Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 11 2026

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Would you be very fond or willing to work in an expeditious and pleasing fashion if a country killed your dad, your mom, your wife, and your son? I would submit to you that if he is still alive, it is a non-starter that he could be the leader left in charge in Iran because I would not blame him. I would want America to die on a level that, frankly, or any other country that did this. on a level that would burn in my soul for the rest of my life, I think this could actually be worse because it's, you know, you're wounded, you didn't kill a terrorist. That doesn't seem ideal. You've done a lot of this study. Terrorists who are wounded and don't die often end up being the most virulent of terrorists in their future years. So I would start with this. Him being in charge is unacceptable. And so I don't know if we have a leader that is acceptable, but I would say if he's alive, he is an unacceptable heir to the Iranian leadership. I think that we have seen the total military intelligence and particularly aerial superiority of the United States and Israel on display. and a substantial diminishing of Iranian capability, particularly to make war of any kind outside of its own borders. I am not seeing anything about there's some other faction or some other group that could theoretically oversee a transition, take over. And so what I think is going to continue to be the case, Clay, is we have our Department of War and Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump degrading Iranian military capability and taking out senior targets. I do not see how this turns into a different regime at the end of it, and I felt that way the whole time. Now, perhaps that is what was baked in all along. We're being told that regime change was never. The administration is saying regime change was not the goal. Okay. You're taking out all the leadership in this country, and then you're going to have, to your point, perhaps a more virulent... leadership coming right and just justified furious like leave aside the politics again everybody out there just think if someone you knew killed your mom your dad your son and your wife would you be uh likely to work in a in a positive manner with that country or that group ever i think the answer is no uh yeah that's that's obviously the correct assessment on that so I think we're going to have a declare victory and cease aerial hostilities moment here within the next couple of weeks. I don't know when exactly. I'm obviously not on the high side, as we used to say. I don't have access to classified or any of that. And if I did, I wouldn't be talking about it here on radio. But my sense is that they're just going to realize the problem with our position on all this, our military position,

is that if you can't force, if you don't have a ground force, you can't force change on the ground. And that is where we are. There is no Northern Alliance to work with. The Kurds, there's not enough of them. They don't want to get. I mean, they can't run the whole country. That's a non-started. Notice, people talked about the Kurds for about 24 hours until they took out a map and learned the basic demographics. We had that guy who was a military advisor in northern Iraq, one of our listeners who wrote in who said, yeah, you're right. Yeah, of course. I was up there, too. I know the mindset of the Kurds with this stuff. They don't want any part of trying to. police the rest of Iran. They couldn't do it on top of all that. So I don't see the way that this ends with a hopeful new future for Iran. I see this as we have defang the snake, but there are going to be little baby snakes that grow fangs in time after this. That's how I don't see what the alternative is. There also is the question, and I think this matters too, and I believe we have a cut of this, of other people talking about something that is being speculated quite significantly. It is, is the sun actually alive? In other words, is this potentially an opportunity that Iran has taken to try and prevent the new leader from getting killed by actually elevating a leader who's already dead? And there's audio of that. I want to play that in a sec. But Buck, the other part of this is if he is still alive. He may be protected from being able to be attacked because if they have him in a hospital, it's hard to take out someone in a hospital without killing a lot of other people. And then the same media that didn't care when Iran killed 30,000 people is suddenly going to be leading stories with, look at Israel and the United States targeting people in hospitals. Or they got the guy being treated as you're starting to see. Iran has moved. whatever assets they have remaining for the state into schools, into residential areas, so that when we are attempting to strike these assets, then they immediately cry, oh, look, they're just targeting innocence, as if this regime has any moral authority at all, given the fact that they killed over 30,000 protesters just in the beginning of this year. We've seen this in authoritarian, Muslim, Mideast states for decades where the regime in charge, you have to remember.

