Verdict with Ted Cruz - Bonus： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 10 2026

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00:00:04.280 Welcome, everybody, to the Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.

00:00:09.600 Strap in, because we are taking off.

00:00:12.160 We have a lot to discuss with you today.

00:00:14.900 Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan is going to be joining us bottom of this hour.

00:00:18.480 Michael Watley, former RNC chair and North Carolina Senate candidate,

00:00:22.340 joining in the second hour, along with our friend Shannon Breen,

00:00:25.880 chief legal correspondent at Fox News.

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00:00:30.120 We'll be talking to those fine folks, and we will also be breaking down all of the latest news and analysis and important goings on for all of you.

00:00:40.440 Big story still, big guest story, I should say.

00:00:44.180 The ongoing airstrikes against the Iranian regime.

00:00:49.600 Also, some jitters people are having around the price of oil.

00:00:54.360 So we're going to address all of this.

00:00:55.860 Here is Secretary of War Hegseth at a press conference this morning, promising everyone that we're just getting warmed up with all this stuff.

00:01:05.760 It's going to get even more intense.

00:01:07.300 Play three.

00:01:08.220 Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran.

00:01:13.200 The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes.

00:01:17.260 Intelligence more refined and better than ever.

00:01:20.420 So that's on one hand.

00:01:21.120 On the other hand, the last 24 hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number of missiles they've been capable of firing yet.

00:01:28.640 Just the bifurcation, just the trend lines that we talked about on our first briefing.

00:01:32.940 You see, this is not 2003.

00:01:34.680 This is not endless nation building under those types of quagmires we saw under Bush or Obama.

00:01:40.760 It's not even close.

00:01:41.580 Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again, and nor will this president, who very clearly ran against those kinds of never-ending, nebulously scoped missions.

00:01:53.980 So he is saying that everything is going according to plan. 0.96

00:01:59.660 We are essentially kicking the Iranian military's ass with one arm behind our back from the sky entirely. 0.98

00:02:05.440 and this is going to continue and get more intense as the days go on, 0.99

00:02:10.960 that we will not relent.

00:02:13.240 Trump last night speaking at Doral, he was down here in the Miami area,

00:02:17.880 near where I am, here he is, this is cut six, he's saying,

00:02:21.780 look, we are making strides toward achieving what we need to in Iran.

00:02:26.620 Play six.

00:02:27.560 We're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective,

00:02:32.680 and some people could say they're pretty well complete we've wiped every single force

00:02:39.040 in iran out very completely most of iran's naval power power has been sunk it's on the bottom of

00:02:48.480 the sea it's almost 50 ships i was just notified it's 51 ships i didn't know they had that many

00:02:55.780 didn't last very long and these are fighting vessels they're meant to fight but they're not

00:03:03.640 meant to fight against us we've struck over 5 000 targets to date some of them very major targets

00:03:10.620 and we've left some of the most important targets for later in case we need to do it

00:03:15.100 if we hit them it's going to take many years for them to be rebuilt

00:03:18.660 having to do with electricity production and many other things.

00:03:24.360 So we're not looking to do that if we don't have to.

00:03:28.420 Clay, it seems like the strategy is bomb them back into the Stone Age, so to speak,

00:03:34.180 and wait until they cry uncle and come up with I don't know what.

00:03:39.500 That's the big question that I have.

00:03:41.340 What is supposed to emerge here?

00:03:44.960 Unconditional surrender but contingent on what?

00:03:47.980 even if they were to say it what are the next steps supposed to be this gets to who's going

00:03:53.320 to run this country because pete hegseth is saying very clearly and trump has said the same

00:03:57.860 we're not going to be sending 20 year olds from kansas and maine and washington state etc and

00:04:03.660 texas and everywhere to walk the streets of isfahan kerman shah tehran and tabriz not happening

00:04:11.360 i think we're in a balancing act where who is the person we want to be in charge in iran

00:04:17.960 that is the one thing that we really haven't gotten any indication of now simultaneously i

00:04:24.300 understand that why that is because as soon as the united states acquiesces or acknowledges that

00:04:31.580 iran has got a leader we want to work with that definitely puts political pressure on the

00:04:37.340 individuals in iran too do you remember buck how the delcy rodriguez played out um delcy rodriguez

00:04:43.980 And the reason why I point to this is I think it's the best analogy, although obviously Venezuela and Iran are very different.

00:04:49.940 But when Delce Rodriguez came into power, she said a lot of tough talking things about the United States. 0.96

00:04:57.540 And many of our United States leaders just kind of said, OK, she's got to say that for political viability inside of Venezuela.

00:05:05.560 But meanwhile, we were having back channel conversations with her and she was basically letting us know what she had to do.

00:05:12.120 Are we having back-channel conversations with anyone in Iran that could rise to a level of power?

00:05:17.760 That's a good question, right?

00:05:19.340 Who are the people that Israel may have been working with to help get all of these targets that we were able to focus on and take out so quickly?

00:05:29.700 All of those questions, I think, are still incumbent upon us to resolve.

00:05:35.920 but I do think at a minimum the message that we sent even if we pulled out tomorrow buck even if

00:05:42.540 we said hey mission accomplished we are out and we are going back and we're not going to continue

00:05:48.000 to bomb Iran we have sent the message and I think it's a very significant one not only to Iran but 1.00

00:05:53.020 to everybody around the world that we can basically take out any world leader that we want to and so 0.79

00:05:58.240 whomever comes to power in Iran we can wipe that person out too they know it we know it the world 1.00

00:06:05.060 knows it and so uh the question that i have is to what extent is there someone that we are amenable

00:06:11.380 to that could be rising to power and what is the time frame under which that could occur

00:06:15.580 um i think that that's the question that is still out there right now i think the argument that we

00:06:22.520 were going to lose tons of soldiers is out the window i think the argument in the wake of the

00:06:28.820 last day buck this is one of the craziest things i've ever said when we came on the air yesterday

00:06:33.460 everybody was in a full-fledged panic over the price of oil and gas it hit 120 dollars

00:06:40.300 on the market on sunday before we came on the air they open overseas it's now 85 dollars now

00:06:48.180 that's significant but it's not that much of a bump and the straight of four moves it appears

00:06:53.900 the oil is actually coming through fairly comfortably we just haven't seen the spike

00:06:59.660 that everybody said we were going to see and i think we have the ability to exit this uh escalation

00:07:06.940 whenever we want and we have effectively neutered iran for decades to come in terms of the they have 0.80

00:07:15.160 no air force they have no navy um they have no missiles largely their ability to even send off

