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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through
the Monday edition of the program. Lots to discuss from
Trump's press conference announcing that he was bringing additional resources
to bear to try to bring down an unacceptable level
of violent crime in DC. Democrats have predictably already lined
(00:26):
up in opposition to bringing crime down. I read for
you Hakim Jeffery saying there's no issue here, despite the
fact that Washington, d C. Has nearly triple the violent
murder rate of cities like Mexico City, twenty eight times
the violent crime rate of cities like London and Paris.
(00:49):
In most parts of the world, the capital city is
a jewel where crime is not tolerated to any degree
at all. And yet Democrats are now upset at the
idea that Trump may be trying to bring down the
violent crime rate in the process, potentially saving millions of lives.
(01:10):
In fact, the argument is so crazy out there that
go ahead and stop me if this surprises you, and
I bet it doesn't surprise any of you. On MSNBC,
they're saying Trump's goal to crack down on violent crime
is rooted in racism. Cut five.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
One of the things that we have seen over and
over from the president from his team, you know, Stephen
Miller saying it's like Baghdad in Ethiopia. They seem to
hold their harshest criticism sometimes for cities that are majority
black and brown.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Do you see that on what do you think that means?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So they had a breakdown in a discussion there. The
harshest criticism should go for cities that have violent crime rates,
no matter who is in charge, white, Black, Asian or Hispanic.
And there is no solution here. When Hakeem Jefferies is
coming out and saying this president can't be trusted basically
to lower the crime rate of Washington, DC, I just
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think to myself, my goodness, Trump has completely boxed the
Democrats in to now consistently taking a position that one
hundred percent of sane people should be in favor of
unless you are a professional violent felon in Washington DC
who makes a living engaging in rampant criminality. Everyone else
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should be in favor of this buck Like, some of
this stuff is just the idea that you would say, hey,
we want less people to get murdered, and Democrats would
raise their hands and say, actually, we don't need to
worry about that, because crime is not actually that bad.
And we just ran through all of the numbers on
national capitals, and look, if you want to argue, hey,
(02:55):
there's other cities that could use help to Yeah, I
would like to see the president frankly mobilized resources in
Saint Louis and Memphis and Kansas City and lots of
places out there where, Frankly probably still Detroit. The murder
rate is far too high, but why not use DC
as an example of what we can do to make
things better everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
We also ran the experiment of what happens when you
give the Democrats their wish with this stuff, depolicing, the
Ferguson effect, defunding, whatever you want to call it, it's
worse for everybody. BLM two point zero did nothing except
for bad things when it comes to policy and the
numbers and the reality and the stats. It might have
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made some people feel good about themselves in the moment.
They might have felt that their emotions, their anxiety, their
frustrations were expressed on the streets in one way or another,
hopefully not by looting a CVS, but there were some
people who obviously did that too. It did nothing except
make everything worse for everyone. We saw the results of
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what they the Democrats want. Now it's time for the
different approach. And I think that there's nothing that the
Democrats can say that will be an effective counter to
the results that I think Donald Trump can bring about
here in DC. I'll just say this, Clay. It was
true when I was in the Intel Division. Now it's
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called the Intel Bureau, by the way, so that they've
done a reorg at the NYPD, it's even bigger entity
than it was when I was there. But you could
speak to any field intelligence officer the FIO at an
NYPD precinct. Because they keep stats and numbers in data.
They want to know what's going on. They can tell
you who the bad guys are, and it's guys, okay,
I mean, the real problems are guys. We can just
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say that it is men who are the ones who
are doing the really serious violent crimes. You know, ninety
ninety five percent of the time, they can tell you
who the bad guys are. They can tell you who
the gangs that they need to be concerned about are.
But the question is do they have the resources and
the backing of the political authorities to do what is necessary,
meaning the commissioner and the mayor in the case of
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New York, similar thing in DC. You got to throw
the city council in there, and well the prosecutors actually
do something about it too, right. I mean that those
are the two angles of this that really matter. You know,
Judge Janine spoke about what she faces. I think we
should play this for everybody. I thought this was a
really important clip to hear. She's not even able to
do what should be done to keep people safe. This
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is cut twenty five. If the person's under eighteen, listen
to this.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
This is personal for me as well.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Last year I was robbed on the streets by.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Learned these teenage thugs had it done, got away with it.
