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Mary Katharine Ham
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Welcome in Thursday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We've got a loaded program coming for you. Howard Kurtz from Fox News, Carol Markowitz from New York Post and the Clay and Buck Podcast network. And then the governor of Alaska, Mike Dunleavy. Not the former basketball player, I don't think, I don't think he's doing double duty. He will be with us as we look towards the eve of the Trump Putin meeting in Anchorage, Alaska that is scheduled for tomorrow. I'm sure there will be much discussion of that both today and tomorrow, but we told you this on Monday. Trump came out at, I believe it was 10am East coast time on Monday and said crime is out of control in Washington, D.C. and I'm going to marshal as many federal resources as necessary to help stop that from being a reality. Uh, he was fed up with what he was seeing. We now are on day four of Trump dominating the news cycle and the news cycle being Democrats arguing, hey, crime isn't actually that bad. And meanwhile almost everybody else is saying, actually, yeah, it is really bad. And why are you opposed to making crime better than it is right now? And I, I just want to play a couple of cuts here, Buck, to get you started for the day. This is and I want to give credit before I play him by, by the way, we have finally reached a bridge to lunacy that Joe Scarborough will not take to defend left wing talking points. Perhaps embarrassed, chastened by his, his ridiculousness as it pertains to Joe Biden. Uh, he is actually making some sense. But first, the people who are not making sense. Chuck Schumer, he of the hey, I like to cook hamburgers on a grill. Awkward, increasingly without power in the Senate, terrified that AOC is going to challenge him. He says, I feel perfectly safe in D.C. and this is all just an Epstein distraction. Flailing Chuck Schumer. Cut three.
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Unknown
Flailing.
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I walk around all the Time. I wake up early in the morning sometimes and take a nice walk as the sun is rising around some of the Capitol and the other monuments and things, and I feel perfectly safe. They're full of it. Look, here's what they've done, Aaron, plain and simple. Donald Trump wants to distract. That's his game plan. It's been his MO for his first term in the presidency. And now. So he trying to make this a distraction. What's he trying to distract from? Well, a lot of things, but above all, Epstein. We've been confronting him on Epstein very successfully, left and right, so much so that Johnson had a dismiss, you know, had to send his house home early, and we called it the Epstein recess.
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Buck Sexton
Okay. This is desperate primarily because Democrats were in power for four years and did nothing at all, by and large, relating to Epstein. Epstein has. Has started to vanish as Trump has, I think, tried to marshal as much public release of data as he possibly can. And Democrats are now buck in the position of arguing. The first part of this is what I thought was interesting, Chuck Schumer saying, I get up early in the morning and I walk around the Capitol. First of all, I question how often this happens. Maybe, hopefully he's out for walks and he's a very healthy guy. But I don't think most people are saying, hey, it's 6:00am it's deadly necessarily to go walk along beside the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Uh, I think even Chuck Schumer would have to realize that much of the issue related to crime is in residential areas. Um, and this is kind of a flailing nature that they're in right now. They're telling people to not believe what they see with their own eyes. Crime is bad. And I think everybody out there recognizing it and Trump trying to make it better is actually just a good thing and not particularly political.
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Unknown
It's also remarkable that the fallback now has turned into. Well, we're doing such a good job as Democrats on the Epstein thing. Yeah, that's the big. That's the big attack. That's what they're going after the administration on, just to note something they didn't care about at all while Joe Biden.
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Buck Sexton
Four years. For four years.
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Unknown
Yeah. There was absolutely no discussion whatsoever from them about Epstein, and yet here we are now being told that any.
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Buck Sexton
So.
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Unknown
So anything that Trump wants to talk about that they don't want to talk about, now their go to is he just wants to distract from Epstein.
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Buck Sexton
Saving people from being murdered in order to distract from Epstein, I would argue, would Even be. Even if it were true, I would actually argue that's good. You know, Epstein's dead and not committing, to my knowledge, any current crimes. I'd rather protect people from current crimes as opposed to focus on past ones personally. So even that argument is a weak one when you actually break it down in that respect.
