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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome, Johnny, And did anybody ever tell you that
Speaker 4: you have a great face for radio and a great
Speaker 4: voice for TV.
Speaker 5: You get to mix it now both together.
Speaker 2: Well, we're trying our best. What can I say.
Speaker 5: I like it. The more Johnny the better.
Speaker 2: So the betting markets have you currently is a twenty
Speaker 2: two to one favorite to be the next Press secretary
Speaker 2: for the White House. As it so happens, I'm going
Speaker 2: to the state of Nevada tomorrow. Maybe I'll lay a
Speaker 2: bet down.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, the whole title of the show is
Speaker 4: you're pushing Spencer Pratt, So I feel like I'm kind
Speaker 4: of like the underdog coming on the show. I'm like
Speaker 4: the second best. I'm the backup quarterback for this whole event.
Speaker 4: So you know, maybe maybe eighty percent Spencer Pratt, twenty
Speaker 4: percent me. And we all know since Donald Trump and
Speaker 4: Johnny you know this that guy do, since he is
Speaker 4: a betting man, I guarantee he's watching to see who
Speaker 4: wins in these markets.
Speaker 5: So I'll take all the help I can get in this.
Speaker 5: In this job interview, I'll.
Speaker 2: Tell you I think the nature of that job has
Speaker 2: changed over time, because back in the old days, I
Speaker 2: think it was just not necessarily an adversarial job, but
Speaker 2: it's a job where you took information that the government
Speaker 2: was putting out and you were able to answer questions
Speaker 2: that people in the press had about that information. And
Speaker 2: it was mostly used for clarification purposes and for I guess,
Speaker 2: getting the message out and getting whatever information and facts
Speaker 2: that the White House thought would push their narrative. Get
Speaker 2: that to the press so the press could use it
Speaker 2: in their articles, they could use it in their broadcasts.
Speaker 2: Now it seems like those events have become television shows
Speaker 2: in and of themselves, where the star from the press
Speaker 2: corps is whoever it is that's the most adversarial to
Speaker 2: the administration, and there's a sparring match that goes on
Speaker 2: between that individual or those individuals and the press secretary.
Speaker 2: We saw that in Trump one point zero with Jim Acosta,
Speaker 2: our former colleague over at CNN, and Kaylee Mcaninny, another
Speaker 2: former colleague of bars over at CNN, when those two
Speaker 2: would go at it and Sean Spice or and others.
Speaker 2: And then during the Biden years, it was Jensaki, come
Speaker 2: to think of it, another colleague of ours from CNN
Speaker 2: who would go at it with Peter Deucey from the
Speaker 2: Fox News Channel. And now it's like casting call to
Speaker 2: find out, Okay, who's going to be the one to
Speaker 2: go at it with Caitlin Collins, another one of our
Speaker 2: colleagues from CNN this time around.
Speaker 4: No, you're correct, and let me point out, as someone
Speaker 4: who majored in journalism growing up, White House press secretary
Speaker 4: was always, you know, one of those dream jobs that
Speaker 4: you usually achieved, like Dana Pirno did in her thirties
Speaker 4: and her forties. It was an informative position. I think
Speaker 4: twenty thirty years ago. It was when the preseecretary stepped up.
Speaker 4: She was to deliver information coming.
Speaker 5: Out of the Oval Office.
Speaker 4: Now, as you said, the position has evolved, especially when
Speaker 4: you have someone like Donald Trump who is constantly putting
Speaker 4: out very much unprecedented material.
Speaker 5: You become more like.
Speaker 4: I'd say, a defensive linebacker for the president. And that's
Speaker 4: how the press likes it. And in the past the
Speaker 4: press might have been on your same team.
Speaker 5: There is nobody in that room. I don't care, even
Speaker 5: if you do put.
Speaker 4: People in there from the new media to kind of
Speaker 4: help out. In reality, you are still having to act
Speaker 4: today as someone who is a source, respect it for information,
Speaker 4: so you still have to deliver it, but you also
Speaker 4: have to be able to push back on your adversarial
Speaker 4: media that mainly takes up that room.
Speaker 2: One of the things that Trump has done, not just
Speaker 2: this time around, but last time around, but more so
Speaker 2: this time around, is he poached a lot of people
Speaker 2: from conservative media to fill positions in his administration. And
Speaker 2: if you have a job on Newsmax, or you have
Speaker 2: a job on Fox, or you have a job at
Speaker 2: the Daily Wire or whatever, you're mostly working with like
Speaker 2: minded people for an audience of fellow travelers. What you
Speaker 2: did at CNN and what I did at CNN when
Speaker 2: we were both there at the same time, is a
Speaker 2: little bit different. Where we were on the firing line
Speaker 2: every time we'd go out there, where those panels were
Speaker 2: all four or five to one, and they would try
Speaker 2: to kill us for eight consecutive minutes, and then they'd
Speaker 2: go try to sell some I don't know, a Cadillac.
