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Buck Sexton
Went down that day on Medal of.
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Clay Travis
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome everybody. Tuesday edition of the Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now. We are here in our nation's capital. Probably the best it's been in a long time.
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Clay Travis
It is pretty spectacular.
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Buck Sexton
It's very beautiful. Unlike during the inaugur. It is absolutely perfect weather here, so I am not clearing the icicles from my nose and my eyes this time. But we have a lot to talk to you about and we'll dive into some of it. We're also excited to be setting up some some pretty important interviews and sit downs and chats with the people who make this town run and this White House, which is doing a phenomenal job. Clay, you're going to have to make sure that I don't go over too much of the territory when I was on a flight yesterday that you cover with these LA riots. Here's what I've got For the latest Marines 700 Marines ordered to assist in Los Angeles. They are expected to arrive. Well, they have been arriving. We've got Mayor Adams of New York City saying that there are anti ice riots in LA that would be totally unacceptable in New York. So they're drawing a pretty hard line on that. When you've seen some other places, Austin, Tampa, where there are reports of some gatherings beginning. We're very clear on this. I think everyone's very clear on this. The right to protest, obviously protected under the First Amendment. The right to loot a, you know, footlocker or a CVS or whatever is not, in fact, covered under the First Amendment. And this whole fight over illegal immigration enforcement is absolutely critical for the administration. And Clay, I'm happy to see so far they are taking the law and order perspective and not backing down one inch because this is setting a tone for the rest of the four years as well.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, what I was talking about yesterday is I do think this is a really concrete difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0. And you remember very well everyone out there does. In the summer of 2020, the entire nation came unglued. And I think a big part of that was Tim Walls, governor of Minnesota, refusing to call out the National Guard in time to bring peace to Minneapolis. And then what happened in Minneapolis skyrocketed, spiraled everywhere. And for many people, it was the end of the COVID restrictions, as you well remember, because Dr. Anthony Fauci suddenly came out after telling people that they couldn't be in any groups at all and said, well, hundreds of thousands of people can actually come out in the streets and march. And many people said, wait a minute, you were telling us that we couldn't go to kids, couldn't go to school, we couldn't have non essential. Remember that phrase, non essential. Businesses open, and suddenly you decide that everybody should be able to go out and March in the summer of 2020. And I think in retrospect, Trump wishes that he had called out the National Guard in Minnesota and tried to nip this in the bud. And so I think this is Trump 2.0 saying, we're not going to allow these protests to flourish and take root like we did in 2020. Also, the difference being it's not an election year, which means that whatever the impact is of the Trump response is not immediately going to the ballot box, which is why I think they were apprehensive and I think, quite frankly, slow on dealing with those riots back in 2020. So this is Trump saying, I learned from the first term, we're not going to have this happen.
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Buck Sexton
That was one of the biggest mistakes, I would argue, in the Trump first term was people often talk about Foushee look very hard in that moment to understand all the implications of the CDC and allowing them to set these policies. And I mean, I remember I spoke to Trump in I've told you about this and talk to the audience about this May of 2020, talk to you about all this. And he said, look, we're gonna leave this to the states. There was a lot that was unknown then, looting and rioting. We knew that was bad. And there was a period where there was not nearly a firm enough response in 2020. I think that that was a lesson learned for the administration. I think this time around, they are showing that it's very easy to draw this line here. Yes, you want to gather lawfully and protest. That's great. That's America. That the moment you start blocking highways, throwing rocks at cops, breaking into stores, stealing things, you are in violation of a number of statutes and the laws still apply to you, no matter how upset you are on this issue of illegal immigration. It's interesting, Clay. I've seen a shift in the conversation on the right from what about the big beautiful bill? To this is an all or nothing issue, meaning we either enforce sovereignty and begin to deport some of the 10 million that Biden brought in or nothing else matters. I agree with that. I think if we don't establish secure borders and interior enforcement, we just have a de facto open border. And all the implications of this, I mean, what you're seeing in Southern California, the massive expense that is borne not just by the taxpayers of California, but by the federal taxpayer as well. There's all this money that is. That is funneled from federal dollars to medical, which is like California's version of Medicare. Medicare, you know, Medicare, Medicaid, rather Medi Cal. And the apportionment issue with members of Congress, you have far more Democrat members of Congress. The estimates, I think it's a couple of dozen nationwide, 15 to 20 at least.
