August 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of today’s Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into a packed lineup of political and cultural hot topics shaping America. Clay and Buck start with positive economic news under President Trump, highlighting strong private sector wage growth, low gas prices, and a booming stock market. They argue that Democrats’ predictions of economic collapse have fallen flat as Trump’s policies continue to deliver results.
The hosts then tackle the controversy over Trump’s executive order on flag burning, clarifying misconceptions about its scope and the legal nuances tied to First Amendment protections. This sparks a broader debate on free speech, hate crime laws, and whether all flags—American, pride, or otherwise—should be treated equally under the law.
Next, the conversation shifts to crime reduction efforts in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s crackdown is earning praise from local business owners. Clay and Buck contrast this with Gavin Newsom’s sudden pivot to “law and order” policies in California, suggesting it’s a strategic move ahead of a likely 2028 presidential run. They also analyze Democratic strategy for 2028, speculating on potential candidates like Newsom, Wes Moore, and Gretchen Whitmer, and how identity politics and electability could shape the ticket.
The hour also covers Gallup polling showing record-high Republican satisfaction with the country’s direction, while Democrats report near-zero optimism—a stark partisan divide. Clay and Buck explore why Democrats refuse to credit Trump’s successes on the economy, border security, and crime reduction.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. And my, oh MYI do we
have a lot to discuss with you. Some good news,
more good news coming out of Trump world. Based on
the data the polling. I voted for this, you voted
for this. It's a beautiful time in America. Beautiful time.
(00:21):
Enjoy it. It's beautiful. A lot of good things happening
and something that we think is certainly to be encouraged.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
But we will discuss the politics of it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, is all of a sudden,
mister law and order, All of a sudden, he wants
to send law enforcement to address statewide crime issues in
his state. We've got more on the DC surge, those things,
of course very much related. We've got some of the
(00:53):
continued aftermath of the Minneapolis church shooting, which we will
discuss how Democrats, and thank you for all of your commentary.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
We had a late discussion with mister Trey Goudie, and
I will tell you I was legitimately surprised by his positions,
but I also commend his willingness to come on the.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Show and discuss them and have a civil exchange.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And we've always got to be willing to have even
within the Republican Party, we got to be willing to say,
I think this, you think that, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And we did so, and we got a lot of
you weighing in on that.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What don't I appreciate I appreciate that. I'm glad Trey
didn't hang up Clay. That would have made me sad
because I'm like, we don't want me.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I would have surprised me because I didn't think that
it was like a particularly argument.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I have no beef with Trey at all. I
just think he's wrong on this right. And you all
know the difference. You all know when there's somebody Clay
has no beef with. I've forgotten his name now, as
has everyone else. The former vice president Mike Pence.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Thank you. That tells all. I'm like, who's that guy?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Was?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Vice President?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Clay has no personal beef with Mike Pence. Now that
was I think a little more contentious. But he has
no personal beef with Mike Pence. He just thinks that
you should be man enough to answer, would you pardon
Donald Trump or not? And he wouldn't, right, So that was.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Kind of a big, kind of big question back in
the race, and I think you should just tell us
what you actually think. I mean, it doesn't mean that
I have to agree with everything. And we talked about
this week. By the way, Trump on the burning American flag,
you and I didn't agree with it. You're not going
to agree one hundred percent with everybody on everything.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So on that, by the way, I meant to I'm
gonna I'm gonna divert from our big headlines of the
day for one second to go to that because I
meant to speak about this. But with the shooting at
the church and there's been you know, we've got a
very active news cycle this week. But Clay, So it
was interesting that executive order when when I went back
(02:49):
and looked at it, and I will have tip Mark
Levin for pointing this out. The the headline the White
House put out on the executive order was certainly and
it was basically saying, you know, we're we're I'm trying
to find it right now, but it's basically saying we're
passing an executive order to ban flag burning. I mean,
(03:11):
it was something that really indicated but the executive order
itself was more directed toward what we want to make
it clear that any criminality involved in burning a flag,
stealing the flag, all the you know, incendiary in public,
whatever it is, in sendiary device in public, that that
will be prosecuted.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So there was a little bit of it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It was a little bit different than I think was initially.
Here you go, this is the White actually have in
front of me. Now, the White House said, and this
is from their official account prosecuting burning of the American flag.
But then when you get into the executive order, and
I already I had tipped Mark on this because I look,
he's a very smart guy, understands the law. I said,
(03:56):
if he's thinking this, I'm sure I got to go
in and read this executive order. The order directs the
Attorney General to vigorously prosecute those.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Who violate our laws in ways.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That involve desecrating the flag, and to pursue litigation to
clarify the scope of the First Amendment in the area.
So it also instructs the Attorney General to refer flag
desecration cases that violate state or local laws. So Clay,
it's basically saying it's not that if you go out
(04:27):
and burn your own flag, it's not illegal under this
executive order. Trump wishes it was illegal and is going
to litigate and disagrees with that Supreme Court case. But
if you take someone else's flag, or you create a
public disturbance or some public danger through the burning of see,
you know, it's a little I'm running a very threading
(04:49):
a needle here, but that is the distinction that was made.
I wish that they had done this argument in the
context of burning trans and.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well that was where to be clear, we hit that
right away.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I said, you can't have burning transflagsens you get a
prison for fifteen years, But burning American flag is fine.
And also, to be clear, I think burning the American
flag is absolutely disgraceful and if I were in charge,
you wouldn't be able to do it. But the existing
Supreme Court law is very clear on this. You have
to have a new Supreme Court decision to change that.
But I think if you went in and said, hey,
(05:23):
we're not going to now create a difference in how
we treat flags based on the politics behind them. So
you stand for the principle of punishment should be either
in existence for all of them or none of them.
I would argue none of them. I understand people would disagree.
I'm not saying that I want to burn any flag.
(05:44):
I don't think that's particularly helpful. But I actually think
the conversation becomes more difficult on the left if you
instead of saying because they're naturally going to say, oh,
you should be able to burn the American flag because
many on the left do not like America and are
not proud of our country. But if you then tell them, hey.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
But if you burn a pride flag, there's no punishment
if you put pride flag on We've had conversations about this,
but I'm still fired up about it. If you put
a pride flag on the road, you can't charge someone
with a hate crime because they burn rubber on it. Yes,
you're basically trying to set up a crime opportunity when
(06:27):
you put a flag on the road. So if he
takes that step, then I think it turns into a
really interesting conversation because what you will get them to
do buck is they will say, well, no, you should
go to prison for burning correct gay pride flag.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And hit this when this happened, right, we hit this,
win it happened. That's what I said. I said, this
is the thing that this and so to Trump's credit
on this one one, he's establishing that he thinks that
the flag should be protected, and a lot of us
agree with that. It currently is not just to be
There's no doubt the White House does not dispute that.
