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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show Buck.
We'll be back on Monday, as he is traveling with
his family. Should be fun to be back together on Monday.
As I mentioned yesterday, I was expecting to be getting
ready to be in the air to Israel, but our
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flights were canceled to Israel, so we are going to
reschedule that trip. And we promised that we will bring
you a on the ground report from Israel at some
point in the months ahead. Well, we got a lot
to talk with you here on this Friday. Four point
three percent unemployment number that came out this morning. That's
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the highest since October of twenty twenty one, three years
and change into the Biden administration. Other than the sugar
high of Blue States ending their restrictions over COVID, basically
everything that Biden administration has touched has turned to garbage.
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We will discuss. There's another boxer out there this morning
with X Y chromosomes. That is how we define men
beating the crap out of a woman at the Olympics.
I can't believe this is real life, but you heard
Donald Trump on with us yesterday condemning that fact. Kamala Harris,
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Joe Biden, every Democrat out there continues to remain silent
on this issue, and everyone out there that is trying
to defend it is effectively saying, hey, well it's actually
a woman. Yeah, good luck with that. We'll discuss more
about what is actually weird, and that is many left
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wing policies right now, but I want to start with
what is becoming quite clear. Kamala Harris's strategy is a
replication of the twenty twenty Joe Biden's strategy, which is
we're gonna hide her. We're not going to allow her
to talk to anyone, We're gonna put her on a teleprompter,
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We're only going to allow her to interact with friendly individuals.
This is becoming now a scandal as we come up
on two weeks since she has become the Democrat nominee.
Remember she never ever has received a single vote for president.
With her being on the ballot for president and still
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being in the race, I think like one hundred of
you might have voted for her in Iowa in twenty
twenty because her name was still on the ballot, because
she didn't withdraw in time for her name to be
off the ballot, but none of you have ever in
your lives been able to vote for Kamala Harris to
be president of the United States. The entire purpose of
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the primary season is to test our candidates, allow them
to interact with voters in Iowa, in New Hampshire, in
South Carolina, in many other early primary states, and allow
them to demonstrate to all of us why they are
the best potential representative, whether you love or hate Donald Trump.
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He had very serious challengers, Ron DeSantis, Nicki Haley, among others.
He beat them all. He went out on the road
to Iowa, he went out on the road to New Hampshire.
He won every primary, I think except for Vermont, where
a bunch of Democrats decided to flip over, in maybe DC,
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where a bunch of Democrats decided to flip over because
they hate Trump so much. Trump is tested. Trump is
on the road all the time doing interviews, as we saw,
sometimes to his detriment. I would argue with the Nash
Association of Black Journalists. He came on yesterday on this
program unscheduled interview because he wanted to react to men
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beating up women in the Olympics and the fact that
that is now Democrat Party orthodoxy. If you missed it,
you can go listen to Donald Trump on this program
in the third hour. Media all over the country picked
up that interview. I'll run through some of that with
you later in the program, demonstrating how many people out
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there paying attention to what we say on a day
to day basis on this program. But the problem with
Kamala is she's got so many weaknesses. The Democrats are
aware of that, and those weaknesses get illuminated every time
she actually talks to anyone saying anything other than what's
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on the teleprompter. And this is what happened last night
when she decided to step off the teleprompter and not
read a statement for the first time in twelve days.
This was the word salad that she delivered. She is
right now the Democrat nominee. Nobody's asking her questions. She's
not interacting with any voters. She's never received a single vote,
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and this is why they are trying to hide her
like they hid Biden in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Listen, this is just an extraordinary testament to the importance
of having the president who understands the power of diplomacy
and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance
of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is an incredible day, Okay. I'm glad that the
prisoners are back, although I think, as Trump talked about
with us yesterday, we have consistently given up way more
than we've gotten back. And if you go back to
Brittany Griner being traded for the Merchant of Death that
gave I think re for Vladimir Putin to take Evan
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Gersovich and others prisoner because he knows that he's going
to get back better. We gave a trained assassin to
Russia and we got back a Wall Street Journal reporter
just being fair, do you think that trained assassin may
go kill somebody else? I think that's probably a pretty
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good chance. Do you think the guy who's the Merchant
of Death, one of the greatest arms dealers ever, might
have an impact? Given that Russia's actually at war with Ukraine.
