BONUS: Daily Review With Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Jun 03 2025
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Summary
On this episode of the show, Clay and Buck discuss the latest in the latest CNN poll numbers on the Democratic Party. They also discuss the firebombing of a Jewish restaurant in Colorado, and what that tells us about anti-Semitism in America.
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.
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Welcome everybody to the Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
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He wears sandals year round, so nothing new there.
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You are riding with the Buckster, and we have much to discuss here.
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Our friend Ryan Gruduski will also be with us of the Clay and Buck Podcast Network,
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It just keeps getting worse for the Libs and the Democrats,
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the numbers increasingly showing that wherever it is that you poll
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on any important issue in the country right now,
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Trump is much stronger, is doing much better than the Democrats anticipated, hoped for,
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and have tried very hard to prevent from being the overall perception.
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You know, it's so nice to see, and this is true in a number of the senior Trump administration roles.
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It's just so nice to have people who know exactly what they're doing
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and are totally in line with the Trump agenda, and they're making moves every day to that end.
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So I just think that is critical, and on the border, there may be nothing,
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maybe no issue that is honestly more important.
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I think the border and the economy are side by side.
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You know, thanks to Trump, we're not getting involved in any crazy wars anytime soon.
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But I did want to take a few moments here to update the story we talked about yesterday
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about this firebombing terror attack in Colorado
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and what this tells us about not only the kinds of ideological hatred
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that are spreading in this country under this, I think, often this shield of,
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Well, I don't know a lot of Zionists who aren't Jews.
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I think the I'm just anti-Zionist or even anti-Israel is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
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And as I have pointed out to you, and I will continue to do so,
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there are many places around the world where there is extreme violence,
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and there are plenty of ways you could argue we should put more pressure on
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or we should do something out, whether you believe we should or not is a separate issue,
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And yet, because it cannot be blamed on the Jewish people,
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you know, the situation in South Sudan, because it is very tough to make that about Zionism,
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these individuals who are so upset on college campuses and just on streets in cities across America,
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The realities of Middle East totalitarianism, as it pertains to places like Iran, for example,
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that is not a problem that gets protests in the streets.
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People who think they care about women's rights on the left have no issue with Iran,
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at least no issue they're willing to speak about publicly,
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but endless issues with Israel and endless issues with Gaza.
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You'll also notice this, and as I've told you before,
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this was the first issue of foreign policy that I ever spent real time on.
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When I first, I worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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I was an intern for Clinton's ambassador, Dennis Ross,
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who was, Ambassador Ross was the negotiator on the Arab-Israeli peace accords
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I also worked at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Council on Foreign Relations, you know, they got the Bilderbergs, the Illuminati.
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No, Council on Foreign Relations, I did work there as an intern.
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So trust me, I didn't know the secret handshakes or the secret tunnels or any of that stuff.
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But I worked there on the U.S. Middle East project,
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which was also an Arab-Israeli peace project initiative.
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So I started, as many do, my academic background in Middle East studies on this issue of Israel-Palestine.
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I do have some recall, not just of how it is now, but how it has been the last 20 years.
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And what you see is that there are a lot of people who care not a bit about foreign policy as a general matter,
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but they care so much about what's going on with Israel.
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And, you know, we say these things rhetorically.
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And I think that in the context of America, first of all,
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there's a tremendous amount of anti-Jewish feeling throughout the Muslim world.
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Remember Ali, number one, Ali G was another one of his characters.
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Sasha Baron Cohen, who is Jewish, last name is Cohen, a common Jewish last name.
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Sasha Baron Cohen playing the Ali G character, playing Borat, and Borat became this big famous movie.
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And one of the bits that Sasha Baron Cohen would do was constantly kind of satirizing
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the just blatant anti-Semitism of the supposed Kazakh Borat.
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Now, he got away with this because he never got away with it.
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You know, the left didn't get angry about it because he never mentioned this was a effectively a Muslim character that he was playing.
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But there's a tremendous amount of anti-Semitism throughout the Muslim world.
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And no serious person would argue otherwise or no person who knows what they're talking about.
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Now, there's a lot of anti-Semitism in Europe and clearly a lot of anti-Semitism in America, too.
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And ask any Jew you know who knows anything about these regions, and they'll say, yeah, that is certainly the case.
