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Buck Sexton speaks with Jeremy Carl about his withdrawn State Department nomination, the intense Senate scrutiny over his past statements, and what it reveals about today’s political climate, before diving into major crime stories, controversial statistics, immigration enforcement, and the broader debate over criminal justice policy, public safety, and whether existing laws are being properly enforced in the United States.
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Welcome to buckberry if 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 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 uh you just got put through it a bit
Well, you tell everybody you were up for a job for the state department and the long knives came out from some senator
What happened?
Yeah, no thanks. I was I was up for president nominated me for an assistant secretary of state position
And uh 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 listen 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've said which they yelled at me about
And they convinced at least one squishy Republican
To perhaps be nervous about me as well. So I wasn't going to get confirmed unfortunately
So I had to withdraw but it was a really interesting experience to go through who who was the Republican squish
John Curtis former chair of the Utah County Democratic Party
Been making some news for other areas in which he has perhaps not been
Such a stalwart ally of our party recently, but I'm going to try to take the high road
I don't want to dwell on you know any one person in particular, but we've just
You know, we've got some challenges the party. We've got to address. I'm gonna tell you something
Because I I can do whatever I know I get to be a bomb thrower my friend. I could do whatever right so I'm a talk radio
In fact, if anything, I'm probably too nice
Utah you talk produces some of the worst Republicans of any state in the country
It's it's not just the this senator being squishy. I don't know what it is. I love the people of Utah
I go to Salt Lake City or I particularly get outside of Salt Lake City a little bit
Even Salt Lake and I have all these Utahans who listen to the show who I'm I love I'm totally lined
I did a big event in Utah about 18 months ago like 800 people there
They're awesome and at that event by the way
I was like what is it with you guys having a squishy governor now. They've got this squishy senator
I'm like it's Utah. This is like how do how do we get these weak Republicans in super red states?
Yeah, it's it's fascinating and the only way that we got Mike Lee who is actually very good
Overall in my opinion is that there was some stuff that activists did
At the party convention to kind of stop the very squishy senator who he replaced
But if it had just been up to kind of the median Utah voter we might have had a little bit of a difficult time
So it's a challenge, you know
It's supposed to be a conservative state
But the politicians they're off and not very conservative. What can I ask you? I mean, I'm going to so I guess can I ask you
It's a variable but but yeah, I'm about to
What was the thing they thought you said that was the worst thing?
Oh gosh, I mean they literally had poster boards of my greatest hits that they put up
I'm not kidding and I love your stuff so I'm wondering what I'm gonna get canceled for I'm like I'm a I'm a I'm a
Jeremy Carl fan. What am I gonna get a trouble for go ahead?
Well, you know, it's sort of funny and I think you know my nominations team which is so buttoned up was kind of a problem because afterwards
I wanted to see whether I could get the poster boards to you know take take as souvenirs for my wall
Because I was like, yeah, these are some pretty juicy ones
But you know look I mean
I would totally stand behind and a couple of them were like you know because you're talking all the time
Not everything you say is the perfect thing that you'd love blowing up in 92-point type
Sitting in front of the Senate, but yeah, you know, just things related to race things related to
That they hit me on feminism
Other stuff so they there was just there was a parade of horribles. I was the proverbial basket of deplorables all wrapped up in one
One person and that's just how it was
I think we're at this phase where we just have to keep pushing and keep fighting and stay on offense as much as possible
For example, you know, I'm here in the great state of Florida
Which I will say I think you know monta okay, I know a little bit about Montana politics not not that much
But enough to know you're one of these states correct me if I'm if I'm off here
Has it's it's red, but it has this huge squawth of independence
So it's a little bit
funkier and actually a little more
Democrat leaning in some ways than a lot of people would think it's not yeah
It's not like a bright red state. It's it's got this whole independence streak like like everyone's an extra on a Taylor Sheridan show
Yeah, that might be a good way of putting it
I think if you look at the people who are moving here
There's no question we have the numbers that it's clearly trending to a more deep red
