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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Start your 7 day free trial today. Offers are subject to change. Go to FOX one for complete terms and conditions. Fox one we live for live streaming now. Welcome everybody to the Wednesday edition. Almost lost it there, Clay. Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis. Clay Travis said Buck Sexton show We got to start with the right day. Very important but a lot of news going on. So lots of reading in to do this morning in preparation for the show on things breaking, things happening. We are excited to speak with all of you across this great land of ours. So thank you for being here with us. Some important numbers coming out on the economy. I'm going to dive into that with play momentarily because that affects each and every one of us. We've also got President Trump weighing in and a DOJ saying that there will be swift consequences in the case of Irina, who was stabbed to death in Charlotte. We've been talking a lot about that horrific case this week. Week also the case of the retired veterinary professor from Alabama, another horrific case, another stabbing of a woman. The assailant was black. It was a white woman stabbed to death. People looking at that case and saying, well, there's no video of it, so it doesn't have that same visual impact. But the details of that are every bit as horrific. It's, it's. And there's another case in New York City that I'm going to tell you about that just happened. I'm not going deep into the archives. Another instance of the failure of the criminal justice system. And in this case, the perpetrator is still at large. A double murder committed in New York City. We'll talk about this in a few minutes. Bottom of the hour, most likely. And Clay, we've got also Kamala Harris book is out. We will have some fun discussing this. And she takes some shots at Biden, which we knew was going to happen because heaven forbid Kamala takes any accountability for running the worst. I know it was only 90 days or something, but still the worst 90 day campaign imaginable. We will discuss that. Have some fun getting into all of it. But I wanted to start off with some of the economic numbers because there's anticipation of a rate cut. Look, this is something, Clay, we haven't talked about. Honestly. I think we got a lot of things to Talk about here. So I'm not going to say we haven't discussed it enough, but we certainly could spend even more time on housing Affordability in this country is, is crazy right now. You have to make double the money to be able to afford based on rates and based on the cost of, of buying a new home in general. Double the money. You did what in 2019? 2020. It hasn't, it hasn't been that long. Pre pandemic versus now and the median home prices nation. I'm talking nationwide, whether you live in Oklahoma or Maine or Arizona or California, whatever. Nationwide home prices are at a place that seems unsustainable and there's a lot of people priced out of the market. So we got big problems there. Good things though are happening in the economy. And let's talk first about where wholesale prices are. Here you go. CNBC's Rick Santelli Clay talking about where inflation is. Where prices are.
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Rick Santelli
Play Clip 1 PPI wholesale inflation for August expected to be up 3 10. No, no, no. Down 110 of a percent. Down 1 10. Wow. That would be the first negative number since April of this year when it was -2/10. If you strip out food and energy. We're also expecting up 3 10. It's minus 110 as well. Minus 110 the same last time we had a minus number was April and we're comping to minus 210 in April. Now the year over year in my opinion, these are the most important and boy, I'm surprised. Real progress here. 2.6 on year over year headline. We are expecting 3.3 in the rearview mirror. 3.3, 2.6 will be the lowest since it was 2.4 in June.
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Buck Sexton
Clay, this is where the American people start chanting slowly but surely, rate cut, rate cut, rate cut.
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Clay Travis
Well, they should cut 50 basis points. And I'm looking as you're telling us all this, buck, I'm looking at the current mortgage rates because this is the number one thing that I believe is broken in our economy that Biden tanked and I'll explain it why in a minute. But according to the numbers that I'm looking up right now, 30 year mortgage is now around 6.4 to 6.5%. A 15 year is around 5.6. Now that's just me doing rapid search. So I don't want to get deluged by all of you talking about what mortgage rates you've got or what happens in your particular communities. They're coming down and this is really important and I don't think Necessarily that communication on this has explained exactly what happened. But many of you are living it. We went in the most rapid fashion of most of our lives, from 2.5% mortgage rates on a 30 year to over well over 7%, approaching 8% in the space of about a year. And that is because Jerome Powell was far too late to recognize that inflation was becoming a major issue in this country. Remember Buck, when he just kept saying, it's transitory, it's transitory. And then we went all the way, I believe In June of 21, if I'm not mistaken, or maybe it was June of 22 to 9.1% inflation, which.
