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0:35Play Travis Buck Sexton show.

0:38All right, we got a bunch of news that came out of President Trump's cabinet

0:43meeting. Let's dive in here and actually keep you updated with all of that.

0:51So let me go in here and find out, make sure we get it in

0:54order. Here is cut 33.

0:58I do understand why people ask questions that are very specific in terms of military

1:04strategy. I also love that Trump every time is like, why in the world would

1:09I tell you any of this?

1:10Yeah, the reporters are like, sir, are you going to launch a stealth attack on

1:14this member of the IRGC tomorrow at his house in the mountains?

1:18Like, probably not going to let you know.

1:21So 33, here is that version of that question that was just asked in the

1:26cabinet meeting. Mr. President, are you going to go in for the uranium?

1:30Like, how do you secure Iran?

1:33Let's assume I was or I wasn't.

1:36Why would I ever answer a question?

1:38Can you accomplish a goal without it?

1:39What kind of a question?

1:40Am I going to go in for the...

1:41Oh, yeah, I'm going in.

1:42We're going in tomorrow at 3 o 'clock.

1:46How could you possibly ask a question like that and expect an answer?

1:50I don't know. But I don't know.

1:53I think you're a friendly person, too.

1:54It's just such a ridiculous question.

1:57It is very funny. And again, I was talking about this with Laura yesterday.

2:01I think Trump very often is so funny that it sometimes works against him in

2:09the context of people take him so literally on the left and they cannot comprehend

2:15when he's joking. But yeah, we're going to go in at 3 o 'clock.

2:19Remember when Reagan got caught off mic saying, we're hitting the Russians making a joke

2:25and it turned into a huge story?

2:27But the specifics of this are every day he gets asked, hey, what are you

2:32trying to do? As we talked about yesterday, I think the genius of Trump in

2:35this respect has been he's caught the Iranians napping twice.

2:39He got them in June last year.

2:40They had no idea the attack was coming.

2:42He took out the Ayatollah on a Saturday when they had sent specific indications that

2:47they weren't going to do anything such that the Iranians are super nervous about negotiating

2:51with him now because he's caught them napping twice.

2:53And that's because he's put out different perspectives and it's hard to analyze what exactly

2:58he's doing. All right. This is a big story, Buck, that we talked about yesterday

3:03and earlier this week. Things are going so well in Venezuela that no one is

3:08even talking about Venezuela very much.

3:11I saw Doug Burgum a couple weeks ago told him we want to get him

3:14on because he has been involved very much in the Venezuela oil situation.

3:19And he, at the cabinet meeting, gave an update, cut 35, on just how much

3:25Venezuela's oil production is growing.

3:29Listen. Back on Venezuela, Chris and I both had a chance to be there.

3:33I literally think they're going to put up a statue to President Trump.

3:36And I'm not being, it's not a political statement.

3:39It's an actual thing. I hope so.

3:40That would be great. No, because it's like they view President Trump like Simon Woller.

3:44He's the liberator of a country.

3:45And this is a country where they, you know, they love American baseball.

3:48You look on the street, they're wearing NBA jerseys.

3:52And Delcy and her team working with us, getting back.

3:56Chris and I both experienced it was the first time in Venezuelan history that they

4:00had the free press allowed to come on to essentially what's their, where the White

4:05House, the Palacio of Miniflores.

4:06And it was like, it was an emotional thing for people that had been for

4:0920 years that never had a chance to be there.

4:12So it's a... Forget that.

4:13When are they going to do the statue?

4:16The hell are you? You're going to do the statue.

4:20You're going to do the statue.

4:21So that is really, really funny.

4:2450 % increase in three months they've been there.

4:28And maybe Trump's going to get a statue.

4:31And then he, President Trump, we talked about this and it's a good pivot to

4:35allow us to discuss the continued impact of illegal immigrant crime in this country.

4:41Trump paused the cabinet meeting to deliver a message about Sheridan Gorman.

4:46She is the Chicago area college student who was killed in cold blood by a

4:51Venezuelan illegal immigrant in Chicago.

4:55And unfortunately, we've got recent stories that continue of totally innocent people being victimized by

5:01illegal immigrants. But here is Trump in the cabinet meeting addressing Sheridan Gorman, 18 -year

5:07-old, murdered in cold blood.

5:08It would be great if people like the mayor of Chicago and the governor of

5:13Illidale would say, please come in and stop the crime.

5:17A beautiful young lady was killed the other day and the father was a very

5:23good friend of Dan Scavino.

5:24I don't know. And he took it very hard.

5:26Dan took it very hard.

5:28He liked the father, friends.

5:29They grew up together. And it's a young lady whose life would be saved if

5:34we did what we did, as an example, in Washington, D .C., which is now

5:38a safe city. All the time, people come up to me in the building, people

5:42that work here, they say, thank you so much.

5:43I know immediately what they're talking about.

5:45They're able to walk to work.

5:46They walk to work. You all walk to work.

5:48Some of you were mugged.

5:49I know you told me, sir, some of you were mugged.

5:51One person in particular was viciously mugged in the group right here.

5:55It's not happening anymore. You have a safe city.

6:00And so, Buck, I saw this story, and I just tweeted it out, and a

6:04lot of people are discussing it.

6:06And I think it is unfortunate.

6:08But again, this could be happening in any city in America.

6:11We could point to it.

6:13And I want to make sure that I get this right, because it was from

6:19Bill Malugin, said a four -time previously deported, this is from the New York Post

6:25story, a four -time previously deported Honduran illegal immigrant has been charged with murder after

6:33he allegedly shoved an 83 -year -old U .S.

6:37Air Force veteran onto subway tracks in New York City's Upper East Side.

6:42The veteran died from his injuries.

6:44The man who pushed him onto the tracks has a lengthy rap sheet.

6:50I want to make sure I get this man's name.

6:52He's a grandfather. Richard Williams died from his injuries at the Lexington Avenue 63rd Station

7:00just before noon, middle of the day, on March 8th.

7:05His alleged attacker was a Honduran national, and that Honduran national had been deported four

7:12different times. And, Buck, unfortunately, this is – there's cell phone footage of this.

7:21It's an awful situation. 83 years old, you're trying to take the subway at noon

7:26in New York City, and a man who should have never been in this country

7:29takes your life. Not only should he never have been in this country, he came

7:36back in after being deported, Clay.

