Hour 2 - Cuba Takeover?
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1:06Welcome in hour number two.
1:09Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Friday
1:15edition of the program. Continue to take your calls and your talkbacks.
1:18President Trump just stopped to talk with the media on his way to the helicopter.
1:25He is headed to the state of Texas to have a rally in advance of
1:31the big primary happening in Texas on Tuesday.
1:36Yesterday, we took a lot of calls from Texans who are voting for Jasmine Crockett
1:41in the Democrat primary. Today, I will announce that we have, unlike Stephen Colbert, actually
1:49offered Jasmine Crockett an opportunity to come on this program and explain to all of
1:55you why she would be the best choice for Texas voters.
1:59We will see whether or not she is willing to come on, but unlike the
2:04awful racist Stephen Colbert who tried to rig the Texas Democrat primary in favor of
2:10the white man, Buck and I are offering a proud black woman an opportunity to
2:15convince all of you why she is the perfect voice for Texas.
2:18We will see if she accepts our offer.
2:22We have been talking about the fact that we have a deposition going on right
2:31now of former President Clinton relating to Epstein.
2:36President Trump just weighed in on that.
2:38And again, there are a lot of news stories out there.
2:43And and and we will dive into his comments shortly as we're going to be
2:49grabbing those. But again, big primary going on in Texas.
2:55Let's see. This is Hurley in Lincoln, Nebraska.
3:00Many different talkbacks on KFAB in Omaha.
3:04Let's listen to cut Jay.
3:07Before you guys waste another day talking about fluff that none of us can do
3:11anything about. Get your listeners to call their senators and to call John Thune and
3:18to tell them to get the Save Act passed now.
3:21Do something that can actually save America for a change.
3:25For a change. I like that idea, except it still isn't going to happen because
3:30Thune's not going to do it because they're not going to get rid of the
3:33filibuster. They're not going to pass the Save Act.
3:35I think the Save Act should be passed.
3:38I do, too. Do you think you think there's any realistic prospect for it to
3:41be passed? Absolutely not. So they're not going to do away with it.
3:44Look right now in the Senate, unless you can get 60 votes, nothing happens.
3:50And so unless you can get 60 votes, unless they do away with the filibuster,
3:55which they're not willing to do.
3:56So that's what we'd have to.
3:57We'd have to call Thune and say, Thune, get rid of the filibuster for the
4:01Save Act, because otherwise they'll just say with the filibuster, it's not happening.
4:05And so we go back to square one.
4:09Not to put a damper on things.
4:11I appreciate the gentleman's spirit, but you're saying do something we can actually do something
4:15about. That doesn't really count for the Save Act, but we'll try.
4:18We can reach out to Thune and let him know that we think he should
4:21actually pass this bill. He will not come on the show, ladies and gentlemen.
4:25Just so you know, we have invited him multiple times.
4:27He will not come on this program.
4:28He declined to come on, which is kind of a sign.
4:31Straight up, no, not coming on.
4:32What's that all about? Interesting.
4:35We're so nice. I think he's scared of Clay.
4:37I think he's scared to get pensed by Clay.
4:40It could be true. Let's see here.
4:44Is it Taller Talar from San Diego?
4:48Furious. Stop covering up for pedophiles.
4:51All right. We're pedophiles. Here's Cut K.
4:54This is the last day I can ever listen to your show, because I can't
4:58believe you're part of this whole cover -up.
5:01Oh, nothing happened. Really? Go look at the Stan files.
5:06Stop talking dumb and covering up for these pedophiles, unless you're one, too.
5:13What does that even mean?
5:15Well, first of all... Why don't we say nothing happened?
5:17Did she not... Whatever the lady's name is, it's a lady, right?
5:22Yes, I think so. I mean, it sounded like a lady.
5:24I mean, you know. You never know these days.
