1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: The Team forty seven podcast is sponsored by Good Ranchers. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 2: Making the American Farm Strong Again. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 3: Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts. 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 4: Now, we have great people. I don't have to get 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 4: into that, but we have one of them standing right here. 6 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 4: We have JD. Obviously, the vice president is great. I 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 4: think Marco is great. I think I'm not sure if 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 4: anybody would run against us. I think if they have 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 4: a formed the group would be that's up. I really do. 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 4: I believe that I would. I would, I would love 11 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 4: to do it, and I have my best numbers. Ever, 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 4: it's very terrible. I have my best numbers. See you 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 4: read you read it? Am I not really gonna You'll 14 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 4: have to tell me. 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: Okay, So Trump talking again, the obsession Trump twenty twenty eight. 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you, Buck. I wish he 17 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: could run again. I mean, I know he's seventy nine, 18 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: but he's not gonna run. I wish he could. I 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: do think the idea of a JD. Marco ticket unity 20 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: from the start is starting to get some momentum. Do 21 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: you buy the idea that that duo Marco Rubio obviously 22 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: has seven hundred and sixty eight different jobs inside of 23 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: the Trump administration right now, primarily Secretary of State JD. 24 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 5: Van's VP. 25 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: Do you buy the idea that those guys might just say, hey, 26 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: let's keep the band together and have a unity ticket 27 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: and we might not even see that much drama in 28 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, that Trump might just say, Hey, these 29 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: are my guys. 30 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 5: I'm not going to run. 31 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: I'm eighty three years old, but they have my complete 32 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 1: and total endorsement. I could see a world where people 33 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: just say, ah, you know, I like this team, I 34 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: like how things are going. 35 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 5: You buy this? 36 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: I mean, because I'm starting to think it's more and 37 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: more of a possibility that they just say, hey, we're 38 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: a unity ticket, We're Trump three two point oh, three 39 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: point oh. However you want to say it, and let's 40 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: not have all the drama of this huge fight. Let's 41 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: just keep things rolling. What do you think is it 42 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: too clean? 43 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 2: It all sounds great and it would be phenomenal in 44 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: so many ways. A lot could happen in two and 45 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: a half years, my friends, So you know, this is 46 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 2: this is the thing, this is the way we think 47 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 2: the story should go. And that to me means it's 48 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,119 Speaker 2: unlikely that that is the way the story will play out. 49 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 2: That's how I view this. Yes, it should go this way, 50 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 2: there is a pathway. But remember I was I was 51 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 2: doing shows play in twenty nineteen. You know, I was 52 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,679 Speaker 2: doing the solo Buck shows in twenty nineteen, when I 53 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 2: was saying, guys, the country, things are great, enjoy it. 54 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: Trump's kicking ass economy is phenomenal. We're at peace. You know, 55 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: things are great, and then boom, a. 56 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: Few months later, you're doing TikTok dances by yourself in 57 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: your apartment in New York City. 58 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 2: We don't have we don't have to go back to 59 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 2: that trauma every time. You know, it was very difficult. 60 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 5: I still want to see the TikTok dances. 61 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: My hair was getting longer and my waist was getting 62 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 2: bigger every day of the COVID pandemic, and I'm doing 63 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: these TikTok dances alone in my tiny apartment in New York, 64 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: surrounded by lunatics who don't think you can go outside. 65 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 5: I mean this. I walked into your apartment. 66 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: The first thing I said was I was like, I 67 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: would have gone insane. You know, we didn't really do 68 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: COVID here in Franklin Tennessee, just basically like March and 69 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: April and maybe a little bit of May. People were like, eh, 70 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 1: you know a little bit, and then it was kind 71 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: of over. And then every time I see people, you 72 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: some of you guys still have a lot of post 73 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: traumatic stress. You la your New York Chicago residents who 74 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: really had to go through the chaos and the insanity. 75 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: LA people most a lot of them had yards, more 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 2: weather more so. 77 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: But I mean Gavin Newsom was arresting paddle boarders. I mean, 78 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: I mean, this was it wouldn't even let them walk on. 79 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: The I'm just saying New York turned into it turned 80 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 2: into a prison camp with masking. It was insane. 81 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: The only reason to live in New York City is 82 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: to be able to who experienced the city, anybody who 83 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: has ever had to be cloistered in tiny little apartments 84 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: that I do think New York had the worst of everybody. 85 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 5: I would have lost my mind. I certainly wouldn't have 86 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 5: been able to stay. 87 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: Trump being Trump, by the way, in addition to saying hey, 88 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: JD and Marco could be an incredible team, he also 89 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: decided to tee off on Jasmine Crockett and he challenged 90 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: them to a cognitive test AOC. We're going to talk 91 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 1: about AOC coming after our friend Riley gains here in 92 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: a moment. But Trump also challenged AOC and Jasmine Crockett 93 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: to a cognitive test. And you'll want to hear this 94 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: cut twenty two. 95 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 4: So I can tell you is that we have a 96 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 4: great group of people, which they don't. They have jazz 97 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 4: Been Crockett, a low IQ person. 