1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome and everybody to the Thursday edition 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, coming to 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: you live from Austin, Texas, hosted by our station here 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: k lb J. A lot of news to talk about. 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: First off, we have a horrific shooting in Memphis. The 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: gunmen in custody killed four people. Live stream to shooting rampage. 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: Once again the issue of crime front and center, but 9 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 1: also the city of Memphis having a just an awful 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: week between the kidnapping and murder of that mother, the 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: jogger Liisa Fletcher, and now this this gunman, this rampage 12 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: underway right now, this is something I'm sorry, the rampage 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: underway which we're out in the aftermath of the shooting 14 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: ram Page that killed four people. Some of it was 15 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: live streamed actually on Facebook. We will discuss that. Steve 16 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: Bannon in New York City in court. He is facing 17 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: charges that seem to be essentially a rehash of the 18 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 1: charges that he was on a federal level that were 19 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: waved away. He was pardoned by the Trump administration. He's 20 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: hit with six counts including money laundering, conspiracy, etc. Is 21 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: this more lawfare from the Libs trying to take down 22 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: yet another Trump Ally, we still have the Moralagua situation 23 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: in the background. And then there's some additional discussion. Here's 24 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:47,279 Speaker 1: some additional policy about COVID from the White House Courtinator's Jaw. 25 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: Doctor Jaw will discuss that coming up here in a moment, 26 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: But first, Clay, you and I were talking about this 27 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: last night. There are some cities that have gotten a 28 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: lot of attention from us already on the show because 29 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: of what's been happening with their crime numbers nationwide. Whether 30 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: it's the thousand shootings that happened last year in Portland, 31 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: which just seems unfathomable for a city of that size, 32 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: or the all time murder record in Philadelphia, which it 33 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: just had last year and is on track this year 34 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 1: to have an even higher number of murders for the year. 35 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: The city of Memphis has been having a similarly awful 36 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: time with crime, and here we have just this week 37 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: two national level stories, high profile brutal murders, both involving 38 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: men who had been charged and convicted of serious crimes 39 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: before and who are out on the street. This is 40 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: an urgent national issue. Now, how do we get law 41 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,679 Speaker 1: in order restored to America's cities. I think it's the 42 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: number one issue in the country right now, buck, I 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: really do. And I know inflation is awful, and there 44 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: continues to be fallout for COVID, and certainly the border 45 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: is a mess. All of those things are true. But 46 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: I just want to hit you guys with some data. 47 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: So I live in Nashville, and when I was growing up, 48 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: Nashville and Memphis were considered to be rivals cities. You 49 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: grew up in Tennessee and you were in Nashville, there 50 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: was a rivalry with the city of Memphis, like a 51 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: lot of places out there. If you live in Dallas, 52 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: there's this rivalry with Houston, right, two similar size cities 53 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: that exist inside the same state. There's a certain a 54 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: little bit of tension, but almost in a fun competitive way. 55 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: Memphis has gone off the radar with crime in a 56 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: way that is happening all too commonly in many different 57 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: parts of the country. And I just want to hit 58 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: everybody out there with some data. Two thousand and sixteen 59 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: was the all time murder high, according to research that 60 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: I did, of two hundred and thirty murders. Now, Memphis 61 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: is not a massive size city, Okay, It's filled with 62 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: many fabulous people, many law abiding citizens. I've spent a 63 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: lot of time in Memphis in my life. Two hundred 64 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: and thirty all time murder high twenty sixteen Buck. In 65 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: twenty twenty they had three hundred and twenty five murders, 66 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: almost a hundred more murders than had ever existed in 67 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: the history of the city. And then in twenty twenty 68 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: one they had three hundred and forty six murders, over 69 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: a hundred more than previously they had had in the 70 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: all time history. Okay. And so there are a couple 71 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: of things going on here that I believe have suddenly crystallized, 72 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: and this has become national. This was the number one 73 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: trending story last night. Eliza Fletcher, mom of two thirty 74 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: four years old kindergarten teacher marathon training out for what 75 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: should have been a completely safe morning run, just kidnapped 76 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: and murdered. And now you have in the same week 77 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: a nineteen year old who should have still been in prison, 78 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 1: who got three year sentence he was accused Buck of 79 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: attempted murder, got three years, got out early and streams 80 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: himself driving around the city killing people, and to many 81 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: it is just a crystallization of the descent into madness 82 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: that we have created in this country as it pertains 83 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 1: to crime. And I just want to play this last 84 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: night live on Memphis Television. This is a local Memphis 85 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: woman reporter who basically breaks down The video is up. 86 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: You can go see it at Clay Travis on Twitter. 