00:04:06.800I've got to make sure that I can pay my bills, which I totally understand, which is why this is so unfair.
00:04:12.580And I think that that the TSA agents are, in fact, helping because wait times seem to be down.
00:04:20.340Based on what I have seen this morning in the wake of TSA agents being deployed to help then allow, as Linda argued and I think is happening,
00:04:30.020tsa agents to be reallocated because otherwise they don't have to watch in you know exits and
00:04:35.540entrances and all these different things at the airport uh so we will see exactly how this plays
00:04:40.140out but i did want to say uh this is a i think a super cool example of president trump paying
00:04:47.320attention and the relationship that he has with his voters yesterday i went on after we had this
00:04:53.700show buck i went on with our friend will kane um and uh and i said this on our radio show as well
00:05:00.320i said hey president trump uh i bet linda grandmother of five uh mom of a couple of kids
00:05:07.900i said she's a big fan i bet she would appreciate an autographed copy of the uh trump was right
00:05:15.320about everything hat within an hour of me saying that president trump's team had texted and they
00:05:23.040have signed if you go on twitter you can see it we'll share it from clay and buck if we haven't
00:05:27.280already uh linda has a personally signed president trump hat uh that he signed for her yesterday on
00:05:35.100air force one that he is sending to us that we will then route to linda as a thank you for being
00:05:41.140a supporter and helping to come up with a great idea um i know there's a lot of stories out there
00:05:46.920To me, Buck, as we just told the Washington Post, and we all know how talking to media that doesn't love us often goes, so I have no idea how that story will turn out, but I actually think irrespective of what your opinion is of President Trump, the fact that he is able to see a good idea and act on it basically in the space of 72 hours is a warp speed response from government.
00:06:13.840I think Linda's idea was a good one. She put it out into the ecosystem. It did not exist before her call. And shortly thereafter, the president of the United States is acting on it.
00:06:25.140I don't know that there's any example of a president behaving this way where he listens to his voters and tries to respond and is willing to accept their good ideas that we have ever seen.
00:06:37.900i think it is a great story um and if i were advising the white house i would lean in on it
00:06:43.780we're going to take great ideas no matter where they come from you can be a nobel prize winning
00:06:47.980economist economist or you can be a grandma of five good ideas are good ideas we're going to
00:06:54.580try to move on them when we see them and i think it's an incredible testament to him well that's
00:06:59.640the way that government should function it goes back to clay uh what i was saying yesterday about
00:07:04.900how the simple genius of trumpism is figure out the obvious thing to do to make it better and do
00:07:10.920that thing and this one now to be fair this is not an obvious thing to make it better uh this was uh
00:07:17.280there was some artistry there was some creative thinking in this one but trump is willing to do
00:07:22.360the thing that will work or do the thing that is a break from what everybody else in consistent
00:07:29.480failure has been offering as the only alternative or the best option or whatever it may be so i'm
00:07:36.140very happy to see that this has been deployed uh it is quite it's classic isn't it i'm traveling
00:07:41.980for one day and clay and the audience decide to fix america in 24 hours so well done uh i i knew
00:07:49.280i knew the ship was in good hands i knew with you at the con things would would go uh would go
00:07:55.120smoothly and in this case better than smoothly it looks like may have really done an end run on the
00:08:00.860democrats here clay i still believe that if nothing else it'll help the lines a bit which
00:08:07.000is good but it also just shows the democrats are causing this because there's no way if republicans
00:08:13.220were causing even if you're not paying attention to politics if republicans were causing the long
00:08:17.080tsa lines now they're going to send ice over instead of just having the tsa do their jobs
00:08:23.140and be and be funded no of course this is democrats and and it brings me back to uh
00:08:29.480counterinsurgency theory democrats are waging a political insurgency in an election year
00:08:34.360insurgents just have to make things bad they have to make things dysfunctional miserable dangerous
00:08:40.500whatever and then they say see they can't protect you they can't make it better the people in charge
00:08:45.560are bad the people in charge are the ones that are failing you even though it's the insurgents
00:08:50.720that are blowing up the village and making sure that no one can get food.
