EXTRA： Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Aug 26 2025
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Summary
The world is moving on from the dollar, quietly but steadily. The BRICS nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade, and the U.S. dollar is no longer the centerpiece. That shift doesn t happen overnight, but make no mistake, it's already begun.
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It does, but it's actually a big summit going on in Brazil.
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The formal name is BRICS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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hoping to increase their sway in the global financial order.
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He's a precious metal specialist and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group.
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He's on the ground in Rio getting the whole lowdown on what's going on there.
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In fact, a major theme at the summit is how BRICS nations aim to reduce reliance
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Already did, and he left the Clay and Buck audience this message.
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The world is moving on from the dollar, quietly but steadily.
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These nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade,
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and the U.S. dollar is no longer the centerpiece.
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Protect the value of your savings account, your 401k, your IRA,
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all of them by purchasing gold and placing it into those accounts
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and reducing your exposure to a declining dollar value.
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You get the free information you'll need to make the right decision.
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to give you the information you need to make an informed decision.
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Tuesday edition, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show.
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We appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling into the show today.
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Our friend, Congressman Chip Roy from Texas, will be on in the second hour.
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He is running for attorney general of the state of Texas.
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So, I know we've got the New York City mayor's race.
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We've got the election going on in Virginia and in New Jersey.
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Buck, do you remember, for the first several years we did this show,
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except we got the win in Virginia, like, in that first year.
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And then we had to kind of feed off that for a long time.
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So, Youngkin gave us some hope, some prayer for the future.
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And then the midterms, it was Governor Ron in Florida, credit where it's due.
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We did win the House of Representatives back, but it was still a tough –
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I feel like every day we wake up now, there's celebratory spirit,
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as there should be across the country for most of the decisions that are being made.
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But in the first several years that we were together,
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there were not a lot of victories to celebrate.
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So, I do think, as we get ready for the Virginia, New Jersey election,
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New York City mayor, and then obviously as we move into next year,
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the Texas primary is going to be a major, major event in March of 2026,
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frankly, almost unlike any other state in America with high school, college, and pro,
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it's going to be hard to cut through the noise in Texas in September, October, November, December,
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if the Cowboys actually win – sorry, Cowboy fans – even January 2 when the playoffs happen.
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And as a result, that primary, you're going to look up from the holidays,
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We will talk with Chip Roy, who is running for Attorney General there.
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I would say it is a huge event we will be covering quite a lot as we move closer to that.
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But, President Trump, I believe, about to have his seventh public cabinet meeting.
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Remember, Joe Biden didn't have a cabinet meeting,
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and everybody just forgot and didn't pay very much attention to it.
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For basically the final two years of his term in office,
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there were no meetings as they were hiding him.
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Trump had three different public events yesterday, Buck.
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He basically had rolling press conferences for hours.
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I'm just going to try to give credit where it's due here, Clay,
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because we always like to call balls and strikes, as you know.
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We can talk about how depraved and craven and everything it is,
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but hiding Biden was actually a pretty sound strategy.
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I think hiding Kamala probably would have been a better move for them.
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I know that they had the clamor maybe got too loud for her to appear in public,
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but it's better to have MSNBC pretend that you know who these people are
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than to actually see what they say when they don't have a script or a teleprompter in front of them.
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Remember, they didn't actually do an interview with Kamala Harris for a month.
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And then when they finally did one, I think it was with Dana Bash, if I remember correctly,
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So they waited until, I mean, late August, if I remember correctly,
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before they even let her talk to anybody, which raised expectations.
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Unfortunately, even with that going on, she couldn't meet them.
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But I do think there is a story that is becoming pretty intriguing.
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And it is Joe Scarborough probably and potentially still smarting from the public humiliation that he suffered
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because he said that Joe Biden 2024 was just as good of a Biden as he had ever seen.
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And after the June 27th debate, I think Joe Scarborough was embarrassed on a level
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that it's hard to be embarrassed in public prognostication.
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And I think he has decided a bit to go to war with the diehard MSNBC viewing audience.
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Remember, he and Mika initially were very favorable with Trump.
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Then they went and kissed the ring after Trump won re-election,
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which led many of the people in the MSNBC audience to be furious.
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The MSNBC audience has not been galvanized this time by the Trump administration.
