Welcome in, Happy New Year to all of you. I hope that you and your families had a fantastic Christmas and a splendid New Year so far. I'm back with you guys Thursday and Friday of this week. Buck, We'll be back with me on Monday. As we roll into twenty twenty five, I want to thank you again for all of the incredible support you showed the show, You showed proct Coffee, you showed OutKick, and you showed both Buck and myself during the course in twenty twenty four best year I can remember, preferred personally and professionally. I hope you guys have gotten rested up, had an awesome time with your friends and your family. But unfortunately, as we begin this first show with either Buck, Buck or myself in twenty twenty five, we got an awful news story that is going to be the focus of today's program, and that is the terror attack that occurred in New Orleans yesterday at about three point fifteen in the morning Central time, when a isis inspired deranged lunatic drove his truck, mowed down a substantial number of pedestrians and was then finally shot and killed by police. After he got out of the car and began to fire a weapon. Sadly, this is all too predictable. I ended the show telling you guys that I had a deep fear after having just been to Israel and seeing what fundamentalists Islamic terrorists were willing to do to Jews. Given how wide open this country has been in many ways, and given the fact that the Department of Justice, Joe Biden, and the FBI have been telling us since January sixth that the biggest threat to America was white supremacy, I had a feeling that we were not focusing on the people that would actually do damage to this country. And this is the result, and I don't think it's going to be the end result. They're going to be. Unfortunately. I believe in the days, weeks, and months ahead, many people who become the victims of radical Muslim extremism and are killed in this country because we haven't been doing what we should be doing, which is focusing on the people that are actual dangers this country. Instead, we've been going after grandma's and grandpa's who trespassed on January sixth. We've been investigating school board parents who show up like me and are upset about the decisions being made surrounding their kids' education. We have been focused on pro life protesters who stand outside of abortion clinics and try to encourage people not to have abortions. That is what the Joe Biden Department of Justice, as well as all the law fair that's been brought to bear against Donald Trump, they have been focusing on things that are not actual direct the rest of this country, and I believe, as a result, have allowed the terror attack which just happened, and unfortunately, what I believe will be future terror attacks to occur because they haven't been focused on the real bad guys in this country. And I'm going to dive all into that. We're going to discuss it to a great degree. Unfortunately, I was hoping we'd have a happy Hey it's second in January. Let's all just kind of celebrate. I'll help you get through your hangovers. So what I thought when I kicked up my feet I woke up yesterday morning, I was like, man, I'm going to watch college football all day. I'm going to watch the college football playoff, going to finish at the Sugar Bowl that's taking place in New Orleans a game, by the way, is going to kick off at for Eastern today, at least scheduled. I'll let you know if anything changes with that. A lot of people were at that planning for the Sugar Bowl, the Georgia Notre Dame game. Imagine a lot of you listening to me right now, fans of Georgia Notre Dame. Great game. Way between Texas and Arizona State yesterday. Not so good of a game if you're an Oregon Duck fan, as Ohio State and ran rampant. If you're in Ohio listening to us right now, and I know we're number one in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati over the course of the year. So I know a lot of you are in Ohio very excited about that. You took it to my beloved Tennessee volunteers, and you took it to Oregon Ducks. So I have been out on Bourbon Street after midnight around New Year's Eve a bunch of different times because a lot of you know, I came out of the world of sports. Sugar Bowl down in New Orleans, one of the biggest games of the year, and they often have hosted the National Championship Game I have been down there, had an amazing time, have seen how packed those streets are and what a phenomenal place New Orleans is to ring in the new year. I'm sure many of you out there listening to me right now have been on Bourbon Street at some point in time. You may or may not remember having been there, but I know that many of you have been there. I want to start the show today, and I'm going to keep hammering this home throughout the course of the day because I know a lot of college kids and high school kids are home right now, and you guys may be riding around in your cars with Dad and mom, Grandma and grandpa. You may not regularly listen to Clay and Buck. You should. Hey, hope you're having a good start to your year. But I think you guys are incredibly important. If you are under the age of twenty five right now and you are listening to this program, you may have some knowledge of the college protests that broke out on campus in the wake of the October seventh terror attack on Israel. This happened great schools like Columbia all the way across the country. Great school like UCLA happened at my undergrad alma mater, George Washington University. Happened at my law school alma mater, Vanderbilt University. There are a lot of schools out there that had campus protests, that had student protesters putting out tents, sitting around and do you know what they were chanting? Oftentimes, globalize the Intifada from the river to the sea. Let Palestine be free, I believe yesterday on Sixth Avenue in New York City, some of you may have seen this. I want to play it for you, even in the wake of the terror attack in New Orleans. This is what they were chanting on Sixth Avenue