Hour 2 - Black Lives Mattered to Trump
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0:36Hour number two Clay and Buck show.
0:38We appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
0:43Decent optimism in the markets.
0:46As the highs for the day are hit, as the ceasefire, which remains fragile, appears
0:53to be holding so far.
0:55And it is worth noting that stocks are not very far off of their all
1:02-time record highs. Just three and a half or so percent away from all -time
1:08record highs. So, we will continue to monitor the peace talk and how everything is
1:15going there if there is any major breaking news.
1:20But, Buck, I wanted to hit you with a positive news story.
1:24And then I wanted to hit you with a negative news story.
1:27And I think they are both connected.
1:29And I want to get your thoughts on them.
1:32Let's start with the positive since I think, in general, I tend to be pretty
1:37optimistic. Glass half full kind of guy.
1:40In Washington, D .C., our nation's capital, in the 250th anniversary year of our founding,
1:48right now, an extraordinary story is playing out that is receiving almost no media attention
1:54whatsoever. I mentioned it last night on Sean Hannity's television show.
1:58And I have continued to track it with all of you for some time.
2:03And that is, Buck, Washington, D .C., as I am speaking to you right now,
2:09has seen a 68 % decline in murders in the city compared to last year.
2:18I mean, this is pretty crazy.
2:20There have only been 12 murders in Washington, D .C.
2:25so far this year. Now, again, as a show that loves life more than anyone,
2:29we wish that the murder rate in Washington, D .C.
2:34was zero. But a 68 % decline from last year, as we sit here in
2:41early April, Washington, D .C.
2:44is on pace for the lowest recorded murder rate that it has ever experienced in
2:50any of our lives. This comes on the heels of 2025 being, according to the
2:56FBI, the safest year that we have ever seen when it comes to violent murders
3:03in this country in the life of basically, unless you were born in 1899, which
3:08I don't think anybody was, this is the safest year, and still alive anyway.
3:12Some people were born in 1899.
3:15This is the safest year that any of us alive have ever experienced in the
3:19United States. Okay. So, Buck, 68 % decline in Washington, D .C.
3:23Murders. Almost no one is talking about it.
3:26Why is that significant? That is a positive.
3:30We've seen the same kind of decline in Memphis.
3:32Here's the negative. Irina Zorutskis, the innocent Ukrainian refugee who came to this country and
3:42was riding Charlotte, North Carolina.
3:44A beautiful young woman who fled the Ukraine war and was here working a job
3:48and trying to do things the right way and what she thought was safe and
3:52welcoming America. Was murdered on Charlotte Public Transit.
3:58You've all seen the video.
4:02She's just sitting. Stabbed in the neck from behind, yeah.
4:04Sitting there on the Charlotte Public Transit and never really has any idea that she's
4:10in danger. A guy happens to be black, stabs her from behind, and that guy
4:17had been arrested over 12 times.
4:20I've seen reports of 12.
4:21I've seen reports of 15 times.
4:23And Charlotte local charges, they are now saying that he is not able to stand
4:30trial for reasons of insanity, and so they are not bringing forward and continuing the
4:38state charges. Now, federal, they're saying they're going to continue to prosecute.
4:43He is being prosecuted on two different fronts, state and federal charges.
4:46But, Buck, when I see this data, we now have pretty tangible evidence that if
4:53we commit the resources and if we allow police and all those supporting police to
4:59do their jobs, we can drive down murders even in the highest crime cities of
5:06America, places like Washington, D .C., which used to be the murder capital of the
5:09country, and places like Memphis, which did become the murder capital of the country.
5:15If we provide the resources and support, we can drive down murders by 50, 60,
5:22nearly 70 % this year.
