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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. A lot going on

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Speaker 1: right now, as you know, with the war in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Will bring you the most up to date information we

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Speaker 1: can right now. Russian troops already entering Key, the capital

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Speaker 1: city bus the Biden administration has named Kntanji Brown as

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Speaker 1: the pick for the Supreme Court that Biden is making.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some analysis of that. Clay is going to

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Speaker 1: dive deep into it just a little bit third hour

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Speaker 1: of the program our friend Alex Barrenson on COVID, which,

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Speaker 1: as we know, the fight continues for normalcy, accountability and

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Speaker 1: getting the answers what actually happened, How effective really was

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Speaker 1: the vaccination program, How effective were the boosters, What do

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Speaker 1: they make where do they make a difference. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into all of that coming up in the third hour,

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Speaker 1: But first off, the biggest story in the world right

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Speaker 1: now is clearly the situation in Ukraine. You have Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: defense forces putting up some serious resistance, but already the

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Speaker 1: Russians are entering the capital of Kiev. This was a

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Speaker 1: multi pronged attack. Yesterday. You've probably seen if you're on

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Speaker 1: social media some of the video of m I eight

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Speaker 1: Russian attack helicopters, transport helicopters trying to take a key airfield.

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Speaker 1: This is a situation that is evolving minute by minute,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to bring you the most up to

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Speaker 1: date information we can. There's already gunfire and explosions as

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Speaker 1: of right now in the capital city. The President of

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Speaker 1: number one of the Russian Federation and his family. He

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Speaker 1: has said this is target number two. They are in

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Speaker 1: secure locations in the capital city, but they are choosing

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Speaker 1: are being handed weapons. There's essentially a civilian defense force

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Speaker 1: being created in real time. They're saying they're going to

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Speaker 1: fight till the very end. You have members of the

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian Parliament putting one bullet resistant vests and taking AK

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Speaker 1: forty seven's and saying they are going to fight till

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Speaker 1: the very end. They'll defend the Parliament building itself. And

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Speaker 1: you also have video of Chechen quote hunters right now

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Speaker 1: who are being deployed in parts of Ukraine and given

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Speaker 1: a stack of cards with Ukrainian politicians on them, but

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Speaker 1: they are supposed to find and either capture or kill play.

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Speaker 1: This looks like it is about to get very ugly.

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Speaker 1: Over one hundred casualties in the first day, one hundred

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Speaker 1: You could see this turn into street to street fighting

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Speaker 1: very quickly. Putin says maybe there is a negotiation to

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Speaker 1: and I think in the background, we're all wondering why

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Speaker 1: is it that the Biden administration hasn't even be willing

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Speaker 1: to use swift sanctions against the Putin regime. This looks

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Speaker 1: I want to know what you think should be done

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Speaker 1: at this stage. Everything that Joe Biden has tried to

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Speaker 1: this seems like the latest example of that. Buck and

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Speaker 1: I was reading this morning. We talked yesterday. During the

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Speaker 1: any influence or any impact on trying to get Russia

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Speaker 1: not to invade Ukraine. This morning early I think it

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Speaker 1: putting pressure on Russia not to invade Ukraine, and that

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Speaker 1: instead of doing that, China has been taking intelligence shared

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Speaker 1: many years to come. Now, Buck is there is an

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Speaker 1: This embargo, the sanctions, however you want to classify it

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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like anything we've done as surprise Putin,

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Speaker 1: having President Trump, I certainly compared to what we see

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Speaker 1: slow him down. But looking now at what's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: because if you point out the sanctions, how seriously can

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Speaker 1: through the Swift system. You cut Russia off from that,

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Speaker 1: it no longer has an international economy to speak of. Really,

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Speaker 1: it will still do with China, fine, but there will

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Speaker 1: be enormous financial consequences. What are we waiting for? And

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Speaker 1: and look, we've all understood that this is not America's

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Speaker 1: But if you're gonna take. If you're going to take

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Speaker 1: You almost wonder if Biden thinks that Putin can achieve

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Speaker 1: You already see the refugee flows on the way on

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Speaker 1: If they continue to fight even after the government capitulates,

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Speaker 1: People are going to and we're going to see it too,

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Speaker 1: We don't even know the full extent of his ambitions

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Speaker 1: Belarus is a staging ground right now for this invasion,

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Speaker 1: so you have all the advantage in a sense of

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Speaker 1: It's a fairly substantial number of people. What he has

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Speaker 1: you should be asking. Why didn't Putin invade For four

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Speaker 1: years while Trump was in an office and then almost

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Speaker 1: as soon as Biden gets there, he mobilizes all his

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Speaker 1: troops and goes why they don't have an answer for that,

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Speaker 1: and so they say, oh, well, look at all this

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Speaker 1: coddling that's going on with Putin. No. No No, the big

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Speaker 1: question is why did the invasion happen? Because Biden's weak.

