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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Welcome, everybody to the Monday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I am back from vacation. Clay held it down. We've got a lot of big news to talk to you about here. I will say, Clay, some people are saying, Highlands, North Carolina, beautiful place, Beautiful place. Big fan. But I had to spend my morning today in preparation for the show watching a doozy of a press conference. I think that's a fair way to describe it, the biggest takeaway from it, although there are many takeaways, and we shall describe in some detail for you what's going on here. But the big, biggest single takeaway is that President Trump has decided that he will invoke his section 740 of the Home Rule act power for the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. which gives the President of the United States the ability to commandeer the Metro Police Department, which is the local police in Washington, D.C. because of an emergency situation. We have the president describing this. Actually, let's just, let's let you hear from President Trump directly on this. It was a, it was quite a moment. This is Cut one, play it.
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Donald Trump
Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule act, you know what that is, and placing the D.C. metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law order of public safety in Washington, D.C. and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
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Buck Sexton
This is a big move from the President. I have to say. I really like this and support this and we'll get into some of the details of this, Clay. But essentially the president is saying enough is enough. D.C. which as we are very honest with you. I am. I am fond of the District, as is Clay. We've both lived there. Clay went to college there. I lived there as a CIA analyst way back in the day and then later on in life as a media personality for a short while. So we both spent a lot of time in D.C. the crime situation there is way too high, let's just put it that way, Clay. They're running all these stories now. Oh, crime is the lowest. It is. Don't we all want there to be no crime in our nation's capital? Shouldn't this be something where we can get some degree and we'll get into why there isn't bipartisan agreement? There are a number of reasons for this, but there's a whole range, I think, of options and opportunities here to bring the crime level down to Tokyo levels. I mean, that's really what we would like to see instead of we've had fewer carjackings by 15 year olds, fewer people shot and murdered in the streets of our nation's capital for no reason. How about shooting for none, Clay? How about deciding that we're not going to allow this madness to continue? Cuz you and I are both familiar with it. D.C. was always more dangerous when I lived there than post New York City, post Giuliani, rather New York City. It wasn't even close. DC Was always a far more rough place to be, starting around the early 2000s.
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Jim Jordan
This is an example of something that Trump is doing that should have 100% approval that Democrats will automatically hate. And I think it's indicative of why the Democrat brand is in the toilet. Because whether you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent, or just somebody who doesn't vote at all, you should want our nation's capital to be safe. No matter what your politics are, you should want big cities in this country to be safe everywhere. And I think Trump sees Washington, D.C. as a jewel of the nation. As we talked about last week, if you look at the rates of murder in D.C. compared to virtually every major city in the world, D.C. is off the charts, unacceptably violent. And you've got Judge Jeanine, who is in position now as the D.C. attorney of Record there. And I think what we are basically seeing is Trump wants to fix problems that exist everywhere. And even in that press conference said, hey, we've solved everything at the border. We are in the process of resolving many different issues associated with trade imbalances and economic issues and everything else. But even in that, in that press conference, which was a tour de force let's be honest. We went from Joe Biden. Can't even take a question from the press without it being written out in advance on a note card for him to, as you said, buck. Yes, the ostensible purpose of the press conference was to discuss D.C. but Trump took questions on China. He took questions on Putin and Russia and the situation in Ukraine. Basically everything under the sun with no preconceived, to my knowledge, knowledge of where the questions were coming. And he handled them with aplomb.
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Buck Sexton
Right. We'll address that as well. He talked because, of course, the press asked him about a big thing on the horizon, the planned meeting in Alaska of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to try to bring an end to the Ukraine conflict. Trump got into some specific specifics. There also some discussion of. Well, Trump's brought up the transports issue. Clay, basically, just to be like. You'd be like.
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Jim Jordan
You demonstrate how crazy they are.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, just. You guys are nuts. Just to be clear, Democrats, you're nuts. Trump just threw that in. I appreciate that. You know, he had to season the.
