Hour 1 - Expanding the Crime Crackdown

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 1 - Expanding the Crime Crackdown
Date: August 25, 2025
Host: iHeartPodcasts
Length Covered: First hour (advertisements, intros, and outros omitted)

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Overview

In this episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton focus on the intensifying crackdown on crime in major U.S. cities, most notably Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Baltimore. They analyze the effectiveness of recent interventions—especially those attributed to Donald Trump—and discuss the widespread political implications. The hosts also critique Democratic responses, compare crime policies to international cases, touch on immigration enforcement, and lampoon the state of political communication in America.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Crime Crackdown in Washington, D.C. and Trump’s Approach

• Crime Rate Drops in D.C.:

  • D.C. experienced 11 or 12 straight days without a murder during the summer, which both hosts link to increased support for the National Guard and police, instigated by Trump.
  • Clay Travis:

    “I don't think it's totally arbitrary that we've gone 11 or 12 days without a murder in the summer, something they can't find a record of in D.C. going back decades.” (04:44)

• Trump's Involvement and Political Messaging:

  • Trump suggests expanding crime crackdowns to other high-crime cities like Chicago and Baltimore.
  • Trump Quote:

    "Everybody before me is happy what I'm doing. Most of you won't say that because you're radical left... We won 2,750 [districts]. And they won 500. And that's, to me, the best of all." (03:51)

2. Democratic Leadership's Response and Political Dynamics

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Rejects Federal Intervention:

  • Johnson calls Trump’s proposal “the most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st century” and argues for community investments instead of a “military occupation.”
  • Brandon Johnson:

    "The city of Chicago does not need a military occupation. That's not what we need... We need to invest in people to ensure that we can build safe and affordable communities." (07:06)

  • Buck's reaction:

    “He's just promising more communism... rooted in race instead of class. Invest in people. Yeah. Tax the people who are productive and earn more. Squander that money on useless government programs that do nothing for really anybody when it comes to crime.” (07:28)

• Difficulties Defending the Status Quo:

  • Clay:

    “It's becoming increasingly difficult to defend the status quo. And I give President Trump a lot of credit for changing the narrative here.” (07:56)

  • The show mocks Johnson's abysmal 6% approval rating in Chicago and questions how such unpopular figures retain office.

3. Comparisons to International Crime Policy: El Salvador

• El Salvador’s Transformation:
  • Buck highlights President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on criminal gangs, which reduced El Salvador’s murder rate from the world's highest to the lowest in Latin America.
  • Buck:

    “He said, you know what? We know who the bad people are and we're just going to stop allowing them to do bad things and we're going to punish them... The biggest, from the worst to the best in all of Latin America.” (11:16)

4. Broader Implications for U.S. Cities

• Crime in Other Cities (Memphis Example):

  • Clay:

    “In recent years, Memphis, Tennessee had more murders than New York City. How is that acceptable?” (12:29)

• Strategy as 'Test Case':

  • Discuss how D.C. serves as a national example; if intervention works there, it could be implemented elsewhere.
  • Clay:

    “If it works, it's going to prove that there just hasn't been the will to drive down violent crime.” (12:29)

5. Symbolism, Local Wealth, and Crime Perception

• They examine the dichotomy between wealthy D.C. neighborhoods (where crime is minimal and security is private) and crime-ridden areas, arguing that indifference to violent crime is often a privilege of the wealthy.
• Clay:

  “Not being concerned with crime is a luxury of wealth. It really is...” (29:14)

6. Trump on Illinois Governor Pritzker and Democratic Leadership

• Trump throws “body blows” at the Illinois governor and California’s Gavin Newsom, criticizing their leadership and drawing comparisons to historical communist takeovers.
• Donald Trump:

  “He ought to spend more time in the gym, actually. This guy is a disaster. Gavin Newsom's a disaster. When we went, we saved Los Angeles. You wouldn't have been able to have the Olympics in Los Angeles.” (23:43)

• Buck:

  “He's just throwing body blows all over the place here at these Democrats who continue to push for these policies that aren't working.” (24:10)

