December 6, 2024 • 36 mins
Pete Hegseth’s nomination is in good shape today. And Elbridge Colby should be his deputy. Judge upholds racial preferences for Naval Academy admission standards. Buck feels privileged to be hosting this show – but doesn’t feel it compares to what people like Elon Musk are doing. It deserves respect. Like what Fetterman has said.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, third hour Clay and Buck kicks off. Now,
Clay in Israel. He'll be back with us Monday, and
well for all next week from Israel. And I'm here
in South Florida, and we will continue to bring you
all of the latest and greatest and craziest and everything
else here at home, in this country and abroad. So
(00:21):
on one note for all of you, it looks like
right now it's not a done deal, but it's looking
good for our friend Pete heg Seth. Donald Trump put
out this on Truth Social and now it makes its
way to X very rapidly, he wrote. Pete hegg Seth
is doing very well. His support is strong and deep,
(00:44):
much more so than the fake news. What have you believe?
He was a great student Princeton, Harvard educated with a
military state of mind. He will be a fantastic, high
energy Secretary of Defense who leads with charisma and skill.
Pete is a winner and there is nothing that can
be done to change that. So it's looking like Pete
(01:05):
not only has the backing of continued backing, I should
say of Trump fully for this, but also the noise
you were hearing in the Senate is dying down from
a few of them, from a handful that's dying down,
and I think that there's been a recognition that, look,
(01:26):
they're not going to hold him to a standard of
because it's viewed as irrelevant, I think by a lot
of people to his ability to do this job. You know,
he's had some challenges in his personal life in terms
of marriages. They're that's not the issue, that's not at issue.
And the drinking thing seems to just be innuendo and
smear because there's no evidence, there's no anything other than
(01:50):
the New York Times Meghan stuff up. And then you
look at his resume and you look at what he
represents and what he wants to accomplish and how he
in many ways embodies the will of MAGA and the
MAGA Party faithful when it comes to dealing with the
Pentagon and reshaping it into a war fighting machine and
not a DEI social experimenting mess, which is increasingly what
(02:17):
I hear from. Look, I never served spent a lot
of time around the military when I was in the CIA,
in both the Rock and Afghanistan, obviously, but from what
I hear from friends of mine who have served or
are serving still is there's a big course correction that
is needed from some of the day to day management
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and ethos and focus of the most formidable war fighting
machine in the history of the world, which is what
the United States military is. And I think if nothing else,
Pete will be a reminder from the top down for
all of the men and women who serve of that
that is this is the Defense Department, but it is
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to create a formidable military capacity to defend the United States,
It's people and its interests against any and all enemies.
It's not about you know what kind of like transgender
ideology can we inflict on the troops today. And there's
(03:21):
been too much of that and it's nonsense, and I
think there's a recognition of that. Pete took the fight
to some of the gaggle that has been following him
around Capitol Hill as he's making his case to various senators.
Here he is just telling them to their faces, I'm
not I'm not subject to your whims. This is about
(03:43):
Donald Trump. This is about Donald Trump's voters, this is
about the United States Senate, and that's what's going on here.
Play cut one.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm proud of what I thought for I'm not going
to back down from them one bit. I will answer
all of these senators questions, but this will not be a.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Process tried in the media.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't answer anyone in this group, none of you,
not to that camera at all. I answer to President Trump,
who received seventy six million votes on behalf and a
mandate for change. I answer to the fifty the one
hundred senators who are a part of this process, and.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Those in the committee, and answer to my Lord and
Savior and my wife and my family. I'm proud to
be here, and as long as Donald Trump wants me
in this fight, I'm going to be standing right here
in this fight, fighting to bring our Pentagon back to
what it needs to be.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
There, you have it, He's staying in this fight. Trump
has his back. They've thrown they've done their worst, you know,
in the media to tear him down, and to remember
it's not only just blocking his nomination, it's also to
try to send a message to anyone else who would
have the temerity to want to stand with Trump, and
this new administration will destroy you if we can too. Right,
(04:54):
there's always the message that is sent. It's not just
the one village they burned down. It's what the villagers
nearby think of it when a village gets burned out,
and that's what they're trying to do to Pete hegg Seth.
I'd also note that another friend of the program here,
Bridge Colby, who had been on the Trump Pentagon before,
(05:14):
had been at DoD at a senior level. He was
a deputy assistant secretary. I believe he or he is
coming out vociferously in support of and defense of putting
his im premature on Pete hegg Seth as Secretary of Defense.
Our friend Bridge Colby, this has cut too.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Pete Hegseth's been out there in the Senate making the
case as well as on media, got a lot of
allies coming out for him, vouching for him. I think
my view is that, Frankly, the President of the United
States deserves a presumption that the people that he nominates,
you know, should be should be those the ones who
serve in those positions. I mean, I think we talked
(05:54):
a little bit earlier. You know, what do these this
pick mean or that pick mean. I think this is
Donald Trump's agenda. It's putting Americans first, it's ending the
forever wars. As he said, I don't start wars, I
stop them. So I think that's the way I look
at it in terms of, you know, how the Senate's
going to react. You know, that's obviously sort of unpredictable.
But I think Pete and others are making a very
strong case for why he'd be an excellent Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I think Bridge gets it, and I think it's a
show of a clear show of support for Pete. And
I'll just throw this out there. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense,
Bridge Colby, Deputy Secretary of Defense, has a nice ring
to it, doesn't it. You know, kind of a Batman
and Robin situation going on there. I think this would
(06:39):
be a really excellent team. And I'm sure that I'm
not the only one who has had this cross their minds.
You get Pete at the top, he's kind of the leader,
cracking skulls, making sure that the overall ethos and the
warfighter agenda is being put in absolute focus, and then
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Bridge handling some of the you know, some of the
day to day and an implementation component and some of
the behind the scenes strategizing. I think it will be
a very powerful team, and I think I would hope
the Trump team is fully aware of how that would look,
how that could work out. So I I'm just throwing
it out there. I think that would make a lot
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of sense. And I'm happy to see, happy to see
that Pete has been able to fight through the ambush.
You know, I remember in the agency that always told
us the one thing and one concern we always had,
just even from movements, not only in war zones, but
in places where any agency personnel, especially if they think
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they know who you are you're a target, is ambush. Right.
