BONUS: Daily Review With Clay and Buck - Jun 12 2025
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This is an iHeart Podcast. Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast. Welcome, everybody, to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show from our nation's capital. Having a great time here. I got to say, I have been so...

impressed and thankful and humbled that Clay and I have seen so many of you, our listeners, around D.C. It's true. And at first yesterday, someone came up to me who wanted to take a photo. And I always, all of you, don't ever be shy about it. If you ever want to take a, if you just want to shake hands or give me a high five, we love all of you who listen. That is an ironclad rule. If you listen to this show, we appreciate you. We're always happy to talk to you. But at first yesterday, someone came up to me to show me

The photo he had taken with Clay, I think earlier in the day, bumped into him on the street and then bumped into me on the street. So that was that was something I got. Yeah. In Georgetown yesterday morning on my way to go meet you as we were headed out to the CIA, a guy on the street comes up and he's like super excited. He said his phone was dead.

And so but he was like, I really, really want to get a selfie with you. Love the show. Listen every day. Leave you some South Carolina. That's right. I can tell the accent South Carolina for sure. And so so I said, all right, I'll take a picture here. I'm not a great selfie guy. My wife would say I'm really bad at taking pictures and not just because of what I look like, but because I'm not very good at taking the photos.

But I took a picture of a selfie with this, emailed the guy from my email. And then you saw him too. He was like, this is after we finished dinner. Yeah, he couldn't believe it. I mean, it was like 12 hours apart, and then I bumped into him. So D.C. is a small city with a lot going on, a small city with a very big responsibility. Speaking of which, yesterday, we're going to get into the heat's getting turned up on the Middle East and Iran and obviously the deportations and everything.

uh the la riots and what's going on in other cities we're going to dive into all that first but just a little bit of what we're doing here uh we yesterday went to as we mentioned to to langley the cia headquarters uh and met with some of the the senior folks over there had some off the record conversations about what's going on so because it's off the record i can't tell you

Much about that, but Clay and I did get to go very much on the record through the Spy Museum they have at Langley, which was very cool. I mean, they've got some great stuff. They've really upgraded it since I was there. And then later on in the day, I had a meeting. Well, we had a meeting. Clay can explain later.

What happened? But we had a meeting with the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and her staff. We is doing a lot of work. We had a scheduled meeting. Well, we had a scheduled meeting that one of us went to. The other one, as a Tennessee resident, had a little boo-boo when it came to his I.D.,

So I got rejected at the White House and the old executive office building because I showed up for a meeting right after we finished the show yesterday, and I don't have a real ID. I've been traveling with my passport. The state of Tennessee doesn't make your driver's license default real ID. I don't want to have an eight-hour day spent at the DMV. Also, we have a weird schedule, right?

We have to be on the air from 11 to 2, so central time where I live in Nashville. So it's hard for me to commit to anything in the morning because it might drag into when our show starts. I've got to drive back. And then by the time our show gets done, getting to somewhere before the DMV closes, it's like I have to take a whole day off work. And I've done it before to get passports for the kids.

So anyway, I show... Florida just gives you a real idea. I don't know. Tennessee losing some points here. Florida surging ahead in the red state sweepstakes. I'm just telling you the truth. So they wouldn't let me in the White House. Can I just say, I straight up asked...

the director of national intelligence to vouch for my man Clay. Like, this felt like leaving him at the velvet rope at the nightclub. I was like, but you're not going to let my buddy in? And they're just, you know, the Secret Service guys are just, no. Like, this is the part. There's actually a sign. Yeah, there's a sign. There's a sign when you go in that says, you must have real ID. No exceptions. But Clay, of course, because his Clay was...

I mean, I'm Clay Travis. Like, you know, we tried a little bit of that. We tried a little bit of that. But the director of national intelligence said they won't let me in if I don't have proper ID. Well, I mean, my argument was we did just spend all morning at the CIA, and I didn't need a real ID to get in there. Spoken like somebody who's trying to evade the rules, you know? Oh, I was a...

CIA all morning. They've heard it all, Clay. So I had to leave a man behind. I don't know what to say. He was in the trenches. He was taking grenades. And I had to just run on the battlefield solo. One positive on this is, as I'm standing outside in the hot baking sun, unable to be let in because I don't have a real ID, which, by the way,

Oh, don't be one of these people that gets all sassy about the real ID. No, just the real ID. Like, I am who I am. I've had – I sound like Sam I Am. I got the – I've got the ID, right? Yeah.

The fact that it has a little star in the corner, is that somehow making the world safer? Like, is anybody out there like, hey, you know, that terror attack would have hit, but boy, I'm glad we have the little star circle in the corner of the driver's license. This is the most ridiculous thing ever. This is not NOM. There are rules. Yeah. But positive, trying to be positive, as I'm standing in the baking sunlight in the pavement, standing outside of the White House, unable to go in...