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Jim Jordan
Sauce a little bit.
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Buck Sexton
You know, he had to spice it up. He's like, hey, by the way, you're the lunatics who think that men should play against women in sports. So not really that into hearing what the Democrats have to say on any particular issue. But he also talked about Nvidia with a deal to sell chips to China. He addressed some of the concerns around that. So to your point, Clay covered a whole range of issues and also makes jokes and is funny and the whole thing. I mean, it was a Trump a thon. Ok? It was a Trump bonanza up there. You also had Pete Hegseth in the mix, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General. Judge Jeanine, this very important. Judge Jeanine is the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, because there's the police and the prosecution components of this that have to get aligned, and that's a big deal. We've all seen, I'm sure, Law and Order, right? I mean, I remember waking up hungover in college, and I think I would watch sometimes like six hours of Law and Order in a row on a rainy Saturday. Law and Order is addictive, but it's. It's the. It's the police, you know, the detectives who investigate crimes, and then the prosecutors who handle them. It's actually a good way to think about these issues, Clay. The issue isn't just in D.C. getting to the arrest. And Judge Jeanine made this very clear. It's what happens to the people that do the very Bad thing once the prosecution is supposed to bring a case against them. And a huge problem they have in D.C. is you have these youths. I think that's how they're generally referred to in the press. People under 18 who are doing very adult crimes. And you know, this, this gets into this area of ok, if you shot somebody and didn't kill them and you're 17, Judge Jeanine says that you can get probation for this. This is stunning, right? I mean if you don't murder somebody, rape somebody, you know, forcible rape somebody, there's a few other crimes that she pointed out. You can be 16 or 17 and get essentially, you know, you can be 14 or 15. By the way, what the heck is going on when we have a society that is producing 14 year olds who are trying to carjack people. 14 year olds, this is not usual.
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Jim Jordan
In D.C. i think it's just there's no dads in homes. I mean I think you really get down when you have a 14 year old trying to carjack somebody. It's a fundamental failure of parenting because those kids are so young. That should never be happening. And I think it's that we've knocked dads out of so many of these homes. I bet every 14 year old in America almost that is getting arrested for something like carjacking. There is no dad at home. Almost 100%.
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Buck Sexton
Well that's. You're going now to even more upstream or root cause of the problem. And that's obviously true. And the data on this about. And people get very upset about this, but it is just the truth. We're talking data. When we talk data and statistics, I don't really care if people get upset by it. In fact, it's probably a good thing that people hear data and statistics that upsets them because they need to hear it. If they don't already know it or they don't already understand the implications, they need to hear it. Which basically means almost every Democrat that you know, I will say Clay, I have, I have a close, close friend who let's just say has been very close to the mayor of D.C. and the interesting thing here is, is that Mayor Bowser would like crime to go down and would like to do more. What prevents her from doing more politically speaking? I'm not saying that, you know, I'm not absolving her here, you know, but Trump, you'll notice Trump isn't as hard on Bowser as he is on like a Gavin, you know, Gavin Newscomb or you know, the mayor of Chicago. I Mean, there are, there are people who are in positions of authority in this country, mayors and police commissioners specifically, and city councils, who are just flatly insane. They're pro crime. They're all Democrats. There are no Republicans who are actively pro crime. There are Democrats who are actively pro crime. And the problem in a place like DC Is that the city council is insane. And there are considerable contingents of the Black community in D.C. that react very angrily and politically to any crackdown by police. So what this does is it creates a situation where President Trump now, by federalizing this issue, could dramatically bring down the crime rate in our nation's capital. I said could, but it is possible. And then you would have Bowser, the mayor, who's obviously, she's a black woman, she's the mayor of D.C. been mayor for years, is in a sense insulated from the political blowback among some members of the black community for the crackdown that will make all members of the black community and all D.C. residents safer. This is, you know, this goes very deep, but this is the problem. Why is there such pushback? Because Democrats play this game and elected Democrats. A city council plays this game. Clay, people forget this. We can get into a little more of the home rule of 1973 act and how it. D.C. you know, how it affects D.C. congress has ultimate responsibility for D.C. there is. The home rule means that there's the mayor and there's. There is a local jurisdictional situation for. And you know, you can vote for the people in charge of your day to day life in D.C. but the president Trump actually has some specific authorities as the president, especially under an emergency declaration like this. Congress not only can deal with budgets in the District, Congress can override legislation passed by the D.C. city Council. And I would remind everybody that I forget the year, but it was pretty recent where Congress stepped in to override the D.C. city Council, making the punishment for carjacking less.
