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20 Jun 2022

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    Buck Talks Food Price Hikes on the Horizon

    20 Jun 2022

    The New York Post warns “Record Diesel Prices Could Lead to Food Shortages in U.S., Farmers Warn.” Buck appeared with Scott Brown, former Republican senator of Massachusetts, to discuss the warning signs ahead. One thing’s for sure: Joe Biden won’t go hungry.

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    Buck’s Dad, Speed Sexton, Joins Us for Father’s Day

    17 Jun 2022

    BUCK: Some special Father’s Day time here on the air underway joined by my dad, Mason Speed Sexton, in-studio and here with Clay. Clay is, of course, a dad in his own right. Dad, how are you doing?

    SPEED: Well, needless to say, a great honor to be here with two of the obviously most talented and hardest-working men in media, and it’s sort of the culmination of a dream to be here, Buck.

    BUCK: We got him well trained. He’s already saying nice things about us, Clay. This is fantastic.

    CLAY: I know. I noticed. I’ve always known I’d love your dad. I got to meet you guys last night, you and your wife, at our one-year anniversary party. So, I’m curious. You’ve got four kids.

    SPEED: That’s correct.

    CLAY: What is your favorite thing about Father’s Day? Is there anything that is a tradition in the Sexton household or family that has built up over the years?

    SPEED: Well, we were just talking about your dad getting emotional. I’m gonna get emotional now. No, we’re just a very close family.

    CLAY: Yeah.

    SPEED: And we —

    CLAY: You got three sons and a daughter.

    SPEED: Right. We love being together. There was actually a question here that was sent in from a caller asking about what —

    BUCK: We’re gonna get into all that.

    SPEED: I understand. I don’t mean to preempt it, but it’s just asking what did I like to do with you, Buck? And really one of our favorite things is to hang out. We have a big terrace in our apartment, fortunately, and we love just to hang out together, have dinner together —

    CLAY: Yep.

    SPEED: — and talk politics and what’s going on in people’s lives and that’s it. We love being together. That’s pretty much it.

    CLAY: What age…? I’m curious because I’ve got a 14- and 11- and a 7-year-old. I’ve got three boys. You now are a grandfather as well; so, congratulations on that.

    SPEED: Thank you.

    CLAY: But, as a dad, what ages…? Buck and his brothers and his sister, what age range did you find to be the most fun as a parent? Was there one era that stands out?

    SPEED: Boy, that’s an interesting question. I think it was different for each child. You know, to be honest with you, it all passes so quickly and I don’t remember a bad time. It all seems like it was all pretty special, and I felt really blessed to have such outstanding children. That’s really the truth.

    BUCK: So, we got some VIP emails. We’ve also got some calls, Dad, from people that want to speak to you. And, again, we’re gonna have Clay’s dad, but we’ll have Clay’s dad on a future show. Alfie in New York City said, “Buck and Clay display real leadership qualities…” I love that our team picks these.

    CLAY: Yeah, look, everybody is fantastic. Everybody loves us.

    BUCK: “Buck and Clay display real leadership qualities. I’m wondering if they were naturally like that as kids. For example, were they class president, heads of any clubs at school, captain of a sports team or in the Cub Scouts?” (chuckling) So, Clay, could we just…? Were you president —

    CLAY: I was president of the school. You were too right? We were both presidents of the student body at our respective schools. So, I guess that’s a good sign.

    SPEED: Yeah, I think that, to some degree, says it all. Buck started out, I think he’s told a story of his speech impediment and how that held him back in early school, first and second grade. Then we got him to a speech pathologist who really helped him and by the third or fourth grade he was the top student in his class and from then on, he really was sort of a leader of his peer group going forward from then on, right through high school, to a lesser degree in college (chuckling) only because perhaps of the vagaries —

    BUCK: Surrounded by commies, man.

    SPEED: The political vagaries of Amherst.

    BUCK: I got picketed — dad knows this story — for a Cinco de Mayo party!

    CLAY: (laughing) Even back in the early 2000s.

    BUCK: Oh, yeah, yeah. Everyone just came down on the Buckster because I like to throw a party and have a good time. I’m calling my mom and dad, I’m like, “Everybody’s coming down on me.” The good news was that there was… So, there was a flier that was made and the flier was considered —

    CLAY: Offensive?

    BUCK: — offensive and there was all of this cultural appropriation going on. I was just in charge of booze procuring. I was not involved in promoting it.

    CLAY: Lot of tequila.

    BUCK: A lot of tequila and,, unfortunately the young woman who was my classmate who made the offensive flier was a female from South Asia and, therefore, they were far less inclined to kick her out of school.

    CLAY: Than a white guy.

    BUCK: I had to have meetings with all the diversity counselors, I had threats of picketing, they said they were gonna call the police on us! The school said they would call actual police on us for underage drinking and so we just had to beg forgiveness and drink our tequila behind closed doors.

    CLAY: That is an amazing story.

    BUCK: Next one, by the way.

    CLAY: Gabby in Beacon, New York, says — I mentioned that we met last night and Buck’s mom’s already been on — “I know Ms. Sexton was an actress.” Question here from Gabby, “Were you ever a hair model —

    BUCK: (laughing)

    CLAY: — ‘cause you still have a heck of a head of hair on you.” Your son obviously —

    SPEED: What’s the name of that listener? (laughing)

    CLAY: That is Gabby in Beacon New York. I’m reading directly. This is her question, not mine. “Were you ever a hair model?”

    SPEED: I might have a lunch in Beacon, Gabby. Anyway, no, I was never a hair model.

    BUCK: You were stockbroker, right? You just went to your 50th –

    SPEED: Reunion —

    BUCK: — Harvard Business School reunion, just got back from it.

