Verdict with Ted Cruz - BONUS： Daily Review With Clay and Buck

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00:00:04.060 Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Suxton Show podcast.

00:00:09.260 Welcome in Tuesday edition.

00:00:12.400 It's a hot one across much of the country as summer has arrived.

00:00:17.180 The heat and the temperature hopefully getting dialed down in the Middle East as Trump,

00:00:23.340 we hope, is going to be able to maintain a ceasefire.

00:00:27.340 It is primary day in New York City, and New York City may be poised to elect the most

00:00:35.020 left-wing crazy man in the history of the city.

00:00:39.600 We will break all of that down for you.

00:00:41.600 We're going to talk about the big, beautiful bill.

00:00:44.180 Senator Rick Scott of Florida will join us at the bottom of this hour.

00:00:47.260 Trump wants this done by July 4th.

00:00:50.440 Will that occur or not?

00:00:52.280 We will discuss Trump on his way to a, I think, a NATO meeting in Europe.

00:00:57.920 It's hard to keep track of all the different UN, one of the things, overseas headed that way.

00:01:03.440 We will discuss that and more.

00:01:06.420 But we begin with the Iran and Israel ceasefire, which appears to be tenuously holding,

00:01:16.180 even though both Iran and Israel violated it in the immediate early parts of the process of the ceasefire being put in place.

00:01:28.020 Trump has gotten very involved.

00:01:29.820 As we told you yesterday, everyone who told you that this was going to lead to World War III,

00:01:36.400 you should question a lot of their decisions and a lot of their suggestions more going forward because it did not.

00:01:44.640 And even Iran's response yesterday, as we discussed it live with all of you,

00:01:50.460 was telegraphed and had zero impact, and it appears that the Iranian and American relationship,

00:01:58.180 at least on some level, is now back to an even playing field with the ability of the United States

00:02:05.300 to have wreaked havoc on Iran's long-term plans to be able to gain nuclear weapons

00:02:10.940 at no essential cost to us at all, not one single life virtually,

00:02:16.960 no casualties to speak of to any degree so far.

00:02:20.620 But the ceasefire is right now underway,

00:02:24.300 and we will get the latest as we progress throughout the course of the program

00:02:29.980 to see whether or not it holds.

00:02:32.620 But I did think this was interesting.

00:02:34.440 This morning as he was leaving for the NATO event,

00:02:38.040 Trump sounded like a dad who was just really frustrated

00:02:42.040 because his kids won't stop fighting.

00:02:44.980 If you are a parent, maybe you're on summer vacation right now,

00:02:49.320 maybe you're driving around, the kids want to know when they're going to get there,

00:02:52.340 they're hitting each other in the back, they won't keep their hands to themselves.

00:02:55.840 This was Trump saying, they've been fighting so long,

00:02:58.820 they don't even know what they're doing.

00:03:00.500 Cut one.

00:03:01.480 I'm not happy with Israel.

00:03:03.160 You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours,

00:03:05.760 you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.

00:03:09.740 So I'm not happy with them.

00:03:11.340 I'm not happy with Iran either.

00:03:13.000 But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning

00:03:16.120 because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot,

00:03:19.640 perhaps by mistake, that didn't land, I'm not happy about that.

00:03:23.920 You know what, we have, they basically have two countries

00:03:26.380 that have been fighting so long and so hard

00:03:29.440 that they don't know what the f*** they're doing.

00:03:32.080 Do you understand that?

00:03:32.920 I understand it.

00:03:34.940 I'm a dad.

00:03:35.640 I imagine a lot of dads and moms understand it.

00:03:38.640 Buck, President Trump, the dad of the world,

00:03:42.060 just finally seems like he's fed up at the whole process.

00:03:45.260 I thought that was very funny.

00:03:46.280 By the way, that's this morning as he was preparing

00:03:48.660 to embark on his trip for NATO.

00:03:51.900 The 12-day war seems to be over.

00:03:54.020 And that is a remarkable achievement

00:03:57.400 given the degradation of Iranian military facilities

00:04:01.300 and their nuclear program, most importantly of all.

00:04:05.380 And the warnings of calamity were just that.

00:04:10.620 I mean, they were preposterous.

00:04:12.540 They were overwrought.

00:04:14.360 They were absurd.

00:04:15.600 So that is where we are right now.

00:04:17.920 I understand people are concerned that the ceasefire may not hold

00:04:21.720 and there could be things that happen that we don't anticipate.

00:04:25.180 The Rumsfeldian unknown unknowns are always something to,

00:04:29.940 well, you can't be prepared for them,

00:04:31.760 but you just got to know that stuff happens.

00:04:34.040 And I understand Trump having a bit of frustration as well.

00:04:36.560 I also think that people appreciate at this stage

00:04:38.740 that Trump is just a guy who talks like guys talk

00:04:41.360 and says things the way that people in a similar circumstance would

00:04:44.900 and doesn't put on this show, this facade.

00:04:47.860 You know, he's speaking off the cuff to reporters, right?

00:04:49.500 It's not an address to Congress, to a joint session of Congress.

00:04:53.220 So he's letting it fly a little bit.

00:04:55.000 But I think it's also Trump's telling both sides,

00:04:57.640 hey, you know, I expect, you know,

00:05:00.560 he's like the referee in the middle of the ring with two boxers.

00:05:03.600 And he's like, no low blows, all right?

00:05:05.720 We're ending this thing now.

00:05:07.500 The match is over.

00:05:08.420 Don't go over there and hit the other guy

00:05:10.520 when he's not looking in his corner.

00:05:12.280 So that's the way Trump operates.

00:05:15.680 Very straightforward, very right to the point.

00:05:18.500 Now we see what the next steps will be with the regime in Tehran.

00:05:24.220 I think the plan here, Clay,

00:05:26.700 people have been so concerned about regime change

00:05:28.960 coming from Trump or the Israelis.

00:05:30.660 I think they're going to try to negotiate with a defanged Iran.

00:05:34.860 Say, all right, so you guys tried the whole

00:05:37.320 we're tough guys thing, Iran.

00:05:39.380 You tried that.

00:05:40.100 Didn't work out well for you.

00:05:41.580 What do you want now?

00:05:43.420 How do you want to play the game now?

00:05:45.540 You know, you see, I understand the Taliban's

00:05:47.440 in charge of Afghanistan, and that's very disappointing,

00:05:49.740 especially after 20 years of war.

00:05:53.580 But I do think that the Taliban knows

00:05:56.300 you guys start providing training camps for al-Qaeda

00:05:59.420 doing something like that,

00:06:00.400 and we're just going to lay waste to everything.

00:06:02.460 Yeah.

00:06:02.620 We're not going to be worried.

00:06:04.040 Geneva Convention, good luck crying about that one.

00:06:07.120 We're just going to go in hard and heavy

00:06:08.800 with everything we got.

00:06:09.720 And I think the Iranians have been sent a very clear message as well.

00:06:13.640 The days of us being worried,

00:06:15.180 or certainly the days of the Israelis being worried,

00:06:17.460 about how this plays on CNN are gone.

00:06:20.460 So how do you want things to go from here on out?

00:06:23.400 In the Middle East, strong horse, weak horse, right?

00:06:26.260 People want to go with a strong horse.

00:06:27.860 They respect strength.

00:06:29.280 That's really the only thing that Middle East regimes respect,

00:06:31.620 to be honest with you.

00:06:32.260 And we've seen that all throughout history.

00:06:35.220 And I think that now we know,

00:06:37.260 and Trump wants them all to know,

00:06:39.160 this is the state of play.

00:06:40.520 Now let's move toward a more sane future.

00:06:42.900 And it's, Clay,

00:06:43.940 that the trends in the Middle East right now

00:06:45.440 are more positive for a sustained and durable security

00:06:50.120 than they have been in my life, I think.

00:06:52.460 I don't know of another time

00:06:54.040 where there's at least the possibility.

00:06:56.040 That doesn't mean the reality.

00:06:57.520 That doesn't mean the certainty.

00:06:58.480 But the trends are moving all in the right direction right now

00:07:01.440 for the good guys.

00:07:02.700 No doubt.

00:07:03.560 And I think this has to be seen as a profound win for Trump.

00:07:08.660 Now, the question that I have,

00:07:10.900 you kind of hit at it.

00:07:12.100 What is the ordinary Iranian thinking?

00:07:14.400 What are they seeing?

00:07:15.760 What is their access to the last 12 days of what's taken place?

00:07:19.500 Because they have been sold a profound lie.

00:07:22.680 It was that after 46 years in power,

00:07:25.620 that the Ayatollahs had built a world

00:07:28.580 where there was the ability of Iran

00:07:32.040 to challenge Israel and the United States

00:07:34.760 on some sort of global battlefield.

00:07:37.200 That is not true.

00:07:38.640 It is not remotely true.

00:07:40.100 It took about one day for Israel,

00:07:42.000 which has one-tenth the population

00:07:43.640 and a fraction of the overall landmass of Iran,

00:07:49.620 to completely wipe out all Iranian defenses.

00:07:52.380 And even haphazardly firing as they were from Iran,

00:07:58.060 I believe the math was, Buck,

00:07:59.700 95% of all Iranian missiles that they fired into Iran,

00:08:04.720 into Israel, were shot down.

00:08:06.800 So, I mean, it is a case that Israel was able

00:08:11.500 to protect itself thanks to both its technology

00:08:14.240 and American technology

00:08:15.500 because Iranian attacks were not targeted.

00:08:18.800 They were not precise.

00:08:19.840 They were attempting to inflict as many casualties

00:08:23.260 as they could,

00:08:24.560 whereas Israel has the technology to,

00:08:26.600 as you said yesterday,

00:08:28.100 hit a single floor in a single apartment building

00:08:32.400 and not even harm anybody else

00:08:35.020 in any other parts of the apartment building.

00:08:37.100 That's how precise and targeted their hits were.

00:08:40.980 And honestly, Iran is basically defenseless,

00:08:44.280 and I wonder whether the Iranian people

00:08:47.040 are privy to this knowledge

00:08:48.660 and what their thoughts are

00:08:50.500 as they are walking around waking up

00:08:52.620 in their country in the midst of this ceasefire.

00:08:55.160 I'll make, if I, now,

00:08:57.200 I'm not some bright-eyed idealist

00:08:59.260 when it comes to foreign policy,

00:09:00.800 specifically in the Middle East,

00:09:01.960 and having seen with my own eyes

00:09:04.320 over many months in Iraq

00:09:06.080 and many months in Afghanistan

00:09:07.100 during wars,

00:09:09.080 how messy things can get.

00:09:10.320 I am not somebody who's sitting here,

00:09:12.440 you know, this is,

00:09:13.200 this is not the early days

00:09:15.200 of the Bush administration

00:09:16.140 when the flowering of democracy

00:09:17.900 is going to just spread across.

00:09:19.520 As we all know,

00:09:20.120 that's not what happened, right?

00:09:21.640 But I would say this.

00:09:22.980 If you want a case for optimism here,

00:09:24.700 I mean, the first thing is

00:09:25.700 the guns fall silent, so to speak.

00:09:28.100 The ceasefire holds.

00:09:29.680 Okay, so now you're talking about in Iran

00:09:31.540 that, I keep saying defanged,

00:09:33.640 however you want to put it,

00:09:34.460 is less of an external military threat,

00:09:37.260 both, not just because of the nuclear program,

00:09:40.720 which has been, you know,

00:09:42.140 set back a long time.

00:09:43.240 I know people are now saying,

00:09:44.180 oh, but what if they move

00:09:44.980 some of the, you know,

00:09:45.640 enriched uranium?

00:09:46.420 Okay.

00:09:47.300 But also because of the destruction

00:09:49.900 of the ballistic,

00:09:50.640 the mobile ballistic missile launchers

00:09:52.260 and the recognition

00:09:53.640 that Israel knows

00:09:54.400 where everything is, essentially.

00:09:56.260 The Israelis had this whole country

00:09:57.840 mapped out,

00:09:58.560 and that's why I think

00:10:00.020 in the opening hours,

00:10:00.680 I mean, this was a true shock

00:10:01.680 and awe campaign,

00:10:02.540 but a targeted one.

00:10:03.660 It wasn't,

00:10:04.260 we're going to level your cities

00:10:05.140 and then you'll wake up the next day

00:10:06.640 and maybe you'll want to play ball with us.

00:10:08.200 It was,

00:10:08.720 we'll take out all of your military infrastructure,

00:10:10.540 that's critical.

