July 2, 2025 • 33 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with guest host Tudor Dixon, broadcasting live from NewsRadio 1300 WOOD Radio Studios in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dixon, host of the Tudor Dixon Podcast on the Clay and Buck Podcast Network, is joined by political commentator Kyle Olson for a dynamic hour of political analysis and cultural commentary.
A significant portion of the hour is devoted to the rise of socialism in American politics, focusing on the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, a self-described socialist with a controversial background in Palestinian activism. Dixon and Olson critique his affiliations with Democratic Socialists of America, his support for Palestinian liberation, and his calls to defund the police, raising concerns about the implications for public safety, urban crime, and Jewish communities in NYC.
The discussion draws historical parallels to Karl Marx, critiques the normalization of socialist rhetoric in mainstream politics, and explores the economic consequences of progressive policies, including the exodus of billionaires and businesses from high-crime cities like Chicago and New York. The hosts argue that these policies threaten to dismantle the economic and social fabric of major American cities.
In a deeply personal segment, Giano Caldwell, founder of the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety and author of 'The Day My Brother Was Murdered' shares the tragic story of his brother’s murder and the broader violent crime crisis in America. He emphasizes the need for law and order, community accountability, and education reform, while advocating against soft-on-crime policies and the defunding of police departments.
Listeners also call in to share 4th of July traditions, including reading the Declaration of Independence, and weigh in on the future of socialism in America.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the Clay Travis and Bucks Sexton Show.
The guys are off today and as you've probably noticed,
they left me in charge. I'm Tutor Dixon and I
will be filling in today. I am the host of
the Tutor Dixon Podcast, which is actually a part of
Clay in Bucks podcast network, So they are trusting me today.
We'll see if that's a good idea or not. But
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the Tutor Dixon Podcast you can catch it every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday on the iHeartRadio app. We talk about
everything politics, all the things that the guys are covering here.
But today we are excited because we are coming to
you live from the Wood Radio Studios here in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
We've got a great show coming up for you. We
are talking one on one with the US Secretary of Education,
(00:44):
Linda McMahon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
She has a huge announcement.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
She announced it last night, but we're going to get
into some of the details of what's happening there, a
major victory for women's sports. We also have the latest
on the p Ditty trial with Yaku Boyans and we're
going to be taking a deep dive into this violent
that taking over our cities with Giano Caldwell a little
bit later. First, I want to introduce a friend that
I have with me today, Kyle Olsen. He's actually probably
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the reason that I'm here, so I had him join
me today. I'm new to politics. I got into this
in about twenty seventeen when Kyle pulled me out of
the manufacturing sector. But he's been doing this for a
very long time, so he's kind of my political sense.
Say so he's here with me today, Kyle, say hello, thank.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You and thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Is what an honor it is to be with you
today and for including me. To me, this time is
hollowed ground. Noon to three was learning time when I
was growing up. I remember watching Rush Limbaugh late at
night on Fox News. I was in high school in
the mid nineteen nineties and my youth pastor, Wally Coots,
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who is now pastor in Alligan, Michigan, would take me
out to lunch sometimes and for that eight minute drive
he'd have Rush Limbaugh on the radio, and at that
time it was like it was like water in the desert.
And of course that was a time when there was
no internet archive, there were no clips on social media.
And so if you didn't hear it between and noon
(02:09):
and three, you missed it. But he impacted our generation
and I believe paved the way for two terms of
President Donald Trump. So it's a thrill for me to
be here. And thank you to Clay and Buck for
giving both of us this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, And honestly, that is what Kyle's upbringing is what
brought me here. And we think every day, what would
Rush Limbaugh think about what is happening right now? And
I say that because we're watching the Democrat Party in
total chaos. They have this Mandami situation in New York.
They're trying to figure out exactly where they stand on it.
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You've had a lot of people who have come out
and said they don't want to endorse him, but they're
kind of they're shy about it. They're shy about it
because they don't know where the Democrat Party is heading.
I think what's interesting in what we're seeing with this
new Mandani who is he is now the anointed mayor?
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Maybe he's been. He made it through the primary. Generally
a Democrat who makes it through the primary in New
York becomes the mayor.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But this is very unique.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
He's a socialist. He's come out and said he is
a socialist. Proud yeah, proudly a socialist. The New York Times.
I think this is funny because this is very telling.
The New York Times a few years ago came out
and said they're not going to endorse in local elections anymore.
Not not, they just want to be regular news. They're
not going to do it. They're not regular news. They're Democrats.
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They endorsed against him.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, it's it's fascinating to watch because it's you have
you have the element of the media, which you just described,
but then you also have the party, and you've got
you have the situation where now a Democrat is the Demora,
a socialist is the Democrat nominee for the mayor of
New York. He's got, I think, a very good chance
of winning. We'll see what how Airrick Adams does as
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an independent candidate. Can he mount the coalition that he
did in twenty twenty one to get re elected as
an independent.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
That's going to be interesting to see.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
But you've got this situation where I would I don't
know if quote unquote mainstream Democrats actually exist anymore, but
you have sort of the establishment Democrats who don't want
to embrace Memdannie because they know he may be able
to win in a place like New York City, but
can he win in marginal districts? Can he win in
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communities where socialism is not embraced well, not.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yet, not yet, And that's they're not ready yet to
go there. But the others, the leaders of their parties
are embracing this. They're they're cheering this on, and I
think they have been for a long time. But the
story of Mamdannie or whatever his name is, I think
is something we have to kind of dig into because
this is a kid who, as you aptly pointed out earlier,
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is he's been groomed for this. He can here, he
came to this country. He is a rich kid. He's
a rich kid, like people need to understand. He grew
up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This is
not a kid that's brought himself out of nothing. I mean,
Eric Adams is really the guy who's brought himself up
from nothing, but he wants to He's like moderately rich,
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you know, in the millions. And I say that because
he says he hates billionaires. And when you can conveniently
land in that spot. If your parents have millions of dollars,
you can conveniently land in the spot where you are
not going to be affected by all of the policies
that you put into place, and you can try to
attack the billionaire class, but you ultimately are creating this
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communist society. And the reason that this is is because
this is a kid who came into the United States.
He went to college in Maine. He graduated in twenty fourteen,
so he's also a kid. I keep saying that because
he's young. He graduated in twenty fourteen with a degree
in African studies, So I'm sure that's going to help
him as mayor, you know, having that hardcore degree in economics.
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Oh no, it's African studies. And he also think about this.