    SPEED: Yeah, it was quite an experience — I’ll be honest with you — for a lot of reasons. I don’t want to go on a huge tangent. But basically, there about, of my class of 75 that started in the class of 1972, 20% have passed, and that’s a very sobering reality. And then of the remaining 60 or so that are still alive, about 21 or 22 showed up for the reunion with their significant others, wives and so on.

    And it was, in many ways, the best reunion by far because all the competition that you usually have when you show up at your 10th or your 20th, that was all gone. It’s all about your health, your grandchildren, your family, and there was a real sense of camaraderie and love and special affection within the group. And I thought that was really something I didn’t really anticipate, but I found really rewarding.

    BUCK: Do you remember, how much did Harvard Business School cost when you went there?

    SPEED: Well, it’s funny because when I started it was $3500 in 1970.

    BUCK: (laughing) It’s about 80 grand now, I think.

    SPEED: The funny part about it was (laughing) that there was actually a protest with signs and everything else when (laughing) they raised the tuition to $5,000 in my second year. So you can imagine Harvard Business School students protesting a raise.

    BUCK: And we were just speaking about the campus radicalism thing that I dealt with, which was just… It was like the movie PCU for our listeners which if you have not seen you absolutely would have fun watching. You guys have all seen PCU, right, Politically Correct University? (interruption) You haven’t! Unacceptable.

    CLAY: It’s as timely now than it was then.

    BUCK: Now more than ever. You were at Columbia and the students seized the building.

    SPEED: Yes.

    BUCK: Tell us. This was crazy stuff.

    SPEED: Again, I graduated from Columbia 1969. But in 1968, my junior year, the Students for a Democratic Society, young man named Mark Rudd, some of you will remember, literally shut the university down, completely, and radicalized all the students that remained on campus. And they were really far-left radicals. I mean, in the mathematics building, you had real Marxists —

    CLAY: Wow.

    SPEED: — who wanted to literally burn the university down. So, after about two weeks of shutting down the university finally I think it was Grayson Kirk, who was the president, called in the New York Police Department. And that was an incredible experience. (chuckles) I happened to work at the time for Whitney Seymour Jr., who became the Southern District attorney.

    And, anyway, real quickly I got word that the police were coming in at 2 a.m. that night and so I had a friend who had an apartment on the in front at 116th Street and Amsterdam so I could watch the main gate, and these… They call them the tactical police force. They’re all on these big horses and they’ve all got helmets.

    BUCK: Riot gear, right, the whole thing.

    SPEED: Anyway, it was a real war. Three people died during that.

    BUCK: Wow. You saw actually violence from the commies, batons, the whole thing.

    SPEED: Oh, yeah, I saw somebody jump from one of the buildings onto the back of a policeman, broke his back, and he subsequently died in the hospital.

    CLAY: So, does 1968, by the way, remind you now the world that we’re in now? Does that congruency historically resonate for you or are they totally different in your mind?

    SPEED: Well, I think there’s certainly parallels. Clearly, we have a very far left, radicalized Democratic Party now that is prone to violence and is using obviously Antifa and these other sort of auxiliary movements to enforce whatever ideas they’re trying to enforce and intimidate people. So, yeah. Look, what people don’t understand is how close we are always to civil unrest. It doesn’t take much. A crowd of two or three hundred people that is willing to go to jail or willing to break and burn can be a formidable force.

    BUCK: We got anti-communists here in New York City, Clay. See?

    CLAY: We’re gonna bring you back to close it out in honor of Father’s Day, and I want to ask you a question here in a minute when we come back. Now that you’re a grandfather, is being a grandfather…? I know it’s Father’s Day coming up; I’ll let you answer when we come back out of this next break. But is being a grandfather more fun than being a father? Think about it. We’ll get your answer. I know there’s a lot of people out there that have gotten to experience as both, and I’m curious the difference.

    BREAK TRANSCRIPT

    BUCK: Some Father’s Day fun to kick you off for the Father’s Day weekend with my dad here, Mason Speed Sexton, a very cool name. I was, in fact, with him in a car when maybe we were going a little fast, the police officer pulled him over and said, “Your middle name is literally Speed.” He thought that was funny. I don’t know if we got a warning or a ticket. I was a kid but that did actually happen. Dad, we got all kinds of questions coming from people all over the country.

    CLAY: First, hold on.

    BUCK: I’m sorry. Wait. Hold on. Clay’s teased question. I’ve gotta do it.

    CLAY: There’s lots of dads, there’s lots of granddads out there listening right now. How would you describe being both, which do you like more?

    SPEED: Well, I like both, to be honest with you. I’m so blessed to have an amazing little grandson. His name is Ryan Mason Kumar and we call him Ry-Ry the Rock Star and he’s 20 months and has completely changed my life. My perspective has gone from just worrying about retirement and health and those issues and now it’s really focused on I want to make sure he has every opportunity I can possibly provide him, including with his parents, of course, and just watching him grow up and spending time with him is incredibly special. You know, in some ways it’s better (laughing) because I don’t have the direct responsibility.

    CLAY: Right.

    SPEED: But, in other ways, there’s nothing like having your own children and being — hopefully — a model of behavior.

    BUCK: You guys are kind of similar, ’cause you had the four of us, Dad, by the… You had us four when you were in, what, mid-thirties, right?

    SPEED: I married your mother when I was 30 and she was 20 and then by about 43, 44 I think, I had four children.

    BUCK: Yeah, okay.

    BUCK: ‘Cause Clay got married at 25. He’s got three kids. He’s 43.

