Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Aug 14 2025

Summary

Summary of "Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Aug 14 2025"

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show is renowned for its incisive discussions on news, politics, and current events. In the August 14, 2025 episode, hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton delve deep into the pressing issue of crime in Washington D.C., the upcoming historic summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and analyze recent incidents that reflect the current socio-political climate. The episode is structured into several key segments, each offering insightful commentary and analysis.

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1. Crime in Washington D.C. and Political Responses

Overview: The episode opens with a robust discussion on the escalating crime rates in Washington D.C. President Trump has been vocal about his concerns, promising to marshal federal resources to curb the surge. Clay and Buck scrutinize the Democratic response and the party's attempts to downplay the situation.

Key Points:

• Trump’s Stance: President Trump has labeled the crime situation in D.C. as "out of control" and has vowed to take decisive action.

  Clay Travis (00:03:33): "Well, a lot of things, but above all, Epstein. We've been confronting him on Epstein very successfully, left and right..."

• Democratic Response: Democrats, led by figures like Chuck Schumer and Joe Scarborough, argue that crime rates are not as dire as portrayed. Clay and Buck counter this by highlighting polls indicating widespread concern among residents.

  Mike Dunleavy (00:04:47): "People from being murdered in order to distract from Epstein, I would argue would even be Even if it were true, I would actually argue that's good."

• Public Sentiment: A Washington Post poll cited in the discussion reveals that 91% of D.C. residents perceive crime as a significant problem, with higher concern among Black and lower-income residents.

  Clay Travis (00:07:41): "The Washington Post took a poll in late April, early May, 91% of Washington residents say crime is a problem."

Notable Quotes:

• Clay Travis (00:05:15): "I think everybody out there recognizing it and Trump trying to make it better is actually just a good thing and not particularly political."

• Mike Dunleavy (00:09:16): "Look at where Donald Trump is way, way, way above Joe Biden. What is that? That's 27 points."

2. Subway Attacker Incident and Left-Wing Attitudes Towards Police

Overview: The hosts discuss a recent incident where an individual assaulted a police officer in a Subway restaurant. This event is used as a case study to explore broader left-wing attitudes towards law enforcement and the increasing tensions surrounding police visibility in communities.

Key Points:

• Incident Analysis: The attacker, identified as a former Department of Justice employee, expressed anger towards the presence of police officers, reflecting a deeper disenfranchisement among certain left-wing groups.

  Mike Dunleavy (00:26:50): "That's what Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted just a little bit ago... He's a die hard Kamala supporter."

• Left-Wing Disconnection: Clay and Buck argue that such incidents illustrate a disconnect between affluent, protected communities and the broader population experiencing higher crime rates.

  Clay Travis (00:19:56): "This is somewhat representative of a certain left wing response to increased police officers in D.C."

• Public Perception: The discussion highlights how media narratives often portray police actions differently depending on the political landscape, with left-wing media sometimes downplaying violent crimes.

Notable Quotes:

• Clay Travis (00:19:14): "The Republicans have staked out for a long time now the position of we do need to just enforce the law, we need to back police, and we need to incarcerate people or none of this stuff gets better."

• Mike Dunleavy (00:26:46): "It is going to be interesting. That happened Sunday night, Northwest D.C. and he was arrested Wednesday night."

3. Interview with Governor Mike Dunleavy on the Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska

Overview: A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to an in-depth interview with Governor Mike Dunleavy of Alaska. The focus is on the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin scheduled to take place in Anchorage, Alaska. The discussion underscores the strategic importance of Alaska's geographic location in international politics and national security.

Key Points:

• Strategic Significance of Alaska: Governor Dunleavy emphasizes Alaska's proximity to Russia, its role as an Arctic state, and its substantial military presence, making it a pivotal location for such a high-stakes summit.

  Joe Scarborough (00:56:08): "We're the most strategic state in the country by far... We have missile intercepts here. We have bases with F35s, F22s..."

• Security Measures: The summit's security is paramount, involving extensive coordination between state, local, and federal agencies to ensure the safety of both leaders.

  Joe Scarborough (00:59:10): "There's no doubt that our security apparatus is second to none... having it on the base is a wise idea."

• Potential Outcomes: The hosts speculate on possible scenarios, including the peace process in Ukraine and whether Ukrainian President Zelensky might attend if the talks progress positively.

  Joe Scarborough (00:60:23): "I'm hoping once again that what comes out of this is going to be a lasting, just peace for the people of Ukraine."

• Historical Context: Governor Dunleavy references Alaska’s history, including its strategic role during World War II, to highlight its continued importance in global matters.

  Joe Scarborough (00:56:08): "Alaska was actually invaded during World War II on the Aleutian Islands by the Japanese..."

Notable Quotes:

• Governor Mike Dunleavy (00:54:26): "We're hoping for the best, that at least this will start some serious talks on getting this war in Ukraine resolved sooner than later."

• Governor Mike Dunleavy (00:60:23): "We hope for nothing but the best. But if President Zelensky does end up coming, we would also do everything we can to provide for him as well as the..."

4. Light-Hearted Segments: Clay’s Tennis Serve Bet

Overview: In a refreshing break from heavyweight political discussions, Clay and Buck engage in a humorous segment about Clay’s ambitious bet to hit a 100-mile-per-hour serve in tennis. The banter showcases their camaraderie and adds a lighter tone to the episode.

Key Points:

• The Bet: Clay Travis challenges himself to achieve a one-time 100 mph serve, sparking playful skepticism from Buck and guest commentators like John Isner and Andy Roddick.

  Mary Katharine Ham (00:43:26): "Your bet was that you could crush the ball on a serve. A hundred or higher."

• Expert Opinions: Renowned tennis players weigh in, critiquing Clay’s chances and emphasizing the technical skill required to reach such speeds.

  Clay Travis (00:45:01): "At the pro tour, there's like other people. I, I don't count it. When you're looking at the records, it has to be someone did it in a match."

• Humorous Exchanges: The segment is filled with lighthearted jokes about tennis techniques, gear, and the challenges Clay faces due to his celiac disease.

  Clay Travis (00:49:24): "It has to read 100 or higher without you faulting through your feet or on the other side of the net in the serve box."

Notable Quotes:

• Clay Travis (00:46:23): "There are women who are Laura Size on the pro tour who can hit a, you know, 110 mile an hour serve like pretty regularly."

• Mike Dunleavy (00:44:58): "They're very sensitive humor about it."

5. Closing Remarks and Upcoming Topics

Overview: As the episode nears its end, Clay and Buck provide a preview of upcoming shows, including a focus on the Trump-Putin summit results. They also touch upon ongoing political narratives and encourage listener engagement through various segments like PrizePick and TuneTower.

Key Points:

• Upcoming Coverage: Anticipation of the summit’s outcomes, including possible policy shifts and international relations developments.

  Mike Dunleavy (00:51:06): "We know how busy you are."

• Call to Action: Encouragement for listeners to participate in interactive segments and stay informed through their platforms.

  Clay Travis (00:50:23): "Protect the value of your Savings account, your 401k..."

Notable Quotes:

• Clay Travis (00:52:49): "We're bringing in now the Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunleavy. Is that a fair characterization that as these things go, I would imagine the amount of preparation, the amount of security,..."