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Unknown
Yeah. I think that the whole Democrat Party is desperate for anything that they can say right now that just seems like they're even in opposition because there's nothing they can really pull. There's nothing they can really pull together that will hit hard against where Trump currently is. I would note that on, on the crime issue, you've had a number of people come out, come forward here, here's my, my, my old friend, Se Cup. Actually, I wanted to play this one. She, she used to do the real new show with me at the Blaze many years ago at Glenn Beck's the Blaze. And, and she had this to say at CNN to the Democrats, to their faces, play seven.
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The numbers can be what they are, but also, people don't feel that way. Crime in the economy. Feelings don't really care about your facts. And I can't tell you how profoundly stupid it is for Democrats to get up with their facts and their figures and their charts and their graphs and say, look, you're safe. Can't you read this chart? Idiots. Why are you complaining? I'm showing you right here how safe you are, so shut up and move along.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, it doesn't work argument.
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Unknown
And that's what they're trying.
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Buck Sexton
And I give credit. You wanted to play SC cup there. This is, there's actually quite a few people on the left that are saying, you know what? Again, this is a bridge too far. Joe Scarborough, who basically proved he didn't have a gag reflex as long as Joe Biden was president. Even he now is saying, look, D.C. is really dangerous. And on MSNBC, they have that panel show, the Morning Joe that you watch. Buck, I watched this clip. There's like eight people that are all there in, like, tiny little boxes. They have this huge ensemble cast. And Scarborough is just lecturing everybody. Actually, Trump's right about how violent the crime situation is. And I don't think this is playing very well. Here's cut eight. This is what they heard on msnbc.
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Joe Scarborough
The answer to this, this, this problem for Democrats is not, oh, everything's okay, there's nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Oh, Washington has dropped 24% or whatever in crime that. Well, let me give you some other numbers. The Washington Post took a poll in late April, early May. 91% of Washington residents say crime is a problem. 91%. 51%. It is an extremely serious problem. There are stark divides among lines of race and income in the poll, with black residents and lower income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents and those with higher incomes.
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Buck Sexton
I think that's actually well said by Joe Scarborough. The base of the Democrat Party actually feels the crime that is poor black voters in a way that the left wing media that lives in Northwest D.C. and oftentimes has private security protecting them is a bit protected from this. And this ties in with what Harry Enton is saying. This is cnn, that he thinks this is a total miscalculation by Democrats, too. And again, trying to reduce violent crime is something historically that almost all Americans have been in favor of. Cut six.
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Harry Enten
Look at where Donald Trump is way, way, way above Joe Biden. What is that? That's 27 points. So Americans vastly prefer Donald Trump's approach to crime than they did to Joe Biden's. And again, I think it gets back to the point that Americans are far more hawkish on crime than a lot of Democrats want to admit. This isn't just about Donald Trump. It's about Republicans versus Democrats. Right. And that, of course, is a key question going into next year's midterm election. I think the party closest to your views on crime, look, in 2023, Republicans were favored by 13 points. Look at where they were in May of this year, Republicans were actually favored by 16 points. They actually gained ground on crime. They were maintaining their edge and actually added a little bit to it. So Republicans in the House, Republicans in the Senate, they absolutely want to be talking about crime. The more they feel that we're talking about crime, the better they feel that the electoral landscape is for them.
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Buck Sexton
Are you surprised that this has been the Democrat position, that actually crime's getting better and that Trump, I mean, if they had come out and said, hey, he's exceeding his presidential authority, we don't like that. But to argue, hey, crime's actually down and there's no need for this, it feels like an own goal, shooting themselves in the foot, even within lenient standards, because Democrats do that a lot. I'm kind of surprised that they stepped right into this bear trap.