So anybody in my mentions or emailing us, the White
(07:01):
House doesn't dispute that. Technically, right now, the burning the
American flag because of Texas what was.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It Texas v.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Johnson or something, the Supreme Court case, that is still
good law that it can be burned. But the only
the only complaint I would have about how the White
House rolled this out is when the headline is prosecuting
burning of the American flag, Everyone's going to assume, okay,
well this is that this is it's actually prosecuting laws
violated in the act of burning the flag other than
(07:31):
burning the flag. So it's a little So that is
where there was some wiggle room here, and and and
I think it raised the issue to public consciousness, but
the politics of it, to your point on the trans
flag and how that's a sacred symbol of the state, No,
that's unacceptable or any honestly LGBT flag, you know, Palestinian
flag and or whatever. If flag burning is legal, flag
burning is legal, I don't care what flag it is,
(07:53):
all right, So I think we've we've covered that. But
I de clay, I did really want to return to
that because there was some confusion around it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And there we have it all right.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Now onto some fun good news here, just some great
stuff that I would love to talk to everybody about.
First of all, we got to keep an eye on
the situation of the economy because it affects all of us.
And here's the NBC Steve Leasman, just let you know, hey,
Trump's president. You know, private sector wages looking pretty nice,
looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Play one here.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Is private sector wages zero point seven percent.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's pretty strong, pretty strong. That's a strong number. Do
you want to annualize that on netphox television or should
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
It for you?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
About five percent? You have five percent?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Those are strong numbers, suggesting of a strong labor market.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
How is the labor market week? If wages are going
up quite so.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Strongly, Labor market looking good? Okay, just noting that inflation
looking good. Labor market looking good. Stock market looking good price,
a gas low. How many of these things Clay can
pile up that look good before even the haters, the
haters and the losers have to admit.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Trump knows what he's doing, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And this is where you can see the shifting panic
in the Democrat arguments, because if we took you back
to April, it was Tariff's the economy's going to collapse.
We played yesterday. The growth rate in the second quarter
was three point three percent, which was a multi year high. Earnings,
(09:22):
if you pay attention to them, have been fantastic. We
are right now right around record all time highs in
the stock market. And so they tried to make crime
their thing. The problem is Trump is driving down crime,
and most people, white, black, Asian and Hispanic are in
favor of him driving down crime. The border is completely
(09:44):
shut down. The only real face of the kicking people
out of the country who shouldn't be here legally, that
are not here legally. The only real face of deportation
so far is somehow a human trafficking wife beater kilmar
Abrao Garcia. This is where I say Trump has picked
(10:07):
smart things to focus on. Democrats can't land a punch
on him. It is like, remember, back in the day,
Floyd Mayweather was such a good boxer. This is one
of the most debilitating things I've ever heard. He would
pick fights, slap people in the face, let them throw
full on punches at him, and he was so quick
(10:28):
he could just dodge him. When he would get in fights,
he would just you know, Bob and weave, slap a
guy in the face and never actually need to throw
a punch, and then just wait until the guy throwing
big punches at him just got super tired and basically stopped.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's kind of fair, right now.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That's up there with the mean older brother move of
getting on top of you and then using your own
hands to slap you in the face. You know, why
are you slapping yourself in the face while you're making
him slap himself in the face. I didn't realize that
that the boxer had done something. Yeah, Mayweather was so
quick back in the day that he didn't even get
in fights with people. He just basically stood there and said,
(11:08):
you can't hit me. And I feel like Trump is
in many ways like that. Another analogy that a lot
of people will get the matrix where eventually you understand
how everything is moving so well that you can basically
dodge bullets. In the Matrix films, they can't land a
punch on him.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
They cannot manage to actually make arguments against what he
is doing, and it's all just shifting gobblegook.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Did you know that the directors of the Matrix are
now both trends? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I did that. The Wachowski bros. Have now decided to
become the Wachowski chicks.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Look, I give I give them credit, uh for the
movies are good, one of the best, one of the best.
The First Matrix with the rest of them are trash.
But the First Matrix movie is one of the best
action movies of all time. In my opinion, I think
it definitely goes solidly in the top ten speaking of
best of all time gallup percent.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And we can come back and talk a little more
about this, Clay, because this is you all need to
know this. You all should be taking a moment this wow.
Is it Labor Day weekend?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
This weekend, holiday weekend? That's just hitting me?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh wow, okay, this holiday weekend. You should take a
moment to be excited about this. The percentage of Americans
who are satisfied with the way things are going in
the US right now. Republicans seventy six percent are satisfied
with the way things are going in the country right now,
which people are never happy in these surveys, right, I mean,
the twenty four percent of Republicans weren't happy or just like, oh,
(12:40):
like until the federal Reserve is gone and until we
have no troops in any basis, you know, and by
the way, maybe you're right, Okay, maybe you're right, but
you know, you got to take wins where you can
get them. Like things are going pretty well.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's like, oh, until until we're back on the gold standard.
Like I don't want to hear anything.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
But in the meantime, Clay Democrats, according to Gallup, zero
percent happy with where the zero percent? It is the
largest gap that has ever existed in partisan politics between
happiness based on who the president and look, I shared
this on social media. I really legitimately think if you
(13:19):
are a rational person, I don't understand what you can
be upset about. We can have some conversations about this.
Even if I try to be a Democrat and just
sit back and say, Okay, what is Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Done that is bad? Almost everything that he has done
in many ways like strip away the politics of it.
We'll talk about this when we come back because we're
hitting a break. But I do think it is just
a total function of their inability to give Trump credit
for anything.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
That's the reality of what these numbers are showing. You've
been a coach in sports. I've been a coach in sports,
and there are the times where you have to call
your team into the huddle or the halftime and you
have to you know, read them the business, so to speak,
and of the times where you got to say, keep
doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That's the best. You know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We are ahead, stay focused, stay this administration. Right now,
I largely feel like I'm in the latter category of
just the focus on the border, the focus on the economy,
to focus on crime, to focus on the things that matter.
And they're doing it the right way, and they have
good people in place, so we need them to keep
doing it. But there's no riot actor read them right now.
(14:26):
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House is doing a I give them an A because
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be better.
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Speaker 3 (16:22):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. A lot of reactions
pouring in yesterday day before.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We'll get to some of those as it is Friday.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And also we'll talk with our friend Alex Berenson next
hour and then Mary Katherine Ham who's been doing really
good work at Fox News and also on OutKick VIP.
