BONUS: Daily Review With Clay and Buck - Jun 12 2025

Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to.

The Thursday edition of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show from our nation's capital.

Having a great time here.

I got to say, I have been so impressed and thankful and humbled that Clay and I have seen so many of you are listeners around DC, and a first yesterday.

Someone came up to me who wanted to take a photo.

And I always all of you, don't ever be shy about if you ever want to take if you just want to shake hands or give me a high five. We love all of you who listen, all right, that is an ironclad rule. If you listen to this show, we appreciate you. We're always happy to talk to you. But at first yesterday someone came up to me to show me the photo he had taken with Clay I think earlier in the day. Bumped into him on the street and then bumped into me on the street. So

That's right. I can tell the accent South Carolina for sure.

And so so I said, all right, I'll take a picture here. I'm not a great selfie guy met My wife would say, I'm really bad at taking pictures, and not just because of what I look like, but because I'm not very good at taking the photos. But I took a picture of a selfie with us, emailed the guy from from my email and then you saw him too. Yeah, he was like, this is the after we finished dinner. Yeah, he couldn't believe it. I mean, it was our It was like twelve hours apart.

And then I bumped.

So, DC is a small city with a lot going on, a small city with a very big responsibility. Speaking with yesterday, we're gonna we're gonna get into the the heats getting turned up on the Middle East in Iran, and obviously the deportations and the la riots and what's going on in other cities. We're gonna dive into all that first, but just a little bit of what we're doing here.

Uh.

We yesterday went to as we mentioned, to Langley, to CEEIA headquarters and met with some of the senior folks over there, had some off the record conversations about what's going on. So because it's off the record, I can't tell you much about that. But Clay and I did get to go very much on the record through the spy museum they have at Langley, which was very cool. I mean, they've got some great stuff. They've really upgraded it since I was there. And then later on in.

The day, I had a meeting, well, we had a meeting.

Clay can explain what happened, but we had a meeting with the Director of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbard and her staff, and we is doing a lot of work. We had a scheduled meeting, well, we had a scheduled meeting that one of us went to the other one as a Tennessee resident, had a little booboo when it came to his ID. So I got rejected at the White House and the old Executive Office Building because I showed up for our meeting right after we finished the show yesterday.

So anyway, and I show Florida, Florida just gives you real ID. I don't know.

I don't have Tennessee losing some points here, Florida surging ahead in the red state sweepstakes. I'm just telling you the truth. So they wouldn't let me in the White House, can I just say? I straight up asked the Director of National Intelligence true to vouch for my man Clay like this felt like leaving him at the velvet rope at the nightclub.

I was like, but you're not gonna let my buddy in and they're just.

You know, the secret service guys or no, like this is the you're actually a sign. There's a sign when you go in that says you must have real I d no exceptions. But Clay, of course, because he's Clay was, I mean, I'm Clay Travis, like, you know, we.

Well, I had a little we tried, we tried a little bit of that. We tried a little bit of that.

He's a director of National Intelligence, said they won't let me in if I don't have proper ideas. I mean, my argument was, we did just spend all morning at the CIA, and I didn't need a real ID to get in there.

But he's trying to evade the rules.

You know.

Oh, I was at the CIA all morning. They've heard it all, Clay, They've heard So I had to leave. I had to leave a man behind. I don't know what to say. I had to He was in the trenches, he was taking grenades, and I had to just run on the battlefield solo. One positive on this is I, as I'm standing outside in the hot, baking sun, I'm able to be let in because I don't have a real ID, which, by the way, oh, don't be one of these people, the real ID. I'm like, I am,

The fact that it.

Has a little star in the corner is that somehow making the world safer, Like is anybody out there like, hey, you know that terror attack would have hit, but boy, I'm glad we have the little star circle in the corner.

Of the driver's license. This is the most ridiculous thing ever.

