Hour 2 - Guest Host Brian Mudd

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show (Guest Host: Brian Mudd)

Hour 2 – November 28, 2025

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Overview

In this episode, guest host Brian Mudd leads an in-depth discussion on President Trump’s recent foreign and domestic policy initiatives. The main themes include the aftermath of the Biden administration’s policies, Trump’s efforts in achieving international peace, especially in the Middle East and Russia/Ukraine, and the administration’s aggressive stance against narco-terrorism and illegal immigration. Mudd also interviews Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer about the tangible impacts of these policies on state-level law enforcement. The tone is both critical of the previous administration and celebratory of recent perceived successes.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Trump’s Foreign Policy: "Cleaning Up the Biden Disaster"

• Putin and Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks: The show opens with news that Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is set to meet Vladimir Putin for serious peace negotiations aimed at ending the Ukraine war by year’s end. (03:14)
• Comparison to Biden Administration: Mudd links global instability, citing the Afghanistan withdrawal and surges in crime, directly to Joe Biden’s “weakness,” arguing that this emboldened bad actors worldwide. He references Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and others as collaborators (the “new axis powers”). (03:21–04:25)
• Trump's "Unprecedented Peace": Mudd asserts that Trump’s leadership has begun to undo the proliferation and chaos he ascribes to Biden, referencing peace deals such as the Israel-Hamas agreement (see “Notable Quotes” below). (05:18–06:05)

2. The Middle East and the Iran Nuclear Program

• Israel-Hamas Deal and Broad International Support: Mudd expresses amazement at the scope of the Israel-Hamas peace deal, listing dozens of nations involved at the signing. He credits Trump’s decisive military use (specifically the “MOP”—Massive Ordnance Penetrator—against Iran’s nuclear program) for enabling broader Middle East peace through renewed credibility and deterrence. (06:50–10:30)
• Trump’s ‘Bomb the Blank Out of ISIS’ Doctrine: While alluding to Trump’s previous warnings and no-nonsense approach, Mudd claims this quickly restored American global strength and made new diplomatic breakthroughs possible. (09:00–10:15)
• Comparisons with World History:
  • "Just as Truman dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki [ended] World War II, dropping the MOPs destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities... became the key to Middle East peace." — Brian Mudd (12:15)

3. Internal Critics and Government Divisiveness

• Democrats as Divisive: Mudd argues that Democrats, not Trump, are the “true dividers,” highlighting the extended partial government shutdown as evidence of government waste and left-wing pettiness. (13:09–14:14)
• Government Shutdown as a Lesson: He notes that the five-week+ shutdown of a third of the federal government “did not affect” 73% of Americans, thus emphasizing “government bloat.” (14:14)

4. Combating Narco-Terrorism and Drug Trafficking

• “Boats That Go Boom”: Mudd details Trump's controversial strategy of using military force against narco-terrorist vessels (Operation Southern Spear), arguing for the efficacy and necessity of striking without focusing first on “due process.” (20:42–27:15)
• Statistical Impacts: Citing his own analysis, he claims:
  • 30% reduction in drug running into the US by sea.
  • 23% decline in drug overdose deaths year-over-year (over 3,300 lives saved in two months). (27:18–28:18)
• Designation and Action: Trump’s executive order designated certain cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, enabling military targeting.

5. Guest Interview: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer (28:19–37:40)

Highlights:

• Defense of Strikes: Uthmeyer argues that Trump’s actions are legal and justified, comparing cartel strikes to anti-Al Qaeda actions. (28:39–30:11)
• State-Level Law Enforcement Impact: Florida interdicted over 20,000 vessels during the Biden years; now, post-crackdown, traffic has “significantly dropped.” Freed-up resources are combating other crimes like child exploitation and organized retail theft. (30:40–32:45)
• Criminality Among Illegals: Uthmeyer reports that, in regular stings against child predators, “20–25%” of arrests are illegal aliens—far exceeding their share of the general population. (33:44–34:55)
• Sanctuary States’ Vulnerability: He warns that states like California and New York likely harbor many more undocumented criminals, pointing out Florida’s strict enforcement as a national model. (35:28–37:16)