But I think a lot of our politicians unfortunately in Montana still have not gotten the memo and a lot of them are still probably
A little bit more aligned with the Democrats than they really should be given our voter base
So I mean if you look since 1948 Montana has
Supported the Democrat. I think me you know, maybe one spill Clinton won a three-way split with paro
We took like 36% but he took the state. So it's it is a pretty Republican state, but there's a lot of
A lot of Republicans who are independent in perhaps not the best ways to be independent
Yeah
All right, let's just one thing I want to mention for when before we get into the crime talk because I want to get you into some trouble
Because you know how back in a peak compared to the Senate stuff where it's all
Walk in the park it would be a kick walk a pair to that
The the
Rule that I forget what it's called if Clay was here he would be shouting it because he knows sports stuff
But there's a rule that you have to I you have to interview in the NFL
uh
Minor like I think I don't know how many at least one I guess but you have to interview a minority coach before you hire a coach
And I believe the Florida attorney general is challenging that in the state of Florida
And I see it here and I go
Yeah, cuz that rule is flatly unconstitutional everybody
This is uh, we need a whole reset of the thinking of institutions
Including the NFL if they're in America the Constitution applies
You can't have these racial quotas racial set-asides racial laws anymore. It's illegal
Yeah, no absolutely and and my friend harmy dillon who's running up a d i j civil rights division has kind of just been doing that right
The the illegal stuff has been going on for so long in plain sight that people weren't even challenging it
And now people like the Florida AG
I didn't see this story today that you just mentioned are coming up and saying hey wait actually you know
This type of racial
Profile in politicking whatever you want to call it is in fact against the law
And it's one of the reasons why I've actually been a little bit hesitant as has harmyt about people saying
Oh, well, we just need to get rid of all civil rights laws
I mean we do need to do some very fundamental reforms of certain civil rights laws
But there's also times where we just need to enforce the laws on the books to say
Yeah, that actually means you can't discriminate against white people as well
And that's what we've kind of got here
This is one of my big things on immigration as people keep saying
I said before you're allowed to say congress needs to pass a law to address
I insist that everybody look at what the laws actually are
Because
Things like repeat entry after a deport to it's a felony
Yeah, punishable of the 10 years in federal prison like if you get deported and you come back
That's already a felony
But they never enforce it. They will not do this. You know that this is and it's the same thing with civil rights laws
They're writing the books
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Jeremy I
Were at this point now I could pick any number of stories the guy in Seattle who murdered a woman
They say he's crazy and now he gets
Sent to a psychiatric facility where he could theoretically be released at any time right they decide that this guy's fine
They can let him out and people say oh that won't happen really
Really?
Uh, we'll see about that um
The story of the illegal the illegal that killed the the college student what in in Chicago
I mean there's all these stories across the country and one thing keeps coming up so many of these democrats
Will not change any of the policies and and it's really more about policy than law because what it is is
They refuse to actually use laws on the books as tools of enforcing the law
Yeah, absolutely. It's nuts and I mean, I want to say this and it's going to sound a little extreme
Maybe to some people but but maybe not in in this conversation, but but I mean it actually very soberly
I think we need to be executing about a hundred times more people than we are
We had 51 executions the United States last year. It shouldn't be a thousand 51,000 be way too many
Uh, but 510 wouldn't mean up but they're about 5,000 guys who are either
Murderers or repeat serious violent offenders who have were serious about crime prevention
We need to just use the capital punishment tools that are on the books stop having these ridiculous things where people are on death row for 30 years for crimes that
Everybody knew that they committed and we need to get we need to get serious about capital punishment about
enforcing the law so we have long prison sentences for violent felons whatever have you
And you know, we're just not there yet and of course the democrats are always throwing a wrench into the works
I just I feel like the way though democrat mentality on this stuff
Here's an example this you might have seen this I grew up on the the Upper East Side of Manhattan
That was my my neighborhood and
So really I should be the one wearing a blue blazer and a button down shirt, but that's okay
You're you're looking much more dapper than me today