in New York City yesterday. Listen, Okay, they're chanting globalize the endi Fada. That was happening on Sixth Avenue in New York City yesterday. They were marching, they were protesting, celebrating in some ways the terror attack that had just happened in New Orleans. And I want you kids to listen to me closely. This is what globalized the Intifada looks like. You have lost the ability your generation to distinguish between good and evil. Evil is what just happened in New Orleans. You and your college buddies, you and your young friends, because almost all of these victims are twenty five are under which is why I want you to listen really carefully. Are standing around on Bourbon Street. You've had an amazing night celebrating the new year. You've been out chasing girls or boys. You probably have had a few too many drinks, and you are just thinking to yourself, Man, it couldn't have been much more fun than what we just experienced. And then this terrorist comes speeding down Bourbon Street, wiping out every single person that he could. That's what globalized. The Intifada means. They want to kill you because they believe that America and our freedoms are evil. You have taken up the mantle. This guy had the ISIS flag in the back of his truck. You have taken up the mantle of evil and convinced yourself that it's actually good. This is one of the most troubling things in the last year two years that's happened in America. We have lost the ability to distinguish between good and evil, especially young people. These kids on college campus is supposedly the most educated generation ever. They're so educated they can't even tell what good and evil is. And you guys need to start speaking out to your friends and your family and those age groups, and you need to tell them, hey, this is what we're supporting. Globalize the Intifada means bring the evil of Muslim fundamentalism and terrorism, and we're going to bring it to the United States. And we're going to rain down holy hell on America too, because they believe that we are evil. This is important. A lot of times we talk about this on the show. We're going to have a lot of different battles in American politics. What should the corporate tax rate be? Some people are going to say it should be twenty seven percent, other people like me are going to say it should be fifteen percent. What should the top marginal tax rate be? I think it should be lower. What should the capital gains tax RP? What should we do as it pertains to social security or medicare? How should we adjust the cost of living? All of those things are very real political debates, But in the grand scheme of things we're talking about on the margins disagreements that reasonable people can have, there is no reasonable argument other than killing people because your religion has convinced you that it should occur is evil, and there are millions, if not tens of millions, of people who believe that what that man did is actually heroic. Now, some of us lived through nine to eleven, and we remember seeing the towers fall, and we remember what evil truly is. But what scares me is if a nine to eleven terror attack happened today, some people would say, and it wouldn't be an insubstantial amount of Americans, that we deserved it, and that the terrorists were right to fly those planes into those buildings because much of the American public, especially people under the age of twenty five, has lost the ability to truly distinguish between good and evil. So, all of you out there listening to me right now, who are home on college break home, on Christmas break home one winter break, as you are riding around right now with your mom or your dad, or your grandma or your grandpa, right now, there are many people on your college campuses that supported this and don't have the ability to distinguish between good and evil. That has to end. We have to have honest conversations about this. We have to condemn this utterly across the American body politic and across all age ranges, because if we don't, this is going to happen more and more and more. And this is what globalized the dafada really means. It means you are standing on the street, having celebrated all night with your buddies on Bourbon Street, and then out of nowhere a car comes and drives right over you or your best friend. Again. Almost every single person who died was under the age of twenty five, because you guys know, that's most of the people that are going to be out at three point fifteen in the morning, still celebrating older people. Maybe a lot of older people out there did what I did. You're in the Central time zone and at eleven o'clock you're like, ah, it hit midnight on the East Coast. I think I'll go ahead and go to bed. I've been through enough New Years. I'm not at a huge celebration right now. I'll tell my kids Happy New Year, and I'll go on to bed. Most people around my age or older not out at three fifteen in the morning anymore. The people who were victims, I'm seeing all these poor kids. I came to imagine what their families are going through. Almost all of them are teenagers or in their early twenties, the same age people that were on college campus is chanting globalize the Intifada. This is what that leads to, and I think it's important to recognize it much less serious. 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Run your game, Saving America one thought at a time. