June 30, 2022 • 37 mins
Another shocking murder rocks NYC: Young mom shot on Upper East Side while strolling her 3-month-old baby. White teen stomped to death, brutally killed by black assailants in parking lot at LeBron James' school in Akron -- and Clay is appalled that James has not commented as he does for so many other incidents. NY Governor Hochul says she doesn't need data to support her anti-gun policies. SCOTUS rules for Biden on Remain in Mexico and against Biden on EPA power. Buck sums up crime situation: "We're actually trying to go after bad guys here and the cops have to feel supported and not be told that they're basically social workers who happen to have a gun." Clay's take: "Focusing on identity over crime has led us to such a disastrous place in our country."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show on this Thursday, June thirtieth. Appreciate you
joining rolling with us. A lot of news coming down today.
We have a Supreme Court decision five four for the
wrong side. Unfortunately on the remain in Mexico policy. The
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Biden administration is able to end it. We will get
into the details of it. There's some intricate legal analysis
of the Immigration to Nationality Act and the Administrative Procedures Act,
all that stuff. We'll give you a little bit of that,
but bottom line is Biden wants to let illegals into
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the country and his DHS is doing it and they're
just going with it. So we'll get into more of that.
They could stop this, and they are choosing to not
stop this, and the Supreme Court is now by five
four decision, not going to stand in their way. We
also going to be joined later on the program by
the Attorney General of the State of Arizona, A. G. Bernovich,
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and also third hour of the program, the Governor of
South Dakota, Christy Nome. A lot going on at her state.
I want to talk to her about some of the
national political stories as well. Now there's so much we
oh and of course Biden saying he wants to get
rid of the filibuster, and they're gonna the system doesn't
work for them, and all of a sudden, the Libs
want to overthrow the system or overturn the system or whatever.
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We'll see where that's going. Clay's got updates from Cinema
and Mansion that may put a bit of a damper
on the La Revolution, the switch in our government in
the Senate, and all the other things they want to do.
So we'll get into all of this here shortly. But
but first, I was really struck last night by the
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headlines about what happened on the Upper east Side. As
you know, I'm here in New York City. I live
in Midtown Manhattan. I grew up on the East Side,
and the Upper east Side is the probably the safest neighborhood.
It's also generally an expensive neighborhood. Not all of it
is hyper expensive, but a lot of it is. But
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it's a place you don't see shootings. It's a place
you don't really see much in the way of violent
crime even when the city is having a bad time
of it. And there was a mother with her baby,
walking the baby and a stroller and she was going
The mother was going for a walk and a gunman
in a hooded sweatshirt came up behind her and executed
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her with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
Ninety street in Lexington Avenue for those of you who
know New York City, and this immediately sent a shockway
through the city because this is exactly the kind of
story that gets everyone's attention as this is how far
the security situation, law and order has deteriorated that in
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a neighborhood like the Upper East Side of New York,
where you're generally not seeing as much violent crime, you
have an execution in a busy intersection of a mother
with a baby. Clay Eric Adams came out last night.
He actually went to the scene of the shooting right away,
so the mayor knew that this was a moment that
was going to really obviously upset a lot of people,
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upset everyone in the city of New York and around
the country. But also he know that they knew that
there were political ramifications from this kind of an incident.
And here's my basic and we could go through it.
My basic theory, Clay is we all know what would
actually bring the crime levels down. We actually in New
York City ran the experiment in the nineties. We know
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what would be done. Democrats, for ideological reasons, refused to
do it. They just refused to do it. They focus
on guns. The focus was not singularly on guns when
they turned New York around in nineteen starting in nineteen ninety,
the year two thousand, this is where we are now,
and this is happening in cities all over the country.
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New York from correct me if I'm wrong, Buck around
two thousand murders a year, all the way down to
three hundred. Giuliani when he took over you or a kid,
it was around two thousand murders. New York was not
a safe place to be. And I think the number
fell all the way to like three hundred, under three hundred.
It was two thousand, two hundred and forty five and
nineteen ninety and got to two hundred and ninety two
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and twenty seventeen. Okay, So an unbelievable success story in
terms of making the streets safer for everyone. These are
the kinds of stories that crystallize fear for many people
because if someone has killed, most of most deaths, most murders,
as many of you know, almost all of you know,
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probably involve people that you know. That is, random acts
of violence are rare. What has become very commonplace bucks
Suddenly in New York City is guys on the subway
going to work and somebody shoots him and he dies,
and he did didn't know that guy at all. This
is the Hispanic guy who worked at Goldman Sacks. That
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was a viral story. Asian woman gets shoved directly in
front of a subway car as she's standing waiting to
go I think to yoga class one morning in New
York City as well. Now mom out pushing her baby
and a stroller gets executed. The details of who this
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guy was and what exactly might have been behind it,
we still don't know. But if this was a truly
random act of violence, which buck, it appears at least
early on that it was a random act of violence,
everyone immediately thinks for all three of those stories that
could have been me. It's different when you're involved in
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a criminal underworld drug trade. It's different when someone that
you know takes a violent act against you, but truly
random acts of violence crystallize the killing fields that many
of the cities and states in our country have suddenly
become in the wake of the George Floyd protest and
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the BLM riots. Let's be honest, that's what the absolutely
critical point. Why did this all happen? Why is the
murder rate in New York City up sixty percent in
four years, especially given that the trend was down, down,
down for over twenty years decades, all of a sudden,
it's up sixty percent in less than four years. The
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murder rate in twenty twenty one, there were four hundred
and eighty eight murders here, and other other cities like
Baltimore that are much smaller with considerably higher murder rates.
Saint louis considerably higher, right, But New York because it's
the biggest city and honestly the biggest crime turnaround miracle
is for people that want to look at the data,
who want to look at what happened, a very good
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indicator of what's gone on here, and it is because
of BOM, the George Floyd riots, the Progressive Prosecutor movement
and the Democrat Party embracing this ideology up. We just
have to enforce fewer criminal laws. The criminal justice system
is racist. This is the mainstream Democrat belief and talking point.