00:07:23.060 these drones has been significantly curtailed i just i look around buck and say we're at the

00:07:30.160 who is going to lead iran stage of this military uh of this military endeavor

00:07:35.620 the whole irgc which we talked about a bit yesterday is set up to be a decentralized and

00:07:44.660 survivable security apparatus for a situation like this this is the challenge that we have

00:07:51.480 uh so they've got the guns they've got comms set up they have down to a very localized level

00:07:58.360 uh terrain knowledge human terrain knowledge basically anyone who walks out of their home

00:08:05.320 to start a protest in the street liable to just get shot by these either besieger or irgc uh units

00:08:13.340 so what do we do about that this is the this is where things get a little open-ended i'm not

00:08:21.180 really sure what the plan is on this we can keep blowing their military equipment out of out of the

00:08:26.320 sky but ultimately whoever has the most manpower with guns on the ground willing to fight is likely

00:08:33.780 to be able to stay in control it's also by the way big lesson about the second amendment how

00:08:39.580 important the second amendment is an armed citizenry right uh because they don't have that

00:08:44.280 the people with the guns of the government that's it uh very few people in iran are going to be able

00:08:49.880 to get out there and get into a gun battle with members of the Iranian security forces.

00:08:55.620 So with all that, Clay, I think that the military side of this is showing incredible, everything

00:09:02.000 that Hegseth and Trump have been saying about this is true.

00:09:07.000 It's been an amazing display of U.S. military capability.

00:09:11.820 Does this go beyond this month?

00:09:13.080 I don't think so.

00:09:14.360 Does this end with U.S. troops on the ground?

00:09:16.900 I don't think so.

00:09:18.320 Does this end with a new government in Iran?

00:09:21.360 I don't think so.

00:09:22.600 That's where I come down on this one.

00:09:24.520 By the way, here's Hegseth saying this morning, this is cut four, Clay,

00:09:27.260 just saying they're going to take this to the end until the enemy says we give up.

00:09:31.000 Play four.

00:09:31.640 Destroy their missile stockpiles, their missile launchers,

00:09:34.800 and their defense industrial base.

00:09:37.260 Missiles and their ability to make them.

00:09:39.380 Two, destroy their navy.

00:09:41.460 And three, permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever.

00:09:45.520 It's a laser-focused, maximum-authority mission delivered with overwhelming and unrelenting precision.

00:09:52.160 No hesitation, no half-measures.

00:09:54.360 As President Trump declared yesterday, we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force.

00:10:01.940 We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated.

00:10:06.220 But we do so. We do so on our timeline and at our choosing.

00:10:12.580 Sounds good. I hope we get there.

00:10:14.860 how many people do you think we um in general how many people do you think we have named that

00:10:23.420 we would be okay with being leaders of iran how i don't hear i don't think we even have a list of

00:10:28.540 i don't think we even have a list of people that we think would be we're hoping they emerge that's

00:10:32.600 my guess obviously i've been out of the game a while maybe they've got someone just ready to go

00:10:37.060 but i would highly doubt it do you think israel does because it seems like they have basic full

00:10:43.140 optics it feels like on some level of inside of iran and some of those i think finding an iranian

00:10:48.680 who doesn't hate israel who has any political juice whatsoever inside of iran is i'm not sure

00:10:55.480 it's possible it's very i wonder whether you could publicly hate israel but privately have

00:11:01.620 a relationship with israel i mean maybe like maybe sure sure that would be that would be my

00:11:07.320 hope is that we could find a uh a solution in that way um and uh i think the long run here

00:11:15.540 look if if you want to tie venezuela and iran together i think the long run is we should have

00:11:23.420 more oil and gas uh stability going forward when this situation has ended than we did before

00:11:31.020 um and when you combine it with the united states ability to produce a ton of oil and gas you know

00:11:37.060 this buck because this was a conversation that when you started working at the cia would have

00:11:40.920 been a big one the middle eastern countries which basically had the ability to curtail oil and gas

00:11:47.540 shipments um it led to a lot of petro dictator states it feels to me like the petro dictator

00:11:54.840 state power is altering in a way that is favorable to the united states uh in many respects this is

00:12:02.180 a reminder where any of you who know somebody who works for big oil in this country works for

00:12:09.660 natural gas company and oil exploration company you should give them a high five because america

00:12:15.000 is the true global energy producer superpower which has enormous enormous geopolitical advantages

00:12:23.540 for us in dealing with all of this we got so much of that stuff that we're selling it all over the

00:12:28.080 world but we know we've got secure supply and we know that we are the single most important energy

00:12:34.380 power and energy producing power on the planet that's that's that's how we come at this a hundred

00:12:39.640 percent that is the best decision we have made in a long time and by the way the states that have

00:12:43.860 rejected that if you're listening to us in california right now you may well be paying

00:12:48.940 well over five dollars a gallon because california which still to my knowledge buck and i know we got

00:12:54.720 a lot of oil and gas guys and gals out there still has a lot of oil and gas right california

00:13:00.140 has the ability to pump far more even more instead they turned it off effectively because

00:13:04.880 the greenhouse uh the climate change crazy people how many americans even know this really important

00:13:10.000 trivia you've got saudi arabia you've got russia um you know you've got some of these countries

00:13:15.720 you know which country is the biggest oil producer in the world america it's america

00:13:23.840 That stuns a lot of people.

00:13:25.360 No, it does.

00:13:26.120 I mean, it stuns people.

00:13:28.460 We produce more crude oil than any other country.

00:13:32.040 We've surpassed Saudi Arabia.

00:13:33.760 We've surpassed Russia. 0.90

00:13:35.460 And our oil industry has done this despite all the climate change,

00:13:40.940 which is a complete waste of time and an absurdity

00:13:43.080 that no human being should ever waste three seconds concerned about or anything else.

00:13:47.060 But our oil industry is one of our biggest strategic assets as a nation.

00:13:52.380 and and yet democrats trash them all the time and act like they're killing all of us no actually

00:13:57.680 you should go thank an oil man today or a woman if she happens to work in the oil industry you

00:14:02.380 should go say thank you for what you do because that's why we can go around the world and kick 0.95

00:14:06.800 anybody's ass and do it in a way that is blowing the minds of our top adversaries and enemies 0.89

00:14:12.080 which by the way in the first gulf war for those of you who remember that fear that they would 0.98

00:14:18.580 curtail our ability to get oil and gas was the impetus to a large extent for the first Gulf War

00:14:25.240 back in 1990 or whatever it was it was a totally different world I'll add into what you just said

00:14:30.700 Buck do you know what country they believe in the western hemisphere has the largest untapped

00:14:35.700 resources of oil and gas Venezuela well the biggest proven reserves on the planet yeah

00:14:43.380 So the fact that we now have the ability basically to also access that is yet another sign that we are curtailing the power of the of the oil and gas petro dictators all around the world, including Iran, Russia.