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In fact, audience ratings have continued to be weak and to, frankly, collapse.
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And maybe that has emboldened Joe Scarborough to actually start being a journalist.
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I went and watched, and I've got to give Joe Scarborough credit.
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I think brilliantly, in the summer months here,
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Trump has changed the agenda from basically tariffs and worrying about the economy
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And he has said, we're going to go to war with violent crime.
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And D.C. was the first place that he decided to bring out the National Guard.
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I believe we are now, and correct me if I'm wrong, team,
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I think we're at either day 12 or day 13 without a murder in D.C.
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Overall, crime rates have fallen precipitously.
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And now Trump is talking about bringing the National Guard to Chicago and Baltimore
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and other American cities that he believes have far too high of a crime rate.
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And Joe Scarborough asked Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this morning on MSNBC
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Would having more police officers make the city of Chicago safer?
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And I want to play, I'm going to call for each of these in succession,
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refusing to answer if more police officers would make the city safer.
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Would you also like to get federal funding to help put 5,000 more cops on the street in Chicago?
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Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.
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And I said, those are good and important programs.
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But I'm asking also, would 5,000 more police officers on the street in Chicago
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be helpful to go along with all of those social programs
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that a lot of cities are engaging in and having success with?
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Well, look, here's the best way I can put it, Joe,
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and we had 900 people being murdered every single year in Chicago.
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Can I just real, you know, because the way we set this up is,
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Joe Scarborough is actually conceding as part of his questioning here.
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He says, if we give you all the money you want for your violence interrupters,
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for your, you know, community organizers, for your, all these,
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oh my gosh, the history of violence interrupters,
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He says, with all that, would you also want more cops?
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And now, Clay, you can continue to work through that.
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It's astonishing, this guy, the mayor of Chicago.
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Here is part two, mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson.
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He, of the recent 6% approval rating, asked again, yes or no,
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I know it's not policing alone, but I know it's not policing alone.
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I'm curious, and this does come down to an ideological difference
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between people, do you believe that the streets of Chicago
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would be safer if there were more uniformed police officers
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I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America
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would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing.
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My question is, and I just need to answer a no,
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how do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer
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if you got all of those other extraordinary programs
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put back into place, which do have a history of being successful,
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if that's complemented by having 5,000 more cops
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He sounds a bit like me back in the day with Mike Pence
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when you just can't get an answer from a question
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Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago, having his feet held to the fire
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on a simple question, hey, would more cops help?
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I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social programs
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I just need a yes or a no, and then this will be the last time I ask.
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If you get all of those other social programs that...
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That 800 million, that New York City does, Los Angeles and other people do,
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with great success, would an additional 5,000 cops
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on the streets in Chicago help complement those programs
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Look, we are working hard to make sure that our police department
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I don't believe that just simply putting out an arbitrary number
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What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing,
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is policing and mental and behavioral health care services,
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He's like, hey, moron, I'll give you everything else you want.
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We'll pretend all these programs that don't do a darn thing
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But can you just say more cops would help with the crime problem?
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The mayor of Chicago, and it's because the mayor of Chicago
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He thinks that crime in the south and west sides of Chicago,
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where there are a lot of homicides, even for an American city,
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a lot of homicides going on, he thinks that the issue is
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And I am staggered at the stupidity of Democrats responding to this.
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In so doing, he is going to save more black lives by far
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than anyone who marched in BLM protests and argued for defunding the police
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And most of you out there, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight,
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male, female, all of you say, yeah, more cops would help.
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Because the base of the Democrat Party still believes that police are the problem.
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And I think this is why Trump has cut through the noise and the results here.
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You know, we sometimes talk, Buck, and I think it's important that there are two tracks on
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Is it politically smart and does it actually make the country better?
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It's both politically smart and the country is better if we lower the overall rate of
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And right now, the debate we're having in the summer of his first term is,
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And is Trump trying to lower a violent crime too aggressively?
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And we're going to have more for you, by the way, because right now, just a couple of
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He's got stuff on the economy, on crime, on Ukraine, on everything.
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It is the second hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.
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We started off talking about the situation in Chicago
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and Trump trying to create a new paradigm of less crime in D.C.
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and then perhaps a template for other American cities as well.
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Trump has fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
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does the Federal Reserve exist outside of executive branch authority?
