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We've got hiring stalled. The U.S. economy added 22,000 jobs in August. A little bit of a summer slowdown, but no big deal. Don't panic. It's all going to be fine. No panicins, Clay allowed. We have a no panicking policy. I might have to get a no panicking sign whenever we talk about the economy. You certainly don't panic. Mr. Clay over there telling everybody when the market was getting shellacked earlier this year, don't run for the lifeboats. Stay on. the icon of the seas or whatever your preferred vessel is, and you'll be fine. So, Clay, do you see anything? I got something else we're going to dive into in a second, but just your quick reaction to jobs report where the economy's heading right now, how it's all looking. Jerome Powell was late again and they're going to cut rates in September. He was wrong in allowing the overall inflation rate to get to 9.1, sorry, 1% during Biden. And I think. The biggest issue that Trump faces in terms of sort of vibe for lack of a better way to describe it is people are still angry because prices went up so fast under Biden. I mean, to me, that is a lot of people are out there and they're saying, well, prices haven't come back down. And I think the challenge is prices never come back down. Ever. This is the pernicious nature of inflation. Once prices go up, they are inflated and the new normal becomes whatever those prices are. The best you can do is try to get back to normalcy. And we are back to normalcy. But trust me, I've been saying this for years. Every time I go through a fast food restaurant, drive through with my kids, Chick-fil-A is usually our preferred place, the amount of money that it costs me. makes me shake my head. It doesn't feel right. And people have sort of internal calculators in their head for what something should cost. Coffee in the morning. A trip to a fast food restaurant with your kids, a pizza. And all of it is wildly out of sorts with what it should have been if Biden hadn't gotten elected and screwed up everything. So I think there's a lingering hangover effect for lack of a better way of describing it. for the massive run-up and inflation that we saw. And it's going to take years for people to recognize that things start to feel normal again. Does that make sense? And so I think that's going to be even if what you say, and I think what you say on this is correct, even if it's economically true, it can still be politically a problem, right? It is Trump's economy now. So the Democrats are going to try to pounce on this. They don't care that Biden... It's like blaming that, like, Republicans will get blame when the debt's $37 trillion, but when it was 36.5 trillion, Democrats had no problem, right? I mean, there's going to be some of that gamesmanship going on here. But bottom line is, I think the economy is still very strong, going to better places. And I am, I am optimistic. Although I will say we didn't discuss this. The Trump team looking at tariffs, or rather the Supreme Court, is supposed to look at tariffs. Trump team had an appeals decision that went against them. And now...

A big story from the New York Times about how incredibly sophisticated the cartels have become when it comes to getting illegal drugs. I mean, they have submarines. Oh, yes, they've had submarines for a long time. Clay, they're using drones, and they've been using drones at the border for surveillance of our border patrol and even sometimes to do drops. Yeah. And part of the problem, and, you know, I used to, going back a long time ago, I used to occasionally spend some time. with the NYPD co-located with DEA. And we'd obviously, when you're sitting with DEA guys, what do you talk to them about? Drug cartel stuff, right? Yeah. They were there just in case we needed them as a liaison during the counterterrorism work. But the things that we would talk about, the sophistication of the cartels was extremely high. And one of the problems you have is even as seizures go up, so as you get more of the illegal drugs, it's a supply and demand curve. So price, street price can go up. So you have to, you know, keep in mind that if you were to, if we were to get one and or if we were to get rather three out of four drug loads and take them out of circulation. it still probably be very profitable for the cartels to do what they're doing. That's the problem, is that you have this very steep economic analysis. I mean, you brought this up in the context of if somebody thinks that they can feed their family for a year, are they going to, are there going to be people willing to risk 20 years in prison to bring a few kilos of cocaine into this country on a fastboat or, you know, fentanyl, whatever it may be? The answer is yes. And for the cartels, even if there are seizures of cartel product, they can still make a whole lot of money if we were to double the level of seizures. So this is the challenge in trying to stop this stuff. There's a lot of money to be made in this black market for drugs, which obviously is killing a lot of Americans. Well, I think the question I have, and I don't know the answer, but I think it's a worthy one to contemplate and debate, does blowing up a speedboat, that is filled with illegal drugs, that reports are refused multiple commands to stop, by the way. So this was not completely without some sort of provocation. Can I add to this, Clay, I think it's important we have this discussion because Reuters was reporting there have been, there's been a deployment of 10 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to fight against drug cartels. Now, that hasn't been confirmed, I think, by the administration yet, but that's what the report that I saw in Reuters is. So they're now moving and forward deploying more assets that would be capable of doing these kind of strikes. So to your point, we better really be clear on. Is this something we have a constitutional, the president has a constitutional and legal authority. I mean, those are one of the same, but legal authority to do. And what will the effects be on the war on drugs? I will say this. People say the war on drugs is failed. This does change the calculation. I think you pointed this out. This is my point. Yeah, this is my point. It's a different thing to face getting blown up with a hellfire missile or whatever it is.