00:08:53.860But they say, see, they can't make things better for you.
00:08:57.000Put us in charge and things will be fine.
00:09:59.840I think that's the other part of this is that's unfortunate.
00:10:03.440A lot of Democrats are trying, I've seen it,
00:10:07.760to say TSA failure is a function entirely of Trump and Republicans.
00:10:13.080and frankly there's a lot of people who believe that because they are in such a sheltered media
00:10:20.040ecosystem that all they can think of is orange man bad buck i had some fun with this i posted
00:10:27.340this last night because i did think it was funny the left wing out there is outraged by the idea
00:10:34.680that ice agents wear masks and their latest concern is what if ice agents wear masks at the airport
00:10:42.300The funniest thing about this, as you well know, is the people who are wearing masks at the airport still after six years are concerned that the ICE agents might be wearing masks at the airport.
00:10:55.960It wasn't very long ago, and I'm still radicalized and angry about it, that they were all lecturing us.
00:11:02.460Remember when they would say, Buck, my mask protects you and your mask protects me, which is why flight attendants were monitoring how long you sipped from a drink or chewed your peanuts.
00:11:16.660I guess they don't have peanuts anymore because of all the peanut allergies, your pretzels on the airplane and walking around and saying, excuse me, sir, excuse me, ma'am, you're keeping your mask down for too long.
00:11:29.500So if you truly believe that masks were important, shouldn't you be applauding the fact that the ICE agents were wearing their masks in the airport?
00:11:38.420Isn't wearing their masks keeping you safe?
00:11:42.600That is what they argued with us six years ago, and I'm still not going to forget it
00:11:46.820because they were such draconian, awful authoritarians for that entire process,
00:11:53.620and now many of them just want to pretend that it never happened.
00:11:57.520It's also a perfect example of this tells you everything you need to know.
00:12:03.000If someone is currently walking through an airport anywhere in America wearing a cloth mask
00:12:08.440yep and and and they have an opinion of any kind on politics and they're you know they maybe just
00:12:14.200don't know anything and that's why they're wearing the mask they could just be wildly
00:12:16.700ignorant of all things that's possible but if they have an opinion on say ice 100 chance 100
00:12:23.720chance that they are outraged about what happened in minneapolis wearing a mask to protect you from
00:12:31.860germs which does not work it does not work it never worked it's very obvious people what about
00:12:37.320surgeons during yeah because that they're up close and they have saliva and stuff could fall
00:12:41.120into the wound that's a different thing but anyway um doesn't work clay and yet a hundred percent
00:12:47.180chance that they're very upset about trump there is not a single republican in america right now
00:12:52.960walking around not a single trump voter in an airport with a mask on who's like covet is still
00:12:58.160real that's right that's a hundred percent true and so i do think it's funny that these are the
00:13:03.400people that are claimed to be the most outraged and upset and terrified of the fact that ICE
00:13:08.280is acting as they are in airports which by the way doesn't mean that everything's going to get
00:13:14.760better it's just kind of a bandage to help with the disaster that Democrats have created and if
00:13:22.300you're standing in a line and I know that some of you are as you listen to us you're headed into
00:13:29.060airports honestly if i were thinking about buck traveling to houston new orleans uh new york city
00:13:36.240atlanta based on some of the information that i have seen over the past few years i wouldn't go
00:13:41.220if i had a trip scheduled right now to land at iah in houston and i knew i was going to have to fly
00:13:46.860back out i would not go if i were headed to atlanta i wouldn't go if i were headed to new
00:13:51.640york city i wouldn't go um i just i'm not willing to stand in line for hours there are very few trips
00:13:58.240that are so necessary to make that I would be willing to stand in line for hours to make them.
00:18:27.220Based on my reading, the vast majority of oil and gas that is coming through the Strait of Hormuz
00:18:32.780has no impact on the United States oil and gas marketplace at all.
