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All right, second hour. Clay and Buck kicks off now. We've been talking already about the border, immigration, the protest of lunatics in Trump Tower. They're getting arrested. The flex cuffs have been going on. You know, no surprise there. They definitely earned that one. Some of the crazier signs I've seen at a protest in a while kind of up there with the, you know, trans students for, for Palestine, trans students for Hamas. I don't know if those trans students really know very much about Hamas. I'll put that out there. But we've got, we've got all that happening and we've got more. Also dive into, on the economy. I will get to that. I think today is a busy day of things going on here. Let's talk Department of Education and we have Education. First of all, the Department of Education has gotten a bunch of cuts. They've had people who are told, sorry, you are, you are no longer employed here. 1300 employees, offices were closed. Now, I think it is probably the case that a lot of Democrats are thinking to them or a lot of these individuals and Democrats are thinking, well, the worst is over. Turns out, no, from their perspective, I don't think the worst is over. Education Secretary McMahon spoke on this. This is cut 19. Here's what she said. Is this the first step on the road to a total shutdown? Yes, actually it is, because that was the president's mandate. His directive to me clearly is to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we'll have to work with Congress, you know, to get that accomplished. But what we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat. And that's not to say that a lot of the folks, you know, it's a humanitarian thing, too. A lot of the folks that are there, you know, they're out of a job. But we wanted to make sure we kept all of the right people and the good people to make sure that the outward facing programs, the grants, the appropriations that come from Congress, all of that are being met. And none of that's going to fall through the crack. Yeah, there you have it. She's saying straight up, we're going to shut this thing down. This, this is not, this is not just, oh, they came out, they came out with this big thing right away, but things are going to settle down. No, they're not going to settle down. They're going to try to shut down their work with Congress to do it. There are some things that still need to get squared away with the Legislative branch, but they're going to try to shut down the entire department. I just thought this was interesting that when now they're in a position, right? The cuts have been made as Doge and Trump and Elon and everybody have been saying they would be or there's more coming. But I mean, they're making these cuts. This is not just rhetorical. This isn't just to get the base fired up. Now the New York Times and others are in a position where they have to explain, well, why do we care if the Department of education has lost 1300 employees and what difference does that make to the American people? That's they have to explain this to us. And the New York Times comes out with this, which I just think is perfect, unintentionally perfect. Are schools succeeding Trump Education Department cuts could make it hard to know. At least eight, I'm reading here from the New York times, at least 800 Education Department research employees and outside partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and collection data. So we're paying hundreds of people, we're bringing hundreds of people to tell us the same thing every year for the last 50 years, which is no, nationally, the education system is not improving. No. The test scores gap among different student ethnicities has not been closed. No. Test scores of low income students, especially low income students from non2parent households have not improved. We got hundreds of people that are just there to tell us what we already know. And why can't a state do this? Why does the federal government have to do some kind of number crunching about what's going on in schools? Nation one that doesn't really tell us anything. What tells us something is, hey, in this school district administered by the county or the state of whatever the state is, here's what's going on. Returning this to the states makes so much sense. Would the federal government, should the federal government be in charge of, you know, waste management collection in your neighborhood? You know, you want the federal government to. No, we all understand that's a very localized issue. And so that's left up to municipalities and localities. Why would the federal government think that it needs to be in the business of education? Well, as we know, this department was created but a few decades ago and it has done. They should be able to scream about what we're going to miss out on if the Department of Education goes away. Because, and they would, as you know, they should be able to say, oh, you know, if you, if you cut the, this is the fireman first theory. Whenever you try to cut the budget in any city. They go, we won't have enough firemen. And then, you know, the buildings will all burn down. You go, okay, look, we need firemen, right? So, you know, if you're going to cut the firemen budget, you know, we need cops. If you're going to cut those budgets, there's a consequence that people can understand and that's why we fund those things. That's why there are, that's why there are fire departments and police departments, et cetera. Right? Very straightforward. What are we missing out on if the Department of Education goes away? Notice they, oh, but we got people that are looking at the metrics and doing a cross section of the blahba blah. Nothing. Nothing. If you can't tell me why an entire department going away isn't going to be a problem for me, the department shouldn't exist. I think that's quite clear. If you said, hey, Buck, I mean, as, as much as the State Department is a bunch of now, not all of them. And I have, I have to say this because, you know, I know, I know, I know a few