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Clay Travis
And this is important, I think. I don't think a lot of audience even understands this because I didn't know it. Illegal immigrants get counted for purposes of congressional districts. So when you say roughly 700,000 people are being represented, if there are 20 million illegals, that is helping Democrats because they're overwhelmingly clustered in sanctuary cities, and otherwise there would be less Democrat representatives.
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Buck Sexton
Enormously important. And it also is a reminder to everybody, as we'll talk, we'll go deep into the law and order aspects of all this and why it's so important that Trump is following through. The administration has to see this, through this is just the beginning of it too. But Clay, this is something. What happens in Los Angeles. I think there had been an idea that a lot of people had, oh, that's not really my problem. You know, I live in Nebraska. That's not really my problem. I live in a nice red state. You know, I live in South Carolina. And so if California wants to have 2 or 3, I'm sorry, Los Angeles county alone wants to have 2 or 3 million illegals in it. That's their problem. No, it's actually your problem in South Carolina too. It's a problem for the whole country. It's a problem because of the balance of power that it is affected by with Congress. And it's a problem because the whole point here that the Democrats are pursuing is to make sure that there's a pathway to voting, not just citizenship, voting for all the illegals who have come here, which would make a de facto one party state. So this is everybody's issue. The days where we would tell ourselves, oh, it's just a blue state, red state thing, I think that has passed. I think everyone understands. Biden let in 10 million plus illegals on purpose. People keep telling me, I don't know. No one knows. No one knows. I mean, the administration doesn't know. This one doesn't know what the full number that came in under Biden is because it was so out of control that it's impossible to tabulate. We just know that it's officially at least 10 million. That's a massive state of illegals that have been added to the US Tally. Totally.
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Clay Travis
I mean, it's more than the people who live in. I think it's all but like 15 states. I mean, the population of the state of Tennessee, where I live, I believe is around 7 million. So more than the state of Tennessee has been let in in four years, just in illegal.
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Buck Sexton
And also, keep in mind, there's now some focus on the Reagan amnesty, which I've talked about here on the show back in 1986. What happens? Probably the worst thing that Reagan did as president. Unfortunately, Reagan did great things. Defeated communism, defeated the Soviet Union. But that was bad. And it was much worse than I think anybody, even Republicans at that time realized. Because not only was the amnesty far larger than it was supposed to be, we're signing this law right? This is back in 1986. And now we're going back now 40 years, we're signing this and we're gonna get border security. And what you got was an amnesty several times larger. Millions of people, larger than what they thought it would be. Because the way the courts went and, you know, everyone was trying to, you know, be covered under that amnesty. They were hearing challenges, I think, into the early 2000s. So think about that 1986amnesty. There are people in, like, 1999 who are saying, I'm covered under that, too. And then it was a massive incentive for more illegal immigration for the years and years to come. Can you think about it this time around? If we just said, you know what, we'll take the 10 million who came in under Biden, does any serious person believe that there'd be the political will to stop the next 10 million from coming the next time there's a Democrat administration? No. If anything, it would just become in a political inevitability, it would be codified that there'd be another 10 million coming. And our immigration laws are just a joke.