7. Red vs. Blue State Crime Arguments

• The hosts dismantle the claim that red states drive national crime stats, pointing to localized crime in blue urban jurisdictions.
• Buck:

  “It's overwhelmingly black on black violence inside of Democrat controlled precincts of Democrat controlled cities. That is the driver of all of the violence that you can count at the state level.” (26:45)

8. Law Enforcement, National Guard, and COVID Symbolism

• Highlight the irony in deploying the National Guard for pandemic compliance but not for actual violent crime reduction.
• Buck:

  “They were deploying National Guard to airports to deal with a virus... Deploying the National Guard for Covid makes perfect sense to them. Deploying the National Guard so that people aren't getting shot in the streets makes no sense to them.” (30:38)

9. Miscellaneous: Immigration, Political Theater, and DNC 'Land Acknowledgment'

• Immigration Enforcement:
  • A segment on the release and re-arrest of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, accused of human smuggling, leads to mockery of political narratives and legal arguments around deportations (18:02–21:28).
• Democratic National Committee Meeting:
  • The DNC opens with a land acknowledgment about Indigenous stewardship, which the hosts satirize as pseudo-virtue signaling disconnected from ordinary Americans.
  • Clay:

    “I mean, this is how they start their meeting. Buck, this is real.” (41:03)

  • Buck:

    “How far back does she want to go? ... The notion that you get from like watching ‘Pocahontas’ that everybody was in harmony... They were murdering each other in large numbers, actually.” (41:14)

10. Tone and Humor

• Throughout, Clay and Buck use a mix of biting humor, sarcasm, and direct language.
• They repeatedly rib each other about topics like scooter thefts and offer self-deprecating stories to keep the tone lively and accessible.
  • Example: Playful segment about Buck's e-scooter experiences (34:15–35:40).

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Clay Travis builds the case for crime crackdown impact:

  “I think it's really hard to argue that this lower rate of violent crime is not directly connected to what Trump has done.” (10:14)

• Buck Sexton compares DC’s crime improvement to El Salvador’s turnaround:

  “Now it's the safest country in all of Latin America... The biggest, from the worst to the best in all of Latin America.” (11:16)

• Brandon Johnson, Chicago Mayor, on federal intervention:

  “What he is proposing at this point would be the most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st century.” (07:06)

• Trump’s jab at Illinois Governor Pritzker:

  “He ought to spend more time in the gym, actually. This guy is a disaster. Gavin Newsom's a disaster.” (23:43)

• Buck’s observation on National Guard deployment:

  “Deploying the National Guard for Covid makes perfect sense to them. Deploying the National Guard so that people aren't getting shot in the streets makes no sense to them.” (31:10)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Crime trends and Trump’s strategy: 03:51–13:45
• International comparatives (El Salvador): 10:46–12:29
• Democratic leadership & public response: 07:06–09:49
• Immigration enforcement discussion: 18:02–21:28
• Red vs. Blue state crime arguments: 26:45–28:46
• National Guard & symbolism in crime policy: 30:38–33:41
• Satire of DNC land acknowledgment: 40:26–42:38
• Lighter moments (scooter stories): 34:15–35:40

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Conclusion

This episode spotlights the political and social battle over crime in America’s cities, seizing on recent positive crime data in D.C. as evidence that "tough on crime" policies—championed by Trump—deliver results. The hosts critique Democratic leaders for resisting federal aid and portray such resistance as out of touch with the needs of at-risk communities. International analogies (El Salvador) and pointed humor further their argument that public safety, not ideological purity, should guide urban policy.

Full of punchy banter, sharp political critiques, and cultural observations, this episode offers an unapologetic, right-leaning perspective on America’s crime controversies and broader cultural battles.

