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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all

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Speaker 1: through the Tuesday edition of the program and again continuing

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Speaker 1: to follow yesterday's big events with Zelenski and all of

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Speaker 1: the leaders of Europe visiting the White House. But an

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Speaker 1: ongoing story that began last week, if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 1: on Monday, just eight days ago, the President of the

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Speaker 1: United States decided the level of violence in Washington, d

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Speaker 1: fact that much of the decision making for Washington, d

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Speaker 1: massive rehabilitation of Washington, d C. And one of the

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Speaker 1: things that he has done that has already I think

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Speaker 1: been insignificant is he said, We're not gonna let people

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Speaker 2: And I went up.

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Speaker 1: Two years ago, I think it was to visit Washington, DC,

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Speaker 1: a city that I lived in for four years in college,

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Speaker 1: and a city that Buck lived in for multiple years

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Speaker 1: as well. So we actually have decent ideas of what

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Speaker 2: And should be like. And I was blown.

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Speaker 1: Away by the number of homeless encampments that had been

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Speaker 1: allowed to occur in parks throughout the city. And I

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Speaker 1: don't mean somebody is sleeping in them. I mean somebody

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Speaker 1: basically is saying, this is my permanent home. And I know, Buck,

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Speaker 1: you saw a lot of these homeless encampments and it

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Speaker 1: I'm not claiming DC was perfect when either you or

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Speaker 1: couldn't just decide, Hey, in the middle of this park,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying homeless people didn't exist, but you just

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Speaker 1: didn't have these homeless encampments. So one of the first

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Speaker 1: things Trump did is Supreme Court has basically given states

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Speaker 1: in fact, the new mayor of San Francisco I was

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Speaker 1: reading the other day, has basically said we're done with

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Speaker 2: But Trump came.

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Speaker 1: Through almost immediately and tore down all of these homeless encampments,

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Speaker 1: swept everything up and said no longer. We're going to

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Speaker 1: beautify the community. So that was one step. But here

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Speaker 1: is the DC Police Union. They shared this yesterday. One

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Speaker 1: week of increased federal attention in DC, they have brought

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Speaker 1: in National Guard troops from all over the place. They

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Speaker 1: have been arresting people. Listen to these numbers DC crime

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Speaker 1: This is from the DC Police. Robbery down forty six percent,

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Speaker 2: In the one week.

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Speaker 1: That we have seen a surge of police on the streets, overwhelmingly,

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Speaker 1: the numbers have been moving in a very positive direction.

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Speaker 1: A couple of other things here buck Mariene Dowd, who

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Speaker 1: actually said Democrats have to be careful because Trump can

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Speaker 1: be imperfect, but he's basically one hundred percent right on this,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, to her credit, I mean, that was

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Speaker 1: lead editorial. This is the newspaper talking about crime. The

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Speaker 1: second lesson involves the importance of law enforcement. During the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty protest, many progressives embrace calls to defund the police,

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Speaker 1: and some prominent Democrats, including Kamala Harris, AOC and Mayor

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Speaker 1: the protesters seem to have an effect. Some officers, dishearten

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Speaker 3: Well, it's one of these areas where whatever the numbers

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Speaker 3: And you know this was the you tell these things,

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Speaker 2: There were some of this clay with DC's really safe.

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Speaker 2: I've lived here for five years.

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Speaker 3: I've only been mugged once, only had one car stolen,

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Speaker 1: But other than that in five years, it's really good.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this from the New York Times editorial. I

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Speaker 1: felt like I was taking crazy pills on Sunday again.

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Speaker 1: I read it, so all of you don't have to

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Speaker 1: but listen to what they wrote. This is the newspaper.

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Speaker 1: This is not one random guest editorial. This is what

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Speaker 1: the newspaper said. Virtually all sides in the defund the

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Speaker 1: Police debate made mistakes. Among the most damaging was the

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Speaker 1: growing belief among Democrat officials that enforcing the law could

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Speaker 1: be counterproductive when it involved low level offenses such as

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Speaker 1: public drug use, shoplifting, and homeless encampments. Some Democrats believed

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Speaker 1: enforcement of these laws disproportionately hurt minority groups and did

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Speaker 1: not contribute much to public safety. This argument never made

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Speaker 1: much sense, especially given polls showed strong support for basic

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Speaker 1: and the real world results were miserable. Parts of San Francisco, Seattle, Portland,

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Speaker 1: old backers have distanced themselves, and it just continues with

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Speaker 1: even says with crimes starting to fall, there's a risk

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Speaker 1: public officials will become complacent. Democrat leaders in particular should

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Speaker 1: shreds on defund the police. Now, it wasn't that long

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Speaker 3: That's what they're terrified of. That's the real story here.

