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All right, second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off. We're gonna join President Trump live right now from the Oval Office talking FIFA, soccer stuff, the World Cup. Here we go. Play it.

Donald Trump (3:23)

Zero. It sounds like it's a horrible thing to say, but I might as well say it. Zero murders in the last week since we've done this, that's the first time in memory that that's happened, if you can believe it. How pathetic that is to have to even say it. And I'm tired of listening to these people say how safe it was before we got here. It was unsafe. It was horrible. And Mayor Bowser better get her act straight or she won't be mayor very long because we'll take it over with the federal government, run it like it's supposed to be run. The numbers were horrible. It was a crime infested rat hole. And they do have a lot of rats. We're getting rid of them, too. And we've made a lot of progress. And it was extremely unsafe. And now it's extremely safe. We had virtually no crime. The number was down 87%. And I'm trying to figure out where was the 13%, because I don't think it existed. The National Guard has been unbelievable and they're working with the police and they have some very good people in there. They have some people that shouldn't be police, actually, but they have some great people there. And the Washington, D.C. is a whole different place. And Johnny, I'm sure you'll be happy to hear that too, actually.

Clay Travis (4:34)

Oh, yes.

Donald Trump (4:34)

But it's a whole different place. People are excited again. They're going out to restaurants again. That was the other thing I saw. Numbers. That restaurant business is down in the last week. No, no restaurant business. You can't get into a restauran. Really lying people. And that's why people don't understand how bad and how dishonest the press is. I saw one poll that had us at 19% favorable on what we're doing with Washington. Then I saw another one says it's 94% favorable. And I can tell you the 94% is correct. The others are fake. Just fake news. They got to get their act together. So bad for our country. So sick, actually. So Washington, D.C. is really doing unbelievably well. And the Kennedy Senate that we're. I was just there all morning with contractors. We're making it unbelievable. It's going to be unbelievable. It's got great bones, but it needs a lot of work. The World cup draw will set up the group stage of competition. 48 teams will play in 104 games across 16 North American cities, from Seattle to Vancouver to Atlanta to Miami. It's going to be so exciting for our country. The 2026 FIFA World cup will be one of the largest and most complex events. This will be one of the greatest events, one of the largest in a. Like, Johnny said it better. It's like having many Super Bowls for a short period of time, because each one of these games essentially is a Super Bowl. Some of them are bigger than Super Bowls, actually, but they're essentially, each one of these games is like a Super Bowl. The 2026 FIFA World cup will be the largest, most complex set of events in sports history. And the Kennedy center will give it a phenomenal kickoff. And we'll be involved, and they'll be working over there for quite a bit of time. We have it all set that they can stay there for the big events, big press conferences and everything else. And they'll be in a very safe capital. That will be nice. You don't have to worry about walking down the street. Johnny. Okay.

Buck Sexton (6:30)

Thank you.

Donald Trump (6:31)

But you could handle yourself. I could already. FIFA is projecting 6 million loyal fans will attend the World cup events next year, and 6 billion more are going to be watching back home. And they think the $6 billion number is going to be actually a low number. And this will drive more than $30 billion into the U.S. economy and create 185,000American jobs in a short period. No sporting event attracts more attention, more fans, more viewers, or more revenue than the FIFA World Cup. And again, I'll just say it's the World cup and it's the biggest thing there is in sports. And we have it. And I got it in my first administration. And I was really somewhat devastated, as devastated as I can be. I don't have time to get too devastated. I was very happy that today, as you saw, the group that does this, a government group, radical left group, announced that Trump was right, took in $4 trillion worth of tariffs, that the $4 trillion are going to reduce the deficit by numbers far greater than they ever expected or heard of. And by the way, the stock market went up 1,000 points. That was as of 10 minutes ago. I can't tell you what happened. A lot of things happened, but the stock market is up almost 1,000 points. And it's basically on the news that the release that just came out from government that the tariffs that everybody was talking about, that the whole world respects us for because of what we did, the tariffs are going to be at $4 trillion. They're going to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion. Mr. Vice President. Pretty good, sir. Too bad it's not 5, right?

Buck Sexton (8:08)

That's right.

