August 26, 2025 • 36 mins
In Hour 2 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the hosts deliver a powerful and wide-ranging discussion centered on crime reduction, political accountability, and national security, with a few cultural detours. The hour opens with a gripping firsthand account from a young Asian-American reporter who was violently mugged in Washington, D.C., highlighting the real-world consequences of urban crime. This sets the stage for a broader conversation about President Trump’s aggressive crime-fighting strategy in the nation’s capital, which the hosts frame as both morally necessary and politically effective.
The show explores how Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and law enforcement has led to a notable drop in violent crime, including a 13-day streak without a homicide—an unprecedented development in a Democrat-run city. The hosts contrast this with Democratic messaging that downplays violent crime in favor of focusing on homelessness and mental health, arguing that Trump’s results-driven approach is resonating with everyday Americans.
Congressman Chip Roy joins the program to discuss his campaign for Texas Attorney General, his push to ban congressional stock trading, and his support for raising the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from 65 to 67 to address pilot shortages. He also weighs in on the Texas vs. Ohio State football game, predicting a win for the Longhorns led by Arch Manning.
In lighter moments, the hosts react to the engagement of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, poking fun at the media frenzy and questioning the cultural obsession with celebrity relationships.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, welcome man, everybody. It is the second hour of
the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. We started off
talking about the situation in Chicago and Trump trying to
create a new paradigm of less crime in DC and
then perhaps a template for other American cities as well.
(00:20):
Trump has fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. We didn't
get into that yet. This is interesting, Clay, just because
does the Federal Reserve exist outside of executive branch authority?
If so, how and then from from where or whence
does it derive said authority If it isn't within the
(00:42):
executive branches perview, it's been interesting to see how that
how that goes, I think, And Clay, did you see
also an update on the Cracker Barrel branding issue from
Cracker Barrel, which we shall discuss in a little.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
An all time own goal, but yes, let's dive into
that in a little while.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I do think that you and I with Ai, not
that either of us are particularly good artists, but your
I with AI could have come up with a better
logo rebrand in an hour than what this rebrand was.
Put that aside for a second, Well, we'll get to
that in just a little bit. We just had President
Trump a few moments ago having a cabinet meeting, his
(01:33):
seventh cabinet meeting of his first administration. Well, i'm sorry,
his second term, his first year of his second term.
And this is interesting. There was an exchange. Now, it
might be a little hard to hear the reporter for
some of you out there, so we'll fill in a
bit of it because this was in exchange of back
(01:53):
and forth. You'll be able to hear Trump, obviously, but
the reporter. But I wanted to hear a reporter tells
the story of how she was mugged in Washington, DC
and wanted you to hear how this went play thirty three.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So I went two years ago. Was a Saturday morning
and broad daylight.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
That was all my way to work, and a young
man with a black ski mask pointed a gun in
my face and threatened me to hand over my phone,
my wallet, my laptop, and everything else.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And when I refused, he used the butt of.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
His handgun to strike me across.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
My face in the cheek or what some people called
pistol with me before running away. That has deeply traumatized
myself and my family ever since. I've never dared to
walk in the streets of DC at night ever, and
my family was extremely worried. So, mister President, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So much for what you're doing with Thank you being honest.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Such incidents involved not just me but also my family.
If he had shot me, I could have died right
there in the middle of nowhere was that my families
or my friends knowing at the age of back then,
I think twenty twenty three, just starting my career here
in DC, without even starting a family, and now you're
blessed to have this opportune So you.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Had a gun point in it your head, and you
probably figured that he's going to pull the trigger, because
these are animals that don't know what the hell.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They couldn't care less.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
The pulling the trigger to him is a very minor event,
and I'm sure he's done that before. So how did
you and you and you did refuse to give it,
which would probably maybe somebody would say that was not
the right decision, right, But you refused, but I understand that.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So and then he hit you real hard.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes, okay, Clay, this is here's a reporter I saw
in the exchange's She looks to be an Asian American.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
She's a yah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
She or that the Epic Times. I believe some people
may get that newspaper weekly. I believe that goes out
many different places.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yes, so he's a young woman. She's not not physically large,
formidable person. She first was a woman. And beyond that,
you know, she's not a somebody who would be in
a particularly strong position to defend herself broad daylight. Guy
with a ski mask pulls a gun, says, I'm gonna
murder you if you don't give me your stuff, and
then he pistol whips her in the face. People hear
stories like this in d C. Clay and you know
(04:18):
what the response is, Oh, yeah, I know a few
other people that that's happened to. And remember this is
happening in the nice neighborhoods. Indeed, she's talking, I could
probably tell you. I'm just guessing you probably living like
Adams Morgan or something. We're talking about a northwest d C.
This stuff happens. We're not even getting into how often
this stuff goes on in Southeast DC. And here Trump
(04:39):
actually continues on this extrage. So I just wanted you
to hear what's going on here.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Here.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Trump continues with this, Oh you want to jump in.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh sorry, no, no, no, no, I'm much less serious news.
But I lost a major bet with my wife, So
I was just texting her during the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
U It's not as I thought, you lost a bet
with me, And I was gonna say on the phone,
stop depressed. That's that's always good news.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
This is all very serious. But Travis Kelcey and Taylor
Swift just got engaged, and I just got texted about it.
So this is gonna take over all the pop culture news.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
We're gonna put a pin in that one.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
We're gonna go back to you. That's what I was doing.
That was my face, reacting to the usually serious news.
We can read.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I can read his face usually, and I know when
he's he's fired up and to make a point whatever.
And he's an honest guy, and he's telling you we're
having a very serious, important discussion, and he's fired up
that he lost a bet over Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Honest man.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We'll come back to that, Clay. We'll let you We'll
let you wait on that in a second. Let's get
back here to this woman. This reporter Pistol whipped in
the face, uh, the whole thing. So remember there's also
the trauma of these things that lingers with individuals. Especially
for a woman to be attacked like this speak trauma
for a guy too, but for a woman to be
attacked like this broad daylight guys a ski mask on,
(06:06):
and Trump and the reporter continued to exchange.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
By thirty four, it's really amazing that you weren't shot.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
That was I'm very blessed, and that's why having this
opportunity to stand here to share.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
My story today.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
One, I'm very grateful for God for allowing me to
still survive to this day, but also to miss the president.
