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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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J.R. Martinez
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who went down that day.
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J.R. Martinez
On Medal of Honor Stories of Courage. You'll hear about these heroes and what their stories tell us about the nature of bravery. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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Clay Travis
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Buck Sexton
He's Joe Getty.
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Clay Travis
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy.
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Buck Sexton
Modern world about something about a comedic tone.
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Clay Travis
We have a winner.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
Listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand on the I iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Leon Neyfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Buck Sexton
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Unknown
And insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Buck Sexton
Please.
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Leon Neyfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome everybody to the Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck. I am back at the mic today. Clay on vacation with his family in Florida, as you know. So I was pleased that my recovery was at least fast enough that I didn't interfere with his vacation. I meant to be on the show yesterday. Let me just tell you where we're going and then I'll give you a little update on just what happened there. You'll probably appreciate your day more when you hear about how my days have been lately. We have the big beautiful bill. It's definitely big, but is it beautiful? Some people have some questions about it. And I mean people that are big Trump supporters and that share a lot of the values that we talk about on this program. So that's something that we're going to be diving into a little bit more. Elon Musk, not thrilled with the big beat of now. Keep in mind, it's not finished. This is all part of the discussion, right? We need to have this discussion. And in fact, I think at this era of Trump, people who want the best for the country through the Trump agenda need to be willing and need to feel like it's okay to speak out and be a coach for our side. Right. You're not trying to be a critic. You're not tearing anything down, but you're saying, look, I think this might be a slightly improved or slightly better version, but I'll bring you all of that. Stephen Miller was laying down some facts on the bill, too. He says the criticism of it isn't, isn't fair. I'll give you the specifics of that. We shall discuss. I know yesterday there's a lot of talk on the show so I could listen well, to the degree I could do anything, but I was listening when I could, a lot of talk about the COVID vaccines. We've got some more on that. And the overall lying of the Democrats now, which stretches back for years, they weren't just wrong on things, they misled you. Trump v. Harvard, I think is also really interesting. And I want to make the case for why I think this is, this is important. Also, Biden's cover up of the COVID up of Biden's decline, it just keeps getting, I don't know. On the one hand it's outrageous. On the other hand, this is exactly what we thought all along. We did whole shows here where we talked about Obama's third term, the shadow presidency of advisors. Now, maybe the only detail that's new or interesting is perhaps some of these Biden advisers who weren't necessarily calling the shots under Obama, were actually enjoying the fact that they got to call shots under Biden and therefore, or in place of Biden and therefore, they didn't even want perhaps the steadier hands in the Democrat Party, the more cunning minds involved, which would explain a lot of Biden policy. So we'll get into all that before we dive into that, though. First, I'll just tell you. Yeah, I was, I was over the Memorial Day weekend and I did do some reflection on this. I know you all did too, about what that weekend is for, why we take the time. Yes, it is about first and foremost the sacrifices made by those who served. And it is an opportunity to be with family, to be with friends, but also to think about that. And I was, though, I was just having a particularly. And I tell you this because I want you to perhaps just enjoy your day a little bit more. I was having a pretty, just, just a lovely weekend with my family and I was walking with my dog Ginger, and I thought to myself, you know, I love my wife, I love my new beautiful baby, love this job. You know, I'm a great family. I was, I was feeling really blessed and I was taking a moment to think about that and also thinking about those who gave so much. But as I was walking down the street and feeling like things were going really well, I don't know how to say this other than out of nowhere I had to sprint. I mean full on sprint. I had the dog with me. I had to sprint home and rush to the bathroom where I spent basically the next 48 hours. At one point I actually had a pillow on the floor and, and brought a little blanket because I was like, you know what? I'm not even gonna pretend like I'm gonna leave this little space. You know, I talked to my docs, they think it's probably some kind of like a norovirus or an astro virus or one of these things. But I'll just tell you, enjoy if you're healthy, you got a great family, you're having a good day, enjoy it. Because nothing will make you appreciate your day to day life, I think faster than to be hit with a really nasty stomach flu out of nowhere, out of nowhere. I hadn't even eaten that day. Think I'd even eaten. I just was walking the dog. I like woken up. Oh man, it was absolutely brutal. I have so much sympathy for anybody out there who as had, has had something similar or there are other things. I'm telling you I can handle, you know, orthopedic injuries. I've hurt my, you know, I hurt my knee last year. Yeah, I mean you got to take painkillers. You know, any injury, any sickness isn't fun. But when you get rocked by a stomach bug, you are just, I don't know, you're just in another world, like you can't function. And so I'm a good bit better now. I'm not drinking Crockett today because. Which is sad for me because I need to avoid the caffeine. But I've got my Crockett Over Mountain mug and I'm half Gatorade, half water. I know everyone always says Pedialyte. I personally, I don't know. I don't, I don't.
