Verdict with Ted Cruz - Bonus： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 12 2026

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00:00:05.400 Thursday edition of the Clay, Travis, and Buck Sexton show.

00:00:10.480 Known to many as Clay and Buck.

00:00:13.560 That starts right now.

00:00:15.180 And we got so much to get to.

00:00:17.080 Let me just give you a little bit of an outline before we dive into all the biggest stories today.

00:00:20.580 Uncle Bill, Bill O'Reilly, joining us.

00:00:22.680 Hour two.

00:00:24.140 Talk to him about how this whole Iran war thing is going.

00:00:26.500 and the Save Act, Save America Act, have that discussion.

00:00:31.760 Senator Eric Schmidt will be with us.

00:00:35.080 And we will also have Senator John Cornyn with us.

00:00:38.520 I would say to any of you who have, we have a lot of Texans who listen.

00:00:42.940 Texas or California, well, those are the two biggest states by population,

00:00:46.220 so it's not really that surprising.

00:00:47.460 But it's either Texas or California is our biggest state for listenership.

00:00:51.660 So we have a lot of Texans, and we love all of you.

00:00:55.240 not all of you are huge cornyn fans some of you perhaps are send us your questions for senator

00:01:03.020 cornyn and we will see if we can get a couple of them to him on the air today as he is in this

00:01:08.040 primary this contested primary wondering if there will be a trump endorsement uh that's a that's a

00:01:14.960 lot of a lot of eyeballs on this one so we will get to that so we have three guests today two

00:01:20.600 senators uncle bill and now we can get into some of the news of the day clay little mo as clay

00:01:27.000 calls him iran's new supreme leader mojtaba khamenei has issued a statement but he is well

00:01:36.400 someone has issued a statement on his behalf he is apparently in a coma and missing a leg

00:01:41.000 so he got hit in one of these airstrikes and they are putting him forward as the future of iran um

00:01:49.280 That certainly goes to what level of pressure the leadership of Iran is under,

00:01:55.620 that even their next up at bat is having to have statements released from others around him

00:02:03.040 because he's in a coma from an airstrike.

00:02:05.840 So essentially, the next person who raises their hand in Iran and says,

00:02:10.160 I'm going to continue the Islamic revolution in this country, 1.00

00:02:13.240 and I shall continue to fight against the great Satan and the little Satan, 0.97

00:02:17.340 probably going to get blown up.

00:02:19.280 That is where we are right now, at least while these hostilities,

00:02:22.780 this aerial campaign continues.

00:02:25.740 Clay, oil price has surged a bit, and there are concerns as well.

00:02:31.460 After two tankers were attacked and I believe are on fire in the Strait of Hormuz,

00:02:39.920 so they're continuing to try to go after the oil, the global oil industry,

00:02:45.800 as their choke point, as their way to hit back at us.

00:02:49.280 Also, Trump monitoring Iranian terror sleeper cells, a lot of concern about that, and I think rightly concern about that, and we shall discuss that.

00:03:01.340 So, Clay, I mean, first one up here, we are in another day of this aerial campaign.

00:03:09.380 We now know that Mojtaba is in a coma.

00:03:13.260 Little Mo is having a tough one.

00:03:15.320 what do you think about the latest here with the attacks on oil uh oil shipping and trying to make

00:03:23.140 this a global environmental and economic catastrophe to get this to stop that's clearly

00:03:28.580 the iranians play yeah i think it actually is going to make president trump angrier and i think

00:03:34.580 it's actually going to result in a worse outcome for iran than if they allowed the oil to transit

00:03:41.100 without issues at all uh and i'm pulling up to check the oil price uh as we speak right now

00:03:47.480 because it has been probably the number one story that is out there and it's hanging right around

00:03:53.020 90 a barrel um and you say okay clay where does that compare um is around 65 dollars if i remember

00:04:00.720 correctly before this war started and uh now it's right around 90 it went all the way up to

00:04:07.060 a hundred and twenty dollars uh sunday uh in the opening hours of the uh of the uh the market

00:04:15.340 beginning with danger and fear and so then it crashed all the way back down to like 75 it's

00:04:21.580 come back up to around 90 it's bounced around a lot and i think the the question is how safe

00:04:27.120 is the strait of hormuz um and uh what does that mean for overall pricing of oil and gas now

00:04:35.180 President Trump has released, I think it's 180 million barrels is what I saw from the

00:04:40.520 strategic reserve.

00:04:41.640 There's 400 million worldwide being released.

00:04:44.820 My understanding, Buck, is that that takes a couple of weeks to actually come into the

00:04:51.060 marketplace as a whole because it takes a while for all of those barrels of oil to reach

00:04:57.280 the marketplace.

00:04:58.680 Yeah, I stand corrected on that one.

00:05:00.140 Chuck Schumer said do it, and Trump's actually doing it.

00:05:02.500 Now, the Democrats are going to hit him for having to do that.

00:05:05.180 But the oil shock seems severe enough that some effort to soften the blow is a blow to your wallets, essentially, is is underway.

00:05:14.500 So there you go. Chuck Schumer giving some some good advice to his opposition.

00:05:21.060 Hey, Clay, even a broken clock, you know, so I'll take the L on that one.

00:05:25.700 Trump's doing it. This is cut 17 on gas prices.

00:05:28.020 Trump last night at Joint Base Andrews hit it.

00:05:31.440 There's a timeline on when you're planning to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

00:05:35.700 a timeline of when that could happen.

00:05:37.280 We're going to be doing it very quickly, and then we'll fill it up.

00:05:40.260 We'll fill up our reserves.

00:05:41.620 You know, if you remember, I filled them up, and then I had a deal to go at the highest level,

00:05:47.980 a level that's never been.

00:05:49.800 And Schumer and the Democrats for $25, and it was turned down.

00:05:54.060 You remember that, Peter.

00:05:55.500 Almost before your time, but not quite.

00:05:57.400 But it was, we had a deal at $25.

00:06:00.760 Think of that.

00:06:01.440 $25 a barrel, and the Democrats turned it down.

