Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H3 - A Dangerous Cultural Divide

Clay Travis (0:00)

Welcome back in Clay and Buck.

Massie right now, Thomas Massie, is introducing articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth in the house right now. I would expect Buck for these articles of impeachment to succeed because you know, every single Democrat is gonna support them. Now this is in the so-called lame duck session of Congress because we have a brand new Congress being sworn in in January, but these are the guys and gals who are still in the Republican majority in the house and also the Republican majority in the Senate. Pete Hegseth speaking tomorrow from the Pentagon. Certainly he knows that that is going to be a situation where there's gonna be a great deal of pressure on him. It seems like in many ways the power struggle that led to the ouster of Susie Wiles was a win for Pete Hegseth. He was not particularly a fan of Susie Wiles. You can go read what he posted in response to the elevation.

Buck Sexton (1:10)

Patriots in control. It's pretty easy. Patriots in control after she left. That was what he tweeted.

Clay Travis (1:17)

So I think, again, Stephen Miller being elevated, no great hidden agenda there. So we will see. But Pete Hegseth speaking tomorrow at the Pentagon. Couple of other details. We come in on the third hour of the program. Thank you for listening. Thank you for those of you who are watching as well on our YouTube channel. If you have not gone and subscribed already, last week was one of the biggest, if not the, was actually the biggest video week we have ever had in the history of the program. And so we're trying to be all places for all people, whether it's alive with you on nearly 600 AM FM stations, whether it's on podcast, as I know, many of you, millions of you are listening to the podcast on a regular basis and also being available on video. Like I said, record audience there.

Couple of other stories that are getting some attention buck that we haven't talked about so far. Russell Brand, who has been a popular YouTuber, I would say kind of a middle of the road, maybe leaning a little bit right over the past several years. Former comedian, maybe still considers himself a comedian. I'm not sure.

Buck Sexton (2:24)

I think best known in America for his role where he was excellent in Forgetting Sarah Marshall as Aldous Snow, right?

Clay Travis (2:31)

Aldous Snow, I believe that is true. Basically playing himself in many ways in that show, in that movie. Get him to the Greek also if he was pretty good in that. He got sentenced to 10 years, six months in prison this morning in England on sexual assault convictions. The sexual assault convictions go all the way back to 1999 And I believe Buck, the most recent one was 2009 So he is now evidently going to be in prison. I don't know what the ability to get out early elements are in British prison sentences. I have not read. But he got a 10 year, six month in prison sentence. I would think that would require him to be behind bars now at a minimum for years. And I don't know what percentage, if there's any statutory maximum or minimums, that you have to be associated with there in order to remain in power. I would say this, Buck.

I am, and I looked it up, evidently in England, there is no statute of limitations on sexual assault. So they didn't change the law. I thought they did. I know they have changed the law in the United States where we tend to have statute of limitations on allegations such as these. I don't know how anyone proves beyond a reasonable doubt that they are innocent or guilty of something that happened all the way back in 1999

Of any crime, honestly, I think it's virtually impossible. Now, there's no statute of limitations on murder. That makes sense to me. But in general, statutes of limitations exist because it's hard to render justice on things that are years old. And so I think that factors in too.

Buck Sexton (4:16)

Yeah. Well, the basic principle of a statute of limitations is, well, a few things. One, for minor crimes, the government shouldn't be going back 15 years and saying, you know, you, we've got you for that parking ticket, right? Put that aside. But there's not that they would do that with a statute. But you guys get what I'm saying. If it's a minor thing, you know, that that's not something that the government should spend resources on. If they didn't at the time, for something that's major, a felony of some kind, and in this case, a sexual felony, the issue is more that if you go very far back in time, it becomes increasingly hard for a defendant to put on a fair defense because, and also memories will be hazier, evidence will have eroded, a lot of things come into play. Now, for crimes against children, for example, I believe in this country there's no statute of limitations. I mean, there are a number of places where, and you have to get into the specifics of this, there are a number of other crimes too. I think Clay treason, or maybe no treason does. There are some other federal crimes for which there's no statute of limitations or it's very long. But murder, state and federal, there's no statute of limitations. We know that.