Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.

Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck here. I'm with Clay in Nashville in

studio and speaking to you all across the country. I'm going to take some calls later on this hour,

later on this show from veterans out there, people that want to share their perspective on what

has continued to unfold in Kabul and in the rest of Afghanistan right now. 800-282-282 on the lines.

That's 800-282-282. Clay and Buck.com is the website for updates, stories, posts, everything

else we've got going on here. And we're joined now by our friend Pete Hegseth. He is a veteran of

the United States Army and he is also the host of co-host of Fox and Friends Weekends and a buddy of

ours here for many years. Pete, great to have you. A buck. Clay, thanks guys. Thanks for having me.

I'm just let's start with the basics, Pete. What the heck is going on with this administration?

That's the operative question. Really, as you start to step back at a foreign policy crisis,

Joe Biden is absolutely nowhere to be found. It's a, we had a similar situation with my unit in

Iraq in some ways with a battalion commander that was not very engaged. And what it leads to is a lot

of uncertainty, equivocation, finger pointing, and no decisive action. And that's precisely what

we're seeing. Joe Biden can't muster anything other than a 20-minute speech from a teleprompter,

take no questions. Then four days off, two phone calls with world leaders in the last week based

on what's going on in Kabul and in Afghanistan. And as a result, no wonder our Pentagon can't

put a plan together. No wonder our state department can't put a plan together. No wonder our

spokesmen look like total fools. And then they look around if they, well, we didn't see this coming.

There was no indication. Well, of course, then the Intel agencies bucked you know all about this.

They strike back and say, here's where the reports have been. We've been talking about how it

would deteriorate rapidly. So it is an utter lack of leadership. I mean, my wife, when I'm driving

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