00:18:38.140And I think much of it ends up going to China.
00:18:41.780With that in context, to what extent actually should this be a larger global issue?
00:18:49.560A lot of the focus has been on the United States oil and gas market,
00:18:52.580But really, it's more of a global issue than it is a United States one.
00:18:57.600Well, Clay, that's right. But first and foremost, oil is a fungible good, which is a fancy word of meaning.
00:19:03.040It can it can shift in value and get sold and bought in any number of different ways.
00:19:09.100And so when oil goes out of this restricted area and goes to China, that affects global supply in the market and it affects prices.
00:19:17.440And so any release of resources out of this conflict zone will have downward pressure on price in some measure.
00:19:25.560It's definitely the case that China is the overwhelming buyer of Iran oil,
00:19:29.620partly because it's been sanctioned for a long time and they've gotten it at a discount.
00:19:33.540President Trump is trying to remove that discount and get them to pay for a little bit of the security freight.
00:19:39.100India also depends on a good bit of this, too.
00:19:41.980But it's definitely one of these global commons issues of where Europeans depend to some degree and Asian major powers depend in a large degree.
00:19:51.240And America's providing them a service that Trump aims to pay, get them to pay a bill for.
00:20:22.580how do you think this is going is it possible
00:20:25.500to read into this i mean i know with trump i feel like part of the strategy is actually a little bit
00:20:32.720of the perception of chaos that uh that the opposition can take from his statements what
00:20:38.240do you think about what he's doing well buck you know from people who've been long-time
00:20:43.360practitioners we think of this as somewhat straight statecraft i think of it as trump
00:20:47.260craft he hits like a sledgehammer and then he'll pull back and he'll look for where are their deals
00:20:53.320And he recognizes just common sense that if we can get them to relent and engage in some kind of a verifiable deal, that is safer, more endurable, and it's a much preferable path to go down.
00:21:06.300At the same time, even though his critics will never recognize it, he's being reasonable.
00:21:11.580He's giving them off ramps every step along this way so that if they miss this deadline, and I suspect they might miss this deadline, Trump will hit them hard.
00:21:20.740But he's tried to leave the civilian energy infrastructure intact so that post-conflict reconstruction is cheaper and better for the people of Iran if they can take their country.
00:21:49.100We're talking to Stevie Yates. As we've been talking to you in the last, I don't know, 10, 15 minutes, the story from The Wall Street Journal, U.S. has ordered 3,082nd airborne soldiers to the Middle East.
00:22:03.340Trump has given Iran a Friday deadline.
00:22:07.580What do you think it would look like if there were to be a raid?
00:22:12.880And I say raid because I don't think we're going to be setting up bases in Iran that potentially could involve Karj Island or putting troops to try to protect the Strait of Hormuz.
00:22:24.160In a big picture sense, what might that look like?
00:22:27.440And obviously, Trump is at least threatening that he might do so with these actions.
00:22:33.340Well, I do think the Karg Island option is very much front and center. I really don't like the option personally of the U.S. being kind of the sole provider of security in this. It really should be something that is a shared responsibility, especially among those Gulf allies who have been hit by Iran and now say they're going to hit back and they need to provide security for their flows to go to market.
00:22:58.240So I really hope the president is working behind the scenes to get them involved so that there's skin in the game in every sense.
00:23:04.760And it's not just American targets for Iran, Iranian forces to hit.
00:23:09.300We would have to just knock the crap out of their coastline to have a safe buffer buffer for ships.
00:23:15.740And we'd probably have to occupy Carg Island to control that.
00:23:19.780Do we have a sense we're speaking to Stephen Yates, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, national security expert, Steve,
00:23:26.900Do we have a sense of what the acceptable endgame is here?
00:23:32.940Again, Trump has indicated numerous times of an endgame or what maybe it looks like, depending on the day.
00:23:42.200But I think there's variations on a theme here.
