August 26, 2025 • 59 mins
Democrats vs. Law Enforcement
The show features a critical breakdown of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s MSNBC interview with Joe Scarborough, where Johnson repeatedly avoids answering whether adding 5,000 police officers would reduce crime. Clay and Buck argue this reflects a broader Democratic reluctance to support law enforcement, driven by ideological commitments rather than public safety. They cite crime statistics—such as Chicago’s 629 murders in 2022, exceeding the entire United Kingdom’s total—to underscore the urgency of the issue.
Real-World Consequences
A gripping firsthand account from a young Asian-American reporter who was violently mugged in Washington, D.C., highlighting the real-world consequences of urban crime. This sets the stage for a broader conversation about President Trump’s aggressive crime-fighting strategy in the nation’s capital, which the hosts frame as both morally necessary and politically effective.
The show explores how Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and law enforcement has led to a notable drop in violent crime, including a 13-day streak without a homicide—an unprecedented development in a Democrat-run city. The hosts contrast this with Democratic messaging that downplays violent crime in favor of focusing on homelessness and mental health, arguing that Trump’s results-driven approach is resonating with everyday Americans.
Rep. Chip Roy
Congressman Chip Roy joins the program to discuss his campaign for Texas Attorney General, his push to ban congressional stock trading, and his support for raising the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from 65 to 67 to address pilot shortages. He also weighs in on the Texas vs. Ohio State football game, predicting a win for the Longhorns led by Arch Manning.
Anything to Not Thank Trump
The hosts dive into the political and cultural impact of President Trump’s crime-fighting strategy, particularly in Washington, D.C., where violent crime rates have dropped significantly following federal intervention. They frame Trump’s approach as a bold, results-driven solution that contrasts sharply with Democratic leadership in cities like Chicago and Baltimore. The segment emphasizes how Trump’s actions—such as deploying federal resources and supporting law enforcement—are reshaping the national conversation around urban safety, law and order, and public accountability.
The hosts also highlight Trump’s stance on transgender athletes in women’s sports, positioning it as a common-sense issue that resonates with a majority of Americans. They argue that Trump’s ability to solve real-world problems, from securing the border to reducing crime, is what sets him apart from traditional politicians. The discussion underscores how Democrats’ resistance to Trump’s policies—even when they improve public safety—reveals a deeper ideological divide, with some voters prioritizing political identity over personal security.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Clay. Have you heard of the Rio Reset? Sounds like
a trendy new workout, Buck, it.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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 3 (00:14):
Smart move to stick with Bricks. We know what happens
when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, that's an understatement.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bricks is a group of emerging economies hoping to increase
their sway in the global financial order.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Now that sounds like the plot line of a movie.
I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Philip Patrick is our Bruce Wayne. He's a precious metal
specialist and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group. He's
on the ground in Rio getting the whole low down
on what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Can he give us some inside intel?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
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 3 (00:51):
Yikes, that doesn't sound good. We got to get Philip
on the line.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Stat already did and he left the Clay and Buck
audience this message.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
The world is moving on from the dollar quietly but steadily.
These nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade,
and the US dollar is no longer the centerpiece. That
shift doesn't happen overnight, but make no mistake, it's already begun.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
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(01:38):
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Speaker 3 (01:43):
Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We
appreciate all of you hanging out with us. As we
are rolling into the show today, our friend Congressman Chip
Roy from Texas will be on in the second hour.
He is running for Attorney General of the state of
Texas and by the way, that primary is in March,
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so I know, we got the New York City mayor's race,
We've got the election going on in Virginia and in
New Jersey. Buck, do you remember, for the first several
years we did this show, everything was basically a loss,
except we got the win in Virginia, like in that
first year, and that then we had to kind of
(02:27):
feed off that for a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Youngkin gave us, gave us some hope, some prayer for
the future. And then the midterms, it was it was
Governor Ron in Florida. Credit where it's due massive.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
We did win.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
We did win the House of Representatives back, but it
was still a tough but there was a lot of
tough situations. I feel like every day we wake up
now their celebratory spirit as there should be across the
country for most of the decisions that are being made.
But in the first several years that we were together,
there were not a lot of victories to celebrate. So
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I do think as we get ready for the Virginia,
New Jersey election, New York City mayor, and then obviously
as we move into next year, the Texas primary is
going to be a major, major event. In March of
twenty twenty six, as I know many of you and
Texas are aware, but as the state of Texas is
football mad, frankly almost unlike any other state in America,
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with high school, college and pro it's going to be
hard to cut through the noise in Texas in September, October, November, December,
if the Cowboys actually win, sorry Cowboy fans, even January two,
when the playoffs happen. And as a result that primary,
you're going to look up from the holidays and it's
going to be right on top of you.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So that is underway.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
We will talk with Chip Roy, who is running for
attorney general there. I would say it is a huge event.
We will be covering quite a lot as we move
closer to that. But President Trump, I believe, about to
have his seventh public cabinet meeting. Remember Joe Biden didn't
have a cabinet meeting, and everybody just forgot and didn't
(04:04):
pay very much attention to it. For basically the final
two years of his tournament office, there were no meetings
as they were hiding him. Trump had three different public
events yesterday buck he basically had rolling press conferences for hours.
I bet he'll be talking for hours today.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm just gonna try to give credit where its due here, Clay,
because we always like to call balls and strikes. As
you know, hiding Biden was the right move.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, we can talk about how.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Like depraved and craven and everything it is, but hiding
Biden was actually a pretty sound strategy. And I I'm
gonna go even further. I think hiding Kamala probably would
have been a better move for them. I know that
they had the clam maybe got too loud for her
to appear in public, but it's better to have MSNBC
pretend that you know who these people are than to
actually see what they say when they don't have a
(04:55):
script or a teleprompter in front of them.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Remember, they didn't actually do an interview with Kamala Harris
for a month, and then when they finally did one,
I think it was with Dana bash if I remember correctly,
on CNN, and Tim Walls was there with her. So
they waited until I mean late August, if I remember correctly,
before they even let her talk to anybody, which raised expectations. Unfortunately,
(05:21):
even with that going on, she couldn't meet them. But
I do think there is a story that is becoming
pretty intriguing.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And it is.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Joe Scarborough probably and potentially still smarting from the public
humiliation that he suffered because he said that Joe Biden
twenty twenty four was just as good of a Biden
as he had ever seen, in fact, the best version
of Biden. And after the June twenty seventh debate, I
(05:53):
think Joe Scarborough was embarrassed on a level that it's
hard to be embarrassed in public prognostication. And I think
he has decided a bit to go to war with
the diehard nbcview MSNBC viewing audience. Remember he and Mika
initially were very favorable with Trump, then that relationship turned negative.
(06:18):
Then they went and kissed the ring after Trump won reelection,
which led many of the people in the NBC audience
to be furious. The MSNBC audience has not been galvanized
this time by the Trump administration. In fact, audience ratings
have continued to be weak and to frankly collapse. And
(06:38):
maybe that has emboldened Joe Scarborough to actually start being
a journalist. Because Buck, you shared this this morning, I
went and watched and I got to give Joe Scarborough
credit he had on Chicago may Or Brandon Johnson, and
let's set the table here. I think brilliantly in the
summer months here, Trump has changed the agenda from from
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basically tariffs and worrying about the economy because we're at
records stock market highs, and he has said we're going
to go to war with violent crime. And DC was
the first place that he decided to bring out the
National Guard. I believe we are now and correct me
if I'm wrong, Team, I think we're at either day
twelve or day thirteen without a murder in DC. Overall
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crime rates have fallen precipitously, and now Trump is talking
about bringing the National Guard to Chicago and Baltimore and
other American cities that he believes have far too high
of a crime rate. And Joe Scarborough asked Chicago Mayor
Brandon Johnson this morning on MSNBC a very simple question,
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would having more police officers make the city of Chicago safer?
And I want to play. I'm going to call for
each of these in success, and I want to play
you the Mayor of Chicago refusing to answer if more
police officers would make the city safer. Here is part one.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Would you also like to get federal funding to help
put five thousand more cops.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
On the street in Chicago? Would that help drive down crime?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I understand here.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
If you've talked about the other things you want, and
I said, those are good and important programs, But I'm
asking also, would five thousand more police officers on the
street in Chicago be helpful to go along with all
of those social programs and a lot of cities are
engaging in and having success with.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Look, here's the best play I can put it, Joe,
is that in the nineties when I was in high school,
we had three thousand more police officers and we had
nine hundred people being murdered every single year in Chicago.
It's just not policing alone.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, this continues.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You can just really you know, the way we set
this up is would more cops be helpful? Joe Scarborough
is actually conceding as part of his questioning here. He says,
if we give you all the money you want for
your violence interrupters, for your your you know, community organizers,
for your all these, by the way, things that do
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absolutely nothing. I know you'll find some radicals. We'll say,
oh my gosh, the history of violence interrupters. Please give
me a break, Okay, social workers, he says, With all that,
would you also want more cops? And now, Claire, you
can continue to work through that. It's astonishing this guy,
the Mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Here is part two.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, he of the recent six
percent approval rating, asked again, yes or no? Would five
thousand cops help MSNBC this morning?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Of course I know it, but I know it's not
policing alone. You've told me everything else you want. I'm
curious and this is this does come down to it
an ideological difference between between people.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Do you believe that the streets of.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police
officers on the streets of Chicago?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America
would be safer if we actually had you know, affordable housing. Look, okay,
that's not the question.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I asked my question, and I just idiots or no?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer
if you got all of those other extraordinary programs put
back into place which do have.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
A history of being successful.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
If that's if that's complimented by having five thousand more
cops on the streets of Chicago.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to
just police officers. On what I'm saying, that is an
antiquated approach.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Okay, it continues, Buck, and I just think I got
to give Scotch Joe Scarborough credit. He so a bit
like me back in the day with Mike Pints, when
you just can't get an answer from a question that
you think is actually.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
An important one.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Here is more Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago, having his
feet held to the fire on a simple question, Hey,
would more cops help cut three?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
I'm saying you've invested in mister Mara hearing what I'm saying,
I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social
programs are extraordinarily important.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I just need a yes or a no, and then
this will be the.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Last time I ask. If you get all of those
other social programs that that eight hundred million that New
York City does, Los Angers and other people do with
great success, would an additional five thousand cops on the
streets in Chicago help compliment those programs to make Chicago safer.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Look, we are working hard to make sure that our
police department is fully supported. I don't believe that just
simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is
the answer. What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing
is policing, and mental and behavior health care services is
policing and youth employment.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, Clay is important. I think Joe Scarborough is basically
begging this guy, begging that. He's like, hey, moron, I'll
give you everything else you want. Will pretend all these
programs that don't do a darn thing in any of
these places that anyone can measure, will also.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Be in place here.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But can you just say more cops would help with
the crime problem?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Could you please just say it?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He won't say it the mayor, and it's because the
mayor of Chicago is anti cop. He's anti law enforcement.