Transcript

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Monday edition of the program. Many different stories afoot that we will dive into during the course of today's program. After a weekend where crime continues to fl plummet in Washington, D.C. and where sanity continues to prevail across most of the landscape of this nation. Trump saying that he may go into Chicago, Baltimore and other cities with high violent crime rates, including getting into a war of words with the governor of Maryland, Wesley More we are talking also about D.C. in particular. Having gone now, I believe it is either 11 or 12 days, depending on who is counting and where exactly the definition of the beginning of the mobilization in D.C. is going. Our friend at CNN, Harry Enton, says Democrat branding is about as popular as the cracker barrel branding. We got Jelaine Maxwell Audio American flag burning, the a new executive order from Trump. Maybe one of the first things that I've actually disagreed with him. We'll see what Buck's take is on this as well. And I'm getting attacked for my take on the air and space museum, which is probably not a sentence that you expected would happen. All that and more, but we began Trump in the Oval Office, the president of South Korea scheduled to visit with him. And this is what Trump said just a few moments ago about the crime situation in Washington, D.C. this is cut three.

[Donald Trump]

Everybody before me is happy what I'm doing. Most of you won't say that because you're radical left. The newspapers are so dishonest. The press is totally dishonest. But that's all right. We've gotten used to it and we wanted a landslide. So they obviously lost their power. I mean, it's impossible to imagine that when you get 97% negative stories, purposely negative stories, even though you've done 97% positive things, that they could. That you could win an election in a landslide, winning all seven. Think of it, all seven swing states winning by the popular vote, by millions of votes. We had a fantastic. The best this year, districts out of 3,000 districts, I guess we won 3,500. We won 2,750. And they won 500. And that's, to me, the best of all.

[Clay Travis]

Okay, Buck. It's becoming, I think, increasingly difficult to argue that the surge of support for National Guard and D.C. police and everything else isn't having an impact. I don't think it's totally arbitrary that we've gone 11 or 12 days without a murder in the summer, something they can't find a record of in D.C. going back decades. Obviously, crime tends to skyrocket in the summer. Weather's good, people have more free time, kids are out of school. All of that is when typical violence is at its peak all over the nation. Kind of feels like Trump may well have made his point in D.C. and I love the idea of going into Chicago, Baltimore, other cities with high crime rates and trying to see, hey, can we save some more lives?

[Buck Sexton]

The streak continues in D.C. the harder it is for those opposed to this to continue to oppose it without looking like they're pro murder, pro crime. There have been A lot of people, I think, who in the media have been chastened already by their response, they completely misunderstand the mood of the American people. We went through this phase. We went through the Soros da BLM era, and we've decided enough is enough. And by we, I mean a solid majority of all of the American people. And that is, I think, something that Democrats haven't figured out how to handle politically. What do they do? Because to turn around and face reality is to say that Republicans have been right all along. To turn around and to accept that the policies that we've been advocating for for years not only would result in better numbers for crime, better streets, better businesses, all that fewer dead people, something that everybody, as we've discussed, should be able to get behind and feel very pleased about, but I think Democrats continue to have this. This problem. And it's. They can't escape the radical left. They can't escape the loud voices that were directing policy in their party for years. And now here we are. Here is Brandon Johnson, the mayor. You mentioned Chicago, how that could be. Next. Here is the mayor of Chicago. This is cut 8. Play it.

[Clay Travis]

What he is proposing at this point would be the most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st century. The city of Chicago does not need a military occupation. That's not what we need. In fact, we've been very clear about what we need. We need to invest in people to ensure that we can build safe and affordable communities.

[Buck Sexton]

That's just. He's just promising more communism and really more communism rooted in race instead of class. Invest in people. Yeah. Tax the people who are productive and earn more. Squander that money on useless government programs that do nothing for really anybody when it comes to crime. And more of the same. And so you have to ask yourself, if you live in a place like Chicago, clay, that had 621 murders in 2023, do you want more of the same? That's what the mayor is offering.

[Clay Travis]

I think it's becoming increasingly difficult to defend the status quo. And I give President Trump a lot of credit for changing the narrative here, because it's been fairly easy for presidents to go into the White House and just pretend that Washington, D.C. is all fine and dandy around them, even though the violent crime rate has been extraordinarily high. Uh, and Trump has already weighed in on the mayor of Chicago. Remember, maybe it's bumped up a bit since then. The mayor of Chicago had a 6% approval rating in the city of Chicago. I want to repeat that Six as in five plus one. I've never seen a mayoral approval rating that low. Everyone hates this guy, right? For the job he's done.