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J.R. Martinez
I just.
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Buck Sexton
I like half Gatorade, half water. Cuts the sugar a little bit. I actually use sugar free Gatorade, so that's not even really an issue. Anyway, I'm back. I'm in pretty. I'm pretty steady feet, I think, for the most part. And I am once. I am so grateful to be back on the show talking to all of you. Honestly, I think if somebody could. Somebody could have given me an absolutely outrageous ask yesterday morning to say, if you write a check for the following, I'll make you feel better and you could do radio today, I think I would have given them my life savings. I was so miserable. It was so hard, man. It was rough. Anyway, so enjoy your day. If you are healthy, you know, if you're stuck in traffic, if you've got, you know, I don't know, you and your wife or you and your husband have a little bit of a squabble, or one of your kids is talking back or someone's being annoying at work. Yeah, those are all frustrating things. But you, my friend, are most likely not doubled over next to the toilet for 48 hours. And that is like the worst thing. It was really, man, it was. It was rough. So I'm glad to be back. And I, I really, I'm almost giddy how much I appreciate being able to talk to all of you. At least it's not an upper respiratory. So my voice is pretty okay. So I just wanted to tell you that was. Yeah, take those moments of appreciation whenever you can. I forget who, who's accredited with this, but it's so true. And I really was feeling this last couple of days. The healthy person has a thousand wants, the sick person has one. And when you are in rough shape, and I know people say, oh, but, you know, you knew you're gonna get better. Yeah, I'm not. This wasn't like. This wasn't stage four cancer. I understand. I'm just saying in the moment when you are really miserable in a lot of. That's all you. All you can think about. So if you are, if you are healthy today, I'm just telling you, just take a moment to be like, wow. And I don't even mean perfect. Health. Right. Not like your knee hurts or something, whatever. I mean, if you are able to function normally, it is a blessed day and it is a good day. And that's just, that's what I want to share with you. All right, let's get into the, the Biden decline issue. First of all, Caroline Levitt over at the White House has raised, you know, this story keeps on going and there's a reason for it. I'll say this before I get to Caroline's side statement here. The reason we're going through this now is not, this is not for nothing. It is a reshuffling of the Democrat power structure before your very eyes. Who's the leader? What are the primary media sources? What kind of credibility outside of the delusional faithful do those media sources actually have? Do people, you know, there's a lot of people who, even if they disagree with, say, the New York Times or even if they don't really agree with what they view as the more apparent editorial bent of, say, cnn, they trust them as basic sources of news. I know some of you are going to laugh at that, but there are people out there who, well, what is the case now when you miss the biggest story, certainly of the post Covid era and in presidential politics? I don't think there's been a bigger presidential scandal than this. I don't know. You'd have to go back way deep in history and people who say, oh, but what about Woodrow Wilson? Or, oh, what about fdr? Not even close. Not even close to this level. Because there it was actually hidden. That's, that's the huge difference. Right. It's one thing when you can tell everybody, oh, the president's fine and they have no way of knowing with this. The dementia was hiding in plain sight because the media just kept on lying to you. It was, I know the term gaslighting is kind of overused, but it really was the biggest gaslighting experience I can think of in this, in this country. I don't know. I've never thought of anything. I can't think of anything that was anywhere near this. And then we have to ask some questions like, well, what about the legality of what was done? It's not okay to have a president who can't function and then have people around him making decisions that are presidential prerogative. That's not okay. It's not like, oh, yeah, whoopsie, no, there needs to be accountability for this. And this is what Caroline levitt, this is cut 11 was talking about at the White House play it.
