Verdict with Ted Cruz - BONUS： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Sep 2 2025

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00:00:04.980 Welcome in.

00:00:06.420 We are rolling with the Tuesday edition of the program.

00:00:10.480 We hope all of you had fantastic Labor Day weekends.

00:00:15.320 I did.

00:00:16.000 I think Buck did as well.

00:00:17.900 I met a lot of you at the Alabama-Florida State game.

00:00:23.840 Man, we've been doing this show for so long, Buck.

00:00:26.240 I remember when Alabama was actually good at football.

00:00:28.840 I actually do, too, which tells you something.

00:00:32.480 Florida State Seminoles get the big win there.

00:00:35.140 It was a lot of fun meeting many of you.

00:00:37.840 So I'm back on the road for college football season a lot again.

00:00:41.920 But we begin now that we are officially into fall,

00:00:46.480 even though it doesn't feel like fall in most of the country.

00:00:49.880 Kids officially back in schools, most places, everywhere.

00:00:54.300 And the question becomes, what will the first fall of Trump 2.0 look like?

00:01:03.100 And, well, the answer is the resistance is going to be the same as it was in the spring,

00:01:09.040 in the summer, in the winter of Trump 2.0.

00:01:13.920 And that is federal district court judges are going to wrongly decide the law

00:01:20.020 and just try to throw up roadblocks.

00:01:22.840 And we'll get into this a little bit, but it kind of surprises me how seriously

00:01:27.760 the media still treats all of these federal court decisions.

00:01:32.180 They come out and they say, oh, my goodness, Trump doesn't have the authority to insert

00:01:38.920 whatever issue is currently being litigated.

00:01:42.140 And then it goes to the circuit court.

00:01:44.960 And the circuit court generally says, yes, he does.

00:01:47.800 And so far, the Supreme Court always says he does.

00:01:50.760 So you have a lot of left-wing politicians that are wearing judicial robes,

00:01:57.060 and they have decided that they're going to do everything they can to try to slow down

00:02:02.540 the momentum of Trump 2.0.

00:02:05.260 And I just don't really get that worked up about it at this point in time.

00:02:09.820 We told you that this is what's going to occur.

00:02:12.340 You should expect for the next three-plus years, this is primarily what they're going to do.

00:02:19.280 And this is why, no matter how good of a term Trump has,

00:02:23.240 the things that need to be fixed in this country are multi-term, multi-president in nature,

00:02:29.740 no matter how good Trump 2.0 is.

00:02:33.380 But I do think we should address it as we usually do.

00:02:36.560 Some important notes here.

00:02:37.980 One is the judge who came forward and found that Trump,

00:02:42.060 it was unlawful for the president to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles.

00:02:47.200 Yeah, we'll see about that.

00:02:48.760 It also has already happened, so there's really no sanctions.

00:02:52.440 or anything other than this is a slapdown or meant to be a slapdown of Trump.

00:02:57.260 I think what got even more attention over the weekend, Clay,

00:03:01.100 is, and this is from one of the administration's spokespersons,

00:03:06.560 Tricia McLaughlin,

00:03:07.900 that there was an effort to take 76 unaccompanied Guatemalan children.

00:03:15.460 Now, understand, these are kids who were brought into the country,

00:03:18.480 or in some cases found at the border of this country,

00:03:22.700 and this was happening for a while.

00:03:24.260 Part of the human trafficking that was going on here,

00:03:27.740 where they were, the term they would use is recycling kids,

00:03:30.780 and this is what they were saying in the border, Border Patrol,

00:03:32.820 that kids were being used as pawns by people to get into the country,

00:03:37.880 because if you had a child with you and claimed the child was a family member

00:03:41.940 or a dependent, you could not be deported, Clay.

00:03:44.760 So it was this end run onto U.S. soil, essentially.

00:03:49.980 And so there were all these kids, and this was part of the scam,

00:03:53.520 the illegal immigrant scam that was being run.

00:03:55.820 It's not the kids' fault, obviously.

00:03:57.240 These are children.

00:03:57.720 76 of them, the administration was trying to reunite,

00:04:02.580 and this is from Stephen Miller and other White House officials,

00:04:05.060 with their parents in Guatemala.

00:04:08.040 And a judge, Judge Sparkle Sucnanap,

00:04:13.260 has blocked that flight from the reunification of Guatemalan children

00:04:18.540 with their families in their actual country of nationality,

00:04:23.560 because, Clay, anything Trump does,

00:04:25.500 because Trump taking kids who don't have their parents

00:04:28.780 and reuniting them with their parents is bad,

00:04:32.400 because Democrats hate Trump.

00:04:33.980 They don't ever go beyond the actual realities,

00:04:37.380 or rather they don't get into the actual realities of what he's done.

00:04:39.740 So that's going on.

00:04:40.760 And just one other thing I'd throw in the mix,

00:04:42.540 because we're going to talk also about the law enforcement piece.

00:04:44.400 I don't want to take away from the judge discussion,

00:04:46.080 but 50 people shot over the weekend in Chicago?

00:04:50.020 Yeah.

00:04:50.340 Five zero people shot eight fatally?

00:04:53.780 Hmm.

00:04:54.140 Maybe time to have that discussion, too.

00:04:56.080 But on the judges, Clay,

00:04:57.680 this is just the only real resistance there is to Trump.

00:05:01.100 We said this, and we're being proven right about it more and more.

00:05:05.720 It is a real question.

00:05:07.880 Where was resistance going to come from?

00:05:09.920 We saw the protest resistance at the inauguration,

00:05:14.460 and we came on and we told you we just kind of felt sorry for them.

00:05:17.780 There's just no energy there.

00:05:19.480 There still is no energy there.

00:05:21.020 They can't even pay people to show up and protest in big numbers.

00:05:25.040 So the street protest as the resistance to Trump 2.0 is non-existent.

00:05:31.980 Politically, I want to play this cut because Jasmine Crockett from,

00:05:37.700 I believe, the Houston area of Texas,

00:05:40.820 maybe the Dallas area of Texas,

00:05:42.760 is supposed to be one of the top Trump critics.

00:05:47.660 And I think you see in her, when I play this cut,

00:05:51.420 there is no real resistance from the Democrat Party

00:05:55.000 because they are so bereft of ideas,

00:05:57.360 and the ideas they do have are just flat out wrong and rejected

00:06:01.340 by huge majorities of the country.

00:06:03.900 But I want you to listen to this.

00:06:06.460 And before I play it, I want you to understand,

00:06:09.500 Jasmine Crockett's parents did everything they could

00:06:12.640 to get her the best possible education,

00:06:15.380 as well every parent should.

00:06:18.180 They sent her to a private school in Missouri

00:06:21.180 that cost over $30,000 a year.

00:06:25.000 They sent her to Rhodes College in the Memphis area,

00:06:28.780 which is a great liberal arts school.

00:06:31.820 Team, look up what the cost of Rhodes College is now.

00:06:35.200 I believe it costs over $60,000 a year

00:06:38.660 with room and board included there.

00:06:41.220 So over $30,000 a year for her high school,

00:06:45.200 over $60,000 a year for her college.

00:06:48.720 Yet this is how she has, she is well-educated.

00:06:51.480 She has gone to elite schools.

00:06:53.380 Well, she's expensively educated. 1.00

00:06:55.960 There's a difference.

00:06:56.580 But she understands and knows basic grammar.

00:07:00.160 And I want you to listen to this. 0.99

00:07:03.320 And she is pretending to be dumb 0.99

00:07:06.060 and sounding like she's never gone to any school 0.99

00:07:09.360 of any measure because she thinks that's what she needs to do

00:07:13.020 to connect with her constituents.

00:07:14.900 It's an insult to her parents. 0.67

00:07:16.960 It's also an insult to all those constituents

00:07:18.980 who don't actually want to be talked to like this.

00:07:22.980 Listen. 0.94

00:07:26.580 Well, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is. 0.91

00:07:30.160 Yeah, I don't know how many of them on that side 0.94

00:07:32.800 are getting divorced because they're getting caught up

00:07:35.040 sleeping with their co-workers, staffers, interns, all the things.

00:07:39.200 Yeah, you ain't got to believe me.

00:07:40.500 Just go Google.

00:07:41.220 You'll find some of it.

00:07:42.460 I'm telling you.

00:07:43.300 And the wives is being messy and petty. 1.00

00:07:45.440 They putting it into divorce.

00:07:47.260 I'm like, oh, that's got to be true

00:07:48.620 because your lawyer would know that they're going to lose it.

00:07:50.920 All right.

00:07:52.700 I mean, this is embarrassing.

00:07:55.280 There's no way to say, hey, this is someone who represents

00:07:59.380 700,000 people in the United States.

00:08:01.780 This is one of 435 members of Congress.

00:08:05.940 To be talking like this in public intentionally,

00:08:10.360 not able to speak basic grammar.

00:08:13.080 It's embarrassing.

00:08:13.900 Does it work for her politically, though? 0.80

00:08:16.060 No.

00:08:16.640 You don't think so?

00:08:17.880 No, it doesn't, because I think she is, well,

00:08:21.900 it depends on what her goal is.

00:08:23.180 If she wants to just...

00:08:24.180 That's what I'm getting at here, right?

00:08:25.820 What is she trying to accomplish with this? 1.00

00:08:27.760 How is she trying to position herself vis-a-vis her voters 1.00

00:08:31.380 and her national profile?

00:08:33.480 Well, she can't ever do anything other than represent 0.97

00:08:36.820 one congressional district like this.

00:08:39.380 You can't get elected to statewide office in Texas

00:08:41.820 talking like this.

00:08:43.160 You can't get elected president of the United States

00:08:46.320 talking like this.

00:08:46.880 But you can get the national media talking about you.

00:08:49.840 You can get a lot of attention.

00:08:51.360 You can be...

00:08:51.940 You know, look at the...

00:08:52.680 I think the AOC model, Clay, insofar as now politicians are,

00:08:58.280 and particularly like the younger generation

00:09:00.180 of left-wing politicians, view themselves as social media stars

00:09:04.120 first and foremost is something to keep in mind.

00:09:06.980 See, you're thinking about this like,

00:09:08.220 as a statesman, shouldn't she... 0.94

00:09:10.540 And with respect to her voters,

00:09:12.280 I think she's playing to the internet constituency. 0.91

00:09:15.220 But even if she's playing to the internet constituency, Buck, 0.99

00:09:18.640 I don't think there's a huge demand for dumb. 0.98

00:09:22.040 I don't. 0.99

00:09:23.100 I don't think that black, white, Asian, Hispanic,

00:09:26.600 real large audiences are out there saying, 1.00

00:09:30.460 I want someone who is pretending to be dumber than she is. 0.98

00:09:34.780 Because I think a lot of people see through this, by the way. 0.97

00:09:37.020 Rhodes College, over $70,000 a year in room and board.

00:09:42.880 This is where she went.

00:09:45.340 She knows how to use is and are correctly in sentences.

00:09:49.860 Like, you know, I'm not saying she's a Rhodes Scholar

00:09:52.100 or the most brilliant person on the planet,

00:09:54.980 but when you go to elite education institutions,

00:09:58.800 they will beat grammar into your head.

00:10:02.260 She knows how to speak correctly.

00:10:03.820 I got to view things here.

00:10:05.060 I think you're overestimating elite institutions

00:10:07.740 and their ability to get anybody to speak properly

00:10:09.960 or think properly or even do their own.

00:10:12.640 These days, they can't even get the kids to write their own essays

00:10:14.620 because of AIs.

00:10:15.500 The whole thing is falling apart.

00:10:17.400 But even going back decades,

00:10:19.180 I'm not sure that proper grammar is necessarily something

00:10:22.620 that people would get even at elite.

00:10:24.740 Again, I always put elite in quotes.

00:10:26.700 And you and I both have gone to elite educational institutions. 0.99

00:10:29.600 And there were dumbasses at my school. 0.99

00:10:31.480 I don't know what to tell you. 1.00

00:10:32.180 There are guys who could barely put two words together.

00:10:33.720 So, no black person who goes to GW is able to, where I went,

00:10:40.100 is able to go to the school and not be able to correctly use

00:10:44.960 is or are in a sentence.

