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The senators will weigh in on what they think about all this with their votes, with their confirmation votes. So we put it out there. We will have Markwayne Mullin on, assuming he's confirmed, or either way, actually. Just if he wants to, he may not come on, by the way. He might say, look, everything that's needed to be said was said, but we're not taking some position on this other than letting these two important voices in the Republican Party have that discussion. So, yeah, we've already reached out to his team, and so, you know, he's welcome to come on. Okay. A couple of things here. First one is the, so Tulsi Gabbard is testifying on the hill. I want to get to her, some of her testimony, the DNI. I don't even think I agree with Tulsi Gabbard necessarily on a whole range of foreign policy issues, but I do like her as a person. I think she's an ethical, good person, and I think she's a patriot. So that informs my judgments of her. I feel the same way about. Joe Kent, I think he's a patriot. I think that he is given a lot to this country, and I don't really like people throwing that to the wayside over a policy dispute on the right so quickly. I'm seeing a little bit of that. You can say Joe Kent is wrong. You can say Joe Kent is crazy for what he's putting forward on this Iran war. That's up to you. But... The guy served and the guy lost his wife who was serving in a forward-deployed, you know, combat enabling role. So let's all just maintain that level of, I think, earned respect that the guy has. Again, you want to trash his resignation or you think it's a bad idea. That's fine. But people are saying things like, you know. I'm not even going to say what they're saying, but they're saying crazy stuff. He's a traitor. The guy's not a traitor. Karoline Leavitt spoke about this. This is cut nine. Let's hear what she had to say about the Joe Kent resignation from NCTC director. He said he always thought Joe Kent was a good guy, obviously has a... commendable military record and experience. However, he was not someone who was involved in the presidential daily brief, part of the president's intelligence briefings over the last several months, have not seen him here at the White House for quite some time. And the president feels it's deeply disappointing that after the president gave him an opportunity in this administration to serve the American people, that he would resign with a letter filled with falsehoods, accusing the president of the United States by being controlled. by a foreign country that's both insulting and laughable all at the same time the president is the leader of the most powerful country military in the world nobody tells him what to do now this is basically clay what we were saying I mean, I even said this. I'm like, no one tells Trump what to do. I said that yesterday. It's like, no one puts baby in a corner. No one tells Trump what to do. But the way that this was handled by Karoline Leavitt here from the White House, I think this is totally within bounds, totally on point, which is he's a good guy. I think he loves America. He's over his skis on this one. It's a shame he didn't do more with the role. And, you know, people are allowed to disagree. This is America. You know, nothing nasty or personal, but saying he's off on this one and, you know.

That's that. This is why we played the audio from the 1980s yesterday, because I think there are a lot of things you can say about President Trump if you disagree with him. he's at the behest of anyone or they can bully him into doing anything, I think is completely and utterly untrue. The idea that there's anyone who could bully President Trump, I don't think there's anyone on the planet who could bully President Trump into anything that he didn't otherwise want to do. Right. Can you, which is the job of the president, can you sit down in front of President Trump and say, hey, this is why we believe we need to strike Iran or why the Venezuela decision makes sense? Buck, you've been in these rooms. You've briefed the president. We really want the president to get a wide variety of perspectives so that he can hear, marinate, think about different arguments, and then he's the ultimate decider. And you, I'm sure, have seen a lot of times when people in positions of power have been pitched on two divergent perspectives. I'm not a big fan personally. This is just me of... Hey, I disagree with something someone did. So I'm going to go public and everybody needs to know that I disagree. That's my personal opinion. Like if I, we work for IHart, if IHart made a decision one day that I disagreed with. I wouldn't come on the radio and be like, I can no longer work here. I would make my pitch. Other people make decisions. I don't run the company. If all of our radio stations invaded Greenland simultaneously and we thought there was like a human rights issue, it might be a little different. But yes. And also, by the way, some people out there are like, oh, you know, I don't really buy that anybody inside of the Trump team can be bought and paid for anyone. I'm 100% certain that Trump is not bought and paid for by Israel, which is actually insulting to Trump, to me, to argue that a foreign country could bully or buy and pay him into doing anything. But I think that this, that's, I appreciated, you know, Karoline Leavitt's obviously excellent at her job and she's speaking on behalf of the White House, but I think she's really summarizing very well what Trump's feelings about this are, which is Joe Kent. Good guy, thought he'd be a good member of the team. He loves this country, and he's a brave dude, and I respect that. On this, he's gone a little wackadoo, and it's good that he's leaving. I'm sorry that he didn't find a way to operate better within the team. I think he's wrong.