    CLAY: Yeah, I was 28 years old when I had my first, so I got the 14-year-old, the 11-year-old, and the 7-year-old.

    BUCK: Busy stuff. We got Barney from Poughkeepsie. He’s actually got a question. He called in on the lines. We have the Father’s Day line. Let’s play it.

    BARNEY: This is Barney from Poughkeepsie. I just wanted to know from Buck’s dad, what were his thoughts when Buck joined the CIA?

    SPEED: Well, that’s a great question. And, obviously, you have to remember, the time that he joined the CIA was after 9/11, and he joined it, to his credit, as, I think, a show of patriotism and concern for his country. He had been studying Middle Eastern affairs and had some knowledge of Arabic. So he was in some ways an ideal candidate for the CIA.

    But when he went away and then said, “Dad, I can’t tell you where we’re going, it’s top secret,” that’s a concern, and when we found out that it was — we obviously suspected it was — Iraq and, ultimately, Afghanistan, I will tell a quick story. There was an article in the New York Times about the fact that five senior Al-Qaeda leaders had been liquidated in Mosul.

    BUCK: Mosul.

    SPEED: Mosul. I’m sorry. And I had just had a feeling that Buck was involved. (laughing) And as it turned out (crosstalk) —

    BUCK: Can neither confirm or deny!

    SPEED: As it turned out, Buck had some involvement!

    CLAY: — CIA gonna show up here now, his dad’s spilt the beans?

    SPEED: (laughing)

    BUCK: I have some friends who were very badass, door-kicker folks. I might have tried to help point them in the general vicinity.

    SPEED: Anyway, so we were incredibly proud, of course, for Buck’s service and still are.

    BUCK: Yeah. We have Thelma from Seattle, and then Clay has gotta throw a sports question. He took me to Giants games, took me to Knicks games, so ’cause I think this audience thinks, like, I played the sports, I saw the sports, I still like to play the sports. I’m just… I don’t really watch the professional leagues very much. Anyway, we’ll get to that in a second. This is Thelma from Seattle. Let’s play it.

    THELMA: This is Thelma from Seattle. I was just curious. The Sexton family has some interesting names. Speed. Buck. What are the origins?

    SPEED: Well, Speed is a family name. It’s my mother’s maiden name. The Speed family, I was just telling Clay here ’cause he’s from Nashville, is a prominent family in Louisville, Kentucky. The Speed Museum is an internationally well-known museum, Speed Institute, and then, of course, Farmington, which is the family home which was designed by Jefferson is a national historic landmark.

    So, the Speed name in Louisville in particular is a historically important name. If you go — if you go back, ultimately to John Speed was a cartographer to Queen Elizabeth, the real Queen Elizabeth, and then Joshua Speed was Lincoln’s best friend and adviser during his entire political career, and then, ultimately, James Speed, his brother, was his attorney general in his second term. So, that tells you a little bit of the Speed name.

    CLAY: Your team in the world of sports is?

    SPEED: Gosh, it has been the Giants, but I gotta tell you I think the Jets are gonna be ascendant this year.

    CLAY: Oh, really?

    SPEED: Oh, yeah, I’m very positive on Saleh and the Jets.

    BUCK: There we go!

    CLAY: (laughing)

    BUCK: OutKick news story right here!

    SPEED: (laughing)

    BUCK: Speed Sexton calls the Jets big in the next season. Dad, love you. Happy Father’s Day.

    SPEED: Thank you, Buck.

    BUCK: Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there.

    CLAY: Amen.

    BUCK: You all rock. Thanks for hanging with us.

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    Clay Pays Tribute to His Cousin, Steve Travis, Taken Too Soon

    17 Jun 2022

    CLAY: We’re about to be joined by Buck’s dad. It is Father’s Day weekend. I hope all the dads out there are having a fantastic early start to your weekend. I’ve got three boys of my own. I cannot wait to hang out with them during the course of this weekend.

    My dad was scheduled to be on with us, but yesterday — I just want to kind of fill you guys in — near the end of the show, I got some awful news.

    My first cousin, Steve Travis — he’s 62 years old — died unexpectedly yesterday, my dad’s nephew. He is incredibly broken up about it. He didn’t feel like he could come on and talk about Father’s Day because of this death we just had in the family. But I just wanted to tell you a little bit about Steve here as we roll in. He’s a father himself. His daughter, Jennifer, is absolutely fantastic, and he is a 30-plus-year listener of the Rush Limbaugh Show.

    He was a huge fan of Rush, and when I got the offer from Julie Talbott — who is Buck and I’s boss and she’s fantastic — to come and be able to take over the show, I only called a couple of people to ask them about it, and Steve was one of them because he was such a die-hard Rush Limbaugh fan. And it’s been really fun the last year because he listened every day, and he would text during segments and share his opinions and thoughts as someone who had been listening to this show for a really long time.

    And yesterday — he had been in perfect health — he was outside early that morning working in his yard. Like I said, 62 years old, had just recently been to the doctor, gotten a clean bill of health, and he just collapsed and died, and so my family is still stunned. We ask for your prayers certainly for Steve’s close family, his daughter and his wife. But my dad, again, it’s his nephew. They kind of grew up together.

    He was just so broken up over this that he didn’t think he could come on and talk about Father’s Day. So, what I would just say to everybody out there is, “If you’ve got a dad, hug him. Grandpa.” Sometimes families don’t get along. None of us are guaranteed anything at all, right? And so, I would just say, as all of us are celebrating Father’s Day — I know Mother’s Day just happened — if you got people in your family that you care about, don’t ever neglect telling them how much you care.

