October 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of today’s Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show dives deep into the biggest political and law enforcement controversies dominating the headlines. Broadcasting live from Washington, D.C., Buck Sexton covers the latest developments in the Trump administration’s showdown with Democrat-run cities, focusing on Chicago and Portland.
The discussion kicks off with explosive revelations about FBI surveillance of Republican Senators, including Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, and Ron Johnson, as part of the controversial “Arctic Frost” operation. Buck highlights Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, exposing the weaponization of the FBI and DOJ and the urgent need for reform under Director Patel.
The hour also examines the government shutdown, which Buck notes feels surprisingly uneventful in the nation’s capital, and reflects on the two-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, setting the stage for later segments with Karol Markowitz.
A major portion of the conversation zeroes in on Chicago’s escalating crime crisis and Mayor Brandon Johnson’s radical move to create ICE-free zones through a new executive order. Buck argues this undermines federal immigration enforcement and fuels lawlessness. The show also covers the deployment of National Guard units to Chicago and Portland, sparking heated exchanges between Bondi and Senator Dick Durbin, and a fiery debate between White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins over Trump’s constitutional authority to mobilize troops under U.S. Code 12406.
Buck contextualizes these battles within the broader resistance to Trump’s presidency, criticizing activist judges and Democrat rhetoric that portrays Trump as illegitimate. He warns that sanctuary city policies and inflammatory language against law enforcement endanger ICE officers and embolden anarchists, citing Portland’s months-long unrest and attacks on federal facilities.
Hour 1 delivers sharp analysis on law enforcement integrity, immigration enforcement, federal authority, and political accountability, while previewing upcoming segments on Trump’s Oval Office remarks and reflections on Middle East peace efforts. Don’t miss this hour for in-depth commentary on the FBI scandal, Chicago’s ICE-free zones, Portland unrest, and the fight to restore law and order under President Trump.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Tuesday edition of The Clay Travis en Buck Sexton Show
kicks off right now, coming to you life from Washington,
d c our Nation's capital aka the Swamp, although it
is lovely this time of the year, not very swampy.
Clay is on vacation today. He'll be back with us Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Is that was Thursday?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Right, yes, Thursday, So he is working on his tan
by the Gulf of America. We are diving into the
news of the day, my friends, and there is a
lot of it. More on the showdown between the Trump
administration and various Democrat run cities, notably Chicago and Portland.
(00:45):
But the mayor of Chicago has done something pretty remarkable.
He thinks that he can create federal government enforcement free zones.
And we shall discuss what that looks like. We shall
have a conversation about how absurd the Democrat position on
(01:06):
all of this is getting. As a CNN anchor decides
to throw down with Stephen Miller, it does not go well.
Spoiler alert for the CNN anchor, Stephen Miller having none
of it. President Trump some comments yesterday from the oval
that I wanted to get to today. The government shut
down continues. I'm here in our nation's capital and I
(01:28):
don't know, feels fine, doesn't feel very shut down, like
feels okay. Things are kind of just doing what they do.
So there's that. We'll discuss the latest with it. And
also it is, of course the two year anniversary of
the October seventh terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel. Our
friend and podcast host Carol Markowitz will be with us
(01:51):
in the third hour to discuss some reflections two years on,
as the Trump administration is trying to bring a cease
fire and some kind of peace deal into effect in
that region.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Has been two years of conflict.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But I wanted to dive in first to this situation,
and it is more of the deep state weaponization that
we have known about but continue to find new things out.
This is now the surveillance of United States Republican senators
(02:31):
the FBI well in this case actually came out from
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grastly. He released this publicly.
But the FBI, led by Director Patel and Deputy Director
at Bongino, is providing transparency as promised about what kind
of weaponization has occurred at the Federal Bureau of investigation
(02:53):
and notably on this Arctic Frost operation that they were running.
This is about election j six, twenty twenty stuff, and
they clearly were on a hunt for individuals that were
political targets instead of actual criminals.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I think Donald Trump summed it up well with this.
This is on truth's social Durie. Jack Smith caught with
his hand in the cookie jar, a real sleeve bag. Indeed,
the President of the United States pulling no punches and
letting it be known how he feels about the unduly
(03:38):
anointed prosecutor Jack Smith in this whole situation. But we've
got this from the FBI. We have an electronic communications
tally here as in surveillance of the cell phones of
toll analysis records. You've got Mike Kelly, Lindsey Graham, I
(04:00):
am Bill Haggarty, Josh Holly, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron
Johnson he'll be with us tomorrow, Senator Johnson, uh and
Cynthia Loomis, Marcia Blackburn, these are the names on this release. Well,
this is not just one of those times where we're
finding something out. There's already been action taken the FBI,
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and this is from Director Patel has terminated some employees
that were involved in this. When these Republicans had their
private communications, their private phone calls tracked. Director Patel put
this out. We are cleaning up a diseased temple three
decades in the making, identifying the rot, removing those who
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weaponize law enforcement for political purposes and those who do
not meet the standards of this mission, while restoring integrity
to the FBI. I promised reform and I intend to
deliver it. So that was in a statement to Fox News.
So that is where we are right now.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It is.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
More information to add onto the pile about weaponization of
government that has happened.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But we had a G.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Pam Bondi testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on this issue.
I wanted you to hear it from the Attorney General herself.
This is cut two hit it.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
When I was confirmed as an eighty seventh Attorney General
of the United States, I took office with two mangals
to end the weaponization of justice and return the department
to its core mission of fighting violent crime. As to
ending the weaponization of justice, we learned that former FBI
secretly investigated you and your colleagues why they wanted to
(05:42):
take President Trump off the playing field. They were playing
politics with law enforcement powers and will go down as
a historic betrayal of public trust. This is the kind
of conduct that shatters the American people's faith in our
law enforcement system. We will work to earn, not back,
every single day.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's critical because when the people have a lack of faith,
and rightly so, in the fair minded in the ethical
application of the rule of law, especially when it especially
when it comes to the fearsome powers of the FBI,
(06:24):
when the public no longer believes that that is being
done in a non partisan fashion, we have a very
big problem.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
On our hands.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And the public is right to not just question the FBI,
but to have lost tremendous respect for it as an institution.
