Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Welcome in Tuesday edition. It's a hot one across much of the country as summer has arrived. The heat and the temperature hopefully getting dialed down in the Middle East as Trump, we hope, is going to be able to maintain a cease fire. It is primary day in New York City, and New York City may be poised to elect the most left wing crazy man in the history of the city. We will break all of that down for you. We're going to talk about the big beautiful Bill.
Senator Rick Scott of Florida will join us at the bottom of this hour. Trump once this done by July fourth, will that occur or not? We will discuss Trump on his way to a I think at NATO meeting in Europe. It's hard to keep track of all the diver you in one of the things overseas headed that way.
We will discus us that and more.
But we began with the Iran and Israel ceasefire, which appears to be tenuously holding, even though both Iran and Israel violated it in the immediate early parts of the process of the ceasefire being put in place, Trump has gotten very involved. As we told you yesterday, everyone who told you that this was going to lead to World War iie, you should question a lot of their decisions and a lot of their suggestions more going forward, because.
It did not. And even Iran's.
Response yesterday, as we discussed it live with all of you, was telegraphed and had zero impact. And it appears that the Iranian and American relationship, at least on some level, is now back to an even playing field with the ability of the United States to every taboc on Iran's long term plans to be able to gain nuclear weapons at no essential cost to us at all, not one single life, virtually, no casualty to speak of to any
degree so far. But the ceasefire is right now underway, and we will get the latest as we progress throughout the course of the program to see whether or not it holds. But I did think this was interesting this morning as he was leaving for the NATO event, Trump sounded like a dad who is just really frustrated because his kids won't stop fighting. If you are a parent, maybe you're on summer vacation right now, maybe you are driving around. The kids want to know when they're going.
To get there.
They're hitting each other in the back. They won't keep their hands to themselves. This was Trump saying, they've been fighting so long they don't even know what they're doing.
Cut one.
I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay, now you have twelve hours, you don't go out in the first hour. It just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either, But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot perhaps by mistake, that didn't.
Land, I'm not happy about that.
Now we have the basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what they're doing.
You understand that.
I understand it. I'm a dad. I imagine a lot of dads and moms understand it. Buck.
President Trump, the dad of the world, just finally seems like he's fed up at the whole process.
I thought that was very funny. By the way.
That's this morning, as he was preparing to embark on his trip for NATO.
The Twelve Day War seems to be over and that is a remarkable achievement given the degradation of Iranian military facilities and their nuclear program most importantly of all. And the warnings of calamity were just that, I mean, they were preposterous, They were overwrought, they were absurd. So that is where we are right now. I understand people are concerned that the ceasefire may not hold, and there could be things that happen that we don't anticipate. The rumsfeld,
the unknown unknowns are always something too. Well, you can't be prepared for them, but you just got to know that stuff happens. And I understand, you know, Trump having
a bit of frustrations. Well, I also think that people appreciate at this stage that Trump is just a guy who talks like ice talk and says things the way that people in the similar circumstance would and doesn't put on this this show, this facade, you know, speaking off the cuff to reporters, right, it's not an address to Congress, to a joint session of Congress, so he's letting it fly a little bit. But I think it's also Trump's
telling both sides. Hey, you know, I expect you know, He's like the referee in the middle of the ring with two boxers and he's like, no, low blows. All right, we're ending this thing now, the match is over. Don't go over there and hit the other guy when he's not looking in his corner. So that's the way Trump operates, very straightforward, very right to the point. Now we see what the next steps will be with the regime in Tehran.
I think the plan here, Clay people have been so concerned about regime change coming from Trump or the Israelis. I think they're going to try to negotiate with a defanged Iran. Say, all right, so you guys tried the whole we're tough guys thing Iran. You tried. That didn't work out well for you. What do you want now? How do you want to play the game? Now? And now you see I understand that the Taliban's in charge in Afghanistan, and that's very disappointing, especially after twenty years
of war. But I do think that the Taliban knows you guys start providing training camps for all Kaier doing something like that, and we're just gonna lay waste to everything. Yeah, we're not. We're not gonna be worried, and even convention, good luck, good luck crying about that one. We're just going to go in hard and heavy with everything we got. And I think the Iranians have been sent a very
clear message as well. The days of us being worried, or certainly the days of Israelis being worried about how this plays on CNN are gone. So how do you want things to go from here on out? In the Middle East? Strong horse recourse? Right, people want to go with the strong horse. They respect strength. That's really the only thing that Middle East regimes respect, to be honest with you, and we've seen that all throughout history, and I think that now we know, and Trump wants them
all to know. This is the state of play. Now, let's move toward a more sane future. And it's clay that the trends in the Middle East right now are more positive for a sustained and durable security than they have been in my life. I think I don't know of another time where there's at least the possibility. That doesn't mean the reality, that doesn't mean the certainty. But the trends are moving on in the right direction right now for the good guys.
No doubt, and I think this has to be seen as a profound win for Trump. Now, the question that I have you kind of hit at it. What is the ordinary Iranian thinking, What are they seeing?
What is their.
Access to the last twelve days of what's taken place, because they have been sold a profound by It was that after forty six years in power, that the Ayatolas had built a world where there was the ability of Iran to challenge Israel and the United States on some sort of global battlefield.
That is not true, It is not remotely true.
It took about one day for Israel, which has one tenth the population and a fraction of the overall land.
Mass of.
