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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
America is changing and so is the world.
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Clay Travis
But what's happening in America is isn't.
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Buck Sexton
Just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
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Asma Khalid
I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. i'm.
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Clay Travis
Tristan Redman in London and this is the Global Story.
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Asma Khalid
Every weekday we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet.
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Clay Travis
Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Take a deep dive into the stories making the news headlines across the world. The News Agents we're not just here to tell you what's happening, but why. Hi from me, Emily Maitlis and me, John Sopel with Global's award winning podcast The News Agents dropping daily, covering everything you need to know about politics and current affairs. And The News Agents USA listening to the News Agents on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search the newsagents to start listening. Welcome, everybody. Monday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now. Clay off today. He'll be back tomorrow. But he sends you all, of course, his regards. And we have a lot to dive into today, my friends. We have some big stories coming in from over the weekend. We have Trump speaking this morning at the Museum of the Bible in D.C. cool Museum. I was there actually, many years ago. Interesting place. We have that to discuss. We've got some stuff from the legal front here. Trump's appeal for the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit. I'll tell you about that. Some fascinating data out of the NBC News world about Gen Z that you are going to want to hear because you know, that is the future in a sense. Those are people 18 to 29 years old. And also, I'll give you some thoughts on the US Open from over the weekend, but let's just dive right into it. By far the biggest story in America right now for at least half the country is because the other half is trying to ignore it desperately, desperately is this absolutely horrific video that has been released of a refugee from Ukraine, Irina Zarutska. She was on August 22nd on the Charlotte light rail line. Yeah, she's 23 years old. She's a lovely young woman. There's video of her. She was showing up as a refugee working, I believe, at Subway, trying to just support herself, trying to do things the right way, fled a war and was viciously, brutally stabbed to death for absolutely no reason other than the evil and maliciousness, malevolence of an individual, decarlos Brown, who's now in custody. And we need to talk about this. First of all, this is there's many layers to get into here. I just want to say people are waking up and the country's had enough. The country's had enough of we're going to refuse to prosecute in a serious way. We're going to refuse to clean up the streets. We're going to allow people to be murdered, raped, robbed, because we lack the political will to do something about it. We all know what must be done. It could not be more clear. And I'll walk you through in this case, it could not have been more clear. But there are social justice angles, there are racial angles. There are components here that push the Democrat Party push the left to make us all suffer in our cities and just in general from crime that is preventable and that should have been, in this case, prevented. The authorities failed. This young woman and the video that has been released of this attack from a few weeks ago is, Is haunting. I've had people texting me from over the weekend. They're all just saying, have you seen this? I'm sick to my stomach. Have you seen what happened to this beautiful young woman because this vile psycho murdered her. And he was a, he was a career criminal. It was known that he was a risk to the public. It was known that this guy was going to continue to offend. But a judge saw him recently and decided, let's just give him a 15th chance. No more 15th chances. Maybe we could start with that. No matter what the race, no matter what the gender, no matter what the creed of the individual may be, no more 15th chances. Can we all agree with that? I know you can, but a lot of Democrats, a lot of Democrats seem to think that social justice, racial justice means no accountability for criminals who are repeat offenders over and over and over again. And people have had enough. In fact, President Trump this morning spoke about this at the Museum of the Bible. Listen to what our president had to say. Play one. I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman. A lunatic just got up and started. It's right on the tape. Not, not really watchable because it's so horrible, but just viciously stabbed. She's just sitting there. So they're evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have a country. Among the most heinous and terrifying footages of a murder committed I've ever seen. And this is an era where we have more video, more body cam, more footage of who's doing this stuff than we ever have before. So we can all see and thanks to X. And yes, thank you, Elon Musk. This circulates freely. Why is that so important in this case? Do you want to guess how many stories. This is the number one story on FOX News. This is the number one story that I am leading with today on this program on 560 radio stations across the country. Do you want to guess how many stories there are in the New York Times about this, about this footage that has gone absolutely viral? Again, horrifying footage, but people should see it, by the way they cut out the actual via. They stop Right as the knife is about to plunge into her neck. They have that footage too. They didn't release that. We all know how grotesque this situation is. We all know how horrific it was. This young woman sitting there in abject horror and terror as she is being brutally murdered on a train with other people around by this maniac because she sat in front of him, she fled a war zone and thought, I'll be safe in America. But because of social justice prosecutors, because of this left wing idea that social justice and racial justice equals soft on crime. Because of that, she is dead. Because of that, she is no longer with us. It is a stain on this country that we would bring a refugee in, a true refugee from a war. Right? Not a fake refugee like Biden was bringing in by the millions someone who fled a war zone and is murdered brutally on a subway train. This is a huge story because it hits home for so many people, because we don't want to be afraid on light rail. And we increasingly in these Democrat run cities with Democrat prosecutors and Democrats at the top of the police department, Democrats as mayors who view part of their role as trying to offset the crime statistics. Who's doing the crimes? Well, we have to make sure we treat them less harshly because it looks bad to us as Democrats. No, I think we should just punish whoever's doing the crimes as severely as we can for the severe offenses that they are committing. And this then brings me to the coverage of this incident. I want to get into the criminal justice component of this some more because Trump is right on all of this. He is right about what he's doing in D.C. he's right when he says he should go into Chicago. We actually don't have to live this way. And I remember what it was like. I remember what it was like in New York when the choice had been made in the 90s, we were going to live this way. That there are going to be people who are committing crimes over and over again that were going to be praying, acting in a predatory fashion against their fellow human beings without, without consequence and without accountability. Why? Because it's society's fault, society failed them. Or it was a history of prejudice or a history of injustice, or who knows, who knows? Maybe if we had just legalized