5:24Washington DC but what we're seeing is I'm afraid in New York City places like
5:31Charlotte blue cities across the country certainly Chicago there is a refusal to just do
5:39the things that would save enormous amounts of life and on top of that buck
5:44as you well know but the data reflects overwhelmingly the lives saved they're going to
5:49be black because overwhelmingly and brown since Hakeem Jeffries and others we're going to play
5:55that cut for you this hour want to talk about DEI black lives matter if
6:01black lives truly matter President Trump has probably saved more black lives in Washington DC
6:07and Memphis than any president ever has in the history of the office and this
6:14to me is evidence that we can do this everywhere it's just do we have
6:18the will to do it this if I were the Trump team I would be
6:22focusing on this I would be selling it I would be saying we want to
6:27drive down murders to even levels that people didn't think were possible and this is
6:31one of our federal goals over the next couple of years is it an interesting
6:36when you think about the amount of time that most of the Democrat corporate media
6:42spent on how much black lives matter during the 2020 2021 period George Floyd the
6:52sanctification of St. George Floyd they cared so much we were all supposed to put
6:57up the black squares a lot of black lives are being saved disproportionately you could
7:02say a lot of black lives are being saved by these Trump policies and let's
7:08understand what's really happening here you have federal law enforcement surging resources federal prosecutors working
7:15to use the statutes that they already have at their disposal to put away violent
7:21dangerous career criminals using the federal guidelines which by the way there's no parole in
7:27the federal system so they're locking up dangerous people and for the state and local
7:32level they are co -locating and my understanding Clay is in Memphis they're putting federal
7:38officers in squad cars or whatever they you know call it Memphis PD alongside Memphis
7:45PD and so they're giving them additional manpower additional resources access to the federal system
7:50when that's called for and you're just seeing law enforcement synergy between federal and and
7:57state and local for the most important highest profile stuff okay no one's getting thrown
8:02in prison forever because they're smoking a joint on a corner and all the all
8:06the libertarian fear -mongering from back in the day sorry libertarians we listen to you
8:11too much on some of this stuff it got way way too far in the
8:14other direction and and it works this stuff is working people are safer they feel
8:20better about their community they feel better about walking down the street where is the
8:24media why isn't CNN having roundtables on hey wow what a great what a great
8:30turnaround in DC amazing in Memphis think of all the young black men of promise
8:35who will now grow up and can become dads and business owners and you know
8:40and productive members of their community who are alive because of this policy we all
8:45know why they're not doing it though Clay yes can't celebrate the saving of black
8:49lives if Donald Trump is going to get even a a hint of the credit
8:53for it but doesn't that tell you whether they really care about these people just
8:58see it do the CNN multi -millionaire anchors do they care about men from uh
9:02you know black men from low -income communities in Memphis and you know really the
9:07outskirts of well southeast DC and then parts of uh like Prince George's County which
9:14is in Maryland that's where a lot of the violence had been happening traditionally so
9:17do they care they don't care Clay it's all just a political foil to attack
9:21Trump that's what really matters to them it's pretty sick when you break it down
9:25but I don't see a way I don't see a counter -argument that's compelling I
9:30think that's what we see I just I I look at at this and I
9:36if we had an honest media if we had an honest real quick this is
9:41working better than I even thought it would and I thought it was going to
9:44work bigly sorry go ahead yes no I mean if you had told me that
9:49we were going to be able to drive down murders in Washington DC by 68
9:53percent in front and by the way they were low we're talking about 2025 which
9:59was a low year for Washington DC to begin with in other words Trump's moves
10:05drove down the murder rates substantially last year so we're talking about an already low
10:12uh number and we have since driven it down by 68 percent 12 murders in
10:18Washington DC Memphis down I think it's 50 some odd percent from its highs why
10:26on earth would we not roll out this nationwide what is it around 20 ,000
10:33people ish die of murder every year in the United States you talk about the
10:39psychic impact um of the murders and what that does to communities imagine if we
10:45could drive that number down nationwide to seven or eight thousand like imagine if we
10:50could do to the nation what we have done for washington dc what that would
