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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jan 8 2026

08 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.

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4.617 - 12.968 Clay Travis

Welcome in Thursday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. We appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

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Chapter 2: What incident sparked nationwide controversy in Minneapolis?

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555 some odd stations nationwide, all 50 states, even including New Mexico, which I'm told is a state. And we are right now. I just want to point out that New Mexico listeners, your calls have been heard. Your emails have been read. We'll get them today. You have risen up for Clay's scalp like Geronimo of old. I want to be clear on this, too. I would like to apologize to the people of New Mexico.

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44.125 - 68.631 Clay Travis

Instead of giving up New Mexico, increasingly I'm thinking we should give up Minnesota because the state has completely lost its mind. Maybe Canada would do better with everyone in Minnesota. And I'm trying to start with a little bit of frivolity because sadly, people on the left in Minneapolis have completely lost their minds. And I know...

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68.611 - 97.217 Clay Travis

We may talk about this with New York City, or we may talk about it with Los Angeles, or we may talk about it with Chicago, places that we're not surprised that chaos often descends and poor choices are made. But I do think it's emblematic of the woke mind virus, what has happened in Minneapolis in particular, because many of us, myself included, sort of think of Minneapolis as a...

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relatively reasonable, not particularly crazy place. And yet this is going on right now in the wake of the shooting. Kristi Noem is right now actually having a press conference to discuss from New York City. Just ended the fact that this was a justified shooting. But listen to what it sounds like.

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These are ICE agents surrounding getting assaulted this morning in Minneapolis by a bunch of crazy left-wingers. Cut one.

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You're fired!

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We had all sorts of crazy things that were said yesterday by Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, by the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz. And Tommy Lahren asked a question. She's at OutKick.

Chapter 3: How did Vice President JD Vance respond to the shooting incident?

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She now hosts the Fox Saturday show. And I thought it was a really good one, Buck. And I don't know how much time you spent thinking about it, but I do think it's important and worthy of discussing.

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How did this woman end up in a position where, in her free time, 37-year-old white mom from, I believe, Colorado originally, who had moved to Minneapolis at some point in time, decides that it is her duty to be showing up in her car to try to harass people who are doing their job on behalf of ICE such that she ends up losing her life there? I think...

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192.777 - 219.055 Clay Travis

While it is a specific incident, it is emblematic of what I think is a rotten core that the Democrat Party has created among much of their base. And I don't think it's a coincidence that to me, the sort of intellectual linchpin, as it were, of the Democrat Party has become these white liberal women. And this woman is just showing up in the middle of a day in a car,

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harassing the ICE agents, and that ultimately led to this shooting. Well, you know, Clay, there's a, some would say, fabulous book coming out next month that addresses this very phenomenon. The book is Manufacturing Delusion, How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda Against You. Goes into...

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Mass hysteria and authoritarian and totalitarian mind control tactics that get people to do things from blow themselves up in suicide bombing to lie down in streets to stop climate change to these are irrational things. These are absurd, insane acts, and yet we see it time and time again. For this woman, she's from Colorado, right? Just show up.

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By the way, pre-order is available, Manufacturing Delusion, wherever fine books are sold. Go get them. Go get it hooked up. Oh, you thought you were shameless, Clay. You're on book number five. This is book number one for me, buddy. And this may be one and done, so my shamelessness is going to be off the charts. A little too much selling, buddy, a little too much selling.

Chapter 4: What implications do sanctuary city policies have on public safety?

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But, no, really, please go get them because they'll do more prints of it. So please go get your preorders going now, Manufacturing Delusion, clayandbuck.com. We've got a link up there, too, if you want to get them nice and easy. But, no, the book really does deal with this because this has been, how do you make people so crazy?

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299.478 - 317.875 Clay Travis

I mean, this is my fundamental question about the Democrat Party really became during COVID, Clay, a near obsession of mine and yours, because you also were like, hey, Matt, guys, we all know this is stupid, right? And no, actually, they did not. Everyone did not all know that this was stupid, which was a shock to a lot of people.

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There's something wrong and deranged about the Democrat base, and we see this playing out over and over again, whether it is the celebration of Charlie Kirk's assassination, wrong, deranged, deeply unsettling, or the desire to take your hands and superglue them to priceless works of Renaissance art.

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because of climate change or in this case to try to use your car to stop immigrations and customs enforcement officers from enforcing the law this woman it's sad it's sad that she died and i wish that she was still alive But this woman seems to think that she gets to nullify federal immigration law, and she doesn't.

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Nor do any of these other protesters and maniacs who run around now and threaten and harass and impede law enforcement efforts. And you'll notice not a single Democrat, Clay, will speak out in defense of ICE as a general matter. Not a single Democrat will say these are federal law enforcement officers in the conduct of their duties.

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What does that tell you about whether Democrats really respect the law? No, look, I mean, Democrats respect the law only as it pertains to whatever happened on January 6th, which they obsessively marinate in. Otherwise, they think that police, law enforcement, ICE officials are awful human beings who are unworthy of respect. And look, I understand that people have different caliber jobs.

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There really needs to be an investigation into how in the world can all of these people show up at noon on a random Thursday in January and be harassing all of these ICE agents. I mean, first of all, I thought maybe I was wrong. I thought, hey, it's so cold in Minneapolis right now. People are not going to be willing to go stand out in the frigid cold and protest.

Chapter 5: How is the political climate affecting law enforcement in America?

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You got this right, and I do think it was... When all the college kids were protesting on campus, we pointed out that it didn't happen in January and February, that everybody took over Columbia's campus in New York City. It only happened when it was April and May, and the weather starts to get pretty good, and it's not that bad to be outside, and like...