drugs, it would have all gone away, all the violence, all just wrong lies. Never makes the situation better. In fact makes the situation worse. How many stories had the New York Times done? As I went on air on this, Zero. And I checked just to be sure, not a single story in the New York Times. A mega viral video of a heinous murder of an unarmed girl, a refugee from Ukraine. What about all the Ukraine flags in the bios? Everybody? What about all these libs with their Slava, Ukraine. Oh, all about Ukraine. One of our people brought into this country as an actual refugee from Ukraine brutally murdered. They have no interest. No stories in the Washington Post. No stories in the New York Times. I'm not even saying page, you know, C17 or something. No, no, none. Zero. No interest in this. No interest in this. CNN had run its first story on this an hour ago, in part because of the outcry of everybody online saying, how can you not. How can this not be a story? And maybe here's a better way to put it. Why is this not a story? But I just watched this documentary, which I will recommend to you, because it just shows how insane the system is and how it has everything backwards in so many ways. Why was Jussie Smollett's fake hate crime national news that required the most powerful Democrats in the country to express immediate solidarity with that fraud, with that liar, with that narcissistic loon? You know the answer to the question. Because he is in a. He is an oppressed and aggrieved minority and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. And so the Democrats take a certain position on this because it attacked maga, because it attacked people who are on the right, because it was supposedly not two Nigerian bodybuilder friends of his, but actually a couple of white guys, which, of course, as we know it, was. Was not. But they liked that narrative, so they ran with it. Why are there so few stories about this across the entire Internet? Isn't it about clicks? Isn't it about getting attention? This is getting you. You find yourself. And I can't recommend that you watch the video, by the way, because it will haunt you. So I leave that to you. There was a time when I had seen so many beheading videos when I was in the CIA by jihadists, not by criminals who were let out by judges in this country. But I had seen so many beheading videos that I just. I was like, I really need to just not see these. Because obviously in the CIA, we had a whole. Unfortunately a whole trove of these things from the jihadis that we were fighting. But when you've seen enough of that, you. You want to forget it. You won't be able to forget this attack. You won't be able to forget this video. Maybe you should see it anyway. I think you probably should. But I leave that to you, to your discretion, because you see just how vicious, how violent, how heinous it is. It's so ugly, it's so wrong. It goes right to your core, your basic soul as a human being. Who could do such a thing? Well, this fellow, De Carlos Brown, an African American, arrested 15 times, went before a judge recently, and once again, she let him out on no cash bail. January of 2025. Last month, his public defender questioned his mental capacity, but the judge wanted to order a forensic evaluation, ordered Brown to remain free. You see, the system decided that he was going to continue to roam free, that this would not be a case that they would take seriously. They won't do anything until he murders somebody, until he murders, in this case, a defenseless white girl, a refugee from Ukraine, and now they'll maybe do something. I think that a lot of the calls, not just for increased justice, but a lot of the calls for the death penalty and a restoration of taking criminal justice seriously in this country are getting louder because people are recognizing that they are correct, that they are right, and that taking a restorative justice, social justice, all these different phrases that are used, they are failures. They are failures that encourage evil people to continue to do evil things. Okay, we all know there's. There's a difference between somebody who's caught, you know, with drugs one time and somebody who has been arrested 10 times, 15 times, 50 times. New York just had a story about 60 offenders. 6, 0 offenders who have committed thousands, thousands of criminal infractions on the subway. Thousands. And how you say to yourself, how are they not in prison? Look at the treatment of. And it absolutely goes to the mindset of this. Look at the treatment of. Absolutely nonviolent and harmless to their fellow Americans. J6 Nonviolent prisoners. Look at the way they use the system. Lock them up, ruin their lives, destroy them, put them in solitary confinement. But barbarians running around, stabbing people, murdering people, raping people. We need to give them a second chance. We need to not. We need to make sure that we don't go too far here. When. When criminals go to their 15th or 20th hearing before a judge, it's really time to think about restorative justice. Now, I think people have seen enough of that. And this is why the lib media, this is why pbs, New York Times, BBC, CNN just did a story finally, because of all the pressure. This is why they don't want to cover this, because they know the American people are fed up and they've had enough. There is absolutely no justification for this murderer to have been on the streets. Everyone in the system failed. Everybody who was a prosecutor, a judge, everyone who was involved in what is supposed to be taking this individual off the street so he cannot prey on his fellow human beings. They all failed and they should face consequences. People should lose their jobs over this. People should be removed from office over this. And I'm just talking about along the way. And this individual, of course, allegedly, because he hasn't gone through his judicial process yet. But assuming that we all know what happened here because there's crystal clear video of it, what better case could there be for someone to face the death penalty than this? What more clear situation could you even draw up in your mind? And yet a fraction of the stories, if that. And really almost zero from half of the press, or rather half the country's press as we know it's 90%. But the Democrat media has no interest in this story. Well, it's because it's indefensible and we all see it. 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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Know, I've got a book coming out in January, but the preorder link will be up soon for Manufacturing Delusion. That is the title of the book. Very excited to finally get it out to all of you. It took a long time for me to actually write it because I write my own book or I wrote my own book. I was going to say books there, but it's the first book and it took quite a while to get it through the CIA process. So there will be some fun buck old school CIA stories in the book. All cleared, all fine, no risk to national security because it's also been quite a while. But those are in the book as well. So Manufacturing Delusion. I don't think the link is up on Amazon yet, but it will be soon. But I bring it up because one of the chapters in the book is on weaponized law, which I think is a very apropos. I think it absolutely is something we need to think long and hard about in this moment. As we've seen the weaponization of the justice system really reach its absolute peak against Donald Trump. And I mean the political weaponization that's something that had been building for a long time. Republicans have been subjected to judicial and prosecutorial harassment for the most obvious partisan reasons for a long time. Really goes back to the Bush era and it goes back to Scooter Libby. I can speak about this one in tremendous detail. I was at the CIA when this whole thing happened, so you can imagine I had a pretty good idea of what was going on. But the Scooter Liberty Libby case, which was a case where they brought an investigation about a leak that they knew very quickly had Nothing to do with. With Scooter Libby, but they kept the thing going. Oh, wait, is it up? Is it up, Ali? Is that what you're. It is up.