87 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: Will put it up on Clay and Buck dot com. 88 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: But I think for many people this is how they 89 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 1: feel in so many different cities. Memphis is a representation 90 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: and a symbol of our descent into criminality all over 91 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: the country. Listen to this. Memphis is tired right now. Yeah, 92 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm with you all. Memphis is hired right now. 93 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: The Eliza Fletcher kidnapping and abduction and murder, the other 94 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: crimes we've had this year leading up to this, it's 95 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: difficult right now. Bear with me. It's a very nerve 96 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: wracking night. It has been a very difficult week for 97 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: those who know the Fletcher family, for those who know 98 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: the family of that minister who was shot and killed 99 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: in her driveway during a carjacking, who know the community 100 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: advocate from Whitehaven, who was shot and killed. It has 101 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: been difficult in Memphis, Okay, Buck, I know this city well. 102 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: I love Memphis. It's a fantastic place. But there are 103 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: many people in my neighborhood now in the Nashville area 104 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: who said, I can't do Memphis anymore. I don't feel 105 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: safe there with my kids. If you have the ability 106 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: to leave, many people are leaving. They've moved thirty and 107 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: forty miles outside of this city. We know what works 108 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: Buck in the nineteen nineties. For many of you out 109 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: there sending to us right now, certainly you lived at 110 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: Buck in New York City. It was in many of 111 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: our cities killing fields. It was wildly unsafe. And what 112 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: do we do. We put criminals behind bars the nineteen 113 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: ninety four bill, and we put way more police on 114 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: the streets, and the crime rates collapsed. Then a few 115 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: years ago we started to listen to these left wing 116 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: advocates who were saying, Oh, our criminal justice system is biased, 117 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: Oh it's unfair. Oh we're putting people behind bars for 118 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: too long. And what's happened skyrocketing crime rates and the 119 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: people who are overwhelmingly paying the price for this, by 120 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: and large, our inner city residents who BLM claims to 121 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: care about but vanishes. They don't march for any of 122 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: these people that are dying. Look at the city of Memphis. 123 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: Two hundred and thirty was the all time high. That 124 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: all time high was set in twenty sixteen, which was 125 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: the other peak of the BLM movement. And then in 126 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty they go up nearly a hundred murders. I mean, 127 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: that's not even close to setting and all time high. 128 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: That's shattering the all time high. And then they go 129 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: up again in twenty twenty one, and it looks like 130 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: they're going to go up again potentially in twenty twenty 131 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: two as well. This has to be solved. This is 132 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: an abject failure and there are severe consequences. People are 133 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: living in fear all over this country. There are ramifications 134 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: of these incidents that we talk about that go well 135 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: beyond even the immediacy of public safety. It destroys cities, 136 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: It destroys the ability of businesses to operate there. It 137 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: then affects the schools. When people don't feel safe in 138 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: a neighborhood. There are a lot of other things that happen. 139 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: A lot of other things occur that are really hard 140 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: to turn around. This is how you destroy a city 141 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: over the long run. This is how you get a 142 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: place like Detroit, for example, which people now forget. I mean, 143 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: Detroit has been for so many decades. There was the 144 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: scene of It's where they start out in Beverly Hills 145 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: Cop to show how you know what a rough situation 146 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy's dealing with. It's the setting for RoboCop because 147 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: it's such an urban they were thinking, this is back 148 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: in the eighties urban dystopia Detroit. People forget the nineteen 149 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: fifties there were more millionaires in Detroit than anywhere else 150 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: in the United States. There was a time when Detroit 151 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: was a beautiful place with an incredibly robust middle