1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay, Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: Sitting in for Clay and Buck today syndicated radio personality 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: Michael Berry. About one hour ago, the Washington Post put 5 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: up the following story, Michigan Supreme Court allows Trump to 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: appear on twenty twenty four primary ballot. The article by 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: Patrick Marley begins former President Donald Trump's name is set 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: to appear on Michigan's primary ballot after the state Supreme 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: Court declined Wednesday, that's earlier this morning, to hear a 10 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: challenge to his candidacy. The decision not to hear the 11 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: case comes a week after the Colorado Supreme Court determined 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 1: Trump engaged in insurrection on January sixth of twenty twenty 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: one and is barred from running under the constitution. Trump 14 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: plans to appeal that ruling to the US Court, which 15 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: could determine for all states whether Trump can run again. 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 1: First of all, as I explained yesterday, Trump doesn't have 17 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: to win his case in the Supreme Court in order 18 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: to be on the Colorado ballot. He only has to 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: file an appeal to the Supreme Court and have the 20 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: appeal filed the document has been received by the Supreme 21 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: Court by January fourth, That is the last day upon 22 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 1: which you can get on the Colorado ballot to appear 23 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: in the Republican primary on March fifth, which would be 24 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,119 Speaker 1: Super Tuesday. Lots of states. I think it's thirteen states 25 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: and three caucuses that day. So Trump will be on 26 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: the Colorado ballot and Trump will be on the Michigan ballot. Michigan, 27 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: as you'll remember from yesterday, is one of the pre 28 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: Super Tuesday states. It'll be three days after South Carolina, 29 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: and that would be that would be April twenty seventh, 30 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: Is that right? Hold on just a second, Well, it 31 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: doesn't matter, that's right. It February twenty seventh. I think 32 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: the I think the Michigan primary is February twenty seventh. 33 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: And what's interesting, we got a long way to go. 34 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: It's ten months away March fifth. But Trump is polling 35 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: ahead of Biden there. As I said yesterday, I don't 36 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: believe Biden will be the nominee. But Trump is polling 37 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: ahead of Biden in most every poll that is considered 38 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: halfway objective with a decent sample size and without an 39 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: obvious bent, and he's pulling in the national average, and 40 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: he's polling more importantly in the key states, because as 41 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, it's not a national election, it's fifty individual elections. 42 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: And the state of Michigan is in play, and this 43 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: Wisconsin is in play, and the state of pennsl Slovania 44 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: is in play, in the state of Arizona is in play, 45 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: North Carolina and Georgia. So trying to kick Trump off 46 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: the ballot is a recognition of that's the only way 47 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: they can beat him, and they won't succeed. I want 48 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: to talk about that in a while, but first I 49 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: want to turn to something that is very important both 50 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: in this year's election and who the president will be 51 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: and the direction of the country. I said yesterday and 52 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: that's what I want to focus on today, that the 53 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: single most important issue in America today is crime. It's 54 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: really the rule of law in a sense of order 55 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: that doesn't play well in a campaign. It's crime. That's 56 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: our border. That's ten to twelve thousand people a day, 57 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: an army a day coming into this country and seemingly 58 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: nobody willing to do anything about it. You see videos 59 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: every day of major cities across the country, and you 60 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: see these thugs going in with a trash bag and 61 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: just raking products off the shelves into the trash bag 62 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: while nobody stops them. In the city of San Francisco, 63 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: they said, you know what, if it's less than one 64 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, we won't even criminalize it. Are you kidding me? 65 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: And guess what happens. The CVS's and Walgreens start pulling 66 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: out of places like San Francisco, department stores that had 67 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: heavy investment in San Francisco, in Chicago, or pulling out 68 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: of there in Seattle, And why wouldn't they because there's 69 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: no rule of law. The crime is awful, but more 70 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: important than the crime is the sense that you have 71 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: and I have, and particularly Republican voters and moderates and 72 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: independents who could possibly vote Republican in their congressional in 73 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: their Senate and in the presidential election. And that is 74 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: the sense that things are really wrong. That is the 75 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: sense that we're on the wrong track and it's bad. 76 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: I told you yesterday the Catherine Herriage comment on Face 77 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 1: the Nation over the weekend. She talked about foreseeing this feeling, 78 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: there's this bad feeling that there's going to be a 79 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: black Swan event, whether that's a terror attack, an invasion, 80 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: whatever that would be. And it might be a cyber attack, 81 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: or it may be an old fashioned nine to eleven, 82 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: or it may be terror cells because we know they 83 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: have the forces to do it. But what I don't 84 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: see is a sense from the candidates on the Republican 85 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: side in the House, in the Senate, even the presidential candidates. 