1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: the Monday edition of the program. Lots to discuss from 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: Trump's press conference announcing that he was bringing additional resources 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: to bear to try to bring down an unacceptable level 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: of violent crime in DC. Democrats have predictably already lined 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: up in opposition to bringing crime down. I read for 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: you Hakim Jeffery saying there's no issue here, despite the 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: fact that Washington, d C. Has nearly triple the violent 10 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: murder rate of cities like Mexico City, twenty eight times 11 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: the violent crime rate of cities like London and Paris. 12 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: In most parts of the world, the capital city is 13 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: a jewel where crime is not tolerated to any degree 14 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: at all. And yet Democrats are now upset at the 15 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: idea that Trump may be trying to bring down the 16 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: violent crime rate in the process, potentially saving millions of lives. 17 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: In fact, the argument is so crazy out there that 18 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: go ahead and stop me if this surprises you, and 19 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: I bet it doesn't surprise any of you. On MSNBC, 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: they're saying Trump's goal to crack down on violent crime 21 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: is rooted in racism. Cut five. 22 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 2: One of the things that we have seen over and 23 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: over from the president from his team, you know, Stephen 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 2: Miller saying it's like Baghdad in Ethiopia. They seem to 25 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 2: hold their harshest criticism sometimes for cities that are majority 26 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 2: black and brown. 27 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 3: Do you see that on what do you think that means? 28 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: So they had a breakdown in a discussion there. The 29 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: harshest criticism should go for cities that have violent crime rates, 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: no matter who is in charge, white, Black, Asian or Hispanic. 31 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: And there is no solution here. When Hakeem Jefferies is 32 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: coming out and saying this president can't be trusted basically 33 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: to lower the crime rate of Washington, DC, I just 34 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: think to myself, my goodness, Trump has completely boxed the 35 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: Democrats in to now consistently taking a position that one 36 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: hundred percent of sane people should be in favor of 37 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: unless you are a professional violent felon in Washington DC 38 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: who makes a living engaging in rampant criminality. Everyone else 39 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: should be in favor of this buck Like, some of 40 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: this stuff is just the idea that you would say, hey, 41 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: we want less people to get murdered, and Democrats would 42 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: raise their hands and say, actually, we don't need to 43 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: worry about that, because crime is not actually that bad. 44 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: And we just ran through all of the numbers on 45 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 1: national capitals, and look, if you want to argue, hey, 46 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: there's other cities that could use help to Yeah, I 47 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: would like to see the president frankly mobilized resources in 48 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: Saint Louis and Memphis and Kansas City and lots of 49 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: places out there where, Frankly probably still Detroit. The murder 50 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: rate is far too high, but why not use DC 51 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: as an example of what we can do to make 52 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: things better everywhere. 53 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 4: We also ran the experiment of what happens when you 54 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 4: give the Democrats their wish with this stuff, depolicing, the 55 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 4: Ferguson effect, defunding, whatever you want to call it, it's 56 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 4: worse for everybody. BLM two point zero did nothing except 57 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 4: for bad things when it comes to policy and the 58 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 4: numbers and the reality and the stats. It might have 59 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 4: made some people feel good about themselves in the moment. 60 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 4: They might have felt that their emotions, their anxiety, their 61 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 4: frustrations were expressed on the streets in one way or another, 62 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 4: hopefully not by looting a CVS, but there were some 63 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 4: people who obviously did that too. It did nothing except 64 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 4: make everything worse for everyone. We saw the results of 65 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 4: what they the Democrats want. Now it's time for the 66 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 4: different approach. And I think that there's nothing that the 67 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 4: Democrats can say that will be an effective counter to 68 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 4: the results that I think Donald Trump can bring about 69 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 4: here in DC. I'll just say this, Clay. It was 70 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 4: true when I was in the Intel Division. Now it's 71 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 4: called the Intel Bureau, by the way, so that they've 72 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 4: done a reorg at the NYPD, it's even bigger entity 73 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 4: than it was when I was there. But you could 74 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 4: speak to any field intelligence officer the FIO at an 75 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 4: NYPD precinct. Because they keep stats and numbers in data. 76 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 4: They want to know what's going on. They can tell 77 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 4: you who the bad guys are, and it's guys, okay, 78 