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Jim Jordan
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Too crazy even for Democrats.
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Caller
So.
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Buck Sexton
So this gives you a sense of what they're dealing with, Clay, in the city of.
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Caller
Of.
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Buck Sexton
Well, in our capital city.
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Jim Jordan
Yeah. And here is the data that I think ultimately brings this home. Let me hit you with this as we, as we go into the first break. And I would just say open phone lines, by the way. We're gonna talk with Congressman Jim Jordan at the bottom of the hour. He's got some news. We'll discuss what he thinks about whether there should be more control taken over of D.C. among other things. But Buck, we mentioned this last week. The White House just shared this. I Want anyone out there to defend this, regardless of your politics. 800-282-2882. The 2024 murder rate in Washington D.C. was 27.5 per 100,000. Right. Residents. Listen to these other cities that aren't exactly known for being wildly safe. Bogota, Colombia, you heard Trump talking about at 15.1. Mexico City, 10.6. So our murder rate is nearly triple what the Mexico City murder rate is. Listen to some of these.
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Buck Sexton
London's is easy because you can barely measure it. Per 100,000, which is what they usually do. Per 100,000 homicides is how you get these numbers. London's is one.
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Jim Jordan
Yes, one. But I mean, Islam a bad. Do we think, hey, this is 9, let's see, 9.2. Lima, Peru, 7.6. Paris, 1.6. You heard Buck mention that, that London is 1. Madrid is under 1. Delhi in India is 1.5. Havana, Cuba is 1.5. Why would anyone. I think this is a sign of how broken Democrat ideas are. We've got a clip, we'll share it for you eventually. Of MSNBC coming in, analysts coming on and saying, well, this is evidence of Trump's racism that he's trying to crack down on. Crime in Washington D.C. their ideas are broken and they don't want good things to happen if Trump is involved in them because that points out how they were unable to fix things.
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Buck Sexton
One of the initial points you made, Clay, this is something that everyone reasonably rationally should be behind. Democrats won't. And this is both the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. The right thing to do because it'll mean fewer carjackings, fewer murders, fewer rapes, fewer gang stabbings, which will disproportionately, by the way, mean less of that happening in the Black community in D.C. i already gave the stats. We know what the stats are. Over 90% of those who are incarcerated in the District of Columbia for crimes committed there are black. So it will disproportionately affect members of the black community who are law abiding, who want to be able to go on the metro or go to work or just walk through the park and not be stabbed or attacked. And it's going to be high profile. This is why it's smart. It's going to be something that even the press is going to have to cover. They don't want to, but they will because it is our nation's capital and they live there. Where do the, where does the media live? New York and D.C. if this is going on in their backyard. Guess what? They're going to have to deal with this. And this can show the failure of Democrat policies on crime and the, and the success of Trump and the Republicans on this issue in a way that will become unavoidable. I think it's a really big deal, a big moment. I'm very pleased to see the president doing it. Let's talk about gold for a second. Gold is the precious metal that people have gone for centuries to find to start their fortune, right? Because we all know that gold is valuable. It has been valuable for really all of human civilization. Owning gold is good. It makes sense. And physical gold, the kind you can hold in your hand, is a smart investment. I've been buying gold for over a decade now and you know you can invest in your 401k or IRA with gold. You can buy a gold IRA or 401k. Thanks to our friends at the Birch Gold Group, in just the last year, gold's value has increased some 43%. That's just data available for anyone to pull. Take a look at themselves. 43% in a year. We're waiting for Trump's economy to fully blossom, but there's still a lot of spending and a lot of challenges. Long term, you need to take action for you. You can't rely on what the federal government's doing, no matter how good this administration is. And they've been pretty fantastic. You have to take action for yourself. That's why Birch Gold is there for you. They make owning physical gold very easy and they can also convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax shelter. IRA and physical gold so easy. To get started, just do this. Text my name Buck to 9,898 98. Birchgold will send you a free info kit. Text Buck to 9,898 98. Today you ain't imagining it.
