1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Welcome it, everybody to the Wednesday edition of the Clay 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Oh min, We've got I 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: think we've got Caroline Levitt right now. Addressing the White 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: House Press Corps. We just had some big statements from 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: a Secretary of State, Marco Rubio about the Venezuela situation. 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: We are going to bring that to you the first 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: White House briefing since the Maduro arrest is underway. The 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: press is frothy and feisty in their pushing on the 9 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: various issues here. They were very upset, very upset, I 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: think Clay in part because the incredible success of the 11 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: actual raid the mission itself, overwhelmed their desire to turn 12 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: January sixth into a national day of continuous morning forever. 13 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: You know, everyone was much more interested in what's happening 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: now in the world and the big moves the administration 15 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: is making. Even over at MSNB or MS NOW as 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: it is apparently called, not that anyone knows because very 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: few people are watching, they weren't able to give the 18 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: same kind of gusto to it. But we will focus 19 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: on what really does in fact matter. There's also a 20 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: hearing going on on the Minnesota, Somali daycare fraud situation. 21 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: We have updates on a whole range of things relating 22 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: to Venezuela, including Trump just straight up saying we're gonna 23 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: handle the oil situation for the foreseeable and this is 24 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: the plan, this is the strategy, Clay. They have the 25 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: Venezuelan regime, they have the country of Venezuela by the jugular. 26 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: Without oil, the whole thing collapses. They control the oil, 27 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: they control the country and essentially everything that happens within 28 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: it at a certain level. And oh, by the way, 29 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, do you want to do Venezuela or Greenland first? 30 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 2: Here? 31 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: Because Marco Rubio did just say something pretty big about Greenland. Yeah, 32 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: they're putting that in because this just happened in the 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: press conference. 34 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 3: So moment. What I think they're connecting. 35 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: Do we have it now here is, guys, do we 36 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: have that clip in yet yet? Not? 37 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 3: Let's talk to Venezuela. 38 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, has basically said as a tease that we intend 39 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: to buy Greenland. We talked about this some yesterday, so 40 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: we'll get to that in a little bit because there's 41 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: lots of expansionist discussion. But yeah, let's talk about Venezuela. 42 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: The decision to basically take charge of fifty million barrels 43 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: of oil sell them on behalf of Venezuela and the 44 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: United States. That is the latest news as it pertains 45 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: to what is going to happen inside of Venezuela. And 46 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: this is also answering I think some of the questions 47 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: that are coming up already about what is the. 48 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 3: Plan here, Well, the plan is. 49 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: To take a we will direct to the degree that 50 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: we can, the future of Venezuela, but the actually on 51 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: the ground what's happening, will be left up to the 52 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: Venezuelan people. 53 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 3: And it's very straightforward. 54 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: You can either play things the right way and you 55 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: can be collaborative with the United Yeah, I think we 56 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: lost buck there for a second. So the question that 57 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 1: is going to be asked is what is the plan 58 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: in place to put these fifty million barrels of oil 59 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: on the market, and how in the process of putting 60 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: them on the market do we allocate the dollars in 61 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: each of those places? So what percentage of this money 62 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: goes to the United States? As sort of the broker, 63 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: I would imagine of the fifty million barrels of oil 64 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: and Also, then how do we handle this in terms 65 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: of Venezuela getting the money so that we know that 66 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: it's being spent in a way that is not going 67 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: to be detrimental to the overall country. And frankly, the 68 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: kleptocracy is what has led to much of the collapse 69 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: of the Venezuelan oil industry. Also, in a larger context 70 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: here this is really important too, and it hasn't been 71 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: talked about a great deal, but basically Russia funds everything 72 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: that they are doing in Ukraine with all of the 73 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: money that they make off of their oil and gas. 74 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: So what happens when Russia is having to deal with 75 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: a collapsing oil and gas price, by which I mean 76 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: oil and gas. If you're out there driving around right 77 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: now in your car, the price of oil and gas 78 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: is at four year lows. And I know, whenever I 79 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: say this, somebody sends me a picture of whatever the 80 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: local gas station in your neighborhood is. It's different right California, 81 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: because they have all of the ridiculous anti fuel standards 82 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: that they have put in place. It costs way more 83 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: to fill up your gas tank in California than it 84 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: does in Texas, or it does in basically any red 85 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: state in the and so, as the price of oil 86 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: and gas has come down, gas is way cheaper now 87 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: than it was during the peak of the Biden era, 88 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: as we have worked our way through the cost of 89 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: oil and gas Russia, if oil and gas moves into 90 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: the forty dollars of barrel range, they aren't able to 91 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: actually fund much of what they're trying to do with Ukraine. 