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00:01:06.360 Welcome in to the Tuesday edition of Clay and Buck.

00:01:11.580 It is a big primary day out there.

00:01:14.620 South Carolina, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, as we are fully into primary season.

00:01:21.220 in particular Maine, Graham Plattner, we will see exactly what the impact has been of the

00:01:28.780 revelation surrounding Graham Plattner, if at all, with those primary votes coming in in the state

00:01:35.480 of Maine. South Carolina, big decision, tons of people running on both the governors and the

00:01:42.080 Senate side in the Republican primary in general. We will see what the outcome is there. Nevada,

00:01:48.200 North Dakota as well. Everybody get out and vote. I think the main primary by far is going to be

00:01:54.880 the biggest storyline, even though we suspect that Graham Plattner is going to win. We'll get

00:01:59.720 a little bit of a read on how many people vote for Susan Collins, even though she's basically

00:02:04.100 unopposed, and how many people, again, vote for Graham Plattner. And as I mentioned, South Carolina

00:02:10.020 is going to be a major revelation in many ways okay buck uh and and by the way california let

00:02:19.400 me give you a rundown of where we are headed steve hilton has advanced to the runoff in california

00:02:27.600 he is going to be one of the two contenders so while the uh la area la county area voting

00:02:36.380 has been very suspicious and looked quite outlandish and outrageous in many ways.

00:02:44.040 It is not officially official yet, but according to Kalshi and Polymarket Buck,

00:02:51.100 Steve Hilton, 99% chance that he is going to advance.

00:02:56.060 The AP has not yet called it.

00:02:57.840 several places have called it as a Steve Hilton versus Javier Becerra overall runoff in California

00:03:07.080 but the I would say it still feels a bit rotten in California in the way that the LA voting went

00:03:15.600 down we will ask Steve Hilton about that he's going to join us at one o'clock Senator Toby

00:03:20.180 Tuberville of Alabama soon to be the next governor of Alabama will be on with us at two and then

00:03:26.960 Ainsley Earhart who many of you begin your day with on Fox and Friends in the morning is going

00:03:32.680 to be with us in the back end of the program in the third hour as well but Buck it's rare I say

00:03:39.640 this but the American sporting eye turned itself to Madison Square Garden last night where President

00:03:50.060 Trump was in attendance you and the president are both big Knicks fans and I think this is

00:03:57.660 culturally significant and some of you are going to say okay Clay what are you talking about

00:04:01.780 with the overall cultural significance here is Adam Silver this is the commissioner of the NBA 0.95

00:04:09.840 I have ripped the NBA to high heavens because they put Black Lives Matter on the basketball

00:04:14.920 court in 2020 because they put political slogans on the back of guys jerseys instead of their 0.99

00:04:20.920 actual names because lebron james has been a woke imbecile so has steve kerr so has greg popovich 0.96

00:04:28.800 so has adam silver buck i don't know if you remember this but i would argue that in many 0.96

00:04:34.200 ways the woke era of the nba began uh when adam silver decided to pull the all-star game

00:04:42.000 out of charlotte north carolina over a transgender bathroom bill a lot of people don't even remember

00:04:49.340 this but the state of north carolina was actually ahead of the curve and they said hey you know what

00:04:55.000 we don't think that people pretending to be a different gender should be able to use whatever

00:05:00.940 bathroom they want to use you should use the bathroom of your actual gender this is not a

00:05:07.060 crazy idea uh but the nba said oh my goodness how in the world have can we ever play our all-star

00:05:14.280 game here they pulled their all-star game out of charlotte buck this then opened the nba up because

00:05:19.980 people said wait a minute you play games in china you play games in mexico you guys play games in

00:05:25.120 the middle east are you now saying that where you play a basketball game is in some way a reflection

00:05:31.320 of whether you approve of the politics there it all blew up on adam silver's face and this really

00:05:37.860 exploded in hong kong when daryl moray a general manager of the houston rockets at the time said

00:05:44.640 hey we should have free speech basically in hong kong and china cut off the nba adam silver last

00:05:51.480 night buck he said this when he was asked in the pregame about president trump cut seven you know

00:05:58.020 I've been with the league for a long time.

00:05:59.420 I ran NBA Entertainment years ago.

00:06:01.260 He did an I Love Gets Game spot with us.

00:06:03.340 He was a fixture at NBA at Madison Square Garden.

00:06:06.700 You guys remember, all of you, when you played here, not Draymond,

00:06:10.600 but back in the old days, he had courtside seats.

00:06:12.880 He was here all the time.

00:06:13.920 He was at drafts.

00:06:14.760 So he's a genuine Knicks fan.

00:06:16.540 And so, yes, there's some inconvenience to the fans here,

00:06:19.460 but one looking around this arena, it's packed.

00:06:21.940 So people listened.

00:06:22.900 They came early.

00:06:23.640 They got through whatever extra security, which is necessary.

00:06:26.720 So, as I said, I think we should be using sports to create more of a sense of community with people, not less.

00:06:33.080 This is a complete repudiation of much of the silver era, Buck, and it feels significant culturally to me.

00:06:39.660 You are a Knicks fan. What say you?

00:06:42.680 Well, first of all, the reception that Trump got was mixed from the fans in terms of the booing that happened.

00:06:52.060 I listened. I was watching. I was watching the game with my brothers.

00:06:54.560 uh there were people that were not booing obviously but there were many who boo and it is a reminder

00:07:00.640 to me that people do not put trump in the proper context a lot of the time he is in many ways the

00:07:06.980 ultimate new yorker he is the new york president i mean you'd have to go back quite a ways for

00:07:13.560 another president to be as of the city and environs of new york as he is he's a queens guy

00:07:20.740 who became a Manhattan baron of building and he's he is a quintessential New Yorker and yet New

00:07:30.820 York because it has gone so woke and so left-wing does not even claim him really so much so that

00:07:38.460 now I think people view him more as a Palm Beach Florida guy which he has been as well in a sense

00:07:44.520 but that's really his country home or his his getaway he's a New York guy and I just think

00:07:49.820 it's a shame that the culture of new york has in so for so many i know a lot of you're saying well

00:07:55.840 i don't feel that way and of course i don't either but uh because it's an eight to one democrat to

00:08:01.020 republican city there's not the sense of pride that you would think that a son of new york would

