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There would seem to be no reason whatsoever why three different guys with leaf blowers would need to be on a field with zero leaves.

But as I sat down to begin this broadcast, my eternal nemesis, people with leaf blowers, maybe they're doing this just because they knew I was going to be broadcasting here. There are three different guys with leaf blowers walking around out on the field, and there are no leaves, and they're all blasting their leaf blowers as loud as they possibly can. So if you hear that in the background, hopefully at some point they're

Gasoline will run out in their leaf blowers. But I'm excited to be here. I'm going to be doing a speech right after. It's going to be fun. Obviously, Knoxville is an awesome place. We've got a big audience all over the place, but a lot of people up here are fans, and so we're having a good time. Buck, today, huge numbers of our audience will be watching something that you had no idea was going on until I'm about to say it right now, the NFL Draft.

Green Bay, Wisconsin is underway. I will be watching this tonight along with probably 20 million or so other people, many of whom are listening to us right now. I believe Green Bay is one of our newest affiliates, if I'm not mistaken. So we appreciate all of you up there in Cheddar land. We were already very popular in the state of Wisconsin. We've had a lot of awesome friends that we've made in that, uh, that state over the past several years.

But that should be an awesome scene. Now, a bunch of different stories that are out there. Let me give you a little bit of a roadmap of where we're headed. Dana Perino, who for my money may be the nicest person in all of media. That is the standard that I think she might well be able to win. It's a tough standard. There are a lot of super nice people. But Dana Perino, who many of you watch at America's Newsroom every day on Fox News with Bill Hemmer, will be on with us at 1. And then...

I think this is going to be incredible. I'm super excited for this. Dr. Larry Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College, they had a fabulous interview with him in the Saturday-Sunday edition, the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. And there's been so much discussion about Harvard suing

the Trump administration over what the Trump administration is focused on there. And they actually have a really good argument that is Hillsdale and Larry are due. They said, hey, the reason we don't take federal dollars is because we want complete independence. When you take taxpayer money, you are giving up complete independence. Why can't Harvard?

with a $53 billion endowment, just say thanks but no thanks, U.S. federal government. We're concerned about our ability to have complete freedom when it comes to teaching as we see fit and running the university as we see fit. Well, the precedent is quite clear. When you are allowing federal tax dollars to be used, you don't get that complete freedom. We'll dive into that with him. I think you guys are really going to enjoy it. But, Buck, yesterday I got a lot of feedback.

from moms and dads out there who were listening to us talk about the books that were being read in Montgomery County schools. And honestly, even I was... I knew that there were kind of edgy books that were being pushed. I went back after we talked yesterday, Buck, and looked at these books even more. The fact that this has gone all the way to the Supreme Court, that parents would be saying, hey...

We need to object to what are being read to our five-year-olds and our six-year-olds at story time is, I think, emblematic of the country just losing its way. And not only that, I went back and read more and studied on the Supreme Court discussion surrounding this case, and I couldn't stop focusing, Buck, on Katonji Brown Jackson and the arrogance. We may end up with a couple of cuts from her, the questions that she asked about

She heard defense of these books being read to five-year-olds that tell you, hey, if you believe you're a boy and you're a girl, you're right. And your parents should treat you that way. And sometimes we end up in situations where people get the gender wrong, meaning when you are born, you're

in the nursing room, in the delivery room is unclear of whether you're a boy or a girl. This is what's being read to them. Kataji Brown Jackson said, well, if you don't like it, you should just switch schools. This was her actual take. Listen to this. I guess I'm struggling to see how it burdens a parent's religious exercise if the school...

teaches something that the parent disagrees with. You have a choice. You don't have to send your kid to that school. You can put them in another situation. This is one of the most arrogant things I have seen argued. I would bet...

95% of the people that are listening to us right now don't have great options when it comes to just pulling your kid out of your local public school. And so for her defense of this, Buck, to be, well, if you don't like it, you should just go to a new school. First of all, they oppose school choice by and large. But second, it's one of the most arrogant arguments I have heard that you should just change your public school.

Of course, and what you see here is the continuation of this argument from the left that they aren't doing indoctrination and in a sense, uh,

secular religious training with all this transgender delusional nonsense, right? This is they've managed to try to kick God and and faith out of public schools and replace it with this Marxist credo of insanity. And this is why they push the stuff that they do as hard as they do. This is the big question. I think, Clay, we kept returning to yesterday is,

Why is this so important to them? It's clearly very important. So much so that they are willing to look at parents. Well, sometimes look at parents in the eyes and say, yes, your kid needs to learn that doctors get to get the gender wrong at birth. Like we think your kids need to be read that in schools. It is completely nuts.

But it also goes to one of the great things I think about the Trump administration right now, and one of the reasons why the left hates it so much, and the more they despise either a person or a policy, the more important I think we all recognize it to be, and

And that is, Clay, the forever regime, which is what the Democrats had set up for really certainly the last 20 years or so. The forever regime of the deep state people within the federal bureaucracy who are pushing a left wing agenda. The universities, which have become completely political monocultures of left wing madness.

media, all these things together allow them to assert control at different levels of society, even if they lose an election. Trump is going after that.