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Buck Sexton
Was worst in 40 years. 40 years.
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Clay Travis
And it's not just that the inflation happened, it's that it happened so rapidly that many people got handcuffed when it came to buying or selling homes. And the number one thing that would solve a lot of the issues in the country today, and a lot of you out there nodding along with me, is if mortgage rates came back to a reasonable level where people who are ready to sell their homes aren't looking around saying, man, I can't even afford anything because I'm going to have to give up a 2 1/2% mortgage and take on a 9% mortgage or an 8% mortgage. It's absolutely bonkers for you to do that. And a lot of people got priced out because if you didn't happen to get that 2 and a half or 3% mortgage, then you're constantly chasing the market because other people did. Now the result is I think we're going to get at least a 25 basis point cut next week. Should be a 50 point basis cut. And I think we should have a one point overall cut in interest rates before the end of the year. And that will help to solve some of the log jam in housing, which I would argue economically is the biggest issue hamstringing a lot of people.
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Buck Sexton
Look, we do get the emails and talkbacks from many of you that, that's, that are telling us, hey guys, prices are still really high. Prices are still really high. We get it. We know that is the reality of what happened during the pandemic, which was printing trillions and trillions of dollars. And then Biden printing the 2 trillion right when he came into office, just adding gasoline to a fire that was already raging. There is no free lunch. We printed money without the attendant productivity behind it or the goods and services behind it. We had rampant inflation. So we've been paying for that, literally paying for that with High prices. But the Trump economy is turning this around. So it's not, it's not that we're unaware or anything else. It's that this takes time. But the data is moving all of this in the right direction. Side note, Clay, it is still astonishing that half the jobs in Biden's election year were fake jobs, as they've now admitted. We mentioned this earlier in the week, but I was reading a more detailed analysis of it this morning. That is crazy. Put a pin in that, though. Wells Fargo CEO, somebody who has to look at the macroeconomics of what's going on and has to deal with, of course, mortgages and credit and all these different things. Wells Fargo is a massive bank. I just think you should hear from somebody who's, you know, not necessarily a guy walking around in a MAGA hat. I don't know, maybe he is, maybe he's not talking about where the economy is play too.
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Wells Fargo CEO
In our own data, things are remarkably stable. Consumer spend continues at the same year over year pace across almost all wealth levels. Consumer credit is as good as it's been in the last six months. In fact, it's probably trending a touch better. Companies are in really great shape. We look at signs for any kind of change and you just don't see it. Having said that, there is this big dichotomy between higher income and lower income consumers, which continues and is a real issue. And when you look at just the overall data in terms of jobs, it's undeniable in terms of just job creation. So, yeah, things are actually feel very good today, certainly relative to what you think they could be.
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Buck Sexton
Things feel very good today. I mean, you know, look, nothing's ever perfect with the economy, Clay. It could always be better. But here we are in September of Trump's first year. It's moving the way it's supposed to be moving.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Mortgage rates important. You hit on the second thing that I think is important. Prices are never coming back down. And I think that is so challenging because people are angry when they go to the grocery store, when they go to fast food. Inflation is so toxic because basically once the prices are there, they never come back down. And I don't think a lot of people recognize that necessarily because to your point, Buck, we had two generations where effectively we didn't have Biden era inflation, where we didn't have Jimmy Carter era inflation. And a lot of you who lived through the 1970s that are listening to us right now, you said, yeah, we dealt with this for a long time. Inflation Rates got all the way up, I think to like 17% if I'm not mistaken. Mortgage rates did. I mean, it's crazy when you go back and look at some of the historical economic data on this, you also.
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Buck Sexton
Used to be able to get a return on a savings account, I think in the teens, in the 80s at one point.
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Rick Santelli
Right.