00:08:08.900 have as being the two-term president so that's one thing that it was a reminder of last night

00:08:12.600 a little frustrating i think adam silver's point here uh on sports should be unity i mean it sounds

00:08:18.840 like sounds like he's taking a clay travis line there and and it's but it's really i think

00:08:24.800 what americans want and the common sense it would be great to see that uh the nba has been really

00:08:32.140 among the most woke of all leagues and the most divisive which is why i stopped being a knicks fan

00:08:38.100 stopped watching the nba but the president going to the game look he's a showman and he likes a big

00:08:45.040 you know he likes a big event whatever it may be um and i i think that other than the fact that

00:08:50.880 the knicks lost last night uh and and i think the officiating i'm just gonna say it i think

00:08:56.140 the officiating was a little uh little weak a little little pro san antonio i don't know if

00:09:01.540 they i love that in five years you are now the guy who comes on and says i don't know about this

00:09:08.620 officiating like uh you know i mean that that call where you had uh brunson get called with

00:09:18.020 a flagrant because he didn't protect the the the landing space for the feet of the shooter

00:09:24.140 i mean the shooter kicked his leg out i'm sorry you kick your leg out you know that's on you

00:09:29.940 anyway anyway we don't need to get too into it it's felt felt a little uh a little like they

00:09:34.600 need to go back some of these reps and read the rule book a little more closely uh but no i i

00:09:39.360 thought last night with trump being there added to sort of the spectacle and the pageantry of it

00:09:43.400 uh i also think that if you uh here's a question for you if if it were biden and assume that he

00:09:51.440 knew where he was if it were biden who were at the event clay and you as some of your very sports

00:09:56.960 connected friends were sitting courtside because we all know that's where clay would be sitting

00:10:01.700 He'd be right there with Timothee Chalamet and Ben Stiller and the rest of them.

00:10:06.280 I would like to sit next to Larry David, who is one of the great sitcom creators of all time with Curry and Seinfeld.

00:10:12.860 I mean, he might throw something at you when he realized what you do for a living, but that's okay.

00:10:17.440 But, Clay, I truly, look, you can't know, rather you can't prove this unless you're in this situation.

00:10:24.460 I wouldn't boo a U.S. president at a game like this.

00:10:27.980 I think it's classless.

00:10:29.280 Even if I don't like what the president's doing or whatever, he is the president.

00:10:33.100 There's some respect for the office.

00:10:34.380 And I think when a president shows up to a sporting event, that actually should be respect the office, respect that the president's there.

00:10:43.800 And I think that booing a president is classless regardless of party.

00:10:47.860 I really do.

00:10:48.660 And people might get mad.

00:10:49.560 Oh, you should boo Obama if he was in the game.

00:10:53.160 I wouldn't.

00:10:54.200 I wouldn't do that.

00:10:56.560 You and I agree 100% on this.

00:10:59.020 And, look, I understand.

00:11:00.520 Look, everybody has the right.

00:11:02.800 I wouldn't stand up and cheer wildly, be like, I love you, Barack.

00:11:06.540 Okay, I'm not going to sell out everything, but I'm not going to boo.

00:11:09.600 I think this is a, look, one of the all-time great quotes by any sports figure

00:11:17.320 was Michael Jordan saying, Republicans buy sneakers, too.

00:11:22.420 He has admitted that he said it.

00:11:24.160 I wrote a book called Republicans by Sneakers, too, where basically I argued that Adam Silver should be doing exactly what he did.

00:11:32.400 And it's taken him a decade to get there.

00:11:34.400 But there are tens of millions of people who love basketball and also love President Trump.

00:11:42.000 If you're in the business of putting on a basketball game, I want everybody who loves basketball to watch.

00:11:47.720 And a lot of people have stopped doing that.

00:11:50.240 The data reflects that the NBA lost a ton of fans.

00:11:53.520 I think Adam Silver is acknowledging it.

00:11:55.960 I think LeBron James, Steve Kerr, Greg Popovich, they all led the NBA over a woke waterfall, which was a disaster for the league.

00:12:05.100 And I think President Trump has, in many ways, rectified that.

00:12:11.500 And I think Trump even said, cut three, they asked him, hey, is the NBA left wing?

00:12:18.180 And here's what he said.

00:12:19.300 I think the NBA has turned away from the left wing stuff that they were getting criticized for.

00:12:23.520 Well, it's a little left wing. I think so. It tends to be a little bit left wing, but it was it's great entertainment.

00:12:29.740 Right. So I think President Trump, I do think this is culturally significant and some people are going to disagree.

00:12:38.340 But it is impossible to have imagined this kind of thing existing in 2020.

00:12:45.000 and uh when president trump when the the black lives matter was written on the court when there

00:12:51.440 were political slogans on the jerseys and i think it's important to acknowledge and note when

00:12:57.740 cultural wins are moving back in the direction of sanity and that's what i thought uh last night

00:13:03.160 represented in many ways and by the way president trump is still getting attacked by did you see 0.93

00:13:08.860 this ridiculous quote from hakeem jeffries who may be the biggest dork in politics did you see him in 0.93

00:13:14.400 a pink uh knicks hat buck he's going to be in theory the next speaker of the house here's what 0.98

00:13:20.180 he said cut eight attacking trump over the knicks listen it's not clear to me that donald trump is

00:13:26.680 a big knicks fan i mean does this guy even know the difference between carl rove and carl anthony

00:13:33.740 towns i don't think so he's just injecting himself into the nba finals because he always

00:13:42.420 has to bring the MAGA circus in to town and that's unfortunate it's just not true I mean

00:13:50.940 people know who couldn't the the Knicks have been for a long time as they are as an NBA team is in

00:13:57.620 any major city it's a place to see and be seen and and Trump has both of those things seen and

00:14:04.640 been saw there I don't know how to say that um you know they have seen him there uh so yes no

00:14:11.520 Trump is a long as a long time Knicks fan.