86 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: What I don't see is a sense of understanding the moment. 87 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: This is a moment where people are angry. And we'll 88 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: get into some of the stats and based on the 89 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: polls and things like that, but people are angry and 90 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: you feel it. You feel not only your anger, you 91 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: feel other people's and you feel a sense of anxiety. 92 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: And the real anger about it all is that nobody 93 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: in a position to do anything about it seems willing 94 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: to do anything about it. They're just watching our border 95 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: be overrun and nobody believes anything's going to be done. 96 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: When does it stop. The numbers are growing. It's a 97 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: snowball rolling down and picking up more steam. We've got 98 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: trains of people on their way and no end in sight. 99 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: No one is saying this will stop right now. This 100 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: is what we will do. We will stop it. And 101 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: the anger is building, and you're going to have more 102 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: and more of these crimes. You're going to have high 103 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: profile crimes by illegal aliens coming into this country. You're 104 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: already seeing it in Houston, where I'm from. You're seeing 105 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: the rapes, you're seeing the murders, you're seeing the MS 106 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: thirteen activity, which plenty of these guys are, and there 107 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: is such an anger about it. In nineteen seventy six, 108 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: that was just such a feeling. Richard Nixon had been 109 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: pardoned by Gerald Ford, who was sort of the accidental president. 110 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: He hadn't been elected. He ran for reelection, of course, 111 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: you know, he lost to Jimmy Carter. Things were bad 112 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:19,679 Speaker 1: in the country. Crime had spiked, the economy was not great, 113 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: and it was just this general sense that things were wrong. 114 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: This guy Nixon had left the White House. He was 115 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: pardoned for his crimes. He didn't he wasn't punished, whereas 116 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: some of the other folks were. Things weren't good. It 117 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: was a bad feeling in the country. You'd had the 118 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: OPEC issue and the energy prices, you're heading into inflation. 119 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: Things were bad and people didn't know what to do 120 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: about it. And there was a movie that came out 121 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: called Network's one of my favorite movies. It is Peter 122 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: Finch's last role, and it's a star studded cast and 123 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: it's about an anchor whose ratings are terrible. He's fourth 124 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: out of four. He works for a fictitious network called Ubs. 125 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: The ratings were terrible and couldn't do anything about it. 126 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: So he finds out that he's going to be fired 127 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: in two weeks. So he announces on the air, I'm 128 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: going to commit suicide in a week, and that gave 129 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: him a little spike, but that died down. And then 130 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: he does something that makes the movie so memorable. And 131 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: you've heard it. It's the character of Howard Beale and 132 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: he's talking into the screen and I want you to 133 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: listen to how similar this sounds today, and he's saying, 134 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: I don't know the answer, but you've got to get angry. 135 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: It's a longer clip than I would normally play. It's 136 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: just over two minutes. I want you to listen carefully 137 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: to the words, because I think this is what we 138 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: need to hear Republicans saying, go ahead, Mike. 139 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 2: I don't have to tell you things are bad. 140 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,359 Speaker 1: Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. 141 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 2: Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. 142 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 2: The dollar buys a nickels worth thanks to going bus chup. 143 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 2: Keep us keep a gun to the counter. Punts are 144 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 2: running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere seems 145 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 2: to know what to do, and there's. 146 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: No end to it. 147 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 2: We know the air is unfit to breathe and our 148 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 2: food is unfit to eat. We sit watching our TVs 149 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,959 Speaker 2: while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 150 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 2: fifteen homicides and sixty three violent crimes, as if that's 151 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 2: the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad. 152 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 2: Worse than bad. 153 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: They're crazy. 