1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in everybody. Second hour of play 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: and Buck starts right now. And uh, something I want 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: to talk to you about for a moment here on 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: the crime front now. Clay and I have both been 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: residents of DC. Play as an undergrad at GW, which 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: I believe, for many years was the single most expensive 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: university in the United States. Had that gave me a scholarship. 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: I think it still is the most expensive school in America. 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, something, it's crazy expensive. It's like more expensive 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: than any other like seventy K a year. I think, yeah, 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: reomin board, but I was there as a CIA officer, 13 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: not making seventy k a year, being in tuition, but 14 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: I was living there working as a CIA analyst. So 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: we both have time on the ground in DC. Years 16 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: in the ground in DC. And one thing I remember, 17 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: because I had moved down from New York during the 18 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: the well first to Giuliani than the Bloomberg years was 19 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: people would say to me, well, how is New York 20 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: in comparison to d C? And I'd say, d C 21 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 1: is much more dangerous, which was true. D C was 22 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: a much more dangerous city by the numbers, and in 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: the early nineties during the crack, during the crack epidemic, 24 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: it was among the most dangerous cities for homicide per 25 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 1: capita in the country some years. I think they even 26 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: would argue that for a city of its size, over 27 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: maybe two hundred fifty thousand or five hundred thousand, it 28 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: was actually number one. Well, the Washington Post has has 29 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: a peace out from this week, a shaken Washington copes 30 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: with surging violence, and the quote is this is not normal. 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: And I would actually argue with that quote, it has 32 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: become normal in DC, unfortunately. And let's take a moment 33 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: to see what's going on here, the situation as it unfolds. 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: There's a guy Clay that they quote, who's fifty three 35 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: years old, who avoids going to the gas station at 36 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: night because he's afraid of being robbed in his own neighborhood. 37 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: He's actually somebody who was arrested in the nineties for 38 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: selling crack, but now works with young people to prevent 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: them from going into a life of crime. Here's what 40 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: he says about DC comparing it to the nineties. Ronald Moten, 41 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: it's worse in some ways, like a wicked spirit is 42 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: out there. You used to not have to worry about 43 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: crime unless you were associated with the streets with drug dealing. 44 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: Now you could just be going down the street going 45 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 1: to the car, and you can be killed. And he says, 46 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: they go through all of these stories, including Clay in 47 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: the most affluent, high income areas of DC where random 48 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,119 Speaker 1: extreme violence breaks out in the middle of the day, 49 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: carjackings in broad daylight, people being shot and killed in 50 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: those of you who know DC know these name in 51 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: Adams Morgan in DuPont Circle, in places where there are 52 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: multimillion dollar row homes stacked up against each other and 53 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: people are being shot and killed in broad daylight. And 54 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: this is something that is happening with frequency. I think 55 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: homicides actually pulled the stats here. Homicides are up. Let 56 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: me see twenty nine percent there we go, and sixty 57 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: seven percent spike in robberies year over year, Clay a 58 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: seventy percent increase in robberies over last year, which was 59 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: a really bad year for robberies. And DC stuff's being 60 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: stolen all over the place. You know what else is 61 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: interesting in this analysis, DC is at a fifty year 62 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: low in what police staffing. This is the Democrat party 63 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: totally in charge and once again destroying a place. And 64 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: it's our nation's capital. And remember Republicans had to get 65 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: involved because they passed the DC City count unsul did 66 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: a bill that would have actually lessened the punishments that 67 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: are being levied against violent criminals and ady carjackers. That's right, 68 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: and the House of the Republicans in the House. Remember, 69 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 1: for people out there who don't know, there is basically, 70 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: and I think this is still accurate, buck an oversight committee. 