00:10:11.360 We'll do it with the precision of a surgeon,

00:10:13.980 and then we can have a talk.

00:10:16.100 And your own people will see

00:10:17.560 that we're not leveling apartment buildings,

00:10:19.600 we're not being reckless about this.

00:10:21.640 We are targeting you militarily

00:10:24.000 because we are better than you militarily.

00:10:25.700 That is what the Israelis showed

00:10:27.600 beyond any doubt.

00:10:29.380 So, okay,

00:10:29.740 that's the first component of this.

00:10:31.140 The next stage is what happens now.

00:10:33.760 What does Trump want?

00:10:34.620 Other than Trump telling the kids,

00:10:35.820 misbehave yourselves

00:10:36.620 in a very Trump way.

00:10:39.240 No, you shouldn't,

00:10:40.260 you shouldn't use salty language

00:10:41.360 in front of the kids like Trump did,

00:10:42.580 but that's, you know,

00:10:43.120 he's talking to adults.

00:10:44.440 But other than getting them

00:10:45.560 to abide by the ceasefire,

00:10:47.320 the case for optimism,

00:10:48.420 I think,

00:10:48.720 in Iran, Clay,

00:10:49.380 that's realistic,

00:10:50.420 is that now,

00:10:51.840 remember,

00:10:52.220 they have elections.

00:10:53.280 Now, I know they're not

00:10:54.180 free and fair elections,

00:10:55.220 but, you know,

00:10:55.460 they have some process in place.

00:10:58.520 They have this

00:10:59.160 Masoud Pazeshkian,

00:11:03.120 Pazeshkian, rather,

00:11:04.840 who is the president.

00:11:07.520 They have something where

00:11:09.040 now they can't, I think,

00:11:10.700 rely on the external threat

00:11:12.300 of Israel

00:11:12.900 to be the constant excuse

00:11:14.240 for why their currency sucks

00:11:16.540 and they can't,

00:11:17.260 you know,

00:11:17.500 the quality of life is so low.

00:11:19.640 Maybe for their own

00:11:21.000 internal stability reasons.

00:11:23.000 So, out of pure self-interest

00:11:24.340 and cynicism,

00:11:25.580 the Ayatollah

00:11:26.380 and the Iranian regime

00:11:27.340 will say,

00:11:27.880 all right,

00:11:28.340 we will tone it down

00:11:29.620 for a bit,

00:11:30.420 we will try to get

00:11:31.360 maximum oil flow going,

00:11:33.500 and we'll rebuild.

00:11:35.620 I don't think

00:11:36.000 ideologically they've changed.

00:11:37.080 They still hate the Israelis.

00:11:38.080 I get it.

00:11:38.620 But they might be

00:11:40.020 in a period here

00:11:40.960 of contraction

00:11:41.700 where they quiet down

00:11:43.980 for a while.

00:11:44.380 I think that's a reasonable

00:11:45.700 case for optimism

00:11:46.780 for what the Middle East

00:11:48.780 looks like.

00:11:49.320 I do not see

00:11:50.540 a Tahrir Square Egypt

00:11:52.640 2012 or whenever

00:11:54.900 that was moment here.

00:11:56.040 I don't see that happening,

00:11:57.020 but you never know.

00:11:57.760 They didn't see that happening

00:11:58.580 in Egypt until it did.

00:11:59.800 I would love

00:12:01.000 if they could turn

00:12:02.540 the internet on,

00:12:03.980 Elon Musk,

00:12:04.840 through Starlink

00:12:05.760 and keep it on

00:12:07.000 for the Iranian people

00:12:08.580 because I don't think

00:12:09.860 it's just seeing

00:12:10.820 how people in Israel live

00:12:12.560 or how people

00:12:13.120 in the United States live.

00:12:14.940 I think

00:12:15.520 the embarrassment

00:12:17.180 of seeing

00:12:18.100 Saudi Arabia

00:12:18.940 and Qatar

00:12:19.800 and Bahrain

00:12:21.000 and the UAE

00:12:22.340 which were seen

00:12:23.600 as inferior countries

00:12:25.240 to Iran

00:12:25.900 for most of world history,

00:12:28.060 surpassing Iran

00:12:29.180 in a major way

00:12:30.140 is a big part

00:12:30.960 of this story.

00:12:31.780 I also think

00:12:32.340 you have to give

00:12:32.820 President Trump

00:12:33.560 a tremendous amount

00:12:34.740 of credit here

00:12:35.520 for leading

00:12:36.780 with commerce.

00:12:38.120 The way that he

00:12:39.220 has connected

00:12:39.800 with the people,

00:12:41.100 the Arab leaders

00:12:42.840 of the Middle East

00:12:43.920 is primarily

00:12:44.880 through economics

00:12:46.040 and saying,

00:12:47.000 hey,

00:12:47.340 let's invest

00:12:48.540 and build together.

00:12:49.940 They respect

00:12:50.580 Trump's business acumen

00:12:52.340 because they are

00:12:53.600 trying to expand

00:12:54.540 beyond the good gift

00:12:56.180 that they have

00:12:57.080 of oil in their region,

00:12:58.660 but they understand

00:12:59.960 that in these smarter

00:13:01.340 countries

00:13:01.900 with better leadership,

00:13:03.640 oil is not going

00:13:05.040 to create

00:13:06.020 tremendous

00:13:07.020 long-term

00:13:08.160 multi-generational

00:13:09.860 hundreds of years

00:13:11.160 of return

00:13:12.340 because at some point

00:13:13.300 it's going to run out

00:13:14.220 and they have to have

00:13:15.340 something else

00:13:15.980 that their economy

00:13:16.700 can be based on

00:13:17.840 and Iran

00:13:18.840 has not been able

00:13:19.900 to take that next step

00:13:21.140 and I think it's

00:13:21.740 because they've gotten

00:13:22.260 bogged down

00:13:22.980 in the purity test

00:13:25.060 of the religious clerics

00:13:26.880 and I wonder

00:13:27.500 how many people

00:13:28.780 who are Iranian

00:13:29.460 are looking around

00:13:30.660 and saying

00:13:31.140 this is an embarrassment

00:13:32.100 to us

00:13:33.040 that other countries

00:13:34.560 in our region,

00:13:35.200 it's one thing

00:13:35.580 if Israel and the United States

00:13:36.720 are bigger and better,

00:13:37.860 but other Arab countries,

00:13:39.360 Arab Muslim countries,

00:13:40.640 I think it's a humiliation

00:13:41.660 to them.

00:13:42.400 Well,

00:13:42.560 there's an embarrassment

00:13:43.600 here that the Iranian

00:13:44.920 nation state

00:13:46.200 has suffered

00:13:46.820 that it is so

00:13:47.740 militarily,

00:13:49.300 you know,

00:13:49.640 putting this in guy terms,

00:13:52.120 if,

00:13:52.560 you know,

00:13:53.940 if you're so much stronger

00:13:55.180 and bigger than somebody

00:13:56.340 and you get into

00:13:57.320 like a bar fight situation

00:13:58.600 and you slap them

00:14:00.240 instead of punch them,

00:14:01.280 it's kind of worse

00:14:02.040 in a way,

00:14:02.920 you know,

00:14:03.180 because if you punch,

00:14:04.500 like you're so,

00:14:05.960 you know,

00:14:06.360 if you punch them,

00:14:07.060 you may really do

00:14:07.940 a lot of harm,

00:14:08.760 so you might slap them.

00:14:09.780 If a guy slaps another guy,

00:14:12.260 in some ways,

00:14:13.000 it's worse.

00:14:13.300 It's such a disrespect

00:14:14.300 that he's not even afraid

00:14:15.780 of you being able

00:14:16.560 to punch him back.

00:14:17.680 He's not trying to

00:14:18.840 knock you out.

00:14:19.740 He's just like,

00:14:20.280 you're a little bitch.

00:14:21.540 I'm going to slap you

00:14:22.360 in the face.

00:14:22.940 I knew Clay would say it

00:14:24.080 if I,

00:14:24.800 yeah,

00:14:25.100 so that's,

00:14:26.320 and that's kind of

00:14:27.200 what the Israeli military

00:14:28.060 has done to the Iranian

00:14:29.020 military here.

00:14:29.700 They're like,

00:14:29.920 we're not,

00:14:30.180 we don't even have to,

00:14:31.100 we can just dismantle you

00:14:32.740 and we don't have to worry

00:14:34.360 about causing a lot

00:14:35.420 of collateral damage

00:14:36.180 or civilian casualties

00:14:37.020 because we are so much,

00:14:38.080 we are so superior

00:14:38.920 to you militarily.

00:14:40.260 Yes.

00:14:40.700 That's a,

00:14:41.240 that's,

00:14:41.640 you know,

00:14:41.780 the Iranians have

00:14:42.460 a national pride

00:14:43.380 even though they're,

00:14:44.120 they have problems

00:14:44.780 with their regime.

00:14:45.340 They had a national pride

00:14:46.100 and they're now

00:14:46.720 effectively gone

00:14:48.200 nuclear program

00:14:49.060 and their military

00:14:51.180 capabilities.

00:14:52.180 What we see is that,

00:14:53.440 you know,

00:14:53.660 whoever's got the best,

00:14:54.700 the best missiles,

00:14:55.520 drones,

00:14:56.040 radar,

00:14:56.560 comms,

00:14:57.260 planes,

00:14:57.880 et cetera,

00:14:59.000 is in a whole different league.

00:15:00.720 And so there's going to be

00:15:02.080 more internal pressure,

00:15:03.320 I think,

00:15:03.800 just more of a sense

00:15:04.840 when inside the country,

00:15:06.280 why are these clowns

00:15:07.820 in charge again?

00:15:08.740 Yeah.

00:15:09.100 They're not,

00:15:09.300 that's the question.

00:15:09.980 They're not even,

00:15:10.620 they can't even defend us.

00:15:11.980 They can't even defend

00:15:12.600 their most precious asset,

00:15:13.740 which was the nuclear program.

00:15:14.900 So why are they there?

00:15:16.100 Now,

00:15:16.460 I don't know if that turns

00:15:17.260 into overthrow or not.

00:15:19.800 I think,

00:15:20.180 you know,

00:15:20.420 that one thing that these

00:15:21.160 regimes are very good at

00:15:22.240 is preventing overthrow

00:15:24.000 because that's what

00:15:24.580 they are obsessed with,

00:15:25.660 right?

00:15:25.840 That's the thing they care

00:15:26.600 about more than anything else.

00:15:27.760 But I do think that it means

00:15:29.000 the Iranians are going to

00:15:30.260 probably play within the,

00:15:31.420 the sandbox,

00:15:32.600 so to speak,

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00:17:17.540 I am up in Michigan.

00:17:20.140 Buck is back from Europe.

00:17:22.240 Yesterday he was,

00:17:23.180 but in the event,

00:17:23.840 you missed some of yesterday's show.

00:17:26.000 He is in Miami.

00:17:27.080 So we have got

00:17:28.220 a large swath of the nation

00:17:30.700 top to bottom covered.

00:17:32.180 I am in near the northern,

00:17:34.640 in the near the northern border.

00:17:37.480 I think it's fair to say

00:17:38.420 at News Talk 580 WTCM

00:17:41.040 in Traverse City,

00:17:42.220 Michigan.

00:17:42.720 Buck near the southern border

00:17:44.520 in Miami.

00:17:45.280 It is hot all over the country

00:17:47.500 as summer has arrived

00:17:48.980 in full force.

00:17:50.480 Mayor's race,

00:17:51.400 Democrat primary

00:17:52.720 taking place today

00:17:53.900 in New York City.

00:17:55.160 We will talk some about that,

00:17:57.120 but the number one story remains,

00:17:59.680 Iran, Israel,

00:18:01.540 the ceasefire

00:18:02.280 that as I speak to all of you

00:18:04.320 remains in effect.

00:18:07.000 And that is to a large extent

00:18:09.040 based on the work

00:18:10.260 that President Trump

00:18:11.440 did yesterday.

00:18:12.620 We played some of the audio

00:18:14.720 of Trump

00:18:15.520 basically as a frustrated dad

00:18:18.460 who's on a summer vacation

00:18:20.780 and doesn't understand

00:18:21.800 why things can't get resolved there.

00:18:25.040 But we will dive into this.

00:18:28.680 And also,

00:18:29.760 I'm going to tie this in

00:18:31.560 because the leading

00:18:33.200 New York City Democrat candidate,

00:18:36.100 Momdani,

00:18:37.120 who is a crazy left-wing socialist

00:18:40.460 who wants to run grocery stores

00:18:42.760 on behalf of the city of New York,

00:18:45.260 who wants to replace police officers

00:18:47.620 with social workers.