Email from doctor Gordon. I'm a graduate of the Citadel,
former eighty second Airborne paratrooper, former South Carolina National Guard
officer in the South Carolina State Guard. In regard to
(16:57):
the discussion on burning the US flag, the reason they
had to frame it that way is because we actually
burn Well, look, this is getting very detailed in terms
of in terms of how exactly this is written. Again,
there's a ton of different perspectives out there, and I
(17:18):
think the way to handle this is if you cannot
burn a trans flag, if you cannot burn a gay
pride flag or any other aspect out there, then you
shouldn't be able to burn the American flag.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There should We need to get across here. We need
to get this Supreme Court to look at hate crime.
Let I think hate crime legislation should be unconstitutional because
it inherently elevates some classes of victims based on identity,
his historical injustice or identity or whatever. It's like, people
are people doing bad thing to one human being, joy
a bad thing another human being. It should not be
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and Buck. We got some good news were talked you
about with Trump on the economy and also Republicans are
just very happy with the direction of the country. To
Clay's point, what is the bad thing that we're supposed
to be upset that Trump is doing right now, trying
(19:16):
to lower crime in Washington, d C. Our nation's capital,
which has been plagued by just unacceptable and really terrible
crime for a very long time. Let's check in on that,
shall we. Let's take a look at this first off,
here is and we'll credit journalist Nicholas Balassi for this.
Business owners and managers in Washington, D C. The people
(19:39):
that are actually dealing with this and around this. You
always want to go to the source.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Right. Here's what they're saying about the situation. Play six.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It was a little dicey at times, especially at later
times in the hour.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I would see fights break out whenever are just walking home.
But now it's a lot more quiet. What do you
think about that ad scurity? What's your reaction to it?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah, I'm welcome and I think it's a great idea.
I have noticed that they have been cleaning some of
the graffiti off in some of the areas, like on
the highways and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Do you feel safer now than before now?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
And do you have any experience with safety being an
issue before?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
It's like a lot of like car loss, is stealing,
a lot like gun problem, or a lot of prof
and a lot of life trucks and gun So now.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's much better.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Now it's much better. It's quiet.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
They're clinic graffiti, all these things you're hearing, You're going,
who hears this clay and says what a monster Trump is.
They're cleaning up graffiti and making sure people don't get shot,
and businesses feel like their customers don't have to worry
about being robbed outside them. Monstrous stuff from Trump. Well,
yesterday I shared the AP data. Eighty one percent of
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Americans say that violent crime in big cities is a
major problem. The eighteen percent of Americans say it's a
minor problem in big cities. One percent say it's not
a problem. So you have allowed Trump Democrats have to
take an issue that ninety nine percent of people agree
with him on, and you've taken the other side. Now,
(21:17):
there's probably what twenty percent of the Democrat base that
if President Trump waived a magic wand then all violent
crime ceased to exist in the country, they would still say, oh,
this is exactly what Hitler would do, because their brain
is so broken that they lack the ability to give
any credit to Trump at all. But this is where
(21:38):
and I just come back to it again and again.
This is where the team that Trump has put in
place for two point zero. Frankly, it is orders of
magnitude better than one point zero. There's very few things
I can even point to and say they're not executing
at a phenomenally high level. In fact, Buck, my biggest
concern is that Trump is doing so much in this
(22:01):
first year that I don't even know what he's going
to do in years two, three, and four. Well, moving,
I think the continuation of it, right, I mean, the border,
it's it's you turn into maintenance mode a little bit
on some of this with the border. The deportation numbers.
I think I saw it was two hundred thousand so
far this year, so those numbers are ramping up. We
(22:22):
want to see a lot more of that. But those
numbers are getting stronger and stronger with him. They have
to build the infrastructure, and they have to build the
deportation infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
While you have all these lib.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Activist judges that are just deciding they run US immigration policy.
They're actually the president. They can shut things down, they
can turn planes around in mid air if they say so.
So they're they're working against that clear opposition.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
But Clay.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I never thought that I would say this, Kamala Harris
may be the template of Democrat strategy on some of
these issues going forward.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Now, let me explain.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You wouldn't usually think of Kamala Harris as a tactician,
as the you know, the second coming of Machiavelli in politics.
But you will recall Clay at one point when she
was running against Donald Trump in her short and ill
fated campaign, she came up with this incredible idea, and
the idea was no tax on tips. And she came
(23:21):
forward and she said, hey, guys, I have this great idea,
no tax on tips. And everyone kind of looked at her,
except for the Democrats who were told to clap in
the audience and said, right, you mean the thing that
Trump has been saying and pushing for for months and
months and months, and now this is your idea. I
bring it up because Gavin Newsom is taking a page
(23:41):
from the Kamala book, taking a page from the Trump book.
Gavin Newsom is surging law enforcement in his home state
to address crime issues. Plus uh uh pray sorry play clip.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Two effort that will now take shape on border to
vision down in San Diego We're going to advance this
effort down in LA to other parts of the Central Valley,
not just limited to Bakersfield, in partnership with mayorgo there
in San Bernardino, and we're going to expand this operation
(24:16):
in a collaborative that continues to include the cities and
counties are partners in the sheriff's office and local law
enforcement agencies. We continue as well to work with the
federal partners.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Wait a second.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Gavin Newsom talking about law enforcement surge to deal with crime.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Azing. He came up with that idea on his own.
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I do think it's emblematic of what Gavin Newsom's entire
presidential campaign is going to be. He is shameless. He
knows that there is very little consequence for changing positions.
The media has his back if he's going to be
the Democrat nominee. I think that Gavin Newsom is going
(25:02):
to try to just occupy the middle by arguing for
things that he's actually not done during his whole tenure
as the governor of California. And I think he knows
that he'll get cover from the media and he'll run
like Joe Biden did, and then he'll get into office
and he'll run super left wing. I think that that
(25:25):
is the way that they think they can get back
to power. And so if you look at the gambling
markets Gavin Newsom, you and I might think, and I
think we do, and most of you out there might
agree with us, that he has embarrassed himself in the
way that he has been behaving over the past several weeks, shamelessness, dishonesty.
(25:50):
The markets don't agree with us. They are saying Gavin
Newsom has drastically taken early lead. And it's very early.