92 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: And well, this is why the unsung heroes of national 93 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: security in America are the oil companies. That's right, the 94 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: unsung heroes of the last twenty years are the oil 95 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: companies that fracked and brought America into energy superpower status. 96 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: It's never talked about this way. The climate change lunatics 97 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: get all the I'm not even hearing but buck on 98 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: that point, climate change is just vanished. 99 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 3: Have you noticed that it is. 100 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: They just don't even talk about it anymore. Yeah, it's 101 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: a religion for sanctimonious whimps with lo TI. I mean, honestly, 102 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: it's preposterous. The whole climate change that. I actually think 103 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: part of this is the cost of AI is so 104 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: substantial when it comes to energy that a lot of 105 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: the climate change bros are also tech bros. And they've 106 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: just stopped talking about it because in order to win 107 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: the AI race, we're going to have to have even 108 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: more power, and so this idea that we're going to 109 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: eliminate the oil and gas or gas powered vehicles, they've 110 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: just abandoned it. 111 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 3: It is kind of interesting. 112 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: Also, all the predictions are wrong. So how many times 113 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: are you going to listen to people who are wrong 114 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: every time about how terrible things are going to get 115 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: because of climate change before you realize that you're being 116 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: had and that there are just people who are benefiting 117 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: enormously from this, with all kinds of boondoggles everything else. Anyway, 118 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: I don't want to get too deep into climate change, 119 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: but fracking has brought America and the natural gas exploration 120 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: as well in America has brought America to energy superpower 121 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: status clay that gives us a whole lot more. Not 122 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: only does it help our economy tremendously, but it creates 123 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: a situation where some of the specifically Russia but also Iran, 124 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: some of these countries that rely on or really benefit 125 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: from those high oil prices are in a different situation. 126 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: So it's been a really good thing for national security. 127 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: Speaking of natural resources, that's what we call a transition 128 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: in the business. Greenland is a large place, a large, 129 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: frosty place that may soon be part of America. I 130 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 1: mean that's possible here because we have Secretary of State 131 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: Mark or Rubio just moments ago from the White House 132 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: saying the following play it is a US intent. 133 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 4: To buy Greenland. 134 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 3: Can you clarify your comments to lawmakers this week? 135 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 4: Well, that's always been the President's intent from the very beginning. 136 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 4: He's said it very early on. I mean, this is 137 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 4: not new. He talked about it in his first term, 138 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 4: and he's not the first US president that has examined. 139 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 4: They're looked at, how could we acquire Greenland? There's an 140 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 4: interest there. But so I just reminded them of the 141 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 4: fact that not only did Truman want to do it, 142 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 4: but President Trump's been talking about this since his first term. 143 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: Clay, the American story involves some of the most important 144 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: and most advantageous land purchases in all history. Why does 145 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: that story stop in our lifetime? That story has continued 146 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: and continued. Why would that story stop right now? What's 147 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 1: the rationale behind that? Look, the idea that we have 148 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: been dealing with for the last I would say thirty 149 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: or forty years. It's only been the last thirty or 150 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: forty years. Is we have decided that the worst thing 151 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,719 Speaker 1: that ever happened in the history of the world was colonization. 152 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: And this whole idea that if you were ever colonized, 153 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: I mean, heck, they even turned an entire Marvel movie 154 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: into it, right, the whole Black Panther movie is just 155 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: about colonization and how awful it is. 156 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 3: And what. 157 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: Kanda was the is the most amazing place with the 158 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: best science, yes science. 