May 18, 2025 • 39 mins
Trump’s highly productive Middle East trip working on economic deals, no war in the Middle East and no nuclear Iran. Doha, Qatar. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now Trumpet it's not tired of winning.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
He is on a world tour, well a Mid East tour,
but a world tour of winning, if you will. And
he's talking about a lot of things that are going
to be I think, big wins for the country, which
is the most important thing of all. So we got
about six hundred billion dollars of Saudi investment. I think
that he says has been now committed to the US.
(00:37):
He's trying to pick up a trillion dollars of direct
investment from foreign countries in the Mid East into the
United States stock market. Oh man, it's looking so good.
All of a sudden, everyone, they're four to one case.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I remember a few weeks with these are people's retirements.
You're destroying, right, I mean the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And eggs to Buck, like inflation, all of the things
that they have tried to turn into like sort of
things to weigh down the Trump presidency with they've all collapsed,
eggs are coming back down. I saw this morning I
was reading this is the biggest drop in egg prices
in a month since nineteen eighty four. The stock market
(01:17):
is now positive for the year, which is, hey, what
are you going to argue there? We got to your
point Middle East? Like everything they try to hit him
with it just blows back up in their face.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, I mean, and they're they're talking so much about
this the jet gift thing. You know, I'm just gonna
tell you, it's just hard for me to pretend to
care enough about these things when they get what.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
About the emolument's clause?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Okay, well, I remember when the Washington Post was writing
stories about how the emoluments Clause was in violation. Do
you remember this clay at the Trump hotel Because they
did an analysis and there were foreign you know, basically
(02:01):
embassy staff, ambassadors whatever, who were eating and drinking at
the Trump hotel, and they were saying, this is a
violation because if if the attache from Madagascar has a
bacon cheeseburger, maybe he can get Trump to change foreign policy.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like it was crazy stuff that they were pushing.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Now, Yeah, a three hundred million dollar jet is much
a much bigger gift than the the profit margin on
a cheeseburger. When you own a hotel and they have
to pay the staff and everything. My point merely being,
it's just hard at this point. How much am I
going to sit around and oh my gosh, you see
Trump the hysteria stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I can't. I just I can't do it right.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I can't get myself to care about these things that
they're trying to tell us to care so much about.
But we should look at some of the other wins
that Trump has racked up. You see, a federal judge
is ruled in favor of the alien Ennis ailiing a
Enemy Act deportation. The Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan, remember her,
(03:07):
the I'm going to hide the illegal in my courtroom
because federal law doesn't apply to me. As some uh
you know rinky dink judge up in uh up in Wisconsin.
She is she has been indicted by a grand jury
for basically aiding and abetting a you know, a person
who's on the run in her courtroom. I think that's
(03:30):
a win. So you've got all this. You got inflation
lower than expected. I think we mentioned that yesterday, but
it came in. It was like two point four percent
or something.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Inflation.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Just imagine what this economy starts to look like as
you get more trade deals play and a few basis
points get dropped from this or you know, they start
dropping rates, just put it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Put it simply.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I think these are all the kinds of wins that
Trump is going to be able to rack up. And
and then there's also the drug probably.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Look.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Trump was on with our friend Sean Hannity last night.
Sean's traveling with him through the Middle East. I thought
this is really interesting. He's talking about opening up China
US businesses. This is cut thirteen.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Play it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
One of the things I think they could be most
exciting for US and also for China is that we're
trying to open up China because as you know, many
years ago we opened up the USA. Now it's time
for China to open up. And that's part of our deal,
and we're going to open up China. To me, that's
the most exciting part.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But yeah, we made a deal.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
The relationship is very good. I've always had a good
relationship with President she who was interrupted because of COVID obviously,
but outside of that, I've always had a great relationship,
a lot of respect for him, and we'll see how
that all works out, but we have the confines of
a very very strong deal with China.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Players we get more details about this, we don't really
have any details right now, but they're going to have
to provide something.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
We're going to to hear more about this. I think
that Look, I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Get ahead of things, but it just feels like the
Trump team is simultaneously firing on all cylinders and also
keeping things pretty much on schedule. You know, they're moving
at the pace that they said they'd be moving and
getting things done the way they said they would from
the start.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Let's just think about this. Because you worked in the CIA,
You've spent a lot of time overseas. One of the
big criticisms of Trump for much of his political career
is that he isn't able to handle foreign affairs. That's
probably one of the they we're going to get into
World War three. He has no idea what he's doing.
Let's just think buck in the last week, what he
(05:44):
has helped to accomplish. First of all, Marco Rubio is
doing an amazing job. He has forty eight different jobs
inside of the government right now. But it didn't get
very much attention. You mentioned it on the show quite
a lot last week. But I do think it's significant
that India and Pakistan not really great historic friends. They
were in danger of having a conflict spiral out of control.
(06:08):
Trump engaged in some form of mediation to help settle
that situation down in potentially tomorrow, in Istanbul, we may
have the first face to face meeting between Zelenski and
Putin since Putin invaded Ukraine in what February or March
of twenty twenty two, whenever that initial invasion started, if
(06:29):
I remember correctly, and they are only meeting there according
to reports, if Trump will show up, so they're begging
Trump to go to Istanbul. We also have Trump normalizing
relations with Syria, which is being seen even by Trump
critics as a potential stroke of genius that could massively
(06:53):
aid stabilization in the Middle East by cutting off the
long term relationship of Ron, which was basically using Syria
as a proxy terror state and helping along with Russia
to prop up Asad, the dictator who has now been removed. Okay,
I'm just kind of giving people a little bit of
a rundown here. You get the final American terrorist who's
(07:15):
been held for something like five hundred and eighty days
edon Alexander hostage sorry, held by terrorist eton Alexander the
final American innocent back. And you also potentially get the
trade deal done with China. Any one of those that
I just ran through would be typically huge, monumental one
(07:37):
week or more stories. Trump has done them all, not
to mention getting trillions of dollars potentially in aid and
commitment from Middle Eastern countries like the UAE, like Katar,
like Saudi Arabia to invest in American business. That seems
to be pretty good few days.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And I do think as well, you can already lay
out out more initiatives, conversations, ideas that have some of
that has already. I view that the border is actually
a international relations issue, right. We think of it very
much as it's so much tied in. It's the economy,
it's domestic and national security, it's all these different things.
(08:19):
But especially when you have a border Clay that had
almost two hundred nations people arriving at illegally. I think
the final number from border patrol I saw was like
one eighty something, right, I mean, there's not that many
countries in the.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
World, so you got illegals from all over the world, and.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Now they're trying to figure out how to get them back,
and that requires foreign relations, and that requires using pressure,
carrots and sticks, and that has already been a massive success.
That alone is more than I can attest to for
four years of the Biden administration sending the absolutely hapless
and professionally worthless. Maybe he's a nice man, professionally worthless
(08:58):
Anthony Blincoln as Secretary of State to do what I mean,
if we sit here and we talk so much about
Biden's dementia, it's worth remembering everyone this team was president
for four years. What is the one win that you
can point to on foreign policy? And I know some
of you are already shouting, look at the disastrous withdrawal
(09:19):
from Afghanistan?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
How they did that? No, we all know that. I'm saying,
you find me.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
The one win that they have on the world stage
that you can point what getting us embroiled in the
endless supplying of a war between Russia and Ukraine that
Russia is slowly winning and choking off Ukraine and killing
a generation of Ukrainian fighters, Like what exactly was Biden
able to accomplish? And I mean his team really because
(09:45):
we all know about Biden himself. And then you see
what Trump has claimed work one hundred and I don't know,
one hundred and twenty or something days into the administration
or less than that, and already you're talking about a
true strategic shift in our relationship with ch which is
I mean, the EU is the largest economy in the world, right,
but if we break it down, it's US and then
it's China by nation state.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
And we're not even talking about this stuff from the
Mid East and the trillion dollars of investment that he's
going to be bringing in from there.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I also think and it has not been recognized, and
probably that's because a lot of people are morons. He's
also now strategically really isolated Iran and given himself substantial
leeway when it comes to negotiating this new deal. And
let me explain in basically one minute what I mean
by this. Syria is now going to be viewing Trump
(10:39):
as a hero. They certainly view Saudi Arabia as heroic
for helping to get them off of the sanctions list.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
As I say, he pulled off the sanctions, which means
Syria now has a chance. Let's see what this country
can do. Let's see what the new leadership of Syria
can do. There's been a big opening here for them.
