Hour 2 - Scary Future Warfare
4/8/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now.
0:08And something, Clay, I thought was really interesting.
0:10This New York Post report on, you see this?
0:15The CIA used a futuristic new tool called the Ghost Murmur to find and rescue
0:20the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, according to the New
0:25York Post here. Secret technology uses long -range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint
0:33of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the
0:40signature from background noise. Again, according to the New York Post here.
0:46So, I wasn't even good at high school geometry.
0:52So, this is not what I had nothing to do with any of this kind
0:57of stuff in the military -industrial complex in the agency.
1:00But just even reading that, and they're saying that Director Ratcliffe of the agency and
1:05President Trump alluded to it in the White House briefing on this.
1:09So, they're feeling pretty confident in their reporting.
1:11Clay, I mean, that's... Just reading that, it's like, wow.
1:15Yeah. I've never heard of it.
1:17Obviously, if it's never been used before, I've never heard of this before.
1:19I have no idea. So, here, I was optimistic in the first hour about Straight
1:25Up Hormuz, everything else. This is something I'm actually pessimistic about, if you want me
1:29to go negative on this.
1:31I spend a lot of time thinking about what the world is going to be
1:37like, and it may happen sooner than we even think, when individual bad actors have
1:43access to drones that can be weaponized and are able to just send drones to
1:53blow things up. In other words, like, a lot of this audience has guns to
1:58protect our homes, right? Have weaponry, fences, all these different things to try to make
2:04us safer inside of our homes.
2:07Some people even have armed security, that is, patrolling homes, all these different things.
2:12Have you sat around and thought about, as we look at what's happening with Ukraine,
2:18where basically Ukraine -Russia is a drone war, we'll take some calls on this, but
2:23one issue on the Strait of Hormuz is one weaponized drone, which can be deployed
2:29by one individual, can blow up an entire tanker ship.
2:33But at some point in time, bad guys are going to get access to this
2:37drone technology, and I fear they're just going to be able to bomb random people's
2:42houses. In other words, right now, you're concerned an armed robber might show up at
2:47your house with a gun, and you're trying to think about ways to defend yourself.
2:52What happens at 2 a .m.
2:53when somebody just loads up a drone with a bomb and just flies it at
2:58your house because they don't like you?
3:00This is one of the things that I worry about, because I think the technology
3:03is moving so rapidly, Buck, that it's inevitable that individual bad actors are going to
3:09get access to these weaponized drones and start to use them with impunity.
3:13That is scary to me.
3:15Yeah, the cartels have been doing this for some time.
3:17They've used drones, the Mexican drug cartels, they've used drones for not just surveillance, but
3:21even to drop grenades, drop explosives on targets, enemies, law enforcement, whomever.
3:28However, we are not far from a...
3:32Well, the technology already exists.
3:34It's just a question of how long before you start to see...
3:37Because these drones are also going to get to the point where they have autonomous...
3:41They have an autonomous flying and movement capability, so you could essentially set the target,
3:48and then it just goes and finds the person.
3:52You and I in the White House saw a drone, and we've talked about this
3:57because they declassified it, but saw a drone attack where there's a car full of
4:02four people, and the drone is now...
4:05The technology is so specific on the drone that they can fly in, kill one
4:09person in the car, and then the other three people you can see on the
4:13video just fleeing. That's how...
4:16They know what seat the guy's in.
4:18They're not taking out the car.
4:19They're taking out the guy in a particular seat inside of a drone.
4:23It's a variant of the Hellfire missile.
4:26It's called the Flying Ginsu, the AGM -114R9X, a non -explosive missile projectile that essentially
4:38has six sword -like blades.
4:42Swords, because they are big and long.
4:44Sword -like blades that come out, and, you know, it's messy.
4:51But, in a sense, it's less messy because no collateral damage, but you wouldn't want
4:55to get hit by one of these things.
4:57That is for sure. But yes, the technology that is being deployed here is very
5:02real. But anyway, that New York Post story I just thought was particularly interesting because
5:05there's... People ask me, I mean, now, I've been out of the covert world for
5:1215 years now. It's been 15 years I've been doing media this June.
5:15So they got all kinds of new whiz -bangs.
5:17I never heard of some of this.
