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Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Speaker 1: kicks off now and we are honored to have all

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Speaker 1: of you. Thanks for hanging out. And we have the

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Speaker 1: aftermath of the big White House showdown yesterday really more

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Speaker 1: have Zelenski and Putin staring across the table at each other.

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Speaker 1: That may be in the works though in fact Trump

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Speaker 1: presidents on that this morning called in Fox of Friends. Also,

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Speaker 1: the big big question, after some of the discussions yesterday,

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Speaker 1: any capacity. Trump has addressed that as I thought he would,

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Speaker 1: crime data out of DC that Clay is going to

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Speaker 1: Look, I don't think you can criticize Trump for anything

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Speaker 5: This Trump administration, it won't be American boots on the

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Speaker 1: DC police manipulated data to make crime rates uppear lower.

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Speaker 1: So you have the Trump goodj saying, show me these

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Speaker 1: numbers again, because a big part of the you can't

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Speaker 1: do that, Trump, and it's not even worth doing that

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Speaker 1: because crime rates are down so much from the last year.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, does anyone really think that crime rate should

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Speaker 1: suddenly drop thirty percent in DC for no apparent reason.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're supposed to believe. There was no special initiative,

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Speaker 1: there was no crackdown, There was no change from the prosecutors.

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Speaker 1: Crime rates, violent and major crimes are down a third

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Speaker 1: from a year ago, and they're still too high, which

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Speaker 1: isn't that interesting Even if that were true, the crime

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Speaker 1: rate is still too high. But Clay, what happens if

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Speaker 1: it's clear that the books were cooked here by DC,

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Speaker 1: you know, additionally to everything else we're talking about, Because

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Speaker 1: I think there's a very real chance that that's what

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Speaker 1: we find out here. Does the stat DC today is

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Speaker 1: as bad as New York City in nineteen ninety stun you,

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Speaker 1: because I think for people who live in New York City,

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Speaker 1: that is a crystallizing Holy crap. Imagine in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: if people in New York City had said, oh, everything's perfect,

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Speaker 1: d C. And right now it's levels. Right now, DC

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Speaker 1: crime is at the levels of the worst in New

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Speaker 1: York City before Giuliani even came into office, before they

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Speaker 1: declined the homicide rate by ninety percent, That is where

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Speaker 1: DC is on a per capita basis, is where New

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Speaker 1: York City was in nineteen ninety. Yeah, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at places that had the BLM murder spike,

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Speaker 1: which is what happened. Yes, nice work, BLM. A lot

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Speaker 1: of murders going up all over the country. That's with

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Speaker 1: that movement that democrats and CNN pundits and assorted liberal

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Speaker 1: millionaires were all, Oh, it's a Kamala Harris, big BLM supporter,

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Speaker 1: big BLM fan, You know a lot of let's have

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Speaker 1: as many rates riots and anti police mayhem as possible

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Speaker 1: in the streets of America during a during a pandemic,

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Speaker 1: no less, but clay Chicago had about eight hundred homicides

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Speaker 1: that year.

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Speaker 2: Eight hundred.

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Speaker 1: Chicago's a quarter the size of New York City. You

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Speaker 1: have thirty two one hundred murders in Chicago if it

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Speaker 1: were New York City size per capita. When you start

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Speaker 1: to extrapolate, when you start to expand out what these

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Speaker 1: six hundred murders, which was the all time high for

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Speaker 1: its You know again, I can't. You guys are very fastidious.

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Speaker 1: What was the thing that I got wrong? Just a

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Speaker 1: moment ago, Oh, I said the da from Massachusetts and

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Speaker 1: that's Rhode Island. Buck Rhode Island. Don't put that on us.

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Speaker 1: So apparently that DA was from Rhode Island who went

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Speaker 1: crazy at the cops. But back to our numbers here, Clay,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at a crime rate in DC today that's

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Speaker 1: so bad that it would mirror the crime rate in

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Speaker 1: New York City when residents said we're fed up, we

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Speaker 1: can't take this anymore. Takes whatever it takes, and that's

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Speaker 1: what Giuliani stepped into and did whatever it takes. So

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Speaker 1: the fact that the liberal intelligentsia, for the most part,

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Speaker 1: some of them realize this is a losing issue for them,

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Speaker 1: are saying DC's safe. I've only been mugged five times,

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Speaker 1: had two cars stolen, been punched in the face twice.

