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Lisa Booth
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Ice Cube
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Clay Travis
Welcome in Tuesday Edition. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Trump has broken left wing minds by telling them, hey, I'm going to keep you from getting killed. This is I knew it was going to be crazy. The reactions. But even for left wing meltdowns, the reaction from hey, my goal is to make sure that less people are victims of violent crime and less murders are taking place in Washington, D.C. has really, even for left wing insanity, gone to a different level. We're going to break that down for you here momentarily, giving you a little bit of a heads up. We're going to continue to follow the Texas redistricting battle and we're going to be joined by Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton at the bottom of this hour to give us the absolute latest on what the pursuit of Democrats who have fled the state is actually going to entail. And so we will follow that story with you along with many others. The New York City mayor's race is heating up, Buck. I saw George Will on Bill Maher over the weekend making the Clay Travis argument of hey, maybe we just have to let New York City stew in its own ineptitude in order to and rather than try to completely save them from their derangement. We'll talk about that, maybe break down that that universe. But I want to just start and have some fun here. We told you this was coming. We said Trump is trying to save the lives of tons of Democrat voters in Washington, D.C. and they are not going to be able to to handle it. By the way, we should also mention consumer prices, inflation low yet again, 2.7% below expectations, making finally some of those rate cuts start to appear more likely maybe as soon as next month. We'll probably talk about that as well. But let's have some fun here. Buck. Here is great montage from our producer Greg of left wings left wingers complaining about the overreach of Donald Trump keeping them from getting killed in Washington, D.C. this is cut three.
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Lisa Booth
Is it government overreach or something that.
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Buck Sexton
Our big cities desperately need the call.
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Ken Paxton
To take over the Capitol? Drawing backlash. Critics accusing the president of overreaching, authoritarian overreach.
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Buck Sexton
They feel like this is federal overreach. This is overreach.
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Kyra Phillips
This is authoritarianism.
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Clay Travis
This is an overreach.
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Lisa Booth
This is unnecessary.
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Buck Sexton
It's about federal overreach. It's political overreach.
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Joe Scarborough
This seems like a bit of an overreach.
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Clay Travis
It is amazing how well they deliver the exact same talking points. Let me play a couple to be fair here for you, Buck of left wing journalists actually saying, you know what, it isn't safe in D.C. here was to be fair. Kyra Phillips at ABC news saying, hey, D.C. is actually very dangerous. Cut six.
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Kyra Phillips
Usually that's how you play devil's advocate, is you talk about, oh, well, stats say crime is down. However, I can tell you firsthand here in downtown D.C. where we work right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, yeah, there were two people shot, one person died literally two blocks down here from the bureau. It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped, walked just two blocks down from here. And then just this morning, one of my co workers said her car was stolen a block away from the bureau. So we can talk about the numbers going down. But crime is happening every single day because we're all experiencing it firsthand while working and living down here.
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Clay Travis
One more buck. Your buddy Joe Scarborough, who suddenly has taken truth serum and occasionally now says things that are objectively true, said, hey, privately everybody's Talking about how D.C. is unsafe and then publicly they're complaining because Trump's trying to make it safer. Cut 7.
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Joe Scarborough
People have been calling me over the past couple of days going, you know, like Washington should have gotten involved years ago. This place is dangerous, it's a mess, it's a wreck and whatever. And then they'll go on Twitter, go, this is the worst outrage of all time. They jockey, which I understand, it's like people need to express their concerns about Donald Trump going too far. We saw what happened back in 2020 with the National Guard. Certainly can't have any repeat of that. Don't want the federalization of the entire city. But man, I don't care what the crime statistics say. Crime has been a problem in this city for the 32 years I've been living inside and outside of the city. It's just, you know, even now, we, Meek and I, we're talking to somebody who lives in the city. These are all Democrats who said, you know, our friends won't walk more than three blocks in D.C. at night.
