On today's show, Buck and Clay discuss the chaos at the United Nation's General Assembly, why climate change has vanished, and the new book by Kamala Harris, Why We Don t Talk About Climate Change Anymore.
00:03:22.540It went from the thing that they were obsessed with that we didn't care about at all to nobody cares about it to now they're going to pretend they care again.
00:03:32.880Ukraine needs the libs that care so much about who controls Donbass now more than ever.
00:03:38.220And yet not seeing a lot of that, not seeing a lot, almost like this is a thing that people attach themselves to so that they can feel good about themselves without any actual skin in the game or doing anything.
00:03:49.680OK, certainly true of climate change, I might add.
00:03:52.720But we will talk more about what Trump has said at the United Nations.
00:03:56.380We'll certainly discuss Kamala's book, which is I got to say, it's just everybody just crashing this thing so far.
00:04:05.360And I don't mean to be clear, usually this book would come out from a Democrat who had just run.
00:04:12.540And if she had a future, not going to argue with Clay over this today, but we all know how we feel about this.
00:04:16.560If she had a future, there would be a lot of people in the Democrat establishment who were saying, you know, oh, man, like it just was so tough for her.
00:04:24.640And and, you know, she's she's a great candidate.
00:04:26.980And everyone's saying, wow, it's kind of nasty and really not not so good.
00:04:32.240And we'll talk about some of the clips and some of her promo for the book.
00:04:35.380And, yes, I did buy a copy of it, which I feel guilty about.
00:04:55.260This is going to be a big story going forward, because it just is yet another thing that we were right about and told you was happening.
00:05:02.060And now they're like, oh, yeah, by the way, we were censoring everybody about covid and banning all sorts of people who ended up being right about everything.
00:05:19.940I stopped with YouTube because I was like, this is crazy because you couldn't even say I could not say don't that mask wearing outside was unnecessary outside, which every single study, all of the data said that that is absolutely worthless and insane.
00:06:27.180I just know when the government begins to interfere, when the government says, I'm not pleased with you, so we're going to orchestrate a way to silence you.
00:06:35.460It's the wrong direction for our country.
00:06:37.440And I should know I've been involved in something like this.
00:06:40.700And now ABC is put in the same position.
00:06:42.880And it's unfortunate that ABC even has to be in this position.
00:06:45.880They shouldn't have to be in this position.
00:07:19.220This is not even a tiny little sliver of the cancellation and censorship and everything that the right has been dealing with for 20 years now, especially online.
00:07:33.220And we're supposed to care that Jimmy Kimmel?
00:07:35.400The government didn't take him off the air.
00:07:50.480I have been saying since this all started, and I think people are going to slowly start to recognize this is about Disney trying to buy the NFL network.
00:09:43.960Did I just blow you up in front of the line?
00:09:45.560Well, I occasionally will have a soda, but it is super unhealthy.
00:09:50.780I get ripped all the time for the clothes that I wear, for the food choices that I make.
00:09:59.200I really haven't changed very much since I was like 18, for better or worse, when it comes to what I wear or what I eat.
00:10:05.860So I would just say, I'll back to the Kimmelfig for a second, because I was saying, when I go to the gym, and I've gotten on 190 now, whenever I see the screen, it's always sports in my gym.
00:11:12.940You know, it's all versions of who's better, LeBron or Jordan.
00:11:15.220It's all, you know, I take this side, you take that side of inane argument at ESPN.
00:11:20.280And I think it's just because you're right about how they really just want to be a middleman broadcasting of live sports with a lot of chatter in between.
00:11:29.000The worst thing for them would be to blow up one of their franchise properties because they do a story that knocks a really good, talented player out of being able to be on television for them.
00:11:42.000Speaking of being on television, I now have an FS1 show where I sit around and talk about all the inane sports things that airs at 6 p.m. Eastern.
00:17:58.480But even beyond that, who's the leader of the Democrat Party right now?
00:18:01.640And we talk about this day to day because we know there's opposition to Trump and the Republicans out there.
00:18:08.080We know that they actually got a lot of votes in this last election.
00:18:10.480We're not forgetting about that, but there has to be some group of people, if not one person, who are really driving the, you know, driving the boat or, you know, making making the decisions about where the party's going.
00:18:26.080And it's very unclear right now in a way that it has never been.
00:18:28.740We we have lived, Clay, right through the era of Clinton's Obama's Biden's a little bit.
00:18:36.240But, you know, there have been these names in politics like we all knew who the top Democrats were, more or less, for the last 20 years, who the big names were.
00:18:46.860And, you know, there was a little period where you had some, you know, John Kerry was making a play for it.
00:18:51.180Right. And there have been some others.
00:18:55.060And it's worth noting that they don't know either.