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You only want to save democracy on campus when you can play hacky sack barefoot in the quad. That's the rule. Totally. And I'll be honest with you. I remember back in the day when I was in college, when the weather was perfect, it was a lot more fun to go get a beer on the patio, right? Like, you want to be outside, you want to be hanging out. I'm watching right now live on Fox News.

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There are hundreds, if not thousands of people that are showing up and harassing these ICE agents as they are trying to do their job in the middle of the day in Minneapolis. The reason I'm asking this is somebody's paying for this.

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I don't buy that this is a completely organic thing that people are just showing up and they're deciding, hey, I'm going to stand out in the cold in Minneapolis and protest ICE and harass all of these ICE agents, which, by the way, they want to have another incident of violence. This is what they really want to have happen.

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They're going to claim that they were horrified by what happened to the woman who was shot. in Minneapolis, this moronic mom who put herself in this situation that led to her death. But really, they want it to happen. They want her to be shot because it allows them to argue, oh, look at these jackbooted thug ICE agents that are coming into our communities and now killing innocent people, moms.

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My question is, and I do think it's a good one, who's paying for this? And second... What in the world is going on that a mom, I think it's a single parent mom, so she's the only parent of her child, is deciding that she should be spending her time driving her vehicle to try to obstruct ICE agents from being able to do their jobs?

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What have we created when her death is something that in many ways, let's be honest, the left is celebrating. They want it to happen. And and where exactly is it all going to go from here? Because unfortunately, they want more violence. That is their goal. And I think that's what they're hoping is going to occur. I think that they're going to rally around this now.

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It's obviously a midterm election year, and you're going to see a lot more of this. And everything that you had heard last year from Democrats about, oh, Biden made some mistakes on the border. Maybe we should have.

Chapter 6: What challenges are California homeowners facing after wildfires?

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No, no, no. Now it's going to be Trump is racist, xenophobic. The border, ice or jackbooted thugs. You're going to hear all of this craziness. in the hopes that the people listening, enough of them, will forget about what was said before and will not be able to figure out that there is no principle at work here for these Democrats.

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They can't even tell us what exactly is the alternative to having ICE agents apprehend and deport people from the American interior. What is the alternative to this? The alternative is millions and millions of people get to stay in the country forever in violation of our laws, and as we see, go on welfare.

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Take money from us, money from the American people, which I might add, if you don't pay, you go to prison. So you are told to pay taxes under threat of your freedom so that foreigners from the third world can come here by the millions, avail themselves to whatever benefits they can legally and illegally. And if you have a problem with that, you're a bad person.

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This is actually where the Democrat Party is, I might add. There won't be anyone who comes forward to debate this issue from the Democrat side because they are not capable of winning elections if they speak clearly and honestly about how they feel when it comes to immigration enforcement. They don't want immigration to be enforced. All of that is true.

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Let me also point something else out now that I've got my handy quad box so I can see what everybody is being exposed to on a day-to-day basis on MSNBC, not as a huge fan like Buck Sexton is, but just so that I am here for all of you. Oh, you're sneaking some looks in your quad box at Morning Joe in the morning, drinking your Crockett coffee. Come on now.

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They are not showing the video that clearly illustrates that this guy had contact made with him on the shooting. They're constantly repeating. Because if you watch one of the videos, it's very hard to see who his shooter is. And it looks like he comes from the side and shoots because of the way the video is shot.

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They're not showing the one, which I want to make sure that we've reinforced so that you can watch it for yourself, where you see that this guy was directly in front of the car and that she made contact with him in an aggressive manner. They're not showing that video. I do think that there has been a little bit of, oh, this was a cold-blooded murder dialed back because of that video.

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And this is where I'll point out for you, Buck, I think it's very true. The fact that we almost never hear about unjustified shootings now because there's way more cameras.

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This shooting that I have seen, the angle of it that is the best, again, they keep showing the not primary angle, is the one that appears to come maybe off a house or off a building down the street, which clearly shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was in front of her and that he was being struck at the time that he fired that shot. So, again, they want more of this. This is the reality.

Chapter 7: How does the proposed billionaire wealth tax impact California's economy?

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They all get to stay. And in fact, we should do that again as Democrats the next time we have the White House. Let's let another $10 million in and another $10 million. Because you know what we need? A lot more frauds like we see in Minneapolis from the Somali community. And by the way, it is just the tip of the iceberg for what is happening with...

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So many of these government programs, especially as they pertain to issues that might be politically sensitive or politically protected. So it's, you know, child care, for example. Oh, you don't want money for child care. You don't want local local community money for that. Well, it's actually just going into people's bank accounts and not taking care of any kids. This is across the country.

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Just Minnesota is particularly egregious with this. So something else that they don't want us to look at. And also how many illegals are getting. They always tell us illegals don't get welfare. That is a lie. It is always a lie. They get all kinds of benefits that they're not supposed to have access to. But we'll come back into this momentarily.

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Chapter 8: What changes are being discussed regarding children's health standards?

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Pure Talk, America's wireless company. Making America great again isn't just one man. It's many. The Team 47 Podcast. Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck Podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Momentarily, we're going to have producer Alex coming up now. We're going to have Vance and Levitt. Can we go to it?

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Let's hear what they're saying. Let's hear what the vice president and Caroline Levitt from the White House are saying about the situation in Minnesota. Let's take it live. Hit it.

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of a CNN headline about what happened in Minneapolis. And this is the headline, I'm just gonna read it. Outrage after ICE officer kills US citizen in Minneapolis. Well, that's one way to put it. And that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours. And I say attack very, very intentionally Because this was an attack on federal law enforcement.

1021.668 - 1046.72 JD Vance

This was an attack on law and order. This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace. And it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day. What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg.

1046.741 - 1066.433 JD Vance

So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile? What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox,

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to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.

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If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the President of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws.

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