Thank you for now making DC say thank you very
much for us, for our families, from my parents on
my behalf of my parents and now my baby on
the way, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
There are other reporters and journalists and good people, and
you don't have to say it, but that have also
been attacked violently and not violently.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Too pretty badly.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
And I'll bet you see a big difference in the
streets right now, and this is only twelve days.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But people to.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Tell me they're going out to dinner now, they.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Haven't I told to serve my friend.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
But I have a lot of friends that are going
out to dinner all the time now in DC, and
they weren't.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They weren't doing it twelve days ago.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
They would never even think one of my friends went
out five times. It was four times the last time
I told now, it's five times, he said.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I love going out to dinner.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
And restaurants are starting to open again. A lot of
them close because you know, they weren't. Nobody wanted to
go into a restaurant. Nobody wanted to get to a
restaurant or even sit in the restaurant. But you see
a big difference now, don't you.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I do actual hospital the education every day on my
way home, and.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It was felastic.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
For seeing the trucks right outside, seeing the.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
National Guard troops members right outside, does maybe feel like
I'm hopeful about j and then one day hopefully we
can raise our family here.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I think this is fantastic, And there's gonna be a
lot of criticism because we've got to cut and I
want to play it. This is cut ten. A woman
at the DNC yesterday saying, Hohm, there's not actually crimes
like this because this is now where Democrats are relegated.
(08:06):
Cut ten, Where.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Does Trump go migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful
stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual. Don't take the
bait because most Americans are more worried about how are
we going to address mental health issues, the visible homelessness
that we see on streets, and how do we deal
with mental health and other issues that drive the sort
(08:29):
of random incidents that scare all of us. That's what
you should be talking about.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That's where you should be focused.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Don't take the bait and talking about migrant crime or
carjackings or the things that actually don't matter to that
many Americans.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Don't take the bait on violent crime mattering to that
many Americans, and I do think again, this woman's story
is echoed by almost everybody that is listening to us
in the country. Somewhere in a city, somewhere in New State,
Innocent people are being victimized by crime. And Trump has
(09:05):
just said no longer, We're not going to stand for this,
and buck twelve days since a murder happened in Washington, DC.
At some point there will be a murder. But when
I see twelve days based on the history of Washington,
d C in the summer over decades. At some point
you have to start to say, hey, maybe this is
(09:26):
not a total statistical anomaly. Maybe Trump really is starting
to drive down violent crime in Washington, d C. And
this is why it's ultimately scary to Democrats because if
Trump can do this, Trump shut down the border. Remember
the whole story that we heard for years was Congress
has to act in order for there to be border security.
(09:49):
Trump showed up and shut down the border security. And
I think what's happening now with DC violent crime is
Democrats are becoming terrified Chicago, we started off, Baltimore, Memphis,
Kansas City, New Orleans, whatever city you want to point
to with a huge violent crime rate. It's a failure
of will. It's a failure of caring enough to actually
(10:13):
drive down crime.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
We can do it. If you look at.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
What most of the homicides are in a place like Washington, DC,
they are not you know, it's not like people are
having a random property dispute and they both pull out
guns or something. It's overwhelmingly drug slash, gang related and
(10:36):
theft slash, armed robbery crime related. Right, I mean, this
is people are being shot because someone's trying to take
something from them, or people are being shot and or
shooting at each other because they want to be able
to sell drugs in a certain area without competition. I mean,
this is what drives most of the homicides in a
place like Washington, you see in a lot of places
(10:58):
across the country.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
There.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Things can be made more difficult if there are more
law enforcement officers on the streets and if they are
told that arrests will be turned over to prosecutors who
will do something with those arrests. That's a huge component
of this. Remember law and order dundundon. You know, it's
about the police who investigate crimes and the prosecutors who
(11:23):
bring them. To bring the offenders to justice in a court,
it has to be a one to two punch. But Clay,
of course, you can address these things.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Make it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You make it harder for somebody to get away with
going and doing a drive by shooting on a rival's turf.
You make it harder for somebody to think I'm going
to put on a ski mask, as was done to
this young female reporter and in broad daylight, pull out
a gun and smack you in the face with it
and think that I'm going.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
To get away.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This is really straightforward stuff. And I like that Trump
is doing this for the reasons we've all discussed about
saving lives and helping people and making the streets better.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
But also.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
He just don't let Democrats squirre them out on this one. Yeah,
don't let them get away with what they're doing here,
which is they are defending the status quo of unacceptable
criminality in American cities. That's what they are doing.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And again, twelve days without a murder, are they going
to be in a position where they're actually now rooting
for murders to occur.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
This is why the Trump move is so.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Brilliant, both politically and also morally right sometimes thankfully these
things overlap where you can do the right thing politically, Hey,
we should have less crime. That's something Republicans should be behind,
and also morally because even the people that Trump is protecting,
remember almost none of them voted for him. DC was
(12:46):
of what ninety five to five voting for Democrats. It's
taken a Republican president to be willing to say I'm
going to make you safer, and it's not necessarily politically
beneficial in Washington, d C. For Trump. These are people
that are not Republican voters. Same thing Chicago, same thing
in all these different blue cities. But it's just the
right thing to do. It's the right thing to do
(13:08):
when it's something Democrats should have done are unwilling, and
Trump looked at it and said, I'm going to fix this.
God bless them for it.
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will get into this a bit more.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
First, a correction in.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
The Ultimate you Knew it was going to happen thirteen
days a homicide has happened in DC, so almost two
weeks in the summer, which is frankly unprecedented. But about
an hour ago, news broke in Washington, DC that they
had had another homicide. So that has happened. I want
to update you because as part of our discussion about
(16:38):
DC crime rates, I was saying it had been twelve days.
It had actually been thirteen days since there have been
a homicide, and it just happened since we started the
show today.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
That news broke.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Second and again we're going to talk with Chip Roy
down in Texas about his ag campaign. The news also
broke on Instagram and it is on track to be
the most liked Instagram post of all time. Travis Kelcey
NFL tight End future Hall of Famer there and Taylor
Swift are officially engaged. And as I said, I lost,
(17:13):
I was wrong on this. I said this relationship would
never last, and Buck grumpy Buck is very angry. The
truth of the matter is this is going to be
news that you cannot escape. It is going to take
over everything. And you just said, what did you just
tell me? It's already on the top of all your newspaper.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Services, even everywhere, biggest biggest news story in the country,
and with the President's talking about ending the war in
Ukraine and hundreds of billions of new manufacturing and winning
the AI race against China. But put all that aside, everybody,
because Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift are engaged caring about
I'm just gonna say it right now, caring about celebrities
(17:54):
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(18:15):
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Speaker 7 (18:26):
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Congressman Ship Roy of Texas. Congressman, appreciate you being with us, sir.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Great to be on fellows. I'm doing well as college
football just starts to heat up, it's good time.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And well there's and there's the very exciting news that
Clay is going to get your take on at some point,
I'm sure speaking of football, of Travis Kelcey and Taylor
Swift's engagement. Congressman, so we got that going on, but
we'll get to that in just a few minutes. Maybe
in the meantime, talk to me about the Congressional stock
trading ban. Let's see where does that actually stand, because
(19:37):
I see this lots of talk about it, and it
doesn't seem to be clear what are the rules and
what should the rules be?