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Jim Jordan
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Clay Travis
The reviews and ratings are in and Ice Cube's big three is the surprise hit of the summer this Saturday, 4pm Eastern on CBS. With playoff elimination on the line, the stars will be flocking to Los Angeles to witness the most physical, fiercest and competitive basketball in the world. Miami's Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson must win over Houston to make the playoffs, reeling from last week's savage beating at the head the hands of Chicago's possessed Montrez hero. Last time these teams met, Miami beat Houston, but they are a dangerous team having their manhood at stake. Then breakout star Dwight Howard of the LA Riot will battle Gary Payton's Boston squad in a do or die match for both teams. Will LA avenge their previous shocking loss to perennial basketball Boston rivals? To survive, six teams are allowed for four spots and all must win. Don't miss the Big three, the three on three basketball league everyone is talking about. There's no crying in the big three and the no hold spot action starts Saturday at 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific followed by two games on Vice starting at 6:30 Eastern. Presented by iHeart.
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Jim Jordan
Welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton Show. We're going to be joined by Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio. He's got some news that he wants to share with us and I know we're going to dive into safety in D.C. with him as well. We just ran through those numbers and again this feels to me like something that should have a hundred percent approval rating. Let's play this quickly. Buck mentioned it. Trump just decided to take a drive by at Democrats wanting to play.
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Buck Sexton
We got to come back to it. We got to come back to in a second.
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Jim Jordan
So let's But I do think Buck on the bigger picture here. The fact that we have 100, we should have 100% approval and we're going to play these cuts for you right after Jim Jordan as we finish up the hour. But the fact that Democrats are already lining up and saying this is racist of Trump, this is unacceptable. The fact that that's even occurring in any way. I think is indicative of how broken their overall universe actually is. But in the meantime, wherever you are across the country, you could take advantage of rapid radios, get hooked up with walkie talkies that make a lot of sense. They work no matter where you are in the country. They will get you hooked up. They will make a tremendous difference for you. We've got them in my mother in law's house now because she was not having very reliable cell phone. She can now talk even easier on these. We also have them with overall my 10 year old who's not ready for a phone yet but wants to be able to run around and we want to be able to stay in contact with them. It can make a tremendous difference for your family. These are also great in the event that there is some sort of flood, some sort of tornado, some sort of hurricane, as we move into hurricane season, you can rely on them@rapidradios.com to save up to 60% of the free UPS shipping an extra 5% off with code radio. That's rapidradios.com code radio.
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Buck Sexton
Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio is joining us here. Wants to chat about some of the biggest things happening today in this big beautiful country of ours. Congressman, great to have you on.
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Caller
Good to be with you guys. Hope you had a good weekend.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, it was fantastic. You ever been Congressman to Highlands, North Carolina? I highly recommend.
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Caller
Yep, yep. Down in that area. My, my good buddy Mark Meadows, former colleague of ours and great Congressman, great chief of staff down in that neck of the woods. So yeah, beautiful down there.