Let's talk about the effort that between law enforcement, prosecutors
and judges, because it's a you know, recycling beltic.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
These kids go, they don't fear the police, say.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
They know it.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
If you talk about how we've gotten to get these
judges and put these kids behind bar, right, adult crimes
deserve adult penalties.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Here's the problem, Assuming that there's seventeen years older than
seventeen years old. I can get the case if they're
under eighteen years of age. I can only get the
case if it's murder, rob one rape. Even if they
shoot a gun but don't kill you, I can't get it.
So the law has to be changed. As the President said,
(06:15):
cashl it's fail that has to be changed. Or right then,
even assuming I get the case, I get jurisdiction, I
get a conviction. The DC Council has given the judges
the ability to give probation on shootings, and so then
it's up to them all of these things, the UTH Rehabilitation,
Incarceration Reduction Act, and now they want to seal records.
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So if we work hard we get a conviction, they
want to wipe it out.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So that needs all to be changed.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Just give give a comparison to this clay. In the
District of Columbia, the law enforcement bosses there in recent
years have made the decision that if you shoot somebody
but you're seventeen, you should get probation. But if you
walked into the Capitol building and so obade the ropes
in Statuary Hall, you should get solitary confinement. You should
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get a prison sentence, you should have your life ruined.
I think people see these things side by side and
they realize Democrats have completely lost the plot. They are
just on the wrong side of the crime issue top
to bottom, and enough is enough, and Trump is making
the right move here.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I think also this is how Trump is having massive
growth outside of just the white voter, because remember, Kamala
increased her support in twenty twenty four compared to twenty
twenty with female voters. White female voters in particular, over
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like the only group that voted for Kamala more in
twenty four than twenty twenty. But I think a lot
of black men in particular, and growing numbers of Hispanic
Asian people who live in cities, they're looking around in saying, okay,
we've given Democrats our votes for fifty some odd years,
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sixty years in many cases, what has that gotten us?
Record rates of crime, record rates of violence. And I
think this is one where everybody looks around and says,
how is this controversial? You know, we talk a lot about, hey,
we've got to bring bipartisanship back to America, reflexively being
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opposed to Trump saying I want to bring down the
crime in Washington, d C to me as a great
example of Democrats having broken ideas, because basically what they're
arguing for is, hey, we should be able to remain
completely in control of police, and more people should die.
That's what their argument boils down to, because I don't
see I mean, you tell me you worked in this,
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you saw it happen in New York. As you just
laid out, how is it remotely possible that this could
have a negative impact in Washington, d C. I'm not
sure it's going to be seismically successful, but there's no
world under which I can consider or conceive that having
more resources on the streets of DC would be anything
(09:09):
other than productive to everyone who lives in the DC
area when it comes to limiting violent crime.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, the opposition to this from Democrats, and we always
have to say, but this is a given anything Trump does,
they oppose. Part of the brilliance of this, as you've
pointed out, is instead of this being a really complicated
partisan issue where you know, oh, you know, should we
should we or should we not get rid of the
carried interest loophole that you know, hedge funds and private
(09:39):
equity guys using the tax code. Democrats, you know, Bernie
Sanders will be like, that's what the billionaires and the millionaires. Hey,
you know what, in that case, he's pretty much telling
the truth. But you know, those are issues where you
can get caught up in the in the uh, the
specifics of policy. This is how do we stop bad
things from happening on the streets of our capital. And
it's pretty straightforward. The Democrat op is to it as
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one they hate Trump. So that's Trump is aware of
and he knows steering into these issues where he makes
the Democrats look crazy. It's why he threw the trans
thing in there too, by the way, because he's just
saying He's like, yeah, you guys, you don't want to
stop people from getting carjacked in DC. We all know
what has to be done. You also think that two
hundred pound dudes should play against girls in high school athletics,
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and like that's normal, Like you people are nuts, And
he's right. But then beyond that, it's Democrats have created
this position, this narrative whereby because law enforcement disproportionately is
going and just by the numbers, by the facts, every
large city in America, this is the case, is going
to have a disproportionate incarceration effect on non white and
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specifically black and to a lesser extent, Latino but specifically
black residents of the city. It is, it's a disparate
impact scenario. It's inherently racist to more stringently or more
strictly enforce criminal laws. And what has to happen here
is Trump because they've they've just hammered that. They've hammered
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that point so many times for so long people believe
it without really thinking about it. The reality is that Washington,
d C. Which I think is a majority or close
to a majority black city. I think it is a
majority black city. I forget what the exact thing.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
May have just ducked back under fifty right, for much
of the last fifty years it has been a majority team.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Pull up what the latest is. But you know it's
a close to fifty percent black city. Look at how
many people. You're talking about a couple couple of thousand
people at any given time who maybe are involved in
the criminal justice system in DC, incarcerated or waiting to
be incarcerated. You know, a thousand people, fifteen hundred people.