98 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 6: They have. 99 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 4: AOC's low IQ. You give her the IQ tests, have 100 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 4: her passed. Like the exams that I decided to take 101 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 4: when I was at Walter Reed, I took. That's a 102 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 4: very hard They really have to do tests. I guess 103 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 4: at a certain point with the cognitive tests. Let AOC 104 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 4: go against Trump, let Jasmine go against Rum. I know 105 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 4: they get a Jasmine the first couple of questions. There 106 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 4: is a tiger and elephant that you have. You know, 107 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 4: when you get up to about five or six, and 108 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 4: then when you get up to ten and twenty and 109 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 4: twenty five, they couldn't come close to answering any of 110 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 4: those questions. 111 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 2: I mean, he is just you know what's on. You 112 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 2: know what's really unfair is if Trump doesn't run again. 113 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 2: And I think that he does just like to say 114 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 2: that he's gonna run again because it upsets the Libs 115 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 2: so much. But if he doesn't run again, Clay, our 116 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 2: jobs will never be as entertaining as they have been 117 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 2: in the Trump era, because he makes you, guys even 118 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 2: remember what it was like back in the days when oh, 119 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,239 Speaker 2: everything Obama said was genius and perfect. It was boring 120 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 2: and generally useless and often lies and wrong. In the 121 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 2: Bush era, whatever, you know, people just said stuff. You 122 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 2: know Clinton, I mean Clinton stuff got a little spicy 123 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 2: toward the end, as we know, but in general, we 124 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,119 Speaker 2: did not have a resident who just says hilarious things 125 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 2: all the time. 126 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 1: Can we play the end of that clip, I mean 127 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: the part where I mean it's not scripted right where 128 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: he just talks about I presume that they're showing you 129 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: pictures of animals as a part of the cognition test, uh, 130 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: But just can we play like the last ten seconds 131 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: of that again? Because I mean that his comedic timing 132 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: and the fact that people don't get his sense of humor. 133 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 1: I I really, I feel like so many people who 134 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: have Trump derangement syndrome, really what they have is an 135 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: inability to process tone and context, because I mean, how 136 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: could you not laugh at this at the end of 137 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: this answer. 138 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 5: Maybe we don't have the ability to pull out. 139 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, they really, I guess at a certain point. But 140 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 4: the cognitive tests, let AOC go against Trump, let Jasmin 141 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 4: go against something I do they get a Jasmin the 142 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 4: first couple of questions, there is a tiger and elephant 143 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 4: that you're in. You know, when you get up to 144 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 4: about five or six, and then when you get up 145 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 4: to ten at twenty at twenty five, they couldn't come 146 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 4: close to answering any of those questions. 147 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 5: All right, So Jasmin Crockett has firebackbuck. 148 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,559 Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett says, I got into college on my own. 149 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 5: Trump didn't. 150 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: This is Jasmine Crockett responding to Trump saying she has 151 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: a low IQ cut twenty three. 152 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 7: I'm waiting on a reporter and maybe it'll be you, Kaitlin. 153 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 7: Then finally ask him what is his IQ, because he 154 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 7: is constantly talking about he doesn't even know what a 155 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 7: low IQ is. He don't even know which scores are low. 156 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 7: And I can guarantee you that whatever score, if he's 157 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 7: taken one anytime recently, I'm sure that his qualifies as 158 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 7: low Listen, He's never been known to be at Einstein. 159 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: This is not a guy who. 160 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 7: Got in on merriage when it came to going to college. 161 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 7: This is someone who, but for him being born with 162 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 7: a silver spoon, probably wouldn't have got into anybody's institution, 163 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 7: unlike me. So you know, I am not worried about that, 164 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 7: and I wish people would look at the fact that 165 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 7: you have a president of the United States who consistently 166 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 7: is obsessing over two women of color that are members 167 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 7: of the House. 168 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: Okay, so the whole women of color thing is Jasmine Crockett, 169 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: in your opinion, an elite intellect buck, I'll answer first, no, 170 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: And it's not just Jasmin Crockett. I'm disappointed. I bet 171 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: you are on some level too. You know who's really 172 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: disappointed by it is Laura Travis, my wife. There are 173 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: a lot of people who represent us in Congress and 174 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 1: in the Senate that are not high intellect. That's not ideal. 175 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: They're also not great communicators, that is really not ideal. 