00:18:49.120 I mean,

00:18:49.320 this is crazy town.

00:18:52.060 He would say

00:18:53.340 that he would arrest

00:18:55.200 Benjamin Netanyahu

00:18:56.740 if he came to New York City.

00:19:00.520 I think there's a lot of you out there

00:19:02.460 that are saying,

00:19:03.340 man,

00:19:03.500 this is crazy town.

00:19:04.880 This is how Democrats are responding.

00:19:06.520 And speaking of crazy town,

00:19:07.720 I do want to run through

00:19:09.920 some things that

00:19:11.660 many people out there said

00:19:14.360 would happen

00:19:16.100 if we got involved in any way

00:19:19.060 or if Israel bombed Iran.

00:19:21.540 World War III,

00:19:23.620 Buck,

00:19:24.360 as a

00:19:25.120 former

00:19:26.440 CIA

00:19:28.240 analyst,

00:19:30.920 it seems like a little bit of a stretch

00:19:33.680 to argue that Iran,

00:19:34.920 which did not have one public ally,

00:19:38.200 not China,

00:19:39.080 not Russia,

00:19:39.860 not Saudi Arabia,

00:19:41.020 not Iraq,

00:19:42.240 not the UAE,

00:19:43.440 not Qatar,

00:19:44.740 not Syria,

00:19:46.200 no one came out and said,

00:19:48.580 hey,

00:19:49.120 we've got your back,

00:19:50.720 Iran.

00:19:51.540 But a lot of people said

00:19:52.680 this was going to start World War III.

00:19:54.400 A lot of people said

00:19:55.280 there would be thousands,

00:19:56.520 if not tens of thousands,

00:19:57.940 of American troops killed,

00:19:59.940 that your oil prices

00:20:01.340 would skyrocket,

00:20:02.540 that the stock market

00:20:04.300 would collapse.

00:20:06.160 Here is where we are right now.

00:20:08.260 Oil prices.

00:20:09.680 Oil prices have collapsed

00:20:11.640 since all of this

00:20:14.460 has been resolved.

00:20:16.060 They are

00:20:16.620 around $65 a barrel.

00:20:19.700 Oil prices,

00:20:20.880 for those of you

00:20:21.460 who have paid attention over time,

00:20:22.860 you know this.

00:20:23.840 During summer,

00:20:24.820 when everybody,

00:20:25.540 dad and mom,

00:20:26.280 grandma and grandpa,

00:20:27.100 get out on the road,

00:20:28.580 oil prices tend to go up

00:20:30.000 in the summer

00:20:30.540 and then come back down

00:20:31.700 in the fall

00:20:32.280 through the winter.

00:20:33.500 That is basically

00:20:34.500 what is happening right now,

00:20:35.980 but they are substantially below

00:20:37.760 where they were

00:20:38.700 two summers ago,

00:20:40.280 three summers ago,

00:20:41.300 for those of you out there.

00:20:42.720 As I am talking to you right now,

00:20:45.520 here is another thing

00:20:46.780 that you were told.

00:20:47.660 The economy is going to collapse.

00:20:49.480 Trump has no idea

00:20:50.380 what he's doing with tariffs.

00:20:52.560 Buck,

00:20:53.100 as I am talking to you

00:20:54.320 right now,

00:20:55.560 the S&P 500,

00:20:56.920 500 largest companies in America,

00:20:58.660 is within one-half percentage point

00:21:02.340 of its all-time high.

00:21:04.500 That means

00:21:05.540 that if you had bought

00:21:07.640 in February

00:21:08.720 at the absolute peak

00:21:11.140 of the market,

00:21:12.140 the all-time high

00:21:13.400 that had ever been set

00:21:14.800 in the history

00:21:15.580 of the stock market,

00:21:17.520 and you had done nothing,

00:21:18.980 you had just put those stocks

00:21:20.260 off to the side,

00:21:21.580 and you had paid

00:21:22.600 zero attention to it

00:21:24.180 for the past,

00:21:25.900 whatever it is,

00:21:26.540 five, six months,

00:21:27.400 four months since that happened,

00:21:29.280 you would actually have lost

00:21:31.480 on paper

00:21:32.500 about one-half of 1%.

00:21:35.480 You would still have

00:21:37.080 99.5% of your assets

00:21:39.920 even if you had bought

00:21:41.120 at the all-time high.

00:21:42.520 And by the way,

00:21:43.480 we are close to setting

00:21:44.700 a new all-time high

00:21:45.840 in which case

00:21:46.480 you would be back

00:21:47.400 in positive territory.

00:21:49.000 Just in the last couple of months,

00:21:50.640 I think this is important,

00:21:52.420 a lot of people out there

00:21:54.040 on the left,

00:21:54.900 on the right,

00:21:55.640 in media in general,

00:21:56.700 have tried to terrify you

00:21:58.640 about stock market prices.

00:22:00.380 They have tried to terrify you

00:22:02.080 about what the price

00:22:02.900 of oil and gas

00:22:03.700 was going to be.

00:22:04.660 They've tried to terrify you

00:22:06.060 about the tariff.

00:22:07.580 They have tried to terrify you

00:22:09.740 about World War III.

00:22:12.180 And as we sit here

00:22:13.480 coming up on the end of June

00:22:15.040 and hopefully what is going to be

00:22:16.100 a really fun July 4th

00:22:17.780 with Trump back in office,

00:22:19.780 I would just point out

00:22:21.120 everything's kind of awesome.

00:22:22.700 I mean,

00:22:23.820 let's be honest.

00:22:25.020 Yes, true.

00:22:26.460 It's going on.

00:22:27.260 The country's doing great right now.

00:22:29.820 And Trump has six months in here

00:22:33.800 pretty much

00:22:34.360 or close to six months

00:22:35.260 into his first or second term.

00:22:37.640 He is,

00:22:38.640 he's just kicking ass

00:22:39.740 and taking names.

00:22:40.520 And if that wasn't the case,

00:22:42.040 we would say so.

00:22:42.760 We would try to tell the president

00:22:45.120 via this show,

00:22:46.200 tell his staffers via this show

00:22:47.960 what we think could be going

00:22:49.580 in a markedly different direction

00:22:51.880 or a different focus

00:22:52.880 or whatever.

00:22:53.520 They're doing a really good job

00:22:55.020 on a whole range of things.

00:22:56.800 And I know that they haven't

00:22:58.720 gotten everything done yet,

00:22:59.740 but of course not, right?

00:23:00.620 That's a completely unrealistic

00:23:01.720 view of what could happen.

00:23:04.640 And you're never done.

00:23:05.540 As an administration,

00:23:06.420 there's endless things

00:23:07.340 that need to get work and attention.

00:23:10.040 But if you're looking at this

00:23:11.320 with a realistic eye,

00:23:12.780 Trump has had a remarkably successful

00:23:15.000 opening to term two here

00:23:17.120 or in the first few months

00:23:18.380 of term two economy is really good.

00:23:20.960 And the catastrophism,

00:23:22.540 I think has gotten old

00:23:24.400 for a lot of people that,

00:23:25.580 oh my gosh,

00:23:26.180 it used to be.

00:23:27.140 So here's the thing, Clay.

00:23:28.620 It used to be that the catastrophism

00:23:30.400 was just a constant

00:23:31.600 from the other side

00:23:33.360 as a means of trying

00:23:34.740 to create negativity

00:23:35.980 about Trump, right?

00:23:37.420 Oh my gosh,

00:23:38.380 he's talking to Kim Jong,

00:23:40.460 Kim Jong Il or Kim Jong Un.

00:23:42.620 It's all going to fall apart.

00:23:43.720 You know, it's a no, no, no.

00:23:45.660 Oh, it used to be

00:23:47.180 the Democrats are worried

00:23:48.100 about World War III

00:23:49.000 when there was no realistic prospect

00:23:50.480 of World War III.

00:23:51.700 Now we've had some Republicans

00:23:52.940 and some Trump supporters,

00:23:54.680 at least ostensibly Trump supporters,

00:23:56.360 who are screaming

00:23:57.860 about World War III.

00:23:59.100 You know,

00:23:59.440 if you have any knowledge

00:24:00.280 of World War I

00:24:00.840 or World War II,

00:24:01.880 I think you're a lot slower

00:24:03.040 to talk about World War III

00:24:04.720 because of what that

00:24:05.840 would actually mean

00:24:06.560 and what that would look like

00:24:07.360 in a modern context.

00:24:08.300 Trump knows what he's doing.

00:24:11.620 He has a very clear understanding,

00:24:14.140 I think,

00:24:14.460 of a lot of the risks

00:24:16.080 and the challenges

00:24:17.020 that go into

00:24:19.380 the thinking of people

00:24:21.340 that lets them believe

00:24:22.900 that things are about

00:24:24.060 to go completely off,

00:24:25.580 you know,

00:24:25.900 off the rails.

00:24:26.660 It's going to be a total mess.

00:24:28.160 So the faith that we all

00:24:30.220 should have in Trump

00:24:30.880 at this point,

00:24:31.620 I think,

00:24:32.820 is something that should

00:24:33.400 be a constant.

00:24:34.720 And I think that

00:24:35.560 the freak-out stuff

00:24:37.040 is just unhelpful.

00:24:39.600 Here's Trump,

00:24:40.140 by the way.

00:24:41.300 He doesn't want to,

00:24:41.900 this is cut three,

00:24:43.000 he doesn't want to hear

00:24:44.000 all this stuff now

00:24:44.960 about,

00:24:45.300 oh,

00:24:45.500 but he didn't really

00:24:47.180 take out the nuclear program.

00:24:49.180 Now that's the latest complaint.

00:24:50.680 Play three.

00:24:51.260 When I see CNN

00:24:52.240 all night long,

00:24:53.160 they're trying to say,

00:24:53.860 well,

00:24:54.440 maybe it wasn't really

00:24:55.860 as demolished

00:24:56.720 as we thought

00:24:57.380 it was demolished.

00:24:58.800 You take a look

00:24:59.420 at the pinpricks

00:25:00.300 and you see

00:25:01.300 that place is gone.

00:25:03.100 And I will say,

00:25:04.020 I think CNN

00:25:04.960 ought to apologize

00:25:05.900 to the pilots

00:25:06.840 of the B-2s.

00:25:08.140 I think that MSDNC

00:25:09.640 ought to apologize.

00:25:11.700 I think these guys

00:25:12.560 really,

00:25:13.080 these networks

00:25:13.820 and these cable networks

00:25:15.840 are real losers.

00:25:17.820 You really are.

00:25:18.500 You're real early.

00:25:19.780 The degree says

00:25:21.000 that they violated

00:25:21.740 the B-2s.

00:25:22.480 You're gutless losers.

00:25:23.720 I say that to CNN

00:25:24.900 because I watch it.

00:25:26.500 I have no choice.

00:25:27.280 I got to watch that garbage.

00:25:28.420 It's all garbage.

00:25:29.240 It's all fake news.

00:25:30.600 But I think CNN

00:25:31.520 is a gutless group

00:25:33.520 but they both

00:25:34.160 gutless losers

00:25:36.340 is a hell of a lie

00:25:37.480 by talking.

00:25:39.580 And by the way,

00:25:41.320 let's just mention this.

00:25:42.980 I've got on the screen

00:25:44.180 right now.

00:25:45.460 Trump is going to be

00:25:46.520 visiting the Royal Palace

00:25:47.840 in the Netherlands soon.

00:25:50.120 Trump is 79 years old, Buck.

00:25:52.540 You just came back

00:25:53.580 from Europe.

00:25:54.360 Now,

00:25:54.560 I know you didn't get

00:25:55.200 to travel on Air Force One.

00:25:56.860 He's probably got

00:25:57.500 a little bit better

00:25:58.160 living quarters

00:25:58.920 than you do

00:25:59.540 on your airplane flight.

00:26:02.200 But he just landed

00:26:04.060 in Europe

00:26:04.760 after spending

00:26:06.040 the last 12 days

00:26:07.860 trying to mediate

00:26:09.360 the conflict

00:26:10.820 between Israel

00:26:11.720 and Iran.

00:26:12.680 And he's immediately

00:26:14.140 going to go

00:26:15.280 to a late night

00:26:17.340 in Europe

00:26:18.100 event for NATO.

00:26:20.320 And the guy's energy

00:26:22.700 leave aside

00:26:23.920 his age

00:26:25.140 for a moment.