[Buck Sexton]

If we put my name on the. Do you think that Mayor Sexton is doing a good job for. I think enough people would just be confused by the question that I would get more than 6% by Chicago residents.

[Clay Travis]

I mean, it's almost impossible to get 6% of people approving of a political official. That low, even with there being a ton of people who've done awful jobs. Here is Trump on Brandon Johnson. Remember, Chicago actually managed to get worse. They had Lori Lightfoot, who was among the worst mayors in the history of the COVID era, and they doubled down with awful.

[Buck Sexton]

They really did.

[Clay Travis]

She lost. She lost in the primary to this guy. Here is. Here is President Trump discussing that cut. 4.

[Donald Trump]

I watched as a very incompetent mayor from Chicago said, well, what do they know? They only arrested nine people. I said, nine people. We didn't arrest nine people. We actually arrested a total of well over a thousand people. We took hundreds of guns away from young kids that were throwing them around like it was candy. We apprehended scores of illegal aliens. We seized dozens of illegal firearms. There have been zero murders. It sounds sort of terrible to say it's embarrassing. I did this over the weekend. I'm making a speech, and I acted like I was so proud. As I said, we've had zero murders in the last week, and some of these people were from foreign countries. They said, that doesn't sound so good. I said, well, doesn't sound good, but Washington was the most dangerous place in this country. And now, you know what? It's probably the safest place in our country.

[Clay Travis]

I mean, it is pretty extraordinary. And I get it, data sets can be somewhat arbitrary. But I think it's really hard as we sit at 11 or 12 days, coming up on two weeks, coming through weekends when violence tends to peak because people are out in the streets more. I think it's really hard to argue that this lower rate of violent crime is not directly connected to what Trump has done. Every day where the crime stays down, it becomes harder as you get a larger data set.

[Buck Sexton]

I also think we should look to our distant south a little bit here and give credit where it is due. The president of El Salvador, Nayeb Bukele, ran the experiment in the most stark, obvious possible terms. El Salvador was a top five, and in one year, I think a clave was per capita number one. Per capita number one or number two, Murder Capital as a nation of the world.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

This doesn't include civil wars, obviously, or war. Right. This is criminal homicides inside of the borders of a country that's still functioning as a country, but it was pretty much the murder capital of the world, more or less. Now it's the safest country in Latin America. The safest country in all of Latin America. And he did this in a matter of years. What happened? What was the miracle? He said, you know what? We know who the bad people are and we're just going to stop allowing them to do bad things and we're going to punish them and we're going to take them out of broader society, full stop. And look what he did. The biggest, from the worst to the best in all of Latin America. And now we look at our American cities and we see places. You know, we just talked about Chicago. What did I say? 600 murders in 20, 23. 50% more murders than New York City, which has four times the people. So 50% more homicides, one fourth of the population. That's okay. The Chicago, the Chicago political establishment thinks that that's an acceptable situation.

[Clay Travis]

My. My whole Salvador, no doubt my home state of Memphis, the city here, in my home state, had more murders than New York City. Think about how crazy.

[Buck Sexton]

Straight up, right? Head to head comparison.

[Clay Travis]

Head to head, Head to head. In recent years, Memphis, Tennessee had more murders than New York City. How is that acceptable? Again, I've said, if I were governor, I would follow the lead of Trump, I would send in the state National Guard, I would make this end. And I think, what did I say when we started this? That it was an interesting test case. And we talked about this buck. We said, if it works, it's going to prove that there just hasn't been the will to drive down violent crime. And now that the violent crime is going down and you're using Washington, D.C. as a test case. This is where I got attacked for saying, hey, this is a really good opportunity to see if it works, and if it does, it should spread. And I never thought that I would get attacked in the media for saying, hey, let's drive down the murder rate, let's save more lives. I did, but Trump is actually just saying, I'm not going to stand for this. And I do think it's connected to the 250th anniversary of Washington, D.C. but more than that, I think Trump wants D.C. to be a jewel of America. I saw where he's going to ask for more money to basically retrofit and rehabilitate many of the great parks in D.C. to make it a true diamond of American life. And so how do you, how do you fight this?

