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Check out Crockett Coffee, subscribe, and it's how we get through the show because it keeps us fired up and ready to go. We have now a lot of stress being put on us from the media about, oh my gosh, the tariffs and what's going on here. First of all,

Here's a reminder from our buddy Stephen Miller, who's the deputy White House chief of staff, that what's going on right now is not a typical presidency. It is fixing and setting right big parts of what this country, America, is all about.

not just for this week or this month, but for future years and even generations to come. Play nine. This is the great healing and rejuvenation of the American economy after half a century of rampant offshoring

outsourcing and deindustrialization. There was once a time in which Motor City in Michigan, Detroit automakers powered the entire globe. There was once a time when you could drive through Pennsylvania and all you would see were humming steel mills, humming coal plants, manufacturing facilities, again, that were supplying the entire world, supplying Americans and all of planet Earth.

Foreign countries, countries like China, Canada, Mexico, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the European Union took advantage of our country and our leaders. So we know that the tariffs are a major focus with the economy right now from the Trump administration, and there's going to be

Here you go. Trump's Liberation Day tariffs will go into effect immediately, according to the White House just eight minutes ago. Clay President Donald Trump's promised tariffs are a day away and they'll go into effect sooner than some had expected, as in immediately, according to the White House. Liberation Day trade policy announcement is expected to be the most aggressive tariff move yet by President Trump. And he has vowed to slap tariffs on U.S. imports immediately.

for a whole range of different solutions. Now, Clay, they're saying this is going to be costly. They're saying this is going to create a lot of economic dislocation. And to be fair, even here's Senator Tuberville, who is a big Trump guy, big Trump supporter. We've had him on the show many times, and he is the one to whom I'm supposed to say,

War Eagle. That is correct. And by the way, roll tide, probably celebrating over the weekend as the Auburn Tigers rolled into the final four for their second time ever playing against your wife's alma mater, the Florida Gators on Saturday. Big game. My beloved Florida Gators, because they are my wife's beloved. So whatever the Florida Gators, whatever I can do for them, I love doing. But here we go. Here's Senator Tuberville.

on the tariff situation. You say, look, it's not going to be without a little bit of pain before we get to the gain. Play it. This is one thing that President Trump has got to sell, but it's also going to work, but it's going to be a slow pain first before we get the gain. We have to get jobs back in this country. We have to get manufacturing to come back

We can't control that as a Senate. The one thing that we can control, as you said, we can control the tax cuts. We have to get those done and we have to get it done this week. We'll let President Trump do the tariffs. We do the tax cuts. Get the debt limit put in with this reconciliation. Fund the border wall. Fund all the immigration processes going on. We have to get back.

the business up here. We've been dragging our feet, but I think with the tariffs this week and also the budget reconciliation that we'll do for the tax cuts, I think it's all going to come together.

So, Clay, I think at some level what we're seeing here is Trump is right on the, has been and continues to be right on the immigration issue, has proven the case. The numbers speak for themselves. The border is the most secure it has been in truly decades. A lot of interior enforcement still has to happen. We can get into some of those numbers. DHS, Kristi Noem talking about that. We can get into that in a little bit. But on the economic side of things, what Doge is doing is important because

But the tariff issue might even have more short-term political impact. If things get rough between now and really next summer, all right, or not this coming summer, it would be the following summer before the midterms, right? So really you've got 15 months or so. If this starts to look like it's blowing up in Trump's face, even if the media is able to make that case and that's not a fair assessment of it,

The problem here is what happens if the midterms go against the Republicans because of the tariffs? It slows the whole agenda down. So it feels like it's a gamble, but it's one that Trump is all in on. Yeah. And I don't know about you, but economic geniuses have gotten so much wrong. My trust level in experts is at an all time low personally.

Because everything they have told us for the past several years, it feels like the experts are batting zero on pretty much every major issue that has occurred. Now, until tomorrow, we won't know exactly what Trump has planned. But I do think it's significant that Israel just announced that they were ending all tariffs on American goods in the last few hours.

Let me ask you this, because I think we've talked about this a little bit, but I haven't. I ask this question, I ask this honestly. If tariffs are so self-evidently self-defeating,

Why do so many countries have tariffs against the United States on different issues? Why does Canada have a 200 percent dairy tariff for U.S. dairy imports if it's so stupid and it does nothing good for them? And that's just one of hundreds that we could talk about here. Never mind China and the policies that they have vis-a-vis the rest of the world. I think where Trump is right is we have a lot less to lose on tariffs than other countries do.

And what I mean by that is this is what happens when you are a net importer of goods, when we have the massive trade deficit that we do. Now, the arguments out there for those of you that are paying attention are

The economic gurus of the world who are opposed to tariffs would say, well, yes, the United States is a net importer of goods. That is, we spend more money than we make off of our products. But the result is that our products that we purchase are incredibly affordable. And I would just use as an example, Buck, I'm sure you remember this back in the day.

