December 14, 2024 • 36 mins
Breaking news - a legendary NFL coach goes to college. FBI Director Christopher Wray steps down, paving the way for Kash Patel to take over. Clay speaks with Amir Ohana, Speaker of the Israeli Knesset.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in our number three Clay Travis buck Sexton show.
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Got a
couple of different breaking news stories. There are reports that
Donald Trump will be Times Person of the Year Man
of the Year. I don't know that it could have
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been anyone else. They had named him as one of
the finalists. But I mean, if you think about iconic
presidential campaign years, anybody other than Trump would have been
absolutely crazy, given what he came through and what he accomplished.
So that has leaked, that has been reported. Another bit
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of news story here, Buck, and I don't even know
that you and this may be even big enough for you.
Breaking news. Bill Belichick probably the greatest NFL coach of
all time.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You're familiar with Bill Belichick, Buck, He has that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Can I just say thanks to my beloved New York Giants,
New York Football Giants delivering crushing defeats to mister Belichick
and his Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Bill Belichick is reportedly going to coach college football and
he is taking over the University of North Carolina tar
Heel job. That is according to multiple sources out there.
I know we usually don't break sports news on the program.
But that's such a bit like that's going to be
something that they're talking about on the Today Show. I
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would bet that everybody out there is aware of Bill
Belichick's history, Tom Brady, everything else. So he is going
to go to college football, according to multiple sources, and
will be there as the next coach at the University
of North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Big deal.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
A lot of twenty two year old cheerleaders also at that,
I understand, So just throwing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm just I observe.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's actually that's actually good Bill Belichick knowledge.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
For those of you who do not get that zinger.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Bill Belichick has is seventy two and has.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
A twenty four year old girlfriend right now.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So that is where Bucks joke about there being cute
college girls on campus and you were thinking.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh, well, Belichick's seventy two.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I think he's seventy two, and he has a twenty
four year old girlfriend and they are out there and
everybody is. They're not hiding it, so everybody's aware of
this new relationship. So college girls beware. Maybe if you've
got a daughter, you've got a daughter at UNC, maybe
Bill Belichick is going to be your next Thanksgiving guest,
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can you imagine that?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
If you imagine, that would really test so bad I
don't have for football?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Can I just throw that out.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
There, Your twenty two year old daughter, you know, the
apple of your eye, brings home the greatest football coach
of all time.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But he's in his seventies and he's dating a senior
in college.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I hope and am so thankful for this that I
do not have a daughter. I have three boys. I
cannot imagine if a daughter brought home a boyfriend who
was older than me. I would lose it. I'm just
gonna be honest with you. I would absolutely lose it.
There's no way that I would be able to handle that.
But thankfully God has made sure that I will never
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have to deal with that. Because I've only got three boys.
I would imagine that the chances of them bringing home
a woman older than their mom is low. I wouldn't
handle that well either. Their mom would handle it, trust me, far.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Worse than I would.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So anyway, Bill Belichick that news speaking of.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, it's not really a hard to her incision.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, because I was going to say, speaking of effeminate men,
but I don't really think of Bill Belichick as an
effeminate man. But speaking of effeminate men, Justin Trudeau has
have you seen this quote yet? Buck, Justin Trudeau decided
today to weigh in on his disappointment as a feminist
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on the United States refusal to.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Elect a woman as the next uh.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
As that what we got breaking news here, breaking NEWSBI
director Christopher Ray has resigned breaking right now as we
are talking to you, which clears the deck for our
buddy Cash Bettel.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
There'll be an acting director who will step in? Is
I think it's just the deputy director whoever?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That actually shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It wasn't supposed to be that way.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
WHOA that was true? I don't know. I don't know.
What just happened to someone take a studio in New York.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, the ghost of Justin Trudeau decided that he was
going to weigh in on the FBI director.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
There.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
We'll get back to Trudeau in a second.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
That would been actually the perfect transition from one effeminate
man to another, because I do think Christopher Ray is
quite the effeminate man. But Buck, this would seem to
be a good sign he had multiple years left on
his term, right you know better than me. But FBI
directors I think get ten year terms in general. I
think I'm correct on that, so he had several years remaining.
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Christopher Ray, of course, was picked by Trump. I think
it's one of the more disastrous personnel decisions that Trump
made to be Frank and he had to replace Comy,
but he made the decision to go with Christopher Ray.
And now he's ensured that he will never do that again.
And this is very good for Kash Patel, who would
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be able to step in officially on day one in
the event that he's confirmed, and I do think he's
going to be confirmed.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
He is going to tell you his name is pronounced cash,
though not Cash, so like money cash.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think I'm close enough, but I will eventually get
there Cash. I feel like Kash is different than c
A sh Cash, a good name cash Cash.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
He's gonna be the next FBI director.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Hopefully he does not investigate me for mispronouncing his name,
because I've already got the IRS on me.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I can't handle the FBI too well.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know, he's a particularly good choice among you know,
there were some other options that were being discussed, and
I think would have been very very strong in the role.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But Cash was.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
There at the when Russia collusion and the conspiracy to
frame Trump with Russia collusion. That's really what it was.
It was a conspiracy. It was it was all fake.
The Hillary dossier, the investigation opened up by third by
third party country to look into US and the whole thing.
