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Clay Travis
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Martha Stewart
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Clay Travis
Welcome in Friday Edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I am solo with all of you today. Buck is out Friday and Monday and we will take you into the weekend with the absolute latest going on everywhere in the world, most particularly in Iran where the news continues to be very positive despite the way that much of the media is covering it. We will give you the absolute latest on everything there. TSA issues unfortunately are spreading like wildfire. I saw this morning as I was getting ready for the show and there are probably many other places as well. New York City, Houston, Atlanta, multi hour long lines to be able to get through airport security. John Fetterman is less popular with Pennsylvania Democrats, so much so that I would argue and may make this case, he should actually flip parties and start to caucus with the Republicans. Or he should potentially run as a independent and caucus with the Republicans and maybe not be an official member of the overall Republican Party. I think both of those would probably be better suited because most of his popularity now in Pennsylvania is with Republicans, not Democrats. We will talk about that. We'll have some fun with the NCAA tournament underway we got some fun audio clips for you. I hope that your brackets are at least somewhat unbusted, relatively speaking. But we begin with the situation in Iran and with President Trump ruminating, determining, analyzing, contemplating, potentially going into Kharg island, and that being the ultimate, shall we say it, trump card of what might be necessary in order to finally get the Iranian government, such as it is, to actually stand down. And there continue to be lots of talks about whether Trump has been influenced by, by Israel, uh, and the overall price of oil and gas probably is the number one thing that is working in any way in Iran's favor. It might be the only thing. Uh, but I do think the media overall has done a poor job of explaining just exactly what is going on and how well we are all doing. Notwithstanding that. A poll came out this morning from Politico that I thought was interesting and should be shared with all of you, and that is showing that President Trump in Iran is actually pretty popular overall, as these things go. Nothing is very popular in politics, no matter what side you're on. Except, honestly, the Save America act, which of course can't actually get passed so far. But Politico asked, do you or do you not support the strikes in Iran? Overwhelming majorities of Trump voters do, in fact support them. Some of you who are hyper online get convinced that a small minority of active voices online represent larger audiences than they do. POLITICO found 81% support. More people don't know whether they support this or not than actually oppose it among the president's voters, even overall. And this is a poll I shared. You can go check it out on my Twitter feed at CLAY Travis. Overall, 43% of Americans support. This is according to Politico poll came out this morning, support our actions in Iran. 13% don't. Sorry, 18% don't have an opinion. Just don't know what they think. Which actually probably should be higher because everybody doesn't have to have an opinion on everything. And then 33% opposed. This would actually make the war in Iran one of the more popular elements of the Trump activity so far. Again, you can go check this out. That is a Politico poll that came out this morning. And President Trump earlier this morning said, hey, here's the latest. We're doing really well. He's updating us on the status of the Iranian army. And spoiler alert, there isn't much left of the Iranian army. This is what Trump said this morning. Cut one.
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Donald Trump
I want to begin by just saying we're doing extremely well in Iran. The difference between them and us is they had a navy two weeks ago. They have no navy anymore. It's all at the bottom of the sea. 58 ships knocked down in two days. And we have the greatest navy anywhere in the world. It's not even close. So. But we are doing really well. We're not going to let them have nuclear weapons because if they had them, they'd use them. And we're not going to let that happen. Should have been done a long time ago by other presidents.
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Clay Travis
Okay, so the big debate now is what should happen going forward. Israel is continuing to take out all of the leaders of Iran. Yesterday we played you audio from Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary, echoed by President Trump saying there were starting to be signs of an uprising inside of Iran from the people there. Remember when Trump started this attack, he said, now is the time for all of you in Iran to rise up and throw overthrow your government. You may not have another chance like this for decades or generations. And so we are working through the process of figuring out what exactly is going to happen there. I do think you have to be careful in what you pay attention to because the new argument, this. And look, I think this argument is entirely illegitimate. I don't buy it. But the new argument is Trump isn't making his own decisions. He's just doing whatever Israel wants him to do. I think that Israel, for anyone who has known Donald Trump, completely unbelievable and without any logic lining up behind it at all. In fact, producer Greg, can you grab? Because I do think when these arguments are out there, it's worth going back in time and playing Trump in the 1980s, explaining exactly what he is doing today, and being in favor of these actions in Iran long before he was ever engaged in the political process. But yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel, had a press availability and just completely shot down. Netanyahu did. The idea that President Trump was not making his own decisions and was just doing whatever Israel thought was necessary. Here's cut 12.