And that is why Director Patel, Deputy Director Bongino, and
other good men and women in the FBI under this
Trump administration are trying so hard to first deal with
the rot excise it, but also to set things right.
(06:54):
We cannot have an FBI that is pulling the phone
records of Republicans scents to try to jam them up
on some nonsense. We already had an FBI, as we
know that was involved with the entire Crossfire hurricane debacle,
involved in trying to pin a lie on a President
(07:16):
Donald Trump to destroy his administration and perhaps even to
send him and members of his family and top advisors
to prison.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
What one thing I will note, and you should all keep.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
This in mind too, there are a whole bunch of
Republicans who have actually gone to prison from Trump World.
There's a whole series of people that have served time
for overwhelmingly the most petty offenses imaginable. And we've seen
an FBI with James Comey that was willing to pretend
(07:47):
it was investigating laws that no honest person thinks are
the basis for any investigation, like the Logan Act against
General Flynn in the first Trump administration. So the weaponization
has been broad, it has been consistent, and it has
been taken as far as the investigative body, the FBI
can take things, meaning that they have brought these cases,
(08:09):
they have used these tools, they've used faiza and it
is a very dangerous thing, let me tell you, coming
from a CIA analysis background, when you have what is
effectively the secret police in a country playing games, using
surveillance powers to undermine one political party or another.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It doesn't lead to good places.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
In fact, sometimes it leads to a straight up coup
and maybe the head of a secret police run a country.
And it paid attention to James Comy in recent years.
That is terrifying. I think a Comy administration might even
be worse than a Kamala administration. And I just read
Kamala's book and it is also deeply, deeply troubling because
(08:57):
it is so boring and so awful that you think
this woman could have been president in this country. I
know Trump beat her soundly, but the fact that so
many people voted for her I think should keep us
all on guard. It is a wow moment. One of
the least talented politicians of our lifetime somehow managed to
(09:18):
be the Democrat nominee and got tens of millions of votes. Anyway,
back to FBI weaponization, I'm weaving. Isn't that what Trump says?
I'm weaving? Isn't that the term right when he starts
going off? I haven't used that one in a while,
But if Trump says it I'm weaving, I'm getting back
to it. I don't think Trump has said that in
a while either. That was a big Trump isn't for
(09:40):
a while when he would start to start to go
on tangents. So yes, the reality here is cleaning up
the FBI is absolutely essential. I'm just a few blocks
from the Hoover Building, so it feels very close. It
feels very real that this is underway right now. But
this is essential. And then there's also speaking of cleaning
up law enforcement, there is the deployment issue here about
(10:04):
National Guard going to these cities. Pam Bondy also in
front of the Senate Judiciary Committee here saying to Senator
Dick Durbin, another deeply, deeply unimpressive fellow, very common esque
in that respect. Here he is, or rather here Pam
Bondy is explaining that you know what, national guards going
(10:25):
to Chicago?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Deal with it? Play three.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The National Guard is on the way right now as
we speak. Oh, by the way, so is Director Patel
and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. You're sitting here grilling me,
and they're on their way to Chicago to keep your state.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Safe, Madam, Attorney General. Is my job to grill you?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
No, I mean he could just ask questions and be respectful,
But however he wants to position this, of course, but
this is now going to let me transition into this
ongoing fight over bringing safety and security to these cities
and allowing for immigration and customs enforcement to do their
job without obstruction, without being unduly burdened by lunatics in
(11:11):
the streets who are throwing rocks and bottles and lord
knows what else at them. It is time for a
law enforcement reckoning here. Remember when it came to January sixth,
the Democrats were willing to not only have the National
Guard deployed for four or five months with big fences
around the Capitol, but they used the FBI very much
(11:35):
like a secret police force in some third world country
to hunt down people for nonviolent crimes, to bust into
their homes, sometimes in the pre dawn hours with tactical teams.
And I mean, just look what they did. Well, they've
done this so many times, what they did to Roger
Stone in an earlier era. They're willing to abuse the
(11:55):
powers of the FBI of the DOJ for the most
nakedly part in purpose. It's gotta stop, and that means consequences.
That means people have got to get fired at.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It means people have got to go to prison.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
If they can send Bannon to prison for nothing, and
Navarro to prison for nothing, and a whole bunch of others,
maybe we can send some Democrats to prison for something,
as in breaking the law, which they've done. I think
that's where we need to go. I think that's where
people are recognizing we have to go. And I will
(12:30):
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Speaker 1 (13:31):
Welcome back in to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
They're given ag Attorney General Bomdi a rough time up
on Capitol Hill, not being very gentlemanly, but not a
surprise Democrats.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Look, I get it. She can handle herself. It's fine.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Are they being disrespectful? I mean, that's I guess to
be expected now from them. But she is holding her own.
And here you have, for example, as part of the
conversations going on with the Attorney General to the Senate
Judicial Committee, a little conversation about how things are looking
in America's second City going up or the Windy City,
(14:07):
second city nicknames for the same place.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Right? Is that? Am I not right? Isn't that right?
It doesn't Chicago that they call it the second city?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Windy City? What's the second city? Did I just mis
mess up my city nicknames? I wouldn't be the first time.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
A second city is the is the troop, like the
what do you call it? Acting improv Isn't that in Chicago?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yes, thank you, that's what I So that's maybe it's
not the nickname for the city, but it's the acting
troop whatever, close enough, close enough, who cares?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Point?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Is it Chicago? And ag Bondi is talking about it?
And this is cut four.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Listen, your city has a murder rate five times higher
than New York's five hundred and seventy one homicides last year.