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Buck Sexton
Look at that. Manufacturing Delusion. How the left uses brainwashing, indoctrination and propaganda against you. You can pre order, my friends. Go check it out. It's a really cool book, I'm going to tell you. I think I. I've got a stack here. I think I read something like 30 books in the research process for it. Now, some of those books I did sections of or read sections of, to be fair. But it was a lot of reading, a lot of research. Took me a long time. But it's basically, how do you make people. How do you make people go crazy in the service of politics, of bad politics? That's the very short thesis and I think you'll really enjoy it. So you can go, please. If you do pre orders, it means I'll probably print more of these things when it actually comes out. So please go pre order on the site. You can pre order the Kindle, I think, whatever, pre order whatever you can. But there's a whole chapter on weaponized law, because this is not a new thing, but it has been. It has been done in totalitarian societies. That's what I start with. There's this belief that the law is something that. That totalitarian regimes abandoned. That's actually not true. They mutate, bastardize, you know, transform in the service of evil, the law. But they use the law as a tool. Certainly they did in Nazi Germany. And even the Soviets. The Soviets had a constitution and, you know, that was completely ignored. But they try to take the beginnings, the foundations of legal rationale, and use it for their own purposes. I bring this up one because I wanted to tell you about the book and I'm very excited. I'll get to do, like, signings. I'll go hang out with you in places across the country, I think. But again, January is when the book actually officially will be released. But I just hope a lot of you buy it. You want me to write a second book? A lot of you got to buy this one because, man, this took a lot of work. I'll tell you. This took a lot of work. And a lot of people in this business, I'm not going to name names. A lot of people in this business, they, like, pay someone to write their book for them. I just don't agree with that. I don't like that. I don't know. Unless you're a former President or something. And everyone assumes somebody else is just writing your ghost, writing your memoir. I write my books. Clay writes his books. Of course, his book Balls is coming out, too, so you should buy that. But you got two guys who actually go through that whole process, so it is a true labor of love for us. All right, why am I talking about it today, though? This appeals court has just denied the Trump effort to toss an $83 million judgment in the E. Jean Carroll case that just happened today. There's so much that's wrong here. Okay? There's so much about this that is just. But this is Democrat jury, Democrat city, Democrat judge, judges, multiple judges now going through this, and they're just waging political warfare through the legal system. Has nothing to do with anything else. And, you know, the judges that are looking at this, they're not applying the law. What they're doing is wrong. What they're doing is grotesque. But let's start with this. $83 million for. For defamation. How do you come to that figure? 83. Can someone defame me and give me $83 million? I'll take it. They can say whatever they want, but they got to give me $83 million. Okay. That is a vast fortune. That is a tremendous. $8 million would be a big defamation. You know, that's like a pretty major. I think Trump got, what, 14 million from CBS News. Check me on that one, guys. I think it was 14 million, something like that. That's for a corporate organization intentionally defaming him. But Trump, $83 million. You just start with that figure and you say this is a scam. I mean, this is absurd. Absurd. How do you. Why not 8? Why not $8 trillion? I just would want to. I'd want to ask these judges, the three judge panel. U.S. court of Appeals for the Second Circuit says the jury's damage awards are fair and reasonable. What planet do they live on? What planet are these people living on? These judges and the jury, they're living on planet. I hate Trump. That's it. That's it. Everything else is irrelevant. There is no logical way to get here in 2023. This is the Washington Post. A jury found that Trump had sexually abused Carol, awarded her $5 million in damages. 2nd Circuit rejected Trump's appeal in that case. And then you've got this one. A jury concluded Trump defamed Carroll and ordered him to pay $83 million. Trump's filing has called this a grossly excessive compensatory and punitive damages. Of course it is. But that's the point. Right? That's the point. You know, I always say the process is the punishment. Well, in this case, the price tag is the punishment. And just as we saw with the Letitia James scam, I don't even remember what was, what was that guy's. Hundreds of millions of dollars, Hundreds of millions of dollars to take from Trump and the organization trying to bar his sons from being able to practice law in this. I mean, sorry to be officers of a company, not practice law, officers of the company in the state of New York. What, what world are these people living in where they think that this is fair or this is just. And that's just on the, on the scale of the, on the scale of the punitive damages here, that alone should be considered laughable to any reasonable person. But remember, Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. It should be classified in the dsm, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders. It should be in the dsm. They should put the trans thing back in the dsm. Gender dysphoria, that's one thing. And then you should have Trump Derangement Syndrome in there, too, because people are just, when it comes to this guy, they are absolutely nuts. They will forget about everything. They will abandon everything. In fact, I talk about this kind of mass hysteria and mass mobilization and the wonderful book Manufacturing Delusion, which you should all go check out and get a pre order of. This is one of the things I write. So there's the weaponized law. There's also just engendering, if you will, or creating mass delusion, mass hysteria. And they've done this against Trump, such that you can't even begin to reason with people that are in the grips of this, even though here we are, he's president, and like, look, look at, look at the country. Actually, things