So this is not there are rules, yeah, so but positive trying to be positive. As I'm standing in the baking sunlight and the pavement standing outside of the White House, unable to go in. I ran into former NFL kicker Jay Feely, who had a real ID and was able to go in for his meetings. But he's going to be on the show in the second hour, because I was like, hey, you just want to come on the show,

I think I got you earned it.

So we're gona have Jay Feely on I spoke to Tulsa d and I Gabbard and her staff again off the record, But I can just tell you that really good context for us to understand here about some of the moves that the administration is doing. This is really while we're here touch base with Trump's top team and the people who are making the big decisions. And we've got some other meetings that are scheduled that will be telling you about. I'm sure you can have some guesses who.

They do for the greatness of Iran to be a nuclear power.

This is something that does not get talked about, but the Iranian people want a lot of them. Now, you could say, how could you know with the polling? You know, there are ways that you can assess this stuff. But there's a national pride component of Iran getting this that makes it more complicated. It's not quite as clear as split with the regime on this issue as we would

Other than this was true in Pakistan as well.

Some people actually point to Pakistan and India as well, they have nukes and they weren't supposed to it. It's a now that that gets very contentious because Pakistan and India are not Iran and aren't doing the thing.

Oh, Pakistan does some pretty bad stuff.

But this is a moment where I think we're seeing decisions made on this issue. I don't think Clay, the decision has been made one way or the other. In my mind, that's what I that's the atmospheric that I pick up. But I will say, just talking to people here in the vicinity of the decision making process in DC, they're very tense talking about Iran right now. Well, I

What has surprised you the most about the process?

The amount of work you have to do fundraising, you know, and I'll be honest, like it shouldn't be about that we shouldn't have to raise a ton of money because we want our best people in Washington, DC representing our country, you know, so I shouldn't be about having to go out and raise money and then whoever raised the most money, they're going to have an advantage.

But that's the reality of the system.

And so you have to spend five six hours a day doing call time, calling people, trying to generate those donations, and then they judge you by like how much money you raised.

You know, do you ever have a conversation with somebody where you just want to talk about saving America and having the funds to do it, and they want to talk about that second kick you bade.

This has ever come up? Yeah, for sure, you know.

But you know, it's kind of fun because I call somebody out of the blue and they actually know who I am.

Oh, yeah, you were the kicker or you were the announcer, And so it gives.

You that avenue to say, yeah, here's what I did, and here's why I'm willing to walk away from an announcing job where I only had to work five months of the year. Yeah, you know, and I got paid well to do it, and I love doing it. It was fun. But this is how much I care about my country that I want to walk away from that job and I want to represent the people of Arizona and DC.

I bet for the most part, this is something that is very hard to do and learn how to do.

Ask for money so hard because I hear people who don't.

I mean, it's one thing if you're in sales or your fundraising things like that, that's a job that some people have. But when I talk to people who have not done politics before, you mentioned it right off the top, the ask for hey, can you help me?

How tough is that? Well, you have to sit there.

You don't even get a tax deduct shit if you're donating to my campaign.

Yeah, so it's terrible.

But at the same time, the more you do it and when you meet people, I think, right now, in America you have two different distinct parties that have completely different views of what America should look like, you know, and they've never been further apart, not in my lifetime,

And you know, that's the kind of guy I am. That's who I'll be in Congress. One of the most important things that you would want to tackle, assuming you win this seat, well for for all Americans. I was not supposed to be. Uh No.

The words there, the tackling, and I love the tackle.

So you know that, how many articles have you made in your career? I think about fifty?

Oh that's a lot. Thought.

Oh, I was a guy running down there like I was going to hit you. That was fun for me. Kicking was my Jobling somebody was When the kicker annihilates somebody, the stadium goes insane. But I'm like standing up, jacked up. Then I go back to Silm, like, oh my gosh, what was the.

Best hit you ever had on something? Ted Gin?

Oh?

Question?

Yeah, so when you hit ted ginn and you laid him out? What does ted gin say anything when he gets wrecked by a kicker? Again, Well, I had just been teammates, so I wasn't really hitting ted Gin. I was hitting Bill Parcells, but like through Ted Kin, because I had I had. I was with the Dolphins, I led the league in field goal percentage, had the best year of my career, and then Bill Parcells came in.