So he graduated in twenty fourteen, so it must have
been like twenty eleven, twenty twelve. He forms he co
founds the school's chapter for Students for Justice in Palestine.
I think a lot of people would be shocked to
hear that, because I think a lot of people would
assume that that's something new that they're just hearing about.
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So think about this more than ten years ago. This
kid was already forming chapters of the organization. Who I
will say, I guarantee you that organization funded him. This
idea that he has a grassroots campaign in New York.
This charmer has gone around and just gotten all these
people to come out of the woodwork. There is massive
money behind him.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Sure, and that's what happens is you've got he's involved
with the Democratic Socialists for America. He's very he embraces them,
you know, in a lot of ways that other socialists
sort of you know, they pretend like to socialists, but
he is, he is, he's embracing it in a very
full throat, full throated way.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And yeah, let's listen to his own words. We've got
cut one here.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
This is him saying this, The.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Struggle for Palestinian liberation was at the core of my
politics and continues to be.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
So this is this is the core.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Mean So what does that mean? What does Palestinian liberation mean?
It means it ends the quote unquote occupation. I would
argue that they don't want Israel to even be a
space from the river to It's it's to eliminate Israel.
And so when he said, and this was twenty twenty
three he said this at the Democratic Socialists of America
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convention when he said, the struggle for Palestinian liberation was
at the core of my politics and continues to be.
That's his worldview, that's how he is going to view
every decision that he is making if he's in that
position in New York York City.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So, voter your post October seventh.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I think that was pre but I don't know the
answer either.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Either one is scary, but post.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Just two weeks after that, he is out there and
he's screaming at Senator Jillibrand, listen to this.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
This is cut two.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
The last thing I have to say is one more chance,
Senator job we whoa not stop?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
This is an activist.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
This is not yes exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And so so think about the situation that New York
City voters are in here.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You have this guy.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
He's he literally says, the last thing I have to
say is one more chance. It's not how do we
create jobs, how do we make sure people can afford
rent and groceries, all of those sorts of things. It's
the last thing I have to say is one more chant.
And then he's demanding a ceasefire. Now don't forget, as
you said. Two weeks after October seventh, he is in
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the street with a bullhorn, screaming so loud that his
voice is cracking, demanding a seasfire.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
But it's the people behind him that make me nervous,
because that is not I will say again, this is
not an organic movement. This is a movement that is
well funded. I mean people have said, you go one
day they've got pill Palestinian flags. The next day they've
got Iranian flags. They didn't go out and buy those flags.
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Someone is providing this. This is a well funded organization.
He has been groomed for this for years, from this
group of Free Palestine, the river to the sea, these
chants which are death to Israel, death to America. You
cannot tell me that's not what this means. And two
weeks after women were murdered, women were raped, children were
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ragged out of their homes, their grandparents were killed in
front of them, this is what this guy says in
the most Jewish city in America, and people and Democrats
will not condemn this, and let's be let's be honest.
He also said, has this statement out there globalize the Intifada,
and he's been asked multiple times. He was asked three
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times just the other night, do you condemn that kind
of language?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And he said he won't.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
He won't answer the question. He says he doesn't condemn
condemned speech. So we're going to take a quick break here.
But before we take this break, I just want to
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Speaker 2 (11:30):
I'm Tutor Dixon.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm here with Kyle Olsen from The Midwesterner, and I
want to jump back into what we were talking about
about Moum Donnie.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
We keep talking.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
About him as a socialist, and I think it's interesting
because that was taboo a few years ago in the
United States. If you talked about somebody, it was like
an insult, you know, if you said somebody was a socialist,
they would deny it. Outside of Bernie Sanders and maybe
AOC who I do think, you know, it's years.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
In the making.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
These people push this in in, but socialists are all
they all kind of start out crazy like this, but
they sound they sound wonderful. I mean they do. It's
like this utopia because it doesn't work. It's not a
real thing. And if you look back at even Karl
marx life Marxism, his life is very similar to Mama Donnie.
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So he is in a family they're kind of middle
upper class. His parents are in the class system. They're
trying to build themselves up. He becomes sort of a
radical college. He never really gets a job. He's a journalist,
but he spends most of his life as an intellectual learning,
and he's a thinker. He's an experimenter. He has no
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experience in any of these things. Very similar to what
we're seeing with Mam Donnie So So Marx puts out
all these theories, and his theories over time kill thousands
and hundreds of thousands of people. It's always been proven
that socialism is bad, and it's never been accepted in
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the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
However, I think this was just last night.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
We've got this, this new this clip from Scott Jennings.
It is the number three we have here. This is
This is Jennings kind of fighting back. He's like, are
you kidding me? We're we're headed toward communism, but this
this is from CNN, and the other guys on CNN
are like, oh no, no, we're good.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Listen to this.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Democratic socialists elected as mayor of New York City.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
No, you agree with Pete that he is a communist thing.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
He's a socialist, he said.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Sees the means of production.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
He's a socialist. I'm he's using the language of the Bolsheviks,
is it not that?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
No, he's not. He's a socialist, not a communist.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Means of production.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
That's called socialism, not communist.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Us and stone door.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Like that coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I mean, he's like you, there's just that moment where
you hear him go, I'm not a socialist, because there's
that moment of reality where it strikes him where he says,
how can we be accepting this?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But they are accepting it.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
And that's to me, this shows how much the Democratic
Party is in chaos and and how far they have
gone to the left, because here you've got a guy
he's saying he's he's I mean, he's practically shouting he's
a socialist. So no, no, he's not a communist, he's
a socialist. So apparently to them now, being a socialist
is tolerable but maybe not maybe not communists, but socialist is.
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But to your point about his history, that's what's so
dangerous about this is that he his mind, his brain
has been filled with all of these theories, and he
wants to experiment with people's lives.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
He wants to.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Experience, not affect his it will not that's what people
need to understand. This guy lives in a two million
dollar condo that his parents pay for.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
This is never going to affect him. He just he talks.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He has that video where it shows they these buildings
and then they build up these new communes where everybody
can live together, all the comrades can live together in
the commune.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
He's going to take away the police.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
He's going to take away the police so that those
communities just attack each other.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And then they'll come in.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
See, that's the funny thing about defunding the police. You're
not really getting rid of the police. You take them away.
For a while, this society eats itself and then they
just take that society away and they build their communes
and you have to live under even tougher rule than police.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Right, and again, where has this Where has this been
tried in America? And maybe more importantly, where has it
succeeded anywhere? And he wants to do this in I
would say, the most important city in the country.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's crazy, the most important city in the world, I
would say. And that's always the thing that we hear.