71 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: Because Washington, d C. Does not have, for instance, a governor, 72 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: they have a one non voting I think member of 73 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: Congress who is allowed to represent them there. But otherwise 74 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: the Congress has authority over the District of Columbia as 75 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: the nation's capital. And this is why for those of 76 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: you who have spent any time there for a while, 77 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's still the case, but they 78 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: had taxation without representation on the DC license plates because 79 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: they have been arguing for years, we deserve to be 80 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: the fifty first state, we deserve senators, all these different things. Okay, 81 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: so what's going on here is happening is this argument 82 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: and did we mentioned this on the Area yesterday. I 83 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: think we teased it. 84 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: It's not just DC Portland, Buck, Portland is we have 85 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 2: a monster audience listening to us right now in Portland. 86 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 2: Portland just had to shut down the flagship Nike store 87 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 2: in Portland that has been opened since nineteen eighty four 88 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: because theft and looting has become so prevalent that they 89 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,119 Speaker 2: can no longer keep that store open. Forty years nearly 90 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 2: that store is open, they just had to shut it down. 91 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 2: Those are different sides of the country, but Portland is 92 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 2: among the bluest of blue places. DC is maybe the 93 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 2: bluest place in the whole country, right up there with 94 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: certain parts of San Francisco, which is also falling apart. 95 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 2: They had Trump for a long time, Buck to use 96 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 2: as the great Satan, the evil threat, the noxious cloud 97 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 2: that was spreading across the country without Trump in office. 98 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 2: What you're seeing is Democrats left without opposition, destroy everything, 99 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 2: and they destroy everything in places that otherwise have thrived 100 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 2: historically when they had actually some opposition government in place. 101 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 1: On law and order, Republicans are the adults in the room. Okay, 102 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: it's just reality, and every major Democrat idea on crime 103 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: is either counterproductive, incorrect, or flatly destructive. I mean, and 104 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: basically every idea that they have does not work and 105 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,559 Speaker 1: makes things worse, and the ramifications of what we've seen 106 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: for police and law enforcement. Look, this is still that's 107 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: a problem in New York City too. It's not the 108 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: same scale in terms of the increases in homicides and 109 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: things like that. And you know, now they play games, right, 110 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 1: they'll say, well, you know New York crime is actually down. 111 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: Well it's down from land last year, and it was 112 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: basically the same in the year before that, but in 113 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: that year it like doubled. I mean, you know, it 114 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 1: spanned it, it's kirocketed, right, So you know, they're playing 115 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: numbers games here to try and make it seem like 116 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: it's not as bad as it is. Here is the 117 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: fundamental challenge that you have. In some places, the Democrats 118 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: found it politically advantageous, politically convenient to say that cops 119 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: are the bad guys, to say that dangerous and economically 120 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: depressed and neighborhoods where there's far too many broken families. 121 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: It's not it's nothing to look at, nothing to talk about. There. 122 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: The problem are cops. The problem is the law enforcement apparatus. Right, 123 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: that's the real challenge, and that had First of all, 124 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: it's a lie and healthy communities across the country have 125 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: very good relationships. I just mean this in general, like 126 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: any you go to any low crime area of the country, 127 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: and they have a good relationship with law enforcement. Isn't 128 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: that interesting? 129 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 2: Right? 130 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: They're happy to see They're happy to see cops. 131 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 3: You know. 132 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: I remember I worked with a guy who wrote Blue 133 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: Blood for the NYPD, which wasn't actually what they used 134 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: for the show, but then there was a lawsuit. But anyway, 135 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: he wrote a best selling book called blue Blood, and 136 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: there's a scene where he talks about how when he 137 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: was early on starting his career in patrol, because you know, 138 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: back in the day, was there were tensions in some 139 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: of the communities. He's in a high crime community. But 140 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: he said that he would see people walking, He's just 141 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: a patrolman. He would see people walking in the subway, 142 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: and he could see that the people walk into the 143 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: subway to get to their jobs felt a little better 144 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: seeing him. They relaxed a little bit. They were happy 145 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: to see him. And the insight that he had in 146 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: the book was I showed up every day for those people, 147 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: the people that you know were being arrested for the 148 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: fiftieth time and were screaming, you know, oh, police violence 149 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: and all this stuff. I'm not really showing up because 150 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: they want me to. They don't want me to show up. 151 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: