Psaki Slaps Down Fauci: It’s Still a Pandemic!

28 Apr 2022

CLAY: Our good friend Dr. Fauci… Yesterday, Buck, we played this clip of Dr. Fauci saying in no uncertain terms, the pandemic is over. Listen to this.

JUST IN: Dr. Anthony Fauci tells our @JudyWoodruff the U.S. is “out of the pandemic phase.” https://t.co/x2wbLMyl6O pic.twitter.com/xA71jE4Fuv

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 26, 2022

CLAY: We’re not in a pandemic. He could not have been any more clear. That is Dr. Fauci to PBS. Jen Psaki was asked about Dr. Fauci’s answer, and she was not pleased. This is Psaki yesterday.

Jen Psaki contradicts Fauci who said the U.S. is “out of the pandemic phase.”

“COVID isn’t over, and the pandemic isn’t over.” pic.twitter.com/uOZKKSiDZv

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 27, 2022

BUCK: It’s never over, if this is the philosophy, right? We know this. There is actually never a time where we will be truly out of the pandemic if, “Well, there are still people who are getting sick.” That is true all of variety of illnesses every single day all across the country, and we’re not gonna be able to cure all of those illnesses either.

Remember, covid mostly goes after people who are over 75 years of age, who are already susceptible to a whole range of other illnesses too. When I say, “goes after,” mostly is a risk to them. Clay, Moderna is pushing for a new emergency vaccine approval. I’m assuming — although I don’t know. I guess is it for Omicron?

Because we know that Omicron just blew through the population, did not get slowed down. That’s why we had all-time record cases in this country, in many countries, after the mass vaccination campaign. They’re pushing through emergency status Moderna vaccination a new one for kids under the age of 6.

I cannot believe it. But I will tell you this: I think that because… I don’t want to overstate the Twitter thing, but I do think the tide is shifting. I think you see it too, right? I think we’re here realizing that there is a swing-back to sanity. I want to say I think we’re helping push it.

CLAY: Part of it, yeah.

BUCK: Yeah, no big deal, but I think we’re part of it. There’s a swing-back toward sanity that’s going on, but we’re not done yet. I mean, Clay, what are the actual risk numbers to a child under 6 of dying from covid — from covid? Because it doesn’t stop their kid giving it. The vaccine does not stop the spread; so that’s off the table. What are the chances? Is it one in a million? Literally, I think it actually is, perhaps even less than one in a million. What are the real chances?

CLAY: The real chances are… I drove my kids to school this morning, Buck. My kids were more likely to die in a traffic accident with me driving them to school this morning. My kids were more likely to drown. My kids are more likely to be struck by lightning. We are talking about awful things that could happen certainly to children. But crazily unlikely.

And the data here, too, even from the CDC: 75% of all kids right now have covid antibodies. That means they’ve had covid and recovered from it. That’s not meaning that they got covid shot. That means that they have had covid and they’ve recovered from it. Probably my kids. Strong probability that it’s your kids out there as you’re listening as well.

They’ve already had it, and so the idea that you’re going to get these shots on an emergency basis for kids younger than 6, to me, Buck, is pure madness. And, by the way, on that Psaki clip, I wanted to play those basically back-to-back so you could see how much she was lying, right? Because credit to whoever asked that question in the White House press corps.

But she accurately said… Fauci said the pandemic’s over. Now, Fauci then flip-flopped and said he wasn’t saying the pandemic was over after he got his knee — or his hand — slapped by the White House here. But how can you trust a guy who one day says there’s a pandemic and the next day says there isn’t?

BUCK: You know, there was the funeral of Madeleine Albright yesterday at the National Cathedral in D.C., which honestly, I only know about because they put it on TV for a few minutes and then I think they realized there’s like a massive war in Europe, we’ve got big problems in the country.

There are other news stories that certainly moved ahead of it very rapidly. I’m not sure that a funeral is a news story particularly or a high-profile one, really. But what was interesting watching the feed for a minute, Clay, is that Biden in the church is masked up.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: He puts the mask on to walk around, goes up to the pew to say a few words, and then puts the mask on again when he walks off. You look at the front row, the Obamas were there. It was Democrat royalty, right? All the biggest Democrats. The Clintons are there. They’re all masked up, and I’m sitting here saying, “They’re all vaccinated.

“The mask mandate has been dropped. You don’t have to do this anymore.” None of them are living their lives as though they need to be masked in indoor settings, except when there are cameras around, except when all of a sudden there’s some moment of personal branding that they can take from this. I guarantee you… You know, it’s funny.

We both — Clay and I both — lived in D.C. How many of the people that were at that funeral yesterday, biggest names the Democrat Party, went to brunch at, like, Cafe Milano afterwards sat there for two hours in a packed restaurant — that place is always packed — no mask on? I’m sure a large percentage of them.

CLAY: Or you went to somebody’s house in Georgetown, and you didn’t have a mask on. And, by the way, Fauci, while Biden and Mayor Pete and a lot of other Democrat elites are going to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Fauci’s been twice shot up with the covid shot and gotten two boosters already.

He doesn’t think it’s safe to go to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He really should be pressed on this, Buck. If he doesn’t feel like it’s safe after four shots to go to White House Correspondents’ Dinner, what would have to occur for Fauci to feel safe going back to his normal life?

BUCK: This is a brilliant point because what you see is that the essence of Fauciism is to maintain maximum control at all times over the public under the guise of health when really the only times that you will allow greater freedom and individual liberty are the natural cycles of the virus when they go down for a period of time before they come up.