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Benjamin Netanyahu
I want to close these opening remarks with one other fake news, and that is that Israel somehow dragged the US Into a conflict with Iran. Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do? Come on. President Trump always makes his decisions on what he thinks is good for America. And may I add, I think what is also good for future generations, in this case, those interests are absolutely clear. And so is the clarity of our achievements together. In close coordination with President Trump, the close coordination between America and Israel, our militaries, our intelligence services, we're achieving Goals in lightning speed.
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Clay Travis
Now, it is fair to say, how does this end? That is, Buck was talking about this yesterday. I think that is the number one question that reasonable people out there can have. What is the exit here? What is the process by which this winds itself down? Does at some point the United States involvement give way to more aggressive Israeli involvement? Does the United States declare victory, and does Israel continue on its own to bring strikes against Iran? Those are very valid questions. And I feel like Trump, in many ways, this is my prediction, is leaning towards the idea of, of taking Kharge island, which is about 15 miles off the coast of Iran. It's where most of the oil and gas produced by Iran transits and begins its voyage on the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump believes, I think, that if he controls Carg island, he controls the entire oil and gas output of Iran. Remember, this is kind of wild, but these strikes have been so precise in general and so tactical in nature that we have allowed Iran to continue to produce and sell oil even as we have been wiping out all of their leadership. Think about how wild that is. I don't believe it's been talked about enough that we are so incredibly precise in our attacks that we have allowed the Iranian oil and gas industry, by and large, to continue to work and continue to produce oil and gas. And if you look at the Strait of Hormuz, the ships that are being allowed to transit with zero issues at all are all carrying Iranian oil. Now, we've seen in many ways a divergence, a bifurcation in the overall oil and gas market when it comes to price in the United States, the oil and gas that we have is actually much more affordable, the crude oil that we produce, than it is around the world. Right now, I'm looking at crude oil futures right now. They are roughly 95 or $96. And that has led to an increase overall at American gas pumps. But keep in mind, oil and gas prices, I believe, were around $60 a barrel, $65 a barrel when all of this started. So they've gone up about $30 a barrel. Initially they told us, oh, my goodness, oil and gas going to go $120. It's going to go to 150 dollars. It's going to go to 200 dollars. Well, not in the United States. And so again, the crude oil futures right now, as I am looking and speaking with all of you, and it changes every single moment, like the stock market does right around $96. Iran's only ability right now is to try and get Americans and try to get Israelis and try to get people around the world to demand a halt to these strikes because of the price of oil and gas. And President Trump this morning rightly called out NATO and said, wait a minute, we've already won this war in terms of taking out Iran's military capabilities. Why in the world will these other countries not show up and help provide transit through the Strait of Hormuz? And for all of this oil and gas, which they need more than we do, Right. Our oil and gas, by and large, is never coming from Iran. It's not coming through the Strait of Hormuz. There are other places that need it so much more significantly than we do. And so I think this is a story worth paying attention to. And I think President Trump may well come to see the coup de grace here as being we take over Carge island and we control all of the oil and gas that is emanating in any way from Iran once and for all. And remember, I think he's going to probably use as a template how well things are going in Venezuela. We are absolutely dominating everything in Venezuela. Boots on the ground for only a few hours to take out Maduro. And since that point in time, Venezuela is starting to produce a lot more oil and gas. And remember, Venezuela has one of the largest deposits, if not the largest deposit they think of oil and gas in the Western Hemisphere. So bringing it back online is in many ways a huge catalyst to affordable oil and gas. So I will open up your phone lines, by the way, 800-282-2882. It's a Friday edition of the program. We've got Katie Miller scheduled to join