00:14:58.580 It's not a surprise that a lot of these countries that are natural adversaries to ours are very oil wealthy.

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00:16:55.360 welcome in our number two clay travis buck sexton show uh headline on fox business

00:17:05.840 oil prices have dropped the most in four years in the last 24 hours uh if you're wondering whether

00:17:13.000 the oil panic of yesterday has vanished stock prices are up again today fairly decently and

00:17:22.300 msnbc has removed their oil and gas tracker from their website as well as the stock market sorry

00:17:31.240 from their television broadcast um and so we're on to the next narrative whatever it may be after a

00:17:39.200 one day everybody's going to collapse because we're not going to be able to pay for oil and gas

00:17:44.580 narrative um and by the way buck i was talking about this with buck off the air yeah tough spot

00:17:50.660 if you were one of those guys who bought the oil and gas yesterday for $120

00:17:54.360 and now you're staring at $85 a barrel of oil,

00:17:58.500 that's a big hit for a lot of the commodities traders out there.

00:18:04.880 Speculation is risk.

00:18:09.820 No doubt.

00:18:11.120 We bring in now North Carolinian Michael Watley,

00:18:15.820 one of the biggest battleground states of the midterm,

00:18:19.600 will be north carolina and in particular an open senate seat there the primaries are over it is

00:18:26.940 going to be michael whatley against roy cooper uh you uh have seen and helped to shepherd trump

00:18:33.220 to victories in north carolina in 2016 2020 and 2024 uh and so you know the state better than

00:18:41.480 almost anyone what does it look like on the ground there what needs to happen in order for

00:18:46.440 a victory to happen in this seat to remain in Republican hands, Chairman Watley?

00:18:53.240 Well, really, look, what came out of the primaries, and we have a completely unified Republican

00:18:58.100 party, and we have the narrative that we really were hoping to have in this election cycle,

00:19:03.480 because this is about contrast. This is about a choice that North Carolinians have, and they're

00:19:09.520 going to vote for a conservative champion who's going to be an ally for President Trump over

00:19:15.500 Roy Cooper who absolutely is not going to be an ally with the president he's not going to support

00:19:21.720 the president's agenda he is going to be a soft on crime senator just like he was a soft on crime

00:19:27.760 governor and he is going to always want higher taxes he's going to want boys and girls sports

00:19:33.860 and men and women's locker rooms and he's going to always fight harder for criminals and illegal

00:19:38.620 aliens than he is for the people of north carolina so my understanding is you are uh the recovery

00:19:45.720 czar for western north carolina right after hurricane helene that trump has talked about

00:19:50.140 how you've been uh important in those efforts how was how is that going and what would you say about

00:19:57.100 the state efforts that you weren't in control of to try to help out areas like ashville and boone

00:20:04.700 Well, what we saw with Roy Cooper was the governor was absolutely no activity whatsoever, either from Joe Biden or from Roy Cooper.

00:20:14.640 They both left the state totally in shambles.

00:20:18.420 What President Trump has done, what we've been able to do is bring $8.75 billion plus in recovery efforts to Western North Carolina.

00:20:28.080 Ninety nine percent of the roads have been rebuilt.

00:20:30.140 The bridges have been rebuilt. The water systems, the wastewater systems have been rebuilt.

00:20:35.240 You know, that is a very strong part of the state. It is a resilient part of the state.

00:20:40.140 The people there have have, you know, overcome adverse adversity.

00:20:45.160 But, you know, we're not ready to hang out a mission accomplished banner yet.

00:20:49.360 But we feel very good about where we are in terms of the recovery.

00:20:53.020 And this is the largest recovery effort by the federal government in North Carolina history for any hurricane.

00:21:00.140 the governor former governor of north carolina you're running against roy cooper i remember

00:21:07.500 seeing a super viral video of him asked a very basic question should men be able to compete in

00:21:14.820 women's sports and i know as march madness is going on there's not a sports crazier state 0.96

00:21:20.500 hardly for basketball season than north carolina right now i think it's something that really cuts

00:21:25.920 through and connects with a lot of north carolinians in particular has he answered that

00:21:31.600 question i imagine that when you get on the debate stage and as this campaign progresses

00:21:36.000 that's going to be something that you really hammer him on well he did answer the question

00:21:40.680 because he vetoed three different bills to keep woke out of schools boys out of girls sports and

00:21:46.080 men's out of women's locker rooms uh he's exactly wrong on this issue said and it really does as

00:21:51.640 you say you know touch the hearts and minds of people all across north carolina what is the

00:21:58.620 difference between you and roy cooper as you see it when it comes to uh immigration enforcement

00:22:05.580 that's obviously an area that matters a whole lot to the whole country and it matters a whole lot to

00:22:10.140 your home state of north carolina where is cooper on that issue where has he been as governor and

00:22:15.580 where will you be well i'm going to support president trump i think that when we talk about

00:22:20.840 the highest, most important function for any government. It is protecting its citizens. That's

00:22:26.060 true, whether it's local, state or federal. And what President Trump has done in securing our

00:22:31.560 border is not just keep out, you know, the millions of illegal immigrants that were flowing

00:22:36.580 into the country every single year, but it's also brought down drugs. He's brought down migrant 1.00

00:22:42.840 crime, sex trafficking, you know, all of the all of the scourges that came along with, you know,

00:22:48.700 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants that came across you know roy cooper on the other hand 0.72

00:22:53.220 vetoed two different bills uh that would have forced sheriffs to honor ice detainers and help

00:22:57.980 get violent criminal illegal aliens out of north carolina oh i know that the answer is everywhere 0.89

00:23:05.000 every part of the state but you know the state of north carolina better than anybody buck just

00:23:11.120 asked you about western north carolina where i think you were born and raised uh still recovering

00:23:15.280 from a lot of what happened with hurricane helene where does a statewide race get decided in your

00:23:21.860 mind is it the suburbs outside of charlotte is it uh in turnout related issues again i know that

00:23:28.580 there are lots of things to point to but when you look at this state where is a close election

00:23:35.040 decided in north carolina look you you nailed it on the head when you said everywhere matters we're

00:23:41.040 expecting that this race is going to be extraordinarily close. When Tom Tillis won

00:23:45.720 this seat for the first time in 2014, he had a 50,000 vote margin, which was three-tenths of a