Speaker 2: They tried to sell Cadillacs or pills for a rectile
Speaker 2: dysfunction or whatever, and then they'd come back and then
Speaker 2: they try to kill us again for another eight minutes.
Speaker 2: And it's a different skill set that you pick up
Speaker 2: when you go into an environment that's let's just say,
Speaker 2: not a home game as opposed to the home games
Speaker 2: that people in conservative media would get over and over
Speaker 2: and over again.
Speaker 4: Johnny, Look, you're speaking as if someone who's had a
Speaker 4: first hand point of view first definitely a front row,
Speaker 4: if not on the action himself. Unfortunately most Republicans, most
Speaker 4: conservatives don't realize that. Now you have to look at
Speaker 4: this from President Donald Trump's position. As we all know,
Speaker 4: he is someone that comes from has a background of
Speaker 4: entertainment of information, but more importantly, he is someone that
Speaker 4: likes to attract attention.
Speaker 5: He is going to look.
Speaker 4: For somebody to go into this position that is not
Speaker 4: going to be I think that was part of Sean
Speaker 4: Spicer's problem. Sean had not been used to being in
Speaker 4: combative media. He had been on and what I considered
Speaker 4: to be in his own snow globe or Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: really easy to go on Fox as the conservative. Now,
Speaker 4: it wasn't in the beginning to go on there as
Speaker 4: a Trump person. In fact, ninety eight percent of Fox
Speaker 4: was against Trump in the very beginning his first administration.
Speaker 5: But now you go on there, man, it is a
Speaker 5: cake walk.
Speaker 4: What I look for, What are the President's going to need,
Speaker 4: especially going into the very adversarial midterms and post is
Speaker 4: He's going to need somebody that has their claws sharpened,
Speaker 4: their information and are ready to be confident in their
Speaker 4: material and ready to back him up, a true loyalist,
Speaker 4: because trust me, you're going to be hit from every
Speaker 4: single which side. And if you are someone that has
Speaker 4: not had any prep prep for this besides just I
Speaker 4: don't know, maybe getting on Twitter and firing off an
Speaker 4: AI generated response.
Speaker 5: You are not going to do well. They can say
Speaker 5: that lawyers would be good in this position.
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily agree with that, because you're also going
Speaker 4: to have to know President Trump's agenda, his history, and
Speaker 4: what he wants to do.
Speaker 5: That's set of thing.
Speaker 4: A lot of these people in this administration are new
Speaker 4: to President Trump. They're not familiar as much with the
Speaker 4: last term because most of them are probably doing other
Speaker 4: jobs at that point. Let's just be real. So you
Speaker 4: need to have somebody that actually has an in depth
Speaker 4: knowledge of President Trump and understands where they're going to
Speaker 4: come at.
Speaker 5: And here's the other thing.
Speaker 4: The Press secretary, especially going into the final two years
Speaker 4: of his administration, is going to have to almost be
Speaker 4: the communication director as well for the next presidential campaign.
Speaker 5: They're going to have to set the tone of what
Speaker 5: the Republican.
Speaker 4: Agenda is going to do, because whomever runs for president
Speaker 4: twenty twenty eight that are by their name is truly
Speaker 4: going to be running on this president's record and what
Speaker 4: it did or did not do for the country.
Speaker 5: So you have two jobs right there.
Speaker 4: It's not only to defend what's going on in the president,
Speaker 4: but more importantly be able to continue to show to
Speaker 4: the country why they need to keep the Trump and
Speaker 4: whoever he picks a his successor in office moving forward.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I think Trump was successful in
Speaker 2: the last presidential election was that he was able to
Speaker 2: utilize new media in a way that really worked for him,
Speaker 2: specifically the podcast he went on with The Undertaker, he
Speaker 2: went on with Joe Rogan, he went on with Theo
Speaker 2: Vaughn and others, and was able to get these populations
Speaker 2: of people who may not be reliable voters to come
Speaker 2: out and vote for him. And he won all seven
Speaker 2: swing states, so the places that he was really targeting
Speaker 2: it really worked out well for him. You look at
Speaker 2: the Democratic side of the aisle and you see many
Speaker 2: of those same qualities in the DSA candidates, where the
Speaker 2: DSA candidates have been able to use the podcast, They've
Speaker 2: been able to use social media, They've been able to
Speaker 2: use new media to their advantage in so many different
Speaker 2: races where I think, I'm not going to say it
Speaker 2: provided the margin of victory for them, but it certainly
Speaker 2: pushed those candidacies forward. The Democratic Party and the traditional
Speaker 2: Democratic candidates, people like Chuck Schumer, Hakim Jeffries, and all
Speaker 2: of the people that we would consider to be the
Speaker 2: establishment in that party seem to be the ones who
Speaker 2: have been left out. They seem to be the ones
Speaker 2: that are a step or two behind not just President Trump,
Speaker 2: but the DSA, and they've been stung many times, I
Speaker 2: think in these primary elections because of it. Why do
Speaker 2: you think they haven't gotten with the times. For a
Speaker 2: party that considers itself to be cutting edge and youthful
Speaker 2: and with the times, and you know all of that,
Speaker 2: why do you think everyone else is leaving them in
Speaker 2: the dust.
