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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H2 - Scary Future Warfare
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Buck Sexton
and buck kicks off right now. And something Clay I thought was really interesting, this New York Post report on you see this. The CIA used a futuristic new tool called a ghost murmur to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran. According to the New York Post here, secret technology uses long range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise. Again, according to the New York Post here. So by the way, I, I'm, I wasn't even good at high school geometry. So like this, you know, this is not, this is not what I, I had nothing to do with any of this kind of stuff in the military industrial complex in the agency. But just even reading that and they're saying that Director Radcliffe of the agency and President Trump alluded to it in the White House briefing on this. So they, you know, they're feeling pretty confident in their reporting. Clay, I mean that's just reading, that's like, wow. Yeah, I'd never heard it obviously, if it's never been used before, I never
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Clay Travis
heard of this before.
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Buck Sexton
I have no idea.
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Clay Travis
So here I was optimistic in the first hour about straight up Hormuz, everything else. This is something I'm actually pessimistic about if you want me to go negative on this. I spend a lot of time thinking about what's, what the world is going to be like and it may happen sooner than we even think. When individual bad actors have access to drones that can be, can be weaponized and are able to just send drones to blow things up. In other words, like a lot of this audience has guns to protect our homes, right? Have weaponry, fences, all these different things to try to make us safer inside of our homes. Some people even have armed security that is patrolling homes. All these different things. Have you, have you sat around and thought about as we look at what's happening with Ukraine, where basically Ukraine, Russia is a drone war. We'll take some calls on this. But one issue on the Strait of Hormuz is one weaponized drone which can be deployed by one individual, can blow up an entire tanker ship at some point in time. Bad guys are going to get access to this drone technology and I fear they're just going to be able to bomb random people's houses. In other words, right now your concerns an armed robber might show up at your house with a gun and you're trying to think about ways to defend yourself. What happens at 2am when somebody just loads up a drone with a bomb and just flies it at your house because they don't like you. This is one of the things that I worry about because I think the technology is moving so rapidly, Buck, that it's inevitable that individual bad actors are going to get access to these weaponized drones and start to use them with impunity. That's that. That is scary to me.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, the cartels have been doing this for some time. They've used drones, the Mexican drug cartels, they've used drones for not just surveillance but even to drop like grenades, drop explosives on targets, enemies, law enforcement, whomever we are. Not far from the, from a. Well, the technology already exists. It's just a question of how long before you start to see. Because these drones are also going to get to the point where they have autonomous, they have an autonomous flying and movement capability. So you could essentially set the target and then it just goes and finds the person.
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Clay Travis
That's where you and I in the White House saw a drone and we've talked about this because they declassified it, but saw a drone attack where there's a car full of four people and the drone is now the technology is so specific on the drone that they can fly in, kill one person in the car and then the other three people you can see on the video just fleeing. That's how they know what seat the guy's in. They're not taking out the car, they're taking out the guy in a particular seat inside of a guy.
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Buck Sexton
It's a variant of the Hellfire missile. It's called the flying Ginsu. The AGM114R9X a non explosive missile projectile that essentially has six sword like blades, swords because they are big and long sword like blades that come out. And you know, it's messy, but no, in a sense it's less messy because no collateral damage. But you wouldn't want to get hit by one of these things, that is for sure. But yes, the technology that is being deployed here is very real. But anyway, that New York Post story I just thought was, was particularly interesting because there's people ask me, I mean now I've been out, I've been out of the, the COVID world for 15 years now. It's be 15 years I've been doing media this June. So they got all kinds of new whiz bangs. I never heard of some of this. Obviously this. No one to my knowledge, who isn't currently active and working on this technology in the government would have had any, any idea about this because it's brand new.
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Clay Travis
But, well, it also.