00:06:04.760 We're going to tap it out like it's never been,

00:06:07.980 but they turned that down, and now it's a lot higher.

00:06:12.080 Clay Trump, of course, saying Democrats had no foresight on this issue,

00:06:15.960 not a surprise, but there's enough of a jolt to the oil markets

00:06:20.320 that there's serious and immediate action being taken to stabilize things.

00:06:25.400 Yeah, look, and I think this is where the average American

00:06:30.180 is going to feel to the extent we do anything going on with Iran is in oil and gas prices.

00:06:37.180 And I would just point out that two years of oil and gas prices coming down, by and

00:06:43.960 large, was not a story.

00:06:46.260 That is almost, I watch these television broadcasts of the news almost every, for at least three

00:06:52.780 hours every day while I'm talking to all of you.

00:06:55.840 I have never seen CNN or MSNBC do a story on, boy, President Trump has really brought down gas prices during his tenure in office.

00:07:06.140 Never seen a story about gas prices going down for a year and a half.

00:07:10.740 And now gas prices have gone up for a week, and it's the lead story on MSNBC and CNN.

00:07:16.820 And by the way, Buck, it vanished when oil and gas prices went back down to 75.

00:07:22.180 Now that they've come back up to 90, we're back to covering oil and gas prices again.

00:07:26.660 And they put the picture of the oil and gas prices in the corner of the screen.

00:07:31.440 Right now, the talking point on CNN is oil and gas prices,

00:07:35.480 and talking point on MSNBC is oil and gas prices.

00:07:38.360 So I do think when it's a good story, right, for the year and a half that the prices came down,

00:07:43.460 not one mention of it, for the one week they've gone back up,

00:07:46.560 oh my goodness, this is a story that we have to cover.

00:07:49.900 Well, as we know, journalism in America has fully morphed into it's not about what you should know.

00:07:57.760 It's about telling the audience what they want to know, what they want to hear, what they want to watch.

00:08:03.360 And that's certainly the case over at CNN, at MSNBC, at MSNOW.

00:08:07.900 It's the case at Fox, too.

00:08:08.980 I don't live in some delusional world.

00:08:10.720 I mean, Fox is going to have a right-of-center point of view.

00:08:13.740 But there's so much more honesty about that.

00:08:16.300 I mean, their primetime lineup are opinion hosts.

00:08:19.880 CNN still pretends that they're just journalists.

00:08:23.680 They're just Anderson Cooper.

00:08:25.380 Could vote either way.

00:08:26.480 Who knows?

00:08:27.020 Does he love Trump?

00:08:27.860 Does he hate Trump?

00:08:29.000 Oil prices.

00:08:30.140 Important today.

00:08:31.080 Unimportant yesterday.

00:08:32.220 I wonder why.

00:08:33.380 I also think this is important, and I think it has been under-discussed, and it continues to be under-discussed.

00:08:40.180 You can criticize Fox, and you can criticize them.

00:08:44.080 You know, they have 66% of the news audience, whatever the heck it is, 60% on any given day, bigger than MSNBC and CNN combined.

00:08:53.080 Their entire business is based on advertising.

00:08:56.180 So their audience responds to things and they cover it.

00:09:01.600 That used to be the overarching way that everybody made money.

00:09:07.080 Now the New York Times makes money.

00:09:08.740 Washington Post makes money off subscriptions.

00:09:10.380 And that's a very different business model because subscribers want to be told that their worldview is correct.

00:09:17.340 When you're pegged to advertising, you're trying to reach the biggest possible audience because that's how you get paid.

00:09:23.600 We get paid based on advertising.

00:09:25.560 So the bigger the audience is, the more money this show makes.

00:09:28.880 We're not making money off subscriptions.

00:09:31.920 The New York Times subscription changes the calculus of how the business is run.

00:09:36.740 And I was just looking.

00:09:37.800 This just came across the line, Buck.

00:09:39.600 New York Times has stunned me, has doubled the number of journalists that employs in the last 10 years.

00:09:46.000 They have 2,300 journalists now, doubled what they had just 10 years ago.

00:09:52.940 And that's to serve subscribers.

00:09:55.620 It's not to provide the best possible outcome to the media ecosystem.

00:10:02.380 I also, though, think that there's, and this has been the case for a long time,

00:10:05.180 this has been an argument that I've been making since before I was in media,

00:10:07.600 there's a fundamental honesty with fox news that which which i think is part of why the audience

00:10:13.900 is so uh durable uh sticky if you will i mean stays with fox watch there's a fundamental honesty

00:10:21.060 about yeah of course like the opening model like jesse waters isn't sitting there like i don't

00:10:25.380 have any opinions i'm just i'm just presenting the objective news like that's insane these other

00:10:31.080 channels have been doing this game of we're just we're just news yeah by the way same thing with

00:10:34.760 abc news and these other things same thing with those they're just lying they're just lying to

00:10:39.260 people and eventually the lies got to be too much but back to the uh oil price situation uh i think

00:10:45.840 clay again this is going to be relatively short term uh and as long as that's the case it will

00:10:52.560 be fine here's energy secretary chris wright though we've had him on the show very interesting

00:10:57.080 guy this cut 18 he's saying look the biden administration was playing all kinds of politics

00:11:02.100 with this and not even using it for this is an emergency situation they were just using it to

00:11:07.020 try to try to goose the numbers to look better play 18 we have about 415 million barrels in

00:11:13.220 storage right now very unfortunately the biden administration drained almost 300 million barrels

00:11:18.980 out mostly the lower gasoline prices for a midterm election without disruptions and energy flows

00:11:25.040 that's not what the spr is about the spr is about this when we have short-term disruptions and flows

00:11:30.880 to replace those flows but dana we will simultaneously sell this oil in the near term

00:11:36.640 when it's needed and buy long-term oil meaning say 12 months down the road and we'll pull out

00:11:42.680 170 million barrels and we'll put back in 200 million barrels in the next year so we'll actually

00:11:48.940 have more oil in our spr a year from now than we do today okay it's the responsible way to use it

00:11:53.840 there you go again and what i i think is so important about this is the only reason this