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Unknown
I guess they just don't really have any sense of how to oppose, of how to pivot from something that Trump is on and come up with a better or a, you know, their own version of how to fix it. Because to me, that would be, they could come out and say, well, this isn't for the president to do, but we should have more resources. For now, I think the response to that would likely be something along the lines of, yeah, we've been trying that. Whatever they're going to say has probably been tried before and failed for a long time. And I think that they're going to be in trouble no matter what. But they have turned something that you would think would be a more minor issue into a much larger, much longer term issue, which I find surprising, the lack of political foresight that they have here. They've given Trump the news cycle this whole week to the point where, as we said, Chuck Schumer is saying it's because he doesn't want to talk about Epstein. I mean, how long are they going to be pulling that one off? That doesn't work. And also to look at the numbers, the crime numbers, they initially kept comparing it to 2023. Comparing the drop in crime to the year that had the single nationwide largest increase in homicides in 60 years looks really disingenuous to anybody who understands numbers and statistics. So they're having problems all over the place.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I also think Scarborough's point is well taken. I mean, a Washington Post poll, what did he say? 91% of D.C. residents say crime's a problem. And I think he said 50, 96% said it was an incredibly significant problem. You can't lie to people about what they feel. Eventually you can address the underlying concerns. I'll give you an example on this. Right now, the economy is getting better under Trump. But I also understand that explaining to people that the economy is getting better is sometimes challenging because it takes a while for the economy, national economic mood to shift and reflect what people are actually seeing. I think some of you are feeling it. Gas prices are down relative to where they have been. Grocery prices according to the most recent Producer Price Index numbers actually coming down. And so the challenge, I think, is prices went up so fast that things still cost more than people think they should. But we are rectifying this issue in many different ways. It's just taking a little while. And again, Trump has commandeered the national news cycle now for four days over. He wants to bring down violent crime. Democrats have mostly said violent crime is not that much of an issue. And now starting tomorrow, all of the news cycle through the entire weekend is going to be reacting to Trump and Putin and, and what is likely to be occurring based on that relationship. So all of that coming your way. But you know, the world is going a little bit upside down when even a guy like Joe Scarborough is, is saying, hey you, you're making a lot of sense here.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Mary Katharine Ham
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Mary Katharine Ham
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Unknown
Welcome back in everybody to Clay and Buck. And we are still talking about this D.C. crime situation. So Clay, this there's a, there's a. The Subway sandwich.
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Buck Sexton
Did this Subway sandwich assault. I think it happened last night, according to FBI Director Cash Patel's Twitter post. I think Judge Jeanine talked about it.
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Unknown
This is what I was going to say. Let's hear Judge Janine. She discussed this Subway sandwich assault that occurred Play nine.
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The President's message to the criminals was if you spit, we hit. Well, we didn't quite do that the other night when an individual went up to one of the federal law enforcement officers and started jumping up and down, screaming at him, berating him, yelling at him. And then he took a Subway sandwich about this big and took it and threw it at the officer. He thought it was funny. Well, he doesn't think it's funny today because we charged him with a felony assault on a police officer and we're going to back the police to the hilt. So there. Stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else.
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Buck Sexton
Sorry. Janine is so good. I mean, she's just so good. I shared this video, Buck, and it is a guy in a pink polo. Just first of all, don't scream at police officers. I mean in general. But then he takes like a what appears to be like a foot long sub and just throws it as hard as he can at the police officer. And you can say, ok, like is this the most serious thing that's ever happened to that police officer? Surely not. But when you sin.
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Clay Travis
Have you seen this video?
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Buck Sexton
I can't stop laughing at the video.
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Unknown
He's so casual too, as he's kind of, he's not even running away that fast.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I think he thinks that it. That there are no consequences. Right. Which has typically been true. You can throw water bottles at police officers. You can spit on them. And I think the actual symbolism of this is important because it sends the message, don't touch an officer. Don't throw anything at him.