    I know that things can be controversial and difficult on a day-to-day basis. Certainly, no family is perfect. But I do think in times like these — and everybody has unexpected, awful things that happen in their family that none of us can control. But I do think that I would just want to say to everybody out there, first of all, Steve was an incredible longtime Rush Limbaugh listener and I am honored to have known him.

    And he is one of you to his core and to his soul and he’s a big reason why you’re listening to me talk on this show right now. And for everybody out there who is certainly getting ready for Father’s Day, just take the time to tell the people in your life that you love them because none of us are guaranteed any day, any hour and things can happen at any point. We’re going to be joined by Buck’s dad, who is phenomenal.

    I don’t want to make the whole show certainly any kind of downer. We’re gonna have a lot of fun to close out this Friday edition, but I just wanted to mention why my own dad was not gonna be on. He didn’t think he could make it through segments talking about Father’s Day after what happened yesterday in our family. So, Buck, look, you know this, and everybody else out there knows.

    You never know when something tragic might happen in your life, and so we love spending time with all of you. We know that your families are incredibly important, and I would just say as we head into the final 30 minutes of the show of Father’s Day weekend. If you get the opportunity, gotta love going out there, maybe you haven’t talked to them in a while, take the opportunity to reach out and try to make sure that you don’t take anything for granted when it comes to the important relationships in your life, your family, your friends, everything else.

    BUCK: A lot of thoughts and prayers for you and yours, Clay, and we will obviously have to have your dad on on another day. We all want to meet Papa Travis. That needs to happen.

    CLAY: He will 100% come on. He just… I really… He is an incredibly emotional guy. He would have broken down 30 seconds into the Father’s Day discussion — and we weren’t that confident, to be honest, in his cell phone, as I said for a while. So, I’ll bring him into the Nashville studio.

    BUCK: Yeah, I was gonna say, we’ll do it in Nashville. The dads in person is how we’ll do it.

    CLAY: He’s excited to meet you and he loves obviously my dad listens to the show every single day, so he wants to come on. Our moms were on. My dad will be on at some point. But coming up next, we are going to be joined by Buck’s dad here in the New York City studio. It’s gonna be a lot of fun in honor of Father’s Day.

    BUCK: It is a fun hour. People ask me this and I’m sure they ask you this too: Do your parents listen? Do they listen? They listen every day! (laughing)

    CLAY: Yeah. Yeah, it’s what your mom was saying last night when we were meeting. My mom listens every minute. She just texted me. She’s driving back from Florida where she’s been down with my sister for a while, and she said, “Hey, we’ve been able to pick you up for the first two hours just driving in the car all over Florida. You’re all over here!”

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    Senator Marsha Blackburn Joins C&B to Cover All the Big Issues

    17 Jun 2022

    CLAY: Joining us from, I believe, the great state of Tennessee — although she may still be in Washington, D.C. — Senator Marsha Blackburn. Senator, Joe Biden’s already left the White House for the day. He’s headed to his beach house. He didn’t get in ’til 12:30 on Monday. But I was kind of thinking, is it better for Joe Biden just not to be in the White House at all since everything he seems to be doing is such a disaster?

    SEN. BLACKBURN: Everything they are doing makes the life of Tennesseans and the American people worse. And when I talk with people here in Tennessee, Clay, they are saying, you know, “I voted for Joe Biden” or “I didn’t support Joe Biden but I thought he would be a moderate. I didn’t expect Bernie Sanders.” And they are just so frustrated because inflation, the price at the pump, the price at the grocery store, the open border, drugs in the streets, crime in the communities.

    The list goes on and on, and they’re really frustrated with what is coming out of this administration. So, maybe we just want to see Joe go to the beach and stay there for the rest of the summer and the Democrats not try to pass one more bill because we’re playing block and tackle every single day.

    BUCK: Senator Blackburn, thank you for being with us. The latest that we saw on the bill that was supposed to be bipartisan on gun control, gun restrictions, that it’s running into some problems now and may not actually go through Senate. Have you any insight into that? Can you tell us more about that?

    SEN. BLACKBURN: Well, they have a framework, they don’t have legislative text, and there’s big difference. And I’m one that has said, “Look, I will not vote for anything that is going to infringe on anybody’s Second Amendment rights. I am not going to vote for anything that would give a platform that the federal government could establish some kind of national gun registry,” and do we need to harden schools? Yes. For months, I’ve been recommending that we use the $100 billion left over from covid in the elementary and secondary schools fund so that schools can apply technology, harden those schools.

    Also, for years I have been recommending that we work with retired law enforcement and veterans and deputize them so they can take a shift and be the officer on duty at every school with schools having one — one — point of entry into those schools. Those with R common-sense things that could be done. But, you know, when you leave it to the left, they don’t want to do that. They want to have red flag laws that they are going to be they can incent the state, but then it turns out to being a mandate, and it’s coercive behave on behalf of the federal government. So, for me, that is not something I’m going to support.

    CLAY: Senator Blackburn, you know this. My kids live in, you know what I’m saying, counsel just outside of Nashville and what you just referenced, they go to public school, we have a security police officer there that they love: Officer Show who’s been inside their school for years. Kids all love her, and they have one entry point. And I don’t understand why that’s remotely controversial.

    I also want to thank you, this absurd wokification that’s going on with our mitochondrial where we spend more time talking about diversity and inclusion that we do kicking people’s ass. And you’ve got a policy in place that you’re working to try to de-wokify our military. What would that entail?

