Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.

All right second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now. Thanks for being here with us, everybody.

Couple things to put on your radar. First off, national debt today,

topping $33 trillion. Sounds like a lot of money to me. This is a problem, folks.

If the problem that our political system is unwilling, certainly to fix in any meaningful way,

I know there's discussions about a continuing resolution right now for the budget and a government

shutdown and all that. We've been through this too many times. The government will not be shut down.

They will extend the funding and people, you can't even get anyone's attention focused on this for

more than a few minutes because everyone I think recognizes that reality. We got the house holding

the first impeachment inquiry next Thursday. We'll discuss that a little bit. We'll get back

into it later. Plus, Trump will be skipping the debate next week and instead is going to hold

a rally with auto workers in Detroit. As you know, there are strikes right now, the auto industry,

the unions trying to negotiate the usual stuff, better wages and benefits. A lot of it revolving

also around the electric car industry and how that will be competitive or whether it will be

competitive in the future. So, Trump going to do that. Clay, we can talk about the decision to

skip the debate in a few. First off, though, I wanted to let everyone hear this because I think this

is an issue that the more people understand, the more they will be furious at the Biden

administration for what is a clear dereliction of duty. We are told on so many ways in this country

that you have to obey the law, the laws, the law, even though laws can be so complicated at

the federal level that you'll have different attorneys have different interpretations of them.

And this has been a problem for a long time. We have an enormously complicated legal system

on many issues. On immigration, we have a legal system that is complicated by the fact that the

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