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Unknown
Absolutely. And officers have done, in all honesty, all officers have dealt with way too much physical assault, disrespect, all kinds of things. I still am fired up about the antifa lunatics during BLM out in Portland who are shining lasers in their eyes, trying to. Trying to destroy their vision. I mean, you know, it's, it's something that you have to probably have the laser in your eye a little longer than these guys are able to do. Yeah, but if somebody's trying to blind me, I think very extreme force in response to that is completely justified. So. And none of those guys got serious punishments for that. So this is a good change in the approach. It's just the fact the guy wore a pink. I mean, look, hey, I'm a pink polo kind of guy myself. I'm not, I'm not throwing, I'm not throwing sandwiches over the polo. I'm just saying if you're going to throw the sandwich at the cop, don't do it wearing a pink polo.
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Buck Sexton
Well, and look, I give them credit because the video is going viral and we'll have some more fun with this, by the way, because I can't stop laughing about watching the video. College campus is filling up again. Kids headed back to school. If you've got a son or a daughter off to college, how about self protection from Sabre? S a B R e website is saberradio.com these are incredibly useful and helpful products that will make your life safer. They have safeguarded hundreds of thousands of people. The pepper sprays, pepper gels, projectile devices, all proudly made right here in the good old usa. They're impactful, non lethal and empowering to use projectile devices in the shape of either a pistol, pistol or a rifle. Often recommended by law enforcement officials. Act now to protect yourself and your family. You can save 15 on Saber's mega bundle with extra projectiles, magazines and practice targets. Visit saberradio.com that's S A B R E radio dot com. You can also call them 844-824. S A F E. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Rolling through the Thursday edition of the program, lots of re rolling into Pink Polo and his subway attack, assault on an officer. But I do think it's somewhat representative of a certain left wing response to increased police officers in D.C. there are protests now that are developing against police officers being able to protect people from being murdered. And I just, I look at this and I do think, Buck, what Trump kind of is brilliantly exploiting in some way is the disconnect from the people who are the limousine liberal universe, as Rush would call them, who typically have their own private security. They have their own universe that tends to be far safer, where the rules are enforced and law is respected. And then most of those people, by the way, live in Northwest D.C. which for those of you who don't know, is by far the wealthiest part of the Washington, D.C. area. And then there's all the other people who tend to live in Southeast and live in a lawless, in many ways society. And they're begging for help, and Trump is giving it to them. And the Pink Polos of the world are furious that there are police officers out on the streets. I do think that that video that has gone mega viral is somewhat evocative of that disconnect, because in general, I think it represents, like, if you have that level of disrespect for a police officer, it's probably because you don't feel personally threatened by violence. And that's the only reason I can think of why you're screaming at a police officer standing on the street trying to enforce the law. But I do think the Joe Scarborough commentary and that video just really kind of illustrate in a very quick manner what Trump has pointed out, which is most people on the left don't actually care about violence because it doesn't impact their daily life.
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Unknown
Yeah. And they recognize that the Republicans have staked out for a long time now the position of we do need to just enforce the law, we need to back police, and we need to incarcerate people or none of this stuff gets better. And every time they're able to have it their way, or every time that experiment is run with that in mind, things do get better, things do improve. So we own this territory, so to speak, as Republicans and Democrats don't want to cede ever that we are correct. It's stubborn. It's a bit of bitterness too, thrown in there. And as you say, it's because so many of these people. And I was like, well, I was, I was taking some shots at what was George Will with the bow tie the other day.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Unknown
Lives in Chevy Chase. Chevy Chase is Not is not dc. Dc, Right. I mean, this is. This is like, people. There are areas I've been to suburbs of Baltimore, beautiful people have, like, farms and I mean, it's lovely. You know, it's really nice. That's not Baltimore, even if it's Baltimore county, whatever it is. Right. So a lot of people, I think, that weigh in on this stuff too, they say, as a New Yorker, I'm particularly sensitive to this. People say, oh, you know, I think New York is really safe. I'm like, where do you live? Chappaqua. You don't know, you know, nothing.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, where do you live? Scarsdale.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah, Like, I'm Scarsdale. Safe. I'm not worried about Scarsdale, but, you know, go spend some time in the South Bronx and talk to me about how safe the city is. Although New York, Manhattan is pretty safe for a large city, Boston, I believe, is a good bit safer for a sizable city. So there's really substantial differences here. When you look at it, I was surprised. Houston's actually got a. More of a crop. You don't hear about it a lot. I was looking at some of the stats. Houston has a rougher time with crime, with. With homicide specifically, and shootings than I had anticipated. Doesn't get a lot of news coverage. But that was another city because obviously one of the biggest cities in the country that came up that definitely needs some help. I think they have Soros da Or at least they used to.