One of the most expensive things I bought when Laura and I first got married was a flat screen television. Do you remember when flat screen televisions were like five, six thousand dollars? They were really expensive. I remember pooling money with my college roommates to get for our common room. Yes. That, you know, because we all we all lived in like the shared housing to get for our common room. And we carried it was it was like.

when they find the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark, we carried that thing with reverence up the stairs. Yes, that flat-screen television, many of you out there are going to remember when you were able to first buy one. Speaking of Costco, which your wife Carrie loves, and one of the few places I go in. We're working on the wokeness over there. One of the few places that I actually walk into, you can get a 70-inch flat-screen television for like $700 now.

Now, these things are manufactured almost entirely outside the United States. The reason why I use flat screen television as an example is that is something where you would say the average American consumer is getting a really good deal because flat screen televisions can be made...

more affordably elsewhere. I mean, almost everybody, I'm holding mine up for video, almost everybody has an iPhone now. iPhones are almost exclusively manufactured in China and the Philippines, I think, now. Now they're starting. Apple has said we're going to invest more money in them, but the reason why Apple has the profit margins it does is because of the

the manufacturer, their sneakers, all sorts of products. Okay. So they used to make them all at Foxconn where they had to put up net to prevent people from jumping out and committing suicide. Correct. The hours they were working. So rough stuff. Well, this is also why, uh, I got so fired up over the Nike, uh, uh,

products, you know, the NBA player saying, oh, America is an awful place and we're, you know, our people are being taken advantage of. And then they never mentioned that their tennis shoes are being made basically oftentimes for slave labor overseas. And they make hundreds of millions of dollars off of those deals.

The most ridiculous of them actually had deals with Chinese sneaker companies, Buck, that bragged about the fact that they used slave labor in Xinjiang province. Cotton produced there. So the modern day NBA star athlete with a Chinese sneaker deal, and there were many of them, was actually making money off slavery.

And meanwhile, they're lecturing all of us about how America is an awful country and taking these during the national anthem. The hypocrisy was too much. So the argument is, OK, yes, we are net X. Our money is leaving the country, but we're getting better value than we would if that was produced here.

I don't know that that is 100% true. In other words, what would it look like? I've made this argument for a long time. LeBron James. What if LeBron James had said, hey, I'm asking all these people to pay $200 for sneakers? What if he had gone to Nike and said, I want my sneakers produced in Akron, Ohio, an industrial Midwest city that is struggling, and...

I understand the profit margins will be lower, but we'll be able to employ a lot of Americans to make my shoes.

That would have actually been a really interesting argument. Of course, LeBron's never going to say it because all he cares about the money that he's making, not about the larger society. But my point on this is some guys that have the economic power to relocate, to resource actual goods here and create American jobs that are high paying, that people who otherwise wouldn't get them deserve them. This is the argument that Trump's making.

He basically is doing the anti-LeBron. He's saying we should be making goods that Americans buy here, and we're going to level the playing field to help make that happen. This is one of the areas where Trump is going the most against the consensus, even on the Republican side. Longstanding Republican institutions, think tanks, GOP apparatus, you name it. Free trade has been a...

almost a religious mantra on the right for as long as you and I have been alive and really going back to Milton Friedman and free trade has been a thing that you just say and everyone has to assume it's the best possible way.

Now, theoretically, I can see why. And when I hear the arguments about this, I go, yeah, of course. It seems like everybody benefits when you have a free trade system. Challenge, though, is we don't have free trade globally. That's right. And this is when Trump came in with China on the first term. He said he's going to start a trade war. And the people who really knew what was going on, specifically with China, said, we're already in a trade war with China. We're just not doing anything. And Biden didn't change anything. But that's exactly the point.

That he won on that one, right? That he went against the consensus so much so that even Biden's like, look, I'm not going to mess with this stuff. So is this another one of those moments? And I bring this to the, it's really to me, to me, it's more of a question of logic or common sense. If this is so bad and self-defeating, which you are hearing, not just from Democrats who hate Trump, forget about them. We don't care. They don't know anything about the economy. They want to ruin Western civilization.

A lot of Republicans are saying, I don't know about this. It's going to be rough for the markets. They're telling you to kind of brace for impact. OK, but if there aren't any benefits to this, why do other countries do them? Same way that I always knew that they're lying. The media was lying to us about illegal immigration because you could never get somebody in the media to admit that illegal immigration had a downside.

Well, if it has no downside, why do we want to stop it? Yes. It makes no sense. Same thing I feel like with tariffs. If tariffs are only downside, why are other people doing it? I mean, other countries doing it for decades and very aggressive about it. So I think it's about things that you want and things that you can get. And there's a negotiation to be had here. I also think and we'll know more tomorrow afternoon, four o'clock Eastern. This is scheduled. Markets really hate uncertainty. Whatever you think.

of any particular economic decision, as soon as business can understand what the cost structure is going to be and adjust accordingly, oftentimes we see the markets adjust. And to me, Buck, part of the biggest challenge here in general has been we don't really know what the implementation of these policies are going to look like.