7:39Four times. Which is a felony.

7:42This is, again, where I get very frustrated.

7:45People say, oh, our immigration system's broken.

7:47That's actually, in many cases, not true.

7:50Democrats break it. They refuse what is actual statute.

7:55They refuse to enforce laws.

7:57And this is a perfect example of it.

7:59You can – AI makes this all so easy now.

8:02For legal stuff, I've got to tell you, AI, you can pull up statutes in

8:05a second. You can pull up any case law.

8:09I mean, the speed of this stuff is incredible.

8:12And you can see what I'm saying.

8:13It is a federal felony to – if you have been deported because you came

8:18in illegally – to come back.

8:19And doesn't that make perfect sense, by the way?

8:21It's one thing, okay, you came, we got you, you're gone.

8:24Now you're going to do this again?

8:26This guy's done this four times, and he somehow is still walking around the streets

8:31in this country? This is where everyone has to understand.

8:35During the Biden years, Clay, it became too obvious for anyone to pretend otherwise, really,

8:43that Democrats wanted an open border.

8:47And, you know, we saw 10 million came in.

8:50They're pretending, oh, it's about asylum.

8:52They're not asylum seekers. They're scammers.

8:54We see – okay. That was one revelation.

8:57Another revelation people are now having under this Trump administration, because a lot of it

9:02is, Clay, we're talking about it more.

9:04The media can't squelch these stories the way they used to, thanks to things like

9:08X, I might add, formerly Twitter, and Elon.

9:11This stuff gets out. All the media sees it.

9:14You know, it's no longer like Georgia man or Michigan man pushes, oh, you mean

9:19a guy who came here from Ecuador who's been deported five times and has a

9:24long rap sheet of being like a sex criminal?

9:27That's, you know, Michigan man or Georgia man or, in this case, New York City

9:32man? We're all so sick of it, but, Clay, what we're seeing now is Democrats

9:37are continuing sanctuary policies, continuing to thwart immigration enforcement of exactly individuals like the guy

9:46who threw this veteran and grandfather on the subway tracks.

9:51They don't want this to stop, just like they didn't want the border to be

9:55secure, and then Trump secured it right away.

9:57Democrats are all in on you have, it's a sanctuary for the criminals.

10:03It's a sanctuary for the predators.

10:06It is not a sanctuary city.

10:07It is not a safe place for Americans.

10:10They don't want to change that.

10:13Fifteen prior charges for this illegal immigrant who killed 83 -year -old Richard Williams.

10:22Fifteen prior charges, and again, noon, noon on the subway tracks.

10:28Buck, you can speak to, for people out there who don't know Manhattan, this is,

10:31in theory, I believe, a pretty safe area.

10:35Upper East Side, like, this is not an area in New York City.

10:38That's where I grew up.

10:39Yeah, that you would anticipate.

10:40It's probably the safest single jurisdiction in all of the five boroughs or close to

10:45it. One of the safest.

10:46So, if you think about this, noon in one of the safest areas of Manhattan.

10:5283 -year -old veteran, grandpa, gets killed by this illegal immigrant that should have never

11:00been here. And again, it comes on the heels of what's happened in Chicago.

11:04I mean, every day you can wake up and find a story like these.

11:09And it is a, you're basically just permitting this to occur.

11:15But just, Clay, I just think this is so important.

11:17And a rational response to an incident like this would be for the Democrat mayor,

11:27communist mayor of New York, and the prosecutor, the DA, district attorney of New York,

11:33Alvin Bragg. I mean, he's maybe the worst in the entire country, by the way,

11:37as a prosecutor. But put that aside.

11:39The rational human response would be, you know what?

11:42But we will work, when there's somebody who is a violent offender, as this guy

11:48was, a repeat offender, as this guy was, previously deported, as this guy was, we

11:54will honor ICE detainers. We will work with federal law enforcement.

11:58We want to keep all of our illegals washing dishes and cleaning up and doing

12:02all that stuff. That's, you know, they want to do that.

12:05But they'll at least agree with us that we shouldn't have serial predators walking around

12:11the streets who are illegals.

12:12Clay, they won't do it.

12:13They won't budge. They won't even make that exception to the policy.

12:18So what else do you have to know?

12:20This is the cost. 80 -year -old veteran grandpas getting thrown on the subway tracks

12:27in broad daylight in the nicest part of New York City and dying and their

12:31family getting that phone call and the community having that shock.

12:35This is a price. Democrats are willing to have other people pay so that they

12:40can have cheap labor and they can feel like they're not racist.

12:45That's it. That's where the country is.

12:48And it is fairly explicit at this point.

12:51Democrats see as their base people who are not citizens of this country.

12:56And you have to ask yourself, why do they see these people as their base?

13:00Because they want to give them citizenship and believe they will be their base.

13:04I mean, that's the game plan.

13:05And so in the meantime, a lot of innocent people are being killed by illegal

13:12immigrants. And for people out there who say, well, I wish there was a zero

13:16murder rate. Unfortunately, when you're killed by an American citizen, you can keep them in

13:21jail, right? Because most of the times the people who commit murder have long rap

13:24sheets. So we're certainly in favor of that.

13:26But the rate of illegal immigrant murder of citizens of the United States should be

13:33zero. That should not occur.

13:35There should not be a single person.

13:37And I can't even imagine what it's like to have an eye.

13:40I mean, I've got an 18 -year -old who's going off to college in August.

13:43I can't even imagine the torment for those parents who raise their kid, send her

13:50off to college in Chicago.

13:51She's walking in a park, and she just gets murdered by an illegal immigrant.

13:56But I think this is so important.

13:58Obviously, I totally agree with you.

13:59I would just add to this.

14:02They won't even agree. You're saying that there should be no illegals here, so there

14:07should be no murders of Americans by illegals.

14:09True factual statement. Lock that in.

14:11We're talking about illegals who are being arrested for other serious stuff.

14:18They are in custody. There are men and women with guns and badges who have

14:22them. They have hurt Americans already.

14:25And Democrats go, oh, no.

14:26We won't help federal law enforcement send you back to your home country, rapist.

14:32We won't help federal law enforcement send you back to where you belong, murderer, gang

14:38member. I mean, just like I say, we're not talking about 80 -year -old outwellers

14:43who have been here for 30 years, who have done nothing illegal in addition.