You know, you want to do good things. Trump's gonna
bring good things to you. You want to play stupid games,
You're gonna win stupid prizes.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Great relationship, even better maybe than it's ever been with
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Syria. We know that historically
Israel is an ally of the United States. I would
submit to you that Trump has now given himself the leeway,
if necessary, to have strikes against Iran and not have
(11:26):
other parts of the Middle East react and say, oh
my goodness, what in the world is Trump doing. Iran
is really really isolated now Becauseiri is not going to care. Certainly,
Saudi Arabia doesn't want a nuclear powered Iran, the UAE
doesn't want that, Katar doesn't want that, Israel doesn't want that.
(11:48):
They may be coming from different perspectives, but they're all
aligned now with the United States in the Middle East.
We have managed to kind of in the Ghostbusters analogy,
Buck bring cats and dogs together to marshal them against Iran.
And you've been over there. When's the last time you
even heard a story about Iraq? Yeah, I mean what,
(12:11):
I don't even I mean, I'm gonna be honest. You
used to read twenty stories a day about what was
going on in Iraq when we were spending wasting, unfortunately
trillions of dollars on Iraq. I can't even tell you
what is going on in Iraq? Do you have any
I don't really have any clue. Remember when we killed Solimani,
it was, oh my god, World War three is gonna happen.
I don't remember the last time Iraq had any sort
(12:32):
of major say on the larger geopolitical stage.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, I mean, you haven't seen in Iraq story in
in quite some time. I think it's kind of limping
along as a country. Yeah, but it it has, it
has certainly. Yeah, it's dropped out of the headlines. I
can't even think of the last story that we talked
about this on the show about Iraq, but on the
Iran isolation from the world. I mean, the problem and
(12:57):
I think you can see this very clearly. The Obama
administration and essentially gave up all other possible wins in
the Middle East and had created a disaster. I mean
I would Clay, I could do a three hour show
right now at the top of my head on what
a disaster Obama's foreign policy, which Biden was in charge of,
by the way, allegedly, what a disaster Obama's foreign policy was.
(13:19):
And even Democrats, some of them were like, this is
just I can't this is so indefensible and on so many.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Levels it was atrocious.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But it was all to get Iran further and meshed
in the international system, give them essentially inducements for better behavior.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It did not work.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Iran did not behave better And I know people say, oh,
well Trump got us out of it. Yeah, because he
saw where this was going. He saw what the inducements
got us, which is this, this is a corrupt and
evil regime. There's no there's no turning it around with them.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
This is who the Mullahs are, so to speak, It's
who the IRGC is. And And there, I think is
just the understanding that Trump has on foreign policy of
who are friends, who are enemies? How do we treat them?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do they know?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
The difference? And the answer with Trump to those questions
is quite clear.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I think.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I think that's one hundred percent right.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
You know, Trump knows who the good guys are, who
the bad guys are. That sounds so simple, but Democrats
don't like so bad.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Hey, how's your four to one? Kalo Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Clay over there with his French cuff shirts with the
monograms and the stock ticker behind him.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I can just see it right now.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
We got to get like a separate set for you
on radio where Clay's like, all right, guys, we're talking stocks.
He said, don't sell if anything buy It was good advice.
It was good advice. And I will tell you great advice.
I actually I did buy the dip and uh, and
it was a good move.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Stocks aren't up for the year. That that's the thing
you need to know. And you know things have gotten
a lot better because they don't put the stockticker up
on CNN. They don't put the stock ticker up on MSNBC.
It is such a dishonest thing that when the stocks
were going down, that was the lead story. Price of eggs.
Let me hit you at this buck, price of gas.
(15:15):
Nobody talking about it. Last night I went to an
mls game two dollars sixty five cents. I drove past
a Nashville area gas station two dollars sixty five cents.
It is continuing to come down even as we typically
gas prices go up in the summer. People drive more,
that's a general rule. It's down by half compared to
(15:37):
what it was in the summer of twenty twenty two.
With Joe Biden virtually zero media discussion. That's how most
people recognize what the price of goods is. That's the
thing they see and justin see price changing constantly, gas
prices four year lows.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And part of this, I think is whether you're when
you're reporting on the news, you have to focus on
what is important and you look for what is in
conflict in those important areas. Right, So the economy, should
we be spending more or how's the market going? Or
where's unemployment? And what can be done to change this?
And what are the policies. The opposition to Trump on
these things right now is so weak as to be
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not even really worthy of time. That's just the truth
that they are not mounting any real arguments against it.
So we're updating you on what he's doing at some
level because that's the only show in town and it's
going well. Right if it was and when things were rough,
what do we say, Okay, the market's down, it's going
to be choppy, this is going to require a reset.
(16:39):
But we think he knows what he's doing. Trust in this,
and sure enough, here we are. So I just give
you all that because we're watching.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Trust me. All Clay and I do is read the news.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Pretty much all day long and set up stories to
talk about because I know there can be a little
bit of pushback on.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Why are we talking about the Biden thing?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Because we're just finding out the full extent of how
dishonest and disgraceful it was.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, and bye way to people out there who say, well,
we know he was bad.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
We know.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Did you see what they did on January sixth? They
spent four.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Years marinating in January sixth, they had prime time hearings,
they came out and told all of us it was
the worst day since the Civil War. I would submit
to you this is way worse and the media is
going to cover it and the Democrat brand. It's a
big left wing conspiracy. If Republicans do their job and
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they hold all these people's feet to the fire. This
will make January sixth look like a random BLM riot,
which is basically what it was. And we saw hundreds
of those We've never remembered the bore in our lives.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I remember this Tapper publicly, mister Jake Tapper, who's co
authored this book that is rightly being Unfortunately, they're going
to sell a ton of copies. So it is a
smart financial decision. But the premise of it, which is
we're the good guys for telling you the truth now,
is and just just an affront to our intelligence and
to the dignity of public discourse.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Uh. But we we're watching all the But.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I do think that building on what you just said
is important and why this is such a huge deal.
They have to cover it to make themselves cleansed from
their complicity.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
There's no way around this, that's right. That's why they
want control of the narrative to the greatest possible degree.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And you've almost started to see some of them maybe
with the beginnings of some contrition, insofar as they would
rather be thought dumb than dishonest. Just remember that they
because they know dishonesty means you're never listening to them again.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Dumb means uh.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Do better next time. That's what they're going for here.
But it actually was not that it was that they
were dishonest. They are clever.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Taper.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I just wanted to point out, and you can go
go go check on Twitter public he was of the Oh,
you said that people shouldn't attack cops on January and
I mean on the day and right after. You're all complicit.
