Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 - Baby Snakes Bite Too
3/14/202637 mincomplete
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0:09Welcome in. We are rolling into the Wednesday edition from all signs pointing towards Iran.
0:19Continuing what exactly is going to happen there.
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0:31right now in at MSNBC.
0:36And let's see not the case at CNN or at Fox News doing all my
0:45reading getting ready for the show today.
0:47What stood out to me is several different things that I want to dive into
0:52with Buck here off the top.
0:54But there are quotes from President Trump via Axios, a conversation that he had, and
1:02I grabbed one of those quotes.
1:05It's not audio. But President Trump told Axios, anytime I want the war to end,
1:12it will end. And Buck, I think that is likely true.
1:17And here is, to me, still the big question that we have been asking since
1:21this all started. Who is the acceptable leader for Iran that would allow this situation
1:29in Iran to end in some way?
1:34With the understanding that we would now, at least the Iranians would know that at
1:38any point in time we could decapitate their leader.
1:41If this son of Khamenei is still alive, Moktaba or however you pronounce his name,
1:49if he's still alive. Moktaba.
1:51You got to say it like that.
1:52Moktaba. Say it like that.
1:53Moktaba. If he's still alive.
1:55I like the way you say it.
1:56Sorry. I'm not an accent guy.
1:58I can't do accents. I can do my voice and that's pretty much it.
2:03So, if he's still alive, which I think is very much in question because they're
2:08dancing around with cardboard cutouts of him, if you didn't see that as the representation
2:14of their new leader. Here is what I would say if he is still alive
2:18and if he is able to recover because there are reports that if he is
2:22still alive that he is severely injured and was harmed quite a lot in the
2:27blast that took place to begin this onslaught in Iran, his dad, his son, his
2:35wife, and his mom were reportedly all killed in one of those opening attacks.
2:42Let me just put this to you, Buck, and to all of you out there.
2:46Would you be very fond or willing to work in an expeditious and pleasing fashion
2:54if a country killed your dad, your mom, your wife, and your son?
2:59I would submit to you that if he is still alive, it is a non
3:03-starter that he could be the leader left in charge in Iran because I would
3:08not blame him. I would want America to die on a level that, frankly, or
3:12any other country that did this, on a level that would burn in my soul
3:16for the rest of my life.
3:18I think this could actually be worse because it's, you know, you're wounded.
3:23You didn't kill a terrorist.
3:24That doesn't seem ideal. There's, you've done a lot of this study.
3:28Terrorists who are wounded and don't die often end up being the most virulent of
3:33terrorists in their future years.
3:35So I would start with this.
3:37Him being in charge is unacceptable.
3:40And so I don't know if we have a leader that is acceptable, but I
3:45would say if he's alive, he is an unacceptable heir to the Iranian leadership.
3:51I think that we have seen the total military intelligence and particularly aerial superiority of
4:00the United States and Israel on display and substantial, a substantial diminishing of Iranian capability,
4:09particularly to make war of any kind outside of its own borders.
4:13I am not seeing anything about there's some other faction or some way, some other
4:21group that could theoretically oversee a transition, take over.
4:26And so what I think is going to continue to be the case, Clay, is
4:29we have our Department of War and Secretary Hegseth and Trump degrading Iranian military capability
4:38and taking out senior targets.
4:40I do not see how this turns into a different regime at the end of
4:43it. And I felt that way the whole time.
4:46I now perhaps that is what was baked in all along.
4:51We're being told that regime change was never the administration is saying regime change was
4:55not the goal, okay, you're taking out all the leadership in this country and then
5:03you're going to have, to your point, perhaps a more virulent leadership coming right beneath
5:08it. And justified, furious, like leave aside the politics.
5:12Again, everybody out there, just think, if someone you knew killed your mom, your dad,
5:16your son, and your wife, would you be likely to work in a positive manner
5:22with that country or that group ever, I think the answer.