He thinks cops are the problem. He thinks the crime
in the South and West sides of Chicago, where there
are a lot of homicides, even for an American city,
a lot of homicides going on. He thinks that the
issue is mass incarceration and over policing Clay. That's the
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bottom line, and he won't change his mind.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, And I think this is brilliant of Trump. I
just think it is absolutely brilliant, and I am staggered
at the stupidity of Democrats responding to this. Trump is
trying to lower violent crime. In so doing, he is
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going to save more Black lives by far than anyone
who marched in BLM protests and argued for defunding the
police ever did in fact that cost black lives. And
most of you out there, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, male, female,
all of you say, yeah, more cops would help. Why
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can Democrats not say it? Because the base of the
Democrat party still believes that police are the problem. They
believe a lie. And I think this is why Trump
has cut through the noise, noise and the results here.
You know, we sometimes talk buck and I think it's
important that there are two tracks on everything. Is it
(14:09):
politically smart and does it actually make the country better?
Sometimes those don't overlap. Here they do. It's both politically
smart and the country is better if we lower the
overall rate of violent crime and Trump has cut through
the noise and right now the debate we're having in
the summer of his first term is should we have
more police? And is Trump trying to lower a violent
(14:32):
crime too aggressively? It's brilliant. I just I got to
give him credit for it. It is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And we're going to have more for you, by the way,
because right now, just a couple of minutes ago, Trump
started a cabinet meeting, and you know what that means.
It's a Trump pethon everybody. He's got stuff on the economy,
on crime, on Ukraine, on everything. We because we have
the best team in the radio business, are monitoring in
real time as we talk to you, bringing you all
of the highlights this. We might even join it live
(15:01):
if he gets onto a particular topic that we think
is necessary to get into every detail about. But Clay,
the Trumpeton begins once again.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
No doubt, and we were just talking about violent crime.
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Speaker 1 (16:59):
Your welcome in Everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It is the second hour of the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. We started off talking about the situation
in Chicago and Trump trying to create a new paradigm
of less crime in DC and then perhaps a template
for other American cities as well. Trump has fired Federal
(17:23):
Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
We didn't get into that yet. This is interesting, Clay,
just because does.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The Federal Reserve exist outside of executive branch authority? If so,
how and then from from where or whence does it
derive said authority? If it isn't within the executive branches perview,
It's be interesting to see how that how that goes,
(17:48):
I think and Clay did you see also an update
on the Cracker Barrel branding issue from Cracker Barrel, which
we shall discuss in a little an all.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Time own goal, but yes, let's dive into that in
a little while.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I do think that you and I with AI, not
that either of us are particularly good artists, but your
I with AI could have come up with a better
logo rebrand in an hour than what this rebrand was.
Put that aside for a second. Well, we'll get to
that in just a little bit. We just had President
Trump a few moments ago having a cabinet meeting, his
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seventh cabinet meeting of his first administration, well, i'm sorry,
his second term, his first year of his second term.
And this is interesting. There was an exchange. Now, it
might be a little hard to hear the reporter for
some of you out there, so we'll fill in a
bit of it because this was in exchange of back
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and forth. You'll be able to hear Trump, obviously, but
the reporter. But I wanted to hear a reporter tells
the story of how she was mugged in Washington, DC,
and wanted you to hear how this went play thirty three.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
So I went in two years too.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Was a Saturday morning and broad daylight. I was all
my way to work and a young man with a
black ski mask pointed a gun on my face and
threatened me to hand over my phone, my wallet, my laptop.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And everything else.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
And when I refused, he used the butt of his
handgun to strike me across the face the cheek what
some people call him pistol with me before running away.
That has to deeply traumatized myself and my family ever since.
I've never dared to walk in the street of DC
at night ever, and my family was extremely worried. So,
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mister President, thank you so much for what you're doing.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
Thank you being honest.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Such incidents involved not just me but also my family.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
If he had shot me.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
I could have died right there in a middle of nowhere,
without my families or my friends knowing. At the age
of back then, I think twenty three, just started my
career here in DC without you, but starting a family,
and now they're blessed to have this opportunity.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
So you had a gun point in it your head,
and you probably figured that he's going to pull the trigger,
because these are animals that don't know what the hell,
they couldn't care less. The pulling the trigger to him
is a very minor event, and I'm sure he's done
that before. So how did you and you and you
did refuse to give it, which would probably maybe somebody
would say that was not the right decision, right, But
(20:33):
you refused But I understand that. So and then he
hit you real hard.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yes, Okay, Clay, this is here's a reporter I saw
in the experiences. She looks to be Asian American. She's
a d or that the Epic Times. I believe some
people may get that newspaper weekly. I believe that goes
out many different places. Yes, so he's a young woman,
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she's not. She's not physically large, formidable person. She first
was a woman. And beyond that, you know, she's not
a somebody who would be in a particularly strong position
to defend herself broad daylight. Guy with a ski mask,
pulls a gun, says I'm gonna murder you if you
don't give me your stuff, and then he pistol whips
her in the face. People hear stories like this in DC, Clay,
and you know what the response is, Oh, yeah, I
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know a few other people that that's happened to And remember,
this is happening in the nice neighborhoods. Indeed, you know
she she's talking. I could probably tell you. I'm just
guessing you probably living like Adams Morgan or something. We're
talking about a Northwest d C. This stuff happens. We're
not even getting into how often this stuff goes on
in Southeast DC. And here Trump actually continues on this extrage.
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So I just wanted you to hear what's going on here.
Here Trump continues with this, Oh you want to jump in?
Oh sorry, no, no, no, no, I'm much less serious news.
But I've lost a major bet with my wife. So
I was just texting her during the Uh, well that's
not I thought you lost a bet with me, and
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I was gonna say the phone stop depressed.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's that's always good news.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
This is all very serious. But Travis Kelcey and Taylor
Swift just got engaged and I just got texted about it.
So this is gonna take over all the pop culture news.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
We're gonna put a pin in that one. We're gonna
go back to you. That's what I was doing. That
was my face reacting to.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
The usually serious news we can read I can read
his face usually and I know and he's he's fired
up and to make a point whatever. And he's an
honest guy, and he's telling you we're having a very serious,
important discussion, and he's fired up that he lost a
bet over Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Honest man. We'll come back to that, Clay. We'll let you.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
We'll let you wait on that in a second. Let's
get back here to this woman. This reporter pistol whipped
in the face, Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The whole thing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So remember there's also the trauma of these things that
lingers with individuals.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Especially for a woman be attack.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Like this is beat trauma for a guy too, but
for a woman to be attacked like this broad daylight
guys a ski mask on, and Trump and the reporter
continued to exchange.
Speaker 11 (23:09):
By thirty four, it's really amazing that you weren't shot.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Ellis.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
I'm very blessed, and that's why having this opportunity to
stand here to share my story today.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
One, I'm very grateful for God for.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Allowing me to still survive to this day, but also
to miss the president. Thank you for now making DC
say thank you very much for us for our families,
for my parents on my behalf of my parents, and
now my baby on the way.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Babies so much. There are other reporters and journalists and
good people and you don't have to say it, but
that have also been attacked violently and not violently too
pretty badly. But and I'll bet you see a big
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difference in the streets right now. And this is only
twelve days. But people to tell me they're going out
to dinner now they haven't. I told to serve my friend.
But I have a lot of friends that are going
out to dinner all the time now in DC, and
they weren't. They weren't doing it twelve days ago. They
would never even think. One of my friends went out
five times. It was four times the last time I
(24:15):
told now it's five times. He said, I love going
out to dinner. And restaurants are starting to open again,
a lot of them close because you know, they weren't.
Nobody wanted to go into a restaurant. Nobody wanted to
get to a restaurant or even sit in the restaurant.
But you see a big difference now, don't you do?
Speaker 10 (24:30):
Actual house by the education every day on my way
home and you feel lostic for seeing the trucks right outside, seeing.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
The National Guard troops members right.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Outside, Just maybe feel like I'm hopeful about j and
then one day hopefully we can raise our family here.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I think this is fantastic, and there's gonna be a
lot of criticism because we've got to cut and I
want to play it. This is cut ten. A woman
at the DNC yesterday saying, ho hum, there's not actually
crimes like this because this is now where Democrats are relegated.
(25:07):
Cut ten, Where does Trump go?
Speaker 12 (25:09):
Migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is
a crazy, crazy visual. Don't take the bait because most
Americans are more worried about how are we going to
address mental health issues, the visible homelessness that we see
on streets, and how do we deal with mental health
and other issues that drive the sort of random incidents
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that scare all of us. That's what you should be
talking about. That's where you should be focused. Don't take
the bait and talking about migrant crime or carjackings or
the things that actually don't matter to that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Many Americans don't take the bait on violent crime, mattering
to that many Americans, and I do think again, this
woman's story is echoed by almost everybody that is listening
to us in the country.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Somewhere in a city, somewhere in your.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
State, innocent people are being victimized by crime. And Trump
has just said no longer, We're not going to stand
for this, and buck twelve days since a murder happened
in Washington, DC. At some point there will be a murder.
But when I see twelve days, based on the history
of Washington, d C in the summer over decades, at
(26:23):
some point you have to start to say, hey, maybe
this is not a total statistical anomaly. Maybe Trump really
is starting to drive down violent crime in Washington, d C.
And this is why it's ultimately scary to Democrats because
if Trump can do this, Trump shut down the border.
Remember the whole story that we heard for years was
(26:46):
Congress has to act in order for there to be
border security. Trump's showed up and shut down the border security.
And I think what's happening now with DC violent crime
is Democrats are becoming terrified.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Chicago.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
We started off, Baltimore, Memphis, Kansas City, New Orleans, whatever
city you want to point to. With a huge violent
crime rate. It's a failure of will, it's a failure
of caring enough to actually drive down crime.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
We can do it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
If you look at what most of the homicides are
in a place like Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They are not.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
You know, it's not like people are having a random
property dispute and they both pull out guns or something.
It's overwhelmingly drug slash, gang related and theft slash, armed
robbery crime related.
Speaker 13 (27:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I mean, this is people are being shot because someone's
trying to take something from them, or people are being
shot and or shooting at each other because they want
to be able to sell drugs in a certain area
without competition. I mean, this is what drives most of
the homicides in a place like Washington. You'd see in
a lot of places across the country.