the regime in charge not only disallows there to be political opposition, they also recognize if they lose power. I mean, you just talked about the 30,000 protesters killed in the streets. Yes. You've got to think if you are a member of the besiege, which is the Islamic Revolution's militia, if you will, the street militia, street thugs, they had a very similar thing in Syria, I might have called the Shibija. This is a common thing. You have the military, which you make sure is ideologically committed and radicalized to the overall cause of Islamism, jihadism. And then below that, you have this paramilitary organization that's meant to know block to block, house to house, who's doing what, and they have the total... blessing of the state to be as vicious and disgusting and tyrannical as they want as long as it's serving the interests of the state clay those individuals you have to always remember this though i know we've said there's an amnesty for the irgc okay well that means that we're saying put down your arms and we won't blow you up you brought up what happens if someone kills your you know your wife your your your your parents your kids all of the above you're going to forget that You're going to, if you're now part of the new regime, you're going to say, hey, when you guys killed those 30,000 protesters, you know what? Let's let bygones be bygones. No. In fact, the Gaddafi effect is you better stay in power or you may up with a bayonet. in a very uncomfortable place. Like bad things happen. And so it's zero sum for the people in Iran who have been running the country. You got America killing their leadership. And you've got whatever the opposition on the street could be, the Iranian street, if you will, if they come into power, at a minimum, you've got to think you might be going to prison in some hellhole and maybe even worse than that. So my point, Clay, they'll fight to the very end. There's no off-ramp for them as far as they see. And that's not even taking into account the ideological commitment to stopping the Crusaders and Jews and all the, you know, death to America, great Satan stuff. That's just the basic cold, hard political reality of the situation they face, which is why I was hoping that we would start to see, oh, wow, there is some kind of door number two here. Or there is something that they've got planned. No, we're just completely annihilating their military capacity. And then I think we're going to stop. And then we might have to do this again. It's going to be like mowing the grass, but it's a lot more expensive and human and monetary costs than mowing the grass. And also, again, the question becomes who is even leading Iran? And I think this is the question, the new Supreme Leader, who they trotted out with cardboard cutout at the rally, which doesn't suggest that he's actually that healthy. Yeah, that's like the opposite of a proof of life. When they have the cardboard cut out of you at the rally, no, no, that doesn't look good.

A lot of you also were laughing in the comments. You were saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't criticize Iran that much about showing up with a cardboard cutout since we effectively had a cardboard cutout president for four years, which is... Fair point. Yeah, very fair point. But here's the Washington Post, Jason Rezahan, saying what I think is really being contemplated at a significant level, is this guy even alive? Cut 12. I wasn't super surprised by his election. There's been a lot of talk that he might succeed his father when his father died. This speculation has been around for more than a decade. I also wonder if the fact that we haven't seen him indicates that he might not be alive. I don't think that there's a clear indication that anyone has spoken to him. The president of Iran, Masu Peschkian, said today that neither he nor anyone else in his government had spoken. with the younger hominy since he was appointed supreme leader on Sunday. So there's still so much confusion around this. And Buck, it could be again an opportunity to make it seem as if he is the leader when it makes it harder to target the actual leader. And there may be a relatively only handful of people that even know whether he's alive or not. But when you name a new supreme leader and he isn't going to be seen, that definitely raises questions about what his health actually is. We'll take your calls on this one. It's... getting the point where I think a lot of people are running out of patience on the plan here, whatever it may be. And I mean people who support Trump. I'm not talking about Trump haters. But maybe, look, the polling has said this pretty consistently, Clay. As long as this is done this month, people are like, okay, maybe it was necessary. They know they're on a time. Our team is on a timeline with this, and it's a tight timeline. All right, we'll get back to it in a second here. The presence of first responders, villages, cities, the missiles that continue to rain down, the drones that continue to rain down on Israel. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has been working there for many years. Their entire team is supplying bomb shelters, medical centers, critically needed essential aspects of life as the attacks rained down on Israel since we have gone into Iran. I saw for myself they have hospitals in Israel. that they have designed. It's really kind of amazing to see. They've designed them so that the parking garages can be the hospital itself. In other words, they take everybody off the upper floors because of the danger of attack and they relocate everyone. The entire hospital is taking place in the parking garages. Think about how crazy that is to have to do. That is one of the things that the IFCJ has helped to create. They do tremendous work, including the bomb shelters, just trying to keep regular, everyday, innocent people healthy and safe. You can help to support the work that they are doing right now by giving $45 to rush life-saving essentials to the vulnerable underfire right now at 888-488-IFC. You can also go online at infcj.org.