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Speaker 1: Biden's been in office a year, Clay, and we've been saying,

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Speaker 1: if you were asked, if you were told that you

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Speaker 1: were the lawyer so to speak, for the Biden administration,

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Speaker 1: and you had to make a case about where the

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Speaker 1: victories are, where things have gone, well you got nothing.

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Speaker 1: There's absolutely nothing. So there's a desperation I think in

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Speaker 1: the minds of particularly the people who played the central

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Speaker 1: role in Hiden Biden in the basement. Oh, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be great. He's gonna unify the country, normalcy, he's super smart,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about his cognitive decline. He's got everything covered.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be just great. Those people were either so

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Speaker 1: wrong as to look like morons in retrospect, or so

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Speaker 1: dishonest as to be deserving of the scorn of the

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Speaker 1: American people. And it's the media establishment that pushed that stuff.

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Speaker 1: It is the Democrat aligne media that told us all

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Speaker 1: this that we've we didn't even have to wait very long.

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Speaker 1: It's been it's been a year. And now you add

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Speaker 1: a foreign foreign policy catastrophe on the top us even

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Speaker 1: CBS is Margaret Frenny foreign policy another why I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: you after Afghanista, another foreign policy catastrophe. Here, CBS is

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Speaker 1: Margaret Brennan, who's you know, a lib, but a smart one.

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Speaker 1: I mean there are smart libs. She's a smart lib.

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Speaker 1: Here she is saying, you know, wait what your talent

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Speaker 1: us doesn't make sense? Play clib ten. I thought that

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Speaker 1: was so interesting when President Biden said no one expected

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Speaker 1: sanctions to prevent anything. Actually, that's exactly what his foreign

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Speaker 1: policy team said again and again. It is what his

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Speaker 1: secretary of State said to me on Sunday alone. The

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Speaker 1: purpose is to do everything we can to deter it,

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Speaker 1: to prevent a war, to deter the aggression, and once

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Speaker 1: you trigger sanctions, you lose the deterrent effect. Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 1: was not deterred. What I heard and how the President

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Speaker 1: laid it out today was that they are now looking

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Speaker 1: for a reassessment by Putin that he's gone this far.

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Speaker 1: If they hit him now, will he stop where he is.

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Speaker 1: She's right by the way that they are what they're

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Speaker 1: Their position now doesn't make any sense. It's actually the

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Speaker 1: same position. Kamala Harris argued Kakamala Harris's defense before Biden

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Speaker 1: cut the legs out from underneath her right, Clay, what

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Speaker 1: we need to do is what we've been doing every day,

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Speaker 1: and that day is now. Okay, just remember that. But

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Speaker 1: I want to get that on a T shirt. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: But I sit here and I say, hold on, how

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Speaker 1: many areas inflation will be transitory? No, No, it's actually

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Speaker 1: not transitory. The vaccine will stop the spread. No, it

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Speaker 1: actually didn't stop the spread. The sanctions are going to

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Speaker 1: stop putin. No, it didn't stop putin. The Afghan Army's

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Speaker 1: gonna fight on. No, the Afghan Army didn't fight on.

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Speaker 1: How much wrong can they fit in one year before

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Speaker 1: people realize, just maybe everybody, we are being ruled by

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Speaker 1: idiots right now, It is possible leave that as a possibility.

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Speaker 1: Not only idiots, buck idiots who get everything wrong. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you were just predicting which direction a coin flip

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Speaker 1: it right. Every major significant choice and decision they've had

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Speaker 1: to make they've gotten wrong, which would seem to defy

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Speaker 1: all laws of basic probability. If you're a homeowner, by

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Speaker 1: the way, and you haven't refied your mortgage, you're not alone.