5:27I said Jeffrey Epstein is dead because he was facing the rest of his life
5:33in prison for being a pedophile and for having child sexual abuse material, huge amounts
5:39of it. I mean, he was going to prison for the rest of his life,
5:41no ifs, ands, or buts.
5:43He's a bad guy. We all get that.
5:45He's a bad guy. She's saying covering up for pedophiles.
5:47Who? Yes. Who are we covering up for?
5:52Who? I just want to know the name.
5:54And by the way, anyone says, oh, but why don't you look into?
5:57Why won't the victims, the victims, in some cases, you sit here, you go, okay,
6:02well, victim of what exactly?
6:03Are you of age or are you underage?
6:05There's a big distinction that is made in law and should be made in the
6:09discourse about this as well.
6:13Who violated any of the victims that we don't know about?
6:16They should tell us. If they're not willing to tell us, what are we supposed
6:19to make of that, Clay?
6:21No, look, I do not know and have never met anyone that would cover up
6:29any sort of crime against a child.
6:33I haven't. I haven't ever met anyone that would do that in my own life.
6:38I don't know Pam Bondi personally.
6:41We do know President Trump pretty well.
6:44J .D. Vance pretty well.
6:45Marco Rubio pretty well. A lot of people in the Pete Hegseth, a lot of
6:48people in that administration, they would crawl over broken glass to prosecute people who are
6:57in any way engaging in crimes against children.
7:02Dan Bongino, Cash Patel, whoever you want to name there.
7:06So, if you're alleging that there are child sex crimes that have occurred and people
7:14are being protected, then the people who are doing the protecting are also guilty of
7:20crimes. That's not true. That's not happening.
7:25And I understand people get fired up because there has been, frankly, a lot of
7:31people who've made a lot of money arguing that there's a huge child sex ring
7:37and Jeffrey Epstein was leading it and all these famous people are involved, even with
7:43all these emails coming out.
7:46What has been shown, clearly, is that Epstein used attractive women to engage in opportunities
7:55to build a network for business for his own benefit.
7:59I don't think there's any doubt about that, but what has not been shown is
8:04that there was some sort of illicit trade going on in underage women.
8:08Most of the women mentioned in any relation to Epstein were of age, and if
8:15they have evidence of crimes, they have the ability to go forward and make their
8:21allegations publicly. They actually, they have the obligation, they have the obligation, the obligation to
8:26do so. They have been paid, again, hundreds of millions of dollars in, uh, in
8:32settlement money from the Epstein, uh, and from banks.
8:37People say, again, I want to reiterate, NDAs do not, uh, are not enforceable here.
8:43You're not going to see somebody lose whatever money they already got.
8:46Uh, they have an obligation to speak and tell us who committed crimes against them
8:51or who they saw committing crimes, even if they weren't the, uh, the actual victim,
8:56they won't do it. And so again, what is actually going on here?
9:01Democrats have recognized that they can attack president Trump over this, and they are going
9:08to attack president Trump all the way through the rest of the year because they
9:14believe they get political benefit from it.
9:16But I'm asking you to just think about it.
9:19Just rationally think about this for a minute.
9:22Trump's DOJ is who charged Jeffrey Epstein in 2019.
9:27Joe Biden's department of justice had all of this, all of this information, and they
9:33didn't do anything for four years, and now Democrats are trying to attack Trump over
9:38the Epstein files. Use your brains.
9:41It doesn't add up. And also, I would just say the throwing around things like
9:46pedo protector, uh, or, or even just calling someone a pedo without any basis whatsoever.
9:52It's just the most, uh, pathetic and gross attack on a person you can possibly
10:00make. It's the new race, like calling someone a rape, rapist, I mean, or a
10:04racist or racist. Yeah. Those words have lost their, uh, their pop because they've been
10:10so overused. Uh, calling random people pedophiles is not a way to actually catch pedophiles.
10:19Just like calling people racist is not a way to actually address racism.
10:23Um, and so again, I think you have to work through this.
10:28President Trump is being attacked by Democrats who are not operating in good faith.
