Hour 3 - Not One Affair, But Three!

Clay Travis (0:00)

Welcome back in our number three Clay and Buck Show. We appreciate all of you hanging out with us, whether it's on the nearly 600 AM FM stations across the country, watching us live on YouTube. Hello to all of you. Or if you're listening on the podcast, however you have come to find us, we appreciate you hanging out with us. We've been discussing Jensen Huang out at Nvidia. You just heard us discussing as we went to break the Chinese spy scandal, as well as another relationship that he allegedly had with an employee that helped to make that happen.

The fact that we are headed for another record low murder rate in this country. We have talked with Ben Ferguson, who is one of the finalists for White House Press Secretary. And we have talked with the new House Minority Leader, Jim Jordan. And Jim Jordan said something interesting. And I'm going to build on a bit of what he said in the first hour of the program. If you didn't hear that interview, I encourage you to go back and check it out on the podcast or on the YouTube channel. He said that he expects for Democrats to increase the level of attack that they bring to bear on prominent Republican supporters now that they have Congress. Now, this is no great shakes, no great surprise that that would be occurring. But I thought about it in the story here. I don't know how many of you saw it, but the Washington Post wrote a big attack piece on Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And it was multiple reporters writing on it, and it was multiple thousand words. I don't have the print copy of the Washington Post, but I would think there's probably a decent chance it was on the front page of the newspaper. And what they discovered is that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been flying to Gainesville, Florida, where Buck's wife Carrie is an alum of the Florida Gators, probably a lot of Florida Gator alums out there listening to us right now. Marco Rubio's son, Anthony, is on the Florida Gator football team, and so notwithstanding all the jobs that he has, Marco Rubio has been doing his best to go watch his son and his son's team be able to play games on the weekend. And in order to do that, he has two options.

Option one is he cannot go at all because he's required to have a security detail protecting him. As part of his role as secretary of state and all the other jobs that he has inside of our government, along with the president and along with the vice president, he's required to fly on government planes and he's required to fly with government protection because of all the threats against him and the significance of his job. So if he wants to go watch his son, then he has to go on government planes.

Or he could just never go watch his son compete in sporting events.

And so when I saw this story, I couldn't believe that with all of the money that is being wasted, with all of the fraud that we have all over this country, they decided to go after Marco Rubio for flying to go watch his son play football games at the University of Florida. And Buck, when I saw this, I said, oh, they must be thinking that Rubio is potentially going to run in 2028 because, look, your son is only a year and a half old. My sons are 18, 16, and 12 I think we should encourage everyone to go to their kids' sporting events. I think we should encourage dads to be as present as possible in their kids' lives, both son and daughters. I actually read the article and thought the Washington Post attack piece is actually an endorsement of how much Rubio is trying to still be present as a father, even though he has a super serious job. And by the way, the cost of all those flights, $1.2 million, which in the $7 trillion budget that we spend, if your argument is Marco Rubio can have no life as a father, I understand that argument, but he truly cannot go to watch his son play games or his kids play games without flying on government planes. Did you see this is a lead story hit piece that the Washington Post brought to bear on Marco Rubio? And Buck, I was saying that Jim Jordan, I think, is prescient in pointing out that what we're going to start to see is the guys and gals that are in the mix to potentially be a nominee in 2028 are suddenly going to be attacked in a way that they have not. And maybe some of the Trump attacks are starting to dial back because he can't run for reelection. And you know this, we're going to pivot very quickly.