154 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 2: It's like everything everywhere is going crazy. So we don't 155 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 2: go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly 156 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 2: the world we're living and is getting smaller, And all 157 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 2: we say is, please, at least leave us alone in 158 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 2: our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my 159 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 2: TV and my steel melted radios. And I won't say anything, 160 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 2: Just leave us alone. 161 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: Well, I'm not good to leave you alone. 162 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 2: I want you to get mad. 163 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: I don't want you to protest. 164 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 2: I don't want you to ride. I don't want you 165 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 2: to write to your congressman, because I wouldn't know what 166 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 2: to tell you to write. I don't know what to 167 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 2: do about the depression and the inflation, and the Russians 168 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 2: and the crime in the street. 169 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: All I know is that first you've. 170 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 2: Got to get mad. 171 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: You've got to say I'm a human. 172 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 2: Being, my life has value. So I want you to 173 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 2: get up now. I want all of you to get 174 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,959 Speaker 2: up out of your chairs. I want you to get 175 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 2: up right now and go to the window, open it 176 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 2: and stick your head out and yell I'm as mad 177 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 2: as hell and I'm not trying to take this anymore. 178 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 2: Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression, 179 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: of the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get 180 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 2: up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your 181 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 2: head out of you and say, I'm as bad as hell. 182 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: We'm gonna take this anymore. Stick your head out of 183 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: the window, open it and stick your head out and 184 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: keep yelling. 185 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 2: And ye'll, I'm as mad as hell, I'm not trying 186 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 2: to take this anymore. Just get up from your chairs 187 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 2: right now, go leap up, stick your head out yell 188 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 2: and chief yelling. 189 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: Anymore. The networks didn't realize how angry people were and 190 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: they were shocked by the reaction. Do you remember during 191 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: the school board meetings the last few years during the 192 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,719 Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns, That's basically what parents who had never been 193 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: to a school board meeting, much less going up there 194 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: and yelling at the school boards. That's what they were saying. 195 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: It can be done, we can do it. It's time 196 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: people understand that we have to channel this anger to 197 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: fix these problems. I'm Michael Berry in for Clay and 198 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: Buck all week more coming up the Truth Compass, pointing 199 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: do right every day, the Clay Buck Sexton Show. Crime 200 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 1: is the number one issue in America today. It's the 201 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: number one concern of real people. How often do you hear, 202 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: if you bothered to watch any of those debates with 203 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: Chris Christy, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, the vat Ramaswamy, how 204 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: often do you hear questions related to crime and the 205 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: crime to come? It's only going to get worse the 206 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: fuse has been lit. The more illegals you allow in, 207 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,199 Speaker 1: let's say, only one in one hundred is a murderer 208 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: in their home country. If only one in one hundred 209 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: is a murderer in their home, we know certain things. 210 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: Murderer's murder, rapist, rape, sex, traffickers, traffic, They never stop. 211 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: It's what they do. So what's being done about it? 212 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: Do you get the sense that anybody is leading on 213 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: that issue? July twenty fourth, nineteen ninety two, Gwen Eifel 214 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: posted a story in The New York Times headline, now 215 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: you got George HW. Bush, who's running for reelection against 216 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. Bush's ratings are the highest of any president 217 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: since polling had been done because of the First Iraq War. 218 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: He's extraordinarily popular, unbeatable headline the nineteen ninety two campaign 219 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: the Democrats Clinton in Houston speech a sales Bush on 220 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: crime issue opening line July twenty fourth, nineteen ninety two, 221 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: the late summer of that campaign, where Clinton will win 222 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: in November. Governor Bill Clinton took a page from the 223 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 1: Republican playbook today, standing on the steps of Houston City 224 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: Hall here with uniformed police officers arrayed behind him, as 225 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:40,199 Speaker 1: he denounced President Bush's record on fighting crime. We cannot 226 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: take our country back until we take our neighborhoods back. 227 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: Governor Clinton said as thousands of onlookers cheered. Four years ago, 228 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: this crime issue was used to divide America. I want 