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a shockingly pro-Islamic terrorist tone, point of view. However that is, you say that we can never know the real motive when the guys are like, Al-Hu Akbar, we can never know the real motive, right? We aren't really sure yet what's going on here. If the guy happens to be of like Middle Eastern or clearly of Muslim descent, We got to bury that as long as we can. If we have to leave out things in the transcript like the guy, the terrorist saying that he pledged allegiance to ISIS and he's doing this for Allah, they'll do that too. This is a clear pattern that has been in place for a long time. And we saw this play out in this case, Clay, with the CNN piece that was, you know, it could have been a lovely day. It was 85 degrees when two men traveled over from Pennsylvania. And then they threw a bomb at somebody. It's like, well, hold on a second. Why would you ever frame this incident in that way as a news report? Like, why make it seem like everything was cool and fine? And then they just kind of threw a bomb at some guys and tried to kill them. Like, it's very strange. CNN's Abby Phillip, after this happens, after what I just told you, and they pulled that tweet down, which is very rare for CNN to admit. We're idiots. We shouldn't have done that. But it was so dumb. It was so preposterous that they had to. Then CNN's Abby Phillip goes on. And this is now, Clay, I saw you point this out. This is off the teleprompter. Oh, yeah. So this was written by producers who went over this script beforehand, and then she read it aloud. I want you to listen closely to how CNN describes this attempted Muslim terrorist attack in New York City outside the mayor's residence. Play 2. Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing really to condemn those comments. Okay. Notice what happened here, Clay. An attempted terror attack against New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. It was an attack against him. It was an attack by Muslims against the guys who say that Muslims have too many terrorists in their midst, so we should probably rethink how many of them we're bringing into this country. That's their position. Protected by the First Amendment, by the way. You can dislike it. You can hate it or not. But it's clearly protected speech at a protest. But also, Clay, I notice how the real problem... Isn't the guys who tried to blow people up, maim them, have ball bearings, you know, shot into their chest and in their eyes, blind people maybe, et cetera. That's not the big problem. The big problem is the lack of Republican member of Congress condemnation of the mean words the protesters said. Yeah. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I'm going to defend Abby Phillips here. Even if we play that again, she's reading off a teleprompter, and it seems like she recognizes that it's poorly drafted. And again, this is being a TV nerd and understanding having hosted some of these things before.

Sometimes you read off the prompter and you're like, this is not good. You know, but as you're reading it, it appears that she is going to toss to a break. Play this again. I'll take you into the weeds here. But what I think is significant buck is, whatever the culture is at CNN, this much like that article that made it out of through the editorial process and everything else, the errors you make, and I will say this as a guy who has run a media company. The errors you make reflect the culture you create. And everybody's going to screw up. Everybody's going to be imperfect. You and I screw up sometimes. We don't have teleprompter, so we're not reading anything at any point in time. I always hold it up. You can watch. You can look at this on the YouTube channel. I have a yellow legal pad like I have for most of my career that I jot down notes on. that I read and run the entire show from. And you have a notepad in front of you and you got your computer. But there is no teleprompter. Play that for us one more time. As she is reading it, you can start to see she is thinking, hey, this doesn't feel right, but she has a commercial break that she's trying to hit. And this is the tease. But again, the errors that you make reflect the culture that you create. The culture that CNN has created is... There is no way that left-wingers could ever be responsible for anything negative. And that, I think, undergirds this error. Play it one more time. Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here. After an attempted terror attack against New York's mayor, Zoram Zohran Mamdani, and the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing, really, to condemn those comments. Okay. And I saw an interesting comment. And I can't remember who credited it. But... A lot of people believe that Zohran Mamdani was the victim of a terror attack. That is intentional. Lots of people on the left who are not as engaged on stories as you are believe that Zohran Mamdani was the victim of a terror attack. You can hear Abby Phillips. She recognizes, I think, that that is not an accurate tease that she is reading. But somehow that made it through CNN editorial. Somehow that, I believe, ended up on her teleprompter. And what this is reflective of is an attempt to obfuscate, to hide. to keep people unaware of what actually happened here, which is two Muslim motivated terrorists decided to try to throw IEDs and kill people who were protesting the number of Muslims that have been allowed into our country. And brave NYPD police officers ran towards the bombs and were able to tackle the guys who were responsible for this. And this is a, this is James Gagliano, former director of the FBI NYC division, says the rank and file are furious because Zohran Mamdani has in no way honored the NYPD officers that actually ran towards these bombs and caught the bad guys, which again goes to the intentional cultural hiding of this story in the way that it's been covered, cut 24.