I ran into former NFL kicker Jay Feeley, who had a real ID and was able to go in for his meetings, but he's going to be on the show in the second hour because I was like, hey, do you just want to come on the show? So I booked us a guest while standing in the hot sunshine pavement with my not real ID. All that sweating through your dress shirt was worth it. I just think you earned it. So we're going to have Jay Feeley on. I spoke to Tulsi, D&I, Gabbard, and her staff today.

Again, off the record, but I can just tell you that really good context for us to understand here about some of the moves that the administration is doing. This is really why we're here. Touch base with Trump's top team and the people who are making the big decisions.

And we've got some other meetings that are scheduled that we'll be telling you about. I'm sure you can have some guesses as to who, but the point is we wanted to just have time to speak to everybody. What are you working on? What's happening? What's going on? And to do it in a way where they can just speak freely to us. And look, they know we're openly, avowedly pro-Trump administration, want to see success. Because really, I truly believe that the success of the Trump administration is the success of

the country and the American people. But you always get, whenever you're in D.C. and you can speak to people freely, and again, I said, can we say we've met with you? Yes. But the contents of the discussions were off the record. You get much better

because people, even if they trust you, they don't really trust anything in this town. So they had to keep some of that stuff between all of us. With all that in mind, the president has been talking about this. They had Les Miserables. Did I pronounce that correctly? You did. That was pretty. Thank you. Thank you. They had the play going on at the Kennedy Center last night, and the president was asked about this Iran conflict and the issues associated with it.

And they've been pulling – you know this because when you were in the CIA, when they start pulling people – Out of embassies.

It seems to me, Buck, that Israel is ratcheting up the pressure and really wants to attack and that they want to go into Iran and that they want to do it now. And so, again, there's...

reportedly a weekend meeting that is scheduled, but it feels to me like the Trump administration is basically letting Iran know, hey, we're not going to continue to protect you from Israel. And if we are pulling our people out of the Middle East,

That is a sign that they don't necessarily know how this meeting is going to go and things could get a lot worse. I will tell you, I think the heat is higher right now with Iran and this. It's been, I understand, the Iranian nuclear issue has been playing out for many years, for decades, actually. And now we have a situation where...

There's the chance that something would happen and things could escalate very quickly. I am not in favor of a strike by the Israelis on the Iranian nuclear facilities at this time. The Trump administration is not in favor of an Israeli strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities at this time. A deal would be much better, and I think that there's just no general...

feeling among the American people that we should be drawn into any kind of Mideast conflict right now. That's really something that we just... For most of my adult life, Clay, we've been fighting wars in the Middle East. It's just too much. And I showed up in some of these war zones, did what little bit I could to help. But this is something that I think really guides the Trump foreign policy on this. And this is going to get... There's going to be some tension around this issue because there are people that really truly believe...

that the Iranian regime is so maniacal, so bloodthirsty that it would use nukes against Israel. I...

You know, this is where you're playing the highest stakes imaginable when you're talking about this level of war and peace. But I do think that there's still a realistic and strong might be too much possibility, but a realistic possibility that Trump can get this done without this becoming a point of conflict. When you're talking about evacuating embassies, the issue isn't that we would lose...

or against Iran or that we'd even necessarily be brought into a war against Iran. It's the Iranian capability to engage in terror attacks against U.S. targets all over the world, which they may just decide to go for, effectively go for broke if those facilities get hit because it would destabilize the regime. The Iranian people, something that doesn't get talked about in this country, Clay, the Iranian people, as much as we're always told they are very pro-Western, they don't like their regime,

They do, for the greatness of Iran, want it to be a nuclear power. This is something that does not get talked about, but the Iranian people want a lot of them. Now, you could say, how could you know with the polling? There are ways that you can assess this stuff, but there's a national pride component of Iran getting this that makes it more complicated. It's not quite as clear a split with the regime on this issue as we would like it to be.

Yeah. And look, I think the challenge in general, you understand why Iran wants nuclear weapons, because Kim Jong-un has them. And basically, he's preserved his family's ability to rule North Korea for generations to come unless somebody internally takes him out. I don't think anybody externally is. Why did Ukraine? If Ukraine could change one decision they made since the fall of the Berlin Wall, I bet it would be not

giving up their nukes because do you think Russia would have invaded Ukraine if Ukraine had kept the nukes? This is unfortunately the takeaway from what happened in Libya where the Obama and Hillary administration decided that they were going to engage in this NATO air war to help militias on the ground overthrow. And then, of course, Benghazi happened. And we remember some of this history. But Gaddafi was...

cooperating with the dismantling of and avoiding WMD programs. And we decided, meaning the U.S. government, you know what, not good enough. And they went in, and we saw the videos of what happened to Qaddafi. It's very hard to commit. And by the way, I think it's interesting. I wonder how many people before I just said it now knew that it is just known that the Iranian people want nukes. This is not something that I have said that is...

is a fringe belief or theory, but it makes this a more complicated situation because the Iranian regime has been promising the security. And, you know, we don't really think of it this way because we're so used to America being the scientific power. We're so used to thinking of America as, you know, of course we have nukes and of course we have, you know, satellites and space shuttles and all this amazing stuff.