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Clay Travis
Well, that's why whatever Trump does, they have set in place two different diametrically opposed systems. One is if you come, you are allowed in with virtually no court oversight. It's going to take years for your hearings, and in the meantime, you get to live here. And the second part is if you're trying to deport, you have to have massive court hearings. And it's going to take a substantial amount of effort to get that done. So I think they are gaming the system because they're applying two different rules. Let me also mention this, too. As the LA riot continues four days and we see the Apple stores getting rioted. And unfortunately, I saw a jewelry store owner interviewed, and we'll play some of that for you throughout the course of the program. In fact, at 12:30. So in about 20 minutes from now, we're going to talk with Steve Hilton, who's running for governor. He was out on the streets of Los Angeles last night. What he sees and is experiencing there, what he saw with his own eyes. I think that this is another impact of Elon Musk buying Twitter, because when Maxine Waters and other Democrats are coming out, I saw another Democrat congresswoman say, well, this is not much different than a sports celebration, when a team wins a title and then juxtapose those videos side by side. And it is we talked about yesterday, I want to get your read on this at some point. But when you've got cops with cars burning and you've got the video of the bricks being thrown at them, it's hard to argue it's a mostly peaceful protest. I think that the fairness of X to allow the full scope of what's Truly going on to be seen makes the lies more readily apparent.
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Buck Sexton
Also, the videos and the photos, which I was consuming, just as you were all weekend long. And yesterday on the flight up here, as I was doing research for today's show, Clay, the notion that you would, as a person who claims to have a right to be in America, you would be standing around burning cars and holding up the flag of a foreign nation. That is a person who does not belong here, who does not deserve to be here. And I'm not even getting into the legal status that they may or may not have. But you clearly do not have the kind of love and allegiance for this country and for the rule of law that we want for the American people. It is also shown. And we'll get into this. The data very clearly so far supports what Trump is doing as a matter of public opinion. Let me say, if there was 8020 against Trump on this, I don't care. This is a rule of law issue, but it's not. In fact, Trump is operating with a majority support of the American people. And the more of this that we see, the burning cars, the rioting, the looting, the madness on the streets, and people waving Mexican flags.
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Clay Travis
I know.
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Buck Sexton
And saying, I'm so American, I would wave a Mexican flag. Could you imagine, I mean, if I stood in front of a building that was burning in New York City waving an Irish flag, First of all, the Irish people would be like, you haven't been Irish in hundreds of years. And second of all, they'd say, well, what are you doing? That has nothing to do with us. There's something deeper here. And specifically in Southern California, this is very. This is a very precarious issue because you're talking about a group of people who, unlike any other migrant group, really the only migrant group we have here in large numbers that has come here illegally, that can walk back home and sometimes do drive and go back home, are people from Mexico. This is not true of people from, from Europe, from Africa, from. From anywhere else. And so there's something unique and uniquely destabilizing about individuals who think that they can have it both ways. They can maintain this separate Mexican identity while getting all the benefits of being in America and make demands in this country or while actually having citizenship in another country that is right next door. This is something that anybody who's looking at the national security and political implications for this country has to reckon with. That in Southern California, there is a. And I know that this exists in some other places too different in Texas, because it's a red state. But in Southern California, there is. Look, you can see this with people going on CNN saying, well, you know, this was part of Mexico.
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Clay Travis
I saw you.
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Buck Sexton
You say, hold on a second. This is part. This was part of Mexico. It was part of Mexico for like 15 years or something. And it's been part of America for a couple of hundred. It was a Spanish colony, ok? And the Spaniards aren't dancing around saying, hey, this is actually still ours. So it was Mexican for a short while, and then they lost that territory in a war, which is a thing that happens. You know, that's something that they need to just get used to. So there's a lot going on here that I want to continue to dive into. And, Clay, I think this is the most important fight in the country right now. And I think it's more. It's more important than concerns about the debt. If we lose on this, we lose on everything else. If we don't have a country with sovereignty and rule of law and immigration, we don't really have a country. And I think that's what people are seeing on the streets of California. You know, 67,000 lives were saved last year by the efforts of the Preborn staff. You know the name Preborn? It's a nonprofit organization that focuses on saving the lives of unborn children, if last year's activities are any indication. And they are. They're doing an incredible job saving lives day in and day out. But they need your help. I know so many of you. You are like me. You are pro life and you vote pro life. But do you take action to help those the front lines? Voting is not enough. There are organizations like Preborn that are saving babies today while we try to change the conscience of some of our fellow Americans on the laws around abortion. And this, my friends, is where Preborn steps in and is doing incredible work right now, saving tiny babies. They do this with a goal, or rather with just $28 of expense per ultrasound, because that ultrasound experience is how when the mother comes in and she doesn't know what to do, preborn introduces her to that baby. And this is how lives are saved. And if you have the means, I understand this is a big ask, but a new ultrasound machine for preborn. There are one or two of you right now listening who have been incredibly fortunate and incredibly successful. A new ultrasound machine for preborn would be $15,000. It is entirely tax deductible. And over the life of that machinery, thousands of babies lives would be saved. Tiny babies in the womb saved. $15,000 to be a new ultrasound machine. For those of you who are listening, you say, you know what Buck, I can't do that. $28. You are helping and that is so critical and so important and they're very thankful for it. To donate securely, dial pound250 say the keyword baby. That's pound250 say baby or visit preborn.com buck preborn.com Buck sponsored by Prebor.
