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

Welcome in everybody, second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now.

We're joined by our friend Carol Markwich.

She's a columnist for the New York host, and also is part of the

Planbuck Podcast Network, please subscribe and you can hear the Carol Markowitz show.

Carol, appreciate you being with us. It's been very tough news in the new cycles lately, but we really wanted your perspective.

So thank you for being here.

Thank you guys for having me. You've been fantastic on this issue. I really appreciate all of it very much.

Thank you. Well, it's, you know, it's emotional for us. It's emotional for us and I think, I know I can speak for this audience and saying that the sense of of solidarity that we have and we feel with Israel and and with the Jewish people in Israel and around the world is something that's

essential and right now yeah right now Carol what is what is it that is going on in this country and in other Western countries as well, right? I mean, I don't, you know, I can't expect anything. What they're doing on the streets of Tehran I mean it's a you know murderous

dictatorship but London New York Western countries places where we've lived places

where we expect,

some of these big rallies you're seeing

that are pro-Palestinian.

How do you, as not just a columnist and a person

who follows this you closely,

but as a dear friend of ours and as a Jewish person? person who follows this

as a as a dear friend of ours and as a Jewish person as an American

how do you feel about this what's going on

it's a really scary time you know but I, I, moving to Florida and living in Florida has been sort of the solace here because I feel so safe in Florida. I went shooting this weekend, you know, with some mutual friends of ours, and it felt really good to feel like I could protect myself here that our family can protect themselves.

But I think a lot of Jews around the world need to be asking themselves do I live somewhere where anybody

cares about protecting me and where they let me protect myself. There's been a giant

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