6. Reflections and Conclusions

• Trump as a ‘Great Unifier’: Mudd concludes by casting Trump as uniquely capable of fostering international and domestic peace, with Democrats positioned as disruptive and divisive. (16:29–17:10)
• Narco-Terrorism Policy Success: “Taking terrorism down in action is a proven winner that saves tens of thousands of lives per year. It’s something that deserves a whole lot more attention.” — Brian Mudd (41:27–43:53)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the scale of recent peace deals:
  “Who else in the world could have brought so many varied countries together for peace around Israel? That in and of itself is incredible.”
  — Brian Mudd (06:45)
• On Iran’s nuclear program:
  “And then Trump is like, screw this, I’m gonna drop the MOPs. And by the way, remember over the summer... you had all the morons on the left, they’re like, ‘well, the nuclear program isn’t destroyed.’ You notice how nobody says that anymore?”
  — Brian Mudd (10:15)
• On Government Shutdowns:
  “So we shut down over a third of the federal government for over five weeks and yet over 70% of Americans had no impact. So that illustrates a point about how much government bloat there is.”
  — Brian Mudd (14:14)
• Defending anti-narco-terror campaigns:
  “The president has been very firm in that example. It has saved thousands of lives, as you recognize. But it’s also served as a negative deterrent.”
  — James Uthmeyer (29:10)
• On Deterrence vs. Due Process:
  “If you have an active terrorist attack, do you… figure out the path forward for due process or do you stop the act of terror?... I think it’s better to take the shots and not worry about the due process for the terrorists that are drug running.”
  — Brian Mudd (21:30)
• On Child Predator Stings:
  “Every single time, we end up arresting about 20, 25% illegal aliens, people that should never be here in the first place and walking around the street on an average day… It shows how high, tremendously high, disproportionately high the number of bad actors, criminal actors... are that are here illegally.”
  — James Uthmeyer (33:44)

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Highlight | |------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:14 | News of Steve Witkoff’s diplomatic trip to Moscow; context for Ukraine peace prospects | | 05:18 | Discussion of Biden’s global track record and “new axis powers” | | 06:50 | Recounting attendees and significance of the Israel-Hamas peace deal | | 09:00 | Trump’s early presidency, ISIS, and reestablishing US credibility | | 10:15 | Destruction of Iran’s nuclear program and drop in regional nuclear threats | | 12:15 | Hiroshima/Nagasaki analogy—MOPs as the “key to Middle East peace” | | 14:14 | Government shutdown impact; “government bloat” lesson | | 20:42 | Pivot to anti-narco-terrorism campaign (“boats that go boom”) | | 23:26 | Introduction to AG James Uthmeyer interview | | 29:10 | Uthmeyer on justification and impact of military action against cartels | | 33:44 | Illegal immigration and disproportionate crime statistics in predator stings | | 41:27 | Closing segment: impact and importance of Trump’s terrorism and drug policies |

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Episode Flow & Tone

• Tone: Assertive, at times sarcastic; unapologetically critical of the Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers, very supportive of Trump’s policies and recent actions; punctuated with light humor and pointed rhetorical questions.
• Structure: Alternates between solo commentary by Brian Mudd and in-depth interview with Florida AG James Uthmeyer, interwoven with recent news segments and statistical claims.
• Audience: Tailored toward conservative listeners, frequently reinforcing themes of national strength, law and order, and skepticism toward “mainstream media” and “the left.”

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Summary for Listeners

This episode (Hour 2, guest-hosted by Brian Mudd) provides a robust rundown of the Trump administration's recent efforts to reverse what conservatives see as the Biden administration’s failures, particularly regarding border security, foreign policy, and drug-related crime. Listeners are presented with a narrative in which Trump’s leadership leads directly to international peace breakthroughs and record domestic safety, with special attention to Florida’s successes under strict law enforcement. Critical reflections on due process in anti-terror operations, government bloat, and left vs. right approaches to unity tie all these threads together.

For those who missed the episode: expect an unapologetically pro-Trump, tough-on-crime perspective, with detailed breakdowns of policy outcomes, and notable statistical claims about both domestic and global security improvements.

Transcript

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[Brian Mudd]

Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast. With peace talks underway, we do know the Trump administration hopes to end the Russia, Ukraine war by the end of the year.

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President Trump confirming that his special envoy.

[Brian Mudd]

Steve Witkoff is headed to Moscow next.