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I'm going to give you more details on New Orleans here in a moment, but we also had an attack that took place in Las Vegas which seems quite intentional. A Tesla cyber truck was exploded in front of the Trump Building in in Las Vegas. Details now out on that the individual who did that was a master sergeant in Army Special Ops assigned an unapproved leave at the time of his death. So this individual was stationed, I believe in Germany. So right now the FBI is saying, oh, we don't know if these two things are connected, but you've got the former Army officer who became radicalized by ISIS while living in the United States and drove his car down the Bourbon Street, mowing down people. Fifteen dead so far in New Orleans. And another guy who blew himself up in the Teesla cyber truck outside of the entry to the Trump Building in Las Vegas, the building with Trump's name on it. Remember when Lloyd Austin, the Defense Secretary, tried to tell us that one of the biggest threats to our military was white supremacy. Remember when Joe Biden told us that it was the darkest day in America since January sixth, the number one threat to America was white supremacy. I think it's actually radical Islamic terrorism. I know this is a crazy idea, But if I told you right now, hey, what ideology is more likely to be trying to mass murder as many people as they possibly can? Radical Islamic terrorism which has killed thousands in the past few years, or white supremacy, which has killed crickets. I don't even know a white supremacist. There isn't even any political figure that engages in white supremacy and has any kind of power at all. And you might say, Okay, why does this matter. Can't the FBI do multiple things? Clay, can't they prosecute January sixth? Then also recognize what these people buy in large. This is why Kashptel has to get in as head of the FBI as quick as we possibly can. These people who work in these big government bureaucracies will do whatever their bosses tell them to try to get promotions inside of those bureaucracies. So if you are told, hey, we've got to really focus on domestic extremism, they'll go find domestic extremists, even if they have to entrap them in order to find those crimes, because that's how you get promoted, and that's how you guarantee yourself job security. This is the reality of the world in which we find ourselves, and it's important to recognize what's going on there and what they are all manifesting based on this failed Department of Justice, based on Joe Biden leadership. I'm going to play you some audio Biden addressing the New Orleans terror attack. The guy can barely read for four minutes. That continue would cover up of his inability to be president. Thank the Lord. We only have eighteen days until Donald Trump's going to be in office, but effectively, right now we don't have a president at all. Biden can't do anything. He's on vacation down to the Virgin Islands. He's now on Camp David, But I'll play may even want to play the whole four minutes for you, just to give you a context of how unable to even read for three or four minutes he actually is. It's scary. We need a new president, we need him now. We need a new FBI director, We need him now. Good things are coming, but it needs to get here as soon as possible. When don't we come back, I'll break down more on New Orleans for you. Leeve Travis and buck Sexton on the front lines of truth. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Let me fill you in with some of the late There's just been an FBI press conference. The FBI says that they have so far not been able to establish a connection between the Tesla cyber truck explosion in Las Vegas and the New Orleans terror attack. I'm just telling you what they have said. I'll take some of your calls by the way eight hundred and two A two two eight A two and just giving you a little bit of a roadmap of where we're going. Nicole Parker, former FBI agent. Many of you may have seen her on Fox News. She is set to join us at the top of the third hour and tell us what she has seen in the FBI, what she thinks about this investigation. She'll be with us. Then Senator Cassidy in Louisiana UH is scheduled to join us at two thirty. We also have invitations out to the Governor of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana who is in New Orleans and says that he's going to be at the Sugar Bowl, which is kicking off in just a few hours. They have moved the sugar to today and it is kicking off at three Central time in New Orleans four on the East coast. Just fyi, and we're going to have audio from this press conference in a moment, But first I want to play you some of what happened yesterday. This was an act of terrorism. This is the Assistant Director Christopher Ray yesterday. Listen to cut one.
First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point. This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act. This was obviously a critical incident, and with that, lots of information and tips come pouring in from law enforcement, first responders, and the public. We have been aggressively running down these tips and information. But at this point, currently, and this is another position on another fact I want to be clear on, we do not assess at this point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this attack except for sham sud Den Jabbar, the subject you've already been briefed on.
Okay, So initially they said they thought three or four other people were involved, and there may have been other explosive devices. They now say they don't believe anybody else was involved. And I'm not sure how you pronounced this guy's name. It's not Christopher ray the FBI director who is stepping down. It may be pronounced the same way. It may be Raya. I'm not sure r Aia is what I have this gentleman's name as that is who was just speaking. That was this morning. This was yesterday, and this is I tweeted about this and said, this is one of many reasons why we need Kashptel in immediately as the head of the FBI, the person who decided to speak yesterday. This is in the press conference they had yesterday morning, hours after the attack. Remember, the guy had a friggin' ISIS flag on the back of his pickup truck. I'm not an expert on investigatory procedures, but if you have an ISIS flag on the back of your pickup truck and you're mowing down people, maybe there's a little bit of evidence that you might be involved in a terror attack. Remember yesterday, the FBI, in the press conference several hours after the attack said it wasn't a terror attack. Listen, this is not a terrorist event.