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And therefore the way to deal with the racom that
racism that they assess is in the system is to
just enforce fewer criminal laws, send people to prison for
less time, let people out for you know, earlier, all
of it. And when you look at New York, it
is just step by step, it's like Deblasio and now Adams,
although Adams is beginning to turn it around, was running
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a how do I ruin this city program? They got
rid of the Plane Closed police Unit Clay back in
twenty fifteen. Why well, I remember this. June fifteen, twenty twenty,
the New York Police Commissioner announced on Monday he was
disbanding the police department Anti crime unit Plane closed team
that target violent crime and have been involved in some
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of the city's most notorious police shootings. You know the
notorious police shooting is they was point to Amadu Diallo,
which was a bad incident. It was a mistake, but
they thought he had that was in nineteen ninety nine. Yeah,
I remember that story. Whenever the journals right about this,
it's well the plane closed unit. This is in twenty twenty,
plane closed unit. Man, they were in some bad shoots
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like nineteen ninety nine. These people, the journals, the Democrats,
the police commissioner under the Deblasi administration. And now what
we see with the progressive prosecutor Bragg and da I
mean and Mayor Adams. They're reckless and they're wrong, and
they just don't want to stop. So he's fix he's
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fixating on guns. Clay, the number of gunner they've I've
seen estimates that they're over a million guns in circulation
New York City. They take about ten thousand guns a
year off the streets. Yeah. Oh, but if they focus
on the guns, they're really going to solve the problem.
It's idiocy. It's like there's a lack of ability to
do the basic math. They also did away with stop,
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question and frisk, as you well know, which was also
incredibly important in terms of making people think, hey, maybe
I shouldn't have a gun on me when I'm walking
around in a high crime area because the police can
stop and talk to me and then judge me based
on my reaction to some questions whether or not I
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might be carrying a gun, and unfortunately, Buck, the overwhelming
number of the victims of these massive increases in murders
have been black, right, And if black lives truly matter,
where does BLM show up When all of these deaths
are occurring in inner cities. They're non existent. They are
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not in any way involved. They show up if a
white police officer is involved in any sort of allegations
of impropriet But when you have killing fields in our
inner cities and overwhelmingly young kids are the victims, they
don't say a word. And the media that shows up
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to cover all these BLM protests and talks about how
awful police are, they don't say a word either. They
barely even mention these deaths. And it takes these sort
of viral, anecdotal, out of nowhere, random acts of violence
to even cut through and personify what's going on in
our cities right now. They got rid of stop, question
and frisk a judge sheer just decided that it was unconstitutional.
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They got rid of the playing clothes unit. They changed
as many police procedures as they could, and a hyper
focus on restraint holds and all these things to make
the cops thing, well, if I have to wrestle somebody
who could go for my gun and kill me while
I'm on the job, I better be careful that I
don't put, you know, my elbow in the wrong place,
or else I'm going to end up in prison as
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the police officer. They cut the NYPD budget by a
billion dollars. This is the fascinating thing play is at
the same time that we're hearing, and this is true
in city after city, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles.
They talk about lowering gun crime and going after the
illegal guns. Arrests are way up for illegal gun possession
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in New York City. Prosecution somehow are way down. And
this is the phenomenon that you see that's just enraging
of people who do terrible things. And think of all
a lot of the high profile cases in any city
across the country. They kill somebody out of nowhere, and
we find out they've been arrested thirty times. You've been
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arrested seventy times. There was somebody in New York City
you just got his one hundred shoplifting arrest. It was
like the lib media wanted to give him some kind
of a prize. Look at him. He's gotten away with
it one hundred times. This is a mindset. This is
an ideology that Democrats have pushed for their It's rooted
in virtue signaling. It's rooted in their sense of guilt.
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It's rooted in their belief that somehow you don't have
to give cops. I mean, here, Mayor Adams has neighborhood
safety teams. This is what he said in response to this, Clay.
Listen to how they describe this. Neighborhood safety teams the
City of New York. These are police squads intensively trained
in minimal force techniques, advanced tactics, car stops. De Escalation
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is essential to all of it. Now, de escalation is important,
but we're actually trying to go after bad guys here,
and the cops have to feel supported and not be
told that they're basically social workers who happen to have
a gun. Being concerned that you're being too tough on
criminals is a luxury of a low crime environment. That's
where we got We got convinced that crime was not
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a major issue, and we allowed it to creep back up,
and then the George Floyd BLM protest put this all
on steroids and the numbers. Now it's impossible to argue otherwise.
You go look in May of twenty twenty. In June
of twenty twenty, we basically suddenly went on a rocket ship,
a violent crime exploding because we attacked our police officers,
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told them they couldn't do their jobs. And then that
combined with the soft on crime environment and I'm gonna
we come back, buck. I want to share an example
of how celebrities have helped to fuel the environment of
this awfulness. Lebron James in particular. I'll tell you about
something that happened in Akron that I bet almost none
of you have even heard of. Yeah, and I just
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want to add to this as just in the background,
we keep talking about this because the Democrats aren't changing course. Really,
they're just hoping this goes away. And we're a month,
we're months away from an opportunity to actually have some
accountability for these bad ideas they have ruined cities? Folks,
Do you want to hold them accountable? And when you
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little bit more about this in the implications of it.
But Buck, using the example of the random act of
violence that occurred in Manhattan, the woman pushing her baby
that was shot, this is not just happening in cities
like Manhattan. I want to tell you a detail here
and then we're gonna talk about it a bit more.
Coming out of the break, almost no one is discussing
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seventeen year old Ethan Limming. He was murdered in the
parking lot of Lebron James's High School in Akron, Ohio.
They have now done the full autopsy. He was stomped
to death. Stomped to death in the parking lot of
Lebron James High School, his spine was broken. These details
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are excruciating to even be able to share with you
from the autopsy. Joe Kenzie has written about it up
at OutKick dot com. But three guys have been charged
with stomping this kid to death. This started buck over
a water gun. There were kids playing basketball outdoors at
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Lebron James's high school. Another kid riding in a car
came by with a water gun. Now, the kid who
was stomped to death, seventeen year old Ethan Lemming, is
a white kid. There were three adult black men who
stamped him to death, Donovan Jones allegedly, Tyler Stafford Deshaun Stafford.
