Hour 1 - Iran Endgame

3/10/202639 mincomplete

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0:33T's and C's apply. Welcome, everybody, to the Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and
0:37Buck Sexton show. Strap in, because we are taking off.
0:42We have a lot to discuss with you today.
0:44Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan is going to be joining us bottom of this hour.
0:48Michael Watley, former RNC chair and North Carolina Senate candidate, joining in the second hour,
0:54along with our friend Shannon Bream, chief legal correspondent at Fox News.
0:58She's got a new book out.
1:00We'll be talking to those fine folks, and we will also be breaking down all
1:03of the latest news and analysis and important goings -on for all of you.
1:10Big story still. Big guest story, I should say.
1:14The ongoing airstrikes against the Iranian regime.
1:18Also, some jitters people are having around the price of oil.
1:24So, we're going to address all of this.
1:26Here is Secretary of War Hegseth at a press conference this morning, promising everyone that
1:32we're just getting warmed up with all this stuff.
1:35It's going to get even more intense.
1:37Play three. Today will be, yet again, our most intense day of strikes inside Iran.
1:43The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes.
1:47Intelligence more refined and better than ever.
1:50So, that's on one hand.
1:51On the other hand, the last 24 hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number
1:55of missiles they've been capable of firing yet.
1:58Just the bifurcation, just the trend lines that we talked about on our first briefing.
2:02You see, this is not 2003.
2:04This is not endless nation -building under those types of quagmires we saw under Bush
2:10or Obama. It's not even close.
2:11Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again, and nor will this president,
2:16who very clearly ran against those kinds of never -ending, nebulously scoped missions.
2:24So, he is saying that everything is going according to plan.
2:29And we are essentially kicking the Iranian military's ass with one arm behind our back
2:33from the sky entirely. And this is going to continue and get more intense as
2:40the days go on, that we will not relent.
2:43Trump last night, speaking at Doral, he was down here in the Miami area, near
2:48where I am. Here he is.
2:50This is cut six. He's saying, look, we are making strides toward achieving what we
2:55need to in Iran. Play six.
2:57We're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective.
3:03And some people could say they're pretty well complete.
3:06We've wiped every single force in Iran out very completely.
3:12Most of Iran's naval power has been sunk.
3:17It's on the bottom of the sea.
3:19It's almost 50 ships. I was just notified it's 51 ships.
3:24I didn't know they had that many.
3:26Didn't last very long. And these are fighting vessels.
3:31They're meant to fight, but they're not meant to fight against us.
3:35We've struck over 5 ,000 targets to date, some of them very major targets.
3:40And we've left some of the most important targets for later in case we need
3:44to do it. If we hit them, it's going to take many years for them
3:47to be rebuilt, having to do with electricity production and many other things.
3:54So we're not looking to do that if we don't have to play.
3:59It seems like the strategy is bomb them back into the Stone Age, so to
4:03speak, and wait until they cry uncle and come up with.
4:08I don't know what that's the that's the big question that I have.
4:11What is supposed to emerge here, unconditional surrender, but contingent on what?
4:18Even if they were to say it, what are the next steps supposed to be?
4:21This gets to who's going to run this country.
4:24Because Pete Hegseth is saying very clearly, and Trump has said the same, we're not
4:28going to be sending 20 -year -olds from Kansas and Maine and Washington State, et
4:33cetera, and Texas and everywhere to walk the streets of Isfahan, Kermin Shah, Tehran, and
4:40Tabriz. Not happening. I think we're in a balancing act where who is the person
4:46we want to be in charge in Iran?
4:48That is the one thing that we really haven't gotten any indication of.
4:52Now, simultaneously, I understand that why that is, because as soon as the United States
4:58acquiesces or acknowledges that Iran has got a leader we want to work with, that
5:04definitely puts political pressure on the individuals in Iran, too.
5:09Do you remember, Buck, how the Delcy Rodriguez played out?
5:12Delcy Rodriguez, and the reason why I point to this is I think it's the
5:16best analogy, although obviously Venezuela and Iran are very different.