Donald Trump (8:09)

It's had a huge impact. And the stock market is way up. But this will drive more than $30 billion in U.S. economy and create 185,000American jobs. No sporting event attracts more ATT fans or anything else. And I just look forward to the draw. So we're going to have the draw essentially Johnny, at the Kennedy center. And by that time it'll be in even better shape. We're working on it. It'll take, it's about a year project to make it. It'll be great. It'll be fantastic. You see the way this is looking nice. I can't tell you how much that gold costs. A lot of money. There's nothing like gold and there's nothing like solid gold. But this, this beautiful office needed it. It had to be representative. When we took it over, it not clean. I immediately changed the chair and had the, this beautiful desk renovated, brought out by the White House. People that do this, they did a great job. They send it out. We have a craftsman who's great, but this was not appropriate for the Oval Office when I took over. And now you look at all those paintings, you're allowed to turn back. All of these are great presidents. And they were all in the vaults. They were in vaults for some cases much more than 100 years. And now they're proudly hanging on the Oval Office walls. And I can't Im imagine anybody changing it, but they were, they were buried in vaults for over 100 years, many of them. So it's very exciting. People come in, they really love it. They love what we're doing here, they love what we're doing in D.C. and they love what we're doing, most importantly in the country, in the world. I'd like to ask Johnny to say a few words. He's the head of the whole thing. He's been there for.

Buck Sexton (9:45)

All right, all right, let's, let's, let's cut out. We had the President, if he takes questions from anyone assembled there, because you know they're going to ask about a whole range of things, not just about FIFA. He covered a few interesting topics there though, Clay, as Trump does. Right? This is the thing. Trump is sitting there, he's got the World cup trophy in front of him and, and he's got a few senior officials and the head of FIFA who are gathered around him. But he talked about D.C. crime and how we've gone a week now without a murder in D.C. which if you look at the numbers and he says it, he said, when was the last time you heard that there was a full week that passed without a single murder in our nation's capital? And then he talked a bit about the markets. Like Clay, he's fired up about the markets and they're up. The Dow's up a thousand points today and tariffs he says are now set under his administration to cut the deficit. I think he said three or four trillion dollars was what the President said there. So not only aren't we seeing the downturn in the economy that the so called experts said would happen, we're seeing and we're seeing the markets boom and the debt starting to be brought more in line with, you know, with the reality of a debt that needs to be paid down because of the tariffs that are going, going into place. But the World cup though, he says it'll be going on in these cities, it is a real expo for America and it's going to bring a lot of dollars and a lot of attention to America and the cities that, that how host these games, Clay. And we're going to have to go to them. I do. I know a lot of you like to like to dump on soccer and say it's not America's game or it's not an American game. I still like it. It's fun, fun to watch.

Clay Travis (11:36)

Well, I think it'll be a great event for the nation. Look, there are lots of sports that I'm not haven't played. I've played soccer. You've coached soccer that I still enjoy going to watch. I've never been on a ice skating rink and hockey pads. And I enjoy going and watching the Stanley cup playoffs. It's just a phenomenal event, regardless of what I just did. The professional bull riding some of you may have seen, I've certainly never gotten on a bull.

Buck Sexton (12:05)

I've gone with my whole family to PBR probably, I don't know, four or five times in New York. We loved it.

Clay Travis (12:11)

Yeah. I went Friday and called, called one of the competitions. They have team sport competition in Nashville. I loved it. And I know nothing about the intricacies of that sport other than, hey, you know, big picture, it's good not to fall off the bull, but. But it is pretty, I think, phenomenal. And I do think where this all ties in is Trump. Trump wants D.C. for next year, for the 250th anniversary of our country to be a crown jewel, because so many people from around the world are going to be coming there. And he also wants the country to be in spectacular shape because the amount of people from around the world that will be traveling to the United States and staying in so many different cities across the country, he wants the cities to be safe. And I believe LA will be hosting a ton. And he's referenced the fact that they need to do a, a better job of making that city safe and certainly New York and D.C. and everywhere else. And the Kennedy Center, I think Trump sees as a cultural, culturally impactful location. Not far. I understand most of you haven't ever been to the Kennedy Center. I lived in D.C. i think I've been to the Kennedy center once, maybe. Did you ever go to the Kennedy center for any events?