My wife is pointing out also that we have, according to her, and she's kind of an expert on this from her law training, she says this is the first time that we have officially designated terrorist organizations that are dealing drugs as terror organization, which changes the rules of engagement. Now I'm quoting her. Well, she's correct. And this is when we remember, I think I, we talked to very high level intel sources in this administration. Clay was there for most of it. Unfortunately, when he showed up in flip-lops to the White House, they had to turn him away. But I just want to get this legend started. Clay was just like, yo, dude, I'm here for the high-level intel meetings. I still don't have a real ID, and they would not allow me in to meet with the directors of intelligence. We're going to go back to the White House probably, like, in the next few months. Can you please get a real ID, sir? All right, I don't have to tell everybody. I'm going to have to tattletail on you to everybody again. Get a real ID, Clay. It's complicated. You have to make these appointments. I'm on the air for four hours every day. It's not that easy to just in the middle part of the day, go get a real ID. I have a passport. But my thing here, in addition to all of this, is does it change the calculus? Every drug dealer and drug smuggler in America is going to see that video. And I think, I don't think it's irrational. Most people analyze risk reward in everything that we do all day long. And one risk clearly of being a drug mule is you get caught and you go to prison and you potentially have to serve time. Can I ask you an honest question? Because I can't put myself in the mindset of one of these drug mules or cartel employees, whatever you want to call them. Does spending 25 years in a U.S. federal prison seem worse to them than maybe just getting blown up and getting all done at once? I don't know. That could go either way, I think, for some people. Yeah, I think it's a valid question. I think life risk is different. So I don't know. First of all, unless you're a drug mule listening right now and you want to call in and tell us the drug mule thought process. As a rational person, my analysis of people who are drug smugglers is they see it as a way to make relatively short period of time, life-changing money for both them and their family. And if you are required to risk time in prison, you at least know that at some point in time you can return to your family. I bet the cartels, I don't know this, but I bet the cartels give good payouts, even if you get arrested. I bet they go back and take care of your family to try to encourage people to continue to take care of this risk. This is my theory. It depends on what, I think if you're a mule, maybe not, but if you're somebody, if you're like a Sicario, you know, somebody that's done. Really nasty stuff. Awful things. They made you some of that. But Clay, I also think this is what I was going to say about the Intel meetings and just the discussions that were going on in the White House. We have an incredibly, and I saw this up firsthand, we have an incredibly sophisticated counterterrorism. And by that, just to get more specific, our ability to track, surveil, and blow up.