00:26:25.900 I don't think

00:26:27.440 most 45-year-olds

00:26:29.060 I don't think

00:26:30.160 most 35-year-olds

00:26:31.680 would be able

00:26:32.800 to keep up

00:26:33.660 with what Trump

00:26:34.500 is doing

00:26:35.160 purely from

00:26:36.660 a day-to-day

00:26:39.060 existence level.

00:26:40.200 The guy's barely

00:26:40.880 sleeping

00:26:41.500 managing every

00:26:42.400 conflict under the sun.

00:26:43.540 I think I need

00:26:44.260 naps more than

00:26:45.200 Clay does.

00:26:46.260 I mean,

00:26:46.460 sorry,

00:26:46.780 more than Trump

00:26:47.320 does rather.

00:26:48.080 I think I need

00:26:48.800 more naps

00:26:49.300 than Trump.

00:26:50.360 And I'm not

00:26:51.020 the president.

00:26:52.220 And I'm not

00:26:52.640 almost 80.

00:26:53.780 I don't know

00:26:54.160 how many of you

00:26:54.760 out there are

00:26:55.280 in your 70s,

00:26:56.260 but I think

00:26:57.020 if you are

00:26:57.780 listening to us

00:26:58.660 and you're

00:26:59.040 in your 70s,

00:27:00.600 you are even

00:27:01.360 more impressed

00:27:02.220 than the average

00:27:03.100 30 or 40

00:27:04.040 or 50-year-old

00:27:05.060 because,

00:27:05.900 you know,

00:27:06.760 if you're in

00:27:07.460 really good health,

00:27:08.780 you don't know

00:27:09.800 necessarily what

00:27:10.920 you're going to

00:27:11.280 feel like in your

00:27:12.080 70s.

00:27:12.760 The number of

00:27:13.280 79-year-olds,

00:27:14.560 first of all,

00:27:15.100 that are alive,

00:27:16.500 isn't the average

00:27:17.220 age of death

00:27:17.920 for men,

00:27:19.360 78.

00:27:20.020 I don't want to

00:27:21.340 be super dark,

00:27:22.280 but I mean,

00:27:22.600 the average

00:27:23.020 78-year-old

00:27:24.080 man is not

00:27:25.120 even alive,

00:27:26.140 all right?

00:27:26.600 79-year-old man

00:27:27.540 is not even

00:27:27.900 alive,

00:27:28.760 much less

00:27:29.400 traveling all

00:27:30.160 over the world

00:27:30.960 managing the

00:27:31.860 biggest conflicts

00:27:32.660 that are going

00:27:33.300 on anywhere.

00:27:34.880 I mean,

00:27:35.400 the guy's energy

00:27:36.100 is off the charts.

00:27:37.640 He also,

00:27:38.640 he called them

00:27:39.740 gutless over at

00:27:40.960 CNN.

00:27:42.000 And look,

00:27:42.540 I agree with

00:27:42.960 his frustration.

00:27:43.560 It's like,

00:27:44.040 oh my gosh,

00:27:44.560 if you do the

00:27:45.100 airstrikes,

00:27:45.660 World War III

00:27:46.100 is going to

00:27:46.400 happen.

00:27:47.160 Airstrikes happen,

00:27:47.960 no World War III

00:27:48.760 of any kind,

00:27:49.560 not even close.

00:27:50.360 It's pretty much

00:27:50.800 all over.

00:27:51.440 And now it's,

00:27:52.640 well,

00:27:52.760 maybe you didn't

00:27:53.340 get everything

00:27:54.000 with the airstrikes.

00:27:55.000 Like,

00:27:55.120 you can never,

00:27:56.580 you can't win

00:27:57.120 with these people.

00:27:58.140 I get his frustration.

00:27:59.940 And so Trump went,

00:28:00.760 this is cut four,

00:28:01.640 he goes further here

00:28:02.600 and just says,

00:28:03.680 guys,

00:28:04.180 okay,

00:28:04.500 they're not getting nukes.

00:28:05.660 I told you they

00:28:06.260 wouldn't get nukes.

00:28:06.980 It's not happening.

00:28:08.300 And maybe now they

00:28:09.100 actually want to make

00:28:09.680 some money and be

00:28:10.320 a normal country

00:28:11.100 a little bit,

00:28:11.900 a little bit.

00:28:12.560 Play four.

00:28:12.960 Did Iran make

00:28:14.040 any commitments

00:28:14.920 yesterday about

00:28:15.800 uranium enrichment?

00:28:17.320 About what?

00:28:17.800 About uranium enrichment.

00:28:19.460 They're not going

00:28:19.940 to have enrichment

00:28:20.780 and they're not going

00:28:21.520 to have a nuclear weapon

00:28:22.420 and they know that.

00:28:23.580 They're going to get

00:28:24.120 on to being

00:28:24.840 a great trading nation.

00:28:26.760 You know,

00:28:27.020 they're very good traders.

00:28:28.940 They're going to be

00:28:29.500 a great trading nation

00:28:30.640 and they have a lot

00:28:31.600 of oil.

00:28:32.620 They're going to do well.

00:28:33.720 They're not,

00:28:34.220 they're not going

00:28:35.540 to have a nuclear weapon.

00:28:36.580 So did they promise?

00:28:37.600 The last thing

00:28:37.900 on Iran's mind

00:28:38.760 right now

00:28:39.340 is nuclear weapons.

00:28:40.920 they want to sell

00:28:43.100 their oil clay.

00:28:44.300 They have beautiful carpets,

00:28:46.080 a lot of pistachios,

00:28:47.940 trade.

00:28:48.800 Great future for Iran.

00:28:51.560 I would love

00:28:52.660 at some point in time

00:28:54.060 to visit Iran.

00:28:56.220 I've heard that it is

00:28:57.480 a really beautiful country

00:28:59.160 with great history.

00:29:00.540 I'm going to need you

00:29:01.080 to wait on that

00:29:01.600 a little bit, buddy.

00:29:02.280 Okay.

00:29:02.700 Otherwise,

00:29:03.340 I'm going to have to talk

00:29:04.020 to our JSOC listeners.

00:29:05.520 It's going to get messy.

00:29:06.220 I'm going to have to be back

00:29:06.880 at the seventh floor of Langley.

00:29:08.380 Give it a few years.

00:29:09.200 Okay.

00:29:09.480 I don't think we have

00:29:10.300 a great affiliate in Tehran.

00:29:12.240 So I don't think

00:29:13.380 I'm going to be doing

00:29:13.960 I heart Tehran

00:29:15.020 anytime soon.

00:29:15.840 But I would like

00:29:17.940 my point on this.

00:29:18.920 I've never been,

00:29:19.740 you know,

00:29:19.940 I've been to Israel,

00:29:20.560 but I would like

00:29:21.140 to go to Saudi Arabia.

00:29:22.140 I would like to go

00:29:23.000 to the UAA,

00:29:23.840 Qatar,

00:29:24.380 Buran,

00:29:24.960 Bahrain.

00:29:25.480 I've heard it's

00:29:26.340 really incredible to see.

00:29:28.220 And I hope to be able

00:29:29.180 to go to those countries.

00:29:30.640 And I think,

00:29:31.680 again,

00:29:32.460 for the Iranian people

00:29:33.680 to think about

00:29:34.820 what the difference

00:29:36.620 is between

00:29:37.700 the last 46 years

00:29:39.680 for Saudi Arabia

00:29:40.520 or Qatar,

00:29:41.260 Bahrain,

00:29:41.620 or the UAE.

00:29:42.680 These are countries

00:29:43.400 you used to look down on

00:29:44.640 and basically thumb your nose at

00:29:47.140 because your culture

00:29:48.680 and your history

00:29:49.760 was vastly superior

00:29:51.380 to theirs

00:29:52.020 and you had a higher

00:29:52.780 quality of life.

00:29:53.860 They've all passed you.

00:29:55.160 This has nothing to do

00:29:55.960 with Israel

00:29:56.420 or the United States.

00:29:57.260 Clearly,

00:29:57.580 we live better here

00:29:58.340 than the people of Iran do.

00:29:59.680 But it's one thing

00:30:00.340 to look around

00:30:00.940 in your neighborhood

00:30:01.660 and your geographic region.

00:30:03.000 It's a little bit,

00:30:04.880 Buck,

00:30:06.440 you know,

00:30:07.280 keeping up with the Joneses,

00:30:08.560 so to speak.

00:30:09.120 Everybody talks about this.

00:30:10.680 They've fallen behind.

00:30:12.140 This is also where I think

00:30:13.400 the military inferiority

00:30:15.940 of the Iranians now

00:30:17.540 is where a lot of this

00:30:19.520 gets exposed

00:30:20.180 because you cannot have

00:30:22.620 an effective military

00:30:24.260 in 2025

00:30:25.500 without a serious economy.

00:30:28.540 It is not possible.

00:30:29.920 It's true.

00:30:30.160 You cannot compete.

00:30:31.180 It doesn't matter,

00:30:32.240 you know,

00:30:32.640 whether you think

00:30:33.440 Allah's on your side.

00:30:35.000 It doesn't matter,

00:30:35.820 you know,

00:30:36.140 what the history is

00:30:37.280 or how brave

00:30:38.060 your soldiers are

00:30:39.000 or whatever.

00:30:39.780 If you do not have

00:30:40.800 a sophisticated economy,

00:30:42.260 your military

00:30:43.220 cannot compete.

00:30:45.440 And the Iranians

00:30:46.160 have been exposed

00:30:47.660 on this one.

00:30:48.420 They've gotten

00:30:48.800 all this,

00:30:49.720 you know,

00:30:50.260 mileage,

00:30:50.880 so to speak,

00:30:51.520 strategically

00:30:52.120 out of supporting

00:30:53.420 these proxies

00:30:54.200 and it's gotten,

00:30:55.440 all it does

00:30:55.940 is just sow

00:30:56.380 further misery

00:30:57.020 and chaos.

00:30:57.640 They're not actually

00:30:58.580 expanding

00:30:59.460 Iranian influence

00:31:00.980 in a way

00:31:01.280 that helps

00:31:01.840 any Iranian people.

00:31:03.980 I actually like

00:31:04.880 your analogy

00:31:05.600 of how Israel

00:31:07.080 basically just walked up

00:31:08.220 and slapped Iran

00:31:09.060 in the face.

00:31:09.740 They didn't even need

00:31:10.200 to throw a punch.

00:31:10.740 It's true.

00:31:11.300 Not even closed hand,

00:31:12.620 you know,

00:31:12.740 not even closed fist.

00:31:13.880 They just kind of,

00:31:14.600 they slapped Iran

00:31:15.460 across the face

00:31:16.200 and they were like,

00:31:16.640 Iran,

00:31:16.960 behave yourself.

00:31:18.040 That's what the Israelis did.

00:31:20.160 Which,

00:31:20.560 if you're a guy,

00:31:21.300 all the guys listen,

00:31:22.020 no,

00:31:22.220 it's like,

00:31:23.060 I kind of would rather

00:31:23.760 get punched,

00:31:24.380 actually.

00:31:24.640 At least if somebody

00:31:26.000 throws a punch at you,

00:31:27.260 they respect your ability

00:31:28.520 that you could do

00:31:29.700 something back to them.

00:31:30.780 Right?

00:31:31.380 You punch somebody

00:31:32.160 because,

00:31:32.660 you know,

00:31:32.900 you think they could

00:31:33.440 punch back.

00:31:33.980 If you know they can't,

00:31:35.800 I mean,

00:31:36.020 Israel was like,

00:31:37.280 this is a backhand.

00:31:38.820 You know what I mean?

00:31:40.060 The back of the hand.

00:31:41.060 They basically just

00:31:41.880 took the glove.

00:31:42.640 They didn't even use the hand.

00:31:43.780 They smacked him

00:31:44.380 in the face with the glove.

00:31:45.600 It's embarrassing,

00:31:46.540 honestly.

00:31:47.460 It is tough

00:31:48.160 when you think about it

00:31:48.720 that way.

00:31:49.680 All right,

00:31:50.080 we'll take some calls

00:31:50.780 here and dive into this.

00:31:51.560 You know,

00:31:52.320 speaking about all these

00:31:53.080 countries and some of these

00:31:53.880 non-aligned countries too,

00:31:55.480 when you've got representatives

00:31:56.400 from Brazil,

00:31:57.220 China,

00:31:57.760 Russia,

00:31:58.240 India,

00:31:58.620 and yes,

00:31:59.000 Iran gathering

00:32:00.160 for a meeting

00:32:01.640 in Rio de Janeiro,

00:32:03.540 Brazil,

00:32:03.820 in just a couple of weeks,

00:32:05.340 you should ask why.