    SEN. BLACKBURN: Yes. I actually have two different bills. I had offered these in our Defense Authorization Act markup that we had. And, Clay, what this would do is I think the military should be focused on our adversaries and on fighting and winning wars. We know that the new axis of evil is communist China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

    They don’t give a ripping flip about how woke the U.S. military is. But the American people care desperately about defeating our enemies and our adversaries. That is what the focus of the military should be: Readiness, training, preparation to fight and to win. And the second provision that I have offered and am working on is to protect the children of military members when they are in our DOD schools, on military bases.

    It had come to my attention that we had some teachers who were trying to work with the student to hide the student wanting to do gender fluidity or gender transition or have psychological care. The parents do not need to be kept in the dark on this, and we do not need teachers on our military bases encouraging children not to talk to their parents and to hide things from them. And I found out through this process that there was not a DOD policy that the parents needed to have the right to be involved in these decisions. So, I tried to push that forward, and we’re yet to get bipartisan agreement on that one.

    BUCK: Speaking to Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Senator, if you are in the majority come next year — which Clay and I and certainly the audience are hoping is gonna be the case — what are some of the things that you and your Senate colleagues — again, assuming a Republican majority — would plan to do? Biden would still be president so that creates some roadblocks, but what would you like to see happen?

    SEN. BLACKBURN: We need to get the country on the right track and starting with that are two things we needed to. Address the costs at the pump — which means restarting the Keystone XL pipeline, opening up Alaska, offshore drilling, go back to fracking — and it’s going to mean that a Republican-led House and Senate and going to have to take this up and push it forward and override Joe Biden and the leftist opinion on this issue.

    The second thing is getting government spending under control. And as y’all know and as you’ve talked about, the two things — inflation, the price at the pump, the grocery store, and government spending — have been the two drivers on this out-of-control inflation rate that we’re seeing. So we need to freeze government spending.

    We need to freedom government hiring, we need to freeze escalation rates in salaries of government employees. And then, we need to require a supermajority to pass any spending bill during times of high inflation. And that is legislation I’ve had now; this is the second year I’ve had it. When inflation is high, we ought not to have these bills flying through Congress. Just look at what the Biden administration has done. You’ve got $6.8 trillion that was spent on covid, and then you had another $2 trillion, then $1.9 trillion in infrastructure. And now for his Build Back Broke agenda Biden wants another $2 trillion, and economists are saying, “Stop spending government money!” So let’s be smart about this. Let’s stop it.

    CLAY: Senator Blackburn, you also have gone aggressively after the threats that have been put forward against Supreme Court justices. The left wants to pretend that a crazy lunatic didn’t show up at Justice Kavanaugh’s house trying to assassinate him. It took forever for the House to actually pass a bill to provide protection. I know the Senate acted much faster on that. But to your point, “What in the world is going on with this lack of protection for Supreme Court justices?” What should happen in your mind? I know you’ve been pretty outspoken and active about this.

    SEN. BLACKBURN: When it comes to our justices and their families, they need to have round-the-clock protection. That is the bill we’ve moved out of the Senate; then Pelosi sat on it for a month. And then you had The Squad and the leftists in the House vote against it. But bear in mind every last one of them — every one of them — voted for extra protection for themselves after January 6th. So, they want to protect themselves but they don’t want to protect the justices and the justices’ families. The other thing is these protesters that are out in front disturbing the peace, messing up the neighborhoods where these justices live or where they go to church.

    They should be marched down to city hall and they should be booked on violation of 18 USC 1507, because it is illegal to go out and protest at a judge’s home and try to influence a federal judge on the outcome of a decision. It is an illegal act! So I think that DOJ and FBI need to get out here and they need to do their job and they need to make certain that they are very careful with what is happening with these protests in these communities because many of these protesters in these groups that are sponsoring the protest, y’all know they have been saying, “You’re gonna have a summer of rage if we don’t get the opinion we want from the Supreme Court!”

    That is illegal. Chuck Schumer ought to go out here and he ought to apologize to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh for calling them out on the steps of the Supreme Court some months ago and saying, “You have unleashed the whirlwind!” That is inappropriate. He should be out there apologizing. We need to protect the court. We need to protect the justices on the court.

    BUCK: Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Senator, always appreciate you coming by.

    SEN. BLACKBURN: You got it. Take care. Bye-bye now.

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    Senate Gun Bill in Trouble, Biden Leaves for Beach House

    17 Jun 2022

    CLAY: There are reports that the gun bill that was much ballyhooed may be falling apart a bit over the language, ’cause we still haven’t seen the draft language in this bipartisan gun violence bill, whatever you want to call it. Also, I’ll just mention this: Joe Biden has already left for his beach house — 11 a.m. Eastern he left the White House to head away for the weekend. Remember, he didn’t get to the White House until 12:30 on Monday coming back from Delaware.

    So he arrived halfway through the day on Monday. He left halfway through the day on Friday. Now, you can say the guy can work anywhere, and I understand that argument. But when you are the worst president in history, I think — modern history — isn’t it maybe the wrong signal to be sending that you’re showing up late for work at the White House on Monday and leaving early on Friday?

    BUCK: Well, there’s also the part of me that says, “The guy’s almost 80. You know, if he wants to get some time on the beach and read a…” Are we allowed to read James Patterson novels again?

    CLAY: Well, he’s apologized. Old white guy, but he’s apologized for saying things that are unacceptable about old white guys.

    BUCK: I don’t want to begrudge Biden in his nearly 80th year spending some time at the beach with the family. He just shouldn’t be president while he’s doing this stuff. That’s the problem, right? You know, you want to spend the time with the fam at the beach. Biden should be long since retired and instead he is letting the country slip deeper into the economic abyss with each passing day. I just wish there were one person, Clay — we talk about this pretty frequently in recent weeks — in the administration point to say, “That person really seems squared away.”

    CLAY: Just one.