And I think it's critical that we see that for what it is. He is going into the kitchen of the enemy and saying, you don't get to just cook whatever you want and call the shots anymore. And that's really shaking them up. That's beyond just what is Congress going to do, what executive orders are out there. So I think that we're seeing finally, after many years of saying, when are we going to take on the universities? When are we going to start to enforce civil rights law in a way that

is advantage, let's just be honest, advantaging conservative and Republican and right-wing points of view. This has been a long time coming, and I think it's fantastic. And I think that the fact that they're still trying to push this transgender nonsense on the kids in school just shows you how completely bonkers they are. Unrepentantly nuts. What I said yesterday, Clay, sorry, I know I'm ranting here, but what I said yesterday...

If they could force your kids to learn this stuff or else, they would do so, and we all know it. Meaning that they would mandate this stuff if they could get away with it. I'm talking nationwide, not just in one school district. Have you ever been to an elementary school and read books to kids?

You're new in the dad game, so it would not surprise me if you haven't. I volunteered at an underserved D.C. public school in a program a few times, but I think they were like ninth graders. Hopefully you weren't reading books to them, which would be very funny. I was helping. It was like a homework help program. I was just trying to think of this. I have been to...

Multiple schools over the years, and I bet a lot of you with young kids, grandparents maybe as well, have been and gotten to sit in front of the kids and read books. And my recollection is that when I've done it, the teacher and the teachers have all been fantastic, have said, hey, we've got two or three books that you can choose from.

If I brought a book like that in, if they had said, hey, Clay, you're reading for kindergartners today. You can pick any book. I would see that as a direct attack in some way.

on the school district and on the kids. If I walked in with those books that we were talking about yesterday and tried to sit down and read it, not only would it be inappropriate, wildly, but it would actually, to me, be an assault on the school itself and on those kids because...

There are ages, and this is why I think it's a wild buck. This case brings together Muslim, Jewish, and Christian parents who said, this is unacceptable. And I think everybody out there, five, six, seven-year-old kids, eight-year-olds, what are you doing teaching gender ideology to them? It's actually sinister, and it's nasty, and to me, it's diabolical. I mean, this is close to evil.

And what you see is that they, and this has always been true of a lot of this gender cult stuff, they want as many people as possible to be subjected to it and involved in it because then you've been a part of the process. This is one of the things that you saw also with COVID, I might just add. They wanted you to police your neighbors. They wanted you to be shouting at people to mask up. They wanted you to be one of the useful idiots in that process because then you're invested in the perpetuation of that system.

Any adult, any teacher, anyone who shows up at one of these meetings in defense of this stuff is going to be very hard, and especially if it's a parent who has pushed for this for their children.

very hard to get them to see the light and understand how bad this is down the line. So they want to push it as fast as they can, as aggressively as they can, because it's building the roster, if you will. It's like forcing recruits onto their side, which is obviously at the heart of what they're doing with these kids as well. But it is essentially a secular religion of sorts is what they are pushing. Here's another experiment you could go on, Clay. What?

What if you said, okay, fine, I'm okay with my school district reading this stuff, but also we're going to have some conservative children's books in there that say that boys are boys and girls are girls and people that have problems in their head should go see adults and speak to them about it and not expect everybody to cater to them. Would that be okay? I don't think so. No. And look...

There are so many amazing kids' books that you can choose. It's not as if there aren't 600, 1,000 Newberry, I think, is the award-winning children's books. It's actually, I would imagine, for a lot of you who have been elementary school kids, tough. I mean, teachers, tough to pick what you read. If I asked you right now, what are books...

that you just have a fond memory of from your... I'm talking your childhood, too. I'm talking... I remember all the way back to The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Some of you probably remember that one. Yeah, it's classic. James and the Giant Peach, Where the Wild Things Are, The Wind in the Willows, The Hobbit. I mean, you go back...

You think about that, Clay, like I mean, you could do the same thing, right? You go back, you think, oh, well, you're talking about being what, an eight year old. So we're going back almost almost what, 40, 30, 40 years. And you remember those books. That's the kind of influence they had on your thinking at that time in those formative years. The communists know this.

This is their little red book of gender madness that they're making teachers and kids hold up and pledge allegiance to in these schools. And that's why Katanji Brown Jackson is willing to make any argument to keep this stuff. Any argument. I want to say one positive thing. I mentioned this yesterday, and I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with it. One of the greatest things that I've ever seen a celebrity do

Dolly Parton has something called the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. I'm not sure if it's only available to kids in Tennessee right now, but they will send your kids free books. You know, Little Engine that could. We were signed up for this for our kids, and they were so excited to do it.

Dolly Parton did it, Buck, because she grew up in rural East Tennessee and didn't have access to kids' books. I mean, they're fabulous. She's given, Buck, 277 million books to kids to be able to experience reading that otherwise might not that their parents could read for them. As we remember, this is why Dolly Parton is the Queen Elizabeth of the Smoky Mountains. Yeah.

She is amazing, Buck. And I want to say something positive associated with this. So I think it's available all over the United States. ImaginationLibrary.com. If you're a kid, if you've got grandkids, if you've got kids, or if you want to donate. I don't know anybody at Imagination Library. I'm just telling you that they have done amazing work. And on the positive side, there are people trying to get donations.

uplifting normal books in the hands of kids to help them have hopefully a lifelong love of reading, which both you and I would agree is probably the best gift that a parent can give a child because it works across the board.

