Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H3 - We Need More Whistleblowers

Summary

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show – Weekly Review H3: "We Need More Whistleblowers"

Date: October 11, 2025
Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show (iHeartPodcasts)
Host: Buck Sexton (Clay Travis on vacation)
Featured Guest: Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI)

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Episode Overview

In this third hour of the weekly review, Buck Sexton goes solo as Clay Travis is on vacation. The central theme is government accountability, focused on recent revelations regarding the politicization and weaponization of federal agencies like the FBI and DOJ. Buck is joined by Senator Ron Johnson, who discusses whistleblowers, the path toward agency reform, and the need to restore public trust. The episode also tackles current political fights over budget and subsidies, city leadership and crime crises, and contrasts "law and order" approaches between right and left. The tone is candid, urgent, and combative, retaining the show’s signature blend of news, opinion, and unscripted asides.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. FBI and DOJ Weaponization Scandal

• Senator Ron Johnson Responds to Cell Phone Data Grab

  • Context: Senate Judiciary Committee revealed several Republicans, including Johnson, had their cell data accessed by Jack Smith’s investigation.
  • Johnson’s View:
    • Not surprised by the revelation; "seen the partisanship, the corruption of the federal law enforcement agencies, FBI, DOJ up close and personal." (03:36)
    • Frames it as an “outrageous violation, separation of powers” exacerbated by what he says is a decade-long politicization under Obama and Biden.
    • Notes half the country is “oblivious” due to media bias:
      • “Unfortunately we’ve got half America that still listens to, to the legacy media and they don’t care.” (04:13)

• Need for Whistleblowers and Internal Exposure

  • Johnson emphasizes critical role of whistleblowers in exposing agency malfeasance:
    • “We need more whistleblowers. We need those of you in these agencies that respect your organization...We need you to come forward with documents.” (06:14)

• Agency Reform & Legislative Prospects

  • Difficult legislative progress likely without a Republican supermajority, due to Democratic opposition to reforming what they see as effective government.
  • Expresses frustration with entrenched bureaucracy and "burrowed-in" partisans working to undermine Trump administration efforts (08:10).

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2. Administration Accountability and the James Comey Trial

• Comey’s Upcoming Trial

  • Buck frames Comey as “among the chief weaponizers of the FBI and therefore DOJ power” (09:47).
  • Johnson calls Comey and peers “criminal,” but laments that the statute of limitations will mean they can’t be charged for the extent of the alleged harm caused:
    • “Russia and China couldn't dream of interfering or doing the political damage to our nation than this cast of criminals has really pulled off.” (10:37)

• Damage to Democracy

  • Johnson: “You always hear Democrats, oh, President Trump's a danger of democracy. No, these people threaten our democracy... it's incalculable, quite honestly, the damage they've done to our body politics, into our democracy.” (10:54)

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3. Budget Fight & ACA Subsidies

• CR (Continuing Resolution) Politics

  • Buck and Johnson analyze the ongoing funding fight, positioning Schumer and Democrats as holding out solely for “ACA subsidies.”
  • Johnson hammers the history of continuing resolutions, challenging Democratic consistency:
    • “Since I’ve been here, we’ve had 55 continuing resolutions. My guess is Schumer’s probably voted for all 55 of them...So what’s the difference now?” (11:42)

• Republican Spine & Risk of "Caving"

  • Johnson warns of “weak-kneed” Republicans potentially agreeing to extend COVID-era ACA subsidies, enabling continued fraud:
    • “There are plenty burrowed in...the problem is because of the lawfare against people like Judge Trooperson...they’re destroying him...So...it really discourages other people who would like to serve this president.” (09:20)

• Presidential Leadership Essential

  • Johnson: “We need presidential leadership to make sure that doesn’t happen. If he [Trump] says do not do it...I’m happy to help them fix their completely failed Obamacare. But not extend these subsidies, which literally would perpetuate tens of billions of dollars worth of fraud.” (13:53)

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4. Law & Order: Reform, Crime, and Contrast with Democrats

• Law Enforcement’s True Mission

  • Buck and guests stress renewed FBI focus on actual crime, not political prosecutions.
  • Buck:
    • “They're enforcing the law in a meaningful way and they're improving public safety and they're holding criminals, those who do evil...not pre dawn raid on Roger Stone...Actual criminality.” (27:48)
  • Cash Patel (FBI Director, via earlier Fox interview):
    • “Weaponization of law enforcement is over...We are up double digits on every metric of consequence when it comes to crushing violent crime, finding kids, seizing fentanyl, arresting violent offenders.” (27:16)

• Chicago’s Crime Crisis & National Guard Deployment

  • Shocking statistic: “Chicago City streets have 110,000 gang members...1200 shootings this year alone, 360 homicides.” (Patel, 29:02)
  • FBI “leading the charge” with local law enforcement, prepping ground for National Guard (29:36).

