Speaker 1: There is chaos in the streets of Los Angeles, California
Speaker 1: because of immigrants. An immigrant crisis is what they're calling it.
Speaker 1: It involves Donald Trump, it involves Governor Gavin Newsom, it
Speaker 1: involves the National Guard. And I'm not the only one
Speaker 1: who notices it. Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger did too.
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Speaker 1: comes from. Let's get started with the situation in Los Angeles, California,
Speaker 1: where President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to the
Speaker 1: city this week and to address the violent clashes between
Speaker 1: immigration enforcement authorities and demonstrators. The US Immigration and Customs
Speaker 1: Enforcement or ICE as they are known, began a series
Speaker 1: of raids last Friday in the country's second largest city.
Speaker 1: The raid sparked several demonstrations and subsequent clashes between protesters
Speaker 1: and law enforcement. Many threw rocks at ice vehicles and
Speaker 1: set fire to other vehicles in downtown Los Angeles. Those
Speaker 1: actions prompted President Trump to order the deployment of up
Speaker 1: to two thousand National Guard troops to Los Angeles, despite
Speaker 1: objections from Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass. Here's
Speaker 1: what President Trump wrote on truth Social yesterday in response
Speaker 1: to the situation in Los Angeles. Quote A once great
Speaker 1: American city, Los Angeles has been invaded and occupied by
Speaker 1: illegal aliens and criminals. Now, violent insurrectionist mobs are swarming
Speaker 1: and attacking our federal agents to try and stop our
Speaker 1: deportation operations. But these laws riots only strengthen.
Speaker 2: I resolved. I am directing Secretary.
Speaker 1: Of Homeland Security Christine Ohms, Secretary of Defense Pete Heg Saith,
Speaker 1: and Attorney General Pam Bondy, in coordination with all other
Speaker 1: relevant departments and agencies, to take all such action necessary
Speaker 1: to liberate Los Angeles from the migrant invasion and put
Speaker 1: an end to these migrant riots. Order will be restored,
Speaker 1: the illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be
Speaker 1: set free. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Governor Newsom said this morning that the state of
Speaker 1: California is suing the Trump administration, claiming President Trump illegally
Speaker 1: federalized the National Guard. Here's what he wrote on social
Speaker 1: media about the clashes between protesters and law enforcement. This
Speaker 1: is quote exactly what Donald Trump wanted.
Speaker 2: End quote. He went on to say, quote, he flamed.
Speaker 1: The fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard.
Speaker 1: The order he signed doesn't just apply to California. It
Speaker 1: will allow him to go into any state and do
Speaker 1: the same thing. We are suing him.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: You know, I get where Gavin Newsom is coming from.
Speaker 1: It's not a good picture for those of you who
Speaker 1: don't know or of a forty percent of the population
Speaker 1: in the state of California is of Latin descent. Approximately
Speaker 1: anywhere from seven to eight percent are considered documented, but
Speaker 1: a larger number than that is considered undocumented. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has lost cases before when states and others have filed
Speaker 1: lawsuits against them. Some of the executive orders that he's
Speaker 1: issued has not been successful, and we know that his
Speaker 1: efforts in this particular instance, may end up being derailed,
Speaker 1: but that does not mean that Governor Newsom is not
Speaker 1: playing directly into his hands. He himself said, this is
Speaker 1: exactly what Donald Trump wanted. Well, forgive this rhetorical question,
Speaker 1: then why the hell are you giving it to him?
Speaker 1: Why the hell are you playing right into the hands
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump? Because I got news for you on
Speaker 1: this particular issue as it pretends, as it involves migrants, immigrants,
Speaker 1: those who are undocumented dare we say illegal in the
Speaker 1: United States of America.
Speaker 2: He's winning on this issue.
Speaker 1: There's a reason he won a popular vote, there's a
Speaker 1: reason he won an electoral college vote. Does a reason
Speaker 1: he won everything every swing state. There are people within
Speaker 1: the United States of America that want our immigration crisis
Speaker 1: addressed and what the situation resolved somehow, some way, And
Speaker 1: the person that seems eager to bring a resolution to
Speaker 1: the table is President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Now, others may challenge.