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Conclusion

The August 14, 2025 episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show offers a comprehensive examination of the crime situation in Washington D.C., critically evaluates the political maneuvers surrounding it, and provides an insider’s look into the historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. Through a blend of serious analysis and light-hearted segments, Clay and Buck deliver a nuanced and engaging narrative that keeps listeners informed and entertained.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Clay Travis (00:05:15): "I think everybody out there recognizing it and Trump trying to make it better is actually just a good thing and not particularly political."

• Mike Dunleavy (00:09:16): "Look at where Donald Trump is way, way, way above Joe Biden. What is that? That's 27 points."

• Clay Travis (00:19:14): "The Republicans have staked out for a long time now the position of we do need to just enforce the law, we need to back police..."

• Mike Dunleavy (00:26:50): "That's what Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted just a little bit ago... He's a die hard Kamala supporter."

• Clay Travis (00:56:08): "We are the most strategic state in the country by far... We have missile intercepts here. We have bases with F35s, F22s..."

• Governor Mike Dunleavy (00:54:26): "We're hoping for the best, that at least this will start some serious talks on getting this war in Ukraine resolved sooner than later."

• Mary Katharine Ham (00:43:26): "Your bet was that you could crush the ball on a serve. A hundred or higher."

• Clay Travis (00:46:23): "There are women who are Laura Size on the pro tour who can hit a, you know, 110 mile an hour serve like pretty regularly."

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This detailed summary captures the essence of the episode, highlighting the critical discussions on crime and the geopolitical significance of the Trump-Putin summit, while also showcasing the hosts' ability to blend serious topics with moments of levity.

Transcript

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Mike Dunleavy]

Welcome in Thursday Edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We've got a loaded program coming for you. Howard Kurtz from Fox News, Carol Markowitz from New York Post and the Clay and Buck Podcast network. And then the governor of Alaska, Mike Dunleavy. Not the former basketball player, I don't think, I don't think he's doing double duty. He will be with us as we look towards the eve of, of the Trump Putin meeting in Anchorage, Alaska that is scheduled for tomorrow. I'm sure there will be much discussion of that both today and tomorrow, but we told you this on Monday. Trump came out at, I believe it was 10am East coast time on Monday and said crime is out of control in Washington, D.C. and I'm going to marshal as many federal resources as necessary to help stop that from being a reality. Uh, he was fed up with what he was seeing. We now are on day four of Trump dominating the news cycle and the news cycle being Democrats arguing, hey, crime isn't actually that bad. And meanwhile almost everybody else is saying actually yeah, it is really bad. And why are you opposed to making crime better than it is right now? And I, I just want to play a couple of cuts here, Buck, to get you started for the day. This is and I want to give credit before I play him by, by the way, we have finally reached a bridge to lunacy that Joe Scarborough will not take to defend left wing talking points. Perhaps embarrassed, chastened by his, his ridiculousness as it pertains to Joe Biden. Uh, he is actually making some sense. But first, the people who are not making sense. Chuck Schumer, he of the hey, I like to cook hamburgers on a grill. Awkward, increasingly without power in the Senate, terrified that AOC is going to challenge him. He says, I feel perfectly safe in D.C. and this is all just an Epstein distraction. Flailing Chuck Schumer. Cut three.

[Clay Travis]

I walk around all the time I wake up early in the morning sometimes and take a nice walk as the.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Sun is rising around some of the.

[Clay Travis]

Capitol and the other monuments and things.

[Mike Dunleavy]

And I feel perfectly safe. They're full of it. Look, here's what they've done, Aaron, plain and simple.

[Clay Travis]

Donald Trump wants to distract.

[Mike Dunleavy]

That's his game plan. It's been his MO for his first.

[Clay Travis]

Term in the presidency.

[Mike Dunleavy]

And now.

[Clay Travis]

So he trying to make this a distraction.

[Mike Dunleavy]

What's he trying to distract from?

[Clay Travis]

Well, a lot of things, but above all, Epstein. We've been confronting him on Epstein very successfully, left and right, so much so that Johnson had a dismiss, you know, had ascended the House home early, and.

[Mike Dunleavy]

We called it the Epstein recess. Okay. This is desperate primarily because Democrats were in power for four years and did nothing at all, by and large, relating to Epstein. Epstein has. Has started to vanish as Trump has, I think, tried to marshal as much public release of data as he possibly can. And Democrats are now buck in the position of arguing. The first part of this is what I thought was interesting, Chuck Schumer saying, I get up early in the morning and I walk around the Capitol. First of all, I question how often this happens. Maybe, hopefully he's out for walks and he's a very healthy guy. But I don't think most people are saying, hey, it's 6:00am it's deadly necessarily to go walk along beside the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Uh, I think even Chuck Schumer would have to realize that much of the issue related to crime is in residential areas. Um, and this is kind of a flailing nature that they're in right now. They're telling people to not believe what they see with their own eyes. Crime is bad. And I think everybody out there recognizing it and Trump trying to make it better is actually just a good thing and not particularly political.

[Clay Travis]

It's also remarkable that the fallback now has turned into. Well, we're doing such a good job as Democrats on the Epstein thing. Yeah, that's the big. That's the big attack. That's what they're going after the administration on just to note something they didn't care about at all while Joe Biden.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Four years. For four years.

[Joe Scarborough]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

There was absolutely no discussion whatsoever from them about Epstein. And yet here we are now being told that any.

[Mike Dunleavy]

So.

[Clay Travis]

So anything that Trump wants to talk about that they don't want to talk about now their go to is he just wants to distract from Epstein saving.

[Mike Dunleavy]

People from being murdered in order to distract from Epstein, I would argue would even be Even if it were true, I would actually argue that's good. You know, Epstein's dead and not committing, to my knowledge, any current crimes. I'd rather protect people from current crimes as opposed to focus on past ones personally. So even that argument is a weak one when you actually break it down in that respect.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I think that the whole Democrat Party is desperate for anything that they can say right now that just seems like they're even in opposition because there's nothing they can really pull. There's nothing they can really pull together that will hit hard against where Trump currently is. I would note that on, on the crime issue, you've had a number of people come out, come forward here, here's my, my, my old friend, SE Cup. Actually, I wanted to play this one. She, she used to do the real new show with me at the Blaze many years ago at Glenn Beck's the Blaze. And, and she had this to say at CNN to the Democrats, to their faces, play seven. The numbers can be what they are, but also, people don't feel that way. Crime in the economy.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Feelings don't really care about your facts.

[Clay Travis]

And I can't tell you how profoundly stupid it is for Democrats to get.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Up with their facts and their figures and their charts and their graphs and say, look, you're safe. Can you read this chart?

[Mary Katharine Ham]

Idiots.

[Clay Travis]

Why are you complaining?

[Mike Dunleavy]

I'm showing you right here how safe.

[Clay Travis]

You are, so shut up and move along.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Yeah, it doesn't work argument.

[Clay Travis]

And that's what they're trying.