You are never going to be… Based on Fauci’s logic here, you are never done, free, go back to normal life. It’s always a temporary removal of the restriction because otherwise how do you justify it? He’s saying (impression), “Well, there are still cases and there’s still…”

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Well, so when are we not at cases? Notice he’s always resisted giving, “When can we be done as a number?”

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Because then he’d be stuck with it.

CLAY: And also, why not press him on, “Hey, you’ve gotten four shots and you’re not willing to go to an indoor event? Are you not going to one for the rest of your life? What would you have to see to be comfortable to go to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner?” I’d love to know the answer to that because I don’t know that he can give an answer, Buck, that would reflect that he’s ever going to return for the rest of his life to his normal, precovid existence.

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BUCK: Yeah, we understand, Mayor Pete, that an airplane is actually much safer in terms of virus spread in the air than a hotel ballroom. But the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is for fancy, fancy Democrats this year. They’re all gonna be going there. They’re all gonna be dressed up.

Mayor Pete & Joe Biden are going to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner this weekend, which doesn’t require masks, while Biden administration simultaneously argues you have to wear masks on planes, trains & buses. @BretBaier filets Mayor Pete here: pic.twitter.com/PrLY1ljI3j

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 28, 2022

BUCK: They call it Nerd Prom ’cause they’re so self-effacing, Clay, ’cause they don’t actually have enormous egos and think of themselves as the Masters of the University. They actually are nerds. No, nerds actually know stuff. They shouldn’t call them nerds.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: Journos, they are not nerds ’cause nerds actually have to be knowledgeable in an area. That’s the whole point. But notice here the smug — this is the transportation secretary, folks. He’s supposed to be know about things like how safe are planes, how safe are buses, how safe is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Apparently, Clay, the virus does not spread at the Vanity Fair cocktail party. Something about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner champagne kills the virus on contact, apparently, I guess.

CLAY: By the way, Joe Biden’s going, but he’s taking the virus seriously ’cause he’s not staying for the dinner portion of the correspondents’ dinner. And Mayor Pete, remember when he was the bright, shining light of the Democrat Party that he was going to be the guy to lead them into the future? Boy, he just keeps taking one body blow after another.

Bret Baier just fileted him. (laughing) This was an in-person interview. Credit to Bret Baier, but, man, how is Mayor Pete not prepared for this, and how is his fallback, “Well, I think people know the difference between a ballroom and an airplane,” when the airplane is far safer.

BUCK: Yes, not even close.

CLAY: He could have said “airport” if he wanted to not just completely throw himself under the bus. But this transportation secretary who’s never actually done anything of any substance in the transportation arena. We know he got his job only because — to your point earlier we were just discussing, if we had to do a draft of people in the Biden administration.

One reason why the Biden administration is so inept is because it was an identity politics-fueled cabinet that Joe Biden selected. It was not about whether people were accomplished. It was about whether they checked identity politics boxes. And as a result, everybody’s just falling apart.

BUCK: True.

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The Biden Disaster: GDP Shrinks 1.4% and Joe Looks Lost

28 Apr 2022

CLAY: We begin with what I think has to be the top-line story as a part of the larger economic failure in the Biden administration. “Unexpectedly…” It’s amazing how “unexpected” all the bad economic news is, Buck. You never hear unexpected good news on the economy under Joe Biden.

The expectation among economists who forecast these things was that our economy was going to have slowed substantially in the first quarter, but instead, it has actually shrunk. We have moved into negative territory by 1.4%. Combining with that 8.5% inflation is a disastrous economic situation to be sitting at here in the Biden administration.

Let’s listen to Maria Bartiromo announce this news and react to it a bit.

CLAY: Here’s what I would say in general: Buck, I think it’s unfortunate. I feel like it’s likely we’re going to hit a recession. We just hit one quarter of negative growth. We wouldn’t hire Joe Biden to be employed in any way on our radio show. I wouldn’t hire him in any way to work at OutKick. I can’t imagine that most of you would hire him to work anywhere at your places of business if you were in charge of hiring.

And he’s just getting worse. I want to play this quick clip for you of Joe Biden talking about how he’s gonna hold Vladimir Putin accountable. Listen to this and remember how much they talked about Donald Trump and the 25th Amendment. There was nothing that was this bad, and it just keeps getting worse.

Biden’s brain just broke, again. pic.twitter.com/tuZub9v1IX

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 28, 2022

BUCK: It did seem like the computer program there ran into some interference for a good second, and we keep seeing this. And it’s worth reminding everybody that under the Trump administration there were entire news cycles devoted to, “Donald Trump has to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment.” Donald Trump was going around do two-hour rallies off the top of his head getting everybody laughing, fired up, making witty comments, one-liners.

Donald Trump didn’t look like somebody had pulled the power plug in the middle of the speech about every other day. That’s actually not what was going on. But they were also, at some level, just lying about what the 25th Amendment is. To them it’s just, “Get rid of evil Republicans.” To us, it’s someone’s not actually of sound mind does not have the cognitive abilities to do the job.

But I think, Clay, this morning when the numbers came out, obviously Biden addressed the American people as he gave his speech. They’re tired of excuses. It’s just excuse after excuse. You can go back and do a timeline of what we’ve been told specifically on the economy for many months now, and it would show it. On inflation it was, “Oh, inflation’s not gonna even happen. It’s not gonna be bad.”

CLAY: “Transitory.”