There is a pride in Iran among the people about the achievement, the scientific achievement of being a nuclear power. This is true in Pakistan as well. Some people actually point to Pakistan and India as, well, they have nukes and they weren't supposed to. And it's now that that gets very contentious because Pakistan and India are not Iran and aren't doing the thing. Oh, Pakistan does some pretty bad stuff. But.

this is a moment where I think we're seeing decisions made on this issue. I don't think, Clay, the decision has been made one way or the other. In my mind, that's the atmospheric that I pick up. But I will say, just talking to people here in the vicinity of the decision-making process in D.C.,

They're very tense talking about Iran right now. Well, I think that's 100% true. And remember, the motivation, according to multiple reports, for why Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th was that Saudi Arabia was prepared to join the Abraham Accords. And if Saudi Arabia had joined the Abraham Accords, then the peace in the Middle East situation would have been far more likely. And now that Syria...

we have in some ways normalized relations with Syria. I think that

Iran is isolated to a degree that may not have occurred in a generation and that this is where Israel believes now is the time to hit them and keep them from having nukes. Whether the United States is going to agree with that Israeli perspective remains to be seen. But I think Israel is quite clearly behind the scenes advocating as aggressively as possible that now is the time to go.

Yes, well, the problem, and I think the Israeli government, I know, Clay, you went and visited and spoke to high-level officials there, but one of their concerns is also that without any fear of any real military direct attack on Iran, does that then embolden the Iranian regime to push its what are essentially imperial and almost colonizing activities by running these different proxy militias in places like Afghanistan?

Lebanon with Hezbollah and the Shia militias. Why are we so worried about Iraq and the U.S. embassy in Iraq? Well, it's because the most capable military forces on the ground, when push comes to shove and shove comes to shooting, are Iranian-backed and trained proxy militias, essentially. So this is a huge challenge, a huge problem that we face. And I think that

This is a test of the Trump administration's foreign policy and a test of our relationship with, well, allies in the Middle East, Israel first and foremost. So that's absolutely something we'll continue to follow. We'll also dive deeper into the riots, L.A., all that stuff here in just a moment.

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All right. So you are making the rounds in Washington, D.C. You get ready for a primary season. What is it like to go from kind of apolitical? I know you have political opinions out there to now being a full bore congressional candidate. What has surprised you the most about the process? The amount of work you have to do fundraising, you know, and I'll be honest, like it shouldn't be about that. We shouldn't.

have to raise a ton of money because we want our best people in Washington, D.C., representing our country. So it shouldn't be about having to go out and raise money, and then whoever raises the most money, they're going to have an advantage. But that's the reality of the system. And so you have to spend five, six hours a day doing call time, calling people, trying to generate money.

those donations, and then they judge you by how much money you raise. Do you ever have a conversation with somebody where you just want to talk about saving America and having the funds to do it, and they want to talk about that second kick you missed? I'm just wondering, does this ever come up? Yeah, for sure. But it's kind of fun because I call somebody out of the blue, and they actually know who I am. Oh, yeah, you were the kicker, or you were the announcer. And so it gives you that avenue to say, yeah, here's what I did, and here's why I'm walking.

willing to walk away from an announcing job where I only had to work five months of the year. Yeah. You know, and I got paid well to do it and I love doing it. It was fun. But this is how much I care about my country that I want to walk away from that job. And I want to represent the people of Arizona and D.C. I bet for the most part, this is something that is very hard to do and learn how to do. Ask for money.

So hard. Because I hear people who don't. I mean, it's one thing if you're in sales or you're fundraising, things like that. That's a job that some people have. But when I talk to people who have not done politics before, you mentioned it right off the top. The ask for, hey, can you help me? How tough is that?

Well, you have to sit there. You don't even get a tax deduction if you're donating to my campaign. So it's terrible. But at the same time, the more you do it and when you meet people, I think right now in America you have two different distinct parties that have completely different views of what America should look like.

