June 13, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful and timely discussion centered on breaking geopolitical developments, exclusive insights from the White House, and a major policy shift by President Donald Trump. This hour kicks off with Clay and Buck recounting their recent visit to the West Wing, where they met with President Trump, JD Vance, and other key figures. The hosts describe a confident and energized atmosphere within the Trump administration, highlighting the President’s relaxed demeanor and his pride in recent Oval Office renovations and a new outdoor dining patio project. The central political headline of the hour is President Trump’s official termination of the California electric vehicle (EV) mandate. Trump’s announcement, made during a press conference and emphasized in his conversation with Clay and Buck, marks a significant rollback of federal support for California’s aggressive EV regulations. The hosts explain that this move restores consumer choice in the auto market and protects the U.S. auto industry from what they describe as “Green New Deal insanity.” The repeal affects 17 states that had adopted California’s standards, representing 30% of the U.S. vehicle market. Simultaneously, the hour is dominated by real-time coverage of escalating conflict in the Middle East. The hosts provide live updates on Iran’s missile retaliation against Israel following Israel’s precision strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. They analyze the strategic implications of the Israeli operation, calling it one of the most successful military actions in modern history. The conversation includes commentary on the effectiveness of Israel’s Iron Dome defense system and the broader geopolitical consequences of Iran’s weakened military posture. A poignant segment features an interview with Yael Eckstein, President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), who shares her personal experience of being turned back mid-flight due to the Israeli airspace closure. She offers emotional insights into the Israeli public’s mindset, the role of universal military service, and the critical humanitarian work being done by IFCJ during the crisis. Her remarks underscore the existential threat Israel faces and the unity of its people in defense of their nation. The hour concludes with lighter moments, including listener feedback on Clay’s attire during the White House visit and playful banter about Buck’s upcoming business trip to the French Riviera.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Hour number three, Friday edition, fourteen hours up.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We are rolling into the fifteenth hour.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now you can reach out to us eight hundred and
two two to eight A two if you would like
to weigh in. You can certainly continues to use the
talk back and I'm going to play an outrageous attack
on my outfit to go visit the President of the
United States. At some point in this hour, I will
have all of you know, uh, eight hundred two A
two two eight A two, and we have got a
(00:30):
lot to continue to discuss. As always, encourage you to
go subscribe to the podcast, make sure you don't miss
a single moment. We have had several guests already talking
about the big Israel attacks on Iran that happened yesterday
evening in America American time. Scott Jennings CNNs, I would
say top talent came on with us. Ben Shapiro from
(00:52):
the Daily Wire, Josh Hammer, editor at Large at Newsweek.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We're going to talk with.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yel xteam from the IFC jay about what's going on
with Israel at the bottom of this hour. But this
is a good opportunity to go subscribe to the podcast.
A lot of discussion many different angles. I would argue
almost every angle covered here, and Buck.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We actually happened to be in the West Wing yesterday
for a substantial amount of time. We met with President Trump,
saw jd Vance, Stephen Miller, Caroline Levitt, a lot of
the people that we have known for years that are
doing phenomenal work. And I would describe I think you
probably would sign off on it President Trump as extremely relaxed.
(01:36):
He wanted us to see the changes that he's made
to the Oval Office, the changes that he has made
in terms of portraiture in the cabinet rooms and everything
immediately ancillary to the Oval Office. Also you can see,
and I think this is going to end up being
pretty cool. He is in the process of building a
patio where you can dine outside, so it will be
(01:57):
like he has basically our alago. But this would extend.
He's paying for himself. He says this would extend for
future presidents as well. But he likes the idea of
having sort of his own salawan where you can walk
outside and have meals on a patio just outside the
Oval Office in the West Wing. But I would describe
him as super relaxed. He wanted all of you to
(02:20):
know that he appreciates you and really is greatly thankful
for all of your support. But the thing that he
seemed most excited about talking about is something that hasn't
gotten a great deal of attention. Buck and I wanted
to play this audio because it's kind of gotten lost
in the shuffle of everything that has happened since Israel
attack Toron. But with us, he wanted to say, because
(02:41):
he signed this bill, he wanted to talk about the
impact of ending the electric vehicle mandate and what he
believed was going to be a substantial change for the
better for many different American drivers out there.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And this is cut eighteen with.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Bucke and Eye and you can go see the pictures,
by the way, some of you want to see the pictures.
They're up at all the Clay and Buck social media accounts.
We were happy to have the time that we did
with the President and all the staff. But here is
cut eighteen. Trump announcing yesterday that he was terminating the
California ev mandate, which matters to a lot of you
out there.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Listen, this is good news.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Indeed, people said it couldn't be done. You got it done.
I just have to sign right. That's very good. This
is really something and it has to do with the
California Auto Regulation cr A. It's been a disaster for
this country and I want to thank everybody for being here.
(03:39):
We officially rescue the US auto industry from destruction by
terminating California Electric vehicle mandate once and for all.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, there is the announcement, bark from President Trump. I
knew we would want to talk about a lot of
different things, but this is the thing he was most
excited to talk about with us.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, I know he was.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We sat down and we were obviously we're already thinking
about Iran, but also we're talking border, we're talking riots
in LA and how he's and he was like.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Gentlemen, did you see did you see the thing.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I did on the vehicles.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We're like, yeah, yes, sir, mister President, we saw, and
he really because he had just signed it. I was
very proud of it. He just done a press conference
on it. Just to bring everybody up to speed on
this clay because this has got this is one of
these it's actually a big deal, but it has gotten
in the media cycle, the new cycle we live in
it has definitely gotten buried quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
The Republican led Congress past.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
These resolutions in May to reverse Biden administration approval of
the California electric Vehicle mandate. When the President signs a
joint resolution revoking federal laws, it carries the force of
law and are not subject to to judicial review. So
(05:03):
this is actually something that matters a whole lot. And
for anyone who's forgotten this what this says. California in
twenty twenty four banned gasoline powered car sales by twenty
thirty five and revoked the federal waiver that would allow
that allows it to set its own tailpipe emission standards
under the Clean Air Act. Seventeen states, thirty percent of
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the US vehicle market had adopted this plan, which you know, again,
this is a California ev mandate.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
This is nuts.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, this is completely insane.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
These states were gonna say you can't sell a normal
car anymore in our state by twenty twenty thirty five,
ten years.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
This is going to go pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So Trump has freed the auto market from this insanity,
and it's it's a big win. It's a big win
for those of us who don't necessarily want to drive
an EV, but also don't want the climate change lunatics
completely infringing on markets and driving up the cost of
everything for no reason totally. And look, and this is
(06:04):
what Trump told us, and we're not speaking out of
turn on this story when we were sitting talking with him.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
If you want to own an EV, go, more power
to you. Right.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The market should dictate the choices that you make. The
state should not dictate the choices that you are forced
to make. Imagine California. And there was a time Clay
when I think this was something they would have wanted
to do. Imagine California said, and it's going to make
Clay very sad because I've seen the cars that Clay has.