It's just never been done right. We know socialism it's
going to be good. It's going to be great. It's
just never been done right. That's just such blowney. Okay, guys, again,
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Speaker 1 (16:41):
Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I'm Titter Dixon. The guys are off today.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I'm excited to be coming to you live from the
Wood Radio Studios here in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
We've been talking about New York.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
We know that this new radical socialist wants to defund
the police there, so I thought it would be great
to have a conversation with my friend Gianno Caldwell. He
is here with us today. He is a familiar face
to many of you who watch Fox News. He's also
the founder of the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety and
the author of a brand new book, The Day My
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Brother was Murdered, My Journey through America's Violent Crime Crisis. Giano,
thank you for joining me, Thank.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
You for having me. This is such an honor to
be with you always.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I so enjoyed having you on the podcast and hearing
your story. And I just said, we were talking about
this move to defund the police, which is still active.
You hear this man, Damie Guy saying he's not going
to he's changing his mind on that historically he's been
talking about that four years. Is defunding the police. You
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have experienced tragedy in your life. You lost your brother
in a shooting in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You wrote this.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Book because of the violence across the country. When you
hear people say have fewer police out there, what do
you think.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I believe it's a slap in the face that every
victim of violent crime, especially in the city of New York,
where there's been a bunch not only that this is
a guy who voted to defund the police in New
York City by one billion dollars and they did and
what came after death and destruction. So I'm not sure
what he's expecting to happen if he decides again to
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defund the police, if he wins, or if he thinks
that maybe abolishing prisons is the way to go. I'm
not sure if they're going to be in the prisoner
is going to be in Gracie mansion or what the
idea is here, But it's lunacy on steroids.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I can tell you they won't be They won't be
anywhere near the elites. And he is one of the elites.
So I want to get into your book because one
of the characters that you talk about in your book
and not a character, a real life person, James Lambert,
who was murdered one night, and if you read the book,
you will read this story. It's so powerful. But I
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want to get into it because he went out at
night because his mind was going and he just needed
to walk in the middle of the night, and there
were young kids, young kids, teenagers out there, but young
like twelve eleven. These are young kids and preteens and
he says to them, hey, you know, you should be
at home, and they turn on him and you go
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into this story. But we hear so much about james
life in your book, and I bring this up because
there's this discussion of community policing, and I don't think
that people understand what that means. When they hear policing,
they still think police. When mom Donnie talks community policing,
he's saying, you know, just have the elders talk to
each other and have this kind of conversation happen. But
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you bring up so aptly in this book that where
that would have worked in the past, it's not working now.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
That's absolutely right, and that's set up the book for everyone.
The day my brother was murdered my journey through America's
violent crime crisis. It goes back to the day my
brother was murdered in Chicago on June four, twenty twenty two,
when my life changed forever, when my innocent, teenage baby brother,
who was not the target, was murdered in Chicago. So
I went back at that day and I saw that
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there was about one hundred and fifty people murdered across
the nation and I wanted to tell that story from
the perspective of many people who experienced a similar tragedy
as my family. People like James, as you mentioned, he
was an Army veteran. He had PTSD. He would often
go to the park at one or two in the morning,
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and on that very day, June twenty fourth, he runs
into these kids and he tells them to go home,
and they beat him to death with a traffic home
in Philadelphia. Or people like Catherine. Catherine was a wife,
a mom, a grandmother, a sixty four year old chemical
engineer who went left work on June twenty fourth and
there was a shootout that took place on a freeway.
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A drug deal had went wrong, and these guys began
to shoot at each other and she became a victim
of violent crime that day. And there's so many others
in his book that I write about, But I also
write about the solutions to the crime crisis in America,
things like funding the police, not defunding the police. Simple
things like not pushing falt on crime policies. We should
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have a law and order country. It has to be
that way, because you cannot have a free society without
law and order. You can, and you.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Are talking directly, You are talking directly.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
As someone who has been affected by this.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's what I want to make it clear that people
like Mom Donnie who are talking about this, they've never
experienced this kind of crime, and they likely never will
experience this kind of crime. You write in the book,
and we talked about this on the podcast, that you
think if a thousand white kids a year were dying
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in a city, that that would be on the news
every night. And I have to agree with you. And
I say that because if you watch some of these
videos coming out of this guy in New York. He
has this video where he says, you know, we're going
to get rid of these old housing units and the
landlords will have the opportunity, the people will have the
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opportunity to buy out the landlords. But I really believe
that they have forgotten these communities.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
They don't live there.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
They want the communities to destroy themselves, and then they'll
go in and they'll push everybody out.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
And that's oftentimes what happens in these kind of scenarios.
And you got to think with this guy as the
socialist democrat who thinks that he can raise taxes on
all of these people and that they're going to stick
around there. No, he's going to be Florida as great
as Realtor, which is where I live. This is where
a lot of the billionaires and the multimillionaires and those
who make multiple six figures or even a six figure
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income are coming. They're coming to Florida because it's safe.
It's secure. You got Rhonda Stansis as the governor. We
have leadership here. What he's advocating for is the literal
destruction of New York City, as we know with Wall
Street will not exist. And that's why a lot of
powerful players in the City of New York I believe
are going to push back against them. So I'm not
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one hundred percent certain that he's going to make it,
even though we know that typically whoever wins the Democratic
primary in New York City is the person who becomes
the mayor. This guy is scary for a lot of people,
especially those working class and middle class families. And you
can tell that because if you were making fifty thousand
dollars in under and you voted in that election, you
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rejected him by twenty points. This is a disaster for
New York City and the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Well, you know, it's funny that you bring up the
billionaires because he said that he wants to get rid
of all billionaires, which he will not because he's going
to take their money. Because if you're a billionaire, you
can live wherever you want. You're not going to stay
in New York City. And I agree with you, he
will crush the city. But I also want people to
remember that people that become billionaires, they don't shoot up
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that ladder all alone. They do that with massive amounts
of jobs below them that are building that empire up.
And they are job creators. So when a billionaire decides, hey,
this doesn't work for me, he doesn't leave all the
jobs behind. He takes the jobs with him. So New
York will have big organizations that leave because, like I said,
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billionaires don't just poof become billionaires. They become billionaires because
they've created jobs, massive amounts of jobs.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
And to your point, the perfect example, to your illustration
is Ken Griffin, who was in Illinois, major billionaire who
left Chicago because of crime. He said he couldn't recruit
good talent to the city because the crime issue was
so bad. Now he's in Florida. He's building this wonderful
corporate office building right in Miami, right not too far
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from where I live. And he has a place in
Palm Beach. So to your exact point, they leave and
then there's nothing there to fill that void. Oftentimes, so
what do you do? People are laid off from jobs.