The other night, instead of hosting the two-star police chief who leaped over the barricades and ran this guy down who had thrown the bomb, the mayor decides at Gracie Mansion to host Mahmood Khalil. I mean, he's sending such an awful, awful message here to the rank and file. And remember, the mayor, when he was a private citizen who had commented on Twitter then that he saw a cop crying in his car and... nature was healing. This is something that, again, the men and women of the NYPD will do the right thing. They're going to enforce the laws. They're going to show up for work. But they understand that this man on the screen right now does not have their back. I think that's the key, Buck. And you're a New York City born and bred kid. The fact that this NYPD cop who jumped, if you haven't seen the iconic photo of this cop, jumping a barricade to chase down the guys who had thrown bombs, bombs that at any moment could have gone off. He ran towards danger. He arrested and tackled the culprits here. Zohran Mamdani, to my knowledge, Buck, hasn't said a word in favor of this officer's bravery and what he actually did. Instead, he brought the Columbia protester in and gave him a meal and took pictures of it. Well, you have to remember that Zohran Mamdani's base very much is comprised of and includes in considerable number the kind of people who agree with everything that those terrorists feel and say, but they have to technically draw the line at... actual violence because that's against the law in a way that people notice and get upset about. So his base is very supportive of the people who show up and want to silence the anti, you know, we didn't really have a good term for them. They call them white nationalists to this. I still haven't seen anything white nationalist. I've only seen anti-immigration and anti, now people can argue if they think that's white nationalist, but there are plenty of people who are. concerned about the massive immigration into this country, particularly illegal immigration, who aren't white. Including legal immigrants, by the way. Huge numbers of minorities that have legally immigrated to the country. We're like, we're good. We have enough. Yeah, we've had enough here for a little while. So that's not actually a white nationalist belief per se. They can try to make that case, but I think that that's made in bad faith. My point here being, that, yeah, Zohran Mamdani, like, left-wing radical lunatics are Zohran Mamdani's buddies, so he doesn't want to upset them, but he does have to say, all right, like, don't try to blow up the white nationalists, quote, unquote, just, you know, spit in their faces and do what Antifa usually does, but don't do that, because then I have to let the NYPD tackle some of them and do the things. I'm going to tell you this right now, by the way.

It's going to take some time. The sentence that these guys get is going to be enragingly light, guaranteed. Now, they're going to be punished because they know there are limits here to how crazy the system can be in New York before people really start to freak out and leave. But, Clay, I mean, you're going to see. Remember the guys who during BLM? Wasn't there a guy? It was a lawyer, actually. There you go. A lawyer who threw a Molotov cocktail into a cop car. They got slap on the wrist. Yeah, I remember that story. I remember that story because I think it was a lawyer at a prominent law firm. And I remember thinking, how do you find yourself in a situation where you're lighting a Molotov cocktail as a lawyer on fire and throwing it into a cop car? That's how deranged everybody became on the left in particular in 2020. Probably got a tenured professor position waiting for him at some local university, local college in New York. I wouldn't be surprised at all. Look, we had a blackout the other night. That's why I did it'll ask me anything. Most of you were nice in the AMA. Some of you not so nice. Most of you were nice. Blackout in the building that was not fun. I was taking the stairs. The lights were all out. It was a minor. It only lasted a few hours. But it was a reminder that stuff can happen. And it was also a reminder that if I needed to talk to family, even if you had all the power out here and there were cell phone disruptions, which can happen, I had my rapid radios ready to go. Rapid radios, long-range emergency radios built for blackouts, natural disasters, and any unpredictable moments life throws your way. Rapid radios are small enough to hold in the palm of your hand and you can slip them into your purse or go bag. And rapid radios work on the LTE network so their ability to instantly connect with someone while the power's out is a game changer. They've also got a long battery life up to five days and a durability that stands up to real world emergencies. Staying connected, shouldn't depend on luck. It should depend on the tools you trust. If you want to protect your family during the next weather emergency, take ownership of a set of rapid radios. Do it now. Go to rapid radios.com. Check out the new rad one, see the full emergency features, and grab the launch offer while it's still live. Communication redefined only at rapid radios.com.