I'm showing up for the other ninety nine percent of 152 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: that community that doesn't want any kids getting shot today, 153 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: that doesn't want any old ladies getting beaten with you know, 154 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: hammers and robbed today. And somehow we well not somehow 155 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: we know how we lost that. And Democrats have paid 156 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: no political price for that. We lost it because of 157 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: what they did, because of this really this kind of 158 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 1: religious cult experience of BLM two point zero and the 159 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: martyrdom of George Floyd, all of this together, and now 160 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: we see the results, and now we see the end product, 161 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: and it's an abject disgrace. Yeah, and DC is one 162 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: of the most clear examples of this. Staffing for police 163 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: are down fifty percent and people are afraid to walk 164 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: their dogs on their block in this in the supposedly 165 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 1: nice neighborhoods. And here's what you're going to see, Buck, 166 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: as you get ready for twenty twenty four. They're going to. 167 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 2: Say, well, yeah, there was an increase in crime. They're 168 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 2: going to argue and say it was brought on by 169 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: COVID disruptions. Really, again, the data reflects that crime was 170 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 2: actually down a lot until the George Floyd incident. But 171 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 2: they're going to say it's stabilized, it's not getting worse. 172 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 2: This is why it's very important because it's the same 173 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 2: argument they're going to make for inflation, which is up 174 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 2: three point seven percent according to the most recent numbers. 175 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 2: It's up off of historic skyrocketing numbers. And if it's down, 176 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 2: it's down a little bit relative to the historic skyrocketing numbers. 177 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 2: We saw a fifty year record high increase in the 178 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,839 Speaker 2: amount of murders. We haven't seen that dial back down. 179 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 2: We haven't seen a fifty year decline in murders. So 180 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 2: you set a new parameter barometer. Let's say that there 181 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 2: is normally twenty murders. I think, for instance, Portland was 182 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 2: a good example of this. I think Portland because I 183 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 2: wrote about it in my book. Portland went from basically 184 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 2: twenty years of around twenty murders a year to suddenly 185 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 2: jumping to the neighborhood of eighty. Okay, if Portland and 186 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 2: then comes back down to seventy five. They say, oh, 187 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 2: Portland murders have declined by whatever. The percentage decline is 188 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 2: from eighty some odd to seventy five, let's say. 189 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: And so this is not that big of a deal anymore. 190 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: Crime is back under control. No it's not. 191 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 2: It's still quadruple the murder rate that it was before 192 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 2: everything came undone associated with George Floyd. And the same 193 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 2: thing is true with inflation, because people don't look at 194 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 2: inflation in the context of what is it done in 195 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 2: the last month. They look at it in the context 196 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: of how does it compare the last year? And compared 197 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 2: to last year, everything that you buy is up fifteen 198 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 2: or twenty percent. 199 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: And so the idea that. 200 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: The Biden administration's selling of, well, inflation's only running at 201 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 2: three point seven percent now, which is the number that 202 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 2: came out today. One, that's an increase over last month. 203 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 2: But that's three point seven percent on top of the 204 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 2: double digit inflation that we have seen over the lastlast year. 205 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 2: That number is not getting brought back down. In other words, right, 206 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 2: it's embedded now forever. And so when you say, oh, well, 207 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 2: the murder rate's fallen from eighty five to seventy five. 208 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 2: We're getting better. No, no, no, you have to look at 209 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 2: it before, for the twenty year history where it went 210 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 2: from twenty to seventy five to eighty for instance in Portland. 211 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 2: The fact that the murder rate comes back a little 212 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 2: bit isn't making things better. It's actually just establishing a 213 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 2: new barometer of what the normal murder rate is. 214 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: And there's also and this is why I thought this 215 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: article was so interesting, there's a difference in what it 216 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: actually feels like in some of these cities. You can 217 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: have and for example, in New York City, a vast 218 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: majority of the violent crime happens in a handful of 219 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: police precincts and are overwhelmingly in the central and East 220 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: part of Brooklyn and the South Bronx. In terms of shootings, 221 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 1: that's where that's where you're you know, that's like seventy percent, 222 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: seventy five percent of where you're going to get shootings 223 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: yere in a year outter in those areas. Now, that's 224 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: terrible for those areas, But you can focus on greater 225 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: police resources, doing more, you know, more more cops on 226 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: the corner, et cetera. What you have in the cities 227 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: now because the police levels are so low. Is crime 228 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: is just all over the place. Yeah, it's not even localized, 229 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: which makes it harder to address as a law enforcement issue. 