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Buck Sexton
I'm like, I'm spreading, I'm spreading the word. So Congressman, let's, let's dive right into this. I watched the whole press conference this morning which was enthralling. Both, both very informative and enthralling. Trump and Fuego. But on this issue of crime, you know, you got two guys here, Clay and Buck, who have both lived in D.C. and I feel very passionately about this. That place should be a lot safer than it is. It's go time.
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Caller
Yeah, yeah, no, I agree. And the President is, I think that made the right decision and I think he's going to notify Congress because he can do this for like a month, 30 days I think is what the law says. And then, then of course there has to be a vote. But I think he's going to send, you know, what his, what he, you know, his justification for why this is necessary. And I certainly think it is, what are we, the capitals around the world? We have the highest violent crime rate of just about any, I believe. And of course we know what's, what's happening day to day. We even happened had a, what a member of Congress a while back get their car taken from them. So I think that's justified and then it'll come to Congress. And frankly, I think we should support the president if he thinks this is something that needs to go longer than the 30 days.
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Jim Jordan
You, Congressman, appreciate you coming on. I just want to hit this because I, we talk about how crazy this is in general, but whatever Trump does, Democrats line up to oppose. This is the majority leader in the House for the, for the Democrat Party, Hakeem Jeffries just tweeted. Violent Crime in Washington D.C. is at 30 year low. I think that's very disputable. But let's go ahead and accept Donald Trump has no basis to take over the local police department and zero credibility on the issue of law and order. Get lost. I mean, even within the construct of craziness for Trump, derangement syndrome is being opposed to a lower crime rate in Washington D.C. staggering to even see Democrats stand up in favor of.
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Caller
Now, the left doesn't make sense. I always say not all Democrats are crazy, but the left that controls their party is. And they got all these just wild ideas and, and as you point out, Clay, they're just constantly against the President. That Trump derangement syndrome is truly a real phenomenon, no doubt about it. But yeah, this, you know, think about all the people who come to our capital as tourists, particularly during the spring and summer, spring month during, during cherry blossom, when their cherry blossoms are full blown. The number of people who come, they would like to know that their, their capital is safe. And more and more we're hearing about things happening not only to, to citizens, but the actual members of Congress that are just wrong. So you want a safe capital. You want to, I think everything the President said, you want a beautiful capital, you want a safe capital, you want people to want to come to your Capitol to celebrate the history of the greatest country in the world. And I think that's all in play here if we have this level of crime. So again, I think the President is doing the common sense thing. He says this all the time. The difference between Republicans and Democrats today, between conservatives and the left, is the difference between normal and crazy. And we're the common sense, normal party. They're now the party of crazy. Defund the police, let men compete against women in sports. Don't, don't allow violent crime to happen. And on and on it goes. So I think this is just consistent with that common sense theme and a good move.
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Buck Sexton
Speaking of common sense or maybe the lack thereof, Congressman, to the degree that you can speak to this, might ask you to name any of your colleagues in the Congress, but the Democrats, you know, this is something that does affect them because they gotta walk around and live in the environs of both Capitol hill and Washington, D.C. capitol Hill. Sketchy stuff happens around there. Really bad stuff happens around there on a far too regular basis. Do they all privately admit that the Capitol's got way too much crime or have they diluted themselves into it really is at a 30 year low?
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Caller
Well, I think, I think what happens, Buck, is, I mean, I just think about, you know, the way Polly and I, the way we handle. We don't go, we don't stray far from the Capitol, and if you do, you're in a car. So it's, it's literally there are days where the most I'm outside is a half a block from the Cannon House Office Building. There's three, you know, three office complex to the, to the Capitol Hill Club, which is a half a block away. Everything else is actually either in the building, in the tunnel over to the Capitol. You're just not outside. So we live in this in somewhat of a, I think, a bubble where we may not feel what so many other citizens are feeling, what tourists are feeling. Now, some people walk a little farther and they're a little farther out in campus. My guess is they're a little nervous, particularly we got late votes, late committee hearings, you're walking home at night. So normally what we'll do is if we got something like that and we're going to go somewhere, we're always in a car and we're getting picked up right outside the garage or maybe even in the garage there at the, at the Rayburn Office building. So I think we live in a different world. But for the families coming or federal employees who are working there, like this, this young man worked for Doge and who was attacked, I think that's a different story. But that's who we're supposed to be serving. That's who we're supposed to be protecting. And that's what President Trump's decision is all about today.