We head now, I believe she is in Georgia. I know she is on with us to talk about the goings-ons in Georgia, one of the chief battlegrounds that exist in the country for the midterm where they're going to have Jon Ossoff, the existing sitting senator, up for re-election, and they're determining who the Republican is going to be challenging him. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is being replaced in her North Georgia district, that primary. I believe just happened yesterday. Ashley Brassfield with us now. Let's start right there. Ashley, thanks for coming on with us. The Marjorie Taylor Greene race is to replace her. They now have Democrat and Republican nominees. How does that look? And what can you tell us overall big picture about the state of Georgia? Yeah, well, that Marjorie Taylor Greene race that you saw yesterday, the primary happened with the GOP, a ton of people in that race. And we saw Trump endorsed candidate Clay Fuller come out on top there. Colton Moore was another name that a lot of people were speculating a state senator in Georgia that's pretty well known. That could have come out in that race. It ended up being Clay Fuller, though, and we'll see him go against the Democrat with the last name Harris in that runoff to see who fills that seat. Of course, Marjorie Taylor Greene's district is actually where I'm from in Georgia. So I know it well, and it's a very rural area in the northwest part of the state. And so I think a GOP stronghold there, even without Taylor Green holding that seat. But like Kentucky, like you were talking about, the state of Georgia is seeing a big Senate race take place, a three-way tie right now with Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, and Derek Dooley. And it's very similar into that Kentucky race. And what we are just now seeing in the Texas GOP Senate primary where there's going to be a runoff, Texas and Georgia, very similar where they both have. that 50% mark that the candidates have to get to in order for there to be no runoff. So that's going to be coming up on May 19th, and it's going to be a big race. Hey, Ashley, it's Buck. Thanks for being here with us. So I know you're covering this, and as you mentioned, it's particularly close to home as your district. You are a Georgian, and your district is one of the ones where there'll be quite an interesting matchup playing out. But what can you tell us about the situation of the governor's race at this point? Obviously, Camp is term limited, right? He can't run again. Right. So you've got a pretty... big field here of Republicans and Democrats. Can you break down for us what that's looking like at this stage? Yeah, that governor's race is going to be very intense. And I think there is that dynamic. And I've kind of touched on this in my Senate piece of that dynamic between Trump and Brian Kemp and the Trump endorsed candidate here and who the Brian Kemp endorsed candidates are going to be here. Well, the governor's race, I think you're going to see the lieutenant governor, Bert Jay Jones, get both endorsements from Trump and Brian Kemp on that one. Where it differs in the Senate is that Brian Kemp has already endorsed former football coach at Tennessee.

Derek Dooley here in this race and Trump has not endorsed a Senate candidate. So that's kind of the differences in the races here. But you see Brad Raffensperger, who's also running for governor. That's a familiar name you might remember back from 2022. And the attorney general that, you know, made the call from the president during the election fraud scandal. So there's a long history of feuds happening in the state of Georgia. As many know, it's a purple state. And so I think it's going to be a battleground. It's kind of been this powder keg that's been waiting kind of to explode. It's been kind of the southern charm aspect to it where nothing's quite happened yet. But these primaries coming up, I had my eye on it personally, like we just saw in Texas, it kind of exploded all the sudden. And we don't know who the Trump guy is, just to be clear, right? They're still angling for a Trump endorsement in that governor's race on the Republican side. Yes, I believe so. If not, Burr Jay Jones hasn't gotten it yet, but I think they're, Bert Jay Jones is kind of the guy that everybody's looking at. He's, of course, the former Georgia football player. And I will say that football characteristic in Georgia seems to play. I mean, we saw Herschel Walker back in 2022. Burr Jay Jones, I was on the campaign trail back in 2024. He was at the Georgia Tech rally with President Trump on stage. So these are characters that are very familiar. You know, I would say that, you know, when the president was in Rome just about two and a half weeks ago, you saw on the stage very last. Loudermilk, Mike Collins and Brian Jack, and those are kind of the key players here in these races. And if you really want to get into the lore and the deep insider knowledge of Georgia, I mean, you can go back to the dynamic with Governor Brian Kemp and Trump. And people like Steve Witkoff, Lindsey Graham, same characters we're kind of seeing in this Iran War stuff, playing those middlemen and making deals in the state. So I think you're going to be seeing more of that possibly as well. Ashley, this primary is May 19. I think you can correct me on the exact date. Yes, that's correct. We just talked yesterday with Michael Whatley, who is running in North Carolina, and he said, and I can't believe this number. Ashley, he said it might cost $600 million. for that Senate race in North Carolina. I would have to think the numbers would be somewhat similar in Georgia, because this is why Georgia is so important for people out there who aren't paying attention to the map. It is by far the best chance for Republicans to take back a Democrat seat. And there is no math. If Republicans could win the Senate seat in Georgia, there's basically no math under which the loss of the Senate could occur. Assoff's a favorite right now, but that's why so much attention. I know the governor's race is big, but in terms of national politics, that Senate seat is huge.