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And then from where or whence does it derive said authority
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if it isn't within the executive branch's purview?
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This will be interesting to see how that goes, I think.
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And, Clay, did you see also an update on the Cracker Barrel branding issue?
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From Cracker Barrel, which we shall discuss in a little bit.
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But, yes, let's dive into that in a little while.
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I do think that you and I, with AI, not that either of us are particularly good artists,
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but you or I, with AI, could have come up with a better logo rebrand in an hour
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We just had President Trump a few moments ago having a cabinet meeting,
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his seventh cabinet meeting of his first administration.
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Well, I'm sorry, his second term, his first year of his second term.
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Now, it might be a little hard to hear the reporter for some of you out there,
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so we'll fill in a bit of it because this was an exchange of back and forth.
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You'll be able to hear Trump, obviously, but the reporter.
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But I wanted to hear, a reporter tells the story of how she was mugged in Washington, D.C.
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So more than two years ago, it was a Saturday morning in broad daylight.
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I was on my way to work, and a young man with a black ski mask pointed a gun on my face
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and threatened me to hand over my phone, my wallet, my laptop, and everything else.
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And when I refused, he used the butt of his handgun to strike me across the face,
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the cheek, where what some people call pistol whipped me before running away.
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That has deeply traumatized myself and my family.
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Ever since, I've never dared to walk in the street of D.C. at night, ever.
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So, Mr. President, thank you so much for what you're doing right now.
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Such incidents involved not just me, but also my family.
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If he had shot me, I could have died right there in the middle of nowhere without my families
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or my friends knowing at the age of back then, I think, 20, 23.
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Just starting my career here in D.C. without even starting a family.
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Right now, I'm very blessed to have this opportunity.
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So you had a gun pointed at your head, and you probably figured that he's going to pull the trigger
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because these are animals that don't know what the hell.
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The pulling the trigger to him is a very minor event, and I'm sure he's done it before.
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So how did you – and you did refuse to give it, which probably maybe somebody would say
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I saw on this, gents, she looks to be an Asian-American.
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Some people may get that newspaper weekly, I believe, that goes out many different places.
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First of all, she's a woman, and beyond that, she's not somebody who would be in a particularly strong position
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Broad daylight, guy with a ski mask, pulls a gun, says,
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I'm going to murder you if you don't give me your stuff, and then he pistol whoops her in the face.
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Because people hear stories like this in D.C., Clay, and you know what the response is?
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Oh, yeah, I know a few other people that that's happened to.
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And remember, this is happening in the nice neighborhoods, indeed.
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You know, she's talking – I could probably tell you, I'm just guessing,
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she's probably living like Adams Morgan or something.
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We're talking about in Northwest D.C. this stuff happens.
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We're not even getting into how often this stuff goes on in Southeast D.C.
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And here, Trump actually continues on this exchange.
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So I just wanted you to hear what's going on here.
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Here, Trump continues with this – oh, you want to jump in?
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I'm much less serious news, but I've lost a major bet with my wife,
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Well, that's not – I thought you lost a bet with me,
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and I was going to say, hold the phone, stop the press.
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This is all very serious, but Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift just got engaged,
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So this is going to take over all the pop culture news.
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I can read his face usually, and I know when he's fired up
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to make a point or whatever, and he's an honest guy,
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and he's telling you we're having a very serious, important discussion,
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and he's fired up that he lost a bet over Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
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Let's get back here to this woman, this reporter, pistol-whipped in the face.
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Remember, there's also the trauma of these things that lingers with individuals,
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especially for a woman to be attacked like this.
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It'd be trauma for a guy, too, but for a woman to be attacked like this,
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and Trump and the reporter continue the exchange, play 34.
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It's really amazing that you weren't shot, though.
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I'm very blessed, and that's why I have this opportunity to stand here
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One, I'm very grateful for God for allowing me to still survive to this day,
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For us, for our families, for my parents, on behalf of my parents,
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And there are other reporters and journalists and good people,
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But you see a big difference in the streets right now.
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but people are telling me they're going out to dinner now.
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but I have a lot of friends that are going out to dinner all the time now in D.C.,
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A lot of them closed because nobody wanted to go into a restaurant.
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Nobody wanted to get to a restaurant or even sit in the restaurant.