You get no credit for it. Everybody who was speaking
out against violence that day, you know, your blood is
on your He was one of those guys. He was
a blood is on all your hands guys. And as
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we know, the only like substantial injury or rather the
only fatal injury was to a woman who was shot
by a police officer as Capitol Kaplin neck anyway, Ashley Babbitt,
which is still a stain on this country that that happened.
But okay, so here we are now, Clay and they're
gonna have to try to explain this to their own side.
(19:34):
Wolf Blitzer, the most milk toast of the CNN, right,
I think I nailed that one.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Thank you. I think gave me information.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yes, the most milk toast of the CNN anchor stable
over there. He starts with Hakeem Jeffries on, Okay, what
did we know about this decline? Let's walk through this together, friends.
This just happened in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Play two.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
President Biden didn't even recognize George Clooney at a fundraiser.
Why should voters trust Democrats when it's clear so many
in your party went to great lengths to keep Biden's
condition hidden hidden from the public.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
I can't tell you what happened between George Clooney and
President Biden that wasn't at that event.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
What I can say is that we're not looking back.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
We're going to continue to look forward because at this
moment we've got real problems that need to be addressed
on behalf of the American people, including the Republican effort
to snatch away healthcare, snatch away full assistance and hurt veterans.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
That's not going to work, the uh, the old Potomac pivot,
it's not it's not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The UH.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
We're just looking forward now. No, Actually, this is in
many ways, Clay. I think VIMA for the honor and
integrity such as it is of a political party in America.
I've never seen anything like this before. I've never seen
anything that is this because it wasn't and you know,
(20:59):
I don't want to get it all. The January sixth
was a different thing. You know, there was a whole
lot of there was a lot of rigging that went
on in that election. There was a whole lot of
reason for concern. It was mostly it was a mostly
peaceful protest. It was mostly a protest and everything else.
This was a all the King's horses and all the
King's men, multi year conspiracy at the very top of
(21:21):
the government, day in and day out. It wasn't a
protest that got too rowdy and that then was treated
like it was, you know, Pearl Harbor bombing.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And I think we need to see this for what
it is.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, And that's why I think we need to have
primetime congressional hearings. I just I don't if Republicans do
not do this, they are incompetent, because one, it's super
important for the country. We can never have this situation
occur again. Say whatever you want about Barack Obama, say
(21:53):
whatever you want about Donald Trump, Bill Clinton.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
George W.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Did anybody doubt that they had had the mental faculties
to make whatever choices they wanted to make. Of course
not I think heck, I'd like to see Obama under oath.
Why did Obama not pick Joe Biden in twenty sixteen.
It's some real question that Biden has never really answered.
(22:19):
I think it's because they could see already that he
was in the early stages of dementia in twenty sixteen,
and that's why he went to Hillary.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He didn't let his VP that was there for eight
years take over.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I know they tried to say, well, Joe, you're just
not doing well enough because your son died. I'm sure
that was debilitating to Biden and probably did not help
his descent into dementia. But was the death of his
son partly what they used as a cover to explain
his descent into dementia.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Maybe it accelerated it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Twenty nineteen, he didn't recognize the guy who had been
his top advisor since the nineteen eighties. And I hate
to say this, but you all know how dementia works.
Some days you can have good days and you can think, hey,
maybe it's not so bad.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I thought they this is where you and I see
this a little differently. I think they thought they could
thread the needle with a good day on debate night.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
How they thought that. I don't know what the nap
schedule was or whatever, or the drugs that they were
likely shooting him up with right before he went out.
And I you know, you could look at his eyes,
remember us talking about how he would wear the sunglasses,
But if you zoomed in on his eyes, the man
looked hopped up on stuff like crazy when he was
(23:50):
given some of these speeches. Remember how angry he looked.
Remember how I mean, I'm there is zero doubt that
they were shooting him up like crazy. Remember when he
finished the State of the Union and he read go
get him?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And remember when he went to Ukraine and at the
end he had lived, and they were so angry at
him about what he said at the end, like we've
got a tear down putin or whatever it was. They
the guy could barely read off a prompter, but like
an old ballplayer who's been doing something for a long time,
(24:27):
he could be as good as he was for short
periods of time, depending on day and time.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I'm gonna tell you this right now, if it was
really about what was good for the country and going
forward being more accurate and doing a better job, where's
your invitation, where's my invitation to go on Morning Joe
and explain why we scrats the whole time?
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
But when is the view going to say, Hey, Buck,
I want you to come on and just walk us
through why you and Clay.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
They can have both of us, it'd be fun. Why
you and Clay were right about this for years, to.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
The point where it was almost like the mockery felt hackneyed.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
After a while.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
It's like, we've just done this joke day in and
day out, day in and day because we're left with
no choice. Why did you guys get it right? No, Instead,
we're still some we were right, they were wrong, but
somehow they still feel morally superior in the situation. This
is what you have to remember about Democrats. It doesn't
matter that they look like absolute well liars and buffoons.
(25:29):
It's they did this to stop the bad team. The
bad people were the bad people. Nothing else matters, which is,
by the way, their entire ethos when it comes to
dealing with Donald Trump, so is it surprising Clay that
they would do this, given that they say.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I you know, they have the on a Loricia last
night just to kind of laugh. There's these professors at.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yale, as if that's supposed to impress anybody, it should
not impress anybody. These professors at Yale who are leaving
the country because they're experts in fascism and they can't
handle all the fascism that's going on. So they're idiots
and cowards because they're just abatting their country instead of
standing in no surprise there right got to go find
a tenured position somewhere else. But at what point do
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they just realize, you guys are wrong, you're insane, grow
up and calm down.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
By the way, we got another bit of breaking news
that's another conspiracy theory I think that we've shared on
this show that now looks like it's true. Jim Jordan
is investigating and it appears he has found smoking gun
evidence that Pfizer hid the results of their COVID shot
to avoid it coming out before the twenty twenty election. So,
(26:38):
in addition to all the other rig jobs that were
going only the Wall Street Journal just published Lawmakers investigating
whether Pfizer waited to share results. And Jim Jordan just
shared some tweets and emails that suggest that Pfizer's top
execs intentionally prevented that from occurring, which obviously given how
(26:59):
close that was, And Jim Jordan now is going to
come on the show with us tomorrow to be talking
about that.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Buck. So, conspiracy theorists are on a hell of a run.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
They're like a baseball team that's going like one hundred
and sixty two. And oh, everything they told you was
a conspiracy, you wait a few months and or in
this case, a few years, and it ends up being true. Hey, Buck,
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Speaker 6 (27:55):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I've read about Trump's trip to the Middle East. These
are top Democrat officials. This is Axios this morning. I
want you to listen that speech that Trump gave in
Saudi Arabia. It was really pretty incredible. This is what
top Democrat officials told Axios. Listen to this Buck quote, gosh,
(28:19):
I wish I could work for an administration that could
move that quickly. These are top Democrat officials. Listen to
these quotes. He does all of this and it's kind
of silence. It's met with a shrug, said Ned Price,
a former senior State Department official. He has the ability
to do things politically that previous presidents did not because
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he has complete, unquestioned authority over the Republican Caucus. Another quote,
it's Martin and I work together at the CIA. By
the way, Oh okay, yeah, here's a third quote. It's
hard not to be simultaneously terrified at the thought of
the damage he can call with such power and awed
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by his willingness to brazenly shatter so many harmful taboos,
said Rob Malley, relating to what Trump is doing in
the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Did you have the speech?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:16):
I did.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
It was incredible to the whole things, Harry Eggs and
watching the baby double tasking like a dad does, and Clay.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It was a phenomenal speech, truly, Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And what but what I thought was interesting is it
was such a good speech that even Democrats who hate
Trump are.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Kind of in awe of how this trip has gone.
