August 22, 2025 • 36 mins
In Hour 2 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the hosts deliver a dynamic and politically charged segment centered around President Donald Trump’s live remarks from the Oval Office. This hour focuses on key themes including urban crime reduction, economic revitalization, and the global significance of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, all framed within the broader context of Trump’s leadership and national pride.
President Trump announces a historic drop in crime in Washington, D.C., claiming zero murders in the past week and an 87% reduction in crime, attributing the success to National Guard and police collaboration. He criticizes local leadership, particularly Mayor Bowser, and warns of federal intervention if improvements stall. Trump outlines plans to replicate this model in Chicago and New York, positioning safety as a cornerstone of his urban renewal strategy.
The hour also highlights the economic impact of Trump’s tariff policies, with claims of $4 trillion collected and a 1,000-point surge in the stock market, reinforcing his narrative of economic strength and media dishonesty. Trump contrasts polls showing 94% favorability with others he labels as “fake news.”
A major focus is the 2026 FIFA World Cup, described as the largest and most complex sporting event in history, with 48 teams, 104 games, and 16 host cities across North America. Trump emphasizes the economic benefits—$30 billion in revenue and 185,000 American jobs—and the cultural opportunity to showcase America’s resurgence. The Kennedy Center, undergoing renovation under Trump’s direction, will host the group stage draw on December 5, symbolizing national pride and readiness.
The hosts discuss the cultural significance of sports, including soccer, tennis, and professional bull riding, and reflect on the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026. Trump’s strategy is framed as a stroke of genius, aligning crime reduction with global events to project strength and unity.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, second hour play and Buck kicks off. We're
going to join President Trump live right now from the
Oval Office talking about FIFA soccer stuff, the World Cup.
Here we go play.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is zero.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Sounds like it's a horrible thing to say, but I
might as well say it. Zero murders in the last
week since we've done this. That's the first time in
memory that that's happened, if you can believe it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
How pathetic that is to have to even say it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And I'm tired of listening to these people say how
safe it was before we got here.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It was unsafe. It was horrible, and.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Mayor Bowser better get her acts straight or she won't
be there very long because we'll take it over with
the federal government running like it's supposed to be run.
The numbers were horrible. It was a crime infested rat hole.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And they do have a lot of rats.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We're getting rid of them too, and we've made a
lot of progress. And it was extremely unsafe, and now
it's extremely safe.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We had virtually no crime.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The number was eighty seven percent, and I'm trying to
figure out where was the thirteen percent, because I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Think it existed.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The National guard has been unbelievable and they're working with
the police, and.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
They have some very good people in there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They have some people that shouldn't be police, actually, but
they have some great people there. And the Washington DC
is a whole different place, and Johnny, I'm sure you'll
be happy to hear that too. Actually, yes, but it's
a whole different place. People are excited again. They're going
out to restaurants again. That was the other thing I
saw in numbers that restaurant businesses down in the last week.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I know, restaurant business. You can't get into a restaurant
just really lying people.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And that's why people don't understand how bad and how
dishonest the process. I saw one poll that had I said,
nineteen percent favorable on what we're doing with Washington. Then
I saw another one as this ninety four percent favorable.
And I can tell you the ninety four percent is correct.
The others are fake just fake news. Got to get
(02:00):
their act together. So bad for our country, so sick actually.
So Washington, DC is really doing unbelievably well. And the
Kennedy Cenator where fixed. There is just there all morning
with contractors. We're making iteve it's going to be unbelievable.
It's got great bones, but it needs a lot of work.
The World Cup Drove will set up the group stage
(02:21):
of competition. Forty eight teams will play in one hundred
and four games across sixteen North American cities, from Seattle
to Vancouver to Atlanta to Miami.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's going to be so exciting for our country.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The twenty twenty six feet for World Cup will be
one of the largest and most complex events. This will
be one of the greatest events, one of the large
In a way, it's like Johnny said it better, it's
like having many super Bowls for a short period of time,
because each one of these games essentially is a super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Some of them are bigger than super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Actually, but they're essentially each one of these games is
like a super Bowl. The twenty twenty six for World
Cup will be the largest, most complex set of events
in sports history.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And the Kennedy Center.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Will give it a phenomenal kickoff, and we'll be involved
and they'll be working over there for quite a bit
of time. We have it all set that they can
stay there for the big events, the big press conferences
and everything else and they'll be in a very safe capital.
That'll be nice to you don't have to worry about
walking down the street. J honey, okay, but you could
handle yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I quote.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Already, FIFA is projecting six million loyal fans will attend
the World Cup events next year, and six billion more.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Are going to be watching back home.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And they think the six billion dollar number is going
to be actually a low number. And this will drive
more than thirty billion dollars into the US economy and
create one hundred and eighty five thousand American jobs in
a short period of time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Too. No sporting event.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Attracts more attention, more fans, more viewers, are more revenue than.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The FIFA World Cup. And again I'll just.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Say, it's the World Cup, and it's the biggest thing
there is in sports, and we have it, and I
got it in my first administration. And I was really
so what devastated, As devastated as I can be, I
don't have time.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
To get too devastated.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I was very happy that today, as you saw, the
group that does this, a government group, radical left group,
announced that Trump was right. Took in four trillion dollars
worth of tariffs that the four trillion dollars are going
to reduce the deficit by numbers far greater.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Than they ever expected or heard them.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And by the way, the stock market went up a
thousand points.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That was as of ten minutes ago. I can't tell
you what happens.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
A lot of things happened, but the stock market's up
almost a thousand points, and it's basically on the news
that the release it just came out from government that
the tariffs that everybody was talking about, that the whole
world respects us for because of what we did, the
tariffs are going to be at four trillion dollars. They're
(04:51):
going to reduce the deficit by four trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Mister West, President wouldn't deserve it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Two minutes of five. It's had a huge impact, and
the stock market is way up. But this will drive
more than thirty billion dollars in US economy and create
one hundred and eighty five thousand American jobs. No sporting
event attracts more attention or more fans or anything else.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I just looked forward to the draw.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
So we're going to have the draw essentially Johnny at
the Kennedy Center, and by that time it'll be an
even better shape. We're working on it. It'll take about
a year project to make it. It'll be great, it'll
be fantastic. You see the way this is looking look nice.
I can't tell you how much that gold costs a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
There's nothing like gold, and there's nothing like solid gold.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But this, this beautiful office, needed it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It had to be representative. When we took it over,
it was dirty, not clean.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I immediately changed the chair and had this beautiful desk
renovated and brought out by the White.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
House people that do this. They did a great job,
they said it out.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We have a craftsman who's great, but this was not
appropriate for the Oval Office what I took over. Now,
do you look at all those paintings. You're allowed to
turn back. All of these are great presidents, and they
were all in the vaults. They were in vaults for
some cases much more than one hundred years. And now
they're proudly hanging on the Oval Office walls. So they
(06:14):
can't imagine anybody changing it. But they were buried in
vaults for over one hundred years, many of them.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So it's very exciting. People come in. They really love it.