[Mike Dunleavy]

And I give credit. You wanted to play SE cup there. This is, there's actually quite a few people on the left that are saying, you know what? Again, this is a bridge too far. Joe Scarborough, who basically proved he didn't have a gag reflex as long as Joe Biden was president. Even he now is saying, look, D.C. is really dangerous. And on MSNBC, they have that panel show, the Morning Joe that you watch. Buck, I watched this clip. There's like eight people that are all there in like, tiny little boxes. They have this huge ensemble cast. And Scarborough is just lecturing everybody. Actually, Trump's right about how violent the crime situation is. And I don't think this is playing very well. Here's cut eight. This is what they heard on msnbc.

[Clay Travis]

The answer to this, this, this problem for Democrats is not, oh, everything's ok, there's nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Oh, Washington has dropped 24% or whatever in crime that. Well, let me give you some other numbers. The Washington Post took a poll in late April, early May, 91% of Washington residents say crime is a problem. 91%. 51%. It is an extremely serious problem. There are stark divides among lines of race and income in the poll, with black residents and lower income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents and those with higher incomes.

[Mike Dunleavy]

I think that's actually well said by Joe Scarborough. The base of the Democrat Party actually feels the crime that is poor black voters in a way that the left wing media that lives in Northwest D.C. and oftentimes has private security protecting them is a bit protected from this. And this ties in with what Harry Enton is saying. This is cnn, that he thinks this is a total miscalculation by Democrats, too. And again, trying to reduce violent crime is something historically that almost all Americans have been in favor of. Cut six.

[Clay Travis]

Look at where Donald Trump is way, way, way above Joe Biden. What is that? That's 27 points. So Americans vastly prefer Donald Trump's approach to crime than they did to Joe Biden's. And again, I think it gets back to the point that Americans are far more hawkish on crime than a lot of Democrats want to admit. This isn't just about Donald Trump. It's about Republicans versus Democrats.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Right.

[Clay Travis]

And that, of course, is a key question going into next year's midterm election. I think the party closest to your views on crime, look, in 2023, Republicans were favored by 13 points. Look at where they were in May of this year, Republicans were actually favored by 16 points. They actually gained ground on crime. They were maintaining their edge and actually added a little bit to it. So Republicans in the House, Republicans in the Senate, they absolutely want to be talking about crime. The more they feel that we're talking about crime, the better they feel that the electoral landscape is for them.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Are you surprised that this has been the Democrat position, that actually crime's getting better and that Trump, I mean, if they had come out and said, hey, he's exceeding his presidential authority, we don't like that. But to argue, hey, crime's actually down and there's no need for this, it feels like an own goal, shooting themselves in the foot, even within lenient standards, because Democrats do that a lot. I'm kind of surprised that they stepped right into this bear trap.

[Clay Travis]

I guess they just don't really have any sense of how to oppose, of how to pivot from something that Trump is on and come up with a better or a, you know, their own version of how to fix it. Because to me, that would be. They could come out and say, well, this isn't for the president to do, but we should have more resources. For now, I think the response to that would likely be something along the lines of, yeah, we've been trying that. Whatever they're going to say has probably been tried before and failed for a long time. And I think that they're going to be in trouble no matter what. But they have turned something that you would think would be a more minor issue into a much larger, much longer term issue, which I find surprising, the lack of political foresight that they have here. They've given Trump the news cycle this whole week to the point where, as we said, Chuck Schumer is saying it's cuz he doesn't want to talk about Epstein, but how long are they going to be pulling that one off? That doesn't work. And also to look at the numbers, the crime numbers, they initially kept comparing it to 2023, comparing the drop in crime to the year that had the single nationwide largest increase in homicides in 60 years looks really disingenuous to anybody who understands numbers and statistics. So they're having problems all over the place.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Well, I also think Scarborough's point is well taken. I mean, a Washington Post poll, what did he say? 91% of D.C. residents say crime's a problem. And I think he said 56% said it was an incredibly significant problem. You can't lie to people about what they feel. Eventually you can address the underlying concerns. I'll give you an example on this. Right now the economy is getting better under Trump. But I also understand that explaining to people that the economy is getting better is sometimes challenging because it takes a while for the economy, national economic mood to shift and reflect what people are actually seeing. I think some of you are feeling it. Gas prices are down relative to where they have been. Grocery prices according to the most recent Producer Price index numbers actually coming down. And so the challenge, I think is prices went up so fast that things still cost more than people think they should. But we are rectifying this issue in many different ways. It's just taking a little while. And again, Trump has commandeered the national news cycle. Now for four days over, he wants to bring down violent crime. Democrats have mostly said violent crime is not that much of an issue. And now starting tomorrow, all of the news cycle through the entire weekend is going to be reacting to Trump and Putin and, and what is likely to be occurring based on that relationship. So all of that coming your way. But you know, the world is going a little bit upside down when even a guy like Joe Scarborough is is saying, hey you, you're making a lot of sense here.

[Clay Travis]

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[Mike Dunleavy]

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Mary Katharine Ham]

Hey there. I'm Mary Kathryn Ham. And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Long time, long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.

[Mary Katharine Ham]

That's why we started Normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.

[Mike Dunleavy]

We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling and with a healthy dose of humor.

[Mary Katharine Ham]

We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. So if you're into common sense, sanity and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday.

[Mary Katharine Ham]

And Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show rolling through the Thursday edition of the program. Lots of reaction rolling into Pink Polo and his subway attack assault on an officer. But I do think it's somewhat representative of a certain left wing response to increased police officers in D.C. there are protests now that are developing against police officers being able to protect people from being murdered. And I just, I look at this and I do think, Buck, what Trump kind of is brilliantly exploiting in some way is the disconnect from the people who are the limousine liberal universe, as Rush would call them, who typically have their own private security. They have their own universe that tends to be far safer, where the rules are enforced and law is respected. And then most of those people, by the way, live in Northwest D.C. which for those of you who don't know, is by far the wealthiest part of the Washington, D.C. area. And then there's all the other people who tend to live in Southeast and live in a lawless, in many ways society. And they're begging for help and Trump is giving it to them. And the pink Polos of the world are furious that there are police officers out on the streets. I do think that that video that has gone mega viral is somewhat evocative of that disconnect because in general, I think it represents like if you have that level of disrespect for a police officer, it's probably because you don't feel personally threatened by violence. And that's the only reason I can think of why you're screaming at a police officer standing on the street trying to enforce the law. But I Do think the Joe Scarborough commentary and that video just really kind of illustrate in a very quick manner what Trump has pointed out, which is most people on the left don't actually care about violence because it doesn't impact their daily life.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. And they recognize that the Republicans have staked out for a long time now the position of we do need to just enforce the law, we need to back police, and we need to incarcerate people or none of this stuff gets better. And every time they're able to have it their way, or every time that experiment is run with that in mind, things do get better, things do improve. So we own this territory, so to speak, as Republicans and Democrats don't want to cede ever that we are correct. It's stubborn. It's a bit of bitterness, too, thrown in there. And as you say, it's because so many of these people. And I was like, I was. I was taking some shots at what was George Will with the bow tie the other day.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Lives at Chevy, lives in Chevy Chase. Chevy Chase is not. Is not dc. Dc, Right. I mean, this is. This is like, people. There are areas. I've been to suburbs of Baltimore, beautiful people have, like, farms and I mean, it's lovely. You know, it's really nice. That's not Baltimore, even if it's Baltimore county, whatever it is. Right. So a lot of people, I think, that weigh in on this stuff too. They say, as a New Yorker, I'm particularly sensitive to this. People say, oh, you know, I think New York is really safe. I'm like, where do you live? Chappaqua. You don't know, you know, nothing.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Where do you live? Scarsdale.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'm Scarsdale. Safe. I'm not worried about Scarsdale. But, you know, go spend some time in the South Bronx and talk to me about how safe the city is. Although New York, Manhattan is pretty safe for a large city. Boston, I believe, is a good bit safer for a sizable city. So there's really substantial differences here. When you look at it, I was surprised. Houston's actually got a more of a crop. You don't hear about it a lot. I was looking at some of the stats. Houston has a rougher time with crime, with homicide specifically, and shootings than I had anticipated. Doesn't get a lot of news coverage, but that was another city because obviously one of the biggest cities in the country that came up that definitely needs some help. I think they have da or at least they used to.