And I do think and you'll.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Really appreciate this. Obviously, with the CIA background, how challenging.
What he has managed to pull off is He's got
the uae Qatar and Saudi Arabia all competing to see
who can show throw him the best state visit party.
He's got Syria celebrating America in the streets, and he
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has isolated Iran now to the point where other than
Russia and maybe China, which we know already were traditional allies,
who in the Middle East has even got Iran's back Now.
I know some people in Israel are upset about Trump's
closeness to the uae Qatar in Saudi Arabia, but I
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would suggest that that has led to Trump being able
to put more pressure on Iran than maybe any president
in modern history has ever been.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Able to do.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Trump says that as of today, he is very close
to a deal with Iran that was as part of
this part of this trip. That's what's going on there.
And when he was speaking at that Katari round table,
he said Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. They're at it,
but they're they're getting very close to doing maybe a deal.
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I just want to say, we've made this joke for
about a decade now, Clay that if Trump came out
and said, guys, we've got great news. We have managed
the administration's project to cure cancer is a success, there
would be some way the Democrat First of all, the
Democrats wouldn't believe it, and then they would say, you
(31:26):
know what funding did he use for this? And they
would have all of these objections, whether it's process objections
or whatever, doesn't matter what it is. They'll find a
way to not be happy for whatever Trump does. If
he gets a nuclear deal, which has been a Democrat dream,
I know they'd say, oh, we got one with Obama.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Wasn't a very good deal. If Trump gets a.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Deal, are they going to say, well, I guess they'll
just say it's not a good deal, right, kind of know?
There's nothing he can do that will make them say,
you know what, this guy's actually got something, even though
he can't run again and everything else, they will just
oppose him to oppose. And this is I think what
you see with the whole trip, and also with a
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lot of what the not everything, but a lot of
what the administration is doing so far.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You just say, these.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Are just objectively good things to be trying to accomplish,
and there's objectively real progress happening on them all. And
you get people that are still saying that this is
like fascism or something.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I mean, there's this delusion they.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Live in well, and I think this is why the
putting them on the defense with the Joe Biden aspect
is so important. You and I think it was ludicrous
that the twenty twenty two election in any way turned
on January sixth. Whatever you think about Dobbs, at least
that was a tangible political action that people felt compelled
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to respond to. But the idea that anybody in November
of twenty twenty two reacted in their voting patterns based
on what happened on January sixth is frankly crazy. But
the media it seem like such a big deal that
I think some people were motivated by that. I think
what I jotted this now during one of the breaks.
(33:11):
I'm going to give Jake Tapper a small measure of
praise here, Buck and I just I see your face.
I understand that many of you out there also. He
likes football, Clay likes football.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I knew this was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'm telling you why. Jake Tapper writing this book is
going to be impossible for Democrats to avoid because it's
one of their own writing it. If there are lots
of very talented, quote unquote right wing authors who could
write a book about Biden's dementia, and they would forswear it.
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They would ignore it, just like they have ignored you
and me and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and all
the other people on the Premiere Network, Jesse Kelly pointing
this out for years, just like they have ignored many
of the people on Fox News, just like they have ignored, frankly,
even the Wall Street Journal. When the Wall Street Journal
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had a big piece about Biden's clear lack of cognitive ability.
They can't ignore Jake Tapper. It's like if Rachel Maddow
suddenly sits down and says, we got major problems. Joe
Biden has dementia, which she knew but which she covered
up and pretended she didn't. They have to cover it
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on CNN, they have to cover it on MSNBC, they
have to cover it in The New Yorker, at ABC,
at CBS, at NBC. It's one of their own telling
the story. And that is the only praise I can
give Jake Tapper. If Jesse Waters writes this book, they
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just say, oh, yeah, of course that Fox News host.
If you or I write this book, they're like, oh,
of course. The guys who sit where Rush used to.
Jake Tapper is one of their own, and he is
holding up the dementia and they feel compelled to have
to cover it now. Is partly to your point, the
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fact that they'd rather be dumb than be seen as dishonest. Yes,
Are they going to claim that they got lied to? Yes,
which is why I liked your tweet yesterday that you
brought up yesterday.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Why don't you tell us who lied? What about Karine
Jean Pierre?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know, has there ever been a more public liar
in the history of the United States? Than Karine Jean
Pierre Zensaki, who has her own show on MSNBC.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
She didn't know.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
She didn't know when Jake Sullivan, when Biden can't remember
his name. They didn't talk about it inside of the They.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
All knew, they all knew.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I wish they would come forward actually and just say, yeah,
we knew he had dementia. But we figured that was
a better outcome for the country than the fascist Donald Trump,
And that was the decision we made.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
That would show how at some level craven they are.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
But at least I could respect that, Like, at least
I could say, all right, you guys are ruthless and
you're liar. Is that is also honest? At least it's honest. Yes,
at least it is honest. At least they would be
telling us what really happened, which, let me just be clear,
that is what happened. It's not I think that's what happened.
That is what happened. We all know it the same
(36:29):
way we knew Biden had dementia. We know that they knew,
and they knew that we knew. Everybody knows, and now
the Hubrist to try to pretend like nobody knew this
is really a but.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
If I point on the Tapper thing, Tapper is one
of them. It would be like if Joe Scarborough wrote
Biden has dementia, he wouldn't do it. Also, why couldn't
Alex Thompson do this himself?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Though? What I would?
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Well, that's my question that I've had from the start.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Right, if he's the one that people say but he
was more honest about it, it's like, why do I
think he's adding Tapper? Because Tapper's whole thing within the
Democrats is like that is, first of all, if he
came on, which who knows if you will or not,
or if we want to have him or not, he
would still claim that he's an objective reporter and does
not actually he's I mean, he's a clear Democrat activist,
but he would say he's an objective reporter.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He would hold to that.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
And he is the last gasp of the Democrats clinging
to that fiction. So he has a lot of power
within the Democrat media ranks because of that. Because if
everyone just and when I say everybody, everyone the right
already knows. But if the country by sort of overwhelming
consensus that that pays attention to news a lot of
your fortunite. You don't even care about this crap, but
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the country that pays attention to, you know, news media,
it was all like, you know what, Jake Tapper was
a big partisan fraud too. It's all over for them now.
It's just it's MSNBC and it's Fox. It's two different teams.
We all know it, we all get it. There's no
more of the pretense because the pretense has been a
built in advantage, the pretense of journalism as an objective
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thing instead of journalism is really just the term given
to left wing activists who write stories for left wing
news organizations. If that goes away, they lose something that
they've been able to rely on for a long time,
and it's been going away.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
But I think this is the death throes of it.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I do think there's a small realization dawning in a
lot of people's minds that they thought they were the
good guys and they're actually going to be the bad
guys of history. They got everything wrong on COVID, they
covered up dementia from Joe Biden. I think slowly they
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are thinking, uh, oh, I always said this buck. If
you are a history guy or history. Gal be very,
very nervous when people say, oh, I'm sure we're on
the right side of history, because history has a way
of revealing sometimes things that people didn't not see in
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the moment. And my argument for a long time has been,
they are going to be everyone who thinks they're the
hero of this era is actually going to be the
villains of history. Fauci Biden, everyone who held them up
and protected them. If history does its job, those guys
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one hundred years from now are going to be seen
as the biggest villains in America. I really believe, and
I think that's where we're headed. And I think doctor
Jill Biden may end up being one of the greatest
villain nesses Is that a right word. I think that's
the right word. She's the Cruella de Ville of American politics,
and she's headed there in a real hurry.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now Trumpet it's not tired of winning.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
He is on a world tour, well a Mid East tour,
but a world tour of winning, if you will. And
he's talking about a lot of things that are going
to be I think, big wins for the country, which
is the most important thing of all. So we got
about six hundred billion dollars of Saudi investment. I think
that he says has been now committed to the US.