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Speaker 3: I think they're terrified. Additionally, not maybe quite as much,

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Speaker 3: of the Washington Post right now, breaking news Justice Department

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Speaker 3: probes whether DC police manipulated data to make crime rates

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Speaker 3: uppear lower. So you have the Trump g DOJ saying

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Speaker 2: That's what we're supposed to believe.

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Speaker 3: There was no special initiative, there was no crackdown, there

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Speaker 3: was no change from the prosecutors. Crime rates, violent and

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Speaker 3: major crimes are down a third from a year ago,

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Speaker 3: and they're still too high, Which isn't that interesting even

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Speaker 3: if that were true. The crime rate is still too high.

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Speaker 3: But Clay, what happens if it's clear that the books

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Speaker 3: the stat that DC today is as bad as New

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Speaker 3: And right now it's levels. Right now, DC crime is

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Speaker 3: No less, but Clay Chicago had about eight hundred homicides

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Speaker 3: I can't. You guys are very fastidious. What was the

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Speaker 3: thing that I got wrong just a moment ago. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I said the DA from Massachusetts, and all the bass

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Speaker 3: that's Rhode Island, Buck, Rhode Island. Don't put that on us.

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Speaker 3: So apparently that DA was from Rhode Island who went

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Speaker 3: crazy at the cops. But back to our numbers here, Clay,

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Speaker 3: the fact that the liberal intelligentsia, for the most part,

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Speaker 3: some of them realize this is a losing issue for them,

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Speaker 3: are saying DC's safe. I've only been mugged five times,

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Speaker 3: I mean, the other thing here is most of the

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all

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Speaker 6: Clay and Buck. You better be nice to produce her. Ali.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, ed Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Caroline Levett

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Speaker 7: President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.

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Speaker 3: How can anyone be opposed to any of this? I mean,

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Speaker 2: So to your point, Clay, if.

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Speaker 1: And I also think this ties in with quality of life.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is there's a question why we would

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Speaker 3: not do it everywhere? With Clay also showing that it

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Speaker 3: can be done, establishes a new baseline going forward, because

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Speaker 3: what you have in a lot of places is essentially

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Speaker 3: a politics of urban despair.

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Speaker 2: You know, crime happens. You know this, this attitude has

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Speaker 2: to be this way.

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Speaker 3: D C has been, you know, crappy when it comes

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Speaker 3: to for as long as you and I have been alive. Okay, yes,

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Speaker 3: we're getting old now. DC has been a mess for

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Speaker 3: going on fifty years or more. And there are other

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Speaker 3: cities in Detroit, other cities that come to mind too,

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Speaker 3: that have just been these holes of crime, and.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be that way.

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Speaker 3: And when people really see that in a way that

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Speaker 3: the media has to cover, it changes the whole conversation

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Speaker 3: going forward, because then it's not what do we do

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Speaker 3: we don't know? No, it's do you want this to

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Speaker 3: go away or not? Do you want the problems to

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Speaker 3: be fixed or do you want the problems to endure?

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Speaker 3: And how are you voting? Who are you putting in

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Speaker 3: power to deal with this? It becomes a choice instead

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Speaker 3: of apathy or despair. And that's why I think it's

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Speaker 3: so important, in addition to what you're talking about, which

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Speaker 3: is just the tactical replication which will happen in other cities.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, and the reason why I mentioned, you know,

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Speaker 1: DC as a potential roadmap, as a temple potential example.

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Speaker 1: I live in a red state, We have a red governor,

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Speaker 1: we have read senators. Eight of the nine congressmen are Republicans.

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Speaker 1: But Memphis has blue city leadership, and that leadership has failed.