00:23:51.740 point. When he won it for the second time, it was a six-tenth of a point margin. And Ted Budd got a

00:23:58.600 very comfortable 50.5. So we know that every place is going to matter. What we need to do

00:24:04.420 is to get out there and talk to every Republican voter that supported President Trump, who has not

00:24:10.800 voted in the off years so we look at people who voted in 2016 2020 and 2024 but they didn't vote

00:24:17.860 in 2018 or 2022 we want to go to them and have a conversation that says this it really matters we

00:24:25.220 need to dynamite them off the couch and we need to get them to go vote the other thing that we

00:24:30.040 need to do is in a typical election in north carolina 46 47 of the people are going to vote

00:24:36.320 for a Republican candidate, 46, 47% are going to vote for a Democratic candidate. And then we are

00:24:42.560 going to have to go have a conversation with that six to 8% that are your swing voters. And they're

00:24:48.340 predominantly suburban, they're predominantly college educated. And the thing that matters to

00:24:53.360 them is a conversation about crazy versus common sense. And they supported President Trump in this

00:24:59.680 last election cycle, independent voters in North Carolina, 54 to 45, because he was the common

00:25:05.760 sense candidate he was actually going out there and talking about the issues that they cared about

00:25:10.800 not the woke progressive issues that kamala harris was putting on the table roy cooper is right there

00:25:17.140 in lockstep with the democratic party when he's talking about open borders inflationary spending

00:25:22.500 in a weak woke america what i'm fighting for is president trump's common sense agenda to you know

00:25:28.980 rebuild our economy to make sure that our kids and our communities are safe and that the men and

00:25:33.640 women in uniform based in North Carolina have what they need to protect our interests and allies 1.00

00:25:38.320 around the world. Speaking of Michael Watley, he's running for that Senate seat that's open in this

00:25:43.400 cycle in North Carolina. I know you've strongly supported, Michael, President Trump's tax cuts,

00:25:50.340 which have obviously boosted North Carolina's economy along with the rest of the country.

00:25:55.580 But there's major affordability concerns in your state, just like there are in many states,

00:26:00.220 particularly a lot of states people are moving to right housing prices are going up because of

00:26:04.640 that supply and demand reality uh roy cooper wants to expand medicaid roy cooper wants to spend more

00:26:10.900 money and that's not going to help what would you like to do what kind of pro-growth policies would

00:26:17.820 you prioritize in the senate so that working families can get some relief and there can be

00:26:23.460 some of the uh affordability issues addressed that are so critical right now especially those

00:26:28.680 independent and swing voters yeah look tax policies regulatory policies and trade policies

00:26:35.500 that are going to help north carolina manufacturers small businesses and and particularly our farms

00:26:40.820 right we need to create more jobs we need to make sure people are taking home bigger paychecks and

00:26:46.220 of course we've got to get the cost down low uh and that is going to take a concerted effort you

00:26:51.780 know one of the things that's so important about president trump and the one big beautiful bill

00:26:55.680 that was passed by Congress last year is extending the Trump middle-class tax cuts,

00:27:01.420 which ended up being the largest tax cut in history,

00:27:04.380 and making sure that no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.

00:27:10.300 Roy Cooper, when he was a legislator, he voted for multiple tax hikes.

00:27:15.680 When he was the governor, he vetoed six different tax cuts,

00:27:19.440 and he made it very clear that he would have voted against the one big, beautiful bill.

00:27:22.860 So he's always going to support tax increases. He's always going to want to tax and spend your money, right? I'm going to always fight to make sure that we're going to bring those costs down. You mentioned housing, right? So just today, we've got Secretary Scott Turner, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development coming into Charlotte, North Carolina, and we're going to have a roundtable where we're going to be focusing on bringing down housing costs and making sure that we have houses that are going to be available.

00:27:51.260 It's really hard for you to set up and live the American dream when you can't get married and buy a house and raise a family.

00:27:58.760 And so what we want to do is have an honest conversation with the secretary, along with, you know, real estate developers and lenders and construction folks about what is it going to take for us to be able to build more homes and bring down those prices.

00:28:13.460 We need to bring, you know, interest rates down. Right.

00:28:16.840 President Trump has been fighting on that a lot. We need to have transparency in the housing markets.

00:28:21.980 We need to make sure that the HUD loans and other programs they have are specifically designed to get more first time homeowners into place.

00:28:32.380 How much is this race going to cost total, do you think? 0.56

00:28:34.920 And for people out there that might have the resources to be able to help you, how can they help you?

00:28:41.760 Well, this is going to be the most expensive Senate race in the history of the country.

00:28:45.220 And we're seeing experts on both sides of the aisle are saying that we're going to be somewhere north of $600 million that are going to be spent on this race, which is going to eclipse what we saw in Ohio and Georgia and Pennsylvania in the last couple of election cycles.

00:28:59.980 People want to support us.

00:29:01.440 They can go to michaelwatley.com.

00:29:03.300 We are certainly going to need help from all across the country.

00:29:05.980 And we are going to be in a position to win this race when we have that support because we are believers that good policy is good politics.

00:29:15.220 And we're going to be on the right side of every one of these 80-20 issues.

00:29:18.860 And we're going to be fighting for President Trump's common sense agenda.

00:29:22.300 I want to just come back to that number quickly because my jaw dropped for people watching on video.

00:29:27.920 You think this race is going to cost $600 million?

00:29:33.300 Yeah, I think it's a stunning indictment on politics these days that this is what we're going to be spending on there.

00:29:39.940 But we need to make sure that we get our message out.

00:29:42.760 And President Trump did such a good job. What we did on the campaign was make sure that we were good stewards of every dollar, that we were spending it in a way that was going to maximize getting our message out there.

00:29:56.300 But it didn't work if we didn't have a good message.

00:29:58.820 And so when we talk about rebuilding the economy, restoring the borders and keeping our kids and our communities safe and making sure that our military has what they need, you know, as as as we're watching what happens now in Iran, we need to make sure that we're focusing on what are the issue sets that the voters care about.

00:30:17.880 he is michael whatley he is hopefully going to be the next senator from the state of north

00:30:22.420 carolina i'm sure we'll be talking to you a lot that 600 million dollar battle that is extraordinary

00:30:28.020 sir get your rest and be ready we're ready to go and really appreciate you and your listeners

00:30:33.820 that is michael whatley check him out um and one of the big open senate seats maybe the biggest

00:30:40.660 battleground uh senate battle uh in the country there 600 million i can't believe it uh by the

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00:32:08.220 podcasts welcome back in clay travis buck sexton show we appreciate all of you hanging out with us

00:32:15.540 and we are glad to be joined by our good friend shannon bream am i allowed to say it i'm going to

00:32:21.520 say it i always ask and then i say it anyway nearly a neighbor of mine among uh other reasons that

00:32:27.540 i appreciate everything that she does she has great choices and where she has decided to live

00:32:33.120 with her awesome husband, Sheldon, who often listens to the show.