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J.R. Martinez
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who.
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Unknown Host
Went down that day. It's for the families of those who didn't make it.
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J.R. Martinez
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Clay Travis
We're gonna go to the streets of Los Angeles with Steve Hilton here at the bottom of the hour coming up. But I did want to point out play a couple of the cuts that we referenced in the open there because I do think it's emblematic of just how dishonest much of the media coverage of these LA riots has been. And I know many of you are listening to us right now out in the Los Angeles area. This is Marina Salinas on cnn. Buck mentioned this, defending the rioting by saying, well, remember California was part of Mexico and all of the Southwest is actually Mexico. I can't believe this happened, but this was cnn. Listen to it. Cut seven.
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J.R. Martinez
I'm from L. A, I was born in la. That's where my roots are. That's where I started my career. It is almost 50% Hispanic. Remember that California was part of Mexico. All of the Southwest is Mexico. So the roots are really deep in that region. And what they're saying is, no, not in our community. Because when they're coming in, and even though there's second, third, fourth, fifth generation Latinos that live there and Mexican Americans that live there, some of them might be their family members, the people that they're going after, it's personal for them because they're going after their cousin and with their cousin and their uncle and their parents.
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Buck Sexton
All right, we'll get into that in a second. Look, here in Washington, D.C. there's a lot going on all at once. Certainly feels like there's so much happening. And one of the initiatives playing out is the investigation and assessment of the possibility of a first ever American sovereign wealth fund. This would be a fund that provides a return to citizens. They have this in some states, Alaska and Texas, but they've never had it nationwide. Well, there's an asset that our nation has that could be worth as much as $150 trillion. And there's the possibility of tapping into it for a sovereign wealth fund. Jim Rickards, former adviser of the White House and Federal Reserve, says if you're over 50, this could be your best chance to build lasting wealth from a once in a century event. To hear more of Jim's thinking, go to birthright2025.com A lot of this comes from what Trump is up to. Go check it out. Birthright2025.com birthright2025.com paid for by Paradigm Press. We got Steve Hilton with us. You all know him from his time at Fox News. He's running for governor of California, which is a job that needs somebody much more competent in the role than what they currently have. That is for sure. He is in LA right now. Steve, thanks for being with us. Are you out on the street? I know you've seen a lot Just trying to give everybody a picture of where you are. So you're out on the streets in la. Bring us up to what you have seen up to this point, what the reality has been on the ground.
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Unknown Host
So, I mean, I've just popped indoors so it's not so loud. The thing is very clear, it is a total breakdown of law and order and civilized life and civilization. It is just absolutely shocking to see what's been going on here. The smashed up businesses, most of them by the way, owned by working class Latinos whose lives are now being completely wrecked. They're not going to get insurance. No one cares about that. Newsom doesn't care. Keren Bass doesn't care. All they care about is pandering to their far left activists. So you've got the. The sort of total lack of care about people's lives being destroyed, but in a way the most shocking thing. And I put out a video of this just last night. I was walking around after they'd cleared the main riot scene and dispersed the crowd somewhat. And you saw the aftermath. Every single surface covered in vile, disgusting graffiti. And there's something so shocking about the scale of it. Literally everywhere you look. F ice F Trump, by the way. F Israel a lot. So, like, what's that got to do with anything that's going on here? That tells you the kind of people we're dealing with here. And it's just this collapse of standards, of civilized behavior. You know perfectly well that not a single person who did this will be held accountable by California authorities, will be prosecuted. All of these things are crimes. I've spoken to das and sheriffs. It's very clear that what we've seen happening here, they're felonies. Is anyone going to be prosecuted or held accountable? No, not by California authorities. And so this is why we need to turn this around. This is a real moment, I think, for everyone in California to realize we've got to go in a different direction. We cannot have this weakness and pandering to political activists instead of standing up for the decent, law abiding majority Western.