• Contrast: Democrats vs. Republicans on Public Safety

  • Buck critiques major Democrat-run cities (Chicago, Portland, Seattle) for reluctance to enforce law, habitually siding with “the criminal.”
  • DHS Secretary Noem (audio): warns Portland’s mayor won’t support federal law enforcement—federal agencies must step in (32:11).
  • Buck: “What is it about Democrats where they somehow always find a way..to take the side of the criminal?” (32:56)
  • Calls out “wokeness” for decriminalizing property crime and enabling unsafe conditions.

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5. Whistleblower Call to Action, Political Courage

• Key Quote:
  • Johnson: “We need more whistleblowers. We need those of you in these agencies that respect your organization...to come forward with documents. Tell Cash, tell Dan, this is what we know.” (06:14)

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6. Notable Listener Feedback

• “Butch from Massachusetts” Query
  • Asks: When will Hillary and Obama be indicted, and when will the media be held accountable? (Call-in segment, 45:15)
  • Buck: “There's not going to be indictments on any of them because of statute of limitation issues...But this Trump team is dialed in...this is the beginning of a process.” (46:30)

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Sen. Johnson, on FISA Abuses:

  • “I've seen the partisanship, the corruption of the federal law enforcement agencies, FBI, DOJ up close and personal. I've been a target before...” (03:36)

• Call for Whistleblowers:

  • “We need more whistleblowers...We need you to come forward with documents...” (06:14)

• On Lack of Democrat Support for Reform:

  • “They like government. They have no problem weaponizing government.” (08:10)

• Buck Sexton, on Law Enforcement’s Mission:

  • "That's what you want to hear from your FBI director...they are going after those who are the danger to the public..." (27:48)

• On Chicago Crime Stats (Patel):

  • “Chicago City streets have 110,000 gang members...1200 shootings this year alone, 360 homicides.” (29:02)

• Buck on Democrat Leadership:

  • “What is it about Democrats where they somehow always find a way...to take the side of the criminal?” (32:56)

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Timestamps for Critical Segments

• Intro/Greetings: [02:37]
• Senator Ron Johnson Interview: [03:00] – [15:00]
  • FBI/DOJ Allegations & Whistleblowers: [03:00] – [07:29]
  • Legislative Reform Challenges: [08:10]
  • Comey Trial and Accountability: [09:47]
  • Budget/ACA Fight: [11:12] – [14:46]
• Law & Order Discussion (Patel clips, Chicago, FBI focus): [27:16] – [32:11]
• Portland Crime/Mayor/ DHS Secretary Noem: [32:11] – [32:56]
• Listener Call — “Butch from Massachusetts”: [45:15]
• Closing Comments, Preview of Next Episode: [44:53] – [47:22]

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Episode Takeaways

• The hour is a rallying cry for increased agency whistleblowing, greater accountability, and restoring trust in federal law enforcement through depoliticization and real crime-fighting.
• Senator Johnson articulates the challenges facing reformers, the depth of entrenched political bias in agencies, and the critical need for more insiders to expose wrongdoing.
• The hosts draw sharp contrasts between GOP and Democrat approaches to law enforcement and public safety, expressing alarm at Democratic city failures and "soft-on-crime" attitudes.
• Listeners are encouraged to demand accountability, resist taxpayer fraud via ACA subsidies, and support whistleblowers and strong presidential leadership.

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For new or casual listeners:
This episode, while dense and urgent, captures much of the Clay and Buck ethos: robust criticism of the left, celebration of Republican toughness, worry about bureaucratic sabotage, and a plea for ordinary Americans—especially government insiders—to step up as whistleblowers in pursuit of truth and reform.