176 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: Like we are not represented in general Republicans, Democrats, Independence 177 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:51,479 Speaker 1: by the most accomplished and intellectually sound and great communicators 178 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: out there. I think one thing that Trump diagnosed in 179 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 1: politics was that he could have the success he had 180 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: with no background in politics, because there are a lot 181 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: of lightweights that he is knocking out and pushing around 182 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: candidly when it comes to arguments and it comes to 183 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: the political direction of the country. 184 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 3: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck. 185 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 2: The blowing up up the drug book by this administration, 186 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 2: I don't I don't think that the Democrat left was 187 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: prepared for how much most Americans. And it comes after 188 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 2: decades now of far too many fentl overdoses. And fentanyl 189 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 2: is different than cocaine. It's different than marijuana. Obviously, it 190 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 2: is far more dangerous, far more addictive, and far more dangerous. 191 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,719 Speaker 2: It's very easy to overdose on fentanyl. And there's a 192 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 2: whole bunch of ways. 193 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: And let me just say this too, because I've had 194 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 1: a lot of people out there, a lot of it's 195 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: not even overdosing, Buck, it's poisoning. You don't even know 196 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: that you're taking it right, They're they're. 197 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 2: Making it so that it looks like pharmaceutical hills, which 198 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 2: have been assuming they're actually made in a major farm, 199 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 2: you know, in a major drug company lab at least 200 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 2: you know the dosing, you know what's actually in it, 201 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 2: never mind just the dosing. The cartels. So they're poisoning 202 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 2: people and it's a lethal issue and we're responding with 203 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 2: lethal force. This is Mark or Rubio. We didn't play 204 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 2: this last Weeklay, but I wanted everyone to hear it 205 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 2: when the press was pushing him on this issue. This 206 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 2: is how the Secretary of State responded, Play twenty Well, 207 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: I mean. 208 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 6: The question is, bottom line, these are drug boats. 209 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 8: If people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up, 210 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 8: stop sending drugs to the United. 211 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: States, doesn't matter in the United States. 212 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 6: Well, these are all in international waters. The boats strike 213 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 6: in the United States, or well that's a different man. 214 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 6: Now you're talking about law enforcement matter. 215 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 8: In this particular case, there are people traveling on international 216 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 8: waters headed towards the United States with hostilities in mind, 217 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 8: which includes flooding our country with dangerous, deadly drugs, and 218 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 8: they're going to be stopped. And that's what's happening. And 219 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 8: in the case last week, he saw there was a submarine. 220 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 8: It was a submarine, it was a submersible. That's a 221 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 8: drug boat. All the way through. We know what these 222 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 8: votes are. The President just said it. We tracked them 223 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 8: from the very beginning. We know who's on them, who 224 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 8: they are, where they're coming from, what they have on them. 225 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 8: And you know, if you're running drug boats here and 226 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,119 Speaker 8: you're in grave danger. 227 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 2: This is changing the calculation for the cartels that this 228 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 2: continues play. And I don't see the administration stopping. If anything, 229 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 2: I think a lot of just everyday Americans are saying, yeah, 230 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 2: I don't want any work. I don't want any more 231 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 2: like star athletes in my high school dying because they 232 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 2: thought they took a xanax and it was something else. 233 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 2: Or I don't want anybody who's suffering from fentanyl, you know, 234 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 2: poisoning anywhere. 235 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 5: Amen. 236 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 1: And I will just say this you, Marco Rubio, jd Vance, 237 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: you're talking about elite I really believe this intellect and communicators. 238 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: You can just almost see and hear the eye roll 239 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: from Marco Rubio as he's having to answer that stupid 240 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: question about, hey, well, these are international waters. That's different 241 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: than the United States waters, Right, Like the difference between 242 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: an elite communicator when it comes to these kind of 243 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: questions and the media that are asking the questions. I'm 244 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: not sure we've ever seen it exposed more than with 245 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,719 Speaker 1: the team that Trump has put around him in two 246 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 1: point zero, which are elite communicators. You know, people come 247 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: after Trump and they say, oh, well, he picked Pete 248 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: Hegseth from Fox News, or he picked up, you know, 249 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: with Sean Duffy from Fox News. Right, people who are 250 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: on television. Typically people who are on television are pretty 251 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: good at communicating, and so they can take complex issues 252 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: and they can distill it down so that it can 253 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,359 Speaker 1: be easily understood. JD and Marco are also elite communicators, 254 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: and we know Trump certainly is fantastic when it comes 255 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: to communication. 