Right. And it's going to be a challenge for Republicans. We've seen that back since 2020 when Kelly Loeffler and Purdue, you know, we're running to replace and, you know, take over those seats. Democrats, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff took them. We saw Raphael Warnock be challenged in 2022. And that was unsuccessful. So it's going to be a real test for the GOP without Trump's name on the ballot, like in 2024. to see if they'll be successful here. And, you know, to differentiate the candidates, you have the Brian Kemp endorsed, Derek Dooley, and he has that governor's endorsement behind him from the start, nothing from Trump yet. Mike Collins, he's done a great job of getting behind the grassroots support in Georgia, going to, I believe, 159 counties and counting. He was also at that Rome, Georgia event not too long ago with Trump on stage. And so while we also have Rep. Roddy Carter, Susan Collins and Carter have been Trump allies. very long time. Derek Dooley was not voting in those earlier elections for Trump, but still has that support from Brian Kemp. I think that's going to be a very interesting dynamic of who can go up against somebody where Jon Ossoff is perceived by a lot of people as still a moderate, even though he might not be to a lot, but also in the state where it's purple, but he also has really great constituent affairs, and that's what I'm hearing from my in-state people who live there. So I think it's going to be a very big challenge for the GOP in the state, much like North Carolina is. And if you look at Georgia and North Carolina, the situations are flipped with the count, whether it be with the governors and the senators there. So it's very interesting. Ashley Brassfield with us from the Daily Caller, and she's in Georgia, and she's covering that Georgia election as the primary is coming up here very closely. Ashley, what, if you can just refresh my memory, you know, we have to pay attention to a lot of political stories here. I recall Marjorie Taylor Greene was among the most. pro-Trump trumpy members of congress and then there's been some like falling out like a pretty big one what what happened what was the issue or where where did this all go it seems like one of the the crazier turnabouts i've seen on the republican side in a while Right. It felt like I think for a lot of people that weren't following closely for a long time as this big explosion that all of a sudden happened. And, you know, I think a lot of it left everybody in dismay. But this, I mean, can go back all the way to, you know, when Trump got into office in 2024, who was he picking as secretaries? And Marjorie Taylor Greene at one rally in South Carolina voiced that she would not mind taking the DHS position. You follow along. She became a big player in that Doge effort on the Oversight Committee. And I think she started to see some things happening within the Trump administration in those first six months that she wasn't exactly pleased with, some policy changes, whether it be immigration, the tariffs that she was heading for a while, but she kind of switched her tune on. And then I do think she wanted to run in that Georgia Senate race. She's made comments about many of the candidates in that race that she's not thrilled about them. So I believe that there was some internal polling shown by the White House to Taylor Green that

