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This is an iHeart podcast. Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of the Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton show. I am back from Taiwan and it was fascinating. Clay out today on vacation with his family. Appreciate him holding down the fort last week. The Sexton brothers mission to Taiwan was fascinating. We have an interview with the President of Taiwan that will air in this program in the third hour where we get into the threat from China, which is higher than it has ever been, the threat of invasion. It's really getting tense over there. That's one of the reasons, the main reason really why I wanted to go so I could see for myself and learn what is going on. Meetings over there, interviews with the president, the vice president, the national security adviser, members of the National Security Council, senior leadership from the trillion dollar TSMC Corporation. That's the market cap of it. I mean, it's one of the most valuable companies in the world that makes the chips for your phones. My friends, it is the only manufacturer of the most advanced chips that are needed for AI. So we talked to tsmc. I toured a Taiwanese military base, discussed preparations for a possible amphibious invasion. I mean, it was a heck of a week, I can tell you that. And I'm going to bring you as much of those insights as I can over the course of this week. Clay's out, I believe until Thursday, so we have some time together over the next couple of days. But so a lot to talk about with respect to Taiwan and China. It really does matter. It is incredibly important. It is something that we as a country need to make sure we understand and we avoid a massive war in the East. That's the real problem here. That's what we're trying to tackle because it would crash the markets and cause huge problems for global supply chain, for technology. My friends, it is the flashpoint right now and I hope that things stay calm and peaceful and status quo reigns over there and we have a big hand in it. Anyway, I will get more into that. I know first and foremost we are looking here at what's going on at home, on the home front. We have. Oh, boy, the shutdown happened. We are in a shutdown. And it is not, in fact, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. But it is interesting to see what Democrats place their priorities on. We will have the speaker of the House number three in line for the presidency. Speaker Johnson set to join us also in the third hour of the program. It's a pretty packed third hour. Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of Taiwan. We got a big show for you My friends. So we'll discuss the shutdown negotiations, the latest on that, with the speaker of the House. So that then brings me to the showdown over water being called federal protection missions. I was following this from afar. 12 hours behind in. Oh, no, I'm sorry. 12 hours ahead, rather, in. In Taiwan. So watching the news from a distance and in a different time frame. But certainly this showdown over the deployment of these federal protection missions to different American cities is really a big deal. It matters tremendously for the immigration enforcement mission, which is central to the Trump administration agenda. But it also goes to sovereignty and the rule of law as general principles in this country. Do we have rule of law or not? Let me just take a step back here for a moment. Democrats at every turn have insisted that state governments, wherever they have control state governments do nothing to help and if possible, even threatening, thwart federal law enforcement. And they will. When the Democrats are in charge of federal government power, they will refuse help from the state government. So it is the policy of the Democrat Party to undermine immigration law always at all times. When they have the federal government they don't want, they will not accept help from the state. In fact, you will recall that under the disastrous Biden administration, they were telling Texas that Texas as a state on the border was not allowed to set up barriers to illegal entry. They forced Texas to remove barriers to make it easier for the 10 million plus. I keep saying plus because I don't. Maybe it was 12 million with the gotaways. We don't know. 10 million plus illegals piling into the country under Biden. A decision made by the Democrats to undermine our sovereignty, to be lawless and reckless as a party, top down, the decision was made to do this. And now that we have the Trump administration saying, okay, we're actually going to enforce the law, Democrats try to stop it at every point, at every juncture. And you're seeing this once again. If they had any actual courage of their convictions, why don't they just come out and say they're for open borders? Let's really just get down to this. Democrats do not want enforcement of our immigration laws. They don't want border security. They don't want deportations. They want to have the continuous importation of the third world of developing countries, of people who don't speak English, who don't obey our laws. The first act they commit on our soil is a violation of our laws and our sovereignty. And they do this because they view America as something that needs radical change with Democrats in charge. And the only way they can achieve that, achieve that is to import non American voters by the millions, by the millions. This is the game plan. This is what they do. Trump is trying to not only stop the inflow, but create an outflow of illegals sent packing, as our federal law states they should be. Let's be very clear about this. There's a lot of talk about prioritization about who can stay and who can go. And oh my gosh, you know, they're sending away this grandma who's been here for all these years. If you're here illegally, you are subject to deportation. That is federal law. If Democrats don't like that, then Democrats in the House and the Senate should try to change it. But what they do is lie and say, oh, no, we're for immigration laws, but we just want to make sure that they're never actually enforced. They want to have it both ways. They want to play this double game. Enough is enough. So Trump is forcing their hand. Because what you see in Portland, what you see in Chicago and the state actions from Democrats controlling both proves my thesis beyond any doubt. It is exactly what I have been saying and am saying to you. That's what's going on. And you see it with these federal protection missions. Now, Portland, which unfortunately has for a long time been antifa Stan. Antifa just gets to show up, run roughshod, mayhem, anarchy, do whatever they want. Portland is antifa Stan, as we know. And they have these demonstrations at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, their ICE facility. Their demonstrations play where they're riots, you know, they're, they're, they're impeding law enforcement, they're getting in the way. There, there was the car being rammed into ICE recently. I mean, they're doing all this crazy stuff to stop law enforcement from conducting its duties. This is lawlessness. This is unacceptable. And the fact that state and local law enforcement, because this is a Democrat enclave, a Democrat fiefdom, the fact that state and local law enforcement refuses to assist, refuses to provide backup, is all the indication that anybody should need that. The federal government needs to double down and send reinforcements. They, that's what this federal protection mission is. President Trump, this is cut 12 spoke about the situation in Portland.