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Buck Sexton
Notice how it's like he was listening to the Clay and Buck show yesterday and is now just reiterating everything that we told you. Because we tell you the truth. We tell you what's really going on, which is why you grace us with your time and why this. This project of getting to hang out with you all works as well as it does, because we're all a team in the truth. And it is so obvious to anyone who is. This is the thing, too. You have two guys here who have Both lived in D.C. so we. We know, right? This isn't some city. I can quote Statistics in St. Louis to tell you that it's dangerous. I can tell you stories, personal stories about. I remember I was woken up in the middle of the night, living in D.C. clay, and what was considered a kind of a nice neighborhood. It wasn't Georgetown nice, but it was a nice enough neighborhood. It was Logan Circle area, for those of you who know dc. And there was not a shooting, a shootout on my corner. Two guys who were at one of the, you know, big hotel chains, I forget which one, pulled guns on each other and shot it out. Neither of them hit anyone. But I remember being woken up in the middle of night by this. You could say, oh, Buck. But that's anecdotal. Everybody who lives in D.C. has these anecdotal stories, no matter where you live in D.C. and that is a different thing. It is a different thing. And they. They talked about. I did watch some Morning Joe this morning. You know, sorry, guys. That is a different thing they talked about on Morning Joe. How if you live in Manhattan, you might have a story about someone being crazy on the. In fact, if you take the subway, you definitely have stories of someone being crazy on the subway. And you might have some stories about. About vagrants and about some unsettling things. You don't have a story about the summer intern who just got stabbed to death last week. Everybody who lives in D.C. knows this. And one of the brilliant things from. That's the reality there. One of the brilliant things here, once again, from Trump and Clay, you were hitting it hard yesterday. It's so important for everyone to know this. Trump is forcing them to defend the indefensible once again. Once again, D.C. is not a safe city. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying or just is ignorant. And it should be a lot better. The city council in D.C. is so insane. That the Democrats had to go along in Congress and override legislation that they were trying to pass. The D.C. city Council tried to make carjacking a less serious statute. And the United States Congress was like, you guys are nuts. You can't do that in our nation's capital because we have to drive in to go to our jobs and we don't want to be carjacked. Democrats, Clay, once again caught completely flat footed on this. They look like buffoons. What Trump's doing makes perfect sense. And if he shows results, which by the way, I think he will, I think there will be results from this. It'll just be another W where Democrats look like they're the pro crime party and the emotionally erratic liar Party.
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Clay Travis
I also think this could be a pilot program if, if Trump surges National Guardsmen and additional resources in Washington, D.C. and we see a marked decline in violent crime, why would that not be possible with state National Guard troops? You mentioned St. Louis. I was looking, I think I. Let me see if I looked and flagged it. But the cities that actually have the largest awful crime rates, I was very kind of interested in that. And some of them you would not be surprised by. Memphis is awful, and Kansas City I was surprised by, is incredibly awful when it comes to violent crime. Why couldn't we apply some of the same lessons that might be Learned in Washington, D.C. to those cities and drive down violent crime everywhere?
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Buck Sexton
Well, you absolutely could. And this is the critical point. This is a choice the same way, and this is really important the same way that we saw that Biden's open border was a choice. Trump has proven that letting 10 million people flood into the country under false asylum claims, entering illegally, and then gaming our system and taking advantage of the American people, that did not have to happen. Democrats chose to make that happen. They're also choosing for crime to continue in all these cities at the level that it is. I mean, you can go down the list, Clay. New Orleans, a beautiful city that I love. Way too much crime. St. Louis, so much crime that when I visited our affiliate there a few years ago and I asked my Uber driver, I was like, hey, downtown looks kind of nice. He's like, don't walk alone at night here. I remember, I'm like, in the main downtown near the sports stadium. He goes, oh, no, don't walk alone at night. I said, okay, that's not a, that's not a big. And everyone that I saw who lived in the suburbs there said the same thing. It's too dangerous at night. You know, Cities like Baltimore City. I haven't been to Detroit. I have spent a lot of time in Baltimore. Baltimore is far too dangerous. Far too much crime. The things that they keep saying they want to do, oh, we need more like, you know, social workers or we need more welfare programs or whatever. That doesn't do anything. Fighting crime involves enforcing the law and locking up criminals. D.C. had 3,000, give or take, has about 3,000 felony arrests a year. Now it's only 365 days in a year, but 3,000 felony arrests in a year. Clay, probably 1500 to 2000 people in D.C. are really doing the bad stuff. Yep, really doing the bad stuff. Out of a city of 600,000, if you're willing to lock up even 500 to 1,000 more of these serious felons, you know what happens. Everybody's safer, 100%.
