Hour 1 - What’s Next In Iran?
3/20/202637 mincomplete
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0:10I am solo with all of you today.
0:12Buck is out Friday and Monday, and we will take you into the weekend with
0:16the absolute latest going on everywhere in the world, most particularly in Iran, where the
0:22news continues to be very positive, despite the way that much of the media is
0:26covering it. We will give you the absolute latest on everything there.
0:31TSA issues, unfortunately, are spreading like wildfire.
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0:39probably many other places as well.
0:41New York City, Houston, Atlanta, multi -hour long lines to be able to get through
0:47airport security. John Fetterman is less popular with Pennsylvania Democrats, so much so that I
0:55would argue and may make this case.
0:57He should actually flip parties and start to caucus with the Republicans, or he should
1:03potentially run as an independent and caucus with the Republicans and maybe not be an
1:09official member of the overall Republican Party.
1:13I think both of those would probably be better suited because most of his popularity
1:16now in Pennsylvania is with Republicans, not Democrats.
1:20We will talk about that.
1:21We'll have some fun with the NCAA tournament underway.
1:24We've got some fun audio clips for you.
1:27I hope that your brackets are at least somewhat unbusted, relatively speaking.
1:32But we begin with the situation in Iran and with President Trump ruminating, determining, analyzing,
1:41contemplating, potentially going into Karg Island.
1:45And that being the ultimate, shall we say it, Trump card of what might be
1:51necessary in order to finally get the Iranian government, such as it is, to actually
1:58stand down. And there continue to be lots of talks about whether Trump has been
2:03influenced by Israel. And the overall price of oil and gas probably is the number
2:10one thing that is working in any way in Iran's favor.
2:14It might be the only thing.
2:16But I do think the media overall has done a poor job of explaining just
2:21exactly what is going on and how well we are all doing.
2:26Notwithstanding that, a poll came out this morning from Politico that I thought was interesting
2:32and should be shared with all of you.
2:35And that is showing that President Trump in Iran is actually pretty popular overall as
2:42these things go. Nothing is very popular in politics, no matter what side you're on,
2:47except, honestly, the Save America Act, which, of course, can't actually get passed so far.
2:52But Politico asked, do you or do you not support the strikes in Iran?
3:00Overwhelming majorities of Trump voters do, in fact, support them.
3:04Some of you who are hyper online get convinced that a small minority of active
3:09voices online represent larger audiences than they do.
3:13Politico found 81 % support.
3:16More people don't know whether they support this or not than actually oppose it among
3:22the president's voters. Even overall, and this is a poll I shared.
3:27You can go check it out on my Twitter feed at Clay Travis.
3:30Overall, 43 % of Americans support, this is according to Politico, a poll came out
3:37this morning, support our actions in Iran.
3:4013 % don't, sorry, 18 % don't have an opinion, just don't know what they
3:47think, which actually probably should be higher because everybody doesn't happen to have an opinion
3:52on everything. And then 33 % opposed.
3:55This would actually make the war in Iran one of the more popular elements of
4:00the Trump activity so far.
4:02Again, you can go check this out.
4:04That is a Politico poll that came out this morning.
4:08And President Trump earlier this morning said, hey, here's the latest.
4:12We're doing really well. He's updating us on the status of the Iranian army.
4:18And spoiler alert, there isn't much left of the Iranian army.
4:22This is what Trump said this morning, cut one.
4:24I want to begin by just saying we're doing extremely well in Iran.
4:29The difference between them and us is they had a navy two weeks ago.
4:34They have no navy anymore.
4:35It's all at the bottom of the sea.
4:3758 ships knocked down in two days.
4:39And we have the greatest navy anywhere in the world.
4:41It's not even close. So we are doing really well.
4:44We're not going to let them have nuclear weapons because if they had them, they'd
4:48use them. And we're not going to let that happen.
4:49Should have been done a long time ago by other presidents.
4:53OK, so the big debate now is what should happen going forward.
4:59Israel is continuing to take out all of the leaders of Iran.
5:03Yesterday, we played you audio from Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary, echoed by President Trump, saying
5:09there were starting to be signs of an uprising inside of Iran from the people
5:15there. Remember, when Trump started this attack, he said, now is the time for all
5:21of you in Iran to rise up and throw overthrow.