That's where it's when you're moving, you're in a vehicle,
that's when you can be particularly vulnerable. And so they
would just say, get off the X right, just move
and fight through. The worst thing you can do in
an ambush is sit there and hope they run out
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of ammunition. Sit there and hope that the cavalry comes
over the hill. You move, you fight back, and you
move some more, and you keep going. And that is
what Pete has done here. So that's true in the
military if you're in a convoy. True in the CIA,
if you're in a civilian vehicle and some lunatics are
trying to light you up with coalition the coughs. So yeah,
(08:26):
I'm happy to see that Pete. I think he's I
think he's good to go. Now, there was a day
or two there where they were they were remembered. This
was Republican senators and who were the problem? I mean, Biden,
you got to remember this, and I know many of
you do, but I just I think it's worth putting
out there again. Biden at a fifty to fifty Senate
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and really got everybody that he wanted, you know, everybody
that he wanted through, and you say to yourself, well
hold on. So that's that's the way it goes for them.
But then our team had a fifty three forty seven,
and we're supposed to just say, you know what I mean,
you know, the incoming team has it as a fifty
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three to forty seven, and we're gonna back down to
this stuff. We're gonna take this and try to in
any way appease One thing I am certain of and
I know all of you are as well. Appeasing these
radical democrats is always a losing strategy. It is just
feeding the crocodile and hoping it eats you last That
(09:33):
is the game with them all the time. They are
not ever going to say, you know what, your good
faith on this issue should be rewarded with good faith
from our side. No, they view good faith as weakness,
as encouragement to more force, to more pressure we got.
(09:53):
And I look they very clearly this played out with
the Matt Gaate situation, a lot of pressure there. I
think Mattis was like, look, would he have made it
through if he went all the way to the Senate?
You know? Maybe? And that's I thought this guy should
have his day. He should be able to explain why.
But I think he's just like, look, it's a distraction
for Trump. There's too much noise. And then the Democrats
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take that as oh, okay, on to the next one.
And I firmly believe that if they were able to
stop the Pete Hegseth nomination to Secretary of Defense, they
would have gone on neck. I think the next one
would be h RFK Junior. I think that's the one
that you know that he could rattle enough cages and
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cause enough angst among the bureaucracy, you know they're not
gonna be able to stop elon or or vivate because
they don't need confirmation, right, So, like you know, and
now that they could stop either of them anyway, so
they're they're not gonna be a problem for them. You
look at some of the other ones, I mean, Marco Rubio,
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long long standing Republican senator, a lot of foreign policy credits.
They're not going to stop him obviously from being Secretary
of State. You know, you go down the list and
you see some of the other options here, and I
do think it's clear RFK Junior was going to be
next on their on their list. I've been a little
surprised at how much they have just completely waved through
(11:22):
the DHS NOME nomination meeting. The Democrat media is like, yeah, fine,
I'm like, oh, okay, well all right. I mean there
you go, so good news. Nonetheless, for for Pete, hegseth
here with with what's being laid out and and really,
you know, I think that this also goes to a
(11:43):
general uh principal guiding. Uh what's what's the word? Guy?
I kind of a load star if you will, Is
that the right term? Uh? It's about results, It's about
what you do in the job. You know, the old
(12:05):
days when Democrats would try to find something. And remember
they didn't they go after Judge Bork with the they
like went after his videotape rentals or saw that. I mean,
I mean, just like totally just whatever they could do
to this guy's icky or bad. Like I said, they
used to They used to get nominees derailed because they
(12:26):
had had a domestic employee, you know, a maid or nanny,
a housekeeper or whatever that was in illegal. That used
to be something. Oh I look at this, you know
now not illegal to undocumented. You know, I feel like,
how could they do that anymore? You know, better than
Americans undocumented, better than we the American people work harder
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and more law abiding, all the stuff that Democrats say.
So they've made that a little bit. I know that
that's not true, but just put that aside. Uh. They
they take that approach on these things. So my update
for you on on the heck Sets Secretary Defense story
is that it looks like there has been a consolidation,
a doubling down, and like I said, he's fought through
(13:08):
the ambush and I think he's gonna be the next
Secretary of Defense and I wish Pete all the best
in this role. I know he'll do a great job,
and I invited him to come on the show. He
hasn't come back to me with if he would or could.
As soon as I hear from him, we'll see if
we can get him to come and speak to us
about this. But given that I think he's lined up
the Senate votes that he needs right now, he might
(13:28):
just want to let you know he's won the battle.
He might want to wait till he Secretary of Defense
before he comes and talk to us, And that would
be fine. I totally totally appreciate and respect that. You know,
they're going to go after a buddy Cash some more. Now. Actually,
you know what, I think that's I should I should
have thought of that. I just view Cash as such
a clear and obvious choice and have all along that
(13:50):
I got to remember from the other side, from the
enemy camp, Cash is a problem. They're gonna have a
tougher time that with him, because you know, federal prosecutor
were to do od he's worked with Devin Nunis in
the House Intelligence Committee. I mean, he's definitely got their
resume for it. And you know, I don't know, they
gotta come up with, you know, gosh, But tell I
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heard I heard that he did shots of tequila at
a toga party in college. You know, I don't know
what they think they're going to be able to pull
off with him, but I don't know. I think it's
very unlikely they'll be able to derail him. One other note,
I just say, you notice some of these picks you
have the daik Ramaswami Hindu, Indian American, Cash Patel Indian American. Uh.
(14:35):
Uh Tulsi Gabbard is I think is she? Is she
part Hawaiian native? I an'tyway. My point is just you know,
none of that diversity counts at all to the media
right now that hates Trump. It's there's never like wow
the first you know Indian American net Nope, nope, nope,
doesn't count. If you're right wing, it doesn't count. All
of a sudden, it's uh, that's off the list. Uh.
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Sometimes all you can do is laugh, and they do
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you get your podcasts. I don't have any up issue
on Daniel Penny's case. Right now, I do have a
very bad decision from a federal judge upholding racial preferences
(16:30):
in admissions to the United States Naval Academy. Read through
this and it's this is just expect more of this
from these these lib activists in judicial robes. We already
have the Supreme Court say you can't do this racial
discrimination because you think it happens to be good because
you say so thing and admissions anymore, you had Asians
(16:52):
getting told you can't get into Harvard even though you
have better grades and everything else than everyone else applying
because your leadership isn't as good, which is really a
backhand to the you know, Asian community is gross, and
Asian American community particularly. And now this judge, what's this name,
Judge Bennett. Judge Bennett says, there's a quote compelling national
(17:15):
security interest in a diverse officer corps, in the Navy
and Marine corps, and so the Naval Academy is distinct
from a civilian university. Bull crap. There is no compelling
national security interest in a diverse officer corps. There is
a compelling national security interest in the best officer corps possible.