BUCK: That it was transitory, and then it was going to be short duration, and then was Putin’s fault, “It’s the Putin price hike,” and they keep shifting the explanation for things. And I think that people are just tired of the excuses. And it’s reflected in the polls. Biden didn’t get elected saying, “I’ll restore the country to a place of recession and division and high crime and a dysfunctional, wide-open southern border!

“The biggest war in Europe since World War II!” None of the things that were promised… We were promised tranquility and prosperity and an economy that grows from the middle out, not the top down. I remember all the talk of Build Back Better. I remember all the talk. None of that stuff has been accomplished at all. No serious person looks at this and says, “Yeah. You know what?

“The Joe Biden move? That was a good decision.” I mean, for the wokesters, of course, just “not Trump” was enough. But for people who want to know how difficult is it gonna be for them to pay their mortgage, how rough is it gonna be to look at the price of their groceries when they get to the checkout counter, to fill up the gas in their car? What’s gonna happen in their computers?

Are they gonna be safe? Are they gonna be able to go in to their place of work and know that there are policies that are meant to help and make easier their pathway economically instead of just taking and redistributing? It’s just a big failure, Clay. I mean, they can try to spin it a million different ways. It’s all excuses.

CLAY: It’s all excuses, and if you watch that video — and I would encourage you to go check it out now that Twitter at least somewhat is starting to embrace marketplace-of-ideas dynamics, you watch that video, Buck, of Joe Biden trying to say “kleptocracy” and there’s a moment where his eyes — you can almost freeze it and you can see a panic as he’s somewhat realizing that he doesn’t know what’s going on.

It’s not a comfortable feeling for anyone. It is the look that almost every single one of you have seen on a loved one at Thanksgiving, at Christmas, somewhere when someone that you love is starting to lose control of their mental faculties — and they, on some level, recognize it.

Even if you don’t like Joe Biden, you go back and look at videos of Joe Biden from even ten years ago when he’s speaking, certainly from 20 years ago, it’s a different person. It really is, Buck, a different person. And it’s not enjoyable in any way to have the leader of the Free Werld virtually incapable of strong mental processing, when effectively we hire a president for judgment. And Joe Biden doesn’t have the ability to judge anymore. So who’s in control? And all of our foes see this, Buck. Vladimir Putin’s watching this. China’s watching.

BUCK: Do you think that if this got to a point — and to be very clear, I wish this on literally no one, certainly including Joe Biden. But if his health deteriorated to the point where he had to be moved around in a wheelchair and aides had to largely speak for him, do you think the New York Times would say, “Joe Biden’s still a steady hand on the economy”?

I wonder how far they’re willing to keep the charade going, honestly. Look at what they’ve done with covid. Look at the madness that they’re willing to embrace for ideological and partisan ends. I’m not even sure what it would take for them to admit. I’m wondering: What is the outer limit of their willingness to prop up Joe Biden, who is clearly not a responsible choice for president of the United States right now?

I think there be a lot of people would say, “Joe’s still all there. He has to have Psaki talk for him and they wheel him around.” I think that that’s where we are. I think there are a lot of people that would do that.

CLAY: Just think about how often the leaking from inside the Donald Trump White House was a front-page news story in the Washington Post and the New York Times, always unfavorable for Trump. If we are seeing in public these kind of diminutions in mental faculty, in physical ability… Even sometimes you watch Joe Biden walk.

Turning around and maybe trying to shake hands in awkward ways with people that aren’t there. We’re seeing this in public, Buck. What percentage of Joe Biden’s White House tenure is for public consumption right now, 5%, 2%? He’s hardly ever in front of the general public. Think about what everyone in the West Wing is seeing on a regular basis.

Think about what Jill Biden is seeing on a regular basis, “Dr. Jill Biden,” we’re always told. She has to be seeing her husband deteriorating directly in front of her eyes. You could even see it at the White House Easter Egg Roll — and, Buck, this was a big discussion for a while, was the idea:

“Oh, Joe Biden is going to hand off the presidency to Kamala Harris. This is not…” I don’t think that they want to do that because Kamala is somehow even more incompetent than Joe Biden, and she has control of all her mental faculties. She’s just an awful leader.

BUCK: Did you see — I think it might have been Brit Hume from Fox who shared this out, or maybe it was Byron York at the Washington Examiner — that Joe Biden had promised Kamala Harris lunch once a week as the vice president? It’s happened twice, folks.

CLAY: (laughing) Yes.

BUCK: Once a week would be 52 times a year. If he had gotten even to like 20 if it was once — if it was once or twice a month — I would say, “You know what…?” But twice is an indicator of there’s not warm relations between the Biden and Harris camps. That’s for sure.

CLAY: And so I think they’re going to try to ride out Joe Biden, but take away politics from the equation. Democrat, Republican, independent, we all suffer from an incompetent and dementia-riddled president, which I really think if you look in this man’s eyes…

Just get on Twitter right now and you look at that video; pause it. There is a clear moment where you can almost see the panic in his eyes that he doesn’t seem to know where he is when he’s trying to say kleptocracy in that audio that we played for you. The video is even more damning than the audio that all of you heard.

Joe Biden isn’t well. This is an embarrassment to our country and the world. He can barely read. Everyone can see the look in his eyes here, he’s lost. pic.twitter.com/ntlAlNYKmH

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 28, 2022

All of our adversaries, Buck — you know this — are watching this, and they are taking advantage of his incompetence. And we don’t really even know who is the person that is actually guiding the country right now from the White House? Who is running things?

