Hour 1 - Make America Safe Again
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a dynamic and politically charged start to the day, packed with high-impact commentary and exclusive interviews. Clay Travis hosts solo while Buck Sexton is away on vacation, diving into key national issues and spotlighting major political developments.
The hour opens with breaking political news: Senator Marsha Blackburn announces her candidacy for Governor of Tennessee, joining Clay for an in-depth interview later in the hour. Blackburn outlines her conservative vision for Tennessee, emphasizing economic growth, education reform, crime reduction, and support for law enforcement. She also discusses federal initiatives like raising the retirement age for pilots, enhancing community care for veterans, and implementing online safety legislation for children.
Clay also previews upcoming interviews with Michael Whatley, the GOP nominee for Senate in North Carolina, and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, highlighting the 2026 Senate battlegrounds and the broader implications for the America First agenda.
A major theme throughout the hour is violent crime in American cities, with Clay spotlighting disturbing incidents in Cincinnati and Memphis. He shares the story of Holly, a single mother who was brutally attacked, and critiques the justice system’s failure to keep repeat offenders off the streets. Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno invited Holly to speak out about the crime. Clay praises Judge Jeanine Pirro and President Donald Trump for taking strong stances on law and order, including Trump’s proposal to federalize the D.C. police force and demand a new U.S. census to correct errors from 2020 and prepare for 2030.
The show also explores the political debate over crime statistics, contrasting claims of declining crime rates with real-life safety concerns. Clay argues for empowering police, holding judges accountable, and ensuring cities like Washington D.C. and Memphis become safe again for families.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome in Thursday edition, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show. |
| 0:09.8 | Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. |
| 0:13.2 | Buck is out traveling with his family on a summer vacation. |
| 0:18.0 | He will be back on Monday with me. |
| 0:22.8 | I've got you today and tomorrow solo. We have an absolutely locked and loaded program. Senator Marsha Blackburn has announced |
| 0:30.1 | that she is going to be running for Governor of Tennessee. She will be on with us at the bottom |
| 0:35.5 | of this hour. In the second hour, big battle in North Carolina coming to replace Tom Tillis, Michael |
| 0:44.3 | Watley, who ran the RNC, did a great job in 2024, North Carolina native. |
| 0:50.1 | He is going to be the Republican nominee to run against former Governor Roy Cooper of the state of North Carolina. |
| 0:58.0 | This is going to be an epic battle next year. |
| 1:00.3 | We will talk with Michael Watley, who hopefully will be the next senator from North Carolina. |
| 1:05.7 | And then at 2.30, we will speak with Tim Scott, who is the current senator from South Carolina, about all of the ongoing shenanigans in Washington, D.C. and beyond. |
| 1:19.9 | So there is the roadmap of where we are going. Bottom of the hour, we've got a bunch of guests, two senators and one who hopes to be a senator as well as one who hopes to be a governor. All of that coming your direction. Now, within that construct, we have got a lot of |
| 1:36.8 | stuff going on right now that I want to dive into. I think in an incredibly consequential manner, |
| 1:42.6 | Trump has demanded that we have a new census. |
| 1:46.6 | I'm going to explain why that could be so incredibly consequential, |
| 1:50.7 | not only right now, |
| 1:52.9 | because there were a lot of errors in the 2020 census, |
| 1:56.0 | and he believes they need to be rectified, |
| 1:58.4 | but also because in 2030, |
| 2:00.6 | there are going to be seismic differences |
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