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 4: I mean, the real problems are guys. We can just 79 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 4: say that it is men who are the ones who 80 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 4: are doing the really serious violent crimes. You know, ninety 81 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 4: ninety five percent of the time, they can tell you 82 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 4: who the bad guys are. They can tell you who 83 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 4: the gangs that they need to be concerned about are. 84 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 4: But the question is do they have the resources and 85 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 4: the backing of the political authorities to do what is necessary, 86 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 4: meaning the commissioner and the mayor in the case of 87 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 4: New York, similar thing in DC. You got to throw 88 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 4: the city council in there, and well the prosecutors actually 89 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 4: do something about it too, right. I mean that those 90 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 4: are the two angles of this that really matter. You know, 91 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 4: Judge Janine spoke about what she faces. I think we 92 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 4: should play this for everybody. I thought this was a 93 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 4: really important clip to hear. She's not even able to 94 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 4: do what should be done to keep people safe. This 95 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 4: is cut twenty five. If the person's under eighteen, listen 96 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 4: to this. 97 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 5: This is personal for me as well. 98 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 3: Last year I was robbed on the streets by. 99 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 5: Learned these teenage thugs had it done, got away with it. 100 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 5: Let's talk about the effort that between law enforcement, prosecutors 101 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 5: and judges, because it's a you know, recycling beltic. 102 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 3: These kids go, they don't fear the police, say. 103 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 6: They know it. 104 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 5: If you talk about how we've gotten to get these 105 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 5: judges and put these kids behind bar, right, adult crimes 106 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 5: deserve adult penalties. 107 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 7: Here's the problem, Assuming that there's seventeen years older than 108 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 7: seventeen years old. I can get the case if they're 109 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 7: under eighteen years of age. I can only get the 110 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 7: case if it's murder, rob one rape. Even if they 111 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 7: shoot a gun but don't kill you, I can't get it. 112 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 7: So the law has to be changed. As the President said, 113 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 7: cashl it's fail that has to be changed. Or right then, 114 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 7: even assuming I get the case, I get jurisdiction, I 115 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 7: get a conviction. The DC Council has given the judges 116 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 7: the ability to give probation on shootings, and so then 117 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 7: it's up to them all of these things, the UTH Rehabilitation, 118 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 7: Incarceration Reduction Act, and now they want to seal records. 119 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 7: So if we work hard we get a conviction, they 120 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 7: want to wipe it out. 121 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 3: So that needs all to be changed. 122 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 4: Just give give a comparison to this clay. In the 123 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 4: District of Columbia, the law enforcement bosses there in recent 124 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 4: years have made the decision that if you shoot somebody 125 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 4: but you're seventeen, you should get probation. But if you 126 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 4: walked into the Capitol building and so obade the ropes 127 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:06,559 Speaker 4: in Statuary Hall, you should get solitary confinement. You should 128 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 4: get a prison sentence, you should have your life ruined. 129 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 4: I think people see these things side by side and 130 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 4: they realize Democrats have completely lost the plot. They are 131 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 4: just on the wrong side of the crime issue top 132 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 4: to bottom, and enough is enough, and Trump is making 133 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 4: the right move here. 134 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: I think also this is how Trump is having massive 135 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: growth outside of just the white voter, because remember, Kamala 136 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: increased her support in twenty twenty four compared to twenty 137 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: twenty with female voters. White female voters in particular, over 138 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: like the only group that voted for Kamala more in 139 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: twenty four than twenty twenty. But I think a lot 140 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: of black men in particular, and growing numbers of Hispanic 141 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: Asian people who live in cities, they're looking around in saying, okay, 142 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: we've given Democrats our votes for fifty some odd years, 143 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: sixty years in many cases, what has that gotten us? 144 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: Record rates of crime, record rates of violence. And I 145 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: think this is one where everybody looks around and says, 146 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: how is this controversial? You know, we talk a lot about, hey, 147 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: we've got to bring bipartisanship back to America, reflexively being 148 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: opposed to Trump saying I want to bring down the 149 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: crime in Washington, d C to me as a great 150 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: example of Democrats having broken ideas, because basically what they're 151 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: arguing for is, hey, we should be able to remain 152 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: completely in control of police, and more people should die. 153 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: That's what their argument boils down to, because I don't 154 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: see I mean, you tell me you worked in this, 155 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: you saw it happen in New York. As you just 156 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: laid out, how is it remotely possible that this could 157 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: have a negative impact in Washington, d C. I'm not 158 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: sure it's going to be seismically successful, but there's no 159 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: world under which I can consider or conceive that having 160 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: more resources on the streets of DC would be anything 161 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 1: other than productive to everyone who lives in the DC 162 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: area when it comes to limiting violent crime. 