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That Cash was there with Devin Nuness on Capitol Hill
looking into it, finding out and getting it out there
that so that people could know, hey, guys, they're trying
to frame the president of the United States. They're trying
to They tried to use Russia collusion to destroy Trump's
first term in office. Really the dirtiest political trick in
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our lifetime in a lot of ways. I don't know
what you could say is a bigger, dirty political trick
than that. And they did this and Cash was there
and he got the evidence, the facts, the story needed
out into the public because if they had had their way,
Clay Trump would have been impeach and removed from office
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on a completely fake Russia collusion. The conspiracy. Remember, the
conspiracy wasn't with Trump and Russia. The conspiracy was against
Trump using Russia as.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
A as a fraud. Basically, the whole thing was made up.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
And so that's why Cash is the right man for
this because he has seen what it is like, and
they also came after him, so it's personal. It's a
little bit like when Trump said, you know, FBI Director
Ray allowed them to raid my home.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
They didn't need to raid the home. Everybody remember this
whole thing if oh.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
The super secret information and the files and if anyone
got it, and it's oh, it was remember I think
it was the New York Times, one of those crappy places.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Was like, it's nuclear secrets that he has.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
It's nuclear secrets.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Give me a break.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It was probably some garbage analysis from the internation, from
the consolidated opinion of the intelligence community saying like North
Korea still wants more nukes. Like, yeah, we know, okay,
I worked for these places. I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
A lot of the stuff that.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
You see they mark a secret and it's classified and
it's like everybody knows it. So anyway, I think that
that whole thing was so absurd but so destructive, and
Cash Patel knows.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It backwards and forwards, and I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Be somebody who was involved in it, still trying to
use the government to go after my enemies.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I'll tell you that much cash. There is a new
sheriff in town.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Julie Kelly, our friend just reacted three minutes ago. Chris
Ray resigns by bitch. I think that's probably a general
consensus from everyone out there. Christopher Ray did an awful job,
and he allowed the FBI to become incredibly politicized. He
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allowed Merrick Garland's Department of Justice to run rough shot
over him. Very few people ever talked about this, but
I do think it was an untenable conflict. That just
gets to the essence of how awful the DOJ and
the FBI were during the Merrick Garland era, which still
has forty some odd days left.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They were trying to put Trump in prison for the
rest of his life the FBI while simultaneously investigating the
alleged assassin of Donald Trump. That's an untenable conflict. You
couldn't do that as a lawyer and be able to
do both jobs. And I do think it's kind of
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crazy since we're mentioning Ray and the failures of the FBI,
and certainly the Secret Service has been awful as well.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
How we know everything about the United Healthcare CEO shooter,
this Luigi guy, everything about his entire life, and basically
we still know nothing publicly about the Butler PA would
be assassin. That we can have one guy within a
couple of days of his murder, his entire bio is
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out there, everything about him. Everybody debates and discusses it
as they analyze this story. And meanwhile, the Butler pa
would be assassin who came within a quarter inch of
changing the entire trajectory of American history, we know basically
nothing about him at all. It's kind of crazy to think,
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isn't it that we could be in a situation like that.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Well, we've seen this with law enforcement at a high
level a number of times, where the information the public
is given is clearly dictated by a political narrative. One
of the worst examples I can remember, I mean, most
egregious examples was during the Obama administration, when Obama was
on this crusade to minimize the threat of jihadism and
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the role of Islamic belief in Islamic terrorism.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
This was a constant theme with the Obama administration, and.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
They had the Pulse nightclub terrorist mass murderer who called
in to the police to say exactly why he.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Was doing it and who he was doing it for.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And you remember this Clay and the FBI transcripts, they
redacted things like I'm doing this for Allah, so it
would be like I'm doing this for Blank. And this
was what they released publicly. So this isn't new. The
same thing with the trans terrorist in Nashville. They wouldn't
release the manifesto. They decide what will be used publicly
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or what will be released publicly, and what needs to
be kept from the public for our own good. Of course,
that's not their role, that's not their right. And they
show us the politicized nature of law enforcement every time
they do it. And and this is another thing that
I think as we go forward, I'm hoping a lot
of the Trump team, a lot of the Trump appointees
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are going to establish very clear rules of the of
the road on this stuff, so we don't always have this, well,
what do the politics say right now? You know, what
are the politics determined about the public's right to know?
So that's that's a big thing. Another thing, by the way,
this should be so much more declassification than there is
so much more declassification.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I mean it is insane.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's like billions of pages of classified material that the government,
that the federal government has.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
They still they still have stuff that's that's classified from
World War Two.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean it's nuts.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
What could possibly be classified from World War two? Anybody
who's doing anything is gone or or they're retired. I
promise you there's nobody who's working for the OSS who's
like if anyone finds out about me, Like, what.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What about just something simple like the JFK, Like how
is anything still classified about JFK?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Totally the assassination? Right, I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You know, and this is the thing that they just
tell us all, well, it's you know, sources and methods.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I'm like, what, really, we're going?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
How many years back do we go where we still
have to classify things because the government says so. By
the way, government embarrassment is not and always remember this
is not a valid reason for classification. So if something
were known and it would make a government agency or
government personnel look bad, that is an invalid reason for
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classification based on the classification statutes. And guess what, Clay
they do it all the time. It is a constant
they keep stuff marked secret or even top secret or
compartment or whatever, because they don't want people to know
what a clown show is operating in fill in the
blank part of the government. It is something that again
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of the Kanessets sort of the number three in the
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Speaker 4 (15:52):
We're gonna be joined here by the number three of
the Israeli government, the speaker of the Kanesset. With Clay,
they did a really great interview coming up here in
just a moment. But Clay, I got two things. We'll
get to a call here one second. First up, we've
put out a poll, Clay has retweeted it, so we're
getting some pretty good reach on this one. Harry Potter
or Star Wars, which is better, very straightforward so far,
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the Clay Travis Harry Potter team is. It's a rough
day of quidditch for them because thirty five percent to
my sixty five percent, my lightsaber loving brethren and sisters
out there, we are you know, the Jedi, and we
are winning so far. Let's take Aaron in Bar Harbor, Maine. Aaron,
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you've got some thoughts.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Thank you for taking my call. Nice to talk to
you guys. So, first off, no same person would be
looking at a murder suspect in a romantic way. In
my opinion, I'm also heterosexual. I've been married twenty five years,
and honestly, I'm not going to look at somebody of
that age as whether they're attractive because I think that's creepy.
(17:00):
So I wonder if Reality TV doesn't have something to
do with this, because so many young people today have
no sense of what reality is. They look at these
shows not reality at all, And you have things like
Life after lock Up and they're romanticizing relationships with these selons.