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Unknown
He's demanding answers. And one of the things he is going to continue to push for answers on is who the heck was running the country over the past four years. And you just talked about it in your monologue. And I'm glad to hear it, because this is truly the greatest political scandal our country has ever seen. We had unelected, radical left White House staffers who nobody knew their names running the most powerful country in the history of the world. And the Democrat Party was in a complete alliance to cover it up. And the mainstream media was right along with them. They were asking Joe Biden what his favorite ice cream was, rather than asking him whether or not he was suited to run the country. And so we need answers on what took place over the past four years.
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Buck Sexton
We do. We need those answers, and we can get them because the people in charge now have the ability to, if they want, put people under oath before Congress. This should be something that we get to the bottom of. This is not fighting the last war, fighting the last election. This is what did these people do and how did they get away with it to the degree that they did? Part of the challenge here, I think, is that for all of us who saw this for what it was, there's a bit of a. Yeah, we already know with all of this. You know, I know we talked about it. Clay and I talked about this every day for years, pretty much. We knew the decline was there. We knew that the Biden advisors. We can go back and pull. I don't want to bore you endless soundbites from a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, where I'm saying Biden or whoever's running the country on his behalf, Biden or his advisers. In fact, my argument for why they would push Biden as far as they did in the election. And of course, he was supposed to be their reelection candidate. The. My argument for it all along was that it really wasn't Biden making the decisions. It was the apparatus term that I use for this pretty frequently. So I went into the 2024 election with a baseline assumption that Biden has severe cognitive decline. It is so obvious that he has people around him who are the ones pushing all the policies, doing all the actual decision making for things that affect the country. And then after years of talking about this, they lose this election. And they lose in part because of the disastrous debate and then putting Kamala forward. And then they turn around and they say to us, wow, look what we discovered. Look what you discovered. I'll be Honest with you. I'm always honest with you, but I'll just say it. A lot of the people that were involved in this, on the journalism, so called journalism side, they shouldn't work in this industry. They should go do something else. It is in fact okay for somebody who has been working in propaganda at CNN or to go find something else that is more suitable to their skill set. Because it's definitely not finding facts and speaking truth to power. I mean, if you can't get fired for this, or rather if you can continue on and have a media career where your whole thing is not, you know, you're not like a stand up comedian or something. Your whole, your whole reason for existing, for getting up and doing what you do is because you're without fear or favor finding facts and providing them to the public. That is just a, that is a total lie. This has exposed that as an out and out lie. So on the media side of it, I know they just want to move forward, but this is part of why they're talking about it now. They want to be able to say, we've done with that, move on. We've done, we've dealt with that move on. That's what they want to be able to say. And they'll do it pretty quickly here. And that's why this book, which also doesn't name any names, I mean, in a meaningful way, this is what I've said all along. How can you have accountability when it's just anonymous sources telling the story that we all knew all along? This is why we're not having Tapper on the show. I don't need to hear it. I've seen enough to know exactly what he's going to say and I knew what the whole thing was going to be beforehand anyway. I think it's gross. I think it's wrong. I have no respect for this effort to suddenly show us what we already knew. What? You're just giving us more gossip around it. We already knew all of this. So now you're going and asking people and they can do a little petty score settling when it doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, I'm sorry, it just, it doesn't fly with me. Doesn't fly at all. But who was the part of this that I think is going to be a bigger issue going forward? Who was calling the shots around the Biden White House? Interesting. From a senior Trump advisor and official. We'll come back to that here in a second because he has a name that I hadn't heard before and I'M interested to see if it's correct. Want to talk to you about owning gold for a second starting with this. Okay. Gold is a hedge against inflation and gold is a long term play. I've been an investor in gold for over 15 years now. I have held, I've personally bought and held physical gold. I was buying physical gold when I honestly had very little money. But I knew that it would maintain its value. I look back now 15 years ago maintain its value. It's increased dramatically in value as a long hold position. Gold has seen great appreciate appreciation and part of this is that central banks all over the world are still buying up large quantities of this. Yeah, Trump is doing great stuff with the economy. Trump's not going to be president forever. What's going to, what's the economy gonna look like in 5 years, 10 years, 15 years? That's where I think gold becomes part of the strategic play for you. And we were talking about things like a 401k or an IRA. Yeah, you want real security in an old 401k or IRA that maybe you're not actively managing. And gold makes a lot of sense. And that's where my friends at the Birch Gold Group comes in. One of the best ways to protect your savings and to take the long term view and to build wealth in this economy is with gold. And the Birch Gold Group can help you. Text my name Buck to 989898 Birch Gold will send you a free info kit on gold. No obligation, just useful information. Text the name Buck to 989898 or go online to birchgold.com buck.