10:55mean for everybody just in terms of safety imagine for all of you with daughters
11:00i mean just knowing that they go for a jog in a neighborhood and that
11:03they're going to be fine you know i'm i'm fond of saying this but it's
11:06because it's so we've run the experiment we've seen here what works and doesn't work
11:11we know there's no other side to this we know i'm sorry libs that you're
11:16all wrong and you've always been wrong on this but we know we have the
11:20results we have the data el salvador should be talked about way more in this
11:25context for a country to go from on a per capita basis a top three
11:31homicide place in the world to a top three safe place in the western hemisphere
11:39in what five years ten years maybe only i mean whatever timeline you you want
11:46to lay out very rapidly what did what did bukele do in el salvador oh
11:51you're a gang member you're a predator in your community you want to harm people
11:56you don't want to play by the rules you go into a cell and it's
12:00only about one percent or less of the overall el salvadoran community yep that is
12:05affected by that move so you can keep 99 of your population incredibly safe by
12:12being willing to incarcerate less than one percent of your population and we're not willing
12:17to do that and i haven't even gotten into we need to be executing a
12:20lot more people and we should bring back firing squads in this country but that's
12:24a broader that that's that's a whole next level of the conversation we're a ways
12:28from there i hope we get back there uh as a as a nation but
12:32certainly on incarceration we need to lock up more people for longer actually but just
12:36lock up people that are actually doing really bad things you know this is this
12:39is the game they like to play not people that walked in and took a
12:42photo of themselves on january 6th no that's not what we should be doing 20
12:46000 murders if we did to the nation what has been successful in washington dc
12:53we would take the numbers from 20 000 murders a year to 6400 that means
12:59you would have 13 600 lives saved every year why wouldn't that be a huge
13:06story why isn't that a completely compelling achievable statistic based on what we have seen
13:13in washington dc and to buck's point if you want to look writ large el
13:18salvador which was one of the most dangerous places in the world is now one
13:22of the safest places and just think of leave aside for a moment obviously the
13:27benefit of saving lives think about what that does economically for the country if we
13:33start eliminating violent crime murders being of course the most violent uh violent crimes think
13:39about what it does for making neighborhoods safer which allows businesses to thrive think about
13:45what it does for overall uh you know just general growth of economic situations in
13:52the country it's it it's transformative and i think it's achievable and those are two
13:59things that often aren't combined together and i think we should be talking about more
14:04uh how consequential this potentially could be so we'll take some of your talk back
14:08some of your calls by the way uh next hour we're going to talk with
14:11steve yates i don't know if we mentioned this earlier uh but uh steve yates
14:15is going to join us to talk about the situation in iran and then at
14:182 30 congressman brandon gill uh with what's going on on capitol hill and more
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16:19in here to clay And, Buck, we want to take your calls, your talkbacks here
16:22from all of you across this great land of ours.
16:26And we've got some talkbacks here.
16:29Let's get to Corey in St.
16:32Augustine. Not, as my wife has explained to me, the true Floridian, St.
16:36Augustine, Florida. Thank you for sending us this podcast.
16:41I'd rather this talkback play A.
16:43Buck, I love that you are a realist and you give us the right information
16:48on this Iran war. Or, among other things, of course, you don't give us exactly
16:52what we want to hear or what the media wants to tell us.
16:55You give us facts. Whether we like it or not, you give us the real
16:59situation. And that's why I come here.
17:01I get real news every day from you guys.
17:04Thank you. Have a great day.
17:05I appreciate that. I would say for Clay and for me, you know, we've never
17:10had to come on here and say, I promise you this is going to happen
17:14or I guarantee this is going to happen and whiffed by like a mile.
17:18You know, meaning on something big like World War Three is coming.
17:23No, no, no. And then that's a big thing to whiff on.
17:26You know, it's a big whiff when you say that something could be a cataclysm
17:30killing tens of millions of people.
17:31And actually, it's like not at all.
17:33So, yeah, we try to give it to you straight.
17:35Right, Clay? No doubt. And that is the that's the intent every day.
17:41Doesn't mean we're going to be perfect or even always agree.
17:43But we're always going to be honest.
17:46Gracie in Arizona. This is a fun one because they were complaining on MSNBC that
17:51Pete Heggseth said no man left behind.