And I don't know, maybe that.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That's not a bad theory.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, I think we're also in a hyper hyper
superficial Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I got to buy the way. I got to get
to Bar Harbor, Maine. I've always wanted to go. It's
a great I'd like to go again. It's a great spot.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I think it's a clay there. There's a hyper superficiality
that has taken over a lot of our society and
and I think it's a very very troubling thing.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I think it's very concerning.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You know, it sounds trite to say to people, but
kindness and reliability are actually like the most attractive things
in a in innate Oh oh.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
What I knew you were going to do that, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Look tomorrow, I'm gonna be on a plane coming back
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He has no idea what I have put on this roster.
You know how bad it went last time.
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Prizepicks dot com, my name Clay. We are here with
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the Speaker of the Knesset in Jerusalem. I'm excited to
talk with him. He's got all of his guitars arrayed here.
We were just talking about he needs to come to
Nashville and visit at some point, Amir Ohanna, I'm gonna
call you, mister Speaker. And we have had Mike Johnson,
the Speaker of the United States, on the program several times.
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I got a lot that I want to dive into
with you on but let's start with the major issues
that are going on in Israel right now, and how
the United States can help Israel in many of the
issues that it's dealing with, and in particular, how the
new president can help Israel with many of the issues
that it's dealing with. President Trump made a strong statement
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about the importance of the hostages being able to be returned.
It's now been over four hundred and thirty days since
the October seventh terror attack. What did you see as
the impact of President Trump's statement? And how impactful is
the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the president
elect in your mind, to being able to bring those
hostages back. How impactful can he be?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Thank you, Clay, It's very good to be with you.
Thank you for having me on your show and on
such a special day because we just hosted the President
of Paraguay, Santiago Penya, that came to announce to the
people of Israel that he is reopening the Paraguayan embassy
in Jerusalem, following the footsteps of President Trump. So yes,
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based on the first tenure of President Trump, I believe
we are about to experience the golden age of the
relations between the United States of America and Israel. We
see the team, may I say, the dream team that
President Trump is assembling regarding Israel. I was just talking
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about guitars with my friend Mike.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Hackabi, the next ambassador, next.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Ambassador in Israel, which is also a guitarist, who is
also a guitarist, and we're gonna jam some sessions together.
And yes, I think that it is a very very
important thing that the relations between the two leaders, between
Prime Minister NATHANIAO and President of the United States, President Trump,
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will be as good as possible. And this is the case.
These are two leaders that knows each other for decades,
and so I believe that it's going to be very meaningful.
The powerful statement that you have just mentioned is exactly
what was needed, and it was very powerful and it
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was very impactful in the entire Middle East because in
order to bring Hamas to release the hostages, we need
both military pressure and diplomatic pressure. And some of the
statements that we heard throughout the last year from leaders,
for instance, Israel should cease fire immediately, we should stop
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ship weapons to Israel, we should embargo Israel, we should
recognize a Palestinian state, which is very clearly a reward
for the atrocities of October seventh, were very very counterproductive
in that field. They had no Hamas listening to that
is saying, okay, all we need is just to hang
on long enough until the world will stop Israel from
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coming after us. So the statement of President elector Trump
was very meaningful, very powerful, very important, and brilliant.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
How closely did you watch the American election Election night?
In particular, we have been told that if Israel could vote,
if everybody in Israel could vote, Trump would have won
a massive landslide victory inside of this country. Do you
think that that is true? And do you think most
Israelis were rooting for Trump to win? What was the
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reaction you saw on election night to his victory here.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
In just four years of his first tenure, President Trump
kicked out the PILO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, out of DC.
He backed off the harmful Iran dial He recognized Israeli
sovereignty over the Golan Heights, He recognized Israeli sovereignty over
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in Jerusalem, and did what he said is going to do,
moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
What's the impact before we go into the election for
people out there who may not understand, what is the
impact of the embassy, the American Embassy being in Jerusalem
for the Israeli people and for the American people.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
I think most of our listeners are Evangelical Christians, which
we cherish the friendship and the brotherhood with them very
very much. They know what Jerusalem means to the Jewish people.
For two thousand years, one hundred generations of Jews from
all over the globe and yearned and prayed to the
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same thing, next year in Jerusalem, next year in Jerusalem.
Two thousand years. Imagine that we have never forgotten the
Promised Land and our spiritual capital of Jerusalem. And President
Trump came and say this year in Jerusalem. And this
was very very powerful, very meaningful for us as Jews
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and for us as Israelis. And we hope that many
more will follow the footsteps of President Trump as president. Penny,
I just did today.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
The reaction to Trump's victory. It seems that Israelis were
very happy. Would you agree that if Israelis could have voted,
they would have wanted Trump to win. And if so,
you just laid out all those things that he did
that are positive, what could he do going forward to
also further the relationship and make it even better.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
The polls show exactly what you have just said. Of course,
as a symbol of a state I cannot say excites,
we must remain and maintain our relations with America on
the bipartisan level. We need to be able to work
with whoever it is that the American people elects as president,
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and so we have throughout the years. But as I said,
as I mentioned, President Trump was a great friend and
still is a great friend for the State of Israel.
So we are very happy to be able to work
with him. Of course, at this time we are still
in war. We can use every AMO. We don't ask
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anyone to fight our belts. We don't need boots on
the ground. We will do our belts, and we pay
very heavy prices for that. We lose our troops and
soldiers and servicemen almost every day. But we do need
am O and we hope that we can get as
much as possible. And we do need America's back, which
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President Trump has proven that we will have his back
and America's back. America is not only an important state,
it is the leader of the free world, if you
will light onto the nations. This is how we consider
America and America's leadership. And I think the mere message
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that America stands by Israel does wonders to deter our enemies,
and there are many many around us.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
What's the impact of Assad being out in Syria, both
on Iran, on Israel and the larger Middle East. What's
the best result there so far as you can see
right now in the very early days, as Syria has
new leaders.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
So we are cautiously observing what's happening in Syria and
even taking action to defend Israeli civilians. Of course, Assad
was a part of the axis of evil that Iran
was trying to build in order to surround us and
suffocate the State of Israel. And now it's gone. Syria
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is no longer Syria. The Assad regime has fallen. So
these are good news because our greatest enemy is Iran,
and whatever weakens not Iran, let me be mostly the
Ietola Regym of Iran, because amongst the people of Iran
we have great relations. We used to have great relations
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before seventy nine, but then came the Iatola Regym and
changed everything. And they have a plan to destroy the
State of Israel by the year twenty forty. This is
their plan, and they have done actions to promote that plan.