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Listen, Portland is different. That's a bunch of paid insurrectionists. But you have a lot of paid people in Chicago, too. I believe the politicians are under threat because there's no way somebody can say that things are wonderful in Chicago. Almost 55, I think it was 55 people over a short period of time have been murdered in Chicago have been shot, 222 people over a short period of time have been hit, have been wounded, not died, but 55 people died over a short period of time. You're telling me there's no city in the world like that. We're going to straighten it out. And I think that Pritzker, he's not a stupid person. I think that Pritzker is afraid for his life.
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Here we have Trump continuing to push on these issues where I think he not only is right legally and morally, but also politically, because Democrats don't want things to get better. They stand in the way of progress on bringing the crime numbers down, murders down in Chicago and immigration enforcement in Chicago, which is another big issue right now. They're saying, oh, these, they keep calling them militarized raids. They're antagonizing the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post. They're constantly inflaming and antagonizing the public, lying to the public about the nature of these rates. This is what is lawful for these ICE officers to do. They are allowed to go into areas and enforce our laws. Democrats cannot get away with this game anymore. We cannot allow this. Where they say, well, we support immigration enforcement, but I don't like the way they're doing it. They're being really mean in this area as they do it. What do they want to have happen here? You got people that don't want to go back to their own country, their actual home country, their country of citizenship, and they are fighting against it. Sometimes they are resisting arrest. They are trying to evade law enforcement. Enough is enough. Democrats showed us who they are under Biden. They are an open borders party. They're a bunch of liars. They cannot win. They, they show me one Democrat who can debate this issue with someone like me, someone who's fired up and knowledgeable and has been following it for now a decade, very closely. It doesn't exist because they're wrong. We've all seen that they are lying. And that's why in Oregon, it's really Portland is the issue. But within the Oregon state government, this is getting a lot of attention. A bunch of communists, unfortunately, run that place just like they run Portland and then Illinois. I feel bad Pritzker is the governor of Illinois, but really he's like the viceroy of Chicago because it's the Chicago political machine that controls the rest of the state. There's a lot of nice places in Illinois with plenty of sane people. It's just Chicago is run by the crazies. And so you have the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, the governor of Illinois, like I say, the viceroy of, of Chicago, Pritzker, who also wants to step up for leadership of the Democrat Party. You have all of them coming together, trying to again inflame the public and stop Trump from doing what he needs to do or what he seeks to do here in these places. And it's just madness. I think people have seen this. Now you have a federal judge Sunday night has blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard or has blocked, put out an order to block the National Guard, I should say. And now today, Illinois has sued the Trump administration over guard deployments. And so you got a couple of states that are saying, no, you're not allowed to help with enforcement of immigration. You cannot use federal resources in our state to help with immigration enforcement and also to help with crime. Not allowed to do it. This is lawlessness. This is a critical fight. It's one where Trump is right and has to continue. So I'll give you more of this. By the way, I want to remind everybody while these judges are coming forward to say, hey, you can't do this. There's no need for this. There was another time when there was National Guard deployed and there was no need for it that Democrats made a very big deal of. They deployed the National Guard and it was absurd, absurd. How long they. I'll come back and I'll explain that to you here in just a second. You know, it was two years ago tomorrow that terrorists murdered more than 1200 innocent Israelis and took 250 hostages. Today, there's a glimmer of hope that the remaining hostages may be returned. And while the world is focused on a lot of other events in the news these days, there's a light that shines in the darkness. Christians in America tomorrow will boldly stand with Israel by participating in a growing movement to that will be going on for the month. It has been created by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and it's called Flags of Fellowship. This countrywide effort, Flags of Fellowship, unites churches across America. Planting over 1 million Israeli flags across our land show the world that Israel is not alone. To get more information about how you can join the Flags of fellowship movement, visit IFCJ.org that's IFCJ.org you ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane. Reclaim your sanity with Clay and Buck. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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All right, welcome back into Clay Ann Buck I know we've got a great audience in the state of Oregon. So if you and we have people who venture into Portland, I think most of you who listen in Oregon aren't in the city center of Portland. I would be willing to guess but if you want to call in let us know what you've seen down there. Definitely want to hear from you. It has been 800-282-2882. Also if you just want to weigh in on this issue of these of these missions that Trump is federal protection missions Trump is deploying our National Guard members on. This stuff is important. It's Critical, actually. It needs to happen. A hundred nights of mayhem at the Portland ICE facility. That's what's being reported. And the police chief of Portland, the Communists, remember, the Communists run all this stuff in these states now, whether it's Oregon, it's Portland, the city or Chicago. They, they have the police departments, they have the mayor's office, they've got the governor's mansions, the state legislature. So you're just talking about craziness top to bottom. But the police chief has said that he supports what's going on. A hundred nights of violence. They are throwing bottles at law enforcement. They are shining or directing lasers into the eyes of these different law enforcement personnel, ICE personnel there. That's meant to freak people out and try to hurt their vision and try to blind them. This is something that these antifa scumbags do. But they've got rocks shattering windows. They're blocking traffic. They're block. This is obstruction. They're obstructing law enforcement. And the mayor and the, and the chief of police in Portland won't give any backup from the Portland police. Think about this for a moment. Imagine that there was a. Oh, here we go. Imagine that there were marauding white supremacists. Which. When does that actually happen? Right? Imagine that there were marauding white supremacists in the streets and they were breaking things and attacking people, attacking cops. And a Republican, a Republican were to say, you know what? Cops, you know, and let's say it was in New York. NYPD said, we're not going to help. Sorry, Federal, Federal government. You're on your own with this one. Everybody would say, what the heck is going on? But with Democrats, the lawlessness is the point. They don't support these immigration laws. Oh, I had mentioned, because you have these judges now that have come forward and said, you can't deploy the National Guard because we override the President's judgment on whether it's needed. These judges think that they are in a position to tell the President of the United States, one random federal judge. You can't defend federal law enforcement with federal help. Now, contrast that I might add to the Biden administration, which had deployment of National Guard around the capitol for almost five months after January 6th. In 2020, there was zero threat to the Capitol. Okay? There was one riot. Everything got cleaned up. It was mostly, it was a mostly peaceful protest. As you know, everything was fine. They had, you know, they had huge fences up. They acted like DC had to be an armed camp. The Capitol itself had to be an armed camp for Months, just as show, just as theater. Nobody was doing anything but a hundred nights of riots in Portland, 100 nights of law enforcement officers being attacked, and Portland police and the state of Oregon won't do a darn thing to help them. We gotta win this fight. It is critical. All right. Supporting free speech comes in all forms. And one of those is sponsoring programs like ours where the expression of values, politics and what we feel is right and wrong with the world can be shared freely. 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That's not a surprise. Or, oh, and I don't just mean the feral street thugs who are protesting and throwing rocks and bottles and all this other stuff. The Democrats in charge, the leadership, they're acting like maniacs, too, on this stuff because, well, one, they're lying. They're lying about what's going on. They're lying about their desires when it comes to law and law and order in these places. And like I said this, I've been saying this all along. They're completely getting ready for a throwdown over who's going to be the Democrat nominee. I know that sounds crazy, and I'm going to tell you this right now. I've got this bet with Clay. I'm not sure Clay is listening right now. He's on vacation with his family. I've got this bet with Clay over Kamala and whether she's going to run. I read the Kamala book and let me tell you, I've already lost the bet in a sense, because, man, it was brutal. The Kamala book was my role as commodist on the show has come at a steep price. I'll tell you more about that maybe a little later, but that's what I. I was out of very long flights, very long flights to Taiwan. And sure enough, I. I did my duty. And I think Clay has got. Even if I end up getting a stake out of this, he's gotten the better end of the deal if Kamala ends up running for poor president. Because, man, that book is awful. And it is a reminder of how awful Kamala is, which is supposed to be the opposite of the intention of the book, but. But I actually think it has sealed her fate that she won't run. But anyway, I'm just saying I had to fall on my sword on this one. I think Clay is grinning wherever he is because I. I had to read this awful book while he was getting to do whatever he was doing was better than reading Kamala's book. 107 days. It felt like it took me 107 days to read this thing. Every day, just going through. Oh, it was brutal. Okay. But Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, he is thinking that maybe he's got Gavin Newsom beat. Maybe if Pritzker throws his weight around, he can push Newsham to the side. Doesn't seem like it would be very hard. Here is Pritzker saying that there is no mayhem. This is cut 14. Play it.