Speaker 4: Because I think there's a power struggle and a division
Speaker 4: happening within the Democratic Party right now, a little bit
Speaker 4: to what's happening in the Publican Party and the Democrats.
Speaker 4: They're not making it more open, they're doing it behind
Speaker 4: the doors. But don't don't mistake the division is happening there.
Speaker 4: So you have this old guard that will not relinquish power,
Speaker 4: and they won't they won't do anything. They still want
Speaker 4: to stand firm. They're still in such truck derangement syndrome
Speaker 4: that they want to make sure that they're right and
Speaker 4: they want to get there there. I'm sorry from the
Speaker 4: American people, Well, guess what, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 5: And not only that, you're.
Speaker 4: Going to sacrifice the future of your party where you
Speaker 4: do have the younger generation, and I hate to give
Speaker 4: any of them credit, but I'm going to give it
Speaker 4: somewhat where it's due. Who even though they don't really
Speaker 4: have action behind their words, they know what to say
Speaker 4: to speak to the American people. They know to talk
Speaker 4: about gas prices and grocery prices and college funding and
Speaker 4: taxes going up, and the lack of spinning on domestic
Speaker 4: issues versus the international issues. Same thing's happening within the
Speaker 4: Republican Party. And so you're seeing this younger generation saying,
Speaker 4: you know what, fine, you don't want to include us
Speaker 4: in your party, you don't want to respect us. More importantly,
Speaker 4: you don't want to retire and go fishing in your flannel.
Speaker 5: We're just going to go out on our own and we're.
Speaker 4: Going to form these absolute extreme wein rings that we
Speaker 4: have right now that we're seeing pop up, and this
Speaker 4: should be something that the Republicans should be watching as well.
Speaker 4: We have just a strong of a younger group of
Speaker 4: leadership within the Republican Party that they continue to be
Speaker 4: ignored by the older generation, You're going to see them
Speaker 4: start to separate as well. I think a good advantage.
Speaker 4: We still have the advantage more than the Democrats do
Speaker 4: of being able to reach out to what that younger generation.
Speaker 5: Of Republican Party is looking for and talk to them.
Speaker 4: Really listen to them, and integrate that into our plans
Speaker 4: moving forward. What is affecting our twenty thirty and forty
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna put forty something year olds in there
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 5: What are they having to do with right.
Speaker 4: Now that maybe these sixty seventy eight year olds that
Speaker 4: are still in charge continuing to ignore.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about the strategy that the Democrats have
Speaker 2: used with dealing with these DSA challenges in the primary.
Speaker 2: Because the DSA believes in really nutty things, including no borders,
Speaker 2: get rid of the prisons, get rid of the cops,
Speaker 2: Medicare for all, defund Israel, a bunch of different things
Speaker 2: that are way outside the mainstream and really shouldn't take
Speaker 2: much in terms of an argument that you can use
Speaker 2: to convince voters that they're not good for the country.
Speaker 2: But instead of going after these candidates for their nutty
Speaker 2: ideas and saying, you know what, socialism is bad, capitalism
Speaker 2: is better, this is why or this is why we
Speaker 2: need a border, or this is why we need the
Speaker 2: cops and jails. Instead of doing that, these Democrats are going,
Speaker 2: you know, with positions like that, you're not really electable,
Speaker 2: and god forbid we were to elect a moderate Republican
Speaker 2: or someone with an R next to their name. All
Speaker 2: of their attacks against the DSA relate to electability, and
Speaker 2: they don't have a debate over the merits of their arguments.
Speaker 2: Why do you think they're so hesitant to do that.
Speaker 5: Because they don't have any actual credibility to go with it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can only lie so much before your
Speaker 4: nose grows so long you can't fit into a TV
Speaker 4: frame anymore. And Democrats understand that. They know they can
Speaker 4: only say so much in this day and age, especially
Speaker 4: when we do have social media, when we do have
Speaker 4: the ability to just take five seconds, do a quick
Speaker 4: AI search and come up with the clip where they
Speaker 4: said what they were going to do and they're doing
Speaker 4: the exact opposite.