00:32:37.380 So thank you.

00:32:38.500 Congratulations on the new book.

00:32:40.640 Let me make sure that I get that out there for the title.

00:32:44.840 It is Nothing is Impossible with God, 11 Heroes, One God,

00:32:49.480 Endless Lessons in Overcoming.

00:32:52.000 Shannon, of course, Chief Legal Correspondent at Fox News,

00:32:55.480 and we encourage all of you to go buy her book.

00:32:58.020 Put her on the bestseller list like Buck was just on the bestseller list

00:33:01.420 for The New York Times.

00:33:02.760 And Shannon, I'll get to the book in a sec, but let me start with this.

00:33:06.340 We're still expecting really big Supreme Court decisions.

00:33:10.260 When do we expect some of these to come down?

00:33:12.960 And what do you think has the potential to be the most significant between now and June when that term is over?

00:33:21.280 Well, Clay, good to hear your voice. Great to be with you guys. Thanks for having me.

00:33:25.500 We probably will get another round of opinions starting the week of March 23rd.

00:33:29.720 23rd. They're back at arguments, oral arguments then. So listen, it's the court's world. We're

00:33:34.880 just living in it. They could give these opinions anytime we want. But that's kind of my educated

00:33:38.100 guess. You know, we're waiting on one really big one out of Louisiana that has to do with

00:33:42.160 redistricting, with the Voting Rights Act. And you guys know we're tracking these states all over

00:33:46.760 the country that are trying to do redistricting leading up to the midterm. So if we get that

00:33:51.880 decision on the earlier side, meaning, you know, March, April, rather than the later, which would

00:33:56.380 be the end of june it really does have the potential to impact a number of these states

00:34:00.460 and what they're doing with redrawing these streets so um excuse me the district so i'm

00:34:04.820 watching for that one we've got a couple that test the limits of executive power you know the

00:34:08.700 president trying to dismiss a governor from the fed board and some other interesting ones that

00:34:12.740 we're just kind of waiting on our nail-biting standby shannon i want to ask you about the book

00:34:17.900 because i just went through the whole book thing and still going and congrats congrats thank you

00:34:23.120 thank you um i'm sure you're enjoying your copy very much thank you for uh your kind words tell me

00:34:29.420 um what'd you write in this book and what do people need to know i want to dive right into it

00:34:34.700 well listen it's it's a group of stories from the bible old and new testament to have this theme of

00:34:40.180 overcoming because i mean all of us get up against something in life that you know either it's

00:34:44.780 unplanned and it's you know a terrible diagnosis or financial crisis or something really difficult

00:34:50.140 in life it may be something exciting like you know starting a new business or having a baby

00:34:54.580 or doing something but we all have things that sometimes will make us feel a little bit overwhelmed

00:34:58.320 and that's a common thread in all of these stories and so i hope that people will see

00:35:02.720 themselves in these stories be encouraged and see how god was working and help each of these

00:35:06.720 people to overcome what was the tough thing in front of them shannon um you mentioned the supreme

00:35:13.740 court decisions that are coming down soon one of the biggest questions and this is a huge mess in

00:35:19.400 general so maybe you have the perfect solution here is and i think we talked about this with

00:35:23.560 you before the tariff decision had so many different implications but the biggest still

00:35:29.520 is out there it is what happens with tariff refunds how does this play out in your mind

00:35:35.400 where does it go yeah and listen during the fight over the tariffs in the lower courts

00:35:41.340 the administration represented to the courts numerous times that they would pay out the

00:35:46.080 refunds to the plaintiffs in those particular cases. So that was just a small group of businesses.

00:35:51.460 So I pressed, you know, Secretary Besson, Kevin Hassett, others on this, like what happens to

00:35:56.460 everybody else out there? And you've seen, I mean, there were already been a lot of big

00:36:00.740 filings, lawsuits filed with different companies across the spectrum saying we want our money back.

00:36:05.780 Well, now CBP, because this money comes in through Border Patrol, they say, listen,

00:36:11.240 we are getting together a streamlined way to do this. It's going to take us about 45 days,

00:36:15.460 I think they told the court recently to kind of set up the way that you go about getting your refunds.

00:36:19.880 But there are a lot of lawsuits from companies who say, we're not waiting for that.

00:36:23.020 We want the money back and we want a guarantee from the court that you're going to pay us.

00:36:27.820 Hmm. How do you think this plays out, Shannon?

00:36:31.800 Well, you know, the president himself was frustrated that the court did not give a specific, you know, framework for paying this money back.

00:36:39.400 Instead, he, you know, said, oh, we're going to be tied up in litigation for a couple of years.

00:36:42.500 So that's my question. Is the administration going to fight some of these refunds or will they do, as CBP has said, that at this framework?

00:36:49.740 Because, you know, several businesses out there have spoken publicly and said, listen, the forms that you fill out for these specific tariffs, it's always very specific.

00:36:57.540 So you can track, you got the receipts, as the kids say, to show exactly what money you've paid out.

00:37:03.000 And so it would seem with that in mind, if CBP really sets up this framework for getting it done, that that would expedite the process.

00:37:10.120 But I think that there are going to be those who press for litigation to make sure that that vow is made good.

00:37:17.220 When you look, Shannon, at the Supreme Court decisions, the one that you just referenced on the redistricting,

00:37:26.680 in particular using race as a criteria, the gerrymandering of race,

00:37:32.520 I've seen some stories that that could flip 20 different districts, particularly in the South, if that's tossed.

00:37:39.780 My suspicion, I'm curious if you would sign on, is that the court is going to wait as

00:37:44.020 late as possible, release that ruling.

00:37:46.920 I think it's going to invalidate those districts, but I think they want to do it late enough

00:37:51.400 that it doesn't impact the 2026 midterms.

00:37:55.040 You buy that, or do you think there is a possibility that they would interject themselves

00:38:01.120 into that aspect of 2026?

00:38:05.480 Yeah, and that's such a great question, because that's what we keep waiting for.

00:38:09.240 Listen, if this thing comes in the next couple of weeks, I do think, you know, it's going to impact a number of states that can make these changes before it's later.

00:38:16.300 But if it comes to the end of June, it may preclude that process.

