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I get all that, but obviously any economic news that is not if it's fantastic economic news, the media doesn't want to talk about it cuz they don't want to give Trump credit. And if it's even a little negative, it's all they want to talk about when it comes to the economy. So we're going to look at that a little bit. We're going to look at that. We've also got the aftermath of the firing of Kristi Noem by Trump from dhs. It was a long time coming. It should have happened months and Months ago, quite honestly. But there's a lot of back and forth over this. We may be joined by, are we, do we still have Senator Kennedy on the DACA team is Senator Kennedy of Louisiana who was involved in that hearing. He's coming on the show, we're going to talk to him, we're going to talk to the good senator from the great state of Louisiana about the situation with well around first and foremost and dhs. But look, there's the single biggest thing happening right now is the US Israeli aerial campaign against Iran and now against regional proxies of Iran. There have been strikes in the southern suburbs of Lebanon. So that is, that is interesting. Lebanon is at a tipping point as it seeks to curb Hezbollah's influence. Countries waiting to see if the government seizes on this moment to disarm the Iranian backed armed group and how the militants will respond. So is Israeli military pounding Hezbollah on the southern edge of the Lebanese capital? This is just worth noting because we're going, they're going after, we're going after. We're with the Israelis on this. We are allies in this mission. That is the reality of the situation. So it is a we situation and we're going after Hezbollah, a primary proxy army of the mullahs in Tehran. And man, are we pounding the Iranians, Iranian regime, not Iranian civilians. But we are pounding military assets and government assets hard. This is in fact Trump speaking about this. This is cut one. You can hear it from the commander in chief. Play it. The United States military together with the wonderful Israeli partners continues to totally demolish the enemy far ahead of schedule and at levels that people have never seen before. Actually, we're destroying more of Iran's missiles and drone capability every single hour, knocking them out like nobody thought was possible. As soon as they set off a missile, within four minutes, the launcher gets hit. They don't know what's happening. And they're calling, they're saying, how do we make a deal? I said you're being a little bit late and we want to fight now more than they do. Trump has said no Iran deal now without unconditional surrender. Once again calling on all members. So what we have here is an escalation and a line in the sand. President Trump has had enough of the Iranians, the mullahs, the IRGC playing all these games, pretending like they want to negotiate when really they just want to stall. Certainly when Republicans like Trump are in office, they want to stall. Democrats will make concessions and stupid deals, but with Trump, they're trying to just play Games and play for time. He decided enough is enough. And there's no need to sit and wait for Iran to improve or expand upon its ballistic missile capability. Which, I might add, was always left out of that disastrous Obama deal. Remember, the Obama Iran deal did not cover ballistic missiles. So the Iranians were free to build up those stockpiles. And as we have seen, those stockpiles are now being dramatically reduced by the air campaign. It is incredible the efficiency, the technology, the skill, the precision with which US Planes and Israeli planes are able to. We don't just have aerial superiority. We are dominating their airspace. We are the airspace now have complete and total control over it. And it did not take very long. So you can pick any targets you want to hit. Now the big question becomes, as we have discussed, who is going to take over? Who is going to be in charge of this country or really perhaps a caretaker regime for a transition to what we would like to have democratic elections, I'm sure. And so that is. People keep asking me, like, how do I think this is going to go? I think if there was a clear plan, we would already know what the clear plan is. This is a little bit of Kentucky windage. You could say this is a little bit of just let it fly. Gotta figure this one out as we go. But Trump decided the alternative was worse. Here he is saying to all members of the security services, just put down your arms. Full amnesty. That is the way forward. Play Cut two. I'm once again calling on all members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the military and the police to lay down their arms. They're only going to be killed. And now is the time to stand up for the Iranian people and help take back your country. You're going to have a chance after all these years to take back your country. Accept immunity. We'll give you immunity. And we'll be giving you really the right side of history, because that's what it is. So you'll be perfectly safe with total