00:18:57.200And it's fun to watch the scramble here on The View, trying to trying to push her book.
00:19:02.700And I'm sure she wants to sell a lot of copies because Kamala wants to make money.
00:19:06.240The View host, Sonny Hostin, who I am told reliably, by the way, Clay, from a source very close to the show, is incredibly hostile to both staff and fellow panelists on that.
00:21:08.760That was I mean, that was a moment where I was feeling so good about the prediction that he was going to do even better against against Kamala that Trump was than he did against Hillary.
00:28:45.020You don't say I can't think of anything because that makes you seem like an empty vessel.
00:28:49.160Not only that, it actually makes you endorse every decision that has been made as opposed to saying, again, I would pivot and attack Trump in that answer.
00:29:00.140He's so bad we took over a dumpster fire.
00:29:03.160The first thing you have to do is put out the fire and it takes a while for the results of the work we're doing.
00:30:14.640Now, there are complexities associated with it.
00:30:17.260If you can't answer basic questions, your job as a communicator, let's leave aside the fact that I think Kamala would have been an awful decision-maker too.
00:30:25.840But if you can't even communicate answers to basic questions, then you're in real trouble.
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00:32:11.720Patriots, radio hosts, a couple of regular guys, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
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00:32:23.280Welcome back in, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
00:32:26.420Okay, this is something that is significant that I think actually ties in quite a bit with the Jimmy Kimmel story.
00:32:34.920So, Jimmy Kimmel is going to be back on air, much of the nation, but not if you have a Nexstar or a Sinclair affiliate carrying your ABC station.
00:32:45.340I have a Nexstar affiliate here in Nashville, so I will not get Jimmy Kimmel's show tonight.
00:32:52.240Some of you will, some of you will not.
00:33:20.300You would think that it was the largest, most significant attack on free speech that we have ever seen based on the response from the left.
00:33:29.920Similarly, if you care about free speech, a story that is almost going to get no attention whatsoever, but I think is one of the most significant of the 21st century, and that is YouTube has admitted that it censored conservative speakers on their platform at the behest of the Biden administration.
00:33:53.040We're going to talk to Jim Jordan about this tomorrow, but Buck, let me just give you a sense for how this went down as someone who ran a media company and needed to be making money on YouTube, as many media companies do.
00:34:08.220Every time I mentioned the COVID shot and said, hey, I don't think you should get the COVID shot, I don't think you need it if you're young and healthy, all these things which have been proven to be true.
00:34:25.420Every time I said things like wearing a mask when you walk into a restaurant and then taking it off when you sit down at the table is nonsensical, we would get strikes.
00:34:35.880And when we got strikes, they would prevent us from monetizing our content.
00:34:43.720And at one point in time, because Tommy Lahren is also one of our employees at Outkick, at one point in time, they suspended us.
00:34:53.340I believe it was for a month from being able to make any money at all.
00:34:58.020And they now are saying, hey, we shouldn't have done that.
00:35:01.440And we'll talk about it with Jim Jordan, but this is actual free speech being attacked.
00:35:09.460And unlike Jimmy Kimmel, who would have the opportunity to miss four days and come back and he's making millions of dollars, many people out there, including you, Buck, were curtailed significantly, including me, including the company that I ran, Outkick,
00:35:25.100because we were willing to say the truth about the COVID shot and about wearing masks and about all of this such that this is what they did.
00:35:35.780This is crazy, but I'm just I'm taking you behind the curtain.
00:35:39.080I sold the company in twenty twenty one.
00:35:41.960They stopped allowing my show to air live.
00:35:45.200And they would edit out any reference that I happened to make to COVID shots, to masking, to to schools being closed, all those things, and then post it so they could monetize the other aspects of the show.
00:36:04.720That is what and again, this was the company to try to make money, to pay people salaries.
00:36:10.660YouTube is a huge driver of revenue for virtually every media company in the country.
00:36:15.420Now, they would not air my show live because we were getting so many strikes that were disallowing us from being able to monetize this damages.
00:36:25.420It might be in the billions of dollars that, quote unquote, conservative, I would just say common sense YouTubers were dealing with for simply questioning whether we needed to be mandating shots, whether they made sense.
00:36:42.360They essentially took the Biden administration and did what the Biden administration would not be able to do, which is censor political speech.
00:36:56.580They're just backing off right now because they don't want the eye of Trump to focus in on them too closely in this moment while our team, so to speak, is in power.
00:37:08.560That's so, you know, it's hard to feel good about this other than we were right.
00:37:13.600And, you know, I had I had a, you know, small YouTube channel that got shut down.
00:37:18.300And it was the kind of thing where you get a strike or two and then you don't want to deal with it anymore.
00:37:41.880Anyway, I'm not this isn't what was me.
00:37:43.900They did it to a lot of people in our space.