Speaker 14 (28:00):
Those things can be made more difficult if there are
more law enforcement officers on the streets and if they
are told that arrests will be turned over to prosecutors
who will do something with those arrests.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
That's a huge component of this. Remember law and order Dundune.
You know, it's about the police who investigate crimes and
the prosecutors who bring them to bring the offenders to
justice in a court. It has to be a one
to two punch. But Clay, of course, you can address
these things. You make it harder for somebody to get
(28:35):
away with going and doing a drive by shooting on
a rival's turf. You make it harder for somebody to
think I'm going to put on a ski mask, as
was done to this young female reporter and in broad daylight,
pull out a gun and smack you in the face
with it and think that I'm going to get away.
This is really straightforward stuff, and I like that Trump
(28:55):
is doing this for the reasons we've all discussed about
saving lives and helping people making the streets better, but
also he just don't let Democrats squir them out on
this one. Yeah, don't let them get away with what
they're doing here, which is they are defending the status
quo of unacceptable criminality in American cities.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
That's what they are doing.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And again, twelve days without a murder, are they going
to be in a position where they're actually now rooting
for murders to occur. This is why the Trump move
is so brilliant, both politically and also morally. Right sometimes
Thankfully these things overlap where you can do the right
thing politically, Hey, we should have less crime. That's something
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Republicans should be behind. And also morally because even the
people that Trump is protecting, remember almost none of them
voted for him. DC was what ninety five to five
voting for Democrats. It's taken a Republican president to be
willing to say I'm going to make you safer, and
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it's not necessarily politically beneficial in Washington for Trump. These
are people that are not Republican voters. Same thing Chicago,
same thing in all these different blue cities. But it's
just the right thing to do. It's the right thing
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and Trump looked at it and said, I'm going to
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Speaker 2 (32:55):
All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
We're joined by Congressman Ship Roy of Texas. Congressman, appreciate
you being with us, sir, great.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
To be on fellows.
Speaker 13 (33:06):
I'm doing well as college football just starts to heat up.
It's good time.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
And well there's and there's the very exciting news that
Clay is going to get your take on at some point,
I'm sure speaking of football of Travis Kelcey and Taylor
Swift's engagement. Congressman, so we got that going on, but
we'll get to that in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Maybe in the.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Meantime, talk to me about the Congressional stock trading ban.
Let's see where does that actually stand, because I see
this lots of talk about it, and it doesn't seem
to be clear.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
What are the rules and what should the rules be?
Speaker 13 (33:41):
Well existing, Yeah, thanks for that question, and something that's
been important to me for a long time. When I
got to Congress, I introduced legislation in twenty twenty to
address this issue because it just did not make sense
to me the members of Congress were sitting or making
serious decisions about key issues while they're also trading stocks
directly impact to buy it right. You're talking about breaking
up big tech companies, you're talking about healthcare monopolies, you're
(34:04):
talking about defense contractors. I feel like that ought to
be separated. So you know, current law, you've got to
have disclosure, but you're allowed to do whatever you want
to do.
Speaker 12 (34:14):
And in that.
Speaker 13 (34:14):
Disclosure, obviously there's a lot of trades. And by the way,
this is a bipartisan problem. Obviously Nancy Pelosi gets a
lot of the headlines because of her prolific trading, but
a lot of Democrats and Republicans both do it, and
I just think we have to clean it up. I've
got legislation that would do it. But we're now working
currently through this August on a bipartisan bill that would
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bring together a number of different approaches, including what the
Senate passed out of committee right before August break, and
try to bring those together and look forward to a
pretty big I think a news announcement when we get
back up in DC next week with a good group
of dem zen Republicans with a bill that would restrict
stock trading and require you know, there to be penalties
(34:59):
if you're in game aging in that and you need
to be in broadly traded mutual funds instead of independent stocks.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
The Congressman, actually, since I got you on this one
and you're talking abou what's going to happen, you come
back something else that I think is really important for
any of us who have wondered, why is it we
have to wait hours at the gate at the airport
because the crew is not there, and sometimes because there's
no pilot there. I think this could really help a
whole lot. You're a sponsor of the Let Experience Pilots
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Fly Act.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Introduced the original version a few years ago. Senator Lindsay
Graham has a Senate companion bill, so they're trying to
raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from sixty
five to sixty seven because of pilot shortages. These pilots,
these are some of the most experienced pilots. My father
in law is a super experienced pilot who's coming up
to that period of his career, and so many of
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these great pilots want to stay on board.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
This is sort of able to be done. It's even bipartisan.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
How can this get out of committee and actually get
done so that we have some of our most experienced pilots,
training the next generation of pilots, and more pilots who
we don't wait at airports for hours because we have shortages.
Speaker 13 (36:11):
Yeah, this is certainly something I've tried to elevate with,
you know, Secretary Duffy and his team. We've just got
to basically beat back the lobby, the lobby that opposes it, which,
as you might you know understand, is a powerful union
lobby that would say, well, they've got more bargaining power
and more leverage. They've got you know, tighter numbers there,
(36:32):
and I think we ought to increase that age. I mean, look,
this is in line with a lot of international standards,
for example, the Japanese pilots and others. I mean, it's
not unusual. And importantly, we're now getting to the place
where we have greater and longer lifespans, and the notion
that someone who's sixty seven is any worse off necessarily
(36:53):
than you know, a fifty year old who could you know,
drop that from a heart attack or something. You have
two pilots, you have of safety mechanism to deal with
this sort of thing. I think it's really important for
us to have an adequate number of experienced pilots, And
that's my biggest concern is that we're going to be
running through a bunch of people trying to fill up
the jobs of pilots, and that would endanger the American
(37:14):
people by putting more inexperienced pilots in the cockpit. So
let's relief that pressure out a little bit by increasing
that age and allowing more experienced pilots to fly.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
How does that happen? Like, how do we get this?
You said, beat back the unions?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
So who is this just members of the Senate who
want to keep getting that union cash or something. How
do we get this in the committee and get it through.
Speaker 13 (37:35):
Well, we've got to move it through the Transportation Committee,
and we've got to make sure that enough people know
that this is a legitimate issue and that there's no
reason to block it. And we're getting some traction and
some ground on that. My colleague Troynell's in Texas led
the bill in committee. It was my bill to start with,
but I handed it off to him because he's on
the Transportation Committee, and you know that's the easiest way
(37:57):
to try to move things. So we're trying to work
it through the committee this time. The speaker is aware
of it. I think it's just something that we need
to elevate and look at. American people are tired of
waiting in lines and tired of our concerns about inexperienced pilots.
It's got to let your members of Congress know that
this is an important issue and it's.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
An easy solution absolutely. Cli.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
All right, you have announced that you are running for
Attorney General of Texas. We talked about this a little
bit earlier. The primary in Texas happens very soon, relatively speaking,
it's March. You are a monster football fan. Texas got
a huge game coming up against Ohio State. I'll let
you talk about that, but I would imagine one of
(38:37):
the challenges of campaigning for an early primary is so
many Texans out there with high school, college and NFL
football about to take off. A lot of people's entire
attention just goes into the football world and not necessarily
to the battle for the primary. So why do you
want to be Texas AG And what's going to happen
(38:57):
this weekend in the biggest game between Texas and ohi
of State.
Speaker 13 (39:01):
Well dress to AG first, because then we maybe have
a little more fun talking about football on the back end.
But you know, I appreciate your All Show being a
good balance of sports and politics. It's good for our world.
But look, I want to be ag for a simple reason,
and that is, how are we going to secure Texas?
Because if we don't secure Texas, We're going to lose America.
That's the bottom line. I will have served four terms,
(39:22):
eight years in Congress. I've done what I think I
can do so far up there to try to change things.
I'm very proud of the record of trying to fight
spending and stand with the border security of individuals and
the law enforcement officials that are trying to secure a border,
stand with the Trump administration to deliver on the big
beautiful bill, but make it better, actually deliver on spending restraint.
(39:42):
All the things that I've been able to do, fighting
stock trading, fight for healthcare freedom, a lot of things
that I feel very good about. But it's time, as
someone who's a former federal prosecutor, as someone who's the
former first Assistant Attorney General of Texas, to come back
to Texas and stand up and stand side by side
with our sheriffs, our Constable Police Officers, Department, of public
safety people I saw in action during the Kerbville floods,
(40:06):
which I proudly represent. But we just dealt with that
big tragedy this summer, and I was working with law
enforcement and it has reminded me how important it is.
And I can assure you Texas will have no better advocate,
no better partner as Chip Roy in the Office of
the Attorney General, combating drug cartels, combating human traffickers, going
(40:26):
after street level thugs. The Office of the Attorney General
has one of the biggest law firms in the state.
It's the most important attorney General's office in the country.
And you've got to have somebody ready on day one.
Like I said, I've been there, I've been a prosecutor,
I've been an AG's office and at the end of
the day, you got to have somebody who's unafraid to
fight and unafraid to win. And I've been doing that.
(40:47):
And look, we're under assault by radical progressive leftists, you
know George Sorris of funding DAS in Texas. Guys, I mean,
like people don't realize how bad it is in our
blue cities in Texas because of what George Soros and
the radical leftists are doing, and we got to change that.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
We got it back to blue.
Speaker 13 (41:03):
We got to secure streets. They don't realize how bad
it is the pressure on our border with the cartels.
Notwithstanding Trump, because he's doing the right job. But when
you get another bad president like Biden, Texas is going
to be even more prepared to hold that line. Hold
the line against Chinese communists buying up our lands, hold
the line against faceless bureaucrats and corporations buying up our
small businesses and making our healthcare more expensive. That's what
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the AG's office has a lot of power to do.
And so I'd be ready to rumble on day one.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
All right, Well, sorry to cut you off, but I
can't bel I would be stunned if he picked Ohio State,
given that he's running for office in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
But it is the biggest game of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Ten million plus people are going to be watching much
of Texas, for sure, much of Ohio. What happens this
weekend between Texas and Ohio State, Well.
Speaker 13 (41:54):
Look, obviously a lot is going to be riding on
the arm of arch Manning. I think Texas Defense is
in a good position to be able to hold the line, uh,
and be able to give him a little bit of
room to deliver. I still like Texas and this. I
know we're having to go up to Ohio State. I
know that it's, you know, a big game, and the
entire eyes of the nation, so to speak, are going
to be looking at Texas here, uh to see what
(42:16):
they can do. But I like our I like our
chances to get up there. And look, I think Arch
has proved himself formidable and and uh, look it's gonna
be a big game. Everybody's gonna be watching it. But
Texas defense, Texas defense holds the line, holds the Ohio
State Art will deliver. That's my basic summary.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
I always bet on Arc. That's a great take. By
the way, I'm also on Texas.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
I'm just saying, I, yeah, Texas and Arch is doing
a great job.