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and also on so many different ways, including the iHeartRadio app. And we bring in now Dr. Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College. And speaking of ways to get your message out, Hillsdale has been phenomenal at getting the message out about everything that they are doing. And I had the good fortune to get to sit next to Dr. Larry Arnn at a Seattle, Washington area Hillsdale College event and talk

I read over the weekend a great weekend interview with you, Dr. Arnn, given all the controversy surrounding Harvard and federal funding of universities and colleges out there.

You had a really good argument. I want to let you make it for our audience. The reason Hillsdale doesn't take federal dollars is to be completely independent. Harvard has $53 billion in the endowment. Why can't Harvard just say, hey, we don't need any of this federal government money. We want to instruct in the best way that Harvard feels possible. That seems like a pretty good case to me, and you guys have done it at Hillsdale.

Yeah, thank you very much. You're a sports guy, and I really enjoyed talking to you then. I enjoyed your speech very much. Yeah, so we live in what we think of as a liberal society. That means free. That means a lot of things have to go on in the society so that it can control the government. And if the government in detail manages...

education including higher education then the society loses its independence and you know how harvard which gets a lot of money from the government i mean billions uh... they they are living under hundreds of pages of detailed rules and they probably better off without them now they've met some rules they don't like don't scream don't let the students scream dirty jew at each other

And they are rebelling about that. And that's, you know, they're in an interesting spot, aren't they? They're not the only ones either, Dr. Arnott. I appreciate you being with us. There are a number of schools, Columbia University. I could rattle off a few more if I thought about it, but some pretty big-name educational institutions out there that have gotten on the wrong side of the Trump administration and therefore the federal government on some of these issues. Do you think that their plan is to just try to

batten down the hatches and ride it out and keep doing what they've been doing? Because in the case of admissions, for example, the Supreme Court has been quite clear that some of these institutions have been engaged in unconstitutional discrimination in their educational practice and admissions practices. And yet the understanding seems to be that they're just going to keep doing it and get federal dollars. Yeah.

yeah there's something uh... really bad about that i mean first of all these the institutions we're talking about are some of the greatest university in the world harvard is the oldest in our country and it has been a treasure for a very long time and it's still a very elite place

but they got wedded to the idea what color you are some vital characteristic in your qualification to be a student and that's just ball minutes it's it's bad philosophy

it undercuts the whole understanding of the academic task and as you point out it's unconstitutional in a nation devoted to all men are created equal so there's you know there and and they they are stubborn about it there it's deeply ingrained it's it's it was amazing to me a year ago in the spring that

that they were having these demonstrations in favor of Hamas and, you know, river to the sea, and they were oppressing Jewish kids. I mean, abusing them and spitting on them, and some of them were assaulted physically, and they were certainly terrorized. And they couldn't stop it. And in Colombia, they suspended class. At Harvard, there were major disruptions. And I thought at some point,

These places are run by people who are in broad agreement with each other. At some point, you'd think they'd say, this is embarrassing. We should go back to class. That's what we're here to do. And they couldn't do it. And that's just, you know, sad. It made me sad. Also surprised.

And, you know, they've got some problems. Now, they are addressing those problems, they say, and I sometimes doubt their capacity to do that.

and the trump administration is demanding certainly monitoring of them and that's what they're kicking about and rebelling in their city harvard sued the government and it's going to be a big legal fight and you know but if they could think of the outcome uh... if they win it would mean that they're entitled to the money yet stop it

on the ground that they are discriminating and oppressing people because of their race and religion and you know and the government may not monitor that well i did at the beginning of the show you said what i think is the actual solution uh... we needed to decentralize very many things in america is way too many rules coming from the top and

making a uniform administrative system all over every kind of industry, all over the place. And colleges should be funded in a wide diversity of ways. You know, there's like really rich people in America, and, you know, a lot of them give money to Harvard, and a lot of them don't. Well, the thing is, those rich people disagree with each other.

And so if it's the government, it's a uniform rule for everybody, and you have to have that some. But you don't have to have that so comprehensively, and especially affecting something sensitive like education, which is what college is actually for, is for young people to go and grow into excellent human beings in intellect and character.

And the definition of that is human, and that means Jews and Arabs should both aim for that. And the institutions of higher education should have practices and standards so that everybody pursues that and does it together. The word college means partnership. So they've lost their way, in my opinion, and I hope they find it, but they're fighting very hard now.

Not to do it. Not to do it.

It used to be that people looked down on big state schools in the South. Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, whatever school you want to use in the Southeastern Conference region.

Now I hear all the time, and I bet you do as well for Hillsdale applications, people in New York, L.A., Chicago, who would have said in the past, oh, I would never send my son or daughter to the University of Alabama or the University of Mississippi bragging about their kids going to SEC schools because what you just referenced.

These protests, they didn't stand for them in the South. They didn't stand for attacking Jewish people in the wake of October 7th. What does it say about the cultural shift in our landscape that big state schools in the South are suddenly desirable across the country and small schools like yours in Michigan that are independent and classically committed to education are surging in popularity while places like Harvard, Yale, UCLA,

Stanford that maybe in the past have been the absolute paragons of academic achievement seem to be declining. What does that tell us?