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Speaker 1: New York Times just told you the leadership failed in

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, in Seattle, in Portland, If The New York

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Speaker 1: Times is mentioning that that is true, then there is

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Speaker 1: no real argument to the other side. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: the left wing Bible right now, So why I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just mean this honestly. I'm not the governor of Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: you know, but if I were, I would be looking

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Speaker 1: at what's going on in Washington, d C. And I

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Speaker 1: would be thinking, why can't we solve this mess in

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Speaker 1: Memphis once and for all in the same way that

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Speaker 1: Trump is going after the mess in DC.

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Speaker 3: Let's assume that Tennesseeans make a very wise move and

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Speaker 3: put our friends Senator Blackburn in the governor's mansion going forward, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: for example, there's somebody who has governor I think would

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Speaker 3: work hand in glove with federal resources from the Trump

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Speaker 3: administration to make Memphis success story.

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Speaker 2: Memphis should be. Look.

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Speaker 3: I haven't been there, but I actually thought at one

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Speaker 3: point about investing in the city of Memphis some years ago.

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Speaker 2: So I did some research on investing in property there.

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Speaker 3: I didn't end up doing it, and the crime was

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Speaker 3: a big crime, was a big problem because it affects

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Speaker 3: property values.

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Speaker 2: Around the city.

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Speaker 3: But it should be awesome, you know, it's on the

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Speaker 3: river there. It's got a vibrant downtown, obviously, incredible music scene,

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Speaker 3: great food. Memphis should be a great city. The fact

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Speaker 3: that when the first thing a lot of people, at

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Speaker 3: least outside of Memphis, maybe inside, I don't know, think

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Speaker 3: about when it comes to that city now nationally as Wow,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of shootings there, which is just that's

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Speaker 3: heartbreaking because it should be a great town and it

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Speaker 3: has everything there to be a great town. And you know,

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Speaker 3: ninety nine percent of the people who live there would

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Speaker 3: make it a great town if it was just up

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Speaker 3: to them. But there's one percent that need to be

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Speaker 3: taken off the streets.

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Speaker 1: I will give you two good examples of what you

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Speaker 1: just said. My son, one of my sons, had a

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Speaker 1: sporting event in Memphis. I think I've said this on

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Speaker 1: the air before, but it was in March. We went

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Speaker 1: and stayed in a hotel because he had an all

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Speaker 1: day sporting event going on in Memphis area. The next day,

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Speaker 1: I forgot my cell phone charger and I was thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't want my phone to die. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go buy a new cell phone charger at a gas station.

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Speaker 1: I went down to the front desk and you've had

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Speaker 1: this happen. You talked about it. In Saint Louis. The

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Speaker 1: front desk clerk said, be careful. Said, it's eight o'clock

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Speaker 1: on a Friday night, and you're telling me to be

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Speaker 1: careful going to a gas station to buy a charger.

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Speaker 1: No one in America should have that. Now, if it's

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Speaker 1: three am, four am, I still think you should be safe.

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Speaker 1: But I understand you're out super late eight o'clock on

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Speaker 1: a random Friday night in Memphis. Be careful going to

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Speaker 1: buy a charger unacceptable. Another part of this when I

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Speaker 1: grew up in Nashville, and most states have examples of this.

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Speaker 1: Two big cities they have kind of a rivalry.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 3: Dallas and Houston have a rivalry. Nashville and Memphis have

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Speaker 3: a rivalry. Tampa and Miami have rivalries, and Jacksonville and Orlando,

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Speaker 3: like all these different cities right inside the states, there's

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Speaker 3: or Memphis, which is the better city. I haven't heard

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Speaker 3: that argument in fifteen years. Even when I started in media,

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Speaker 3: you could occasionally still have fun locally, you know, kind

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Speaker 3: I haven't had that heard that argument made in almost

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Speaker 3: a generation now because Nashville made rational mayoral choices mostly

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Speaker 3: now you can question some of the recent ones, but

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Speaker 3: And there isn't a comparison between those two cities. In fact,

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Speaker 3: many of you listening in Memphis right now have friends

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Speaker 3: and family that finally got fed up with the crime

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Speaker 2: It's too dangerous.