We're incentivizing, and I'll talk about this later, more of
our citizens to be taken hostage. By giving such generous
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transfers of prisoners with the Russians and other foreign adversaries.
There will be soon I would predict to all of
you more innocent Americans taken hostage because Vladimir Putin has
recognized that he can play Joe Biden like a fiddle,
and I think he probably is also a little bit
afraid of what will happen if Trump were to win
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this election, because despite all the Russia Russia collusion arguments,
Trump has actually been way harder on Putin than Joe
Biden has. In fact, I was talking with a friend
who is married to a Russian woman. We were out
to dinner recently, and she was saying she just got
back from Russia. She was saying that everyone she talked
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to in Russia. This was before Biden dropped out, we're
all hoping that Biden would win because all of the
Russians see him as much weaker than Trump. And that
makes logical sense, right. The Russians aren't stupid. Vladimir Putin
isn't an imbecile. He recognized that Biden is weak. They
wanted Biden to win again because they thought that would
further in Bolden Russia. Kamala Harris is similarly weak. But
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what they are doing is they are going to try
to hide her. They did it with Joe Biden, and
they were able to use COVID as the excuse. Right now,
think about this. You heard the media get off their
butts after June twenty seventh, the debate where Donald Trump
knocked out Joe Biden, and you heard all of the
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media saying, Oh, we need to hear a press conference. Oh,
it's supremely important right now that we get interviews with
Joe Biden. That was because they were recognizing that Trump
was going to beat Biden and they knew they needed
to force him out of the race. That's why the
media got so active. But think about this for a moment.
Have you heard any of those same demands about Kamala Harris.
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Kamala Harris hasn't done anything and her odds, frankly, I'm
looking at him right now of winning the presidency have
moved close to fifty to fifty. Trump is now a
small favorite to be elected president. In twenty twenty four,
he was a big favorite over Joe Biden. Trump hasn't
changed anything really. In fact, if you want to criticize
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the Trump campaign, it's that it's been caught flat footed
in responding with Kamala over the last twelve days, or
so and allowed her to a large extent escape scrutiny
and not even have to deal with the fact that
while they're doing interviews all over the country with both
friendly and supremely antagonistic media, Kamala is not doing anything.
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She's in the process of picking her vice president. We're
now about ninety days away from the election, and think
about how crazy this is. We're about thirty days away
from when some of you are going to be able
to return your ballots. And I'm gonna be honest with
a lot of you. You know that I have been
super optimistic about Donald Trump winning in twenty twenty four.
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These are challenging times. All of a sudden. This is
why I believed they would switch from Biden. They knew
Biden couldn't win. The overarching story you see him wandering
around aimlessly last night at the airport. The overarching story
of the twenty twenty four campaign when it was Biden
versus Trump, was that Biden didn't have the mental or
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physical faculties to be president. Now, what they're trying to
do with Kamala is rerun the twenty twenty campaign by
making Trump the story, even though it's the Biden Harris administration,
even though Kamala has been in power for four years.
Make it a referendum on Trump and just try to
stay out of the way. That's what Biden did, and
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it was enough to barely get him across the finish
line because he was assisted by COVID. Is Kamala going
to be allowed to hide like Biden was in twenty
twenty and is that going to be enough to get
her dragged across the finish line. I'm starting to think
it might be. Be honest with y'all, look at what
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happened with John Fetterman. He couldn't speak and he got
elected by five points in Pennsylvania. They have right now
a better get out the vote system in Wisconsin, Michigan,
and Pennsylvania. If Kamala Harris wins all three of those states,
she will be the president of the United States. It's
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time to get serious. It's time to buckle down. There's
been a lot of flailing. There hasn't been very many
direct attacks that have landed significantly on Kamala Again. I
think a big reason why that is is because she
has so much incredible vulnerabilities that it's hard to decide
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which issue to hit her on. I would submit that ultimately,
the story of the election has not changed. This is
about the border, this is about the failure of the economy.
