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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show.

Alex Berenson going to join us momentarily.

Let me hit you with a bunch of different stories that have broken in the last 45 minutes or so.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee nominated by Donald Trump to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Very good choice there, I believe.

The Attorney General of Florida, Ashley Moody, has opened an investigation into FEMA employees,

potentially bypassing people with Trump signs or Trump flags in the wake of Hurricane

Helene. That is obviously an awful story that at least one individual in a supervisory role put

in writing, that is, ignore homes with Trump paraphernalia, pretty unbelievable.

There is also a story out there that is significant that that, so let's see,

hundreds of CNN layoffs are potentially coming, that according to the Daily Mail,

citing a puck story. All of that and more. We bring in

now Alex Barrenson. Alex, you're a media guy. You've been in media for a long time. You used to be

at the New York Times. Now you have a substack. You've been on with us now for years, been doing a great job.

You like me have kind of traversed a unique path.

You voted for Trump.

We'll get to that in a moment.

But what lesson do you think on a larger scale is out there for media in the wake of Trump's triumph, his popular vote win, even despite CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Washington Post, Fox, the New York Times, largely

being propaganda for the Kamala campaign. Where do we go from here? Again, that CNN story,

hundreds of layoffs coming as their audience is tanking. Yeah, I mean, I just saw that, and I, as you were reading the intro, and I have to admit,

I'm smiling, you know, Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, who are, you know, Oliver left CNN,

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