CLAY: It’s interesting to follow along, Buck, and see who’s got Joe Biden’s back and who doesn’t. A lot of Democrats have been running and hiding, including some members of the Senate. Let’s listen to what Mazie Hirono has to say, cut 1 — she’s running and hiding a little bit — and then we’re gonna play the steadfast warrior still standing behind Joe Biden, Joy Reid, to give you a scope of the far left-wing perspective. But first Mazie Hirono.

HIRONO: I don’t know that it’s realistic, because knowing how the Taliban have acted before has the air power that we sent there, but it is very clear that this is a chaotic situation. Because, see, what we see with our own eyes, I don’t think it needed to be this way.

CLAY: So that’s Mazie Hirono, Buck, who is, to be fair, looking at the analysis, not just lining up behind Joe Biden and saying, “Hey, everything is fine. There’s nothing to worry about.”

BUCK: Hey, when Mazie Hirono can see something, it couldn’t be more obvious because she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so to speak. Mazie Hirono is pretty widely known as the member of the Senate… Now, there are some very surprisingly inept and unimpressive people in the Congress overall.

But Mazie Hirono in the Senate is kind of in a class of her own in terms of just seeming like she doesn’t know what the heck is ever going on. Basically, Clay, when you’re losing Hirono as Biden is on this one, it’s obvious that this is just indefensible. But I say that, and yet I know you’re about to come back at me with, “Oh, Buck, it may be indefensible, but that’s when the true Bidenistas really step up.”

CLAY: I heard this, Buck, and I was like, “My God. This is Iraqi minister of information level propaganda here,” not surprisingly, on MSNBC. Let’s play cut 7. Joy Reid.

BUCK: Whoa, Clay! Clay, let’s play it after.

CLAY: Should we save it?

BUCK: We should save it, I think.

CLAY: It’s such a good tease. That’s right. Let’s save it. Your minds are gonna be blown when we come back on the back half of this hour and you hear Joy Reid, Buck, this is next-level propaganda. I heard it, was like, “This is impressive.”

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BUCK: Clay, we wanted to get this in right before the break.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: We realized you need to hear the whole thing. We’re at that point now, Clay, as you know, where even some of the stalwarts — even people at CNN where they know it’s basically DNCNN. It couldn’t be any more clear they’re Democrats and who they’re aligned with and what they want to have as their narrative.

But there comes a point when it’s too embarrassing even for CNN, or at least some of them over there — and even folks at MSNBC — to some degree to carry water for the Biden administration. It’s not they don’t want to keep carrying the water. They’ll just sort of put it aside for a second.

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: They’ll say, “Okay, for a day or two I’m gonna put on my ‘asking questions’ hat” so to speak. Jake Tapper did this over the weekend. He’s a total fraud, did this over at CNN. Oh, now he’s really concerned about things. But hasn’t been concerned about the Biden administration ’til about five minutes ago. Here we go. Here is, as we promised, someone who’s breaking with that: MSNBC’s Joy Reid who thinks the Biden White House is doing a good job in Afghanistan.

REID: It’s been remarkable to see daily press conferences and demands for oversight and constant information flowing out of Washington and the press! It sure is dramatically different, frankly, from how the country has approached the January 6th insurrection — which was, to be clear, an attempt by domestic terrorists to take control of our government to try to install Donald Trump as president against the will of the majority of voters, 80 million of them, to be clear. It was literally homegrown terrorists attacking our democracy. Yet to this day, the details remain elusive. Unlike with Afghanistan, there were no daily briefings about what happened on January 6th and why! Republicans have refused to even investigate the root causes of the assault. Some have even lionized the assailants and sided with them.

BUCK: Clay, that is thermonuclear-level crazy from MSNBC. That is next level.

CLAY: It almost makes me… I want Joy Reid on the wall if I’m ever accused of anything. This is Johnnie Cochran, “If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit”-level delusion. You know OJ committed those double murders. You know this is the worst foreign policy disaster — surely she’s aware of this — in her life. She’s around our age, I think, Buck, and yet she’s trying to pivot.

By the way, on the same day essentially that the FBI comes out and says, “Hey, it wasn’t actually an insurrection. There was nothing organized about this. This was a lot of grandmas who decided to go into the Capitol and take selfies of themselves. This is not some conspiracy.” The idea that you would compare this… The real insurrection, Buck, is the Taliban inside of the palace.

BUCK: Yes. We’re getting a lesson in real time about what an actual insurrection looks like as we’ve been saying here.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Also, Clay, you know as soon as the debacle in Afghanistan unfolded in a way that was clear to everybody, I said, “Give it a few days. They’re already trying.”

CLAY: They’re trying to pivot.

BUCK: They’re trying to pivot. “Insurrection! That’s what our audience wants. Our audience wants to hear about the insurrection.” That’s, one, a propaganda maneuver. That’s, of course, obvious. But it’s also because the left doesn’t really believe that it has foreign enemies. It has people that the U.S. — the American left believes that there are people that the U.S. — has wronged when it comes to foreign policy.