class, 152 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: a lot of wealth, a lot of prosperity. It was 153 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: destroyed as a city. It was destroyed through bad policy 154 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: and through crime and all the other things that come 155 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: along with that. And I just think, Clay, we're heading 156 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: into a midterm election here. We need every single Republican 157 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: to be making the case to people this is about 158 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: keeping you safe and your community. We could run for 159 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: the next hour with just sound bites of Democrats from 160 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: across the country. The most well known names the Democrat 161 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: Party who just eighteen months ago, we're talking about defunding 162 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: police and our racist law enforcement, and we need to 163 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: let people out of prison sooner, and the whole system 164 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: is unjust. And we see what's happened, And they were 165 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: pushing for that moment there. You know, BLM was essentially 166 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: just the explosion of political mobilization that had been building 167 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: up by the left, had been building up for years 168 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: in advance of it. The ramifications have been disastrous for everybody. 169 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: Every Republican needs to say, look what they've done in 170 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: your city. And even in a place like Tennessee. I 171 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 1: think for a lot of people who live elsewhere, live 172 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: in very blue states in New York, for example, Los Angeles, 173 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: in New York and California, respectively, they would say, well, 174 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: doesn't Tennessee have law and order? No, you've got bad prosecutors, 175 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: often sorrost back prosecutors. Even in very red states, people 176 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: that realize, even in place like Houston, Texas, the prosecutor 177 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: there is not good when it comes to law and order. 178 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: Even states where you would expect it to be better. 179 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: The cities and the city bureaucracy and government infrastructure is 180 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: falling apart on the law and order issue, and it's 181 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: because of the ideology of the left, the Democrat Party. 182 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: They're pandering their social justice obsession. People want to feel safe, 183 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: they want and it's not even just the cities. I 184 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: have to remind everybody too. Rural areas of the country 185 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: have seen a massive increase, respectively by percentages in crime 186 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: in the last three years alone. Buck when we come 187 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 1: back this, the lies of Fletcher story has connected with 188 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: so many people because if you aren't I always say, 189 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: one way to judge the safety of a community is 190 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: do women feel comfortable going for a run or going 191 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: for a jog. I think that is one of the 192 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: principal questions you're walking around in a city. If women 193 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable going out for a jog. You've talked 194 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: about this, like, oh, you couldn't even go in the 195 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: park at night in New York City for a very 196 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: long time. This woman, Eliza Fletcher, training for a marathon, 197 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: is running by the University of Memphis. Now, there used 198 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: to be this argument, oh, well, this neighborhood's safe, but 199 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: you don't want to go a few blocks away because 200 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: that neighborhood's not safe. There are many cities now where 201 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: it's not safe anywhere, and that is crystallizing. People know it, 202 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: they feel it, and I'll tell you what's happening all 203 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: over the country when we come back. There are memorial 204 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,839 Speaker 1: runs going on for Eliza Fletcher that my wife, many 205 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: other women out there are going to do and doing 206 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: in her honor because of what's happened there. And so 207 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 1: we need to talk about it, recognize it, and figure 208 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: out how to fix it and make it happen immediately, 209 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: because far too many people are dying in our cities 210 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 1: right now, a violent crime from people who have no 211 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: business being on the streets. 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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck 230 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. We are talking about the incredible rise in 231 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: violence all over the country using the city of Memphis 232 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: is a prism. We're number one in the city of Memphis. 233 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: By the way, If you are listening to us right 234 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: now and you want to discuss how the city of 235 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: Memphis has changed just over the past couple of years 236 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: based on the all time highs for murder being skyrocketing 237 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: and breaking what had been already a high rate, we'd 238 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: be interested in hearing from you. One eight hundred two 239 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: eight two two eight eight two. That's people in Memphis. 240 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: What is the experience like Buck the Eliza Fletcher story 241 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: and for a lot of people out there, mom of two, 242 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: thirty four years old, training for a marathon up early running. 