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Buck Sexton
Or maybe it was 9, 10, 11. I mean there were times when you could put money, now there was much higher inflation, but you could put money in a savings account backed by the government and get a return. We've been in an era now for years, maybe decades where to get return on your money. Essentially most people end up putting it in the market in some capacity because otherwise your money is being inflated away all the time. But inflation is a particularly pernicious thing because not only does it raise prices, but it turns out to be a tax on wage earners because they don't have the attended assets that get inflated like home prices along with it. And if their wages don't keep up, you just have less buying power, which you feel when you are paying your rent, buying your groceries, filling up the gas in your car. But it's a long term thing, right? Or it takes longer to feel that than it does the initial. Let's just pay everybody to stay home and then spend trillions of dollars under Biden that we should never have spent totally.
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Clay Travis
And remember, Biden wanted to spend 5 trillion and Joe Manchin said I can't go above 1.9. So things would have actually been double digit inflation if Biden had gotten what he wanted. But the anger, I get it, you're never going to be able to buy a hamburger for the price that you did before COVID That's never going to occur. Your cereal is never going to be the price that it was before COVID Those prices are now embedded thanks to Biden's economic failures. And I think some people believed, oh, prices are going to just go back to what they were in 2019. And when you don't see it in your grocery bill, that is frustrating to people. This is why it's so toxic. This is why the Biden economy was so awful. Now some places prices fluctuate more. Price of gas, for instance, you are definitely feeling, hey, we're at four year lows and what it costs to fill up the tank. But the price on gas is far more of a fluctuating factor than the price on groceries or the price on fast food, which is where I think a lot of people still, and I'm in this camp just are. Are frustrated every time you get a bill because things cost way more than you think they should cost. And that is a function of poor economic decisions to your point, buck, that were led by the Biden administration, I can tell you.
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Buck Sexton
And I'm not even, not even talking about our wonderful sponsor, good ranchers, Although I am making one of their steaks tonight for dinner, so I'll just throw that in there. So I guess I am talking about them. You go out to a restaurant these days and you get a steak, and whether it's a good steak, a mediocre steak, I can't find a steak anywhere. And now I know it's Miami and you're going to say it's expensive. We're going to be in Fort Wayne. I guarantee you, if we go out to the steakhouse in Fort Wayne, Clay Filet is like 65, 70 bucks these days for one. For one. I mean, I remember you used to go have a steak dinner for $70. I know I sound like some guy from, you know, from the olden, olden days or something, but the price, food prices, they can't hide from you. And at a restaurant because they have to add in all the attendant costs of labor and tax and everything else, you can see what they have to run up in order to run a business. I mean, you cannot get a filet in a, in a, in a metro area of the United States right now. You can't get like a decent steak for less than 60 bucks. Really. I mean, it's very hard to find.
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Clay Travis
It is. Again, everything costs more than it should. And to your point, on the filet, we go to a restaurant. I love it. It's in Franklin, Tennessee, right? Not far from where we live, called the chop House. Not a super fancy place. Great service. I love this place. I didn't know they were going to get a shot, a shout out. My son ordered a filet, a steak the other day. We went to go eat there, and the waiter came over and he said, hey, I just want to let you know this is the most affordable place, like I can think of where you can go sit down. He said, the cost on our filet is now over $40. We've had to keep changing. That's not even included in the menu now. And I think a lot of you have probably experienced that. Where you go. I'm not talking about.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, how, how many ounces are we talking to? Are we talking 8 ounce fillet? Look, I, I take my meat very seriously. We talk an 8 ounce, 10 ounce filet. I mean, I, I put away an 8 ounce filet pretty easily.
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Clay Travis
We're not talking about the place where you had to buy me the fancy steak and, you know, still paying that off.
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Buck Sexton
Play. You want to talk about mortgage rates, that's where all my money's gone after.
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Clay Travis
Biden dropped out of the race. We're not talking about this. This is a great, really local establishment. But I do think that many of you feel this when you go in. The other thing that's happened is, and this is me being a kind of looking at the data, the difference between fast food and like casual, sit down restaurant prices has almost vanished. Like you can't eat affordably at fast food anymore.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, I order Shake Shack here with Carrie sometimes and it's 50 bucks. I don't, I'm just getting two burgers and some fries. She always says, don't get the fries. By the way, to all the, all the husbands out there, obviously we get the fries. You know what I mean? Like they said, don't get the fries. And you get the fries. And they're happy you got the fry when they're there. When those hot fries show, fries show up. No one's ever upset that you got them. But people will tell you, don't ever. And even when you're out at a restaurant, Clay, important rule, whenever someone says, oh, we don't need the fries, yes.