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Week where he'll meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

[Brian Mudd]

That is Foxes Trey Yinx Just as President Trump continues to clean up the disaster that Joe Biden left us. You know, the first hour, Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck. First hour, we were talking about the horrific terror attack, the two West Virginia guardsmen that were attacked on, on Wednesday, one dead, one critical condition, the impact that all of the Biden immigration policy has had. The huge escalation in crime that we saw with the Biden administration, the problems that we are stealing, dealing with daily, but that we're also making progress, that we do have over 2 million deportations that have taken place. We got a run rate that's about 4 to 1. Those that are taking a look at places like Alligator, Alcatraz and going, you know what they call just go ahead and leave on my own, which by the way is a lot more efficient for you and me as taxpayers. And so however they want to go, it's great if they're gone. But the other big messes the president's been cleaning up all throughout the year, all the wars, right, all these wars that we have had that have been endless because why Joe Biden was president of the United States, his weakness, that collapse in Afghanistan, it all kind of ties back around. I mean, you had word was out on the street. It wasn't like Joe Biden was, was an unknown commodity to world leaders, dictators, tyrants when he became president. But the moment that we had that Afghan collapse, well, that was open season for all the bad actors around the world. And of course, Putin right there at the top of the list. One things you always have to remember is that any time that we are talking about Russia, we're never talking about just Russia. Anytime we're talking about China, we're never just talking about China because these countries the kind of like the, the new axis powers, if you will. China is, is Russia, Russia is Iran. China is Russia, is Iran, is North Korea with little rocket man, it's Also Cuba, it's also Venezuela, it's also Nicaragua. All these bad actors, bad countries that have been conspiring with one another that had four years of proliferation. President Trump has been working to undo the problems associated with that weakness. The better news is that we're on the brink of unprecedented peace now in this second hour. Thank you so much for taking the time with us this Thanksgiving weekend and really hope that we would have a different start to the show than talking about the horrific terror attack in D.C. and going through all those things. Coming up in the third hour, we're going to end up diving into Trumpcare. I have been working on the health care issue for literally decades, and I am so thrilled that Senator Rick Scott is working on it the way that he currently is, because the way the legislation is being written for Trumpcare will solve, will solve our health care crisis if it becomes law. I'm going to break all that down, explain why this is different and the historic opportunity that exists. But we also have some encouraging news here with this unprecedented peace opportunity. And by the way, you can catch me socially at Brian Mudd Radio, the Brian Mudd show podcast, wherever you get your podcasts, would appreciate it if you ch says we're taking a look at the opportunity for unprecedented peace that's come out of the Biden disaster. We've witnessed stuff this year that really is unprecedented, really is unprecedented. And what we continue to witness regularly is history because already we've had a lot of things that probably didn't think were would happen. For example, you go back last month and what happened with the Israel Hamas peace deal. First of all, I never thought we were getting those 20 remaining living hostages back. I never thought they were coming out alive. Only Trump can do something like that. Never thought that we would end up seeing the prospect of Middle east peace. But that is what's come about. Why? Because of Trump dropping the mops? More on that in a moment. And one of the things you think about as Trump has truly been bringing the world together, there really has been unity that we have not seen. Just take a look at all the countries. For example, with the Israel Hamas deal that were on hand, that signing in Egypt, you had Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, the PLO is there, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar or Qatar, if you could prefer, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and of course US, The United States. Who else in the world could have brought so many varied countries together for peace around Israel. And so that in and of itself is incredible as President Trump continues to make progress with the Abraham Accords as well and talk that, hey, Saudi Arabia might be getting close to signing on. And so if that happens, truly, truly history in the making. But one of the things that we saw just there was no doubt that Donald Trump had credibility on the world stage, right? It all started in his first term when he said he was going to bomb the blank out of isis. When he became president and he became president, he bombed the blank out of ISIS and their caliphate and everything else gone so well. There is no doubt that he was going to restore credibility and strength to the United States again. But what he did to undo very quickly the abomination that was the Biden administration and the weakness of the US and the world stage, it all happened when Trump dropped those mop and ended Iran's nuclear program. You think about this, and there's so much, these inflection points, so much weakness portrayed with the collapsed Afghan withdrawal by the Biden administration, so much that was demonstrated with Trump's willingness to drop the most deadly, most destructive bombs of a non nuclear nature that exist. And so that really has brought about increased opportunities for peace, many of which we have seen. When you take a look at the precision of that attack on Iran, taking out the nuclear