Speaker 1: This is the US Report with Jennie Morrow. Good evening
Speaker 1: and welcome to the program. Coming up tonight, a very
Speaker 1: special US Report coming to you from the beach here
Speaker 1: on Los Angeles, California, heart of what you would think
Speaker 1: would be Kamala Harris territory. But as we'll see later
Speaker 1: on in the show, appearances can be deceiving, especially in
Speaker 1: a place like this that has been so comprehensively run
Speaker 1: down by Democrat politics and politicians. I'll be talking a
Speaker 1: lot more about that with some very special guests later
Speaker 1: on in the program. But first, it's not long to
Speaker 1: go now, just days. In just a few days, the
Speaker 1: polls will officially close, the counting will officially begin, and
Speaker 1: unless I'm very wrong, it could actually be days, if
Speaker 1: not weeks, until we know who's actually going to swear
Speaker 1: the oath of office in January. First, the polls, as far
Speaker 1: as I can tell, they're deadlocked just about everywhere you go.
Speaker 1: Some aggregates show that Donald Trump has got a small lead,
Speaker 1: but this is all within the margin of error, and
Speaker 1: others suggest that Kamala Harris has wound in her sales
Speaker 1: and things are now tilting back her way again. Though
Speaker 1: this is all within the margin of error. And for
Speaker 1: every statistic I can show you, such as the fact
Speaker 1: that I don't think any incumbent party has ever won
Speaker 1: reelection with so many voters thinking the country is heading
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction as they do now in the
Speaker 1: United States, there will be another countervailing fact, such as
Speaker 1: no party has ever out pulled the pollsters three times
Speaker 1: in a row. And if Trump romps it in, in
Speaker 1: other words, pretty much everybody in the polling business will
Speaker 1: have to hang their heads in shame. That said, let
Speaker 1: me give some hope for Trump fans if you recall
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty how the Democrats eventually caned the
Speaker 1: GOP with early abs and tea and mailing votes leading
Speaker 1: to the presidency, or perhaps I should say the regency
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden. Well, that's really swung the other way now.
Speaker 1: And in fact, let me give you a few examples.
Speaker 1: For example, because your part of the identification is known
Speaker 1: in America, when you request a ballot, we can get
Speaker 1: some numbers here that are pretty interesting. In Nevada, which
Speaker 1: Republicans are hoping to pick up, the numbers look like
Speaker 1: this as of now, GOP three hundred and six thousand,
Speaker 1: nine hundred and five voters, Democrats two sixty four to
Speaker 1: one oh nine, and others two hundred three thy twelve voters.
Speaker 1: Those are independence. We don't know which way they will go. Likewise,
Speaker 1: in the Sun belt state of Arizona, the numbers again
Speaker 1: favoring Trump Republicans six hundred eighty three thousand, two hundred
Speaker 1: eighty one ballots, Democrats five hundred and fifty four thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred ninety two, and again those others unidentified independence
Speaker 1: three hundred ninety two thousand, six hundred and seventeen. Again
Speaker 1: an advantage for the Republicans. Now, Pennsylvania, and this is
Speaker 1: where all the money is. This is must win stuff.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty four Republicans versus Democrat vote is now
Speaker 1: over five hundred thousand bigger than it was at the
Speaker 1: same time in twenty twenty, when Joe Biden's victory margin
Speaker 1: in that state was only eighty thousand. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Now there's a whole nother factor of play here. The
Speaker 1: press and hoo boy, do they or at least a
Speaker 1: lot of them, have their thumbs on the scale and
Speaker 1: their eyes well anywhere but on the road. Look, I
Speaker 1: have been watching Trump in politics for nine years and
Speaker 1: in public life for a lot longer than that, and
Speaker 1: I am amazed that all these supposedly very smart people
Speaker 1: running the New York Times and CNN and MSNBC just
Speaker 1: don't seem to understand what he's all about. Fresh on
Speaker 1: the heels of his shift at McDonald's, which was frankly
Speaker 1: a genius move that scored him millions of dollars in
Speaker 1: free publicity while driving Kamala Harris off the front pages.
Speaker 1: In the last day of the election, Donald Trump this
Speaker 1: week donned a high vis vest and topped in a
Speaker 1: garbage truck with his name emblazoned on the side. It
Speaker 1: was a pitch perfect response to the bitter Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and his charge that Trump supporters were garbage, a statement
Speaker 1: that I think was calculated to roll a hand grenade
Speaker 1: into the Kamala campaign just days before the polls, and
Speaker 1: once again showing that despite all the claims that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is a fascist who knows nothing but hate, it
Speaker 1: is Harris's Democrats who are the real haters. Now, remember
Speaker 1: four weeks they've called Trump, his rallies and his followers fascists,
Speaker 1: and now they're running from Joe Biden saying they're garbage.
Speaker 1: Come on, this does not pass the smell test, if
Speaker 1: I may, But instead most of the media has run
Speaker 1: with it. Here's MSNBC seeming to take the White House's
Speaker 1: word for this so called gaff that Joe Biden somehow
Speaker 1: spoke a possessive apostrophe stuck in there, and so it
Speaker 1: was only one supporter of Donald Trump who was garbage.
Speaker 2: Now some on the right have seized that comment to
Speaker 2: mean his supporters, meaning Donald Trump's supporters, meaning all Trump
Speaker 2: supporters half the country, saying the president is calling them garbage.
Speaker 2: The White House is saying, no, no, there's an apostrophe there.
