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

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00:00:58.820 So this will be a fun show, as it often is.

00:01:03.160 But we've got a lot of serious things to talk about with all of you.

00:01:07.840 And Pete Hegseth had another early press conference about the situation unfolding in Iran.

00:01:15.780 And I'm sure we're going to play some of those cuts for you.

00:01:18.180 But President Trump is meeting the new leader of Japan in the Oval Office as we speak.

00:01:24.500 And he just made news, as Trump typically does.

00:01:27.340 Buck, one of my favorite things that Trump does is say he's not going to answer a question

00:01:32.420 and then answer the question while saying he's not going to answer the question.

00:01:36.840 So he was specifically asked, this is something that a lot of you have been concerned about,

00:01:41.500 he was specifically asked, are you going to put so-called boots on the ground in Iran?

00:01:47.540 He's typically said, hey, I'm not going to answer that.

00:01:50.480 And to his credit, strategically, it would be not smart to say,

00:01:56.280 potentially, if he's going to do one thing or another, leave all options open.

00:02:00.280 It's harder to prepare for something if you don't know what's coming.

00:02:03.540 But he said he's not going to answer, and then he answered.

00:02:05.640 Here is cut 31.

00:02:06.880 This just happened in the Oval Office moments ago.

00:02:09.520 Potentially put U.S. troops or more troops in the region.

00:02:13.020 No, I'm not putting troops anywhere.

00:02:16.060 If I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you.

00:02:18.900 But I'm not putting troops.

00:02:20.140 and we will do whatever is necessary to keep the price as well.

00:02:25.420 I actually thought when I did this, look, the Dow just hit 50,000 a couple of weeks ago.

00:02:31.900 They said that couldn't happen for four years.

00:02:34.240 It wouldn't happen in my term.

00:02:35.620 It's such an outrageous thing because I said it would happen.

00:02:38.960 I didn't know it was going to happen that fast, but it just hit 50,000.

00:02:43.900 So Trump kind of dancing around there, but asked if he's going to put poots on the ground.

00:02:50.140 The only place I think he would have gone, and we've said this for days and days now, is potentially Karg Island, which is the main central location of where Iranian oil is shipped, produced.

00:03:02.660 We have video of Trump from back in the 1980s that we've played talking about, hey, if you're going to hit Iran, that's the place where you hit Iran.

00:03:09.880 But it seems like, Buck, Trump had a strongly worded statement that he put out last night and continues to move towards things being done.

00:03:19.360 I think you said you expected by April 1 for this thing to be over.

00:03:24.060 I think that's a good number.

00:03:25.200 I would go by April 15 if we want to go on the long end, which would be another three

00:03:30.300 and a half or so weeks.

00:03:31.740 But it does feel to me like this operation is winding down, primarily because Iran has

00:03:38.300 very few ballistic missiles left and increasingly few drones.

00:03:42.760 If you look at the overall trajectory of Iran's ability to fire back kind of haphazardly in

00:03:47.380 every direction.

00:03:48.120 They don't have that opportunity anymore to a large extent, and as that opportunity has continued to be degraded, we are now sitting in a situation where it's basically, hey, who do we want to take out and what is a resolution here?

00:04:05.120 Is that your take as President Trump, again, will continue to update, continues to answer questions?

00:04:10.940 Well, sure, but I think that something else that came out last night,

00:04:17.280 a reminder that this is high-stakes stuff and things can go south on us pretty quick,

00:04:25.340 the president truthed out the following,

00:04:29.000 Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East,

00:04:32.960 has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Par's gas field in Iran,

00:04:38.400 a relatively small section of the hole has been hit the united states knew nothing about this

00:04:44.020 particular attack and the country of cutter qatar was in no way shape or form involved with it nor

00:04:50.520 did it have any idea that it was going to happen unfortunately iran did not know this or any of

00:04:56.380 the pertinent facts pertaining to the south pars attack and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked

00:05:02.060 a portion of qatar's liquid natural gas facility no more attacks will be made by israel all caps

00:05:09.840 pertaining to this extremely important and valuable south pars field unless iran unwisely

00:05:16.160 decides to attack a very innocent in this case cutter in which instance the united states of

00:05:22.520 america with or without the help or consent of israel will massively blow up the entirety of

00:05:27.300 the south par's gas field at an amount of strength and power that iran has never seen or witnessed

00:05:32.360 before i do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long-term

00:05:37.180 implications that we'll have on the future of iran but if cutters liquid natural gas is attacked

00:05:41.500 again i will not hesitate to do so thank you for your attention this matter president donald j

00:05:45.060 trump but i just want to read that whole thing because wow that's uh that's a lot going there's

00:05:50.920 a lot going on a lot of different plot twists in that statement when i read it last night i was

00:05:55.360 like oh wow so there's it's almost like you need us you know to break down all the different

00:06:00.340 categories the first and obviously the one that jumped out the most to me was this attack that

00:06:05.600 israel uh levied was not one that trump knew was coming but i actually thought it was quite

00:06:10.820 diplomatic as he moved on to say hey if you do anything to qatar then we are going to rain down

00:06:18.920 holy hell on you there are some reports that iran seems to be stepping back from doing anything

00:06:24.620 which obviously would suggest we are moving towards a situation where maybe calming down is more likely to occur.

00:06:35.300 Oil and gas prices, Buck, I thought you said this yesterday, this is of all the times that you could be the oil and gas guy.

00:06:42.180 It spikes on every little news story. It comes back down on every little news story.

00:06:47.860 There's a bunch of different oil markets.

00:06:50.320 There now is a huge divergence between the oil markets that are based in the Middle East, largely that type of oil and gas and crude oil, which is the typical U.S. oil and gas.

00:07:01.760 As I have it open on my screen in front of me right now, ninety seven dollars a barrel crude oil.

00:07:07.700 The U.S. focused crude oil went to one twenty about a week ago and it continues to spike or not spike entirely based on news stories right now.

00:07:17.860 So you'll hear, hey, there's something new in the Strait of Hormuz or a new missile has landed and they will move in one direction or another rapidly, even as we are talking to all of you.