They love what we're doing here.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
They love what we're doing in DC, and they love
what we're doing most importantly in the country, in the world.
I'd like to ask Johnny to say a few words.
He's the head of the whole thing. He's been there
for all right.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
All right, let's cut out of rear the president if
he takes questions from anyone assembled there, because you know
they're going to ask about a whole range of things,
not just about FIFA. He covered a few interesting topics there, though, Clay,
as Trump does. Right there is the thing. Trump is
sitting there, he's got the World Cup trophy in front
of him, and he's got a few senior officials and
the head of FIFA who are gathered around him. But
(06:58):
he talked about DC crime, how we've gone a week
now without a murder in d C, which if you
look at the numbers, and he says it, he said,
when was the last time you heard that there was
a full week that passed without a single murder in
our nation's capital. And then he talked a bit about
the markets. Like Clay, he's fired up about the markets,
(07:18):
and they're up, the dows up a thousand points today
and tariffs, he says, are now set under his administration
to cut the deficit. I think he said three or
four trillion dollars was what the President said there. So
not only aren't we seeing the downturn in the economy
that the so called experts said what happened, we're seeing
(07:41):
We're seeing the markets boom and the debt starting to
be brought more in line with, you know, with the
reality of a debt that needs to be paid down
because of the tariffs that are going going into place.
But the World Cup, though, he says it'll be going
(08:02):
on in these cities, it is a real expo for America,
and it's gonna bring a lot of dollars and a
lot of attention to America and the cities that how
hosts these games play, and we're gonna have to go
to them.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I do.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I know a lot of you liked it, like to
dump on soccer and say it's not America's game or
it's not an American game. I still like it. It's fun,
fun to watch. Well, I think it'll be a great
event for the nation. Look, there are lots of sports
that I'm not haven't played. I've played soccer you've coached
soccer that I still enjoy.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Going to watch. I've never been on an ice skating
rink and hockey pads, and I enjoy going and watching
the Stanley Cup playoffs. It's just a phenomenal event, regardless
of what I just did. The professional bull riding some
of the AMC I've certainly never gotten on a bull
I've gone with my whole family to PBR probably I
(08:58):
don't know, four or five times in New York.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
We loved it.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, I went Friday and called one of the competitions
they have team sport competition in Nashville. I loved it.
And I know nothing about the intricacies of that sport
other than, hey, you know, big picture, it's good not
to fall off the ball, but it is pretty I
think phenomenal. And I do think where this all ties
(09:23):
in is Trump wants DC for next year for the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country to be
a crown jewel because so many people from around the
world are going to be coming there, And he also
wants the country to be in spectacular shape because the
amount of people from around the world that will be
(09:43):
traveling to the United States and staying in so many
different cities across the country. He wants the cities to
be safe. And I believe LA will be hosting a
ton and he's referenced the fact that they need to
do a better job of making that city safe. And
certainly New York and DC and everywhere else, and the
(10:05):
Kennedy Center. I think Trump sees as a cultural, culturally
impactful location, not far. I understand most of you haven't
ever been to the Kennedy Center. I lived in d C.
I think I've been to the Kennedy Center once. Maybe
did you ever go to the Kennedy Center for any events?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, I've been to the Kennedy Center for a few
different things.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I mean, it's a huge, spectacular location, but sometimes it
feels somewhat isolated from the larger My.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Mother used to perform there. If she's listening, she'll be smiling.
She used to perform as part of American Ballet Theater.
They performed at the Kennedy Center. That's their home home stage.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That is pretty awesome, So I hope she is listening
for that shout out. But I think having a central
location for all of this group, stage draw and everything
else to be taking place is something that Trump cares
about from a significant way because all the world will
(11:04):
have its eyes on America next year. This is the
most watched television event out there, and the probably the
second most watched television event is the Olympics, which will
be happening in la in twenty twenty eight. So both
of these Trump sees as an opportunity to send the
message to the rest of the world. America is back,
We are firing on all cylinders. Our economy is stronger
(11:28):
than it's ever been before. This I think Trump sees
as an important symbolic moment. Now we're going to be
joined by Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudolph Giuliani, who is
in charge basically of government relations assisting the World Cup,
which is a pretty cool job that he's got. He's
going to join us at two thirty two to break
all this down. We'll take some of your calls. By
(11:49):
the way, I'm sure that President Trump is By the way,
that draw for those of you that are big soccer
fans is going to take place on December fifth, And
if you are a soccer fan, where your team gets
slotted in the draw is very significant because typically there
are four teams and two will advance to the knockout stage,
(12:10):
so who you draw is a big part of whether
you get to advance to the knockout state.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, you don't want to be hanging out in the
same bracket as Brazil, Argentina, Spain, France. You want to
be away from those guys.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
If this could be a rig job, Yes, the United
States being put in a group with a lot of
awful teams would be very very We want to be
in like the the group with like Slovenia, maybe South
Korea and Costa Rica or something, you know what I mean.
You have been really good of late. Yes, Costa Rica
(12:47):
made the Round of eight. South Korea I think had
some success.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So we need to be even in warm sorry to forget, forget,
I was just picking random countries that have made the
World Cup that I didn't think we're that good, but
apparently they're pretty there.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I think they're actually pretty good. But they call it
this is actually a great phrase. When you end up
in the toughest group, they call it the group of
death because getting out is so difficult.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's very like soccer finn like the group of yeah suckers,
like I love this. I'm gonna say something, USCC folks
who love your football, think you're really into football. You
go to I've been to World Cup in European countries.
It the whole country shuts down. Yeah, the whole country.
I mean the whole city. I mean like when when
the World Cup is being played in Paris, and when
(13:30):
the World Cup was in France, there was nothing. It
was just the World Cup. Nothing else happens there. So
it's like it's like Tuscaloosa, except a lot bigger. Here
is what I would say.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I think Trump really recognizes the global significance of soccer
in the world, in the World Cup and of the Olympics,
and sees it as a unique opportunity. The US last
hosted the World Cup in nineteen ninety four, last hosted
the Olympics, And when do we get the Summer Olympics?
Last was that Atlanta? Did we have them? Since I
think it was Atlanta right in ninety six. I think
(14:03):
I'm right on that. And if there's a city that
I'm forgetting that has hosted the World Cup in I
mean the Olympics, I think Atlanta ninety six. For Trump
to get both is unprecedented. It's like ninety four and
ninety six all over again. We'll talk about that more. Thankful.
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from Bruce Buck enjoys watching soccer games. I'll put myself
in this cut of too. What colors of paint do
you enjoy watching dry too? I mean just just an
(16:07):
attack off the top ropes there.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I think that's harsh. I think that soccer, if you
can appreciate it for what it is, can look. I
would also say this, though soccer can be really good,
it can be really boring. Like for me, I love
watching tennis. Let's not talk too much about tennis today.
