Hour 2 - Dems Messed With Texas

Buck Sexton (0:00)

Second Hour, Clay and Buck kicks off right now. And on many of the best TV show lists of all time, you will see The Wire. I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. I've seen the entire series. It's very, very good. And there is one quote that is probably the single most famous of the entire five seasons, spoken by Omar Little.

You come at the king, you best not miss. Well, turns out, they've come at Pete Hegseth. So maybe the king's right hand man, and they have missed. And I want to get into some of those realities here in a second. What is coming up on this? Basically, what are the Democrats? I want to take you through, I just gave you my sense of where things are heading with the Iran conflict. What's called a conflict? War, non-war, military action, extended, kinetic targeting operation, whatever. The Iran conflict. That's where I think it's going. And we'll see. I also want to take you into as much as I can, what the Democrats are planning so that we can understand it, be prepared for it, and hopefully counter it. And to that end, we'll also have Jim Jordan on the program tomorrow. How is he going to be positioning things as House Minority Leader come January because these Democrats, the pent-up rage, I mean, it really is like the lights have been out in the Insane Asylum for a few years and they've all been caged up and now, unfortunately, they're all going to break out.

It's going to be Arkham Asylum for those of you who are Batman fans. It's going to get kind of crazy out there. But we'll get into that shortly. I did want to take some of these calls from some of our veterans because I said we had all our lines lit and then I said veterans are in front of the lines and then everyone dropped and then we got all the veterans calling in.

Let's see, Captain Bob in Massachusetts. What's going on, Bob?

Bob (1:59)

Yes, sir. I have a couple of things.

I've served presidents from Kennedy to Clinton. Politics is politics. I voted for Trump three times because I thought he was probably the best we had, the best commander-in-chief that I've seen in my experience. But anyway, I can talk to Mr. Hegseth. He's a junior officer, a mid-grade officer.

And that would be, that would put him as a lieutenant commander in the Navy. And I remember when I was a lieutenant commander, I certainly did not have the gravitas to talk to the stars, the admirals, the flags. As I did serve in the Pentagon, that was kind of in the ladder of my career. So unfortunately, President Trump's gonna have to accept the responsibility for hiring a mid-grade officer that really couldn't connect with the senior officers.

Buck Sexton (3:13)

So wait, so Captain Bob, you actually, you're, you're, you think that there's been some deficiencies in Secretary Warhegg Seht's tenure? Is that what your, is that what your opinion is?

Bob (3:23)

Yeah, I mean, I remember when I was a lieutenant commander. I certainly couldn't get, handle a responsibility. And I've been to the Naval War College, you know, I've had experience as an officer in charge, as a commanding officer and, you know, the skipper has to take responsibility. The skipper, it doesn't matter if the junior officers screw up, but if a ship goes down, that commanding officer is going to have to take the responsibility, period. And, and that's, that's the law too. And because I had a high security clearance, I was reading the traffic that was going on between President Johnson and his staff, McNamara.

And it was easy to see from that perspective. And again, I couldn't do anything. I was a, I was an ensign, Lieutenant JG. And I can't imagine trying to handle that responsibility, but I knew it was going to end up in a disaster. And it did.

Buck Sexton (4:36)

Thank you for your service, Captain Bob, and thank you for your perspective. Thank you. My in-laws are visiting right now, including retired, retired F-18 Naval aviator, who's my father-in-law. And we went to the memorial service for my grandfather-in-law, Admiral Flatley, who was put to rest, what was this, back in, gosh, I'm trying to remember the month, it was the end of September, I think, at Arlington. It's my first time ever going to Arlington. It's a powerful place. It's a place that every American should go to, if they can. I know they do tours and people can see it.

Everyone should go. If you have the ability to get to DC, you should definitely go and see it. So, yeah, Captain Bob, look, it's interesting to see the different perspectives here on who's really, the Iran war decision was President Trump, he's the Commander-in-Chief. So I think that there are people who feel like Secretary of War Hegseth, his job was to implement that and I think on the execution side of the strategy decided on by the Commander-in-Chief, I think it's tough to find fault in what Secretary of War Hegseth did.