Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Sep 3 2026

0:00this is an i heart podcast guaranteed human welcome back into clay and book i want to talk about some of the things that president trump covered last night uh... at the rose garden dinner went over a whole slew of issues but first play you might have seen this story we talk about the clay and book podcast network which is an assemblage of fantastic host very very diverse and i mean in terms of the shows they do not like not necessarily de i diversity but diverse kinds of shows national security focus political focus health focus we have we have we have different things kind of mom normie focused we have a whole bunch of stuff uh... but they're great shows and they're on demand for you on the clay and book network to check out whatever you want also remember this show if you miss the beginning of the show or you can't listen to the second of the third hour all three hours of the show or put up every day as individual podcasts uh... that you can listen to for it by uh... you know

1:00per hour if you will or per hour of the show which is means if you don't listen live for one hour go check us out in the others later on when you're making dinner doing the dishes are just going for a walk around the gym but clay i think about the podcast network because one of our clean book podcast network alumni mr. shan parnell story about him yesterday uh... bunch of places this one semifore i think political also had a piece that he is emerging he's the pentagon's chief spokesman and he is emerging as a top contender for the role of army secretary so for those who don't know the the way it goes that the the d.o.d. higher arkey on the civilian side you have president of the united states secretary of defense and then the service secretaries who are co-equal secretary of the army secretary of the navy secretary of the air force so the secretary of the army's a senior civilian official who has to be senate

2:01confirmed it's a non-cadent rank that has to be senate confirmed reports directly to the secretary defense and he serves as the chief executive officer of the department of the army responsible for its administration meant readiness manpower budget etc army to say i could not think of a better person who is perfectly placed within this administration already to take on this role that our friend shan parnell clay i think he i know he would do a a phenomenal job he is a war fighter he's a patriot he has the total confidence and respect of both secretary of war hegseth and of president trump as he should shan has earned that i've known shan almost fifteen years now uh... he is a really good man and would do a great job so it's one of these things were you know they have the uh... the news stories that coming out in the backroom stuff and the and somebody sees

3:01something go well that would be great you know this is a a story about a an appointment that i think would be a huge asset to the administration and nothing but upside so i really hope that uh... that president trump gives us long consideration and and i i couldn't recommend anyone more highly for the role than shan parnell who's already serving in a senior pentagon role and like i said has the the war fighters know and love him and he saw guys all real combat in afghanistan you know did did this stuff when you think about mille his book outlaw platoon was a great book play i read it many years ago and he could be in a very key role here for the army as part of pheg sets uh... transformation of really did the the focus and readiness of the modern american military so i saw the story and it just thought look there's shan shan could end up being like the top five roles civilian roles within the entire military uh... you know military hierarchy which would be great you he would be great at it um

4:01and whatever you think of the situation there right now i think at a bare minimum pete hegseth deserves to have guys that he can trust that are in his on his team and that doesn't mean that everybody has to agree on every single issue but i i just look at it and if you know that people are working contrary to the policies that you're trying to put in place it's impossible to run any of those jobs i mean you know this this is the challenge that so many probably the cia director is dealing with right now the fb i you're already going to have an organization that probably voted for a person different than you did when you are coming in as that representative now the military is a little bit different right um because i know trump won the overall military vote i don't know how he would have done with high level general voting but any organization if you don't get to bring your guys

5:04to be a part of your overall organization that you know can execute your agenda it's impossible to be successful and so to me this is really kind of a no-brainer i mean shan has done a really good job he's been with pete since pete got to become the secretary of war and i think shan would do a phenomenal job in executing pete's agenda and pete can trust him so this feels like a no-brainer to me well shan is the guy that you would want in your actual fox hole and he's also the guy you'd want in your political dc swamp dealing with the bureaucracy fox hole too so uh couldn't recommend and that's why we brought him onto the podcast network and couldn't recommend him or how they just if any of you were wondering we tried to hire Caroline levin for the podcast network before she became the secretary or the uh white house press secretary and before that the spokeswoman for the trump campaign so i do think a little bit a little bit a pretty good eye for talent

6:05and i believe our uh former health podcaster dr. Nicole sapphire is the surgeon general that's right yeah i mean it is kind of interesting we had two different part of the clay and buck podcast networks that were hired into prominent roles in the trump administration they went straight from doing shows for us to going straight into the trump administration so uh and buck himself could have been the head of the cia uh pays a little bit less i would have been i would have been good i would have been good um and i would say that that that job a lot of those jobs when i talk to people that have them clay you know it is it the stuff that grinds you down with it i think is not and this is certainly true of what trump has had to deal with although he has a somewhat superhuman endurance and energy for pushing through nonsense and for taking all that incoming but it's just the you know what you want to get done or you know it will make a thing better and then all the bizarre unnecessary and and annoying things that stand in the way within guy this is what i hear