Iran, to completely wipe out all Iranian defenses and even haphazardly firing as they were from Iran. I believe the math was buck ninety five percent of all Iranian missiles that they fired into Iran into Israel were shot down. So I mean it is a case that Israel was able to protect itself thanks to both its technology and
American technology. Because Iranian attacks were not targeted, they were not precise, They were attempting to inflict as many casualties as they could, whereas Israel has the technology too, as you said yesterday, hit.
A single floor in a single.
Apartment building and not even harm anybody else in any other parts of the apartment building. That's how precise and targeted their hits were. And honestly, Iran is basically defenseless. And I wonder whether the Iranian people are privy to this knowledge and what their thoughts are as they are walking around waking up in their country in the midst of this ceasefire.
I'll make if now I'm not some bright eyed idealist when it comes to foreign policy specifically in the Middle East, and having seen with my own eyes over many months in Iraq and many months in Afghanistan during wars, how messy things can get, I am not somebody who's sitting here. You know this is This is not the early days of the Bush administration when the flowering of democracy is going to just spread across as we all know that that's not what happened, right, But I would say this
if you want a case for optimism here. But the first thing is the guns fall silence, so to speak, the ceasefire holes. Okay, so now you're talking about in Iran that I keep saying defanged, however you want to put it, is less of an external military threat. Both not just because of the nuclear program which has been
set back a long time. I know people are now saying, oh, but what if they move some of the you know, enriched uranium, okay, but also because of the destruction of the baballistic, the mobile billistic missile launchers, and the recognition that Israel knows where everything is. Essentially, the Israeli's had this whole country mapped out, and that's why I think the opening hours, I mean, this was a true shock
in awe campaign, but a targeted one. It wasn't we're going to level your cities and then you'll wake up the next day and maybe you'll want to play ball with us. It was we'll take out all of your military infrastructure that's critical. We'll do it with the precision of a surgeon, and then we can have a talk and your own people will see that we're not We're not leveling apartment buildings, We're not being reckless about this. We are targeting you militarily because we are better than
you militarily. That is what the Israelis showed beyond any doubt. So okay, that's the first component of this. The next stage is what happens now, what does Trump want? You know, other than Trump telling the kids behave yourselves in a very Trump way, no you shouldn't. You certainly use salty language in front of the kids like Trump did, but that's it. You know, he's talking to adults. But other
than getting them to abide by the ceasefire. The case for optimism I think in Iran Clay that's realistic is that now, remember they have elections. Now I know they're not free and fair elections, but you know they have some process in place. They have this massud Pizecchian Pizzeschi
rather who is the president. They have something where Now they can't, I think, rely on the external threat of Israel to be the constant excuse for why their currency sucks, and they can't you know, the quality of life is so low, maybe for their own internal stability reasons. So out of pure self interest in cynicism, the Iotola and the Iranian regime will say, all right, we will tone it down for a bit, we will try to get maximum oil flow going and will rebuild. I don't think
ideologically they've changed. They still hate the Israelies, I get it, but they might be in a period here of contraction where they quiet down for a while. I think that's a reasonable case for optimism for what the Middle East looks like. I do not see a terrear Square Egypt twenty twelve or whenever that was moment here. I don't see that happening, but you never know. They didn't see that happening in Egypt till it did.
I would love if they could turn the Internet on Elon through starlink and keep it on for the Iranian people, because I don't think it's just seeing how people in Israel live or how people in the United States live. I think the embarrassment of seeing Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Bahrain and the UAE, which we're seen as inferior countries to Iran for most of world history, surpassing Iran in a major way is.
A big part of this story.
I also think you have to give President Trump a tremendous amount of credit here for leading with commerce. The way that he has connected with the people, the Arab leaders of the Middle East is primarily through economics and saying hey, let's invest and build together. They respect Trump's business acumen because they are trying to expand beyond the good gift that they have of oil in their region.
But they understand that in the smarter countries with better leadership, oil is not going to create tremendous, long term, multi generational hundreds of years of return because at some point it's going to run out and they have to have something else that their economy can be based on. And Iran has not been able to take that next step. And I think it's because they've gotten bogged down in
the purity tests of the religious clerics. And I wonder how many people who are Iranian are looking around and saying, this is an embarrassment to us that other countries in our region. It's one thing if Israel and the United States are bigger and better, but other Arab countries, Arab Muslim countries, I think it's a humiliation to them.
Well, there's an embarrassment here that the Iranian nation state has suffered, that it is so militarily, you know, putting this in guy terms, if you know, if you're so much stronger and bigger than somebody, and you get into like a bar fight situation and you slap them instead of punch them. It's kind of worse in a way. You know, it's because because if you put like you're so you know, if you punch them, you may really
do a lot of harm. So you might slap them if you If a guy slaps another guy in some ways, it's.
Disrespect that he's not even afraid of you being able to corrash him back.
It's he's just like, you're a little bitch.
I'm gonna slap you in the face.
I say it if I if I yeah. Exist. So that's and and that's kind of what the Israeli military has done to the Iranian military here though, like we're not we don't even have to we can just dismantle you and we don't have to worry about causing a lot of collateral damage to civilian casualties because we are so much we're so superior to you militarily. Yes, that's a that's you know, the Iranians have a national pride.
Even though they have problems with their regime, they had a national pride and they're now effectively gone nuclear program and their military capabilities. What we see is that you know, whoever's got the best the best missiles, drones, radar, comms, planes, et cetera, is in a whole different league. And so there's gonna be more internal pressure, I think, just more of a sense when inside the country. Why are these clowns in charge?