It has a direct and indirect economic impact. And then
the leadership has to say, Okay, we're gonna have to
raise Texas on everybody to fill that void. But they
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already been done silly things with the money. But why
would any taxpayer want to spend more money in that city?
So that then again leaves a hole for more and
more people to leave the city of New York.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And I mean we are back to gun violence. We
are back to gun violence because absolutely, yes, yes, because
you have seen it in Chicago. I have seen it
in Detroit. You have these businesses leave, I mean Detroit,
my gosh. Over the weekend, we had a mother who
went to the park. I mean, so similar to James's story,
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but she was with her six kids and the youngest
of which was four was four but drive by shooting.
There's the little boy gets shot in the back. She
loses her baby, and yet people are saying, why aren't
we getting more businesses in the state of Michigan. Why
aren't more businesses going to Illinois, Because first of all,
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the crime is so bad, and secondly, if you can't
go to a park with your kid, there's no way
I'm going to live.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
There one percent. And as I write in my new book,
The Day My Brother was Murdered, My Journey through America's
Violent Crime Crisis, about baby Cecilia, who was five months old,
four days from six months old. She was in the
backseat of a vehicle with her brother three years old
and her parents up front. They thought they heard fireworks
and then they looked she was bleeding. She was murdered
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on June twenty fourth. You know, we know how bad
it is. So in this book, I wanted to talk
about solutions to the violent crime in America as well.
So I talk to people like Sean Hannity. I talk
to people like doctor Drew Pinsk about the mental health
crisis in our country and his contributions to crime. I
talked to John wallsh from America's Most Wanted, Nicole Parker,
former FBI works at Fox News, as well leaders educators,
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because this is a problem that's going to be will
have to be solved by an entire community of people.
We've relied on the politicians for a very long time
to try to get it done, and we still should
be putting pressure on them and voting for the right
people in office and lobbying for tougher penalties for crime.
But there is also a fatherless challenge here where the
family structure has been impacted and kids need to be,
(27:25):
you know, for things they need to do, punished if
they're doing something wrong. There needs to be accountability there.
There has to be accountability when it comes to the
education system in America. They cannot say the test which
I'm not sure if people heard the story, but there
was a school district I believe it was to say
the actual tests were racist, like it's insanity. So they're
passing kids along without them actually being proficient, leading to
(27:48):
a deficit in our education and the competition of us
as a country. These are major problems that need to
be solved, and in the books Today My Brother was Murdered,
My Journey through America's Violent crime Crisis, I provide solutions
to the damage that has been done through our country.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And because if you are uneducated, then the a ninety
nine percent of the time you end up in a
criminal situation. I mean, that's just the reality, and that's
the responsibility of politicians. But I wanted to bring you
on because everybody who listens to this show understands politics.
They understand what is happening behind the scenes on things
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like this, but they may not have lived it themselves.
And that's why this book is so powerful. Because I
have traveled across the state of Michigan. When I was campaigning,
people would say to me, you didn't live my situation,
so you can't know it, and they're right, you can't
know it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But this book takes.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You in a place of knowledge that really you can't
get anywhere else. So quickly tell people where they can
get it.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
You can get it at Barns and Nobles, Amazon dot Com, Walmart,
target just about any place that books are sold. And
I encourage people to support our efforts at the call
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Thank you so much for having me today, Thank you
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And it's a good read. I mean it really is.
It's very it draws you in. There's nothing, there's no
lulls in the book. You're in a in a news
story all the time. So it's one of those books
where you really not only are you learning, but you're
incredibly engaged. So Giano, thank you so much for being
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Welcome back to the Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
I'm Tudor Dixon. The guys are off today, so I'm
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Take some calls, and it looks like we've got George
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Speaker 10 (30:32):
Thank you, Mike, George, and let you share our traditions
for the Independence Day with you.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Okay, yeah, let's go right.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Well, if the thing I've been doing since my son
was seven years old he is thirty six now, is
before the food goes on the grill, I'll read the
first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I love it.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
I love it grown, you know, the ones We'll start
with when the course of human events and then the
second paragraph wield's true to be self evident. You know,
it's been a lot of years, and now I've got
four grandkids that that's being passed on to. And I've
seen this tradition spread to his friend.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Good and really good.
Speaker 10 (31:14):
Yeah, it really puts it in context. This is what
we're about.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Well, that's what that's what we will have other people
do that. George, thank you so much for calling. We're
going to try to pull a couple more people in.
We're going to pull in Kevin. Kevin is in Ohio
and he wants to talk about New York City. Kevin,
what do you have to tell us about socialism in
New York?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Hey, Well, I'd just like to say that, as a
conservative that loves this country, I think this mayoral election
is a gift to us. You know, let's let's let
the world watch New York liberals swim in their own sewage.
They're going to make a mess of this, and it's
going to be a wonderful.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Lesson for the world.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
It is.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It is a wonderful lesson. I think it's hard for
us to watch, though I always it.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Is hard to watch. But I think you're right because
what it's doing is it's forcing people like Marcy Captor
in Ohio to take a side and she has to
decide is she going to support the Democrat nominee the
socialist or not?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Thank you, Kevin, thanks for calling in. We'll try to
get Eric in really quick. Eric is Eric in Florida,
asks if socialism is great, why isn't everybody doing it?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Or why is it mandatory? Why do you have to
do it? Eric, come on in right.
Speaker 11 (32:22):
It's mandatory enforced by brown shirts. Did you ever think
you having Scott Jennings having them arguing over socialism or communism?
One of the only difference is who owns what? And
I'd like to ask this guy in New York City,
if you to fund the police, who are you going
to send a take my gut? Is it going to
be Beato Aurorico?
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Not him anymore?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Thank you, Thank you Eric and Florida. Thank you guys
all for calling in. We also had Donald.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're not going to get to Donald because we're gonna
end up having to go to a break here.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But I want to say something.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
To Donald because he was asking if he'll be able
to vote for me again.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He's in Michigan, you know what.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm gonna have an announcement in the next couple of weeks, Donald,
So maybe you can call back in at the end
of the next hour, but we are gonna have to
head to a break soon. I want you to stay
tuned though, because we're gonna be back. We're gonna have
some good information on what is happening in the p
Diddy trial. You are going to want to tune in.