00:14:13.920 And anyway, it's just, you know, Hakeem Jeffries. 1.00

00:14:16.620 It's just so petty and dumb. 1.00

00:14:17.680 He's not a smart guy. 0.99

00:14:18.960 So I also the fact that he could potentially be the speaker of the house is unbelievable to me. 1.00

00:14:24.540 I mean, just because he's, I think, a moron and and also just never says anything interesting. 1.00

00:14:29.740 He's got dead eyes. 1.00

00:14:30.920 He's not particularly charismatic. 0.99

00:14:32.400 The only reason that he is the head of the Democrat Party now is because he's a black guy. 0.90

00:14:37.180 He was the interview. 0.51

00:14:38.280 he was the interview right before me last time i think or maybe the time before that i did bill

00:14:42.120 maher and i just remember thinking this is such a boring interview he has nothing to say it's not

00:14:47.260 even i disagree with what he says it's just not you know sometimes you'll hear you know bernie 0.86

00:14:52.060 sanders is a clown and his whole political philosophy is essentially a fraud but put that 0.79

00:14:57.300 aside he will say some kooky crazy stuff you're like oh god here we go right hakeem jeffries is 0.99

00:15:03.920 just he's dead-eyed man what has he ever said that has been remotely entertaining i just think it's

00:15:09.400 funny that trump has now managed to turn the knicks into a political landmine and most people 0.97

00:15:15.080 agree with adam silver and i give him credit nakeem jeffrey's a huge loser um and uh zero 0.60

00:15:21.120 charisma and i can't imagine that he's going to be a very good leader regardless he's certainly 0.60

00:15:25.100 not now but if he ever were the speaker he's going to be even less it's also amazing that

00:15:29.220 there are guys on that on that floor you know we're in america today and we hear a lot still

00:15:33.180 from the left particularly about like you know institutional racism and you know this country

00:15:38.100 is so unequal and all this stuff there are a lot of and you know they they've earned uh the right

00:15:43.600 and they're the elite of the elite um in terms of their profession of basketball there are guys

00:15:48.460 on the floor making 50 million dollars a year in salary yes salary yes yeah there's a whole bunch

00:15:56.760 of them i mean and every every one of those starters clay has got to be making eight figures

00:16:00.920 I mean, at least, you know, 10, 15, 20 million bucks a year.

00:16:06.200 Yes.

00:16:06.880 You know, America is such a rough, awful place. 0.98

00:16:10.100 So racist like every, you know, calm down, everybody. 0.98

00:16:12.700 Calm down. 0.92

00:16:13.620 It's a hard putt to sink.

00:16:15.880 I think most people, if they were making that kind of money, would feel like they live in the greatest country that's ever existed in the history of the world.

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00:18:37.440 Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off now.

00:18:43.840 We are joined by Steve Hilton, top two finisher so far in that governor's race,

00:18:51.900 and for California, of course.

00:18:53.640 Steve, first of all, what is the very latest?

00:18:57.740 Because I'm sure you're up on it.

00:18:59.060 Where do things stand right now?

00:19:00.820 Talk to us about vote totals, the future.

00:19:03.020 How's it looking?

00:19:04.480 Yeah, very latest is a very flexible term in California when it comes to elections.

00:19:09.020 It could be very late indeed.

00:19:11.240 Look, we just did a press conference outside the vote center in Los Angeles.

00:19:16.380 I'll get to that in a second.

00:19:17.700 In terms of the race, we're still in the same position,

00:19:22.240 which is we're very, very confident that we've made it into the top two.

00:19:26.480 Some have already called it for us, Decision Desk HQ.

00:19:29.560 We always took the view in our campaign that we'd wait, you know, slightly old-fashioned.

00:19:33.060 Wait for the official AP call for the race.

00:19:37.160 That could happen today after the votes are reported today.

00:19:41.200 It could be sometime this week.

00:19:43.340 We're very confident, though, that we've made it.

00:19:45.500 There doesn't seem any possibility that Tom Steyer could catch up,

00:19:48.720 and that's why some have already caught the race for me,

00:19:52.240 but we're just waiting for the AP to make it completely official.

00:19:56.020 In terms of the actual count, it's just a shambles.

00:19:58.920 The shambles continues.

00:19:59.980 you've still got certain counties in california that have barely reported half the vote uh a week

00:20:06.560 on it's a week since election day it's just insane i just want to give you one indication

00:20:11.500 of how insane it is um because even if you give them everything that they're saying about why we

00:20:17.380 have this ridiculous system where they want oh every vote you know everyone to have the chance

00:20:22.000 to vote every possible way and maximum accessibility whatever okay fine give them that

00:20:27.140 So the concept is this. If you vote by mail, we want to make sure that everybody's vote is counted, and we want to treat you the same as if you voted in person.

00:20:37.160 So let's just say you want to vote by mail, and you leave it right up until election day, and then you send your ballot in on election day in the mail, just as if you showed up and voted in person.

00:20:47.960 Then we've got to give you time for the ballot to arrive because it's the U.S. Postal Service, and who knows how long it'll take, so they give you seven days.

00:20:54.920 OK, fine. You would assume from that that in order that your vote is counted in that seven day period, which is just coming to an end today, they kind of check that you really did send your mail ballot in on or before Election Day.

00:21:09.020 And, of course, we have a very simple way of doing that, which is look at the postmark on the envelope.

00:21:14.240 Well, not in California.

00:21:16.080 Unbelievably, there is a rule that says that if there is no postmark or if the postmark is illegible or whatever or just no postmark at all, it's OK if you handwrite the date and it can be accepted.

00:21:32.800 In other words, they have legalized backdating your ballot.

00:21:36.520 You could have voted yesterday and put a written election day on it in hand, and that would count.

00:21:44.060 It's just unbelievable.

00:21:46.300 That's insane.

00:21:47.700 Yes, this is absolutely crazy.

00:21:49.460 We're talking to Steve Hilton.

00:21:50.480 First of all, I'm going to say congratulations on advancing.

00:21:54.180 I understand that you're waiting until the absolute latest moment, and I know there's a lot of people very happy that you have advanced.

00:22:00.360 We were like Steve Hilton IPO investors here.

00:22:03.080 We got in early.

00:22:03.940 Some people were saying, is this guy serious?

00:22:06.400 Oh, we're very serious with Steve Hilton.

00:22:08.340 Going to win.

00:22:09.500 I need the state of California desperately needs you.

00:22:14.140 I'm sure that you have heard a ton about this.

00:22:16.720 This is something we took calls on all day yesterday.

00:22:19.320 We have been talking about it a great deal.

00:22:21.320 The situation in L.A. and the fact that the mail ballots are drastically different than the early voting tallies that have come in.

