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Verdict with Ted Cruz
- October 28, 2025
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Oct 28 2025
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This is an iHeart Podcast.
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Guaranteed Human.
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Welcome in Tuesday edition.
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Clay and Buck, one week exactly
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until we are officially on the election day of 2025.
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New Jersey, go vote.
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Virginia, go vote.
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New York City, go vote.
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I know there are other elections taking place.
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I voted for alderman today in my town of Franklin, Tennessee.
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So a lot of different aspects underway
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as we move into the election season of 2025.
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And in particular, by the way,
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we'll talk with our friend Riley Gaines,
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who AOC decided to attack out of nowhere over swimming.
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Sometimes I was texting with Riley yesterday
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when this happened that a lot of these attacks
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seem like gifts because so many of the people
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that are attacking Riley for just saying
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men shouldn't be involved in women's sports.
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I can't believe that this has become
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such Democrat Party orthodoxy
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that AOC would decide kind of out of nowhere
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to just start tweeting at Riley Gaines angrily
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about her past swimming successes.
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Speaking of swimming, I went for a rare dip
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in the Atlantic Ocean, technically Biscayne Bay,
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over the weekend.
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And right around the same time,
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there was, in fact, a shark attack.
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Yes, 46-year-old guy got attacked.
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You sent me the link, and I was looking at it.
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And, I mean, can you imagine
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if you had gotten attacked by a shark?
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After all our shark...
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This is why I don't want to tempt fate
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with the Alcatraz.
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After all of our shark discussion,
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I'm just saying, this is...
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I'm starting to worry about your Alcatraz
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swimming a little bit here, buddy,
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which we've already committed to.
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And I'm going to be in that launch boat
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cheering you on nice and warm
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with my Crockett hot cocoa
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what we're going to start making by then.
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But this guy, I believe, was snorkeling,
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and it looked like he tried to touch the shark,
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which is a bad idea.
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Oh, well, that's very, very different.
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It was not a predatory attack.
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It was a leave-me-alone bite on the hand,
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and he had to go to the hospital.
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But technically, a shark attack
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not far from where I was swimming.
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On Sunday, I was walking into church.
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This is 100% true.
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Guy I had not met before comes up,
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and he says that he is part
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of a long-distance swimming team.
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And they have been hearing us talk about
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he had swam Catalina.
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He had swam from Alcatraz,
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and they do regular long training sessions,
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and he was offering his skill set
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and his team to me as a training companion.
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This is, I mean, legitimately,
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as I am walking into church on Sunday,
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this gentleman I had never met before came up,
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and he wanted me to know
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that he had my back on the swims
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and that he and the team were ready
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to assist as necessary.
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And I told him, I said,
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well, I'm kind of getting a little bit terrified,
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not of the swim,
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but that I'm tempting fate,
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and I'm going to be eaten by a shark.
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And he told me that I would be fine.
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So I hope he's right.
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But yeah, you narrowly avoided attack
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on a swim in Biscayne Bay.
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Speaking of attack,
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Buck, I cannot believe
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that New York City
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is really going to elect
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Zoran Mamdani.
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And the more videos I watch,
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the more deep dive I do
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on his life story,
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I'm not sure there has ever been
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a more transparent liar
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liar that has accomplished
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nothing in his life
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that is poised for
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an election victory
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like Mamdani is.
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35 years old,
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never really done anything
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of any significance in his life,
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was raised in Uganda,
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and unbelievably,
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24 years after 9-11,
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we really have hit
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the Norm MacDonald joke
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where everyone now says,
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oh, can you imagine on the left
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the Islamophobia
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that so many victims of 9-11
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had to deal with?
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And Mamdani claimed
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to have an aunt
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that was afraid to wear her hijab
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on the New York City metro
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after the 9-11 terror attack.
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And now, after it was pointed out
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that the aunt story
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couldn't possibly have been true,
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he now says
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it wasn't his aunt,
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it was actually
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his father's cousin
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who passed away
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a few years ago.
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This is after he was caught
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in the lie on an aunt.
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Let's play this cut two, please.
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I was speaking about my aunt,
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I was speaking about
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Zerafui,
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my father's cousin,
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sadly passed away
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a few years ago.
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And for the takeaway
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from my more than 10-minute address
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about Islamophobia
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in this race
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and in this city
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to be the question
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of my aunt
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tells you everything
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about Andrew Cuomo.
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I mean, why does that,
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I mean, if I said to you, Buck,
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something that,
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I mean, I've got two aunts
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that are both deceased,
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but if I said something
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very specific
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about their life story
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at a point
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in my political career,
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it wouldn't be unfair
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for people to say,
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okay, tell me about these
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aunts of yours.
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Yes, he made it an issue.
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This is the Jussie Smollett,
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how dare you question me
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when I'm caught in my lie, sir?
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Well, yeah, actually.
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That's how this works.
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A few things on this, Clay.
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One is the lack of,
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first, Islamophobia
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is a nonsense term.
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I think Christopher Hitchens
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once said it's like
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a nonsense term
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used by thugs
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to silence idiots
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or something like that.
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It was essentially
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the whole point
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of Islamophobia
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is to create some word
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that shuts down criticism
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of aspects of a faith
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that now has about
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two billion adherents worldwide
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and is certainly something
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that people should be allowed
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to discuss.
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Phobia is an irrational fear of.
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There was a period of time
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where there was plenty
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of rational fear
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of radicalized elements
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from within the Islamic world.
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And by the way,
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there still is plenty
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of rational discussion
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to be had about elements
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of the Islamic world
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that are a problem
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for Western civilization
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and for the state of Israel,
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for America,
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for a whole bunch of things.
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Okay.
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But putting that aside
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for a second,
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a couple of things.
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One is,
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I mentioned this yesterday,
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it is to America's
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extreme credit
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that there was so little
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to the American people,
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there was so little
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actual Islamic bigotry
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on display here
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after 9-11
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given the scope,
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scale of those attacks.
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And the continued attacks
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that happened,
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this is something
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that gets lost
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in this discussion, Clay.
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There were further
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jihadist mass murders
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of Americans
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that went on
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for the better part
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of two decades here.
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It's kind of slowed down
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in the last few years,
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but it was a regular thing.
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Oh, another,
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another, you know,
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bomb goes off somewhere
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or someone's run down
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10 people for no reason
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in the street
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in a mass murder attack.
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And so with all
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of that going on
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and we had
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multiple wars
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and counterinsurgency
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operations going on
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against Islamist elements
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and a, you know,
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billions and billions
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of dollars spent
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on security,
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we effectively have
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airport security lines
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because of Islamic radicalism.
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Thanks, Islamic radicalism.
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With all of that,
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they still have to
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make up stories
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like this.
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Zoran Mamdani,
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he's not telling a story
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about something
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that would be truly
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horrific and wrong.
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You know, oh my gosh,
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the firebombing
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of a mosque
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that occurred on,
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you know,
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in Brooklyn, right?
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No, none of that happened.
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But he's a theater kid
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cosplaying radical
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and so it's totally normal
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for him to make up
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the story of the aunt
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who among hundreds
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of thousands
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of Muslims
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in New York City
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was the one
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who was too scared
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to ride the subway
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with her hijab.
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Give me a break, dude.
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Clay, the guy's a fake
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and he's a phony,
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but the people voting
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for him don't care.
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Yeah, well,
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let me hit you
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with a couple
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of more clips
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that continue
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to get attention.
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This is in September
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of 2023.
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I know most of you
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know this,
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but maybe you've got
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friends or family
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out there.
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I just saw a report,
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Buck,
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that New York City's
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mayoral race
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is on track
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for the highest turnout
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since 1993.
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That was the
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Rudy Giuliani win.
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So,
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WOR,
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people in New York City
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are woken up.
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There is a lot
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of enthusiasm.
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There's a lot
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of interest here.
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Let me play a couple
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of these cuts
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from Momdani.
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This is September
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of 2023.
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We have to make clear,
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this is a quote,
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that when the boot
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of the NYPD
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is on your neck,
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it's been laced
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by the IDF.
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This is Momdani,
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again,
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cut three,
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September 2023.
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The importance for me
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of international solidarity
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is that it takes me
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out of the American
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political landscape
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that reminds me
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just how tame
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some of the things
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are that I'm actually
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calling for.
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And it reminds me
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of the necessity
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of grounding ourselves
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in the struggles
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as opposed to
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the fights
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around the struggles.
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For anyone
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to care
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about these issues,
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we have to make
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them hyper-lobal.
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We have to make clear
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that when
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the boot
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of the NYPD
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is on your neck,
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it's been laced
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by the IDF.
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We're in a country
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where those
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connections abound,
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especially in New York City.
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You have so many
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opportunities
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to make clear
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the ways in which
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that struggle
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over there
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is tied to
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capital's interest
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over here.
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Okay, let me play
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one more, Buck.
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And again,
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he said when the
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NYPD boot
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is on your throat,
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it has been laced
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by the IDF.
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Here he is
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in 2020
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saying,
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we don't need police.
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They don't create safety.
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We need to take
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the money
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and defund
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the NYPD.
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This is about
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as direct
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as you can be.
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Cut 33.
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We need to defund
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these institutions.
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And I say that
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as somebody
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who has grown up
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in this city,
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who has seen
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what these cops can do,
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and who has seen
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the ways in which
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that police
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have been integrated
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into every part
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of our lives,
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that we had them
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in our high schools,
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that we had them
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in our middle schools.
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We do not need
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police to be
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in these places.
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They do not create safety.
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We need to
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take this money,
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defund the NYPD,
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and refund the people.
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I mean,
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this is pretty straightforward.
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The guy has told you
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what at least
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he thought was popular
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at the time,
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which is
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he's a shape-shifting
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amoeba
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that is just
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an actor
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more than anything else,
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I think.
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Here's the truth, Clay.
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It's like when they
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hit him with all these ads,
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all Cuomo has run.
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Cuomo's run a garbage campaign
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relative to what
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it should have been.
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For a guy who,
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you can tell
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that he's a Nepo baby
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who became governor
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because daddy was governor
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and he has a last name
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that New York has recognized.
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He was a horrible governor,
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by the way.
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He's not a good campaigner.
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He's actually not
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a talented politician.
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He has not run
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a good campaign
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in the city of New York
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at all.
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And as I've said,
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if Mamdani's an F
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as mayor in waiting,
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Cuomo's maybe a C-.
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Better,
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better,
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but not great.
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Not great at all.
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And I think that
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the attacks on Mamdani
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saying he doesn't have
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enough experience,
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the people voting for him
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don't care.
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And the attacks on Mamdani
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that you and I
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are now leveling,
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which is that he's clearly
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a woke radical leftist
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who is anti-cop
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at his core.
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Clay,
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they've already gotten
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around this by saying,
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you know,
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he believed that then,
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he's apologized,
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he'll keep Jessica Tish
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in her role
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as NYPD commissioner
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whom everyone respects.
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And by the way,
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people do respect.
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But how long does he
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keep her in that role?
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And does he allow her
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to actually do the job
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the way she wants to?