Buck Sexton (13:32)

Yeah, I've been to the Kennedy center for a few different things.

Clay Travis (13:35)

I mean, it's a huge, spectacular location, but sometimes it feels somewhat isolated from the larger.

Buck Sexton (13:43)

My mother used to perform there. If she's listening, she'll. She'll be smiling. She used to perform as part of American Ballet Theater. They perform at the Kennedy Center. That's their home, home stage.

Clay Travis (13:54)

That is pretty awesome. So I hope she is listening for that shout out. But I think having a central location for all of this group stage draw and everything else to be taking place is something that Trump cares about from a significant way because all the world will have its eyes on America next year. This is the most watched television event out there, and probably the second most watched television event is the Olympics, which will be happening in LA in 2028. So both of these, Trump sees as an opportunity to send the message to the rest of the world, America's back. We are firing on all cylinders. Our economy is stronger than it's ever been before. This I think Trump sees as an important symbolic moment. Now we're going to be joined by Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudolph Giuliani, who is in charge basically of government relations assisting the World cup, which is pretty cool job that he's got. He's going to join us at 2:30 to. To break all this down. We'll take some of your calls. By the way, I'm sure that President Trump is. By the way, that draw, for those of you that are big soccer fans, is going to take place on December 5th. And if you are a soccer fan, where your team gets slotted in the draw is very significant because typically there are four teams and two will advance to the knockout stage. So who you draw is a big part of whether you get to advance to the knockout stage.

Buck Sexton (15:25)

Yeah, you don't want to be hanging out in the same bracket is Brazil, Argentina, Spain, France. You want to be away from those guys.

Clay Travis (15:35)

If this could be a rig job.

Buck Sexton (15:37)

Yes.

Clay Travis (15:37)

The United States being put in, in a group with a lot of awful teams would be very, very good.

Buck Sexton (15:44)

We want to be in like the, the group with like Slovenia, maybe South Korea and Costa Rica or something. You know what I mean?

Clay Travis (15:54)

Some of those teams have been really good of late. Yes. Costa Rica made the round of eight. South Korea, I think, had some success. So we need to be even in.

Buck Sexton (16:03)

All right. Sorry.

Clay Travis (16:04)

Forget, forget.

Buck Sexton (16:05)

I was just picking random countries that have made the World cup that I didn't think were that good, but apparently they're pretty good.

Clay Travis (16:09)

I think they are. I think they're actually pretty good. But they call it. This is actually a great phrase. When you end up in the toughest group. They call it the Group of Death because getting out is so difficult.

Buck Sexton (16:19)

That's very like soccer fan.

Donald Trump (16:21)

Like the Group of Death.

Buck Sexton (16:22)

Soccer is like, I love you guys. I'm going to say something. USCC folks who love your football think you're really into football. You go to. I've been to World cup in European countries. It. The whole country shuts down. Yeah, the whole country. I mean, the whole city. I mean, like when the World cup is being played in Paris and when the World cup was in France, there was nothing. It was just the World Cup. Nothing else happens there. So it's like. It's like Tuscaloosa, except a lot bigger.

Clay Travis (16:49)

Here is what I would say. I think Trump really recognizes the global significance of soccer in the world, in the World cup and of the Olympics, and sees it as a unique opportunity. The US last hosted the World cup in 1994. Last hosted the Olympics. And when do we get the Summer Olympics last? Was that Atlanta? Did we have them since then? I think it was Atlanta right in 96. I think I'm right on that. And if there's a city that I'm forgetting that is hosted the World cup in the, I mean the olympics, I think Atlanta 96 for Trump to get both is unprecedented. It's like 94 and 96 all over again. We'll talk about that. More thankful there's a company like Sabre out there right now. They want you to help protect yourself and your family in the unlikely event that you are confronted by a home invasion. They make self protection devices, tools for you to have on hand for the moment in your life when you must protect yourself and keep your family safe. Safe until help arrives. Sabre number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. Spelled S A B R E. Their products are non lethal but powerful enough to pack a punch. They've been in business for 50 years. Family owned pepper gel protect projectile launcher. Great example of why their products are so well thought of. Shaped like a pistol or a rifle depending on the model. Fires off pepper gel projectiles targeted going a longer distance than you think, making it effective against an intruder. Decide right now what you can do to help make your family safer by going to saberradio.com 15 off right there, s a B R E radio.com that's s a B R E radio dot com you can also call 844-824 safe. That's 844-824 safe. Stories of freedom.

