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Clay Travis
Welcome in Monday Edition. It is a major news breaking Monday. We hope all of you had fantastic weekends as we predicted going into the weekend. Major news coming from Iran where early, early in the morning US Time on Saturday morning we began to rain down a ton of missiles and an attack on Iran alongside of Israel wiping out, according to President Trump, 49 top Iranian leaders including Ayatollah Khamenei, who had been in charge for decades there. That attack happening in the daylight hours in Iran on Saturday stunning much of the Iranian leadership. Maybe Buck, they should have zoomed but instead they all gathered directly together in the daylight hours and now many of them are gone. President Trump is speaking as we are coming on with you live from the White House. And I think the primary question is who will rule Iran. We will get into that quite a lot going forward. But let me go ahead and hit you with the absolute latest comments from President Trump just made in the last few moments in the White house. These are cuts 31. Let's start with this. This is cut 31 as Trump has just updated the absolute latest moments knowledge from Iran.
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Buck Sexton
Cut 31 Today the United States military continues to carry out large scale combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist regime. Following our obliteration of Iran's nuclear program and Operation Midnight Hammer a short while ago, we warned Iran not to make any attempt to rebuild at a different location because they were unable to use the ones that we so powerfully blew up. But they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically and this, this posed a very clear, colossal threat to America and our forces stationed overseas. The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe and are bases both local and overseas and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America. The purpose of this fast growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development and make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them from making these highly forbidden by US Nuclear weapons.
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Clay Travis
Okay, let me hit a couple more Buck, then I'll bring you in, get your immediate reaction. CIA was very involved according to reports. 32 Trump lays out the military objectives in Iran Right now our objectives are clear.
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Buck Sexton
First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis, and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy. We've knocked out already 10 ships. They're at the bottom of the sea. Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Never going to have a nuclear weapon. I said that from the beginning. They're never going to have a nuclear weapon. They were on the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly by our country. And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders. And we thought we had a deal, but then they backed out and they came back and we thought we had a deal and they backed out. I said, you can't deal with these people. You got to do it the right way.
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Clay Travis
Okay, and Then last cut, 33, four lost lives from U.S. service members. TRUMP says, we grieve for them and gives you a projected timeline of how long this mission will take.
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Buck Sexton
Today, we grieve for the four heroic American service members who have been killed in action and send our love and support to their families in their memory. We continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the threat this terrorist regime poses to the American people. And a threat indeed it is. We have the strongest and most powerful by far military in the world, and we will easily prevail. We're already substantially ahead of our time projections. But whatever the time is, it's okay. Whatever it takes, we will always. And we have. Right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president wants to do it really quick, quickly. After that, he'll get bored. I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do you agree with that, Peter? I don't think there's anything, Mr. General, there's nothing boring about it. Somebody actually said from the media, I think he'll get bored after about a week or two. No, we don't get bored. I never get bored. If I got bored, I wouldn't be standing here right now. I guarantee you that. To go through what I had to go through.
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Clay Travis
Okay, Buck, big picture takeaways, did anything surprise you? I think the biggest question is who's going to end up ruling Iran, Right? That's the trillion dollar question at this point.
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Caller or Guest
Well, the first thing is he finally did it. Remember that scene in Jurassic park where he sees the dinosaurs? Ian Malcolm, the character who is played by Jeff Goldblum, and he goes, he did it. The crazy son of a. Yeah, son of a gun did it. That's really the feeling that so many of us who have been watching this Iran situation for decades now felt like. And in the best possible way, enough is enough. Trump knows enough about the negotiations with anyone. He knows when he is being screwed around. And he knew fundamentally, the Iranians, the Iranian regime, I should say. And it's very important to separate these things. America has no hostility toward the Iranian people per se. In fact, we want much better lives and freedom for all of them. We despise the malacracy, which was essentially an Islamic faction that took over this country and ruined it for 50, 50 some odd years. OK, so we've had enough of that. And Trump came in and said all the deals. The fundamental reality that the Obama administration refused to see, refused to understand, which was, you can't make a deal with these people. Sure, you can negotiate with some terrorists. You can't negotiate with these terrorists. They were not going to abide by a deal because they knew if they got full nuclear capability, then they're North Korea. Then they get to do whatever garbage they want and make the world the worst place in whatever ways they want for the foreseeable future, for generations to come. Because no one is going to take the risk of a major strike on a country with crazies running it with nukes at their disposal. This was the, this was the realization that Trump had. And he tried and he tried and he negotiated and he wanted to get a deal. And this is Mr. Dealmaker on the global stage saying, guys, you gotta, you gotta convince me that you're serious about this one. And what he realized was there was no deal to be had. And you know, Clay, how many years has it taken for everyone to go through this? Oh, we got to figure out some. They don't want to make a deal and now they can't. So that's a good thing. Now it's all over for them. Now they are with the 72 virgins, if that's a thing, and they're somewhere else. And we have the hope of a better and more prosperous future for the Iranian people. I mean, there were fireworks here in South Beach. And look, I get it. There's a large Jewish community where I live. It's a, I live in a mostly Jewish enclave of Miami beach. And everybody around here was High fiving and think it was things. It's fantastic. And there were fireworks going off, Clay, in celebration of this strike. And I have to say, so far, look at the people that are involved. Look at the people in charge. You got Secretary Warheadseth, you got Trump, you got into Marco Rubio, a Secretary of State. We're not doing nation building. This is just we're gonna pick apart the tyranny and encourage better things to happen on the ground there. And I think that if that is the mission and they are able to pull this off. Clay, you tweeted this and I agree with you. Trump is the most consequential president on track to be the most consequential president certainly since. No, I said consequential, not best. Fdr and maybe going back even further, he may be the most consequential president since Lincoln. That's really what we're heading toward right now, my friends. That's the direction this is going if he pulls this all off.