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Does she end up resigning
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in a year in frustration
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because she's handcuffed,
00:12:34.480
so to speak,
00:12:35.160
from doing the job
00:12:36.140
the way that she should,
00:12:37.000
even if she's kept
00:12:37.660
in that role?
00:12:38.740
But Clay,
00:12:39.100
that requires a degree
00:12:40.320
of political wisdom,
00:12:41.360
insight, and foresight
00:12:42.460
that you and I
00:12:44.060
and all of you
00:12:45.360
with us now have.
00:12:47.420
But the Mamdani voters don't.
00:12:50.100
They're just going to excuse
00:12:51.260
whatever they have to excuse.
00:12:52.840
And by the way,
00:12:53.360
a lot of them
00:12:54.000
think that he's just
00:12:55.000
fooling some of the normies
00:12:56.760
and is still every bit
00:12:58.140
the radical
00:12:58.560
and they like that, right?
00:12:59.720
So, you know,
00:13:00.400
we're preaching to the choir
00:13:02.400
on how anti-copy is,
00:13:03.980
but they're playing this game
00:13:05.400
very well
00:13:06.140
in the Mamdani campaign.
00:13:07.800
We will play
00:13:08.760
another couple of cuts,
00:13:10.320
including Mamdani's dad
00:13:12.160
saying that Hitler learned
00:13:14.480
everything he knows
00:13:15.460
from Abraham Lincoln.
00:13:17.840
Again, these are direct words
00:13:19.600
That would be news
00:13:19.960
to Abraham Lincoln,
00:13:21.120
which is the most amazing thing.
00:13:22.620
Abe would be like,
00:13:23.520
whoa, I didn't know
00:13:24.280
that I learned everything,
00:13:26.120
or rather that I, you know,
00:13:27.220
taught everything Hitler needed to know.
00:13:28.280
That he was the inspiration
00:13:29.460
for Nazidom,
00:13:30.800
according to Mamdani's dad.
00:13:32.820
This is what he's been
00:13:33.760
raised to believe.
00:13:35.760
And this race, again,
00:13:38.300
there's data out there
00:13:39.720
that suggests
00:13:40.320
that we may be headed
00:13:42.040
for the highest turnout
00:13:43.360
in a mayoral race
00:13:44.680
since 1993.
00:13:46.420
So, maybe there is hope
00:13:47.780
that I could be wearing
00:13:49.220
a red beret
00:13:50.100
for a week on the program.
00:13:52.280
Curtis Sliwa
00:13:52.880
is going to join us tomorrow
00:13:53.980
and make the case
00:13:55.440
for why I'm a moron.
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And some of you
00:13:58.380
have already signed on to that.
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Saving America.
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One thought at a time.
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
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Find them.
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their elected leaders,
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and the world around them.
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And that's why we're thrilled
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to introduce
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the Honest Talk podcast.
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I'm Jennifer Stewart.
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And I'm Catherine Clark.
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And in this podcast,
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we interview Canada's
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most inspiring women.
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Entrepreneurs,
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artists,
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athletes,
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politicians,
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and newsmakers,
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all at different stages
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of their journey.
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So if you're looking to connect,
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then we hope you'll join us.
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Listen to the Honest Talk podcast
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on iHeartRadio
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or wherever you listen
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to your podcasts.
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We have some things
00:15:35.900
to update you on.
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One, Clay,
00:15:39.040
just this is a pickup
00:15:40.300
from yesterday.
00:15:41.200
Remember how
00:15:41.860
I played Governor Hochul,
00:15:44.340
the governor of New York,
00:15:45.280
Kathy Hochul,
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the accidental governor.
00:15:47.160
In fact,
00:15:48.020
only the governor
00:15:48.920
because Cuomo
00:15:50.460
was grabbing ladies
00:15:52.260
by the waist
00:15:53.680
and kissing them
00:15:54.940
close to the mouth,
00:15:56.360
but not on the mouth,
00:15:57.640
but in Italian fashion.
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Hochul
00:16:01.800
was claiming
00:16:03.400
that she doesn't even know
00:16:05.480
what the crowd
00:16:07.020
was chanting.
00:16:07.660
They were chanting
00:16:08.940
at the left-wing loon rally,
00:16:11.380
tax the rich,
00:16:12.580
tax the rich.
00:16:13.480
We played that yesterday,
00:16:14.480
and I said,
00:16:15.000
they're moving
00:16:15.600
from race communism
00:16:16.620
to more old-school
00:16:17.640
class communism,
00:16:18.700
right?
00:16:18.880
The original.
00:16:19.760
Communism is just
00:16:20.520
a religion of state envy
00:16:21.740
or rather of state-enforced envy
00:16:24.320
that always turns
00:16:25.140
into totalitarianism.
00:16:26.140
That's what real communism is.
00:16:27.960
It's not about the workers
00:16:29.340
and the revolutionary proletariat
00:16:31.060
and all.
00:16:31.320
That's all just,
00:16:32.280
that's all the make-believe stuff.
00:16:33.540
Once you get into, like,
00:16:34.380
the final boss level
00:16:36.200
of communism,
00:16:38.200
it's just totalitarianism
00:16:40.760
that roots itself
00:16:42.700
deep into the public psyche
00:16:44.260
via envy and hatred
00:16:45.900
of all that is good.
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That's what actual communism is.
00:16:49.560
Envy is at the core of it all.
00:16:51.440
Here is Kathy Hochul, though, Clay.
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I'm going to play
00:16:53.700
Mom Donnie's dad in a second,
00:16:55.060
but I just wanted to update this.
00:16:56.480
Kathy Hochul realizes that,
00:16:58.000
you know,
00:16:58.240
she's the governor of New York,
00:16:59.460
maybe going all in
00:17:02.160
on tax the rich
00:17:03.360
as a slogan
00:17:04.240
that a rally is not so great,
00:17:05.580
so now she's like,
00:17:06.300
I don't even know
00:17:07.040
what they were saying.
00:17:08.180
Play nine.
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I thought they were saying
00:17:09.760
let's go bills.
00:17:10.520
I wasn't sure.
00:17:12.180
When you're up there,
00:17:13.400
I heard some noise.
00:17:14.500
I heard a lot of cheers,
00:17:15.920
but later on,
00:17:17.080
it became clear to me
00:17:17.960
that there is a,
00:17:18.700
I know there's passion for that.
00:17:20.340
I mean, I went in there
00:17:21.560
as the leader
00:17:22.180
of the Democratic Party
00:17:23.360
whose job it is to unify
00:17:25.700
and unify behind
00:17:27.240
the Democratic nominee.
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I love the energy out there.
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I told them that,
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and what I want to do
00:17:32.740
is bottle all that up,
00:17:34.380
you know,
00:17:34.540
use it in a few days,
00:17:36.400
but take that to Long Island
00:17:38.840
and the Hudson Valley.
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Clay,
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Kathy Hochul,
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let's play a game.
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Moron or liar?
00:17:45.980
Liar here.
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Sometimes often a moron,
00:17:48.780
but she did not think
00:17:50.520
they were saying
00:17:51.260
let's go bills.
00:17:52.560
I mean,
00:17:53.000
tax the rich
00:17:53.920
was pretty clear.
00:17:54.980
I mean,
00:17:55.120
you and I could hear it.
00:17:56.360
We were not at the rally,
00:17:57.740
and if you were at the rally,
00:18:01.300
you would have seen
00:18:02.080
some people's faces
00:18:03.160
and been able to lip read them
00:18:04.980
as well as they were chanting
00:18:06.780
tax the rich.
00:18:08.080
Again,
00:18:08.800
I think there is a quiet panic
00:18:10.900
setting in
00:18:11.780
among Democrats
00:18:14.680
that know what it takes
00:18:16.200
to win elections.
00:18:17.580
That if AOC and Momdani
00:18:20.280
are the face of the Democrat Party,
00:18:23.260
they're in trouble.
00:18:23.980
And really,
00:18:26.280
liberal became
00:18:27.320
such a negative word
00:18:28.700
for the Democrats
00:18:29.660
that they really ran away from it.
00:18:31.500
They talk about being progressives now.
00:18:34.260
I think New York City liberal
00:18:36.840
and California liberal
00:18:39.360
is going to be a huge part
00:18:41.780
of the 2026 campaign.
00:18:44.400
Because I think
00:18:45.240
if you look in New York City,
00:18:46.700
you're going to have Momdani,
00:18:48.140
you're going to have AOC,
00:18:49.260
you're going to have Schumer,
00:18:50.440
and you're going to have
00:18:51.440
Hakeem Jeffries.
00:18:53.340
That's four New York City
00:18:54.620
guys and gals.
00:18:55.820
And you're just going to say
00:18:56.860
those are New York City liberals.
00:18:58.820
And then as Newsom gears up
00:19:03.080
to run for the presidency,
00:19:05.820
I think California liberal
00:19:07.440
will also be an insult.
00:19:09.880
And I think increasingly
00:19:11.640
the decisions being made
00:19:13.300
by places like New York and L.A.
00:19:15.600
are at extreme odds
00:19:17.060
with the rest of the country
00:19:18.380
in a way that the Democrat Party
00:19:19.900
recognizes is toxic to their brand
00:19:22.320
in what they would call
00:19:24.220
flyover country.
00:19:25.580
And they have to win
00:19:26.540
some of those races
00:19:27.460
in order to have power
00:19:28.840
to enact the agendas
00:19:30.240
of New York and L.A.
00:19:31.320
Heck, Buck, even San Francisco,
00:19:33.540
I think you've got to give
00:19:34.180
some credit to their new mayor,
00:19:35.700
Daniel Lurie.
00:19:37.000
He seems sane, right?
00:19:38.560
On a level that Momdani
00:19:40.960
is not sane.
00:19:42.080
On a level that Brandon Johnson
00:19:43.700
in Chicago is not sane.
00:19:45.680
On a level that
00:19:46.780
that Karen Bass,
00:19:48.780
the mayor of Los Angeles,
00:19:50.960
is not, right?
00:19:52.040
Those are people
00:19:52.760
who are clear,
00:19:53.740
failed left-wing politicians.
00:19:56.220
I think some cities,
00:19:57.660
Muriel Bowser seems
00:19:58.840
somewhat reasonable, right?
00:20:00.740
The mayor of Washington, D.C.
00:20:04.280
The mayor,
00:20:05.040
and I'm saying that
00:20:05.680
from a Democrat context perspective,
00:20:08.100
not that I agree
00:20:08.940
with everything they do,
00:20:10.100
but just, hey,
00:20:11.260
Trump trying to drive down
00:20:12.560
violent crime in Washington, D.C.,
00:20:14.900
Pam kind of in favor of that.
00:20:16.240
That's Muriel Bowser.
00:20:18.480
Daniel Lurie,
00:20:19.400
the mayor of San Francisco,
00:20:20.700
actually negotiating with Trump
00:20:22.400
to try to say,
00:20:23.380
hey, we're trying to implement
00:20:25.160
a lot of the policies
00:20:26.080
you want to put in place,
00:20:27.220
but if I do it,
00:20:28.600
maybe we can get it through
00:20:30.000
without the chaos
00:20:31.180
that might come from people
00:20:32.540
who just hate you
00:20:33.400
in San Francisco,
00:20:34.920
rejecting the choices
00:20:35.920
you're making
00:20:36.440
even when they're rational.