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All right, third hour, Clay and Buck kicks off now. By the way, Clay back tomorrow from vacation. So we'll have a lot to catch up on with Mr. Clay then. And in the meantime we have Senator Ron Johnson with us from the great state of Wisconsin. Senator Johnson, just me today, but we're going to have a robust chat. Thank you for calling in.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Well Buck, I hope you're doing well.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, man, it's great. I told your colleague Senator Paul this before shut down DC is lovely. It's really the convenience factor alone is very, very appealing. But tell me this. The recent release from the Senate Judiciary Committee of the phone numbers, well, basically showing that a number of Republican senators, including you had their cell phone data grabbed by Jack Smith's witch hunt investigation. What were your first thoughts when you saw this?

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Buck, I think you're aware of the fact I've been investigating the FBI dating back to James Comey's edited exoneration email. Following that whole cast characters through to Crossfire Hurricane, the Russian collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop. I mean again, I've seen the partisanship, the corruption of the federal law enforcement agencies, FBI, DOJ up close and personal. I've been a target before of the Foreign Influence Task Force. So my first reaction was doesn't surprise me in the slightest. It didn't. Now it's shocking. It should outrage every American. It's a outrageous violation, separation of powers. But unfortunately we've got half America that still listens to, to the legacy media and they don't care. They're completely oblivious to the decade long politicization, weaponization of the federal government agencies under Barack Obama and Biden. And I thought Eric Schmidt did a great job in the Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday. So all the Democrats are banging on Pam Bondi about politicizing the the Department of Justice, Eric Schmitz, when you're trying to clean it up, when you're actually trying to deter future weaponization, when you're trying to prosecute weaponization, that's not the same thing as weaponizing the agencies. That's called law enforcement. That's called the rule of law. And that unfortunately is not what our Democrat counterparts and half the country just doesn't Quite get that.

[Buck Sexton]

I know at least offered rationale behind this is Jack Smith needed to look into January 6th and the election plot or something like that. So you're not surprised to see any of this. But as we get this information and it becomes more public, are there any pathways to accountability? I mean, there's the reform piece of this and then there's also those who abuse their power. What happens with them?

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Well, it starts with exposure. And I appreciate Calendar and Bongino as soon as they found out about it. I heard about on Friday close hold. We got briefed on Monday. We don't know a whole lot. You know, what we do know is that the only way they found out about this is the individual who scooped up these records was reapplying to be part of the cast team again, the cellular and analysis survey team. And so that individual, this was basically a brag sheet. Put it down as an accomplishment. They know I definitely should be part of this cast team because I scooped up the cellular records of nine members of Congress. You know, pat me on the back. So that's how we found this out. We found out about the 92 Republican groups that were targeted by Jack Smith because of the FBI whistleblower. So here's my first appeal on this show. We need more whistleblowers. We need those of you in these agencies that respect your organization, that want to see credibility and integrity returned to it. We need you to come forward with documents. Tell Cash, tell Dan, this is what we know because they don't. I mean, you don't know what you don't know. You don't know what documents exist if you don't know they exist. So we need a lot of help. Just because President Trump, who I think is doing a fabulous job in office, all these folks are dedicated to cleaning up the mess left by Biden and the Democrats in charge. Just because you're in charge of the agency doesn't mean you really are in control of it because you have people burrowed in, leftist partisans in these agencies sabotaging, frustrating every effort, just trying to wait it out until they have another Democrat administration they can weaponize it again.

[Buck Sexton]

Speaking of Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senator, as we're talking about this and trying to get, as you, as you put it, to get the information out there to expose what's going on. I know that there have already been reported a number of firings by Director Patel from the FBI of people involved in politicized and abusive actions. Do you see a. Other than the exposure and oversight component of this from, say, the Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee. Is there any legislative action that you would want to see to try to reform any of these agencies? Is there anything else that you want to see the Trump administration do on the executive side to try to reform these agencies?