5:25there is no uh yeah that's that's obviously the correct assessment on that so i
5:32think we're gonna have a declare declare victory and cease aerial hostilities moment here within
5:39the next couple of weeks i don't know when exactly i'm obviously not on the
5:44high side as we used to say i don't have access to classified or any
5:47of that and if i did i wouldn't be talking about it here on radio
5:49but my sense is that they're just going to realize the problem with our position
5:57on all this our military position is that if you can't force if you don't
6:03have a ground force you can't force change on the ground and that is where
6:08we are there is no northern alliance to work with the kurds there's not enough
6:13of them they don't want to get i mean they can't run the whole country
6:16that's that's a non -starter notice people talked about the kurds for about 24 hours
6:19until they took out a map and learned the basic demographics we had that guy
6:23who was a military uh uh military advisor in northern iraq one of our listeners
6:29who wrote in and said yeah you're right yeah of course i was up there
6:31too i know i know the mindset of the kurds with this stuff they don't
6:35want any part of trying to police the rest of iran they couldn't do it
6:39um on top of all that so i don't see i don't see the way
6:46that this ends with a hopeful new future for iran i see this as we
6:53have defanged the snake but there are going to be little baby snakes that grow
6:57fangs in time after this that's that's how i i don't see what the alternative
7:01is there also is the question and i think this matters too and i believe
7:06we have a cut of this uh of other people talking about something that is
7:11being speculated quite significantly it is is the sun actually alive in other words is
7:18this potentially an opportunity that iran has taken to try and prevent the new leader
7:25from getting killed by actually elevating a leader who's already dead um and there's audio
7:31of that i want to play that in a sec but buck the other part
7:33of this is if he is still alive he may be protected from being able
7:39to be attacked because if they have him in a hospital it's hard to take
7:44out someone in a hospital without killing a lot of other people and then the
7:48same media that didn't care when iran killed 30 000 people is suddenly going to
7:53be leading stories with look at israel and the united states targeting people in hospitals
7:59or they got the guy being treated as you're starting to see iran has moved
8:04whatever assets they have remaining for the state into schools into uh residential areas so
8:13that when we are attempting to strike these assets then they immediately cry oh look
8:18they're just targeting innocence as if this this regime has any moral authority at all
8:23given the fact that they killed over 30 000 protesters just in the beginning of
8:28this year we've seen this in authoritarian uh muslim mid -east states uh for decades
8:36where the regime in charge you have to remember the the regime in charge not
8:41only uh disallows there to be political opposition they also recognize if they lose power
8:49i mean you just talked about the 30 000 protesters killed in the streets yes
8:53you got to think if you are a member of the besiege which is the
8:57ira which is the islamic revolution's militia if you will this sort of street militia
9:03street thugs they had a very similar thing in in syria i might i called
9:07the shabiha this is a common thing you have the military which you make sure
9:12is ideologically committed and radicalized to the overall cause of you know islamism jihadism and
9:18then below that you have this paramilitary organization that's meant to know block to block
9:23house to house who's doing what and they have the total blessing of the state
9:30to be as vicious and disgusting and tyrannical as they want as long as it's
9:34serving the interests of the state clay those individuals you have to always remember this
9:38though i know we've said there's an amnesty for the irgc okay well that means
9:42that we're saying put down your arms and we won't blow you up you brought
9:45up what happens if someone kills your you know your wife your your your parents
9:50your kids all of the above you're going to forget that you're going to if
9:54you're now part of the new regime you're going to say hey when you guys
9:58killed those 30 000 protesters you know what let's let bygones be bygones no in
10:02fact the qaddafi effect is you better stay in power or you may up with
10:07a bayonet in a very uncomfortable place yeah like bad things happen and so it's
10:14zero sum for the people in iran who have been running the country you got
10:19america killing their leadership and you've got whatever the opposition on the street could be
10:26the uh iranian street if you will if they come into power they at a
10:30minimum you you got to think you might be going to prison in some hellhole
10:33and maybe even worse than that so my point is they'll fight to the very
10:38end there's no off -ramp for them as far as they see and that's not
10:41even taking into account the ideological commitment to stopping the crusaders and jews and all
10:45the you know death to america great satan stuff that's just the basic hard uh
10:51uh cold hard reality of the situation they face, which is why I was hoping
10:56that we would start to see a, oh, wow, there is some kind of door
11:00number two here, or there is something that they've got planned.
