August 26, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives deep into the intersection of politics, crime policy, media narratives, and the 2026 election cycle. Clay and Buck open the hour with a preview of key upcoming races, including the Texas Attorney General primary featuring Congressman Chip Roy, the New York City mayoral race, and elections in Virginia and New Jersey. They reflect on past political wins and losses, emphasizing the importance of conservative momentum heading into 2026.
A major focus of the hour is President Donald Trump’s proactive public engagement, including his seventh public cabinet meeting and a series of press events. The hosts contrast Trump’s visibility and leadership with what they describe as Joe Biden’s absence and lack of transparency during his presidency. Trump’s pivot from economic messaging to a tough-on-crime agenda is highlighted, with particular attention to his deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and his proposed expansion to cities like Chicago and Baltimore.
The show features a critical breakdown of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s MSNBC interview with Joe Scarborough, where Johnson repeatedly avoids answering whether adding 5,000 police officers would reduce crime. Clay and Buck argue this reflects a broader Democratic reluctance to support law enforcement, driven by ideological commitments rather than public safety. They cite crime statistics—such as Chicago’s 629 murders in 2022, exceeding the entire United Kingdom’s total—to underscore the urgency of the issue.
The hosts also explore the political ambitions of Democratic figures like Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, and Joe Scarborough, speculating on potential 2028 presidential runs. They argue that Democratic leaders are prioritizing national optics over local safety, especially in high-crime cities. Trump’s crime strategy is praised as both politically effective and life-saving, particularly for Black communities disproportionately affected by urban violence.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We
appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we
are rolling into the show today. Our friend, Congressman Chip
Roy from Texas will be on in the second hour.
He is running for Attorney General of the state of Texas.
And by the way, that primary is in March. So
(00:23):
I know, we got the New York City mayor's race,
We've got the election going on in Virginia and in
New Jersey. Buck, do you remember for the first several
years we did this show, everything was basically a loss,
except we got the win in Virginia, like in that
first year, and that then we had to kind of
(00:43):
feed off that for a long time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Youngkin gave us, gave us some hope, some prayer for
the future. And then the midterms it was it was
Governor Ron in Florida. Credit where it's due massive.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We did win.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We did win the House of Representatives back, but it
was still a tough but there was a lot of situations.
I feel like every day we wake up now they're
celebratory spirit as there should be across the country for
most of the decisions that are being made. But in
the first several years that we were together, there were
not a lot of victories to celebrate. So I do
(01:15):
think as we get ready for the Virginia, New Jersey election,
New York City mayor, and then obviously as we move
into next year, the Texas primary is going to be
a major, major event in March of twenty twenty six.
As I know many of you and Texas are aware,
but as the state of Texas is football mad, frankly,
(01:36):
almost unlike any other state in America, with high school,
college and pro it's going to be hard to cut
through the noise in Texas in September, October, November, December,
if the Cowboys actually win, sorry Cowboy fans, even January two,
when the playoffs happen. And as a result that primary,
you're going to look up from the holidays and it's
(01:56):
going to be right on top of you. So that
is underway. We will talk with Chip Roy, who is
running for attorney general there. I would say it is
a huge event. We will be covering quite a lot
as we move closer to that. But President Trump, I believe,
about to have his seventh public cabinet meeting. Remember Joe
(02:16):
Biden didn't have a cabinet meeting, and everybody just forgot
and didn't pay very much attention to it. For basically
the final two years of his tournament office, there were
no meetings as they were hiding him. Trump had three
different public events yesterday, buck he basically had rolling press
conferences for hours. I bet he'll be talking for hours today.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm just gonna try to give credit where it's due here, Clay,
because we always like to call balls and strikes. As
you know, hiding Biden was the right move.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, this is We can talk about how.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Like depraved and craven and everything it is, but hiding
Biden was actually a pretty sound strategy. And I'm gonna
go even further. I think hiding Kamala probably would have
been a better move for them. I know that they
had maybe got too loud for her to appear in public,
but it's better to have MSNBC pretend that you know
who these people are than to actually see what they
(03:10):
say when they don't have a script or a teleprompter
in front of them. Remember, they didn't actually do an
interview with Kamala Harris for a month, and then when
they finally did one, I think it was with Dana
Bash if I remember correctly, on CNN, and Tim Walls
was there with her. So they waited until I mean
(03:31):
late August, if I remember correctly, before they even let
her talk to anybody, which raised expectations. Unfortunately, even with
that going on, she couldn't meet them. But I do
think there is a story that is becoming pretty intriguing,
and it is Joe Scarborough probably and potentially still smarting
(03:53):
from the public humiliation that he suffered because he said
that Joe Biden twenty twenty four was just as good
of a Biden as he had ever seen, in fact,
the best version of Biden. And after the June twenty
seventh debate, I think Joe Scarborough was embarrassed on a
level that it's hard to be embarrassed in public prognostication.
(04:18):
And I think he has decided a bit to go
to war with the diehard nbcview MSNBC viewing audience. Remember
he and Mika initially were very favorable with Trump, then
that relationship turned negative. Then they went and kissed the
ring after Trump won reelection, which led many of the
(04:39):
people in the NBC audience to be furious. The MSNBC
audience has not been galvanized this time by the Trump administration.
In fact, audience ratings have continued to be weak and
to frankly collapse. And maybe that has emboldened Joe Scarborough
to actually start being a journalist. Because Buck, you shared
(05:02):
this this morning, I went and watched and I got
to give Joe Scarborough credit he had on Chicago may
Or Brandon Johnson. And let's set the table here, I
think brilliantly in the summer months here, Trump has changed
the agenda from from basically tariffs and worrying about the
economy because we're at records stock market highs, and he
(05:24):
has said we're going to go to war with violent crime,
and DC was the first place that he decided to
bring out the National Guard. I believe we are now
and correct me if I'm wrong, Team, I think we're
at either day twelve or day thirteen without a murder
in DC. Overall crime rates have fallen precipitously, and now
(05:45):
Trump is talking about bringing the National Guard to Chicago
and Baltimore and other American cities that he believes have
far too high of a crime rate. And Joe Scarborough
asked Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this morning on MSNBC, A
very simple question, would having more police officers make the
(06:10):
city of Chicago safer? And I want to play I'm
going to call for each of these in succession. I
want to play you the mayor of Chicago refusing to
answer if more police officers would make the city safer?