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Unknown
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J.R. Martinez
The truthfits.com the Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who went down that day. It's for the families of those who didn't make it.
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J.R. Martinez
I'm J.R. martinez. I'm a U.S. army veteran myself, and I'm honored to tell you the stories of these heroes on the new season of Medal of Stories of Courage from Pushkin Industries and I Heart podcast from Robert Blake, the first black sailor to be awarded the medal. To Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice. These are stories about people who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor going above and and beyond the call of duty. You'll hear about what they did, what it meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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Clay Travis
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Buck Sexton
He's Joe Getty.
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Clay Travis
We're Armstrong and Getty. We're try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy.
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Buck Sexton
Modern world about something about a comedic tone.
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Clay Travis
We have a winner.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
Listen to Armstrong, you geti on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Leon Neyfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Clay Travis
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Buck Sexton
No.
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Leon Neyfak
It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Buck Sexton
And I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Buck Sexton
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Unknown
And insane I can't begin to tell you.
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Buck Sexton
Please do.
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Leon Neyfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
I'm gonna answer that question that I threw out there just a few moments before our break about who was one of the top voices inside that White House pushing the machinery, making the decisions that cognitively impaired Biden was not in a position to make. I will answer that for you here momentarily. I'm not going to forget about it. But I also wanted to get to the breaking news here that Jeanine Pirro was just sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for D.C. so Judge Jeanine is now U.S. attorney Jeanine, I guess, also Judge and very good to see that the Democrats, they stood in the way of another, as we know, another Trump appointee in this case. And now they have Judge Jeanine to handle. I wonder how they're really going to think about that one. I wonder how the deep state feels about their prospects right now. Judge Jeanine is a fighter and she knows the game. And I think we could see some very interesting stuff coming out of this particular U.S. attorney appointment. Remember, it's an interim appointment so she can go in there and do what needs to be done. And it's not like she's planning to spend years and years and years as the U.S. attorney in D.C. so that's another person that Trump has put in place to continue to further the agenda. And this is when you need to push, you know, when you're out front is when you want to just keep your foot on and even push that accelerator a little bit more. And I think the Trump administration is in that mode. And we'll talk more about that, too. Certainly the big beautiful bill. But who was calling the shots? David Sacks, the crypto czar for Trump, said something very interesting on this. We'll get to that in a second. You know, there's real peace of mind in knowing your family is protected. Our sponsor, Sabre, has been making self protection tools for 50 years. In fact, they're the number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. Sabre spelled SA B R E. The website is sabre radio.com we have their products in our homes. Clay and I both do like the pepper gel projectile launcher. Our wives like having those non lethal means of protecting themselves. They're comfortable holding them and using them. And I think it's important for force escalation. If I wanted to go non, lethal, I can. It's shaped like a rifle or pistol, by the way, depending on the model. Fires a pepper gel projectile goes a lot longer than you think. I fired them. So is Clay out at the range? It was really interesting. Saber products are reliable and easy to use. Go to saberradio.com you'll save 15s a B R E radio.com or call 844-824.