BUCK: Can I ask you…? We can come back to this if you want. I was thinking about this. Who is the most competent person in this Biden administration at the top level? Who do you point to and say, “You know what? I may disagree with this person on some things I may not see the world the same. But this is a serious person with serious judgment.” I cannot think of one off the top of my head.

CLAY: It’s a great point, ‘cause even if you hated Trump, for instance — and we can talk this more — I think most people recognize that Barr, his attorney general, was an incredibly competent legal mind.

BUCK: He had already been the AG before. Anyone who knows the legal world in D.C. says Bill Barr is a top lawyer. Just so you know. That’s the reality.

CLAY: You may disagree with his interpretations of the law or his application of the law, but you don’t disagree with his overall competence as a steward of the Department of Justice, if you are a legitimate lawyer.

BUCK: I think Merrick Garland has shown himself to be a partisan hack and he’s deeply disappointing.

CLAY: That’s what I’m getting to.

BUCK: Yeah. Even in the DOJ side, you’d hope that… Attorney General Eric Holder under the Obama administration was a left-wing partisan hack who abused the powers of the DOJ. I’m just saying, there’s no one I look to and I say, “At least that person in the room with Biden helping Biden.”

CLAY: It’s a great point. Today is the NFL Draft out in Vegas. If you had to draft someone in the Biden administration… Remember, they claimed they were gonna be the adults. If you had to draft someone in the Biden administration to actually make decisions…? It’s such a great point, Buck, ’cause I’m sitting here racking my mind trying to think, “Who would I want?”

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Tyrant King Smurf Fauci Pronounces the Pandemic Over

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CLAY: Our good friend, the esteemed man of science, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has decided to pronounce… I believe this is in a PBS interview, if I’m not mistaken, Buck. He can literally do every outlet on the planet except for the Clay and Buck show. Dr. Fauci has come down from the heavens to now pronounce after two years that the pandemic is over. Listen.

JUST IN: Dr. Anthony Fauci tells our @JudyWoodruff the U.S. is “out of the pandemic phase.” https://t.co/x2wbLMyl6O pic.twitter.com/xA71jE4Fuv

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 26, 2022

BUCK: I was gonna say, by the way, when he says “might be longer,” how can it be longer than “every year”?

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: I guess maybe he meant…. ‘Cause I really think it actually is significant. Did he mean more than once a year? ‘Cause I think that’s also possible too. ‘Cause if you want to be… Clay, we all know, if you want to be maximum protection… I mean, look at poor Kamala Harris. Four shots. Still got covid, apparently is getting some treatment for covid right now. You really need to get to that eighth or ninth shot, and then things start to really line up for you. You know, then all of a sudden, your sniffle that’s gonna last three days will last two days and 22 hours. So it’s gonna be good.

CLAY: How many times have you been told, “Hey, the first four shots didn’t do it but the fifth shot will do it”? I mean, it’s just crazy. Now, I do think that those pronouncements, by the way — just like he comes down from Mount Olympus to deliver these proclamations — I do think that these are significant.

Because if he’s right and the pandemic phase is over, how is it possible to still argue that you have to wear masks on airplanes? Because this is what’s being argued right now by the CDC via the Biden Department of Justice. So Anthony Fauci, the King Smurf, as it were, may have actually undercut the administration’s legal argument by saying the pandemic phase of covid is over because they are arguing it’s still necessary because the pandemic phase isn’t over.

BUCK: He prefers “Tyrant King Smurf,” Clay —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — just so everybody knows that he gets to call all the shots. Look, we’re gonna continue to try to hold all of the lockdowners and Fauciites accountable here going forward because (chuckles) until the American people have voted after two years of the madness, we haven’t actually seen what they actually think of all this, and it needs to be an enormous repudiation.

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PA Senate Candidate David McCormick Makes His Case

27 Apr 2022

BUCK: As promised, we now have David McCormick with us. He is running for Senate. He’s in the GOP primary right now in the state of Pennsylvania. David, thanks for joining us again. Great to talk to you.

MCCORMICK: Hey, great to be with you guys.

BUCK: So, if I could get you… I’m just curious. If I could get you in a room — I would usually just say “with Biden,” but let’s say – Biden and his top advisers who some people think are actually making a lot of the decisions anyway on how they could start…? What are they doing wrong, and how could they turn the economy around? What would you tell them?

MCCORMICK: Yeah. Well, listen. I think the Biden policies for the economy have been an absolute disaster. And we see it in a 40-year high in inflation, we see it in all sorts of challenges in our supply chain. And there are three things — and, listen, I know something about this because I’m a guy who’s run two companies and created — worked in a company and led a company that created — 600 jobs in Pittsburgh.

And so I know what it takes to create jobs. And there’s three things. First, the spending that’s happening right now is unprecedented. The last 15 months… Now, in the last two decades, both Republicans and Democrats haven’t exercised the kind of fiscal restraint they should, but what Biden’s done in the last 15 months and what the Democrats have done is incredible, and that’s the main driver of the inflation. That’s one.

Two, we have to unlock our energy industry. The energy industry in Pennsylvania and the country is a huge driver of economic growth. It’s a huge driver of our security abroad — and by unlocking that energy sector, that’s a big driver of our economy. And the fact that we’ve restricted our energy sector is a big driver of inflation, because it’s driven up fuel prices.

And the third thing we need to do is condition the America First, pro-growth economic policies to make permanent the tax cut and the deregulation, because a big driver of the economy is job creation that happens in small businesses and large, but small businesses in particular. And the regulations that the Biden administration put in place in energy and elsewhere have really made it difficult for businesses to grow.