program doing what? How long have we talked about the Iran nuclear program? U.S. presidents and leaders from around the world for decades. We say Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and then what will we do? Like UN nonsense. We're going to have, we're going to have inspectors in there and that'll be great. Just all of it was always absurd. And then Trump is like, screw this, I'm gonna drop the mop's. And by the way, remember over the summer in the immediate aftermath of all that, you had all the morons on the left, they're like, well, the nuclear program isn't destroyed. You notice how nobody says that anymore. You realize how that just kind of went away after a little while. Why? Because Iran's nuclear program is destroyed. And what did that do? It opened up the opportunity for the rest of those Arab countries that were in question go, you know what, maybe those Abraham Accords a pretty good idea. Yeah, we'll go ahead, Mr. Mr. Trump. We'll go ahead Mr. President, and make sure that Hamas doesn't do anything else. We got this all part of the credibility and not having those nuclear threats hanging over the region. So every day that Joe Biden Was President United States world was less safe. Every day that Donald Trump is president of the United States, the world is a safer place and certainly our country. So when you take a look at the Israel Hamas peace deal, President Trump had this to say at the time. He said, I think it really started when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. When you look at what they had, you couldn't have made this deal with someone sitting over there with a nuclear weapon over your head. And so about this, just as Truman dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki into World War II, dropping the MOP, is destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities, that became the key to Middle east peace, but also critically important, it helped the US Regain the remaining credibility necessary to project something other than being a paper tiger. And you've got to have the strongest of strongest leadership positions to do away with Putin and his ambitions and to deal with somebody like Xi in China. And so here we are with serious peace talks that are in place with Russia and Ukraine. And look, I mean, until we get there, we're not there. But you have now had Putin himself, who has come out and said, yeah, we're in serious discussions, and he's seen, he's saying stuff that, you know, is still highly questionable, which you would expect for any number of reasons. But Putin himself confirming, yeah, we're in serious peace talks. No chance that is happening without all the success and all of the strength that has been projected by President Trump. And so credibility and strength has always been key when dealing with the world's worst actors. What President Trump has done in a matter of months isn't just brokering the eight different peace deals within 16 different countries that have taken place so far. President Trump, he prevented World War three while simultaneously bringing peace to the Middle East. And now it appears increasingly likely, Ukraine, like we really can get there. There appears to be a path forward, which, by the way, here at home demonstrates that it is in fact, the Democrats who are divisive and petty. Now, President Trump, it's the great irony, you know, people go, oh, look at it. Used to be, ooh, the mean Trump tweets, and now it's all these bad orange men post on truth. Just so divisive. Who's really divisive? President Trump, who's proven himself to be one of the greatest unifiers in human history, literally bringing very difficult world circumstances, these leaders together in the name of peace, making things happen. Or your TDS riddled Democrats that exist from your city council to Washington D.C. you know, they say he's the divider they stand in opposition to him every step of the way and including recently during the longest partial government shutdown in history. Which illustrates a couple points. The first is that you had 34% of the federal government that was shut down for over five weeks and did anything in your life actually change now? The answer was for about 27% of people. Yeah. Like if you are a federal government employee, directly impacted right around that periphery or near the end of it, if you were traveling, got caught up in some of that mess, the answer is yes. But actually the answer is that 73% of Americans approximately saw no impact. Never would have even known there's partial government shutdown if you didn't hear it in the news every day. So we shut down over a third of the federal government for over five weeks and yet over 70% of Americans who had no impact. So that illustrates a point about how much government bloat there is and how much opportunity there is to do something about it. But it also was crystal clear for the entire world to see the true identity of the divisive, hate filled and dangerous party in this country. Because how petty do these elected miscreants continue to look as they endlessly conspire against the world's top unifier. You take a look at Trump and how he must be viewed by world leaders with all this piece that's taking place, him doing what nobody else can do and then Democrats and their TDS nonsense. And they'll always, the left will always talk about the world leaders in the world stage the United States. We gotta. Yeah, who, who looks like the pack of fools here? Who are the real dividers? And so President Trump is involved in historic unification, historic peace on a scale that we've never seen. And it's without a doubt your Democrats, your tds that are the divisive ones within this country. Now there's a lot of good that President Trump has been up to, not just in combating the illegal immigration crisis, but also the narco terror campaign taking down the narco terrorists, those boat runners. I'm going to give you the latest on how much progress we're making there and the impact it's already had in our communities. Something else you won't hear anywhere else. Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck.