showed her being beaten, I guess, the general election with Alsop. So I don't think she was pleased with that. And I think that's where things started to take a turn there. She kind of saw where the puck was going. And I think the relationship just continued to sour, especially, you know, she's become this very anti-involvement and war type of individual. And then you saw the big explosion take place back in, you know. December, November time period, and she is no longer in Congress. So now we're seeing this special election. But I don't think people understand the full scope of that story. And I think it was a very interesting one to see happen within the first year of the Trump administration from somebody like Taylor Green, who's been a cheerleader for the president for the last four and a half years. And has there been any effort to reach out? You know, Brian Kemp, a lot of the Trump base nationwide, I think, they've expressed it here on the show and in emails. They're frustrated with Brian Kemp on different things. But Brian Kemp, as I understand it, has been very popular within the state of Georgia. And while he can't run again, is there an effort underway or is there any attempt at a rapprochement between Trump, MAGA, and Brian Kemp, just for the purposes of making sure that we don't lose a third winnable and really should win Senate seed in... The state of Georgia because it's starting to feel like we got a problem in your home state. Yeah, well, you thought there would be some kumbaya after 2024, and it seemed like Brian Kemp got on board. He went on an appearance on Fox News saying he supported the president. But I think it's kind of been this consistent cold war with the governor and the president since then. And you saw this when he decided not to take a run at the Senate in that GOP seat. And instead, he endorsed Eric Dooley, which I don't think it was something that the White House looked fondly upon when he did it. So I'm not sure if it's a total kumbaya moment quite yet going into 2026, which might need to happen here if the GOP wants to secure. the seat in general. So it's a matter of, you know, time to watch how it goes. I think that people probably need to keep an eye on Governor Brian Kemp for higher aspirations of offices in 2028. We'll see there. But I think that's a strategic move by Brian Kemp on purpose. And it seems like in the state, there's big players like the Brian. Brian Kemp's, you know, Mike Collins, Buddy Carter's, Derek Dooley's, and then even in the governor's race, where you're seeing a lot of changing dynamics. And the one name that's not there is, of course, Stacey Abrams anymore. So it's really this inner party war that's happening within the party right now, I'd say. Yeah, I know a little bit about this. Ashley. Brian Kemp, obviously, is a wildly popular governor in Georgia, has done a really good job. He believes Derek Dooley's the best pick, and he had tried to persuade. The Trump White House to also endorse duly. Instead, they have so far stayed out of this primary, which is about two months away. And hopefully we can wed the turnout the vote of Brian Kemp with the passion of Trump supporters because that might be 100. That's 100% necessary, I think, to actually manage to win the Senate race. One question for you, Ashley, on the way out, because I know you're a former athlete, if I remember correctly. As we're talking to you.

The Iranian women's soccer team. I think the story deserves way more attention than it's getting. A lot of the girls, women on that team, refused to sing the Iranian national anthem at an event, competition in Australia. Six or seven different reports of those members of that team did not want to go back to Iran afterwards because they were terrified of what might happen to them. So Australia granted asylum to them. They have landed in Malaysia. And reports are that most of the women on the team do not want to continue on to Iran because they are terrified of what is going to happen to them when they land. We have a lot of examples of people like Megan Rapino, as you well know, Ashley, speaking out aggressively against the United States. Why do you think so many women's athletes that are quick to degrade the United States from soccer in particular are not speaking out? to protect these women that actually put their lives legitimately on the line to speak for freedom in their home country feels to me like this story should be way bigger than it is right well it seems only matter to people like megan rapino when she's not getting paid enough in her book is my the way i look at this and of course she's getting on you know this cover of Sports Illustrated in magazines like that, but she doesn't care about the global issues like what those women on the Iranian soccer team are now facing. So I think that's just, you know, first world problems from Megan Rapino, really not paying attention to this. But it is sad to see women, you know, especially women that are well known like Serena Williams. They haven't spoken out on even, you know, men and women's sports. In fact, they've been more supportive of it, if anything. So I think that's the progressive agenda here being seen playing out within sports. And I think. that even in places like Iran where you've seen Khomeini be, you know, taken out by the United States and Israel, now we have his son taking, you know, his spot in leadership at this point. I think that's going to be a problem for these women going back to the country. And luckily, you know, Australia has granted them a place to stay. But I would be also fearful if I were them. I mean, Iran is not a place that's safe for women. And it's, I think it's interesting that they even have a women's soccer team that they've even been granting that in a place like Iran. No doubt. I mean, they didn't allow them to even go watch soccer games for multiple generations since the mullis came into power. Hey, we appreciate you, Ashley. Keep up the good work. That battlefield in Georgia is going to be significant when it comes to control of the Senate. And we appreciate the update. Yeah, thank you guys. That's Ashley Brassfield. I want to tell you, born on America's darkest day of 9-11, 25 years ago, Tunnel the Towers Foundation, has been helping America's heroes ever since. Heroes like New York City Fire Department, Lieutenant Edward McDonough, Jr. He was a Marine Corps veteran, lifelong public servant. Edward was on the front lines at Ground Zero in the days following 9-11. He cleared debris while serving his city with courage and dedication, rose through the ranks of the New York City Fire Department, ultimately. becoming a lieutenant and inspiring those around him with leadership and humor. He battled 9-11-related cancer for more than three years before passing away. He leaves behind his wife, Kimberly, their five children. In this 25th anniversary year of 9-11, we continue to see the toll that day is still taking on heroes and their families. Tunnel the towers honored Edward by paying the McDonough family's mortgage. Help more families like the McDonough is your doorknation today.