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And all your biggest workloads right now with zero commitment. Try OCI for free. Head to oracle.comclay that's oracle.comclay welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton show VIP email from Bruce Buck enjoys watching soccer games. I'll put myself in this category too. What colors of paint do you enjoy watching dry too? I mean, just, just an attack off the top ropes there.

Buck Sexton (23:50)

I think that's harsh. I think that soccer, if you can appreciate it for what it is, can look. I will also say this though. Soccer can be really good. It can be really boring. Like for me, I love watching tennis. Let's not talk too much about tennis today. I love watching tennis, even if it's not a necessarily a great match. Just because I just, I just love the, you know, watching people hit the ball at that level and what they can do. It's just like I'm, I'm in. So I will go to the US Open, for example. Clay, I've told this before and, and it's really, it's kind of a fun hack.

Clay Travis (24:22)

Go.

Buck Sexton (24:22)

If you love the sport, you go watch the outlying courts, not the main court, because you're going to watch.

Clay Travis (24:27)

I agree.

Buck Sexton (24:28)

The number 4 player in the world destroy the number 150 player in the world. It's not that you can go to the outlying courts and get really close and see soccer. It is possible to watch a soccer match and there's no goals and it's boring as hell, I will say that. But a really good soccer match can be, can be pretty enthralling. Football can be kind of a stinker. You know, football, if no one's really scoring. I'm just being honest, you know, American football, if it turns into like a field goal competition, so that, that applies as well.

Clay Travis (24:58)

I just, I would just circle back around to I genuinely like all sports. So if you don't, if you're not excited about controversial take from Clay the sports guy.

Buck Sexton (25:08)

I like all sports.

Clay Travis (25:09)

But I mean, if you remember 94 World cup, it was a great scene in the United States. We'll have to get Alexi Lawless, our Buddy, on again. 96 Atlanta Olympics. This is the first time that we're going to overlap World cup and summer Olympics in 30 years. And I think it's pretty awesome that Trump is going to be in charge. And it will be an incredible opportunity to advertise our nation's awesomeness around the world.

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Donald Trump (27:06)

And.

Buck Sexton (27:07)

And it's a good look for America. You know, I'll tell you this. I'm sure a lot of you have the same thing I get, and I think this is a good thing, and I think everybody should feel this way. If I read that something bad happens to a tourist in my hometown, it ticks me off, you know, it really does, because I want. And now that was true when I lived in New York. It's true when I live in Miami now. So we want to be able to showcase the greatness of American America cities to the rest of the world. It's a pride thing, and I think that's a good thing for us to have, right? I mean, Clay, someone goes to Nashville, they're visiting from Japan or Germany or Brazil or wherever. You, you know, you just. I think as a resident, you always want visitors to have a good. You want tourists who are putting dollars into that economy and supporting hotels. And, you know, you just want them to have a good experience. And that brings me to Trump and how this is all tying together. You'll notice something. He was talking about FIFA, and I know a lot of you are like, ah, soccer, whatever. Just stay with me on this, okay? He's talking about the soccer stuff, but he's also talking about D.C. well, it turns out there's some method to the madness, if you will, on this one. Trump isn't just going to do this in D.C. we got, next year, the World Cup. They're going to be playing a lot of these cities. He mentioned that, you know, this is D.C. restaurants have closed, and I have a friend who owned restaurants in D.C. he had to close them because the neighborhood was too dangerous and people weren't moving in the levels that they had thought. And it was just too difficult. You know, they had to deal with too much. So this is. That's real. I know. I know from someone firsthand, because he went into a transitioning area, you know, tried to do that urban pioneer thing where you go into an area where we think it's getting better. Didn't work. Trump is cleaning these places up. He's starting with D.C. and Clay, here he is cut 30. He says Chicago is next on the list. Play it.

