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Well, Cook, I think the one part we have to let everybody know, though,
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is that the director, James Gunn, I used to be, I will say,
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if we were talking, like, late 90s, early 2000s movies, I was absolutely dialed in.
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I had my favorite directors, my favorite actors, you know, excited about.
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I don't know who's been directing movies for the last 10 years.
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I don't pay attention, because I think most movies absolutely stink.
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In Variety magazine, which is like a Hollywood celebrity magazine,
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James Gunn says Superman is about an immigrant that came from other places,
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how we've lost the value of basic human kindness.
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He is the director of the new Superman movie that is opening,
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I think it may be already out or opening today or whatever else.
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The director is a moron to say this publicly the week before release.
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America's desperate for apolitical entertainment.
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I said, I made a fun movie I hope everyone of all backgrounds enjoys.
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Is it that hard to say this when you've been given hundreds of millions of dollars
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It feels like Tom Cruise is the only Hollywood superstar who still gets this.
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Like, I think that is like one of the most tepid, non-hot take, non-crazy takes.
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It has evidently gone mega viral, and the Superman community of fans is furious at me.
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And this buck, just in the last, I don't know, little bit on social media,
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I got the following messages sent to me on Instagram from Superman fans.
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I just want to let you know Superman has been an immigrant since he was created,
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and that calling stuff woke means you can't find a good reason to complain.
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Can I give you, I'm going to give you a few things here.
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First of all, Superman is not an immigrant.
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If we're going to play this conversation out a little bit, let's do it, okay?
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He is not a human being who is subject to another jurisdiction on this planet and has citizenship elsewhere.
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Now, that to me is actually a good case, especially when your home planet has been destroyed, as Superman's has.
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If I remember my comic book lore, Superman, if anything, would be an asylum seeker.
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Unlike all of the people who are showing up in America pretending that their planet was blown up, so to speak, pretending they can't go back to their home country.
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So, Superman is an alien, not an illegal alien, but an actual alien from another planet, does not have a jurisdiction on planet Earth that he should be in other than America.
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And, I think, under any reasonable view of asylum law, his home planet is gone, so I don't think he can go back.
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So, I think that you could say he's a credible asylee.
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You are going to be nerding out because my wife is a superhero movie junkie super nerd.
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All the boys go to all the movies and everything else.
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She actually was upset that all the Superman people are mad at me.
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And, she sent me this, because you're going to build on this, Buck.
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Superman is actually a true asylum seeker.
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His first landing is on American soil in Kansas.
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He's orphaned as his parents die, so he's legally adopted by the Kents, who are American citizens, thus giving him American citizenship.
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Even if not for one and two, he has unique talents of great use to the U.S.
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that would be impossible to find after a thorough search for other candidates, thus qualifying him for EB-1A, controversially, visa, and legal channel to full citizenship.
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On top of all this, he ends up being one of the most productive and useful members of society, choosing to hold two full-time jobs as both a journalist and a crime-fighting superhero.
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I didn't know that Laura had written any of that.
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So, the director of this movie is saying he's just like an immigrant.
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And this also builds on something that I was getting at when this went mega-viral.
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I would believe, if you gave me, Buck, if you and I, if I left this show and I suddenly became a Hollywood movie director,
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if you gave me hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, it might well end in utter disaster.
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Remember, Fox had to sell off the lot, the Pico and Motor part of it, where the Westfield Mall is now, for those of you out in L.A.,
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because they lost so much money on Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor back in the day for the movie nerds.
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So, it may well end in unmitigated disaster, and the company might lose tons of money.
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But it wouldn't be because I said to half the country, hey, I'm trying to make an intensely political movie.
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I would go full Michael Jordan, Republicans buy sneakers, too.
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I don't think it would have been smart of James Gunn to say, hey, I think it's super timely that Superman would come out right now,
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because Donald Trump is a super president, and he's super man-like in the way that he responded to the assassination attempt.
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And I think that if you hate Trump, you shouldn't come see this movie.
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But it wouldn't be smart if you're trying to appeal to the whole swath of America.
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And, I mean, look, we've got a lot of people who listen in L.A., and we've talked about this before.
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When is Hollywood going to recognize that the reason why Tom Cruise is the last superstar
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is because he just wants to make apolitical popcorn movies that everybody can sit and watch,
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that aren't trying to indoctrinate you in any way and are just about entertaining you for a great summer movie, right?
