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

For rolling into the second hour, Tuesday edition of the program, and we are joined now,

by the governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, appreciate him taking the time to join us,

especially since yesterday, he issued an executive order in his state, allowing all parents to make

decisions about whether or not their kids wear masks in schools. Governor, thanks for joining us.

How do you come to make that decision and what has the reaction been to that executive order

that you released yesterday? Hey, Clay, thanks for having me on. Yeah, I have always been a really

strong believer that parents know best what their children need. So I'm a parent, a raised four kids,

got eight grandkids, no one knows their kid like the parent, no one cares about their children,

more than their parents. And so in the middle of all of this COVID world that we're living in,

which is people, there's a lot of fear and a lot of frustration and a lot of anger.

At the end of the day, I think when we think about children in schools,

in COVID and masks and vaccinations, it ought to be left up to the parent. And so I'm also,

I'm also a believer in, you know, government that's closest to the people is the best. So I think

local decision making is important. So our executive order actually gives the school district the

authority to impose a mandate, but it gives the parent the ability to opt out of that if they choose it.

Governor Lee, it's Buck here. So are some of the cities, localities or any of them trying to take

some kind of action against this? Are they fighting it? Are they saying they're going to ignore it or

try to take you as a governor to court? How is this being received?

Well, you know, this just happened yesterday afternoon. So we're kind of getting some first

responses of a couple of districts that have said, you know, they're looking at their legal options.

What I hope is that those districts, we have, we have some almost 150 districts in our state.

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