163 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 4: Well, the opposition to this from Democrats, and we always 164 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 4: have to say, but this is a given anything Trump does, 165 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 4: they oppose. Part of the brilliance of this, as you've 166 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 4: pointed out, is instead of this being a really complicated 167 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 4: partisan issue where you know, oh, you know, should we 168 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 4: should we or should we not get rid of the 169 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 4: carried interest loophole that you know, hedge funds and private 170 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 4: equity guys using the tax code. Democrats, you know, Bernie 171 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 4: Sanders will be like, that's what the billionaires and the millionaires. Hey, 172 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 4: you know what, in that case, he's pretty much telling 173 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 4: the truth. But you know, those are issues where you 174 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 4: can get caught up in the in the uh, the 175 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 4: specifics of policy. This is how do we stop bad 176 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 4: things from happening on the streets of our capital. And 177 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 4: it's pretty straightforward. The Democrat op is to it as 178 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 4: one they hate Trump. So that's Trump is aware of 179 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 4: and he knows steering into these issues where he makes 180 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 4: the Democrats look crazy. It's why he threw the trans 181 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 4: thing in there too, by the way, because he's just 182 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 4: saying He's like, yeah, you guys, you don't want to 183 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 4: stop people from getting carjacked in DC. We all know 184 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 4: what has to be done. You also think that two 185 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 4: hundred pound dudes should play against girls in high school athletics, 186 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 4: and like that's normal, Like you people are nuts, And 187 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 4: he's right. But then beyond that, it's Democrats have created 188 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 4: this position, this narrative whereby because law enforcement disproportionately is 189 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 4: going and just by the numbers, by the facts, every 190 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 4: large city in America, this is the case, is going 191 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 4: to have a disproportionate incarceration effect on non white and 192 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 4: specifically black and to a lesser extent, Latino but specifically 193 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 4: black residents of the city. It is, it's a disparate 194 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 4: impact scenario. It's inherently racist to more stringently or more 195 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 4: strictly enforce criminal laws. And what has to happen here 196 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 4: is Trump because they've they've just hammered that. They've hammered 197 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 4: that point so many times for so long people believe 198 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 4: it without really thinking about it. The reality is that Washington, 199 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 4: d C. Which I think is a majority or close 200 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 4: to a majority black city. I think it is a 201 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 4: majority black city. I forget what the exact thing. 202 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: May have just ducked back under fifty right, for much 203 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: of the last fifty years it has been a majority team. 204 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 4: Pull up what the latest is. But you know it's 205 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 4: a close to fifty percent black city. Look at how 206 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 4: many people. You're talking about a couple couple of thousand 207 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 4: people at any given time who maybe are involved in 208 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 4: the criminal justice system in DC, incarcerated or waiting to 209 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 4: be incarcerated. You know, a thousand people, fifteen hundred people. 210 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 4: You're talking about hundreds of thousands of black residents in Washington, 211 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 4: DC who are committing no crimes, yes, who deserve to 212 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 4: live in safe neighborhoods, But one one career criminal will 213 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 4: engage in dozens, even hundreds of criminal acts, which makes 214 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 4: every there's a psychological impact of this. So Trump has 215 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 4: to show and this is what Juliani did in New York. Hey, 216 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 4: by enforcing the laws, we make everybody safe, and disproportionately 217 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 4: black law abiding residents, who are the vast majority of 218 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 4: the residents of the District of Columbia benefit from these efforts. 