[Buck Sexton]

D.C. as a place, as a location, maybe not so much in the summertime, is a beautiful place. And there should be something aspirational. When children from Oklahoma and Washington state and, you know, and Illinois and, you name it, Southern California, when they go to D.C. on that school trip, which I know so many of you, everyone should think, wow, what an incredible jewel of a city with so much history and gorgeous architecture and, and clean, safe streets. This stuff matters. This stuff matters. And I think that Trump is, I love this. I think this is a fantastic idea and I hope that he continues.

[Clay Travis]

Clay, no doubt. And, but boy, we had some fun. Did you see, as we go to break here, did you see mom Donnie try to bench press £135?

[Buck Sexton]

I did. I did. We should talk about it.

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Welcome back into Clay Ann Buck. So we're talking about Trump's cleanup of crime in D.C. there's also some interesting stuff happening in the realm of immigration and and illegal immigration enforcement. Clay did you see that? Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He was briefly released. He showed up at a Baltimore field office for a check in after his release pending trial on human smuggling. And now he is once again in custody. And Trump officials had said that they would never allow him to be free again in the United States. ICE has now taken him back into custody and there's a discussion as to whether he will be deported to Costa Rica or Uganda, I believe. And we even have his attorney, his attorney for Abrego Garcia weighing in on this one and telling everybody the problem with Uganda is he doesn't speak the language. We'll address this in one sec. Can you guys play that one? It is preposterous that they would send him to Africa to a country where he doesn't even speak the language. A country with documented human rights violations, when there are so many other options. This family suffered enough. They need to stop trying to separate them. Everything that they've done to Mr. Abrego Garcia, they've done it for one reason, which is that he had the temerity to exercise his constitutional rights. So the government's decided to use the immigration system to punish him by sending him to Uganda. Okay. Abrego Garcia on trial for human trafficking, Ms. 13 alleged Ms. 13 member, but he's like a civil rights hero of our time. Sure. The language of Uganda. Anyone want to take a guess what the official language of Uganda is? It is English.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, wow.

[Buck Sexton]

It is English. So, interestingly enough, here's a guy who is described as Maryland man in all these news reports. Maryland man, Abrego Garcia, who seems to speak English. And the problem with sending him to Uganda as a foreigner, foreign national, is they're worried that he won't be able to speak English. That's. That's confusing.

[Clay Travis]

Most of politics is communication. The fact that you and communication generally in politics means you make arguments better than the other side and you explain why you favor the perspectives and positions of your own side. I still am in disbelief that they picked this guy to be the face of the resistance to the Trump deportation, wife beating, human smuggler who is not in any way a ideal face of the entire Trump 2.0 deportation universe. Also, the fact that we are in a position where Democrats are essentially having to argue lower violent crime is a bad thing, which is what Trump's goal is in Chicago or Baltimore or Washington, D.C. he's just gotten them bucked to paint themselves into a corner in such an untenable position. They can't argue anything that resounds in the favor for them. In the general public. There is almost no Trump opposition because they're arguing for indefensible positions.

[Buck Sexton]

And yet they continue to do so. And they have no. It seems the only effort I've seen to push back on the. The sense of a lack of, I don't know, testosterone. The Democrat Party has been. Gavin Newsom putting memes up of himself or having a staff do it. And then. And we should talk about this Mamdani, the commie who can't bench press 135 pounds. 135, everybody.

[Clay Travis]

That's not good.

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[Donald Trump]

You really want to be asked to go? You know, I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad politicians. Like a guy like Pritzker. He ought to spend more time in the gym, actually. This guy is a disaster. Gavin Newsom's a disaster. When we went, we saved Los Angeles. You wouldn't have been able to have the Olympics in Los Angeles. You're barely able to have it now. They did lose 25,000 houses to a fire that should have never occurred.