5:19But when Delcy Rodriguez came into power, she said a lot of tough talk.
5:24things about the united states and many of our united states leaders just kind of
5:30said okay she's got to say that for political viability inside of venezuela but meanwhile
5:36we were having back channel conversations with her and she was basically letting us know
5:41what she had to do are we having back channel conversations with anyone in iran
5:45that could rise to a level of power that's a good question right uh who
5:49are the people that israel may have been working with to help get all of
5:54these targets uh that we were able to focus on and take out so quickly
5:59all of those questions i think are still uh incumbent upon us to resolve but
6:06i do think at a minimum the message that we sent even if we pulled
6:11out tomorrow buck even if we said hey mission accomplished we are out and uh
6:16we are going back and we're not going to continue to bomb iran we have
6:19sent the message and i think it's a very significant one not only to iran
6:22but to everybody around the world that we can basically take out any world leader
6:26that we want to and so whomever comes to power in iran we can wipe
6:31that person out too they know it we know it the world knows it and
6:36so uh the question that i have is to what extent is there someone that
6:40we are amenable to that could be rising to power and what is the time
6:44frame under which that could occur um i think that that's the question that is
6:49still out there right now i think the argument that we were going to lose
6:53tons of soldiers is out the window i think the argument in the wake of
6:58the last day buck this is one of the craziest things i've ever said when
7:02we came on the air yesterday everybody was in a full -fledged panic over the
7:06price of oil and gas it hit 120 dollars um on the market on sunday
7:12before we came on the air they open overseas it's now 85 dollars now that's
7:18significant but it's not that much of a bump and the straight of four moves
7:23it appears the oil is actually coming through fairly comfortably we just haven't seen the
7:29spike that everybody said we were going to see and i think we have the
7:33ability to exit this uh escalation whenever we want and we have effectively neutered iran
7:41for decades to come in terms of the they have no air force they have
7:47no navy um they have no missiles largely their ability to even send off these
7:53drones has been significantly curtailed i just i look around buck and say we're at
7:59the who is going to lead iran stage of this military uh of this military
8:05endeavor the whole irgc which we talked about a bit yesterday is set up to
8:12be a decentralized and survivable security apparatus for a situation like this this is the
8:20challenge that we have uh so they've got the guns they've got comms set up
8:26they have down to a very localized level uh terrain knowledge human terrain knowledge basically
8:33anyone who walks out of their home to start a protest in the street liable
8:37to just get shot by these either besiege or or irgc uh units so what
8:45do we do about that this is the this is where things get a little
8:50open -ended i'm not really sure what the plan is on this uh we can
8:54keep blowing their military equipment out of out of the sky but ultimately whoever has
8:58the most manpower with guns on the ground willing to fight is likely to be
9:04able to stay in control it's also by the way big lesson about the second
9:08amendment how important the second amendment is and armed citizenry right uh because they don't
9:13have that the people with the guns of the government that's it uh very few
9:18people in iran are going to be able to get out there and get into
9:21a gun battle with members of the iranian security forces so with all that clay
9:27uh i think that the military side of this is showing incredible everything that uh
9:32headseth and trump have been saying about this uh is true it's it's been an
9:38amazing display of u .s military capability does this go beyond this month i don't
9:43think so does this end with u .s troops on the ground i don't think
9:47so does this end with a new government in iran i don't think so that's
9:52where i come down on this one uh here by the way here's hegseth saying
9:55this morning this cut for clay just saying they're going to take this to the
9:58end until the enemy says we give up play for destroy their missile stockpiles their
10:03missile launchers and their defense industrial base missiles and their ability to make them to
10:09destroy their navy and three permanently deny iran nuclear weapons forever it's a laser focused
10:16maximum authority mission delivered with overwhelming and unrelenting precision no hesitation no half measures as
10:24president trump declared yesterday we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill
10:30and military force we will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated
10:36but we do so we do so on our timeline and at our choosing sounds
10:43good i hope we get there how many people do you think we um in
10:49general how many people do you think we we we we we we we we
10:52we we have named that we would be okay with being leaders of Iran.
