Hour 1 - America's Cookies
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with some reality checks on cutting government spending and growing the American economy. Border Czar Tom Homan with good news. Kash Patel and Pam Bombi on catching people inside the government. President Trump's statement on Ukraine and Russia, Hamas, Israel, ceasefire, and a possible Nobel Peace Prize? The price of eggs and DOGE. The Stock Market. Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Choose Your Fighter viral social media video was an embarrassing flop. Clay's theory on crazy Democrats and algorithms. NYC Mayor Eric Adams has the lowest polling of all time. Does Andrew Cuomo have a chance? Crockett Coffee.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, and we've got much to discuss with all of you across this great land of ours. America is back. We are feeling it, but we have much work to do. President Trump leading the charge, more specifics from the White House, about where Elon Musk fits in with the cutting down the government |
| 0:23.7 | situation, which is very, very important to see how that goes. We've got a lot to look at there. |
| 0:30.5 | On the tariff situation, there's going to be a whole lot more negotiating, which is not a surprise. |
| 0:38.8 | And I think we also are seeing something that is starting to unfold, which is Trump now |
| 0:45.8 | pressuring both sides of the table when it comes to the Russia-Ukraine war. |
| 0:52.0 | And Trump is threatening to hit Russia with sanctions. |
| 0:55.1 | He wants the fighting to stop. |
| 0:58.5 | And I think all of that is very important stuff. |
| 1:02.0 | But Clay, I just wanted to start with a thought today. |
| 1:04.1 | And it actually ties in with what this cut 25, |
| 1:08.8 | Treasury Secretary Bessent has talked about. |
| 1:12.7 | This stuff that we're seeing happen here is going to require, when you're talking about taking on this system, |
| 1:20.1 | when you're talking about draining the swamp, which I don't really use that phrase anymore, |
| 1:24.9 | but a lot of 2016 draining the swamp talk. |
| 1:33.6 | But certainly cutting down the bureaucracy, beginning to tackle our deficit, right? |
| 1:35.6 | The deficit is part one of this whole thing. |
| 1:40.4 | The debt is the accumulation of the deficit over many decades. |
| 1:41.4 | That is our problem. |
| 1:42.7 | That's why it's at $36 trillion. |
| 1:45.0 | The first step is, |
| 1:53.4 | how do we get ourselves to not spend $2 trillion extra dollars a year, give or take? |
| 1:59.8 | And this is going to require a change to the system. If it was going to change on its own, |
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