00:32:07.260 Why is that happening?

00:32:08.720 What has to do with

00:32:09.600 undermining the dollar?

00:32:12.320 The Rio reset

00:32:13.360 is what people are calling this

00:32:14.760 because these countries

00:32:15.640 are coming together

00:32:16.360 and they're trying to find

00:32:17.300 a way to start trading

00:32:19.160 without doing it

00:32:20.560 in U.S. currency,

00:32:21.640 which is a threat

00:32:22.840 to the U.S. dollar's

00:32:24.260 global dominance,

00:32:25.920 which we've had

00:32:26.360 for 80-plus years.

00:32:28.900 This Rio reset,

00:32:29.900 so to speak,

00:32:30.340 takes place on July 6th

00:32:31.480 and 7th,

00:32:32.080 and you want to remember

00:32:33.100 those because the value

00:32:34.320 of the dollar

00:32:34.860 could start to take a hit

00:32:36.220 right around then

00:32:37.660 going forward

00:32:38.800 because these countries

00:32:39.660 are laying the groundwork

00:32:40.620 to replace the dollar

00:32:41.720 and their central banks

00:32:43.400 have been divesting

00:32:44.200 from the dollar and bonds

00:32:45.380 in favor of gold,

00:32:47.420 which could also affect

00:32:48.820 the value of gold

00:32:49.840 as a commodity.

00:32:50.680 So how can you protect

00:32:52.240 your IRA or 401k

00:32:53.740 from the hit

00:32:55.060 that the dollar could take

00:32:56.280 and the upswing

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00:34:05.880 We're joined by our friend,

00:34:07.640 Mr. New York,

00:34:08.980 Mark Simone,

00:34:10.240 on at 10 a.m. Eastern

00:34:11.380 on 710 WOR

00:34:13.700 in NYC.

00:34:15.920 Mark,

00:34:16.480 you know,

00:34:16.960 you and I have known

00:34:17.420 each other a while,

00:34:18.460 and you've been saying to me,

00:34:20.300 just give it time,

00:34:21.360 you'll eventually

00:34:21.760 go back to New York.

00:34:22.640 And I gotta say,

00:34:23.320 sometimes I start to miss

00:34:24.720 the food options,

00:34:27.220 and obviously I got

00:34:28.000 family still there.

00:34:29.420 New York still has

00:34:30.180 its allure,

00:34:30.760 no question about it.

00:34:32.300 But this wacky socialist guy,

00:34:34.900 after what the city's

00:34:35.880 been through,

00:34:36.820 with de Blasio,

00:34:38.500 and then with Mayor Adams,

00:34:40.800 and now,

00:34:41.620 can this guy really win?

00:34:43.400 I mean,

00:34:43.620 bring us into

00:34:44.280 what's going on here,

00:34:45.320 because a lot of people

00:34:46.100 are looking at this saying,

00:34:47.080 how could someone

00:34:47.880 who's so far left wing

00:34:49.300 be possibly the next mayor

00:34:51.120 of America's largest city?

00:34:52.740 Well,

00:34:53.020 you could also be talking

00:34:53.820 about Andrew Cuomo,

00:34:54.880 who governed as the most

00:34:55.980 left wing kook in the world,

00:34:57.380 but you're talking about

00:34:58.080 this Momdani,

00:34:59.020 who's an actual socialist,

00:35:01.440 and Cuomo was pretty bad,

00:35:02.820 so this is the first election,

00:35:04.080 we have to pray nobody wins

00:35:05.640 this election today.

00:35:07.500 So,

00:35:07.820 yeah,

00:35:08.540 this Momdani

00:35:09.380 apparently did very well

00:35:12.720 in the early voting,

00:35:13.880 they allowed people to vote

00:35:14.760 for two weeks

00:35:15.440 before the election day,

00:35:17.520 and that was about

00:35:18.780 38% of the vote,

00:35:20.440 and he seems to be leading that,

00:35:22.640 by 10%.

00:35:24.280 Now,

00:35:24.800 he's turned off

00:35:26.740 some immigrants,

00:35:27.940 believe it or not,

00:35:28.340 Russians,

00:35:28.940 Cuban immigrants,

00:35:30.220 because he's talking about

00:35:31.060 having government-run

00:35:32.280 grocery stores,

00:35:33.440 and they say,

00:35:34.840 we grew up with socialist

00:35:36.020 government grocery stores,

00:35:37.640 they're a nightmare,

00:35:38.460 we don't want to see them again.

00:35:40.460 He's very slick,

00:35:41.980 he's very smooth-talking,

00:35:43.540 he's charming,

00:35:44.780 great campaigner.

00:35:45.940 Problem with Cuomo,

00:35:47.180 he's running a campaign

00:35:48.340 from like 1986,

00:35:49.940 you know,

00:35:50.120 with these old endorsements,

00:35:52.020 Senator Clyburn,

00:35:53.520 he had Bill Clinton

00:35:55.280 making robocalls,

00:35:56.520 you know,

00:35:56.860 to voters in their 30s.

00:35:58.820 Bill Clinton is way in the past,

00:36:00.520 it's like getting a call

00:36:01.120 from Harry Truman,

00:36:02.060 you know,

00:36:02.480 it doesn't mean anything to you.

00:36:04.840 He was bragging

00:36:05.480 about the Daily News,

00:36:06.700 the New York Daily News

00:36:07.600 newspaper endorsed him.

00:36:08.980 Most people don't even know

00:36:10.080 they still print that thing.

00:36:11.940 So,

00:36:12.300 and he's an old,

00:36:13.460 tired-looking guy,

00:36:14.460 Cuomo,

00:36:15.320 so it was pretty easy

00:36:17.240 for Momdami to get ahead of him,

00:36:18.720 and Momdami's doing

00:36:19.620 all these shows,

00:36:20.400 he was on Colbert last night,

00:36:21.980 and Cuomo has had to hide

00:36:23.900 from reporters

00:36:24.700 because of the terrible things

00:36:26.400 he's done in the past,

00:36:27.300 the baggage he has to cover up,

00:36:28.560 so he runs from reporters,

00:36:31.220 he's actually gotten

00:36:32.260 something like 10 speeding tickets

00:36:34.900 in the last few weeks,

00:36:35.620 and three or four of them

00:36:36.900 were getting away

00:36:37.580 from reporters

00:36:38.240 who were trying

00:36:38.620 to ask him a question.

00:36:41.040 I'm very anti-Momdami,

00:36:43.960 but Cuomo is no bargain either.

00:36:45.960 Wait,

00:36:46.140 can you remind everybody

00:36:47.100 why Cuomo is,

00:36:48.100 because Cuomo is sort of

00:36:49.120 positioning himself,

00:36:49.900 Mark,

00:36:50.120 as the,

00:36:50.800 you know,

00:36:51.120 I'm not the insane candidate,

00:36:52.880 the other guy is,

00:36:54.460 there's some stuff

00:36:55.540 that Cuomo did

00:36:56.420 at the state level

00:36:57.420 that affected New York,

00:36:58.260 affected all of New York State

00:36:59.580 that I think people

00:37:00.200 need to be reminded of.

00:37:01.140 Yeah,

00:37:01.400 he ran for governor

00:37:03.140 as a moderate,

00:37:03.660 but you have the list

00:37:05.300 right here.

00:37:06.240 This is the guy

00:37:06.880 that gave us

00:37:07.460 no bail,

00:37:08.280 no jail.

00:37:09.680 He pushed that like crazy.

00:37:11.100 There's video of him

00:37:11.820 pushing it.

00:37:12.620 He closed prisons,

00:37:13.860 let the prisoners out,

00:37:15.040 and there's video of him

00:37:15.960 bragging about it.

00:37:17.240 He changed the parole board,

00:37:19.020 put a bunch of left-wing

00:37:20.040 kooks on there

00:37:20.680 that let all the prisoners out.

00:37:22.560 They've let out

00:37:23.040 43 cop killers.

00:37:25.320 He took away

00:37:26.080 the qualified immunity

00:37:27.460 for policemen.

00:37:28.540 That's the protection

00:37:29.620 from being sued.

00:37:30.340 That's why we can't

00:37:31.800 hire any more cops.

00:37:33.300 He's the guy

00:37:33.920 that gave us

00:37:34.380 congestion pricing.

00:37:36.200 He was going to ban ICE

00:37:38.140 from New York State.

00:37:40.200 He threatened to sue them.

00:37:41.300 He called them thugs.

00:37:42.780 He closed Indian Point.

00:37:44.360 That's the nuclear plant.

00:37:45.540 That's 25% of our electricity.

00:37:47.640 He drove everybody's

00:37:48.500 electricity up.

00:37:49.760 He raised taxes.

00:37:51.200 We lost four congressional

00:37:53.240 seats under Cuomo

00:37:54.260 because so many people

00:37:55.120 moved out of the state.

00:37:56.860 If anybody loves him,

00:37:59.640 it's Florida.

00:38:00.240 He really did more

00:38:00.920 for Florida than New York.

00:38:02.460 I didn't even get to

00:38:03.440 killing 10,000 senior citizens

00:38:05.520 in the nursing homes

00:38:06.520 in the dumbest decision

00:38:08.300 ever made by an elected official

00:38:10.040 sending people with the virus

00:38:11.780 into nursing homes.

00:38:13.320 Okay.

00:38:13.600 All of that, Mark,

00:38:15.640 and we appreciate you

00:38:16.440 hanging out with us,

00:38:17.380 WOR listeners.

00:38:19.220 This is the first major election

00:38:21.460 since Trump.

00:38:22.820 And so people are looking

00:38:24.320 and saying,

00:38:25.600 okay, what's going to be

00:38:26.840 the outcome here?

00:38:28.340 Trump made a pretty

00:38:29.580 significant improvement

00:38:31.080 in the state of New York.

00:38:32.500 There are lots of people,

00:38:33.860 obviously,

00:38:34.300 that feel like New Jersey

00:38:35.440 could flip red.

00:38:37.760 I mean,

00:38:37.960 Trump only lost New Jersey

00:38:39.260 by about five points.

00:38:41.040 When you look at this decision

00:38:42.740 that the Democrats are making

00:38:44.540 such that Andrew friggin' Cuomo

00:38:46.840 can look like the reasonable,

00:38:49.200 rational choice for Democrats,

00:38:51.320 what does this tell us

00:38:53.240 about the party as a whole?

00:38:55.620 And also,

00:38:56.360 is this primary happening today?

00:38:59.100 Is this it?

00:39:00.140 Or let's say that Momdani wins.

00:39:02.820 Could Cuomo run as an independent?

00:39:04.760 Like, what could happen going forward?

00:39:06.740 Is there already scuttlebutt

00:39:08.640 about the larger race this fall?

00:39:11.140 And what might happen

00:39:12.360 if Momdani is the Democrat nominee?

00:39:14.660 Well, Momdani has,

00:39:16.660 in the real polls,

00:39:17.940 the internal polls,

00:39:18.840 pulled ahead of Cuomo,

00:39:19.640 which is why Cuomo has registered

00:39:21.740 as an independent.

00:39:22.920 He will be on the ticket

00:39:23.920 as an independent.

00:39:25.600 The current mayor,

00:39:26.600 Eric Adams,

00:39:27.700 is also on the independent ticket.

00:39:29.540 So you're going to have,

00:39:30.540 let's say Momdani wins,

00:39:31.760 you're going to have Momdani,

00:39:33.040 Cuomo,

00:39:34.080 Adams,

00:39:34.620 and Curtis Sliwa

00:39:35.340 as the Republican.

00:39:36.780 And there's another guy

00:39:37.860 on some party.

00:39:39.080 So it'll be the first

00:39:40.060 five-way race.

00:39:41.360 Last time that happened

00:39:42.160 was John Lindsay,

00:39:43.200 which was like early 70s.

00:39:45.480 Lindsay ran as an independent

00:39:46.860 and won as an independent.

00:39:48.760 So it is possible

00:39:50.000 to win that way.

00:39:51.600 Okay, so rank choice voting

00:39:53.020 also factors in here.

00:39:54.700 And look,

00:39:55.500 I know Alaskans

00:39:56.580 have had major issues

00:39:57.900 with this.

00:39:58.440 There are relatively few places

00:39:59.860 that do rank choice voting.