But some of you are going to say, well, why
does it matter a lot of big donors get behind
these presidential campaigns super early. And I am telling you
Gavin Newsom's gonna announce for president probably January twenty twenty seven,
(26:13):
and we're officially going to be a go. And I
think you have to make Gavin Newsom a substantial favorite
to be the nominee.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I don't think he has any foundation. I don't think
he has any core value. I think he is, even
for a politician, uniquely without a spine. Do you do
you want me to let you out on everything you're
wrong on? Everything Buck, that's benefit. Yeah, Well, do you
want me to let you out of your Kamala bet
with whatever they call it embtting where I'll give you
(26:42):
like a you'll pay a minor penalty, You'll get me
an appetizer instead of the full stake. Clay I said
she would run. I still know she's gonna run.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh, I know, Okay, all right, you're still you're sticking
with it.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Huh you're sticking Well, I.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Just I don't buy that Kamala. And again this goes
into the psychology of why some people run. I don't
buy that Kamala has anything else that she loves, meaning,
how is she going to occupy that time?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
She's still only sixty one?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh, I know, I know you're I just I'm trying
to be neighborly. You're trying to be a good friend here,
you know, a good co host, and offer you an
out because I think we both think Gavin Newsom is
in the number one slot right now to be the
next Democrat nominee.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Gavin Newsom certainly thinks so.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
However, another name that you and I have bandied about
here as a possibility, certainly I think as a VP
possibility just because of the name recognition issue, a name
recognition issue, but maybe the top of the ticket Governor
Wes Moore of Maryland. And here's what he is saying,
not a big surprise given what's going on here about
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federal support in fighting crime.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Play three.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Baltimore still ranks third in the nation in violent crime
rate per capita.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
In the nation.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
That you would welcome in the president of United States
help if crime in Maryland. I'm onlimited time and I
want to give you a chance to Dvie would absolutely
support Apparently there we go. You will welcome to federal support.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
That's wonderful to hear. I would absolutely welcome federal support.
Hear that.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
But I also know what federal support is going to
be necessary and required. It's the reason that I've said
we would love to have additional support for license plate readers,
things that we know can actually stop crimes as they
are happening and making sure that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
People are brought to justice.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Can I just point this, This is exactly that was
our friend Will came by the way in this Fox
News show, and good good on Will for getting the
answer out here. Notice Wes Moore, who wants to be president,
I think we all know this wants to run and
wants to be president and has a very you know,
I think he's West Point, he's west Point growd. I
know he's a veteran. I think he went to West Point,
you know, played football. Like there's a lot about this
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guy that that fixes some of the problems Democrats have
on the brand side.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Right, So tell me, guys if he went to West
Point or not. I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Mess up his bio. I know he was a football player.
I know he's a veteran. So he's a black guy,
veteran football player, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Come he right the Valley Forge Military, which is a sorry,
there we go. But then he went to Johns hop
according to the bio, Johns Hopkins, and then got a
masters from Oxford, but was in the eighty second Airborne and.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Certain I knew he was a veteran, and I knew
he'd been a football player. I wasn't sure about the
military college, but thank you for that or you know,
military undergrad program. So but anyway, the point is he's
got he's got the buy who's got the background to
be a formidable candidate. And notice what he's saying, Clay
this is what I've said along is so crazy about
the Democrats. It shouldn't be Trump. Why are you trying
(29:35):
to stop the merders. If they were smart, what they
would be saying is, oh, no, we agree, we should
definitely address this problem in DC. Here's though, the way
that we think it should go. And then you criticize,
you know, oh well Trump put the National guardianto it.
What they're saying is there's no problem, and the whole
country has said, you guys are insane.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
There's clearly a problem.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So Wes Moore has pivoted into a defensible position, I
think in anticipation of what this guy's brand building exercise
is going to be as he runs for president. Just
like look at Gavin Newsom surging law enforce the smart
Democrats see the handwriting on the wall.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
If I were betting right now, I would say they
go Gavin Newsom president, Wesmore VP, because that gives them
the I think that they're going to be a little
bit reticent. The other one that I would say is
Gretchen Witmer is VP. But I think the Democrats are
actually going to be a little bit reticent to try
to go female again.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I think they are, and I think it's because they
realize abortion is not going to win the presidency for them.
It's not gonna happen, and they thought it would. It's
not gonna happen. It's also interesting women supported Joe Biden
more than they did Hillary and Kamala. And I haven't
heard anybody else really talk about this, but everybody says, oh,
(30:56):
it's misogyny, it's misogyny, men won't vote for women, things
like that. I actually think that there are a lot
of women that do not find Hillary or Kamala to
be actually very likable and are more likely to vote
for a male Democrat candidate than they are a female
Democrat candidate. And I never hear anybody talk about that.
(31:16):
It's always like men are to blame when women don't
win men, or to blame men, or to blame But
Trump did better against Hillary and against Kamala for women
than he did against Biden.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
It's just kind of interesting, right you.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I just want to say this, You doing a podcast
where you man's blame feminism to feminists would honestly.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Be it would It would be really good.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You know, the first amendment in Boobs Guy explaining feminism
to the feminists.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Here's my ladies, you vote for men instead of women.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We should just call it clace blame, where I just
tell women what they need to hear.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I think, actually actually.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Do really really well. Everybody miserable, including my wife, but
it would do very very well. Okay, Look, President Trump
wants to see this country emerge as the leader. It's critical,
the leader in artificial intelligence, and that's where we were.
But now China, because of Biden, because of some lost years,
has gotten right up next to us, and we need
(32:19):
to be the leader in AI. This is absolutely critical
for our military, for our economy, for world leadership going forward.
Now President Trump sees this crucial technological battle for what
it is, and he's taking big steps. A trillion dollar
plus investment that's drowng in multiple partners thanks to this
Trump administration. Now I call this the Manhattan Project too,
to take back our lead in the AI arms race
(32:41):
and to engage a handful of US firms that are
going to get big contracts in the billions of dollars.
So this could trigger an investment boom and soon, I
mean as soon as October fifteenth. And I break all
this down for you in a brand new interview including
the companies that I believe could soar when this comes up.
Find this interview in all the details at a new website.
(33:04):
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Speaker 1 (33:30):
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Speaker 3 (33:36):
Welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton Show. As we
roll into the holiday weekend, the official end of summer
in some ways, although I know it's gonna be warm
many places for still some time to come, you might
need a little bit of extra energy. Maybe you're gonna
be out there tailgating. Uh, maybe you're gonna be running
around chasing the kids. I had a eighth grade, ninth
(33:57):
grade football game last night, going to this Florida State
Alabama game in Tallahassee. This weekend with my fourteen year
old going to be up early driving in for that game.
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know and we'll get you one. There are a bunch
of different stories out there. Let me hit a couple
of them. CNN is reporting this is a big story
in Iowa that Senator Jony Ernst not going to run
(34:40):
for reelection in Iowa fifty three forty seven majority. Lots
of battlegrounds out there for the Senate going forward, and
that one that will get a great deal of attention
again in Iowa, incumbent Senator Jony Ernst, according to CNN,
not running for reelection. That election is next year in
(35:02):
the midterms. Here is something else we should probably update
you on. Our friend Texas Governor Greg Abbott just posted
a video of him signing the redistricting bill into law.
That was such a huge story. Remember this one just
a few weeks ago, everybody was talking about it. Oh
my goodness, can you believe what Texas trying to do?
