Clay and Buck Preview Tuesday’s Talk with President Trump

CLAY: Tomorrow in this same hour that you are listening to right now, Hour 2, we will have the president of the United States, number 45 himself, Donald Trump. Hopefully, Buck, he’ll stay with us for a little while. But he’s scheduled to join us the top of the second hour. He will be the first guest that we have had on the program so far.

BUCK: As long he wants to hang out with Clay and Buck, we will let him hang out with Clay and Buck gratefully. We’ll be very happy to have him. So, hopefully he’ll stay for a while.

CLAY: Yeah. It should be a lot of fun. And, obviously, he’s going to the border on Wednesday, and he was a big reason why suddenly Kamala Harris went on Friday, which we talked about. The design of the Friday trip as well, Buck, was to have it disappear into the weekend so that they didn’t have to talk about it coming back to start the week.

BUCK: Yeah, well, I’m sure that 45 is gonna have some thoughts on that one tomorrow, on that whole situation, and then some. And, of course, we’re gonna have to… One place we’re gonna have to push a little bit is, “Sir, you’re out there; you’re doing rallies. Are you gonna run?”

CLAY: Of course.

BUCK: But we’re gonna ask him and then we’re gonna try to press him a little because —

CLAY: When do you think he has to make a decision?

BUCK: (exhales) You know, I think we’re gonna have to ask him that honestly.

CLAY: Is there a deadline?

BUCK: Yeah, there is a deadline, and no one’s… It’s so far out right there that I don’t even think that’s really factoring into it. I think it’s just a question of does he want to go for it again? Does he have the energy, the stamina? I mean, look, you know, we’ve been talking about some of the Ron DeSantis polling and he’s really got a lot of momentum.

He’s got some strong wind at his back here. You know, Trump has very similar numbers of people that would support him on the GOP side. So, you have two great options here, and it is just a question of whether Trump wants to make that one last run. So I’m looking forward to talking about it tomorrow, and one thing we can promise you all — ’cause you know this, but (chuckling) — it will be interesting, to have Donald J. Trump chatting with us here.

CLAY: It certainly will, and I do think the timeline of when he makes his choice, because in 2022 — which isn’t feeling that far away right now, right? I mean, one of the reasons why this infrastructure bill is being pushed like it is and why the batting is such a massive story is, I do think that the Biden people are looking at the polls, and they are aware that effectively now that they’re six months in, they might only have two or three more months of actually being able to get anything done until we start to move into the 2022 cycle.

BUCK: I don’t think you’re gonna hear a lot of… Here’s a prediction: You’re not gonna hear a lot of defund police from Democrats in competitive districts or states. I can tell you that. I think we’re being able to see a shift in that regard. One other note. We should ask — we will ask — the former president tomorrow, Clay. You know the Trump Organization has this deadline today to convince New York prosecutors not to file criminal charges. The CFO of the Trump administration Allen Weisselberg has, quote, “refused to flip.”

CLAY: They’ve been going after him forever.

BUCK: This is the Manhattan DA weaponizing the prosecutor’s office.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Look, this is the Trump Organization. So, it’s not like this is a case against Trump himself personally. But just the fact that they’re continuing with this harassment, it’s in part because… Well, no, it’s not “in part.” It’s almost entirely because. I mean, it’s driven by the desire to try to make things rough for Trump, and the left wants him to say, “I’ve got a great life. I got a great family. I’m gonna go play golf and leave this to somebody else.” They want Trump to do that.