11:04No, we're just completely annihilating their military capacity, and then I think we're going to
11:10stop. And then we might have to do this again.
11:13It's going to be like mowing the grass, but it's a lot more expensive and
11:17human and monetary costs than mowing the grass.
11:20And also, again, the question becomes, who is even leading Iran?
11:24And I think this is the question.
11:26The new Supreme Leader, who they trotted out with a cardboard cutout at the rally,
11:31which doesn't suggest that he's actually that healthy.
11:34Yeah, that's like the opposite of a proof of life, when they have the cardboard
11:38cutout of you at the rally.
11:39No, no, that doesn't look good.
11:40A lot of you also were laughing in the comments.
11:44You were saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't criticize Iran that much about showing up with
11:48a cardboard cutout since we effectively had a cardboard cutout president for four years, which
11:52is... Fair point. Yeah, very fair.
11:54But here's the Washington Post, Jason Rezahan, saying what I think is really being contemplated
12:03at a significant level. Is this guy even alive?
12:06Cut 12. I wasn't super surprised by his election.
12:09There's been a lot of talk that he might succeed his father when his father
12:13died. This speculation has been around for more than a decade.
12:18I also wonder if the fact that we haven't seen him indicates that he might
12:23not be alive. I mean, I don't think that there's a clear indication that anyone
12:29has spoken to him. The president of Iran, Masoud Pazeshkian, said today that neither he
12:34nor anyone else in his government had spoken with the younger Khamenei since he was
12:39appointed supreme leader on Sunday.
12:42So there's still so much confusion around this.
12:46And Buck, it could be, again, an opportunity to make it seem as if he
12:52is the leader when it makes it harder to target the actual leader.
12:55And there may be a relatively only handful of people that even know whether he's
12:59alive or not. But when you name a new supreme leader and he isn't going
13:03to be seen, that definitely raises questions about what his health actually is.
13:10Well, take your calls on this one.
13:13It's getting to the point where I think a lot of people are running out
13:17of patience on the plan here, whatever it may be.
13:21And I mean people who support Trump.
13:22I'm not talking about Trump haters, but maybe, look, the polling has said this pretty
13:27consistently, Clay. As long as this is done this month, people are like, okay, maybe
13:32it was necessary. They know they're on a time.
13:35Our team is on a timeline with this and it's a tight timeline.
13:39All right, we'll get back to it in a second here.
13:40The presence of first responders, villages, cities, the missiles that continue to rain down, the
13:46drones that continue to rain down on Israel.
13:49The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has been working there for many years.
13:53Their entire team is supplying bomb shelters, medical centers, critically needed essential aspects of life
14:00as the attacks rain down on Israel since we have gone into Iran.
14:05I saw for myself they have hospitals in Israel that they have designed.
14:09It's really kind of amazing to see.
14:11They've designed them so that the parking garages can be the hospital itself.
14:18In other words, they take everybody off the upper floors because of the danger of
14:23attack and they relocate everyone.
14:26The entire hospital is taking place in the parking garages.
14:30Think about how crazy that is to have to do.
14:32That is one of the things that the IFCJ has helped to create.
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15:21Okay, why are we bombing the you -know -what out of Iran?
15:28What are we doing over there?
15:30What caused this to happen?
15:32Steve Whitcoff, who is a senior Trump Mideast negotiator, he says the following about why
15:42we had to do this and had to do this now.
15:44Hit it. Think about what this world would look like if you didn't have Donald
15:47Trump as the president. Because in a year, if you had someone who didn't have
15:51the courage to do this action, you'd have 30 or 40 nuclear bombs.
15:55And what would the world look like there?
15:58So thank God we have a president and leadership at the helm that makes these
16:03courageous decisions. 30 or 40 nuclear bombs if Trump didn't do this.
16:10Now, this is where it gets, for a lot of people, we've been hearing that
16:14Iran's going to have nukes for a long time.
16:16I think Iran wants nukes.
16:18I think the Mullahs are evil.
16:19Like, I'm, I'm, I'm very.