Those three things would make a huge difference in turning around our economy. And the problem they have is they’ve got the wrong kind of leadership in these key positions — including the president but also Treasury and Fed and so forth — and they’ve got that are aligned with this extreme ideology, which is taking our country and our economy in the wrong direction.

CLAY: Yesterday, Senator Schumer said the best way to combat inflation was with tax increases.

MCCORMICK: (laughs)

CLAY: You know business well. Your response to that argument would be what?

MCCORMICK: Yeah. It’s literally it’s madness. The key to getting inflation in check but the key to a vibrant economy is a combination of two things at the same time. The most important thing is to grow the economy, to have policies — pro-growth economic policies which are lower taxes and deregulation — that unlock or economy and grows. When we grow the pie gets bigger and we have more opportunity for everybody.

The second thing is fiscal constraint. And so rather than raising taxes to pay for more government spending, we need to reduce government spending, and as I said, the Biden administration has been a huge driver of an increase in government spending. So it’s like opposite day. (chuckles) We should do exactly the opposite of the things that Chuck Schumer’s saying and that Joe Biden is doing.

BUCK: Speaking to David McCormick. He’s running for Senate from the great state of Pennsylvania. David, why do you want to be a Senator? I mean, you’re a guy who run one of the besting hedge funds in the world. You were a West Point graduate; you served, I believe, as an Army Ranger. What pushed you into this now? What do you want to accomplish if you actually get the job?

MCCORMICK: Well, couple things. I mean, I’ve been blessed. I’ve been blessed by everything Pennsylvania and America has to offer. So I grew up in Bloomsburg. You know, my folks had a family farm. My mom and dad were teachers. My dad worked at the college. And, you know, I baled hay and trimmed Christmas trees and played sports like most rural Pennsylvania kids, and I got into West Point.

And then from West Point I went to the 82nd Airborne Division, and I went to the first Gulf War. And then I came back to Pennsylvania after grad school and I went to Pittsburgh. And I ran a company there that created 600 jobs. I didn’t start the company, but I helped to grow it — and it was a huge part of the renewal of Pittsburgh.

And then I went on to serve at the highest levels of government working in the National Security Council in the Bush administration, and then went on to run one of the greatest investment firms in the world. So I have received everything this great country has to offer, and during that whole time, I’ve been deeply connected to Pennsylvania. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania more than half my life.

I’ve only left twice — in both cases to serve our country — and I have a family farm there that’s been at the core of my family since I was a kid. And so I want to run to this office to fight to make sure that that American dream I’ve lived is available for my kids and all the kids in Pennsylvania and America. And that’s what the Founders (audio drop) and then they’d served the public. They had no idea of career politicians. And so I’m an outsider that’s running to be able to go make a difference on behalf of Pennsylvanians.

CLAY: You didn’t get the Donald Trump enforcement. I know you either hoped to get it or that he would sit out of the election. What impact do you think Donald Trump will have in who the selected nominee is for Republicans in Pennsylvania?

MCCORMICK: Well, listen, Donald Trump is very popular in Pennsylvania, and he’s popular because his America first agenda made a difference for millions of people that have been forgotten in Pennsylvania and across America. So his popularity is well earned, and I appreciate it and respect it. But Mehmet Oz isn’t popular.

And the reason he’s not popular and the reason he’s not growing in the polls — despite endorsement — is that his positions over 20 years as a media personality on everything from the Second Amendment to pro-choice to his support for a ban on fracking to his support for Obamacare to his show which he had which was very supportive of transgender transitions for kids.

Those positions are completely out of line and out of whack with Pennsylvania Republicans and conservatives. So I don’t think his endorsement will be enough to convince Pennsylvanians that Mehmet Oz is gonna go to Washington and represent their values. And so as I’m running in this campaign, I’m running first and foremost a campaign about the future of Pennsylvania and America and how my experiences and my conservative values line up best with Pennsylvania and the ability to make a difference.

But I’m also trying to draw the contrast with Mehmet Oz in this campaign because I think the stakes are so high. And that’s what politics are about. It’s really about choices. And so I’m trying to make those choices stark and clear for our voters.

BUCK: In what ways would you say, David, you…? If someone just posed the very basic question to you, “Are you a conservative,” and maybe throw in “Why,” how would you answer that? ‘Cause that’s obviously become a big point of contention in your primary.

MCCORMICK: Yeah, I think I’m a conservative and have demonstrated that I’m a conservative because my entire life I put a huge premium on the exceptionalism of America. I’ve put America first. (laughing) I put America first in my service. I’ve defended and fought for our basic rights of individual freedom. I’ve been a leader in free enterprise.

I recognize the role that the government can play in screwing up businesses. I’ve been someone who has been a social conservative all my life. Fate has played a big role in my life, and it’s played a big role in my wife’s life, who is a Coptic Christian who emigrated to this great country so she could have religious freedom. So in all the ways that are genuine and authentic and line up with Pennsylvania voters, I’m a conservative.

And again, in contrast, I don’t think Mehmet Oz is, which is important, because the goal here is not to win this seat for me or anybody else, in my opinion. The goal is to win this seat and then go to Washington and fight for great conservative principles and values that will push back on the extreme direction that the left is taking us, both the weak policies but also the wokeness that we see in our institutions.

CLAY: You’ve got a real strong connection, obviously, in your career to business. What in the world do you think Walt Disney, the corporation, is thinking with stepping into so many issues of a woke nature like they are? We were just talking with Senator Rick Scott of Florida, and I’m sure you’ve been in a lot of boardrooms in your career.

