Israel Strikes Iran A powerful and timely breakdown of the breaking news surrounding Israel’s unprecedented military strike on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure. Broadcasting live as the story unfolds, Clay and Buck provide exclusive insights from their recent visit to the White House, including a private meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office just hours before the Israeli operation commenced. The hosts emphasize the strategic brilliance and secrecy of the mission, highlighting how President Trump and his administration maintained operational security while publicly signaling diplomacy. Drawing on Buck Sexton’s CIA background and Clay Travis’s recent travels to Israel, the duo analyzes the geopolitical implications of the Israeli airstrike, which targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities, ballistic missile infrastructure, and senior IRGC leadership. They describe the operation as potentially the most impressive tactical aerial strike of the 21st century, comparing its precision and scale to historic military campaigns. Josh Hammer live from Tel Aviv The hour features a live report from Newsweek’s Josh Hammer, broadcasting from Tel Aviv, who shares firsthand accounts of life under missile sirens and the Israeli public’s overwhelming support for the strike. Hammer underscores that across Israel’s political spectrum, there is near-universal consensus on the existential threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions. He also notes the quiet approval from key Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, despite their public condemnations. Clay and Buck explore the broader Middle East dynamics, including the fallout from Hamas’s October 7th attack, the weakening of Hezbollah, and the strategic miscalculations by Iran and its proxies. They credit President Trump’s leadership and the current administration’s discipline in avoiding leaks and maintaining a strong deterrence posture. The hosts also discuss the potential for lone-wolf terrorist responses and urge vigilance while dismissing alarmist claims of World War III. Scott Jennings live from Israel Our Visit to the WH
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Welcome in What a.
Day we are destined for here on a Friday, rolling into Father's Day weekend. Major news breaking yesterday evening, as we suggested, might well be the case, based on our read of the situation, Israel attacks Iran and goes once and for all for a knockout blow when it comes to Iran's ability to get nuclear weapons. Buck made the travel back. I believe he was in the air when the attacks started on his way back to Miami. I am still in Washington, d C. City of DC really much of a mess right now for many reasons, as it always is, but in particular huge parade tomorrow for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army and all of that underway streets being shut down. The timing on this very interesting. But Buck, speaking of interesting, I was able to get in had the passport. They let me in to the White House yesterday. You and I had the opportunity on look, any day you get to go meet with the President in the Oval Office and have a chat is a pretty big day. But in conjunction with the fact that the attack happened a few hours after we left. There are for those of you inclined that like pictures, there are tons of pictures of us with President Trump, with Jade Vance, with Caroline Levitt. All of that is up on social media. You guys can track it out. We had a great conversation with President Trump. He wanted to let all of you know how much he appreciates you. Oval Office meeting. Met also with security related officials in the Oval Office and in the West Wing area. Trying to tiptoe up to exactly what I can say, but Buck, I think it's fair. We have the CIA background. We also were at Langley this week. You and I had a very clear sense that the moment of truth for Iran was at hand, and I was not surprised when attacks happened last night. I think they did a really good job of pretending that they didn't know, but when they withdrew a lot of the families from the Middle East, it was a sign that they expected things to happen. What's your take, based on your background in the CIA and based on the evidence that continues to unspool about these attacks.
Yeah, so the timing was remarkable.
Let me just first say that from everything we have seen on the reporting of this strike, the Israelis may have pulled off the most impressive tactical aerial strike ever. I don't know if anything could compare to what they have been able to accomplish in this twenty four hours. I'm talking from a purely military perspective, from a target set and assessing collateral damage, assessing the specificity of the targets. This is really unprecedented. And now the Israelis have world class military hardware, in part because of the United States, in large part, I think because of the collaborations that we have with them. But what they've pulled off here, Clay, is nothing short of remarkable. However one feels about the strike, I'm merely looking at this right now from the practitioner and tactical perspective. Now, the run up to this was particularly interesting for Clay and me.
Obviously.
The run up to this was decades of Iran funding terror, playing all kinds of games with the inspectors and with the deals, and the Israelis had finally just had enough. Trump opened the door for them and tried to say, look, Iran, you really want to do a deal because we're not messed around anymore, and they they messed around and they found out on this one.
Now, Clay, we were there.