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Clay Travis
You do always get the fries. You always get the fries.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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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 Wednesday edition of the program. Couple of other stories that are out there. I think we mentioned this off the top. If we did not, I'll mention it again. Michael Watley is going to join us at the top of the next hour. He is the Senate candidate running against Roy Cooper in North Carolina. Obviously he has a lot of thoughts about the Arena Zyritska video. We should mention the full video is out. We talked about that yesterday quite a bit that they needed to release the full video. It is now out. We'll talk about that, I'm sure, during the course of the program. Also, Kamala Harris excerpts from her new book where she throws Joe Biden buck a little bit, I think it's fair to say under the bus when it comes to how Biden came to run.
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Buck Sexton
It's like elder abuse via words, very harsh.
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Clay Travis
We told you this would happen. Ultimately, there's going to be a huge battle inside of the Democrat Party over who is to blame for the loss that they took. And the Biden team is going to say, well, Kamala wasn't as strong as I was. I would have won. And the Kamala team is going to say this is all Joe Biden's fault and we are in the midst of that. And I think it'll probably be going on for years into the future. In the meantime, more than 15 million college kids have moved onto campuses and into college towns this fall. If one of those students is your son, daughter, your grandson or granddaughter, make sure they're equipped with self protection. Anything can happen, as we have all seen, even in what seemed like the safest college towns. And right now you can get everything from Saber. These are non lethal self protection tools. We recommend you have them in your own home, in your own dorm room, in your own car. Saber products have safeguarded hundreds of thousands of people. Pepper sprays, pepper gels, projectile devices all made right here in the good old usa. Impactful and empowering to use the projectile devices in the shape of a pistol or, or a rifle recommended by law enforcement officials. Act now to protect yourself and your family. And save 15 on Sabre's mega bundle at saberradio.com that's S A B R E radio.com sabre radio.com 844-824 safe all right.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. The the biggest story in the nation still this week has to do with the criminal justice systems failures, the democrat narratives on crime, the really the legacy of the BLM movement and the BLM ideology. Black lives matter. After the footage was fully released of Ukrainian refugee, a war refugee, a true refugee, not all these fake refugees scamming our system at our southern border. Irene Zarutska, this beautiful young woman who was viciously stabbed to death. The video shows the completely out of nowhere. I mean unprovoked certainly, but also just a complete, just. There was no way she could have known. No way that she could have unless she just refused to sit next to this individual based on appearance. There's no way that she could have known anything bad was going to happen to her. And then she stabbed in the neck. She sits there. It is gut wrenching. I've watched the whole video. Clay has watched the whole video. We'll tell you about it. I'm not sure that all of you, I mean Carrie, it's been really bothering her, you know.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
And really stuck with other people that I know. It's, it's horrific imagery but it is important that the public has access to it and is aware of it. Let me also just say, Clay, I have read numerous accounts that there is video footage of the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalfe in Texas. Yes. By Carmelo Anthony, who has since had members of his community raise I believe over a million dollars for him and now has a public defender after.