00:12:02.140 isn't a major huge transformative danger for us is because we actually produce so much more oil

00:12:09.700 we're the energy superpower of the world you want you want to know why your grocery prices

00:12:14.120 aren't skyrocketing and they're on oil lines go thank an oil man go thank somebody who works for

00:12:19.400 texaco or whatever i mean that's because in the 1970s for those of you who lived through it we

00:12:25.300 were able to be held hostage effectively both literally in the sense of what happened with

00:12:31.160 iran with our uh with our embassy there but they were able to hold us hostage those of you who

00:12:36.340 remember lining up and having difficulty getting oil and gas heck buck i'm reading right now i love

00:12:41.920 reading about world war ii you know that during world war ii americans were restricted to four

00:12:47.020 gallons of gas a week so people barely drove anywhere because of the huge shortage and the

00:12:53.080 amount of gas oil and gas we needed in order to fight that war um at least they were in iowa where

00:12:58.840 i'm reading about the anyway i i love all this but the reason we now have energy independence

00:13:04.240 is because we have unleashed the full uh economic spirit capitalistic success of our oil and gas

00:13:12.200 industry in a way that frankly didn't exist in the in the 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s for those of

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00:15:44.220 Welcome in. Hour number two, Thursday edition.

00:15:47.980 Clay and Buck, we appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the program here.

00:15:54.400 We are joined now by our friend Bill O'Reilly, who has a brand new show debuting, We'll Do It Live,

00:16:01.600 which is one of the most viral internet videos uh of uh of news history i i would suggest um and i

00:16:11.940 love that you're playing on the uh the virality of that moment what do you remember from that

00:16:17.780 like did you remember that clip when it sort of started circulating on social media or was it so

00:16:25.440 long ago that you had totally forgotten about it well i was 12 years old so i figured the statute

00:16:32.260 limitations might have run out on it um this is a great story my whole staff turned on me

00:16:38.920 um so i was anchoring inside edition and as i mentioned i was barely a teenager and a tech

00:16:47.000 crew couldn't get uh their act together and it was super annoying and i uh dropped a couple of

00:16:55.040 f-bombs and he said we'll do it live uh which we did and that was that and then years later when i

00:17:02.940 became uh uh let's say notorious on fox news somebody sold that clip oh wow to a fly left

00:17:12.280 website for a large amount of money and uh they put it out in the viral world and it has become

00:17:20.800 worldwide and when I was in Iceland I had people yelling at me we'll do it live and of course I

00:17:28.700 threw snowballs back at them so anyway we're looking for a name for this long form program

00:17:37.040 we're going to do I hate to call it a podcast because podcasts are basically two guys sitting

00:17:43.100 basement smoking pot. That's not what we do, okay? It's a long-form interview with somebody

00:17:51.720 you care about and somebody who's not a phony and will tell the truth. The first guy is Rob

00:17:57.400 Schneider. That drops today. And Schneider goes through how he suffered in his career because he

00:18:06.380 supports Donald Trump. And he talks about Jimmy Kimmel. I mean, it's fascinating stuff I've never

00:18:12.260 heard before but anyway my staff you're all younger oh we have a great name for this show

00:18:18.040 i said okay what is it we'll do it live they all started to laugh and so not only did they turn 0.86

00:18:26.560 against me but they won i surrendered i just i don't care what you call a damn show but i didn't 0.77

00:18:32.760 drop any f-bombs i gotta tell you uh bill we we all we love we love the name the audience loves 0.66

00:18:39.560 a name it's a great it's a great name that clip of you is one of just like the 10 greatest viral

00:18:46.160 and that was it was released pretty early on in the viral internet game so it really had resonance

00:18:51.460 but we'll do it we'll do it live i mean that line has probably been translated into 150 languages

00:18:56.980 now i know i it's unbelievable if i had known it would go like that i would have done it many more

00:19:02.820 times oh wait can we can we can we you guys have a couple of bleeps here but the uh the team wants

00:19:09.800 to play it a little throwback here bill inside edition he's just a teenager he just started

00:19:15.240 shaving and here he is on inside edition play it tomorrow and that is it for us today and we will

00:19:20.600 leave you with a i can't do it we'll do it live okay we'll do it live do it live i can i'll write

00:19:32.160 it and we'll do it live oh wait is that okay that that's we'll do it live there you go bill

00:19:39.700 everyone knows the clip it's a lot of fun by the way guys i really appreciate it you're welcome

00:19:44.300 we got we got you we got you so um that's gonna be a great series and everyone should go check

00:19:50.560 it out billoreilly.com um i i there's no i gotta say hard turn here bill because we're going we're

00:19:56.500 having a fun trip with you down nostalgia lane there but now we got to focus in on you know 0.69

00:20:00.520 world peace fixing america all that stuff for a second how concerned are you you're a balls and 0.62

00:20:06.220 strikes calling guy how concerned are you with this campaign in iran oil price spike does trump

00:20:14.100 really know what the end game is here do you feel like uh this is going according to plan or we are

00:20:18.840 you getting worried about it well anytime it's military action i'm concerned um from the very

00:20:27.020 beginning of the adventure, if you want to use that word, it was a huge risk. The president's

00:20:35.280 aware of it. If it goes his way, he will, I think, catapult himself into the top area of the

00:20:46.020 presidential sweepstakes, which is important to him, his legacy. If it doesn't, then the Republicans

00:20:52.340 are likely to lose the midterm. So a lot on the line. There's not one modern president who would

00:20:57.360 have done this. Maybe Teddy Roosevelt, but he wasn't a modern guy. But even Teddy might have

00:21:05.240 said, you know, it's just too much uncertainty here. So the thinking was that Iran is not going

00:21:14.800 to stop developing a nuclear weapon, even though we hit them in June of 2025. They have other

00:21:22.200 places where they're developing this and they admit it it's not like a he said she said

00:21:28.060 and in the last negotiation with whitkoff in geneva switzerland the iranian foreign minister

00:21:35.840 basically look we're gonna we're not gonna stop we're gonna develop this nuclear weapon and we

00:21:40.480 don't care what you think that was it for trump that was the end and then the president waited