And they've never been further apart, not in my lifetime. So I think those people that love our country and that truly believe that President Trump and his America First policies are making our country better, they want to support candidates that are going to support him and that are willing to be advocates and willing to go on TV and aren't afraid of the blowback. And that's the kind of guy I am. That's who I'll be in Congress. One of the most important things that you would want to tackle, assuming you win this seat,

Well, for all Americans, I think. That was not supposed to be a play on words there, the tackling thing. That's right. And I love to tackle. How many tackles have you made in your career? I think about 50. Oh, that's a lot. That's way more than I would have thought. Oh, I was a guy running down there. Like, I was going to hit you. That was fun for me. Kicking was my job. Okay, let's be honest. Tackling somebody was fun. When the kicker annihilates somebody, the stadium goes insane. Oh, and I'm like standing up, jacked up, all excited. Then I go back to the side and I'm like, oh, my God.

What was the best hit you ever had on somebody? Ted Ginn. No question. So when you hit Ted Ginn and you laid him out, does Ted Ginn say anything when he gets wrecked by a kicker? Well, I had just been teammates, so I wasn't really hitting Ted Ginn. I was hitting Bill Parcells. But through Ted Ginn, because I was with the Dolphins,

I led the league in field goal percentage, had the best year of my career, and then Bill Parcells came in. They fired everybody. He didn't like that I was the player rep. He didn't like that I did media. He wanted his kicker to go stand in a corner and not say a word, so they cut me and released me after my best year. So when I was running down on that kickoff against the Dolphins, the next game I played them, I was hitting Bill Parcells. You saw Bill Parcells' face on the 10-game front. Yeah, no question.

but i i literally never broke stride and ted game was going out right and he cut back left and he like cut back right into me and i hit him and knocked him back about five yards and that was like the highlight of even better than the touchdown score like that was the moment for me all right so what are the issues that you would like yeah i think truly the two biggest issues for for americans

It's border and security, and it's the economy. And when you look at what happened over the last four years with the Biden administration and Democrats in general, they willingly let tens of millions of illegals come into this country and put politics in front of the protection of the American people. They can't get away with that. They said for four years, we need a bill passed. We can't do anything. We need a bill passed. And then Trump comes in, and in four months, completely closed down the border and secured the border. And so...

The American people need to hold Democrats accountable for that. They want to ignore it. And all the issues that we're seeing in L.A. and throughout the country, that goes directly back to what they did at the border and the decisions they made to let those people come across. And I'm an advocate for legal immigration. Like, I have two kids that we brought legally from Haiti and helped them go to college.

So when I stand up there and talk about securing the border and not having illegal immigration, I think we also have to be able to say, hey, it's okay to love immigrants and to want more legal immigration and an easier legal immigration process while being ardently against illegal immigration. I think those two things get conflicted. And then the economy, people just want to be able to look at their future, especially young. My son's here with me. He's on the campaign. He just got married.

Him looking at buying a house in our district, median house, 450,000. Yeah, it's crazy. You know, it's doubled twice in the last like six years out in Arizona. And you see that across the country, this massive inflation. And so you have to find ways to help people believe in their future, believe that I'm going to be able to provide for my family and that I'm going to have a job. You know, and I think that's the job of President Trump and the Republicans right now. Create a bill that helps everyone. Create a bill that helps the economy, that grows the economy and provides opportunity for everyone.

You have been in sports for a long time. I saw you weigh in on this. We talked about it earlier the week on the show. She's since apologized. What did you think when Simone Biles went after Riley Gaines?

Obviously, you know, she didn't have the full concept of what she was talking about because now she's pulled back those comments, you know, but as a dad who coached his daughter's high school girls, high school soccer team, you know, they didn't have a girl's team when my daughter was going into high school. I'm like, that's ridiculous. They said, well, we need a coach. I said, all right, I'll coach the team. So we started the team, you know, five years later, we win a state championship, but,

Watching those girls and what they accomplished and the opportunities they had and those life lessons, I don't want that taken away from any single girl because a guy decides, I want to play in girls' sports. And the argument that they're not biologically better is absolutely ridiculous. It's completely devoid from any rational thinking. This is important. This is an issue I wanted to dig into since you sat down with us. Clay thinks that in his current state...

He could go 1v1 against a WNBA player. Inside. Inside. Excuse me. I'm setting this up. I don't want him thinking that I'm going to break down Caitlyn Clark. He's already hedging. He's already hedging. But he thinks that he could...

You know, old man style. Use that wide body. Body, back or down. Back or down. Can you shoot? Game to 11. I was a pretty good shooter. I didn't say, you said in the past tense. I'm saying, can you shoot? Clay thinks game to 11, he can take Angel Reese and has put up a quarter of a million dollars on this idea. I want to see it. I'll be there. I'm irrational thinking that I could do it too. Would you back his play or would you hedge against our man Clay?