Speaker 13 (42:43):
Well look, I mean, you know, hook them. It goes
without saying. And you know, as a graduate of Texas
Law school, I'm I'm I was going to pick Texas
no matter what. But I actually believe what I just said.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
The spread is very close.
Speaker 13 (42:52):
I mean, look at it's it's close to a toss up.
I know that the oddsmakers are giving a little edge
to Ohio State and probably a home field advantage. I
like Texas, I like our energy, I like where we are.
I like what Sarkisian's philosophy is. I like what I'm
seeing out of the entire university. And even though my
Aggie wife might have to hold her nose more watching
(43:13):
the game over the weekend, and my Red Raider father
as well, we'll all be pulling for the state of
Texas this weekend.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Oh well, good luck on the campaign. We know it's
going to be a crazy fall for you as you
get ready for that. I guess late winter technically primary season.
And good luck to the Longhorns this weekend. I know
we probably just alienated. I know I'm going to get
delus from Ohio because I think we're number one in Cincinnati,
(43:39):
Columbus and also Cleveland at different times of the year,
so we're going to get lit up here.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
But Congressman, we appreciate you. Good luck in the AG campaign.
Speaker 13 (43:50):
Hey God bless you guys.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Take care.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with the True Love
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As Buck has just been glowing with the news coming
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Kelcey have become engaged.
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Speaker 3 (45:37):
We are running through a bunch of different stories out there.
The ongoing battle of Trump deploying resources to Washington, DC
crime coming down, the discussion about whether it should also
happen in Chicago, Baltimore, potentially other New York City. I
think he even mentioned potentially other Blue cities out there.
(46:00):
This is going to continue to be the battle. As
Trump has made fair to say, Buck the story of
the summer twenty twenty five, what he is trying to
do when it comes to violent crime. I think it's
fair to say that, given that the tariff panic appears
to be over, we have set all time record highs
(46:21):
in the stock market this summer, given that the border
is completely shut down. I said, and I think you
signed off on this for years, that the election was
as easy as EBC economy, border crime. The border is secure.
Now we're going through the process of deporting many different
(46:43):
illegals that we're here, but that scenario of the border
being wide open and millions of illegals continuing to flood
in as occurred under Joe Biden, that solved. Trump has
solved much of the border crisis. Crime is the economy
with the tariffs now basically agreed to, with the big
(47:04):
beautiful bill passed which locked in the Trump tax cuts
for the next decade plus, the economy I think is
on very sound footing and continuing to get better. And
Trump has now pivoted his attention to a large degree
to crime, and he's managed to do the impossible. He
has managed for Democrats to now be arguing he's trying
(47:27):
to lower crime too fast. We are opposed to his
attempts to lower crime. That is where we are right now.
I wanted to play a couple of cuts of.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
What is going on.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Trump has been doing his press conference, so our team
has been running on that and we've got several different
Trump takes. Let me hit you with all of these.
Trump on the trans issue. As this has come back
to the forefront state of Virginia, win some seers running
against Abigail Spanberger. I believe there was today news about
(48:05):
Roanoke College allowing the women on the swimming team there
to sue for what they were put through. Here is
Trump reacting, I would imagine somewhat on that cut thirty one.
Speaker 11 (48:16):
They said, that's an eighty twenty. Now it's a ninety
seven three. It's ninety seven to three, Like transgender for
everybody they fought for it, that's still fighting for it.
I saw a guy today, a politician that you all
know very well, fighting like hell for men playing in
women's sports. You don't understand they're human beings. Also, well,
I agree to human beings, but you can't have a
(48:38):
seven foot guy playing basketball with the women and just
one of those little problems in life. And we all
have a place six Okay, I've got my place.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Too, Okay.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
So that is Trump weighing in common sense issue that
I think is one that honestly put him into the
White House. That's the thesis of my new book that's
coming out in November. And then he got asked a
ton about crime, and we played you the epic Times
reporter who pointed out, Hey, I had a gun pulled
on me. I was pistol whipped. Now, I appreciate everything
(49:12):
you're doing to try to lower crime in DC. Here
is Trump saying, they say I'm a dictator, but I'm
just trying to stop crime.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Cut thirty two, and they're gonna.
Speaker 11 (49:22):
Fight me like this slav of the devine. Have an
Illinois poor This poor guy got thrown out of his
business by his family. Know the family has partners with
the family and nice family. I like the family, but
he was none there. They threw him out. He's governor
of Illinois. And he goes about Trump, we don't need
his help. Chicago is the way. These places are really bad.
(49:45):
But then he goes on television says, oh, Trump is
a dictator, and a lot of people in here, so
the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stopped crying.
So a lot of people say, you know, if that's
the case, I'd rather have a dictator, but I'm not
a dictator to stop crime. And he will think that
Illinois would have such a problem with crime, such a
(50:06):
bad governor. He should be calling me and he should
be saying, could you send over the troops?
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Is that out of control? Okay, so this is the topic.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
Trump has pivoted it and buck Democrats are now arguing,
as Trump said, he's a dictator. He's working too hard
to try to lower crime.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah, I hope that Democrats continue on this because when
there's a problem, we would like to think that the
people who are empowered, politicians and others empowered to deal
with it would at least have an alternative solution to
what the Republicans have on this issue. Democrats just have
shut up. There is no problem, even though we all
(50:49):
know there's a problem. And that's why this won't work.
And that's why Trump is right to continue to pound this,
continue to hammer this. You know, we hammer Democrats on
the border, and sure enough, that was a critical issue
in this last election cycle and one that we were
able to now with Trump in charge, prove beyond any
doubt was a choice not in inevitable reality, as in
(51:12):
the open border did not have to happen. Trump showed
that the people saying that it was a choice, that
was correct. It was a choice, and we've made another choice.
Now we can do the same thing with crime. And
this is I think a you see people say this
Clay online too. Hey, you know, you can just do things.
When you're in power, you.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
Don't have to.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Actually, you know, Mother may I with the Democrats all
the time. You can find areas where things can be
improved and just do them and show people. And then
that affects the political outcome too, because results are nice.
I think we grew up in a political climate. Clay
just very broadly, speaking of politicians, all lie, nothing ever
(51:54):
gets done. It's all a unit party. I think Trump
has shattered that narrative more than anybody else we've seen
in our lifetime, where it's just oh, it has to
be this way, go along, to get along, the Potomac
two step, all this stuff nonsense. And on this issue
of crime, it's by the way, the.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Timing on this is perfect. Now.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Things are a little slowed down with the news cycle.
It's August. A lot of journals are on vacation. Less
stuff has happened, a lot of people in general are
on vacation, and all of Europe is on vacation. So
this is a great moment to bring focus to this
issue and to show people where the two sides stand.
So I mean saying he's a dictator, it's just so pathetic.
(52:34):
After all, what is the dictatorship. What's the issue here?
Really ask this, what's the downside of what he has done?
What are we going to pretend the Democrats care about
spending all the all the overtime you know that's been
spent on this. Oh no, I'm sorry. This is where
I come back to, both politically and morally. This is
the right choice. Politically, it's smart because being against crime
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is something that the vast majority of Americas are connected
to and Carrie and care a great deal about, So
it's good to be on this side. Morally, it's better
if less people die, especially young.
Speaker 3 (53:10):
People who are overwhelmingly victims of violent crime. We're talking
about people with decades of their life. We played the
clip of the this even makes me a little bit sick,
and I bet it's gonna make you sick to the
stomach to even think about two buck now that you're
a dad. We to plague the woman who talked about
being a victim of violent crime getting pistol whipped, and
(53:32):
this she said, Now she feels very fortunate. She's pregnant
and she's going to have a baby, and she wants
the city to be safer. One of the worst things.
And I'm going to be dark. One of the worst
things that could happen to anyone out there is that
your child is a victim of violent crime. That woman
in the press conference, and I give her credit from
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the Epic Times, talked about the psychic trauma that she
still feels from the attack that she had levied against her,
the violent crime attempt. I would also point out that
anyone who loses a child is dealing with psychic trauma
for the rest of their lives. And when you consider
who tends to be the victims of violent crime, it
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is overwhelmingly young men and their moms are never going
to recover. So leave aside politics, we should do everything
we can to make it the case that there are
less victims of violent crime in America. And I just
I give tremendous credit to Trump for this, because a
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lot of politicians assume that things should stay as they are.
Trump's radical gift is he looks at problems and he
actually tries to come up with solutions.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Hey, why don't we fix this?
Speaker 3 (54:52):
And again I think it's the builder background, because any
of you out there that have worked in housing or
building it and it does, by the way, have to
be just a building, it can be building a business.
All you do all day long is find problems and
try to solve them. That's how you build a business.
A successful business is really just an exercise in problem solving.
(55:13):
How do we increase our profit margin, How do we
hire the right people, How do we look at this
situation and solve it to create a better situation. Trump
comes in with fresh eyes because he's not a lifelong politician,
and I think, frankly, when he looked at the data
and realized we have a thirty x murder rate in Washington,
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d C. Compared to London and Paris, that's unacceptable. And
I think a lot of left wing journals. They're rich,
they live in gated communities, they oftentimes have security to
help protect them at their jobs. They don't want to
acknowledge the problem because Democrats aren't solving it. And if
Trump comes in and solves it like he solved the border,
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it would require them being honest and give him some credit.
And what's unique about this is Trump is actually trying
to save the lives of people in cities who either
didn't vote or were highly unlikely to vote for him
based on statistics. So he's doing the right thing, even
(56:18):
though it doesn't necessarily benefit his base. The reality is Washington,
d C. Voted more than any community in America against Trump,
and Trumps still saying, Okay, they may not have voted
for me, but I want them to be safer. I
want less of them to die. It's actually an incredibly
noble goal.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
Look when I lived in New York City and bloom Look,
Bloomberg was essentially a Democrat, I know, who's technically ran
as a Republican. But he was doing a good job
and he was keeping crime down, and I was thankful
for it. And I actually remember early in my career
saying some nice things about Mayor Bloomberg as mayor, and
people getting angry at me because, yeah, is he bad?
Speaker 1 (56:57):
You know? Was he a little nanny state on the
big SODA's? Sure? Is he horrible on guns? Sure is he?