7:10from everybody who takes on any of these roles and we know a lot of people that have served in a cabinet roles all the way down to uh you know deputy assistant secretary they all say the same thing which is getting the bureaucracy to work in a way that they can pursue the agenda and pursue the goals is the day to day struggle and it just kind of drives you nuts so anyway there's that uh speaking of the bureaucracy and getting things to work trump was in the rose garden last night and uh he had a dinner and here's what he said about how they're doing in 19 months it's kind of amazing 19 months this trump term too has already gone this is cut 10 here's his assessment of how it's all coming along in 19 months we've achieved more than any administration in the history of our country this is the best start to a presidency in terms of production that we've ever had in this country the stock market is hit 80 all-time record highs in just a year and a half think of that so it's hit 80 all-time record highs since the election american exports

8:13are at the all-time high so exporting that's a good thing because you're making it and you're exporting it when manufacturing things in other words again so they're at the highest they've ever been exports let's think of that that's a big one and a very big one also is today we have more americans working than at any time in the history of our country so quite he's saying big wins all around and i do want this to be much more of what the focus is for these republicans going to the midterms a lot of really good things have been achieved in 19 months and i think there's a lot more to come it gets harder though of democrats take the house and certainly if they take the senate i that's one hundred percent true and look i talked about yesterday i was with senator marsha blackburn soon to be governor marsha blackburn and they were running through what their polling shows them is likely to be the most important issues for the fall and in tenisee overwhelmingly it's the economy and affordability here is what i would encourage the trump team to start to focus

9:20on i also think this translates across the board in any of these thirty five or so super intense races in both the house and the senate democrats are the party that caused the affordability issue joe biden came into office 2021 inflation was 1.9 percent by june of 2022 it was 9.1 percent the reason why you are frustrated about cost of goods is the choices that the democrat administration of joe biden made they now 19 months later are arguing they are the ones who will cure the affordability issue this is like the arson is saying now i know how to put the fire out they caused the issue that is bothering people still the most and they are arguing if you give us the keys back this time we will solve the issue that we created in the first place that i think is a compelling pitch that the trump team just needs more time to fix the problem of the biden team and it actually

10:27addresses affordability things are getting better right it was 9.1 percent gas prices were over five dollars a gallon just four years ago everything is better everything is not perfect right the average inflation i think now is 2.7 to 0.8 percent goal is 2 percent or not there yet um and in order to get there the way to get there is not to let the people who created the problem in the first place back into positions of power i think that's an argument that could be understandable to people it doesn't disrespect the cost of a goods now good argument bad argument what do you think of that take it's good it just has to be shorter pithier and able to fit on a bumper sticker for the purposes of the election right this is the challenge is that walking people through the reality of the inflationary cycle the democrats kicked off and how this has created long term challenges for the economy the trump administration is still handling but at least is handling the proper way and

11:29doing what is necessary to bring down those prices while we are seeing a tremendous surge in prosperity of our manufacturing talk about goods being sent overseas the a i boom all of this yes all true clay but it needs to just be the things are going to get better prices are going down you know this is the problem yeah is that you have you have to just punch out with what the thing is and i just wanted to say that it's a little bit like uh if you have some things you want to fix in your house you don't want to just like the house on fire and then start start from scratch that would be very counterproductive but that's kind of what electing democrats turns into it's oh well there it's not perfect but if i put these people in charge they're going to ruin everything they're going to make everything i should say they'll make everything worse they will improve no aspect of the economy uh that will help the average everyday american they'll make it all worse and they'll then blame the republicans for these situations they inherited so the cycle just continues on i i just think that argument

12:34yes more succinct i'm not hearing it anywhere and i think it's probably the best way to respond to affordability letting the arsonists back in control of the firefight is not a great way to solve the fire will you remember obama had the hole they drove us into a ditch remember that yes yes you know come along here and say you want to get us out of the ditch that was a little bit of sense it's it's a hundred and it worked it did work because the economy was cratering in 2008 so that's what it worked even by 2012 he said as a big part of his pitch hey we are solving the problem we're not there yet and enough people bought it mid-rombie didn't do a great job on the other side as many of you uh can recognize but enough people bought the things are getting better argument i think the things are getting better argument and they're worse is one that should be deployed more aggressively all right guys at some point you're going to have to just deal with the reality of aging and how it affects our energy as we get older as guys we start to lose some pep in our

