Verdict with Ted Cruz - EXTRA： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Aug 26 2025

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00:00:04.180 Clay, have you heard of the Rio Reset?

00:00:06.400 Sounds like a trendy new workout, Buck.

00:00:08.660 It does, but it's actually a big summit going on in Brazil.

00:00:11.620 The formal name is BRICS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

00:00:16.500 But they've just added five new members.

00:00:18.680 Smart move to stick with BRICS. 1.00

00:00:20.540 We know what happens when acronyms don't end.

00:00:22.740 They confuse everyone.

00:00:23.940 Well, that's an understatement.

00:00:25.400 BRICS is a group of emerging economies

00:00:27.140 hoping to increase their sway in the global financial order.

00:00:30.560 Now that sounds like the plot line of a movie.

00:00:33.020 I'm listening.

00:00:34.000 Philip Patrick is our Bruce Wayne.

00:00:36.160 He's a precious metal specialist and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group.

00:00:40.340 He's on the ground in Rio getting the whole lowdown on what's going on there.

00:00:44.580 Can he give us some inside intel?

00:00:46.360 Absolutely.

00:00:47.100 He's been there since day one.

00:00:48.680 In fact, a major theme at the summit is how BRICS nations aim to reduce reliance

00:00:53.100 on the U.S. dollar in global trade.

00:00:55.540 Yikes.

00:00:55.980 That doesn't sound good.

00:00:56.980 We got to get Philip on the line, stat.

00:00:59.240 Already did, and he left the Clay and Buck audience this message.

00:01:03.160 The world is moving on from the dollar, quietly but steadily.

00:01:08.140 These nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade,

00:01:12.440 and the U.S. dollar is no longer the centerpiece.

00:01:15.840 That shift doesn't happen overnight.

00:01:18.760 But make no mistake, it's already begun.

00:01:21.380 Thank you, Philip.

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00:01:47.940 Welcome in.

00:01:48.780 Tuesday edition, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show.

00:01:52.600 We appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling into the show today.

00:01:56.880 Our friend, Congressman Chip Roy from Texas, will be on in the second hour.

00:02:02.060 He is running for attorney general of the state of Texas.

00:02:05.940 And, by the way, that primary is in March.

00:02:10.220 So, I know we've got the New York City mayor's race.

00:02:13.660 We've got the election going on in Virginia and in New Jersey.

00:02:17.860 Buck, do you remember, for the first several years we did this show,

00:02:22.420 everything was basically a loss,

00:02:24.840 except we got the win in Virginia, like, in that first year.

00:02:30.460 And then we had to kind of feed off that for a long time.

00:02:32.880 So, Youngkin gave us some hope, some prayer for the future.

00:02:37.620 And then the midterms, it was Governor Ron in Florida, credit where it's due.

00:02:41.500 Massive, massive win.

00:02:42.600 We did win the House of Representatives back, but it was still a tough –

00:02:46.720 there was a lot of tough situations.

00:02:48.900 I feel like every day we wake up now, there's celebratory spirit,

00:02:52.580 as there should be across the country for most of the decisions that are being made.

00:02:56.840 But in the first several years that we were together,

00:02:59.780 there were not a lot of victories to celebrate.

00:03:02.360 So, I do think, as we get ready for the Virginia, New Jersey election,

00:03:06.840 New York City mayor, and then obviously as we move into next year,

00:03:10.880 the Texas primary is going to be a major, major event in March of 2026,

00:03:17.300 as I know many of you in Texas are aware.

00:03:20.460 But as the state of Texas is football mad,

00:03:24.020 frankly, almost unlike any other state in America with high school, college, and pro,

00:03:28.460 it's going to be hard to cut through the noise in Texas in September, October, November, December,

00:03:33.520 if the Cowboys actually win – sorry, Cowboy fans – even January 2 when the playoffs happen.

00:03:39.340 And as a result, that primary, you're going to look up from the holidays,

00:03:43.760 and it's going to be right on top of you.

00:03:46.280 So, that is underway.

00:03:47.460 We will talk with Chip Roy, who is running for Attorney General there.

00:03:50.640 I would say it is a huge event we will be covering quite a lot as we move closer to that.

00:03:57.300 But, President Trump, I believe, about to have his seventh public cabinet meeting.

00:04:03.360 Remember, Joe Biden didn't have a cabinet meeting,

00:04:06.620 and everybody just forgot and didn't pay very much attention to it.

00:04:10.080 For basically the final two years of his term in office,

00:04:13.980 there were no meetings as they were hiding him.

00:04:16.980 Trump had three different public events yesterday, Buck.

00:04:20.680 He basically had rolling press conferences for hours.

00:04:23.600 I bet he'll be talking for hours today.

00:04:25.960 I'm just going to try to give credit where it's due here, Clay,

00:04:29.180 because we always like to call balls and strikes, as you know.

00:04:33.660 Hiding Biden was the right move.

00:04:35.620 Yeah. 0.78

00:04:36.260 We can talk about how depraved and craven and everything it is,

00:04:40.580 but hiding Biden was actually a pretty sound strategy.

00:04:43.800 And I'm going to go even further.

00:04:44.940 I think hiding Kamala probably would have been a better move for them.

00:04:48.020 I know that they had the clamor maybe got too loud for her to appear in public, 0.97

00:04:51.680 but it's better to have MSNBC pretend that you know who these people are

00:04:57.320 than to actually see what they say when they don't have a script or a teleprompter in front of them.

00:05:01.760 Remember, they didn't actually do an interview with Kamala Harris for a month.

00:05:07.520 And then when they finally did one, I think it was with Dana Bash, if I remember correctly,

00:05:12.740 on CNN, and Tim Walls was there with her.

00:05:16.220 So they waited until, I mean, late August, if I remember correctly,

00:05:21.380 before they even let her talk to anybody, which raised expectations.

00:05:24.980 Unfortunately, even with that going on, she couldn't meet them.

00:05:28.340 But I do think there is a story that is becoming pretty intriguing.

00:05:35.320 And it is Joe Scarborough probably and potentially still smarting from the public humiliation that he suffered

00:05:43.860 because he said that Joe Biden 2024 was just as good of a Biden as he had ever seen.

00:05:50.500 In fact, the best version of Biden.

00:05:52.640 And after the June 27th debate, I think Joe Scarborough was embarrassed on a level

00:06:01.520 that it's hard to be embarrassed in public prognostication.

00:06:05.980 And I think he has decided a bit to go to war with the diehard MSNBC viewing audience.

00:06:16.100 Remember, he and Mika initially were very favorable with Trump.

00:06:19.700 Then that relationship turned negative.

00:06:22.520 Then they went and kissed the ring after Trump won re-election,

00:06:26.280 which led many of the people in the MSNBC audience to be furious.

00:06:31.560 The MSNBC audience has not been galvanized this time by the Trump administration.

00:06:37.040 In fact, audience ratings have continued to be weak and to, frankly, collapse.

00:06:42.660 And maybe that has emboldened Joe Scarborough to actually start being a journalist.

00:06:48.580 Because, Buck, you shared this this morning.

00:06:51.000 I went and watched, and I've got to give Joe Scarborough credit.

00:06:54.020 He had on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

00:06:56.800 And let's set the table here.