00:10:46.840 Like, or Hispanic or Asian. 0.98

00:10:47.980 I see.

00:10:48.120 I think that you're, she is, you're saying that she's,

00:10:52.520 this is a hundred, in my opinion, a hundred percent.

00:10:55.080 I think she's trying to code switch

00:10:58.480 and trying to appeal to different constituencies in different ways

00:11:03.100 as part of her growing clay.

00:11:05.520 There is a massive vacuum on the Democrat side right now,

00:11:08.460 so big that not even Pritzker can fill it.

00:11:11.360 And there are people out there,

00:11:12.920 there are people out there who recognize that now is the time.

00:11:16.740 Clay, look at AOC.

00:11:17.980 Look at AOC.

00:11:18.600 You keep thinking that these Democrats

00:11:21.120 have to be held to standards of authenticity or honesty or anything.

00:11:25.580 AOC grew up in fancy Westchester,

00:11:29.560 and yet she's presented herself as, you know,

00:11:32.860 Ocasio-Cortez from the Bronx, man.

00:11:35.400 Like, I've been on these mean streets, you know.

00:11:37.420 And she even sometimes would speak in a more,

00:11:40.460 a more sort of urban dialect.

00:11:43.200 AOC would.

00:11:44.280 Went to BU, which I think was the most expensive school

00:11:46.520 in the country.

00:11:47.000 And Clay, they love her.

00:11:48.740 So I'm, you know, you're approaching this.

00:11:51.680 I don't think you're seeing this like a leftist

00:11:53.280 is what I'm trying to tell you.

00:11:54.260 I think you've got to look through the leftist lens.

00:11:56.220 I think she's building her profile.

00:11:57.840 You can say that, you know, you think it's absurd, of course,

00:12:00.300 and I get that.

00:12:01.320 But I think that she views this as code switching

00:12:05.000 and profile building at a time

00:12:06.640 when Democrats are in a vacuum for not just leadership,

00:12:09.500 but for media attention.

00:12:12.100 I think this is...

00:12:14.240 Look, she may end up on The View. 0.76

00:12:16.720 And there is an argument out here that

00:12:19.200 I think building on your social media influencer argument,

00:12:22.920 I think that many people now who are in Congress

00:12:26.460 are auditioning for podcasts and media jobs

00:12:31.000 because they make $170,000 a year.

00:12:34.500 So she may have a future in media.

00:12:38.320 But I think even on The View...

00:12:39.360 I'm going to put this out there.

00:12:40.460 I think this is true.

00:12:41.440 I'm sorry.

00:12:41.820 I didn't mean to interrupt.

00:12:42.500 But Clay, there would have been a time

00:12:44.480 when I think that radio was a stepping stone

00:12:47.640 to elected office or podcasting, you know, audio.

00:12:50.900 And now I think that for a lot of people,

00:12:53.380 elected office is a stepping stone

00:12:55.100 into audio, social media profile,

00:12:57.640 all that kind of stuff.

00:12:58.500 I think it has changed dramatically

00:13:00.080 over the last 20 years.

00:13:01.220 I think the challenge is,

00:13:03.080 basically, when you're a politician,

00:13:04.720 your only job is communication.

00:13:06.980 And I don't buy that communicating 1.00

00:13:09.400 as if you are dumber than you actually are. 0.99

00:13:12.320 And here I'm giving credit to Jasmine Crockett. 1.00

00:13:14.380 I think that clearly she is pretending 1.00

00:13:16.140 that she is dumber than she is 0.99

00:13:17.920 to try to speak to an audience goes profoundly... 1.00

00:13:20.900 I don't see this as being dumber. 0.97

00:13:22.620 She's not... 0.99

00:13:23.280 She's sort of... 0.81

00:13:25.840 She's, you know,

00:13:27.160 she's maybe switching into a different vernacular,

00:13:30.380 a different dialect, 0.96

00:13:31.620 but she's not pretending to be dumb. 0.97

00:13:34.320 She's pretending that this is the way 0.95

00:13:36.320 that she normally necessarily speaks

00:13:38.120 and communicates, right?

00:13:39.200 Like, when Hillary Clinton Clay would go down 0.99

00:13:41.120 and be like,

00:13:41.480 oh, I'm so tired, you know, walking...

00:13:44.280 Remember when Hillary did her whole Southern thing? 1.00

00:13:46.060 She's not pretending to be dumb. 0.99

00:13:47.620 She's pretending to meet Southern... 0.99

00:13:50.240 Now, all the Southerners listening,

00:13:51.840 including you, I think,

00:13:52.580 are like, fat chance, lady.

00:13:54.120 But she's trying to ingratiate herself 1.00

00:13:57.980 with that approach to them.

00:14:00.000 See, I guess what I'm going to is,

00:14:02.280 I think ultimately what connects with people

00:14:05.320 is authenticity.

00:14:07.560 And I think most people...

00:14:09.220 Now, there is a small segment.

00:14:10.500 She could probably get elected,

00:14:11.660 a congresswoman from that district

00:14:13.440 over and over again,

00:14:14.460 and not matter in the larger 435-person house.

00:14:18.600 But I think in a social media sphere,

00:14:21.440 the only thing that matters is authenticity.

00:14:24.440 And authenticity requires

00:14:26.300 that you be the person you are.

00:14:29.200 And when she is code-switching,

00:14:31.680 that resonates.

00:14:33.140 Like, we should play a cut of her talking

00:14:35.940 in two different vernaculars.

00:14:39.100 That doesn't work

00:14:40.040 because you can put them side by side

00:14:42.660 and it exposes that you are dishonest. 0.63

00:14:45.380 I've said this for a long time.

00:14:47.260 The conversations that I have in public

00:14:49.140 and the conversations that I have in private,

00:14:51.060 there's zero difference between them.

00:14:52.940 And that is why I think that works in media.

00:14:57.420 Authenticity is all that matters.

00:14:58.940 I think she is basically not going to exist

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00:16:38.460 Second hour of Clay and Buck.

00:16:40.320 It kicks off right now.

00:16:41.460 Thanks for being here with us.

00:16:42.740 So as we know,

00:16:44.440 a major push by this Trump White House,

00:16:48.100 the president himself,

00:16:48.900 has been on the issue of crime in D.C.

00:16:51.000 We spent a lot of time on it.

00:16:52.160 And I think so far,

00:16:53.620 it has been a big political winner

00:16:57.640 for Donald Trump

00:16:59.220 because he's doing two things simultaneously.

00:17:02.220 It's a brilliant Trump move.

00:17:04.160 Brilliant Trump move.

00:17:05.780 He is putting wins up on the board

00:17:09.420 while also encouraging, in essence,

00:17:12.980 because he pushed for it,

00:17:14.500 Democrats to defend the indefensible.

00:17:16.540 So it's coming at this from two sides.

00:17:18.320 One is it's just the right thing to do.

00:17:19.840 It's a good thing to do.

00:17:20.900 Make people safer.

00:17:22.040 Bring down the murder rate.

00:17:23.060 Bring down the carjacking rate.

00:17:24.960 Yay.

00:17:25.600 We'd think we'd all be on board for that, right?

00:17:27.380 But two, Democrats go,

00:17:29.040 hey, like,

00:17:30.200 so there's a lot of murders in D.C.

00:17:31.780 I mean, who doesn't have this problem?

00:17:34.160 Well, a lot of places don't have the problem.

00:17:35.320 But you know what I mean.

00:17:36.100 They're trying to suggest, like, no big deal.

00:17:38.500 And in the process,

00:17:39.640 everyone looks at them,

00:17:40.400 including some Democrats,

00:17:41.440 look at them and say,

00:17:42.440 what is your problem?

00:17:43.840 Like, we actually want fewer murders.

00:17:46.760 We need to be a party.

00:17:47.820 See, some places it has to be

00:17:50.300 which one of us is better

00:17:51.880 at achieving the desired goal,

00:17:53.920 and the murder rate should be one of them.

00:17:56.480 Are Democrats or Republicans

00:17:57.560 better at bringing this down?

00:17:59.120 It shouldn't be Democrats are the,

00:18:00.880 this is pretty good,

00:18:02.040 and Republicans are,

00:18:03.400 no, it is not.

00:18:04.560 Because it is clearly way too high in D.C.,

00:18:07.040 and it's clearly way too high

00:18:08.280 in Chicago as well.

00:18:10.440 Over the weekend, 50 people shot

00:18:12.920 eight fatally over Labor Day weekend.

00:18:16.780 5-0, 50 people were shot

00:18:20.400 in the city of Chicago.

00:18:22.260 Chicago is not that big.

00:18:25.580 It is 2 million people,

00:18:27.380 about 1.8 million, I think, Clay,

00:18:28.940 is the number.

00:18:31.140 New York is 8.5 million by comparison,

00:18:33.580 so Chicago is,

00:18:36.060 is it still larger than Houston?

00:18:38.200 Houston is like its own,

00:18:40.580 you know, you can like drive

00:18:41.520 for an hour and a half

00:18:42.240 and still be in Houston,

00:18:43.280 I think, technically,

00:18:44.000 so it's a little tough to.

00:18:44.940 Metro areas,

00:18:46.160 it's still New York, L.A.,

00:18:47.560 Chicago, 1-2-3.

00:18:49.060 I think Houston and Dallas

00:18:50.320 are 4-5,

00:18:51.780 if I'm not mistaken,

00:18:53.060 again, on the metropolitan areas.

00:18:55.260 But again, Houston,

00:18:56.340 it's like, what is Houston?

00:18:57.340 Well, it's a very big place.

00:18:59.700 So, 50 people shot,

00:19:02.400 that's too many people.

00:19:03.520 I think we're all clear on that.

00:19:04.800 It's not like this is

00:19:05.560 aberrant numbers for Chicago,

00:19:08.280 either.

00:19:08.560 This is some random,

00:19:09.720 no, on Labor Day weekend,

00:19:11.740 you go back,

00:19:12.420 there are a lot of weekends

00:19:13.240 where you have 30 shot,

00:19:14.360 40 shot.

00:19:15.140 I mean, these numbers

00:19:16.000 are out of control.

00:19:18.080 And it was very interesting

00:19:19.640 to me, Clay,

00:19:20.180 this morning,

00:19:21.880 sure enough,

00:19:23.160 on good old MSNBC,

00:19:27.180 there was a conversation

00:19:28.840 that was happening.

00:19:30.220 And it was Joe Scarborough,

00:19:32.100 who we'll get into this,

00:19:33.560 reaching out, in essence,

00:19:35.180 to the Democrat intelligentsia,

00:19:38.160 including the governor

00:19:39.040 of Illinois,

00:19:40.020 who, of course,

00:19:40.900 includes in its environs

00:19:41.940 the city of Chicago,

00:19:43.500 saying that it is time

00:19:44.800 to partner up

00:19:46.160 with Trump

00:19:47.200 on the issue of crime.

00:19:48.420 This is on MSNBC,

00:19:50.100 play four.

00:19:50.680 I actually think

00:19:51.640 that J.B. Pritzker

00:19:52.660 should do something radical.

00:19:54.620 I think he should

00:19:55.160 pick up the phone,

00:19:56.400 call the president,

00:19:57.140 and say,

00:19:58.020 you know and I know

00:19:59.260 you don't have

00:19:59.800 the constitutional authority

00:20:01.020 to deploy the National Guard

00:20:02.760 here and to police my...

00:20:04.400 You can do that in D.C.

00:20:05.680 You can't do that in Chicago.

00:20:07.560 But let's partner up.

00:20:09.760 These are the most dangerous

00:20:10.860 parts of my state.

00:20:12.660 We would love

00:20:13.740 to figure out

00:20:14.680 how to have a partnership

00:20:15.780 that's constitutional,

00:20:17.640 that respects

00:20:18.720 the sort of balance

00:20:20.240 of federalism

00:20:21.060 between the federal government

00:20:22.120 and the state government.

00:20:23.740 And let's work together

00:20:25.320 to save lives.

00:20:28.440 That sounds entirely reasonable,

00:20:30.580 doesn't it, Clay?