If you were serious about protecting your people, you would
be this administration for help. You're saying that we're coming
into your state and your city. We're there to help
(15:08):
make America safe and Illinois safe, whether or not you
want to.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, that's important, certainly more important than the fact that
I was right. It is also called the second City, Producer, Ali,
you look at me with this look of you created
panic in me, which reminds me always bet On Buck,
like my first instinct is almost always correct here. So yes,
it is, in fact the second city and the windy
City and the deep dish pizza city. There are many
(15:39):
many names for Chicago, and as we discussed, The name
comes from Algonquin for a plant found along the river
there Chicaqua. Yeah, that's right, Milliwaukee, which does not mean
the good land as I understand it, even though Alice
Cooper said that in Wayne's world and everybody thought forever
(16:00):
that that was the case. This is like those things
you see on the Internet where there's a great story
about where something comes from, and then you find out
it's not even true, and you only find it out
when you share the story, and then you're sad, and
then there is sadness all right. Back to the situation
in Chicago. This is where things have gone. The mayor
(16:20):
of Chicago is tripling down on crazy. The mayor of Chicago,
I guess, feels that the best way to represent his
constituents is to create the pretense that Chicago is like
the Vatican inside of Italy, like it's its own statelet
that does not have to deal with the surrounding nationality.
(16:43):
But that's in fact not the case. Now I understand.
It's different than the deployment in Washington, DC, where there
is a clear federal authority to do a whole lot.
DC is a special city in that way, But in Chicago,
there's still immigration laws that need to be enforced, and
(17:04):
as we've discussed, Democrats have made it clear, oh, state
and local can't do anything on immigration. It's totally up
to the federal government. Well that means it's totally up
to the federal government, and when it wants to go
in and do arrests and detain people for deportation, it
has the clear, lawful, constitutional right to do so, and
(17:27):
they should not try to get in the way of
that as they are doing. Going even further, you got
to hear this. When we come back, I'll play for
you what the mayor of Chicago is saying about his
city and the role that Ice well he thinks is
not allowed to play in his city. It will also
(17:47):
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck and the
Grilling on the Hill. Grill on the Hill.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
It is continuing right now with ag Bondi and we've
got some of the latest it's just from a few
moments ago.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wow. Oh, this back and forth with Bondi and Durban.
She came, she came ready to throw down. Today. This
is thirty three. Listen to this one.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
The word is, and I think it's been confirmed by
the White House they are going to transfer Texas National
Guard units to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
For that, Chairman? As you shut down the government, you
voted to shut down the government, and you're sitting here.
Our law enforcement officers aren't being paid. They're out there
working to protect you. I wish you love Chicago as
much as you hate President Trump, and currently the National
Guard are on the way to Chicago. If you're not
going to protect your citizens, president Trump will ooh feisty.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I still remember watching back in the day in the
Bush era, and the expectation was that Republicans, whether on
the hill or anywhere else, would just sit there and
take it from the opposition. They would just allow the
sound bites to pile up, and the narrative, really the
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perspective to be, the perception to be that they were
just getting beat up.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And that's not the deal.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Unto the Trump administry, it started with President Trump himself,
which is really one of the most magnificent things that
he has done for the right in America. I'm not
just going to let the other side slap me in
the face over and over and do nothing about it.
But Trump has clearly empowered his entire administration to fight back.
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You don't have to, You actually don't have to sit
there as a senior government official and be wildly disrespected
or undermined or mocked or ridiculed. And I know that
we've gotten used to that now in the Trump administration,
meaning the fight back we've gotten used to, whether it's
Caroline Leavitt handling the White House Press Corps, or it's
various cabinet officials. You know, it's it's Patel, it's Bondie,
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it's it's Rubio. They know that they're going to get
incoming if there's outgoing. But it is a relatively new
phenomenon in Republican politics. It's still something that I appreciate
as somebody who remembers and you know, I'm here in
d C. So I have a lot of flashbacks and
memories of the Bush g Wat years. So it's actually
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visiting friends at the Pentagon this morning, you know, just
checking in saying hi. And it's a remarkable thing to
have an administration that stands up for itself and also
has largely defanged the worst elements of the Democrat attack
dogs in the press corps. I mean, really has done
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a remarkable job of that.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But all right, back to.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Back to Chicago and where Mayor Brandon Johnson is on.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
All this stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Wow, you would think you would think that he would
have seen perhaps what has gone on in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And say to himself, this is.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Not going to be the winning issue for me that
I think it is. You would think that perhaps that's no, no,
it is not his takeaway on all of this. In fact,
he has signed an executive order as the mayor, a
mayoral executive order, an executive order that I'll let you
(22:35):
hear it from him, does the following.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
This is cut five.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Today we are signing an executive order aimed at reigning
in this out of controlled administration. The order establishes ice
free zones. That means that city property and unwilling private
businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Second, why would why would the mayor of an American
city make it more difficult, maybe even impossible in some
ways for federal law enforcement to conduct their lawful duties.
Imagine any other any other area of the law where
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this where this would be applied. Imagine that this would
happen with anything other than immigration. You would know right away, well,
this is insane. This is crazy, and this is where
the Democrats are going on this. They're going into crazy
town in a deep way. In fact, Chicago is looking
like crazy town because of the leadership of what is
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in fact the Second City, the Windy City, and the
Polish Sausage Capital. I believe I'm throwing that in there too.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, it's apparently the Polish saus It's very good.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I had a roommate from Chicago and college and he
introduced me to the Polish sausage. The guys, it is
a delicious delicacy.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
For Heaven's sakes.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
For Heaven's sakes, the team in here, I'm just saying,
I like Chicago.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It is a great town. It is a great town.
Oh man, if Clay were here today. If Clay were
here today, the whole show would be going in a wow.
So where were we? Yes? Okay?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Mayor Brandon Johnson, he is saying there is an ice
free zone, and he's also to give you a sense
of where his head is on these issues. This is
Chicago Mayor Johnson on how he feels about the Trump administration.
I mean, you just got to hear this to believe it.
This has cut six play it.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I've also said over the last couple of years, at
the extreme right in this country refused to accept the
results of the Civil War.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
They have repeatedly called for a rematch.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
But in the co weeks, we will use this opportunity
to build greater resistance.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Chicagoans are cleared.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Militarizing our troops in our city as justification to further.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Escalate a war in Chicago will not be tolerated.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I mean, these are the words of somebody who is
detached from reality, the extreme right.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
What does that have to do with anything.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
This is the federal government conducting its lawful duties of
immigration enforcement. If it is not lawful, let's hear why
it is lawful. In fact, the lawlessness has been the
Democrats in sanctuary cities for decades now, acting like federal
law doesn't apply to them, like somehow they get to
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operate separate from what the federal jurisdiction of this country
actually is.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The extreme right.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I guess that means the Trump administration, which would mean
a majority of the American people voted for it. So
how is that extreme? How is it the extreme right?