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Speaker 1: You know, in the last three years. It hasn't been

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Speaker 2: And also to just lie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the other thing here is most of the

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Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt is having a White House press conference right now,

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Speaker 1: and we started off this hour giving you some of

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Speaker 2: Here is cut thirty six.

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Speaker 9: President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.

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Speaker 9: There have been a total of four hundred and sixty

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Speaker 9: five arrests since the start of this operation. On Thursday,

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Speaker 9: August seventh. Last night, there were a total of fifty

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Speaker 9: two arrests, including the arrest of an illegal alien MS

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Speaker 9: thirteen gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession.

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Speaker 9: Thanks to President Trump's leadership in the outstanding work of

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Speaker 9: both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like

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Speaker 9: the one picked up last night will not be allowed

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Speaker 9: on the streets of our nation's capital. Other arrests last

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Speaker 9: night included assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing, parole

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Speaker 9: violation for robbery murder, outstanding warrant for attempted murder, assault

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Speaker 9: on federal law enforcement officer, and felony assault. Four more

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Speaker 9: homeless encampments were also removed during yesterday's reporting period.

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Speaker 1: How can anyone be opposed to any of this, I mean,

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Speaker 1: other than your flexively Trump is Hitler stupidity, right, because Trump,

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Speaker 1: as we said earlier, is trying to win the Nobel

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Speaker 1: Peace Prize by ending as many different wars as possible.

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Speaker 1: How can anyone with a functional and rational brain here

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Speaker 1: everything that Caroline Levitt just said. Four hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: five arrests, you heard, many of them for violent acts,

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Speaker 1: and four hundred and sixty five arrest DC I believe

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Speaker 1: has a population of around seven hundred thousand, so that's

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Speaker 1: not an insubstantial portion of the overall population. I remember

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Speaker 1: we've talked about it. How many hard and fast criminals

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Speaker 1: do you think live in DC? One thousand, twenty five hundred.

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Speaker 1: It's a few thousand, and yeah. This is where I

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Speaker 1: mean a couple of things. One is the the Democrats

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Speaker 1: have underestimated that the attitude about illegals in this country

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Speaker 1: who commit crimes is you're getting in trouble with the

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Speaker 1: law and you're not even supposed to be here. Like

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Speaker 1: that is completely unacceptable, right, yes, this is and any

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Speaker 1: other country.

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Speaker 2: Could you imagine if what do you think would happen?

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Speaker 1: Uh, you know, if you were in Japan as as

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Speaker 1: an illegal, not even there as a as a visitor

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Speaker 2: Something, and you committed a crime, you think they'd be like,

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Speaker 2: you know what we're gonna do. Let's keep this guy around.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's keep him around for a bit.

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Speaker 1: Let's not send him back to his home country that's

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Speaker 1: actually responsible for him and that he is, uh, and

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Speaker 1: that has sovereignty over him legally, So so that that's

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Speaker 1: one part of it. And then the other part is

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Speaker 1: that you you don't actually have to lock up that

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Speaker 1: many people to have a huge effect on crime, because

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Speaker 1: it is serious criminals who are repeat offenders, who are

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Speaker 1: the overwhelming problem in these major cities. These known gang

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Speaker 1: members who are out, you know, they on an attempted

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Speaker 1: murder beef. They're out after you know, five years or something,

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Speaker 1: and now they're back out there and now they're robbing

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Speaker 1: people again, and they haven't gotten Remember, people don't get

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Speaker 1: caught for every crime they commit.

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Speaker 2: That's another part of this too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: The notion that someone is let's say, carjacking a person,

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Speaker 1: you think that that's the first crime that person's committed.