256 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 3: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck. 257 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 2: There is something that is percolating out there that I 258 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 2: think we should talk about, my friends, a little bit 259 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 2: of a departure from the political stories of the day 260 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 2: for a second here, although this certainly has a lot 261 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 2: of politics involved. The possibility, which is now starting to 262 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 2: look more and more like a probability, that there will 263 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 2: be strikes by our military inside of Venezuela. This would 264 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:32,199 Speaker 2: be something, as you know, we have already had about 265 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 2: a dozen kinetic strikes, missile attacks really on drug vehicles 266 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 2: of one kind or boats, but also submarines, right, so 267 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 2: different kinds of nautical vessels. So that's going on already, 268 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 2: and international waters are getting blown up. Senator Rampaul is 269 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 2: very upset about this. It is quite aggressive. But you 270 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: have to look at this as we don't want people 271 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 2: die from fencinyl overdoses anymore. That fentanyl gets to US shores, 272 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 2: people take it, they die in large numbers. Enough is enough. 273 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: I am not seeing a lot of outrage from the 274 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 2: American people over this. And we have set a precedent 275 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 2: in the past where executive action for counter terrorism has 276 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 2: resulted in strikes, including in countries sovereign nations with whom 277 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 2: we are not at war, Pakistan being the most of it, 278 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 2: but also Geman and so al you. So we have 279 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 2: been striking enemies in countries without a declaration of war 280 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 2: for a long time and those are essentially terrorists involved 281 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 2: in ongoing plotting, and that's enough to take them out. 282 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 2: So in this case, you look at the transportation of 283 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 2: massive amounts of a very lethal drug. I understand that 284 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 2: people can take it for a while and not die, 285 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 2: but they can take it one time and die. And 286 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 2: a lot of people are going to be addicted to 287 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 2: it and take it until they die. And it's horrendous 288 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 2: and scourge is destroying families and communities, and it's awful. 289 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 2: And so I have not seen very much in the 290 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 2: way of pushback by the American people. I've seen Senator 291 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 2: Rampaul and a handful of others. Well, the Trump haters 292 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 2: don't like it in Congress because they don't like anything 293 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: Trump does. Like we say, Trump could cure cancer, and 294 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Democrats would be pro cancer. But 295 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 2: this would be an expansion beyond just the strikes against 296 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 2: vessels in international waters to attacks in Venezuela. Miami Herald 297 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 2: a left wing paper here in my hometown, but does 298 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 2: some good reporting on occasion. Here's what they write. At 299 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 2: a military base in eastern Venezuela's Caribbean coast, radar screens 300 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 2: sit mostly dark, generators hum sporadically, parts are stripped from 301 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 2: grounded aircraft, and officers communicate on personal cell phones because 302 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 2: the armies radios no longer work. Just a few hundred 303 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 2: miles north, the Caribbean Sea is bristling with US warships, 304 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: stealth jets, and high tech drones. In what analysts describe 305 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 2: as the region's largest show of force in half a century. 306 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 2: Washington has deployed one of the most powerful naval forces 307 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 2: the region has seen in decades, an aircraft carrier, several destroyers, 308 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 2: a submarine, f thirty five fighter jets, and swarms of 309 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 2: armed drones. On the other side, Maduro's war machine struggles 310 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 2: to stay alive, undermined by corruption, neglect. 311 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 5: And fear. 312 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 2: So here you have, lining up across the battlefield from 313 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: each other, the most formidable military on the planet under 314 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 2: the auspices of the Department of War no longer the 315 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 2: Department of Defense. It's going to take me a while 316 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 2: to be able to make that switch, so you don't 317 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 2: have to keep reminding me. I promise, I'll try. I 318 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: guess Secretary of War is now the title as well. 319 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 2: I did see a funny meme going around that hegset 320 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 2: didn't want to be called secretary because that's too wimpy, 321 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 2: But that was a joke, as my understanding. So here 322 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 2: we have the Maduro regime in the weakest military position 323 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 2: it has been in perhaps in the twentieth century. The 324 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 2: socialist destruction of their economy and the elite's reliance on 325 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,919 Speaker 2: illegal drugs just to keep it all, you know, the 326 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 2: importation of legal drugs in the United States. Essentially, Venezuela 327 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 2: is a failed state and a narco state. And this administration, 328 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 2: the Trump administration, has had enough. And there's a lot 329 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 2: of reporting coming out now that the Trump administration has 330 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 2: identified targets in Venezuela that smuggle drugs, that these are 331 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 2: part of the international cartel activities that lead to the 332 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 2: deaths of large numbers of Americans through overdoses, through poisoning, 333 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 2: and the Trump administration is preparing to take action against them. 334 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 2: There is very little that Venezuela would be able to 335 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 2: do to even defend its most important military facilities. Essentially, 336 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 2: Venezuela is hollowed out as a regime already, so this 337 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 2: would not be difficult. And now it's interesting because we've 338 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 2: had a Trump administration that, on the one hand, has 339 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 2: always stayed very clear in its philosophy of non intervention. 