159 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 3: Uh. 160 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: And the reality is this, almost everyone in the world 161 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: is in a better position now. Uh. I would say 162 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: everyone in the world because of Western civilization, and Western 163 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: civilization spread through colonization, and it made every country ultimately 164 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: better off today than it would have been quality of 165 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: living wise, if there had never been anyone reached those 166 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: other countries. Right, if you just went back in time, 167 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: and let's pretend that Columbus had never sailed the ocean 168 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: blue and the New World had never been discovered, everyone 169 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: that lives in the so called New World, let's pretend 170 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: it was still isolated, would be far better off, far 171 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: worse off, right than today than they are today right now, 172 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: you're Amherst. Your your Lord Amherst, who I was reading 173 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:00,199 Speaker 1: about recently. Yeah, he was willing to and get it done. 174 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: I got all I can tell you brought it may 175 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: have intentionally spread disease and killed people. Look because the 176 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: immediate response they say this smallpox blankets. We didn't understand 177 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: microbiology at the time. People thought that this stuff just 178 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: transited in bad air like maasthma or something. They called it. 179 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: Everyone's hating on Lord Jeff. Lord Jeff was a fantastic 180 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: administrator in his death, so someone is going to clip this. Yes, 181 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: germs and the death that was brought by really the 182 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: germs that were brought to the New World. I'm leaving 183 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: aside that, right, But modern civilization is better. We're better 184 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: off everywhere around the world by taking the best of 185 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: whatever exists in the world and spreading it as widely 186 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: as possible, which is why you know a cultural assimilation. 187 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: Remember when people started to say assimilation was bad and 188 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: you were taking other people's cultures, And it's actually kind 189 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: of this story of civilization as we take the best 190 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: things that every culture creates and we spread it as 191 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: widely as possible and that makes the world better. So 192 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 1: all of this, I think Buck is originating in this 193 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: idea that somehow there's something wrong with Western civilization and 194 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: it shouldn't have been spread. And all of it comes 195 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: back to the idea that colonization was wrong. You know 196 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: that in the little island of Tasmania, famous for its devils, 197 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: when the European explorers arrived in the beginning, very beginning 198 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century, Tasmanian natives were living in the 199 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: actual stuff. I mean they were anthropologically at a stage 200 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: of advancement equivalent to the Stone Age. Yes, so you 201 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: think about what was going on five hundred years or sorry, 202 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: three hundred years earlier, the Renaissance Sistine Chapel. You go 203 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: back a thousand years, you go back a couple thousand years, 204 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: You got the Parthenon, you got all these amazing things 205 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: going on. Stone Age eighteen oh three, Tasmania. 206 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 3: Hmm. 207 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: Maybe it's time for a little rewrite of the colonial narrative, 208 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: of the global colonial narrative. I don't know, a little 209 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 1: bit of thank you here and there might be nice too, 210 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,359 Speaker 1: A little bit thanks for the roads, the medicine, the technology, 211 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: and the laws that might not be so crazy if 212 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: you're actually living in reality. Every single person in the 213 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: world today has benefited from the fact that Western civilization 214 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: was spread to their country, and so this is the 215 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: idea that that you know, sort of undergirds all this. 216 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: So the question you asked is why did we suddenly stop? 217 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: And it's a good question. When was the last acquisition 218 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 1: of a new territory by the United States nineteen twenties 219 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: Virgin Islands I think may have been the last purchase 220 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: with funds. I think it was like twenty five million 221 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: dollars in gold we bought the US Virgin Islands. I 222 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: think that's maybe the last time for those of you 223 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: who want to go on the most expensive vacation probably 224 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: on the planet. 225 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 3: Uh. 226 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: Saint Bart's Saint Bartoneme in the in the Caribbean. There's 227 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: a reason why the main city is like what is 228 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: it like Gustavsen or something, I forget, some Swedish name. 229 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: It was a Swedish colony for one hundred years and 230 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: you know what happened to French were like, it's really 231 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: better with us, and the Swedes were like, and they 232 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: sold it to the French. 233 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 3: They sold it. What's the big deal? This happens, and 234 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 3: you know what, it's a very nice place. It's way 235 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 3: too expensive, but very nice. 236 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: Well, this is my point about Greenland that is super interesting. 