229 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: to use it to unite America. I want to be 230 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: tough on crime and good for civil rights. You can't 231 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: have civil justice without order and safety. That is, just 232 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: before the November election, where Clinton beats Bush by taking 233 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: the crime issue away from him, he committed that he 234 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: would put ten thousand cops on the streets. Well, the 235 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: federal government can't put cops on the street. They don't 236 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: have a system to do that. What he would do 237 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: is give grants to the major cities in states that 238 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: he liked that would help him get re elected, to 239 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: the politicians, the mayors especially who would help him get 240 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: re elected, and the governors. Fast forward Wednesday, October twelfth, 241 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, Press release, President Clinton announces new crime 242 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: Bill grants to put police officers on the beat. President 243 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: Clinton today announced the first round of police hiring grants 244 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: under the new Crime Bill, an important step toward his 245 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: goal of putting one hundred thousand police on America's streets. 246 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: That is, two and a half weeks before the election. 247 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 1: He's going to put ten thousand cops on the streets. 248 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: One of the people he got that from was the 249 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: very successful mayor of Houston at the time, Bob Lanier, 250 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: who took fifty million dollars that was used for a 251 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: very wasteful monoail program. The City of Houston had this 252 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: desire that we were going to become New York somehow 253 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: with a stupid subway. Because every Houstonian when they go 254 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: to New York says, I don't have to drive anywhere. 255 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: I can ride the subway. Yeah, because you can't drive 256 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: because there's no parking, there's no place to park that 257 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: the streets are jammed. You'd rather have your own vehicle. 258 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: Stop being stupid and stop having such a jealousy of 259 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: New York and trying to be like them. Would you 260 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: also like to be Bernie Getz and get mugged in 261 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: the subway? I don't think so. But Lanier did something 262 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: that was brilliant and made a huge difference. He removed 263 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: that money from Metro, which was coming from the City 264 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: of Houston, and he committed six hundred and fifty five officers. Well, 265 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: that too was undoable. What it meant was he gave 266 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: a lot of overtime and guess what you put cops 267 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: out on this, more cops on the street, You fund 268 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: the cops instead of defunding the cops, which is what 269 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: we're experiencing now, and crime goes down. It's amazing if 270 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: Biden does that. Democrats are willing to do anything to 271 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: be Trump. They won't push back everything that happened since 272 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: George Floyd. Oh, they would be some Black Lives Matter complaints, 273 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: that some Antifa complaints. It'd be some you know, goofy 274 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: professor who would say this is this is not good 275 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: and he's worried. But if he started putting more cops 276 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: on the streets and announcing tough on crime, he would 277 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: own that issue because no Republican is doing it yet. 278 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: That is the issue that's the winner. Michael Berry and 279 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: Clambuck More coming up, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on 280 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: the front lines of truth. One of many folks I 281 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: follow on Twitter is a guy named Colin. I've never 282 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: met him in person, I don't know much about him. 283 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:10,679 Speaker 1: He describes himself as co owner of Trending Politics, investor 284 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,639 Speaker 1: and American with an American flag says he's a media 285 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 1: personality and his website is trendingpoliticsnews dot com and he 286 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: just posted he's a good follow and in fact, the 287 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: show I host in Houston, I often will try to 288 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: promote people that I think are pretty good follows, just 289 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: because many of you are like me. You're you're looking 290 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: for good sources of information and nobody's perfect. There may 291 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: be something someone that disagrees with you on this or that. 292 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: In fact, I heard from a lot of folks that 293 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: I follow and have interacted with over the years last 294 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: night that I was too pro Trump and that Desantus 295 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 1: is going to win, to which I said, I'm just 296 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: calling ball stars. I wasn't advocating. I was simply telling 297 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: you what I think is going to have. Pro Palestinian 298 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:11,439 Speaker 1: protesters are blocking the road leading to JFK Airports in 299 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: New York, forcing travelers to walk around them to make 300 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: their flights. According to Scooter Castor, New York Port Authority 301 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: police are now making arrests to open up the roadway. 