Come tomorrow afternoon, in theory, we will have an idea of exactly what Trump trade policy looks like. And if you watch the stock market on a regular basis, typically when the stock market moves is when something hasn't been priced. There is a surprise. There is an uncertainty. There is an expectation that is upset relative to the existing marketplace.

I would say in general, this is what I've said for a long time, buy S&P 500 index funds. Don't overreact to any day-to-day market manipulation or movement. And if you believe that the future of America is bright, and I do, every 10 years or so, your index funds should double.

And most of the time, people get in trouble when they respond emotionally to stock market prices. You look at prices going down, people sell. You look at prices going up, people think they're always going to go up. Most people are emotional, not as much rational, which is why the best thing to do with your 401ks is not pay that much attention to it on a day-to-day basis. I get that it's hard, but that is my best advice. And tomorrow at 4 o'clock,

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Welcome back in two different races in the state of Florida. I'm down in Miami with Buck right now from his studio up in the northern part of Florida. Florida won the panhandle. Also, Daytona and St. Augustine area, Florida six. Jimmy Patronus joins us now. The next congressman, if you guys keep showing up and voting like you are in the Florida first district, he's going to be the next congressman.

Jimmy, good to talk with you. Appreciate you coming on. What can you tell us about what you're seeing in Florida one? And if people are listening, both in your district and in the sixth district of Florida, what is the importance of getting out and voting here?

Yeah, so we're, I'd say it's a beautiful day for getting out to vote. So there's no weather that's going to slow anybody down. It's 77 degrees here in the Panhandle. So grateful for everybody that has showed up and voted early. But today's the last day to let your vote count.

And the Republicans have been out out tracking the Democrats. So we feel good, but you can't take anything for granted. I tell people all the time, if you don't hold your electives accountable, you get the government you deserve. And, you know, just really it's an honor to be on the air with you all.

Hey, Jimmy, we appreciate you, and we hope you run with the scoreboard in a big way. Who are they even running against you there? I mean, you know, I know we all feel pretty good about it. Clay consistently refers to the panhandle as God's country, although he doesn't want more people buying...

beachfront on the Gulf of America. There's not any left. He says it's getting very crowded. But who are they running against you in God's country, so to speak? What do we need to know about this Democrat that they're throwing into the mix? Yeah, so the same woman who ran against Matt Gaetz last time in November, her name's Gabe Alamont. And look,

Look, I'm sure she's a fine person, but her policies are flawed. You know, what she is advocating for, she's trying to run as a moderate. And look, she's got $7 million. And I'm looking forward to tonight at about 730, you know, looking into the camera and acknowledging that they are –

about 7 million reasons why their effort is not the right message for northwest Florida. The amount of money that we've been outspent probably five to one, but the Democrats are seeing six and one as a way to flip the balance of power in Congress and try to do a referendum on Trump. But, you know, the people in these two districts are just too educated.

For people who don't know, what is Florida One? Where is it located? I just want to make sure because there's lots of people driving around. You know as well as anybody, people get fired up for November elections, but a lot of times these special elections, we've been talking about the two in Florida, the one in Wisconsin that's going today, they can slip under the radar. Where right now in Florida One can people go vote for you? Sometimes, you know this, people don't even know exactly what

congressional district they're in. I'll put myself on blast here. When they redrew the lines in Tennessee, where I live, the difference between one congressman and another came into my neighborhood. One street's represented by one congressman, the other is another one. I didn't know. I didn't know who was my congressman until I actually went in and had the opportunity to vote. So

Just for people who may not know, where in Florida 1 can people go vote today? Where do they need to show up? Yeah, so Florida 1 goes from Pensacola and the Alabama state line over between Pensacola and Mobile, and it goes all the way to the edge of Panama City. So it stops at Highway 331. So that's

of Zambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and parts of Walton County. You can go to joinjimmy.com. At the top of the page, there's a link. You tap it, and it says, where do I vote? Where's my precinct? And then we will go through and direct you to where you can vote. So it's, again, today's the day.

that you would actually go to your regular precinct that you would vote on in a November election. And you were spot on. People are, everything's got seasons to it. And the seasons for elections are in November. People know to vote in November. They don't know to vote in April. Oh, by the way, it's April Fool's Day.

Yeah, no kidding. And Trump won your district, I think, by 37 or 38 points. So that sounds good, by the way, people honking in the background. If you're listening to Clay and Buck, that's a good problem. If you're listening to Clay and Buck in Florida one right now and you see the congressman driving by the next congressman, you can honk at him and let us know that you got his back. But this is a dyed, rocked, ribbed,

Trump district, but it's important for everybody to get out. Don't just rely on the fact. Again, it's April Fool's. A lot of people may not be aware that this is going on.

Yeah, and again, with the amount of money that they've spent running as a moderate, destroying and trying to trash my reputation, I was born and raised in the central time zone. I've been part of this community the whole time. Matter of fact, Clay, I think you and I shared the same studio at one time. I used to be on the radio there in Panama City for a while, and I think y'all used to come in and do the shows at the time. Oh, Jimmy.

