Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show podcast.

Welcome in Clay Travis Bucks Xt and Show Friday edition of the program.

Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

Bucks is out on the range today, taking part in hopefully will be a really really fun day for he and the crew.

And I am in here solo with you appreciate all of you spending your Friday with us on what is.

Let's be honest a jam packed day for news so much for us to discuss so much for us to put into context a ton of stories.

Gonna give you the phone number 800-282-2882 letting you know where we're headed. The Twitter files a second edition of them was dropped last night.

I think it is even more of a bombshell story than the first New York Post Hunter Biden story.

I'm going to explain why all of this matters where we are headed what I think should occur as a result of this staggering news break that happened last night.

Also Arizona Senator Kirsten cinema has flipped to an independent and left the Democrat party.

Now she still is going to be caucusing in many ways with the Democrats, but that 51 49 advantage for Democrats really kind of back to 50 and spinning this story forward.

It puts I believe even more pressure on Joe Manchin Democrat senator from West Virginia who is up for reelection in 2024 to make a calculated decision for his political future is he going to retire or is he going to flip as well to an independent or maybe even to a republican that could change the control of the United States Senate.

Britney Griner has landed back in Texas. There are reports now that the Biden administration had to make a choice between whether Paul Waillyn who had been in prison for four years and claims he's never done anything wrong a former United States Marine should be returned or whether Britney Griner should be returned.

They are mocking the United States in Russia because Britney Griner they say was selected over Paul Waillyn NBC news came out with a report saying that's the exact choice that the Biden administration confronted they then edited their story.

And there's also a lot of discussion about whether Saudi Arabia was involved and whether the Biden administration in order to get Saudi Arabia involved in these negotiations with Russia might have been willing to give immunity to Muhammad bin Salman over the murder of Jamal Kashoggi which has been a reportedly undertaken by Saudi government.

So so many different stories them sure there are many more things that we will get into as well. But I want to start with the Twitter files that were dropped the last night so and I understand this can be a little bit confusing particularly if you are not on Twitter so let me put the whole picture available for you to start.

So Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion as a part of that process Elon Musk has said I believe we need to shine a bright light bring some sunshine to everything surrounding what happened with Twitter over all of the controversies in the past decade or so.

So they are they have committed Elon Musk and the new team at Twitter has committed that they are going to release all of these documents that they are going to let us see for ourselves what actually took place in these stories.

And so the first thing that they're doing the very first document release was about the New York Post and how was it that the Hunter Biden story the laptop ended up getting censored was not widely distributed.

How was that decision made all of those documents that were still in existence were shared by journalist Matt Tiabbi and you had an opportunity to check out all of that last night a second document drop and let me just say the New York Post story was important because it demonstrated a clear and calculated attempt in my opinion to influence the outcome of the 2020 election.

And pretty clearly demonstrated I believe that the 2020 election was rigged between big tech and the Biden campaign and the part of that story that I believe is the most compelling is the reports that the FBI was staging weekly meetings with the big tech companies to allow all of these conversations to take place and then set in place the presumption.

Because remember the FBI had Rudy Giuliani under surveillance. They knew that he had this laptop and that he was shopping it to a variety of different media outlets.

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