Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucksexton show podcast.

Welcome back everybody.

Obviously a lot going on in the political realm right now.

People are asking questions about what happened in Georgia and also who

should be leading the Republican party in a variety of roles.

Well, right now we have House majority leader and possible next speaker of the

House Congressman Kevin McCarthy on the line with us.

And he also has a big announcement which I want to get to first about the

vaccine mandate in the military.

Congressman appreciate you joining us sir.

Thanks for having me.

I appreciate the opportunity beyond.

So what can you tell us about the status of the vaccine mandate for

military service members as there's a lot of back and forth right now with

the NDAA funding authorization, et cetera.

Yeah, now we've got good news finally.

We've watched what this mandate has done.

We've watched what Fauci has done to our nation flip flopping trying to control.

Well, they tried to control our military tune.

What has happened?

Some of our very best have been kicked out.

The army is down 5,000 soldiers short because they can't meet their target for

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