Texas did it. Here is cut twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
This is Governor Greg Abbott. I'm about to sign the
law that creates a one big, beautiful map that ensures
fair representation in the United States Congress for Texas. I
want to thank Lieutenant Governor Patrick Speaker, Burroughs, Senator King,
Representative Todd Hunter, Representative Cody the Suit, and all of
the legislature who stayed in the Capitol and got this
(35:46):
law to my desk. Texas is now more read in
the United States Congress.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Okay, Buck, this is funny, if only because everybody said
this is the end of the democracy. Is anybody even
talking about it now that it's legitimately happening.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
No, No, it's almost like almost like if Trump won,
it wasn't going to be the end of the world
and mass starvation, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria
like it's actually going great. You can how much catastrophism
can Democrat brains go through before they just decide to
chill out and live in reality play. I don't think
(36:26):
there's an answer to this, but we are running the
experiment right now. Yeah, Texas Democrats, guess what's gonna be fine.
You should thank the Republicans in your state for being
the adults in the room who make sure that you
have a business friendly, business friendly environment with low taxes,
and you can own firearms and crime is you know
something that actually sheriffs and others can can handle.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
You know, you should just say thank you to Republicans.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
No doubt. Trump continues to deliver on everything. Friday Edition,
We're having some fun. Come back and hang with us
our two next
Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. And my, oh MYI do we
have a lot to discuss with you. Some good news,
more good news coming out of Trump world. Based on
the data the polling. I voted for this, you voted
for this. It's a beautiful time in America. Beautiful time.
(00:21):
Enjoy it. It's beautiful. A lot of good things happening
and something that we think is certainly to be encouraged.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
But we will discuss the politics of it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, is all of a sudden,
mister law and order, All of a sudden, he wants
to send law enforcement to address statewide crime issues in
his state. We've got more on the DC surge, those things,
of course very much related. We've got some of the
(00:53):
continued aftermath of the Minneapolis church shooting, which we will
discuss how Democrats, and thank you for all of your commentary.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
We had a late discussion with mister Trey Goudie, and
I will tell you I was legitimately surprised by his positions,
but I also commend his willingness to come on the.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Show and discuss them and have a civil exchange.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And we've always got to be willing to have even
within the Republican Party, we got to be willing to say,
I think this, you think that, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And we did so, and we got a lot of
you weighing in on that.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What don't I appreciate I appreciate that. I'm glad Trey
didn't hang up Clay. That would have made me sad
because I'm like, we don't want me.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I would have surprised me because I didn't think that
it was like a particularly argument.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I have no beef with Trey at all. I
just think he's wrong on this right. And you all
know the difference. You all know when there's somebody Clay
has no beef with. I've forgotten his name now, as
has everyone else. The former vice president Mike Pence.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Thank you. That tells all. I'm like, who's that guy?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Was?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Vice President?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Clay has no personal beef with Mike Pence. Now that
was I think a little more contentious. But he has
no personal beef with Mike Pence. He just thinks that
you should be man enough to answer, would you pardon
Donald Trump or not? And he wouldn't, right, So that was.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Kind of a big, kind of big question back in
the race, and I think you should just tell us
what you actually think. I mean, it doesn't mean that
I have to agree with everything. And we talked about
this week. By the way, Trump on the burning American flag,
you and I didn't agree with it. You're not going
to agree one hundred percent with everybody on everything.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So on that, by the way, I meant to I'm
gonna I'm gonna divert from our big headlines of the
day for one second to go to that because I
meant to speak about this. But with the shooting at
the church and there's been you know, we've got a
very active news cycle this week. But Clay, So it
was interesting that executive order when when I went back
(02:49):
and looked at it, and I will have tip Mark
Levin for pointing this out. The the headline the White
House put out on the executive order was certainly and
it was basically saying, you know, we're we're I'm trying
to find it right now, but it's basically saying we're
passing an executive order to ban flag burning. I mean,
(03:11):
it was something that really indicated but the executive order
itself was more directed toward what we want to make
it clear that any criminality involved in burning a flag,
stealing the flag, all the you know, incendiary in public,
whatever it is, in sendiary device in public, that that
will be prosecuted.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So there was a little bit of it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It was a little bit different than I think was initially.
Here you go, this is the White actually have in
front of me. Now, the White House said, and this
is from their official account prosecuting burning of the American flag.
But then when you get into the executive order, and
I already I had tipped Mark on this because I look,
he's a very smart guy, understands the law. I said,
(03:56):
if he's thinking this, I'm sure I got to go
in and read this executive order. The order directs the
Attorney General to vigorously prosecute those.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Who violate our laws in ways.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That involve desecrating the flag, and to pursue litigation to
clarify the scope of the First Amendment in the area.
So it also instructs the Attorney General to refer flag
desecration cases that violate state or local laws. So Clay,
it's basically saying it's not that if you go out
(04:27):
and burn your own flag, it's not illegal under this
executive order. Trump wishes it was illegal and is going
to litigate and disagrees with that Supreme Court case. But
if you take someone else's flag, or you create a
public disturbance or some public danger through the burning of see,
you know, it's a little I'm running a very threading
(04:49):
a needle here, but that is the distinction that was made.
I wish that they had done this argument in the
context of burning trans and.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well that was where to be clear, we hit that
right away.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I said, you can't have burning transflagsens you get a
prison for fifteen years, But burning American flag is fine.
And also, to be clear, I think burning the American
flag is absolutely disgraceful and if I were in charge,
you wouldn't be able to do it. But the existing
Supreme Court law is very clear on this. You have
to have a new Supreme Court decision to change that.
But I think if you went in and said, hey,
(05:23):
we're not going to now create a difference in how
we treat flags based on the politics behind them. So
you stand for the principle of punishment should be either
in existence for all of them or none of them.
I would argue none of them. I understand people would disagree.
I'm not saying that I want to burn any flag.
(05:44):
I don't think that's particularly helpful. But I actually think
the conversation becomes more difficult on the left if you
instead of saying because they're naturally going to say, oh,
you should be able to burn the American flag because
many on the left do not like America and are
not proud of our country. But if you then tell them, hey.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
But if you burn a pride flag, there's no punishment
if you put pride flag on We've had conversations about this,
but I'm still fired up about it. If you put
a pride flag on the road, you can't charge someone
with a hate crime because they burn rubber on it. Yes,
you're basically trying to set up a crime opportunity when
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you put a flag on the road. So if he
takes that step, then I think it turns into a
really interesting conversation because what you will get them to
do buck is they will say, well, no, you should
go to prison for burning correct gay pride flag.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And hit this when this happened, right, we hit this,
win it happened. That's what I said. I said, this
is the thing that this and so to Trump's credit
on this one one, he's establishing that he thinks that
the flag should be protected, and a lot of us
agree with that. It currently is not just to be
There's no doubt the White House does not dispute that.