Speaker 2: He's talking about his supporter, meaning the comedian. His comments
Speaker 2: are unconscionable and Unamerican. That's the controversy last night.
Speaker 1: For CBS's Nora O'Donnell, the sin wasn't calling Trump fans garbage,
Speaker 1: it was that they didn't show grace to the president's
Speaker 1: so called gaff.
Speaker 3: He landed in Green Bay just a short time ago
Speaker 3: and then pulled this camp pain stunt speaking to reporters
Speaker 3: from a garbage truck, proof that he and his supporters
Speaker 3: are giving no grace to a gaff by President Biden
Speaker 3: where he and his explanation inadvertently called Trump supporters garbage.
Speaker 1: So kudos to this one reporter for doing her job.
Speaker 4: You are promising to bring people together, even people who
Speaker 4: disagree with you say, well, how does the table?
Speaker 5: How do you convince Trump supporters of that?
Speaker 6: Though, when you're calling their candidate a would be dictator,
Speaker 6: a petty tyrant.
Speaker 5: I am talking to everyone as an American.
Speaker 1: All of this, of course, has meant that Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: has been unable to pivot to where she wants to be,
Speaker 1: which is to claim to be the Unity candidate, which
Speaker 1: is very hard for to do after obsessing over Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and having her surrogates suggests that his rally at
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden was like something out of the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1: But there's a key element to this that they simply
Speaker 1: don't get. While they're being off having tantrums about Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and israll Donald Trump is having fun. Look at
Speaker 1: this here where he talks at one of his rallies
Speaker 1: book getting into that garbage truck this week, And.
Speaker 7: I said, man, this is bad because now I have
Speaker 7: all the cameras that all what look look at all
Speaker 7: the fake news. There were most of them.
Speaker 8: Now most of them.
Speaker 7: Many of them were there, and I'm saying, oh boy,
Speaker 7: you know, one little mistake with these guys and your
Speaker 7: political career is over. You can't even so I said, man,
Speaker 7: if I don't get up there, this is going to
Speaker 7: be very embarrassing. He's stupid. People they'll say he's cognitively
Speaker 7: and physically appaired. And I can't do that when I'm
Speaker 7: alongside of this great athlete.
Speaker 1: I got to get up to that.
Speaker 8: So so look, so the stair, the first stair is
Speaker 8: like up here, I'm sick. So I had the adrenaline
Speaker 8: going and I made it.
Speaker 1: Look at that guy, he's having an absolute blast. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, Tim Walls, all of them. They like to
Speaker 1: call themselves the happy Warriors, but I reckon Trump has
Speaker 1: it all over them. And that is what the Democrats
Speaker 1: will never understand, and that's what absolutely kills them. All Right,
Speaker 1: I've been here with the team for a few days
Speaker 1: here in California, and while it is pretty much solidly democratic,
Speaker 1: you gotta remember it hasn't always been that way. Watch
Speaker 1: here as I catch up with Alex Pileckian he's a
Speaker 1: Republican running for Congress in a very Democrat district that
Speaker 1: takes in Hollywood, and he thinks California could one day
Speaker 1: go back to being a Republican stronghold. Have a look,
Speaker 1: Alex Pelekian, thanks for joining us here on the US Report,
Speaker 1: which to hear, beautiful Venice Beach, California. This state's reliably Democrat,
Speaker 1: but it used to be so Republican. How did California
Speaker 1: wind up going for being this Republican stronghold to being
Speaker 1: totally blue.
Speaker 9: Well, as you said, California has given US Republican presidents
Speaker 9: like Richard Nixon, like Ronald Reagan. And I was born
Speaker 9: and raised in California, and really the California mindset is
Speaker 9: one of personal responsibility and rugged individualism. We don't want
Speaker 9: the state to run our lives. We don't want it
Speaker 9: to be a high tax, high spend system. So a
Speaker 9: lot of immigrants, for example, like my parents, came to
Speaker 9: California because the harder you worked, the more you made
Speaker 9: of yourself. And that, to me is what traditionally the
Speaker 9: Republican Party stood for. However, they became more and more
Speaker 9: involved in trying to control people's personal lives, and that
Speaker 9: is where I think they started losing the electorate.
Speaker 1: So that's what about the social issues and so but
Speaker 1: people still now, you know, they must be getting fed
Speaker 1: up because what they voted for when we go around
Speaker 1: the city, when you look at California is high crime,
Speaker 1: high taxes, a lot of homelessness on the street, and
Speaker 1: a magnet for dysfunction from around the country.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 9: And the reason why I'm running. So I am a
Speaker 9: practicing physician, but I'm running because we need better public safety.
Speaker 9: Crime is out of control, holmlessness has gotten worse on
Speaker 9: the watch of the politicians that have been controlling the
Speaker 9: state for the last ten years. So between crime and
Speaker 9: homelessness and the fentanyl epidemic and our politicians apologizing for
Speaker 9: the criminals rather than holding them to account, that is
Speaker 9: why I'm running.
Speaker 1: So what do you see when you're out their canus
Speaker 1: saying when you're out there talking to voters, you know,
Speaker 1: how receptive are they to the Republican message? Are they
Speaker 1: baked in Democrats now or is there a mood for
Speaker 1: a shift?
Speaker 9: So my particular message is not entirely Republican. So what
Speaker 9: I'm doing is I'm focusing on public safety I'm focusing
Speaker 9: on lowering crime and also taxes, but as far as
Speaker 9: people's personal lives, abortion, gay marriage, stay out of it,
Speaker 9: and that sort of fiscally responsible, socially sane platform is
Speaker 9: being well received by the electro Yeah.
