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Senator Eric Schmitt
It's great to be back with you guys.
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Buck Sexton
Well, let's talk a little bit, if we can, about law enforcement because you were the attorney general in your state of Missouri. Now, St. Louis has had a crime problem for quite some time and I'm sure that was a focus of some of your efforts at the state level. If you had the writ, the support, the backing of the federal government, whatever could be brought to bear, Trump administration saying let's clean up crime in St. Louis and we'll give you whatever resources you need at the federal level to do it. Could you do it? What would change? How would it work?
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Senator Eric Schmitt
Well, I think one thing is you get some of the federal law enforcement officials out of Washington, D.C. and get them out into the country. I think Cash Patel's talked about this and I think senior leadership of the Department of Justice has talked about this. So there's just too many. Honestly, those folks are in D.C. and they're not helping take out the bad guys across the country. Sadly, they've spending a lot of their time and we talk about it in the book Last line of Defense in the censorship effort, Russiagate, all this nonsense, all the man hours been wrapped up in this political weaponization of the DOJ as opposed to fighting crime. The other thing is one of the things that we did when I was attorney general was relatively what was unprecedented at the time, we created something called the Safer Streets Initiative where we had deputy attorney generals in our office deputized as Assistant U.S. attorneys. So we added the capacity of prosecuting federal crime. When you have, let's just say you have a prosecutor in St. Louis and she's gone. But Kim Gardner was a Soros backed prosecutor. If they don't want to do their job, then we worked with the US Attorneys to go take on carjackings and things like that. So it's really successful program. When Biden came in, ironically, he scrapped the program because he just, you know, this just was not their focus. So I'm glad President Trump's in there. I'm glad, you know, he's getting his U.S. attorneys. That's going to be kind of next up when we get back to get these US Attorneys in place across the country. And I think that'll help.
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Clay Travis
Are you stunned that Democrats seem unable to break the reflexive opposition to anything Trump says, even when he says things that are super, super popular with most normal people in the country? Keep men out of women's sports. Let's have less violent Crime in Washington D.C. hey, I'm trying to do whatever I can to stop people from getting killed in Ukraine, in the war there. All of these things don't seem particularly political to me yet. Democrats have so bought into Trump as Hitler. Trump is going to start World War 3, whatever negative you want to associate it with it, that they seem unable to acknowledge that he actually has a lot of good ideas.
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Senator Eric Schmitt
Yeah, I think it's less political clay, and it's more psychological at this point. It truly is, it truly is a psychosis. And Trump derangement syndrome is real and it manifests itself in just some crazy ways. I mean, you gave a couple of examples. They're already actually taking criminals off the street in Washington, D.C. carjackings have been up 500 plus percent in five years. Clearly something needs to be done, but they don't want him to do it. You've got a president who has the confidence and the strength to actually try to broker a deal to end the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II. And they just try to undercut him at every turn. And I think the classic example, which is why I don't think they've hit rock bottom yet, is this issue of illegal immigration. I mean, they cannot help themselves. Chris Van Hollen goes to El Salvador and has margaritas with an MS.13 member because they hate Trump so much. It's bizarre. But I think they've got a Couple more election cycles in them where they're gonna continue to lose before they wake up. And this is just no longer the party of Harry Trum or even Bill Clinton. This has been captured by the radical left.
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Buck Sexton
Now, you were part of some of the battles, legal battles, that the, well, the forces of constitutionalism and the rule of law, but also Republicans and Trump supporters were involved in in recent years. I know that's something you deal with in the book. How should we view the fact that they brought four criminal cases against a president? They held those prosecutions specifically so they would occur in an election. I mean, on the one hand, Senator, it's well, Trump is president and all's well that ends well. But on the other hand, that is a shocking precedent. Breach, betrayal, I would say, of the American people's trust. And they actually did it. I feel like we're still processing that that happened because it happened so recently. Yeah.