00:07:29.740 crude oil right now uh in uh is 97 and a half a barrel again down from 120 where it went a couple

00:07:38.360 of weeks ago uh and sitting at right at 97 50 as i'm talking to uh to all of you moving on the news

00:07:46.020 basically that's coming out of the oval office every sentence almost it feels like right now

00:07:50.300 look um i'm wondering what exactly is going to come out of all of this uh because

00:08:02.040 increasingly i think it's clear what we've been saying there's not going to be regime change here

00:08:07.540 so you've killed the leadership off but the security forces and the government structure

00:08:13.120 below that leadership level seems like they're staying in place you've destroyed all their

00:08:17.840 military infrastructure but that doesn't seem to change for example the besiege militia the

00:08:26.440 besiege uh being able to terrify people into staying in their homes and i just sit here and

00:08:33.620 think this was what is is it clear why we're what we're trying to get out of this and why we got

00:08:42.700 into this i'm not sure it is well i think i think this is a this is a fair question to ask the what

00:08:50.480 we're trying what got us into this is iran was going to go nuclear which we've been told for 20

00:08:57.220 years at different levels was like months away weeks away months away weeks away okay all right

00:09:03.780 i mean we don't have access to that information only the top of the national security apparatus

00:09:07.360 does which should make people a little bit uncomfortable right i mean we're trying i live

00:09:11.860 through the whole wmd thing as did all of you we're we're trusting the people in charge now

00:09:15.800 i voted for trump three times i trust president trump on on matters of national security as a

00:09:22.580 general rule but there is just a trust factor there what is the outcome here that's going to

00:09:28.760 be worth the hundreds of billions of dollars that this campaign will have ended up costing

00:09:34.920 i think the challenge is and you would know this better than anybody having worked as a cia

00:09:40.900 analyst predicting what was going to happen on the ground and what is happening and what's likely to

00:09:47.480 happen is really really difficult inside of iran because the president's first statement uh that he

00:09:53.900 made when we decapitated the government and took out the ayatollah was now is the time for all of

00:09:59.780 you to rise up you may not have another chance for decades or generations to take back your

00:10:05.300 government that seemed like the goal was regime change but it now seems like given that there

00:10:11.560 doesn't appear to have been that rising uh tide inside of iran i mean i think it's fair to say

00:10:18.520 buck there were tens of thousands of people in the streets protesting the government when the

00:10:23.280 ayatollah was still alive now he's dead and the tens of thousands of people in the streets don't

00:10:29.420 seem to be happening now well a lot of them are dead but yeah well yeah he killed 30 000 people

00:10:35.080 Australian has an incredible new great newspaper in Australia has an incredible front page so yes

00:10:39.780 a lot of the resistance they killed um but I think maybe there was an expectation of more of an

00:10:45.420 uprising and as you were talking I just sent it in we'll play it Besson is in the Oval Office

00:10:50.500 and he just said they still expect for there to be an uprising inside of Iran so I think part of

00:10:56.380 the argument has been it's shifting in its goals because on the one hand the mow the grass strategy

00:11:02.560 of, hey, we're just going to wipe out Iran's ability to have strong weaponry

00:11:07.340 and any impact in the Middle East.

00:11:09.640 That's, to me, the low end and I think likely to have occurred.

00:11:13.580 The high end is we're going to replace this government

00:11:17.380 with one that actually is a decent one.

00:11:19.540 That seems unlikely, and it feels to me like we're going to be somewhere

00:11:23.200 in kind of the squishy middle where what exactly Iran is going to look like

00:11:28.320 when we stop dropping bombs is hard to forecast.

00:11:30.920 Here's the other thing.

00:11:32.560 Why can Israel not continue to drop bombs?

00:11:35.900 So if the U.S. decides at some point in time, hey, we've done everything we think we need to do,

00:11:40.660 I'm not sure the joint response.

00:11:44.040 We've got an audio clip from Trump about this, and the truth social post that you read is indicative of this as well.

00:11:50.180 Couldn't there be at some point a divergence in the union where the U.S. says, hey, we think we've done enough,

00:11:55.660 and Iran says, hey, you know, we haven't, like we saw in Gaza when Iran kept going.

00:12:01.340 i mean sorry israel kept going because they're trying to eliminate the threat once and for all

00:12:06.100 and the threat to be fair to israel is more substantial than the threat is to the united

00:12:11.060 states i think the israelis have made it clear to iranian hardliners if you do anything that

00:12:18.660 negatively affects the national security or the people of israel will blow you up in a tent in

00:12:24.700 the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night like we'll get you yeah i mean that that has been

00:12:30.120 made clear what does that mean for the future of a country of 90 million people i mean i gotta tell

00:12:36.580 you as this thing is going on here we are using a tremendous amount of munitions which are very

00:12:45.780 expensive i might add in all of this to blow up a lot of kind of second and third tier military

00:12:55.280 equipment um just calling it like it is so how long do we continue to do this for i mean this

00:13:02.180 is going to end up being a uh an expensive an expensive side quest of sorts um from what i

00:13:09.480 think a lot of people are still wondering hey we've got a we've got domestic issues here that's

00:13:14.740 really what we want to see the focus on trump is aware of that look he just said uh it's going to

00:13:19.580 be over pretty soon. This is

00:13:21.520 cut 33. Play this one.

00:13:27.740 The prices will go up. The economy

00:13:29.660 will go down a little bit. I thought it

00:13:31.600 would be worse. Much worse, actually.

00:13:33.820 I thought there was a chance it could be much worse.

00:13:35.620 It's not bad, and it's going to be over with pretty soon.

00:13:38.100 We've obliterated the Navy.

00:13:39.980 We've obliterated their

00:13:41.420 just about everything there is to obliterate,

00:13:43.980 including leadership. Their Navy

00:13:45.760 is gone. Their Air Force is gone. Their

00:13:47.560 Anti-aircraft equipment is gone.

00:13:49.780 We're flying wherever we want, Pete.

00:13:52.000 We have nobody even shooting at us.

00:13:54.320 They have, I mean, and as you know, their leadership is gone.

00:13:59.320 Their leaders are gone.

00:14:00.600 They pick new leaders, they're gone.

00:14:02.260 They pick new leaders, they're gone.

00:14:04.100 And now they're looking for new leaders again.

00:14:06.140 We can take out the island anytime we want.

00:14:10.520 So he's talking about Carg Island there.

00:14:12.200 We'll go to break, Buck.

00:14:13.460 There's a bunch more clips coming out, including one all-timer from President Trump on Pearl Harbor as he sits alongside the leader of Japan that I think you guys are going to enjoy.