340 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 2: In Trumpian terms, no stupid wars, no stupid wars, but 341 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 2: no stupid wars under Trump has not meant no military 342 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 2: action against our enemies. These are different things. It is 343 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 2: in fact possible, say, to take part in the destruction 344 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 2: of Iran's nuclear facilities without starting World War three, as 345 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 2: some we're saying, it is in fact possible to take 346 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 2: out a terrorist mastermind in custom Solomani, among many others, 347 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 2: to take him out with a strike by the Trump 348 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 2: administration in Baghdad and Iraq and not have Iran irrupt 349 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 2: into some broader Middle Eastern conflict. These are things that 350 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 2: Trump administration has done, and has done effectively and successfully, 351 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 2: and for which there has not been some price that 352 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 2: we have paid. So now we look at the case 353 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 2: of Venezuela, it is one thing to go after these 354 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 2: these Venezuelan military facilities. Remember, the military and the regime 355 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,719 Speaker 2: are part of the drug trafficking. This is now a 356 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 2: state enterprise for Venezuela. And it is such a reminder 357 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 2: for the America in people right now of what socialism 358 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 2: really does, What social justice economics and politics results in. 359 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 2: What the obsession with class envy. When you put bad faith, 360 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 2: left wing populous in charge, what do they do? They 361 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 2: destroy like a plague of locusts, They destroy your society. 362 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 2: Venezuela has crazy inflation, it has empty store shelves, it 363 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 2: has horrific crime. There's essentially no meaningful law enforcement. It 364 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 2: plays the mess. This was the third wealthiest country in 365 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 2: the Western Hemisphere after the US and Canada into the nineties. 366 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 2: This is a country that has Venezuela has larger proven 367 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 2: oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. I know that sounds impossible, 368 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 2: but you can to grocket. I'm gonna start saying crocket 369 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 2: instead of Google it, and I gotta make that switch. 370 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 2: No more, no more Google crocket. They have the largest 371 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 2: proven ore reserves, or larger than Saudi Arabia. So this 372 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: should be for all intents and purposes, this should be 373 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 2: a wealthy, prosperous country. And it has been that in 374 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: the past, relatively speaking. But people took over who said, 375 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 2: your life, you the peasants, you the have nots, you 376 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 2: the poor, Your life will be great. If you just 377 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 2: put us, the left wing radical socialists, in charge, we 378 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 2: will take from them and give to you. Now, to 379 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 2: do that, we have to be able to violate our 380 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 2: own laws. We have to violate property rights, we have 381 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 2: to violate contracts. So you're really you, meaning the the 382 00:21:55,680 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 2: Venezuelan landless and the peasants. You have have to be 383 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 2: willing to create a monster. Javez den Maduro you create 384 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 2: a monster, but the monster promises it will be your monster. 385 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 5: You're going to. 386 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,199 Speaker 2: Empower this government, in the case of Venezuela, to be 387 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 2: able to run roughshod over decency, fairness, its word, contracts, 388 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 2: the law, morality. It'll do whatever it has to do, 389 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 2: but it's gonna take care of you. Just create that monster, 390 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 2: give it power that one time. This is the story 391 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 2: we've seen play out in all of these socialist dictatorships. 392 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 2: This is the story we've seen play out everywhere that's 393 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 2: really communist in its ethos. Guess what happens. The monster 394 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 2: is in charge, and then the monster doesn't care about 395 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 2: the silly, poor people who voted for it. In fact, 396 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 2: it makes them poorer, It makes their lives worse. It 397 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 2: enriches itself, and then it eats and tears down and 398 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,439 Speaker 2: destroys everything else to keep it self in power. It 399 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 2: is only self interested. The socialist, the revolutionary elite, all 400 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 2: of these places, including Venezuela, they become entirely self interested. 401 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 2: It's supposed to be all about other people. And guess what, 402 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 2: as soon as they have the power. The elites, the 403 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 2: new elite, after railing against the old elite, that all 404 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 2: they care about is staying in power in their own perks. 405 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 2: Is exactly what has happened in Venezuela. And I also 406 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 2: want to remind you, because I've been following the stories 407 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 2: you can tell I get passion about. I've been falling 408 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,439 Speaker 2: for a long time. I had my daddy had a 409 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 2: family friend of ours who found out that his family 410 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 2: was being dispossessed and all their property was being seized. 411 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 2: By watching Chavez do his TV show, The Dictator Chavez 412 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 2: now the Dictator Maduro would do this, I think it 413 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 2: was called like Alo mister Presidente or something. They would 414 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 2: do this long like almost like a like a long 415 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 2: form radio show, but it was on TV. They would 416 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 2: take callers and my dad did this guy who's what 417 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 2: was watching, like, yeah, oh that family, We're gonna take 418 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 2: all their stuff. You know, they're capitalists, their pigs. 419 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 5: We're gonna take all their stuff. 420 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 2: Say to flee the country. Like I said, create the monster, 421 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: because it's gonna be your monster, right. The people who 422 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 2: are upset, the people who want more stuff never works, 423 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 2: never works. In fact, it makes that makes them worse off. 424 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 2: And they've traded their own decency. They've traded their own 425 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 2: ethics to get something that they never end up getting, 426 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 2: and then the populace just become even more desperate and angry. 