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Senator Eric Schmitt
And one of the reasons why I wrote Last Line of Defense, which you can get on Amazon right now, is there is a tendency, guys, I think, to now that the, that were past the fever dream. The fever broke, I think, in November 2024. This kind of crazy woke nonsense and the lawfare that was brought against President Trump to throw him in jail for the rest of his life. There's a tendency to kind of gloss all that over. But you gotta remember the dark days I was on your show talking about. This was why I think your audience would really like the book. This was a time of lockdowns, compulsory Covid shots, open borders, DEI struggle sessions, ESG requirements, and a censorship enterprise so vast that the Biden administration instituted that was the biggest affront of the First Amendment in American history. This is all just like in a four year period of time where they opened up the floodgates on all this and we had to push back. And so while President Trump was out of power, we were able to kind of hold the line on a lot of this. For the Calvary to arrive in November of last year, it did arrive and President Trump finished this, you know, epic historic comeback. And we're talking about all the good things that Clay, you just mentioned are happening, the Democrats are still opposed to, but there's a lot of important lessons learned. I mean, whether it was, you know, we took that vaccine mandate case, always Supreme Court, we won. We took Missouri, took the student loan debt forgiveness case, always Supreme Court, we won. I sued 50 plus school districts in Missouri for their forced mask mandates. We won. We had the censorship case. And what that shows and what the story is so important, it's kind of behind the scenes. Look at what was it like to take the depot of Anthony Fauci? What was it like to take the deposition of Elvis Chan at the FBI who was pre bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story? We did all that. The point is you got to have courage. It's a lot easier to just go to ribbon cuttings or just kind of walk along than it is when you got to stand up and fight. And President Trump, I think, has transformed the Republican Party now, certainly from the one that I grew up in, into much more of not just a working class party, but a party that's just not going to lie down. We're going to stand up, we're going to fight back, and if we do it, we can actually win. So the book is kind of a playbook on how we did it then and how we can do it moving forward.
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Clay Travis
Okay. I love everything that's happening now. I think most people out there listening do as well. Here's my concern. And you know this better than anybody, because you were involved in so many of these lawsuits, all of a sudden it's acceptable to say, hey, we believe in the marketplace of ideas. Hey, we shouldn't be rigging the algorithms. Hey, we shouldn't be artificially inserting ourselves into the public discourse and manipulating the results. Yet 2021, every social media company in America ban Donald Trump from getting on. I like the joke because it kind of brings it home. Pinterest banned Donald Trump. Pinterest, like he couldn't share his scrapbook collages for people out there. How do we stop this from happening when Trump isn't in office and may ensure that what we are doing now is going to extend into the future no matter who the President happens to be?
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Senator Eric Schmitt
Well, a couple things. One is, I think there has to be accountability for some of these actions. I think the most I have an op ed about this. I think you can draw a straight line, like, ironically, Obama has immunity because of the case that was brought against President Trump. Presidential immunity.
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Buck Sexton
That's right.