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Speaker 1: You think the car jacker is like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I was going to go for a walk in the

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Speaker 1: park today, but instead I'm going to use an illegal handgun,

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Speaker 1: hold it up at someone's head, threaten to murder them

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Speaker 1: and take their vehicle. No, they've been doing all kinds

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Speaker 1: of crimes that aren't even listed in the statistics up

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Speaker 1: to that point, maybe even aren't reported up to that point.

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Speaker 1: So to your point, Clay, if you take a couple

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Speaker 1: thousand people in DC and a lot of other places,

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Speaker 1: by the way, a couple thousand people and lock them up,

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Speaker 1: everybody's a lot safer. And I also think this ties

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Speaker 1: in with quality of life. You and I when we

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Speaker 1: that was in my not to interrupt you, that was

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Speaker 2: That was where I lived.

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Speaker 1: I could not believe when I walked in there and

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Speaker 1: I was just back up in New York City when

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Speaker 1: think I had to go get shaving cream because I

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Speaker 1: unlock the shaving cream for me. And why do I

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Speaker 1: mention that these are major quality of life things that

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Speaker 1: make you feel like you're living under siege. When you

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Speaker 1: or you can't buy a toothpaste without somebody having to

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Speaker 1: unlock it, it's a sign that we have had society collapse.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it just is.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of you know that feeling where you

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Speaker 1: every single product in the entire CBS or Walgreens or

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Speaker 1: whatever it is is under lock and key. And let

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Speaker 1: me say this, I live in obviously many most of

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Speaker 1: you guys know, Nashville Tennessee area. Memphis down the road

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Speaker 1: west from where I am has one of the highest

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Speaker 1: rates of violent crime anywhere in the world. It's unacceptable

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Speaker 1: if Trump is able to lower the rate of violent

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Speaker 1: crime in d C. I would be very supportive of

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Speaker 1: the governor of Tennessee saying we're marshaling all resources and

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Speaker 1: putting them to work in Memphis to lower the crime

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Speaker 2: And we're going to.

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Speaker 1: Use as as sort of a road map what Trump

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Speaker 1: did in DC.

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Speaker 2: Why would we not do this everywhere?

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Speaker 1: You know, this is there's a question why we would

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Speaker 1: not do it everywhere. With Clay also showing that it

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Speaker 1: what you have in a lot of places is essentially

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Speaker 1: a politics of urban despair.

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Speaker 2: You know, crime happens, you know, and this attitude has

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Speaker 2: to be this way.

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Speaker 1: D C has been, you know, crappy when it comes

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Speaker 1: to crime for as long as you and I have

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Speaker 1: been alive. Okay, yes we're getting old now. DC has

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Speaker 1: been a mess for going on fifty years or more.

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Speaker 1: And there are other cities in Detroit, other cities that

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Speaker 1: come to mind too, that have just been these holes

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Speaker 1: of crime, and.

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

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Speaker 1: And when people really see that in a way that

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Speaker 1: the media has to cover, it changes the whole conversation

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Speaker 1: going forward, because then it's not what do we do

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Speaker 1: we don't know? No, it's do you want this to

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Speaker 1: go away or not? Do you want the problems to

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Speaker 1: be fixed or do you want the problems to endure?

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Speaker 1: And how are you voting? Who are you putting in

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Speaker 1: power to deal with this? It becomes a choice instead

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Speaker 1: of apathy or despair. And that's why I think it's

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Speaker 1: so important, in addition to what you're talking about, which

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Speaker 1: is just the tactical replication which will happen in other cities. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: 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 red 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. Let's assume

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Speaker 1: that Tennesseeans make a very wise move and put our

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Speaker 1: friends Senator Blackburn in the governor's mansion going forward, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for example, there's somebody who has governor I think would

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Speaker 1: work hand in glove with federal resources from the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration to make Memphis a success story.

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Speaker 2: Memphis should be. Look.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been there, but I actually thought at one

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Speaker 1: point about investing in the city of Memphis some years ago.

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Speaker 1: So I did some research on investing in property there.