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15:41advance going to be doing a white house press briefing any moment we will be running on that Caroline levit has left there is no white house press secretary that has been named to take her place yet and so the vice president jade advance will be answering questions from the media moment terribly but back to that race in texas michael thanks for coming on what should we know how pessimistic or optimistic are you right now well if people show up and vote the way they have in the past texas care about this state they're just now beginning to really focus on who taleriko is and he cannot withstand the scrutiny jade advance who you mentioned will be in Houston next Wednesday the president again next Thursday is the first midterm convention we've seen in modern american history look we're taking this very very seriously trump one texas in in 16 20 and 24 in 24 with the largest number of votes of texas record with 6.4 million 56 percent of the votes this is a republican state that wants a republican senator kim paxden defeated the 24 year very

16:47unpopular sitting john cornon he's one statewide three times before california is pouring a lot of money into this state to make a third senate seat for them in new york and texas are realizing that the guy that was sold to them as a country preacher is an absolute freak and he does not agree with us on anything he's a democrat socialist he wants open borders he's anti beef kill all in gas anti capitalism anti christian gun grabber that's not going to sell in texas well you know last night michael czar last night trump was speaking and the rose garden and he had a name i had heard this one before i've heard taler freco but this is cut 12 guys michael let you react to this one here's trump talking about taler creepo play 12 he was maybe the best attorney and everybody admits it he was a great attorney general in texas and he's running against taler creepo and this guy was he know he has that name for a reason he's a he's terrible he's radical left now he says he loves

17:51meat you know what he does he eats meat and he goes outside and he throws up all over the place because in texas if you don't eat meat you're in deep trouble it's not a good thing not to be able to eat me he was wearing a mask six months ago he had a mask on when somebody's wearing a mask six months ago you're in deep trouble i mean is that funny is that really true that he's wearing a mask and also was he trying to win in texas but but he's a vegan or vegetarian he was a vegan he was a there they're a vegan campaign this is the cattle industry state he's he's tried to grab guns three different times we are gun owners you know that the nra has moved here but you know the creepiest thing in the word creep is correct the president is smart with these labels there's an iq factor in him he's big issue is is is trending kids he was a schoolteacher for repair to time and he was asked recently what's your favorite thing not your not your family not your friends what's something that's really special and wonderful to you and he said trans children and there was a collective gasp oh we can't let the the voters in suburban texas see

18:57this sort of craziness this is weird he's voted against a bill banning transgender surgery for miners buck multiple times this guy is an abs he's called us uh uh uh crystal fascist he's he said he's a christian who hates christianity that he there really is a creep factor as if at any moment there's going to be a big news story that pops and you're going to go you know what i'd believe that about that guy okay you said that texans are starting to pay attention what should in your opinion texans be doing now we're going to get kinpaksana on again soon i've been texting with him some this week um i'm confident he's going to win i think he's a great candidate he's been statewide maybe you can help for people out there who don't know he's been attacked unlike almost anybody in the history of the state of texas and he's still one multiple times statewide uh so this idea that somehow texans aren't familiar with kinpaksana i think is untrue

19:58i do believe that a lot of texans are not familiar with james taleriko and i want to ask you about the beto race against head crews back in the day beto was a great candidate um and i can understand why people thought hey he might be able to pull off a win taleriko is an awful candidate are people just not taking him seriously enough because his buck just laid out you got a vegan pro trans weirdo who is running for office and texans just think there's no way this guy's going to win whereas beto was actually pretty compelling he was a great candidate and my wrong here how would you assess these two you are dead on um uh Ted Cruz beat beto by one percentage point president trump came in at the end and really rallied the forces and he's doing the same thing for paxton the the national republican establishment led by carl rove which is why fox is trashing paxton every day it's amazing what they're doing carl rove would rather a democrat win because he got defeated with the candidate he owned which was john corny so rove and the establishment and the other senators

21:03they're not spending any money on paxton so we're counting on trump to bring in a lot of money which he's committed to do elan has committed to bring in a lot of money tex Cruz is bringing in from his pack a lot of money and it's out on on the hustings paxton's going to work his butt off what people are going to have to see is it's not a referendum on paxton it's a referendum on taleriko because you don't want to send him there for six years but paxton's record clay is amazing he's brought over five point one billion dollars back to texans he sued meta n1 he sued google n1 he sued big pharma n1 he sued uh uh uh uh uh the the the produce folks with the paying medication uh he sued these medicare fraudsters in one he's the best attorney general in the country so did he go through divorce was it unpleasant yeah i haven't known anybody who went through a pleasant divorce it's ugly it's unfortunate all the way around but there's a lot of things that the outside public doesn't see and doesn't need to know is he going to do a good job yeah he's a mechanic who's going to fix your car he's gonna he's a quarterback that's going to score touchdowns he's a senator who's going to vote for trump and that's why trump supporting him so we can be proud of the senator he will