We were in the Oval Office with the President, as you mentioned, spoke to and spent time with all the West Wing staff, Caroline Levitt, Steven Miller, all the superstars we talk about on this show, and we just wanted to be there to get some time with them, talk to them about how things are going. But we did particularly have a national security component of our time there. And I'm telling you about this all for a reason. One is Clay had never been to Langley. As you know, my old stomping grounds really did bring back a lot of memories. I did not make Clay turn on the James Bond theme music and we drove in, but I thought about it. But we had a very good talk and the contents were off the record. But we did ask everybody we met with, are we allowed to say that we met with you recomfortable with that?
And they all we all we got approval and all that.
So Deputy Director CIA, other senior CIA staffers, I won't get into all their titles, Deputy director National Intelligence, director of National Intelligence. We talked to everybody. One thing that was really interesting Claive was they were eager to speak to us, particularly about the DOGE and restructuring components of government, things like that, Right, the thing what you would assume we would talk about, and you know, again I won't get into the specifics, but we could talk about in the broadest terms. The moment you or I asked a question about Iran, you could just feel that the ever ever to the room got a little TETs yes and didn't want to talk. Now when you're talking to us about the other things that were under discussion, and then you discuss Iran and all of a sudden. This was to the point where I texted my brothers the night before the strikes and I said, guys, I think they're going I think they're going in. I didn't want to say this publicly because I didn't know. No one told me, and too, you know, you don't want to be wrong on something like this, and also I didn't want anyone to get ahead of it, right, I mean, you want the Israelis to have the benefit of surprise. But I had a very strong feeling that I only shared with clay an immediate family.
I said, Okay, I think this is happening.
President Trump brought us into the Oval and was in full Trump mode now he knew the strike was about to happen. And Susie Wiles, who is the White House Chief of Staff, we wanted to go by and just just say thank you, Susie, do an amazing job, and you know this White House and all heartfelt by the way. You know, what we say to you on this show on the air, which is our public record, right is what we wanted to say to them in person about how this is going. I don't have criticisms of this administration so far, you know, maybe some suggestions, but no criticisms. Susie Wilds was we found out from just somebody passing by in the situation room, and Clay and I were sitting there going, hmmm, the situation room. That's an interesting place for the White House chief of Staff to be right in this moment. And then we had talked to our friends on the Secretary of Defensive Staff and the Secretary of State staffs about meeting up. How many kept having meetings moved around anyway, Long story short, we've known for the last twenty four hours or so that this was coming and it was interesting to be by the decision makers here. Now it wasn't an American strike, of course, but they all knew that this was going to happen. And Trump's poker face. I would not want to sit at the table from him in a poker game play. I think it was masterfully played. And we're gonna go to Israel and talk to a variety of different people. Josh Hammer up next, So we're gonna break here in a couple of minutes. Just so you know, Scott Jennings is going to join us CNN's chief pugnacious pundit when it comes to defending sanity on that network is actually in Israel as well. Yell Eckstein, who obviously many of you know from the IFCJ. Her flight was turned back on route to Israel. She is still in the United States.
And we're going to talk with Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire, So a lot of different people we're going to talk about. We got a lot of guests reacting to what is a monumental day. I thought, Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete hag Seth, jd Vance, Susie Wiles, everybody that was involved here played it masterfully, in particular the Trump press conference that he had right before we went in for our meeting. Buck, I mean, were hanging out with him in the middle of the afternoon as the final preparations for the attack are going. But he said publicly that we were still effectively negotiating with Iran when he knew that Israel's attack was coming in the side of Israel. They actually leaked that net and Yahoo was going to be having to attend one of his children's weddings to make the Iranians think nothing was ominous or or a vout to happen, and a.
Little bit like Michael Corleoni at the christening and then all the bosses got whacked, you know, is settling all accounts, settling all family business.
It was a bit of that. And to your point, I mean, Trump continued.
He also he had his meeting with us, He had the Senate and House leadership coming to the coming to the event. I just think they knew exactly what was coming, but they did not leak any of it. They kept it extremely close to the vest, and as a result, I think this was one hundred percent the right call. Now I was over in Israel in December, and in some of my meetings with top Israeli officials, they said, now is the time to make the move. Now they said it a little bit. I think we had the Speaker of the House, Speaker of the Knesse over there on this program letting it be known. I think that basically he thought the time to attack Iran was now, and they waited.
Trump tried to get Iran to.