237 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: And again this is going into nerdism and I actually 238 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: happen to have a great deal of knowledge about this. 239 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: Do you know who we bought the US Virgin Islands 240 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: from Denmark? We bought it from Denmark about one hundred 241 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: years ago. 242 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 3: Now you are something of a Virgin Islands expert, this 243 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 3: is true. 244 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: I am a lawyer in the US Virgin Islands. There 245 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: are not a lot of US. I'm still licensed there. 246 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: So territorial law is what governs in the US Virgin Islands. 247 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,839 Speaker 1: You're not technically able to vote for a president. You're 248 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: not in a state. You're a part of a territory. 249 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: And there are other territories, Guam among them. But we 250 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: bought this from Denmark one hundred years ago. Why the 251 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: question that no one is asking, And I think it's 252 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 1: actually super super fascinating with Greenland. If owning countries is 253 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: so wrong, why is Greenland owned by Denmark? But why 254 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: would we have to pay Denmark anything for Greenland? If 255 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: what we are proposing to do is so wrong? Why 256 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: would they have a property interest that we would have 257 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: to compensate them for in any way. They are the proprietor, 258 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: they are the owner. It is a territory of Denmark 259 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: right now. Why can't they do it? 260 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 3: And we can't? 261 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: Well, why can't we make Greenland an offer that they 262 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: don't want to refuse? I mean, the people there, Why 263 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: can't they have a plebiscite and say, you know what, 264 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: America actually is making things pretty sweet for us and 265 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: our heirs and our posterity. So guess what. Why couldn't 266 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: we give I mean, we had an email about this yesterday, 267 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: But why couldn't we negotiate with all of the people 268 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: who live in Greenland give them a one time cash 269 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: payment to become territorial part of the United States. It's 270 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: far more affordable than probably actually purchasing from Greenland. Let 271 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: them actually make the decision to leave. Why does Greenland 272 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: have any property interests that they are able to Why 273 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: does Denmark have any property interests they can claiming dedn't 274 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: Mark at all. 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Appreciate all 305 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: of you hanging out with us. I looked it up 306 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: during the break, Buck, I was right. I was a 307 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: little bit off on the years. In nineteen seventeen, the 308 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: United States bought the US Virgin Islands that Saint John, 309 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: Saint Thomas, Saint Croix for twenty five million dollars in gold. 310 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: In that current dollar figure, I think that's supposedly now 311 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: like one hundred and forty million. Pretty good price, twenty 312 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: five million dollars in gold for Smart Purchase island. Smart 313 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: Purchmart Purchase, Very smart Purchase bought it in nineteen seventeen 314 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: from Denmark. Why is it considered to be so ridiculous 315 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: to talk about buying more assets of land from Denmark? 316 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 3: Now? 317 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: And Buck asked a good question. I think the answer 318 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: is it's the legacy of colonialism. Suddenly, deciding, oh, this 319 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: is unacceptable to even be involved in. But why is 320 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: the idea of acquiring territory today considered to be so 321 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: verboten relative to past history? Also, as I understand it, 322 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: not that I'm an expert in the ethnography of Greenland, 323 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: but they're essentially like Inuit like, they're not Danish ethnically, 324 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: So why does why do the Danes have this? 325 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 3: No, it's a it's a fantastic question. 326 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: Why does the Danish people have any control at all 327 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: over or what the future of Greenland might be? Maybe 328 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 1: you need your future to be filled a little bit 329 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: more testosterone, a little bit more energy, a little bit 330 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: more vitality, vigor, all of that. 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I'm gonna guess here, Clay, 348 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: I'd say by month three of the administration, maybe it 349 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: was even quicker. Maybe it was month two. The border 350 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: was secure. 351 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 3: The border. One even talks about it anymore. It's not 352 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 3: even a topic of discussion. 353 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: We have been led to believe, honestly for my entire 354 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: adult life. 355 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 3: Like the border. 356 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: You can't it's just crazy, it's pandemonium. 357 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 3: You can't stop all these illegals. 