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00:16:06.340 Clay Travis Buck Sexton show we appreciate all of you hanging out with us and again Oval Office

00:16:13.000 with the leader of Japan lots of different news coming fast and furious we want to continue to

00:16:19.480 update you with everything that President Trump was saying some serious some funny as is often

00:16:25.180 the case with President Trump uh and let me see here the absolute latest um we were discussing

00:16:32.740 the truth social post last night and trump was asked about his disagreement on the decision

00:16:38.420 israel made to target part of iran's oil and natural gas infrastructure trump said he didn't

00:16:45.200 know about it uh and uh this is cut 34 trump says he told netanyahu to stop the strikes on

00:16:53.540 iran's energy fields

00:16:55.080 question for you buck uh could this be intentional where trump gets to play the

00:17:22.940 good guy to qatar and israel gets to be the bad guy and trump says boy i didn't know we were going

00:17:28.680 to do this and it's all kind of coordinated but it allows him to look like the middle agent trying

00:17:36.260 to bring you know stability or do you think netanyahu just truly went rogue and did this

00:17:42.640 and the american administration didn't know about it i i look this is just my gut instinct i i think

00:17:50.700 that uh trump doesn't want the messing with the liquid natural gas production for the whole world

00:17:57.320 i this is this is real stuff if you were to eliminate let's just say let's just put this

00:18:02.680 out there let's say iran had the capability to destroy the qatari liquefied natural gas field

00:18:09.760 we're talking about the pars field it's a huge percentage of like a shockingly large percentage

00:18:16.220 of global production and global reserves in those fields and we can pull up the stats for you in a

00:18:21.820 second i don't know off the top of my head i just know it's really big i think it's the biggest

00:18:25.800 liquefied natural gas facility in the world so that gives you some sense of it you want to really

00:18:31.360 mess up the global economy uh in in the blink of an eye take offline now this is only one part of

00:18:39.720 the facility it's going to be i'm not a catastrophe here it's going to i think it's all going to be

00:18:43.640 okay it's fine but i think trump's like hey guys knock it off i think legitimately this was

00:18:51.160 uh look these this is where you have to have the talk about this too

00:18:55.100 is i mean iran is a bigger threat to israel than it is to us yes that's just a fact we all know

00:19:03.060 this they have different now you can be allies with people in something as we are and not have

00:19:08.060 the exact same we do not there is no such thing as a national security interests if as if the

00:19:14.960 united states decides to stop bombing before iran does in fact i might put the probability as high

00:19:21.180 that that could occur before israel does yeah yeah the israelis have been taking out or or have they

00:19:28.380 but i mean nuclear scientists have been you know getting blown up for a long time and a lot of

00:19:33.940 people think that you know we think we know who it is i mean right neither confirm nor deny but i

00:19:40.180 mean you look at all the reporting on this stuff going back for a very long time i mean israel has

00:19:44.080 been waging a covert war against the iranian nuclear program for for many many years and much

00:19:50.400 more so than well at least than americans are aware of that their own government and again what

00:19:54.660 are we doing what are the israelis doing you know uh who knows but point here is clay yeah i think

00:20:01.000 israel sees this as an opportunity to just really really hit them where it hurts in iran more so

00:20:07.660 even than trump is willing to do because iran is iran can't hit us with ballistic missiles

00:20:13.380 iran can hit israel ballistic missiles obviously and drones and a whole bunch of things so this is

00:20:20.580 just straightforward and anybody who has any kind of oh what are you saying no of course we're

00:20:25.420 different countries different population size different geography different distance to the

00:20:30.140 enemy here which is iran they're going to have a different set of national security interests

00:20:34.420 than we are there will be some areas where it coincides there are some areas where it doesn't

00:20:38.880 and i think this is where we saw trump having to basically tell them you guys if we're doing this

00:20:45.340 thing together here you got to cool a little bit on that you can't be you can't be putting

00:20:49.140 uh global liquefied natural gas production at risk with any actions that you're taking

00:20:55.020 because also if you took this offline i think it cost 70 billion or no 100 billion dollars

00:20:59.300 70 billion dollars to build this facility some crazy number and if you if you obliterated the

00:21:04.740 whole thing it would take years years and years to rebuild this um i wonder also whether this is

00:21:13.120 uh netanyahu and israel knowing that the americans might be opposed to it and doing it anyway uh

00:21:20.940 with getting whatever you wanted to do done without having to clear it beforehand and create

00:21:26.740 and then you're like, oh, sorry, we thought you were okay with this.

00:21:29.820 You asked the question, Buck, about ultimate goals.

00:21:32.920 By the way, Clay, wait, can I ask you a question?

00:21:35.260 Sorry, I'm just...

00:21:35.880 World War II, wasn't there a dispute between America and Britain

00:21:39.460 over daylight bombing?

00:21:41.320 Didn't we have over the bombing raids?

00:21:43.880 Am I right about that?

00:21:44.420 I'm reading right now.

00:21:45.540 The idea that the U.S. and England, in retrospect,

00:21:51.040 everybody, Buck, says, oh, what a great partnership.

00:21:55.080 They fought all the time.

00:21:56.740 They disagreed on stuff all the time.

00:21:58.420 The decision of when to go into Europe was a huge battle,

00:22:03.020 and you're talking about one of the disagreements.

00:22:05.560 I'm totally right, by the way.

00:22:06.700 Woo-hoo!

00:22:07.560 Britain and the U.S. strongly disagreed over daylight bombing in World War II.

00:22:12.400 The Royal Air Force, because they had just gotten hit real bad,

00:22:17.120 lost a lot of people, they were like, look, we're going at night.

00:22:20.260 We're going at night.

00:22:22.620 And the Americans were like, well, we want to actually go in the day

00:22:26.180 so we can see what we're hitting because this is a lot of it even with the northern bomb site or

00:22:29.820 whatever this is like line of sight stuff really you're talking about and the brits were just like

00:22:33.640 nah we're dropping those bombs at night that's how we're going to do it so my point here is there

00:22:38.900 are this is not a new thing this is not a oh my gosh i mean i was i was going to disagree on

00:22:43.760 historical reading because the idea is that the u.s and britain were in lockstep agreement and in

00:22:49.340 the way that it gets covered because we won world war ii that's the perspective on it but actually

00:22:54.540 there was a great deal of behind-the-scenes

00:22:56.480 disagreement. So to your point, the U.S.

00:22:58.740 and Israel having somewhat divergent

00:23:00.640 perspectives is not crazy.

00:23:02.860 And the British were okay with higher

00:23:04.440 civilian casualties, I might add, as well.

00:23:06.840 Well, because they went through all of the

00:23:08.660 attacks. I mean, if you go back and read, it's a great

00:23:10.740 book on

00:23:12.380 when England was getting bombed,

00:23:14.720 when it looked like Hitler was going to

00:23:16.620 invade England before

00:23:18.000 he decided to pivot in one of the great

00:23:20.640 strategic miscalculations of all time

00:23:22.640 and go after Russia.

00:23:23.920 The expectation was during the bombing of Britain,

00:23:26.700 I think they thought, this goes into the bombing campaigns,

00:23:29.740 that they could get England to relent entirely

00:23:32.580 based on the bombing campaign,

00:23:34.440 that Britain would just wave the white flag, basically,

00:23:37.240 and they would never have to come across

00:23:38.720 the English Channel and invade.

00:23:40.840 But it doesn't surprise me that England,

00:23:42.840 after going through that, was like,

00:23:44.660 we're not worried about civilians

00:23:46.520 because they got a lot of their civilians killed.

00:23:49.200 Well, look at the analogy here to Israel.