Speaker 2 (57:03):
But did he keep the city running in a way
that it was efficient and safe? Yeah, And so that matters.
So you would think that there are some things that
can transcend just the most basic tribal politics, Like if
you're doing a good job making me safer in my city,
I am thankful for that, and I approve of or
I agree with that. No Democrats, it's they would rather
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be unsafe and Trump be wrong than be safe and
have to say thank you to Trump. I think that's
really an explanation of Trump's arrangement syndrome. Yes, I mean
they had that one.
Speaker 3 (57:36):
Did you see the lady that went viral where she
said in Chicago, I was attacked and my wrist was
broken in a violent assault. But I don't want crime
to decline because I don't want Trump to be involved.
Speaker 2 (57:48):
And this didn't I didn't see that, but I just
I know that mentality is pervasive unfortunately these.
Speaker 1 (57:55):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (57:56):
This woman did a whole video that went megaviral where
she said I would rather be physically assaulted and have
my safety question than to have Trump in position of
power in any way in Chicago, And I think it
goes directly to your point. When you are actively supporting
policies that put you and your family in danger because
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you disagree with the politician putting them in place, your
brain is broken and you are not behaving logically irrationally.
Speaker 2 (58:24):
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a trendy new workout, Buck, it.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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 3 (00:14):
Smart move to stick with Bricks. We know what happens
when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, that's an understatement.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bricks is a group of emerging economies hoping to increase
their sway in the global financial order.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Now that sounds like the plot line of a movie.
I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
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specialist and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group. He's
on the ground in Rio getting the whole low down
on what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Can he give us some inside intel?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
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 3 (00:51):
Yikes, that doesn't sound good. We got to get Philip
on the line.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Stat already did and he left the Clay and Buck
audience this message.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
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These nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade,
and the US dollar is no longer the centerpiece. That
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Speaker 3 (01:43):
Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We
appreciate all of you hanging out with us. As we
are rolling into the show today, our friend Congressman Chip
Roy from Texas will be on in the second hour.
He is running for Attorney General of the state of
Texas and by the way, that primary is in March,
(02:06):
so I know, we got the New York City mayor's race,
We've got the election going on in Virginia and in
New Jersey. Buck, do you remember, for the first several
years we did this show, everything was basically a loss,
except we got the win in Virginia, like in that
first year, and that then we had to kind of
(02:27):
feed off that for a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Youngkin gave us, gave us some hope, some prayer for
the future. And then the midterms, it was it was
Governor Ron in Florida. Credit where it's due massive.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
We did win.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
We did win the House of Representatives back, but it
was still a tough but there was a lot of
tough situations. I feel like every day we wake up
now their celebratory spirit as there should be across the
country for most of the decisions that are being made.
But in the first several years that we were together,
there were not a lot of victories to celebrate. So
(02:58):
I do think as we get ready for the Virginia,
New Jersey election, New York City mayor, and then obviously
as we move into next year, the Texas primary is
going to be a major, major event. In March of
twenty twenty six, as I know many of you and
Texas are aware, but as the state of Texas is
football mad, frankly almost unlike any other state in America,
(03:22):
with high school, college and pro it's going to be
hard to cut through the noise in Texas in September, October, November, December,
if the Cowboys actually win, sorry Cowboy fans, even January two,
when the playoffs happen. And as a result that primary,
you're going to look up from the holidays and it's
going to be right on top of you.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So that is underway.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
We will talk with Chip Roy, who is running for
attorney general there. I would say it is a huge event.
We will be covering quite a lot as we move
closer to that. But President Trump, I believe, about to
have his seventh public cabinet meeting. Remember Joe Biden didn't
have a cabinet meeting, and everybody just forgot and didn't
(04:04):
pay very much attention to it. For basically the final
two years of his tournament office, there were no meetings
as they were hiding him. Trump had three different public
events yesterday buck he basically had rolling press conferences for hours.
I bet he'll be talking for hours today.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm just gonna try to give credit where its due here, Clay,
because we always like to call balls and strikes. As
you know, hiding Biden was the right move.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, we can talk about how.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Like depraved and craven and everything it is, but hiding
Biden was actually a pretty sound strategy. And I I'm
gonna go even further. I think hiding Kamala probably would
have been a better move for them. I know that
they had the clam maybe got too loud for her
to appear in public, but it's better to have MSNBC
pretend that you know who these people are than to
actually see what they say when they don't have a
(04:55):
script or a teleprompter in front of them.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Remember, they didn't actually do an interview with Kamala Harris
for a month, and then when they finally did one,
I think it was with Dana bash if I remember correctly,
on CNN, and Tim Walls was there with her. So
they waited until I mean late August, if I remember correctly,
before they even let her talk to anybody, which raised expectations. Unfortunately,
(05:21):
even with that going on, she couldn't meet them. But
I do think there is a story that is becoming
pretty intriguing.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And it is.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Joe Scarborough probably and potentially still smarting from the public
humiliation that he suffered because he said that Joe Biden
twenty twenty four was just as good of a Biden
as he had ever seen, in fact, the best version
of Biden. And after the June twenty seventh debate, I
(05:53):
think Joe Scarborough was embarrassed on a level that it's
hard to be embarrassed in public prognostication. And I think
he has decided a bit to go to war with
the diehard nbcview MSNBC viewing audience. Remember he and Mika
initially were very favorable with Trump, then that relationship turned negative.
(06:18):
Then they went and kissed the ring after Trump won reelection,
which led many of the people in the NBC audience
to be furious. The MSNBC audience has not been galvanized
this time by the Trump administration. In fact, audience ratings
have continued to be weak and to frankly collapse. And
(06:38):
maybe that has emboldened Joe Scarborough to actually start being
a journalist. Because Buck, you shared this this morning, I
went and watched and I got to give Joe Scarborough
credit he had on Chicago may Or Brandon Johnson, and
let's set the table here. I think brilliantly in the
summer months here, Trump has changed the agenda from from
(07:01):
basically tariffs and worrying about the economy because we're at
records stock market highs, and he has said we're going
to go to war with violent crime. And DC was
the first place that he decided to bring out the
National Guard. I believe we are now and correct me
if I'm wrong, Team, I think we're at either day
twelve or day thirteen without a murder in DC. Overall
(07:26):
crime rates have fallen precipitously, and now Trump is talking
about bringing the National Guard to Chicago and Baltimore and
other American cities that he believes have far too high
of a crime rate. And Joe Scarborough asked Chicago Mayor
Brandon Johnson this morning on MSNBC a very simple question,
(07:50):
would having more police officers make the city of Chicago safer?
And I want to play. I'm going to call for
each of these in success, and I want to play
you the Mayor of Chicago refusing to answer if more
police officers would make the city safer. Here is part one.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Would you also like to get federal funding to help
put five thousand more cops.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
On the street in Chicago? Would that help drive down crime?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I understand here.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
If you've talked about the other things you want, and
I said, those are good and important programs, But I'm
asking also, would five thousand more police officers on the
street in Chicago be helpful to go along with all
of those social programs and a lot of cities are
engaging in and having success with.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Look, here's the best play I can put it, Joe,
is that in the nineties when I was in high school,
we had three thousand more police officers and we had
nine hundred people being murdered every single year in Chicago.
It's just not policing alone.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, this continues.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You can just really you know, the way we set
this up is would more cops be helpful? Joe Scarborough
is actually conceding as part of his questioning here. He says,
if we give you all the money you want for
your violence interrupters, for your your you know, community organizers,
for your all these, by the way, things that do
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absolutely nothing. I know you'll find some radicals. We'll say,
oh my gosh, the history of violence interrupters. Please give
me a break, Okay, social workers, he says, With all that,
would you also want more cops? And now, Claire, you
can continue to work through that. It's astonishing this guy,
the Mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Here is part two.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, he of the recent six
percent approval rating, asked again, yes or no? Would five
thousand cops help MSNBC this morning?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Of course I know it, but I know it's not
policing alone. You've told me everything else you want. I'm
curious and this is this does come down to it
an ideological difference between between people.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Do you believe that the streets of.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police
officers on the streets of Chicago?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America
would be safer if we actually had you know, affordable housing. Look, okay,
that's not the question.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I asked my question, and I just idiots or no?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer
if you got all of those other extraordinary programs put
back into place which do have.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
A history of being successful.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
If that's if that's complimented by having five thousand more
cops on the streets of Chicago.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to
just police officers. On what I'm saying, that is an
antiquated approach.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Okay, it continues, Buck, and I just think I got
to give Scotch Joe Scarborough credit. He so a bit
like me back in the day with Mike Pints, when
you just can't get an answer from a question that
you think is actually.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
An important one.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Here is more Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago, having his
feet held to the fire on a simple question, Hey,
would more cops help cut three?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
I'm saying you've invested in mister Mara hearing what I'm saying,
I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social
programs are extraordinarily important.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I just need a yes or a no, and then
this will be the.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Last time I ask. If you get all of those
other social programs that that eight hundred million that New
York City does, Los Angers and other people do with
great success, would an additional five thousand cops on the
streets in Chicago help compliment those programs to make Chicago safer.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Look, we are working hard to make sure that our
police department is fully supported. I don't believe that just
simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is
the answer. What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing
is policing, and mental and behavior health care services is
policing and youth employment.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, Clay is important. I think Joe Scarborough is basically
begging this guy, begging that. He's like, hey, moron, I'll
give you everything else you want. Will pretend all these
programs that don't do a darn thing in any of
these places that anyone can measure, will also.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Be in place here.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But can you just say more cops would help with
the crime problem?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Could you please just say it?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He won't say it the mayor, and it's because the
mayor of Chicago is anti cop. He's anti law enforcement.
He thinks cops are the problem. He thinks the crime
in the South and West sides of Chicago, where there
are a lot of homicides, even for an American city,
a lot of homicides going on. He thinks that the
issue is mass incarceration and over policing Clay. That's the
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bottom line, and he won't change his mind.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, And I think this is brilliant of Trump. I
just think it is absolutely brilliant, and I am staggered
at the stupidity of Democrats responding to this. Trump is
trying to lower violent crime. In so doing, he is
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going to save more Black lives by far than anyone
who marched in BLM protests and argued for defunding the
police ever did in fact that cost black lives. And
most of you out there, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, male, female,
all of you say, yeah, more cops would help. Why
(13:45):
can Democrats not say it? Because the base of the
Democrat party still believes that police are the problem. They
believe a lie. And I think this is why Trump
has cut through the noise, noise and the results here.
You know, we sometimes talk buck and I think it's
important that there are two tracks on everything. Is it
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politically smart and does it actually make the country better?