14:47We're miles from that conversation.

14:49I think that's just what's so frustrating is that everyone needs to catch up with

14:53this. Oh, there's an illegal alien with a history of harming children and breaking laws

15:02and violence and doing bad stuff?

15:04Can't turn him over to ice, Clay.

15:06That would be a victory for Trump.

15:08Can't do it. Every Democrat jurisdiction in the country with a sanctuary policy, that is

15:14their answer. Can't do it.

15:15Keep that child predator on the streets.

15:17Keep that murderer in your community.

15:19Because it makes Chuck Schumer and his constituents feel good about themselves.

15:24It makes Democrats feel like they're better than you.

15:26And they just hope that they don't actually get, you know, they don't suffer.

15:30It's not their daughter who gets murdered while she's at college.

15:32It's not their grandfather who's throwing the railroad tracks.

15:34Clay, I have absolutely no patience for this crap whatsoever.

15:40This is, everyone who listens to the show knows, I get as fired up about

15:44this as anything. And every smug Democrat out there who's like, eh, but we're a

15:48nation of immigrants. They are just swallowing propaganda and spewing lies.

15:52It's nonsense. It's total nonsense.

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16:53Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off now.

16:55We're joined by our friend Alex Berenson.

16:59Unreported Truths is his very successful substack, which I would recommend you all go subscribe

17:04to, where he does independent journalism, independent analysis and reporting.

17:09Alex, great to have you back on the program.

17:11Sam, the title of your piece that we wanted to have you on to talk

17:15about from a couple days ago, the most enraging piece you will read this year.

17:21I would caveat, maybe given what we're talking about today, some of these stories, among

17:26the most enraging, definitely top of, but it definitely emphasizes something that is very real,

17:34that people are starting to catch on to in larger and larger numbers, and that

17:37is Democrat policies on crime are insane.

17:43I mean, they're putting people at risk.

17:46Terrible things keep happening that are preventable.

17:49Tell everybody this story out of Seattle, what's going on here, because it ties right

17:53into our conversations about these illegals that have killed people recently.

17:57Yeah, so this gentleman was not an illegal.

18:00I think he's actually a Washington native.

18:03Sure, sure, yeah. And he, in 2024, he attacked an 80 -year -old woman.

18:12He was 48 at the time.

18:14He was trying to carjack her.

18:16He pulled her out of her car.

18:17Actually, there were people around who tried to stop him, one of whom I think

18:21actually tried to get a bat and go after him, but they weren't able to

18:27stop him, and he sort of threw the woman against the car, a nearby car,

18:33and then backed into her and crushed her and killed her and then drove off

18:39in the car, and she was a dog walker.

18:44Even though she was 80, she had a dog walking business.

18:46It was actually going to the dog park with her own dog, and shortly thereafter,

18:51people at a park in Seattle called animal control, or I don't know if they

18:56called animal control or the police, but they called someone and said, there's somebody harming

19:00a dog. It turned out this gentleman was stabbing this dog that he had taken

19:04in this car to death.

19:05He threw the dog away.

19:07This was not exactly the crime of the century from a smart criminal point of

19:12view. He left his fingerprints.

19:14The police found him less than 24 hours later.

19:18He still had the car keys with him.

19:20No one is disputing. Normally, I'm pretty careful when I say alleged, but nobody's really

19:25disputing that he did this.

19:26So what happened then is, so this guy has a long history of crime.

19:30He's an eight -time convicted felon, and in fact was eligible for the three strikes

19:36program that Washington had, which would have left him in jail for the rest of

19:40his life, but ultimately in a crime about 15 years ago pled to something that

19:47did eventually get him out.

19:49So what his defense team is claiming is that he's incompetent, and the situation is

19:57that you have to be able to participate meaningfully in your own defense, which is

20:01reasonable, okay? If you're too insane even to know what's going on, there can't really

20:08be a trial. So the judge ordered that he be given psychiatric medicine to be

20:15restored to competency, and he was restored to competency.

20:18So that should pave the way for the trial to begin, except he was then

20:23discharged or moved, I shouldn't say discharged, but moved back from the forensic hospital where

20:27he was to jail and essentially stopped taking his medicine and so became incompetent again

20:34or claimed to be incompetent again, right?

20:36There's some question as to whether he's malingering, whether he's actually pretending to be incompetent

20:41or not. And, you know, so I wrote about this because there was actually a

20:46second case that got a lot of attention in Seattle, a 2023 murder where a

20:53man walked up to a woman, a pregnant woman whose car was stopped and just

20:58shot her six times, killed her, walked away.

21:01Now, that guy was then just last week allowed to plead not guilty by reason

21:07of insanity. And it seems pretty clear that in that case, the guy actually is

21:12not competent. You know, and we can argue about whether there should be some kind

21:16of verdict of guilty but insane where he would go to a forensic hospital and

21:20then go to jail for the rest of his life.

21:22I think that makes sense.

21:23But this case to me is even worse.

21:26It's even more upsetting and infuriating because this guy who did this, this 48 -year

21:32-old who killed the dog walker in 2024, has a long criminal record.

21:36He actually has another conviction for driving under the influence and killing somebody.

21:42So this idea that he's actually too mentally ill to participate in his trial, he

21:47knew exactly. what he was doing when he carjacked that car he tried he tried

21:51to escape right so so you know you and i have talked in the past

21:56about crimes that are committed under the influence of psychosis that might be drug -induced

22:00psychosis those have a certain look to them this case looks more just like a

22:04carjacking can i just jump in alice manipulating his system this is important this guy

22:10in the seattle case you mentioned that that just shot murdered this pregnant woman just

22:14shot or six times killed the unborn baby that guy is being has been sent

22:19by a judge in seattle to a psychiatric facility instead of facing 50 plus years

22:24in prison which is what he was facing that's correct he could he could be

22:27released in six months they could just let him go he could it's it's super

22:31unlikely that that would happen um but you're right he can be because he was

22:36found not guilty by reason of insanity now again in that and that's what i

22:40think we should have we should introduce into our system a guilty but insane verdict

22:45where if you are found you know essentially not guilty by reason of insanity but

22:50there's no question you committed the crime if at some point you're restored to competency

22:54you then go to jail and you serve the crime but that's not the system

22:58that we have we have a system where if you were you know judged insane

23:02at the time of the crime you don't bear responsibility and that's where we are