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I don't understand why these people can't get it through their heads that apolitical entertainment that everybody can watch,
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No, because the goal, these are communists, their goal is the indoctrination.
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Like, James Gunn is already very rich, already has all the connections he needs.
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It is more important to him to make a movie that he can virtue signal to his lib friends in Hollywood about
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than to make a movie that makes a ton of money at this point.
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Like, if he has to choose between those two things?
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Otherwise, how do you explain things like Snow White, which was an absolute disaster,
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hundreds of millions lost, and we knew it was going to lose money the whole time.
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We're not making that movie, but it's because they're so ideologically committed that it is not profit motive first.
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They used to say, oh, we're just doing what makes money.
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They care more about the mission of indoctrination than they do making money with these films,
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Because every time we say this is going to be a disaster, this is going to be a bomb,
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The only exception to that is the Barbie movie, which was so bad, was so bad.
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And is that just, it was successful because they were just, they were marketing entirely to women,
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Like, oh, like Barbie and the nostalgia and everything else.
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And I, you know, just like people, Clay, I used to say that Hamilton was garbage when
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people were waiting in line for like three days for tickets, okay?
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I was like, guys, I just know it's garbage.
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And now more and more people agree with me because it's just what it is.
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Barbie, eventually everyone's going to realize nonsense.
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And don't even get me started on Avatar, those of you who like Avatar.
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Yeah, but Avatar is not, to me, as aggressively political.
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I'm just telling you, somebody out there in Hollywood is going to get smart enough to
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just say, I'm not hiring any of these woke BS moron people.
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Like, whoever Tom Cruise wants to work with, we're going to double, triple, quadruple down
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All he cares about is making movies that are going to be super entertaining.
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Because I just see stuff like this all the time.
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Like, I like to go sit in the movies and have popcorn.
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I want to go see the new Jurassic Park, even though I'm sure it's like total track.
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But I enjoy seeing dinosaurs on the movie screen.
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You could easily say Superman is an aspirational goal that is about everyone fulfilling the
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best possible abilities of their own innate gifts.
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Just don't tell me that it's political and about immigration.
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By the way, when most people are opposed right now to the immigration policies, it's not even
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Anyway, I thought you guys would enjoy it.
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But there's people out there that are furious at me for saying, hey, you know, maybe Superman
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should just kind of appeal to everybody and not be some sort of a woke version of Hollywood
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And when you say that, the little fanboys come running and tell me my family should burn.
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My family should burn for my Superman take, of all things.
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as we are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program.
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Joined now by Congressman Jim Jordan, state of Ohio.
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So many different things going on right now on Capitol Hill.
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I mean, I probably, I don't know how many interviews I've done on this issue,
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you know it was a good bill, Clay, because the left hated it.
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And the left hated it because it actually empowered people, empowered families.
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Tax cuts for families, school choice for families, resources.
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Most resources devoted to border security in the history of our country
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And then the work requirements for able-bodied adults
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who currently get your tax money in the future,
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they're going to have to work, which is a good thing for the economy.
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But most importantly, I think it's a good thing for those individuals.
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What are the most important things that you think we're going to see now
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changing in the economy, Congressman, since the bill has been passed?
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That's great, more money in people's pockets, more money for the private sector
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to let the business of the American people be business.
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But where do you think we're going to see some of this
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and be really helpful to the bottom line of the American people?
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Yeah, I think it's just that fundamental point.
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When you let families, when you let moms and dads keep more of their money
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to spend on their goals and their dreams, good things happen.
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It's good for their local school, their local businesses.
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coupled with the largest investment in border security.
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and why the American people, I think, elected President Trump.
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Now, we need to grow because we've got a huge deficit
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we're running every single year, piling up this big debt.
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But step one to deal with all that is to get your economy growing at a faster clip
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than, of course, it was under the Biden administration.
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Buck is, I would say, kind of coming along a little bit.
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Before you ask your real question, Congressman,
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Clay wasn't sure that I was going to know how many points you get for a safety in football.
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Can you believe the disrespect that sometimes I have to brook on this show?
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where the two of the Jeopardy contestants got it wrong
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Now, I've got to tell you, Clay, I shot, for me,
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I'm not the greatest golfer, but I shot an 81 yesterday.
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And it's even better when you beat your brother and your two buddies,
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which we got a chance to sneak out and play a little bit yesterday
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So I'll take that score because I don't normally shoot quite that low,
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the whole name, image, and likeness universe has been crazy.
