August 11, 2025 • 55 mins
Federalizing the DC Police
President Donald Trump announces a major federal intervention in Washington, D.C. crime policy. Trump invoked Section 740 of the Home Rule Act, placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to restore law and order. This bold move is framed as a response to the surging violent crime rates in the nation’s capital, which the hosts compare unfavorably to global cities like London, Paris, and Mexico City.
Clay and Buck provide detailed analysis of the 2024 DC murder rate, which reached 27.5 per 100,000 residents, nearly triple that of Mexico City and far higher than cities like Bogotá, Lima, and Havana. They argue that Democratic leadership in DC, including the City Council and Mayor Muriel Bowser, has failed to address public safety, and they highlight the political resistance Trump faces despite the urgency of the crisis.
OH Rep. Jim Jordan
Congressman Jim Jordan joins the show to support Trump’s actions and discuss the legal and legislative implications of federalizing DC law enforcement. Jordan also touches on sports broadcasting blackouts, the SCORE Act, and efforts to protect college athletics and Olympic sports from over-commercialization and regulatory confusion.
Boy Who Cried Wolf
Clay and Buck challenge the narrative that Trump’s crackdown is racially motivated, asserting that effective law enforcement benefits all communities, especially law-abiding black residents. They draw parallels to Rudy Giuliani’s successful crime reduction in New York City and argue that Democrats are boxed into defending indefensible positions simply because Trump is the one proposing solutions. The DC Police Union’s endorsement of Trump’s intervention is presented as further evidence that the city’s law enforcement infrastructure is overwhelmed and in need of federal support.
The conversation also explores broader political themes, including the hypocrisy of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who criticizes Texas redistricting while defending Illinois’ heavily gerrymandered congressional maps. The hosts highlight how Democrats manipulate crime statistics and media narratives to avoid accountability, and they discuss the disproportionate impact of crime on minority communities. Listener feedback reinforces the frustration with lenient prosecution policies and the failure to address juvenile crime effectively.
Race Communism
Clay and Buck critique the Democratic Party’s reliance on race-based politics, arguing that Trump’s policies are resonating with Black and Latino voters, particularly on issues like crime and deportation. They cite growing disillusionment with movements like Black Lives Matter, which they claim have led to increased violence and failed to deliver meaningful change. The discussion includes data on rising support for Trump among Black men, with one in five reportedly voting for him in 2024—a shift the hosts describe as “transformative.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. I am back from vacation. Clay
held it down, and we've got a lot of big
news to talk to you about here. I will say, Clay,
some people are saying Highland's North Carolina, beautiful place, beautiful place,
big fan. But I had to spend my morning today
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in preparation for the show, watching a doozy of a
press conference. I think that's a fair way to describe it.
The biggest takeaway from it, although there are many takeaways,
and we shall describe in some detail for you what's
going on here, But the big, biggest, single takeaway is
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that President Trump has decided that he will invoke his
Section seven forty of the Home Rule Act Power for
the District of Columbia Washington, d C. Which gives the
President of the United States the ability to commander the
Metro Police Department, which is the local police in Washington,
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d C. Because of an emergency situation. We have the
President describing this. Actually, let's let you hear from President
Trump directly on this. It was quite a moment. This
has cut one play under.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The authorities vested in me as the President of the
United States, I'm officially invoking Section seventy forty of the
District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what that is,
and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.
And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly
involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and
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they know what's happening, and they've done it before. In addition,
I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law
order of public safety in Washington, DC, and they're.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Going to be allowed to do their job properly.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is a big move from the President. I'd say
I really like this and support this, and we'll get
into some of the details of this, Clay, but essentially
the President is saying enough is enough DC, which, as
we are very honest with you, I am fond of
the district, as is Clay. We've both lived there. Clay
went to college there. I live there as a CIA
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analyst way back in the day, and then later on
in life as a media personality for a short while,
so we both spent a lot of time in DC.
The crime situation there is way too high. Let's just
put it that way, Clay. They're running all these stories. Now, oh,
crime is the lowest it is. Don't we all want
there to be no crime in our nation's capital. Shouldn't
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this be something where we can get some degree and
we'll get into why there isn't bipartisan agreement. There are
a number of reasons for this, but there's a whole
I think of options and opportunities here to bring the
crime level down to Tokyo levels. I mean, that's really
what we would like to see instead of We've had
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fewer carjackings by fifteen year olds, fewer people shot and
murdered in the streets of our nation's capital for no reason.
How about shooting for none, Clay. How about deciding that
we're not going to allow this madness to continue? Because
you and I are both familiar with it. DC was
always more dangerous when I lived there than post New
York City, post Giuliani. Rather New York City, It wasn't
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even close. DC was always a far more rough place
to be starting around the early two thousands.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
This is an example of something that Trump is doing
that should have one hundred percent approval, that Democrats will
automatically hate, and I think It's indicative of why the
Democrat brand is in the toilet, because whether you are
a Democrat, Republican, or an independent, or just somebody who
doesn't vote at all, you should want our nation's capital
to be safe, no matter what your politics are. You
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should want big cities in this country to be safe everywhere.
And I think Trump sees Washington, d C. As a
jewel of the nation. As we talked about last week.
If you look at the rates of murder in DC
compared to virtually every major city in the world, DC
is off the charts unacceptably violent. And you've got Judge
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Jenine who is in position now as the DC Attorney
of record there. And I think what we are basically
seeing is Trump wants to fix problems that exist everywhere.
And even in that press conference said, hey, we've solved
everything at the border. We are in the process of
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resolving many different issues associated with trade and balances and
economic issues and everything else. But even in that press conference,
which was a tour to force let's be on, we
went from Joe Biden can't even take a question from
the press without it being written out in advance on
a note card for him to as you said, Buck, Yes,
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the ostensible purpose of the press conference was to discuss DC.
But Trump took questions on China, He took questions on
Putin and Russia and the situation in Ukraine, basically everything
under the sun, with no preconceived, to my knowledge, knowledge
of where the questions were coming, and he handled them
with a plum.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right, we'll address that as well. He talked because, of
course the press asked him about the big thing on
the horizon, the planned meeting in Alaska of Vladimir Putin
and Donald Trump to try to bring an end to
the Ukraine conflict. Trump got into some specifics. There also
some discussion of well Trump's brought up the transports issue, Clay,
(05:53):
basically just to be like, like you say, they are yeah,
just you guys are nuts. Just to be clear, Democrats,
you're nuts. Trump just threw that in. I appreciate that.
You know, you had to was season the sauce a
little bit, you know, you had to spice it up.
He's like, hey, by the way, you are the lunatics
who think that men should play against women in sports.
So not really that into hearing what the Democrats have
to say on any particular issue, but he also talked
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about Nvidia with a deal to sell chips to China.
He addressed some of the concerns around that. So to
your point, Clay covered a whole range of issues and
also makes jokes and it's funny and the whole thing.
I mean, it was a trump athon, Okay, it was
a trump bonanza up there. He also had Pete Hegseth
in the mix, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, Judge Janine.
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This is very important. Judge Janine is the US Attorney
for the District of Columbia. Because there's the police and
the prosecution components of this that have to get aligned,
and that's a big deal. But we've all seen I'm
sure law and Order, right. I mean, I remember waking
up hungover in college and I think I would watch
sometimes like six hours of Law and Order in a
row on a rainy Saturday. Law and order is addictive,
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but it's the police, you know, the detectives who investigate crimes,
and then the prosecutors who handle them. It's actually a
good way to think about these issues, Clay. The issue
isn't just in DC getting to the arrest and Judge
Janede made this very clear. It's what happens to the
people that do the very bad thing once the prosecution
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is supposed to bring a case against them. And a
huge problem they have in DC is you have these youths.
I think that's how they're generally referred to in the press,
people under eighteen who are doing very adult crimes. And
you know this, this gets into this area of Okay,
if you shot somebody and didn't kill them and you're seventeen,
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Judge Janine says that you can get probation for this.
This is stunning, right, I mean, if you don't murder somebody,
rape somebody, you know, forcible rape somebody. There's a few
other crimes that she pointed out, you can be sixteen
or seventeen and get that. Essentially is you know, you
give me fourteen or fifteen. By the way, what the
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heck is going on when we have a society that
is producing fourteen year olds who are trying to carjack
people fourteen year olds?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
This is that I went usually with DC. I think
it's just there's no dads in homes. I mean, I
think you really get down when you have a fourteen
year old trying to carjack somebody it's a fundamental failure
of parenting because those kids are so young. That should
never be happening. And I think it's that we've knocked
dads out of so many of these homes. I bet
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every fourteen year old in America almost that is getting
arrested for something like carjacking.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
There is no dat at home. I'm almost one hundred percent. Well,
that's your going now to even more upstream or root
cause of the problem. And that's obviously true. And the
data on this about and people get very upset about this,
but it is just the truth. We're talking data. When
we talk data and statistics. I don't really care if
people get upset by it. In fact, it's probably a
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good thing that people hear data and statistics that upsets them,
because they need to hear it. If they don't already
know it, or they don't already understand the implications, they
need to hear it, which basically means almost every Democrat
that you know. I will say, Clay, I have I
have a close, close friend who, let's just say, has
been very close to the mayor of DC. And the
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interesting thing here is that Mayor Bowser would like crime
to go down and would like to do more. What
prevents her from doing more? Politically speaking, I'm not saying that,
you know, I'm not absolving her here, you know, but Trump.
You'll notice Trump isn't as hard on Bowser as he
is on like a Gavin you know, Gavin Newscum or
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you know, the mayor of Chicago. I mean, there are
there are people who are in positions of authority in
this country, mayors and police commissioners specifically, and city councils
who are just flatly insane. They're pro crime. They're all Democrats.
There are no Republicans who are actively pro crime. There
are Democrats who are actively pro crime. And the problem
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in a place like DC is that the city council
is insane, and there are considerable contingents of the black
community in DC that react very angrily and politically to
any crackdown by police. So what this does is it
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creates a situation where President Trump, now by federalizing this issue,
could dramatically bring down the crime rate in our nation's capital.