17:54She she has a take on that as a former member of our armed forces.
18:00Gracie, fire away. Cut. Hey, guys, as a former special ops person and served in
18:07the Gulf War in combat.
18:10I take no offense whatsoever to no man left behind.
18:13It's absurd. The pickiness because they have nothing else to be upset about.
18:20I even like Lawrence O'Donnell, who I haven't heard that guy's name in a few
18:24years. So I think that this is one of those clay where he just wants
18:28some MAGA attention because no one's talking about Lawrence these days.
18:32Oh, well, I mean, it is kind of crazy that in the middle of all
18:37that's going on, that you would decide that you need to cover the phrase no
18:41man left behind and claim that you are offended about the fact that that phrase
18:45would be used. I mean, even to even think, hey, I'm going to do this.
18:49I can't even imagine there's anybody at MSNBC that's actually upset about this.
18:54We'll continue to take your calls.
18:56More details coming. Maybe a little more.
18:59The gayetola will even give us an idea what he might be thinking to the
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19:57Welcome back in to Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show.
20:01I mentioned that I wanted to play this for you.
20:04Hakeem Jeff, first of all, Buck, I think a lot of this goes to if
20:09you're wrong about everything on the objective factual measures.
20:13And we were just saying the Washington, D .C.
20:16murders are down 68%. Memphis murders have collapsed.
20:20The people who told us, oh, we don't need help.
20:23Things aren't that bad, because that's what they're still saying in Chicago, right?
20:28That's what J .B. Pritzker would be saying.
20:30That's what Brandon Johnson, the mayor and governor of Chicago, they're just saying, things are
20:35fine here. We don't need the president's help.
20:37The president can come into Chicago and murders, I legitimately believe, would collapse almost 50
20:42% overnight. So people in Chicago, because of politics, are allowing some of their citizens
20:48to murder others at a level that should not occur, period.
20:52Okay? So Washington, D .C., down 68%.
20:56If you're wrong on the facts, what do you argue?
21:00Well, Hakeem Jeffries is now arguing the same thing that Momdani argued, which is the
21:06biggest issue America faces today is DEI.
21:09And remember, Buck, it wasn't very long ago, do you remember when Joe Biden had
21:14the big speech and said the biggest issue that America faced was white supremacy?
21:18The biggest issue that the country faced, according to Joe Biden, was white supremacy.
21:25And now the argument, if you're wrong on all the facts, you just have to
21:30play on emotions. And this is Hakeem Jeffries deciding to attack Pete Hegseth, the secretary
21:39of war here, is what that sounded like.
21:42When you attack diversity, equity, and inclusion, you attack the United States of America.
21:47All right. And here's the other thing that we know, that this effort attacking DEI,
21:52it's not a serious effort.
21:54It's not about celebrating merit.
21:56That's what they tell you.
21:57They're not trying to celebrate merit.
21:59They're trying to elevate mediocrity.
22:01Not trying to celebrate merit.
22:03They're trying to elevate mediocrity.
22:04Here's how we know that's the case.
22:06Just look at who they put in charge of the attack on DEI.
22:11Pete Hegg says, the most unqualified secretary of defense in American history.
22:16You don't have the standing to lecture anyone.
22:19This guy can't organize a two -car funeral.
22:21He was a Fox News host, and now he's the secretary of defense.
22:26No wonder things are turning out so horrifically over in the Middle East.
22:30Pete Heggshaf leading the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
22:34Those are American values. Okay.
22:39There's a lot in there, but the fact that he said that things are turning
22:43out horrifically. 13 people dead, 13 service members dead, in a six -week air campaign
22:53that obliterated the Iranian Navy, the Iranian Air Force, and the Iran's ability to launch
23:01ballistic missiles in a significant way, and hopefully has significantly curtailed, if not ended, their
23:08pursuit of nuclear weapons. Even if all those things are not 100 % true, the
23:13definition of horrifically is crazy.
23:17But also, what has Hakeem Jeffries accomplished such that he would deserve to be Speaker
23:24of the House? Hakeem Jeffries is not a good communicator.