(00:37):
He's trying to pick up a trillion dollars of direct
investment from foreign countries in the Mid East into the
United States stock market. Oh man, it's looking so good.
All of a sudden, everyone, they're four to one case.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I remember a few weeks with these are people's retirements.
You're destroying, right, I mean the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And eggs to Buck, like inflation, all of the things
that they have tried to turn into like sort of
things to weigh down the Trump presidency with they've all collapsed,
eggs are coming back down. I saw this morning I
was reading this is the biggest drop in egg prices
in a month since nineteen eighty four. The stock market
(01:17):
is now positive for the year, which is, hey, what
are you going to argue there? We got to your
point Middle East? Like everything they try to hit him
with it just blows back up in their face.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, I mean, and they're they're talking so much about
this the jet gift thing. You know, I'm just gonna
tell you, it's just hard for me to pretend to
care enough about these things when they get what.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
About the emolument's clause?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Okay, well, I remember when the Washington Post was writing
stories about how the emoluments Clause was in violation. Do
you remember this clay at the Trump hotel Because they
did an analysis and there were foreign you know, basically
(02:01):
embassy staff, ambassadors whatever, who were eating and drinking at
the Trump hotel, and they were saying, this is a
violation because if if the attache from Madagascar has a
bacon cheeseburger, maybe he can get Trump to change foreign policy.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like it was crazy stuff that they were pushing.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Now, Yeah, a three hundred million dollar jet is much
a much bigger gift than the the profit margin on
a cheeseburger. When you own a hotel and they have
to pay the staff and everything. My point merely being,
it's just hard at this point. How much am I
going to sit around and oh my gosh, you see
Trump the hysteria stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I can't. I just I can't do it right.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I can't get myself to care about these things that
they're trying to tell us to care so much about.
But we should look at some of the other wins
that Trump has racked up. You see, a federal judge
is ruled in favor of the alien Ennis ailiing a
Enemy Act deportation. The Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan, remember her,
(03:07):
the I'm going to hide the illegal in my courtroom
because federal law doesn't apply to me. As some uh
you know rinky dink judge up in uh up in Wisconsin.
She is she has been indicted by a grand jury
for basically aiding and abetting a you know, a person
who's on the run in her courtroom. I think that's
(03:30):
a win. So you've got all this. You got inflation
lower than expected. I think we mentioned that yesterday, but
it came in. It was like two point four percent
or something.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Inflation.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Just imagine what this economy starts to look like as
you get more trade deals play and a few basis
points get dropped from this or you know, they start
dropping rates, just put it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Put it simply.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I think these are all the kinds of wins that
Trump is going to be able to rack up. And
and then there's also the drug probably.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Look.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Trump was on with our friend Sean Hannity last night.
Sean's traveling with him through the Middle East. I thought
this is really interesting. He's talking about opening up China
US businesses. This is cut thirteen.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Play it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
One of the things I think they could be most
exciting for US and also for China is that we're
trying to open up China because as you know, many
years ago we opened up the USA. Now it's time
for China to open up. And that's part of our deal,
and we're going to open up China. To me, that's
the most exciting part.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But yeah, we made a deal.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
The relationship is very good. I've always had a good
relationship with President she who was interrupted because of COVID obviously,
but outside of that, I've always had a great relationship,
a lot of respect for him, and we'll see how
that all works out, but we have the confines of
a very very strong deal with China.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Players we get more details about this, we don't really
have any details right now, but they're going to have
to provide something.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
We're going to to hear more about this. I think
that Look, I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Get ahead of things, but it just feels like the
Trump team is simultaneously firing on all cylinders and also
keeping things pretty much on schedule. You know, they're moving
at the pace that they said they'd be moving and
getting things done the way they said they would from
the start.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Let's just think about this. Because you worked in the CIA,
You've spent a lot of time overseas. One of the
big criticisms of Trump for much of his political career
is that he isn't able to handle foreign affairs. That's
probably one of the they we're going to get into
World War three. He has no idea what he's doing.
Let's just think buck in the last week, what he
(05:44):
has helped to accomplish. First of all, Marco Rubio is
doing an amazing job. He has forty eight different jobs
inside of the government right now. But it didn't get
very much attention. You mentioned it on the show quite
a lot last week. But I do think it's significant
that India and Pakistan not really great historic friends. They
were in danger of having a conflict spiral out of control.
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Trump engaged in some form of mediation to help settle
that situation down in potentially tomorrow, in Istanbul, we may
have the first face to face meeting between Zelenski and
Putin since Putin invaded Ukraine in what February or March
of twenty twenty two, whenever that initial invasion started, if
(06:29):
I remember correctly, and they are only meeting there according
to reports, if Trump will show up, so they're begging
Trump to go to Istanbul. We also have Trump normalizing
relations with Syria, which is being seen even by Trump
critics as a potential stroke of genius that could massively
(06:53):
aid stabilization in the Middle East by cutting off the
long term relationship of Ron, which was basically using Syria
as a proxy terror state and helping along with Russia
to prop up Asad, the dictator who has now been removed. Okay,
I'm just kind of giving people a little bit of
a rundown here. You get the final American terrorist who's
(07:15):
been held for something like five hundred and eighty days
edon Alexander hostage sorry, held by terrorist eton Alexander the
final American innocent back. And you also potentially get the
trade deal done with China. Any one of those that
I just ran through would be typically huge, monumental one
(07:37):
week or more stories. Trump has done them all, not
to mention getting trillions of dollars potentially in aid and
commitment from Middle Eastern countries like the UAE, like Katar,
like Saudi Arabia to invest in American business. That seems
to be pretty good few days.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And I do think as well, you can already lay
out out more initiatives, conversations, ideas that have some of
that has already. I view that the border is actually
a international relations issue, right. We think of it very
much as it's so much tied in. It's the economy,
it's domestic and national security, it's all these different things.
(08:19):
But especially when you have a border Clay that had
almost two hundred nations people arriving at illegally. I think
the final number from border patrol I saw was like
one eighty something, right, I mean, there's not that many
countries in the.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
World, so you got illegals from all over the world, and.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Now they're trying to figure out how to get them back,
and that requires foreign relations, and that requires using pressure,
carrots and sticks, and that has already been a massive success.
That alone is more than I can attest to for
four years of the Biden administration sending the absolutely hapless
and professionally worthless. Maybe he's a nice man, professionally worthless
(08:58):
Anthony Blincoln as Secretary of State to do what I mean,
if we sit here and we talk so much about
Biden's dementia, it's worth remembering everyone this team was president
for four years. What is the one win that you
can point to on foreign policy? And I know some
of you are already shouting, look at the disastrous withdrawal
(09:19):
from Afghanistan?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
How they did that? No, we all know that. I'm saying,
you find me.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
The one win that they have on the world stage
that you can point what getting us embroiled in the
endless supplying of a war between Russia and Ukraine that
Russia is slowly winning and choking off Ukraine and killing
a generation of Ukrainian fighters, Like what exactly was Biden
able to accomplish? And I mean his team really because
(09:45):
we all know about Biden himself. And then you see
what Trump has claimed work one hundred and I don't know,
one hundred and twenty or something days into the administration
or less than that, and already you're talking about a
true strategic shift in our relationship with ch which is
I mean, the EU is the largest economy in the world, right,
but if we break it down, it's US and then
it's China by nation state.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
And we're not even talking about this stuff from the
Mid East and the trillion dollars of investment that he's
going to be bringing in from there.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I also think and it has not been recognized, and
probably that's because a lot of people are morons. He's
also now strategically really isolated Iran and given himself substantial
leeway when it comes to negotiating this new deal. And
let me explain in basically one minute what I mean
by this. Syria is now going to be viewing Trump
(10:39):
as a hero. They certainly view Saudi Arabia as heroic
for helping to get them off of the sanctions list.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
As I say, he pulled off the sanctions, which means
Syria now has a chance. Let's see what this country
can do. Let's see what the new leadership of Syria
can do. There's been a big opening here for them.