00:06:58.660 I think brilliantly, in the summer months here,

00:07:02.320 Trump has changed the agenda from basically tariffs and worrying about the economy

00:07:09.920 because we're at record stock market highs.

00:07:11.780 And he has said, we're going to go to war with violent crime.

00:07:16.820 And D.C. was the first place that he decided to bring out the National Guard.

00:07:21.060 I believe we are now, and correct me if I'm wrong, team,

00:07:24.860 I think we're at either day 12 or day 13 without a murder in D.C.

00:07:30.000 Overall, crime rates have fallen precipitously.

00:07:32.640 And now Trump is talking about bringing the National Guard to Chicago and Baltimore

00:07:39.000 and other American cities that he believes have far too high of a crime rate.

00:07:45.980 And Joe Scarborough asked Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this morning on MSNBC

00:07:51.900 a very simple question.

00:07:54.660 Would having more police officers make the city of Chicago safer?

00:08:00.720 And I want to play, I'm going to call for each of these in succession,

00:08:04.880 I want to play you, the mayor of Chicago,

00:08:08.500 refusing to answer if more police officers would make the city safer.

00:08:13.240 Here is part one.

00:08:14.920 Would you also like to get federal funding to help put 5,000 more cops on the street in Chicago?

00:08:22.140 Would that help drive down crime?

00:08:24.280 Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.

00:08:27.000 I understand that.

00:08:28.100 You've talked about the other things you want.

00:08:30.260 And I said, those are good and important programs.

00:08:33.720 But I'm asking also, would 5,000 more police officers on the street in Chicago

00:08:39.540 be helpful to go along with all of those social programs

00:08:43.260 that a lot of cities are engaging in and having success with?

00:08:47.040 Well, look, here's the best way I can put it, Joe,

00:08:50.060 is that in the 90s when I was in high school,

00:08:52.100 we had 3,000 more police officers

00:08:54.440 and we had 900 people being murdered every single year in Chicago.

00:08:57.980 It's just not policing alone.

00:09:00.700 Okay.

00:09:01.440 This continues.

00:09:03.020 Can I just real, you know, because the way we set this up is,

00:09:07.260 would more cops be helpful?

00:09:08.980 Joe Scarborough is actually conceding as part of his questioning here.

00:09:14.060 He says, if we give you all the money you want for your violence interrupters,

00:09:18.060 for your, you know, community organizers, for your, all these,

00:09:24.480 by the way, things that do absolutely nothing.

00:09:25.880 I know you'll find some radicals who will say,

00:09:27.660 oh my gosh, the history of violence interrupters,

00:09:30.000 please give me a break, okay?

00:09:31.580 Social workers.

00:09:32.920 He says, with all that, would you also want more cops?

00:09:35.860 And now, Clay, you can continue to work through that.

00:09:37.860 It's astonishing, this guy, the mayor of Chicago.

00:09:40.500 Here is part two, mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson.

00:09:44.220 He, of the recent 6% approval rating, asked again, yes or no,

00:09:49.760 would 5,000 cops help MSNBC this morning?

00:09:53.460 Of course we will, my detectives.

00:09:55.380 Of course.

00:09:55.740 I know it's not policing alone, but I know it's not policing alone.

00:09:59.600 You've told me everything else you want.

00:10:01.540 I'm curious, and this does come down to an ideological difference

00:10:06.000 between people, do you believe that the streets of Chicago

00:10:12.420 would be safer if there were more uniformed police officers

00:10:16.320 on the streets of Chicago?

00:10:18.500 I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America

00:10:21.340 would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing.

00:10:26.700 Look, I'm not saying that we don't...

00:10:28.020 That's not the question I ask.

00:10:28.980 My question is, and I just need to answer a no,

00:10:31.520 how do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer

00:10:36.040 if you got all of those other extraordinary programs

00:10:40.240 put back into place, which do have a history of being successful,

00:10:44.760 if that's complemented by having 5,000 more cops

00:10:50.660 on the streets of Chicago?

00:10:52.600 I don't believe that we should narrow it down

00:10:54.900 to just police officers, is what I'm saying.

00:10:57.340 That is an antiquated approach.

00:10:58.900 Okay, it continues, Buck, and I just think...

00:11:02.380 I've got to give Coach Joe Scarborough credit.

00:11:03.920 He sounds a bit like me back in the day with Mike Pence

00:11:07.180 when you just can't get an answer from a question

00:11:10.220 that you think is actually an important one.

00:11:12.560 Here is more.

00:11:13.760 Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago, having his feet held to the fire

00:11:17.180 on a simple question, hey, would more cops help?

00:11:20.320 Cut three.

00:11:21.060 I'm saying we've invested in detectives.

00:11:22.860 Mr. Mayor, are you hearing what I'm saying?

00:11:24.180 I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social programs

00:11:27.380 are extraordinarily important.

00:11:28.900 I just need a yes or a no, and then this will be the last time I ask.

00:11:33.060 If you get all of those other social programs that...

00:11:37.040 800 million.

00:11:37.780 That 800 million, that New York City does, Los Angeles and other people do,

00:11:42.500 with great success, would an additional 5,000 cops

00:11:46.460 on the streets in Chicago help complement those programs

00:11:51.060 to make Chicago safer?

00:11:53.540 Look, we are working hard to make sure that our police department

00:11:56.240 is fully supported.

00:11:57.580 I don't believe that just simply putting out an arbitrary number

00:12:01.800 around police officers is the answer.

00:12:04.260 What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing,

00:12:07.620 is policing and mental and behavioral health care services,

00:12:10.740 is policing and youth employment.

00:12:12.740 Clay, Clay, Clay.

00:12:14.200 This is important, I think.

00:12:15.900 Joe Scarborough is basically begging this guy.

00:12:19.900 Yes.

00:12:20.720 Begging. 1.00

00:12:21.320 He's like, hey, moron, I'll give you everything else you want. 1.00

00:12:25.480 We'll pretend all these programs that don't do a darn thing 1.00

00:12:28.640 in any of these places that anyone can measure

00:12:30.880 will also be in place here.

00:12:33.140 But can you just say more cops would help with the crime problem?

00:12:37.960 Could you please just say it?

00:12:40.220 He won't say it.

00:12:41.520 The mayor of Chicago, and it's because the mayor of Chicago

00:12:43.540 is anti-cop.

00:12:44.780 He's anti-law enforcement.

00:12:46.380 He thinks cops are the problem.

00:12:48.160 He thinks that crime in the south and west sides of Chicago,

00:12:51.340 where there are a lot of homicides, even for an American city,

00:12:54.020 a lot of homicides going on, he thinks that the issue is

00:12:57.900 mass incarceration and over-policing, Clay.

00:13:00.420 That's the bottom line.

00:13:01.180 And he won't change his mind.

00:13:03.100 Yes.

00:13:03.540 And I think this is brilliant of Trump.

00:13:06.640 I just think it is absolutely brilliant. 1.00

00:13:11.220 And I am staggered at the stupidity of Democrats responding to this. 1.00

00:13:21.720 Trump is trying to lower violent crime. 1.00

00:13:25.520 In so doing, he is going to save more black lives by far

00:13:31.080 than anyone who marched in BLM protests and argued for defunding the police

00:13:37.140 ever did.