23:07so that that's a bad case again to me this this other case is worse

23:11because i do think that there's a good chance that this guy's malingering um okay

23:16so let's let's dive in here um because we've got positive overall crime trend lines

23:22we've got a lot of people being arrested uh and put in uh put in

23:26jail let's let's pretend alex that we said hey we want to have an actual

23:31war on murder right um and it seems to some extent that that's what's happened

23:36in washington dc it's gotten way safer for everybody else don't we basically know everybody

23:42who's going to commit a murder in the context of uh you know it's it's

23:47not very very often that somebody goes from completely law -abiding to murder right that

23:53that does occur very very rarely but almost always if you ask cops they would

23:58say yeah we know the 300 people in our city who are the most likely

24:01to commit murders can't we just lock those guys up and actually keep them in

24:05prison when they're arrested as they always are for other offenses so so i mean

24:11can we lock them up for nothing no no i'm saying that these people are

24:15all always arrested almost 100 people who commit murder have long rap sheets before they

24:22are convicted of a murder so so there i mean there is this is like

24:26a really interesting discussion and unfortunately i've got to run to a tsa checkpoint in

24:30the near future so i i can't have it with you for a long time

24:33but so yes crime certainly murders are going down in the u .s right there's

24:38been a long trend on this yet people's perceptions of public safety and certainly in

24:43like in cities like seattle and new york are not improving and why that is

24:48i think is so a lot of crime most crime is committed by the people

24:52you're talking about right and oftentimes in the 80s in particular it was drug dealing

24:57related crime right so what's happened well actually there's nobody working the corners anymore a

25:03lot of when drugs are bought often they're bought off snapchat they're bought off you

25:08know your phone and so like there's not actually territorial wars anymore so that's really

25:13helped the cops right plus they have spot shot or they have lots of good

25:17investigative techniques that they didn't used to have so why are people more scared because

25:21the kind of crime that i just mentioned to you that we've been talking about

25:25right walking up to somebody in the street who's a true innocent who doesn't have

25:30any you know isn't out there to buy drugs right the those are the crimes

25:35that scare people and you know they scare women people who who you know who

25:39don't expect to be uh a victim of violent crime and and who quote unquote

25:44shouldn't be a victim a violent crime and to me that's where we've got to

25:49focus our energy and you know the number one way to do that is to

25:52get sort of drug addicted homeless people who are who are having psychosis off the

25:57streets and i favor you know the trump administration has moved in this direction and

26:01i think they should continue to do this civil commitment policies that will get these

26:04folks off the streets alex parents in unreported truths alex good luck at the airport

26:10buddy thanks for calling in before you run thanks guys yeah go to it i

26:15hope you're i hope you're six hours early uh anyway uh or whatever crazy things

26:19are saying for new york city these days clay can we can i just want

26:22to address this follow -up on what alex is saying um this is so important

26:26when we look at crime people ask me about what crime was like in new

26:30york city when i was growing up there because this is the huge turnaround case

26:33story that everyone always cites for a city 2200 murders in 1990 1991 okay 2200

26:40murders huge amount of murders now there was a lot of decay and disorder and

26:43graffiti and bad things going on but a huge majority of those murders were still

26:48happening in high crime areas right there more stuff would bleed over the city was

26:53less safe no question bad guys shooting each other when you look at chicago why

26:58is it that rich democrats who live in what isn't like lincoln park a really

27:03nice area i don't know chicago well is that a fancy area i think so

27:06the north side of chicago is very nice wherever the wherever the fancy rich people

27:10in chicago live why aren't they all voting republican because all the shooting because all

27:15the people in chicago live in chicago live in chicago live in chicago live in

27:15chicago live in chicago live in chicago live in chicago live in chicago live in

27:15are happening in the south and the west side for the most part but what

27:18you see because of democrats refusal to deal with these essentially drug addicted and or

27:24severely psychiatric unstable repeat criminals is people being stabbed in broad daylight with their dog

27:31in a park in a nice area someone on on a 63rd street subway in

27:36new york city a man being thrown on the subway tracks by a career criminal

27:40a felon in that case an illegal alien too those hit people differently this isn't

27:45about drug dealers shooting drug dealers in uh you know inner city that doesn't even

27:50that those those murders don't make news right still to this day to your point

27:55i think that's important i think what alex is saying too and what would be

27:58interesting is while we may be at a low in murders overall are people who

28:04are 100 innocent being killed at high rates that that's a really fascinating question to

28:10go into right because if you're engaging in criminal behavior i still hope you don't

28:14get killed but if criminals are shooting at each other to buck's point when there

28:19are 2200 murders going on and most of the people getting killed are those individuals

28:23it is different and it does hit people differently than an 83 year old veteran

28:28like what just happened in manhattan richard williams or this young 18 year old college

28:33girl who just goes to a park and gets murdered while she's there by an

28:38illegal immigrant both of these people killed by illegal immigrants i also come back to

28:42buck and this is where i think you really have to push back aggressively because

28:46they'll say well i don't know why you're focusing on immigrant crime again my answer

28:50is because it should be zero i wish we had a zero crime rate for

28:54american citizens but you when you come here illegally you should have never been allowed

28:59in this country you should have never been permitted to commit a crime and we

29:03should have sheridan gorman and there are a ton of sheridan gorman's lake and rileys

29:08everywhere young innocent college girls should still be alive let's let's let's just kind of

29:13take this to an analogy for a second clay if i was walking through my

29:17neighborhood uh you know i walk ginger around all the time she's the sweetest little

29:21dog and and but if i saw if somebody's 80 pound pit bull um was

29:28aggressive and attacked let's say attacked someone else's dog and i knew this dog was

29:32a danger i knew this dog was dangerous to people no owner no leash no

29:37harness nothing okay but i'll let you say and obviously i know this would be

29:41a difficult thing to do i take this pit bull off of another dog and

29:44it's attacking and i go you know what i don't want people to think poorly

29:47of pit bulls so i'm going to take this dog instead of taking it to

29:50animal control or instead of making sure that it is contained i'm going to release

29:55it in the nearest dog park and just see if it you know rips apart

29:57someone's toy poodle yeah everybody would rightly think that i was being a monster law

30:03enforcement in sanctuary cities is doing that every day with these criminals yeah every single