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You guys are working on a bill to try to standardize laws
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Tell me what you're working on and where you are.
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The key sponsors are Gus Villaracus from Florida
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and Scott Fitzgerald, who's on our committee from the great state of Wisconsin.
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We want to make sure we spell out for athletes,
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you have a right to keep that information private.
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We make sure in this bill that the agents have to disclose.
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Right now nobody knows who some of these agents are,
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kids transferring every year, so agent disclosure.
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We put in some guaranteed rights for the student-athlete.
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Now most of these student-athletes already have this,
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And then probably the key part is we allow the entity that governs college sports,
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and we don't say what it is, but in essence it's the NCAA,
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We're going to give you liability protection so that you can say,
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We've got kids, student-athletes today who are competing like six years.
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The COVID and everything else, and the red shirt years and everything else,
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they're doing like six, seven years of competition.
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We let them set the number of times you can transfer.
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Right now some of these athletes are transferred four, five, six times,
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and what we're saying is you're going to get one transfer under this.
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And then we also put in there this sort of salary cap concept,
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I know you've been working on this issue a ton with college,
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with conference commissioners, with athletic directors and coaches.
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but we think this is the kind of bill that makes sense,
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particularly after the big decision, the House decision.
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And then finally there's a few more things where we talk about preempting states.
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You can't have each state setting up a standard and trying to outdo the other.
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I've been working on this because I just think it's important to have a standard set of rules
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Because some people are going to say, well, Congress, I mean,
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You mentioned that there's bipartisan recognition that this is a mess.
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And I think anyone who is a college sports fan is nodding along.
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It's a broken, you know, sort of haphazard system in place.
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Coaches, players, parents, certainly administrators, everybody.
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What do you think the chances are that this passes?
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that President Trump has been supportive of trying to get this fixed as well
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Well, I think there's a good chance that we can get it passed.
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I mean, we've got Shamari Figures, a new member from the great state of Alabama, a Democrat.
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So we've got already some Democrats signing on.
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I think the top college wrestling recruit this year is a young man out of the Pittsburgh area.
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And I think the rumors are he's getting like $500,000.
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So if the top wrestler is getting that, imagine what the quarterbacks are getting paid to go to these top-notch Big Ten, SEC universities.
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There needs to be something done, and everyone understands that.
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And so I think when you have coaches and college presidents and athletic directors and conference commissioners begin to talk to members of Congress and say,
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we need something that gives some framework to this, to college sports, something we all love,
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I think there's a good chance we get the kind of bipartisan support that you don't see a whole lot of these days in Congress.
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But when it comes to college sports, I think you can get it, and we'll get something done that I think will be helpful to student-athletes and helpful to college sports in general.
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You've been one of the biggest and foremost defenders of Trump for 10 years.
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I mentioned that President Trump, obviously, is a huge sports fan.
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He's talking about having a UFC fight on the White House lawn, which would be amazing.
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You and I were together at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Philadelphia.
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When you look at Trump 2.0 and the first six months of Trump 2.0 and you compare it to Trump 1.0, how much difference is there?
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And are you blown away, like both Buck and myself are, at the president's energy and just the efficiency with which they have attacked this new term?
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Yeah, and I mean, he's got his team in place around him and his key agencies, cabinet secretaries, and they're just amazing.
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And you just look at the last – the attack on Iran was – and taking up their nuclear capabilities was so successful.
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He goes to NATO, gets them to ante up more money, so successful.
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Gets the big, beautiful bill passed, so successful.
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Best border security we've had in our lifetime probably.
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And you can just keep going all the things he's got done.
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And his energy – I called him last night, and then I actually went to bed, and I woke up this morning.
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And so where I had a missed call, he called me after 11 last night.
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And then – and you know he was up early this morning working the phones.
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And one of the things I always say about him is, speaking of sports, he totally thinks like an athlete.
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I tell people it's an American quality, and it's certainly a character trait that you want in your commander-in-chief, in your president.
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So, yeah, I mean, he's off to an amazing start, and I think it's just going to continue to be good things that will happen for the country.
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Yesterday we mentioned the idea of primetime hearings surrounding the Joe Biden cover-up.
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Is there any momentum to really kind of put people under the spotlight of a major national hearing,
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much like occurred with the Jan 6th primetime hearings that Democrats did in, if I remember correctly, the summer of 22 or thereabouts?
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What kind of momentum, if any, might there be for something such as that?