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Speaker 1: I didn't end up doing it. The crime was a

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Speaker 1: big crime, was a big problem because it affects property

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Speaker 1: values around the city.

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Speaker 2: But it should be awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's on the river there. It's got

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Speaker 1: a vibrant downtown, obviously, incredible music scene, great food. Memphis

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Speaker 1: should be a great city. The fact that when the

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Speaker 1: first thing a lot of people, at least outside of Memphis,

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Speaker 1: maybe inside, I don't know, think about when it comes

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Speaker 1: to that city now nationally as wow, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of shootings there, which is just that's heartbreaking because it

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Speaker 1: should be a great town and it has everything there

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Speaker 1: to be a great town. And you know, ninety nine

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Speaker 1: percent of the people who live there would make it

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Speaker 1: a great town if it was just up to them,

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Speaker 1: But there's one percent that need to be taken off

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Speaker 1: the streets. I will give you two good examples of

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Speaker 1: what you just said. My son, one of my sons,

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Speaker 1: The next day, I forgot my cell phone charger and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go buy a new cell phone charger

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Speaker 1: at a gas station. I went down to the front desk,

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Speaker 1: and you've had this happen. You talked about it in

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Speaker 1: Saint Louis. The front desk clerk said, be careful. Said,

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Speaker 1: buy a charger. No one in America should have that. Now,

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Speaker 1: if it's three am, four am, I still think you

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Speaker 1: should be safe. But I understands you're out super late

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Speaker 1: careful going to buy a charger unacceptable. Another part of

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Speaker 1: have examples of this. Two big cities they have kind

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Speaker 1: Nashville and Memphis have a rivalry. Tampa and Miami have rivalries,

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Speaker 1: and Jacksonville and Orlando, like all these different cities right

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard that argument in fifteen years. Even when

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Speaker 1: I started in media, you could occasionally still have fun locally,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of gigging people about that rivalry, which

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Speaker 1: is a good natured rivalry. I haven't had that heard

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Speaker 1: that argument made in almost a generation now because Nashville

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Speaker 1: made rational mayoral choices mostly now you can question some

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Speaker 1: left Memphis in the rear view. And there isn't a

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Speaker 1: comparison between those two cities. In fact, many of you

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Speaker 1: listening in Memphis right now have friends and family that

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Speaker 1: finally got fed up with the crime and said, I

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Speaker 1: can't raise my family here.

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Speaker 2: It's too dangerous.

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Speaker 1: This is a real issue, and it's as if we

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Speaker 1: just say, oh, there's nothing that can be done. My

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Speaker 1: question for everybody is, what if Trump's right like he

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Speaker 1: was on the border. Everybody said, oh, the border can't

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Speaker 1: been in any of our lives. What if Trump makes

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Speaker 1: DC crime drop by fifty percent? Suddenly you have to

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Speaker 1: start having conversations about why can't we solve some of

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Speaker 1: I think this is super, super interesting, and I am

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Speaker 2: Clay, have you heard of the Rio Reset? Sounds like

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Speaker 1: Does, but it's actually a big summit going on in Brazil.

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Speaker 1: Smart move to stick with Bricks. We know what happens

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Speaker 1: when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's an understatement.

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Speaker 1: Bricks is a group of emerging economies hoping to increase

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Speaker 2: Now that sounds like the plot line of a movie.

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Speaker 2: I'm listening.

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Speaker 1: Philip Patrick is our Bruce Wayne. He's a precious metal

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Speaker 1: what's going on there.

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Speaker 2: Can he give us some inside intel?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, he's been there since day one. In fact, a

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Speaker 1: major theme at the summit is how bricks nations aim

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Speaker 1: that doesn't s sound good. We got to get Philip

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Speaker 1: on the line. Stat already did and he left the

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Speaker 1: Clay and Buck audience this message.

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Speaker 10: The world is moving on from the dollar quietly but steadily.