5:24your government, you may not have another chance like this for decades or generations.
5:29And so we are working through the process of figuring out what exactly is going
5:33to happen there. I do think you have to be careful in what you pay
5:38attention to because the new argument this and look, I think this argument is entirely
5:43illegitimate. I don't buy it.
5:45But the new argument is Trump isn't making his own decisions.
5:50He's just doing whatever Israel wants him to do.
5:53I think that is, for anyone who has known Donald Trump, completely unbelievable and without
6:01any logic lining up behind it at all.
6:04In fact, producer Greg, can you grab, because I do think when these arguments are
6:08out there, it's worth going back in time and playing Trump in the 1980s, explaining
6:14exactly what he is doing today and being in favor of these actions in Iran
6:20long before he was ever engaged in the political process.
6:25But yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel, had a press availability and just completely
6:34shot down Netanyahu did the idea that President Trump was not making his own decisions
6:41and was just doing whatever Israel thought was necessary.
6:45Here's cut 12. I want to close these opening remarks with one other fake news,
6:50and that is that Israel somehow dragged the U .S.
6:53into a conflict with Iran.
6:55Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do?
7:01Come on. President Trump always makes his decisions on what he thinks is good for
7:07America. And may I add, I think what is also good for future generations.
7:11In this case, those interests are absolutely clear, and so is the clarity of our
7:17achievements. Together, in close coordination with President Trump, close coordination between America and Israel, our
7:26militaries, our intelligence services, we're achieving goals in lightning speed.
7:32Now, it is fair to say, how does this end?
7:36That is, Buck was talking about this yesterday.
7:38I think that is the number one question that reasonable people out there can have.
7:44What is the exit here?
7:46What is the process by which this winds itself down?
7:50Does, at some point, the United States involvement give way to more aggressive Israeli involvement?
7:56Does the United States declare victory, and does Israel continue on its own to bring
8:03strikes against Iran? Those are very valid questions.
8:07And I feel like Trump, in many ways, this is my prediction, is leaning towards
8:13the idea of taking Karg Island, which is about 15 miles off the coast of
8:18Iran. It's where most of the oil and gas produced by Iran transits and begins
8:25its voyage on the Strait of Hormuz.
8:27President Trump believes, I think, that if he controls Karg Island, he controls the entire
8:33oil and gas output of Iran.
8:36Remember, this is kind of wild, but these strikes have been so precise in general
8:42and so tactical in nature that we have allowed Iran to continue to produce and
8:49sell oil, even as we have been wiping out all of their leadership.
8:53Think about how wild that is.
8:55I don't believe it's been talked about enough that we are so incredibly precise in
9:01our attacks that we have allowed the Iranian oil and gas industry, by and large,
9:08to continue to work and continue to produce oil and gas.
9:13And if you look at the Strait of Hormuz, the ships that are being allowed
9:17to transit with zero issues at all are all carrying Iranian oil.
9:22Now, we've seen in many ways a divergence, a bifurcation in the overall oil and
9:28gas market when it comes to price.
9:30In the United States, the oil and gas that we have is actually much more
9:36affordable, the crude oil that we produce, than it is around the world right now.
9:41I'm looking at crude oil futures right now.
9:44They are roughly $95 or $96.
9:47And that has led to an increase overall at American gas pumps.
9:53But keep in mind, oil and gas prices, I believe, were around $60 a barrel,
9:59$65 a barrel when all of this started.
10:01So they've gone up about $30 a barrel.
10:05Initially, they told us, oh my goodness, oil and gas is going to go $120.
10:09It's going to go to $150.
10:11It's going to go to $200.
10:12Well, not in the United States.
10:13And so, again, the crude oil futures right now, as I am looking and speaking
10:19with all of you, and it changes every single moment like the stock market does,
10:23right around $96. Iran's only ability right now is to try and get Americans and
10:30try to get Israelis and try to get people around the world to demand a
10:35halt to these strikes because of the price of oil and gas.
10:38And President Trump this morning, rightly, called out NATO and said, wait a minute, we've
10:44already won this war in terms of taking out Iran's military capabilities.
10:49Why in the world will these other countries?
10:52not show up and help provide transit through the Strait of Hormuz for all of
10:57this oil and gas, which they need more than we do, right?