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I do pass by the Union Station every day on my way home,
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and I do feel elastic for seeing the trucks right outside,
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seeing the National Guard troops members right outside.
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It just made me feel like I'm hopeful about these days.
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And then one day, hopefully, we can raise our family here.
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because we've got a cut, and I want to play it.
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because this is now where Democrats are relegated.
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the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual.
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Don't take the bait because most Americans are more worried about
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how are we going to address mental health issues,
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the visible homelessness that we see on streets,
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and how do we deal with mental health and other issues
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that drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us.
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Don't take the bait in talking about migrant crime
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or carjackings or the things that actually don't matter to that many Americans.
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Don't take the bait on violent crime mattering to that many Americans.
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And I do think, again, this woman's story is echoed by almost everybody that is listening to us
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in the country, somewhere in a city, somewhere in your state,
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And Buck, 12 days since a murder happened in Washington, D.C.
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But when I see 12 days, based on the history of Washington, D.C.
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and the summer over decades, at some point you have to start to say,
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hey, maybe this is not a total statistical anomaly.
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Maybe Trump really is starting to drive down violent crime in Washington, D.C.
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And this is why it's ultimately scary to Democrats.
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Because if Trump can do this, Trump shut down the border.
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Remember the whole story that we heard for years was Congress has to act in order for there to be border security.
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Trump showed up and shut down the border security.
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And I think what's happening now with D.C. violent crime is Democrats are becoming terrified.
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Whatever city you want to point to with a huge violent crime rate, it's a failure of will.
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It's a failure of caring enough to actually drive down crime.
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If you look at what most of the homicides are in a place like Washington, D.C.,
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they are not, you know, it's not like people are having a random property dispute
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It's overwhelmingly drug slash gang related and theft slash armed robbery crime related, right?
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I mean, this is people are being shot because someone's trying to take something from them
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or people are being shot and or shooting at each other because they want to be able to sell drugs
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I mean, that's this is what drives most of the homicides in a place like Washington, D.C.
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Those things can be made more difficult if there are more law enforcement officers on the streets
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and if they are told that arrests will be turned over to prosecutors who will do something with those arrests.
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Remember, law and order, dun dun, you know, it's about the police who investigate crimes
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and the prosecutors who bring them to bring the offenders to justice in a court.
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But, Clay, of course you can address these things.
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You make it harder for somebody to get away with going and doing a drive-by shooting on a rival's turf.
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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,
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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.
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And I like that Trump is doing this for the reasons we've all discussed about saving lives
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and helping people and making the streets better.
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But also, he just don't let Democrats squirm out on this one.
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Don't let them get away with what they're doing here, which is they are defending the status quo
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of unacceptable criminality in American cities.
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Are they going to be in a position where they're actually now rooting for murders to occur?
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This is why the Trump move is so brilliant, both politically and also morally, right?
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Because even the people that Trump is protecting, remember, almost none of them voted for him.
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It's taken a Republican president to be willing to say, I'm going to make you safer.
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And it's not necessarily politically beneficial in Washington, D.C. for Trump.
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These are people that are not Republican voters.
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And it's something Democrats should have done, are unwilling.
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And Trump looked at it and said, I'm going to fix this.
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Congressman, appreciate you being with us, sir.
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Hope you're doing well as college football just starts to heat up.
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And there's the very exciting news that Clay is going to get your take on at some point, I'm sure.
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Speaking of football, of Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift's engagement, Congressman.
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But we'll get to that in just a few minutes, maybe.
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In the meantime, talk to me about the Congressional Stock Trading Ban.
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Because I see this, lots of talk about it, and it doesn't seem to be clear.
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What are the rules and what should the rules be?
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Well, existing, yeah, thanks for that question.
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It's something that's been important to me for a long time.
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When I got to Congress, I introduced legislation in 2020 to address this issue.
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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?
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Whether you're talking about breaking up big tech companies, you're talking about health care monopolies, you're talking about defense contractors.
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So, you know, current law, you've got to have disclosure, but you're allowed to do whatever you want to do.
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And in that disclosure, obviously, there's a lot of trades.
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Obviously, Nancy Pelosi gets a lot of the headlines because of her prolific trading.
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But a lot of Democrats and Republicans both do it, and I think we ought to clean it up.