I said could, but it is possible, and then you
would have Bowser the mayor. Obviously she's a black woman,
she's the mayor of DC been mayor for years, is
in a sense insulated from the political blowback among some
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members of the black community for the crackdown that will
make all members of the black community and all DC
residents safer. This is this goes very deep. But this
is the problem. Why is there such pushback because Democrats
play this game and elected democrats, the City Council plays
this game. Clay, people forget this, and we can get
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into a little more of the Home Rule of nineteen
seventy three Act and how to know how to affect DC.
Congress has ultimate responsibility for DC. There is the Home
Rule means that there's the mayor, and there is a
local jurisdictional situation for and you know, you can vote
for the people in charge of your day to life
in DC. But the President Trump actually has some specific
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authorities as the president, especially under an emergency declaration like this.
Congress not only can deal with budgets in the district,
Congress can override legislation passed by the DC City Council.
And I would remind everybody that I forget the year,
but it was pretty recent where Congress stepped in to
override the DC City Council making the punishment for carjacking less. Yeah,
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too crazy even for Democrats. So this gives you a
sense of what they're dealing with Clay in the city
of well in our capital city.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah, and here is the data that I think ultimately
brings this home. Let me hit you with this as
we uh, as we go into the first break, and
I would just say open phone lines. By the way,
we're going to talk with Congressman Jim Jordan at the
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
He's got some news.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
We'll discuss what he thinks about whether there should be
more control taken over of DC, among other things. But Buck,
we mentioned this last week. The White House just shared this.
I want anyone out there to defend this, regardless of
your politics.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Eight hundred and two A two two eight A two.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The twenty twenty four murder rate in Washington, DC was
twenty seven point five per one hundred thousand, Right residents,
listen to these other cities that aren't exactly known for
being wildly safe. Bogata, Columbia you heard Trump talking about
at fifteen point one, Mexico City ten point six. So
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our murder rate is nearly triple what the Mexico City
murder rate is listen to some of.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
These other London's is easy because you can barely measure
it per one hundred thousand, which is what they usually do.
P one hundred thousand homicides is how you get these numbers.
London's is one.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yes, one, but I mean Islamabad do we think, hey,
this is gonna Let's see nine point two, Lima Peru
seven point six, Paris one point six. You heard buck
mention that London is won, Madrid is under one, Delhi
in India is one point five, Havana, Cuba is one
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point five. Why would anyone I think this is a
sign of how broken Democrat ideas are. We've got a
clip we'll share it for you eventually of MSNBC coming in,
an analyst coming on and saying, well, this is the
evidence of Trump's racism, that he's trying to crack down
on crime and Washington DC. Their ideas are broken and
they don't want good things to happen if Trump is
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involved in them, because that points out how they were
unable to fix things.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
To one of the initial points you made, Clay, this
is something that everyone reasonably rationally should be behind. Democrats
won't and this is both the right thing to do
and the smart thing to do. The right thing to
do because it'll mean fewer carjackings, fewer murders, fewer rapes,
fewer gang stabbings, which will disproportionately, by the way, mean
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less of that happening in the black community in DC.
I already gave the stats. We know what the stats are.
Over ninety percent of those who are incarcerated in the
District of Columbia for crimes committed there are black. So
it will disproportionately affect members of the black community who
are law abiding, who want to be able to go
on the metro or go to work, or just walk
through the park and not be stabbed or attack. And
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it's going to be high profile. This is why it's smart.
It's going to be something that even the press is
going to have to cover. They don't want to, but
they will because it is our nation's capital and they
live there. Where does the media live New York and DC?
If this is going on in their backyard, guess what
they're going to have to deal with this? And this
can show the failure of Democrat policies on crime and
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Speaker 1 (16:47):
Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio is joining us here. Wants
to chat about some of the biggest things happening today
in this big, beautiful country of ours. Congressman, great to
have you on Kitty with you.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Guys. Hope you had a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Oh it was fantastic. You ever been congresman to Highlands,
North Carolina? I highly recommend.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Yeah, yeah, down in that area. My my good buddy
Mark Medows, former colleague of ours and great Congressman great
keep of staff down in that neck of the woods.
So yeah, beautiful down there.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I'm like, I'm spreading, I'm spreading the word. So Congressman,
let's let's dive right into this. I watched the whole
press conference this morning, which was enthralling, both both very
informative and enthralling. Trump in Fuego. But all this issue
of crime. You know, you got two guys here, Clay
and Buck, who have both lived in d C. And
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I feel very passionately about this. That place should be
a lot safer than it is. It's go time.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, no, I agree, And the President is I
think that made the right decision. And I think he's
going to notify Congress because he can do this for
like a month, so thirty days, I think is what
the law says, and then then of course has to
be a vote. But I think he's going to send
you know what, his what what he you know, his
justification for why this is necessary, and I certainly think
it is. What do we capitals around the world. We
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have the highest violent crime rate of just about amy,
I believe, and of course we know what's happened in
day to day. We even happened to had what a
member of Congress a while back get their car taken
from him. So I think that's justified. And then it'll
come to Congress, and frankly, I think we should support
the president if he thinks this is something that needs
to go longer than the thirty days.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You Congressman, appreciate you coming on. I just want to
hit this because we talk about how crazy this is
in general, but whatever Trump does, Democrats line up to oppose.
This is the majority leader in the House for the
Democrat Party. Hakeem Jefferies just tweeted violent crime in Washington,
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d C Is at thirty year low. I think that's
very disputable. But let's go ahead and accept Donald Trump
has no basis to take over the local police department
and zero credibility on the issue of law and order.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It lost.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I mean, even within the construct of craziness for Trump
derangement syndrome is being opposed to a lower crime rate
in Washington, d C. Staggering. To even see Democrats stand
up in favor of.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Now the left doesn't make sense. I always say, not
all Democrats are crazy, but the left that controlled their
party is, and they got all these just wild ideas,
and as you point out, Clay, they're just constantly against
the president that that Trump's arrangement syndrome is truly a
real phenomenon, no doubt about it. But yeah, this, you know,
think about all the people who come to our capital
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as tourists, typically during the spring and sorrow spring months. Yeah,
during terry blossom when they're terry blossoms are pulled, the
number of people who come. They would like to know
that their their capital is safe. And more and more
we're hearing about things happening not only to citizen but
the actual members of Congress that are just wrong. So
you want a safe capital, you want to I think
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everything the President said, you want a beautiful capital, want
to say capital, you want people to want to come
to your capital to celebrate the history of the greatest
country in the world. And I think that's all in
play here if we have this level of crime. So again,
I think the President is doing the common sense thing.
He says this all the time. It's the difference between
Republicans and Democrats the day, between conservatives and the left
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is the difference between normal and crazy. And we're the
common sense, normal party. They're now the Party of Crazy,
defund the police, let men compete against women in sports,
don't allow violent crime to happen in on and on
and go. So I think this is just consistent with
that common sense theme and a good move.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Speaking of common sense, or maybe the lack thereof congressmen
to the degree that you can speak to this, I
might ask you to name any of your colleagues in
the Congress. But the Democrats, you know, this is something
that does affect them because they got to walk around
and live in the environs of both Capitol Hill and Washington,
d C. Capitol Hill, sketchy stuff happens around They're really
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bad stuff happens around there on a far too regular basis.
Do they all privately admit that the capital has got
way too much crime? Or have they diluted themselves into it?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Is it a thirty year low?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Well, I think what happens buck is I mean, I
just think about you know, the way Polly and I
way we handle We don't go, we don't stray far
from the Capitol, and if you do, you're in a car.
So it's literally there are days where the most I'm
outside is a half a block from the Cannon House
office building. There's three you know, three office complex to
the to the Capitol Hill Club, which is the half
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a block away. Everything else it's actually either in the
building in the tunnel over to the Capitol. You're just
not outside. So we live in this in somewhat of
a I think a bubble where we may not feel
what so many other citizens are feeling, what tourists are feeling. Now,
some people walk a little farther and they're a little
farther out in campus. My guess is they're a little nervous.
Particularly we've got late boats, late committee hearings, you're walking
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home at night. So normally what we'll do is if
we got something like that and we're going to go
and where we're always in a car and we're getting
picked up right outside the garage or maybe even in
the garage there at at the Raver and office building.
So I think we live in a different world. But
for the families coming or federal employees who are working there,
like this young man worked for Doshan who was attacked,
I think that's a different story. But that's who we're
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supposed to be serving. That's who we're supposed to be
protecting and that's what President Trump's decision is all about today.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, and we had a young intern I believe from Illinois,
if I'm not mistaken, who was shot and killed on
the street. I know it was a big deal on
Capitol Hill. Now also today your committee, I just came
from the Atlanta Braves. Your committee has sent letters to
the heads of the NHL, NFL, Major League Baseball, and
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the NBA going after blackouts on television. Bus got brothers
who I better are frustrated by this. I know I
have been supremely frustrated by this, and many sports fans are.
It's getting more expensive and harder to watch. What are
you working on there?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Yeah? Yeah, the whole system now is really complicated for
sports fans, and frankly, it's really expensive if you want
to watch your team play their games. You know, some
people want to buy the package and watch. But this
all stems from the nineteen sixty one Broadcasting Act, which
gave the n any Trust exemption to to the major
sports leagues. We understand that, but we're not in just
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the broadcast world anymore. We got streaming, we got we
got all kinds of things. Cable streaming, you name it,
we have it, and so we're concerned about how this
impacts fans who who if you I think you tweeted
this out a play you want to watch your team
play every game, you want to buy a package. It
can cost as much as like a thousand bucks a year.
To what I remember growing up, I could watch the
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Reds every weekend. Any game you wanted to see. The
Reds were on Cincinnati or Dayton television, you could watch that.
That's not always the case today because of the blackouts
and other things that take place. So that's our concern,
the how expensive it is, how complicated it is if
you want to watch and then all, well, you can
this game. But if you're you don't live in the market,
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the actual network market, You're somewhere else, but you still
want to watch the team you grew up watching, and
they're blacked out in the city you now have because
they're not sold out for some other reason. It's like,
what is going on? So we just want to talk
to these folks, and it's it's a concern we have
with We've got concerns with college sports. That's a slightly
different thing there. We're trying to work on that Americans
love sports. They love to watch their team, their their college,
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their their pro team. So we just want to talk
with these major league or these uh these professional sports
leagues and see what's exactly going on.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Are you Are you optimistic by the way that you're
going to get an answer? Trust Bill Past the Score Act.