Agree to peace, and this seems to have been an incredibly strategic, successful, decapitation style attack. We will continue to break all of that out for you, but we're going to Israel with Josh Hammer. He's a senior editor at large at Newsweek, author of Israel and Civilization. He is in Israel right now. We come back, we'll see what it sounds like on the ground there. Tomorrow marks a major milestone two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the US Army, also President Trump's seventy ninth birthday. Our sponsor, Pure Talk, founded by a veteran. This month, Puretalk is giving one thousand men and women who've served our country an American flag from Allegiance Flag. When you switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk, you're contributing to that pure Talk team believes every service member who's faithfully served this country deserves to proudly fly an American flag, one made in America. Just switch your cell phone service to pure Talk this month, and a portion of your monthly rate will go to provide the flags to deserving veterans. With plans from just twenty five bucks a month for unlimited talk, text plenty of data, you can enjoy America's most dependable five gene network while cutting your cell phone bill in half. Just dial pound two five zero say the keywords Clay and Buck. Pure Talk's a US customer service will get you switched hassle free in as little as ten minutes. Again, pound two five zero, say Clay and Buck. To support veterans to switch to America's wireless company, that's pound two five zero say Clay and Buck. Save one thousand dollars and support America's heroes at pure Talk. Our friend Josh Hammer joins us now from the outskirts of Tel Aviv. He's the author of Israel and Civilization, Senior editor at large for Newsweek. Hammer glad to hear you're safe and things are going okay so far. Tell us bring us as much as you can into the on the ground story. How are the Israeli people feeling, what are the security precautions? Tell us what's going on around you?
Yeah, Bud, thanks for having me.
It's been a heck of a week so far, as things have not exactly gone according to plan. To put a mildly so, the first thing happened a couple of nights ago. We were at a dinner in Telaveria on the Sea, nice sushi dinner, you know, hoping for a romantic evening that was quickly interrupted by citywide sirens for a hoopy ballistic missile attack.
So we ran with the baby stroller.
To the bomb shelter before finishing our dinners. That was kind of just a preview of things to come. So we woke up this morning at three am local time to massive sirens all throughout the country and he ran to the bomb shelter. So so I've been up buck since three am multiple time, and you know, it's it's been. It's been a heck of a day. I guess I can tell you is that on the ground it's very early quiet. There are virtually no cars here on the road. The folks who I'm staying with here in the house where I'm at. Who went to the supermarket to get goods for the Sabbath, the Shabbat on the weekend.
It's over there.
Apparently, waiting in line at the market for two hours. So it's kind of like a hurricane. I mean, I've written out hurricanes before you. I mean, if you've ever been to the supermarket on the eve of a massive storm, you know that all the produce is totally sold out there, the bread is sold out, the line around the corner. Apparently it's hurricane like conditions here. A million dollar question obviously is what is around and now going to do?
But the Israeli people.
Are tough, They're resilient and tranquily buzzing kind of a weird way.
I'm actually really happy.
To be here at the sumner, Josh, what would you assess? And I know it's hard because Israel has a lot of people, but what kind of approval ratings do you think as you sit there twelve hours after the attack, sixteen hours after the attacks started, do you think there is an Israel for attacking Iran?
Right now?
Oh?
Here in Israel, clay Iran is not a contentious issue. This is a very important point to get across. There are a lot of contentious issues here in the Israeli political spectrum. So there's a lot of disagreement about the Palatine Arabs.
What do you do with them? Two state solution, one state solution.
All that.
There's a huge dispute here when it comes to the issue of the draft exemption into the military for the Hyrid Deem, the so called ultra Orthodox. There are definitely contentious issues here in Israel. Iran is not one of them. I actually have this memory of chatting with a far left member of the connect that back in twenty sixteen. This guy was so far left, a literal self that self described marks that he's actually a supporter Bernie Sanders's twenty sixteen credential campaign. That's why I was chatting with him nine years ago. And I say that because even this guy who was such a need to far left die, even he was pretty hawkish when it comes to Iran. So if you are a Jewish israel I think Arab is really study different conversation, but Jewish is really is here across the entire political spectrum, understand that Iran is the existential threats, and that at the IDFs mantra of never again means never again, if that actually used to be taken seriously, that an operation the likes of which we saw last night simply had to happen at some point.
Do you have any sense, Josh of surprise at the lack of military or effective military response from the Iranian side of the equation. As we begin to dig in more to this, and we will over the course of the show today, the mapping of targets, the ability to hit simultaneously, the ballistic missiles program along within the tan's nuclear facility and other nuclear facilities, along with senior leadership, along with I mean, it's a stunning array of targets, hundreds of planes that hit you know, over a hundred sites. But how much worry is there that there will be a major military strike versus the terrorist cells dispersed? That has always been a concern where they'rn.