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Clay Travis
And we should mention for people who have forgotten, these are the high school kids one at a track meet, black kid stabs white kid in the heart over nothing and kills him in cold blood right there.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. And I think that that video also needs to be released. I think that when people see that video they will be horrified. I think we all understand why they have not released that video so far. And we are noticing a pattern here. When the video is delayed. The city council in Charlotte, My understanding, Clay, is that they initially voted not to release the video of the Irina Zarutska fatal stabbing. It's horrific. Something else from this video, Clay, the callous nature of individuals around this woman. Look, we can separate this right away so everyone's very clear. I, I, I mean, I have had people who are as adept with edge weapons as a Fort Bragg edge weapons instructor tell me that if you think you're going to fight somebody with a knife and win, you got another thing coming. They don't have to be skilled. They don't. It is that you're at an enormous disadvantage. I bring this up because the problem is not that someone didn't necessarily try to tackle this guy right away. You know, you're frozen in terror. He's stabbing somebody. You could be next. Now, some of you listening to this, you know, your former Green Berets, you're, you know, you're former law enforcement, you're an Army Ranger, you know, you might step in. A lot of people are going to be scared, Clay, to step into a maniac with a knife. And that doesn't, that's a self preservation thing. I think we can just be honest about that, right? If somebody has an, different, if someone's strangling somebody, but if somebody has a knife, you have to make that determination about whether you think you can intervene without you getting stabbed to death, too. The problem is this individual leaves the train and Irina is there in terror, clutching at her neck and crying, and people just leave her and no one does anything. No one even makes a move to call the police on their phones. We can see this. They just let her bleed to death.
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Clay Travis
I, it's an impossibly difficult video to watch. I think adults need to see it. I also think if we're looking at.
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Buck Sexton
That and everyone on the train is black and she is white, which has been pointed out by everybody. This is video. You can see this. Just to be clear that there's a dynamic here that people are addressing, which is nobody thought to help this woman. What's going on here?
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Clay Travis
I think also I was talking with producer Ali about this. In the same way in New York City, a lot of people won't stand near the tracks because you are unfortunately aware that people might shove you in front of an oncoming train. This is a huge fear of anybody that ever rides public transportation in New York City or any other subway type environment. The other thing I would say is, I think a lot of people need to be sitting with their back in the back row. If you have to ride public transportation. Transportation. If I have daughters, I've certainly got sons. I'm telling them that unfortunately, because of safety issues, you can't trust who's behind you or what might occur. The really awful thing about watching this video is once she sat down and selected that seat, there was nothing she could have done to keep herself from getting killed. She gets stabbed and never knows the stabbing is coming and he stabs her multiple times. There is nothing even a grown man who is bigger than the guy who was stabbing would have been able to defend himself. When somebody stabs you from behind, you have no ability to defend yourself. I think you have to. And I mean this honestly. I would talk to my sons, I would talk to my, my daughters. If you're out there listening to us right now, if you are riding public transportation, I hate to have this discussion. You need to be with your back against something where no one can come at you without you being able to see them. And I having this conversation with producer Ali, it's like the old school mafia guy, you know, when the mafia guy.
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Buck Sexton
Would eat in the restaurant with my back to the. To the entrance and I need to know where the exit is, by the way, a lot. I know a lot of. Forget about mafia. I know a lot of CIA guys that that's how they go through their whole life.
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Clay Travis
Still is. Is like I'm sitting with my back against a wall. I see everybody that comes in. There is no inability of me to analyze threats. Now, could the guy with the knife, to your point, Buck, even if he's coming straight on her, is it unlikely that she's going to be able to defend her relative to him? Probably, but at least she is with a back against her, able to see him coming as opposed to being stabbed and never actually even knowing that her life was coming to a close. I think that's what's so particularly difficult about watching this video is you can see her turn, see that she has been killed, know that something is wrong, and then watch her slowly bleeding out on the video. It's brutal, but we need to see it because it's unacceptable to happen anywhere in America to anyone.