00:22:30.340 uh for many people it is just a sign that they can't trust the uh the uh the counting in uh in

00:22:38.440 california in general but la specifically what do you see there what can someone do who is in

00:22:45.140 california that is frustrated by this what should happen going forward uh based on what you're

00:22:51.500 seeing on the ground there yeah so we were literally at that counting center just now just

00:22:56.180 driving away from it and the press conference that I just held along with my running mate for

00:23:01.700 Lieutenant Governor Gloria Romero and the chair of the California Republican Party was to say

00:23:06.920 I mean there's so many things we need to change with this system but there's one really big one

00:23:11.460 that we can actually make happen very quickly because it's on the ballot in November and that

00:23:17.120 is voter ID. Voter ID is on the ballot this November we can actually have it in California

00:23:22.780 That would avoid so much of this, because one of the reasons it's all taking so long is because they have to do signature matching and verification by hand.

00:23:32.760 They're all sitting around in these offices, peering at signatures.

00:23:35.840 It's just insane.

00:23:37.160 But if you had voter ID, you wouldn't need any of that.

00:23:39.400 So that's something we can get done this year.

00:23:41.800 Now, in terms of L.A., I want to be really – this is what I think is happening.

00:23:46.120 And it's a complete example of the corruption in California.

00:23:51.260 I think what's going on there is ballot harvesting, where you've got the, again, this is totally legal, where any individual organization can just go around scooping up ballots, many as they want, there's no limit to the number, and just collecting them on people's behalf and dropping them off or putting them in the mail or whatever.

00:24:12.140 and this is where the corrupt democrat machine comes in and actually connects to something that

00:24:20.120 we've been exposing during the course of this year through cal doge so remember i mean we probably

00:24:24.680 talked about some of these examples from river fraud reports this is when all this comes into

00:24:29.620 play because i'll give you a couple of examples um the cannabis tax in california uh when cannabis

00:24:36.220 was legalized proposition 64 a tax was imposed that was supposed to go towards substance abuse

00:24:42.020 prevention we tracked down that money we found 350 million dollars was actually siphoned off

00:24:48.080 into democrat political organizing all these hundreds of different groups doing voter

00:24:53.480 registration ballot harvesting all of this second example from the climate change mitigation fund

00:25:00.340 one billion dollars with a b since 2015 100 million every year supposedly spent on solar

00:25:06.740 panels for low-income apartment buildings we found that only 72 million was spent on that

00:25:11.720 928 million went on democrat political organizing environmental justice groups voter registration

00:25:18.980 ballot harvesting third example churla this is this is our fourth fraud report churla

00:25:25.000 was the immigrants rights group far left group that was really involved in about a year ago the

00:25:30.900 riots in la against ice they are supporting my opponent javier becerra they have an office in

00:25:38.360 mexico which literally promotes illegal immigration and explains people how to do it this is an

00:25:44.080 organization that is 85 funded by california taxpayers basically an arm of the government

00:25:50.040 it is we exposed its political organizing manual it takes taxpayer money because it's mostly

00:25:57.960 taxpayer funded and pays illegal immigrants to do ballot harvesting but this is what's going on

00:26:04.780 Now, you're seeing this machine in action. 0.90

00:26:07.560 All this money that's been siphoned off into these nonprofits, this is what they do.

00:26:12.640 And this is the moment when they come into play.

00:26:14.580 They just go around, and we hear reports unions doing it in nursing homes and all the rest of it,

00:26:19.940 just collecting ballots, in quote marks, helping people fill out their ballots and then turning them in.

00:26:27.440 And I think that's what happened in L.A.

00:26:30.320 Question for you.

00:26:31.740 Thank you for all those specifics.

00:26:33.260 You said on the ballot, 80% of people are in favor of basic ID being shown in order to vote.

00:26:41.440 What is the ballot initiative that is there in California?

00:26:44.700 And for people out there who are skeptical, some of these ballot initiatives, for instance, having to do with affirmative action, even in California, which is a blue state, have absolutely trounced, right?

00:26:55.900 70, 30, 65, 35.

00:26:57.860 what is the ballot initiative and what are the possibilities when it comes to passage as you see

00:27:04.080 them so so the ballot the specific ballot initiative would require um i government approved

00:27:10.700 id to be shown when you vote so if you vote in person you drive a license um if you vote by mail

00:27:17.560 the your social security number that's then matched so it's very you know it's it's pretty

00:27:23.000 accessible it's because we still it's no it's no change to the vote by mail system which i would

00:27:28.260 like to change but you know we tried to get a a realistic win we tried to get maximum support for

00:27:33.020 it so it means you have to use government registered id in order to vote whether that's

00:27:37.580 in person or by mail it has around 70 support in california 70 that's the latest polling it

00:27:44.440 qualified for the ballot you you have to get signatures to get on the ballot we got way over

00:27:48.720 the net necessary amount so it's very you know it looks like it'll well it looks like it'll get

00:27:55.800 across the line in fact what today my press conference was about not only making the point

00:28:01.680 that voter ID would feed this whole farce up but I offered to Javier Becerra join with me in

00:28:07.540 campaigning for it let's do it together let's just show people that actually for once we can

00:28:12.000 come together behind something sensible because the democrat machine is of course against voter

00:28:17.440 id just as they are nationally um because it would get in the way of all these things that

00:28:23.280 they've been pushing we're speaking here to uh to steve hilton everybody as we know he is in the

00:28:29.680 top two right now for the governor's race in california and we are really uh pushing for him

00:28:34.420 and and steve can you just take us i know that there's still you know you're still it's still

00:28:40.600 not official official but looking pretty official assuming that it is what we think which is that

00:28:45.540 you're going to be in this runoff going forward just take us through a little bit of this timeline

00:28:48.780 of what happens between now and election day what are the primary issues you're going to be hitting

00:28:54.220 and and what what are you going to be doing to get some of the people who maybe didn't vote for you

00:28:58.880 in the initial runoff to realize sanity is better than the insane asylum vote steve hilton yeah

00:29:05.100 that's that's a that's a very important word uh we are assuming um that that's the case and we're

00:29:10.620 planning accordingly we have been since last wednesday honestly um because it was very obvious

00:29:15.320 on election night that we had a sufficient margin um to withhold any gains that styer might make

00:29:20.860 tom styer the billionaire climate fanatic is number three so so we've been planning since last

00:29:25.360 wednesday um the real um campaign begins next week once all this election once the call is made we're

00:29:31.280 very confident the call will be this week um and so we can get cracking next week there are six

00:29:36.520 Next week is week one of 16 weeks till ballots go out.