302 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:31,880 Speaker 1: The incident comes after pro Palestine Palestine protesters wreaked havoc 303 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: in New York City over the weekend, demanding that Christmas 304 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: be canceled. And he shows you the video which looks 305 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,439 Speaker 1: like the sources originally Freedomnews dot TV. I'm sure you 306 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: can find this. Colin Rugg is at Colin Rugg c 307 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:56,479 Speaker 1: l I N rugg is his handle. But when you 308 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: see something like this, I got to tell you, in Texas, 309 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: you'd be far more likely for somebody in their big 310 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: dooley Trump to plow through this and a jury would say, 311 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: we understand. In New York there is a great deal 312 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 1: more tolerance, But it's not because the people are actually 313 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 1: any more tolerant. It's that they are, and this is 314 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: the saddest part of it all. They are resigned. This 315 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 1: is what pluralism looks like. I know a lot of 316 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: folks are mad at Anne Culture because she's not on 317 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: the Trump train, but she says and writes some very 318 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: interesting things. She's a good follow, by the way, on substack. 319 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: And again, I don't have to agree with every opinion. 320 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 1: Somebody has to think that I want to know what 321 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: they're saying and what they're writing because a lot of 322 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: it is brilliant, and a culture is brilliant. I know, 323 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton tells me he catches hell from listeners when 324 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:02,479 Speaker 1: he has Ann on. You should want to hear from 325 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: Ann and when she says something about Trump you don't like, 326 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: you should say, okay, we just we don't agree on that. 327 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 1: But she says a lot of things that nobody else 328 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: is saying. One of the things she talks about, and 329 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: with one of the first to really talk about this 330 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: with a broad audience, was what pluralism looks like. And 331 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,199 Speaker 1: I don't mean different skin colors. I don't even necessarily 332 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: mean different religions. I mean when your society is made 333 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: up without any distinctive majority culture. My wife is from 334 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 1: India and my boys are from Africa. But I will 335 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: tell you we are as American a family as what 336 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 1: I would consider an American family is Norman Rockwell esque. 337 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: We are We've waived the flag. We believe July fourth 338 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: is a date that is very important. We think the 339 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: Constitution is important. Now, that doesn't mean we don't go 340 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: to Ethiopia and visit and love the food. We have 341 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: it once a week. We have Indian food once a week. 342 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: I have lots of relatives in India, and it's a 343 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: special place when we go to both of those places. 344 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: But we're very proud Americans. And it was long the 345 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 1: case that the melting pot metaphor meant that when you 346 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: come to this country, you bring all the wonderful garb, 347 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: whether that's a daishiki or a nehru jacket, some sort 348 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:35,679 Speaker 1: of sandal, a wayabeta. It really didn't matter. When you 349 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: came to the United States. You bought in. You added 350 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: your culture as icing on the cake. But you bought in. 351 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: You learned English, you learned the rule of law, you 352 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: learn the culture. People came to this country who were 353 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: Hindus in many cases Muslims for a long time when 354 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: you had a more secular Islam and you celebrated Christmas. 355 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: All my Jewish friends celebrate Christmas, but that's not Hanukkah. 356 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 1: They celebrate Christmas because their neighbors do and the nation does. 357 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: And then there became a time where people who when 358 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: they arrived said, you know, I don't look like the 359 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: people I see on TV. I don't have sex with 360 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: the opposite sex. I don't have the same skin color. 361 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: I don't worship in the same types of churches. I 362 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: didn't go to the same types of schools. I don't 363 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: have the same nuclear family. I don't play the same sports. 364 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: I don't have the same likes, And I demand that 365 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: it all be changed. I want to tear it all 366 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: down and remake it in my image. And that began 367 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 1: the idea that the person at the party who says 368 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: I'm miserable, everybody shut the party down and pay it 369 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,439 Speaker 1: attention to me, because that's what happened. It's exactly what 370 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: happened in It ain't much of a party when that happens, 371 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: is it. And then people started noticing, Ah, the person 372 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: who comes to the party and starts complaining and crying, 373 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: feeling sorry for themselves gets all the attention. Squeaky wheel 374 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: gets the grease. And so we became a culture where 375 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: the person that complains the most gets the most attention. 