22:07and we would be ashamed of who taleriko is so michael we're talking to michael bear everybody uh zara talk based out of houston you're all familiar with the show um michael we're getting people that write in call in all the above and they're upset because they say i'm seeing again i don't live in texas so i'm not seeing it but they're saying i'm seeing all over local tv all over the airwaves nothing but taleriko adds obviously this guy's getting a lot of money from out of state and sure plenty of money from in state too but a lot of money from out of state and and it's all over the place they feel like there's saturation there's taleriko saturation going on they're living in a talafrico world right and where's pakston are you telling us that the cavalry's coming and you're going to be seeing a lot more pakston than you are you're confident in that or is there a little bit more of a wake up call where pakston's people thought oh we didn't need to spend money but now we're going to have to right is it is this tactical or is this uh a reorienting of pakston's campaign no it's scrambling i mean if you if you win the super bowl the next season you

23:12start having having had less time off and less time to regroup and and less you don't get the first round draft pick pakston i mean a taleriko had an easy easy primary with jasmine crockett but he pissed off a lot of black voters and he's really struggling with black voters he's pandering in a manner right now that makes ten waltz look authentic it's sad for him so he's struggling with black voters really badly and and pakston started with zero the republican establishments been over a hundred million dollars attacking him and as soon as he came out of that then california read hothman you know epstein buddy and and and the like is after him and they're pouring all this money i mean the last number i saw i know you have the attorney general and shortly he can tell you last number i saw was they spent seventy million just since then pakston started at zero so he's going out cruises helping him president trump is weighing in heavily now elan is is very involved he's got the big tariff ad project here he wants his new home state to have the right u.s senator i mean pakston would be a great senator because he's been a great

24:13attorney general and once people see his actual record and who taleriko is they're going to turn to pakston the i would i would argue that the election just began two days ago september first that's when the independence and the moderate start paying attention they realize taleriko's the guy who grew up in a bible belt state in a small town where they played friday night football and sunday morning church and they wear guns and they work in the oil field and he's against all of that he comes back home to texas from harvard looking like rachel madau and and sounding like the love child of of dual elsaid and bernie sanders it's not going to fly in texas and texans are paying attention to it now you mentioned black voters jasmine croquette ran a campaign i said i don't know if you echoed it that i actually thought jasmine croquette was a bigger threat to compacted and more talented politician believe it or not more normal for a lot of texans i'm not saying jasmine croquette was a was a perfect representation of texas by any

25:15stretch of the imagination but i think she's a better representation of the democrat party in texas than taleriko is and for casual voters i think she likely would have had better appeal what is going to happen with black voters is there a great deal of reticence there is jasmine croquette going to be on the campaign trail how is that all playing out a lot of talk about the republican side what about the democrat side well clay you you guys have talked about it nice profile in walsh region only a state by the way wow that's not too bad to be journal saying something nice of yeah um you know the the democrat party is in the middle of an absolute rift a civil war kind of like what we went through with the republican party in 2016 when all these voters came to the to the table and said hey we're taking over this party the tea party folks the mega folks the trump folks the populace the nationalists the christians and there was this this resettling of the table and we're still at the tail end of that the democrats are just beginning this so taleriko can't decide on monday if he's a democrat socialist or if he wants to pretend he's a

26:18texan in a rented truck no joke and a cowboy hat that didn't fit and christ new cowboy uh get up that he's never warned before i mean he's he's wrong on every single you know he he wanted an open border with the front porch and democrat socialist he is out of touch and he does not have black support he is sort of this new dsa candidate whereas jasmine was the old style black democrat and the old democrats are really struggling you hear this with bill marr or you see what federman saying or you seeing what rama manual saying on a chicago or or listen to james carvel and luiziana this new breed which taleriko is part of it gives a great discomfort to texan's it's like watching tim was to jazz hands as he comes out on the stage and you see taleriko and you go i see a lot of frightening similarities michael before let you go just wondering outside of your home state of texas we're by the way clan i have to come down there and visit you got your buddy jesse kelly just down the road uh you know we got we got we got fun stuff to do we come out of texas we'll we'll go uh