Speaker 1: And are you concerned though that, Like in California, people
Speaker 1: who might be receptive to that message, they start to
Speaker 1: leave the state. They started to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we can't take it anymore. Yeah, we'd love to vote
Speaker 1: for change, but we'll go to Texas, We'll go to Florida,
Speaker 1: We'll take our business over there. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have left.
Speaker 9: Those are the more conservative ones, but even the more
Speaker 9: liberal ones are finding that what they signed up for
Speaker 9: with their party is not what they actually want. So
Speaker 9: rather than it being Democrat versus Republican, now it has
Speaker 9: start to be progressive versus non progressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So like your district though, You've got the district
Speaker 1: that you're running to take a House seat in for Congress,
Speaker 1: the thirtieth Congressional district. A lot of Hollywood people, there,
Speaker 1: a lot of TV industry that's sort of the real
Speaker 1: heart of the liberal establishment. You're really going Toto, the
Speaker 1: belly of the Beast aren't you.
Speaker 9: And again, it's not just whether you're liberal or conservative.
Speaker 9: These are shared values that we have. Public safety first
Speaker 9: and foremost. You know, you want not to have to
Speaker 9: look over your shoulder when you go out to your
Speaker 9: car after going out to a restaurant. And a lot
Speaker 9: of people now, although outwardly they say things that are
Speaker 9: kind of towing the party line, inwardly and within the
Speaker 9: privacy of the polling place, they're going to be voting
Speaker 9: for public safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like, so do you hear that when you're pulling,
Speaker 1: when you're talking to people, when you're texting them, what's
Speaker 1: the kind of the response to that message? They privately say, Look,
Speaker 1: you know, we can't really say it, but you know,
Speaker 1: we think here on the right track precisely.
Speaker 9: I mean, I am solutions based, So I say, how
Speaker 9: am I going to fix homelessness. I'm going to reopen
Speaker 9: the federal institutions. Homelessness is not simply a housing issue.
Speaker 9: It's a mental health and drug addiction issue, as you
Speaker 9: can see over here in Venice Beech and also in Hollywood. Sure, so,
Speaker 9: focusing on solutions rather than these platitudes, that is what
Speaker 9: has really gotten people riled up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so when do you go down into that district,
Speaker 1: tell us just you know, what are some examples of
Speaker 1: kind of how bad it can get there? I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you have do you what's the homelessness destruction? Like,
Speaker 1: take us through what it's like for people when they
Speaker 1: have to live with all of this where they're trying
Speaker 1: to be just kind of normal tax paying citizens.
Speaker 9: Right, So, our politicians have wasted twenty six billion dollars
Speaker 9: of our tax money for homeless housing, but the homelessness
Speaker 9: population has increased by ten percent.
Speaker 1: Business is small.
Speaker 9: Businesinesses are being decimated because we have smash and grab
Speaker 9: crimes that aren't being prosed.
Speaker 1: This is a nine hundred fifty dollars thing, right.
Speaker 9: Yes, nine hundred and fifty dollars, so up to nine
Speaker 9: or fifty dollars theft is petty crime. In addition to that,
Speaker 9: our district Attorney, George Gascone has said that he will
Speaker 9: not prosecute juveniles for misdemeanors, which is why you have
Speaker 9: those twelve to sixteen year olds going to seven eleven
Speaker 9: on their bicycles sealing things because they know that they're
Speaker 9: going to have carte blanche. And unfortunately, these petty criminals
Speaker 9: then turn into That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1: Once they know agent become seventeen or eighteen, well they
Speaker 1: know how to compit crimes and they're pretty used to it, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they've not learned their lessons. Nobody's taught them that lesson.
Speaker 9: And people are starting to get sick of it. And
Speaker 9: so people like my opponent, who support George Gascone, who
Speaker 9: support these soft on crime policies, they are falling out
Speaker 9: of favor.
Speaker 1: So nationally then, like, do you see these sorts of
Speaker 1: treads what you talk about about, you know, the concern
Speaker 1: about staying out of certain areas people's social lives. You know, abortion,
Speaker 1: gay marriage, that sort of thing. We know the Democrats
Speaker 1: have nationally tried to make abortion a huge issue, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, even in Australia, they're trying to
Speaker 1: make it an issue where it's just not an issue
Speaker 1: at all. Do you feel like that is starting to
Speaker 1: show that that is preventing a bigger Republican sweep nationally?
Speaker 9: I think people have been preconditioned to see the D
Speaker 9: or the R behind somebody's name and immediately shut off.
Speaker 9: So what I do is I say I am an
Speaker 9: endangered species. I am a pro choice Republican. I'm a
Speaker 9: gay man who's married to another gay man. I don't
Speaker 9: want to touch gay marriage. I don't want to touch abortion.
Speaker 9: Suddenly I've disarmed the people, and now they are ready
Speaker 9: to hear about crime and homelessness and hear about the solutions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so with that, then you know you've come
Speaker 1: into this game from medicine. You've got big shift medicine
Speaker 1: to politics. See it sometimes here? What made you decide
Speaker 1: to get into politics?
Speaker 9: You know, I've reached my breaking points. So I am
Speaker 9: still a practicing physician. I will continue to practice medicine
Speaker 9: even when I'm in Congress. But I saw that crime
Speaker 9: and homelessness were getting worse on the watch of our
Speaker 9: elected officials, cost of living was getting worse on their watch.