Here is part one.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Would you also like to get federal funding to help
put five thousand more cops on the street in Chicago?
Would that help drive down to crimes?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Well, Look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I understand nanks here.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
If you've talked about the other things you want, and
I said, those are good and important programs, But I'm
asking also, would five thousand more police officers on the
street in Chicago be helpful to go along with all
of those social programs and a lot of cities are
engaging in and having success with.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Look, here's the.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Best play I can put it, Joe, is that in
the nineties when I was in high school, we had
three thousand more police officers and we had nine hundred
people being murdered every single year in Chicago. It's just
not policing alone.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, this continues, can just real you know the way
we set this up is would more cops be helpful?
Joe Scarborough is actually conceding as part of his questioning. Here,
he says, if we give you all the money you
want for your violence interrupters, for your your you know,
(07:33):
community organizers, for your all these, by the way, things
that do absolutely nothing, I know you'll find some radicals.
We'll say, oh my gosh, the history of violence interrupters.
Please give me a break. Okay, social workers, He says.
With all that, would you also want more cops? And now,
Claire you can continue to work through that. It's astonishing
this guy, the Mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Here is part two.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, he of the recent six
percent approval rating, asked again, yes or no? Would five
thousand cops help MSNBC this morning?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Of course we will.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Of course, I know it's not pacing alone. But I
know it's not policing alone. You've told me everything else
you want. I'm curious and this is this does come
down to an ideological difference between between people. Do you
believe that the streets of Chicago would be safer if
there were more uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America
would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Look, Okay, that's not the question I asked. My question is,
and I just idiots or no.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer
if you got all of those other extraordinary programs put
back into place, which do have.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
A history of being successful.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
If that's if that's complimented by having five.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Thousand more cops on.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The streets of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to
just police officers on what I'm saying, that is an
antiquitated approach.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, it continues, Buck, And I just think I gotta
give Scotch Joe Scarborough credit. He sounds a bit like
me back in the day with Mike Pince when you
just can't get an answer from a question that you
think is actually an important one. Here is more Brandon Johnson,
mayor of Chicago, having his feet held to the fire
on a simple question, Hey, would more cops help cut three?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I'm saying you've.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Invested in hearing what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social
programs are extraordinarily important. I just need a yes or
a no, and then this will be the last time
I ask, if you get all of those other social
programs that that eight hundred million that New York City does,
Los Angers and other people do with great success, would
(09:56):
an additional five thousand cops on the streets Chicago help
compliment those programs to make Chicago safer.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Look, we are working hard to make sure that our
police department is fully supported. I don't believe that just
simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is
the answer. What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing
is policing, and mental and behavior health care services is
policing and youth employment.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Okay, Clay is important. I think Joe Scarborough is basically
begging this guy begging. He's like, hey, moron, I'll give
you everything else you want. Will pretend all these programs
that don't do a darn thing in any of these
places that anyone can measure will also be in place here.
But can you just say more cops would help with
(10:49):
the crime problem. Could you please just say it? He
won't say it the mayor, And it's because the mayor
of Chicago is anti cop. He's anti law enforcement. He
thinks cops are the problem. He thinks the crime in
the South and west sides of Chicago, where there are
a lot of homicides, even for an American city, a
lot of homicides going on. He thinks that the issue
(11:09):
is mass incarceration and over policing Clay. That's the bottom line.
And he won't change his mind. Yes, and I think
this is brilliant of Trump. I just think it is
absolutely brilliant. And I am staggered at the stupidity of
(11:30):
Democrats responding to this.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Trump is trying to lower violent crime.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
In so doing, he is going to save more black
lives by far than anyone who marched in BLM protests
and argued for defunding the police ever did in fact
that cost black lives. And most of you out there, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, male, female,
all of you say, yeah, more cops would help. Why
(12:02):
can Democrats not say it? Because the base of the
Democrat party still believes that police are the problem. They
believe a lie. And I think this is why Trump
has cut through the noise and the results here. You know,
we sometimes talk buck and I think it's important that
(12:23):
there are two tracks on everything. Is it politically smart
and does it actually make the country better? Sometimes those
don't overlap.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Here they do.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It's both politically smart and the country is better if
we lower the overall rate of violent crime. And Trump
has cut through the noise. And right now the debate
we're having in the summer of his first term is
should we have more police? And is Trump trying to
lower a violent crime too aggressively? It's brilliant. I just
(12:53):
I got to give them credit for it. It is
absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And we're gonna have more for you, by the way,
because right now, just a couple of minutes ago, Trump
started a cabinet meeting, and you know what that means.
It's Trump aethon everybody. He's got stuff on the economy,
on crime, on Ukraine, on everything. We, because we have
the best team in the radio business, are monitoring in
real time as we talk to you, bringing you all
of the highlights of this. We might even join it
(13:17):
live if he gets onto a particular topic that we
think is necessary to get into every detail about but Clay,
the trumpathon begins once again.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
No doubt, and we were just talking about violent crime.
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
Welcome back into Clay anback. We got President Trump in
a cabinet meeting right now. He is talking about the economy,
about tariff jobs, energy prices. He said, one hundred thousand
additional tons of American made steel is hitting the market
because of his policies. Let's let's join the President right now.
Inside that cabinet meeting.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Forget.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
We lost fifty five percent of our auto production over
the last thirty five years. Fifty five percent. Were the
auto capital of the world, like there was nobody even
think about challenges. We lost fifty five percent of it
to Mexico, Canada, China, lot to China and other countries.
(15:58):
And it's all coming back. We will be bigger a
couple of years, will be bigger than we ever were.
We'll be more dominant, we'll be bigger. We make great
product too, We're starting to make really great product. We're
going to be bigger than we ever were. We're going
to be at the level that it was when we
were the only one that really we sold to the world,
and we're going to be back selling to ourselves and
(16:19):
other parts of the world. It's not going to be
the same, but it's going to be equally as important
as it was in the heyday thirty years ago. But
we lost more than fifty percent of the automaking capacity.
In fact, the unions, the auto unions, as you know,
the top guy didn't know me, didn't like me, and
now he likes me. It says, man, I can't believe
(16:39):
what Trump has done but the auto workers voted for me.