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Well existing, Yeah, thanks for that question, and something that's
been important to me for a long time. When I
got to Congress, I introduced legislation in twenty twenty to
address this issue because it just did not make sense
to me the members of Congress were sitting or making
serious decisions about key issues while they're also trading stocks
directly impacted by it. Right, whether you're talking about breaking
up big tech companies, you're talking about healthcare monopolies, you're
(20:07):
talking about defense contractors. I feel like that ought to
be separated. So, you know, current law, you've got to
have disclosure, but you're allowed to do whatever you want
to do, and in that disclosure, obviously there's a lot
of trades. And by the way, this is a bipartisan problem.
Obviously Nancy Pelosi gets a lot of the headlines because
of her prolific trading, but a lot of Democrats and
(20:29):
Republicans both do it, and I think we got to
clean it up. I've got legislation that would do it,
but we're now working currently through this August on a
bipartisan bill that would bring together a number of different approaches,
including what the Senate passed out of committee right before
August break, and try to bring those together and look
forward to a pretty big, I think a news announcement
(20:51):
when we get back up in DC next week with
a good group of dem zen Republicans with a bill
that would restrict stock trading and require, you know, there
to be penalties if you're engaging in that, and you
need to be in broadly traded mutual funds instead of
independent stocks.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The Congressman, actually, since I got you on this one
and you're talking about what's going to happen, you come
back something else that I think is really important for
any of us who have wondered, why is it we
have to wait hours at the gate at the airport
because the crew is not there, and sometimes because there's
no pilot there. I think this could really help a
whole lot. You're a sponsor of the Let Experience Pilots
(21:31):
Fly Act.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Introduced the original version a few years ago. Senator Lindsay
Graham has a Senate companion bill, so they're trying to
raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from sixty
five to sixty seven because of pilot shortages. These pilots,
these are some of the most experienced pilots. My father
in law is a super experienced pilot who's coming up
to that period of his career, and so many of
(21:56):
these great pilots want to stay on board. This is
sort of able to be done. It's even bipartisan. How
can this get out of committee and actually get done
so that we have some of our most experienced pilots
training the next generation of pilots and more pilots who
we don't wait at airports for hours because we have shortages.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Yeah, this is certainly something I've tried to elevate with,
you know, Secretary Duffy and his team. We've just got
to basically beat back the lobby. The lobby that opposes it, which,
as you might you know understand, is a powerful union
lobby that would say, well, they've got more bargaining power
and more leverage. They've got you know, tighter numbers there,
(22:35):
and I think we ought to increase that age. I mean, look,
this is in line with a lot of international standards,
for example, the Japanese pilots and others.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
I mean, it's not unusual.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
And importantly, we're now getting to the place where we
have greater and longer lifespans, and the notion that someone
who's sixty seven is any worse off necessarily than you know,
a fifty year old who could you know, drop that
from a heart attack or something. You have two pilots,
you have safety mechanisms to deal with this sort of thing.
I think it's really important for us to have an
(23:07):
adequate number of experienced pilots. And that's my biggest concern
is that we're going to be running through a bunch
of people trying to fill up the jobs of pilots,
and that would endanger the American people by putting more
inexperienced pilots in the cockpit. So let's relief that pressure
valve a little bit by increasing that age and allowing
more experienced pilots to fly.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
How does that happen? Like, how do we get this?
You said beat back the unions? So who is this
just members of the Senate who want to keep getting
that union cash or something. How do we get this
into committee and get it through.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Well, we've got to move it through the Transportation Committee,
and we've got to make sure that enough people know
that this is a legitimate issue and that there's no
reason to block it, and we're getting some traction and
some ground on that. My colleague Troynell's in Texas led
the bill in committee. It was my bill to start with,
but I handed it off to him because he's on
the Transportation Committee, and you know that's the easiest way
(24:00):
to try to move things. So we're trying to work
into the committee this time. The Speaker is aware of it.
I think it's just something that we need to elevate
and look at. American people are tired of waiting in
lines and tired of our concerns about inexperienced pilots. It's
got to let your members of Congress know that this
is an important issue and it's an easy solution.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Clay, all right, you have announced that you are running
for Attorney General of Texas. We talked about this a
little bit earlier. The primary in Texas happens very soon,
relatively speaking, it's March. You are a monster football fan.
Texas got a huge game coming up against Ohio State.
I'll let you talk about that, but I would imagine
(24:40):
one of the challenges of campaigning for an early primary.
Is so many Texans out there with high school, college
and NFL football about to take off, A lot of
people's entire attention just goes into the football world and
not necessarily to the battle for the primary. So why
do you want to be Texas AG? And what's going
(25:00):
to happen this weekend in the biggest game between Texas
and Ohio State.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Well, dress to AG first because then we maybe have
a little more fun talking about football on the back end.
But you know, I appreciate your All show being a
good balance of sports and politics. It's good for our world.
But look, I want to be AG for a simple reason,
and that is, how are we going to secure Texas?
Because if we don't secure Texas, We're going to lose America.
That's the bottom line. I will have served four terms,
(25:25):
eight years in Congress. I've done what I think I
can do so far up there to try to change things.
I'm very proud of the record of trying to fight
spending and stand with the border security individuals and the
law enforcement officials that are trying to secure a border,
stand with the Trump administration to deliver on the big
beautiful bill, but make it better actually deliver on spending restraint,
(25:46):
all the things that I've been able to do, fighting
stock trading, fight for healthcare, freedom, a lot of things
that I feel very good about. But it's time, as
someone who's a former federal prosecutor, as someone who's the
former first Assistant Attorney General of Texas to come back
to tech. Isn't stand up and stand side by side
with our sheriffs, our constables, police officers, Department of Public
Safety people. I saw in action during the Kerbville floods,
(26:09):
which I proudly represent. But we just dealt with that
big tragedy this summer, and I was working with law
enforcement and it has reminded me how important it is.
And I can assure you Texas will have no better advocate,
no better partner as Chip Roy in the Office of
the Attorney General, combating drug cartels, combating human traffickers, going
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after street level thugs. The Office of the Attorney General
has one of the biggest law firms in the state.
It's the most important attorney general's office in the country.
And you've got to have somebody ready on day one.
Like I said, I've been there. I've been a prosecutor
I've been an AG's office and at the end of
the day, you got to have somebody who's unafraid to
fight and unafraid to win. And I've been doing that.
(26:51):
And look, we're under assault by radical progressive leftists, you know,
George Torris of funding DAS in Texas. Guys, I mean, like,
people don't realize how bad it is in our blue
cities in Texas because of what George Soros and the
radical leftists are doing. And we got to change that.