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Jim Jordan
Yeah, and we had a young intern, I believe, from Illinois, if I'm not mistaken, who was shot and killed on the street. I know was a big deal on Capitol Hill. Now, also today, your committee, I just came from the Atlanta Braves, your committee has sent letters to the heads of the NHL, NFL, major League baseball and the NBA going after blackouts on television. Bucks got brothers who I better frustrated by this. I know I have been supremely frustrated by this, and many sports fans are. It's getting more expensive and harder to watch. What are you working on there?
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Caller
Yeah, the whole system now is really complicated for sports fans, and frankly, it's really expensive. If you want to watch your team play their games, you know, some people want to buy the package and watch. But this all stems from the 1961 Broadcasting act, which gave an antitrust exemption to major sports leagues. We understand that, but we're not in just the broadcast world anymore. We got streaming, we got, we got all kinds of things. Cable, streaming. You name it, we have it. And so we're concerned about how this impacts fans who. I think you tweeted this out, Clay. You want to watch your team play every game. You want to buy a package, it could cost as much as like 1000 bucks a year to watch. I remember growing up, I could watch the Reds every weekend. Any game you wanted to see the Reds were on Cincinnati or Dayton television, you could watch that. That's not always the case today because of the blackouts and other things that take place. So that's our concern, how expensive it is, how complicated it is if you want to watch and then, oh, well, you can watch this game. But if you're. You don't live in the market, the actual network market, you're somewhere else. But you still want to watch the team you grew up watching. And they're blacked out in the city you now have because they're not sold out or some other reason. It's like, what is going on? So we just want to talk to these folks. And it's, it's a concern we have with. We've got concerns with college sports. It's a slightly different thing there. We're trying to work on that. Americans love sports. They love to watch their team, their, their college, their. Their pro team. So we just want to talk with these major league or these, these professional sports leagues and see what's exactly going on.
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Jim Jordan
Are you, Are you optimistic, by the way, that you're going to get an antitrust bill, pass the SCORE Act, I think it's called, to help regulate what's going to happen with college athletics in particular?
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Caller
Well, it's out of the committee and we have, we have a handful of Democrats who had co sponsored it. So I do think we have a real chance to get this done. And as I think we talked a few weeks back, our Focus when we started this was we want to maintain real competition, not just have a few teams with all the money always dominate. We want real competition, we want to maintain opportunity. So we're concerned about women's sports and particularly Olympic sports. The USOC has been in to talk to us about the direction college sports are headed if we didn't do something. And we also want to try to remember that this is supposed to be about getting an education as well, because in this current environment, you got people playing seven years with red shirts and Olympic red shirts and different things and making all kinds of money and transferring five times and never getting a degree. So that's what we're trying to do. We think that bill is good. We're hopeful it's going to be on the floor, we get it past the House and then move on. And we think our legislation, frankly is also entirely consistent with the executive order that President Trump put out, who is also very concerned about the Olympic movement, Olympic sports and the fact that we got the Olympics coming here in a few years to the United States.
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Buck Sexton
Congressman Jim Jordan, appreciate you, sir. Thanks for coming by.
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Caller
You bet, guys, take care. Keep up the good work.