They understood better than anybody else, the auto workers, the
Teamsters voted for me. Teamsters are great. They all voted
for me. Nobody, no Republican has ever gotten the support
of the teamsters and the auto workers, and now the
head of the auto workers.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I've been so amazing on television.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Then they can't even believe what happened. And I told
them all what was going to happen.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Clay, We'll come back.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Into this year in a moment and talk about some
of what Trump is laying out there. But he is
very proud of the economic record so far. It's only
what's seven eight months into the administration, and there's a
lot more to come, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And again, I just think the public availability of Trump.
Remember I maybe the most ridiculous of all the Trump
charges were that the twenty fifth Amendment should be brought
to bear in his first term. No one can say
it now after all the Joe Biden revelations, But just
think about how wild that accusation was. And there's a
clip out there, maybe we could play it for you.
(17:43):
Because of Trump being aggressively questioned about his health in
the first term, compared to the cover up of Biden.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
In Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. Okay, I've got a theory for
you here, Buck, And sometimes my theories you sign on
to and you think, hey, you know what, this actually
makes complete sense, and other times you think this is crazy.
So let me give you first props on one of
your theories. We start off the show with Joe Scarborough,
(19:16):
and you said, I think Joe Scarborough is setting the
table to run for president last week or the week before,
And when I see these clips, I can't help but
think Joe Scarborough is trying right now to carve himself
a lane as a Bill Clinton like Democrat candidate, and
(19:39):
there is going to be, I think, a massive battle
on the left to see who can be the wokest
like we saw in the twenty twenty primary. Remember when
everybody raised their hands basically to say who supports abortions
for trans like all this crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Remember that question trans illegal aliens? We need to be
paying for the abortions of trans illegal aliens? Yes, where
you're you're sitting there and you're trying to figure out.
I feel like Allan in The Hangover part one, where
you could see him trying to do the math in
his head to figure out what exactly is going on there.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And so there's gonna be this huge race to that side.
But Joe Biden actually ended up de nominee by being
somewhat moderate. As we point out and you point out
on the show regularly, he never supported defund the police.
Joe Biden was never dumb enough, even with his clear
cognitive issues to go full left wing. Now he governed
(20:40):
full left wing, but he didn't run full left wing.
With that in mind, there's going to be a lane
for someone. It might be Rama Manual, it might be
Gavin Newsom who's trying to kind of get into that lane.
It might be somebody like Joe Scarborough, might be Dwayne
the Rock Johnson. People are now talking about The Rock
running as a Democrat. It wouldn't shock me if there
(21:02):
is somebody who runs as a sane capitalist alternative to
socialists like Mom Donnie. Okay, with that is the prelim.
I think what you're seeing right now is people in
positions of power in blue states are making awful decisions
for their constituents now that are entirely predicated on trying
(21:26):
to get a larger constituency.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And run for president of the United States. For instance, JB. Pritzker.
I believe we have audio from JB. Pritzker.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
There's no way if he has a functional brain, and
I don't believe he's a complete and total moron that
he doesn't believe that having more police. Same thing with
Brandon Johnson, but he's not going to be a national candidate.
I want to just play these contrasts for you. Here
is a black Chicago resident saying, we would love to
(21:57):
have more National Guard true pops in the city of
Chicago because way too many people are dying, kids in particular.
Listen to this resident cut five.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
I will them both to stop the political theater, and
it that means bring our National Guard head for presidents,
then so be it, because we got to do something.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Children are dying. Okay, children are dying.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
This is a common sense Chicago residents saying, hey, we
would support this.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Listen to JB.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Pritzker, who has to recognize that this would likely be helpful,
but needs to fight Trump because he sees it as
better for his political ambitions. Listen to him this morning.
This is cut six.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at
the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say,
mister President, can you do us the honor of protecting
our city? Instead, I say, mister President, do not come
to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.
Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks
(23:01):
have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and
are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy.
Most alarming, you seem to lack any appropriate concern, as
our commander in chief for the members of the military
that you would so callously deploy as pawns in your
ever more alarming grabs for power.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
He can't believe this, buck. This is entirely an early
audition for the Democrat primary from Newsome, from Pritzker. They're
doing things that are actually worse for the citizens they
represent because they see it as beneficial for their presidential ambitions.
And that's almost entirely what we're seeing take place right now.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well, we all know that phrase.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and
expecting a different result, that's a defining characteristic of the
Democrat Party on crime specifically and more generally. I think
on really everything, real communism, real Democrat stuff has never
been tried on this issue. What exactly does does pritt
Goer think it's okay that there were I don't know
(24:09):
what the number. I think it was like almost six
hundred last year and almost seven hundred the year before,
something like that, murders in Chicago murders. There more murders
in Chicago, and I think there are in the entire
United Kingdom. I'm pulling that out of thin air, but
I think it's probably true. It's crazy, or certainly than
there are in London.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And you look at this and you say to yourself,
why do we have to accept this as the status quo?
If it doesn't have to be that here's the real
question for Democrats. Do we have to accept that five
hundred people are going to get killed in Chicago every
year murdered. That's more than one a day, just beyting
murders every day in Chicago. I mean, what, you know,
(24:47):
why is that something we have to accept as a society.
Why is that a price that we have to pay?
And you know I admitted about this, Clay.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
It is amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know, I'll get it to some of the Abrago
Garcia stuff coming up here in the second hour. But
the the emotion with which these libs approach an alleged
MS thirteen gang member slash human trafficker who is not
an American. No one disputes this guy is in illegal
this guy is not American, he is not.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Supposed to be here. He's and they're so upset about
him being sent to some other country.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But they're not upset about the fact that more than
a person a day gets killed every day in Chicago,
almost a person or day gets killed every day. In
DC it's probably every other day. No emotion about that
at all. No candlelight vigils, no hymns in the streets,
no songs or whatever. Abrego Garcia. We need to protest
the violence that's going on in American cities. By the way, Clay,
(25:41):
we know it doesn't have to happen everywhere, because it
doesn't happen in San Francisco, it doesn't happen the same
degree it happens to Chicago and Boston, so it can
be better. So why not try to make it better.