(17:35):
All right, we are a society that believes in merit
or we are not. This whole stealth quota thing has
got to stop. I think this is going to get
taken up the Supreme Court. Supreme Court's got to slap
it down. But you get these federal activist judges, these
lib judges, they don't care. The Supreme Court's already set
the principle in place. They just wanted. Diversity is our strength.
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Eric Adams and some interesting things that he said in
(19:00):
New York City. Could he be going maga a little bit?
A little bit? Maybe opening the door a little bit? Also,
John Fetterman, I know some of you, you don't have
to tell me. I never trust these libs who are
like not completely insane entirely, but they're not being insane.
They're not being insane, I've says Fetterman. You know he's
(19:21):
he's created this lane for himself of a Democrat who
is not out of his mind. And said some pretty
reasonable and fair minded things on a regular basis. What
am I supposed to do? Say? No, he's not saying
reasonable things. She's a I mean, he is saying some byths.
Great on Israel, he's been good on the border. He
recently said some nice things about about Elon Musk. Do
(19:43):
we have him talking about Elon Musk? By the way, guys,
we might even have that in the but he it's
funny because I saw some other Oh yeah, fifteen, here
play cut fifteen. Here's Fetterman on Elon Musk. You see
yourself ultimately working with folks like Elon Musk and forbad Ramaswami.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Who yeah, I again, I I I admire mister Musk.
He's been involved in very important parts of American society, AI,
SpaceX and and other kinds of things. Yes, he's on
the on a different team, but that doesn't make me
an enemy. I don't be automatically going to become a critic.
(20:24):
It's like, hey, he has made you know, he's made
our economy and our nation better, and our politics are different,
and I don't agree with some of the things that
he might say, but that doesn't make him, Like I said,
an enemy.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Entirely reasonable. And yes, anyone who does not respect the
accomplishments that Elon Musk has had in the business world
is delusional. I see these leftists sometimes that'll that'll say
things like, you know, Elon Musk is so dumb and
he didn't even start Tesla. Okay, he took Tesla over
and it was it was like a nothing company when
he took it over, and it and it's now worth
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more than like the entire auto industry combined or some
crazy figure like that. And then there's SpaceX, which is
transformed space travel. Elon Musk is the most incredible corporate
visionary alive today period full stop. You know, there's some others,
you know, I mean, Jeff Bezos is very impressive with
he's accomplishment. There's some others who are in the and
(21:22):
A Jensen Huang, the CEO of and Video obviously, I
mean there's people who have done very impressive things. But
Elon Musk is really in a category by himself. And
you'll see these like lunatic liberals who are you know,
do you know what I do is what I do
is a privilege to be able to for a living learn,
(21:42):
think and speak for an audience that wants to hear
what you have to say is a privilege. And it's
amazing how many people, I think in this business take
it so for granted and become kind of, you know,
believe their own press releases a little too much or something,
and they get a little big for their riches, if
you know what I mean. They think, Oh, you know,
I'm like, if you're doing this and Elon is putting
(22:04):
rockets into outer space and trying to get us to Mars,
show some respect, you know what I mean. And I
say that as somebody in this business, but you know,
show a little respect, right Like when I sit down,
if I talk to the world's best neurosurgeon, who can
you know, remove tumors from the deepest parts of a
brain and give someone their full function in their life back, Like,
that's amazing. You know, talking and being good at thinking
(22:25):
and communicating is nice skill. But there's stuff out there
that is wondrous, and what Elon Musk has accomplished is
in the realm of wondrous and it deserves at least respect.
Doesn't mean you have to agree with them on everything.
Doesn't mean you know, but Fetterman takes that tone with him.
Fetterman is saying, yeah, like I don't you know, I
(22:45):
work with them on some stuff. Like what he's done
is impressive because you can find it all over the
place because Elon went maga. Now you have all these
people who are Elon Musk. He's not even smart. I'm like,
he's not even smart. What do you think? You know?
I in Isaac Newton was bad at math? What's next?
You know? Lebron James isn't good at basketball? What's next?
Like you start to some of you're saying you should
(23:07):
have said Michael Jordan, because Michael Jordan is the best ever.
But you know what I mean. You know what I'm saying.
I want to get some of your vip emails and
also get some of your calls here vip emails. Remember
clayanbuck dot com for those vip emails. Listener Keith writes
in this is an important one. If the jury finds
Daniel Penny guilty, could Trump pardon him? No, at least
(23:30):
historically it would be a state charge. We've never had
a president try to pardon for state charges. There was
some discussion of this. Could Trump pardon himself from state charges?
And I think the answer is probably no. Well, I
don't know. People will fight this people will fight this
one out. It's never happened before, so it's in the
(23:51):
realm of let's see. So anyway, let's see, uh Mark
vip Mark writes new watch book, Are you sporting a
new Rolex? I like the face of it. Kind of funny.
I've never talked to you guys about watches before. During
the pandemic, when I was stuck at home in New
York City and doing many hours of radio a day, right,
(24:13):
I was doing podcast, I was doing live radio. I
mean I was doing five hours of content a day
at that point, which was quite a thing. I just developed,
like a lot of people, as an interest in watches
because I was stuck at home, couldn't get a haircut.
You know, it's just eating a lot of takeout food
and thinking a lot about what an evil son of
a gun fauci is. But I developed a like for
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watches a little bit, and I have a very, you know,
kind of meager starter watch collection. Nothing fancy, nothing along
the lines of what people who spend a lot of
money on this stuff. But it's funny. You notice this one,
This is actually from a friend of mine whose name
is Eric Wind, and this is called the Wind Vintage
X True North, and it is not a Rolex. It
is pays homage to the the Rolex date Tona, which
(25:01):
for those of you who are Rolex people, is a
very very expensive watch. This watch costs hundreds of dollars.