[Buck Sexton]

He's just throwing body blows. Put aside the gym thing for a second. He's throwing body blows all over the place here at these Democrats who continue to push for these policies that aren't working. I mean, I just, I have to wonder who thinks that the mayor of Chicago, what was we talking about? 6%, 94% say no. And yet this guy somehow got elected. It's exactly what we said. What happened? Who thinks that Illinois is a well governed state? It was a horribly governed state. And obviously Gavin Newsom in California. You know, it reminds me of, as I've said, Clay, when the, when the communists took over and formed the Soviet Union, you know, Russia was a large country with a sophisticated intelligentsia and beautiful music and literature. And so there was still some good stuff going on there. But sure enough, they destroyed it. That's kind of. Gavin Newsom is like Lenin taking over Russia in the early days and you're just starting to see how badly he can mess everything up.

[Clay Travis]

Well, the Locust analogy, I think is such a good one because you said last week, I think, hey, you know, it was really Ronald Reagan and Republican leaders who put California on the pathway to what they are today. And really California is the ultimate state that has so many incredible riches that people just need to get out of the way and let individuals have a great deal of success. And I am intrigued by the way Silicon Valley has kind of moved from a reflexive left wing position to one where at least the right is able to be involved in conversations out there. And I think certainly Elon Musk has been reflective of that. Peter Thiel, there are at least a decent number of people who just want there to be efficiency and, and decency in California. And Gavin Newsom to me has been. Have you been paying attention to Gavin Newsom on social media? I mean, he surged as the most likely nominee for Democrats in 2028 by being effectively a Democrat version of Trump. He started to pretend that he is Trump with some of his social media postings. I don't think that's got long range vitality, but one of the things that they are doing is they're saying, well, red states, actually this was from Gavin Newsom's account over the course of the weekend. Red states are actually the ones with high rates of violent crime. And he's been attacking different jurisdictions. It's all blue cities in red states. I don't understand how this is a line of attack that he thinks is going to be effective at all.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, and then when you drill into the numbers even more, it's, it's overwhelmingly black on black violence inside of Democrat controlled precincts of Democrat controlled cities. That is the driver of all of the violence that you can count at the state level. But the state is not primarily responsible, the red state. So to Speak is not, you know, the state of Louisiana is less, much less involved in the day to day of the crime rate in, say, New Orleans than the government or the, you know, the mayor and the police commissioner and the police force of New Orleans and the prosecutors of New Orleans are. And so whenever, whenever they make this argument, it's a, it's a bad argument. I just, I suppose they hope that people don't pay attention to how flawed it is because we do have, you know, federalism in this country and we do have state and local law enforcement and the separations that occur there. But, okay, you know, let's, let's take a look that and see why is it that Democrats, even in places where they begin to bring the crime down dramatically, which I think is going to be happening if Trump continues on this path. Why won't they try to replicate that? Let's put aside blue state, red state. Let's just say, ok, let's flood any city now. Illinois is a blue city. I mean, rather, Chicago is a blue city and a blue state. All right, let's, let's take New Orleans, let's take Memphis. What's funny, Clay, is because what you'll have then is your governor, for example. Governor Lee, I'm sure if Trump wants to put federal resources to work and wants to work with the state of Tennessee to make Memphis as safe as can be, oh, that's great. It's in Illinois where, you know, that makes it even that, I think that makes it hit home even more. In Illinois you would have, oh, no, Governor Pritzker, he doesn't want federal assistance. And we just saw this in Los Angeles where they had the, you know, the illegal alien riots going on and they were, how dare you put the National Guard on the streets. Oh, you like the disorder and chaos?