5:18Obviously, this... No one, to my knowledge, who isn't currently active and working on this
5:22technology in the government would have had any idea.
5:24about this um because it's brand new but well it also comes on the maduro
5:29the maduro thing which they admitted to which was essentially a sonic weapon to disable
5:35all of people people ask me they're like oh man do you know about this
5:39i was like no this is crazy this is new stuff never heard about it
5:44before but technology on the battlefield guys it's going to advance so rapidly and it's
5:48going to change so much and uh we are you're already seeing some of this
5:54stuff in the early phase that is going to become ubiquitous and you know this
6:00is we're we're entering a whole new era of warfare that will be very different
6:06i i think we're at the i could put it this way clay i think
6:09we're about to enter an era of warfare with the biggest transformation in how battles
6:16are fought since the early days of gunpowder i think we're entering that's a bold
6:23prediction well because we're going to have uh we already do it something where you
6:29could argue we're already kind of there you're going to have on ground air and
6:33sea non -human combatants making real -time decisions not just on where they go but
6:41on who and what they target using artificial technology and satellite -based communication so that
6:47they can't be jammed or interfered with i mean this is you're talking about my
6:51friend we're talking about robot armies here we are we are on the edge of
6:55robot army stuff in a way that you know you say okay we don't have
6:59humanoid robots yet have you guys seen some of the stuff that is coming out
7:05from uh even you know elon's companies now he's not making terminator uh the t
7:11what is it the t800 was that the original the t1000 was the uh was
7:16the alloy metal thing right uh but the t800 i think was the original terminator
7:21he's not making that he's making nice little robots that are going to fold your
7:24laundry but if a robot can fold your laundry and it can you know make
7:30decisions it can also shoot a gun and basically i know we haven't talked about
7:36the ukraine situation in some time but effectively ukraine seems seems to have created enough
7:45drones and russia certainly has got them too that we have reached some form of
7:50equilibrium now we're coming out of winter so the roads are getting better and we'll
7:55see what happens in the spring summer but basically the lines are not moving very
7:59much because if you leave much like back in the olden days for those of
8:04you who remember and have studied at all world war one like you put your
8:08head above a trench and you were done for and so it became almost impossible
8:12to move in many ways that's kind of what's happened with drones now where if
8:16humans come out in any way and try to advance the drones are coming it's
8:20not other humans taking them out uh but we got a lot of talkbacks we'll
8:24start with this one because you wanted to hit this a while back and it
8:26is probably the number one question we are getting and uh it is uh it
8:31has to do with what we were just talking about which is the larger drone
8:36issues many of you have been asking a version of this question which is what
8:40tom in oklahoma city cut f is asking if we destroyed their military how is
8:47it they're still able to try to shut down the straighter uh removed i don't
8:53understand how that's working tom it's a very good question we have essentially annihilated their
9:00navy like their navy they've got very little left it's also it's hard to hide
9:05big boats right so they've got very little left um they've got very little air
9:10defense although not none as we've seen i mentioned the man pads and i think
9:15there were actually sam sites that uh people are i have to go back and
9:18read the reporting on i think it was a combination of man pad and sam
9:22site is a surface air missile uh man pad is the shoulder fired rocket so
9:27they still have those and they still have a over half million person standing army
9:32we haven't killed a half a million iranian soldiers thank god because that would be
9:38that's a lot of people to kill uh we haven't done that so they have
9:42their ground force is very much intact which is what we would have to contend
9:46with even if we were going to land on the shore of the of the
9:51iranian by the way all this stuff it is helpful to pull up a map
9:54for some of this stuff so you can see you know you got you got
9:56the straighter for moves and you got you know the saudis are on one side
10:00of this body of water the iranians then you got the iraqis the kuwaitis i
10:04mean this is this is for the oil world about a strategic uh piece of
10:08real estate or a piece of uh waterway as you could possibly find but so
10:13clay the answer to our friend's question here is we've really destroyed their air force
10:18surface to air their ballistic missiles their navy they got a lot of guys with
10:23kalashnikovs and uh and you know rpgs and stuff running around still so think about
10:27that for an invasion why we don't want to do that and it doesn't take
10:32much for whatever they've got to fire from shore and blow up a tanker it's
10:36easy to do even if you're decimated militarily which is why the question that i
10:41think we were having in the first hour is to what extent does the iranian
10:45leadership have the ability to curtail individual actors from making choices inside of iran And
10:53this was Pete Hegseth in his press conference this morning saying, hey, there's still some
10:57missiles and drones being shot off.