Sometimes those don't overlap. Here they do. It's both politically
smart and the country is better if we lower the
overall rate of violent crime and Trump has cut through
the noise and right now the debate we're having in
the summer of his first term is should we have
more police? And is Trump trying to lower a violent
(14:32):
crime too aggressively? It's brilliant. I just I got to
give him credit for it. It is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And we're going to have more for you, by the way,
because right now, just a couple of minutes ago, Trump
started a cabinet meeting, and you know what that means.
It's a Trump pethon everybody. He's got stuff on the economy,
on crime, on Ukraine, on everything. We because we have
the best team in the radio business, are monitoring in
real time as we talk to you, bringing you all
of the highlights this. We might even join it live
(15:01):
if he gets onto a particular topic that we think
is necessary to get into every detail about. But Clay,
the Trumpeton begins once again.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
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Your welcome in Everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It is the second hour of the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. We started off talking about the situation
in Chicago and Trump trying to create a new paradigm
of less crime in DC and then perhaps a template
for other American cities as well. Trump has fired Federal
(17:23):
Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
We didn't get into that yet. This is interesting, Clay,
just because does.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The Federal Reserve exist outside of executive branch authority? If so,
how and then from from where or whence does it
derive said authority? If it isn't within the executive branches perview,
It's be interesting to see how that how that goes,
(17:48):
I think and Clay did you see also an update
on the Cracker Barrel branding issue from Cracker Barrel, which
we shall discuss in a little an all.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Time own goal, but yes, let's dive into that in
a little while.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I do think that you and I with AI, not
that either of us are particularly good artists, but your
I with AI could have come up with a better
logo rebrand in an hour than what this rebrand was.
Put that aside for a second. Well, we'll get to
that in just a little bit. We just had President
Trump a few moments ago having a cabinet meeting, his
(18:33):
seventh cabinet meeting of his first administration, well, i'm sorry,
his second term, his first year of his second term.
And this is interesting. There was an exchange. Now, it
might be a little hard to hear the reporter for
some of you out there, so we'll fill in a
bit of it because this was in exchange of back
(18:54):
and forth. You'll be able to hear Trump, obviously, but
the reporter. But I wanted to hear a reporter tells
the story of how she was mugged in Washington, DC,
and wanted you to hear how this went play thirty three.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
So I went in two years too.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Was a Saturday morning and broad daylight. I was all
my way to work and a young man with a
black ski mask pointed a gun on my face and
threatened me to hand over my phone, my wallet, my laptop.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And everything else.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
And when I refused, he used the butt of his
handgun to strike me across the face the cheek what
some people call him pistol with me before running away.
That has to deeply traumatized myself and my family ever since.
I've never dared to walk in the street of DC
at night ever, and my family was extremely worried. So,
(19:48):
mister President, thank you so much for what you're doing.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
Thank you being honest.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Such incidents involved not just me but also my family.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
If he had shot me.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
I could have died right there in a middle of nowhere,
without my families or my friends knowing. At the age
of back then, I think twenty three, just started my
career here in DC without you, but starting a family,
and now they're blessed to have this opportunity.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
So you had a gun point in it your head,
and you probably figured that he's going to pull the trigger,
because these are animals that don't know what the hell,
they couldn't care less. The pulling the trigger to him
is a very minor event, and I'm sure he's done
that before. So how did you and you and you
did refuse to give it, which would probably maybe somebody
would say that was not the right decision, right, But
(20:33):
you refused But I understand that. So and then he
hit you real hard.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yes, Okay, Clay, this is here's a reporter I saw
in the experiences. She looks to be Asian American. She's
a d or that the Epic Times. I believe some
people may get that newspaper weekly. I believe that goes
out many different places. Yes, so he's a young woman,
(20:59):
she's not. She's not physically large, formidable person. She first
was a woman. And beyond that, you know, she's not
a somebody who would be in a particularly strong position
to defend herself broad daylight. Guy with a ski mask,
pulls a gun, says I'm gonna murder you if you
don't give me your stuff, and then he pistol whips
her in the face. People hear stories like this in DC, Clay,
and you know what the response is, Oh, yeah, I
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know a few other people that that's happened to And remember,
this is happening in the nice neighborhoods. Indeed, you know
she she's talking. I could probably tell you. I'm just
guessing you probably living like Adams Morgan or something. We're
talking about a Northwest d C. This stuff happens. We're
not even getting into how often this stuff goes on
in Southeast DC. And here Trump actually continues on this extrage.
(21:42):
So I just wanted you to hear what's going on here.
Here Trump continues with this, Oh you want to jump in?
Oh sorry, no, no, no, no, I'm much less serious news.
But I've lost a major bet with my wife. So
I was just texting her during the Uh, well that's
not I thought you lost a bet with me, and
(22:02):
I was gonna say the phone stop depressed.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's that's always good news.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
This is all very serious. But Travis Kelcey and Taylor
Swift just got engaged and I just got texted about it.
So this is gonna take over all the pop culture news.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
We're gonna put a pin in that one. We're gonna
go back to you. That's what I was doing. That
was my face reacting to.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
The usually serious news we can read I can read
his face usually and I know and he's he's fired
up and to make a point whatever. And he's an
honest guy, and he's telling you we're having a very serious,
important discussion, and he's fired up that he lost a
bet over Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Honest man. We'll come back to that, Clay. We'll let you.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
We'll let you wait on that in a second. Let's
get back here to this woman. This reporter pistol whipped
in the face, Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The whole thing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So remember there's also the trauma of these things that
lingers with individuals.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Especially for a woman be attack.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Like this is beat trauma for a guy too, but
for a woman to be attacked like this broad daylight
guys a ski mask on, and Trump and the reporter
continued to exchange.
Speaker 11 (23:09):
By thirty four, it's really amazing that you weren't shot.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Ellis.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
I'm very blessed, and that's why having this opportunity to
stand here to share my story today.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
One, I'm very grateful for God for.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Allowing me to still survive to this day, but also
to miss the president. Thank you for now making DC
say thank you very much for us for our families,
for my parents on my behalf of my parents, and
now my baby on the way.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Babies so much. There are other reporters and journalists and
good people and you don't have to say it, but
that have also been attacked violently and not violently too
pretty badly. But and I'll bet you see a big
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difference in the streets right now. And this is only
twelve days. But people to tell me they're going out
to dinner now they haven't. I told to serve my friend.
But I have a lot of friends that are going
out to dinner all the time now in DC, and
they weren't. They weren't doing it twelve days ago. They
would never even think. One of my friends went out
five times. It was four times the last time I
(24:15):
told now it's five times. He said, I love going
out to dinner. And restaurants are starting to open again,
a lot of them close because you know, they weren't.
Nobody wanted to go into a restaurant. Nobody wanted to
get to a restaurant or even sit in the restaurant.
But you see a big difference now, don't you do?
Speaker 10 (24:30):
Actual house by the education every day on my way
home and you feel lostic for seeing the trucks right outside, seeing.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
The National Guard troops members right.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Outside, Just maybe feel like I'm hopeful about j and
then one day hopefully we can raise our family here.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I think this is fantastic, and there's gonna be a
lot of criticism because we've got to cut and I
want to play it. This is cut ten. A woman
at the DNC yesterday saying, ho hum, there's not actually
crimes like this because this is now where Democrats are relegated.
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Cut ten, Where does Trump go?
Speaker 12 (25:09):
Migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is
a crazy, crazy visual. Don't take the bait because most
Americans are more worried about how are we going to
address mental health issues, the visible homelessness that we see
on streets, and how do we deal with mental health
and other issues that drive the sort of random incidents
(25:30):
that scare all of us. That's what you should be
talking about. That's where you should be focused. Don't take
the bait and talking about migrant crime or carjackings or
the things that actually don't matter to that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Many Americans don't take the bait on violent crime, mattering
to that many Americans, and I do think again, this
woman's story is echoed by almost everybody that is listening
to us in the country.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Somewhere in a city, somewhere in your.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
State, innocent people are being victimized by crime. And Trump
has just said no longer, We're not going to stand
for this, and buck twelve days since a murder happened
in Washington, DC. At some point there will be a murder.
But when I see twelve days, based on the history
of Washington, d C in the summer over decades, at
(26:23):
some point you have to start to say, hey, maybe
this is not a total statistical anomaly. Maybe Trump really
is starting to drive down violent crime in Washington, d C.
And this is why it's ultimately scary to Democrats because
if Trump can do this, Trump shut down the border.
Remember the whole story that we heard for years was
(26:46):
Congress has to act in order for there to be
border security. Trump's showed up and shut down the border security.
And I think what's happening now with DC violent crime
is Democrats are becoming terrified.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Chicago.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
We started off, Baltimore, Memphis, Kansas City, New Orleans, whatever
city you want to point to. With a huge violent
crime rate. It's a failure of will, it's a failure
of caring enough to actually drive down crime.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
We can do it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
If you look at what most of the homicides are
in a place like Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They are not.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
You know, it's not like people are having a random
property dispute and they both pull out guns or something.
It's overwhelmingly drug slash, gang related and theft slash, armed
robbery crime related.
Speaker 13 (27:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I mean, this is people are being shot because someone's
trying to take something from them, or people are being
shot and or shooting at each other because they want
to be able to sell drugs in a certain area
without competition. I mean, this is what drives most of
the homicides in a place like Washington. You'd see in
a lot of places across the country.
Speaker 14 (28:00):
Those things can be made more difficult if there are
more law enforcement officers on the streets and if they
are told that arrests will be turned over to prosecutors
who will do something with those arrests.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
That's a huge component of this. Remember law and order Dundune.
You know, it's about the police who investigate crimes and
the prosecutors who bring them to bring the offenders to
justice in a court. It has to be a one
to two punch. But Clay, of course, you can address
these things. You make it harder for somebody to get
(28:35):
away with going and doing a drive by shooting on
a rival's turf. You make it harder for somebody to
think I'm going to put on a ski mask, as
was done to this young female reporter and in broad daylight,
pull out a gun and smack you in the face
with it and think that I'm going to get away.