Speaker 1: That because they may say we had a bipartisan agreement
Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was in office, that Donald Trump convinced
Speaker 1: the GOP the knicks because he wanted to use it
Speaker 1: as an issue to favor him during the election. Well,
Speaker 1: damn it, it worked. It worked, and I got news
Speaker 1: for you, Governor Newsom. It's working now. But before I
Speaker 1: go any further to elaborate on this issue, let's hear
Speaker 1: from Donald Trump himself. Let's see how he feels about
Speaker 1: the state of California and what's been going on under
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom's regime.
Speaker 2: Check out the President.
Speaker 1: I like Gaveners and he's a nice guy, but he's
Speaker 1: roughly in confidence everybody else.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is look at the little
Speaker 2: railroad helda. It's about one hundred times re budget.
Speaker 1: We're putting your flag fall over there under budget.
Speaker 2: I always do.
Speaker 3: Intel tell you about me people causing all the problem?
Speaker 1: And oh are they? Are they people heighten trying to
Speaker 1: deport her?
Speaker 2: Are they professional adjucate people that are causing the problem.
Speaker 1: Are professional agitators, they're interactions.
Speaker 3: They're bad people.
Speaker 1: They should be in jail. Can't go that far, can't
Speaker 1: speak that way about everybody. If you're black and you
Speaker 1: see blacks being arrested, ultimately incarcerated, schedule for deportation.
Speaker 2: How would you react.
Speaker 1: So we got to look at the Hispanic community, the
Speaker 1: Latin community, and we have to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we can't blame them to coming to the defense of
Speaker 1: their own and everybody is not a criminal. Everybody is
Speaker 1: not there committing heinous acts and what have you. But
Speaker 1: it's not a good look, There's no question about that.
Speaker 1: When you're attacking ice agents trying to show their identities
Speaker 1: and pull off their mass, trying to expose them, lightening
Speaker 1: fires to cars on the roads in the city of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and causing all of this kind of chaos.
Speaker 1: Particularly if you're undocumented, that means that you're here illegally,
Speaker 1: and if you hear illegally, the nerve for you to
Speaker 1: be causing that kind of trouble. Okay, that's a different
Speaker 1: subject for another moment, But let me get to something
Speaker 1: very very important, because based off of what Donald Trump said,
Speaker 1: I'm making the point that Gavin Newsom is losing this argument.
Speaker 1: How would I say that, Why would I deduce that?
Speaker 1: How would I come up with such a thing? Well,
Speaker 1: listen to the folks on CNN and what they highlighted
Speaker 1: with this chart. Check this out, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: You know, if we just take a look at the
Speaker 4: baseline numbers here, this is Trump's net approval rating on immigration.
Speaker 4: It's gone up like a rocket compared now versus eight
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 3: During Trump's first term, look at this and his.
Speaker 4: First term, Trump was way way way underwater minus twenty
Speaker 4: one points.
Speaker 3: But look at this, He's up over twenty points now.
Speaker 3: In the aggregate, he is in positive.
Speaker 4: Territory if plus one point honest net approval rating. Some
Speaker 4: other polsy eve have it a little bit higher than that.
Speaker 4: There is no issue on which Trump is doing so
Speaker 4: much better than he was in his first term more
Speaker 4: than the issue of immigration.
Speaker 3: No wonder The Times has written up the way that
Speaker 3: he is.
Speaker 4: Trump is begging for a fight on this because he
Speaker 4: knows what he's doing so far is working with the
Speaker 4: American electorate. The American electorate believed that the Democrats.
Speaker 3: Don't have a clue on the issue of immigration.
Speaker 4: I mean, you could just take it here closer to
Speaker 4: trust more and immigration. Democrats versus Republicans. Got three different
Speaker 4: polls for you across the board. They all tell the
Speaker 4: same story. Republicans lead on the issue of immigration. You
Speaker 4: see it here, CBS plus six, You see it here,
Speaker 4: CNN plus six, you see it here, Ipsos even bigger
Speaker 4: plus nineteen. No matter what poll you look at, no
Speaker 4: matter which way you cut it, the American public is
Speaker 4: with the Republicans. The American public is with Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: and to a much greater extent than they were in
Speaker 4: term number one.
Speaker 3: And it's not just on the broad issue of immigration.