00:23:51.260 after all the years of iran backing and training hamas backing and training hezbollah directing

00:23:58.480 attacks on jews all over the world i i it would make perfect sense to me that israel is more

00:24:05.560 willing to tolerate more damage in now they have been very precise in their strikes i'm not saying

00:24:10.720 they're going out of their way to hit civilian targets i am saying infrastructure targets they

00:24:15.460 may be a little more accepting of uh and that's certainly what donald trump is i'm just repeating

00:24:19.900 essentially i mean iran is not targeting directly attacks on anybody they're just kind of haphazardly

00:24:25.440 flying firing in whatever direction they can so if i'm israel frankly if i'm qatar the uae any of

00:24:30.960 these countries my concern about civilian casualties is lower after seeing what iran's

00:24:36.000 been willing to do with us now buck i wanted to play this scott besant also in the oval office i

00:24:41.520 believe this is where that that came from team correct me if i'm wrong if this was a interview

00:24:46.100 happening at the same time in a different spot but i think scott besant also in the oval office

00:24:51.780 he said kind of echoed the initial statement that trump made which is we're seeing mass defections

00:24:59.120 and at some point he thinks the regime is going to collapse inside of iran uh this is a little

00:25:06.480 bit of a different uh take more aggressive more akin to what trump said immediately after

00:25:11.800 the first strike that took out the ayatollah cut 35 we are seeing the defections at all levels as

00:25:19.020 they're starting to sense what's going on with the regime did that just cut we are seeing the

00:25:27.520 defections at all levels as they're starting to sense what's going on with the regime it doesn't

00:25:33.480 get reported here in the u.s very well but you know we we are trouncing them from the air and

00:25:39.100 the regime will probably collapse within itself at treasury we've seen where they've wired their

00:25:44.220 money out of the country we're coming for that we're going to get it back to the iranian people

00:25:48.240 there's a lot of military defections also you have a lot of military defections in iran

00:25:56.760 i don't hey i don't blame them uh so that is a little bit different perspective that's more

00:26:02.480 akin to what was initially said buck which is that there is some sign potentially or maybe

00:26:08.800 they're trying to create it uh by talking about it that some of these uh entrenched interests in

00:26:15.840 the iranian government are actually buckling this would be if they pull off what trump and

00:26:22.720 bessen are talking about here which is which is regime change without invasion just regime

00:26:28.220 we're effectively we are we are acting like the air force the preemptive air force of an iranian

00:26:35.920 resistance movement that's really how this lines up if they pull this off and that's how this

00:26:42.820 actually goes down this will be the most incredible foreign policy military maneuver since d-day

00:26:50.760 honestly i mean this this is a a incredible generation defining success so the fact that

00:26:58.500 they're still talking about this and hopeful that can happen just gives you a sense of possibility

00:27:05.380 but real tough stuff they're trying to pull.

00:27:09.420 Here's what I would also say, Buck.

00:27:11.100 They're going for the home run.

00:27:12.960 They're just going for the home run here.

00:27:14.680 I think it's also just a sign of the tech, right?

00:27:17.320 Yesterday, we told you about the guy who thought he was safe,

00:27:20.300 one of their top Iranian generals living in a tent in a, you know,

00:27:23.940 like literally not able, theoretically.

00:27:26.180 He went totally offline, and they sent in a drone and wiped him out.

00:27:30.660 The tech is better now than it ever has been before.

00:27:33.260 By the way, I actually think the drone tech is going to get scary.

00:27:37.400 Everybody talks about nuclear weapons.

00:27:39.220 Think about when individuals get access to bombing with drones

00:27:43.060 and the dangers that that can create inside of every country.

00:27:48.020 One thing that I just militarily I think is interesting,

00:27:52.440 the fact that they've gone so hard so fast at Iran,

00:27:56.700 something in the background that I'm sure has affected these calculations

00:28:00.420 and the reason why secretary of war and the trump administration and the president himself

00:28:06.420 as commander in chief have been let's go go go and just a tremendous amount of ordinance has

00:28:13.100 been dropped on on iran clay we already know i mean there's open reporting about it now but it

00:28:17.920 was obviously going to happen the russians are giving real-time intelligence to the iranians

00:28:23.700 now they're sending them their most advanced their best or you know some of their more advanced i

00:28:28.560 should say drone technology and russians have gotten really good at this because of the ukraine

00:28:32.720 war they're sending them stuff they're sending them gear they're giving them intel they want to

00:28:37.380 try to mess us up in iran because of course they're from the russian perspective understandably

00:28:43.540 very bitter putin's very bitter about our backing of the ukrainian resistance so what i'm saying is

00:28:49.980 taking out as much of their military infrastructure as possible as quickly as possible really makes a

00:28:55.220 difference because the russians were going to try to create a quagmire even just for our air force

00:29:00.260 there give them better surface to air missiles give them better target give them whatever they

00:29:03.740 can yeah and by the way we're doing all of that to russia in ukraine as you were doing right so

00:29:10.680 for everybody out there we can't even how dare russia send a strongly worded letter you know

00:29:14.620 we're trying to kill as many russians as we can by assisting ukraine too um uh let's see uh i want

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00:30:49.120 All right, second hour, Clay and Buck kicks off now.

00:30:51.580 We have some just moments ago

00:30:54.620 comments from President Trump in the Oval Office

00:30:58.040 where he is with the Prime Minister of Japan, I believe.

00:31:03.980 I think that's right.

00:31:05.980 Yeah.

00:31:06.760 I know these countries with their presidents

00:31:08.500 and their prime ministers.

00:31:09.960 Some of these people have prime ministers and presidents.

00:31:10.920 You know what I mean?

00:31:11.360 And like, it's kind of tough to keep tabs.

00:31:13.200 sometimes even throw chancellor in there

00:31:15.740 I'm like what are we a university what's going on

00:31:17.880 so yeah no they got they got president

00:31:19.900 prime minister all this stuff I think it's the prime minister

00:31:21.980 of Japan in most countries the prime minister as we know

00:31:24.000 is actually like the important one

00:31:25.340 and the president's less powerful

00:31:27.920 but anyway we'll get to that in a second

00:31:29.920 I have some very important updates

00:31:31.960 for you

00:31:32.380 which just means I'm taking the opportunity

00:31:36.040 to have a little fun before we get into all the seriousness

00:31:38.220 although Trump said something quite hilarious

00:31:40.220 in the Oval Office which we'll bring to you in a second

00:31:42.580 I'm not delusional.

00:31:45.340 There was, in fact, a movie with Tom Selleck in 1984 called Runaway.

00:31:52.400 And the director, I did not know this until I picked it up,

00:31:55.500 was Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame and ER.

00:31:58.800 I did not realize this.