358 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: If you refuse to stop them, you can't stop them. 359 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: But it turns out if you enforce the law, you 360 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: can stop them. Very very important revelation and a huge 361 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 1: win for the Trump administration. Now, now we go into 362 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six with the Venezuela operation, which is tactically, 363 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: logistically and perhaps strategically, we'll see the implications play out. 364 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: One of the most impressive military operations in certainly modern 365 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: American history. I mean it goes alongside the Bin Laden 366 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: raid as a wow moment for the United States military 367 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: and the operators and the pilots and everybody involved, intel officers. 368 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: So that's pretty impressive. 369 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 3: But we also have a lot of. 370 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: People in this administration who are really good at handling 371 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: the press, in some cases because they have as much 372 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 1: time in the press as Clay you and I do. 373 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: Pete Heggseth and I started in media. We used to 374 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: sit together at Glenn Beck's The Blaze, at the Real 375 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: News Table and talk national security. In twenty twelve, twenty eleven. 376 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: It's been a long time, so Pete, now Secretary of 377 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: War is pretty good at handling the media, and they 378 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: need a reminder of that sometimes. 379 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,239 Speaker 3: Here he is dealing with CNN. 380 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: Talking about the oil situation with Venezuela and what's playing 381 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: out today. Let's hear how Secretary of War Heagseeth had 382 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: had to say it. 383 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 5: I want to emphasize that question from CNN. The questions 384 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 5: never asked how much is it cost? When they're in 385 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 5: the Mediterranean or the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean 386 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 5: of the Pacific. But now that they're in our hemisphere 387 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 5: and the countercrtel mission or ensuring that a dited individual 388 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 5: comes to justice, Now you're asking the question of costs. 389 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 5: It's a disingenuous question to begin with. You're trying to 390 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 5: find any angle possible to undermine the success of one 391 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 5: of the more historic military missions the world has ever seen. 392 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 5: The level of sophistication that Senate just was briefed on, 393 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 5: and the House was briefed on a classified level, is 394 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 5: something only the United States of America can accomplish. The 395 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 5: world is taking notice of that. Certainly Venezuela is taking 396 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 5: notice of that. And it continues because two oil tankers 397 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 5: too overnight were seized by the United States of America. 398 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: Clay Secretary of War hegset is spiking the football and 399 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 1: the other team's end zone, running up into the stands 400 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: and high fiving the home fans. 401 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 3: Well, look, you know, I hate to brag or draw attention. 402 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: It's just not my thing. There's other people that are. 403 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: You know, you are a paragon of humility, that is true. 404 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: Maybe the humblest person on the planet. What Pete Hegset 405 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: is demonstrating. Here is something that I think you and 406 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: I hopefully are able to demonstrate quite frequently, is most 407 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: media that are trying to drive narratives are not actually 408 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: that smart. And so what he's doing is he's rebutting 409 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: the premise of their question because he already recognizes what 410 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: the intent of the question is designed to create, and 411 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: he's getting ahead of. 412 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,239 Speaker 3: Where they are able to analyze it. 413 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: And I think this is we have talked about this 414 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,719 Speaker 1: so much, and I like to think that Twitter is 415 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,479 Speaker 1: helping to change. Twitter X is helping to change that. 416 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: The power of the legacy media is in deciding to 417 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: cover the stories that they choose to cover. All of 418 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: you out there that are listening to us, all of 419 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: you that are out there that are watching us right now, 420 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: you are as a group far better in formed than 421 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 1: the average person is on the left. That doesn't mean 422 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,479 Speaker 1: necessarily that you're that. What it really gets to is 423 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: if if you are in the echo chamber of the left, 424 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: you are typically not in any way engaging in the 425 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: arguments made by the right, Whereas, because of the cultural 426 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,239 Speaker 1: power of the left, even if you disagree with the 427 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,479 Speaker 1: arguments of the left, you're aware of the arguments that 428 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 1: they're making and what Pete has done. And I would 429 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: argue Marco Rubio jd Vance, the top trio that Donald 430 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: Trump put at the top of his administration is they're 431 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: all smarter than the media that are covering them. And 432 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: that's why we always see, I mean, frankly, when you 433 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: see like Margaret brent better at doing media by the way, 434 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 1: better better at better at communicating than the media people. 435 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: So when you see Margaret Brennan, who we played earlier 436 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: this week, try to go after Marco Rubio, it's like 437 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: a It's like a kid trying to argue with an adult. 