No SUV's allowed. Yeah, we're going with an SUV ban
(06:33):
in this state. California says you're not allowed to sell
an SUV in the state of California. Remever, for a
while it was oh they're gas guzzling. Now SUVs have
actually come very efficient and they're hugely popular. It's like
a giant part of the US car sales mar car market.
But you would just say, well, that's a completely ridiculous
intrusion on the car market in a huge state.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So Trump has again, all he has done is.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Restored choice to the consumer and restored the ability of
the auto market to be a market instead of some
kind of state enforced mandate based on Green New Deal insanity.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So it is a really big win.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It is totally And by the way, we should update
there are air raid sirens being going off in Israel
right now as there's an expectation that Iran has fired
some missiles in their direction. Updating you on what is
taking place there. It is now night in Israel, so
it's probably not a huge surprise that the attack would
come at night. We'll see if it's even as substantial
(07:35):
or Iran as capable buck of doing even as much
as they tried to do the last time when they
put what one hundred missiles in the air and Israel
and its allies effectively shot down all of those missiles
and there were no casualties. I think Israel, first of all,
I hope and pray that they're able to shoot down
these missiles which.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Are just intended.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Remember the strikes that Israel did were precise strikes at
legitimate millet Harry targets, and what Iran is going to
do in response is I just want they're just trying
to send a big missile that goes boom into a
crowded apartment building and kill as many Jews as possible.
That that's what the Iranian response is supposed to be.
(08:16):
They always fight these wars. So I think that the
Israelis are going to have a ratcheted or a tiered response,
whereby every time Iran does something, these Raelis are just
going to raise the cost for Iran. And then it's
a question of how much more of this do they want?
You know, Ben Shapiro's on this last hour, he said,
(08:37):
leaving the Molas alive gives them something to think about.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
The Mulas may not survive this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
We'll see what happens they if they order a lot
of mass casualty attempted mass casualty attacks on Israel. These
Raelis have mapped out that whole country and they have
total dominance in the skies. We'll see what ends up
happening with this, no doubt. And and on that front,
as we wait to see what's going to happen there,
(09:04):
I will say this about our visit to the White House.
A lot of you wanted to know if I was
going to be able to get in the answer was yes.
I brought my passport yesterday or two days ago. I
don't have the real ID, and you have to have
a real ID or a passport, so I was able to.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Get in with my passport.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I was struck buck leave aside the politics of the
current moment and many of the topics that we discussed,
the sheer, happy, warrior dumb vibe that existed in the
West Wing yesterday when we visited with whether It's President Trump,
jd Vance, Caroline Levitt, Margo, Trump's top personal assistant Natalie,
(09:42):
who follows him around everywhere. It is a intensely positive
environment there. And I think it's because they know that
they are doing the work that the American people sent
them there to do, and they know how to do it,
and they are delivering. And Trump has a level of
confidence in what is required to do the job that
(10:05):
is next to a level And let me just echo
this again. The Israelis consulted with the Trump team, and
Trump went out yesterday and threw an all time headfake
saying that the negotiations were still ongoing. Same thing happened
with Pete Hegseth went to a Washington Nationals game.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
With his kids.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Obviously it's Father's Day weekend. You had Marco Rubio. This
was a masterclass, I think in subterfuge and the ability
to catch Iran unaware. And for Israel to have the
ability buck to actually have the Iranian schedule in person
(10:48):
meetings so they could directly attack because they are so
enmeshed in the Iranian security services, is really an incredible
strength of their attack.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And let me just mention this too.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
A lot of people told you, some on the right,
many on the left, that if Israel attacked Iran we're
still in the early stages, that this would basically be
a preset to World War III. I think you're now
learning Iran is not very strong. They lack the ability
to even defend their own country, and China and Russia
(11:26):
they're not coming to the aid the other Middle Eastern countries.
Many of them welcome this, even if they say publicly
there's a difference between public and private conversations. They may
say publicly they don't like it. Privately, they are very
welcoming even of this, and I think you're seeing that
a lot of the cataclysmic analysis, as often as the case,
(11:47):
was not reflected in reality. Yes, and this is on
track to be one of the most successful military operations
in modern military history. So we hope that that continues
because it is to the benefit of everyone that we
root for here that that is the case, not just
(12:08):
our friends Analys in Israel, and not just other Middle
Eastern countries and countries in the region that are very
pleased to see the Iranian threat cut down to size,
but also for the Iranian people. It weakens a regime
that has been nothing but a nightmare for them for
fifty years now, and it is long past time for
(12:31):
there to be changed. And there's no reason why Iran
can't be something a lot more along the lines of
say Turkey. You know, another country with a tremendously proud
history and a really rich past that functions as a
I'm not saying Turkey's perfect. We have our occasional gripes
with them in NATO, but it's a functioning, modern state
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and not one that keeps anybody up at night in Israel,
the United States, or really around the region for that matter.
So that I think is what possible here and it's
it's looking like so far it's a very good day.
As you said, there's missiles in the air, and we
don't know what the Iranians are are going to pull
off with any reprisals, but their military to military capability
(13:14):
is deminimus. It's really the terror, the terror strikes that
we would have to be worried about, or you know,
terror cells that go operational, and we're going to have
to keep a close eye on that, and it's very
hard to fight against those. It's very hard to catch
all of those, I should say, But that can't change
the reality of what just happened to Israel, which is
its military and nuclear program have been effectively decapitated. And
(13:37):
I think this is so important for ordinary Iranians. I
thought it was interesting that Ben Shapiro told us that
they basically have tried to turn off the Internet in
Iran because they don't want people to understand what's actually
going on. But at some point, these conversations are going
to start, as they start anywhere in the world when
humans gather. Wait a minute, You've been in power the
(13:58):
Iatolas for two generations. You told us Israel was the
great evil. You told us that we were going to
eradicate Israel from the planet, and actually we don't even
have the ability to fight Israel. Leave aside the religion,
leave aside all these things, just pure efficacy of government.
(14:19):
Israel has created one of the great technological civilizations in
the history of the Middle East, and Iran has been
left behind. The Ayatolas are being embarrassed. There are early
reports now direct of some direct hits on Tel Aviv.
So we don't know what the scale of those hits
are or what if there are any casualties.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
We just know, Clay right now as we're talking to you,
there are real time reports of impacts in Tel Aviv.