00:32:01.080 But the movie is, in an advanced society where homes have robots

00:32:06.740 that perform everyday duties for them, sometimes they malfunction

00:32:11.040 and they have to call in a team with sergeant jack ramsey played by tom sellick to deal with

00:32:17.940 rogue robots in the home i'm just saying this was a long this movie is like we're going back 40 years

00:32:24.340 my friends this is a long time ago elon's working on robots right now that are going to be able to

00:32:31.720 do your laundry and cook food for you and everything else so this is uh you know it's

00:32:37.240 kind of interesting to see how this plays

00:32:39.460 out. I just thought everybody should know

00:32:41.320 that that is a real thing. The other thing I saw, Clay,

00:32:43.460 on this, because I looked this up

00:32:45.320 on Rotten Tomatoes,

00:32:46.520 one battle after another

00:32:48.840 has a 94% positive

00:32:51.400 score on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:32:53.420 Rigged. Rigged.

00:32:55.280 I don't know if it's the mail-in ballot. I don't know

00:32:57.300 if they've got illegals voting. There's

00:32:59.320 no way that one battle after another. You have or have

00:33:01.280 not seen this movie now?

00:33:03.120 I have not seen it, but I trust

00:33:05.040 producer ally and she says it is worse than sinners she just texted us it's crap exclamation

00:33:12.160 point uh yeah as as you're talking about it 94 because i i was downstairs setting the multi-view

00:33:19.280 for my kids to be able to watch the ncaa tournament uh it's spring break week um and uh and so i was

00:33:25.740 putting it on i didn't take them out of school although there are probably some of you got to

00:33:28.920 skip school back in the day on this and i saw that you can buy it and i was actually thinking

00:33:33.720 oh, should I buy it this weekend since it won the Oscar?

00:33:37.260 You haven't seen it.

00:33:38.340 Producer Ali says it's crap.

00:33:40.380 But to your point, it obviously has got a decent score.

00:33:44.240 But I do feel like a lot of Rotten Tomatoes is rigged now

00:33:46.800 because it became such a talking point.

00:33:48.300 Sinners is 97%, which is just appalling.

00:33:51.080 I mean, this is like, oh, yeah, you know,

00:33:54.120 the latest election in Turkmenistan really went the way of the ruling party.

00:33:59.320 Like, it's rigged, right?

00:34:00.460 That's why they get 98% of the vote.

00:34:02.200 Sinners is 97% of the vote.

00:34:04.480 Rigged, total.

00:34:05.500 War Machine, 71%.

00:34:07.500 War Machine, I'm going to tell you this,

00:34:09.460 may be worse than Sinners.

00:34:11.540 This is a movie with the guy who plays Jack Reacher

00:34:14.480 on the TV show.

00:34:15.340 I don't remember his name,

00:34:16.540 but he's all jacked up.

00:34:17.980 I started a show with him.

00:34:21.780 What?

00:34:22.440 Yeah, Blue Mountain State.

00:34:25.220 He was one of the fad on Blue Mountain State.

00:34:29.320 Alan Richter, is that his name?

00:34:32.200 richson richson maybe something like that yeah he was a uh but yeah i know he's super

00:34:38.560 successful now um and actually grew up where i am right now on the panhandle of florida

00:34:45.300 um but yeah i did blue mountain state which has become a cult classic on streaming services now

00:34:51.080 i played myself back in the day i'm gonna ruin this movie for you by the way if you haven't seen

00:34:55.320 it and i know you're like fuck this isn't a movie review show i'm gonna get to all the news in a

00:34:59.700 second okay we got three hours a day just give me a second here all right i sit through these

00:35:03.880 movies so you don't have to i am doing all of you a service so clay if predator which is an

00:35:09.180 amazing movie from the 80s with arnold schwarzenegger and and predator is a fantastic

00:35:14.100 movie this is like a predator ripoff except it's army rangers well i saw this we were picking a

00:35:20.520 movie to watch and i was like there's no way this movie's any good it's on netflix right like laura

00:35:24.820 and i were picking a movie and i was like i won't watch that one this is the dumbest move it's the

00:35:29.160 dumbest movie maybe i've ever seen sinners is a better movie see i'm fair i don't just this isn't

00:35:33.300 about politics for me sinners is a better more entertaining movie even though it's crap than

00:35:38.080 war machine war machine just to think about this premise for a second there are a bunch of army

00:35:42.760 rangers who are training non-live fire okay they've got like the laser gun like laser tag guns

00:35:49.860 basically all right whatever they call that like simunition or laser tag and out of nowhere with

00:35:55.780 no explanation a big robot machine appears and starts just shooting them yes and then they have

00:36:02.180 to like run away from it while they're all getting blown up by the big robot machine

00:36:05.760 and then eventually he gets himself into um like an earth excavator and he defeats the robot machine

00:36:14.120 it's the dumbest movie i've ever seen it like the people who wrote this movie should be ashamed

00:36:18.340 the fact that this movie even got made is appalling i could write a better movie in in

00:36:23.740 one day one day give me one day netflix i vetoed that movie for laura because i was like it's like

00:36:30.080 a robot predator but way worse so you have confirmed that that's true i'll give you a

00:36:35.540 movie i don't know how many people have heard about this the one that we picked i only watch

00:36:39.440 movies when it's not football season i actually have time we watched a house of dynamite have

00:36:44.400 you heard about this no uh on netflix i don't know the name i don't know how popular this thing was

00:36:50.540 It came out last year, and it is about what would happen if a nuclear weapon was launched towards the U.S., and it just takes you.

00:37:01.200 It's not particularly political that I noticed.

00:37:03.720 It just takes you into, like, the special ops, into everything that would occur to the best of their ability if there were a nuclear weapon launched.

00:37:14.280 We don't know where it's come from.

00:37:15.580 It's just been launched from a submarine, basically, is the idea,

00:37:19.760 but we're not sure exactly how it got launched, who was responsible for it.

00:37:23.260 What do you do?

00:37:24.660 What happens if that moment actually occurred?

00:37:27.340 It's a nuclear weapon headed towards the United States, one missile,

00:37:31.060 and it just is an examination of the behind the scenes.

00:37:35.120 You're in the White House.

00:37:35.920 You're in the Situation Room.

00:37:37.640 You're seeing it from the Defense Department perspective, from the young.

00:37:42.300 Anyway, it's good.

00:37:43.040 I thought it was pretty good.

00:37:43.820 It sounds way better.

00:37:44.920 I mean, it's already I'm sold.

00:37:46.260 This sounds way better.

00:37:47.020 I have no idea how accurate it is, but it felt accurate to me that this is something what it might somewhat look like.

00:37:54.980 And also, if any of you are asking, the Tom Selleck movie Runaway is apparently terrible.

00:37:58.160 So just don't don't put that on your list.