438 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: There's just a different level of sophistication and knowledge from Rubio. 439 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: And what you saw with that clip of Hegseth is 440 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: he is, I mean, as a guy who's been in 441 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: media for a long time, aware of what the intent 442 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: of that question is and he's blowing it up on 443 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: its face. And this is why I think a lot 444 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: of the criticisms that came to bear people came after 445 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: Trump early in the two point zero and they said, oh, 446 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: he's got Pete Hegseth, He's just a TV guy. He's 447 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 1: got judge Janine, she's just a TV gal, and they 448 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: tried to make that as an attack. Actually communicating is 449 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: I would argue, the primary job of most of the 450 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: people that are at the top of these businesses. So 451 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: if you can't explain why you're doing what you're doing, 452 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: you're not very useful. 453 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 3: And Trump gets that. 454 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: You know who else they said is just a TV guy? 455 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 1: President Trump, who, no matter what one thinks of him, 456 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: will go down as one of the most consequential political 457 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: leaders in world history of the twenty first century. That 458 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: is already where we are, the Trump era of American politics. 459 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 1: I don't even people are gonna remember what Biden. Biden 460 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: is going to soon be one of these presidents. 461 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 3: He's clay. 462 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 1: You know. It's gonna be like people who are trying 463 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: to think back, like what was the what was the 464 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: Pierce administration, like, you know, or what was you know, 465 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: people are gonna say, was that guy really president? 466 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 3: Or was he vice president? No one's even gonna remember. 467 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: I mean, it's Jimmy Carter, right, Jimmy Carter unlike but 468 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 1: he was young enough when he was president that he 469 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: had a post presidency that helped to redeem the era 470 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: of his presidency. Well, he's remembered for being terrible, and 471 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,880 Speaker 1: maybe Biden will be remembered for being a terrible president 472 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, I think that's the But the difference 473 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: is Carter was able to redeem himself because of his 474 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: post presidency. Biden's not gonna have any kind of redemption. 475 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: I think Biden's gonna go down as the worst president 476 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,399 Speaker 1: any of us have ever seen. And by the way, 477 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: what you got at is the job of a president, 478 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: and the job by and large of most of these 479 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: cabinet secretaries is really twofold when you distill it. What 480 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: do they do? They make decisions, judgment, and they communicate. 481 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: That's the entirety of the of the job. Communication. When 482 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: you're on television, when you're in media, that's our job. 483 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,719 Speaker 1: We have to make sense of complex things and explain 484 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: why they matter. Figuring out who's good at that and 485 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: putting them in your administration's actually a huge part of 486 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,439 Speaker 1: the decision that's being made. Now, you can quibble with 487 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: the judgment, but buck the judgment. They're very I can't 488 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: even hardly point to anything. Maybe I don't like Trump 489 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: taking a shot at the Rhiner, right, Like I wish 490 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: he wouldn't have done that after he got murdered. Right, 491 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: You can go into judgment occasionally and say, hey, there's 492 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 1: things that I think Trump bulling a China shop could 493 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: do better. But I agree with ninety five percent of 494 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: the decisions that have been made by the Trump administration 495 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: so far, and from a communication perspective, we have the 496 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: best and most available. Nobody takes more questions in the 497 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: history of media that I can remember in the history 498 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: of modern politics than the Trump two point zero administration. 499 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: So again, I think that they are really getting ahead 500 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: of the criticisms and cutting the legs out from underneath 501 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: them in the process. And by the way, I think 502 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 1: we should buy Greenland. I think we should take over Cuba. 503 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: I have an expansion as view of what American power 504 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 1: should look like. That doesn't mean that I want our 505 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: soldiers on the ground in those countries things like that, 506 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: but we should be I think setting the table for 507 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: generations to come in a better fashion than we otherwise 508 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: would be. So on that front play Trump put out 509 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: the following, I am pleased this is on truth social 510 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 1: I am pleased to announce that the interim authorities in 511 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: Venezuela will be turning over between thirty and fifty million 512 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: barrels of high quality, sanctioned oil to the United States 513 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: of America. This oil will be sold at its market price, 514 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: and that money will be controlled by me as President 515 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: of the United States, to ensure it's used to benefit 516 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: the people of Venezuela and the United States. I've asked 517 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan immediately. It 518 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: will be taken by storage ships and brought directly to 519 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 1: unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for your 520 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: attention in this matter. And that's that's from the President himself. 