I think I could go and I could take on the women's U.S. national team in soccer right now at 49 years old as well. I think I could go out there and play with them. You probably could. I mean, you could dominate with your, yeah, your. We're all professional. We're all professional. We're voice athletes. We're vocal cord studs. So your question is an important one. So the only recent basketball play I have had.

was against my eighth grade son now he's a pretty good basketball player but he's probably five eight five nine so i'm bigger than him and i'd be he's gonna be so disappointed that i said this publicly to millions of people i beat him head to head in the backyard now uh he was really upset uh that i beat him so that's the last time that's your job as a dad is to beat him absolutely some people are like hey i'll let him win no i was like no i'm gonna make him work now

he's had about three or four months since then where he has continued on the swing and a dad's definitely on the downswing. And the last time I played, I don't know if you know this in a competitive game. And this is a sad thing, but they have like lawyer basketball leagues. And I played, I probably seven or eight years ago in Nashville. And I do remember Buck, which is why I'm saying inside, not, I remember being in a defensive crouch and not a great basketball player against me.

cross me over, and I was like, well, he's going to cross me over. I should take a step to the side so I'm still in front of him, and I just didn't move. You know, like where you have – The mind and the body were not aligned. I knew what I should do. I was like, all right, he's taking me to the right now. He's going to come back to the left, and I was like, I should just step over, and it didn't happen. There are montages already in the heads of the audience where you've seen Rocky. I'm going to be on the bicycle next to Clay telling him, you know, if he gets this Angel Reese showdown that he wants, I got to go.

I got to train them up. I got to train them up. My eighth grade son's basketball team, they're rising ninth graders now. They're pretty good. And they were like, hey, we will train you. So I play with LPGA girls in golf. Yes. There's a couple of members that I'll play with them. And I can beat them. When I play well, and I'm a two, so not great. But when I play well and I putt well, I can beat them head to head. That's from playing from the men's tees. That's playing the exact same tees, right, all the way back. Right.

So if you take a dude, you know, like my son out here is 22. He's a two as well, but he hits it like 350. You know, if he decided I want to play in the LPGA Tour and I'm going to identify as a woman. Yeah. It's ridiculous. Yeah. They would dominate that tour. Just like Serena Williams saying, hey, if I played, you know, the 50th or 100th ranked man, like I'd get my butt kicked.

I might have to bring your services as an announcer into the mix. If we do this Clay Angel Reese showdown, can you even really produce this thing properly? Let's go. Yeah, I will come announce it. By the way, the athletes, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, men in particular, athletes, guys who even played high school, college, or pro, are there any guys that actually think this is okay that you've ever met of any background? No.

I don't think rational men do. You know, you talk about locker room. We talked about this last time. I think maybe 5%, less than 5%. Because you know how special sports is. And you know the impact that it has on people's lives and how it can change the direction of someone's life. And I think that's what makes it so special. And you want to protect that for women. It's not saying that I don't love somebody who's transgender. I don't want to see them happy.

That's not it at all. You're saying, hey, let's protect sports for women and make sure that we're not taking something away, an accomplishment from somebody because some guy says I want to compete in women's swimming or I want to compete in a women's sport. It's just not right. It's not fair. And it's not safe. Jay, what is your site for Congress? We need those folks to step up and help you in your district. Jay Feeley for Congress dot com. You can go on there, check it out. You can donate and support. And listen, we're just trying to make this country better.

Every day, I think that's why I'm willing to walk away from my job in broadcasting, because I believe in this country. I believe in its future. And, you know, I want to be a part of making it better. Through the uprights for America. That's right. Make America great again, and let's keep it that way. Amen. Jay Feeley, go check out that site.

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Playing some of your talkbacks, and you can always leave us messages, easy way to get through to the show. And a lot of them, as regularly are the case, are fantastic, and we enjoy listening to those. And we've talked a little bit about the fact that the New York City mayor's race is coming up very fast. And by mayor's race, we mean it's unfortunate.

But oftentimes now, whoever wins the primary on the Democrat side is going to be the mayor. New York's current mayor, for those of you who haven't been paying attention, Eric Adams, we don't know exactly what he's going to do. Maybe he's going to run as an independent. He's not running in the Democrat primary. And right now, Andrew Cuomo is the favorite. And we talked about this. And Buck does a phenomenal Andrew Cuomo impersonation.

and I'm going to play. This is actually crazy because as much as you may think Andrew Cuomo is a crazy man, as much as you may think Andrew Cuomo is not worthy of being the mayor, and Buck, as a former New York City resident, born and raised, you may take this as a crazy take. I actually think Andrew Cuomo is, as Democrat candidates go, is

Maybe the rational, reasonable one? Can you believe this? This is like being told that you have the choice of amputating your hand or both of your legs. This is a very tough decision to be made, and it's not a fun one no matter what. Yeah, you're going to have to chop a finger off, and then which one are you going to decide to go with? Yes, I agree, but I want to play for you.