00:23:45.000Where do you think what do you think would be acceptable for this to get to at least a ceasefire and some next phase?
00:23:52.520Right. Well, Buck, I think of it as getting to a de-escalation point that sort of pivots into longer-term maintenance. And I think President Trump has been clear about some of the standards. One has been hyper-focused on the nuclear programs. That's combined U.S. and Israeli operations that might involve having to have some forces, hopefully not ours, but some forces going in to physically control and verify disarmament in those sensitive facilities.
00:24:19.600the launch capabilities, complete defanging of the security forces. I think that's also been
00:24:25.000more the Israeli mission in recent days. So I think it's overwhelmingly getting the flow of
00:24:32.820resources, not just because we love oil, although that's a good thing to love to keep the world
00:24:36.960running. It's to make it so that markets calm, resources flow, and there's a sense of where we
00:24:42.680can get post major military operations. I think that we should and must get there in the next
00:24:48.580week or two and that's where we'll get a sense of is this tipping into a more complex entanglement
00:24:56.180or have we really hit all those targets that the secretary of war and the president have said we
00:25:01.060have trump has been talking about doing this since the 1980s uh there have been people out there who
00:25:07.200have said oh he only did this because of israel buck and i have talked about this i'm curious how
00:25:12.280you would analyze the likelihood of this i can see a world where the united states says hey we've done
00:25:17.760everything we want to do and pulls back and Israel continues to hit Iran. What do you think
00:25:23.600the likelihood of that is that this union of attack eventually turns into a solitary attack
00:25:30.140from Israel? Well, I 100% agree that it's going to change. I don't want it to be solitary in the
00:25:37.320sense that I really seriously hope that our regional partners play more of a role in
00:25:42.520constructively shaping the security and economic environment there after major military operations
00:25:48.240wind down. I believe completely the president has his set of clear objectives. He wants to make sure
00:25:54.660there's a return on the investment, but he's definitely, I think, going to be looking in the
00:25:59.280shorter term horizon, whereas Israel and maybe some other partners really need to do the constant
00:26:04.700gardening in the longer term. We can hit every once in a while when necessary. I think that's
00:26:09.960appropriate for the united states as a superpower but we can't be the one that's micromanaging this
00:26:15.120even in the months much less years range going after this what does a realistic future of the
00:26:24.100iranian state look like that would be uh clear evidence that the trump plan here has has worked
00:26:32.860i mean essentially steve what what is uh yeah for victory for us is obviously straight up
00:26:38.320Hormuz is open, oil is flowing, we have some kind of, as you said, a de-escalation agreement.
00:26:43.520Got to figure out what the Israelis are going to do in this as well.
00:26:45.880I figure there's going to be some high-level, the highest-level talks between Trump and Netanyahu on this.
00:26:51.540But is there a world in which we decide we can live with the mullahs still kind of in charge,
00:26:57.400but they're just really wimpy and frightened mullahs?
00:27:01.540or is it some kind of a pathway to a representative democracy,
00:27:07.260maybe overseen by some Arab League transition process?
00:27:13.260I mean, I'm basically asking you to fix the Middle East here,
00:27:15.400but we had a lady call in and fix the DHS problem with TSA.
00:27:19.700So, you know, you've been doing this for like 30, 40 years, Steve.
00:27:23.040You tell me, how does the next phase of Iran look
00:27:28.020Well, Buck, the first sign I'm looking for is an actual human being with a name that is the person or group that President Trump has been negotiating with directly or indirectly.
00:27:39.220I think for their own life sake, they have kept this person anonymous, a lot of speculation.
00:27:46.200But really, if there's going to be a soft transition, it's going to have to be into the hands of some entity that's recognizable so that we and others in the international community can make deals that ensure the peace and get through this transition.
00:28:00.960So first, we're going to have to see who's the they when President Trump says they have made a commitment to denuclearize.
00:28:07.380That would be a major win, if that's true. And I believe the president is hearing that. But complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of that program is a 30 plus year long objective. If President Trump did that in a month or two, that's borderline miraculous.