Speaker 9: And I said that I'm tired of waiting around for
Speaker 9: the right candidate.
Speaker 1: So I decided to be the right candidate. You would
Speaker 1: see in the hospital, like if you're doing intensive care,
Speaker 1: so you would see the playout of this may have
Speaker 1: on the streets every day in that sort of environment.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 9: I mean, I'll give you a great example homelessness in
Speaker 9: the intensive care unit. I am frequently dealing with homeless
Speaker 9: people who become sick because they're not getting medical care
Speaker 9: for their medical problems, who are having drug overdoses, and
Speaker 9: it's this revolving door. We get them better, we get them,
Speaker 9: we nurse them back to health from death store. They
Speaker 9: go out there not getting the support the resources that
Speaker 9: they need. They're put into homeless housing, but they're still
Speaker 9: using drugs and they come right back into the hospital
Speaker 9: as sick as they were from the last time. So
Speaker 9: there are root problems, mental health being the biggest one
Speaker 9: that I say that we should diagnose and treat. And
Speaker 9: it's not simply putting people in homes and wasting money
Speaker 9: on housing.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a huge problem. We have also in Australia,
Speaker 1: this idea that you've got a mentally ill population or
Speaker 1: segment of the population's mentally ill, and we give them medications,
Speaker 1: they go out on the streets. We say, you know,
Speaker 1: go and live your life taking medication. Then they don't
Speaker 1: and mayhem ensues. Is that a problem here? It's a
Speaker 1: huge problem here.
Speaker 9: So California has one hundred and seventy thousand homeless people,
Speaker 9: almost half of them forty percent are from out of state.
Speaker 9: Why is that important Because the medical literature shows that
Speaker 9: when your family is involved with your mental health care,
Speaker 9: with your drug rehab, you have better outcomes. So one
Speaker 9: of my plans from Congress is to find the families
Speaker 9: of the forty percent of homeless here, ask them where
Speaker 9: are they, transport them across state lines, give federal dollars
Speaker 9: so their home states can establish mental health and drug treatment,
Speaker 9: and that way you even out the balance and get
Speaker 9: these people to care in the sport that they need.
Speaker 1: So finally, as it's the big national right here. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked about California at the start. It's a Democrat
Speaker 1: state that turned Republican. I know it's hard to pull
Speaker 1: in a district like this, but overall statewide, what do
Speaker 1: you say, do you think there's going to be a
Speaker 1: swing back to the GOP even if it obviously it's
Speaker 1: almost surely going to go Harris.
Speaker 9: So people want a swing towards the middle. They're eighty
Speaker 9: percent of us in the moderate middle who are sick
Speaker 9: of the far right and sick of the far left.
Speaker 9: And I think whichever party give us a likable, relatable
Speaker 9: candidate who actually caters towards the moderate middle, as I
Speaker 9: like to call us. That's the person who's going to
Speaker 9: be elected.
Speaker 1: And Kamala Harris, I mean, do people here She's a Californian.
Speaker 1: Obviously she had a record a San Francisco prosecutor. She's
Speaker 1: running on this prosecuting record, but some people associate her
Speaker 1: with a lot of the dysfunction up in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Are Californians warming to her as one of their own?
Speaker 9: No, because there are daily reminders that she was the
Speaker 9: chief arc sector of Prop forty seven, which created this
Speaker 9: nine hundred and fifty dollars limit for petty crime, which
Speaker 9: allowed us to be soft on all of these criminals.
Speaker 9: So she has been indelibly associated with Prop forty seven
Speaker 9: and she can't shake that off.
Speaker 1: And for so when she runs is this sort of hey,
Speaker 1: I was a tough prosecutor. I was prosecuting transnational crimes
Speaker 1: and all of that. There's a bit of bs that
Speaker 1: people don't believe it. They know that she wasn't involved
Speaker 1: as a district attorney. And really the things that she
Speaker 1: can be tied to are the ones that have made
Speaker 1: our daily lives of living hell. Alex Bleckive, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for it. Thanks for having me fascinating stuff. Also
Speaker 1: had the chance while I was here to take in
Speaker 1: some of the sights and sounds of Venice, California. Tell
Speaker 1: you what, I didn't meet too many Trump supporters, but
Speaker 1: I had a fair bit of fun. Well, we're here
Speaker 1: at world famous Muscle Beach here in California. Gonna check
Speaker 1: out some of the actions, see what's going on. Maybe
Speaker 1: do a bit of a workout. Keep my RFK Junior happening.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Hey, hello Tashi. If you don't
Speaker 1: like it, you don't pay Paul. Yeah, thanks so much.
Speaker 10: Hal.
Speaker 1: Now, don't go anywhere because there is still plenty more
Speaker 1: to come on this special edition of the US Report
Speaker 1: from Los Angeles. Next after the break, how the city
Speaker 1: has nosedived under the successive Democratic regimes. Plus, I hit
Speaker 1: the streets to ask locals who they are supporting next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and some of their answers might surprise you. After the break,
Speaker 1: welcome back to this very special edition of the US Report. Well,
Speaker 1: California is a progressive Democrat stronghold, and many of the
Speaker 1: people I've spoken to here in LA have been big
Speaker 1: time Kamala Harris supporters, even though sometimes they don't even
Speaker 1: know why I'll go with Kamala. Why do you go
Speaker 1: to Kamala. She's a woman, and I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And I just want something to change, you know, So
Speaker 1: hopefully it's a little inspirational. Would you have voted for
Speaker 1: Joe Biden if he was still on the ticket, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just so. I don't vote for Trump honestly, So it's
Speaker 1: just a never Trump thing. Yeah, j whiz. But I
Speaker 1: to tell you what, I was surprised to see that
Speaker 1: some in the lefty neighborhood of Hollywood are on the
Speaker 1: mega trade. Have a look at this.