We got it back to blue, We got to secure streets.
They don't realize how bad it is the pressure on
our border with the cartels. Notwithstanding Trump, because he's doing
(27:13):
the right job. But when you get another bad president
like Biden, Texas is going to be even more prepared
to hold that line. Hold the line against Chinese communists
buying up our lands, hold the line against faceless bureaucrats
and corporations buying up our small businesses and making our
healthcare more expensive. That's what the AG's office has a
lot of power to do. And so i'd be ready
to rumble on day one.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
All right, Well, sorry to cut you off, but I
can't be I would be stunned if he picked Ohio State,
given that he's running for office in the state of Texas.
But it is the biggest game of the weekend. Ten
million plus people are going to be watching much of Texas,
for sure, much of Ohio. What happens this weekend between
Texas and Ohio State, Well.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Look, obviously a lot is going to be riding on
the arm of Arch Manning. I think Texas defense is
in a good position to be able to hold the line,
uh and be able to give him a little bit
of room to deliver. I still like Texas and this.
I know we're having to go up to Ohio State.
I know that it's, you know, a big game, and
the entire eyes of the nation so to speak, are
going to be looking at Texas here uh to see
(28:19):
what they can do.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
But I like our I like our.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Chances to get up there. And look, I think Arch
has proved himself formidable and and uh, look, it's gonna
be a big game. Everybody's gonna be watching it. But
Texas defense, Texas defense holds the line, holds the Ohio State
arts will deliver. That's my basic summary.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I always bet on Arc.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
That's a great take By the way, I'm also on Texas.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm just saying, I yeah, Texas and arch is doing
a great job.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Well look, I mean, you know, hook them. It goes
without saying. And you know, as a graduate of Texas
Law School, I'm I'm I was going to pick Texas
no matter what. But I actually believe what I just said.
The spreads very close. I mean, look at it, it's
close to a toss up. I know the odds makes
are giving a little edge to Ohio State and probably
a home field advantage. But I like Texas. I like
our energy, I like where we are. I like what
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Sarkisian's philosophy is. I like what I'm seeing out of
the entire university. And even though my Aggie wife might
have to hold her nose more watching the game over
the weekend, and my Red Raider father as well, we'll
all be pulling for the state of Texas this weekend.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh well, good luck on the campaign. We know it's
going to be a crazy fall for you as you
get ready for that. I guess late winter technically primary season.
And good luck to the Longhorns this weekend. I know
we probably just alienated. I know I'm going to get
delused from Ohio because I think we're number one in Cincinnati,
(29:43):
Columbus and also Cleveland at different times of the year,
so we're gonna get lit up here.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
But Congressman, we appreciate you. Good luck in the AG campaign.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Hey, God bless you guys.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Take care.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
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Speaker 2 (31:19):
Joe writes in you realize the Travis Kelce Taylor Swift
news is a real gut punch to poor James Comey.
I think he was convinced he had a chance with her,
but now poor little Feller and uh, let's see what
do we got the absolute latest here? Do we still
(31:39):
have Jeff and Illinois lined up?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Here?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Let's go to EE podcast listener k C, who's asking
a question based on what we just discussed with Chip
Roy fire Away.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
I just heard the craziest thing about pilots. I did
not realize that there was an age restriction on pilots
at sixty five. How is it then that we're allowing
representatives and senators to be in their late eighties and nineties.
If we can put a restriction on pilots, we can
put a restriction on people's age serving in Congress.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Well, look, this is actually a big point of debate.
You have to be thirty five years old to be
a president. You have to be thirty, I believe, to
serve in the Senate, And is it twenty six to
be a member of the House of Representatives. I think
that is accurate. One of the great debates that's out
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there is how much different would things be if we
had an upper level age limit as opposed to a
lower level age limit. And I think the reality is
the framers of the Constitution were very focused on the
idea of people who were in positions of power just
(32:58):
handing the baton to their young, younger sons, as kings do,
and they did not want to enable that, which is
why we have age limits. And on the lower end,
they probably didn't think that it was going to be
very common to have elected a president who were Joe
Biden's age. And what I would say in general on
(33:19):
this buck is, as it pertains to the pilot issue,
I think we should have reasonable positions that people test
for regularly when you're doing things like flying planes, and
if you have the cognitive ability to do it, you
should be able to continue to do it. That seems
very rational to me. And indeed, elections by and large are,
(33:42):
in many ways cognitive tests. You may not agree with Trump,
but the idea that he didn't have the cognition to
be president of the United States is utterly absurd.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
There's also a huge difference being a commercial airline pilot
and being a you know, a fighter pilot who has
to deal with G four and uh, you know, being
a commercial airline pilot, the most important things that you're
going to bring to bear are your experience and the
skill set of understanding what's going on in that plane.
And that's again, these things are obviously very closely related.
(34:14):
You know, it's not a uh you know, you're You're
not a Formula one race car driver, right, I mean,
you're you're somebody who your knowledge is if you have
a sharp mind and you have a lot of experience.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
The basic way to put this is, do you want
somebody flying your plane who's been flying for one of
the one of the airlines and maybe has previous military
aviation experience over the course of a forty year career
at the controls, or do you want somebody who has
just rushed through under Let's be honest, some DEI hiring
that was occurring under Biden in the last few years,
who may not understand as well what's going on in
(34:47):
that plane. Yeah, I think it's pretty straightforward. And the
other thing, too, is you want to wait at the
gate or not? I mean the clay. I think there
are a few things that drive you more insane than
when and I'm not got a lot of flying coming up.
You've got a lot of flying coming up in the fall.
I'm gonna be all over the place, criss crossing the
country and beyond. When you're there and you're like, it's
(35:09):
a beautiful day, there's no weather anywhere, there's no problem anywhere.
We have a plane sitting here. Why can't we go, Oh,
because the crew for the plane isn't here because they're overstretched,
because the airlines don't have enough pilots.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, it's a huge issue, and in general, I would
say we need more highly skilled pilots wherever we can
get them to make sure that all of us are
as safe as we can possibly be.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
And we have got a lot of raising the age.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I'm supposed say raising the age. You're not saying raise
it to ninety. You're raising it to sixty seven, which
from sixty five, which would just mean that you're keeping
more season senior pilots online to help with this transition period.
When we have a shortage, We're.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Coming back to the top of the next hour. More
discussion on crime. More cuts from Trump in of his
cabinet meeting that he's just been taking place, has been
taking place today. During the course of the show, we'll
give you more cuts from that. We will also dive
in to the Taylor Swift news getting engaged with Travis Kelce.