00:28:23.040And so getting that person identified, that group identified, and then international peacekeepers or verifiers, that's where we can go back to the allies and say, you guys have got to come up with a coalition that does this. You run into problems. We might be your 911.
00:28:37.380But what not? We're not your daily daddy. Last question, CV8s. There are reports that Saudi
00:28:43.780Arabia is encouraging Trump to keep pouring on the steel, so to speak, on Iran, UAE, Qatar,
00:28:52.160based on reports, kicking Iranian diplomats out of their country is the most under discussed part
00:29:01.780of this entire attack, how much support there is for it from so-called other Arab Muslim countries?
00:29:09.840Clay, that's ultimately been the biggest rebuttal to this idea that it was somehow Israel that on
00:29:15.680its own dragged us into this. For years, I have heard from Arab allies deep, deep concerns. And
00:29:22.380it was frankly welcomed by then when Trump 1.0 brought in the maximum pressure campaign to get
00:29:28.960away from the Obama-Iran nuclear deal. They were the key drivers that made the Abraham Accords a
00:29:36.620reality. It was, yes, the U.S. and Israel involved and very much so, but it was Arab allies that
00:29:42.360pushed very, very hard in this. And this really ultimately gets back to Trump craft 1.0. He's
00:29:48.960resetting all of these trouble zones with different cards and different coalitions. And I think those
00:29:54.860Arab allies are sick of what Iran has done to them during this conflict and really over the last
00:29:59.860decades. Steve, outstanding stuff as always. Keep us updated. I know the audience is going to
00:30:04.520appreciate all this deep dive and we will talk to you again soon. Thanks so much. Look, I got to
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00:32:01.180welcome back in clay travis buck sexton show our number three about to be joined by senator
00:32:09.080marsha blackburn one bit of news being reported as we speak this is according to axios the u.s
00:32:16.800and a group of regional mediators are discussing the possibility of holding high-level peace talks
00:32:22.880with Iran as soon as Thursday, but are still waiting for an official response from Tehran.
00:32:29.900Two sources with knowledge of the discussion tell Axios. We will see what is going on
00:32:37.800on airports. We've got some updates for you from across the nation, but we bring in now
00:32:43.840senator marcia blackburn of the great state of tennessee and i know yesterday senator blackburn
00:32:49.820you were with president trump as he toured memphis including graceland uh and talked about the
00:32:56.240massive decline that we have seen in overall violent crime since there was a surge of federal
00:33:02.400support uh you represent the state you were just there what should people know nationwide about
00:33:08.100what's happening in memphis memphis is the model clay if you want to get crime down in your city
00:33:16.620look at what memphis has done and the partnership that is there with local state and federal elected
00:33:22.860officials and local state and federal agencies all working together and it takes it all as a team
00:33:29.880And when Cash Patel and Pam Bondi were coming through their confirmations for FBI and Attorney General, I asked each of them and then got a public commitment from them to help us.
00:33:49.640Federal agencies worked with the local police.
00:33:52.520They worked with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and National Guard and Tennessee Bureau of Investigations.
00:33:59.180Our U.S. attorney, our U.S. marshal, and 30 federal agencies on the ground working, helping.
00:34:07.600And because of that, in under six months, we have cut the crime rate in Memphis by half.
00:34:15.600And Memphis is on its way from being the most dangerous city per capita in the country to being one of the safest cities.
00:34:24.200That shows you when the people with a Democrat mayor, Democrat elected, Democrat police chief stand up and say, we are going to work with these resources, with these agencies, with all of these elected officials, we are going to do this for the good of the people.
00:34:44.900Then this is the type result that you get.
00:34:51.420We've seen similar numbers in D.C., and I know as the crime stats are compiled from cities where there's been this federal intervention to bring crime down, we're going to keep seeing this.
00:35:03.860But I think you laid into a critical point there, which is that this is a Democrat-controlled city still.