[Mike Dunleavy]

One of the challenges on the data is where I live. Is Williamson county, right. I think south of Nashville, I think. I don't know, there's like 300,000 people or something who live in my county. Basically, it's Nashville. There's a murder rate essentially here of zero. There might have been one or two murders in the whole county in a year. And so one of the challenges you get into, to be fair, on some of this data, is some cities only count a certain part of the city, and it could be a big sprawling metropolis. And so I wonder on Houston, which is the fourth biggest city in the country, right? It's a huge, sprawling metropolis. That's why I think the New York City data is so interesting, because New York city has what, 8 million people who live in the five boroughs of. Of New York City, if I'm not mistaken, roughly. And you compare that 8 million with the 700,000 or so that live in D.C. and D.C. per capita is out of control. Now, some people would say, well, if you count Montgomery county and you count Arlington and all the surrounding areas, D.C. would look a lot less violent than it does when you only count d the District of Columbia by itself. So, for instance, Shelby county, where Memphis is, is insanely violent. But if you counted all of the surrounding metropolitan area of Memphis, it would dial back some of the violence a little bit. So my point on that is sometimes the data isn't entirely illustrative of the full picture, but I do think D.C. which exists in this unique world where it's just a federal district. To your point, the George Wills of the world, they live just across the border in Maryland, and they're like, there is no crime here. You're like, well, yeah, George, you probably haven't been to Southeast D.C. in 40 years, unless you count going to the Washington Nationals, like, right on the edge. I think, of Southeast a little bit, is where the baseball stadium is there. So it is in many ways something that I think the elite, the wealthy of DC just pretend doesn't exist because it doesn't come into their universe very often. And remember, this has been a big issue in D.C. for a long time. They kept the subway from going to Georgetown because they didn't want people who were poor to have easy access to people who were rich in D.C. it is a huge deal. They didn't want the subway. Anybody who's been there, you have to get out at GW and walk up, or you have to now take, obviously, an Uber or walk across the river from Virginia. They tried to protect themselves from the lesser class who couldn't afford their Multimillion dollar Georgetown mansions. It is very interesting. All those people vote left. All those people were Kamala voters. But boy, they really don't want violent crime to have easy access to them, do they?

[Clay Travis]

And yet Georgetown does have its spillover of. It's a lot safer than other parts of the city, of course, but there's stuff that happens in Georgetown that is that you'd be shocked for this to occur in the nicest neighborhood of other cities. So Trump is right on this. And Democrats can do whatever they want with this, with the squawking and the, and the screaming and they can, they can throw a fit. At the end of the day, Trump has latched onto yet another issue, has, has put forward another program and set of policies where anybody who is being honest about it is saying, yeah, that, that seems more. That seems sensible. And they have already been doing a number of arrests. They're taking dangerous people off the, off the streets. So I think that you might. It's gonna, it's not gonna be a huge change in the crime data, but it will have a positive effect.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Our subway assaulter is, was a Department of justice employee. Um, and this is the kind of. I mean, this is what Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted just a little bit ago. Uh, I just learned this defendant worked at the Department of Justice. No longer. Bondi said in all caps. This is an example of the deep state we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus doj. You will not work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement. Uh, and so this individual is, is named. I wanna make sure I get his name. Ch. Sean Charles Dunn. And he was a DOJ employee. But I do think. Do you think that guy in DOJ was aggressively enforcing Trump DOJ policies? I bet that he was a die hard Kamala supporter. That's why he was screaming at the judge. Um, and I mean screaming at the officer, and why he felt like he could just pull back a sub and throw it. Because to be fair, I. How many times have you seen videos of police officers just taking objects being pelted at these BLM protests, for instance. Nothing ever happened. You just got guys standing there, water bottles, hitting them, all sorts of pepper spray sometimes. I mean, so I do think this is a change of policy. The guy thought, hey, nothing's gonna happen to me. I'm just gonna throw this at the officer. And, you know, it is going to be interesting. That happened Sunday night, Northwest D.C. and he was arrested Wednesday night Do we.

[Clay Travis]

Know what sparked the sandwich confrontation?

[Mike Dunleavy]

The report is that he was angry over too many police officers and screaming at the police officers for standing around, and that was what eventually led him. I mean, I assume when I watch this video and the way he ran. Yeah, that's my assumption. I mean, it doesn't look like something that a sober guy would do. So I'm assuming the guy had been out somewhere, probably had too many drinks, was a leftist, got angry at a police officer, thought that there would be no consequences, because there haven't been really any consequences for leftists who do anything to police officers for years. And as the kids say, fa. And now he's foing.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I'm shocked that this guy would think that this is going to go in any. You know, doing this at any point in time is unwise. To do it right now, given the focus on this nationally, is pretty crazy. But, you know, there are people who believe this stuff about how this is martial law or the militarization of police. And this is part of. There are less of them now than there have been. But there are still people out there who think that Trump is about to declare himself, like, dictator for life, and this is part of that move. So you can see this stuff online. But imagine working at the DOJ and thinking.

[Mike Dunleavy]

That's what I'm saying.

[Clay Travis]

This is the part of it that's really bizarre to me. And also not understanding or being able to think about the consequences in advance of assaulting a police officer in the current environment like that. When you work for the Department of Justice, I mean, he would. You would hope that he would know that it is technically a felony to physically assault the police officer who, you know on duty. I mean, you would think you would know that.

[Mike Dunleavy]

I think that this is an example of how you have protected people for leftist political thought. I think he thought that he was above the law, and I think he has now found out that there's. There's a lot. So many Subway sandwich jokes that you can make. Um, but where are you on.

[Clay Travis]

So I really can't. Because of celiac disease, unfortunately, I really can't experience the full glories of the Subway Sandwich. Where are you on that?

[Mike Dunleavy]

I love Subway. I eat there.

[Clay Travis]

I. I've honestly never. I have never had a Subway sandwich that I can remember.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Ever. In your life. I like Subway. I like Jimmy John's. I like all of the, you know, you give me sandwich with chips and a soda. It's to me, the perfect meal. I understand.