00:38:20.860 You're right from getting too close to doing anything about the elections that are going to come in the midterm.

00:38:25.440 You know, the justices will tell us they want the court to be viewed as apolitical as possible.

00:38:30.060 they don't want to get involved in looking like they're putting a weight on the scale in a partisan manner or any other way.

00:38:35.900 So I don't know where they're going to do, where they're going to land with this.

00:38:39.540 But, you know, the chief justice always tells us when the opinions are ready,

00:38:42.440 we don't hold them or time them to meet any kind of specific political or other timeline.

00:38:46.860 We release them. So they haven't even given us a date for the next release.

00:38:50.460 But he says they don't play games with it, that when it's ready, we get it.

00:38:54.500 something i just thought about as we're here talking about matters affecting the high court

00:39:00.320 and matters before the high court shannon whatever happened to finding out who leaked the dobbs

00:39:05.460 decision in advance of the actual decision very few people would have had access to that

00:39:10.140 and it feels like that just went nowhere buck i love it one of my favorite questions because

00:39:17.400 remember this administration picked that up when the court had the investigation the chief justice

00:39:23.660 kept it in-house, used the marshal service, used their internal workings to get it done.

00:39:28.800 We know some people were pressed on taking lie detector tests and those kinds of things,

00:39:33.000 but we all know if it was a clerk, and that's an if, we have no idea, they have these one-year

00:39:37.780 terms. And if it's an internal Supreme Court investigation, when they leave at the end of

00:39:42.700 that clerking term, the court kind of loses its reach over them. They can't take away their

00:39:47.240 employment. They can't do anything from that infrastructure. And there are a lot of critics

00:39:51.700 on the outside who said, this should have been farmed out. We should have brought in DOJ or

00:39:55.860 some other federal investigative body to do this. Well, then, you know, when Dan Mangino was part

00:40:00.900 of the administration, he talked a couple of times about this, saying the Dobbs decision is still on

00:40:05.660 our list of investigations. Like, we're going to try to find out. So if the court cooperates with

00:40:10.400 them, that's one thing. But if the court's not cooperating and turning over all the details of

00:40:14.580 what their internal investigation found, I'm not sure how you kind of pick up the threats at this

00:40:18.780 point we want you to go buy her book uh the book is nothing is impossible with god 11 heroes one

00:40:25.000 god endless lessons in overcoming shannon bream let me hit you with this because i haven't heard

00:40:30.820 this discussed in earnest um but a big part of what might happen in the senate is who's going

00:40:37.380 to control it right this could be the last year that president trump has control of the united

00:40:43.340 States Senate. Have you heard any discussions about the possibility of some of the older

00:40:49.960 justices, maybe a Justice Alito, for instance, deciding that this is the time to step down

00:40:56.580 because he knows that his confirmation would be someone who shares many of his judicial

00:41:03.420 philosophies. Whereas if you wait until January, you could end up in a situation where Ruth

00:41:10.760 Bader Ginsburg found herself or other justices have found themselves where your health is at

00:41:16.380 the beck and call of a political universe you don't control uh what discussion if any is is

00:41:22.080 about the Supreme Court right now oh guys this is one of our favorite parlor games in D.C. especially

00:41:28.060 in the Supreme Court press corps like it gives ulcers to all of us trying to figure this out

00:41:32.360 and figure out what they're going to do because you guys know these confirmation battles have

00:41:36.420 gotten so heated the last few rounds that when somebody decides to step down, it triggers all

00:41:43.340 kinds of pandemonium in D.C. And you're right. You've got to look to the midterms and see,

00:41:47.680 does the Senate lose control, which would make it really hard? It's already difficult because

00:41:50.840 you're not even guaranteed all the Republican votes if you're a Republican voter who wants to

00:41:55.380 see President Trump to get another appointment. They don't always stick together either. So,

00:42:00.080 you know, it's a really heavy lift. But I've heard nothing. I mean,

00:42:03.180 justices thomas and lito have both hired their clerks they have everything in place that you

00:42:07.740 would think is going to be in place for future terms um that's something that they do pretty

00:42:11.960 far in advance so i haven't heard any rumblings that anybody's actually thinking about it we like

00:42:16.260 to speculate but my educated guess is that justice thomas is not going to leave the bench by choice

00:42:21.780 he's having a good time he fights every day i think when he shows up there every day he does

00:42:26.560 it with such glee for his haters um that i think he's somebody who's going to stay as long as

00:42:31.540 possible um you know we have no indication that justice alito is even thinking about it but i

00:42:36.460 think he would step down before justice thomas would so i think um june could be very interesting

00:42:41.640 month on that front yeah let me hit you with this because i like to look at the markets um and there

00:42:47.060 are markets right now on whether a new supreme court justice would be confirmed before 2027

00:42:53.780 and it's right at 60 percent yes so there are people making wagers that somebody alito is the

00:43:01.700 favorite as you just kind of ran through that you know he might be considering this and again you've

00:43:07.360 done this for a long time if you wanted to ensure who your replacement was going to be from a 0.94

00:43:14.120 judicial philosophy perspective next year that meaning this year might be the last year where

00:43:20.280 you have some certainty on that for some time to come. Right. And listen, as much as the court

00:43:26.560 wants to be apolitical, they're not blind. Listen, they get the political trends. They get the

00:43:35.220 political conversation. And you do have to think about that. Remember when Justice Ginsburg was

00:43:39.360 being pressed so hard by the left to step down and it made her dig in her heels. I mean, there

00:43:44.420 were op eds telling her she had to go. There were law professors calling for her to go. And she was

00:43:48.260 like, no, sir, I will go on my own timeline and I'll go when I'm good and ready. And then the

00:43:52.540 left was so furious with her, uh, obviously passing away while she was still holding that seat. 0.99

00:43:57.720 And, um, you know, president Trump obviously getting to replace her. So it's a really sore

00:44:02.500 point. Um, but a lot of people think on the right, even listen, you give deference to these men who,

00:44:08.460 you know, are the more senior members of the conservative wing of the court. They've given

00:44:11.640 decades of their lives and we should respect that. So, um, I don't know. I, and I do think

00:44:17.840 that both thomas and alito are justices too if you pressured them or started saying hey time to

00:44:22.760 show you the door that would make them stick around um but they're not dummies about the

00:44:27.240 political calculation so i gotta imagine that that's part of their consideration no doubt new

00:44:33.760 book is nothing is impossible with god 11 heroes one god endless lessons and overcoming go get

00:44:39.900 your copy shannon clay and buck are shannon fans and we have so many shannon fans listening so i