But gladly they have found our resistance and we have
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crippled Gizabala one of the maybe the largest organizations in
the world, in the world, definitely in the Middle East,
severely leadership, ammunition, personnel, everything, and it is much weaker
than it used to be. We've crippled Ramas almost completely,
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so Iran's plan is being foiled by Israeli forces and
brave troops and this is continue to be This will
continue to be the case until we return the one
hundred hostages that are still being held in captivity in
Gaza Bay Jamas. We are going to continue until we
return the tens of thousands of these placed civilians to
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their homes up north safely, and it will continue to
until we can assure we can provide a better future
for the following generations at both sides of the fence.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
By the way, we got a lot of parents and
grandparents and also college kids that listen to this show.
I'm sure that you saw the protests on American college campuses.
I know that got a great deal of attention here
from Columbia and New York City all the way to
use CLA cross the country in Los Angeles. What would
you tell American college kids who were showing up and
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supporting the Palestinians Hamas in the wake of October seventh,
that they don't know or don't hear, that maybe their
parents and grandparents should be telling them, and if they're
the college kids listening right now, that they should know.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
First of all, I want to command Congresswoman at least
the panic yes, the soon to be an ambassador American
Ambassador of the UN. I hosted her here in the
Knesset a few months ago, commanding her for the way
she handled the leadership of the Ivy League of those
colleges that did not refused to deal with anti Semitism
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in their colleges and their campuses. I'll be honest. We
hoped that anti Semitism is a measure of the past. Yes,
we thought that once we have a state of our own,
it will gradually diminish this peer. But October seventh, of course,
has proven us wrong. Not only we see a rise
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of anti Semitism, we see an explosion of antisemitism since
October seventh, which is very sad, very unfortunate, but something
that we will need to deal with. We consider is
well not only as a state for the Israelis, but
the state for the Jewish people and so thus we
consider the Knesset as a parliament not only for the
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Israeli people, but for the Jewish people. We are in
touch with our Jewish communities throughout the world, with the
leaders of those countries throughout the world where you have
Jewish communities, and demanding that they will handle anti Semitism.
But let me tell you, Clay, do you know when
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did we experience the peak of Israel's popularity that was
following the nineteen sixty seven war. We were triumphant in
nineteen six to seven, and the world loves winners, so
we shall continue to fight until we win.
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Speaker 5 (32:05):
Podcasts evangelical support.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
There are lots of Christians that want to see Israel succeed, thrive,
and be safe. How important is the support of American
Jews and also American Christians in Israel's ability to defend
itself and frankly even continue to exist.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Extremely important, which is why we maintain and strengthening the
relations between the States of Israel and America. American leaders
religious leaders. Now, look, Clai, I'm not the most religious
member of Knesset here, I have to be honest, Yeah,
but I have a huge amount of respect to my
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tradition and history, and to the story of my people
that is being told in the book of books in
the Holy Bible. When I read the story of my
people and I find that more than eighty percent of
the locations that are stated as the land of Israel
are located in Judea and Samaria, or what some would
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refer to as the West Bank, it is then that
I understand that the roots of my people, that the
places where our ancestors walked on the face of this
earth and the Hebrew language was first heard, are in
Judai and Samaria. So this notion, this foil idea of
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a two state solution as something that will bring peace
has no grounds. I don't support it. I think I
represent the majority of Israelis that do not support it.
And I think that the what President Trump brought with
him in his first tenure was amazing. We have managed
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to expand the circle of peace, not with one, not
with two, but with four Arab countries, without giving up LANs,
without evacuating Judae and Samaria. Peace for peace.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Are you optimistic that there can be further peace accords
in the next four years of the Trump administration, maybe
including Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Ultimately, I was fortunate enough to walk through the trails
of Faaza, that Kibotsima and the Gaza Envelope with Jared
Kushner and Ivanka Yes last a few months ago, and
I was very impressed, very talented, very smart, and I
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know that he was orchestrating the Abraham Accords, and I
hope that we can, indeed, and I believe that we
can indeed expand the circle of peace. You mentioned Saudi Arabia,
the biggest Arab or at least one of the most
important Arab countries throughout the world, and you're absolutely right.
Iran is very concerned about the expansion of the circle
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of peace between Israel and Arab countries and America, and
so it tried to stop it. I believe by now, Clay,
I think it would be safe to say that as
devastated we are and traumatized by the events of October seventh,
that will never heal. This scar will go with us
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for generations. Our enemies realizes they did the big mistake,
huge mistake.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I know what.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
A lot of people are not traveling now, but in
the wake of October seventh, there are a lot of
people struggling all over the country in many different facets.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
One of them is.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Usually Israel has a huge tourism industry. Tons of people
come in. We have had an opportunity to see how
beautiful this country is. When people start the flights are
all returning. What would you say they should see if
they come to Israel and you think they would find
it to be a welcoming place.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
Absolutely, it's a warm, welcoming place, definitely to Americans. Is
a very small country and it's just a short visit.
You get to see old and you you get to
walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ if you go
through the tunnels underath the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and
of course Tel Aviv with its great restaurants and Jerusalem.
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So this is what you do when you come to Israel.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Thank you so much, sir. I know how busy you are.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I know you've got a lot of battles still to fight.
But I know Donald Trump is going to have a
great partnership and a lot of our listeners are looking
forward to peace prosperity around the world
Speaker 5 (36:38):
For Email and the United Sam Thank you, sir, Thank you,
Welcome in our number three Clay Travis buck Sexton show.
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Got a
couple of different breaking news stories. There are reports that
Donald Trump will be Times Person of the Year Man
of the Year. I don't know that it could have
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been anyone else. They had named him as one of
the finalists. But I mean, if you think about iconic
presidential campaign years, anybody other than Trump would have been
absolutely crazy, given what he came through and what he accomplished.