This is, I believe, team make sure that I'm correct on this. This is, I believe, considered to be, again, based on polling, the top candidate against Cuomo. Yes. Zoran Mamadani. Zoran Mamadani. This is the guy who was endorsed by AOC recently that we were talking about yesterday, if I'm not mistaken. Listen to this crazy town perspective that he had. Back in 2020, he said that police...

should be removed from high crime areas altogether, and that he believes cops should be replaced with social workers. This is how crazy town some of these decisions are. And this is a top candidate to potentially be New York City mayor. Listen to cut one.

Do you think that we have to almost do without policing in certain areas, which are labeled to be high crimes, to have alternative bodies? Do the policing in a more compassionate, more merciful, more social, you know, assistant and helping more than arresting and putting in jail? I absolutely think that what we need to do is give support.

support and funding to institutions that are trained to deal with these kinds of issues. As you said, if you're having an argument with someone and there's a risk of it escalating, who is better positioned to de-escalate it? Someone who is well-known in the community or someone who has been trained specifically in de-escalation or a stranger who has a gun? This is...

moronic beyond words. One of the reasons that this will not be something that New Yorkers go for in this election, meaning specifically on this issue of de-policing, which is what he was... What year was that? Oh, 2020. This is during the crazy time. Yeah, of course. I was going to say. He was saying this because that was what the politics of the moment demanded. As we have seen, and as we know from the numbers, the BLM movement has resulted in substantially more

uh... homicides in this country disproportionately affecting members of the minority community so more people particularly black and brown people dead uh... then would have been had they not mounted this uh... this campaign to de police these areas

And here's what's remarkable, I think, about what we've seen and what we've learned since then, not just based on the numbers, Clay. Because of police body cams, these arguments that are made are much more difficult. And because of the proliferation of videos, I'll give you an example. Here we are in Washington, D.C. It was actually a former, I believe a former Georgetown basketball player, the incident involved, is a female. Yeah, that's right. And she was a former Georgetown University basketball player, and it was a wellness call.

So this is the perfect example. A wellness call by a Virginia police officer to check on somebody who was in substantial distress. Right. That was the back story. And when he came to the door and it's all on video, she grabbed a large razor sharp kitchen knife and tried to kill him and he had to shoot her.

and he was entirely justified as very sad she clearly was having some kind of a your mental breakdown but there's no choice here right in somebody attacks you like that you have been absolute human right not just a legal right a human right to defend yourself

What if a social worker had been there? Well, if a social worker had been there, it would have been a dead body that would have been unable to protect himself or herself. That's just one example, but when you look at the situations that they oppose, that they talk about, oh, we need violence. This was a thing they used to talk about, violence interrupters. The only person that has any chance of being a violence interrupter is somebody who is on the side of the good guys and can do violence to protect those who are being victimized internally.

himself or herself. There's no chance that you're going to call together in the moment some special, you know, healer of the people who's just going to be like, oh, everything's fine, guys. Like, put your guns down. And also, who would want that job? Totally. It's crazy. Who would want to get called in the middle of the night and told, hey, there's a super violent situation. Can you talk them down with no weapons? Yeah. I

I mean, is there anybody who would? I don't want to sign up for that job. You know why? I remember this very much because I was absolutely furious about what was going on in New York. You know, that riot. There was a BLM riot on my block and shattered all the storefronts. And, you know, restaurants had their doors kicked in and their windows broken and stuff like that. And I remember when all this was going on, they were making these kinds of crazy arguments. It was a real mass hysteria moment in the country.

It was part of COVID, made everyone freak out, and then the left, the street communists used this to get everyone to go crazy. But they made these kinds of arguments then. I don't think they can get away with making these kinds of arguments now because we see what actually happens and what the reality is. Oh, and also when they would say things like we need violence interrupters, when you would actually talk to these people, this came out over time, it was,

Well, I mean, I need a cop there with me, right? Like, I'm not just showing up between the gang members who are armed, who are about to shoot each other. As if also you can just, it's like a Batman movie where someone just appears, right, when the bad guys are about to do, you know, that's a movie. That's not reality, right? The only thing that really works from a law enforcement perspective, the NYPD, all the data shows this, is you put, they call it cops on dots, more cops in places where

where bad things are happening so that the you know ninety five percent of people who commit no crimes or ninety nine or whatever the number is they get to go to work and they get to go to the grocery store and they get to do things safely and the people who want to commit crimes have to deal with the consequences of their actions so the point here is the new york city mayoral candidate number two Zoran Mamdadi is an insane communist and the fact

that anybody would vote for him is a total indictment of the insanity of the democrat electorate in new york and this is really going to hurt moses from san diego at kogo there uh where we've been number one for a while off and on we appreciate everybody listening in southern california uh he has asked please don't talk about andrew cuomo anymore and unfortunately i think he's going to be the mayor and even more unfortunately

I think he may be the best of a series of awful choices. Listen to BB here. Good morning, men. Congratulations on your continued success. Look, do all of us listeners a favor and just summarize any time that idiot Como speaks. There has never been a more sanctimonious and complete. He is a condescending. Ah, don't ever play his voice again, please.