00:21:49.000 for an opening. The opening came when the Israeli intelligence, Mossad, pinpointed the

00:21:55.700 Ayatollah and 25 of his thug cronies were all going to be together on a Saturday morning in 0.97

00:22:01.220 a specific place in Tehran. That information got to President Trump. He said, OK, we'll let the

00:22:08.600 Israelis wipe them off the face of the earth, which happened, and then we'll follow up and 1.00

00:22:13.100 destroy the infrastructure of Iran's ability to wage offensive war, which is underway now and 0.97

00:22:19.300 which will succeed. Now, the unintended consequences are how much pain is that going to cause the world

00:22:27.160 economically? And the other unintended consequence is that a lot of the media, the worldwide media,

00:22:36.140 not just america is rooting against america they want iran to win which is absolutely shocking

00:22:44.360 to me because this is a murderous nation this is the third reich light they killed 30,000 of their 0.80

00:22:54.240 own people a few weeks ago 30,000 and you're rooting for them to win you want trump to be

00:23:02.300 humiliated that's what you're putting forth on cnn the new york times and others that's what you

00:23:08.340 want really think about it that is really a tipping point now president trump himself

00:23:15.660 believes what he wants to believe and he is convinced that uh the united states and israel

00:23:21.520 will wipe out iran's ability to wage offensive war i believe that is true but the uh economic

00:23:30.020 outcome is cloudy and that could mean the Democrats win the midterms in November

00:23:38.600 and that's what we're looking at right now. Bill you may have talked to President Trump

00:23:43.960 and actually given him this advice if you did or if you were asked what should victory look like

00:23:52.400 here what would you suggest to President Trump given where we are right now we've wiped out

00:23:58.280 Certainly a lot of the Air Force, a lot of the Navy, a lot of the military capabilities of Iran are gone. 0.99

00:24:07.480 We'll see whether or not Mojitabak, the son here, is or is not alive and able to take power.

00:24:14.980 But what would you say to President Trump is an off-ramp here?

00:24:18.820 What should an end in hostilities look like from a United States perspective?

00:24:25.160 Well, I did talk to the president about it.

00:24:27.240 in a one-on-one phone conversation uh he called me i don't i never call him i mean that's not my

00:24:34.820 job and he's a president i'm not going to intrude and uh he said uh what would you do and i said i

00:24:41.880 negotiated in uh down to the fact that uh there'll be routine expectations inside iran and they're

00:24:51.800 not to develop ballistic mystical capacity, you have to downgrade Revolutionary Guard,

00:24:57.940 and you have to become a nation that does not wage war constantly, or finance terrorism.

00:25:05.760 That's a negotiation. If they agree to that, then you would help them rebuild their economy.

00:25:12.000 The problem is that Iran will say they'll do it, and then they won't do it. We all know that. 0.97

00:25:17.760 But that negotiated settlement, I think, still could happen.

00:25:22.580 But they're going to have to experience a lot of pain before the Iranians get to that place. 0.97

00:25:28.880 And so no one can say when it will end.

00:25:34.040 I mean, it's like asking General Patton, you know, when he's up trying to defeat the Nazis in Bastogne.

00:25:41.600 How long is this going to take, General?

00:25:43.280 You know, I mean, come on, it's war. 1.00

00:25:45.460 I think those questions are ridiculous and stupid and immature and designed to produce gotcha results. 1.00

00:25:52.140 And that's all the American president. 1.00

00:25:53.540 Well, how long?

00:25:54.340 How long?

00:25:54.700 Nobody knows.

00:25:56.780 And the American people, we have a soft society.

00:26:00.560 We don't want to be inconvenienced or pay more money for anything.

00:26:04.400 And then, you know, you've got the hate Trumpers.

00:26:07.160 So it's very complicated.

00:26:08.740 But I think what will happen is that Iran will come back to the table and there'll be some kind of an agreement to neuter them as a state-sponsored terrorist outfit.

00:26:23.640 Hey, Bill. First off, everyone make sure you check out first episode today of We'll Do It Live, which is up on BillOReilly.com.

00:26:33.000 go watch the show it's got rob schneider uh who i give a lot of credit to for being a hollywood

00:26:38.180 guy who's been right wing and right wing for a long time uh bill one more topic for you before

00:26:43.520 we gotta head into the break uh so we'll do a kind of shorter version on it but this save america act

00:26:48.520 we're getting so much from everyone listening about talk more about the save america you got

00:26:53.880 to push the save america act and and i get it and i agree with it and i wish it would pass

00:26:59.260 But I also feel like Majority Leader Thune plus about four or five other senators aren't going to pass this thing.

00:27:07.540 So what are we supposed to do?

00:27:09.040 I mean, do you think that is there a world in which there's enough pressure, enough phone calls on these senators?

00:27:13.580 I don't think you're getting McConnell and Murkowski.

00:27:17.120 They're not going to vote for this thing.

00:27:20.840 McConnell will. Murkowski won't.

00:27:23.080 But you need 60 to get it to the Senate floor.

00:27:26.440 They're not going to get that.

00:27:27.400 Thune knows it.

00:27:29.260 He'll put it up for a vote next week.

00:27:31.780 But this hurts the Democratic Party big time because 79 percent of the American public, and that includes a lot of Democrats, obviously, want voter ID.

00:27:42.320 And all the socialist countries in Europe have it.

00:27:45.640 And there's no reason not to have it.

00:27:48.180 So the Republicans are going, yeah, we know we're not going to get it through the Senate.

00:27:51.580 It's already passed the House, as you guys know.

00:27:54.120 But, you know, the damage that the Democrats are going to do to themselves may be worth it.

00:28:00.700 And that's the way our system is.

00:28:03.400 So you need 60 votes to get it to a vote on the floor in the Senate.

00:28:08.020 Now there's an effort to knock out the filibuster.

00:28:10.120 I don't think that's wise, but that could happen.

00:28:13.660 And the American people understand that in order to diminish voter fraud, you've got to prove that you're an American citizen, which is the federal law.