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Senator Eric Schmitt
But Clapper doesn't, Brennan doesn't, Comey doesn't. And if you can prove you have a statute of limitation issues, but you don't. If there's a conspiracy, it was an ongoing conspiracy. Because if you like the fuse in a conspiracy, whatever happens a mile down the road, you're still responsible for. And these guys knew it was fake. They knew it was bs. They laundered that stupid Steele dossier into an actual intelligence report. And they tried to, not only a coup, but tried to sideline an entire first term of a president. And then of course, that was the impetus for all of the, oh, this is Russian disinformation, this is Russian misinformation. Everything was about Russian this, Russian that, even though it was all bs. And so I don't think we should just forget about that. I think there have to be repercussions. And as far as like social media companies, you guys know this, it's a good thing that they're something called Section 230 protections, meaning they're a platform, not a publisher, meaning they're not legally responsible. If somebody has, you know, an opinion that you disagree with on that platform, that's good for free speech. But you don't get to have it both ways. You don't get the multibillion dollar subsidy of being a platform where you can't be sued, but then also try to manipulate what's on your platform in an editorial like decision. So I think they got a pick. And if they pick the wrong one, then you're a publisher, you don't have the protections. I also think a reform that will be important that I talk about in the book too, is these individual bureaucrats. If you're engaged in suppressing somebody's First Amendment rights, you individually ought to be able to be sued. There ought to be an individual right of an action for an American citizen to sue you for suppressing your speech about, you know, questioning masks and how they work for kids or not. That would change the kind of risk dynamic that currently works because these, as you guys know, the bureaucrats aren't accountable to anybody. We need to start making them accountable to real people. So there's a few things that we can do. But you know what we saw, guys, in that four year period in particular, if that was going on somewhere else, like, you know, the lawfare and the censorship and all this mass migration, all this stuff is being used with taxpayer dollars to fund, you know, we would be. The State Department will be warning American citizens about that place. But that was happening here. And, and again, the story of the last line of defense, which you can get on Amazon now, is about standing up, pushing back. If you do it, if you got the courage, you can win. And this is a playbook of how conservatives moving forward can, can fight and win in the courts, which we've always kind of resisted because we thought that was their terrain.
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Clay Travis
Okay, procedurally, you're an expert on this. Democrats have a huge advantage in D.C. because they have basically a 95% approval rating in D.C. they can get any indictment they want. How do you deal with that? If you're talking about bringing conspiracy charges, I don't need like a, you know, law review analysis style. But just for, for me and people out there who have a general sense that this is a problem, how do you rectify that?
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Senator Eric Schmitt
Well, once you have a conspiracy moving forward, it doesn't just exist exclusively in Washington D.C. it emanates out. So for example, and I'm just using this potentially as an example, but let's just say that the raid at Mar a Lago was really about getting documents back that they thought President Trump had as related to the Steele dossier. I'm just throwing out a scenario here. Hypothetically of course, if that were the case you've got Southern Florida is where you can issue indictments. Because again, remember if Jack Smith is using a phony intelligence, you know, report that was generated by Brennan and Kobe and Clapper, like they begin the conspiracy process and he's furthering the conspiracy in South Florida, again the jurisdiction that you can kind of work in gets much broader and I think that's one area that they might, they might look at.
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Buck Sexton
Senator, appreciate you being with us and just want to tell everybody one last time go check out the book which is out today, the senators new book, very important, very good stuff. The Last Line of Defense, how to beat the left in Court. Appreciate you sir.
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Senator Eric Schmitt
Alright guys, take care. Thank you.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
All right. Welcome back in here to Clay Anne Buck. Clay hitting the road for the show. He's going to go hang out with the friends at Legacy Box and also speak to some young Republicans. So it's just me at the helm for the rest of the of the show. I am Buck, in case you don't know by the voice. And we had the big question yesterday after the meeting with a whole host of European leaders. Ask yourself honestly, how many of us could name all the European leaders who were there by photo, you know, go through them all? I could get most of them, almost all the, maybe all of them. But it's interesting to me how these leaders in these big European countries come and go and it's like no one even, you know, Keir Starmer, like, did anyone, did anyone ever hear of this guy before he became prime minister? Anyway, I know they got their own problems. We got our own problems. So we try not to focus too much on it. But the meeting yesterday with Trump and Zelensky and the big question that a lot of us had and some of you wrote in and were very now, Trump didn't say one way or the other. And we weren't saying that Trump said one way or the other about US Basing or US Troops on call to respond to a Russian invasion post peace, post settlement. Right. Another version of another time of Russian aggression. Trump didn't say yes. He didn't say no. But when you're talking security guarantees, that's obviously something that people are going to be thinking about. This is clearly a part of it. If I were Zelensky and I was told anything short of America will militarily back up the settlement, I don't know that I would trust the Europeans to come in there and get it done.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
I'm just thinking about it from the Ukrainian perspective now. He also, as Trump says, doesn't have the cards. So beggars can't be choosers, as the phrase goes. And they need this war to end as soon as they can get it to end. The Ukrainians do. But here is White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, who is putting it forward just to because I thought Trump said this, but because he's Trump, it was the way he said it maybe left a little bit of space. He said, I assure you, and then pivoted to something else. He didn't finish that sentence. Here is White House Press Secretary Levitt, Play 37.