16:20with the administration's view of iran on i'm just saying clay it becomes a little
16:27trickier to sell people on the imminence of this threat when we've been hearing and
16:32there are clips circulating of netanyahu talking we've been hearing you know within within 60
16:37days they're going to have within three weeks within four months for 20 years we've
16:41been hearing this and this is why this is why i think josh here let
16:44me see the josh holly thing we can come back here's josh holly saying it's
16:47time to declare victory and get out of this play seven what is there really
16:50that's left to do that we haven't already done i mean we have demonstrated to
16:54the world and anybody who's watching by the way that we have overwhelming military superiority
16:59and we know how to use it we have totally destroyed forever their nuclear program
17:04we have destroyed their ballistic missiles we have destroyed their navy i mean this has
17:08been a a total success in whatever it's been 11 days and i thought the
17:13president's remarks last night that he could declare victory today and it would be a
17:17100 victory i think it's true i think we ought to say to our heroes
17:21thank you for a job well done this has been absolutely amazing it's been astounding
17:26it's been historic and now it's time to declare victory all right clay i want
17:30your take on where holly is with this when we come back because declare victory
17:35and stop you know and move on is we're here holly is a trump guy
17:38to be clear he's been a trump guy all along so this is what you
17:42get from somebody who's aligned with the administration i'm not sure the administration doesn't also
17:47feel this with trump saying he can end at any time it's going to end
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19:31travis and buck sexton show youtube channel we were just talking about uh the kumane
19:38situation uh mochtaba uh his son whether or not he is alive or not we're
19:43also playing some of the audio for you of josh hawley uh who is uh
19:48saying hey let's declare victory and end this thing um there is actually on the
19:53prediction markets buck uh a wager right now will mochtaba that is the ostensible new
19:59leader of iran be seen in public by the end of the month it's basically
20:0450 50 so for those of you out there i mean we're still relatively early
20:09into march for those of you out there that are skeptical i would put myself
20:13into this camp uh about whether or not uh he is in fact alive the
20:19fact that we may or may not see him for the entire month of march
20:23is a sign that something might well be uh uh going on that is uh
20:30either he's severely injured or he is not even alive and they're trying to protect
20:34from having somebody else get taken out on josh hawley uh missouri senator josh hawley's
20:40been on this program a lot i know him i like him i think he's
20:43going to run for president buck um and so i think some of these statements
20:47that you're seeing that are uh occurring out here you should consider them as almost
20:55an early audition for the 2028 primary and let me explain so uh first of
21:01all i think declaring victory and saying hey we've gotten everything we need to get
21:04done is what is going to happen i would say at some point in march
21:08i think you and i probably agree when exactly that will be uh i think
21:12remains to be seen but think about the jostling and the jockeying that is going
21:17to go on we don't know what's going to happen there's a front page article
21:21today about trump increasingly asking people hey do you like marco rubio or jd vance
21:27better uh setting up we were talking about this off air an apprentice style uh
21:33runoff for who is trump going to endorse uh i think that trump will play
21:38this for everything it's worth um and we'll see what happens between jd vance and
21:43marco rubio i would be stunned beyond unbelief if senator ted cruz of texas does
21:48run. And increasingly, Josh Hawley might well run, too.
21:54And so I think you can start looking at this and say, OK, what is
21:59the lane? What is the lane under which they might run?
22:03And I'll give you a couple of takes here on how I see this developing.
22:09Ted Cruz sees himself, I think, as the foremost defender of Israel in the Republican
22:17Party right now. I mean, leaving aside Lindsey Graham, who's just totally out to crazy
22:22town on wanting to go to war with everybody.
22:25But so Ted Cruz, I think, sees himself as opposed directly to what I would
22:31say is the Ted Cruz.
22:32Sorry, the Tucker Carlson, J .D.
22:36Vance wing, which I think he's trying to define.
22:38It seems clear to me.
22:40Cruz is going at Tucker Carlson.
22:42They're firing back at each other and trying to say Tucker is is anti -Israel
22:48and Ted Cruz pro -Israel.
22:50And so that battleground is happening.
22:52I think he sees a lane there.