Speaker 5: That's why Democrats are very very careful.
Speaker 4: Right now to go on the record about how they're
Speaker 4: going to achieve and they're not focusing on these radical ideas.
Speaker 4: You're right, that's exactly what they stand for. But what
Speaker 4: they are counting on is low information voters. They are
Speaker 4: counting on people not actually researching what they're standing for.
Speaker 4: What they're counting on is as people just watching the
Speaker 4: commercials that says, we don't want to raise your gas tax.
Speaker 4: Is your electricity bill too high?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 4: Did you just bust a tire on your way to
Speaker 4: work your third job where you're buying trying to get healthcare?
Speaker 4: And the roads because the pothole in the roads were
Speaker 4: so big.
Speaker 5: That's what they're focusing on. Those are issues.
Speaker 4: Those are not just Democrat issues or Republican issues. Those
Speaker 4: are people issues. Those are American issues, and yet Democrats
Speaker 4: focus on that Republicans can't get their act together. Sometimes
Speaker 4: to focus on that same issue and how we actually
Speaker 4: achieve solutions for it.
Speaker 5: You notice they always say what the problem is. The
Speaker 5: party that would come out.
Speaker 4: And actively say solutions and how they would achieve those
Speaker 4: solutions to where it actually makes sense might have a
Speaker 4: chance of not only getting elected, but more importantly accomplishing that.
Speaker 4: But once again, they're counting on people being too busy
Speaker 4: working three or four jobs to afford healthcare and their
Speaker 4: groceries to actually have the time to do the research
Speaker 4: to pay attention to what those words actually mean.
Speaker 2: We know that DSA candidates are doing particularly well in
Speaker 2: deep blue congressional districts, places where a Republican candidate in
Speaker 2: the general just really doesn't have a chance. What do
Speaker 2: you think is going to happen to these candidates who
Speaker 2: are running in purple states, people like Abdul Alsayed in Michigan,
Speaker 2: which is really a seat that the Democrats need to
Speaker 2: win if they're going to win control of the Senate.
Speaker 2: I don't really see them winning the Senate without winning
Speaker 2: that seat. Same thing goes for Minnesota, where they nominated
Speaker 2: a very far left candidate for that seat. How do
Speaker 2: you think those candidates will fare in places that vote
Speaker 2: Republican and Democrat.
Speaker 5: Well, that's the thing, you know. You look about abdul See.
Speaker 4: That was a state that I think Donald Trump won
Speaker 4: against Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5: By nine percent.
Speaker 4: At the same time, the reason why Donald Trump won
Speaker 4: was because of the Muslim vote came over crossover and
Speaker 4: voted for Trump that night because he talked to them
Speaker 4: about bringing peace to the Middle East and the.
Speaker 5: Conflict going on with Iran.
Speaker 4: Well, at this point does look like that conflict resolutions
Speaker 4: happening along Trump's line. So therefore you're seeing them go
Speaker 4: back to the Democratic Party. That doesn't mean that they
Speaker 4: can't come back into the Republican category. They just shift
Speaker 4: based on who the candidate is. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you've seen it, I'll say it. I hate to give
Speaker 4: a Democratic compliment. He did a great commercial involving his
Speaker 4: grandparents talrying about that's where he grew up. That is
Speaker 4: the kind of messaging that people need to see from
Speaker 4: the Republicans. A very basic, honest, warmhearted here's where I'm from,
Speaker 4: Here's what I want to do. Type of messaging. Republicans
Speaker 4: have to do that in those states. Now, why did
Speaker 4: he keep flipping back and forth? Well, it really just
Speaker 4: has to do about who's more importantly pandering to that
Speaker 4: voter base right now, not solid in Tennessee, we are
Speaker 4: seeing a little bit of a changeover, but it's solidly read.
Speaker 5: Oklahoma where I am right now, solidly read.
Speaker 4: But you are seeing Democrats infiltrate the Republican Party and
Speaker 4: a rebirth of what I like to call the Romney
Speaker 4: Republicans are starting to come back. And there is a
Speaker 4: fight happening, I think within the Republican Party between those
Speaker 4: what used to be blue dog Democrats slash Romney Republicans
Speaker 4: trying to re emerge and take advantage of any of
Speaker 4: the frustrations that might be happening right now amongst American people.
Speaker 4: Have President Trump's actions not coming true, something that is
Speaker 4: truly to be led at the feet of Congress right now,
Speaker 4: that is not passing President Trump's Build America Back.
Speaker 5: Act, the America America Save America Now Act.