That's a story I've shared with Buck. When I did early morning sports talk radio in that Panama City studio, loved the guys there. But I was on at 5 a.m. there. And sometimes, this won't shock you, there weren't people there to let me in the building. So I have started my show before from the parking lot of that Panama City, Florida studio. It's a great signal.

We love all of you down on the Gulf Coast that are listening right now. But it's not far to the eastern time zone, and so sometimes people would get all crossed up as to what time things started. And, yeah, my boy DJ K-Dub, who was in charge of letting me in back in the day, Buck, was sometimes late. But, yeah, Jimmy, that's a fabulous station. I know there's a lot of people listening to us right now as you're driving there on Highway 98 headed, I think, to Pensacola.

Yep, yep. And I tell you, it's just radio is so amazing. It's intimate. You know, people get to become your family, you know, and that's what I love about what y'all are doing. I mean, you're connecting with folks and they really they feel like they know you and know everything about you because they spend so much time and you build their day out. So, I mean, it's it's this is such an amazing way to get news out, to communicate and to make people informed.

Totally, totally right, Jimmy. And we're talking to Jimmy Petronas. He's running for that important congressional seat, the first in Florida, beautiful part of the country up in the panhandle. We've got that. We've also got the sixth congressional seat, formerly held by Michael Waltz. It is in the mix with Randy Fine today. Make sure we have a huge Florida audience. Make sure for those of you who live in those districts, you get out and vote. Got to run up the scoreboard high because

Because otherwise, you're going to be reading in the New York Times front page tomorrow, oh, Trump agenda stalling. They went from 30 points to 25 points winning. So got to run up those scoreboards. And to that end, Jimmy, first of all, I totally agree with what you said about radio. Clay and I always joke about how when people know you from the radio show, they just come up and talk to you because they're your friends. There's no like, oh, there's no trepidation or is it okay or am I in or they...

They come up to me, they're like, how's Ginger? How's Carrie? And I love it. I mean, those are our radio people. And same thing with Clay. They know his wife and his kids' names. But tell me about what you want to get at the top of the agenda, working with fellow members of Congress on the Republican side for the Trump agenda once you are seated.

Sure. So Northwest Florida in the 1st Congressional District has got five military installations. So not only is the military economy important to Northwest Florida, there's so many vital missions to our national security. But because of the military presence and how beautiful this place is, we've got the largest per capita –

retired veterans population anywhere in the nation. So, you know, those VA services are critically important. At the same time, making sure that the missions continue to be enhanced in Northwest Florida. We've got a welcome mat in front of every one of our households here.

we love our military so you know i'm really i'm looking at hustling to make sure that we we continue to support them especially those that are needing extra assistance guidance with the da you know what i tell people jimmy's not a show horse jimmy's a workhorse i look forward to helping you know break through the bureaucracy helping people get their their questions answered uh he accepts a good buddy so proud of what he's doing to bring the image of the warfighter back in a way where

where men and women are proud to serve our country. So, yeah, this is – pinch me. I really can't believe it's real. Jimmy, you've been fighting for the state of Florida for a long time. Buck is one of the new residents of the state of Florida. What is the impact? I mean, I think it's an awesome kind of test case for what good governance can do. The number of people that are saying, hey, I'm going to move to a state like Florida. What have the numbers looked like over the last five or six years?

Yeah, so we're in the best fiscal health we've ever been in the history of the state of Florida. And so, look, I've been the CFO for the last eight years. I'm proud how much debt we've paid down. But here's the twisted thing about it. Even in the jacked up Biden administration where we had double digit inflation, what people don't realize is.

In Florida, the state of Florida made more money than ever before because if things cost more, and we're only a sales tax environment. Y'all know that because now you're not paying income tax from wherever you once were living. We made more money as a state, so we aggressively paid down debt at a breakneck speed. We have also created a culture. I tell people it's not a sprint. It's a march. You've got to work on it every day. We have 400,000 new net Floridians.

come to the state of Florida, and we've got 1.3 million more registered Republicans than Democrats. The trend we're going is to give people their personal freedom and keep their tax money. All right. Get out and vote for him, Jimmy Patronus. Jimmy, I'll see you down on the beach here in the near future. I'm going to spend a bunch of time down there this spring and summer. So keep up the good work and look forward to you doing a fantastic job for everybody on the panhandle. Thanks, guys. God bless you. Thanks for having me.

For sure. That's Jimmy Patronus again. We want to keep that going at Randy Fine, Florida 6, Jimmy Patronus, Florida 1, and get out and vote for Brad Schimmel in the entire state of Wisconsin. Three different storylines going on right now that will be covered, as Buck mentioned, to a great degree.

