Hour 2 - An American Rescue
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0:35Monday edition, second hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.
0:41Clay Travis birthday edition. I'm going to hit that one more time at the top
0:45here so you can all send your birthday wishes to Mr.
0:47Clay. He has not aged a day in the five years I've been doing this
0:51show with him. So there you go.
0:53Looks exactly the same. Maybe his biceps are a little bigger, ladies.
0:57That's about it. I am benching more.
0:59I do. And I'm positive, even though I'm old.
1:02I am benching more than I think ever before in my life because I'm trying
1:06to keep up with my 15 -year -old who's got a lot of physical advantages
1:11on me, frankly. But I'm going to try to hold him off as long as
1:15I can. Do you remember when you were a teenager doing things like walking past?
1:20Like, I used to play a fair amount of pickup basketball.
1:23I'd walk past in, like, khaki pants in a, you know, true.
1:27Khaki pants in a t -shirt.
1:28Back in the day, I was tweeting about this with jeans, like nobody wore jeans.
1:32I didn't own jeans until I was basically in college.
1:34I just wore khaki pants all the time.
1:36But I'd walk past, and I'd just jump into a game.
1:38I mean, now, the amount of stretching and stuff I would have to do in
1:43advance of jumping into a basketball game while wearing pants, and not even athletic, like
1:48just normal pants, is a different world that we used to live in, Clay.
1:53Now, it'd be like, oh, my gosh, my Achilles.
1:55I couldn't dream of such a thing.
1:57So, yes, the point is 15 -year -old Clay's son.
2:00It was raining after church, and we were running to try to get to the
2:05car. And I was like, I think I might just pull the groin there, like
2:10trying to make it from church to the car in the rain.
2:14You know, my boys are just sprinting.
2:15You know, it doesn't matter.
2:16They can go straight from, you know, sitting in church for an hour to full
2:20sprint, no time at all.
2:21And I was like, oh, man, I need to get a little loose here before
2:24I start to try to run to avoid the rain.
2:27All true. Now, we're waiting for Trump any moment.
2:30He'll be joining us. We'll pick him up live because he's going to talk about
2:33the, first of all, the successful saving operation, search and rescue operation for a second
2:43airman. And we got the first one very quickly from the F -15E fighter jet
2:48that went down in Iran, shot down in Iran.
2:51And it was quite an ordeal to get him out of there, but he was
2:54safely recovered. Now, I think, Clay, there are a lot of Democrats.
3:01It's quite obvious to me there are a lot of Democrats who are hoping things
3:04with the Iran war, let's just let's just say it, go badly.
3:09And that that is reflected in the numbers for Trump.
3:13This is a major hope of the Democrat opposition here at home.
3:16And CNN's Harry Enten has this to say about the situation with the Democrats and
3:24the Senate. I thought everybody should hear what Democrats are facing at this phase.
3:29I know we're months and months out, but we're going to be dialing in on
3:31this with each passing month.
3:33Play 16. This lead is historically low for Democrats at this point with a Republican
3:38president. Because take a look here.
3:39I'm taking a look at the average of all the polls.
3:42Dem generic congressional ballot lead at this point in the cycle with a Republican president.
3:47On average, their lead's actually slightly less.
3:49It's five points. All right.
3:50So Democrats not in a great position, but Donald Trump about to address the country.
3:53Let's take him live. Easter is, I think, in a lot of different ways.
3:56I can say militarily it's been one of the best.
4:01So good afternoon. We have quite a bit to discuss.
4:05We'll go into pretty good detail.
4:07And we have the people that are most involved.
4:10We'll give you exactitude. And we're here today to celebrate the success of one of
4:17the largest, most complex, most harrowing combat searches.
4:22I guess you would call it a search and rescue mission.
4:25Ever attempted by the military.
4:28Generally, when planes are knocked down in war, especially when you're fighting a strong group,
4:34an evil group, you can't really do this.
4:38Because you send in 200 men to pick up one.
4:41And it's something that's usually not attempted as much as you want to attempt.
4:47And bad things happen to that one or two.
4:50And in this case, we did, too.
4:52And it might not have been attempted before.
4:54But we did. And we had great talent.
4:58We got a little luck, too, I would say.
5:02And we were helped by a lot of people, a lot of great people.