    BUCK: To be fair, for example, Larry Summers when he was treasure secretary — he’s a Democrat — is smart guy, though.

    CLAY: Was one of the heralds of inflation that information going to come on the Democrat side? He said — he predicted perfectly — exactly where we were headed with inflation.

    BUCK: There are some others. We’ve actually quoted him a few times ’cause he’s been saying Democrats are lucky they didn’t get the spending they wanted ’cause inflation would be even worse. But Rattner who was the auto czar under Obama. Again a Democrat, but understands how a business works and has some understanding of the market. The people we keep hearing from in this administration, I’m like, “So, are they just walking around the Wesleyan faculty lounge saying, ‘Who wants to explain macro-economic theory?’ when gas prices are through the roof?” ‘Cause it’s not going well.

    CLAY: I don’t even think they analyzed any of the skillsets for the people that are in their administration. I think they just decided, “We have to have certain measures of cosmetic diversity,” and threw people into the cabinet almost a hundred percent predicated on that.

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    Governor Kemp on Beating Stacey Abrams and the Atlanta World Cup

    17 Jun 2022

    BUCK: Governor Brian Kemp of the great state of Georgia is with us now. Governor, thanks for calling in. Appreciate you.

    GOV. KEMP: Hey, great to be back, guys. How’s it going?

    BUCK: We’re good. So, we were just talking before you called in about absolutely critical states and races going into the midterm. How are you feeling about the GOP in Georgia statewide and then, more specifically, of course, your showdown with Democrat candidate Stacey Abrams? Just a matter of months before the votes will be cast.

    GOV. KEMP: Look, I feel great. A lot of momentum for our campaign coming out of the primaries. My ultimate goal and my focus the whole race has been making sure Stacey Abrams is not our governor or your next president, ’cause we know that’s what she wants to do. I think Georgians are realizing that the Biden-Abrams agenda that she embraced and helped put in place in Washington, D.C., is not working out so well.

    It’s 40-year-high inflation, people are getting crushed when they go to the grocery store, when they go to the hardware store and they’re certainly getting crushed when they go to the gas pump. And this administration is just tone-deaf to what fixes that and what they need to do and there’s a lot of other disasters all over, as you know, down at the border and other things. And that’s the same way that she would take our state so that’s why we’re in a a fight for the soul of our state.

    We’re working hard every day and we got a lot of great partners that I’m gonna be on the ticket with that have had great success in the state of Georgia. We’re having our lowest… Our unemployment rate dropped again, believe it or not, it’s the lowest it’s ever been. We got by far the most people ever working in our state. We’re doing a lot of things, guys, to help Georgians fight through this 40-year-high inflation. I’ve suspended the gas tax, so we’ve got the lowest gas in the country right now even though it’s still outrageous ’cause of the administration’s policy. We’re also sending a billion dollars back to the taxpayers, so they got a little more money in their pocket as well as doing a tax cut. And those (audio drops) Stacey Abrams has criticized.

    CLAY: Stacey Abrams also… Governor, I appreciate you coming on. This is Clay. Stacey Abrams also got a big shout-out from Joe Biden recently. And I think you’re right. I think she’s trying to use the platform of the governor’s office in Georgia if she were to win to try to run for president of the United States. You’re the incumbent governor there. I think you’re gonna kick her ass and win confidential. That’s my breakdown. What is the impact if Stacey Abrams were to win in Georgia? What would happen?

    GOV. KEMP: Well, that’s the thing, guys. I mean, Stacey Abrams doesn’t really care about our state. She’s been all over the country selling her book. She was in Hollywood with all these celebrities last week raising tens of millions of dollars, and it’s all… You know, she cares more about their policies than she cares about how hardworking Georgians are feeling right now. And that’s why she said this is the worst state in the country to live in. I obviously disagree with that. I think it’s the greatest state in the country to live, work, and raise our families.

    You know, we’ve seen a lot of success. Our people have been very resilient, fought through covid and they’ve been free to be able to do that, unlike her policies that want mandates and criticize reopening the economy, criticizing us when we’re getting our kids back in the classrooms. You know, I don’t have to remind you all about criticizing us over strong Elections Integrity Act to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.

    She pressured Major League Baseball and the Players Association so the All-Star Game was moved. And she didn’t care about how that was gonna affect small business owners in Georgia or our state. But you know what? People realize that that’s not where they are. And they saw it in our primary just a few weeks ago where we had record turnout. So, people know that they’re just selling a bill of goods, have been lying to folks.

    And I’ve been sitting up there being transparent with people and putting them first over the policymakers like Joe Biden that she’s cozying up to in Washington, D.C., or the liberal elite out in Hollywood that are funding her campaign. I care more about our people, Georgians, than, raising a lot of money from people that are gonna tell me what to do when I get in office.

    CLAY: Joe Biden said — in fact, you just referenced that primary turnout — that what you guys had passed in Georgia was Jim Crow 2.0. You referenced Major League Baseball pulling the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, but also Coke and Delta teed off, two businesses that are based in the Atlanta area. Have any of those CEOs reached back out to you and said, “Hey, you know what? You were right, election turnout is actually grown, you’ve strengthened the security for voting now in Georgia,” or are they just pretending they never made the statements that they did?

    GOV. KEMP: (chuckles) Well, I think they’re just keeping their head down. But I’m more focused on what people in Georgia think, and they know that I was truthful to them over one year ago, explaining what we did in the bill, and they know that even more now after seeing the record turnout and it’s easy to vote and hard to cheat here. The folks that were criticizing me, neither one of them can vote here. So I’m not too worried about what they think. I’m worried about putting Georgians first.