00:44:45.580 think we're going to sell a bunch of books today let us know how it goes well thank you the feeling

00:44:50.000 is mutual i would love to see you guys in person so hopefully i end up in one of your studios again

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00:46:59.200 third hour of play and buck kicks off now show is flying by and we are covering so much ground

00:47:06.620 a good time to remind you all there's a podcast of this program you can go back and listen on

00:47:10.960 demand anytime you like the iheart radio app best place to start wherever you get your podcast hour

00:47:15.880 by hour the show goes up go listen to it you missed our one we had a great hour one some people

00:47:21.020 say the greatest hour one of any show this this week uh so far there's a great great hour one of

00:47:28.220 the show we're talking iran stuff we're talking economy we had jim jordan on we had shannon bream

00:47:33.980 on great americans we had michael whatley on i think he's gonna win that race clay in north

00:47:39.400 carolina i really do i like michael whatley he's a good man they're gonna their money that's gonna

00:47:44.820 be spent it's just crazy how much money is being spent by most in democrats 600 million dollars he

00:47:51.920 said buck if you're watching on video my jaw it's rare that my jaw drops when i hear a number i was

00:47:57.120 even projecting okay it'll cost a couple a hundred million dollars 600 million dollars for

00:48:04.360 one senate seat is outrageous but it's indicative of how much money is going to be spent and we

00:48:09.480 just talked with shannon bream about this you can't be confident if you are the white house

00:48:15.880 right now that you are going to have control of congress this might be your last opportunity this

00:48:22.240 year might be the last opportunity of you uh meaning the republicans to be able to get anything

00:48:29.660 through uh the the house and the senate and so if that's going to be true um it makes all of these

00:48:36.560 stakes that much higher including as we were just talking about the possibility of could there be a

00:48:41.840 supreme court vacancy because buck if you don't make the decision to go now in 26 27 and 28 if

00:48:49.920 republicans lose control of the senate nothing's getting done and then in 28 you have another

00:48:55.020 election and you don't know who's going to win you might have a split and so you might not have

00:49:00.000 certainty on who your replacement's going to be for four or five years maybe longer um if you're

00:49:06.400 a 70 some odd year old supreme court justice uh also some breaking news here that gracie mansion

00:49:13.880 which is the mayor's residence in new york city uh right like a block or two before my little

00:49:21.320 sister actually went to school i know the area very well gracie mansion has uh well there's a

00:49:27.820 report of the nypd responding to a device a suspicious device um not immediately clear if

00:49:36.600 it was a hoax or real or not but then look this is getting more attention on there was that protest

00:49:42.220 and the counter protesters remember a protest about too many islamic radicals in new york

00:49:48.880 so islamic radicals were like how dare you and then threw a bomb at them

00:49:53.300 kind of tells you a lot as we were discussing uh and now there's another suspicious package

00:50:00.100 that has been found you remember clay i think it was the new york post held a contest

00:50:04.760 for the name of a strip club that at one point was going to be opened

00:50:08.420 an all-male strip club that was going to be open near the site of a mosque.

00:50:14.380 Do you know about this?

00:50:15.520 No, I don't remember this story at all.

00:50:16.940 I think it was New York Post, and the winner was Suspicious Packages.

00:50:23.320 That's actually really funny.

00:50:25.200 Which I always thought was kind of a funny one.

00:50:27.060 That's very, very funny.

00:50:27.500 If you're going to have a strip club across from a mosque, 0.99

00:50:30.380 because some guy wanted to make a point that they won't allow a strip club near a mosque. 0.79

00:50:34.600 An all-male, it was like a Chippendales thing. 0.99

00:50:37.060 This was a long time ago.

00:50:37.920 i'm pretty sure that wasn't the onion i'm pretty sure it was a real thing but maybe it was the

00:50:41.280 onion it's a funny story anyway sometimes you know when the facts and the legend conflict you

00:50:45.520 got to go with the legend but whenever i see suspicious packages now i always think of that

00:50:49.380 story or that uh that urban legend whatever it is um now we have the the cnn reporting on this

00:50:57.600 is is incredible uh and this is where x i i know we sound a little bit like elon super fans here

00:51:05.360 maybe something or i'll just speak for myself i want to actually clay with the tesla i think

00:51:09.880 it's pretty big i am i am i think elon is my my 50 my 15 year old son uh the other day was just

00:51:19.640 would you stop you may or may not know this phrase would you stop with the elon glaze glaze is like

00:51:26.960 when you're giving somebody praise i'm like he's the greatest capitalist in the history of the

00:51:31.380 world i mean i think it's fair to say that of anybody that's alive today i think he's probably

00:51:37.840 done more uh in a positive direction from a capitalist perspective than almost anybody ever

00:51:43.620 has and did we say this on the air was it off air aoc was criticizing uh elon musk recently for

00:51:50.340 being a billionaire who had never accomplished anything and elon musk just did a star you know

00:51:55.920 an asterisk and said trillionaire uh which is elon is if he's not already soon to be the first

00:52:03.300 trillionaire in the history of the world um and uh i think it's because he's built pretty

00:52:09.040 incredible products so to cut you off i might like elon and be more of an elon glazer according

00:52:14.960 to my own 15 year old than even you are but so i'll sign on certainly in gen z speak gen z has

00:52:21.780 some very interesting first of all i've noticed that that we grew up saying dude the way they say

00:52:26.880 bro bro is now what dude was in the 90s you'd be like dude now it's bro everything is bro yeah

00:52:34.100 that's one thing i've noticed about the gen z i have a gen z babysitter and i listen very closely

00:52:40.340 to her uh lexicon to her uh verbiage and i'm learning things all the time it's the oldest

00:52:47.240 man way to describe how a young i listened to her lexicon to her verbiage uh how old is uh is

00:52:55.480 your gen z lass uh that is uh that is a babysitter 22 year old she just got out of the just got out 0.87

00:53:03.300 of the idf actually 22 years old uh and she was serving over in israel now she's here and uh and

00:53:10.260 she's great she's great with great with speech fantastic but uh i'm learning from the way that

00:53:14.900 she speaks and there's a thing mogging oh mogging oh i i've learned this thing so so when clay and i

00:53:23.540 took a photo years ago with tommy laren and tommy looked like tommy laren and clay and i

00:53:31.600 both looked particularly schlubby even for us we were mogged by tommy this is with it right that's

00:53:39.500 the correct it's like when someone completely overshadows you in a photo because they're like

00:53:45.360 they're so good looking i think that's what basically you can mog people in all respects

00:53:50.340 but typically it is applied for physical physical like if you went to the beach and i went to the

00:53:55.160 beach and like arnold schwarzenegger uh you know mr olympian style was there at the beach

00:54:01.780 he would be totally mogging us like we would be the fat slubby guys at the beach and then i mean

00:54:07.400 And now he's pretty wrinkly and old, but yeah, I get what you're saying.