Donald Trump (28:58)

After we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also. We're going to make our country very safe. We're going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago's a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we'll straighten that one out probably next. That'll be our next one after this, and it won't even be tough. And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come. They're wearing red hats, just like this one, but they're wearing red hats. African American ladies, beautiful ladies are saying, please, President Trump come to Chicago. Please, please. I did great with the black vote, as you know, and they want something to happen. So I think Chicago will be our next. And then we'll help with New York and we're going to help with. And I think, really, I think a lot of, and a lot of these people that you see on television, they are including the people in this audience, they'll say bad things about me and then they'll say, thank God he's here.

Buck Sexton (29:53)

True, Clay. And I love this move, especially if the DC Numbers continue to trend in the right direction.

Clay Travis (30:00)

I think it's transformative. And I said this and this is what I got ripped for. I said, if it works in D.C. we should see this expand to other cities around the country. And look, if I were governor right now of Tennessee, don't have to worry about that Tennesseeans. But if I were, and I like Bill Lee a lot and I know we've got a governor's race coming up, I would be looking at, at what's happening in D.C. and thinking to myself, what if I deployed the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis? What if I gave the Memphis police additional boots on the ground support to the city that has the highest murder rate by far in all of Tennessee and one of the highest murder rates in the world, Certainly one of the highest murder rates in in right now in the country. And Trump mentioned New York. If we could have the same wor listeners. I'm not saying things in New York are perfect, but if we could have the same murder rate around the world as exists right now in New York City, in most of our big cities that have way higher rates, I need to pull up the rates. We probably eliminate 50% of the murders in this country. I mean, I mean, seriously, if you look at the numbers, remember when you were stunned by this, Memphis had more murders than New York City in the last couple of years.

Buck Sexton (31:32)

Astonishing. Look, New York, for all the that people like to attend. I still think New York is the greatest, is the greatest city all in in America. You can get mad at me for that, but I still believe it. I love New York. I Always will. It's run by some idiots. Recently, it's gone on a little bit of a downturn, but it's not even in the top. I don't think Clay is In the top 30 most dangerous cities per capita in this country. When you're, when you're looking at all, all US cities, maybe it's in the top 25 or 30. I don't think so. I mean, so it's all about what's relative to New York, a relative success or, or failure compared to it being one of the largest, one of the most safe large cities in not just America, but honestly in the world. I mean, there was a period of time where New York was getting in that conversation with some of the large European capitals. And, and so that's, that's, I think, worth noting. You're talking about dangerous. We all know what it is, and it's so sad. The dangerous cities perennially, you know, year in, year out, it's D.C. baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, unfortunately. What, what am I leaving?

Clay Travis (32:42)

What am I. Chicago, according, according to this, the top five per capita, and again, per capita, there's potentially some issues. This was 2023, so I, I don't have the updated 2024. Memphis was number one in the entire country per capita. Most murders. St. Louis was number two, Baltimore, number three, Washington, D.C. number four, and Birmingham, Alabama, number five.

Buck Sexton (33:07)

I just did that. I basically did it from memory because that's. They're always Clay on that list. Chicago has a very high overall number because it's a large city, but that violence is mostly concentrated in certain areas of the city. But, yeah, this is, this is something that needs to be addressed and think about this. Now. Let's set up the Chicago conversation. Let's assume for a second that what Trump is doing in D.C. and he continues to do, even if 30 days of data supports what Trump has been up to, Even if it's 30 days, why wouldn't Chicago want to see if they can go? I mean, what happens if he goes 30 days without a murder in D.C. you're going to tell me you don't want that in Chicago.

Clay Travis (33:52)

That's incredible. Yes.

Buck Sexton (33:53)

You know, you're going to tell me. I understand we're not there yet and we have to see where this data goes. But they're arresting violent felons and serious criminals. They're putting more people on the streets to prevent crime from happening. I can't see this as anything but upside for the city of Chicago, except it makes Democrats look like cowards who just lack the political will to protect their own people. And that's a really tough thing for them. You know, you're really going right into the heart of Democrat power here with, hey, not only do you guys, Democrats have bad ideas, you have been allowing your own people to be killed, raped, robbed, you know, all these things in numbers. Far what was, you know, what should have been expected. Right. It's never going to be perfect, but far beyond, because you don't want to admit that Republicans had a better option, really.