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Well, until we get enough Republicans, we probably need more than 60 in the Senate to actually pass this kind of legislation. With Democrats with, you know, in numbers that prevent this stuff, you're not going to pass legislation to fix this. Again, they like government. They have no problem weaponizing government. As you tell by that judiciary hearing yesterday, Again, I think the administration is doing what it can do. I guess I'm just kind of warning the public don't expect immediate results here. The challenges that Pam Bondi and Cash Patel and Dan Bongino and President Trump face are enormous. I mean, we saw the first administration sabotage from within. So President Trump is far more wary of it. That's why I think he selected people, some real fighters, some articulate fighters like Pam Bondi and Cash Patel. But again, a lot of leftists quit. They simply couldn't stand serving President Trump. They had to fire and they are terminating a bunch of people. But there are plenty burrowed in. And the problem is because of the lawfare against people like Judge Trooperson, Wisconsin, the high integrity individual who is President Trump's attorney during the whole election turmoil in 2020, they're destroying him. They're trying to criminalize his advocacy for President Trump. So it doesn't take very many examples that they have to make of somebody like Judge Troopers, for it really discourages other people who would like to serve this president. But they also want to pay up their student loans. They want to have a career afterwards. And they realize Democrats have no problem destroying people's lives in their quest and maintenance of power.

[Buck Sexton]

What are your thoughts about James Comey trial coming up in January? Is this the beginning of accountability? Is this not nearly enough? James Comey, I'm sure as you've been following weaponization, I would argue he has been among the chief weaponizers of the FBI and therefore DOJ power.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

I view that whole cast of characters as criminal. The problem is statute of limitations. You know, what crimes can you actually charge and convict them with? They won't even come close to fitting the damage that these individuals have done. The Brennans, the Clappers, the comeys, the McCabes, the Pages, the Strux, Tim Tebow. I mean, these partisans, they have interfered in our election. They have created such political turmoil over the last decade. Russia and China couldn't dream of interfering or doing the political damage to our nation than these, than this cast of criminals has really pulled off. So again, there's, I don't think there's enough you could charge them with or sentence them with to make them pay for how much damage they have done to our democracy. You always hear Democrats, oh, President Trump's a danger of democracy. No, these people threaten our democracy. And you can demonstrate it's incalculable, quite honestly, the damage they've done to our body politics, into our democracy.

[Buck Sexton]

Now, the government may open next week. We talked to Senator Paul in the last hour about this. Do you think Democrats have just politically lost this one entirely? How do you gauge that? We've talked about what's at issue here. So I think the audience is pretty up to speed. We're all up to speed on they want ACA subsidies. You know, they're crying, they want, they want to have their cake and eat it too. But just on the political side of this, Schumer is pushing this. Is this a loser for him and for the Democrats overall? How do you see that part of it?

[Senator Ron Johnson]

Well, I sure believe so. Again, the House did a smart thing. They passed a clean CR and left town. So it's obvious the only reason the government shut down is because Schumer won't vote and tells Democrat colleagues to vote for funding levels that are Biden's levels. Since I've been here, we've had 55 continuing resolutions. My guess is Schumer's probably PIP voted for all 55 of them or the vast majority. So what's the difference now? Well, again, they're holding out for this aca. Now, they can always count on the mainstream media be their ally here and that's concern. And as well as they can count on some of our weak kneed colleagues, you know, jumping to the frame, going, oh, we've got to do a deal here. Okay, so I'm highly concerned. I appreciate, quite honestly, what you, you and Clay have been talking about here. I appreciate the articles written by Kim Strauss and a bunch of folks the Wall Street Journal trying to instill a little spine in the Republican conference here. But no, this should be a clear winner. I sure hope we don't cave and extend these temporary COVID pandemic enhanced subsidies which have resulted in tens of billions of dollars of fraud and perpetuate that fraud. So I hope President Trump digs his heels in as well and realizes how foolish it'd be to throw more money at a completely failed Obamacare Is that.

[Buck Sexton]

Even to me that just would be such a, a political blunder and also such a betrayal of principle for Republicans. Is there a real concern that they may cave on the ACA thing, on the subsidies, or is that, is that a pretty low probability?

[Senator Ron Johnson]

We are here, we are hearing people are, you know, kind of backdoor channels, that kind of stuff. Look, let me give you an example. You know I proposed the Eliminate Shutdown act, right? Pretty common sense. We could eliminate shutdowns for all time. So of course every Democrat, every big spending Democrat voted against it. But unfortunately we had a lot of Republican appropriators vote against as well. The rationale they used, by the way, is because it was going to undercut the appropriation process. Let me just describe in here 15 years, they should have passed the appropriation process, should have passed 180 appropriation bills prior to the end of the fiscal year. You know how many they've actually passed in those 15 years of the 186. So Republican appropriators, together with every Democrat is defending an appropriation process, holding us hostage to an appropriation process that has a 96.7% failure rate. So no. Am I concerned about what some of our weak need colleagues in the Republican Party might do? Absolutely. Which is why we need presidential leadership to make sure that doesn't happen. If he says do not do it. And again, I appreciate the fact he's tweeted. So we're happy to help them fix their completely failed Obamacare. I'm happy to do that. But not extend these subsidies, which literally would perpetuate tens of billions of dollars worth of fraud from the American taxpayer to insurance companies on policies people don't even know they have.