former Marines who became foreign service officers. Like, you know, there are real patriots working in the State Department. Let's not forget about that. But in general, it's a left wing, radical, lunatic institution. In general, there's a lot of that there. And I know because I used to deal with them when I was in the CIA and the CIA was like, I mean, even before Trump came along, we were, a lot of us were MAGA compared to State Department. All right, State Department and USAID is like, Fidel Castro should have been running that place. They're so left wing, I don't even know what to say. So, you know, everybody was left of. All these institutions were left of center. And I'm going back here over a decade, obviously, but, but CIA was the most center, right? Because we had the paramilitaries and we had, you know, case officers and some analysts like me who were conservative, you know, loved, loved America, didn't think that we were the problem in the world. Then you go to State Department, little left of the CIA, and then you go to usaid, which is, you know, Commieville, as we know, just straight, straight out of Moscow back in the day. So with all this though, the State Department, if you told me, hey, Buck, you know what, let's just get rid of that, I'd say, no, no, no, there's a federal, there's a federal need for the state. Foreign relations is a constitutional duty of the federal. Government, we do need to have foreign relations, you know, so. And that's very straightforward, right? If you, if someone came to me and they said, why, why do we need a Department of Justice? Well, if we're going to have federal law, which we need to have federal laws, we do need to have some body that enforces it. Not corruptly and for a partisan agenda like Biden did. But we do need, you know, it's clear that's why we have it. Doe, Department of Education, they can't even make the case. This New York Times article, I read it, I'm like, great, get rid of these people. We don't need them. They do nothing. They are not helping. You know, they pass out federal funding grants and things like this. We don't need them distributing these dollars. Let's let the states take this thing over and let's get, if anything, more dollars to the states from the federal government. If that's what Trump and the Congress decides to do, give it to the states that can use it better instead of having it parsed through the hands of or passed through the hands of bureaucrats at the Department of Education. But this, when you have the head of an agency saying, my mission is to shut down this agency. The Trump memo has been received, everybody. This is real, this is happening. I'm just going to say this. Tulsi Gabbard, I like Tulsi. Very, very, A good lady who I think is going to do a good job and a patriot and everything else. She should fix the, she should fix the intelligence community as much as she can and then she should self destruct. The office of the Director of National Intelligence, it should not exist. It's a joke. It's just oversight on top of oversight on top of bureaucracy. There is no need for a dni. It used to just be the CIA director was the conduit for the intelligence age. That, that could be the case again. You don't need this. All right? I mean, I remember being in the Oval Office with, I think it was Clapper back. Was it Clapper? I can't even remember who the Director of National Intelligence was back under the early days of Obama or I'm sorry, latter days of Bush. It's been a long time. I'm like, what is this guy even doing here? I don't need, you know, showing up at a briefing. I don't need this guy here. This is ridiculous. So ODNI should go away, NCTC should go away and the people who work in these places should find gainful employment. They A lot of them have impressive educational credentials. They've gotten some interesting experience. And there's a lot of different things that they could do. You know, go, go, maybe go work at Doge and help find where the billions of dollars are getting or disappearing to in some of these fraudulent transactions. Right. There's plenty of stuff for them to do. And I think that what we're seeing right now is the Trump agenda at the Department of Education and these other places is being enacted, which is fantastic. It's not rhetoric. It's not just talk. Makes me very happy. The other thing is, you have to remember, when it comes to government bureaucrats, there's the expense and the harassment of bureaucrats in these places, in these different agencies who don't need to be there, who aren't really doing anything. The expense, we all understand, right? You're paying salary, health benefits and all this. As a taxpayer, the federal government has gotten way too big. There's no question about that. It's way too big. So that expense is being borne by the taxpayer. But then on the harassment side of things, you have people who want to justify their existence in, in these roles, and so they decide, well, I'm going to do stuff. But this is true. You go into, like, fishing, Fish and wildlife or fishing game or whatever it's called. You go into a whole bunch of different. You want epa? Oh, we're going to talk EPA in a second. These bureaucrats are showing up, they're getting paid, and you know what they want to do? They want to tell you what to do. And they show up with an agenda, they show up with an ideology, and then they make sure only people get hired and only people get promoted in these agencies who share that ideology, which is always left wing, especially at the epa, especially at usaid, et cetera. And then they find ways to implement through the regulatory and rulemaking powers that they have at these agencies, which they shouldn't have, they find a way to say, you know what? You're going to do this now? Oh, you, you think you're going to, you think you're going to drain that pond in your backyard, that's a wetland, we'll fine you, you know, $10,000 a day, crazy stuff going on. So there's the cost of the bureaucrats to the pocketbook and the cost of the bureaucrats in frustration and time. 