And that has to do with the politics of those states. You know, Hill's dealt a special case because we don't take any money from the government and we're old and committed to certain things that we've been committed to for 182 years. But those, you know, in a state like Tennessee or Arkansas, I'm from Arkansas, you know, the government and several state legislatures, including in Tennessee, have set up centers

in those places where friends of mine are teaching now and they you know make sure they're saying but the general climate of those places is not so uh... what uh... the most elite places in america and that it's not just in higher ed it's the ivy league but it's journalism it's the government it's big corporations

they look at the world is sort of an engineering project and we've got a remake the world and so they don't you know they've they've got very unusual views about family and sex and and it turns out that what's going on in america is

that's not working with lots of people like you know why why you know we we we you know i think people are getting a kit makes your life richer and cool hard

If you do that, what do you think about the kids? What do you want them to become? They are produced by a relationship and a sacrifice that parents make for decades. And so they don't want their kids' sex changed without their permission. They don't want their kids taught that human nature is just a convention and we can re-engineer it.

Dr. Arndt, can I just jump in really quickly to ask, because this is what I was going to take you anyway. You're talking about the kids and what they're being taught. I'm sure you saw the arguments before the Supreme Court. We were talking about it on the show. What is going on in education where they want to read these very explicit and very trans-agenda-focused books to very small children? And this is widespread. What is this? Where does this come from?

Well, first of all, the intellectual roots of this movement are old, right? They became explicit in 19th century German historicism, and they came into America through a movement called progressivism that's still with us today. People use that word still today. But what did they think? What they thought was...

There isn't a thing like human nature. That word nature is a very interesting word, and it means a lot of things, but it starts with the Latin word for birth, how we come to be and grow, and what we're like when we're grown.

But now, no, it's not that so much. Now what we have is the idea that we understand a historical process that is liberating us and changing everything. And because we have modern science, we can get control.

of the process and we can re engineer even ourselves until of course then the family has to be a target of that and race is a target of that and in some versions of it you know like the difference between not to them in communism is only one thing not not to them is mostly about race communism is mostly about property and money and and do it that not to them thinks

if you've got the right genes, you're a superior being. And communism thinks you are formed by what you do for a living and how you work. And if you've got a lot of money, you're in one class, and if you don't, you're in another. And we have to transcend all that. We have to overcome private property.

And what the Nazis think is, you know, if you've got the right blood, then you're superior. Now, what's interesting about both of those doctrines, because they're materialist doctrines, what they do is upset the idea that any human child can come to know things objectively.

And human freedom hinges on that argument, which is a classical argument and a religious argument. And all of the colleges, any college of any age, Hillsdale College, Harvard is the oldest one in America, they were all founded on that idea that there's something, a spark in the human being that transcends his body,

his body and transcends his body that makes it possible for him to learn objectively. And if that, and see, what's interesting about discarding that argument is that you've discarded all the basis of reasoning. In other words, if the Nazis are right or the communists, they

they can't have objective knowledge of anything, see, because they're just creatures of some material condition that drives them. And, you know, those doctrines are very prevalent in the world. They have led to two great world wars, you know, tens of millions of people killed over them. So what you should do is...

in a college is study them, understand them, and understand the alternative, which is, you know, we study those things at Hillsdale College, but also we study the classics, right? And then you become armed with a way to understand things that lets you evaluate the world.

And see, that's another thing about these Ivy League colleges. I noticed a year ago last spring that when they were demonstrating about Hamas and anti-Jews, they would interview these kids, and they didn't really seem to know very much about it. You know, they've just got doctrine.

Sterile truth.

modern israel have a right to the land on which it is well first of all that's a that's a history that goes back you know israel started nineteen forty eight how did that happen where'd that come from who decided it right in other words there's a rich world of stuff to figure out about that and i don't know if you're doing it harvard

I think you're right about that. We have to go to a commercial break. I feel like we could just have you on talking for hours, and it would be phenomenal. We need to have a longer-form conversation at some point with you. In the meantime, if your kids are applying to colleges, I would suggest you could do way worse than Hillsdale. Sir, we appreciate the time, and I encourage people to go read that Wall Street Journal piece, which I thought really elucidated some very interesting and intelligent arguments.

Thank you both.

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Some of the anxiety that the media is trying to create about the Trump economy. So that's one thing that I think we can at least take a moment here and look at. But, Clay, you know, the Trump, there's other negotiations happening.

Not just on tariffs and the economy, but on Russia and Ukraine. Now, there's some reporting that came out. Senator Marker, I'm sorry, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the reporting is total trash, that they basically saying that they were willing to give all kinds of concessions to Russia and Ukraine.

They're trying to take a shot at the Trump team that is negotiating with Putin. There was some there were some major strikes, rocket rocket attack against Kiev or Kiev. We're supposed to say like different ways. Right. But Kiev.

that have killed a number of people. Trump is ticked off about this. He has been sounding the, well, not the alarm so much as just letting people know that, letting Putin know this is unacceptable to him. But there's also frustration with the Zelensky side of things, Clay, because there's reporting that Zelensky does not want to give up

officially, Crimea, which has been under Russian control and has been a fully functioning part of the Russian Federation now for many years, before this administration even came along. It goes back to the Obama administration. So here is Caroline Leavitt, White House press secretary, talking about this. Play 17.