00:54:09.980 So who is the most, who's the super ripped guy now?

00:54:12.720 There aren't as many famous ripped guys.

00:54:14.980 I mean, I know there's tons of wrestlers and things like that.

00:54:17.360 I think super bodybuilders have become, did you see the guy who was like, I think won

00:54:21.180 the Arnold Classic, the photos that were going around, does not even look like a human musculature.

00:54:26.380 I mean, it looks like another species.

00:54:28.000 It's crazy how jacked this guy.

00:54:29.180 Yeah, well, some of those guys can't put a shirt on.

00:54:31.740 So it's hard to be like, oh, you're the strongest man on the, like, I'm not kidding.

00:54:36.060 They can't take a shirt off and take a shirt on because they're so muscular.

00:54:40.520 Their shoulders don't work.

00:54:42.520 They can't just do normal things.

00:54:44.760 You're taking massive doses of anabolic steroids to get to that.

00:54:49.060 And that's just known.

00:54:49.940 This isn't like some...

00:54:50.980 You're not hiding it.

00:54:52.600 You can't be a bodybuilder, a male bodybuilder competitor.

00:54:56.380 It's interesting.

00:54:56.840 The most competitive of the female body... 1.00

00:54:59.900 I'm in Miami, which is, I think, now probably the bodybuilding capital of the country.

00:55:03.560 Certainly, South Florida has got to be up there.

00:55:05.360 south florida is the attractiveness capital of the united states by far everybody's good looking

00:55:12.320 everybody's in shape like i la is probably number two in terms of people who are just in great

00:55:17.900 miami's now number one your fitness level in south florida is a minus three compared to the

00:55:23.540 american average so if you think you're like a seven out of ten in terms of fitness for your

00:55:29.340 age category you come to south florida you're like a four or five it's just the way it look

00:55:33.760 it applies to me too trust me i was like i came down here i was like i'm the fattest guy in the

00:55:38.260 whole gym like it's tough down here well and also it's warm so people wear less clothes so it's hard

00:55:43.340 to hide like you can't wear a bulky jacket you don't get like if you're the fat guy in miami

00:55:48.220 everybody knows you're the fat guy in miami yeah you don't i mean around here it's there's it's a 0.66

00:55:53.240 whole different thing with the year-round beach where okay so looks mogging we've explained to 0.68

00:55:57.400 you now for gen z speak most of you it's going to be your grandkids or your kids that will know

00:56:01.420 what mogging is um and uh you explain you explain glazed there's some other gen z terms that i'll

00:56:08.400 think of that are very very common usage these days um but anyway going back to cnn here for a

00:56:15.580 moment oh why who are we glazing elon because elon's incredible he is and you were saying the

00:56:20.900 reason we knew this story from cnn to a large extent is because of twitter and the way that

00:56:25.900 exchange culturally yeah i mean twitter used to be a left-wing propaganda platform and allowed

00:56:32.820 conservatives on but it actually was nefarious because it was always suppressing you know right

00:56:38.060 it's it's if you're in a race what's worse hey i'm the fact this is a race to determine who the

00:56:43.600 fastest person in the world is but i'm going to exclude like most of the fastest people and then

00:56:49.700 give a gold medal to somebody who's actually not the fastest or if you put everybody in the race

00:56:54.760 And then you have the actual fastest people, you know, running with like shackles on their

00:56:59.740 legs or running barefoot or so.

00:57:01.360 They might even run faster barefoot.

00:57:02.760 But anyway, you get what I'm saying, right?

00:57:04.060 Like it's actually more nefarious to pretend it's a honest platform.

00:57:08.700 X now does not operate as a left wing propaganda platform.

00:57:15.200 And it's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it was.

00:57:17.880 And so CNN has had to put this out.

00:57:20.020 A post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani's home

00:57:28.240 failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting.

00:57:34.800 It has therefore been deleted.

00:57:38.100 Now, just to share with everybody what the tweet was, this is from CNN's official account, which has millions and millions of followers still.

00:57:45.360 two pennsylvania teenagers crossed into new york city saturday morning for what could have been a

00:57:51.940 normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather but in less than an hour their lives

00:57:57.900 would be drastically changed as they would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an

00:58:02.600 anti-muslim protest outside of zoran mamdani's home clay that construct of how to tell this story

00:58:10.500 is like clinically insane i mean you could do this with anybody it would say you know it's like

00:58:15.200 osama bin laden was having just another day eating some chunks of goat in a cave in afghanistan

00:58:22.080 thinking about a quranic verse and then i mean all of a sudden on his tv the planes ran into

00:58:27.740 the buildings like what are you doing yeah and this is where it becomes significant to me

00:58:33.540 a lot of times people can screw up i've written a lot you've written a lot we talk a lot

00:58:40.100 four hours plus every day variety of different topics to me what is an utter indictment of what

00:58:47.300 you just read that went viral this morning is it's a product of the culture of cnn in other words

00:58:55.140 that you know this articles don't go up on cnn.com without having been vetted by multiple editors

00:59:01.080 and i would submit that a cnn account does not tweet something out without it having the ability

00:59:09.200 to have been overseed by multiple editors, which is a good thing, right?

00:59:13.020 You don't want CNN suddenly tweeting out 100% inaccurate news

00:59:18.380 because it could be very traumatic to the nation as a whole, right?

00:59:23.040 If suddenly CNN said, hey, something awful has happened to President Trump

00:59:27.480 and it's not true at all, it could alter the marketplace people see on stock markets,

00:59:33.300 everything else.

00:59:34.040 By the way, Caroline Levitt has started a briefing,

00:59:36.500 and we will be updating you on what she is saying there.

00:59:40.680 But all of that is to say this is the culture of CNN

00:59:45.420 that must be ripped out root and branch. 0.96

00:59:48.180 And this is why, for those of you out there who didn't care

00:59:50.800 about who was going to buy Warner Brothers, I did care.

00:59:54.860 CBS News was a mess.

00:59:56.300 I think CBS News has gotten better under new ownership.

00:59:59.660 I think that, similarly, CNN needs to be reimagined

01:00:04.040 and redefined and rehabilitated based on the way that the culture of their news has broken.

01:00:10.420 And that tweet and that story is a perfect example of a culture that's broken.

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