We're going to continue to watch this very closely.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
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Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, in real time.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
We're following as as closely as we can the updates
from on the ground at Israel.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
There are reports of.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Impacts in Tel Aviv, but it could be a detonated missile,
or it could be shrapnel from missiles that have been
shot out of the sky. I remember some of these
are large enough that even if the pieces fall could
blow a hole through a roof, that seems like it's
actually a strike. So no reports right now, and it's
(16:25):
very early, it's very preliminary. No reports as I speak
to you of casualties on the ground in Tel Aviv
or elsewhere in Israel. But Iran is clearly doing what
it can militarily. Is as a reprisal strike right now. Now,
we've seen this in other situations play where the iron
(16:46):
Dome is incredibly effective and there are minimal casualties among
these Raelies. That are certainly the hope that we all
have right now. But we have to continue to watch
this because Iran, you can imagine, is going to fire
the best stuff it's got, and whatever it's got at
this point most likely may not be enough to penetrate.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Maybe it is, we'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, And again it's live on television right now, so
I don't ever like to say, hey, you know, but
you can see on Fox News right now the missiles,
many of them being intercepted by the defense. And again
it appears that some of them may be hitting the Gramble.
We don't know. As you said, this happened before. You
can't necessarily tell whether it's a full detonation, parts of
(17:29):
parts of the missile.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
But that is going on right now as we speak
to you. We'll talk with y L.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
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obviously been talking mostly during the course of the program
about the Israel attack on Iran. Iran now responding missiles
raining down in Israel as minute most of them, it appears,
based on the videos I'm seeing the television coverage, appear
to be shot down. Yell, Excene joins us. Now our
friend IFCJ head and I'll start with this. My understanding
(19:22):
is yell. Based on the staff, they told me that
you were on your way to Israel and flying back
from the United States, and they turned your plane around
and brought you back stateside. What can you tell us
about your personal experience before we dive in to the
latest with Israel and Iran.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yes, well, since October seventh, my biggest fear has been
leaving Israel, getting locked out you see how the airspace
closes in the second and having my family inside. So
I've been leaving periodically, but only for two or three days.
So I actually came to America now for a quick
three day trip important meetings, and I was on my
way back to Israel around three and a half hours
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into the flight, the pilot came on and said, Israel
is right now attacking Iran's nuclear program. We have fear
of hijack and we have to close all Wi Fi,
turn around, and go back to America immediately. So I'm
here in America, my family. I'm in touch with them.
They're in the bomb shelter right now as we speak,
with hundreds of rockets overhead, and I'm just praying that
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Israel be protected and then I'll be able to get
home soon.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So what can you tell us, Elle, and thank you
for being here with us, just about the current state
of the Israeli people's mindset and how they're feeling about
this and then on the one hand, under threat missiles
coming in on the other hand, the military precision, and
it seems so far the tactical successes of this strike
(20:51):
are truly almost almost miraculous in the level of what
was accomplished here. So I wanted you to bring us
into what the Israeli people are feeling right now.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Indeed, well everyone's seeing this is really a story of
David versus Goliath. Like you have to look at Israel
on the map and then look at Iran on the map,
and Israel has been trying to protect our borders for
the past ten years, at least from the proxy terror
organizations that they've been investing in. We had Razbala on
our border on the north, we come on the border
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of the south. They were all calling for our destruction,
and we see after October seventh that they're not just
using words, they're actually building up military presence in order
to wipe Israel off the map. But the truth is,
what Israel has realized is that these threats aren't going
to stop until we mitigate the risk of an Iranian
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nuclear reactor, because then they don't need to talk. They
just launch one nuclear bomb and Israel is wiped out.
And so this is a day on one hand in
Israel of celebration. It's a day like Perim, like wicked
Hayman that wanted to wipe out and kill all the Jews,
and he ended up being killed on the same in
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the same way that he planned for Mordecai, and that
was kind of the reversal of history that God and
those who threaten God's people, they will end up being
the ones who are harmed. And so on one hand,
we are celebrating that this huge risk of an Iranian
nuclear bomb is right now what it seems like, no
longer an imminent risk, which means that we will survive,
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God willing. But on the other hand, the price might
be very high. Right now, there are hundreds of rockets
in the sky above Israel. We know that there's been hits,
and we are just praying with all of our might.
And you know, I have to also say that Israel
really feels like we're doing this not just for israel survival,
but that we're doing this on behalf of the free world.
Everyone who cherishes life, who values life. These mulahs and
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these Islamists and Iran, they value and cherish and seek death.
And they've killed over six hundred Americans, and they've threatened America,
they threaten Iran, and they threatened the moderate Arab countries.
And so eighty years ago, six million Jews were killed
by the Nazis and the world silent. And what we're
seeing today is that as Iran attacks this nuclear threat,
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as Israel attacks the nuclear threat and Iran, we have
the entire free world standing with us in order to
make sure the future is better and bright and free,
not just for Israel, but for Jordan, for Saudi Arabia,
for Egypt, for America, for Europe, for the UAE and Dubai,
for all these countries that just want peace. This is
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the turning point that I pray, pray, pray that this
light will shine and will know new days of peace.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, well, you're a mom. You've got several different kids.
I think one thing that's the bombs of America don't
necessarily hear that much about or know, is that most
teenagers in Israel go in to serve the IDF. I
think that you have a child or multiple children that
are either in the IDF or soon will be. I
(24:05):
know it's Father's Day coming up in the United States
this weekend, But for the dads and moms across America
who don't really understand what that is like for every
teenager buy and large to be serving. Can you explain
how connected the people of Israel are directly to their
military service, maybe in a way that people in America
just frankly don't know and certainly isn't similar here.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Yeah, definitely. Well, Israel is a tiny country. We're seven
point five million Jews in Israel, So how do we
defend ourselves surrounded by three hundred million Arabs. It's because
every single person in Israel from the age of eighteen
actually until the age of fifty when they're doing reserve duty,
until the age of fifty serves. So at eighteen, my
daughter just graduated high school and her entire class when
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our death graduation, they went through and said which unit
each one of them is going through in the army,
not which university they're going to. One is going to
the Air Force, one is going to the My daughter
is going to be a welfare officer for the soldiers
and to help them. But every single eighteen year old
in Israel is on the front lines in some way
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serving and protecting this country of Israel. And the husbands
up until age of fifty are out in the field
in reserve duty protecting the country. So from my board
member who around an hour ago dropped his eighteen year
old son off at the border with Gaza, who was
deployed to go into Gaza and protect Israel, to my
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cousin who is a forty year old man, professional data
analyst with four kids, who's been gone for two weeks
in reserve duty, it's a country of heroes, where you
go into the bank and your bankers wearing their army
uniforms because they're in reserve duty, and the teachers leave
because they're called up for reserve duty. It's a country
of heroes where everyone has a personal stake. And in fact,
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just two weeks ago, I was at the funeral of
a ten year old boy Who've known him from the
time he was in diapers my daughter who's in the
army now, and he Shay used to play when they
were babies. And when they started the funeral for me,
this says everything. His young widow he got married two
months ago, stood up and she said, you know, I
always believe that God is good, that we are living prophecy,
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that he wants us to fight for peace and freedom,
and if this is the cost, then let it be.