They fired everybody. He didn't like that I was the player rep. He didn't like that I did media. He wanted his kicker to go stand in awner and not say a word. So they cut me and released me after my best year.

So when I was.

Running down on that kickoff against the Dolphins the next game I played them, I was hitting Bill Parsons, saw Bill Parcell's face, Tony sprout, no question, But I literally never broke stride and Ted game was going out right and he cut back left and he cut back right into me, and I hit him and knocked him back about five yards. And that was like the highlight of it, even better than the touch that I scored. Like that was the moment for me.

All right, So what are the issues that you would like to Yeah, ress issues?

I think truly the two biggest issues for Americans. It's border and security, and it's the economy, you know, and when you look at what happened over the last four years with the Biden administration and Democrats in general, they willingly let tens of millions of llegals come into this country and put politics in front of the protection of the American people. They can't get away with that. They said for four years, we need a bill pass, we

Create a bill that helps everyone.

Create a bill that helps the economy, that grows the economy and provides opportunity for everyone.

You have been in sports for a long time. I saw you weigh in on this. We talked about it earlier the week on the show. She sense apologized, what did you think when Simone Biles went after Riley Gaines?

Obviously, you know she didn't have the full concept of what she was talking about, because now she's pulled back those comments. You know, but as a dad who coached his daughter's high school girls high school soccer team. You know, they didn't have a girls team when my daughter was going into high school. I'm like, that's ridiculous. They said, well, we need a coach. I said, I'll coach the team. So we started the team. You know, five years later

And this is important, all right, Uh, it's an issue I want to dig into since you sat down with us. Clay thinks that in his current state, he could go one v one against a w NBA player.

Okay, inside, excuse me, I'm setting this up.

I just I don't want him think that I'm going to break down. Caitlyn already hedging. Okay, he's pretty hedging. But but he thinks that he could, you know, old man style, use that use that wide body, back back or down until you shoot.

Game to eleven. That was a pretty good shooter. I didn't say. Now you said in the past ten, I'm saying, you.

Say, Clay thinks game to eleven. He can take Angel Reese and has put up a quarter of a million dollars.

I want to see it.

I mean the idea I would see what I would too? Would you back his player? Would you hedge against our man Clay?

I think I could go and I could take on the women's US national team in soccer right now, at forty nine years old as well.

I think I could go out there and play with him.

Probably could could dominate with your with your Yeah, you're voice athletes, So your question is an important one that that. So the only recent basketball play I have had was against my eighth grade son. Now he's a pretty good basketball player, but he's probably five eight five nine, so I'm bigger than him and I beat He's gonna be so disappointed that I said this publicly to millions of people. I beat him head to head in the backyard. Now, Uh, he was really upset, Uh that that I beat him.

Job.

Some people are like, hey, I'll let him win. I was like, no, I'm gonna make him work. Now he's had about three or four months since then where he has continued on the swing and a dad's definitely on

Were alive?

I knew what I knew what I should do. I was like, all right, he's taking me to the right. Now he's gonna come back to the left. And I was like, I should just step over. And there are montages already in the heads of the audience where you've seen Rocky. I'm gonna be on the bicycle next to Clay telling him, you know, if he if he gets this Angel Reese showdown that he wanted. I got to

So I play with LPGA girls and golf.

Yes, there's a couple of members that will I'll play with them and I can beat them when I play well. And I'm a two, so not great, you know, but like when I play one, I putt well, I can beat them head to head.

That's from playing from the men's t's. I'm playing the exact same tis right all the way back right. So if you take a dude, you know, like here my son is out here is twenty two. He's a two as well, but he hits it like three fifty.

You know, if he decided I want to play in the LPGA Tour and I'm going to identify as.

A woman, yeah, it's it's ridiculous. Yeah, you know, they would dominate that tour.