immunity, or you'll face all absolutely guaranteed death. And I don't want to see that. It's true. One of the components of this that is different from even what we were dealing with 20 years ago, the intelligence apparatus that we and the Israelis can bring to bear on Iran from the sky, electronically and otherwise and on the ground is such that we can take anybody out. Trump is just taking anybody out that he chooses to. That gives you a lot of leverage. One of the challenges of air campaigns in the past has been you always needed people with guns to go door to door house to house, and pull the other guy out of his. Out of his fighting position, out of his foxhole, so to speak. I mean, that. That's part of this. But if we are so capable that we can take out anybody we want, any member of the leadership, I mean, here you go. Israel just says this is an update. The Israeli military destroyed a bunker used by Iran's supreme leader in a new onslaught. They're just taking apart the entire military infrastructure of Iran right now, and there's nothing the Iranians can do about it. There's nothing the mullahs can do. There is no, you know, secret superweapon option that they have. And I wonder how long this continues before it's clear that they're not really in charge of their own country. If you can't control your airspace and you can't keep any leadership alive without the say so of the United States and Israel, are you really in control? So we are entering a new phase. Remember, this brings together drones. It brings together surveillance technology that's even beyond people that ask me like, well, what do you think they have? Guys, I've been out. I haven't had a clearance in over a decade now. So there's all kinds of new whiz bangs that I read about, just like you. But the technology and the mapping capability and the human terrain assessments that they can do are way beyond what you could have done in the early 2000s when we went into Iraq. Far greater precision. The munitions are much more targeted and precise as well. Our ability to shoot things out of the sky that they try to fire at us is far better. I mean, you are seeing a dominant military performance on display right now. We haven't seen anything really like it since Persian Gulf War one. Nothing that comes at this level. And that was. That was quite different in its own way. So I think that the Trump administration feels like this is going so far to plan, and I think that they are having to do some improvisation as they move along to figure out who's going to be in charge. People talk about the Kurds. The Kurds are great in Kurdish areas. I'm very pro. Everyone I know who was US Military in Iraq, everyone I know who is intel in Iraq was tended to be very pro Kurdish. They fight. They. They are reliable in their own areas, but they have limitations because you take them out of Kurdish areas and there are problems. All of a sudden, all these old ethnic conflicts come together. So you got that help in Iran in some capacity. You got to figure out what you're going to do with the Persian? Who's going to be the figurehead of the Persian majority? I don't know. People are saying some descendant of the Shah. That could be complicated. I don't know. If the administration was certain, I think they would have already started to lay out that plan for us. But I also believe that there's some wisdom in this approach of. Let's. Just as Rubio said and I said, if you defang the snake, let's remove their capability to hit us or any of our friends and say, when do you want to talk? Let us know when you want to talk. Mullis, your missiles are disappearing. Your. Your stockpiles are getting blown up or entombed by our bunker busters. How much longer do you want this to go on for? We did try it the nice way. We tried it the nice way for a long time, and I would argue the Obama administration tried it the far too nice way. Bending the knees, sending them pallets of cash, you know, whatever. We tried that for a long time. They weren't willing to play ball. They were playing games so that they could get to a nuke. It's very obvious there's no reason for them to have caused all these problems if they weren't planning to get nuclear weapons. And then they wouldn't be in this position because there would be red lines. And I think we might have. If Iran had nukes and we were doing to them what we've already done in the early days here, would they have fired them? Yes. People have been saying to me, buck, do you think Iran would have fired nukes? I don't know as a first strike. But what we're doing now, yes, I think the mullahs probably would say, we're going to take a shot at Tel Aviv. Let's see if we can hit it. Or Jerusalem or where we'll probably Tel Aviv. But, yes, I think the mullahs would do that. Now they can't. Now they can't. So we're entering a different phase. Things in Venezuela are already starting to move in a more positive direction. Look, we have to understand Trump is remaking the world in an image of stability and safety in a way that a lot of people, including Trump voters, didn't. Didn't anticipate. I