And she opened up the funeral with psalms of thanksgiving,
just thanking God for having a country of Israel, that
the Jewish people could defend ourselves, that we can live
in peace, so that we could be resilient. And there's
a very heavy cost. And I guess that's also why
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I feel like the work of the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews is more important now than ever because
our children are on the front lines and they're wearing
their guns and protecting the values of America and the West.
And it's really peace through force when all your neighbors
want to kill you. But right now on the ground,
there are thousands of first responders who are wearing bulletproof
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Thank you for being with us.
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for the weekend, some some notes here. First, of all
things happening right now, and so as you listen to
this over the weekend, you will know more than we
do about the missiles that are in the sky as
we speak to you. There are missiles making their way
one hundred missiles making their way toward Israel. We hope
that Israel is able to shoot them all down there
are no casualties from it. We do not know, though,
(30:07):
We do not know what is going to happen. And
the problem with with combat, the problem with warfare is
nobody knows until it happens what has happened, right so,
or what will happen. So we'll have to continue to
watch this very closely. I'm going to be out all
next week on business. Though, despite what Clay may say
in my absence about me just touring Leteur.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I will just say business, own business.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The French Riviera is not exactly I mean, you know
this is this is not trying to think of Gary,
Indiana in February, right like the Riviera in summer. Not exactly.
The French Riviera an awful place to be. Look at
Clay with the elbow off the top belt buckle for
Gary Indiana there, you know, I hear it's lovely snowshoeing
(30:56):
over there, Clay, I was trying to think of a
city that I'm not sure we're on in that would
not that's a good call. We If Gary Indiana boycott
the show, we would survive. But we do love you Gary.
We don't want you to think that we don't want
you listening. I don't even think people listening in Gary,
Indiana right now would dispute that Gary, Indiana in February
is not an ideal probably through or that the south
(31:16):
of France in general is a little bit more of
a fun destination. But I am on business overseas. I'm
on show business.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Don't let Clay fill your head with anny oabuks on
like a vacation.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It's a boondoggle.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There might be some state freed There might even be
a little champagne, a little partying late into the night.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
There could even be some yachts involved, Clay, But you
know what, I do this for us, Okay, buddy, this
is for the team. I appreciate you being so sacrificial
in nature. I will say on a on a big
picture story, this is somewhat emblematic of the culture shifting
because we have tons of big brands that have never
been willing to advertise on this show. For the four
(31:55):
years we've been talking to you every single day that
suddenly we get text messages from our ad sales team
about I'm not going to give them any advertisement until
they start spending money on this show. But I think
it's because they're realizing, Hey, seventy seven million people voted
for Donald Trump, and a lot of those people have good,
robust pocketbooks to invest in a variety of different outlet
(32:17):
and companies. And now they're all saying, wait, what's one
of the biggest shows in America, if not the biggest
Clay and Buck. Well, let's spend money. So you are
going to be to your point going to this advertising
event and meeting with some of the biggest companies in
the United States and around the world that are suddenly
interested in investing on this show. In terms of advertisers,
and speaking of advertising, Crockett Coffee is a fantastic advertiser
(32:39):
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both having books come out in the next well, I
don't know next, less than twelve months, like eight months
(32:59):
or so.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
By the way, we had an amazing time yesterday, thanks
to everybody in the West Wing for hosting us. It
will not surprise. What is the first thing I said?
When we got a picture sent to us and we
were standing outside of the White House. I turned to Buck,
I showed him the picture, and I said, what am
I going to get ripped to the high heavens for
in this photo? That's literally the first thing I said.
When we got the photo. I was like, I don't
(33:22):
even know enough. Now, Look, here's the reality. I can
be in a tuxedo, dressed perfectly, standing next to a
beautiful woman like my wife, and you guys will completely
ignore how.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Amazing she is and just tee off on me.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I would even go so far, Buck, I think I
could be photographed purely for purposes of social media standing
next to Sidney Sweeney wearing virtually nothing, and every guy
who looks at that photo in some way will decide
to dissect what I'm wearing as opposed to what she
is not wearing. With that in mind, I believe we
(33:58):
have a talk back and angry listener upset about my attire.
Listen Clay, With all that money you got, you couldn't
afford a nice suit, and you wore jeans in the
Oval office? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I did not see this what I'm talking about. I
did not have jeans on I wore.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I would not have let him go into the Oval office.
Just just you guys know, I am I am the uh.
It's like Trump, I am the chosen one. No, I
am the Clay whisper when it comes to these issues.
I said, Clay, no flipflops, no jeans in the Oval Office.
And he didn't fight me on this one. I would
wear flip flops, shorts and a T shirt every day
(34:35):
for every event if I could.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I'm not gonna go full fetterment on all of you.
Though I wore nice uh.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
These were like one hundred and fifty dollars Peter Malar pants.
They were blue. They were not blue jeans. Now, I
did not have a suit. To be fair with you,
I didn't travel with a suit. I'm up here for
two weeks with my uh, with my son. I don't
like overpacking for clothes, so I have two jackets. I
have two jackets in our radio studio right now. To
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Buck and Ally our producer. I got dressed, and I said,
which of these jackets is the most appropriate for me
to wear? I borrowed a tie from Buck to make
sure that I had a tie on, and Buck as
a team player, I gave him a two ties to
pick from. He actually chose well. And I also brought
in one of my son's ties because he's doing an
(35:25):
internship on Capitol Hill. Because I had had a backup,
I did not pack one of my own, which probably
doesn't surprise anybody, but I thought I actually looked fairly
decent in the outfit, and immediately it goes up. Five
seconds later, the first complaint about my outfit arises. It
doesn't matter. Now I can thankfully play the flute. There's
pictures of us in a boat up right now. Look,
(35:48):
Trump's not talking any smack about Sorry, Clay's not talking
any smack about flute playing in front of Trump because
he knows how that's going to go over Trump. Renowned
floutest has come to the come to the assistance of
flute players across America after all of the calumnies?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Is that how you all that?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I thought it was calumnies, but I can't pronounce it.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Any No, it might be.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You're probably right. I know that word from reading it,
not saying it now. I just got the pronunciation police
angry at me. But I'll be in France next week.
Pronunciation police, So what are you gonna do about that?