But it's not this is a person that everybody should like malign and think ill of going forward. It's this is a departure. You know, to your point, Clay, look, he was opposed the Iran war. He was somebody who didn't want intervention in Iran. He's a non-interventionist. And he's a guy who has been out there getting shot at. during the intervention. So I think he's very much allowed to have his opinion and have his opinion heard on this. He didn't change his mind or something on this last minute. He's not a fit for where the administration isn't this? I actually think people resigning and saying this is why I'm resigning is a good thing instead of if the alternative is, remember Trump term one, there are these people like the guy who wrote that like resistance editorial. I'm staying in the machine to thwart Trump. But no, that's wrong. You should not be doing that. I just, I think the part of this that has rubbed some people very much the wrong way is the, some of the insinuations about the reasons for Trump doing this as it pertains to Israel and the Israeli lobby in this country. And people are very sensitive about that. That's just the truth. People get very sensitive about that because there's some really crazy stuff that people say around those lines too. But I think that the way the White House has handled this is. is, at least from this statement from Karoline Leavitt, totally respectful and within bounds. It's a slapdown on the issue, but it's not a slapdown of the man. Joe Kent's not a bad guy. He's wrong on this. Do you see the posts that, I mean, first of all, there's a very anti-Israel element that is active online that isn't actually very representative of the nation as a whole? But there are a lot of people who will say, oh, you're, I mean, because they'll say President Trump is corrupted. Do you see in the comments, anytime anybody says anything positive about Israel, they're like, you got paid $7,000 for this tweet. Have you seen this? Like, that's like echoing everywhere. Yeah, they definitely don't know how much you sold Outkick for. Seven grand isn't getting pop a clay out of bed. I'm just going to say, I wouldn't do anything for seven grand, much less sell an opinion for seven grand. I mean, some of this stuff is just the conspiracy theories out there are crazy. And again, it's really wild. I think historically when we write about this, The fact that a lot of people decided after October 7th that somehow Israel was the instigator and the bad guy of everything that has happened since, I think is just a total bastardization of what has truly occurred and also a function that is misreading what actually has occurred, which is... Hamas thought that they were going to be able to severely disable Israel in many ways. Instead, Buck, think about this. Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, now the Iranian Ayatollah himself.