So we saw a preview of this last year, right, So twice last year, in both April and October, Aron launched a massive ballistic missile barish parage at Israel. So the higher one with October was it was like one hundred and eighty three ballistic missiles or something like that, and Israel's missile defense system held up not a single Israeli what was harmed, not a single hair. Every single Israeli was harm which is pretty remarkable in its own rights. So we'll see if Roan is able to do more than that. I suppose color me skeptical for at least two reasons. One is, on the Israeli North you have their top roxy heads Blaw, which has been completely decimated at this point. They are a total shell of what they once were, and head Blaw was very much Iron's insurance policy there. That's kind of sort of damicles hovering over Israel, essentially trying to prevent Digital from striking, so heslow.
And taken care of.
And then the literal actual people buck on the ground in Iran, like the actual IRGC top generals, like the physical people who would actually get on the phone and call the shots, are mostly dead at this point. So I'm skeptical as to what could happen. But having said that, we're not taking any precautions. My wife and I we are supposed to go to Jerusalem this weekend spend the Sabbath there. I'm supposed to have a talk my book in Jerusalem Sunday night. We essentially cantled all that. We're just we're buckling down here in the safe house. We've got a nice big bunker bomb shelter rooms. So we're not taking chances, certainly not taking any chances, especially as a new father. But on the other hand, I'm pretty skeptical that iron can can can do anything of much significant piosity.
I think this is important and we're going to dive into it more, Josh, and we appreciate you joining us from Israel book.
By the way, is Israel and Civilization.
There is actually a great deal of support for Israel's attacks from other Middle Eastern countries, Muslim countries. They also wanted Iran not to have nuclear weapons. That's an important part of this, and I don't know that it gets widely discussed, but Iran was seen as a pariah state by many Muslim countries as well.
Oh one thousand percent.
No, Look, the Saudis and the Murdis have put out condemnatory statements, but that's just what the Arab countries do play as you know, I mean, they're they're basically very cowardly when it comes to the public facing statements there, but privately, I mean Mohammed Bintelman is definitely smiling ear.
To ear and Riatta right now.
There is no.
Doubt about that. With the exception probably of.
The Emir and Doha Qatar Tantar being Iran's closest Sumi Arab allies and needing some of these rogues Northern African Muslim brotherhood adjacent to rogue states like Algeria Tunisia both a pretty radical government, but the vast majority of the Arab world that matters, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, countries like that.
We got to stay safe, buddy, Thank you, boy, get Israel civilization.
Thank you so much. Yes, stay saying.
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Just about I don't know I can do the math, but in the last twenty four hours for sure, probably.
Like eighteen hours ago, and so we will continue to follow that story closely. We've got Scott Jennings. We're efforting him right now. He is in Israel. You know Scott from the gentlemanly slaps that he dishes out over at CNN to various Democrats and leftists on on one of their shows. We'll see we can get We're having a little bit technical issue because you know, he's on the other side of the world, so we'll see if we can have him join us from Israel. Also, just some other stories we are watching as we continue to deep dive into the preemptive strike, which is what Israel's officially calling it on Iran and its nuclear capability and ballistic missile capability and the IRG SE mean, they just they went for it in a big way. You have still the ongoing back and forth with Trump and Newsom in Los Angeles and California. More broadly, Trump put out this tweet I shouldn't say tweet truth yesterday Clay the Biden administration and Governor Nuskum. He wrote, Nuskum flooded America with twenty one million illegal aliens, destroying schools, hospitals, and communities and consuming untold billions of dollars in free welfare. All of them have to go home, as do countless other illegals and criminals who will turn us into a bankrupt third world nation. America was in and occupied. I'm reversing the invasion. It's called remigration. Our courageous ice officers who are daily being subjected to dosing and murder threats are heroes. We will always have their back as they carry out this noble mission. America will be for Americans again. Very strong statement from President Trump on the continued mission to both stabilize things in Los Angeles County UH and continue the deportation operations. It was pretty stunning, Clay, but I guess not surprising. A lower court judge slapped down Trump's deployment of the National Guard basically said Trump's not allowed to do this. Gavin Newsom is the only one who can call the shots. Then the appeals court, I believe, looked at it and slapped down the slap down with a stay of the stay because the President of the United States think about our history. If the President of the United States, oh we have Scott Jennings, we do well, I would I was having.
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Clause was right on top of my mind there, But we got Scott Jennings live from Israel, CNN's own Scott Jennings.