427 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 2: And this is the story it plays out over and 428 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 2: over again, because it's really it's not about socialism, it's 429 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 2: not a social or political science. It's really about manipulating 430 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,360 Speaker 2: human emotion and human envy. And that's why they've destroyed Venezuela. 431 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 2: Now what's Trump going to do about this? Well, it 432 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 2: looks like we're about to take out anything that's involved 433 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 2: with the drug trade. Can the regime stay in power 434 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 2: with all of that gone and destroyed? And won't it 435 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 2: also show everybody, Hey, not only is the Madure regime 436 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 2: corrupt and criminal, but they're inept, they're weak, they're not 437 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 2: even good at being dictator, they're not even good at 438 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 2: trampling on all of your rights. They're pathetic. And then 439 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 2: do something rise up and replace them? Is it better? 440 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 5: Who is it? 441 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 2: I don't know, but it certainly seems possible. By the way. 442 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 2: The story I told of Venezuela as I'm here in 443 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 2: South Florida, it's the same story with Cuba under Castro, 444 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 2: same story, same story, although in that case I think 445 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 2: you could even say it was just more about brute force. 446 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 2: It was just they overthrew the government to the force 447 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 2: of arms and pretended they were going to help the 448 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 2: poor and just made everybody poor except the people in 449 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 2: charge of the astro regime. So this is the truth 450 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 2: of how it works. Unfortunately, far too often in Latin America, 451 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 2: Trump going after very it's very much. If you have 452 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 2: not seen Clear in Present Danger, you know I'm a 453 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 2: big Tom Clancy fan. If you haven't seen the movie 454 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 2: or read the book, it feels a little bit like 455 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 2: life imitating art here, because I think this is where 456 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 2: we're going, where we're gonna have really serious and it's 457 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 2: gonna be more than what you see even in Clear 458 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 2: and Present Danger. It's gonna be military action to bring 459 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 2: down a narco regime in South America, the Venezuelan regime. 460 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna last that much longer. 461 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 5: We'll see. 462 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: The Team forty seven podcast is sponsored by Good Ranchers. 463 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: Making the American Farm Strong Again. 464 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 3: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck. 465 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 2: So we tell you things here because they're true and 466 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,679 Speaker 2: because we believe them, and then it's it's fun to 467 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 2: see how even our ideological enemies will often have to say, 468 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 2: you know, that thing that Clay and Buck among others 469 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 2: have been telling you, particularly about anything Trump related, that 470 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 2: thing that they've been telling you is true. It actually 471 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 2: is true. Like they're not just saying it because they're 472 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 2: saying it because it reflects reality. It is accurate, it 473 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 2: is honest, it is necessary. And a great example of 474 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:30,679 Speaker 2: this is how we've been saying this Trump ballroom East 475 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 2: Wing demolition situation, which if you were to veer over 476 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 2: in an MSNBC, they act like Trump is like silk 477 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 2: screening his hair onto the Mona Lisa or something. I mean, 478 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 2: they are so freaked out about this, like oh my gosh, 479 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 2: the history, the history of America. They're all so upset. 480 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: But the reality is this is a good idea and 481 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 2: the design looks good, and this is for future presidencies 482 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 2: and they will be happy to have it. This from 483 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 2: the Washington Post, which is occasionally, I think, so that 484 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos doesn't just turn it into like a big 485 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 2: cooking channel or something occasionally tries to be rational. Clay, 486 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 2: I'm going to read from Some of this is from 487 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 2: the editorial board. This is not from one person. This 488 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 2: is the editorial board. Read you some of this editorial 489 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 2: in Clay, I want you to react, okay. Quote In 490 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 2: classic Trump fashion, the President is pursuing a reasonable idea 491 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 2: in the most jarring, jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni 492 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 2: of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long 493 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 2: overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. 494 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 2: It is absurd that tents need to be erected on 495 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 2: the south lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced 496 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 2: to use porta potties. The State eight dining room seats 497 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 2: one hundred and forty, the East room two hundred. Trump 498 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 2: says the ballroom at the center of his ninety thousand 499 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 2: square foot edition will accommodate nine hundred and ninety nine guests. 500 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 2: The next Democratic president will be happy to have this 501 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 2: one more thing. Preservationists express horror that Trump did not 502 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 2: submit his plans to their scrutiny. But the truth is 503 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 2: that this project would not have gotten done, certainly not 504 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 2: during his term. If he had gone through a traditional 505 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 2: review process. The blueprints would have been faced by death 506 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 2: by a thousand paper cuts. End quote Clay. As we 507 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 2: have been saying this is sensible. It looks like it 508 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 2: is being well designed and well executed, and the people 509 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 2: that are saying but both the process the process, the 510 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 2: process to get this done would be insane. It would 511 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 2: take a decade to build this freaking ballroom. And Trump 512 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: is getting it done in Trump fashion, which means right away, 513 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 2: there is a big article and and I maybe the 514 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 2: team can look up to make sure which newspaper it is, because. 