00:20:37.820
my biggest concern, Buck,
00:20:40.840
is they make all these choices
00:20:43.160
that are awful,
00:20:44.520
and then they still
00:20:46.140
are going to just say,
00:20:47.660
well, the reason why
00:20:48.780
you know this didn't work,
00:20:50.340
because we didn't tax
00:20:51.420
rich people enough,
00:20:53.040
because we didn't go
00:20:54.580
far left-wing enough,
00:20:56.660
that's the reason
00:20:57.620
why the policies
00:20:58.600
that we're trying
00:20:59.380
to put in place fail.
00:21:00.520
That's my concern
00:21:01.380
about Mondani,
00:21:02.520
if he wins,
00:21:03.680
that they will refuse
00:21:04.600
to accept responsibility
00:21:05.920
if he tries to put
00:21:07.180
these policies in place.
00:21:08.680
I'm sorry, Claire,
00:21:09.320
are you trying to suggest
00:21:10.160
that if he's as much
00:21:11.260
of a disaster as you and I
00:21:12.680
and every sane person
00:21:13.580
with us right now
00:21:14.400
thinks he will be,
00:21:16.240
the voters of Mondani
00:21:17.540
will claim that real
00:21:18.400
Mondani-ism
00:21:19.040
has never been tried?
00:21:21.260
It's very sad.
00:21:22.600
It's very sad.
00:21:23.280
It's very true.
00:21:24.160
It's very, very certain.
00:21:25.120
All right,
00:21:25.400
speaking of Mondani,
00:21:26.860
Mondani,
00:21:27.640
I will say also,
00:21:28.600
everyone butchers
00:21:29.360
this guy's name
00:21:30.060
all the time.
00:21:31.360
It's amazing.
00:21:33.060
It shouldn't be that hard
00:21:34.300
to say but for some reason
00:21:35.600
going from the M
00:21:36.520
to the N, I think.
00:21:37.820
Am I mispronouncing this
00:21:39.360
or is this one of the few,
00:21:40.480
Zoran Mondani, right?
00:21:41.980
Like I can pronounce this.
00:21:43.020
Mondani, yes.
00:21:43.480
Yeah.
00:21:44.040
A lot of people say
00:21:44.740
Mondani,
00:21:45.980
you know,
00:21:47.260
Mondania,
00:21:48.980
you know,
00:21:49.220
they get all kinds
00:21:50.360
of things going on here.
00:21:51.260
All right,
00:21:51.480
let's get into his dad.
00:21:53.140
Let's talk about his dad
00:21:54.040
for a second here.
00:21:54.900
Zoran Mondani's father
00:21:55.940
who's a Columbia University
00:21:57.640
professor,
00:21:58.800
of course,
00:22:00.640
Mahmoud Mondani.
00:22:03.280
This is not long ago.
00:22:05.920
Oh, I know.
00:22:06.520
Here is Zoran's dad
00:22:08.860
on this country
00:22:10.820
that, remember,
00:22:11.860
Zoran is here
00:22:12.840
as a refugee.
00:22:15.220
Zoran is here
00:22:16.340
because the place
00:22:18.060
that he came from
00:22:19.180
was not a place
00:22:19.960
he could stay, right?
00:22:21.400
I mean,
00:22:21.580
that's my,
00:22:22.100
I think his dad came here
00:22:23.200
from Uganda
00:22:23.900
and whether he's not
00:22:25.580
technically a refugee,
00:22:26.480
he's certainly an immigrant
00:22:27.140
because Uganda,
00:22:28.640
it's got problems.
00:22:29.620
It's got a little bit of problems.
00:22:30.300
It's not a place
00:22:30.800
that a lot of people
00:22:31.680
choose to go
00:22:32.940
from a Western
00:22:34.940
civilized country, right?
00:22:36.440
There's just not
00:22:36.940
that many people
00:22:37.460
who are like,
00:22:37.740
hey, where are you headed next?
00:22:38.700
Oh, I was thinking
00:22:39.300
about America.
00:22:40.700
I was thinking
00:22:41.440
about England,
00:22:43.840
maybe Germany,
00:22:45.240
and then I chose
00:22:46.480
Uganda instead.
00:22:47.500
I don't think a lot
00:22:48.240
of people make that choice.
00:22:49.260
It was Italy
00:22:49.820
or it was Uganda.
00:22:51.680
Yeah, most people,
00:22:52.880
including Mondani's
00:22:54.080
own family,
00:22:55.120
have made the choice
00:22:55.960
to come back.
00:22:56.640
I do love Buck
00:22:57.460
that while he doesn't
00:22:58.320
trust the NYPD,
00:23:00.020
when he goes to Uganda,
00:23:01.220
they have a full security force
00:23:03.160
protecting the family.
00:23:04.640
Yes, but of course.
00:23:05.700
But of course.
00:23:07.100
Here is his dad
00:23:08.900
back in 2022,
00:23:10.100
Columbia University professor,
00:23:11.780
Professor Mondani,
00:23:13.140
play at six.
00:23:14.740
America is the genesis
00:23:17.060
of what we call
00:23:18.660
settler colonialism.
00:23:20.420
And the American model
00:23:21.920
was exported
00:23:23.100
all around the world.
00:23:24.760
Abraham Lincoln
00:23:26.500
generalized the solution
00:23:28.760
of reservations.
00:23:30.880
They herded American Indians
00:23:32.940
into separate territories.
00:23:37.580
For the Nazis,
00:23:39.500
for the Nazis,
00:23:41.300
this was the inspiration.
00:23:43.680
Hitler realized two things.
00:23:45.840
One,
00:23:46.900
the genocide was doable.
00:23:49.460
It is possible
00:23:50.480
to do genocide.
00:23:52.580
That's what Hitler realized.
00:23:54.780
Second thing Hitler realized
00:23:56.340
is that you don't have
00:23:58.380
to have a common citizenship.
00:24:00.420
You can differentiate
00:24:01.480
between people.
00:24:03.300
The Nuremberg laws
00:24:04.540
were patterned
00:24:05.440
after American laws.
00:24:08.220
Anyway,
00:24:08.700
the U.S. put Indians
00:24:10.200
in reservations.
00:24:12.160
The U.S. invented
00:24:13.540
the model.
00:24:16.960
This is not true.
00:24:19.540
First of all,
00:24:19.900
when he talks about
00:24:20.260
settler colonialism,
00:24:21.220
I think he's trying
00:24:21.820
to speak specifically
00:24:22.620
in the context of Israel
00:24:23.780
as an apartheid state here
00:24:25.100
because obviously
00:24:26.420
America was a colony.
00:24:29.060
It was a colony
00:24:30.260
of settlers
00:24:31.340
and then we fought
00:24:32.800
a revolution
00:24:33.340
to become free.
00:24:34.560
I don't know
00:24:34.760
if he just skipped
00:24:35.320
that part of American history,
00:24:36.860
but it turned,
00:24:37.420
it was actually
00:24:38.220
the Spanish,
00:24:39.580
the French,
00:24:40.540
the Dutch,
00:24:41.260
the British,
00:24:41.840
they were the ones
00:24:43.160
who created this model,
00:24:45.400
not us.
00:24:45.740
This is actually
00:24:46.280
this argument
00:24:46.900
that he makes,
00:24:47.600
Buck,
00:24:47.800
this is why
00:24:48.640
I was so annoyed
00:24:50.240
and have not given them
00:24:52.200
any money.
00:24:52.800
What annoys Clay the most
00:24:53.780
is not the hatred
00:24:54.500
of America,
00:24:55.100
it's the wrong history.
00:24:57.700
Getting the history wrong.
00:24:58.980
You can hate America,
00:25:00.280
you have the right
00:25:01.000
to hate America,
00:25:02.220
but at least rooted
00:25:03.380
in historical accuracy,
00:25:05.120
this is like the,
00:25:06.440
and don't placate
00:25:07.740
those who hate America
00:25:08.860
and are rooted
00:25:09.800
in historical stupidity.
00:25:11.560
This is like
00:25:12.060
what happened
00:25:12.400
at my university,
00:25:13.380
George Washington University.
00:25:15.320
GW is now
00:25:16.320
the revolutionaries.
00:25:17.820
They were the colonials,
00:25:19.680
but they decided
00:25:20.900
that the colonials
00:25:22.520
had too much
00:25:23.340
of a context
00:25:24.120
of connection
00:25:24.820
to colonialism,
00:25:25.880
so they changed
00:25:27.960
the name
00:25:28.440
of the mascot.
00:25:30.240
We weren't
00:25:30.720
the colonial army.
00:25:33.700
We were
00:25:34.820
the colonized
00:25:36.100
who threw off
00:25:37.980
the oppressive
00:25:39.300
colonialism
00:25:40.540
that we were
00:25:42.200
founded upon,
00:25:43.160
right?
00:25:43.540
So,
00:25:43.940
if anything,
00:25:45.600
in the history,
00:25:46.820
we're the heroes
00:25:47.640
of the colonial
00:25:49.260
worldview
00:25:50.060
because we
00:25:50.980
took independence
00:25:52.420
from the places
00:25:53.820
that had colonized us.
00:25:55.760
In fact,
00:25:56.540
there were countries
00:25:57.480
where very explicitly
00:25:58.820
the removal
00:26:00.240
of the colonial
00:26:01.260
overlord
00:26:01.980
was premised
00:26:03.880
upon
00:26:04.320
the American
00:26:05.780
success in this,
00:26:06.980
right?
00:26:07.200
One example
00:26:07.780
would be
00:26:08.420
Haiti.
00:26:09.260
Haiti,
00:26:09.800
unfortunately.
00:26:10.580
The least successful
00:26:11.700
revolution
00:26:12.380
in the western
00:26:13.260
hemisphere,
00:26:13.840
probably.
00:26:14.600
But,
00:26:14.760
yes,
00:26:15.140
Buck,
00:26:15.400
to your point,
00:26:16.140
when in New York
00:26:17.140
City,
00:26:17.420
where you grew up,
00:26:19.080
one of the first
00:26:19.700
things they did
00:26:20.520
was tear down
00:26:21.640
the statue
00:26:22.220
of the king
00:26:23.220
and turn it
00:26:24.360
into lead
00:26:25.540
bullets.
00:26:27.200
I mean,
00:26:27.820
that is pretty
00:26:28.460
explicitly
00:26:29.260
anti-
00:26:30.480
the colonial
00:26:31.800
power
00:26:32.340
that puts you
00:26:33.300
in place.
00:26:33.580
So,
00:26:34.060
yes,
00:26:34.540
his argument
00:26:36.000
is bastardized
00:26:37.260
and what
00:26:37.780
it is really
00:26:38.340
designed to do,
00:26:39.540
and this is where
00:26:40.180
the identity
00:26:40.740
politics worldview
00:26:42.220
comes in,
00:26:42.980
is white men
00:26:44.020
are evil.