10:34Here's what I think too, Buck.
10:35I think Bill and Hillary Clinton being deposed, I think is setting the table.
10:41I'm just going to tell you where I think this is going to go.
10:45Republicans, I mean, sorry, Democrats are going to start arguing.
10:48We need to have President Trump and Melania under oath.
10:52President Trump and Melania under oath.
10:52talking about the Epstein files, too.
10:54So for those of you out there who are like, oh, they're going to get
10:57Hillary, oh, they're going to get Bill Clinton, this is going to end it, actually
11:01flip it. If Democrats take back control of the House, they're going to demand that
11:05President Trump and Melania testify under oath about Epstein, just like Bill and Hillary Clinton.
11:12They're already doing this. This is cut four.
11:15This is Ro Khanna out of California in Congress.
11:18Play four. A new precedent has been set in America today.
11:25Before this, we had the Trump rule.
11:27Trump defied, as all of you know, a congressional subpoena with the January 6th committee.
11:32He said presidents don't have to testify.
11:35Now we have the Clinton rule, which is the presidents and their families have to
11:39testify when Congress issues a subpoena.
11:42And that means that Donald Trump needs to come before our committee and explain what
11:47he knew about Epstein and explain why we have not had a full release of
11:52the documents. There you go.
11:55This is where it's headed.
11:56So expect that as we get closer to the midterms now, they are going to
12:02argue, we've got to have President Trump under oath.
12:05Why won't he go under oath?
12:07We've got to have Melania under oath.
12:08Why will she not go under oath?
12:10Again, I think they are playing, Democrats are, chess.
12:15It has nothing to do, nothing whatsoever to do with the Epstein case at all.
12:20It is just Epstein and his awfulness being used as a lever to attack President
12:28Trump. And a lot of Trump supporters are playing into this.
12:32And I just think you need to understand what's actually going on.
12:36Do you really believe? Do you really believe that Democrats who didn't say a word
12:40for four years when Biden was in office are really desperately concerned about justice relating
12:47to Epstein in any way?
12:48Of course not. They are just, they see it as an opportunity to attack President
12:54Trump and try to keep him from being able to have success going forward.
12:59President Trump just said. We can talk.
13:02Trump just spoke. We'll get to some of those sound bites here in a second.
13:08Let's bring this up right into the news cycle, and then we can leave the
13:11kind of Epstein conspiracy theorizing.
13:14It's just, honestly, it's just exhausting at this point.
13:17I don't know what else to say about it.
13:19You know, we sit here, there's a big portion of MAGA that wants to talk
13:25about this, and only this, and if you don't talk about this, you're covering up
13:29for pedophiles, and then there are a lot of other people who are like, you
13:32know, I'm trying to live my life here, and there's other things going on, and
13:34none of this is going to amount to anything anyway, of any meaning, in terms
13:39of this document release. So this is what we're stuck in the middle of, and
13:43too many Republican politicians, Clay, are scared of their own voters to just tell them,
13:49this is the deal, guys.
13:50This is where it is now.
13:51Okay? They just don't want to deal with the heat.
13:54Yeah, they're afraid of the heat.
13:55Is this Trump talking about Bill Clinton right now?
13:59Is that cut 26, or is this a different cut?
14:01Here is Trump just now.
14:04There's a little bit of audio issue in the background, because he's about to get
14:09on a helicopter. But here is President Trump talking about Bill Clinton under the deposition,
14:16cut 26. I don't like seeing him deposed, but they certainly went after me a
14:23lot more than that. I don't like seeing him.
14:27So Trump's saying, if you couldn't hear that, I don't like seeing him deposed, but
14:32they certainly went after me a lot more than that.
14:35Why do you think President Trump doesn't, President Trump's smart enough to see this.
14:39He knows that Bill and Hillary Clinton, that Democrats, the reason why they voted to
14:44allow Bill and Hillary Clinton to be deposed is they don't have anything to lose.