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They are twenty one, nineteen, and twenty years old. Think
about how much Lebron James has spoken out related to
violence and issues. Remember he posted a picture of a
cop who had fired a shot and said you're next. Basically,
he hasn't said a word. He has not mentioned Ethan
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Lemming's name once. This kid was stomped to death buck
in the parking lot of his school, and Lebron James
all of his tweets, all of his Instagram messages, He's
weighed in on every left wing social justice issue accused
everybody of racism. Three black kids stomped this white kid
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to death in his parking lot. He hasn't even mentioned
this kid's name. When we come back, I just wanted
to talk about how focusing on identity overcrime has led
us to such a disastrous place in our country. Come back,
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guns endangerous people that repeatedly leave our criminal justice system
to continue actions like this. It is what's making the
New York City Police Department and other law enforcement agencies
here in New York, of course the country, and of
course the country are difficult to fight this issue. Welcome
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mcclayan back. That was the Mayor of New York, Eric Adams.
It's always the guns, although he did say something I
believe they're about dangerous people who have the guns, which
is getting closer to the issue here, which is criminals
and arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning those who are a threat
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to their fellow human beings and who break the law.
We have an update for you on that. The reason
the mayor is speaking out on this is because of
this execution style shooting on the Upper East Side of
Manhattan last night. It was a domestic violence incident. The
police are now saying, here's what we know. According to
The New York Post, the young mom who was shot
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and killed while strollering her three month old baby on
the Upper east Side was a domestic violence victim. She
was identified as a twenty year old named Asia Johnson.
She had been planning on meeting her infant's dad on
last night she was targeted. It was a close headshot,
the police said, and when speaking to the family, what
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they found out was that this was a long standing
threat against this woman from this individual that's now the
prime suspect. Following the altercation, the ex boyfriend stalked and
harassed their daughter. According to the family, they called police
for help, but he was not arrested. We called the
priested numerous times to tell the domestic violence unit that
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he was stalking and harassing her, even though they knew
what apartment he lived in. They failed to apprehend him
and arrest him. According to the mother of the victim,
and then her quote here, Clay, this city failed to
protect my daughter. And that's how a lot of people
feel right now about what this city's insufficient law enforcement
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environment is. They're not doing what is necessary to keep
people safe at a level that we've seen in the past. Right,
No one's expecting perfection, but things have gotten out of hand. Now.
I know there's this case, and there's also the Lebron
James not speaking out issue that you wanted to talk
more about. Yeah, look, the situation as you break it
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down with this Lebron James incident. The only reason why
this initially went public, Buck, is because they couldn't figure
out who the kids were. And they're not kids, they're
grown ups now, but they initially thought maybe they were
miners that had stamped this kid to death, so there
was an initial search. Lebron said nothing about, Hey, let's
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try and catch these guys. Let's try and make sure
that we have justice. He just sent out a random
tweet that said prayers up for the victim in this situation,
didn't name him, didn't give any indication who the killers
may have been, and I just want everyone out there
to think about the way that Lebron would have handled
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this situation. If three white kids had stamped a black
kid to death in the parking lot of his high school,
do you think he would have only sent out a
tweet saying prayers up for the victim? Or would the
city of Akron be burning over this incident if you
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change the races outside of Lebron's school. Now, the reason
why I bring this up is we have created social
media has certainly accelerated it, but we have created the
idea that victims only matter based on the identity of
who kills them. That's really the legacy of BLM. It
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should be black lives matter in parenthetical when white people
are involved in their deaths. Because all of the inner
city shootings that go on that are overwhelmingly black on
black crime, most people don't even pay attention, and the
vast majority of BLM activists don't even lift a finger
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when kids are murdered every single day all over this country.
There are thousands and thousands of murder victims getting no
justice in this country, and the only time, by and large,
the media pays attention is when there is an identity
politics related angle to cover. So Lebron is a perfect
example of this because he tweets all the time and
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incessantly about race related grievance. But in his own school's
parking lot, when a white kid was stomped to death
by three different black kids, Lebron James won't even utter
the name of the white victim. They were and they
were grown men, they were adults, grown men, and they
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wouldn't He wouldn't even ask for people in Acron, his hometown,
to help catch the culprits here. Still hasn't said anything,
Buck and he be a lebroblematic of how what a
fraud he is. He's the same Lebron James who called
out the police officer who shot exactly Rakia Bryant saved
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that saved someone's life, save the girl was lodging with
a knife and the police officer arrived on the scene
and shot the woman to keep her from stabbing to
death another person. And Lebron put a picture up of
that police officer and said basically, you're next, if I
remember correctly, arguing that he was the new DeReKo. One
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of the most grotesque things the celebrity has done involving
police action I've ever seen, to be honestly, there's why
another reason why Lebron James is the most famous NBA player.
I do not watch the NBA. I do not support
the NBA. But I sit here, Clay and I get
so frustrated too, because we're being lectured by the media
constantly about violence nationwide. Right We're being told that we
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have to tackle the problem of violence. Of course, we
all agree violence is horrible. It's the most serious crimes
we have to deal with involve the use of violence,
the criminal use of force. And yet what you see
is this fixation on the NRA and gun laws instead
of the real problem. The problem is not somebody who
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wants to have an AAR fifteen that they have in
their home lawfully and take to the range. You can
take their ten round magazine and make it seven, or
make it five, or tell them they're only allowed to
own a Blunderbuss or whatever. It's not going to change
the problem. That's why I'm Kathy Hokel is going out
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there saying now in response to the Supreme Court decision
on New York States gun carry policy, I mean here's
what she says. Listen, it's really people that are getting
these guns illegally that are causing the violence, not the
people going and getting the permit legally. And that's the
basis for the whole Supreme Court argument. Do you have
the numbers. I don't need to have numbers. I don't
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need I don't have to have a data point to
point two to say that this is going to make
All I know is I have a responsibility to the
people of this state to have sensible gun safety laws.