00:20:31.320 It sounds like

00:20:31.780 the kind of thing

00:20:32.500 that somebody

00:20:33.120 who might be trying

00:20:34.580 to make a move

00:20:36.220 to be a voice

00:20:37.720 to bring the Democrats

00:20:38.580 not toward the center

00:20:39.560 but toward sanity

00:20:40.800 would be making.

00:20:42.960 Good old morning, Joe.

00:20:44.180 I think he sees a lane, Clay.

00:20:46.720 He's wrong

00:20:47.680 saying the president

00:20:48.680 doesn't have the authority.

00:20:50.280 He's 100% right

00:20:52.340 with everything else he said.

00:20:53.960 This is what should happen.

00:20:55.140 This is to give her credit,

00:20:57.320 D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

00:20:59.200 seems to be doing

00:21:01.200 to the best of her ability

00:21:02.640 an attempt to work with Trump

00:21:05.540 to make Washington, D.C. safer.

00:21:07.660 And I don't understand

00:21:09.780 why anyone out there

00:21:12.940 would be trying

00:21:14.020 to prevent the president

00:21:15.560 from making his or her city

00:21:17.980 or state safer

00:21:19.260 than it otherwise would be.

00:21:22.120 And we have

00:21:23.060 here is Brandon Johnson,

00:21:26.560 the mayor of Chicago,

00:21:28.460 contrasting with the reasonable take

00:21:30.540 that we just heard.

00:21:31.320 That's what you would have heard

00:21:32.240 on MSNBC.

00:21:34.600 Worth noting

00:21:35.560 that if you are losing

00:21:37.680 Joe Scarborough on MSNBC,

00:21:40.420 how many MSNBC viewers

00:21:43.160 might be hearing

00:21:44.280 somewhat sane takes suddenly

00:21:46.660 as part of Trump 2.0,

00:21:49.080 that to me is a sign

00:21:50.160 that the virulent

00:21:51.680 Trump is Hitler agenda

00:21:54.160 leave aside the fact 0.98

00:21:55.960 that we all know it's a lie.

00:21:57.540 It doesn't rate anymore.

00:21:59.060 It doesn't actually motivate

00:22:00.660 the viewers even.

00:22:02.120 You have Morning Joe there,

00:22:03.200 Joe Scarborough himself,

00:22:04.400 who remembers

00:22:04.760 a former Republican,

00:22:05.820 so he can play.

00:22:06.920 You want to talk about

00:22:07.440 code switching?

00:22:08.060 This guy,

00:22:08.640 he'll switch jerseys,

00:22:10.080 he'll switch,

00:22:10.560 you know,

00:22:10.700 whatever was going to be.

00:22:11.580 He repped the Florida Gulf Coast,

00:22:13.660 one of the most beautiful places

00:22:14.940 in the country,

00:22:16.000 I believe,

00:22:16.900 I'm not mistaken.

00:22:18.240 So he would have been

00:22:19.360 the 30A congressman,

00:22:22.280 right?

00:22:22.600 Potentially, yes.

00:22:23.640 At one point,

00:22:24.280 right?

00:22:24.560 I think so.

00:22:26.040 Yeah,

00:22:26.740 as places,

00:22:27.660 God's country,

00:22:28.260 on the Gulf of America,

00:22:29.780 no less.

00:22:30.440 On the Gulf of America,

00:22:31.680 he would have been

00:22:32.360 a congressman for it.

00:22:33.780 But there's that position,

00:22:35.800 and then you get

00:22:36.720 the more hardcore

00:22:37.600 left-wing Democrat position

00:22:39.580 here from Chicago

00:22:41.320 Mayor Johnson.

00:22:43.500 This is cut five.

00:22:44.580 Here's the other approach

00:22:45.860 to Chicago.

00:22:46.840 Play it.

00:22:47.120 No federal troops

00:22:48.300 in the city of Chicago.

00:22:51.140 No militarized force

00:22:52.760 in the city of Chicago.

00:22:55.000 We're going to defend

00:22:56.040 our democracy

00:22:56.900 in the city of Chicago.

00:22:59.280 We're going to protect

00:23:00.280 the humanity

00:23:00.800 of every single person

00:23:02.000 in the city of Chicago.

00:23:05.800 Just slogans,

00:23:07.660 meaningless community organizer

00:23:09.680 slogans that will do

00:23:11.680 nothing to bring down

00:23:13.580 the murder rate,

00:23:14.680 nothing to address

00:23:15.900 the crime rate.

00:23:16.960 I mean,

00:23:17.080 somebody should just ask,

00:23:18.600 somebody should ask

00:23:19.460 the mayor of Chicago,

00:23:20.240 is 50 people

00:23:21.880 over the weekend

00:23:22.480 shot in your city

00:23:23.520 too much?

00:23:24.120 Do you view that

00:23:24.780 as an urgent problem,

00:23:26.020 sir?

00:23:26.600 And try to pin him

00:23:27.600 down on this,

00:23:28.120 because he would just

00:23:28.680 go back into the

00:23:29.700 slogans, Clay.

00:23:30.940 I don't understand

00:23:32.420 what the audience

00:23:34.020 is for arguing

00:23:36.020 we're going to stand up

00:23:37.740 to the president

00:23:38.880 trying to bring

00:23:40.080 more law and order

00:23:41.360 to cities

00:23:42.520 that 81% of Americans

00:23:44.380 believe have

00:23:45.060 too much violence.

00:23:46.860 99% of Americans

00:23:48.680 believe have

00:23:50.000 some form of

00:23:51.320 violence that's

00:23:52.420 too much.

00:23:53.880 I don't understand

00:23:55.320 who is out there.

00:23:56.480 Again,

00:23:57.320 this ties in,

00:23:58.480 Buck,

00:23:58.700 with the argument

00:23:59.340 we saw from

00:24:00.080 Mayor Karen Bass,

00:24:01.260 where she just said

00:24:02.160 the quiet part out loud,

00:24:03.320 she said,

00:24:03.740 well,

00:24:03.920 we can't have

00:24:04.660 more police

00:24:05.560 and more National Guard

00:24:07.260 troops,

00:24:07.620 because then

00:24:08.420 too many

00:24:08.880 black and brown 0.98

00:24:09.660 people are going 1.00

00:24:10.300 to get arrested.

00:24:11.820 So,

00:24:12.560 you really have

00:24:14.240 the argument

00:24:15.180 being made of,

00:24:16.920 well,

00:24:17.220 there's going to be 0.97

00:24:17.920 too many black 1.00

00:24:18.620 and brown people 0.60

00:24:19.300 arrested,

00:24:20.020 so that's why

00:24:20.600 we don't want

00:24:21.380 more law and order

00:24:22.540 in the city.

00:24:23.760 But what about

00:24:24.620 all the black 0.81

00:24:25.260 and brown people

00:24:25.940 who are going

00:24:26.580 to be victims

00:24:27.580 if these people

00:24:28.940 are not arrested?

00:24:30.080 That is the immediate

00:24:31.300 question that's begged.

00:24:33.100 And I think

00:24:33.780 the vast majority

00:24:34.500 of people out there,

00:24:35.660 regardless of your

00:24:36.440 background,

00:24:37.460 want your kids

00:24:38.300 to be safe

00:24:39.040 and want to be

00:24:39.920 able to walk

00:24:40.560 in the streets

00:24:41.260 and not worry

00:24:42.320 about it.

00:24:43.180 I have said

00:24:43.740 for a long time

00:24:44.840 to me the test

00:24:46.200 of whether

00:24:46.860 a neighborhood

00:24:47.380 is safe

00:24:48.020 is are you okay

00:24:49.560 with your wife,

00:24:50.640 your girlfriend,

00:24:52.080 your daughter,

00:24:53.280 your granddaughter

00:24:54.060 going for a jog

00:24:56.000 at dusk

00:24:57.280 in a neighborhood?

00:24:58.400 Like if you're

00:24:59.280 a woman who is 0.96

00:25:00.940 significant in your life

00:25:01.920 or a girl

00:25:03.260 who's significant

00:25:03.700 in your life

00:25:04.320 goes outside

00:25:05.680 and it's 6 p.m.

00:25:06.840 and she's like,

00:25:07.680 hey, I'm going

00:25:08.000 to go for a jog

00:25:08.760 for 30 minutes.

00:25:10.120 Are you comfortable

00:25:11.360 with her doing that? 0.92

00:25:12.700 It should be the point.

00:25:14.000 It should be the case 1.00

00:25:15.140 that everywhere

00:25:16.360 in America

00:25:17.100 we are comfortable

00:25:17.840 with that happening.

00:25:19.200 But right now,

00:25:20.980 tons of you listening,

00:25:22.920 you'd say,

00:25:23.420 yeah,

00:25:24.220 my daughter,

00:25:25.180 she can't go

00:25:25.660 for a jog.

00:25:26.240 My 16-year-old,

00:25:27.580 she's training

00:25:28.280 cross-country

00:25:29.240 or she's

00:25:30.360 a soccer player

00:25:31.240 and she's trying

00:25:32.300 to stay in shape.

00:25:33.480 She can't go jogging

00:25:34.580 if she might get

00:25:35.960 out after dusk.

00:25:37.300 That is the ultimate test.

00:25:39.040 I lived this test,

00:25:40.800 this reality

00:25:41.380 in New York City

00:25:42.100 in the 90s

00:25:43.160 where it was

00:25:44.340 you can't go jogging

00:25:45.540 at night.

00:25:45.900 That's why the Central Park

00:25:46.660 jogger case

00:25:47.620 was horrific,

00:25:49.860 but also

00:25:50.380 it hit home

00:25:52.020 for so many people.

00:25:52.740 It's like,

00:25:52.880 you can't even go jogging

00:25:53.760 in Central Park

00:25:54.480 in this city.

00:25:55.560 That was without

00:25:56.440 something horrific happening.

00:25:57.760 And then you had

00:26:00.360 the realities

00:26:02.360 of you couldn't

00:26:02.840 go to Central Park

00:26:03.400 at night.

00:26:03.700 But I would say,

00:26:04.180 Clay,

00:26:04.460 in these cases,

00:26:05.140 we're talking about

00:26:06.020 would you be comfortable

00:26:07.380 driving through

00:26:07.920 these neighborhoods

00:26:08.360 in a nice car

00:26:09.000 in broad daylight?

00:26:10.120 That's a difference.

00:26:11.760 The standard you're

00:26:12.560 talking about

00:26:13.080 is true safety.

00:26:14.200 I think the standard

00:26:14.800 you could apply

00:26:15.320 to the south side

00:26:16.060 of Chicago

00:26:16.540 or I guess

00:26:17.020 it's the south

00:26:17.480 and some of the

00:26:17.940 western precincts

00:26:18.900 of Chicago

00:26:19.360 or you could apply

00:26:21.040 to the more dangerous

00:26:21.760 parts of Memphis,

00:26:23.260 New Orleans.

00:26:23.640 You could get on

00:26:23.900 the list of these cities

00:26:24.700 is would you be

00:26:26.020 willing to drive?

00:26:26.660 Would you get in

00:26:27.300 your friend's Mercedes

00:26:28.200 or your friend's BMW

00:26:29.480 or whatever

00:26:30.140 and drive through

00:26:31.720 these areas,

00:26:33.280 spend an hour

00:26:33.860 driving around

00:26:34.640 and feel safe?

00:26:35.360 And I think in some

00:26:35.940 of these places

00:26:36.400 you would say

00:26:36.840 absolutely not.

00:26:37.880 Would you stop

00:26:38.580 and get gas?

00:26:39.940 When you talked

00:26:41.580 about this

00:26:42.040 and we're not,

00:26:43.660 I think,

00:26:44.800 the primary people

00:26:46.000 who are going

00:26:46.460 to be victims

00:26:46.980 of crime.

00:26:48.100 And by which I mean

00:26:49.240 we're grown men,

00:26:50.940 not elderly.

00:26:52.360 Like,

00:26:52.640 we're not,

00:26:53.400 in theory,

00:26:54.100 easy marks.

00:26:54.920 You see all those

00:26:55.660 push-ups that Clay

00:26:56.380 did on that video?