I think it's called to help and regulate what's going
to happen with college athletics in particular.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, it's out of the committee and we have a
we have a handful of Democrats who it had co
sponsored it. So I do think we have a real
chance to get this done. And I think we talked
you know a few weeks back. Are our focus when
we started this. We want to maintain real competition. I
just have a few teams with all the money always dominate.
We want real competition. We want to maintain opportunities. So
we're concerned about women's sports and particularly Olympic sports. The
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USOC has been in talk to us about the direction
college sports are headed if we didn't do something, and
we also want to try to remember that we're this
is supposed to be about giving an education as well.
In this current environment, you got people playing seven years
with red shirts and Olympic red shirts and different things,
and making all kinds of money and transferring five times
and never getting a degree. So that's what we're trying
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to do. We think that bill is good. We're hopeful
it's going to be on the floor. We get it
past the House and then move on. And we think
our legislation, frankly, is also entirely consistent with the executive
order that President Trump put out, who's also very concerned
about the Olympic movement, Olympic sports, and the fact that
we you know, we got the Olympics coming here in
a few years. To the United States.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Congress and Jim Jordan, appreciate you, sir, Thanks for coming by.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
You bet guys, take care, keep up the good work.
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Play Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Much to dive into in the next
hour we will jump into Trump a lot of answers
of questions relating to the big meeting scheduled in Alaska
with Putin surrounding the Ukraine Russia War. But last week
(27:51):
we talked a lot about the redistricting battle going on
surrounding Texas, and we talked about, look, whatever your ideas
are on this, the idea that of all the places
the Texan lawmakers could have fled to, they went to Illinois,
which is one of the most jerrymandered states in the
(28:12):
entire country.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Maybe JB.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Pritzker was paying for all their hotel rooms and everything else,
But even left wing media we're not able to overlook
how hypocritical that was.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And so JB.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Pritzker went on Meet the Press to try to make
the argument that this was unacceptable, and we've got a
couple of different cuts here of Meet the Press, I
refer to this, I think on social media buck as
the equivalent of the Russian judge disqualifying the Russian skater.
You've got the whole rig job in your favor, and
(28:46):
you still get absolutely lambasted like this. Here is cut
eleven Pritzer Pritzker getting challenged on Meet the Press.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Every major group degrades the fairness of congressional maps, gives
your state an aspect. Common Cause and nonpartisan government watchdog
even says your map, and I'm going to quote represents
a nearly perfect model for everything that can go wrong
with redistrictingt we talk about preserving democracy, How do you
preserve democracy if you're using the same tactics that you've
(29:16):
criticized Texas Republicans for.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
What they're talking about is a distraction.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
The reality is that the violation of people's voting rights
is what Texas is attempting to do.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
That's what's wrong with their efforts right now.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
And the fact that the President of the United States
knows it and nevertheless is asking them to do it.
That is what's wrong with what we're seeing right now.
Democracy is at stake.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
This is cam Yeah, yeah, this is him thinking I
can just talking points steamroll the fact that my argument
is is trash. The argument that is being made by
Democrats on this, especially people like Pritzker who are coming
from a state like Illinois, is garbage. All they're saying
is I don't like when they do what I do.
(30:04):
When they do it, it's bad. When I do it,
it's good. That is the sum total of their argument,
to be clear, there's nothing beyond that. It's Republicans are icky,
they're bad. I'm good, So I get to do the
things that they do, and you're supposed to like it
when I do it and not like it. And this
is like arguing with toddlers. They have nothing beyond that.
Notice he didn't even engage with what she said. You
don't have to know anything about Jerry Mandrick. If you
(30:25):
look at a map of congressional districts in Illinois, you'd
say to yourself, the heck is that? Yeahs bizarre?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
And she followed up, but I do think this is
important what you just said. And I think the media
is getting a little bit embarrassed. Even as shameless as
they are, they're starting to recognize that Texas is just
catching up and doing what California and Illinois and New
York already did. In other words, the redistricting in Texas
(30:54):
is just lagging behind. And we had Greg Abbotta on
last week essentially in many ways making that argument and
buck to her credit, Kristin Welker followed up after that
non answer from JB. Pritzker and said, wait a minute,
President Trump, as we told you on this program, one
forty four percent of the vote in twenty twenty four,
(31:15):
it was look Texas and Florida were actually not as
competitive as Illinois was. I believe if you look at
the raw numbers, Illinois, which is a deep blue state,
Trump got almost forty five percent of the vote. Listen
to cut twelve.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
I do want to look at the map of Illinois.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Let's take a look at this.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Despite President Trump winning forty four percent of the statewide
vote in twenty twenty four, Republicans hold only three of
Illinois's seventeen districts. These districts seem to be designed to
maximize democratic advantage. What do you say to those who
argue that it's hypocritical for you to criticize Texas for
partisanship when your state also drew mounts to boost your
(31:57):
party's standing.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is
again violate the voting right sect.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
You talked about how rare it is to do what
he's doing. Yes, it is.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
What's even rarer is to do it at the behest
of the President of the United States, who's clearly attempting
to and says that he deserves.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
To have five more seats. He's wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I mean, the non arty's got. He doesn't even make
an argument.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
I just look at so many of these political figures,
and there are Republicans in this camp too. They're just
not serious, intellectual, intelligent individuals who should be representing us.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I mean, JB.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Pritzker is supposed to be one of the four runner favorites,
four Democrats in twenty twenty eight. He's been elected multiple times,
I believe already in Illinois. His daddy's a billionaire, and
so he's a billionaire. He's not an impressive person. And
to go on knowing that these questions are coming. First
(32:58):
of all, if I were advising jb P. I would
have said, hey, moron, we shouldn't be the place that
is hosting all these Texas democrats. I know you want
to get your face on television, but you're just going
to expose our hypocrisy. And when Kristen Welker is pointing
it out, Kirsten Welker whatever her first name is, is
pointing it out on Meet the Press, you know that
(33:21):
you've really engaged in hypocritical behavior.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
This is this is where you're getting to the we've
been to the border level when when you have journalists
who are friendly journalists and you know, journals, we can
all it's obviously in quotes, but when they won't go
along because your argument is so dumb that it will
make them look dumb too. That's the line here that
Pritzker is crossing the same thing he saw with Lester Hold,
(33:44):
and he's like, look, Kamala, I like you. You know,
I'm proud Lester Hold maybe is a little bit I
actually have a centrist but whatever put that aside. I
don't know, but clearly he like Kamala Harris, but he's
not going to sit there while she says we've been
to the border and he's not going to, you know,
clap for that for like that's normal, of course, not
right that he's not going to look like a moron
on her behalf. And even Welker, I think here is like, look, buddy,
(34:07):
you guys do what they do. So you got to
explain this because I don't want to sit here and
look dumb. I'll be partisan, but I don't want to
look like I don't have enough brain power to understand
the argument. So I'm going to have to ask you
this question. And Prisker's answers are absurd. I mean, this
is a guy who bought the governorship of a very
blue state and there's nothing impressive about him. I mean,
(34:29):
Pritzker HEAVYP needs to figure out better answers to questions
like this. HEAVYP is a great nickname, except he might
use it in a positive context. I just I do
think that what you're seeing here is Trump is delivering
a masterclass. Time after time Democrats try to argue and
(34:50):
they get embarrassed. And now we'll talk here in a
minute about the pivot that's going to happen with the
big conversation going on in Alaska on Friday, and just
as they are calling Trump a racist because he's trying
to decrease the amount of violent crime that's taking place
in DC. I guarantee you, no matter what happens on Friday,
(35:11):
they're going to say, oh, Trump is putin stooge. They're
going to try with the whole Russia collusion and argument again.
The problem for them, I think is Democrats have reached
the boy who cries Wolfe scenario.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
We saw it in twenty twenty four. I thought they
would learn from it in the first two hundred days
of Trump.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
They have not.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
They've continued with the same arguments and they're failing time
after time. We'll get to some of your talkbacks by
the way close out the hour. We'll dive into the
Ukraine and Russia situation top of hour three, and more
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Two guys walk up to a mic he anything goes
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Speaker 1 (37:24):
Clay, have you heard of the Rio Reset?
Speaker 9 (37:26):
Sounds like a trendy new workout, Buck, it.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Does, but it's actually a big summit going on in Brazil.
The formal name is BRICKS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa. But they've just added five new members.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Smart move to stick with Bricks. We know what happens
when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Well, that's an understatement. Bricks is a group of emerging
economies hoping to increase their sway in the global financial order.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
Now that sounds like the plot line of a movie.
I'm listening.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Philip Patrick is our Bruce Wayne. He's a precious metal
specialist and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group. He's
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on what's going on there.
Speaker 9 (38:04):
Can he give us some inside intel?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Absolutely, He's been there since day one. In fact, a
major theme at the summit is how Bricks nations aim
to reduce reliance on the US dollar in global trade.
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Yikes, that doesn't sound good. We got to get Philip
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Clay in Buck, continuing on our conversation of the most
important things going on today across this great land of
ours and around the world. As we said, Trump meeting
on Friday with Putin. He's gonna sit down with him
and try to hammer out some kind of a deal.
(39:24):
He says, they'll be land swaps. I watched the whole
press conference this morning, and it was, like I said,
both very informative and very entertaining. That's one thing about Trump.
This is the quick aside one thing about Trump that
when he's no longer president, I think everybody, everybody will miss.
Politics is never going to be as as at that level,
as amusing and engaging as it has been for us
(39:46):
in the Trump era. Like you're just not going to
have somebody I think very unlikely you're going to have
anybody who. I mean, Trump is just such a phenomenon
when it comes to just the things he says and
the way he says it and how he presents you know,
I remember even the excuse me, I remember during the
Obama years having to watch press conference so boring, so boring.
(40:08):
Remember watching Jay Carney, Everybody watching smarmy Jake Carney up
there isn't what the president thanks. It's like, ugh, it
was so boring. It was like that felt like a job.