I need someone to explain that one to me. And also,
as we see moderates independence all, they've all been swinging
toward Trump. So if anyone has a claim in this
country right now to being more in the center, or
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rather encompassing more of the center, it would be the
Trump Naga movement. It would certainly not be the lunatic
Democrats who think that they can create ice free zones
for themselves. So yeah, and the notion that somehow this
is a refusal to accept the results of the Civil War.
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This is just inflammatory rhetoric. And I would remind everybody
this is why you have to have ice officers in
jurisdictions like Chicago operating with their faces covered, because the
kind of words that are used by Democrats to oppose
this incites violence, incites hatred of our law enforcement officers
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and the docksing of them, the threats against them and
their families. And Democrats know this. This is not some surprise,
This is not some shock to them. They understand that
all these things are happening, they want it to happen.
They want the pressure on ice officers. They want people
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to be afraid to actually conduct the mission assigned to
them by the Trump White House. That's part of the
way that they intend to oppose all of this is
create a climate of fear for law enforcement, which is
why they support what's going on in not just Chicago,
but Portland and other places. And that then brings me
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to the deployment to Portland. Caitlin Collins, formerly of The
Daily Caller.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now many years at CNN.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Here she is with Caroline Levitt. I want you to
enjoy this whole back and forth on the deployment of
National Guard to Portland, and you can make your own
determination as to who got the better end of this argument.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Place seven federal.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Judge over the weekend that the president had appointed to
the bench in his first term in office, basically argued
that he could not deploy other States National Guards to Portland.
Basically said that it was untethered his argument to what
is actually happening on the ground, which local officials in
Portland have said that the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Is needed there.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
With all due respect to that, judge, I think her
opinion is untethered in reality and in the law. The
president is using his authority as commander in chief US
Code twelve four six, which clearly states that the President
has the right to call up the National Guard in
cases where he deems it's appropriate. And if you look
at what has happened in Portland, Oregon, for more than
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one hundred nights. I was talking to our law enforcement
team about.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
It this morning.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
For more than one hundred days, after night after night,
the ice facility has been really under siege by these
anarchists outside. They have been disrespecting law enforcement, they've been
inciting violence. We saw again a guillotine rolled out in
front of this federal building. And so the president wants
to ensure that our federal buildings and our assets are protected,
(29:20):
and that's exactly what he's trying to do. And ultimately,
in the case in Los Angeles, that judge ruled in
the Ninth Circuit that that panel of judges ruled that
those troops could remain and that the President was well
within his authority to do so. We are appealing that decision.
As you know, we expect a hearing on it pretty quickly,
and we're very confident in the president's legal authority to
do this, and we're very confident we will win on
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the merits of the law.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What you have to remember, I think we all know
how that went, whether it was a Caroline or Caitlin victory.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But what you have to remember with all of this.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Is these judges and the Democrats and CNN, and it's
all an outgrowth of the They don't accept that Trumps
the president. They recognize that, yes, technically he is the president,
but they do not actually in their own minds, except
that he is the president of the United States with
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the full powers vested therein by the people in a
free and fair election. They just they deny it. They
are in denial. I mean, this is the hashtag resistance mentality.
No one uses hashtags anymore. I always thought they were annoying,
so they don't say hashtag resistance. But it's the same idea,
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not my President. That was the initial rallying cry of
the left after the twenty sixteen election. And I remember
because I was in New York City and the marches
were going past my window of my three hundred square
foot New York City palace.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Not my president. That's what they were saying.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
They still refuse to believe that he is the president,
and ultimately that is their justification for what they do.
Everything else is a facade all the Oh, but this
judge says this or that judge that they know they're
going to be overturned, They know the Supreme Court's going
to overrule them. But in their own minds, they justify
these actions to slow and if possible, hobble the president's
(31:18):
agenda by telling themselves he's illegitimate. He's illegitimate. Notice what
they did in the first term, Oh, Russia, he's illegitimate,
and now this time around, oh, he's a fascist than
a threat to democracy. It's all self justified. The argument
shifts as it needs to, based upon their emotional needs,
and they have an emotional need to say that he's
(31:41):
not the president.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
They just don't.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
They don't buy it, they don't believe it, and anything
that they can do to undermine that and to block
his authority, even if it is temporary, they're willing to do.
I give Trump a lot of credit for doing what
he has done so far, which is okay, I'll see
you in court, all right, will will work through this process,
(32:02):
which they are very much using as a punishment against
this administration, the punishment of taking time away. But at
some point you have to ask, when does Trump just
say no, you aren't the president, random federal judge, you
don't get to just overrule my authority on an executive
matter that is plain letter law. Because you don't like me, Sorry,
(32:25):
I'm going to keep going. And if the Supreme Court
tells me I'm wrong, well then maybe we.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Can revisit this. When does that happen?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You start to wonder, You start to wonder at what
point that becomes the obligation of the commander in chief
to push.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Forward until the court.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Now I know all the process, and everyone's going to
kick and scream about this the same time. Is the sabotage,
the bad faith sabotage of the Trump administration by judges
in Oregon, by judges in Illinois and all over the
country where there are Democrats and where there are Obama
and Biden appointees to the bench. Hr, Look, there was
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The hosts a couple of regular guys, Clay Travis and
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Speaker 2 (35:10):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck, and we
got some trump isms. To dive into from the Oval
office in just a few minutes. I think he's meeting
with the Canadian Prime Minister today, so he's got that
going on, which is nice. We'll discuss what he's saying there.
It's Trump, so it doesn't really matter who's in the
Oval with him. It's going to be interesting. He's going
(35:30):
to talk about things. I'll tell you what he is saying.