00:28:23.320 Do you believe these reports that McConnell is stalling it, that, you know, you say he'll vote for it, but.

00:28:30.680 No, he's barely cognizant.

00:28:33.800 The guy's just limping to the finish line.

00:28:35.880 I mean, he doesn't have any presence at all.

00:28:39.620 Murkowski is not really a Republican.

00:28:42.440 Okay.

00:28:42.960 And she hates Trump so much that anything Trump supports, she'll oppose.

00:28:48.260 I don't expect any other defections.

00:28:50.420 um even crazy ram paul i mean you just can't but the democrats i mean that's a that's a bad hill

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00:30:37.860 third hour of play and book gets going right now we're joined by senator eric schmidt of

00:30:45.140 missouri now senator thanks for stopping by good to be with you let's start with the save act sir

00:30:52.240 we have so many people who are paying close attention to this a lot of listeners all across

00:30:58.100 america who are saying this seems like a must this seems so straightforward so necessary as a law and

00:31:06.800 of course, Democrats oppose it. Is there any realistic path forward for this? What is the

00:31:12.580 best outcome as you see it for the SAVE Act that's realistic? What do you want to happen?

00:31:18.900 Well, we need to get on it. And the hope is that next week we will actually be on the Senate floor

00:31:23.740 with the SAVE Act. I think that'd be. And by the way, spend some time on it. And I'm the supporter

00:31:28.980 of this talking filibuster idea. I think that's what people think happens in Washington in the

00:31:33.060 united states senate they think of jimmy stewart uh holding the floor um and the senate the old

00:31:38.760 line is that operates by unanimous consent or exhaustion and i think the democrats should have

00:31:42.660 to own this and earn it if they want to block the idea that you have to be u.s citizen to vote you

00:31:48.120 have to show an id to vote that we're not going to allow mass mail-in balloting scams we're not

00:31:52.680 going to allow transgender surgery for minors and we shouldn't allow uh boys in in women's sports 1.00

00:31:58.020 men and women's sports that's what this will do and those are common sense proposals they're 80

00:32:02.180 20 issues they might be higher than that and i think it's really important most importantly for

00:32:06.980 protecting the election security and regaining the trust of the american people so my hope is that

00:32:11.200 we're on it we stay on it so if we go to the uh talking filibuster there have been all sorts of

00:32:19.460 different reports that i have read uh about what that actually looks like what that means

00:32:25.300 what do you anticipate a talking filibuster would look like and uh how does it end how does it

00:32:32.280 progress so you you got to get on the bill and if we take the house bill and forgive me if i get in

00:32:38.480 the weeds but since you asked the question so yeah the house bill it only requires uh 51 votes to get

00:32:44.520 on it right so we can take the house bill that's been passed and then it is before the senate

00:32:48.640 And then at that point, amendments are in order. You know, I'm working closely with the White House on this, Senator Lee. Amendments would be in order. So that version that came over has two provisions. It doesn't have the male-in piece. It doesn't have the transgender piece. It doesn't have the men and women's sports piece. So we would be able to amend it.

00:33:06.840 And then at that point, and that's a majority vote when you're on amendments, then at that point, we need to get to a final vote.

00:33:15.560 And one way you can get to the final vote is that you just run out of Democrats that want to hold the floor for hours and hours.

00:33:21.280 Now, the commitment from the Republican side is that we need to make sure we hold a quorum for the whole time that this happens.

00:33:27.960 Meaning if a Democrat says, hey, I know the absence of a quorum, meaning there's not enough people in the chamber, there have to be 51 Republicans that are there to maintain the quorum.

00:33:36.500 So this is something that used to happen. I think the Senate's got kind of lazy with the way we do it now, where you just come in and you clock in a vote and it gets you to 60. So this is about holding the floor, voting on amendments for a period of time. That's how it would play out.

00:33:53.100 Now, speaking of the floor, I believe you've been on the Senate floor asking for unanimous consent to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the next two weeks.

00:34:04.200 Where does that stand?

00:34:05.440 I assume Democrats either have blocked it or are going to block it.

00:34:10.420 Yeah, they blocked it.

00:34:11.120 So basically the Democrats are blocking funding for Homeland Security.

00:34:16.000 So the irony here is they left 15 million people in this country.

00:34:20.020 Some of them are terrorists.

00:34:21.180 Many are murderers and even more violent criminals, but they're defunding homeland security. 0.91

00:34:26.440 That's what their position is.

00:34:27.760 So they're blocking our efforts to fund it because they're having a temper tantrum about ICE.

00:34:32.520 What it's really about, guys, is they don't actually think we should enforce our immigration laws.

00:34:37.820 They don't like the result in 2024. 0.98

00:34:40.620 They don't care that American mothers and daughters are being raped and murdered by illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:34:46.360 And ICE has a job to do.

00:34:48.280 We've set out what their job is in our laws that have been passed, passed by Republicans and Democrats and enforced, by the way, by Republicans and Democrats in previous administrations.

00:34:56.360 But what we saw with Joe Biden was unprecedented.

00:34:58.460 He threw open the border.

00:34:59.620 Millions of people are here.

00:35:01.000 President Trump ran on deporting those folks.

00:35:02.800 And here we're at where we're at.

00:35:03.880 They don't like the results.

00:35:04.780 So they just wanted to fund ICE.

00:35:06.040 That's what this comes down to.

00:35:07.120 So in the crosshairs that in the mix there in that DH funding bill is TSA, the Coast Guard, all these agencies that outside of ICE and the Democrats are blocking funding because of Trump arrangement syndrome.

00:35:19.420 OK, let's you're breaking down everything going on in in that context.

00:35:24.720 We're hearing about hours and hours that everybody's having to stand in line.

00:35:29.880 And at some point, especially with it being spring break week, people just look around and they're angry.

00:35:35.420 You may not be paying attention to what's funded and what's not.

00:35:39.240 We've got an alleged shooting that you may or may not have seen that took place in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

00:35:46.300 Reports are that the shooter is believed to be dead.

00:35:49.500 We know what happened in Austin, Texas, where unfortunately a couple of people were murdered by what appears to have been a deranged lunatic.