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You're talking about hundreds of thousands of black residents in Washington,
DC who are committing no crimes, yes, who deserve to
live in safe neighborhoods, But one one career criminal will
engage in dozens, even hundreds of criminal acts, which makes
every there's a psychological impact of this. So Trump has
to show and this is what Juliani did in New York. Hey,
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by enforcing the laws, we make everybody safe, and disproportionately
black law abiding residents, who are the vast majority of
the residents of the District of Columbia benefit from these efforts.
But he has to show the result because the narrative
it gets very emotional for people. You'll have You'll have
black politicians in DC who will you know, because they
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don't want any accountability. They don't want to be part
of the you know, they want to continue to be
part of the problem, not part of the solution. Here.
They're gonna say Trump is racist because that's what their
donors want and that's what they're He has to show
the results, just like Juliani did in New York. And
then all of a sudden, you'll have black pastors because
this happened in New York coming forward saying, you know,
President Trump thank you for making my parishioners safer. Thank
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you for making our block safer. Thank you for encouraging
investment in black and black communities and black businesses. Thank
you for bringing that some of these areas to be
the communities that they can be. That's what will happen
if he shows the results. By the way, twenty twenty
census that I'm looking at right now, white forty percent, Black,
African American forty one percent, Hispanic Latino eleven percent, Asian
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five percent. That's what I'm looking at right now. So
the population of black as recently as twenty ten was
a majority black city. By the way, Buck nineteen seventy
seventy one percent of the district was black. So the
percentage of black residence has been declining fairly precipitously, still
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a small majority, but white people almost make a majority
of a district residents according to what I'm seeing right now.
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Play it hey, clan book just a heads up. You're
talking about the crime in Washington, DC and how they
claim that the crime is down. That's Boloney, the guy
who is the current local attorney general in Washington, d C.
This guy named Schwalb. He vowed that he would not
he's like Alvin Bragg. He vowed that he would not
(15:54):
prosecute crimes. And he even said when there was a
crime wave last year that you can't prosecute your way
out of crime. That's why crime is down because they're
not prosecuting them.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
We have this, they have lowered so many felony charges
to misdemeanors, and you heard Gene Judge Janine pointing out
that much of the crime is now under eighteens, and
we need to have a conversation about this larger scale.
When violent criminals know that seventeen year olds by and
large are going to get slaps on the wrist, they
(16:25):
actually sometimes are using these younger kids to commit violent
crimes because they know they can get away with them,
and it actually accelerates the violent crime rate to not
treat them in some way as significant violent offenders. Yeah,
there's a lot of ways that these statistics can be
manipulated to bring about outcomes that make it look like
(16:47):
it's better than it is. I mean, there's stunning stuff
when you dig into it.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I remember a few years ago, Clay somebody actually well
I said this on Tucker Show and then caught a
lot of attention from people across the entry that in Philadelphia,
the Krasner, who's an infamous infamous SOROSDA was declining any
prosecution on fifty percent of felon in firearms possession cases
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not illegal gun cases, you're a convicted felon who also
has an illegal gun, which is an even worse situation
was declining. Half of them got nothing. They just got
the case dismissed. So this is how crazy things have
gotten in some of these places. And they call it
like restorative justice. Restorative justice just means pandering to the
criminal element in society. That's what it actually is.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
By the way, DC has such aggressive gun restriction laws
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we are rolling
through the Monday edition of the program. Much to dive
into in the next hour. We will jump into Trump
(19:04):
a lot of answers of questions relating to the big
meeting scheduled in Alaska with Putin surrounding the Ukraine Russia War.