10:59And I think Iran's response is, well, we don't have great communication infrastructure, so we're
11:04having difficulty reaching everybody inside of the Iranian defense and saying, hey, we've got a
11:11ceasefire going on right now.
11:12It's also possible, and this is where I think it becomes really messy, it's also
11:17possible, Buck, that we have several different factions competing for power inside of Iran, and
11:24there isn't any real leader that has the ability to control the actions inside of
11:30the country. But the easy answer, I think, for the caller there, or the talkbacker,
11:34is it takes very little to blow up an oil tanker.
11:41And if you are an owner, you're private industry, and you own an oil tanker,
11:46what do you think an oil tanker's worth on the market?
11:48$80 million? $90 million? Oh, at least.
11:51I mean, full of oil?
11:53Yeah, I've got to think at least something like that.
11:54But I mean, just the physical structure of the— Oh, I don't know.
11:56Like, you know, you're running constantly oil on the oil tanker.
11:59But if you are the business that, let's just say it's a $100 million asset,
12:04it turns into risk analysis, right?
12:06What are the percentage chances that something could happen to your ship?
12:10And as we talked about a lot on this program, the one thing you don't
12:14want to be transporting if suddenly you have flame or if you have an explosion
12:18is oil and gas. Yeah, missiles are flying at you, and you're on a virtual
12:21sea of oil. That's rough.
12:23It's a rough place to be.
12:25Podcast listener Clint E. from North Carolina.
12:28Hit it. Clay, you're going to have to take that microphone away from Buck.
12:33He's going to have my 401k 2 .5 % down instead of 2 .5 %
12:36up at the end of the day.
12:38Very funny. It's a fair point.
12:40Fair point. I'm not sort of bullish on—well, no, I think Trump's going to walk—I
12:46think this is going to end up in negotiations.
12:48I just think that when people are assessing the success of this longer term, it's
12:53going to be more of a challenge.
12:54We'll see. We'll see. But I don't think we're going to have a continuous blow
12:58them up, come back to the table, blow them up, come back to the table.
13:02You're going to just—like I said, give it two weeks.
13:04We might blow up some stuff.
13:06And then there'll be an agreement to talk again.
13:08And this agreement will go for a month or two.
13:11You know, that's what I see happening.
13:12We're going to keep talking and talking, and the Iranians will not concede on the
13:15key points. That's where I think this is all heading.
13:19Tom from Oklahoma City—oh, no, I'm sorry.
13:22We already did that one.
13:24H. Kenneth from Melbourne, Florida.
13:26Clay, you're twisting yourself in knots trying to make your point.
13:32Bottom line, Buck is right.
13:33Look, we asked them to open the straits and let the ships through.
13:39That obviously means we cannot open it.
13:43They control it. Clay, your floor.
13:47My floor is—look at the map.
13:50No, I mean like the floor is yours.
13:51Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, yeah, I'm taking the floor.
13:53Look at the map. We control once they come out of the Strait of Hormuz,
13:58and we have allowed Iranian oil and gas because we want Iranian oil and gas
14:03on the marketplace. So if, like, this whole idea of control, if we want to
14:09stop, as the United States, all ships from being able to come out of the
14:13Strait of Hormuz, including Iran, we 100 % can do that.
14:17Iran is saying they control the Strait of Hormuz because they are crazy enough to
14:23just blow ships up. If we wanted to blow ships up, we could, quote, control
14:28the Strait of Hormuz. We don't want to do that.
14:30We want global commerce to be able to exist.
14:33So control is just they're crazy enough to blow up ships, and we're not willing
14:38to do so. So, again, if we just said, hey, Iran, you're not going to
14:43be able to sell your oil and gas, my argument is the ultimate trump card,
14:47which is obviously well played in this context, is that we can just say, hey,
14:52Strait of Hormuz is closed.
14:53Like, we actually have the ability to close it.
14:56What Iran has the ability to do is levy enough risk such that rational business
15:01owners say, I'm not going to risk my $100 million boat.