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, same thing in Baltimore with the feuding with Governor Wes Moore of, of Maryland. I, again, I think you look at these policies and what they would actually do is show that Trump's policies are very popular with people who face actual violence. There was a video Fox News shared of the protest in Washington, D.C. against the deployment of the National Guard. Almost everyone in the crowd is a middle aged white person. D.C. as we talked about, is only about 38% white. So as a group, not being concerned with crime is a luxury of wealth. It really is. And those people all still have neighborhood watches and they have their own private security guards and everything else. But by and large, when we go to Washington D.C. when we, when we lived there, Northwest D.C. is the safest part of D.C. it's where Georgetown is, where George Washington University is Catholic American University, all these different parts of D.C. and memorably in Georgetown, they didn't want the subway because they didn't want criminal elements from outside of D.C. to be able to easily get to Georgetown. So the places where the wealthier people of Washington D.C. live tend to be the safest. But the places where there's actual crime, I, I think they would welcome in many ways in Baltimore, in Chicago, certainly in Washington D.C. in crime and areas of high violence. If suddenly no one's getting killed, isn't that a good thing? I, I mean, I'm sorry, like, generally eliminating murders seems like something we should be in favor of as a country. And so if Trump can implement policies that lowered the rate of murder, that should be a really good thing.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, there's also, as I've pointed out, because now I know everyone now who was for all the COVID stuff. They just want to pretend like nothing, nothing happened. And this is like a nightmare that we all had collectively as a country that we can pretend it wasn't pushed on us by a bunch of emotionally unstable left wing maniacs or the Democrat Party overall and the medical establishment, which was hijacked by people of the same politics. But Clay, they were deploying National Guard to airports to deal with a virus.

[Clay Travis]

Yes, I know.

[Buck Sexton]

Just think about this for a second. Were the National Guardsmen who I know were there with rifles that had no bullets in them, were they gonna shoot the virus? What were they going to do? What was the purpose of me arriving in New York City on an airplane and having National Guardsmen in the terminal? The purpose was just to show you State Force who's in charge. This is power. And, you know, this is what we're doing. And it's just interesting to me because that was really about compliance. Well, what about safety? You know, I think people are less likely to carjack somebody. If there are a bunch of Americans in uniform with M16 standing on the corner watching, I think that's less likely to happen. I think you're more likely to say, you know, maybe I won't do that. But, you know, they, they think that scaring the virus, it was really to scare us. As I said, it was compliance training. But deploying the National Guard for Covid makes perfect sense to them. Deploying the National Guard so that people aren't getting shot in the streets makes no sense to them.

[Clay Travis]

And I also think the symbolism of this is potentially impactful too, in terms of not only if you see National Guard troops or you see a force that is in that the goal is to bring peace and security and stability to the nation's capital. Not only if you see it, but if the back of your head, you're thinking, oh, there's way more police, there's way more National Guard. I think psychologically you may be less likely to commit a crime because you think, oh, I'm more likely to be caught. And I think this goes to the penalties that have to be arrayed against people who commit acts of violence as well. And again, I just go back to your home city of New York, everybody listening to us on wor. You know that there's still too much violence in New York. There's still too much disorder, there's still too much petty theft, all those things, right? We can always do better. But if the nation had New York City's crime rate, if the nation just had New York City's crime rate, we would have about. I was looking at the numbers. About 60% fewer murders in the country. Doesn't that seem like a pretty good thing? I'm not saying we can eliminate all violence, but New York City is a big bustling metropolis filled with a lot of people from a variety of different backgrounds. And yet they have managed to drive down the overall murder rate to around what, 250 to 300, something like that.

[Buck Sexton]

In a city of four, it's been about 400 in recent years. Like 3, 80ish, I think. But yeah, it's not 24. It's not 2300, which was. It was in 1990.

[Clay Travis]

I mean, 6. 60% decline in violent crime seems like a really good thing. We're around 23,000, 22,000 murders nationwide. And again, you and I like to talk about murders because we know they happen. Whereas you might get your scooter stolen in New York City and just never report it too soon. Never too soon. You might be a badass riding around on a scooter and you get your scooter stolen and you're just like, there's no point in even reporting this.

[Buck Sexton]

When I used to Clay, when I was. When I was ripping through the streets in New York on that scooter, in a hell, I hit the little. I would hit the little ding, ding on the, on the. You know what I'm saying? I mean, you know what I never got? There was streamers. You know, like on a bicycle, you get the streamers on the handles. I didn't even have time because it got stolen from me. But I was Going to get some streamers. Sad. Big sad.

[Clay Travis]

It is, it is. It is real. But this is quality of life. You know, some days. Of all the videos.