243 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: If you live in the South, this is not uncommon 244 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: at all, especially in the summer when it's super hot, 245 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: if you have to go on a long run. She 246 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: was running early in the morning before her kids got up, 247 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: was attacked, kidnapped and murdered. Random act of violence. Well, 248 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: this is happening all over the country now, but in particular, 249 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: this started in Memphis. Hundreds of runners are going to 250 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 1: meet early tomorrow morning to finish Eliza Fletcher's run in 251 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: the city of Memphis. She was just by the University 252 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: of Memphis campus on the halfway point buck of a 253 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: ten mile earning early morning run when she was kidnapped 254 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: and murdered. They are going to leave all of these 255 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: runners in Memphis at four to twenty in the morning 256 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: because so many women out there are saying we have 257 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: the right to run anywhere at any time, and my wife. 258 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: They're organizing this all over the city of Nashville, which 259 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: is close to Memphis, where many people have a connection. 260 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: I would encourage many different people out there listening to 261 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: us all over the country to be potentially trying to 262 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: do the same thing. But Buck, this is really crystallized 263 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: with a huge segment of the population. Lots of moms 264 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: out there with young kids, out on early morning runs, 265 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: and they're thinking, if this could happen to her, it 266 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: could have just as easily been me. Well, Clay, you know, 267 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: there was a very very well known and another horrific 268 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: case people just referred to as the Central Park Jogger, Yes, 269 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty nine, where a woman was almost murdered. 270 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: She was beaten to the point where they thought she 271 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: was dead when they arrived on the scene, including with Rocks. 272 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: She was raped, And that was just one of those 273 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: moments where the city of New York, it was the 274 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: one probably the one that was more than any other 275 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: pointed to as people just said enough, yeah, whatever it takes, however, 276 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: we have to go about this to clean up this 277 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: city after something like that would happen. This is in 278 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: Central Park in Manhattan, so that was in an area 279 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: that was thought of as generally being a more safe 280 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: part of the city. I mean, I grew up going 281 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: to Central Park. All of my high schools and grammar 282 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: school sports were played there, so I know, I know, 283 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: we all know the area where it happened as well. 284 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: It was a part of the city realizing waking from 285 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: it's from it's just stupor about what to do when 286 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 1: it comes to law enforcement. You know, all the inaction 287 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: finally ceased and then it became an issue. You remember 288 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: later on they turned into a social justice issue. The 289 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: Central Park five. They had this whole case and the 290 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: city just vacated, wrote checks to the families, and essentially vacated, uh, 291 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: the convictions of some of the individuals involved. There was 292 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: one who was held in prison, uh, particularly for it. Um, 293 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: there's there's I think going to be a moment here 294 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 1: for the whole country where we look at the Eliza 295 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: Fletcher case and realize, this is this is just unacceptable. 296 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: We have to actually do something as a country, as 297 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: a as a city, as a state. I'm sure as 298 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 1: well in Tennessee and in Memphis. Yeah, and Buck. What's 299 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: interesting about Central Park in particular is what are the 300 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: stories of late men. Oh, somebody's calling for a crime 301 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: and it's too aggressive of policing. I feel like that's 302 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: pivoting in a big way. People are going to start 303 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: to beg for police to be able to protect them. Again, 304 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 1: that's where we're headed and that's where we should be. Look, 305 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: employers know this. It's more complicated than ever to manage 306 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: your employers and run a business, keeping up with changing regulations, 307 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 1: HR compliance, hiring and retaining top talent, handling payroll. If 308 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: you've ever run a business, you know about all these challenges. 309 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 1: There's a limit to what you yourself can do, no 310 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: matter how hard you're working to keep your employees engaged 311 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: and run your business without incident. 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Clay and I are here 320 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas broadcasting from KLBJ, which is our station here. 321 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,360 Speaker 1: Appreciate very much them making it so hospitable, so welcoming. 