Moses, I feel like I do not have your vote. Moses, I would like to work for your vote as mayor and as a future presidential candidate under the Democrat ticket.

I guess Moses does not believe in Andrew Cuomo's ability to part the Red Sea and lead him to a primrose path of victory in our nation's largest city. But this is the choices we're left with, and I don't even know what the impact would be if this crazy town individual ended up the mayor. I mean, Bill, you're right.

Bill de Blasio was a disaster. Horrible. I mean, Bill, the difference between de Blasio and Adams, and remember, I still have half of my family, my parents, my sister, half of my family still lives in New York City, so I'm hearing about it all the time, and our team is based out of New York City on radio, right? So the thing with Bill de Blasio was that he made the city suffer and thought it was what we deserved in New York, whereas Mayor Adams...

tried to fix it, he's just incapable of doing it. He just isn't up for the job. So it's a different... Both of them are not good enough at what they were trying to do, but with Adams, it was not that much, really, of an improvement at all. So that was pretty disappointing, but unfortunately, that is the reality that we were facing at that time. So we'll see what happens. We'll get also... Maybe we'll get our buddy, the sage of Staten Island, Joe Borelli, on and talk about what's going on with this mayor's race. Which is happening soon. It's the next big election...

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We use those words interchangeably. There are protests and there are riots, so you don't have to correct us when we say protests. We're aware of both of these things. And protest is fine. And as we learned from Caroline Leavitt yesterday, it is a stupid question for anyone in the press to say, does President Trump... I like the way she handled that because that was just meant to be an insult. It's like, does President Trump believe in the Constitution? Like, yeah, idiot. Ask a real question. So I like the way that she handled that. That was great. Caroline Leavitt. You know, we've

We were on the Levitt train very early here. I'm just saying, we were on the Levitt train when she was running for Congress, so we knew she was going to be a superstar, and here she is. But you had the press trying to make something of this, trying to make it seem like the American people aren't with the Trump administration efforts to enforce the law. And some very interesting things are going on with all this, with these riots, with these protests, all that stuff. First of all...

I think on how this has gone over politically, former Democrat, this cut five, Batia Unger Sargon. We've talked about her before here. We had her on the show recently. Yeah, we had her on the show. She was on that CNN panel. The only thing worth watching at CNN, doesn't this tell you something, Clay, is the occasional story.

center-right person, sometimes a center, sometimes truly right-wing, from Scott Jennings, Sir Michael Singleton, Batia Angersargon, Ben Ferguson. The only thing worth watching is the conservative slapping around the libs at that table. Here is Batia talking about the deportations and the truth of what Trump promised. Play five. I hear this talking point a lot from Democrats that Donald Trump misled the American people and somehow said he was only going to deport Americans

violent criminals. At every single rally that I watched, he said we are going to have the largest deportation operation in American history. And the reason he did that is because that position has majority support with the American people

And that position is what got him the majority of working class people. Because immigration is a topic that divides the working class from the elites. The elites are the consumers of low wage labor. And when you guys say they're taking people from the community, what you mean is they're taking people from the workforce. People who undercut the wages of American workers, which is why the working class flipped from the Democrats to the Republicans.

Two important points she's making there, Clay. One, Trump promised the biggest deportation operations in history.

So prioritizing the worst of the worst offenders doesn't give everyone else a pass in this. It's just, OK, yeah, we're going to focus on getting the, you know, child molesters and, you know, gang members with blood on their hands, get them out of the country who are illegal aliens first. So that's point one. Trump is doing exactly what he promised, which is why I keep saying everyone says who voted for Trump. Yeah, I voted for this. I mean, I voted for this.

And the second part of it is just the exploitation of cheap labor and how central that is to the donor class, to the elites. And this brings me to they're going to have to start enforcing fines against employers with this. They have to come at this from which is going to be.

a little bit of a wake-up call, but it needs to happen. It is illegal if you are employing large numbers or any numbers of illegals in your business. You're not supposed to. Now, someone will say, but they have fake Social Security cards and they have fake. So it's a little more complicated, but for the worst offenders, you need to do some deterrence enforcement. Yeah, and I do think that the degree to which illegal immigrants have incredibly detailed fake Social Security cards, you say, okay, well, how does that happen?

I don't know how they get them made, but Social Security then gets paid money that never has to go out.