[Clay Travis]

What is the Best of the sandwich.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Sandwiches.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Mike Dunleavy]

I get either the meatball sub at Subway, which I think is very good, or I get my tubs, my, my sub toasted and I get, my favorite is sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub. So those are the two my typical go to if I'm. Now I'm getting hungry. And if Subway just got a huge advertisement from us that they were never planning on thanks to that moron throwing a Subway sandwich at the, at the cop. But I'm a big fan. I like Subway. I think relatively speaking, it's, it's healthy. You know, they had that one guy who lost a lot of money that I've lost a lot of weight. Unfortunately, he ended up being a pedophile, I think. Right. Well, that was an unexpected twist in the, in the weight loss story. But you know, I mean, I do think that, that they do a good job of let letting you count calories, which is not necessarily very easy in much of the fast food universe. So I like them.

[Clay Travis]

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[Mike Dunleavy]

Can do is laugh and they do a lot of it with the Sunday hang. Join Clay and Buck as they laugh it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. President Trump, as we speak in the Oval Office. He will be headed to Alaska soon. We are going to talk with the governor of Alaska, Mike Dunleavy, at the bottom of this hour about the big meeting between Putin and Trump that is scheduled to take place in Anchorage and what he expects to see there. I can only imagine the amount of security that will be in place for that face to face meeting. And certainly we will be covering that in earnest tomorrow. And we're going to have a couple of cuts from inside of the Oval Office. It is the 90th anniversary of the creation of Social Security. A couple of things that Trump has said, just to give you a little bit of a news bulletin here. He has said that 275,000 illegal, illegal aliens, I.e. non citizens, have been removed from Social Security. So there were, according to President Trump, a lot of people who are not citizens that were enrolled to receive Social Security. And also that there remains an inordinate number of people who are listed as receiving Social Security or at least in the database, over 120 years old. Uh, Elon Musk even weighed in on that commentary. All this taking place from inside of the Oval Office. Let me fill you in on the Elon Musk response to what Trump said, but basically that there are not very many people, as you would well imagine, over the age of 100. And so 12.4. This is according to Margo Martin, who does great work for President Trump. 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database were over 120 years of age. And Elon Musk responded to that by saying, the oldest actually living American is 114 years old. Now we got a couple of these cuts to be able to, to, to play for you. Trump asked for his message to Democrats saying there's no crime in D.C. cut 25. This just happened in the Oval Office.

[F]

It's another reason why the Democrats lost the election in a landslide. They lie. It's just lie. Look, the crime is very bad. I think they'd be much better off saying we want to help President Trump with the crime because it's an epidemic. It's a tragic situation. It's the worst it's ever Been. And we want to help President Trump with the crime as opposed to he's a dictator. He's a dictator. People are so happy to see our military going into D.C. and getting these thugs out. As you know, we arrested a lot of people yesterday. We arrested a lot of people today. We're getting people that have arrest records that you wouldn't believe. 28 arrests, 15 arrests. Brutal, brutal people. And we're going to have to do something about this cashless bail because people shoot somebody, they kill somebody, and they're out on the street in less than an hour.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Okay. He continued talking about that. We can also have some fun. And by the way, I've got some fun coming for Buck here in a moment, too, on his tennis game. But we're covering wide ranges here. To start the third hour, Elizabeth Warren coming in for maybe a tomahawk chop from President Trump. This is cut 26.

[F]

Elizabeth Warren said she was an Indian. We call her Pocahontas. She's a liar. She lied her whole career based on the fact that she was an Indian. She was able to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into certain universities to work there. She's a liar and a mean person. She's a nut job. I watched her the other night. She's all hopped up endorsing a communist in New York City. And she was all excited and jumping up and down. She's got to take a drug test. She really does. She's got to take a drug test. There's no way somebody can act that way and be normal. What she's done to our financial institutions, she destroys people. Do you know that you had a lot of great banks in the Midwest and banks that loaned to farmers and others, and they went out of business. You put them out of business. Stone cold mean.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Okay, one last cut from the Oval Office. This is what I said. About 275,000 illegal immigrants have been removed from the Social Security program on its 90th anniversary. Cut 27 to protect our benefits.

[F]

We've already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system. These are people. Many of them have already left the country, and yet we were sending them checks all the time. And 275,000, and that number is now even larger than that. Franklin. It's an unbelievable job. And what that's doing is making the system strong. It's making it strong. Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined, and we're carrying out historic deportations to remove many more illegals committing Social Security fraud. It's a Social Security fraud that was taking place at levels that nobody's ever seen.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Okay, all of that underway in the Oval Office now. Yesterday, Buck Sexton said that he could hit, or maybe it's a couple of days ago that he could hit 100 mile an hour serve.

[Clay Travis]

I just want to be clear one time. This is not that I hit. This is a very important distinction. Not that I hit 100 mile an hour serve regularly. That I could do it one time.

[Mike Dunleavy]

We now have some of the best tennis players in the world and actually.

[Clay Travis]

Some of the greatest servers in terms of power of all time. I mean, I think Andy Roddick is probably the greatest server, one of the top five greatest servers of all time in tennis. He has weighed in on my middle aged man wreck. Not even college level tennis game.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Well, first, let's start with John Isner, who is, I think, didn't you tell us yesterday, John Isner, American tennis player. I believe he went to the University of Georgia. I know a big Georgia Bulldog fan, really good dude. He hopped on Twitter and said, I'm calling that serve around 95 miles per hour. My bet is no. Now you might say, okay, John Isner, in addition to being one of the greatest American tennis players of his generation, he's got the second strongest serve you said in like the history of tennis.

[Clay Travis]

I believe that's correct. In terms of serve speed on the pro tour, there's like other people. I, I don't count it. It when you're looking at the records, it has to be someone did it in a match.

[Joe Scarborough]

Right.

[Mike Dunleavy]

I'm not like longest drive competition where you just get to show up. Like you have to actually be a pro.

[Clay Travis]

I mean as a pro, when it counts the fastest serve you've ever hit, I mean, Roddick got over 1:40. And I mean, look, I'll tell you guys this, like, I mean getting over 90 is a, is for sure. For those of you who don't know, like I already know. I knew that before I took the bet. Getting over a hundred is hard though. That's why I'm like, look, this is, I can do it one time, I think, but over 90, no question. So those of you who are saying I serve 60 miles an hour, your math is bad. But like I said, I'm gonna, I got the speed gun. It arrived and we're gonna have some speed gun. I'm trying to get to it this weekend, but I'll certainly get to it sometime next week. So we'll have some more video proof. And I won't wear all white. Some of you are like, that just. I was. It was literally laundry day over here, and people were white when they play tennis. I don't know why that's such a weird thing for people. Like, people wear white. I don't know is why. Maybe why if I wear it. If I wear it or wear all black in Miami, that would be weird because I would melt more than I already did.

[Mike Dunleavy]

I will sometimes say when I see a friend wearing the same color top and bottom, that. That, hey, I guess you're. I mean, like, I will make. To be fair, like, if you came in, if we went to. I bet Carrie would make fun of you if you were doing anything other than playing tennis. Yeah. And you walked in in the exact same top and bottom, so.

[Clay Travis]

But that's the most traditional. I mean, wearing whites to play tennis is not some weird thing. This is just, like, a standard thing.

[Mike Dunleavy]

There are a lot of country factors required.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. So that's why people, like, why are you wearing all white? I was like, I don't know. Cause it's my tennis gear that I happen to have today. But I promise next time it won't be all in white. People are very fussy.