Trump should almost exclusively be talking about both of those issues.
It's the border stupid, it's the economy stupid. Hit them
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almost exclusively. You can also go with the defund the police,
the crime. You need to settle on about three issues
and only talk about those three issues. You've got to
be disciplined. The Trump campaign so far had been very disciplined.
I think it's come off a bit of the rails
of late Kamala is a very very bad candidate, but
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so was John Fetterman. They are going to hideer. They're
running a replay of twenty twenty. They hand selected Joe Biden,
now they've hand selected Kamala. We know what their strategy is.
The last two weeks, it's been working. Is there a
CounterPunch coming, Let's talk about that and what it should
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Speaker 3 (14:14):
Sanity in an Insane world, The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton show.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
There's a lot of noise every day. Sometimes it's hard
to distill complex sort stories down to easily digestible components.
Here is how Kamala Harris is beaten. Three words. It's
very simple. I'm gonna give you an acronym economy, border crime, EBC.
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That's all you have to do. Economy, border crime. If
Trump just focuses on those three issues, leaves everything else
to the side, he will win the twenty twenty four
election because these are the three things that voters care
about the most, and if you look at these on
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a factual basis, they are the three areas that the
Biden Kamala administration has failed on most consistently. On the economy,
I just mentioned, we hit four point three percent unemployment,
highest since October of twenty twenty one. The stock market
today is down nearly one thousand points earlier. I think
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it's down around seven hundred now. There is and are
major warning lights flashing that we are going to hit
a recession. When you hit a recession in the fourth
year of an administration, it's a sign that things have
gone horribly wrong. Inflation soared all the way to nine percent.
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I don't have to tell you all of that. You
felt it. The cost of your goods, that is, what
you purchase, has gone up more than the average person's
wages have. The economy is a colossal failure, to say
nothing of the thirty five trillion dollars in debt. Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris failed on the economy. That is
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point one. That is the e in EBC. Border is
the second one. Kamala Harris, why did they decide that
she wasn't? The borders are because they are terrified of
her being tied directly to the ten million plus illegals
that have poured into this country and have made even
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blue cities look around and say, what in the world
is going on here? New York City, Chicago, La, Atlanta, Washington,
d C, Denver, Places that don't have really a Republican
Party that is functional in them at all, sanctuary cities.
They've been overloaded the border. Kamala Harris directly responsible and
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attached to the failures there. The border is the second
focal point that will lead to a Donald Trump victory.
The third is crime. You have to be very smart
in how you attack Kamala Harris on crime. You have
to go after her for supporting defund the police and
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raising money to bail out rioters and allowing crime to
skyrocket across the country. Quality of life issues, shoplifting, that's
on the border. Sorry, that's on the ballot in California,
trying to repeal I think it's Proposition forty seven, so
that people can actually be arrested for stealing things. Now,
that's it. That's all you need to focus on. Every
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question you get, return it to EBC. Every opportunity you
have to talk about an issue, return it to EBC. Economy,
border crime, now if you want to. You occasionally add
in things that are pertinent of the moment, like Donald
Trump did yesterday when he said, hey, we shouldn't have
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people with x Y chromosomes beating up women in the Olympics.
I think that's fine. Touches on a story of the
day that is trending, that is massively important, but then
immediately circle back to EBC. I don't think it's a
win to fight battles over identity politics. Is Kamala Harris Indian?
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Is she black? People are going to make their own
decisions about what her background is, and people like me
could come on here and point out that Kamala Harris
was the mistress of a married man, and that she
got paid four hundred thousand dollars while sleeping with that
married man, and that she doesn't have kids of her own,
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and that she didn't get married till she was fifty,
and that her family is actually Jamaican, she spent time
in Canada, and her mom's family as Indian, and she
hasn't had the traditional black experience in America, So trying
to make her appear to be a paragon of blackness
is actually not in any way authentic. All of those
things we can talk about here and you guys all
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know them. But for Trump himself and for jd. Vance,
this is a three letter election. EBC, economy, border crime.