00:13:37.880 In fact, that cost black lives. 0.98

00:13:40.240 And most of you out there, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight,

00:13:44.740 male, female, all of you say, yeah, more cops would help.

00:13:49.300 Why can Democrats not say it?

00:13:51.520 Because the base of the Democrat Party still believes that police are the problem.

00:13:58.480 They believe a lie.

00:13:59.980 And I think this is why Trump has cut through the noise and the results here.

00:14:07.080 You know, we sometimes talk, Buck, and I think it's important that there are two tracks on

00:14:12.580 everything.

00:14:12.960 Is it politically smart and does it actually make the country better?

00:14:16.480 Sometimes those don't overlap.

00:14:18.780 Here they do.

00:14:20.120 It's both politically smart and the country is better if we lower the overall rate of

00:14:24.420 violent crime.

00:14:25.620 And Trump has cut through the noise.

00:14:27.660 And right now, the debate we're having in the summer of his first term is,

00:14:31.500 should we have more police?

00:14:33.700 And is Trump trying to lower a violent crime too aggressively?

00:14:39.000 It's brilliant.

00:14:40.200 I just, I got to give him credit for it.

00:14:42.400 It is absolutely brilliant.

00:14:44.100 And we're going to have more for you, by the way, because right now, just a couple of

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00:14:52.120 It's a Trump-a-thon, everybody.

00:14:53.620 He's got stuff on the economy, on crime, on Ukraine, on everything.

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00:15:10.880 But Clay, the Trump-a-thon begins once again.

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00:17:36.040 Welcome in, everybody.

00:17:37.500 It is the second hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.

00:17:41.940 We started off talking about the situation in Chicago

00:17:45.100 and Trump trying to create a new paradigm of less crime in D.C.

00:17:51.580 and then perhaps a template for other American cities as well.

00:17:56.200 Trump has fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

00:17:59.960 We didn't get into that yet.

00:18:00.880 This is interesting, Clay, just because

00:18:02.420 does the Federal Reserve exist outside of executive branch authority?

00:18:09.180 If so, how?

00:18:10.520 And then from where or whence does it derive said authority

00:18:17.160 if it isn't within the executive branch's purview?

00:18:21.500 This will be interesting to see how that goes, I think.

00:18:25.000 And, Clay, did you see also an update on the Cracker Barrel branding issue?

00:18:32.780 Oh, yeah.

00:18:33.180 From Cracker Barrel, which we shall discuss in a little bit.

00:18:38.980 An all-time own goal.

00:18:41.520 But, yes, let's dive into that in a little while.

00:18:44.940 I do think that you and I, with AI, not that either of us are particularly good artists,

00:18:49.920 but you or I, with AI, could have come up with a better logo rebrand in an hour

00:18:55.320 than what this rebrand was.

00:18:58.360 I'll put that aside for a second.

00:18:59.900 We'll get to that in just a little bit.

00:19:03.040 We just had President Trump a few moments ago having a cabinet meeting,

00:19:08.900 his seventh cabinet meeting of his first administration.

00:19:13.040 Well, I'm sorry, his second term, his first year of his second term.

00:19:17.340 And this is interesting.

00:19:21.140 There was an exchange.

00:19:22.120 Now, it might be a little hard to hear the reporter for some of you out there,

00:19:25.820 so we'll fill in a bit of it because this was an exchange of back and forth.

00:19:29.920 You'll be able to hear Trump, obviously, but the reporter.

00:19:31.760 But I wanted to hear, a reporter tells the story of how she was mugged in Washington, D.C.

00:19:40.320 And I wanted you to hear how this went.

00:19:42.380 Play 33.

00:19:42.980 So more than two years ago, it was a Saturday morning in broad daylight.

00:19:47.720 I was on my way to work, and a young man with a black ski mask pointed a gun on my face

00:19:55.340 and threatened me to hand over my phone, my wallet, my laptop, and everything else.

00:20:01.220 And when I refused, he used the butt of his handgun to strike me across the face,

00:20:07.320 the cheek, where what some people call pistol whipped me before running away.

00:20:12.500 That has deeply traumatized myself and my family.

00:20:15.700 Ever since, I've never dared to walk in the street of D.C. at night, ever.

00:20:20.600 And my family was extremely worried.

00:20:23.220 So, Mr. President, thank you so much for what you're doing right now.

00:20:26.180 Thank you, for being honest.

00:20:27.520 Such incidents involved not just me, but also my family.

00:20:31.800 If he had shot me, I could have died right there in the middle of nowhere without my families

00:20:36.800 or my friends knowing at the age of back then, I think, 20, 23.

00:20:41.320 Right.

00:20:41.740 Just starting my career here in D.C. without even starting a family.

00:20:45.660 Right now, I'm very blessed to have this opportunity.

00:20:47.500 So you had a gun pointed at your head, and you probably figured that he's going to pull the trigger 0.51

00:20:51.660 because these are animals that don't know what the hell.

00:20:53.760 They couldn't care less.

00:20:55.660 The pulling the trigger to him is a very minor event, and I'm sure he's done it before.

00:20:59.860 So how did you – and you did refuse to give it, which probably maybe somebody would say

00:21:06.780 that was not the right decision, right?

00:21:08.720 But you refused, but I understand that.

00:21:10.980 So – and then he hit you real hard.

00:21:13.180 Yes.

00:21:14.740 Okay, Clay, this is – here's a reporter.

00:21:17.760 I saw on this, gents, she looks to be an Asian-American. 1.00

00:21:22.240 Yeah, she's a young reporter. 0.89

00:21:24.380 She's at the Epoch Times, I believe.

00:21:26.580 Some people may get that newspaper weekly, I believe, that goes out many different places.

00:21:32.600 Yes.

00:21:33.040 So he's a young woman.

00:21:34.540 She's not physically large, formidable person.

00:21:38.700 First of all, she's a woman, and beyond that, she's not somebody who would be in a particularly strong position

00:21:43.480 to defend herself.

00:21:44.840 Broad daylight, guy with a ski mask, pulls a gun, says, 0.98

00:21:47.520 I'm going to murder you if you don't give me your stuff, and then he pistol whoops her in the face. 1.00

00:21:50.520 Because people hear stories like this in D.C., Clay, and you know what the response is? 0.99

00:21:55.880 Oh, yeah, I know a few other people that that's happened to.

00:21:58.940 And remember, this is happening in the nice neighborhoods, indeed.

00:22:01.920 You know, she's talking – I could probably tell you, I'm just guessing,

00:22:05.060 she's probably living like Adams Morgan or something. 0.98

00:22:07.640 We're talking about in Northwest D.C. this stuff happens.

00:22:10.340 We're not even getting into how often this stuff goes on in Southeast D.C.

00:22:14.380 And here, Trump actually continues on this exchange.

00:22:17.720 So I just wanted you to hear what's going on here.

00:22:19.740 Here, Trump continues with this – oh, you want to jump in?

00:22:23.240 Oh, sorry.

00:22:23.680 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:22:25.040 I'm much less serious news, but I've lost a major bet with my wife,

00:22:33.560 so I was just texting her during the –

00:22:35.840 Well, that's not – I thought you lost a bet with me,

00:22:37.800 and I was going to say, hold the phone, stop the press.