11:01Our oil and gas, by and large, is never coming from Iran.
11:04It's not coming through the Strait of Hormuz.
11:07There are other places that need it so much more significantly than we do.
11:13And so I think this is a story worth paying attention to, and I think
11:17President Trump may well come to see the coup de grace here as being we
11:23take over Karj Island and we control all of the oil and gas that is
11:27emanating in any way from Iran once and for all.
11:31And remember, I think he's going to probably use as a template how well things
11:35are going in Venezuela. We are absolutely dominating everything in Venezuela, boots on the ground
11:43for only a few hours to take out Maduro, and since that point in time,
11:48Venezuela is starting to produce a lot more oil and gas.
11:50And remember, Venezuela has one of the largest deposits, if not the largest deposit, they
11:55think of oil and gas in the Western Hemisphere.
11:58So bringing it back online is, in many ways, a huge catalyst to affordable oil
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14:11We play Benjamin Netanyahu, sharing his opinion that nobody could bully Donald Trump into anything
14:18if he didn't want to do it.
14:21And I do think that is true.
14:23But one of these major issues that is out there is the problem that people
14:30have with the decisions Trump has been making is he's been arguing for them since
14:34the 1980s. And I think these should be more viral than they have been.
14:39But we played this a little bit earlier this week, but I wanted to play
14:42them again. First of all, Trump in October of 1980 says the U .S.
14:49should have invaded Iran to get the hostages out.
14:52Again, October 6th, 1980. What is that?
14:56Forty six years ago, almost.
14:59This is what Trump was saying.
15:02Listen. It should really be a country that gets the respect of other countries.
15:07Is respect the most important thing in your opinion?
15:10Well, respect can lead to other things.
15:12When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to
15:15do a little bit as you do.
15:18And you can create the right attitudes.
15:20The Iranian situation is a case in point.
15:23That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous.
15:30That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our
15:35hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror.
15:39And I don't think they'd do it with other countries.
15:43I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries.
15:45Obviously, you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, etc., and brought
15:49our boys out. I absolutely feel that, yes.
15:52I don't think there's any question, and there's no question in my mind.
15:55I think right now we'd be an oil -rich nation.
15:58And I believe that we should have done it.
16:00And I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it.
16:03And I don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance.
16:06I don't think anybody would have been angry with us.
16:09And we had every right to do it at the time.
16:11I think we've lost the opportunity.
16:13Okay, that is 1980, Trump, 46 years ago.
16:18Okay, here is Trump. And Barbara Walters, this is 2020, back in 1987, saying, I
16:27think we should go in and grab Iran's oil installations.
16:31Listen. As far as Trump is concerned, our allies are only part of the problem.
16:36The real culprit is Iran.
16:38Why couldn't we go in and take over some of their oil, which is along
16:42the sea? How would you do that?
16:43Would you send in the Marines?
16:45Would you take a chance in a war?
16:46Let them have Iran. You take their oil.
16:49That's what I think. How?
16:50How? I mean, do we want a war?
16:51What do we mean you take their oil?
16:53You go in. How do we go in?
16:55You're going to have a war by being weak.
16:57Okay, how do we go in?
16:58What do we do? Excuse me.
16:59You're going to have a war.
17:01And it's going to start in the Middle East.
17:03What if the Soviet Union said, you do this to Iran, we're going to come
17:06in? I don't believe they'd do it.
17:07The next time Iran attacks this country, go in and grab one of their big
17:12oil installations. And I mean grab it and keep it.
17:15And get back your losses.
17:16Because this country has lost plenty because of Iran.
17:19Okay, so President Trump has been saying for 40 plus years exactly what we should
17:28do in Iran. And now he's doing it.
17:30And this idea that somehow other people have convinced him to do something that he's
17:37been arguing for for over 40 years is one of the most ludicrous and outlandish
17:42that I have heard in a very long time.
17:44And it seems to me that Trump is actually doing something rare.
17:49He continues to be a politician who tells you exactly what he's going to do.
17:54And then he does it.
17:55I'm not sure we've ever seen a more transactional president who has said, if you
18:01elect me, I'm going to do these things and then delivered on them.
18:04I love those clips. Good job by producer Greg.
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19:00Several different news stories that are out there continuing to update on Iran.