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They have a lot more sense than this. These people live off of death. They preach death. They preach death to America. And we were going to get lit up Israel or somebody was going to get lit up with a nuke if we allowed them to get a nuclear weapon. Speaking of Tommy Tuberville, Senator, so you have, I assume, full faith in President Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the immediate team in the White House, Marco Rubio, to make sure that they know when it's time to bring our assets home from overseas or at least to stop the bombing. That's something that you have a high level of confidence in, you'd say? 100%. And I've been in classified hearings. I've been in non-classified. I talk to them individually quite often, even the president. And this is not one of those where we're going in to try to. build back their country, that we might give them help in some ways to some point. But again, this is not a prolonged fight. We cannot afford to do it. I heard you talk earlier about gas prices. Folks, if we can't live a few weeks with higher gas prices, to be able to take out one of the most dangerous groups in the world that want to destroy the United States of America, then something's wrong with us. We have to put up with some high gas prices. But let me tell you this. I was coaching at Texas Tech back in 2010, 11, 12, 13. Okay. Every year I coach there, I lived right in the middle of the heart of oil company, country, the United States of America, Lubbock, Texas. oil under Barack Obama was over $110 a barrel the entire time. We were there. Nobody complained about it. We're paying $3, $4 a gallon, but nobody really complains under Barack Obama. Now, a couple of weeks, we have a little bit of a high gas price. Everybody's panicked. It's not going to happen. This will help not just gas prices go down, but it'll also help us put Chinese to where they should be. And that is maybe a bigger problem than Iran. We're talking to Senator Tommy Tuberville, next governor of Alabama, but in the meantime, Senator from Alabama. You had to feel like your worlds were colliding. You just mentioned when you were coaching at Texas Tech. I was up in the White House Friday. Urban Myers there. Nick Saban is there. You've got a lot of people talking about the future of college athletics. You know this better than anybody. I just saw Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. chirping at you on the internet, on social media. What should happen? What's going to happen when it comes to fixing college athletics? Well, Chris,

tearing down college athletics. He's trying to unionize. That's the worst thing we could do. But at the end of the day, he's not relevant in this talk. That was a good talk last Friday. I didn't go. I had other things I had to do, but I've had a bill. Y'all know this for three years. I've put together a bill, which was really good, but it's all about unionization of the Democrats. We can't get a bill passed, okay? So we're basically talking into the wind. when this happens. The only person that can do anything to this is Donald Trump. And I've talked to him about this. I'm not into all this antitrust stuff. You know, the commissioners were there. They need more money, this or that. And that's fine. But you can't get that passed. Let's talk about reality. Here's what President Trump can do. Do an executive order for the rest of his term. Okay, folks, you got, when you start your clock in college sports, you got five to play five. That's it. Nobody goes over that. Second thing is you get one transfer, one free transfer without penalty. Now, you can transfer again, but you have to go back to the old rule. You transfer, you set a year. We've got to do something about to transfer portal. The money is out of the back. I don't care what kind of money they make because eventually what's going to happen is there's going to be donor fatigue. It can't keep spending this kind of money. He can't do it. And so we've got to get the transfer portal back, go put education back into it, get your butt back in class. You're going to make money. That's fine, but you're going to go to class. You're going to keep your grade point up like you used to have to. And if you don't fulfill that requirement of going towards a degree every year in school, then you're going to end up losing your scholarship and you're going to end up losing eligibility. Right now there is no penalty for doing anything other than just going to making money and playing. And what's happening is we're losing fans. And fans are the reason college sports are important because they pay money. to go watch these. And they're, I'm telling you, they're getting fatig from all this because of the non-loyalty of the athletes. Last question for you, and this just came down. You probably knew it was coming. Markwayne Mullin, one of your Senate colleagues, is going to have his confirmation hearings to be elevated to run the DHS. What can you tell us about Markwayne Mullin? And do you presume that those will go fairly smoothly? And not only will he get Republican support, but he'll even get, I know John Fetterman has already said, hey, I'll be supporting this. He'll even be getting some, I would imagine, Democrat support. Yeah, perfect choice. He'd make a great head football coach back in the 70s and 80s, walking in the room, demand respect, motivate people to do their job. Work ethic is unbelievable.

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