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Jim Jordan
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Clay Travis
The reviews and ratings are in and Ice Cube's Big Three is the surprise hit of the summer. This Saturday, 4pm Eastern on CBS, with playoff elimination on the line, the stars will be flocking to Los Angeles to witness the most physical, fiercest and competitive basketball in the world. Miami's Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson must win win over Houston to make the playoffs, reeling from last week's savage beating at the hands of Chicago's possessed Montrez Harrow. Last time these teams met, Miami beat Houston, but they are a dangerous team having their manhood at stake. Then breakout star Dwight Howard of the LA Riot will battle Gary Payton's Boston squad in a do or die match for both teams. Will LA avenge their previous shocking loss to perennial basketball Boston rivals To survive, six teams are allowed for four spots. Spots and all must win. Don't miss the Big Three, the three on three basketball league everyone is talking about. There's no crying in the big three, and the no hold spot action starts Saturday at 4pm Eastern. 1pm Pacific followed by two games on Vice starting at 6:30 Eastern presented by iHeart.
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Jim Jordan
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. Our thanks to Congressman Jim Jordan there. All right, Buck, you were in the mountains. I was telling you during commercial break that we got into a huge controversy because people in Colorado on Friday were calling in and ripping me for saying that you were in the mountains. I actually had my, I was in Atlanta over the weekend, awesome time watching the Braves play actually against your Miami area Marlins team. And I had my son looking it up because all these Colorado people called in and were just teeing off on me for saying that you were in the mountains. Did you feel like you were at, in the mountains over your vacation?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I mean I think the highest point is like six, six thousand plus feet. I mean that's, I understand for our wonderful Colorado audience that's like a foothill for you people, I get it. Right. But for Appalachia, it's actually pretty darn high.
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Jim Jordan
Not even just for the Appalachian. I had my son look it up. The highest points east of the, basically east of the Rockies in all of America is the Smoky Mountains.
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Donald Trump
So.
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Jim Jordan
And we had a geologist call in who told us that they used to be 20,000ft tall and they have been over time brought down over, you know, millions and millions of years.
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Buck Sexton
But these, these mountain time people, you know, there's little high falutin with their super tall mountains out west. Okay, it's definitely mountains.
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Jim Jordan
I got to tell you of our guys and gals in that area, I.
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Buck Sexton
Have, it was, it was remarkable to be in this adorable town and I really enjoyed it there. And the people were all so kind. Even the ones who didn't know who we are, who you and I are. I couldn't walk down the street that somebody stopping me and saying I love, I love the show. How's Clay? Where's Clay? People talk smack to me about some team. You said something about at some point. I have no idea. Sure. I'll tell Clay that that team is not as good as he said. But everybody there was, was incredibly nice at one point. Carrie's in laws, or rather her sister. So my in laws came to, came to actually visit and join us and I said, wow, it's amazing how many people here listen to Clay and Buck. And I swear I finished this end and someone came up said, can I take a photo? How's Clay? How's the show? I mean, and one thing I'll say, and this is true, I'll speak for Clay and myself on this one. If you listen to this show and you see us out in real life, it's never a bother, it's never a problem. If you want to come over and talk like we're normal people, we love that you listen, come over. We'll take photos with you. Because people, it's very kind. People are so polite, like, oh, am I interrupting you like nine interrupting. Please come over and. And you like the show. You listen. We. I love that. Please come over and say hi. So it's never a bother. I will say, though, Clay, I learned. I don't know, I mean, you definitely know this. I was going to say, I don't know if you know this. You definitely know this. Sec Dads have a uniform. This is what I was. I was unaware of this before Sec Dads. And I think going forward, when I'm in Sec dad country because really this part of, of of Highlands, it's where Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina all meet. It's like a tri state, essentially. It's a tri state.
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Jim Jordan
Plus Tennessee is not far away either. So there's lots of people who flee in.