00:40:02.040 It's actually complicated.

00:40:03.680 There's talk

00:40:04.140 that it's going to take

00:40:04.960 a week or 10 days

00:40:06.720 to even figure out

00:40:07.720 what the totals are.

00:40:09.280 What can you tell us

00:40:10.280 about how the tallying

00:40:11.680 will work

00:40:12.340 and how rank choice voting

00:40:14.080 factors in here?

00:40:15.240 Well, it's a great system.

00:40:16.380 Democrats came up

00:40:17.040 with this system

00:40:17.620 so that at the end

00:40:18.420 of the night tonight,

00:40:19.200 9 o'clock,

00:40:19.760 when we see

00:40:20.240 who voted for who,

00:40:21.920 it doesn't count anymore.

00:40:23.300 So under rank choice voting,

00:40:25.160 no matter what the voters decided,

00:40:27.220 they can go into

00:40:27.860 these charts and graphs.

00:40:29.100 You could have this rank choice

00:40:30.520 explained to you

00:40:31.060 a thousand times

00:40:31.720 and still not figure it out.

00:40:33.420 It goes many, many rounds.

00:40:35.600 In fact,

00:40:35.960 in this polling,

00:40:37.600 it shows nobody could win

00:40:39.000 the first seven rounds,

00:40:40.480 which is absolutely ridiculous.

00:40:42.600 It's the way

00:40:43.520 Mom Donnie

00:40:44.080 will probably win.

00:40:44.900 And he's been more clever

00:40:46.020 understanding it

00:40:47.020 and teaming up

00:40:48.500 with other candidates.

00:40:49.340 It's kind of like

00:40:50.780 on Survivor

00:40:51.360 when you form teams

00:40:52.440 and the secret plots.

00:40:53.880 Because basically,

00:40:54.280 they're telling people

00:40:55.200 if you hate Cuomo,

00:40:56.860 just don't rank him

00:40:58.060 in any way

00:40:58.960 and try to get him

00:41:00.780 in the second,

00:41:01.560 third, fourth,

00:41:02.200 or as you just mentioned,

00:41:03.120 seventh round

00:41:03.820 of the ranked choice.

00:41:05.260 Yeah.

00:41:05.560 So with this ranked choice,

00:41:07.020 Cuomo could lose

00:41:08.160 and then he would run

00:41:09.180 as an independent.

00:41:10.940 I just don't see

00:41:12.280 Mom Donnie winning.

00:41:14.440 Curtis Sliwa

00:41:15.200 is the Republican candidate.

00:41:16.520 There is nobody else.

00:41:17.900 And he's a,

00:41:19.320 nobody better

00:41:20.220 on the subject

00:41:20.660 of crime fighting.

00:41:21.920 And I think in the end...

00:41:23.100 How is crime going

00:41:23.960 in New York City?

00:41:24.740 I mean,

00:41:24.920 Mayor Eric Adams,

00:41:26.320 former cop, right,

00:41:27.640 that's what we were all told,

00:41:28.400 is supposed to handle this.

00:41:29.640 Doesn't sound like

00:41:30.540 it's been handled.

00:41:31.380 No,

00:41:31.740 and it's been bad

00:41:32.640 for three years.

00:41:33.500 But,

00:41:34.440 great improvement

00:41:35.480 by Eric Adams

00:41:36.280 this year.

00:41:36.780 He brought in

00:41:37.440 a police commissioner,

00:41:39.000 Jessica Tish,

00:41:40.560 who has...

00:41:40.840 I used to work with Jesse.

00:41:41.840 I know Jesse, yeah.

00:41:42.940 Yeah, and you know,

00:41:43.860 she's absolutely incorruptible.

00:41:45.800 Very wealthy woman,

00:41:46.600 so she's totally incorruptible.

00:41:48.040 And there were

00:41:48.720 some bad elements

00:41:50.040 in the NYPD.

00:41:50.980 She fired them all,

00:41:52.160 fired a lot of people

00:41:53.180 the first week.

00:41:54.220 It needed to be done.

00:41:55.800 She's put in

00:41:56.780 some of the best people on,

00:41:58.960 she's created task forces

00:42:00.180 to go after this stuff.

00:42:01.140 So that's a big improvement.

00:42:02.980 Adams also brought in

00:42:04.080 Randy Mastro,

00:42:04.880 who was the top Giuliani

00:42:06.380 deputy mayor

00:42:07.960 under Rudy Giuliani.

00:42:09.620 So he's in City Hall

00:42:10.680 now running things.

00:42:11.640 So,

00:42:12.060 great improvement.

00:42:13.220 And I know Adams

00:42:13.980 is going to start campaigning.

00:42:15.480 He's been very quiet.

00:42:17.060 The current mayor

00:42:17.700 will start campaigning

00:42:18.580 like crazy tomorrow.

00:42:20.580 And who knows,

00:42:21.440 may rise up

00:42:22.100 as an independent,

00:42:23.120 might even beat Cuomo

00:42:24.000 on the independent line.

00:42:26.200 Who do you think

00:42:26.620 is going to win

00:42:27.040 this mayor's race

00:42:27.800 when all's said and done,

00:42:28.700 Mark?

00:42:29.260 Curtis Sliwa.

00:42:30.400 I think in the end,

00:42:31.580 if he gets a fair debate,

00:42:32.740 boy,

00:42:33.200 they really rigged

00:42:33.900 the debates last time

00:42:34.880 and didn't let him talk.

00:42:36.020 I love Mark's optimism, Clay.

00:42:38.980 I love optimism

00:42:40.000 via Mark here.

00:42:41.720 Okay,

00:42:42.100 so,

00:42:42.680 Mark,

00:42:43.040 let's say that you

00:42:44.120 are listening to us

00:42:45.120 and obviously,

00:42:45.840 WOR,

00:42:46.620 this is going to factor

00:42:47.300 in a big way,

00:42:48.020 New York City area listeners.

00:42:50.000 If you are nationwide,

00:42:51.500 let's say you're listening

00:42:52.240 in Phoenix

00:42:52.740 or Salt Lake City

00:42:53.740 or Houston,

00:42:54.920 one of these cities

00:42:56.280 that doesn't really

00:42:57.560 have a deep connection

00:42:58.520 to New York City,

00:42:59.320 why should people

00:43:00.340 tonight be paying

00:43:01.340 attention to what

00:43:02.300 happens in New York City

00:43:03.500 in this race

00:43:04.480 in your mind,

00:43:05.880 not only for what

00:43:06.700 it means to New York City

00:43:07.740 itself,

00:43:08.200 but for the larger

00:43:09.020 American political universe?

00:43:11.100 Well,

00:43:11.300 because the problem

00:43:11.780 is the Democratic Party

00:43:12.940 has gone nuts

00:43:13.760 and instead of the

00:43:15.040 old Bill Clinton,

00:43:15.920 Democrats,

00:43:16.500 JFK,

00:43:16.900 they've gone completely crazy

00:43:18.000 and New York City

00:43:18.860 is the barometer

00:43:19.620 where you see how crazy

00:43:20.820 they're going to go.

00:43:21.740 We gave you AOC,

00:43:23.460 all the real crazy,

00:43:24.780 so if they go this crazy

00:43:26.820 here actually voting

00:43:27.920 in a socialist,

00:43:28.680 then you know

00:43:29.660 the party's going to

00:43:30.360 go even more nuts

00:43:31.440 which will kill them

00:43:32.580 in the midterms

00:43:33.360 next year.

00:43:33.760 Do you agree with Clay?

00:43:35.460 Our buddy here,

00:43:35.940 Clay,

00:43:36.140 likes to make

00:43:36.600 the long-term predictions.

00:43:37.780 He likes to point

00:43:38.420 to the upper deck

00:43:39.760 and then switch sides

00:43:40.860 and bat left-handed.

00:43:42.040 It's never enough

00:43:43.540 of a crazy call for Clay.

00:43:45.800 He thinks Cuomo wins

00:43:47.020 the mayor's race,

00:43:49.100 I should say,

00:43:49.840 which I believe you

00:43:50.360 believe he will,

00:43:51.120 right, Clay, still?

00:43:51.980 Yeah, I'm going to

00:43:52.840 stick to that prediction

00:43:53.820 although I may end up

00:43:54.760 being wrong on that.

00:43:55.960 Cuomo wins the mayor's race,

00:43:57.660 next stop for him

00:43:58.520 is running as a Democrat nominee.

00:44:00.060 Do you see that too?

00:44:00.880 Because that would

00:44:01.280 obviously affect everybody

00:44:02.300 listening across the country

00:44:03.380 if that happened.

00:44:04.000 No, zero chance.

00:44:05.040 One thing about Cuomo,

00:44:05.920 he's a very New York,

00:44:07.100 urban guy from Queens.

00:44:08.920 I know you can say

00:44:09.900 that about Trump,

00:44:10.880 but Trump had incredible talent

00:44:13.040 as a campaigner,

00:44:13.860 which Cuomo does not have.

00:44:15.600 Not to win,

00:44:16.640 but to run as a candidate

00:44:18.300 in 2028.

00:44:19.620 Like, I think this is about

00:44:20.740 setting the foundation

00:44:22.000 for him to be able

00:44:23.100 to argue he has a comeback

00:44:24.440 and throw his hat

00:44:25.520 in the Democrat ring.

00:44:27.020 Yeah, he was a total outcast here.

00:44:28.540 You know, I forgot to mention

00:44:29.220 he left office in disgrace.

00:44:30.800 There was also,

00:44:31.480 besides the sex scandal,

00:44:33.000 ethics committee ruled against him

00:44:34.740 for profiting off the pandemic.

00:44:36.420 But by running for mayor,

00:44:38.340 he's made himself legitimate again,

00:44:40.080 at least that he's

00:44:40.600 a legitimate candidate.

00:44:41.980 I don't think he could ever

00:44:43.020 get the nomination in 2028.

00:44:44.160 I don't think anybody who does

00:44:45.920 would put him on the ticket

00:44:46.840 because they figure

00:44:47.720 they're winning New York.

00:44:48.560 They don't need him for that.

00:44:49.660 They'd have to pick another state.

00:44:50.800 And he's got a lot of baggage.

00:44:53.680 OK, Mom Donnie wins.

00:44:55.880 Let's say that happens.

00:44:57.080 You got people like Buck Sexton

00:44:58.720 with money who were like,

00:45:00.300 New York, I'm done.

00:45:01.420 I'm going to Florida.

00:45:02.560 Ron DeSantis made a joke.

00:45:04.320 He said the best thing

00:45:05.220 that could happen

00:45:05.780 for Palm Beach property values

00:45:08.240 is Mom Donnie winning

00:45:09.860 the New York City mayoral race.

00:45:12.180 Do you hear,

00:45:13.180 because you've been doing

00:45:13.700 New York City radio

00:45:14.540 for a long time,

00:45:15.420 you know a lot of people.

00:45:16.700 Do you hear wealthy

00:45:17.840 New Yorkers say

00:45:19.000 if Mom Donnie wins,

00:45:20.520 this is it.

00:45:21.340 Like they're just fed up

00:45:23.200 and done.

00:45:23.800 Do you buy that

00:45:24.620 that will have

00:45:25.500 a major tax revenue

00:45:27.240 for lack of a better way

00:45:28.400 to describe it impact?

00:45:29.600 Because the number

00:45:30.600 of rich guys and gals

00:45:31.880 bailing on New York City,

00:45:33.340 I mean, they're the ones

00:45:34.000 who are failing,

00:45:34.900 who are funding

00:45:35.640 to a large extent

00:45:36.840 what they see

00:45:37.700 as a failed city.

00:45:38.920 Oh, yeah.

00:45:39.260 A lot of them have said

00:45:40.040 they'll leave.

00:45:40.440 In fact, one went public.

00:45:42.140 John Katsimatidis owns

00:45:43.220 a hundred supermarkets

00:45:44.640 in New York.

00:45:45.020 He said, I will close them.

00:45:46.180 He said, I'll move

00:45:46.720 my business into New Jersey.

00:45:47.900 Wait, Kats said

00:45:48.780 that he would bounce

00:45:49.640 on New York City

00:45:50.520 if Mom Donnie wins?

00:45:51.480 I didn't know that.

00:45:52.260 That's wild.

00:45:53.240 Yeah.

00:45:53.560 He owns a lot of supermarkets.

00:45:54.900 He said, I'm not going

00:45:55.680 to compete with...

00:45:56.280 Yeah, I will not compete

00:45:57.460 with the government.