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Clay Travis
Look, I tweeted and I really do think it's been under discussed. I think the assassination attempts that Trump survived, I think they changed him in a profound way. And I don't know what his second term would look like if those assassination attempts hadn't occurred. And I think you also have to plug in the attempts to bankrupt him, the attempts to put him in prison for the rest of his life. I think Trump is operating in a fearless manner and he is deciding to do things that aren't designed to be good for the next six months. They're designed to be good for the next 60 years. And I mean, I think you can look across everything he's doing, whether it's the ballroom that he is building at the White House, whether it is the ceremonial arch that he is putting in at the White House, heck, the redone Kennedy center that they are rehabbing right now. Those are physical, manifest manifestations in a small way of the larger global perspective that he's embarked upon. I mean, getting rid of Maduro, getting rid of the Ayatollah, basically ending communism in Cuba in many ways, which is not being talked about very much yet. But that entire communist regime in Cuba, we are right now living through a modern Berlin Wall coming down moment. Now, here are the challenges. As there are great attempts at excellence, the reach can sometimes be unreachable. And that is the, the danger I think that is incumbent right now is he's trying to do great things. And for anyone who tries to do great things, sometimes when you stretch for greatness, There are flaws that emerge in that process. And so I think it's fair to say it's too early. But, Buck, if you look at the June attack in Iran, the takeout of Maduro, Maduro in Venezuela and the early first couple of days opening moves that have gone on in Iran, they have been basically flawlessly executed. Four lost lives. I wish there were none, but if you had told people that all those things were going to be happening and the cost to American life would be for service members, I think everyone would have said that's impossible. Now, I think, unfortunately, the toll is going to grow. I think for everybody out there, you need to be watching around you. We just saw the shooting that happened in Austin, Texas. Innocent people lost their lives. Crazy people are emboldened by the terror has taken. A terrorist attack. It appears like quite clearly a terror attack. I don't think they officially said it, but the guy had.
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Caller or Guest
I'm saying it. I know more about this than the Austin cops looking at it.
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Clay Travis
It's a terrorist attack. It feels like very clearly a terrorist attack to me. And so again, we'll open up phone lines, we'll react to you guys. By the way, it's also the eve of the primary in Texas, in addition to that attack that took place in Austin. So there are lots of news stories out there, but Iran is by far the biggest story. I'm, I was gleeful. I'm not going to lie that we took this step because we've seen so many half steps. We saw Obama give the Iranians billions of dollars. To your point, Buck, we knew they weren't actually going to be honest brokers. And so you're just kicking the can down the, down the road. If you continue to allow this group to be in charge.