22:54Josh Hawley, I think, sees a lane as being the completely anti -intervention wing of
23:00the Republican Party, which is a lot of you out there in this group.
23:04I don't want to do anything external at all.
23:07I want to focus 100 % on America.
23:10And I would say that that Marco Rubio and J .D.
23:13Vance are somewhere in that grouping, too.
23:15So I do think the story beyond the story here is Josh Hawley is saying,
23:21hey, it's time to declare victory.
23:22This is Josh Hawley trying to brand himself, I think, intelligently as the anti -interventionist
23:29wing of the Republican Party to potentially lay the groundwork for his presidential ambitions in
23:3628. Do you see that?
23:37Like, I think we agree that at some point Trump is going to declare victory.
23:41But I think Hawley speaking out in this way is about trying to establish what
23:46his lane would be if he is going to run in 28.
23:49He's going to try to pick up the mantle of I am America first.
23:54That is my lane. No new wars, everything.
23:56I think that's what he'll run on.
23:58I think you're right about the Hawley political assessment as it pertains to him and
24:04his future. I also think he's just concerned about where this goes, if this continues
24:09on for the Republican Party.
24:10And this may sound hokey, corny to some people.
24:13But for the country, I think there are concerns about what can happen here if
24:20the mission set drags on or if there is a lack of clarity about what
24:27can be accomplished with what we're willing to do.
24:29And that's really the main thing here.
24:31Could we could we bring about regime change in Iran?
24:35Absolutely. If we're willing to do things that we absolutely should not do, that would
24:41require a lot of American investment and lives and time and effort, nightmarish levels of
24:47those things. So we don't want to do that.
24:50So since we don't want to do that, since we have a limited goal in
24:55this context of military intervention, let's keep it nice and limited.
25:00Got to got to keep this thing tight.
25:02Can't let it spill over.
25:03And I think that's what Josh Hawley saying.
25:05I think others are seeing this, too, because if there was some big other part
25:12of the plan than just blowing the crap out of all the Iranian military stuff
25:17and their leadership. OK, I think we would start to see that by now.
25:22I could be wrong. Maybe next week I come on and say, oh, wow, look,
25:25I think it's highly, highly unlikely at this point.
25:29So that means we all I think it would also be good to give us
25:33some sense as to what the military is.
25:35The military objective, Clay, just to leave Iran as toothless as a military force as
25:42possible. And then how close are we to that?
25:45Are we 75 percent of the way there?
25:47Are we more like, you know, 30, 40 percent of the way there?
25:49Well, what I think we're probably more like 75 percent.
25:52So that's that indicates to me that this thing could wrap up soon.
25:56But I'm actually with Josh Hawley on the it should wrap up soon.
25:59I mean, the whole declaring victory thing.
26:01And yeah, we know we won.
26:03Obviously, they don't even have a military left.
26:04But enough is enough. President Trump is taking questions right now on the South Lawn
26:11of the White House. We will pay attention to that.
26:14It's being carried live on every network.
26:16He did say earlier, Buck, another quote, war will end soon.
26:22This is according to Axios.
26:23There is practically nothing left to target.
26:27Which that's the mission goes directly to the mission has been has been completed.
26:34My concern, my concern, we started off the show talking about it is I don't
26:39think we can leave this guy Mojtabi Kamene in charge.
26:44I just and Buck's going to love my pronunciation.
26:47You're just not. You're not.
26:47You're not team Mojtabi. We can't leave Little Mo.
26:50We can't leave Little Mo to go full Trump here.
26:53We can't leave Little Mo in charge because I just if again, whatever your background
27:01is, I just I believe in vengeance.
27:04I believe in anger and revenge.