And this one was not devised by the hoc administration.
It comes out of an administration from nineteen oh eight.
I don't need a data point to make the case
that I have a responsibility to protect the people of
this state. Just put aside for a second. I mean,
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she's she is honestly one of the dumbest people in
politics on the scene today, one of one of the
dumbest people in American politics today. But beyond that, Clay,
notice it's what's politically convenient for Democrats. Gun violence is bad.
Shootings are up. Violence across the board is up. Let's
go after people who obey gun laws and harass them
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more because they are disproportionately Republican and mail and not
the base of the Democrat party. Instead of dealing with
where the violence is happening, which is going to be
in cities, which is going to involve people with criminal records,
they don't want to touch that issue. Bail reform laws,
that's not going to do anything. Playing clothes unit, that's
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not that this is their mentality. But you know, changing
the front stock on an AAR fifteen, that's hero stuff
right there. Credit to the media member who asked that
question because it elucidated the response of I don't need data.
I don't need any actual facts to support my arguments.
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Because did you hear that answer? I mean, she's clearly
not very smart, but she also, I don't think, was
expecting to get a question like that which basically said, hey,
can you provide any factual evidence to back up your
policy at all? And she said I don't need it,
which is welcome to Democrats. The way Democrats do with
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I want to hit you with a couple of Supreme
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The EPA's power has been severely curtailed. And this is
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positive for those of us out there who believe that
democracy should actually matter and are concerned about the federal
bureaucracy's overreach in a five to four decision, however, where
John Roberts joined the majority, the Remain in Mexico sitch
a plan which had been overwhelmingly successful. Buck, you can
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speak to this pretty well because you've been to the
border several times. Donald Trump solved much of the issues
that were rising in terms of illegal immigration with a
remain in Mexico policy, which Joe Biden has repealed, and
the Supreme Court, in a five to four decision, decided
that the Biden administration did have the ability, due to
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the immigration powers residing inside of the executive branch, to
overturn that remain in Mexico policy of Donald Trump impact there.
From your perspective, I mean, the Alito dissent is pretty
blistering on this one, and it's when you go and
read into it a little bit what you find is
so much of this is rooted in bad faith execution
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of the laws by the executive branch. So Alito starts
out by writing that in twenty twenty one, the Border
Patrol reported one point seven million encounters with aliens along
the Mexican border. Notice, the Supreme Court uses the term
aliens not undocumented, by the way, because that's actually the
Federal Code term. When it appears that one of these
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aliens is not admissible, the government may the government simply
release the alien in this country and hope that the
alien will show up for the hearing at which his
or her entitlement to remain will be decided. Congress has
provided a clear answer to that question. The answer is no.
By law, if an alien is not clearly and beyond
a doubt entitled to be admitted, the alien shall be detained.
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So the problem here that that's from the Alito dissent
four justices. Of course, going along with this five you
had Kavanaugh and Roberts on the wrong side of this one.
No surprise with Roberts. Kavanaugh also honestly a little for
all the oh my gosh, Cavenaugh, He's like Roberts with
a little more hair. He's really not that rely. I'm
just gonna say it. But you look at this and
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what's what the core of the issue is the Biden
administration is using its executive authority to ignore the intent
of the law, even if the actual verbiage of the
law allows for this, so that people can continue by
the millions to scam our immigration system enter illegally and
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stay forever. Biden could stop this Clay DHS Majorcas running,
it could stop it, they choose not to. That's what
the that's what's at the core of the decision. And
if you listened yesterday to our interview with Texas Governor
Greg Abbott, in addition to saying that Joe Biden was
to blame for the fifty plus deaths that recently occurred
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in those smuggling deaths in the back of the truck,
he also said that Majorcas should be impeached by Republicans
after the midterms based on his failure to protect the border.
And this certainly is going to be a major topic
in the state of Arizona, where the direction of the
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United States Senate may well turn. You've got Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin,
all of these states, Pennsylvania with really important Senate elections
where we're tied fifty fifty. Maybe there'll be other states
that end up in the mix two. But it's a tough, tougher,
much tougher Senate battleground than it is for the House.
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Almost one hundred billion percent. Right now, the House is
going to be in Republican control. Speaker Pelosi is going
to be gone. But the Senate buck as we've talked
about for a long time, Democrats are not having to
defend as many seats. The seats many of them that
they are defending are on much safer ground, and so
who controls the Senate in twenty twenty two is going
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to really kind of be something potentially on a raisers edge.
May come down to Arizona. And we're talking to Mark
Bernovich here in a little bit, the Attorney General of Arizona.
I know there's a battle going on for the Republican
Senate nomination there to go against Mark Kelly, but this
is the kind of issue in Arizona that could be
incredibly important, and we're going to talk about this issue
with him next hour. Democrats are for open borders. The
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Biden administration is making it so it's a clear decision
and if the American people don't like it, they need
to be held These Democrats need to be held to account.
Just one more thing on the EPA clay before we
I know, we're gonna talk about Biden and the filibuster.
Ending the filibuster overturned the system because they care so
much about our sacred democracy until they don't get their way.
Then they want to take their ball home and no
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one else can play with it. Right. But Barack Obama
on the EPA thing, I just you know, he just
tweets this stuff. No challenge poses a greater threat to
our future than a changing climate. Every day we're feeling
the impact of climate change, and today's Supreme Court decision
is a major step backwards. If things, if we had
like a add week in Europe, we could have a
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nuclear war with Russia. But Obama says, the biggest challenge
right now people can afford their gas. The border's wide open.
Inflations the worst it's been in forty years. The biggest
challenge to our future is the theoretical rise of point
five degrees celsius in global climate that we may have
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over the next forty to fifty years. I'm crying already.
You and I have talked about this on the show
quite a bit. Neither of us loses an ounce a
moment's sleep over over the global warming. I just it's
not even in my top twenty concerns. It's a religious
belief for Libs who think they're too smart for religion.