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Buck Sexton
The Maduro. Yeah, yeah, the Maduro thing, which they admitted to, which was essentially a sonic weapon to disable all of people. People ask me, they're like, oh man, do you know about this? I was like, no, this is crazy. This is new stuff. Never heard about it before. But technology on the battlefield, guys, it's going to advance so rapidly and it's going to change so much. And we are. You're already seeing some of this stuff in the early phase that is going to become ubiquitous. And you know, this is where we're entering a whole new era of warfare that will be very different. I think we're at the. I could put it this way, Clay. I think we're about to enter an era of warfare with the biggest transformation in how battles are fought since the early days of gunpowder. I think we're entering.
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Clay Travis
That's how. That's a bold prediction.
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Buck Sexton
Well, because we're going to have. We already do it. So, I mean, you could argue we're already kind of there. You're going to have on ground, air and sea, non human combatants making real time decisions not just on where they go, but on who and what they target using artificial technology and satellite based communication so that they can't be jammed or interfered with. I mean, this is. You're talking about, my friend, we're talking about robot armies here. We are on the edge of robot army stuff in a way that, you know, you say, okay, we don't have humanoid robots yet. Have you guys seen some of the stuff that is coming out from even, you know, Elon's companies now? He's not making Terminator. The T. What is it? The T800 was that the original. The T1000 was the, was the alloy metal thing. Right. But the T800, I think, was the original Terminator. He's not making that. He's making nice little robots that are going to fold your laundry. But if a robot can fold your laundry and it can, you know, make decisions, it can also shoot a gun.
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Clay Travis
And basically, I know we haven't talked about the Ukraine situation in some time, but effectively, Ukraine seems, seems to have created enough drones and Russia certainly has got them too, that we have reached some form of equilibrium. Now we're coming out of winter, so the roads are getting better and we'll see what happens in the spring, summer. But basically the lines are not moving very much because if you leave, much like back in the olden days, for those of you who remember and have studied at all World War I, like you put your head above a trench and you were done for. And so it became almost impossible to move in many ways. That's kind of what's happened with drones now, where if humans come out in any way and try to advance, the drones are coming. It's not other humans taking them out. But we got a lot of talkbacks. We'll start with this one because you wanted to hit this a while back. And it is probably the number one question we are getting and it is, it has to do with what we were just talking about, which is the larger drone issues. Many of you have been asking a version of this question, which is what Tom in Oklahoma City Cut F is
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Rick Scott
asking if we destroyed their military, how is it they're still able to try to shut down the Strait of Vermouth? I don't understand how that's working, Tom.
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Buck Sexton
It's a very good question. We have essentially annihilated their navy. Like their navy, they've got very little left. It's also, it's hard to hide big boats, right? So they've got very little left. They've got very little air defense, although not none as we've seen. I mentioned the manpads and I think there were actually SAM sites that people are. I have to go back and read the reporting on it. I think it was a combination of ManPad and SAM site is a surface to air missile. Manpad is the shoulder fired rocket. So they still have those and they still have a over half million person standing army. We haven't killed a half a million Iranian soldiers, thank God, because that would be, that's a lot of people to kill. We haven't done that. So they have. Their ground force is very much intact, which is what we would have to contend with even if we were going to land on the shore of the, of the Iranian. By the way, all this stuff, it is helpful to pull up a map for some of this stuff so you can see, you know, you got, you got the Strait of Hormuz and you got, you know, the Saudis are on one side of this body of water, the Iranians. Then you got the Iraqis, the Kuwaitis. I mean this Is this is for the oil world about a strategic piece of real estate or a piece of waterway as you could possibly find. But so, Clay, the answer to our friend's question here is we've really destroyed their air force surface to air their ballistic missiles. Their navy, they got a lot of guys with Kalashnikovs and, and, you know, RPGs and stuff running around still. So think about that for an invasion, why we don't want to do that. And it doesn't take much for whatever they've got to fire from shore and blow up a tanker. It's easy to do, even if you're decimated militarily.