Speaker 4: It's on the specifics as well, in which the American
Speaker 4: public is with Donald Trump and the Republicans.
Speaker 3: And that is why Donald Trump is.
Speaker 4: Eager to take on this fight and eager for those
Speaker 4: scenes out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that, Governor Newsom? Did you hear that?
Speaker 1: I know you're about to leave office soon, I get that,
Speaker 1: But did you just hear that America is with Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: America is with the GOP on this issue. Okay, he's
Speaker 1: gaining traction in the midst of distracting us from all
Speaker 1: the other issues that involves him. Right now, because of
Speaker 1: what's going on in the streets of Los Angeles, this
Speaker 1: is not a winning argument for Governor Newsom. And because
Speaker 1: it's not a winning arment argument for him, it's not
Speaker 1: going to be a winning argument for me and Karen Bass.
Speaker 1: And it's not going to be a winning argument for
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Where would I get that from? Let
Speaker 1: me read some stuff to you. This is on the
Speaker 1: state of California long just on some research. Note here
Speaker 1: current deficit California face is a projected twelve billion is
Speaker 1: According to research, California faces a projected twelve billion additional
Speaker 1: budget shortfall for twenty five twenty six meeting twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five twenty twenty six, on top of previous gaps, marking
Speaker 1: at least the third straight year of structural deficits. Annual spending.
Speaker 1: In terms of structural deficits, annual spending exceeds revenue by
Speaker 1: ten to twenty billion dollars, prompting reliance on reserves, borrowing
Speaker 1: and accounting maneuvers. Without reform, state debt could reach forty
Speaker 1: two billion dollars rainy day reserves. The governor plans to
Speaker 1: use seven point one billion dollars from reserves, leaving a.
Speaker 2: Total cushion of approximately fifteen.
Speaker 1: Point seven billion by mid twenty twenty six. So now
Speaker 1: you're digging in to the rainy reserves. Okay, rainy day reserves.
Speaker 1: Immigration undocumented population. According to the research estimated numbers, as
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, California had about one point eight
Speaker 1: million undocumented immigrants, the largest in any state in any
Speaker 1: state in the United States, though down one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty thousand recently. Okay, this equates the roughly seven point
Speaker 1: three percent of California's total population. By the way, involving
Speaker 1: broader immigrant workforce. Approximately one third of jobs in California
Speaker 1: are held by immigrants, including legal, naturalized and undocumented. So
Speaker 1: what happens here is that you have people that are
Speaker 1: looking at the migrant crisis, looking at undocumented immigrants, looking
Speaker 1: at illegal immigrants, seeing them use the healthcare system ever
Speaker 1: heard of medical? And then remember when California and knews them,
Speaker 1: they were talking about how billions were spent, okay on
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants and as a result, there's a shortfall there
Speaker 1: and you're looking for federal assistance. These are the kind
Speaker 1: of things that are going on in the state of California.
Speaker 1: Kevin Newsom knows this better than anybody. So why make
Speaker 1: this argument as vociferous as it is against the Trump
Speaker 1: administration and then engaging and challenging the head of ICE
Speaker 1: to come and arrest you. Why would you do that,
Speaker 1: Gavinussm Why would you do this? Here's a quote. He's
Speaker 1: a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He knows
Speaker 1: where to find me. That kind of bloviating is exhausting.
Speaker 1: So Tom arrests me. Let's go. That's Gavin Newsom daring
Speaker 1: the head of Ice, mister Tom Holman to arrest him.
Speaker 2: Tom Holman.
Speaker 1: In case y'all don't remember who the hell he is,
Speaker 1: he's been a guest on this show. And this is
Speaker 1: a man, okay, that is not messing around. And he
Speaker 1: has made it very very clear that he is not
Speaker 1: beyond arresting elected officials. He is not beyond arresting sitting mayor,
Speaker 1: sitting governor's school. Ever, he doesn't give a damn. He's
Speaker 1: not playing And Donald Trump just spoke publicly today saying
Speaker 1: if he was Tom Holman, I would take Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: up on his offer and arrest him.
Speaker 2: But again, in case you don't remember who he is,
Speaker 2: let me show you who he is.
Speaker 1: This is Tom Homan months ago right here on the
Speaker 1: stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show.