00:29:40.680 So we're not going to waste any time.

00:29:42.420 And we'll be doing two things, which is laying out a sense of positive, practical plan for cutting your costs, helping your business, fixing our schools, just common sense things that everyone can get behind.

00:29:56.920 For example, my tax plan, your first hundred grand tax free.

00:30:01.640 That's been very popular on the campaign trail.

00:30:04.340 And it's the quickest way, you know, we have the highest cost of living in the country, thanks to Democrat policies, all the different components of that.

00:30:11.060 We are well known, the highest gas prices, highest housing costs, and so on.

00:30:14.860 But the simplest and quickest way we can get more money in people's pockets is to take less out.

00:30:20.760 So that's the starting point, which is to cut your taxes, especially for working people.

00:30:26.180 We're going to be offering an update to that plan.

00:30:28.780 We've been doing the math to expand that, and that'll be my first announcement next week.

00:30:33.360 And so what you'll see is the same kind of campaigning I've been doing now, high energy, up and down the state, focused on positive practical changes, you know, your taxes, vehicle registration, the small business registration fee, all these different things that we can do that will cut the taxes, the bloat in the government and bring us back to sanity.

00:30:54.260 The word you use there is exactly right. I just think of this as not, you know, this campaign for the next 16 weeks is going to be not about Republican or Democrat.

00:31:02.680 It's are you on team sanity or not? Join team sanity. That's the basic message.

00:31:08.180 There's so much going on here that is just insane. Importing oil halfway around the world, shoving up our gas prices when we have abundant oil reserves here in California.

00:31:17.380 It doesn't make sense. There's so many things like that.

00:31:20.700 And at the same time, we'll be prosecuting very strongly the case against Javier Becerra,

00:31:26.260 because he is exactly the kind of thing, I mean, he's more of the same but worse.

00:31:31.000 He's 36 years of career politician. That's his whole life.

00:31:37.000 He was asked the other day, you'll be seeing an ad on this coming out very shortly,

00:31:41.860 on an interview, what he would change about what's happened that's brought us to these terrible results in California.

00:31:47.380 policy wise he gave basically the kamala harris answer in that notorious interview on the view

00:31:52.240 in the general election campaign he said i couldn't think of anything he's more of the same

00:31:56.560 but worse um and that is going to be very much part of it i mean the list of things that disqualify

00:32:03.520 from being governor is a very long list even the biden administration officials that he worked with

00:32:10.720 the biden cabinet officials think that he was useless i mean how incompetent do you have to be

00:32:16.220 if biden's cabinet thinks you're too incompetent for them and it's just it's a very long list

00:32:22.160 and so that's going to be the combination you cannot have this guy it's more of the same cost

00:32:26.800 incompetence and corruption but here's a positive practical plan for change so i'm looking i'm

00:32:31.980 excited about it this is what it's all been about um and i know people look at california and say

00:32:36.520 oh no chance very heavily democrat state whatever but you know we've reached a point where people

00:32:41.360 are really ready for change and i think we're going to pull it off steve hilton everybody

00:32:46.160 steve what's your website for the campaign steve hilton for governor.com for guys let's

00:32:53.100 let's help steve bring home the w california listeners steven thanks for being with us

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00:34:09.880 Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.

00:34:12.960 And we've got so much happening here, so much to talk to you all about.

00:34:18.660 We just had on before Steve Hilton.

00:34:22.700 And, you see, Clay, I think that was really important because notice he was speaking,

00:34:28.760 because obviously as somebody in the governor's race and a top two contender,

00:34:33.100 which means he has a very serious shot of becoming the governor of California,

00:34:35.920 he really knows what he's talking about in an era of a lot of stuff flying around you know clay

00:34:41.940 apparently the thing about all the votes went for one candidate in the ballot uh you know in one of

00:34:49.140 the ballot dumps was not accurate and and even people who are on the right on republicans there

00:34:55.380 said no no that's not actually true but that was caught on like wild wildfire online my point is

00:35:00.960 Because when you're talking about election integrity stuff, you've got to have the facts straight, because the moment that the narrative becomes, hey, you're cheating because of X or Y, and it turns out X or Y are legitimate and fine, Z, which is the real reason, gets discounted as part of the whole thing.

00:35:21.800 you see what i mean this is why we gotta stay um gotta stay on the specifics on the reality on

00:35:29.320 the fact gotta stay where the facts are really and steve hilton was doing that you'll notice he

00:35:32.860 was walking through those things he was saying those are huge issues the fact that there's a

00:35:37.760 giant ngo industrial complex paying illegals to collect ballots on behalf of democrats and that

00:35:44.500 that's legal under california law is crazy yes but that's happening that's happening when you

00:35:51.320 have to understand is that in a place like california a lot of public money state money

00:35:55.940 taxpayer dollars goes to filters its way to these ngos so you have ngos getting taxpayer dollars

00:36:02.660 that are then turned around to use illegals as the labor force to elect democrats who want more 0.87

00:36:09.480 illegals to come into the country this is the self-licking ice cream cone this is the problem

00:36:15.460 that we're talking about so i just i caution you to just scream fraud fraud fraud and then 1.00

00:36:22.060 start attaching to it things that aren't necessarily accurate or that there's a because

00:36:27.360 that is the favorite thing that democrats can have is republicans uh in in this race or in any race

00:36:34.320 saying that this is a fraud and they go actually uh we can prove it's not haha and then they don't

00:36:40.600 want to hear anything else beyond behind that mike johnson for example here clay is saying

00:36:44.760 this is uh he's saying that what's going on in california stinks to high heaven this is 11 play

00:36:48.940 it i'm not saying it's rigged i'm saying it stinks to high heaven and everybody knows that

00:36:53.940 let's let's let's remove the appearance of impropriety let's have what what what a concept

00:36:59.740 let's have votes on an election the day of the election that's what many states are able to do

00:37:04.800 i think california is playing around with this but what evidence is there to prove that there

00:37:08.880 Some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream, it is impossible to prove.