Every one of Israel's terroristic foes has been decapitated almost on a literal level as a result of the October 7th attacks. Israel is in a stronger position than it's ever been before, I think. And Saudi Gulf states are more friendly toward Israeli security and a better future for the region than they ever have been before. Major Sunni Arab countries, most notably Saudi Arabia, but other Sunni Arab allies in the region are... The craziest part of this is, or maybe the most ironic part of it is that Hamas's horrific 9-11-style terror attack could end up resulting in the most pacified Middle East we have seen in our lifetime. Now, that's a could. That's not is yet. We're obviously still bombing Iran. But you look at what's going on with the enemies of, yes, the enemies of Israel. But notice the enemies of Israel, it's not like Israel has beef with Hezbollah. And America's like, you know who we really like, Hezbollah? Because we remember the Marine Beirut bombings, you know, the Marine barracks bombings in Beirut. We remember what Hezbollah has been doing in the region, in Syria, and around the world. It's not like Israel's enemies are groups that we go, man, they're doing a lot of nice charity work. And why is Israel so harsh on them? There are enemies, too. Yeah. And they would kill us just as quickly as they would kill Israelis. I mean, that is just an observation of reality. So I wanted to get into some of the Islamist threats. Can we get it? Let's hold it because I want to come back. Cut six. You see there, Clay? Yeah. She's Tulsi Gabbard. Again, I like, you know, and I tell you, I like Tulsi Gabbard, I like Joe Kennis people. So, you know, take that for what it is. Tulsi Gabbard going after the spread of Islamism. Let's play when we come back in a second because I think people should hear that this is still a real concern, a real problem and something that we should think of as a top national security issue to be tackled. No doubt. We'll play that for you when we come back, cut six, get it ready, boys and girls. But in the meantime, Buck may not know it. Tomorrow, March Madness starts. Officially, a lot of fevers, maybe a little sore throat starting to set in with a lot of people out there. Didn't my bracket beat your bracket? No, actually that didn't happen. But we did both correctly pick the champion, which was the Florida Gators last year. You did pick the correct champion. We got to go bracket head-to-head bracket challenge this year. I'm filling it out. We'll do the brackets. We'll get you ready. And if you like the brackets, as most of you do, my... 11 year old told me yesterday. This is cute. He said, Dad, I've already finished, filled out 12 different brackets. I said, are you sure? I said, how many different champions have you got? And he said, oh, I've got eight different champs, dad. I went through. And he's super excited. In fact, I just told Rusty, who's here working with me from, from Iheart. Hey, can you get some brackets printed out? We don't have a printer. I'm trying to figure out how to get them out so the kids can all fill them out. But if you love March Madness, Price Picks is going to be a lot of fun for you. You can play along at Price Picks. We just had the World Baseball Classic last night, NHL, NBA, March Madness, soon to be the Major League Baseball season. I believe it starts next week. We are going to be able to have a lot of fun with those, and you get $50 deposited in your account in all 50 states when you play $5 at PricePix.com.

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They're increasing examples of this in various European countries. And President Trump's designation of certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations is a mechanism to secure Americans against this threat. In response to setbacks to their capabilities of conducting large-scale complex attacks, Islamist terrorist groups have shifted toward focusing on executing information operations to spread propaganda and inspire or enable individuals located in or with access to the West. So still a problem. Yes. And again, what I would say if you want to be optimistic about things, we were just talking about the continued fallout of October 7, 2023 as we come up on what two and a half years, basically since that terror attack. I'm not sure that we have ever had a potential for a more secure and more stable Middle East in any of our lives than where we are right now. Now, that doesn't mean that there may not be a great deal of tumult for the rest of March, for the rest of April and May. But I do think if you get the Abraham Accord signed on to by Saudi Arabia and they normalize relations with Israel, the call, the, the guests we had on yesterday, I think it's so important psychologically. Iran has been left behind. Iran has been completely and totally left behind by its peer groups. In fact, a lot of countries that were beneath Iran in terms of economics. And that's embarrassing and somewhat humiliating to many people who live in Iran. And so it's one thing if the United States is wealthier or even if Israel is wealthier. But when Saudi Arabia is wealthier, when Qatar is wealthier, when the UAE is wealthier, That's a form of failure and falling behind your peer countries. And I do think that that is going to in many ways motivate a long-term positive response. Now, what we just talked about is... How long does President Trump want to be bombing Iran? How many of these guys are going to be taken out? Israel seems to have Buck a stronger predisposition towards changing regime than the president does and the United States does, which is why most of the strikes that you're seeing from the United States have to do with military infrastructure from Iran. And at this point, most of the strikes from Israel have to do with checking. leadership off the board, taking people out. And I do think that is a reconciliation that is going to have to be determined at some point in time. President Trump wants this to be over, I think, earlier than Israel would prefer. I also think that even if it isn't a different regime in place when this is all over, at least this phase is over, there will be going forward in any negotiation.