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This is in the New York Times, so I'm assuming this is not April Fool's. There are impending layoffs of 10,000 CDC and other federal health workers. Confirmed cuts, according to the New York Times here, at least 49,000 so far. Many of these employees, though, have been temporarily reinstated after court orders have come down, as we've discussed, after the hashtag resistance judges campaign.

um employees who took buyouts 75 000 i can't do the math on that but what is that uh as a percentage of the overall where there's about two million two million federal employees so you know you're looking at what it'll they think it might get up to five percent maybe it'll get up to five percent we'll see and then uh planned reductions at least 171 000 uh there's a lot of

efficiency stuff that is going on right now usa id basically gutted and gone more than 99 voice of america gutted and gone more than 99 education department of education 46 down and then hhs energy irs cfpb all down in the teens you know the numbers are 12 13 16 around there uh so

They think it could affect a total, Clay, of 12% of the 2.4 million civilian federal workers. So that's the total affected. Maybe the buyouts could be 5% to 10%, they thought, maybe more like 5%. But I think you have a particular perspective here. The Secret Service, which had a very bad year in 2024, let's just be frank about that, a very bad year for this. I mean, it could have been worse, God forbid, but it was pretty bad as it was.

You were at the golf course, tell everybody, where the second assassination attempt took

against Trump occurred, and what did you learn from seeing that environment yourself up close? So first of all, I encourage you guys, go donate Tunnel to Towers, T2T.org. The reason I was there playing was Frank Siller, the work that they do. The last time I played with them was New York. They're now doing a major fundraiser down in Florida, and they're going to do it multiple years at Trump International Golf Course. So if you are in Florida...

And you would be interested in playing in that event, which I hope I'll be able to do next year with them as well. They raise millions of dollars at these events and they go to help people who were either killed or catastrophically wounded military first responders. You guys know their their work. Ninety five percent of every dollar goes to help those in need. They do phenomenal work. So that's where I was. That's why I was playing there.

I had not been to this Trump International course in West Palm Beach before. I'm an awful golfer. I love playing golf. I don't get to do it very often. But as we're going around the course yesterday, and thank you for holding down the fort on the show, I got to see, and my caddy was there explaining to me exactly the locations of this would-be second assassin.

And having seen it on the ground now for myself, it is unbelievable to me that we have not gotten more details about this.

Because this guy was going to come insanely close to Trump at an area where you could not miss. And what I was told by people who were there was that it was the glinting of the sunlight off of the barrel of his gun that made him noticeable. Trump was only one hole away.

From this guy being able to murder Trump right after the July 13 terrorist had come within would be assassin had come within a quarter of an inch of of killing Trump on live television at that Butler, Pennsylvania rally. Fuck this area. The fact that it was not swept, the fact that the Secret Service didn't have people in those bush lines.

The fact that they allowed this guy to get there at dawn and be there for hours and have Trump one hole away from him walking up and being killed right there is indefensible. And we have not gotten, I don't think, the full story on either of these would-be killers. This guy...

After Butler, Pennsylvania, I would argue it's even more indefensible than what happened at Butler because it wasn't like the guy was on the roof of that building in Butler for eight hours in advance. I can't believe that this happened. I totally see what you mean about the second one. The first one, I do think...

The very first place that anybody would have wanted to clear would have been the roof where the guy set up. This is what I'm saying about this. If you went to that golf course with me, Buck, you would look at this and you would say, how in the world do they not have this parking lot managed, like have agents walking along inside of this bush line? The fact that they allowed this to happen, it feels intentional to me.

It feels like there was, first of all, some sort of inside knowledge that this guy knew that Trump was likely to be playing that course on this day. But of all the places that you would be on this course, this is really the only place you need to secure. So really what you're saying is there were two assassination attempts against Trump that both relied on.

The most obvious possible platform for the shooter, positioning for the shooter of all. Yes. I don't know. I mean, this is... We haven't talked about... I mean, I'm saying the collective media as a whole. For this to happen after the failures of Butler. Buck, we're talking... It's one thing, Butler, you know, it comes out of nowhere. And I'm with you. It was utterly indefensible. But the most predictable places...

that you would expect someone to try to kill the president were unsecured. After Butler, they let it happen again. And we still don't know anything about these guys, right? I mean, compare what we know about these guys to the average mass shooter who they have front-page articles about. We know everything about them. And when I played this course yesterday...

I stood there and I looked at that bush line and I said, how is it possible that they let a guy sit there all day and nobody was securing that area? Again, the course is not particularly complicated to secure. Again, I don't like to take us into a...

really dark and macabre direction. But imagine the feeling in the country if after that first assassination attempt, a second assassin just as blatant and honestly tactically lacking in proficiency was successful even just in wounding Trump a second time. Never mind, God forbid, something else could have happened.

Who would have believed that that was just grotesque incompetence twice over by a multibillion dollar federal agency that's supposed to be able to protect the president of the United States? Buck, he got away to it. He got into a car and drove away. And the only reason we caught him like that.

50 minutes down the road was because a woman in the parking lot saw him fleeing and wrote down his license plate. In other words, if this guy had been able to get shots on Trump, which he nearly did, he might have been able to get away.

Yeah.

But I don't think we can let July and August and what nearly happened just vanish and not be having a bigger question about who knew what.