00:35:11.320They were willing to work with the federal government to bring the crime rate down.
00:35:16.740Is there any hope in your mind that we might see this then in some other Democrat-controlled cities?
00:35:23.420Because if you're the mayor, you know, maybe you have aspirations to be a governor or a senator, perhaps, in a state.
00:35:30.000But there are a few things that I would believe could be a bigger benefit to any mayor
00:35:36.040than be able to look at his constituents when he wants or she wants to run for re-election and say,
00:35:40.500yeah, we brought the violent crime rate down 50%.
00:35:43.980and that is something that is so vitally important you know the people that
00:35:50.540came to the round table we did in memphis yesterday had remarkable stories and the people
00:35:57.380that were in the room buck you would have loved listening to these people they weren't partisan
00:36:03.640they were citizens of the city of memphis who have dealt with this crime issue and for them
00:36:10.120to be able to talk about sitting on their porch and drinking a glass of tea and not worrying about
00:36:16.340a bullet coming through the house, for them to talk about being a small business owner and not
00:36:22.000having landscaping equipment or delivery equipment stolen, or employees not being robbed when they
00:36:29.540were leaving work, and hear about children back to class. They're not skipping school. They are
00:36:38.440going back to school. They're not being recruited by gangs because many of these gangs have been
00:36:44.660run out of the city of Memphis. Memphis has seen more than 9,000 arrests, 9,000 in the last five
00:36:56.240months. These are violent criminal arrests, and you have crime down significantly in every category.
00:37:04.180Motor vehicle thefts are down 65% in Memphis.
00:37:09.520And when you focus on an issue and say we're going to surge, and then once we surge, we're going to look at those results and we're going to figure out how to sustain that good work.
00:37:25.280And we're going to do it all in partnership for the safety of the people of our city.
00:37:31.680We're talking to Senator Marsha Blackburn.
00:37:34.660Right now, as we are speaking to you, Senator, Mark Wayne Mullen, one of your former, I guess
00:37:40.580I could say now, Senate colleagues, has been sworn in as the head of DHS.
00:37:44.840I believe yesterday he was confirmed by a vote of 54 to 45, including your support.
00:37:51.820What can you tell us about Mark Wayne Mullen?
00:37:53.960What do you think he will be like as DHS head?
00:38:24.440He is given to protecting our great nation.
00:38:27.880He knows and supports President Trump in his America First agenda.
00:38:33.280And it was exciting to be on the floor with him last night to have his family here and to see their excitement as he was named our nation's secretary of Homeland Security.
00:38:44.820speaking to senator marcia blackburn right now and you know we are seeing these uh breaking
00:38:52.500reports from just today senator about some of these airports that have been so snarled because
00:38:58.080of democrats really manufacturing a travel crisis that's what has been going on but now this
00:39:04.940ice deployment into these airports has substantially if not completely alleviated
00:39:12.380that uh tsa congestion uh this is pretty remarkable i have to ask you center do you know that there is
00:39:20.280some belief that this originated with a call in to the show on friday uh and clay immediately then
00:39:27.020took it to fox and then the president ran with this it looks like this strategy is working
00:39:31.580it is indeed working and putting ice over at the airports demand the exits uh as people walk out of
00:39:41.120the secured areas and to prohibit people from running through the entrance into that exit or
00:39:49.000through that exit into the secured area to check IDs, identifications, to assist PSA employees who
00:39:58.520are overworked right now. And we continue to work to try to find a way to get DHS fully funded.
00:40:06.920we have a group that has been working with the White House. It is a part of our appropriations
00:40:13.700committee, those members, and they are trying to find a way forward. And then we're also discussing
00:40:20.720doing a public safety reconciliation, where we will look at bolstering the funds that are necessary
00:40:28.220to continue the public safety efforts for our nation. We're talking to Senator Marsha Blackburn.
00:40:35.120You spend a lot of time in Washington, D.C.