00:35:57.020 And we know in New York City there were just a couple of IEDs thrown that fortunately did not go off but could have killed many people.

00:36:04.520 isn't it absolutely beyond the pale absurd that we would be in a situation where i think the number

00:36:12.160 right now is 300 some odd tsa agents have just said hey i've got to quit i've got to find a new

00:36:16.560 job or i've got to make money right now that democrats would be refusing to fund uh these 0.97

00:36:21.640 individuals it's crazy i mean it's so stupid clay i don't i mean i've seen a lot of stuff in politics 0.99

00:36:28.140 i've seen a lot of argument it's just so dumb uh but they're obsessed they're first of all um 1.00

00:36:33.200 They hate President Trump, and that manifests itself in many different ways. 0.87

00:36:37.460 But they thought they had some moment, I think, in Minneapolis that they were going to be able to ultimately prevent law enforcement from doing their jobs by overloading them with burdens that they can't, you know, we can talk about what those are.

00:36:49.760 But basically, it would it would render ICE unable to deport people.

00:36:54.060 That's what they want.

00:36:54.780 And so they are willing to hold all of this hostage.

00:36:56.980 and now the legacy media will go along with it and they'll create some issue about some

00:37:02.340 negotiation on this but it's very simple republicans just voted just now voted to fund

00:37:09.060 tsa to fund ice to fund secret service to fund the coast guard and the democrats have voted no 0.99

00:37:16.000 it's that it's not that complicated it's stupid but it's not complicated 0.96

00:37:20.080 senator schmidt with us now and uh senator i i think that this war in iran or whatever we haven't 0.98

00:37:29.180 really come up with something other than a war to call it i guess this overseas aerial campaign

00:37:33.280 against the iranian military definitely acts of war going on uh the president seems very confident 0.99

00:37:39.800 that this is both achieving its objectives and will be limited in scope and he is in charge of

00:37:45.820 that scope what's your sense as to how this is going so far and what's your confidence level

00:37:50.540 that this will be wrapped up say by the end of the month yeah i mean i think the president's

00:37:56.700 committed to um to accomplishing the objectives as he laid out and essentially in a nutshell

00:38:01.680 the nuclear program that we you know had a devastating blow to with the b2s out of missouri 0.93

00:38:06.880 by the way last summer uh iran was basically creating this missile shield this conventional

00:38:11.760 ballistic missile shield to protect it for their future ambitions and that's being wiped out now

00:38:17.140 so that's really the mission um we had a briefing earlier this week um they're ahead of schedule on

00:38:22.320 that and uh i think the president's committed to doing this he understands uh the concerns that

00:38:27.340 people would have about having another forever war in the middle east i don't think he wants that but

00:38:31.260 um he's committed to this mission i think they're accomplishing that right now

00:38:34.740 much less seriously i saw you friday um at the president's college sports roundtable and i know

00:38:42.420 you have entered uh introduced a bill uh alongside of a democrat colleague that would help to

00:38:48.640 rectify the mess that is college athletics what would it do are you optimistic that it can be a

00:38:54.440 solution it look it's the first bipartisan bill that's been introduced on this on this measure i

00:38:59.580 I think that's a significant development to set the stage.

00:39:03.160 College athletics right now is very chaotic in college football, by and large, for years has essentially been the cash cow that funds all the non-revenue sports, women's sports, Olympic sports, even sports like baseball that don't really generate revenue, save a couple of schools here or there.

00:39:19.200 because of the new system that we have right now. You know, it's just a matter of time. And I think

00:39:25.220 that time's pretty soon where you're just going to start seeing all that programming dropped and

00:39:29.200 all those scholarships drop for people who, you know, can change their lives. So what's the

00:39:32.640 solution? I was skeptical, Klanbuck, about Congress. If you had asked me this two years ago,

00:39:37.520 I'd be, why is Congress considering anything here? But the truth is Congress is the only

00:39:41.560 entity on the planet that can grant antitrust exemption to some governing body to set some

00:39:46.180 rules, transfer rules, eligibility rules, agent rules, things that they can't do right now because

00:39:50.660 of lawsuits have basically rendered the NCAA feckless. They can't do anything. So we can do

00:39:55.540 that. But I don't think you solve the governance problem or the challenges in college sports

00:39:59.880 without revenue to basically pay for these sports, right? These non-revenue women's sports, 1.00

00:40:04.760 the Olympic sports that we all love. And so our proposal, Senator Cantwell and I from Washington

00:40:09.020 are that, look, the NFL, the NBA, MLB, they all have antitrust exemption to collectively negotiate

00:40:15.460 to pool their media rights, okay?

00:40:17.860 And to just give you a statistic,

00:40:19.460 the NBA has half the audience of college football,

00:40:22.620 but twice the revenue.

00:40:23.960 The NBA generates about $8 billion.

00:40:25.500 College football is about $4 billion,

00:40:26.880 but they have twice the eyeballs every week.

00:40:29.380 And so, you know, the SEC and Big Ten are big players in that,

00:40:31.860 but what we could do is our bill says,

00:40:33.500 look, you can pool your media rights.

00:40:35.100 We respect the conferences that are going to bring in

00:40:37.160 the lion's share of the revenue,

00:40:38.180 but that bargaining will be great for fans

00:40:41.060 because think about it.

00:40:41.980 With the NFL, there's different channels.

00:40:44.120 There's a Sunday night game.

00:40:45.360 there's a monday night game sometimes a thursday night game college football the interest is

00:40:49.700 growing and you can actually have a system here where fox and esp and all of them are bidding

00:40:54.680 bidding bidding bidding up those dollars that can protect those sports and it'll be great for the

00:40:57.960 fans how optimistic are you that this thing is going to pass i think this component is key i

00:41:05.640 don't think you can just do the governance piece and get to 60 votes in the senate right i think

00:41:10.540 there has to be a carrot here where everybody feels like they're growing so if you're a if

00:41:14.840 If you're a school that's been kind of left behind on some of this stuff, on the revenue that's been generated for the, you know, the conferences, they're doing exceedingly well.