14:48What do they care about Bill and Hillary Clinton now?
14:49They want to set the precedent that now President Trump and Melania have to go
14:54under oath and be deposed.
14:56How do you think MSNBC is going to cover that?
14:58How do you think it's going to be covered by CNN?
15:02Again, I'm just telling you exactly where this is going.
15:05It's not going to a place where people are getting prosecuted.
15:09It's going to be political 100 % from here on out.
15:12I also would need an explanation, Clay, and I really do want to move past
15:16this, so I promise you.
15:17For any of you who are as exasperated and frustrated as I am, remember, Republicans
15:21are making us talk about this insofar as they've got a former First Lady and
15:26Secretary of State and almost President.
15:28Sorry, Hillary. Almost President. And they've got Bill Clinton as well now, two -term President.
15:33President, this is what Congress is spending time doing, so that's why we're on it.
15:37But I just want to know the people that are so frustrated with this.
15:40So somehow there are those out there who think that Donald Trump is a great
15:45American hero, a patriot, a guy who took a bullet for his country, a guy
15:49who's trying to save the country, a man who has been able to defeat tremendous
15:54evil of the deep state, go down the list, all this stuff, but he's covering
15:59up for pedos. That's a moronic position to hold, okay?
16:04You cannot believe those two things simultaneously.
16:07You cannot believe that somebody is awesome, but does this one horrible thing that would
16:11undermine everything else about them.
16:13That's just not a thing.
16:14So keep that in mind as we're going through this stuff and people are saying,
16:17well, Trump is still what?
16:19But... Thank you. Trump is Trump is covering up for for you think Trump would
16:23cover up for Bill Gates or Bill Clinton or you think Trump would risk his
16:28presidency or, you know, I mean, come on.
16:31It's crazy, but that is where we are.
16:32And I do think you're right.
16:34Unfortunately, Buck, that a lot of Republicans in office and a lot of media are
16:40afraid to tell people this because they're like, it's going to blow back on me.
16:44This is the truth. We tell you the truth here.
16:45Sometimes it makes people uncomfortable.
16:47Yeah. And if you're mad, be mad at Clay.
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18:54Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
18:57We have a great email here from Joe.
19:00He writes, Buck is one of our VIPs.
19:02I feel your frustration with the whole debacle regarding the Epstein files.
19:06While true, he was working schemes within elite circles and a dirt bag.
19:10Any smoking guns, if they ever existed, were long since removed.
19:13And the resulting mess is just theatrics at this point.
19:17Conspiracies sell more than the mundane.
19:20Innuendo is easier to push than facts.
19:22Love the book, by the way.
19:24Manufacturing Delusion, which you should all get copies of.
19:26Keep up the good work, Joe, a native Miami.
19:28And Joe, I knew you were smart before you even told me that you liked
19:32the book. Look, yes, yes, what you are saying is the reality, okay?
19:37There's no smoking gun in the files.
19:40It might have been removed from the files, sure.
19:43That we can all talk about.
19:44But I can't do anything about that.
19:45Neither can Clay, neither can Trump.
19:47There's no smoking gun, guys.
19:49There's nothing else that they're going to do.
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19:53President Trump said we might just take over Cuba.
19:57Nicely, though. Like, very nice.
19:59Maybe Cuba will be like, Como esta?
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21:00Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
21:02Okay. Was it yesterday, Buck, that I said we should just go take Cuba out
21:06once and for all? Make it a default American territory in communism, in the island
21:13of Cuba, on the island of Cuba, and bring sanity just off the southern shore
21:19of the United States. Well, President Trump, in answering questions on his way to the
21:27helicopter to head to the airplane to fly down to Texas, he weighed in on
21:33the decision surrounding Cuba, and he said maybe we'll just have a friendly takeover of
21:40Cuba. Cut 27. The Cuban government is talking with us.
21:46They're in a big deal.