30:10day and then and then and they go oh my gosh the people just ripped

30:15apart a little poodle yeah it's ripped apart five other little poodles and you keep

30:19letting it loose in the park because you don't want to be mean to pit

30:22bulls sorry to the pit bull owners by the way i know you're gonna get

30:25i'm just you know see pit bull is the pit bull owners are gonna get

30:29ticked off at me yeah pit bull is the most violent dog but no i

30:33mean look if you have a violent but the way that i would put it

30:36is if you have a violent predator that you know is a violent predator and

30:39we'll make it a prezacanario clay we'll get with something that's not gonna upset everybody

30:43those are huge very strong dogs okay a prezacanario but you see the analogy it's

30:48the same analogy yeah no it's it's 100 right and again it comes back to

30:52the question i was asking alex which is and you know this from your time

30:56working with the nypd jointly we know who is going to commit murders at this

31:01point it is very very rare that someone has a completely clean criminal background and

31:08just kills a completely innocent person does it happen every now and then yes so

31:12rarely the murder rate would be basically non -existent if we just kept violent people

31:17off the street every and this is where unfortunately libertarians you have been a scourge

31:21on this issue i'm just going to say it out loud the libertarian uh industrial

31:25complex with their three strikes laws people are going to prison forever for stealing a

31:29pair of socks no we actually need three strikes laws we just need them to

31:33be for serious felonies okay no one's saying you go to prison forever for jaywalking

31:38but you do three class a or you know class one felonies three every state

31:44that thinks that it's serious about some of you by the way are like that's

31:46even too but let's start there three found three serious felonies you go away for

31:5120 three serious felonies you go you know not a lot of people are worried

31:55about what happens to people you know when they come out in their 50s and

31:5760s okay why not have that why not have that law no you know there's

32:03really a criminal justice conversation is one democrats have nothing they have nothing to add

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33:28Welcome back in. Clay, Travis, Buck, Sexton Show.

33:33Let's go into the guy that I never would have believed would become the most

33:37sane Democrat in the country, but he is John Fetterman, and this is pretty awful.

33:42This was a pro -Iran and Hamas protest that happened in Philadelphia, and I want

33:51you to listen to what was being chanted.

33:55This is cut 32. This happened in Philadelphia.

33:59Until we have done everything in our power to bring the United States to its

34:03knees, let us not lose sight of the enemy.

34:06For every U .S. military base that crumbles, and for every U .S.

34:10soldier who returns home in the casket, we cheer!

34:18Hamas, Hezbollah, also Allah, all of the resistance forces we celebrate, these popular voices on

34:24the ground spend every waking moment in direct confrontation with Zionism, and they rely on

34:29a strong Iranian state to maintain their fighting capacity.

34:33Okay, she said, I think that's a woman, although I've been wrong before, for every

34:39U .S. soldier who comes back in a casket, we cheer.

34:42If you had difficulty hearing what was being said, again, that's in Philadelphia, that was

34:49a rally that they were having in support of Iran, and John Fetterman has been

34:55going off on the Democrat Party, and I wanted to just play a couple of

34:59these different cuts. Here he is saying, Democrat Party is being held hostage by the

35:04far left flank from putting the country first and reopening the H .S., which would

35:10allow the TSA agents to get paid.

35:12Buck, they're about to have their third different missed paycheck, so that's six weeks of

35:16not being paid for the TSA agents.

35:19Cut 22 here. Do the right thing.

35:22Put the country ahead of the party.

35:25Now there's a huge rally, another no -kings kinds of protest, so now it's also

35:32probably motivating some people in my party that they might be afraid to reopen now

35:39because they are demanding these kinds of extremes in what they think is a solution,

35:43that there was ever going to be a solution.

35:46Okay, and then here he is saying, shutting down the government, always wrong.

35:51TSA agents are struggling. Cut 23.

35:55It's always wrong, regardless whatever the party's doing it, shutting down our government.

36:01You can see the kinds of chaos that's created across our net right now.

36:05They're selling their blood. They have to take, you know, pay loans and just this

36:12kinds of chaos. So it's fundamentally wrong, and that's why I refuse to be a

36:18part of it. Buck, what percentage of this audience, and you and I have been

36:23in this camp before, what percentage of this audience do you think could go a

36:28month and a half without being paid at their current job and be perfectly fine

36:33with that? Because I do think it's important to contextualize what's going on here.

36:37We're talking about now six weeks.

36:39That's three different pay periods without getting any dollars at all from the job that

36:44you've been going and working at for six weeks now.

36:48I would bet, what do you think, 65 % of people, of those of you

36:52that are still working, I know some people are retired, some people don't have full

36:55-time jobs, but of those that are working full -time, listening to us today, I

37:00would bet 65%, 60 % of people out there would be in significant financial constraints

37:05if they didn't get paid for six weeks.

37:08Well, that mirrors what the stats are nationwide, and that's exactly what I would assume

37:16is true. Because, you know, we have all 50 states represented in listenership, and so,

37:22yeah, I would think it's about 30 % of those with us right now, of

37:26all of you with us, could weather this storm financially pretty okay, but 70 %

37:33would be running up from credit card debt, asking the landlord maybe for a month

37:38of grace or something. I mean, that's where reality is for 70 % of Americans,

37:4365 % to 70%. And it's just so cruel.

37:47You'll notice Democrats complain so much if Trump wants to do any cuts to any

37:51federal government jobs or do anything like that at all, and yet they'll turn around

37:55and throw TSA under the bus if it benefits them politically without a second thought.

38:00They don't care. It's not just TSA, by the way.

38:02It's also DHS more broadly, as we know.

38:04Coast Guard and others are also affected by this.

38:06So I think it's, dare I say it is...

38:10It is disgraceful. It is deplorable.

38:13Yeah, and by the way, Elon Musk offered to pay the TSA agents and there

38:20was a decision made that it was probably not legal.

38:23And rather than getting into a legal battle over whether that was permitted or not,

38:28the Trump administration decided they would say thank you but decline his willingness to pay.

38:36I come back to this should just not be allowed to happen.

38:40And I'm looking right now, the headline is CNN, the amount of workers that are

38:46calling out. Again, it appears to be constantly New York City, Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans,

38:55and those cities by Atlanta, if I didn't say it, overwhelmingly dealing with the biggest

39:03issues here. But I just think this should be eliminated once and for all.