322 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: We'll be seeing some of our listeners and friends later 323 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: today in the Austin area, So that'll all be of 324 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: course in advance of the big football game this weekend, 325 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: which we will certainly be having a lot of fun at. 326 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: So great to be down here in Texas and be 327 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: seeing a lot of folks, a lot of Texans later 328 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: on today. A news story you're gonna see all on today. 329 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: I don't I don't have a really much analysis on 330 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: it at the moment, but I just wanted to note 331 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: this because it is breaking news that will continue to 332 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 1: be such, I believe for the hours ahead. Is the 333 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: Queen of England. Is their concerns about her health to 334 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: the point where it seems that the ninety six year 335 00:19:55,560 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: old monarch may not have much time left Elizabeth maybe 336 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: in her final hours. This is a the media look, 337 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: this is one of those things Clay. Rarely are there 338 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: are there news stories anything involving the royal family of 339 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: the UK seems to get a lot of media attention. 340 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 1: I guess people UH focus in on this like it 341 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: seems to me the amount of time and attention that 342 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: the entire English royal family, British royal family gets is 343 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: not something that Americans would necessarily be very interested in. 344 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: But I guess they're just the biggest. They're kind of 345 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: the original global celebrities in many ways. I mean, I'm 346 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: embarrassed to admit how much I care. I do. Yeah, 347 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: this is good because I sit here. It is impossible 348 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: for me to care less. Explain to me I think 349 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: I've got the Royal family. Obviously, I wish, you know, 350 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: good health to Queen Elizabeth and all that. But I 351 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: just mean, as a news story, I don't really understand. 352 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: I think it's the drama associated with the family. I mean, 353 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: and I watch all these stupid interviews, you know, like 354 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: Megan Markle sits down with Oprah. I'm gonna be there. 355 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: I'm putting it on. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it. 356 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 1: I imagine there's a lot of people out there that 357 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: kind of feel like I do. The Royal family is 358 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 1: a little bit of a guilty pleasure. It feels very 359 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: soap opera like to me. And I grew up buck 360 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: as when when I was out of school sick, I'd 361 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: go to Grandma's house. You know what you'd do. We'd 362 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 1: sit around and watch days of our lives and and 363 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: you know, I would watch all of the all the 364 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: soap operas with Grandma, So there's a little bit of 365 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: a soap opera compelling element to that. And then I 366 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: think a lot of people project whatever drama exists in 367 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: the same way. For instance, in the United States, Dallas right, 368 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: we're down in Texas right now. I grew up watching 369 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: Dallas right. The Ewing Family, I think there and now 370 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: the best show on television in my opinion succession. I 371 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: think the family drama is compelling because people sort of 372 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,479 Speaker 1: can relate to it. It's everybody says like, oh, you know, 373 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: Lady Die, is this person in my larger family? And 374 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: this is Prince Charles. And I think there's an element 375 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: of schadenfreud right where you see these people who should 376 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: have everything and then they're not happy either, and their 377 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: lives just play out on such a grand stage that 378 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: everybody has an opinion on them, much like I mean, look, 379 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: we don't have official royalty in America, but for a 380 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: long time, the Kennedy's, I feel like we're an American 381 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: that was that was a creation of the media, The 382 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: whole Camelot thing. If people only knew the truth about 383 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: JFK and the certain behind the scenes behavior, the stuff 384 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 1: that mis JFK was up to. There was elements of 385 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: that with the Bushes too, right, where it's like, oh 386 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: that all the family drama and intrigue that was associated, well, 387 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 1: that was in the other direction, right, Camelot was propping 388 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: up the Bush family drama was stuff they were trying 389 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: to the media was trying to tear down. But so 390 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 1: I think there's an element of that. And now the 391 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: Queen ninety six, I mean, this is one of those 392 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: last true heroes I feel like we have in the 393 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: context of everybody wants to talk about Nazis now right, 394 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: everybody everybody who disagrees with you on social media is 395 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: a Nazi. You're a big history person, Buck, I'm a 396 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: big history person. The proudest moment for most British people 397 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: historically in modern memory, and it's fading from modern memory, 398 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: is the response to the blitz, the bombing campaign, the 399 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: potential that England was going to be invaded by Hitler, 400 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 