What is the conversation like when Bob Chapek, the CEO, goes in and they talk about losing the Reedy Creek special treatment, basically that he’s walked into a hornet’s nest and he’s now getting stung on every different direction? What do you think that conversation is like? And based on your knowledge of business, what’s motivating it and how do we change it?

MCCORMICK: Well, I think it’s emblematic of a trend — and, you know, I’ve been in business, I’ve been a CEO for 10 or 12 years, and I’ve been in business for 25. And it’s become a dramatically different business environment over the last four or five years. And the thing I’d point you to is about 24 months ago or so there was a statement made by the Business Roundtable, which is a bunch of the most important CEOs in the country, 25, 30 CEOs.

And it essentially talked about “stakeholder capitalism,” and it made the case that CEOs need to take on a much broader set of responsibilities in society beyond just taking care of their employees and their shareholders. And I think it wasn’t a really dangerous statement, because it essentially opened up this idea that CEOs are gonna start to opine and be participants in promoting a whole set of social issues, of political issues.

Which inevitably take them further and further away from the primary focus on creating value for shareholders and customers and their employees. And I think what’s happening at Disney is it’s just an example of that where that agenda has hijacked smart, basic thinking where the CEOs are kind of like they need to get themselves into the middle of these discussions around public policy — and opposing, in essence, what the Florida legislature and the Florida governor did.

I think it’s a very bad trend, and I think that it’s not in business alone. It’s in our schools, it’s in our military. And so when I say, “I’m running to fight back on the wokeness and the weakness,” I’m someone who’s been successful as a CEO. I’ve been in the boardrooms, as you say, and I’ve seen that trend take off in a dangerous way over the last couple years.

And it’s something that we have to stand up and fight against. It’s we have to have real conversations about, and even cancel culture makes it hard (chuckles) to push back on these things the way we should. And I think we’re hitting a point here where everybody sees the wokeism is gone over the cliff.

And everybody I talk to across Pennsylvania when I go to these diners or fire halls or police stations or VFWs and I ask them and we talk about what’s going on, they point to this. They point to these woke policies in our schools and in business and so forth as one of the things that’s concerning them most about the direction of our country.

You know, you started with the question of economic policy. But the extreme left is not just screwing us up economically or in energy policy. It’s really reinforcing this cultural focus on wokeism, which I think is really dangerous.

CLAY: Thank you, David McCormick. We’ll talk to you again soon. The primary is in May and it’s gonna be a battle. Encourage Pennsylvanians to get out and vote and we’ll talk to you again soon.

MCCORMICK: Great to be with you. Thanks so much.

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CLAY: I wanted to hit you with a little bit of breaking news. The New York Court of Appeals — that is the state’s highest court. It’s a little bit confusing sometimes in New York ’cause the Supreme Court is the lowest court. They have said that the congressional and state senate maps drawn by Democrats that would have overwhelmingly benefited Democrats in the state of New York, Buck Sexton’s home state, is not constitutional. They have struck it down. So, this a big deal because I believe, Buck — you may know better than me — was it four seats that they were adding to the Democratic tally, I think, based on redistricting?

BUCK: It was a handful. I’d have to go back and check the exact number. But now they’ll have a special — I’m trying to think of the —

CLAY: Committee, for lack of better term?

BUCK: Essentially, yeah. There’s a term they use for it that will draw the district. This is going to be better for the GOP districts. I mean, this is definitely gonna be an improvement.

CLAY: So that story just breaking. And again, all of the judges who struck down this group of districts that have been redistricting that have occurred are Democratic appointees. So that is a pretty significant detail there. Also —

BUCK: I thought it was “special master” for redistricting, but I actually gonna tell you, I caught myself for a second because, you know, you’re not allowed to say master bedroom anymore right?

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: And you’re not allowed to say headmaster of school but the court for now although maybe this is gonna change for now, the court for now can still have a special master for redistricting. I actually hesitated because I was like, “It can’t be that,” oh, I guess it still is.

CLAY: “Master’s degree” is gonna be on the chopping block soon, and if you guys are out there saying, “What in the world are you talking about?” the connection to slavery is too overwhelming such that they’re trying to remove the “master” use of the word. It’s absolutely insane.

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CLAY: We talked to Marjorie Taylor Greene in the second hour of the program, and we referenced – I swear this is from the actual proceeding that is designed to take her off the ballot – they quizzed her about Independence Day. If you heard that interview, you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about.

If you didn’t, go subscribe to the podcast. You can go back and listen to that in the second hour. But I wanted to make sure we played the audio. This is a hundred percent real. They were quizzing Marjorie Taylor Greene about Independence Day, the film. Listen:

BUCK: Has he ever heard a cliche before? I’m just wondering, because that would be a cliche. This is what people say.

CLAY: Here’s a good one for you, a little bit of knowledge: Dylan Thomas made the phrase “do not go gentle into that good night” famous in one of his most famous poems.

BUCK: Isn’t that “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” or is that a different one?

CLAY: That’s a great question. I had to memorize this back in the day. I’m looking at this.

BUCK: I just pulled that out of thin air, Travis. That’s the Buckster, all those years of Jesuit school. Maybe my Batman takes are bad, but let’s talk about Nicomachean Ethics one day.

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Sen. Rick Scott Tackles All the Big Issues with Clay and Buck

27 Apr 2022

BUCK: We have Senator Rick Scott with us now of the great state of Florida. Senator Scott, thanks for calling in.

