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Buck starts now 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 Khomeini, 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 gather 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? Uh, 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. Uh, 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.
President Donald Trump
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 in 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 posed a very clear, colossal threat to America and our forces stationed overseas. The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe in our 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.
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.
President Donald Trump
Right now, our objectives are clear. 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 there 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.
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.
President Donald Trump
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, if the President wants to do it really 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 you'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.
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.
Buck Sexton
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 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 he, 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 gotta 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. I live in a mostly Jewish enclave of Miami beach. And everybody around here was high fiving and thinks 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've got Secretary Warheadseth, you got Trump, you got into Marco Rubio as 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.
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 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 four 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 terror attack. To be clear, it was a terrorist attack. It appears quite clearly a terror attack. I don't think they've officially said it,
Buck Sexton
but the guy I'm saying it, I know more about this than the Austin cops looking at it. It's a terrorist attack.
Clay Travis
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, all that you
Buck Sexton
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 in North Korea. You're seeing a lot of North Korean opposition these days. Yeah, it was. Trump 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 or 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. 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.
Clay Travis
We didn't start this war, but under
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President Trump, we are finishing it.
Clay Travis
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
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reminded the world, as he has time
Clay Travis
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.
Buck Sexton
I think that's a good rule. I think that the American government should take the opinion that if you kill Americans, if you prey on our people, we're going to get you pretty straightforward.
Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
You're listening to Team 47 with Clay and Buck.
Buck Sexton
We were talking about the plan with regard to Iran and I said defanged. It turns out that's exactly what Secretary Rubio said. Great minds think alike. I didn't even know about this one. Here is Secretary Rubio. Play it.
Marco Rubio
From what I've been told by the Department of War, everything is on or ahead of schedule and proceeding on these objectives. We have every confidence in the world that these objectives will be achieved. The last point I would make is, and I said this yesterday, and I repeat, what's about to, you know, you're about to see, you know, we're going to unleash Chang on these people in the next few hours and days. You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and in the intensity of these attacks as frankly the two most powerful air force forces in the world. Take apart this terroristic regime and defang it and take away its ability to threaten its neighbors or hide behind a zone of immunity that allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions. This terroristic radical cleric led regime cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons.
Buck Sexton
We just blew up the Iranian flagship Clay with a torpedo. The first time the US has taken down a ship with a torpedo since World War II.
Clay Travis
I saw that for the military history nerds out there. I don't even know how many ships Iran has, but I don't feel like they have a very very long history of seafaring left in their in their
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Episode: Team 47 - Operation Epic Fury
Date: March 8, 2026
Podcast Host: iHeartPodcasts
This explosive episode breaks down the unprecedented joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran, code-named “Operation Epic Fury.” Clay Travis and Buck Sexton guide listeners through breaking news of massive strikes, the death of top Iranian leaders including Ayatollah Khomeini, and President Trump’s live White House updates. The hosts analyze the implications for global security, U.S. politics, and the fate of Iran—offering context, critical assessment, and memorable, candid reactions.
Breaking News (03:19):
Shock to Iranian System:
Military Aims and Nuclear Concerns (04:54):
Elaborates on Four Key Military Objectives (06:20):
Timeline and Human Cost (07:36):
“Today, we grieve for the four heroic American service members who have been killed in action... We have the strongest and most powerful by far military in the world and we will easily prevail... We projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever it takes.”
– President Trump [07:36]
Notable Quote:
Buck Sexton’s Immediate Take (09:02):
Historical Context:
On Trump’s Personal Transformation (12:50):
Cautions on Ambition vs. Risk:
Low U.S. Casualty Numbers, But Stakes High:
Domestic Security Concerns (15:38):
Moral Clarity
Trump Administration Policy Philosophy:
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (Cut 1):
Buck Sexton’s Endorsement (19:21):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (23:57):
Historic Naval Engagement (24:41):
Clay Travis:
President Trump:
Buck Sexton:
Secretary Pete Hegseth (read by Clay Travis):
Secretary Marco Rubio:
This episode captures a turning point as seen by Clay and Buck: a U.S. administration taking bold, uncompromising action against Iran's regime after years of stalled diplomacy. The hosts discuss the scale, risks, and possible world-historical ramifications—with President Trump and key officials supplying justifications and forecasts in real time.
Unapologetic, at times exuberant, and loaded with historical analogies, the conversation frames “Operation Epic Fury” as both a military and symbolic watershed. It's a must-listen for anyone tracking global affairs, U.S. politics, or the evolving fate of the Middle East.