00:22:40.300 That's always good news.

00:22:41.940 This is all very serious, but Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift just got engaged,

00:22:47.760 and I just got texted about it.

00:22:49.860 So this is going to take over all the pop culture news.

00:22:54.220 We're going to put a pin in that one.

00:22:55.620 I get it.

00:22:55.980 We're going to go back to –

00:22:57.020 That's what I was doing.

00:22:57.840 That was my face reacting to the news.

00:22:59.640 That's what I was wondering.

00:23:00.420 It was usually –

00:23:01.480 Usually when I react, it's like serious news.

00:23:05.760 I can read his face usually, and I know when he's fired up

00:23:08.880 to make a point or whatever, and he's an honest guy,

00:23:11.320 and he's telling you we're having a very serious, important discussion,

00:23:14.140 and he's fired up that he lost a bet over Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.

00:23:17.800 Honest man.

00:23:18.600 We'll come back to that, Clay.

00:23:19.620 We'll let you weigh in on that in a second.

00:23:21.480 Let's get back here to this woman, this reporter, pistol-whipped in the face. 1.00

00:23:28.220 Just the whole thing.

00:23:29.000 Remember, there's also the trauma of these things that lingers with individuals,

00:23:33.440 especially for a woman to be attacked like this.

00:23:35.400 It'd be trauma for a guy, too, but for a woman to be attacked like this, 0.67

00:23:39.760 broad daylight, guy has a ski mask on,

00:23:42.740 and Trump and the reporter continue the exchange, play 34.

00:23:45.420 It's really amazing that you weren't shot, though.

00:23:48.780 I'm very blessed, and that's why I have this opportunity to stand here

00:23:52.820 to share my story today.

00:23:54.740 One, I'm very grateful for God for allowing me to still survive to this day,

00:23:58.640 but also to Mr. President.

00:24:00.020 Thank you for now making D.C. safer.

00:24:01.940 Thank you very much.

00:24:02.780 For us, for our families, for my parents, on behalf of my parents,

00:24:07.040 and now my baby on the way.

00:24:09.320 Thank you so much.

00:24:15.580 And there are other reporters and journalists and good people,

00:24:18.960 and you don't have to say it,

00:24:19.980 but that have also been attacked violently.

00:24:23.420 And not violently, too.

00:24:25.140 Pretty badly.

00:24:27.100 But you see a big difference in the streets right now.

00:24:31.700 And this is only 12 days,

00:24:33.520 but people are telling me they're going out to dinner now.

00:24:37.360 They haven't.

00:24:38.180 I told the story of my friend,

00:24:39.680 but I have a lot of friends that are going out to dinner all the time now in D.C.,

00:24:42.720 and they weren't doing it.

00:24:44.780 12 days ago, they would never even think.

00:24:47.440 One of my friends went out five times.

00:24:49.360 It was four times the last time I told.

00:24:51.080 Now it's five times.

00:24:52.400 He said, I love going out to dinner,

00:24:53.860 and restaurants are starting to open again.

00:24:55.760 A lot of them closed because nobody wanted to go into a restaurant.

00:24:59.640 Nobody wanted to get to a restaurant or even sit in the restaurant.

00:25:03.480 But you see a big difference now, don't you?

00:25:05.460 I do.

00:25:05.880 I do pass by the Union Station every day on my way home,

00:25:08.800 and I do feel elastic for seeing the trucks right outside,

00:25:12.360 seeing the National Guard troops members right outside.

00:25:15.480 It just made me feel like I'm hopeful about these days.

00:25:18.140 And then one day, hopefully, we can raise our family here.

00:25:20.920 Thank you very much.

00:25:22.420 I think this is fantastic.

00:25:24.360 And there's going to be a lot of criticism

00:25:27.140 because we've got a cut, and I want to play it.

00:25:31.400 This is cut 10.

00:25:33.300 A woman at the DNC yesterday saying,

00:25:36.160 ho-hum, there's not actually crimes like this

00:25:39.580 because this is now where Democrats are relegated.

00:25:42.920 Cut 10.

00:25:43.360 Where does Trump go?

00:25:44.860 Migrant crime, carjackings,

00:25:46.560 the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual.

00:25:50.620 Don't take the bait because most Americans are more worried about

00:25:54.120 how are we going to address mental health issues,

00:25:56.980 the visible homelessness that we see on streets,

00:25:59.960 and how do we deal with mental health and other issues

00:26:04.120 that drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us.

00:26:07.560 That's what you should be talking about.

00:26:09.560 That's where you should be focused.

00:26:10.700 Don't take the bait in talking about migrant crime 1.00

00:26:13.180 or carjackings or the things that actually don't matter to that many Americans.

00:26:18.240 Don't take the bait on violent crime mattering to that many Americans.

00:26:22.500 And I do think, again, this woman's story is echoed by almost everybody that is listening to us

00:26:32.180 in the country, somewhere in a city, somewhere in your state,

00:26:37.160 innocent people are being victimized by crime.

00:26:40.660 And Trump has just said, no longer.

00:26:42.620 We're not going to stand for this.

00:26:44.180 And Buck, 12 days since a murder happened in Washington, D.C.

00:26:48.460 At some point, there will be a murder.

00:26:51.680 But when I see 12 days, based on the history of Washington, D.C.

00:26:56.120 and the summer over decades, at some point you have to start to say,

00:27:00.760 hey, maybe this is not a total statistical anomaly.

00:27:05.540 Maybe Trump really is starting to drive down violent crime in Washington, D.C.

00:27:10.840 And this is why it's ultimately scary to Democrats.

00:27:13.660 Because if Trump can do this, Trump shut down the border.

00:27:18.460 Remember the whole story that we heard for years was Congress has to act in order for there to be border security.

00:27:25.720 Trump showed up and shut down the border security.

00:27:30.300 And I think what's happening now with D.C. violent crime is Democrats are becoming terrified.

00:27:36.320 Chicago, we started off.

00:27:37.780 Baltimore, Memphis, Kansas City, New Orleans.

00:27:41.400 Whatever city you want to point to with a huge violent crime rate, it's a failure of will.

00:27:46.620 It's a failure of caring enough to actually drive down crime.

00:27:50.800 We can do it.

00:27:51.820 If you look at what most of the homicides are in a place like Washington, D.C.,

00:27:57.140 they are not, you know, it's not like people are having a random property dispute

00:28:05.080 and they both pull out guns or something.

00:28:06.480 It's overwhelmingly drug slash gang related and theft slash armed robbery crime related, right?

00:28:15.680 I mean, this is people are being shot because someone's trying to take something from them

00:28:19.760 or people are being shot and or shooting at each other because they want to be able to sell drugs

00:28:26.660 in a certain area without without competition.

00:28:28.800 I mean, that's this is what drives most of the homicides in a place like Washington, D.C.

00:28:33.720 and a lot of places across the country.

00:28:35.760 Those things can be made more difficult if there are more law enforcement officers on the streets

00:28:43.120 and if they are told that arrests will be turned over to prosecutors who will do something with those arrests.

00:28:49.940 That's a huge component of this.

00:28:52.120 Remember, law and order, dun dun, you know, it's about the police who investigate crimes

00:28:56.720 and the prosecutors who bring them to bring the offenders to justice in a court.