(36:15):
That's going to just drive Buck utterly bonkers. As many
of you out there are pouring in with thoughts. I
have heartfelt thoughts on this ba.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Humbug Buck, on all of this bah humbug, which I
mean dominant. I hope they stay married, I hope they
have a nice family and all that stuff, but I
don't get the fascination honestly.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Also, Milania Trump, should she be on the cover of
Vanity Fair.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
This is actually a fun story. All that More Next
Oh, welcome man, everybody. It is the second hour of
the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. We started off
talking about the situation in Chicago and Trump trying to
create a new paradigm of less crime in DC and
then perhaps a template for other American cities as well.
(00:20):
Trump has fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. We didn't
get into that yet. This is interesting, Clay, just because
does the Federal Reserve exist outside of executive branch authority?
If so, how and then from from where or whence
does it derive said authority If it isn't within the
(00:42):
executive branches perview, it's been interesting to see how that
how that goes, I think, And Clay, did you see
also an update on the Cracker Barrel branding issue from
Cracker Barrel, which we shall discuss in a little.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
An all time own goal, but yes, let's dive into
that in a little while.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I do think that you and I with Ai, not
that either of us are particularly good artists, but your
I with AI could have come up with a better
logo rebrand in an hour than what this rebrand was.
Put that aside for a second, Well, we'll get to
that in just a little bit. We just had President
Trump a few moments ago having a cabinet meeting, his
(01:33):
seventh cabinet meeting of his first administration. Well, i'm sorry,
his second term, his first year of his second term.
And this is interesting. There was an exchange. Now, it
might be a little hard to hear the reporter for
some of you out there, so we'll fill in a
bit of it because this was in exchange of back
(01:53):
and forth. You'll be able to hear Trump, obviously, but
the reporter. But I wanted to hear a reporter tells
the story of how she was mugged in Washington, DC
and wanted you to hear how this went play thirty three.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So I went two years ago. Was a Saturday morning
and broad daylight.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
That was all my way to work, and a young
man with a black ski mask pointed a gun in
my face and threatened me to hand over my phone,
my wallet, my laptop, and everything else.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And when I refused, he used the butt of.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
His handgun to strike me across.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
My face in the cheek or what some people called
pistol with me before running away. That has deeply traumatized
myself and my family ever since. I've never dared to
walk in the streets of DC at night ever, and
my family was extremely worried. So, mister President, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So much for what you're doing with Thank you being honest.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Such incidents involved not just me but also my family.
If he had shot me, I could have died right
there in the middle of nowhere was that my families
or my friends knowing at the age of back then,
I think twenty twenty three, just starting my career here
in DC, without even starting a family, and now you're
blessed to have this opportune So you.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Had a gun point in it your head, and you
probably figured that he's going to pull the trigger, because
these are animals that don't know what the hell.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They couldn't care less.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
The pulling the trigger to him is a very minor event,
and I'm sure he's done that before. So how did
you and you and you did refuse to give it,
which would probably maybe somebody would say that was not
the right decision, right, But you refused, but I understand that.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So and then he hit you real hard.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes, okay, Clay, this is here's a reporter I saw
in the exchange's She looks to be an Asian American.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
She's a yah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
She or that the Epic Times. I believe some people
may get that newspaper weekly. I believe that goes out
many different places.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yes, so he's a young woman. She's not not physically large,
formidable person. She first was a woman. And beyond that,
you know, she's not a somebody who would be in
a particularly strong position to defend herself broad daylight. Guy
with a ski mask pulls a gun, says, I'm gonna
murder you if you don't give me your stuff, and
then he pistol whips her in the face. People hear
stories like this in d C. Clay and you know
(04:18):
what the response is, Oh, yeah, I know a few
other people that that's happened to. And remember this is
happening in the nice neighborhoods. Indeed, she's talking, I could
probably tell you. I'm just guessing you probably living like
Adams Morgan or something. We're talking about a northwest d C.
This stuff happens. We're not even getting into how often
this stuff goes on in Southeast DC. And here Trump
(04:39):
actually continues on this extrage. So I just wanted you
to hear what's going on here.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Here.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Trump continues with this, Oh you want to jump in.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh sorry, no, no, no, no, I'm much less serious news.
But I lost a major bet with my wife, So
I was just texting her during the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
U It's not as I thought, you lost a bet
with me, And I was gonna say on the phone,
stop depressed. That's that's always good news.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
This is all very serious. But Travis Kelcey and Taylor
Swift just got engaged, and I just got texted about it.
So this is gonna take over all the pop culture news.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
We're gonna put a pin in that one.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
We're gonna go back to you. That's what I was doing.
That was my face, reacting to the usually serious news.
We can read.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I can read his face usually, and I know when
he's he's fired up and to make a point whatever.
And he's an honest guy, and he's telling you we're
having a very serious, important discussion, and he's fired up
that he lost a bet over Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Honest man.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We'll come back to that, Clay. We'll let you We'll
let you wait on that in a second. Let's get
back here to this woman. This reporter Pistol whipped in
the face, uh, the whole thing. So remember there's also
the trauma of these things that lingers with individuals. Especially
for a woman to be attacked like this speak trauma
for a guy too, but for a woman to be
attacked like this broad daylight guys a ski mask on,
(06:06):
and Trump and the reporter continued to exchange.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
By thirty four, it's really amazing that you weren't shot.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
That was I'm very blessed, and that's why having this
opportunity to stand here to share.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
My story today.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
One, I'm very grateful for God for allowing me to
still survive to this day, but also to miss the president.
Thank you for now making DC say thank you very
much for us, for our families, from my parents on
my behalf of my parents and now my baby on
the way, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
There are other reporters and journalists and good people, and
you don't have to say it, but that have also
been attacked violently and not violently.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Too pretty badly.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
And I'll bet you see a big difference in the
streets right now, and this is only twelve days.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But people to.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Tell me they're going out to dinner now, they.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Haven't I told to serve my friend.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
But I have a lot of friends that are going
out to dinner all the time now in DC, and
they weren't.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They weren't doing it twelve days ago.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
They would never even think one of my friends went
out five times. It was four times the last time
I told now, it's five times, he said.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I love going out to dinner.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
And restaurants are starting to open again. A lot of
them close because you know, they weren't. Nobody wanted to
go into a restaurant. Nobody wanted to get to a
restaurant or even sit in the restaurant. But you see
a big difference now, don't you.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I do actual hospital the education every day on my
way home, and.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It was felastic.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
For seeing the trucks right outside, seeing the.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
National Guard troops members right outside, does maybe feel like
I'm hopeful about j and then one day hopefully we
can raise our family here.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I think this is fantastic, And there's gonna be a
lot of criticism because we've got to cut and I
want to play it. This is cut ten. A woman
at the DNC yesterday saying, Hohm, there's not actually crimes
like this because this is now where Democrats are relegated.