521 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: This is the plan, and I think this plan is 522 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: likely to be very successful. What is what is a 523 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: better situation a Venezuela with United States keeping pressure on 524 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 1: for it too. What do we want in Venezuela. We 525 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: want it not to be a hellhole. We want it 526 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 1: not to be a communist launchpad in our hemisphere. We 527 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: want the people of Venezuela to have enough food to eat, 528 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: not to be at the whim of prison gangs that 529 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: are allied with the communist thug government. 530 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 3: And we want the oil to flow, and we want. 531 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: Them to honor contracts and honor you know, the market 532 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: of we give them money, they give us oil. 533 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 3: That's all we want. Yes, we don't, we don't. 534 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: We're not sending eighty second Airborne to walk the streets 535 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: of Karakas. We're not trying to make them all male 536 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: femie is so whatever, you know, we get it right. 537 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan, I think are very 538 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 1: much in this administration's mind and in the minds of 539 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: all of you listening. And I think that Clay understanding 540 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: the leverage point here means that there's a there's a 541 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: good that's going to be ugly for a while. There's 542 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: gonna be some reprisals that happen on the streets. We're 543 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: already seeing some of that. It's not gonna be perfect, 544 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: but what's the alternative? How much worse could it be, 545 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: everybody than what Venezuela has been for the last twenty years. 546 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: I think also this is important because we do get 547 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,959 Speaker 1: some response, and I welcome it. By the way, eight 548 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: hundred and two A two two eight A two. You 549 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: can get us with talkbacks as well. People say, well, 550 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: how is this different than Iraq? The answer is, and 551 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: we've tried to hammer this home, but I think it's important. 552 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: Venezuela used to be one of the wealthiest countries in 553 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: the world on a per capita basis. Certainly in the 554 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: Western hemisphere, there is no You've talked about this quite 555 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 1: a lot, but because you were in Iraq, there is 556 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: no Sunni Shia divide. 557 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 3: There's no religious fundamentalism. 558 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: That is embedded, ingrained in the aspect of Venezuelan life. 559 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: All we're seeking here is for Venezuela to look somewhat 560 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: like it did in nineteen ninety five and for the 561 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: people to be able to flourish in a capitalistic, market 562 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: based economy much like we have here. 563 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 3: Here's what we want. 564 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: We want the Venezuelans who are you know, whatever's left 565 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: of the of the bureaucracy and let me we know 566 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: that this guy dis Dalo Cabello, he's a scumbag. He's 567 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: probably gonna go to you know, we'll see, right, I 568 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: mean Trump, They're all on notice, They've all it's been 569 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: made very clear. You could either do things that the 570 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: United States wants you to do, or we're gonna show 571 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night. We're gonna have 572 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: the best operators in the world show up in the 573 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: middle of night, put a bag over your head, and 574 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna end up in a US federal prison. Okay, 575 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: that's it. This is the world they live in now, 576 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: the people that are still left behind. To the Margaret 577 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: Brennan question. 578 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 3: Why didn't you take all of them? 579 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: I don't know, because we don't live in a fantasy 580 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: land where you can do five in the most amazing 581 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: operations at once. So Clay, I think think that the 582 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: administration's very sober minded about this. I think they understand 583 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: that there are challenges here. You know, people are saying, oh, 584 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: but what about these insurgents and what about the border 585 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: of Columbia. Yeah, we're not pretending that we're fixing this 586 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: thing tomorrow. We're not pretending that they're greeting us with flowers. 587 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: And this is a Jeffersonian democracy. Everything is great, but 588 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: there is, to your point, a tremendous natural resource here 589 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: that can provide a whole heck of a lot of 590 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 1: infrastructure and benefits to the people of Venezuela as well 591 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: as to the global oil supply and in our hemisphere specifically. 