23:29I wouldn't hire Hakeem Jeffries to do a show at a media company.
23:33I don't think iHeart would hire Hakeem Jeffries to do shows across its network.
23:38What has Hakeem Jeffries himself ever actually accomplished, if he's going to attack other people?
23:46He's attacking Pete Heggshaf. Okay.
23:49No, I'm not somebody that runs to the academic pedigree to make the case, because
23:54I think that a lot of the time, well, because of DEI, it's actually destroyed
23:59the reputation of these institutions for being primarily very high IQ, very cognitively elite individuals.
24:06That's just a fact. Harvard doesn't really mean what it used to, because, well, why'd
24:10you get in? Did you get in because you were so good at academics, at,
24:15you know, math, science, reading?
24:17Or did you get in because you're, you know, a three -legged Eskimo who says
24:21that he's trans? I mean, this is the reality of our, and by the way,
24:26the Supreme Court agrees with me, right?
24:27This is now, we're allowed to talk about this, we're allowed to say this.
24:30They were discriminating against whites and Asians.
24:33Too many whites, too many Asians getting high scores, getting high grades.
24:37Got to change the standard.
24:39But that's the whole school thing.
24:41But Pete went to Princeton.
24:42I think you also got a master's from the Harvard Kennedy School.
24:45Pete served in the military.
24:47And this idea that, and obviously we're a little biased on this one, because you're
24:51a very successful media commentator, you, you know, what's the job that he's supposed to
24:58have that puts him in such better stead to be able to do this?
25:02You have to be a total military careerist.
25:05A lot of people will tell you that it's one thing to serve for five
25:08to seven years, but the people who often rise to the top, I've never served
25:13in the military. Military members, correct me if you think this is wrong, call in,
25:17light us up, whatever. But they say the war fighters come in and do their
25:21thing, and they serve. The people that often get the most stars on their shoulders
25:26over 20 or 30 years are basically politicians inside the military, okay?
25:30It's not, oh, this guy's a three -star general, so he was the bravest and
25:37the most kick -ass and the best at his job.
25:39No, it's he kissed the right asses a lot of the time to get ahead
25:44in the Pentagon. This is what I have been told.
25:46Again, any war fighter wants to call in and correct the record, you guys know
25:50more about this than I do, but I did see some of this.
25:52I briefed General Austin in Iraq, I'll tell you that.
25:55Not a smart guy, and he was the last Secretary of Defense before Pete.
26:00Is he a good person?
26:01I think he's probably a nice guy.
26:02I think he's a patriot.
26:03He served his country. I respect that.
26:05Is he somebody that I think should have been in charge of the Pentagon?
26:08No. Do I think that they advanced him beyond what he was capable of because
26:12of DEI? Yes. So, you know, what are we doing here, folks?
26:16Let's be honest about these things.
26:18Yeah, I just think I looked up Hakeem Jeffries' resume, as it were.
26:24He is favored right now to be Speaker of the House next year.
26:29One of, what is that, the third in line to be president, right?
26:33Yes. Yes. So he is, you know, two heartbeats, in theory, away from being president
26:38of the United States. He went to SUNY Binghamton undergrad, and then he went to
26:44NYU for law school. He did six years in private law practice, and now he
26:50is doing what he is doing.
26:52Why is that resume? He went to NYU Law School.
26:54I want to see his LSATs.
26:55If I'm supposed to be impressed that he went to NYU Law School, which is
26:58a very elite law school, to be clear, as Clay knows, better than I do,
27:01but right, Clay, very, that's like a top 10, maybe top five law school, actually.
27:05It's very elite. Maybe top 10.