00:38:00.100 That was a Mike Michael Crichton L, unfortunately, not a good movie.

00:38:04.280 But Tom Selleck's a great American hero.

00:38:06.700 Clay, I can't believe you abandoned mustache team, by the way.

00:38:09.140 I'm still like a lot of ladies are upset about it short.

00:38:11.560 you know what the truth of the matter is wearing a mustache is hard to do without the mustache hairs

00:38:17.020 getting in your nose i don't know if there's experts out there on how to handle this it was

00:38:20.720 making my nose itch all the time it was making me sneeze all the time like the mustache gets into

00:38:25.680 your nose region and i wasn't very good at being able to handle probably in this audience have some

00:38:31.140 winners of the international mustache competition i mean we this is this is a facial hair heavy

00:38:36.200 audience we got a lot of dudes a lot of bros who could probably weigh in on how to keep the hair

00:38:40.720 out of your nostrils so i'm just saying because our ladies are grandmas grandmas for clay which

00:38:46.820 if it's not officially a group it basically is a group because i've seen them and they're very

00:38:50.320 handsy around him and you know laura's very patient with this the grandmas get very handsy

00:38:55.100 with clay i don't know once they hit like 60 all of a sudden they're just they're just grabbing

00:38:58.700 and squeezing clay um they were big fans of the mustache tom sellick style back to the movie

00:39:04.020 though i gotta tell you the worst part about war machine and i promise we're gonna get to the trump

00:39:08.320 thing now the worst part about war machine though is think about this in the movie predator

00:39:11.600 you have this elite special operations team they've got all this like state-of-the-art

00:39:16.280 weaponry even got a even got a mini gun um and and they got all this cool stuff and they're in

00:39:21.860 the jungle it's a warfare in the movie in this movie war machine they're in a training exercise

00:39:26.780 they don't even have any rifles and they're just running away from this machine that's going bam

00:39:31.100 and like blowing them up and this is the worst movie i've ever seen they're like throwing rocks

00:39:35.180 at the robot yeah somebody said it's predator with a robot and they were like here's a hundred

00:39:39.880 million dollars and it's not a good not a good movie what's so funny is that i could say to

00:39:44.960 someone hey i'm gonna write a movie for netflix and netflix like executives would laugh i could

00:39:49.100 write a better movie than this movie i'm not kidding certainly in a weekend probably in 24

00:39:53.380 hours it was that bad i mean the whole thing the screenplay the whole thing all right now trump

00:39:57.920 let's get into it news we are a news program uh 36 here it is donald trump meeting with the

00:40:04.140 president of japan or prime minister of japan sorry prime minister of japan and he was asked

00:40:08.960 by a reporter why didn't you tell japan ahead of the iran strikes what was coming here's what he

00:40:14.940 said one thing you don't want to signal too much you know when we go in we went in very hard

00:40:20.020 and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise who knows better about surprise

00:40:26.380 in japan okay why didn't you tell me about pearl harbor okay right he's asking me uh do you believe

00:40:36.740 in surprise i think much more so than us and uh we had a surprise and we did he's really funny

00:40:45.080 he's asked why don't you tell the allies about the huge air campaign you launched today and he's like

00:40:50.620 What about Pearl Harbor?

00:40:52.100 It is very funny that the Japanese person in the Oval Office would ask the president of the United States why they kept the Iranian attack secret and didn't tell the allies.

00:41:02.480 And I think some of you would have thought of that.

00:41:04.880 But Trump on his feet immediately thinks, why did you get guys tell us about Pearl Harbor?

00:41:09.240 And this response is going mega viral.

00:41:14.160 Again, I've been reading so much about World War Two and trying to learn more and more about it.

00:41:18.400 The negativity of our war with Iraq, our whatever you want to call it, intervention, our altercation, our engagement, whatever word you want to apply to this current situation.

00:41:34.640 I do wonder how would things that most of us look back on now in time and say, you know what, World War II, boy, we were really the good guys.

00:41:44.680 How would today's American media cover World War II?

00:41:50.140 Are they of the belief, my argument is they are not, that America could be a good guy?

00:41:57.340 Are left-wing media today, are they able to even comprehend or willing to consider

00:42:05.540 that the United States might be a good guy?

00:42:08.900 And Buck, I give credit.

00:42:10.200 Do you see the cover?

00:42:10.880 It's very powerful.

00:42:11.880 that I saw it this morning of the Australian newspaper.

00:42:16.620 The Australian is a great newspaper that I read

00:42:20.320 because I buy all the print media

00:42:21.660 when I was in Australia a couple of years ago.

00:42:24.180 They put the faces of tons of the victims of Iran's government,

00:42:30.660 over 30,000 of them, who were murdered for protesting.

00:42:35.420 And a lot of people are asking the question,

00:42:37.600 Why is an Australian media outlet covering these 30,000 deaths in a way that the U.S. isn't?

00:42:43.960 And Stephen Chung, who works inside of the White House for President Trump, just shared this story.

00:42:50.160 They just executed a 19-year-old champion wrestler, publicly hung him for protesting the government that exists right now in Iran.

00:43:02.060 So they are continuing with public executions, and a lot of people out there who otherwise are always saying, oh, look at how awful Israel is.

00:43:13.920 Look at what's going on in all of these places right now.

00:43:19.200 And they just executed a 19-year-old, killed him in a public hanging.

00:43:25.480 You know, good and evil still exists, and Iran is evil.

00:43:29.940 and the government of Iran, not the people of Iran.

00:43:34.760 And I think much of a media has lost the ability to call good and evil

00:43:41.460 because they bought into this idea that the United States is evil too.

00:43:46.560 And if we're evil, then there is no good.

00:43:50.300 And I do think this is where moral authority matters

00:43:54.200 and eliminating moral relativity matters.

00:43:57.380 I mean, think about the way that two deaths in Minneapolis were covered in this country.

00:44:03.600 Whatever you think about them, Alex Pruitt and Renee Good.

00:44:08.040 Those two people being killed were covered as an unacceptable result of Trump's draconian policy.

00:44:17.160 Now, most of you disagree with that.

00:44:18.700 You've seen the footage, all those things.

00:44:20.180 But just think about the way the media covered it.

00:44:22.660 Meanwhile, we're trying to help the people of Iran after they just killed 30,000 of their innocent citizens intentionally just for marching in the streets to say, hey, we should have basic human rights.

00:44:35.480 I do think it's hard to reconcile that.

00:44:38.280 And I think it's a profound failure of the American media.

00:44:42.000 And it makes me wonder to what extent can can we even comprehend the way that something like World War Two, which I think most people would say, hey, we were the good guys.

00:44:52.140 how would today's American media cover World War II?

00:44:55.660 And how are they failing when they're covering the Iran situation?