Again?
Yeah, that's the question.
They're not even They can't even defend us. They can't even defend their most precious asset, which was the nuclear program. So why are they there now? I don't know if that turns into overthrow or not. I think, you know, one thing that these regimes are very good at is preventing overthrow, because that's what they are obsessed with, right
That's the thing they care about more thanything else. But I do think that it means the Iranians are going to probably play within the sandbox, so to speak, a little more nicely.
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I am up in Michigan. Buck is back from Europe.
Yesterday he was, but in the events you missed some of yesterday's show.
He is in Miami.
So we have got a large swath of the nation top to bottom covered. I am in near the northern in the near the northern border. I think it's fair to say at News Talk five ADWTCM and Traverse City, Michigan buck near the southern border in Miami. It is hot all over the country as summer has arrived in full force. Mayor's race Democrat primary taking place today in New York City. We will talk some about that, but
the number one story remains Iran Israel. The ceasefire that as I speak to all of you, remains in effect, and that is to a large extent, based on the work that President Trump did yesterday. We played some of the audio of Trump basically as a frustrated dad who's on a summer vacation and doesn't understand why things can't
get resolved there. But we will dive into this. And also I'm going to tie this in because the leading New York City Democrat can it Mom Donnie, who is a crazy left wing socialist who wants to run grocery stores on behalf of the city of New York, who wants to replace police officers with social workers.
I mean, this is crazy town.
He would say that he would arrest Benjamin Netan Yahoo if he came to New York City. I think there's a lot of you out there that are saying, man, this is crazy town.
This is how democrats are responding.
And speaking of crazy town, I do want to run through some things that many people out there said would happen if we got involved in any way, or if Israel bamb deran World War three. Buck as a former CIA analyst, that seems like a little bit of a stretch to argue that Iran, which did not have one public ally, not China, not Russia, not Saudi Arabia, not Iraq, not the UAE, not Katar, not Syria. No one came out and said, hey, we've got your back.
Run.
But a lot of people said this was going to start World War three. A lot of people said there would be thousands, if not tens of thousands of American troops killed, that your oil prices would skyrocket, that the stock market would collapse.
Here is where we are right now.
Oil prices, oil prices have collapsed since all of this has has been resolved. They are around sixty five dollars a barrel. Oil prices. For those of you who have paid attention over time, you know this during summer when everybody, dad and mom, grandma and grandpa get out on the road, oil prices tend to go up in the summer and then come back down in the fall through the winter. That is basically what has happened right now, but they are substantially below where they were two summers ago, three
summers ago. For those of you out there, as I am talking to you right now, here is another thing that you were told the economy is going to collapse. Trump has no idea what he's doing with tariffs.
Buck.
As I am talking to you right now, the S and P five hundred, five hundred largest companies in America is within one half percentage point of its all time high.
That means that if you had bought in February at the absolute peak of the market, the all time high that had ever been set in the history of the stock market, and you had done nothing, you would just put those stocks off to the side, and you had paid zero attention to it for the past whatever it is, five six months, four months since that happened, you would actually have lost on paper about one half of one percent.
You would still have ninety nine point five percent of your assets even if you had bought at the all time high. And by the way, we are close to setting a new all time high, in which case you would be back in positive territory. Just in the last couple of months. I think this is important. A lot of people out there on the left, on the right, in media in general, have tried to terrify you about stock market prices. They have tried to terrify you about what the price of oil and gas was going to be.
They've tried to terrify you about the tariff, they have tried to terrify you about World War three. And as we sit here coming up on the end of June and hopefully what is going to be a really fun July fourth with Trump back in office.
I would just point out everything's kind of awesome. I mean, let's be honest.
Yes, true, it's going on. It's the country's doing great right now. And Trump has six months in here pretty much or close to six months into his first second term. He is he's just kicking ass and taking names. And if that wasn't the case, we would say so we would try to tell the president via this show, tell his staffers via this show what we think could be going in a markedly different direction or a different focus
or whatever. They're doing a really good job on a whole range of things, and I know that they haven't gotten everything done yet, but of course not right. That's a completely unrealistic view of what could happen. And you're never done as an administration. There's endless things that need to get work and attention. But if you're looking at this with a realistic eye, Trump has had a remarkably successful opening to term two here or in the first
few months of term two. The economy is really good, and the catastrophism I think has gotten old for a lot of people that, oh, my gosh, it used to be. So here's the thing, Clay. It used to be that the catastrophism was just a constant from the other side as a means of trying to create negativity about Trump. Right, Oh my gosh, he's talking to Kim Jong, Kim Jung ill or Kim Jung and it's all going to fall apart.
You know, it's a no, no, no, you know. Oh, it used to be the Democrats are worried about World War three when there was no realistic prospect of World War three. Now we've had some Republicans and some Trump supporters, at least ostensibly Trump supporters, who are screaming about World War three. You know, if you have any knowledge of World War One or World War two, I think you're a lot slower to talk about World War three because of what that would actually mean and what that would
look like in a modern context. And Trump knows what he's doing. He has a very clear understanding. I think of a lot of the risks and the challenges that go into the thinking of people that lets them believe that things are about to go completely off, you know, off the rails. It's going to be a total mess. So the faith that we all should have in Trump at this point, I think is something that should be a constant, and I think think that the freak out
stuff is just unhelpful. Here's Trump, by the way, he doesn't want to do is cut three. He doesn't want to hear all this stuff now. But oh but he didn't he didn't really take out the nuclear program. Now that's the latest complaint. Play three.