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Clay Travis
Steve, I appreciate you coming on and certainly if I were in California, you'd have my vote next year. But when you see so many people running around waving flags of foreign countries while they are burning down Waymo vehicles, or when they are raining down Molotov cocktails onto police vehicles, what does it say, not only about the United States and California, but also you've come from England, where this is a global struggle for the legitimacy, it seems to me of Western civilization. What you see here is happening in London, it's happening in Paris, it's happening in Rome. There is in many ways, I think, an attack on the entirety of Western civilization and values. Do you sense that people in California feel that?
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Unknown Host
Yes, but they don't even know it. This is the thing because it's now the product of years and years, decades really of creeping indoctrination in this ideology, I mean, whatever you want to call it, Wokeism. I did a whole sort of piece on it on my Fox show. We probably discussed it, Clay, you know.
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Clay Travis
Oh yeah, for sure.
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Unknown Host
100 years ago in the Frankfurt School in Germany, the Marxist philosophers, an all out war on the institutions of a civilized Western society, the family faith, all of those things. So this has been part of a long burning plan. And I think because it's now so commonplace throughout, started obviously in academia, but now throughout the public school system and so on, they're not even aware that this is what they're spouting and that these values are what they're upholding, even if you can call them values. I mean, it's just, it's a very serious situation. But the good news is that we're confronting it finally, that we're standing up against it here in America. That's not happening in England, it's not happening anywhere else. And so that is really encouraging. And just as you see these appalling scenes, and I completely agree with it, it's so shocking. I put that in one of my videos yesterday. I was walking around in the daytime, the protest zone, Mexican flags everywhere, other Latin American flags flying. The best I could find was one young guy on the roof of his car waving. It was 50, 50. It was the Mexican flag on one side, the Stars and Stripes on the other. That was the best I could find. I taped a little interview with him I'll be putting out later today. Nice kid, but completely unaware of the sort of background to this leftist indoctrination. But as I say, look at what's happening to fight back against it. Look, the success of, you know, movements, you know, the turning point, for example, and the youth vote in the last election, you know, we're not letting this go unchallenged.
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Buck Sexton
Steve. It's been amazing and kind of horrifying at the same time to see some of what these Democrat leaders, from the governor Gavin Newsom down to Mayor Bass of Los Angeles and other officials as well, their responses to this range from the outrageous to the entirely incoherent. You have on the one hand they'll say things like, don't be violent. That plays into Trump's hands. I don't know. I think they should be opposed to political violence and assaults on officers and destruction of property, regardless of what that will do to the poll numbers. And then beyond that, it's completely unclear what their objection is. Or rather, I should say, I think it is clear that their objection is not to anything other than the enforcement of American immigration laws. There's no claim that federal authorities have done something that is not lawful. They just are saying, whether it's the mayor, the governor and others, we don't like the enforcement of federal law.