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Clay Travis
Which is why the question that I think we were having in the first hour is to what extent does the Iranian leadership have the ability to curtail individual actors from making choices inside of Iran? And this was Pete Hegseth in his press conference this morning saying, hey, there's still some missiles and drones being shot off. And I think Iran's response is, well, we don't have great communication infrastructure, so we're having difficulty reaching everybody inside of the Iranian defense and saying, hey, we've got a ceasefire going on right now. It's also possible. And this is where I think it becomes really messy. It's also possible, Buck, that we have several different factions competing for power inside of Iran, and there isn't any real leader that has the ability to control the actions inside of the country. But the easy answer, I.
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Rick Scott
For the.
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Clay Travis
For the caller there or the talk backer is it, it takes very little to blow up in a oil tanker. And if you are an owner, your private industry, and you own an oil tank, what do you think an oil. Oil tanker is worth on the market? $80 million, $90 million.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, I mean, full. Full of oil. Yeah, I got to think.
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Clay Travis
But I mean, just the physical structure of like, you know, you're running constantly oil on the oil tanker. But if you are the business that. Let's just say it's $100 million asset, it turns into risk analysis, right? What are the percentage chances that something could happen to your ship? And as we talked about a lot on this program, the one thing you don't want to be transporting if suddenly you have flame or if you have an explosion, missiles.
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Buck Sexton
You know, when missiles are flying at you and you're on a virtual sea of oil, that's rough. It's a rough place to be. Podcast listener Clint E. From North Carolina, Hit it.
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Rick Scott
Clay, you're going to have to take that microphone away from Buck. He's going to have my 401k, 2 1/2% down instead of 2 1/2% up by the end of the day. Very funny. It's fair.
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Buck Sexton
It's a fair point. Fair point. I'm, I'm not, I'm not sort of bullish on. Well, no, I think Trump's going to want. I think this is going to end up in negotiations. I just think that when people are assessing the success of this, longer term, it's going to be more of a challenge. But we'll see. We'll see. But I, I don't think we're going to have a continuous. Blow them up, come back to the table. Blow them up, come back to the table. You're going to just, like I said, give it two weeks. We might blow up some stuff and then there'll be an agreement to talk again. And this agreement will go for a month or two. You know, this, that's, that's what I see happen. We're going to keep talking and talking and the Iranians will not concede on the key points. That's where I think this is all heading. Tom from Oklahoma City. Oh, no, I'm sorry, we already did that one H. Kenneth from Melbourne, Florida.
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Rick Scott
Clay, you're twisting yourself in knots trying to make your point.
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Buck Sexton
Bottom line, Buck is right.
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Rick Scott
Look, we asked them to open the straits and let the ships through.
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Buck Sexton
That obviously means we cannot open it.
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Rick Scott
They control it.
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Clay Travis
Clay, your.
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Buck Sexton
Your floor.