00:45:58.560 And he's not the only one.

00:45:59.520 He just went public

00:46:00.440 and said it,

00:46:00.880 but a lot of others

00:46:01.460 have said it privately.

00:46:03.060 And again,

00:46:03.800 about three million people

00:46:05.160 left under Cuomo

00:46:06.260 as governor.

00:46:06.980 In fact, we had a crisis.

00:46:08.620 You couldn't get

00:46:09.120 a moving van

00:46:09.780 for almost a year.

00:46:10.720 There was a shortage

00:46:11.280 of moving vans

00:46:12.000 under Cuomo,

00:46:12.780 and we did lose

00:46:13.720 four congressional seats

00:46:14.760 because of it.

00:46:16.600 Oh, man.

00:46:17.220 Well, let's hope

00:46:18.940 Curtis Sliwa pulls off

00:46:20.260 the greatest,

00:46:21.060 a Trump-level political

00:46:23.240 come-from-behind victory here.

00:46:25.860 The greatest comeback

00:46:26.820 of all time.

00:46:28.040 Otherwise, New York

00:46:28.800 could be in for some rough stuff.

00:46:30.060 7-10-W-O-R,

00:46:31.540 10 a.m. Eastern.

00:46:32.380 Mark Simone,

00:46:33.060 Mr. New York.

00:46:33.800 Sir, appreciate you.

00:46:35.140 We'll talk to you soon.

00:46:35.980 Thanks.

00:46:36.300 Love listening to you guys.

00:46:38.860 Same.

00:46:40.180 Mark, also,

00:46:40.940 have you ever listened

00:46:41.360 to Mark's callers,

00:46:42.580 by the way,

00:46:43.020 represent when they call

00:46:44.200 into his show

00:46:44.820 all the different accents

00:46:46.980 of all the different

00:46:47.880 boroughs and counties

00:46:49.260 around New York

00:46:50.000 perfectly.

00:46:50.820 You get the Long Island guys

00:46:52.120 calling in,

00:46:52.660 the Staten Island guys.

00:46:53.220 When I did my last book,

00:46:54.600 I went in into our New York,

00:46:55.920 because he's in the same building

00:46:56.860 for people who don't know

00:46:57.860 where we can use

00:46:58.940 in New York City

00:46:59.540 if we happen to be there.

00:47:01.160 I think this is a big,

00:47:03.000 I mean,

00:47:03.280 I understand people say,

00:47:04.120 oh, New York City mayor,

00:47:04.960 why do I care?

00:47:06.040 I think if Mom Donnie wins,

00:47:07.960 it's a holy crap moment

00:47:10.100 for the Democrats.

00:47:10.560 It's an indicator

00:47:11.040 for Democrats nationwide.

00:47:13.320 All right.

00:47:13.700 Thanks, Mark.

00:47:14.220 Thank you so much.

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00:49:07.340 I wanted to reinforce

00:49:09.540 how bad are things for AOC

00:49:11.660 and how not representative

00:49:14.700 are her positions,

00:49:16.660 even on things anti-Trump,

00:49:19.680 which you would think

00:49:20.440 would coalesce

00:49:21.420 much of the Democrat Party.

00:49:22.920 Let me just reinforce for you.

00:49:25.380 They just tried to impeach Trump

00:49:26.980 over the Iran attacks.

00:49:30.900 They lost the vote 344 to 79.

00:49:34.460 That's a pretty good ass kicking,

00:49:36.240 but let me simplify it

00:49:37.540 this way for you, Buck.

00:49:39.400 Democrats.

00:49:40.920 Democrats voted against

00:49:42.600 impeaching Trump 128 to 79.

00:49:46.780 I mean, that's kind of a sign

00:49:48.520 of how crazy the AOC wing

00:49:50.800 of the party is.

00:49:51.900 They can't even mobilize

00:49:54.080 the Democrat Party

00:49:55.800 to move in conjunction

00:49:57.940 with the positions

00:49:58.960 that she's advocating for.

00:50:00.800 Think about this for a second.

00:50:02.720 There are Democrats

00:50:03.600 who just voted

00:50:04.480 in the United States Congress

00:50:05.680 to impeach,

00:50:07.180 for a third time,

00:50:09.740 a sitting president

00:50:11.000 for doing something that,

00:50:13.640 one,

00:50:14.100 is clearly within the scope

00:50:16.220 of what every president

00:50:17.280 in our lifetime has done,

00:50:18.760 and without Democrat

00:50:20.140 and Republican,

00:50:20.820 and two,

00:50:22.860 has been incredibly successful.

00:50:25.720 So this is pure desperation.

00:50:30.000 It shows that

00:50:30.820 where the Democrat Party

00:50:31.900 is right now,

00:50:33.740 they're in such a weak spot

00:50:36.640 that they're just

00:50:38.760 throwing stuff at the wall

00:50:40.440 to see what sticks.

00:50:41.380 They're trying to figure out

00:50:42.600 some way

00:50:43.660 to seem relevant

00:50:45.800 as opposition to Trump.

00:50:48.300 I always used to wonder this, Clay.

00:50:49.680 Will there be a point

00:50:50.660 at which, you know,

00:50:51.680 never-Trumpism

00:50:52.600 and the hysteria

00:50:53.800 and he's Hitler

00:50:54.580 and all that stuff

00:50:55.380 will exhaust itself?

00:50:57.720 It has exhausted itself

00:50:59.460 as a useful political force.

00:51:01.880 They still believe

00:51:03.100 a lot of crazy stuff

00:51:04.060 about Trump.

00:51:04.560 I'm not saying

00:51:04.980 they've changed their minds,

00:51:05.940 but they can't move

00:51:08.640 any middle portion

00:51:10.500 of the electorate

00:51:11.440 at all.

00:51:12.060 Not even one or two percent

00:51:13.280 of it

00:51:13.500 with this crazy stuff

00:51:15.160 that they're doing.

00:51:16.420 And so they're just at the

00:51:17.640 we-gotta-do-something phase.

00:51:19.600 But this is firing

00:51:21.060 a BB gun

00:51:21.640 at a freight train.

00:51:23.020 Also,

00:51:24.200 the whole Hitler thing,

00:51:26.100 Trump has 100% approval

00:51:29.460 in Israel now.

00:51:30.880 Like, literally,

00:51:31.580 I'm not even kidding.

00:51:32.440 It might be 96% approval.

00:51:34.460 There has never been

00:51:36.040 an American president

00:51:37.320 with a higher approval rating

00:51:39.700 in Israel than Trump.

00:51:41.840 Now,

00:51:42.760 Israel didn't exist

00:51:43.880 as a country

00:51:44.740 at the time of World War II.

00:51:47.200 But I'm going to go out

00:51:48.400 on a huge limb

00:51:49.320 with a crazy take for you.

00:51:51.480 Hitler never came close

00:51:52.840 to 100% approval

00:51:54.020 with the Jewish population.

00:51:56.020 Just going to,

00:51:56.780 maybe outlandish,

00:51:58.160 maybe outrageous.

00:51:59.560 I'm just going to toss

00:52:00.500 this out there.

00:52:01.600 And obviously being facetious

00:52:03.160 about this whole thing,

00:52:03.880 but the idea

00:52:05.060 that Adolf Hitler,

00:52:06.280 a.k.a.

00:52:07.140 Trump,

00:52:07.760 would have 100% approval rating

00:52:09.760 among Israelis

00:52:11.320 would be,

00:52:12.340 in a large extent,

00:52:13.580 a sign that your argument

00:52:14.860 is moronic

00:52:15.640 on a level

00:52:16.300 that few political arguments

00:52:17.780 have ever been

00:52:18.500 in our respective lives.

00:52:20.800 By the way,

00:52:21.420 Trump arriving

00:52:22.220 at the Royal Palace

00:52:23.560 in the Netherlands,

00:52:25.200 stepping out

00:52:26.220 of his beast limo

00:52:27.860 to walk the red carpet

00:52:30.080 for the NATO event

00:52:31.420 as we are speaking

00:52:32.340 to all of you

00:52:33.360 right now.

00:52:34.940 And again,

00:52:35.980 the numbers out there,

00:52:37.480 128-79.

00:52:38.880 I do think this is

00:52:39.840 significant too, Buck.

00:52:41.640 You mentioned,

00:52:42.680 like,

00:52:42.820 when is the Democrat Party

00:52:43.820 going to end up

00:52:45.680 acknowledging

00:52:46.540 that many of their arguments

00:52:47.820 are broken?

00:52:49.100 Also,

00:52:49.680 who is even

00:52:50.240 the Democrat Party

00:52:51.200 spokesperson?

00:52:52.400 Listen to Jasmine Crockett

00:52:53.880 here,

00:52:54.580 talking about how

00:52:55.460 she should be

00:52:56.280 the one making decisions

00:52:57.700 about how we deal

00:53:00.340 with Iran and Israel.

00:53:01.520 Cut 14.

00:53:02.480 To understand enough

00:53:03.580 about the Constitution

00:53:04.520 to the extent

00:53:05.400 that I'm the one

00:53:06.280 that's supposed to

00:53:06.940 make the f***ing decision

00:53:07.920 or at least get a vote.

00:53:15.820 Because Ron is telling me.

00:53:18.440 Okay,

00:53:18.940 so she's ranting

00:53:20.120 and raving.

00:53:21.200 Worth pointing out,

00:53:22.760 there are also

00:53:23.940 people on the right

00:53:25.280 who have tried

00:53:26.000 to argue

00:53:26.620 Trump did not have

00:53:27.660 the authority

00:53:28.220 to do these strikes

00:53:29.700 in Iran

00:53:30.400 and I think

00:53:31.560 they're also operating

00:53:32.720 in bad faith

00:53:33.620 because clearly

00:53:35.400 the President

00:53:36.480 of the United States

00:53:37.920 has the ability

00:53:39.000 to act in American interest

00:53:40.860 that he believes

00:53:41.740 requires exigent circumstances

00:53:43.840 as all American presidents

00:53:45.900 throughout our entire lives

00:53:47.500 have done.

00:53:48.940 Was it 14 bombs

00:53:50.400 that Trump dropped

00:53:51.680 compared to thousands

00:53:53.500 that Obama dropped

00:53:54.940 during his tenure?

00:53:55.900 Yes,

00:53:57.540 I mean,

00:53:58.000 ordered to be dropped

00:53:59.140 obviously.

00:54:00.000 Yes,

00:54:00.140 yeah.

00:54:01.280 Trump leading out

00:54:02.700 the side of the B-2 bomber.

00:54:04.760 He's a talented guy.

00:54:06.440 I don't think he would have

00:54:07.160 hit the target very well

00:54:08.360 if he had been in charge

00:54:09.380 of the B-2 bombers.

00:54:10.920 But,

00:54:11.220 I mean,

00:54:11.860 the idea that you're going

00:54:12.940 to try to argue

00:54:14.280 that this was outside

00:54:16.000 of control,

00:54:16.740 but listen to this cut too,

00:54:18.100 cut 15.

00:54:19.260 This is Jasmine Crockett

00:54:20.380 who's trying to,

00:54:21.280 Trump put a big post

00:54:22.160 out about AOC

00:54:22.920 and Jasmine Crockett

00:54:24.060 and Elon Omar

00:54:25.840 and all these people

00:54:26.520 who have emerged

00:54:27.160 as his top attackers,

00:54:29.120 I would say,

00:54:29.840 inside of the Democrat Party.

00:54:31.040 Cut 15.

00:54:32.020 So,

00:54:32.360 long story short,

00:54:33.320 for those of you

00:54:34.480 that are unaware,

00:54:36.160 the Mofo

00:54:39.600 that resides

00:54:41.140 in the White House

00:54:42.680 has unilaterally,

00:54:46.200 in my estimation,

00:54:49.080 declared war.

00:54:50.900 We have a constitution

00:54:52.180 that seemingly

00:54:53.680 does not matter

00:54:55.220 to this man.

00:54:59.440 I mean,

00:55:00.100 the Mofo,

00:55:00.700 first of all,

00:55:01.200 you guys can probably,

00:55:02.220 if you're older,

00:55:02.860 maybe you haven't heard

00:55:03.560 that phrase,

00:55:04.340 she's calling him a mother,

00:55:05.380 you know what.

00:55:06.320 I mean,

00:55:06.620 so that's kind of

00:55:07.620 a pretty good attack

00:55:08.540 in terms of the absurdity of it.