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People in the Biden administration said the Afghan withdrawal that we all know was disastrous was a success. And that's a quote. They called that a success. That chaos is not a success. That is a nightmare. Yeah. U.S. attorney for D.C. jeanine Pirro talking about the collapse in Afghanistan back in August of 2021, where we started the show and how we are still paying the price. You had 13American servicemen and women that lost their lives during that collapse in Afghanistan, along with all the other horrible things that, that did not need to happen. That happened right down to China gaining all that access to US Military equipment, to minerals, everything else in Afghanistan. Just ridiculous. But now we continue to see another life loss, a 14th life lost from that August 2021 collapse by Joe Biden, his administration, the weakness. And we just pray that there isn't a 15th by the time this is all said and done. And so every single day that Joe Biden was president of the United States, this country, the world was a less safe place. Every single day that Donald Trump is president of the United States. This country, this world is a safer place, period. And that comes right down to the narco terror campaign, Trump's anti narco terror campaign. And even some of the right have been, I don't know about this, where, what about due process for these terrorists that are drug running? I mean, the first thing about these boats that go boom when Trump has dropped these bombs, first thing about it, if you have an active terrorist attack, do you, do you try to figure out what the path forward for due process is or do you stop the act of terror? And it's like Bill Clinton, I know Bill Clinton was on a golf course when they said, hey, we have a shot here at Osama bin Laden. Like, no, got a little busy here on the golf course. And so 911 happened because Clinton didn't want to take that shot. I think it's better to take the shots and not worry about the due process for the terrorists that are drug running. And so I'm going to bring you some of the information about how much progress has actually been made, how many lives have already been saved because boats go blue, boom, and we're blowing up narco terrorists. We're also going to get the perspective from Florida's Attorney General, James Uthmeyer on this one, as Florida's been one of the top states those boats were heading. Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck.

[James Uthmeyer]

President Trump is bringing in 500 more National Guard troops because we will not be taken down by this. We will not be threatened.

[Brian Mudd]

We will not be intimidated as a country that is two Florida attorney generals ago. U.S. attorney General Ham Bondi talking about the D.C. terror attack, talked a lot about that through the first hour of the show. The mess that Trump has been cleaning up on all fronts, the historic piece that he has been bringing about, but also historic safety that we are beginning to see work into the process. It has been on every single front that President Trump, his administration, spent working to clean up the Biden disaster, but also to make significant progress with existing problems. Even from his first administration, one thing President Trump did is he learned every single lesson that could have been learned from having been president, had a plan in place when he got back into the presidency. Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck and one of the most controversial aspects of his policy recently. You even have some on the right who have been, I don't know. You know, we need due process for the, for the people on the, the boats that go boom. Okay. Yeah, we need due process for terrorists that are in the middle of committing a terrorist activity. Got it. Thank God you don't do anything important. Oh, wait, you're actually elected to office. That's, that's probably not good. But anyway, there are a couple things about this. I did a comprehensive analysis on this not too long ago. The lives saved by Trump's anti narco terror campaign. You can search for the story or the podcast if you want the full Monty on this. But the bottom line is taking a look at what Trump has been able to do with the boats that have been going boom. About a 30% reduction in the drug running into this country by the methods that have been in place. So almost a third of all drug running disrupted. And I'm not sure a lot of people realized how much was coming through the water often. You know, take a look at commonly Venezuela, Colombia, and some of the Pacific that had been taking place as well, but most in the Atlantic. A lot of it coming into the state of Florida. And a lot of people that were acting surprised about this, except that on President Trump's first day in office, he signed an executive order that spelled out what was going to happen here. That order designating cartels and other organizations as foreign terrorist organizations and specifically designated global terrorists. And in addition to naming some terror groups right out the gate, it also tasked a lot of the federal agencies with figuring out who the existing cartels were, the threats, those that are acting in a terroristic capacity, and come up with a plan for dealing with them. Hence what we eventually saw with boats that go boom. And the plan was announced. All those pieces came together in early August. That's when President Trump first announced that we would use military force. And then a few weeks went by and then we got into September and that's when things really started to formalize under what is known as Operation Southern Spear. And when you take a look, as of the most recent activity, 21 strikes have hit 22 vessels focused on groups like Venezuela's trend, Aragua, Colombia's ELN guerrillas, resulting in 83 designated terrorists having been killed. And what has happened? Well, you're not hearing about the impact in terms of life saved. If you take a look at September of this year compared to September of last year, you have about 1700 fewer deaths. You have 7200 deaths due to drug overdoses. Last year got about 5500 right now, this year, September, October last year, 7000. October this year, about 5400. So you have over 3000 lives saved, about 3300. A 23% decline in overdose deaths. Now, some of that is due to closing the southern border, certainly, and dealing with those issues, but a lot of it's due to the boats that go boom. I found out in my analysis about half of it is attributed to the boats that go boom. So more lives have been saved during the first two full months of operations doing this than were lost actually on 9. 11 people don't seem to look at it that way. Probably deserves more attention. Somebody who is certainly aware of the impact of these types of things is Florida's current Attorney General, James Elthmyer, joining us now. Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family. Thank you so much for taking the time with us. We appreciate it.