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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,
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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
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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.
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And you need to be in broadly traded mutual funds instead of independent stocks.
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Congressman, actually, since I got you on this one and you're talking about what's going to happen, you come back.
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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
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and sometimes because there's no pilot there, I think this could really help a whole lot.
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You're a sponsor of the Let Experience Pilots Fly Act.
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I know you introduced the original version a few years ago.
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Senator Lindsey Graham has a Senate companion bill.
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So they're trying to raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from 65 to 67 because of pilot shortages.
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These pilots, these are some of the most experienced pilots.
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My father-in-law is a super experienced pilot who's coming up to that period of his career.
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And so many of these great pilots want to stay on board.
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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?
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Yeah, this is certainly something I've tried to elevate with, you know, Secretary Duffy and his team.
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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,
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well, they've got more bargaining power and more leverage, and they've got, you know, tighter numbers there.
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And I think we ought to increase that age.
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I mean, look, this is in line with a lot of international standards.
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For example, the Japanese pilots and others, I mean, it's not unusual.
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And importantly, we're now getting to the place where we have greater and longer lifespans.
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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.
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You have safety mechanisms to deal with this sort of thing.
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I think it's really important for us to have an adequate number of experienced pilots, and that's my biggest concern,
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is that we're going to be running through a bunch of people trying to fill up the jobs of pilots,
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and that would endanger the American people by putting more inexperienced pilots in the cockpit.
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So let's relieve that pressure valve a little bit by increasing that age and allowing more experienced pilots to fly.
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So is this just members of the Senate who want to keep getting that union cash or something?
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How do we get this into committee and get it through?
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Well, we've got to move it through the Transportation Committee,
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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.
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And we're getting some traction and some ground on that.
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My colleague Troy Nelson, Texas, led the bill in committee.
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It was my bill to start with, but I handed it off to him because he's on the Transportation Committee,
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and, you know, that's the easiest way to try to move things.
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So we're trying to work it through the committee this time.
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I think it's just something that we need to elevate.
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Look, if American people are tired of waiting in lines and tired of or concerns about inexperienced pilots,
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you've just got to let your members of Congress know that this is an important issue, and it's an easy solution.
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All right, you have announced that you are running for Attorney General of Texas.
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The primary in Texas happens very soon, relatively speaking.
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Texas got a huge game coming up against Ohio State.
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But I would imagine one of the challenges of campaigning for an early primary is so many Texans out there
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with high school, college, and NFL football about to take off.
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A lot of people's entire attention just goes into the football world and not necessarily to the battle for the primary.
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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?
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Well, I'll address the AG first, because then maybe we'll have a little more fun talking about football on the back end.
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But, you know, I appreciate your show being a good balance of sports and politics.
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But, look, I want to be AG for a simple reason, and that is how are we going to secure Texas?
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Because if we don't secure Texas, we're going to lose America.
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I will have served four terms, eight years in Congress.
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I've done what I think I can do so far up there to try to change things.
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I'm very proud of the record of trying to fight spending and stand with the border security individuals
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and the law enforcement officials that are trying to secure our border,
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stand with the Trump administration to deliver on the big, beautiful bill, but make it better,
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actually deliver on spending restraint, all of the things that I've been able to do,
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fighting stock trading, fight for health care freedom, a lot of things that I feel very good about.
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But it's time as someone who is a former federal prosecutor, as someone who is the former first assistant attorney general of Texas,
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to come back to Texas and stand up and stand side by side with our sheriffs, our constables, police officers,
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Department of Public Safety, people I saw in action during the Kerrville floods, which I proudly represent,
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but we just dealt with that big tragedy this summer.
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And I was working with law enforcement, and it just reminded me how important it is.
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And I can assure you, Texas will have no better advocate, no better partner as Chip Roy in the office of the attorney general,
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combating drug cartels, combating human traffickers, going after street-level thugs.
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The office of the attorney general has one of the biggest law firms in the state.
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It's the most important attorney general's office in the country.
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And you've got to have somebody ready on day one.
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And at the end of the day, you've got to have somebody who's unafraid to fight and unafraid to win.
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And, look, we're under assault by radical progressive leftists.
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You know, George Soros, the funding DAs in Texas, guys.
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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.
