Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.

All right, everybody. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.

Our friend Denesh just used a joint now. He has made some phenomenal documentaries in the past.

It's been incredibly successful. Not just at the box office, but also at moving the conversation.

His latest film is Police State. You're going to policestatefilm.net. That's policestatefilm.net.

It's got a lot of our friends of the show in this one, including Senator Paul,

Jim Jordan, Julie Kelly, Cash Patel, Denesh. First off, congratulations on being a grandfather.

Thank you. Very exciting new chapter of life. Yes. Also, congratulations on the new documentary.

Tell me a bit about what Police State is trying to tell this audience because we often talk about

the weaponization of law enforcement against the right and against everyday folks.

What are you showing everybody in what I'm sure is a very powerful documentary?

Well, I want people to understand that the country is not very far away from being a full-fledged

police state. I mean, a shocking idea because we think of ourselves as the free world. We tend to

look at untree societies and say, yeah, we got police states, but that's North Korea. That's China.

That's the old Soviet Union. But many of the defining aspects of a police state think of mass

surveillance, think of systematic censorship, think of political indoctrination in the schools

and the media, the effort to create a one-party state and lock up the leader of the opposition party,

think about criminalizing dissents, suppressing religious liberty, political prisoners.

You realize, as you go down this kind of standard checklist, that many, if not all of these things

are now to one degree or another, quite manifest in the United States. So the movie has two kinds

of people in it. It has whistleblowers and informants who tell you how this police state is

constructed, the sort of architecture of it. And then you've got ordinary citizens just going

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