Speaker 1: Take a look at who this man is and what
Speaker 1: he stands for with the issue of illegal immigration.
Speaker 5: Check it out sanctuary cities or sanctuary to criminals. And
Speaker 5: we're going to home accountable. And Pam Bondy, now that
Speaker 5: she's the Attorney General, she's already filed lawsuits, and we're
Speaker 5: going to continue finding lawsuits because we think knowingly releasing
Speaker 5: a public safety threat back in the public, it's just dumb.
Speaker 5: There's no reason back. When you release a public safety
Speaker 5: threat back in the public, it puts your officers at
Speaker 5: great risk because rather than arrestling somebody in the safety
Speaker 5: and security of county jail, now we've got to go
Speaker 5: to the neighborhood and find them, which is dangerous for
Speaker 5: the officer, dangerous for the alien because anything can happen
Speaker 5: on street arrest is it's certainly dangerous for the community.
Speaker 5: And what you're going force ice in the community and we'll.
Speaker 2: Find a bad guy.
Speaker 5: But when when we find him, he's probably with others,
Speaker 5: others that aren't a criminal threat, but they're in the
Speaker 5: country legally. Well, they're going to go to cause we're
Speaker 5: not going to turn our back on illegal anim once
Speaker 5: we find it. We're going to let ice do their
Speaker 5: job and enforced immigration law. So what you get being
Speaker 5: the sanctuary city is exactly what you don't want. More
Speaker 5: officers in the community and more collateral rest because we
Speaker 5: found them while we're looking for the bad guy. I
Speaker 5: don't understand why any elective fresher whose number one responsibility
Speaker 5: is protecting their community. Why would you not work with
Speaker 5: us to remove a child rapist from the community rather
Speaker 5: than release than back in the community.
Speaker 1: The man is not playing And by the way, correction,
Speaker 1: he's not the head of Ice. That would be mister
Speaker 1: todd lyons Who Tom Holman is is the borders are
Speaker 1: who has been empowered by the President of the United
Speaker 1: States forty seventh president, which is Donald Trump. So the
Speaker 1: man ain't playing okay. In the end, here's what this
Speaker 1: comes down to. The state of California, with a third
Speaker 1: of its workforce being made up of migrants of immigrants,
Speaker 1: is in a situation right now that's very tense, to
Speaker 1: say the least. Why Donald Trump would send two thousand
Speaker 1: members of the National.
Speaker 2: Guard to protestes that didn't.
Speaker 1: Even amount to a thousand according to latest figures beats me.
Speaker 1: One would imagine. It's all pomp and circumstance. It's all
Speaker 1: a give of visual to send the message, to make
Speaker 1: things seen a bit more chaotic than they may actually be.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but one can easily suspect that because
Speaker 1: this is an issue that works for him, and with
Speaker 1: what's going on between Ukraine and Russia, with what's going
Speaker 1: on with Israel and Hamas, with what's going on in
Speaker 1: terms of other things that people have been pointing to
Speaker 1: that are ravaging our country, issues that are ravaging our country.
Speaker 2: With a big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1: Having not yet been passed by the Senate, with so
Speaker 1: much work to still be done, probably before the fourth
Speaker 1: of July, they better get something done before these senators
Speaker 1: a representatives decide to go on vacation. All of these
Speaker 1: things are things that have been huge distractions for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: not to mention Elon Musk going nuclear on him a
Speaker 1: week ago, So an issue like this plays right into
Speaker 1: his hands. It's right in his wheelhouse because he knows
Speaker 1: that the American people primarily supported him on this issue,
Speaker 1: much much more so then they'll ever support Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: So when you see Gavin Newsom speaking about it, when
Speaker 1: you see Mere Bass speaking about it, when you hear
Speaker 1: Democrats speaking against Donald Trump, ultimately they're gonna say he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to say this speaking against me on
Speaker 1: this issue which he knows he has the support of
Speaker 1: the American people on, and as a result, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be yet the latest derailment for the Democratic.
Speaker 2: Party if they're not careful.
Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned with Gavin Newsom, He's been
Speaker 1: welcomed on the show many times. I'll welcome in again.