00:26:45.060
If you look
00:26:46.200
at what
00:26:47.080
the motivation
00:26:48.380
is by and large
00:26:49.860
of the modern
00:26:51.000
day Democrat
00:26:51.940
Party,
00:26:52.760
at its essence,
00:26:53.880
at its base,
00:26:54.920
it is white men
00:26:56.020
are evil.
00:26:56.680
That's what they
00:26:57.220
all believe.
00:26:58.160
Now,
00:26:58.380
some of those
00:26:58.920
white men
00:26:59.460
who take
00:27:00.200
their wives'
00:27:00.780
names are
00:27:01.520
voting also
00:27:02.500
to say white
00:27:03.440
men are evil.
00:27:04.280
There's a not
00:27:05.020
insubstantial cadre
00:27:06.100
of white people
00:27:06.840
that thinks that
00:27:07.720
white people are
00:27:08.560
evil.
00:27:08.840
They are
00:27:09.960
collaborators in the
00:27:11.360
wokeness.
00:27:11.820
White women
00:27:13.260
are actually
00:27:14.140
the founders
00:27:15.320
and primary
00:27:16.320
principal drivers
00:27:17.500
of the woke
00:27:18.380
virus in general.
00:27:19.680
In fact,
00:27:19.980
I think that's
00:27:20.460
likely true,
00:27:21.260
but it relies
00:27:22.380
on the villainy
00:27:23.800
of white men.
00:27:25.380
That is the
00:27:25.800
foundation of
00:27:27.040
the Democrat
00:27:27.580
Party.
00:27:28.380
And so when
00:27:29.500
Mom Donnie's
00:27:30.380
dad is making
00:27:31.220
the argument
00:27:32.000
that all that
00:27:33.960
is evil is
00:27:34.600
rooted in the
00:27:35.140
United States,
00:27:35.740
it's an intentional
00:27:36.520
argument because
00:27:37.260
what it leads
00:27:37.860
to is a
00:27:39.100
delegitimization
00:27:40.080
of the country
00:27:41.040
and its founding
00:27:41.720
and the
00:27:42.100
Declaration of
00:27:42.760
Independence
00:27:43.160
and the
00:27:43.560
Constitution,
00:27:44.460
and you can
00:27:44.980
tear it all
00:27:45.560
down as we
00:27:46.240
saw physically
00:27:46.860
happen in
00:27:47.400
2020.
00:27:48.120
There's also
00:27:48.440
an argument
00:27:48.860
that I've
00:27:49.500
thought of,
00:27:50.080
maybe Clay,
00:27:50.660
for a future
00:27:51.200
book,
00:27:51.680
but it would
00:27:51.980
be very
00:27:52.360
detailed and
00:27:52.900
historic and
00:27:53.480
have to get
00:27:53.920
deep into
00:27:54.240
the history.
00:27:54.840
But one of
00:27:56.000
the challenges
00:27:57.800
that the
00:27:58.440
Western world
00:27:59.120
has when it
00:27:59.820
comes to all
00:28:00.560
of this
00:28:01.300
wokeness and
00:28:03.320
historical oppression
00:28:04.360
stuff is that we
00:28:05.720
actually have
00:28:06.360
histories,
00:28:07.120
written histories,
00:28:07.740
that go back
00:28:08.420
quite a ways.
00:28:09.420
A lot of other
00:28:10.020
parts of the world
00:28:10.500
don't.
00:28:11.480
Yeah.
00:28:11.600
And so it's
00:28:12.140
harder for people
00:28:12.940
to know,
00:28:13.440
for example,
00:28:14.020
like you all
00:28:14.840
know that the
00:28:16.500
Portuguese and
00:28:17.260
the Spanish and
00:28:17.920
the French and
00:28:18.480
the British,
00:28:19.000
et cetera,
00:28:19.540
Western European
00:28:20.100
countries in the
00:28:20.840
age of exploration
00:28:21.840
starting right
00:28:22.560
around the early
00:28:23.620
1500s after
00:28:24.680
Columbus lands in
00:28:25.480
1492,
00:28:26.500
they start going
00:28:27.260
all over the
00:28:27.700
world,
00:28:27.920
they start
00:28:28.240
exploring,
00:28:28.920
and yes,
00:28:29.280
they fight and
00:28:29.880
they take over
00:28:30.500
pieces of land,
00:28:31.320
sometimes more
00:28:31.960
peacefully than
00:28:32.500
others,
00:28:32.860
but a lot of
00:28:33.480
the time with
00:28:33.860
violence and a lot
00:28:34.480
of the time they
00:28:34.860
spread disease.
00:28:35.860
But do people
00:28:36.240
know about all of
00:28:37.060
the tribes that
00:28:38.120
were exterminating
00:28:38.780
each other
00:28:39.140
beforehand?
00:28:40.280
Do people know
00:28:40.860
that the great
00:28:41.480
victory of the
00:28:43.900
Inca people,
00:28:44.740
for example,
00:28:45.360
was the
00:28:45.760
consolidation of
00:28:46.580
their empire
00:28:47.180
just a generation
00:28:48.500
before the arrival
00:28:49.440
of the Spaniards?
00:28:50.480
The consolidation
00:28:50.960
of an empire
00:28:51.680
that enslaved
00:28:52.360
and murdered
00:28:53.200
countless other
00:28:54.680
tribes.
00:28:55.900
They don't even
00:28:56.600
talk about this.
00:28:57.300
You talk about
00:28:57.740
the native
00:28:58.940
South Africans,
00:29:00.180
and this came up
00:29:00.900
recently when Trump
00:29:01.540
was talking about
00:29:02.060
South African
00:29:02.600
refugees.
00:29:03.800
How many of the
00:29:04.420
people that teach
00:29:05.080
about settler
00:29:05.580
colonialism,
00:29:07.080
for example,
00:29:07.600
at Columbia
00:29:07.920
University,
00:29:08.860
even know
00:29:09.460
that the
00:29:10.140
Zulus were
00:29:10.920
colonists?
00:29:12.280
The Zulu
00:29:12.800
tribe arrived
00:29:14.660
and through
00:29:16.080
warfare and
00:29:17.060
conquest and
00:29:17.880
enslavement of
00:29:19.060
those who were
00:29:19.700
there in advance
00:29:20.640
of the Zulus
00:29:21.180
became the
00:29:21.840
primary tribe
00:29:22.580
in that region
00:29:23.280
and the areas
00:29:24.160
that originally
00:29:24.720
the South African
00:29:25.660
Dutch colonists
00:29:26.580
colonized were
00:29:28.280
uninhabited.
00:29:29.640
Well, I mean,
00:29:30.880
this is not taught.
00:29:31.820
No one knows
00:29:32.260
these things.
00:29:32.660
This is all true.
00:29:34.040
This is also
00:29:34.720
the story of
00:29:35.840
human civilization
00:29:36.720
civilization is
00:29:37.460
human populations
00:29:38.800
moved to areas
00:29:39.760
where there was
00:29:40.780
no people,
00:29:41.420
right?
00:29:41.740
So at what
00:29:42.820
point does
00:29:44.020
land,
00:29:44.760
it's really
00:29:45.460
kind of amazing,
00:29:46.600
right?
00:29:46.840
The whole argument
00:29:47.560
is premised on,
00:29:48.740
to your point,
00:29:49.780
a fact that the
00:29:51.880
historical record
00:29:52.740
is very limited,
00:29:53.800
but land is,
00:29:56.900
like,
00:29:57.000
at what point do
00:29:57.800
you say,
00:29:58.200
oh, this land
00:29:58.800
is owned by
00:29:59.680
someone?
00:30:00.860
When do they
00:30:01.520
become the owners?
00:30:02.740
The whole premise
00:30:03.760
is just absolutely
00:30:04.840
ridiculous.
00:30:05.620
And these land
00:30:06.300
acknowledgments,
00:30:07.200
which are now
00:30:07.560
the basis of
00:30:08.540
almost every
00:30:09.080
major Democrat
00:30:09.860
event,
00:30:10.780
you know,
00:30:11.020
they start off
00:30:11.580
by apologizing
00:30:12.440
to the initial
00:30:13.460
owners of the
00:30:14.900
land or dwellers
00:30:16.640
of the land.
00:30:17.920
The great
00:30:18.900
exterminators,
00:30:19.900
if you're going
00:30:20.300
to look for them
00:30:20.820
of other human
00:30:21.400
beings,
00:30:21.840
would certainly
00:30:22.300
be the Mongols,
00:30:23.480
actually,
00:30:24.100
in the 13th.
00:30:24.640
How many of you
00:30:25.180
sit around thinking
00:30:25.800
a lot about the
00:30:26.400
Khurasmian Empire?
00:30:28.440
You might not
00:30:28.820
have even heard
00:30:29.220
of the Khurasmian.
00:30:29.660
It was actually
00:30:30.080
huge.
00:30:31.780
It was gone.
00:30:32.740
They killed
00:30:33.180
basically all of
00:30:34.080
them,
00:30:34.260
the Mongols.
00:30:34.780
They showed
00:30:35.100
up.
00:30:35.320
They didn't
00:30:35.520
like them.
00:30:36.000
They killed
00:30:36.280
all of them,
00:30:36.620
every man,
00:30:36.980
woman,
00:30:37.140
and child,
00:30:37.500
because that's
00:30:37.780
how they used
00:30:38.080
to do things.
00:30:38.760
The notion,
00:30:39.640
Clay,
00:30:40.060
that America
00:30:40.960
came up with
00:30:42.040
the idea of
00:30:42.860
genocide in all
00:30:43.840
of human history
00:30:44.500
is one of the
00:30:45.280
dumbest things
00:30:45.700
I've ever seen.
00:30:46.360
Only a truly
00:30:46.900
historically ignorant
00:30:47.780
person who hates
00:30:48.820
white men would
00:30:49.820
say such a thing,
00:30:50.660
and that is where
00:30:51.320
Mom Donnie's dad
00:30:52.260
comes down on this.
00:30:53.540
We're bringing it
00:30:53.900
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00:32:29.360
And mine is
00:32:29.940
Manufacturing Delusion,
00:32:31.340
How the Left Uses
00:32:32.060
Brainwashing,
00:32:33.140
Indoctrination, and
00:32:34.200
Propaganda Against
00:32:35.500
You.
00:32:36.060
Both are great reads.
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One might even say
00:32:38.500
they would make
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fabulous gifts.
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Indeed.
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So do us a solid and
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Welcome back in.
00:32:46.260
Hour number three,
00:32:47.460
Clay Travis, Buck
00:32:48.660
Sexton Show.
00:32:50.200
A lot of positive
00:32:51.180
things.
00:32:51.820
I always try to
00:32:52.740
make sure that I
00:32:53.640
talk about the
00:32:54.300
positivity as much as
00:32:55.900
I possibly can.
00:32:57.620
We are continuing to
00:32:59.440
set new all-time
00:33:01.000
records.
00:33:01.800
In fact, the S&P
00:33:03.440
500, new all-time
00:33:05.420
record as I am
00:33:06.640
speaking to you.