5:06And it was an honor to be involved with it.
5:10It's very historic. This is a rescue that's very historic.
5:15It'll go down in the books.
5:16Late Thursday night, an American F -15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory
5:22in Iran while... Participating in Operation Epic Fury, where we're doing unbelievably well, well at
5:30a level that nobody's ever seen before.
5:34The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be
5:39tomorrow night. Both members of the crew ejected from the aircraft and landed alive on
5:46Iranian soil. I immediately was asked to make a decision.
5:52I ordered the U .S.
5:54Armed Forces to do whatever was necessary to bring our brave warriors back home.
5:58A risky decision, because we could have ended up with 100 dead as opposed to
6:04one or two. It's a hard decision to make.
6:07But in the United States military, we leave no American behind.
6:12We don't do it. Within hours, our armed forces deployed 21 military aircraft into hostile
6:18airspace, many flying at very low altitude, being shot by bullets.
6:24You bring rifles into play when you're going that low, but there are also certain
6:30advantages. And in broad daylight over Iran for seven hours, at times facing very, very
6:37heavy enemy fire. We have a helicopter that's got a lot of bullets in it.
6:42It's amazing. We just realized how good those weapons are, our machines are.
6:49Nobody has the equipment that we have, and nobody has the military that we have,
6:54not even close. The most powerful military anywhere in the world by far.
6:58The flight crews and warfighters aboard those aircraft took extraordinary risks to rescue their fellow
7:05service members. This first wave of search and rescue forces successfully located the pilot of
7:11the F -15. And he was extracted from enemy territory by an HH -60 Jolly
7:19Green 2 helicopter. Fabulous machine as our warriors faced gunfire at very close range.
7:27It's amazing that when you look at the machinery, what happened, that nobody was even
7:33injured. Meanwhile, the second crew member, a weapons system officer, highly respected colonel, had landed
7:41a significant distance away from the pilot when you're going at those speeds.
7:45Even if you go out two or three seconds later, it's miles, it's miles and
7:50miles away because you're going fast.
7:54He was injured quite badly and stranded in an area teeming with terrorists from the
8:00Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rough group, as well as besieged militia and local authorities.
8:08Many, on top of everything else, they told the communities actually with inside of Iran,
8:17the people of Iran, they were given a tremendous incentive to find this pilot.
8:23Despite the peril, the officer followed his training and climbed into the treacherous mountain terrain
8:29and started climbing toward a higher altitude, something they were trained to do in order
8:36to evade capture. They want to always go as far away from the site of
8:43the shoot down. You want to go as far away because they all head right
8:48to that site. You want to be as far away as you can.
8:52And he was injured and he was an amazing, amazing thing.
8:55He scaled cliff faces, bleeding rather profusely, treated his own wounds and contacted American forces
9:05to transmit his location. They have a very sophisticated beeper type apparatus that is on
9:15them at all times. And when they when they go out on these missions, they
9:19make sure they have lots of battery space and they're in good shape.
9:24And this one worked really well.
9:26Amazingly saved his life. We immediately mobilized a massive operation to retrieve him from the
9:33mountain holdout. And he kept going higher and higher.
9:37The mountain kept getting rougher and rougher and really very, very hard to find.
9:42The second rescue mission involved 155 aircraft, including four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refueling tankers,
9:5213 rescue aircraft and more.
9:55We were bringing them all over and a lot of it was subterfuge.
9:59We wanted to have them think he was in a different location because they had
10:04a vast military force out there.
10:06Thousands, thousands, thousands of people were looking.
10:09So we wanted them to look in different areas.
10:12So we were scattered all over like we were right on top of them with
10:17seven different locations where they thought and they were very confused.
10:21They said, well, wait a minute.
10:22They've got groups here. They've got groups there.
10:24It's an amazing thing. I was listening to these great people, these great generals.
10:32General Raisin Cain was amazing.
10:34And Pete Hegseth was amazing.
10:36But I listened to the whole thing.
10:38It was pretty amazing. So that all these different sites where everybody thought he was
10:43located, we think we have them over there because they have nine planes circling a
10:47little area that's 25 miles down the coast.
10:51I live here because there have been a lot of ridiculous stuff in the area.
