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Hour three of Clay and Buck kicks off right now.

Clay is, I think, on the back nine right now.

Is that what you call it?

Golf course, right?

Isn't that?

I'm trying to sound like I know anything about golf.

With the Tunnel the Towers Foundation of Frank Siller for a charity event, but he'll be back in tomorrow. He sends his regards, and he says his swing has been pretty good today. Actually, pretty good. That's what Clay's saying. He's texting me right now. Our friend Miranda Devine joins us. She's a New York Post columnist, author of the very excellent book, Laptop from Hal Miranda.

Thanks for making the time.

Hey, fantastic to be with you.

So you have a piece up in the post, reckoning needed after Biden's failed foreign policy gave Hamas, Tara, the element of surprise.

Walk us through this here.

How do you connect the dots to Biden-Ford policy and this obviously, this heinous

sneak attack by Hamas?

Well, look, obviously there was an intelligence failure there in Israel and in the US, which supplies its allies with intelligence.

It's always very useful.

And in this case, it didn't happen.

And you have to ask the question about whether or not several factors that have compromised America's ability to see what was going on with Iran played a factor.

And so, for instance, there was the appeasement, continual appeasement of Iran, giving back of the $6 billion,

which I'm sure we've been talking about all week.

And also the fact that there was a spiring has just been busted inside the State Department

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