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White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
The President has definitively stated U.S. boots will not be on the ground in Ukraine, but we can certainly help in the coordination and perhaps provide other means of safety security guarantees to our European allies. The president understands security guarantees are crucially important to ensure a lasting peace. And he has directed his national security team to coordinate with our friends in Europe and also to continue to cooperate and discuss these matters with Ukraine and Russia as well.
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Buck Sexton
Now, that's as clear as it can be. Right. So I think the White House has settled that issue. That was a concern yesterday. And it's something that I think we're right to be very focused in on. But knowing Trump and knowing the way that he understands U.S. interests and also sees the mistakes that have been made by previous administrations, he's not about to stumble us into some military position in Ukraine where we've got, you know, 82nd Airborne taking, taking fire from Russian Spetsnaz or something like. I just, we don't see that happening. I don't think that's going to happen. And the White House made very clear that it won't. It is interesting, though, now, as she mentioned, their coordination and other means of security guarantees. It's going to have to be Europe, it's going to have to be European allies because it matters a whole lot more to them. Right. Whether you believe that Putin next stop on the Putin train is going to be the Baltics or Poland or some piece really thereof is much more likely. It would be a version of what we saw originally in eastern Ukraine where it's, oh, Russian speaking separatists. Moscow is stepping in to mediate. But it's not an invasion. But this is the Russian masked way of COVID warfare. Right. They, they try to play the propaganda angles, the political angles, as well as the military. If you're European countries, especially in the neighborhood, you know, not so much like Spain and Portugal, right. But if you're right in the neighborhood of Ukraine, you recognize that your security is far more implicated by what happens there than America's. And it's time for European Europe to step up. We have entered a new era where European countries, thanks to Donald Trump, I might add, who has pushed for them to increase their military spending, but also just increase their sense of accountability for their own security. Remember people saying, oh, Trump is undermining NATO. It's the opposite of what happened. NATO is stronger now because Trump held NATO allies to account. All right, look, Trump is doing a lot. Rubio is doing a lot. They're focusing on ending the war in Ukraine and doing everything possible to make this economy roar. And that's fantastic. And I'm very bullish about Trump's economy. But I'm talking now to you about the direction of the country and the dollar over the next 10, 20, 30 years and how you should take action now because money printing is going to Continue. We're at $37 trillion in debt and look at how gold continues to just increase in value over time. Birch Gold Group is who I trust for my gold purchases. They make buying gold very easy and they can easily convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA into physical gold. Text my name Buck to 9898 98. Birchgold will send you a free info kit on Gold. Again, text Buck to 989898 and Birch Gold will send you that free info kit on gold today. All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We've got more cuts coming to you, more sound bites to dive into together here about crime in D.C. momentarily. And also Trump on the Russia, Ukraine war. But actually we don't really have, when we, we don't really have names for wars, it feels like the same way that we did, almost like, you know, we don't, we don't have names for diseases the same way. Or at least there's been a move away from it now. That's why it's COVID 19, Covid 20, Covid 21. Also with wars, is there a property, I mean, Ukraine's been in more than one war. So has Russia. So is there a proper name for this other than just the Russia, Ukraine War? We used to name these things. Right. When you talk about the Crimean War, for example, everybody knows what that refers to. It's a specific time in history. You refer to the, what, the Franco Prussian War, you refer to the Sino Soviet War. Right. There's a whole bunch of them. And yet with this, one doesn't really feel like there's a proper term for it. Okay. I guess we do the military, military operations. So Operation Enduring Freedom Operation, I don't know all, you know, all those ones. All right, back to, back to the task at hand here. Our Attorney General Pam Bondi is doing a lot, there's a lot going on with the doj. And their mandate is to clean up a whole bunch of things. The DOJ itself, illegal immigration, which has just swarmed over the country. Millions, tens