You know, you want to do good things. Trump's gonna
bring good things to you. You want to play stupid games,
You're gonna win stupid prizes.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Great relationship, even better maybe than it's ever been with
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Syria. We know that historically
Israel is an ally of the United States. I would
submit to you that Trump has now given himself the leeway,
if necessary, to have strikes against Iran and not have
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other parts of the Middle East react and say, oh
my goodness, what in the world is Trump doing. Iran
is really really isolated now Becauseiri is not going to care. Certainly,
Saudi Arabia doesn't want a nuclear powered Iran, the UAE
doesn't want that, Katar doesn't want that, Israel doesn't want that.
(11:48):
They may be coming from different perspectives, but they're all
aligned now with the United States in the Middle East.
We have managed to kind of in the Ghostbusters analogy,
Buck bring cats and dogs together to marshal them against Iran.
And you've been over there. When's the last time you
even heard a story about Iraq? Yeah, I mean what,
(12:11):
I don't even I mean, I'm gonna be honest. You
used to read twenty stories a day about what was
going on in Iraq when we were spending wasting, unfortunately
trillions of dollars on Iraq. I can't even tell you
what is going on in Iraq? Do you have any
I don't really have any clue. Remember when we killed Solimani,
it was, oh my god, World War three is gonna happen.
I don't remember the last time Iraq had any sort
(12:32):
of major say on the larger geopolitical stage.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, I mean, you haven't seen in Iraq story in
in quite some time. I think it's kind of limping
along as a country. Yeah, but it it has, it
has certainly. Yeah, it's dropped out of the headlines. I
can't even think of the last story that we talked
about this on the show about Iraq, but on the
Iran isolation from the world. I mean, the problem and
(12:57):
I think you can see this very clearly. The Obama
administration and essentially gave up all other possible wins in
the Middle East and had created a disaster. I mean
I would Clay, I could do a three hour show
right now at the top of my head on what
a disaster Obama's foreign policy, which Biden was in charge of,
by the way, allegedly, what a disaster Obama's foreign policy was.
(13:19):
And even Democrats, some of them were like, this is
just I can't this is so indefensible and on so many.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Levels it was atrocious.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But it was all to get Iran further and meshed
in the international system, give them essentially inducements for better behavior.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It did not work.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Iran did not behave better And I know people say, oh,
well Trump got us out of it. Yeah, because he
saw where this was going. He saw what the inducements
got us, which is this, this is a corrupt and
evil regime. There's no there's no turning it around with them.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
This is who the Mullahs are, so to speak, It's
who the IRGC is. And And there, I think is
just the understanding that Trump has on foreign policy of
who are friends, who are enemies? How do we treat them?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do they know?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
The difference? And the answer with Trump to those questions
is quite clear.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I think.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I think that's one hundred percent right.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
You know, Trump knows who the good guys are, who
the bad guys are. That sounds so simple, but Democrats
don't like so bad.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Hey, how's your four to one? Kalo Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Clay over there with his French cuff shirts with the
monograms and the stock ticker behind him.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I can just see it right now.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
We got to get like a separate set for you
on radio where Clay's like, all right, guys, we're talking stocks.
He said, don't sell if anything buy It was good advice.
It was good advice. And I will tell you great advice.
I actually I did buy the dip and uh, and
it was a good move.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Stocks aren't up for the year. That that's the thing
you need to know. And you know things have gotten
a lot better because they don't put the stockticker up
on CNN. They don't put the stock ticker up on MSNBC.
It is such a dishonest thing that when the stocks
were going down, that was the lead story. Price of eggs.
Let me hit you at this buck, price of gas.
(15:15):
Nobody talking about it. Last night I went to an
mls game two dollars sixty five cents. I drove past
a Nashville area gas station two dollars sixty five cents.
It is continuing to come down even as we typically
gas prices go up in the summer. People drive more,
that's a general rule. It's down by half compared to
(15:37):
what it was in the summer of twenty twenty two.
With Joe Biden virtually zero media discussion. That's how most
people recognize what the price of goods is. That's the
thing they see and justin see price changing constantly, gas
prices four year lows.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And part of this, I think is whether you're when
you're reporting on the news, you have to focus on
what is important and you look for what is in
conflict in those important areas. Right, So the economy, should
we be spending more or how's the market going? Or
where's unemployment? And what can be done to change this?
And what are the policies. The opposition to Trump on
these things right now is so weak as to be
(16:18):
not even really worthy of time. That's just the truth
that they are not mounting any real arguments against it.
So we're updating you on what he's doing at some
level because that's the only show in town and it's
going well. Right if it was and when things were rough,
what do we say, Okay, the market's down, it's going
to be choppy, this is going to require a reset.
(16:39):
But we think he knows what he's doing. Trust in this,
and sure enough, here we are. So I just give
you all that because we're watching.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Trust me. All Clay and I do is read the news.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Pretty much all day long and set up stories to
talk about because I know there can be a little
bit of pushback on.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Why are we talking about the Biden thing?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Because we're just finding out the full extent of how
dishonest and disgraceful it was.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, and bye way to people out there who say, well,
we know he was bad.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
We know.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Did you see what they did on January sixth? They
spent four.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Years marinating in January sixth, they had prime time hearings,
they came out and told all of us it was
the worst day since the Civil War. I would submit
to you this is way worse and the media is
going to cover it and the Democrat brand. It's a
big left wing conspiracy. If Republicans do their job and
(17:32):
they hold all these people's feet to the fire. This
will make January sixth look like a random BLM riot,
which is basically what it was. And we saw hundreds
of those We've never remembered the bore in our lives.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I remember this Tapper publicly, mister Jake Tapper, who's co
authored this book that is rightly being Unfortunately, they're going
to sell a ton of copies. So it is a
smart financial decision. But the premise of it, which is
we're the good guys for telling you the truth now,
is and just just an affront to our intelligence and
to the dignity of public discourse.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Uh. But we we're watching all the But.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I do think that building on what you just said
is important and why this is such a huge deal.
They have to cover it to make themselves cleansed from
their complicity.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
There's no way around this, that's right. That's why they
want control of the narrative to the greatest possible degree.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And you've almost started to see some of them maybe
with the beginnings of some contrition, insofar as they would
rather be thought dumb than dishonest. Just remember that they
because they know dishonesty means you're never listening to them again.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Dumb means uh.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Do better next time. That's what they're going for here.
But it actually was not that it was that they
were dishonest. They are clever.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Taper.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I just wanted to point out, and you can go
go go check on Twitter public he was of the Oh,
you said that people shouldn't attack cops on January and
I mean on the day and right after. You're all complicit.
You get no credit for it. Everybody who was speaking
out against violence that day, you know, your blood is
on your He was one of those guys. He was
a blood is on all your hands guys. And as
(19:13):
we know, the only like substantial injury or rather the
only fatal injury was to a woman who was shot
by a police officer as Capitol Kaplin neck anyway, Ashley Babbitt,
which is still a stain on this country that that happened.
But okay, so here we are now, Clay and they're
gonna have to try to explain this to their own side.