When I see CNN all night longer trying to say, well, maybe it wasn't really as demolished as we thought it was demolished. You take a look at the pinpricks and you see that place is gone. And I will say, I think CNN or to apologize to the pilots of the V twos. I think that msdnco to apologize. I think these guys, really, these networks are these cable networks are real losers?
You really are You're.
Really says that they violated the v.
You're gutless news is I say that to CNN because I watch it.
I have no choice.
I gotta watch that garbage. It's all garbage, It's all fake news. But I think CNN is a gutless group of people.
The gutless losers is a hell of a lie. Love by talking. And by the way, let's just mention this I'm got on the screen right now. Trump is going to be visiting the Royal Palace in the Netherlands soon. Trump is seventy nine years old. Buck, you just came back from Europe. Now, I know you didn't get to travel on Air Force one. He's probably got a little bit better living quarters than you do on your airplane flight.
But he just landed in Europe after spending the last twelve days trying to mediate the conflict between Israel and Iran, and he's immediately going to go to a late night in Europe event for NATO and the guy's energy. Leave aside his age for a moment. I don't think most forty five year olds. I don't think most thirty five year olds would be able to keep up with what Trump is doing purely from a uh, you know, day
to day existence level. The guy's barely sleeping, managing every conflict under the sun.
I think, I mean sorry, more than Trump does. Rather, I think I need more naps than Trump. And I'm not the president. I'm not almost eighty.
I don't know how many of you out there are in your seventies, but I think if you are listening to us and you're in your seventies, you are even more impressed than the average thirty or forty or fifty year old, because you know, if you're in really good health, you don't know necessarily what you're gonna feel like in your seventies. The number of seventy nine year olds, first of all, that are alive isn't the average age of death for and sorry but for men set a settle
down that would be super dark. But I mean, the average eight year old man is not even alive, all right. Seventy nine year old man is not even alive, much less traveling all over the world managing the biggest conflicts that are going on anywhere.
I mean, the guy's energy is off the charts.
He also he called them gutlass over at CNN, and look, I agree with this frustration. It's like, oh my gosh, if you do the air strikes, world War three is gonna happen. Air strikes happen. No World War three of any kind, not even close. It's pretty much all over. And now it's well, maybe you didn't get everything with the air strikes, like you can never you can't win with these people. I get his frustration. And so Trump went this is cut four. He goes further here and
just says, guys, Okay, they're not getting nukes. I told you they won't get nukes. It's not happening. And maybe now they actually want to make some money and be a normal country a little bit, a little bit. Play four.
Did you remind me.
Any commitments yesterday about uranium enrichment? What about uranium enrichment?
And they're not gonna have enrichment, and they're not gonna have a nuclear weapon, and they know that they're gonna get onto being a great trading nation.
You know, they're very good traders, and they're gonna be a great trading nation. And they have a lot of oil. They're gonna do well. They're not I'm not gonna have a new play weapons. I'm on Iran's mine right now. There's new player weapons. They want to sell their royal clay. They have beautiful carpets, a lot of pistachios, trade, great future for Iran.
I would love at some point in time to visit Iran. I've heard that it is a really beautiful country with great history.
I'm gonna need you to wait on that a little bit, buddy, Okay, Otherwise I'm gonna have to talk to our Jaysk listeners. It's gonna get messy. I'm gonna have to be back at the seventh floor, Langley. Give it a few years, okay.
I don't think we have a great affiliate in Tehran. Uh So, I don't think I'm gonna be doing to iHeart Tehran anytime soon.
But I would like my point on this.
I've never been you know, I've been to Israel, but I would like to go to Saudi Arabia.
I would like to go to the uaa Qatar Ban Bahrian.
I've heard it's really incredible to see and I hope to be able to go to those countries. And I think again for the Iranian people to think about what the difference is between the last forty six years for Saudi Arabia or Guitar or Brain or the UAE. These are countries you used to look down on and basically thumb your nose at because your culture and your history was vastly superior to theirs, and you had a higher quality of life. They've all passed you. This has nothing
to do with Israel of the United States. Clearly we live better here than the people of irandu. But it's one thing to look around in your neighborhood, in your geographic region. It's a little bit buck you know, keeping up with the Joneses, so to speak. Everybody talks about this. They've fallen behind.
Now. This is also where I think the military inferiority of the Iranians now is where a lot of this gets exposed. Because you cannot have an effective military in twenty twenty five without a serious economy, it is not possible. You cannot compete. It doesn't matter, you know, whether you think allahs on your side matter, you know, what the history is, or how brave your soldiers are or whatever. If you do not have a sophisticated economy, your military
cannot compete. And the this is the Iranians have been exposed on this one. They've gotten all this you know, mileage show to speak strategically out of supporting these proxies, and it's gotten it. All it does is just so further misery and chaos. They're not actually expanding Iranian influence in a way that helps any Iranian people.
So I actually where.
Their analogy of how Israel basically just walked up and slapped around in the face.
True, not even closed hands, you know, not even closed fists. They just kind of they slapped around across the face and they were like iron, behave yourself. That's what the that's what the Israelis did. Which if you're a guy, all the guys listen, No, It's like I kind of would rather get punched. Actually, I think I'd rather like
punch at you. They respect your abilities that you could that you could do something back to them, right, you punch somebody, because you know, you think they could punch back if you know they can't. I mean it was Israel was like, this is a backhand, wasn't even you know what I mean, the back of the hand.