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Clay Travis
And we're speaking as grown men who I think, in general, are less concerned with crime. I don't know about you. I really don't think about being a victim of crime that often, But I was having this conversation with my wife the other day.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, Franklin, you might have, like.
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Clay Travis
A squirrel run across your roof. Where that. Where I live. I mean, anywhere. But I was having this conversation with. With my wife, and she said, you know, you and Buck been talking about crime. Every woman, when she walks into a. When she walks into a parking garage is. Her head is on a swivel, she's holding her keys to be used as a weapon.
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Buck Sexton
You know, the most dangerous places. The most dangerous places, especially for women, parking garages, gas station. Parking garages, gas station. That's the worst place for women to be.
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Clay Travis
Specifically, I told my wife recently, I think I said it on the show, hey, Nashville, where I live, certain neighborhoods feel unsafe. I said, you're not getting gas anymore in Nashville. Like, come out to Franklin, where we are after dark, and you can fill up the car, plan it that way. But I think that every man thinks about this in the context of wife, daughter, mom. Every woman thinks about it all the time, right? When crime is at a high level, women are thinking about this all the time. And I guarantee you, especially all the women that are in the media and are conscious of the high rates of violent crime that are going on, they actually agree. And I think what one of the things that this illuminates is Trump says what lots of people think and the difference between authentic politicians and inauthentic politicians is what I give them credit here, Joe Scarborough just pointed to, which is most people agree with what Trump's doing privately, but publicly, because it's Trump, they're claiming they don't. And I think increasingly more and more of the American public is seeing through the BS and saying, wait a minute, you said yesterday. I think it's a good point. You could disagree on tax rates or tariff rates. I mean, I just said this on Fox News. But as part of disagreeing on keeping people from getting murdered is a really tough argument to make, right? Hey, I want less people to die violently is something that everybody in America should say, hey, I'll sign on to that.
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Buck Sexton
Like I said, this is one of Clay. Clay's brave stands on the show. Solidly anti murder.
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Clay Travis
Did you see these news Fox News actually shared from their 28 million Twitter account or whatever. Clay Travis says he hates murder. And I was like, finally, I'm getting some credit here for hating murder more than anybody else. That was actually their headline. And so I appreciate the praise.