27:08I think it's top 10, but it's a very good law school, and I want
27:12to see what his LSATs are, because if I'm supposed to be impressed that he
27:15went to NYU Law School, there i think that should be something we're all allowed
27:17to know and by the way if you got low lsats doesn't mean he's a
27:19bad person or it doesn't even mean that he's dumb it just means don't tell
27:23me i have to be so impressed that he went to myu because he got
27:25into myu in part because he's black this is reality but also is his resume
27:31such that you would look at that and say he should be speaker of the
27:34house no like if you're going to be someone who is attacking other people based
27:40on their resumes you better have been like leave aside where you went to school
27:45you better have been a ceo or a founder of some company that's worth hundreds
27:49of millions of dollars billions of dollars like if i looked at hakeem jeffrey's resume
27:54he went to uh okay undergrad good law school then went six years in a
28:01law practice okay and now he's three potentially going to be two heartbeats away from
28:08the presidency what has he done in his career that would justify him being that
28:14close to the presence he represents a one district you know he's never been elected
28:19statewide and i think that trump has actually really uh been been clarifying in this
28:26regard because you know what really justifies you for these jobs the will of the
28:31people as expressed via an election or the power of the president as exercise from
28:37his office yeah we can talk about whether somebody has a resume that we like
28:41or something but at the end of the day clavey ronald reagan was an actor
28:44and he was oh but he also ran the screen actors guild yeah and then
28:48he became governor and then he became president governor of california which i always think
28:51is so interesting because it used to be right california became beautiful paradise and a
28:56place where hollywood was built and all these things when it was a republican state
28:59so always remember that even when it got going with silicon valley it was still
29:02a lot closer in the early 90s um anyway the uh you know before they
29:07just filled it with the third world and made it into the communist place that
29:11it is right now it's race communism um but clay the the truth is that
29:16what makes somebody qualified to be president is what the american people decide what they
29:20vote on that's it right this is really now where we are i think so
29:24all this stuff about what you can pitch qualifications in you know who you should
29:28vote for but at the end of the day what are we really talking about
29:32with what's acceptable for someone to be president if if you can get 70 million
29:37or in the case of joe biden 130 million or whatever the number is to
29:42vote for you um you should you know that's enough it's the same way that
29:46to people i think this is kind of interesting isn't it people that are elected
29:49office like members of the senate you know they get an automatic security clearance so
29:52many of them wouldn't qualify for a security clearance but they're just they're cleared because
29:56of the will of the people as expressed through the election that's the way that
29:59it goes they don't have to get background checks they just get access to the
30:03stuff i actually think too now we have a year and change to actually look
30:08at hexess ability in the job he's done a pretty incredible job i mean the
30:15venezuela maduro raid maybe the most impressive raid that has ever occurred in the history
30:21of the united states military i mean when you really comprehend what had to occur
30:25there i'm talking about just raid not full -on invasion or anything like that when
30:30you look at the uh law the the buck if we had said if i
30:35had said on this program we're gonna bomb iran pretty much consistently for six weeks
30:42and we are going to destroy their navy and we're going to destroy their air
30:47force and we are going to be running uh missions through iran for six weeks
30:52and iran's going to be able to respond and i had predicted that we would
30:57lose 13 soldiers again i wish it was zero everybody out there would have said
31:03i was crazy they would have said it's impossible to do six weeks of military
31:07operations against a country of 90 million people that has been chanting death to america
31:11for two generations and do all the things that we did in iran and only
31:16lose 13 american soldiers i i would have most people out there would have said
31:21that is an outrageously low figure i mean there are a lot of people with
31:25very big audiences that said thousands and thousands of american soldiers will die immediately this
31:32will be a bloodbath and i think you have to give pete hegseth a lot
31:36of credit for that well so that's you you've walked us into something else too
31:40which is look at what pete's done as on the job he wasn't an easy
31:46confirmation to be clear he was not an easy it was a 50 50 and
31:50then the jd vance had to come in as a tie break because pete had
31:53had some things in his he had had some challenges in his past matter of
31:56public record i know pete personally clay knows pete personally he's a very good guy
32:01but he's had some challenges i mean he's had some personal challenges okay so there
32:05were some qualms about them the democrats just hate him because trump likes him as
32:08we know and you know that they would have over they mean democrats would overlook
32:11a mass murderer as long as it would upset trump in some way they don't
32:14care um but what has he done in the office what has he done in
32:18the job i have to say i really like everything that pete hegseth has been
32:22has been doing not just the benching 315 i mean the whole change of the
32:27ethos the the effort to make streamlining appropriations making the pentagon more nimble and adept
32:37and forward leaning on getting the best gear my friends gear will be who wins
32:42the society perhaps is a became a mixed control the action that depends upon what
32:43has he sued the jdjoGuay!