are going great as relatively speaking. There's still a lot of problems, but from the perspective of what decisions are being made by this administration the first year up to September, you know, September 8th today, the first year, it's a, it's an AA minus, maybe for Trump, you know, maybe A minus. Can't give an A plus because that's perfect. It's really good. He's done a really good job. And the economy is doing very well and the country is doing very well overall, and yet they're still in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I go to E. Jean Carroll's specific suit here as well. So on the $83 million, this has just been upheld. This is, this is. He's supposed to write her a check for $83 million. Because he said that, you know, she, I think he said something like, she's not my type and that she's lying. So now if you profess your continued innocence about a sexual assault from 30 something years ago, 30 something years ago, no criminal, you know, no criminal trial, no criminal charges filed, you profess your innocence, you can be sued into, into destruction essentially. Now, well, Trump's got enough money that he can pay this. But, and then the other part of this that I think everyone forgets, this was only possible because the state of New York changed the statute of limitations for adult sexual assault cases. It would have been three years. This is civil. Remember, this is not a criminal, this is not a criminal thing. This is a civil thing. They extended, they gave a one year, like statute of limitations holiday. And this is, by the way, I'm just going to tell you, this is, it's wrong. What they, I think it's unethical to do that. The Trump team brought this up and said that this is, this should be unconstitutional. You're changing the status of the law. And it was used very clearly to go, I mean, to go after Trump here. I know they're going to say, oh, but it was going to be, it was in process beforehand, E. Jean Carroll filed her lawsuit day one that this statute of limitations holiday went into effect. But I mean, you could create that statute of limitations holiday in any number of contexts and you effectively negate the whole statute of limitations where you can go to somebody and say it's, you know, if you accuse me of this is what they did to Kavanaugh. Right. If you accuse somebody of something from 40 years ago now and that there's no evidence for, well, there's also no evidence for them to be, for it to be exculpatory because you can't immediately, you can't call the witnesses, you can't bring together. Now, Kavanaugh actually did to some degree because one, that was a complete and utter lie. Unless someone's a moron, they could see through the whole thing. But he also had his, his calendar and there were some things that he could show. But it's really hard to prove you didn't do a thing to somebody 30 years ago when it's just you saying something and they're saying something. How is Trump supposed to prove that he was innocent of this? How is that supposed to happen? How is he supposed to even make the case? Someone says there's no, there's no footage, there's no Proof there's. Oh, but that. The whole point is that they hate Trump. The whole point is weaponized law. The whole point is that he has to now write an $83 million check to a woman who went on CNN and said, and I quote, some people think rape is sexy. End quote. That is what she said. You can pull the audio on that on cnn. And I remember watching in real time as Anderson Cooper's face just went, uh, okay, now this woman's gonna get an $83 million check. She's gonna have multi generational wealth bestowed upon her for this whole thing and defamed her. How did he defame her? Trump doesn't agree with what she said. That's defamatory. Look, this. We're gonna have to have a big cleanup of the law in this country and of people who are in positions of authority. They have to be removed by whatever processes. This goes, even to the stabbing, to the fatal stabbing of this brutal murder of this Ukrainian girl, where the judges and the people. You have to start saying, who allowed this? Who signed off on this? Who were the people in this chain of events, whose job it was to be just and fair and decent with regard to the law. And they just abandoned all of that because they like a person or don't like a person. The judge that let that maniac free, she. She. Some. Something in that guy she saw, she goes, he needs a 15th or a 14th chance. I see something in him that makes me think I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. And the judges in this case, with looking at the E. Jean Carroll case, they go, hmm. I'm looking at Trump and I'm thinking, no benefit of the doubt. Not that there should be any doubt in this, but no, I'm going to go against Trump on this one. Something I see in him that I don't like. That's not the way it's supposed to be. It is not supposed to be left up to the politics of these individuals to determine what is just, what is fair, and what is within our system. And this is why Trump has to. And the people that are entrusted by this administration have to take a strong hand in cleaning up this mess, stopping this madness from ever happening again. Just because lawfare against Trump failed in this last election does not mean that the people engaged in it should avoid accountability and consequences under the law. And that is something we should apply to all of this going forward. All right. There was another terrorist attack in Israel this morning. 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Clay, have you heard of the Rio Reset?
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Sounds like a trendy new workout, Buck.
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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.
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Smart move to stick with brics. We know what happens when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.
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Buck Sexton
Well, that's an understatement. BRICS is a group of emerging economies hoping to increase their sway in the global financial order.
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Now that sounds like the plotline of a movie. I'm listening.
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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.
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Can he give us some inside intel?