00:37:45.940In fact, if they didn't do it to you and you're a conservative, I would wonder, like, where were you during covid and how are you in any way useful?
00:37:54.280But these these companies, they're admitting it now, like I said, because we're of where the wind is blowing.
00:38:11.840It has been for years and rigged against people who are right of center.
00:38:16.180So that is is very frustrating because these platforms because they were dishonest about it and they got really big.
00:38:23.440And this is something that else that I think everyone needs to understand.
00:38:26.360YouTube and Facebook in the early days, they were OK.
00:38:31.480We're going to allow different perspectives.
00:38:33.260And it was essentially like a free speech within the law, which is what it should always be.
00:38:37.260And people say, oh, but, you know, you shouldn't be able to just have copyrighted material or, oh, you shouldn't be able to have, you know, material that's illegal.
00:38:44.420Of course, no one's no one's saying that this is about I don't like the content I'm going to and I'm going to block the audience from seeing it and artificially shut it down, which is what they did.
00:38:56.740And they did it for purely partisan purposes.
00:39:03.240They're just doing what's smart for them right now.
00:39:06.180But for a lot of us, man, this is a, well, this is a reminder of what we're up against and the kind of stuff that they were pulling and everything we said that they were doing was true.
00:39:19.300YouTube refused to allow us to post our Rand Paul interview because of his US senator and an MD, a medical doctor and a senator would not let us put it on the Internet running for reelection.
00:39:32.100When in theory, whatever you think about Rand Paul, you should want every single aspect of his political views to be as widely distributed as possible.
00:39:41.380They took down our interview with President Trump from Bedminster YouTube.
00:39:46.160Now, I want all of you to go subscribe to YouTube Clay and Buck right now.
00:39:51.840But I guarantee you, we are still minimized in distribution and algorithmic success because the problem.
00:40:00.260The ghosts in the machine linger for a long time afterwards.
00:40:03.020Once once you're in YouTube jail, you can basically never get out.
00:40:07.880Once they decide that you're you're on the naughty list, you don't get because it's all about the algorithmic showing of shows to people so you can get more subscribers and so that your own audience can see it.
00:40:20.200When they decide that they're going to limit your reach, you're done.
00:40:24.620They put you they put you in jail here, by the way, is what the House Judiciary Committee and Jim Jordan put out just specifically.
00:40:31.840So, you know, the Biden administration, Google admitted the following to the House Judiciary Committee.
00:40:38.300One, the Biden administration pressured Google to censor Americans and remove content that did not violate YouTube's policies.
00:40:46.900Two, the Biden administration censorship pressure was, quote, unacceptable and wrong.
00:40:53.720Three, public debate should never come at the expense of a lot of relying authorities for the company will never use third party fact checkers and Europe censor five Europe censorship laws targeting American companies and threatening American speech, including the removal of lawful content.
00:41:16.020And again, we'll talk with Jim Jordan about this tomorrow.
00:42:12.320I said, well, subscribe to our YouTube channel.
00:42:14.000We'll use all the tools at our disposal to get the message out as far as we can, as fast as we can while we have them.
00:42:21.240So I make no apologies for that, to be clear.
00:42:24.080So, yeah, we want to build up a YouTube presence now while we can, as long as we can, because we believe in what we say and we think people need to hear it.
00:42:30.780But is there trust is there trust that has been built with these entities that can only be done over time that can only happen if they allow us to build up the audience that we know we can have.
00:42:42.200But we have millions of radio listeners.
00:42:43.860Clay, we're going to, you know, we've been shadow banned on YouTube for a long time.
00:42:51.860I would also point out you will probably not hear a word from anybody who has been screaming about Jimmy Kimmel's free speech.
00:43:00.780We're actually discussing Google admitting that YouTube, which Google owns YouTube, that the Biden administration pressured Google slash YouTube to restrict a lot of videos out there and cost conservative media companies hundreds of millions of dollars and maybe billions.
00:43:21.900And my concern is what you just laid out, Buck.
00:43:25.720Yeah, they're doing this when Trump is in office now.
00:43:28.480Is that going to change whenever we have a Democrat back in the White House?
00:43:34.420The Supreme Court whiffed on this one.
00:43:37.600The Supreme Court had this case, and it was, I think, one of the most important First Amendment cases that they have had in my life.
00:43:45.400The Biden administration on Facebook, on YouTube, all over the Internet, these social media companies, they restricted speech by a third party.
00:43:58.420If you can deputize something that the government cannot do, the government can't restrict your in mind speech.
00:44:05.920If the government does it through a third party, then they're just deputizing someone else to do what they could not do.
00:44:14.620That's exactly what happened during COVID.
00:44:49.400I mean, Jen Psaki threatened the companies from the White House press briefing and all of the emails illustrate what they were doing.