(08:06):
Cut ten, Where.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Does Trump go migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful
stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual. Don't take the
bait because most Americans are more worried about how are
we going to address mental health issues, the visible homelessness
that we see on streets, and how do we deal
with mental health and other issues that drive the sort
(08:29):
of random incidents that scare all of us. That's what
you should be talking about.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That's where you should be focused.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Don't take the bait and talking about migrant crime or
carjackings or the things that actually don't matter to that
many Americans.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Don't take the bait on violent crime mattering to that
many Americans, and I do think again, this woman's story
is echoed by almost everybody that is listening to us
in the country. Somewhere in a city, somewhere in New State,
Innocent people are being victimized by crime. And Trump has
(09:05):
just said no longer, We're not going to stand for this,
and buck twelve days since a murder happened in Washington, DC.
At some point there will be a murder. But when
I see twelve days based on the history of Washington,
d C in the summer over decades. At some point
you have to start to say, hey, maybe this is
(09:26):
not a total statistical anomaly. Maybe Trump really is starting
to drive down violent crime in Washington, d C. And
this is why it's ultimately scary to Democrats because if
Trump can do this, Trump shut down the border. Remember
the whole story that we heard for years was Congress
has to act in order for there to be border security.
(09:49):
Trump showed up and shut down the border security. And
I think what's happening now with DC violent crime is
Democrats are becoming terrified Chicago, we started off, Baltimore, Memphis,
Kansas City, New Orleans, whatever city you want to point
to with a huge violent crime rate. It's a failure
of will. It's a failure of caring enough to actually
(10:13):
drive down crime.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
We can do it. If you look at.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
What most of the homicides are in a place like Washington, DC,
they are not you know, it's not like people are
having a random property dispute and they both pull out
guns or something. It's overwhelmingly drug slash, gang related and
(10:36):
theft slash, armed robbery crime related. Right, I mean, this
is people are being shot because someone's trying to take
something from them, or people are being shot and or
shooting at each other because they want to be able
to sell drugs in a certain area without competition. I mean,
this is what drives most of the homicides in a
place like Washington, you see in a lot of places
(10:58):
across the country.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
There.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Things can be made more difficult if there are more
law enforcement officers on the streets and if they are
told that arrests will be turned over to prosecutors who
will do something with those arrests. That's a huge component
of this. Remember law and order dundundon. You know, it's
about the police who investigate crimes and the prosecutors who
(11:23):
bring them. To bring the offenders to justice in a court,
it has to be a one to two punch. But Clay,
of course, you can address these things.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Make it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You make it harder for somebody to get away with
going and doing a drive by shooting on a rival's turf.
You make it harder for somebody to think I'm going
to put on a ski mask, as was done to
this young female reporter and in broad daylight, pull out
a gun and smack you in the face with it
and think that I'm going.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
To get away.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This is really straightforward stuff. And I like that Trump
is doing this for the reasons we've all discussed about
saving lives and helping people and making the streets better.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
But also.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
He just don't let Democrats squirre them out on this one. Yeah,
don't let them get away with what they're doing here,
which is they are defending the status quo of unacceptable
criminality in American cities. That's what they are doing.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And again, twelve days without a murder, are they going
to be in a position where they're actually now rooting
for murders to occur.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
This is why the Trump move is so.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Brilliant, both politically and also morally right sometimes thankfully these
things overlap where you can do the right thing politically, Hey,
we should have less crime. That's something Republicans should be behind,
and also morally because even the people that Trump is protecting,
remember almost none of them voted for him. DC was
(12:46):
of what ninety five to five voting for Democrats. It's
taken a Republican president to be willing to say I'm
going to make you safer, and it's not necessarily politically
beneficial in Washington, d C. For Trump. These are people
that are not Republican voters. Same thing Chicago, same thing
in all these different blue cities. But it's just the
right thing to do. It's the right thing to do
(13:08):
when it's something Democrats should have done are unwilling, and
Trump looked at it and said, I'm going to fix this.
God bless them for it.
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Angry Bitter Buck rearing its ugly head as he is
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of our discussion about the plummeting DC homicide rate, we
can talk about Well, We've got Chip Roy coming up
at the bottom of the hour, so I'm sure we
will get into this a bit more.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
First, a correction in.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
The Ultimate you Knew it was going to happen thirteen
days a homicide has happened in DC, so almost two
weeks in the summer, which is frankly unprecedented. But about
an hour ago, news broke in Washington, DC that they
had had another homicide. So that has happened. I want
to update you because as part of our discussion about
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DC crime rates, I was saying it had been twelve days.
It had actually been thirteen days since there have been
a homicide, and it just happened since we started the
show today.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
That news broke.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Second and again we're going to talk with Chip Roy
down in Texas about his ag campaign. The news also
broke on Instagram and it is on track to be
the most liked Instagram post of all time. Travis Kelcey
NFL tight End future Hall of Famer there and Taylor
Swift are officially engaged. And as I said, I lost,
(17:13):
I was wrong on this. I said this relationship would
never last, and Buck grumpy Buck is very angry. The
truth of the matter is this is going to be
news that you cannot escape. It is going to take
over everything. And you just said, what did you just
tell me? It's already on the top of all your newspaper.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Services, even everywhere, biggest biggest news story in the country,
and with the President's talking about ending the war in
Ukraine and hundreds of billions of new manufacturing and winning
the AI race against China. But put all that aside, everybody,
because Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift are engaged caring about
I'm just gonna say it right now, caring about celebrities
(17:54):
personal lives is a bigger waste of time than video games,
which I actually like, a bigger I don't get it.
I don't get it. Call me grumpy, call me grumpy,
I don't care. But also call me forward leaning and
forward thinking when it comes to gold, my friends, I
prepare for the future. And that's what gold allows you
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to do, because the markets can change in a heartbeat,
and as we know, inflation is going to continue to
happen because we've got a thirty seven and trillion, thirty
seven trillion dollars in counting debt.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
So what can you do.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I think gold makes a whole heck of a lot
of sense. In fact, I'm buying more gold in the
months ahead. I already added to my gold holdings this
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welcome back in to Clay and Buck. We're joined by
Congressman Ship Roy of Texas. Congressman, appreciate you being with us, sir.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Great to be on fellows. I'm doing well as college
football just starts to heat up, it's good time.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And well there's and there's the very exciting news that
Clay is going to get your take on at some point,
I'm sure speaking of football, of Travis Kelcey and Taylor
Swift's engagement. Congressman, so we got that going on, but
we'll get to that in just a few minutes. Maybe
in the meantime, talk to me about the Congressional stock
trading ban. Let's see where does that actually stand, because
(19:37):
I see this lots of talk about it, and it
doesn't seem to be clear what are the rules and
what should the rules be?