230 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: And it also means that everyone has this anxiety of 231 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: it's not like there're safe neighborhoods and unsafe neighborhoods. There's 232 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: just a lot of insecurity and lack of safety around 233 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: around the whole city. This has been the case in 234 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: DC for a long time, to be clear, but it's 235 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: gotten so much worse. And you know, I just I 236 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: look this up. I mean you have because they had 237 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,439 Speaker 1: a whole Oh, we have too much mass incarceration. And 238 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: any given day, the DC jail system has about thirteen 239 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: hundred men in it, thirteen hundred. The number of women 240 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: is negligible, right, it's a few dozen thirteen hundred men 241 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: in the DC prison system. If you had seven hundred more, 242 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: four or five hundred more, something like that, you could 243 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: bring violent crime in the city down seventy or eighty 244 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: percent just by the numbers. Because the violent criminals are 245 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: committing many violent crimes, and they're doing it over and 246 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: over again, but they're unwilling to take these individuals off 247 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: the streets play. That's really and now it's not even 248 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: clear they can like they can't find them and they 249 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: can't stop them. And also remember, simultaneous to not prosecuting 250 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: violent criminals in d C, which is leading to a 251 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: skyrocketing crime rate, they're putting people who stood on the 252 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: steps outside of the capitol in prison four months based 253 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: on being at January sixth. They're throwing the book at 254 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: everybody associated with January six But if you actually carjack, 255 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: or you steal, or you commit a violent crime, they're 256 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: not actually throwing the book at you at all. They're 257 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: lowering those felonies to misdemeanors. In the Democrat world, when 258 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: it comes to political crimes or wrong think or wrong speak, 259 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: they want, you know, Stalinist's secret police tactics. But when 260 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: it comes to stopping old ladies from being bashed with hammers, 261 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: hold on a second. Social justice means we don't want 262 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: to be too harsh here on the hammer wielder, you know, 263 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: we don't want that to happen. We are going to 264 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: be in DC next month, so that's right. We'll be 265 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: seeing some folks and we do appreciate that we get 266 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: a chance to talk to people who are in the 267 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: DC area on our new affiliate one of four point 268 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: seven Freedom. So we're going to spread the truth in 269 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: that city, which is ninety three percent Democrat, and we 270 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: appreciate the people who are behind Democrat lines. 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That means Republicans don't stand for anything. 297 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: Would you stop pushing that garbage idea? 298 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: I can't stand Trump and he will cost us the election. 299 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 2: I love this email from Kathy Buck because it goes 300 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 2: in so many different directions. 301 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: Katy is not an alias email. That's not an alias 302 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: email for me. 303 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 2: Kathy is furious at me for floating the idea of 304 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 2: the Kennedy as a VP for Trump, and Trump's gonna 305 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: lose the election anyway, so. 306 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: Kathy is uh. 307 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: Kathy is firing in every direction. I appreciate the fact 308 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 2: that she is fired up. I wanted to make sure 309 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: that I shared that. By the way, you can react, 310 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 2: We're gonna have who Alex Bearnson third hour right. 311 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: Talking shots six months and up. They want you the CDC. 312 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 1: Remember they always suggest, and then eventually they just kind 313 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: of try to jam the needle in your arm whether 314 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: you want it or not. 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Never been, actually 339 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: ever been, Albuquz plice. Yeah, my college roommate is a 340 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: doctor in Albuquerque. Oh nice, I hear good things. New 341 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: Mexico was having a moment a few years ago as 342 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: people were just saying, oh, it's you know, quality of 343 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: life and the cities and everything is great. But let's 344 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,199 Speaker 1: look in the politics of the situation right now. The 345 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: Governor Luhan Grisham decided that we were just talking before 346 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: about DC violence and crime, the fixation that Democrats have, 347 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: we actually should always bring this in the conversation. They 348 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: still think it's a function of the guns. Too many 349 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: people are breaking the windows of cars and stealing stuff. 