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He was claiming that, you know, it's mayhem on the grounds of. On the streets of Portland. He's saying that, you know, Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades and they make it look like it's a war zone. And they, you know, get people on the ground, are frankly incited to want to do something about it appropriately. I mean, if you are on the ground and you're being having tear gas pellets fired at you, as they have been doing in Broadview, Illinois, you want to react, you want something to happen. And unfortunately, they're using every lever at their disposal to keep us from maintaining order.
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The gaslighting here is incredible. I feel like I've been tear gassed by his words. The gaslighting is insane. The problem is not the riots. It's the counter riots. Right. It's the law enforcement response to the riot. That is the. You see, there are fire and the tear gas around and everything's fine. No, everything is clearly not fine. And this pretense that somehow the problem is the is the solution to the problem. It's just hard to look, to listen to this stuff and not want to start, you know, cursing and really losing it. I mean, the stuff that they're saying. I asked you for calls and emails about this VIP email from Dan. He says, hey, Buck, I live in Portland, fortunately not in the area of town where these demonstrations and riots have been happening. There's been some kind of violent protests in Portland every weekend since 2020 when this all started. We've had people injured, freeways blocked. It's happening on a regular basis. Yeah, it's anarchy. It's madness. Enough is enough. Also. You got it. You've seen this. I'm sure those of you who are online, you've probably seen this. It is the dumbest argument. Democrats, the left, they get in their heads that sometimes some form of argument they're engaged in is clever and winning. When everyone looks at them like, you're out of your mind. This is a terrible, this is a stupid argument. One of the things they used to do, and this was more Trump term one, they'd say, you know, I was, I was just in the kitchen washing the dishes when my 5 year old said, daddy, why is Trump undermining the rule of law and acting in an unconstitutional fashion that is befitting of a fascist? And it's like, I don't think that your 5 year old said that, Lib. I don't believe it. Right. I don't believe that that's something. And, and they think that that's a good argument. They were doing it over and over again. You know, you'd have some, like, reporter for the Washington post, like my 8 year old daughter said to me, daddy, why is Trump undermining third wave feminism and doing everything in his power to hurt the fight for equal rights? I don't think your 8 year old said that either. And I don't think that pretending that a child says something that you want to say enhances its credibility or believability. Some of you are probably thinking that, Buck, what are you talking about? But others will remember this was a trend for a while. The libs were doing this. The my, you know, toddler suddenly sounds like, like Noam Chomsky or something. It just makes no sense. And then the version of it today is to take a photo in some city where nothing is happening and say, oh, it's so dangerous here. I've been in war zones. You could do that all day. I could have walked around when I was in Mosul in 2007. I could have walked around parts of that city, which was having suicide bombings happening all the time and people getting, you know, ambushed and shot up. It was a mess. The place was a mess. But, I mean, there were parts of town I could have gone and gotten a kebab in broad daylight. But, like, look. Look at the delicious kebab here in Mosul. Is this really a war zone? Hmm. They do that. They do that in Portland, in Chicago. It's the dumbest argument I've ever seen, but they seem to think that it's a good argument. Oh, look at how dangerous it is here. Well, as I said, we just had our VIP write in and tell us about it and say, hey, it is crazy downtown. And my friend Will Chamberlain, who's the senior. A senior counsel of the Article 3 project, he has this tweet. I want to share this one with you. When I say Portland is an open rebellion against the federal government, this is what I mean. Federal authorities have to board up the federal building because the Portland police wouldn't protect it. Instead of helping, the city of Portland has issued the feds a zoning violation. And he's going to court documents here to support this. He says Portland police has failed to respond. This is from the court document. Failed to respond to calls for assistance. And when they have responded, the response has been delayed. They failed to respond and exacerbating tensions and leave federal Portland security personnel and civilians in vulnerable positions. In fact, instead of assisting in the protection of the Linquist building, city of Portland issued a notice of zoning violation requiring DHS to remove protective boarding over its windows, exposing the building to future damage. What else do you have to know? I want to make very clear what's going on in Portland. While you have jerks like Pritzker and others and whoever, you know, whoever's running Portland, I mean, it's just a bunch of idiot communists, as you know, running around saying there's no big deal. The city of Portland is allowing a federal building to be attacked and defaced and vandalized nightly. And they have the gall to issue a zoning violation to the city of Portland for boarding up the windows that are broken nightly by the maniacs that the Portland police represent. Refuse to do anything about. I don't know how it could be more clear what's going on here. This is not just an insurrection against government authority by these maniacs on the ground. This is aiding and abetting that insurrection from the mayors, the chiefs of police, and the governors in these states and these judges, these resistance lunatic Judges are just making the whole thing worse. They