But I grew up on the Upper East Side and there was this incident in the in the subway system where an 84 year old
veteran was shoved onto the tracks by some lunatic with a long criminal history
He's an illegal alien arrested many times for serious crimes including violent crimes and this individual get shoved on the tracks
84 year old veteran dies
uh, and
You know now we're told oh what a tragedy, but it was an entirely and it wasn't just a preventable tragedy
This state and I mean that as in New York state or the city of New York under New York state jurisdiction
Should have prevented this like this man is dead because of idiot democrats in the prosecutor's offices in the legislative
Assembly it's just it to me it couldn't be any more clear. They're okay with this. This is the cost of doing business
It's nuts. I mean the the state and the city in this case is really an accessory to murder as far as I'm concerned
I mean you can't charge them unfortunately
You can't charge the people involved, but but it's outrageous right and and the fact that this person's here is outrageous
And the fact that we're not going to have I mean there's no question this guy did it right presumably
I don't know. I mean maybe maybe there's not video evidence, but it sounds like there is no there
There are tons of eyewitnesses. He's not even denying it the guy. I mean the guy did everyone saw
You should have a couple months of due process for whatever that looks like and then
You know a humane in my view because I'm not like a blood thirsty guy, but if you mean appropriate capital punishment for this crime and you're done
But but we don't have that and even if you don't you're not maybe as enthusiastic about
Uping the capital punishment numbers as me a humane like lifetime sentence and we're done and we're not sitting
They're talking about it and you know, we're not doing this for for every three years, whether he might be paroled or not
And just the other part of this that I find so enraging
Is that they they know that these people are a risk and they let them out anyway
And you know they they let them out and they'll they'll help them because this was in illegal alien by the way
Who'd already been deported already been deported in the case of this New York City murder was what this guy did
And so they make the decision hey, we have this dangerous felon in custody ice wants him
We though refuse to even notify ice
And and respect their detainer requests so so he can then be lawfully
lawfully taken and removed from this country
To me, I mean you use the word an accomplice to murder. I think that's absolutely correct
And you know one analogy that I did on radio Jeremy which feel free to ever borrow this or use this if you like
But it really resonated with people. I said here. I'm a dog owner. Okay. Are you a dog guy?
I like dogs well enough. Yeah, okay fair enough. Yeah, that's okay. We're still friends. So I'm a dog owner
I like dogs and if if I you know there's a there's a
A dog run right in my neighborhood here
if I saw if if I saw someone's
Dog was like a was like a pit bull that was running free without a leash and it attacked and killed a little poodle in that dog run
And I and I pulled it off and you know, I'm like, okay, I've got this thing
I've got it off and now I'm in control of it
And then I walked it over and I said you know
I don't want anyone to think poorly of pit bulls
So I'm going to let it loose in this other park and see what happens
Everybody would think that I was a monster and it was my fault
Yeah, cops are doing that in American cities with human beings who are violent criminals because they're illegal aliens
Every day every day all across the country. This is happening
It's it's nuts and I think the first person, you know, the first mayor or whoever it is
Who really cracks down on crime in a fundamental way and just changes the entire paradigm about how we're thinking about it
You look at what Bucayla did and I'll salvage. Yeah, we're dropped crime like 95 plus percent by just you know
Shockingly putting all the bad guys in prison, right? Like that's what it took and and shockingly
You know the Democrats have this theory that somehow there's this fixed amount of crime and that if you you put certain bad guys in prison
There's going to be more people who are going to come in and do the crimes
But in fact, that's not how things work
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Because liberals don't want us to and conservatives have just not led aggressively enough on this issue
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so
Some of these centers can be senators can be put on notice on the Republican side
That's you know, we're watching all right none of this none of this week nonsense from them. I don't like it
That'd be great. I'd love I think the more pressure the better would really help on a lot of these guys
You let us know man because you're one of the good ones. Thanks for being here, buddy. Good to talk to you
Thanks so much Buck. It's real pleasure to speak. This is an iHeart podcast
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