10:51Thank you. So, in a breathtaking show of skill and precision, lethality and force, America's
10:59military descended on the area, the real area, engaged the enemy, rescued the stranded officer,
11:07destroyed all threats, and exited Iranian territory while taking no casualties of any kind.
11:14The heroic F -15 weapons system officer had evaded capture on the ground in Iran
11:21for almost 48 hours. That's a long time when you're in tough shape and when
11:28you're bleeding. It's a long time.
11:30When we left, as you probably know, we had two large planes, pretty old planes
11:38that carried a lot. We needed a lot more equipment going in than coming out,
11:42obviously, because going in, we needed to be able to scale mountains.
11:47And we had a lot of equipment.
11:49But the sand was, it was sandy, wet sand.
11:53So, we thought there may be a problem taking off because of the weight of
11:57the plane. And then we also had all the men jumping back onto the planes.
12:01And they got pretty well bogged down.
12:04And we had a contingency plan, which was unbelievable.
12:08Where lighter, faster aircraft came in.
12:11And they took them out.
12:12We blew up the old planes.
12:14We blew them up to smithereens because we had equipment on the planes that, frankly,
12:19we'd like to take. But I don't think it was worthwhile spending another four hours
12:23there taking it off. So, we didn't want anybody to have the best equipment anywhere
12:28in the world. We didn't want anybody examining our anti -aircraft and other equipment.
12:34So, these were large planes that were old and pretty old.
12:38And we blew them up.
12:40And we had faster, lighter planes come in.
12:44And they were able to land on the sand.
12:45We needed the bigger planes because we had so much equipment that we needed.
12:48We took three helicopters over there, which were very strongly used.
12:52And couldn't have lived without them.
12:54And they performed unbelievably well.
12:57And if you'd see it, you wouldn't believe it.
12:59They came off the plane.
13:00And these guys had them.
13:03The rotors were off. They rebuilt these helicopters in less than 10 minutes.
13:10And that was one of the more amazing things.
13:13These are helicopters. All right, team, we're going to break in here for a second,
13:17continue to monitor, and we'll bring you back live if Trump is still speaking about
13:19this. He's just giving details about the rescue operation, which was incredible, and it was
13:23successful, thankfully. We'll come back here in just a moment with the president live.
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15:40Trump still talking about the successful rescue of an American crewman.
15:46Let's go back in. We'll hear a couple of minutes here.
15:48We're continuing to monitor in the event that there is major news.
15:53Here's President Trump. And it eats planes alive, and we're waiting, and we're saying, I
15:59hope that one can land and take off.
16:02And they came in like magic.
16:03Boom, boom, boom. One after another.
16:06It was like genius. I'm so impressed by that.
16:09Because we were a little concerned.
16:10We said, boy, if they don't get in and get up fast, we're sitting in
16:15the... And that's called Iran Prime.
16:18Right, General? That's... That's where the whole bed is.
16:22And here we are sitting there waiting for a plane.
16:25But they came in so fast and so hard.
16:27And these guys knew exactly what they did.
16:29Let's go. Come on. Get in.
16:31Let's go. They came one right after another.
16:34Not at the same time.
16:36They don't want to come at the same time.
16:38They had to come right after each other.
16:39They didn't have any room.
16:40There was barely any room to land.
16:42Tiny little patch of very wet earth and sand.
16:47And so I just I'm so proud of the people that I have standing up
16:51here with me and many others that worked.
16:53I mean, so many. Steve Whitcoff's over here.
16:56He's doing fantastically. Jared Kushner.
16:59But the people that are here, the job they did is amazing.
17:03And I think I'm going to introduce the head of the CIA.
17:06And he is a man who he's central casting.
17:10OK, if we cast a movie, he's going to play the head of the CIA.
17:14He's one of the few.
17:16John Ratcliffe, he he did a phenomenal job that night.
17:20He did something that I don't know if you want to talk about it.
17:22If you want, you can.
17:23I'm not sure you're supposed to.
17:24I'm not going to talk about it.
17:25But he really the CIA was very responsible for finding this little speck.
17:30It's like they use an expression on one of the shows.
17:33The general was talking about.
17:35It's like finding a needle in a haystack, finding this pilot.
17:39And the CIA was unbelievable.
17:41And you may if you can, you'll talk.
17:43It might be classified, in which case I'd have to put him in jail if
17:46he talks about it. And I don't want to put him in jail.
