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Trump’s Nontraditional Foreign Policy Gets Results

25 Feb 2025

Watch Clay and Buck analyze President Trump’s Ukraine policy — which has the worldwide establishment losing their minds — but could very well end a very bloody and costly war.

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Rep. Jim Jordan Talks Biden’s Weaponization of the IRS, the Budget — and College Sports Hearings

25 Feb 2025

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, joined Clay and Buck to discuss a wide array of issues, including the details on how the Biden administration used the IRS to intimidate and injure political opponents.

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VIP Video: Tears of Joy as Reid Weeps Over MSNBC Firing

25 Feb 2025

Watch Clay and Buck analyze the ongoing meltdown at MSNBC. Joy Reid is out and asking for sympathy, while Rachel Maddow calls her own network racist.

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Clay Discusses Why President Trump Is Now More Trusted Than the Fake News

24 Feb 2025

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Lee Zeldin Details All the Waste He’s Finding at EPA

24 Feb 2025

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin tells Clay and Buck about all the fraud, waste and abuse he’s finding inside the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Deputy Assistant to the President May Mailman Gives Us the Inside Scoop on Trump vs. the Maine Governor

24 Feb 2025

May Mailman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Policy Strategist, joined Clay and Buck to share some stories of what went on inside the White House after the president’s public dispute with the governor of Maine over men playing women’s sports — and the overall feeling of the second Trump term.

 

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AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks Assesses the First Month of the Trump Administration

24 Feb 2025

White House AI and Crypto Czar, David Sacks, co-host of the All-In podcast gives Clay and Buck his read-out on the first month of the Trump presidency.

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VIP Video: The Joy Is Gone! Reid Out at MSNBC

24 Feb 2025

MSNBC’s Joy Reid axed by the network. Watch Clay and Buck reminisce about some of her “greatest” moments of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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Dance Again by Ali Lobo

24 Feb 2025

Producer Ali, who accompanied Clay on his trip to Israel with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, shares her thoughts in this piece on Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov’s release.

Dance Again

In my early twenties, I loved going to music festivals, alternative nightclubs, and raves. Lollapalooza was one of my favorite outdoor events of the summer. I’d go with a bunch of friends and dance under the stars, our disco ball in the sky. That was in Massachusetts, my home state.

A decade later I’d still be dancing, but all over the world. Different countries, cultures, and languages, under that same disco ball in the sky. Greece, France, Brazil, Italy, Amsterdam, Iceland… no matter where I travelled, music formed a connection. Bonding over beats, even if just for a night, strangers became friends.

Our olfactory sense, the sense of smell, is said to be the most powerful, enabling us to recall memories instantly. Sometimes music has that effect too. The first few chords of a track bring me back. Remembering the DJ compilation that got us all high the night we never took drugs. A group gathered, breaking beats like breaking bread and sharing an abundance of joy. Smiling, laughing, dancing, a universal connectedness. Music does that and the best DJs were symphony conductors leading us, like individual instruments, to a beautiful crescendo.

I think of this as I walk through the Nova festival site in Southern Israel in December of 2024. Hundreds of photographs memorialize the nearly 400 people slaughtered on the morning of October 7th, most of them young music lovers embracing a community I knew all too well. I think of this as I look into the pained eyes of a father, not much older than myself, whose son was kidnapped from the festival at age 20 (now 22).

His son, an aspiring DJ, loved music and bringing people together. In music festival culture, DJs are leaders, with popular ones drawing a following from all over the globe. An incredible DJ has instincts like a jaguar, creating a set list that revolves around an acute awareness of the environment, building anticipation, and knowing just the right moment to lunge into a sprint — an intensity the crowd eagerly waits for and celebrates. As the father spoke, I imagined his son at the festival overcome by the music and in his happy place, and how, twenty years earlier, I could have been there too.

The faces on the memorials, their stories, reminded me of so many young people I’d met at festivals along the way. They were from everywhere, drawn by the pull of community, to collectively experience the elation that brings music and art lovers together, much like sporting events do, except they were all on the same team. Some Israelis described the festival to me as the Burning Man of the Middle East, and it was billed as a peace celebration of “friends, love and infinite freedom.”

After leaving the Nova festival site, we continued to another memorial, a vacant lot that contained a wall of destroyed cars, hundreds of them, some burnt beyond recognition, others riddled with bullets – symbols of those that did not escape. A bombed-out car, permanently parked next to an Israeli flag, was the centerpiece of the memorial. It is decorated with the national flower of Israel, the Calanit.

Our hosts tell us the bright red flower, which represents strength and resilience, bloomed the following spring despite the ashes at the Nova festival site and along the border with Gaza. Hearing that reminded me of the ashes and aftermath in NYC following 911 and the persistence of nature in the cycle of life – no matter what horrors mankind puts in her way.

After leaving both memorials we stopped at a facility (Sdot Negev) dedicated to helping families, particularly children, traumatized by war. Dubbed “Resilience Centers” the counselors explained how their services had been overwhelmed following October 7th and the need to expand. They described children afraid of coming to the U.S., believing they were hated. Children.

The counselors gave us a stuffed animal they used during therapy sessions, a dog with long arms that wrapped around you like a hug. I ended up with it wrapped around me on the drive back to Jerusalem, not realizing I needed comfort too as so many thoughts and emotions flooded my mind. I was haunted by what I saw at the Nova festival sight. Walking through it, hearing explosions in the distance from the ongoing war, and thinking about that father and his anguish.

In Tel Aviv, where we visited him during a weekly rally in Hostage Square for families and supporters, they gave us dog tags that said in Hebrew and English: “Bring Them Home Now.” They also gave us wristbands from the Nova festival, the kind you wear when you go to those events. I wore so many in my youth and never imagined I’d be wearing one again in my fifties, but for such a different reason, as a gesture of solidarity.

I was in Israel with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews for a week traveling the country to bring awareness not only about what happened on October 7th, but what continues to happen globally with the rise of antisemitism and the dangerous repercussions it has in the world.

Someone warned me upon returning to the States that maybe I shouldn’t wear the wristband or dog tags, that perhaps I shouldn’t draw attention, for my own safety. That cautionary advice made me understand that I absolutely needed to wear them, write about them, and talk about what I experienced, from my own perspective.

On Saturday, February 22nd, I woke up to the news I’d been praying for since returning from Israel. The father we met, Malki, his son Omer Shem Tov, was released after 505 days in hostage captivity. Tears streamed down my face as I watched Omer reunite with his mom and dad. I’m brought back to the Nova site and a recurring message I saw written everywhere.

“We will dance again.”

I hope Omer will DJ again — and that the music will heal us all.

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Israeli Hostage Omer Shem Tov Reunited with Family After Release by Hamas

24 Feb 2025

Above, watch Clay reflect on his trip to Israel with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and also tell the story of meeting the father of hostage Omer Shem Tov who was released over the weekend. Below are some photos and Producer Ali’s piece: here.

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