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Where did it go to? Talk back. Here we go. We got BB in Worcester, Massachusetts. Play BB please. Hey but Brian from Worcester, Massachusetts, just as a fellow Clancy fan, I was surprised that while talking about Trump going after the cartels, you never reference the fantastic Tom Clancy movie Clear and Present Danger where the President used an executive order to send our special forces overseas to wipe out the cartels. Well, I appreciate the reminder Brian from Worcester listening on Newsradio 580 there. I'll tell you this. I think that of the Clancy film canon, I think that the Hunt for Red October is the best. I still think and yes, I know it's Alec Baldwin and we don't like his politics and all that, but I think the hunt for Red October still stands at number one. Clear and present danger, though for me is number two. And I think that Clear and present danger is for a. Something that deals with the cartels. The only thing for me that really gets close to it would be narcos on Netflix. Sicario. You know, I just watched Sicario with Carrie recently, which is a. Taylor Sheridan, I think it's really. Was not quite his breakthrough. That would have been Wind River, I think, which he wrote and directed, which was also a good watch. I enjoyed that. But Sicario, I think was probably his bigger. I mean that, that really launched him before Yellowstone, I think it was. Right. So I watched Sicario and it has some really good elements, but for me there were some aspects of Sicario that it could have. Like he almost did it really well. You know, the scene where they're coming back from Mexico where they have the high. A high value target in custody and there's a. It's a very cool scene. I thought it could have been a little bit better though. I mean, you know, so I don't want to be. I don't want to be too. My expectation be too high. But Sicario is good stuff. Clear and present danger though is excellent. That ambush sequence in Clear and Present Danger. And if you haven't seen it, the movie holds up. It's a good movie. It's a fun watch to this day. Tom Clancy in the genre was a genius. As you know, I, you know, I'm a Clancy Crichton guy. Those are my, my books of my youth that got me excited about books. They're both fantastic. But yeah, I know the, the cartel stuff that I don't think there's. I've seen much else that's really all that good on the cartels. There was that movie Savages, which was not good. Sicario 2, not good, not good. I don't know what had. Did he. Did Taylor Sheridan even get involved with that one? That one was trash. So you got to do what you got to do to get the good stuff. Let's see, we've got another BB New York City listener. Cece, play it. Good afternoon. I got to tell you right now, as soon as you broke that news about them occupying Trump Trump Plaza, I went on the news channels. CNN had nothing. MSNBC had nothing. Fox News was the only channel that was actually showing the entire demonstration. Humiliating. Disgusting. And I guarantee you DOJ is going through the books right now and they're going to throw these people out of this country. If you're here on a visa, don't do dumb stuff because you're going to find out that's the Trump administration has made that clear. And from what I have seen, they do have that authority. And so see you later. That's now. I think there'll probably be a lot of American citizens in the Trump Tower protest. I don't know. There's a lot of lunatics who are Americans who care so much about Palestine. But yeah, of course CNN and MSNBC aren't covering it because it makes their side look like the crazies that they are. Save money on your monthly cell phone bill. Switch to Pure Talk, my cell phone service provider and say goodbye to AT&T, Verizon or T Mobile. You'll see immediate savings and without sacrificing quality cell phone Service. 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A federal judge and I'm loading this because this news story just came down. A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate tens of thousands of federal workers. U.S. district Judge William Alsop ordered President Donald Trump's administration to reinstate tens of thousands of probationary federal employees. He referred in the ruling, the judge referred to the fire, the mass firings as unlawful and a sham. Okay, this is, this is just madness. They do not have Office of Personnel Management. This, this is not something that a federal judge should be able to do. I just Want to know. So can a federal judge just decide that anything that Trump does as president is not allowed? That's. We're getting pretty close to that, aren't we? Like, well, where do we draw the lines here? One federal judge can operate at the same level. We're not talking about the Supreme Court, which is constitutionally mandated. We're talking about a federal judge, a creation of Congress. A creation of Congress. Who is saying the president can't do that? Really? President can't fire. Probation. Why are they probationary employees if they can't be fired for any reason or no reason? Because it is in the interest of the American people, as determined by the executive branch. But the hashtag resistance judges. This is one thing the Democrats have done that. It's smart. I mean, it's nefarious, but it's smart. They have ceded the judiciary with as many radical left wing activists as they possibly can as fast as they can. Biden did this. Obama did this. This is, this is what they have been doing. And they're really the only game in town now for slowing down the Trump machine. Democrats in the Congress. Yeah, you really, you want to go to a shutdown? You want it to be the Schumer shutdown? We'll see about that. It's frustrating, I understand, because it just feels, it feels so lawless, I think, for a federal judge to override the will of 75 million plus voters who voted for Donald Trump by saying, oh, you're not allowed to run the executive branch as if you're actually running it. I mean, how are they within the executive branch if they aren't in the chain of