00:33:07.660
The Dow Jones
00:33:08.440
Industrial Average,
00:33:09.940
new all-time record
00:33:11.340
as I am speaking to
00:33:12.780
you.
00:33:13.620
And the NASDAQ,
00:33:15.200
new all-time record
00:33:16.540
as I am speaking
00:33:17.920
with you.
00:33:18.740
All-time records.
00:33:21.180
For those of you
00:33:21.900
out there that
00:33:22.680
own stock in any
00:33:24.220
way, pensions,
00:33:25.360
401ks, individual
00:33:27.080
stocks, chances are
00:33:29.400
if you happen to go
00:33:30.660
gander at your stock
00:33:32.660
values, they have
00:33:33.900
never been higher in
00:33:35.320
your life.
00:33:36.520
And I do just want to
00:33:38.260
continue to point it
00:33:39.240
out that in April,
00:33:41.680
you were told, oh my
00:33:42.960
goodness, the stock
00:33:44.120
market is collapsing.
00:33:46.320
Donald Trump has no
00:33:47.460
idea what he's doing
00:33:48.420
with the economy, and
00:33:50.260
the S&P 500 is up
00:33:52.580
2,000 points since
00:33:55.500
then.
00:33:56.320
If you had bought
00:33:57.300
stock back in April,
00:33:59.100
you're up around 40%
00:34:01.400
now on those stock
00:34:04.180
purchases.
00:34:05.140
If you merely just
00:34:08.000
held on to your
00:34:09.620
existing stocks and
00:34:10.960
just didn't even pay
00:34:11.820
attention to any of it,
00:34:13.180
this year, the S&P 500
00:34:15.620
is up right at 18%
00:34:18.140
so far.
00:34:19.240
You might say, okay,
00:34:19.960
well, Clay, how does
00:34:20.620
that contextualize?
00:34:21.700
On average, the S&P 500
00:34:24.460
is going to be up
00:34:25.180
around 9%.
00:34:26.260
On average.
00:34:27.340
Some years you might
00:34:27.960
lose 20, some years
00:34:29.000
you may make 20, but
00:34:30.720
this year is a very
00:34:32.260
good year so far for
00:34:33.840
stocks, and we are at
00:34:35.520
record highs.
00:34:36.820
So, I understand
00:34:39.060
also, those of you
00:34:39.960
out there who say,
00:34:40.600
Clay, man, you don't
00:34:41.360
know what you're
00:34:41.700
talking about.
00:34:42.260
The economy's not as
00:34:43.140
good on the ground as
00:34:43.980
you're saying.
00:34:44.280
I get it.
00:34:45.680
And I think a lot of
00:34:46.620
that is still working
00:34:47.780
through the disaster
00:34:49.260
that was the Biden
00:34:50.340
economy.
00:34:51.280
In general, the stock
00:34:53.340
market runs 6 or 12
00:34:55.200
months in advance of the
00:34:56.640
economic conditions you
00:34:57.920
see on the ground.
00:34:59.180
And so all of this is
00:35:00.500
very positive.
00:35:01.360
Trump is trying to make
00:35:02.500
the economic conditions
00:35:03.720
better for all of us on
00:35:05.360
the ground.
00:35:06.300
And right now, he's in
00:35:07.380
Asia.
00:35:08.080
He is meeting with
00:35:09.020
Japan.
00:35:10.040
I saw this morning that
00:35:11.500
he had a great reception
00:35:12.860
in Japan.
00:35:13.880
He is scheduled to be in
00:35:14.860
South Korea.
00:35:15.500
Buck, I don't know if
00:35:15.980
you saw this, some
00:35:17.300
whispers that he might
00:35:19.400
meet Kim Jong-un again.
00:35:21.580
Remember how quickly the
00:35:23.160
meeting with North Korea's
00:35:24.660
reclusive dictator
00:35:25.820
happened in the past.
00:35:28.100
He's going to be in
00:35:28.900
South Korea, Trump is.
00:35:30.400
He's going to be meeting
00:35:31.620
with Chinese Premier Xi.
00:35:33.680
So there is some
00:35:35.120
possibility, maybe there'll
00:35:36.420
be additional aspects of
00:35:37.680
that.
00:35:37.900
As part of his travel, on
00:35:40.340
Air Force One, Trump has
00:35:42.120
been answering questions
00:35:44.080
quite a lot.
00:35:45.420
And among those questions,
00:35:47.360
let's play a couple of
00:35:48.160
these cuts because I
00:35:48.920
thought they were
00:35:49.440
entertaining and I want
00:35:50.340
to make sure that we
00:35:51.880
keep you updated with
00:35:52.840
what the president is
00:35:53.940
saying, even as we are
00:35:55.420
following the New York
00:35:56.800
City's mayor race.
00:35:58.060
Tomorrow, we will have
00:35:59.080
Curtis Sliwa on the
00:36:00.300
program.
00:36:00.820
And even as we are
00:36:02.280
following what's going
00:36:03.160
on in New Jersey and
00:36:04.360
Virginia, one week from
00:36:06.100
today is the 2025
00:36:08.320
elections, also coming
00:36:09.600
up on the one-year
00:36:10.360
anniversary of Trump's
00:36:11.640
record win in 2024.
00:36:14.260
But Trump yesterday on
00:36:15.900
Air Force One was asked
00:36:17.800
about would he be running
00:36:19.340
in 2028, this obsession.
00:36:21.920
Here is Cut 21.
00:36:23.540
We have great people.
00:36:24.640
I don't have to get into
00:36:25.680
that, but we have one of
00:36:26.740
them standing right here.
00:36:27.880
We have J.D., obviously,
00:36:30.620
the vice president is
00:36:31.680
great.
00:36:32.720
I think Marco is great.
00:36:33.840
I think I'm not sure if
00:36:35.440
anybody would run against
00:36:36.520
us.
00:36:37.460
I think if they have a
00:36:38.520
formed a group, it would
00:36:39.400
be unstoppable.
00:36:41.480
I really do.
00:36:42.040
I believe that.
00:36:43.100
I would love to do it.
00:36:45.860
I have my best numbers
00:36:46.920
ever.
00:36:47.300
It's very terrible.
00:36:48.140
I have my best numbers
00:36:49.020
ever.
00:36:49.940
If you read it, am I not
00:36:53.580
really going to have it?
00:36:54.480
You'll have to tell me.
00:36:55.480
Okay, so Trump talking
00:36:58.080
again, the obsession,
00:36:59.500
Trump 2028.
00:37:00.640
I'm going to be honest
00:37:01.120
with you, Buck.
00:37:02.120
I wish he could run
00:37:02.800
again.
00:37:03.720
I mean, I know he's 79,
00:37:05.420
but he's not going to run.
00:37:07.480
I wish he could.
00:37:09.080
I do think the idea of a
00:37:11.760
J.D.
00:37:12.300
Marco ticket unity from
00:37:14.920
the start is starting to
00:37:17.260
get some momentum.
00:37:18.520
Do you buy the idea that
00:37:19.940
that duo, Marco Rubio
00:37:21.940
obviously has 768 different
00:37:24.360
jobs inside of the Trump
00:37:25.600
administration right now,
00:37:26.860
primarily Secretary of
00:37:28.040
State, J.D.
00:37:29.220
Vance VP.
00:37:30.420
Do you buy the idea that
00:37:31.840
those guys might just say,
00:37:33.260
hey, let's keep the band
00:37:34.220
together and have a unity
00:37:35.720
ticket and we might not
00:37:37.120
even see that much drama
00:37:38.660
in 2028 that Trump might
00:37:42.000
just say, hey, these are
00:37:42.800
my guys.
00:37:43.360
I'm not going to run.
00:37:44.160
I'm 83 years old, but they
00:37:45.620
have my complete and total
00:37:46.820
endorsement.
00:37:48.280
I could see a world where
00:37:50.080
people just say, yeah, you
00:37:51.380
know, I like this team.
00:37:52.300
I like how things are
00:37:53.200
going.
00:37:54.000
You buy this?
00:37:54.980
I mean, because I'm
00:37:55.600
starting to think it's more
00:37:56.440
and more of a possibility
00:37:57.400
that they just say, hey,
00:37:58.440
we're a unity ticket.
00:37:59.500
We're Trump 3 2.0 3.0,
00:38:01.880
however you want to say
00:38:02.700
it.
00:38:03.400
And let's not have all the
00:38:05.000
drama of this huge fight.
00:38:06.660
Let's just keep things
00:38:07.400
rolling.
00:38:08.100
What do you think?
00:38:09.860
Is it too clean?
00:38:11.440
It all sounds great and it
00:38:13.800
would be phenomenal in so
00:38:15.460
many ways.
00:38:17.000
A lot could happen in two
00:38:19.460
and a half years, my
00:38:20.280
friend.
00:38:20.620
You know, this is this is
00:38:21.980
the thing.
00:38:23.280
This is the way we think
00:38:25.020
the story should go.
00:38:27.340
And that to me means it's
00:38:29.420
unlikely that that is the
00:38:30.720
way the story will play
00:38:31.860
out.
00:38:32.760
That's how I view this.
00:38:34.280
Yes, it should go this
00:38:35.360
way.
00:38:35.960
There is a pathway.
00:38:37.780
But remember, I was I was
00:38:40.080
doing shows, Clay, in
00:38:40.960
2019.
00:38:42.900
You know, I was doing doing
00:38:43.980
the solo buck shows in
00:38:45.000
2019.
00:38:45.420
I was saying, guys, the
00:38:47.100
country, things are great.
00:38:48.720
Enjoy it.
00:38:49.260
Trump's kicking ass.
00:38:50.380
Economy's phenomenal.
00:38:51.440
We're at peace.
00:38:52.160
You know, things are
00:38:52.600
great.
00:38:53.160
And then a few months
00:38:55.100
later, you're doing
00:38:55.900
tick tock video dances by
00:38:57.680
yourself in your apartment
00:38:58.720
in New York City.
00:38:59.720
We don't have we don't have
00:39:00.900
to go back to that trauma
00:39:02.200
every time.
00:39:03.060
You know, it was very
00:39:03.860
difficult.
00:39:04.180
I still want to see the
00:39:05.360
tick tock dance.
00:39:06.480
My hair was getting
00:39:07.480
longer and my waist was
00:39:08.780
getting bigger every day of
00:39:10.100
the covid pandemic.
00:39:10.980
And I'm doing these tick
00:39:12.000
tock dances alone in my
00:39:13.220
tiny apartment in New
00:39:14.260
York, surrounded by
00:39:15.000
lunatics who don't think
00:39:15.940
you can go outside.
00:39:17.320
I would have I mean
00:39:19.260
this.
00:39:19.720
I walked into your
00:39:20.720
apartment.
00:39:21.260
The first thing I said
00:39:22.020
was I was like, I would
00:39:23.520
have gone insane.
00:39:25.080
You know, we didn't
00:39:25.820
really do covid here in
00:39:27.220
Franklin, Tennessee.
00:39:29.200
Just basically like March
00:39:30.700
and April and maybe a
00:39:31.840
little bit of May.
00:39:32.940
People were like, you
00:39:34.260
know, a little bit.