So that has leaked, that has been reported. Another bit
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of news story here, Buck, and I don't even know
that you and this may be even big enough for you.
Breaking news. Bill Belichick probably the greatest NFL coach of
all time.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You're familiar with Bill Belichick, Buck, He has that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Can I just say thanks to my beloved New York Giants,
New York Football Giants delivering crushing defeats to mister Belichick
and his Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Bill Belichick is reportedly going to coach college football and
he is taking over the University of North Carolina tar
Heel job. That is according to multiple sources out there.
I know we usually don't break sports news on the program.
But that's such a bit like that's going to be
something that they're talking about on the Today Show. I
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would bet that everybody out there is aware of Bill
Belichick's history, Tom Brady, everything else. So he is going
to go to college football, according to multiple sources, and
will be there as the next coach at the University
of North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Big deal.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
A lot of twenty two year old cheerleaders also at that,
I understand, So just throwing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm just I observe.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's actually that's actually good Bill Belichick knowledge.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
For those of you who do not get that zinger.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Bill Belichick has is seventy two and has.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
A twenty four year old girlfriend right now.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So that is where Bucks joke about there being cute
college girls on campus and you were thinking.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh, well, Belichick's seventy two.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I think he's seventy two, and he has a twenty
four year old girlfriend and they are out there and
everybody is. They're not hiding it, so everybody's aware of
this new relationship. So college girls beware. Maybe if you've
got a daughter, you've got a daughter at UNC, maybe
Bill Belichick is going to be your next Thanksgiving guest,
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can you imagine that?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
If you imagine, that would really test so bad I
don't have for football?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Can I just throw that out.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
There, Your twenty two year old daughter, you know, the
apple of your eye, brings home the greatest football coach
of all time.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But he's in his seventies and he's dating a senior
in college.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I hope and am so thankful for this that I
do not have a daughter. I have three boys. I
cannot imagine if a daughter brought home a boyfriend who
was older than me. I would lose it. I'm just
gonna be honest with you. I would absolutely lose it.
There's no way that I would be able to handle that.
But thankfully God has made sure that I will never
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have to deal with that. Because I've only got three boys.
I would imagine that the chances of them bringing home
a woman older than their mom is low. I wouldn't
handle that well either. Their mom would handle it, trust me, far.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Worse than I would.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So anyway, Bill Belichick that news speaking of.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, it's not really a hard to her incision.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, because I was going to say, speaking of effeminate men,
but I don't really think of Bill Belichick as an
effeminate man. But speaking of effeminate men, Justin Trudeau has
have you seen this quote yet? Buck, Justin Trudeau decided
today to weigh in on his disappointment as a feminist
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on the United States refusal to.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Elect a woman as the next uh.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
As that what we got breaking news here, breaking NEWSBI
director Christopher Ray has resigned breaking right now as we
are talking to you, which clears the deck for our
buddy Cash Bettel.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
There'll be an acting director who will step in? Is
I think it's just the deputy director whoever?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That actually shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It wasn't supposed to be that way.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
WHOA that was true? I don't know. I don't know.
What just happened to someone take a studio in New York.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, the ghost of Justin Trudeau decided that he was
going to weigh in on the FBI director.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
There.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
We'll get back to Trudeau in a second.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
That would been actually the perfect transition from one effeminate
man to another, because I do think Christopher Ray is
quite the effeminate man. But Buck, this would seem to
be a good sign he had multiple years left on
his term, right you know better than me. But FBI
directors I think get ten year terms in general. I
think I'm correct on that, so he had several years remaining.
(05:22):
Christopher Ray, of course, was picked by Trump. I think
it's one of the more disastrous personnel decisions that Trump
made to be Frank and he had to replace Comy,
but he made the decision to go with Christopher Ray.
And now he's ensured that he will never do that again.
And this is very good for Kash Patel, who would
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be able to step in officially on day one in
the event that he's confirmed, and I do think he's
going to be confirmed.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
He is going to tell you his name is pronounced cash,
though not Cash, so like money cash.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think I'm close enough, but I will eventually get
there Cash. I feel like Kash is different than c
A sh Cash, a good name cash Cash.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
He's gonna be the next FBI director.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Hopefully he does not investigate me for mispronouncing his name,
because I've already got the IRS on me.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I can't handle the FBI too well.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know, he's a particularly good choice among you know,
there were some other options that were being discussed, and
I think would have been very very strong in the role.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But Cash was.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
There at the when Russia collusion and the conspiracy to
frame Trump with Russia collusion. That's really what it was.
It was a conspiracy. It was it was all fake.
The Hillary dossier, the investigation opened up by third by
third party country to look into US and the whole thing.