Watching a Trump press conference is entertainment. It's not really
a job. It's like I'm getting paid to watch soap
opera or something. I just want.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
I mean to reiterate that enjoy it because I don't know,
not only just in terms of sheer enjoyment, but also
just in terms of trying to fix everything that's wrong
at once, which Trump is uniquely focused on. Most politicians
are obsessed with trying to get re elected. Trump is obviously,
(40:48):
I know he's saying, Hey, I'd like to run again,
and by the way, I think a lot of people
would like to vote for him again. His term is
going to end in January of twenty nine. And this
is what I've said on the show for some time,
and some of you immediately respond to tell me I'm crazy,
but I think you actually agree with this take. As
soon as the midterms are over, Democrats are going to
pivot from Trump is Hitler to Republicans are never going
(41:11):
to have a politician as good as Trump. He's a
one in a million. They're never gonna the MAGA base
is not going to follow the new guy. He's a
once in a lifetime president. That watch how quickly that
pivot happens from He's Hitler. Democracy is over to you, guys,
are never going to have anybody this good, and it's
going to make your head spind how quickly it happens.
(41:32):
But as soon as the midterms are over, boom, We're on.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
To the next race. You know, I was. I told
everybody that I was in. I was in Highlands North Carolina,
not to be confused with the Highlands of Scotland. Highland
North Carolina. Highlands North Carolina. Loved it. You know what's
funny though, was we flew into Ashville. You know what
I was unable to attend, unfortunately, Clay there was a
(41:57):
big Bernie Sanders rally in Ashville. Now, I can't throw
too much shade at Asheville because despite the fact that
it is a place of a lot of leftism, it's
very beautiful area, but a lot of leftism. A lot
of people walking around as well, with purple hair, nose
rings and a tremendous amount of indecipherable tattoos. I'm just
(42:18):
saying this is what I observed. Men do they have
good brunch, food and coffee shops. I gotta say, I
don't know what it is. Something about anarchists who look
like they haven't talked to their parents in a very
long time and have a lot of piercings and whatever.
The gauge I think it's called the gauge when you
have the big round thing in your eat. Right, man,
they make a good latte. I don't know what to say.
(42:39):
You know, I'm a coffee guys. We all know they
make a good latte. But Bernie did a rally there
and I just think it's this is the guy. He
is still the guy for Democrats. The biggest draw on
the stump is Bernie Sanders. Here he is on the
here he is on the Jerryman and this is fourteen.
This is Bernie Sanders, lay weighing in, laying into it,
(43:03):
play it. You think democratic governors should try to push back.
I think.
Speaker 11 (43:07):
I think they have no choice. I mean what Trump
is trying to re understands that there is a good
chance that the Republicans will lose control over the House.
I would hope the Senate as well. That'll be a
tough fight. So we're trying to make, you know, in
his authoritarian way, say hey, I don't want to lose elections.
Let's rig the system. Give me five more votes in
Texas to me maybe some other stakes. So what should
(43:29):
Democrats do sit back and say, oh, gee, Trump is
doing as terrible, we can't do anything. Let them win
the election when they shouldn't. So Democrats have got to
fight back. I think it's pathetic, but I think that's
what they've got to do.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
What is pathetic, First of all, it's the Texas State
legislature that's going to do the redistrict, not Trump. It's
just funny. Trump is behind every scary thing Trump is
hiding under Democrats beds now, every bad thing that they
don't like, Trump is behind.
Speaker 9 (43:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
And also let me give credit, and this probably going
to shock people. It doesn't surprise me that Bernie has
an audience because I think he's wrong about everything, but
he has a coherent worldview. What is the world like,
what you understand for better or worse. Bernie is a
socialist and he thinks that things are broken in America.
(44:21):
And I go back to a lot of you will
remember this in the twenty fifteen early twenty sixteen New
Hampshire primary, for instance. I guarantee you listening to us
right now, are some died in the world Trump people
who when they were going to vote, they were going
to vote trying to decide between Bernie and Trump in
twenty sixteen because they were the most disruptive candidates out there,
(44:44):
but the Republican side and the Democrat side, and for
people out there who feel like things are broken, what
Bernie offers, I think it makes things worse, but it
is a coherent worldview. What does the Democrat Party stand
for outside of socialism and outside of Bernie? And I
would argue that somewhat this is what is appealing to
(45:06):
individuals about Mom Donnie. What does it Cheam Jefferies represent?
What does Chuck Schumer represent? I don't really think they
have a coherent philosophical.
Speaker 9 (45:18):
Worldview that responds to people.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
I think the central ethos of the Democrat Party up
up to this moment and stretching back now for really
a couple of decades, has been race politics or race communism.
I really believe this that that's that's the There's other things,
you know, there's gender communism or whatever you want to
call it to. There's these other things as well, where
they take this collectivist and and you know, anti traditionalist,
(45:46):
anti god, anti morality point of view. There's a lot
of things you could but I think that if you're
looking for the one thing that you've had to be
willing to go along with more than any other for
twenty years in the Democrat Party. It is It is
race communist. It is the race politics, politics, identity policy,
it's all that, you know. I prefer race communism because
(46:06):
I want to be very clear that I think it
should be completely disparaged and dismissed. And what's so critical
of what Trump. We're so important about what Trump is
doing is he's going right at that. The Supreme Court
has too, I might add, which gets ignored by a
lot of people. All this race communism stuff is illegal
that these places are still doing. They're not actually supposed
(46:26):
to do this. If the Constitution matters, then Supreme Court
matters to Democrats. And what we see across the board
is these universities playing games, people still playing games with
hiring HR departments, still trying to you know, get away
with this stuff. But that has been the central unifying
characteristic of the Democrat Party for twenty for you know,
(46:47):
twenty years is kind of just a rough estimate of it,
because more so than class it used to be class warfare.
Early two thousands, I think it was more class warfare
stuff that's right, and now, especially going into two thousand
and two thousand and eight era with the Wall Street meltdown,
But now it really has turned into race politics, and
Trump is breaking down. And that's why I think the
Democrats are in such disarray, because the race coalition of
(47:10):
the Democrats is being shattered. When you see things like
hold on a second, A majority of black and a
majority of Latino voters, for example, agree with Trump on deportations. Well, well,
you know, the the oh it's so racist stuff doesn't
work the same way that it used to.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
I also think, and this ties in with what we
started the show with, what did black voters get from BLM?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Nothing? In fact, worse than got worse, nothing but downside. Yeah, yeah,
everything got worse from BLM. And I think a lot
of Black voters are looking around now and saying, boy,
we spray painted a street black Matter, Black Lives Matter, Plaza,
but thousands of black kids got killed because we said
cops shouldn't be able to do the job.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
And now I think you're gonna see I think a
lot a lot of Black voters are going to say, yeah,
I kind of support Trump calling in more security and
more individuals to stop violent, violent crime from happening, and
the Democrat perspective of violent crime isn't that bad. Do
(48:17):
you think that a mom in Saint Louis or Inner
city Memphis, or Washington, d C. Or Philadelphia, do you
think she's looking around saying, you know what Democrats are right,
Crime's not that bad. We don't need more here. Or
do you think for her son and daughter, do you
think she wants more security on the streets. I think
(48:40):
most black moms and dads want more security on the
streets because they're not, unfortunately, or aware of the people
committing the crimes.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Unfortunately, I think, to take your example, though, a lot
of people are told that the problems, especially the problems
of poverty and problems of crime and everything, is all
caused by racism, and that the belief that the Democrats
have instilled in black, white, Asian, Hispanic, you name it,
(49:11):
the belief that Democrats have instilled in their true believers,
is that the problems of crime in major American cities
are all attributable to racism of the other that that's
actually the problem, and that's certainly the case with how
they approach police. It's certainly the case with how they
approach who they're going to vote for. They're going to
(49:31):
vote for the people who are going to continue to
tell them, Hey, it's racism that causes all these problems,
and if you put me in power, I will attack
your racist enemies and I will protect you. And unfortunately
that just results in more of what we see, which
is the degradation of these urban centers, in particular high crime, fatherlessness, poverty,
(49:55):
lack of education, lack of opportunities go down the whole list.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Think though, that it is increasingly not resonating, and I
think BLM actually exposed it because that was them saying, hey,
we're going to speak out for black lives, and thousands
of innocent black people ended up dead because cops weren't
able to work.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
And you play the only people who know that data
listen to shows like this. Now that's the problem. But
I think do you think they talk about this on
shows where the audience is overwhelmingly urban? Do you think
they talk about this on they get people that stat
They do not. They will not tell people that the
DC murder rate in twenty twenty three into twenty twenty four,
when was one of the highest in history of that city.
Speaker 4 (50:40):
But I think they feel that they're being lied to,
and I hope. I mean, look, think about this in
twenty twenty four, and I know it's green shoots. I mean,
it's just starting. One in every five black guys voted Trump.
One in every five. Now, I think it should have
been three in every five, right, because men overwhelmingly voted Trump,
(51:04):
but one out of every five is a big difference.
That means, you know, in a group of five guys
on average that voted, one of them was a Trump guy.
For black voters, that's transformative because that one guy, and
I know a bunch of you are listening to us
right now, and that guy, that black guy out there
who voted Trump. You're now with your buddies sitting around
(51:25):
talking and you can share those stats, because when it's
one in ten or it's one in twenty, it's hard
to be the guy that broaches that topic. I think
when it gets to one in five, in the same
way you sit around and talk about sports, the conversation
is a more natural one. And I think every day
more people are like, wait a minute, we're being sold
(51:47):
to bill of goods. I'm optimistic on the direction this
is going. Could it be going faster? Yes, and I wish,
but I really think it's happening.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Clay is once again the optimistic one here. I'm e
or sitting here telling you be grumpy about this because
it's not happening fast. People are not realizing the truth
nearly fast enough on this. I just I just know. Buck.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Let me give you an example. I was in Atlanta
for the All Star Game. I don't think I mentioned
this on the on the audio. I was, you know,
they had a lot of large security presence for the
All Star Game, right, so I'm staying next door to
the All Star Game. Three different black cops on my
walk from the exit of my hotel to the stadium
(52:26):
era area stopped me. Said, Hey, I'm hearing what you're saying.
Thanks for having our back in Atlanta. Three different black
cops as I was just walking. I mean, I'm telling
you that conversation, I am super optimistic is happening in
a real way that it was that year.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
So that doesn't surprise me. People who live people who
you know you're talking about cops. We have cops back,
but we have the back of black law enforcement. We
have the black of black people who want to live
in peace and security in their own neighborhoods, in their
own communities. But it's just tough to get that word
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about this stuff. Like I said, I would debate, I'll
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Really I'll debate anybody in the country on DC crime
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in the country that I wouldn't be willing to go
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Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. I am back from vacation. Clay
held it down, and we've got a lot of big
news to talk to you about here. I will say, Clay,
some people are saying Highland's North Carolina, beautiful place, beautiful place,
big fan. But I had to spend my morning today
(00:23):
in preparation for the show, watching a doozy of a
press conference. I think that's a fair way to describe it.