350 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: Get the guns off the streets. Too many hardened criminals 351 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: who've been arrested fifty times and have twenty illegal firearms 352 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: at home. Because it's not hard for them to get them, 353 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: and they don't care what the laws are. Get the 354 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: guns off the streets, like this is it's just they are. 355 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: There's like a monomaniacal focus on this. So just get 356 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: the guns. Get the guns well, lu Han, And as 357 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 1: I get the criminals off the streets, actually enforce the law. 358 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 1: People that break break the law, that hurt, people that 359 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: prey on their fellow human beings need to be punished 360 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 1: and need to be taken out of society for a 361 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: period of time, a long period of time. But the 362 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: governor thinks that if she just tells lawful gun owners 363 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: you can't conceal or open carry, that's going to make 364 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: for thirty days under a health order. That's going to 365 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 1: make people say, for here is clay. This is kind 366 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: of a shock. Over at CNN, one of the anchors 367 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: at CNN tried to ask the very obvious question of 368 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: the governor, where exactly is in to be clear, everyone 369 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 1: in state or federal constitution right or like the Big 370 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: C constitution, like the constitution or the New Mexico Constitution. 371 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: Where do you have the right to just change the 372 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: law like this. Here's how that exchange went place. 373 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 3: You're on solid constitutional ground here. 374 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: Well, we're going to see. I mean, look, I wouldn't 375 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: do it if I didn't think I had the right. 376 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 3: I have the Where is the right? Where is the rest? 377 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 1: State of New Mexico public It's a suspension, it's not 378 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: a ban. 379 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 3: The New Mexico Constitution I looked last night. Article two, 380 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 3: section six says this quote. No law shall abridge the 381 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 3: right of citizens to keep and bear arms for security 382 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 3: and defense. No municipality or county shall regulate in any 383 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 3: way any incident of the right to keep in bear arms. 384 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 3: Are you not in violation of both the US Constitution 385 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 3: and your states Constitution? 386 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: I don't believe that we are clay. This woman is 387 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: a governor, she is a lawyer. You know, congrats that 388 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: CNN's Poppy Harlow pnominal questioning. I mean that is what 389 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: that's what actual journalists should do, right, look up the 390 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: New Mexico Constitution. I'm sure she didn't look it up herself, 391 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: but whoever on her staff is doing the research, more 392 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: power to them. She is meaning the governor blatantly viol 393 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: if words have meaning, the governor of New Mexico is 394 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: violating the Second Amendment rights of the people of Albuquerque 395 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: and violating the state constitutional rights of the people of 396 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: Albuquerque all at once. Could not be more clear. And 397 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: you notice her justification for this, And then it goes 398 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: a little further here. She's asked, well, what if a 399 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: Republican governor decided, you know what, health emergency, no abortions 400 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: in my state. Forget what the legislature says, forget what 401 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: the state constitution says. Even if the state constitution says 402 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: abortion is legal. I'm just going to say no, because 403 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: I'm the governor. Play seven. 404 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 3: Are you overreaching? Let me give you a hypothetical, right, 405 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 3: you're a democratic governor who's doing this. What if a 406 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:47,880 Speaker 3: Republican governor of a state declares a health emergency and 407 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 3: unilaterally outlaws abortion in that state where the legislature has 408 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 3: not done so by statute, following your logic, would that 409 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 3: also be sound. 410 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: In this situation? On a I don't think so. What 411 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: law school did this governor graduate? We need to look 412 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: up where she went to law school. But that's another 413 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: fabulous question. I want to give credit to Poppy Harlowe. 414 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: I mean, that is. 415 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 2: What an actual journalist should do when they have a 416 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 2: newsmaker on right, you are the governor of New Mexico. 