Speaker 4: So anybody, and let's just point out, Johnny, you know
Speaker 4: this as much as I do, there is still a
Speaker 4: very large contingency as much as they like to shake
Speaker 4: hands and go to the White House and smile, that
Speaker 4: do not like President Trump, that want nothing more to
Speaker 4: see President Trump not succeed. And that's not the Democrats,
Speaker 4: that's the Republicans because they don't like the wing of
Speaker 4: the party that President Trump represents because they could never
Speaker 4: tap into it.
Speaker 5: So they're going to do They might put.
Speaker 4: A smell on their face, but they are doing everything
Speaker 4: behind the scenes to sabotage Republicans and that is where
Speaker 4: we've got to step up, and we've got to see
Speaker 4: some leadership within the party right now. And President Trump
Speaker 4: has to know exactly what's going on within his Congress
Speaker 4: and deal with it just like a parent would deal
Speaker 4: with a child and ground all of them until they
Speaker 4: got his legislation passed through.
Speaker 2: Scotti Nel Hughes Las Vegas has her at twenty two
Speaker 2: to one to be the next next Press secretary for
Speaker 2: the White House. You can follow her on Exit Scottie
Speaker 2: and Hughes. Scotty Nell Hughes, thanks so much for stopping by.
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Speaker 3: This week we talked to Susan Crabtree, author of Fool's
Speaker 3: Gold and the correspondent for Real Clear Politics. She has
Speaker 3: covered Gavin Newsom for a very long time and the
Speaker 3: three of us just kind of piled on as we
Speaker 3: went after Gavin Newsome deciding to go and gallivant all
Speaker 3: around in Michigan instead of, I don't know, doing his
Speaker 3: job now, Johnny, I'm gonna need you an a vamp
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Speaker 2: Well. Susan Crabtree, as Randy mentioned, was the guest, and
Speaker 2: she is always one of the most popular guests that
Speaker 2: we have on this program, and she wrote a book
Speaker 2: about it called Fool's Gold, which is available online at
Speaker 2: Amazon dot com. And no one has been at the
Speaker 2: forefront of reporting on Gavin Newsom's corruption Gavin Newsom's failures
Speaker 2: than Susan Crabtree. And what's interesting about her is that
Speaker 2: she doesn't write for a California publication. It's not like
Speaker 2: she's writing for my paper, the OC Register or the
Speaker 2: Times or the Chronicle or the b She writes for
Speaker 2: real clear politics. So when she goes after Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 2: she does it in front of a national audience, and
Speaker 2: she has done damage, I think, to the credibility that
Speaker 2: Galvin Newsom has in Washington, d C. Not just among
Speaker 2: Republicans but among Democrats too. So she's a very important
Speaker 2: voice to talk to because she's one of the most
Speaker 2: knowledgeable people when it comes to Galvin Newsom. But she's
Speaker 2: also one of the most knowledgeable people that is paid
Speaker 2: attention to in Washington.
Speaker 3: Without further ado, here's a little snippet from our thirty
Speaker 3: minute conversation going after Gavin Johnny Iron Susan Crabtree. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna load it right here and then hopefully it will play.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about this rift going on right now within
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party nationally, involving the standard Partisan Democrats and
Speaker 2: the DSA. It seems as if the criticism of the
Speaker 2: DSA from the standard partisan Democrats centers around electability. You
Speaker 2: shouldn't elect these people because they might end up losing
Speaker 2: to a Republican in the general and that would be
Speaker 2: truly evil. They don't take their arguments on piece by piece,
Speaker 2: issue by issue. It seems like the standard partisan Democrats
Speaker 2: are afraid to stand up for capitalism. They're afraid to
Speaker 2: stand up for the existence of prisons. They're afraid to
Speaker 2: stand up for the existence of the police. They're afraid
Speaker 2: to stand up for the existence of ice or the
Speaker 2: border itself. For whatever reason, they do not want to
Speaker 2: have those conversations. They want to just kind of box
Speaker 2: them up, set to side and go, here's the real
Speaker 2: problem with you. A Republican could get elected and god forbid,
Speaker 2: they might race it decreased taxes, or they might you know,
Speaker 2: do something conservative with the power that they would have.
Speaker 2: They're almost afraid to engage in the debate. And why
Speaker 2: do you think that is?
Speaker 7: Just look at the l side and Mike Rogers. Mike
Speaker 7: Rogers is an accomplished candidate.
Speaker 5: He was.
Speaker 7: I worked with him on a regular basis. I talked
Speaker 7: to him when he was Intelligence Committee chairman. He has
Speaker 7: so much experience as an FBI agent for national security
Speaker 7: law enforcement. And so you know, how do you combat that.
Speaker 7: It's just say Trump, Trump, Trump, and you know, just
Speaker 7: about these I also truly believe that there is an
Speaker 7: affordability crisis in the nation. And I look at it
Speaker 7: though as the Democrats, and at least and when I
Speaker 7: see it in my neighborhood and in California, they helped
Speaker 7: cause this issue with all of the lockdowns during COVID.