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Caller or Guest
All that you had to know about this is the people in charge thought all we have to do is get to the point of double crossing whoever makes a deal with us, double crossing the international community. Get the full nuclear package going that we, that we want and then what are they going to do about it? That's the, you know, they only had to screw us over once. And then we have to deal with this for forever, basically. Wait for some internal collapse of a regime that now has nukes. Look at how that's going to North Korea. You're seeing a lot of North Korean opposition these days. Yeah, it was. Trump has, has likely saved us from decades. More of you have to understand, these are really bad people. These are really bad people in Iran that he killed. And I know that sounds Very simplistic to people who think they know a lot about geopolitics. I can speak the geopolitics think tank language and lingo with the best of them. Fundamentally, these are evildoers who had nothing but bad intentions toward their own people, toward the rest of the world, and they've been doing it. We let them get away with nonsense for decades. They have the blood of Americans on their hands in a whole bunch of different ways. And it's a tin pot, crappy country right now. I mean, the regime is. It's actually a beautiful country. And, you know, Iran in 20 years could be amazing. The same way that Cuba in like five years, if they got rid of the people in charge, could be amazing. We don't have to live this way. It's a little bit like the crime thing, Clay. The big revelation is it actually doesn't have to be like this. And the big revelation from Trump is you can just do stuff. You don't have to let the bad guys just keep getting away with it. You can actually do stuff when you're America. So we'll see. Is there a risk? Yeah, of course there's risk.
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Clay Travis
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Caller or Guest
Welcome back into Clay and Buck war with Iran. It is a reality. Right now we have an aerial war against the Iranian regime underway a long time in coming, but here it is. And Secretary of War Hegseth has not been holding back at all. He is addressing everybody on this. This is cut one. He's saying, look, we didn't even really start this. We could argue that, but we didn't start this. But President Trump's going to finish it. Play one.
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Clay Travis
We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it. Their war on Americans has become our retribution against their ayatollah and his death cult. It took the 47th president, a fighter who always puts America first, to finally draw the line. After 47 years of Iranian belligerence, he reminded the world, as he has time and time again, being an American means something unbreakable. If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation, and we will kill you.
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Clay Travis
Clay Travis, BUCK Sexton SHOW Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Some of you, maybe many of you will remember President Trump spent a long time with Rush Limbaugh right before the election. Was this in 2020? Yes. October 9, 2020. President Trump said be careful. We had to bleep out a curse word here. But he said, if you f around with us, we'll do things to you that have never been done before. He spent two hours that day with Rush back in October of 2020. Here is what that sounded like for those of you who have forgotten or maybe had not heard before October 9, 2020 on the same network.
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Buck Sexton
Never had it like we have it now. Right? And Iran knows that and they've been put on notice. If you around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.
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Clay Travis
Buck I mean, the interesting thing here is many of us have grown so used to politicians saying I'm going to do X or Y and then they get into office and they never do X or Y. I think if the, the 2024 presidential campaign in particular, Trump has done almost everything exactly as he said he would do it. Now, some people don't agree with it, but I'm not sure we have ever seen more of a here is what I will do and a transactional presiden than this one. You worked in the CIA for, for, for many years. There are reports that the CIA was aware of where the ayatollah was and helped to get Israel that information, which I'm sure they had good info, too, to allow them to effectively decapitate this government. Trump has said 49 top Iranian leaders have been taken out already. Were you as staggered as I was that with all of this firepower in close proximity to Iran that Iran was doing public messages, meetings like this in any way? I mean, it seems that they just truly believed that Trump and Israel did not have the wherewithal or willingness to actually take out the ayatollah. Nothing else makes sense here.
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Caller or Guest
I think this is a call their bluff situation. I think they believe that we wouldn't take the risk and go for a decapitation operation of their government, which is exactly what Trump just pulled off here. And I put this out on X, Clay, and I just want to go through this really quickly for everybody. Let's think about this for a moment. Trump takes out QASEM Soleimani, the head of the IRGC Quds Force. I remember being in Iraq, and I remember there were conversations going on then at the highest level. We're talking 2006, 2007, hey, we got to do something about this guy. He's killing Americans. Qasem Soleimani is setting up ambushes to have Americans killed. He's ordering them to use these EFPs, these explosively foreign penetrators. Oh, we can't do that. We can't do that. Trump takes him out. What happens? Very little. Then we hear about how, you know, after October 7th, well, what's Israel going to do? Israel pulls off the pager operation, one of the most incredible intelligence slash sabotage, direct action, covert action operations in history. An incredible operation the Israelis pulled off. Then we have the strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities, including the US Bringing in the ultimate bunker buster to finish it off. After the Israelis just smoke all the Iranian surface to air missiles and defense, get through all that stuff, everything they could have bought from Russia, from China, did. Nada, nothing. And then Trump shows up on the most heavily guarded military base in Venezuela, sends in Delta Force, and Delta Force, without losing a single man, captures Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, and brings him to a U.S. prison. And now this. I mean, this is a string of military operations. US, US, Israeli, Israeli, the likes of which we've never seen before. And what you're seeing is incredible precision, incredible success. While it also stays fully within Trump's philosophy of if you do not come around, if you do not negotiate, if you do not change your behavior, America's not just going to suffer in silence anymore. Clay, it's pulling off. Any one of these things would be big. This is a president who is saying the enemy can no longer rely on our fear or apathy to keep them in power and to keep them alive. Think of the message this sends. You want to talk China, Taiwan, you want to talk Russia, you want to talk any of these guys? They're looking at this going, maybe our surface to air missile systems and radars aren't as good as we thought they were.