How did these guys end up in the position that they did? And are we just supposed to expect and believe that these were totally lone wolf would-be assassins? It just feels unlikely to me. Didn't the Secret Service also fire a bunch of rounds at him from pretty close? And didn't hit. And didn't hit him, right? And he got away. Again, he got into his car and drove off.

My understanding was it was... I should check and see, but it was a number of rounds from a pretty close distance. That's why I bring up that the guy was able to get away. So you can...

set up a sniper position against the president and Secret Service doesn't figure it out until you almost were able to get the shots off again the second time. Never mind the first time when he did get a shot off and hit the president in the ear, which is still something I feel like our national psyche is processing. You know how close we came as a country to the abyss. I don't even like to think about it or go there because I.

Heaven forbid. It's just, you know, God was on Trump's shoulder that day and we got lucky as a nation. I don't care what somebody thinks about Trump. We got lucky as a nation because that didn't, you know, the worst didn't happen. That's right. But that the Secret Service, I don't know what needs to be done to to fix it so that their procedures are more of, you know, I think it's a three billion dollar a year agency.

And they really have one job. I know they protect a bunch of people, but, you know, the Hunter Biden protection detail is different than the Trump protection detail. I think we all understand that. Right. And they had one job and they almost couldn't do that. It's pretty, pretty terrifying when you think about the incompetent. You know, we talk about the incompetence at U.S. USAID and these other places.

Secret Service got incredibly lucky in 2024 that the worst didn't happen. Trump would be dead if they had had a truly competent, trained assassin. Oh, definitely. Trying to kill him at either of those times. Yeah. Yeah. He would be dead. And the fact that we allowed that to happen in July and we allowed it to happen again in August, to me, is utterly indefensible. And again, being on the ground and seeing that is.

If all of you walked that golf course with me and you said, okay, where is the most dangerous place that's going to be on this golf course? We would all flag that exact location. And the fact that the Secret Service allowed that guy to be there all day for hours. It's not like he pulled up 10 minutes beforehand. He was there since dawn and came within a few hundred yards of the president being right in front of him and it being almost impossible for him to miss.

I just it's not talked about enough and it makes me nervous because it makes me worry about Trump safety going forward, even though he's now the president. And even though he now has a better protective detail, if they failed that bad twice.

Why would they not fail that bad a third time? Well, I think Trump is putting some of the people in positions now. You would hope. You would hope. But I think he is. I mean, you see Cash at FBI, Dan Bongino, former Secret Service, as deputy FBI director. I know that's not Secret Service, but these guys understand what's at play here and are going to fix it, I think. But yeah, it is incredibly important that these issues are addressed now.

From the whole gamut of a bloated federal government with way too many people doing nothing to the parts of the federal government that we need to be good and need to be perfect. Secretary Hex at the DOD, for example, this is his mission. The parts of our government that have to be absolutely A-game need to be A-game. It cannot be a Secret Service, DOD. These places cannot make the biggest mistakes and make them repeatedly.

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That is the northern most district in the state of Florida by and large. And then Randy Fine, if you are living in the sixth congressional district of Florida, and that is the area Daytona, St. Augustine, both very strong Trump territory. Two different congressmen there, Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz, both being replaced in these special elections. Democrats.

You heard Jimmy Patronus at the top of the midway through the first hour tell us that he's been outspent five to one. Buck, yesterday you had Randy Fine on and Randy Fine has been outspent nearly ten to one were the dollar figures that I saw. So we want you to go send a message. Randy Fine, Jimmy Patronus for the Floridians out there. I'm down in Miami with Buck.

Thank you to him for holding down the fort yesterday while I was helping Frank Siller and all the guys and gals at Tunnel to Towers raise money for the fabulous event that they do, T2T.org. They had a Florida golf event going on there. And also Wisconsin. Wisconsin is, I think it's fair to say, Buck, the number one battleground state in America right now in that

Every race comes down to just a few thousand votes. It feels like our buddy, uh, Ron Johnson got reelected in 2022 by about 25,000 votes. For those of you who remember Trump won, uh, Wisconsin by 30,000 votes in this most recent election in November. Uh,

Eric Hovde lost Wisconsin by a few thousand votes by and large. I mean, this is every single election in Wisconsin is right there on the margin of going one way or the other. So if Wisconsin voters who voted for Trump come out, they will win that Supreme Court race. And all three of those races will be used in many ways as a referendum on the first 70 some odd days of the Trump White House.

So that is out there right now. Several other stories underway. Trump reportedly, as we were just discussing, going to give his full tariff decision on April 2nd, four o'clock Eastern. We will figure out exactly what that is tomorrow. I would imagine more and more of it will leak out.

We've got the 80th anniversary, by the way, of Okinawa. For those of you out there that are World War II history buffs, today is the 80th anniversary, I believe, of the initial attack at Okinawa. Am I correct in that? Sure. I mean, that's quite a stat to pull out of thin air. They're putting me on the hot seat, buddy. And the team in New York makes sure that I didn't screw that up. I think that is correct, that I know we just...

had the 80th anniversary of D-Day last year. I think the invasion of Okinawa, I believe this is the 80th anniversary of that occurring back in 1945. Luigi Mangione, a report that we are going to be seeking through Attorney General Pam Bondi, the death penalty, and

And there are a bunch of other stories out there. You're right on the beginning of the Battle of Okinawa. And we have something special for everybody on the battle that is known as Hacksaw Ridge. We'll play that a little later for everybody. All right. So I want to get your take on this. There has been a lot of drama in the past few days over Trump potentially wanting a third term. Oh, boy. Yeah.