Al-Qaeda-style jihadis all over the world is pretty, pretty incredible. It has gotten to a point where the ability to hit HVTs in Yemen, in Somalia, in Pakistani tribal areas, and you name it is, and there's a whole chain of events that lead up to it, right? I mean, finding these people, surveilling these people, a target set, having the, whether it's drones or whatever it is, we're sending in after them. It looks like this administration is gearing up to use that very sophisticated counterterrorism infrastructure and strike capability against the cartels who are now designated as narco-terrorists, as your wife rightly points out. And that is a whole new level of something for the cartels to be considering. I think getting blown up changes the calculus. That's my ultimate analysis of the narco terror community because right now your worst case scenario is taking drugs. I guess your worst case scenario is the cartel could become angry at you and decide to kill you, which is why you do your job. But I don't think you're anticipating that your boat may get blown up. And so every narco terrorist in America is going to be seeing that video. And I think it's going to set off alarm bells. Here's the biggest problem, though. The reason why the drug trade exists is because there's lots of money to be made from the drug trade. And ultimately people respond to incentives when it comes to making money. To me, the biggest challenge here is we haven't driven up the cost of bringing drugs in to the point where it exceeds the profit opportunity from the drug dealer. And that is ultimately why they're engaging in rational economic decision making, even if we disagree with the choices that they're making. I would also point out that in discussions that I had... with members of Border Patrol in years past, and particularly under the Biden free-for-all open border years, Clay, the cartels at one point, or at a certain phase of this, when the border was just wide open with the 10 million coming in, were making more they estimated on human smuggling than on drug smuggling. So that means billions of dollars, billions and billions of dollars on effectively controlling their side of the border, the plaza, right? They break these up into territories and you have to pay. And that's where the wristbands that I've seen the cartel wristbands and giant piles on the ground. Because if you don't have that wristband, I mean, they'll pull you aside and execute you, right? I mean, they'll do terrible things to you. So you've got to have that wristband to show that you paid. But Trump has shut down that income stream. They're not coming into the country anymore that way, which means that now they have a greater desperation on getting money via the drug trafficking, which is made substantially harder as well because the resources that were going to the humanitarian mission at the border, i.e. taking in illegals, making sure they're not, you know, dying of some disease or something like that.

Now that's all focused on the, so they have a higher need to make money off the drug trade, and we have a greater focus and resource on the drug trade. So, you know, this is a very different situation than it was even 18 months ago in terms of what the cartels are facing. And if we ramp up the strikes, the attacks, and the pressure on them, this is a new phase. That's all I got, this is a, we have not seen something like this in a long time. Let me also, I'm going to say this every time we have a discussion about drugs. You need to talk to your kids and grandkids. They are often dying without even understanding the drug that they're taking. So they can think that they're taking a party drug. They can think, especially you go off to college. You're often, you're in your 20s in a college town. You're in a big city and you're off on your own. There are so many kids that are dying of poisoning. They're not really dying of overdosing because they're not taking what they thought they were taking. And you need to impress upon your kids that the intermixing between these highly dangerous, deadly drugs. and the ones they think are party drugs, which they're going to be fine from, and they're just going to have a great time. It's ecstasy-ish, or it's cocaine, or it's something that they're not afraid of dying from taking. They need to understand that there is a huge risk. But this is a sign of how crazy it is. People who are huge party drug people are now using strips to check and see. before they take their party drugs, whether it's fentanyl or not. I don't think there's a ton of college kids doing this. I don't think that's a diehard party drug person who's doing that testing. But there are people basically dying of poisoning, tens of thousands of them every single year. Your kids need to know about this. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our warfighters, delivers mission-ready intelligence, advances life-saving health care, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer. An in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market.