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Buck Sexton
There something else I want to point out, because we were discussing the numbers. We should get into some of the numbers some more on this. And remember, if you're like, well, it's our nation's capital, Clay. We don't want to just take blue cities and let them rot. Sir, whether it is New York or D.C. we will return to that conversation. We want them to be the best they can be. And people were saying, oh, well, look at the numbers. Look at the crime that's it's going down. There's already an indicator, a pretty strong one, that they're cooking the books, which I'll also tell you, even without this story, I knew this was going on because anyone who lives in D.C. will tell you, not safe. Bad things are happening. Not safe. And the, the atmosphere there. And this is why Joe Scarborough, Joe Scarborough's golf playing friends from the Chevy Chase Country Club, for those who know the D.C. area, I'm sure he has a lot of them. A lot of Scarborough watchers live in Chevy Chase. They would be very miffed. You know, Muffy and Buffy would be very upset if Joe was saying that it was safe in downtown D.C. because they don't feel safe when they go to Pilates class in downtown. They know that bad things happen there. You know, this is a great time to talk to you about Sabre. We're talking about self defense, talking about protecting yourself and your family. We're just discussing him if you're a woman and, or a man. But if you're, if you're somebody who's going to be at a gas station at night or you're going to be going in and out of parking garages or just in your own home. Remember, home invasions can happen anywhere. Burglary. Some of these very sophisticated burglary crews, they're actually international. There are foreign, foreign guys who come into this country and they're very skilled burglars. All kinds of stories about that. They do, they do burglars, they do home invasions. How do you protect yourself? Sabre S A B R E this is the number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. And for a lot of you, you might even live in a jurisdiction where you can't really conceal carry so you don't have access, ready access to a lethal option to defend yourself and, and even those of you who do have that option like I do here. Yeah, I've got firearms and I've got Saber products. I've got force escalation. Carrie feels, Carrie feels more comfortable. She doesn't want to be carrying concealed. I do. But she wants to be able to have pepper spray so she can go out, go for a walk in an area that maybe is a little more, a little more dodgy. Saber. My friends go check it out. They've got amazing products. Family owned company. Clay and I know the CEO. He relies on these products for his family too. S A b r e radio.com that's s a b r e radio dot com. You'll say 15% when you go to that site today or you can just call this number 844-824. Safe saving America.
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Clay Travis
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Ice Cube
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Buck Sexton
Back into Clay and Buck so the Tech Texas redistricting fight continuing to play out. Democrats fled to state. We've got Attorney General for the State of Texas. Attorney General Paxton will be with us in just a couple of minutes to give us the latest update on that. He's also got some breaking news that has hit today on that that we'll be discussing with all of you. But here is Governor Greg Abbott on where he stands on the redistricting fight in his state. Play it.
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Greg Abbott
What these Democrats have done. They have turned their back on the people of the state of Texas. For one, it is gutless for Democrats to cut and run. That's anti Texan. Ever since the time of the Alamo, Texans have stood and fought their ground here. Democrats are fleeing like a bunch of chickens. They can address both the redistricting map as well as all these other issues that are so important to their fellow Texans. Know this and that is average Texans who are watching this show. They have to show up to work. If they don't show up to work they could get fired. These Democrats think they are above that. These Democrats think, well they can take the day off, they can take the month off, they can jet set across the country ignoring their duty by the Constitution. They are required to meet and consider and act on every bill that becomes before them.
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Clay Travis
Look, I think it's a no brainer and I want to hear from the attorney general of Texas what the latest is. How long are these Texans going to stay outside of the state? That's super weird. Just think about your own life, how much if you have families could you just vanish like they are vanishing? We'll ask him all the latest details about that.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate everybody hanging out with us. He is the attorney general of Texas. He is also running for the Republican nomination in the Senate. He is Ken Paxton with us on now. Okay, so let's dive into the absolute latest here. The Democrats to my knowledge remain outside of state borders. What should we expect to happen going forward now, Mr. Attorney General?
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Ken Paxton
Well, I don't know. It's this is a, you know, uncharted territory for all of us. I don't know exactly what to do expect, but we are, we filed actions in both Illinois and California. You know, obviously they can move around, but my understanding is many of them are in Illinois. We filed actions in that state asking the court there under the full faith and credit provision of the U.S. constitution to honor our quorum warrants that are, were issued by the speaker of the House in Texas. So we'll see how that goes. We're, we're waiting on action there. We also have our filings with the Texas Supreme Court to try to remove 13 different legislators for not for being openly defiant of showing up for a session to deal with a lot of issues, not just reissing. And that is on a sort of a two week time frame with briefs due by the other side, then a reply brief and then their reply brief. So that's going to be going over the next couple of weeks. And then of course we have our actions that relate to federal o' Rourke and his PAC and trying to hold him in contempt for violating a temporary restraining order that was issued by a court in Tarrant county recently.