You're gonna hear me for the next ninety days reference
EBC A lot. This is an economy, this is a border,
this is a crime election. The Biden Harris campaign cannot
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defend itself on those three issues. They failed. They want
to fight a battle on Iskamala black. They want to
fight a battle on hey, what do we think about
women having children? They want to fight a battle on abortion.
Don't allow them to pick the battleground. You have to
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be disciplined, and you have to return to the issues
that you you're right on and that you're one hundred
percent going to win. Now, that doesn't mean when we're
eventually going to have the debate. And Kamala Harris tries
to go after Donald Trump on abortion, which she will,
that he shouldn't punch back and point out that his
position is quite clear. Every state should be able to
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make its own decision as it pertains to their choices
on abortion. Counter punching is fine, but you want to
be fighting this election on the terrain of economy, border
and crime. Who's going to be better on those issues?
The bonus is it connects with men, black, White, Asian,
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and Hispanic. It connects with women, black, White, Asian and Hispanic.
The economy, the border, and crime impacts everyone, and it
doesn't get bogged down in identity politics. My concern is
what Kamala Harris would love more than anything is to
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sit around and debate Donald Trump on whether or not
she's black. In fact, ironically enough, I was thinking about
this last night. Effectively, what Trump is doing is the
same thing that Biden did when he said, if you
don't vote for me, you ain't black. He's basically turning
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this into an identity politics election. That worked for Biden.
By the way, even though it's shameful, his argument that
if you are a certain race, you should vote for
me is the foundation of identity politics. That's why he
picked Kamala Harris. That's why he picked Katanji Brown Jackson.
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Trump should be embracing the meritocracy. It's what's going to
solve the issues of the economy, border and crime EBC.
If you make this an election about EBC, you win.
And I understand trust me, because we have to come
on and every single day there's a billion issues that
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are taking place, and we have to sit down buck
and eye and we have to say, okay, these are
the seven things that we need to talk about today
that are impacting your day to day lives. But we're
not running for president of the United States, and we're
not in a debt on sprint here ninety days away
from the election, and remember thirty days away basically from
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when people start to vote. Once people start to vote,
you're chasing a smaller number of eligible voters out there.
And I want you guys to go out and vote early.
In fact, I'll talk about this a little bit later
in the program. I've made a decision in my own life.
For virtually my entire life, I have been an election
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day voter. I just really like going into the polls
on election day. I don't mind standing in line, I
don't mind the hustle and bustle of election day voting.
I like it. I think it's a really enjoyable part
of American life to know that you are going in
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and you are going to be able to have your
voice heard. And so I think all of that is
such a supremely important part of this larger discussion. Get
your vote in early so that you can focus on
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getting other people out to vote, and so you don't
have to worry about what the weather's going to be
that day, or whether you're going to have a sick kid,
or whether you're going to have a grandparent that you
need to help with, or whether suddenly your kid has
a sporting event that you have to go to or
your grandkid does. There are millions of people out there
that plan on voting on election day that never go
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Get your vote in early economy, border crime, EBC. It's
not complicated. All right, we come back. We'll take some
of your calls because it is Friday, and we try
to make sure that we hit as many of the
calls on Friday as we possibly can. We're going to
get a discussion by the way, at the top of
the next hour about Israel. I mentioned that we had
to cancel our trip to Israel, that we were going
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to go on with the show because all the airplane
flights have been canceled in with the expectation that there
is going to be a major attack coming soon. Prayers
for everyone in Israel. After they have been taking out
some of the Tarror leaders all over the Middle East,
the expectation is there's going to be a counter strike.
We'll talk with Dovid Afoon about all of that. Also,
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Senator Marsha Blackburn is scheduled to join us in the
third hour of the program. Yesterday was the primary in Tennessee.