Speaker 7: So the solutions should not be more government, more nanny
Speaker 7: state telling you what to do. We see this with
Speaker 7: Fauci even yesterday. You know, he ignored the science, many
Speaker 7: parts of the science, and then said he was the
Speaker 7: premier authority on science and lockdown our state. And so
Speaker 7: what happened in San Diego where I live, is that
Speaker 7: all of the San Francisco people came down, raised all
Speaker 7: the prices, and you had all of the problems with
Speaker 7: the supply chains broken. And whose fault was that? It
Speaker 7: wasn't Ron de Santis' fault. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 7: He was trying to reopen the state. So you know,
Speaker 7: they caused the problems, and their solutions is more of
Speaker 7: the same, more government and less freedom. And you know,
Speaker 7: I just don't. I think that's the message that the
Speaker 7: Republic should take to the DSA candidates as they're fighting
Speaker 7: this affordability issue. It's like, we don't need more of
Speaker 7: a nanny state in California. Gavin Newsom, as I've reported
Speaker 7: he worked with, created all these nonprofits.
Speaker 5: All of our.
Speaker 7: Money is going to creating more democrats in our state
Speaker 7: to let in all of the illegal aliens and create
Speaker 7: a path for them and a support for them once
Speaker 7: they're here. With one billion dollars in our taxpayer dollars
Speaker 7: funding this, and so that's what we need to expose
Speaker 7: that the taxpayer dollars are not going to keep us safe,
Speaker 7: govern us correctly so that we don't have to worry
Speaker 7: about wildfires and have our tax dollars being used in
Speaker 7: the right place and every every score. As I write
Speaker 7: in my book, Gavin Newsom has failed, and so he
Speaker 7: wants so goes California, So goes the nation. His record
Speaker 7: is abysmal, and that's what we should be kept concentrating on.
Speaker 3: He's a record is big performative headlines that have zero
Speaker 3: follow through. I give the biggest example, care Court. He
Speaker 3: championed care Court as the big game changer. This was
Speaker 3: going to be the thing that was going to solve
Speaker 3: the homelessness crisis, solve the mental health and the drug crisis,
Speaker 3: completely reforming our conservatorships and it has not been implemented whatsoever.
Speaker 3: It did not have any actual pathway for it to
Speaker 3: be something that counties would use, and it was a
Speaker 3: voluntary program. So when they implemented an LA county which
Speaker 3: has estimates of seventy to eighty thousand people on the streets,
Speaker 3: and the public health director was asked, how many people
Speaker 3: do we think will be affected by care courts implementation?
Speaker 3: They said, oh, about eighty It's not that big of
Speaker 3: a deal. It's been a complete waste. And now he
Speaker 3: doesn't even want to talk about care court But when
Speaker 3: he championed it, when he got those laws passed, he
Speaker 3: said what he loves to say, game changer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's absolutely true. And you know, honestly, care Courts
Speaker 7: was a step in the right direction, but it's the
Speaker 7: execution again once again, because Gavin Newson was housing first,
Speaker 7: housing first, housing first, and we're not going to deal
Speaker 7: with the issue of mental health and drug addiction, which
Speaker 7: is at the heart of the homelessness problem across the country,
Speaker 7: especially in California, where we attract homeless with our programs
Speaker 7: and are giving out the pipes and you know, keeping
Speaker 7: these people addicted. So you know, I applauded him at
Speaker 7: the time. At least he could was going into the
Speaker 7: right direction. We need more mental health care in California.
Speaker 7: We need to move these people into you know, Unfortunately
Speaker 7: Reagan did was part of the breaking down of our institutions,
Speaker 7: our mental health institutions and letting these people out. Well,
Speaker 7: we can't keep blaming Reagan. Okay, that was more than
Speaker 7: fifty years ago that that happened. It's your problem now,
Speaker 7: and all along since he was mayor, he said he
Speaker 7: was going to bring down homelessness. Is only spiraled out
Speaker 7: of control under his watch. And this was a step
Speaker 7: in the right direction. But again, California can't govern. That's
Speaker 7: the problem. Even when they have good ideas, they can't
Speaker 7: execute them in the correct way because there's corruption at
Speaker 7: so many levels. And you know, I'm so proud of
Speaker 7: Chris Ruffo and the California team what they're doing in
Speaker 7: California posts. It's changing the nature of the exposure for
Speaker 7: these crimes, for all of the corruption that's going on
Speaker 7: in our homelessness. Money, you know, how much, any billions.
Speaker 7: I don't want to hear the twenty four billion number.