The Rolex Daytona costs anywhere from well, I mean it
really starts probably around twenty thousand. I don't have a
Rolex Daytona. Starts around twenty thousand dollars, and then you
can get up to one hundred thousand dollars. Then if
it's a Paul Newman, which was a very particular one
(25:22):
made famous by Paul Newman, that's a vintage watch. Those
can go for four or five hundred thousand dollars. But no,
this is my friend Eric Wind, and it's called the
Wind Vintage Extrue North. He designed it. He's a watch
curator and an expert and collector and seller, and this
is his watch. He gave him as a gift, so
very very cool. Wind Vintage is his website. So who
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else is right?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yes, Michael writes, Taylor Lorenz should be arrested. And I
think you can make that happen. It appears she's creating
target lists on Blue Sky of healthcare CEOs Taylor Lorenz
is uh crazy and from what I can see, it
(26:09):
was a crazy person. I mean, what she's doing by
putting out the CEO for a lot of reasons. I
can't even really tell you or explain to you what
was in wonder for recent tweets about masking and what
she said about it, because it's so it's just so crazy.
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm the fact
(26:33):
that she was ever employed by the Washington Post is
uh tells you a lot about the Washington Post. Tells
you all you need know about the Washington Post. Mike
and Jacksonville, Florida. Mike, you wanted your son to go
to the Naval Academy. Tell me what's going on here? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Good afternoons. Thanks for having me on. Yes, my son
was Uh. He was about Victorian High school and he
had an associate degree before he got out of high school,
played all the sports in four years of j r. OTC,
applied from the Naval Academy, had a congressional nomination, and
has turned down from the Naval Academy. And so when
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the office of the congressman that endorsed them called him
and was talking to him about it, Uh, he said,
you just didn't check the right ethnicity box because other
people were being selected for the academy at that time
with less, you know, with less things that they did,
(27:33):
you know, like as far as sports and j r
OTC and lower GPAs and all of his direction in
academics was all geared toward h engineering because they wanted
to go into nuclear engineering is what he wanted to study.
And you know, in the end result he was denied
uh entrance into the Naval Academy.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Look, the racial preferences are wrong in any school, in
any situation. It is wrong. And I'm sorry your son.
Your son had that situation and went through that. And
look I went through when I applied to college. Thank
you very much for calling in. You know, I I
remember there was it was very clear with the college
guidance counselors we had at my school there were some
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students who were sort of preferential or privileged minority groups.
Remember not Asian, my classmates who were first generation I
went to a I went to a very diverse high school.
I believe it or not, I did, and a very
economically diverse high school, particularly, and so you had a
lot of people who were the I think the average
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household income in my class. This is in the late nineties,
and you know, I graduated in two thousand. Because they
would put this out there, they wanted people to know
a scholarship school, there's a reason why it's a free school.
It was like forty three thousand dollars a year, which
was pretty close to the kind of national average. But
that's in New York City, where it's far more expensive
(28:59):
to live in ne Yar City then just live in Oklahoma.
And so there were people who were really struggling, who
were my classmates, who did not have a lot of
resources that you know, financially struggling, didn't a lot of
they're brilliant kids, but they didn't have a lot of
resources at home. And the Filipino class, you know Filipino American, right,
everyone is a dash American. I'm talking about their heritage,
their background, right, the Filipino and Korean students, because there
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were a lot of those in my class. They knew
that even with like fifteen seventy on the SAT and
a three eight, probably not getting into Harvard, maybe getting
into MIT, you know, maybe looking to get some money
at a state school somewhere. And if you were black
or Latino and you were in the bottom third of
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my class, which Ivy League school do you want to
go to? This is just the fact, this is just
what happened. We all were aware of it. Bottom third
of the class, pick your Ivy League school more or less,
and top third of the class, because they broke us
down into thirds. That's how I know top third of
the class. You know, well, if you're eight, I mean
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white guys, Asian guys very similar. It was actually worse
for the Asian guys. How can anyone think that's fair?
I mean also the Latino thing too, well, what was
that all about. There's no history, there's no history of
institutional racism on the scale of say, slavery for Latinos
in this country. I mean, it's a whole separate issue
(30:26):
than the historical injustices of the black community face. So
why are they because because you just say, well, this
is just not fair, and you might say, oh, but bluck,
what about And then I would say, yeah, but this
is why I had friends. I could tell you stories
all day. I had people, when I say friends, people
that I knew, I'm not necessarily people I'm close with.
I had friends who, when they were applying to the schools,
(30:52):
all of a sudden they would find that they had
like a and I mean, they were as white as
I am, but they would that they had a grandparent
from Argentina. And you'd say, well, that's Latin America, and yeah,
but there are actually a lot of Germans I'm just saying,
and a lot of Italians in Argentina. I mean people
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that you know, the immigrated from there, and and they
would all of a sudden be you know, they claim
to have Latino heritage. There were games being played with
this stuff all the time. I knew a girl, I
knew of a girl, and this is where we're in
high school. So it was a girl who claimed to
be a This is the Elizabeth Warren right, is exactly
the same thing. I knew a girl who claimed to
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be a Pacific Islander, because that's a very that used
to be really advantageous. I don't know, I feel like
a little less so now because because she had a
American mother who was born in Hawaii, Pacific Island. I
don't know what to tell you, Like, people did this
stuff and they got away with it. They got away
with it. I had another friend who was born in
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thinking about this, born in Egypt. She wanted to go
to Harvard born in Egypt and claimed that she was
African American. She was Arab, but claimed that she was
African American, and when confronted on this, she said, I'm
an American who was born in the continent of Africa.
(32:17):
Because she was confronted on it, because they did in
person interviews back then and they said, I'm sorry, no,
I think we all know what we mean by this,
and she kind to her credit, she's like, well, what
do we mean? This is like a this is a
skin color thing, like a straight up a skin color thing.
Is that what we're talking And the answer was yes,
And she did not get into Harvard. It's it's nonsense,
and I'm sorry that some people like the privileges and
(32:40):
the perks that they were getting for a long time.
It is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has weighed in on
this and that this activist lib judge is still going
back to the Oh but diversities or strength in the military,
no find me the best for war fighting and keeping
us safe. I don't care what they're I don't care
what their color is, I don't care what their ethnicity is.
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I don't care about anything other than the best. And
this is what it should be in the military. And
I think our friend Pete Hegseth, by the way, there's
a reckoning coming for a lot of the DEI stuff
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Clay in Israel. He'll be back with us Monday, and
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all of the latest and greatest and craziest and everything
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on one note for all of you, it looks like
right now it's not a done deal, but it's looking
good for our friend Pete heg Seth. Donald Trump put
out this on Truth Social and now it makes its
way to X very rapidly, he wrote. Pete hegg Seth
is doing very well. His support is strong and deep,
(00:44):
much more so than the fake news. What have you believe?