Speaker 11: So the reason why I'm personally voting for Donald Trump
Speaker 11: is because he's got a business perspective.
Speaker 1: Is business mind.
Speaker 11: I remember when he had gotten elected for president. I
Speaker 11: remember that the world was almost almost secure. There wasn't
Speaker 11: any war, there wasn't any too much drama, there wasn't
Speaker 11: anything big going on. I mean, he had went to
Speaker 11: North Korea and shook Kim Jong young's hand. I mean,
Speaker 11: he was friends with Vladimir Putin. I mean there was
Speaker 11: a lot going on other than that. You know, my
Speaker 11: vote is for Trump, you know, And when he was here,
Speaker 11: I just feel like everything was just going smooth. And
Speaker 11: then when Joe Biden came in the presidency, it just
Speaker 11: feels like everything kind of messed up a little bit.
Speaker 11: And now we have war going on here Ukraine, Russia,
Speaker 11: we have you know, in the Middle East, Palestine and Israel.
Speaker 11: I mean, it's kind of it's not cool, you know,
Speaker 11: But I remember when Trump was in office, that thing
Speaker 11: was just solid, and when COVID was going on, he
Speaker 11: put money in our pockets to survive.
Speaker 12: I think Trump would really do good for America. He
Speaker 12: did good when he was president. And as opposed to
Speaker 12: Kamala it's really it's a no brainer. It's you know,
Speaker 12: she doesn't know anything about her job, politics or anything.
Speaker 12: She doesn't know how to talk to people in debates.
Speaker 12: She's already failed us being vice president. We all know
Speaker 12: that we pay like triple prices and grocery stores and
Speaker 12: for rent and yeah.
Speaker 1: So I guess they haven't all lost all their marbles.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, though, is known for its bright lights, celebrities
Speaker 1: and movie stars, but lately it's been a city in
Speaker 1: the climb, with skyrocketing homelessness, crime, and a cost of
Speaker 1: living that has locals fed up. One of those locals
Speaker 1: is California, GOP delegate Roxande Hogue, who I caught up with.
Speaker 1: She told me how progressive policies are taking Los Angeles backwards.
Speaker 1: Have a look, so, roxand Hougue, you've lived in LA
Speaker 1: for decades now, tell us this place has gone from being,
Speaker 1: you know, this great, wonderful, beautiful city to a place
Speaker 1: that's frankly fairly city. What's happened in Los Angeles?
Speaker 4: Well, we've had a couple of cycles of CD, not CD,
Speaker 4: and then CD again, and you can tell quite clearly
Speaker 4: when it goes wrong and why, and it's correlated with
Speaker 4: the complete abdication of any responsibility to.
Speaker 5: Run a great city. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And how much of that? I mean, we see this
Speaker 1: homeless problem, we see the drug problems around here. Where
Speaker 1: is all that coming from? Is that a city problem?
Speaker 1: Is that a state government problem? Is that coming from
Speaker 1: the film government? What layers of government is causing this dysfunction?
Speaker 4: Well, the real complicating factor is Los Angeles is a
Speaker 4: county and a city. So the city is about four
Speaker 4: million and the county is ten million people. Right, one
Speaker 4: out of every four California lives here in Los Angeles County.
Speaker 5: So it's a.
Speaker 4: It's really a sort of leviathan that is hard to.
Speaker 5: Get your hands around for anyway.
Speaker 4: I'll give them that, But we have been on the
Speaker 4: fast track to one party only rule for a couple
Speaker 4: decades now, and the result of that has been rewarding
Speaker 4: people for bad behavior, not enforcing the law, not allowing
Speaker 4: law enforcement to enforce the law, and then other states
Speaker 4: dumping their problems here.
Speaker 1: I want to find out about that. What is it
Speaker 1: about California and about LA and the policies here that
Speaker 1: have made it such a magnet for people who have
Speaker 1: come from around the country. They've been sent here, they've
Speaker 1: covered their own accord and brought with them all the
Speaker 1: dysfunction we see around us.
Speaker 5: Well, not every.
Speaker 4: One coming to LA brings well, they do bring dysfunctionals
Speaker 4: say there's actors, and then I went, we're the most
Speaker 4: dysfunctional of all, sobscribe to that.
Speaker 1: But I mean just in terms of, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got other cities, other jurisdics, is basically shipping their
Speaker 1: problems to you.
Speaker 4: Yes, well we'ved democrats, California Democrats have rolled out the
Speaker 4: welcome map for everyone else's problems. Right, we will give
Speaker 4: the cell phones and food and shelter and needles to
Speaker 4: addicts and people who want to live on the street.
Speaker 5: So of course they should they can come here.
Speaker 1: So what is this You know you are with the
Speaker 1: local Republican party. What is this Measure A that I'm
Speaker 1: hearing about? Tell me about this. They're going to increase
Speaker 1: taxes to give more money for that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Well, Measure A is going to be a continuation, a doubling,
Speaker 4: and a making permanent of Measure H, which had to
Speaker 4: do with homelessness. We also had Measure H H. Basically,
Speaker 4: the Great Gas the mall of government is shoveling huge
Speaker 4: amounts of money to the homelessness industrial complex. That's NGOs,
Speaker 4: that's public sector union workers, all who say they're working
Speaker 4: on homelessness. But when you dig down into the paperwork,
Speaker 4: the salaries are here and their effectiveness is maybe here.