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Speaker 1: Mortgage rates have been low for some time now, and

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Speaker 1: you're likely waiting for them to dip lower again. But

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Speaker 1: guess what, they're probably not going to do that. We

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Speaker 1: just talked about the fact inflation seven point five percent,

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Speaker 1: the FED is going to be raising rates, which means

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Speaker 1: your mortgage rate you're fifteen or your thirty year mortgage

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Speaker 1: is going to go up. And when rates go up,

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Speaker 1: that means it costs more for you to be able

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Speaker 1: to borrow money and buy a home. That's why you

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Speaker 1: need to go ahead and get on the phone right now.

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Speaker 1: It save a thousand dollars a month. That's twelve thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. That's six figures potentially over the life

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Speaker 1: of your loan. Put your financial house in order, save

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Speaker 1: a loan. All it takes is one ten minute phone call.

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Speaker 1: There's no obligation. Get your phones in your hands right now.

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Speaker 1: As we roll into the weekend. You can brag to

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Speaker 1: Ru back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show video right

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Speaker 1: now of Zelinski, the leader of Ukraine, along with many

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Speaker 1: of his other top statesmen in that country, recorded a

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Speaker 1: video outside on bank of a street to refute the

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Speaker 1: allegation that he had fled from the city of Kiev.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to maybe at the top of the

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Speaker 1: next hour, Buck talk about how he and his family,

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Speaker 1: I believe are going to become a huge part of

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Speaker 1: the focus of this story going forward, depending on what

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Speaker 1: exactly the Russians attempt to do to him. Do they

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Speaker 1: kill him, do they kill his family? We got a

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Speaker 1: couple of people out there who want to weigh in.

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Speaker 1: It is our open Line Friday edition of the program.

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Speaker 1: Will take some of your calls during the course of

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Speaker 1: this program. Connie, who was in Granby, Massachusetts, Connie fireaway

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Speaker 1: with us. Oh Hi. My first thing I want to

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Speaker 1: say is I would not want to be near to Trump.

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Speaker 1: He was the greatest thing that he was exactly what

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Speaker 1: this country needed then and he's what we need now.

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Speaker 1: Putin and him, they're both alpha males. I think when

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Speaker 1: you come off starting at that point, there's a certain respect.

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Speaker 1: And I put that respect in quotes, because there can

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Speaker 1: be people that are dishonorable that will still respect a

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Speaker 1: person who's honorable when you're coming from the same level

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Speaker 1: of strength, and this country now is coming from a

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Speaker 1: point of weakness, so there's nothing there to even work on.

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Speaker 1: Putin doesn't even he's not even considering us. I know

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Speaker 1: he's not, and he's not. Just like you said, he's

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Speaker 1: not going to stop with Ukraine. This is going to

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Speaker 1: embolden him even more. I think the analysis is so astute.

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Speaker 1: I just say, you know, I do love the movie Tombstone,

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Speaker 1: and with with Putin, you can just sort of see

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Speaker 1: Trump walking out from the shadows saying I'm your huckleberry,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he's you know Trump was ready

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Speaker 1: for him. I think Connie so Well said a lot

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Speaker 1: of times, the right politician isn't necessarily the best husband,

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Speaker 1: may not be the best dad, right, but they're the

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Speaker 1: right leader at the right time. And Winston Churchill, who

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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by if you go study Winston Churchill's life,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy had some dark, dark demons that

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Speaker 1: he was that he was involved in, but he was

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Speaker 1: the necessary figure to stand athwart Adolf Hitler's ambitions. And

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Speaker 1: sometimes those those big grandiose personalities are not perfect, but

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Speaker 1: they're perfect for the time. And buck in the in

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Speaker 1: the context you're talking about there to have you heard

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Speaker 1: the anecdote about Vladimir Putin had the Robert Kraft, who

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Speaker 1: is the owner of the New England Patriots, went over

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Speaker 1: to visit in Moscow? Was this one he didn't want

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Speaker 1: to give back the Super Bowl ring, stole the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl ring like that. They don't even know exactly what happened.

