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

Second hour, Clay and Buck kicks off now.

Just a reminder, we've got our friends from the Clay and Buck Network joining in the third

hour.

Ryan Gurdosky on the numbers, where the Republicans are, where the Democrats are, how

these policies are looking to the American people thus far.

We've also got Carol Mark which joining us. She'll be

discussing the situation in Israel and with Hamas, the war, the return of hostages, now the return

of some dead hostages, including two babies. We will have that discussion with Carol in

the third hour of the program. In the meantime, we have some very good commentary from J.D. Vance.

I have to say that speech, I rarely say to you because we bring you the highlights of different policy speeches and things here on the show.

It's one of our value ads, if you will.

We'll tell you, hey, here's the most important stuff that Trump said, because Clay and I are always sitting there watching these things.

Show's over.

We're watching.

Morning, we wake up.

We're watching and looking at the transcripts and our team doing the same here on radio to pull the best stuff for you.

But I thought the 20-minute J.D. Vance speech that he gave at the Munich Security Conference

last week was worth it for anybody who wants to know where this administration stands on national

security and also just how the free world is doing these days and the sense that we have that

Europe has abandoned its post in many ways well in many ways yeah i was

going to say on the free speech issue but really just abandoned its post on a whole range of things

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