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Unknown
Safe.
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Buck Sexton
President Trump is speaking in the White House right now, taking questions from reporters. Let's join him live.
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Unknown
It's called negotiation. You set a number, and if you go down, you know, if I set a number at a ridiculous high number and I go down a little bit, you know, a little bit, they want me to hold that number. 145% tariff even. I said, man, that really got up. You know how it got. Because of fentanyl and many other things. And you added it up. I said, where are we now? We're at 145%. I said, Whoa, that's high. That's high. They were doing no business whatsoever, and they were having a lot of problems. We were very nice to China. I don't know if they're going to be nice to us, but we were very nice to China. And in many ways, I think we really helped China tremendously because, you know, they were having great difficulty because we were basically going cold turkey with China. We were doing no business because of the tariff, because it was so high. But I knew that. But don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question. Go ahead. To me, that's the nastiest question. Go ahead, please.
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President Zelensky says he's ready to sit down with you and Vladimir Putin in Geneva. And it sounds like General Kellogg is working on preparations for that. Are you planning to sit down with.
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Buck Sexton
The two of them?
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Unknown
Well, I will if it's necessary. You know, takes. We have to. I think at this point, I wish it would have been that way a couple of months ago, but at this point, we're working on President Putin and we'll see where we are. I think we're doing fine, but we'll see. I don't like what's happening. That's one thing I'll say I don't like when I see rockets being shot into cities. That's no good. We're not going to allow it.
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You've always said that the war never would have started if you were.
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Would have never happened, and it didn't happen.
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Willing to do anything that you want him to do. Do you still believe that? That he wouldn't have launched the war?
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No, no. We would have never had a war. We would have never had a war if I were president. If the election weren't rigged, you wouldn't have had the war, you wouldn't have had the war. You wouldn't had inflation. You wouldn't have had October 7th. That would have Never happened. Because Iran was stone cold broke. They didn't have any money to give to Hamas or Hezbollah. You wouldn't have had that Afghanistan, most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. You wouldn't have had any of it. You wouldn't have energy costs. Look what happened. I brought inflation down to practically zero. And all of the groceries and all of the eggs and all of the things that you've been hearing about, they're back down. They're way down from where they were. I did something in four months that nobody has seen, and I have to say, in four months, and I said it before, and everyone's talking about it all over the world. We've got the hottest country anywhere in the world right now. We're the only country anybody's even talking about. All right, please, go ahead.
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Buck Sexton
What stopped you from imposing new sanctions on Russia?
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Unknown
Only the fact that if I think I'm close to getting a deal, I don't want to screw it up by doing that. Let me tell you, I'm a lot tougher than the people you're talking about. But you have to know when to use that if I think it's going to hurt a deal. This isn't my war. This is Biden's war, Zelinsky's war, and Putin's war. This isn't Trump's war. I'm only here for one thing, to see if I can end it. To save 5,000 lives a week and a lot of money. The money being much less important, because I made that money. I went to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE, and we brought back $5.1 trillion. So I made that money in about two hours, the money we were talking about, but it's still three. Think of it. $300 billion we've spent with no checks, no balances. They just send cash. You can imagine what's happened to that money. I never saw anything like it in my life. But I'm more interested because I picked up $5.1 trillion and, by the way, got a beautiful, big, magnificent, free airplane for the United States Air Force. Okay. Very proud of that, too. They tried to say, oh, it's Trump's airplane. Oh, yeah, sure. It's too big. It's. Frankly, it's too big. Much too big.
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Buck Sexton
When can we expect that to be the Air Force One?
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Unknown
Well, it's here already. Yeah, it's in the country. It's being refitted for military standard.
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Buck Sexton
How much will it cost?
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Unknown
Oh, I don't know. Whatever it is, a hell of a lot less. Than building a new one. We're waiting too long from Boeing. Boeing has got to get its act together. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Sir, on Nippon Steel, this arrangement that was just announced share. Is that an arrangement you would consider for TikTok as well?
