Hour 3 - MO Sen. Eric Schmitt
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerhouse discussion on law enforcement, immigration, free speech, and global security. The hour kicks off with Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri, author of The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court, sharing insights on fighting crime and restoring law and order. Schmitt details his successful Safer Streets Initiative, the failures of progressive prosecutors, and why the Trump administration’s renewed focus on U.S. Attorneys is critical for tackling violent crime in cities like St. Louis and Washington, D.C.
The conversation dives into Trump Derangement Syndrome, exposing why Democrats reflexively oppose popular policies such as protecting women’s sports, reducing violent crime, and securing the border. Schmitt also unpacks the weaponization of the DOJ, the unprecedented legal attacks on President Trump, and the censorship-industrial complex that targeted free speech during the pandemic. He calls for Section 230 reform, accountability for social media giants, and legal consequences for bureaucrats who suppress First Amendment rights.
Later in the hour, Buck analyzes Trump’s recent meeting with European leaders and President Zelensky, clarifying U.S. policy on Ukraine. The White House confirms no American boots on the ground, while Trump pushes Europe to take greater responsibility for its own security—strengthening NATO and ending the war through diplomacy.
The discussion then shifts to illegal immigration and sanctuary city policies, featuring Attorney General Pam Bondi’s hardline stance against cities defying federal law. Buck highlights the real-life consequences of lax enforcement, including tragic crimes committed by individuals shielded by sanctuary policies. He argues that restoring law and order is an existential issue for America’s future.
Hour 3 wraps with a passionate defense of law enforcement, a critique of progressive policies undermining public safety, and a call to action for conservatives to stay engaged.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Third hour of play and buck kicks off now. |
| 0:07.2 | We're joined by Senator Eric Schmidt of the great state of Missouri. |
| 0:11.4 | He's also got a new book out. |
| 0:13.3 | The last line of defense, How to Beat the Left in Court, it is out today. |
| 0:18.2 | Senator Schmidt, thanks for being here with us. |
| 0:22.1 | It's great to be up with you guys. |
| 0:28.2 | Let's talk a little bit if we can about law enforcement, because you were the Attorney General in your state of Missouri. Now, St. Louis has had a crime problem for quite some time, and I'm sure |
| 0:34.4 | that was a focus of some of your efforts at the state level. |
| 0:38.4 | If you had the writ, the support, the backing of the federal government, |
| 0:45.0 | whatever could be brought to bear, Trump administration saying, |
| 0:48.7 | let's clean up crime in St. Louis, |
| 0:51.3 | and we'll give you whatever resources you need at the federal level to do it. |
| 0:54.6 | Could you do it? What would change? How would it work? Well, I think one thing is you'd get some of the federal law enforcement officials out of Washington, D.C., and get them out into the country. I think Cash Rettel has talked about this, and I think senior leadership of the Department of Justice just talked about this. So there's just too many, Honestly, those folks are in D.C. |
| 0:52.6 | And they're not helping, you know, take out the bad guys across the country. |
| 1:17.2 | Sadly, they were spending a lot of their time, and we talk about it in the book, Last Line of Defense, |
| 1:21.3 | in the censorship effort, Russia gate, all this nonsense, all the man hours been wrapped up in this |
| 1:26.7 | political, you know, weaponization of the DOJ as opposed to fighting crime. |
| 1:31.4 | The other thing is one of the things that we did when I was at Attorney General's relatively, what was unprecedented at the time, |
| 1:37.7 | we created something called the Safer Streets Initiative where we had deputy attorney generals in our office deputized as assistant U.S. attorneys. So we added |
| 1:46.3 | the capacity of prosecuting federal crime when you have, let's just say you have a prosecutor |
| 1:50.3 | in St. Louis. And she's gone, but Kim Gardner was a Sorosbeck prosecutor. If they don't want to do |
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