Enjoy the rose, Enjoy what I'm sure is a great
French ury riviera trip.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
I will be holding down the ford.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I'll be here in DC Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Buck,
we will welcome you back. You might weigh in with
a couple of different clips so we know how hard
you're working on the riviera have been.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
We'll see all Monday.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Stay safe over the weekend, and can't wait to talk
to you again in a few days.
Welcome in Hour number three, Friday edition, fourteen hours up.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We are rolling into the fifteenth hour.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now you can reach out to us eight hundred and
two two to eight A two if you would like
to weigh in. You can certainly continues to use the
talk back and I'm going to play an outrageous attack
on my outfit to go visit the President of the
United States. At some point in this hour, I will
have all of you know, uh, eight hundred two A
two two eight A two, and we have got a
(00:30):
lot to continue to discuss. As always, encourage you to
go subscribe to the podcast, make sure you don't miss
a single moment. We have had several guests already talking
about the big Israel attacks on Iran that happened yesterday
evening in America American time. Scott Jennings CNNs, I would
say top talent came on with us. Ben Shapiro from
(00:52):
the Daily Wire, Josh Hammer, editor at Large at Newsweek.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We're going to talk with.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yel xteam from the IFC jay about what's going on
with Israel at the bottom of this hour. But this
is a good opportunity to go subscribe to the podcast.
A lot of discussion many different angles. I would argue
almost every angle covered here, and Buck.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We actually happened to be in the West Wing yesterday
for a substantial amount of time. We met with President Trump,
saw jd Vance, Stephen Miller, Caroline Levitt, a lot of
the people that we have known for years that are
doing phenomenal work. And I would describe I think you
probably would sign off on it President Trump as extremely relaxed.
(01:36):
He wanted us to see the changes that he's made
to the Oval Office, the changes that he has made
in terms of portraiture in the cabinet rooms and everything
immediately ancillary to the Oval Office. Also you can see,
and I think this is going to end up being
pretty cool. He is in the process of building a
patio where you can dine outside, so it will be
(01:57):
like he has basically our alago. But this would extend.
He's paying for himself. He says this would extend for
future presidents as well. But he likes the idea of
having sort of his own salawan where you can walk
outside and have meals on a patio just outside the
Oval Office in the West Wing. But I would describe
him as super relaxed. He wanted all of you to
(02:20):
know that he appreciates you and really is greatly thankful
for all of your support. But the thing that he
seemed most excited about talking about is something that hasn't
gotten a great deal of attention. Buck and I wanted
to play this audio because it's kind of gotten lost
in the shuffle of everything that has happened since Israel
attack Toron. But with us, he wanted to say, because
(02:41):
he signed this bill, he wanted to talk about the
impact of ending the electric vehicle mandate and what he
believed was going to be a substantial change for the
better for many different American drivers out there.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And this is cut eighteen with.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Bucke and Eye and you can go see the pictures,
by the way, some of you want to see the pictures.
They're up at all the Clay and Buck social media accounts.
We were happy to have the time that we did
with the President and all the staff. But here is
cut eighteen. Trump announcing yesterday that he was terminating the
California ev mandate, which matters to a lot of you
out there.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Listen, this is good news.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Indeed, people said it couldn't be done. You got it done.
I just have to sign right. That's very good. This
is really something and it has to do with the
California Auto Regulation cr A. It's been a disaster for
this country and I want to thank everybody for being here.
(03:39):
We officially rescue the US auto industry from destruction by
terminating California Electric vehicle mandate once and for all.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, there is the announcement, bark from President Trump. I
knew we would want to talk about a lot of
different things, but this is the thing he was most
excited to talk about with us.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, I know he was.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We sat down and we were obviously we're already thinking
about Iran, but also we're talking border, we're talking riots
in LA and how he's and he was like.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Gentlemen, did you see did you see the thing.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I did on the vehicles.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We're like, yeah, yes, sir, mister President, we saw, and
he really because he had just signed it. I was
very proud of it. He just done a press conference
on it. Just to bring everybody up to speed on
this clay because this has got this is one of
these it's actually a big deal, but it has gotten
in the media cycle, the new cycle we live in
it has definitely gotten buried quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
The Republican led Congress past.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
These resolutions in May to reverse Biden administration approval of
the California electric Vehicle mandate. When the President signs a
joint resolution revoking federal laws, it carries the force of
law and are not subject to to judicial review. So
(05:03):
this is actually something that matters a whole lot. And
for anyone who's forgotten this what this says. California in
twenty twenty four banned gasoline powered car sales by twenty
thirty five and revoked the federal waiver that would allow
that allows it to set its own tailpipe emission standards
under the Clean Air Act. Seventeen states, thirty percent of
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the US vehicle market had adopted this plan, which you know, again,
this is a California ev mandate.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
This is nuts.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, this is completely insane.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
These states were gonna say you can't sell a normal
car anymore in our state by twenty twenty thirty five,
ten years.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
This is going to go pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So Trump has freed the auto market from this insanity,
and it's it's a big win. It's a big win
for those of us who don't necessarily want to drive
an EV, but also don't want the climate change lunatics
completely infringing on markets and driving up the cost of
everything for no reason totally. And look, and this is
(06:04):
what Trump told us, and we're not speaking out of
turn on this story when we were sitting talking with him.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
If you want to own an EV, go, more power
to you. Right.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The market should dictate the choices that you make. The
state should not dictate the choices that you are forced
to make. Imagine California. And there was a time Clay
when I think this was something they would have wanted
to do. Imagine California said, and it's going to make
Clay very sad because I've seen the cars that Clay has.
No SUV's allowed. Yeah, we're going with an SUV ban
(06:33):
in this state. California says you're not allowed to sell
an SUV in the state of California. Remever, for a
while it was oh they're gas guzzling. Now SUVs have
actually come very efficient and they're hugely popular. It's like
a giant part of the US car sales mar car market.
But you would just say, well, that's a completely ridiculous
intrusion on the car market in a huge state.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So Trump has again, all he has done is.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Restored choice to the consumer and restored the ability of
the auto market to be a market instead of some
kind of state enforced mandate based on Green New Deal insanity.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So it is a really big win.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It is totally And by the way, we should update
there are air raid sirens being going off in Israel
right now as there's an expectation that Iran has fired
some missiles in their direction. Updating you on what is
taking place there. It is now night in Israel, so
it's probably not a huge surprise that the attack would
come at night. We'll see if it's even as substantial
(07:35):
or Iran as capable buck of doing even as much
as they tried to do the last time when they
put what one hundred missiles in the air and Israel
and its allies effectively shot down all of those missiles
and there were no casualties. I think Israel, first of all,
I hope and pray that they're able to shoot down
these missiles which.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Are just intended.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Remember the strikes that Israel did were precise strikes at
legitimate millet Harry targets, and what Iran is going to
do in response is I just want they're just trying
to send a big missile that goes boom into a
crowded apartment building and kill as many Jews as possible.