We're gonna have yaku boyans, We're gonna have Linda McMahon
(33:21):
talking about that breakthrough answer she has on what she's
doing with girl Sports.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
So stay tuned, we'll be right back
Hello, and welcome to the Clay Travis and Bucks Sexton Show.
The guys are off today and as you've probably noticed,
they left me in charge. I'm Tutor Dixon and I
will be filling in today. I am the host of
the Tutor Dixon Podcast, which is actually a part of
Clay in Bucks podcast network, So they are trusting me today.
We'll see if that's a good idea or not. But
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Wednesday and Friday on the iHeartRadio app. We talk about
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But today we are excited because we are coming to
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We've got a great show coming up for you. We
are talking one on one with the US Secretary of Education,
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Linda McMahon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
She has a huge announcement.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
She announced it last night, but we're going to get
into some of the details of what's happening there, a
major victory for women's sports. We also have the latest
on the p Ditty trial with Yaku Boyans and we're
going to be taking a deep dive into this violent
that taking over our cities with Giano Caldwell a little
bit later. First, I want to introduce a friend that
I have with me today, Kyle Olsen. He's actually probably
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the reason that I'm here, so I had him join
me today. I'm new to politics. I got into this
in about twenty seventeen when Kyle pulled me out of
the manufacturing sector. But he's been doing this for a
very long time, so he's kind of my political sense.
Say so he's here with me today, Kyle, say hello, thank.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You and thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Is what an honor it is to be with you
today and for including me. To me, this time is
hollowed ground. Noon to three was learning time when I
was growing up. I remember watching Rush Limbaugh late at
night on Fox News. I was in high school in
the mid nineteen nineties and my youth pastor, Wally Coots,
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who is now pastor in Alligan, Michigan, would take me
out to lunch sometimes and for that eight minute drive
he'd have Rush Limbaugh on the radio, and at that
time it was like it was like water in the desert.
And of course that was a time when there was
no internet archive, there were no clips on social media.
And so if you didn't hear it between and noon
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and three, you missed it. But he impacted our generation
and I believe paved the way for two terms of
President Donald Trump. So it's a thrill for me to
be here. And thank you to Clay and Buck for
giving both of us this opportunity.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, And honestly, that is what Kyle's upbringing is what
brought me here. And we think every day, what would
Rush Limbaugh think about what is happening right now? And
I say that because we're watching the Democrat Party in
total chaos. They have this Mandami situation in New York.
They're trying to figure out exactly where they stand on it.
(02:44):
You've had a lot of people who have come out
and said they don't want to endorse him, but they're
kind of they're shy about it. They're shy about it
because they don't know where the Democrat Party is heading.
I think what's interesting in what we're seeing with this
new Mandani who is he is now the anointed mayor?
(03:05):
Maybe he's been. He made it through the primary. Generally
a Democrat who makes it through the primary in New
York becomes the mayor.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But this is very unique.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
He's a socialist. He's come out and said he is
a socialist. Proud yeah, proudly a socialist. The New York Times.
I think this is funny because this is very telling.
The New York Times a few years ago came out
and said they're not going to endorse in local elections anymore.
Not not, they just want to be regular news. They're
not going to do it. They're not regular news. They're Democrats.
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They endorsed against him.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, it's it's fascinating to watch because it's you have
you have the element of the media, which you just described,
but then you also have the party, and you've got
you have the situation where now a Democrat is the Demora,
a socialist is the Democrat nominee for the mayor of
New York. He's got, I think, a very good chance
of winning. We'll see what how Airrick Adams does as
(04:01):
an independent candidate. Can he mount the coalition that he
did in twenty twenty one to get re elected as
an independent.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
That's going to be interesting to see.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
But you've got this situation where I would I don't
know if quote unquote mainstream Democrats actually exist anymore, but
you have sort of the establishment Democrats who don't want
to embrace Memdannie because they know he may be able
to win in a place like New York City, but
can he win in marginal districts? Can he win in
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communities where socialism is not embraced well, not.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yet, not yet, And that's they're not ready yet to
go there. But the others, the leaders of their parties
are embracing this. They're they're cheering this on, and I
think they have been for a long time. But the
story of Mamdannie or whatever his name is, I think
is something we have to kind of dig into because
this is a kid who, as you aptly pointed out earlier,
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is he's been groomed for this. He can here, he
came to this country. He is a rich kid. He's
a rich kid, like people need to understand. He grew
up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This is
not a kid that's brought himself out of nothing. I mean,
Eric Adams is really the guy who's brought himself up
from nothing, but he wants to He's like moderately rich,
(05:19):
you know, in the millions. And I say that because
he says he hates billionaires. And when you can conveniently
land in that spot. If your parents have millions of dollars,
you can conveniently land in the spot where you are
not going to be affected by all of the policies
that you put into place, and you can try to
attack the billionaire class, but you ultimately are creating this
(05:40):
communist society. And the reason that this is is because
this is a kid who came into the United States.
He went to college in Maine. He graduated in twenty fourteen,
so he's also a kid. I keep saying that because
he's young. He graduated in twenty fourteen with a degree
in African studies, So I'm sure that's going to help
him as mayor, you know, having that hardcore degree in economics.
(06:05):
Oh no, it's African studies. And he also think about this.
So he graduated in twenty fourteen, so it must have
been like twenty eleven, twenty twelve. He forms he co
founds the school's chapter for Students for Justice in Palestine.
I think a lot of people would be shocked to
hear that, because I think a lot of people would
assume that that's something new that they're just hearing about.
(06:28):
So think about this more than ten years ago. This
kid was already forming chapters of the organization. Who I
will say, I guarantee you that organization funded him. This
idea that he has a grassroots campaign in New York.
This charmer has gone around and just gotten all these
people to come out of the woodwork. There is massive
money behind him.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Sure, and that's what happens is you've got he's involved
with the Democratic Socialists for America. He's very he embraces them,
you know, in a lot of ways that other socialists
sort of you know, they pretend like to socialists, but
he is, he is, he's embracing it in a very
full throat, full throated way.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And yeah, let's listen to his own words. We've got
cut one here.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
This is him saying this, The.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Struggle for Palestinian liberation was at the core of my
politics and continues to be.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
So this is this is the core.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Mean So what does that mean? What does Palestinian liberation mean?
It means it ends the quote unquote occupation. I would
argue that they don't want Israel to even be a
space from the river to It's it's to eliminate Israel.