And AA podcast listener Todd on the talkback, let's.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Hear what he Hey, Buck, a good, good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Hey, this is Todd calling in.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Listen.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
I'm originally from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yes, it is called the Second City.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
It's also called the Windy City.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
You're right, there is an.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Improv troup based out of Lincoln Park.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Second City.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
A lot of stars have moved on to like Saturday,
a lot live from that troop.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Anyway, Buck, doing a great job and keep it real.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yes, thank you. So we clarify that about Chicago.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And I am getting all of your commentary. Let's hope
of a culinary nature about Polish sausage. It is in
fact very much a cultural accoutrement of the Chicago area,
and that.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
We will leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
It is quite quite tasty on the dinner table or
the lunch table, because a lot of you are writing
in about this, and I'm just going to say that.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Moving right along, we have.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
President Trump coming up here in the Oval Office.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Shortly we'll discuss that.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Also got Karen Markowitz on the two anniversary of October seventh.
Leland Vittert, formerly of Fox Now of News Nation fame,
he will be with us in the third hour. He's
got a book. So the show is rocking and rolling.
Take a beat, take a moment, We'll be right back
Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Tuesday edition of The Clay Travis en Buck Sexton Show
kicks off right now, coming to you life from Washington,
d c our Nation's capital aka the Swamp, although it
is lovely this time of the year, not very swampy.
Clay is on vacation today. He'll be back with us Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Is that was Thursday?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Right, yes, Thursday, So he is working on his tan
by the Gulf of America. We are diving into the
news of the day, my friends, and there is a
lot of it. More on the showdown between the Trump
administration and various Democrat run cities, notably Chicago and Portland.
(00:45):
But the mayor of Chicago has done something pretty remarkable.
He thinks that he can create federal government enforcement free zones.
And we shall discuss what that looks like. We shall
have a conversation about how absurd the Democrat position on
(01:06):
all of this is getting. As a CNN anchor decides
to throw down with Stephen Miller, it does not go well.
Spoiler alert for the CNN anchor, Stephen Miller having none
of it. President Trump some comments yesterday from the oval
that I wanted to get to today. The government shut
down continues. I'm here in our nation's capital and I
(01:28):
don't know, feels fine, doesn't feel very shut down, like
feels okay. Things are kind of just doing what they do.
So there's that. We'll discuss the latest with it. And
also it is, of course the two year anniversary of
the October seventh terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel. Our
friend and podcast host Carol Markowitz will be with us
(01:51):
in the third hour to discuss some reflections two years on,
as the Trump administration is trying to bring a cease
fire and some kind of peace deal into effect in
that region.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Has been two years of conflict.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But I wanted to dive in first to this situation,
and it is more of the deep state weaponization that
we have known about but continue to find new things out.
This is now the surveillance of United States Republican senators
(02:31):
the FBI well in this case actually came out from
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grastly. He released this publicly.
But the FBI, led by Director Patel and Deputy Director
at Bongino, is providing transparency as promised about what kind
of weaponization has occurred at the Federal Bureau of investigation
(02:53):
and notably on this Arctic Frost operation that they were running.
This is about election j six, twenty twenty stuff, and
they clearly were on a hunt for individuals that were
political targets instead of actual criminals.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I think Donald Trump summed it up well with this.
This is on truth's social Durie. Jack Smith caught with
his hand in the cookie jar, a real sleeve bag. Indeed,
the President of the United States pulling no punches and
letting it be known how he feels about the unduly
(03:38):
anointed prosecutor Jack Smith in this whole situation. But we've
got this from the FBI. We have an electronic communications
tally here as in surveillance of the cell phones of
toll analysis records. You've got Mike Kelly, Lindsey Graham, I
(04:00):
am Bill Haggarty, Josh Holly, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron
Johnson he'll be with us tomorrow, Senator Johnson, uh and
Cynthia Loomis, Marcia Blackburn, these are the names on this release. Well,
this is not just one of those times where we're
finding something out. There's already been action taken the FBI,
(04:24):
and this is from Director Patel has terminated some employees
that were involved in this. When these Republicans had their
private communications, their private phone calls tracked. Director Patel put
this out. We are cleaning up a diseased temple three
decades in the making, identifying the rot, removing those who
(04:45):
weaponize law enforcement for political purposes and those who do
not meet the standards of this mission, while restoring integrity
to the FBI. I promised reform and I intend to
deliver it. So that was in a statement to Fox News.
So that is where we are right now.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It is.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
More information to add onto the pile about weaponization of
government that has happened.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But we had a G.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Pam Bondi testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on this issue.
I wanted you to hear it from the Attorney General herself.
This is cut two hit it.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
When I was confirmed as an eighty seventh Attorney General
of the United States, I took office with two mangals
to end the weaponization of justice and return the department
to its core mission of fighting violent crime. As to
ending the weaponization of justice, we learned that former FBI
secretly investigated you and your colleagues why they wanted to
(05:42):
take President Trump off the playing field. They were playing
politics with law enforcement powers and will go down as
a historic betrayal of public trust. This is the kind
of conduct that shatters the American people's faith in our
law enforcement system. We will work to earn, not back,
every single day.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's critical because when the people have a lack of faith,
and rightly so, in the fair minded in the ethical
application of the rule of law, especially when it especially
when it comes to the fearsome powers of the FBI,
(06:24):
when the public no longer believes that that is being
done in a non partisan fashion, we have a very
big problem.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
On our hands.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And the public is right to not just question the FBI,
but to have lost tremendous respect for it as an institution.
And that is why Director Patel, Deputy Director Bongino, and
other good men and women in the FBI under this
Trump administration are trying so hard to first deal with
the rot excise it, but also to set things right.
(06:54):
We cannot have an FBI that is pulling the phone
records of Republicans scents to try to jam them up
on some nonsense. We already had an FBI, as we
know that was involved with the entire Crossfire hurricane debacle,
involved in trying to pin a lie on a President
(07:16):
Donald Trump to destroy his administration and perhaps even to
send him and members of his family and top advisors
to prison.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
What one thing I will note, and you should all keep.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
This in mind too, there are a whole bunch of
Republicans who have actually gone to prison from Trump World.