1: in the fact that they were Western civilizations spartans at 401 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: the pass of Thermopoli. That's a perfect analogy that almost 402 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: no one's gonna get, but it is. It is well said, 403 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: and so she crystallized that for many people right as 404 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: the Queen as a young lady. And I feel like 405 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: Charles is going to be incredibly you know, he's seventy 406 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 1: five years old. Eventually he's going to become king for 407 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: a relatively short period of time. You've got the Williams 408 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: situation with Harry who now lives in California with his 409 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: mediocre actress wife Megan Markle. And I just wonder how 410 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: much of a unifying force everybody loves the Queen. I 411 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: don't know that there's ever going to be a royal 412 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: in our life that has the same love affing. So 413 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: I just want to tell everybody listening all across the country. 414 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: I thought that we were just giving you a thirty 415 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: second news update on the Queen of England. Three hours 416 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: is ready to do a Royal Family podcast, and I 417 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: had no idea that he had this depth on the 418 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,719 Speaker 1: British Royals. I mean, for me, I'm pretty sure we 419 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: want a war so we'd never have to care again. 420 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: That's how I view this. But you you are ready 421 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: to get I'm all in. If anybody needs a Royal 422 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: Family expert guest, I am I am ready to come 423 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: in and put on and drink my pems cup and 424 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: pretend that I'm at Wimbledon and talk all about the 425 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: who do you think would be? And I wanted to 426 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: talk about the law fair against Steve Bannon, which we'll 427 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: get into in a second, which is also a part 428 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 1: of the Marlago move, which is also a part of 429 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: trying to use the law and the deep state to 430 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: destroy a Republican opposition. But Clay, since we're on this one, 431 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: who would be a more insufferable dinner guest for the 432 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck Show. Jennifer Lawrence or Meghan Markle. I 433 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: think Jennifer Lawrence is funny, so I think Megan Markle 434 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: would be the answer. Okay, if you look at Jennifer 435 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: Lawrence's history, like, yes, she said that she's having nightmares 436 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: about Tucker Carlson, and she's yes, yeah, I would be so. 437 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: But that's what I was gonna say. If if you suddenly, 438 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: instead of being called a right wing extremist by USA today, 439 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: if I had suddenly picked up my phone and gotten 440 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: texted that Jennifer Lawrence was having nightmares about me, the 441 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: first thing I would have said is, first of all, 442 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: I would have texted my wife, you've gotten too much 443 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: love this week, mister right wing extremists, and now Jennifer Lawrence. 444 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 1: I would have immediately grabbed that article and I would 445 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: have texted it to my wife and I would have said, 446 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: these aren't nightmares. She's in love with me too, uh 447 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: and uh, and my wife would have not been not 448 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: been happy about it. And I'm sure you've seen the 449 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: memes with her very cozy with Harvey Weinstein of course, 450 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:07,439 Speaker 1: which uh, yeah, But I do think she's funny based 451 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: on some of the uh like, I think she would 452 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: have a sense of humor. There's nothing that seems particularly 453 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: likable at all about Meghan Markel. And she's a Kentuckian, 454 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: which means she's a neighbor a Tennessee. Feel like I 455 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: could easily talk to her about SEC athletics. He's gonna say, 456 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: you got her brothers love me. You guys have that 457 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: going well. Her whole family probably listens to. What really 458 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: should happen is the Lawrence family, who are probably listeners 459 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: to this program, should tell Jennifer call in sometime. We'll 460 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: set her straight, gently, responsibly, with a little humor, but 461 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 1: we'll explain to her the facts of life a little 462 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: bit here. I think she could use some guidance. I 463 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: don't think that's wrong. Yeah, I think that would work 464 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: out quite well. Now, speaking of setting things straight, Uh, Steve, 465 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 1: do you ever do you know Steve Bannon? All by 466 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: the way, you don't think Bannon's a fighter? Yeah? You know. 467 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 1: Bannon's a fiery guy. He's he's a true believer. He 468 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: was there. He was the one guy during the Trump 469 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 1: campaign who was at least credited with even on I 470 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 1: think it was they call it Billie Bush Monday Bannon 471 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: when everyone else was saying, oh gosh, what are we 472 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 1: going to do? Remember remember that the whole whole media 473 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: apparatus had this giant October surprise of Trump saying the 474 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: and they tried to say that Trump was admitting to 475 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: sexual assault. People don't even remember this anymore. Trump was saying, look, 476 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: when you're a celebrity, like you know, the women that 477 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: let you grab him and all this other stuff, and 478 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,479 Speaker 1: they were saying, well, he's admitting this sexual assault. Bannon 479 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: was the guy who I've heard this from multiple people, 480 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: including Steve and in different written reports said it's one 481 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: hundred percent we're gonna win stay of the course for Trump. 