So that is some element out there for people who say, okay, well, how does this happen? The money still goes in for payroll taxes, except the numbers are not necessarily getting matched. Now, sometimes my understanding is there is identity theft and fraud going on, and it's a complicated aspect. But, yes, that factors in. I thought this was interesting, too, because they tried to say for a long time, well, there's not actually riots going on in L.A. Remember –

Brian Stelter went on CNN and he said, remember, it's very important to note that 99.9% of Los Angeles is having no issue at all. And meanwhile, yesterday, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said the city has so much graffiti that the vandalism is so extensive they won't be ready for the World Cup next year. Listen to this cut.

because it definitely calls into question the talking point that this is a small issue of violent and illegal behavior. Cut eight. The graffiti that is just blanketing a number of blocks has been extensive. We are one year away from the World Cup.

This is about beautifying our city and bringing our city together. And so I am calling on business leaders, community leaders, faith leaders to come together downtown in the next few days to talk about how we are going to clean up

the city. Obviously, city workers are already out there removing the graffiti, but this is so extensive it's going to take community-wide involvement. We had launched a program called Shine LA a couple of months ago in preparation for the World Cup, and now we are called on to direct that citywide. We need people from all over the city to come to downtown and to help with this effort.

Okay, I got a crazy idea for you, Buck. Maybe the people who did the graffiti as a part of paying penance for their crimes should have to clean up the graffiti that they created instead of asking good people in Los Angeles who had nothing to do with this and L.A. area taxpayers to clean up the mess that they created and, frankly, that the mayor and the governor allowed to occur. Second part on this, I actually think Trump could...

come out and say, why does Los Angeles deserve to host the World Cup? I mean, there are lots of cities in red states that are not rioting. You live in Florida. There's a whole heck of a lot. We'll talk about how Florida's now. Yeah, we're going to play that cut in a sec from Ron DeSantis, governor. But there's a whole heck of a lot of places. I know some of these cities are already hosting the World Cup, but there are a lot of red states out there where I think Trump could say,

Why should you reward a city that wasn't able to keep itself from rioting with a World Cup host? You've got a year away. There's a lot of stadiums where you could host games. Well, I also think as somebody who saw firsthand what a visual virus graffiti can be in New York,

And this is you go back to these movies, whether it's the Charles Bronson Death Wish movies or just, I think, Warriors with the gangs. I mean, all these different there was just graffiti everywhere. And when I was a kid in the city, you know, early 90s, there was there was in the nicest neighborhoods. There was graffiti everywhere and it was a constant thing.

psychological menace of degradation, of barbarism. I know people say, oh, it's just no, no, no. It's destruction of property. It's lawlessness. It's criminality. And it's just a sign of the criminality that is constantly all around you. It is a visual reminder. The same way that masks during COVID were so important to the left because it was a visual reminder of who is in charge and

and your mandatory obedience, right? That's what it was. It was obedience training for the masses. When you have graffiti everywhere, it is the psychological assault of you're in a lawless place. You're in a place where people don't respect property, where the authorities can't actually protect you. And so I am...

so adamantly anti-graffiti as a thing. I do not take it lightly. I think that it gets worse and worse and worse in places that allow it. I know that it does, because I see it. And you can turn it around, but you've got to be, to your point, you've got to be harsh with people who do it. And one of the best ways to do it is, you know what? You can either go to prison, or you can spend every weekend for the next six months

cleaning up graffiti. How about that? That absolutely is the way that it should be. But it also goes to the mentality of these people who are involved in these programs. Because if it's all over the city, we're talking about a lot of people who are doing this, obviously, and they think that the laws don't apply to them.

And they're often right, unfortunately. Well, I'm hoping that Trump is going to show that at least when it comes to immigration, and I think he is showing this, and this is the whole point, the laws do apply to them. But I'm seeing more. I even saw somebody on Twitter suggesting this. Yeah, this is what I say.

If these people – if you don't have to be legal in this country, I don't have to pay taxes. Increasingly this – and you can make the same arguments. My tax dollars do – I'm a nice person. I don't hurt anybody. But you don't need my taxes. The Treasury Department isn't going to go bankrupt without my taxes. You're going to lock me up? You're going to separate me from my family if I don't pay taxes?

Same kind of arguments you can make about illegal immigration, except they're making it for tens of millions of people. But this is the same argument. I'm not hurting anybody. Well, but you're actually breaking the law and you're making a choice to break the law. I also think, Buck, the way that the far left is coming together on these rallies and these riots...

This cut we have here from Seattle, there are other cities where people are starting to riot. Listen, I don't know how well you'll be able to hear this, but SPD, Seattle Police Department, KKK, we all know what the KKK is, Ku Klux Klan.

And then the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, they're all the same. This is a chant right now that's going on in Seattle. This is part of their worldview on the left, connecting all these different aspects of the world. Listen to cut four.

OK, not necessarily the easiest slogan to chant, but Buck, this is indicative of the global worldview that they are trying to bring together. We'll talk about this a bit more. We also have an unbelievable woke white protester that we're going to play for you from New York City. We'll hit that as well.

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