19:05There is a report that Vladimir Putin has offered to stop providing intelligence to Iran
19:11if United States will do the same with Ukraine.
19:15There have been reports out there that Russia has been providing Iran with information about
19:20United States troop locations, which is a, I think, direct response to the fact that
19:26we've been doing that for multiple years for the Ukrainians as it pertains to the
19:32Russians. Now, I don't think Iran really has the ability to take advantage of the
19:36intelligence that is provided from Russia.
19:40And by and large, Russia and China have both stayed very quiet as it pertains
19:44to everything going on in Iran.
19:46But just FYI, there are a couple of cuts out there that I do think
19:51are significant about good and evil.
19:53And one of the big challenges, I think, that exists in America today is when
19:58you have created, in the mind of many people out there, the idea that the
20:02United States is evil, too.
20:05And that's really the entire basis of the 1619 project and many different aspects of
20:10the way the media covers the United States today.
20:13I think that moral clarity matters.
20:16And Benjamin Netanyahu provided that moral clarity.
20:19He said good and evil still exists.
20:21And I want to share an example of something that is relatively small in the
20:26larger context of the war going on right now in a moment.
20:30But first, good versus evil.
20:32And here is Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday talking about it and how if good people do
20:37nothing, evil will, in fact, triumph.
20:40History proves that, unfortunately and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Jinnis Khan.
20:49Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good.
20:56Aggression will overcome moderation. So you have no choice.
21:01If you look at the world as it is today, you have to be blind
21:05not to see that the democracies led by the United States have to reassert their
21:11will to defend themselves and to oppose their enemies in time while there's still time
21:17before the jarring gong of danger wakes them up and wakes them up too late.
21:24I think that's incredibly well said.
21:26And here are a couple of other examples of that that I think are significant.
21:32We've talked about the Iranian women's soccer team in Australia refusing to sing along with
21:40the Iranian national anthem. And the fact that the families now of those women have
21:46been have been. arrested have been attacked and many of the women are abandoning their
21:51claims for asylum in australia i believe we're down to two and they're going back
21:56home to face incredible danger potentially sexual assault potentially imprisonment potentially even death and some
22:04people out there say oh i don't know what you're talking about with death there's
22:07no they're not going to do that clay like there's this cadre of people out
22:10there that wants to defend iran and say oh you're just falling victim to propaganda
22:16um this is from martha mccallum uh saying that she is going to be speaking
22:20with a former iranian national wrestling champion uh this individual who just shared that iran
22:27hung hanged some of you out there have been saying i've been using the wrong
22:31past participle here hanged uh a man named salah muhammadi he's 19 years old this
22:38is the front of the new york post today for those of you who uh
22:41maybe buy that newspaper listening to us wor or are active on social media they
22:46share the front pages of their newspaper 19 year old wrestling champion uh he was
22:52uh hanged today for the crime of protesting in january and demanding basic human rights
23:01for the people of iran they hold hostage i think we almost played a cut
23:09there but i want you to think about that for a moment here 19 year
23:14old young guy is so in support of human rights that he decides to go
23:20protest in his country for basic human rights and he has been arrested and to
23:27make a uh a symbol of him to try to send a message to try
23:32to terrify the people of iran from standing up against their government they hanged him
23:36yesterday in public 19 years old iranian wrestling champion the women on the iranian soccer
23:46team being forced to return to the country because of what's being done to their
23:50families some of them may face a similar fate and i believe we have an
23:55audio cut of a former women's iranian soccer player being interviewed by martha mccallum i
24:02believe this was yesterday guys can we play that cut now i think it started
24:05to play just a second ago they hold hostage their families the regime this is
24:10the dna the the dna of the regime so this is the their tactic to
24:16uh like threaten your family and uh in that moment because i was that in
24:22that situation and it's really hard this is a about your future or about your
24:28family this is a big like guilt on your shoulder at the same time you
24:33are thinking about your future you are so happy because you don't have to wear
24:38that hijab you feel freedom but at the same time you have to think about
24:43your family because they're gonna lose everything they're gonna torture they're gonna face even prison