us, wife of Stephen Miller. She's got a popular podcast on Fox News. A lot of we've been texting some about the future of AI and how important it is. All of that we will break down for you, maybe a couple of other guests as well. It is the Friday edition of Clay and Buck. And I want to tell you, maybe you stayed up a little bit late last night. Maybe you were like me, staying up late watching the NCAA tournament games. They did not end until well after midnight on the East Coast. And are you dragging a little bit on Friday? Are you looking at your obligations, responsibilities, the things that you want to accomplish on Saturday and Sunday and thinking, boy, I don't know that I have the energy to keep up with all that. Do you have a dinner date tonight? And are you thinking, oh, I wish I didn't have to go to that. I just want to kick off the shoes and watch games on the couch. Maybe your testosterone's starting to decline a little bit. It's natural. Men over the age of 40, it starts to decline pretty precipitously. If you got teenage kids like I do and you look at them, you just say, how do you have so much energy? They're running around all over the place, bouncing off the walls, their testosterone level way higher. You can get hooked up right now with a natural increase to your testosterone. From our friends@chalk.choq.com web use my name Clay for the lowest discount for the life of your subscription. You also get a free $99 edition of chocolate powder. This is my guy, Seaton. We love him. 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Clay Travis
Travis Buck Sexton show we play Benjamin Netanyahu sharing his opinion that nobody could bully Donald Trump into anything if he didn't want to do it. And I Do think that is true. But one of these major issues that is out there is the problem that people have with the decisions Trump has been making is he's been arguing for them since the 1980s. And I think these should be more viral than they have been. But we played this a little bit earlier this week, but I wanted to play them again. First of all, Trump in October of 1980 says the US should have invaded Iran to get the hostages out again. October 6, 1980. What is that, 46 years ago?
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Clay Travis
This is what Trump was saying.
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Donald Trump
Listen, it should really be a country that gets the respect of other countries. Today, the most important thing in your opinion? Well, respect can lead to other things. When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do and you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror. And I don't think they'd do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries. Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera, and brought our boys out. I absolutely feel that, yes. I don't think there's any question. There's no question in my mind. I think right now we'd be an oil rich nation and I believe that we should have done it. And I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it. And I don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us. And we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity.
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Clay Travis
Okay, that is 1980, Trump 46 years ago. Okay, here is Trump and Barbara Walters. This is 2020, back in 1987, saying, I think we should go in and grab Iran's oil installations. Listen, as far as Trump is concerned, our allies are only part of the problem. The real culprit is Iran.
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Donald Trump
Why couldn't we go in and take over some of their oil, which is along the sea? How would you do that?
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Clay Travis
Would you send in the Marines?
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Donald Trump
Would you take a chance in a war, let them have Iran, you take their oil? That's what I.
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Clay Travis
How, how?
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Donald Trump
I mean, do we want a war? What do you mean? You take their oil, you go in, you're going to have a war, you're going to have A war by being weak. Okay, how do we go in? What do we do? Excuse me, you're going to have a war and it's going to start in the Middle East.
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Martha Stewart
What if the Soviet Union said, you
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Donald Trump
do this to Iran, we're going to come in. I don't believe they do it. The next time Iran attacks this country, go in and grab one of their big oil installations and I mean grab it and keep it and get back your losses because this country has lost plenty because of Iran.