17:49He doesn't deserve that. So, John, do you want to say a few words?
17:53Thank you. Thank you, Mr.
17:56President. It's a privilege to be here with you today to share what we can
18:01about this exceptional mission and to recognize the ingenuity and bravery of those who executed
18:08it, as well as the leadership and resolve of the president who ordered it.
18:14One thing that has been clear to me in this role is that the flawless
18:17military operations that the Department of War is known for are hostage to flawless intelligence.
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18:30We witnessed it in Venezuela during Operation Absolute Resolve.
18:35We've seen it against the cartels in the Western Hemisphere, and we're seeing it every
18:40day. Okay, we will come back in and continue to monitor this.
18:46The CIA director now speaking about the successful rescue of the crewman, the second one.
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19:59So we just had the president with us.
20:02Well, who carried the president, I should say, live on the air.
20:05Where he's talking about really just taking a well -deserved victory lap for the United
20:10States military. You know, Clay, one thing that people were talking about with the recovery
20:15of the second airman, a weapons officer.
20:19So I believe technically not that there's the pilot, there's the weapons officer.
20:22If I get that wrong, my father -in -law, who is a fighter pilot himself,
20:26will call in and yell at me.
20:27But the reality of why we leave no man behind and what that means for
20:36esprit de corps and for the overall sense of brotherhood that our military has, the
20:43willingness to go out there, whether it's up in the sky, on the ground, or
20:48in the water, to go and fight for this country.
20:53It's deeply, you know, I can just speak from reading the accounts of, but also
20:58understanding historically and from a strategic esprit de corps perspective.
21:03It's so important for our military members to know that when they are left behind,
21:10we will go all out.
21:11That our military will go all out.
21:13The commander -in -chief will make it the top priority, the top national security priority
21:17of the country for 48 hours to get you back.
21:21And that is in the minds of everyone who goes into harm's way.
21:26That, for anyone who is stepping out downrange, whatever it is they're doing, that means
21:34that they know that they're not going to be left there.
21:38And that really does matter a lot, because I saw people saying, well, we had
21:42an A -10 that took a lot of damage, A -10 warthog, which is a...
21:47Another plane, 90 % of you know this, but for the 10 who don't, another
21:51plane, very heavy armament plane that does close air support a lot of the time.
21:56Pretty impressive airframe, by the way.
21:58It can take a beating and give a beating, unlike a lot of planes.
22:01And then there were other planes also that, as the president mentioned, we had to
22:04leave behind and blow up.
22:05People are saying, all this for one man?
22:08You're damn right. That is the ethos of our military.
22:12Whatever gear it takes, whatever the mission set has to be, to save one of
22:16ours who is down behind enemy lines, we will do it.
22:19It's 100 % the right decision, but the thing that is particularly pernicious about anyone
22:24who is trying to call that into question is if President Trump had said, you
22:30know what, the risk of material is too significant, we'll let Iran get this guy,
22:36they would have ripped him to shreds for allowing this prisoner to be taken.
22:41Right? So it isn't even an honest criticism because if the reverse had happened, all
22:49of you know that they would have ripped Trump for allowing that to happen.
22:52And what I was thinking when this news came out late Saturday night, Buck, is
22:57thank the Lord because this guy would have been beaten.
23:04I don't know if he would have survived and Iran would have used him for
23:08propaganda, the likes of which, frankly, we haven't seen in a very, very long time.
23:13So the fact that we've been able to be in a position where essentially we've
23:20had nearly, when you consider the scope of the activities that we have been engaged
23:25in, Buck, that we would have done all of this with only 13 deaths is
23:30pretty incredible. And I mentioned earlier in the program that you're more likely to have
23:36been murdered in Chicago than killed by the Iranian military since we began this engagement.
23:43And there also is, if you remember when we withdrew from Afghanistan, Joe Biden and
23:52that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left behind tens of billions of dollars in material,
23:58we didn't even light the stuff on fire then.
24:01We just handed it off to the Taliban.
24:03We left behind so much mechanized warfare for them.
24:07And we lost 13 people because the suicide bomber got close enough to that chaos
24:14and killed 13 innocent Americans that were just trying to evacuate from Afghanistan.