219 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 4: But he has to show the result because the narrative 220 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 4: it gets very emotional for people. You'll have You'll have 221 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 4: black politicians in DC who will you know, because they 222 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 4: don't want any accountability. They don't want to be part 223 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 4: of the you know, they want to continue to be 224 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 4: part of the problem, not part of the solution. Here. 225 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 4: They're gonna say Trump is racist because that's what their 226 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 4: donors want and that's what they're He has to show 227 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 4: the results, just like Juliani did in New York. And 228 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, you'll have black pastors because 229 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 4: this happened in New York coming forward saying, you know, 230 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 4: President Trump thank you for making my parishioners safer. Thank 231 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 4: you for making our block safer. Thank you for encouraging 232 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 4: investment in black and black communities and black businesses. Thank 233 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 4: you for bringing that some of these areas to be 234 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 4: the communities that they can be. That's what will happen 235 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 4: if he shows the results. By the way, twenty twenty 236 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 4: census that I'm looking at right now, white forty percent, Black, 237 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 4: African American forty one percent, Hispanic Latino eleven percent, Asian 238 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 4: five percent. That's what I'm looking at right now. So 239 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 4: the population of black as recently as twenty ten was 240 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 4: a majority black city. By the way, Buck nineteen seventy 241 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 4: seventy one percent of the district was black. So the 242 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 4: percentage of black residence has been declining fairly precipitously, still 243 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 4: a small majority, but white people almost make a majority 244 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 4: of a district residents according to what I'm seeing right now. 245 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 4: And I think this is a really good time to 246 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 4: have a conversation about because we're talking just we're talking 247 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 4: about crime and crime numbers, a good time to talk 248 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 4: about how you can keep yourself safe. And this is 249 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 4: where saber comes in. A lot of burglaries, home invasions 250 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 4: are happening in communities all across this country every day, 251 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 4: and I'm sure that the people who are there, if 252 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 4: they're not prepared, they're wishing to themselves in that horrible moment, 253 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,439 Speaker 4: My gosh, I wish I had something at hand where 254 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 4: I could defend myself in my family. Is where Saber 255 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 4: comes in. It spelled sabre s ab are e. The 256 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 4: website to go to is saberradio dot com. I know 257 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 4: a lot of your two A people. 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You're 283 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 9: talking about the crime in Washington, DC and how they 284 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 9: claim that the crime is down. That's Boloney, the guy 285 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 9: who is the current local attorney general in Washington, d C. 286 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 9: This guy named Schwalb. He vowed that he would not 287 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 9: he's like Alvin Bragg. He vowed that he would not 288 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 9: prosecute crimes. And he even said when there was a 289 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 9: crime wave last year that you can't prosecute your way 290 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 9: out of crime. That's why crime is down because they're 291 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 9: not prosecuting them. 292 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: We have this, they have lowered so many felony charges 293 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: to misdemeanors, and you heard Gene Judge Janine pointing out 294 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: that much of the crime is now under eighteens, and 295 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: we need to have a conversation about this larger scale. 296 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: When violent criminals know that seventeen year olds by and 297 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: large are going to get slaps on the wrist, they 298 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: actually sometimes are using these younger kids to commit violent 299 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: crimes because they know they can get away with them, 300 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: and it actually accelerates the violent crime rate to not 301 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: treat them in some way as significant violent offenders. Yeah, 302 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: there's a lot of ways that these statistics can be 303 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: manipulated to bring about outcomes that make it look like 304 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: it's better than it is. I mean, there's stunning stuff 305 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: when you dig into it. 306 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 4: I remember a few years ago, Clay somebody actually well 307 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 4: I said this on Tucker Show and then caught a 308 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 4: lot of attention from people across the entry that in Philadelphia, 309 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 4: the Krasner, who's an infamous infamous SOROSDA was declining any 310 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 4: prosecution on fifty percent of felon in firearms possession cases 311 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 4: not illegal gun cases, you're a convicted felon who also 312 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 4: has an illegal gun, which is an even worse situation 313 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 4: was declining. Half of them got nothing. They just got 314 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 4: the case dismissed. So this is how crazy things have 315 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 4: gotten in some of these places. And they call it 316 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 4: like restorative justice. Restorative justice just means pandering to the 317 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 4: criminal element in society. That's what it actually is. 318 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: By the way, DC has such aggressive gun restriction laws 319 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 1: that you could really go after people and prosecute them 320 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: to the fullest extent because there's not very many legal 321 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: gun holders in that community. If you're walking around with 322 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: a handgun, you're probably a gangbanger of some nature to 323 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: a large extent. 