(19:34):
Wolf Blitzer, the most milk toast of the CNN, right,
I think I nailed that one.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Thank you. I think gave me information.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yes, the most milk toast of the CNN anchor stable
over there. He starts with Hakeem Jeffries on, Okay, what
did we know about this decline? Let's walk through this together, friends.
This just happened in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Play two.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
President Biden didn't even recognize George Clooney at a fundraiser.
Why should voters trust Democrats when it's clear so many
in your party went to great lengths to keep Biden's
condition hidden hidden from the public.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
I can't tell you what happened between George Clooney and
President Biden that wasn't at that event.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
What I can say is that we're not looking back.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
We're going to continue to look forward because at this
moment we've got real problems that need to be addressed
on behalf of the American people, including the Republican effort
to snatch away healthcare, snatch away full assistance and hurt veterans.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
That's not going to work, the uh, the old Potomac pivot,
it's not it's not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The UH.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
We're just looking forward now. No, Actually, this is in
many ways, Clay. I think VIMA for the honor and
integrity such as it is of a political party in America.
I've never seen anything like this before. I've never seen
anything that is this because it wasn't and you know,
(20:59):
I don't want to get it all. The January sixth
was a different thing. You know, there was a whole
lot of there was a lot of rigging that went
on in that election. There was a whole lot of
reason for concern. It was mostly it was a mostly
peaceful protest. It was mostly a protest and everything else.
This was a all the King's horses and all the
King's men, multi year conspiracy at the very top of
(21:21):
the government, day in and day out. It wasn't a
protest that got too rowdy and that then was treated
like it was, you know, Pearl Harbor bombing.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And I think we need to see this for what
it is.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, And that's why I think we need to have
primetime congressional hearings. I just I don't if Republicans do
not do this, they are incompetent, because one, it's super
important for the country. We can never have this situation
occur again. Say whatever you want about Barack Obama, say
(21:53):
whatever you want about Donald Trump, Bill Clinton.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
George W.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Did anybody doubt that they had had the mental faculties
to make whatever choices they wanted to make. Of course
not I think heck, I'd like to see Obama under oath.
Why did Obama not pick Joe Biden in twenty sixteen.
It's some real question that Biden has never really answered.
(22:19):
I think it's because they could see already that he
was in the early stages of dementia in twenty sixteen,
and that's why he went to Hillary.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He didn't let his VP that was there for eight
years take over.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I know they tried to say, well, Joe, you're just
not doing well enough because your son died. I'm sure
that was debilitating to Biden and probably did not help
his descent into dementia. But was the death of his
son partly what they used as a cover to explain
his descent into dementia.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Maybe it accelerated it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Twenty nineteen, he didn't recognize the guy who had been
his top advisor since the nineteen eighties. And I hate
to say this, but you all know how dementia works.
Some days you can have good days and you can think, hey,
maybe it's not so bad.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I thought they this is where you and I see
this a little differently. I think they thought they could
thread the needle with a good day on debate night.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
How they thought that. I don't know what the nap
schedule was or whatever, or the drugs that they were
likely shooting him up with right before he went out.
And I you know, you could look at his eyes,
remember us talking about how he would wear the sunglasses,
But if you zoomed in on his eyes, the man
looked hopped up on stuff like crazy when he was
(23:50):
given some of these speeches. Remember how angry he looked.
Remember how I mean, I'm there is zero doubt that
they were shooting him up like crazy. Remember when he
finished the State of the Union and he read go
get him?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And remember when he went to Ukraine and at the
end he had lived, and they were so angry at
him about what he said at the end, like we've
got a tear down putin or whatever it was. They
the guy could barely read off a prompter, but like
an old ballplayer who's been doing something for a long time,
(24:27):
he could be as good as he was for short
periods of time, depending on day and time.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I'm gonna tell you this right now, if it was
really about what was good for the country and going
forward being more accurate and doing a better job, where's
your invitation, where's my invitation to go on Morning Joe
and explain why we scrats the whole time?
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
But when is the view going to say, Hey, Buck,
I want you to come on and just walk us
through why you and Clay.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
They can have both of us, it'd be fun. Why
you and Clay were right about this for years, to.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
The point where it was almost like the mockery felt hackneyed.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
After a while.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
It's like, we've just done this joke day in and
day out, day in and day because we're left with
no choice. Why did you guys get it right? No, Instead,
we're still some we were right, they were wrong, but
somehow they still feel morally superior in the situation. This
is what you have to remember about Democrats. It doesn't
matter that they look like absolute well liars and buffoons.
(25:29):
It's they did this to stop the bad team. The
bad people were the bad people. Nothing else matters, which is,
by the way, their entire ethos when it comes to
dealing with Donald Trump, so is it surprising Clay that
they would do this, given that they say.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I you know, they have the on a Loricia last
night just to kind of laugh. There's these professors at.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yale, as if that's supposed to impress anybody, it should
not impress anybody. These professors at Yale who are leaving
the country because they're experts in fascism and they can't
handle all the fascism that's going on. So they're idiots
and cowards because they're just abatting their country instead of
standing in no surprise there right got to go find
a tenured position somewhere else. But at what point do
(26:12):
they just realize, you guys are wrong, you're insane, grow
up and calm down.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
By the way, we got another bit of breaking news
that's another conspiracy theory I think that we've shared on
this show that now looks like it's true. Jim Jordan
is investigating and it appears he has found smoking gun
evidence that Pfizer hid the results of their COVID shot
to avoid it coming out before the twenty twenty election. So,
(26:38):
in addition to all the other rig jobs that were
going only the Wall Street Journal just published Lawmakers investigating
whether Pfizer waited to share results. And Jim Jordan just
shared some tweets and emails that suggest that Pfizer's top
execs intentionally prevented that from occurring, which obviously given how
(26:59):
close that was, And Jim Jordan now is going to
come on the show with us tomorrow to be talking
about that.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Buck. So, conspiracy theorists are on a hell of a run.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
They're like a baseball team that's going like one hundred
and sixty two. And oh, everything they told you was
a conspiracy, you wait a few months and or in
this case, a few years, and it ends up being true. Hey, Buck,
one of my kids called me an unk the other day,
and unk yep slang evidently for not being hip, being
an old dude.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
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Speaker 1 (27:29):
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Speaker 3 (27:49):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I've read about Trump's trip to the Middle East. These
are top Democrat officials. This is Axios this morning. I
want you to listen that speech that Trump gave in
Saudi Arabia. It was really pretty incredible. This is what
top Democrat officials told Axios. Listen to this Buck quote, gosh,
(28:19):
I wish I could work for an administration that could
move that quickly. These are top Democrat officials. Listen to
these quotes. He does all of this and it's kind
of silence. It's met with a shrug, said Ned Price,
a former senior State Department official. He has the ability
to do things politically that previous presidents did not because
(28:42):
he has complete, unquestioned authority over the Republican Caucus. Another quote,
it's Martin and I work together at the CIA. By
the way, Oh okay, yeah, here's a third quote. It's
hard not to be simultaneously terrified at the thought of
the damage he can call with such power and awed
(29:03):
by his willingness to brazenly shatter so many harmful taboos,
said Rob Malley, relating to what Trump is doing in
the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Did you have the speech?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:16):
I did.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
It was incredible to the whole things, Harry Eggs and
watching the baby double tasking like a dad does, and Clay.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It was a phenomenal speech, truly, Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And what but what I thought was interesting is it
was such a good speech that even Democrats who hate
Trump are.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Kind of in awe of how this trip has gone.
And I do think and you'll.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Really appreciate this. Obviously, with the CIA background, how challenging.