27:18you know drink with uh Ted Cruz or somebody who's down there we'll have a lot of fun we got to come visit but beside that um outside of your home state what is the senate race that you are either most concerned about or most dialed in on because of how important it is you know those things kind of plead together but which one are you really looking at and following with with the most intensity i'll tell you that texans are so proud of florida and what florida has become since de santis one in 2018 and he he barely won over a guy that ended up but naked and drugged out of his mind in a hotel room a few weeks a few months later the former mayor of talacie i'm not worried about the florida seat against nixon i am worried about michigan and i'm watching michigan closely and it's going to be interesting to see how many democrats are willing to go over for rogers and vote for a republican and hold their nose because they realize abduel el saed is a he you know they can't dress him up in cowboy duds like they do talariko you know they they they can only make him so

28:21local he has too much of a past and his husson piker association i think that race if republicans can win that seat and hold texans this is going to be a good next two years next six years michael bearer everybody zara talk out of hewston great to talk to you buddy thanks for being here with us thank you guys always appreciate you play it's going to be okay in texans paxan it's going to be okay i i'll say this is going to be okay yeah it's going to be okay i'm not worried i'm not worried a little bit of sunshine coming to our buddy there um all right something else that i really want you to focus it on for a second is pre-born clinics they're so so important because they're saving the lives of tiny babies in the womb and they're doing this every day all across america in fact they set up their clinics in places where the abortion rates are highest because they want to be that alternative right there on the front lines where moms with a crisis unexpected pregnancy are getting pressured they're being told to go to one of those places that does an abortion you quote take care of it pre-borns they're saying no no let's bring it to let's bring it into this

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31:32for uh thanks for letting me join and I know that the the work being done there by us attorney Theodore Hertzberg has been phenomenal it's been getting uh press even at the national level because it's going right to some of the priorities the top priorities of the department of justice under this Trump administration can you speak to that some of what has been worked on specifically in the Atlanta area some of the cases you're highlighting there as examples of the sorts of high profile drug trafficking corruption and other cases that are an absolute focus for your department of justice. Oh absolutely so yes Atlanta is a a shining star at the department of justice for the great work that they're doing combating violent crime combating the narcotics problem in in Georgia and Atlanta and everywhere in the country fraud which is a big issue in in every city but Atlanta is not excluded from that and and so down here what they do like in a lot of our

32:34cities is the Homeland Security Task Force which is a group of federal state and local law enforcement kind of get around a big table and they tackle a problem whether it's a gang whether it's a a fraud problem whether it's human trafficking and that's what they've been doing here I think there's a great there's two great cases to talk about that I think your listeners will that will resonate with them the first is a guy that that that they just indicted this week he's a drug dealer he was arrested in North Carolina for selling heroin cocaine and fentanyl in large quantities in the Atlanta and neighboring areas now you might say no big deal there's drug dealers that that are arrested every day well this guy has the has the amazing badge of honor of having been convicted of a drug felony for selling cocaine in 1999 went to prison got convicted again in 2010 for selling marijuana went to prison got convicted again in 2020 of selling large quantities of drugs

33:34got sentenced to a federal 10 years in prison okay so now you have a guy who's been convicted three times of selling drugs all over Georgia and then president Biden in his wisdom commuted his sentence right at the end of his term this guy got out and now it's allegedly of dealing drugs again and so you have a an individual who's literally dedicated his life to poisoning Georgians and and and thankfully the US attorney is doing a great job in that case the second case which is just as I think phenomenal from a law enforcement standpoint is there's a group of of individuals who were selling fentanyl and other drugs in the Atlanta area and making a ton of money now what they were doing with the money is they were going and purchasing weapons including high caliber magazines and hand felled hand held hand fed submachine guns and shipping them to the cartels in Mexico and so we've already arrested and convicted 17 guys but we've just arrested some more

34:35participants in this scheme and and if you think about that what you have is you have drug dealers peddling poison to people in Atlanta fentanyl kills dozens of people every single day and then taking the profits going and buying guns and getting the guns shipped down to Mexico to the cartels so the perfect two examples of of real crime happening but that you have a great US attorney executing on president Trump's agenda stopping it this ties in also with what I think is probably the most under reported story of the Trump second administration so far which is we're on pace to set an all-time record low for murders in 2026 last year at least going back to 1900 last year was that record they're down about 20% so far in 2026 yeah what can you tell us about that data and do you agree that it should be talked about way more because based on that data you've never been