There's a whole series of people that have served time
for overwhelmingly the most petty offenses imaginable. And we've seen
an FBI with James Comey that was willing to pretend
(07:47):
it was investigating laws that no honest person thinks are
the basis for any investigation, like the Logan Act against
General Flynn in the first Trump administration. So the weaponization
has been broad, it has been consistent, and it has
been taken as far as the investigative body, the FBI
can take things, meaning that they have brought these cases,
(08:09):
they have used these tools, they've used faiza and it
is a very dangerous thing, let me tell you, coming
from a CIA analysis background, when you have what is
effectively the secret police in a country playing games, using
surveillance powers to undermine one political party or another.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It doesn't lead to good places.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
In fact, sometimes it leads to a straight up coup
and maybe the head of a secret police run a country.
And it paid attention to James Comy in recent years.
That is terrifying. I think a Comy administration might even
be worse than a Kamala administration. And I just read
Kamala's book and it is also deeply, deeply troubling because
(08:57):
it is so boring and so awful that you think
this woman could have been president in this country. I
know Trump beat her soundly, but the fact that so
many people voted for her I think should keep us
all on guard. It is a wow moment. One of
the least talented politicians of our lifetime somehow managed to
(09:18):
be the Democrat nominee and got tens of millions of votes. Anyway,
back to FBI weaponization, I'm weaving. Isn't that what Trump says?
I'm weaving? Isn't that the term right when he starts
going off? I haven't used that one in a while,
But if Trump says it I'm weaving, I'm getting back
to it. I don't think Trump has said that in
a while either. That was a big Trump isn't for
(09:40):
a while when he would start to start to go
on tangents. So yes, the reality here is cleaning up
the FBI is absolutely essential. I'm just a few blocks
from the Hoover Building, so it feels very close. It
feels very real that this is underway right now. But
this is essential. And then there's also speaking of cleaning
up law enforcement, there is the deployment issue here about
(10:04):
National Guard going to these cities. Pam Bondy also in
front of the Senate Judiciary Committee here saying to Senator
Dick Durbin, another deeply, deeply unimpressive fellow, very common esque
in that respect. Here he is, or rather here Pam
Bondy is explaining that you know what, national guards going
(10:25):
to Chicago?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Deal with it? Play three.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The National Guard is on the way right now as
we speak. Oh, by the way, so is Director Patel
and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. You're sitting here grilling me,
and they're on their way to Chicago to keep your state.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Safe, Madam, Attorney General. Is my job to grill you?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
No, I mean he could just ask questions and be respectful,
But however he wants to position this, of course, but
this is now going to let me transition into this
ongoing fight over bringing safety and security to these cities
and allowing for immigration and customs enforcement to do their
job without obstruction, without being unduly burdened by lunatics in
(11:11):
the streets who are throwing rocks and bottles and lord
knows what else at them. It is time for a
law enforcement reckoning here. Remember when it came to January sixth,
the Democrats were willing to not only have the National
Guard deployed for four or five months with big fences
around the Capitol, but they used the FBI very much
(11:35):
like a secret police force in some third world country
to hunt down people for nonviolent crimes, to bust into
their homes, sometimes in the pre dawn hours with tactical teams.
And I mean, just look what they did. Well, they've
done this so many times, what they did to Roger
Stone in an earlier era. They're willing to abuse the
(11:55):
powers of the FBI of the DOJ for the most
nakedly part in purpose. It's gotta stop, and that means consequences.
That means people have got to get fired at.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It means people have got to go to prison.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
If they can send Bannon to prison for nothing, and
Navarro to prison for nothing, and a whole bunch of others,
maybe we can send some Democrats to prison for something,
as in breaking the law, which they've done. I think
that's where we need to go. I think that's where
people are recognizing we have to go. And I will
(12:30):
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Speaker 1 (13:31):
Welcome back in to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
They're given ag Attorney General Bomdi a rough time up
on Capitol Hill, not being very gentlemanly, but not a
surprise Democrats.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Look, I get it. She can handle herself. It's fine.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Are they being disrespectful? I mean, that's I guess to
be expected now from them. But she is holding her own.
And here you have, for example, as part of the
conversations going on with the Attorney General to the Senate
Judicial Committee, a little conversation about how things are looking
in America's second City going up or the Windy City,
(14:07):
second city nicknames for the same place.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Right? Is that? Am I not right? Isn't that right?
It doesn't Chicago that they call it the second city?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Windy City? What's the second city? Did I just mis
mess up my city nicknames? I wouldn't be the first time.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
A second city is the is the troop, like the
what do you call it? Acting improv Isn't that in Chicago?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yes, thank you, that's what I So that's maybe it's
not the nickname for the city, but it's the acting
troop whatever, close enough, close enough, who cares?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Point?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Is it Chicago? And ag Bondi is talking about it?
And this is cut four.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Listen, your city has a murder rate five times higher
than New York's five hundred and seventy one homicides last year.
If you were serious about protecting your people, you would
be this administration for help. You're saying that we're coming
into your state and your city. We're there to help
(15:08):
make America safe and Illinois safe, whether or not you
want to.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, that's important, certainly more important than the fact that
I was right. It is also called the second City, Producer, Ali,
you look at me with this look of you created
panic in me, which reminds me always bet On Buck,
like my first instinct is almost always correct here. So yes,
it is, in fact the second city and the windy
City and the deep dish pizza city. There are many
(15:39):
many names for Chicago, and as we discussed, The name
comes from Algonquin for a plant found along the river
there Chicaqua. Yeah, that's right, Milliwaukee, which does not mean
the good land as I understand it, even though Alice
Cooper said that in Wayne's world and everybody thought forever
(16:00):
that that was the case. This is like those things
you see on the Internet where there's a great story
about where something comes from, and then you find out
it's not even true, and you only find it out
when you share the story, and then you're sad, and
then there is sadness all right. Back to the situation
in Chicago. This is where things have gone. The mayor
(16:20):
of Chicago is tripling down on crazy. The mayor of Chicago,
I guess, feels that the best way to represent his
constituents is to create the pretense that Chicago is like
the Vatican inside of Italy, like it's its own statelet
that does not have to deal with the surrounding nationality.
(16:43):
But that's in fact not the case. Now I understand.
It's different than the deployment in Washington, DC, where there
is a clear federal authority to do a whole lot.