The biggest takeaway from it, although there are many takeaways,
and we shall describe in some detail for you what's
going on here, But the big, biggest, single takeaway is
(00:43):
that President Trump has decided that he will invoke his
Section seven forty of the Home Rule Act Power for
the District of Columbia Washington, d C. Which gives the
President of the United States the ability to commander the
Metro Police Department, which is the local police in Washington,
(01:07):
d C. Because of an emergency situation. We have the
President describing this. Actually, let's let you hear from President
Trump directly on this. It was quite a moment. This
has cut one play under.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The authorities vested in me as the President of the
United States, I'm officially invoking Section seventy forty of the
District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what that is,
and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.
And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly
involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and
(01:49):
they know what's happening, and they've done it before. In addition,
I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law
order of public safety in Washington, DC, and they're.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Going to be allowed to do their job properly.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is a big move from the President. I'd say
I really like this and support this, and we'll get
into some of the details of this, Clay, but essentially
the President is saying enough is enough DC, which, as
we are very honest with you, I am fond of
the district, as is Clay. We've both lived there. Clay
went to college there. I live there as a CIA
(02:27):
analyst way back in the day, and then later on
in life as a media personality for a short while,
so we both spent a lot of time in DC.
The crime situation there is way too high. Let's just
put it that way, Clay. They're running all these stories. Now, oh,
crime is the lowest it is. Don't we all want
there to be no crime in our nation's capital. Shouldn't
(02:50):
this be something where we can get some degree and
we'll get into why there isn't bipartisan agreement. There are
a number of reasons for this, but there's a whole
I think of options and opportunities here to bring the
crime level down to Tokyo levels. I mean, that's really
what we would like to see instead of We've had
(03:11):
fewer carjackings by fifteen year olds, fewer people shot and
murdered in the streets of our nation's capital for no reason.
How about shooting for none, Clay. How about deciding that
we're not going to allow this madness to continue? Because
you and I are both familiar with it. DC was
always more dangerous when I lived there than post New
York City, post Giuliani. Rather New York City, It wasn't
(03:33):
even close. DC was always a far more rough place
to be starting around the early two thousands.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
This is an example of something that Trump is doing
that should have one hundred percent approval, that Democrats will
automatically hate, and I think It's indicative of why the
Democrat brand is in the toilet, because whether you are
a Democrat, Republican, or an independent, or just somebody who
doesn't vote at all, you should want our nation's capital
to be safe, no matter what your politics are. You
(04:01):
should want big cities in this country to be safe everywhere.
And I think Trump sees Washington, d C. As a
jewel of the nation. As we talked about last week.
If you look at the rates of murder in DC
compared to virtually every major city in the world, DC
is off the charts unacceptably violent. And you've got Judge
(04:26):
Jenine who is in position now as the DC Attorney
of record there. And I think what we are basically
seeing is Trump wants to fix problems that exist everywhere.
And even in that press conference said, hey, we've solved
everything at the border. We are in the process of
(04:47):
resolving many different issues associated with trade and balances and
economic issues and everything else. But even in that press conference,
which was a tour to force let's be on, we
went from Joe Biden can't even take a question from
the press without it being written out in advance on
a note card for him to as you said, Buck, Yes,
(05:09):
the ostensible purpose of the press conference was to discuss DC.
But Trump took questions on China, He took questions on
Putin and Russia and the situation in Ukraine, basically everything
under the sun, with no preconceived, to my knowledge, knowledge
of where the questions were coming, and he handled them
with a plum.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right, we'll address that as well. He talked because, of
course the press asked him about the big thing on
the horizon, the planned meeting in Alaska of Vladimir Putin
and Donald Trump to try to bring an end to
the Ukraine conflict. Trump got into some specifics. There also
some discussion of well Trump's brought up the transports issue, Clay,
(05:53):
basically just to be like, like you say, they are yeah,
just you guys are nuts. Just to be clear, Democrats,
you're nuts. Trump just threw that in. I appreciate that.
You know, you had to was season the sauce a
little bit, you know, you had to spice it up.
He's like, hey, by the way, you are the lunatics
who think that men should play against women in sports.
So not really that into hearing what the Democrats have
to say on any particular issue, but he also talked
(06:16):
about Nvidia with a deal to sell chips to China.
He addressed some of the concerns around that. So to
your point, Clay covered a whole range of issues and
also makes jokes and it's funny and the whole thing.
I mean, it was a trump athon, Okay, it was
a trump bonanza up there. He also had Pete Hegseth
in the mix, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, Judge Janine.
(06:37):
This is very important. Judge Janine is the US Attorney
for the District of Columbia. Because there's the police and
the prosecution components of this that have to get aligned,
and that's a big deal. But we've all seen I'm
sure law and Order, right. I mean, I remember waking
up hungover in college and I think I would watch
sometimes like six hours of Law and Order in a
row on a rainy Saturday. Law and order is addictive,
(07:00):
but it's the police, you know, the detectives who investigate crimes,
and then the prosecutors who handle them. It's actually a
good way to think about these issues, Clay. The issue
isn't just in DC getting to the arrest and Judge
Janede made this very clear. It's what happens to the
people that do the very bad thing once the prosecution
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is supposed to bring a case against them. And a
huge problem they have in DC is you have these youths.
I think that's how they're generally referred to in the press,
people under eighteen who are doing very adult crimes. And
you know this, this gets into this area of Okay,
if you shot somebody and didn't kill them and you're seventeen,
(07:42):
Judge Janine says that you can get probation for this.
This is stunning, right, I mean, if you don't murder somebody,
rape somebody, you know, forcible rape somebody. There's a few
other crimes that she pointed out, you can be sixteen
or seventeen and get that. Essentially is you know, you
give me fourteen or fifteen. By the way, what the
(08:04):
heck is going on when we have a society that
is producing fourteen year olds who are trying to carjack
people fourteen year olds?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
This is that I went usually with DC. I think
it's just there's no dads in homes. I mean, I
think you really get down when you have a fourteen
year old trying to carjack somebody it's a fundamental failure
of parenting because those kids are so young. That should
never be happening. And I think it's that we've knocked
dads out of so many of these homes. I bet
(08:31):
every fourteen year old in America almost that is getting
arrested for something like carjacking.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
There is no dat at home. I'm almost one hundred percent. Well,
that's your going now to even more upstream or root
cause of the problem. And that's obviously true. And the
data on this about and people get very upset about this,
but it is just the truth. We're talking data. When
we talk data and statistics. I don't really care if
people get upset by it. In fact, it's probably a
(08:58):
good thing that people hear data and statistics that upsets them,
because they need to hear it. If they don't already
know it, or they don't already understand the implications, they
need to hear it, which basically means almost every Democrat
that you know. I will say, Clay, I have I
have a close, close friend who, let's just say, has
been very close to the mayor of DC. And the
(09:20):
interesting thing here is that Mayor Bowser would like crime
to go down and would like to do more. What
prevents her from doing more? Politically speaking, I'm not saying that,
you know, I'm not absolving her here, you know, but Trump.
You'll notice Trump isn't as hard on Bowser as he
is on like a Gavin you know, Gavin Newscum or
(09:43):
you know, the mayor of Chicago. I mean, there are
there are people who are in positions of authority in
this country, mayors and police commissioners specifically, and city councils
who are just flatly insane. They're pro crime. They're all Democrats.
There are no Republicans who are actively pro crime. There
are Democrats who are actively pro crime. And the problem
(10:03):
in a place like DC is that the city council
is insane, and there are considerable contingents of the black
community in DC that react very angrily and politically to
any crackdown by police. So what this does is it
(10:24):
creates a situation where President Trump, now by federalizing this issue,
could dramatically bring down the crime rate in our nation's capital.
I said could, but it is possible, and then you
would have Bowser the mayor. Obviously she's a black woman,
she's the mayor of DC been mayor for years, is
in a sense insulated from the political blowback among some
(10:46):
members of the black community for the crackdown that will
make all members of the black community and all DC
residents safer. This is this goes very deep. But this
is the problem. Why is there such pushback because Democrats
play this game and elected democrats, the City Council plays
this game. Clay, people forget this, and we can get
(11:07):
into a little more of the Home Rule of nineteen
seventy three Act and how to know how to affect DC.
Congress has ultimate responsibility for DC. There is the Home
Rule means that there's the mayor, and there is a
local jurisdictional situation for and you know, you can vote
for the people in charge of your day to life
in DC. But the President Trump actually has some specific
(11:30):
authorities as the president, especially under an emergency declaration like this.
Congress not only can deal with budgets in the district,
Congress can override legislation passed by the DC City Council.
And I would remind everybody that I forget the year,
but it was pretty recent where Congress stepped in to
override the DC City Council making the punishment for carjacking less. Yeah,
(11:57):
too crazy even for Democrats. So this gives you a
sense of what they're dealing with Clay in the city
of well in our capital city.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah, and here is the data that I think ultimately
brings this home. Let me hit you with this as
we uh, as we go into the first break, and
I would just say open phone lines. By the way,
we're going to talk with Congressman Jim Jordan at the
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
He's got some news.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
We'll discuss what he thinks about whether there should be
more control taken over of DC, among other things. But Buck,
we mentioned this last week. The White House just shared this.
I want anyone out there to defend this, regardless of
your politics.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Eight hundred and two A two two eight A two.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
The twenty twenty four murder rate in Washington, DC was
twenty seven point five per one hundred thousand, Right residents,
listen to these other cities that aren't exactly known for
being wildly safe. Bogata, Columbia you heard Trump talking about
at fifteen point one, Mexico City ten point six. So
(12:56):
our murder rate is nearly triple what the Mexico City
murder rate is listen to some of.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
These other London's is easy because you can barely measure
it per one hundred thousand, which is what they usually do.
P one hundred thousand homicides is how you get these numbers.