But last week we talked a lot about the redistricting
battle going on surrounding Texas, and we talked about, look,
(19:25):
whatever your ideas are on this, the idea that of
all the places the Texan lawmakers could have fled to,
they went to Illinois, which is one of the most
gerrymandered states in the entire country. Maybe JB. Pritzker was
paying for all their hotel rooms and everything else. But
even left wing media we're not able to overlook how
(19:48):
hypocritical that was. And so JB. Pritzker went on Meet
the Press to try to make the argument that this
was unacceptable. And we've got a couple of different cuts
here of Meet the I refer to this, I think
on social media book as the equivalent of the Russian
judge disqualifying the Russian skater. You've got the whole rig
(20:09):
job in your favor, and you still get absolutely lambasted
like this. Here is cut eleven.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
JB.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Pritzer Pritzker getting challenged on Meet the Press.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Every major group that grades the fairness of congressional maps
gives your state an f Common Cause and nonpartisan government
watchdog even says your map, and I'm going to quote
represents a nearly perfect model for everything that can go
wrong with redistricting. We talk about preserving democracy. How do
you preserve democracy if you're using the same tactics that
(20:41):
you've criticized Texas Republicans for.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
What they're talking about is a distraction.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
The reality is that the violation of people's voting rights
is what Texas is attempting to do.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
That's what's wrong with their efforts right now.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
And the fact that the President of the United States
knows it and nevertheless is asking them to do it,
that is what's wrong with what we're seeing right now.
Democracy is at stake.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
This is him, Yeah, yeah, this is him thinking I
can just talking points steamroll the fact that my argument
is is trash. The argument that is being made by
Democrats on this, especially people like Pritzker who are coming
from a state like Illinois, is garbage. All they're saying
is I don't like when they do what I do.
(21:29):
When they do it, it's bad. When I do it,
it's good. That is the sum total of their argument,
to be clear, there's nothing beyond that. It's Republicans are icky,
they're bad. I'm good, So I get to do the
things that they do, and you're supposed to like it
when I do it and not like it. And this
is this is like arguing with Toddlers. They have nothing
beyond that. Notice he didn't even engage with what she said.
You don't have to know anything about Jerry Mandrick. If
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you look at a map of congressional districts in Illinois,
you'd say to yourself, the heck is that?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Bizarre?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And she followed up, but I do think this is
important what you just said. And I think the media
is getting a little bit embarrassed. Even as shameless as
they are, they're starting to recognize that Texas is just
catching up and doing what California and Illinois and New
York already did. In other words, the redistricting in Texas
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is just lagging behind. And we had Greg Abbotta on
last week essentially in many ways making that argument. But
buck to her credit, Kristin Welker followed up after that
non answer from JB. Pritzker and said, wait a minute,
President Trump, as we told you on this program, one
forty four percent of the vote in twenty twenty four.
(22:40):
It was look Texas and Florida were actually not as
competitive as Illinois was. I believe if you look at
the raw numbers, Illinois, which is a deep blue state,
Trump got almost forty five percent of the vote. Listen
to cut twelve.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
I do want to look at the map of Illinois.
Let's take a look at this. Despite President Trump winning
forty four percent of the statewide vote in twenty twenty four,
Republicans hold only three of Illinois's seventeen districts. These districts
seem to be designed to maximize democratic advantage. What do
you say to those who argue that it's hypocritical for
you to criticize Texas for partisanship when your state also
(23:20):
drew mounts to boost your party's standing.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is
again violate the Voting Rights Act.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You talked about how rare it is to do what
he's doing, Yes, it is.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
What's even rarer is to do it at the behest
of the President of the United States, who's clearly attempting
to and says that he deserves to have five more seats.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
He's wrong, I mean, the non arty's got. He doesn't
even make an argument.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I just look at so many of these political figures,
and there are Republicans in this camp too. They're just
not serious, intellectual, intelligent individual rules who should be representing us.
I mean, JB. Pritzker is supposed to be one of
the four runner favorites for Democrats in twenty twenty eight.
He's been elected multiple times, I believe already in Illinois.
(24:12):
His daddy's a billionaire, and so he's a billionaire. He's
not an impressive person. And to go on knowing that
these questions are coming. First of all, if I were
advising JB. Pritzker, I would have said, hey, moron, we
shouldn't be the place that is hosting all these Texas democrats.