00:44:58.620 I think it's a honestly big-picture question

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00:46:48.140 We're going to get to FBI Director Cash Patel's comments on the security situation here at home in a second.

00:46:54.820 But first, a VIP email from Sissy.

00:46:57.560 Buck, I'm with you on questioning the Iran endgame after spending hundreds of millions of dollars bombing Iran.

00:47:04.060 But it's a lot. I mean, it's I think she meant hundreds of billions.

00:47:06.960 It's going to be a lot more than hundreds of millions.

00:47:09.100 Is it too much to ask the government to pay TSA agents?

00:47:13.280 this is their livelihood and they're needed for security yeah this tsa thing which we're about to

00:47:20.360 get into also with um with cash patel here clay you know what let's here's cash patel fbi director

00:47:26.180 patel just weighed in on this with the dhs partial funding uh shutdown issue this is 37 he just said

00:47:33.880 this play it after four years of an open border during the biden administration where we know

00:47:39.260 countless individuals with terror ties, many to these groups across our southern border,

00:47:44.660 and at a time when we are actively engaged with the largest state sponsor of radical jihadi terror,

00:47:52.080 can you confirm that the threat to the American people in this setting is much higher due to the

00:47:57.560 Democrats' current defunding of the Department of Homeland Security? As I highlighted earlier,

00:48:02.320 Congressman, the FBI works hand in glove with the Department of Homeland Security in our 59

00:48:07.460 nine established Homeland Security task forces around the country.

00:48:10.600 And those officers are now going one month without pay,

00:48:12.920 but they're still showing up to work.

00:48:14.220 But, yes, funding would absolutely help us protect the homeland.

00:48:18.740 A month without pay?

00:48:20.500 What is going on here, Congress?

00:48:22.280 This is ridiculous.

00:48:23.020 The average TSA agent makes about $40,000 a year.

00:48:27.680 Some of them make more.

00:48:29.680 They are working, as a result, as almost anybody who makes $40,000 a year is,

00:48:35.820 they are working paycheck to paycheck.

00:48:37.460 trying to save, trying to take care like everybody else out there.

00:48:40.940 To me, this is a great example of a choice that has been made that is indefensible.

00:48:46.320 Now, on top of that, I think it's not the correct thing to do for the people who are doing those jobs.

00:48:54.260 They deserve to be paid, as all of us do, for the work that they do at the time that they do it.

00:48:59.420 Second, it is actually making us far more dangerous

00:49:03.000 because a lot of people are having to go find other jobs

00:49:07.100 or they're calling in sick or they're quitting

00:49:09.280 because they're fed up with the fact

00:49:11.180 that they're not getting paid for their work,

00:49:13.880 as many of you would be as well.

00:49:17.140 And on top of that,

00:49:20.380 if you're going through TSA right now,

00:49:23.340 every morning I wake up, Buck,

00:49:25.200 and I go through and I'm doing prep for the show,

00:49:27.540 and there is a different airport going viral

00:49:30.320 because the lines have extended outside of the airport,

00:49:34.420 into parking garages, outdoors.

00:49:38.220 This is lunacy.

00:49:40.260 And I think it honestly should be a bigger story.

00:49:43.060 I think it would be a bigger story if Iran wasn't going on.

00:49:46.280 I think all the newscasts would be setting up at the airport

00:49:49.160 and they would be interviewing angry people.

00:49:52.500 Buck, I don't know about you.

00:49:54.100 I don't care what your politics are.

00:49:56.120 If I have to stand in line for hours to go through airport security, I want everybody involved fired.

00:50:04.840 I'm just be honest with you, Democrat, Republican, independent.

00:50:08.160 I think most people, if you are standing in line now, look, Democrats are the ones that have refused to open.

00:50:14.220 And I think that's important to say.

00:50:16.660 And they are asking for things that have nothing to do whatsoever with the TSA.

00:50:22.020 and they are breaking previously agreed upon spending protocols.

00:50:27.000 All of that is true.

00:50:28.820 But I'm telling you, you want something where people are just steaming mad no matter what?

00:50:34.480 You make somebody stand in line for hours at the TSA, they're going to be furious.

00:50:39.440 They're going to be mean to the TSA agents.

00:50:41.760 They're going to be angry and embittered when they get on airplanes

00:50:44.960 if they're fortunate enough to make their flights.

00:50:47.120 They're going to be less kind than they normally would be to flight attendants,

00:50:51.300 to different airline employees that are working inside of the airports.

00:50:57.140 This is why every airline CEO in America published an open letter saying,

00:51:03.360 get this funded and pay everybody.

00:51:06.000 And, Buck, the ridiculous thing about this is eventually they're going to get paid.

00:51:10.420 It's illegal to employ people and not compensate them for their work.

00:51:16.120 so the principle or the perspective that's even being advocated for is nonsensical because we

00:51:24.060 know how this ends it ends with them eventually getting paid but in the meantime people are not

00:51:30.220 able to take care of their families and i just think this is wrong and i don't think this should

00:51:33.820 be allowed period you shouldn't be allowed to make people continue to work without paying them for

00:51:40.220 working period because guess what your credit card bills still come due your car payments still

00:51:45.520 come due your rent still comes due and most people don't have the ability to go candidly for two

00:51:53.180 months without making money they just don't and so i think that everything about this is wrong

00:51:58.120 and i think it makes us less safe and i think it also makes everybody angrier because i understand

00:52:04.780 you shouldn't have to stand in line for two hours to go to the airport so just so we're all very

00:52:09.240 clear on this um the reason why dhs people are not getting paid and the reason why tsa lines

00:52:17.740 are incredibly long and a whole bunch of different airports burning tens of thousands of people's

00:52:24.620 time unnecessarily yes is because democrats like a bunch of babies throwing a tantrum

00:52:32.460 think that this is forcing accountability for what happened in minneapolis where a couple of

00:52:41.820 lunatics forced a confrontation with ice officers and got shot

00:52:47.900 then this is what this that's 100 true people are waiting in line if you are if you have had

00:52:54.720 to wait in line or if you are a dhs officer a tsa officer who has not gotten paid it is because

00:53:00.300 chuck schumer and company think that the lunatics that we saw on camera running up to people on ice

00:53:07.880 oh you can't the the child predator illegal alien you're trying to arrest is as american as apple

00:53:13.840 pie those lunatics got shot it was mishandled from the messaging perspective that's why no

00:53:21.020 no longer has a job at dhs which was the right move by the way um and that's what this is all

00:53:29.020 about yes what one one has nothing to do with the other yes just hold they're just inflicting pain

00:53:36.420 on people to show the democrat base of maniacs who don't want anyone and be clear they don't

00:53:42.080 want anyone deported because they don't want the worst of the worst illegals that are prioritized

00:53:48.500 by these ice task forces in different cities because they're multiple time felons because