24:20So Trump has engaged in a full military operation for over a month, and we
24:27have had 13 lives lost, which, again, we wish there were zero.
24:32But in terms of organization, Biden lost 13 trying to leave Afghanistan just in the
24:39space of a couple of days.
24:42We either buy into the underlying thesis of Trump's military action here, I think, or
24:48not. And that's really the point of separation for so many.
24:51You either think it is entirely, from a U .S.
24:55national security perspective, unacceptable to continue to have the probability, not the certainty, but the
25:03probability of an Iranian nuclear weapon hanging over our heads.
25:08I honestly believe that this came down to Trump just got tired of their BS.
25:15And he knew that with the Iranians, the way things were going, you see this
25:21with the elites and the grandniece here who's running around in Mercedes and at fancy
25:27places and five -star hotels and everything else.
25:29The elites in a country like Iran, they're always fine.
25:32The people at the top of the oppression pyramid, yeah, they can hunker down.
25:37They'll still have access to whatever oil they can sell on the black market and
25:42everything. So they're fine with the suffering of the Iranian people.
25:46If anything, Clay, I think the suffering they view as advantageous to them because it
25:52keeps people in line, it keeps them in check, and it actually sometimes even consolidates
25:56support behind oppressive regimes because suffering is solidarity.
26:02They're suffering in solidarity. So there's the reality of a Trump administration that just decided
26:08we have to change the game here because we can't allow this to continue as
26:12it is. And that's for national security reasons because an Iran that has nukes is
26:18going to be working against U .S.
26:19interests in the Middle East knowing that this can't happen.
26:23And what does that look like, you know?
26:25How is it that we could have averted a situation where you have, for example,
26:31North Korea with conventional armaments as well as nuclear weapons ready to go at a
26:36moment's notice and essentially annihilate all of South Korea?
26:41This is not something people say, oh, well, but doesn't that show that we can
26:45have stability? I mean, if you're willing to say that it's okay that people have
26:50to live with that sword of Damocles hanging over their head that a whole nation,
26:54really the whole world has to deal with that, Trump decided enough.
26:58Enough of these psychos. We're going to do something about it.
27:01Now, at the cost that you're talking about right now, it's a very hard thing.
27:06It's a very hard thing for anyone, Clay, who's not themselves in harm's way to
27:11discuss the loss of life in pursuit of a national security.
27:15or strategic end without sounding like easy for you to say right so i i
27:20think it's worth noting that we're sitting here in comfortable studios in america in our
27:26beautiful and safe country talking about the loss of life that we have suffered 13
27:31people over overseas serving this country and every one of those losses is a gut
27:37punch and is horrible for the family and and those are precious lives those are
27:41our fellow americans they are serving in the military with the understanding or they they
27:48were serving and they died as heroes with the understanding that if the commander -in
27:53-chief truly believes action must be taken to save many american lives over the longer
27:59term that's what they're willing to do right because otherwise we're not willing to take
28:04any military action unless we're effectively invaded uh because you could always lose a life
28:09you could lose a life in a training flight i mean this is going to
28:13happen we actually one of the most stunning statistics that i ever learned about world
28:17war ii i know you're in you're in a big world war ii uh kick
28:20right now clay i i can't remember if it was 15 or 30 000 i
28:24i think it was 30 000 but it might have been 15 000 either way
28:27a huge amount of people lost in the pacific theater to transport accidents in the
28:34air not to combat yeah people lost effectively in the middle of the pacific ocean
28:38we lost thousands and thousands and thousands of people who signed up to serve their
28:43country in the second world war because the plane malfunctioned that that's what yes that
28:49is true and i'm reading the rick atkinson books which are amazing i'm in the
28:52second volume of his three volume trilogy started in africa now reading about the war
28:58in italy two things i knew nothing about um that's why i think contextualizing loss
29:03of life you are more likely i mean that's a crazy stat to think about
29:07you are more likely to have been murdered in chicago since this uh since this
29:14uh action began than you are to have been killed by the iranians if you
29:19serve in the united states military that's crazy stat uh over 25 i just did
29:24the quick search on ai 25 000 844 u .s air crew died now this
29:33is i think across now so that's pacific and european died from aviation accidents non
29:39-combat related flying from one base to another from one training to another training or
29:45practice you know going through training um 25 000 people buck sometimes they had no
29:52idea where they were when weather would come in i mean we think about technology