[James Uthmeyer]

Happy Thanksgiving. It's great to be here.

[Brian Mudd]

So tell us a little bit about, you know, from your perspective as the top law enforcement officer in the state of Florida, the impact of these. These drug runners, the impact of the drugs that flow into, you know, the state of Florida and also, you know, clear across the country. Sure.

[James Uthmeyer]

Well, first of all, it really drives me nuts when I hear people say that, you know, these strikes are illeg. President Trump has duly and very publicly declared the armed conflict with these cartels and narco terror groups. They've been designated as terrorist groups, very similar to Al Qaeda. The courts have long recognized the Constitution grants considerable discretion to the president as commander in chief to protect our country and our citizens from imminent harms. And so these groups, they're on notice. They're on notice. If you want to come and bring this very dangerous illicit product into the country, which is often associated with other, you know, gun trafficking, human trafficking, et cetera, we're going to take you out. And the president has been very firm in that example. It has saved thousands of lives, as you recognize. Thank you. But it's also served as a negative deterrent. You know, under the Biden administration, Governor DeSantis in Florida declared a state of emergency. And we worked with aerial reconnaissance to interdict craft coming into the southern tip of Florida. And we interdicted over 20,000 vessels that were coming in, some smuggling drugs, others smuggling people. Now we don't see anybody coming in anymore. You still have some of these nitwits dumb enough to try it, which is why we have more boats going. Boom. But at the end of the day, we don't see the dangerous trafficking coming into the state that we did before, and many lives are being saved as a result. So it's been great to work with the feds. I hope they keep it up.

[Brian Mudd]

That's incredible. The 20,000 figure you threw out there, I was not aware it was that big. And it's just like the southern border and where we have a greater than 99% decline in people that even try to get to the southern border. Imagine when it's amazing what happens when you actually enforce the law and protect people. It just shows the incredible contrast. So what does this look like in terms of the opportunity that you have to then go on offense? Because there have been two things that we have seen, and the southern border is a good example. You had the president that had to stop the crisis. So we're going to secure our border. We're going to stop the abuse of the asylum process, creating all these magic a word people that would get lost in the US Permanently. And then you had the deportation arm. And We've seen over 2.1 million deportations take place so far. And so that that offense has been huge in the state of Florida, for example. And what other attorneys general may be able to do, what does this enable not having to deal with the daily influx that you were dealing with previously?