It really is this is their stand in, this is
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what they I'm gonna save the planet. They're not, actually,
And you know what I got news for them. We're
all gonna die, so worry about How about a way
to end the hour? Sexton Fleet, Travis and Buck Sexton
on the front lines of truth m M.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show on this Thursday, June thirtieth. Appreciate you
joining rolling with us. A lot of news coming down today.
We have a Supreme Court decision five four for the
wrong side. Unfortunately on the remain in Mexico policy. The
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Biden administration is able to end it. We will get
into the details of it. There's some intricate legal analysis
of the Immigration to Nationality Act and the Administrative Procedures Act,
all that stuff. We'll give you a little bit of that,
but bottom line is Biden wants to let illegals into
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the country and his DHS is doing it and they're
just going with it. So we'll get into more of that.
They could stop this, and they are choosing to not
stop this, and the Supreme Court is now by five
four decision, not going to stand in their way. We
also going to be joined later on the program by
the Attorney General of the State of Arizona, A. G. Bernovich,
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and also third hour of the program, the Governor of
South Dakota, Christy Nome. A lot going on at her state.
I want to talk to her about some of the
national political stories as well. Now there's so much we
oh and of course Biden saying he wants to get
rid of the filibuster, and they're gonna the system doesn't
work for them, and all of a sudden, the Libs
want to overthrow the system or overturn the system or whatever.
(01:30):
We'll see where that's going. Clay's got updates from Cinema
and Mansion that may put a bit of a damper
on the La Revolution, the switch in our government in
the Senate, and all the other things they want to do.
So we'll get into all of this here shortly. But
but first, I was really struck last night by the
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headlines about what happened on the Upper east Side. As
you know, I'm here in New York City. I live
in Midtown Manhattan. I grew up on the East Side,
and the Upper east Side is the probably the safest neighborhood.
It's also generally an expensive neighborhood. Not all of it
is hyper expensive, but a lot of it is. But
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it's a place you don't see shootings. It's a place
you don't really see much in the way of violent
crime even when the city is having a bad time
of it. And there was a mother with her baby,
walking the baby and a stroller and she was going
The mother was going for a walk and a gunman
in a hooded sweatshirt came up behind her and executed
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her with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
Ninety street in Lexington Avenue for those of you who
know New York City, and this immediately sent a shockway
through the city because this is exactly the kind of
story that gets everyone's attention as this is how far
the security situation, law and order has deteriorated that in
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a neighborhood like the Upper East Side of New York,
where you're generally not seeing as much violent crime, you
have an execution in a busy intersection of a mother
with a baby. Clay Eric Adams came out last night.
He actually went to the scene of the shooting right away,
so the mayor knew that this was a moment that
was going to really obviously upset a lot of people,
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upset everyone in the city of New York and around
the country. But also he know that they knew that
there were political ramifications from this kind of an incident.
And here's my basic and we could go through it.
My basic theory, Clay is we all know what would
actually bring the crime levels down. We actually in New
York City ran the experiment in the nineties. We know
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what would be done. Democrats, for ideological reasons, refused to
do it. They just refused to do it. They focus
on guns. The focus was not singularly on guns when
they turned New York around in nineteen starting in nineteen ninety,
the year two thousand, this is where we are now,
and this is happening in cities all over the country.
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New York from correct me if I'm wrong, Buck around
two thousand murders a year, all the way down to
three hundred. Giuliani when he took over you or a kid,
it was around two thousand murders. New York was not
a safe place to be. And I think the number
fell all the way to like three hundred, under three hundred.
It was two thousand, two hundred and forty five and
nineteen ninety and got to two hundred and ninety two
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and twenty seventeen. Okay, So an unbelievable success story in
terms of making the streets safer for everyone. These are
the kinds of stories that crystallize fear for many people
because if someone has killed, most of most deaths, most murders,
as many of you know, almost all of you know,
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probably involve people that you know. That is, random acts
of violence are rare. What has become very commonplace bucks
Suddenly in New York City is guys on the subway
going to work and somebody shoots him and he dies,
and he did didn't know that guy at all. This
is the Hispanic guy who worked at Goldman Sacks. That
(05:04):
was a viral story. Asian woman gets shoved directly in
front of a subway car as she's standing waiting to
go I think to yoga class one morning in New
York City as well. Now mom out pushing her baby
and a stroller gets executed. The details of who this
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guy was and what exactly might have been behind it,
we still don't know. But if this was a truly
random act of violence, which buck, it appears at least
early on that it was a random act of violence,
everyone immediately thinks for all three of those stories that
could have been me. It's different when you're involved in
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a criminal underworld drug trade. It's different when someone that
you know takes a violent act against you, but truly
random acts of violence crystallize the killing fields that many
of the cities and states in our country have suddenly
become in the wake of the George Floyd protest and
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the BLM riots. Let's be honest, that's what the absolutely
critical point. Why did this all happen? Why is the
murder rate in New York City up sixty percent in
four years, especially given that the trend was down, down,
down for over twenty years decades, all of a sudden,
it's up sixty percent in less than four years. The
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murder rate in twenty twenty one, there were four hundred
and eighty eight murders here, and other other cities like
Baltimore that are much smaller with considerably higher murder rates.
Saint louis considerably higher, right, But New York because it's
the biggest city and honestly the biggest crime turnaround miracle
is for people that want to look at the data,
who want to look at what happened, a very good
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indicator of what's gone on here, and it is because
of BOM, the George Floyd riots, the Progressive Prosecutor movement
and the Democrat Party embracing this ideology up. We just
have to enforce fewer criminal laws. The criminal justice system
is racist. This is the mainstream Democrat belief and talking point.