didn't know he was going to do all this stuff. He didn't say he was going to do all this stuff. So far, it's working. We should all pray that it does work because it could be so enormously beneficial to all these different regions. Whether it's Venezuela, slash Cuba and what that would do for Latin America, for the Caribbean basin, what we see with Iran and the Middle east and the removal of these proxies and everything else. You know, these places don't have to be dysfunctional, problematic for the global community, hellholes. It doesn't have to be that way. There are plenty of places that we don't sit around spending a lot of time worrying about plenty of countries. And this is, this is bold stuff from the administration. There's no two ways about it. So I am just very hopeful that this will continue as it has been and that we'll start to see a coalescing of anti regime forces coming together on the ground. We saw the protest movements, but this stuff is very hard. You know, it's. Think about it this way, okay, you think that a new, you think that a new government is possible in Iran. You hate the mullahs. When is it safe for you to go outside and start talking to people about this? When are you willing to join that march and think that you're not going to get mowed down by IRGC or besiege elements with PKMs, you and your whole family? This is tricky. This is tricky. So I think that's part of why Trump is saying put down your guns now. Because I can tell you this, if they start going after civilians, I think Trump is going to hit military elements even harder. And we're talking about blowing up barracks or whatever he's got to do. So we shall see. Wondering what you think about all of this? Definitely. Give us a call, 800-282-2882. We'll continue to analyze it, make sense of it and dive into it together. Here in Miami, new homeowners quickly learn about three things. Air conditioning systems, hurricane proof windows, and what condition is the roof in that last question that's often most important. 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But this is, you know, if there's such a thing as submarine warfare, for example, remember, unrestricted submarine warfare was a big deal in the second World War. If there's submarine warfare, there's aerial warfare, and we are definitely doing that. So and just, just a note on the terminology of this. This is not a. A kinetic ongoing contingency operation for. No, no, this is. This is us destroying the Iranian military. By the way, I noted the team brought this up to my attention. Here's former General Petraeus, the former five star or four star. Five star. Sorry, four star. Four star. There's no right. I don't know whatever. The team will correct me on that one. Sorry, here he is, this cut five. I'm just trying to get this in play it in this case, I actually see the military missions being accomplished fairly steadily here. The trajectory is very good. You know, first and foremost, of course they went after the air and ballistic missile defenses took those down. Whatever had been reconstituted after the Israelis took them apart in the early days of the 12 Day Air Campaign. And that's crucial because we don't want to be restricted to just the F35 stealth fighter bombers and the B2 stealth bombers. We want to bring in the big ones, the B52s, the B1 bombers, and they are flying now almost at will. I would argue that we have actually achieved air supremacy. Not just air superiority but but again I think people are cautious in making that declaration. I said dominance. Same idea. By the way. Four star. Sorry. There is a five star rank for general of the whole army but he was not that. I just trying to remember. I'm speaking fast today. I got to cover a lot of ground. He was a four star general. All right, we have Clay joining us shortly and we got to talk. Tunnel Towers here. Born on America's Darkest Day of 911 Tunnel Towers foundation has been helping American heroes ever since. Like Detective Victor Vaughn Vargas. 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Oh, another launcher. Oh, another drone facility. What it takes to do this with the precision that we do is world class. No one else can do it. And it's world class Americans like the ones I saw here, like the ones that are coming home, that we're going to greet home that are the engine of what makes our country great. And so I'm so grateful for folks like those here at centcom at Central Command. There's our Secretary of War Pete Hegseth laying out that it is absolutely the case. Nobody can even begin to do what our pilots, our airmen and women are doing in this campaign against Iran. We are now joined by Clay Travis, co host of the Clay and Buck show, who is with us. Mr. Clay, we've been talking Iran stuff. Not a whole lot of, well, more targets getting blown up, more losses for the Iranians or for the Iranian regime. Hezbollah taking some hits on the outskirts of Beirut. Now the Israelis are doing some cleanup operations there too. It looks like the plan is to get everything done from the sky and then figure out the ground as we go.