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Clay Travis
It's pretty extraordinary across the board. And for it to have been executed so flawlessly so far is. Is pretty amazing. Now, there's a joke going around in Israel that the only leadership left in Iran at this point is three different Mossad agents, all of whom don't know about the other Mossad agents. In other words, clearly, we, through Israel and also through the United States, have incredible intelligence on the ground, giving us information about what is going, taking place there. I circle back around to the big picture question, which is this. Who will rule? And I ask that because I think it is by far the most significant question. It seems clear that we knew, maybe because we'd already been talking with her, maybe because she was involved in part of the taking out of Maduro, that Delsey Rodriguez was someone that the Trump administration felt like they could work with in Venezuela. And we now have a partner in some sense that is executing according to US Wishes in Venezuela. Is there that person in Iran or. And this is where I want to open up phone lines. They're X out right now. I'm going to open up and I'm going to ask. Let's only hear from Iranian expats, people in the United States. Remember, we did this once before, we asked you guys what you thought should happen. What are conversations from Americans in Iranians, who has a couple hundred thousand, I think Iranians in West LA. It's like everywhere you go around UCLA's campus, it feels like everybody is Iranian. And they had incredible pro Trump marches in la, in dc, in New York City, that I saw Miami, also Jewish and Iranian people coming together and celebrating the fact that the Ayatollah was gone. I would like to hear, as we open up phone lines only from Iranian people right now, uh, what are your conversations like? What kind of access do you have to people back in Iran? What is the right decision? Because here's what's going to happen, Buck. If this is executed well and we end up with new leadership in Iran that has made the Middle east way safer, this is going to be an absolute home run for President Trump. If it drags on and it turns into a mess, then it's going to be a huge disaster. Right. This is the reality. And lots of people are going to withhold judgment until they see how it plays out, and then they're going to jump on the bandwagon. Every Democrat lined up and said this was an awful decision, with the exception of John Fetterman, who said, hey, this is a really good decision. This is risky for Democrats, too, because it's a little bit like being opposed to the Berlin Wall coming down. And if it turns out well, then they're going to have to scramble and act like they were in favor of this all along. So what is the reaction going to be? I think will be a function of when we end up with some recognition of who might be in charge. Does that make sense to you? What do you think they're doing at the CIA right now, for example, in the wake of this.
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Caller or Guest
Well, the huge thing is who, who is, who is mobilizing to fill the security and power vacuum, which is obviously very large right now because they took out a whole bunch. They got dozens of top leaders in Iran. Who, who is going to fill that vacuum? And I don't know. I mean, this is something that, obviously, I don't know, but I think that if there's some plan in place, that would be great news. But this is often the hard part is figuring out that moment of transition or those moments of transition, because, and I understand this, people are saying, I don't want US Boots on the ground. I don't want America to do a regime change work. Trump won't do it. But understand that that means we may pull the, pull out all the stops here and knock out the leadership and everything else. And things could get really ugly inside Iran. And a lot of us are going to say, iranians got to figure this out. Sorry, that's where this is not sending your son or your daughter. Trump's not going to. I truly believe he will not send your son, your daughter over there to fix it for them. We are giving them the opening. It is up to the Iranian people to take it and run with it. Will they? I don't know. I hope.