00:29:02.220 It has to be a one-two punch.

00:29:05.200 But, Clay, of course you can address these things.

00:29:07.860 You make it harder for somebody to get away with going and doing a drive-by shooting on a rival's turf.

00:29:13.800 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, 0.96

00:29:20.560 and in broad daylight pull out a gun and smack you in the face with it and think that I'm going to get away.

00:29:26.360 This is really straightforward stuff.

00:29:29.380 And I like that Trump is doing this for the reasons we've all discussed about saving lives

00:29:34.040 and helping people and making the streets better.

00:29:36.480 But also, he just don't let Democrats squirm out on this one.

00:29:41.100 Don't let them get away with what they're doing here, which is they are defending the status quo

00:29:46.920 of unacceptable criminality in American cities.

00:29:49.760 That's what they are doing.

00:29:51.300 And again, 12 days without a murder.

00:29:54.020 Are they going to be in a position where they're actually now rooting for murders to occur?

00:29:59.500 This is why the Trump move is so brilliant, both politically and also morally, right?

00:30:06.160 Sometimes, thankfully, these things overlap.

00:30:08.180 Or you can do the right thing politically.

00:30:09.880 Hey, we should have less crime.

00:30:11.540 That's something Republicans should be behind.

00:30:13.720 And also, morally.

00:30:15.380 Because even the people that Trump is protecting, remember, almost none of them voted for him.

00:30:21.220 D.C. was, what, 95-5 voting for Democrats.

00:30:25.620 It's taken a Republican president to be willing to say, I'm going to make you safer.

00:30:31.460 And it's not necessarily politically beneficial in Washington, D.C. for Trump.

00:30:36.180 These are people that are not Republican voters.

00:30:38.000 Same thing, Chicago.

00:30:39.180 Same thing in all these different blue cities.

00:30:41.400 But it's just the right thing to do.

00:30:43.480 It's the right thing to do.

00:30:44.740 And it's something Democrats should have done, are unwilling.

00:30:47.860 And Trump looked at it and said, I'm going to fix this.

00:30:50.460 God bless him for it.

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00:33:31.100 Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.

00:33:32.760 We're joined by Congressman Chip Roy of Texas.

00:33:37.260 Congressman, appreciate you being with us, sir.

00:33:39.120 Great to be on, fellas.

00:33:41.560 Hope you're doing well as college football just starts to heat up.

00:33:44.980 It's a good time.

00:33:46.040 And there's the very exciting news that Clay is going to get your take on at some point, I'm sure.

00:33:50.860 Speaking of football, of Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's engagement, Congressman.

00:33:56.820 So we got that going on.

00:33:59.260 But we'll get to that in just a few minutes, maybe.

00:34:01.940 In the meantime, talk to me about the Congressional Stock Trading Ban.

00:34:05.740 And let's see, where does that actually stand?

00:34:08.740 Because I see this, lots of talk about it, and it doesn't seem to be clear.

00:34:13.420 What are the rules and what should the rules be?

00:34:16.920 Well, existing, yeah, thanks for that question.

00:34:18.860 It's something that's been important to me for a long time.

00:34:21.400 When I got to Congress, I introduced legislation in 2020 to address this issue.

00:34:26.740 Because it just did not make sense to me that members of Congress were sitting here making serious decisions about key issues while they're also trading stocks directly impacted by it, right?

00:34:35.100 Whether you're talking about breaking up big tech companies, you're talking about health care monopolies, you're talking about defense contractors.

00:34:41.820 I feel like that ought to be separated.

00:34:43.900 So, you know, current law, you've got to have disclosure, but you're allowed to do whatever you want to do.

00:34:48.900 And in that disclosure, obviously, there's a lot of trades.

00:34:51.800 And by the way, this is a bipartisan problem.

00:34:54.380 Obviously, Nancy Pelosi gets a lot of the headlines because of her prolific trading. 0.99

00:34:59.760 But a lot of Democrats and Republicans both do it, and I think we ought to clean it up.

00:35:05.140 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,

00:35:13.500 including what the Senate passed out of committee right before August's break, and try to bring those together and look forward to a pretty big, I think, news announcement when we get back up in D.C. next week

00:35:25.160 with a good group of Dems and Republicans with a bill that would restrict stock trading and require, you know, there to be penalties if you're engaging in that.

00:35:35.900 And you need to be in broadly traded mutual funds instead of independent stocks.

00:35:38.980 Congressman, actually, since I got you on this one and you're talking about what's going to happen, you come back.

00:35:43.680 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

00:35:55.240 and sometimes because there's no pilot there, I think this could really help a whole lot.

00:36:00.120 You're a sponsor of the Let Experience Pilots Fly Act. 0.98

00:36:03.900 I know you introduced the original version a few years ago.

00:36:06.420 Senator Lindsey Graham has a Senate companion bill.

00:36:09.220 So they're trying to raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from 65 to 67 because of pilot shortages.

00:36:17.920 These pilots, these are some of the most experienced pilots.

00:36:20.600 My father-in-law is a super experienced pilot who's coming up to that period of his career.

00:36:26.700 And so many of these great pilots want to stay on board.

00:36:29.940 This is sort of able to be done.

00:36:32.660 It's even bipartisan.

00:36:33.400 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 so we don't wait at airports for hours because we have shortages?

00:36:45.100 Yeah, this is certainly something I've tried to elevate with, you know, Secretary Duffy and his team.

00:36:51.180 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,

00:37:01.920 well, they've got more bargaining power and more leverage, and they've got, you know, tighter numbers there.

00:37:07.540 And I think we ought to increase that age. 1.00

00:37:10.000 I mean, look, this is in line with a lot of international standards.

00:37:14.620 For example, the Japanese pilots and others, I mean, it's not unusual.

00:37:18.480 And importantly, we're now getting to the place where we have greater and longer lifespans.

00:37:23.000 And the notion that someone who's 67 is any worse off necessarily than, you know, a 50-year-old who could, you know, drop dead from a heart attack or something.

00:37:32.120 You have two pilots.

00:37:33.300 You have safety mechanisms to deal with this sort of thing.

00:37:36.740 I think it's really important for us to have an adequate number of experienced pilots, and that's my biggest concern,

00:37:42.680 is that we're going to be running through a bunch of people trying to fill up the jobs of pilots,

00:37:47.760 and that would endanger the American people by putting more inexperienced pilots in the cockpit.

00:37:53.380 So let's relieve that pressure valve a little bit by increasing that age and allowing more experienced pilots to fly.

00:37:59.820 But how does that happen?

00:38:01.020 Like, how do we get this?

00:38:02.100 You said beat back the unions.

00:38:03.460 So is this just members of the Senate who want to keep getting that union cash or something?

00:38:07.860 How do we get this into committee and get it through?

00:38:10.940 Well, we've got to move it through the Transportation Committee,

00:38:14.020 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.

00:38:19.140 And we're getting some traction and some ground on that.

00:38:21.720 My colleague Troy Nelson, Texas, led the bill in committee.

00:38:25.280 It was my bill to start with, but I handed it off to him because he's on the Transportation Committee,

00:38:30.540 and, you know, that's the easiest way to try to move things.

00:38:33.120 So we're trying to work it through the committee this time.

00:38:35.620 The speaker is aware of it.