What it is right now is there improvised explosive devices that was found and we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.
Okay, excuse me. You've got potentially multiple IEDs, You've got an ISIS flag in the back of the truck, you got a guy mowing down people out on Bourbon Street, and the first thing you say at your press conference is this is not a terrorist event. Who are these people who are working as FBI agents. This is why I want to talk with with Nicole Parker, a former FBI agent. The number one thing we have to do is get back to the maritak in America. I always say this, I don't care. The more significant your job is, the less I care about anything having to do with you. Other than your actual ability. If I need a doctor, I don't care anything about the doctor other than is the doctor a badass at what he or she does? Right? That's all I care about. I don't care where you went to school. I don't care what your religion is. I don't care what kind of parent you are. I care whether you are really good at your job. When I get on an airplane, I don't care whether the airplane pilot is of a different race, ethnicity, of religion than I am. I care are they a badass if flying an airplane? DEI is entirely focused on things other than your ability to do the job. Meritocracy is all that should matter in America, and the more significant the job, the more it matters in the grand scheme of things. Do we have the latest update? Video yet? Audio? Yet? Greg? Here's cut twenty six This just happened, the absolute latest on the New Orleans investigation. Listen.
There were five videos posted on Jabbar's Facebook account, which are time stamped, beginning at one twenty nine am and the last at.
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In the first video, Jabbar explains he originally planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the quote war between the believers and the disbelievers end quote. Additionally, he stated he had joined ISIS before this summer. He also provided a will and testament.
Okay, this just again, as there's more and more investigation coming out about this guy, it seems quite clear that he has been radicalized at some point in time, lived in Houston and had decided that he was going to pledge his adherents to ISIS. He wanted to potentially kill his family. I believe the reports are that he has a twenty year old daughter and a fifteen year old daughter and an ex wife, and that that family had basically the ex wife and the kids had distanced themselves from him because this guy had kind of gone crazy and he wanted to kill his family. Who knows what the reason for that was, but as the FBI is reporting now, he said in the video that he wanted everybody to understand that this was a war between believers and non believers of the Muslim faith, and so that's why he decided that he needed to kill as many people as possible early in the morning of January first, in New Orleans. And this is a calculated attempt. I mean, there's lots of failures here that allowed this to occur. For instance, there are supposed to be barriers that come up that don't allow a car to be driven down Bourbon Street, but they are in the process of getting those replaced, and they weren't replaced in time for New Year's Eve and or the Sugar Bowl, which is one of the biggest events that goes on in New Orleans. Obviously, Marty Garras is also huge. I will be down in New Orleans in about a month. I've been down a lot for big games. Super Bowl is taking place in New Orleans for those of you who don't know, I'll be down there for that event. How incompetent is it that you can't get guards up, meaning the barriers, the barricades, and get it fixed and replaced in time for New Years and the Sugar Bowl. I can't imagine that this is some incredibly difficult construction process. And if I look, I'm not the mayor of New Orleans, but if you came to me and you said, hey, we have to fix these barricades to provide more security in the French Quarter on Bourbon Street, I would say, Okay, Let's get it fixed sometime during the summer so that we're ready for the biggest events of our calendar, which are the Sugar Bowl New Year's I'd actually want it fixed for the Saints games that take place in the Superdome. So I'd like to get this fixed. Let's get it done in the summer. May and June, not as busy in New Orleans. Less likelihood of a tear attack could always happen, but less likely in May or June. This guy drove from Houston with the intent of killing as many people on Bourbon Street on New Year's Day, New Year's Night turning into New Year's Day as possible, looking for an opportunity with an ISIS flag flying in the back of his truck. I'd also ask, are you really saying that a guy joins ISIS in the summer, and there's no evident that he joined ISIS between now and this terror attack. Somehow we're arresting people for January sixth, still for trespassing. Nobody in the Houston FBI office became aware that this guy might have been radicalized and become a member of ISIS. He wasn't posting anything online. There was no evidence whatsoever of his having joined a terrorist organization. How about on Facebook he posts for hours in advance of what he's going to do. Nobody sees those videos up on Facebook till after he's killed people. Did he have no friends? No one is out there again, So much of what occurs here is about not recognizing true evil and being aware of what legitimate threats in America look like. And this guy killed fifteen people and wounded and maimed many more. But there are a lot of this dude. There are a lot of people who have pledged loyalty to ISIS in this country right now, who saw what this guy did and they want to do the same. There is a lot of evil in America. We have allowed our a lot of people to walk right across our southern border. We have no