of millions of people. And then of course, just outright criminality on our streets and sanctuary policies in these cities. The whole thing is such an affront when you take a step back and think about it for A moment. These are law enforcement officials in essence. I mean, the mayor of Boston, for example. We'll get to this in a second. Oversees the police commissioner, who oversees all the police. So it's in the chain of command. You're effectively a law enforcement officer of one kind or another, and you're certainly an executive branch official with oversight over the law enforcement officials. And for them to say, we want to, in every way possible, obstruct existing federal law, notice how they'll never advocate to strike these federal laws if their position was just. If sanctuary cities were rooted in some principle other than just the platitudes of, like, one nation of immigrants and all that stuff. If sanctuary cities, the rules that they enact for themselves and that they ignore the federal laws, of course, if it was so important and so humanitarian, they should all be saying, we need Congress to pass a law to make everybody who ever comes here legal for any reason whatsoever. Open borders all the way. Notice, they won't do that. At least not. Not really. I mean, maybe one or two wackos in San Francisco or something, but generally they won't say that. So how much can they really have a moral and righteous point of view on this? They should be shouting from the rooftops, laws about immigration are immoral. But that's a crazy position if you have a country, an untenable position. So what they do is this halfway measure of, okay, federal government does what it does, but we're going to make it as hard as possible for the federal government to enforce laws. This is nonsense. And here is Attorney General. This is cut 14. Attorney General Bondi on these sanctuary cities. Play it.
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Buck Sexton
Federal government's going to step in here and the enforcement's going to go up. And these localities that are playing these games and, you know, games also, I know That's. That's a bit too flippant because now we've seen situations where local police. And I'm not blaming the individual cops because they don't make this policy. I understand that. I'm not blaming people in the NYPD for the city's sanctuary policies. I am blaming the voters, and I am blaming the police commissioner and the mayors of these various cities for what they do because they're setting these policies. But there have been cases, many cases, where an illegal was in custody and was really here. Just recently, there was a team. Tell me where exactly this occurred. I saw the video of it. A guy who was supposed to be deported and Biden. Biden's administration said, oh, no, we're not going to deport him because he's scared of going back to India for whatever reason. And now he just was involved in a fatal. He was in a semi and he tried to turn around on the highway and a few people died. That was in Florida, right? It was here in my home state. That just happened. And so there are people who would be alive if it were not for the federal government, Democrat position under Biden of we just want as many illegals to stay here as possible because that was their actual feeling, their actual position. And then you get to May. So it's. The stakes are very high with this. That's what I mean. They're not just playing games. They're actually. They're actually ending lives. They're causing people to die with the policies they have that keep reckless criminals and just keep these illegals in these cities and playing this game of they don't actually have to abide by the laws the rest of us do, as I always point out. And people say, what's the big deal if someone's illegal? What's the big deal if I don't pay my taxes at all? Makes no difference to any living American if any individual American doesn't pay his taxes. So why would you lock them up? Because the law has meaning, right? The law has a claim to all of us who are here in this country. It's not about the immediate consequences necessarily of the enforcement of that law. At least it's not only about that. And this is why, you know, if they don't want to deport illegals, if Democrats don't want to deport illegals, I don't want to pay my taxes, so what's the difference? So here we are now with the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, who, despite the pressure from the federal government, she is saying that she is going to continue with sanctuary policies. Play 13.
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iHeart Podcast Announcer
Last week, Boston received a letter from the Attorney General of the United States on official letterhead from the federal government threatening to prosecute city officials and withhold federal funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today. Here is our response. Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.