24:49men or rape so this is good and this is evil and again i said
24:55one of the big challenges that we face is how do you try to create
25:00an iran that is better for the vast majority of the 90 million people that
25:04live there and is there going to be any sort of uprising that could return
25:10a form of moderate leadership to iran that's the challenge because so far in order
25:18to try to implement something like that it requires a lot of troops on the
25:21ground and frankly a lot of you who served in iraq and a lot of
25:26you who served in afghanistan know that even with troops on the ground trying to
25:31create a government like that largely failed it cost us trillions of dollars and uh
25:36a massive amount of lives and injuries and all of the different insane consequences that
25:43came from that one question that that i have and i and i don't know
25:47the answer to this but as someone who has studied military history i do wonder
25:52whether the modern era of drones has changed the calculus in terms of an ability
25:59to foment a revolution without requiring troops on the ground what do i mean by
26:05that right now we have tactical air superiority all over iran i shared the story
26:11from the wall street journal earlier this week of a top iranian official who thought
26:14he was safe sleeping in a tent in a park in tehran they tracked him
26:18down and they killed him there i think there is such a wealth of intelligence
26:24data out there right now that if you are in a position of prominence right
26:29now in iran you can be killed remotely with a drone or a missile strike
26:33i don't know that we've ever had the technology to consistently be killing the next
26:39man up so to speak who is rising to the level of leadership in iran
26:44and i do wonder as we now probably certainly have killed hundreds of top leadership
26:51in iran how far down the flow chart do you go until you start to
26:56find some people looking around saying hey i don't want to be the next target
27:00i don't want to ascend to this next leadership rung because i'm going to die
27:06the minute that i do and at what point does cold political calculus and rationality
27:11start to govern the decisions that the leaders of iran are making are we getting
27:17closer to that are there people that we know that have been working with masada
27:22israeli intelligence might have been working with united states intelligence as well who are far
27:27enough down in the flow charts that we know that at some point if they
27:31get elevated to power we have reached someone that we can work with because they
27:37understand and have been in some way concerted allies with the u .s or israel
27:42in the past there was a joke going around in israel that the biggest issue
27:47that's going on right now in iran is that the only leaders left are all
27:53working for masad the israeli intelligence agency but they don't know about each other which
27:59is kind of a dark humor idea right that you've got three or four top
28:03leaders in iran but they're all cloistered off from each other and they don't know
28:08that they've all been sharing intel with israel and so we're trying to figure out
28:13how to reconcile that that's dark humor but i do think it gets at the
28:18larger question which is a significant one of at what point do we feel like
28:23we've got a leader that we can deal with here's the other thing whoever emerges
28:28as a leader in iran knows that at any moment they could be killed because
28:33israel is going to know everything about them and everything about their movements so at
28:38some point and this is me being a little bit more optimistic maybe than buck
28:42is i think we're going to find someone like adelsi rodriguez who is working well
28:47as the leader of venezuela right now that will be a form of partner here's
28:52the other thing and this is why i'm somewhat optimistic and a lot of people
28:56are not talking about this look at the comments that are coming out of qatar
28:59look at the comments coming out look at the comments coming out from other middle
29:04eastern countries none of them are rising up yet in favor of iran in any
29:11respect in fact everything they're doing is condemning the overall iranian government i said before
29:17yes russia may be providing some intel but to who and how valuable is it
29:21we don't know about locations of american troops china has done nothing and president trump
29:27is raising as a pretty significant uh issue hey everybody should be trying to help
29:34us right now uh this is a post that donald trump made just in the
29:37last few hours without the usa nato's a paper tiger they didn't want to join
29:42the fight to stop a nuclear power to iran now that the fight is militarily
29:46won with very little danger for them they complain about the high oil prices they're
29:50forced to pay but don't want to help open the strait of hormuz a simple
29:55military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices so easy for
30:00them to do with so little risk cowards and we will remember president donald j
30:06trump we will remember indeed uh and a lot of you will remember that i
30:10went over to israel back in december of 2024 and i toured the country during