I mean, this is and you see with someone like
Brandon Johnson, I don't think we need more cops. Why
we need more violence interrupters? Why I don't think we
need more cops.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Why.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I mean, it's like talking to a robot.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
They've been programmed that cops are bad and law enforcement
is bad. They've been programmed that law enforcement is inherently
in this country racist. That is what the Democrat Party
believes that if you enforce the law more.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
The mayor of LA.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Said this, Clay Druce said, this results in going after
young black and brown men more. Therefore we should not
do this. That is her actual stated feeling. Yeah, and
this is where the counter punch is devastating. It's just
absolutely devastating. We delivered it. I haven't heard anybody in
the political universe deliver it. And the counter punch. I
(26:42):
box this morning, I box three days a week. I
think that most people are pretty decent at throwing punches.
They have no idea to watch for a counter punch.
CounterPunch is what gets you knocked out, usually because you
leave yourself wide open for it. When Karen Bass, the
mayor of Los Angeles, says, if we have too many police.
They're gonna arrest black and brown people too much. The
(27:06):
immediate devastating CounterPunch is, why are you worried about what
happens to black and brown criminals more than you're worried
about the innocent people being victimized by black and brown criminals.
They happen to be black and brown too. It's an
easy response that I think is devastating. And one of
the ways that Democrats do this, I might add, is
is they propagate, and this is at the heart of
(27:27):
the BLM protests and everything else. They propagate lies, which
body cameras have done more than anything else to disabuse
the public of. For people who are paying attention, they
propagate the lie that cops day in and day out
in this country. I mean, Clay, I live in Miami.
I think seventy or eighty percent of the cops You're Latino, right, Yeah,
(27:49):
and so is the population.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
So are those cops all racist?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Like you start to look in the NYPD, I think
is forty forty plus percent minority?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Are they all racist to?
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Well, by the way, the anti cop left will say yes.
The anti cop left will tell you that even black
police officers in American cities are inherently part of a
system that is racist. Therefore, they are engaged in racism,
even if it is subconscious. You know, this is the
circular logic and the nonsense. This is the is mom
donniism and Ibram x Kendy and you know, this is
(28:22):
what they believe. By the way, I pulled that number
off the top of my head and I was like,
that sounds right. It is right, six hundred and twenty
nine murders in Chicago last year, Clay, in the entire
United Kingdom there were five hundred and thirty five murders.
There are more murders in Chicago than in the United Kingdom,
which has another stat I'm pulling off the top. I
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had forty million people. Ish, you know something like that.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It is again one of the geniuses of Trump. I'm sorry,
seventy million. I was way off. Whoa samsunnight, I was
way off seventy million people. What is one of the
geniuses is Trump? Of Trump?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Is he looks at things and says, why do we
accept this? Lots of politicians just want to work on
the edges. They want to work on the margins. They
don't want to actually take any risks. They don't want
to believe in big things because believing in big things
and taking risks can get you kicked out of office.
(29:21):
One of the things that unfortunately has disappointed me in
the era that we've been doing this show is lots
of politicians are cowards. They want to stay far behind
leaders and just kind of drift in their wake so
they don't really get noticed. They're not actually trying to
change anything. They're just trying to keep their jobs. And
(29:42):
Trump is trying to change things, and that's very different.
Why you know, as we're doing this, I have on
mute on the one of the monitors in the studio.
Here I have there's a reporter who is attacked in DC.
Violent you know, victim of a violent crime, who's having
an exchange right now with President Trump. So I can
only see the text below. We will pull this though,
(30:04):
because I'm sure this is and Clay, You've seen this
again and again every time some you know, low testosterone
soy drinking MSNBC watching journal. Maybe they live in the
general DC vicinity, but they don't live in the you know,
every time they're like, DC's not that dangerous. You'll see
a common right below, including for Democrats, were like, actually
(30:26):
it is I got attacked. You know, my car got
stolen six months ago. I mean, everybody knows that this
is the truth. Democrats have just been lying about it totally.
And Trump has seen this. And the genius of Trump
is and I think this comes back to what he
does for a living. He is, in fact a builder,
and builders are typically trying to fix problems. They're trying
(30:47):
to create things that are better than what pre existed.
And he's looking at this and he's saying, why are
we accepting twenty some odd thousand murders a year? Why
don't we actually drive down the rate of crime? And
I do think the graphic that really got to Trump
and many of his people was looking at the rates
of murder in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Compared to all the other world capitals.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Absolutely clay And because there's are that's that's a national
it's our capital. If you live in Montana or you
live in Northern Virginia, DC is our capital. Okay, you
know we should be proud of our national capital.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And we should. And I know a lot of you're like, fuck,
it's all democrat. Hell hold yeah, exactly. It shouldn't be
that way. It shouldn't be the situation.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
That has unfolded there as long as it has. And
Clay again, I grew up in New York City where
we had twenty two hundred murders when I was in
junior high twenty two hundred murders in New York City. Yeah,
and by the time I was finishing high school it
was like five hundred, and it got down to about
two ninety I think in the and the absolute drop
(31:50):
in the after the Bloomberg administration and finished cleaning things up.
So my point here is, you know, the biggest enemy
the Democrats have on the crime issue is numbers. The
biggest problem they have is numbers or statistics. When you
look at what's actually going on and what should be
possible and where this could go, how much better things
could be, There's no doubt.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
We'll talk about this, We'll take some of your talkbacks,
will continue to react Trump, as we said in the
midst of a cabinet meeting right now and obviously talking
about a huge variety of different topics. We'll be pulling
cuts and discussing what he is discussing with all of
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Back, baby. I love it.
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I'm taking my fourteen year old. We're going to go
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Looking forward to being there to watch that game. Can't
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Cannot wait to see how the LSU Clemson game go.
There are so many awesome, huge games going on in
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All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
We've got some very interesting exchanges between President and Trump
and the press. Pretty much always happens when Trump is
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Speaker 3 (34:27):
We will get into it.
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(35:11):
The full video. I will let Clay tell us the details.
All I remember about this is that it is one
hundred pushups forty pull ups in five minutes.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Is that right on?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
One hundred push ups, fifty pull ups, fifty pull ups. Okay,
And they tried to do it in under ten like
some Senator Mark Wayne Ullin out there from Oklahoma did
it in three and a half. It crushed me. I
tried it last night. My fourteen year old recorded it
push ups. I could do hundreds of push ups, I
(35:42):
mean not all at once, but if you told me
in ten minutes, how many push ups could you do?