Scott, what's it like over there? What's going on?
Well, great to hear your voice. You know, it's interesting.
I'm in Tiberius, literally standing on the bank of the Sea of Galilee right now, looking due east, which is towards Tehran, and it's a little calm out here at Shabbat Friday night here in Israel, so a lot of people are with their families that inside. And right before we connected, I got a word on my phone. I think people may be going into safe rooms now because of a possible missile incoming from Yemen.
But other than that, everything's fine.
So we're all we're all just amazed at the news today and what Israel pulled off, apparently with the help of our President Donald Trump, to really defeat the principal, you know, it's the head of the octopus, and to take away their nuclear capabilities, to decapitate the government of the worst.
People in the world.
You know, these people they killed today are the absolute founders of terror. It's a great day. This has been twenty twenty five years in the making. I'm glad Israel pulled the trigger.
Scott.
You're over there right now. I was there in December. They've stopped all air travel, everything else. We've got, you know, millions of Americans listening right now who have not been to Israel before, who've not seen it. What it's like in a time of war? What is it like? What was your experience like? I know you posted your bomb alerts that came onto the phone for people who will maybe never go to Israel and certainly will not be there in a time of war. What's the experience like for you and for the average Israeli right now?
Well, you know, they live with something every day of these possible incoming rocket and missile strikes, so you know, it's really common for them to get alerts and to go into safe rooms. A lot of the buildings or apartments or houses you're in would have a safe room, and they take it all in stride. It's just part of daily life. I mean, obviously, this attack on Iran is extremely unusual, so it has the country on a heightened state of alert, but on day to day life, you know, they take it in stride. And they go about their business and they just live with it. Of course, you know, they live with the being surrounded by their enemies all the time, and they've just had to learn to incorporate into their daily life. I've enjoyed being here. This is an incredibly hospitable country everywhere I've gone from the north to the south. I've been to the Gaza border, I've been to the Lebanon border. I've been in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and a lot of places in between. Extremely hospitable, welcoming to Americans, appreciative of the relationship between Israel and the United States. I had not been, I would have no qualms whatsoever about bringing my family back here to visit again. It's been an amazing experience.
Scott, there seemed to be some difference in the reporting about how some aspect of this went down. I'm wondering if you either have insight or just what your assessment of it is that Trump was essentially new one hundred percent. This was coming well in advance, and so there was the head fake, if you will, of hanging out with Clay and me for one thing, you know, having a good time in the Oval office, the picnic that was scheduled. Secretary of Defense went to a baseball game with his kids. Then there's other people who are saying, oh, but President Trump told them not to. Netnyahu said, look, we can't wait anymore, and then Trump just rolled with it because it's ultimately Israel's call. How do you see the last let's say, three or four days playing out as it pertains to Trump and his role in all of this.
Well, I think people who hate Donald Trump are always going to come up with a narrative that tries to make him look bad no matter what happens.
That's number one. Number two.
I go back sixty days, sixty one days, sixty one days ago. Donald Trump said publicly, Iran has sixty days to make a deal. Today is day sixty one. So he told the world and I ran clearly what they needed to do in order to have this outcome. And here we are sixty one days later, and Iran didn't make a deal. They couldn't bring themselves to understand the position they were in. And now Israel is doing the work of dismantling the enemy of Western civilization. But the President of the United States warned them, and now they're getting the consequences of failing to heed that warning. So I think this ruse, I think this head fake, whatever you want to call it, is going to go down in history is one of the most interesting and amazing military operations that ever happened. I mean, this is essentially page or two point zero. You know what, the israelis constructed here, having masade inside of Iran, having the head fake with the United States. The entire construction of this is nothing short of a miracle. And it is good for the West, and it is good for America, and it is good that Donald Trump was the president because I'm not sure the previous administration would have ever participated in something like this to defeat this enemy.
Scott, you're on CNN talking to a lot of people who it appears every night, or reading from the same talking points. I haven't really seen an aggressive pushback from the left on Israel's actions so far, two parter. Have you seen any kind of pushback from a purely political perspective too?
Do you expect one?
Because they march in lockstep, everybody had the Mexican flag up. Is Iron's flag going to start showing up? And left wing bios on social media? How do they respond to this or are they actually going to acknowledge that this is actually a good thing for global peace?
What do you anticipate.
Well, first of all.
Ben Rhodes, who was Obama's National Security advisor, was one of the first people out to criticize this. And you know his nickname, according to reporting in the Obama Whitehouse was Hamas and so.