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Absolutely. He's been there since day one. In fact, a major theme at the summit is how BRICS nations aimed to reduce reliance on the US Dollar in global trade.
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Yikes. That doesn't sound good. We gotta get Philip on the line, stat.
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Already did. And he left the Clay and Buck audience this message. The world is moving on from the dollar. Quietly but steadily, these nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade, and the US Dollar is no longer the centerpiece. That shift doesn't happen overnight. But make no mistake, it's already begun. 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 9898 98. 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 9,898 98. It started the first hour with the biggest story, I would say, in the country right now. Despite the extensive efforts by the Democrat media to make this story go away, despite efforts by Wikipedia editors to remove the article from Wikipedia. Despite all of that, because we have shows like this one and because we have X where there is not the left wing elbow on the scale all the time as there are on so many of these other social media platforms. And I'm curious, I basically stopped using for anything other than just posting photos of Ginger or Speed like Instagram and Facebook. I don't know if there's, I assume they're still doing the kind of political nonsense that they've always been doing, but at least on X you can share the truth. At least on X there's some chance of finding out what's really going on. And so this story of a Ukrainian refugee, Irina Zarutska, 23 years old. She's a beautiful young woman. On August 22, she is heinously murdered by a maniac with a knife sitting behind her. It's all on video. And it's just, it is true. Nightmare fuel. It's the worst kind of situation because any one of us can be sitting anywhere. And there's supposed to be some belief that the system is protecting us. I know it doesn't. But we're supposed to believe at some level the system protects us. That dangerous psychopaths who have proven themselves over and over to be a danger to the public will be incarcerated, will no longer be able to threaten the general public. But what you see is that you have a situation like this where the alleged murderer, Decarlos Brown, a black man who has been arrested 13 times, including assaults or previous assaults against women. This man murdered this woman. She's a, you can see in the video, the video is just harrowing to watch. She's a blond haired white girl. And the media doesn't want to talk about this, even though it's all over the Internet. I mean, it's, if you're judging it By Internet Focus. This is the biggest story in the country right now. And one thing we talked about in that first hour, and if you missed it, I would advise you, please go back and listen, because I really, I think, laid it out and got into all the different layers of the story. But one component of that is when is it indicative of a broad. When is an incident, let's put it this way, when is a murder national news? When is a murder national news? If it's particularly heinous, as this clearly was, you tend to think that maybe it will be national news. Depends. If it is a murder of a black person by a white person, that is also heinous. The chance of it being national News is essentially 100% right. It will turn into a story. In fact, it could just be a hoax hate crime, as we talked about with Jussie Smollett. But if it is alleged that two white Trump voters did something mean to a gay black man in Chicago, it's. It is Walthall coverage, national news. This happens again and again. I understand we're not supposed to notice, but the Democrats war on noticing has gone on long enough. We've noticed. We get this. We understand this dynamic. When is something indicative of a broader problem that we have to have a national conversation about? I talked to you about all of the BLM cases. They'll discuss, oh, this is indicative of police and how police are racist and how society is racist. And you say, well, hold on. No, it's not. And first of all, in some of the BLM cases, it was completely lawful use of force. But put that aside, in what way does the elevation of George Floyd to near sainthood by the left, a career criminal who died of a fentanyl overdose with a cop with a knee on his back, his neck, in what way does that advance society's interest? It doesn't. By telling this story about, oh, it's that that one incident in Minnesota means there should be riots all over the country. Race riots all over the country. Based on what? It's very rare for an unarmed black man to be killed by law enforcement in this country. Just a fact people can argue, but it's a fact. Very rare, by the numbers. And so why is it indicative of a broader conversation? You'll notice on the other side of things, why is it that when a white woman is murdered by a career criminal who is a black man, why is this not something that gets more attention? That is what everyone is asking right now. That is what the conversation is, at least among people that want to take a look at criminal justice with seriousness. And so that brings me to the story of the Ukrainian girl who was killed by this man who was, again, career criminal, should not have been on the streets. Judges saw that this was a problem. They decided not to act on it. This isn't even the only story like this out there right now. Again, this goes to our. When is it in, Dick? When is there a bigger problem? When is it a systemic failure versus it's just a thing, a random thing that happened, right? If somebody is walking their dog in my neighborhood and they are truly struck, and we get a lot of thunder, lightning storms here, now they're struck by lightning. Do I do. Am I going to march out in the streets and be angry about thunder and lightning? No, it's a horrible, random event. A sat. A sad event, tragic event. And I'd say, well, sometimes people get struck by lightning. You know, there's no systemic change to be had as a result of that other than, you know, try to not be out there in a really serious lightning storm. But, you know, who knows, right? Sometimes it's fine. Okay, so we had that story about the Ukrainian girl. This. This white Ukrainian girl, she's murdered by this guy. He's. He's a career criminal. He's a black guy. He was known to authorities for a long time. And. Okay, you say, well, Buck, that's. That's just one incident. Well, here's another incident from over the weekend. A. A beloved. This is from the New York Post. A beloved ex veterinary professor was hacked to death while walking her dog in an Alabama park where she took her pet to exercise almost daily. The killer stole her truck and fled, but was caught by cops a short distance away. The next day, the body of Dr. Julie Schnewell, 59, a former professor of large animal medicine at Auburn University college of veterinary Medicine, was discovered in a wooded area on Saturday afternoon. The truck was recovered on Sunday. By the way, the dog, I mean, I'm like, cry even. This is a horrible story. It's such a tragedy. Dog was okay. The dog stayed by the owner's body the whole time. You know, dogs, amazing. You know, a gift from God for all of us who have dogs. But just. Anyway, so the guy arrested for this capital murder, Harold Rashad Dabney. A. He's a black man with a history of, you know, a history of crime. And so you sit there and you go, all right, is this now a story for the national media? Why not? It's heinous. Why isn't it A bigger thing isn't this, you know, you hear this old phrase for the, for the news media. If it bleeds, it leads. Right? Horrible. But it's true. I mean, that's the way it generally goes. You turn on local news, on any given night, there's a shooting. That's usually the number one story in the local news, national news. Why isn't this a bigger story? Why isn't this situation something that we're supposed to have a national conversation about? I mean, here's another white woman who was stabbed to death by a black man and nobody wants to talk about it at cnn, msnbc, the New York Times, the Washington Post. Now you could just say, well, that's just about media focus, you know, because so, so what's the takeaway from this? Because if it's just about the media focus and about. You're not supposed to notice that when.