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Buck Sexton
And one thing that. Look, this is, this is a change in the narrative moment. I think broadly, nationally, it's not going to affect policy in every city. It's not going to change laws everywhere. But the perception has changed about interracial violence in this country as a result of this, how it is treated by law enforcement, how it is covered by the media, and what the realities by the numbers are for how our criminal justice system is treating people, what is happening, who is being kept safe, who is not. And so I think in that sense, it is a little bit of a late 90s, you know, O.J. simpson moment. Remember, the O.J. simpson trial happened. I think the first person I ever heard make this case was actually Ann Coulter. But she said the O.J. simpson trial happened. And it wasn't just the verdict in the O.J. simpson trial. It was the widespread support, which I saw with my own eyes as a kid, of people across the country from within. Now, I'm not saying it was everyone or even a majority, but there was enough support for OJ from the black community. And when he clearly murdered those two people, I mean, one was his ex wife, the mother of children. The other was just a guy who happened to be there. And there was cheering all over the country. Clay, you saw this too, right? And this happened. There was cheering in my school from the black students in my school at the verdict. It was the only time I can remember there being radios turned on in every classroom to hear the verdict of a trial. That's how fixated on this. And there was a moment where he just said, you know what, the laws of law, we're actually going to not allow this, this stuff to happen anymore. No more trying to deal with racial injustice of the past by creating racial injustice today. And I think that this may be another turning point, another moment in time where people see this and they say, you can't have people arrested 15 times. And you only take it seriously when they murder some girl who's trying to get home from her job after fleeing a war zone. That's unacceptable.
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Clay Travis
I also think, I think all that is well said, and I like the analogy. And Ann Coulter talking about, hey, this was clearly OJ Got away with killing two innocent white people, slaughtering.
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Buck Sexton
And a lot of people cheered for it.
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Clay Travis
That was the end. And all of the evidence dictated that he was guilty. And as time has passed, I think it opened a lot of people's eyes to racism. Here's what I would say in general. He said, basically, I got that white girl, and I'm quoting this guy who stabbed Irina to death. There's a lot of racism that has nothing to do with white people in America. And I think if we want to really have a conversation, the idea that only racism can occur, white to black, is one of the most dishonest things that is said in America at all.
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Buck Sexton
That is an official BLM narrative, by the way. The race hustlers out there, the people that have made careers of this, they say that because of historic power imbalance, it is in fact impossible for a black person to be racist. It is impossible. That is the official theory of the Ibram X Kendi's and people and Robin d'. Angelos. It is impossible. That is a lie. That is a lie. Clearly. Clearly. Many of these incidents that we can talk about here involve a racial animus from a black person to a white person that resulted in a murder, a grisly murder in this case. And Clay, we couldn't even finish talking about this, and we had to. People, I was talking about on Monday. You were out Monday. But the murder of that retired veterinary professor from. She was Auburn alum. Yeah, in Auburn. And now I've got this other story. You've got another career criminal. Okay. This guy is on the loose, still a violent sex offender and career criminal. He killed two elderly people in Queens. This just happened. He is a career criminal, like I said, registered sex offender. He is a black man named Jamel McGriff. He is on the run, Clay. He tied. He knocked on the door of these elderly people for assistance. He tied them up, set the man on fire, stabbed them both to death, and then tried to start a fire to burn down the whole building. Yeah, again, we can do the. If this. If a white guy did this to two elderly black people anywhere in the United States, it would be the biggest story in the war, in the country, in the world. You know, we. We'd all be told the KKK was rising again and all this. But. But, yeah, we're not supposed to notice this. We're not supposed to talk about this. This just happened. He's still. He's still on the loose.
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Clay Travis
Remember, Biden said the biggest threat in America was white supremacy. I mean, that was the talking point of the Democrat Party, that America's biggest threat is white supremacy. And I think a lot of black people are looking and hearing all this and recognizing just how dishonest much of the coverage around BLM was. Because if you want there to be fewer murders, as every one of all races should, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, everyone out there listening. We should all want there to be fewer murders in America. You have to look at who's committing murders. And this idea that black people were in danger from white people is just crazy. If you look at the statistical data, that almost never happens. And yet this is where I Come back to the anecdotal world in which we live. If you take any anecdote, it should be representative of a larger problem. It shouldn't be a outlier that is almost never occurring that we're using to try to drive public policy. That's frankly what George Floyd was. And remember the moment was, was awful death for way more people.
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Buck Sexton
The moment in time where there was the Stop Asian Hate campaign. Now if you want to look at.