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Unknown
Nothing to do with TikTok. Totally different kind of a deal. We'll have to get, you know, to do it properly. We'll probably have to get China's approval. China is never easy. China is never easy. But I think, yeah, I think we'll be able to save TikTok. I'd like to save TikTok. I mean, TikTok was very good to me. I won the young people by 37%. No Republicans ever won and I won by 37%. And Charlie Kirk will tell you TikTok helped, but Charlie Kirk helped also. Oh, he just happens to be here. Look at it. He loves that we mentioned that name, right, Charlie, he's done great and I appreciate all the help. But with young people, we won by 37%, Charlie and you help. But Tick Tock was amazing. And he was the first one. He said, get on TikTok. So I have a little bit of a warm spot. I know I shouldn't. They'll say quid pro quo. Quid. Put him in jail for the rest of his life. Quid pro quo. Now, TikTok was very good to me. I won.
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Buck Sexton
So there you have. Let's go over some of what the president. I was actually listening in and watching it in the, in the break as well. There few things that he touched on. First of all, he did, he did address the, the big beautiful bill. And here's what he says. You can, you can guess what the question was from one of the members of the White House press corps. Basically you got Republicans that are critic. Which is, which is true. There are Republicans who are criticizing some of this. And specifically Elon Musk in an interview said, well, do we. We have that Elon club, don't we, guys? Let's, let's play this. This is one. This is Elon Musk on CBS Sunday Morning on beautiful bill. Play it. I was like disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it. And that reminds the work that the Doge team is doing. I actually thought that when this big beautiful bill came along, I mean like everything he's done on Doge gets wiped out in the first year. I think, I think a bill can be, can be, can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don't know if. So that's that's Elon, and that Trump was asked about that. And I'll just give you a summary of what Trump said in response just a few moments ago live there in the White House. He said, well, you know, we need GOP support. We need to have the GOP votes to get this thing through. There'll be some back and forth on the Senate side with this, but you're not going to get the bill through without, without having some of the things in there that are currently being criticized. That was, that's, I think, effectively a summary of what, of what it is that he said. And then also when he was talking, he said, look, the fact that Democrats, the Democrats have been willing to go against this in the way that they have, I mean, just every single one of them just shows you it's about spite, not about what's best for the country. I mean, it'd be a massive tax increase, be a massive, you know, hardship financially for the average American household if the tax cuts that, that would expire were allowed to expire. Right. I mean, if you didn't make those cuts permanent. So that's, that's basically what's it on that. One thing that was interesting is there's this phrase, I saw this when I was doing my reader this morning. They call it a taco trade on Wall Street. This is now catching on a little bit. This is what Trump referred to as a nasty question, I might add, the taco trade on Wall street is Trump chickens out again or chump. Yeah, I think that's right. Trump again. Trump again chickens out. There we go. I was like, it has to spell taco, right? Trump again chickens out. And that is, he backs down from some of the stuff on the tariffs. So if he said it's going to be 150 on China, then he goes to 100. They say, well, he's chickening out. I think Trump very clearly, Trump doesn't like that. And he says that this is a negotiation and it's ongoing. And he did not appreciate that at all. I could tell he did not, he does not find it funny. He did not like it and he is not about to. You're not going to hear Trump walking around talking about the Taco trademark. I think also talking about the guy who took a bullet in his ear and raised his fist in the air and said fight during the campaign. Chickening out is, you know, I think that's, that's a, that's, that's quite a bit too far. I don't think that's going to work. So, yeah, that's, that's one. Oh, and then also Zelensky and Putin. Look, Trump has said, he said Putin's gone crazy. I saw this over the weekend, I think, like right around right when I got really sick. Putin is nuts, he says, and he's not listening to reason. And I'm trying to get this guy to stop, but he's not stopping him. Trump is living in reality on this. He sees that Putin is escalating and preparing for a, a renewed offensive and trying to take more territory in Ukraine. So now we'll see. You know, I said all along to you, at least Trump will get clarity on this is Putin's plan to take this thing to the end and to put the resources necessary to get exactly what he wants, which is a huge piece of Ukrainian or former Ukrainian territory. And there's nothing we can do about it