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Clay Travis
The races, this is where you go.
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Buck Sexton
What if the races were different, right? What if it was? If it was a young black woman who was stabbed to death by a white guy, would this be the biggest story in the country and every news outlet out there? Yes. Yes, it would. And so you say, well, why is that happening? You change the races and you change the national media's interest in the story. This is something you want to talk about, a national conversation. This is a national conversation that should be had. Why does that. Why do we all know that that is the case? Why do we know that the New York Times is not covering this or the Ukrainian refugee being stabbed to death at all? We know they're doing it for ideological reasons. We know they're doing it because of the narrative and because of their desire to suppress. And you can say, well, is this important? Right? That's another layer of this. One is understanding why the media covers us the way that they do. Right? Any violence against a black person by a non black, particularly by a white person, is national news by its very nature, according to the New York Times, Washington Post, you'll see this over and over again. Or is certainly much more likely to be national news than when it is the reverse. This is just observable, observable fact by everybody. Well, why is that? Isn't it just a human being is stabbed to death in a heinous way. We should treat the action as worthy of public notice. The same, irrespective of what the victim's race would be. Why is one more important to the media than another? Or at least the Democrat media? You ask that question and then the other part of it is. So here we have two cases of women stabbed to death, white women stabbed to death by black men in recent. You know, this just happened over the weekend. The other one happened a few weeks ago in the most grisly and horrific fashion. And there's just an absolute lack of interest in this. And then we compare from a lot of the media, and then we compare it to the Jussie Smollett case. We compare it to George Floyd, we compare it to Mike Brown, blm, hands up all the or or Trayvon Martin, where the president at the time, Barack Obama, said, if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon. I mean, that was. That's the level of attention those stories got. Why. Why Trayvon Martin shouldn't have jumped on a guy and pounded his head into the pavement because they had some kind of a disagreement. The guy had a gun. It wasn't a good idea. Why did the president have to weigh in on that one? Because it became a story, transformed into a story of white racism in the Trayvon Martin case. That was remarkable. Right? A Latino guy gets into a fight with a black guy and it's about white racism. I mean, this is what they do. This is what the media does. But the other part of it is we want this to stop. And we want it to stop because when we. Or how we want it to stop is when you see these cases and you see these people that have been through the system, they are a clear and present danger to the society that they are in. And they need a lengthy period of incarceration and rehabilitation would be nice. But more importantly, they can't stab any ladies to death walking their dogs or taking the subway if they're in a prison cell. And we've tried the other way. We didn't want to, but the country has been put through this. We have seen the Democrat Soros prosecutor way, which is, you know, in the interest of social justice, in the interest of racial justice, in the interest of, you know, righting historical wrongs or however they want to frame this, we're going to go soft on people who have no sense of respect for the law, who have no accountability and who are a danger to those around them. And enough is enough. And this brings me, of course, to the Daniel Penney case in New York City on the subway, authorities prosecute. Authorities wanted to lock him up because there was a maniac in this case. The maniac was a black guy and the guy who stepped in was a white guy. There was a maniac who had been arrested who had assaulted people over and over and over again. And someone, Daniel Penney, stepped up and was like, I can't allow this threat against these women in this way. And the jury had defined in his favor, not the system, the system wanted to destroy his life. The jury had defined in his favor because there were enough people on that jury that are sick of the system failing and saying it is about justice. They are sick of the injustice that this system perpetuates over and over again. Allowing the constant victimization of people, by the way, the disproportionate victimization of the black community by the very small percentage within that community who are black. What could be better for neighborhoods that have too much crime than making them relatively crime free, making them safe so that, you know, the black moms and black dads and black residents can go to their jobs, can go to their work and go to the park, do whatever they want to do in peace, safety and tranquility. That's the way it's supposed to be for all of us. And I think we've just reached a point where whoever it is that has to get locked up. The small part I told you about the NY, the New York City stats about the subway, 63 people, 5,000 arrests. We're not saying lock up, you know, millions of people here. You're saying, lock up the 63, save yourself thousands of arrests, make the subway safer for everybody. What is the counter argument to this? There's some kind of a sickness in the liberal mind. What is the counter argument to this other than, you know, oh, social justice or, oh, you're racist. It's like, it's not racist. You know what's horrible? What's horrible is to leave minority, you know, dominant communities to high crime rates because you're unwilling to take the 1% that's committing all the crimes and lock them up. That's horrible. That's wrong. That's inhumane, actually. And I think the Republicans see this, I think Trump sees this, and I think it's time for a real national conversation about it. How about that? When you decide it's time you had more energy every day, you got to check out what I'm doing. Chalk, my friends. Every chalk supplement is specially formulated to provide your body with the fuel you need from all natural ingredients. They manufacture different formulations for men and women because our body chemistries are very different. Despite what libs say. Chalk is spelled C, H, O q. Go to chalk.com. i've been on a real health journey the last year as you know, improving my energy, losing weight, improving my strength, lean muscle tissue and proper supplementation has been an important part of my journey. 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Edu now, you're only seeing the very beginnings of this. So you know, during the first few weeks, of course, we've seen these radical reductions in violent crime. We're just getting started. Dea, atf, FBI have only just begun to identify, disrupt and dismantle the criminal organizations that have been wreaking havoc on the city for so long. And we're going to take him apart member by member, group by group, piece by piece. That is Stephen Miller saying that the law enforcement deployment to bring down crime is just beginning on of course, the issue of immigration, but also on violent crime. We're joined now by Heather McDonald. She's a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and also author of, well, the War on Cops and When Race Trumps Merit. Heather, always good to have you on the program.