10:56I don't think we even have a list of people that we think would be,
11:01we're hoping they emerge. That's my guess.
11:03Obviously, I've been out of the game a while.
11:05Maybe they've got someone just ready to go, but I would highly doubt it.
11:09Do you think Israel does?
11:10Because it seems like they have basic, full optics, it feels like, on some level
11:15of inside of Iran. I think finding an Iranian who doesn't hate Israel, who has
11:20any political juice whatsoever, inside of Iran is, I'm not sure it's possible.
11:26It's very, very hard. Well, I wonder whether you could publicly hate Israel, but privately
11:31have a relationship with Israel.
11:33I mean, maybe, like maybe, sure, sure.
11:36That would be my hope, is that we could find a solution in that way.
11:43And I think the long run here, look, if you want to tie Venezuela and
11:49Iran together, I think the long run is we should have more oil and gas
11:55stability going forward when this situation has ended than we did before.
12:01And when you combine it with the United States' ability to produce a ton of
12:06oil and gas, you know this, Buck, because this was a conversation that when you
12:09started working at the CIA would have been a big one, the Middle Eastern countries,
12:13which basically had the ability to curtail oil and gas shipments, it led to a
12:20lot of petrodictator states. It feels to me like the petrodictator state power is altering
12:27in a way that is favorable to the United States in many respects.
12:31This is a reminder where any of you who know somebody who works for big
12:37oil in this country, works for a natural gas company, an oil exploration company, you
12:43should give them a high five because America is the true global energy producer superpower,
12:48which has enormous, enormous geopolitical advantages for us in dealing with all of this.
12:55We got so much of that stuff that we're selling it all over the world,
12:58but we know we've got secure supply and we know that we are the single
13:02most important energy producing power on the planet.
13:06That's how we come at this.
13:09A hundred percent. That is the best decision we have made in a long time.
13:12And by the way, the states that have rejected that, if you're listening to us
13:16in California right now, you may well be paying well over $5 a gallon because
13:21California, which still, to my knowledge, Buck, and I know we've got a lot of
13:25oil and gas guys and gals out there, still has a lot of oil and
13:28gas, right? California has the ability to pump far more.
13:32Do even more. Instead, they turned it off effectively because of the greenhouse, the climate
13:37change crazy people. How many Americans even know this?
13:39Really important trivia. You've got Saudi Arabia.
13:42You've got Russia. You've got some of these countries.
13:46Which country is the biggest oil producer in the world?
13:50America. It's America. That stuns a lot of people.
13:55No, it does. I mean, it stuns people.
13:58We produce more crude oil than any other country.
14:02We've surpassed Saudi Arabia. We've surpassed Russia.
14:05And our oil industry has done this despite all the climate change, which is a
14:11complete waste of time and an absurdity that no human being should ever waste three
14:15seconds concerned about or anything else.
14:17But our oil industry is one of our biggest strategic assets as a nation.
14:22And yet Democrats trash them all the time and act like they're killing all of
14:27us. No, actually, you should go thank an oil man today or a woman if
14:30she happens to work in the oil industry.
14:32You should go say thank you for what you do because that's why we can
14:35go around the world and kick anybody's ass and do it in a way that
14:39is blowing the minds of our top adversaries and enemies.
14:42Which, by the way, in the first Gulf War, for those of you who remember,
14:46that fear that they would curtail our ability to get oil and gas was the
14:52impetus to a large extent for the first Gulf War back in 1990 or whatever
14:56it was. It was a totally different world.
14:58I'll add into what you just said, Buck.
15:01Do you know what country they believe in the Western Hemisphere has the largest untapped
15:05resources of oil and gas?
15:08Venezuela. Well, the biggest proven reserves on the planet.