She now is the official Republican nominee. What is she
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We were supposed to be several of us from the
iHeart crew in the air shortly headed to Israel. All
of the flights, however, have been canceled for today that
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are headed into Israel, even on l Al airline, which
we were told almost never cancels, because there is an
expectation that Iran Lebanon that they're going to respond to
the attacks that Israel has undertaken in an effort to
respond to the twelve innocent people who were killed in
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northern Israel with a Hesbola rocket that hit near a
soccer field and injured many young kids. So that has
raised the level of danger in that area to such
extent that they are limiting all travel from the United
States to Israel right now. What is the latest on
the ground there, What should we expect. David Affoon is
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in our New York City studio right now. He's an
expert on what's going on in Israel, and I know
that it's kind of a complicated situation for many people
out there right now, So, Dovid, what can you tell
us about the absolute latest?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
What should we expect. Is this a situation where Iran,
Lebanon and their terror ally strike you think in the
next few days. Is it something that stretches weeks? What
happens now?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Well, good to be with you, Clay. What we're seeing now,
in response to a series of really heenous attacks over
the last number of months on innocent Israeli's by Iran
and it's terra proxies is probably what you could best
describe as a helstorm of Israeli come up and that
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Iran and its terra proxy's are facing. You've seen the
deputy head of Hisbollah in Beirut assassinated, the head of
the politiborough of Hamas Ismailhania assassinated in Tehran, and also
confirmation that muhammadf the terror master mind, was indeed assassinated
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in the Gaza strip. You know, the Israelis sometimes lose focus,
and perhaps that was what happened in the years and
months that led up to the attacks on October seventh.
But when they are focused at eradicating their enemies, my god, they're.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Good, no doubt. And when you look at this situation.
I mean, we're ten months basically since everything took place
in the October seventh attack. This feels quite clearly from
a US perspective that this is going to extend into
our election cycle. What do you think, and again you're
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the publisher of the New York Sun, by the way,
for people who don't know, what do you think Israelis
think of our upcoming election and the potential outcome? Now,
if Kamala Harris is the nominee versus if Donald Trump
is the nominee, how much of an impact if net
and Yahoo were being honest with us, does he think
the selection of our next president will have when it
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comes to Israel's ability to defend itself in the Middle East?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I mean, it has a very significant impact, and more
than anything, it has a significant impact on the strength
of US Israel relations. I mean, the truth is that
meddling in the Middle East and Israeli affairs is old
news when it comes to American administrations, by the way,
on both sides of the isle, both Democrats and Republicans.
I mean, it was President George Bush really pressured or
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cajoled Ariel sharonta pull out of Gaza in the first
place in two thousand and five, and then cousin Leeza
Rice insisted that they allow him us to run in
elections in two thousand and seven. So meddling in the
Middle East is old news for old administrations. The truth
is that the administration of Donald Trump was really the
only administration in history that deferred more to the Israelis
and said, look, we're in la, We're here to support you.
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Let us know what's helpful and how we can be helpful.
Of course, they weighed in and they had that perspective
and their opinions on things, but you know, they were
really supportive in that way. So I think it would
make a huge difference. You know, Donald Trump administration would
be very supportive of Israel's efforts now to re establish
security on its borders, and Kamala Harris administration would would
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wildly meddle, to say the least.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
No doubt as you sort of contemplate that playing out there,
what's Israel's move now? This seems to have spiraled potentially
into a larger Middle Eastern upfront battle instead of just
Iran using so many of these terror groups as proxies.
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Do you think we're in danger of this spiraling or
do you believe the targeted tax that Israel carried out
to eliminate many of those terror assets has actually given
the potential of this getting dialed back in significance? Where
are we in terms of trying to exactly examine where
the conflagration goes from here?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You know, I think you hit the nail on the
head there. But conventional wisdom always says, and you know,
if you look at the history of Joe Biden's approach
to foreign policy, it's always de escalate, the escalate, the escalate.