SEN. SCOTT: It’s great to be with you guys today, and just had a great trip to Europe last week to talk to our troops and talk to refugees and talk to elected leaders about what’s going on in Ukraine.

BUCK: Yeah, we saw, Senator, you were in Poland, Lithuania. You were at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. What does everyone listening need to know about the situation right now in Ukraine? What were your most important takeaways for the region, and what matters most to us here at home?

SEN. SCOTT: Well, number one, at Ramstein what you learn: Our NATO leaders are really focused, and our U.S. military leaders really focused on, you know, taking — one, making sure we can defend our NATO allies. Number two, that we can get all the lethal aid we can to Ukraine that our elective leaders will allow them to do. And they’re working hard to get it done as quickly as possible. That’s one.

Number two, you really have to appreciate what the Poles have done. They don’t have refugees camps and they have millions of refugees there so what they’ve done is Poles have all across the country have one, invited them into their house. Number two, the Polish government has said, “If you’re here and you stay here you can go on our safety net programs immediately.”

Honored to meet brave @USArmy members & fellow Floridians today at the Pabradė outpost in Lithuania – less than 20 miles from the Belarus border.

We owe these men & women endless gratitude for their service to defend democracy & protect our freedoms. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/zR8xqT8fIq

— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) April 21, 2022

And number three is, they’re worried about Russia. They know Russians — a murderous thug, and our troops in Lithuania are really close to the border. The Lithuanian government is committed to NATO and defending their freedom, but they know they need the United States and NATO allies pulling for the same position. So people appreciate America, they cherish our freedom, and they really cherish our military.

CLAY: Senator, appreciate you joining us. We were just talking about — and and I’m sure you’ve been paying some attention to it — the idea of Joe Biden canceling up to $1.7 trillion in student loan debt. I know you guys are basically in session now until the end of May. And one of our big discussion points has been: As bad as things are going for Democrats, are they gonna try some political Hail Marys? This feels like one. What are you seeing on this in the Senate right now, and what do you expect from the Biden administration and their allies?

SEN. SCOTT: Well, every week we go home, you know, we come up on Mondays, start voting at 5:30 and leave on Thursday sometime in the afternoon. Every day we go home and nothing happens, it’s a good day for mesh families ’cause there’s nothing good happening up here. If you want to deal with the student loan debt, here’s what you need to do.

Do what I did in Florida. Stop raising tuition. We have, I think, the lowest tuition, our university system in the country. Number two is make sure kids get jobs and make sure they get good-paying jobs. So what I did is I set up a program where universities competed for who had the lowest price per degree, who had the most job creation, who’s alumni got paid the most money.

That’s what we ought to be focused on instead of just saying, “Oh, I might just throw all this money at your school. Whatever happens, oh, gosh, I’m sure it will be good.” Let’s make sure we gotta be fair. We gotta be fair to people that paid their way through school like I did. I got the help with the GI Bill because I was with the U.S. Navy.

But they went and worked full time or their parents worked full time or their grandparents worked full time to pay for their way through school so they have no debt. We need to take care of them. And, you know, we gotta make sure, you know, our graduates have degrees where they can pay off these debts. If you’re gonna run up X dollars in debt, you need to have a plan to pay it back.

BUCK: Speaking to Senator Rick Scott of Florida. Senator, you’ve probably seen DHS, the Biden DHS has released their memo of what’s gonna happen going in here to end up of Title 42 at the U.S.-Mexico border. How do you foresee this actually playing out? There’s some Democrat Senators, some of your colleagues, who are certainly expressing their concerns about the Biden policy. Is this gonna be a massive political liability for them, assuming we have this tidal wave of illegal migration that comes in and it just feels like lawlessness is increasing at the U.S.-Mexico border.

SEN. SCOTT: You know, it’s fascinating. I’ve been up here three years, and it’s fascinating watch people, how they act during election years. Like Mark Kelly. He voted last year, three times against any border security; then no, that wasn’t a good idea. He’d go home and say we needed it, but he’d associate against if up here. Now all of a sudden, “Oh, gosh, if we get rid of 42 that’s gonna be a problem!”

Maggie Hassan, she’s worried about election in New Hampshire. They go to down to the border then she goes to home and gets protested by the radical left. So what these people are doing is saying, “Oh, my gosh! I gotta get reelected. I don’t really believe in border security.” These Democrats don’t believe in border security.

“But, oh, it’s election year! I’m gonna lose some votes here. This looks bad; so I’m gonna go act like I care.” They don’t care at all. And, by the way, Mayorkas, the secretary of Homeland Security? That guy never… All he’s done is make sure the border is completely porous. I mean, there’s nothing that they’re doing that is actually controlling illegal immigration. We like immigrants. I’m from an immigration state. I’m from Florida. We like ’em.

Legal ones, right? ‘Cause here’s what happens. There’s a lot of wonderful people that want to come. But you know what? I don’t want the drugs. I don’t want the terrorists coming. The only way you can prevent that is having a secure border, and these Democrats are just committed not to do it.

So I want to allow people into our country that want to live our dreams, right, the American dream, not a socialist dream but want to live the American dream and don’t want to have… I don’t want drugs come across the border and I don’t want terrorists come across the border. And gosh. That’s where the American public is. These Democrats are all for open borders, except during election year.

CLAY: Senator Rick Scott of Florida. I know you’re in a federal position now, but as you mentioned you’ve been in state government before. What kind of reaction are you getting over the Disney World flap that has developed in the state of Florida? What are your constituents saying? How would you analyze it?