Just like Serena Williams say, Hey, if I played, you know, the fiftieth or a hundredth rate, man, like, I'd get my butt kicked.

I might.

I might have to bring your services as an announcer into the mix if we do this. Clay angel Rey showed out I.

Will this thing properly. Yeah, yeah, I will.

By the way, the UH athletes, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic men in particular, athletes, guys who even played high school, college, or pro. Are there any guys that actually think this is okay that you've ever met of any background?

I don't think rational men. Do you know you talk about a locker room. We talked about this last time. I think maybe five percent, less than five percent, because you know how special sports is, and you know the impact that it has on people's lives and how it can change the direction of someone's life, and I think that's what makes it so special, and you want to protect that for women. It's not saying that I don't love somebody who's transgender. I don't want to see them happy.

Just not right, it's not fair, and it's not safe.

Jay, what is your site for Congress? We need those folks to step up and help you in your district. Jafeey for Congress dot Com. You can go on there check it out. You can donate and support and listen. We're just trying to make this country better every day.

I think that's why I'm willing to walk away from my job and broadcasting, because I believe in this country. I believe in its future, and you know, I want to be a part of making it better.

Through the uprights for America. That's right, make it yeah, make America great again, and let's keep it that way. Amen, Jay Feely, go check out that site.

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We're playing some of your talkbacks and you can always leave us messages easy way to get through to the show, and a lot of them, as regularly are the case, are fantastic and we enjoy listening to those. And we've talked a little bit about the fact that the New York City Mayor's race is coming up very fast. And by mayor's race we mean when it's unfortunate, but oftentimes, now, whoever wins the primary on the Democrat side is going

Thank you.

Uh if Buck does a phenomenal Andrew Cuomo impersonation, and uh, I'm gonna play this is actually crazy because as much as you may think Andrew Cuomo is a crazy man, as much as you may think Andrew Cuomo is not worthy of being the mayor, and Buck, as a former New York City resident born and raised, you may take this as a crazy take. I actually think Andrew Cuomo is as Democrat candidates go, maybe the rational reasonable one

Zoran Mamadanni.

This is the guy who was endorsed by AOC recently that we were talking about yesterday. If I'm not mistaken, listen to this crazy town perspective that he had back in twenty twenty. He said that police should be removed from high crime areas all together, and that he believes cops should be replaced with social workers. This is how crazy town some of these decisions are. And this is a top candidate to potentially be New York City mayor. Listen to cut one.

Do you think that we have to almost do without pleasing in certain areas which our label would be in high primes to have alternative bodies the listen in a more compassionate, more merciful, more social assistant and helping more than arresting and putting in jail.

I absolutely think that what we need to do is give support and funding two institutions that are trained to deal with.

These kinds of issues.

As you said, if you're having an argument with someone and there's a risk of it escalating, who is better positioned to de escalate it someone who is well known in the community, or someone who has been trained specifically in de escalation, or a stranger who has a gun.

This is moronic, moronic beyond words. One of the reasons that this will not this will not be something that New Yorkers go for this in this election, meaning specifically on this issue of depolicing, which is what he's what year was that was back in Oh yeah, yeah, of course I was going to say. He was saying this because that was what the politics of the moment demanded. As we have seen and as we know from the numbers, the BLM movement has resulted in substantially more homicide in

And also, who would want that job totally?

So who who would want to get called in the middle of the night and told hey, there's a super violent situation.

Can you talk them down with no weapons?

Yeah?

I mean, is there anybody who I don't want to sign up? For that joke.

You know why this is, I mean I remember this very much because I was absolutely furious about what was going on in New York.

You know that riot.

There was a BLM riot on my block and shattered all the store or storefronts, and you know, restaurants had their doors kicked in and their windows broke in and stuff like that. And I remember when all this is going on, they were making these kinds of crazy arguments. It was a real mass hysteria moment in the country. It's a true it was part of COVID made everyone freak out, and then the left, the street communists use this to get everyone to go crazy. But they made

Happens and what the reality is.