    That’s what I campaigned on in 2018. It’s what I’ve been doing every single day that I’ve been governor of this great state. It’s what I want to continue to do in the future which is why Marty and the girls and I are out there working so hard. We are big believers in our state. I believe our best days are ahead despite the just horrific agenda the Biden administration that has turned our country upside down in a year and a half. I’m still very optimistic.

    We’re seeing great economic growth. I just left a groundbreaking from a metal recycling company, first of the kind in the United States. It’s a German-based company. They’re investing over $400 million in the Augusta area. They have a little golf tournament down there, by the way, and it’s just another great opportunity to put hardworking people to work. But that company’s gonna grow over the next decade and it’s gonna give their kids and their grandkids opportunities. And that’s what this is all about.

    BUCK: Governor Kemp, I saw that the announcement came out that Atlanta is gonna be a host site for the 2026 World Cup. How excited are you for that being brought to your state and what that will mean a few hours’ time?

    GOV. KEMP: Well, it’s gonna be incredible, and I said this last night when we were at the press conference with Mayor Dickens and the whole state, Chamber of Commerce team, all the conventional and visitors bureau’s folks and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and a lot of other folks that worked on this, really a state-local partnership. This is gonna be incredible, and it’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of economic impact that’s gonna be great for small business owners. You know, we’d love to get… (garbled cell)

    BUCK: Oops.

    CLAY: I think we may have lost the governor there. But this is a big deal. They’ve got the World Cup. I was gonna ask him… I’m gonna down in Atlanta doing our show next week, Buck, and the Braves, I believe, have won 14 games in a row. I’m not sure they’re ever gonna lose again. But that was Governor Brian Kemp. Need to be out there supporting. We got a monster audience all over Georgia. He needs to beat Stacey Abrams — and, by the way, Herschel Walker needs to beat the Reverend Raphael Warnock in that Senate race too.

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    Carl Bernstein Claims Jan. 6 Was Worse Than the Civil War

    17 Jun 2022

    CLAY: It’s the 50th anniversary, roughly, of Watergate, the beginning of the end of the Richard Nixon presidency, and certainly everything that has occurred in terms of political scandals gets a -gate affixed to it. It’s become so commonplace. But Carl Bernstein, this obsession with trying to turn January 6th into the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of the country… Carl Bernstein says that January 6th was “worse than the Civil War,” the secession that we saw from Jefferson Davis, who, when he left to become the president of the Confederacy, prior to that had been a senator from Mississippi. Listen to this.

    BERNSTEIN: We don’t know what Merrick Garland is gonna do, and there is a tremendous weight on his shoulders because this is worse than Watergate. The Justice Department now has to make a decision because it’s very clear that the president, Donald Trump, violated the law. No question. There’s no question about his seditious actions. The last sedition we had in this country on any kind of scale was Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, and Trump even outdid Jefferson Davis! He committed — the United States under him as the chief officer of the United States government, he committed — it to trying to stage a illegal coup.

    CLAY: Oh, stop.

    BUCK: Outdid Jefferson Davis? Outdid the head of the Confederacy?

    CLAY: We have made fun of the fact on this show that I am a huge Civil War history stuff. I even went to Civil War sleep-away camp! January 6th is nothing like the Civil War, and Jefferson Davis — who led the Confederacy as the president of a country that was at war at the time with the United States — is nothing like what Donald Trump did. First of all, the continued attempts to call this a coup is so outside the bounds of reasonable discussion that it is an insult to anyone with a functional brain that this would still be going on.

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    Mayra Flores Unloads on the Vice President: “She’s Honestly Useless”

    17 Jun 2022

    BUCK: The newly elected member of Congress from Texas’ 34th, Mayra Flores, had some pretty poignant analysis here. It’s cut 16. Here she is when the issue of the vice president’s competency came up.

    FLORES: She’s honestly useless. I don’t know why she’s in that position. She hasn’t been here in South Texas to see what their policies are creating, the mess that they’re creating in our country and that their policies are hurting real people.

    CLAY: Wow.

    BUCK: (laughing)

    CLAY: It’s hard not to laugh when you hear that devastating bite. This is, by the way, the new congresswoman-elect Mayra Flores in the Texas 34 district that we talked about a couple of days ago who has won an overwhelming victory in a district that Democrats had controlled for over a hundred years, and her husband is a Border Patrol agent. She was born in Mexico. She’s the first person to ever be elected from Mexico, woman, to the United States Congress.

    And speaking of idiocy, Kamala Harris “honestly useless.”

    Did you see, Buck, that the also useless Jemele Hill, who previously worked at ESPN and called Donald Trump a “white supremacist,” said Elon Musk — who announced that Mayra Flores was the first Republican that he had ever voted for — was a white supremacist for voting evidently for a Hispanic woman. And, by the way, Mayra Flores also reacted to that. I believe this is from Fox News. I was watching this interview. She said she was really happy to get the Elon Musk support. This is cut 17. I really love this new congresswoman from Texas.

    FLORES: Honestly, I was very happy, and I can’t thank him enough for all he’s doing for my district. We need more of people like him that believe in us, and he’s been investing in this area for a long time, and honestly, we’re all grateful that he is investing here in our district. And I’m grateful to him for supporting me and not — because this also is not just about me. It’s about the people here in Texas district 34 that deserve, you know, prosperity in this area.

    CLAY: She, to her credit, is setting the table for what is going to be a Republican tsunami. So we should mention — I know a lot of listen in Texas 34 — that they are redrawing the district borders there; so she is the congresswoman-elect right now, and she’ll serve at least until November, and hopefully she will be able to win a full term when that 2022 election happens, but she’s right. Kamala Harris is, “honestly useless,” (laughs) and all of these policies that are designed to lower what you’re having to pay for gas and oil and everything out there are honestly useless too. They can’t even be implemented. And to me this is perfect evidence that they have no idea how to solve and fix the issues.