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And therefore the way to deal with the racom that
racism that they assess is in the system is to
just enforce fewer criminal laws, send people to prison for
less time, let people out for you know, earlier, all
of it. And when you look at New York, it
is just step by step, it's like Deblasio and now Adams,
although Adams is beginning to turn it around, was running
(07:42):
a how do I ruin this city program? They got
rid of the Plane Closed police Unit Clay back in
twenty fifteen. Why well, I remember this. June fifteen, twenty twenty,
the New York Police Commissioner announced on Monday he was
disbanding the police department Anti crime unit Plane closed team
that target violent crime and have been involved in some
(08:04):
of the city's most notorious police shootings. You know the
notorious police shooting is they was point to Amadu Diallo,
which was a bad incident. It was a mistake, but
they thought he had that was in nineteen ninety nine. Yeah,
I remember that story. Whenever the journals right about this,
it's well the plane closed unit. This is in twenty twenty,
plane closed unit. Man, they were in some bad shoots
(08:25):
like nineteen ninety nine. These people, the journals, the Democrats,
the police commissioner under the Deblasi administration. And now what
we see with the progressive prosecutor Bragg and da I
mean and Mayor Adams. They're reckless and they're wrong, and
they just don't want to stop. So he's fix he's
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fixating on guns. Clay, the number of gunner they've I've
seen estimates that they're over a million guns in circulation
New York City. They take about ten thousand guns a
year off the streets. Yeah. Oh, but if they focus
on the guns, they're really going to solve the problem.
It's idiocy. It's like there's a lack of ability to
do the basic math. They also did away with stop,
(09:08):
question and frisk, as you well know, which was also
incredibly important in terms of making people think, hey, maybe
I shouldn't have a gun on me when I'm walking
around in a high crime area because the police can
stop and talk to me and then judge me based
on my reaction to some questions whether or not I
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might be carrying a gun, and unfortunately, Buck, the overwhelming
number of the victims of these massive increases in murders
have been black, right, And if black lives truly matter,
where does BLM show up When all of these deaths
are occurring in inner cities. They're non existent. They are
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not in any way involved. They show up if a
white police officer is involved in any sort of allegations
of impropriet But when you have killing fields in our
inner cities and overwhelmingly young kids are the victims, they
don't say a word. And the media that shows up
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to cover all these BLM protests and talks about how
awful police are, they don't say a word either. They
barely even mention these deaths. And it takes these sort
of viral, anecdotal, out of nowhere, random acts of violence
to even cut through and personify what's going on in
our cities right now. They got rid of stop, question
and frisk a judge sheer just decided that it was unconstitutional.
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They got rid of the playing clothes unit. They changed
as many police procedures as they could, and a hyper
focus on restraint holds and all these things to make
the cops thing, well, if I have to wrestle somebody
who could go for my gun and kill me while
I'm on the job, I better be careful that I
don't put, you know, my elbow in the wrong place,
or else I'm going to end up in prison as
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the police officer. They cut the NYPD budget by a
billion dollars. This is the fascinating thing play is at
the same time that we're hearing, and this is true
in city after city, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles.
They talk about lowering gun crime and going after the
illegal guns. Arrests are way up for illegal gun possession
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in New York City. Prosecution somehow are way down. And
this is the phenomenon that you see that's just enraging
of people who do terrible things. And think of all
a lot of the high profile cases in any city
across the country. They kill somebody out of nowhere, and
we find out they've been arrested thirty times. You've been
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arrested seventy times. There was somebody in New York City
you just got his one hundred shoplifting arrest. It was
like the lib media wanted to give him some kind
of a prize. Look at him. He's gotten away with
it one hundred times. This is a mindset. This is
an ideology that Democrats have pushed for their It's rooted
in virtue signaling. It's rooted in their sense of guilt.
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It's rooted in their belief that somehow you don't have
to give cops. I mean, here, Mayor Adams has neighborhood
safety teams. This is what he said in response to this, Clay.
Listen to how they describe this. Neighborhood safety teams the
City of New York. These are police squads intensively trained
in minimal force techniques, advanced tactics, car stops. De Escalation
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is essential to all of it. Now, de escalation is important,
but we're actually trying to go after bad guys here,
and the cops have to feel supported and not be
told that they're basically social workers who happen to have
a gun. Being concerned that you're being too tough on
criminals is a luxury of a low crime environment. That's
where we got We got convinced that crime was not
(12:43):
a major issue, and we allowed it to creep back up,
and then the George Floyd BLM protest put this all
on steroids and the numbers. Now it's impossible to argue otherwise.
You go look in May of twenty twenty. In June
of twenty twenty, we basically suddenly went on a rocket ship,
a violent crime exploding because we attacked our police officers,
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told them they couldn't do their jobs. And then that
combined with the soft on crime environment and I'm gonna
we come back, buck. I want to share an example
of how celebrities have helped to fuel the environment of
this awfulness. Lebron James in particular. I'll tell you about
something that happened in Akron that I bet almost none
of you have even heard of. Yeah, and I just
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want to add to this as just in the background,
we keep talking about this because the Democrats aren't changing course. Really,
they're just hoping this goes away. And we're a month,
we're months away from an opportunity to actually have some
accountability for these bad ideas they have ruined cities? Folks,
Do you want to hold them accountable? And when you
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little bit more about this in the implications of it.
But Buck, using the example of the random act of
violence that occurred in Manhattan, the woman pushing her baby
that was shot, this is not just happening in cities
like Manhattan. I want to tell you a detail here
and then we're gonna talk about it a bit more.
Coming out of the break, almost no one is discussing
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seventeen year old Ethan Limming. He was murdered in the
parking lot of Lebron James's High School in Akron, Ohio.
They have now done the full autopsy. He was stomped
to death. Stomped to death in the parking lot of
Lebron James High School, his spine was broken. These details
(16:07):
are excruciating to even be able to share with you
from the autopsy. Joe Kenzie has written about it up
at OutKick dot com. But three guys have been charged
with stomping this kid to death. This started buck over
a water gun. There were kids playing basketball outdoors at
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Lebron James's high school. Another kid riding in a car
came by with a water gun. Now, the kid who
was stomped to death, seventeen year old Ethan Lemming, is
a white kid. There were three adult black men who
stamped him to death, Donovan Jones allegedly, Tyler Stafford Deshaun Stafford.