417 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 2: You haven't acted a or attempting to enact a law 418 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 2: even though you isn't passed by your legislature, but you're 419 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 2: attempting to basically suspend the right of of you know, 420 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 2: gun ownership. Here's the problem, and that's a great hypothetical 421 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 2: on abortion, flipping the script because you know, a Democrat 422 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 2: governor would never allow that to happen. But here's the 423 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 2: big story here that CNN seems to be tiptoeing up to. 424 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: We allowed for months, if not years, basic constitutional rights 425 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 2: to be abridged over COVID, and they use the COVID 426 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 2: emergency as a rationale to do so. You know, Pop 427 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 2: Harlowe could easily be asked. These are great questions, and 428 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 2: credit to you for asking them now as it pertains 429 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 2: to gun rights in New Mexico. Where were you for 430 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 2: two years when many people all over this country had 431 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 2: their rights abridged and the citation was, we've got a 432 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,239 Speaker 2: public health emergency because of COVID. Therefore there is no 433 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 2: existing law that can't be overturned. I mean, people in California, 434 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 2: to my knowledge, Buck, unless I'm wrong, still haven't been 435 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 2: apologized for not being able to go to church, their 436 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:32,959 Speaker 2: kids not being able to go to school. 437 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: While cannabis dispensaries, weed stores stayed open, the weed stores 438 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: stayed open, the churches did not. If you're looking for 439 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: an epitaph of the failures of Democrat Faucyite rule in 440 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, that's a pretty good one. I'll give you 441 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: a fund. I still like shopping here my neighborhood. We 442 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: have an ice cream shop. It never shut down for 443 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: co never took a day off. Because a lot of 444 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: people didn't think about this. But you know that, like 445 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: cupcake stores and ice cream shops were all considered to 446 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 1: be essential businesses because they served food. Yeah, so in 447 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: many parts of the country, those establishments were never forced 448 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: to shut down. To your point, like if a cannabis 449 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: dispensary is opened, but you're in California and many people 450 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: out there had their job shut down. I think we 451 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: had the great question again. It's like the media is 452 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: suddenly waking up. We had meet the press, asked Gavin Newsom, 453 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: wait a minute, you shut down so many churches, but 454 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: you allowed Hollywood studios to be back making movies. How 455 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: do you wreckon? How do you reconcile. Do you remember 456 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,199 Speaker 1: that story restaurant the restaurants, Yeah, our brains went to 457 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: the same place. There was a restaurant that had outdoor 458 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: dining that was compliant. That was told because all the 459 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: outdoor dining was that we even forget this, California shutdown 460 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 1: outdoor dining. Who was wondering they were able to prove 461 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: zero cases of outdoor COVID transmission. There's actually no basis 462 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: to believe that outdoor transmission is even a thing that happens. Really. 463 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: I mean maybe if someone like sneezes directly into your eyeball. Yeah, 464 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: but they shut down outdoor dining in that restaurant. That 465 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: woman who got very angry, right fully so about it 466 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: LA Area and in the LA Area and right next 467 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: to her restaurant was a massive tented, catered eating section 468 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: for a Hollywood production that was going on, which was 469 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: totally fine. And she's just sitting here like, so I 470 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: go bankrupt. But they get to do this? Why politics? 471 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: They for people out there who forgot about this. It 472 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: was a perfect distillation of how broken so many of 473 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: our COVID rules were. This woman and my recollection buck 474 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: is that she had spent substantial amounts of money to 475 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: try to create as much outdoor seating as she could, 476 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: to try to comply with the draconian policies put in 477 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: place by La County. They shut down her restaurant even 478 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: though there was a lot of outdoor outdoor seating. The 479 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: parking lot was tinted over literally next door to her restaurant, 480 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: and they had a full catered meal for the movie 481 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,439 Speaker 1: that was shooting where you could basically reach out and 482 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: touch it from her shutter down restaurant. This was Angela Marsden, 483 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: owner of the Pineapple Hill Saloon. This is December twenty twenty, 484 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill in Sherman Oaks, a neighborhood 485 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 1: Clay And I know well and yeah, she wasn't even 486 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: sure she'd be able to reopen the business at all 487 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: after this, She took out a loan and spent eighty 488 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: thousand dollars to build outdoor dining. And then just in 489 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: a fit of whimsy, your buddy Gavin Newsom said sorry, 490 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: outdoor dining too dangerous too. I think he then went 491 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: to French laundry right after this. To just to be clear, 492 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: I think this is right around the French laundry fiat. 493 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 1: I think that's true. I do think it would have 494 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: been an LA County rule as opposed to a state law, right, 495 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 1: I think it was LA County that awful Barbara whatever 496 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: her name was, who was like the Barbara Farer is 497 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: that her name was the health who is the healthy? 