I know you want to get your face on television,
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but you're just going to expose our hypocrisy. And when
Kristen Welker is pointing it out, Kirsten Welker whatever her
first name is, is pointing it out on Meet the Press,
you know that you've really engaged in hypocritical behavior. This
is where you're getting to the we've been to the
border level when when you have journalists who are friendly
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journalists and you know, journals, we can all it's obviously
in quotes, but but when they won't go along because
your argument is so dumb that it will make them
look dumb too, that's the line here that Pritzker is
crossing the same thing he saw with lesser Hold, and
he's like, look, Kamala, I like you.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
You know, I'm proud. Although lesser Hold maybe is a
little bit actually of a centrist, but whatever put that aside.
I don't know, but clearly he like Kamala Harris, but
he's not going to sit there while she says we've
been to the border, and he's not going to, you know,
clap for that and pretend like that's normal. Of course
not right, that he's not going to look like a
moron on her behalf. And even Welker, I think here
is like, look, buddy, you guys do what they do,
(25:33):
So you got to explain this because I don't want
to sit here and look dumb. I'll be partisan, but
I don't want to look like I don't have enough
brain power to understand the argument. So I'm going to
have to ask you this question. And Prisker's answers are
are absurd. I mean, this is a guy who bought
the governorship of a very blue state and there's nothing
impressive about him. I mean, Pritzker heavy p needs to
(25:56):
figure out better answers to questions like this is a
great nickname, except team might use it in a positive context.
I do think that what you're seeing here is Trump
is delivering a masterclass. Time after time. Democrats try to
argue and they get embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And now we'll talk here in a minute about the
pivot that's going to happen with the big conversation going
on in Alaska on Friday, and just as they are
calling Trump a racist because he's trying to decrease the
amount of violent crime that's taking place in DC. I
guarantee you no matter what happens on Friday, they're going
to say, oh, Trump is putin stooge. They're going to
(26:40):
try with the whole Russia collusion and argument again. The
problem for them, I think is Democrats have reached the
boy who cries Wolfe scenario. We saw it in twenty
twenty four. I thought they would learn from it in
the first two hundred days of Trump. They have not.
They've continued with the same arguments and they're failing time
after time. We'll get to some of your talkbacks by
the way close out the hour. We'll dive into the
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Speaker 4 (28:49):
All right, welcome back into Play and Buck. We've got
a lot of things to dive into. I just wanted
to point this out Play because we're talking here about
the DC situation and Trump realizing law enforcement for a
thirty day period. It's forty eight hours first, and then
it can be extended, which Trump will do to thirty
days under the like DC Home Rule Act of nineteen
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seventy three I think it is, and then it can
be extended beyond that by Congress. But one thing again, Clay,
I'll never forget. I was on I was on CNN
back in the day when I need to do a
lot of terrorism analysis as a former counter terrorism analyst,
and they had me on and this is true story.
This is on Don Lemon Show, so you know it's
a true story. They showed a chart of Islamo fascist,
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Jie hottist violence, whatever you want to call it, right,
I mean, Muslim guys create doing suicide bombings and different
kind of terrorist attacks. And they broke it down by
you know, whether it was that or was like white nationalists.
And I remember I was looking at the chart and
there's a sea buck. It's really the number of gee,
hottiest terror attacks that have occurred. So you guys started
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after nine eleven. I mean, you exclude nine to eleven
from the data, right, So that's a very that's a
that's a big deal. It's a big thing if you're
to go back, you know, many many years, but you're
going to start at two thousand and two suddenly and
not show the early you know, this is the kind
of stuff that you used to deal with. Right, They
were clearly trying to skew the data. Notice that they
don't tell you this clay that the DC homicide rate.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Was at a.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
A multi decade high in twenty twenty three under Biden's
second to last year in office, two hundred and seventy
four homicides. Under Trump in twenty sixteen, it was one
hundred and thirty five. So you have the worst murder
surge I believe in DC history over a ten year
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period clay a murder surge to be embarrassed about for
the city of DC and the enforcement of the law there.