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Heather Mac Donald
Thank you so much, Buck.
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Buck Sexton
I have to say I expect a certain degree of what we're gonna talk about. But Heather, for two heinous murders to occur within pretty close proximity in terms of time, a couple of weeks of each other. The New York Times hasn't covered either of them. The Washington Post hasn't covered either. The murder of this veterinary professor in Alabama and also the murder in North Carolina of this Ukrainian refugee. People see this and are outraged. Understandably. What's going on here?
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Heather Mac Donald
Well, sadly, it's all about race. The black on white crime gets virtually no attention. And we're supposed to believe that white on black crime is the dominant reality in our country today. It is not. A 2023 study from the National Academy of Sciences left wing group, left wing professors involved in it said that there is virtually zero white on black homicides in this country and that blacks are 35 times more likely to commit an act of violence against whites than vice versa. That is a narrative that is simply not allowed into the public sphere. And we have allowed this crime to get out of control for the absolutely phony reason that we don't. If we incarcerate people, we'll put more black criminals in jail. Of course the answer to that is yes. But blacks are overwhelmingly the victims of crime. But they don't count because we only care about black victims in the excruciatingly rare instances when they're killed by a police officer or even more rarely, a non official white person. We have completely forgotten the purpose of government buck, which is to protect the law abiding. We're living through the great inversion where government has decided that its priorities are for the dysfunctional, the criminal, the antisocial. It loads rights on people that are a threat to society and it treats the law abiding merely as ATMs for government's feckless social policies. From now on, and Trump is leading us in this direction, we have the government has one obligation and one obligation. Protect life, protect property, protect safety.
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Buck Sexton
You know, Heather, I'm sure you might have seen this. There's already some very interesting and somewhat or very troubling conversations around, particularly the Ukrainian, the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered on, on video on the North Carolina light rail in Charlotte. People starting a GoFundMe. Those have been taken down Wikipedia, trying to take this off the case off of Wikipedia that obviously is getting attention. But this from Axios. You know, body cams, I think are the single biggest impediment that BLM has to 3.0. I mean, I've been talking to this for a while, that the more familiar people become with body camera footage in general, but also in specific incidents, the less likely they are to believe some of these tales and some of these initial narratives that are put out there. Axios wrote the Rising. This is just this morning, the big picture. The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte's Light rail, has become a big accelerant. In these cases. The video is easily shared or leaked and can pollinate across social media. I'm starting to feel like they don't want us to see what's going on.
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Heather Mac Donald
It's hilarious. I found that headline simply stunning. It is about as clarifying as it gets. They had control of the narrative. They decided what the public was allowed to know and what it wasn't. The public is completely in the dark about the reality of inner city crime. And because the media has decided we don't dare to know it because we might become racists and Axios and the mainstream media is terrified that they are losing control of the narrative. That's why, of course, Biden tried, through the collusion of the pressure on social media companies to shut down X for once. We were also optimistic about the web when it came into being. We thought it's going to crowdsource knowledge and then it turned out to have many, many downsides as far as social addiction to this. But here again is one of the great upsides is it does give the people a way to fight back against the censorship of the elite media establishment and the elite political establishment as well.
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Buck Sexton
When President Trump was speaking about this issue recently, he talked about no cash bail and just the. Can you just take us back a little bit in time here, Heather, to the argument that we had to have no cash bail in places like New York. And then what has this, what have the numbers told us this has resulted in? I mean, what has that carnage looked like?
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Heather Mac Donald
Well, the argument, and I'm going to be honest here, Buck, I'm sorry, somewhat sympathetic to the anti bail argument because it is sort of a form of preemptive detention before you have made a judgment that under a probable cause standard of criminal guilt. But the argument is, the non race argument is that it's unfair to the poor. It is economically discriminatory because if you don't have the money to make cash bail, you're going to be held. And if you have the money, you're going to be out. The real argument again, everything, I'm sorry to say it is depressing, it's disheartening. But everything in our criminal justice system today is driven by race. And that means it's driven by the fact that the crime rate among blacks is exponentially higher than among whites. Again, we're not supposed to say these things, but that's why we are not enforcing the law. That is why we are not imposing bail. It is why judges are letting people go. And above all, it's why prosecutors are not prosecuting crimes. And it's also driving our mental health system. I mean, in New York you can see it, these schizophrenics, this decarlos Brown was a schizophrenic, they're all out on the streets. It's like a scene out of bedlam. And that too, we're not going to incarcerate the mentally ill or take them off the streets because again, the racial disproportionality. And so there is some argument that the failure to impose bail is allowing a lot of recidivism. I think the solution is to just give judges power. With regards, I would get rid of the cash component and just give judges the ability to say no, your risk.