I love watching tennis, even if it's not necessarily a
great match, just because I just I just love the
(16:31):
you know, at watching people hit the ball at that
level and what they can do. It's just like I'm
in so I will go to the US Open, for example, Clay,
I've told this before and and it's really it's kind
of a fun hack. Go if you love the sport.
You go watch the outlying courts, not the main court,
because you're gonna watch I agree, the number four player
in the world destroy the number one fifty player in
(16:52):
the world. It's not that you can go to the
outlining courts and get really close and see soccer. It
is possible watch a soccer match and there's no goals
and it's boring as hell, I will say that. But
a really good soccer match can be can be pretty enthralling.
Football can be kind of a stinker, you know football
if no one's really scoring. I'm just being honest, you know,
(17:12):
American football, if it turns into like a field goal competition,
so that that applies as well.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I just I would just circle back around to I
genuinely like all sports. So if you don't, if you're
not excited, how controversial take from Clay.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
The sports like all sports.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
But I mean, if you remember ninety four World Cup,
it was a great scene in the United States. We'll
have to get Alexi Lallis our buddy on again. Ninety
six Atlanta Olympics. This is the first time that we're
going to overlap World Cup and Summer Olympics in thirty years.
And I think it's pretty awesome that Trump is going
to be in charge, and it will be an incredible
(17:51):
opportunity to advertise our nation's awesomeness around the world.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
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ninety eight. Today, all right, welcome back in here to
Clay and Buck. We just had the President Trump presser
from the Oval Office, and we had some very interesting
(19:03):
takeaways from that. First off, for those of you who
are soccer fans, if you're in Europe football, it's gonna
be huge for the US. Put us on by the
alect soccer or not. And Clay honed in on this
one a few moments ago. It's such a big draw
for businesses, for money, for visitors, for tourism, for all
(19:25):
of that, and it's a good look for America. You know,
I'll tell you this. I'm sure a lot of you
have the same thing I get. And I think this
is a good thing, and I think everybody should feel
this way. What if I read that something bad happens
to a tourist in my hometown. It ticks me off,
You know, it really does, because I want now that
(19:46):
was true when I lived in New York. It's true
when I live in Miami now. So we want to
be able to showcase the greatness of American and America
cities to the rest of the world. It's a pride
thing and I think that's a good thing for us
to have. Right someone goes to Nashville, they're visiting from
Japan or Germany or Brazil or wherever. You know, you
just I think as a resident, you always want visitors
(20:09):
to have a good You want tourists who are putting
dollars into that economy and supporting hotels, and you know,
you just want them to have a good experience. And
that brings me to Trump and how this is all
time together. You'll notice something he taught was talking about FIFA,
and I know a lot of you are like ass
soccer or whatever. Just stay with me on this. Okay,
he's talking about the soccer stuff, but he's also talking
(20:30):
about d C. Well, it turns out there's some method
to the madness, if you will. On this one. Trump
isn't just gonna do this in d C. We got
next year the World Cup. They're gonna be playing in
a lot of these cities. He mentioned that, you know
this is DC restaurants have closed and I have a
friend who owned restaurants in DC. He had to close
(20:52):
them because the neighborhood was too dangerous and people weren't
moving in the levels that they had thought and it
was just too difficult. You know, they had to deal
with too much. So that's real, I know from someone firsthand.
Because you want to do a transitioning area, you know,
try to do that urban pioneer thing where you go
in an area or think it's going to be better,
didn't work. Trump is cleaning these places up. He's starting
with DC and Clay here he is cut thirty. He says,
(21:15):
Chicago is next on the list.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Play it.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
After we do this, we'll go to another location and
we'll make it safe. All so, we're going to make
our country very safe. We're going to make our cities
very very safe. Chicago is a mess. You have an
incompetent mayor grossly incompetent. And we'll straighten that one out
probably next. That'll be our next one after this, and
it won't.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Even be tough.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
And the people in Chicago, this de vice president are
screaming for us to come there. They're wearing red hats
just like this one, but they're wearing red hats. African
American ladies beautiful ladies. They are saying, please, President Trump,
come to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Please.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I did great with the black vote, as you know,
and they want something to happen.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So I think Chicago will be our next and then
we'll help with new and we're gonna help with us.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
And I think, really, I think that a lot of
and a lot of these people that you see on television,
they are including the people.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
In this audience.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
They'll say band things about me and then they'll say,
thank God he's here.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
True Clay and I love this move, especially if the
DC numbers continue to trend in the right direction.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I think it's transformative. And I said this, and this
is what I got ripped for. I said, if it
works in DC, we should see this expand to other
cities around the country. And look, if I were governor
right now of Tennessee, don't have to worry about that Tennesseeans.
But if I were, and I like Bill Lee a lot,
(22:40):
and I know we've got a governor's race coming up,
I would be looking at what's happening in DC and
thinking to myself, what if I deployed the Tennessee National
Guard in Memphis? What if I gave the Memphis Police
additional boots on the ground support to the city that
(23:01):
has the highest murder rate by far in all of
Tennessee and one of the highest murder rates in the world,
certainly one of the highest murder rates in right now
in the country. And Trump mentioned New York if we
could have the same wr Listeners, I'm not saying things
(23:22):
in New York are perfect, but if we could have
the same murder rate around the world as exists right
now in New York City, in most of our big
cities that have way higher rates, I need to pull
up the rates. We'd probably eliminate fifty percent of the
murders in this country. I mean, I mean, seriously, if
(23:43):
you look at the numbers, remember when you were stunned
by this. Memphis had more murders than New York City
in the last astonished years. Astonishing. Look New York. For
all that, people liked you with that.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I still think New York is the greatest, is the
greatest city all in in America. You can get mad
at me for that, but I still believe it. I
love New York. I always will. It's run by some idiots. Recently,
it's gone on a little bit of a downturn, but
it's not even in the top I don't think Clay
is in the top thirty most dangerous cities per capita
in this country when you're when you're looking at all
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US cities. Maybe it's in the top twenty five or third.