376 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: We're talking about these goobers, and that's what they are, 377 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,959 Speaker 1: these pro Palestinian protesters. Oh, there's a few folks in 378 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: there that have some connection to the Middle East, but 379 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: you got a lot of white kids in there that 380 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: are from Franklin, Tennessee, or Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, or Idaho, 381 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: and they just really like being for these causes because 382 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: their parents aren't. It's like they've reached a higher platue. 383 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: These are the same kinds of people, the same exact 384 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,239 Speaker 1: types of people who would join a cult and end 385 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 1: up poisoned, join a cult and hand their wife over 386 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: to the cult leader, because that's what David Koresh or 387 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: whoever else told them to. You know, for all the 388 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: talk about the wackos in Waco under David Koresh, a 389 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: bunch of them that came out of California that ran 390 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: vegan restaurants that were just as nutty may be worse 391 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: just as nutty, if not worse. So what you have 392 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: here is everybody having to go around them to get 393 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: into the airport. And that's not right. What if everybody 394 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: did this. What if every road in America was shut 395 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: down because you know, the kids into local high school 396 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: don't want to go to school on Friday, so they 397 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: just shut all the traffic down, Well, they'd be a arrested, right, 398 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: pulled up by the nape of their neck and brought home, 399 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: spanked and said knock it off, don't do this again. 400 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: But these people aren't arrested, right, So that becomes a 401 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: real problem. How do we selectively enforce rules? How do 402 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: we allow how do we allow illegals to come into 403 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: this country and hand them a phone and some cash, 404 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: ask no questions and let them go wherever they want. 405 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 1: But you've got to be COVID tested before you can 406 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: go back to college. These kids don't in the New 407 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: York schools. You've got to be COVID tested and vaccinated 408 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 1: to get in a lot of the schools, these people 409 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 1: aren't even tested. And I will tell you this, they 410 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: are far more likely per person to be carrying COVID 411 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: and a number of other diseases because, to paraphrase Donald 412 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: Trump's phrase, they come from crap whole countries. What makes 413 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 1: a crap whole country? It's filthy, it's crime riddled, there's 414 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: a bad health care system. It's nat You've been there, 415 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: and don't tell me. I've been to Honduras. You stayed 416 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: in the park where the Americans go. I've been to 417 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic, yet you stayed on the nice part 418 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: over there. I've been to Jamaica. Yeah, they didn't let 419 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,439 Speaker 1: you go into town because you getting killed would be 420 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: really bad for tourism. So where is the person? Trump 421 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: is perceived as the guy? But this is the moment, 422 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: This is where you step up and say, when I'm president, 423 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: I'll send fads in there and we'll yank these people out. 424 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: Of there, and we'll send them to prison. We'll keep 425 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: them in prison. Clinton grabbed the crime issue when it 426 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: mattered most and got elected president and got re elected 427 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 1: despite having been romped in the midterm elections of ninety four. 428 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: Crime is the number one issue, and people want action, 429 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: they want order restored, they want something done. I do, 430 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 1: and I bet you do too. You can reach me 431 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 1: by email through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, and 432 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: I do enjoy hearing from you. I'll be here all 433 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,679 Speaker 1: week thanks to the good folks on the Clay and 434 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: Buck team, and we'll take some of your calls in 435 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: a bit one eight hundred two eight two two eight 436 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: eight two one eight hundred two eighty two to eight 437 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: eight two more coming up. The Torch of Truth passed 438 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 1: and still lit every day the Clay, Travis and Buck 439 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. So Gallup did pretty sizeable poll gauging Americans 440 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: reaction to major issues, and crime popped. Seventy seven percent 441 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,360 Speaker 1: of Americans responded that there is more crime in America 442 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: than a year ago. A majority of Americans fifty five percent, 443 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: believe there's more crime in their local area than a 444 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: year ago, so one in five says yeah, there's more 445 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: crime in the country, but not where I live. You 446 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: know why, because as you drew down into what pollsters 447 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: call the cross tabs, you'll find that whites are more 448 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: concerned about crime than blacks. Hispanics are in the middle. 