Speaker 7: You know, it's more than thirty billion that went down
Speaker 7: the drain completely without any accountability. I like the thing
Speaker 7: you said at Accountability Podcasts. The only accountability that Gavin
Speaker 7: Newsom has had. I'll tell you it's coming from conservative
Speaker 7: news outlets, the new ones on the scene, and also
Speaker 7: your piece of people like you yourself on a daily
Speaker 7: We were against corruption before corruption before it was cool,
Speaker 7: you and me and Randy and John. But you know,
Speaker 7: I welcome everybody who's coming in, Nick, Shirley, all these
Speaker 7: people too.
Speaker 6: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Just a little snippet of our conversation with Susan Crabtree
Speaker 3: on this week's Accountability Podcast. You can watch the entire
Speaker 3: thirty minute interview after we sign off here at three
Speaker 3: at Johnny don't like dot Com and y'all already have
Speaker 3: done a lot on this. This episode is already at
Speaker 3: thirty seven hundred views in twenty four hours, So if
Speaker 3: you have seen it, share it with your friends, leave
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Speaker 3: watch and hit the like button on that The comments
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Speaker 2: How are we doing? Unlikes for today's show.
Speaker 3: All right, he's starting to feel like one of those
Speaker 3: TikTok streams where we just want the love. We are
Speaker 3: at four hundred and fifty six. Look at y'all. Someone's asking,
Speaker 3: is there no crime blodder today? I think we're going
Speaker 3: to do the crime blotterer next.
Speaker 2: We are doing the crime blotterer next. If you haven't
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Speaker 2: we sign off at three and Randy, how far away
Speaker 2: from five hundred likes are we at? Johnny don't like
Speaker 2: dot com?
Speaker 3: Let's check the toteboard right now. It's like we're doing
Speaker 3: one of those Jerry Lewis telethons. Four hundred and seventy nine,
Speaker 3: so twenty one to go and then we get to
Speaker 3: five hundred, and that'll make a Johnny a very happy boy.
Speaker 2: That is very true. We want to push this message
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Speaker 2: that by clicking that like button.
Speaker 3: Today it may be a record breaking episode, so very
Speaker 3: very exciting. You're here when history was made, and perfect
Speaker 3: timing because I have a sales meeting to talk about
Speaker 3: our statistics on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: All right, it's time to open up the California Crime blo.
Speaker 1: It's happened yet again. Nice see. Time for the California crime.
Speaker 2: Blodder and Randy. This edition of the Blotter takes us
Speaker 2: to scripts Range.
Speaker 3: Where somebody was doing donuts and a U haul and thought, well,
Speaker 3: if I post this to social media, no one will
Speaker 3: find me. Turns out it didn't work out that way.
Speaker 3: Here is NBC seven in San Diego, San Diego Police
Speaker 3: San Diego, Colgo.
Speaker 6: Are you listening.
Speaker 8: Plaice department is cracking down on illegal street racing and
Speaker 8: they say it's getting easier to track down who's behind
Speaker 8: them because a lot of the videos are getting posted
Speaker 8: on social media.
Speaker 3: NBC Seven's well, people don't just do this for fun.
Speaker 3: They do it for clout, and they do it for clicks,
Speaker 3: and they do it for money.
Speaker 2: Well, if it's a U haul, maybe they're moving to
Speaker 2: Texas and they figure, all right, this is going to
Speaker 2: be our California sendoff.
Speaker 4: Adershotsky is in Tira, Sana. She joins us now with
Speaker 4: the details.
Speaker 8: Amanda, Yeah, we're here at the intersection of Claremont Mesa
Speaker 8: and Anti Boulevards. Where you can clearly see the skin
Speaker 8: marks left behind from this illegal street racing.
Speaker 3: It's one of all that's nothing compared to what the
Speaker 3: streets of LA look like.
Speaker 2: If you're doing donuts in a U haul, aren't you
Speaker 2: afraid that all your stuff is going to fall out
Speaker 2: the back.
Speaker 8: Four locations that caught the eye of police and the
Speaker 8: ears of people who live in this area. A U
Speaker 8: haul truck doing donuts in front of onlookers and scripts ranch.
Speaker 8: This video posted today to the San Diego Police Department.
Speaker 3: Some people wonder if society is getting dumber. It is
Speaker 3: if you just.
Speaker 2: Go to an intersection like that and do circles over
Speaker 2: and over and over and over and over again. Isn't
Speaker 2: that the equivalent of blowing a point.
Speaker 8: To Instagram with the hope of bringing focus to the
Speaker 8: issue of illegal street racing.
Speaker 9: These events can be very dangerous, so obviously it has
Speaker 9: to do with speeding.
Speaker 6: They'll do donuts.
Speaker 8: They're called street takeovers. Police and CHP are working together
Speaker 8: to crack down on these events.