So anybody in my mentions or emailing us, the White
(07:01):
House doesn't dispute that. Technically, right now, the burning the
American flag because of Texas what was.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It Texas v.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Johnson or something, the Supreme Court case, that is still
good law that it can be burned. But the only
the only complaint I would have about how the White
House rolled this out is when the headline is prosecuting
burning of the American flag, Everyone's going to assume, okay,
well this is that this is it's actually prosecuting laws
violated in the act of burning the flag other than
(07:31):
burning the flag. So it's a little So that is
where there was some wiggle room here, and and and
I think it raised the issue to public consciousness, but
the politics of it, to your point on the trans
flag and how that's a sacred symbol of the state, No,
that's unacceptable or any honestly LGBT flag, you know, Palestinian
flag and or whatever. If flag burning is legal, flag
burning is legal, I don't care what flag it is,
(07:53):
all right, So I think we've we've covered that. But
I de clay, I did really want to return to
that because there was some confusion around it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And there we have it all right.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Now onto some fun good news here, just some great
stuff that I would love to talk to everybody about.
First of all, we got to keep an eye on
the situation of the economy because it affects all of us.
And here's the NBC Steve Leasman, just let you know, hey,
Trump's president. You know, private sector wages looking pretty nice,
looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Play one here.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Is private sector wages zero point seven percent.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's pretty strong, pretty strong. That's a strong number. Do
you want to annualize that on netphox television or should
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
It for you?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
About five percent? You have five percent?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Those are strong numbers, suggesting of a strong labor market.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
How is the labor market week? If wages are going
up quite so.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Strongly, Labor market looking good? Okay, just noting that inflation
looking good. Labor market looking good. Stock market looking good price,
a gas low. How many of these things Clay can
pile up that look good before even the haters, the
haters and the losers have to admit.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Trump knows what he's doing, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And this is where you can see the shifting panic
in the Democrat arguments, because if we took you back
to April, it was Tariff's the economy's going to collapse.
We played yesterday. The growth rate in the second quarter
was three point three percent, which was a multi year high. Earnings,
(09:22):
if you pay attention to them, have been fantastic. We
are right now right around record all time highs in
the stock market. And so they tried to make crime
their thing. The problem is Trump is driving down crime,
and most people, white, black, Asian and Hispanic are in
favor of him driving down crime. The border is completely
(09:44):
shut down. The only real face of the kicking people
out of the country who shouldn't be here legally, that
are not here legally. The only real face of deportation
so far is somehow a human trafficking wife beater kilmar
Abrao Garcia. This is where I say Trump has picked
(10:07):
smart things to focus on. Democrats can't land a punch
on him. It is like, remember, back in the day,
Floyd Mayweather was such a good boxer. This is one
of the most debilitating things I've ever heard. He would
pick fights, slap people in the face, let them throw
full on punches at him, and he was so quick
(10:28):
he could just dodge him. When he would get in fights,
he would just you know, Bob and weave, slap a
guy in the face and never actually need to throw
a punch, and then just wait until the guy throwing
big punches at him just got super tired and basically stopped.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's kind of fair, right now.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That's up there with the mean older brother move of
getting on top of you and then using your own
hands to slap you in the face. You know, why
are you slapping yourself in the face while you're making
him slap himself in the face. I didn't realize that
that the boxer had done something. Yeah, Mayweather was so
quick back in the day that he didn't even get
in fights with people. He just basically stood there and said,
(11:08):
you can't hit me. And I feel like Trump is
in many ways like that. Another analogy that a lot
of people will get the matrix where eventually you understand
how everything is moving so well that you can basically
dodge bullets. In the Matrix films, they can't land a
punch on him.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
They cannot manage to actually make arguments against what he
is doing, and it's all just shifting gobblegook.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Did you know that the directors of the Matrix are
now both trends? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I did that. The Wachowski bros. Have now decided to
become the Wachowski chicks.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Look, I give I give them credit, uh for the
movies are good, one of the best, one of the best.
The First Matrix with the rest of them are trash.
But the First Matrix movie is one of the best
action movies of all time. In my opinion, I think
it definitely goes solidly in the top ten speaking of
best of all time gallup percent.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And we can come back and talk a little more
about this, Clay, because this is you all need to
know this. You all should be taking a moment this wow.
Is it Labor Day weekend?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
This weekend, holiday weekend? That's just hitting me?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh wow, okay, this holiday weekend. You should take a
moment to be excited about this. The percentage of Americans
who are satisfied with the way things are going in
the US right now. Republicans seventy six percent are satisfied
with the way things are going in the country right now,
which people are never happy in these surveys, right, I mean,
the twenty four percent of Republicans weren't happy or just like, oh,
(12:40):
like until the federal Reserve is gone and until we
have no troops in any basis, you know, and by
the way, maybe you're right, Okay, maybe you're right, but
you know, you got to take wins where you can
get them. Like things are going pretty well.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's like, oh, until until we're back on the gold standard.
Like I don't want to hear anything.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
But in the meantime, Clay Democrats, according to Gallup, zero
percent happy with where the zero percent? It is the
largest gap that has ever existed in partisan politics between
happiness based on who the president and look, I shared
this on social media. I really legitimately think if you
(13:19):
are a rational person, I don't understand what you can
be upset about. We can have some conversations about this.
Even if I try to be a Democrat and just
sit back and say, Okay, what is Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Done that is bad? Almost everything that he has done
in many ways like strip away the politics of it.
We'll talk about this when we come back because we're
hitting a break. But I do think it is just
a total function of their inability to give Trump credit
for anything.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
That's the reality of what these numbers are showing. You've
been a coach in sports. I've been a coach in sports,
and there are the times where you have to call
your team into the huddle or the halftime and you
have to you know, read them the business, so to speak,
and of the times where you got to say, keep
doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That's the best. You know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We are ahead, stay focused, stay this administration. Right now,
I largely feel like I'm in the latter category of
just the focus on the border, the focus on the economy,
to focus on crime, to focus on the things that matter.
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officer in the South Carolina State Guard. In regard to
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of in terms of how exactly this is written. Again,
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pride flag or any other aspect out there, then you
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to get this Supreme Court to look at hate crime.
Let I think hate crime legislation should be unconstitutional because
it inherently elevates some classes of victims based on identity,
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and Buck. We got some good news were talked you
about with Trump on the economy and also Republicans are
just very happy with the direction of the country. To
Clay's point, what is the bad thing that we're supposed
to be upset that Trump is doing right now, trying
(19:16):
to lower crime in Washington, d C. Our nation's capital,
which has been plagued by just unacceptable and really terrible
crime for a very long time. Let's check in on that,
shall we. Let's take a look at this first off,
here is and we'll credit journalist Nicholas Balassi for this.
