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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives deep into the political and cultural flashpoints dominating national headlines. The hour opens with a fiery discussion on President Donald Trump's crime reduction initiative in Washington, D.C., which has sparked intense backlash from left-wing commentators accusing him of federal overreach and authoritarianism. Clay and Buck dissect the media's reaction and highlight the irony of critics opposing efforts to make the nation's capital safer.
The hosts explore rising urban crime rates, citing firsthand accounts and statistics from cities like St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, and Kansas City, and propose deploying National Guard troops as a potential solution. They emphasize the importance of law enforcement, incarceration of repeat offenders, and authentic political leadership in addressing violent crime.
In a compelling segment, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joins the program to provide exclusive updates on the Texas redistricting battle, including legal actions against Democratic lawmakers who fled the state. Paxton outlines efforts to enforce quorum laws and criticizes the hypocrisy of Democrat-led states with heavily gerrymandered districts.
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0:09.2 | I'm Carol Markowitz. |
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0:35.2 | Welcome in Tuesday edition, Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. |
0:39.2 | Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. |
0:42.1 | Trump has broken left wing minds by telling them, hey, I'm going to keep you from getting killed. |
0:49.5 | This is, I knew it was going to be crazy, the reactions. |
0:53.9 | But even for left wing meltdowns, the reaction |
0:57.9 | from, hey, my goal is to make sure that less people are victims of violent crime and less |
1:02.9 | murders are taking place in Washington, D.C., has really, even for left-wing insanity, gone to a different level. |
1:12.0 | We're going to break that down for you here momentarily. |
1:14.1 | Give you a little bit of a heads-up. |
1:16.3 | We're going to continue to follow the Texas redistricting battle. |
1:19.9 | And we're going to be joined by Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, |
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