449 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: People in rural communities, which tend to have far lower 450 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: rates of crime, are far more concerned about crime than 451 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 1: people in urban communities. Now, is that entirely perception and 452 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: fear of something that may not know. No, it's not. 453 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: It speaks to culture. The difference between a good public 454 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: school and a bad public school is how a teacher 455 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: reacts when a student starts cussing the teacher, and how 456 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,479 Speaker 1: the other students react when a student starts cussing the teacher. 457 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: And if you started those two schools from scratch, and 458 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: you sent the students into both of the schools, and 459 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: you had a student stand up and start threatening to 460 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: beat the butt of the teacher, which happens a lot, 461 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: particularly inner city schools, and you started from scratches, never 462 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: happened before, and the students in one of the groups 463 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: cheered and pulled out their cameras to start filming, and 464 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: the teacher didn't know what to do, and in the 465 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: other school, the students grabbed a kid, put them down, 466 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: said knock it off, and the principal was called in 467 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: and the student was taken out and discipline and sent 468 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: into detention. In short order, one school would have better academics, 469 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: would be a safer environment, and the other one would 470 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: continue to spiral. That wouldn't be the last time it happened. 471 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 1: Other people would begin, there's your cultural problem. We don't 472 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: like to talk about culture in America because culture is 473 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: always tied to race, and that makes people uncomfortable. It 474 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be can reflect some subcultures of race. 475 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: But the important thing is the behavior. And when we 476 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: become afraid to talk about behavior because that of behavior, 477 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: whether accurately or not, is identified with a particular race. 478 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: Failing inner city schools for instance, Oh, that's just a 479 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: dog whistle for black schools. Actually, if you look at 480 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: the demographics of urban schools across the country, you will 481 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: see a much higher percentage of blacks than you do 482 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: in rural schools and a lower percentage of whites than 483 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: you do in rural schools. So that's accurate. Well, that 484 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: upsets somebody black. It would upset me too, because I 485 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: don't want it being the case that majority white schools 486 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: are failing. That looks bad on me, but I don't 487 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: want any school to fail. I don't care the skin color. 488 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: How many black politicians don't agree with me on that. 489 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: How many black politicians democrats in America are quite comfortable 490 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: with schools, all black schools failing, as long as nobody 491 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: from the outside comes in and tries to fix it, 492 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: which is exactly what we've seen in Houston. The state 493 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: took over the Houston Independent School District, which was corrupt 494 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: and failing. But more important than the fact that the 495 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: facilities were falling apart and that consultants were being hired 496 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: to come in and tell the white kids that they're 497 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: all awful and the black kids that they're all victims, 498 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: both messages that are terrible, But more importantly, the students 499 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: couldn't read at grade, not anywhere near gray. We'll get 500 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: into public education a little later. The school was failing 501 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: and wasn't going to be fixed, so they brought in 502 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: a guy who's black named Mike Miles, and he starts 503 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: firing administrators and making changes. And Sheila Jackson Lee, who 504 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: just ran from Ayorn, was defeated and Sylvester Turner, the 505 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: black mayor, liberal radical nut job think Brandon Johnson out 506 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: of Chicago, or Muriel Bowser out of Baltimore, or any 507 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: number of other terrible mayors, who's all they ever talk 508 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: about is race. Well, what we've seen is an attempt 509 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: by the state, which is majority Republican, to fix HISD, 510 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: which is largely black, was met with resistance from black 511 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: leaders because guess what, we'd rather our schools fail but 512 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: be led by blacks of our choosing, then succeed and 513 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: have somebody from outside the district come in and make 514 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 1: good policies. Sounds to me like you don't love the kids. 515 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like to me. That's why crime 516 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: is tolerated in urban control decaying America and in rural areas. 517 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: It's not. That's why you see crime in Birmingham, and 518 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: yet the state of Alabama is doing just fine. It's 519 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: why do you see crime in Detroit and Chicago and 520 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:08,239 Speaker 1: Houston and New Orleans and Los Angeles and Seattle and 521 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: Baltimore and Philadelphia. That's why we talk about that and 522 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: take some of your calls coming up one eight hundred 523 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 1: two eight eight two Michael Berry in for clay and 524 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: buck all week