00:55:11.160 But it's not only that

00:55:12.240 there's no Democrat opposition,

00:55:14.680 it's that the Democrat opposition,

00:55:16.720 Buck,

00:55:17.340 is not even representative

00:55:18.560 of the Democrat Party now.

00:55:20.060 They can't even marshal

00:55:20.960 100 votes in the House.

00:55:23.200 I mean,

00:55:23.380 I would bet

00:55:24.640 that Congresswoman Crockett

00:55:26.700 has never read

00:55:27.360 the U.S. Constitution

00:55:28.680 in its entirety.

00:55:30.000 Ever.

00:55:30.820 I mean,

00:55:31.140 ever.

00:55:31.460 I don't mean like

00:55:32.160 she doesn't know it by heart.

00:55:33.600 I mean,

00:55:33.780 I don't think

00:55:34.100 she's ever read it.

00:55:35.080 Neither read nor understood.

00:55:36.960 I think also

00:55:37.820 if you gave her a map

00:55:39.180 of the Middle East

00:55:40.680 with just blanked out countries

00:55:42.920 and you said,

00:55:44.100 just show me Israel,

00:55:44.840 show me Iran,

00:55:45.540 I think the chance

00:55:46.200 that she could get both of them

00:55:47.300 is almost zero.

00:55:48.680 So,

00:55:49.320 I don't think

00:55:50.320 that she should be

00:55:51.000 weighing in heavily

00:55:51.880 on the issue

00:55:53.700 of the constitutional powers

00:55:55.780 of the executive branch

00:55:57.120 in this conflict,

00:55:58.000 but

00:55:58.520 she knows

00:55:59.540 that she raises money

00:56:00.460 and gets media attention

00:56:01.300 by hating Trump,

00:56:02.200 even on an issue

00:56:03.720 as we've said.

00:56:04.880 There's clear precedent

00:56:06.140 for this kind of action.

00:56:07.300 Bill Clinton

00:56:07.840 blew up

00:56:09.120 an aspirin factory

00:56:10.620 in the Sudan.

00:56:11.700 I think it was

00:56:12.020 because there was testimony

00:56:12.780 about to happen

00:56:13.600 in the Monica case

00:56:14.520 or something

00:56:14.980 because he said

00:56:16.100 maybe there were

00:56:16.640 chemical weapons there.

00:56:17.760 Spoiler alert,

00:56:18.380 there were not.

00:56:19.280 We weren't at war

00:56:19.840 with Sudan

00:56:20.360 and nobody was

00:56:21.340 impeaching him

00:56:21.880 over that.

00:56:22.380 So,

00:56:23.720 you know,

00:56:24.380 you look at this stuff,

00:56:26.140 like every president

00:56:27.000 has this,

00:56:27.680 I know he said

00:56:28.180 it's in the imminent

00:56:28.760 national security interest

00:56:30.300 because we thought

00:56:30.780 there were chemical weapons

00:56:31.500 or whatever.

00:56:33.400 It's just about opposing Trump,

00:56:34.940 but even on an issue

00:56:35.880 where it's a massive success,

00:56:38.800 right?

00:56:39.040 This is generally,

00:56:40.340 for example,

00:56:41.300 for example,

00:56:42.240 would any Republican

00:56:42.980 have come out

00:56:43.580 after Obama,

00:56:44.740 look,

00:56:45.640 Obama got bin Laden.

00:56:46.960 It's just a fact.

00:56:47.800 People can,

00:56:48.440 you know,

00:56:48.740 they can be annoyed

00:56:49.680 about that reality,

00:56:50.760 but he did.

00:56:51.320 Obama got bin Laden.

00:56:52.880 Were Republicans

00:56:53.720 coming out like,

00:56:54.500 how dare you violate

00:56:55.740 the sovereignty

00:56:56.600 of Pakistan?

00:56:58.020 The national sovereignty

00:56:59.440 of Pakistan

00:57:00.200 is sacred to us.

00:57:01.720 No,

00:57:02.300 because we're all like,

00:57:03.400 you know what?

00:57:04.060 Thank you for getting bin Laden.

00:57:05.280 And it probably got Obama,

00:57:06.560 at least in some part of it,

00:57:08.000 reelected,

00:57:08.740 right?

00:57:09.640 They're kind of doing

00:57:10.580 this,

00:57:10.860 that here now.

00:57:12.060 The dance is similar

00:57:13.280 with the Democrats

00:57:14.100 where they're saying,

00:57:15.040 you know,

00:57:15.140 how dare you strike

00:57:15.960 the Iranian nuclear facilities?

00:57:17.100 We have been

00:57:18.380 talking and debating

00:57:20.420 and fretting

00:57:21.480 over this issue,

00:57:22.340 Clay,

00:57:22.760 for 20 plus years.

00:57:24.840 What are we going

00:57:25.380 to do about Iran?

00:57:25.940 What are we going

00:57:26.280 to do about Iran?

00:57:26.840 Trump's like,

00:57:27.300 you know what?

00:57:27.660 Let's blow up there.

00:57:28.300 Let's blow up there.

00:57:28.880 I tried to give them a deal.

00:57:29.860 They wouldn't take a deal.

00:57:30.520 Let's take this thing out.

00:57:31.880 And they did it

00:57:32.400 and it's done.

00:57:33.200 And we didn't lose

00:57:33.880 a single American.

00:57:34.740 And now we're supposed

00:57:36.400 to do what?

00:57:36.940 We're going to impeach him?

00:57:38.600 We're going to remove him

00:57:39.880 from office

00:57:40.500 for the thing

00:57:41.220 that we wish

00:57:42.280 somebody else

00:57:42.780 would have done?

00:57:44.640 Makes no sense.

00:57:45.400 It's crazy also

00:57:46.200 because there's

00:57:47.160 nowhere near 67 votes

00:57:49.260 even if they win

00:57:50.660 the House in 2026

00:57:52.340 and impeach him.

00:57:53.140 It's not going anywhere.

00:57:53.980 It's pathetic, right?

00:57:55.240 It's a pathetic move.

00:57:56.140 Yeah.

00:57:56.380 It's silly.

00:57:56.740 Like there is no,

00:57:57.600 I will point out this.

00:57:59.040 Yes,

00:57:59.580 Obama deserves credit

00:58:00.580 for taking out

00:58:01.200 Osama bin Laden.

00:58:02.180 But every time

00:58:02.960 that comes up,

00:58:03.600 I think we should

00:58:04.140 also mention

00:58:04.760 the secondary part

00:58:05.620 of that,

00:58:06.040 which was Joe Biden

00:58:07.460 opposed that race.

00:58:08.460 Oh, of course.

00:58:09.680 I know.

00:58:10.020 Joe Biden was wrong

00:58:12.280 on every major decision

00:58:14.480 basically of his entire career.

00:58:17.560 Obama considered

00:58:19.040 Biden's analysis

00:58:20.500 of taking out

00:58:22.120 Osama bin Laden

00:58:23.000 and said,

00:58:23.600 you moron,

00:58:24.200 we're going in.

00:58:25.660 I give Obama

00:58:27.660 full credit for that

00:58:28.580 and I don't do

00:58:29.000 some throat clearing

00:58:29.720 about,

00:58:30.100 oh,

00:58:30.260 but it was so obvious.

00:58:31.400 No, no.

00:58:32.660 You know,

00:58:33.000 he did it

00:58:33.520 and look,

00:58:34.180 he got four more years

00:58:35.000 to wreck the country

00:58:35.740 as a result of one good decision,

00:58:37.160 at least in part.

00:58:38.500 But he gets credit

00:58:40.000 for being the commander-in-chief

00:58:41.000 when he went and got bin Laden

00:58:42.000 and there's no way around that.

00:58:43.080 That's reality.

00:58:43.820 Okay, another reality though, Clay.

00:58:45.680 We haven't really focused much

00:58:46.980 on the Biden book stuff

00:58:48.120 because, you know,

00:58:49.180 I think a lot of that

00:58:49.940 got taken care of.

00:58:50.820 But I have seen

00:58:51.480 some clips circulating.

00:58:52.800 You know what they're saying now?

00:58:53.780 Not just that Biden had dementia.

00:58:55.620 We knew that, right?

00:58:56.520 We talked about this.

00:58:57.460 We've got on the ad nauseum.

00:58:58.920 Now what's coming out is

00:59:00.200 Biden was a scumbag

00:59:01.760 his whole life

00:59:02.260 and a huge liar

00:59:02.980 and a manipulator of people

00:59:04.700 and even his own family

00:59:06.920 and using them as props.

00:59:08.700 Like, Democrats are saying this.

00:59:10.080 Now, stuff that you

00:59:10.800 and I have been saying.

00:59:11.540 I told people about the

00:59:13.060 the drunk driver,

00:59:14.680 excuse me,

00:59:15.620 what Biden said

00:59:16.800 was a drunk driver

00:59:17.520 because his wife.

00:59:18.320 Absolutely zero evidence

00:59:19.340 for it whatsoever.

00:59:20.100 A horrible thing to say,

00:59:21.780 but he said it in public.

00:59:22.740 Why?

00:59:23.120 Because it made his case

00:59:23.900 seem even more sympathetic.

00:59:24.960 His wife, it looks like,

00:59:25.720 ran a red light.

00:59:26.280 It was, you know,

00:59:27.100 it is a tragedy,

00:59:28.500 but I mean,

00:59:28.880 well, you know,

00:59:29.400 she made a mistake

00:59:30.100 and she paid with her life.

00:59:31.820 But he lied about it

00:59:32.940 to get more sympathy

00:59:33.640 and therefore defamed

00:59:35.760 somebody who was still alive,

00:59:37.060 I might add,

00:59:38.180 as some kind of a criminal

00:59:39.220 who killed his wife

00:59:39.940 and he's never apologized

00:59:41.460 or but that's just one incident.

00:59:43.540 That's who Biden is

00:59:45.420 and that was 40 years ago

00:59:47.520 he was doing it.

00:59:48.320 I, as a dad,

00:59:50.100 I know everybody wants to say,

00:59:51.800 oh, Joe Biden's

00:59:52.420 the greatest dad ever.

00:59:53.420 I looked at his kids

00:59:55.040 in that he may get dressed

00:59:57.760 in suits in their hospital beds

01:00:00.340 so that he could get

01:00:01.900 for the grossest photo op imaginable

01:00:04.700 so that he could get sworn in

01:00:06.440 for the Senate

01:00:07.260 in their hospital room.

01:00:09.740 I mean, as a dad,

01:00:11.060 I can't even imagine

01:00:12.740 doing that.

01:00:14.260 So he could be wrong

01:00:14.940 on everything in foreign policy

01:00:16.140 in the U.S. Senate

01:00:16.900 for 50 years

01:00:17.640 and be a shill

01:00:18.280 for the credit card companies

01:00:19.400 to suck the bank accounts

01:00:20.900 drive every American

01:00:22.000 who needs to buy groceries.

01:00:23.360 Like, is that,

01:00:24.120 that was his great contribution?

01:00:25.900 You know, think about that.

01:00:27.420 No, I mean,

01:00:28.440 and again,

01:00:29.400 I think that his

01:00:30.620 four-year tenure,

01:00:31.980 I think this is one thing

01:00:32.800 that Trump got right,

01:00:34.400 which is Jimmy Carter

01:00:36.140 had a more successful presidency.

01:00:37.900 No, I think I was going to say,

01:00:39.220 I think Biden is the worst president

01:00:41.300 in living memory.

01:00:44.000 I think he beats out Jimmy Carter

01:00:45.620 pretty clearly now.

01:00:47.540 And I think he's going to look

01:00:49.060 even worse in the years ahead

01:00:50.800 as the,

01:00:51.940 this is one of the great things

01:00:52.800 about history.

01:00:53.440 Eventually, the passions fade

01:00:55.040 and you start to look at people

01:00:57.060 rationally and realistically

01:00:58.880 as opposed to thinking about them

01:01:00.840 in the moment of a battle.

01:01:02.420 And I think that Democrat defense

01:01:04.940 of Joe Biden is going to collapse

01:01:06.980 because it really wasn't praising Biden.

01:01:09.140 It was attacking Trump.

01:01:10.860 And now that Trump,

01:01:12.400 people see it as hollow.

01:01:13.660 They see how hollow it was all along.

01:01:15.820 And I think that even the COVID thing,

01:01:17.780 the fact that they hit him

01:01:18.800 and all these other aspects

01:01:21.160 of his presidency

01:01:22.080 that are frankly indefensible,

01:01:23.400 I think are going to become

01:01:24.400 more and more commonplace

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