30:15a relatively momentary ceasefire and i was able to see the work that the international
30:20fellowship of christians and jews does uh this is a group that is not that
30:25is not political in nature they are building bomb shelters they are providing security to
30:31vehicles for people who are first responders uh they are creating hospitals that are underground
30:37so that people can be taken care of in a time of danger and they
30:41are helping to feed and clothe people who are poor and struggling in israel in
30:47a time of war uh we talked about good versus evil and the significance of
30:53recognizing good versus evil the international fellowship of christians and jews is fundamentally on the
30:59side of good and they are fighting against those who would foment evil if you
31:03want to join me and you want to join buck in donating you can donate
31:07by calling 888 -488 -IFCJ again bomb shelters hospitals that are underground uh things that
31:15help uh israelis in the holy land you can also go online at ifcj .org
31:21we know the organization we trust the work the website again ifcj .org geek out
31:29with the guys on the sunday hang with clay and buck podcast a new episode
31:34every sunday find it on the iheart app or wherever you get your podcasts welcome
31:39back in clay travis buck sexton show all right it's a lot of serious talk
31:44we'll get to some of your calls katie miller's going to join us at the
31:46top of the next but yesterday uh i was quizzing buck on where high point
31:52university was located um and he had no idea i knew it was in north
31:57carolina shortly thereafter i'm sorry wisconsin badger fans high point pulled off the biggest upset
32:05of the first day of the ncaa tournament and if you want to smile a
32:09bit these were the student uh broadcasters on the campus radio station as high point
32:16won the game this is what joy sounds like if you're a college kid and
32:21your team is about to win a big game listen to anderson driving step back
32:27in circles now johnson catch and shoot that's what they need time out time out
32:40portland you don't believe it It takes it inbounds, 9 seconds, Boyd wants it inside,
33:015, 6 seconds, they launch down court.
33:31That is, I'm sorry, Wisconsin fans, but that was High Point University, one -point upset
33:38win yesterday over Wisconsin, and there is much glee, at least, at High Point University.
33:47We've got a bunch of people who want to weigh in, a variety of different
33:50topics out there. Let's take some of your calls.
33:54Let's see. Daniel in, well, is this the caller, producer, Greg, that we had before,
34:03or is this somewhat different?
34:06Okay, we'll get to Daniel in a sec.
34:08Rick in South Carolina first.
34:10Rick, what you got for us?
34:13Rick, you got, yeah, you got us?
34:19Hmm, good work by Rick there.
34:21All right, let's go back up to the top.
34:23Let's go to Greg in Iowa.
34:25Greg, what you got for us?
34:27You were talking earlier about Iran is still selling oil?
34:34Yes. Hello? Yes. Why are they being allowed to sell oil?
34:40Why are we not stopping that?
34:42Well, because I think the oil and gas idea so far has been that if
34:46we curtail Iran's production of oil and gas, the overall price of oil and gas
34:51will increase substantially. It already has, sir.
34:56Yes, but it will go up even more.
34:58So do you want oil and gas prices to go up even more?
35:02No, but that's, I was talking to your producer.
35:06So do you want to seize Carg Island?
35:08What would you do if you were commander in chief right now?
35:11You're angry that the oil and gas is still going.
35:13So should we seize it?
35:14What should we do? Personally, I wouldn't have started the war.
35:18Okay, so what is your take?
35:20So you wouldn't have started the war, but you're angry that the oil and gas
35:24from Iran is still going.
35:26So what is your take?
35:29I'm a Trump voter, and I listen to your show all the time.
35:32Okay, but I'm asking you for what your take is.
35:35So you don't want the oil and gas to go.
35:37You wouldn't have started the war in Iran.
35:39What would you do now?
35:40What is your perspective? What would you do if you were commander in chief today,
35:44sitting at the resolute desk?
35:46That is the problem. See, I don't know, and I don't think Trump knows.
35:52How do you get out of this war now?
35:56You can't put boots on the ground.
35:59You can't. I mean, I just think it's an...
36:01Thank you for the call.
36:03Look, have a take. That's all I would ask.
36:06Have a take if you call in.
36:08I don't even know what that guy wanted.
36:10Look, we can end the war at any point.
36:12Now, it may not be a resolution that we like.
36:14Buck's mow the grass analogy may well be required as well, where you have to
36:19go in every now and then and just wipe out Iran's ability to have ballistic
36:23missiles to be working on nuclear weapons.
36:25We can stop bombing at any point.
36:28It is an easy decision to shut down this attack on Iran.
36:33It's not difficult at all.
36:34What is difficult is, are we getting the result that we want, or are we
36:39just setting ourselves up to have to constantly be going back in?
36:42Katie Miller next. Thanks for hanging out with us.
36:45Friday edition of Clay and Buck.