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I think some of the senators made some really strong points. And ultimately, I think that there was more arguing of semantics than anything at all. And unfortunately, for me, looking at this from the outside in, you know, throughout all of COVID, we became a very fractured society. And all of a sudden we have weaponized public health. We have politicized it. And I was, all I'm looking for is, what are we going to do to bring the country together? to try and get politics out of public health, out of our health care system, as best we can. I mean, you never will be able to completely, but the best we can and how are we going to unify the nation? And unfortunately, watching some of this tells me that we are nowhere closer to unifying the nation as we were four years ago. Well, I want to have you react here to an exchange, Dr. Sapphire, between Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. and Senator Ron Wyden. It's about 40 seconds long. This is cut 18. Hit it. I don't see any evidence that you have any regrets about anything you've done or plans to change it. And my last comment is, I hope that you will tell the American people. How many preventable child deaths are an acceptable sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense. Senator, you've sat in that chair for how long, 20, 25 years while the... Chronic disease and our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing. You never asked the question why it's happening. Why is this happening? Today, for the first time in 20 years, we learned that infant mortality has increased in our country. It's not because I came in here. It's because of what happened during the Biden administration that we're going to end. How much Dr. Sapphire of the apparent animosity that these Democrat senators showed toward Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is because he's Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. and they don't like what he has stood for in the past or just because he happened to be Trump's HHS guy? Yeah, so that's a great question. And first of all, that was one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr..'s strongest messages, in my opinion, during that hearing, was everybody was criticizing him. And he's like, it turned to crap under you guys. You've been in office for decades sitting on this committee. And this is the first time we're having these conversations about making people healthier again. So I thought that was rather cheeky, but also very poignant. You know, Senator Ron Wyden came out saying that he is going to be releasing a report today. He asked to put it into evidence that supposedly will show the damage to health care of the American people done under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.., highlighting chaos, corruption, and higher health care costs.

And yet he said these things, but we did not see that report or the data. So, again, Ron Wyden, I thought, was trying to get some of those talking points. At the end of the day, and this is something I've said now, you know, for the last several weeks that I get some criticism on is that we already know Trump derangement syndrome is real. I mean, one of these days it will be a diagnosable condition that as a medical doctor, I can code it, and it will be a true diagnosis. But the R of K derangement syndrome is real as well. And so for me, maybe he is not the perfect messenger to be out in front of the camera talking about the work that they're doing behind the scenes. He is bringing a ton of insight and a ton of innovation and a whole new thought process to the HHS. They're finally starting to look at root causes of chronic illness. They're trying to make a systems more efficient. These are all great things. But the moment he... steps in front of the camera or gets behind the microphone, half of the country is turning it off, just like they always do with President Trump. And so when it comes to public health, it would be great for me if there was another spokesperson who actually came out to deliver that message. Because as you see, if you look at social media right now, people are just making fun of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. They're making fun the fact that he was breathing heavily into the microphone. Forget the fact that he has a neurological condition and what they're doing actually. is grossly inappropriate by making fun of someone, but they don't like him, and that's the bottom line. Dr. Sapphire, I think the biggest issue that we face as a country as it pertains to public health is in the wake of COVID, many people, myself included, have lost all faith in public health so-called experts to give us the best possible advice. What would your advice be to try to cure what I believe is the biggest issue in America today, which is just lack of trust in the wake of what happened with COVID? I mean, that's a very complicated question. And there's not going to be a one-size-fits-all answer to that. But part of that is going to be getting people that are well-respected on both sides of the aisle into the HHS, into the CDC. We undermine trust. Like right now, what we're dealing with right now, and you're looking at the conversation is surrounding vaccines. The CDC, we're seeing the fallout from what happened because not only are parents questioning the COVID vaccines because the CBC doubled down on the mandates long after science changed. The reality is now parents are questioning all vaccines and just really questioning public health in general. And so we have to take a big step back. And what was settled science for the last several decades, if people truly believe that it's still settled science and the data is there to support it, then you need to show the data because just saying, well, this is what's the right thing to do.