I don't think so. I mean, so it's all about
what's relative to New York, a relative success or a
failure compared to it being one of the largest, one
of the most safe large cities in not just America,
but honestly in the world. I mean, there was a
period of time where New York was getting in that
(24:40):
conversation with some of the large European capitals, and and
so that's that's I think worth noting. You're talking about dangerous,
but we all know what it is, and it's so
sad the dangerous cities perennially. You know, year in year out,
it's d C, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham. Unfortunately, Uh,
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what am I leaving one of my.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Chicago According to this the top five per capita, and
again per capita, there's potentially some issues. This was twenty
twenty three, so I don't have the updated twenty twenty four,
Memphis was number one in the entire country per capita
of most murders. Saint Louis was number two, Baltimore number three, Washington,
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DC number four, and Birmingham, Alabama number five.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I just did that.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I basically get it from memory, because that's they're they're
always clay on that list. Chicago has a very high
overall number because it's a large city, but that violence
is mostly concentrated in certain areas of the city.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But yeah, this is this is something that needs to
be addressed, and think about this.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Let's set up the Chicago conversation. Let's assume for a
second that what Trump is doing in DC and he
continues to do even if thirty days of data supports
what Trump has been up to. Even if it's thirty days,
why wouldn't Chicago want to see if they can go
I mean, what happens if he goes thirty days without
(26:08):
a murder in DC? You're gonna tell me you don't
want that in Chicago. Incredible, Yes, you know you're gonna
tell me. I understand, we're not there yet and we
have to see where the state of goes. But they're
they're arresting violent felons and serious criminals. They're putting more
people on the streets to prevent crime from happening. I
can't see this as anything but upside for the city
(26:32):
of Chicago, except it makes Democrats look like cowards who
just lack the political will to protect their own people.
And that's a really tough thing for them. You know,
you're you're really going right into the heart of Democrat
power here with Hey, not only do you guys, Democrats
have bad ideas, you have been allowing your own people
(26:54):
to be killed, raved robbed. You know, all these things
in numbers far what was you know, what should have
been expected? Right, it's never gonna be perfect, but far
beyond because you don't want to admit that Republicans had
a better option.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Really, I think that's well said. Would I would also
just synthesize it this way. In DC, it was one
of the epicenters of the Black Lives Matter movement. They
demonized police, they put on the concrete there, they had
a Black Lives Matter Memorial Park, and the rate of
black murder skyrocketed in Washington, d C. As BLM was
(27:35):
at its most active. Now Trump is actually showing what
black lives matter truly means. Instead of just having rhetoric,
He's going out and arresting violent criminals. And as a result,
black people, who represent ninety four percent of all shooting
(27:57):
victims in Washington, DC, are overwhelmingly going to benefit the
most from a decline in violent crime. And this is
true in most big cities in America where black and
brown people are overwhelmingly victims of violent crime. And so
if violent crime declines, it typically doesn't decline as much
(28:19):
in the rich parts of town because the rich parts
of town already by and large, have a much lower
rate of violent crime. So the most of the benefit
of crime crackdowns in you're to places that actually have
the highest crime rates. And so Trump is acting to
protect black life in terms of reality, more so than
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anyone who was super outspoken from BLM. And he's doing
it by letting cops do their job, which overwhelmingly protects
black life as opposed to taking it, which was the
story of BLM. Think about the way he's setting this up, Clay.
If you have major crime drops in these cities and
then there's a.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Or where they're.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Doing this for the World Cup, it all comes together
in a way that looks like a stroke of genius
from Trump on all fronts.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, and closing up that circle on the World Cup.
And again we'll talk with Andrew Giuliani at two thirty.
You hit it, but I think it's worth hammering home.
Even if you hate soccer, even if you're like, soccer
is a game for wossa's and socialists and communists and
all this stuff whatever you think. The biggest richest sports
fans in the world are going to travel to the
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United States for the World Cup, which is going to
mean the cities that host these events are going to
bring in tens of billions. I think billions of additional
dollars in revenue for restaurants, hotels, bars, so many people,
uber drivers, so many people out there, taxi drivers, across
the entire spectrum of the economic landscape are going to
(30:02):
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Speaker 4 (31:41):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. President Trump
continuing to field questions from inside of the White House.
Here he is talking about President Trump says that Putin
may be coming to the World Cup next summer. Cut
thirty three.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Can I just sent a picture from somebody that wants
to be there very badly. He's been very respectful of
me and of our country, but not so respectful of others.
But he'll, Uh, I'm going to sign this for him.
But I was sent to one and I thought you
would like to see it. That's a man named Vladimir Putin,
who I believe will be coming, depending on what happens.
(32:20):
He may be coming and he may not, depending on
what happens. We have a lot of things happening over
there next couple of weeks. But I thought it was
a nice picture of him. Okay of me, but nice
of him. So that was very nice that it was
sent to me.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Okay, So Trump signing a photo for Vladimir Putin. They
are several of you want to weigh in. Now, let
me take a couple of your calls. Trump is still live,
by the way, talking about a variety of subjects. I
sent a couple of funny cuts that I just saw
during the commercial break to producer Greg. We'll have those
for you in the third hour, Shan in New York.
(32:53):
What you got for us?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
So, God, what's going on? What's up? Hey, clay Man?
I rag sometimes on social media, Man, don't take it personal.
I'll just be joking around.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Man.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
This is just guy stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Man.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
But by the way, my social media mentions, I don't
know where you are in the mention, Sean, but they
are an unbelievable minefield of humor, of conflict. I mean
I dive in every now and then and I'm like,
my goodness, this is crazy. But but for people who
want to be entertained, just go into mentions. It's a
it's a it's a brubaja royal rumble every day. All right,
(33:28):
what you got?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
I think it's a nothing burger with Bolton because he's
not getting the treatment, you know what I'm saying. If
he was getting the treatment like Pete Navarro and Steve
Dinning and Roger Stone, I would say it's something. But,
like Buck said, Buck wrote a book. He went through
a serious declassification phase to get his book out John
(33:52):
Bolton's Book's been out for five years. Over a million
plus people have read this book, So if there was
any classified information in a whole bunch of people read
it already.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Yeah, having Buck, you want to break this down, I mean,
thank you for the call, Sean. I think both of
us in general are of the opinion it's going to
be hard to get a convictions on a lot of
these things because the statutes of limitations, because of who
the grand juries are, everything else. But your take on that,
I mean, it would have to be something that isn't
(34:25):
public probably right that they're investigating that they're trying to prove. Yeah,
tough to say, uh, you know, we're shooting in the
dark here a little bit. I think that the likelier
thing would be if they think there was disclosure of
national defense information to reporters there you're talking, I think
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about a ten year statute of limitations. It's different than
mishandling classified because there's an intent and a higher hard
like there's an inherent high level harm of national defense
information and the intent to disclose. That's a little different
than like I took a piece of paper home that
was classified, So that may be what they're looking at well,
(35:07):
at some level, we're just guessing, but clearly they decided
to go after this at some you know, for some reason.
Bolton's gonna get you know, he's gonna know who the
attorneys are to represent him on this, and people, I
think are going to rally to him. A lot of
anti Trump DC Beltway people are going to rally to
his side on this one. So we'll find out more.
(35:27):
But leak investigations are very hard to get convictions on,
which is honestly a good thing because you don't want
people going away for something that they didn't do. And
if it's just a he said, he said, you know,
this is what they tried to do with a scooter Liby.