00:37:14.440 But I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here, and that's a concern.

00:37:18.220 We need people to believe in the integrity of our election system.

00:37:21.860 See, I agree with everything Mike Johnson says there, Clay.

00:37:24.420 It's about the appearance of integrity.

00:37:26.720 It's about the common sense application here of rules and regulations.

00:37:31.040 But he's not running with wild conspiracies.

00:37:34.360 the appearance of impropriety is a huge part of our legal standards for a long time as it pertains

00:37:42.620 to elections and if you think about it it makes total sense it's not only impropriety it's not

00:37:48.140 only fraud it's the appearance of impropriety and fraud which delegitimizes the uh elections

00:37:54.140 themselves and i thought the other thing that steve hilton said with us buck that was so

00:37:58.820 significant was that there is a referendum on the ballot this fall that appears to have 70 percent

00:38:06.240 of the support of california voters that would require some form of id for elections to occur

00:38:13.400 now unfortunately it would still permit mail balloting which is a huge part of this right i

00:38:19.100 mean when you really analyze all elections requiring someone to go in person with an id

00:38:25.600 to vote should be the standard upon which all of our elections are based now should there be a

00:38:32.000 small minority of the overall population that can get absentee ballots yes but given that we have

00:38:37.080 expanded early voting in many states for weeks in advance of election day i i don't even buy into

00:38:44.720 the fact that there should be very much mail or absentee if you're a soldier and you're overseas

00:38:49.660 and you aren't able to travel for an entire month to vote i think most people would say yes that can

00:38:55.260 make sense if you can't get to a public place in your place that is your primary residence

00:39:02.540 for an entire month i'm just gonna be honest if from october 1st to november 5 or whatever the

00:39:08.960 heck election day is you are not physically present in the state or the jurisdiction in

00:39:14.900 which you are voting i gotta be honest with you a big part of me doesn't think that you're spending

00:39:19.700 enough time in that jurisdiction to need to vote right for a full month of in-person voting if you

00:39:25.920 can't find the time and you aren't physically able to get there i i gotta be honest with you i i don't

00:39:32.080 think you're being hamstrung or treated unfairly and every single person out there has had to show

00:39:39.360 their id for picking up movie tickets for certainly people say well buying go to a movie or going to

00:39:47.640 a concert is not a constitutional right okay buying a gun is is there anybody out there buck you're

00:39:53.780 the way more of an expert than than i am is it possible in any way to buy a weapon legally in

00:39:59.920 the united states without showing an id uh nope you can't go to an ffl and do it that's for sure

00:40:06.140 yeah so i mean you have a second amendment right to possess weapons you have to show an id to be

00:40:11.500 able to buy a gun i don't think most people out there would say hey that's totally fine to be

00:40:15.460 able to go to uh to buy guns out of the back of people's trunks my point is constitutional rights

00:40:20.740 all come with regulations that are designed to make sure that that constitutional right is not

00:40:25.840 only protected for you but for everyone else and i think some of these referendums because buck

00:40:30.700 they're not particularly connected to democrat or republican they pass and they're actually

00:40:36.620 very right of center i mean the affirmative action uh in california has been crushed uh property

00:40:44.340 taxes. California has some of the most restrictive property tax laws of any state in the nation

00:40:51.100 because property tax got so out of control. Californians said, we're not going to allow

00:40:54.660 this. So I think the vast majority of Californians listening to us right now are in favor of ID.

00:41:00.600 I think on federal law, I've never done a private sale like this, but I think federal law mandates

00:41:06.000 that you cannot sell a firearm to a prohibited person. You have to make sure that they reside

00:41:11.140 in the same state as you you can't sell it across state lines and you have to make sure that they

00:41:15.260 are of age in that state for the sale so you kind of need to see someone's id to do that but there's

00:41:22.420 not a specific id but my if you go to an ffl though for sure because they're gonna run a nix

00:41:26.840 jack on you and everything else so just i know the gun people out there i don't want to get lit

00:41:31.600 up by you guys i understand my point on when you say hey there should be some restrictions people

00:41:36.500 say well voting is a constitutional right and we're not going to restrict in any way constitutional

00:41:41.060 rights then you say okay so there should be zero restrictions on all firearms there's enormous and

00:41:46.580 endless restrictions on the second amendment which i think the restrictions often veer into

00:41:51.640 what is unconstitutional certainly in blue states and we're supposed to accept that for some reason

00:41:56.940 there's there's apparently no restrictions uh on voting in the state of california other than

00:42:03.820 you got to be like a legal resident but there's no checks and balances to see if you are a legal

00:42:09.180 resident to be putting the vote in that you are like they don't they don't want to verify there's

00:42:13.780 no verification process there's a lot of verification for gun ownership so it's treated

00:42:20.100 quite differently um and and you know you get to the why is it that they're always so opposed to

00:42:27.660 voter id well i think we know why because they're opposed everywhere and anywhere and the once you

00:42:36.260 start adding into this the ngo industrial complex where they have vote harvesting going on they say

00:42:41.540 prove the fraud and i understand this is a valid response clear to what i was saying about be

00:42:45.960 specific know what you're talking about with what is illegal or what the fraud is that you're trying

00:42:50.860 to cite um one of their rejoinders is well you know prove it and and from our side it's often

00:42:57.000 yeah well the whole point is you make the law so that it's impossible to prove

00:43:00.560 if you can if you can hand write back date a ballot how could you even theoretically prove

00:43:06.440 that that's not you see what i'm saying well what are you gonna do it's kind of like an honor system

00:43:12.280 thing and people have no honor a lot of the time when you're talking about these sorts of issues

00:43:17.480 so yeah it's a big it's a it's a big mess they like it to be messy i also think what steve was

00:43:23.880 talking about is important because it starts to explain how the data is coming out as it is

00:43:29.300 um there is right now i believe there was when they looked at the nitya raman la mayor race

00:43:38.360 numbers they saw those coming in and they said if you're karen bass's team we're in right nitya

00:43:46.860 raman's team started she started crying on election night they said we have to do whatever

00:43:52.400 it takes to get as many ballots complete as possible the story of how she went from when

00:43:58.620 people went all in person and voted she got whatever it was 21 of the overall vote and then

00:44:04.960 she starts to get 40 of the vote when it comes to mail ballots i think that's a hard explanation

00:44:11.320 other than the rig job was in effect and they knew that they had to get her above spencer pratt and

00:44:18.560 they put out the code red to make it happen and again this is why all votes should i hope the 0.74

00:44:24.460 Supreme Court is going to solve this buck. All votes should have to be in by election day,

00:44:30.620 period. This sounds crazy that you would even have to make this argument. Every single vote

00:44:37.460 should have to be in the possession of your jurisdiction on election day by the time the

00:44:46.020 ballots officially close. A week later, votes can still arrive in California.