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Buck Sexton
Is being, you're being held. Yeah.
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Heather Mac Donald
And you know, again, this is where the great inversion comes in, Buck. You get at most one free bite of the apple and then that's it. This is a statistical certainty. It was a known certainty that something like this horrific stabbing and the stabbing in Alabama was going to happen. When you allow criminals, when you allow the mentally ill, drug addicted on the streets, it will happen. That is no longer acceptable. We have to put the burden on the criminal to justify himself. The responsibility is to protect the public. If somebody has committed one crime that is putting the establishment, the government officials on notice, they will likely commit it again. We have to be much more safety protective. Right now all we care about is protecting the rights of the mentally ill, the vagrants and the criminals. That has got to end.
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Buck Sexton
You know, there's this story Heather in the New York Post. I'm sure you saw it. You're a New Yorker, about 63 people who are responsible. And I would not have, I would have guessed that it was 630 arrests. No, no. 5,000, 5,000 arrests among 63 people. You hear this. How is that even, how is it even possible? Well, they've got people like this guy, 628 year old Kenny Mitchell, this is in the New York Post. Arrested a total of 149 times, 18 times since May of this year for alleged theft and forgery. Found lying on the C train platform with pockets full of crack vials. 150 times. Someone's arrested 150 times. What, what is a judge doing when this person, the 149th time goes in front of them? Like, what is the thought process?
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Heather Mac Donald
The thought process is I am. My responsibility is to the downtrodden, the allegedly downtrodden, the discriminated against, the people that are the victims of racial injustice. That's who I care about. The public is not before me. Again, this has to end. If there's any excuse about we don't have the jail space to hold people. We don't have the mental institutions to hold people. Bill them, Trump, build them. You know, I'm not a big fan of distributing federal tax dollars to localities because it's just a shell game. It's the same tax dollars that began in the locality that come back to it minus, you know, 50% of red tape costs having gone to Washington and back. Nevertheless, if there's anything that deserves federal funding. Build the jails, build the facilities. Get rid of the damn laws that give priority to keeping the homeless people on the streets. Get rid of the homeless Outreach teams. This is not housing. Everybody on the street has been offered shelter multiple times. They do not have the right to say no. They do not have the right to colonize. You can go to Penn Station. You will see dozens of decarlos browns. They are walking time bombs. They are going to explode. And every time they explode, that is on the hands of our government officials. They have one duty and one duty, protect the public. Their duty is not to protect the dysfunctional and the antisocial.
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Buck Sexton
You know, Heather, just another stat from this New York Post piece. Ten years ago, 81% of transit felony arrests in New York City resulted in convictions. It's 36% today. It's not because they're arresting all the wrong people.
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Heather Mac Donald
It's because, again, we feel guilty wrongly as a society. We have historical guilt. We are not guilty today. This is not a white supremacist society. It is just the opposite. We are giving benefits and opportunities and preferences to underrepresented minorities all the time. It is time to end the racial grift, to end the racial guilt again. If you want to play this black victims, by all means do it. When we allow criminals to stay on the streets, it's the safe, the safety observing, hardworking residents of East Harlem, the South side of Chicago that are finding their children gunned down. The media and the activists tell them hilariously that they should fear white people or they should fear the National Guard. Are you kidding me? The National Guard is their only hope. And we have this completely contradictory message. On the one hand that comes out of the New York Times and everybody else in the Washington Post, well, the National Guard is making everybody scared. They're like so traumatized. And yet the National Guard is going to the Mall. It is going to the Washington Mall. It is going to the Smithsonian. It isn't going to Anacostia. So, you know, decide, do you want them in the high crime neighborhoods or not? Are you scared of them or not? The fact is that law enforcement works. As you were saying earlier today, we know how to do this. As you were saying earlier today, this is a choice. It is not an inevitability, homelessness, vagrancy, street colonization, choice, policy outcome, not a naturally occurring phenomenon. Policy choices. We knew how to do this a century ago. We did not allow people to colonize city streets. When you do do that, you're going to get more of this. Because these people, they have shown themselves to be threats. They have to be off the streets. We have to say no more. And thank heavens we have a president who understands one murder is too many. I cannot believe in the Axios story. They're also trotting out the usual. Well, the problem with these videos is it's giving people a way to not believe that crime is dropping. If I hear that crime is dropping meme one more time, I am going to go nuts. Because it doesn't matter. It's a non sequitur. Crime is dropping a little bit since its post. George Floyd Race riot astronomical high. It doesn't matter. One is too many. It is still way too high. Our homicide rate is 60 times that of Switzerland, 27 times that of London. In Washington, D.C. this is not acceptable in a civilized society.
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Buck Sexton
Heather McDonald, author of the War on Cops and When Race Trumps Merit. Heather, always appreciate you.
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Heather Mac Donald
Thank you for having me on.
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