29:56now where planes are always aware of exactly where they are um a lot of
30:01times they had no idea where they were uh because if the weather was bad
30:05they have to duck down and try to look and gain you know figure out
30:09where they were because they didn't have the longitudinal legend longitudinal latitudinal skills to be
30:15able by the way a couple of breaking news uh from when pete hegseth was
30:18talking and general raisin cane is speaking right now they're still talking about primarily the
30:25mission to rescue uh pete hegseth said tomorrow's today's will be the largest volume of
30:32strikes on iran so far and tomorrow will be more than today uh so that
30:39is some news um and he also said pete hegseth did that the mission to
30:45rescue was authorized by trump within two hours in the middle of the night you
30:51know trump doesn't sleep as those of you who follow his truth social account understand
30:56the guy's still at 80 years old sleeps two or three hours a night it
31:00feels like in many ways um you know joe biden all he did was sleep
31:05which by the way is pretty normal for 80 year olds so uh there's obviously
31:10a lot of range but trump according to hegseth almost immediately in the middle of
31:15the night uh was saying yes go get this guy and and you know and
31:20i know clay from knowing secretary hegseth on a personal level the moment that he
31:26knows that there's someone behind enemy lines who needs rescue i can tell you without
31:32being privy to the conversation but i would say with certainty pete pete's response is
31:36whatever it takes anything you need get it done get him get him whatever it
31:43takes and so we will continue to update you on this by the way markets
31:47not really moving very much which suggests at least so far there has not been
31:52much news now we will i actually think buck the news may come if president
31:56trump takes questions oh he's already talked we played those for you from the easter
32:00egg roll earlier it may come if he takes questions at the end of these
32:04public comments and again general kane speaking right now uh we've got a couple more
32:09cuts to play for you from inside of the white house where the press briefing
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35:06sexton show okay we said we would monitor uh what was being said president trump
35:11now back talking here a couple of cuts that have been going on every network
35:16carrying the president and hegseth and cia director and general kane all throughout the course
35:23of this hour here is cia director john ratcliffe about the successful extrication extrication of
35:31the crew member in addition to the human and technical assets deployed by the president
35:37to find our airman cia executed a deception campaign to confuse the iranians who were
35:42desperately hunting for our airmen on saturday morning we achieved our primary objective by finding
35:48and providing confirmation that one of america's best and bravest was alive and concealed in
35:54a mountain crevice still invisible to the enemy but not to the cia that confirmation
35:59was relayed by secretary hegseth to the president and the operation quickly moved to the
36:05execution phase following the successful exfiltration on saturday night our intelligence reflects that the iranians
36:11were embarrassed and ultimately humiliated by the success of this audacious rescue mission okay that's
36:19the cia director buck here is uh pete hegseth secretary of war saying here's what
36:25happened when this guy was downed how we knew that he was okay what his
36:29message was cut 36 when he was finally able to activate his emergency transponder his
36:35first message was simple and it was powerful he sent a message god is good
36:40in that moment of isolation and danger his faith and fighting spirit shone through you
36:46see shot down on a friday good friday hidden in a cave a crevice all
36:52of saturday and rescued on sunday flown out of iran as the sun was rising
36:57on easter sunday a pilot reborn all home and accounted for a nation rejoicing god
37:05is good so that is pete hegseth putting it in the context of what was
37:10quite the easter weekend for so many members of our military and special forces buck
37:16president trump is now taking questions as we said a little bit ago that is
37:20likely where news may well come uh and pete hegseth said also that again today
37:26was going to be the highest amount of bombs that we have dropped on iran
37:29and tomorrow could be more than that it seems to me like the strategy here
37:34is to unleash so much punishment that the people in charge in iran finally concede
37:41and and essentially their concession would be a nearly unconditional surrender i don't know i
37:49don't know if they're going to do it these the you got some real hardline
37:55wackadoos who are still left behind in this country i i look i just hope
37:59i hope that the president's able to to punish them from the air historically punishing
38:05an enemy like this into submission from the air is a very very difficult and
38:09unlikely thing to accomplish accomplished, but we have the best air power in the history
38:13of the universe. So, or not including God, but in the history of earth.
38:18So there you go. When we come back, we'll give you more on this talk.
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