00:26:57.680 No one's going

00:26:58.160 to mess with Clay.

00:26:59.220 We're not easy marks.

00:27:00.340 I mean,

00:27:00.480 we're six foot,

00:27:01.360 you know,

00:27:01.800 decent sized guys,

00:27:03.280 right?

00:27:03.980 Got some weight

00:27:04.880 to throw around

00:27:05.520 over here,

00:27:05.940 maybe a little too much,

00:27:06.820 but you know,

00:27:07.200 I could box out

00:27:08.340 if I need to.

00:27:09.440 But when you were

00:27:10.540 in St. Louis

00:27:11.200 and they told you,

00:27:12.960 hey,

00:27:13.300 you can't walk

00:27:14.080 anywhere at this hotel,

00:27:15.760 and when I was

00:27:16.680 in Memphis.

00:27:17.220 They told me not

00:27:18.080 to go stroll around

00:27:18.800 at night by myself

00:27:19.780 in the downtown.

00:27:21.060 In the night,

00:27:21.420 like the main part

00:27:22.360 of downtown,

00:27:22.940 the heart of the city.

00:27:23.640 They straight up

00:27:24.480 told me that.

00:27:25.380 I'm staying in one

00:27:26.300 of the nicer areas

00:27:27.860 of Memphis

00:27:28.440 with my kid

00:27:29.440 because he's got

00:27:30.280 an event going on

00:27:31.920 and the lady 0.84

00:27:33.400 working the front desk

00:27:34.500 at the hotel

00:27:35.280 at 8.30 p.m.

00:27:37.140 was like,

00:27:37.520 are you sure

00:27:37.900 you want to go outside?

00:27:39.480 And I was like,

00:27:40.280 well,

00:27:40.740 I, you know,

00:27:41.400 I forgot my charger.

00:27:42.760 I'm just going to go

00:27:43.440 fill up my gas tank

00:27:44.660 and get a charger

00:27:46.240 at the local gas station here.

00:27:49.380 It's like,

00:27:49.960 okay,

00:27:50.460 be careful.

00:27:51.800 At 8.30?

00:27:53.300 I mean,

00:27:53.800 this is where we are.

00:27:55.140 To your point,

00:27:55.780 St. Louis,

00:27:57.200 I want the National Guard

00:27:59.600 called in,

00:28:01.140 the State Guard,

00:28:01.940 but obviously

00:28:02.460 in many different,

00:28:03.600 I want to call it

00:28:04.240 everywhere.

00:28:05.340 I live in Tennessee.

00:28:07.440 I wish they would

00:28:08.120 call the National Guard

00:28:09.060 and deploy it in Memphis.

00:28:11.200 Your point on St. Louis,

00:28:12.660 I think a lot of people

00:28:13.420 out there who live

00:28:14.040 in the St. Louis area

00:28:15.000 are like,

00:28:15.480 yeah,

00:28:16.200 I'd like more security.

00:28:17.480 Kansas City,

00:28:18.280 New Orleans,

00:28:19.140 Chicago,

00:28:19.940 Baltimore.

00:28:21.200 Why would we not?

00:28:23.280 If I were the governor,

00:28:25.060 and a lot of you out there

00:28:25.940 are like,

00:28:26.240 oh,

00:28:26.580 I don't know about that,

00:28:27.720 Clay.

00:28:27.940 If I were the governor,

00:28:28.960 I'd be considering

00:28:30.140 calling in the National Guard

00:28:31.860 to deploy in the State Guard,

00:28:34.060 but National Guard

00:28:34.780 to deploy in Memphis

00:28:35.960 and say,

00:28:36.980 we're not going to allow

00:28:37.820 Memphis

00:28:38.220 to have a murder rate

00:28:40.120 that is basically

00:28:41.540 20x

00:28:42.800 what's happening

00:28:43.600 in New York City.

00:28:44.520 Not going to allow it.

00:28:45.500 There's too many

00:28:45.960 innocent people

00:28:46.420 being killed.

00:28:47.620 I think this is 1.00

00:28:48.520 a great decision

00:28:49.300 all over the place.

00:28:50.800 Well,

00:28:50.980 I think that on crime

00:28:52.500 and also on the border,

00:28:54.540 for example,

00:28:55.120 going forward,

00:28:55.820 there's going to have

00:28:56.560 to be some

00:28:57.360 national-level

00:28:58.800 Democrat attempt

00:28:59.860 to co-op these issues

00:29:01.240 for themselves

00:29:01.860 a little bit,

00:29:02.520 as in,

00:29:02.960 they have to come up

00:29:04.440 with,

00:29:04.740 we're part of the solution,

00:29:05.940 not continue

00:29:07.460 to perpetuate the problem,

00:29:09.040 because these have become

00:29:10.080 huge political liabilities

00:29:11.720 for them.

00:29:12.160 I mean,

00:29:12.260 the immigration thing,

00:29:13.200 the illegals,

00:29:13.860 the 10 million under Biden

00:29:14.940 was clearly a major,

00:29:17.320 might have been

00:29:17.720 the deciding issue,

00:29:18.720 quite honestly,

00:29:19.260 in this last election.

00:29:20.200 I think you could argue

00:29:20.980 that it was.

00:29:21.880 Meaning,

00:29:22.240 the single most,

00:29:23.480 you know,

00:29:24.460 intractable,

00:29:25.700 pervasive,

00:29:26.980 and Democrats

00:29:27.700 getting hammered

00:29:28.420 on an issue.

00:29:29.780 And so,

00:29:30.740 I think on this issue

00:29:32.160 also of making cities safer,

00:29:34.700 you know,

00:29:35.200 it may not change

00:29:36.200 the vote in Chicago,

00:29:37.900 but it might change

00:29:39.000 the vote in some places

00:29:40.720 that are purple.

00:29:42.060 It might make people think

00:29:43.340 in the suburbs

00:29:44.220 of some of these cities,

00:29:45.240 you know what,

00:29:45.920 I can't vote for some 0.99

00:29:46.960 lunatic Democrat again, 0.99

00:29:48.580 and that's where

00:29:49.320 the political weakness lies.

00:29:50.940 I'll tell you what it does.

00:29:51.980 I think a lot of black guys,

00:29:53.220 again,

00:29:53.540 over 20% of them

00:29:54.720 voted Trump in 2024.

00:29:56.820 I think a lot of them

00:29:57.720 look around and say

00:29:58.400 this is unacceptable,

00:29:59.240 and they don't accept

00:30:00.740 the Brandon Johnson argument

00:30:03.060 of,

00:30:04.020 hey,

00:30:04.080 we got to stand up,

00:30:04.920 like,

00:30:05.280 why should we not

00:30:06.180 have more safety?

00:30:07.480 Why,

00:30:07.800 and look,

00:30:08.540 black women too, 1.00

00:30:09.780 but they have been more

00:30:10.680 committed to the Democrat Party.

00:30:11.900 When you get to the point

00:30:13.440 where it's one in five,

00:30:14.520 one in four black men

00:30:15.640 are voting for Trump,

00:30:16.800 that's a real conversation

00:30:18.420 that's taking place now

00:30:19.680 in the black community,

00:30:20.780 and I think when you look

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00:30:44.120 You never hear that phrase?

00:30:45.720 Convicts,

00:30:46.360 sir.

00:30:47.060 Good heavens.

00:30:48.140 Miami Hurricanes

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00:32:51.860 With that in mind,

00:32:53.560 Mr. Clay,

00:32:55.060 I have to bring

00:32:56.400 attention for a moment

00:32:57.420 here to

00:32:58.080 the New York Times

00:32:59.320 and the way

00:33:01.760 that they are trying

00:33:02.540 to run interference

00:33:04.440 or obfuscation

00:33:06.360 propaganda

00:33:07.900 for Mamdani the Commie,

00:33:11.180 who is a,

00:33:12.180 I believe,

00:33:12.940 self-described

00:33:13.480 as a democratic socialist.

00:33:15.020 And so now

00:33:15.460 we're going to get

00:33:16.020 into this game

00:33:16.760 where somebody

00:33:17.740 to get support

00:33:18.920 and to get the left

00:33:19.860 behind them,

00:33:20.260 they say,

00:33:20.520 I'm a democratic socialist,

00:33:21.720 I'm a democratic socialist,

00:33:22.920 and we say,

00:33:23.280 okay,

00:33:23.480 so you're a socialist,

00:33:24.260 right?

00:33:24.480 And this should be

00:33:26.840 pretty straightforward

00:33:27.560 because it's in the name,

00:33:29.300 but they play the games.

00:33:30.640 This is from the New York Times

00:33:32.180 over the weekend

00:33:32.740 that Mr. Cuomo

00:33:35.360 used both of his appearances

00:33:36.580 on Fox News last week

00:33:37.860 talking about

00:33:38.520 the opponent for Mamdani

00:33:39.780 in the New York race,

00:33:41.140 Cuomo,

00:33:42.700 to criticize Mamdani's

00:33:44.140 left-leaning views

00:33:44.920 warning that they would be

00:33:45.760 a death knell

00:33:46.420 for New York City.

00:33:47.940 New York City people

00:33:49.060 are not socialists,

00:33:50.300 Mr. Cuomo said.

00:33:51.760 New York City people

00:33:53.260 are not socialists.

00:33:54.980 Neither actually

00:33:55.940 is Mr. Mamdani,

00:33:56.920 the New York Times rejoins.

00:33:58.880 He is a democratic socialist,

00:34:00.980 which means his beliefs

00:34:01.900 are similar to those

00:34:02.620 of socialists,

00:34:03.860 but not exactly the same.

00:34:05.860 He is a member

00:34:06.460 of both the National

00:34:07.580 Democratic Socialists

00:34:08.600 of America

00:34:09.060 and its New York City chapter.

00:34:10.900 What does the New York Times

00:34:12.140 think that it's doing here?

00:34:13.200 It's funny because really

00:34:14.180 more and more

00:34:14.700 it's only read by

00:34:15.460 left-wing people

00:34:16.080 or people on the right

00:34:17.080 who want to trash it,

00:34:18.440 and they're trying

00:34:19.420 to tell everybody

00:34:20.060 don't call him a socialist

00:34:21.620 even though he's a socialist.

00:34:24.940 What do you think

00:34:26.100 his term in office

00:34:28.060 would actually be like?

00:34:30.200 Because the reason

00:34:31.160 why I bring it up is,

00:34:32.580 again, I'm frustrated

00:34:33.780 that there hasn't been

00:34:35.200 a coalition of somebody

00:34:37.700 to sit down with

00:34:38.560 Andrew Cuomo,

00:34:39.520 with Curtis Sliwa,

00:34:40.700 and with Eric Adams

00:34:42.180 and really say,

00:34:43.980 okay, get out of the race.

00:34:46.480 One of you has to be the guy,

00:34:48.340 and I think

00:34:50.720 Eric Adams would win

00:34:52.420 if everybody else

00:34:54.400 got out.

00:34:54.980 I'm not sure Cuomo

00:34:55.900 would win.

00:34:57.260 Oh, no, I think

00:34:57.920 you have it backwards

00:34:58.920 on this one.

00:34:59.520 I think Cuomo

00:34:59.900 has a much better chance

00:35:00.860 than Adams, Clay.

00:35:01.580 Adams' numbers

00:35:02.260 are absolutely pitiful.

00:35:04.900 He's in single-digit support.

00:35:07.220 I think, well,

00:35:08.280 so I think he could win.

00:35:10.460 I could be wrong.

00:35:11.700 I think that Cuomo

00:35:12.900 could win.

00:35:13.560 I think that Sliwa

00:35:14.980 has virtually

00:35:16.000 no chance of winning,

00:35:17.020 so I don't understand

00:35:18.360 what he's doing,

00:35:19.280 and I understand

00:35:19.880 that a lot of you

00:35:20.460 at WOR,

00:35:21.400 he's a Republican.

00:35:22.400 I'm not saying

00:35:23.020 that I disagree

00:35:23.760 with him on the policies.