This is really straightforward stuff, and I like that Trump
(28:55):
is doing this for the reasons we've all discussed about
saving lives and helping people making the streets better, but
also he just don't let Democrats squir them out on
this one. Yeah, don't let them get away with what
they're doing here, which is they are defending the status
quo of unacceptable criminality in American cities.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
That's what they are doing.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And again, twelve days without a murder, are they going
to be in a position where they're actually now rooting
for murders to occur. This is why the Trump move
is so brilliant, both politically and also morally. Right sometimes
Thankfully these things overlap where you can do the right
thing politically, Hey, we should have less crime. That's something
(29:36):
Republicans should be behind. And also morally because even the
people that Trump is protecting, remember almost none of them
voted for him. DC was what ninety five to five
voting for Democrats. It's taken a Republican president to be
willing to say I'm going to make you safer, and
(29:56):
it's not necessarily politically beneficial in Washington for Trump. These
are people that are not Republican voters. Same thing Chicago,
same thing in all these different blue cities. But it's
just the right thing to do. It's the right thing
to do when it's something Democrats should have done are unwilling,
and Trump looked at it and said, I'm going to
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Speaker 2 (32:55):
All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
We're joined by Congressman Ship Roy of Texas. Congressman, appreciate
you being with us, sir, great.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
To be on fellows.
Speaker 13 (33:06):
I'm doing well as college football just starts to heat up.
It's good time.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
And well there's and there's the very exciting news that
Clay is going to get your take on at some point,
I'm sure speaking of football of Travis Kelcey and Taylor
Swift's engagement. Congressman, so we got that going on, but
we'll get to that in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Maybe in the.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Meantime, talk to me about the Congressional stock trading ban.
Let's see where does that actually stand, because I see
this lots of talk about it, and it doesn't seem
to be clear.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
What are the rules and what should the rules be?
Speaker 13 (33:41):
Well existing, Yeah, thanks for that question, and something that's
been important to me for a long time. When I
got to Congress, I introduced legislation in twenty twenty to
address this issue because it just did not make sense
to me the members of Congress were sitting or making
serious decisions about key issues while they're also trading stocks
directly impact to buy it right. You're talking about breaking
up big tech companies, you're talking about healthcare monopolies, you're
(34:04):
talking about defense contractors. I feel like that ought to
be separated. So you know, current law, you've got to
have disclosure, but you're allowed to do whatever you want
to do.
Speaker 12 (34:14):
And in that.
Speaker 13 (34:14):
Disclosure, obviously there's a lot of trades. And by the way,
this is a bipartisan problem. Obviously Nancy Pelosi gets a
lot of the headlines because of her prolific trading, but
a lot of Democrats and Republicans both do it, and
I just think we have to clean it up. I've
got legislation that would do it. But we're now working
currently through this August on a bipartisan bill that would
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bring together a number of different approaches, including what the
Senate passed out of committee right before August break, and
try to bring those together and look forward to a
pretty big I think a news announcement when we get
back up in DC next week with a good group
of dem zen Republicans with a bill that would restrict
stock trading and require you know, there to be penalties
(34:59):
if you're in game aging in that and you need
to be in broadly traded mutual funds instead of independent stocks.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
The Congressman, actually, since I got you on this one
and you're talking abou what's going to happen, you come
back something else that I think is really important for
any of us who have wondered, why is it we
have to wait hours at the gate at the airport
because the crew is not there, and sometimes because there's
no pilot there. I think this could really help a
whole lot. You're a sponsor of the Let Experience Pilots
(35:27):
Fly Act.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Introduced the original version a few years ago. Senator Lindsay
Graham has a Senate companion bill, so they're trying to
raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from sixty
five to sixty seven because of pilot shortages. These pilots,
these are some of the most experienced pilots. My father
in law is a super experienced pilot who's coming up
to that period of his career, and so many of
(35:52):
these great pilots want to stay on board.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
This is sort of able to be done. It's even bipartisan.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
How can this get out of committee and actually get
done so that we have some of our most experienced pilots,
training the next generation of pilots, and more pilots who
we don't wait at airports for hours because we have shortages.
Speaker 13 (36:11):
Yeah, this is certainly something I've tried to elevate with,
you know, Secretary Duffy and his team. We've just got
to basically beat back the lobby, the lobby that opposes it, which,
as you might you know understand, is a powerful union
lobby that would say, well, they've got more bargaining power
and more leverage. They've got you know, tighter numbers there,
(36:32):
and I think we ought to increase that age. I mean, look,
this is in line with a lot of international standards,
for example, the Japanese pilots and others. I mean, it's
not unusual. And importantly, we're now getting to the place
where we have greater and longer lifespans, and the notion
that someone who's sixty seven is any worse off necessarily
(36:53):
than you know, a fifty year old who could you know,
drop that from a heart attack or something. You have
two pilots, you have of safety mechanism to deal with
this sort of thing. I think it's really important for
us to have an adequate number of experienced pilots, And
that's my biggest concern is that we're going to be
running through a bunch of people trying to fill up
the jobs of pilots, and that would endanger the American
(37:14):
people by putting more inexperienced pilots in the cockpit. So
let's relief that pressure out a little bit by increasing
that age and allowing more experienced pilots to fly.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
How does that happen? Like, how do we get this?
You said, beat back the unions?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
So who is this just members of the Senate who
want to keep getting that union cash or something. How
do we get this in the committee and get it through.
Speaker 13 (37:35):
Well, we've got to move it through the Transportation Committee,
and we've got to make sure that enough people know
that this is a legitimate issue and that there's no
reason to block it. And we're getting some traction and
some ground on that. My colleague Troynell's in Texas led
the bill in committee. It was my bill to start with,
but I handed it off to him because he's on
the Transportation Committee, and you know that's the easiest way
(37:57):
to try to move things. So we're trying to work
it through the committee this time. The speaker is aware
of it. I think it's just something that we need
to elevate and look at. American people are tired of
waiting in lines and tired of our concerns about inexperienced pilots.
It's got to let your members of Congress know that
this is an important issue and it's.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
An easy solution absolutely. Cli.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
All right, you have announced that you are running for
Attorney General of Texas. We talked about this a little
bit earlier. The primary in Texas happens very soon, relatively speaking,
it's March. You are a monster football fan. Texas got
a huge game coming up against Ohio State. I'll let
you talk about that, but I would imagine one of
(38:37):
the challenges of campaigning for an early primary is so
many Texans out there with high school, college and NFL
football about to take off. A lot of people's entire
attention just goes into the football world and not necessarily
to the battle for the primary. So why do you
want to be Texas AG And what's going to happen
(38:57):
this weekend in the biggest game between Texas and ohi
of State.
Speaker 13 (39:01):
Well dress to AG first, because then we maybe have
a little more fun talking about football on the back end.
But you know, I appreciate your All Show being a
good balance of sports and politics. It's good for our world.
But look, I want to be ag for a simple reason,
and that is, how are we going to secure Texas?
Because if we don't secure Texas, We're going to lose America.
That's the bottom line. I will have served four terms,
(39:22):
eight years in Congress. I've done what I think I
can do so far up there to try to change things.
I'm very proud of the record of trying to fight
spending and stand with the border security of individuals and
the law enforcement officials that are trying to secure a border,
stand with the Trump administration to deliver on the big
beautiful bill, but make it better, actually deliver on spending restraint.
(39:42):
All the things that I've been able to do, fighting
stock trading, fight for healthcare freedom, a lot of things
that I feel very good about. But it's time, as
someone who's a former federal prosecutor, as someone who's the
former first Assistant Attorney General of Texas, to come back
to Texas and stand up and stand side by side
with our sheriffs, our Constable Police Officers, Department, of public
safety people I saw in action during the Kerbville floods,
(40:06):
which I proudly represent. But we just dealt with that
big tragedy this summer, and I was working with law
enforcement and it has reminded me how important it is.
And I can assure you Texas will have no better advocate,
no better partner as Chip Roy in the Office of
the Attorney General, combating drug cartels, combating human traffickers, going
(40:26):
after street level thugs. The Office of the Attorney General
has one of the biggest law firms in the state.
It's the most important attorney General's office in the country.
And you've got to have somebody ready on day one.
Like I said, I've been there, I've been a prosecutor,
I've been an AG's office and at the end of
the day, you got to have somebody who's unafraid to
fight and unafraid to win. And I've been doing that.
(40:47):
And look, we're under assault by radical progressive leftists, you
know George Sorris of funding DAS in Texas. Guys, I mean,
like people don't realize how bad it is in our
blue cities in Texas because of what George Soros and
the radical leftists are doing, and we got to change that.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
We got it back to blue.
Speaker 13 (41:03):
We got to secure streets. They don't realize how bad
it is the pressure on our border with the cartels.
Notwithstanding Trump, because he's doing the right job. But when
you get another bad president like Biden, Texas is going
to be even more prepared to hold that line. Hold
the line against Chinese communists buying up our lands, hold
the line against faceless bureaucrats and corporations buying up our
small businesses and making our healthcare more expensive. That's what
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the AG's office has a lot of power to do.
And so I'd be ready to rumble on day one.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
All right, Well, sorry to cut you off, but I
can't bel I would be stunned if he picked Ohio State,
given that he's running for office in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
But it is the biggest game of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Ten million plus people are going to be watching much
of Texas, for sure, much of Ohio. What happens this
weekend between Texas and Ohio State, Well.
Speaker 13 (41:54):
Look, obviously a lot is going to be riding on
the arm of arch Manning. I think Texas Defense is
in a good position to be able to hold the line, uh,
and be able to give him a little bit of
room to deliver. I still like Texas and this. I
know we're having to go up to Ohio State. I
know that it's, you know, a big game, and the
entire eyes of the nation, so to speak, are going
to be looking at Texas here, uh to see what
(42:16):
they can do. But I like our I like our
chances to get up there. And look, I think Arch
has proved himself formidable and and uh, look it's gonna
be a big game. Everybody's gonna be watching it. But
Texas defense, Texas defense holds the line, holds the Ohio
State Art will deliver. That's my basic summary.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
I always bet on Arc. That's a great take. By
the way, I'm also on Texas.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
I'm just saying, I, yeah, Texas and Arch is doing
a great job.
Speaker 13 (42:43):
Well look, I mean, you know, hook them. It goes
without saying. And you know, as a graduate of Texas
Law school, I'm I'm I was going to pick Texas
no matter what. But I actually believe what I just said.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
The spread is very close.
Speaker 13 (42:52):
I mean, look at it's it's close to a toss up.
I know that the oddsmakers are giving a little edge
to Ohio State and probably a home field advantage. I
like Texas, I like our energy, I like where we are.
I like what Sarkisian's philosophy is. I like what I'm
seeing out of the entire university. And even though my
Aggie wife might have to hold her nose more watching
(43:13):
the game over the weekend, and my Red Raider father
as well, we'll all be pulling for the state of
Texas this weekend.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Oh well, good luck on the campaign. We know it's
going to be a crazy fall for you as you
get ready for that. I guess late winter technically primary season.