21:47of trouble as you know they have no money they have no anything right now
21:52but they're talking with us and maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of cuba we
22:00could very well end up having a friendly takeover of cuba after many many years
22:06we've had a lot of years of dealing with cuba i've been hearing about cuba
22:10since i'm a little boy but they're in big trouble and we could very well
22:16something good i think very positive for the people that were expelled or worse from
22:22cuba that live here you know we have people living here that want to go
22:26back to cuba and they're very happy with what's going on so there is buck
22:31and you're in south florida so you uh understand the cuban expat community better than
22:37than most and i know we have a huge listenership in the cuban community and
22:41by the way this could be marco rubio basically fulfilling the uh the dream of
22:47pretty much every young kid raised in cuba whose parents and grandparents had a uh
22:53had a life in cuba before there is a supreme court case the timing on
22:57this is very interesting there is a supreme court case pending right now that has
23:03to do with u .s assets that were seized by the cuban government when the
23:08communist revolution began reports are i know a lot of people probably have not spent
23:13much time on this that in 1959 90 percent of cuban business assets were owned
23:21by u .s related entities so uh there is an argument and we'll see what
23:28the supreme court says about this that the biggest victims from a uh from a
23:34business perspective were all u .s based corporations and that we should allow u .s
23:39corporations to go back into cuba get their assets back and try to allow capitalism
23:45to exist in in in the country and uh i would be in favor of
23:49that it would end the danger of china or russia or north korea or whoever
23:54iran who whatever foreign interest uh bear ill uh design to the united states from
24:01them being able to have close proximity to the united states it would tie in
24:05with the so -called donro doctrine which is really just a modification an extension of
24:09the monroe doctrine that the united states controls this hemisphere um i just think it's
24:15a no -brainer that what's your take on this there's about eight and a half
24:18million people who live in cuba millions what do you think what's the cuban population
24:22in the united states cuban born or cuban descent five six million probably at least
24:27i would think clay you look at these beaches unspoiled beautiful the real estate i'm
24:35telling you could be amazing we get trump havana big gold beautiful building right outside
24:41havana on the beach going to be a whole new world for cuba they're gonna
24:46love it some people are saying they're gonna love it um yeah of course this
24:50would be great and and uh i think you know the arguments against this are
24:56rather the arguments against a future of of liberty and uh and you know decency
25:04and government for the cuban people are effectively pathetic i mean the left in this
25:09country always has a weird it's not unknowable or rather we understand why but always
25:17has this bizarre sympathy for far left regimes no matter how oppressive and no matter
25:23how failed because there's a lot of stuff that in the ethos at least of
25:28the cuban communist regime uh appeals to leftists in america that's just the truth uh
25:34so in fact some of the you know there have been uh really aggressive efforts
25:39by uh you know by the the cuban government even to try to run you
25:44know information operations and things in in this country too so look i i think
25:50that if we can do this if we can do this with pressure and smart
25:55maneuvering and not you know a marine expeditionary force landing on the beaches great and
26:03i think trump and rubio know that that's that's a bit of a of a
26:06red line uh and especially because we're going to be talking about whether we're going
26:10to go to war people by the way say go to war they're around it
26:13would probably be more airstrikes and we were doing airstrikes we had a no fly
26:17zone in iraq for years and years in between wars there where we would you
26:23know blow a plane out of the sky or do things here and there so
26:26the difference between strikes and war is meaningful despite people who are like oh my
26:31god we're gonna go to war it's not that simple uh in iran but with
26:35cuba uh we got to see what happens with venezuela too we haven't heard a
26:40lot about where that stands now from the uh trump administration these things do take
26:45some time but yeah of course cuba it should be a great country it should
26:51be a real asset in the caribbean to the whole hemisphere instead of this uh