00:35:25.740 I'm saying that

00:35:26.540 if you look at this situation,

00:35:29.340 Momdani is such a big threat

00:35:31.020 that otherwise

00:35:32.580 not political allies

00:35:35.480 should come together

00:35:36.280 from keeping him

00:35:36.960 from going to office.

00:35:37.720 Having said that,

00:35:39.100 it seems like he is saying

00:35:41.340 that he would not change

00:35:43.200 very much suddenly

00:35:45.040 as he is now

00:35:47.120 trying to run for office.

00:35:48.320 For instance,

00:35:49.180 Jessica Tish,

00:35:50.760 who has done

00:35:51.560 a really good job,

00:35:52.800 it appears,

00:35:53.380 to be fair to her,

00:35:54.660 running the NYPD,

00:35:56.620 driving down crime,

00:35:57.760 all these things.

00:35:58.280 Buck,

00:35:58.460 I looked it up.

00:36:00.600 Through the end of August,

00:36:03.020 and the New York City team,

00:36:04.480 you can correct me

00:36:05.160 if I'm wrong on this,

00:36:06.520 I believe there were

00:36:07.480 only 201 murders

00:36:09.400 in New York City.

00:36:11.100 Between...

00:36:11.540 So nine months,

00:36:12.340 so that would put us

00:36:13.060 on pace for 270,

00:36:14.740 something like that-ish,

00:36:16.360 because probably

00:36:17.320 a little bit lower

00:36:18.040 because summer tends

00:36:18.960 to be higher rates

00:36:20.160 of crime in general.

00:36:22.400 That's really good,

00:36:23.840 right?

00:36:24.200 I'm not saying

00:36:25.000 that I wish there

00:36:26.300 was no murders,

00:36:27.060 all those things.

00:36:27.800 I get that there's still crime.

00:36:28.980 Clay is decidedly,

00:36:30.620 despite all the pushback,

00:36:32.100 anti-murder,

00:36:32.840 as we have discussed.

00:36:33.380 I'm going to stick

00:36:34.440 as hard on the

00:36:35.160 anti-murder camp

00:36:36.060 as I can,

00:36:37.340 but he's now saying

00:36:38.180 he would leave her

00:36:38.880 in charge.

00:36:39.480 I wonder how much

00:36:41.820 of him

00:36:42.740 is going to be...

00:36:44.220 He says all these

00:36:45.340 crazy things,

00:36:46.480 and then when push

00:36:47.960 comes to shove,

00:36:49.280 when he actually

00:36:50.080 gets into the office,

00:36:51.700 whether he's not

00:36:52.840 going to do very much

00:36:54.480 to actually implement

00:36:55.620 the agenda

00:36:56.200 he claimed he would implement.

00:36:57.460 Does that make sense?

00:36:58.140 This is...

00:36:58.820 Big risk.

00:36:59.540 This is quite a gamble,

00:37:01.140 right?

00:37:01.400 I mean,

00:37:01.540 now you're talking

00:37:02.200 about a situation...

00:37:04.480 So I'm very clear,

00:37:07.360 I think,

00:37:07.800 on what happened

00:37:09.700 through...

00:37:11.100 Because I was living

00:37:11.820 in New York,

00:37:12.360 right?

00:37:12.600 So Giuliani comes in

00:37:14.500 and he's Wyatt Earp.

00:37:15.820 You know,

00:37:16.060 he cleans up the town.

00:37:17.580 He fixes it.

00:37:18.500 He gets it

00:37:18.960 on the right course.

00:37:20.440 NYPD,

00:37:21.540 Comps that.

00:37:22.900 It all comes together.

00:37:25.420 And now you have

00:37:26.680 this city

00:37:27.320 that is incredibly

00:37:28.580 on the rise

00:37:29.320 and is a crime

00:37:31.460 reduction story,

00:37:32.760 not just for the country,

00:37:33.640 by the way.

00:37:34.040 It became a globe.

00:37:34.760 New York City

00:37:35.220 has connections

00:37:35.900 to police departments

00:37:36.760 all over the world.

00:37:38.620 This has been

00:37:39.060 a long-standing practice,

00:37:40.460 but they have

00:37:40.940 very close relationships

00:37:42.500 with other...

00:37:42.960 And they do information sharing.

00:37:44.460 I was a part of this

00:37:45.120 in the Intel division.

00:37:45.920 Now it's Intel Bureau.

00:37:46.960 It's actually gotten bigger

00:37:47.860 since I left.

00:37:49.580 And Jesse Tisch,

00:37:50.640 who's now the commissioner,

00:37:51.580 was one of my peers.

00:37:53.160 We didn't work

00:37:53.660 in the same office,

00:37:55.460 but on the same general issue

00:37:56.820 at the time.

00:37:58.100 And...

00:37:58.420 Because she's only a couple... 1.00

00:37:59.380 I think she's your age, Clay.

00:38:00.320 She's only a couple years 0.68

00:38:01.260 older than me.

00:38:01.640 And the NYPD story

00:38:04.200 is that they managed

00:38:05.940 to fix all this stuff.

00:38:07.660 And then Bloomberg

00:38:08.340 comes in and says,

00:38:10.000 okay, look,

00:38:10.560 I'm a Democrat,

00:38:11.100 but I also like safety

00:38:12.860 and investment

00:38:13.740 and clean streets,

00:38:15.560 and so I'm going to keep

00:38:16.760 doing the smart things.

00:38:18.060 Does Bloomberg say,

00:38:18.800 but you really,

00:38:19.100 he's a smart guy.

00:38:20.040 I disagree with him

00:38:20.940 on sodas

00:38:22.140 and gun control,

00:38:23.060 but he's a smart guy.

00:38:25.020 De Blasio comes in

00:38:26.300 and he's like,

00:38:26.800 we've had way too much

00:38:28.080 prosperity,

00:38:29.600 safety,

00:38:29.980 and growth.

00:38:31.560 It's time for...

00:38:32.420 It's time to start

00:38:33.120 just turning the wheels

00:38:34.600 of communism

00:38:35.320 from inside the system.

00:38:37.900 And it...

00:38:38.580 You know,

00:38:38.820 if he inherited

00:38:39.600 a great situation,

00:38:40.420 so it took a while,

00:38:41.400 it's like Gavin Newsom

00:38:42.280 in California,

00:38:42.820 it takes a while

00:38:43.720 to ruin these places,

00:38:45.080 right?

00:38:45.680 You know,

00:38:46.020 the Bolshoi was still

00:38:47.420 like the best ballet

00:38:48.780 in the world

00:38:49.720 in the 70s

00:38:50.600 in the Soviet Union

00:38:51.440 because they had,

00:38:53.120 you know,

00:38:53.540 150 years of like,

00:38:55.640 or 100 years of,

00:38:57.300 you know,

00:38:57.520 it takes a while

00:38:58.080 to ruin some of these things.

00:39:00.060 And I'm just,

00:39:00.920 you know,

00:39:01.040 and some of the greatest

00:39:01.660 writers of the 20th century

00:39:02.740 were Soviet writers,

00:39:03.580 not because of

00:39:04.660 the Soviet Union

00:39:05.720 as like a font

00:39:07.440 of creative energy,

00:39:09.620 but because Russia

00:39:10.640 and its history.

00:39:11.340 Okay.

00:39:12.280 So he comes,

00:39:12.960 and then you get to

00:39:14.440 Mayor Eric Adams Clay,

00:39:16.780 and then the wheels

00:39:17.460 of communism

00:39:18.040 because of de Blasio

00:39:19.060 are just chewing up

00:39:20.100 the city

00:39:20.480 and ruining everything. 0.70

00:39:21.900 And Adams comes in

00:39:23.000 and he's like,

00:39:23.420 okay,

00:39:23.620 I don't want to do this anymore,

00:39:24.600 but he's not,

00:39:25.120 he's not an adept enough

00:39:27.260 leader and manager

00:39:28.120 to stop it,

00:39:28.920 really.

00:39:29.600 Maybe he has slowed

00:39:31.000 the progression,

00:39:31.860 but it's,

00:39:32.180 you know,

00:39:32.700 it's kind of kept going.

00:39:34.640 Where would Mom Donnie 0.97

00:39:35.740 be on this?

00:39:36.740 That's,

00:39:37.020 that's really,

00:39:37.600 bring us back

00:39:38.160 to the question.

00:39:38.660 Would he be a de Blasio

00:39:40.100 or would he be

00:39:41.920 something else?

00:39:42.440 Because de Blasio,

00:39:43.320 I truly believe,

00:39:44.280 for ideological reasons,

00:39:45.480 intentionally ruined

00:39:46.140 the city of New York

00:39:46.800 as much as he could.

00:39:47.880 He didn't ruin it totally,

00:39:48.760 but he intentionally made

00:39:49.720 every bad decision

00:39:51.200 that could be made. 1.00

00:39:52.380 Every stupid move 1.00

00:39:53.560 that he could possibly 1.00

00:39:54.340 have pulled off.

00:39:55.580 If Mom Donnie

00:39:56.560 were to speak left

00:39:59.320 and govern right,

00:40:00.980 first of all,

00:40:01.660 I would,

00:40:02.200 I would give 10 to,

00:40:03.880 or one to 10,

00:40:04.660 I always get this wrong.

00:40:05.660 Whatever the odds are,

00:40:06.720 very long odds

00:40:07.740 that he would do that.

00:40:08.720 10 to one.

00:40:09.660 10 to one.

00:40:10.220 I'd give 10 to one odds

00:40:11.560 that he would do that.

00:40:13.020 And,

00:40:13.380 and even if he did,

00:40:15.200 I'm not sure that he has the,

00:40:16.940 this is where I think

00:40:17.380 it's an Eric Adams thing.

00:40:18.360 I don't think he has the ability

00:40:19.480 to figure it out,

00:40:20.960 right?

00:40:21.220 So maybe on the NYPD side,

00:40:22.840 at least he knows

00:40:23.440 to leave a good commissioner

00:40:24.380 in place,

00:40:24.960 but there's a lot of other stuff

00:40:26.340 that the city needs,

00:40:27.260 needs help with.

00:40:28.520 I just don't know

00:40:29.840 if he has the functional ability

00:40:32.500 because he's never really

00:40:33.580 had a job like this

00:40:34.760 to actually implement

00:40:36.240 a lot of the things

00:40:37.160 that he's saying.

00:40:38.600 And so look,

00:40:39.460 is it a big risk?

00:40:40.520 Yes.

00:40:41.000 Do what would I live

00:40:41.880 in New York city?

00:40:42.720 No.

00:40:44.120 If I made a good living

00:40:47.060 and my job were something

00:40:49.480 where I could live other places,

00:40:51.680 I would probably say I'm out.

00:40:54.060 Now I understand a lot of you

00:40:55.220 have kids in school.

00:40:56.400 It's hard to move.

00:40:57.180 You've got jobs

00:40:58.080 that are not portable in nature.

00:41:00.200 Nature.

00:41:00.740 You've got family

00:41:01.580 that you are deeply connected to

00:41:03.440 and neighborhoods

00:41:04.020 and all those other things.

00:41:05.180 But if he's actually

00:41:08.400 going to implement

00:41:09.380 the agenda

00:41:10.020 that he is saying

00:41:10.780 he's going to implement,

00:41:12.120 then I think New York city

00:41:14.160 is in severe.

00:41:15.920 So I know,

00:41:17.280 I know Florida realtors

00:41:19.620 personally.

00:41:20.580 Yes.

00:41:21.060 They're already running

00:41:22.220 specific ads online

00:41:24.380 to target,

00:41:25.860 you know,

00:41:26.580 in a good way,

00:41:27.100 but to target New Yorkers

00:41:29.140 who they think

00:41:30.360 are high income

00:41:31.280 and will want to flee

00:41:32.200 to Florida

00:41:32.660 if Mom Donnie wins.

00:41:33.800 Like that's already

00:41:34.360 happening here.

00:41:35.180 So if you're wondering

00:41:36.560 if your Florida real estate

00:41:37.560 prices are probably

00:41:38.300 going to keep going up,

00:41:39.200 I think they are.