Business owners and managers in Washington, D C. The people
(19:39):
that are actually dealing with this and around this. You
always want to go to the source.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Right. Here's what they're saying about the situation. Play six.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It was a little dicey at times, especially at later
times in the hour.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I would see fights break out whenever are just walking home.
But now it's a lot more quiet. What do you
think about that ad scurity? What's your reaction to it?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah, I'm welcome and I think it's a great idea.
I have noticed that they have been cleaning some of
the graffiti off in some of the areas, like on
the highways and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Do you feel safer now than before now?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
And do you have any experience with safety being an
issue before?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
It's like a lot of like car loss, is stealing,
a lot like gun problem, or a lot of prof
and a lot of life trucks and gun So now.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's much better.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Now it's much better. It's quiet.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
They're clinic graffiti, all these things you're hearing, You're going,
who hears this clay and says what a monster Trump is.
They're cleaning up graffiti and making sure people don't get shot,
and businesses feel like their customers don't have to worry
about being robbed outside them. Monstrous stuff from Trump. Well,
yesterday I shared the AP data. Eighty one percent of
(20:53):
Americans say that violent crime in big cities is a
major problem. The eighteen percent of Americans say it's a
minor problem in big cities. One percent say it's not
a problem. So you have allowed Trump Democrats have to
take an issue that ninety nine percent of people agree
with him on, and you've taken the other side. Now,
(21:17):
there's probably what twenty percent of the Democrat base that
if President Trump waived a magic wand then all violent
crime ceased to exist in the country, they would still say, oh,
this is exactly what Hitler would do, because their brain
is so broken that they lack the ability to give
any credit to Trump at all. But this is where
(21:38):
and I just come back to it again and again.
This is where the team that Trump has put in
place for two point zero. Frankly, it is orders of
magnitude better than one point zero. There's very few things
I can even point to and say they're not executing
at a phenomenally high level. In fact, Buck, my biggest
concern is that Trump is doing so much in this
(22:01):
first year that I don't even know what he's going
to do in years two, three, and four. Well, moving,
I think the continuation of it, right, I mean, the border,
it's it's you turn into maintenance mode a little bit
on some of this with the border. The deportation numbers.
I think I saw it was two hundred thousand so
far this year, so those numbers are ramping up. We
(22:22):
want to see a lot more of that. But those
numbers are getting stronger and stronger with him. They have
to build the infrastructure, and they have to build the
deportation infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
While you have all these lib.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Activist judges that are just deciding they run US immigration policy.
They're actually the president. They can shut things down, they
can turn planes around in mid air if they say so.
So they're they're working against that clear opposition.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
But Clay.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I never thought that I would say this, Kamala Harris
may be the template of Democrat strategy on some of
these issues going forward.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Now, let me explain.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You wouldn't usually think of Kamala Harris as a tactician,
as the you know, the second coming of Machiavelli in politics.
But you will recall Clay at one point when she
was running against Donald Trump in her short and ill
fated campaign, she came up with this incredible idea, and
the idea was no tax on tips. And she came
(23:21):
forward and she said, hey, guys, I have this great idea,
no tax on tips. And everyone kind of looked at her,
except for the Democrats who were told to clap in
the audience and said, right, you mean the thing that
Trump has been saying and pushing for for months and
months and months, and now this is your idea. I
bring it up because Gavin Newsom is taking a page
(23:41):
from the Kamala book, taking a page from the Trump book.
Gavin Newsom is surging law enforcement in his home state
to address crime issues. Plus uh uh pray sorry play clip.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Two effort that will now take shape on border to
vision down in San Diego We're going to advance this
effort down in LA to other parts of the Central Valley,
not just limited to Bakersfield, in partnership with mayorgo there
in San Bernardino, and we're going to expand this operation
(24:16):
in a collaborative that continues to include the cities and
counties are partners in the sheriff's office and local law
enforcement agencies. We continue as well to work with the
federal partners.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Wait a second.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Gavin Newsom talking about law enforcement surge to deal with crime.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Azing. He came up with that idea on his own.
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I do think it's emblematic of what Gavin Newsom's entire
presidential campaign is going to be. He is shameless. He
knows that there is very little consequence for changing positions.
The media has his back if he's going to be
the Democrat nominee. I think that Gavin Newsom is going
(25:02):
to try to just occupy the middle by arguing for
things that he's actually not done during his whole tenure
as the governor of California. And I think he knows
that he'll get cover from the media and he'll run
like Joe Biden did, and then he'll get into office
and he'll run super left wing. I think that that
(25:25):
is the way that they think they can get back
to power. And so if you look at the gambling
markets Gavin Newsom, you and I might think, and I
think we do, and most of you out there might
agree with us, that he has embarrassed himself in the
way that he has been behaving over the past several weeks, shamelessness, dishonesty.
(25:50):
The markets don't agree with us. They are saying Gavin
Newsom has drastically taken early lead. And it's very early.
But some of you are going to say, well, why
does it matter a lot of big donors get behind
these presidential campaigns super early. And I am telling you
Gavin Newsom's gonna announce for president probably January twenty twenty seven,
(26:13):
and we're officially going to be a go. And I
think you have to make Gavin Newsom a substantial favorite
to be the nominee.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I don't think he has any foundation. I don't think
he has any core value. I think he is, even
for a politician, uniquely without a spine. Do you do
you want me to let you out on everything you're
wrong on? Everything Buck, that's benefit. Yeah, Well, do you
want me to let you out of your Kamala bet
with whatever they call it embtting where I'll give you
(26:42):
like a you'll pay a minor penalty, You'll get me
an appetizer instead of the full stake. Clay I said
she would run. I still know she's gonna run.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh, I know, Okay, all right, you're still you're sticking
with it.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Huh you're sticking Well, I.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Just I don't buy that Kamala. And again this goes
into the psychology of why some people run. I don't
buy that Kamala has anything else that she loves, meaning,
how is she going to occupy that time?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
She's still only sixty one?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh, I know, I know you're I just I'm trying
to be neighborly. You're trying to be a good friend here,
you know, a good co host, and offer you an
out because I think we both think Gavin Newsom is
in the number one slot right now to be the
next Democrat nominee.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Gavin Newsom certainly thinks so.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
However, another name that you and I have bandied about
here as a possibility, certainly I think as a VP
possibility just because of the name recognition issue, a name
recognition issue, but maybe the top of the ticket Governor
Wes Moore of Maryland. And here's what he is saying,
not a big surprise given what's going on here about
(27:43):
federal support in fighting crime.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Play three.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Baltimore still ranks third in the nation in violent crime
rate per capita.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
In the nation.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
That you would welcome in the president of United States
help if crime in Maryland. I'm onlimited time and I
want to give you a chance to Dvie would absolutely
support Apparently there we go. You will welcome to federal support.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
That's wonderful to hear. I would absolutely welcome federal support.