26:57totalitarian dictatorship and economic backwater and basket case which is what it is and they've
27:04the like i like to say they've run the experiment and it has failed the
27:07people that are in charge in cuba are incompetent corrupt thugs and there's no reason
27:14for being in charge other than they have the guns so let's see if that
27:17can change i also think this is the it's been under discussed that maybe the
27:25biggest impact immediately of venezuela was cutting off the supply of oil to cuba uh
27:31and creating an opportunity to have quote unquote a friendly takeover in cuba um more
27:37so than in venezuela let me also say buck i think this is important because
27:41you're now seeing the same arguments that were made before we struck iran uh and
27:47those arguments are oh my goodness we'll go to your point we're going to be
27:51going to war the danger is going to be uh huge paramount all of these
27:55different things why didn't that happen when we took out iran in the so -called
28:02was it 12 day war before iran iran has no ability to actually push back
28:08in any kind of significant way and if they had they would have done that
28:13uh back in the the time of the first attack june of last year um
28:20the challenge with iran as i see it is who takes over because i do
28:27think if we really let iran have it the ayatollah's ability to maintain control in
28:34iran is significantly curtailed and we're going to talk by the way with deborah lee
28:38uh about iran at the top of the next hour and see what she thinks
28:42on the timings and everything else associated with it and you were in iraq buck
28:47and the challenge i think that is there is when you wipe out a whole
28:52cadre of leadership you end up with a void and in that void it's a
28:58real time of uncertainty as to who is going to rise to power and so
29:03i'm less concerned with the strike on iran and more concerned with the implications the
29:09ripple effect that spreads out from the attack on iran and so what happens if
29:15we end up in this sort of power vacuum style situation all very true all
29:21very true so we'll see what the situation is as it plays out in cuba
29:26and we haven't really gotten much more on that boat that got shot up i
29:30don't super weird story yes 24 foot boat with it somehow got a bunch of
29:35americans on it got a well you know the cuban government is saying that it
29:39was meant to be a a they're calling it a terrorist incursion so essentially their
29:44claim is that that was some sort of uh covert operation insertion you know my
29:53response to that would be in general do we feel like the cuban government is
29:59in any way competent enough to stop us from a covert uh drop into cuba
30:06if we wanted people and would they come on a 24 foot boat from the
30:10florida keys in order what are 10 people going to do on a speedboat i
30:14mean that's or whatever it is 15 something like that how is that going to
30:17work no it doesn't none of this adds up so we'll see what ends up
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33:03Welcome back in to Clay and Buck.
33:05Thanks for calling in. Thanks for writing in.
33:07And we have a lot to get to here, my friend.
33:12Let's start. Let's take the live calls because we can get the talkbacks later.
33:16Diane in Rhode Island wants to chat.
33:20Good afternoon, Clay and Buck.
33:22Long time listener, first time caller talking about Cuba and having a friendly takeover.
33:28If there are 8 million Cubans, wouldn't we be concerned they vote Democrat and all
33:33of a sudden completely take over the Senate and the Congress and we wouldn't have
33:37any more conservative leaders? Well, we're not trying to make Cuba a state.
33:41Yeah, that would require Cuba to be a state.
33:44I think it would be more likely to be a territory, something akin to Puerto
33:49Rico, U .S. Virgin Islands, others.
33:51I also don't know, Buck.
33:53You may have a better read than me.
33:54Certainly many of you out there would be.
33:56By the way, Cubans actually vote great down here, Seth.
33:58Just to be clear, everybody, Cubans are on our team.
34:02So what I'm saying is I don't know how Cubans that are still in Cuba
34:06would vote, but the Cubans that are in the United States are probably what, 75
34:10-25 voting? I wouldn't say it's that high, but I think it's pretty 60 -40.
34:14I mean, I'd have to look, but they're solidly Republican voters in South Florida, yes.
34:19So I don't know how that would translate to Diane's point, even if they were
34:23a state. I don't have a sense for what the politics of people left in
34:27Cuba. Let me tell you, to Cuban Americans, a commie is a real insult.
34:31They don't play with that stuff.
34:33They do not like the commies.