482 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: So you know he's and so the left I bring 483 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: it up because they hate him. I mean, they hate 484 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: his guts in the there's sort of this pantheon. Obviously 485 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: Trump is at the very top, and then you have 486 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: you know, probably Don Junior because he's also a fighter, 487 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: and you've got Stephen Miller and Bannon. This this original 488 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: Trump squad will never let it go, Clay. They're never 489 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: going to say, Okay, well you know what, let's can 490 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,959 Speaker 1: we come back and let's come back and deal with 491 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: the charges. Because what they've done here, just as a preview, 492 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,640 Speaker 1: is benn In they try to sneak in a federal 493 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: charge against him at the very end of the Trump 494 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: administration for raising money for the wall that we build 495 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: the wall project. He was pardoned by the president so 496 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,879 Speaker 1: we didn't have to deal with that. Now there are 497 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: essentially state charges for the same thing that they're which 498 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: is what people were saying they should do to Trump 499 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: all along. Remember that if they got Trump or his 500 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 1: family so he couldn't pardon himself or them, can you 501 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,679 Speaker 1: pardon yourself? Didn't you ever get can you pardon yourself? 502 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: Did we ever get a real I don't think there's 503 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: ever been an official test on it, but the answer 504 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: I would believe is yet. I think it's got to 505 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: be yes, because if it's not no, it's yes. All right. 506 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: Coming into that in just a second. There's one cell 507 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: phone company that we trust to uphold your values, one 508 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: company that we trust to give you fair and honest pricing. 509 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: It's Pure Talk. 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Just 542 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: my idea and Buck, we're talking about the Steve Bannon 543 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: situation and effectively they have a raid everything they have 544 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: against him, because the early storylines on bad Bannon, as 545 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: you well remember, was Trump is just kind of an 546 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: incompetent buffoon, the scary genius behind him. This was the 547 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: narrative he was. He was the double shirted, long haired Rasputin, Yes, 548 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: who was pulling all this, like you know, the sort 549 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: of the man behind Trump who there's this regular narrative 550 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: where Republican presidents aren't smart enough to make their own 551 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: choices and they're devious behind the scenes operators. And so 552 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: that was Bannon, and that narrative really hasn't disappeared even 553 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: though he left the White House. What did he last 554 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: like eighteen months or so in the White House before 555 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: he was gone some in fighting which is written about. 556 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: And I didn't get to talk to Jared. Did Jared 557 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: speak about this when you called in, because that was 558 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: one of the big things in his book, was his 559 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: battling with Bannon. No, we didn't. We didn't talk about 560 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: that on the interview when Jared called in because I 561 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: felt like so long ago to me, like the I mean, 562 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: it feels like fifteen years ago now that there was 563 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: a Bannon dispute inside the White House. But people aren't 564 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: over it, and they've decided that he is uh even 565 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: worse some people believe than Trump, and so they've gone 566 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: after him with everything they can and he's being prosecuted 567 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: left and right by by these Democrat prosecutors. So here 568 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: here's what's going on. So everyone understands this, uh in 569 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: the details a little bit. The federal case was that 570 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: Bannon and a few others, this is what was waved 571 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: away by a presidential pardon, Bannon and a few others 572 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: that the claim was swindled people out of twenty five 573 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: million dollars for the we build the Wall by misusing money. 574 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: And they say that essentially this that it was they 575 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: funneled the million dollars and use it to make personal purchases. 