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Well existing, Yeah, thanks for that question, and something that's
been important to me for a long time. When I
got to Congress, I introduced legislation in twenty twenty to
address this issue because it just did not make sense
to me the members of Congress were sitting or making
serious decisions about key issues while they're also trading stocks
directly impacted by it. Right, whether you're talking about breaking
up big tech companies, you're talking about healthcare monopolies, you're
(20:07):
talking about defense contractors. I feel like that ought to
be separated. So, you know, current law, you've got to
have disclosure, but you're allowed to do whatever you want
to do, and in that disclosure, obviously there's a lot
of trades. And by the way, this is a bipartisan problem.
Obviously Nancy Pelosi gets a lot of the headlines because
of her prolific trading, but a lot of Democrats and
(20:29):
Republicans both do it, and I think we got to
clean it up. I've got legislation that would do it,
but we're now working currently through this August on a
bipartisan bill that would bring together a number of different approaches,
including what the Senate passed out of committee right before
August break, and try to bring those together and look
forward to a pretty big, I think a news announcement
(20:51):
when we get back up in DC next week with
a good group of dem zen Republicans with a bill
that would restrict stock trading and require, you know, there
to be penalties if you're engaging in that, and you
need to be in broadly traded mutual funds instead of
independent stocks.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The Congressman, actually, since I got you on this one
and you're talking about what's going to happen, you come
back something else that I think is really important for
any of us who have wondered, why is it we
have to wait hours at the gate at the airport
because the crew is not there, and sometimes because there's
no pilot there. I think this could really help a
whole lot. You're a sponsor of the Let Experience Pilots
(21:31):
Fly Act.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Introduced the original version a few years ago. Senator Lindsay
Graham has a Senate companion bill, so they're trying to
raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from sixty
five to sixty seven because of pilot shortages. These pilots,
these are some of the most experienced pilots. My father
in law is a super experienced pilot who's coming up
to that period of his career, and so many of
(21:56):
these great pilots want to stay on board. This is
sort of able to be done. It's even bipartisan. How
can this get out of committee and actually get done
so that we have some of our most experienced pilots
training the next generation of pilots and more pilots who
we don't wait at airports for hours because we have shortages.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Yeah, this is certainly something I've tried to elevate with,
you know, Secretary Duffy and his team. We've just got
to basically beat back the lobby. The lobby that opposes it, which,
as you might you know understand, is a powerful union
lobby that would say, well, they've got more bargaining power
and more leverage. They've got you know, tighter numbers there,
(22:35):
and I think we ought to increase that age. I mean, look,
this is in line with a lot of international standards,
for example, the Japanese pilots and others.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
I mean, it's not unusual.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
And importantly, we're now getting to the place where we
have greater and longer lifespans, and the notion that someone
who's sixty seven is any worse off necessarily than you know,
a fifty year old who could you know, drop that
from a heart attack or something. You have two pilots,
you have safety mechanisms to deal with this sort of thing.
I think it's really important for us to have an
(23:07):
adequate number of experienced pilots. And that's my biggest concern
is that we're going to be running through a bunch
of people trying to fill up the jobs of pilots,
and that would endanger the American people by putting more
inexperienced pilots in the cockpit. So let's relief that pressure
valve a little bit by increasing that age and allowing
more experienced pilots to fly.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
How does that happen? Like, how do we get this?
You said beat back the unions? So who is this
just members of the Senate who want to keep getting
that union cash or something. How do we get this
into committee and get it through.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Well, we've got to move it through the Transportation Committee,
and we've got to make sure that enough people know
that this is a legitimate issue and that there's no
reason to block it, and we're getting some traction and
some ground on that. My colleague Troynell's in Texas led
the bill in committee. It was my bill to start with,
but I handed it off to him because he's on
the Transportation Committee, and you know that's the easiest way
(24:00):
to try to move things. So we're trying to work
into the committee this time. The Speaker is aware of it.
I think it's just something that we need to elevate
and look at. American people are tired of waiting in
lines and tired of our concerns about inexperienced pilots. It's
got to let your members of Congress know that this
is an important issue and it's an easy solution.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Clay, all right, you have announced that you are running
for Attorney General of Texas. We talked about this a
little bit earlier. The primary in Texas happens very soon,
relatively speaking, it's March. You are a monster football fan.
Texas got a huge game coming up against Ohio State.
I'll let you talk about that, but I would imagine
(24:40):
one of the challenges of campaigning for an early primary.
Is so many Texans out there with high school, college
and NFL football about to take off, A lot of
people's entire attention just goes into the football world and
not necessarily to the battle for the primary. So why
do you want to be Texas AG? And what's going
(25:00):
to happen this weekend in the biggest game between Texas
and Ohio State.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Well, dress to AG first because then we maybe have
a little more fun talking about football on the back end.
But you know, I appreciate your All show being a
good balance of sports and politics. It's good for our world.
But look, I want to be AG for a simple reason,
and that is, how are we going to secure Texas?
Because if we don't secure Texas, We're going to lose America.
That's the bottom line. I will have served four terms,
(25:25):
eight years in Congress. I've done what I think I
can do so far up there to try to change things.
I'm very proud of the record of trying to fight
spending and stand with the border security individuals and the
law enforcement officials that are trying to secure a border,
stand with the Trump administration to deliver on the big
beautiful bill, but make it better actually deliver on spending restraint,
(25:46):
all the things that I've been able to do, fighting
stock trading, fight for healthcare, freedom, a lot of things
that I feel very good about. But it's time, as
someone who's a former federal prosecutor, as someone who's the
former first Assistant Attorney General of Texas to come back
to tech. Isn't stand up and stand side by side
with our sheriffs, our constables, police officers, Department of Public
Safety people. I saw in action during the Kerbville floods,
(26:09):
which I proudly represent. But we just dealt with that
big tragedy this summer, and I was working with law
enforcement and it has reminded me how important it is.
And I can assure you Texas will have no better advocate,
no better partner as Chip Roy in the Office of
the Attorney General, combating drug cartels, combating human traffickers, going
(26:29):
after street level thugs. The Office of the Attorney General
has one of the biggest law firms in the state.
It's the most important attorney general's office in the country.
And you've got to have somebody ready on day one.
Like I said, I've been there. I've been a prosecutor
I've been an AG's office and at the end of
the day, you got to have somebody who's unafraid to
fight and unafraid to win. And I've been doing that.
(26:51):
And look, we're under assault by radical progressive leftists, you know,
George Torris of funding DAS in Texas. Guys, I mean, like,
people don't realize how bad it is in our blue
cities in Texas because of what George Soros and the
radical leftists are doing. And we got to change that.
We got it back to blue, We got to secure streets.