Speaker 1: Right. But okay, so people see this, You say, the
Speaker 1: Democrats have been entrenched for years, if not decades. Why
Speaker 1: do people keep voting for them.
Speaker 5: There's a couple of reasons.
Speaker 4: One is, humans are by and large not lemmings. Is
Speaker 4: a bad way to say it, but we are very
Speaker 4: much pack animals. And here where the business of the
Speaker 4: town is entertainment. You step out of line and they'll
Speaker 4: cut you off. So they have a stranglehold. And they
Speaker 4: were helped by Republicans Arnold Schwarzenegger, who today surprising you tell.
Speaker 1: Us about this here, what's happened here today?
Speaker 4: Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Kamala Harris, but he's the one who
Speaker 4: really hut Republicans and other parties off at the knees.
Speaker 4: Like anyone with the parliamentary system understands multiple parties. And
Speaker 4: you think America only has a two party system, we
Speaker 4: actually have more than two. And up until years ago
Speaker 4: when Prop. Fourteen was endorsed by Arnold and put on
Speaker 4: the ballot in a primary election, all those parties would
Speaker 4: take out positions and have candidates the Peace and Freedom,
Speaker 4: the Socialists, the Republicans, the Democrats, the Libertarians.
Speaker 5: We don't have that anymore in California.
Speaker 4: So they took away the one way we had to
Speaker 4: elect someone to carry a banner. So we ended up
Speaker 4: with a lot of elections like the one in which Kamala.
Speaker 5: Harris became Senator, that.
Speaker 4: Were between a Democrat and another Democrat, and so your
Speaker 4: choice was between you know, the communist and the socialists right.
Speaker 1: And so Kamala Harris comes from that. Then she goes through,
Speaker 1: she bet bombs out in the twenty twenty primary, she
Speaker 1: becomes vice president no primary, and now she could very
Speaker 1: well in a few days time, be the next president
Speaker 1: of the United States.
Speaker 5: I'm going to bet a dollar against you that she won't.
Speaker 4: But yes, we export not only cultural ideas and tech
Speaker 4: and all these amazing things from California. We export mediocre
Speaker 4: midwid politicians who've never come up against a hard question.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's a big problem now with California,
Speaker 1: isn't it that all of the productive industries that tech
Speaker 1: everybody else, they're moving to Texas and moving to Florida,
Speaker 1: They're moving to other states, and you're gonna be left
Speaker 1: with these midwits.
Speaker 4: Well, because it's incredibly punitive to start a business here.
Speaker 5: Literally, you and I could pitch a tech right here,
Speaker 5: spend the night. I mean, my back wouldn't do so
Speaker 5: well on marble, but no one would bother us. If
Speaker 5: I decided, you know what, I'm going to open a
Speaker 5: store across the street. There's a place that's been closed forever.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna open a store.
Speaker 4: It would be two years before I could get the
Speaker 4: doors open. I would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4: They would come after me with employment rules out the
Speaker 4: wazoo environmental regulation. And they've set up a two tier
Speaker 4: system here where those who are below there's above belawn
Speaker 4: below the law and.
Speaker 5: A as a taxi.
Speaker 1: It's a two tier justice system. Yeah, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: mean just all that, you know, everywhere we go here,
Speaker 1: I'm spelling it right now. I gotta say it stinks
Speaker 1: of weed, like to the point where I'm kind of
Speaker 1: feeling like, you know, ordering a pizza right now, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of getting the munchies. I mean, tell us about
Speaker 1: you know, is this another part of the problem here?
Speaker 1: Everyone stoned all the time.
Speaker 5: Everyone.
Speaker 4: There's the warning to anyone considering legalizing recreational marimuna, don't.
Speaker 4: It is the gateway to this incredible CD disgusting, just
Speaker 4: lack of civilization.
Speaker 5: And I say that as someone from.
Speaker 4: Jamaica, right this has not been a boon to California
Speaker 4: or to Los Angeles in any way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, look, we've got politicians in
Speaker 1: Australia who are flirting with that. I hope you're watching
Speaker 1: right now, some of these guys, because it's it's a
Speaker 1: horrendous thing. I've seen it in American cities, you know, everywhere.
Speaker 1: What about to the effects of illegal migration. How big
Speaker 1: a deal is that here in La.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the other second tier that doesn't have to
Speaker 4: follow the rules.
Speaker 5: Right. So again, if we were to try.
Speaker 4: And open a restaurant, incredibly onerous regulation. If I come
Speaker 4: wheeling a grocery cart with a bunch of raw chicken
Speaker 4: and just start cooking it right here on this sidewalk
Speaker 4: where you smell weed and somebody defecated recently.
Speaker 1: Very appetizer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look a bacon wrap to hont dog. It smells
Speaker 5: good no matter where you are, you think it's been.
Speaker 4: But they they've allowed that to happen unfettered. And the
Speaker 4: original sin, the you know, the fruit of the poison tree,
Speaker 4: is that our voter rolls are a disaster because we
Speaker 4: we California Democrats gave driver's licenses with no vetting whatsoever
Speaker 4: to people with no paperwork, and then sent every one
Speaker 4: of those people on the DMV roles.