I think I could do three hundred push ups in
ten minutes. The pull ups killed me.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
If anybody wants to do this challenge, it's basically just
a pull up challenge.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Fifty pull ups a lot. Buck.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I tried to do one at a time because I
knew I was going to be bad at them, and
by the end I could barely I had to take
substantial breaks.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I did it in eleven twenty four.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
By the end, I could barely get myself up to
the pull up bar even with taking time.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I'm just if you want to see Clay either meeting
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(36:41):
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Speaker 3 (36:43):
Some serves soon. Put those up on the YouTube. But
go subscribe to YouTube. No doubt it was. It was
tough gooldn't challenge yourself though,
Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We
appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we
are rolling into the show today. Our friend, Congressman Chip
Roy from Texas will be on in the second hour.
He is running for Attorney General of the state of Texas.
And by the way, that primary is in March. So
(00:23):
I know, we got the New York City mayor's race,
We've got the election going on in Virginia and in
New Jersey. Buck, do you remember for the first several
years we did this show, everything was basically a loss,
except we got the win in Virginia, like in that
first year, and that then we had to kind of
(00:43):
feed off that for a long time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Youngkin gave us, gave us some hope, some prayer for
the future. And then the midterms it was it was
Governor Ron in Florida. Credit where it's due massive.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We did win.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We did win the House of Representatives back, but it
was still a tough but there was a lot of situations.
I feel like every day we wake up now they're
celebratory spirit as there should be across the country for
most of the decisions that are being made. But in
the first several years that we were together, there were
not a lot of victories to celebrate. So I do
(01:15):
think as we get ready for the Virginia, New Jersey election,
New York City mayor, and then obviously as we move
into next year, the Texas primary is going to be
a major, major event in March of twenty twenty six.
As I know many of you and Texas are aware,
but as the state of Texas is football mad, frankly,
(01:36):
almost unlike any other state in America, with high school,
college and pro it's going to be hard to cut
through the noise in Texas in September, October, November, December,
if the Cowboys actually win, sorry Cowboy fans, even January two,
when the playoffs happen. And as a result that primary,
you're going to look up from the holidays and it's
(01:56):
going to be right on top of you. So that
is underway. We will talk with Chip Roy, who is
running for attorney general there. I would say it is
a huge event. We will be covering quite a lot
as we move closer to that. But President Trump, I believe,
about to have his seventh public cabinet meeting. Remember Joe
(02:16):
Biden didn't have a cabinet meeting, and everybody just forgot
and didn't pay very much attention to it. For basically
the final two years of his tournament office, there were
no meetings as they were hiding him. Trump had three
different public events yesterday, buck he basically had rolling press
conferences for hours. I bet he'll be talking for hours today.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm just gonna try to give credit where it's due here, Clay,
because we always like to call balls and strikes. As
you know, hiding Biden was the right move.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, this is We can talk about how.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Like depraved and craven and everything it is, but hiding
Biden was actually a pretty sound strategy. And I'm gonna
go even further. I think hiding Kamala probably would have
been a better move for them. I know that they
had maybe got too loud for her to appear in public,
but it's better to have MSNBC pretend that you know
who these people are than to actually see what they
(03:10):
say when they don't have a script or a teleprompter
in front of them. Remember, they didn't actually do an
interview with Kamala Harris for a month, and then when
they finally did one, I think it was with Dana
Bash if I remember correctly, on CNN, and Tim Walls
was there with her. So they waited until I mean
(03:31):
late August, if I remember correctly, before they even let
her talk to anybody, which raised expectations. Unfortunately, even with
that going on, she couldn't meet them. But I do
think there is a story that is becoming pretty intriguing,
and it is Joe Scarborough probably and potentially still smarting
(03:53):
from the public humiliation that he suffered because he said
that Joe Biden twenty twenty four was just as good
of a Biden as he had ever seen, in fact,
the best version of Biden. And after the June twenty
seventh debate, I think Joe Scarborough was embarrassed on a
level that it's hard to be embarrassed in public prognostication.
(04:18):
And I think he has decided a bit to go
to war with the diehard nbcview MSNBC viewing audience. Remember
he and Mika initially were very favorable with Trump, then
that relationship turned negative. Then they went and kissed the
ring after Trump won reelection, which led many of the
(04:39):
people in the NBC audience to be furious. The MSNBC
audience has not been galvanized this time by the Trump administration.
In fact, audience ratings have continued to be weak and
to frankly collapse. And maybe that has emboldened Joe Scarborough
to actually start being a journalist. Because Buck, you shared
(05:02):
this this morning, I went and watched and I got
to give Joe Scarborough credit he had on Chicago may
Or Brandon Johnson. And let's set the table here, I
think brilliantly in the summer months here, Trump has changed
the agenda from from basically tariffs and worrying about the
economy because we're at records stock market highs, and he
(05:24):
has said we're going to go to war with violent crime,
and DC was the first place that he decided to
bring out the National Guard. I believe we are now
and correct me if I'm wrong, Team, I think we're
at either day twelve or day thirteen without a murder
in DC. Overall crime rates have fallen precipitously, and now
(05:45):
Trump is talking about bringing the National Guard to Chicago
and Baltimore and other American cities that he believes have
far too high of a crime rate. And Joe Scarborough
asked Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this morning on MSNBC, A
very simple question, would having more police officers make the
(06:10):
city of Chicago safer? And I want to play I'm
going to call for each of these in succession. I
want to play you the mayor of Chicago refusing to
answer if more police officers would make the city safer?
Here is part one.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Would you also like to get federal funding to help
put five thousand more cops on the street in Chicago?
Would that help drive down to crimes?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Well, Look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I understand nanks here.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
If you've talked about the other things you want, and
I said, those are good and important programs, But I'm
asking also, would five thousand more police officers on the
street in Chicago be helpful to go along with all
of those social programs and a lot of cities are
engaging in and having success with.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Look, here's the.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Best play I can put it, Joe, is that in
the nineties when I was in high school, we had
three thousand more police officers and we had nine hundred
people being murdered every single year in Chicago. It's just
not policing alone.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, this continues, can just real you know the way
we set this up is would more cops be helpful?
Joe Scarborough is actually conceding as part of his questioning. Here,
he says, if we give you all the money you
want for your violence interrupters, for your your you know,
(07:33):
community organizers, for your all these, by the way, things
that do absolutely nothing, I know you'll find some radicals.