That is, by the way, that is quite a nickname.
Yeah, no kidding.
And then you've seen some other fringe elements of the left that are very unhappy, because they're unhappy anytime Israel in the United States it does anything to defend itself. What I really think their problem is going to be Tomorrow these Kings rallies or all these rallies that are being held around the country. You can bet that the Free Palestine movement will be out there that the Palestinian flags and the Hamas colors and all these people that have been marching all over college campuses at American cities for the last few months.
You know they're going to be at these events.
And I think politically, until the left, until the Democrats divorced themselves from this bunch of people who, let's just be honest. It has nothing to do with Palestine. This is about destabilizing the West and destroying the United States of America from within. That's what it is. It is a domestic terrorism organization. Until you can separate yourself from that, the American people are going to continue to punish you and Democrats today. I mean, not that many statements coming out from Democrats in Congress supporting Israel today because they are afraid. They are afraid of these people. They need to get rid of them and get away from them as soon as they can.
That is my sincerest advice to them.
But is that even possible Scott with the makeup, I mean politically possible. Right, of course, they could do the right thing, But I mean to keep the Democrat coalition going such as it is, and it seems like they have to pretend that this is the new BLM, like this is the new social justice Movement, but it's not BLM.
It's Prohomas.
Well, the coalition of the Democrats fundamentally thinks America and Western values are rotten at the core. I mean, that is the sad fact of that party, and they need to reverse themselves immediately. I don't know if they can do it. But when you look at the energy in their party, the beating heart of that party at its core, believes America is rotten, Our founding values are rotten, the West is rotten.
They look at the world through.
The lens of this oppressed and oppressor, and they believe the United States is an oppresser. Well, how can you be a political party in the United States if you believe those things? And I think that's why they're struggling with the American people right now, because most Americans do not see.
The world that way. And I don't know if.
They can get rid of it, but it would help them if they could. But you look at where their energy is. The squad crocket. These people, these strident voices from the radical left, they're not pro America. They don't believe in our founding values. They don't believe in Western civilization. In many cases, they certainly don't believe in our relationship with Israel. They're going to have a tough time here divorcing themselves, but they really should try because it's killing them. It is killing their party. And you know, as a Republican, you know it's good politically, but I hate it for the United States that one of our two political parties has fallen a victim of this hateful ideology.
We're talking to Scott Jennings. He's an israel Last question for you, Scott, and we appreciate you making the time. I know it's night coming over in Israel, not to mention, who knows what might happen with that occurring. But back here in the States, when you see some owned biles come after Riley Gaines, and when you have conversations with off air Democrats, do they acknowledge privately that they're public stance in favor of men in women's sports is absolutely insane.
Every single person that I know from that side of the ball, from that profession professional Democrats know that it's killing them. And they also know that there's not a darn thing they can do about it. I mean, that is the fundamental problem they have. They know the right thing to do, but they can't do anything about it. Either they live in fear or they know that. The way their party works, I mean, they're authoritarians, you know, and you're not allowed to get out of line. You're not allowed to say, wait a minute, look what they did to Fetterman when he got out of line on Israel, you know. I mean they're out there saying y ought to be in a straight jacket. I mean his own staff was out there saying that you are not allowed to get out of line inside the Democratic Party controlled by the radical left.
Even on obvious ninety.
Five five issues, which this issue is.
You're not allowed to get out of line, and you even have to say things like we need more studies, We need more studies to find out if men and women are different.
Jennings of CNN, Scott stay safe over there. Thanks for making the time.
For us, all right. Thank you.
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We actually happened to be in the West Wing yesterday for a substantial amount of time. We met with President Trump, saw jd Vance, Stephen Miller, Caroline Levitt, a lot of the people that we have known for years that are doing phenomenal work. And I would describe I think you probably would sign off on it President Trump as extremely relaxed. He wanted us to see the changes that he's made to the Oval Office, the changes that he has made in terms of portraiture in the cabinet rooms and everything immediately ancillary to the Oval Office. Also you can see, and I think this is gonna end up being pretty cool. He is in the process of building a patio where you can dine outside, so it will be like he has basically at mar A Lago, but this would extend He's paying for himself. He says this would extend for future presidents as well. But he likes the idea of having sort of his own salon where you can walk outside and have meals on a patio just outside the Oval Office in the West Wing. But I would describe him as super relaxed. He wanted all of you to know that he appreciates you and really is greatly thankful for all of your support. But the thing that he seemed most excited about talking about is something that hasn't gotten a great deal of attention. Buck and I wanted to play this audio because it's kind of gotten lost in the sh shuffle of everything that has happened since Israel attack Toron. But with us, he wanted to say, because he signed this bill, he wanted to talk about the impact of ending the electric vehicle mandate and what he believed was going to be a substantial change for the better for many different American drivers out there. And this is cut eighteen with Bucket Eye and you can go see the pictures. By the way, some of you want to see the pictures. They're up at all the Clay and buck social media accounts. We were happy to have the time that we did with the President and all the staff.