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Clay Travis
My floor is look at the map.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, like, the floor is yours.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, yeah, I'm taking the floor. Look at the map. We control, once they come out of the Strait of Hormuz and we have allowed Iranian oil and gas because we want Iranian oil and gas on the marketplace. So if, like this whole idea of control, if we want to stop as the United States, all ships from being able to come out of the Strait of Hormuz, including Iran, we 100% can do that. Iran is saying they control the straight of Hormuz because they are crazy enough to just blow ships up. If we wanted to blow ships up, we could, quote, control the straight of Hormuz. We don't want to do that. We want global commerce to be able to exist. So it's control is just. They're crazy enough to blow up ships and we're not willing to do so. So again, if we just said, hey, Iran, you're not going to be able to sell your oil and gas, my argument is the ultimate trump card, which is obviously well played in this context is that we can just say, hey, straight of Hormuz is closed. Like we actually have the ability to close it. What Iran has the ability to do is levy enough risk such that rational business owners say, I'm not going to risk my hundred million dollar boat. Let's just say it's $100 million boat to try to get this oil and gas out, to say nothing of the potential loss of lives. And by the way, a lot of crewmen may be sitting back there saying, you know Buck, I'd prefer that we don't risk whether or not we're going to get blown up going through the Strait of Hormuz too. These are rational human actors, and Iran is playing on their rational human fear.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Caroline Levitt Briefing Right now we are rolling on that. We will give you an update if Anything more comes from it mentioning this? We mentioned it a little bit ago. We'll take some of your calls. We got a ton of talkbacks. Big story in the New York Times. We shared it about the decision to go to war with Iran and how it was made. I thought the first of all it was actually really well written. We said earlier that it reads with a sense of truth to it, very specific, detailed. We can talk about this maybe a little bit when we come back. J.D. vance Very clear in the article, Buck, that he did not want to do this and that he advised the President against striking Iran. I'm surprised that's not getting more attention right now in the media because I thought it was super interesting. Everybody else did not want to give as aggressive of opinions. It sounded like they were just trying to analyze the larger world. We'll talk about that, what it might mean, particularly as JD Is right now one of the lead negotiators on this ceasefire to see whether or not we can get an official peace agreement underway. In the meantime, born on America's darkest day of 91125 years ago, the Tunnel of the Towers foundation has been helping America's heroes ever since. Heroes like New York city Fire Department Lt. Edward McDonough Jr. He was a Marine Corps veteran. Lifelong public servant, Edward was on the front lines at ground zero. In the days following 911 he cleared debris while serving his city with courage and dedication rose through the ranks of the New York City Fire Department, ultimately becoming a lieutenant and inspiring those around him with his leadership and humor. Edward battled 911 related cancer for more than three years before passing away. He leaves behind his wife Kimberly and their five children. In this 25th anniversary year of 911 we continue to see the toll that day is still taking on heroes and their families. Donate $11 a month. Amplify your impact with a car. Land t2t.org that's t the number 2t.org
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Buck Sexton
welcome back into Clay and Buck. We are joined by Florida Senator Rick Scott. With us now, the great state of Florida. And Senator, not only do you have a full time. Do you hear that New York State tax authorities, a full time Florida resident here with me. You've got a part time Florida resident with Clay. So a lot of love for the Sunshine State. Thank you for being here with us. Let's first get into this because the big news of the day is the ceasefire you come from. I mean not only do you have the Senate to draw upon for all of this of course, but you come from a business background. You've done plenty of negotiating yourself. How do you feel about this ceasefire and what do you think comes next?
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Rick Scott
Well, first off, you have to really admire Donald Trump. The guy, the guy is a deal doer and he, you know, you should listen to what he tells you. I mean, he clearly wants to get rid of the nuclear weapons, which I'm very appreciative because I love my family. I don't want them killed by nuclear weapons. And I think every family should be thinking that way in America. Thank God this president cares about us, wants to save our lives. And what the hell was Obama doing and Biden doing so. And he also wants to get rid of the ballistic missiles. And so I think it's great. I hope Iran's smart and they keep it going. The Democrats are completely insane. I mean, they say, oh, we got it. You know, they want to impeach Trump because, you know, he is holding Iran accountable. So think about it. If these same Democrats were in office, Sherman wouldn't have, you know, gone through the south because by then, you know, Lincoln would be impeached and Roosevelt sure as heck wouldn't destroy the infrastructure in Germany because he had been impeached. And Truman wouldn't have dropped the bomb because he'd already been impeached. So these mean these Democrats are defending Ayatollah Hamas. I mean, they're in my, you know, close to Florida. They're out there down in Cuba defending a horrible regime. They're defending the Iranian regime that killed what, 30 some thousand people just in six January. So it's. But Trump's doing the right thing. I'm very optimistic that this is going to last. It's. But if it doesn't, I mean, I wouldn't play with Trump if, if they don't do their part, don't live up to their part of the bargain, you know, all hell is going to break loose. You can, if you. Have you seen that chart of all the leadership of Iran that's been destroyed? So, so I don't think there's anybody for Putin to call anymore.