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But why is it that this goes to the front of the line?
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Well, as I've discussed here, as I've laid forward, and I know Clay has adopted this to his own thinking as well,
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this is a white versus brown conflict in the minds of the American left.
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Therefore, the moral high ground is set and unchangeable in favor of the brown Palestinians.
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They are the ones who are suffering any action, including the most heinous and vicious actions,
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humanly possible or thinkable, which Hamas and affiliated and assorted terrorist groups on behalf of the Palestinians,
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comprised of Palestinians, have engaged in, is inherently justified because they're so oppressed.
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And I've said this before, if October 7th wouldn't turn people against the Palestinian cause such as it is,
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The cause is the eradication of the Jewish state.
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It is obvious to anyone paying attention and who is being honest.
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But if that won't turn you against the cause, or if there won't be criticism from people after that,
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there is nothing that will make them critical of this.
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There is nothing that will turn them and make them think that the Palestinians perhaps should look inward and take a different approach.
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And I think that couldn't be more clear than it is right now.
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This is why I remind everyone the so-called glorious martyrs and the resistance of groups like Hamas stretching back into the second intifada in the early 2000s
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was just a series of suicide bombings meant to bring Israeli life to a halt, to a standstill,
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to destroy the daily lives of Israelis and to murder as many Israelis, women and children as possible.
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A moral person, a moral person from any country, from any culture, of any religion or skin color,
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a moral person does not go into a crowded restaurant with a suicide vest on, packed with ball bearings,
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killing himself and everyone else there because they think that somehow this is going to achieve what exactly?
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No one's even clear what they want because what they want is the manifestation of and the right to act on deep hatred.
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And this individual, Egyptian national, came to this country claiming he wants asylum.
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You know, this reminds me of, there's something particularly heinous.
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And you see this playing out in a number of different very, you know, well-known and well-made movies about World War II.
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But it was well-known, and some of those of you who had, you know, veteran, particularly a Marine and Army dads fighting in World War II,
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it was well-known that the Japanese, as one of their tactics, would claim that they were wounded and surrender,
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And so they would say, please, please don't kill me.
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And then our GIs would go over because our people were always trying to be humane in the most inhumane circumstances.
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And they would go, and then they would be blown up by this person.
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You see this in a whole, you see this in Thin Red Line.
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Somebody who claims asylum in your country is on that same moral plane.
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They're saying, please, I need to skip the line.
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My home country is so awful that if you send me back, I could be tortured and killed.
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Please, out of the kindness of your heart, take me in.
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This individual, this terrorist in Colorado, said that he wanted asylum, used our process,
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used the goodness of the American people, used our mercy against us
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and against our Jewish brothers and sisters in Colorado who were burned severely in this attack.
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We know this was absolutely not just an act of terror,
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but a premeditated and particularly vicious one.
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It is hard to think of something that is more awful than intentionally lighting defenseless people on fire.
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But that is what Mohammed Saliman, who disguised himself as a gardener in an orange vest
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so he could get as close as possible to these individuals in Boulder, Colorado,
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And he believed his actions just, not just then, but after the fact.
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He believes, because he has said it to law enforcement,
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that this was vengeance for, quote, his people.
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You might say to yourself, what is he talking about?
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That's essentially what he means by his people.
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Or rather, the people that he associates with who hate the Jewish people.
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If you do not understand these hatreds and see how they are,
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for one side, immovable and unfortunately central to the society,
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the hatred of Jews is central to the people of Gaza.
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There are whole initiatives that have been going on for years to show people
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such as there are schools in places like Gaza and in the West Bank.
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And it couldn't be more clear which side of this issue all of us should be on,
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and yet you have not just radical fringe elements of the left,
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sympathetic to and making room for this virulent anti-Semitism.
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This has now replaced the kneeling for George Floyd, you have to understand.
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This is filling that hole in the soul of all of these leftists in America
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who think that we must always be having some sort of racial reckoning.
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but they view the Israelis fighting Hamas as a racial reckoning of white oppression
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And so this is why they attach themselves to this.
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they don't know anything about the Balfour Declaration,
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or the 1973 war or the, I mean, go down the list.
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They don't know anything about the removal of Israelis,