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Buck Sexton
So, Mr. Attorney General, if I could ask, could, could you just reverse a little? Because for some of, some of our listeners, what is different about this time? This has happened before and there are people saying, oh, this is a game that has been played in the past. What does the law say about like where are Democrats who have fled the state in violation of law and how is this time, if this time is different from the past, how is it different from when they've tried this before?
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Ken Paxton
So, you know, they tried it in 2003. I was in the Texas House. Obviously I was not in the attorney general's office in 2021. It didn't last very long, this one. We have no idea how long it's going to last. So, you know, they're all a little different. I think as we've had more experience, you know, my office has gotten more and more creative trying to deal with these issues. And so these ideas that we're proposing now are just ideas that we've come up to be creative. They're, as I said, they're new. There's no experience really in trying what we're doing. And the last two times we just outweighed them. And the governor, the governors kept calling Governor Perry, Governor Abbott kept calling him back. And eventually we got it. We got it done. So, you know, I guess we're just a little more action oriented and A little more creative this time, trying to push the envelope to get them back here sooner so we can get this done.
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Clay Travis
What would you say? And I'm going to get my popcorn because I bet the answer is going to be good. To people like J.B. pritzker, governor of Illinois, to Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, to Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, who say Texas is effectively destroying democracy by redistricting, I would say they're hypocrites.
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Ken Paxton
I mean, their own states are so gerrymandered. I mean, look at our maps versus their maps. It's ridiculous to look at Illinois. Massachusetts, you know, has zero Republican representatives representation in the state that has 37% Republicans. Illinois, 44% has only three representatives that are Republicans. So, I mean, I don't know how they say it with a straight face, but they do. Apparently. They're really willing to just be dishonest because they know they've done it. They've done it for decades, and they're just appalled that you guys can't do what we've done. And, but yet here we are. You guys in Texas are destroying democracy. What we did when we gerrymandered our state to almost, you know, many of the states have no Republican representation. That is not destroying democracy because we're Democrats.
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Buck Sexton
And so in terms of the law, you're the attorney general for the state of Texas. They are they in clear violation. Are they arguing that what they're doing is somehow not a violation of Texas statute? Because the way, it's no surprise, the way it's talked about in the media, they pretend like there's a lot of gray area and this is done before and, you know, what does the law say about their obligation to actually show up for a quorum?
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Ken Paxton
Well, they're obligated under House rules. They're, they're, they represent the people of their area, but they're under the, under obligation of their own rules that they pass to show up to vote. And when they don't do that, they can be held in, you know, basically in contempt by the own body. So they say that their own body voted on rules that they were a part of that says exactly the opposite. So they're not being honest. They're being very disingenuous. And of course, as you're not surprised, the mainstream media plays along, you're also.
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Clay Travis
In the midst of running as a Republican candidate in the Senate race that will happen next year. You're in the, in the midst of a lot of different things going on. How would you Assess that, that race. And do you think President Trump is likely to weigh in in one form or fashion?
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Ken Paxton
So, I mean, I did my polling before I got in, but I used Cruz's pollster. I used another pollster with that did Trump's polling. I did not. I did three polls. All of them had me up by at least 25 points. I don't think that's changed much. You know, you can have different pollsters looking at different things, but it was very consistent. And it's based on John Cornyn's past 23 years as a U.S. senator. And you can go back further. He's been in office since I was in college and I'm 62. He has not represented Texas well. He's, he's been opposed to President Trump being president both times, insinuated that he was guilty of crimes. And now suddenly you had conversion experience on April 8th when I got in the race. And now he loves Trump after hating him for the entire he's been in office. He's been opposed to building a wall on the border, which most my constituents were disgusted by. And of course, President Trump had just the opposite view. And he fought with Joe Biden to restrict Second Amendment rights, which Texans obviously do not want Second Amendment rights restricted. But he, John Cornyn, fought with Biden to make that happen. So if you look at his record, he has not represented Texas well. There's not a distinguishing feature other than he tells us now that he's with Trump all of the time. It's just not true. It's dishonest.