00:39:35.260
And then it was kind of
00:39:36.120
over.
00:39:36.640
And then every time I see
00:39:38.440
people, you some of you
00:39:40.380
guys still have a lot of
00:39:41.200
post-traumatic stress.
00:39:42.260
You L.A., you New York,
00:39:44.120
Chicago residents who
00:39:45.820
really had to go through
00:39:47.160
the chaos and the
00:39:48.280
insanity.
00:39:49.540
You L.A.
00:39:50.200
people, most a lot of
00:39:51.200
them had yards.
00:39:53.300
More so.
00:39:54.180
Weather more so.
00:39:55.020
But I mean, Gavin
00:39:55.620
Newsom was arresting
00:39:56.620
paddleboarders.
00:39:57.820
I mean, that's true.
00:39:58.860
I mean, this was a
00:39:59.700
wouldn't even let them
00:40:00.280
walk on the I'm just
00:40:01.220
saying New York turned
00:40:02.560
into a prison camp with
00:40:04.480
masking.
00:40:05.040
It was insane.
00:40:05.620
The only reason to live
00:40:07.180
in New York City is to
00:40:08.440
be able to experience the
00:40:10.180
city.
00:40:10.800
Anybody who has ever had
00:40:12.220
to be cloistered in tiny
00:40:13.560
little apartments that I
00:40:16.040
do think New York had it
00:40:17.160
the worst of everybody.
00:40:18.000
I would have lost my
00:40:18.860
mind.
00:40:19.240
I certainly wouldn't have
00:40:20.060
been able to stay.
00:40:21.360
Trump being Trump, by the
00:40:22.600
way, in addition to
00:40:24.080
saying, hey, J.D. and
00:40:25.360
Marco could be an
00:40:26.160
incredible team.
00:40:27.000
He also decided to tee
00:40:28.440
off on Jasmine Crockett
00:40:30.080
and he challenged them to
00:40:31.580
a cognitive test.
00:40:33.080
AOC.
00:40:33.500
We're going to talk about
00:40:34.340
AOC coming after our
00:40:35.520
friend Riley Gaines here
00:40:36.500
in a moment.
00:40:37.380
But Trump also challenged
00:40:39.000
AOC and Jasmine Crockett
00:40:40.640
to a cognitive test.
00:40:41.820
And you'll want to hear
00:40:43.100
this.
00:40:43.420
Cut 22.
00:40:43.800
All I can tell you is
00:40:44.740
that we have a great
00:40:45.540
group of people, which
00:40:46.420
they don't.
00:40:47.720
They have Jasmine Crockett,
00:40:49.160
a low IQ person.
00:40:50.460
They have AOC's low IQ.
00:40:53.780
You give her an IQ test.
00:40:56.100
Have her pass the exams
00:40:58.620
that I decided to take
00:40:59.980
when I was at Walter Reed.
00:41:01.640
I took those very hard.
00:41:04.640
They're really aptitude
00:41:05.600
tests, I guess, in a
00:41:06.700
certain way.
00:41:07.240
But they're cognitive tests.
00:41:09.140
Let AOC go against Trump.
00:41:11.100
Let Jasmine go against
00:41:13.300
Trump.
00:41:13.580
I don't think
00:41:14.040
Jasmine, the first
00:41:15.720
couple of questions are
00:41:16.720
easy, a tiger, an elephant,
00:41:18.240
a giraffe, you know.
00:41:19.780
When you get up to about
00:41:20.980
five or six, and then
00:41:22.040
when you get up to 10
00:41:23.040
and 20 and 25, they
00:41:25.360
couldn't come close to
00:41:26.580
answering any of those
00:41:27.760
questions.
00:41:28.940
I mean, he is just so good.
00:41:30.740
You know what's really
00:41:31.840
unfair is if Trump
00:41:34.280
doesn't run again, and I
00:41:36.000
think that he does just
00:41:36.840
like to say that he's
00:41:37.500
going to run again because
00:41:38.120
it upsets the libs so
00:41:39.020
much.
00:41:39.340
But if he doesn't run
00:41:40.480
again, Clay, our jobs
00:41:42.020
will never be as
00:41:43.680
entertaining as they have
00:41:44.960
been in the Trump era
00:41:46.700
because he makes
00:41:48.160
you guys even remember
00:41:50.240
what it was like back in
00:41:51.540
in the days when, oh,
00:41:53.120
everything Obama said was
00:41:54.460
genius and perfect.
00:41:55.440
It was boring and
00:41:56.500
generally useless and
00:41:57.660
often lies and wrong in
00:41:59.240
the Bush era.
00:42:00.560
Whatever.
00:42:01.420
You know, people just said
00:42:02.260
stuff, you know, Clinton
00:42:03.560
and Clinton stuff got a
00:42:04.660
little spicy toward the
00:42:05.540
end, as we know.
00:42:06.060
But in general, we did
00:42:08.540
not have a president who
00:42:09.840
just says hilarious things
00:42:11.080
all the time.
00:42:11.820
Can we play the end of
00:42:12.800
that clip?
00:42:13.480
I mean, the part where I
00:42:15.420
mean, it's not scripted,
00:42:16.800
right, where he just
00:42:18.040
talks about I presume that
00:42:19.840
they're showing you
00:42:20.620
pictures of animals as a
00:42:22.020
part of the cognition
00:42:22.760
test.
00:42:23.280
but just can we play like
00:42:25.220
the last 10 seconds of
00:42:26.440
that again because I
00:42:28.640
mean that his comedic
00:42:29.960
timing and the fact that
00:42:31.120
people don't get his
00:42:32.920
sense of humor.
00:42:34.680
I really I feel like so
00:42:36.820
many people who have
00:42:37.680
Trump derangement
00:42:38.740
syndrome really what they
00:42:40.640
have is an inability to
00:42:42.240
process tone and context
00:42:44.500
because I mean, how could
00:42:46.540
you not laugh at this at
00:42:48.040
the end of this answer?
00:42:51.420
Maybe we don't have the
00:42:52.480
ability to pull it out.
00:42:54.720
They're really aptitude
00:42:55.800
tests, I guess, in a
00:42:56.900
certain way, but they're
00:42:57.800
cognitive tests.
00:42:59.340
Let AOC go against
00:43:00.980
Trump.
00:43:01.960
Let Jasmine go against
00:43:03.520
Trump.
00:43:03.860
I don't think Jasmine, the
00:43:05.700
first couple of questions
00:43:06.720
are easy, a tiger, an
00:43:07.960
elephant, a giraffe, you
00:43:09.200
know.
00:43:10.160
When you get up to about
00:43:11.200
five or six and then when
00:43:12.380
you get up to 10 and 20
00:43:13.780
and 25, they couldn't come
00:43:16.200
close to answering any of
00:43:17.760
those questions.
00:43:19.140
All right.
00:43:19.800
So Jasmine Crockett has
00:43:21.100
fired back, Buck.
00:43:22.480
Jasmine Crockett says, I
00:43:24.680
got into college on my
00:43:26.160
own.
00:43:26.940
Trump didn't.
00:43:27.960
This is Jasmine Crockett
00:43:29.460
responding to Trump saying
00:43:30.980
she has a low IQ.
00:43:32.920
Cut 23.
00:43:34.940
I'm waiting on a reporter
00:43:36.360
and maybe it'll be you,
00:43:37.420
Caitlin, that finally ask
00:43:38.860
him what is his IQ?
00:43:40.100
Because he is constantly
00:43:41.080
talking about he doesn't
00:43:41.920
even know what a low IQ
00:43:42.860
is.
00:43:43.280
He don't even know which
00:43:44.220
scores are low.
00:43:45.460
And I can guarantee you
00:43:46.560
that whatever score, if
00:43:47.940
he's taken one anytime
00:43:49.560
recently, I'm sure that his
00:43:51.560
disqualifies as low.
00:43:52.560
Listen, he's never been
00:43:53.580
known to be an Einstein.
00:43:54.900
This is not a guy who got
00:43:56.740
in on merit when it came
00:43:58.780
to going to college.
00:43:59.700
This is someone who, but
00:44:01.320
for him being born with a
00:44:02.540
silver spoon, probably
00:44:03.300
wouldn't have got into
00:44:03.880
anybody's institution
00:44:05.200
unlike me.
00:44:06.480
So, you know, I am not
00:44:08.000
worried about that.
00:44:08.800
And I wish people would
00:44:10.000
look at the fact that you
00:44:11.300
have a president of the
00:44:12.120
United States who
00:44:13.040
consistently is obsessing
00:44:15.300
over two women of color
00:44:17.080
that are members of the
00:44:18.060
House.
00:44:18.520
OK, so the whole women
00:44:20.980
of color thing is
00:44:23.000
Jasmine Crockett, in your
00:44:24.300
opinion, an elite
00:44:25.680
intellect buck.
00:44:26.820
I'll answer first.
00:44:28.020
No.
00:44:28.920
And it's not just
00:44:29.740
Jasmine Crockett.
00:44:30.900
I'm disappointed.
00:44:32.220
I bet you are on some
00:44:33.260
level, too.
00:44:34.460
You know who's really
00:44:35.100
disappointed by it is
00:44:36.180
Laura Travis, my wife.
00:44:38.040
There are a lot of people
00:44:39.840
who represent us in
00:44:41.240
Congress and in the
00:44:42.480
Senate that are not
00:44:43.980
high intellect.
00:44:45.020
That's not ideal.
00:44:45.920
They're also not great
00:44:47.520
communicators.
00:44:48.320
That is really not ideal.
00:44:49.940
Like we are not
00:44:50.840
represented in general
00:44:52.700
Republicans, Democrats,
00:44:53.940
independents by the most
00:44:55.400
accomplished and
00:44:56.600
intellectually sound and
00:44:59.120
great communicators out
00:45:00.960
there.
00:45:01.320
I think one thing that
00:45:02.380
Trump diagnosed in
00:45:03.640
politics was that he
00:45:05.640
could have the success
00:45:06.980
he had with no
00:45:08.000
background in politics
00:45:09.360
because there are a lot
00:45:11.440
of lightweights that he
00:45:12.540
is knocking out and
00:45:13.880
pushing around candidly
00:45:15.120
when it comes to
00:45:15.820
arguments and it comes
00:45:16.840
to the political
00:45:17.380
direction of the
00:45:18.060
country.
00:45:19.480
All true.
00:45:20.820
And this is why we
00:45:23.380
continue to hope for
00:45:25.360
reform of our
00:45:27.460
government system.
00:45:28.240
Yet we have people who
00:45:29.720
are so often buffoons
00:45:31.100
representing us.
00:45:32.600
Yes.
00:45:32.980
Government system.
00:45:33.720
So there's a problem
00:45:35.220
there.
00:45:35.980
It's a bit like how we
00:45:36.980
all want to tackle the
00:45:37.660
debt, but we don't want
00:45:38.300
any of the good spending
00:45:38.980
to stop.
00:45:39.620
Talk more about this.