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Yeah, I think that option is certainly on the table with Chairman Comer.
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There's some things we're looking at in slightly different areas on the Judiciary Committee.
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Specifically with the, you know, sort of the auto pen doctor, all that stuff with Joe Biden.
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I really think that it would be maybe the best thing is if you had a whistleblower come forward.
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I don't know if we're ever going to get that, but that to me seems what we need to really say, yes, there wasn't really Joe Biden giving the okay on this versus other people.
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But that will take a whistleblower coming forward to talk about that.
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Short of that, I think it's tough to ever prove it.
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But that doesn't mean you don't have hearings to just highlight how we now, you know, we all saw it at the time, but how we know just how bad it was when President Biden was in there and his inability, I think, to truly handle the task at hand.
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You know, I think decently, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.
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Buck and I have been talking about this all week as to what might or might not be in the Epstein files, all those things.
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What and you're not involved in the Department of Justice investigation, so I'm not asking you about that.
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But what confidence do you have based on your knowledge of the team in Kash Patel and Dan Bongino running the FBI?
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I've got complete confidence, complete confidence in them and Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche over at the, you know, Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General.
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Just night and day compared to what we have with Garland and Ray and that crowd.
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And the latest investigation they've announced into Comey and Brennan that has been reported.
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I mean, I think this is critically important because never forget what happened with Comey and Brennan and Clapper and these guys.
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And after Election Day, but before Inauguration Day, they all go up to Trump Tower in New York and they brief him on the dossier, knowing at the time the dossier was BS.
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They brief him on it so they can leak it to the press and give it – and therefore give it some kind of credibility.
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That's how low they went to go after President Trump.
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And now Director Ratcliffe has people who are saying, oh, no, this dossier – guys are saying what Brennan said in testimony to Congress was contradicted by what they did.
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Senator, appreciate you making the time for us.
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The story that is first and foremost in our minds this week is anything you can tell us about updates
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and what the latest is with the terrible flooding that hit the Hill Country in your home state of Texas
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and all of the, of course, thoughts and prayers that this audience has been sharing with the families and the communities affected.
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And, unfortunately, they were then able to account for about another 170 who are missing.
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Just so your listeners understand, this, of course, Guadalupe River there overflowed,
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went up 26 feet in 45 minutes in the middle of the night.
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But there were, in addition to some of the children, the young children at some of these camps like Camp Mystic,
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there were day campers, people who, you know, cast a tent down by the Guadalupe River
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or had a camper there for the 4th of July and the fireworks.
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But, unfortunately, they got swept up in this as well.
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What, as, and I know we're still in the early days of uncovering exactly what went wrong.
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Obviously, it's hard to predict anything as it pertains to flooding and exactly when it's going to happen.
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But I know here where I live in Nashville, Senator, we had an awful tornado.
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And you go back and you look and you find out, hey, maybe there could have been a better tornado awareness system in place.
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Are there better flood-related technology that could be applied to help people in a situation like this
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where it comes through in the middle of the night and maybe people, it seems quite clearly, were sleeping
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and they don't know the severity and how quickly and rapidly the floodwaters are rising
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until, in some cases, unfortunately, it was too late?
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And I think there will be a time for us to explore all of that.
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I know Governor Abbott has added this issue to the special session that we'll convene later this month in Austin.
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And, of course, we're already starting to look at some of these measures at the federal level, too,
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since we work cooperatively at the state, local, and federal level on disaster relief.
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But, unfortunately, there are always some people who want to make politics out of everything
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and claiming that staffing reductions at the National Weather Service or some other cut
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as a result of the Department on Government Efficiency or DOGE contributed to this.
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I will tell you that there is no evidence of any of that happening.
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But it is, I think, fair to ask, and, indeed, I think it's necessary for us to ask, going forward,
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what can we do to prevent the loss of life again, if anything?
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As I said, this flooding occurred so fast in the middle of the night in a way that just it's hard to imagine
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But maybe there's something we can do in the future.
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Speaking to Senator John Cornyn of Texas and, Senator, I also wanted to ask you about a story that,
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if it weren't for the huge story and the tragic story of the flooding, I think,
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And it's this ambush, I believe 11 people have been charged so far,
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ambush of a federal law enforcement officer and an ICE officer who was hit in the neck.