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They are twenty one, nineteen, and twenty years old. Think
about how much Lebron James has spoken out related to
violence and issues. Remember he posted a picture of a
cop who had fired a shot and said you're next. Basically,
he hasn't said a word. He has not mentioned Ethan
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Lemming's name once. This kid was stomped to death buck
in the parking lot of his school, and Lebron James
all of his tweets, all of his Instagram messages, He's
weighed in on every left wing social justice issue accused
everybody of racism. Three black kids stomped this white kid
(17:35):
to death in his parking lot. He hasn't even mentioned
this kid's name. When we come back, I just wanted
to talk about how focusing on identity overcrime has led
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guns endangerous people that repeatedly leave our criminal justice system
to continue actions like this. It is what's making the
New York City Police Department and other law enforcement agencies
here in New York, of course the country, and of
course the country are difficult to fight this issue. Welcome
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mcclayan back. That was the Mayor of New York, Eric Adams.
It's always the guns, although he did say something I
believe they're about dangerous people who have the guns, which
is getting closer to the issue here, which is criminals
and arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning those who are a threat
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to their fellow human beings and who break the law.
We have an update for you on that. The reason
the mayor is speaking out on this is because of
this execution style shooting on the Upper East Side of
Manhattan last night. It was a domestic violence incident. The
police are now saying, here's what we know. According to
The New York Post, the young mom who was shot
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and killed while strollering her three month old baby on
the Upper east Side was a domestic violence victim. She
was identified as a twenty year old named Asia Johnson.
She had been planning on meeting her infant's dad on
last night she was targeted. It was a close headshot,
the police said, and when speaking to the family, what
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they found out was that this was a long standing
threat against this woman from this individual that's now the
prime suspect. Following the altercation, the ex boyfriend stalked and
harassed their daughter. According to the family, they called police
for help, but he was not arrested. We called the
priested numerous times to tell the domestic violence unit that
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he was stalking and harassing her, even though they knew
what apartment he lived in. They failed to apprehend him
and arrest him. According to the mother of the victim,
and then her quote here, Clay, this city failed to
protect my daughter. And that's how a lot of people
feel right now about what this city's insufficient law enforcement
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environment is. They're not doing what is necessary to keep
people safe at a level that we've seen in the past. Right,
No one's expecting perfection, but things have gotten out of hand. Now.
I know there's this case, and there's also the Lebron
James not speaking out issue that you wanted to talk
more about. Yeah, look, the situation as you break it
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down with this Lebron James incident. The only reason why
this initially went public, Buck, is because they couldn't figure
out who the kids were. And they're not kids, they're
grown ups now, but they initially thought maybe they were
miners that had stamped this kid to death, so there
was an initial search. Lebron said nothing about, Hey, let's
(22:00):
try and catch these guys. Let's try and make sure
that we have justice. He just sent out a random
tweet that said prayers up for the victim in this situation,
didn't name him, didn't give any indication who the killers
may have been, and I just want everyone out there
to think about the way that Lebron would have handled
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this situation. If three white kids had stamped a black
kid to death in the parking lot of his high school,
do you think he would have only sent out a
tweet saying prayers up for the victim? Or would the
city of Akron be burning over this incident if you
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change the races outside of Lebron's school. Now, the reason
why I bring this up is we have created social
media has certainly accelerated it, but we have created the
idea that victims only matter based on the identity of
who kills them. That's really the legacy of BLM. It
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should be black lives matter in parenthetical when white people
are involved in their deaths. Because all of the inner
city shootings that go on that are overwhelmingly black on
black crime, most people don't even pay attention, and the
vast majority of BLM activists don't even lift a finger
(23:32):
when kids are murdered every single day all over this country.
There are thousands and thousands of murder victims getting no
justice in this country, and the only time, by and large,
the media pays attention is when there is an identity
politics related angle to cover. So Lebron is a perfect
example of this because he tweets all the time and
(23:55):
incessantly about race related grievance. But in his own school's
parking lot, when a white kid was stomped to death
by three different black kids, Lebron James won't even utter
the name of the white victim. They were and they
were grown men, they were adults, grown men, and they
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wouldn't He wouldn't even ask for people in Acron, his hometown,
to help catch the culprits here. Still hasn't said anything,
Buck and he be a lebroblematic of how what a
fraud he is. He's the same Lebron James who called
out the police officer who shot exactly Rakia Bryant saved
(24:39):
that saved someone's life, save the girl was lodging with
a knife and the police officer arrived on the scene
and shot the woman to keep her from stabbing to
death another person. And Lebron put a picture up of
that police officer and said basically, you're next, if I
remember correctly, arguing that he was the new DeReKo. One
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of the most grotesque things the celebrity has done involving
police action I've ever seen, to be honestly, there's why
another reason why Lebron James is the most famous NBA player.
I do not watch the NBA. I do not support
the NBA. But I sit here, Clay and I get
so frustrated too, because we're being lectured by the media
constantly about violence nationwide. Right We're being told that we
(25:23):
have to tackle the problem of violence. Of course, we
all agree violence is horrible. It's the most serious crimes
we have to deal with involve the use of violence,
the criminal use of force. And yet what you see
is this fixation on the NRA and gun laws instead
of the real problem. The problem is not somebody who
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wants to have an AAR fifteen that they have in
their home lawfully and take to the range. You can
take their ten round magazine and make it seven, or
make it five, or tell them they're only allowed to
own a Blunderbuss or whatever. It's not going to change
the problem. That's why I'm Kathy Hokel is going out
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there saying now in response to the Supreme Court decision
on New York States gun carry policy, I mean here's
what she says. Listen, it's really people that are getting
these guns illegally that are causing the violence, not the
people going and getting the permit legally. And that's the
basis for the whole Supreme Court argument. Do you have
the numbers. I don't need to have numbers. I don't
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need I don't have to have a data point to
point two to say that this is going to make
All I know is I have a responsibility to the
people of this state to have sensible gun safety laws.
And this one was not devised by the hoc administration.
It comes out of an administration from nineteen oh eight.
I don't need a data point to make the case
that I have a responsibility to protect the people of
this state. Just put aside for a second. I mean,
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she's she is honestly one of the dumbest people in
politics on the scene today, one of one of the
dumbest people in American politics today. But beyond that, Clay,
notice it's what's politically convenient for Democrats. Gun violence is bad.