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Buck Sexton
What does that even mean? What is the failure of the Trump administration she's talking about? It wasn't Trump's only been in office for what, seven months now? It wasn't the Trump administration that allowed 10 million illegals to pile into the country in four years. It wasn't the Trump administration that was responsible for the 15 or 20 million illegals who were here before that. So what is the failure that she. Well, just. I'm getting into what she says here maybe is a waste of everyone's time, but notice the tone of the tone of defiance here. Someone should ask the mayor if they had a real press corps in Boston, which I don't know, if they had a real press corps in Boston with access to Mayor, somebody should ask. So do you think that the laws that the federal government is trying to enforce shouldn't be laws? Are they not laws? Is there some rationale for nullification of them that you, as an elected official and an American in an American city, think you have some right to ignore or to supersede? What is the superseding authority of the mayor of Boston? That's what I, that's what I want to know. I want someone to answer that question for me, because she clearly thinks that she answers to some higher power. The open borders communist DEI apparatus is the higher power, I guess, because otherwise she should be saying, you know what? You're right. We will, we will assist in this effort. Local and state law enforcement. I worked in a fusion center for the nypd. We had FBI, dea, Border Patrol, you know, ICE officials, the. Who are those cool guys that do the manhunter show? Marshals. We had all these guys. We had all these guys and gals together and NYPD intel, and we were working together, state and local, because so many of these, so many crimes cross over. And law enforcement should be an all hands on deck situation. Right? And yet when it comes to this, the rules are different. It's not. Okay. We don't have to. We don't have to work with our federal partners. Why? And they always appeal to emotion. Oh, because people are scared in cities. Well, you're not supposed to be here illegally. You're not supposed to do that. It's unfair to the American people who bear the consequences of the illegal and selfish decision of people from all over the world to come here outside of our laws and operate in violation day in and day out of our laws with their presence here. And this is why I saw this. There were some Moody's economists saying inflation will be 4% next year because of mass deportations. Great. I mean, if that's the price, I. Look, I don't think inflation, 4% is good, but if inflation goes up, but we actually get the mass deportation, it's worth it. Absolutely worth it. To me, this is an existential issue for the future of the country. This really determines whether we have a country or not. And so if that means that there are going to be some sad libs running around, well, that's just too bad. And, you know, I think it was an important point that Clay made before. I've made it, too. Democrats are willing to use law enforcement in the most ruthless fashion when it suits them. And we saw that with January 6th individuals. They will ruin lives of people who have never harmed a hair on anyone because MSNBC and the New York Times editorial board tells them to. They will do that. They will cheer for that. They will cheer for the immiseration and destruction of their fellow Americans, their fellow human beings for the most minor offense. If it offends the dei, Democrat, Biden, communist gods, whatever it is, if it upsets the left, the law enforcement should be used to destroy it. Look what they tried to do to Trump. If Trump was found guilty on all those in the four different trials, would have been in prison for hundreds of years. Something insane. These people are nuts. But you find an MS.13 gang member somewhere, is not even supposed to be in the country. We're supposed to shed tears for this? Sorry, no, we're done with this. We're done with those games. And more and more people are going to see this. I think that Trump is brilliant here with how he is exposing the rotten mentality of Democrats on issues of law and order. And here is Pam Bondi saying everyone's been hearing this. This is cut 15 saying that. People are telling her quietly, sure, Democrats, some of them are saying it, too. Thank you for trying to make D.C. safer. Play 15.
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Listen. Our law enforcement officers are telling us that people are coming up to them on the street. And they said a lot of people are walking by, whispering, saying, thank you, thank you, thank you. They're hearing stories every single night and day of people saying that they feel safe now to walk their own neighborhood where they live because of what our great men and women in law enforcement are doing at the directive of the president.