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Buck Sexton
Correct. So you get, you get people coming in from Tennessee, people driving in from Atlanta, people all the way from Savannah in the coast, driving up to the mountains to escape the heat. I mean, it was. You got all that going on Sec dad uniform. You got to wear the shorts even when you're going long sleeve because it's a little, it's a little nippy up there in the mountains. You got to wear the shorts, right? The golf shorts. Then you got to wear long sleeve, zip up golf shirt. This is what I've learned. Baseball hat, sunglasses on top of the baseball hat and on sneakers. This is Sec dad uniform. It's basically golf. It's basically high end golf wear, but you wear it all day, all the time, everywhere you go.
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Jim Jordan
I've told you about how I lost $50,000 in pants before, right? I've told you this story.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Jim Jordan
This was me trying to deal with the fact that Sec dad, that is someone, once you age out of the age at which you might wear a T shirt or like a. You start to wear just the team polo. But I sold college team colored pants, which was a brilliant idea way before its time. And I lost basically $50,000 because pants are complicated to sell because I told you this. And we started sizing rocket T shirts. Everybody, they lie about what your waist is. Everybody's got weird like leg lengths and you have two different measurements that you have to get right. And it's miserable. So the pant sales business is way more complicated. I learned it than you might realize. T shirts, easy. Polos, easy. Anything upper body, very easy. But, yes, you're right. This is like the SEC dad starter pack that you're referencing.
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Buck Sexton
I didn't know that on sneakers were such a thing either. But all these guys coming in from, coming in from Atlanta and, and, you know, Charleston and Savannah, these places, they're all wearing these sneakers now. This is like, what.
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Jim Jordan
I have those. I have that brand sneaker. They're very comfortable.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. So. So it was. Anyway, it was great. I loved it up there in the mountains. And so many people came up and said hi. It was funny. People listened to you talking about how I was up in this area and then saw me the same day. Yeah, it's a small town, so if, you know somebody's there. So, anyway, we had a great time. All the people there were lovely. You're all so nice to carry. And thank you for all the kind wishes and, you know, I love that area. I'll be back for sure. So there's that. Do we have some great talkbacks and other things you want to get to. Oh, no. You have a funny Trump line, too.
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Jim Jordan
Yeah, we've got a bunch of stuff from Trump. I called for this earlier. Let's play it. But I do think you're seeing Trump is. And we'll get into this a little bit in the next hour. Trump is a masterclass on getting Democrats to do absolutely insane things. You're already now seeing Democrats, as we told you, they would line up and say, nuh, crime's not that bad in D.C. trump is bad. I mean, this is what Hakeem Jeffries is doing. But Trump kind of hits it every time. Here he is reacting to the fact that they still support men and women's sports. The entire party does listen to that cut.
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Donald Trump
They want men playing in women's sports. That's what they why they want transgender for everybody. Everybody transgender. And they, they just got walloped in an election in a landslide, and they haven't changed one thing I saw the other day, the certain gentleman was very well known, politician, Democrat, was fighting like hell that men should be allowed to play in women's sport. They just don't get it. They said it's an 8020 issue. And I think it's a no. 97 to 3 issue. And I don't know who the three are. I've never heard anybody come. Nobody's ever come up to me. Sir, you have to let men play in women's sports. You have to do it, sir. Nobody's ever approached me. I don't know where this issue even comes from.
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Jim Jordan
Never seen anything like amen, Buck. When we come back, we'll dive into analyzing this scheduled meeting on Friday with Putin, what it might mean for Ukraine and more from the Trump presser on DC violence all next hour.
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Clay Travis
Ice Cube's Big Three is the surprise hit of the summer. This Saturday, 4pm Eastern on CBS, with playoff elimination on the line. The most physical, fiercest and competitive basketball in the world, Miami's Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson must win to make the playoffs. And breakout star Dwight Howard of the LA Riot will battle Gary Payton's Boston squad in a do or die match for both teams. Six teams are allowed for four spots and all must win. There's no crying in the big three, and the no holds barred action starts Saturday at 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific. Presented by iHeart.
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Buck Sexton
This is an iHeart podcast.