15:04Let's just say it's a $100 million boat to try to get this oil and
15:08gas out, to say nothing of the potential loss of lives.
15:11And by the way, a lot of crewmen may be sitting back there saying, you
15:14know, Buck, I'd prefer that we don't risk whether or not we're going to get
15:18blown up going through the Strait of Hormuz, too.
15:20These are rational human actors, and Iran is playing on their rational human fear.
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16:46buck sexton show caroline levitt briefing right now uh we are rolling on that we
16:53will give you an update uh if anything more comes from it mentioning this we
16:58mentioned it a little bit ago we'll take some of your calls we got a
17:00ton of talk backs big story in the new york times uh we shared it
17:05about the decision to go to war with iran and how it was made i
17:12thought the first of all is actually really well written we said earlier that it
17:16reads with a sense of truth to it very specific detailed we can talk about
17:21this maybe a little bit when we come back jd vance very clear in the
17:25article buck that he did not want to do this and that he advised the
17:30president against striking iran i'm surprised that's not getting more attention right now in the
17:37media um because i thought it was super interesting everybody else did not want to
17:43give as aggressive of opinions it sounded like they were just trying to analyze the
17:48larger world we'll talk about that what it what what it might mean particularly as
17:54jd is right now one of the lead negotiators uh on this ceasefire to see
18:00whether or not we can get an official peace agreement uh underway in the meantime
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18:57clay and buck we are joined by florida senator rick scott with us now the
19:04great state of florida and senator not only do you have a full -time do
19:08you hear that new york state tax authorities a full -time florida resident here with
19:12me you've got a part -time florida resident with clay so a lot of love
19:16for the sunshine state thank you for being here with us uh let's first get
19:21into this because the big news of the day is the ceasefire you you come
19:25from i mean not only do you have the senate to draw upon for all
19:28of this of course but you come from a business background you've done plenty of
19:31negotiating yourself how do you feel about this ceasefire and what do you think comes
19:38next well first off you have to really admire donald trump um the guy the
19:43guy is a deal doer um and he you know you should listen to what
19:47he tells you i mean he clearly wants to get rid of the nuclear weapons
19:51which i'm very appreciative because i love my family uh i don't want them killed
19:55by nuclear weapons and i think every family should be thinking that way in america
19:59thank god this president cares about us he wants to save her save our lives
20:03uh and what in the hell was obama doing and um and biden doing so
20:07uh and he also wants to get rid of the ballistic missiles and so i
20:10think i think it's great i hope uh iran's smart uh and they they keep
20:16it going the democrats are completely insane um i mean they they say oh we
20:21got it you know they want to impeach trump uh because you know he is
20:25holding iran accountable so think about if these same democrats were in office sherman wouldn't
20:30have you know gone through the south because by then you know lincoln would be
20:34impeached and roosevelt sure as heck wouldn't have restored the infrastructure in germany because he
20:38had been impeached and truman wouldn't have dropped the bomb because he'd already been impeached
20:41so these i mean these democrats are defending aitola hamas uh i mean they're in
20:48my you know close to florida they're out they're down in cuba defending a horrible
20:53regime um they're defending the iranian regime that killed what 30 some thousand people just
20:58in uh january so it's um but trump's doing the right thing i'm very optimistic
21:04that this is going to last um it's in it but if it doesn't i
21:08mean i wouldn't play with trump um if um if they don't do their part
21:13they don't live up to their part of the market you know all hell is
21:17going to break loose um you can if you have you seen that chart of
21:20all the leadership of iran that's been destroyed uh so so i don't think there's
21:26anybody for putin to call anymore we're talking to florida senator uh rick scott you're
21:32up for uh re -election if i'm not mistaken this november you don't know your
21:37opponent yet uh but you're also high up in overall senate leadership let's talk about
21:43the big picture here um i was just on fox news talking about the situation
21:47in michigan and Mike Rogers is going to be the nominee there.
21:49New Hampshire also and Georgia are potential pickups.
21:54And then you have battlegrounds coming in North Carolina, in Maine, Ohio, others.
22:00What do you expect for the fall to look like?
22:03And how optimistic or pessimistic are you about the larger state maps?
22:09I think Republicans are going to do well as long as we have something to
22:13run on. Trump's given us a lot to run on.