Speaker 1: I know how smart he is, I know how caring
Speaker 1: he is. But in the same breath, he might be
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of this issue in terms of
Speaker 1: how he's electing to handle it. Because in the end,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that's leaving the gubernatorial seat in California.
Speaker 1: People are looking him as looking at him as a
Speaker 1: presidential candidate in twenty twenty eight. This ain't gonna win
Speaker 1: it for him. This ain't gonna win it for him.
Speaker 1: Not when we look at the state of the California
Speaker 1: and it's it's state income to axes, not when we
Speaker 1: look at the cost of living, not when we look
Speaker 1: at crime in the streets, not when we look at homelessness,
Speaker 1: not when we look at the border issue.
Speaker 2: Not when we look at a whole bunch of things.
Speaker 1: This ain't the issue for him to fall on, this
Speaker 1: sward over in my opinion. Nevertheless, he seems hell been
Speaker 1: on doing so. I don't know if he can win
Speaker 1: this issue. I don't know if Gavin Newsom has won
Speaker 1: any issue lately, and to be so smart, and to
Speaker 1: be so sharp, but to find himself on the wrong
Speaker 1: side of issues Tom and Tom again when it comes
Speaker 1: to the state of California in the eyes of people,
Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine what's going on.
Speaker 2: Those are just my thoughts. We shall see, all.
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Speaker 1: The Oklahoma City Thunder even the series against the Indiana
Speaker 1: Pacers on the series as the series heads to Indiana
Speaker 1: for Game three on Wednesday night. So I'll give you
Speaker 1: my picks for that game. First up with Shay Gil
Speaker 1: just Alexander Shae, but I like to call him score
Speaker 1: more or less than thirty four and a half points.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, this game, I'm gonna go with less.
Speaker 1: I think Indiana's gonna come ready. I think that Shay
Speaker 1: is gonna be a bit unselfish. He's gonna be looking
Speaker 1: to distribute to basketball and get other people involved. He'll
Speaker 1: probably have about thirty to thirty two, but I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit less than thirty four
Speaker 1: and a half.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with less on this one.
Speaker 1: Next up, will his sidekick his back court make Jalen
Speaker 1: Williams score more or less than twenty one one and
Speaker 1: a half points. I'm going with less on this as well.
Speaker 1: I think Wiggins and Door and Caruso and Homegren and
Speaker 1: others will be more involved. He's gonna get some points. Well,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be more than twenty one and a half.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say less for Jayla Williams as well. Next up,
Speaker 1: will Tyrese Halliburton scored more or less than seventeen and
Speaker 1: a half points. Yes, he'd better because the time has
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Speaker 1: averaging thirty six a game in this series. Tyree's got
Speaker 1: to show up averaging fifteen and a half points in
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Speaker 2: That ain't gonna cut it. You gotta step up, bro,
Speaker 2: you gotta step up.
Speaker 1: I think he will in front of those home fans
Speaker 1: in Indiana for Game three.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: And finally, well, Pascal Siakam scored more or less than
Speaker 1: nineteen and a half points. He's a champion. I think
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Speaker 1: be given Rick Carlisle and make sure that I see
Speaker 1: him scoring more than nineteen and a half points on
Speaker 1: Indiana's home turf for Game three Wednesday night. So that's
Speaker 1: less for Shay Gil just Alexander, that's less for Jayla
Speaker 1: Williams of Oklahoma City Thunder more for Tyrese Haliburton and
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Speaker 2: Sir. It is an honor and the privilege. How are you.
Speaker 6: I'm doing terrific.
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Speaker 7: It came back from Austria just a few days ago
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Speaker 1: have enjoyed watching it and I can't wait to talk
Speaker 1: to you about it. But news obviously takes precedent first.
Speaker 1: Before we get into that series, I wanted to get
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the current unrest taking place in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles after ICE agents rated several businesses and protests that
Speaker 1: led President Donald Trump to order the deployment of two
Speaker 1: thousand National Guard troops to the city.
Speaker 2: What's your reaction to all of this.