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Appreciate all 341 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: of you hanging out with us as we are rolling 342 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 1: through the Monday edition of the program. Much to dive 343 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: into in the next hour. We will jump into Trump 344 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 1: a lot of answers of questions relating to the big 345 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: meeting scheduled in Alaska with Putin surrounding the Ukraine Russia War. 346 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: But last week we talked a lot about the redistricting 347 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: battle going on surrounding Texas, and we talked about, look, 348 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: whatever your ideas are on this, the idea that of 349 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: all the places the Texan lawmakers could have fled to, 350 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 1: they went to Illinois, which is one of the most 351 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: gerrymandered states in the entire country. Maybe JB. Pritzker was 352 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: paying for all their hotel rooms and everything else. But 353 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: even left wing media we're not able to overlook how 354 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: hypocritical that was. And so JB. Pritzker went on Meet 355 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: the Press to try to make the argument that this 356 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: was unacceptable. And we've got a couple of different cuts 357 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: here of Meet the I refer to this, I think 358 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: on social media book as the equivalent of the Russian 359 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: judge disqualifying the Russian skater. You've got the whole rig 360 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: job in your favor, and you still get absolutely lambasted 361 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: like this. Here is cut eleven. 362 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 5: JB. 363 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: Pritzer Pritzker getting challenged on Meet the Press. 364 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 10: Every major group that grades the fairness of congressional maps 365 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 10: gives your state an f Common Cause and nonpartisan government 366 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 10: watchdog even says your map, and I'm going to quote 367 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 10: represents a nearly perfect model for everything that can go 368 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 10: wrong with redistricting. We talk about preserving democracy. How do 369 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 10: you preserve democracy if you're using the same tactics that 370 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 10: you've criticized Texas Republicans for. 371 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 3: What they're talking about is a distraction. 372 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 6: The reality is that the violation of people's voting rights 373 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 6: is what Texas is attempting to do. 374 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 3: That's what's wrong with their efforts right now. 375 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 6: And the fact that the President of the United States 376 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 6: knows it and nevertheless is asking them to do it, 377 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,719 Speaker 6: that is what's wrong with what we're seeing right now. 378 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 6: Democracy is at stake. 379 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 4: This is him, Yeah, yeah, this is him thinking I 380 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 4: can just talking points steamroll the fact that my argument 381 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 4: is is trash. The argument that is being made by 382 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 4: Democrats on this, especially people like Pritzker who are coming 383 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 4: from a state like Illinois, is garbage. All they're saying 384 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 4: is I don't like when they do what I do. 385 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 4: When they do it, it's bad. When I do it, 386 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 4: it's good. That is the sum total of their argument, 387 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 4: to be clear, there's nothing beyond that. It's Republicans are icky, 388 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 4: they're bad. I'm good, So I get to do the 389 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 4: things that they do, and you're supposed to like it 390 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 4: when I do it and not like it. And this 391 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 4: is this is like arguing with Toddlers. They have nothing 392 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 4: beyond that. Notice he didn't even engage with what she said. 393 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 4: You don't have to know anything about Jerry Mandrick. If 394 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,360 Speaker 4: you look at a map of congressional districts in Illinois, 395 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 4: you'd say to yourself, the heck is that? 396 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 6: Yeah? 397 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 3: Bizarre? 398 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: And she followed up, but I do think this is 399 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: important what you just said. And I think the media 400 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: is getting a little bit embarrassed. Even as shameless as 401 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: they are, they're starting to recognize that Texas is just 402 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:14,239 Speaker 1: catching up and doing what California and Illinois and New 403 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: York already did. In other words, the redistricting in Texas 404 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: is just lagging behind. And we had Greg Abbotta on 405 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: last week essentially in many ways making that argument. But 406 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: buck to her credit, Kristin Welker followed up after that 407 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: non answer from JB. Pritzker and said, wait a minute, 408 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: President Trump, as we told you on this program, one 409 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: forty four percent of the vote in twenty twenty four. 410 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: It was look Texas and Florida were actually not as 411 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: competitive as Illinois was. I believe if you look at 412 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: the raw numbers, Illinois, which is a deep blue state, 413 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: Trump got almost forty five percent of the vote. Listen 414 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 1: to cut twelve. 415 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 10: I do want to look at the map of Illinois. 