Oh and also when they would say things like we need violence interrupters, when you would actually talk to these people, this came out over time, it was well, I mean, I need a cop there with me, right, Like, I'm not just showing up between the gang members who are armed, who are about to shoot each other as if also you can just it's like a Batman movie where someone just appears right when the bad guys are about to do.

You know, that's a movie that's not reality.

Right.

The only thing that really works from a law enforcement perspective, the NYPD.

All the data shows this is you put it.

They call it cops on dots, more cops in places where bad things are happening, so that the you know, ninety five percent of people who commit no crimes or ninety nine or whatever the number is, they get to go to work, and they get to go to the grocery store, and they get to do things safely. And the people that want to commit crimes have to deal

Listen to BB here.

Good morning man, congratulations on your continued success. Look, do all of us listeners a favor and just summarize anytime that idiot como speaks, there has never been a more sanctimonious and completely He is a condescending ah. Don't ever play his voice again, please, Moses.

I feel like I do not have your vote, Moses.

I would like to work for your vote as mayor and as a future presidential candidate under the Democrat ticket. I guess Moses does not believe in Andrew Cuomo's ability to part the Red sea and lead him to a primrose path of victory in our nation's largest city.

But this is the choices were left with.

And I don't even know what the impact would be if this crazy town individual ended up the mayor. I mean, Bill de Blasio was a disaster, horrible. I mean I built the difference between the Blasio and Adams. And remember I still have half of my family and my parents, my sister half my family still lives in New York City, so I'm hearing about it all the time, and our team is based out of New York City on radio, right. So the thing with Bill Deblasia was that he made the city.

Suffer and thought it was what we deserved in New York.

Whereas Mayor Adams tried to fix it, he's just incapable of doing it. He just isn't up for the job. So it's a different Both of them are not good enough at what they were trying to do. But with Adams, it was not that much really of an improvement at all. So that was pretty pretty disappointing. But unfortunately that is the reality that we were reality that we were facing at that time.

So we'll see what happens.

We'll get also, maybe we'll get our buddy, the Sage of Staten Island, Joe BURRELLI on talk about what's going on with this mayor's race, which is happening soon. It's the next big election in terms of the primary. It's going to be in the next two weeks. I think June twenty fourth is that date, if I'm not mistaken. Look when President Trump signed an executive order last month slashing the cost of prescription drug prices.

He was making a point.

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We are continuing to follow very closely these protests and riots. We're gonna use those words interchangeably. There are protests and there are riots, so you don't have to correct us when we say protests. We're aware of both of these things, and protests is fine. And as we learned from Caroline Levitt yesterday, it is a stupid question for anyone who the press to say it as President Trump. I like the way she handled that, because that was just meant

Like, yeah, idiot, ask a real question. So I like the way that she handled that. That was great.

Caroline Levitt, you know, we were on the Levit train very early. Here I'm just saying, we were on the Levet train when she was running for Congress, so we knew she was going to be a superstar. And here she is.

But you had the press trying to make something of this, trying to make it seem like the American people aren't with the Trump administration efforts to enforce the law, and some very interesting things are going on with all this, with these riots, with these protests, all that stuff. First of all, I think on how this has gone over politically. Former Democrat has cut five Batya Unger, Sargon We've talked about her before here on we had her on the

Clay is the.

Occasional center right person, sometimes the center, sometimes truly right wing. From Scott Jennings for Michael Singleton, Batya Unger, Sargon Ben Ferguson, the only thing watching worth watching is the conservative slapping around the Libs at that table here is Batya talking about the deportations and the truth of what Trump promised play fought.

I hear this talking point a lot from Democrats that Donald Trump misled the American people and somehow said he was only going to deport violent criminals priority to every single rally that I watched, he said, we are going to have the largest deportation operation in American history. And the reason he did that is because that position has

Two important points she's making their clay. One, Trump promised the biggest deportation operations in history. Prioritizing the worst of the worst defenders doesn't give everyone else a pass in this. It's just okay, Yeah, we're going to focus on getting the you know, child molesters and you know, gang members with blood on their hands, get them out of the country who are legal aliens first.