command and can't be fired by the person at the top? How does that work exactly? Do they work for this federal judge? You know, is he in charge of hiring and firing the millions of federal employees out there? I just want to know where this, where this power that this judge has taken on for himself stops and starts. All right, well, let's, let's get back into some other stuff going on here, which is the situation of the epa. And Lee Zeldin is doing some great stuff here. I'm seeing also the, the updates on the Trump cease fire. Russia, Ukraine war. Russia has agreed in principle to go forward with this. We'll get into that in a second. Let me finish our EPA talk and then stay with me and I promise I'll get to Russia, Ukraine, wars. This is what I'm saying. There's so much going on right now. You got agencies being shut down. You got people Storming Trump Tower, acting like psychos. You got the left all upset about Mahmoud Khalil. I mean, you know, we got a lot of things. We got deportations happening. We got a lot of things going on to keep track of. But the epa, I gotta say, I love this abc. Let me give you the ABC News headline on it, which I think puts it at a pretty, pretty clear context. The biggest deregulatory action in history. The EPA has rolled out sweeping moves today aimed at walking back environmental protections and eliminating a host of climate change regulations. Some were decades in the making. Lee Zeldin has gone into the EPA and he is cleaning house. He is cleaning house. Not the greenhouse gas emissions. We're not going to worry about those. He is cleaning house. It is fantastic. One of the things that he's going to be doing is looking at the way that the EPA has decided that it is in the climate change religion business. And it's going to look at this and say, how exactly is this something. First of all, the science on this is wrong. Meaning that the idea that anything that the EPA is going to do will have any measurable impact whatsoever on global climate change is insane. Insane. It is completely irrational. So you're going to have a lot. There are a lot of ideologues in the epa, civil servants who. This is going to freak them out because they think that their agency. Imagine this. Imagine you think your life's work is saving the planet by harassing people about their car emissions or whatever. And then someone comes along and says, you know, that everything that you've been doing is a fraud and is annoying and is useless. You're probably not going to like that person very much. Well, that person is Lee Zeldin and that is what he is doing right now. So I think this is fantastic. I want to. I want to see more of this. And they've got to move as fast as they can on, on all this stuff. They've got to do what they can while they can because Democrats are going to start to catch up on this. Here we go. ABC News. This is just in the last 24 hours series of actions rolling back environmental regulations. We are driving. Here we go. We are driving a dagger through the heart of the climate change religion and ushering in America's golden age. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says, let me tell you, we focus a lot with the economy on cutting and streamlining and doing things that are, whether it's, you know, based in employment numbers, tariffs, import, export, job creation, all the usual things. The artificial Headwind that our economy has from moronic EPA regulations is, is enormous. It's completely counterproductive, and it all needs to go. Now. This is where they say, what about clean water? Have I said anything about clean water? I want clean water. You want clean water. Notice they, they always change the conversation to something that you're not opposed to or you're not having a problem with. You know, do I think that the EPA should make sure that people have safe and clean drinking water? Yeah, absolutely. Do we all want, who doesn't want to be able to drink clean water from the tap in the United States? I mean, I would argue that one of the marks of civilization in 2025 is do you live in a place where you can drink water out of the tap safely? You know, this is why I have a rule with Kerry now, now that we're soon to be parents. I used to go to places where you couldn't even trust the bottled water, really. But I don't do that anymore. You know, when I was in my CIA days, I would go wherever they sent me and I was like, okay, let's do it now. If I can't drink the water out of the tap, I don't think, I don't think I'm up on vacation. I'm not going. That's not for me. But yeah, of course we want clean water. Of course we don't want, you know, toxic waste. But that's all the, that's all the old discussion and, and the propaganda from the environmentalists to cover for what they really want, which is the hyper regulatory state that can tell you what your business can do and what your emissions can be all about. CO2, CO2, this is the excuse to put their regulatory boot on your neck for countless issues, countless issues. And people have had enough of it. Those of us who are sane and want to see American prosperity flourishing to its greatest possible extent are saying there is no more of this. Zeldin said, quote, he and President Trump support rewriting the agency's 2009 findings that Planet warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Obama era determination under the Clean Air act is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants, other pollution sources. Notice, they're going to tell you, the Democrats are going to say, oh, they're going to all get upset about this. Meanwhile, they hate Elon Musk. The comparison of these things matters. In this way. Elon, with his companies has done more to decarbonize the auto industry or move now I know the electricity comes from dirty sources and all this, but at least you have a real electric car market now that is growing and that is cool. And the technology's there and the battery technology from this. And there's a lot that goes in. It's not just the cars. It's not just the cars. And, you know, Elon has done so much. But