515 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,239 Speaker 1: I again read them every morning, so you don't have 516 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: to in either the Wall Street Journal or the New 517 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: York Times, which goes into in earnest how this came 518 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: to be, And basically the biggest takeaway is there essentially 519 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: is no zoning restriction on the White House. So for 520 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: all of you out there that have ever built anything, 521 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: typically there are community boards. 522 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 5: There are cities, there are states. 523 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: I mean sadly, California is a perfect example of this 524 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: because almost no one whose home was burned down in 525 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: the LA fires has yet been able to get a 526 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: permit to be able to start rebuilding. And what the 527 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: article points out is that I believe it's the White House, 528 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, and it's the Capitol building are essentially 529 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: zoning free, and the President can just decide that he 530 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: wants to remodel. And Trump saw this, couldn't believe it, 531 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: and said, okay, well let's do it. 532 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 5: I mean, he's a builder. 533 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: And the article says that as all the way back 534 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: at twenty ten buck he called unsolicited David Axelrod. They 535 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: said that Mina Brazinski gave Trump David Axelrod's phone number. 536 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: He was the Obama chief of staff, I think, and 537 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: Trump called in twenty ten and told David Axelrod this 538 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: ballroom situation. Can well imagine when he was just a 539 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 1: reality television star before he had gotten into politics. He said, look, 540 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: the ballroom situation is a disgrace. There's no way you 541 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: should have to be tenting the south Lawn to be 542 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: able to host big events. He said, I want to 543 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: build a ballroom for Obama. Back then he just said 544 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: for the country. He said, I build beautiful ballrooms. You 545 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: can come down and check it out at mar A Lago. 546 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: And this is something that he's been obsessed with now 547 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: for fifteen years. And to me, what is interesting from 548 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: a metaphorical perspective, and this is what drives people crazy, 549 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: is Trump is making decisions to a large extent for 550 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: things that he will never benefit for personally, because he 551 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: thinks it's better for the country. And this is what 552 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 1: oftentimes builders do. Is I wrote about it quite a 553 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: lot in my new book. But when I was at Bedminster, 554 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 1: most recently, when I went with Trump to the NCAA 555 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: wrestling tournament, Trump was right around in his golf cart 556 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: picking locations for new trees on Bedminster. It's a beautiful 557 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: golf course out there. Some of you have had the 558 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: opportunity to play it in New Jersey. He's not going 559 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 1: The thing I love about trees, my wife makes fun 560 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: of me for how much I like trees, is if 561 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: you ever have been on a property which has beautifully 562 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: laid out trees, a perfect lane or an entrance to 563 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: a home. Trees are left for the next generations, typically 564 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: not for the individuals who plant them, because it takes 565 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: so long for the trees to grow. It's an effort 566 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: to try to make the world more beautiful after you're gone. 567 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: And Trump with this ballroom, also with Air Force One. Frankly, 568 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: he's not really going to benefit much himself. He just 569 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: wants for the United States to have a majestic venue 570 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: that befits the majesty of this country, and he's basically 571 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: bequeathing it to the nation, even though for most of 572 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: the time he's going to be gone when it's being 573 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: used by Democrat, Republicans or parties we don't even know 574 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: of in the years ahead. 575 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 2: This is just another I know it's the thousandth, the 576 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 2: millionth example of this, but it's so childish and just 577 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 2: so exhausting to be on the other side of the 578 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 2: childishness that whatever Trump does, we have to say it's horrible. 579 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 2: You know, whatever Trump does, the Washington Democrat media and 580 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,080 Speaker 2: the Democrat machinery and politics, and the left and the 581 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 2: progressives and that they all, oh my god, you're so 582 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 2: terrible what Trump is doing. He's doing something with private 583 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 2: money that will look great, that will be great for 584 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 2: the White House currently and future. That makes sense to 585 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 2: anybody who understands the current situation of the White House. 