416 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 10: Let's take a look at this. Despite President Trump winning 417 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 10: forty four percent of the statewide vote in twenty twenty four, 418 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 10: Republicans hold only three of Illinois's seventeen districts. These districts 419 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 10: seem to be designed to maximize democratic advantage. What do 420 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 10: you say to those who argue that it's hypocritical for 421 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 10: you to criticize Texas for partisanship when your state also 422 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 10: drew mounts to boost your party's standing. 423 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 6: Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is 424 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 6: again violate the Voting Rights Act. 425 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 3: You talked about how rare it is to do what 426 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 3: he's doing, Yes, it is. 427 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 6: What's even rarer is to do it at the behest 428 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 6: of the President of the United States, who's clearly attempting 429 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 6: to and says that he deserves to have five more seats. 430 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 4: He's wrong, I mean, the non arty's got. He doesn't 431 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:48,679 Speaker 4: even make an argument. 432 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: I just look at so many of these political figures, 433 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: and there are Republicans in this camp too. They're just 434 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:01,719 Speaker 1: not serious, intellectual, intelligent individual rules who should be representing us. 435 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: I mean, JB. Pritzker is supposed to be one of 436 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: the four runner favorites for Democrats in twenty twenty eight. 437 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: He's been elected multiple times, I believe already in Illinois. 438 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: His daddy's a billionaire, and so he's a billionaire. He's 439 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 1: not an impressive person. And to go on knowing that 440 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 1: these questions are coming. First of all, if I were 441 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: advising JB. Pritzker, I would have said, hey, moron, we 442 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: shouldn't be the place that is hosting all these Texas democrats. 443 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: I know you want to get your face on television, 444 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: but you're just going to expose our hypocrisy. And when 445 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: Kristen Welker is pointing it out, Kirsten Welker whatever her 446 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: first name is, is pointing it out on Meet the Press, 447 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: you know that you've really engaged in hypocritical behavior. This 448 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: is where you're getting to the we've been to the 449 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: border level when when you have journalists who are friendly 450 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: journalists and you know, journals, we can all it's obviously 451 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: in quotes, but but when they won't go along because 452 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: your argument is so dumb that it will make them 453 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: look dumb too, that's the line here that Pritzker is 454 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: crossing the same thing he saw with lesser Hold, and 455 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: he's like, look, Kamala, I like you. 456 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 4: You know, I'm proud. Although lesser Hold maybe is a 457 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 4: little bit actually of a centrist, but whatever put that aside. 458 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 4: I don't know, but clearly he like Kamala Harris, but 459 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 4: he's not going to sit there while she says we've 460 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 4: been to the border, and he's not going to, you know, 461 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 4: clap for that and pretend like that's normal. Of course 462 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 4: not right, that he's not going to look like a 463 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 4: moron on her behalf. And even Welker, I think here 464 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 4: is like, look, buddy, you guys do what they do, 465 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 4: So you got to explain this because I don't want 466 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 4: to sit here and look dumb. I'll be partisan, but 467 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 4: I don't want to look like I don't have enough 468 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 4: brain power to understand the argument. So I'm going to 469 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,479 Speaker 4: have to ask you this question. And Prisker's answers are 470 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 4: are absurd. I mean, this is a guy who bought 471 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 4: the governorship of a very blue state and there's nothing 472 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 4: impressive about him. I mean, Pritzker heavy p needs to 473 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 4: figure out better answers to questions like this is a 474 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 4: great nickname, except team might use it in a positive context. 475 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 4: I do think that what you're seeing here is Trump 476 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 4: is delivering a masterclass. Time after time. Democrats try to 477 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,719 Speaker 4: argue and they get embarrassed. 478 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 1: And now we'll talk here in a minute about the 479 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: pivot that's going to happen with the big conversation going 480 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 1: on in Alaska on Friday, and just as they are 481 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: calling Trump a racist because he's trying to decrease the 482 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: amount of violent crime that's taking place in DC. I 483 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: guarantee you no matter what happens on Friday, they're going 484 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: to say, oh, Trump is putin stooge. They're going to 485 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: try with the whole Russia collusion and argument again. The 486 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: problem for them, I think is Democrats have reached the 487 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: boy who cries Wolfe scenario. We saw it in twenty 488 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: twenty four. I thought they would learn from it in 489 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: the first two hundred days of Trump. They have not. 490 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 1: They've continued with the same arguments and they're failing time 491 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,160 Speaker 1: after time. We'll get to some of your talkbacks by 492 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: the way close out the hour. We'll dive into the 493 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: Ukraine and Russia situation top of hour three and more 494 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 1: all coming your way. But some of you may be 495 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: aware football is basically back. 