He was a great student Princeton, Harvard educated with a
military state of mind. He will be a fantastic, high
energy Secretary of Defense who leads with charisma and skill.
Pete is a winner and there is nothing that can
be done to change that. So it's looking like Pete
(01:05):
not only has the backing of continued backing, I should
say of Trump fully for this, but also the noise
you were hearing in the Senate is dying down from
a few of them, from a handful that's dying down,
and I think that there's been a recognition that, look,
(01:26):
they're not going to hold him to a standard of
because it's viewed as irrelevant, I think by a lot
of people to his ability to do this job. You know,
he's had some challenges in his personal life in terms
of marriages. They're that's not the issue, that's not at issue.
And the drinking thing seems to just be innuendo and
smear because there's no evidence, there's no anything other than
(01:50):
the New York Times Meghan stuff up. And then you
look at his resume and you look at what he
represents and what he wants to accomplish and how he
in many ways embodies the will of MAGA and the
MAGA Party faithful when it comes to dealing with the
Pentagon and reshaping it into a war fighting machine and
not a DEI social experimenting mess, which is increasingly what
(02:17):
I hear from. Look, I never served spent a lot
of time around the military when I was in the CIA,
in both the Rock and Afghanistan, obviously, but from what
I hear from friends of mine who have served or
are serving still is there's a big course correction that
is needed from some of the day to day management
(02:37):
and ethos and focus of the most formidable war fighting
machine in the history of the world, which is what
the United States military is. And I think if nothing else,
Pete will be a reminder from the top down for
all of the men and women who serve of that
that is this is the Defense Department, but it is
(03:00):
to create a formidable military capacity to defend the United States,
It's people and its interests against any and all enemies.
It's not about you know what kind of like transgender
ideology can we inflict on the troops today. And there's
(03:21):
been too much of that and it's nonsense, and I
think there's a recognition of that. Pete took the fight
to some of the gaggle that has been following him
around Capitol Hill as he's making his case to various senators.
Here he is just telling them to their faces, I'm
not I'm not subject to your whims. This is about
(03:43):
Donald Trump. This is about Donald Trump's voters, this is
about the United States Senate, and that's what's going on here.
Play cut one.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm proud of what I thought for I'm not going
to back down from them one bit. I will answer
all of these senators questions, but this will not be a.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Process tried in the media.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't answer anyone in this group, none of you,
not to that camera at all. I answer to President Trump,
who received seventy six million votes on behalf and a
mandate for change. I answer to the fifty the one
hundred senators who are a part of this process, and.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Those in the committee, and answer to my Lord and
Savior and my wife and my family. I'm proud to
be here, and as long as Donald Trump wants me
in this fight, I'm going to be standing right here
in this fight, fighting to bring our Pentagon back to
what it needs to be.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
There, you have it, He's staying in this fight. Trump
has his back. They've thrown they've done their worst, you know,
in the media to tear him down, and to remember
it's not only just blocking his nomination, it's also to
try to send a message to anyone else who would
have the temerity to want to stand with Trump, and
this new administration will destroy you if we can too. Right,
(04:54):
there's always the message that is sent. It's not just
the one village they burned down. It's what the villagers
nearby think of it when a village gets burned out,
and that's what they're trying to do to Pete hegg Seth.
I'd also note that another friend of the program here,
Bridge Colby, who had been on the Trump Pentagon before,
(05:14):
had been at DoD at a senior level. He was
a deputy assistant secretary. I believe he or he is
coming out vociferously in support of and defense of putting
his im premature on Pete hegg Seth as Secretary of Defense.
Our friend Bridge Colby, this has cut too.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Pete Hegseth's been out there in the Senate making the
case as well as on media, got a lot of
allies coming out for him, vouching for him. I think
my view is that, Frankly, the President of the United
States deserves a presumption that the people that he nominates,
you know, should be should be those the ones who
serve in those positions. I mean, I think we talked
(05:54):
a little bit earlier. You know, what do these this
pick mean or that pick mean. I think this is
Donald Trump's agenda. It's putting Americans first, it's ending the
forever wars. As he said, I don't start wars, I
stop them. So I think that's the way I look
at it in terms of, you know, how the Senate's
going to react. You know, that's obviously sort of unpredictable.
But I think Pete and others are making a very
strong case for why he'd be an excellent Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I think Bridge gets it, and I think it's a
show of a clear show of support for Pete. And
I'll just throw this out there. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense,
Bridge Colby, Deputy Secretary of Defense, has a nice ring
to it, doesn't it. You know, kind of a Batman
and Robin situation going on there. I think this would
(06:39):
be a really excellent team. And I'm sure that I'm
not the only one who has had this cross their minds.
You get Pete at the top, he's kind of the leader,
cracking skulls, making sure that the overall ethos and the
warfighter agenda is being put in absolute focus, and then
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Bridge handling some of the you know, some of the
day to day and an implementation component and some of
the behind the scenes strategizing. I think it will be
a very powerful team, and I think I would hope
the Trump team is fully aware of how that would look,
how that could work out. So I I'm just throwing
it out there. I think that would make a lot
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of sense. And I'm happy to see, happy to see
that Pete has been able to fight through the ambush.
You know, I remember in the agency that always told
us the one thing and one concern we always had,
just even from movements, not only in war zones, but
in places where any agency personnel, especially if they think
(07:42):
they know who you are you're a target, is ambush. Right.
That's where it's when you're moving, you're in a vehicle,
that's when you can be particularly vulnerable. And so they
would just say, get off the X right, just move
and fight through. The worst thing you can do in
an ambush is sit there and hope they run out
(08:03):
of ammunition. Sit there and hope that the cavalry comes
over the hill. You move, you fight back, and you
move some more, and you keep going. And that is
what Pete has done here. So that's true in the
military if you're in a convoy. True in the CIA,
if you're in a civilian vehicle and some lunatics are
trying to light you up with coalition the coughs. So yeah,
(08:26):
I'm happy to see that Pete. I think he's I
think he's good to go. Now, there was a day
or two there where they were they were remembered. This
was Republican senators and who were the problem? I mean, Biden,
you got to remember this, and I know many of
you do, but I just I think it's worth putting
out there again. Biden at a fifty to fifty Senate
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and really got everybody that he wanted, you know, everybody
that he wanted through, and you say to yourself, well
hold on. So that's that's the way it goes for them.