[Mike Dunleavy]

John. John Isner. Awesome dude. Andy Roddick, I worked with a lot at Fox. Absolutely awesome guy. Just a genuinely really, really good dude. Great sense of humor. Also happens to be the best American tennis player, what, the last 20 years, probably.

[Clay Travis]

This is. This is the. This is the tennis equivalent, though, of if. If. You know, years ago, Rush Limbaugh had weighed in on some guy who had, like, started a podcast on the weekend. Like, his monologue. Yeah, that's. That's. To have Isner and Roddick, like, weighing in on my serve is kind of like. It would be like Rush being like, hey, this is your first radio show. Like, you got some. You got some pipes. You know, you're working on it. You're, like, encouraging.

[Mike Dunleavy]

But andy Roddick said 100 miles per hour less certain. But he did say the fact that he put on full ankle braces just to serve is the real issue here, so.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, no, but I was that. Okay, well, to be clear, that wasn't. That's not. I was playing. That was a lesson. So I was actually playing tennis. I just stopped for a minute to do.

[Mike Dunleavy]

To do a serve. Well, I just think Andy is a very funny guy, so he was.

[Clay Travis]

He used to wear the ankle braces. Tell Andy. He's lighting me up. I have. I have. Excuse me, Mr. Roddick. I have cav overus feet, which means.

[Mike Dunleavy]

That I have a. Sorry, I had to knock off my head.

[Clay Travis]

This is getting worse. Which means that I have a tendency.

[Mike Dunleavy]

To roll my ankles. This is like telling Michael Jordan when he asked why you're wearing an arm sleeve that you have, you know, hypertension in your elbow. What am I? One of my buddies used to say I used to play, I used to play pickup basketball. And his line, and I think it's an all time line, he said if you have any brace, you have to be twice as good as the worst player on the court. And I just think that's such an amazing line. He's like, if you show up for pickup basketball and you got like an elbow sleeve on or you got ankle braces or you have like a knee, knee thing. He's like, you better be twice as good as the worst player on the court because everybody's just going to be looking at you like I just. You claim you Medicare.

[Clay Travis]

Andy was very funny. You have to tell Mr. Roddick, OK, who is a, who is a tennis serve and tennis God in general, but you have to tell him that I was playing tennis. I just stopped to take a serve. I wasn't, I was, it was the middle of like a, you know, hitting session or whatever. It wasn't just, I didn't just put them on to serve. Okay, that's not fair. Look at how sweaty I am. I'm translucent on that video. Not.

[Mike Dunleavy]

The two best tennis players, we basically of their generation have now weighed in. Also, Laura Travis out on the road who has initially made the hundred mile an hour serve bet has said, I haven't heard this. She sent in a talk back to producer Ally. And so get, get, get ready. This is ZZ from Laura, my wife.

[Mary Katharine Ham]

It's Laura. The speed gun has to read a hundred or higher. Your bet was that you could crush the ball on a serve. A hundred or higher. 98 is not 100. The bet isn't that you can get it close to 100, it's that you can hit it 100.

[Clay Travis]

Wow.

[Mary Katharine Ham]

You also said that the speed gun has an error rate of a plus or minus 3 miles per hour. So if you hit it 98, that means it actually could have only been 95. If you hit it 100, the speed gun reads 100. We're going to give it to you, but it has to read 100 or higher without you faulting through your feet or on the other side of the net in the serve box. And also, even though I'm a doubter, I now I'm actually rooting for you because so many people are rooting against you and doubting you that if you hit this serve 100 or higher, you're going to be like the Rocky of amateur tennis serves. And I think if you make it happen, you should have a gold medal celebration on air, play the Rocky music and just live it up. Turn all I appreciate into believers.

[Clay Travis]

I appreciate that I am the Rudy. I am the Rudy Rudiger of rec tennis. Serving by the people who are, who are also. I'm getting those people email me like, I, I played D1 tennis and I, I could serve 105 or 110. And I'm like, yeah. Cause you play D1 tennis. I'm just a guy who likes to play tennis on the weekends. I don't even play tennis in college.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Guy who feels compelled to tell you that he's amazing at something that he should be really good at is always like, and I, I, I'm skeptical because I don't see, you know, like the greatest hedge fund manager of all time doesn't hop in Warren Buffett's mentions and be like, well, in 2008 I had a 42% return. Right. Like, I do think it's very funny that people who are elite at something decide that they need to let you know that they're elite at something.

[Clay Travis]

Well, this is why I like these guys.

[Mike Dunleavy]

They're very sensitive humor about it.

[Clay Travis]

Like they routinely serve. And if you want to know this is all true, you can check this. At that level. The pros, their first serves are 120+. Usually 125/plus is an average. And they can get up into the 1 30s pretty, pretty easily. Right? And that's every single serve. Every single serve.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Spin too. It's not even just like a straight.

[Clay Travis]

Like they're slicing it away, annihilating the ball. Your, your humble radio servant is saying, with like 50 balls. And I'm going to try with 50 balls. Can I get over 101 time? Okay, I'm going to. It's not easy. I mean like, if you're not a college player, that's actually like a college level player. That's not easy to do. People who don't play tennis probably think they can do it. Zero chance. Zero.

[Mike Dunleavy]

I, I, that's 100% true. I also think I'm wondering, you know, so I trained for the NFL combine to write a book about the NFL combine. You did? Oh yeah. So, and so you can self assess, but you can't run more than like two forties without your speed going down. That's why they do it at the NFL combine twice, because most people, you can't. It's not like you're going to get better on your third. I don't know the answer on this. I don't know how many times you could serve in a row where you start to just go down because your body's getting physically tired. Right?

[Clay Travis]

Your shoulder. Because I'm in. I mean, this is more than anyone ever thought they'd hear about tennis on the show. But for, for, for fun, everybody, this is now we have like the biggest names in the tennis world weighing in on the clay and Buck show tennis feud. But yeah, I, I'm somebody who is going to rely much more on muscle than techniques. I mean, this also might surprise some of the people, but like the women on the pro tour, I can lift a lot more weight than they can. They just have a hundred times better technique and weight transfer and elasticity in their, you know, in their movement than I do. So that's why they can routinely do it 100. So it's not, it's a little bit like golf. It's not. If you watch Happy Gilmore, you think, oh, like I can just hit a slap shot. Like, I've hit golf balls a couple times. I'm absolutely horrible. So I know I can't do that at all. You can swing as hard as you want. Like, you can get somebody who can bench press 500 pounds, can't hit a golf ball. It's a, it's a skill thing, not a muscle thing. And so this is why I really have to work on the technique more than anything else to actually get it to the level.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Because you'll see technically there are women who are five.

[Clay Travis]

There are women who are Laura Size on the pro tour who can hit a, you know, 110 mile an hour serve like pretty regularly. And they have like tiny little arms and they weigh 110 pounds.

[Mike Dunleavy]

But they have perfect body mechanics, perfect technique. By the way, we're going to head up to Alaska at the bottom of this hour. I'm sure the talkbacks are going to be extraordinary on this. We'll play some of those as we continue. And the NFL is back. So I saw our boy Ryan Gardusky mocking you on Twitter, even taking some body blows here because Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey were talking and, and Ryan Garduski said this is like listening to Buck talk about sports with clay putting you in the Taylor Swift role there.