00:44:51.620 it how in the world is that remotely constitutional it can't be i hope the supreme court itself is

00:44:59.360 going to step in and solve some of this because i think it would make the ballot harvesting and

00:45:05.760 the vote chasing post-election day i think it would make it much more difficult to be able to

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00:47:26.380 Hour number three, Tuesday edition.

00:47:28.040 Clay and Buck, we appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

00:47:31.440 Reports that Iran shot down an Apache helicopter.

00:47:35.180 Trump says the U.S. will respond, although there is an investigation going on right now as to exactly what happened there.

00:47:44.100 We also have South Carolina, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, all with primaries.

00:47:49.940 The Southern Poverty Law Center being grilled by our friend Jim Jordan at a hearing on Capitol Hill right now.

00:47:57.580 California voting impact continuing the story surrounding it.

00:48:01.720 Steve Hilton with us.

00:48:03.500 He will be into the runoff for California governor.

00:48:06.260 A lot of really good info from Steve Hilton about the particulars of what's going on with California voting.

00:48:12.420 we had Donald Trump at the Knicks game last night we bring in now our friend Senator Tommy

00:48:18.260 Tuberville and uh let's start with this news that has recently broken Senator Tuberville by the way

00:48:23.840 going to be the next governor of the great state of Alabama we will get into that a bit as well

00:48:28.820 but right now he is senator um and uh there is a uh report that there was a helicopter shot down

00:48:37.260 president trump has said that the u.s is going to respond uh what have you heard about that

00:48:42.120 senator what do you expect to uh to see happen in that front yeah they're making sure that wasn't

00:48:47.080 mechanical it was wasn't a um problem with friendly fire they're they'll do all the

00:48:53.180 investigations but i feel sorry for the rgc if they actually shot this helicopter down president

00:48:59.280 trump's given them all the rope in the world they're about to hang themselves and you know

00:49:03.900 they don't want to deal with us. 1.00

00:49:05.180 You know, they're killers. 0.99

00:49:06.220 And the ones that are actually running Iran, 0.99

00:49:08.620 I don't know how many thousands of the 90 million it is,

00:49:12.440 but they know that their time's limited if they ever give up 0.65

00:49:15.260 because they kill 40,000 of their own people.

00:49:17.720 So they're fighting to save their lives.

00:49:20.140 But, you know, again, I don't know what President Trump's going to do,

00:49:24.240 but I know he doesn't put up with stuff like this.

00:49:26.620 If you mess with us, you're going to pay the price.

00:49:29.020 So interesting to see what happens in the next 24 hours.

00:49:33.900 bill uh appreciate you being here with us as always how do you think we're looking for the

00:49:39.240 senate coming up in this midterm election did we we may have lost senator tuberville there i'm here

00:49:46.540 now yeah y'all went off there we go buck was just asking you how you see things in the senate

00:49:51.820 looking i mean it's always a toss-up number one you never know how the voting's gonna go because

00:49:57.080 or a lot of these states have opportunities to vote how they want to vote

00:50:05.580 and how they can countervote.

00:50:07.120 Clearly, California, that's an absolute disaster. 0.74

00:50:09.660 That's the reason we need the Save America Act.

00:50:12.420 And, you know, for the life of me, I can't imagine us not doing that while we have control.

00:50:17.220 But that's up to the people up here.

00:50:20.200 Again, I think we'll control the Senate, but we might lose one or two in the majority.

00:50:26.260 but as long as you keep majority you're fine but we've had majority for a year and a half we haven't

00:50:30.740 done anything we got the big beautiful bill it's time to make a difference in this country and

00:50:35.000 every time i go to alabama they'll coach when are y'all gonna pass pass to save america when am i

00:50:39.820 gonna know i vote counts and i don't have five illegals voting every time that i vote wrong

00:50:45.360 y'all need to take care of this well we tried to the other night 49 voted for it and we had four

00:50:50.740 republicans and didn't didn't vote for it and uh uh you know it's what it is you get called out

00:50:56.760 when you do stuff like that we're talking to senator tommy tupperville you used to before

00:51:01.180 you got into politics you were the head coach of a bunch of different schools uh old miss auburn

00:51:06.020 texas tech among them i'm sure you saw the ruling that came down yesterday that just set the entire

00:51:12.160 college sports landscape on fire uh texas tech transfer quarterback brendan soarsby alleged

00:51:18.780 to have gambled on a a lot of different football games among others for teams that he was a part

00:51:26.720 of a judge said he can play he's only going to miss two games it's one of the first rulings

00:51:32.660 that i've seen from a judge where almost everybody said boy he got it wrong and it seems to have

00:51:37.680 accelerated the uh discussion about there needing to be a solution what did you think of the ruling

00:51:44.040 what needs to happen i got out 10 years ago and if any of our kids that have been caught gambling

00:51:50.800 or whatever they'd have been done and that shows you how times have changed i think the ncaa came

00:51:56.000 out and not allowing them to play but a federal judge gets involved again i i don't i don't have

00:52:01.540 a dog in this fight i mean college sports is all screwed up right now as we all know uh you know

00:52:07.300 the transfer the money and and everything that goes along with it uh we're going to lose it if

00:52:12.980 we don't watch it but it's things like this it just you shake your head going you know sooner

00:52:17.020 later we got to put integrity back into this and not just look at winning and losing but uh you

00:52:23.480 know money talks when you look at uh what's going on in alabama right now you're going to be the

00:52:32.060 next governor and i understand you may want to uh say we got to win the election in november but

00:52:36.880 um when you look at strengthening red states you're seeing so many people move in from other

00:52:43.360 places uh i live in tennessee we got so many people flooding into this state bucks in miami

00:52:49.460 down in florida people uh texas i think you're starting to see in uh people moving into alabama

00:52:55.480 too how do you strengthen and make sure that red states are not going to get run over by