Of course, you know, the age old lesson of Churchill
is that it doesn't always work that way and you
end up empowering your enemies in doing so, and particularly
in the Middle East. I mean, that really is how
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it works. I mean, the only time that Iran ever
suspended its nuclear program was when the United States was
militarily active in both Afghanistan and Iraq on its borders,
and then it got nervous. And I think although the
conventional wisdom and what you're going to hear from all
the talking heads now is well, you know, Israel has
dramatically escalated, and the Iranians are going to be upset
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now and they're going to bite back. Sure are, they're
going to make a show of it, and you're gonna
hear a lot of saber rattling and rhetoric. But in
the end of the day, there are some folks that
are really, really nervous. I mean, to have the ability
to pull off what the Israelis have. It just tells
every single level of leadership in Iran and in all
of its terror proxies that nobody is safe and that
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the gloves are off. So I would say that the
chances are that you know, rhetoric aside, and they'll probably
be some kind of symbolic reprisal attack which won't cause
that much damage, and we'll know about it in advance.
Retrica side, I think it actually does a lot to
put these guys in their place.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
A lot of the yeah, no, sorry, I was gonna
cut you off. A lot of the attention had been
on Hamas. Suddenly the attention is on Hasboa. How does
this end? I mean, I mean, we know that this
is not going to end in the context of suddenly
Arabs aren't going to be like, hey, you know what,
we love Jewish people. We hope they live forever and
happily and prosper in this region. But how do we
get back to some form of mutual day taught where
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there isn't perpetual war going on? Are we close to that?
Is that still months away? Is it years away? Where
do we go from here?
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Well?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I think one thing's for sure is that if history
is a guide, the Israelis aren't going to slow down here.
I mean, you know, you often hear this bandied about
where folks say, well, you can't really get rid of Hamas.
Hamas is just an idea and if you if you
get rid of one leader, somebody else will show up.
Tell that to Black September. You know, I don't know
if your listeners.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
No.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Black September was a terror group that was among Israel's
premier foes in the seventies and eighties. In fact, during
the nineteen seventy two Olympic Games, there were eleven athletes
that were killed and it played out on live television
all over the world, eleven Israeli athletes. Israel and its
security services set the goal of completely eliminating Black September
and methodically routinely one after the other. It took them
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ten years and Black September just doesn't exist today. And
you know Israeli, there's definitely a paradigm change in the
security apparatus in Israel. They cannot. The idea of containing
threats no longer exists. So you're going to see a relentless,
methodical campaign to eliminate the threats, and the leadership it's
(34:14):
not going to slow down from here. You're just going
to see more and more and more of this. And
I think at some point the leadership will be so
debilitated that they will have to slow down. And that's
when you're going to see things start to settle.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
And if things start to settle down, what if that
look like from an American perspective? That means that what
should happen in terms of America being an ally of Israel?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
From your perspective, well, I think you know what Israel
wants from an ally, and I think what all allies
would want from each other is really support, you know,
to listen and to hear you know, the concerns, what
they're going through and where they can be helpful. I mean,
one thing that is quite unique about the Israel US
Alliance is that Israel and Premison now who specifically underlined
(34:59):
this in his beach to Congress recently. You know, we
don't want American troops or you know, this is what
Israelis will say, we don't want American troops. We don't
want I mean, there's a lot of business that's done. Obviously,
there's there's military aid, which most of it is spent
in the United States, and that helps support the US
military industry. But really it's it's you know, we want
(35:20):
the Israeli as saying we want to get the job done,
we want to do it ourselves, and you know, we
appreciate your backing and your support and your assistance, and
that what we've seen now with the Biden administration sort
of slowing down weapons shipments and things like that, sort
of withholding that support is a turn towards you know,
Israeli domestic production. So right now, and this hasn't really
(35:41):
been widely reported, there is a huge push in Israel
to build domestic weapons production capabilities, in particular mortars and
tank shells and other kind of munitions that is robot
typically rely on the Americans for. And I think, you know,
back to the question you asked about sort of what
the election means under the Obama years, you saw Israel,
(36:03):
you know, focusing on building relationship with others around the globe,
you know, with India and and and you know that
we saw the first trips to Africa and Singapore, Latin America.