They basically just took the glove. They didn't even use the hand. They smacked them in the face with the glove. It's embarrassing, Honestly.
It's tough. What do you think about that? Way? All right, we'll take some calls here and dive into this, you know, speaking about all these countries and some of these non online countries too. When you got representatives from Brazil, China, Russia, India and yes, Iran gathering for a meeting in Rio di Janio, Brazil in just a couple of weeks, you should ask why, why is that happening? What has to
do with undermining the dollar? The Rio reset is what people are calling this because these countries are coming together and they're trying to find a way to start trading without doing it in US currency, which is a threat to the US dollars global dominance, which we've had for
eighty plus years. This rio reset, so to speak, takes place on July sixth and seventh, and you want to remember those because the value of a dollar could to take a hit right around then going forward, because these countries are laying the groundwork to replace the dollar, and their central banks have been divesting from the dollar in bonds in favor of gold, which could also affect the
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got family still there. New York still has its allure, no question about it. But this wacky socialist guy, after what the city's been through with Deblasio and then with Mayor Adams and now.
The can this guy really win?
I mean bring us in to what's going on here because a lot of people look at this saying, how could someone who's so far left wing be possibly the next mayor of America's largest city.
Well, You could also be talking about Andrew Cuomo, who governed as the most left wing kook in the world. But you're talking about this mom Donnie, who's an actual socialist, and Cuomo was pretty bad. So this is the first election. We have to pray nobody wins this election today. So yeah, this mom Donnie apparently did very well in the early voting.
They allow people to vote for two weeks before the election day, and that was about thirty eight percent of the vote and he seems to be leading that by ten percent.
Now.
He's turned off some immigrants, believing on Russians, Cuban immigrants, because he's talking about having government run grocery stores and they say, we grew up with socialist government grocery stores. They're a nightmare. We don't want to see them again. He's very slick, he's very smooth talking. He's charming. Great campaigner. Problem with Cuomo, he's running a campaign from like nineteen eighty six, you know, with these old endorsements. Senator Clyburn,
he had Bill Clinton making robo calls. You know, voters in their thirties. Bill Clinton is way in the past. It's like getting the call from Harry Truman. You know, you know, it doesn't mean anything to you. He was bragging about the Daily News, the New York Daily News newspaper endorsed him. Most people don't even know they still print that thing. So, and he's an old, tired looking guy, Cuomo, So it was pretty easy for Mom Domi to get ahead of him, and Mom Dammy's doing all these shows.
He was on Colbert last night. And Cuomo has had to hide from reporters because of the terrible things he's done in the past, the baggage he has to cover up, so he's runs from reporters. He's actually gotten something like ten speeding tickets in the life few weeks, and three or four of them were getting away from reporters. We're trying to ask him a question. I'm very anti Momdami, but Cuomo is no bargain either.
A wait, can you remind everybody why Cuomo is because Cuomo is sort of positioning himself mark as the you know, I'm not the insane candidate. The other guy is. Ah, there's some stuff that Cuomo did at the state level that affected New York, affected all of New York State that I think people need to be reminded.
Of Yeah, he ran for governor as a moderate, but I have the list right here. This is the guy that gave us no bail, no jail. He pushed that like crazy. This video of him pushing it. He closed prisons, let the prisoners out, and there's a video of him bragging about it. He changed the parole board, put a bunch of left wing cooks on there that let all the prisoners out. They've let out forty three cop killers.
He took away the.
Qualified immunity for policemen. That's the protection from being sued. That's why we can't hire any more cops. He's the guy that gave us congestion pride. He was going to ban ice from New York State. He threatened to sue them. He called them thugs. He closed Indian Point, that's the nuclear plant that's twenty five percent of our electricity, drove everybody's electricity up. He raised taxes. We lost four congressional seats under Quomo because so many people moved out of
the state. So if anybody loves him, it's Florida. He really did more for Florida than New York. I didn't even get to killing ten thousand senior citizens in the nursing homes in the dumbest decision ever made by an elected official, sending people the virus into nursing homes.
Okay, all of that, Mark, and we appreciate you hanging out with us WR listeners. This is the first major election since Trump, and so people are looking and saying, Okay, what's going to be the outcome here? Trump made a pretty significant improvement in the state of New York. There are lots of people obviously that feel like New Jersey could flip red. I mean, Trump only lost New Jersey
by about five points. When you look at this decision that the Democrats are making, such that Andrew friggin Cuomo can look like the reasonable rational choice for Democrats, what does this tell us about the party as a whole?
And also, is this primary happening today?
Is this it?
Or let's say that Mom Donnie wins. Could Cuomo run as an independent?
Like?
What could happen going forward? Is there already scuttle butt about the larger race this fall? And what might happen if Mom Donnie is the Democrat nominee.
Well, Mom Donnie has in the real pulse, the internal Pulse pulled ahead of Cuomo, which is why Cuomo had registered as an independent. He will be on the ticket as an independent. The current mayor, Eric Adams is also on the independent ticket. So you're going to have let's say, mom, Donnie wins. You're going to have Ma'm Donnie Cuomo, Adams, and Curtis Lee as the Republican and there's another guy on some parties. So it'll be the first five way race.