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Buck Sexton
One of the challenges on the data is where I live is Williamson county, right. I think south of Nashville, I think. I don't know, there's like 300,000 people or something who live in my county. Basically, it's Nashville. There's a murder rate essentially here of zero. There might have been one or two murders in the whole county in a year. And so one of the challenges you get into, to be fair on some of this data, is some cities only count a certain part of the city, and it could be a big sprawling metropolis. And so I wonder on Houston, which is the fourth biggest city in the country, Right. It's a huge, sprawling metropolis. That's why I think the New York data is so interesting, because New York city has what, 8 million people who live in the five boroughs of New York City, if I'm not mistaken, Roughly. And you compare that 8 million with the 700,000 or so that live in D.C. and D.C. per capita is out of control. Now, some people would say, well, if you count Montgomery county and you count Arlington and all the surrounding areas, D.C. would look a lot less violent than it does when you only count the District of Columbia by itself. So, for instance, Shelby county, where Memphis is, is insanely violent. But if you counted all of the surrounding metropolitan area of Memphis, it would dial back some of the violence a little bit. So my point on that is sometimes the data isn't entirely illustrative of the full picture, but I do think D.C. which exists in this unique world where it's just a federal district, to your point, the George Wills of the world, they live just across the border in Maryland and they're like, there is no crime here. You're like, well, yeah, George, you probably haven't been to Southeast D.C. in 40 years, unless you count going to the Washington Nationals, like right on the edge. I think of southeast a little bit is where the baseball stadium is there. So it is in many ways something that I think the elite, the wealthy of DC just pretend doesn't exist because it doesn't come into their universe very often. And remember, this has been a big issue in D.C. for a long time. They kept the subway from going to Georgetown because they didn't want people who were poor to have easy access to people who were rich in D.C. it is a huge deal. They didn't want the subway. Anybody who's been there, you have to get out at GW and walk up or you have to now take obviously an Uber or walk across the river from Virginia. They tried to protect themselves from the lesser class who couldn't afford their multimillion dollar Georgetown mansions. It is very interesting. All those people vote left. All those people were Kamala voters. But boy, they really don't want violent crime to have easy access to them, do they?
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Unknown
And yet Georgetown does have its spillover of. It's a lot safer than other parts of the city, of course, but there's stuff that happens in Georgetown that is that you'd be shocked for this to occur in the nicest neighborhood of other cities. So Trump is right on this. And Democrats can do whatever they want with this, with the squawking and the, and the screaming and they can, they can throw a fit. At the end of the day, Trump has latched onto yet another issue, has, has put forward another program and set of policies where anybody who is being honest about it is saying, yeah, that, that seems more, that seems sensible. And they have already been doing a number of arrests. They're taking dangerous people off the, off the streets. So I think that you might, it's going to, it's not going to be a huge Change in the crime data, but it will have a positive effect.
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Buck Sexton
Our subway assaulter is. Was a Department of justice employee. And this is the kind of. I mean, this is what Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted just a little bit ago. I just learned this defendant worked at the Department of Justice. No longer. Bondi said in all caps. This is an example of the deep state we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus doj. You will not work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement. Uh, and so this individual is. Is named. I wanna make sure I get his name. Ch. Sean Charles Dunn. And he was a DOJ employee. But I do think. Do you think that guy in DOJ was aggressively enforcing Trump DOJ policies? I bet that he was a diehard Kamala supporter. That's why he was screaming at the judge and I mean screaming at the officer. And why he felt like he could just pull back a sub and throw it. Because to be fair, I. How many times have you seen videos of police officers just taking objects being pelted at these BLM protests, for instance? Nothing ever happened. You just got guys standing there, water bottles, hitting them, all sorts of pepper spray sometimes. I mean, so I do think this is a change of policy. The guy thought, hey, nothing's going to happen to me. I'm just going to throw this at the officer. And, you know, it is going to be interesting. That happened Sunday night, Northwest D.C. and he was arrested Wednesday night.