27:07Whatever your background is listening to us right now, if your dad, your mom, your
27:11wife and your son all got killed by someone, would you ever shake hands with
27:15them for the rest of your life and work to make the world a better
27:18place no i bet almost all of you would be hell bent on the vengeance
27:23for that act being done to your family i don't i don't think we're leave
27:27aside the religion leave aside everything else there's no way this guy is a functional
27:32leader that benefits america he cannot be in charge there is a really important piece
27:37of the geopolitical analysis here that we haven't taken into account yet and and i
27:44think that's at some level that's on us we have to deal with a lot
27:47here we're trying to bring things all together but whoopi goldberg has weighed in on
27:54the situation i almost spit my coffee out here she has a take for us
27:59here about what's really going on and oh she's tying in epstein and nancy guthrie
28:07this is quite a take everybody on the iran aerial campaign play 13 it's just
28:13nutty as hell it's nutty as hell yeah and and you're right every day is
28:17something new and it's you know i was thinking about it yesterday because i thought
28:22well okay why haven't we been talking about savannah guthrie and what's going on there
28:29why have we not been talking about the epstein files because that's still there yeah
28:34this is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see
28:41anything else the kissinger of our era whoopi goldberg with clay trump is bombing the
28:48crap out of iran so that we're not talking about nancy guthrie's kidnapping we didn't
28:54take this into account at the start of the show perhaps we need to reassess
28:58our analysis i i look at this and she is a moron right but i
29:05don't think most people look to the star of ghost if i remember correctly and
29:10the color purple as the most savvy political analyst of our time the fact that
29:16the crowd clapped when she said that is i think more of an indictment than
29:21will be goldberg's awful decision um and so i i can't believe that uh that
29:28this is real and that abc news would continue to support this show which is
29:34just political propaganda and every time we play a clip from the view we should
29:38probably mention that we have both offered to go on the view it would have
29:42been made great sense for your book coming out for my book coming out's promotion
29:46to an audience that otherwise might not see it uh they won't allow reasonably intelligent
29:51people who disagree with them by and large to go on uh because they know
29:56that their arguments and their arguers are ultimately not very smart and i will give
30:02credit uh elizabeth hasselbeck what i don't think we played the cut she used to
30:06be on the show if i remember correctly um she lives here in nashville her
30:10husband's good football coach um and so i i know them and um i she
30:18did a great job uh actually arguing with some of the uh some of the
30:22hosts on the show uh i think they were talking about the save act buck
30:25and she actually called out the audience and said how many of you had to
30:29provide id to be able to come watch this show today and like the whole
30:34audience raises their hand i mean i do think you know the idea that it
30:39is racist it was it racist of the view to require id to come watch
30:43their show um it's such a ridiculous argument against it we're going to talk about
30:47tommy tumble bill senator about this in a little bit but i think i think
30:51you're missing the forest for the trees here republicans want to talk about the save
30:56america act so that we're not talking about the nancy guthrie kidnapping according to whoopie
31:02goldberg that's where we are that's our big plan i will say the nancy guthrie
31:08kidnapping is still really weird and i have still been following of course but i
31:12don't think that trump is trying to cover it up by starting a war in
31:15a foreign country i mean it's a very sad story but i think that's the
31:18craziest take i've ever heard also it's a crazy take because trump isn't responsible for
31:24the nancy guthrie story right she at least followed it up by saying the epstein
31:28file which is actually something you're hearing some people say on the left but i
31:33haven't heard anybody suggest prior to whoopie hey the reason we went to war is
31:38so we're not talking about the nancy guthrie kidnapping and again i just come back
31:42on the view buck they have huge staffs of people pitching them ideas all day
31:48long every day all you have to have to do that show is an iq
31:53of 46 because they're coming to you on a regular basis saying hey here's a
31:59take here's a take here's three articles you need to read to be somewhat informed
32:03on this and they won't do the bare minimum how much prep do you think
32:08whoopie goldberg does for that show six minutes a day like she shows up gets
32:13her makeup done has a conversation with her makeup artist i guarantee i don't even
32:18know if she reads the newspaper uh i mean it's actually an insult to the
32:21audience how little she actually spends prepping before she gets paid millions of dollars to
32:27go share her opinions in my always humble opinion i want to tell you price
32:31picks all 50 states five dollars you get back 50 dollars in all 50 states
32:38it's a great deal you can play it from washington all the way down to
32:42florida from dollar from the side all the way down to Arizona.
32:46I think I'm getting the map pretty close there.
32:49Wherever you are across the country, width and breadth, all 50 states.
32:54Did you see last night?