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Clay Travis
I think something you said is important here, too. The strategic arrogance and miscalculation from the Ayatollah and top Iranian leadership to just think we can have basically public meetings in some way with all of these assets mobilized in the Iranian area, and to think, hey, they're not going to attack on Shabbat. They're not going to do this on a Saturday in the middle of the afternoon. Think about the degree of technological superiority you have to have to be able to fly all of these jets in during daylight hours from Israel. This was an Israeli initial decapitating strike. And to have no casualties at all and Iran to have no ability to defend itself. And I think one question we have to think about. The boots on the ground angle is an interesting one. Buck. Has the technology of drones and missiles and everything else moved to the point where we can keep decapitating the leaders of Iran's government without needing to have tons of people on the ground. Remember when we went and got Saddam back in the day, what a huge search it was to try to track him down and figure out where he was and drag him out of that little hole in the ground where he was hiding. For those of you who remember that, what if now we have the technology such that the idea of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground is not necessary. And if due to basically there being no aerial opposition now we can, unhindered and unencumbered, continue to move throughout the entirety of Iran, I do think you have to start to ask yourself the question are boots on the ground far less significant than they ever have been before and can we get a result that we want without needing to commit tons of American troops on the ground? Anyway, just something to think about as we continue to go forward. Maybe some of you It's Monday. Maybe you're feeling a little bit tired. Maybe you don't have the vim vigor vitality that you used to. Maybe you woke up and you thought, oh my goodness, I've got an entire week of work and I didn't get recharged at all over the weekend. I didn't get the sleep I expected. I stayed up late watching all the news coverage surrounding Chalk. Maybe you were out weather starting to get a little bit better. Maybe you were out chasing the kids grandkids around for their soccer games, for their baseball games. As baseball season gets closer, maybe you need a little bit more testosterone in your life. That's what Chalk's Male Vitality stack is all about. They will help support your vitality, energy, healthy testosterone levels. Once men get to be 40 years old, testosterone levels start to decline and that's one of the primary reasons men start to feel more tired than they were before 40. You can get hooked up right now with Chalk when you subscribe. Using My Name Clay as the promo code, Chalk will pack a free 99 bag of chalk lit powder with your first delivery. That's choq.com my name clay chalk.com 99 bag of chalk lit powder with my first with your first delivery. That's chalk.com my name c l-a y c h o q.com my name clay Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Caller or Guest
to Clay and Buck and we're going to take a lot of your calls. We want to hear from all of you. So line them up on those lines. 800-282-2882. Also your talkbacks, which are a great way to bring your voice into the conversation I want to tell you, we've also got some guests lined up today. The czar of Talk, Mr. Michael Berry, he will be with us in a little bit. Friend of ours and a man who knows Texas politics backwards and forwards, forwards and backwards, all the above. And you know, he's going to tell us what's going on in Texas. Texas, no offense to Texas, a little overshadowed by the war in Iran. Right. Right now that some people are saying is World War Three. But your primary is still important, still important to us. And we are going to talk to you about that. We've got some podcast listeners here and others who want to weigh in with talkbacks. Let's do Jack in Tennessee wants to bring bring some insight here. What's up, Jack?
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Buck Sexton
Just in response to something you said, I think it will take boots on the ground. Not necessarily boots in overt uniform, but I think to close this deal, you're going to need Americans on the ground. And I suspect that we've already got them there. But that's just based on.
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Caller or Guest
All right, can I, can I ask you that when you say boots on the ground, do you mean some, you know, a little bit of like a squadron or two of Super Secret Squirrel Delta here or they're doing some things that we don't ever hear about, or do you mean 82nd Airborne, you know,
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Buck Sexton
do you mean like I would say the Snake Eaters or the Secret Squirrel guys that you're talking about?
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Caller or Guest
I think those are the guys that are already there.
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Buck Sexton
And I think there's going to be some over people once the dust settles that are there that are working kind of behind the scenes to stand up with government, because I think if we don't, it's going to be a power vacuum just like throughout all history.
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Caller or Guest
What you're bringing up here, sir, is this is the, this is the multitrillion dollar question right now. Thank you for calling in. Clay, do we, are we going to have Super Secret Squirrel guys doing what they do over there? For sure. Of course. This is what they live for. That's what they do. So boots on the ground. I think people, when they're worried about boots on the ground, because there's stuff happening in countries all over the world that Tier one guys, SEAL Team Six Delta, we don't hear about it.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Caller or Guest
I mean, there's stuff going on. They mean big mill boots on the ground. That's the concern. They mean setting up a Ford operating base that has a McDonald's on it and a Starbucks and a, you know, thousands of person troop presence and do it. You know, that's where I think people are very different. That's where people are concerned. I don't think Trump will do that.
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Clay Travis
Callers again, I appreciate that call, but I want Iranian connected callers here. 800-282-2882. That's what producer Greg is going to be focused on. Cindy in Arizona is one of our listeners. They are stuck right now. Kfyi. I think there's a bunch of people out there but keep these people in your mind, your thoughts, your prayers A and B. Play it back to back.
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here we are sitting in a town
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After our flight Saturday morning was cancelled
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due to a
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Clay Travis
We had to get off the plane
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and then all flights were cancelled
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Buck Sexton
and
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then are still here in this little town north of Tel Aviv getting the alerts on our phones and the little cities air raid sirens going off and and we just want to come home.
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Help.
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Clay Travis
We need to get help to a lot of people who are stuck over there. We'll talk about it next.
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