00:38:37.060 I think it's just something that we need to elevate.

00:38:38.720 Look, if American people are tired of waiting in lines and tired of or concerns about inexperienced pilots,

00:38:43.980 you've just got to let your members of Congress know that this is an important issue, and it's an easy solution.

00:38:50.000 Absolutely.

00:38:50.700 Clay?

00:38:50.840 All right, you have announced that you are running for Attorney General of Texas.

00:38:57.960 We talked about this a little bit earlier.

00:38:59.980 The primary in Texas happens very soon, relatively speaking.

00:39:04.240 It's March.

00:39:05.400 You are a monster football fan.

00:39:07.320 Texas got a huge game coming up against Ohio State.

00:39:09.720 I'll let you talk about that.

00:39:11.180 But I would imagine one of the challenges of campaigning for an early primary is so many Texans out there 1.00

00:39:17.560 with high school, college, and NFL football about to take off.

00:39:21.140 A lot of people's entire attention just goes into the football world and not necessarily to the battle for the primary.

00:39:29.060 So why do you want to be Texas AG, and what's going to happen this weekend in the biggest game between Texas and Ohio State?

00:39:35.680 Well, I'll address the AG first, because then maybe we'll have a little more fun talking about football on the back end.

00:39:40.920 But, you know, I appreciate your show being a good balance of sports and politics.

00:39:45.880 It's good for our world.

00:39:47.100 But, look, I want to be AG for a simple reason, and that is how are we going to secure Texas?

00:39:52.380 Because if we don't secure Texas, we're going to lose America.

00:39:54.820 That's the bottom line.

00:39:56.040 I will have served four terms, eight years in Congress.

00:39:58.440 I've done what I think I can do so far up there to try to change things.

00:40:02.940 I'm very proud of the record of trying to fight spending and stand with the border security individuals

00:40:09.620 and the law enforcement officials that are trying to secure our border,

00:40:12.160 stand with the Trump administration to deliver on the big, beautiful bill, but make it better,

00:40:16.160 actually deliver on spending restraint, all of the things that I've been able to do,

00:40:19.600 fighting stock trading, fight for health care freedom, a lot of things that I feel very good about.

00:40:24.280 But it's time as someone who is a former federal prosecutor, as someone who is the former first assistant attorney general of Texas,

00:40:30.700 to come back to Texas and stand up and stand side by side with our sheriffs, our constables, police officers,

00:40:36.820 Department of Public Safety, people I saw in action during the Kerrville floods, which I proudly represent,

00:40:43.100 but we just dealt with that big tragedy this summer.

00:40:45.340 And I was working with law enforcement, and it just reminded me how important it is.

00:40:49.620 And I can assure you, Texas will have no better advocate, no better partner as Chip Roy in the office of the attorney general,

00:40:57.900 combating drug cartels, combating human traffickers, going after street-level thugs.

00:41:03.340 The office of the attorney general has one of the biggest law firms in the state.

00:41:07.960 It's the most important attorney general's office in the country.

00:41:11.980 And you've got to have somebody ready on day one.

00:41:14.040 Like I said, I've been there.

00:41:14.960 I've been a prosecutor.

00:41:15.740 I've been in the AG's office.

00:41:16.620 And at the end of the day, you've got to have somebody who's unafraid to fight and unafraid to win.

00:41:21.980 And I've been doing that.

00:41:23.180 And, look, we're under assault by radical progressive leftists.

00:41:26.780 You know, George Soros, the funding DAs in Texas, guys.

00:41:29.900 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.

00:41:37.080 And we've got to change that.

00:41:38.220 We've got to back the blue.

00:41:39.060 We've got to secure our streets.

00:41:40.580 They don't realize how bad it is, the pressure at our border with the cartels, notwithstanding Trump,

00:41:44.640 because he's doing the right job.

00:41:46.280 But when you get another bad president like Biden, Texas has got to be even more prepared to hold that line,

00:41:52.020 hold the line against Chinese communists buying up our lands, hold the line against faceless bureaucrats and corporations buying up our small businesses 0.75

00:41:58.760 and making our health care more expensive.

00:42:00.960 That's what the AG's office has a lot of power to do.

00:42:03.020 And so I'd be ready to rumble on day one.

00:42:06.660 All right.

00:42:07.960 Well, sorry to cut you off, but I would be stunned if he picked Ohio State, given that he's running for office in the state of Texas.

00:42:16.440 But it is the biggest game of the weekend.

00:42:20.120 Ten million plus people are going to be watching.

00:42:22.540 Much of Texas, for sure.

00:42:23.980 Much of Ohio.

00:42:25.220 What happens this weekend between Texas and Ohio State?

00:42:29.040 Well, look, obviously a lot is going to be riding on the arm of Arch Manning.

00:42:33.460 I think Texas' defense is in a good position to be able to hold the line and be able to give him a little bit of room to deliver.

00:42:40.780 I still like Texas in this.

00:42:42.420 I know we're having to go up to Ohio State.

00:42:44.000 I know that it's a big game, and the entire eyes of the nation, so to speak, are going to be looking at Texas here to see what they can do.

00:42:52.000 But I like our chances to get up there.

00:42:54.140 And, look, I think Arch has proved himself formidable, and it's going to be a big game.

00:43:00.680 Everybody's going to be watching it.

00:43:01.820 But if Texas' defense holds the line, it holds Ohio State, Arch will deliver.

00:43:05.900 That's my basic summary.

00:43:07.700 I always bet on Arch.

00:43:09.560 That's a great take, by the way.

00:43:11.200 I'm also on Texas.

00:43:13.360 I'm just saying.

00:43:14.440 Yeah, Texas.

00:43:15.700 And Arch is doing a great job.

00:43:18.400 Well, look, I mean, you know, hook him.

00:43:20.160 It goes without saying, you know, as a graduate of Texas Law School, I was going to pick Texas no matter what.

00:43:24.980 But I actually believe what I just said.

00:43:27.140 The spread's very close.

00:43:28.180 I mean, look, it's close to a toss-up.

00:43:30.300 I know the oddsmakers are giving a little edge to Ohio State and probably a home field advantage.

00:43:35.260 But I like Texas.

00:43:36.960 I like our energy.

00:43:37.980 I like where we are.

00:43:38.840 I like what Sarkeesian's philosophy is.

00:43:41.680 I like what I'm seeing out of the entire university.

00:43:44.740 And even though my Aggie wife might have to hold her nose when we're watching the game over the weekend 1.00

00:43:49.360 and my Red Raider father as well, we'll all be pulling for the state of Texas this weekend.

00:43:54.300 Oh, well, good luck on the campaign.

00:43:56.460 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.

00:44:04.520 And good luck to the Longhorns this weekend. 0.98

00:44:07.640 I know we probably just alienated.

00:44:09.180 I know I'm going to get deluged from Ohio because I think we're number one in Cincinnati, Columbus,

00:44:15.920 and also Cleveland at different times of the year.

00:44:19.700 So we're going to get lit up here.

00:44:21.940 But, Congressman, we appreciate you.

00:44:23.660 Good luck in the AG campaign.

00:44:25.840 Hey, God bless you guys.

00:44:26.660 Take care.

00:44:27.660 That's Chip Roy.