Don't play games with us, guys. Yeah. Don't play games. Don't think you're going to do anything and get away with it. At least under this president, you are not going to get away with it and you will pay a terrible price for any nonsense. There is advantage in that. There is value in that concept, and Trump knows that. All right, very reliable cell phone service at the most reasonable price. That's how I would describe Pure Talk. They're certainly less expensive and more value-oriented than some of the big names like AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile, but they're also a company that relies on an all-U.S.-based customer service team. That's a team that easily understands you, and they're so straightforward and they're great. I've worked with them before whenever I have a question or anything comes up with my phone. But by the way, my phone's great because it's on America's biggest 5G network. So Pure Talk is on the same towers and network as one of those big name companies, but you're just getting it at a much better price point. For $25 a month, Pure Talk gives you unlimited talk, text, and plenty of data. And with Pure Talk, there's no contract, no consolation fee. Grab your cell phone, dial pound 250, say the keywords Clay and Buck. Let Pure Talk's U.S. customer service team help you make the switch in 15 minutes or less. Dial pound 250, say Clay and Buck, and you'll save 50% off your first month. Again, to make the switch to Pure Talk, just dial pound 250, say Clay and Buck. Switch to Pure Talk today. Welcome back in here to Clay Ann Buck. Let's talk about New York for a second, shall we? Hello to everybody on W-O-R-N-Y-C, fantastic heritage radio station that really covers much of the Tri-Burro area. Sorry, the Tri-State area, tri-Borough, good Lord, Tri-State. I haven't been gone that long, guys. Guy moves to Florida suddenly doesn't know anything about New York anymore. The Triboros, the three boroughs, the New York. I got to remember things here. I got to keep things straight. But W.R. Great Station, listening many of you, and the truth is, Sorry, we're going to have a little fun at the expense of New York State governance right now. That's just where this is going. Because a lot of very wealthy people have become quite annoyed with what's going on in New York, not just New York. Washington State now has this millionaire's tax situation. Same thing. California just got so many taxes. All kinds of problems. Kathy Hochul, who is honestly somebody that you wouldn't want in charge. of the bake sale for the PTA. Not even the PTA. You wouldn't want her running the bake sale to raise money. Like you would not want this woman in charge of anything of any consequence whatsoever. She'd be burning the zucchini bread. There's no question about it. And here she is telling people that they need to move back to New York. Wealthy people need to move back to New York so they can fund welfare programs in New York. Play 8. There's this anxiety, which is real and we're continuing to address the affordability crisis, which I believe should be the number one priority of this legislative session. What can we do to take off some of that pain that New Yorkers are feeling that I hear about literally every day? What I want to make sure we are smart about is having a system in place where it's not just taxing for the sake of taxing and being conscious of the facts that I need people who are...

high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state. Right. Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks. I mean, just if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see what you can bring back home. I mean, she's saying Florida, Florida has stolen her cash cows. And a lot of them are in Pompeys. A lot of them are here in Miami Beach. Let me tell you, I got neighbors. And they're in Del Rey and they're in Boka. Hey, a lot of places around here. And Clay. This is really, I appreciate this. She is so unsophisticated in so many ways that she's just saying the truth here, which is New York or former New Yorkers, please move back to New York so you can be milked like the cows you are for the welfare state. That is her pitch. And so we've told you this and it is going to long range mean that states like Tennessee, Florida, Texas, zero state income tax states. are going to be far more effective and well run than super high income tax states that are losing, as you just heard Kathy Hochul say, a lot of the base that has paid for all of the government to exist. What was the data point you gave us, Buck, that New York, I think, has a little bit fewer people now than Florida, right? But Florida's government is half the size of New York's. Well, Florida's budget is half the size of New York's budget, and Florida has two to three million more residents as a state. Two to three million. By the way, there are a lot of states that barely have two or three million residents. And as a general rule, how would you say as a Florida resident that the Florida budget and the governance is at running the money that they get at basically managing the taxpayer dollars? Everything that involves the state of Florida is. more efficient, more reasonable, more sane compared to New York state level governance. Everything. Everything is easier. Everything is smoother. Everything makes more sense. Miami, things get a little third world down here, but state of Florida, fantastic. Okay, so building on that, you mentioned this stat earlier, and I saw it, my jaw dropped. It's rare that I see a stat, and I'm like, oh, my, I can't believe this is real. New York, is it New York City, is spending more money? than the average New Yorker makes on homeless people. What is this math buck? $81,000 a year, I believe was the... So all of you out there, you worked a long time when not making $81,000 a year buck. I worked a long time not making $81,000 a year. I aspired to $81,000. I was like, oh my gosh, think about life at 80K. Yes. This is by the way, 100% true. A lot of you out there are aspiring to life at 80K, right? That's a lot of money.