Speaker 1: About so like, do you think you know? People say
Speaker 1: it's a conspiracy, but do you think you know, maybe
Speaker 1: some of these people. They get the form and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to fill it out, and they do, and
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they wind up red storting you. Maybe
Speaker 1: they wind up voting.
Speaker 5: Well, they register for you, they register for you.
Speaker 4: Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch and Rick Renell were involved
Speaker 4: in a lawsuit that ended up wiping a million voters
Speaker 4: off of Los Angeles's own voter roles. But bigger than that,
Speaker 4: I'm not really a whiner. People have to get out
Speaker 4: and vote.
Speaker 10: Like.
Speaker 4: We can't complain about cheating when there is if we
Speaker 4: don't actually turn out. And the problem is common sense.
Speaker 4: Californias have been demoralized so that they think, well, my
Speaker 4: vote doesn't matter, so then they just don't vote.
Speaker 1: That's not that's how you have the one party state.
Speaker 1: Rock said, Hug will leave it there. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your time on the US Report.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Now, don't go anywhere because after the break we'll go
Speaker 1: back to school and meet the young Jewish UCLA student
Speaker 1: who was kept from getting to class by pro Palestine
Speaker 1: lunatics and fought back. But first, hey, did anyone notice
Speaker 1: anything strange about the White House Halloween event this week? Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about the weirdness of Joe Biden
Speaker 1: eating a baby, that's pretty much par for the course
Speaker 1: for that guy. No, instead, I'm talking about Jill Biden's costume.
Speaker 1: Have a look at what the first lady came dressed
Speaker 1: as a panda bear. How interesting? What a very interesting choice,
Speaker 1: to say the least, especially because China, the Communist People's
Speaker 1: Republic of China, claims ownership of every single panda in
Speaker 1: the world. Call me crazy, but there's some pretty interesting
Speaker 1: symbolism happening right there. Now, after the break, we go
Speaker 1: to UCLA and the fight back against the jew haters. Next,
Speaker 1: welcome back to this very special US report from California. Well,
Speaker 1: the US is sadly similar to Australia in that it's
Speaker 1: got a big problem with anti Jewish and anti Western
Speaker 1: propaganda masquerading as pro Palestine activism. I had the chance
Speaker 1: to catch up with Eli sivis an impressive young man
Speaker 1: who's fighting back here on the campus of UCLA. Right now,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's a beautiful, normal college campus, people
Speaker 1: going to school, people coming to and from class. But
Speaker 1: six months ago where we are right now, these lawns
Speaker 1: were a hotbed of hate and anti Semitism, university encampments,
Speaker 1: pro Palestine, anti Israel. We all saw the footage. Eli Sivis.
Speaker 1: You had a direct encounter with these protests. Tell us
Speaker 1: about what it was like when you were here as
Speaker 1: a student and some of the incidents had happened when
Speaker 1: you tried to do simple things like get the class.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so the encampments was a shot fucking experience here
Speaker 13: at UCLA. There were campus happening all over the country.
Speaker 13: U say, it was one of the last encampments that
Speaker 13: actually spawned Columbia. I believe was first two weeks before
Speaker 13: I knew the encammon was going to happen. I knew
Speaker 13: because you know, it was going big college campus to
Speaker 13: college campus. And when it erupted at UCLA, when it
Speaker 13: was erected, shall we say, I called my friends and
Speaker 13: I said, you know, let's go counter protest, but they
Speaker 13: all said, no, we shouldn't. It's dangerous, it's not safe.
Speaker 1: Were the people doing the ecameron were they students or
Speaker 1: were they from outside the campus?
Speaker 13: Both The people that started the encammen towards the beginning,
Speaker 13: the people that were actually here were mainly man this
Speaker 13: area right here it started. It was small at first,
Speaker 13: this area and that grass field then Cameron at first
Speaker 13: was very It wasn't large at all. Anyone could pretty
Speaker 13: much hop in and hop out.
Speaker 5: They didn't have big barricades.
Speaker 13: So when I went there, I actually stood right up
Speaker 13: there by that fountain held an Israeli flag facing this area.
Speaker 1: Free speech, right, counter protest, free speech. What was the
Speaker 1: reaction to that?
Speaker 13: The reaction was, there was a person who claimed to
Speaker 13: be a professor who was standing up there with me,
Speaker 13: and she started arguing with them. We later found out
Speaker 13: she was not a professor.
Speaker 1: I know, what a surprise.
Speaker 13: She was a TA but claimed to be a professor,
Speaker 13: started arguing with me, and she lost.
Speaker 5: How can I.
Speaker 13: Say I.
Speaker 1: Schooled?
Speaker 13: During the argument, she became hysterical, started crying, and that
Speaker 13: was viral. That went viral. News channel started picking it
Speaker 13: up headlines ucla student school's professor.
Speaker 10: But that wasn't the only instant, No, that was the
Speaker 10: first and not the biggest in you were also you
Speaker 10: were also blocked from entering one of the buildings here
Speaker 10: on campus just because you're a student who believes something
Speaker 10: different to the whole Palestine narrative.
Speaker 13: Absolutely so, then Cambon started on Thursday. It went on
Speaker 13: until the next week Wednesday. On Monday, they pretty much
Speaker 13: stretched out one hundred meters that way and one hundred
Speaker 13: meters that way.
Speaker 1: And the university doing nothing about this.
Speaker 13: They did not do anything productive about it. They put
Speaker 13: up metal barricades to force the encampment to not expand.