We'll say, oh my gosh, the history of violence interrupters.
Please give me a break. Okay, social workers, He says.
With all that, would you also want more cops? And now,
Claire you can continue to work through that. It's astonishing
this guy, the Mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Here is part two.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, he of the recent six
percent approval rating, asked again, yes or no? Would five
thousand cops help MSNBC this morning?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Of course we will.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Of course, I know it's not pacing alone. But I
know it's not policing alone. You've told me everything else
you want. I'm curious and this is this does come
down to an ideological difference between between people. Do you
believe that the streets of Chicago would be safer if
there were more uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America
would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Look, Okay, that's not the question I asked. My question is,
and I just idiots or no.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer
if you got all of those other extraordinary programs put
back into place, which do have.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
A history of being successful.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
If that's if that's complimented by having five.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Thousand more cops on.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The streets of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to
just police officers on what I'm saying, that is an
antiquitated approach.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, it continues, Buck, And I just think I gotta
give Scotch Joe Scarborough credit. He sounds a bit like
me back in the day with Mike Pince when you
just can't get an answer from a question that you
think is actually an important one. Here is more Brandon Johnson,
mayor of Chicago, having his feet held to the fire
on a simple question, Hey, would more cops help cut three?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I'm saying you've.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Invested in hearing what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social
programs are extraordinarily important. I just need a yes or
a no, and then this will be the last time
I ask, if you get all of those other social
programs that that eight hundred million that New York City does,
Los Angers and other people do with great success, would
(09:56):
an additional five thousand cops on the streets Chicago help
compliment those programs to make Chicago safer.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Look, we are working hard to make sure that our
police department is fully supported. I don't believe that just
simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is
the answer. What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing
is policing, and mental and behavior health care services is
policing and youth employment.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Okay, Clay is important. I think Joe Scarborough is basically
begging this guy begging. He's like, hey, moron, I'll give
you everything else you want. Will pretend all these programs
that don't do a darn thing in any of these
places that anyone can measure will also be in place here.
But can you just say more cops would help with
(10:49):
the crime problem. Could you please just say it? He
won't say it the mayor, And it's because the mayor
of Chicago is anti cop. He's anti law enforcement. He
thinks cops are the problem. He thinks the crime in
the South and west sides of Chicago, where there are
a lot of homicides, even for an American city, a
lot of homicides going on. He thinks that the issue
(11:09):
is mass incarceration and over policing Clay. That's the bottom line.
And he won't change his mind. Yes, and I think
this is brilliant of Trump. I just think it is
absolutely brilliant. And I am staggered at the stupidity of
(11:30):
Democrats responding to this.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Trump is trying to lower violent crime.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
In so doing, he is going to save more black
lives by far than anyone who marched in BLM protests
and argued for defunding the police ever did in fact
that cost black lives. And most of you out there, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, male, female,
all of you say, yeah, more cops would help. Why
(12:02):
can Democrats not say it? Because the base of the
Democrat party still believes that police are the problem. They
believe a lie. And I think this is why Trump
has cut through the noise and the results here. You know,
we sometimes talk buck and I think it's important that
(12:23):
there are two tracks on everything. Is it politically smart
and does it actually make the country better? Sometimes those
don't overlap.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Here they do.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It's both politically smart and the country is better if
we lower the overall rate of violent crime. And Trump
has cut through the noise. And right now the debate
we're having in the summer of his first term is
should we have more police? And is Trump trying to
lower a violent crime too aggressively? It's brilliant. I just
(12:53):
I got to give them credit for it. It is
absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And we're gonna have more for you, by the way,
because right now, just a couple of minutes ago, Trump
started a cabinet meeting, and you know what that means.
It's Trump aethon everybody. He's got stuff on the economy,
on crime, on Ukraine, on everything. We, because we have
the best team in the radio business, are monitoring in
real time as we talk to you, bringing you all
of the highlights of this. We might even join it
(13:17):
live if he gets onto a particular topic that we
think is necessary to get into every detail about but Clay,
the trumpathon begins once again.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
No doubt, and we were just talking about violent crime.
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
Welcome back into Clay anback. We got President Trump in
a cabinet meeting right now. He is talking about the economy,
about tariff jobs, energy prices. He said, one hundred thousand
additional tons of American made steel is hitting the market
because of his policies. Let's let's join the President right now.
Inside that cabinet meeting.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Forget.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
We lost fifty five percent of our auto production over
the last thirty five years. Fifty five percent. Were the
auto capital of the world, like there was nobody even
think about challenges. We lost fifty five percent of it
to Mexico, Canada, China, lot to China and other countries.
(15:58):
And it's all coming back. We will be bigger a
couple of years, will be bigger than we ever were.
We'll be more dominant, we'll be bigger. We make great
product too, We're starting to make really great product. We're
going to be bigger than we ever were. We're going
to be at the level that it was when we
were the only one that really we sold to the world,
and we're going to be back selling to ourselves and
(16:19):
other parts of the world. It's not going to be
the same, but it's going to be equally as important
as it was in the heyday thirty years ago. But
we lost more than fifty percent of the automaking capacity.
In fact, the unions, the auto unions, as you know,
the top guy didn't know me, didn't like me, and
now he likes me. It says, man, I can't believe
(16:39):
what Trump has done but the auto workers voted for me.
They understood better than anybody else, the auto workers, the
Teamsters voted for me. Teamsters are great. They all voted
for me. Nobody, no Republican has ever gotten the support
of the teamsters and the auto workers, and now the
head of the auto workers.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I've been so amazing on television.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Then they can't even believe what happened. And I told
them all what was going to happen.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Clay, We'll come back.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Into this year in a moment and talk about some
of what Trump is laying out there. But he is
very proud of the economic record so far. It's only
what's seven eight months into the administration, and there's a
lot more to come, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And again, I just think the public availability of Trump.
Remember I maybe the most ridiculous of all the Trump
charges were that the twenty fifth Amendment should be brought
to bear in his first term. No one can say
it now after all the Joe Biden revelations, But just
think about how wild that accusation was. And there's a
clip out there, maybe we could play it for you.
(17:43):
Because of Trump being aggressively questioned about his health in
the first term, compared to the cover up of Biden.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Speaking of health, Mom Donnie, we all saw it. It
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
In Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. Okay, I've got a theory for
you here, Buck, And sometimes my theories you sign on
to and you think, hey, you know what, this actually
makes complete sense, and other times you think this is crazy.