00:41:41.080 I would be nervous

00:41:43.640 if I'm a New York City guy

00:41:45.220 and gal

00:41:46.380 and I just,

00:41:47.880 I look at it

00:41:48.680 and a part of me thinks,

00:41:49.980 could this be a bait

00:41:51.760 and switch

00:41:52.320 where he says

00:41:53.460 all these crazy

00:41:54.380 left wing things

00:41:55.620 and then when it comes

00:41:57.160 to actually delivering

00:41:58.140 on them,

00:41:58.720 it's very difficult

00:41:59.860 to deliver on them.

00:42:02.160 And I just,

00:42:03.360 I can't believe...

00:42:05.740 So you're talking about,

00:42:06.780 like,

00:42:07.000 sounds like you think

00:42:07.660 that he's,

00:42:08.700 even if he's like

00:42:09.500 a Leninist, 0.97

00:42:10.120 he's an incompetent Leninist, 0.95

00:42:11.340 so maybe he can't 0.98

00:42:12.040 get it done.

00:42:12.480 That's a different thing

00:42:13.280 than I actually repudiate

00:42:14.480 Vladimir Lenin.

00:42:15.300 You know what I'm saying?

00:42:16.020 Yeah, yeah.

00:42:16.620 I think that there could be,

00:42:19.960 I'm not sure

00:42:21.000 how committed

00:42:21.600 he actually is to it.

00:42:22.920 I think this guy

00:42:23.520 just wants to be

00:42:24.260 elected mayor.

00:42:25.700 And I think he may

00:42:27.160 not be able

00:42:28.180 to implement it

00:42:29.360 because what's he done

00:42:30.060 to succeed?

00:42:30.920 What management ability

00:42:32.080 does he have

00:42:32.740 where you look at it

00:42:33.480 and you say,

00:42:33.840 boy,

00:42:34.000 this guy's been

00:42:34.520 really,

00:42:34.960 really good.

00:42:35.400 To your point,

00:42:36.660 Bloomberg,

00:42:38.060 Bloomberg is in

00:42:38.840 a phenomenal business,

00:42:40.460 right?

00:42:40.760 Like he is,

00:42:41.400 whatever you think

00:42:42.120 about Mayor Bloomberg,

00:42:43.000 he built one of the

00:42:44.760 all-time great media

00:42:46.480 and business businesses.

00:42:48.740 I think he was

00:42:49.260 the richest New Yorker.

00:42:50.440 I think he was

00:42:50.920 the richest New Yorker

00:42:52.160 in New York State

00:42:53.280 when he was mayor.

00:42:54.320 I think that's true.

00:42:55.240 He was worth like

00:42:55.780 $60 billion

00:42:56.480 or something like that.

00:42:57.500 I mean,

00:42:58.160 the guy is an 0.97

00:42:59.160 incredibly skilled

00:43:00.440 business figure.

00:43:02.060 De Blasio is a mess.

00:43:03.900 Giuliani,

00:43:04.520 I think,

00:43:05.000 really got it

00:43:06.080 with,

00:43:07.100 what was it,

00:43:07.520 Bratton,

00:43:08.020 his initial commissioner

00:43:09.100 that he worked with

00:43:10.100 in the New York City PD.

00:43:11.500 I think he knew

00:43:12.220 because he was

00:43:12.980 a prosecutor.

00:43:14.220 What do you have to do

00:43:15.060 to move the levers

00:43:15.960 of crime in New York City?

00:43:18.240 I just don't know

00:43:18.840 that Momdani has 0.68

00:43:19.560 the skill set,

00:43:20.580 Buck,

00:43:20.720 to actually implement

00:43:21.840 anything that he's

00:43:22.660 claiming he's going to do.

00:43:23.900 According to Grock,

00:43:24.980 Bloomberg is still

00:43:26.140 the richest guy

00:43:27.260 in New York State

00:43:28.340 worth over $100 billion.

00:43:31.300 And unless I'm mistaken,

00:43:33.180 Bloomberg made

00:43:34.100 all of his money.

00:43:35.600 Yeah, no.

00:43:36.120 He did not inherit.

00:43:37.640 He didn't inherit

00:43:38.480 $80 billion

00:43:39.100 and wants to tell you

00:43:39.840 about the $20 billion.

00:43:40.860 Let me tell you something.

00:43:41.520 If you inherit $80 billion,

00:43:42.740 the last $20 is not hard.

00:43:44.780 But, you know,

00:43:45.980 yes, that is the case.

00:43:47.480 He completely built

00:43:48.940 his own business.

00:43:49.960 So he's clearly

00:43:50.480 a very high IQ,

00:43:51.360 very capable guy.

00:43:52.680 And that showed

00:43:53.280 in the city of New York.

00:43:54.660 He was a fantastic mayor

00:43:56.480 and people could say

00:43:57.240 what they want.

00:43:57.920 I knew very conservative

00:43:59.660 cops in the NYPD

00:44:01.400 and they would not say

00:44:02.480 a bad word

00:44:03.640 about Bloomberg

00:44:04.320 full stop.

00:44:05.640 Even though they disagreed

00:44:06.520 with him on some stuff,

00:44:07.320 they were like,

00:44:07.640 he's doing a great job.

00:44:08.860 Momdani,

00:44:09.960 Clay,

00:44:10.100 you could have

00:44:10.660 a commie 0.97

00:44:11.420 who's also incompetent. 0.78

00:44:13.600 Now,

00:44:14.120 this is what the question

00:44:14.980 that I was asking you

00:44:15.660 is,

00:44:15.940 does the incompetence

00:44:17.100 work in the favor

00:44:18.440 of the city?

00:44:19.360 Yes.

00:44:20.320 Yes.

00:44:21.040 Sadly.

00:44:21.780 That may be the case.

00:44:23.980 Like,

00:44:24.040 when he says things

00:44:24.680 like running,

00:44:25.560 having city run

00:44:26.500 grocery stores

00:44:27.400 is one of the craziest

00:44:28.320 ideas on the planet. 0.81

00:44:29.760 It's just bonkers.

00:44:31.320 It's also,

00:44:32.920 you think about this,

00:44:34.240 the fact that this is even,

00:44:36.500 the grocery store

00:44:38.500 is one of the hardest business.

00:44:40.160 They have a one or two percent

00:44:41.440 profit margin.

00:44:42.800 The produce is constantly,

00:44:44.320 constantly having to be replaced

00:44:46.780 because obviously it has

00:44:47.880 perishability issues.

00:44:49.480 Getting,

00:44:49.800 you know this better

00:44:50.340 than anybody,

00:44:50.940 all you guys,

00:44:51.560 getting things into New York City

00:44:53.280 is incredibly expensive,

00:44:54.680 difficult,

00:44:55.320 shipping all the,

00:44:56.140 I mean,

00:44:56.400 the idea that somehow

00:44:58.060 the government

00:44:58.780 is going to run

00:44:59.420 a better grocery store

00:45:00.480 and save people money

00:45:01.540 is so crazy.

00:45:02.340 By the way,

00:45:03.100 209 murders

00:45:06.080 in New York City

00:45:07.060 year to date

00:45:07.960 through the end of August,

00:45:10.080 that is a 20% decline

00:45:11.900 from last year

00:45:12.760 and would put them on pace

00:45:13.940 for somewhere in the 200s,

00:45:16.200 which is a very good number

00:45:17.500 for a city the size

00:45:18.320 of New York City

00:45:18.860 when it comes to murder,

00:45:20.040 getting it down

00:45:20.720 as low as possible.

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00:47:11.560 Clay,

00:47:12.140 have you heard

00:47:12.540 of the Rio Reset?

00:47:13.820 Sounds like a trendy

00:47:14.800 new workout, Buck.

00:47:16.080 It does,

00:47:16.700 but it's actually

00:47:17.200 a big summit

00:47:17.900 going on in Brazil.

00:47:18.840 The formal name

00:47:19.820 is BRICS,

00:47:20.540 which stands for

00:47:21.100 Brazil, Russia,

00:47:22.080 India, China,

00:47:22.700 and South Africa.

00:47:23.940 But they've just

00:47:24.540 added five new members.

00:47:26.120 Smart move

00:47:26.720 to stick with BRICS. 0.89

00:47:27.980 We know what happens

00:47:28.860 when acronyms don't end.

00:47:30.180 They confuse everyone.

00:47:31.380 Well, that's an understatement.

00:47:32.820 BRICS is a group

00:47:33.500 of emerging economies

00:47:34.580 hoping to increase

00:47:35.460 their sway

00:47:36.100 in the global

00:47:36.820 financial order.

00:47:37.860 Now that sounds

00:47:38.820 like the plot line

00:47:39.700 of a movie.

00:47:40.440 I'm listening.

00:47:41.400 Philip Patrick

00:47:42.120 is our Bruce Wayne.

00:47:43.560 He's a precious

00:47:44.360 metal specialist

00:47:45.380 and a spokesman

00:47:46.360 for the Birch Gold Group.

00:47:47.460 He's on the ground

00:47:48.720 in Rio getting

00:47:49.700 the whole lowdown

00:47:50.660 on what's going on there.

00:47:52.080 Can he give us

00:47:52.540 some inside intel?

00:47:53.820 Absolutely.

00:47:54.540 He's been there

00:47:55.080 since day one.

00:47:56.420 In fact,

00:47:56.840 a major theme

00:47:57.580 at the summit

00:47:58.060 is how BRICS nations

00:47:59.160 aim to reduce reliance

00:48:00.520 on the U.S. dollar

00:48:01.640 in global trade.

00:48:02.960 Yikes.

00:48:03.400 That doesn't sound good.

00:48:04.480 We got to get

00:48:05.000 Philip on the line,

00:48:06.220 stat.

00:48:06.640 Already did,

00:48:07.460 and he left

00:48:07.940 the Clay and Buck audience

00:48:09.120 this message.

00:48:10.300 The world is moving

00:48:11.760 on from the dollar.

00:48:13.560 Quietly,

00:48:14.320 but steadily.

00:48:15.660 These nations

00:48:16.280 are making real progress

00:48:17.720 towards reshaping

00:48:18.840 global trade,

00:48:19.860 and the U.S. dollar

00:48:21.000 is no longer

00:48:22.000 the centerpiece.

00:48:23.320 That shift

00:48:24.200 doesn't happen overnight,

00:48:26.180 but make no mistake,

00:48:27.600 it's already begun.

00:48:28.800 Thank you, Philip.

00:48:29.800 Protect the value

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00:48:35.540 into those accounts

00:48:36.320 and reducing your exposure

00:48:37.720 to a declining dollar value.

00:48:39.860 Text my name,

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00:48:53.100 Buck,

00:48:53.420 to 989898.

00:48:55.800 Welcome back in,

00:48:56.840 Tuesday edition.

00:48:57.580 We hope all of you

00:48:58.520 had fantastic

00:48:59.840 Labor Day weekends.

00:49:01.200 We are back rolling

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00:49:03.600 as we officially

00:49:05.320 enter into

00:49:06.400 the fall calendar season

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00:49:38.220 We are across

00:49:39.720 the entire landscape

00:49:41.100 and as we start

00:49:43.500 off the third hour

00:49:44.360 here,

00:49:45.260 I do think

00:49:46.580 looking at

00:49:48.120 Chicago

00:49:49.020 as an example

00:49:50.700 of the Democrat

00:49:51.660 Party having lost

00:49:52.640 its way

00:49:53.140 and Trump

00:49:53.680 uniquely hitting

00:49:54.720 on a story

00:49:56.520 that intuitively

00:49:57.320 is very positive

00:49:58.480 which is

00:49:59.600 I want to drive

00:50:00.920 down the rate

00:50:02.040 of violent crime

00:50:03.260 across the country

00:50:04.580 right now

00:50:05.880 too many people

00:50:07.340 are getting murdered, 0.78

00:50:08.620 too many people

00:50:09.200 are getting beaten up,

00:50:10.260 too many people

00:50:10.700 are getting carjacked,

00:50:11.700 having their property

00:50:12.420 stolen.

00:50:13.300 All of this

00:50:14.160 would be

00:50:14.820 a really good

00:50:16.220 resolution.