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Clay Travis
I jotted that down.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. What's really interesting is you look at crime statistics within the Asian community. And by the way, in New York City, there's a very. Now Asian is so expansive. When you say Asia, you're talking Bangladeshi, are you talking Taiwanese? I mean there's a whole, you know, Asia is a very big place, but there are elements or members of the Asian community who are actually quite poor but have incredibly low crime rates. So this is one of the ways you can just dismiss this. Oh, poverty causes crime. That's a lie. The data doesn't support it. It's just not true. There's no causation there. But the Stop Asian Hate thing got stopped because of video.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
And we were being told that there were. The insinuation was there's like MAGA hat wearing white guys spitting on Asian people or being mean to Asian people, attacking Asian people. And what we saw over and over and over again was that it was non white men who were attacking Asian people. And so they got rid of the whole Stop Asian Hate campaign.
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Clay Travis
Stop Asian Hate vanished. Cuz black guys were the ones that were causing almost all of the Asian beatdowns and violence. Violence. And so that, remember it was. When did that last like six weeks. Stop Asian hate. We got to stop Asian hate. And all the videos kept coming out and it was just black guys knocking out Asian people. And people were like, yeah, you know, I guess maybe this Asian thing's not such a big deal. Right. And again, what they are looking for is the right people to be current. Look, this whole trans shoot up, the Minneapolis in Nashville story vanished. Guy wrote kill Trump on the gun.
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Buck Sexton
And yeah, they hid.
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Clay Travis
It just is gone.
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Buck Sexton
They hide this stuff. They hide. They hide because you have to remember people who are of the left, people who are Democrats, people who believe in blm, same people, by the way, who believe in Fauci and masking. They think that lying to you in the service of their beliefs is the moral choice. Their morality has been twisted. They think that telling lies, suppressing information, hiding things makes them better people, better people than you are for observing what is plainly happening every day across the country. That is where we are right now. Something else that unfortunately is happening every day all over the country is abortion. And it's something that is taking lives day in and day out. But Preborn is on the front lines trying to save as many tiny babies as possible. This year they've saved 40,000 unborn babies. Their mission is clear. They try to save the lives of unborn babies by presenting moms in crisis an alternative to abortion. They meet with these pregnant moms in their clinics and the first step is they give them an ultrasound. That ultrasound process lets mom meet the tiny baby in her womb. And so often after that, the choice of life is easy and Preborn will support that mom for two years after the birth of that baby. But they need your help. They accomplish this goal of saving tiny lives, tiny babies in the womb for $28 expense per ultrasound. $28 expense per ultrasound please. I know you know a lot of people struggling to make ends meet, but for those of you out there who can $28 a month, $280 a month, whatever you can spare. You can set it up monthly. It is tax deductible, but you are you would be donating to an incredibly worthy cause. Preborn operates these clinics all over the country. They need your support. The pro life community has to step up to donate securely dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250. Say baby or go to preborn.com buck Sponsored by Preborn Want to be in.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show One of the big discussions that has come out of the arena Zarutska murder that is continuing to get a lot of conversation is what about the judges, what about the magistrates that continue to let all these people out. And one of our listeners in Phoenix gave us a Talk back yesterday. Let me play that AA for you.
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Buck Sexton
If a doctor can get sued for malpractice, if a home inspector can get sued for missing something on an inspection, everybody gets sued for something that they missed or something that they did. Why can't a judge be held financially accountable to a family after he releases somebody inappropriately and they kill somebody or do something like this?
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Clay Travis
It's a great question. The easy answer, Buck, is no one would want to be a judge if you were criminally culpable for things that people who looked you looked at their criminal files did. What I do believe is you should lose your job. You should lose your job if you are consistently putting violent criminals back on the streets and they continue to act out. And also, we need to put a lot of onus on the prosecutors here. A lot of focus on judges. But prosecutors should be trying to lock these people up and throw away the key instead of allowing them to plead down to nothing and get out on cashless belt.
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Buck Sexton
We'll talk to RNC Chairman and GOP Senate candidate Michael Watley here about what's going on in North Carolina for sure and and more in just a moment. Make sure you keep sending us those talkbacks. We'll get to more in the next hour. Clay and Buck Hour one done. But so much more coming up, so make sure you stick around.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
America is changing and so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere. I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. i'm Tristan Redman in London, and this is the Global Story.
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Clay Travis
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