Sometimes they do bad things, but we have wronged them and so we have to make things better around the world by going to the U.N. and begging forgiveness, you know, the Obama apology tour. It’s the domestic insurrectionists and terrorists that we have to be so worried about. But the problem as you alluded to — and I’ve got piece up right here. This is a Reuters piece: “FBI Finds Scant Evidence U.S. Capitol Attack was Coordinated.”

Here you go. “The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials. Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump…

“‘Ninety to 95% of these are one-off cases,’ said a former senior law enforcement official… ‘Then you have 5%, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.'” Lies, they told us, Clay.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Lies.

CLAY: It’s all a bunch of lies, and they’re still sticking to it — and I think, Buck, if you really dissect what Joy Reid is doing there, this is how separate the left wing in the country is right now. Because look, the border is a sieve. It’s an absolute disaster. Inflation is surging to levels most of us have never seen in our adult lives. The murder race is increasing all over the country at a level we’ve never seen before in the twenty-first century.

You’ve got the budget and the infrastructure, which is kind of getting hidden right here. You’ve got a revolt going on inside of Nancy Pelosi’s party. There are nine Democrats who are moderates who have said, “Hey, we’re not supporting the $3.5 trillion unless the infrastructure bill passes first.” You said it earlier this week — and I think it’s a prescient comment, Buck — this is the worst week that any American president has had, I think going all the way back to 9/11.

In 20 years, I’m not sure we’ve ever had a week like this one, and we’re gonna pivot and talk about this here in a moment, Buck, but look what’s going on with covid. Booster shots. That’s what Joe Biden ran his entire campaign on. “I’m gonna solve covid, and everything’s gonna get back to normal,” and if you look at the numbers…

And we’re gonna talk with Alex Berenson in the third hour, and he’s been very good at telling us where we’re headed. All of this is floating on Joe Biden, and we’re in a situation right now where one terrorist, one Taliban member with a gun can if he came out blow up Joe Biden’s entire presidency if that guy decides to start firing at American citizens.

BUCK: Isn’t it fascinating as well — ’cause we’re talking about what I said with this is the worst week any president has had since 9/11, which I think is true. The Obama ISIS situation, as we talked about, unfolded more in phases so it wasn’t condense. We’re talking about impact on perception during a presidency. This one but, Clay, I just had a take a moment here.

Do you remember when the entire corporate, Democrat-aligned media acted like the booming of Pearl Harbor had occurred again because there was a meeting at Trump Tower where someone showed up and said something and nothing happened and no documents?

CLAY: Oh yeah.

BUCK: Do you remember what was a crisis underneath Trump administration and now we’re comparing it to what we’re seeing here? We’re not even talking about the worst border in at least twenty years.

CLAY: In most of our lives. In the twenty-first century, for sure.

BUCK: Yeah, certainly the twenty-first century, it’s the worst border, the most lawless, the most open — most deaths, by the way, overdose deaths in the last 12 months we’ve ever seen, over 90,000. The vast majority of that is fentanyl and fentanyl that’s coming over the U.S.-Mexico border. So we have all of these things happening. These are real, Clay. We’ve got data. And yet they freaked out the Democrat base with all these Russia stores. They were fables.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They were myths. It was fantasies.

CLAY: Even the Facebook money that was spent, and this is something I know quite a bit about because I ran a digital media company for a long time. We’re talking about pennies — not even pennies on the dollar that were being spent — as if that had impacted the overall result of the election. I just think — and we’re gonna hear from Joe Biden in the next hour a little bit.

I just think whoever is advising him… Buck, I just can’t get out of my head that he is going to address the nation Friday afternoon and then get on an airplane and go back on vacation? Who in the world in the White House is telling Joe Biden, “Hey, hop on a plane and go to Delaware –”

BUCK: Right.

CLAY: “– and kick your feet up at the beach for the weekend”?

BUCK: Yeah, they’re gonna say take the line that, “Oh, but it’s a working vacation” or whatever.

CLAY: Yeah, whatever.

BUCK: “He’s got all the gear, all the comms ”

CLAY: It still is absurd.

BUCK: The optics here do matter at some level, and it doesn’t calm people down when you have Joe Biden looking… Who’s really in command and control right now in this country? That’s a question that a lot of people have because we’ve been saying for how many months now, “There are handlers around this guy who are really making a lot of the calls,” right? Now we’re wondering, “Okay. Joe Biden seems like he’s pretty MIA, so who’s actually making the tough calls?”

CLAY: It’s a great question.

BUCK: General Milley? Secretary of Defense Austin? You start to look around and say, “That doesn’t look any better to me. That situation doesn’t look like it’s improving.” But, Clay, also we gotta bust out some of the covid numbers — the covid numbers that they don’t want to talk about.

CLAY: Oh, of course.
BUCK: I know you got those.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: So we’ll dive into that in a moment, and then we’ve got Joe Biden is gonna trying to explain know trying to explain to everybody how it’s gonna be fine, I guess, at 1 o’clock. Stiff upper lip. “We’ll fight them on the beaches” Joe Biden style.

CLAY: (laughing) Yeah.

BUCK: That’s what he’s gonna say. Getting ready for it.

CLAY: He’s Neville Chamberlain.