[Buck Sexton]

Of all the videos that I, like, wish kind of existed. I wish I could show you the video because I didn't even get. Do it full justice of me trying to give my date a ride home on my e scooter after dinner. And it going, putt, putt, putt, two miles an hour. That was. That was one of my great moments.

[Clay Travis]

That was a teenager. A teenager, I'm not kidding, zipped by me on a scooter. Like the. When you say scooter, it's like the stand. It technically is like a.

[Buck Sexton]

Like a. Yeah, I'm not like, talking about a Vespa. That actually would be kind of cool. Like, I have a scarf on and my name is friend, you know, Vincenzo. Ciao. Like, no, no, no. I'm actually talking about this little. The little thing you can fold up and put under your desk, which is like an e scooter that you stand up and, you know. Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Some guy, teenage boy in my neighborhood went zooming by with two different girls on his scooter last night when I was. When I was. He's probably, I don't know, 14 or 15 years old.

[Buck Sexton]

That's what you call a baller, Clay. That's a guy who's got game.

[Clay Travis]

And his scooter was able to hold two different other additional people. And I was thinking that's the kind of scooter Buck needed. We come back, we'll take some calls, we roll through the Monday edition of the program. But a lot of you out there getting ready for back to school. My kids are already back in school. Uh, your kids either are in school or they're getting close. And sometimes that means maybe kids don't eat well. Maybe your kids don't particularly like the lunches at school. Maybe they're not on top of things. That can mean making decisions on cooking at home can make even more sense to help get your kids taken care of with healthy eating. And that's what Good Ranchers does. They are a founded by Ben and his wife Quarterly. They have four young kids and they are delivering excellent quality beef, chicken, pork, salmon to your doorstep. Doorstep. On a schedule you choose, you can know that you are getting the best possible good ranchers food free of antibiotics and hormones. We eat it in the Travis household. Buck eats it in his home. We love it. And we've got an incredible offer for you right now. You can get $65 off. That's an initial $40 discount plus a $25 discount on every order going forward. When you go to goodranchers.com and use my Name Clay right now. Free shipping free gift in every order. You can choose that whether it's bacon seed oil, free chicken nuggets, wagyu burgers, every type of meat you could possibly want. You go in and you hand select what makes the most sense. Go to goodranchers.com my name Clay as the promo code 40 discount plus an additional 25 discount in future months. Get hooked up today. That's goodranchers.com code Clay Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast this Labor Day.

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Monday edition of the program. Lots of fun from all of us as as we are reveling in President Trump's movements. I did want to play this for you. The DNC summer meeting. Buck, have you heard this? The Democrat National Committee meeting up for their end of summer meeting and they say off the top they have to have a land acknowledgment and discuss the oppression that America has wrought. This is cut 32 and she's going to deliver our land acknowledgment today.

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[Clay Travis]

I mean, this is how they start their meeting. Buck, this is real.

[Buck Sexton]

Gotta be kidding me. Clay, first of all, was it she said Lakota or Dakota? I couldn't even really.

[Clay Travis]

Does it matter?

[Buck Sexton]

Lakota, Dakota. Tomato, Tomato. So the, the thing I want to know is how far back does she want to go? Because they actually conquered and killed a lot of other tribes in the area to take over. There are some interesting books and interesting histories you can read about this, how all these tribes were actually effectively constant states of warfare before we arrived. And the notion of that you get from like watching Pocahontas that everybody was in harmony with the, the hills, the valleys, the, the animals. You know, there were no talking squirrels nor their sparrows landing on the shoulders of the natives. They were murdering each other in large numbers, actually.

[Clay Travis]

So, yeah, mostly living in squalor and not particularly successful in fighting all the time for the ability to hunt in the best and most fertile lands so this is what the the data actually reflects. But we'll come back because can you imagine when they start a meeting like that, how poor that polls with normal people? What polls? Well, Crockett Coffee I'm going downstairs and I'm about to make myself a brand new cup of coffee. Crockettcoffee.com Go get hooked up right now and you will get an autographed copy of my most recent book. And soon we'll have new books coming out in November and in January. It's fabulous. Named after the legendary Davy Crockett and.

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