[James Uthmeyer]

Well, it's enabling us to maximize our resources, focusing on the inside of the state rather than the outside of the state. Don't get me wrong, we still have illicit trafficking that comes into Florida from other states, sanctuary states like California that welcome illegals, bless their presence, give them, you know, truckers licenses and other benefits, and then they meander into the rest of the country and hurt communities everywhere. But we have seen a significant decline in fentanyl and other drug trafficking in the state. So it's allowed us to go after child predators. We had a record, we're up to 1200 child predator arrests since I took office back in February. Protecting our kids, protecting our families. We've been able to conquer retail thefts, you know, a lot of, you know, coordinated efforts to go after retailers in the state, which is making Florida an even better place to do business. And so we're able to be more deliberate, putting more people undercover, taking down these large drug networks, leading to the lowest crime rates Florida's ever had in its history, which is just outstanding. And you know, we get it. We back law enforcement, we give them the tools they need to be successful. And we've got great coordinated synergies with the federal government right now, working with ice, working with Homeland Security, working with the Coast Guard and other military personnel to bring back American sovereignty and public safety for once and for all.

[Brian Mudd]

Brian Mudd here for Clay and Buck. And we're joined by Florida's Attorney General, James Uthmeyer. You brought up all of the combating of horrific crimes that you've been involved with since taking over as the state's Attorney general. And a lot of what the Trump administration from on high has been helpful in allowing the state to do. Talk a little bit about the disproportionate impact of crime with illegal aliens. This is something that, you know, I've illustrated for years, most recently under the Biden administration. You take a look at the full picture. The average non citizen in the United States ended up being nine times more likely to commit a crime than the average born American due to all the bad actors that came into this country during the Biden administration. What are you finding as you are combating all these horrific crimes, including the child sex predators?

[James Uthmeyer]

Yeah, well, we do stings every single week with a lot of undercover officers, many different state law enforcement, local law enforcement agencies working together, trying to take down child predators in particular. And when we do these stings every single time, we end up arresting about 20, 25% illegal aliens, people that should never be here in the first place and walking around the street on an average day. I do not believe that one out of five people is an illegal alien. It shows how high, tremendously high, disproportionately high the number of bad actors, criminal actors in the state are that are here illegally. And I think that shows the large flux of criminal activity that was coming in the southern border, coming in through things like the Afghanistan withdrawal. There was this effort to bring people in without vetting. I know you already talked about that earlier today. And what do we see? We see tragedies like what happened up at the nation's capital with the death of a guardswoman. And this is the danger that happens when you don't have borders and you don't have adequate vetting. So props to President Trump. I hope he can deliver on his commitment the other night to, you know, really shut down the border from bad actors and get rid of people that are here on sham parole arguments, on sham asylum arguments. It's been abused for far too many years and it's hurting American citizens. At the end of the day, we've got to focus on American citizens and their well being first and foremost. And every time we do big criminal takedowns, we see large scale numbers of people here illegally.

[Brian Mudd]

Well said. And just one more for you. As we see what a impact deterrence has been. You have all these number, large numbers and bad actors that are still in the state of Florida, which is as aggressive as any state in the country in combating illegal immigration. I mean, we don't know what we don't know obviously, but what would the expectation therefore be and what is basically a sanctuary state like a California, New York insert state here?

[James Uthmeyer]

Well, I think it shows how prevalent the people that are undocumented here are. A lot of them were got aways. They've never had any connection to the federal government whatsoever. And that's in addition to the people that came across the border, were handed a piece of paper by the Biden administration and told to appear for a hearing, you know, in a year or two. And we all know a lot of people certainly weren't going to go, you know, appear for that hearing. So I believe the problem is very significant. We have no idea how many millions of people are truly here in the country illegally in Florida, you know, we've enforced rule of law. We've complained the tune of three times more than the next, you know, toughest state, Texas. And look, I believe we did have a lot of people that, you know, disproportionately high number of people illegally in Florida due to the economic opportunities, the population, the language, the Spanish language in the southern part of the state. So I know we got more than our fair share, but I have no doubt that sanctuary states out there have a lot more than we think they do. And our cracking down here in Florida has just highlighted how widespread the problem is. So we're going to stand by President Trump and the federal government. We're going to protect Americans. We're going to bring back sovereignty.

[Brian Mudd]

Yeah. So what you're hearing, by the way, if you're not familiar with James, is that we don't just have in Florida the best governor in the country. We have had a historic run of great attorneys general. From the US Attorney General right now to now Senator Ashley Moody and now James Uthmeyer. Thank you so much. God bless you, my friend. Keep fighting the good fight. And Happy Thanksgiving.

[James Uthmeyer]

It's an honor to do it. Happy Thanksgiving.

[Brian Mudd]

God bless Brian Mudd? N for Clay and Buck.

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