00:01:44.060But walking around here, we're getting a sense of what's going on in the city.
00:01:47.400We have some updates for you on a whole bunch of things.
00:01:50.780Obviously, the Strait of Hormuz-Iran situation.
00:01:53.600We're going to bring you to the latest on that.
00:01:55.180It is an ongoing story that's going to have a lot of feeling of repetition, a lot of wash, rinse, repeat going on, because that is the situation.
00:02:05.400Trump right now is in the Oval Office as we speak to you, meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, and he is talking about a whole range of things, mostly, obviously, Iraq-related.
00:02:19.600and will bring you the highlights of that conversation here
00:13:13.700Iran trying to say, hey, we can control the Strait of Hormuz is a little bit of Iranian leadership cutting their own throat economically here,
00:13:23.260because a lot of people are going to say if there are risks associated with carrying oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz,
00:13:29.200let's just invest in alternative pathways.
00:13:31.640Right now, around 20 percent of the oil and gas moves through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:13:35.640By the end of twenty twenty eight, according to this report, it would be eight percent.
00:13:40.940Then what real impact does Iran have on being able to control gas prices?
00:13:45.940Not much of anything. So I do think the longer range process here is Iran having less and less ability to control the overall price of oil and gas, which delegitimizes even more that government.
00:14:00.180That's a very good positive direction, longer term, short term, a lot of fluctuation, a lot of fluctuation.0.96
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00:17:02.440Union. Welcome back in. Clay and Buck rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program. We
00:17:09.560are both in New York City. President Trump talking to the media right now. We have a couple of cuts
00:17:16.340as he is meeting with the prime minister of Iraq in the Oval Office.
00:17:39.940And what we do have is the oil companies are all going in now
00:17:42.700when they're doing partnerships with Iraq and they're getting along very well.
00:17:49.020The relationship is a whole big relationship, but we don't need the military there.
00:17:52.580We're there to help them. We're there to protect them if need be.
00:17:56.160But we don't think that's going to be necessary.
00:17:58.020And their primary, I consider an opponent, they might have considered a friend,0.89
00:18:03.020but I consider that an opponent was Iran, was a big burden on Iraq0.99
00:18:09.040because they were the bully of the Middle East, as you know.0.94
00:18:12.700And we were just talking about that, but they're not going to have that problem anymore because Iran has been very much destabilized and really their military powers, just a tiny fraction of what it was just four months ago.
00:18:29.200OK, and then, Buck, we also have President Trump.
00:30:08.340I think they need to start writing into these actor and actresses contracts.1.00
00:30:11.740If we decide that you're a moron in the promotion of this movie, we're going to take a lot of your money away because you are cutting the legs out of these films.0.98
00:30:21.580and let me say this too young washington i saw tommy laren tweet that it's a really good movie0.98
00:30:29.060i haven't seen it yet week two young washington made more movie more money than supergirl okay
00:30:35.740i bet young washington has 120th if that maybe one 100th of the advertising budget to get people
00:30:45.000aware that it exists also the production budget overall but this this is the point people want
00:30:51.380good movies and good content content and and this isn't some uh unimportant thing the dominant
00:30:58.260american art form of certainly i would say 1980 to the last to about 10 years ago the dominant
00:31:07.540american art form globally and here was movies yeah there was nothing bigger than a big movie
00:31:12.400in the culture yeah there were some big musical acts yeah there were some things that but a but
00:31:16.960a huge movie was the thing to be a hollywood star in the 80s the 90s the early 2000s made you the
00:31:24.520biggest celebrity really in the world yes there were some big sports celebrities but you know
00:31:28.380nobody's more famous really than tom cruise i mean maybe michael jordan you get what i'm saying
00:31:32.300there's there's a there's a level of um of peak movie that we reached and it has been nothing
00:31:39.260but downhill for a while now and wokeness has played this a lot of this now the movies were
00:31:44.480always the movie studios were always left wing but they were trying to make money and they were
00:31:48.140trying to compete based upon box office results now a lot of this feels like clay it's an insulated
00:31:55.140circuitry where they can make these terrible movies but they're owned by these huge companies
00:32:00.120that own these massive libraries of content that can make money or in the case of like a comcast0.88
00:32:04.760they can make really stupid decisions on the content and creative side because everyone's0.79