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Speaker 10: These nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Philip. Protect the value of your savings account,

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Speaker 1: ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight. Third hour of clay

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Speaker 1: In Buck kicks off. Now we're joined by Senator Eric

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Speaker 1: Schmidt of the great State of Missouri. He's also got

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Speaker 1: a new book out, The Last Line of Defense Had

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Speaker 1: to Beat the Left in Court. It is out today.

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Speaker 1: Senator Schmidt, thanks for being here with.

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Speaker 3: Using me up with you guys.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit if we can about law enforcement,

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Speaker 1: because you were the attorney general in your state of Missouri. Now,

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Speaker 1: Saint Louis has had a crime problem for quite some time,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure that was a focus of some of

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Speaker 1: your efforts at the state level. If you had the

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Speaker 1: rit the support, the backing of the federal government, whatever

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Speaker 1: could be brought to bear Trump administration saying let's clean

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Speaker 1: up crime in Saint Louis and we'll give you whatever

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Speaker 1: resources you need at the federal level to do it.

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Speaker 2: Could you do it? What would change? How would it work?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: I think one thing is you'd get some of the

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Speaker 3: cederal law enforcement officials out of Washington, d C. And

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Speaker 3: get them out into the country. I think Cash Hoatill's

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Speaker 3: talked about this, and I think senior leadership and Department

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Speaker 3: Justice just talked about this. So there's just too many. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: those folks are in DC and are not helping, you know,

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Speaker 3: take out the bad guys across the country. Sadly, they

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Speaker 3: were spending a lot of their time. And we talk

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Speaker 3: about it in the book Last Line of Defense, in

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Speaker 3: the censorship effort, Russia Gate, all this nonsense, all the

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Speaker 3: man hour has been wrapped up in this political you know,

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Speaker 3: weaponization of the DOJ as opposed to fighting crime. The

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Speaker 3: other thing is one of one of the things that

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Speaker 3: we did when I was an Attorney General is relatively

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Speaker 3: what was unprecedent at the time. We created something called

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Speaker 3: the Safer Streets Initihip, where we had Deputy Attorney generals

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Speaker 3: in our office deputized as assistant US attorneys. So we

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Speaker 3: added to the capacity of prosecuting federal crime. When you

870
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Speaker 3: have let's just say, you have a prosecutor in Saint

871
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 3: Louis and she's gone, but Kim Gardner was a Soros

872
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 3: back prosecutor. If they don't want to do their job.

873
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 3: Then we worked with the US attorneys to go take

874
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Speaker 3: on carjackings and things like that. So it's a really

875
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 3: a successful program. When Biden came in, ironically, he scrapped

876
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 3: the program because he just, you know, this just was

877
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 3: not their focus. So I'm glad President Trump's in there.

878
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 3: I'm glad you know he's getting his US attorneys. That's

879
00:47:58,440 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 3: going to be kind of next up when we get

880
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Speaker 3: back at these US attorneys in place across the country,

881
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 3: and I think that'll help.

882
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Speaker 1: Are you stunned that Democrats seem unable to break the

883
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: reflexive opposition to anything Trump says, even when he says

884
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,720
Speaker 1: things that are super super popular with most normal people

885
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: in the country. Keep men out of women's sports, let's

886
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: have less violent crime in Washington, d C. Hey, I'm

887
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: trying to do whatever I can to stop people from

888
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: getting killed in Ukraine in the war there. All of

889
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: these things don't seem particularly political to me. Yet Democrats

890
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: have so brought into Trump is hitler, Trump is going

891
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: to start World War three, whatever negative you want to

892
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: associate it with it that they seem unable to acknowledge

893
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: that he actually has a lot of good ideas.

894
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's less political at play and it's

895
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 3: more psychological at this point.

896
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it truly is.

897
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 3: It truly is a psychosis and Trump arrangment syndrome is real,

898
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 3: and it manifests itself in just some crazy ways. I mean,

899
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Speaker 3: you gave a couple of examples. They're already actually taking

900
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Speaker 3: criminals off the streets in Washington, DC. Knjacktings have been

901
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 3: up five hundred plus percent in five years. Clearly something

902
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 3: needs to be done, but they don't want them to

903
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 3: do it. You've got it president who's has the confidence

904
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Speaker 3: and the strength to actually try to broker a deal

905
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 3: to end the bloodiest war in Europe since World War Two,

906
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 3: and they just tried to undercut him at every turn.