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That Cash was there with Devin Nuness on Capitol Hill
looking into it, finding out and getting it out there
that so that people could know, hey, guys, they're trying
to frame the president of the United States. They're trying
to They tried to use Russia collusion to destroy Trump's
first term in office. Really the dirtiest political trick in
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our lifetime in a lot of ways. I don't know
what you could say is a bigger, dirty political trick
than that. And they did this and Cash was there
and he got the evidence, the facts, the story needed
out into the public because if they had had their way,
Clay Trump would have been impeach and removed from office
(07:35):
on a completely fake Russia collusion. The conspiracy. Remember, the
conspiracy wasn't with Trump and Russia. The conspiracy was against
Trump using Russia as.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
A as a fraud. Basically, the whole thing was made up.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
And so that's why Cash is the right man for
this because he has seen what it is like, and
they also came after him, so it's personal. It's a
little bit like when Trump said, you know, FBI Director
Ray allowed them to raid my home.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
They didn't need to raid the home. Everybody remember this
whole thing if oh.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
The super secret information and the files and if anyone
got it, and it's oh, it was remember I think
it was the New York Times, one of those crappy places.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Was like, it's nuclear secrets that he has.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
It's nuclear secrets.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Give me a break.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It was probably some garbage analysis from the internation, from
the consolidated opinion of the intelligence community saying like North
Korea still wants more nukes. Like, yeah, we know, okay,
I worked for these places. I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
A lot of the stuff that.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
You see they mark a secret and it's classified and
it's like everybody knows it. So anyway, I think that
that whole thing was so absurd but so destructive, and
Cash Patel knows.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It backwards and forwards, and I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Be somebody who was involved in it, still trying to
use the government to go after my enemies.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I'll tell you that much cash. There is a new
sheriff in town.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Julie Kelly, our friend just reacted three minutes ago. Chris
Ray resigns by bitch. I think that's probably a general
consensus from everyone out there. Christopher Ray did an awful job,
and he allowed the FBI to become incredibly politicized. He
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allowed Merrick Garland's Department of Justice to run rough shot
over him. Very few people ever talked about this, but
I do think it was an untenable conflict. That just
gets to the essence of how awful the DOJ and
the FBI were during the Merrick Garland era, which still
has forty some odd days left.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They were trying to put Trump in prison for the
rest of his life the FBI while simultaneously investigating the
alleged assassin of Donald Trump. That's an untenable conflict. You
couldn't do that as a lawyer and be able to
do both jobs. And I do think it's kind of
(10:05):
crazy since we're mentioning Ray and the failures of the FBI,
and certainly the Secret Service has been awful as well.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
How we know everything about the United Healthcare CEO shooter,
this Luigi guy, everything about his entire life, and basically
we still know nothing publicly about the Butler PA would
be assassin. That we can have one guy within a
couple of days of his murder, his entire bio is
(10:38):
out there, everything about him. Everybody debates and discusses it
as they analyze this story. And meanwhile, the Butler pa
would be assassin who came within a quarter inch of
changing the entire trajectory of American history, we know basically
nothing about him at all. It's kind of crazy to think,
(11:00):
isn't it that we could be in a situation like that.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Well, we've seen this with law enforcement at a high
level a number of times, where the information the public
is given is clearly dictated by a political narrative. One
of the worst examples I can remember, I mean, most
egregious examples was during the Obama administration, when Obama was
on this crusade to minimize the threat of jihadism and
(11:25):
the role of Islamic belief in Islamic terrorism.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
This was a constant theme with the Obama administration, and.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
They had the Pulse nightclub terrorist mass murderer who called
in to the police to say exactly why he.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Was doing it and who he was doing it for.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And you remember this Clay and the FBI transcripts, they
redacted things like I'm doing this for Allah, so it
would be like I'm doing this for Blank. And this
was what they released publicly. So this isn't new. The
same thing with the trans terrorist in Nashville. They wouldn't
release the manifesto. They decide what will be used publicly
(12:05):
or what will be released publicly, and what needs to
be kept from the public for our own good. Of course,
that's not their role, that's not their right. And they
show us the politicized nature of law enforcement every time
they do it. And and this is another thing that
I think as we go forward, I'm hoping a lot
of the Trump team, a lot of the Trump appointees
(12:27):
are going to establish very clear rules of the of
the road on this stuff, so we don't always have this, well,
what do the politics say right now? You know, what
are the politics determined about the public's right to know?
So that's that's a big thing. Another thing, by the way,
this should be so much more declassification than there is
so much more declassification.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I mean it is insane.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's like billions of pages of classified material that the government,
that the federal government has.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
They still they still have stuff that's that's classified from
World War Two.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean it's nuts.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
What could possibly be classified from World War two? Anybody
who's doing anything is gone or or they're retired. I
promise you there's nobody who's working for the OSS who's
like if anyone finds out about me, Like, what.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
What about just something simple like the JFK, Like how
is anything still classified about JFK?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Totally the assassination? Right, I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You know, and this is the thing that they just
tell us all, well, it's you know, sources and methods.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I'm like, what, really, we're going?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
How many years back do we go where we still
have to classify things because the government says so. By
the way, government embarrassment is not and always remember this
is not a valid reason for classification. So if something
were known and it would make a government agency or
government personnel look bad, that is an invalid reason for
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classification based on the classification statutes. And guess what, Clay
they do it all the time. It is a constant
they keep stuff marked secret or even top secret or
compartment or whatever, because they don't want people to know
what a clown show is operating in fill in the
blank part of the government. It is something that again
(14:13):
I'm hoping these guys will get you. We'll talk a
bit about the dough situation and Clay. You've got that
interview with the speaker, the equivalent right of the speaker
of the Kanessets sort of the number three in the
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Welcome back in to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
We're gonna be joined here by the number three of
the Israeli government, the speaker of the Kanesset. With Clay,
they did a really great interview coming up here in
just a moment. But Clay, I got two things. We'll
get to a call here one second. First up, we've
put out a poll, Clay has retweeted it, so we're
getting some pretty good reach on this one. Harry Potter
or Star Wars, which is better, very straightforward so far,
(16:15):
the Clay Travis Harry Potter team is. It's a rough
day of quidditch for them because thirty five percent to
my sixty five percent, my lightsaber loving brethren and sisters
out there, we are you know, the Jedi, and we
are winning so far. Let's take Aaron in Bar Harbor, Maine. Aaron,
(16:36):
you've got some thoughts.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Thank you for taking my call. Nice to talk to
you guys. So, first off, no same person would be
looking at a murder suspect in a romantic way. In
my opinion, I'm also heterosexual. I've been married twenty five years,
and honestly, I'm not going to look at somebody of
that age as whether they're attractive because I think that's creepy.
(17:00):
So I wonder if Reality TV doesn't have something to
do with this, because so many young people today have
no sense of what reality is. They look at these
shows not reality at all, And you have things like
Life after lock Up and they're romanticizing relationships with these selons.