So let me give you first props on one of
your theories. We start off the show with Joe Scarborough,
(19:16):
and you said, I think Joe Scarborough is setting the
table to run for president last week or the week before,
And when I see these clips, I can't help but
think Joe Scarborough is trying right now to carve himself
a lane as a Bill Clinton like Democrat candidate, and
(19:39):
there is going to be, I think, a massive battle
on the left to see who can be the wokest
like we saw in the twenty twenty primary. Remember when
everybody raised their hands basically to say who supports abortions
for trans like all this crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Remember that question trans illegal aliens? We need to be
paying for the abortions of trans illegal aliens? Yes, where
you're you're sitting there and you're trying to figure out.
I feel like Allan in The Hangover part one, where
you could see him trying to do the math in
his head to figure out what exactly is going on there.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And so there's gonna be this huge race to that side.
But Joe Biden actually ended up de nominee by being
somewhat moderate. As we point out and you point out
on the show regularly, he never supported defund the police.
Joe Biden was never dumb enough, even with his clear
cognitive issues to go full left wing. Now he governed
(20:40):
full left wing, but he didn't run full left wing.
With that in mind, there's going to be a lane
for someone. It might be Rama Manual, it might be
Gavin Newsom who's trying to kind of get into that lane.
It might be somebody like Joe Scarborough, might be Dwayne
the Rock Johnson. People are now talking about The Rock
running as a Democrat. It wouldn't shock me if there
(21:02):
is somebody who runs as a sane capitalist alternative to
socialists like Mom Donnie. Okay, with that is the prelim.
I think what you're seeing right now is people in
positions of power in blue states are making awful decisions
for their constituents now that are entirely predicated on trying
(21:26):
to get a larger constituency.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And run for president of the United States. For instance, JB. Pritzker.
I believe we have audio from JB. Pritzker.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
There's no way if he has a functional brain, and
I don't believe he's a complete and total moron that
he doesn't believe that having more police. Same thing with
Brandon Johnson, but he's not going to be a national candidate.
I want to just play these contrasts for you. Here
is a black Chicago resident saying, we would love to
(21:57):
have more National Guard true pops in the city of
Chicago because way too many people are dying, kids in particular.
Listen to this resident cut five.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
I will them both to stop the political theater, and
it that means bring our National Guard head for presidents,
then so be it, because we got to do something.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Children are dying. Okay, children are dying.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
This is a common sense Chicago residents saying, hey, we
would support this.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Listen to JB.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Pritzker, who has to recognize that this would likely be helpful,
but needs to fight Trump because he sees it as
better for his political ambitions. Listen to him this morning.
This is cut six.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at
the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say,
mister President, can you do us the honor of protecting
our city? Instead, I say, mister President, do not come
to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.
Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks
(23:01):
have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and
are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy.
Most alarming, you seem to lack any appropriate concern, as
our commander in chief for the members of the military
that you would so callously deploy as pawns in your
ever more alarming grabs for power.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
He can't believe this, buck. This is entirely an early
audition for the Democrat primary from Newsome, from Pritzker. They're
doing things that are actually worse for the citizens they
represent because they see it as beneficial for their presidential ambitions.
And that's almost entirely what we're seeing take place right now.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well, we all know that phrase.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and
expecting a different result, that's a defining characteristic of the
Democrat Party on crime specifically and more generally. I think
on really everything, real communism, real Democrat stuff has never
been tried on this issue. What exactly does does pritt
Goer think it's okay that there were I don't know
(24:09):
what the number. I think it was like almost six
hundred last year and almost seven hundred the year before,
something like that, murders in Chicago murders. There more murders
in Chicago, and I think there are in the entire
United Kingdom. I'm pulling that out of thin air, but
I think it's probably true. It's crazy, or certainly than
there are in London.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And you look at this and you say to yourself,
why do we have to accept this as the status quo?
If it doesn't have to be that here's the real
question for Democrats. Do we have to accept that five
hundred people are going to get killed in Chicago every
year murdered. That's more than one a day, just beyting
murders every day in Chicago. I mean, what, you know,
(24:47):
why is that something we have to accept as a society.
Why is that a price that we have to pay?
And you know I admitted about this, Clay.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
It is amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know, I'll get it to some of the Abrago
Garcia stuff coming up here in the second hour. But
the the emotion with which these libs approach an alleged
MS thirteen gang member slash human trafficker who is not
an American. No one disputes this guy is in illegal
this guy is not American, he is not.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Supposed to be here. He's and they're so upset about
him being sent to some other country.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But they're not upset about the fact that more than
a person a day gets killed every day in Chicago,
almost a person or day gets killed every day. In
DC it's probably every other day. No emotion about that
at all. No candlelight vigils, no hymns in the streets,
no songs or whatever. Abrego Garcia. We need to protest
the violence that's going on in American cities. By the way, Clay,
(25:41):
we know it doesn't have to happen everywhere, because it
doesn't happen in San Francisco, it doesn't happen the same
degree it happens to Chicago and Boston, so it can
be better. So why not try to make it better.
I mean, this is and you see with someone like
Brandon Johnson, I don't think we need more cops. Why
we need more violence interrupters? Why I don't think we
need more cops.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Why.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I mean, it's like talking to a robot.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
They've been programmed that cops are bad and law enforcement
is bad. They've been programmed that law enforcement is inherently
in this country racist. That is what the Democrat Party
believes that if you enforce the law more.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
The mayor of LA.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Said this, Clay Druce said, this results in going after
young black and brown men more. Therefore we should not
do this. That is her actual stated feeling. Yeah, and
this is where the counter punch is devastating. It's just
absolutely devastating. We delivered it. I haven't heard anybody in
the political universe deliver it. And the counter punch. I
(26:42):
box this morning, I box three days a week. I
think that most people are pretty decent at throwing punches.
They have no idea to watch for a counter punch.
CounterPunch is what gets you knocked out, usually because you
leave yourself wide open for it. When Karen Bass, the
mayor of Los Angeles, says, if we have too many police.
They're gonna arrest black and brown people too much. The
(27:06):
immediate devastating CounterPunch is, why are you worried about what
happens to black and brown criminals more than you're worried
about the innocent people being victimized by black and brown criminals.