That is what New York is spending on homeless people. And you made this analogy earlier. How many of you out there listening to us right now in New York are busting your asses all day long and you're not making 81K? And you're looking around and you're saying, wait a minute, what is the state doing that they're providing 81K a year in support for homeless people? This is just so flagrantly flawed. I mean, it's, it would be better off. And this would be an awful idea. But if the entire government just got out of the way and they just gave $78,000 in cash, you would save money if you just walked up and gave $78,000 in cash to every homeless person. I also, by the way, there's nothing, there's nothing inherently derogatory about the term homeless. These people clearly don't have homes. This whole thing about unsheltered now. Unhoused is now the phrase to. Unsheltered as the other, the same thing. No, I'm sorry. We're not doing this. Okay. The reason they're doing this is because homelessness and homeless realities across this country, people have learned more about this. They've started to understand that. Almost all of the homeless, the truly homeless population, almost all have either extreme substance abuse or extreme mental health or a combination of both issues and disorders. The stories that you hear about a family of four kicked out of their home, down on their luck, that can happen. It does happen. I get it. It is rare, and they don't stay homeless because there are programs and there are, you know, This notion, thankful, but there are things to help people get back on their feet, and they tend to do so. The real homelessness issue is people with severe mental health and severe addiction issues overwhelmingly. So there's stories about someone lost their job. They're down on their luck. 1% of the unhoused or homeless population at any point in time, 5% maybe? I think that might be too much. It's people with those problems. Now, those are human beings who deserve help too. I'm not saying otherwise. My point, though, is they're changing the definition, truly, or they're changing the terms we use of homeless because they don't want people to think about the discussions about, like Gavin Newsom said, he's going to lower homelessness. That was the term he was using in California over a 10-year period. It's like doubled. Yeah. So they're changing the word. So it's like a new problem now, right? It's like, oh, well, we're not dealing with the homelessness thing, Clay, because we completely failed. Now we're dealing with the unhoused population. And here's the other thing. 81,000. This is from the comptroller of New York. This isn't, you know, right-wing, angry blogger.net or something. This is from the comptroller of New York, $81,000 a year per homeless person in New York. Well, why are we spending? I mean, think about, should we just give a check? Can you give a check for half of that? 40 grand in cash to every homeless person? One-time payment, there you go, lump sum. It would actually cut half of the expenditures to your point. And you know what's a big part of this? There are a lot of people who are doing nothing to actually help homelessness.