DC is a special city in that way, But in Chicago,
there's still immigration laws that need to be enforced, and
(17:04):
as we've discussed, Democrats have made it clear, oh, state
and local can't do anything on immigration. It's totally up
to the federal government. Well that means it's totally up
to the federal government, and when it wants to go
in and do arrests and detain people for deportation, it
has the clear, lawful, constitutional right to do so, and
(17:27):
they should not try to get in the way of
that as they are doing. Going even further, you got
to hear this. When we come back, I'll play for
you what the mayor of Chicago is saying about his
city and the role that Ice well he thinks is
not allowed to play in his city. It will also
(17:47):
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my list of cities that should be awesome if they
were not run by communists. That's a sadly a big
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck and the
Grilling on the Hill. Grill on the Hill.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
It is continuing right now with ag Bondi and we've
got some of the latest it's just from a few
moments ago.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wow. Oh, this back and forth with Bondi and Durban.
She came, she came ready to throw down. Today. This
is thirty three. Listen to this one.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
The word is, and I think it's been confirmed by
the White House they are going to transfer Texas National
Guard units to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
For that, Chairman? As you shut down the government, you
voted to shut down the government, and you're sitting here.
Our law enforcement officers aren't being paid. They're out there
working to protect you. I wish you love Chicago as
much as you hate President Trump, and currently the National
Guard are on the way to Chicago. If you're not
going to protect your citizens, president Trump will ooh feisty.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I still remember watching back in the day in the
Bush era, and the expectation was that Republicans, whether on
the hill or anywhere else, would just sit there and
take it from the opposition. They would just allow the
sound bites to pile up, and the narrative, really the
(20:17):
perspective to be, the perception to be that they were
just getting beat up.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And that's not the deal.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Unto the Trump administry, it started with President Trump himself,
which is really one of the most magnificent things that
he has done for the right in America. I'm not
just going to let the other side slap me in
the face over and over and do nothing about it.
But Trump has clearly empowered his entire administration to fight back.
(20:46):
You don't have to, You actually don't have to sit
there as a senior government official and be wildly disrespected
or undermined or mocked or ridiculed. And I know that
we've gotten used to that now in the Trump administration,
meaning the fight back we've gotten used to, whether it's
Caroline Leavitt handling the White House Press Corps, or it's
various cabinet officials. You know, it's it's Patel, it's Bondie,
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it's it's Rubio. They know that they're going to get
incoming if there's outgoing. But it is a relatively new
phenomenon in Republican politics. It's still something that I appreciate
as somebody who remembers and you know, I'm here in
d C. So I have a lot of flashbacks and
memories of the Bush g Wat years. So it's actually
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visiting friends at the Pentagon this morning, you know, just
checking in saying hi. And it's a remarkable thing to
have an administration that stands up for itself and also
has largely defanged the worst elements of the Democrat attack
dogs in the press corps. I mean, really has done
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a remarkable job of that.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But all right, back to.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Back to Chicago and where Mayor Brandon Johnson is on.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
All this stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Wow, you would think you would think that he would
have seen perhaps what has gone on in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And say to himself, this is.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Not going to be the winning issue for me that
I think it is. You would think that perhaps that's no, no,
it is not his takeaway on all of this. In fact,
he has signed an executive order as the mayor, a
mayoral executive order, an executive order that I'll let you
(22:35):
hear it from him, does the following.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
This is cut five.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Today we are signing an executive order aimed at reigning
in this out of controlled administration. The order establishes ice
free zones. That means that city property and unwilling private
businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Second, why would why would the mayor of an American
city make it more difficult, maybe even impossible in some
ways for federal law enforcement to conduct their lawful duties.
Imagine any other any other area of the law where
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this where this would be applied. Imagine that this would
happen with anything other than immigration. You would know right away, well,
this is insane. This is crazy, and this is where
the Democrats are going on this. They're going into crazy
town in a deep way. In fact, Chicago is looking
like crazy town because of the leadership of what is
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in fact the Second City, the Windy City, and the
Polish Sausage Capital. I believe I'm throwing that in there too.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, it's apparently the Polish saus It's very good.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I had a roommate from Chicago and college and he
introduced me to the Polish sausage. The guys, it is
a delicious delicacy.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
For Heaven's sakes.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
For Heaven's sakes, the team in here, I'm just saying,
I like Chicago.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It is a great town. It is a great town.
Oh man, if Clay were here today. If Clay were
here today, the whole show would be going in a wow.
So where were we? Yes? Okay?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Mayor Brandon Johnson, he is saying there is an ice
free zone, and he's also to give you a sense
of where his head is on these issues. This is
Chicago Mayor Johnson on how he feels about the Trump administration.
I mean, you just got to hear this to believe it.
This has cut six play it.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I've also said over the last couple of years, at
the extreme right in this country refused to accept the
results of the Civil War.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
They have repeatedly called for a rematch.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
But in the co weeks, we will use this opportunity
to build greater resistance.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Chicagoans are cleared.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Militarizing our troops in our city as justification to further.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Escalate a war in Chicago will not be tolerated.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I mean, these are the words of somebody who is
detached from reality, the extreme right.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
What does that have to do with anything.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
This is the federal government conducting its lawful duties of
immigration enforcement. If it is not lawful, let's hear why
it is lawful. In fact, the lawlessness has been the
Democrats in sanctuary cities for decades now, acting like federal
law doesn't apply to them, like somehow they get to
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operate separate from what the federal jurisdiction of this country
actually is.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The extreme right.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I guess that means the Trump administration, which would mean
a majority of the American people voted for it. So
how is that extreme? How is it the extreme right?
I need someone to explain that one to me. And also,
as we see moderates independence all, they've all been swinging
toward Trump. So if anyone has a claim in this
country right now to being more in the center, or
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rather encompassing more of the center, it would be the
Trump Naga movement. It would certainly not be the lunatic
Democrats who think that they can create ice free zones
for themselves. So yeah, and the notion that somehow this
is a refusal to accept the results of the Civil War.