In order to make a good deal, both sides have to walk away a little bit unhappy. And unfortunately, President Zelensky has been trying to litigate this peace negotiation in the press. And that's unacceptable to the president. These should be closed-door negotiations. The president's national security team, his advisors, has exuded significant time, energy, and effort to try to bring this war to an end. The American taxpayer has funded billions of dollars in this effort. And enough is enough. The president's frustrated.

His patience is running very thin. He wants to do what's right for the world. He wants to see peace. He wants to see the killing stopped. But you need both sides of the war willing to do that. And unfortunately, President Zelensky seems to be moving in the wrong direction. It's not looking great for the negotiations right now. Let's just say what's going on here, Clay. It's still early, but it's looking like there's a distance between the combatants on what a negotiation would look like. And Trump is getting frustrated with both sides.

I think that's right. And here's what we told you. This is how this ends. There's going to be a new line drawn. You can argue about it however you want to argue about it. I fail to see at this point, and I would love to have Zelensky on. I'd love to have Putin on. What is the point of continuing to fight?

We essentially have both sides dug in. The lines are not moving very much. To the extent that they are moving, it is a slowly inch-by-inch, yard-by-yard style advancement from Russia. Ukraine is depleted significantly. One thing they decided to do, Buck, and I don't know that we've talked about it that much on the program, but based on the lessons of World War I and World War II,

They actually have tried to not take 18 to 25-year-old men to fight because when an 18 to 25-year-old man dies, most of the time those men have not had kids yet. It's very sad to think about, but that wiped out entire generations of population in Europe.

because so many young men who had not become fathers were the first to be drafted. And Ukraine in some way is balancing that out by basically taking men 25 to 45, of which there are almost none left. And what is the play here? I really think that media need to be holding Vladimir Zelensky accountable here. And I don't mean because I think he's the bad guy in any way. I think Russia is the aggressor. We all know that.

But what is Zelensky hoping for at this point? What are his strategic goals and ambitions? It doesn't seem to me like there are any, Buck. I mean, can you even – what is he trying to get? He's not going to get NATO. He's not going to get the return of the border that existed prior to Russia's invasion.

What are his reachable goals at this point now that tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of his fellow countrymen are dead? I just don't understand why the war is continuing.

Well, I think that in his mind, their perpetuation of the war, one, means that he stays in power, right? They have, under the Ukrainian Constitution, they cannot have elections during a war. We've heard this many times. This is why he's declared martial law, and there's no way that anyone's going to be able to take over from him while that's going on. So there's that incentive that I think has to be remembered as we're talking about what he seeks to have happen here.

And, Clay, I think that there's just... It's a little bit like the U.S. and Afghanistan, to be honest with you, where the idea was, if we just keep this going, maybe things will get better. And that was not true in Afghanistan. That was not true. I was in Afghanistan in 2010. Talk about it a little bit in the book, by the way. And...

What is the title of your book, by the way? What's the official title? Have you told us? Title not official. Title not official yet. There's a couple things that are getting in place, but it will be. It's a different vibe than balls. I don't know.

This is going to be very funny. Clay and I may have books coming out roughly around the same time. And Clay's is going to be like very was was going to be a lot of fun and is going to be very kind of in mind is going to be like a guy with a tweed jacket on. And, you know, like he's got a pipe that a pipe. You got the you've got the what's the elbow pads on the tweed jacket, too. So we're going in different directions here on. So that's good.

But look, I think that what you have with Afghanistan was a plan that was never going to get better, but nobody wanted to be the one that stopped it. Nobody wanted to be the one that said, you know what, everything that came before this didn't get us to where we want to be. It becomes very deeply psychologically ingrained, right? Well, if we just keep fighting, maybe there'll be a better day ahead, so why don't we just keep fighting? I think that's where Zelensky is on this. And now you could say, rationally, in what world...

Well, the only one that I can see is if the United States and NATO actually get drawn into the conflict in some way, which is what we are trying to avoid at all costs. Right. But he can't say that publicly. Right. He can't say that. He can't say, well, if you guys create a protectorate of Ukraine against Russia, then we'll get a better deal. I don't see how militarily, though, there's any option for him other than that that puts him in a better spot.

I agree. And it feels to me like maybe we're headed towards some perpetually unresolved conflict, almost like exists still in North Korea and South Korea, where they have the demilitarized zone.

Both sides have substantial facilities on either side of the demilitarized zone. But I believe I'm correct. You probably know off the top of your head, we've never had an official peace in Korea, right? They just basically have kind of ended the war. But I think technically they are still considered to be in conflict. There was no grand peace accord that has been signed in Korea. Still technically in a state of war, whatever it is, the 38th parallel.

So for some part of me thinks that that might end up being the resolution in Ukraine. I don't think it's ideal, but you have some sort of security guarantee based on the mineral rights agreement that we have discussed, which provides Ukraine some belief that the United States will help to provide security in addition with all the European countries.

And then Russia feels like they have this territory now. You know, the real danger to Ukraine, and I felt this all along if you look at the map, is if Russia decides to try and take away Ukraine's ability to reach the water, right, basically you would landlock them. And they've kind of taken away a huge percentage of it through Crimea and more.

Yes. Well, the geography here matters a whole lot. Speaking of water and taking it away, we haven't discussed this yet on the show, but you may have seen some of the headlines between India and Pakistan, two countries that have a long history of really hating each other and have nuclear weapons pointed at each other.