907
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 3: And I think the classic example, which is why I

908
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 3: don't think they've hit rock bottom yet, is this issue

909
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 3: of illegal immigration. I mean, they cannot help themselves. Chris

910
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 3: van Holland goes to El Salvador and has Margarita's with

911
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 3: an MS thirteen member because they hate Trump so much.

912
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 3: It's bizarre. But I think they've got a couple more

913
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 3: election cycles in them where they're going to continue to

914
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 3: lose before they wake up, and this is just no

915
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 3: longer the party of Ferry Truman or even Bill Clinton.

916
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 3: This has been captured by the radical left.

917
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Speaker 1: Now, you were part of some of the battles, legal

918
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Speaker 1: battles that well, the forces of constitutionalism and the rule

919
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: of law, but also Republicans and Trump supporters were involved

920
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Speaker 1: in recent years.

921
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Speaker 2: I know that's something you deal with in the book.

922
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Speaker 1: How should we view the fact that they brought four

923
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Speaker 1: criminal cases against a president. They held those prosecutions specifically

924
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Speaker 1: so they would occur in an election year. I mean,

925
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Speaker 1: on the one hand, Senator, it's well, Trump is president

926
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Speaker 1: and all's well, that ends well. But on the other hand,

927
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Speaker 1: that is a shocking precedent breach betrayal, I would say,

928
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Speaker 1: of the American people's trust, and they actually did it.

929
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Speaker 1: I feel like we're still processing that that happened because

930
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Speaker 1: it happened so recently.

931
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And one of the reasons why I wrote last

932
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 3: line of sense, which you can get on Amazon right now,

933
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Speaker 3: is there is a tendency guys. I think too now

934
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Speaker 3: that that we're past the fever dream, the fever broke.

935
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Speaker 3: I think in November twenty twenty four of this kind

936
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Speaker 3: of crazy, woke Don sense and the lawfair that was

937
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 3: brought against President Trump to throw them in jail for

938
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Speaker 3: the rest of his life. There's a tendency to kind

939
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 3: of gloss all that over, But you got to remember

940
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 3: the dark days. And I was on your show talking

941
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 3: about this was why I think your audience really liked

942
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 3: the book. This was a time of lockdowns, some pulsory

943
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 3: COVID shots, open borders, DEI struggle, sessions, ESD requirements, and

944
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 3: a censorship enterprise so vast that the Biden administration instituted

945
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Speaker 3: that was the biggest affront of the First Amendment in

946
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Speaker 3: American history. This is all just like in a four

947
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 3: year period of time where they opened up the floodgates

948
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 3: on all this and we had to push back. And

949
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 3: so while President Trump was out of power, we were

950
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 3: able to kind of hold the line on a lot

951
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 3: of this for the cavalry to arise in November of

952
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 3: last year. It did arrive, and President Trump finished this,

953
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 3: you know, epic historic comeback. And we're talking about all

954
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 3: the good things that Clay you just mentioned. They're happening

955
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 3: that Democrats are still opposed to. But there's a lot

956
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 3: of important lessons learned. I mean, whether it was. You know,

957
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 3: we took that vaccine mandate case, always from court, we won.

958
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 3: We took the Missouri took the student on def forgiveness case,

959
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,760
Speaker 3: always from court, we won. I sued fifty plus school

960
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 3: districts in Missouri for their forced mass bandates. We won.

961
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 3: We had the censorship case. And what that shows and

962
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 3: what the story is so important. It's kind of behind

963
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 3: the scenes. Look at what was it like to take

964
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 3: the depol of Anthony Fauci, What was it like to

965
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 3: take the deposition of Elvis Chan at the FBI, who

966
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 3: was pre bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story. We did

967
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 3: all that. The point is you've got to have courage.