[Buck Sexton]

Seems very straightforward to me. So I know you'll hold the line, Senator. And you come back and tell us if any Republican colleagues get a little weak in the knees, they got to come on here and buck and explain why they would cave. Thank you for being with us, Senator Ron Johnson.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

As always, appreciate that tune. You have a great day.

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[Buck Sexton]

All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. Can't believe we're already in the middle of the third hour here. Clay's back tomorrow which will be a lot of fun. He's had a great time on vacation, but he misses radio too. Much. You know, that's just the truth. He misses all of you. He's having a great time with his family. He's at his place down, I believe in the panhandle. But tomorrow it'll be the duo, the dynamic duo of Clayne Buck back in action. And we'll dive into everything of the day. I'm sad to say I'm leaving DC Today and heading to Nashville, actually, Clay's hometown have an event to do there, which I am looking forward to. Nashville is always a good time, always a town that I enjoy spending time in. And so I got that. I got that going on. All right, let's. Shall we take a moment here? Brandon Johnson. Brandon Johnson is the mayor of Chicago and is impressive insofar as he may be the worst mayor in America, replacing the previously worst mayor in America. And when you think about it that way, you go, wow, now there's stiff competition. Lori Lightfoot, at that time, you had that guy Ted Wheeler in Portland, horrible mayor. You had de Blasio, disastrous mayor in New York, you got the guy who loves. Wait, no. Krasner was the DA in Phil. I don't even know who the Philly DA is, but Krasner was like the worst DA in America. Although that I think it was Chesa Boudin got actually recalled in San Francisco. Some of you were telling me the San Fran mayor now is not that bad. It's not a ringing endorsement. I don't even know who the mayor is. But I'm hearing from some of you that the San Fran mayor is not crazy. The D.C. mayor, you'll note I told you all along, D.C. mayor Bowser, a Democrat. Yes. Not going to agree with her on a lot of things, but does like business in her city and does not like crime in her. You know, she's pro business, anti crime. You can work with that on some things. And she has not been going all out against Trump with some of the things he tried to do here. Again, working within the Democrat realities. I'm just saying she's. She's better than a lot of other Democrat mayors. I wish we could have a great Republican mayor here in D.C. in our nation's capital. But she's better than a lot of Democrats. Definitely better than Brandon Johnson. Here he is explaining why he doesn't want anything in his city to get better. Play eight in order for our country.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

To be a place of promise and hope and opportunity for people around the globe who have called the city of Chicago their home. It's why we're so Committed to ensuring.

[Buck Sexton]

That we're protecting our democracy and defending humanity.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

What this president has instigated and what he has escalated is absolutely an egregious attempt to have complete control over all of our cities.

[Buck Sexton]

This guy's delusional.

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[Buck Sexton]

What is he even saying here?