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They don't realize how bad it is, the pressure at our border with the cartels, notwithstanding Trump,
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But when you get another bad president like Biden, Texas has got to be even more prepared to hold that line,
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hold the line against Chinese communists buying up our lands, hold the line against faceless bureaucrats and corporations buying up our small businesses
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That's what the AG's office has a lot of power to do.
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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.
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Ten million plus people are going to be watching.
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What happens this weekend between Texas and Ohio State?
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Well, look, obviously a lot is going to be riding on the arm of Arch Manning.
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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.
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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.
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And, look, I think Arch has proved himself formidable, and it's going to be a big game.
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But if Texas' defense holds the line, it holds Ohio State, Arch will deliver.
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It goes without saying, you know, as a graduate of Texas Law School, I was going to pick Texas no matter what.
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I know the oddsmakers are giving a little edge to Ohio State and probably a home field advantage.
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I like what I'm seeing out of the entire university.
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And even though my Aggie wife might have to hold her nose when we're watching the game over the weekend
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and my Red Raider father as well, we'll all be pulling for the state of Texas this weekend.
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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.
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And good luck to the Longhorns this weekend.
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I know I'm going to get deluged from Ohio because I think we're number one in Cincinnati, Columbus,
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and also Cleveland at different times of the year.
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As Buck has just been glowing with the news coming down that Taylor Swift
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and her football-playing boyfriend, Travis Kelsey, have become engaged.
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We are running through a bunch of different stories out there.
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The ongoing battle of Trump deploying resources to Washington, D.C.
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The discussion about whether it should also happen in Chicago, Baltimore.
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Potentially other New York City, I think he even mentioned.
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This is going to continue to be the battle, as Trump has made.
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Is it fair to say, Buck, the story of the summer 2025?
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What he is trying to do when it comes to violent crime?
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I think it's fair to say that given that the tariff panic appears to be over,
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we have set all-time record highs in the stock market this summer.
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Given that the border is completely shut down, I said, and I think you signed off on this for years,
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that the election was as easy as EBC, economy, border, crime.
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Now, we're going through the process of deporting many different illegals that were here.
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But that scenario of the border being wide open and millions of illegals continuing to flood in,
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Crime is the economy, with the tariffs now basically agreed to,
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with the big, beautiful bill passed, which locked in the Trump tax cuts for the next decade.
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Plus, the economy, I think, is on very sound footing and continuing to get better.
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And Trump has now pivoted his attention to a large degree to crime,
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He has managed for Democrats to now be arguing he's trying to lower crime too fast.
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I wanted to play a couple of cuts of what is going on.
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And Trump has been doing his press conference, so our team has been running on that.
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Trump on the trans issue, as this has come back to the forefront,
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state of Virginia wins some seers running against Abigail Spanberger, I believe.
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There was today news about Roanoke College allowing the women on the swimming team there to sue
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Here is Trump reacting, I would imagine, somewhat on that.
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I saw a guy today, a politician that you all know very well, fighting like hell for men
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Well, I agree they're human beings, but you can't have a seven-foot guy playing basketball
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You know, it's just one of those little problems in life.
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Okay, so that is Trump weighing in, common sense issue that I think is one that honestly
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That's the thesis of my new book that's coming out in November.
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And we played you the Epoch Times reporter who pointed out, hey, I had a gun pulled on
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Now, I appreciate everything you're doing to try to lower crime in D.C.
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Here is Trump saying, they say I'm a dictator, but I'm just trying to stop crime.
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And they're going to fight me like this slob of a governor you have in Illinois.
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This poor guy got thrown out of his business by his family.
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And he goes about Trump, we don't need his help.
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But then he goes on television and says, oh, Trump is a dictator.
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And a lot of people here, so the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime.
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So a lot of people say, you know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.
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And you would think that Illinois would have such a problem with crime, such a bad governor.
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He should be calling me, and he should be saying, could you send over the troops, please?
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And, Buck, Democrats are now arguing, as Trump said, he's a dictator.
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He's working too hard to try to lower crime.
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Yeah, I hope the Democrats continue on this, because when there's a problem, we would like
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to think that the people who are empowered, politicians and others empowered to deal with
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it, would at least have an alternative solution to what the Republicans have.
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On this issue, Democrats just have, shut up.