Speaker 7: My reaction is I hope that this solved this problem
Speaker 7: as quickly as possible as you know that Los Angeles
Speaker 7: has gone through some really bad fires recently, and I
Speaker 7: think this is the last thing that you need right now,
Speaker 7: and I just hope that they were solved is as
Speaker 7: quickly as possible, because it's going to hurt the people
Speaker 7: of Los Angeles. It's going to hurt, you know, tourism,
Speaker 7: it's going to hurt business, the revenues which they're always
Speaker 7: short off Los Angeles and the state of California. So
Speaker 7: I just really hope that all of them can coordinate
Speaker 7: that and work together in solveest problems as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: As mentioned, you served as California's governor from two thousand
Speaker 1: and three to twenty eleven, as a Republican in a
Speaker 1: traditionally democratic state. Homeland securities are Tom Holman appeared to
Speaker 1: threaten to arrest Governor Gavin Newsom before he walked back
Speaker 1: that comment. On Fox News this morning, Newsom says he's
Speaker 1: now suing the Trump administration for involving the National Guard
Speaker 1: to begin with, what are your thoughts on how Governor
Speaker 1: Newsom is responding to the ice raids and the National
Speaker 1: Guard being on the ground in La.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, I have the last thing I ever
Speaker 7: do is criticize a sitting governor. I think that you know,
Speaker 7: when you have been in this job, you know how
Speaker 7: challenging it is, and on top of it, you know,
Speaker 7: we have a different point of view and a lot
Speaker 7: of things. I'm a Republican and he's a Democrat, so
Speaker 7: he thinks differently about those kind of issues and a
Speaker 7: butt a lot of issues as far as that goes.
Speaker 7: But I never will criticize him because he has to
Speaker 7: do it his way. People elected him as a Democrat,
Speaker 7: and people elected me as a Republican, so I did
Speaker 7: it my way. I was always when I was governor,
Speaker 7: very inclusive. I worked with the Democrats and the Republicans
Speaker 7: and the client of State and the independents. I've worked
Speaker 7: with everyone together to solve this problem. But we have
Speaker 7: immigration problems then and we have immigration problems now. It's
Speaker 7: just really a shortfall and the shortcoming of the politicians
Speaker 7: because they never solved the problems.
Speaker 6: And this is a.
Speaker 7: Creation better politicians in a way, because they don't solve
Speaker 7: the problem. The immigration issue can be resolved very quickly
Speaker 7: by giving more in working permits in student visas to
Speaker 7: people and then they don't have to come in here
Speaker 7: I legally, So to me, that is a way to
Speaker 7: solve it. Democrats and Republicans can come together under this
Speaker 7: issue and solve this issue.
Speaker 1: Arnold, do you find this to be a nationwide issue
Speaker 1: or is it a special circumstance in a case In
Speaker 1: the case of California.
Speaker 7: Now, the immigration is year has been going on since
Speaker 7: Ronald Reagan, and I think that the idea was always
Speaker 7: that to solve this issue for decades after decades that
Speaker 7: politicians didn't because each one of the parties is interested
Speaker 7: to not solving it because they can raise money based
Speaker 7: on that. Republicans to the hardline and the Democrats to
Speaker 7: the inclusive kind of a spiel, and so you know,
Speaker 7: they all raise money on that, they all campaign on that,
Speaker 7: So they don't really want to solve it. To me,
Speaker 7: those problems are there. As a politician of the responsibility
Speaker 7: not to be a party servant, but to be a
Speaker 7: public servant. In order to serve the public, you have
Speaker 7: to solve this problem and to make it the coherent
Speaker 7: kind of immigration policy. Right now, we don't have one.
Speaker 1: Last question on this issue. You publicly endorsed Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party appears to be in flux as facts
Speaker 1: come to light about Joe Biden's fitness to serve a
Speaker 1: certain term a second term. What does the party need
Speaker 1: to do to get back on track. In your estimation,
Speaker 1: even though you were not a member of that party,
Speaker 1: what advice would you give them?
Speaker 6: You know, no advice.
Speaker 7: I think that they will figure out themselves of the
Speaker 7: mistakes that they've made in the past. As much as
Speaker 7: the Republicans always have to figure it out and the
Speaker 7: mistakes they've made in order to get re elected again,
Speaker 7: and so I think they will figure out. They're very
Speaker 7: very smart people in the party, and the Republicans have
Speaker 7: very smart people in the party. The important thing is
Speaker 7: just kind of like to kind of serve the people.