00:53:02.060 new people coming in how do you fix it well first of all you fix it by having uh you know treating

00:53:08.320 everybody fairly but you make sure everybody's accountable and it all goes back to making sure

00:53:13.940 that if you make a decision that you're held accountable for it and it all goes back you know

00:53:18.660 i know we've got some people moving to our state from california from from some of the northern

00:53:24.080 states because they're running from high taxes but you you try to be a state that that wants to

00:53:31.220 recruit other people and i hope they see that as an opportunity now you come in and start voting

00:53:36.940 for the same nonsense that you ran from then you got a problem um again that i think that goes back

00:53:43.440 if we had to save america act if everybody had to be accountable to vote okay just like the ones

00:53:50.720 we got written up if everybody had to be accountable this country would be so much better

00:53:55.420 but for some reason we can't get over that hurdle you know a lot of people say well this tradition

00:53:59.700 in the senate not to bust the filibuster do this or that we don't want to federalize elections uh

00:54:05.140 listen we federalized everything else we screwed up health care we dang near screwed up our

00:54:09.540 military taxes are high we're losing 110 million an hour to fraud think about that guys 110 million

00:54:16.360 an hour that's a trillion dollars a year and we act like that we can't get fair voting come on

00:54:23.000 Give me a break.

00:54:24.900 So, Senator, I see here from a news source, Punchbowl News,

00:54:30.500 that Senator Tillis sent a 15-paragraph, well, screed is what it's being called here,

00:54:37.200 to GOP senators, calling them out for their opposition to his opposition, if you will,

00:54:45.640 to his move to end the weaponization fund, Donald Trump's lawfare weaponization fund.

00:54:53.000 and continuing to push the save act and apparently tell us when after you specifically what's going

00:54:59.560 on here well i came out and tweeted this is the people that voted against the save america it's

00:55:05.800 the first time we voted on it okay and it should have been a vote a long time ago but i wanted my

00:55:10.820 people back home i'm accountable to people in alabama and every time i go back coach is my

00:55:15.720 vote going to count we're trying to pass the save america act and i want them to see the vote it was

00:55:20.600 49 uh republicans and four voted against it now this is not personal you got to be accountable

00:55:28.920 for your vote uh you know tillus comes out comes out against me that's fine it came out against

00:55:34.200 some of my staff which is not fine but at the end of the day you're you're a big boy up here

00:55:38.860 you got to stand behind your vote and if i voted against that people alabama would have been in an

00:55:45.120 uproar and so i just want to make sure hey i voted for this these are the ones that didn't

00:55:50.340 vote for it and uh you know at the end of the day i don't know why i wrote that i mean it's pretty

00:55:56.220 pretty knowledgeable that that vote was public anyway isn't it for you're going to be the next

00:56:03.780 governor so you are leaving the senate but do you have any doubt that as soon as democrats get back

00:56:11.000 control of the white house and back control of the senate that they will immediately do away

00:56:17.120 with the filibuster and everybody on the Republican side who's making a big show of we can't get to 0.96

00:56:22.940 60 votes so we can't pass this is just going to get completely steamrolled and look pathetic I

00:56:29.360 mean this is frustrating to me because the vast majority of the American public 80 percent of

00:56:34.160 them believe in basic election security we see what's going on in LA we saw what happened in 2020

00:56:39.760 Democrats are going to do whatever it takes to get into power and once they get 50 and have a

00:56:45.920 tiebreak vote the filibuster's gone like what is being protected here it's frustrating well it's

00:56:52.980 the way i've been explained to by some of these people that don't want to vote for it is that

00:56:57.860 they want to protect the tradition of the senate hell i don't work for the senate i work for the

00:57:02.340 united states of america and the american people and the taxpayers and the people of alabama and

00:57:07.760 we know you know you just said it and everybody in this building knows if they ever get a majority

00:57:14.780 again. They're not Democrats

00:57:17.160 anymore. They're far less social. They're going to bust

00:57:18.920 filibuster. It's over. And they're going to pack the

00:57:20.940 court. They're going to make D.C. and

00:57:22.940 some of these other states 1.00

00:57:24.300 and take two senators. I mean,

00:57:26.860 it's going to be over, folks. This is our only chance.

00:57:29.560 And that's the reason that I'm

00:57:31.040 wondering, what the heck are we doing? I mean,

00:57:32.920 we got majority here. We saw they almost did 0.73

00:57:34.900 it the last time. And

00:57:36.480 the Democrats that voted against

00:57:38.740 were Stenema and Manchin.

00:57:41.580 Hell, they're gone. They got run off.

00:57:43.300 And they got new people. So

00:57:44.440 i'm fighting for our country and uh you know this ain't personal this is about the future of

00:57:51.160 our kids and our grandkids here and it ain't looking good with the people that's voting

00:57:54.900 against the save america act senator tuberville appreciate you being with us sir all right thank

00:58:00.860 you see you thank you sir you know clay whenever we have him on i've never played football but i

00:58:05.680 feel like i'm waiting for him to tell me that i'm going to go in to the wide receiver position

00:58:09.920 and I better not drop the ball you know what I mean like I don't want to disappoint coach

00:58:14.620 Tuberville it is a function of how crazy the world has become that a lot of football coaches

00:58:22.360 make way more sense than a lot of politicians and I've said it before on this show but I think

00:58:26.980 it's worth real debate we hold our football coaches to a higher standard of job performance

00:58:34.020 than we do our politicians well as a football coach right or really as any high level athletic

00:58:39.740 coach but you have to you have to exert leadership decision making and strategy and whether you're

00:58:47.160 good or not is something that you know yeah your players and i mean there's a lot of factors but

00:58:51.820 there is some uh observable metric politicians it's like can they just convince people that

00:59:00.460 they're going to do things that they're not going to do yeah there is there you know that's that's

00:59:04.060 really the you know and then there's a million ways to lie there's no win and loss record there's

00:59:08.000 voting records and there's a million ways to pretend that you didn't vote for what you voted

00:59:11.520 for you voted for the bill before you voted against it as john carrey infamously said like

00:59:16.280 there's a lot of stuff that goes on there a lot of uh ways to uh dirty the water so anyway uh but

00:59:23.880 it's great to have senator top of the law it was always fun to uh to hear the man he's going to be

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