00:41:21.640 There's a reason for them to do it. I think. And look, I'm a Mizzou guy. I love Mizzou. They're in the SEC. I love SEC football.

00:41:26.940 I think they're going to do well in this model, too. So I'm optimistic that the next phase, the House is probably going to claim vote on something next week.

00:41:34.400 Just the SCORE Act, which is just the governance piece. I think the thing at the White House last week added momentum.

00:41:39.600 I think we're going to be hopefully the next step in the Senate is a hearing in the Commerce Committee where I serve on.

00:41:45.060 And this will be heard out. And I think that's where the work will be done to try to fight a compromise to literally save college sports.

00:41:51.340 If we don't get this done this year or maybe next year, but I think this year is very important.

00:41:55.760 I think the landscape looks different forever. And if we fix it, or I should say we give them the tools to fix it.

00:42:01.960 I think it changes things for the next 50 years will be great for fans.

00:42:04.960 good stuff as always senator eric schmidt of missouri we appreciate the time good luck on

00:42:10.600 getting all that taken care of all right guys thanks um awesome all right uh let's see here

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00:44:25.260 welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton show I want to update you guys on the latest this is

00:44:34.660 from Fox News and I just sent it and let me make sure that I read this correctly

00:44:42.100 Authorities say the shooter involved in the attack at Temple Israel, that's outside of Detroit, Michigan,

00:44:48.080 found badly burned after crashing a vehicle into the building, which then caught fire.

00:44:58.040 Armed security engaged in a shootout and fatally shot the would-be attacker.

00:45:04.300 Also, CNN reporting, and this may be why he was badly burned, that the vehicle was filled with explosives.

00:45:11.660 So that would explain a lot here, because you would have somebody who tried to create a VBIED,

00:45:19.940 a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, essentially a car suicide bomber, and the bomb didn't go off.

00:45:27.500 Making bombs is fortunately harder than a lot of people think it is, especially if you've never done it before.

00:45:32.480 Near miss, it seems, Clay.

00:45:33.600 It looks like no casualties, no good guy, no good gal casualties in the synagogue.

00:45:38.360 Only this guy taken out, right?

00:45:40.300 That's right.

00:45:41.300 And again, this now suggests Austin, New York City, Detroit, Virginia,

00:45:47.000 all with the same motive that is a violent terror attack.

00:45:51.760 We bring in now Senator John Cornyn of Texas.

00:45:55.960 He is with us.

00:45:57.180 We've got a bunch to get into with you, Senator.

00:45:58.840 We appreciate the time.

00:46:00.360 Let's start with this.

00:46:01.600 primary runoff against ken paxton in late may president trump has said that he is going to

00:46:08.460 endorse but has held off on endorsing do you expect him to endorse you what do you what impact

00:46:15.260 do you think the president's endorsement in texas would have well i've told the president that i

00:46:21.420 thought his endorsement would be very impactful and i would be delighted if he chooses to endorse

00:46:28.140 endorsed me in the race. So far, he's not done that. And, you know, people ask me, well, what's

00:46:36.660 he going to do? And my usual response is, there's only one person on the planet who knows the answer

00:46:42.040 to that, and it's not me. So we're continuing to work hard toward that May 26 runoff. And if the

00:46:51.900 president decides to make an endorsement, that would be great news. Senator Cornyn,

00:46:57.760 appreciate you being with us uh my understanding is and feel free to correct any part of this

00:47:02.340 because there's a lot of senators and i can't know everything that all of you have ever thought

00:47:05.160 or said but my understanding is that you've long been in the past a defender of the senate

00:47:11.020 filibuster rule so a 60 vote threshold for most legislation but that you just recently published

00:47:17.360 why the save act matters more than the filibuster am i right is is that where you are now is that

00:47:25.300 really is that a major departure a major change in your feeling about the filibuster and what

00:47:30.420 brought you to this because you're going to have some critics who say well this is just because

00:47:35.040 you're up for re-election and you want to seem like you're going to give the base what it wants

00:47:39.200 well the filibuster has stopped a lot of really bad legislation when the democrats were in charge

00:47:46.760 they proposed packing the supreme court making puerto rico and the district of columbia states

00:47:53.820 and getting two Democratic senators each and permanently changing the country.

00:48:00.200 So the filibuster has worked well to stop bad stuff.

00:48:05.500 But we're in much different times now.

00:48:09.160 And with the Trump derangement syndrome and the polarization up here in Congress,

00:48:15.780 Democrats just reflexively oppose everything that Trump has proposed or that Republicans want,

00:48:22.180 including paying the Transportation Security Agency agents and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

00:48:29.840 They didn't do anything wrong, but they're the people being punished now by this second shutdown of a significant part of the federal government.

00:48:38.060 So I long for the day when you would have these two political parties who obviously have different priorities and different ideas about how to govern,

00:48:52.180 but where there is still the possibility of finding some common ground and working to build consensus.

00:48:58.520 I think that's good for the country when we can do that,

00:49:01.040 because any short-term measures that one party or the other passes can change the next time the Congress slips.

00:49:10.280 So I would call this really kind of an evolution of my views that fit the times.

00:49:17.140 I don't think it's okay for us to just tell my constituents in Texas,

00:49:21.300 We can't get anything done because the Democrats won't cooperate.

00:49:25.300 And we know, as the president has pointed out, that when the shoe is on the other foot,

00:49:29.300 when they're in the majority, they will blow up the filibuster immediately.

00:49:34.240 So I've said I'm open to the talking filibuster, which we hope to use on the Save America Act

00:49:41.200 and potentially other reforms as well.

00:49:44.780 We're talking to Senator John Cornyn of Texas.

00:49:47.940 He's in a runoff against Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, on May 26th.

00:49:52.820 We know that one of you will be running against James Tallarico,

00:49:57.020 who frankly seems like a very far left-wing and radical nominee for the Democrats.

00:50:03.400 Do you believe that you would beat Tallarico worse than Ken Paxton would?

00:50:08.940 And is that one reason why you would argue people should vote for you in this upcoming runoff?