But then our team had a fifty three forty seven,
and we're supposed to just say, you know what I mean,
you know, the incoming team has it as a fifty
(09:10):
three to forty seven, and we're gonna back down to
this stuff. We're gonna take this and try to in
any way appease One thing I am certain of and
I know all of you are as well. Appeasing these
radical democrats is always a losing strategy. It is just
feeding the crocodile and hoping it eats you last That
(09:33):
is the game with them all the time. They are
not ever going to say, you know what, your good
faith on this issue should be rewarded with good faith
from our side. No, they view good faith as weakness,
as encouragement to more force, to more pressure we got.
(09:53):
And I look they very clearly this played out with
the Matt Gaate situation, a lot of pressure there. I
think Mattis was like, look, would he have made it
through if he went all the way to the Senate?
You know? Maybe? And that's I thought this guy should
have his day. He should be able to explain why.
But I think he's just like, look, it's a distraction
for Trump. There's too much noise. And then the Democrats
(10:16):
take that as oh, okay, on to the next one.
And I firmly believe that if they were able to
stop the Pete Hegseth nomination to Secretary of Defense, they
would have gone on neck. I think the next one
would be h RFK Junior. I think that's the one
that you know that he could rattle enough cages and
(10:38):
cause enough angst among the bureaucracy, you know they're not
gonna be able to stop elon or or vivate because
they don't need confirmation, right, So, like you know, and
now that they could stop either of them anyway, so
they're they're not gonna be a problem for them. You
look at some of the other ones, I mean, Marco Rubio,
(10:59):
long long standing Republican senator, a lot of foreign policy credits.
They're not going to stop him obviously from being Secretary
of State. You know, you go down the list and
you see some of the other options here, and I
do think it's clear RFK Junior was going to be
next on their on their list. I've been a little
surprised at how much they have just completely waved through
(11:22):
the DHS NOME nomination meeting. The Democrat media is like, yeah, fine,
I'm like, oh, okay, well all right. I mean there
you go, so good news. Nonetheless, for for Pete, hegseth
here with with what's being laid out and and really,
you know, I think that this also goes to a
(11:43):
general uh principal guiding. Uh what's what's the word? Guy?
I kind of a load star if you will, Is
that the right term? Uh? It's about results, It's about
what you do in the job. You know, the old
(12:05):
days when Democrats would try to find something. And remember
they didn't they go after Judge Bork with the they
like went after his videotape rentals or saw that. I mean,
I mean, just like totally just whatever they could do
to this guy's icky or bad. Like I said, they
used to They used to get nominees derailed because they
(12:26):
had had a domestic employee, you know, a maid or nanny,
a housekeeper or whatever that was in illegal. That used
to be something. Oh I look at this, you know
now not illegal to undocumented. You know, I feel like,
how could they do that anymore? You know, better than
Americans undocumented, better than we the American people work harder
(12:47):
and more law abiding, all the stuff that Democrats say.
So they've made that a little bit. I know that
that's not true, but just put that aside. Uh. They
they take that approach on these things. So my update
for you on on the heck Sets Secretary Defense story
is that it looks like there has been a consolidation,
a doubling down, and like I said, he's fought through
(13:08):
the ambush and I think he's gonna be the next
Secretary of Defense and I wish Pete all the best
in this role. I know he'll do a great job,
and I invited him to come on the show. He
hasn't come back to me with if he would or could.
As soon as I hear from him, we'll see if
we can get him to come and speak to us
about this. But given that I think he's lined up
the Senate votes that he needs right now, he might
(13:28):
just want to let you know he's won the battle.
He might want to wait till he Secretary of Defense
before he comes and talk to us, And that would
be fine. I totally totally appreciate and respect that. You know,
they're going to go after a buddy Cash some more. Now. Actually,
you know what, I think that's I should I should
have thought of that. I just view Cash as such
a clear and obvious choice and have all along that
(13:50):
I got to remember from the other side, from the
enemy camp, Cash is a problem. They're gonna have a
tougher time that with him, because you know, federal prosecutor
were to do od he's worked with Devin Nunis in
the House Intelligence Committee. I mean, he's definitely got their
resume for it. And you know, I don't know, they
gotta come up with, you know, gosh, But tell I
(14:11):
heard I heard that he did shots of tequila at
a toga party in college. You know, I don't know
what they think they're going to be able to pull
off with him, but I don't know. I think it's
very unlikely they'll be able to derail him. One other note,
I just say, you notice some of these picks you
have the daik Ramaswami Hindu, Indian American, Cash Patel Indian American. Uh.
(14:35):
Uh Tulsi Gabbard is I think is she? Is she
part Hawaiian native? I an'tyway. My point is just you know,
none of that diversity counts at all to the media
right now that hates Trump. It's there's never like wow
the first you know Indian American net Nope, nope, nope,
doesn't count. If you're right wing, it doesn't count. All
of a sudden, it's uh, that's off the list. Uh.
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you get your podcasts. I don't have any up issue
on Daniel Penny's case. Right now, I do have a
very bad decision from a federal judge upholding racial preferences
(16:30):
in admissions to the United States Naval Academy. Read through
this and it's this is just expect more of this
from these these lib activists in judicial robes. We already
have the Supreme Court say you can't do this racial
discrimination because you think it happens to be good because
you say so thing and admissions anymore, you had Asians
(16:52):
getting told you can't get into Harvard even though you
have better grades and everything else than everyone else applying
because your leadership isn't as good, which is really a
backhand to the you know, Asian community is gross, and
Asian American community particularly. And now this judge, what's this name,
Judge Bennett. Judge Bennett says, there's a quote compelling national
(17:15):
security interest in a diverse officer corps, in the Navy
and Marine corps, and so the Naval Academy is distinct
from a civilian university. Bull crap. There is no compelling
national security interest in a diverse officer corps. There is
a compelling national security interest in the best officer corps possible.
(17:35):
All right, we are a society that believes in merit
or we are not. This whole stealth quota thing has
got to stop. I think this is going to get
taken up the Supreme Court. Supreme Court's got to slap
it down. But you get these federal activist judges, these
lib judges, they don't care. The Supreme Court's already set
the principle in place. They just wanted. Diversity is our strength.