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Buck Sexton
You know, we're putting a lot of time and attention, Mr. Attorney General, on what's going on in D.C. now with Trump trying to bring the crime numbers down and federalizing the Metro Police for a period of time as he can under the Home rule Act of 1973 for the district of Columbia. But we've also raised how this could set a precedent, especially if there are points on the board, so to speak, if Trump shows success here for other law enforcement efforts that would use federal partners in conjunction with local law enforcement. And I'm wondering if this is something that you're already considering or are you in conversation with the Trump White House about. Because, you know, Houston, I have a lot of friends in Houston. Lovely place, but there's some crime there. There's some crime problems. Same thing, I believe, in Dallas in some areas. So I'm wondering if this is something that you think could be a template in your state or just in general across the country.
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Ken Paxton
No, I think in general, it's a, it's. It's certainly something given that these cities are very liberal, their district attorneys funded by Soros. We have the same problem. And you know, Travis County, Austin and, and other major cities in our state where they won't prosecute and they defund the police and make it very difficult for crime to be prosecuted. So I don't know, since in my case, the legislature doesn't give authority to the attorney general to prosecute crimes, leaves it up to the DA's. I think any, any help we can get from the federal government, shut down crime and stop the increase that we have in our cities that are run by Democrats. I'm for.
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Clay Travis
Ultimately, do you expect. I know the FBI has gotten involved. Do you expect for there to be any arrest outside of state of any of these Texas lawmakers? Like, what is the Rubber Meets the Road moment? Let's. At some point, the expectation, I think, is that they can't live outside of the state forever and they'll have to return. But while they're out of state, do you expect any arrests or any seizures to occur?
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Ken Paxton
I don't expect. I mean, the FBI would have to have a federal crime. I don't see them arresting. This is not a federal crime. I mean, love it if they could get him back somehow. For us, the actions that we're taking in Illinois, I think, are our best shot is getting these states, these courts, to recognize our laws and help us get them back. Otherwise, we're going to be in the same situation we've been in the past. We just. They don't want, they don't want to live in Chicago the rest of their life and go through the winter. They're going to have to come back. They have jobs, families. And ultimately that has been successful both times. It just took longer and, you know, we spent a lot of money and waste a lot of time, but ultimately we got our redistricting maps passed in the past, both times. So we're not going to give up. We're just trying to expedite the process because it's ridiculous that this is what we have to go through.
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Clay Travis
All right, biggest question right now for you. The last time I think Buck and I saw you in person was actually at a Texas Alabama football game down in Austin. Within about three weeks, a basically 1v2 is going to be taking place. The Texas Longhorns have opened as the number one team in the country. They're going on the road in Columbus, Ohio, against the defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes. What happens?
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Ken Paxton
You know what? I'm optimistic that Texas will pull it out. They've done it before. The last time I went to a Texas Ohio State game on the road was when Texas won the national championship and they beat Ohio State at Ohio State. So I'm going to.
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Clay Travis
That was Vince Young, right? If I remember correctly, I was there.
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Ken Paxton
I loved it. And, you know, no one expected us to win that game, but I am predicting we're going to have a repeat. I think it was 2005 of the Ohio State opening game against Texas where Texas pulled out a win.
- [35:49]
Buck Sexton
I remember that game like it was yesterday.
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Clay Travis
You know, Buck, that led into what I think is the greatest college football game of my life. Into the year. Rose Bowl, Texas, USC. The most watched college football game of the 21st century that I imagine, Mr. Attorney General, you sometimes think about fondly. Still to this day, I do.
- [36:11]
Ken Paxton
I was there. I literally, when the game was over, I thought, this is the greatest college game I've ever seen. I almost thought, how can I go to another college game after witnessing this masterpiece, really, by both teams? It was just. It was just amazing. I still get kind of chills talking about it. It was so. Remark is such a remarkable game.
- [36:31]
Clay Travis
Amen.
- [36:32]
Buck Sexton
Well, look what.