Last time that happened was John Lindsay, which is like the early seventies. Lindsay ran as an independent and one as an independent, so it is possible to win that way.
Okay, So ranked choice voting also factors in here. And look, I know Alaskans have had major issues with this. There are relatively few places that do rank choice voting. It's actually complicated. There's talk that it's going to take a week or ten days to even figure out what the totals are. What can you tell us about how the tallying will work and how ranked choice voting factors in here?
Well, it's a great system.
Democrats came up with the system so that at the end of the night tonight, nine o'clock, when we see who voted for who, it doesn't count anymore. So under rank choice voting, no matter what the voter's decided, they can go into these charts and you could have this ranked choice explained to you a thousand times. That's still not figure it out. It goes many many. In fact, in this polling it shows nobody could win the first seven rounds, which is absolutely ridiculous. It's the way Mom
Donnie will probably win. He's been more clever understanding it and teaming up with other candidates. It's kind of like on Survivor when you form teams and the secret plots.
Because basically they're telling people if you hate Cuomo, just don't rank him in any way and try to get him in the second, third, fourth, or, as you just mentioned, seventh round of the ranked choice.
Yeah, so with this ranked choice Cuomo could lose and then he would run as an independent. I just don't see Mom Donnie winning. Curtis Sliwa is the Republican candidate. There is nobody else, and he's a nobody better on the subject of crime fighting, and I think.
How is how is crime going in New York City? I mean Mayor Eric Adams, former cop right as we were all told we're supposed to handle this doesn't sound like it's been handled.
No, and it's been bad for three years. But great movement by Eric Adams this year. He brought in a police commissioner, Jessica Tish, who.
I used to work with.
Jesse Yeah, and you know, she's an absolutely incorruptible, very wealthy woman. So she's totally incorruptible. And there were some bad elements in the NYPD. She fired them all, fired a lot of people the first week it needed to be done. She's put in some some of the best people on She's created task forces to go after this stuff, so that's a big improvement. Adams also brought in Randy Mastro, who was the top Giuliani deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani,
so he's in city Hall now running things. So great improvement. And I know Adams is going to start campaigning. He's been very quiet. The current mayor will start campaigning like crazy tomorrow and who knows, may rise up as an independent, might even beat Cuomo on the independent line.
Who do you think is going to win this mayor's race? When all said in don.
Mark Curtis Sliwa. I think in the end, if he gets a fair debate, they boy, they really rigged the debates last time.
And I love Mark's optimism, Clay, I love optimism via Mark here.
Okay, so Mark, let's say that you are listening to us, and obviously wor this is kin a factor in a big way new York City area listeners. If you are nationwide, Let's say you're listening in Phoenix or Salt Lake City or Houston, one of these cities that doesn't really have
a deep connection to New York City. Why should people tonight be paying attention to what happens in New York City in this race in your mind, not only for what it means to New York City itself, but for the larger American political universe.
Well, because the problem is the Democratic Party has gone nuts, and instead of the old Bill Clinton Democrats JFK, they've gone completely crazy. And New York City is the barometer where you see how crazy they're going to go. We gave you aoc all the real crazy. So if they go this crazy here actually voting in a socialist then you know the party is going to go even more nuts, which will kill them in the midterms next year.
Did you agree with Clay? Our buddy here? Clay likes to make the long term predictions. He likes to point to the upper deck and then you know, switch sides and batt left handed. You know, it's never never enough of a crazy call for Clay. He thinks Cuomo wins the If Cuomo wins the mayor's race, I should say, which I believe you believe he will, right, Clay?
Still, Yeah, I'm gonna stick to that prediction, although I may end up being wrong on.
That Cuomo wins the mayor's race. Next up for him is running as a Democrat nominee. Do you see that too, because that would obviously affect everybody listening across the country if that happens.
No zero chance one thing about Cuomo. He's a very New York urban guy from Queens. I know you can say that about Trump, but Trump had incredible talent as a campaigner, which Cuomo does.
Not have, not to win, but to run as a candidate in twenty twenty eight. Like, I think this is about setting the foundation for him to be able to argue he has a comeback and throw his hat in the Democrat ring.
Yeah, he was a total outcast here. You know, I forgot to mention he left office in disgrace. There was also besides the sex scandal, Ethics Committee ruled against him for profit off the pandemic. But by running for mayor, he's made himself legitimate again, at least that he's a legitimate candidate. I don't think he can ever get the nomination of twenty eight and I don't think anybody who does would put him on the ticket because they figure
they're winning New York. They don't need him for that. They'd have to pick another state. And he's got a lot of baggage.
Okay, Mom Donnie wins, Let's say that happens.
You got people like bus Sexton with money who are like New York I'm done, I'm going to Florida.
Groan DeSantis made a joke.
He said, the best thing that could happen for Palm Beach property values is Mom Donnie winning the New York City mayoral race. Do you here, Because you've been doing New York City radio for a long time, you know a lot of people. Do you hear wealthy New Yorkers say if Mom Donnie wins, this is it? Like they're
just fed up and done. Do you buy that that will have a major tax revenue for lack of a better way to describe an impact, because the number of rich guys and gals bailing on New York City, I mean they're the ones who are failing, who are funding to a large extent, what they see as a failed city.
Oh yeah, No, A lot of them have said they'll leave. In fact, one went public, John Katzmatitez owns one hundred supermarkets in New York. He said I will close them. He said, I'll move my business into New Jersey.