That that's what the Iranian response is supposed to be.
(08:16):
They always fight these wars. So I think that the
Israelis are going to have a ratcheted or a tiered response,
whereby every time Iran does something, these Raelis are just
going to raise the cost for Iran. And then it's
a question of how much more of this do they want?
You know, Ben Shapiro's on this last hour, he said,
(08:37):
leaving the Molas alive gives them something to think about.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
The Mulas may not survive this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
We'll see what happens they if they order a lot
of mass casualty attempted mass casualty attacks on Israel. These
Raelis have mapped out that whole country and they have
total dominance in the skies. We'll see what ends up
happening with this, no doubt. And and on that front,
as we wait to see what's going to happen there,
(09:04):
I will say this about our visit to the White House.
A lot of you wanted to know if I was
going to be able to get in the answer was yes.
I brought my passport yesterday or two days ago. I
don't have the real ID, and you have to have
a real ID or a passport, so I was able to.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Get in with my passport.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I was struck buck leave aside the politics of the
current moment and many of the topics that we discussed,
the sheer, happy, warrior dumb vibe that existed in the
West Wing yesterday when we visited with whether It's President Trump,
jd Vance, Caroline Levitt, Margo, Trump's top personal assistant Natalie,
(09:42):
who follows him around everywhere. It is a intensely positive
environment there. And I think it's because they know that
they are doing the work that the American people sent
them there to do, and they know how to do it,
and they are delivering. And Trump has a level of
confidence in what is required to do the job that
(10:05):
is next to a level And let me just echo
this again. The Israelis consulted with the Trump team, and
Trump went out yesterday and threw an all time headfake
saying that the negotiations were still ongoing. Same thing happened
with Pete Hegseth went to a Washington Nationals game.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
With his kids.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Obviously it's Father's Day weekend. You had Marco Rubio. This
was a masterclass, I think in subterfuge and the ability
to catch Iran unaware. And for Israel to have the
ability buck to actually have the Iranian schedule in person
(10:48):
meetings so they could directly attack because they are so
enmeshed in the Iranian security services, is really an incredible
strength of their attack.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And let me just mention this too.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
A lot of people told you, some on the right,
many on the left, that if Israel attacked Iran we're
still in the early stages, that this would basically be
a preset to World War III. I think you're now
learning Iran is not very strong. They lack the ability
to even defend their own country, and China and Russia
(11:26):
they're not coming to the aid the other Middle Eastern countries.
Many of them welcome this, even if they say publicly
there's a difference between public and private conversations. They may
say publicly they don't like it. Privately, they are very
welcoming even of this, and I think you're seeing that
a lot of the cataclysmic analysis, as often as the case,
(11:47):
was not reflected in reality. Yes, and this is on
track to be one of the most successful military operations
in modern military history. So we hope that that continues
because it is to the benefit of everyone that we
root for here that that is the case, not just
(12:08):
our friends Analys in Israel, and not just other Middle
Eastern countries and countries in the region that are very
pleased to see the Iranian threat cut down to size,
but also for the Iranian people. It weakens a regime
that has been nothing but a nightmare for them for
fifty years now, and it is long past time for
(12:31):
there to be changed. And there's no reason why Iran
can't be something a lot more along the lines of
say Turkey. You know, another country with a tremendously proud
history and a really rich past that functions as a
I'm not saying Turkey's perfect. We have our occasional gripes
with them in NATO, but it's a functioning, modern state
(12:51):
and not one that keeps anybody up at night in Israel,
the United States, or really around the region for that matter.
So that I think is what possible here and it's
it's looking like so far it's a very good day.
As you said, there's missiles in the air, and we
don't know what the Iranians are are going to pull
off with any reprisals, but their military to military capability
(13:14):
is deminimus. It's really the terror, the terror strikes that
we would have to be worried about, or you know,
terror cells that go operational, and we're going to have
to keep a close eye on that, and it's very
hard to fight against those. It's very hard to catch
all of those, I should say, But that can't change
the reality of what just happened to Israel, which is
its military and nuclear program have been effectively decapitated. And
(13:37):
I think this is so important for ordinary Iranians. I
thought it was interesting that Ben Shapiro told us that
they basically have tried to turn off the Internet in
Iran because they don't want people to understand what's actually
going on. But at some point, these conversations are going
to start, as they start anywhere in the world when
humans gather. Wait a minute, You've been in power the
(13:58):
Iatolas for two generations. You told us Israel was the
great evil. You told us that we were going to
eradicate Israel from the planet, and actually we don't even
have the ability to fight Israel. Leave aside the religion,
leave aside all these things, just pure efficacy of government.
(14:19):
Israel has created one of the great technological civilizations in
the history of the Middle East, and Iran has been
left behind. The Ayatolas are being embarrassed. There are early
reports now direct of some direct hits on Tel Aviv.
So we don't know what the scale of those hits
are or what if there are any casualties.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
We just know, Clay right now as we're talking to you,
there are real time reports of impacts in Tel Aviv.
We're going to continue to watch this very closely.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
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Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, in real time.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
We're following as as closely as we can the updates
from on the ground at Israel.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
There are reports of.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Impacts in Tel Aviv, but it could be a detonated missile,
or it could be shrapnel from missiles that have been
shot out of the sky. I remember some of these
are large enough that even if the pieces fall could
blow a hole through a roof, that seems like it's
actually a strike. So no reports right now, and it's
(16:25):
very early, it's very preliminary. No reports as I speak
to you of casualties on the ground in Tel Aviv
or elsewhere in Israel. But Iran is clearly doing what
it can militarily. Is as a reprisal strike right now. Now,
we've seen this in other situations play where the iron
(16:46):
Dome is incredibly effective and there are minimal casualties among
these Raelies. That are certainly the hope that we all
have right now. But we have to continue to watch
this because Iran, you can imagine, is going to fire
the best stuff it's got, and whatever it's got at
this point most likely may not be enough to penetrate.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Maybe it is, we'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, And again it's live on television right now, so
I don't ever like to say, hey, you know, but
you can see on Fox News right now the missiles,
many of them being intercepted by the defense. And again
it appears that some of them may be hitting the Gramble.