What he has managed to pull off is He's got
the uae Qatar and Saudi Arabia all competing to see
who can show throw him the best state visit party.
He's got Syria celebrating America in the streets, and he
(30:09):
has isolated Iran now to the point where other than
Russia and maybe China, which we know already were traditional allies,
who in the Middle East has even got Iran's back Now.
I know some people in Israel are upset about Trump's
closeness to the uae Qatar in Saudi Arabia, but I
(30:32):
would suggest that that has led to Trump being able
to put more pressure on Iran than maybe any president
in modern history has ever been.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Able to do.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Trump says that as of today, he is very close
to a deal with Iran that was as part of
this part of this trip. That's what's going on there.
And when he was speaking at that Katari round table,
he said Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. They're at it,
but they're they're getting very close to doing maybe a deal.
(31:05):
I just want to say, we've made this joke for
about a decade now, Clay that if Trump came out
and said, guys, we've got great news. We have managed
the administration's project to cure cancer is a success, there
would be some way the Democrat First of all, the
Democrats wouldn't believe it, and then they would say, you
(31:26):
know what funding did he use for this? And they
would have all of these objections, whether it's process objections
or whatever, doesn't matter what it is. They'll find a
way to not be happy for whatever Trump does. If
he gets a nuclear deal, which has been a Democrat dream,
I know they'd say, oh, we got one with Obama.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Wasn't a very good deal. If Trump gets a.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Deal, are they going to say, well, I guess they'll
just say it's not a good deal, right, kind of know?
There's nothing he can do that will make them say,
you know what, this guy's actually got something, even though
he can't run again and everything else, they will just
oppose him to oppose. And this is I think what
you see with the whole trip, and also with a
(32:07):
lot of what the not everything, but a lot of
what the administration is doing so far.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You just say, these.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Are just objectively good things to be trying to accomplish,
and there's objectively real progress happening on them all. And
you get people that are still saying that this is
like fascism or something.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I mean, there's this delusion they.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Live in well, and I think this is why the
putting them on the defense with the Joe Biden aspect
is so important. You and I think it was ludicrous
that the twenty twenty two election in any way turned
on January sixth. Whatever you think about Dobbs, at least
that was a tangible political action that people felt compelled
(32:48):
to respond to. But the idea that anybody in November
of twenty twenty two reacted in their voting patterns based
on what happened on January sixth is frankly crazy. But
the media it seem like such a big deal that
I think some people were motivated by that. I think
what I jotted this now during one of the breaks.
(33:11):
I'm going to give Jake Tapper a small measure of
praise here, Buck and I just I see your face.
I understand that many of you out there also. He
likes football, Clay likes football.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I knew this was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'm telling you why. Jake Tapper writing this book is
going to be impossible for Democrats to avoid because it's
one of their own writing it. If there are lots
of very talented, quote unquote right wing authors who could
write a book about Biden's dementia, and they would forswear it.
(33:49):
They would ignore it, just like they have ignored you
and me and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and all
the other people on the Premiere Network, Jesse Kelly pointing
this out for years, just like they have ignored many
of the people on Fox News, just like they have ignored, frankly,
even the Wall Street Journal. When the Wall Street Journal
(34:10):
had a big piece about Biden's clear lack of cognitive ability.
They can't ignore Jake Tapper. It's like if Rachel Maddow
suddenly sits down and says, we got major problems. Joe
Biden has dementia, which she knew but which she covered
up and pretended she didn't. They have to cover it
(34:30):
on CNN, they have to cover it on MSNBC, they
have to cover it in The New Yorker, at ABC,
at CBS, at NBC. It's one of their own telling
the story. And that is the only praise I can
give Jake Tapper. If Jesse Waters writes this book, they
(34:53):
just say, oh, yeah, of course that Fox News host.
If you or I write this book, they're like, oh,
of course. The guys who sit where Rush used to.
Jake Tapper is one of their own, and he is
holding up the dementia and they feel compelled to have
to cover it now. Is partly to your point, the
(35:15):
fact that they'd rather be dumb than be seen as dishonest. Yes,
Are they going to claim that they got lied to? Yes,
which is why I liked your tweet yesterday that you
brought up yesterday.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Why don't you tell us who lied? What about Karine
Jean Pierre?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know, has there ever been a more public liar
in the history of the United States? Than Karine Jean
Pierre Zensaki, who has her own show on MSNBC.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
She didn't know.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
She didn't know when Jake Sullivan, when Biden can't remember
his name. They didn't talk about it inside of the They.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
All knew, they all knew.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I wish they would come forward actually and just say, yeah,
we knew he had dementia. But we figured that was
a better outcome for the country than the fascist Donald Trump,
And that was the decision we made.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
That would show how at some level craven they are.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
But at least I could respect that, Like, at least
I could say, all right, you guys are ruthless and
you're liar. Is that is also honest? At least it's honest. Yes,
at least it is honest. At least they would be
telling us what really happened, which, let me just be clear,
that is what happened. It's not I think that's what happened.
That is what happened. We all know it the same
(36:29):
way we knew Biden had dementia. We know that they knew,
and they knew that we knew. Everybody knows, and now
the Hubrist to try to pretend like nobody knew this
is really a but.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
If I point on the Tapper thing, Tapper is one
of them. It would be like if Joe Scarborough wrote
Biden has dementia, he wouldn't do it. Also, why couldn't
Alex Thompson do this himself?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Though? What I would?
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Well, that's my question that I've had from the start.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Right, if he's the one that people say but he
was more honest about it, it's like, why do I
think he's adding Tapper? Because Tapper's whole thing within the
Democrats is like that is, first of all, if he
came on, which who knows if you will or not,
or if we want to have him or not, he
would still claim that he's an objective reporter and does
not actually he's I mean, he's a clear Democrat activist,
but he would say he's an objective reporter.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He would hold to that.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
And he is the last gasp of the Democrats clinging
to that fiction. So he has a lot of power
within the Democrat media ranks because of that. Because if
everyone just and when I say everybody, everyone the right
already knows. But if the country by sort of overwhelming
consensus that that pays attention to news a lot of
your fortunite. You don't even care about this crap, but
(37:42):
the country that pays attention to, you know, news media,
it was all like, you know what, Jake Tapper was
a big partisan fraud too. It's all over for them now.
It's just it's MSNBC and it's Fox. It's two different teams.
We all know it, we all get it. There's no
more of the pretense because the pretense has been a
built in advantage, the pretense of journalism as an objective
(38:03):
thing instead of journalism is really just the term given
to left wing activists who write stories for left wing
news organizations. If that goes away, they lose something that
they've been able to rely on for a long time,
and it's been going away.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
But I think this is the death throes of it.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I do think there's a small realization dawning in a
lot of people's minds that they thought they were the
good guys and they're actually going to be the bad
guys of history. They got everything wrong on COVID, they
covered up dementia from Joe Biden. I think slowly they
(38:40):
are thinking, uh, oh, I always said this buck. If
you are a history guy or history. Gal be very,
very nervous when people say, oh, I'm sure we're on
the right side of history, because history has a way
of revealing sometimes things that people didn't not see in
(39:00):
the moment. And my argument for a long time has been,
they are going to be everyone who thinks they're the
hero of this era is actually going to be the
villains of history. Fauci Biden, everyone who held them up
and protected them. If history does its job, those guys
(39:21):
one hundred years from now are going to be seen
as the biggest villains in America. I really believe, and
I think that's where we're headed. And I think doctor
Jill Biden may end up being one of the greatest
villain nesses Is that a right word. I think that's
the right word. She's the Cruella de Ville of American politics,
and she's headed there in a real hurry.
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