And so when he said, and this was twenty twenty
three he said this at the Democratic Socialists of America
(07:45):
convention when he said, the struggle for Palestinian liberation was
at the core of my politics and continues to be.
That's his worldview, that's how he is going to view
every decision that he is making if he's in that
position in New York York City.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So, voter your post October seventh.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I think that was pre but I don't know the
answer either.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Either one is scary, but post.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Just two weeks after that, he is out there and
he's screaming at Senator Jillibrand, listen to this.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
This is cut two.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
The last thing I have to say is one more chance,
Senator job we whoa not stop?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
This is an activist.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
This is not yes exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And so so think about the situation that New York
City voters are in here.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You have this guy.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
He's he literally says, the last thing I have to
say is one more chance. It's not how do we
create jobs, how do we make sure people can afford
rent and groceries, all of those sorts of things. It's
the last thing I have to say is one more chant.
And then he's demanding a ceasefire. Now don't forget, as
you said. Two weeks after October seventh, he is in
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the street with a bullhorn, screaming so loud that his
voice is cracking, demanding a seasfire.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
But it's the people behind him that make me nervous,
because that is not I will say again, this is
not an organic movement. This is a movement that is
well funded. I mean people have said, you go one
day they've got pill Palestinian flags. The next day they've
got Iranian flags. They didn't go out and buy those flags.
(09:37):
Someone is providing this. This is a well funded organization.
He has been groomed for this for years, from this
group of Free Palestine, the river to the sea, these
chants which are death to Israel, death to America. You
cannot tell me that's not what this means. And two
weeks after women were murdered, women were raped, children were
(10:00):
ragged out of their homes, their grandparents were killed in
front of them, this is what this guy says in
the most Jewish city in America, and people and Democrats
will not condemn this, and let's be let's be honest.
He also said, has this statement out there globalize the Intifada,
and he's been asked multiple times. He was asked three
(10:22):
times just the other night, do you condemn that kind
of language?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And he said he won't.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
He won't answer the question. He says he doesn't condemn
condemned speech. So we're going to take a quick break here.
But before we take this break, I just want to
remind you guys that you can call into the show.
We're going to take calls at the end of each hour.
We want to hear. This is like we're going into
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So stay tuned.
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We're talking more about this Mandamie Mania after this break.
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I'm Tutor Dixon.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm here with Kyle Olsen from The Midwesterner, and I
want to jump back into what we were talking about
about Moum Donnie.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
We keep talking.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
About him as a socialist, and I think it's interesting
because that was taboo a few years ago in the
United States. If you talked about somebody, it was like
an insult, you know, if you said somebody was a socialist,
they would deny it. Outside of Bernie Sanders and maybe
AOC who I do think, you know, it's years.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
In the making.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
These people push this in in, but socialists are all
they all kind of start out crazy like this, but
they sound they sound wonderful. I mean they do. It's
like this utopia because it doesn't work. It's not a
real thing. And if you look back at even Karl
marx life Marxism, his life is very similar to Mama Donnie.
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So he is in a family they're kind of middle
upper class. His parents are in the class system. They're
trying to build themselves up. He becomes sort of a
radical college. He never really gets a job. He's a journalist,
but he spends most of his life as an intellectual learning,
and he's a thinker. He's an experimenter. He has no
(12:43):
experience in any of these things. Very similar to what
we're seeing with Mam Donnie So So Marx puts out
all these theories, and his theories over time kill thousands
and hundreds of thousands of people. It's always been proven
that socialism is bad, and it's never been accepted in
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the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
However, I think this was just last night.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
We've got this, this new this clip from Scott Jennings.
It is the number three we have here. This is
This is Jennings kind of fighting back. He's like, are
you kidding me? We're we're headed toward communism, but this
this is from CNN, and the other guys on CNN
are like, oh no, no, we're good.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Listen to this.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Democratic socialists elected as mayor of New York City.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
No, you agree with Pete that he is a communist thing.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
He's a socialist, he said.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Sees the means of production.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
He's a socialist. I'm he's using the language of the Bolsheviks,
is it not that?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
No, he's not. He's a socialist, not a communist.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Means of production.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
That's called socialism, not communist.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Us and stone door.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Like that coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I mean, he's like you, there's just that moment where
you hear him go, I'm not a socialist, because there's
that moment of reality where it strikes him where he says,
how can we be accepting this?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But they are accepting it.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
And that's to me, this shows how much the Democratic
Party is in chaos and and how far they have
gone to the left, because here you've got a guy
he's saying he's he's I mean, he's practically shouting he's
a socialist. So no, no, he's not a communist, he's
a socialist. So apparently to them now, being a socialist
is tolerable but maybe not maybe not communists, but socialist is.
(14:30):
But to your point about his history, that's what's so
dangerous about this is that he his mind, his brain
has been filled with all of these theories, and he
wants to experiment with people's lives.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
He wants to.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Experience, not affect his it will not that's what people
need to understand. This guy lives in a two million
dollar condo that his parents pay for.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
This is never going to affect him. He just he talks.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He has that video where it shows they these buildings
and then they build up these new communes where everybody
can live together, all the comrades can live together in
the commune.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
He's going to take away the police.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
He's going to take away the police so that those
communities just attack each other.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And then they'll come in.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
See, that's the funny thing about defunding the police. You're
not really getting rid of the police. You take them away.
For a while, this society eats itself and then they
just take that society away and they build their communes
and you have to live under even tougher rule than police.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Right, and again, where has this Where has this been
tried in America? And maybe more importantly, where has it
succeeded anywhere? And he wants to do this in I
would say, the most important city in the country.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's crazy, the most important city in the world, I
would say. And that's always the thing that we hear.
It's just never been done right. We know socialism it's
going to be good. It's going to be great. It's
just never been done right. That's just such blowney. Okay, guys, again,
I want you to know we want your calls at
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Speaker 2 (16:38):
Callin. We'll be rapped back right after this.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I'm Titter Dixon. The guys are off today.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I'm excited to be coming to you live from the
Wood Radio Studios here in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
We've been talking about New York.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
We know that this new radical socialist wants to defund
the police there, so I thought it would be great
to have a conversation with my friend Gianno Caldwell. He
is here with us today. He is a familiar face
to many of you who watch Fox News. He's also
the founder of the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety and
the author of a brand new book, The Day My
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Brother was Murdered, My Journey through America's Violent Crime Crisis. Giano,
thank you for joining me, Thank.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
You for having me. This is such an honor to
be with you always.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I so enjoyed having you on the podcast and hearing
your story. And I just said, we were talking about
this move to defund the police, which is still active.