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John Fetterman, I know some of you, you don't have
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the on a different team, but that doesn't make me
an enemy. I don't be automatically going to become a critic.
(20:24):
It's like, hey, he has made you know, he's made
our economy and our nation better, and our politics are different,
and I don't agree with some of the things that
he might say, but that doesn't make him, Like I said,
an enemy.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Entirely reasonable. And yes, anyone who does not respect the
accomplishments that Elon Musk has had in the business world
is delusional. I see these leftists sometimes that'll that'll say
things like, you know, Elon Musk is so dumb and
he didn't even start Tesla. Okay, he took Tesla over
and it was it was like a nothing company when
he took it over, and it and it's now worth
(21:00):
more than like the entire auto industry combined or some
crazy figure like that. And then there's SpaceX, which is
transformed space travel. Elon Musk is the most incredible corporate
visionary alive today period full stop. You know, there's some others,
you know, I mean, Jeff Bezos is very impressive with
he's accomplishment. There's some others who are in the and
(21:22):
A Jensen Huang, the CEO of and Video obviously, I
mean there's people who have done very impressive things. But
Elon Musk is really in a category by himself. And
you'll see these like lunatic liberals who are you know,
do you know what I do is what I do
is a privilege to be able to for a living learn,
(21:42):
think and speak for an audience that wants to hear
what you have to say is a privilege. And it's
amazing how many people, I think in this business take
it so for granted and become kind of, you know,
believe their own press releases a little too much or something,
and they get a little big for their riches, if
you know what I mean. They think, Oh, you know,
I'm like, if you're doing this and Elon is putting
(22:04):
rockets into outer space and trying to get us to Mars,
show some respect, you know what I mean. And I
say that as somebody in this business, but you know,
show a little respect, right Like when I sit down,
if I talk to the world's best neurosurgeon, who can
you know, remove tumors from the deepest parts of a
brain and give someone their full function in their life back, Like,
that's amazing. You know, talking and being good at thinking
(22:25):
and communicating is nice skill. But there's stuff out there
that is wondrous, and what Elon Musk has accomplished is
in the realm of wondrous and it deserves at least respect.
Doesn't mean you have to agree with them on everything.
Doesn't mean you know, but Fetterman takes that tone with him.
Fetterman is saying, yeah, like I don't you know, I
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work with them on some stuff. Like what he's done
is impressive because you can find it all over the
place because Elon went maga. Now you have all these
people who are Elon Musk. He's not even smart. I'm like,
he's not even smart. What do you think? You know?
I in Isaac Newton was bad at math? What's next?
You know? Lebron James isn't good at basketball? What's next?
Like you start to some of you're saying you should
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have said Michael Jordan, because Michael Jordan is the best ever.
But you know what I mean. You know what I'm saying.
I want to get some of your vip emails and
also get some of your calls here vip emails. Remember
clayanbuck dot com for those vip emails. Listener Keith writes
in this is an important one. If the jury finds
Daniel Penny guilty, could Trump pardon him? No, at least
(23:30):
historically it would be a state charge. We've never had
a president try to pardon for state charges. There was
some discussion of this. Could Trump pardon himself from state charges?
And I think the answer is probably no. Well, I
don't know. People will fight this people will fight this
one out. It's never happened before, so it's in the
(23:51):
realm of let's see. So anyway, let's see, uh Mark
vip Mark writes new watch book, Are you sporting a
new Rolex? I like the face of it. Kind of funny.
I've never talked to you guys about watches before. During
the pandemic, when I was stuck at home in New
York City and doing many hours of radio a day, right,
(24:13):
I was doing podcast, I was doing live radio. I
mean I was doing five hours of content a day
at that point, which was quite a thing. I just developed,
like a lot of people, as an interest in watches
because I was stuck at home, couldn't get a haircut.
You know, it's just eating a lot of takeout food
and thinking a lot about what an evil son of
a gun fauci is. But I developed a like for
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watches a little bit, and I have a very, you know,
kind of meager starter watch collection. Nothing fancy, nothing along
the lines of what people who spend a lot of
money on this stuff. But it's funny. You notice this one,
This is actually from a friend of mine whose name
is Eric Wind, and this is called the Wind Vintage
X True North, and it is not a Rolex. It
is pays homage to the the Rolex date Tona, which
(25:01):
for those of you who are Rolex people, is a
very very expensive watch. This watch costs hundreds of dollars.
The Rolex Daytona costs anywhere from well, I mean it
really starts probably around twenty thousand. I don't have a
Rolex Daytona. Starts around twenty thousand dollars, and then you
can get up to one hundred thousand dollars. Then if
it's a Paul Newman, which was a very particular one
(25:22):
made famous by Paul Newman, that's a vintage watch. Those
can go for four or five hundred thousand dollars. But no,
this is my friend Eric Wind, and it's called the
Wind Vintage Extrue North. He designed it. He's a watch
curator and an expert and collector and seller, and this
is his watch. He gave him as a gift, so
very very cool. Wind Vintage is his website. So who
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else is right?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yes, Michael writes, Taylor Lorenz should be arrested. And I
think you can make that happen. It appears she's creating
target lists on Blue Sky of healthcare CEOs Taylor Lorenz
is uh crazy and from what I can see, it
(26:09):
was a crazy person. I mean, what she's doing by
putting out the CEO for a lot of reasons. I
can't even really tell you or explain to you what
was in wonder for recent tweets about masking and what
she said about it, because it's so it's just so crazy.
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm the fact
(26:33):
that she was ever employed by the Washington Post is
uh tells you a lot about the Washington Post. Tells
you all you need know about the Washington Post. Mike
and Jacksonville, Florida. Mike, you wanted your son to go
to the Naval Academy. Tell me what's going on here? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Good afternoons. Thanks for having me on. Yes, my son
was Uh. He was about Victorian High school and he
had an associate degree before he got out of high school,
played all the sports in four years of j r. OTC,
applied from the Naval Academy, had a congressional nomination, and
has turned down from the Naval Academy. And so when
(27:13):
the office of the congressman that endorsed them called him
and was talking to him about it, Uh, he said,
you just didn't check the right ethnicity box because other
people were being selected for the academy at that time
with less, you know, with less things that they did,
(27:33):
you know, like as far as sports and j r
OTC and lower GPAs and all of his direction in
academics was all geared toward h engineering because they wanted
to go into nuclear engineering is what he wanted to study.