Clay Travis (34:53)

I think that's well said. I would. I would also just synthesize it this way. In D.C. it was one of the epicenters of the Black Lives Matter movement. They demonized police, they put on the concrete there. They had a Black Lives Matter memorial Park. And the rate of black murder skyrocketed in Washington, D.C. as BLM was at its most active. Now Trump is actually showing what Black Lives Matter truly means. Instead of just having rhetoric, he's going out and arresting violent criminals. And as a result, black people, who represent 94% of all shooting victims in Washington, D.C. are overwhelmingly going to benefit the most from a decline in violent crime. And this is true in most big cities in America, where black and brown people are overwhelmingly victims of violent crime. And so if violent crime declines, it typically doesn't decline as much in the rich parts of town, because the rich parts of town already, by and large, have a much lower rate of violent crime. So the most of the benefit of crime crackdowns in Europe to places that actually have the highest crime rates. And so Trump is acting to protect black life in terms of reality, more so than anyone who was super outspoken from blm. And he's doing it by letting cops do their job, which overwhelmingly protects black life, as opposed to taking it, which was the story of blm.

Buck Sexton (36:34)

Think about the way he's setting this up, Clay. If you have major crime drops in these cities and then there's a. Or where they're doing this for the World cup, it all comes together in a way that looks like a stroke of genius from Trump on all fronts.

Clay Travis (36:55)

Yeah. And closing up that circle on the World Cup. And again, we'll talk with Andrew Giuliani at 2:30. You hit it. But I think it's worth hammering home. Even if you hate soccer, even if you're like, soccer's a game for wusses and socialists and communists and all this stuff. Whatever. You think the biggest, richest sports fans in the world are going to travel to the United States for the World cup, which is going to mean the cities that host these events are going to bring in tens of billions, I think billions of additional dollars in revenue for restaurants, hotels, bars. So many people, Uber drivers, so many people out there, taxi drivers across the entire spectrum of the economic landscape are going to benefit immensely from having big events like the World cup taking place next summer. I want to tell you, if you're running a business, you want to be able to connect with all your employees at once. Cell phone calls work, but they don't carry the immediacy necessarily of rapid radios. I was talking about this. I went to a great event down on the Florida Gulf coast called Digital Graffiti Community called Alice Beach. Gorgeous. They have a big awesome event there. And we walked in and cell phone service, sometimes a little bit spotty. They were using rapid radios, all the security guards to communicate with each other. I didn't even notice it. My wife did. There are so many different uses for this, both on individual and a corporate level. To use this nationwide LTE network, they don't require any setup. Just pull them out of the box, press a button and you can talk. Compact in size, five day battery charges and they'll give you an excellent alternative to cell phone communication. 100 private, no monthly fees or subscriptions. Get hooked up right now@rapidradios.com to save up to 60% off. Free UPS shipping from Michigan, use code radio for an extra 5% off. That's code radio rapidradios.com order today@rapidradios.com stories of freedom, stories of America. Inspirational stories that unite us all each day. Spend time with Clay and box. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. 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, I Heart presents the biggest Big Three basketball championship and 8th annual Big Three All Star game this coming Sunday, August 24th. Live from Orlando, the remaining two teams fight it out for the Big Three championship Dr. J Trophy in the most physical, fierce and competitive basketball league in the world. Don't miss the wild conclusion of Big Three's eighth and most historic season ever. This is the game no one wants to lose and there's no crying in the Big Three. The action starts with the Big Three eighth and annual All Star Game. Don't miss All Stars Dwight Howard, Montrez Harrell, MVP Michael Beasley, Lance will make you Dan Stevenson, Jordan Crawford, Greg Monroe, Earl Clark, Nazir Kor and more show you why they are the best three on three basketball players in the world. Big Three's exciting all star game plus the crowning of a new Big Three champion. The no holds part action starts Sunday at 2pm Eastern, 11 Pacific only on.