unless we want to start fighting Ukraine's war for them. And we don't. I mean, ultimately, that's where this is now, right? I mean, because the people are saying, see, Putin doesn't want to end the war, ok, so we just keep on sending arms and munitions to Ukraine as they keep losing, because that's what's going to happen. It's not a good position to be in. But as Trump was saying, this isn't a war that he was in any way. He wasn't even president when it started. And he claims and upholds to this day strenuously that he would have never, this never would have happened on his watch. So you can agree or disagree with that. The fact of the matter is it didn't happen on his watch. So we'll get into all that here and more. We'll get some of those sound bites to you and, and also bring you some. Oh, I, I was trying to remember. This is the thing that I said. I was so, so, David Sachs, I'm circling back. It was live breaking news there. So I wouldn't say it was weaving, but it was live breaking news. David Sachs, I'm also a little dehydrated, so you gotta give me, you gotta give me a little leeway here. David Sacks, he came out and spoke about who was in charge really in the Biden White House. He's the crypto czar. He's a Silicon Valley guy. And this is what he said. Play 12. This is the financial system of the future, Jesse, and we have to encourage it. What the Biden administration was doing, and let's face it, wasn't Biden. Elizabeth Warren controlled The auto pen during that administration. She, for some reason, has this pathological hatred of the crypto community. She wants to drive this community offshore. She doesn't want it happening in the United States. Elizabeth Warren as the puppet master behind the auto pen. Well, gosh, who knew she had so much power? I think. I don't know if she was on that many issues, the one calling the shots, because I think we would. I think we would. But on crypto, I'm sure she probably could find her way into a meeting with whichever advisor was calling the shots that day around Biden. That's the thing. They're not even big names around. Biden is really a lot of it. There's Ron Klain. People know Ron Klain. A lot of it is the B team of Democrat politics, which might actually explain a lot. I think it does explain a lot. They knew they'd never be in a position like this again in the rest. For the rest of their lives. That this was. This was as much power as they were ever going to taste. And they decided that they were going to do anything they could to stay in this role because they had such a rarefied experience at the very top of the White House, and they made a huge error for the Democrat Party. But I could see Elizabeth Warren being somebody who was on a few issues very much calling whoever she needed to and getting things her way in the White House. But that's pretty bold, isn't it, to say Elizabeth Warren was the one controlling the auto penny. Hmm. Who would have thought? It actually makes sense, too, when you think about how left wing some of the policies were that were coming out of the Biden White House. I will never forget, it was Joe Biden. They put out some guidance from the White House, official guidance on. And it was essentially a policy proclamation from the White House on transgender surgery for like, you know, 12 and 13 year olds or something. And how was gender affirming care? And I remember thinking, this is blue collar Joe from Scranton who rides the choo choo into D.C. like everybody else. Give me a break. Oh, we don't have time, guys. Pull Trump talking about Harvard because I want to dive into this in the next hour. Why the fight against Harvard and these schools is worth it. And the more he can antagonize these places, I think the better. And they deserve it because they're wrong. We'll get into that. So make sure you pull that audio for me. But, you know, Israeli citizens can feel very alone in the world, particularly when other countries express doubt about Israel's right to protect themselves or even to exist. Supporting the people of Israel is more than just a belief. It is something we consistently do in this country. 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J.R. Martinez
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who went down that day. It's for the families of those who didn't make it.
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J.R. Martinez
I'm J.R. martinez. I'm a U.S. army veteran myself, and I'm honored to tell you the stories of these heroes on the new season of Medal of Stories of Courage from Pushkin Industries and I Heart Podcast from Robert Blake, the first black sailor to be awarded the medal to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice. These are stories about people who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor going above and beyond the call of duty. You'll hear about what they did, what it meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and stuff sacrifice. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Clay Travis
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Buck Sexton
He's Joe Getty.
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Clay Travis
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy.
