Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Nov 11 2026

Buck Sexton (0:00)

Welcome, everybody, to the Wednesday edition of Clay and Buck. Thank you so much for being here. You'll just be hearing me today, Buck, not Clay, Buck, somebody yesterday, started talking to Clay, that was fun. Clay is, he's traveling. He'll be back on the show tomorrow. And those of you who are asking if he is well recovered from his getting a vols tattoo, maybe a giant vols tattoo on his back, we'll see. You can ask him about that one. So we have a lot to discuss today, my friends. We have a lot going on. Top story is the failure of the Secretary of War Hegseth impeachment in the House, 211 to 204

So Massey's effort here has failed. Eight articles to the Judiciary Committee, as you know, that did not, that was not sufficient. That did not work out. And now we have to think about the possibility of what comes next, right? What is the next effort going to be?

I think that they are going to bring this back up. We'll get into this. We will discuss it. Also, Jim Jordan was elected to House GOP leadership. Unfortunately, he will be in the minority.

Obviously, minority leader, but our friend Jim Jordan. And then GOP leader Thune is going to be the Senate minority leader. We are about to dive into that reality here in a second. But before I get into any of that, I just want to say today is, of course, Veterans Day and a heartfelt, earnest thank you to all of our veterans. Thank you for what you have done. Thank you for your service to this country, the sacrifices you have made, all of the freedoms, all of the things that we discuss on this program as critical as the bedrock of America, the freedoms, the liberties, the prosperity, the joy, the happiness of the American people. It is only possible because of you, those who serve and those who protect all of those freedoms. So thank you so much to all the veterans on this Veterans Day.

We'll return to that later, by the way. We'll have one of our Clay and Buck podcast hosts, David Rutherford, who is a Navy SEAL, saw combat in Afghanistan, a former Navy SEAL. He'll be with us. He's from, of course, the podcast network, The Dave Rutherford Show. And we have a great author joining us as well to talk about military history. So we'll get into all that in the third hour. But for right now, the big news, as I said, is some of the shakeups and the situations that are playing out up on Capitol Hill. Jim Jordan will join us tomorrow.

As you know, Jim, I think Stephen Miller, the current White House Chief of Staff, is the most common guest on the show. Jim Jordan, though, is certainly one of our more frequent visitors. We're very grateful for that. And he'll be joining us tomorrow to tell us, what does it mean? What can you do now? Right now, of course, there's the eminence of the next 40 days or so. I got to look at what the calendar says of trying to get things done. And then, of course, there's what do you do when this White House and this country, politically at least, is in a full blown siege from the lunatic Democrats who are going to have very, sadly, very robust majorities in both this Senate and the House. We've shaken that off a bit, right?

That disappointment, that deep, deep sadness from election night. We have, we're moving forward, we're going to be okay. Is it time to panic?

No. You can hear Rush in your ear right now. Of course, it's not time to panic. We're going to be fine. We're going to fight through. But let's get into some of the specifics of what that looks like. Here is, well, GOP leader Thune. We invited him on the program. He has been on once before, so that was something we had to establish. He has been on once before. We've been on this show for, Clay and I have been doing this together for five, six years. This is year six, I guess. So he's been on once. I don't think he's been on more than that. We've invited him several times. I understand he's busy, but it's a pretty big show. People who care about the Republican Party, a lot of them tune into this program. There are other shows that get into space aliens and demons and crazy conspiracy stuff that have a lot of listeners. We actually care about the country, politics, what's happening right now, what affects you, all those things. So that's a long way of saying, Leader Thune didn't want to come on and talk to us about this. He is now the incoming Senate Minority Leader. And the first question that I think we would have had to ask him if he had come on, very obvious question, is about not passing the SAVE Act. A lot of you give us reminders of this, sometimes in all caps. Sometimes you are a little frustrated with us for not being able to pass it. Well, we can't pass it, obviously. Clay and I, believe it or not, we have limited powers. But I understand people are annoyed because they really wanted this to get done. Here is the GOP current leader, majority leader, soon to be minority leader, talking about why didn't he pass the SAVE Act? Listen to what the man says.