And there was just a major terrorist attack in the Kashmir. Kashmir is this disputed region between India and Pakistan. And there have been... There's a long... We've never really talked about this on the show. There's a long history here. Kashmiri militants, particularly Pakistan, likes to train these different terrorist groups that operate there in India. They've been going at it here for a long time, firing artillery at each other, their militaries. And in some places, this is...

You're amazed that human beings are even up as high as they are fighting. I mean, this is like you'd think it would just be mountain goats up there. I mean, they are way up, you know, 8,000, 10,000, 12,000 feet elevation. They're firing artillery rounds at each other. And...

But there is now a the president of India or prime minister of India, India has come out and said, we're going to fight and find the terrorists wherever they are. They've cut off water to Pakistan, as my understanding, through the Indus River and the entire Pakistani. Well, a huge percentage of the Pakistani workforce is still agriculture based.

And this is not a country that can afford to have a lot of its agriculture cut off. So we're not even talking about, just you made me think of this, Clay, we're not even really focused on this right now that much in the West. But if you're talking about a place, it is far more likely, and I hate having to say this out loud, but it is true, it is far more likely that you would see a major escalation and a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan,

than anything going on right now in Russia, in my opinion, between the United States and Russia. These are two countries where if one side thinks they've got the upper hand on the other side, tactical nuclear weapons, I think the likelihood of that is higher than any feared escalation between the United States and Russia with nukes. I think that we've had a long-standing...

you know, detente with Russia, the Soviet Union before that over nukes. Clay, India and Pakistan, these countries hate each other. I mean, just there's a long-standing history of these countries are at each other's throats. Their entire militaries are basically squared off the border from each other between the two countries. So think about it that way. And this is why ultimately the Iran decision and North Korea and all these other countries, right? I mean, you understand why they want nukes. And this is why I'm...

Not optimistic, unfortunately, that we're suddenly going to get a deal with Iran where we feel like, oh, you know what? The world's a safer place. It feels to me like they're going to lie about everything having to do with their nuclear weapons policy because it makes sense, right? Logically for them to lie and get them. Just so everyone knows, India has told all Pakistani nationals to they had 24 hours to get out of the country.

So they're like, get the bleep out of here. This is national policy. This is happening right now. They have cut off the waters of the Indus River because they have the dams and locks and things. They've cut off water, which Pakistan by treaty is supposed to have access to and needs for its agriculture.

It's a little, you know, if this continued, it would destroy their ability to feed themselves, the country. So these are big moves. Now, in Kashmir, I think 26 people were killed, 26 Indian nationals were killed. So there was just a mass casualty terror attack in Kashmir. India believes Pakistan is behind it. India believes Pakistan is behind it. And India is taking really aggressive steps right now.

So, you know, it's just interesting how we all get so focused on what's going on in this region or that region. This is getting barely a mention in most of the U.S. media. And if you're asking me where is the likeliest place for a really nasty war to break out where both sides have nukes and I think would be willing to use them under certain circumstances, no.

It's this part of the world right now. And no one's even talking about it. So, you know, Trump's got his hands full. I think J.D. Vance was just in India this week, and we're hoping that there's going to be a treaty between or a tariff, rather, agreement between the U.S. and India. I think there's early. Charlie Gasparino was reporting this morning that there looks like there's some agreement on that. So, you know, multi or a billion plus person country that's going to have a better trade relationship with the U.S. seems like a very. So that's on the positive side of things.

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We're going to take a few moments to chat with our friend Dana Perino of Fox News. You all know her. She's got a book that just came out this week. I wish someone had told me the best advice for building a great career and a meaningful life, and perhaps we would even get her to weigh in on flutes versus fives and other fascinating conversations today on the show. Dana, thank you so much for being here. Hey, I thought you were having me on to talk about the NFL draft. Yeah.

Oh, no, that's my area of expertise. Maybe you and I can do a whole segment where we discuss the draft because Clay had to tell me that this was even happening, so I had zero idea. Actually, I love the idea. Dana reads sports is one of my favorite parts of Fox News. I love the idea of Dana and Buck try to figure out sports-related issues. You guys, with no help, just come together and try to determine some sports-related conclusion.

I got to tell you, I really loved the, I love watching the NFL draft because I like watching all the people, like in the families and like their excitement. I think that's so fun. And live tweeting the draft is one of my favorite things to do, so I'm going to make sure I'm doing that tonight. Like, who wouldn't want to live in Arizona? That sounds fun. They got cute uniforms, too.

Yes, I'll just tell you, I've actually never seen the draft. So I think we've established that Dana's knowledge, Clay, of this exceeds mine substantially. I've never watched an NFL draft in my life. So maybe tonight will be my first time. Dana, tell us about the book a little bit here. I mean, you've had a huge career. You were White House press secretary under Bush. Now you're at the Five, Fox, doing all this amazing stuff. What's the book telling everybody out there?

So it's called I Wish Someone Had Told Me, The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life. And I'd done a book before called Everything Will Be Okay. And actually, I remember you all had just started your show together. And when that book came out, you had me on, and it was such a fun conversation. I remember exactly where I was standing and where we did that. And that book was really targeted to young women going through their quarter life crisis. This book is post-COVID and post-COVID.