586 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 2: And all you'd have to do is sit there and 587 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 2: think this through for a second. You know, if you 588 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 2: want to freak out about Trump, there's a lot of 589 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,240 Speaker 2: things that you could find where at least I get, 590 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 2: you know, how they're making an argument about it, or 591 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,359 Speaker 2: I get why it bothers them so much. But for this, 592 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 2: it's just another instance of Trump derangement. Syndro muntfull display 593 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,799 Speaker 2: the Washington Post editorial. I think it's because at some 594 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 2: level they recognize that people who know about this White 595 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 2: House are starting to make this argument. And you know, 596 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 2: when you have former Obama staffers who are saying, yeah, 597 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 2: that's a pretty good idea. If that gets out a 598 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,959 Speaker 2: lot of people on MSNBC, the people on Morning Joe, 599 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 2: we're acting like Trump is is bulldozing the louver. They 600 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 2: got the guys, by the way, we should probably that 601 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 2: maybe maybe official Well I haven't seen that they officially 602 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 2: officially got the guys yet. 603 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 5: I mean, I know they made a rest, but they haven't. 604 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 2: We think it was the guy in the photo who 605 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 2: looks like the fancy French detective you know that photo. Like, no, 606 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 2: but there's a there's a that's not really inspectorcluse. So 607 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 2: there's a guy who when they in the you know 608 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,319 Speaker 2: what I'm talking about, there was an outside the louver. Oh, 609 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,799 Speaker 2: there's some guy who's a French detective who looks like 610 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 2: if you were casting a French detective. Unless this is 611 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,279 Speaker 2: AI guys, I don't know. I don't know what the 612 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 2: You cannot get mad Ai because some of these photos. 613 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 2: Now with the Ai, you're gonna have a really good 614 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 2: eye and you'll miss it. So maybe that's what I'm 615 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 2: thinking of. On the ballroom, did you see that? Swallwell tweeted? 616 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:57,439 Speaker 1: This is Congressman Swallwell from California, He of the Feng 617 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:02,440 Speaker 1: Fang dallions, Chinese spy. Don't even think of seeking the 618 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: Democrat nomination for president unless you pledge to take a 619 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: wrecking ball to the Trump ballroom on all caps day one. 620 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 2: I just. 621 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 5: Is he actually this dumb? 622 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 1: I mean, the ballroom is going to be a phenomenal 623 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 1: edifice for all parties to be able to host. I 624 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 1: might mention also, Buck and I would imagine a much 625 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 1: safer way. I can't imagine that having tents on the 626 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: South lawn is an ideal security mechanism for all of 627 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: the heads of state, to say nothing of the difficulty 628 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 1: associated with it. And again, Trump has been trying to 629 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: get this done since before he was a politician. Fifteen 630 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,840 Speaker 1: years ago, he called up when Obama was in office 631 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,839 Speaker 1: and said, Hey, let me build a really great ballroom 632 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: for the country. And now this just comes back to 633 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,279 Speaker 1: he's just trying to solve as many problems as he 634 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: possibly can in what is going to be a relatively 635 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,440 Speaker 1: short four year term. And he's a builder. I think 636 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,480 Speaker 1: you can criticize him for a lot. You've been in 637 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,959 Speaker 1: the mar Alago Ballroom. We did chose from basically there. 638 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: It's a spectacular hosting event location. This is an incredible 639 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: gift that Trump is giving to the country, and again 640 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 1: every president for the rest of our lives will be 641 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,799 Speaker 1: able to use it, no matter what political party they're in, 642 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:35,319 Speaker 1: for the betterment of the overall hosting facilities at the 643 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 1: White House. It's just a no brainer. 644 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,480 Speaker 2: Yes, you would think that Democrats would be so excited 645 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 2: that now they will have a massive White House venue 646 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 2: to host drag Queen Story Hour, you know, like you 647 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,399 Speaker 2: would think that they would see that this will soon 648 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 2: be the shoe, so to speak, will be on the 649 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 2: other foot, and that they would be in a position 650 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,840 Speaker 2: to use this for their own purposes, and that it 651 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense and it's a smart thing 652 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 2: to do, and it's good for security as well, which 653 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 2: you and I pointed out, much better than having a 654 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,399 Speaker 2: tent on the lawn. That's not something that you really 655 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,200 Speaker 2: want to continue to mess around with. So it makes 656 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 2: sense in every respect. But Democrats hated it because Trump 657 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,279 Speaker 2: was doing it. But now they're having to figure out that, 658 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,240 Speaker 2: like so many things that Trump has done that they hated, 659 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 2: they just hated it because Trump was doing it, And maybe, 660 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,320 Speaker 2: just maybe they should grow up and pick and choose 661 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:25,000 Speaker 2: their battles and say, hmmm, nice, the guy who's famous 662 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 2: for building incredible towers, incredible buildings all over the world, 663 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,880 Speaker 2: the golf courses, all this stuff. Maybe he knows what 664 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 2: he's doing on this one like he does on a 665 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,640 Speaker 2: whole bunch of other things. You know that they could 666 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,760 Speaker 2: take a deep breath, but they're not there yet. Eventually, Clay, 667 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 2: when we get it, when we get past the midterms 668 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 2: and we start seeing them, we start talking about whether 669 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,120 Speaker 2: it's going to be the advance Rubio ticket. This is 670 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 2: where they'll start to say things. They'll mutter under their 671 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 2: breath and then louder and louder over time. Well, that 672 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 2: thing Trump did was actually pretty good, you know, it 673 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 2: kind of made some sense. You know, Then the truth 674 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 2: will be able to be said about some of these things, 675 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 2: like the ball room, which is coming along very well.