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Unknown
Do we know what sparked the sandwich confrontation?
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Buck Sexton
The report is that he was angry over too many police officers and screaming at the police officers for standing around, and that was what eventually led him. I mean, I assume when I watch this video and the way he ran. Yeah, that's my assumption. I mean, it doesn't look like something that a sober guy would do. So I'm assuming the guy had been out somewhere, probably had too many drinks, was a leftist, got angry at a police officer, thought that there would be no consequences. Because there haven't been really any consequences for leftists who do anything to police officers for years. And as the kids say, fa. And now he's foing.
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Unknown
Yeah, I'm shocked that this guy would think that this is going to go in any. You know, doing this at any point in time is unwise. To do it right now, given the focus on this nationally is pretty crazy. But, you know, there are people who believe this stuff about how this is martial law or the militarization of police, and this is part of there are less of them now than there have been. But there are still people out there who think that Trump is about to declare himself like dictator for life. And this is part of that move. So you can see this stuff online. But imagine working at the DOJ and.
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Buck Sexton
Thinking that's what I'm saying.
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Unknown
This is the part of it that's really bizarre to me. And also not understanding or being able to think about the consequences in advance of assaulting a police officer in the current environment like that. When you work for the Department of Justice, I mean, he would, you would hope that he would know that it is technically a felony to physically assault a police officer who on duty. I mean, you would think you would know that.
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Buck Sexton
I think that this is an example of how you have protected people for leftist political thought. I think he thought that he was above the law. And I think he has now found out that there's. There's a lot. So many Subway sandwich jokes that you can make. But where are you on.
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Unknown
So I really can't. Because of celiac disease, unfortunately, I really can't experience the full glories of the Subway sandwich. Where are you on that?
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Buck Sexton
I love Subway. I eat there.
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Unknown
I've never, I have never had a Subway sandwich that I can remember.
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Buck Sexton
Ever in your life. I like Subway. I like Jimmy John's. I like all of the, you know, you give me a sandwich with chips and a soda, it's to me the perfect meal.
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Unknown
I understand what is the best of the sandwich.
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Buck Sexton
Sandwiches.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
I get either the meatball sub at Subway, which I think is very good, or I get my tubs, my, my sub toasted and I get. My favorite is sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub. So those are the two my typical go to if I'm now I'm getting hungry and if Subway just got a huge advertisement from us that they were never planning on thanks to that moron throwing a Subway sandwich at the, at the cop. But I'm a big fan. I like Subway. I think relatively speaking, it's, it's healthy. You know, they had that one guy who lost a lot of money that I've lost a lot of weight. Unfortunately, he ended up being a pedophile, I think. Right. Well, that was an unexpected twist in the, in the weight loss story. But you know, I mean, I do think that, that they do a good job of let. Letting you count calories, which is not necessarily very easy in much of the fast food universe. So I like them.
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Unknown
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Buck Sexton
Do is laugh and they do a lot of it with the Sunday hang. Join Clay and Buck as they laugh it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
The reviews and ratings are in and Ice Cube's Big three is the surprise hit of the summer. And to cap off the season, iHeart presents the Big Three basketball playoffs this Sunday at 3pm Eastern. The remaining four teams battle it out for the right to make the Big three championship in the most physical, fierce and competitive basketball league in the world. The action starts with the Big three Monster Energy celebrity game where your favorite stars compete in big three three on three basketball. Then the first of two semifinal games features Dwight Howard and the LA Riot taking on Montrez Harrell and Dr. J's first place Chicago triplets. The finale will see popular Miami 305 with stars MVP Michael Beasley and Lance will make You, Dan Stevenson, take on Nancy Lieberman's Dallas power, who finished the season winning five straight weeks to capture second place. Can Glenn Rice, Greg Monroe and Paul Millsap stop Miami's physical assault? Or will Miami impair Beasley, put an end to Dallas's winning ways? Who will make it to the big three championship? This no holds barred action starts Sunday at 3pm Eastern, 12 Pacific only on CBS.