London's is one.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yes, one, but I mean Islamabad do we think, hey,
this is gonna Let's see nine point two, Lima Peru
seven point six, Paris one point six. You heard buck
mention that London is won, Madrid is under one, Delhi
in India is one point five, Havana, Cuba is one
(13:36):
point five. Why would anyone I think this is a
sign of how broken Democrat ideas are. We've got a
clip we'll share it for you eventually of MSNBC coming in,
an analyst coming on and saying, well, this is the
evidence of Trump's racism, that he's trying to crack down
on crime and Washington DC. Their ideas are broken and
they don't want good things to happen if Trump is
(13:57):
involved in them, because that points out how they were
unable to fix things.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
To one of the initial points you made, Clay, this
is something that everyone reasonably rationally should be behind. Democrats
won't and this is both the right thing to do
and the smart thing to do. The right thing to
do because it'll mean fewer carjackings, fewer murders, fewer rapes,
fewer gang stabbings, which will disproportionately, by the way, mean
(14:26):
less of that happening in the black community in DC.
I already gave the stats. We know what the stats are.
Over ninety percent of those who are incarcerated in the
District of Columbia for crimes committed there are black. So
it will disproportionately affect members of the black community who
are law abiding, who want to be able to go
on the metro or go to work, or just walk
through the park and not be stabbed or attack. And
(14:48):
it's going to be high profile. This is why it's smart.
It's going to be something that even the press is
going to have to cover. They don't want to, but
they will because it is our nation's capital and they
live there. Where does the media live New York and DC?
If this is going on in their backyard, guess what
they're going to have to deal with this? And this
can show the failure of Democrat policies on crime and
(15:08):
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Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio is joining us here. Wants
to chat about some of the biggest things happening today
in this big, beautiful country of ours. Congressman, great to
have you on Kitty with you.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Guys. Hope you had a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Oh it was fantastic. You ever been congresman to Highlands,
North Carolina? I highly recommend.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Yeah, yeah, down in that area. My my good buddy
Mark Medows, former colleague of ours and great Congressman great
keep of staff down in that neck of the woods.
So yeah, beautiful down there.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I'm like, I'm spreading, I'm spreading the word. So Congressman,
let's let's dive right into this. I watched the whole
press conference this morning, which was enthralling, both both very
informative and enthralling. Trump in Fuego. But all this issue
of crime. You know, you got two guys here, Clay
and Buck, who have both lived in d C. And
(17:35):
I feel very passionately about this. That place should be
a lot safer than it is. It's go time.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, no, I agree, And the President is I
think that made the right decision. And I think he's
going to notify Congress because he can do this for
like a month, so thirty days, I think is what
the law says, and then then of course has to
be a vote. But I think he's going to send
you know what, his what what he you know, his
justification for why this is necessary, and I certainly think
it is. What do we capitals around the world. We
(18:02):
have the highest violent crime rate of just about amy,
I believe, and of course we know what's happened in
day to day. We even happened to had what a
member of Congress a while back get their car taken
from him. So I think that's justified. And then it'll
come to Congress, and frankly, I think we should support
the president if he thinks this is something that needs
to go longer than the thirty days.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You Congressman, appreciate you coming on. I just want to
hit this because we talk about how crazy this is
in general, but whatever Trump does, Democrats line up to oppose.
This is the majority leader in the House for the
Democrat Party. Hakeem Jefferies just tweeted violent crime in Washington,
(18:45):
d C Is at thirty year low. I think that's
very disputable. But let's go ahead and accept Donald Trump
has no basis to take over the local police department
and zero credibility on the issue of law and order.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It lost.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I mean, even within the construct of craziness for Trump
derangement syndrome is being opposed to a lower crime rate
in Washington, d C. Staggering. To even see Democrats stand
up in favor of.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Now the left doesn't make sense. I always say, not
all Democrats are crazy, but the left that controlled their
party is, and they got all these just wild ideas,
and as you point out, Clay, they're just constantly against
the president that that Trump's arrangement syndrome is truly a
real phenomenon, no doubt about it. But yeah, this, you know,
think about all the people who come to our capital
(19:36):
as tourists, typically during the spring and sorrow spring months. Yeah,
during terry blossom when they're terry blossoms are pulled, the
number of people who come. They would like to know
that their their capital is safe. And more and more
we're hearing about things happening not only to citizen but
the actual members of Congress that are just wrong. So
you want a safe capital, you want to I think
(19:58):
everything the President said, you want a beautiful capital, want
to say capital, you want people to want to come
to your capital to celebrate the history of the greatest
country in the world. And I think that's all in
play here if we have this level of crime. So again,
I think the President is doing the common sense thing.
He says this all the time. It's the difference between
Republicans and Democrats the day, between conservatives and the left
(20:19):
is the difference between normal and crazy. And we're the
common sense, normal party. They're now the Party of Crazy,
defund the police, let men compete against women in sports,
don't allow violent crime to happen in on and on
and go. So I think this is just consistent with
that common sense theme and a good move.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Speaking of common sense, or maybe the lack thereof congressmen
to the degree that you can speak to this, I
might ask you to name any of your colleagues in
the Congress. But the Democrats, you know, this is something
that does affect them because they got to walk around
and live in the environs of both Capitol Hill and Washington,
d C. Capitol Hill, sketchy stuff happens around They're really
(20:59):
bad stuff happens around there on a far too regular basis.
Do they all privately admit that the capital has got
way too much crime? Or have they diluted themselves into it?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Is it a thirty year low?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Well, I think what happens buck is I mean, I
just think about you know, the way Polly and I
way we handle We don't go, we don't stray far
from the Capitol, and if you do, you're in a car.
So it's literally there are days where the most I'm
outside is a half a block from the Cannon House
office building. There's three you know, three office complex to
the to the Capitol Hill Club, which is the half
(21:34):
a block away. Everything else it's actually either in the
building in the tunnel over to the Capitol. You're just
not outside. So we live in this in somewhat of
a I think a bubble where we may not feel
what so many other citizens are feeling, what tourists are feeling. Now,
some people walk a little farther and they're a little
farther out in campus. My guess is they're a little nervous.
Particularly we've got late boats, late committee hearings, you're walking
(21:56):
home at night. So normally what we'll do is if
we got something like that and we're going to go
and where we're always in a car and we're getting
picked up right outside the garage or maybe even in
the garage there at at the Raver and office building.
So I think we live in a different world. But
for the families coming or federal employees who are working there,
like this young man worked for Doshan who was attacked,
I think that's a different story. But that's who we're
(22:17):
supposed to be serving. That's who we're supposed to be
protecting and that's what President Trump's decision is all about today.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, and we had a young intern I believe from Illinois,
if I'm not mistaken, who was shot and killed on
the street. I know it was a big deal on
Capitol Hill. Now also today your committee, I just came
from the Atlanta Braves. Your committee has sent letters to
the heads of the NHL, NFL, Major League Baseball, and
(22:44):
the NBA going after blackouts on television. Bus got brothers
who I better are frustrated by this. I know I
have been supremely frustrated by this, and many sports fans are.
It's getting more expensive and harder to watch. What are
you working on there?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Yeah? Yeah, the whole system now is really complicated for
sports fans, and frankly, it's really expensive if you want
to watch your team play their games. You know, some
people want to buy the package and watch. But this
all stems from the nineteen sixty one Broadcasting Act, which
gave the n any Trust exemption to to the major
sports leagues. We understand that, but we're not in just
(23:21):
the broadcast world anymore. We got streaming, we got we
got all kinds of things. Cable streaming, you name it,
we have it, and so we're concerned about how this
impacts fans who who if you I think you tweeted
this out a play you want to watch your team
play every game, you want to buy a package. It
can cost as much as like a thousand bucks a year.
To what I remember growing up, I could watch the
(23:42):
Reds every weekend. Any game you wanted to see. The
Reds were on Cincinnati or Dayton television, you could watch that.
That's not always the case today because of the blackouts
and other things that take place. So that's our concern,
the how expensive it is, how complicated it is if
you want to watch and then all, well, you can
this game. But if you're you don't live in the market,
(24:02):
the actual network market, You're somewhere else, but you still
want to watch the team you grew up watching, and
they're blacked out in the city you now have because
they're not sold out for some other reason. It's like,
what is going on? So we just want to talk
to these folks, and it's it's a concern we have
with We've got concerns with college sports. That's a slightly
different thing there. We're trying to work on that Americans
love sports. They love to watch their team, their their college,
(24:24):
their their pro team. So we just want to talk
with these major league or these uh these professional sports
leagues and see what's exactly going on.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Are you Are you optimistic by the way that you're
going to get an answer? Trust Bill Past the Score Act.
I think it's called to help and regulate what's going
to happen with college athletics in particular.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, it's out of the committee and we have a
we have a handful of Democrats who it had co
sponsored it. So I do think we have a real
chance to get this done. And I think we talked
you know a few weeks back. Are our focus when
we started this. We want to maintain real competition. I
just have a few teams with all the money always dominate.
We want real competition. We want to maintain opportunities. So
we're concerned about women's sports and particularly Olympic sports. The
(25:07):
USOC has been in talk to us about the direction
college sports are headed if we didn't do something, and
we also want to try to remember that we're this
is supposed to be about giving an education as well.
In this current environment, you got people playing seven years
with red shirts and Olympic red shirts and different things,
and making all kinds of money and transferring five times
and never getting a degree. So that's what we're trying
(25:28):
to do. We think that bill is good. We're hopeful
it's going to be on the floor. We get it
past the House and then move on. And we think
our legislation, frankly, is also entirely consistent with the executive
order that President Trump put out, who's also very concerned
about the Olympic movement, Olympic sports, and the fact that
we you know, we got the Olympics coming here in
a few years. To the United States.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Congress and Jim Jordan, appreciate you, sir, Thanks for coming by.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
You bet guys, take care, keep up the good work.
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Play Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Much to dive into in the next
hour we will jump into Trump a lot of answers
of questions relating to the big meeting scheduled in Alaska
with Putin surrounding the Ukraine Russia War. But last week
(27:51):
we talked a lot about the redistricting battle going on
surrounding Texas, and we talked about, look, whatever your ideas
are on this, the idea that of all the places
the Texan lawmakers could have fled to, they went to Illinois,
which is one of the most jerrymandered states in the
(28:12):
entire country.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Maybe JB.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Pritzker was paying for all their hotel rooms and everything else,
But even left wing media we're not able to overlook
how hypocritical that was.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And so JB.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Pritzker went on Meet the Press to try to make
the argument that this was unacceptable, and we've got a
couple of different cuts here of Meet the Press, I
refer to this, I think on social media buck as
the equivalent of the Russian judge disqualifying the Russian skater.