00:50:17.880 Now,

00:50:18.580 this morning

00:50:19.680 J.B. Pritzker

00:50:21.100 was walking

00:50:22.180 and being interviewed

00:50:24.000 during his walk

00:50:25.220 and he dodged

00:50:26.100 a question

00:50:26.720 about the

00:50:28.040 extreme rate

00:50:28.900 of violence

00:50:29.460 that took place

00:50:30.200 in Chicago

00:50:30.780 over the weekend.

00:50:32.440 This is

00:50:33.160 Cut 29.

00:50:34.500 You're going

00:50:35.120 to hear people

00:50:35.700 especially

00:50:36.140 this past weekend

00:50:37.160 54 shot,

00:50:38.660 7 dead.

00:50:39.660 They're going

00:50:40.320 to say

00:50:40.700 the city's

00:50:41.460 not safe.

00:50:42.220 Would you

00:50:42.540 ask your friends

00:50:43.460 to ride the L

00:50:44.220 after midnight

00:50:44.920 or after

00:50:45.560 9 o'clock

00:50:46.560 at night

00:50:46.920 even

00:50:47.160 to go down

00:50:47.880 to the city

00:50:48.800 from O'Hare?

00:50:49.940 Look,

00:50:50.500 big cities

00:50:51.080 have crime.

00:50:52.200 There's no doubt

00:50:52.780 about it.

00:50:53.660 But let's just

00:50:54.560 pay attention

00:50:55.420 to what President

00:50:56.440 Trump is doing

00:50:57.420 targeting Chicago.

00:50:58.380 He's overlooking

00:50:59.340 red states

00:51:00.920 that have much

00:51:01.640 higher crime rates.

00:51:02.660 Okay.

00:51:04.600 This is a really

00:51:05.680 bad argument.

00:51:06.960 Now,

00:51:07.700 if Pritzker

00:51:08.840 wants to argue

00:51:09.880 that in

00:51:11.460 blue cities

00:51:12.600 and red states

00:51:13.760 there are also

00:51:15.400 super high crime rates

00:51:16.740 and the National Guard

00:51:17.800 should be called

00:51:18.440 in there too,

00:51:19.740 I echo it.

00:51:20.900 Memphis,

00:51:21.580 in my home state,

00:51:22.760 I would welcome

00:51:23.340 the National Guard.

00:51:24.300 I think a lot of you

00:51:25.060 listening in Kansas City

00:51:26.280 or St. Louis

00:51:27.060 or New Orleans

00:51:28.000 would welcome

00:51:28.920 the National Guard

00:51:29.720 in your cities

00:51:30.340 to drive down

00:51:31.040 rates of violent crime

00:51:32.220 We're going to play

00:51:33.200 a couple of other cuts

00:51:34.040 Brandon Johnson

00:51:34.780 the mayor

00:51:35.260 but Buck,

00:51:36.660 this is an example

00:51:37.700 of trying to make

00:51:38.840 an argument

00:51:39.440 that is very difficult

00:51:41.180 and ultimately

00:51:42.220 comes down to

00:51:43.300 I'm concerned

00:51:44.520 that Trump

00:51:45.140 is exercising

00:51:46.060 too much power

00:51:47.260 in his effort

00:51:48.280 to drive down

00:51:49.520 violent crime

00:51:50.380 in my community.

00:51:51.420 That is effectively

00:51:52.520 what Trump has got

00:51:53.560 Democrats arguing.

00:51:55.940 It's,

00:51:56.600 like I said,

00:51:57.260 a win from both sides

00:51:59.100 of the issue

00:52:00.220 as in Trump

00:52:00.800 is doing

00:52:01.160 an objectively

00:52:02.400 good thing,

00:52:03.720 right?

00:52:03.880 Not even a politically

00:52:04.660 good thing,

00:52:05.580 an objectively

00:52:06.120 good thing

00:52:06.840 and the politics

00:52:08.100 of it

00:52:08.640 are favorable

00:52:09.500 to Trump

00:52:10.020 because the Democrats

00:52:10.900 are coming out

00:52:12.900 and they just refuse

00:52:14.520 to say

00:52:16.140 what we all know.

00:52:17.120 I mean,

00:52:17.240 they refuse to see

00:52:18.140 the reality

00:52:18.800 which is that

00:52:19.500 it just,

00:52:20.220 it really has to start

00:52:21.420 from this premise,

00:52:22.100 Clay,

00:52:22.260 of it doesn't have

00:52:23.220 to be this way.

00:52:24.420 We don't actually

00:52:25.380 have to have,

00:52:26.540 you know,

00:52:27.080 500 murders a year

00:52:28.200 in Chicago

00:52:28.780 and 500 or 600

00:52:29.860 murders a year

00:52:30.480 in Philadelphia

00:52:31.020 and you look

00:52:31.620 at some of the recent,

00:52:32.340 some of the recent

00:52:33.800 tallies in these cities

00:52:35.040 and it's just

00:52:36.560 simply unacceptable

00:52:37.840 and it's year in

00:52:39.060 and year out.

00:52:40.220 This could be changed.

00:52:41.640 Trump wants to change it

00:52:42.860 and,

00:52:43.720 you know,

00:52:44.180 you had the,

00:52:44.820 the mayor

00:52:47.140 of Chicago,

00:52:49.160 Brandon Johnson.

00:52:49.980 I mean,

00:52:50.140 this is just

00:52:50.700 the kind of stuff

00:52:51.580 that you're going to hear

00:52:52.860 from some of these Democrats.

00:52:54.400 He's saying

00:52:55.120 he wants,

00:52:55.780 this is on a Labor Day rally.

00:52:58.360 He called on the citizens

00:52:59.340 of Chicago to,

00:53:00.560 you know what,

00:53:01.180 I want you to hear this.

00:53:02.000 This is the mayor

00:53:02.580 of our third largest city,

00:53:04.640 Democrat,

00:53:05.220 of course,

00:53:05.600 play 26.

00:53:06.480 Are you prepared

00:53:07.460 to defend

00:53:08.660 this land,

00:53:10.060 this land

00:53:10.720 that was built

00:53:11.420 by slaves,

00:53:13.060 a land

00:53:13.580 that was built

00:53:14.320 by indigenous people,

00:53:16.380 a land

00:53:17.020 that is built

00:53:17.800 by workers?

00:53:18.600 Are you prepared

00:53:19.860 to defend

00:53:20.800 this land?

00:53:23.920 The people

00:53:24.920 united

00:53:26.240 will always prevail.

00:53:28.100 I need you all

00:53:29.320 to stand firm,

00:53:30.740 to stand strong

00:53:31.900 if this president

00:53:33.400 decides to continue

00:53:35.100 to break

00:53:36.040 this constitution.

00:53:39.540 First of all,

00:53:40.740 is he talking about

00:53:41.280 Chicago,

00:53:41.480 is he saying

00:53:41.740 Chicago was built

00:53:42.520 by indigenous people?

00:53:43.780 It actually wasn't.

00:53:44.640 It was a,

00:53:44.980 it was a fort

00:53:45.760 to fight against

00:53:46.960 indigenous people,

00:53:47.780 but that's a whole other thing.

00:53:49.160 Not many slaves

00:53:50.400 involved in the construction

00:53:51.780 of Chicago.

00:53:52.420 Just do a little bit

00:53:55.380 of basic historical research.

00:53:57.140 Just going to toss it out there.

00:53:58.340 Illinois,

00:53:59.460 land of Lincoln,

00:54:00.360 not exactly known

00:54:01.440 for its huge embrace

00:54:03.520 of slavery.

00:54:04.860 And again,

00:54:05.880 for the history

00:54:07.020 nerds out there,

00:54:08.820 most of Chicago

00:54:09.660 burned down

00:54:10.700 in the 1880s.

00:54:12.100 So,

00:54:13.000 with the famous

00:54:13.920 cow knocking over

00:54:15.120 the lantern

00:54:16.860 and the whole city

00:54:18.440 basically burned down.

00:54:19.380 Chicago was by and large

00:54:22.200 a city that was built

00:54:23.520 by free people.

00:54:25.800 Just FYI.

00:54:26.900 So,

00:54:27.100 even the argument

00:54:27.880 of this is stolen land

00:54:29.200 and this is enslaved

00:54:30.260 populists,

00:54:31.280 it's just all BS.

00:54:33.280 And I believe

00:54:33.900 that the derivation

00:54:35.220 of the city

00:54:36.040 of Chicago

00:54:36.680 comes from

00:54:37.800 an Algonquin word

00:54:39.780 for an onion-like plant

00:54:42.380 that is quite pungent.

00:54:44.460 Chicaqua.

00:54:45.240 I think that's

00:54:45.980 actually correct.

00:54:47.440 Yes.

00:54:48.300 So,

00:54:48.560 there you have it.

00:54:49.460 So,

00:54:49.740 we named it

00:54:50.540 for something

00:54:51.100 that has

00:54:51.940 indigenous roots

00:54:53.740 but it was not

00:54:54.380 in fact built

00:54:54.960 by indigenous people.

00:54:56.180 But more to the point,

00:54:57.120 defend your city

00:54:57.960 against the National Guard.

00:54:59.140 Who does he think

00:54:59.620 the National Guard

00:55:00.380 is comprised of?

00:55:01.640 Pretty sure it's Americans. 0.65

00:55:02.980 Last I checked,

00:55:04.480 and defend the city

00:55:06.040 against them

00:55:06.700 makes it sound like

00:55:07.400 they're an invading force

00:55:08.700 that's doing bad things

00:55:09.880 to people.

00:55:10.940 They would just be there

00:55:11.820 to assist with law enforcement.

00:55:13.500 I see all these

00:55:14.300 smug comments

00:55:15.140 in the D.C. context

00:55:17.000 even from commentators

00:55:18.120 out there

00:55:18.580 saying,

00:55:19.380 you know,

00:55:19.640 they're not even going

00:55:20.540 into the most dangerous

00:55:21.360 neighborhoods.

00:55:22.380 They're there

00:55:22.840 at like Union Station.

00:55:25.340 There have been people

00:55:25.860 shot within blocks

00:55:27.040 of Union Station,

00:55:28.100 robbed at Union Station,

00:55:30.280 shot in Union Station.

00:55:31.720 This actually happens

00:55:32.780 and it just shows you

00:55:34.340 these people

00:55:34.640 have no idea

00:55:35.440 who are making these comments

00:55:36.440 what they're talking about.

00:55:37.600 but also,

00:55:38.720 yeah,

00:55:38.920 it turns out that

00:55:39.780 when there are

00:55:40.900 men and women

00:55:42.000 who have,

00:55:42.840 you know,

00:55:43.380 M16s 0.97

00:55:44.360 and who are there

00:55:45.220 observing what's going on,

00:55:47.180 people are less likely

00:55:47.880 to pull out guns

00:55:48.480 and shoot each other. 0.98

00:55:49.720 Yeah.

00:55:49.920 It's pretty understandable

00:55:51.120 why.

00:55:51.680 They say halt,

00:55:52.940 you know,

00:55:53.400 and they're calling

00:55:55.340 the cops on.

00:55:56.160 I don't think you want

00:55:56.700 to open up

00:55:57.360 with your pistol

00:55:57.940 on the National Guard.

00:55:59.100 There's a reason

00:55:59.760 why bad guys

00:56:00.580 don't want to do things

00:56:01.360 in front of armed good guys.

00:56:02.520 This is very straightforward.

00:56:03.640 And also,

00:56:05.480 even if you're not

00:56:06.540 directly seeing

00:56:07.740 the armed forces,

00:56:09.960 the security apparatus,

00:56:12.180 in the back of your mind,

00:56:13.580 you're thinking

00:56:14.240 they might be there.

00:56:15.560 Because when you believe

00:56:17.300 that there are consequences

00:56:18.600 for crime,

00:56:19.920 it makes a criminal

00:56:20.820 take a pause

00:56:21.660 and think,

00:56:22.420 oh,

00:56:23.140 maybe the risk

00:56:24.160 of attempting

00:56:24.680 this violent act,

00:56:26.040 maybe the risk

00:56:26.760 of attempting

00:56:27.280 this criminal act

00:56:28.260 is one there will

00:56:29.720 be consequences for.