00:40:38.160The overall violent crime rate has collapsed in Washington, D.C.
00:45:23.760We've been talking about TSA and ICE obviously being deployed to 13 different airports,
00:45:29.400thanks to Linda in Arizona, who has a hat signed by President Trump on her way.
00:45:36.640um and um i wanted to hit a couple of things here that i saw this morning as i was uh headed into
00:45:44.440work um and today i headed into work on southwest airlines flying down to jacksonville super smooth
00:45:51.560um thanks to the southwest crew and also thanks to nashville's tsa no line at all there when i
00:45:58.080came through this morning and the guys and gals there were doing great work even though they're
00:46:02.060working without pay but this story atlanta i bet you i don't know if you saw this yet buck
00:46:07.060delta airlines announced this week it suspended its standalone service for members of congress
00:46:14.320until the tsa is fully funded i love this great move delta quote due to the impact on resources
00:46:22.940from the long-standing government shutdown delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to
00:46:30.500members of Congress flying Delta. Next to safety, Delta's number one priority is taking care of our
00:46:37.780people and customers, which has become increasingly difficult in the current environment. A spokesman
00:46:44.500for Delta, this is from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said House and Senate members
00:46:49.900will now be treated like all flying passengers based on their SkyMiles status. In other words,
00:46:56.820just like you and me i first of all i don't think i don't know what you think about this buck
00:47:04.240i don't think house and senate members should get special status now if you fly all the time and
00:47:10.080you're a medallion member or a frequent flyer whatever the the phrase is that these different
00:47:16.080airlines use fine because you're spending a lot of money and they want to treat you better because
00:47:21.240you're a valued customer all those things can make sense but there are 535 members of the house and
00:47:29.080senate how many people do you think are regularly recognized and harassed and again you're inside of
00:47:37.440an airport so we know there's not people with guns or knives or anything that would make it violent
00:47:42.900there um i don't know that they should ever return this privilege and certainly when tsa is not
00:47:49.180getting paid i like taking it away but i don't know that they these guys really deserve special
00:47:54.760privilege anyway like why can't an average member of congress or the senate stand in line like
00:48:01.580everybody else what are your thoughts on this yeah i think it's a weird almost like a celebrity
00:48:07.360uh you know fringe benefit that is not there's no reason i am i am i all in favor of calling out
00:48:15.380united states military to the front of the line let them board absolutely for serving in the
00:48:19.840military congress yeah some of them serve some of them serve themselves mostly actually they serve
00:48:25.900themselves i'm not about to say that they can't be like the rest of us in fact i think the more
00:48:30.380that members of congress have to act like normal people the better for all of us i'm all in favor
00:48:36.520i for example hit the roof as so many people did when congress exempted themselves from obamacare
00:48:43.400remember that oh yeah of course oh we're gonna force this on all of you but i mean we're gonna
00:48:47.100have our gold-plated awesome plans but you can have the crap plans i i would just continue to
00:48:52.400say this and i think it would end lockdowns and shutdowns and everything else once and for all
00:48:57.620if congress can't get a budget passed then congress shouldn't get paid period for the whole year like
00:49:05.160if you can't your job is to get budgets passed we keep having all these lockdowns all these
00:49:12.020shutdowns and people who are normal hard-working uh employees are losing their ability to get paid
00:49:18.740so to me if you're in congress and you can't get a budget passed you shouldn't get paid
00:49:23.940and i think it would immediately go away buck i think if if house and senate members had to get
00:49:31.020a had to deal with the same things that they're putting other people through i think they would
00:49:36.760get paid and look i i think there are house and senate members that do not have a lot of money
00:49:41.260Right there. And those people should be driving this, because if you're having to live on your salary and pay your mortgage and pay for your kids, daycare or whatever else, then you should understand better than the average super millionaire who is being funded by George Soros, probably, and isn't having to live on what they actually make.