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00:46:25.840 Appreciate all of you hanging out with the True Love edition of the program.

00:46:30.200 As Buck has just been glowing with the news coming down that Taylor Swift

00:46:36.200 and her football-playing boyfriend, Travis Kelsey, have become engaged.

00:46:41.020 Oh, True Love wins again.

00:46:43.580 We are running through a bunch of different stories out there.

00:46:47.680 The ongoing battle of Trump deploying resources to Washington, D.C.

00:46:54.280 Crime coming down.

00:46:55.660 The discussion about whether it should also happen in Chicago, Baltimore.

00:47:00.480 Potentially other New York City, I think he even mentioned.

00:47:03.400 Potentially other blue cities out there.

00:47:05.920 This is going to continue to be the battle, as Trump has made.

00:47:11.200 Is it fair to say, Buck, the story of the summer 2025?

00:47:15.480 What he is trying to do when it comes to violent crime?

00:47:19.000 I think it's fair to say that given that the tariff panic appears to be over,

00:47:25.060 we have set all-time record highs in the stock market this summer.

00:47:28.520 Given that the border is completely shut down, I said, and I think you signed off on this for years,

00:47:36.720 that the election was as easy as EBC, economy, border, crime.

00:47:43.880 The border is secure.

00:47:45.660 Now, we're going through the process of deporting many different illegals that were here. 0.99

00:47:51.340 But that scenario of the border being wide open and millions of illegals continuing to flood in,

00:47:58.560 as occurred under Joe Biden, that's solved.

00:48:01.220 Trump has solved much of the border crisis.

00:48:03.860 Crime is the economy, with the tariffs now basically agreed to,

00:48:09.740 with the big, beautiful bill passed, which locked in the Trump tax cuts for the next decade.

00:48:15.340 Plus, the economy, I think, is on very sound footing and continuing to get better.

00:48:20.380 And Trump has now pivoted his attention to a large degree to crime,

00:48:25.780 and he's managed to do the impossible.

00:48:28.540 He has managed for Democrats to now be arguing he's trying to lower crime too fast.

00:48:36.160 We are opposed to his attempts to lower crime.

00:48:40.360 That is where we are right now.

00:48:43.280 I wanted to play a couple of cuts of what is going on.

00:48:48.660 And Trump has been doing his press conference, so our team has been running on that.

00:48:54.400 We've got several different Trump takes.

00:48:56.980 Let me hit you with all of these.

00:48:59.900 Trump on the trans issue, as this has come back to the forefront,

00:49:05.120 state of Virginia wins some seers running against Abigail Spanberger, I believe.

00:49:09.200 There was today news about Roanoke College allowing the women on the swimming team there to sue

00:49:16.020 for what they were put through.

00:49:18.580 Here is Trump reacting, I would imagine, somewhat on that.

00:49:21.800 Cut 31.

00:49:22.620 They said that's an 80-20.

00:49:24.260 No, it's a 97-3.

00:49:25.980 It's 97-3.

00:49:27.440 Like, transgender for everybody.

00:49:29.980 They fought for it.

00:49:30.840 They're still fighting for it.

00:49:31.780 I saw a guy today, a politician that you all know very well, fighting like hell for men

00:49:38.020 playing in women's sports.

00:49:39.340 You don't understand.

00:49:40.720 They're human beings also.

00:49:41.980 Well, I agree they're human beings, but you can't have a seven-foot guy playing basketball

00:49:46.700 with the women.

00:49:48.160 You know, it's just one of those little problems in life.

00:49:50.860 And we all have our place.

00:49:53.360 It's okay.

00:49:54.280 I've got my place, too.

00:49:55.440 Okay, so that is Trump weighing in, common sense issue that I think is one that honestly

00:50:01.700 put him into the White House.

00:50:03.500 That's the thesis of my new book that's coming out in November.

00:50:07.300 And then he got asked a ton about crime.

00:50:09.440 And we played you the Epoch Times reporter who pointed out, hey, I had a gun pulled on

00:50:15.400 me.

00:50:15.720 I was pistol whipped.

00:50:16.860 Now, I appreciate everything you're doing to try to lower crime in D.C.

00:50:21.080 Here is Trump saying, they say I'm a dictator, but I'm just trying to stop crime.

00:50:26.840 Cut 32. 0.51

00:50:27.960 And they're going to fight me like this slob of a governor you have in Illinois.

00:50:32.200 This poor guy got thrown out of his business by his family. 0.86

00:50:36.360 I know the family.

00:50:37.260 I have partners with the family.

00:50:38.500 Nice family.

00:50:38.960 I like the family, but he was no good.

00:50:41.120 They threw him out.

00:50:42.520 He's governor of Illinois.

00:50:43.980 And he goes about Trump, we don't need his help.

00:50:47.760 Chicago is the worst.

00:50:48.780 But these places are really bad. 0.97

00:50:51.460 But then he goes on television and says, oh, Trump is a dictator. 0.82

00:50:54.700 He's a dictator.

00:50:55.760 And a lot of people here, so the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime.

00:51:01.300 So a lot of people say, you know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.

00:51:04.680 But I'm not a dictator.

00:51:06.000 I just know how to stop crime.

00:51:07.660 And you would think that Illinois would have such a problem with crime, such a bad governor.

00:51:13.500 He should be calling me, and he should be saying, could you send over the troops, please?

00:51:18.860 It's out of control.

00:51:19.740 Okay, so this is the topic.

00:51:22.780 Trump has pivoted it.

00:51:24.240 And, Buck, Democrats are now arguing, as Trump said, he's a dictator.

00:51:28.700 He's working too hard to try to lower crime. 0.53

00:51:32.940 Kind of crazy.

00:51:33.740 Yeah, I hope the Democrats continue on this, because when there's a problem, we would like

00:51:41.680 to think that the people who are empowered, politicians and others empowered to deal with

00:51:46.720 it, would at least have an alternative solution to what the Republicans have.

00:51:51.740 On this issue, Democrats just have, shut up. 0.54

00:51:54.260 There is no problem. 0.98

00:51:55.240 Even though we all know there's a problem.

00:51:57.080 And that's why this won't work.

00:51:58.520 And that's why Trump is right to continue to pound this, continue to hammer this.

00:52:02.560 You know, we hammered Democrats on the border, and sure enough, that was a critical issue

00:52:07.500 in this last election cycle, and one that we were able to now, with Trump in charge, prove

00:52:14.200 beyond any doubt, was a choice, not an inevitable reality.

00:52:18.300 As in the open border did not have to happen, Trump showed that the people saying that it

00:52:23.520 was a choice, that was correct.

00:52:25.840 It was a choice, and we've made another choice now.

00:52:28.520 We can do the same thing with crime.

00:52:30.520 And this is, I think, a, you see people say this, Clay, online, too.

00:52:35.860 Hey, you know, you can just do things when you're in power.

00:52:39.320 You don't have to actually, you know, mother, may I, with the Democrats all the time.

00:52:43.820 You can find areas where things can be improved and just do them and show people, and then

00:52:50.020 that affects the political outcome, too, because results are nice.

00:52:54.200 I think we grew up in a political climate, Clay, just very broadly speaking of politicians

00:52:59.120 all lie.

00:53:00.080 Nothing ever gets done.

00:53:01.380 It's all a uniparty.