idea who is even here. There are going to be more of this guy. What are we doing to stop that from happening? And where are our resources and our focus actually going. The FBI's been in investigating Milania Trump's underwear drawer. They've been taking photos all over mar A Lago of Trump engaging in law fair working with Jack Smith. I got a crazy idea, how about we focus on actual bad guys. How about we focus our resources on people that are actually trying to kill us, that have pledged allegiance to ISIS is this basic common sense? All crimes are not created equal. Some people are a lot more dangerous potentially than others. I feel awful for the families that had to wake up on New Year's Day and find out that they're young guy or girl and their family. A lot of these people, frankly to me, are kids. If you're under twenty five years old, to me, you're still kind of a kid. I know people immediately say, well, when you're eighteen, you're I get it. But if you remember being nineteen or twenty, a lot of people are still kids, right, even if you are technically an adult. You're out celebrating New Year's Eve with your buddies and this guy comes plowing through. There are a lot more of him out there. What are we doing to stop this from occurring elsewhere? And you know, and I know, and unfortunately this is the reality. Anytime we have an act like this, there oftentimes are a lot of copycats because crazy people see the reason I try out to use these guys' names on this program is crazy. People see this, they are immediately attracted to the infamy of the killers, and it produces oftentimes reverberations where other people engage in acts of violence as well. A lot of times when we have a shooting incident, there's another couple that come up very soon thereafter. What are we doing to stop these people? I think there's probably thousands of them. I don't think that's crazy. I'll ask Nicole Parker in a couple of hours when she comes on, how many people do we think are like this guy in America right now? I don't think it's crazy to believe there are thousands of ISIS adherents in the United States right now? What are those people planning? How much more deadly could their attacks be? And why in the world have we been focused on arresting grandmas and grandpas who walked into January sixth going through sending our FBI agents to rummage through Milania Trump's underwear drawer, arresting parents who go and speak at school board meetings, and arresting people outside of abortion clinics, when those people are in no way actual dangers to the United States. It just it infuriates me, and right now if you are listening to me, Congress is getting sworn in tomorrow. Kash Pateel needs to be in office as rapidly as possible. We got eighteen days still of Joe Biden in office. I'm going to play you some audio. We don't have an actual president. This is a time of real danger. We need Trump's team on the FBI, on the Secretary of State, on the Secretary of Defense. We need all of our dudes, and right now they're dudes. We need Trump's dudes in office. Mike Walls ready to roll. All of these guys one hundred percent, ready to make things happen, and it needs to happen as quickly as we possibly can. We'll get into that and more here in a little bit. Also, take your calls. Eight hundred and two A two two eight A two. I appreciate all of you listening here. I was hoping, like I said that we would have a fun first show at twenty twenty five. Hey, let's just have some good times, and then terror attack happens, and uh, we find out that our FBI has failed yet again. We'll talk about that. I'll take some of your calls when we come back. I'm Clay Travis, thanks for hanging out with us here on the first show twenty twenty five of Clay and Buck Patriots radio hosts. A couple of regular guys, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We are continuing to get more information about the terror attack that happened yesterday in New Orleans. Will continue to update you all with that, a lot of you weighing in with a variety of different takes. We'll also get to some of that at the top of the next hour. And uh right now, no guest scheduled in this next hour, so I will take some of your calls eight hundred and two two eight A two if you want to weigh in. But in particular, I'm going to continue to focus this show today on the fact that I know a lot of kids are home from college, a lot of kids are out from high school right now, and maybe they're listening in a way that they would not ordinarily be able to do because this show airs during the school day. This is what evil is. Okay. We had a lot of talk when Trump got elected about being on the right and wrong side of history. Let me give you a little bit of a history. Lesson the side that is mowing down innocent people and arguing that they need to do so because there are non believers. They're on the side of evil. They're on the wrong side of history. If you were out wearing a kafaya or whatever the heck you call that thing, and you were in some way interacting with people talking about globalized the Intifada or from the real to the Sea in the wake of the October seventh terror attacks in Israel, this is what globalized. The endti foughto me. It means that evil people in the United States pledge allegiance to ISIS and decide to try to kill you while you are out having a good time on New Year's Eve with your buddies, because they hate America and they hate the freedoms that we have here, and their bastardized version of their religion makes them believe that they're going to get seventy two virgins and they're going to be seen as martyrs. You're supporting this when you don't condemn it, you are allowing this to be more likely to happen. We need our people in charge fast. Make Kosh Patel head of the FBI right now. Let's catch these bastards.