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Mary Katharine Ham
Hey there. I'm Mary Katherine Ham.
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Carol Markowitz
And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a long time.
- [37:25]
Mary Katharine Ham
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
- [37:28]
Carol Markowitz
That's why we started Normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
- [37:35]
Mary Katharine Ham
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
- [37:41]
Carol Markowitz
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
- [37:45]
Mary Katharine Ham
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people. Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday.
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Carol Markowitz
And Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
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Unknown
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We got some talkbacks, got some great things happening. We've also got some Crockett coffee going, my friends. Go to crockettcoffee.com Please sign up. Subscribe. Coffee for people who love America and freedom and all those good things, but also it's just delicious. And it's a coffee company that we're all building together. All of you are helping us build this. So subscribe to it, become a part of it. The gear is awesome. My Crockett coffee hat, which I've worn enough now that it actually kind of fits because my head is giant, you know, my head is giant. So unfortunately hurts the aerodynamics of the serve a little bit to have such a large cranium. But that's okay. That's all right. And speaking of sports, you know, I'm just, I was feeling like, you know what? All right, all right. So a little, a little harder than maybe. Maybe I need to hit a little harder than that video to get to.
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Buck Sexton
Where we need to be.
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Unknown
None other than Jim Jordan, who I believe is a state champion wrestler. Clay has weighed in on this one to say that while he respects my technique and recognizes that Mr. Buck has game, he thinks 100 miles an hour may be just, maybe just completely out of reach.
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Buck Sexton
I woke up this morning and early this morning I'm doing my prep. Jim Jordan, text me appreciate. But we do really appreciate the number of congressmen, senators, who listen to the show when they're, you know, running around, driving around their districts. Everything else a lot of them do. Jim texted me, listening to yesterday's show. We all love Buck, but I'm a no.
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Unknown
This is like a bless your heart text from Jim Jordan. We all love Buck, but yeah, we.
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Buck Sexton
All love Buck, but I'm a no. I also appreciate, I was laughed when I saw that because I'm thinking that that's probably how like, Jim sometimes has to text Mike Johnson, you know, and they're like, hey, we got a close vote. We all love. So it's.
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Unknown
So I'm just wondering, by the way, these speed guns have a plus or minus of like three, four miles an hour. I'm just wondering if we get up to like 96, 97, 98, are people gonna still be throwing flags on this one? You know, if the speed gun officially says 98, am I gonna have people like, oh, that's not a hundred. I mean, you know, like, we gotta be fair. People are saying 60 in the comments. Clay, 60. Get out of here. So 60. This is madness.
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Buck Sexton
Laura Travis is sticking, sticking to her guns. Happy anniversary, by the way, to Laura Travis. 21 years she's managed to stay with me, but she is convinced that you can't hit 100 miles an hour. Said it again this morning. So. So she is going hard in the paint there. Jim Jordan also got the back. We'll see what happens next with Howard Kurtz.
- [40:41]
Clay Travis
Iheart presents the big three playoffs. This Sunday. The remaining four teams battle to make the championship in the most physical, fierce and competitive basketball league in the world. The action starts with the big three Monster Energy Celebrity Games. Then Dwight Howard and his LA Riot take on Montrez Harrell and Dr. J Chicago Triplets. The finale will see popular Miami 305 with stars MVP Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson take on Nancy Lieberman's Dallas power who will make it to the big three championship. The no holds barred action starts Sunday at 3pm Eastern, 12 Pacific. Only on CBS.
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Mary Katharine Ham
This is an iHeart podcast.