They tried to put him away for a leak he
wasn't responsible for. Well, Also, reporters are generally not going
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to help on these investigations, so that makes it all
the more difficult unless there's evidence of emails or something
like that. What do we got, Jim in Birmingham, Alabama?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
What you got for us?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Hey, how you guys doing today?
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Fantastic good questions I've got I'm originally from Chicago. Would
never go back, right, now. But when they got the
National Guard in Washington, d C and all that, and
I agree we need to go into these Democrat cities
and do the same thing to clean up and help
because the politicians aren't doing anything about it. They're just
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trying to get votes to make it easy on everybody.
What can the National Guard actually do? You know, if
they run across the situations, do they have the authority
to arrest somebody.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
It's a good question. We're coming up on the end
of the hour. We'll talk about it a bit more.
I think the answer is that it's changing. They're now
going to be armed, which to me means they're expanding
their roles in d C. We'll talk about that in
more final hour of the week next
All right, second hour play and Buck kicks off. We're
going to join President Trump live right now from the
Oval Office talking about FIFA soccer stuff, the World Cup.
Here we go play.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is zero.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Sounds like it's a horrible thing to say, but I
might as well say it. Zero murders in the last
week since we've done this. That's the first time in
memory that that's happened, if you can believe it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
How pathetic that is to have to even say it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And I'm tired of listening to these people say how
safe it was before we got here.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It was unsafe. It was horrible, and.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Mayor Bowser better get her acts straight or she won't
be there very long because we'll take it over with
the federal government running like it's supposed to be run.
The numbers were horrible. It was a crime infested rat hole.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And they do have a lot of rats.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We're getting rid of them too, and we've made a
lot of progress. And it was extremely unsafe, and now
it's extremely safe.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We had virtually no crime.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The number was eighty seven percent, and I'm trying to
figure out where was the thirteen percent, because I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Think it existed.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The National guard has been unbelievable and they're working with
the police, and.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
They have some very good people in there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They have some people that shouldn't be police, actually, but
they have some great people there. And the Washington DC
is a whole different place, and Johnny, I'm sure you'll
be happy to hear that too. Actually, yes, but it's
a whole different place. People are excited again. They're going
out to restaurants again. That was the other thing I
saw in numbers that restaurant businesses down in the last week.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I know, restaurant business. You can't get into a restaurant
just really lying people.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And that's why people don't understand how bad and how
dishonest the process. I saw one poll that had I said,
nineteen percent favorable on what we're doing with Washington. Then
I saw another one as this ninety four percent favorable.
And I can tell you the ninety four percent is correct.
The others are fake just fake news. Got to get
(02:00):
their act together. So bad for our country, so sick actually.
So Washington, DC is really doing unbelievably well. And the
Kennedy Cenator where fixed. There is just there all morning
with contractors. We're making iteve it's going to be unbelievable.
It's got great bones, but it needs a lot of work.
The World Cup Drove will set up the group stage
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of competition. Forty eight teams will play in one hundred
and four games across sixteen North American cities, from Seattle
to Vancouver to Atlanta to Miami.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's going to be so exciting for our country.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The twenty twenty six feet for World Cup will be
one of the largest and most complex events. This will
be one of the greatest events, one of the large
In a way, it's like Johnny said it better, it's
like having many super Bowls for a short period of time,
because each one of these games essentially is a super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Some of them are bigger than super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Actually, but they're essentially each one of these games is
like a super Bowl. The twenty twenty six for World
Cup will be the largest, most complex set of events
in sports history.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And the Kennedy Center.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Will give it a phenomenal kickoff, and we'll be involved
and they'll be working over there for quite a bit
of time. We have it all set that they can
stay there for the big events, the big press conferences
and everything else and they'll be in a very safe capital.
That'll be nice to you don't have to worry about
walking down the street. J honey, okay, but you could
handle yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I quote.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Already, FIFA is projecting six million loyal fans will attend
the World Cup events next year, and six billion more.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Are going to be watching back home.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And they think the six billion dollar number is going
to be actually a low number. And this will drive
more than thirty billion dollars into the US economy and
create one hundred and eighty five thousand American jobs in
a short period of time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Too. No sporting event.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Attracts more attention, more fans, more viewers, are more revenue than.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The FIFA World Cup. And again I'll just.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Say, it's the World Cup, and it's the biggest thing
there is in sports, and we have it, and I
got it in my first administration. And I was really
so what devastated, As devastated as I can be, I
don't have time.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
To get too devastated.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I was very happy that today, as you saw, the
group that does this, a government group, radical left group,
announced that Trump was right. Took in four trillion dollars
worth of tariffs that the four trillion dollars are going
to reduce the deficit by numbers far greater.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Than they ever expected or heard them.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And by the way, the stock market went up a
thousand points.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That was as of ten minutes ago. I can't tell
you what happens.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
A lot of things happened, but the stock market's up
almost a thousand points, and it's basically on the news
that the release it just came out from government that
the tariffs that everybody was talking about, that the whole
world respects us for because of what we did, the
tariffs are going to be at four trillion dollars. They're
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going to reduce the deficit by four trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Mister West, President wouldn't deserve it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Two minutes of five. It's had a huge impact, and
the stock market is way up. But this will drive
more than thirty billion dollars in US economy and create
one hundred and eighty five thousand American jobs. No sporting
event attracts more attention or more fans or anything else.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I just looked forward to the draw.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
So we're going to have the draw essentially Johnny at
the Kennedy Center, and by that time it'll be an
even better shape. We're working on it. It'll take about
a year project to make it. It'll be great, it'll
be fantastic. You see the way this is looking look nice.
I can't tell you how much that gold costs a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
There's nothing like gold, and there's nothing like solid gold.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But this, this beautiful office, needed it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It had to be representative. When we took it over,
it was dirty, not clean.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I immediately changed the chair and had this beautiful desk
renovated and brought out by the White.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
House people that do this. They did a great job,
they said it out.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We have a craftsman who's great, but this was not
appropriate for the Oval Office what I took over. Now,
do you look at all those paintings. You're allowed to
turn back. All of these are great presidents, and they
were all in the vaults. They were in vaults for
some cases much more than one hundred years. And now
they're proudly hanging on the Oval Office walls. So they
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can't imagine anybody changing it. But they were buried in
vaults for over one hundred years, many of them.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So it's very exciting. People come in. They really love it.
They love what we're doing here.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
They love what we're doing in DC, and they love
what we're doing most importantly in the country, in the world.
I'd like to ask Johnny to say a few words.