- [36:33]
Clay Travis
Keep us updated on how this is going on. You know, you can come on anytime. And we appreciate all the work you all are doing down there.
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Ken Paxton
Hey, I appreciate you guys have a great day. We're going to win this.
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Clay Travis
Buck is like, what, what would you even call that? Regripping. Your regripping?
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Buck Sexton
Yes, yes. Called regripping. Regripping my racket right here. I play with a Wilson. I'm playing some tennis this afternoon.
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Clay Travis
So the knee is back in good shape. You're recovered, like, no injury issues at this point?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, it turns out if you drop 40 pounds, your joints are very thankful. This is another thing that I have found out. Yeah, my knee all of a sudden feels great. And it's like, yeah, I gotta give.
- [44:29]
Clay Travis
You credit, by the way, because you got me on this. And I'm like, I don't know why I haven't been doing this a long time. I now just walk and take phone calls in my neighborhood like a crazy person. I think this should be if you can walk in your neighborhood, right? If you don't have to be on an interstate or a super busy road. But if you can have a conversation while walking on your phone and walk, you know, two, three, four miles just while you're working, when otherwise you'd be sitting at your desk or what. I think it is something that should be standard everywhere. And I see a lot of people in my neighborhood doing it. But you talked about doing it more frequently and now I've been doing it for the past few weeks. I'm walking way more. I'm out and about, and I can have the same conversation that I would otherwise be having sitting in a chair.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I remember when I went up and did some training with D.J. shipley, who's a former SEAL Team Six operator and runs GBRS Group, which is. Just has really cool gear and does all this great training for people. You can go train with them just like I did. He's a huge proponent. I mean, you know, he's like, you know, the ultimate warrior, honestly. And he's a huge proponent of walks. Walks for recovery, walk with your spouse to just connect, like, walk, walk, walk. Really critical stuff. So I'm glad you're doing that, man. I didn't know that it Also for weight loss. I didn't know this. I used to think that I would run for weight loss. I was. I would do running. And the problem with running, for one, it's hard on your joints and your knees as you get older. That is true. And also it often has a stimulating effect on your appetite. So I would go for a big walk, and then I'd be like, oh, like, now I need to have, like, a giant Caesar salad with, like, extra chicken because I went for a run. Whereas walking, you don't have the attendant hunger spike. So, yeah, dude, walking is. Is a cheat code in so many ways for us. So go walk. Like, go walking. I. Carrie and I try to do it every day together. We go walk.
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Clay Travis
I. I think it's incredibly smart, but. And also incredibly healthy. Laura's gotten into it. And anyway, I. It's funny because everything cycles, because I remember when my mom was. You know, when I was a kid, my mom was a walker. It was actually very popular, maybe more so than almost jogging. And then jogging took over and everybody started jogging. But to your point, I. First of all, I hate running. But when I ran, I was always so hungry. Because you do, I think, end up consuming way more calories. Because you are. Especially if you do long runs, you got to do it. So the walking thing is like a great kind of lifestyle hack, especially if you're someone who has to be on the phone for calls a decent amount.
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Ken Paxton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
Get out and move. Like, when you're doing them.
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Buck Sexton
This is why I've become particularly militant about zoom calls.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Unless someone really needs to see my face, you have my full attention if I'm walking and I have my. My headphones in. So, yeah, no, I'm telling you, for all of you if you can get into it and but if you live in a neighborhood where there's not really great walking or whatever, get yourself a cheap treadmill and just walk and take your calls and walk and call family members. It is a, it is, it is a cheat code. So I'm glad you're enjoying that. We'll get to some calls, by the way. Sorry, go. We'll get some calls and we'll get some talkbacks and all that good stuff coming up here in just a second. We are racked and stacked and yes, and I'm, I'm going to continue to regrip and perhaps even re spring my rackets. So more fun stories about tennis coming up, too.
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Clay Travis
We'll be right back.
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Lisa Booth
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