39:07I don't think you should be able to go to work and not be paid.

39:12And I understand some of you say, well, they're going to get paid eventually.

39:15Okay. But again, I come back to how many of you could go six weeks

39:19at your jobs not being paid at all, knowing that it might be months before

39:25you got paid for the time that you're working.

39:27I just, this is not what they signed up for.

39:30And unfortunately, we're losing hundreds of employees and it's a total mess.

39:36And again, I think the important thing to keep in mind here is Democrats have

39:39decided this is a price worth paying because they want to keep as many people

39:44as they can from getting deported who are in this country illegally.

39:48They're making citizens suffer for their attempt to protect non -citizens.

39:55Yes. And they're also going after TSA.

39:58I mean, when TSA is affected by this, I know it's DHS more broadly, but

40:01TSA has nothing to do with what their objections are.

40:05So this is Democrats pulling the fire alarm, so to speak.

40:09This is lying in the streets so the cars can't get by.

40:12I mean, it's obstruction. What they're doing is just pure obstruction of government administration, and

40:18they're doing it under cover of caring so much about what happened in Minneapolis.

40:22How many Democrat members of Congress could even name both of the people who were

40:25killed in their altercations with ICE in Minneapolis?

40:29At this point, I think they could name one.

40:31I doubt most of them could even name both of them right now.

40:33They don't care is the point.

40:34They don't actually care about any of this.

40:36They just want power, and they're willing to make people miserable, and they're willing to

40:39make Americans suffer and slow down your travel and cause all kinds of disruptions to

40:44commerce, to businesses, because they're not getting their way, and because they don't have anything

40:48else to go on here with Trump.

40:50Yeah. Are they hoping that something terrible happens in the Iran war so that they

40:54can then use that? Sure, but it hasn't happened yet.

40:56So, Clay, this is the best they've got.

40:59This is a – we mentioned this before we were going to have our guest

41:03on, I think, and I wanted to come back to it.

41:05This is from Kash Patel, and IED – we mentioned this.

41:09This news just came out about an hour ago now, 45 minutes or so.

41:14An IED was placed at MacDill Air Force Base, home to CENTCOM and U .S.

41:21Special Operations Command. A brother and a sister have now been indicted.

41:24One is in custody for accessory and evidence tampering, and the primary suspect is charged

41:30with explosives offensives is currently in China.

41:33The FBI, working with our partners, will continue pursuing all these responsible and ensure they're

41:38brought to justice. They say this is tied to the Iran war.

41:43The device was planted there.

41:45So, the reason why I bring it up is, again, we had the situation, Buck,

41:51in Detroit, north of Detroit.

41:53We had the situation at Old Dominion University.

41:56These are terror attacks, by the way, by situations.

41:59Austin and the attempted terror attack in New York City.

42:04And now we have this situation that is coming out that was attempted in Florida.

42:09And, again, I mean, FBI Tampa accused of hiding and attempting to set off an

42:18IED. And we'll see what exactly happens for this.

42:22But on March 16th, FBI Tampa announced that a suspicious package had been discovered, and

42:29they were then able to track down where it was, and they believe it was

42:32connected to what's going on in Iran.

42:36So, yet another would -be attempt to create an element of terror, kill people.

42:42And the reason why I bring that up in conjunction with the TSA is, you

42:46would think of all times that we would want the TSA to be as safe

42:50as possible. It would be now when we know that there have been even more

42:55aggressive attempts to bring terror attacks to this country than in the past.

43:00It just, to me, is indefensible.

43:03All right. Let's hop into some of our calls here, Clikes.

43:06We've got a lot stacked up and also some of our talkbacks.

43:09We have Randy in Cocoa, Florida.

43:14What's going on, Randy? Hi.

43:16How are you doing? We're great.

43:20Great. I and my wife have a huge amount of respect for you, too.

43:25We listen to you every day, if at all possible.

43:28And you have no idea how invaluable what you do for the country is.

43:34Thank you so much. Thank you.

43:36But I wanted to talk about...

43:38About Iran, there is an aspect to the conflict there that I can't believe it's

43:45been overlooked. I spend a lot of time yelling at my radio that we need

43:51to take a page from World War II when we dropped hundreds and hundreds of

43:57small arms and tons of ammunition, explosives, first aid, communications gear to the resistance fighters

44:04of Europe. And I can't for the life of me understand why we're not doing

44:09that for the resistance in Iran.

44:12It would be a military asset that would be cost -effective beyond belief.

44:17We'd be making good on a promise that we made to those people to watch

44:22out for them and take care of them.

44:24Any solution to the Iran conflict that does not involve the complete and total removal

44:30of the theocracy is not a victory.

44:33It is an illusion of victory, and we will regret it.

44:38We will fight this war all over again within 10 years if we leave those

44:41people in power. They have got to go just like the Nazis had to go

44:45at the end of World War II.

44:47Thank you for the call and the historic analogy.

44:50Buck, I haven't heard anybody make this suggestion.

44:52My guess would be that right now the IRGC is still in control of much

44:59of Iran, and that if we were to drop weapons, we think those weapons would

45:03end up in the hands of our adversaries as opposed to the adversaries of the

45:08government. Would that be your sign off on what you would expect is the rationale

45:13so far for why weapons drops are not occurring?

45:16Yeah, we don't have the networks on the ground to get the weapons, too.

45:20We don't know who we'd be trying to get the weapons, too.

45:23We were the British and the French, for example, the allies.

45:27The Brits knew that there were people in France who did not want the Nazis

45:31there and in charge, and they weren't that hard to find under the occupation, Vichy

45:36government and all that. But I don't think we know in Iran.

45:41I mean, we're the invaders, technically, so it's a little bit more, a little bit

45:45of a sketchier situation with regard to that, although I wish we could get some

45:48resistance going on the ground.

45:50Janine in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, wants to chat.

45:52What's up, Janine? I know this is probably a long shot, but I was wondering

45:59if we could compile a list of the TSA workers and set up a GoFundMe

46:04and have Elon Musk or other people help to donate to them, even if it's

46:10done state by state. But I'm sure that there's federal regulations that we have to

46:14work around. I think the problem is, first of all, how would we – you're

46:23saying, why can't we all raise money to pay the TSA salaries?

46:26Didn't Elon offer to do it himself, Clay, and that was kind of brushed aside?