He's the head of the whole thing. He's been there
for all right.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
All right, let's cut out of rear the president if
he takes questions from anyone assembled there, because you know
they're going to ask about a whole range of things,
not just about FIFA. He covered a few interesting topics there, though, Clay,
as Trump does. Right there is the thing. Trump is
sitting there, he's got the World Cup trophy in front
of him, and he's got a few senior officials and
the head of FIFA who are gathered around him. But
(06:58):
he talked about DC crime, how we've gone a week
now without a murder in d C, which if you
look at the numbers, and he says it, he said,
when was the last time you heard that there was
a full week that passed without a single murder in
our nation's capital. And then he talked a bit about
the markets. Like Clay, he's fired up about the markets,
(07:18):
and they're up, the dows up a thousand points today
and tariffs, he says, are now set under his administration
to cut the deficit. I think he said three or
four trillion dollars was what the President said there. So
not only aren't we seeing the downturn in the economy
that the so called experts said what happened, we're seeing
(07:41):
We're seeing the markets boom and the debt starting to
be brought more in line with, you know, with the
reality of a debt that needs to be paid down
because of the tariffs that are going going into place.
But the World Cup, though, he says it'll be going
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on in these cities, it is a real expo for America,
and it's gonna bring a lot of dollars and a
lot of attention to America and the cities that how
hosts these games play, and we're gonna have to go
to them.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I do.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I know a lot of you liked it, like to
dump on soccer and say it's not America's game or
it's not an American game. I still like it. It's fun,
fun to watch. Well, I think it'll be a great
event for the nation. Look, there are lots of sports
that I'm not haven't played. I've played soccer you've coached
soccer that I still enjoy.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Going to watch. I've never been on an ice skating
rink and hockey pads, and I enjoy going and watching
the Stanley Cup playoffs. It's just a phenomenal event, regardless
of what I just did. The professional bull riding some
of the AMC I've certainly never gotten on a bull
I've gone with my whole family to PBR probably I
(08:58):
don't know, four or five times in New York.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
We loved it.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, I went Friday and called one of the competitions
they have team sport competition in Nashville. I loved it.
And I know nothing about the intricacies of that sport
other than, hey, you know, big picture, it's good not
to fall off the ball, but it is pretty I
think phenomenal. And I do think where this all ties
(09:23):
in is Trump wants DC for next year for the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country to be
a crown jewel because so many people from around the
world are going to be coming there, And he also
wants the country to be in spectacular shape because the
amount of people from around the world that will be
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traveling to the United States and staying in so many
different cities across the country. He wants the cities to
be safe. And I believe LA will be hosting a
ton and he's referenced the fact that they need to
do a better job of making that city safe. And
certainly New York and DC and everywhere else, and the
(10:05):
Kennedy Center. I think Trump sees as a cultural, culturally
impactful location, not far. I understand most of you haven't
ever been to the Kennedy Center. I lived in d C.
I think I've been to the Kennedy Center once. Maybe
did you ever go to the Kennedy Center for any events?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, I've been to the Kennedy Center for a few
different things.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I mean, it's a huge, spectacular location, but sometimes it
feels somewhat isolated from the larger My.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Mother used to perform there. If she's listening, she'll be smiling.
She used to perform as part of American Ballet Theater.
They performed at the Kennedy Center. That's their home home stage.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That is pretty awesome, So I hope she is listening
for that shout out. But I think having a central
location for all of this group, stage draw and everything
else to be taking place is something that Trump cares
about from a significant way because all the world will
(11:04):
have its eyes on America next year. This is the
most watched television event out there, and the probably the
second most watched television event is the Olympics, which will
be happening in la in twenty twenty eight. So both
of these Trump sees as an opportunity to send the
message to the rest of the world. America is back,
We are firing on all cylinders. Our economy is stronger
(11:28):
than it's ever been before. This I think Trump sees
as an important symbolic moment. Now we're going to be
joined by Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudolph Giuliani, who is
in charge basically of government relations assisting the World Cup,
which is a pretty cool job that he's got. He's
going to join us at two thirty two to break
all this down. We'll take some of your calls. By
(11:49):
the way, I'm sure that President Trump is By the way,
that draw for those of you that are big soccer
fans is going to take place on December fifth, And
if you are a soccer fan, where your team gets
slotted in the draw is very significant because typically there
are four teams and two will advance to the knockout stage,
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so who you draw is a big part of whether
you get to advance to the knockout state.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, you don't want to be hanging out in the
same bracket as Brazil, Argentina, Spain, France. You want to
be away from those guys.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
If this could be a rig job, Yes, the United
States being put in a group with a lot of
awful teams would be very very We want to be
in like the the group with like Slovenia, maybe South
Korea and Costa Rica or something, you know what I mean.
You have been really good of late. Yes, Costa Rica
(12:47):
made the Round of eight. South Korea I think had
some success.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So we need to be even in warm sorry to forget, forget,
I was just picking random countries that have made the
World Cup that I didn't think we're that good, but
apparently they're pretty there.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I think they're actually pretty good. But they call it
this is actually a great phrase. When you end up
in the toughest group, they call it the group of
death because getting out is so difficult.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's very like soccer finn like the group of yeah suckers,
like I love this. I'm gonna say something, USCC folks
who love your football, think you're really into football. You
go to I've been to World Cup in European countries.
It the whole country shuts down. Yeah, the whole country.
I mean the whole city. I mean like when when
the World Cup is being played in Paris, and when
(13:30):
the World Cup was in France, there was nothing. It
was just the World Cup. Nothing else happens there. So
it's like it's like Tuscaloosa, except a lot bigger. Here
is what I would say.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I think Trump really recognizes the global significance of soccer
in the world, in the World Cup and of the Olympics,
and sees it as a unique opportunity. The US last
hosted the World Cup in nineteen ninety four, last hosted
the Olympics, And when do we get the Summer Olympics?
Last was that Atlanta? Did we have them? Since I
think it was Atlanta right in ninety six. I think
(14:03):
I'm right on that. And if there's a city that
I'm forgetting that has hosted the World Cup in I
mean the Olympics, I think Atlanta ninety six. For Trump
to get both is unprecedented. It's like ninety four and
ninety six all over again. We'll talk about that more. Thankful.
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from Bruce Buck enjoys watching soccer games. I'll put myself
in this cut of too. What colors of paint do
you enjoy watching dry too? I mean just just an
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attack off the top ropes there.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I think that's harsh. I think that soccer, if you
can appreciate it for what it is, can look. I
would also say this, though soccer can be really good,
it can be really boring. Like for me, I love
watching tennis. Let's not talk too much about tennis today.
I love watching tennis, even if it's not necessarily a
great match, just because I just I just love the
(16:31):
you know, at watching people hit the ball at that
level and what they can do. It's just like I'm
in so I will go to the US Open, for example, Clay,
I've told this before and and it's really it's kind
of a fun hack. Go if you love the sport.
You go watch the outlying courts, not the main court,
because you're gonna watch I agree, the number four player
in the world destroy the number one fifty player in
(16:52):
the world. It's not that you can go to the
outlining courts and get really close and see soccer. It
is possible watch a soccer match and there's no goals
and it's boring as hell, I will say that. But
a really good soccer match can be can be pretty enthralling.