00:32:08.920got to pay for cable and internet hookups still so they're they're insulated from these decisions0.99
00:32:13.560financially uh but the other side of it that also doesn't that so that's one part of why it's gotten
00:32:18.780so bad the ideology has been able to run wild and then the dei hiring for the writers this is real
00:32:23.940this is very clear uh this was a mandate you don't get to mandate we're only hiring uh women
00:32:30.500and particularly minority women to write and then tell us that you're not changing standards because
00:32:34.860clearly you are otherwise why would you have a mandate to hire women and minority writers
00:32:38.180the writing for a lot of these shows is terrible the writing for a lot of these big budget projects
00:32:42.700is is just trash and uh if you actually had a studio that was focused on just making good
00:32:51.300content for audiences i think it would completely it's like it's like people look at look at elon0.93
00:32:56.540with x where does all the like the most cutting edge conversation online right now all happens
00:33:02.740not on instagram not on facebook not on tic it's on x because even one place that's actually
00:33:08.240on mission everybody knows it i will say positive the most successful two movies to come out of
00:33:16.160the summer blockbuster relative to what they cost obsession and the one that's uh what's the other
00:33:23.980one look it up they're horror movies coming out of youtube universes that are created by kids in
00:33:29.780their 20s and they have back rooms back rooms i haven't even heard of that one yeah obsession and
00:33:35.720back rooms have dominated because there's more cultural vibrancy coming out of youtube go
00:33:42.100subscribe to our youtube channel and the market actually responds to it i also this ties in with
00:33:48.760the other part of this the super girl some of these shows that were super successful are now
00:33:53.340getting remade i'm curious 800-282-2882 if any of you have watched this yet i have not they're
00:34:00.280remaking little house on the prairie you did not grow up watching little house on the prairie i
00:34:05.260watched this show i loved it laura ingalls paw michael uh what's the guy's name who was the paw
00:34:12.320michael landon i think was his name many of you watched that show 1974 to 1983 they are now
00:34:20.300remaking it and the reviews that i have read buck it ties in with supergirl because to me
00:34:26.220the strongest part of little house on the prairie was the relationship between laura ingalls wilder
00:34:32.100who is the primary protagonist of the of the show and her dad her dad uh the michael landon
00:34:38.440character pa on that program how do you think reportedly netflix has remade little house on
00:34:43.920the prairie boss girl mom mom is now the focus of the show and it's girl boss on the prairie
00:34:52.500starring mom see this is the the race communists of the left and when i say race communists it's
00:34:59.020also gender communists and you know all of it they create a zero-sum environment where and this
00:35:05.280is true of masculinity there's no such thing as masculinity that's good there's only toxic
00:35:08.860masculinity if you talk about masculinity that is good the left will shout at you for saying are you
00:35:13.220telling me women can't be brave are you telling me women can't be tough are you well no i'm not
00:35:17.380saying that but that is what they do the same thing is true about fatherhood and being a dad
00:35:22.740and being courageous and a leader of the family you can't depict that without people going but
00:35:41.620I agree with you that there's a huge marketplace opportunity here.
00:35:44.000But largely writing dads out of family dramas, even the family dramas where dads used to be a star, like Little House on the Prairie, is actually a cultural decision that is not positive for the country.
00:35:56.100and it makes me again just make lewis and clark make me happy and make lewis and clark i'd also
00:36:01.040say we're talking about violence political violence crime in cities and all this uh make
00:36:06.400dads great again yeah fatherhood is a critical piece of all of this the violence comes from men
00:36:14.300who don't have strong role models and a young age who don't know what it is to be a man uh
00:36:22.940navigating america today in a positive masculine way and so we we need more uh we need more stories
00:36:30.740of great dads uh shown because it does it does matter it does actually have an influence on
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00:43:57.220Senator Blackburn, I just asked Clay this before, but I was wondering, as somebody who
00:44:01.080is on the Senate right now, how do you view Republicans' prospects going into this midterm
00:44:06.380as it stands? And what are you, from talking to your constituents in Tennessee, what are the top
00:44:12.800issues? Yeah. And you know, Buck, right now, and we're talking to Tennesseans every single day
00:44:20.720and listening to them, one of the main things I've heard from people is they want to be heard.