SEN. SCOTT: What happened to these companies? I mean, what’s Disney thinking? I mean, I’m a business guy. I would never get up and say, “How can I make half or more of my potential customers mad? I think I’ll do that today.” That’s what Disney just did. It was a common sense bill that we’re not gonna talk about sex to grade schools. Gosh, that’s not controversial at all.

But we got Coke, we got Coke and Delta complaining about a better election bill for Georgia, but the thing about Disney, they don’t see anything in China about the Chinese government. Neither does Delta, Coke, NBA because, guess what? They’re just out to make more money. They don’t care. “Oh, in China, it’s okay! Oh, you know, you don’t have a right vote. Don’t worry about it. You put people in prison? Oh, I’m not gonna worry about that.

“Anything in China, you can censor anything I do. I’m not gonna worry about that ’cause I think I can make some money here.” But in America, in America, they’re hypocrites. They have a position here which make any sense to me why they would make some of their customers mad, but they take a completely different position in communist China. You get sick and tired of these companies like Disney and Delta and Coke and NBA and these people that they’re just in it to… They want to be social warriors here but they want to be profiteers in China.

CLAY: How do you think they’re reacting, from a business perspective, inside of the Disney corporate suite as a reaction to what Florida has done? What do you expect those conversations look like?

SEN. SCOTT: I don’t know. I used to deal with Disney as governor, and what they’re doing, you say to yourself, “Who thought of this? How would you do this?” I’ve canceled Disney+. I don’t plan on going to Disney. I think there’s a lot of people like me out there saying, “ook. I’m not gonna have some woke company, right, tell me how I need to think about something that I think is pretty common sense.

“Like, I don’t want my kids in my case my grandkids being taught about sex by somebody in their school. That’s just not… You know, doesn’t make any sense.” So I think people are fed up with them. But you know what will happen is when their profit margins go down, right, they’re gonna say, “You know, that was… Maybe that was not very smart, and I think that’s what’s gonna happen to these companies.”

BUCK: Senator Rick Scott with us now from Florida. Senator, was it the right move, is it the right move to get rid of the special status that Disney has with the Reedy Creek Improvement District?

SEN. SCOTT: Well, I think what you have to do is you have to go back and you have to say, “Why do…? You know, if somebody has a special deal, why do they have ’em?” And I think you should always be doing that. I think — you know, when I first went in as governor, there was a lot of taxing districts, and we did a review them to make sure it was good for the state. And so I think you always have to look at ’em. And I think they just put it… Disney put a target on itself. It has this special taxing district, and, now wants to be a woke corporation? I think, well, how foolish on your part. So, you know (crosstalk) —

BUCK: What are the ramifications? I mean, ’cause you were the governor of Florida. What will the ramifications be of the change in status for Disney, not just for the company but for state revenues, et cetera?

SEN. SCOTT: I’ve been trying to understand exactly… I guess they have a significant amount of debt on that special taxing district. Who’s gonna pay for that? Is it gonna increase taxes anywhere, and who’s gonna provide the services that Disney provides. So I think it’s something we all have to really understand. But look. No one should get a special deal. We all should be treated the same by government. So I think we have to look at it, but let’s don’t hurt ourselves.

CLAY: Senator, we are very thankful for the judge in the Tampa area –

SEN. SCOTT: Oh yeah.

CLAY: — who overturned the mask mandate on airplanes. And as part of that, that was a Trump appointee, hugely important, obviously, with what you do in the Senate is who the judges are. That’s important. I’d like for you to explain why as we get ready for 2022. But also, would you agree with the idea that Florida has now become the centrality location for the entire Republican Party as we roll into 2022 which is a big move, because as you well know Florida had long been considered a toss-up state, and now it feels almost like a Republican base state.

SEN. SCOTT: Well, there’s been a big change, right? When I got elected governor back in 2010, there are almost 500,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans, and so what you’ve seen is good Republican policies, people flock there. And, you know, they change their votes from Democrat to Republican. They change registration ’cause they want to vote in our primaries.

But on top of that people move because they want lower taxes and less government, they want to have more freedom, and that’s what Florida stands for. So you have to keep fighting for that stuff every day but, yeah, I think Florida’s is doing a great job. I was very focused on making sure it’s a place where, one, you can get a great job; two, you can get a great education.

When I finished, we had the second lowest tuition of universities and we were number one, according to U.S. News World Report, of higher education, and we were at a 47-year low in our crime rate. Those things matter to people. And when they see it’s good government, guess what? They’ll change their regulation, they’ll vote for us, ’cause they vote for good policy. They move for good policy. I moved to Florida from the Midwest. One, I don’t like cold weather, and I don’t want to pay ridiculous taxes.

BUCK: There we go. Compelling pitch! Senator Rick Scott of Florida. Senator, thanks so much for joining us today. Always good to talk to you.

SEN. SCOTT: Have a great day. Move to Florida.

BUCK: (laughing)

CLAY: Everybody’s pitching you, Buck.

BUCK: (laughing) Not a bad idea.

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The Biden Regime Creates Ministry of Truth

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Psaki Slaps Down Fauci: It’s Still a Pandemic!

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Bret Baier Fillets Mayor Pete on Mask Mandate

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The Biden Disaster: GDP Shrinks 1.4% and Joe Looks Lost

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PA Senate Candidate David McCormick Makes His Case

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NY’s Highest Court Strikes Down Democrat Redistricting

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Sen. Rick Scott Tackles All the Big Issues with Clay and Buck

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