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We've got 525 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 4: a lot of things to dive into. I just wanted 526 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 4: to point this out Play because we're talking here about 527 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 4: the DC situation and Trump realizing law enforcement for a 528 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 4: thirty day period. It's forty eight hours first, and then 529 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 4: it can be extended, which Trump will do to thirty 530 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 4: days under the like DC Home Rule Act of nineteen 531 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 4: seventy three I think it is, and then it can 532 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 4: be extended beyond that by Congress. But one thing again, Clay, 533 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 4: I'll never forget. I was on I was on CNN 534 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 4: back in the day when I need to do a 535 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 4: lot of terrorism analysis as a former counter terrorism analyst, 536 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 4: and they had me on and this is true story. 537 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 4: This is on Don Lemon Show, so you know it's 538 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 4: a true story. They showed a chart of Islamo fascist, 539 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 4: Jie hottist violence, whatever you want to call it, right, 540 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 4: I mean, Muslim guys create doing suicide bombings and different 541 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 4: kind of terrorist attacks. And they broke it down by 542 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 4: you know, whether it was that or was like white nationalists. 543 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 4: And I remember I was looking at the chart and 544 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 4: there's a sea buck. It's really the number of gee, 545 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 4: hottiest terror attacks that have occurred. So you guys started 546 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 4: after nine eleven. I mean, you exclude nine to eleven 547 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 4: from the data, right, So that's a very that's a 548 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 4: that's a big deal. It's a big thing if you're 549 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 4: to go back, you know, many many years, but you're 550 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 4: going to start at two thousand and two suddenly and 551 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 4: not show the early you know, this is the kind 552 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 4: of stuff that you used to deal with. Right, They 553 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 4: were clearly trying to skew the data. Notice that they 554 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 4: don't tell you this clay that the DC homicide rate. 555 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 3: Was at a. 556 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 4: A multi decade high in twenty twenty three under Biden's 557 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 4: second to last year in office, two hundred and seventy 558 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 4: four homicides. Under Trump in twenty sixteen, it was one 559 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 4: hundred and thirty five. So you have the worst murder 560 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 4: surge I believe in DC history over a ten year 561 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 4: period clay a murder surge to be embarrassed about for 562 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 4: the city of DC and the enforcement of the law there. 563 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 4: And now they're saying, oh, well, it's down thirty it's 564 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 4: down thirty percent from there. Oh so it's down from 565 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 4: the worst thing you've seen. They're playing games, everybody. This 566 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 4: is also important. 567 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: The DC Police Union said quote it acknowledges and supports 568 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: the President's announcement this morning to assume temporary control of 569 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: the Metro police force. Here's the chairman, Greg Pemberton. Again, 570 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: these are DC police. We stand with the President in 571 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: recognizing Washington d C cannot continue on this trajectory. Crime 572 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: is out of control, Our officers are stretched beyond their limits. 573 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: The federal intervention is a critical stop gap, but the 574 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: Police Department of d C needs proper staffing and support 575 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: to thrive. This can only happen by repealing the disastrous 576 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: policies that have driven out our best officers and hindered recruitment. 577 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: So you have DC politicians and national Democrats now opposed 578 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: to the actual police force of Washington d C thanking 579 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: the President for the support that he is providing them. Again, 580 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 1: I just I look at this and I don't even 581 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: remotely see how we need to have way less murders 582 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: in d C and way less way way woe or 583 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: violent crime is anything that anybody could be opposed against. 584 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: And then I see all the Democrat leadership lining up 585 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: because Trump has come out and aggressively against violent crime 586 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: and saying we don't need his help. Basically, or crime 587 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: is not actually an issue. 