00:53:53.900 they've come into the country illegally after being deported multiple times all this stuff

00:53:57.560 they don't even want them gone we are light years away from like kindly abuela you know who's been

00:54:06.220 here for 30 years getting sent back to nicaragua or something that is not what's going on what's

00:54:12.160 going on is they're going after the high level public safety threats and democrats aren't even

00:54:16.680 okay with that and democrats will stymie it they will stop it they won't allow them to go into

00:54:21.260 courthouses they won't allow detainer requests they won't allow any of this and they think

00:54:25.720 they're the good guys they're just this is just a messaging battle for them they want to just say

00:54:29.780 this is about accountability for ice and we have to know we have to they have to show their faces

00:54:34.220 and they have to they don't want immigration enforcement it's crazy they already agreed to

00:54:38.780 this it basically is uh it's it's beyond absurd and i don't know when it's going to end a part

00:54:44.560 of me thinks that democrats are hoping there's something awful that happens because you know

00:54:49.620 what will happen right they're not paying tsa if somebody gets through a tsa screening with

00:54:55.260 something that they can do harm to others with gun bomb whatever it is democrats will line up and

00:55:01.780 say this is all president trump's fault you know it i know it they're going they're basically

00:55:08.240 rooting for something awful to happen so that they can blame trump here is a truck i mentioned him

00:55:15.880 chuck schumer cut 17 play this one they are trying to dupe us folks they are trying to dupe america

00:55:23.560 They say, oh, this is just a voter ID law. Bulls**t. It is not a voter ID law. It is a law that will kick millions of Americans off the voting rolls.

00:55:36.880 We know what happened. Their bill, they had to add this in, demands that every state turn over the voting rolls to the Department of Homeland Security.

00:55:46.060 and we've had enough of them on other issues, on other issues.

00:55:50.420 And once they get that, there is an algorithm put in by Musk and Doge

00:55:56.280 that would kick tens of millions of people off the rolls.

00:56:01.780 That's all about the Save Act.

00:56:03.880 This is about the Save Act, obviously, the Save America Act,

00:56:05.820 but the point is, like, Democrats just sabotage the country

00:56:09.700 and think they're the good guys.

00:56:11.140 They're doing it with DHS and ICE.

00:56:13.460 They're doing it with the Save America Act.

00:56:15.260 this this is where it is man they and clay unfortunately you know they're they're pretty

00:56:23.520 effective at lying i mean they're pretty good at convincing people who don't pay close attention

00:56:27.240 that somehow they're the good guys in all this this is like george floydism we're talking about

00:56:31.220 here up in minneapolis with the eye don't forget about the facts oh two people were shot by ice

00:56:37.200 and it's it's terrible and that's why we have to wait in line at tsa like what are they even

00:56:41.360 talking about it makes no sense people that were shot by ice were acting like maniacs they were

00:56:45.460 they were obstructing law enforcement why should tsa agents paychecks be held hostage because

00:56:51.260 democrats are angry about ice i mean but this is what i mean it's it's it's george floydism in that

00:56:56.220 oh george floyd was killed by one cop so now your store in like baltimore should be burned to the

00:57:01.980 ground yeah that's just an excuse for people to act like idiots but these guys are just again

00:57:07.780 the average TSA agent makes 40k. Think about how many of you out there listening right now

00:57:14.060 could go six or eight weeks without a paycheck. Even if you ultimately get that paycheck down

00:57:19.580 the line, you're working full time. How many of you could pay all your bills if you didn't get

00:57:24.660 two months of pay? Your average TSA agent can't. It's not like they're making $400,000 a year.

00:57:30.880 It's not like they have the ability to create huge savings on $40,000 a year on average. I just think

00:57:36.760 this is frankly reprehensible and awful and the results again i just jotted it down no pay is wrong

00:57:42.920 making us more dangerous uh in the country at a time when there are people trying to attack us

00:57:49.540 new york city uh austin denver a detroit area and uh and old dominion and the politics on it

00:57:58.840 to buck's point are ludicrous so it doesn't even add none of it adds up and the end result is

00:58:05.920 awful across the board for everybody this again i think it's not a bigger story because iran is

00:58:11.620 soaking up all of the news right now but every morning locally this is a big story if you're

00:58:17.680 trying to go to the airport and they're telling you to get there three hours before your flight

00:58:21.340 and you're standing there for hours in your line it's a big deal people are angry let me tell you

00:58:27.020 when we were doing counterinsurgency analysis in the worst days of the iraq war one thing that we

00:58:33.440 would talk about uh as we were doing these assessments and going into the white house

00:58:38.040 talk to bush talk to cheney the national security team etc was the problem of dealing with an

00:58:43.880 insurgency is they benefit from misery all they have to do is create misery yeah at some level

00:58:51.120 they're winning right blow this up kill this person make life unlivable because the people

00:58:56.340 who are supposed to be in charge are hurt by their inability to protect everyone else

00:59:01.760 this is kind of the democrat approach to when the republicans have an administration all they want

00:59:07.120 to do is just create misery and dissension they don't have better ideas they don't have ways they

00:59:12.400 don't they don't want to fix anything they are like insurgents they just want to spread misery

00:59:17.520 because they benefit from misery and that is what schumer and all of his democrat pals are trying

00:59:21.800 to do that's obviously what this tsa thing is make people ticked off make people feel bad tell them

00:59:27.660 that bad things are happening and then they can be uh democrats can be in power that's the whole

00:59:31.960 game and it's really hard to deal with because misery is easy to make um misery uh is unfortunately

00:59:40.700 the name of the game in many different parts of the middle east right now including uh in israel

00:59:46.960 where jerusalem's old city thankfully has so far managed to avoid significant um significant damage

00:59:55.000 But the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where the crucifixion happened, where Jesus was buried,

01:00:00.860 it is very close to having been hit multiple times.

01:00:05.000 Not an hour goes by in Israel without a siren going off,

01:00:08.280 notifying residents to seek protection from incoming missiles or drone attacks.

01:00:12.380 No one in Israel, regardless of what their background is, is immune from danger.

01:00:17.080 And the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has been working in Israel for years.

01:00:21.120 And this month is an incredible challenge because they're trying to get as much food, emergency equipment, care for kids and help for the elderly as they can.

01:00:29.620 They're also building bomb shelters.

01:00:31.580 They're trying to allow hospitals to stay in business.

01:00:34.220 They're trying to protect first responders.

01:00:36.180 You can help rush lifesaving support to Israel right now by calling 888-488-IFCJ.

01:00:45.620 That's 888-488-IFCJ.

01:00:49.480 I have seen the work they do in Israel.

01:00:52.140 It is life-changing.

01:00:53.260 It is incredibly encouraging, substantially, and incredibly transformative.

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