00:56:31.660 And so,

00:56:32.260 there are less

00:56:33.000 violent acts

00:56:33.960 that actually

00:56:34.680 are begun

00:56:36.120 in the first place

00:56:36.880 just by the idea

00:56:38.440 of,

00:56:39.360 hey,

00:56:39.440 they might catch me.

00:56:40.200 And this goes

00:56:40.680 to NYPD,

00:56:42.220 right?

00:56:43.060 If you think

00:56:44.080 I might do something

00:56:45.060 that's not very significant,

00:56:46.640 jump,

00:56:47.120 say,

00:56:47.540 the turnstile

00:56:48.560 in a subway,

00:56:49.900 if you think

00:56:50.540 I might get caught

00:56:51.380 for doing this,

00:56:52.620 you're less likely

00:56:53.480 to accelerate

00:56:54.280 to some level

00:56:55.320 of crime

00:56:56.000 that is more significant.

00:56:57.380 This is why

00:56:57.960 when they were trying

00:56:59.040 to get rid of

00:57:00.060 the plainclothes,

00:57:02.180 there was a high-crime

00:57:03.400 specific plainclothes

00:57:05.300 unit in the NYPD

00:57:06.840 and this became

00:57:07.400 a big political firestorm,

00:57:09.260 it's,

00:57:09.660 yeah,

00:57:09.840 because these guys

00:57:10.340 are very,

00:57:11.380 and girls, 0.92

00:57:12.300 are very useful

00:57:14.120 because if you

00:57:15.740 don't know

00:57:16.700 that they,

00:57:17.640 and the NYPD

00:57:18.460 is very good

00:57:19.060 at this,

00:57:19.340 by the way,

00:57:20.140 at having people

00:57:21.360 who can blend in,

00:57:22.660 if you don't know

00:57:23.240 that that's a cop

00:57:24.020 and you're doing

00:57:25.100 something

00:57:25.640 and you're breaking,

00:57:26.420 but those

00:57:26.900 plainclothes officers,

00:57:30.380 if you don't

00:57:31.660 break the law,

00:57:32.120 you don't even

00:57:32.640 know they're there,

00:57:33.120 they don't bother you.

00:57:34.340 The point is,

00:57:35.100 they're there

00:57:35.740 and it changes

00:57:36.440 the calculation

00:57:37.160 to your point,

00:57:37.900 Clay,

00:57:38.160 of the bad guys.

00:57:39.420 I saw something

00:57:40.160 here at Miami Beach,

00:57:41.020 I gotta say,

00:57:42.040 was very

00:57:42.780 Crockett and Tubbs,

00:57:44.220 like very,

00:57:44.700 I was very impressed.

00:57:46.580 It was a,

00:57:48.580 I believe it was

00:57:50.060 a Bentley

00:57:50.500 that was actually

00:57:52.060 an undercover cop car.

00:57:53.660 So I've gotta assume

00:57:54.460 that it was seized,

00:57:55.420 probably in some kind

00:57:56.200 of a drug bust

00:57:56.840 or something,

00:57:57.860 and they,

00:57:58.620 but it had,

00:57:59.200 it was a Bentley

00:57:59.840 with the bubble gum machine

00:58:01.820 as they call it,

00:58:02.420 with the blue

00:58:02.880 and red lights

00:58:03.740 or whatever,

00:58:04.180 and pulled somebody

00:58:04.840 over in some kind of,

00:58:06.060 and I was like,

00:58:06.840 you wouldn't see

00:58:07.320 that one coming,

00:58:08.240 you know,

00:58:08.540 you wouldn't usually

00:58:09.160 think that was gonna happen.

00:58:10.480 So,

00:58:11.480 you know,

00:58:11.840 there are ways

00:58:12.720 to do this

00:58:13.360 that make it

00:58:13.880 very effective policing,

00:58:15.020 but I also,

00:58:16.540 if Brandon Johnson

00:58:17.420 was a serious person,

00:58:19.340 I mean,

00:58:19.580 he's seriously dangerous

00:58:20.660 to the city of Chicago

00:58:21.700 with his policies,

00:58:23.020 but if he was

00:58:23.440 a serious person,

00:58:24.480 he wouldn't say,

00:58:25.760 Trump is evil, 0.59

00:58:27.240 let's just stop Trump. 0.99

00:58:28.420 He would say,

00:58:29.540 guys,

00:58:29.920 I have a better way

00:58:31.040 to bring the crime numbers down.

00:58:32.880 The moment he starts talking about,

00:58:34.640 and every Democrat

00:58:35.380 in a major city

00:58:35.980 starts talking about,

00:58:37.200 they start babbling on

00:58:38.520 about investment.

00:58:39.720 They start babbling on

00:58:41.020 about social workers,

00:58:42.580 and it's just,

00:58:43.460 it's just nonsense.

00:58:44.680 It's unserious.

00:58:46.760 This is why the data

00:58:48.060 coming out of Washington,

00:58:49.800 D.C.

00:58:50.160 is so important,

00:58:51.060 because what it begs

00:58:52.660 the question of

00:58:53.860 is if Trump

00:58:55.820 could drive down

00:58:56.800 violent crime

00:58:57.780 in D.C.

00:58:58.660 by around 50%

00:59:00.180 in the three weeks

00:59:01.520 plus that there have been

00:59:02.960 the distribution

00:59:04.080 of National Guard troops,

00:59:05.360 the support added,

00:59:07.160 how many people

00:59:08.020 are you willing

00:59:08.960 to let die 0.84

00:59:10.120 because you're angry 1.00

00:59:12.320 that Trump

00:59:12.980 is trying to provide

00:59:14.060 more security

00:59:14.900 to your city?

00:59:15.740 Or that you're angry

00:59:16.700 that Trump is the president,

00:59:17.660 let's just call it what it is.

00:59:18.420 People are just saying

00:59:18.900 they hate Trump,

00:59:19.780 they're angry he's president,

00:59:21.020 and anything he does

00:59:21.760 they want to stop, right?

00:59:22.600 So it's just a continuation

00:59:23.600 of that.

00:59:24.300 Now, one of the challenges

00:59:25.620 with lowering violent crime

00:59:27.700 is you don't necessarily

00:59:29.040 know what lives you save.

00:59:31.000 There are kids,

00:59:32.220 and I say kids

00:59:32.940 because generally speaking

00:59:34.800 they're young,

00:59:36.080 there are kids in school

00:59:37.960 this week in Washington, D.C.

00:59:40.600 that would be dead

00:59:41.940 if Donald Trump

00:59:43.100 had not brought

00:59:44.400 the National Guard

00:59:45.340 into D.C.

00:59:46.180 We don't know

00:59:46.800 who those kids are,

00:59:48.180 but they are alive today

00:59:49.960 because he did that.

00:59:51.060 That's what the data

00:59:52.260 reflects.

00:59:53.640 Seven people dead

00:59:54.720 in Chicago.

00:59:55.480 I give credit

00:59:55.980 to that media member.

00:59:57.760 Fifty-four people shot

00:59:59.160 over Labor Day weekend,

01:00:00.360 and she asked

01:00:01.400 a pretty basic question.

01:00:02.940 What would you tell people

01:00:03.940 who are afraid

01:00:04.620 to get on a train

01:00:05.420 from O'Hare

01:00:06.080 to go into the city?

01:00:07.940 And he immediately pivots

01:00:09.280 to, well,

01:00:09.740 that's not the real question here.

01:00:11.860 Look at what Trump

01:00:13.140 is trying to do.

01:00:13.740 I mean, his argument,

01:00:14.680 Buck, was

01:00:15.220 he's not going into

01:00:16.780 red states

01:00:17.360 with higher rates of crime.

01:00:18.440 Well, first of all,

01:00:19.660 red states,

01:00:20.380 by and large,

01:00:21.100 don't have higher rates

01:00:22.300 of crime.

01:00:23.100 Blue cities

01:00:23.800 and red states,

01:00:24.920 my home state of Tennessee

01:00:25.940 is a great example.

01:00:27.380 The crime rate in Memphis

01:00:28.560 makes the crime rate

01:00:29.720 in the whole state

01:00:30.580 look huge.

01:00:31.800 So, if J.B. Pritzker's argument,

01:00:33.800 which begs the question

01:00:34.660 for the follow-up there,

01:00:35.820 is, hey,

01:00:36.760 Trump needs to be going

01:00:37.720 into more red state cities,

01:00:40.620 which are, of course,

01:00:41.340 blue-driven,

01:00:42.800 aren't you actually endorsing

01:00:44.440 that his policies make sense?

01:00:46.940 Like, when you're shifting

01:00:47.980 the argument to,

01:00:48.980 well, why isn't he going

01:00:49.960 to Memphis?

01:00:50.580 Or why isn't he going

01:00:51.480 to New Orleans?

01:00:52.220 Or why isn't he going

01:00:53.020 to Kansas City?

01:00:54.200 Or St. Louis?

01:00:56.060 You're actually just

01:00:57.260 legitimizing the fact

01:00:59.320 that it would be successful.

01:01:00.960 And I give Trump

01:01:01.680 that challenge.

01:01:02.940 Why not do it?

01:01:03.780 Let's do it everywhere.

01:01:05.040 Let's see if we can drive down

01:01:06.200 the rate of violent crime

01:01:07.480 in the cities

01:01:08.500 where violent crime

01:01:09.360 is at the highest,

01:01:10.240 all of whom have

01:01:11.120 Democrat mayors.

01:01:12.760 And I don't want

01:01:13.560 to divert us too much

01:01:14.340 into this,

01:01:14.780 but just a reminder,

01:01:15.960 as I've said,

01:01:17.320 they deployed the National Guard

01:01:18.220 for COVID at airports

01:01:19.220 and all kinds

01:01:21.220 of public venues

01:01:22.340 as if they were going

01:01:23.500 to shoot the virus particles

01:01:24.640 in the air.

01:01:25.160 It was absurd.

01:01:26.080 It was absurd.

01:01:27.960 And Democrats were fine

01:01:29.140 with that, right?

01:01:29.760 Oh, yes.

01:01:30.360 We need the National Guard

01:01:31.420 checking your papers.

01:01:33.000 Checking your papers,

01:01:34.320 everyone, for COVID.

01:01:35.740 That wasn't a police state,

01:01:37.280 they said.

01:01:37.640 That wasn't a police state.

01:01:39.420 But having National Guard

01:01:40.460 in a federal province,

01:01:41.380 which is D.C.,

01:01:42.800 there to just make sure

01:01:43.820 you can walk down the street

01:01:44.740 and not get shot

01:01:45.580 or carjacked,

01:01:47.160 that they have a problem.

01:01:48.500 That's tyranny.

01:01:49.940 Someone explain this to me, right?

01:01:51.180 Like, someone explain

01:01:52.160 the logic behind this.

01:01:54.040 And again,

01:01:54.400 you've got two guys

01:01:55.040 who have lived in D.C.

01:01:55.780 We know.

01:01:56.660 Stuff would happen in D.C.

01:01:58.520 I remember I had a friend

01:01:59.460 who got robbed at gunpoint

01:02:01.040 and he was a DOD employee

01:02:03.000 and they were able to track

01:02:03.800 this is when we all had black,

01:02:04.740 or they all had black,

01:02:05.680 some of them had blackberries,

01:02:06.940 like secure blackberries.

01:02:08.460 And they were able

01:02:09.180 to track the guy down

01:02:09.960 because he had the Blackberry

01:02:11.340 that he was trying to sell.

01:02:13.040 You know,

01:02:13.380 like, that would just happen,

01:02:14.360 though.

01:02:14.500 You just get,

01:02:15.260 someone would pull a gun on you

01:02:16.600 in the nicest neighborhoods

01:02:17.500 of D.C.

01:02:18.480 And everyone's like,

01:02:19.240 oh, yeah, it's D.C. 0.62

01:02:20.220 It's a crazy town.

01:02:21.000 What can you do?

01:02:22.120 All right, look,

01:02:22.600 when inflation jumps,

01:02:23.740 you're reminded

01:02:24.260 that our national debt

01:02:25.000 is over $37 trillion.

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