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Unknown Host
No. And you know what was completely right, and the thing that really illustrated that was that almost like revoltingly predictable way that when the first news broke of these enforcement actions, one by one, up popped on social media the pandering statements from everybody in charge in Los Angeles, and I use that word advisedly, of course, they're not really in charge. One after another, up popped the statement saying, at this time, we're thinking of our community, all this nut blather, pandering to the activist left. And it was the mayor, which is totally predictable, and it was the governor, which was totally predictable. But shockingly and disturbingly, it was also the police chief and the da, Every single person in authority in California putting out pandering statements instead of saying very clearly, if you break the law, you will be prosecuted, we will hold you accountable, and we will not tolerate lawlessness and disorder. Nobody said anything like that. It was all pandering to the left. And that tells you the rot that's gone on for so long in California. And that's what we need to change. And the majority of people understand now what's really going on here, that you have people who are, as I say, not really in charge, but the people at the top who have no interest in protecting the interests of the majority of regular working people who are just being let down all the time by this far left ideology.
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Clay Travis
Steve, this is not standing alone either. January 31st, I think it took several weeks, you'll know better than me, to put out the fires that were burning all over Los Angeles. I'm not an expert in arson, but thankfully, lighting things on fire intentionally in Los Angeles seems like a bad idea, given the history that we just went through. But also to me, there's a connecting thread here, and it is of Mayor Karen Aaron Bass and also Governor Gavin Newsom being unable to make rational, reasonable decisions for the people of Los Angeles and the people of California. Buck and I have talked about this a lot. Buck lived through it. In New York City, things got so bad that people finally said we need law and order, we need Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg. They fixed New York City in many ways and they had to do it from an outsider perspective. Do you think that's what you could bring and our Californians. Are things getting bad enough where Californians say we can't keep doing the same one party decision making?
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Unknown Host
Yes, that is 100% the central argument. We can't. That I make it. We cannot go on like this. And you can look at, it's all of a piece, the fires, of course. And there's a similar pattern here, right, which is that the extremist policies caused the problem. So with the fires, it was the environmental extremism that meant that you have this tinderbox situation. They didn't clear the brush, they didn't do anything. Residents were with filled fined for protecting their own property by clearing the brush. So they have the extremist policies that caused the problem and then their response to the problem is totally incompetent. And then they just lash around blaming someone else. Similar pattern here. It was their extremist policies that caused this problem. Remember, it's the sanctuary state policies that caused this whole situation because there's no cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and law enforcement, which means that these kinds of enforcement actions are necessary. You don't see this in other states where you've got cooperation between the feds and state and local authorities. So they caused the problem in the first place. Their response is completely incompetent and inadequate. And then they blame someone else. In this case, obviously Trump. But there's another point I want to make, which is about the pattern. Just a couple of weekends ago in Los Angeles, you saw very similar scenes to what we've just witnessed this last past few days. On a smaller scale, you had an illegal party, a roof party that got out of control in a warehouse building, hundreds of people spilling out into the local community, marauding around, smashing up businesses, vandalism everywhere, literally setting cars on fire. They commandeered a police car, jumping all over it, graffiti ing the police car. What did the LAPD do? Nothing. Literally nothing. They stood back and just watched while all this happened. There was not a single arrest. That's what's the problem here. You have people who will not enforce the law and uphold standards of civilized behavior, which is the that fact first responsibility of people in government. And that message I'm drumming home loud and clear. And I think there really will be change in California in 2026 because we cannot go on like this.
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Buck Sexton
Steve, real quick, before we go, is it dying down or is there a concern here that this could continue or maybe even worsen?
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Unknown Host
I think it is and I think the president, it's dying down and that's good to see. And I think it's the direct result of the president's tough response because everywhere you go is the National Guard holding the line. And so I think that that has clearly made a difference. And last night was better than the weekend and you know, let's hope tonight is better. It's early morning here still, so there's not nothing going on particularly. But I think that it looks like things are getting more under control. And of course that's something we welcome. But it's exactly, I think thanks to the tough federal response which of course all the politicians here, that's there for, I mean for goodness sake, the governor of California spending his most of his time yesterday, you know, posting on X, you know, anti Trump, trolling things and filing lawsuits.
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Buck Sexton
It's madness. Madness. Yeah, he apparently he has neither read nor understood the Constitution, Steve, but that's, that's not news. We're aware of that one. Steve Hilton, what is your site for the governor's race?
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Unknown Host
Steve Hilton forgovernor.com fo r Steve hiltongoverner.com.