00:45:41.160
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00:45:43.060
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00:45:43.720
lives more and more, and
00:45:45.660
it's only going to get
00:45:46.260
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00:45:46.980
I've read and reread the
00:45:48.100
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00:45:49.180
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00:45:50.020
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00:45:51.480
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00:45:52.660
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00:47:26.740
Clay Travis, Buck Sexton
00:47:28.280
Show.
00:47:29.000
We are excited to be joined
00:47:31.400
by our friend, Riley
00:47:32.760
Gaines.
00:47:33.380
I don't think you've been on
00:47:34.620
since you officially became
00:47:36.180
a mom.
00:47:36.900
So, let's start there before
00:47:38.040
we get into you versus AOC.
00:47:41.560
What has, we have a lot of
00:47:43.500
moms out there and dads.
00:47:45.100
Buck is a recent new dad, as
00:47:46.780
you know.
00:47:47.640
What has most surprised you
00:47:49.660
about being a mom that maybe
00:47:51.400
you didn't anticipate?
00:47:52.980
How has it gone so far?
00:47:54.760
Do you have any advice for
00:47:56.320
maybe expectant moms that
00:47:58.140
might be out there listening
00:47:59.120
that have not had baby one
00:48:00.860
yet based on your experience?
00:48:02.580
Ann, congratulations.
00:48:05.920
Well, thank you.
00:48:06.820
And congratulations to Buck,
00:48:08.120
too.
00:48:08.840
Look, I will say the thing that
00:48:09.920
has surprised me most is
00:48:12.340
honestly, and look, I know my
00:48:15.640
experience is, you know, one
00:48:17.480
thing and it is very different
00:48:18.820
than other women.
00:48:20.060
But honestly, how easy it is.
00:48:22.040
I think, especially as women,
00:48:24.040
especially as younger women, you
00:48:25.020
get wrapped up in all the horror
00:48:26.300
stories.
00:48:27.320
I heard them all during pregnancy.
00:48:29.420
Everyone told me, you know, well,
00:48:30.300
you just wait and I kept waiting
00:48:32.200
and waiting and none of the bad
00:48:33.360
things that all of the women
00:48:34.580
said were going to happen
00:48:35.420
happened to me.
00:48:36.080
I had a fantastic pregnancy and
00:48:37.340
then it was, OK, well, you just
00:48:38.360
wait until delivery and
00:48:40.480
delivery came.
00:48:42.000
She was born and the process
00:48:43.360
was a breeze.
00:48:45.160
And then it was, OK, well, you
00:48:46.080
just bank up on your sleep now
00:48:47.280
because you're not going to get
00:48:48.040
any sleep when she's here.
00:48:49.120
And let me tell you, I've slept
00:48:50.460
like a dream.
00:48:51.020
She's been just the best baby.
00:48:52.600
And so I think the message that
00:48:54.420
I want to send is that there are
00:48:56.200
good stories out there, too.
00:48:57.640
So it has been just the most
00:49:00.340
magical past four weeks.
00:49:02.380
She'll be a month tomorrow, which
00:49:03.800
is insane.
00:49:04.600
It's gone so quick.
00:49:06.120
Isn't it the best, Riley?
00:49:07.340
The first one is my first one,
00:49:08.820
too.
00:49:09.080
It's been so much fun.
00:49:10.060
And honestly, I share a lot of
00:49:11.940
your sentiment because people
00:49:12.980
and I know a lot of it was
00:49:14.940
well-intentioned, but there's
00:49:16.740
this, you know, oh,
00:49:17.960
congratulations to the baby.
00:49:19.220
You're never going to sleep
00:49:20.120
again and your life is going to
00:49:21.200
be so hard.
00:49:22.300
That wasn't even true for us.
00:49:23.880
The baby was about was hit the
00:49:25.860
five month sleep regression.
00:49:27.060
And we've actually since worked
00:49:28.500
with the baby and now sleeping
00:49:29.620
great again.
00:49:30.560
But our baby slept like a baby.
00:49:33.060
It was fine.
00:49:34.180
And it's been amazing.
00:49:35.000
And I just want more of them.
00:49:36.400
I don't know.
00:49:36.940
I just feel like there's a
00:49:38.620
little bit of a strange, even
00:49:40.380
on the right, a strange
00:49:41.960
cultural like batten down the
00:49:43.500
hatches thing where everything
00:49:45.300
me.
00:49:45.540
You were you were a super high
00:49:46.780
level swimmer.
00:49:47.640
I'm sure you had to get up at
00:49:48.860
five o'clock in the morning a
00:49:50.020
lot and spend a lot of time in
00:49:51.460
the pool.
00:49:52.080
And that's not always fun or what
00:49:53.600
you want to do, but it's
00:49:54.740
really worthwhile.
00:49:57.000
That's it.
00:49:57.760
And that's the exact same with
00:49:59.220
with motherhood.
00:50:01.020
I think there's an attempt to
00:50:03.280
again, especially when we're
00:50:04.660
talking about younger women, to
00:50:06.340
to scare them out of it,
00:50:07.840
honestly.
00:50:09.320
And I think you guys both know
00:50:11.380
we live in this.
00:50:12.260
What about ism culture where you
00:50:13.780
share these stories and you
00:50:14.800
almost feel shameful for doing
00:50:16.640
it because you'll have someone
00:50:17.700
else who will say, well, what
00:50:18.760
about my experience or what
00:50:20.460
about this?
00:50:21.200
And, you know, they want us to
00:50:23.140
feel shameful for having these
00:50:24.360
great experiences.
00:50:24.960
But I'm just here to say
00:50:26.120
hasn't been that that way with
00:50:28.460
us.
00:50:28.660
We've had a fantastic
00:50:29.900
experience.
00:50:30.860
I just want to say, Riley, I've
00:50:32.300
I've had people yell at me
00:50:33.600
before because I just shared
00:50:35.640
the positive experience that
00:50:36.980
I've had of making walking a
00:50:38.760
part of my daily routine.
00:50:40.440
People get mad at me.
00:50:41.480
Like, of course, you think
00:50:42.620
walking is, you know, Mr.
00:50:44.280
like radio.
00:50:45.260
I thought walking.
00:50:46.380
I mean, unless you have some
00:50:47.200
real problem, like that's
00:50:48.280
something we could all enjoy
00:50:49.360
and share.
00:50:49.800
But I just want to tell you,
00:50:51.160
even when you give people the
00:50:52.760
most solid and positive and
00:50:54.960
kind hearted advice, there will
00:50:56.440
be people who are angry at
00:50:57.620
you.
00:50:59.340
100%.
00:50:59.740
Yeah.
00:51:01.080
Walking probably also makes you
00:51:02.640
a racist, too.
00:51:03.560
So it is funny that you would
00:51:06.120
say, of course, now, yeah, you
00:51:08.500
got to give reparate that you
00:51:10.260
would say that anybody would
00:51:11.540
say, hey, maybe you should just
00:51:12.780
walk a little bit more.
00:51:13.780
And the response is, well,
00:51:15.000
you're elitist.
00:51:15.740
Like, I think walking something
00:51:17.440
that most of us share.
00:51:18.220
All right.
00:51:19.240
So you texted me yesterday
00:51:21.120
and it reminded me of you
00:51:23.560
texting me when Simone Biles
00:51:25.100
came after you.
00:51:26.660
So for those who do not know,
00:51:28.300
AOC decided kind of out of
00:51:31.300
nowhere.
00:51:31.740
I mean, you tell us the story,
00:51:33.340
Riley, to just attack you.
00:51:35.700
And I think my immediate
00:51:36.700
response was, this is so great
00:51:38.520
for you, which was the same
00:51:39.600
thing when Simone Biles did it.
00:51:41.700
And I'm sure you had the same
00:51:42.900
reaction because there are so
00:51:44.500
many fake accounts out there.
00:51:46.120
Like, my initial reaction is,
00:51:48.560
okay, let's make sure it's
00:51:49.620
actually Simone Biles.
00:51:50.900
Let's make sure it's actually
00:51:52.060
AOC because this is such a
00:51:54.520
ridiculous, bad angle to be
00:51:56.440
attacking someone on that I
00:51:59.140
can't believe it's real.
00:52:00.520
So tell people who don't know
00:52:02.020
you're sitting around yesterday
00:52:03.320
afternoon and AOC decides kind
00:52:06.240
of out of the blue to come
00:52:07.120
after you.
00:52:08.000
What happened?
00:52:08.660
It's so funny you mentioned
00:52:11.200
that about Simone Biles because
00:52:12.420
honestly, it's virtually like
00:52:14.500
the exact same realization and
00:52:18.260
actions that I went through when
00:52:19.960
this happened because I'm sitting
00:52:21.060
there now, especially being a new
00:52:23.300
mom, I'm not on my phone all the
00:52:24.440
time, but I see this notification
00:52:25.620
pop up and it says, you know,
00:52:27.300
AOC mentioned you in a comment.
00:52:28.880
I click on it and I read it and it
00:52:30.960
says something to the effect of if
00:52:33.700
you channeled all of your anger
00:52:35.280
towards swimming, maybe you would
00:52:36.580
have been faster or something to
00:52:38.340
the effect.
00:52:39.000
Better than fifth in all of
00:52:42.400
American NCAA swimmers.
00:52:44.900
This is the line of attack she
00:52:46.320
decided to hit you with.
00:52:48.000
You're only the fifth best at
00:52:50.000
something in the entire United
00:52:52.520
States that doesn't, I'd love to be
00:52:54.760
the fifth best at anything, by the
00:52:56.160
way.
00:52:56.620
But yes, that's what she decided to
00:52:58.280
attack you with.
00:53:00.100
It is so true.
00:53:01.280
Like it proves this line of defense
00:53:04.000
or these arguments that they're
00:53:05.400
using, it proves that they know
00:53:07.080
nothing about sports.
00:53:08.080
And honestly, it's pretty utterly
00:53:10.560
misogynistic because, I mean, you
00:53:12.200
think about it, Clay, would she
00:53:13.640
call the fifth best college
00:53:16.200
football player in the nation
00:53:17.820
mediocre or bad at his sport or
00:53:20.940
whatever, or the fifth best college
00:53:22.840
basketball player?
00:53:23.700
No way she wouldn't say that.
00:53:25.220
But because it's, number one, I
00:53:26.540
think women's sports, which is
00:53:27.620
hilarious because they claim to
00:53:29.540
care about and watch women's
00:53:30.920
sports.
00:53:31.580
And two, I think a less mainstream
00:53:33.760
sport like swimming, of course,
00:53:35.260
this is more of a niche sport.
00:53:36.780
It's, if you're not the best, if
00:53:38.260
you're not on the Olympic team, if
00:53:39.640
you're not getting gold medals at
00:53:42.320
the Olympics, then you're actually
00:53:43.660
just not good at your sport.
00:53:45.400
And that was AOC's line of defense.
00:53:47.360
So, or her argument that she went
00:53:50.340
with it there.
00:53:51.000
And so, um, can I just put, you
00:53:53.760
can have this six foot, go ahead.
00:53:56.040
No, no, no, you go ahead.
00:53:56.940
I didn't, I didn't want to interrupt
00:53:57.900
you, Riley.
00:53:58.380
Go ahead.