And good luck to the Longhorns this weekend. I know
we probably just alienated. I know I'm going to get
delus from Ohio because I think we're number one in Cincinnati,
(43:39):
Columbus and also Cleveland at different times of the year,
so we're going to get lit up here.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
But Congressman, we appreciate you. Good luck in the AG campaign.
Speaker 13 (43:50):
Hey God bless you guys.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Take care.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
That's Shiproy. You guys can react to that and more.
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As Buck has just been glowing with the news coming
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We are running through a bunch of different stories out there.
The ongoing battle of Trump deploying resources to Washington, DC
crime coming down, the discussion about whether it should also
happen in Chicago, Baltimore, potentially other New York City. I
think he even mentioned potentially other Blue cities out there.
(46:00):
This is going to continue to be the battle. As
Trump has made fair to say, Buck the story of
the summer twenty twenty five, what he is trying to
do when it comes to violent crime. I think it's
fair to say that, given that the tariff panic appears
to be over, we have set all time record highs
(46:21):
in the stock market this summer, given that the border
is completely shut down. I said, and I think you
signed off on this for years, that the election was
as easy as EBC economy, border crime. The border is secure.
Now we're going through the process of deporting many different
(46:43):
illegals that we're here, but that scenario of the border
being wide open and millions of illegals continuing to flood
in as occurred under Joe Biden, that solved. Trump has
solved much of the border crisis. Crime is the economy
with the tariffs now basically agreed to, with the big
(47:04):
beautiful bill passed which locked in the Trump tax cuts
for the next decade plus, the economy I think is
on very sound footing and continuing to get better. And
Trump has now pivoted his attention to a large degree
to crime, and he's managed to do the impossible. He
has managed for Democrats to now be arguing he's trying
(47:27):
to lower crime too fast. We are opposed to his
attempts to lower crime. That is where we are right now.
I wanted to play a couple of cuts of.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
What is going on.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Trump has been doing his press conference, so our team
has been running on that and we've got several different
Trump takes. Let me hit you with all of these.
Trump on the trans issue. As this has come back
to the forefront state of Virginia, win some seers running
against Abigail Spanberger. I believe there was today news about
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Roanoke College allowing the women on the swimming team there
to sue for what they were put through. Here is
Trump reacting, I would imagine somewhat on that cut thirty one.
Speaker 11 (48:16):
They said, that's an eighty twenty. Now it's a ninety
seven three. It's ninety seven to three, Like transgender for
everybody they fought for it, that's still fighting for it.
I saw a guy today, a politician that you all
know very well, fighting like hell for men playing in
women's sports. You don't understand they're human beings. Also, well,
I agree to human beings, but you can't have a
(48:38):
seven foot guy playing basketball with the women and just
one of those little problems in life. And we all
have a place six Okay, I've got my place.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Too, Okay.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
So that is Trump weighing in common sense issue that
I think is one that honestly put him into the
White House. That's the thesis of my new book that's
coming out in November. And then he got asked a
ton about crime, and we played you the epic Times
reporter who pointed out, Hey, I had a gun pulled
on me. I was pistol whipped. Now, I appreciate everything
(49:12):
you're doing to try to lower crime in DC. Here
is Trump saying, they say I'm a dictator, but I'm
just trying to stop crime.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Cut thirty two, and they're gonna.
Speaker 11 (49:22):
Fight me like this slav of the devine. Have an
Illinois poor This poor guy got thrown out of his
business by his family. Know the family has partners with
the family and nice family. I like the family, but
he was none there. They threw him out. He's governor
of Illinois. And he goes about Trump, we don't need
his help. Chicago is the way. These places are really bad.
(49:45):
But then he goes on television says, oh, Trump is
a dictator, and a lot of people in here, so
the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stopped crying.
So a lot of people say, you know, if that's
the case, I'd rather have a dictator, but I'm not
a dictator to stop crime. And he will think that
Illinois would have such a problem with crime, such a
(50:06):
bad governor. He should be calling me and he should
be saying, could you send over the troops?
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Is that out of control? Okay, so this is the topic.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
Trump has pivoted it and buck Democrats are now arguing,
as Trump said, he's a dictator. He's working too hard
to try to lower crime.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah, I hope that Democrats continue on this because when
there's a problem, we would like to think that the
people who are empowered, politicians and others empowered to deal
with it would at least have an alternative solution to
what the Republicans have on this issue. Democrats just have
shut up. There is no problem, even though we all
(50:49):
know there's a problem. And that's why this won't work.
And that's why Trump is right to continue to pound this,
continue to hammer this. You know, we hammer Democrats on
the border, and sure enough, that was a critical issue
in this last election cycle and one that we were
able to now with Trump in charge, prove beyond any
doubt was a choice not in inevitable reality, as in
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the open border did not have to happen. Trump showed
that the people saying that it was a choice, that
was correct. It was a choice, and we've made another choice.
Now we can do the same thing with crime. And
this is I think a you see people say this
Clay online too. Hey, you know, you can just do things.
When you're in power, you.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
Don't have to.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Actually, you know, Mother may I with the Democrats all
the time. You can find areas where things can be
improved and just do them and show people. And then
that affects the political outcome too, because results are nice.
I think we grew up in a political climate. Clay
just very broadly, speaking of politicians, all lie, nothing ever
(51:54):
gets done. It's all a unit party. I think Trump
has shattered that narrative more than anybody else we've seen
in our lifetime, where it's just oh, it has to
be this way, go along, to get along, the Potomac
two step, all this stuff nonsense. And on this issue
of crime, it's by the way, the.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Timing on this is perfect. Now.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Things are a little slowed down with the news cycle.
It's August. A lot of journals are on vacation. Less
stuff has happened, a lot of people in general are
on vacation, and all of Europe is on vacation. So
this is a great moment to bring focus to this
issue and to show people where the two sides stand.
So I mean saying he's a dictator, it's just so pathetic.
(52:34):
After all, what is the dictatorship. What's the issue here?
Really ask this, what's the downside of what he has done?
What are we going to pretend the Democrats care about
spending all the all the overtime you know that's been
spent on this. Oh no, I'm sorry. This is where
I come back to, both politically and morally. This is
the right choice. Politically, it's smart because being against crime
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is something that the vast majority of Americas are connected
to and Carrie and care a great deal about, So
it's good to be on this side. Morally, it's better
if less people die, especially young.
Speaker 3 (53:10):
People who are overwhelmingly victims of violent crime. We're talking
about people with decades of their life. We played the
clip of the this even makes me a little bit sick,
and I bet it's gonna make you sick to the
stomach to even think about two buck now that you're
a dad. We to plague the woman who talked about
being a victim of violent crime getting pistol whipped, and
(53:32):
this she said, Now she feels very fortunate. She's pregnant
and she's going to have a baby, and she wants
the city to be safer. One of the worst things.
And I'm going to be dark. One of the worst
things that could happen to anyone out there is that
your child is a victim of violent crime. That woman
in the press conference, and I give her credit from
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the Epic Times, talked about the psychic trauma that she
still feels from the attack that she had levied against her,
the violent crime attempt. I would also point out that
anyone who loses a child is dealing with psychic trauma
for the rest of their lives. And when you consider
who tends to be the victims of violent crime, it
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is overwhelmingly young men and their moms are never going
to recover. So leave aside politics, we should do everything
we can to make it the case that there are
less victims of violent crime in America. And I just
I give tremendous credit to Trump for this, because a
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lot of politicians assume that things should stay as they are.
Trump's radical gift is he looks at problems and he
actually tries to come up with solutions.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Hey, why don't we fix this?
Speaker 3 (54:52):
And again I think it's the builder background, because any
of you out there that have worked in housing or
building it and it does, by the way, have to
be just a building, it can be building a business.
All you do all day long is find problems and
try to solve them. That's how you build a business.
A successful business is really just an exercise in problem solving.
(55:13):
How do we increase our profit margin, How do we
hire the right people, How do we look at this
situation and solve it to create a better situation. Trump
comes in with fresh eyes because he's not a lifelong politician,
and I think, frankly, when he looked at the data
and realized we have a thirty x murder rate in Washington,
(55:37):
d C. Compared to London and Paris, that's unacceptable. And
I think a lot of left wing journals. They're rich,
they live in gated communities, they oftentimes have security to
help protect them at their jobs. They don't want to
acknowledge the problem because Democrats aren't solving it. And if
Trump comes in and solves it like he solved the border,
(55:57):
it would require them being honest and give him some credit.
And what's unique about this is Trump is actually trying
to save the lives of people in cities who either
didn't vote or were highly unlikely to vote for him
based on statistics. So he's doing the right thing, even
(56:18):
though it doesn't necessarily benefit his base. The reality is Washington,
d C. Voted more than any community in America against Trump,
and Trumps still saying, Okay, they may not have voted
for me, but I want them to be safer. I
want less of them to die. It's actually an incredibly
noble goal.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
Look when I lived in New York City and bloom Look,
Bloomberg was essentially a Democrat, I know, who's technically ran
as a Republican. But he was doing a good job
and he was keeping crime down, and I was thankful
for it. And I actually remember early in my career
saying some nice things about Mayor Bloomberg as mayor, and
people getting angry at me because, yeah, is he bad?
Speaker 1 (56:57):
You know? Was he a little nanny state on the
big SODA's? Sure? Is he horrible on guns? Sure is he?
Speaker 2 (57:03):
But did he keep the city running in a way
that it was efficient and safe? Yeah, And so that matters.
So you would think that there are some things that
can transcend just the most basic tribal politics, Like if
you're doing a good job making me safer in my city,
I am thankful for that, and I approve of or
I agree with that. No Democrats, it's they would rather
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be unsafe and Trump be wrong than be safe and
have to say thank you to Trump. I think that's
really an explanation of Trump's arrangement syndrome. Yes, I mean
they had that one.
Speaker 3 (57:36):
Did you see the lady that went viral where she
said in Chicago, I was attacked and my wrist was
broken in a violent assault. But I don't want crime
to decline because I don't want Trump to be involved.
Speaker 2 (57:48):
And this didn't I didn't see that, but I just
I know that mentality is pervasive unfortunately these.
Speaker 1 (57:55):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (57:56):
This woman did a whole video that went megaviral where
she said I would rather be physically assaulted and have
my safety question than to have Trump in position of
power in any way in Chicago, And I think it
goes directly to your point. When you are actively supporting
policies that put you and your family in danger because
(58:16):
you disagree with the politician putting them in place, your
brain is broken and you are not behaving logically irrationally.
Speaker 2 (58:24):
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