that are being paid a lot of money inside of that $81,000. This is where you get. This is the ugly true. This is the ugliness of it, okay? We're seeing this, my friends. Some people are going to really start to pull these dots together. I also think this is part of why Elon Musk just with the whole Doge thing had kind of a... like a thermonuclear meltdown of there's just so much fraud and so much waste and so much crap that it was overwhelming. And nobody fixes it. Unlike in a business where you would have somebody look at it and say, we can't run a business like that. We need that for our country and for our government. I think Elon Musk was truly just overwhelmed by the scale of this. And in his, you know, his brain is able to tackle these things at scale. And he's just like, this is completely, this monster is 100 times larger than I even realized. Anyway, a big part of this, notice, Clay, the autistic, like autistic kids programs. the child daycare Somali. I'm talking, look at the autistic kids thing, and that's in California, I think. They've started to look at the spending on these programs has gone absolutely stratospheric in recent years. This is fraud, my friends. People are being paid a lot of money to do nothing of public benefit, and they're getting taxpayer dollars to do this. And you know why the Democrats keep this going? It's a giant cash cow for their constituents. What do you think? If you walk into some city-funded homelessness program in New York, what do you think the voting record are the people that are getting checks from the city to run the program? What do you think of voter? I bet it's 95, 99% Democrat. It's just like the public school systems have become now, Clay. This is about vote harvesting. This is about donations. This is power for the Democrat Party. There is a homeless. industrial complex now, essentially, of all these NGOs and bureaucrats getting paid to not actually fix the problem. And this is also ties in with the health care system being broken. There was a Wall Street Journal editorial saying 99% of one state. I think it was Ohio. of the fraud analysis, it was all fraud, 99%. I also think, again, this goes to health care, nobody knows what it costs, the government funds a ton of it, doesn't look at spending. There are people being paid $600 an hour to do autistic rehab that didn't actually have any kids with autism. I also think this ties in with an interesting question. We keep talking about how the number of kids with autism has skyrocketed. That's certainly true. How much of the autism diagnoses that we are seeing are completely made up and a function of being able to make money at $4, $500 to do autism therapy? I mean, some of these companies, you saw what happened in Minnesota, but I think the same thing is happening in California.

These companies don't even have a physical location. They have a P-O box, and they're getting paid millions of dollars a year. They're not even pretending, just like you saw with the Somali daycare thing. Remember Buck, it is interesting. No one has come out that I've seen and said, hey, my family lost daycare. Leave aside whether you think the government should be involved in Somali daycares at all. If they were actually doing Somali daycare, wouldn't tons of people have come out and said, oh my goodness, the kids daycare, I can't go, I can't go to my, I haven't seen anything about this. This was all a sham. And it's a function of government not being well run enough for people to notice where all the money is going. It's just, it's infuriating for anybody out there that pays taxes. It really is. It's astonishing. And what you realize is that, and this is a pretty stark realization, but it's true, we think about fixing this. Not only are Democrats unwilling to fix it, they don't want it to be fixed. Yes. They believe that this is a redistribution of wealth to people who should get the money. They want. homeless administrators on the on the city you know getting getting their budget paid for by the city by the taxpayers they want them making three four six hundred grand think about how crazy it is that new york is spending more money more than eighty one thousand dollars a year for every homeless person i mean it should be infuriating to every average household yeah city people who are working people who are showing up and we've all been there i have showed up to jobs On mornings where I hated so much, I thought I was going to throw up. I mean, I'm just like, I'm not making any money. This sucks. We've, we've all been, but you show up and you suck it up and you do it. You do it for your family. You do it for, you know, the people around you who are counting on you. 80 grand going to every, you know, spent for every individual homeless person? What are they doing? Yeah. Where is all the money? Think about this. How can that be possible? Where is all the money going? We know what it is the public school system. The public school system in New York pays more than most private schools cost across the country per pupil. You know where the money goes? Bloated administrators making 150 grand to show up, sit at a desk, do nothing all day. There are... tens of thousands of them. It's crazy how many people don't teach and don't do anything and are just administrators. It goes to vice principals of a district. There's a vice principal? What? Like, you know, in case someone needs to step in for the principal? Like vice principals and vice chancellors and all this stuff. We're making $300,000 to be working for the public school system of New York or New Jersey or any of these states. Oh, and you can retire after 20 years and you get all your benefits and everything paid for. Friends, by the way, this is also where all your city taxes and state taxes are going as well. And you know what the game is at the end of all this, Clay? Federal bailout. It's coming. You get a Gavin Newsom administration. What do you think he's going to leave California high and dry with its budget deficit? Oh, no. More. They'll just find ways to more. That's a good point because thankfully most states have to have balanced budgets, but a lot of cities have ended up going bankrupt.

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