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He's defending humanity. I mean, first of all, calm down, okay? You're talking about people who are getting deported who are supposed to legally, under our laws, be deported. Deportation means you are processed in a facility, you are put on a plane, flight, and you are sent back to your home country. Okay? This is not some horrible, you know, evil thing. And we have to have that or else we don't have a country. We have an economic zone that people come and go and there's nothing holding us together. And, oh, by the way, communist China is going to take over as the global hegemon and we are toast. Okay? So we have to actually have a country. And if they're. Again, I'm not. I'm not saying that if somebody comes in the country illegally, they should spend 20 years in a prison that's reserved for, like, J6 nonviolent offenders, according to Democrats. I'm saying if you come illegally, you got to go defending humanity. Otherwise, why do we have immigration laws if there can be no punishment for the violation? We do not have a law. And speaking of laws and safety and security, Sabre is there for you to make sure that our families and our homes are able to be defended with the best non lethal products in the market. Sabre is who I trust to protect me and my family with non lethal. As you know, I'm also a 2A guy, but I like force escalation options. My wife prefers non lethal as her first line of defense. Pepper sprays, pepper projectile launchers. Saber makes the best ones you can get. They're the number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. Saber spelled S A B R E. The website is saberradio.com. that's S A B R E radio dot com. You can go online. You'll save 15% when you go to that website today. They have a whole range of personal and home defense products that you're just going to want to stock up on. I've got them at home. Clay's got them at home. You can also call them at this number. 844-824. Safe. Get that pepper projectile launcher. 844-824 safe. And we've got some crime issues to talk about here, notably how this administration is trying to use the powers that it has to make us safer, make America safe again. Right? This is something that we should all be behind. I told you before about the incredible miracle in el Salvador. From 103 per 100,000 to 1 per 100,000 in 10 years from a place that is so dangerous that nobody wants to go and visit to a place now that is so safe that people are investing and walking the streets. And it is possible, not just in countries that have always been in recent memory, at least very safe. You can make places safe. It is a choice. There are choices made and certainly FBI Director Kash Patel knows this, which is why he is directing. Isn't this remarkable? So the FBI is actually being used to go after people who are real criminals, who are hurting people, doing very bad things, preying on their fellow Americans, their fellow men and women in this country. And he's actually using cops to do the things we want cops to do. You know, not doing pre dawn raids on somebody for taking a selfie in the Capitol building and walking around for 60 seconds before they walked out. That was the FBI's obsession under Biden, as we all know. No, now they're going after bad guys. In fact, here he is, here's Cash Patel talking about this, I think was on Fox last night. He said this is cut 10. Listen to the numbers here. The increase of the FBI arresting real criminals.

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The weaponization of law enforcement is over. The American people gave President Trump a mandate and President Trump gave me as his FBI director a mandate as well. Go crush violent crime and defend the homeland. And when you let good cops be cops, like the cops in the FBI and the local and state police officer around this country, they do their job, they get the mission done. As you relayed these stats, this is just eight months on the job, Sean. We are up double digits on every metric of consequence when it comes to crushing violent crime, finding kids, seizing fentanyl, arresting violent offenders.

[Buck Sexton]

That's what you want to hear, isn't it, from your FBI director that they are going after those who are, are the danger to the public. That the FBI, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, our premier federal law enforcement agency, is doing things that anybody could sit around and say, yeah, that's what we want them doing. They're enforcing the law in a meaningful way and they're improving public safety and they're holding criminals, those who do evil. That's what I mean serious crimes here. Not pre dawn raid on Roger Stone in his silk pajamas because he upset the Democrat apparatus. Okay? I mean real crimes, I mean Actual criminality. They're going after this. And it's a very welcome change what we saw in the previous administration. Now, this was interesting as we have the National Guard in process of deploying to Chicago to help out there. Again, Director Patel saying, well, you gotta hear this. How many gang members do you think there are, according to law enforcement in the city of Chicago? Well, you're about to Hear play cut nine.

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We learned that the Chicago City streets have 110,000 gang members. That's right. You heard me right. They had 1200 shootings this year alone, 360 homicides. When politicians choose to side with those metrics and not their citizenry, they thank God we have President Trump and this Department of Justice and this FBI going in there and crushing violent crime. And President Trump sent us into these cities quietly to set the stage, to set up for the National Guard to see the success that we saw in Washington D.C. in Memphis. The FBI has been leading the charge in every single one of these streets because we know how to gather ground level intelligence and we know how to put handcuffs on the bad guys. And we know that we have the backing of this administration, and most importantly, the agents at the FBI know that, that they have the backing of the American people and their governments.

[Buck Sexton]

And that's important. That's something that everybody should be able to get behind and everyone should see as what the FBI is meant to do. If we're gonna have a federal law enforcement agency, shouldn't it be focused on the most serious crimes and laser focused on arresting those who are a danger to the people around them? Okay. Not doing a lot of the nonsense that we saw the FBI focused on in the Biden, and as you know, also very much involved in the Crossfire Hurricane, Russia collusion, scam. I mean, think about the diversion of resources to partisan weaponization that has occurred in the Trump era. It is staggering when you add it all up. You know, the Mar A Lago rate, they raided Mar A Lago. Some of the stuff that has happened, you have to say it out loud and you go, how did that happen? Well, they. They went all out. Oh, no. Pandora's box is going to be open.