576 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: This is a little bit like, oh, they had they 577 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: had a nonprofit and they were you know, they were 578 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: spending too much money on personal items instead of you know, 579 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: this is something that you're getting down into the details 580 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: wondering are they going after Steve Bannon because this is 581 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: such a matter of public importance, this crime is so important, 582 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 1: or are they just finding something anything to try to 583 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: prosecute Bannon for. So they the federal one got waved away. 584 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: And this is exactly what they do all along. You 585 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 1: remember this during the Trump during the Trump Russia collusion lie, 586 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: which is and the special counsel the federal investigation of 587 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: then President Trump for stealing the twenty sixteen election with 588 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: the help of Russia. How shut up, don't worry, don't 589 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: ask too many questions. They just pretended right while that 590 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: was going. Remember there was always this oh, looking at 591 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: a Trump's taxes in New York, Oh, looking into the 592 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: Trump organization in New York, raiding the offices of Michael Cohen, 593 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: the consuliary to Trump, all these things that they did. 594 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: The reason those New York actions got libs so excited 595 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: was because there's no federal pardon power from the president 596 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: for people facing state charges, so they were always hoping 597 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 1: to simultaneously run state cases against him, so that that 598 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: was a way that they could effectively prosecute the president 599 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: or his allies. And here we are to your point. 600 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 1: It does feel like a long time ago. They haven't forgotten, 601 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 1: of course not. They will be settling scores against Trump, 602 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: his family, and his advisor for the rest of our lives, 603 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: as long as they can get away with it. As 604 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: long as they think there's no downside, there's no consequence, 605 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: this is what they're going to be doing. And I 606 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: just think that, you know, this is one of the 607 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: things you see over and over again. When was the 608 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: last time a Democrat was unfairly targeted with criminal a 609 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: national level, prominent Democrat politician was unfairly People can say, well, 610 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: what about Blagoevic? I mean, that was the whole other thing, 611 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: that was Democrats going after him. By the way, when 612 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: was the last time you had it? It doesn't seem 613 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 1: to happen. They use the law as a weapon in politics, 614 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,800 Speaker 1: and we sit around talking about fair play and neutral space. Yeah, 615 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: it's it's a messy situation in general because the prosecutors 616 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 1: are political animals, and this is going on down in 617 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: Atlanta right now too, where they're trying to bring a 618 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: state related charge against variety of Trump officials, and all 619 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: of the prosecutors have ambitions politically by and large. Who 620 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,840 Speaker 1: were involved in these cases, certainly Letitia James, who wanted 621 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: to be the governor and then couldn't find enough support 622 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 1: in New York to go after hocol which is probably 623 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: an incredible indictment of her. But what they want to 624 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 1: do is use these cases and the public attention that 625 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:20,319 Speaker 1: they get for going after right wing political figures as 626 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: a jumping off point for their own Democrat political operations. 627 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: And that's why they're really deciding to go after guys 628 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: like Bannon or pursuing so many of these state related charges. 629 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 1: It's the best way to make a name for yourself 630 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 1: if you're a prosecut Absolutely, the expectation when Democrats have 631 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: a and we're gonna mention this before New DA in Memphis, 632 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: sorrow Specs DA, and Memphis and for places that you 633 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily expect. My friends, they have done this all 634 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,720 Speaker 1: over the country. We talk about the weaponization of the bureaucracy, 635 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:58,240 Speaker 1: the weaponization of the judiciary and law enforcement against political 636 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: opponents of the Biden regime. It's one of the most 637 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: troubling developments that we've seen in recent memory, honestly in 638 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 1: this country when it comes to how it's all playing 639 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: out in the political fight. Clay, speaking of political fights, 640 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 1: some interesting news out of Georgia. We mentioned it yesterday. 641 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,359 Speaker 1: I know you're very fired up about it. Stacy Abrams 642 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,799 Speaker 1: is having a rough time in that governor's race. We 643 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 1: will discuss the latest. You'll break that down for us then. Also, 644 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 1: you see DC has declared an emergency over the migrants 645 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: being bussed there by Governor Abbott, the governor here in 646 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: Texas where we currently are. I think we should talk 647 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: about this and more to the point, every Republican in 648 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,839 Speaker 1: America running for office needs to be talking between now 649 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,720 Speaker 1: and November about the wide open border, the Fentonel flooding 650 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 1: our streets, and the open border Biden Democrats, because the 651 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 1: American people aren't having it.