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Welcome to Buck Brief.

Jeremy Carl with us now.

He is fearless.

He is brilliant.

And he has been through the ringer recently. So we're

going to talk to him about some news of the day, some of these big crime stories and the stat that has

gotten a lot of attention. For example, 356 people in New York City who were involved in shootings

in 2025 were black. Two of them were white. That's a pretty big disparity for a city of 8.5 million people.

I think we should talk about criminal justice policy a bit.

But before we get there, our friend Jeremy Carl, author of the unprotected class, sir, you just got put through it a bit.

Well, you can tell everybody you were up for a job for the State Department and the long knives came out from some senators.

What happened?

Yeah, no, thanks.

I was.

I was up for the president nominated me for an assistant secretary of state position.

And that's required Senate confirmation and went up before the Senate and the Democrats, having read all of my writings and all of my

tweets and listened to every single podcast I've been on, and I don't mean that with any

exaggeration, had a list of all the horrible things that I had said, which they yelled at me about,

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