Hour 2 - The Battle for 2028 Starts Now

Buck Sexton (0:00)

Hour two of Clay and Buck kicks off now. The country moves onward and forward after a rough week, for those who love the Constitution, freedom, America, all that good stuff, last week, MAGA. It was a rough week, no question, we all know that. Okay, we move forward, we dust ourselves off, we rub some dirt on it, as they say, in youth football and soccer, I'm sure. Just rub some dirt on it, you'll be fine. We'll be fine, I hope. Maybe the Communists take over the most powerful government and regime and military and economic apparatus in the history of the planet. Hopefully, they don't. Hopefully, they don't. We're going to keep fighting. And to that end, we still have our general, so to speak, our commander in chief, quite literally, Donald Trump. He is out there, he is making the case. And a few things that Clay came across from what I thought was, like I said, a very good interview, a very worthwhile sit down from 60 Minutes, where they covered the ground, and Ross Douthat, see, here is the thing that I like about it. He asked questions, he followed up, but it was never, so given that you're actually Hitler, sir, what do you think about your Hitlerianism, right?

No.

And Ross is a right of center guy, I don't think he's a, he's not a Trump guy, but he's a right of center guy, so he wasn't going to do that anyway. But you see, this is, you don't have to be a huge Trump fan to give a fair interview to Trump. I thought this was a fair interview. Let Trump speak, followed up on a bunch of things. Let's get to what he said. Clay, the most standout, well, there are a couple standouts. This is one of them. This is cut 12

This is where he talked about his sense of what happened in the election. Listen to it.

SPEAKER_2 (1:40)

Couple days ago, your vice president, JD Vance, wrote a social media post where he says, The reason we lost is the war, meaning Iran. And he said things in that post about Israel. Yeah, so you agree with his analysis.

Donald Trump (1:51)

I don't disagree with it.

SPEAKER_2 (1:52)

Do you know he was going to write that post?

Donald Trump (1:54)

He asked me, what do I think? I said, you write what you feel. By the way, what are you going to write? The only thing I wish you would have said there, if he felt it. And you'd have to ask him about that. But if you had it to do again, would you do it? You know he's part of a decision making process.

And my answer is an emphatic yes, because you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. I think historically, this will be a very good decision. Is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? Maybe not. But you know, I have to go with what's right for our country.

Buck Sexton (2:24)

Okay, so just we heard that last hour, setting the table this hour, President Trump stating, yeah, the Iran thing, I still would have done it. He still stands behind it. That's fine. But he admits the political cost of this. Now Clay, he gets into some other stuff. He says that he may have been hit because deportations, or rather Republicans were hurt, because deportations were tough. Play cut nine here.

SPEAKER_2 (2:49)

You came out after the midterms. You congratulated the Democrats. You said that you were open to working with them.

Donald Trump (2:54)

True.

SPEAKER_2 (2:55)

What is one thing you would like to work with a Democratic majority?

Donald Trump (2:58)

I'd love to do something on immigration.

SPEAKER_2 (3:00)

What?

Donald Trump (3:01)

Because, well, so-

SPEAKER_2 (3:03)

Do you think immigration hurt you in the midterms?

SPEAKER_4 (3:05)

Do you think the crackdown hurt you?

Donald Trump (3:07)

I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A plus for closing up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out. But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation for breaking of the law. That was that they came into the country illegally.

SPEAKER_2 (3:24)

So you think your deportation policy went too far?

SPEAKER_4 (3:26)

I think it was too tough.

SPEAKER_2 (3:27)

It was too tough.

Donald Trump (3:27)

I think it might be too tough, yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (3:29)

What would happen?

SPEAKER_5 (3:30)

What does the deal look like with the Democrats?

Donald Trump (3:31)

I think ultimately that hurt me. Well, the deal would be we would work something out. And I think it's something, I think that's something that's actually doable.