They don't realize how bad it is the pressure on
our border with the cartels. Notwithstanding Trump, because he's doing
(27:13):
the right job. But when you get another bad president
like Biden, Texas is going to be even more prepared
to hold that line. Hold the line against Chinese communists
buying up our lands, hold the line against faceless bureaucrats
and corporations buying up our small businesses and making our
healthcare more expensive. That's what the AG's office has a
lot of power to do. And so i'd be ready
to rumble on day one.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
All right, Well, sorry to cut you off, but I
can't be I would be stunned if he picked Ohio State,
given that he's running for office in the state of Texas.
But it is the biggest game of the weekend. Ten
million plus people are going to be watching much of Texas,
for sure, much of Ohio. What happens this weekend between
Texas and Ohio State, Well.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Look, obviously a lot is going to be riding on
the arm of Arch Manning. I think Texas defense is
in a good position to be able to hold the line,
uh and be able to give him a little bit
of room to deliver. I still like Texas and this.
I know we're having to go up to Ohio State.
I know that it's, you know, a big game, and
the entire eyes of the nation so to speak, are
going to be looking at Texas here uh to see
(28:19):
what they can do.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
But I like our I like our.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Chances to get up there. And look, I think Arch
has proved himself formidable and and uh, look, it's gonna
be a big game. Everybody's gonna be watching it. But
Texas defense, Texas defense holds the line, holds the Ohio State
arts will deliver. That's my basic summary.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I always bet on Arc.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
That's a great take By the way, I'm also on Texas.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm just saying, I yeah, Texas and arch is doing
a great job.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Well look, I mean, you know, hook them. It goes
without saying. And you know, as a graduate of Texas
Law School, I'm I'm I was going to pick Texas
no matter what. But I actually believe what I just said.
The spreads very close. I mean, look at it, it's
close to a toss up. I know the odds makes
are giving a little edge to Ohio State and probably
a home field advantage. But I like Texas. I like
our energy, I like where we are. I like what
(29:07):
Sarkisian's philosophy is. I like what I'm seeing out of
the entire university. And even though my Aggie wife might
have to hold her nose more watching the game over
the weekend, and my Red Raider father as well, we'll
all be pulling for the state of Texas this weekend.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh well, good luck on the campaign. We know it's
going to be a crazy fall for you as you
get ready for that. I guess late winter technically primary season.
And good luck to the Longhorns this weekend. I know
we probably just alienated. I know I'm going to get
delused from Ohio because I think we're number one in Cincinnati,
(29:43):
Columbus and also Cleveland at different times of the year,
so we're gonna get lit up here.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
But Congressman, we appreciate you. Good luck in the AG campaign.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Hey, God bless you guys.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Take care.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
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Speaker 2 (31:19):
Joe writes in you realize the Travis Kelce Taylor Swift
news is a real gut punch to poor James Comey.
I think he was convinced he had a chance with her,
but now poor little Feller and uh, let's see what
do we got the absolute latest here? Do we still
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have Jeff and Illinois lined up?
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Here?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Let's go to EE podcast listener k C, who's asking
a question based on what we just discussed with Chip
Roy fire Away.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
I just heard the craziest thing about pilots. I did
not realize that there was an age restriction on pilots
at sixty five. How is it then that we're allowing
representatives and senators to be in their late eighties and nineties.
If we can put a restriction on pilots, we can
put a restriction on people's age serving in Congress.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Well, look, this is actually a big point of debate.
You have to be thirty five years old to be
a president. You have to be thirty, I believe, to
serve in the Senate, And is it twenty six to
be a member of the House of Representatives. I think
that is accurate. One of the great debates that's out
(32:37):
there is how much different would things be if we
had an upper level age limit as opposed to a
lower level age limit. And I think the reality is
the framers of the Constitution were very focused on the
idea of people who were in positions of power just
(32:58):
handing the baton to their young, younger sons, as kings do,
and they did not want to enable that, which is
why we have age limits. And on the lower end,
they probably didn't think that it was going to be
very common to have elected a president who were Joe
Biden's age. And what I would say in general on
(33:19):
this buck is, as it pertains to the pilot issue,
I think we should have reasonable positions that people test
for regularly when you're doing things like flying planes, and
if you have the cognitive ability to do it, you
should be able to continue to do it. That seems
very rational to me. And indeed, elections by and large are,
(33:42):
in many ways cognitive tests. You may not agree with Trump,
but the idea that he didn't have the cognition to
be president of the United States is utterly absurd.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
There's also a huge difference being a commercial airline pilot
and being a you know, a fighter pilot who has
to deal with G four and uh, you know, being
a commercial airline pilot, the most important things that you're
going to bring to bear are your experience and the
skill set of understanding what's going on in that plane.
And that's again, these things are obviously very closely related.
(34:14):
You know, it's not a uh you know, you're You're
not a Formula one race car driver, right, I mean,
you're you're somebody who your knowledge is if you have
a sharp mind and you have a lot of experience.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
The basic way to put this is, do you want
somebody flying your plane who's been flying for one of
the one of the airlines and maybe has previous military
aviation experience over the course of a forty year career
at the controls, or do you want somebody who has
just rushed through under Let's be honest, some DEI hiring
that was occurring under Biden in the last few years,
who may not understand as well what's going on in
(34:47):
that plane. Yeah, I think it's pretty straightforward. And the
other thing, too, is you want to wait at the
gate or not? I mean the clay. I think there
are a few things that drive you more insane than
when and I'm not got a lot of flying coming up.
You've got a lot of flying coming up in the fall.
I'm gonna be all over the place, criss crossing the
country and beyond. When you're there and you're like, it's
(35:09):
a beautiful day, there's no weather anywhere, there's no problem anywhere.
We have a plane sitting here. Why can't we go, Oh,
because the crew for the plane isn't here because they're overstretched,
because the airlines don't have enough pilots.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, it's a huge issue, and in general, I would
say we need more highly skilled pilots wherever we can
get them to make sure that all of us are
as safe as we can possibly be.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
And we have got a lot of raising the age.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I'm supposed say raising the age. You're not saying raise
it to ninety. You're raising it to sixty seven, which
from sixty five, which would just mean that you're keeping
more season senior pilots online to help with this transition period.
When we have a shortage, We're.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Coming back to the top of the next hour. More
discussion on crime. More cuts from Trump in of his
cabinet meeting that he's just been taking place, has been
taking place today. During the course of the show, we'll
give you more cuts from that. We will also dive
in to the Taylor Swift news getting engaged with Travis Kelce.
(36:15):
That's going to just drive Buck utterly bonkers. As many
of you out there are pouring in with thoughts. I
have heartfelt thoughts on this ba.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Humbug Buck, on all of this bah humbug, which I
mean dominant. I hope they stay married, I hope they
have a nice family and all that stuff, but I
don't get the fascination honestly.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Also, Milania Trump, should she be on the cover of
Vanity Fair.
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