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Clay Travis
Okay, so President Trump has been saying for 40 plus years exactly what we should do in Iran, and now he's doing it. And this idea that somehow other people have convinced him to do something that he's been arguing for for over 40 years is one of the most ludicrous and outlandish that I have heard in a very long time. And it seems to me that Trump is actually doing something rare. He continues to be a politician who tells you exactly what he's going to do and then he does it. I'm not sure we've ever seen a more transactional president who has said, if you elect me, I'm gonna do these things and then delivered on them. I love those clips. Good job by producer Greg. Old school Trump saying exactly what he's gonna do, which is what he's doing right now. There's a whole lot of trees being planted this spring. All of them are coming from fast growing trees in my yard. The new ones, if you're not familiar with this company, nation's largest online nursery. While it may be a new name to you, some about 2 million Americans are customers of this amazing online business. They've got more than 1200 different varieties of trees, shrubs and plants. They're reinventing the way you and I can find the perfect trees, plants and shrubbery for our yards and for our neighborhoods. You can get hooked up right now. You don't even have to have a yard. You can have an apartment, you can have a townhouse. They'll tell you what works and they'll give you their alive and thrive guarantee. 20% off when you use my name. Clay. That's fast. Growingtrees.com code clay. Welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton show Several different news stories that are out there. Continuing to update on Iran. There is a report that Vladimir Putin has offered to stop providing intelligence to Iran if United States will do the same with Ukraine. There have been reports out there that Russia has been providing Iran with information about United States troop locations, which is a, I think direct response to the fact that we've been doing that for multiple years for the. For the Ukrainians as it pertains to the Russians now, I don't think Iran really has the ability to take advantage of the intelligence that is provided from Russia. And by and large, Russia and China have both stayed very quiet as it pertains to everything going on in Iran. But just FYI, there are a couple of cuts out there that I do think are significant about good and evil. And one of the big challenges, I think, that exists in America today is when you have created in the mind of many people out there the idea that the United States is evil, too. And that's really the entire basis of the 1619 project and many different aspects of the way the media covers the United States today. I think that moral clarity matters. And Benjamin Netanyahu provided that moral clarity. He said good and evil still exists. And I want to share an example of something that is relatively small in the larger context of the war going on right now in a moment. But first, good versus evil. And here is Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday talking about it and how if good people do nothing, evil will in fact, triumph.
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Benjamin Netanyahu
History proves that, unfortunately, and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good, aggression will overcome moderation. So you have no choice. If you look at the world as it is today, you have to be blind not to see that the democracies led by the United States have to reassert their will to defend themselves and to oppose their enemies in time, while there's still time before the jarring gong of danger wakes them up and wakes them up too late.
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Clay Travis
I think that's incredibly well said. And here are a couple of other examples of that that I think are significant. We've talked about the Iranian women's soccer team in Australia refusing to sing along with the Iranian national anthem, and the fact that the families now of those women have been. Have been arrested, have been attacked, and many of the women are abandoning their claims for asylum in Australia. I believe we're down to two. And they're going back home to face incredible danger, potentially sexual assault, potentially imprisonment, potentially even death. And some people out there say, oh, I don't know what you're talking about with death. There's no. They're not going to do that, Clay. Like, there's this cadre of people out there that wants to defend Iran and say, oh, you're just falling victim to propaganda. This is from Martha McCollum saying that she is going to be speaking with a former Iranian national wrestling champion. This individual who just shared that Iran hung, hanged. Some of you out there have been saying I've been using the wrong past participle here. Hanged a man named Salah Muhammadi, he's 19 years old. This is the front of the New York Post today for those of you who maybe buy that newspaper, listening to us W o r or are active on social media, they share the front pages of their newspaper. 19 year old wrestling champion, he was hanged today for the crime of protesting in January and demanding basic human rights for the people of Iran. They hold, they hold hostage. I think we almost played a cut there, but I want you to think about that for a moment here. 19 year old young guy is so in support of human rights that he decides to go protest in his country for basic human rights. And he has been arrested and to make a, a symbol of him, to try to send a message, to try to terrify the people of Iran from standing up against their government. They hanged him Yesterday in public. 