498 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: And everyone's like, this is the health star? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. 499 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: She did not look very healthy. She shut. 500 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 2: I feel like LA County because Orange County had different 501 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 2: rules just south, so I feel like the La County 502 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 2: rules were very arbitrary. But regardless, the rule that was 503 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,639 Speaker 2: in place at that point in time was you could 504 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 2: not eat outdoors at this woman's restaurant. But Gavin Newsom 505 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 2: was allowing the filming to take place in La County 506 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 2: was as well, so they had a huge, catered under 507 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 2: a tent dinner next door to her that was perfectly permissible. 508 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: I don't know how more people don't recognize that this 509 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: was a trial run of totalitarianism in America. I really don't. 510 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,239 Speaker 1: I don't understand zero. And here's the thing, Buck no 511 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: heuro consequences. We talked about last week. 512 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 2: Montgomery County, which is the county just north of Washington, 513 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 2: d C the fact that they were requiring kindergarteners to 514 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 2: wear masks. Another school in Montgomery County is now requiring 515 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 2: first graders to wear masks over COVID. These are in 516 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 2: ninety five masks. This is not going away because the 517 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 2: consequences here has still not occurred. Nobody was held accountable 518 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 2: for getting everything wrong with COVID from the Democrat side, 519 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 2: No one, Not one politician lost his or her job 520 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 2: over getting COVID wrong. 521 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo lost his job. But because he was grabbing 522 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: ladies and thoughts they didn't want grabbed. That's what happened, remember, 523 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: Not because of the grandparents getting sent back into nursing 524 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: homes with COVID and all that and then lying about 525 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: it and covering it up. It was because he was like, 526 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: come here, I need a smooch. Yeah, that's right, Womo. 527 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: People didn't care at all about the thousands of people 528 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: dead because of his policies on nursing homes. They cared 529 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: about him, you know, like touching a woman on the 530 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: on the thigh when she didn't want to go. I 531 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: think it was a stomach stomach it was, honestly, yeah, 532 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 1: stupid argument. I mean honestly, just just on the sexual 533 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: harassment stuff. Andrew Cuomo shouldn't I mean never lost his job. 534 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: I mean that's crazy. And here we are. 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Visit tharrad dot com, download and use the 555 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: new Clay and Buck app. Listen to the program live. 556 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: Catch up on any part of the show you might 557 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: have missed. State current with what Clay and Buck are 558 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 1: saying on TV. Fine the Clay and Buck app in 559 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: your app store and make it. 560 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 2: Part of your Dave Welcome Back in Clay Travis Buck 561 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 2: Sexton show. 562 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 1: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We have 563 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: got some breaking news from the state of Utah. Mitt 564 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: Romney has announced that he will not be running for 565 00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: Senate reelection. He will serve out his term and leave 566 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: the Senate in January of twenty twenty five. We have 567 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: a ton of you listening in the state. 568 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 2: Of Utah right now and Buck, this is going to 569 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 2: set off a massive race in Utah in the primary 570 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 2: to see who will be the Senate standard bearer in Utah. 571 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 2: And I will just say this about Mitt Romney. Remember 572 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 2: he didn't endorse Senator Mike Lee in that race two 573 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 2: years ago. Instead said he was friends with both of 574 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 2: the people running, and I know there are still a 575 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 2: lot of people in Utah angered by that decision from 576 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 2: Mitt Romney, and this effectively will be the end of 577 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 2: Mitt Romney's political career. Then, So from standard bearer for 578 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 2: the Republican Party in twenty twelve to a position where 579 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 2: I think many people You tell me if I'm wrong here, Buck, 580 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 2: I think a lot of people out there listening right 581 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 2: now are excited and thankful that Mitt Romney is not 582 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 2: going to continue to run now. He said in his 583 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 2: statement that he just posted on social media that one 584 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 2: reason he's going to decide not to run is because 585 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 2: he would be in his mid eighties at the time 586 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 2: that his tenure would run out. I guess that would 587 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 2: be what twenty thirty if he won reelection in twenty 588 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 2: twenty four, and he said it's time for a new 589 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 2: generation of leader to step forward. Can at least agree 590 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 2: with him there, because they're far too many elderly people serving, 591 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 2: I think, in elective office in this country. But what's 592 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 2: your reaction, I mean, you were excited, I'd imagine, or 593 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 2: at least willing to in twenty twelve, you know, help 594 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 2: to try to get Mitt Romney. 