Shootings are up. Violence across the board is up. Let's
go after people who obey gun laws and harass them
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more because they are disproportionately Republican and mail and not
the base of the Democrat party. Instead of dealing with
where the violence is happening, which is going to be
in cities, which is going to involve people with criminal records,
they don't want to touch that issue. Bail reform laws,
that's not going to do anything. Playing clothes unit, that's
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not that this is their mentality. But you know, changing
the front stock on an AAR fifteen, that's hero stuff
right there. Credit to the media member who asked that
question because it elucidated the response of I don't need data.
I don't need any actual facts to support my arguments.
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Because did you hear that answer? I mean, she's clearly
not very smart, but she also, I don't think, was
expecting to get a question like that which basically said, hey,
can you provide any factual evidence to back up your
policy at all? And she said I don't need it,
which is welcome to Democrats. The way Democrats do with
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I want to hit you with a couple of Supreme
Court decisions that came down and the reaction to those.
The EPA's power has been severely curtailed. And this is
part of a larger issue with agencies taking overwhelming sort
of running room to be able to advance causes which
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the agency cares about without any congressional oversight or authority.
And so this sort of unregulated agency state has been
reined in, in particular the EPA and their ability to
regulate carbon emissions in a six three decision that came
down within the last couple of hours. Also, that's a
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positive for those of us out there who believe that
democracy should actually matter and are concerned about the federal
bureaucracy's overreach in a five to four decision, however, where
John Roberts joined the majority, the Remain in Mexico sitch
a plan which had been overwhelmingly successful. Buck, you can
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speak to this pretty well because you've been to the
border several times. Donald Trump solved much of the issues
that were rising in terms of illegal immigration with a
remain in Mexico policy, which Joe Biden has repealed, and
the Supreme Court, in a five to four decision, decided
that the Biden administration did have the ability, due to
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the immigration powers residing inside of the executive branch, to
overturn that remain in Mexico policy of Donald Trump impact there.
From your perspective, I mean, the Alito dissent is pretty
blistering on this one, and it's when you go and
read into it a little bit what you find is
so much of this is rooted in bad faith execution
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of the laws by the executive branch. So Alito starts
out by writing that in twenty twenty one, the Border
Patrol reported one point seven million encounters with aliens along
the Mexican border. Notice, the Supreme Court uses the term
aliens not undocumented, by the way, because that's actually the
Federal Code term. When it appears that one of these
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aliens is not admissible, the government may the government simply
release the alien in this country and hope that the
alien will show up for the hearing at which his
or her entitlement to remain will be decided. Congress has
provided a clear answer to that question. The answer is no.
By law, if an alien is not clearly and beyond
a doubt entitled to be admitted, the alien shall be detained.
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So the problem here that that's from the Alito dissent
four justices. Of course, going along with this five you
had Kavanaugh and Roberts on the wrong side of this one.
No surprise with Roberts. Kavanaugh also honestly a little for
all the oh my gosh, Cavenaugh, He's like Roberts with
a little more hair. He's really not that rely. I'm
just gonna say it. But you look at this and
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what's what the core of the issue is the Biden
administration is using its executive authority to ignore the intent
of the law, even if the actual verbiage of the
law allows for this, so that people can continue by
the millions to scam our immigration system enter illegally and
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stay forever. Biden could stop this Clay DHS Majorcas running,
it could stop it, they choose not to. That's what
the that's what's at the core of the decision. And
if you listened yesterday to our interview with Texas Governor
Greg Abbott, in addition to saying that Joe Biden was
to blame for the fifty plus deaths that recently occurred
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in those smuggling deaths in the back of the truck,
he also said that Majorcas should be impeached by Republicans
after the midterms based on his failure to protect the border.
And this certainly is going to be a major topic
in the state of Arizona, where the direction of the
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United States Senate may well turn. You've got Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin,
all of these states, Pennsylvania with really important Senate elections
where we're tied fifty fifty. Maybe there'll be other states
that end up in the mix two. But it's a tough, tougher,
much tougher Senate battleground than it is for the House.
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Almost one hundred billion percent. Right now, the House is
going to be in Republican control. Speaker Pelosi is going
to be gone. But the Senate buck as we've talked
about for a long time, Democrats are not having to
defend as many seats. The seats many of them that
they are defending are on much safer ground, and so
who controls the Senate in twenty twenty two is going
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to really kind of be something potentially on a raisers edge.
May come down to Arizona. And we're talking to Mark
Bernovich here in a little bit, the Attorney General of Arizona.
I know there's a battle going on for the Republican
Senate nomination there to go against Mark Kelly, but this
is the kind of issue in Arizona that could be
incredibly important, and we're going to talk about this issue
with him next hour. Democrats are for open borders. The
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Biden administration is making it so it's a clear decision
and if the American people don't like it, they need
to be held These Democrats need to be held to account.
Just one more thing on the EPA clay before we
I know, we're gonna talk about Biden and the filibuster.
Ending the filibuster overturned the system because they care so
much about our sacred democracy until they don't get their way.
Then they want to take their ball home and no
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one else can play with it. Right. But Barack Obama
on the EPA thing, I just you know, he just
tweets this stuff. No challenge poses a greater threat to
our future than a changing climate. Every day we're feeling
the impact of climate change, and today's Supreme Court decision
is a major step backwards. If things, if we had
like a add week in Europe, we could have a
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nuclear war with Russia. But Obama says, the biggest challenge
right now people can afford their gas. The border's wide open.
Inflations the worst it's been in forty years. The biggest
challenge to our future is the theoretical rise of point
five degrees celsius in global climate that we may have
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over the next forty to fifty years. I'm crying already.
You and I have talked about this on the show
quite a bit. Neither of us loses an ounce a
moment's sleep over over the global warming. I just it's
not even in my top twenty concerns. It's a religious
belief for Libs who think they're too smart for religion.
It really is this is their stand in, this is
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what they I'm gonna save the planet. They're not, actually,
And you know what I got news for them. We're
all gonna die, so worry about How about a way
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