00:53:02.580 It's all.

00:53:03.620 I think Trump has shattered that narrative more than anybody else we've seen in our lifetime,

00:53:08.140 where it's just, oh, it has to be this way.

00:53:11.300 Go along to get along.

00:53:12.820 The Potomac two-step, all this stuff.

00:53:14.620 Nonsense.

00:53:15.720 And on this issue of crime, it's a, by the way, the timing on this is perfect.

00:53:19.140 You know, things are a little slowed down with the news cycle.

00:53:22.520 It's August.

00:53:23.460 A lot of journos are on vacation.

00:53:25.900 Less stuff has happened.

00:53:26.960 A lot of people in general are on vacation.

00:53:28.640 You know, all of Europe is on vacation.

00:53:30.760 So this is a great moment to bring focus to this issue and to show people where the two

00:53:37.180 sides stand. 0.97

00:53:37.780 So, I mean, saying he's a dictator, it's just so pathetic after all. 0.93

00:53:41.500 What is the dictatorship? 0.96

00:53:42.660 What's the issue here?

00:53:44.080 Really ask this.

00:53:44.720 What's the downside of what he has done?

00:53:47.000 What are we going to pretend the Democrats care about spending all the, all the overtime,

00:53:51.020 you know, that's been spent on this?

00:53:52.780 Oh, no, I'm sorry.

00:53:54.740 This is, this is where I come back to both politically and morally.

00:53:58.580 This is the right choice.

00:54:00.520 Politically, it's smart because being against crime is something that the vast majority of

00:54:05.860 Americans are connected to and carry and care a great deal about.

00:54:10.200 So it's good to be on this side.

00:54:11.640 But morally, it's better if less people die, especially young people who are overwhelmingly 1.00

00:54:19.180 victims of violent crime.

00:54:20.860 We're talking about people with decades of their life.

00:54:23.660 If we played the clip of the, of the, I, this even makes me a little bit sick and I bet

00:54:29.700 it's going to make you sick to the stomach to even think about two buck now that you're

00:54:32.520 a dad.

00:54:33.880 We played the woman who talked about being a victim of violent crime, getting pistol whipped

00:54:38.480 and that she said, now she's, she feels very fortunate.

00:54:40.840 She's pregnant and she's going to have a baby and she wants the city to be safer.

00:54:45.440 Um, one of the worst things, and I'm going to be dark.

00:54:49.620 One of the worst things that could happen to anyone out there is that your child is a victim

00:54:55.520 of violent crime.

00:54:56.620 Um, that woman in the press conference, and I give her credit from the Epic times talked 0.87

00:55:01.060 about the psychic trauma that she still feels from the attack that she had, uh, levied against

00:55:07.040 her, the violent crime attempt.

00:55:08.880 Um, I would also point out that anyone who loses a child is dealing with psychic trauma

00:55:16.380 for the rest of their lives.

00:55:18.000 And when you consider who tends to be the victims of violent crime, it is overwhelmingly young

00:55:26.240 men and their moms are never going to recover. 1.00

00:55:30.180 So leave aside politics.

00:55:33.640 We should do everything we can to make it the case that there are less victims of violent

00:55:40.560 crime in America.

00:55:41.600 And I just, I give tremendous credit to Trump for this because a lot of politicians,

00:55:47.500 assume that things should stay as they are.

00:55:51.040 Trump's radical gift is he looks at problems and he actually tries to come up with solutions.

00:55:57.720 Hey, why don't we fix this?

00:55:59.100 And again, I think it's the builder background because any of you out there that have worked

00:56:03.440 in housing or building it, and it does, by the way, it doesn't have to be just a building

00:56:07.400 can be building a business.

00:56:09.420 All you do all day long is find problems and try to solve them.

00:56:13.740 That's how you build a business.

00:56:15.340 A successful business is really just an exercise in problem solving.

00:56:19.900 How do we increase our profit margin?

00:56:22.520 How do we hire the right people?

00:56:24.640 How do we look at this situation and solve it to create a better situation?

00:56:30.940 Trump comes in with fresh eyes because he's not a lifelong politician.

00:56:34.800 And I think, frankly, when he looked at the data and realized we have a 30x murder rate

00:56:42.140 in Washington, D.C. compared to London and Paris, that's unacceptable.

00:56:46.100 And I think a lot of left wing journos, they're rich.

00:56:50.220 They live in gated communities.

00:56:51.580 They oftentimes have security to help protect them at their jobs.

00:56:55.580 They don't want to acknowledge the problem because Democrats aren't solving it.

00:57:00.120 And if Trump comes in and solves it like he solved the border, it would require them

00:57:05.020 being honest and giving him some credit.

00:57:07.800 And what's unique about this is Trump is actually trying to save the lives of people in cities

00:57:14.580 who either didn't vote or were highly unlikely to vote for him based on statistics.

00:57:20.780 So he's doing the right thing, even though it doesn't necessarily benefit his base.

00:57:27.620 The reality is Washington, D.C. voted more than any community in America against Trump.

00:57:33.340 And Trump's still saying, OK, they may not have voted for me, but I want them to be safer.

00:57:37.900 I want less of them to die.

00:57:39.840 It's actually an incredibly noble goal.

00:57:42.820 Look, when I lived in New York City and Bloomberg was essentially a Democrat.

00:57:49.200 I know he was technically ran as a Republican, but he was doing a good job and he was keeping

00:57:53.140 crime down and I was thankful for it.

00:57:54.920 And I actually remember early in my career saying some nice things about Mayor Bloomberg

00:57:58.840 as mayor and people getting angry at me because, yeah, is he bad?

00:58:03.260 You know, was he a little nanny state on the big sodas?

00:58:06.180 Sure.

00:58:06.640 Is he horrible on guns?

00:58:08.740 Sure.

00:58:09.200 Is he?

00:58:09.880 But did he keep the city running in a way that it was efficient and safe?

00:58:14.760 Yeah.

00:58:15.640 And so that matters.

00:58:16.500 So you would think that there are some things that can transcend just the most basic tribal

00:58:21.140 politics, like if you're doing a good job making me safer in my city, I am thankful for

00:58:26.240 that and I I approve of or I agree with that.

00:58:29.180 No, Democrats, it's they would rather be unsafe and Trump be wrong than be safe and have to

00:58:35.220 say thank you to Trump.

00:58:36.960 I think that's really an explanation of Trump derangement syndrome.

00:58:41.100 Yes.

00:58:41.340 I mean, they had that one.

00:58:43.020 Did you see the lady that went viral where she said in Chicago, I was attacked and my

00:58:47.320 wrist was broken in a violent assault, but I don't want crime to decline because I don't

00:58:53.160 want Trump to be involved.

00:58:54.840 And I didn't see I didn't see that, but I just I know that mentality is pervasive.

00:58:59.860 Unfortunately, these lives are nuts.

00:59:01.720 That's what I'm saying.

00:59:02.460 And this woman did a whole video that went mega viral where she said, I would rather be 1.00

00:59:06.860 physically assaulted and have my safety question than to have Trump in position of power in

00:59:13.540 any way in Chicago.

00:59:14.700 And I think it goes directly to your point when you are actively supporting policies that

00:59:20.300 put you and your family in danger because you disagree with the politician putting them

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