And I don't know, maybe that.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That's not a bad theory.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, I think we're also in a hyper hyper
superficial Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I got to buy the way. I got to get
to Bar Harbor, Maine. I've always wanted to go. It's
a great I'd like to go again. It's a great spot.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I think it's a clay there. There's a hyper superficiality
that has taken over a lot of our society and
and I think it's a very very troubling thing.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I think it's very concerning.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You know, it sounds trite to say to people, but
kindness and reliability are actually like the most attractive things
in a in innate Oh oh.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
What I knew you were going to do that, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Look tomorrow, I'm gonna be on a plane coming back
from Israel. Buck has my prize picks picks, but he
is not looking at them until tomorrow. I've got a
Thursday Night special guaranteed winner. Well maybe not guaranteed, but
Buck's gonna guarantee it if he can read it correctly.
(18:23):
He has no idea what I have put on this roster.
You know how bad it went last time.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
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Get signed up right now and you can play along.
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Prizepicks dot com, my name Clay. We are here with
(18:52):
the Speaker of the Knesset in Jerusalem. I'm excited to
talk with him. He's got all of his guitars arrayed here.
We were just talking about he needs to come to
Nashville and visit at some point, Amir Ohanna, I'm gonna
call you, mister Speaker. And we have had Mike Johnson,
the Speaker of the United States, on the program several times.
(19:14):
I got a lot that I want to dive into
with you on but let's start with the major issues
that are going on in Israel right now, and how
the United States can help Israel in many of the
issues that it's dealing with, and in particular, how the
new president can help Israel with many of the issues
that it's dealing with. President Trump made a strong statement
(19:37):
about the importance of the hostages being able to be returned.
It's now been over four hundred and thirty days since
the October seventh terror attack. What did you see as
the impact of President Trump's statement? And how impactful is
the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the president
elect in your mind, to being able to bring those
hostages back. How impactful can he be?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Thank you, Clay, It's very good to be with you.
Thank you for having me on your show and on
such a special day because we just hosted the President
of Paraguay, Santiago Penya, that came to announce to the
people of Israel that he is reopening the Paraguayan embassy
in Jerusalem, following the footsteps of President Trump. So yes,
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based on the first tenure of President Trump, I believe
we are about to experience the golden age of the
relations between the United States of America and Israel. We
see the team, may I say, the dream team that
President Trump is assembling regarding Israel. I was just talking
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about guitars with my friend Mike.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Hackabi, the next ambassador, next.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Ambassador in Israel, which is also a guitarist, who is
also a guitarist, and we're gonna jam some sessions together.
And yes, I think that it is a very very
important thing that the relations between the two leaders, between
Prime Minister NATHANIAO and President of the United States, President Trump,
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will be as good as possible. And this is the case.
These are two leaders that knows each other for decades,
and so I believe that it's going to be very meaningful.
The powerful statement that you have just mentioned is exactly
what was needed, and it was very powerful and it
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was very impactful in the entire Middle East because in
order to bring Hamas to release the hostages, we need
both military pressure and diplomatic pressure. And some of the
statements that we heard throughout the last year from leaders,
for instance, Israel should cease fire immediately, we should stop
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ship weapons to Israel, we should embargo Israel, we should
recognize a Palestinian state, which is very clearly a reward
for the atrocities of October seventh, were very very counterproductive
in that field. They had no Hamas listening to that
is saying, okay, all we need is just to hang
on long enough until the world will stop Israel from
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coming after us. So the statement of President elector Trump
was very meaningful, very powerful, very important, and brilliant.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
How closely did you watch the American election Election night?
In particular, we have been told that if Israel could vote,
if everybody in Israel could vote, Trump would have won
a massive landslide victory inside of this country. Do you
think that that is true? And do you think most
Israelis were rooting for Trump to win? What was the
(22:55):
reaction you saw on election night to his victory here.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
In just four years of his first tenure, President Trump
kicked out the PILO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, out of DC.
He backed off the harmful Iran dial He recognized Israeli
sovereignty over the Golan Heights, He recognized Israeli sovereignty over
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in Jerusalem, and did what he said is going to do,
moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
What's the impact before we go into the election for
people out there who may not understand, what is the
impact of the embassy, the American Embassy being in Jerusalem
for the Israeli people and for the American people.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
I think most of our listeners are Evangelical Christians, which
we cherish the friendship and the brotherhood with them very
very much. They know what Jerusalem means to the Jewish people.
For two thousand years, one hundred generations of Jews from
all over the globe and yearned and prayed to the
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same thing, next year in Jerusalem, next year in Jerusalem.
Two thousand years. Imagine that we have never forgotten the
Promised Land and our spiritual capital of Jerusalem. And President
Trump came and say this year in Jerusalem. And this
was very very powerful, very meaningful for us as Jews
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and for us as Israelis. And we hope that many
more will follow the footsteps of President Trump as president. Penny,
I just did today.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
The reaction to Trump's victory. It seems that Israelis were
very happy. Would you agree that if Israelis could have voted,
they would have wanted Trump to win. And if so,
you just laid out all those things that he did
that are positive, what could he do going forward to
also further the relationship and make it even better.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
The polls show exactly what you have just said. Of course,
as a symbol of a state I cannot say excites,
we must remain and maintain our relations with America on
the bipartisan level. We need to be able to work
with whoever it is that the American people elects as president,
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and so we have throughout the years. But as I said,
as I mentioned, President Trump was a great friend and
still is a great friend for the State of Israel.
So we are very happy to be able to work
with him. Of course, at this time we are still
in war. We can use every AMO. We don't ask
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anyone to fight our belts. We don't need boots on
the ground. We will do our belts, and we pay
very heavy prices for that. We lose our troops and
soldiers and servicemen almost every day. But we do need
am O and we hope that we can get as
much as possible. And we do need America's back, which
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President Trump has proven that we will have his back
and America's back. America is not only an important state,
it is the leader of the free world, if you
will light onto the nations. This is how we consider
America and America's leadership. And I think the mere message
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that America stands by Israel does wonders to deter our enemies,
and there are many many around us.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
What's the impact of Assad being out in Syria, both
on Iran, on Israel and the larger Middle East. What's
the best result there so far as you can see
right now in the very early days, as Syria has
new leaders.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
So we are cautiously observing what's happening in Syria and
even taking action to defend Israeli civilians. Of course, Assad
was a part of the axis of evil that Iran
was trying to build in order to surround us and
suffocate the State of Israel. And now it's gone. Syria
(27:05):
is no longer Syria. The Assad regime has fallen. So
these are good news because our greatest enemy is Iran,
and whatever weakens not Iran, let me be mostly the
Ietola Regym of Iran, because amongst the people of Iran
we have great relations. We used to have great relations
(27:26):
before seventy nine, but then came the Iatola Regym and
changed everything. And they have a plan to destroy the
State of Israel by the year twenty forty. This is
their plan, and they have done actions to promote that plan.