This is echoing everywhere, and I want to hit this for you. I believe we have Trump talking about he'd like to run against Obama. Now, Trump has an ability to get attention for things that, frankly, nobody else can get attention for.

And we all know that he likes to gig the media a decent amount. Now, this initially started, I believe, Buck, with Kristen Welker at NBC's Meet the Press. Trump gave quotes there. But here is cut three. Trump says he would welcome a challenge from Obama and he thinks it would be a good one. This is, again, cut three. If you were allowed for some reason to run for a third term.

Is there a thought that the Democrats could try to run Barack Obama against you? I'd love that. Or his third term? I'd love that. That would be a good one. I'd like that. No, people are asking me to run. And there's a whole story about running for a third term. I don't know. I never looked into it.

They do say there's a way you can do it, but I don't know about that, but I have not looked into it. I want to do a fantastic job. We have four years, just about, almost close to four years. Time is flying, but it's still close to four years. And we're getting a lot of credit for having done a great job in the first almost 100 days.

Okay, Peter Doocy, great question. As he tied in Barack Obama versus Donald Trump, let their guy go for a third term against our guy. That would be an epic battle. What do you think is going on here? What is all the third term talk about from your perspective? Okay, well, for one thing, it reminds me of...

gladiator which is a fantastic movie as we all know we've discussed here it's your wife's favorite movie it's a top of all time top five maybe top three for me i mean so i i'm a huge gladiator fan as well not gladiator 2 that would be for peasants some people are saying some people are saying gladiator 2 for peasants but anyway gladiator 1 amazing

And remember when they bring out of retirement to face Maximus, they bring like the greatest gladiator of all time. I think it was Titus of Gaul. Wow, I've seen that movie a lot. Titus of Gaul. And he's the guy with the sort of gold mask on and the tigers and all that stuff.

Trump is a showman, and for him, the ultimate political opponent of this era would be Barack Obama. Yes. That is the only Democrat who won majorities twice. Even look back at Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton won with the first time, what, 40-something percent? Three percent, something like that. Now, he was running with Ross Perot, who got nearly 20 percent of the vote. But Bill did not have any kind of a mandate. Clinton never won a majority of...

never got over 50% of the election, which a lot of people don't realize. Right, that's a stunning statistic when you think about it in retrospect. So Barack Obama would be the Democrats' great champion, right? So Trump just leaning into that, I think, is very Trump, not surprising at all. The third term talk, I see this entirely as...

Trump doing what he does, which is he's going to get all of this focus from anti-Trump media on this. Everybody who likes Trump and voted for Trump kind of just smiles and looks at this. They're like, yeah, whatever, you know, calm down. Like no one really gets worried about it from our side or worry about it. Just don't pay as much attention to it. I think they like the they are amused by how much it upsets Democrats. But here's what it does do. Tomorrow, Trump's talking about tariffs. Last hour, we were discussing tariffs.

There are a lot of people that want to create a narrative that what Trump is doing with the economy is destabilizing, etc., etc. This takes some of the heat off. I view it as a little bit of a smokescreen or a distraction technique for the media because they're going to spend a lot of time talking about something that is completely irrelevant right now other than for the amusement factor, and it takes some of the heat off of the look that they're starting to see that there's a...

They've got to do these cuts and they've got to do these changes in these tariffs in a way that doesn't just feed narratives to the opposition. Right. It's the right thing to do, but you have to handle it a certain way. I think what it really represents is Trump's awareness that fixing the country is going to take more than four years.

And this is why we have said you've got to string together a series of wins, no matter how successful of a term Trump has. And I believe he's going to have a very successful term in office here.

He's going to have to leave, I believe, in 2029. And certainly the other crazy thing about this is the process to select Trump's replacement as the Republican nominee for 2028 will actually get underway by March of 2027.

And that sounds crazy. And honestly, the shadow primary will begin before then because people will be out raising money. But basically, the day after the midterms happen next year, the official running start date of the 2028 presidential calendar will begin. And that's going to happen in a hurry. And one thing that we have talked about is how will Trump handle? We've never seen this in his entire political career. How will Trump handle the

the possibility of there being a successor to him, which means that he isn't necessarily the straw that stirs the drink. That is, the pursuit of who the new Republican nominee would be matters. Now, I think his selection, you nailed this well called by you before anybody else was saying it. To me, J.D. Vance...

actually is a selection that Trump made because he wants there to be another generation continuing the work that he started. He could have picked a guy like Doug Burgum, for instance. Nothing against Doug Burgum, who's in the cabinet, but Doug Burgum is an older guy and

There are a lot of 40-somethings that Trump has surrounded himself with, whether it's Pete Hegseth, whether it's Tulsi Gabbard, whether it's J.D. Vance. These are guys and gals that are, relatively speaking, youthful in the political context.

