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

Third hour of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and show gets going right now.

Everybody, thank you for being with us.

We had Joe Biden just address the nation on the the devastation in Florida and the

oncoming hurricane. Now the continuation of Hurricane Ian into South Carolina and that part

of the coastal, southeastern, U.S. So our thoughts are going out to everybody who's been

already affected in Florida and also those who are going to be bearing the brunt here of

a less extreme but still dangerous hurricane Ian in the southeastern United States.

One thing that I'd mentioned at the top of the of the program today, the first hour.

If you missed it, please go check out the Clay and Bucks podcast.

Is that Russia has now had a a sham referendum effectively in a number of parts of eastern

and southern Ukraine and so now they are officially Russian Federation territory according to Russia.

I had thought all along in fact in the beginning of this conflict at the start of this year,

I'd said that Russia is just going to carve up and take parts of Ukraine into its territory.

The question really was how much I bring this up because our team was monitoring this

and Biden spoke about what's going on right now in Ukraine and here's what he said.

He's his neighbor's territory and get away with it as simple as that and they're going to stay

the course. They're going to continue to provide military equipment so the Ukraine can defend itself

and this territory and its freedom including additional resources that the Congress is going to

give me today of $13 billion more dollars to help Ukrainians defend themselves and fight back.

And we're fully prepared to defend it. I'm going to say this again. America is fully

prepared prepared with our NATO allies to defend every single inch of NATO territory, every single

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