Wait. Katz said that he would bounce on New York City if mom Donnie wins I didn't know that.
That's wild. Yeah, he owns a lot of supermarkets. He said, I'm not going to come. Yeah, I will not compete with the government. And he's not the only way. He just went public and said it, But a lot of others have said it privately and again, about three million people left under Cuomo as governor. In fact, we had a crisis. You couldn't get a moving van for almost a year. There was a shortage of moving vans under Cuomo, and we did lose four congressional seats because of it.
Oh man, Well, wow, let's hope Curtis Sleewa pulls off the greatest a Trump level political come from behind victory here, the greatest comeback of all time. Otherwise New York could be in for some rough stuff. Seven to ten wor ten am. Eastern Marximo and mister New York Sir, appreciate you, will talk to you. Assume thanks, love listening to you guys,
same same Mark. Also, have you ever listened to Marx callers, by the way, represent when they call into a show, all the different accents of all the different boroughs and counties around New York perfectly, you get the Long Island guys calling in the state NY.
When I did my last one book, I went in into our New York because he's in the same building. For people who don't know where, we can use in New York City if we happen to be there. I think this is a big I mean, I understand people say, oh, New York City mayor, why do I care? I think if mom Donnie wins, it's a holy crap moment for the It's.
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I wanted to reinforce how bad are things for AOC and how not representative are her positions, even on things anti Trump, which you would think would coalesce much of the Democrat Party. Let me just reinforce for you. They just tried to impeach Trump over the Iran attacks. They lost the vote three forty four to seventy nine. That's a pretty good ass kicking. But let me simplify it this way for you, buck Democrats. Democrats voted against impeaching
Trump one twenty eight to seventy nine. I mean, that's kind of a sign of how crazy the AOC wing of the party is. They can't even mobilize the Democrat Party to move in conjunction with the positions that she's advocating for.
Think about this for a second. There are Democrats who just voted in the United States Congress to impeach for a third time a sitting president for doing something that one is clearly within the scope of what every president in our lifetime has gone and without Democrat and a Republican and two has been incredibly successful. So this is
pure desperation. It shows that where the Democrat Party is right now, they're in such a weak spot that they're just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. They're trying to figure out some way to seem relevant as opposition to Trump. I always used to wonder, this clay, will there be a point at which, you know, never trump Ism and the hysteria and He's Hitler and all that stuff will exhaust itself. It has exhausted itself as a useful political force. They still believe a lot of
crazy stuff about Trump. I'm not saying they've changed their minds, but they can't move any middle portion of the electorate at all, not even one or two percent of it with this crazy stuff that they're doing. And so they're just at the we gotta do something phase. But this is firing a bb gun out of freight train.
Also, the whole Hitler thing, I Trump has one hundred percent approval in Israel now, like literally, I'm not even it might be ninety six percent approval. There has never been an American president with a higher approval rating in Israel than Trump. Now, Israel didn't exist as a country at the time of World War Two, but I'm gonna go out on a huge limb with a crazy take for you, Hitler never came close to one hundred percent approval with the Jewish population. Just gonna maybe outlandis may
be outrageous. I'm just gonna toss this out there, and obviously being facetious about this whole thing, but the idea that Adolf Hitler aka Trump would have one hundred percent approval rating among Israelis would be, in a large extent a sign that your argument is moronic on a level that few political arguments have ever.
Been in our respective lives.
By the way, Trump arriving at the Royal Palace in the Netherlands, stepping out of his beast limo to walk the red carpet for the NATO event as we are speaking to all of you right now, and again the numbers out there one twenty eight to seventy nine.
I do think this is significant.
Two buck it's you mentioned, like, when is the Democrat Party going to end up acknowledging that many of their arguments are broken? Also, who is even the Democrat Party spokesperson? Listen to Jasmine Crockett here talking about how she should be the one making decisions about God forbid about how we deal with Iran and Israel cut fourteen to understand enough.
About the Constitution to the extended out the one I'm supposed to make a decision or at least.
Get both.
Ron telling me, Okay, So she's ranting and raving Worth pointing out. There are also people on the right who have tried to argue Trump did not have the authority to do these strikes in Iran, and I think they're also operating in bad faith because clearly the President of the United States has the ability to act in American interest that he believes requires exigent circumstances, as all American presidents throughout our entire lives have done.
I was at.
Fourteen bombs that Trump dropped compared to thousands that Obama dropped during his tenure.
Yes, ordered to be dropped obviously, Yeah, yes, yeah, as much Trump.
He's a talented guy.
I don't think he would have hit the target very well if he had been in charge of the B two bombers. But I mean the idea that you're going to try to argue that this was outside of control. But look, listen to this cut too, Cut fifteen. This is Jasmine Crockett who's trying to Trump put a big post out about AOC and Jasmine Crockett and Elon Omar and all these people who have emerged as his top attackers.
I would say inside of the Democrat Party. Cut fifteen.
So long story short, for those of you that are unaware, the MOFO that resides in the White House has unilaterally, in my estimation, declared war. We have a constitution that seemingly does not matter to this man.
I mean the MOFO.
First of all, you guys can probably if you're older, maybe you haven't heard that phrase. She's calling him a mother, you know what I mean. So that's kind of a pretty good attack in terms of the absurdity of it. But it's not only that there's no Democrat opposition, it's that the Democrat opposition buck is not even representative of the Democrat Party. Now.