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[Buck Sexton]

Pandora's box of. Pandora's box has been obliterated. And yet there's still a lot of work to be done, that's for sure. And on Portland, another place where the. The Democrats have dug in, they're saying it's not bad. There's no problem, really, because they've made decisions. Law enforcement, local law enforcement has made Decisions not to back up the federal agents. They've allowed federal facilities to be under siege from maniacs. What is it about the Pacific Northwest? I think it's such a beautiful part of the country. It has just become antifa. Stan it has become. I know it's just along the coast. Some of you listening live interior Oregon is very beautiful. You live in like Bend, Oregon or something and you love it. But the coastal cities, Seattle and Portland, it's like looney bins. And it doesn't again, doesn't have to be that way, but this is what it's turned into. DHS Secretary Noem met with the Portland mayor who has not been willing to to use his office and his law enforcement resources to restore law and order and to support federal agents who are trying to conduct their lawful missions. She made it very clear that that's not going to be, that's not going to be acceptable play.

[DHS Secretary Noem]

11 Just met with a mayor and I'm so extremely disappointed he's continuing to play politics. Did not commit to any of those promises and said that he'd give me an answer by tomorrow and I'm hopeful that he will. What I told him is that if he did not follow through on some of these security measures for our officers going to cover him up with more federal resources and that we were going to send four times the amount of federal officers here so that the people of Portland could have some safety, they could have some security. Today. Jesse, we went and got a sex offender off the streets here in Portland that had been violating minors and this Portland mayor tried to brag about him making our streets safer. No, absolutely not. It is our federal CBP and ICE officers that are cleaning up this city and every single day they're going to stay dedicated to doing that.

[Buck Sexton]

What is it about Democrats really? Let's think on this one together. A lot of answers will come to mind but just taking a beat on this I think is important. What is it about Democrats where they somehow always find a way to on any issue where there's crime and criminality involved, they always take the side of the criminal. There's something going on there, right? There's something very deep seated where if there's an issue and one side wants enforcement of the law, accountability increase in safety and the other side is no, you know, the guy's only done a few bank robberies, a couple of attempted murders. Maybe he's going to reform. He's got an outstanding warrant. But you know, other the Democrats are always on that side and you do not find Republicans who make preposterous excuses for crime and criminality. This is a pathology of the Democrat mindset. And they don't even think that there's a both sides ism here. One of the main things that separates the right and the left in this country is that we believe in the enforcement of laws, especially with regard to violent crime. And they don't. In as many ways as possible. They want to give it the most lenient sentence, if there's any sentence. They want to not prosecute if they can avoid prosecution, they want to defer or they want to drop the charges at every opportunity. And you might say, oh, but that's because Democrats, you're not going to say this, but this is a straw man. Oh, I'm doing a straw man voice. Straw man. Here we go. They might say something like, well, that's because we believe in mercy and we want to give second chances. Okay, but can we agree that 10th chances should be off the table? Can we agree that career violent felons don't deserve the benefit of the doubt to go back out on the street and reoffend for the 50th time? Can we just have some ground rules? Like, if we could just get Democrats to agree to those things, there'd be so much improvement possible in these cities. But they won't. Can we agree. Could we get Democrats to agree on the record that if you're in the country illegally, you're subject to deportation? That's what the law says. That is what the law says. There is no argument about whether the law states that, whether federal laws. The same federal law that says that, you know, you and I have to pay our taxes. And the same federal law that is, it has thousands and thousands of different statutes, some which are very necessary and moral, some of which are kind of bizarre. And the government has just made some decision on. The law says that they. That these individuals can be. Not can. Are to be deported. And yet Democrats don't want that to happen. If they don't want that to happen in Portland and Chicago, they should have the courage of their convictions to say, we want amnesty, we don't believe in deportation, and we want everybody who's here, including gang members, including murderers and rapists, who are not even Americans, because legally, lawfully, and in all senses these illegals are not Americans. We want them to be able to stay and they should make that case to the American public. Honestly. Instead, what you have is this game. You know, it's like they're pulling a. Katie Porter, you Know, oh, no, I believe in rule of law. I believe in law enforcement, too. But, but, but don't enforce the law against this guy or that guy or that guy or that guy. You can't have it both ways. You can't want the problem and then say that you're part of the solution. Which is exactly what they do in all of these cities, is exactly what they do with all the efforts from the Trump administration to increase safety and to support law enforcement. They're always in opposition. They're always the opposition to these things. And I think eventually we just have to have enough Americans wake up to this. We're not going to ever convince some of them they will. I will never forget, things got so crazy in San Francisco during the pandemic with property crime. That's really the issue. There was property crimes, just stealing. It's theft all the time. Because they decriminalized, effectively, they decriminalized shoplifting. And there was. There were articles and there were. There were people who were making the case that if someone is breaking into your home and just stealing stuff, that you shouldn't call the cops because it's just stuff. You can replace stuff. And if you call the cops, they might show up, they might have to use force against the criminal. And that could be racist. And what was so interesting too, was who said anything about the race of the perpetrator? Like, they were making this assumption, making this assumption. This is Democrats, this is libs, this is the left. They're saying, oh, it invites violence against black and brown individuals. If you call the cops during one of these and you say, hold on a second, anyone's capable of stealing, like, why Democrats, they start to show you a little bit more of who they are. They start to show you a little more of their thinking on some of these issues when they speak out loud when they say things. And that, I think, was when it finally went too far. Maybe that's part of why San Francisco has now a less insane mayor. I'll have to look into how things are going over there. But a less insane mayor because it reached that peak point of insanity where it was you just gotta let the criminals do the crimes and shut up about it. I mean, that's wokeness got us to the point where if they wanna have race riots and burn down your neighborhood, gotta deal with it. If somebody wants to steal from your home, whether you're there or not, gotta deal with it. This is the price we have to pay. And a lot of us just say no, we don't want to pay that price. We don't accept that. And Trump is representative of that response, of that enough is enough and I hope he keeps pushing on it. No matter how much I enjoy these incredibly productive trips, I do miss being at home with Kerry Speed and Ginger, also known as Ginger Spice, full name. And I miss sleeping in my own bed, that's for sure. Especially these days because I've got Cozy Earth's bamboo sheets at home and they are a game changer. These are sheets that you touch them, you're like, these must be so expensive. But oh no, my friends, they're a great value for incredibly soft sheets and there's no brick and mortar middleman here. 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[Buck Sexton]