Football can be kind of a stinker, you know football
if no one's really scoring. I'm just being honest, you know,
(17:12):
American football, if it turns into like a field goal competition,
so that that applies as well.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I just I would just circle back around to I
genuinely like all sports. So if you don't, if you're
not excited, how controversial take from Clay.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
The sports like all sports.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
But I mean, if you remember ninety four World Cup,
it was a great scene in the United States. We'll
have to get Alexi Lallis our buddy on again. Ninety
six Atlanta Olympics. This is the first time that we're
going to overlap World Cup and Summer Olympics in thirty years.
And I think it's pretty awesome that Trump is going
to be in charge, and it will be an incredible
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opportunity to advertise our nation's awesomeness around the world.
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Clay and Buck. We just had the President Trump presser
from the Oval Office, and we had some very interesting
(19:03):
takeaways from that. First off, for those of you who
are soccer fans, if you're in Europe football, it's gonna
be huge for the US. Put us on by the
alect soccer or not. And Clay honed in on this
one a few moments ago. It's such a big draw
for businesses, for money, for visitors, for tourism, for all
(19:25):
of that, and it's a good look for America. You know,
I'll tell you this. I'm sure a lot of you
have the same thing I get. And I think this
is a good thing, and I think everybody should feel
this way. What if I read that something bad happens
to a tourist in my hometown. It ticks me off,
You know, it really does, because I want now that
(19:46):
was true when I lived in New York. It's true
when I live in Miami now. So we want to
be able to showcase the greatness of American and America
cities to the rest of the world. It's a pride
thing and I think that's a good thing for us
to have. Right someone goes to Nashville, they're visiting from
Japan or Germany or Brazil or wherever. You know, you
just I think as a resident, you always want visitors
(20:09):
to have a good You want tourists who are putting
dollars into that economy and supporting hotels, and you know,
you just want them to have a good experience. And
that brings me to Trump and how this is all
time together. You'll notice something he taught was talking about FIFA,
and I know a lot of you are like ass
soccer or whatever. Just stay with me on this. Okay,
he's talking about the soccer stuff, but he's also talking
(20:30):
about d C. Well, it turns out there's some method
to the madness, if you will. On this one. Trump
isn't just gonna do this in d C. We got
next year the World Cup. They're gonna be playing in
a lot of these cities. He mentioned that, you know
this is DC restaurants have closed and I have a
friend who owned restaurants in DC. He had to close
(20:52):
them because the neighborhood was too dangerous and people weren't
moving in the levels that they had thought and it
was just too difficult. You know, they had to deal
with too much. So that's real, I know from someone firsthand.
Because you want to do a transitioning area, you know,
try to do that urban pioneer thing where you go
in an area or think it's going to be better,
didn't work. Trump is cleaning these places up. He's starting
with DC and Clay here he is cut thirty. He says,
(21:15):
Chicago is next on the list.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Play it.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
After we do this, we'll go to another location and
we'll make it safe. All so, we're going to make
our country very safe. We're going to make our cities
very very safe. Chicago is a mess. You have an
incompetent mayor grossly incompetent. And we'll straighten that one out
probably next. That'll be our next one after this, and
it won't.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Even be tough.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
And the people in Chicago, this de vice president are
screaming for us to come there. They're wearing red hats
just like this one, but they're wearing red hats. African
American ladies beautiful ladies. They are saying, please, President Trump,
come to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Please.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I did great with the black vote, as you know,
and they want something to happen.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So I think Chicago will be our next and then
we'll help with new and we're gonna help with us.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
And I think, really, I think that a lot of
and a lot of these people that you see on television,
they are including the people.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
In this audience.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
They'll say band things about me and then they'll say,
thank God he's here.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
True Clay and I love this move, especially if the
DC numbers continue to trend in the right direction.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I think it's transformative. And I said this, and this
is what I got ripped for. I said, if it
works in DC, we should see this expand to other
cities around the country. And look, if I were governor
right now of Tennessee, don't have to worry about that Tennesseeans.
But if I were, and I like Bill Lee a lot,
(22:40):
and I know we've got a governor's race coming up,
I would be looking at what's happening in DC and
thinking to myself, what if I deployed the Tennessee National
Guard in Memphis? What if I gave the Memphis Police
additional boots on the ground support to the city that
(23:01):
has the highest murder rate by far in all of
Tennessee and one of the highest murder rates in the world,
certainly one of the highest murder rates in right now
in the country. And Trump mentioned New York if we
could have the same wr Listeners, I'm not saying things
(23:22):
in New York are perfect, but if we could have
the same murder rate around the world as exists right
now in New York City, in most of our big
cities that have way higher rates, I need to pull
up the rates. We'd probably eliminate fifty percent of the
murders in this country. I mean, I mean, seriously, if
(23:43):
you look at the numbers, remember when you were stunned
by this. Memphis had more murders than New York City
in the last astonished years. Astonishing. Look New York. For
all that, people liked you with that.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I still think New York is the greatest, is the
greatest city all in in America. You can get mad
at me for that, but I still believe it. I
love New York. I always will. It's run by some idiots. Recently,
it's gone on a little bit of a downturn, but
it's not even in the top I don't think Clay
is in the top thirty most dangerous cities per capita
in this country when you're when you're looking at all
(24:18):
US cities. Maybe it's in the top twenty five or third.
I don't think so. I mean, so it's all about
what's relative to New York, a relative success or a
failure compared to it being one of the largest, one
of the most safe large cities in not just America,
but honestly in the world. I mean, there was a
period of time where New York was getting in that
(24:40):
conversation with some of the large European capitals, and and
so that's that's I think worth noting. You're talking about dangerous,
but we all know what it is, and it's so
sad the dangerous cities perennially. You know, year in year out,
it's d C, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham. Unfortunately, Uh,
(25:00):
what am I leaving one of my.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Chicago According to this the top five per capita, and
again per capita, there's potentially some issues. This was twenty
twenty three, so I don't have the updated twenty twenty four,
Memphis was number one in the entire country per capita
of most murders. Saint Louis was number two, Baltimore number three, Washington,
(25:23):
DC number four, and Birmingham, Alabama number five.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I just did that.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I basically get it from memory, because that's they're they're
always clay on that list. Chicago has a very high
overall number because it's a large city, but that violence
is mostly concentrated in certain areas of the city.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But yeah, this is this is something that needs to
be addressed, and think about this.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Let's set up the Chicago conversation. Let's assume for a
second that what Trump is doing in DC and he
continues to do even if thirty days of data supports
what Trump has been up to. Even if it's thirty days,
why wouldn't Chicago want to see if they can go
I mean, what happens if he goes thirty days without
(26:08):
a murder in DC? You're gonna tell me you don't
want that in Chicago. Incredible, Yes, you know you're gonna
tell me. I understand, we're not there yet and we
have to see where the state of goes. But they're
they're arresting violent felons and serious criminals. They're putting more
people on the streets to prevent crime from happening. I
can't see this as anything but upside for the city
(26:32):
of Chicago, except it makes Democrats look like cowards who
just lack the political will to protect their own people.