22:16I mean, if you look at what he's done, trying to bring, you know, before
22:21the RAND thing, but it'll come back down, oil prices down, the cost of living
22:25down, support our law enforcement, support our military.
22:28So Republicans are the party that we care about your job, we care about your
22:33kids' education, we care about public safety, and the Democrats are clearly the party that
22:37doesn't care about jobs, doesn't care about your kids' education, and doesn't care about public
22:41safety. So that should be our message.
22:43If it does, I think we're going to do well, but we've got to get
22:46our votes out. Susan Collins has got a race in Maine.
22:49Houston's got a race in Ohio.
22:50Mike Rogers has got a race in Michigan.
22:52Watley's got a race in North Carolina.
22:54Solomon's got a race in Alaska.
22:56So we've got to pick up opportunity possibly in New Hampshire with Sununu, pick up
23:00opportunity, you know, hopefully to beat Ossoff in Georgia.
23:03So we've just got to raise our money, have our message, bust our butts every
23:08day. You work every day to get your votes out, every day.
23:14So if we do, I think we're going to have a good fall.
23:17Well, let's certainly hope so, because we all know, Senator, you've probably just seen this
23:21popping up in your news feed.
23:23They're already talking impeachment, these Democrats in the House.
23:26They're already talking crazy stuff.
23:28And I, do you think that, I'm just going to put this out to you,
23:32do you think that the president is going to have to give preemptive pardons to
23:36some members of his cabinet if, just in case a Democrat were to win, because
23:41they're so hell -bent on some kind of payback?
23:44I worry. The Democrat psyche has been so damaged by Trump.
23:49Go ahead, Senator. Yeah, I agree.
23:51I mean, it's just Trump derangement syndrome.
23:54They don't care about this country.
23:56Or you saw it in the State of the Union when Trump asked, stand up
24:00if you think your first job is to protect Americans rather than an illegal alien.
24:04And not one Democrat stood up for that.
24:07So I don't think even Fetterman stood up for that.
24:13So I don't know what will happen.
24:16The bottom line is we cannot lose.
24:18We have got to do it.
24:21We've got to keep a majority in the House and Senate.
24:23If they get the House, and I assume they're going to impeach a lot of
24:27people, and we're going to have to deal with it in the Senate.
24:30But Trump's doing it. I mean, what's fascinating is if you care about this country,
24:36you have to thank Trump.
24:37You know, you might say, oh, gosh, I wish his rhetoric wasn't that.
24:41But guess what? He scares the hell out of people.
24:43I mean, look at what he's done.
24:44Look, we have a chance for democracy in Venezuela with getting Maduro out.
24:51It looks like we've got a big opportunity in Cuba.
24:55Look at what he's trying to broker peace around the world.
24:58If he can pull off what he's going to pull off in Iran, it completely
25:02changes the Middle East. And guess what?
25:04Russia and China don't have an ally in the Middle East anymore.
25:07Because, I mean, it's all transactional.
25:10And Iran just is their friend because they all hate America.
25:15Russia, you represent a state that has a huge Venezuelan and a huge Cuban population.
25:20You just mentioned both. President may well have asked you, certainly a colleague of yours,
25:26Marco Rubio, a secretary of state who you know very well.
25:30Let's go to Cuba. What to you should happen in Cuba?
25:34What would you advise the president as a senator representing the state with more expat
25:39Cubans than any in the country?
25:41What should we do with Cuba?
25:43How should we handle it?
25:44What should the future look like there?
25:48First off, we all have to realize Diaz -Canal is not the leader.
25:52The only leader is Raul Castro.
25:54Raul Castro needs to be indicted.
25:56And the first step is I would indict Raul Castro, and then I would arrest
25:59him. Because he's actually the leader if Diaz -Canal is not the leader.
26:05Next, I would make sure the regime has nothing.
26:08They have no dollars. They have no petro.
26:11And they have nothing. Just in the last two weeks, Democrats have gone down to
26:16Cuba to prop up a regime that kills its own citizens, that puts them in
26:20prison. As young as 16.
26:22There's a little 16 -year -old that's in prison.
26:23And they go down there with a guy that is living in God's faith and
26:27says that I should be killed.
26:29He goes on radio and says, Rick Scott, you need to go kill Rick Scott.