00:44:56.700The fact that this was not an opportunity, that the Supreme Court didn't take this opportunity to say stridently, this is unacceptable and we're not going to stand for it.
00:45:07.560I think it's a failure of this current Supreme Court.
00:45:11.100I think it's their biggest win so far.
00:45:12.480Amy Coney Barrett and Roberts let you down, Clay.
00:45:15.120That's not the first or the last time, unfortunately.
00:45:18.700Sadly, and this goes to, I don't think they understand the Internet that well.
00:45:24.300And I don't mean that as a huge insult.
00:45:26.700Most 70-something-year-old people and most 60-something-year-old people don't really understand how the Internet works.
00:45:33.920I think I understand pretty well how the Internet works.
00:45:36.940I don't understand admiralty law very well.
00:45:39.280It's hard to be an expert on everything.
00:45:42.480Yeah, well, it is the public square now because it is so much faster and more powerful than printing out a pamphlet and handing it out to people in the town square.
00:45:54.520If you don't have free speech online, you don't have it meaningfully anywhere.
00:46:00.360And that's what I think they don't really grasp.
00:46:04.460They still think, like, well, Thomas Paine and his pamphlets.
00:46:07.460It's like Thomas Paine would be all over the Internet if he were around today.
00:46:11.360It would be a very different world he'd be operating in.
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00:50:32.300That's why I'm asking people to weigh in a little bit on, what do I need to know about Mikey Sherrill?
00:50:37.320But this was a great moment, and Mr. Tha God asked about this, and I think it was worth us all just hearing for a second.
00:50:44.560Because people are very sick and tired of members of Congress, particularly, who seemingly are trading in a way in the stock market that mirrors information that they would only have access to because of things that they're doing in Congress and making a lot of money.
00:51:04.160She was asked, Mikey Sherrill, about this, and here is the response from The Breakfast Club a couple of days ago.
00:51:13.400When Newsmax claimed that you made $7 million from stock trades, what are they talking about?
00:51:17.560Newsmax is, first of all, a very questionable organization that is paying multiple fines.
00:51:23.800I'm not sure what they're talking about.
00:51:25.940Did you make $7 million in stock trades at all?
00:51:27.760I haven't, I don't believe I did, but I'd have to go see what that was alluding to again, what kind of came from.
00:51:40.360Clay, I think if you're a member of Congress, making about $180,000, by the way, I think that if you made $7 million trading the stock market,
00:51:51.000whether somebody else is making those trades on your behalf or you're making them, I think you should know.
00:51:57.760Unless you're a billionaire and so rich that you couldn't plausibly say, I don't know what happened with $7 million.
00:52:10.18099.99% of people in America would know if they made $7 million or not in the stock market.
00:52:17.080A lot of you out there would know if you made $700 in the stock market or not, certainly $7,000 or $70,000 to say nothing of $7 million.
00:52:31.640I just, I watch so many of these politicians.
00:52:35.740And we've reached out, by the way, to Jack Citarelli, who is the Republican contender who almost won in 2021.
00:52:42.520He is the nominee on the Republican side for this race to remind all of you, Virginia and New Jersey and the mayor of New York City are all off-calendar elections.
00:52:54.440So they will be taking place this November.
00:53:14.640I've got some, I've got some, some stats and numbers to throw into the mix here.
00:53:21.200Cheryl makes, I said 180, 174 grand as New Jersey's 11th congressional district rep.
00:53:27.860So she, remember, they have financial disclosures, everybody.
00:53:32.200So we can know, it's public, it's public record how much money these individuals have within a range, but you have some sense of it, right?
00:53:41.600So in 2019, she reported total assets between 730 and, I'm just going to abbreviate the numbers here, but $730,000 and $4.3 million.
00:53:53.820That includes your house, you know, to anybody listening, the difference in being worth 700 grand on paper and being worth 4 million on paper feels like a lot.
00:54:15.880And so you say to yourself, wait a second, she's making 174.
00:54:20.500It's not like she had some huge trust fund because we would know that from the financial disclosure forms previously.
00:54:26.540So somehow she has, and Jack Cittarelli has come out and hammered her on this, somehow while a member of Congress sitting on the Armed Services Committee,
00:54:37.300who allegedly has a fondness for trading Clay and defense stocks, just saying, interesting, she has gone from being worth, you know,
00:54:48.840let's call it a couple million dollars to put it in the middle, to being worth about 12 million dollars.
00:54:52.680I mean, she could be worth as much as 4 million there.
00:54:55.080Even still, that would be a tripling of her net worth while making 180 grand a year.
00:55:01.540Now, sometimes spouses make the money, which can also sometimes be suspect, right?
00:55:08.680Because they'll say, well, this is not the money that I'm making.