And that's a really tough thing for them. You know,
you're you're really going right into the heart of Democrat
power here with Hey, not only do you guys, Democrats
have bad ideas, you have been allowing your own people
(26:54):
to be killed, raved robbed. You know, all these things
in numbers far what was you know, what should have
been expected? Right, it's never gonna be perfect, but far
beyond because you don't want to admit that Republicans had
a better option.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Really, I think that's well said. Would I would also
just synthesize it this way. In DC, it was one
of the epicenters of the Black Lives Matter movement. They
demonized police, they put on the concrete there, they had
a Black Lives Matter Memorial Park, and the rate of
black murder skyrocketed in Washington, d C. As BLM was
(27:35):
at its most active. Now Trump is actually showing what
black lives matter truly means. Instead of just having rhetoric,
He's going out and arresting violent criminals. And as a result,
black people, who represent ninety four percent of all shooting
(27:57):
victims in Washington, DC, are overwhelmingly going to benefit the
most from a decline in violent crime. And this is
true in most big cities in America where black and
brown people are overwhelmingly victims of violent crime. And so
if violent crime declines, it typically doesn't decline as much
(28:19):
in the rich parts of town because the rich parts
of town already by and large, have a much lower
rate of violent crime. So the most of the benefit
of crime crackdowns in you're to places that actually have
the highest crime rates. And so Trump is acting to
protect black life in terms of reality, more so than
(28:42):
anyone who was super outspoken from BLM. And he's doing
it by letting cops do their job, which overwhelmingly protects
black life as opposed to taking it, which was the
story of BLM. Think about the way he's setting this up, Clay.
If you have major crime drops in these cities and
then there's a.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Or where they're.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Doing this for the World Cup, it all comes together
in a way that looks like a stroke of genius
from Trump on all fronts.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, and closing up that circle on the World Cup.
And again we'll talk with Andrew Giuliani at two thirty.
You hit it, but I think it's worth hammering home.
Even if you hate soccer, even if you're like, soccer
is a game for wossa's and socialists and communists and
all this stuff whatever you think. The biggest richest sports
fans in the world are going to travel to the
(29:38):
United States for the World Cup, which is going to
mean the cities that host these events are going to
bring in tens of billions. I think billions of additional
dollars in revenue for restaurants, hotels, bars, so many people,
uber drivers, so many people out there, taxi drivers, across
the entire spectrum of the economic landscape are going to
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. President Trump
continuing to field questions from inside of the White House.
Here he is talking about President Trump says that Putin
may be coming to the World Cup next summer. Cut
thirty three.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Can I just sent a picture from somebody that wants
to be there very badly. He's been very respectful of
me and of our country, but not so respectful of others.
But he'll, Uh, I'm going to sign this for him.
But I was sent to one and I thought you
would like to see it. That's a man named Vladimir Putin,
who I believe will be coming, depending on what happens.
(32:20):
He may be coming and he may not, depending on
what happens. We have a lot of things happening over
there next couple of weeks. But I thought it was
a nice picture of him. Okay of me, but nice
of him. So that was very nice that it was
sent to me.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Okay, So Trump signing a photo for Vladimir Putin. They
are several of you want to weigh in. Now, let
me take a couple of your calls. Trump is still live,
by the way, talking about a variety of subjects. I
sent a couple of funny cuts that I just saw
during the commercial break to producer Greg. We'll have those
for you in the third hour, Shan in New York.
(32:53):
What you got for us?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
So, God, what's going on? What's up? Hey, clay Man?
I rag sometimes on social media, Man, don't take it personal.
I'll just be joking around.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Man.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
This is just guy stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Man.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
But by the way, my social media mentions, I don't
know where you are in the mention, Sean, but they
are an unbelievable minefield of humor, of conflict. I mean
I dive in every now and then and I'm like,
my goodness, this is crazy. But but for people who
want to be entertained, just go into mentions. It's a
it's a it's a brubaja royal rumble every day. All right,
(33:28):
what you got?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
I think it's a nothing burger with Bolton because he's
not getting the treatment, you know what I'm saying. If
he was getting the treatment like Pete Navarro and Steve
Dinning and Roger Stone, I would say it's something. But,
like Buck said, Buck wrote a book. He went through
a serious declassification phase to get his book out John
(33:52):
Bolton's Book's been out for five years. Over a million
plus people have read this book, So if there was
any classified information in a whole bunch of people read
it already.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Yeah, having Buck, you want to break this down, I mean,
thank you for the call, Sean. I think both of
us in general are of the opinion it's going to
be hard to get a convictions on a lot of
these things because the statutes of limitations, because of who
the grand juries are, everything else. But your take on that,
I mean, it would have to be something that isn't
(34:25):
public probably right that they're investigating that they're trying to prove. Yeah,
tough to say, uh, you know, we're shooting in the
dark here a little bit. I think that the likelier
thing would be if they think there was disclosure of
national defense information to reporters there you're talking, I think
(34:46):
about a ten year statute of limitations. It's different than
mishandling classified because there's an intent and a higher hard
like there's an inherent high level harm of national defense
information and the intent to disclose. That's a little different
than like I took a piece of paper home that
was classified, So that may be what they're looking at well,
(35:07):
at some level, we're just guessing, but clearly they decided
to go after this at some you know, for some reason.
Bolton's gonna get you know, he's gonna know who the
attorneys are to represent him on this, and people, I
think are going to rally to him. A lot of
anti Trump DC Beltway people are going to rally to
his side on this one. So we'll find out more.
(35:27):
But leak investigations are very hard to get convictions on,
which is honestly a good thing because you don't want
people going away for something that they didn't do. And
if it's just a he said, he said, you know,
this is what they tried to do with a scooter Liby.
They tried to put him away for a leak he
wasn't responsible for. Well, Also, reporters are generally not going
(35:50):
to help on these investigations, so that makes it all
the more difficult unless there's evidence of emails or something
like that. What do we got, Jim in Birmingham, Alabama?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
What you got for us?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
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Speaker 7 (36:04):
Fantastic good questions I've got I'm originally from Chicago. Would
never go back, right, now. But when they got the
National Guard in Washington, d C and all that, and
I agree we need to go into these Democrat cities
and do the same thing to clean up and help
because the politicians aren't doing anything about it. They're just
(36:26):
trying to get votes to make it easy on everybody.
What can the National Guard actually do? You know, if
they run across the situations, do they have the authority
to arrest somebody.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
It's a good question. We're coming up on the end
of the hour. We'll talk about it a bit more.
I think the answer is that it's changing. They're now
going to be armed, which to me means they're expanding
their roles in d C. We'll talk about that in
more final hour of the week next
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