But here is cut eighteen.
Trump announcing yesterday that he was terminating the California ev mandate, which matters to a lot of you out there.
Listen, this is good news.
Indeed, people said he couldn't be done. You got it done. I just have to sign right. That's very good. This is really something and it has to do with the California Auto Regulation cr A. It's been a disaster for this country and I want to thank everybody for being here. We officially rescue the US auto industry from destruction by terminating to California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.
Okay, there is the announcement balk from President Trump. I knew he wanted would want to talk about a lot of different things, but this is the thing he was most excited to talk about with us.
Yeah, I know he was.
We sat down and we were obviously we're already thinking about Iran, but also we're talking border, we're talking riots in LA and how he's and he was like, gentlemen, did you see did you see the thing I did on the vehicles. We're like, yeah, yes, sir, mister President, we saw, and he really because he had just signed it. I was very proud of it. He just got a press conference on it. Just to bring everybody up to speed on this play, because this has got this is one of these It's actually a big deal, but it has gotten in the media cycle, the new cycle we live in. It has definitely gotten buried quite a bit. The Republican led Congress passed these resolutions in May to reverse Biden administration approval of the California electric vehicle mandate. When the president signs a joint resolution revoking federal laws, it carries the force of law and are not subject to judicial review. So this is actually something that matters a whole lot. And for anyone who's forgotten what this says. California in twenty twenty four, banned gasoline powered car sales by twenty thirty five, and revoked the federal waiver that would allow that allows it to set its own tailpipe emission standards under the Clean Air Act. Seventeen states, thirty percent of the US vehicle market had adopted this plan, which we know again this is a California EV mandate. This is nuts.
Yeah, this is completely insane.
These states were going to say you can't sell a normal car anymore in our state by twenty thirty five.
Ten years.
This is going to go pretty fast. So Trump has freed the auto market from this insanity. And it's a big win. It's a big win for those of us who don't necessarily want to drive an EV but also don't want the climate change lunatics completely infringing on markets and driving up the cost of everything for no reason.
Totally.
And look, and this is what Trump told us, and we're not speaking out of turn on this story when we were sitting talking with him. If you want to own an EV, go, more power to you. Right, the market should dictate the choices that you make. The state should not dictate the choices that you are forced to make.
Imagine California. And there was a time Clay when I think this was something they would have wanted to do. Imagine California said, and it's going to make Clay very sad because I've seen the cars that Clay has. No SUV's allowed. Yeah, we're going with an suv ban in this state. California says you're not allowed to sell an suv in the state of California. Remember for a while it was oh, they're gas guzzling. Now SUVs have actually come very efficient and they're hugely popular. It's like a giant part of the US car sales mar car market. But you would just say, well, that's a completely ridiculous intrusion on the car market in a huge state. So Trump has again, all he has done is restored choice to the consumer and restored the ability of the auto market to be a market instead of some kind of state enforced mandate based on Green New Deal insanity.
So it is a really big win.
It is totally And by the way, we should update there are air raid sirens being going off in Israel right now as there's an expectation that Iran has fired some missiles in their direction. Updating you on what is taking place there. It is now night in Israel, so it's probably not a huge surprise that the attack would come at night. We'll see if it's even a substantial or Iran is capable buck of doing even as much as they tried to do the last time, when they put what one hundred missiles in the air and Israel and its allies effectively shot down all of those missiles and there were no casualties.
I think Israel first of all, I hope and pray that they're able to shoot down these missiles which.
Are just intended.
Remember the strikes that Israel did were precise strikes at legitimate military targets. And what Iran is going to do in response is I just want They're just trying to send a big missile that goes boom into a crowded apartment building and kill as many Jews as possible. That's what the Iranian response.
Is supposed to be.