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Speaker 3: This is a real issue, and it's as if we

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Speaker 3: question for everybody is, what if Trump's right like he

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Speaker 3: been in any of our lives. What if Trump makes

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Speaker 3: start having conversations about why can't we solve some of

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Speaker 5: Great show, guys, listen and tremendous support for Trump and

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Speaker 5: what he's doing in DC and arresting four hundred over

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Speaker 5: four hundred people is great, but what happens like we

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Speaker 1: Well, I think this is where Judge Janine Piro, being

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Speaker 1: the head attorney in DC, is going to have more

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Speaker 1: say over what happens there. Right, So, I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of the CASU list bell a lot of the

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Speaker 1: lenient treatment that has gone towards people who are arrested.

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Speaker 1: Remember the one group that got no lenient treatment at all,

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Speaker 1: in fact, they got the book thrown at them when

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Speaker 1: they were lowering felonies to misdemeanors for almost everybody else

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Speaker 1: they were elevating misdemeanors for felonies was the January sixth defendants.

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Speaker 1: So it's not that they can't be cruel, and cruel

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Speaker 1: is the wrong word.

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Speaker 2: They can't be.

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Speaker 3: Difficult, they can't treat criminals like criminals should be treated.

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Speaker 1: It's that they have only focused on doing that to

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Speaker 1: political opponents as opposed to the actual truly violent perpetrators, who,

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Speaker 1: as Buck said, you don't just carjack one time, you

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Speaker 1: don't accidentally end up stealing someone's car. You've done twenty

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Speaker 1: other crimes probably before you make your way to carjacking.

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Speaker 1: Most people stare step their way to more violent and

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Speaker 1: more dangerous offensive. Well, this is why I also think

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Speaker 1: there was this whole campaign to get rid of California

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Speaker 1: had a three strikes law. Other places have had it

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Speaker 1: as well. I think that there should be, you know,

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Speaker 1: states that are serious about this stuff. If it's your

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Speaker 1: third time committing a serious felony, it should be there

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Speaker 1: should be a mandatory whatever, it's five years, or you

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Speaker 1: gotta go away for a while. Okay, you gotta get rehabbed,

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Speaker 1: you gotta spend some time thinking about your choices, and

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Speaker 1: you've got to stop being a problem for your fellow

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Speaker 1: human beings who don't want to live around crime and

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Speaker 1: the threat of serious criminality.

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Speaker 2: So these are mistakes.

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Speaker 3: These are mistakes that were all made really in the

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Speaker 3: late nineties early two thousands, when things got safe, people

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Speaker 3: started saying, let's get rid of things, and it was

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Speaker 3: always oh, but someone went away for stealing a thing

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Speaker 3: of toothpaste. Okay, well, you know, no one should go

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Speaker 3: that's not a felony, and no one should go away

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Speaker 3: for stealing a tough of toothpaste.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 3: This is like when people said, oh, people are getting

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Speaker 3: locked up for weed for twenty years for having a joint.

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Speaker 3: Not really, I mean maybe blue Moon. This is hugely important.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought this out. Most of those guys,

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Speaker 3: they're almost all men. They're pleaing down to a lesser

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Speaker 3: charge when they get when they are accepting a punishment

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Speaker 3: for a look, they're not getting charged. That's like the

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Speaker 3: Most people who are pleading guilty to low level offenses

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Speaker 3: actually have a second or third level offense that is

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Speaker 3: So a lot of times you're not getting an honest

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Speaker 3: going to be joined by Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt. Then Buck,

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Speaker 3: I am hopping into a car because I am speaking

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Speaker 3: down in Chattanooga, Tennessee to the young Republicans tonight. I'm

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Speaker 3: also going to be visiting our friends at Legacy Box,

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Speaker 3: who have an incredible factory down there, so you will

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Speaker 3: finish up a shop after we talk with Eric Schmidt,

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Speaker 3: can you get some good video content for our amazing

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Speaker 3: YouTube channel with you and the young Republicans and maybe

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Speaker 3: also you at the amazing factory.

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Speaker 2: Of our legacy box brand. That is a good idea.

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Speaker 1: I am not great at taking photo or video of

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Speaker 1: anything that I do, so yes, I will ask the younger,

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Speaker 1: more savvy social people there to hopefully get videos and

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Speaker 1: be able to post it.

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Speaker 2: It should be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to head and down spending some time

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Speaker 1: with a bunch of y'all in Chattanooga later tonight. But

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Speaker 1: up next we got Missouri Senator Eric Smitt