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    Biden’s Big Idea for a Gas Rebate Card Nixed by Chip Shortage

    17 Jun 2022

    BUCK: The White House is scrambling so much. Remember, we played for you a montage of Biden running for office where he’s basically telling you that oil and natural gas are evil and if he could he would snap his fingers and make it all illegal tomorrow, which is completely insane and would lead to the destruction of our economy, our way of life and mass starvation — and I really mean that. I mean, if you actually got rid of fossil fuel tomorrow, if you just said it is legal, our entire economy, way of life would collapse.

    But they talk about this, they yearn for this, Biden himself yearns for this. Even going to be Obama. Remember? “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” That was a big sound bite from the Obama era. And now we have a White House that’s trying to come up anything they can to turn things around. So what are they gonna do? Gas rebate card plan was out there. So the way this was gonna work — this was in the Washington Post — was that senior White House aides were thinking about a rebate card for your gas prices.

    Basically just hoping to take a little of the sting out until you vote, and then once they’ve fooled people with the voting situation then who cares, right? Once they’ve gotten past the actual accountability moment, Democrats don’t care about the peasants not being able to afford gas, not really. They just don’t want to lose power. But I love this, Clay. This is amazing. Because there is a chip shortage right now among all of our supply chain and shortage issues, the Democrats couldn’t implement the giving you money back for your gas, because they don’t actually have the chips for the rebate cards to make your gas price less painful.

    CLAY: This is how… This is a perfect representation of how flawed everything Biden is doing is. They are definitely scrambling because the number one thing — as we talked about the start of the first hour — that is driving American consumers crazy is inflation, and the number one biggest issue with inflation that people see and interact with on a regular basis is the price of gas, which is at an all-time high. So, again, to reiterate what the Biden administration did:

    They’re sitting around spit balling all these different ideas… By the way, produce more gas is the answer in America so we don’t have to go to Venezuela, so we don’t have to go to beg Saudi Arabia, so we don’t have to put an awful nuclear deal in place in Iran. All of those things are what we’re doing to try to get them to produce more gas. And we obviously got the issue with Russia. But they say, “We’ll just give people money back.” First of all, it pours more money out there. Where is the money coming from?

    BUCK: Isn’t it inflationary to give people more money?

    CLAY: That’s what I’m saying.

    BUCK: Right. This is what the thinking is. “Hey, we got this inflation problem. I got an idea. Let’s give people more free money so they’re not as aware of the inflation problem.”

    CLAY: And also theoretically this would help to increase demand on some level, right? When the government gives you more money to go buy more gas, it’s all stupid and nonsensical and evidence of the Biden White House’s inability to solve any problems. But they can’t even rectify it! They can’t even implement it because we can’t produce the cards that would allow people to get their money back for gas because the supply chain mess is so bad that we don’t have the chips to put into the cards to make this a viable option. It is just a comedy of errors.

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    BUCK: Well, we can just turn to the brilliance of Secretary of Energy Jen Granholm, who has all kinds of ideas that will really help bring down the price of gas, Clay, in about 30 years, after we’ve erased trillions of dollars of wealth through government regulation to force technologies on to us that are inefficient and that have tremendous costs on the environment anyway.

    BUCK: Courageous CNN guy for asking the real questions. By the way, he’s a hundred percent right. They want gas production up, Clay, between Friday, June 17th, and Election Day, and then they want it down again, and they want windmills.

    CLAY: That’s a fantastic question. If you were right now an energy executive — and we had some great calls yesterday discussing oil and gas prices — why would you invest in production massively when you know that the administration doesn’t have your back in the years ahead? Why would you invest in the infrastructure and the cost when they are trying to cut your legs out from under you? And directly to your point, Buck, this isn’t a long-term solution.

    This is a short-term, let’s not get destroyed in the midterms. And then as we do the run-up to 2024 and on into the future, Democrats don’t believe that gas and oil should be produced in America at a high level. And also, by the way, let’s talk about this. A lot of these charging stations, a lot of this electricity that is theoretically clean is being produced by oil and gas. Have you seen some of these stories, which, to me, deserve far more attention? Many of these charging stations…

    I saw a great interview in Michigan where Democrats were bragging about how they had produced all these new electric vehicle charging stations. And then someone said, “Well, wait a minute. What is producing all of this electricity that’s going to be able to used to charge cars?” And the head of the city where they’re doing all this clean energy said, “Oh, it’s coming from our coal plant.” So you are using the energy produced by a coal plant to help to power the electricity so that the electric cars can get electricity clean vehicles. But it’s coming from coal, and we don’t have conversations enough about this. Much of our “clean energy” is actually deriving from traditional methods and manners of producing oil and gas.

    BUCK: And if you want everyone to drive an electric car, you would have to dramatically increase the output of rare-earth minerals necessary for the batteries which means mining, a whole lot more mining, which you want to do that, fine, but the left hates that too. They hate this. Look, folks, they just want the peasants riding their bicycles, not even necessarily their e-scooters, Clay — ’cause if I’m getting my e-scooter juice from coal? Unacceptable.

    CLAY: By the way, the “key man” insurance policy that the radio station wanted to take out on you, the “key man” insurance is evidently now offensive. It’s “key person” insurance. So you can’t even say a “key man” ’cause you’re excluding women evidently when you talk about that. So when you undertake your likely risky scooter riding all over the city of New York, have key person insurance. I just don’t want to offend anybody out there.

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