sit there and pretend that they are interpreting what is constitutional, pretend that they care about the law, while their only job is to give top cover to the maniacs until the Supreme Court's going to step in and slap them all down. But they don't care. They don't care. The damage done to our faith and the rule of law in this process doesn't matter to them. Anything to stop Trump from what he's doing. Why are they so opposed to this? Think about this for a moment. They're going to pretend that it's overreach. Oh, my gosh. The National Guard is in our cities. Oh, my gosh. Like I said, five months of completely unnecessary National Guard deployment in D.C. after January 6th. Right? What, you're going to tell me a week, never mind three months after January 6th? We needed national Guard and fences all around our Capitol. No, it was just theatrics. It was just. But it was the Biden administration and they chose to do it. And okay, that was the deal. They milked that as long as they could. No real justification for it. No sane rationale for it other or there's going to be another insurrection. Bunch of crybabies. Give me a break. But here, where there's continuous obstruction of law enforcement day in and day out, and the refusal, the refusal of state and local authorities to help their federal counterparts, which, let me just say, it is shameful. It is shameful. And the officers in Portland and the officers in Chicago who are being told, leave your ice counterparts high and dry, even if they're under physical assault, even if they are in the midst of a mob, they should feel ashamed of what their department is ordering them to do. And honestly, some of them should quit. You know, honestly, there should be. It should go beyond just. Well, that's not cool. Although I know there's an argument he made. Well, then you're. Then you're ceding these places even more to the maniacs. So it's, It's a tough situation. I, I get it. But what's going on here is unsustainable. And this is why we need to have the authorities, federal authorities deployed. Here is Tom Homan, who's just the best. He's the best. Simply the best. Better than all the rest. He's amazing. Here he is saying, oh, there's going to be this cut 13. There's going to be National Guard in Portland very soon. Well, we see National Guard in Portland pretty soon.
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Well, absolutely. And they've been very successful. They were very successful in Los Angeles. The first time they deployed, I was in Los Angeles when our facilities were being attacked, our officers were being attacked. And thank God President Trump brought the National Guard in because what he did, he saved Los Angeles and let us go out there and continue to arrest public safety threats to make Los Angeles safer, which we had done. He sent national guard to Washington, D.C. look at the amazing work they did in Washington D.C. crime rate was reduced greatly. So it's the right formula, it's the right mix because National Guard will provide security to men and women of law enforcement, ICE and cbp so they can continue doing President Trump promised the American.
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People is going to do needs to happen. Trump and his team cannot back off this one bit. This is critical, this is essential. And this is something where you have to have an all hands on deck approach to it. Tom Homan, I know he's on mission for this one and they're going to keep this thing going because they are not allowed to just negate federal immigration law because they feel like it in these states and in these cities, these Democrat, these Democrat enclaves, not allowed to do it otherwise. We don't have federal rule of law. We don't have federal rule of law. We don't have federalism. We have these little Democrat quasi insurrections over and over again. All right, look, there's not another not for profit that does more to save, save the lives of unborn children than preborn. Just consider how they welcomed Victoria at one of their clinics. Victoria was scared and confused and desperate when she first walked into a Planned Parenthood clinic. She was handed the abortion pill. But almost immediately, she knew she had made a tragic mistake. The weight of regret was so crushing, she even thought about ending her own life. Her continuing search led her to a Preborn Network clinic where truth and clarity broke through. There, loving staff members gave her immediate care and helped her save not just her baby's life, but her own. Victoria got truthful answers about matters related to her unborn child at preborn because when a mother hears that baby's heartbeat, lives are saved. Just $28 provides for that free ultrasound to women like Victoria where they get to hear the heartbeat of the baby in their womb. That single gift, that experience of meeting her unborn child makes all the difference. This is your chance to make a difference, too. Will you answer the call, pick up your phone, dial £250 and say baby. That's £250. Say baby or donate securely@preborn.com. buck. That's preborn.com b u c K Do it now because life matters. Sponsored by Preborn Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Telling it like it is. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episode: Hour 1 - Feral Democrats
Date: October 6, 2025
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts
Host: Buck Sexton (Clay Travis on vacation)
In this episode, Buck Sexton, hosting solo while Clay Travis is away, takes listeners through a packed hour focused primarily on Democratic resistance to federal immigration enforcement, the escalating battles between federal and local authorities in Democrat-run cities, and the political theater surrounding public safety and crime. Buck weaves in his recent experiences from a fact-finding mission to Taiwan—offering context on geopolitical tensions—and sets the stage for high-profile interviews coming later in the program. The tone is combative, urgent, and unapologetically critical of Democratic leadership, laced with the show's trademark humor and energy.