You've got the whole rig job in your favor, and
(28:46):
you still get absolutely lambasted like this. Here is cut
eleven Pritzer Pritzker getting challenged on Meet the Press.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Every major group degrades the fairness of congressional maps, gives
your state an aspect. Common Cause and nonpartisan government watchdog
even says your map, and I'm going to quote represents
a nearly perfect model for everything that can go wrong
with redistrictingt we talk about preserving democracy, How do you
preserve democracy if you're using the same tactics that you've
(29:16):
criticized Texas Republicans for.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
What they're talking about is a distraction.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
The reality is that the violation of people's voting rights
is what Texas is attempting to do.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
That's what's wrong with their efforts right now.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
And the fact that the President of the United States
knows it and nevertheless is asking them to do it.
That is what's wrong with what we're seeing right now.
Democracy is at stake.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
This is cam Yeah, yeah, this is him thinking I
can just talking points steamroll the fact that my argument
is is trash. The argument that is being made by
Democrats on this, especially people like Pritzker who are coming
from a state like Illinois, is garbage. All they're saying
is I don't like when they do what I do.
(30:04):
When they do it, it's bad. When I do it,
it's good. That is the sum total of their argument,
to be clear, there's nothing beyond that. It's Republicans are icky,
they're bad. I'm good, So I get to do the
things that they do, and you're supposed to like it
when I do it and not like it. And this
is like arguing with toddlers. They have nothing beyond that.
Notice he didn't even engage with what she said. You
don't have to know anything about Jerry Mandrick. If you
(30:25):
look at a map of congressional districts in Illinois, you'd
say to yourself, the heck is that? Yeahs bizarre?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
And she followed up, but I do think this is
important what you just said. And I think the media
is getting a little bit embarrassed. Even as shameless as
they are, they're starting to recognize that Texas is just
catching up and doing what California and Illinois and New
York already did. In other words, the redistricting in Texas
(30:54):
is just lagging behind. And we had Greg Abbotta on
last week essentially in many ways making that argument and
buck to her credit, Kristin Welker followed up after that
non answer from JB. Pritzker and said, wait a minute,
President Trump, as we told you on this program, one
forty four percent of the vote in twenty twenty four,
(31:15):
it was look Texas and Florida were actually not as
competitive as Illinois was. I believe if you look at
the raw numbers, Illinois, which is a deep blue state,
Trump got almost forty five percent of the vote. Listen
to cut twelve.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
I do want to look at the map of Illinois.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Let's take a look at this.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Despite President Trump winning forty four percent of the statewide
vote in twenty twenty four, Republicans hold only three of
Illinois's seventeen districts. These districts seem to be designed to
maximize democratic advantage. What do you say to those who
argue that it's hypocritical for you to criticize Texas for
partisanship when your state also drew mounts to boost your
(31:57):
party's standing.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is
again violate the voting right sect.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
You talked about how rare it is to do what
he's doing. Yes, it is.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
What's even rarer is to do it at the behest
of the President of the United States, who's clearly attempting
to and says that he deserves.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
To have five more seats. He's wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I mean, the non arty's got. He doesn't even make
an argument.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
I just look at so many of these political figures,
and there are Republicans in this camp too. They're just
not serious, intellectual, intelligent individuals who should be representing us.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I mean, JB.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Pritzker is supposed to be one of the four runner favorites,
four Democrats in twenty twenty eight. He's been elected multiple times,
I believe already in Illinois. His daddy's a billionaire, and
so he's a billionaire. He's not an impressive person. And
to go on knowing that these questions are coming. First
(32:58):
of all, if I were advising jb P. I would
have said, hey, moron, we shouldn't be the place that
is hosting all these Texas democrats. I know you want
to get your face on television, but you're just going
to expose our hypocrisy. And when Kristen Welker is pointing
it out, Kirsten Welker whatever her first name is, is
pointing it out on Meet the Press, you know that
(33:21):
you've really engaged in hypocritical behavior.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
This is this is where you're getting to the we've
been to the border level when when you have journalists
who are friendly journalists and you know, journals, we can
all it's obviously in quotes, but when they won't go
along because your argument is so dumb that it will
make them look dumb too. That's the line here that
Pritzker is crossing the same thing he saw with Lester Hold,
(33:44):
and he's like, look, Kamala, I like you. You know,
I'm proud Lester Hold maybe is a little bit I
actually have a centrist but whatever put that aside. I
don't know, but clearly he like Kamala Harris, but he's
not going to sit there while she says we've been
to the border and he's not going to, you know,
clap for that for like that's normal, of course, not
right that he's not going to look like a moron
on her behalf. And even Welker, I think here is like, look, buddy,
(34:07):
you guys do what they do. So you got to
explain this because I don't want to sit here and
look dumb. I'll be partisan, but I don't want to
look like I don't have enough brain power to understand
the argument. So I'm going to have to ask you
this question. And Prisker's answers are absurd. I mean, this
is a guy who bought the governorship of a very
blue state and there's nothing impressive about him. I mean,
(34:29):
Pritzker HEAVYP needs to figure out better answers to questions
like this. HEAVYP is a great nickname, except he might
use it in a positive context. I just I do
think that what you're seeing here is Trump is delivering
a masterclass. Time after time Democrats try to argue and
(34:50):
they get embarrassed. And now we'll talk here in a
minute about the pivot that's going to happen with the
big conversation going on in Alaska on Friday, and just
as they are calling Trump a racist because he's trying
to decrease the amount of violent crime that's taking place
in DC. I guarantee you, no matter what happens on Friday,
(35:11):
they're going to say, oh, Trump is putin stooge. They're
going to try with the whole Russia collusion and argument again.
The problem for them, I think is Democrats have reached
the boy who cries Wolfe scenario.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
We saw it in twenty twenty four. I thought they
would learn from it in the first two hundred days
of Trump.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
They have not.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
They've continued with the same arguments and they're failing time
after time. We'll get to some of your talkbacks by
the way close out the hour. We'll dive into the
Ukraine and Russia situation top of hour three, and more
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Two guys walk up to a mic he anything goes
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Speaker 1 (37:24):
Clay, have you heard of the Rio Reset?
Speaker 9 (37:26):
Sounds like a trendy new workout, Buck, it.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Does, but it's actually a big summit going on in Brazil.
The formal name is BRICKS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa. But they've just added five new members.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Smart move to stick with Bricks. We know what happens
when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Well, that's an understatement. Bricks is a group of emerging
economies hoping to increase their sway in the global financial order.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
Now that sounds like the plot line of a movie.
I'm listening.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Philip Patrick is our Bruce Wayne. He's a precious metal
specialist and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group. He's
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on what's going on there.
Speaker 9 (38:04):
Can he give us some inside intel?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Absolutely, He's been there since day one. In fact, a
major theme at the summit is how Bricks nations aim
to reduce reliance on the US dollar in global trade.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Yikes, that doesn't sound good. We got to get Philip
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Speaker 1 (38:18):
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Clay in Buck, continuing on our conversation of the most
important things going on today across this great land of
ours and around the world. As we said, Trump meeting
on Friday with Putin. He's gonna sit down with him
and try to hammer out some kind of a deal.
(39:24):
He says, they'll be land swaps. I watched the whole
press conference this morning, and it was, like I said,
both very informative and very entertaining. That's one thing about Trump.
This is the quick aside one thing about Trump that
when he's no longer president, I think everybody, everybody will miss.
Politics is never going to be as as at that level,
as amusing and engaging as it has been for us
(39:46):
in the Trump era. Like you're just not going to
have somebody I think very unlikely you're going to have
anybody who. I mean, Trump is just such a phenomenon
when it comes to just the things he says and
the way he says it and how he presents you know,
I remember even the excuse me, I remember during the
Obama years having to watch press conference so boring, so boring.
(40:08):
Remember watching Jay Carney, Everybody watching smarmy Jake Carney up
there isn't what the president thanks. It's like, ugh, it
was so boring. It was like that felt like a job.
Watching a Trump press conference is entertainment. It's not really
a job. It's like I'm getting paid to watch soap
opera or something. I just want.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
I mean to reiterate that enjoy it because I don't know,
not only just in terms of sheer enjoyment, but also
just in terms of trying to fix everything that's wrong
at once, which Trump is uniquely focused on. Most politicians
are obsessed with trying to get re elected. Trump is obviously,
(40:48):
I know he's saying, Hey, I'd like to run again,
and by the way, I think a lot of people
would like to vote for him again. His term is
going to end in January of twenty nine. And this
is what I've said on the show for some time,
and some of you immediately respond to tell me I'm crazy,
but I think you actually agree with this take. As
soon as the midterms are over, Democrats are going to
pivot from Trump is Hitler to Republicans are never going
(41:11):
to have a politician as good as Trump. He's a
one in a million. They're never gonna the MAGA base
is not going to follow the new guy. He's a
once in a lifetime president. That watch how quickly that
pivot happens from He's Hitler. Democracy is over to you, guys,
are never going to have anybody this good, and it's
going to make your head spind how quickly it happens.
(41:32):
But as soon as the midterms are over, boom, We're on.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
To the next race. You know, I was. I told
everybody that I was in. I was in Highlands North Carolina,
not to be confused with the Highlands of Scotland. Highland
North Carolina. Highlands North Carolina. Loved it. You know what's
funny though, was we flew into Ashville. You know what
I was unable to attend, unfortunately, Clay there was a
(41:57):
big Bernie Sanders rally in Ashville. Now, I can't throw
too much shade at Asheville because despite the fact that
it is a place of a lot of leftism, it's
very beautiful area, but a lot of leftism. A lot
of people walking around as well, with purple hair, nose
rings and a tremendous amount of indecipherable tattoos. I'm just
(42:18):
saying this is what I observed. Men do they have
good brunch, food and coffee shops. I gotta say, I
don't know what it is. Something about anarchists who look
like they haven't talked to their parents in a very
long time and have a lot of piercings and whatever.
The gauge I think it's called the gauge when you
have the big round thing in your eat. Right, man,
they make a good latte. I don't know what to say.