So that's point one.

Trump is doing exactly what he promised, which is why I keep saying everyone says, who voted for Trump, Yeah, I voted for this. I mean I voted for this. And the second part of it is just the exploitation of cheap labor and how central that is to the donor class, to the elites. And this brings me to they're going to have to start enforcing fines against employers with this. They have to come at this from which is going to be a little bit of a wake up call, but it needs to happen.

It is illegal if you.

Are employing large numbers or any numbers of illegals in your business. You're not supposed Now, someone will say, but they have fake Social Security cards and they have faked so it's a little more complicated. But for the worst defenders you need to do some deterrence enforcement. Yeah, and I do think that the degree to which illegal immigrants have incredibly detailed fake Social Security cards. You say, okay, well, how does that happen? I don't know how they get

And meanwhile, pile.

Yesterday, La Mayor Karen Bass said the city has so much graffiti that the vandalism so extensive.

They won't be ready for the World Cup next year.

Listen to this cut because it definitely calls into question the talking point that this is a small issue of violent and the illegal behavior.

Cut eight.

The graffiti that is just blanketing a number of blocks has been extensive. We are one year away from the World Cup. This is about beautifying our city and bringing our city together, and so I am calling on business leaders, community leaders, faith leaders to come together downtown in the next few days to talk about how we are going to clean up the city. Obviously, city workers are already out there removing the graffiti, but this is so extensive

Okay, I got a crazy idea for you, Buck. Maybe the people who did the graffiti, as a part of paying penance for their crimes, should have to clean up the graffiti that they created, instead of asking good people in Los Angeles who had nothing to do with this and LA Area taxpayers to clean up the mess that they created and frankly that the mayor and the governor allowed to occur. Second part on this, I actually think Trump could come out and say, why does Los Angeles

I know, people say, oh, it's just no, no, no, it's destruction of property, it's lawlessness, it's criminals, and it's just a sign of the criminality that is constantly all around you. It is a visual reminder, the same way that masks during COVID were so important to left because it was a visual reminder of who is in charge and your mandatory obedience.

Right, That's what it was. It was obedience training for the masses. When you have graffiti everywhere, it is the psychological you know, the psychological assault of you're in a lawless place, You're in a place where people don't respect property, where the authorities can't actually protect you. And so I am so adamantly anti graffiti as a as a thing. I do not take it lightly. I think that it gets worse and worse and worse in places that allow. I know that it does because I see and you

How about that? That absolutely is the way there should be.

But it also just goes the mentality of these people who were involved in these because if it's all over the city, we're talking to a lot of people who are doing this obviously, uh, and they think that the laws don't apply to them.

And they're often right. Unfortunately.

Well, I'm hoping that Trump is going to show that at least when it comes to immigration, and I think he is showing this, and this is the whole point. The laws do apply to them. But I'm seeing more. I even saw somebody on Twitter suggesting this says, yeah, this is what I say, if these people, if you don't have to be legal in this country, I don't have to pay taxes. Increasingly this has and you can make the same arguments my tax dollars do. I'm a

You're gonna lock me up.

You're gonna separate me from my family if I don't pay taxes. Same kind of arguments you can make about illegal immigration, except they're making it for tens of millions of But this is the same argument. I'm not hurting anybody, but you're actually breaking the law, and you're making a choice to break the law. I also think buck the way that the far left is coming together on these rallies and these riots. This cut we have here from Seattle.

Listen.

I don't know how well you'll be able to hear this, but SPD, Seattle Police Department KKK. We all know what the KKK is ku kuk plan, and then the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, they're all the same. This is a chant right now that's going on in Seattle. This is part of their worldview on the left, connecting all these different aspects of the world. Listen to Cut four. Okay, not necessarily the easiest slogan to chant, but buck. This is indicative of the global worldview that they are trying

Will hit that as well.

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