00:50:15.560 yes uh that's exactly right um i will be at the top of the ticket as the nominee and in 2020 last

00:50:24.760 time i ran i won by 10 points which means that not only will we keep the senate seat in republican

00:50:30.700 hands but it will help down ballot races including these five new congressional seats that were drawn

00:50:37.000 as a result of redistricting to hope hopefully help keep the majority in the in the house

00:50:42.480 the attorney general has so much political baggage that I think it's an open question

00:50:49.500 whether he could actually even win so this thus the prospect or the possibility of actually losing

00:50:57.160 a red state senate seat in this election and even if he were to win by the skin of his teeth

00:51:03.940 I would think he will not win by a margin that will help down ballot and it would cost hundreds

00:51:10.000 of millions of dollars to try to salvage him and salvage this red seat so that is part of the

00:51:16.840 argument that uh that we've been making and i know the president and his team um are fully aware of

00:51:23.200 okay so let's say that you weren't the nominee let's say ken paxton won or vice versa would you

00:51:30.360 uh campaign heartily for whoever the republican nominee is and do you expect that he would

00:51:36.040 campaign for you in order to make sure that this seat as you just laid out doesn't end up in

00:51:41.620 democrat hands or doesn't even end up hopefully competitive uh so that there's not having to be

00:51:46.720 a ton of money spent on it but in other words you win uh that's great you're going to be working

00:51:52.080 hard do you expect his endorsement if you lose will you endorse him well first of all i expect

00:51:58.980 to win but to answer your question um i've worked most of my adult life trying to build

00:52:05.220 the Republican Party, both at the state level and at the national level. My first statewide

00:52:11.860 election was in 1990 when we still were basically a divided state. We had a Democratic governor

00:52:20.000 that year, Ann Richards, for example. But to answer your question, I would support the Republican

00:52:26.420 ticket. I think that's the best answer I can give you. Speaking of Senator Cornyn of

00:52:35.140 texas and uh senator why would you be um better i mean a lot of times it comes down to for some

00:52:42.880 people uh trying something new you've obviously been in the senate for quite some time why would

00:52:48.380 it be better to have you representing texas than uh attorney attorney general paxton and how would

00:52:54.900 you address any critics that you have who say that you're not as maga when it counts as you'd like to

00:53:02.720 appear at election time because we get a lot of emails a lot of callers and this is something that

00:53:07.600 we hear wanted to give you an opportunity to just lay lay it out there for everybody

00:53:11.560 well thank you i i think a lot of this has to do with personalities and temperament i spent 13 years

00:53:20.500 of my life as a judge and then as attorney general before i got to the senate and i always like to

00:53:27.000 tell people I'm conservative. I'm just not mad about it. But the point is what you've done.

00:53:35.640 And that's one reason why in Texas, in our advertising, we pointed out that I have voted

00:53:40.320 with the president 99.3% of the time. That's a better number than Ted Cruz, the junior senator

00:53:48.220 from Texas, by the way. And secondly, we need somebody who can be effective for the state.

00:53:54.780 So when the governor called me and said, look, Texas taxpayers have had to step up and pay

00:54:00.320 $11 billion to help secure the border when Biden wouldn't, he called me and we worked with the

00:54:07.840 Texas delegation to get that done. And so we are expecting a nice check from the federal government

00:54:14.140 to the Texas taxpayer of $11 billion. It takes some experience and relationships to be able to

00:54:21.420 get that done and i think uh i think my effectiveness on behalf of uh of 32 million texas

00:54:28.620 is something that separates me from the attorney general we're talking to john cornyn senator from

00:54:33.660 texas runoff may 26th um when you looked at the results you won the primary um in the first go

00:54:42.020 around you had the most votes were you surprised by that did you expect it what did that what does

00:54:47.360 that outcome tell people about texas well i i would there's nothing's guaranteed but i i was 0.94

00:54:56.960 optimistic that i would win and that was you know there have been a lot of trash what i call trash

00:55:02.680 talk including the attorney general who said he could win without a runoff and obviously that

00:55:08.000 didn't materialize so um you know we've been only about 11 of registered voters voted in the

00:55:15.560 Republican primary. Thankfully, people who didn't vote in the primary can vote in the runoff.

00:55:21.860 But, you know, a lot of this has to do with motivating your voters and getting them to the

00:55:27.500 polls. In the end, winning elections isn't all that complicated. It's about who gets the most

00:55:33.160 votes. And we simply worked hard to to try to encourage as many people as we can to vote in

00:55:40.640 the republican primary even so the democrats outvoted us which should be a warning shot across

00:55:47.280 our mouth senator uh you know we got a lot of emails because we asked for questions and you

00:55:51.880 know for example i'll just let you address this we have one vip who wrote in and said

00:55:56.080 i believe senator cornyn voted against pete hegseth for dod secretary now secretary of war

00:56:02.080 you voted yes for pete hegseth if memory served am i correct on that correct correct yeah yeah

00:56:07.200 Some of the questions we get are actually not fair to, just to call the balls and strikes here, Senator,

00:56:14.440 they're not fair to your record.

00:56:15.520 People seem to think for some reason that you have voted not 99% of the time with Trump.

00:56:21.740 Yeah.

00:56:22.220 Well, the president knows what my record is, and he calls me a friend.

00:56:26.780 And there was some indication that he was prepared to endorse me after leading in the primary on March the 3rd.

00:56:34.480 And obviously, as we said, the timing of that, and if it happens, is entirely up to him.

00:56:40.120 But I think the president views me as an ally and somebody who's supported him.

00:56:45.320 And I think he appreciates that.

00:56:48.040 You know, I was there on the front lines during the confirmation of three new Supreme Court justices

00:56:54.320 when we passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017.

00:56:57.720 I was the whip who helped get that across the finish line.

00:57:02.320 so a lot of the campaign is about reminding people about what my record is and frankly

00:57:08.360 disabusing people of some of the falsehoods that are out there so i appreciate you giving me an

00:57:13.200 opportunity to address that senator corning thank you for coming on the show and taking our

00:57:18.100 questions and uh godspeed to you and we'll talk to you soon thank you very much appreciate it

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