Hour 2 - This Should Rattle Everyone

Buck Sexton (0:00)

Second hour, Clay and Buck kicks off now. Thanks for being here, everybody. So we saw $2.5 trillion drop in the market. And that's, I think, a big indicator, certainly of uncertainty, when it comes to what's going to happen in the world of commerce and industry, and in our economy starting in January of next year. What does it all look like when you have Democrats with a big house and very strong Senate majority? How do things go? Trump is going to be playing a lot of defense, as you no doubt, and all Trump supporters are aware.

We'll see, because there's going to be hearings, there's going to be really nothing but a Congress being used to try to oppose and slow down Trump at every opportunity. And by the way, I just want to remind Ali, make sure we invite Senator Thune on, who has been on the show before. Sorry about that, guys.

Make sure we let him on to say, to see what's going to happen between now and essentially Christmas, or when the recess goes into effect on getting a lot of these appointments through and everything else. They got to move as fast as they can, and they've got to have some discipline. Senator Ron Johnson, friend of the show, did not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling, Clay, that we're going to be impressed with how the current Congress, in its makeup, is going to act in the days ahead. You disagree?

Clay Travis (1:30)

No, I would just say in general, I know that people want to be angry at Mike Johnson or John Thune. They can only do what their members will do. It's easy to be like, and I thought Ron Johnson did a good job of talking about that yesterday.

If you believe, as I do, and as you do, and as many of you out there listening do, that Democrats will immediately end the filibuster at the moment that they can, that they will do that beyond a shadow of a doubt, then refusing to do it because you're standing on principle is a disastrous position. Unfortunately, lots of members of the GOP caucus in the Senate have that position. So just because you're the Senate Majority Leader doesn't mean you can wave a magic wand and make your guys do something that they're telling you they will refuse to do. So I do think that factors in, but I don't think anything's going to happen. If you want a positive...

Buck Sexton (2:29)

Well, something is going to happen. I mean, the judges and we got to move on that.

Clay Travis (2:33)

That's that that has to happen between now and January when the new swearing's in happen. Get every single district court judge, circuit court judge, all of them need to be confirmed.

Buck Sexton (2:44)

Because here's where I want to transition into this. We're going to need them because they have, let's just be honest about this, they flipped Texas, made it blue. You got Ted Cruz, a man on an island in Texas there as a statewide elected Republican. He's like the last of the Mohicans, Ted Cruz in Texas. I can't even believe we're saying this out loud.

It's such a big state, with such a big economy that this I think can have really real ramifications, and beyond. Some of you are like, well, I live in name a safe red state. I live in Wyoming, or I live in South Carolina. Just got to try to think of the red states that feel really safe these days. Not that many.

Clay Travis (3:27)

I feel good about Tennessee.

Buck Sexton (3:28)

Yeah. Clay's Fortress, Tennessee and Florida even, they penetrated our outer defenses here in Fortress, Florida, made it a closer thing than it should have been. But fortunately, Byron Donalds was able to lead the counteroffensive and we were okay. So Clay, here's my concern. This is just one guy I know, he appears on TV sometimes, the former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich.

He said straight up that they should go after Elon Musk and nationalize his companies. Listen to this, play eight.

Robert Reich (3:58)

We've got to defund Musk. And when I say defund Musk, 75% of his wealth is dependent on taxpayers who are buying Starlink systems for the Department of Defense. Defund Musk, I mean this.

If we have a Democratic administration and the Democrats ought to be starting this, not just with oversight hearings, but also starting laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX. Nationalize it. It should be a public corporation. We should not ever have that kind of power in one person's hands, one private person's hands.