[Clay Travis]

And I actually, I thought that this is only. This is only fair in. In college football, which I had never seen or watched until I was partner partnered here with Clay. I know the other sports ball very well. Okay, I know the sports ball.

[Mike Dunleavy]

It's just a shot. But some of you do, in fact know the football, and the football is back. NFL preseason starting off this weekend. You can get hooked up with price pick plus states. California, Texas, Georgia, where I am. Tennessee, where Buck is in Florida. You can all play. I'll give you a pick tomorrow. All you have to do is go to prizepix.com use my name Clay, and you get $50 when you play. Five dollars. That is 50 bucks when you play. Five dollars. 40 plus states, 13 million people playing. We're going to be giving you out picks weekly. You can play along. We can try to win. You can root against me. You can go the opposite way. Either way, we're gonna have some fun. Prizepix.com football picks coming prizepix.com code Clay, if you want to play along and get 50 bucks, news and politics, but also a little comic relief. Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Clay Travis]

Clay, have you heard of the Rio reset?

[Mike Dunleavy]

Sounds like a trendy new workout, Buck.

[Clay Travis]

It does, but it's actually a big summit going on in Brazil. The formal name is brics, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. But they've just added five new members.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Smart move to stick with brics. We know what happens when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.

[Clay Travis]

Well, that's an understatement. BRICS is a group of emerging economies hoping to increase their sway in the global financial order.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Now that sounds like the plotline of a movie. I'm listening.

[Clay Travis]

Philip Patrick is our Bruce Wayne. He's a precious metal specialist and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group. He's on the ground in Rio getting the whole lowdown on what's going on there.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Can he give us some inside intel?

[Clay Travis]

Absolutely. He's been there since day one. In fact, a major theme at the summit is how BRICS nations aim to reduce reliance on the US Dollar in global trade.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Yikes. That doesn't sound good. We got to get Philip on the line, stat.

[Clay Travis]

Already did. And he left the Clay and Buck audience this message. The world is moving on from the.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Dollar quietly but steadily.

[Clay Travis]

These nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade, and the US Dollar.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Is no longer the centerpiece.

[Clay Travis]

That shift doesn't happen overnight, but make.

[Mike Dunleavy]

No mistake, it's already begun.

[Clay Travis]

Thank you, Philip. Protect the value of your Savings account, your 401k, your IRA, all of them, by purchasing gold and placing it into those accounts and reducing your exposure to a declining dollar value. Text my name Buck to 989898 you get the free information you'll need to make the right decision. You can rely on Birch Gold Group, as I do, to give you the information you need to make an informed decision. One more time. Text My name Buck to 989898 the.

[Buck Sexton]

Reviews and ratings are in and Ice Cube's big three is the surprise hit of the summer. And to cap off the season, I heart presents the Big Three basketball playoffs this Sunday at at 3pm Eastern. The remaining four teams battle it out for the right to make the Big three championship in the most physical, fierce and competitive basketball league in the world. The action starts with the Big 3 Monster Energy Celebrity Game where your favorite stars compete in Big 33 on 3 basketball. Then the first of two semifinal games features Dwight Howard and the LA Riot taking on Montrez Harrell and Dr. J's first place Chicago Triplets. The finale will see popular Miami 305 with star MVP Michael Beasley and Lance will make you Dan Stevenson take on Nancy Lieberman's Dallas Power, who finished the season winning five straight weeks to capture second place. Can Glenn Rice, Greg Monroe and Paul Millsap stop Miami's physical assault? Or will Miami and Beasley put an end to Dallas winning ways? Who will make it to the big three championship? This no holds barred action starts Sunday at 3pm Eastern, 12 Pacific only on CBS.

[Mary Katharine Ham]

Hey there. I'm Mary Kathryn Hamm. And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a long time.

[Mike Dunleavy]

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[Mike Dunleavy]

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We head up to Alaska now to talk with the Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunleavy. On the eve of, I would imagine one of the biggest events to ever happen in Alaska, certainly in the modern era, to have the President of the United States and the President of Russia meeting for an incredibly potentially significant and impactful summit on the future of Ukraine, Russia and the war there. We bring in now the Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunleavy. Is that a fair characterization that as these things go, I would imagine the amount of preparation, the amount of security, and the amount of potential historical significance at play here is really unprecedented, not just for Alaska, but frankly, for almost every state.

[Joe Scarborough]

No, I agree. It's. It's incredible. It's exciting. We're glad to be hosting it here in Alaska. Makes sense, given our proximity to Russia. We're only about two and a half miles between two islands, one controlled by the U.S. alaska, and one controlled by Russia, but 50 miles between the mainland. So, no, we're excited. And it's not the first time President Trump's been up here. He's been up here many times. He refuels here at the same base they're going to have the summit at on his way to Asia. And we've had the opportunity to get on board Air Force One and have meetings with him. But President Trump is really looking out for Alaska, obviously, really looking out for the country. And in this case, we're hoping for the best, that at least this will start some serious talks on getting this war in Ukraine resolved sooner than later.

[Clay Travis]

Governor, if you can give us a sense of this, you know, there's, I think, more geostrategic importance and. And particularly on the national security side, we think of Alaska and energy for sure, a lot. But on the national security side, given its proximity to Russia, as we all know, the line from Saturday Night Live can see Russia from my house. Not quite true, but very close. In terms of the actual distance between Alaska and Russia, what are some of the national security implications? And also your state has substantial military resources.

[Joe Scarborough]

Yeah, we're the most strategic state in the country by far. We are obviously an Arctic state. That's what makes America an Arctic country. But we're also a North Pacific sovereign and a Western Pacific sovereign. And to give you some perspective, we are so far west. I know we think of Hawaii being west, but we are so far west that we're 1,000 miles closer to Australia than California is. So we are by ship, we're eight hours to Tokyo from Moscow by plane, we're two hours closer to Moscow than Washington, D.C. is going that direction. So we live in a neighborhood that's got some interesting neighbors. Russia, China, North Korea. As you mentioned, we have Robust military resources up here. We have the largest Coast Guard presence in the country here. We have missile intercepts here. We have bases with F35s, F22s, rapid deployment forces with our army, army assets up here. And so, you know, a lot of people also forget that Alaska was actually invaded during World War II on the Aleutian Islands by the Japanese and it took a joint Canadian, American.

[Clay Travis]

Attu island, right?

[Joe Scarborough]

Yeah, we call it Attu. Yeah, Attuka. Yeah. And so very strategic location for the Arctic, very strategic location for the Pacific. So, yeah, we take great pride in that and probably have more retired military individuals per capita than any other state in the country.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Can you tell us anything about the location, what it will look like, what the process will be? And the reason I bring it up is obviously there's going to be immense media attention. I mean, the number of media that are traveling to Alaska, I'm sure will set an all time record for people that have been in Alaska, frankly, covering anything for one particular time. Unless there's some major historic event that I can't think of that, that, that this will look like. Will this be on the base? I think you mentioned, Will it be in some sort of conference room? I mean, I imagine this is a little bit like a debate in that both sides sort of hash out all the details before the respective presidents show up there. What should we expect in terms of the actual process of the meeting and what that's like?