We don't know. As you said, this happened before. You
can't necessarily tell whether it's a full detonation, parts of
(17:29):
parts of the missile.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
But that is going on right now as we speak
to you. We'll talk with y L.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
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obviously been talking mostly during the course of the program
about the Israel attack on Iran. Iran now responding missiles
raining down in Israel as minute most of them, it appears,
based on the videos I'm seeing the television coverage, appear
to be shot down. Yell, Excene joins us. Now our
friend IFCJ head and I'll start with this. My understanding
(19:22):
is yell. Based on the staff, they told me that
you were on your way to Israel and flying back
from the United States, and they turned your plane around
and brought you back stateside. What can you tell us
about your personal experience before we dive in to the
latest with Israel and Iran.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yes, well, since October seventh, my biggest fear has been
leaving Israel, getting locked out you see how the airspace
closes in the second and having my family inside. So
I've been leaving periodically, but only for two or three days.
So I actually came to America now for a quick
three day trip important meetings, and I was on my
way back to Israel around three and a half hours
(20:01):
into the flight, the pilot came on and said, Israel
is right now attacking Iran's nuclear program. We have fear
of hijack and we have to close all Wi Fi,
turn around, and go back to America immediately. So I'm
here in America, my family. I'm in touch with them.
They're in the bomb shelter right now as we speak,
with hundreds of rockets overhead, and I'm just praying that
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Israel be protected and then I'll be able to get
home soon.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So what can you tell us, Elle, and thank you
for being here with us, just about the current state
of the Israeli people's mindset and how they're feeling about
this and then on the one hand, under threat missiles
coming in on the other hand, the military precision, and
it seems so far the tactical successes of this strike
(20:51):
are truly almost almost miraculous in the level of what
was accomplished here. So I wanted you to bring us
into what the Israeli people are feeling right now.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Indeed, well everyone's seeing this is really a story of
David versus Goliath. Like you have to look at Israel
on the map and then look at Iran on the map,
and Israel has been trying to protect our borders for
the past ten years, at least from the proxy terror
organizations that they've been investing in. We had Razbala on
our border on the north, we come on the border
(21:22):
of the south. They were all calling for our destruction,
and we see after October seventh that they're not just
using words, they're actually building up military presence in order
to wipe Israel off the map. But the truth is,
what Israel has realized is that these threats aren't going
to stop until we mitigate the risk of an Iranian
(21:44):
nuclear reactor, because then they don't need to talk. They
just launch one nuclear bomb and Israel is wiped out.
And so this is a day on one hand in
Israel of celebration. It's a day like Perim, like wicked
Hayman that wanted to wipe out and kill all the Jews,
and he ended up being killed on the same in
(22:05):
the same way that he planned for Mordecai, and that
was kind of the reversal of history that God and
those who threaten God's people, they will end up being
the ones who are harmed. And so on one hand,
we are celebrating that this huge risk of an Iranian
nuclear bomb is right now what it seems like, no
longer an imminent risk, which means that we will survive,
(22:28):
God willing. But on the other hand, the price might
be very high. Right now, there are hundreds of rockets
in the sky above Israel. We know that there's been hits,
and we are just praying with all of our might.
And you know, I have to also say that Israel
really feels like we're doing this not just for israel survival,
but that we're doing this on behalf of the free world.
Everyone who cherishes life, who values life. These mulahs and
(22:53):
these Islamists and Iran, they value and cherish and seek death.
And they've killed over six hundred Americans, and they've threatened America,
they threaten Iran, and they threatened the moderate Arab countries.
And so eighty years ago, six million Jews were killed
by the Nazis and the world silent. And what we're
seeing today is that as Iran attacks this nuclear threat,
(23:17):
as Israel attacks the nuclear threat and Iran, we have
the entire free world standing with us in order to
make sure the future is better and bright and free,
not just for Israel, but for Jordan, for Saudi Arabia,
for Egypt, for America, for Europe, for the UAE and Dubai,
for all these countries that just want peace. This is
(23:38):
the turning point that I pray, pray, pray that this
light will shine and will know new days of peace.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, well, you're a mom. You've got several different kids.
I think one thing that's the bombs of America don't
necessarily hear that much about or know, is that most
teenagers in Israel go in to serve the IDF. I
think that you have a child or multiple children that
are either in the IDF or soon will be. I
(24:05):
know it's Father's Day coming up in the United States
this weekend, But for the dads and moms across America
who don't really understand what that is like for every
teenager buy and large to be serving. Can you explain
how connected the people of Israel are directly to their
military service, maybe in a way that people in America
just frankly don't know and certainly isn't similar here.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Yeah, definitely. Well, Israel is a tiny country. We're seven
point five million Jews in Israel, So how do we
defend ourselves surrounded by three hundred million Arabs. It's because
every single person in Israel from the age of eighteen
actually until the age of fifty when they're doing reserve duty,
until the age of fifty serves. So at eighteen, my
daughter just graduated high school and her entire class when
(24:50):
our death graduation, they went through and said which unit
each one of them is going through in the army,
not which university they're going to. One is going to
the Air Force, one is going to the My daughter
is going to be a welfare officer for the soldiers
and to help them. But every single eighteen year old
in Israel is on the front lines in some way
(25:10):
serving and protecting this country of Israel. And the husbands
up until age of fifty are out in the field
in reserve duty protecting the country. So from my board
member who around an hour ago dropped his eighteen year
old son off at the border with Gaza, who was
deployed to go into Gaza and protect Israel, to my
(25:32):
cousin who is a forty year old man, professional data
analyst with four kids, who's been gone for two weeks
in reserve duty, it's a country of heroes, where you
go into the bank and your bankers wearing their army
uniforms because they're in reserve duty, and the teachers leave
because they're called up for reserve duty. It's a country
of heroes where everyone has a personal stake. And in fact,
(25:56):
just two weeks ago, I was at the funeral of
a ten year old boy Who've known him from the
time he was in diapers my daughter who's in the
army now, and he Shay used to play when they
were babies. And when they started the funeral for me,
this says everything. His young widow he got married two
months ago, stood up and she said, you know, I
always believe that God is good, that we are living prophecy,
(26:20):
that he wants us to fight for peace and freedom,
and if this is the cost, then let it be.
And she opened up the funeral with psalms of thanksgiving,
just thanking God for having a country of Israel, that
the Jewish people could defend ourselves, that we can live
in peace, so that we could be resilient. And there's
a very heavy cost. And I guess that's also why
(26:41):
I feel like the work of the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews is more important now than ever because
our children are on the front lines and they're wearing
their guns and protecting the values of America and the West.
And it's really peace through force when all your neighbors
want to kill you. But right now on the ground,
there are thousands of first responders who are wearing bulletproof
(27:04):
helmets and vests because of the Fellowship. There are tens
of thousands of people who are in the bomb shelters
that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has placed.