46:31First of all, how much money are we talking about?

46:33Well, there's 50 ,000 employees six weeks.

46:36If the average employee is making $50 ,000 a year, the math on that would

46:42be roughly $1 ,000 a week per – So $6 ,000 times $50 ,000.

46:48Who wants to do that math?

46:49We're looking at $300 million or $3 billion or what is that?

46:54I think it's $300 million.

46:55There we go. $300 million sounds right.

46:58I'm doing math on my calculator right now.

47:00That was pretty good, by the way.

47:01I think McKinsey would definitely hire you.

47:03That was impressive. Yes, $300 million.

47:06So, yeah, with $300 million, I don't know what the biggest GoFundMe ever has been,

47:10but I would guess that's orders of magnitude larger.

47:13And, again, the thing I would say is they're eventually going to get the money.

47:17So it's not as if they are being – it's the fact that they're not

47:21being paid currently. And, again, all of your bills, as you well know, do not

47:26stop. And so the average person out there doesn't have that luxury.

47:31And a lot of these people have kids, and they're taking time off, and all

47:34of those things. And so, again, I think this is a significant story that is

47:43indefensible regardless of your political posture.

47:46And if I were having to stand in line for hours at any of these

47:50airports, I would be furious.

47:52I would be absolutely furious.

47:55We'll come back and close out thoughts with all of you here before – I

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49:59First two hours of the show right now.

50:02Third hour is being added soon.

50:05And a lot of people out there are weighing in on a variety of different

50:10topics. And we'll have some fun with that during the course of the final hour

50:13of today's show. But we are joined now by Maureen Callahan, journalist, New York Times

50:18bestselling author, host of The Nerve.

50:21And, okay, Buck tells me that you have a strong take on this.

50:26I don't want to throw them under the bus.

50:29But sources tell me that Carrie Sexton and Laura Travis both, independently, have been watching

50:35this John F. Kennedy Jr.

50:36and Carolyn Bessette show. Every time I walk through my bedroom, it has been playing

50:42over the past few days.

50:43It makes me think that women everywhere are watching this show.

50:47The parts that I have seen are trash.

50:49Why are they watching? Am I wrong?

50:53That's for me, I take it.

50:55Yes. Oh, okay. Well, listen, I don't know that it's – I would love to

51:01know the demographics of who is watching.

51:03The breakdown between men and women.

51:04The ages. It is hitting a 90s nostalgia marrow like nothing else.

51:10It is – and by the way, Maureen, it is white women between the ages

51:14of 20 and 50 that are 95 percent, I'm convinced, of the viewership of this

51:19show. This is my take on who's watching.

51:22Interesting. Interesting. Well, listen, I'm something of a Kennedy historian.

51:25I wrote the book Ask Not about the real story of the way that the

51:31Kennedy men have treated their women.

51:34You know, it's upsetting to me, actually, because I was talking to a friend of

51:38mine over the weekend. Very smart, very sophisticated, lifelong New Yorker, grew up with JFK

51:44Jr. in our faces, said, oh, you mean it's not true?

51:48Like, the way in which their story is being depicted in this Ryan Murphy FX

51:54Hulu melodrama isn't true? And I'm like, none of it's true.

51:58They were both pretty awful, shallow, vain, selfish people.

52:03He was a moron. He was a true idiot.

52:07And he – I believe – I theorize it with a lot of legitimacy in

52:11the book, and I've done so on the nerve because we're recapping it every week.

52:15I think that was a murder -suicide.

52:17I really do. Oh, wow.

52:19Okay, well, hold on, Maureen.

52:20First of all, before we get – that's a big thing.

52:23We're going to address that in a second.

52:24I want to hear your details on that.

52:25Oh, I knew you would love that theory.

52:26I knew it. Well, you think I love that theory.

52:29All the stuff you said before that, inject it right into my veins, Maureen, every

52:34time I walk in and my wife is watching the show.

52:36And by the way, my wife, who is totally, like, as right -wing as I

52:40am, she knows all this stuff, but she's still watching the show.

52:43So she's very, very aware of the truth of the Kennedys.

52:46But she laughs at me because I can't walk in without going, oh, the Kennedys

52:50are trash. They're the worst people ever.

52:52Camelot's all a myth, a lie.

52:54It is amazing, the brand creation.

52:56I mean, can you speak to this a little bit, whether it's Camelot or it's,

53:00you know, JFK Jr., all this stuff, Teddy Kennedy?

53:04These people have a long history, the whole dynasty of Kennedys, of being abject, trust

53:10fund scumbags who do really bad things, particularly to women.

53:14But the media keeps propping them up, keeps pretending that they're the good guys.

53:19Okay, to your point right there, Buck, I'm going to tell you my favorite scene

53:24thus far of the entire series.

53:25I don't know if you happen to, quote -unquote, walk by while your wife is

53:30watching it. Okay. This has happened to me seven times I've walked by and my

53:35wife has been watching this show.

53:36It's like a drive -by.

53:38It's such an accident. I know, you guys.

53:40You know the scene where Donald Logue, as Ted Kennedy, is ripping JFK Jr.

53:45a new one for fighting with Carolyn publicly in the park?

53:48And they were, like, physical.

53:49They were, like, going at it.

53:50And Ted Kennedy flings a New York Post on the table across to JFK Jr.

53:55and goes, this family means something to people.

53:59Right? And that scene is done straight face.

54:02And it's like, this is a guy who left a campaign aide.

54:05I didn't know. 28 years old.

54:06I didn't know that this scene existed.

54:08But, yes, continue. It's legit in three feet of water.

54:12This is a guy who would sexually assault waitresses in D .C.

54:16restaurants as recently as the 90s.

54:18He did it in front of the late Michael Kelly, who was doing a profile

54:23for him in GQ magazine.

54:25And this assault ran in GQ magazine.

54:28And this series is treating this family like it's our version.