So you know, a good US Israel relationship is the
product of, you know, what you'd expect from supportive allies,
an approach that you'd expect from supportive allies, which you know,
(36:24):
certainly under the Joe Biden administration it's very qualified, and
under the and Harris administration, I think it would be
even more so.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
David Afoon, publisher of the New York Sun, we appreciate
you coming into the New York City studio and sharing
all this breakdown with all of us. It's a pleasure,
thank you very much. And I just mentioned that we
were supposed to be in the air headed to Israel
right now, and we were going to be helping to
advance the cause of the IFCJ that's the International Fellowship
(36:52):
of Christians and Jews. With all the tensions going on,
they canceled our flight to be able to go to Israel.
Most of I believe the ights to Israel, if not
all of them from the United States right now are
all shut down, and the fact is that many Jewish
people are still under direct attack rather than being able
(37:13):
to live their lives in total freedom as all of
us want them to be able to do. IFCJ does
all they can to help Israeli citizens. You can join
us in donating what you can to the IFCJ and
thank them for helping to meet the urgent security needs
of everyone in Israel. It was interesting. One of the
(37:35):
things we did was we were able to meet the
leadership of the IFCJ down in South Florida this week,
went to a meeting, and I was blown away by
the bravery of so many of the leaders of this organization,
but also the testimony of what the impact of these
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donations have meant in terms of being able to protect
innocent isles and the battles that Yael, the founder there,
does fight every single day on behalf of the Jewish people.
You can make a tremendous gift right now at eight
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Speaker 3 (38:36):
Now news and politics, but also a little comic relief. Clay,
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Speaker 1 (38:48):
Welcome Back in Friday edition, play Travis buck Sexton show
Buck Out with his Family. We back up with me
on Monday. Join now by Senator from my home state
of Tennessee, the official Republican in the wake of yesterday's
primary in the state of Tennessee. Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator,
you've got your race coming up. Thanks for joining us
here on this Friday. But also you know the importance
(39:12):
of being in the majority. So we've obviously spent a
lot of time talking about Trump versus Kamalin now and
I'll probably ask you a bit about it, But how
optimistic are you as you look at the larger board
of available races that Republicans are going to take back
control of the Senate And what would it mean for
your ability if you were a part of the majority
as opposed to the minority.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Yes, indeed. And when you look at the races that
are on the board Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Wisconsin, you see the opportunity for Republicans to
win in each of these states, Michigan, which is an
(39:56):
open state. But what it means is that we have
to be diligent in getting our message out and talking
about what it is going to mean to have Republicans
in charge. Because whoever is the majority in the Senate
sets the agenda. It also allows us to block bad nominees.
(40:16):
You know, the Senate is in the personnel business, and
we're the ones that have to confirm all of the
judges and the ambassadors and the executive appointments for the administration.
So being able to block people that are not qualified,
being able to block judges that are not that have
(40:41):
never been a judge and are wanting to go to
the federal bench. So it makes a big difference in
We are hopeful with President Trump in the White House,
we will be able to do a lot of good
work on government reform, right sizing the federal government, getting
spending un control, which by the way, has been the
(41:02):
big driver of inflation, out of control, government spending. Of course,
secure that border and deal with the crime and the
gangs that have come into this country, and take care
of our veterans. Right now, the VA has a one
million case backlock. One million. And we also want to
(41:24):
make certain that our allies around the globe know they're
an ally and that our enemies fear us.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Senator Blackburn, you were in the hearing. I believe it
was on Tuesday, the most recent. The Secret Service acting
director is speaking right now. You pursued and help to
get the current Secret Service director out. I watch these videos.
I mean Fox News has a new one that I'm
sure you've seen of what looks like the guy with
(41:54):
the gun running across the roof while Trump is talking.
You've seen all the failure that occurred. I've said, this
can only be gross criminal negligence or intent. That is,
they intentionally failed. It's hard to believe the second could
be the case. What consequences are are therefore, at minimum
a gross criminal negligent performance by everyone entrusted with protecting
(42:19):
President Trump.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Well, these individuals need to be fired. The Secret Service
works on two different things. One is counterfeiting and the
second is the personal security, and that is the security
of right now a total of thirty one people, and
that is your current president, vice president, their family, and
(42:44):
then your former presidents and then a few people in
the administration that have had death threats. So that is
the group that personal security is what they are tasked with.