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Speaker 1: Robert Kraft, who was the owner of the New England Patriots,

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Speaker 1: had the most recent New England Patriots Super Bowl ring

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Speaker 1: and he showed it. I mean, I guess as part

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Speaker 1: of the traveling uh you know, Chamber of Commerce style

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Speaker 1: event that they were doing. He handed the ring for

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Speaker 1: Putin to look at it, and he just pocketed it,

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Speaker 1: and uh and and nobody actually would say to Putin, hey,

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Speaker 1: that was Robert Kraft's ring. That wasn't a gift, and

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Speaker 1: he never got it back. I mean, but that to

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Speaker 1: me is kind of evidence of the kleptocracy that exists

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Speaker 1: in Russia, where the leader just presumes that you're giving him,

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Speaker 1: you know, a fifty one hundred thousand dollars ring and

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Speaker 1: doesn't even think twice about it. I have to understand Putin.

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Speaker 1: Putin is somebody who respects and sees two things, strength

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Speaker 1: and weakness. That's it. He sees two things, strength and weakness.

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Speaker 1: He respects strength. He is predatory about weakness. And we

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Speaker 1: have elites. I mean that that video of John Kerry,

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Speaker 1: who is still he's the envoy for Climate change, that

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Speaker 1: his mind. This guy was almost the Democrat president of

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Speaker 1: the United States. Everybody, okay, he was their candidate. He

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Speaker 1: was Secretary of stad he was a senator for like

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Speaker 1: longer than I've been alive. Practically, this is a guy

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Speaker 1: who goes, oh, we need to be concerned that Putin

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Speaker 1: won't want to do the climate change stuff we need. Really,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are missiles raining down on Kiev right now,

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Speaker 1: and you're worried about Putin playing ball on climate I mean,

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Speaker 1: these people live in an alternative universe. And I don't

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Speaker 1: mean ramdos on the Internet and people sniping at us

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, Clay, I'm talking about the ones calling the shots.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about people like Joe Biden. Joe Biden's a mess.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want Joe Biden in charge of anything. Somehow,

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Speaker 1: He's in charge of the country. Would you want Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden in charge of planning your family Thanksgiving? Nope, just

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Speaker 1: an easy question. No. Let's say you got fifteen people

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Speaker 1: that are coming into town. Would you trust Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: to be able to book their airfare, to get everybody's

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Speaker 1: birthday correctly entered into a computer, to be able to

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Speaker 1: order all the food and have everybody set, to have

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Speaker 1: all the betting laid out, to have all the hotel rooms.

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Speaker 1: I would not trust Joe Biden to right now manage

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Speaker 1: a fifteen person holiday. And some people out there, like

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Speaker 1: my wife, might be like, I wouldn't trust you to

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Speaker 1: do that either, Clay. Let's leave that aside for a minute.

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Speaker 1: But this guy is incompetent at something of that nature,

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Speaker 1: even if he focused on it, and yet you're expecting

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Speaker 1: him to be able to manage this situation. I remember

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Speaker 1: I said this on radio, and I also remember our friend,

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Speaker 1: our friend Tucker Carlson said this over at Fox early

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Speaker 1: on the primary. I don't like being wrong, just like you, Claire.

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Speaker 1: I don't like being That's why I when I come

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Speaker 1: back and stress said, oh I said something that you

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Speaker 1: know that I I got this. It was not three million,

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Speaker 1: it was four million. I hate being wrong. You hate

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Speaker 1: being wrong too. I started out the Democrat primary from

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Speaker 1: this premise Joe Biden is such an old clown and

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Speaker 1: everyone knows it. There's no way he's actually going to

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Speaker 1: be the Democrat nominee. That was my honest assessment. Now,

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Speaker 1: I dramatically overestimated the ethics of the Democrat Party and

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Speaker 1: there and their seriousness, But that was what I really thought.

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Speaker 1: I mean that was I'm not just saying that now.

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Speaker 1: I really believe that it was gonna be you know,

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Speaker 1: Bernie or what's her name, the Native They were in

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Speaker 1: such a bad spot. Buck to your point that effectively

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Speaker 1: this about two years ago now to the day, James

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Speaker 1: CLIBURNE in South Carolina, remember that big mess of a

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Speaker 1: debate that Bloomberg and Biden had. Bloomberg was really bad.

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Speaker 1: I think out in New Mexico. If I'm not mistaken Nevada,

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Speaker 1: I guess it was Nevada, and then it was Biden

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Speaker 1: or it was bust And James Cliburn in South Carolina said,

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Speaker 1: we're all voting for Biden. And at that point it

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Speaker 1: was decided, And if COVID hadn't happened, he would have

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