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Buck Sexton
I have, I will tell you this. I have friends who are Democrats who have lived in D.C. for a long time, generally more centrist Democrats, you know, but I know, and a couple of them I've talked to have even said, trump's right on this. I. They hate to admit it. They hate to admit it, but, you know, they've got wives, they've got husbands, they've got kids, and they don't really want maniacs stabbing them and stealing their BMW in the middle of the day. You know, they actually don't want that. And at some level, they realize that they've been living with that, that specter of fear, and they don't have to. It doesn't have to be this way. So that tells you a lot. And it's another brilliant, another brilliant move by Trump here. This administration is just, is just cooking with, cooking with gas, man. They are. They are getting it done. I am so pleased with what I am seeing on the immigration, Immigration, economy, crime, getting A's so far, getting A's on those. Preborn is such a worthy organization because they're saving the lives of tiny babies day in and day out. In fact, Preborn last year saved more than 65,000 unborn children, and this year they've already saved 40,000. Preborn's mission is to save lives every day by presenting pregnant moms contemplating an abortion with a better alternative life for their unborn child. The team of people working at the Preborn clinics provide pregnant mothers with offers of support and assistance. They've also found that offering the gift of an ultrasound to that pregnant mom can make all the difference. Preborn operates clinics and communities across our nation where abortion rates are highest, so they can save as many little babies as possible every day. It's such a blessed mission that they are doing. I've been to a preborn clinic here in Miami and seen for myself how they do it, the love, support and care they offer these women. And I've seen some of the little babies running around the office now. Now they're toddlers or they're, you know, they're young teenagers who are alive because Preborn held the hand of a mom in crisis and said, we're here for you. Let's introduce you to that baby with an ultrasound. $28 is the cost of each ultrasound. If you can donate $28 today, you'd be helping to save the life of a tiny baby, a little boy or little girl in the womb. If you can donate $280, that would be 1010 ultrasound experiences that you would sponsor that would have the likelihood of saving as many as 10, but certainly by the number 6,789 lives. So please consider a donation today. Any donation you can give is appreciated and it is tax deductible. To donate securely dial £250 and say the key word baby. That's £250. Say baby or go to preborn.com buck that's preborn.com b u c K sponsored by Preborn.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Closing up shop here on Clay and Buck for the day. Kobe back tomorrow. So dynamic duo of radio will be with you on all that stuff. So we'll, we'll dive into it together. Caller, do we still have Kirk in North Dakota? Kirk in North Dakota, you're up, buddy. What's going on?
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Senator Eric Schmitt
Hey, Buck. I love the show, love President Trump. I just had a question. Now they're rounding up these homeless encampments, all these folks. What do you suppose they're going to do with them? That's my question, I guess. Curious.
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Buck Sexton
Sure. There's a few things. One is you can give people, and this is the case in some places. I believe it's the case in Europe right now in some countries even where people have a, if they find you sleeping in like a park or you have a tent out and you're sleeping in the street, you know, they'll give you options of treatment center, homeless shelter, whatever they, you know, temporary housing facility, whatever they want to call it. But the point is you just can't sleep. You just can't live on the streets. And this is a good thing because the cities that have allowed this, all it does is just concentrate. Addicts, addicts who are desperate, who commit crimes which drives away businesses and makes people feel unsafe. And then you just create this vicious cycle. So I don't think that they're going to send all the homeless to North Dakota, if that's your, that's your concern. Kirk. Too cold. Too cold up there, my friend. So, yeah, although not this probably lovely this time of year. That's where we are for today on the show. Make sure sure you send us your talk backs and emails. We will respond to more of them tomorrow and it's just going to be exciting stuff all around. We got some more stories to dive into with all of you. Make sure you go check out the Clay and Buck YouTube channel. More and more content going up there. We are building out the video component of all things Clay and Buck. YouTube.com clayandbuck Go check that out and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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Senator Eric Schmitt
Tomorrow.
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