Hear that.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
But I also know what federal support is going to
be necessary and required. It's the reason that I've said
we would love to have additional support for license plate readers,
things that we know can actually stop crimes as they
are happening and making sure that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
People are brought to justice.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Can I just point this, This is exactly that was
our friend Will came by the way in this Fox
News show, and good good on Will for getting the
answer out here. Notice Wes Moore, who wants to be president,
I think we all know this wants to run and
wants to be president and has a very you know,
I think he's West Point, he's west Point growd. I
know he's a veteran. I think he went to West Point,
you know, played football. Like there's a lot about this
(28:45):
guy that that fixes some of the problems Democrats have
on the brand side.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Right, So tell me, guys if he went to West
Point or not. I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Mess up his bio. I know he was a football player.
I know he's a veteran. So he's a black guy,
veteran football player, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Come he right the Valley Forge Military, which is a sorry,
there we go. But then he went to Johns hop
according to the bio, Johns Hopkins, and then got a
masters from Oxford, but was in the eighty second Airborne and.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Certain I knew he was a veteran, and I knew
he'd been a football player. I wasn't sure about the
military college, but thank you for that or you know,
military undergrad program. So but anyway, the point is he's
got he's got the buy who's got the background to
be a formidable candidate. And notice what he's saying, Clay
this is what I've said along is so crazy about
the Democrats. It shouldn't be Trump. Why are you trying
(29:35):
to stop the merders. If they were smart, what they
would be saying is, oh, no, we agree, we should
definitely address this problem in DC. Here's though, the way
that we think it should go. And then you criticize,
you know, oh well Trump put the National guardianto it.
What they're saying is there's no problem, and the whole
country has said, you guys are insane.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
There's clearly a problem.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So Wes Moore has pivoted into a defensible position, I
think in anticipation of what this guy's brand building exercise
is going to be as he runs for president. Just
like look at Gavin Newsom surging law enforce the smart
Democrats see the handwriting on the wall.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
If I were betting right now, I would say they
go Gavin Newsom president, Wesmore VP, because that gives them
the I think that they're going to be a little
bit reticent. The other one that I would say is
Gretchen Witmer is VP. But I think the Democrats are
actually going to be a little bit reticent to try
to go female again.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I think they are, and I think it's because they
realize abortion is not going to win the presidency for them.
It's not gonna happen, and they thought it would. It's
not gonna happen. It's also interesting women supported Joe Biden
more than they did Hillary and Kamala. And I haven't
heard anybody else really talk about this, but everybody says, oh,
(30:56):
it's misogyny, it's misogyny, men won't vote for women, things
like that. I actually think that there are a lot
of women that do not find Hillary or Kamala to
be actually very likable and are more likely to vote
for a male Democrat candidate than they are a female
Democrat candidate. And I never hear anybody talk about that.
(31:16):
It's always like men are to blame when women don't
win men, or to blame men, or to blame But
Trump did better against Hillary and against Kamala for women
than he did against Biden.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
It's just kind of interesting, right you.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I just want to say this, You doing a podcast
where you man's blame feminism to feminists would honestly.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Be it would It would be really good.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You know, the first amendment in Boobs Guy explaining feminism
to the feminists.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Here's my ladies, you vote for men instead of women.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We should just call it clace blame, where I just
tell women what they need to hear.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I think, actually actually.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Do really really well. Everybody miserable, including my wife, but
it would do very very well. Okay, Look, President Trump
wants to see this country emerge as the leader. It's critical,
the leader in artificial intelligence, and that's where we were.
But now China, because of Biden, because of some lost years,
has gotten right up next to us, and we need
(32:19):
to be the leader in AI. This is absolutely critical
for our military, for our economy, for world leadership going forward.
Now President Trump sees this crucial technological battle for what
it is, and he's taking big steps. A trillion dollar
plus investment that's drowng in multiple partners thanks to this
Trump administration. Now I call this the Manhattan Project too,
to take back our lead in the AI arms race
(32:41):
and to engage a handful of US firms that are
going to get big contracts in the billions of dollars.
So this could trigger an investment boom and soon, I
mean as soon as October fifteenth. And I break all
this down for you in a brand new interview including
the companies that I believe could soar when this comes up.
Find this interview in all the details at a new website.
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Welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton Show. As we
roll into the holiday weekend, the official end of summer
in some ways, although I know it's gonna be warm
many places for still some time to come, you might
need a little bit of extra energy. Maybe you're gonna
be out there tailgating. Uh, maybe you're gonna be running
around chasing the kids. I had a eighth grade, ninth
(33:57):
grade football game last night, going to this Florida State
Alabama game in Tallahassee. This weekend with my fourteen year
old going to be up early driving in for that game.
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of different stories out there. Let me hit a couple
of them. CNN is reporting this is a big story
in Iowa that Senator Jony Ernst not going to run
(34:40):
for reelection in Iowa fifty three forty seven majority. Lots
of battlegrounds out there for the Senate going forward, and
that one that will get a great deal of attention
again in Iowa, incumbent Senator Jony Ernst, according to CNN,
not running for reelection. That election is next year in
(35:02):
the midterms. Here is something else we should probably update
you on. Our friend Texas Governor Greg Abbott just posted
a video of him signing the redistricting bill into law.
That was such a huge story. Remember this one just
a few weeks ago, everybody was talking about it. Oh
my goodness, can you believe what Texas trying to do?
Texas did it. Here is cut twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
This is Governor Greg Abbott. I'm about to sign the
law that creates a one big, beautiful map that ensures
fair representation in the United States Congress for Texas. I
want to thank Lieutenant Governor Patrick Speaker, Burroughs, Senator King,
Representative Todd Hunter, Representative Cody the Suit, and all of
the legislature who stayed in the Capitol and got this
(35:46):
law to my desk. Texas is now more read in
the United States Congress.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Okay, Buck, this is funny, if only because everybody said
this is the end of the democracy. Is anybody even
talking about it now that it's legitimately happening.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
No, No, it's almost like almost like if Trump won,
it wasn't going to be the end of the world
and mass starvation, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria
like it's actually going great. You can how much catastrophism
can Democrat brains go through before they just decide to
chill out and live in reality play. I don't think
(36:26):
there's an answer to this, but we are running the
experiment right now. Yeah, Texas Democrats, guess what's gonna be fine.
You should thank the Republicans in your state for being
the adults in the room who make sure that you
have a business friendly, business friendly environment with low taxes,
and you can own firearms and crime is you know
something that actually sheriffs and others can can handle.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
You know, you should just say thank you to Republicans.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
No doubt. Trump continues to deliver on everything. Friday Edition,
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