968
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 3: It's a lot easier to just go to ribbon cuttings

969
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 3: or just kind of walk along than it is. We've

970
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 3: got to stand up and fight. And President Trump, I

971
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 3: think has transformed the Republican Party now, certainly from the

972
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:30,879
Speaker 3: one that I grew up in into much more not

973
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 3: just a working class party, but a party that's just

974
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 3: not going to lie down. We're going to stand up,

975
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 3: We're going to fight back, and if we do it,

976
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 3: we can actually win. So the book is kind of

977
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 3: a playbook on how we did it then, and how

978
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 3: we can do it moving forward.

979
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Speaker 1: Okay, I love everything that's happening now. I think most

980
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: people out there listening do as well. Here's my concern,

981
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: and you know this better than anybody, because you were

982
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: involved in so many of these lawsuits.

983
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 2: All of a.

984
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: Sudden, it's acceptable to say, Hey, we believe in the

985
00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: marketplace of ideas. Hey, we shouldn't be rigging the algorithm.

986
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: Hey we shouldn't be artificially inserting ourselves into the public

987
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: discourse and manipulating the results. Yet twenty twenty one, every

988
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:16,720
Speaker 1: social media company in America banned Donald Trump from getting

989
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: on I like the joke because it kind of brings

990
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: it home. Pinterest banned Donald Trump Pinterest like he couldn't

991
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: share his scrap book collages for people out there. How

992
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: do we stop this from happening when Trump isn't in

993
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: office and may ensure that what we are doing now

994
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 1: is going to extend into the future no matter who

995
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: the president happens to be.

996
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 3: Well, a couple of things. One is I think there

997
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 3: has to be accountability for some of these actions. I

998
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 3: think the most ivant out at about this. I think

999
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 3: you can draw a straight line like ironically Obama has

1000
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 3: has immunity because of the case that that was brought

1001
00:53:56,080 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 3: against President Trump presidential media, right, But Clapper doesn't, Brennan doesn't,

1002
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 3: Comy doesn't. And if you can prove beyond this, you

1003
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 3: have a statue limitation issues. But you don't if there's

1004
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 3: a conspiracy, and it was an ongoing conspiracy, because if

1005
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 3: you like the fuse and a conspiracy, whatever happens a

1006
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 3: mile down the road, you're still responsible for. And these

1007
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 3: guys knew it was fake, they knew it was BS.

1008
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 3: They laundered that stupid stile dossier into an actual intelligence report,

1009
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 3: and they tried to not only Acuba, tried to sideline

1010
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 3: an entire first term of a president. And then of

1011
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 3: course that was the impetus for all of the Oh,

1012
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 3: this is Russian disinformation, This is Russian misinformation. Everything was

1013
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 3: about Russian. This, Russian that, even though it was all

1014
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 3: BS and so I don't think we should just forget

1015
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 3: about that. I think there have to be repercussions. And

1016
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 3: as far as like social media companies, you guys know this,

1017
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 3: it's a good thing that they have something called Section

1018
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 3: two thirty protections, meaning they're a platform, not a publisher,

1019
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 3: meaning they're not legally responsible if somebody has, you know,

1020
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 3: an opinion that you disagree with on that platform. That's

1021
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 3: good for free speech, but you don't get to have

1022
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:01,919
Speaker 3: it both ways. You don't get the multi billion dollar

1023
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,240
Speaker 3: subsidy of being a platform where you can't be sued,

1024
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 3: but then also try to manipulate what's on your platform

1025
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 3: in an editorial like decision. So I think they got

1026
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 3: to pick, and if they picked the wrong one, then

1027
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:13,720
Speaker 3: you're a publisher. You don't have the protections. I also

1028
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 3: think a reform that will be important that I talk

1029
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 3: about in the book two is these individual bureaucrats. If

1030
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 3: you're engaged in suppressing somebody's First Amendment rights, you individually

1031
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 3: ought to be able to be sued. There ought to

1032
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 3: be an individual right of an action for an American

1033
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 3: citizen to sue you for suppressing your speech about, you know,

1034
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 3: questioning masks and how they work for kids or not.