00:44:27.980They want to know that their voices have been heard, and the top things that people are talking about is jobs, the economy, wages, and they're concerned about what has happened with inflation during the Biden years, and it has not come down as much as they had hoped.
00:44:48.460the price of groceries. The second thing we hear a lot about is public safety. And people want to
00:44:57.480make certain that their communities are safe, that schools are safe for kids. They want to make
00:45:03.020certain that we're deporting illegal aliens. And they want to see support for law enforcement.
00:45:11.040So many people across our state have grown weary of this defund the police, letting violent criminals just have a revolving door, and they get picked up, they get charged, they get booked, and they let go, and these cashless bail policies.
00:45:28.040The third thing people are talking a lot about is educating our children and making certain that every child in our state, regardless of where they live, that they have access to a world-class education.
00:45:42.360in one of the main topics other things that we hear a lot about are health care election integrity
00:45:50.840and infrastructure making certain that we've got the infrastructure to be a world class economy
00:45:58.240and uh that our kids want to stay in tennessee and make their american dreams come true i know
00:46:05.420a couple of things that are underway and i'm going to get your your take on them supreme court
00:46:10.080decision on the uh birthright citizenship you guys in the senate are having read what was done
00:46:18.840in the supreme court you are reintroducing a banned birth tourism act i know that in
00:46:24.620south texas there were hospitals advertising for people to come across and have babies there
00:46:30.480uh and also i'll also build on this todd blanche is going to be at senate judiciary tomorrow uh do
00:46:38.220you expect for him to get confirmed tell us about both of those senate priorities yes first of all
00:46:45.120on the ban birth tourism bill uh this is something i've worked on for about three years and it amends
00:46:51.820the immigration and nationality act i actually introduced it last congress it is unseemly that
00:46:59.460people are getting a visa coming into the country having a baby exiting the country with the baby
00:47:06.660that is a U.S. citizen, all their paperwork, and then they can come back here as a U.S. citizen for
00:47:12.500education. They are going to be coming back here for chain migration, et cetera. So ending that,0.52
00:47:20.840about 33,000 babies a year are born through this process. So making birth tourism inadmissible for
00:47:31.280a visa, and also a deportable offense. If you are found to be working with one of these companies
00:47:39.100that markets birth tourism, then you will immediately be deported. So that is something
00:47:49.520that, yes, the Tennesseans and the American people want to see that, and we are indeed
00:47:56.220pushing that legislation forward. When it comes to Todd Blanche and his hearing tomorrow,
00:48:02.620the hearing is going to take place. We will have one day where it is committee hearing and then
00:48:08.540another day where you're going to have the media and the Democrats that are all looking for click
00:48:14.960bait. They're going to come in and they're going to harangue him and talk about how terrible he is
00:48:21.660and try to get their clickbait moment and indeed the hearing tomorrow we know that some of them
00:48:27.280are going to be there playing to the reporters and trying to get some clickbait that they can
00:48:32.380put on social media and raise money off of save america act senator blackburn where do you stand
00:48:39.240on this well we have been trying to get this the group of us the conservatives in the senate are
00:48:45.640called the steering committee and i'm on that executive committee and you've got rick scott
00:48:50.420Mike Lee and Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson, Bernie Marino, Jim Banks, me.
00:48:56.760We are trying to find a way to get this done.
00:49:01.480I think what you will see us do next week is be on the floor talking a good bit about the Save America Act and why we need it.
00:49:11.460And pushing forward, we've decided maybe if we break this bill into parts and do it one thing at a time,
00:49:18.820take just a voter ID to the floor and get that process going.
00:49:23.400That may be the best way to get this across the finish line.
00:49:26.680But, you know, we're trying every way possible to get this passed,
00:49:32.460and we look forward to pushing to the point that we've got 51 votes
00:49:36.480and we can get it across the finish line.
00:49:39.060Senator Marsha Blackburn, everybody get out and vote July 17th.
00:49:43.200That's this Friday in my home state, in your state of Tennessee.
00:49:55.740I want to tell you, nearly every president we've had since 1948 has truly supported the
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