And you know, Clay, as I've said many times, this
(43:05):
isn't like you missed your budget numbers or you didn't
get your case work quota complete. When the Secret Service
messes up, people die. And that is exactly what you
saw in Butler, Pennsylvania. And to this day, we still
do not have the action plan. We do not know
(43:26):
who cleared Donald Trump to go on that stage at
six o'clock when an hour prior they had noted a
suspicious person, and at five point fifty one they deemed
him a potential threat, and at five point fifty three
they alerted the sharpshooters. So how could anybody clear the
(43:49):
former president? How could they do that? And we have
to be mindful of that, And those are some of
the answers we're wanting to get from the Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
When you, I know, your mom and a grandma, a
lot of people out there are really concerned about what
their kids see online, and parents try to be as
forthright and in control of that as they possibly can be.
You guys are starting to address that in the Senate.
What have you done and how do you think it
might help?
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Yeah, the Kids Online Safety Guide, which is the legislation
that Dick Bloomenthal and I have led in a bipartisan
manor for about the last three and a half years.
We passed it on Tuesday with a ninety one to
three vote and passed it out of the Senate. It
was a huge win, absolutely tremendous win for us, and
(44:50):
it will now go to the House. What this bill
will do is require your social media platforms to do
safety by design. You know, we have all sorts of
product design requirements on products in the physical world, but
we have no requirements in the virtual space. So this
(45:15):
is a first. It also will require a duty of
care from these social media platforms. They must open up
their algorithms, they must submit to an annual audit, and
they have to have a toolbox for kids and parents
so they can adjust these algorithms to determine what the
(45:40):
child is seeing from the virtual space. You know, there
are laws In the physical space, you cannot take a
child to a strip show, a bar, a casino, you
cannot sell alcohol, tobacco, pornography to a child. But in
the virtual space, they're exposed to this every day, to
(46:03):
the pornographic images, to people that are pushing suicidal ideation,
to eating disorders. They're meeting drug dealers, alcohol dealers, sex traffickers, pedophiles,
and it is ruining the lives of our children. And
(46:24):
people have said, we have to put something in place
so that we aren't just allowing kids to be exposed
to this. We have to have some parameters. So this
is the bill that we'll do that, and we are
looking forward to seeing it finish in the House in
(46:45):
September and then move to the President's desk.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
We're talking to Senator Marsha Blackburn. You served, i believe,
alongside of Kamala Harris for a couple of years in
the Senate. Now that she is the nominee, what do
you think based on your knowledge of her from your
experience about the race against Trump, and whether she's qualified
or able to do the job of president.
Speaker 5 (47:09):
Yeah, you know, it's going to be the same group
of policies that you have had with Biden Harris. She
is going to continue that. And look at her record.
When I was ranked the most conservative member of the
US in twenty nineteen, Tamala was ranked the most liberal.
She is for defunding the police. She is for ending
(47:33):
cash bail. She has given to these bail funds that
get criminals out of jail. She thinks that police should
be treated like criminals and criminals should be tagged as victims.
She has been the borders are where she failed miserably.
She didn't even go to the lower Rio Grand Valley
(47:55):
when she went to the border, she went to al Paso.
She thinks that all ten million illegal aliens should be
given free health care. They should be given the right
to vote. As a matter of fact, she would do
away with private health insurance for everyone. She thinks we
need to go to government run health care and nobody
(48:18):
has private insurance. Everybody can only have whatever healthcare the
government says that you can get. She is for ending
all oil and gas production in the US and for
passing the Green New Deal, and she would pack the court.
(48:40):
She is for allowing boys in girl sports. These are
her positions. She is the most radical leftist person who
has ever been on a ballot and run for president
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Senator Blackburn, congratulations on the report publican nomination ninety days.
We'll congratulate you on another term in the United States Senate.
Hope you have a great weekend. Thanks for spending time
with us.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
Oh you got it. Everybody can follow the campaign at
Marsha Blackburn dot com and if.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
You're at Tennessee and you can vote for Marcia like
I am. Talk to you again soon. Center Blackburn, appreciate
the time. Look, you just heard Kamala Harris dissected there.
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