15:13Yeah. So the fact that we now have the ability basically to also access that
15:18is yet another sign that we are curtailing the power of the of the oil
15:23and gas petro dictators all around the world, including Iran, Russia, it's not a surprise
15:29that a lot of these countries that are natural adversaries to ours are very oil
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17:25t's and c's apply welcome back in clay travis buck sexton's show um a little
17:31bit of uh news to pay attention to and i know they have said potentially
17:35they are going to run together but if you look at the odds markets on
17:41who the 2028 republican nominee is going to be jd vance had been a big
17:47favorite for some time marco rubio buck amid reports that a lot of donors love
17:55him is now surging to the point where he is about to pass jd vance
18:00as the favorite to be the nominee in 2028 i know it's a ways away
18:06i know we have to get through the midterms but the day after the midterms
18:10so november 8th or whatever the heck that day is this year effectively the brand
18:16new 2028 presidential campaign will begin and one thing to think about buck is not
18:20only marco jd and other people who might run what's trump going to be like
18:25when he's no longer able to be running for president and potentially no longer the
18:31central story of the political scene probably going to do a podcast i don't i
18:40don't think anybody's really asked in the history of podcasts going to have 11 billion
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18:50i think we've gotten used to trump as the focal point of everything i don't
18:55know what it's going to be like in 2027 very soon from now when the
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19:59.com welcome back into clay and buck we are joined by congressman jim jordan of
20:05ohio congressman it's been a minute good to have you back how you doing i'm
20:11doing fine how about you yeah pretty good actually pretty good got a little crazier
20:15last night we're in a little blackout of miami beach this part of it but
20:18now the power's back on so that's nice it's hot here pretty quickly yeah it's
20:22a good deal yeah so uh unfortunately it was not an iranian cyber attack or
20:26anything of the of the like uh but i was prepared just in case so
20:30tell me about what's going on there's a there's a fraud hearing in minnesota you
20:34got waltz you got ellison you're talking uh you you exposed waltz as i understand
20:40it exposed him how what went on here well he just lied i mean and
20:45and the court did something i've never seen the court actually issued a statement in
20:49the press from the court saying what you have said about why you restarted this
20:54program so understand what happened is all the whistleblowers and the folks in the government
20:58said hey this feeding our future program is got all kinds of problems we don't
21:02know what's going on all these all these meals going to kids but there are
21:05no meals no kids and they're just stuff in their pot there's all kinds of
21:08concerns so they shut it down and then a month later they started back up
21:11and the payments resumed and waltz said he did it because the court ordered and
21:15the court said that's not true i mean they just told the governor what you
21:19said is completely false but uh i believe he did it uh for the politics
21:25i mean with their the somali community is a large voting block and we had
21:30this statement from one a somali american who worked in attorney general ellison the attorney
21:35general worked in his office as a fraud investigator and said the reason they didn't
21:39go after these folks like they should have is they were concerned about the voting
21:43bloc that was there for democrats and so uh yeah this was they lied about
21:48it and they they fostered it and allowed it to happen for political reasons and
21:52i think that is now becoming crystal clear uh when you look so it's good
21:57to see you friday uh congressman jim jordan um buck by the way i saw
22:02tweeted last night you have to keep uh tabs on this too that he's working
22:05on 110 mile an hour serve i don't know which side of that you want
22:09to uh he's doing sprints he's doing everything training hard you know the rocky montage
22:15rocky's got nothing on middle -aged buck um it's it's rare that i see something
22:22that everybody agrees with in america that congress can't pass and buck talked about this
22:27yesterday every day we hear about the save act um and save america save america
22:33trump is very specific it is the save america act um yeah what is what
22:38is the latest on this um and uh and do you have any optimism at
22:42all i know a lot of the hang is on the senate side but it's
22:45crazy to me this can't get passed no it's and the crazy is the right
22:49word uh you know as so many positions the left has it makes absolutely no
22:54sense it's completely crazy that you wouldn't want just citizens to vote you wouldn't want
22:58them to show an id because you have to show an id for everything and
23:00we got countless examples from mom donnie in the snow shovelers example on and on