Speaker 3: You can't see what's going on if you're only listening
Speaker 3: to us, But San Diego Pedia on their Instagram, they
Speaker 3: post this video and they put up a bunch of
Speaker 3: memes with it too, including Patrick the Starfish, Great job, the.
Speaker 8: Latest one happening Saturday night drivers and onlookers traveling to
Speaker 8: four different San Diego intersections, including Claremont, Mesa and Antigua Boulevard.
Speaker 2: Why is it that Claremont is spelled differently in San
Speaker 2: Diego than it is in La County.
Speaker 6: It's a different Claremont, that's claire Emont tires, Bernie. How
Speaker 6: much do you think we.
Speaker 3: Spend every single year in this state in the aggregate
Speaker 3: on repaving roads because of street takeovers more than we should.
Speaker 9: And rubber melting, and it just seemed to go on
Speaker 9: and on.
Speaker 8: Michael Herbs has lived here for years.
Speaker 2: He says he.
Speaker 8: Doesn't often see illegal racing in his community, and he'd.
Speaker 9: Like to keep it that some rubber on the asphalt
Speaker 9: isn't going to hurt anybody. I just wish do it
Speaker 9: further out where you're not affecting people that are sleeping
Speaker 9: law enforcement.
Speaker 6: Let's do it out in the Dart.
Speaker 2: I love the fact that it was a rental too.
Speaker 2: People treat rental cars like radio people treat their own bodies.
Speaker 8: It was tipped off by social media posts showcasing dangerous driving,
Speaker 8: including a maneuver called white leaning.
Speaker 3: They take their vehicles and they drive in between vehicles
Speaker 3: that are in the roadway on the freeway. So it's
Speaker 3: not just that people are awful drivers. They're doing this
Speaker 3: on purpose to show off on social media.
Speaker 8: Idiots that are you know, just acting normally, and they'll
Speaker 8: go in between as if they were a motorcycle but.
Speaker 2: They're in their vehicle.
Speaker 8: Police say their main goal is to keep the community
Speaker 8: safe while holding reckless drivers accountable.
Speaker 6: You know, hey, that's the name of our podcast. People say, well,
Speaker 6: what's the big deal?
Speaker 3: But they create a lot of in this case five
Speaker 3: thousand dollars worth of damage to that intersection, and also
Speaker 3: when people get hurt.
Speaker 9: There's also some fact.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine turn into your friend on a Saturday
Speaker 2: night and going, hey, what do you want to do?
Speaker 2: You want to go see a movie, We'll go out
Speaker 2: to dinner, we want to catch a ball game. How
Speaker 2: about this, Why don't we go to an intersection and
Speaker 2: treat each other like crass test dummies.
Speaker 9: Rubber up on some curves. So we hope at least
Speaker 9: there's some body damage to the cars for ruining our evening.
Speaker 3: We know that the two people you're not getting your
Speaker 3: deposit back on that rental.
Speaker 8: No breast did have a large social media following. Police
Speaker 8: are reminding everyone that it's not just illegal to partake
Speaker 8: in these illegal street races, it's illegal to come and
Speaker 8: watch them as well.
Speaker 3: Well, you gotta enforce that. In certain counties like El
Speaker 3: Dorado County, they do. They tow every car of every participant,
Speaker 3: and they have knocked that behavior down by a tremendous amount.
Speaker 3: In some of the other counties. We don't do that.
Speaker 3: In LA we really don't do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you're standing there watching this like a
Speaker 2: complete idiot, you might get knocked down like a bowling.
Speaker 8: Pin Tootsky NBC seven Comanda think so much.
Speaker 3: So there you go, the dumbass who rented a U
Speaker 3: haul to do a bunch of donuts because that'll get
Speaker 3: a bunch of clicks at least. Now, I don't feel
Speaker 3: so desperate asking for that like button.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's my take. I obviously am opposed to
Speaker 2: people taking over these intersections and doing donuts. But if
Speaker 2: you find out that something like that is going on
Speaker 2: and you think it's a good idea, then I encourage
Speaker 2: you to show up and watch it up close and personal,
Speaker 2: and I am willing to risk your health and safety
Speaker 2: so that you can see that. Then we'd end up
Speaker 2: with one less voter for bass, maybe more than one.
Speaker 6: Then out the herd.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is how we have to do it. Maybe
Speaker 2: we have to just encourage them to show up to
Speaker 2: these things.
Speaker 6: Ald Entrapment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you have a bass sign in your yard, definitely, definitely,
Speaker 2: definitely go to the next retakeover take video, share it
Speaker 2: with your friends, encourage them to come.
Speaker 3: To Glad the show's over. This is starting to get dark.
Speaker 3: We hit our five hundred by the way, Oh fantastic,