35:35less likely to be a victim of murder in the country maybe in the history of the United States oh man I listen I totally agree with you I it drives me bananas that I'll stand in front of a bunch of reporters and they'll ask me questions about anything under the sun except for that issue because if you think about that you're right since since um over 125 years we've never had the murder rate to slow so what does that mean does that mean the federal government and federal law enforcement are doing everything absolutely positively not does that mean that it's just the state and locals absolutely not what this shows and the reason why the murder rate is so low is because it's an all-government everybody approach it means that our borders are secure it means that everybody's working together to um you know to to arrest bad guys so they can't go out and commit murder it means that that our local cops are doing what they need to do in the schools they're doing what they need to do in our communities to keep violence from happening and guess what that is all because of president Trump it's all because he ran and he said what we're going to do is we're

36:36going to make America safe again in every way that we can so not only with the border not only with the FBI not only with the DEA but also with our sheriffs and our police department and and yet this is something that that everybody should be shouting from the rooftops because you're right that means if you're in this country you're a lot less likely to be the victim of a violent crime or murder than at any point in our really in our history for the past 125 years. Speaking to attorney general Todd Blanche and uh Mr. Attorney General also in the uh Atlanta jurisdiction there was someone named Atala Williams who was sentenced to six years six months in prison for taking bribes for millions in fraudulent COVID relief loans this is first of all it's more good work by a US attorney's office out of Atlanta but it's also indicative or your ties into an issue that I know is top of because the vice president is really out of a task force on it and that is just all the fraud all of in this case talking about bribes but also more broadly just

37:38the fraud defrauding of the system that's going on how is your DOJ tackling those problems and what are the kind of uh primary areas of fraud that you're going to be looking to bring prosecutions against yes I mean that is that is the focus I was talking to our US attorney today and he says he said to me wow president Trump in this administration has a lot of priorities and I said that's absolutely right we do and then he very much agreed and and his enthusiasm about it and fraud is certainly one as well I think the case you just spoke of you're you're right she she not only with accepting bribes she was also applying for for fraudulent loans herself so not only accepting bribes but others but also doing it herself so yes we're working closely with with the vice president with the task force we just started a fraud division whose primary and sole purpose is to root out fraud everywhere but then every US attorney's office including here in Atlanta has an entire section and group of prosecutors trying to do that and and here's the focus um there are many many

38:43individuals out there many of them are here legally but some are not who are literally just stealing money from the federal government your tax dollars are going right to the federal government and the right into somebody's pockets and they can buy a Ferrari so this isn't about you know a single mother trying to feed her kids this isn't about a doctor who maybe just checks the slightly right form to say that it was a certain type of procedure when it really was a different procedure all of which are still potentially crimes we're talking about pure february we're talking about individuals who say they're running a homeless shelter for example and collecting millions of dollars from the federal government and there's no shelter there's nobody homeless are not providing any service we're talking about um you know the daycare center fraud that have been talked about so we have these programs that gives millions and millions of dollars to states to give to what should be a good program helping the most the the most needy among us have have access to daycare and after school care and this money is there's no daycare center there's no after school care there's no kids it's just going into people's pockets we've seen tremendous

39:45success already um just in the past several months with the vice president and the work that we're all doing I expect that if folks pay attention to you and to other media over the next several months they're going to continue to see great work that we're going all over the country for the next several months with takedowns and with with really positive results in this space and what everybody should know is every time we arrest somebody we are saving this country anywhere from however you know depending on the fraud a million to sometimes a hundred million dollars in money that was stolen from the fisc i know that you can't comment on cases that are ongoing so we're getting a lot of people saying ask about foul chees ask about komi ask about a lot of these other different cases the lawyer i don't want to get you in trying to comment on those because of your position so let me ask you about a case that was recently decided the ballroom that president trump is building the Supreme Court basically said you guys can do that i thought it was super interesting

40:45i'm curious your take they went and looked at standing which used to be kind of a significant aspect of any case to prove a concrete injury basically and you can't say hey i'm a person who walks by the white house and i felt injured by the way that the white house was being changed i was at the white house correspondence dinner the first one when the shooting happened a lot of people saw that chaos the need for a ballroom to me is beyond the shadow of a doubt what did the court say the Supreme Court and why was it significant i'll let you analyze it yeah so i was at the correspondence interview and then that's the best example anybody can give on why we need a ball but beyond that it's not just a room for people that for the president and future presidents to host dinners but it's also incredibly important for the safety of the president and his family and his leadership and and so this was something that that needed to be done for a very long time and there's it so so i'll talk about the case in a second but don't forget that not a dollar of tax dollar