Heading to Nashville. Actually going to be not only back on air with Clay tomorrow, but we're going to be hanging out tomorrow afternoon doing some, some fun stuff in downtown Nashville. Who knows, you may see me in line at Peg Leg Porker, getting my favorite barbecue. Big fan of that place. Delicious stuff. It's, I'm embarrassed by how quickly I go to the, go from the airport to there sometimes. Like gotta get some barbecue in Nashville. But yes, it is gonna be a good time in Nashville tomorrow. So I will hopefully I'm sure I'll bump into some of you on the street. I don't know, maybe I'll be scooting by on one of those scooters with my, my little, my little knapsack on, just going around. Well, it won't be as fun as it is here because the streets are so empty in D.C. i think there's actually people walking around in Nashville. Let's take some talk backs. We have Butch from Massachusetts. This is CC Hit it. This is Butch from Massachusetts. Yes, Massachusetts, the cradle of liberal Democrats. We're not all that way, man. Believe me, I adore what's going on right now with Comey. But what I want to know, where's Hillary's indictment? Where's Obama's indictment? And when is the mainstream media going to be held accountable for everything that's going on in our country today? They're to blame. Butch, I hear you on all this. There's not going to be indictments on any of them because the statute of limitation issues part one. There's other Things you could throw in there too, like, well, what exactly are the statutes? But this, that stuff, all the, like, lying under oath and administrative stuff that would have all run. This is one of the reasons why they had to bring this Comey charge. Now because of the, the timing of it all, they recognized that they were about to be, well, the clock was about to be run out for Comey. So, yes, accountability is in the works. I think this is a good thing. And like I said, this is the beginning of a process. But this Trump team is dialed in. They're doing excellent work and having had some interactions with them here in D.C. just in the last 24 hours, this is the A team. They've really done some great stuff. And Trump and his whole, whole White House and whole administration should be really proud of how they're operating in the second term. So I'm gonna leave it there for today. Please go check out the Clam Buck podcast network. In the meantime. We had Carol Markowitz on yesterday. We've got so many great people. Dave Rutherford on that podcast network. Go check that out. Dr. Sapphire and more and we'll be back tomorrow.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo?

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I'm like, oh, hey Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that.

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