And you know, in the end result he was denied
uh entrance into the Naval Academy.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Look, the racial preferences are wrong in any school, in
any situation. It is wrong. And I'm sorry your son.
Your son had that situation and went through that. And
look I went through when I applied to college. Thank
you very much for calling in. You know, I I
remember there was it was very clear with the college
guidance counselors we had at my school there were some
(28:16):
students who were sort of preferential or privileged minority groups.
Remember not Asian, my classmates who were first generation I
went to a I went to a very diverse high school.
I believe it or not, I did, and a very
economically diverse high school, particularly, and so you had a
lot of people who were the I think the average
(28:38):
household income in my class. This is in the late nineties,
and you know, I graduated in two thousand. Because they
would put this out there, they wanted people to know
a scholarship school, there's a reason why it's a free school.
It was like forty three thousand dollars a year, which
was pretty close to the kind of national average. But
that's in New York City, where it's far more expensive
(28:59):
to live in ne Yar City then just live in Oklahoma.
And so there were people who were really struggling, who
were my classmates, who did not have a lot of
resources that you know, financially struggling, didn't a lot of
they're brilliant kids, but they didn't have a lot of
resources at home. And the Filipino class, you know Filipino American, right,
everyone is a dash American. I'm talking about their heritage,
their background, right, the Filipino and Korean students, because there
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were a lot of those in my class. They knew
that even with like fifteen seventy on the SAT and
a three eight, probably not getting into Harvard, maybe getting
into MIT, you know, maybe looking to get some money
at a state school somewhere. And if you were black
or Latino and you were in the bottom third of
(29:44):
my class, which Ivy League school do you want to
go to? This is just the fact, this is just
what happened. We all were aware of it. Bottom third
of the class, pick your Ivy League school more or less,
and top third of the class, because they broke us
down into thirds. That's how I know top third of
the class. You know, well, if you're eight, I mean
(30:05):
white guys, Asian guys very similar. It was actually worse
for the Asian guys. How can anyone think that's fair?
I mean also the Latino thing too, well, what was
that all about. There's no history, there's no history of
institutional racism on the scale of say, slavery for Latinos
in this country. I mean, it's a whole separate issue
(30:26):
than the historical injustices of the black community face. So
why are they because because you just say, well, this
is just not fair, and you might say, oh, but bluck,
what about And then I would say, yeah, but this
is why I had friends. I could tell you stories
all day. I had people, when I say friends, people
that I knew, I'm not necessarily people I'm close with.
I had friends who, when they were applying to the schools,
(30:52):
all of a sudden they would find that they had
like a and I mean, they were as white as
I am, but they would that they had a grandparent
from Argentina. And you'd say, well, that's Latin America, and yeah,
but there are actually a lot of Germans I'm just saying,
and a lot of Italians in Argentina. I mean people
(31:13):
that you know, the immigrated from there, and and they
would all of a sudden be you know, they claim
to have Latino heritage. There were games being played with
this stuff all the time. I knew a girl, I
knew of a girl, and this is where we're in
high school. So it was a girl who claimed to
be a This is the Elizabeth Warren right, is exactly
the same thing. I knew a girl who claimed to
(31:35):
be a Pacific Islander, because that's a very that used
to be really advantageous. I don't know, I feel like
a little less so now because because she had a
American mother who was born in Hawaii, Pacific Island. I
don't know what to tell you, Like, people did this
stuff and they got away with it. They got away
with it. I had another friend who was born in
(31:57):
thinking about this, born in Egypt. She wanted to go
to Harvard born in Egypt and claimed that she was
African American. She was Arab, but claimed that she was
African American, and when confronted on this, she said, I'm
an American who was born in the continent of Africa.
(32:17):
Because she was confronted on it, because they did in
person interviews back then and they said, I'm sorry, no,
I think we all know what we mean by this,
and she kind to her credit, she's like, well, what
do we mean? This is like a this is a
skin color thing, like a straight up a skin color thing.
Is that what we're talking And the answer was yes,
And she did not get into Harvard. It's it's nonsense,
and I'm sorry that some people like the privileges and
(32:40):
the perks that they were getting for a long time.
It is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has weighed in on
this and that this activist lib judge is still going
back to the Oh but diversities or strength in the military,
no find me the best for war fighting and keeping
us safe. I don't care what they're I don't care
what their color is, I don't care what their ethnicity is.
(33:01):
I don't care about anything other than the best. And
this is what it should be in the military. And
I think our friend Pete Hegseth, by the way, there's
a reckoning coming for a lot of the DEI stuff
in the military side. We speak to you about the
Preborn Network of clinics here for a second. Preborn has
earned our respect and so many of you have donated.
(33:22):
It's one hundred percent funded by you, the pro life community.
They don't get any government funding. They're focused on saving
the lives of unborn babies in the womb, and at
every one of their clinics, what they do is they
welcome pregnant moms in who are who are in a
crisis pregnancy meeting. They're like, should I have this baby
or not? It's a lot of stress. It is a
life changing decision and it is not a decision you
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can ever get back once it's made right and Preborn says,
hold on a second, Yes, I know. Lawfully, in a
lot of states, this is up to the mother to
make this decision. It's it's her legal choice in a
lot of places. Meet your baby in the with an
ultras out see what the little high I just did
this with Carrie. I was just watching. It's amazing. I mean, honestly,
I like tear up thinking about it. My first my
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first child is on the way. You see the little heartbeat,
you see the little I saw little hands, and you
see the little fingers in the womb. It's incredible. It's
a miracle. And when Preborn introduces these mothers to be
to their baby in that way so that it just
becomes they can see it right, it's visceral, it's real,
it's there. Then there's so often the choice for life made.
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you mom by providing you food and providing you clothing
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ultrasound process. They've saved three hundred thousand babies in this way.
They need your help, They need your donations to operate.
They rely on you. Each ultrasound costs Preborn just twenty
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What about two hundred and eighty dollars That will be
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I know times are tough for a lot of folks,
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ten ultrasounds, think about that. There could be ten little
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you all today. Clay will be back. I think he's
having a great time so far. In Israel. They're like
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seven hours ahead, Is that right? Something like that? WHOA,
the show's over. I don't even get to play Eric
Adams talking about how he's open to working with man.
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