(42:39):
You know, I'm a coffee guys. We all know they
make a good latte. But Bernie did a rally there
and I just think it's this is the guy. He
is still the guy for Democrats. The biggest draw on
the stump is Bernie Sanders. Here he is on the
here he is on the Jerryman and this is fourteen.
This is Bernie Sanders, lay weighing in, laying into it,
(43:03):
play it. You think democratic governors should try to push back.
I think.
Speaker 11 (43:07):
I think they have no choice. I mean what Trump
is trying to re understands that there is a good
chance that the Republicans will lose control over the House.
I would hope the Senate as well. That'll be a
tough fight. So we're trying to make, you know, in
his authoritarian way, say hey, I don't want to lose elections.
Let's rig the system. Give me five more votes in
Texas to me maybe some other stakes. So what should
(43:29):
Democrats do sit back and say, oh, gee, Trump is
doing as terrible, we can't do anything. Let them win
the election when they shouldn't. So Democrats have got to
fight back. I think it's pathetic, but I think that's
what they've got to do.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
What is pathetic, First of all, it's the Texas State
legislature that's going to do the redistrict, not Trump. It's
just funny. Trump is behind every scary thing Trump is
hiding under Democrats beds now, every bad thing that they
don't like, Trump is behind.
Speaker 9 (43:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
And also let me give credit, and this probably going
to shock people. It doesn't surprise me that Bernie has
an audience because I think he's wrong about everything, but
he has a coherent worldview. What is the world like,
what you understand for better or worse. Bernie is a
socialist and he thinks that things are broken in America.
(44:21):
And I go back to a lot of you will
remember this in the twenty fifteen early twenty sixteen New
Hampshire primary, for instance. I guarantee you listening to us
right now, are some died in the world Trump people
who when they were going to vote, they were going
to vote trying to decide between Bernie and Trump in
twenty sixteen because they were the most disruptive candidates out there,
(44:44):
but the Republican side and the Democrat side, and for
people out there who feel like things are broken, what
Bernie offers, I think it makes things worse, but it
is a coherent worldview. What does the Democrat Party stand
for outside of socialism and outside of Bernie? And I
would argue that somewhat this is what is appealing to
(45:06):
individuals about Mom Donnie. What does it Cheam Jefferies represent?
What does Chuck Schumer represent? I don't really think they
have a coherent philosophical.
Speaker 9 (45:18):
Worldview that responds to people.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
I think the central ethos of the Democrat Party up
up to this moment and stretching back now for really
a couple of decades, has been race politics or race communism.
I really believe this that that's that's the There's other things,
you know, there's gender communism or whatever you want to
call it to. There's these other things as well, where
they take this collectivist and and you know, anti traditionalist,
(45:46):
anti god, anti morality point of view. There's a lot
of things you could but I think that if you're
looking for the one thing that you've had to be
willing to go along with more than any other for
twenty years in the Democrat Party. It is It is
race communist. It is the race politics, politics, identity policy,
it's all that, you know. I prefer race communism because
(46:06):
I want to be very clear that I think it
should be completely disparaged and dismissed. And what's so critical
of what Trump. We're so important about what Trump is
doing is he's going right at that. The Supreme Court
has too, I might add, which gets ignored by a
lot of people. All this race communism stuff is illegal
that these places are still doing. They're not actually supposed
(46:26):
to do this. If the Constitution matters, then Supreme Court
matters to Democrats. And what we see across the board
is these universities playing games, people still playing games with
hiring HR departments, still trying to you know, get away
with this stuff. But that has been the central unifying
characteristic of the Democrat Party for twenty for you know,
(46:47):
twenty years is kind of just a rough estimate of it,
because more so than class it used to be class warfare.
Early two thousands, I think it was more class warfare
stuff that's right, and now, especially going into two thousand
and two thousand and eight era with the Wall Street meltdown,
But now it really has turned into race politics, and
Trump is breaking down. And that's why I think the
Democrats are in such disarray, because the race coalition of
(47:10):
the Democrats is being shattered. When you see things like
hold on a second, A majority of black and a
majority of Latino voters, for example, agree with Trump on deportations. Well, well,
you know, the the oh it's so racist stuff doesn't
work the same way that it used to.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
I also think, and this ties in with what we
started the show with, what did black voters get from BLM?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Nothing? In fact, worse than got worse, nothing but downside. Yeah, yeah,
everything got worse from BLM. And I think a lot
of Black voters are looking around now and saying, boy,
we spray painted a street black Matter, Black Lives Matter, Plaza,
but thousands of black kids got killed because we said
cops shouldn't be able to do the job.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
And now I think you're gonna see I think a
lot a lot of Black voters are going to say, yeah,
I kind of support Trump calling in more security and
more individuals to stop violent, violent crime from happening, and
the Democrat perspective of violent crime isn't that bad. Do
(48:17):
you think that a mom in Saint Louis or Inner
city Memphis, or Washington, d C. Or Philadelphia, do you
think she's looking around saying, you know what Democrats are right,
Crime's not that bad. We don't need more here. Or
do you think for her son and daughter, do you
think she wants more security on the streets. I think
(48:40):
most black moms and dads want more security on the
streets because they're not, unfortunately, or aware of the people
committing the crimes.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Unfortunately, I think, to take your example, though, a lot
of people are told that the problems, especially the problems
of poverty and problems of crime and everything, is all
caused by racism, and that the belief that the Democrats
have instilled in black, white, Asian, Hispanic, you name it,
(49:11):
the belief that Democrats have instilled in their true believers,
is that the problems of crime in major American cities
are all attributable to racism of the other that that's
actually the problem, and that's certainly the case with how
they approach police. It's certainly the case with how they
approach who they're going to vote for. They're going to
(49:31):
vote for the people who are going to continue to
tell them, Hey, it's racism that causes all these problems,
and if you put me in power, I will attack
your racist enemies and I will protect you. And unfortunately
that just results in more of what we see, which
is the degradation of these urban centers, in particular high crime, fatherlessness, poverty,
(49:55):
lack of education, lack of opportunities go down the whole list.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Think though, that it is increasingly not resonating, and I
think BLM actually exposed it because that was them saying, hey,
we're going to speak out for black lives, and thousands
of innocent black people ended up dead because cops weren't
able to work.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
And you play the only people who know that data
listen to shows like this. Now that's the problem. But
I think do you think they talk about this on
shows where the audience is overwhelmingly urban? Do you think
they talk about this on they get people that stat
They do not. They will not tell people that the
DC murder rate in twenty twenty three into twenty twenty four,
when was one of the highest in history of that city.
Speaker 4 (50:40):
But I think they feel that they're being lied to,
and I hope. I mean, look, think about this in
twenty twenty four, and I know it's green shoots. I mean,
it's just starting. One in every five black guys voted Trump.
One in every five. Now, I think it should have
been three in every five, right, because men overwhelmingly voted Trump,
(51:04):
but one out of every five is a big difference.
That means, you know, in a group of five guys
on average that voted, one of them was a Trump guy.
For black voters, that's transformative because that one guy, and
I know a bunch of you are listening to us
right now, and that guy, that black guy out there
who voted Trump. You're now with your buddies sitting around
(51:25):
talking and you can share those stats, because when it's
one in ten or it's one in twenty, it's hard
to be the guy that broaches that topic. I think
when it gets to one in five, in the same
way you sit around and talk about sports, the conversation
is a more natural one. And I think every day
more people are like, wait a minute, we're being sold
(51:47):
to bill of goods. I'm optimistic on the direction this
is going. Could it be going faster? Yes, and I wish,
but I really think it's happening.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Clay is once again the optimistic one here. I'm e
or sitting here telling you be grumpy about this because
it's not happening fast. People are not realizing the truth
nearly fast enough on this. I just I just know. Buck.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Let me give you an example. I was in Atlanta
for the All Star Game. I don't think I mentioned
this on the on the audio. I was, you know,
they had a lot of large security presence for the
All Star Game, right, so I'm staying next door to
the All Star Game. Three different black cops on my
walk from the exit of my hotel to the stadium
(52:26):
era area stopped me. Said, Hey, I'm hearing what you're saying.
Thanks for having our back in Atlanta. Three different black
cops as I was just walking. I mean, I'm telling
you that conversation, I am super optimistic is happening in
a real way that it was that year.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
So that doesn't surprise me. People who live people who
you know you're talking about cops. We have cops back,
but we have the back of black law enforcement. We
have the black of black people who want to live
in peace and security in their own neighborhoods, in their
own communities. But it's just tough to get that word
(53:05):
out because people are still just honestly, they're just lying
about this stuff. Like I said, I would debate, I'll
put it out there now, but not that this stuff.
Really I'll debate anybody in the country on DC crime
from the left, anybody right. There's not a single person
in the country that I wouldn't be willing to go
up again who's worth the time because they would get smoked.
And I'm totally confident in that.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
Well, your point, which is a good one, and this
is something that everybody needs to think about. This why
I want you guys subscribing to our YouTube channel. You
got to be everywhere because the traditional legacy media voices
are collapsing, and so where people get their news TikTok, YouTube, Instagram,
I mean not necessarily the traditional radio shows like you're
(53:48):
listening to right now, or the traditional television shows. You
got to be everywhere. And look, we're talking about taking
care of your family, doing whatever you can to try
and help them.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
If you're out there and you're already thinking about Thanksgiving
and you're like, oh, we can't sit these two next
to each other.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
They've been going at it since nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (54:06):
If your mom and your grandma and your grandpa and
your dad out there and you're thinking about this, you
spend your whole life trying to make things better for
your family. Have you thought about what would happen if
you weren't there. Who's going to be the referee, who's
going to be the peacemaker in your family? Have you
thought about how to keep your family from fighting about
(54:28):
what you might want when you're not there, to just
tell them yourself, that's what wills and trusts are for.
Sounds complicated, it's not actually all you need to do.
You don't even have to get an attorney for this.
You can go on the website yourself. Just go to
trustinwill dot com slash clay. You'll get twenty percent off.
(54:48):
It sounds intimidating, but they will walk you through. I've
got to trust in a will. Buck has got a
trust in a will. We have kids that we want
to provide for families that we're concerned about. If something
God forbid happen to us, we want you to be
thinking about the same. If you are the peacemaker in
your family, if you're the person who helps to make decisions,
why not help with one of the biggest decisions out there.
(55:11):
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Speaker 5 (55:22):
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