You hear this man, Damie Guy saying he's not going
to he's changing his mind on that historically he's been
talking about that four years. Is defunding the police. You
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have experienced tragedy in your life. You lost your brother
in a shooting in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You wrote this.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Book because of the violence across the country. When you
hear people say have fewer police out there, what do
you think.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I believe it's a slap in the face that every
victim of violent crime, especially in the city of New York,
where there's been a bunch not only that this is
a guy who voted to defund the police in New
York City by one billion dollars and they did and
what came after death and destruction. So I'm not sure
what he's expecting to happen if he decides again to
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defund the police, if he wins, or if he thinks
that maybe abolishing prisons is the way to go. I'm
not sure if they're going to be in the prisoner
is going to be in Gracie mansion or what the
idea is here, But it's lunacy on steroids.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I can tell you they won't be They won't be
anywhere near the elites. And he is one of the elites.
So I want to get into your book because one
of the characters that you talk about in your book
and not a character, a real life person, James Lambert,
who was murdered one night, and if you read the book,
you will read this story. It's so powerful. But I
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want to get into it because he went out at
night because his mind was going and he just needed
to walk in the middle of the night, and there
were young kids, young kids, teenagers out there, but young
like twelve eleven. These are young kids and preteens and
he says to them, hey, you know, you should be
at home, and they turn on him and you go
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into this story. But we hear so much about james
life in your book, and I bring this up because
there's this discussion of community policing, and I don't think
that people understand what that means. When they hear policing,
they still think police. When mom Donnie talks community policing,
he's saying, you know, just have the elders talk to
each other and have this kind of conversation happen. But
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you bring up so aptly in this book that where
that would have worked in the past, it's not working now.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
That's absolutely right, and that's set up the book for everyone.
The day my brother was murdered my journey through America's
violent crime crisis. It goes back to the day my
brother was murdered in Chicago on June four, twenty twenty two,
when my life changed forever, when my innocent, teenage baby brother,
who was not the target, was murdered in Chicago. So
I went back at that day and I saw that
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there was about one hundred and fifty people murdered across
the nation and I wanted to tell that story from
the perspective of many people who experienced a similar tragedy
as my family. People like James, as you mentioned, he
was an Army veteran. He had PTSD. He would often
go to the park at one or two in the morning,
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and on that very day, June twenty fourth, he runs
into these kids and he tells them to go home,
and they beat him to death with a traffic home
in Philadelphia. Or people like Catherine. Catherine was a wife,
a mom, a grandmother, a sixty four year old chemical
engineer who went left work on June twenty fourth and
there was a shootout that took place on a freeway.
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A drug deal had went wrong, and these guys began
to shoot at each other and she became a victim
of violent crime that day. And there's so many others
in his book that I write about, But I also
write about the solutions to the crime crisis in America,
things like funding the police, not defunding the police. Simple
things like not pushing falt on crime policies. We should
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have a law and order country. It has to be
that way, because you cannot have a free society without
law and order. You can, and you.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Are talking directly, You are talking directly.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
As someone who has been affected by this.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's what I want to make it clear that people
like Mom Donnie who are talking about this, they've never
experienced this kind of crime, and they likely never will
experience this kind of crime. You write in the book,
and we talked about this on the podcast, that you
think if a thousand white kids a year were dying
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in a city, that that would be on the news
every night. And I have to agree with you. And
I say that because if you watch some of these
videos coming out of this guy in New York. He
has this video where he says, you know, we're going
to get rid of these old housing units and the
landlords will have the opportunity, the people will have the
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opportunity to buy out the landlords. But I really believe
that they have forgotten these communities.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
They don't live there.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
They want the communities to destroy themselves, and then they'll
go in and they'll push everybody out.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
And that's oftentimes what happens in these kind of scenarios.
And you got to think with this guy as the
socialist democrat who thinks that he can raise taxes on
all of these people and that they're going to stick
around there. No, he's going to be Florida as great
as Realtor, which is where I live. This is where
a lot of the billionaires and the multimillionaires and those
who make multiple six figures or even a six figure
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income are coming. They're coming to Florida because it's safe.
It's secure. You got Rhonda Stansis as the governor. We
have leadership here. What he's advocating for is the literal
destruction of New York City, as we know with Wall
Street will not exist. And that's why a lot of
powerful players in the City of New York I believe
are going to push back against them. So I'm not
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one hundred percent certain that he's going to make it,
even though we know that typically whoever wins the Democratic
primary in New York City is the person who becomes
the mayor. This guy is scary for a lot of people,
especially those working class and middle class families. And you
can tell that because if you were making fifty thousand
dollars in under and you voted in that election, you
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rejected him by twenty points. This is a disaster for
New York City and the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Well, you know, it's funny that you bring up the
billionaires because he said that he wants to get rid
of all billionaires, which he will not because he's going
to take their money. Because if you're a billionaire, you
can live wherever you want. You're not going to stay
in New York City. And I agree with you, he
will crush the city. But I also want people to
remember that people that become billionaires, they don't shoot up
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that ladder all alone. They do that with massive amounts
of jobs below them that are building that empire up.
And they are job creators. So when a billionaire decides, hey,
this doesn't work for me, he doesn't leave all the
jobs behind. He takes the jobs with him. So New
York will have big organizations that leave because, like I said,
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billionaires don't just poof become billionaires. They become billionaires because
they've created jobs, massive amounts of jobs.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
And to your point, the perfect example, to your illustration
is Ken Griffin, who was in Illinois, major billionaire who
left Chicago because of crime. He said he couldn't recruit
good talent to the city because the crime issue was
so bad. Now he's in Florida. He's building this wonderful
corporate office building right in Miami, right not too far
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from where I live. And he has a place in
Palm Beach. So to your exact point, they leave and
then there's nothing there to fill that void. Oftentimes, so
what do you do? People are laid off from jobs.
It has a direct and indirect economic impact. And then
the leadership has to say, Okay, we're gonna have to
raise Texas on everybody to fill that void. But they
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already been done silly things with the money. But why
would any taxpayer want to spend more money in that city?
So that then again leaves a hole for more and
more people to leave the city of New York.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And I mean we are back to gun violence. We
are back to gun violence because absolutely, yes, yes, because
you have seen it in Chicago. I have seen it
in Detroit. You have these businesses leave, I mean Detroit,
my gosh. Over the weekend, we had a mother who
went to the park. I mean, so similar to James's story,
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but she was with her six kids and the youngest
of which was four was four but drive by shooting.