26:34So these are disgusting people that don't care about people.
26:38Like I asked, why didn't you go down and talk to the political prisoners?
26:43Ask them what it's like.
26:45But I'm hopeful. If Trump keeps doing what he's doing, I think the regime is
26:50going to fall. I think the people of Cuba are going to rise up.
26:54They've been protesting. So I think they will rise up and take over and pick
27:00the government they want, not the government that they would lie to by Fidel Castro.
27:06Speaking to Senator Rick Scott of Florida, Senator, how are we doing with the –
27:12this is something that is always in the background of my mind.
27:15Thank you. because I think it is one of those parts of an administration that
27:20is super important but doesn't always get much attention to headlines because it's an ongoing
27:25thing, although the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy will certainly get attention if that
27:29happens. How are we doing with the judge confirmation machinery in the Senate as you
27:34see it? Is Trump getting judges on the federal court in the numbers that he
27:40needs to to basically rebuild some aspects of our judiciary towards sanity after the Biden
27:46years? Well, he's getting the ones done in red states.
27:50We have the blue slip process.
27:52The blue slip process was not to stop judges or U .S.
27:57attorneys or U .S. marshals, and that's what the Democrats are using it as.
28:00So we already have had to change the rules on nominations because they were blocking
28:05all the nominations, so that would change last year.
28:08And if they keep doing what they're going to do, you know, whether we have
28:11to get rid of the filibuster, we get rid of the blue slip process, because
28:15he won – whether the Democrats would like it, he is the president.
28:20He gets to make nominations, right?
28:22That's the way this works.
28:25And if it's somebody that we think is inappropriate, then we can decide not to
28:27vote for him. But the Democrats are trying to use every mechanism to prevent any
28:33success by Trump. They want the economy to be horrible.
28:36The Democrats want him to lose in Iran.
28:38They hate our country. All they want to do is beat Trump because they don't
28:42care about – Democrats don't care about Americans.
28:45They just care about Trump failing, and they get back in power.
28:48That's all they think about is how do they, you know, get back in power.
28:52That's all Schumer thinks about.
28:55Jeffries thinks about. Democrats, all they think about is power, power, power.
28:59There is a report coming out of Caroline Levitt, J .D.
29:02Vance, Witkoff, and Kushner are headed to Pakistan to have face -to -face meetings with
29:07representatives of Iran to try and figure out what could take place during this ceasefire.
29:14What does victory to you look like, Senator?
29:17Buck and I debated what should happen, what could happen.
29:19If the president were to ask you, Senator Scott, what should I be my red
29:25line, so to speak? What is victory at this point in Iran?
29:29What does that look like?
29:31You would say what? But the minimum for him, which I agree with, the minimum
29:35for him is that they have no ability to build a nuclear weapon, no ability
29:40to build ballistic missiles. We've taken all the enriched uranium out of the country, and
29:46we control it. That's the absolute minimum.
29:49Now, on top of that, it's hard to believe they'll stop helping Houthis and Hamas
29:56and Hezbollah unless we've destroyed their economy.
29:59So either they have to have no economy or they have to have new leadership
30:03because we cannot allow them to have a future president give them like Obama did,
30:08gave them billions of dollars so they can go try to kill more Americans because
30:11they've been killing Americans for, what, 47 years.
30:16So, but the minimum is no nuclear weapons, no ability, and no ballistic missiles and
30:21no ability to do it.
30:22That's the bare minimum. Do you think we'll get there?
30:26Do you think the Iranians will agree to this?
30:29I think, yeah, I think they will because I think they, if you look at
30:35what the American military has done, I mean, it's unbelievable what we've done.
30:43So I think that if I, and just look at the chart of the people
30:49that have been killed from the leadership, and that's primarily been done by the Israelis.
30:54But if you're sitting there, and, you know, most people are not interested in dying.
30:59That's been my experience in life.
31:00So you look at that, you look at the org chart and say, oh, I'm
31:04next if I don't change.
31:07So I think that they're going to change.
31:09But, you know, I'm an internal optimist, but I wouldn't be on the opposite side
31:13of Trump right now. I would never be on the opposite side of Trump.