They happen to be black and brown too. It's an
easy response that I think is devastating. And one of
the ways that Democrats do this, I might add, is
is they propagate, and this is at the heart of
(27:27):
the BLM protests and everything else. They propagate lies, which
body cameras have done more than anything else to disabuse
the public of. For people who are paying attention, they
propagate the lie that cops day in and day out
in this country. I mean, Clay, I live in Miami.
I think seventy or eighty percent of the cops You're Latino, right, Yeah,
(27:49):
and so is the population.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
So are those cops all racist?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Like you start to look in the NYPD, I think
is forty forty plus percent minority?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Are they all racist to?
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Well, by the way, the anti cop left will say yes.
The anti cop left will tell you that even black
police officers in American cities are inherently part of a
system that is racist. Therefore, they are engaged in racism,
even if it is subconscious. You know, this is the
circular logic and the nonsense. This is the is mom
donniism and Ibram x Kendy and you know, this is
(28:22):
what they believe. By the way, I pulled that number
off the top of my head and I was like,
that sounds right. It is right, six hundred and twenty
nine murders in Chicago last year, Clay, in the entire
United Kingdom there were five hundred and thirty five murders.
There are more murders in Chicago than in the United Kingdom,
which has another stat I'm pulling off the top. I
(28:43):
had forty million people. Ish, you know something like that.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It is again one of the geniuses of Trump. I'm sorry,
seventy million. I was way off. Whoa samsunnight, I was
way off seventy million people. What is one of the
geniuses is Trump? Of Trump?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Is he looks at things and says, why do we
accept this? Lots of politicians just want to work on
the edges. They want to work on the margins. They
don't want to actually take any risks. They don't want
to believe in big things because believing in big things
and taking risks can get you kicked out of office.
(29:21):
One of the things that unfortunately has disappointed me in
the era that we've been doing this show is lots
of politicians are cowards. They want to stay far behind
leaders and just kind of drift in their wake so
they don't really get noticed. They're not actually trying to
change anything. They're just trying to keep their jobs. And
(29:42):
Trump is trying to change things, and that's very different.
Why you know, as we're doing this, I have on
mute on the one of the monitors in the studio.
Here I have there's a reporter who is attacked in DC.
Violent you know, victim of a violent crime, who's having
an exchange right now with President Trump. So I can
only see the text below. We will pull this though,
(30:04):
because I'm sure this is and Clay, You've seen this
again and again every time some you know, low testosterone
soy drinking MSNBC watching journal. Maybe they live in the
general DC vicinity, but they don't live in the you know,
every time they're like, DC's not that dangerous. You'll see
a common right below, including for Democrats, were like, actually
(30:26):
it is I got attacked. You know, my car got
stolen six months ago. I mean, everybody knows that this
is the truth. Democrats have just been lying about it totally.
And Trump has seen this. And the genius of Trump
is and I think this comes back to what he
does for a living. He is, in fact a builder,
and builders are typically trying to fix problems. They're trying
(30:47):
to create things that are better than what pre existed.
And he's looking at this and he's saying, why are
we accepting twenty some odd thousand murders a year? Why
don't we actually drive down the rate of crime? And
I do think the graphic that really got to Trump
and many of his people was looking at the rates
of murder in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Compared to all the other world capitals.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Absolutely clay And because there's are that's that's a national
it's our capital. If you live in Montana or you
live in Northern Virginia, DC is our capital. Okay, you
know we should be proud of our national capital.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And we should. And I know a lot of you're like, fuck,
it's all democrat. Hell hold yeah, exactly. It shouldn't be
that way. It shouldn't be the situation.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
That has unfolded there as long as it has. And
Clay again, I grew up in New York City where
we had twenty two hundred murders when I was in
junior high twenty two hundred murders in New York City. Yeah,
and by the time I was finishing high school it
was like five hundred, and it got down to about
two ninety I think in the and the absolute drop
(31:50):
in the after the Bloomberg administration and finished cleaning things up.
So my point here is, you know, the biggest enemy
the Democrats have on the crime issue is numbers. The
biggest problem they have is numbers or statistics. When you
look at what's actually going on and what should be
possible and where this could go, how much better things
could be, There's no doubt.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
We'll talk about this, We'll take some of your talkbacks,
will continue to react Trump, as we said in the
midst of a cabinet meeting right now and obviously talking
about a huge variety of different topics. We'll be pulling
cuts and discussing what he is discussing with all of
you college Football's.
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Back, baby. I love it.
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I cannot wait to watch so many of the games.
I'm taking my fourteen year old. We're going to go
to the Alabama Florida State game. Never been to Tallahassee.
Looking forward to being there to watch that game. Can't
wait to watch Ohio State on the road against Texas.
Cannot wait to see how the LSU Clemson game go.
There are so many awesome, huge games going on in
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Speaker 2 (34:14):
All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
We've got some very interesting exchanges between President and Trump
and the press. Pretty much always happens when Trump is
having a press conference. In this case, he had a
cabinet meeting taking questions from the press assembled there.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
We will get into it.
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buddy Clay trying to do the Secretary heg Seth Physical Challenge.
(35:11):
The full video. I will let Clay tell us the details.
All I remember about this is that it is one
hundred pushups forty pull ups in five minutes.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Is that right on?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
One hundred push ups, fifty pull ups, fifty pull ups. Okay,
And they tried to do it in under ten like
some Senator Mark Wayne Ullin out there from Oklahoma did
it in three and a half. It crushed me. I
tried it last night. My fourteen year old recorded it
push ups. I could do hundreds of push ups, I
(35:42):
mean not all at once, but if you told me
in ten minutes, how many push ups could you do?
I think I could do three hundred push ups in
ten minutes. The pull ups killed me.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
If anybody wants to do this challenge, it's basically just
a pull up challenge.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Fifty pull ups a lot. Buck.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I tried to do one at a time because I
knew I was going to be bad at them, and
by the end I could barely I had to take
substantial breaks.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I did it in eleven twenty four.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
By the end, I could barely get myself up to
the pull up bar even with taking time.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I'm just if you want to see Clay either meeting
the meeting his challenge here or struggling mightily depends on
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(36:41):
reminds me, I'm gonna have to video.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Some serves soon. Put those up on the YouTube. But
go subscribe to YouTube. No doubt it was. It was
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