There's actually nick you babies on ventilators and in their
all getting the medical attention, being moved to underground facilities
that the Fellowship has provided that are bulletproof and shrapnel
(27:26):
proof and rocket proof, and so across Israel. Right now
as we speak, I could confidently say at least hundreds
of thousands of lives are being saved because of the
Fellowship's projects. And it's you and your listeners who have
made this possible. So for anyone who's ever given a
donation to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, I
just want to take this opportunity deep say thank you,
(27:47):
thank you, thank you, because right now it's saving lives.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
What stood out I FDJ dot org or support IFCJ
dot org, and now is the moment when you can
really show that support.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
We'll very much appreciate you being with us. Our prayers go.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Out to our brothers and sisters in Israel, and we'll
have you on again to follow up and make sure
that everything is going as well as the ken under
the circumstances.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Thank you so much for everything you do. Claim that
you are a light in the darkness.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
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shop here on Clay and Buck before we head off
for the weekend, some some notes here. First, of all
things happening right now, and so as you listen to
this over the weekend, you will know more than we
do about the missiles that are in the sky as
we speak to you. There are missiles making their way
one hundred missiles making their way toward Israel. We hope
that Israel is able to shoot them all down there
are no casualties from it. We do not know, though,
(30:07):
We do not know what is going to happen. And
the problem with with combat, the problem with warfare is
nobody knows until it happens what has happened, right so,
or what will happen. So we'll have to continue to
watch this very closely. I'm going to be out all
next week on business. Though, despite what Clay may say
in my absence about me just touring Leteur.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I will just say business, own business.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The French Riviera is not exactly I mean, you know
this is this is not trying to think of Gary,
Indiana in February, right like the Riviera in summer. Not exactly.
The French Riviera an awful place to be. Look at
Clay with the elbow off the top belt buckle for
Gary Indiana there, you know, I hear it's lovely snowshoeing
(30:56):
over there, Clay, I was trying to think of a
city that I'm not sure we're on in that would
not that's a good call. We If Gary Indiana boycott
the show, we would survive. But we do love you Gary.
We don't want you to think that we don't want
you listening. I don't even think people listening in Gary,
Indiana right now would dispute that Gary, Indiana in February
is not an ideal probably through or that the south
(31:16):
of France in general is a little bit more of
a fun destination. But I am on business overseas. I'm
on show business.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Don't let Clay fill your head with anny oabuks on
like a vacation.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It's a boondoggle.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There might be some state freed There might even be
a little champagne, a little partying late into the night.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
There could even be some yachts involved, Clay, But you
know what, I do this for us, Okay, buddy, this
is for the team. I appreciate you being so sacrificial
in nature. I will say on a on a big
picture story, this is somewhat emblematic of the culture shifting
because we have tons of big brands that have never
been willing to advertise on this show. For the four
(31:55):
years we've been talking to you every single day that
suddenly we get text messages from our ad sales team
about I'm not going to give them any advertisement until
they start spending money on this show. But I think
it's because they're realizing, Hey, seventy seven million people voted
for Donald Trump, and a lot of those people have good,
robust pocketbooks to invest in a variety of different outlet
(32:17):
and companies. And now they're all saying, wait, what's one
of the biggest shows in America, if not the biggest
Clay and Buck. Well, let's spend money. So you are
going to be to your point going to this advertising
event and meeting with some of the biggest companies in
the United States and around the world that are suddenly
interested in investing on this show. In terms of advertisers,
and speaking of advertising, Crockett Coffee is a fantastic advertiser
(32:39):
on this show. You should all be drinking your Crocket
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both having books come out in the next well, I
don't know next, less than twelve months, like eight months
(32:59):
or so.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
By the way, we had an amazing time yesterday, thanks
to everybody in the West Wing for hosting us. It
will not surprise. What is the first thing I said?
When we got a picture sent to us and we
were standing outside of the White House. I turned to Buck,
I showed him the picture, and I said, what am
I going to get ripped to the high heavens for
in this photo? That's literally the first thing I said.
When we got the photo. I was like, I don't
(33:22):
even know enough. Now, Look, here's the reality. I can
be in a tuxedo, dressed perfectly, standing next to a
beautiful woman like my wife, and you guys will completely
ignore how.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Amazing she is and just tee off on me.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I would even go so far, Buck, I think I
could be photographed purely for purposes of social media standing
next to Sidney Sweeney wearing virtually nothing, and every guy
who looks at that photo in some way will decide
to dissect what I'm wearing as opposed to what she
is not wearing. With that in mind, I believe we
(33:58):
have a talk back and angry listener upset about my attire.
Listen Clay, With all that money you got, you couldn't
afford a nice suit, and you wore jeans in the
Oval office? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I did not see this what I'm talking about. I
did not have jeans on I wore.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I would not have let him go into the Oval office.
Just just you guys know, I am I am the uh.
It's like Trump, I am the chosen one. No, I
am the Clay whisper when it comes to these issues.
I said, Clay, no flipflops, no jeans in the Oval Office.
And he didn't fight me on this one. I would
wear flip flops, shorts and a T shirt every day
(34:35):
for every event if I could.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I'm not gonna go full fetterment on all of you.
Though I wore nice uh.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
These were like one hundred and fifty dollars Peter Malar pants.
They were blue. They were not blue jeans. Now, I
did not have a suit. To be fair with you,
I didn't travel with a suit. I'm up here for
two weeks with my uh, with my son. I don't
like overpacking for clothes, so I have two jackets. I
have two jackets in our radio studio right now. To
(35:04):
Buck and Ally our producer. I got dressed, and I said,
which of these jackets is the most appropriate for me
to wear? I borrowed a tie from Buck to make
sure that I had a tie on, and Buck as
a team player, I gave him a two ties to
pick from. He actually chose well. And I also brought
in one of my son's ties because he's doing an
(35:25):
internship on Capitol Hill. Because I had had a backup,
I did not pack one of my own, which probably
doesn't surprise anybody, but I thought I actually looked fairly
decent in the outfit, and immediately it goes up. Five
seconds later, the first complaint about my outfit arises. It
doesn't matter. Now I can thankfully play the flute. There's
pictures of us in a boat up right now. Look,
(35:48):
Trump's not talking any smack about Sorry, Clay's not talking
any smack about flute playing in front of Trump because
he knows how that's going to go over Trump. Renowned
floutest has come to the come to the assistance of
flute players across America after all of the calumnies?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Is that how you all that?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I thought it was calumnies, but I can't pronounce it.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Any No, it might be.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You're probably right. I know that word from reading it,
not saying it now. I just got the pronunciation police
angry at me. But I'll be in France next week.
Pronunciation police, So what are you gonna do about that?
Enjoy the rose, Enjoy what I'm sure is a great
French ury riviera trip.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
I will be holding down the ford.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I'll be here in DC Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Buck,
we will welcome you back. You might weigh in with
a couple of different clips so we know how hard
you're working on the riviera have been.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
We'll see all Monday.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Stay safe over the weekend, and can't wait to talk
to you again in a few days.
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