00:50:06.460it's easier i think for those people to say hey we're just going to shut down the government what
00:50:10.580do we care i think if you started saying congress doesn't get paid for the year that they shut down
00:50:17.280i think this would end once and for all and i don't think it's good our friend senator ron johnson
00:50:22.180of wisconsin has laid out in the wall street journal and we've had him on talking about this
00:50:26.080a super logical process for the budget that requires everything to get done i was just
00:50:32.260reading his piece he had a good piece about the filibuster over the weekend and uh and he said
00:50:37.620look i mean it's 49 out of 50 states i think have a balanced budget requirement so state governments
00:50:44.480tend to balance their budgets go figure uh the federal government doesn't and i think incompetence
00:50:50.280should not be rewarded and so when i saw this story from delta airlines i said good for delta
00:50:55.120because remember all the ceos of the airlines came out and said fun tsa get this taken care of
00:51:01.760we want this done um and uh i just think it's a uh i just think it's a no-brainer i don't know
00:51:07.500that i would return this service if i were delta uh candidly and so i mean that makes sense to you
00:51:15.660yeah absolutely and i'm glad the airlines are fighting back a little bit here but this is
00:51:20.420nonsense because as you all know the airline employees are taking a lot of the brunt of this
00:51:25.340you think people are going to be in a good mood when they walk up to the the ticket counter or
00:51:31.080whatever or they get on a plane and deal with the attendants and the pilot crew you think people are
00:51:35.920going to be nice and in a good mood after waiting four hours in a tsa line i mean i i'd be i'd be
00:51:42.260steaming mad uh try to be polite to the people had nothing to do with it but i think any person
00:51:46.620would have really had more than their fill and the frustration would be boiling over so this is
00:51:52.300this is absolutely uh the right move for them to do and it's also just it's just so classic the
00:51:57.340democrats are doing this and it's it's all based in in the lie the lie is that somehow this is
00:52:05.100republicans creating these lines because they won't just bend the knee and let democrats have
00:52:10.360control over immigration enforcement yes that's not the way that this works they don't have the
00:52:15.080executive branch the executive branch should not be bending the knee when democrats are in the
00:52:20.820minority to how laws are enforced by federal agencies because democrats get sad about the
00:52:27.880enforcement of federal law sorry so they're willing to just make people miserable and unhappy and then
00:52:34.760lie about who did it i you know i just to me this just shows you what what really a an unethical and
00:52:41.760pretty depraved party the democrats have become this is the best they can do because if they were
00:52:47.100admitting to everybody yeah guys we're the reason we're so dedicated to illegal aliens that we think
00:52:52.960we want to keep so many illegal aliens in this country that we don't even want the child predators
00:52:58.680and the gang members and the murderers to be deported we want to keep them all we want to
00:53:03.940keep all those illegals so you're waiting in line because democrats don't want any of those illegals
00:53:09.980even the worst of the worst illegals sent back to the countries that are actually the countries that
00:53:14.960they belong in if they're willing to do that clay i would say all right but they're not right they're
00:53:20.500playing a game here and the game is oh we're willing to open up the tsa if only republicans
00:53:26.000would play play ball with us like what are you talking about what are you really standing for
00:53:30.640by the way president trump is speaking right now we'll play some of this audio
00:53:35.020but i'll read this quote this is from the rapid response 47 account uh on iran we're in
00:53:42.580negotiations right now i can tell you they'd like to make a deal who wouldn't if you were there look
00:53:48.560their navy's gone their air force is gone their communications are gone pretty much everything
00:53:54.300they have is gone that is president trump speaking at the mark wayne mullen swearing in um and uh
00:54:02.560he says there's a change in the uh leadership iran's leaders are all different than the ones
00:54:08.120who started um and then there are uh additional quotes coming out so we will keep uh running on
00:54:15.140this president trump speaking as we are talking with all of you in the oval office right now
00:54:20.700uh says rubio and vance are involved in negotiations with iran in addition to jared
00:54:26.940kushner and steve whitkoff um okay uh we will update you on that in the meantime if you are
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