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All right, third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off now.

You know, Clay had to run to a flight, so it's just the Buxter solo for this hour. I'll be back with us tomorrow.

Join me right now, our friend Julie Kelly, declassified, is her substack. She's done so much

fantastic work on the issue of pardons for J6 justice- individuals. The term of left uses for actual criminals.

So I guess we'll find something else for them. Some people say political prisoners, depends.

Julie, appreciate you being with us. I want to get into some of the appointees, if I can here with you for a second.

I'm sure you're following this closely.

I know you know some of these individuals.

What are you thinking?

From the T-leaf reading that I can do from the various senators and statements and things

they've put out, it seems like Pete is rallying up on Capitol Hill, getting

more senators to come to his side, and I would put the likelihood of his confirmation going

higher today than certainly it seemed to be yesterday.

Sure. That sounds about right, Buck. You know, you just can't allow the caving in to these hit jobs,

these character assassination attempts by the media and Democrats. And it appears some Republicans

are behind this as well. So by sticking with Pete's nomination, the president and everyone else on this side demonstrates that those Brett Kavanaugh days are over.

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