23:04the go so uh look this is in the united states senate let's have the
23:07debate you know reagan used to talk about in politics you got to paint with
23:11big bold color so everyone understands what's at stake and a debate in the senate
23:16where you bring this bill up you have the debate you talk about it you
23:19make the democrats look like the fools that they are for embracing the the opposite
23:23position of what is everyone knows is common sense what like 90 percent of the
23:27country agrees with you have the debate and then call the question that that's the
23:32only way you can see what's going on uh and that's what needs to happen
23:37and of course i think i think senator leader soon will do that but the
23:41sooner i think they get after that uh the better it is for uh for
23:43the country and the people of this great nation will see one party is for
23:48this ridiculous position the republican party is for common sense and it's not just this
23:52you it's countless others so you're not thinking that this is going to get through
23:57or rather you wouldn't even support congressman if uh i know this would be on
24:02the senate side but the senate getting rid of the filibuster for this specific piece
24:06of legislation this is really to make the point to the american people in a
24:10midterm election year the democrats don't want secure elections i mean is that the biggest
24:14takeaway from the save america act well i hope it passes and and frankly this
24:20idea of this talking filibuster where you really have to go to the floor and
24:23it's it's basically you know mr smith goes to washington like it used to be
24:27i mean remember the democrats used to use this way back when uh back in
24:31the 50s and 60s when they were stopping good legislation they had to go talk
24:36and talk forever to stop it and it was uh it was actually then the
24:40the uh the racist democrats who were stopping the voting rights act and all the
24:44good things that were civil rights issues that were happening uh they would use that
24:49technique so i'm all for them you know happen to do that but in the
24:52end you've got to call the question at some point too and you got to
24:55show the country this is what's at stake this is where one party is crazy
24:59position this is where the republicans are i mean i think this election we were
25:03just talking about this with some some colleagues i think this election is real crazy
25:07or a real real real straightforward they're crazy we're not and you can go issue
25:11by issue and show that it's crazy to defund the police it's crazy to abolish
25:15eyes it's crazy to say men to compete against women in sports it's crazy to
25:18shut down the government for 43 days it's crazy to say you shouldn't have to
25:21show an id to vote you can you shouldn't have to be a citizen you
25:24can just go every stinking issue and it's like their position is crazy and the
25:28president pointed this out so well in the state of the union when they wouldn't
25:31stand for something that was just so common sense a ton of people are traveling
25:36traveling right now congressman because it is spring break season a lot of kids a
25:41lot of grandkids making trips and some of the lines that you're seeing to build
25:45on what you just said i mean we're talking about three four hour lines at
25:49different locations just to get through airport security i know iran's going on you can
25:54give us your take on iran too but when people start seeing in their day
25:59-to -day life incompetence from government it makes them angry and i can only imagine
26:04i know a lot of people out there listening to us right now have found
26:06themselves in long tsa lines at a time of war it seems beyond absurd to
26:12me that democrats won't pay tsa agents and get everything back fully open no i
26:18again just one another example uh their position is abolish ice or if not you
26:26know do some of the crazy things you want to do we're going to shut
26:28down the the department of homeland security and as you point out now people are
26:32starting to have real implications real real consequences for this this ridiculous action that the
26:37democrats have taken and never forget when they attack ice understand what happened in minneapolis
26:42with mr preddy and and miss good were were tragic but understand what ice agents
26:47have been up against they've been tracked they've been doxed they've been spit on they've
26:52been sworn at they've been screamed at they've had death threats to themselves to their
26:55families they've been attacked physically you name it it's happened to them all because of
27:00the radical left and now they're taking this position unless you change all that make
27:05we're not gonna we're not gonna fund the department of homeland security at a time
27:10when we're in this armed conflict with with iran makes again no sense so tell
27:18me about this conflict with Iran as you see it we've played some soundbites from
27:23the president last uh last evening at uh Doral we've played Pete Hegseth Secretary of
27:29War this morning they seem both very pleased with the progress so far and very
27:33confident in in the mission we hear from a lot of Trump supporters who are