592 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: And we can do all these things because they used 593 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: to do all these things right, Venezuela was in a 594 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: very good place and it was ruined by the commis 595 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: really what we need as we go to break here 596 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: is And this is why I think it's such a 597 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: bigger part of the conversation. Western civilization makes everything better, 598 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: and we have to stop apologizing for Western civilization. And 599 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: I think it is connected to so much of the 600 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: critics that we have allowed to embed in so much 601 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: of the left in this country. I mean, it is 602 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: just Western civilization is a profoundly good thing and we 603 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 1: should encourage it to flourish everywhere. 604 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 3: What does that mean? Open markets? 605 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 1: It means a robust and uninhibited marketplace of ideas, I e. 606 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: First Amendment protections. You can say whatever you want to say. 607 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: These are the things that lead to a better quality 608 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: of life for everyone across the entire world. And we 609 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: have to stop apologizing for supporting that everywhere. And we 610 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: want you to be able to get in touch with everybody. 611 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: You know, I was talking about during the Christmas break, 612 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: rapid radios, how many of you were traveling on the road, 613 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 1: how many of you were with friends and family, How 614 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: many of you had kids running around the houses, grandkids? 615 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 3: All the chaos out there. 616 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: How many times did you just want to open the 617 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 1: door and say, go outside, go entertain yourselves, come back 618 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: from time for dinner. 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Want to begin 638 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 1: to know when you're on to go Team forties podcast 639 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: Trump Highlights from the week Sundays at. 640 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 2: Noon Eastern in the clan Bug podcast feed. Find it 641 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,239 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. 642 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We appreciate 643 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: all of you hanging out with us as we are 644 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: rolling through the Wednesday edition of the program. One bit 645 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: of news that is out there, and by the way, 646 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: we'll take some of your calls in the second hour 647 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 1: and the third hour of the program. Also get to 648 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 1: some of your talkbacks. President Trump has just posted Buck 649 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: and I we're talking about this off air. Let me 650 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: read you the most recent post from President Trump. For 651 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: a very long time, buying and owning a home was 652 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,760 Speaker 1: considered the pinnacle of the American dream. 653 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 3: It was the reward for working hard and doing the 654 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 3: right thing. 655 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,839 Speaker 1: But now, because of the record high inflation caused by 656 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, that American dream 657 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, 658 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: especially younger Americans. For that reason and much more I'm 659 00:34:55,200 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying 660 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: more single family homes, and I will be calling on 661 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,720 Speaker 1: Congress to codify it. People live in homes, not corporations. 662 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: I will discuss this topic, including further housing and affordability 663 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: proposals and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks. 664 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: Super interesting idea, now, but you were just looking up 665 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,839 Speaker 1: the data. What percentage of individual homes are owned by 666 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 1: big corporate interests? A lot of times they buy these 667 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: and they rent them out, and it's around you said 668 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: twenty percent, roughly varies depending on city and state. So 669 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 1: it's investors. So I got to see it whether that's 670 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:44,400 Speaker 1: corporate investors or individual investors. Oh sorry, no, that's a combination. 671 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 1: I'm looking at CNBC real Estate investors, individual and institutional 672 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 1: bought one third of all single family properties in the 673 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: second quarter of twenty twenty five, So institutional investors. I 674 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: got to bring devils in the details, because when you're 675 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: hitting at he is already the challenge. 676 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 3: What is a big corporate interest? 677 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:04,799 Speaker 1: I've bet a lot of people out there listening to 678 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,800 Speaker 1: us right now may own a home that they rent 679 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 1: out right as a part of their overall family perspective. 680 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: Maybe you own a home that you rent out to 681 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,360 Speaker 1: a family member. Maybe you've owned one home and you 682 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,399 Speaker 1: kept it and you've continued to rent it out right, 683 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,399 Speaker 1: what is a big corporate interest? And let's talk about 684 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,880 Speaker 1: this a little bit more, because there has been a 685 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 1: lot of discussion about the cost of homes and how 686 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 1: much prices went up starting in about twenty nineteen twenty twenty. 687 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 1: Now the prices have begun to ameliorate. That has slowed 688 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,439 Speaker 1: down a bit. We'll discuss that and the impact when 689 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:42,160 Speaker 1: we come back. Also more on Venezuela and Greenland. Thanks 690 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 1: for hanging with us.