41:46no tax dollars went to this this is all privately raised funds from companies and and places in this great country who wanted to see this ballroom bill and and further what you what you had in the the design and the construction of it was a lot of process and thoughts that it looks beautiful it's right in line with the way the white house looks today and and presidents for the next fifty hundred years are going to get to enjoy it now what the Supreme Court said is you're right is that just because somebody walks by and observes and says you know what i might not like the way it looks that doesn't give you standing to sue and when it a non-moyer that's told that it's almost common sense and so what we had in dc and at the dc circuit before we got to the Supreme Court is we had judges that that really were not we're not looking at the in our view we're looking at the underlying reason and cost and and what we were saying we want to do they were just more or less saying i don't like president trump and you can't build a ballroom and so we're we're we're we were

42:47very happy to for the Supreme Court to rule the way we did the way that it did we we weren't surprised because we knew that we were right on the law and what we were saying to the court is the same thing that president trump been saying over and over again which is that this is a privately funded effort and that congress long ago gave the executive which is president trump permission to make changes to to buildings that like the white house which is exactly what he was done what he's doing here we're excited you should be excited because hopefully if not next year then the year after that the correspondent center will be in that great ballroom it's going to be beautiful it's going to be a great place to celebrate this country and and we're really happy uh you know and just to give a shout out to our lawyers the lawyers on this case in the civil division and the slush of general's office the white house counsel's office they worked for the really the past year and and achieving the result we got last week so it was a good day it's all good attorney general Todd blanche

43:48appreciate you making the time for us please keep it up come back on anytime you want to talk about some of these top initiatives from the trump white house and also give our regards and tell us attorney hurtsburg he's doing a great job our lan a listener is we want me to pass that along absolutely i'd love to join you guys again and and thank you for having me on you guys are great and keep up to good work we'll do sir thank you look i want to tell you guys that's the attorney general of the united states Todd blanche will get to some of your calls you can react to that um does that mean we've had pretty much everybody on buck i think in the entire administration from a cabinet perspective i can't think of any that have not been on at some point in time since they've become a cabinet secretary mart marco comes on but he comes on to talk to you about football even though he's got six jobs in the like six cabinet roles but it's okay yeah we got to cut for that with jade vance who continues to answer questions in the white house right now look i want to tell you all about one of our

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46:55eighties i think we talked about this when we were talking about the presidential power rankings last week that president trump posted i think that reagan is the best president of my life by a substantial margin bill clinton though was also really really popular in the nineties and he got elected basically by saying democrats are crazy and i'm going to be a new type of democrat and i don't know that people expected that he was going to have an affair with his intern um and that would certainly play very different uh in the twenty first century that ended at the end of the twenty eighth but buck to me the nineties were the better decade now i said this before if you are having a dinner party and you're worried about what the topics are going to be you know you're like oh my god Lindsey clancy might come up and the women are going to lose their minds or you're going to talk about trump and people are going to get really fired up i'm telling you the best debate that could

47:57occur that will actually make people like each other more is eighties versus nineties are you saying even younger than me that you would take the eighties over the nineties you can consider movies music economy culture uh president like all these different things you can roll together you would take eighties over nineties i think is a decade you you probably do take the eighties over the nineties now to be clear where we started on this was that Ryan Reynolds uh who is married to Blake lively was trashing the eighties as this like messy bad decade when when really for America both the eighties and nineties were overwhelmingly prosperous uh you know we didn't have yeah we had the Persian Gulf War in the early nineties uh and then clinton got us involved in some stuff in the Balkans but we didn't have a Vietnam we didn't have a world war one or a world war

49:00two we didn't have a Korean war we didn't have anything like of that scale uh in either of those decades so start with that i think it's really hard to have a great decade when you're losing a lot of your your best and bravest young men in a conflict somewhere so uh you know that other things would be going on too but i think that's a that's a very good start you're the america was at relative peace i understand Persian Gulf War but the first Persian Gulf War was kind of a like a mopping up operation from day one and i i the music is an interesting call for me and the movies are an interesting call for me i i i don't know i think you're at a really a immovable object unstoppable for situation i i could be persuaded either way but i could not be persuaded that what Ryan Reynolds said which is like the 80s was a bloody and horrible decade it's like what are you for america that's the thing for other places maybe yeah i wouldn't have wanted to be you know in Afghanistan he's also our age roughly so he actually lived through some of the 1980s i think i

50:05think Ryan Reynolds is 42 43 ish if i were guessing he's also bought not a total moron in that he's been successful from a capitalistic perspective i don't understand how these guys can't just walk down the red carpet all these is he Canadian is he Canadian is he Canadian i think yeah he's can eight there we go problem saw now we know he's Canadian so he doesn't like all that muscular Reagan optimism morning in america he's he's one of those can by the way i know we have canate just listen to show and you're on board with us and everything else but a lot of canate a lot of conucks running around up there uh living under a blanket of freedom provided by america i might add just speaking honestly here living lives of prosperity because the guy next door to you is your best buddy who will stop and he bullies from messing with you you're gonna you're gonna give us the 80s was a bad decade he's gonna turn 50 in october next month so if he remembers the 80s