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And to me, this is a harbinger, unfortunately, I think, of things to come with the way the radical left
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What can you tell us about that case and about what law enforcement is doing to prepare for more of these radical attacks
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Well, I'm sure you'll agree with me that there is no excuse,
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no justification for attacking law enforcement officials like these two ICE agents
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And I know that a criminal complaint has been filed that alleges that the assailant shot between 20 and 30 rounds
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But, obviously, a whole lot more casualties could have occurred as a result of this.
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But, unfortunately, I think some of the rhetoric, the irresponsible rhetoric,
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starting here in Congress, people from Chuck Schumer to Maxine Waters on down,
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have basically sanctioned violence against law enforcement officials.
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You're familiar with the fact that some of my colleagues here in the Senate,
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we need to pass a law that prevents ICE agents from wearing masks.
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They were the ones who wanted us all to wear masks back during COVID-19.
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But now, when the law enforcement officials are doing their job
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and trying to protect themselves and their families, they don't want that to happen.
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So, I can't imagine that the vast, the overwhelming majority of Americans
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condemn this sort of attack against law enforcement.
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And we ought to make clear that there is no excuse for this,
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and it will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Texas bore the brunt of illegal immigration more than any state in the nation.
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Now that illegal immigration has effectively ended,
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and what are you hearing from people in your state about the border now being shut down?
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Well, I think they're gratified that the border is now under control,
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and now the Border Patrol can go back to their job that they were trained to do
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and that they want to do, which is to secure the border and to protect the country.
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Given the overwhelming numbers of people that were coming across
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during the open border policies of the Biden administration,
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many Border Patrol were doing things like changing diapers,
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feeding people, transporting migrants and the like,
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And we all remember some of the detention facilities,
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and what the answer of the Biden administration was to simply parole
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and without even a notice to appear for a court hearing in the future.
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So I will say my constituents in Texas and along the border
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are as relieved as anybody for President Trump to actually enforce the law.
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And I know the Border Patrol morale is at an all-time high
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because they are now being allowed to do what they train to do,
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which is to secure the border and to protect the public.
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Senator, what can you tell us about your sense of what is going to happen now
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that the BBB, the big, beautiful bill, has been passed?
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What do you think is most critical that comes from this,
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because if not, we would have seen a multi-trillion dollar tax increase
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on, according to the Wall Street Journal, 62% of taxpayers.
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So all this propaganda we've heard from the left and from Democrats
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that this just advantaged billionaires and millionaires, it's just not true.
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And it's shocking to me how easily people lie with impunity here
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in the nation's capital, but it's become sort of coin of the realm,
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on top of 40-year high inflation as a result of Bidenomics.
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had gone down because of this hidden tax of inflation.
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And a tax increase is the last thing they need.
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But President Trump made clear he wanted to extend
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the benefits of these tax cuts to people who work for wait for tips
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And I believe it will stimulate the economy and economic growth
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It will bring a lot of companies who built factories overseas,
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bring them back home, and create a lot of good, well-paying jobs here.
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I'm very optimistic about it, but it really can't be viewed in isolation.
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I think it's part of a larger package of economic reforms
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And right now, we're hoping to see at least 3 percent growth
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But obviously, we've got to go out and tell the story.
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I know you're in the middle now of the primary process.
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You've got a contender on, at least one contender
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is potentially considering throwing her hat in the ring.
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What can you tell us about the Senate race right now?
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Do you think he is going to weigh in in the primary?
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Well, when I saw Jasmine Crockett was a leading candidate
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But so I don't know who's going to get in the race.
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There may be more people in the Republican primary.
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that a Democrat could beat in the general election.
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And they're looking to break that winning streak
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Welcome back in, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
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And he mentioned that the primary is early in Texas in March.
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So that will be a big battle to see whether Trump gets involved.
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that is a Senate seat that Democrats would have to be able to flip
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North Carolina now, with Tom Tillis not running,
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There's a lot of battlegrounds in New Hampshire,
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in Michigan, in so many different states out there,
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Georgia, to see exactly what's going to happen.
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But this is why building the biggest possible advantage,
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Texans, I would be stunned if they're going to vote for a Democrat,
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as I know many of you out there are paying attention to.
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We got a question from a caller that I think is a good one
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unfortunately, now that over 100 people have died,
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that flood hitting in the middle of the night as it did.
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Greg in Orlando, Florida, this is a really good question
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that I think a lot of people are wondering going forward
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so I have the ability to listen to it all day long.
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and I think that they're going to look at this,
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But you guys, I know this is going to sound like
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you just presume that it's not an actual danger,
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