They can't even Marshal one hundred votes in the House.
I mean, I would I would bet that Congresswoman Crockett has never read the US Constitutions Rety. I would ever. I mean ever, I don't mean like she doesn't know it by heart. I mean I don't think you've never read it, neither read nor understood. I think also, if you gave her a map of the Middle East with just blank, blanked out countries and you said, just show me Israel, show me Aron, I think the chance that
she could get both of them is almost zero. So I don't think that she should be weighing in heavily on the issue of the constitutional powers of the executive branch in this conflict. But she knows that she raises money and gets media attention by hating Trump, even on an issue as we've said, this is there's clear precedent for this kind of action. Bill Clinton blew up an
aspirin factory in the Sudan. I think it was because there was testimony about to happen in the Monica case or something, because he said maybe there were chemical weapons there spoiler alert they were not. We weren't at war with Sudan, and nobody was impeaching him over that, so you know, you look at this stuff like every president has this and no, he said it's in the imminent national security interest because we thought there were chemical weapons
there or whatever. It's just about opposing Trump. But even on an issue where it's a massive success, right, this is generally for example, for example, would any Republican have come out after Obama? Look, Obama got bin Laden. It's just a fact. People can you know, they can be annoyed about that reality, but he did. Obama got bin Laden. We're Republicans coming out like, how dare you violate the sovereignty of Pakistan? The national sovereignty of Pakistan is sacred
to us? No, because we're all like, you know what, thank you for getting bin Laden and it probably got Oba. I'm at least in some part of it reelected. Right, they're kind of doing this that that here now that the dance is similar with the Democrats, or they're saying, you know, how dare you strike the Rani nuclear facilities. We have been talking and debating and fretting over this issue, Clay for twenty eight plus years. What are we gonna do about run? What are we gonna do about around
Trump's like you know what, let's blow up there. Let's blow up there. I try to give him a deal. They wouldn't take a deal. Let's take this thing out. And they did it, and it's done, and we didn't lose a single American. And now we're supposed to do what. We're gonna impeach him. We're going to remove him from office for the thing that he that we wish somebody else would have done.
Makes it's crazy also because there's nowhere near sixty seven votes. Even if they win the House in twenty twenty six and impeach him, it's not going anywhere.
It's it's a pathetic move.
Yah Philly, It's like there is no I will point out this, Yes, Obama deserves credit for taking out Osama bin Laden, but every time that comes up, I think we should also mention the secondary part of that, which was Joe Biden opposed.
That race that rate.
I know Joe Biden was wrong on every major decision basically of his entire career. Obama considered Biden's analysis of taking out said, you moron, were going in.
You're you're and look, I give Obama full credit for that, and I don't do some throat clearing about Oh but it was so obvious. No, no, you know he did it. And look, he got four more years to direct the country as a result of one good decision, at least in part. But he gets credit for being the commander chief when he went and got in laden and there's
no way around that. That's reality. Okay, Another reality though, Clay, and we haven't really focused much on the Biden book stuff because you know, I think a lot of that got taken care of. But I have seen some clips circulating. You know what they're saying now, not just that Biden had dementia. We knew that, right, We talked about this. We've got on the ad nauseum. Now what's coming out is Biden was a scumbag his whole life in a huge liar and a manipulator of people and even in
his own family and using them as props. Like Democrats are saying this now, stuff that you and I've been saying. I told people about the drunk driverquoll excuse me. What Biden said was a drunk driver killed his wife, absolutely zero evidence for whatsoever. A horrible thing to say, but he said it in public. Why because it made his case, seem even more sympathetic his wife. It looks like ran a red light. It was, you know, it's it is
a tragedy. But I mean, well, you know, she made a mistake and she paid with it with her life. But he lied about it to get more sympathy and therefore defying somebody who was still alive. I might add as some kind of a criminal who killed his wife and he's never apologized for. But that's just one incident. That's who Biden is, and that was forty years ago. He was doing, Oh I is a dad. I know everybody wants to say, oh, Joe Biden's great dad.
Ever, I loved at his kids in that he made get dressed in suits in their hospital beds so.
That he could get the photo of it for the grossest photoop imaginable, so that he could get sworn.
In for the Senate in their hospital room. I mean as a debt. I can't even imagine what.
So he could be wrong on everything in foreign policy in the US Senate for fifty years and be a show for the credit card companies to suck the bank accounts drive every American who needs to buy groceries, Like is that that was his great contribution. You know, think about that.
No, I mean it, And again I think that his four year tenure. I think this is one thing that Trump got right, which is Jimmy Carter had a more successful president.
No, I think I think I was gonna say, I think I think I think Biden is the worst president in living memory. I think I think he beats out Jimmy Carter pretty clearly.
Now, and I think he's gonna look even worse in the years ahead. As the This is one of the great things about history. Eventually, the passions fade and you start to look at people rationally and realistically, as opposed to thinking.
About him in the moment of a battle.
And I think that Democrat defense of Joe Biden is going to collapse because it really wasn't praising Biden that was attacking Trump.
And now that Trump will see its hollow, They see how hollow it was all along.
And I think that even the COVID thing, the fact that they hit him, and all these other aspects of his presidency that are frankly and defensible, I think are going to become more and more commonplace for discussion. We'll take some of your feedback. Some of your responses here as we close up the show on the Tuesday edition. But I want to tell you Amazon has announced Amazon Prime July eighth through the eleven. That's a Tuesday to
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