That doesn't work anymore. We can't have that paternalistic attitude when we're talking to the American people because the American people are educated. They want to make informed decisions. And when you have this digital era where all of a sudden they're realizing that the truth is at their fingertips and it's not necessarily just from the mouthpieces that they're seeing from the CDC or whatnot, you have to make sure that you are being very nuanced in the recommendations for public health. Part of that is going to be right now Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. is having to put together the vaccine advisory committee. He got rid of all the original members because he said that they were essentially all part of, you know, the industry standard and it was time for them to go. And while he may not disagree with a lot of them needing to go, you know, he's kind of swinging that pendulum far the other way by putting all new members on that are part of his inner circle and his inner thinking. We have to make sure that we have full dialogue and debate on these committees. So we can't just go from one inner circle to the next. We need to start building these institutions that are with people who are going to last much longer than just an administration. Are there just way too many vaccines, Dr. Sapphire, in your opinion, in the suggested schedule for children? I think the number we had Dr. McCarrie on, and he said it was something like... 70 or something along those lines over the course of now I know some of those are multiple shots and they're given over years that does seem like that just seems like a lot of shots Sure. So in my humble opinion, I think that we need to look at the recommended childhood vaccine schedule. What's happening in Florida where they're just trying to do away with all vaccine mandates, that's a completely different conversation. What I'm talking about is not necessarily implementing mandates or recalling or getting rid of the mandates. I'm like, let's reevaluate what we're even recommending. Can we change the timeline? Does every single child need all of these vaccines? Because the reality is not all vaccines are created equal. Lumping them together just completely erases the science, the MMR vaccine, the one with measles. That provides decades of protection. While the pertussis one, that immunity wanes within months. And the public health messaging has to acknowledge the differences because we're undermining trust. when we pretend that every vaccine works the same. And Americans truly deserve nuance. I think we can change the vaccine schedule. We could actually decrease the amount of vaccines children get without risking the safety of the individual child or the community. But it just means you have to open up that conversation. And you have to be willing to have that conversation because, unfortunately, you have a lot of people who have a head, they're heading to stand right now with that vacuum thought mentality of, well, if you start changing it now, you're going to change the whole thing and that's going to creep in vaccine hesitancy. But if you don't acknowledge the people's concerns and you don't acknowledge all vaccines aren't created equal, you're actually promoting vaccine hesitancy more than anyone else.

How can people find your podcast and dive in if they haven't already, Dr. Sapphire? Well, thanks to you guys. Wellness Unmask with Dr. Nicole Sapphire is part of the Clay and Buck family. We have a weekly rundown every Friday at 10 a.m. with about just five minutes of me telling you what happened that week. We're going to go all through the hearing tomorrow. And then on Tuesdays dropping at 10, Wellness and Mask, you have a longer full episode. Next week, you will hear me with Jennifer Galardi. She's the senior policy analyst for restoring American wellness at the Heritage Foundation. We talk all things to make America healthy again. We get into a little bit of a healthy debate on some things. And I'll tell you, it's a great interview. So please make sure to catch it out. I'm also on X, Instagram, and Fox News. Okay. I gave you all that. But I meant to ask you this as well. So I encourage you to go follow Dr. Sapphire. On the Clay and Buck Podcast Network. Wellness unmasked, Dr. Sapphire. Tremendous collection of talent there. What's the worst date you've ever been on, Doctor? Because Buck brought up the English patient. I realized that I went on a high school date to watch that movie, which was not a great movie to go on as a high schooler. We just had Katie Miller on. Do you recall the worst date that you've ever been on in your life? Is there one that stands out? I think the worst date I've ever been on my life was my first kind of date, or not even a date, but when I met my husband. Because we actually met in a wine bar during a medical conference, but I was drinking hot tea, and this guy comes up to me, and he starts, he's thinking that my tea is spiked. And the whole time, he just cannot believe that I'm just drinking herbal tea while sitting in a wine bar. And it was very awkward and very uncomfortable. And 20 years later, we're married with kids. Wait, how did he make the transition? Like, how did he go from like, hey, like, I think something's been spiked in your tea to, I'd like your phone number. Oh, he was asking for my phone number the whole time. It took about two years for us to actually go on a date. But the man was persistence, and I'll tell you, persistence pays off. I had a very wise man tell me for many years. Persistence is the key in all things. So there you go. Dr. Sapphire, thank you so much. Guys, go check out wellness en masse on the Clay and Buck podcast. Podcast Network. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, advances life-saving health care, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage.

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