1035
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 3: That would change the kind of risk dynamic that currently

1036
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 3: works because these, as you guys know, the beercrafts, aren't

1037
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 3: accountable to anybody. We need to start making them accountable

1038
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 3: to real people. So there's a few things that we

1039
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:45,720
Speaker 3: can do. But I you know what we saw guys

1040
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 3: in that four year period in particular, if that was

1041
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 3: going on somewhere else, like you know, the law fair

1042
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 3: and the censorship and all this mass migration and all

1043
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,439
Speaker 3: this stuff that is being used with tax fair dollars

1044
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 3: to fund, you know, we would be the State Department

1045
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 3: would be warning America and citizens about that place. But

1046
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 3: that was happening here. And again, the story of the

1047
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 3: last line of offense that you can get on Amazon

1048
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 3: now is about standing up, pushing back. If you do it,

1049
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 3: if you got the courage, that you can win. And

1050
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 3: this is a playbook of how conservatives moving forward can

1051
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 3: fight and win in the courts, which we've always kind

1052
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,280
Speaker 3: of resisted because we thought that was their terrain.

1053
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Speaker 1: Okay, procedurally, you're an expert on this. Democrats have a

1054
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:29,240
Speaker 1: huge advantage in DC because they have basically a ninety

1055
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,879
Speaker 1: five percent approval rating in DC, they can get any

1056
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: indictment they want.

1057
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 2: How do you deal.

1058
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 1: With that if you're talking about bringing conspiracy charges. I

1059
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: don't need like a law review analysis style, but just

1060
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:45,720
Speaker 1: for me and people out there who have a general

1061
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 1: sense that this is a problem, how do you rectify that?

1062
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 3: Well, once you have a conspiracy moving forward, it doesn't

1063
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 3: just exist exclusively in Washington, DC. It emanates out. So

1064
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 3: for example, and I'm just using this at ventially as

1065
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 3: an example, but let's just say that the raid at

1066
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 3: Mar A Lago was really about getting documents back that

1067
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 3: they thought President Trump had is related to the Steele dossier.

1068
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,839
Speaker 3: I'm just throwing out a scenario, yeahespathetically. Of course, if

1069
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 3: that were the case, You've got Southern Florida's where you

1070
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 3: can issue indictments. Because again, remember if Jack Smith is

1071
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 3: using a phony intelligence report that was generated by Brennan

1072
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 3: and Kobe and Clapper, like they begin in the conspiracy process,

1073
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 3: and he's furthering the conspiracy in South Florida. Again, the

1074
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 3: jurisdiction that you can kind of work in gets much broader,

1075
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Speaker 3: and I think that's one area that they might look at.

1076
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Speaker 1: Senator appreciates you being with us, and just want to

1077
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: tell everybody one last time. Go check out the book

1078
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: which is out today, The Senator's new book, Very important,

1079
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: very good stuff, the last line of defense, how to

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Speaker 1: beat the Left in court. Appreciate you, sir.

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Speaker 3: All right, guys, take care, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Your support to The Tunnel Towers Foundation makes a lasting

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Speaker 1: difference in real lives, like the lives of the Ernst family.

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Speaker 1: When US Navy Chief Petty Officer Michael Ernst was killed

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Speaker 1: in a training accident, Talta Towers provided a mortgage free

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Speaker 1: home to his loving family. His wife, Megan, is grateful

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Speaker 1: to Talented Towers and supporters like you for lifting that

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Speaker 1: financial burden off her shoulders. Their home is a safe

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Speaker 1: space for her and her children. Your generosity will allow

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Speaker 1: for that for years to come. Since Setleta Towers was

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Speaker 1: founded in the aftermath of nine to eleven, the Ernst

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Speaker 1: family is one of many that people like you have helped.

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Speaker 1: But there's so much more to do. Many are still

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Speaker 1: in need. We mustn't forget America's heroes have given so much,

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Speaker 1: and together we can say thank you in a lasting

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Speaker 1: and meaningful way. Donate eleven dollars a month to Talented

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