00:53:59.820
No, I, my, I think the point is you
00:54:02.920
have two sides of this argument.
00:54:04.940
One side is to be with and standing
00:54:07.520
for women who merely want fair
00:54:09.540
competition, safety in their sports
00:54:11.280
and privacy in areas of undressing.
00:54:12.900
And the other side is the side of the
00:54:15.540
six foot four man who was 462nd the
00:54:19.780
year prior when competing against the
00:54:21.140
men and who flashes women in the
00:54:22.720
locker room and AOC made the side
00:54:24.900
that she chose very clear.
00:54:28.160
Now I have to ask you Riley, because
00:54:31.780
you understand how competitive sports
00:54:34.640
are and you're somebody who knows the
00:54:36.880
work that has to go into it and, and
00:54:38.620
just the, the realities of the sports
00:54:41.580
world.
00:54:42.640
We haven't really gotten to know each
00:54:44.800
other that well, but there's a
00:54:46.380
controversy out there about whether or
00:54:48.180
not, as a recreational middle-aged
00:54:50.920
tennis player, I will be able to get
00:54:52.580
a hundred mile an hour serve on camera
00:54:54.700
as evidenced by a speed gun.
00:54:57.780
Now I got to be, let me interrupt him
00:55:00.040
here.
00:55:00.780
This has been several months where he
00:55:03.180
hasn't in good weather.
00:55:04.600
I'm just going to point out where there
00:55:06.200
hasn't been a test going on Riley, just
00:55:09.180
for your ability and error.
00:55:11.020
Riley, just so you understand, we
00:55:12.420
already have a 97 on the record.
00:55:15.120
Okay.
00:55:15.300
97 miles an hour, but Clay and some of
00:55:17.560
the doubters in this audience think
00:55:19.660
that I will not be able to with a
00:55:21.280
little more, uh, limber shoulder and a
00:55:24.600
little, little more, you know, uh, of
00:55:26.560
the old Riley during the show commercial
00:55:29.100
break, he has a rubber band that he is
00:55:32.220
stretching out his shoulder with.
00:55:34.180
Clay, that was for the trust tree.
00:55:35.820
That's not for Eric on the radio.
00:55:37.540
Anyway, there's got to be a clip of
00:55:39.780
this go ahead.
00:55:43.260
Do you think, do you think what side of
00:55:45.220
this bet I have till the end of the
00:55:46.560
year?
00:55:46.840
I'll decide that much I have till the
00:55:48.440
end of the year, which now takes me
00:55:49.800
through, uh, I got about, you know,
00:55:51.060
eight weeks to get this done.
00:55:52.520
Can it be done by yours truly?
00:55:54.640
Yes or no.
00:55:56.720
Honestly, but I think there is a, a more
00:55:59.640
plausible chance of you serving a 100
00:56:02.780
mile per hour serve.
00:56:04.620
Then there is Clay Travis actually
00:56:06.720
swimming Alcatraz.
00:56:08.920
Wow.
00:56:10.040
Look, I'm just sitting here innocent and
00:56:12.540
much like, much like Riley when AOC came
00:56:15.760
after, I'm just a nice, kind, considerate
00:56:17.900
person here.
00:56:18.640
And I just got two by Ford hacksaw Jim
00:56:20.980
Duggan style by Riley here, which I
00:56:23.880
invited Clay in July.
00:56:24.960
You're both invited next July to do this.
00:56:28.180
I think we could, we could make something
00:56:29.520
out of it.
00:56:30.440
Can I doggy paddle the Alcatraz swim or is
00:56:33.280
that just, is that too gauche?
00:56:37.160
Honestly, the worst part is how cold it
00:56:39.320
is.
00:56:40.320
Oh, that's the worst part of all of it.
00:56:42.500
I am both less buoyant and less insulated
00:56:45.160
than I used to be Clay.
00:56:46.380
So that may, that's, that's one of the
00:56:47.700
few times this was not to my advantage.
00:56:49.740
Well, I saw your husband, Louie, um, and
00:56:52.760
he was saying that there are moments where
00:56:55.900
you think about sharks.
00:56:57.040
Did you think this is the part that I'm
00:56:58.800
actually now is in my head.
00:57:00.320
I'm not going to lie.
00:57:01.220
The idea of getting attacked by a shark
00:57:04.720
while trying to do this, you did this
00:57:06.920
pregnant.
00:57:07.780
Did you truly have no fear of sharks at
00:57:10.120
all, Riley, when you got in the water,
00:57:11.720
like didn't even cross your mind or at
00:57:14.960
some point when you're in the depth of
00:57:16.980
the, the, the swim there, did you think,
00:57:19.220
Hey, this is a little bit scary.
00:57:22.900
It's so funny looking back.
00:57:24.500
Cause you're right.
00:57:25.060
I did this at gosh, seven months pregnant
00:57:27.320
and you're, you're kind of in the middle
00:57:28.840
of the ocean and you reach a point where
00:57:31.240
it gets really cold.
00:57:32.740
And I think that indicates of course, that,
00:57:34.700
you know, the water gets deeper.
00:57:36.400
And in those moments, it's a bit unsettling,
00:57:38.260
like, Oh gosh, what is swimming underneath
00:57:39.660
me?
00:57:39.980
But sharks, I'm, I'm, I don't think I'm
00:57:41.580
really scared of sharks.
00:57:43.020
Um, I watched soul surfer growing up.
00:57:46.020
Bethany Hamilton actually is just, I mean,
00:57:47.840
she's a dear friend of mine.
00:57:49.260
Um, but sharks are, are never something
00:57:51.800
that, that really scared me.
00:57:53.220
Louie, he's actually sat right next to me.
00:57:55.480
We're in the car together now.
00:57:57.060
Uh, he's just a sissy is what it is.
00:58:01.440
I'm, I'm a sissy with Louie then.
00:58:03.760
Uh, let me ask you this though, back on
00:58:05.580
the AOC thing, uh, Riley, um, and tell
00:58:08.540
Louie, we said hi too.
00:58:10.040
Um, why do you think she decided to attack
00:58:13.560
you kind of out of nowhere?
00:58:14.700
It's the same question that I had when I
00:58:16.580
saw Simone Biles come after you.
00:58:19.320
It's not an attack that makes her look
00:58:21.660
better to your point, being, attacking
00:58:24.640
someone for only being the fifth best at
00:58:27.580
something.
00:58:28.680
Again, I would love to be the fifth best
00:58:30.640
at anything.
00:58:31.200
So with everybody out there listening, it's
00:58:33.240
not a good line of attack.
00:58:34.880
Where is this coming from?
00:58:36.440
Is it organized?
00:58:37.700
Do you think somebody is asking her to do
00:58:39.860
it?
00:58:40.080
Was she looking for this opportunity?
00:58:41.680
And then you've offered to debate her and
00:58:44.060
she followed up again.
00:58:45.320
I think you were on with Laura Ingram
00:58:46.660
last night.
00:58:47.540
Where is all of this coming from in your
00:58:49.740
mind?
00:58:51.440
Well, it is interesting because when you
00:58:54.500
compare this to Simone, because Simone and
00:58:56.540
her argument, I mean, you would imagine
00:58:58.640
that an Olympian, the best of the best
00:59:00.820
there, she's like in a total league of
00:59:02.280
her own.
00:59:02.740
There's no one even close to her.
00:59:04.360
You would imagine she would understand
00:59:05.740
and approach this from an athlete, which
00:59:07.040
of course she didn't, but she didn't
00:59:08.140
necessarily have to be politically
00:59:10.620
competent.
00:59:11.360
And AOC, her position, of course, is
00:59:14.400
morally bankrupt, but it's just totally
00:59:15.960
politically ignorant.
00:59:17.860
Not only is this something that, I mean,
00:59:19.560
99, 100 percent of the Republican Party
00:59:22.240
and those who voted for Donald Trump, the
00:59:24.480
77 million people who voted for Donald
00:59:26.480
Trump agree with that mention me in women's
00:59:28.960
sports.
00:59:29.620
But it's what?
00:59:30.400
Like, I would say 80 percent of the
00:59:33.220
Democratic Party.
00:59:34.100
I think the number in the Gallup polls has
00:59:36.680
been somewhere between 60, 70.
00:59:38.140
I think it's more than that, of their own
00:59:40.240
party that don't agree with them.
00:59:41.960
And so why is she doing this?
00:59:43.520
I think it's something that's successful
00:59:44.940
on social media platforms where you can
00:59:48.000
kind of acquire that cesspool of radical
00:59:50.220
insane lunatics, which those exist on
00:59:53.860
X.
00:59:54.100
I mean, I think her her initial post got
00:59:55.840
what, like 45 million views.
00:59:58.660
So you can imagine the past 24 hours what
01:00:02.220
my messages on all platforms look like when
01:00:05.140
you're having to field 45 million AOC cronies
01:00:10.000
who just follow her page and listen to what
01:00:11.980
she says.
01:00:13.600
But I don't know.
01:00:14.840
It's not politically expedient at all.
01:00:18.200
And I think that the terrifying point here is
01:00:20.680
that this is the leader of their party.
01:00:23.400
People like Crockett and AOC and Mom Donnie,
01:00:27.420
that that's who all other Democrats at all
01:00:29.660
levels, by the way, that's who they look to.
01:00:32.340
Try to find me a moderate Democrat.
01:00:33.840
Clay, I think you tweeted it a few weeks ago
01:00:35.780
talking about how Fetterman was the most
01:00:38.920
sane Democrat.
01:00:39.960
And it's there's not even a close second.
01:00:42.800
Like, like try and try and think of a
01:00:44.800
moderate Democrat at any level.
01:00:47.640
I mean, there just isn't one.
01:00:49.540
So this is their this is their party's leader.
01:00:51.940
This is what I guess they believe will work.
01:00:54.900
But we will continue to see them lose in
01:00:57.480
2026 and 2028.
01:00:59.000
And further on, if they continue with, I
01:01:03.000
mean, supporting the policies, the harmful
01:01:05.740
policies that they support.
01:01:09.160
Thank you so much, Riley, for being here.
01:01:10.860
And congrats again to you and Louie.
01:01:13.540
Yep.
01:01:14.600
Well, thank you, guys.
01:01:15.820
I want to see a video of Buck in this
01:01:17.860
commercial break.
01:01:18.500
Oh, this serve, this serve is going to
01:01:20.560
happen, everybody.
01:01:21.320
It's going to happen.
01:01:22.180
I wish you could see him with the rubber
01:01:24.100
band trying to loosen up the right shoulder
01:01:26.060
during the commercial breaks.
01:01:27.640
I mean, that was in the trust.
01:01:28.560
That was in the trust tree.
01:01:29.920
That was in the trust tree.
01:01:31.260
And Clay is now violating trust tree.
01:01:33.060
OK, that's enough of that.
01:01:34.280
But yes, Riley, I am trying to limber up
01:01:36.040
this old man's shoulder just a little bit
01:01:38.140
like the backstroke only for the tennis
01:01:40.780
court.
01:01:41.280
Thank you for being here, Riley.
01:01:42.360
Well, thank you, guys.
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