And it is not geared just to young women. I made it much more broad-based. And also because I have advanced in years since when I left the White House, um,

A lot of people that I mentored back then are still coming to me for advice, and they've become executives, moms and dads. They are looking for the next step in their life. They're making big career transitions. And so I realized I didn't have all the answers myself. I interviewed over 40 people, many of the people here at Fox News, like Gutfeld, Harold Ford Jr., Jesse Waters, Sandra Smith, Jimmy Fallon, you name it, they're in here, but also like my college roommate, my husband,

And Dierks Bentley, that's what I was thinking of. Of course, I was thinking of Nashville. I'm thinking Clay Travis, Nashville, Dierks Bentley. To talk to them, everything from how to start, how to get your foot in the door, how to get a promotion, how to be intentional with your time in a work-life balance. And I know, Buck, you're a new dad. Yes. And all of this is...

I'm sure you'll be able to write a book of advice for dads anytime soon. Oh, I would love that. But I have to tell you, Dana, as I'm talking to you, it's always reassuring when I find out that my wife is actually listening to the show. And she texted me and says, make sure you tell Dana that I got a lot out of her book, Everything Will Be Okay. So Carrie Sexton is a fan of book one and now will be a fan of your most recent book, I am sure.

Your wife is so lovely. Well, you know, I love hearing that. And one thing I did find out, guys, is when Everything Will Be Okay came out, it was a big success. Everybody loved it. But there were younger guys, especially around here at Fox, who were like, what about one for us? And there's an insatiable need of young people who they really want to be successful, right?

And they're just looking for us to give them the blueprint. And we don't have the answers, of course. One of the best things that I've learned and that I could pass on is that I really worried away my 20s for no reason. I was so trying to plan out my life. And everything that happened great in my life is not because I planned it. And if you are an educated American, you already won life's great lottery. And so all you have to decide is how hard do you want to work.

I think that's so well said, and thanks for coming on, Dana. I had a professor at Vanderbilt Law School, Larry Soderquist, who has since passed, but he was an incredible business professor. And his big thing to us when we were in law school, and I'm sure there's some kids out there that are going to grad school or you're going to take the bar exam soon coming up this summer.

And he said, you are already set. He said, you guys have done the hard work of getting into law school. He said, the question you have to decide going forward with your legal careers is how do you want to work this, uh, this, uh, this law degree said, but you're never going to be homeless. You're never going to be hungry. The,

big concerns in life you have taken care of and you should think about that more than you do all of you and I thought that perspective was super important and I think it reflects upon what you said where there are a lot of kids out there in their 20s they get out of school they get out of grad school they have these quarter life crises I had one myself and

and they wonder what else is out there. And I think this is an important lesson that you're trying to teach them is that, one, you're still going to be trying to figure out a lot of things when you're in your 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. Nobody has all the answers, but you're probably going to be okay. Oh, absolutely. And one of my favorite mentors was President Bush. And I remember he would talk about the importance of not being so risk-averse that America was built on people willing to take a risk.

and to be pioneers. And I think about Elon Musk, right? Like he takes risks all the time, like landing rockets on chopsticks. But because he was able to, he was willing to take a risk, you can get great reward. And I remember I was really hesitant to start my own business after I left the White House because I had a million reasons that were stupid, really looking back. And the president said to me, ask yourself this, what is the worst thing that could happen to you if it fails?

So I sort of hemmed and hawed for a minute. And he said, so you're telling me the worst thing that could happen to you, an educated American woman who was the White House press secretary, starts her own business, say it fails. And the worst thing you have to do is go back and work for another PR firm. That's the worst thing. And he said, I'm not persuaded by that. And that's really helpful to me. I learned from Dr. Samantha Boardman, when people are dealing with anxiety, and of course, we all do. And also we're surrounded by young people who have a lot of it.

You ask yourself, what's the worst thing that could happen and what's the best thing that could happen? And usually what happens is somewhere in the middle, and it can calm you down pretty quickly. Yes, I think there's an old quote from one of the great Stoics that we suffer more in imagination than reality. It might have been Seneca or it's one of them. So it's a version, you know, Dane is updating it for the 21st century, but this is very true. When I interviewed him for this book, Jesse Waters talks about the Stoics as well in this book.

Well, Jesse Waters and I are apparently brothers from another mother. I had no idea. Fun fact, Jesse doesn't even know this, but maybe he was in, I think it was like an English 101 class at Trinity College with my older brother at one point, to give you a sense of what a small world it was. Then Mason transferred and went to a different school. But yes, Jesse and I have been...

Yeah, Jesse and I have been ships passing the night. Mason assures me he might have popped his collar, but he was a very nice guy. But yes, we've got Dana Perino with us right now, and she's got a new book out, which you guys should all check out. And her books have been huge successes up to this point. So if you're looking now for the people out there who are going to be grabbing this book, if there's one thing that you want them to really take seriously,

out of it today or rather one thing that they would read and you hope they could apply to their lives as soon as possible Dana what would that be? Well I think we've covered a lot of it and especially what I'm hoping is that when people read this they will realize they don't need to worry as much. One of the reasons that you seek out a book like this is because you're trying to get some answers to things that are bothering you. So I'm hoping that that is true but I would also pass on this advice. Most of the mentees that come to see me they are definitely interested in professional guidance.

but they also are looking for meaningful personal lives. They would love to meet somebody. They want to get married. They want to have families and they want to find a work-life balance that will allow them to have a great, wonderful, meaningful life. And my experience is unusual. I met my husband on an airplane 28 years ago and there's a million reasons why we might not have met or that we could have talked ourselves out of it. But choosing to be loved is not a career limiting decision.