[Joe Scarborough]

Well, it's definitely on the base and the base is a large base, so there's, there's many buildings there that would be conducive to these conversations, not just between the President Trump and President Putin, but their, their associates and aides that are coming up with them. So the base is well positioned from a security perspective, but also privacy perspective and the ability for these two individuals to have a discussion. It's my anticipation, and this is based upon what President Trump has talked about in the news here recently, that it's really, it's going to set the stage for further discussions and depending on how it goes, how well it goes, who knows, they may extend it and stay here. They may decide to schedule a follow up summit pretty quick. You know, there's always rumors floating around that President Zelensky could be invited here if things are going well. So we, you know, we're playing it by ear. I think the President is going to do his best to look Putin in the eye and really figure out if the individual is serious about peace and to what degree. And so like the rest of the world, we are eagerly anticipating what the outcome is going to be in this summit, but we're glad to host it and it's an honor to have President Trump up here again.

[Clay Travis]

We were used to seeing the governor, the security of a president, especially this president, given what he's been through in recent years. As we all know, substantial Secret Service presence, a lot of coordination with state, local, federal, law enforcement, all hands on deck for our president. Obviously, on US Soil, our people will be responsible as well for the safety of the Russian premier. I'm just wondering how many are there a ton of Russians who show up, too, as part of his security detail, or is this largely he trusts in, you know, the American people and the American leader here, Donald Trump, that it's safe as can be for Putin to just show up in Alaska and we've, you know, we've got him protected for this meeting.

[Joe Scarborough]

Yeah, it's a combination. I mean, there's no doubt that our security apparatus is second to none. And I'm sure that President Putin's going to bring his entourage, including security, with him as well. I have no doubt. They've been coordinating every day since this announcement, maybe even before the announcement was made on the security measures that are going to be taken here in Alaska. But having this on a secure base. And again, Alaska is isolated. As you know, we're at the top of the world, so a small population, it is tough to get here for folks, especially in the. We're having, it's our tourist season, so it's hard to. Hard to get lodging and hard to get on a plane. But nonetheless, I think it's an ideal spot geopolitically in terms of location, security wise. And having it on the base, I think, is a wise idea. So I'm hoping for a successful summit. I'm hoping once again that what comes out of this is going to be a lasting, just peace for the people of Ukraine. And I think this is going to be another example where President Trump brings two sides together, which he seems to be doing quite often throughout the world, to end these wars. Because we all know, I mean, wars are bad, period. And it's bad for the economy, it's bad for international relations. And so we're all hopeful.

[Clay Travis]

And, you know, there's the possibility that this could be referred to if this is very successful. Right. This could be the kind of summit that people talk about for many years to come. It could be in the history books. You know, it's something that I think could be viewed really as A turning point. So with all of that, and now that we've established the national security implications and everything else, just focusing on Alaska for a second. Mr. Clay Travis has not yet been. And we were just discussing fishing and you were wonderful. I have been up there. I am. I am. Unlike tennis, I have no illusions of grandeur. I'm not a good fisherman. How long would it take you, Governor, or. Or I don't know if I'm assuming you can do one, I don't know, to get Clay semi decent at fly fishing if he were to come up and visit next summer?

[Joe Scarborough]

Well, I'm not. I don't know the depth of Clay's current skills when it comes to fly.

[Buck Sexton]

Let's.

[Clay Travis]

Let's assume zero, Governor. Let's assume zero.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Presume limited.

[Joe Scarborough]

Okay. It might take a little bit of work, but we're willing to take them under our wing. Taking them, you know, we'll take them to. We might want to start taking them over to, like, bass pro shop. And he could fish in the tanks there to get, you know, get.

[Mike Dunleavy]

I like my odds. I like my odds of catching stuff at a bass pro shop.

[Joe Scarborough]

You, even the worst of fishermen can catch fish up here. Salmon, halibut, you name it. So, Clay, you need to come up here. If you're an outdoors type of guy, you're going to be, I think, astounded at not just the beauty, but the opportunities up here as well.

[Mike Dunleavy]

I can't wait to visit. I'm going to bring my whole family up. One more question for you, Governor. Notwithstanding the fact that I likely would struggle immensely on the fly fishing on a more serious front, you actually mentioned that Zelensky, who knows, you know, Trump has said, hey, we'd like to have tripartite talks potentially if these things go well. Does the governor get a phone call and they just tell you, hey, so Zelinsky's also coming and maybe we're going to need some extra food and beds. What is the protocol for something like that? I'm sure there's not a lot of experience at any state, but do you just look down and they're like, oh, man, you know, Zelinsky's on his way in, too? Like, how does that process work?

[Joe Scarborough]

Well, you know, that's an interesting question, right, because there's really not a template for this. But going back to when President Trump announced that he was coming up here, we immediately were engaged with the White House, their advance teams and others associated with the White House on not just security measures, but venues, et cetera, et Cetera. So they have a pretty good handle now and have ascertained what the assets are up here for a potential arrival of President Zelensky. I would say this though, that if President Zelensky does come here, that means that there was some significant movement in a direction that could be conducive to a just peace. And so that's one of the things to watch for if he does come up. I mean, the other thing to watch for, who knows, the meeting might be over in an hour. And that also will be telling. So we're all, you know, we're all waiting to see what's going to happen. We hope for nothing but the best. But if President Zelensky does end up coming, we would also do everything we can to provide for him as well as the, you know, the White House people will also make sure that that trip is safe and secure and productive.

[Mike Dunleavy]

Well, we appreciate the time, Governor Mike Dunleavy. We also want to say thank you, by the way, Governor, I'm sure you know these stations well. Newsradio 650 in Anchorage, News Radio 970 and Fairbanks and Newsradio 97.5 in Ketchikan. We know we have a big audience of Alaskan listeners up there. I look forward to seeing some of you in person at some point. And good luck with the big summit going on tomorrow. Governor, we know how busy you are.

[Joe Scarborough]

Absolutely. Thanks guys for having me on for sure.

[Mike Dunleavy]

That's Governor Mike Dunleavy of Alaska and I tomorrow Buck's gonna be a really interesting show because who knows how this is gonna go. And I think we'll probably be going off the air. About time that they're coming for that press conference, joint press conference that is scheduled. So a lot of news coming tomorrow that is going to be incredible, incredibly fascinating I think, to see how it all shakes out. In the meantime, since 9 11, the tunnel of the Towers foundation has been supporting America's greatest heroes and their families. Heroes who protect our communities and our country. Heroes like firefighter James Dickman. He was passionate about fire safety, aspired to do everything in his power to keep his community and his fellow firefighters safe. While responding to an apartment fire, James and his crew tried to save people thought to be trapped inside. When the situation escalated, James wasn't able to escape. He perished in the blazing inferno. The cause of the fire was arson. James leaves behind his loving wife Jamie, his children Paige and Grant. Tunnel Towers gave the Dickman family the gift of a mortgage free home. Jamie's grateful to tunnel the towers and to caring friends like you for lifting the financial burden of a mortgage off her shoulders. Join us in donating $11 a month to tunnel the towers at t2t.org that's t the number 2t.org want to be in the Know when you're on the go the Team 47 podcast drop highlights from the week Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

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