54:34of the crown and you know people there's there are people who want this sort

54:38of they want to be narcotized they want to get high on this garbage and

54:43then there are the rest of us who are like wait a minute my problem

54:47just as a storyteller is that the real story is so much darker and more

54:53effed up and compelling and these people are such messes ryan murphy easily could have

54:58gotten three seasons out of this easily but they went with the they went with

55:02the fairy tale version and it's ending this week okay so now we're talking to

55:06maureen callahan uh the nerve uh is is your is your podcast right so you're

55:11doing uh phenomenal stuff and i guess my wife is a fan so i actually

55:16come across my wife just walk by when she's listening like you don't listen i

55:21just want you to know by the way i'm gonna admit this you've poured me

55:24when i walk by do i end up watching the rest of the jfk junior

55:27episode yes i do but it's an accident when it starts but okay i'm gonna

55:31be honest i have not sat down and watched any of it but she's obsessed

55:34with it and i told her this was a trash show but what i was

55:38gonna say was that i come across my wife listening to your podcast sometimes and

55:42i hear you speaking truth about kennedys and i'm just oh my gosh it's like

55:46the uh the john ham meme where he's dancing in the club that everyone sees

55:50online now i'm just like oh tell more truth about the kennedys they're the worst

55:53people ever i don't even like caroline was like ambassador these people are all just

55:58so vain and so worthless and the democrat media props them up so much your

56:03though your statement i have to bring myself back into this you think that the

56:07plane crash with jfk junior uh um you know his his girlfriend and her sister

56:13just walk us through the evidence on this because you made quite a claim oh

56:18yes of course so i studied uh the ntsb report uh the formal investigation and

56:24and findings into that crash like a talmudic scholar okay so here's something that the

56:30mainstream media has never reported and still will not even though i put it in

56:34ask not john f kennedy jr before crashing that night with his wife and sister

56:39-in -law on the plane almost smashed into a packed american airlines commercial jetliner making

56:44its descent to jfk they won't report that he didn't turn his comms on he

56:52didn't file a flight plan he was seen on the tarmac carrying a half drunk

56:59bottle of white wine was on pain pills for a broken bone he had just

57:04gotten his cast off multiple pilots on that tarmac told him don't go up i'm

57:09not doing it and i'm way more experienced than you are he his flight instructor

57:14offered to go with him he said no and he wasn't instrument rated it was

57:19so hazy that night now why would he do that everything in his life was

57:24falling apart his magazine had become a laughing stock in the media it was failing

57:31and nobody wanted to buy it his marriage was falling apart his wife was going

57:35to leave him his cousin and best friend anthony was dying of cancer his sister

57:41his closest confidant was no longer speaking to him his business partner had cut him

57:47out of his life jfk jr thought it was a joke at first because nobody

57:51ever left john f kennedy jr's life he was john f kennedy jr this guy

57:56had enough after jfk physically assaulted him in that magazine's offices he did not have

58:02the internal resources to deal with one of those public humiliations let alone a panoply

58:08of them and so that's what i believe wow so that's bleak yeah that is

58:14that is very very bleak why do you think and and the answer may well

58:19be the crown buck made fun of me initially it's a really well done show

58:22uh and i can understand why there is a strong appeal can i just i

58:28just as background for you maureen i just think the whole fascination with the british

58:32royal family particularly for americans is absurd i think that they're also nepotistic clowns that

58:36don't do anything of any value but but the crown was a really good show

58:40that's so so there's that yes i agree it's a really good there is mythologizing

58:47in the crown as well you know with diana i think it would have been

58:51far more intriguing if they had really leaned into her personality disorder you know she

58:56stalked one of her married lovers like she just prank called the house like like

59:02the princess of the doctor right the doctor guy or no he was a different

59:06dealer oh she did also stalk the the heart doctor yeah um but the art

59:11dealer who was married um so i just i i think had they you know

59:16in carolyn beset it's the same thing with love story the the um the business

59:20partner who who eventually walked out of john's life she would prank call him multiple

59:25times a day and into the middle of the night and he would pick up

59:28the phone and this is what he would hear on the other end you should

59:31get the f out of john's life he hates you everybody hates you everybody hates

59:35you at the office you're bringing everybody down why don't you leave you're a loser

59:39i mean this is you know sixth grade girl stuff why do you think this

59:44show is so popular because it is like i've i made fun of it my

59:48wife watched it carrie watched it it has really resonated with i would my guess

59:53is like i said i think it's a lot of times it's women 20 to

59:5650 um why is this show so popular why do you think it has connected

1:00:02Yes. And I'm going to also bet that demographic has a lot of disposable income.

1:00:06I have several theories. Yeah.

1:00:10One, it's a Cinderella story, but it's a real life Cinderella story to a point,

1:00:15right? The heir to Camelot, I put that in quotes, and a girl who came

1:00:20out of nowhere. He could have had anybody.

1:00:22So it's this real sort of wish fulfillment, romantic fantasy.

1:00:28It's mythologizing, which has been going on since the dawn of humanity.

1:00:33And it's also that last moment in New York before the internet.

1:00:38And it was a moment when media mattered, when the stories that the media chose

1:00:44to tell, how they chose to tell them, that was what everybody believed.

1:00:48We're in a much more complicated time.

1:00:50And it's no mistake that they make sure to highlight the Twin Towers in multiple

1:00:57skyscrapes and backdrops in that series.

1:01:01It is the 90s. Tell the book.

1:01:04But I mean, I do think there's a huge amount of 90s nostalgia that has

1:01:08captured much of the people who did not live in the 90s.

1:01:11I see it on my own kids.

1:01:13And I was just plugging Maureen's book because Carrie's read it cover to cover.

1:01:16Ask not about the Kennedys and how they treated women and everybody.

1:01:20No, this is all true.

1:01:20By the way, Maureen, I didn't get a choice in this.

1:01:23Like Clay, you know, Clay and I talked.

1:01:24I was like my wife.

1:01:25She says, you got to have Maureen Callahan on to talk about the show and

1:01:27the Kennedys and everything else.

1:01:29So she's a fan. Thanks a lot.

1:01:31Yeah. When wifey's an actual fan, I'm like, I got to have the person on

1:01:35the show. So. So, yeah, I know she loved the book and your analysis on

1:01:38the stuff. And now, by the way, she's shouting from downstairs that we have to

1:01:41have you on the next time you have something really juicy on a celebrity takedown

1:01:46because you see through all the nonsense.

1:01:47So we're going to have you back.

1:01:49OK. Thank you guys so much.

1:01:51It was really fun. What a pleasure.

1:01:53The nerve is the podcast.

1:01:55Go check it out. Clay, I'll tell you all about.

1:01:58Look, this is serious. Coming out of that.

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