Speaker 13: All the students that are participating inside of the camp
Speaker 13: they just lifted the metal barricades and expanded themselves. In fact,
Speaker 13: I would say the metal barricades were part of the
Speaker 13: problem and made it more difficult for when the police
Speaker 13: came to.
Speaker 5: Remove the encampment.
Speaker 13: Nevertheless, that being said, I was over there and I
Speaker 13: was walking to class.
Speaker 5: It was my normal.
Speaker 13: Path to class that I take every single day, and
Speaker 13: this time I see they expanded, and they're there with
Speaker 13: their vests and with their cafeas wrapping their faith, concealing
Speaker 13: their identity.
Speaker 1: It's a little ironic, I gotta say, you know, given
Speaker 1: what the normal line of protest is about Israel, that
Speaker 1: they're expanding their territories like.
Speaker 5: It's definitely ironic.
Speaker 13: It's definitely ironic. They claim that, you know, the Zionist
Speaker 13: movement is a movement of colonialization. When they don't realize
Speaker 13: that it's the biggest story in the greatest story of decolonization,
Speaker 13: of course, But I mean you, but.
Speaker 1: You're stopped from going into a building, even though you're
Speaker 1: a student. You have id just because what because you're
Speaker 1: because I'm a Jew, because you're pro I'm a Jew
Speaker 1: and I'm a zion submit the.
Speaker 13: Clearest form of anti Semitism that you could see. In fact,
Speaker 13: we can directly correlate that moment to what Jews experienced
Speaker 13: in nineteen thirty three when they were blocked out not
Speaker 13: by the law but by Hitler youth who took it
Speaker 13: into their own hands to block out Jewish students from universities.
Speaker 5: And look what happened.
Speaker 1: But here's what I don't get eli. This university, all
Speaker 1: the universities, every university I know in the United States.
Speaker 1: They are crazy about the microaggressions. They're crazy about discrimination.
Speaker 1: You know, if you say anything wrong about somebody, even
Speaker 1: in the slightest sort of way of any other minority,
Speaker 1: they come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Speaker 1: Where were they for you?
Speaker 9: They weren't.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 13: Imagine if a bunch of people came to campus wearing
Speaker 13: white cones on their heads.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they wouldn't even make it onto campus.
Speaker 13: They would have been immediately arrested and sent off, even
Speaker 13: though theoretically they would have the right to be here
Speaker 13: because freedom of speech. But the fact that the fact
Speaker 13: that you have SVP that comes onto campus and says
Speaker 13: the horrific that's the Students for Justice for Palistin says
Speaker 13: the horrific, horrific garbage that comes out of their mouth
Speaker 13: about Jews and Zionists and about Israel, and the fact
Speaker 13: that they're not only not only do they get away
Speaker 13: with it, but they are applauded by faculty.
Speaker 1: So what are the facts we like in class? Did
Speaker 1: you get blowback in class? What happened?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 5: Class?
Speaker 1: I mean, you're paying for this education, the California taxpayers
Speaker 1: paying for your education. What are they? What are you
Speaker 1: getting in class? All this stuff?
Speaker 13: Personally, I have yet to encounter backlash from my own
Speaker 13: teachers and TA even though I'm very outwardly Jewish, people
Speaker 13: know who I am around campus. I wear my mugging
Speaker 13: Dey necklace, I wear.
Speaker 5: My jacket, my shoes.
Speaker 13: But I know many many of my friends have experienced
Speaker 13: horrific accounts of anti sevenis inside the classroom teachers discriminating them,
Speaker 13: and of course the TA will pretend like, oh no, no,
Speaker 13: I'm giving you a back agree because your essay was
Speaker 13: written poorly. But we all know that DTA is registered
Speaker 13: with Students Justice for Palestine.
Speaker 5: It's not hard to make that correlation.
Speaker 1: And so I mean, just you know, on this whole
Speaker 1: thing too, because there's this whole decolonized movement you hear about,
Speaker 1: and it feels to me like this really isn't just
Speaker 1: about you know, Jewish people and ISRAELI feels like it's
Speaker 1: really about Western civilization. It feels like the bigger fight
Speaker 1: here is you know, you go against Judaism, you're actually
Speaker 1: going against this whole Western set of ideals, so many
Speaker 1: which came from that sort of Judaic history of Judeo
Speaker 1: Christian heritage. Is that part of Do you think the
Speaker 1: anti broader, anti Western sentiment on campus this anti Zionist? Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 13: I mean, this country, America was built on Judeo Christian values, right,
Speaker 13: we know this. And we've noticed that SJP and a
Speaker 13: lot of these I don't even like to call them
Speaker 13: pro Palestine because they want they're not the pro Hamas
Speaker 13: is what they really are. These pro Hamas protesters want
Speaker 13: to see the destruction and civilizations, I.
Speaker 5: Mean to advocate it.
Speaker 13: They call the US government the devil, which is ironic
Speaker 13: because if anything, it would be the Biden administration that
Speaker 13: is the most for having a two state solution and
Speaker 13: encouraging peace with these people. But these people don't care.
Speaker 5: What didn't care at all?
Speaker 1: So what do you hope to get the election coming up?
Speaker 1: What are you hopes for the election?
Speaker 13: I mean, my hope is that you know, whoever is
Speaker 13: elected will continue being a strong ally towards Israel. I
Speaker 13: think America and Israel are you know, inseparable? Is America's
Speaker 13: strongest ally in the Middle East, America's Isral's strongest ally
Speaker 13: in general. I just hope that whoever is elected remembers
Speaker 13: that and doesn't forget.
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