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Donald Trump (44:12)

Picture from somebody that wants to be there very badly. He's been very respectful of me and of our country, but not so respectful of others. But he'll I'm going to sign this for him. But I was sent one and I thought you were like to see it. That's a man named Vladimir Putin who I believe will be coming depending on what happens. He may be coming and he may not depending on what happens. We have a lot of things happening over the next couple of weeks. But I thought it was a nice picture of him. Okay, of me, but nice of him. So that was very nice that it was sent to me.

Clay Travis (44:44)

Okay, so Trump signing a photo for Vladimir Putin there. Several of you want to weigh in. Let me take a couple of your calls. Trump is still live, by the way, talking about a variety of subjects. I sent a couple of funny cuts that I just saw during the commercial break to producer Greg. We'll have those for you in the third hour. Sean in New York, what you got for us guys?

Buck Sexton (45:07)

What's going on? What's up a clay man? I rag on you sometimes on social media, man, don't take it personal. I just be joking around, man. This is guy stuff, man.

Clay Travis (45:17)

But by the way, my social media mentions, I don't know where you are in the mention, Sean, but they are in unbelievable minefield of humor, of conflict. I mean, I dive in every now and then and I'm like, my goodness, this is crazy. But, but for people who want to be entertained, just go in dimensions. It's a, it's a, it's a brouhaha royal rumble every day. All right, what you got?

Buck Sexton (45:42)

I think it's a nothing burger with Bolton because he's not getting the treatment, you know what I'm saying? If he was getting the treatment, like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, I would say it's something. But like Buck said, Buck wrote a book. He went through a serious declassification phase to get his book out.

Clay Travis (46:03)

John Bolton's books been out for five years.

Buck Sexton (46:06)

Over a million plus people have read this book.

Clay Travis (46:09)

So if there was any classified information.

Buck Sexton (46:11)

In it, a whole bunch of people read it already.

Clay Travis (46:14)

Yeah, I mean, Buck, what you want to break this down? I mean, thank you for the call, Sean. I, I, I think both of us in general are of the opinion it's going to be hard to get a convictions on a lot of these things because the statutes of limitations, because of who the grand juries are, everything else. But your take on that, I mean, it would have to be something that isn't public probably. Right. That they're investigating, that they're trying to prove. Yeah.

Buck Sexton (46:41)

Tough to say we're, we're, we're shooting in the dark here a little bit. It, I think that the likelier thing would be if they think there was disclosure of national defense information to reporters there. You're talking, I think about a 10 year statute of limitations. It's different than mishandling classified because there's an intent and a higher harm, like there's an inherent, high level harm of national defense information and the intent to disclose. That's a little different than like I took a piece of paper home that was classified. So that may be what they're looking at, but at some level, we're just guessing, but clearly they decided to go after this at some, you know, for some reason Bolton's going to get, you know, he's going to know who the attorneys are to represent him on this and people I think are going to rally to him. A lot of anti Trump DC Beltway people are going to rally to his side on this one. So we'll find out more. But leak investigations are very hard to get convictions on, which is honestly a good thing because you don't want people going away for something that they didn't do. And if it's just a he said, he said, you know, this is what they tried to do with Scooter Libby. They tried to put him away for a leak he wasn't responsible for.

Clay Travis (47:59)

Well, also, reporters are generally not going to help on these investigations. So that makes it all the more difficult unless there's evidence of emails or something like that. What do we got, Jim in Birmingham, Alabama? What you got for us, Jim?

Buck Sexton (48:14)

Hey, how you guys doing today?

Clay Travis (48:16)

Fantastic.

Buck Sexton (48:17)

Good questions I've got, I'm originally from Chicago, would never go back right now.

Clay Travis (48:24)

But when they got the national guard in Washington, D.C. and all that, and.

Buck Sexton (48:28)

I agree we need to go into these Democrat cities and do the same thing to clean up and help because the politicians aren't doing anything about it. They're just trying to get votes to.

Clay Travis (48:38)

Make it easy on everybody. What can the National Guard actually do?

Buck Sexton (48:43)

You know, if they run across a situation, do they have the authority to arrest somebody?

Clay Travis (48:49)

It's, it's a good, it's a good question. We're coming up on the end of the hour. We'll talk about it a bit more. I think the answer is that is changing. They're now going to be armed, which to me means they're expanding their roles in D.C. we'll talk about that more. Final hour of the week next iheart.

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