I always fight these wars, so I think that the Israelis are going to have a ratcheted or a tiered response, whereby every time Iran does something, the Israelis are just going to raise the costs for Iran and then it's a question of how much more of this do they want, you know, Ben Shapiro on this last hour, he said, leaving the Molas alive gives them something to think about. The Mulas may not survive this thing. We'll see what happens they they if they order a lot of mass casualty, attempted mass casualty attacks on Israel. These reallyings have mapped out that whole country, and they have total dominance in the skies.
Uh.
We'll see what ends up happening with this, no doubt.
And uh and and on that front, as we wait to see what's going to happen there, I will say this about our visit to the White House. A lot of you wanted to know if I was going to be able to get in. The answer was yes. I brought my passport yesterday or two days ago. I don't have the real ID, and you have to have a real ID or a passport, so I was able to get in with my passport.
I was struck buck leave.
Aside the politics of the current moment and many of the topics that we discussed, the sheer, happy warrior dumb vibe that existed in the West Wing yesterday when we as it did with whether it's President Trump, jd Vance, Caroline Levitt, Margo, Trump's top personal assistant Natalie, who follows him around everywhere. It is a intensely positive environment there and I think it's because they know that they are doing the work that the American people sent them there to do, and they know how to do it and they are delivering. And Trump has a level of confidence in what is required to do the job that is next to level. And let me just echo this again. The Israelis consulted with the Trump team and Trump went out yesterday and through an all time headfake saying that the negotiations were still ongoing. Same thing happened with Pete Hegseth went to a Washington Nationals game with his kids. Obviously it's Father's Day weekend. You had Marco Rubio. This was a masterclass, I think in subterfew huge and the ability to catch Iran unaware, and for Israel to have the ability buck to actually have the Iranian schedule in person meetings so they could directly attack because they are so enmeshed in the Iranian security services, is really an incredible strength of their attack.
And let me just mention this too.
A lot of people told you, some on the right, many on the left, that if Israel attacked Iran we're still in the early stages, that this would basically be a preset to World War III. I think you're now learning Iran is not very strong. They lack the ability to even defend their own country, and China and Russia they're not coming to the aid the other Middle Eastern countries. Many of them welcome this, even if they say publicly there's a difference between public and private conversations. They may say publicly they don't like it. Privately they are very welcoming even of this, And I think you're seeing that a lot of the cataclysmic analysis, as often as the case, was not reflected in reality.
Yes, and this is on track to be one of the most successful military operations in modern military history. So we hope that that continues because it is to the benefit of everyone that we root for here that that is the case, not just our friends analys in Israel, and not just other Middle Eastern countries and countries in the region that are very pleased to see the Iranian threat cut down to size, but also for the Iranian people it weakens a regime that has been nothing but a nightmare for them for fifty years now, and it is long past time for there to be changed. And there's no reason why Iran can't be something a lot more along the lines of say Turkey. You know, another country with a tremendously proud history and a really rich past that functions as a I'm not saying Turkey's perfect. We have our occasional gripes with them in NATO, but it's a functioning, modern state and not one that keeps anybody up at night in Israel, the United States, or really around the region for that matter. So that I think is what is possible here, and it's it's looking like.
So far, it's a very good day.
As you said, there's missiles in the air, and we don't know what the Iranians are going to pull off with any reprisals, but their military to military capability is deminimus. It's really the terror, the terror strikes that we would have to be worried about, or you know, terror cells that go operational, and we're going to have to keep a close eye on that, and it's very hard to fight against those. It's very hard to catch all of those, I should say, but that can't change the reality of what just happened to Israel, which is its military and nuclear program have been effectively capitated.
And I think this is so important for ordinary Iranians. I thought it was interesting that Ben Shapiro told us that they basically have tried to turn off the Internet in Iran because they don't want people to understand what's actually going on. But at some point, these conversations are going to start, as they start anywhere in the world when humans gather. Wait a minute, You've been in power the Iatolas for two generations. You told us Israel was the great evil. You told us that we were going to eradicate Israel from the planet, And actually we don't even have the ability to fight Israel. Leave aside the religion, leave aside all these things, just pure efficacy of government. Israel has created one of the great technological civilizations in the history of the Middle East, and Iran has been left behind. The Iotolas are being embarrassed.
There are early reports now of some direct hits on Tel Aviv, so we don't know what the scale of those hits are or what if there are any casualties.
We don't know. We just know Clay.
Right now, as we're talking to you, there are real time reports of impacts in Tel Aviv. We're going to continue to watch this very closely.
Stay with us. We'll be back with more details here in just a minute.
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