595 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: I hate to. I mean, you gotta look at that, 596 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 1: a little shot in the ribs when I'm not looking. Oh, 597 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: you were excited to vote for Romney back in twenty twelve. 598 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,719 Speaker 2: I've played a lot of people listening to us who 599 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 2: voted for Mitt Romney that are excited that he's not 600 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 2: running now for. 601 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: I know, I know that now. I'm just saying, you know, 602 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: the Mitt Romney vote in twenty twelve, we all get 603 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 1: a mulligan or we get an excuse on that one 604 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,800 Speaker 1: was the best option we had at the time. Okay, 605 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 1: that we went to we went to war with the 606 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: army we had, as I like to say, we went 607 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 1: with Mitt and Mit got annihilated, and that is what happened. 608 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 1: But what do I think now about Uh? Yeah, I 609 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: think it is something that you're going to see more 610 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: of because people are recognizing. Look, I don't like saying 611 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: this out loud, but we're all thinking this. We all 612 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 1: know it's a reality. I certainly won't name a politician. 613 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: I hope that all of them, you know, have many 614 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,240 Speaker 1: good years ahead of them in time, with family, et cetera. 615 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: Unlike the leftist communists. We are not savages. We do 616 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: not want people's lives room. We don't we do not 617 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: want their health ruin. But someone's gonna have a stroke 618 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: on camera, and like, it's going to really shake the country. 619 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,719 Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean someone at this rate, 620 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: you're going to see something happen. I mean people say, oh, 621 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 1: we've already seen it, No, don't. I mean the Mitch mcconnalley. 622 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to see the equivalent of a 623 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: major politician having a serious medical event that and then 624 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: everyone's going to say, oh, we all saw this coming 625 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: for months, of course, and we look at the way 626 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,879 Speaker 1: this person deteriorated. So it is a conversation that needs 627 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: to happen. And look, we are the voters, so it's 628 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 1: also on us at some level. People keep saying term limits. 629 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, okay, Termlins, how about don't vote for 630 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 1: people who are too old? Yeah? And this I keep 631 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: saying this, and I know this is not a popular 632 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,239 Speaker 1: thing in some quarters. To say Trump's age is going 633 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: to take some of the sting out of the fact 634 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 1: that Biden is far far too old in terms. And 635 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: I know age as a number versus age as a 636 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 1: reality of the physical condition or different things. But because 637 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: Trump is only a few years behind him, it's not 638 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: if you had a politician Clay who was sixty who 639 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,839 Speaker 1: was running against Biden, I don't think they'd be able 640 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,279 Speaker 1: to do it. I don't. I think the age thing 641 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: would be too much for people. Oh yeah, I agree 642 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 1: with you. 643 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 2: I think if Republicans were looking like they were going 644 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 2: to nominate somebody in their forties or fifties, I think 645 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 2: that Joe Biden would be forced out by Democrats. 646 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: And I know apparently we're not doing that. We're going 647 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: with Trump. But that's why I'm very confident the age 648 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 1: thing is not going to be enough to be to 649 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,320 Speaker 1: beat Biden, and he'll still be in the mix because 650 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 1: he's only four years older than Trump. 651 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, Trump is far more cognitively aware. His brain actually 652 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:21,879 Speaker 2: works in six years. 653 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 1: I don't know how many How many years is it? 654 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 1: You know is or I think it's four years. I 655 00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 1: think Trump is seventy seven and Biden is eighty one 656 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,319 Speaker 1: right now, if I'm not mistaken, And so, yeah, four 657 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: year difference. There's much more than that in terms of 658 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: the actual mental capacity and focus. Trump obviously is light 659 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 1: years better than Biden. But in terms of the optics, 660 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 1: a lot of people will see two older people on 661 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: the debate stage in the event that we ever have 662 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 1: a debate stage. And if you had Vivek Ramaswami or 663 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,839 Speaker 1: Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis on the stage against Trump 664 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,279 Speaker 1: against Biden, I think it would be different.