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Clay Travis
We're talking to Florida Senator Rick Scott. You're up for reelection, if I'm not mistaken, this November. You don't know your opponent yet, but you're also high up in overall Senate leadership. Let's talk about the big picture here. I was just on Fox News talking about the situation in Michigan. Mike Rogers is going to be the nominee there. New Hampshire also and Georgia are potential pickups. And then you have battlegrounds coming in North Carolina, in Maine, Ohio, others What do you expect for the fall to look like? And, and how optimistic or pessimistic are you about the larger state maps?
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Rick Scott
I think, I think Republicans can do well as long as we have something to run on. Trump's given us a lot to run on. I mean, if you look at what he's, what he's done trying to bring, you know, before the Iran thing, but they'll come back down oil prices, down the cost of living, down supporter law enforcement, support our military. So Republicans, Republicans are the party that we care about your job, we care about your kids education, we care about public safety. And the Democrats are clearly the party that doesn't care about jobs, doesn't care about your kids education and doesn't care about public safety. So that should be our message. If it does, I think we're going to do well, but we got to get our votes out. Susan Collins has got a race in Maine. Houston's got a race in Ohio. Mike Rogers got a race in Michigan. Watley's got a race in North Carolina. Solomon's got a race in Alaska. So we know and we've got a pickup opportunity possibly in New Hampshire with the new new pickup opportunity, you know, hopefully to be Ossoff in Georgia. So we just got to raise our money, have our message, bust our butts every day. You want your work every day to get your, you know, to get your votes out every, every, every day. So if we do, I think we're going to have a good fall.
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Buck Sexton
Well, let's certainly hope so because we all know, Senator, you've probably just seen this popping up in your newsfeed. They're already talking impeachment. These Democrats in the House, they're already talking crazy stuff. And I, do you think that I'm just going to put this out to you? Do you think that the President is going to have to give preemptive pardons to some members of his cabinet if just in case a Democrat were to win because they're so hell bent on some kind of payback. I worry the Democrat psyche has been so damaged by Trump. Go ahead, Senator.
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Rick Scott
Yeah, I agree. I mean, I mean it's just Trump derangement syndrome. They, they don't, they don't care about this country. You saw it in the State of the Union when Trump asked stand up if you think your first job is to protect Americans and rather than illegal alien. And not one Democrats stood up for that. So the, I don't think even betterment stood up for that. So the, so I don't Know what will happen. We get, we just. The bottom line is we cannot lose. We have got to, we've got to do it. We got to keep a majority in the House and Senate. If, if they get the House and I assume they're going to impeach a lot of people and we're going to have to deal with it in the Senate. But Trump, I mean Trump is doing it. I mean, what's fascinating is if you care about this country, you have to thank Trump. You know, you might say, oh gosh, I wish he, I wish his rhetoric wasn't that. But guess what? He scares the hell out of people. I mean, look at what he's done. Look at, look we got, we have a chance for democracy. And in Venezuela, with getting Maduro out, it looks like we got a big opportunity in Cuba. You look at, look at what he's trying to broker peace around the world. If we can, if he can pull off what he's going to pull off in Iran, it completely changes the Middle East. And guess what? Russia and China don't have an ally in the Middle east anymore because I mean they, you know, it's all transactional in Iran just as their friend because they all hate America.
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Clay Travis
You represent a state that has a huge Venezuelan and a huge Cuban population. You just mentioned both. President may well have asked you, certainly a colleague of yours, Marco Rubio, a Secretary of State who you know very well. Let's go to Cuba. What to you should happen in Cuba? What would you advise the President as a senator representing the state with more expat Cubans than any in the country. What should we do with Cuba? How should we handle it? What should the future look like there?