32:55Some of you did. Our baseball team choked.
32:57We got beat by Italy in the World Baseball Classic.
33:00Now we've got to have Italy beat Mexico in order to advance to the knockout
33:04stage. Conference basketball tournaments are going right now.
33:08Buck is a diehard college basketball fan.
33:10That is underway right now.
33:12March Madness, NBA had a player score 83 points last night.
33:16You could have gotten a heck of a deal if you had taken the more
33:20on Bam Adebayo. All of that's going on right now.
33:23PricePix .com, code Clay. That is PricePix .com, code Clay.
33:27C -L -A -Y, $5 turns into $50.
33:30PricePix .com, code Clay. A lot of emails, a lot of talkbacks.
33:42It's pouring in here, particularly on the Iran situation.
33:45VIP email from Tony. Buck, your assessment is spot on.
33:49War is a clash of wills.
33:50You cannot defeat an adversary through aerial bombardment only.
33:54Historical examples are endless. German bombardment of the Brits, Battle of Britain, North Vietnam, massive
33:59B -52 carpet bombing. Sometimes when civilian casualties occur, it can strengthen resolve.
34:04I'm retired now, but I predicted early on this campaign about degrading Iran's capabilities.
34:08It has never been about regime change.
34:11If that is an accidental byproduct, so be it.
34:13Tony, I agree with you.
34:15I think that's the way administration feels, too.
34:17We're opening the door for the Iranians to throw the bums out, but they don't
34:20do it. They don't do it.
34:21We're just making sure that they can't hit us.
34:24Let me build on that, by the way.
34:26One thing that I do think is changing is the degree to which we can
34:31specifically target using drones is changing.
34:34Every war advances technology at a rapid scale.
34:37And I think what's happened with Ukraine and Russia, if you read about that war
34:41now, Buck, they're almost conducting the entire war via drone.
34:47Like, you can't even go outside and be seen at all because they will take
34:51you out. And I think the mechanized nature of this war and future wars is
34:57going to be so much different than anything we can comprehend that boots on the
35:01ground is going to become much less commonplace, period.
35:05Well, it also is a reminder that the calculation is different when you're sending drones
35:11to do this stuff than when you're sending pilots.
35:14The American people can handle a lot of drones getting blown out of the sky,
35:19and that hasn't even been happening.
35:21But I'm saying we can handle a lot of our drones.
35:22We lose drones. Okay, it's expensive.
35:24The second we have a pilot on video who is giving his name, rank, and
35:28serial number, things change real fast.
35:31We feel very different. And then there's basic human emotion.
35:33I think that's very understandable.
35:35So that's a big difference in the calculation here.
35:37VIP email from Larry. Larry, as a member of the Naval Carrier Task Group during
35:41the release of the hostages during the Iranian hostage crisis, I've been waiting for payback
35:46for 46 years. President Trump knows he has a timeline and mandates from his base,
35:51which is always on his mind, to protect Americans and his America First agenda.
35:56Larry, I hope that's totally spot on.
35:58Again, I'm just voicing the unease that some have with, okay, this is going on.
36:05When does it stop? It's Trump's call about when it stops.
36:08And he's clearly got his eyes very closely affixed to that ending.
36:12I think that's a really astute email, Buck, because I do think there's probably a
36:16generational divide. You and I were not born and we're not young enough.
36:21Don't remember the hostage crisis.
36:23And so I think for people who are in their 60s, 70s, who live through
36:28the hostage crisis, who live through the bombings that have taken place that Iran has
36:32helped to make happen, it's different than if you're 30 today, than if you're 65
36:38today, in terms of what you've experienced of the evilness of the Iranian regime.
36:43Younger people don't have as much of a tangible connection to it.
36:47Really good emails, both, I think, there.
36:49And we appreciate the VIP emails that we get all the time.
36:52We come back, Buck, you've got us off the top.
36:54I'm sure we're going to continue to talk about Iran.
36:56President Trump, we've got a couple of cuts from him just now as he was
37:01outside the White House. And another super rich lib, the Starbucks CEO, moving to Florida,
37:08Clay. Talk about it.