34:35Jim in upstate New York, what's going on, Jim?
34:40Good day, my friends. I'm glad to be able to talk to you because a
34:44couple days ago, you guys were talking about how Obamacare has destroyed our health care,
34:49right? Well, it's raised the cost extraordinarily, which is funny because it's supposed to be
34:55the Affordable Care Act. Well, the whole concept of it was to destroy the health
35:01care so that they could have single -payer government -run garbage.
35:06That's why, for me, to go to my doctor's office and get an echogram is
35:11going to cost me $500 because Medicare won't cover it because Obama got involved with
35:19something he shouldn't have fixed because it wasn't broken.
35:22Well, I think you're right about the long -term implications of it.
35:27So thank you. So I think we're all on the same page.
35:30We've been fed up. I mean, just about the broken health care system.
35:34I mean, there's about 50 different things we could walk through and talk about health
35:39care, including, I think most significantly, we spend way more than everybody else.
35:44And yet, our longevity, that is the lifespan of the average American, is nowhere near
35:50the best, right? So if health care is so valuable, then how come we're not
35:57getting better health care results?
35:59Jerry in Wisconsin. Jerry, what you got for us?
36:03Fellas, I want to say on this Cuba point, when you look at the court
36:07decision that's related to that, this issue, all those assets, or the vast majority that
36:14exist in the United States held in the 1950s and companies did, they're long gone.
36:19The hotels, the nightclubs, the car dealers, the fruit plantations, that stuff was run into
36:26the ground a long time ago.
36:28So that court case becomes about, is Cuba, and there's parallels to Venezuela here too,
36:34is Cuba going to be in a position to financially compensate these companies, because these
36:40assets are, for the most part, gone.
36:42And so how exactly does a broke, bankrupt Cuba, with the level of their problems,
36:49compensate these countries? And I think that, you know, these efforts, whether you're talking about
36:55Cuba, or Venezuela, or even Gaza, this is a massive privatization effort by the administration.
37:04And I really think they really need to be clear to the public about their
37:10intentions, how they see the logistics of all this happening, and what the cost would
37:17be to the American people, because it's not going to be private companies that are
37:21going to be putting up all the capital to accomplish all this.
37:25Thanks a lot. Actually, thank you for the call.
37:26I actually think the American companies might well want back the real estate assets.
37:34Because yes, you're right, much of Cuba has crumbled into decrepitude.
37:38But tearing down old, broken down hotels is actually something, I mean, Buck, where you
37:44are in Miami, this is happening all the time.
37:46And those have been assets that were used much better and, you know, kept up
37:51to date much more. But you're going through all of South Florida right now, the
37:55land is so valuable that everything's being torn down.
37:58So I can't speak for the corporations based on what the Supreme Court ruling would
38:02be. But you're right, Cuba doesn't have a lot of money, I think they might
38:05want the asset back, they might want the physical real estate back.
38:10Associated with that i think we've got uh m m is now finally ready to
38:14go hit it i am totally sick of epstein um i feel bad for the
38:19victims but it's just it's gonna go nowhere it's a big nothing burger and i'm
38:24sick of people saying that if you aren't into it you're a pedophile that's just
38:28so ignorant and i just wish this would all go away it's nothing but political
38:34football uh totally agree with laurie from ohio i agree with laurie arlo up in
38:39minneapolis cut in also has this to say morning men yeah i think the epstein
38:45files are probably the greatest of all looking at the vibe right down the mega
38:50not sure how we pull this back together uh i don't think he's wrong i
38:56think there's a they they have recognized a vulnerability vulnerability they are not interested in
39:00the truth they're just trying to exploit uh a situation um based on seeing it
39:07as a way to divide republic that's the democrat perspective i think beyond a shadow
39:11of a doubt when we come back deborah lee uh she's going to talk with
39:15us about iran what's going to happen what should happen what should we be prepared
39:19for we will discuss that next more of your talkbacks and more of your calls
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