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Rick Scott
We. And first of all, we all have to realize this Canal is not the leader. The only leader is Raul Castro. Raul Castro needs to be indicted. And the first step is I would indict Rio Castro, then I would arrest him. Right, because he's actually the leader. If Cuba Diaz Canal is not the leader. Next I would make sure the regime has nothing. They have no dollars, they have no petro and they have nothing. Just in the last two weeks, Democrats have gone down to Cuba to prop up a regime that kills its own citizens. That puts them in prison as young as 16. There's a 16 year old is in prison and they go down there with a guy that lives in United States and says that I should be killed. He goes on radio and says, Rick Scott, you need to go kill Rick Scott. So the, this is, these are disgusting people that don't care about people. Like I asked, why didn't you go down and ask, you know, talk to the political prisoners, what they see, ask them what's like. So, but I'm, I'm hopeful if Trump keeps doing what he's doing, I think the regime is going to fall. I think the people of Cuba are going to rise up. They've been, they've been protesting. So I think they will rise up and take over and, and pick the government they want, not the government that, that, you know, they was lied to by Fidel Castro.
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Buck Sexton
Speaking Senator Rick Scott of Florida. Senator, how are we doing with the this is something that is always in the background of my mind because I think it is one of those parts of an administration that is super important but doesn't always get much attention to headlines because it's an ongoing thing. Although the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy will certainly get attention if that happens. How are we doing with the judge confirmation machinery in the Senate? As you see it is Trump getting judges on the federal court in the numbers that he needs to, to basically rebuild some aspects of our judiciary towards sanity after the Biden years?
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Rick Scott
Well, he's getting the ones done in red states. We have the blue slip process when the blue step process was not to stop judges or U.S. attorneys or U.S. marshals. And that's what the Democrats are using it as. So we already have had to change the rules on nominations because they were blocking all the nominations. So that would change last year. And if they keep doing what they're going to do, you know, with whether we have to get rid of the filibuster, we get rid of the blue slip process because he won whether the Democrats would like it. He is the president. He gets to make nominations. Right. That's the way this works. And if it's somebody that we think is inappropriate, then we can decide not to vote for him. But, but the Democrats are trying to use every mechanism to prevent any success by Trump. They want the economy to be horrible, the Democrats wanting to lose in Iran. They hate our country. All they want to do is beat Trump because they don't care about the Democrats, don't care about Americans. They just care about Trump failing and they get back in power. That's all they think about is how do they get back in power. It's all Schumer thinks about, Jeffries thinks about Democrats. All they think about is power, power, power.
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Clay Travis
There is report coming out of Caroline Levitt, JD Vance, Witkoff and Kushner are headed to Pakistan to have face to face meetings with representatives of Iran to try and figure out what could take place during this ceasefire. What does victory to you look like? Senator Buck and I debated what should happen, what could happen if the President were to ask you, Senator Scott, what should I be? My red line, so to speak. What is victory at this point in Iran? What does that look like, you would say?
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Rick Scott
What for? The minimum for him, which I agree with, the minimum for him is they have no ability to build a nuclear weapon, no ability to build ballistic missiles. We've taken all the enriched uranium out of the country and we control it. That's. That's the absolute minimum. Now, on top of that, it's hard to believe they'll stop helping Houthis and Hamas and Hezbollah unless we've destroyed their economy. So either they have to have no economy or they have to have new leadership because we cannot allow them to have. Have a future president. Give them like Obama Day gave him, billions of dollars so they can go try to kill more Americans because they've been killing Americans, you know, for what, 47 years? So. But the minimum is no nuclear weapons, no ability, and no ballistic missiles and no ability to do it. That's. That's the bare minimum. You think we'll get there?
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Buck Sexton
Do you think the Iranians will agree to this?