they will hate on Elon and say he's terrible. And celebrate Tesla losing, you know, 50% of its stock value in a. In the. By the way. I mean, I'm. I'm a huge. I'm a believer in all of Elon's companies. Okay? But Tesla losing its value. And then they'll turn around and say, oh, my gosh, you're getting rid of these EPA regulations. What about climate change? Well, what about Elon and what he's done for climate change? You see, it's. Democrats are inherently politically. You know, there's a schism in their mind, there's a separation in the brain between what is and what they want to be. And they will move on any issue, irrespective of what they've said on another issue if it suits their political needs in the moment. And you see this with all the environmental stuff. President Biden, for example, said that there are power plant rules would improve public health and improve the supply of electricity that America needs both untrue. This is just. This is. By regulating CO2, everybody, which you and I breathe out it really, to put this into the most appropriate context, they want to. They want to regulate our exhalation if they can. Oh, my God, CO2, what are you doing? You're killing the planet. What about the cow farts? Remember AOC and the Green New Deal? And we got to deal with the cow farts? And then we're like, wait, no methane. I. This is just all. It's people who want to control you, and it's an endless excuse for control. And the EPA has become a weapon of these lunatics. And Lee Zeldin is going in there and he is trying to defang this thing as fast as possible. And it is an important mission because when you talk about getting us to where the Trump economy should be and what we would like to see, removing these artificial constraints on businesses and all these. I mean, they should take a chainsaw to the. Any EPA regulation that's about the CO2 emissions, it's gotta go, gotta go. And they can cry about clean water and toxic waste on somebody else's watch, because we know that's not what this is about. But if you attack the epa, notice they go to the things that we all agree on that we're not attacking to try to protect. The things that are insane and that are really just an excuse to harass and regulate and control, which is really the bait that is the psychological foundation of the climate change religion to harass and control and annoy you. And that's what libs are very good at. So we will come back into this. Definitely want to take some of your calls here, some of your talk backs as well. 800282 282. You know, I talked yesterday about the health benefits of walking physically and mentally. But in addition to diet and exercise, there's something else that you should consider to feel your best. And I've been doing it for months and I haven't felt this good in a decade. Chalk supplements. They are fantastic because if you've got low energy, it could be related to some of your internal chemistry, your hormones, your testosterone, which naturally declines as you age. Chalk's male vitality stack can help replenish those levels and give you more energy. 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I'll make it short and brief. I don't believe the Democrats in the Senate have really thought about the negative aspects of their government shutdown. What may happen, Americans may wake up on Saturday and realize that government employees do not really affect their daily lives. And it may actually encourage more Americans to believe in and even support deeper doge cuts. Interesting. I think that people first of all with Trump in charge, they won't be able to do what they've done before which is oh look now no one's look at the, you know, honor flights for veterans and now they can't go into the parks. They try to find the areas where the few areas where it will be visible if there are and they, they make the cuts to those areas. They could move funding around or they could move personnel around so they continue with the important stuff. But I think you make an interesting point with that one. Kenny, thank you for calling in and yeah, we'll see if we get to a shutdown here. We have Schumer here somewhere, don't we? Talking about the shutdown. Yes, this is Schumer in September of 2024. This is the kind of stuff, so this is a flashback, but this is what he used to say. Play:14 if the government shuts down, it will be average Americans who suffer most. A government shutdown means seniors who rely on Social Security could be thrown into chaos as the Social Security Administration law limit certain services like benefit verification or fixing errors in payments. Our veterans could see regional VA offices shut down and support services put on halt. Some of our military service members could be forced to work without pay. Families who benefit from WIC and other nutrition programs could see benefits halted. So that was September of 24. Why is Schumer threaten to shut the government down now? What's going what has changed so much Since September of 24, when all these horrible things would happen if the government shut down. To now Schumer's like, sorry, might have to shut the government down. Mmm, interesting, isn't it? But this is the game they always play. They don't care what they said yesterday. They just want to manipulate the public and get their way, even when they're in the minority in this Senate and in the Congress overall. So we will hold them accountable here. Let's talk Trump Russia, cease fire stuff when we come back here, update you on that. Some very important, some very important things happening with, with that situation. And we'll also go back to the conversation about Mahmoud Khalil and the protest in Trump Tower by the lunatics, the pro Palestine lunatics. We'll have Carol Markowitz joining us with that at the bottom of the next hour. So we have a jam packed third hour. Send some talkbacks. Send some talkbacks. Go to the Iheart app, press that little microphone at the clay and buck page, rack em and stack em. Back with you in a couple minutes. 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