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Buck Sexton
Modern world about something about a comedian, comedic tone.
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Clay Travis
We have a winner. Yes, Listen to Armstrong and Yeti on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Leon Neyfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Clay Travis
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Buck Sexton
No.
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Leon Neyfak
No one was letting it became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Buck Sexton
And I'm not taking any more questions.
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Unknown
In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Naifak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Fiasco Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Buck Sexton
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Unknown
And insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Buck Sexton
Please do.
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Leon Neyfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Coming up in a few minutes, our friend Alex Berenson will be joining. Talk to us about some of the changes courtesy of the CDC and the vaccine advisory when it comes to Covid. And we'll also talk to a little bit, I think, about some of the stuff going on in the world of Big Pharma, RFK Jr. Maha Make America Healthy Again. Which let me tell you, I could have used some Maha yesterday and the day before, that's for sure. I was not healthy. But yeah, we'll take all those, we'll get into all those topics coming up here in just a a bit. Let's get to some of our, our wonderful talkbacks. Some people are saying the greatest talkbacks of all time. We have B.B. john from Oklahoma. What's going on with John? Let's play it. Okay, Buck, the real question we all want to know is how much weight did you lose from, from being sick or overall from being sick? I've lost £7 in 72 hours. So, yeah, I actually weighed myself on my scale this morning. I was like, wow, that is. Now I know you're gonna say it's water weight. I know, trust me. But yeah, £7 in 72 hours. That was, that was the full, the full cost here. It was, it was not, it was not fun. It was not. It was nasty. If Trump was saying Trump would be like, is a nasty bug. A nasty bug. And it was. But yeah, seven pounds. So I'm actually now, I think like five pounds or six pounds away from what would be considered ideal weight for my height according to all charts and things. So there's that. But yeah, this is not how you want to lose weight. I can tell you way better to do a, you know, a water fast for a couple of days that you choose to do. This is this is the worst way imaginable to try to lose any weight. I honestly, I would not wish this on my worst enemy. And that's just. That's the best way I could put it. It's just. Just brutal, man. It's no fun. James from New York City on worcc. I feel for you, man. I had. I was sick on Christmas, stomach, everything, everybody. I was, you know, out and I was in bed. Hang in there. You're a tough guy. You can beat it. Thank you. I'm. I'm. I'm trying my. I'm trying my very best and, you know, staying away from the wife and baby, too, we were. I'm in, like, a quarantine zone. The good news is that the radio studios and the quarantines, which is just like one part of my house, right? I got the radio studio and I got the bedroom and a bathroom, and that's it. No one's allowed to go in here except for me until everything is all clear in probably a week or so. Anyway, we'll talk to Alex Baronson here coming up in a few minutes. In the meantime, every other day, but I'm feeling healthy. I drink Crockett coffee. Go to crockettcoffee.com See this over mountain Club mug? It is awesome. You know what? Make me feel good. If you want to help me, help me get better, let's have a big day on Crockett. Go try Crockett for the first time you haven't before. Go to crockett coffee.com. subscribe. That is my wish. That is my, my. Get well, Ask for all of you and we'll talk to Alex here in a minute. Made in America means something to us. When you invest 700 billion annually in American companies and the 13 million workers and families they support, you're investing in the success of Main Street. That's money powering growth in manufacturing, tech, energy and innovation. And it starts with private equity backing American ambition. Learn how private equity keeps American businesses growing@investmentcouncil.org paid for by the American Investment.
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J.R. Martinez
Council, the Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who went down that day.
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J.R. Martinez
On Medal of Honor Stories of Courage. You'll hear about these heroes and what their stories tell us about the nature of bravery. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Buck Sexton
He's Joe Getty.
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Clay Travis
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy.
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Buck Sexton
Modern world about something about a comedic tone.
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Clay Travis
We have a winner.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
Listen to Armstrong, you, Getty on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Leon Neyfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Buck Sexton
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Unknown
And insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Buck Sexton
Please.
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Leon Neyfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
This is an iHeart podcast.