Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast.

Welcome back. And by welcome back, I mean, welcome into Friday. We've been hanging out with you for 12

hours so far. We got three more hours for you. It is Friday. I hope all of you are having a

fantastic start to your Fridays, your weekends, and you're ready to power through with us into

another three hours of fun. I am Clay Travis. He is Buck Sexton. Joe Biden had a CNN town hall

last night. It did not go well as you would expect of any Joe Biden media appearance. The ongoing

battle budget reconciliation. What exactly is going to end up happening? Really heated discussion,

private between Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders over whether there was going to be any budget at all.

Bernie is hammering the table saying he wants six trillion. Joe Manchin is comfortable saying

he's fine with zero. Is there a possibility that this is going to get tabled and nothing is going

to end up happening before the end of the year? Maybe that seems to be the perspective that Joe

Manchin, Senator from West Virginia would adopt. We'll talk about that a little bit. We have got

two great guests for you. Jonathan Isaac. He's a basketball player in the NBA for the Orlando

magic. He has spoken eloquently about why he is not choosing to get the COVID vaccine. He will be

with us at one Eastern about an hour from now. And then many of you are longtime fans of his. He

has a book coming out James golden will be with us at two o'clock Eastern in the third hour of

the show as part of our Friday friends segment. All of that headed your way. But we begin with the

calamitous town hall between CNN and Joe Biden. And by the way, CNN, we need to talk about this

later in the show. Buck CNN has doubled down on the fact that they claim they did nothing wrong

with the Joe Rogan horse, the warming stories that they flagellated for what weeks surrounding his

COVID announcement until Dr. Sanjay Gupta went on and said, yeah, that was not accurate. We

shouldn't have done it. We'll see an end of issue to statement on that. We will discuss that in

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