[00:00–02:50]
Notable Quote:
"It would crash the markets and cause huge problems for global supply chain, for technology... it is the flashpoint right now." — Buck Sexton [01:50]
[02:50–03:50]
[03:50–09:23]
Notable Quote:
"It is the policy of the Democrat Party to undermine immigration law always at all times." — Buck Sexton [04:50]
[08:37] Donald Trump Audio Clip:
"Portland is different. That's a bunch of paid insurrectionists... No way somebody can say things are wonderful in Chicago. Almost 55 people over a short period... have been murdered... We're going to straighten it out." — Donald Trump [08:37]
[09:23–12:00]
[12:00–16:13]
Notable Quote:
"Imagine that there were marauding white supremacists in the streets... and a Republican said, 'Sorry, Federal government. You're on your own.' Everybody would say, what the heck is going on? But with Democrats, the lawlessness is the point." — Buck Sexton [17:11]
[16:13–23:37]
Notable Quote:
"These judges think that they are in a position to tell the President of the United States, one random federal judge: 'You can't defend federal law enforcement with federal help.'" — Buck Sexton [17:55]
[23:37–24:19]
Pritzker Quote:
"He was claiming that, you know, it's mayhem on the grounds of... Portland... Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up." — Gov. J.B. Pritzker [23:37]
[24:19–29:50]
Notable Quote:
"The city of Portland is allowing a federal building to be attacked and defaced and vandalized nightly. And they have the gall to issue a zoning violation... for boarding up the windows." — Buck Sexton [30:21]
[29:50–33:35]
Tom Homan Quote:
"Thank God President Trump brought the National Guard in because what he did, he saved Los Angeles and let us go out there and continue to arrest public safety threats..." — Tom Homan [32:57]
[37:45–End]
Buck on Democratic priorities:
“Democrats at every turn have insisted that state governments... do nothing to help and if possible, even threatening, thwart federal law enforcement.” [04:15]
Buck on “Open Borders Party”:
“Democrats do not want enforcement of our immigration laws. They don’t want border security. They don’t want deportations. They want to have the continuous importation of the third world...” [05:41]
Buck’s humor on Kamala Harris:
“I did my duty. And I think Clay has got... the better end of the deal if Kamala ends up running for president. Because man, that book is awful. It is a reminder of how awful Kamala is, which is supposed to be the opposite of... the book.” [21:56]
On Portland police:
“The mayor and the chief of police in Portland won't give any backup from the Portland police. Think about this for a moment...” [16:57]
On judicial resistance:
“These resistance lunatic judges are just making the whole thing worse. They sit there and pretend that they are interpreting what is constitutional, pretend that they care about the law, while their only job is to give top cover to the maniacs...” [31:55]
The tone throughout is confrontational, impassioned, and deeply skeptical of both Democratic policy and rhetoric. Buck Sexton employs vivid, often humorous analogies while maintaining a sense of “insider expertise” on both law enforcement and national security matters.
This episode is a fiery, unfiltered assessment of Democratic leadership and their handling of recent events in Portland, Chicago, and other major cities, with a particular focus on immigration enforcement and the rule of law. Buck Sexton argues that Democratic officials are enabling lawlessness for political gain, refusing to cooperate with federal authorities, and "gaslighting" the public about the severity of ongoing unrest. He draws contrasts with recent U.S. history (specifically post-Jan 6 security measures) and frames the stakes as existential for both national sovereignty and civil order. Laced with biting humor and memorable analogies, the hour sets the battleground for the political fights to come, both at the border and in the streets.