19 years old Iranian wrestling champion. The women on the Iranian soccer team being forced to return to the country because of what's being done to their families. Some of them may face a similar fate. And I believe we have an audio cut of a former women's Iranian soccer player being interviewed by Martha McCollum. I believe this was yesterday, guys. Can we play that cut now? I think it started to play just a second ago. They hold hostage their families, the regime. This is the DNA, the DNA of the regime. So this is their tactic to like threaten your family. And in that moment, because I was in that situation and it's really hard, this is about your future or about your family. This is a big like guilt on your shoulder. At the same time you are thinking about your future. You are so happy because you don't have to wear that hijab. You feel freedom, but at the same time you have to think about your family because they're going to lose everything. They're going to torture, they're going to face even imprisonment or rape. So this is good and this is evil. And again I said one of the big challenges that we face is how do you try to create an Iran that is better for the vast majority of the 90 million people that live there? And is there going to be any sort of uprising that could return a form of moderate leadership to Iran? That's the challenge because so far in order to try to implement something like that, it requires a Lot of troops on the ground. And frankly, a lot of you who served in Iraq and a lot of you who served in Afghanistan know that even with troops on the ground, trying to create a government like that largely failed, that cost us trillions of dollars and a massive amount of lives and injuries and all of the different insane consequences that came from that. One question that, that I have, and I don't know the answer to this, but as someone who has studied military history, I do wonder whether the modern era of drones has changed the calculus in terms of an ability to foment a revolution without requiring troops on the ground. What do I mean by that? Right now, we have tactical air superiority all over Iran. I shared the story from the Wall Street Journal earlier this week of a top Iranian official who thought he was safe sleeping in a tent in a park in Tehran. They tracked him down and they killed him there. I think there is such a wealth of intelligence data out there right now that if you are in a position of prominence right now in Iran, you can be killed remotely with a drone or a missile strike. I don't know that we've ever had the technology to consistently be killing the next man up, so to speak, who is rising to the level of leadership in Iran. And I do wonder, as we now probably certainly have killed hundreds of top leadership in Iran, how far down the flowchart do you go until you start to find some people looking around saying, hey, I don't want to be the next target. I don't want to ascend to this next leadership rung because I'm going to die the minute that I do. And at what point does cold political calculus and rationality start to govern the decisions that the leaders of Iran are making? Are we getting closer to that? Are there people that we know that have been working with Mossad? Israeli intelligence might have been working with United States intelligence as well, who are far enough down in the flowcharts that we know that at some point, if they get elevated to power, we have reached someone that we can work with because they understand and have been in some way concerted allies with the US Or Israel in the past. There was a joke going around in Israel that the biggest issue that's going on right now in Iran is that the only leaders left are all working for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, but they don't know about each other other, which is kind of a dark humor idea, right? That you've got three or four top leaders in Iran, but they're all cloistered off from each other and they don't know that they've all been sharing intel with Israel. And so we're trying to figure out how to reconcile that. That's dark humor. But I do think it gets at the larger question, which is a significant one of at what point do we feel like we've got a leader that we can deal with? Here's the other thing. Whoever emerges as a leader in Iran knows that at any moment they could be killed because Israel is going to know everything about them and everything about their movements. So at some point, and this is me being a little bit more optimistic maybe than, than Buck is, I think we're going to find someone like Adelsey Rodriguez who is working well as the leader of Venezuela right now. That will be a form of partner partner. Here's the other thing and this is why I'm somewhat optimistic and a lot of people are not talking about this. Look at the comments that are coming out of Qatar. Look at the comments coming out of Saudi Arabia. Look at the comments coming out from other Middle Eastern countries. None of them are rising up yet in favor of Iran in any respect. In fact, everything they're doing is condemning the overall Iranian government. I said before, yes, Russia may be providing some intel, but to who and how valuable is it? We don't know about locations of American troops. China has done nothing and President Trump is raising as a pretty significant issue, hey, everybody should be trying to help us right now. This is a post that Donald Trump made just in the last few hours. Without the USA, NATO's a paper tiger. They didn't want to join the fight to stop a nuclear powered Iran now that the fight is militarily won with very little danger for them. They complain about the high oil prices they're forced to pay but don't want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. So easy for them to do with so little risk. Cowards. And we will