And I think that was a conscious decision to try to prolong the movement that Trump is trying to put in place. So you see this as pure 4D chess from Trump, just to be clear. You think that him talking about a third term, you're going really, this is like Marcus Aurelius level philosophical future of the Republic stuff you're going with here. I think that Trump will, this is my take. I think that Trump in 2027 will,

will say at some point, J.D. Vance is my guy. And I think he will endorse J.D. Vance because I think he wants J.D. Vance to be seen as the heir to Trump. I think that we'll see. We'll see. We can mark this one down.

I feel like Trump is going to view the successor as a version of the apprentice for the leader of the free world, and I'm not sure that he's going to. He certainly hasn't already, and he's been given opportunities to say, it is J.D. He's sort of deferred on that a little bit. Yeah, he asked that question directly. Yeah, directly. So maybe in time, but I could see Trump wanting to be kingmaker toward the end here, and you

He's a guy who likes to be in the center of the game. The second that you pick your, I can't believe we're talking about, you know,

We're just a couple months into Trump's term. We'll get back onto that in a second. But the second that you say who your successor is in this political environment, the successor is going to be the person who is driving a lot of the party agenda. Whereas if you say, hey, guys, I got a lot of work to do until the very end. I'm running through the tape, and we'll see what happens with the successor. Changes the game a little bit. I do think it's interesting as well, though,

There are two pathways to follow. Barack Obama anointed Hillary Clinton his successor, kicked Joe Biden to the curb. Barack Obama was right to do so. Correct. He actually made the right move because he was like, Dementia Joe should not. He doesn't have the ability to do this. And now we unfortunately have all figured that out. But remember, he never endorsed Biden.

Everybody forgets in 2020, Barack Obama set out the race. So to your point, it may be that Trump likes the competition of people trying to get his endorsement and doesn't decide to do it. I will say this. You know what he moved a bust into the White House recently? FDR.

I don't know that it's been talked about or reported on, but Trump took a bust of FDR and had it moved into the White House. Now, Google, team back in New York, Google and see whether this has been written about. I was told about this when I was traveling on Air Force One to go to the NCAA wrestling championships recently. Trump has been saying recently that his favorite Democrat is FDR.

And if you ask him why his favorite Democrat is FDR, he says because he served multiple terms.

Well, four, right? He got elected 32, 36, 40, 44. Four, yeah, just four terms. Yeah, four terms in office. They had to have a whole constitutional amendment because of him. What was it, 1951, I think, the constitutional amendment came down? Which is interesting that we have term limits for president and not term limits for any other elected office federally. How many people do you think, if you walk down the street and you ask them to name any, and they don't have to, I'm not saying memorized,

But to say any amendment beyond the first 10 that they would be able to do so. I don't think you're I think most people know the First Amendment. I think a lot of people know the Second Amendment. By the time you get into Fourth Amendment, which is unreasonable search and seizure, I think 5% of Americans could tell you what the Fourth Amendment is.

And by the way, once you get into the 20s, you're really... I think some people would know the 19th Amendment because it's in popular culture. Women get the right to vote. And they would know ending slavery. They would probably... When I say they...

5% of people would know. I... Ish. Yeah. I think 5%. You know, it's funny, too, is the most recent constitutional amendment is probably the most boring. I think it has to do with 1992 congressional salary changes can't take effect. I can't believe they didn't... I don't even remember. I don't even know that one. Check me, team. Am I right on this one? This is really... I've been doing trivia night with Kerry recently, so I really try to be on my game. We are reigning champ two nights in a row at our local club here, by the way, so just throwing that out there. But...

I think it's 1991 or 1992, it was you can't have a congressional salary change that takes effect until the next Congress. I can't believe it. You needed a constitutional amendment for that, but they did one, I guess because everybody who makes the amendments was affected by it. So some of them are very...

almost arcane or very procedure specific, right? Anyway, but no three terms is one of them. That's what got me on this whole rant in the first place. So I don't know what...

Do you actually think Trump is serious? You're talking about this like you think Trump is considering this in some way. Do you think he's really? I don't think he's really considering. I think he's having fun with it. The problem is, in order to change the law and allow him to run again would be very difficult. But he did say to NBC, oh, I could run as the vice president and then basically serve as the functional president.

Again, I think Trump is having fun because he knows to a large extent that his continued viability as a politician drives his critics bonkers. And the fact that they want to call him a king and an authoritarian and everything else, I think ultimately he's going to endorse J.D. Vance. That's what I would predict as we sit here in the April 1st of 2025. But...

I do think, look, we've looked at the Trump cabinet over the years. We don't know how all of this is going to shake out. But if I were setting odds, I would bet right now that he's going to endorse J.D. Vance in 2028. Major League Baseball season off to a great start, unless you're an Atlanta Braves fan like me. Braves managed to go 0-5.

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