51:06doesn't look pretty good for 50 but he died the way better than me um he does though remember what the 1980s were and here's my historical analogy buck the 1980s were a final repudiation of 1968 right uh Reagan won to a large extent on let's bring normalcy back to america i think there's an argument out there from a historical perspective that our modern day 1968 was 2020 and that what we have seen since 2020 on into 2021 and whatnot was a peak woke era that was destabilizing and what we have seen and what certainly the trump re-election in 2024 represented was in some way a return for some form of normalcy if i want to be optimistic i think we could have a generation that things go back to being somewhat normal and let me build on that two buck because the other part of this is the country is aging and older people are saner

52:14generally speaking they've actually seen things happen they have perspective and they also tend to vote more conservative and so i think that we may be trending towards an era and i think even the way aoc is talking suggests that she might see it coming where this sort of revolutionary even though they're having a flare up right here with the democrat socialist sort of revolutionary left wing ideas are going to be roundly soundly rejected by normal people across america that would be my optimistic take i also think with the fall of the wall on the dissolution of the soviet union not only was there a spread of incredible optimism now that again that bridges that's 80s into 90s right so it this is where decades 1989 people forget because reagan gave the tear down the wall speech but it wasn't in tool George hw bush was president that that Berlin wall actually came down

53:14a lot of people think that was reagan reagan was the force behind it occurring but it was his vice president in charge when it did happen i will tell you though if you're talking about more timeless movies i actually think now the 90s had better production value better technology to work with in the film industry so that's a huge advantage but i think the 80s might have might actually have it beat you got it go spusters raiders of the lost the last lost arc princess bride goonies karate kid die hard the terminator aliens predator all 80s movies 90s movies if you're looking at the top of the top in terms of overall popularity you get uh Shawshank redemption which i actually enjoyed watching but it's it's an absurd movie the whole thing ever in prison is like this you know kind of jolly like remorseful but you know friendly fellow and not everybody obviously but a lot of them are and uh the whole thing i think it's a little a little too uh schmaltz a little too

54:16oh at the end um but anyway goodfellas science of lambs forest gump fight club the matrix i do love the matrix pulp fiction terminator two those are accordingly the best movies the 90s look that's an amazing line up to you don't have something similar for the first decade of the 21st century the movies are just not as good and then last this last decade the movies have turned into trash we also had more i would argue american dominance globally with our culture certainly in the 80s and 90s than we do we do today i think that's for i think that's true i think that's true i love i do think music is better in the 90s it was more diverse in terms of the type of music that was ascendant if you go back and look at rock music rap music country music there was a wider variety of excellence than had existed in the past i will say i do you know do you know who l a langley is l a langley no you're you really don't know who l a langley is i wouldn't lie to all these people

55:21listening on the radio i don't know who l a langley is i know i know i know langley cia headquarters world of magic happens l a langley the leaving texas do you know that's on oh then she's the new country singer with the big first the song i just forget i mean yeah okay i do know who that is yeah okay so she is about to have the longest tenured number one overall hit potentially in history of music i think she's had a number one the leaving texas song has been number one now for 20 weeks when i think about the culture changing the fact that a country music song is now dominating and it comes on the heels of Morgan wall and and we can run through any number of country artists that are all having their quote unquote moment i do think it suggests that the culture overall is changing and we're moving back in the direction of the 80s and the 90s now to your point box here's what we need actually really good movies to start being made again and that's why i have argued to bring it home that paramount should come back to leave uh california come to

56:24Nashville and make Nashville the hollywood of the heartland let's go to break here by the way jadey vance just walked out to start a press briefing uh in the white house he's speaking right now we will monitor that uh and give you the absolute latest on anything he might say uh and we'll take your calls we got loaded lines not surprisingly plus i've got a sports story that i was trying to explain to buck and uh we may get into that a little bit because it is truly become in fact i actually got fired up over it yeah it's and it is not the w n b a not the w a and i got fired up so that tells you something about the sports story thousands of places on the internet have a file with your name on it your home address your cell phone number your email address there's more your medical conditions age how you vote your kids names you can't read that file but anyone with a credit card uh can buy it that file is a product of a multi-billion dollar industry called data brokers your file is collected package and sold and this is legal but every scam call every fishing text that knows way too much about you someone paid for your file last year americans lost a record

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