Speaker 7: And if you can prove that you can help the
Speaker 7: people's lives and you can put this so they can
Speaker 7: put food in the they can dig care of the families.
Speaker 7: If you can do that, then you can get devote
Speaker 7: If you run the other way, and if you're just
Speaker 7: kind of a political hack, it only shifts the party,
Speaker 7: then you have the danger that people would abandon you
Speaker 7: and go any other direction.
Speaker 1: Listen, that's all I gotta ask you about that on
Speaker 1: this particular subject, because I've got to get into your
Speaker 1: series on Netflix, mister Arnold Swartzenegger coming up. We'll get
Speaker 1: into your thoughts on the American Dream in season two
Speaker 1: of Full Bar Straight Ahead. Also, someone Balls gets into
Speaker 1: a war of words with Riley Gaines overt transgender inclusion
Speaker 1: in women's sports. I'll get into that, but not with
Speaker 1: Arnold Swartzenegger. I got to talk to him about this
Speaker 1: Netflix series. We're gonna get back with more of Arnold
Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger in just a minute. You're listening and watching The
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Speaker 2: Hey, hey, run your game?
Speaker 7: What I see? What's going on? You have an interest
Speaker 7: for Metata. I just want you to know I don't
Speaker 7: waste too much time because if no.
Speaker 2: Chance, why do you say that?
Speaker 7: Well, because you're unstable and you're all over the places
Speaker 7: you kind from like a loose hand of that. It's
Speaker 7: the last thing she needs to read now in her life.
Speaker 7: I just don't think she ever would choose you. But
Speaker 7: I could be wrong. Yeah, probably probably are wrong.
Speaker 6: Then just have you killed?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: You're taking the piss.
Speaker 7: About three pisses to night. I mean, my brasta is
Speaker 7: so large, it's like a can love.
Speaker 3: That's not what I meant. It's an express. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Stephni Smith's show. Season two of Football
Speaker 1: on Netflix starring Arnold Swarzenegga begins streaming on June twelfth.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show to one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about this series. I love it. I
Speaker 1: gotta admit it. I love the father daughter dynamic, both
Speaker 1: CIA agents.
Speaker 2: It's been fabulous. What what made you decide to do this?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: They came to me with the idea of doing True
Speaker 7: Lies but on TV and do for streaming service for Netflix.
Speaker 7: And I like the idea because True Lives was truly
Speaker 7: one of my favorite movies that I've ever done. Yes,
Speaker 7: and because he has the right balance of comedy and
Speaker 7: action and drama and violence and fun stuff and love
Speaker 7: and family and all of this kind of combinations that
Speaker 7: I thought made the movie so successful. And so I
Speaker 7: said to myself, if we can do a version of
Speaker 7: that on TV, I think we will have a home run.
Speaker 7: And that's exactly what we hit in the first season
Speaker 7: with the home run. I mean that the amount of
Speaker 7: people that watched it, it was number one for endless
Speaker 7: amount of time. And so then of course Netflix decided
Speaker 7: to do number two, and not only to make it
Speaker 7: number two, but to also make me the.
Speaker 6: Chief Action Officer of Netflix.
Speaker 7: And now you know then that means that you're not
Speaker 7: only responsible for your action show, but for others as well.
Speaker 7: But the bottom line is is your And I was
Speaker 7: delighted when they, you know, kind of pulled the trigger
Speaker 7: and said we want to have a second season. And
Speaker 7: you know, our contract is for two seasons anyway, and
Speaker 7: so I was happy that they did in that direction,
Speaker 7: and we were having a great time shooting it. The
Speaker 7: writers did a brilliant, brilliant, store you know kind of
Speaker 7: job in writing it, because there's a lot of things
Speaker 7: I did not know when I got into this TV business, like,
Speaker 7: for instance, you know, the beginning the rating of the
Speaker 7: amount of people that watched the beginning of a series
Speaker 7: versus the amount of people that watched the end of
Speaker 7: a series. You know, the completetion is the completion rate,
Speaker 7: and all of those kind of things. So I was
Speaker 7: always wondering, why did the series start slow? And then
Speaker 7: they kind of ramp it up? And you know, I've
Speaker 7: seen it on second at the second season. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's like, it starts out great and he explains everything
Speaker 7: where we are and the action that the comedy noise,
Speaker 7: but all of a sudden, towards the end, it really
Speaker 7: starts ramping up the amount of action, and I said,
Speaker 7: whoa boy, maybe there's a little bit too much, but
Speaker 7: I mean, any case, they did a fantastic job, and
Speaker 7: they were so happy to work with the same actors
Speaker 7: again us they worked in the first one, except Carrion
Speaker 7: Moss came to become part of the team and an
Speaker 7: odd love from decades ago, and she helped me bring
Speaker 7: down the Berlin Wall and to fight communism and all
Speaker 7: those kind of things. So that whole backup story came
Speaker 7: back again. And of course now I'm having a dilemma
Speaker 7: with an odd love, and I'm, you know, have a
Speaker 7: wife that don want the game back, and there's all
Speaker 7: of that going on in the midst of all this huge,
Speaker 7: huge skill action in comedy.