It actually made all the difference for me, and I'm hoping that young people can take that away and realize that investing in yourself and a commitment is a great way to enhance your life and your career. I've got to wait. I've got to reverse for a second here. Take us into this. This is a great story of romance. You met your husband on a plane. What was the first move here? Did he spill his peanuts or his seltzer in your lap? How did he get this going?

Well, okay. So it was 1997. So let's go in the way, way back machine. Nobody had phones, nobody had AirPods. Okay. So I was carrying a book. I was working for a Congressman. I was coming back from Denver, going Denver, Chicago, Chicago, DC. And I was on an American Airlines flight. I almost missed the plane because it was my first time driving out to the new Denver International Airport, which might as well be in Kansas. It's so far away. That's accurate. And so the

The last two people to get on the plane were myself and this guy. And I sat down in the window seat and he said, would you like me to put your bag up above? British accent. Strong move. Strong move. Yeah. Accents are helpful. No wedding ring.

handsome and he had a book called the tailor of panama by john lecary i said oh how did i said do you like that book so we started talking about books and then and for two and a half hours we talked for a long time i remember asking him what do people in europe think about bill clinton and he said they think he's a clown and i was like oh wow we're going to get along great um but then i remember looking out the window and saying a prayer to god that i know i asked you to help me find someone but

He's much older than me. He lives in England. My career is on the right track. I didn't think I would meet somebody on an airplane, but I couldn't eat, sleep, drink, concentrate, anything after I met him. And about six weeks later, we had our first date when he was back in the States in New Orleans. And six months later, I moved to England 28 years ago.

Wow. What was the reaction when you told people, I'm just kind of curious, hey, I'm going to move to England. I met a guy on an airplane.

Okay, so you hit the nail on the head of one of the reasons I wrote the book because one of the things I worried about in my 20s was how am I going to get a job? How will I succeed? How will I pay my bills? Then how am I going to meet somebody? Then what are people going to think about me for wanting to be with this man who is much older than me, lives in England, and that I'm leaving my job and career to go live in England and who knows what's going to happen to me?

And I worried myself to death. And a woman, a family friend said, don't give up on this chance to be loved. Can I throw something in there, Dana? One superpower that I've learned is to not care what people think who don't matter to you. You know what I mean? I know, but you know what is so interesting is that we have to learn this lesson over and over again. Because your parents teach you that when you're young, or maybe you learn it in Sunday school or from a teacher or from other friends. And all of these young people are always thinking about

what others are thinking about them and how they're being judged. And what I remind them is that actually we all just think about ourselves all the time. Nobody has time to think about you.

And by the way, especially in a social media age, people are even more obsessed about how they're being perceived than they would have been in the past. Quick question. Can I ask her a question? Dana, do you think that women, I'm putting you on the hot seat a little bit here. Everybody loves Dana Perino. Everyone's going to love this book. You're on the hot seat now. Do women in this era care too much about men's height?

Gosh, you know, I am barely, I'm not even quite 5'1", so even Gutfeld is a little tall to me. Just kidding. He is not tall to me. Do women care too much about height? I mean, maybe. I mean, I know that it's sort of awkward. It depends. You don't see a lot of women who are taller than you. How tall is your husband, Dana? How tall is your husband? Let's just go through this. About, I would say 5'10".

Okay. He's tall, but you didn't date. You're not a 5'1 lady who married a 6'5 guy. We've had some conversations on the show recently about this. He's tall for someone from Scotland. How about that? Fair enough. Fair enough. I don't even know if that's just a shot at Scottish men, by the way. I wouldn't have... Oh, that's just a fact.

Scottish mid or short? Is this true? Yeah. Yeah. The book, by the way, is fabulous. I have met her husband. He is fabulous. Dana has taken us out. I have to say, he would probably get canceled if he had a radio show.

He is great. He is fantastic. Well, hey, by the way, you're listening to a guy who may get canceled at any moment. No idea what might happen from one second to the next. We got you. The book is I Wish Someone Had Told Me. Go ahead. And Dana Perino, go buy it. You're going to like it. Dana, we appreciate the time. You do fantastic work. I love you guys. Thanks so much.

Thank you. Same to you. Clay, I was struck by something as we're talking to Dana. It is true. My wife loves Dana. Everybody loves Dana. Her book is fantastic. I'm sure the last book was fantastic. I have a book title for you for your next book because we know the topic.

I have a title for you. Do you want me to tell you the title now or when we come back? I want to hear your title when we come back. We've got a title for the book, and it's probably not going to surprise you, but I'm curious if your title is somewhat similar to the title we've got an idea of. Now that you're telling me this, I feel like it could be, but just to be clear, Clay has not told me the title of his forthcoming book. I have a title in mind for him, and I think some of you are really going to like it. So that's what we call a tease in the business.

Would you switch? Is it me or you who's supposed to read? No, it's me. It's me. Oh, I blew it. Sorry, you read. The leaf blowers are throwing you off, buddy. I know. The leaf blowers just track me everywhere. I hate those guys. Okay.

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