32:43oars gear and technology and manufacturing who has the most brave guys who can do
32:48the most push -ups is going to matter less in 20 years some people may
32:52not like hearing that that is the truth i i thought you're about to get
33:00wild no you're on a roll there i think at some point you have to
33:03pivot from this person doesn't deserve the job to looking at what they have done
33:09in 16 months 14 months whatever the heck it is and judging how they've done
33:15and to me i think by the way trump's a phenomenal example of this trump's
33:20first four years show somebody who did a lot of really great things for the
33:24country and a booming economy and then they use the whole covid catastrophe and the
33:28mass hysteria from that and all that you know but i think trump did a
33:33great job as president i think he did very smart things that made the country
33:37better and safer and more prosperous i think joe biden did the opposite i don't
33:41think joe biden was running the country so it's even worse here's here's an easy
33:44way to sum this up are you impressed with the overall quality of politician republican
33:51democrat independent when it comes to their ability to not only succeed in politics but
33:57also to succeed in other facets of american life if they weren't politicians i am
34:02not in other words i do not think we are being led by the best
34:06the most skilled and the brightest among us i think a lot of those people
34:10tend to go into the private sector over the public sector so when i hear
34:16hakeem jeffries ripping pete hegseth who has had success in the private sector it's not
34:22easy to be successful in media it's not easy certainly to uh to to have
34:26had the success that he did in uniform and i'm couple that with the fact
34:30that he was smart enough to get into princeton um i think we need more
34:35pete hegseths and less hakeem jeffries personally no surprise the price of gold went down
34:42yesterday after news of a two -week ceasefire price of gold is going to fluctuate
34:45of course based on a whole range of factors and volatility in the world is
34:49a big one in the market sense less volatility we can sometimes see a small
34:53pullback a value reduction in gold but still gold is up over the long term
34:58bigly 700 over the last 20 years that's because gold grows in value when inflation
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36:34and buck uh let's take john in oklahoma city retired military wants to talk to
36:41us what's going on john hey buck the other day you did a great segment
36:44with rfk jr on peptides i gotta tell you i'm a walking testimony about what
36:50you're advocating there or maybe not according to the fda but i'm a hundred percent
36:55disabled combat vet with a whole stack of issues when i retired five years ago
36:59six months ago my doctor one of those cash only docs um put me on
37:05peptides bpc 157 tb 500 and then uh the two neuro ones salink and simax
37:11and i'm telling you 90 percent or better of my issues are not just are
37:17not just better they're healed it's not like taking a tylenol it's like completely here
37:23brother i'm first of all thank you for your service and i'm so happy to
37:26hear that and and uh rfk jr clearly is his hearts alongside yours on this
37:32one but he's got to walk that line of legality and uh and regulation but
37:36i hear the same the story you're telling me i've heard similar stuff from so
37:40many people how old are you john 56 56 so how did you even come
37:48we're coming up on the end here but how did you come to even try
37:51these peptides doctor idea or you did the research yourself i went in for uh
37:56some testosterone treatment and we started talking about optional treatments and then uh he threw
38:01out the peptide card and i did a whole bunch of research um you know
38:05there's a lot of great docs out there that are advocating for it um there's
38:08there's a couple of clacks too but you know our kind of are Thank you.
38:10You just got to use your brain.
38:12Thank you. I mean, Buck, you've talked about this, some on air and some off
38:16air, that you think this could be revolutionary health -wise for a lot of people.
38:20I am a huge believer, although I don't have an MD, so none of this
38:23is medical advice. We'll be back shortly.
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