There's the little boy gets shot in the back. She
loses her baby, and yet people are saying, why aren't
we getting more businesses in the state of Michigan. Why
aren't more businesses going to Illinois, Because first of all,
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the crime is so bad, and secondly, if you can't
go to a park with your kid, there's no way
I'm going to live.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
There one percent. And as I write in my new book,
The Day My Brother was Murdered, My Journey through America's
Violent Crime Crisis, about baby Cecilia, who was five months old,
four days from six months old. She was in the
backseat of a vehicle with her brother three years old
and her parents up front. They thought they heard fireworks
and then they looked she was bleeding. She was murdered
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on June twenty fourth. You know, we know how bad
it is. So in this book, I wanted to talk
about solutions to the violent crime in America as well.
So I talk to people like Sean Hannity. I talk
to people like doctor Drew Pinsk about the mental health
crisis in our country and his contributions to crime. I
talked to John wallsh from America's Most Wanted, Nicole Parker,
former FBI works at Fox News, as well leaders educators,
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because this is a problem that's going to be will
have to be solved by an entire community of people.
We've relied on the politicians for a very long time
to try to get it done, and we still should
be putting pressure on them and voting for the right
people in office and lobbying for tougher penalties for crime.
But there is also a fatherless challenge here where the
family structure has been impacted and kids need to be,
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you know, for things they need to do, punished if
they're doing something wrong. There needs to be accountability there.
There has to be accountability when it comes to the
education system in America. They cannot say the test which
I'm not sure if people heard the story, but there
was a school district I believe it was to say
the actual tests were racist, like it's insanity. So they're
passing kids along without them actually being proficient, leading to
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a deficit in our education and the competition of us
as a country. These are major problems that need to
be solved, and in the books Today My Brother was Murdered,
My Journey through America's Violent crime Crisis, I provide solutions
to the damage that has been done through our country.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And because if you are uneducated, then the a ninety
nine percent of the time you end up in a
criminal situation. I mean, that's just the reality, and that's
the responsibility of politicians. But I wanted to bring you
on because everybody who listens to this show understands politics.
They understand what is happening behind the scenes on things
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like this, but they may not have lived it themselves.
And that's why this book is so powerful. Because I
have traveled across the state of Michigan. When I was campaigning,
people would say to me, you didn't live my situation,
so you can't know it, and they're right, you can't
know it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But this book takes.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You in a place of knowledge that really you can't
get anywhere else. So quickly tell people where they can
get it.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
You can get it at Barns and Nobles, Amazon dot Com, Walmart,
target just about any place that books are sold. And
I encourage people to support our efforts at the call
Well Institute for Public Safety at Callwell Institute dot org,
where we fly back against Jewisher's funded progressive prosecutors, and
certainly follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok at
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Giano Caldwell g I A N N O Caldwell c
A L.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
D W E L L.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Thank you so much for having me today, Thank you
for being on.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And it's a good read. I mean it really is.
It's very it draws you in. There's nothing, there's no
lulls in the book. You're in a in a news
story all the time. So it's one of those books
where you really not only are you learning, but you're
incredibly engaged. So Giano, thank you so much for being
on today. For the rest of you out there, make
sure you call in right now because we're gonna take
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We're gonna take callers, listener calls right after this break.
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Two eight two two eight eight two. Again, that's eight
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Speaker 2 (29:52):
Call in now. We'll talk to you right after this break.
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Welcome back to the Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
I'm Tudor Dixon. The guys are off today, so I'm
filling in. I've got Kyle Olsen here with me and
we are live coming to you from gran Rapids Wood
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Speaker 2 (30:24):
We're ready to.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Take some calls, and it looks like we've got George
and Maine. So let's pull George in.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Thank you, Mike, George, and let you share our traditions
for the Independence Day with you.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Okay, yeah, let's go right.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Well, if the thing I've been doing since my son
was seven years old he is thirty six now, is
before the food goes on the grill, I'll read the
first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I love it.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
I love it grown, you know, the ones We'll start
with when the course of human events and then the
second paragraph wield's true to be self evident. You know,
it's been a lot of years, and now I've got
four grandkids that that's being passed on to. And I've
seen this tradition spread to his friend.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Good and really good.
Speaker 10 (31:14):
Yeah, it really puts it in context. This is what
we're about.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Well, that's what that's what we will have other people
do that. George, thank you so much for calling. We're
going to try to pull a couple more people in.
We're going to pull in Kevin. Kevin is in Ohio
and he wants to talk about New York City. Kevin,
what do you have to tell us about socialism in
New York?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Hey, Well, I'd just like to say that, as a
conservative that loves this country, I think this mayoral election
is a gift to us. You know, let's let's let
the world watch New York liberals swim in their own sewage.
They're going to make a mess of this, and it's
going to be a wonderful.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Lesson for the world.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
It is.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It is a wonderful lesson. I think it's hard for
us to watch, though I always it.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Is hard to watch. But I think you're right because
what it's doing is it's forcing people like Marcy Captor
in Ohio to take a side and she has to
decide is she going to support the Democrat nominee the
socialist or not?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Thank you, Kevin, thanks for calling in. We'll try to
get Eric in really quick. Eric is Eric in Florida,
asks if socialism is great, why isn't everybody doing it?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Or why is it mandatory? Why do you have to
do it? Eric, come on in right.
Speaker 11 (32:22):
It's mandatory enforced by brown shirts. Did you ever think
you having Scott Jennings having them arguing over socialism or communism?
One of the only difference is who owns what? And
I'd like to ask this guy in New York City,
if you to fund the police, who are you going
to send a take my gut? Is it going to
be Beato Aurorico?
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Not him anymore?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Thank you, Thank you Eric and Florida. Thank you guys
all for calling in. We also had Donald.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're not going to get to Donald because we're gonna
end up having to go to a break here.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But I want to say something.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
To Donald because he was asking if he'll be able
to vote for me again.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He's in Michigan, you know what.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm gonna have an announcement in the next couple of weeks, Donald,
So maybe you can call back in at the end
of the next hour, but we are gonna have to
head to a break soon. I want you to stay
tuned though, because we're gonna be back. We're gonna have
some good information on what is happening in the p
Diddy trial. You are going to want to tune in.
We're gonna have yaku boyans, We're gonna have Linda McMahon
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talking about that breakthrough answer she has on what she's
doing with girl Sports.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
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