And now they're saying, oh, well, it's down thirty it's
down thirty percent from there. Oh so it's down from
the worst thing you've seen. They're playing games, everybody. This
is also important.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
The DC Police Union said quote it acknowledges and supports
the President's announcement this morning to assume temporary control of
the Metro police force. Here's the chairman, Greg Pemberton. Again,
these are DC police. We stand with the President in
recognizing Washington d C cannot continue on this trajectory. Crime
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is out of control, Our officers are stretched beyond their limits.
The federal intervention is a critical stop gap, but the
Police Department of d C needs proper staffing and support
to thrive. This can only happen by repealing the disastrous
policies that have driven out our best officers and hindered recruitment.
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So you have DC politicians and national Democrats now opposed
to the actual police force of Washington d C thanking
the President for the support that he is providing them. Again,
I just I look at this and I don't even
remotely see how we need to have way less murders
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in d C and way less way way woe or
violent crime is anything that anybody could be opposed against.
And then I see all the Democrat leadership lining up
because Trump has come out and aggressively against violent crime
and saying we don't need his help. Basically, or crime
is not actually an issue.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
It's stunning, though, and Clay, when you look at the
at the homicide trend in DC that got as bad
as it was twenty twenty three, two hundred and seventy four,
twenty twenty four, one hundred and eighty seven, for a
city of basically half a million people to have two
hundred and seventy four homicides. New York City at its best,
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at its best year got under three hundred. New York
City has eight point five million people. Everybody, the people
who are telling you DC is safe are lying to you,
all right, It's very important everyoneer stays. I have lived there,
Clay has lived there, We know many people that still
live there. It is a shockingly dangerous place for America's
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capital city, and it has been for far too long,
and it is a national embarrassment. This is a serious issue.
People are losing their lives. And again it's just Democrats,
you know, they they would I don't know what to
say that. They just would rather there be more carjackings
than they admit that Trump was right. I mean, is
that really where it is? I don't know how else
they can't win it. I would debate any Democrat anywhere
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in the country on the issue of DC crime and
make them look like an absolute moron.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
You too, Clay.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It wouldn't be hard to do. They would not be
able to make. All they'd be able to do is
talking about you. It's actually safe. It's gone down in
recent years. It's so racist to enforce the law. It's
not racist to enforce the law. In fact, I think
it's particularly racist when Democrats say that it's racist to
enforce the law. I think there's something very underhanded and
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very strange about that approach.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Well, we had a conversation with a guy who lost
his job over saying all lives matter on Friday during
the during the Black Lives Matter protest. If black lives
truly matter, then what President Trump is doing is likely
to save more black lives than anything that any Democrat
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politician has done in d C in a generation. So
if you truly believe, which I do, that black, white, Asian, Hispanic,
all lives matter, and that we should have a lower
rate of violent crime everywhere. If DC is if President
Trump is effective in d C, then I would say
that this would be a policy that could be applied
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in many different jurisdictions. I was talking about per capita.
What you're pointing out is really important because sometimes people
look at raw numbers, but a city like New York
City has about sixteen times the population of Washington, d C.
And yet DC and New York City have similar numbers
roughly of murder. That is unacceptable for DC. And a
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couple of things to remember wherever you live in the country.
You know people who are listening right now who live
in Alabama or who live in Louisiana but live in
red areas of those states where there's very little.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Crime, right.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
I mean, there's parts of Alabama where there's no crime, right,
But then there Birmingham has a lot of crime. This
affects everybody because it affects state resources. It affects the
capital city of the state or the main city of
the state, that you're in. The Democrat approach to dealing
with these problems top to bottom is a proven and
consistent failure with terrible results. And Democrats are hell bent
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on continuing to make the inner city suffer of whatever
city they're in charge in, you know, the poor areas,
the high crime areas, the disproportionately minority areas suffer because
they don't want to admit that Republicans have been right
all along. They don't want to admit that BLM was
a horrible failure that made everything worse for everybody, and
they certainly don't want to McClay. Trump's got a point,
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and this could actually be a turning point, not just
for DC, but for other cities and other models across
the country. I mean, we should have, I think, a
national conversation about murder, because to your point, we know
murders happen, unlike other violent crimes, which can be finessed.
If there's a dead body and somebody gets shot or stabbed,
usually we know about it.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Why shouldn't there be a goal to decrease murders in
this country by fifty percent during the Trump administration. That
seems like a goal we could all get behind I
love the idea, we'll talk about it more than that.