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Rick Scott
I think, yeah, I think they will, because I think they. If you look at what the American military has done, mean it's unbelievable what we've done. So I think that if I just look at the chart of the people that have been killed from the leadership, and that's primarily been done by the Israelis, but if you're sitting there and most people are not interested in dying, that's been my experience in life. So you look at the org chart and say, oh, I'm next if I don't change. So I think that they're going to change. But, you know, I'm an. I'm an internal optimist, but I wouldn't be on the opposite side of Trump right now. I would never be on the opposite side of Trump. I think the guy. The guy is willing to go make the tough choices to protect us.
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Clay Travis
For people out there who maybe just aren't thinking about it, there's lots of talk about the House. The Senate, we think, is far more impactful. Buck mentioned judges. There's the possibility of Supreme Court vacancies for people out there that are maybe not paying attention to it. What's the difference? You've been in both between being on the majority side and the minority side in the Senate.
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Rick Scott
Well, if you're in the minority, you don't get to decide what you vote on. That's number one. Number two, you know, none. There's. So there's nothing you're gonna, that you want to get done. Like we've been busting our butt to get the Save America act done. There's no way. I mean, look, I'm going to keep fighting for that, but the Democrats control it. No, they want fraud. There's no, there's no way we'll get a vote on it. It's hard enough when we're the majority, but, but, I mean, there's nothing that would be good for, for Americans that will happen. It will be the Democrats. What they want to do is destroy this country. They want to bankrupt this country. They want to make everything woke. They hate law enforcement. They hate our military. So if you love our country, there's no way in the world you can vote for a Democrat. So we, we have to have a majority, and we need to have a majority in both the House and Senate, and we should, we have stuff to run on now. We got a lot of work left to do, but we have got to get this done. Now, I come out saying we got to get rid of filibuster because the way what Democrats are doing is they're used. Filibuster is always supposed to be used to stop debate, but you get to debate, but eventually you shut up and you go vote. They're using it to say, you know, you never get a vote. That was never the way the filibuster is supposed to be set up. And so we, I think we're going to have, if we wouldn't, if we want to have something wrong in November, we're going to have to say to ourselves, finally, you know, all this obstruction stuff by the Democrats, we're tired of it. We're, you know, we gave them a chance. They want to work with us. So we're going to, now we're, we're going to go get rid of filibuster. We're going to, you know, unfortunately, you know, get rid of things that, that were supposed to be, you know, useful. Like I, you know, I try to work with the Biden administration on judges, right? Instead of saying no. I just, all I, because all I cared about is give me a judge. That's not going to create the law. That's all I cared about. When I was governor of Florida, I appointed 407 judges. That's the only thing I care about. You are not. You don't get to legislate. Legislature does so. But Democrats, they, they, they want to block everything. Trump wants to get done and everything.
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Buck Sexton
Thanks so much, Senator Scott. Appreciate you being with us.
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Rick Scott
All right, take care.
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Clay Travis
welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show okay, we got a quick turn here. That was Senator Rick Scott of Florida. We've got a bunch of talkbacks for you when we come back. At the top of the next hour, Caroline Levitt just completed a White House press conference asking a lot of questions about what exactly is going to be debated. I would say the biggest news in terms of tangible reality is J.D. vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, which is the American negotiation team, are headed to Pakistan, where they will be meeting with Iran face to face to discuss many of these details. But we'll play some of the latest cuts there. Stock market continues to be up substantially, has opened high and stayed high, and the price of oil and gas continues to be down. We will take some of your calls. We have a bevy of talkbacks. Most of you agree with Buck and are pessimistic about how this is going to play out. My shiny rays of optimism not being well received. We will discuss that and more in the third hour of the program. But in the meantime, Buck, I guess we can at least say nuclear war didn't happen, as nuclear war did not happen.
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Buck Sexton
And I'm going to tell you, I'm going to be optimistic. Nuclear war is not going to happen with Iran. At least we're not going to nuke them. So that's nice. We got that going for us.
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Clay Travis
We'll take your calls. Your talkbacks final hour Wednesday edition of the program coming up next. Thanks for hanging out with us on Clay and Vox
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