588 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 4: It's stunning, though, and Clay, when you look at the 589 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 4: at the homicide trend in DC that got as bad 590 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 4: as it was twenty twenty three, two hundred and seventy four, 591 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, one hundred and eighty seven, for a 592 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 4: city of basically half a million people to have two 593 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 4: hundred and seventy four homicides. New York City at its best, 594 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 4: at its best year got under three hundred. New York 595 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 4: City has eight point five million people. Everybody, the people 596 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 4: who are telling you DC is safe are lying to you, 597 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 4: all right, It's very important everyoneer stays. I have lived there, 598 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 4: Clay has lived there, We know many people that still 599 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 4: live there. It is a shockingly dangerous place for America's 600 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 4: capital city, and it has been for far too long, 601 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 4: and it is a national embarrassment. This is a serious issue. 602 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 4: People are losing their lives. And again it's just Democrats, 603 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 4: you know, they they would I don't know what to 604 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 4: say that. They just would rather there be more carjackings 605 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 4: than they admit that Trump was right. I mean, is 606 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 4: that really where it is? I don't know how else 607 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 4: they can't win it. I would debate any Democrat anywhere 608 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 4: in the country on the issue of DC crime and 609 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 4: make them look like an absolute moron. 610 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 5: You too, Clay. 611 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 4: It wouldn't be hard to do. They would not be 612 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 4: able to make. All they'd be able to do is 613 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 4: talking about you. It's actually safe. It's gone down in 614 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 4: recent years. It's so racist to enforce the law. It's 615 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 4: not racist to enforce the law. In fact, I think 616 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 4: it's particularly racist when Democrats say that it's racist to 617 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 4: enforce the law. I think there's something very underhanded and 618 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 4: very strange about that approach. 619 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 1: Well, we had a conversation with a guy who lost 620 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: his job over saying all lives matter on Friday during 621 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: the during the Black Lives Matter protest. If black lives 622 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: truly matter, then what President Trump is doing is likely 623 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 1: to save more black lives than anything that any Democrat 624 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: politician has done in d C in a generation. So 625 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 1: if you truly believe, which I do, that black, white, Asian, Hispanic, 626 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: all lives matter, and that we should have a lower 627 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: rate of violent crime everywhere. If DC is if President 628 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,399 Speaker 1: Trump is effective in d C, then I would say 629 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 1: that this would be a policy that could be applied 630 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: in many different jurisdictions. I was talking about per capita. 631 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,919 Speaker 1: What you're pointing out is really important because sometimes people 632 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 1: look at raw numbers, but a city like New York 633 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:10,800 Speaker 1: City has about sixteen times the population of Washington, d C. 634 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,280 Speaker 1: And yet DC and New York City have similar numbers 635 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: roughly of murder. That is unacceptable for DC. And a 636 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 1: couple of things to remember wherever you live in the country. 637 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: You know people who are listening right now who live 638 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 1: in Alabama or who live in Louisiana but live in 639 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 1: red areas of those states where there's very little. 640 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 3: Crime, right. 641 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,319 Speaker 4: I mean, there's parts of Alabama where there's no crime, right, 642 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,400 Speaker 4: But then there Birmingham has a lot of crime. This 643 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 4: affects everybody because it affects state resources. It affects the 644 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 4: capital city of the state or the main city of 645 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,400 Speaker 4: the state, that you're in. The Democrat approach to dealing 646 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 4: with these problems top to bottom is a proven and 647 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 4: consistent failure with terrible results. And Democrats are hell bent 648 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 4: on continuing to make the inner city suffer of whatever 649 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 4: city they're in charge in, you know, the poor areas, 650 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 4: the high crime areas, the disproportionately minority areas suffer because 651 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 4: they don't want to admit that Republicans have been right 652 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 4: all along. They don't want to admit that BLM was 653 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 4: a horrible failure that made everything worse for everybody, and 654 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,399 Speaker 4: they certainly don't want to McClay. Trump's got a point, 655 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 4: and this could actually be a turning point, not just 656 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,800 Speaker 4: for DC, but for other cities and other models across 657 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 4: the country. I mean, we should have, I think, a 658 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 4: national conversation about murder, because to your point, we know 659 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,720 Speaker 4: murders happen, unlike other violent crimes, which can be finessed. 660 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 4: If there's a dead body and somebody gets shot or stabbed, 661 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 4: usually we know about it. 662 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: Why shouldn't there be a goal to decrease murders in 663 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 1: this country by fifty percent during the Trump administration. That 664 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 1: seems like a goal we could all get behind I 665 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 1: love the idea, we'll talk about it more than that.