27:40cautious in their assessment of this they're concerned in their assessment of this where do
27:45you come down on this congressman no I mean I agree with the president and
27:49and you know god bless our military and what they've been able to accomplish in
27:52this short period of time I do think you know the concern is is not
27:57the same here this is this is this president's not gonna I believe get America
28:03locked into something like we had with Iraq which was all those years and years
28:06and all the money that was spent there so we all know that Iran's the
28:10largest state sponsor of terrorism we know that taking out and stopping these guys from
28:14getting nuclear capability uh building on midnight hammer from last year's taking out their missile
28:19launch flights and their missiles so they can't continue to pursue this this this nuclear
28:23capability that they're after that is good for us that is good for our best
28:27friend Israel that is good for the world that is good for the Iranian people
28:30in the end so I and it's they've been at this this this regime for
28:34what 47 almost almost 50 years where they have killed Americans killed Israelis killed all
28:40kinds of other people around the world and killed a number huge number of their
28:45own citizens so um I think this is good and uh look we hope it's
28:50we hope it doesn't last real long the president said that and this president makes
28:55decisions that are in the best interest of the country we've seen it time and
28:59time again and this president more than any president I've ever known um does what
29:03he said he would do and he told us he was not going to let
29:06this nation this this you know terror sponsoring nation get nuclear capability is bound and
29:11determined to make sure that that doesn't happen we're talking to congressman jim jordan of
29:15ohio I saw you friday afternoon uh at the white house for the nil event
29:20how optimistic are you that in addition to solving all the other things going on
29:25right now uh that congress is going to be able to uh under president trump
29:30who's super fired up about this issue fix college athletics well I need six and
29:36the president determined like he has on so many other important issues uh you saw
29:40that like like I did on friday afternoon um I think we can get the
29:44the step one is to get a ball in play to use sports analogy with
29:47this uh we got it we got to pass the score act uh because at
29:51a minimum we have to do some kind of antitrust relief for the governing institution
29:56for college sports every major uh professional sports league has has specific relief from our
30:02antitrust law uh baseball has it explicitly other sports it's implied and they have real
30:07relief you have to do the same here or it's just going to be more
30:10court cases that are going to determine all the rules for how college sports operates
30:14and we're going to continue to have this mess so uh that at a minimum
30:17has to happen there are other good things in that legislation that I do think
30:20I wanted to pass it last year during football season um hopefully now we can
30:25get it done before the final four which is coming uh quick um let's uh
30:29let's hope so but I do think the score act is ready to go I
30:33think there are a few people on our side who are opposed to it are
30:35now going to be willing to vote for it um so we get that thing
30:38moving and then we'll we'll go from there and the president of course is going
30:40to weigh in all throughout the process congressman jim jordan always appreciate you coming to
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32:37we were talking i do think this is a significant story and we'll get to
32:40a couple of your calls here in a sec too um you That deserves more
32:44attention. Kevin Newsom and what California has done.
32:49Let's flip for a moment.
32:51Super positive as we laid out.
32:53The United States in the last 10, 12 years has become the foremost producer of
32:59oil and gas in the entire world.
33:02It's an incredible success story.
33:04It's one that should be talked about more.
33:06And it actually has created a situation where Middle Eastern countries do not have us
33:12constantly at their beck and call over what the price of oil and gas is.
33:18By the way, and can I just also point out, Clay, this is because of
33:20fracking? Yes. Which used to be a dirty word.
33:23Remember? They made documentaries about how fracking was going to catch the water on fire
33:28and all lie, all nonsense.
33:30Fracking has turned us into an energy superpower.
33:33Thank you, big oil. Bill, this should be a big topic of discussion for many
33:38of you in California, as this is wild.
33:41As the United States has become the foremost producer of oil and gas in the
33:46world, California has simultaneously gone in the exact opposite direction and overwhelmingly begun to restrict
33:54oil and gas production in their state, which is one of the states that if
33:59oil and gas production were permitted, would have one of the largest production capabilities in
34:05the state, would have one of the largest production capabilities in the country.