But gladly they have found our resistance and we have
(27:48):
crippled Gizabala one of the maybe the largest organizations in
the world, in the world, definitely in the Middle East,
severely leadership, ammunition, personnel, everything, and it is much weaker
than it used to be. We've crippled Ramas almost completely,
(28:10):
so Iran's plan is being foiled by Israeli forces and
brave troops and this is continue to be This will
continue to be the case until we return the one
hundred hostages that are still being held in captivity in
Gaza Bay Jamas. We are going to continue until we
return the tens of thousands of these placed civilians to
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their homes up north safely, and it will continue to
until we can assure we can provide a better future
for the following generations at both sides of the fence.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
By the way, we got a lot of parents and
grandparents and also college kids that listen to this show.
I'm sure that you saw the protests on American college campuses.
I know that got a great deal of attention here
from Columbia and New York City all the way to
use CLA cross the country in Los Angeles. What would
you tell American college kids who were showing up and
(29:07):
supporting the Palestinians Hamas in the wake of October seventh,
that they don't know or don't hear, that maybe their
parents and grandparents should be telling them, and if they're
the college kids listening right now, that they should know.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
First of all, I want to command Congresswoman at least
the panic yes, the soon to be an ambassador American
Ambassador of the UN. I hosted her here in the
Knesset a few months ago, commanding her for the way
she handled the leadership of the Ivy League of those
colleges that did not refused to deal with anti Semitism
(29:45):
in their colleges and their campuses. I'll be honest. We
hoped that anti Semitism is a measure of the past. Yes,
we thought that once we have a state of our own,
it will gradually diminish this peer. But October seventh, of course,
has proven us wrong. Not only we see a rise
(30:06):
of anti Semitism, we see an explosion of antisemitism since
October seventh, which is very sad, very unfortunate, but something
that we will need to deal with. We consider is
well not only as a state for the Israelis, but
the state for the Jewish people and so thus we
consider the Knesset as a parliament not only for the
(30:29):
Israeli people, but for the Jewish people. We are in
touch with our Jewish communities throughout the world, with the
leaders of those countries throughout the world where you have
Jewish communities, and demanding that they will handle anti Semitism.
But let me tell you, Clay, do you know when
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did we experience the peak of Israel's popularity that was
following the nineteen sixty seven war. We were triumphant in
nineteen six to seven, and the world loves winners, so
we shall continue to fight until we win.
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Speaker 2 (32:08):
You mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
There are lots of Christians that want to see Israel succeed, thrive,
and be safe. How important is the support of American
Jews and also American Christians in Israel's ability to defend
itself and frankly even continue to exist.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Extremely important, which is why we maintain and strengthening the
relations between the States of Israel and America. American leaders
religious leaders. Now, look, Clai, I'm not the most religious
member of Knesset here, I have to be honest, Yeah,
but I have a huge amount of respect to my
(32:51):
tradition and history, and to the story of my people
that is being told in the book of books in
the Holy Bible. When I read the story of my
people and I find that more than eighty percent of
the locations that are stated as the land of Israel
are located in Judea and Samaria, or what some would
(33:14):
refer to as the West Bank, it is then that
I understand that the roots of my people, that the
places where our ancestors walked on the face of this
earth and the Hebrew language was first heard, are in
Judai and Samaria. So this notion, this foil idea of
(33:37):
a two state solution as something that will bring peace
has no grounds. I don't support it. I think I
represent the majority of Israelis that do not support it.
And I think that the what President Trump brought with
him in his first tenure was amazing. We have managed
(33:58):
to expand the circle of peace, not with one, not
with two, but with four Arab countries, without giving up LANs,
without evacuating Judae and Samaria. Peace for peace.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Are you optimistic that there can be further peace accords
in the next four years of the Trump administration, maybe
including Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Ultimately, I was fortunate enough to walk through the trails
of Faaza, that Kibotsima and the Gaza Envelope with Jared
Kushner and Ivanka Yes last a few months ago, and
I was very impressed, very talented, very smart, and I
(34:43):
know that he was orchestrating the Abraham Accords, and I
hope that we can, indeed, and I believe that we
can indeed expand the circle of peace. You mentioned Saudi Arabia,
the biggest Arab or at least one of the most
important Arab countries throughout the world, and you're absolutely right.
Iran is very concerned about the expansion of the circle
(35:06):
of peace between Israel and Arab countries and America, and
so it tried to stop it. I believe by now, Clay,
I think it would be safe to say that as
devastated we are and traumatized by the events of October seventh,
that will never heal. This scar will go with us
(35:26):
for generations. Our enemies realizes they did the big mistake,
huge mistake.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I know what.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
A lot of people are not traveling now, but in
the wake of October seventh, there are a lot of
people struggling all over the country in many different facets.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
One of them is.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Usually Israel has a huge tourism industry. Tons of people
come in. We have had an opportunity to see how
beautiful this country is. When people start the flights are
all returning. What would you say they should see if
they come to Israel and you think they would find
it to be a welcoming place.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
Absolutely, it's a warm, welcoming place, definitely to Americans. Is
a very small country and it's just a short visit.
You get to see old and you you get to
walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ if you go
through the tunnels underath the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and
of course Tel Aviv with its great restaurants and Jerusalem.
(36:23):
So this is what you do when you come to Israel.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Thank you so much, sir. I know how busy you are.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I know you've got a lot of battles still to fight.
But I know Donald Trump is going to have a
great partnership and a lot of our listeners are looking
forward to peace prosperity around the world
Speaker 5 (36:38):
For Email and the United Sam Thank you, sir, Thank you,
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