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Clay Travis
Well, we encourage everybody in California who wants things to change to go to Steve Hilton4california.com Keep up the good work and sorry. Yeah, for governor and stay safe out there.
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Unknown Host
Fantastic. Great to be with you guys. Thanks.
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Clay Travis
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J.R. Martinez
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who.
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Unknown Host
Went down that day. It's for the families of those who didn't make it.
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J.R. Martinez
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Clay Travis
We're talking about the situation in LA on the streets and thanks to Steve Hilton, who's out on the streets of Los Angeles and we took a bunch of your calls yesterday from Los Angeles and I do think the argument that this is not a significant issue because of Elon's purchase actually has made it much more difficult to argue that there isn't something going on of a substantial.
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Buck Sexton
Well, just think of it this way, Clay. The days of the original BLM 1.0, which I think was the first time we saw these piece. These protests are fiery, but mostly peaceful. Yes. I think that was Ferguson. Right. And the early. That was BLM 1.0. And then George Floyd was BLM 2.0. You can't do that anymore because CNN and these other entities, including social media platforms, don't have stranglehold over what information will be shared. So now if you're CNN and you pull something, you're saying, oh, look at this, look at this peaceful group. And some people were doing this.
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Clay Travis
Yep.
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Buck Sexton
Everyone says, okay, well, look at these waymos on fire. Look at these stores being looted. Look at this crazy stuff going on. I'm just gonna say this. Steve Hilton just talked to us and he's obviously there. He says this is dying down. And it's dying down because politically they are losing as much as I think it is the National Guard being deployed. You see what I know National Guard is holding it in check, but they're not continuing the same way because this is hurting the left.
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Clay Travis
Now, there is an expected nationwide protest on June 14 that is being set up. I was reading about this morning. So I think LA has been a test case scenario for them for what they can accomplish. But I wanted to play this because Maxine Waters said there's no violence in la. I'm going to call for this in a sec. But remember, Gavin Newsom tried to share a burning police car that one of that had been shared and was going viral on social media. And he said, this is not 2025, it's 2020. He was also governor in 2020, but within a few hours, there were burning police cars also in 2025. And what they're trying to do is say there's no violence out there. And unfortunately, you have a choice. You can believe what you actually see, or you can listen to Congresswoman Maxine Waters cut 10 saying there's no violence in LA. Don't believe what you saw. Listen to this.
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Unknown Host
Even those who were out of step with what we are advocating, peaceful protest did not create any violence. Nobody was shot, nobody was killed. Get it in your head. And so when martial law is called, what are you going to say? I missed the point. Don't miss the point. You all don't think that somehow because they called out the National Guard, there was violence. There was no violence. I was on the street. I know. And I went from downtown detention back out into the community, talking to people. What happened in Paramount? What happened in Compton, what happened in Inglewood. So first of all, get it straight and don't just rely on what you've been told or the few incidents that you saw.
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Clay Travis
Okay? The police are legitimately having rocks poured onto them. Their cars are being lit on fire. The waymos are on fire. I love these waymos, Buck. This is the autonomous vehicles. I took them in San Francisco. They're basically having to shut them down. The lies of this is not actually happening is turning into a really, I think you're right, political detrimental moment for Democrats.
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Buck Sexton
Well, the mood of the country on this issue is something the Democrats completely misjudged in the last election and they continue to misjudge it because we've seen enough 10 million illegals under Biden. The whole thing was a scam. People abusing the generosity and the kindness of everyday Americans taking advantage of our system, clogging our emergency rooms, clogging our schools. And with English as a second language, instruction costs skyrocketing and all this stuff. Americans are tired of this. And if you're going to say the rule of law means I have to pay my taxes, the rule of law means these illegals have got to go.
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Unknown Host
Foreign.
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J.R. Martinez
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Unknown Host
This medal is for the man who went down that day.
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J.R. Martinez
On Medal of Honor Stories of Courage. You'll hear about these heroes and what their stories tell us about the nature of bravery. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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Unknown Host
This is an iHeart podcast.