31:16I think the guy, the guy's willing to go make the tough choices to protect
31:20us. For people out there who maybe just aren't thinking about it, there's lots of
31:25talk about the House. The Senate, we think, is far more impactful.
31:30Buck mentioned judges. There's the possibility of Supreme Court vacancies.
31:35For people out there that are maybe not paying attention to it, what's the difference?
31:39You've been in both between being on the majority side and the minority side in
31:44the Senate. Well, if you're in minority, you don't get to decide what you vote
31:49on. That's number one. Number two, you know, so there's nothing that you want to
31:56get done. Like, we've been busting our butt to get the Save America Act done.
32:00There's no way. I mean, look, I'm going to keep fighting for that.
32:02But if the Democrats control it, no, they want fraud.
32:06There's no way we'll get a vote on it.
32:08It's hard enough when we're in the majority.
32:10But, I mean, there's nothing that would be good for Americans that will happen.
32:15It will be the Democrats, what they want to do is destroy this country.
32:19They want to bankrupt this country.
32:20They want to make everything woke.
32:23They hate law enforcement. They hate our military.
32:26So if you love our country, there's no way in the world you can vote
32:29for a Democrat. So we have to have a majority.
32:32And we need to have a majority in both the House and the Senate.
32:35And we should. We have stuff to run on.
32:38Now, we've got a lot of work left to do, but we have got to
32:40get this done. Now, I'll come out.
32:42Thank you. And we got to get rid of the filibuster because the way what
32:45Democrats are doing is they're used.
32:47The filibuster is always supposed to be used to stop debate.
32:50But you get to debate, but eventually you shut up and you go vote.
32:55They're using it to say, you know, you never get a vote.
32:57That was never the way the filibuster was supposed to be set up.
33:00And so we I think we're going to have if we wouldn't if we want
33:04to have something wrong in November, we're going to have to say to ourselves, finally,
33:08you know, all this obstruction of stuff by the Democrats.
33:11We're tired of it. We're going to we're you know, we gave them a chance.
33:15They want to work with us.
33:16So we're going to now we're we're going to go get rid of the filibuster.
33:19We're going to, you know, unfortunately, you know, get rid of things that that were
33:23supposed to be, you know, useful.
33:25Like I, you know, I try to work with the administration on judges.
33:29Right. Instead of saying no, I just all because all I cared about is give
33:33me a judge. It's not going to create the law.
33:34That's all I cared about.
33:35When I was governor of Florida, I appointed 407 judges.
33:38That's the only thing I care about.
33:40You are not you don't get to legislate.
33:42Legislature does. So but Democrats, they they they want to block everything Trump wants to
33:48get done and everything. Thanks so much, Senator Scott.
33:53Appreciate you being with us.
33:55All right. Take care. Thank you.
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35:15Level up your brain. Mental mugging with Clay and Buck.
35:19Welcome back in. Clay, Travis, Buck, Sexton show.
35:22Okay, we got a quick turn here.
35:24That was Senator Rick Scott of Florida.
35:26We've got a bunch of talkbacks for you when we come back at the top
35:29of the next hour. Caroline Levitt just completed a White House press conference asking a
35:34lot of questions about what exactly is going to be debated.
35:39I would say the biggest news in terms of tangible reality is J .D.
35:44Vance, Steve Wyckoff, and Jared Kushner, which is the American negotiation team, are headed to
35:50Pakistan, where they will be meeting with Iran face to face to discuss many of
35:55these details. But we'll play some of the latest cuts there.
35:59Stock market continues to be up substantially, has opened high and stayed high, and the
36:05price of oil and gas continues to be down.
36:07We will take some of your calls.
36:09We have a bevy of talkbacks.
36:11Most of you agree with Buck and are pessimistic about how this is going to
36:15play out. My shiny rays of optimism not being well received.
36:19We will discuss that and more in the third hour of the program.
36:25But in the meantime, Buck, I guess we can at least say nuclear war didn't
36:30happen. Nuclear war did not happen.
36:32And I'm going to tell you, I'm going to be optimistic.
36:34Nuclear war is not going to happen with Iran.
36:38At least we're not going to nuke them.
36:40So that's nice. We've got that going for us.
36:43We'll take your calls, your talkbacks, final hour Wednesday edition of the program coming up
36:48next. Thanks for hanging out with us on Clay and Buck.