34:05What has the result actually led to overwhelming surge in oil and gas prices for
34:13people in California? So I do think this is so significant.
34:18The policy direction of California and other states, but California in particular, because it has
34:24the ability to produce so much oil and gas, has been directly contradicted by the
34:30larger American policy. If the nation had gone as California has, we would be totally
34:37reliant upon oil and gas producers in the Middle East, in Russia, in Venezuela, in
34:45a way that we are not.
34:46You know who is, Buck?
34:47China. 40 percent, I was reading this morning, of China's oil and gas comes through
34:52the Strait of Hormuz. They have to bring in the vast majority of the oil
34:57and gas that their country consumes, based on my reading of this situation.
35:02And that's one reason they've been allies of Venezuela and Iran, because they've been trying
35:07to preserve oil and gas that they have to bring in in order to fuel
35:11their economy. Well, and they're buying it at cut rate prices, because you can't buy
35:16that oil if you're Europe.
35:17You can't buy that oil if you're America, obviously.
35:20So the whole deal is these sanctions busters, if you will, like China, come in
35:25and say, oh, we'll buy your Iranian oil for, you know, 80 cents on the
35:30dollar or whatever. This is what India has been doing that Trump finally cracked down
35:35on, is taking all the Russian oil and just sending it back out, but basically
35:40laundering Russian oil through India and taking a profit on top of it.
35:45We've got a couple of interesting calls here.
35:46I'll start with Tom in South Carolina.
35:48He has a question for you, Buck.
35:50Fire away, Tom. All right.
35:53My question is, and give me a second here, supposedly the Iranians have activated the
35:57sleeper cells all across the world and in America.
36:00My thing is, those people have probably been here a while, probably like it now,
36:04have families, and think that their regime is going to be toppled.
36:07So do you think if they get that text to start attacking that, they just
36:10ignore it and go on with their life, thinking that they would rather live their
36:14life in America and the regime will be gone eventually?
36:17It totally depends. It's a very good question.
36:20It's just there's so many facets of this.
36:21It totally depends. I think a lot.
36:24You have people who are ideological fellow travelers who are essentially jihadists who just want
36:30to lash out at enemies of the Islamic Revolution, right?
36:36I mean, this lunatic in Texas, for example, in Austin with, like, the Iranian leader
36:40or, you know, the mullahs on his T -shirt.
36:42There are people like that who I don't think have gotten – they haven't gotten
36:45any Quds Force training. They're not operatives that have received some level of tradecraft.
36:50They're just wackos who want to help Iran, and, you know, we don't know how
36:54many of them there are.
36:55What you're asking, I think, is more what about Hezbollah -trained infiltrators coming across the
37:01southern border, setting up here, the numbers that we have on those are guesses at
37:07best, and whether they are ideologically committed or not, you know, you can go and
37:12watch. There's a great series, The Americans, about Russian deep, deep cover agents, illegals, they
37:19actually call them, not illegal aliens, but illegals is what the Russian KGB – have
37:23you ever seen The Americans play?
37:25Oh, it is a fantastic series.
37:27It's an A. It's an A series.
37:29Really, really good. Yeah, it's been out.
37:32I mean, what, it's probably finished about five years ago or so now?
37:34More, maybe 10. It's been a while, yeah.
37:36I watched it back in the day.
37:38It was fantastic. Marv, quickly, in Canada, what you got for us?
37:44I just wanted to weigh in on your comments about oil pricing.
37:49Oil pricing last week, they're hitting almost $1 .20.
37:53Oil pricing right now at below $83 a barrel.
37:59It's a 30 % drop.
38:01The last time that we saw a 30 % drop in oil pricing was when
38:05Russia invaded Ukraine. This kind of dramatic drop.
38:11The catalyst for that is global, incredibly significant global actions that are taking place.
38:22We will discuss that and more.
38:24Oil price is down $35 since yesterday.
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