(26:41):
This is just inflammatory rhetoric. And I would remind everybody
this is why you have to have ice officers in
jurisdictions like Chicago operating with their faces covered, because the
kind of words that are used by Democrats to oppose
this incites violence, incites hatred of our law enforcement officers
(27:06):
and the docksing of them, the threats against them and
their families. And Democrats know this. This is not some surprise,
This is not some shock to them. They understand that
all these things are happening, they want it to happen.
They want the pressure on ice officers. They want people
(27:27):
to be afraid to actually conduct the mission assigned to
them by the Trump White House. That's part of the
way that they intend to oppose all of this is
create a climate of fear for law enforcement, which is
why they support what's going on in not just Chicago,
but Portland and other places. And that then brings me
(27:48):
to the deployment to Portland. Caitlin Collins, formerly of The
Daily Caller.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now many years at CNN.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Here she is with Caroline Levitt. I want you to
enjoy this whole back and forth on the deployment of
National Guard to Portland, and you can make your own
determination as to who got the better end of this argument.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Place seven federal.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Judge over the weekend that the president had appointed to
the bench in his first term in office, basically argued
that he could not deploy other States National Guards to Portland.
Basically said that it was untethered his argument to what
is actually happening on the ground, which local officials in
Portland have said that the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Is needed there.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
With all due respect to that, judge, I think her
opinion is untethered in reality and in the law. The
president is using his authority as commander in chief US
Code twelve four six, which clearly states that the President
has the right to call up the National Guard in
cases where he deems it's appropriate. And if you look
at what has happened in Portland, Oregon, for more than
(28:54):
one hundred nights. I was talking to our law enforcement
team about.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
It this morning.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
For more than one hundred days, after night after night,
the ice facility has been really under siege by these
anarchists outside. They have been disrespecting law enforcement, they've been
inciting violence. We saw again a guillotine rolled out in
front of this federal building. And so the president wants
to ensure that our federal buildings and our assets are protected,
(29:20):
and that's exactly what he's trying to do. And ultimately,
in the case in Los Angeles, that judge ruled in
the Ninth Circuit that that panel of judges ruled that
those troops could remain and that the President was well
within his authority to do so. We are appealing that decision.
As you know, we expect a hearing on it pretty quickly,
and we're very confident in the president's legal authority to
do this, and we're very confident we will win on
(29:41):
the merits of the law.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What you have to remember, I think we all know
how that went, whether it was a Caroline or Caitlin victory.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But what you have to remember with all of this.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Is these judges and the Democrats and CNN, and it's
all an outgrowth of the They don't accept that Trumps
the president. They recognize that, yes, technically he is the president,
but they do not actually in their own minds, except
that he is the president of the United States with
(30:15):
the full powers vested therein by the people in a
free and fair election. They just they deny it. They
are in denial. I mean, this is the hashtag resistance mentality.
No one uses hashtags anymore. I always thought they were annoying,
so they don't say hashtag resistance. But it's the same idea,
(30:36):
not my President. That was the initial rallying cry of
the left after the twenty sixteen election. And I remember
because I was in New York City and the marches
were going past my window of my three hundred square
foot New York City palace.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Not my president. That's what they were saying.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
They still refuse to believe that he is the president,
and ultimately that is their justification for what they do.
Everything else is a facade all the Oh, but this
judge says this or that judge that they know they're
going to be overturned, They know the Supreme Court's going
to overrule them. But in their own minds, they justify
these actions to slow and if possible, hobble the president's
(31:18):
agenda by telling themselves he's illegitimate. He's illegitimate. Notice what
they did in the first term, Oh, Russia, he's illegitimate,
and now this time around, oh, he's a fascist than
a threat to democracy. It's all self justified. The argument
shifts as it needs to, based upon their emotional needs,
and they have an emotional need to say that he's
(31:41):
not the president.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
They just don't.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
They don't buy it, they don't believe it, and anything
that they can do to undermine that and to block
his authority, even if it is temporary, they're willing to do.
I give Trump a lot of credit for doing what
he has done so far, which is okay, I'll see
you in court, all right, will will work through this process,
(32:02):
which they are very much using as a punishment against
this administration, the punishment of taking time away. But at
some point you have to ask, when does Trump just
say no, you aren't the president, random federal judge, you
don't get to just overrule my authority on an executive
matter that is plain letter law. Because you don't like me, Sorry,
(32:25):
I'm going to keep going. And if the Supreme Court
tells me I'm wrong, well then maybe we.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Can revisit this. When does that happen?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You start to wonder, You start to wonder at what
point that becomes the obligation of the commander in chief
to push.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Forward until the court.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Now I know all the process, and everyone's going to
kick and scream about this the same time. Is the sabotage,
the bad faith sabotage of the Trump administration by judges
in Oregon, by judges in Illinois and all over the
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
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Speaker 2 (35:10):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck, and we
got some trump isms. To dive into from the Oval
office in just a few minutes. I think he's meeting
with the Canadian Prime Minister today, so he's got that
going on, which is nice. We'll discuss what he's saying there.
It's Trump, so it doesn't really matter who's in the
Oval with him. It's going to be interesting. He's going
(35:30):
to talk about things. I'll tell you what he is saying.
And AA podcast listener Todd on the talkback, let's.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Hear what he Hey, Buck, a good, good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Hey, this is Todd calling in.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Listen.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
I'm originally from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yes, it is called the Second City.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
It's also called the Windy City.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
You're right, there is an.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Improv troup based out of Lincoln Park.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Second City.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
A lot of stars have moved on to like Saturday,
a lot live from that troop.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Anyway, Buck, doing a great job and keep it real.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yes, thank you. So we clarify that about Chicago.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And I am getting all of your commentary. Let's hope
of a culinary nature about Polish sausage. It is in
fact very much a cultural accoutrement of the Chicago area,
and that.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
We will leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
It is quite quite tasty on the dinner table or
the lunch table, because a lot of you are writing
in about this, and I'm just going to say that.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Moving right along, we have.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
President Trump coming up here in the Oval Office.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Shortly we'll discuss that.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Also got Karen Markowitz on the two anniversary of October seventh.
Leland Vittert, formerly of Fox Now of News Nation fame,
he will be with us in the third hour. He's
got a book. So the show is rocking and rolling.
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