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And that's why Trump is right to continue to pound this, continue to hammer this.
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You know, we hammered Democrats on the border, and sure enough, that was a critical issue
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in this last election cycle, and one that we were able to now, with Trump in charge, prove
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beyond any doubt, was a choice, not an inevitable reality.
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As in the open border did not have to happen, Trump showed that the people saying that it
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It was a choice, and we've made another choice now.
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And this is, I think, a, you see people say this, Clay, online, too.
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Hey, you know, you can just do things when you're in power.
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You don't have to actually, you know, mother, may I, with the Democrats all the time.
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You can find areas where things can be improved and just do them and show people, and then
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that affects the political outcome, too, because results are nice.
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I think we grew up in a political climate, Clay, just very broadly speaking of politicians
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I think Trump has shattered that narrative more than anybody else we've seen in our lifetime,
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And on this issue of crime, it's a, by the way, the timing on this is perfect.
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You know, things are a little slowed down with the news cycle.
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So this is a great moment to bring focus to this issue and to show people where the two
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So, I mean, saying he's a dictator, it's just so pathetic after all.
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What are we going to pretend the Democrats care about spending all the, all the overtime,
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This is, this is where I come back to both politically and morally.
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Politically, it's smart because being against crime is something that the vast majority of
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Americans are connected to and carry and care a great deal about.
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But morally, it's better if less people die, especially young people who are overwhelmingly
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We're talking about people with decades of their life.
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If we played the clip of the, of the, I, this even makes me a little bit sick and I bet
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it's going to make you sick to the stomach to even think about two buck now that you're
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We played the woman who talked about being a victim of violent crime, getting pistol whipped
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and that she said, now she's, she feels very fortunate.
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She's pregnant and she's going to have a baby and she wants the city to be safer.
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Um, one of the worst things, and I'm going to be dark.
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One of the worst things that could happen to anyone out there is that your child is a victim
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Um, that woman in the press conference, and I give her credit from the Epic times talked
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about the psychic trauma that she still feels from the attack that she had, uh, levied against
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Um, I would also point out that anyone who loses a child is dealing with psychic trauma
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And when you consider who tends to be the victims of violent crime, it is overwhelmingly young
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men and their moms are never going to recover.
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We should do everything we can to make it the case that there are less victims of violent
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And I just, I give tremendous credit to Trump for this because a lot of politicians,
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Trump's radical gift is he looks at problems and he actually tries to come up with solutions.
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And again, I think it's the builder background because any of you out there that have worked
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in housing or building it, and it does, by the way, it doesn't have to be just a building
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All you do all day long is find problems and try to solve them.
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A successful business is really just an exercise in problem solving.
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How do we look at this situation and solve it to create a better situation?
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Trump comes in with fresh eyes because he's not a lifelong politician.
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And I think, frankly, when he looked at the data and realized we have a 30x murder rate
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in Washington, D.C. compared to London and Paris, that's unacceptable.
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And I think a lot of left wing journos, they're rich.
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They oftentimes have security to help protect them at their jobs.
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They don't want to acknowledge the problem because Democrats aren't solving it.
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And if Trump comes in and solves it like he solved the border, it would require them
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And what's unique about this is Trump is actually trying to save the lives of people in cities
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who either didn't vote or were highly unlikely to vote for him based on statistics.
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So he's doing the right thing, even though it doesn't necessarily benefit his base.
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The reality is Washington, D.C. voted more than any community in America against Trump.
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And Trump's still saying, OK, they may not have voted for me, but I want them to be safer.
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Look, when I lived in New York City and Bloomberg was essentially a Democrat.
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I know he was technically ran as a Republican, but he was doing a good job and he was keeping
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And I actually remember early in my career saying some nice things about Mayor Bloomberg
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as mayor and people getting angry at me because, yeah, is he bad?
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You know, was he a little nanny state on the big sodas?
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But did he keep the city running in a way that it was efficient and safe?
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So you would think that there are some things that can transcend just the most basic tribal
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politics, like if you're doing a good job making me safer in my city, I am thankful for
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No, Democrats, it's they would rather be unsafe and Trump be wrong than be safe and have to
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I think that's really an explanation of Trump derangement syndrome.
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And I didn't see I didn't see that, but I just I know that mentality is pervasive.
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