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

Third hour Clay and Buck kick soft right now. Thanks for being with us everybody.

If you want to let up the lines here, 800-282-2882, we are coming to you live today,

Klanire here in Washington, DC, our nation's capital, place that we have both in the past called

home. So we are former swamp dwellers coming back to see how things are here. And we've all

got our friend Senator Ted Cruz will be joining us in just a few minutes, we believe. I think he's

running down from Capitol Hill as we speak. Clay, the latest here is that Jim Jordan's

speakership campaign is faltering. I had thought that this would be something like the Kevin

McCarthy campaign earlier this year, which took some time to get going, but eventually after

what 14 votes that he had the votes and he got it done. There was some some horse trading,

some negotiating, and that was enough now. Kevin McCarthy didn't last very long in that role,

which has brought us to our current moment, but the list of defectors is getting bigger so far.

And people are starting to say now it is looking less and less likely that Jim Jordan will in fact

be the speaker of that. So with that in mind, we turn to the what exactly is the plan here,

what exactly is the strategy. I'm starting to think if there was one, we would know what it is,

not just because we could come up with it, but because the people that have pushed this to this point

would be telling everybody, I mean, I remember when there was the fight over speaker McCarthy,

the first time around, there were, I mean, we had Anna Paulina Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna,

for example, on the show, and we talked people who had some procedural changes they wanted and

some concessions to be made. And when those were made, whether you agree with them or not,

when those are made, okay, we'll go with speaker Kevin McCarthy. And there you have it. Now there

were those who were upset with McCarthy's tenure, obviously, because he got pushed out. But now we're

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