remember President Donald J. Trump. We will remember indeed. And a lot of you will remember that I went over to Israel back in December of 2024 and I toured the country during a relatively momentary ceasefire. And I was able to see the work that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews does. This is a group that is not, that is not political in nature. They are building bomb shelters, they are providing security to vehicles for people who are first responders. They are creating hospitals that are underground so that people can be taken care of in a time of danger. And they are helping to feed and clothe people who are poor and struggling in Israel in a time of war. We talked about good versus Evil and the significance of recognizing good versus evil. The international fellowship of Christians and Jews is fundamentally on the side of good and they are fighting against those who would foment evil. If you want to join me and you want to join Buck in donating, you can donate by calling 888-488-IFCJ again. Bomb shelters, hospitals that are underground, things that help Israelis in the Holy Land. You can also go online@ifcj.org we know the organization, we trust the work. The website again ifcj.org Geek out with the guys on the Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck Podcast A new episode every Sunday. Find it on the Iheart, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Travis Buck Sexton show All right, it's a lot of serious talk. We'll get to to some of your calls. Katie Miller is going to join us at the top of the next hour, but yesterday I was quizzing Buck on where High Point University was located and he had no idea. I knew it was in North Carolina shortly thereafter. I'm sorry, Wisconsin Badger fans, High Point pulled off the biggest upset of the first day of the NCAA tournament. And if you want to smile a bit, these were the student broadcasters on the campus radio station as High Point won the game. This is what joy sounds like if you're a college kid and your team is about to win a big game. Listen.
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Johnson got to choke.
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Time out.
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Clay Travis
Time out. Portland, do you believe it?
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Takes it in bounds.
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Clay Travis
Nine seconds. Boyd wants it inside drive six. Six seconds and boy, they launch down court.
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Clay Travis
That is, I'm sorry, Wisconsin Fans. But that was High Point University, one point upset win yesterday over Wisconsin. And there is much glee, at least at High Point University. We got a bunch of people who want to weigh in. Variety of different topics out there. Let's take some of your calls. Let's see Daniel in. Well, is this, is this the caller producer Greg that we had before, or is this somewhat different? Okay, we'll get to Daniel in a sec. Rick in South Carolina, first drink. What you got for us, Rick? You got. Yeah, you got us. Hmm. Good work by Rick there. All right, let's go back up to the top. Let's go to Greg and Iowa. Greg, what you got for us?
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Why? I mean, why are they being allowed to sell oil? Why are we not stopping that?
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Clay Travis
Well, because I think the oil and gas idea so far has been that if we curtail Iran's production of oil and gas, the overall price of oil and gas will increase substantially.
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Clay Travis
Yes, but it will go up even more. So do you want oil and gas prices to go up even more?
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Clay Travis
So do you want to seize Carg Island? What would you, what would you do if you were commander in chief? Right now you're angry that the oil and gas is still going. So should we seize it, what should we do?
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Personally, I wouldn't have started the war.
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Clay Travis
Okay, so what is your take? So you wouldn't have started the war, but you're angry that the oil and gas from Iran is still going. So what is your take?
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Clay Travis
Okay, but I'm asking you for what your take is. So you don't want the oil and gas to go. You wouldn't have started the war in Iran. What would you do now? What is your perspective? What would you do if you were commander in chief today, sitting at the Resolute desk?
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That is the, that is the problem. See, I don't know and I don't think Trump knows. How do you, how do you get out of this war now? You can't put boots on the ground.
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Clay Travis
I mean, I just think it's. Thank you for the call. Look, have a take. That's all I would ask. Have a take. If you call in. I don't even know what that guy wanted. Look, we can end the war at any point now. It may not be a resolution that we like. Buck's mow the grass analogy may well be required as well, where you have to go in every now and then and just wipe out Iran's ability to have ballistic missiles to be working on nuclear weapons. We can stop bombing at any point. It is an easy decision to shut down this attack on Iran. It's not difficult at all. What is is difficult is are we getting the result that we want or are we just setting ourselves up to have to constantly be going back in? Katie Miller next. Thanks for hanging out with us. Friday edition of Clay and Buck Ever
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