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Welcome to our two of the Clay Travis and Buck Saxton show.

I'm Buck, and with me, of course, is Clay.

And we are going to be kicking those lines wide open for you this hour.

800 282-282-8-2.

Open line Friday.

Roll it on here, 800, 282, 282.

We're very pleased to be joined now by the senator, one of them, from the great state

of Tennessee.

Senator Marcia Blackburn is with us.

Senator, thank you so much for making the time.

I'm delighted to join you.

Thank you.

So how do you feel about, let's just start with where your state is now, you know,

which is also Clay's State, Tennessee, when it comes to the situation of COVID and how we're

trying to get back to normalcy here?

Well, in Tennessee, we have been open for quite a while. And as I am talking to Tennesseans on this, they are saying, look, we're being careful.

People are talking to their doctors.

If they're a candidate for a vaccine, they're getting the vaccine.

And what they want to make certain is that we get people back to work, that children get back to

school, and that those children, when they go to school, are not going to have to wear mask.

I have heard from so many parents that have elementary school children, and they talk about

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