Speaker 1: In the midst of all of that, with you scheduled
Speaker 1: to turn seventy eight years of age, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: come late July July thirtieth, if I remember correctly, I mean,
Speaker 1: do how shocked are you at the success that you're
Speaker 1: having at this stage point in your life and in
Speaker 1: your career. You missed the action drawing up true lies
Speaker 1: Jamie Lee Curtis. Let Let's not forget how fabulous she
Speaker 1: was in that movie and how fabulous of a movie
Speaker 1: it was overall. But I imagined that you had some
Speaker 1: reservations as whether or not you'd be able to achieve
Speaker 1: this level of success at this stage and point of
Speaker 1: your career. Yet and still you're here and you're doing
Speaker 1: it well.
Speaker 7: I mean, first of all, you're absolutely right. You know,
Speaker 7: if you get older, then there is not as much
Speaker 7: interest in you as a major star than it is
Speaker 7: with the younger guys. And I benefited from Deadman. I
Speaker 7: was thirty, thirty five, forty fifty years old, and others
Speaker 7: are benefiting from that.
Speaker 6: So that's clear.
Speaker 7: But my kind of a you know, staying power has
Speaker 7: been because I think I jose wisely the kind of
Speaker 7: projects that it did, and yes, there was a danger,
Speaker 7: and I think that's the point that you're hitting is
Speaker 7: not only the age, but that was governor for seven years,
Speaker 7: and those seven years I did not do a movie
Speaker 7: or a TV show or anything like this. So there
Speaker 7: were just in a replays of other shows that they've
Speaker 7: done in the past, and so it's very hard to
Speaker 7: then come back again after that. And by that time,
Speaker 7: also half of the people, you know, Republicans, half of Democrats.
Speaker 7: They say about who he was a Republican. I don't
Speaker 7: want to watch his show with orders, so he goes
Speaker 7: through all of that ords at the same time. But
Speaker 7: that the bottom line is is that I'm very fortunate
Speaker 7: that I was able to kind of come back after
Speaker 7: I was finished with the governorship and that I'm at
Speaker 7: the place where I'm now. But I have to tell
Speaker 7: you the main reason for this is that I'm in
Speaker 7: America because America still is the land of opportunity. It's
Speaker 7: the greatest country in the world. And no matter how
Speaker 7: many problems we have and how many kind of debates
Speaker 7: they are about leadership and this and that, and the
Speaker 7: you know, the Congress and the accomplishing everything and all
Speaker 7: those kinds of things, and that the riots were. I mean,
Speaker 7: it is the greatest country in the world. I just
Speaker 7: came from overseas and I had an environmental conference in Vienna, Okay.
Speaker 7: And people still today come up to me and say, please, Donold,
Speaker 7: can you help me to get to America, just like
Speaker 7: it was fifty years ago, and they asked me they
Speaker 7: can I help them to come to America. So, I mean,
Speaker 7: the desire for people wanting to come here is because
Speaker 7: it is the greatest country with the most opportunities. And
Speaker 7: I've seen it firsthand. Everything that I've ever accomplished because
Speaker 7: my movie career, which was my family, the money that
Speaker 7: I made, and the becoming governor of the great state
Speaker 7: of California, and the environmental action after school programs that
Speaker 7: they've created, my work with Special Olympics. All this stuff
Speaker 7: happened because I was in America, and so I love
Speaker 7: this country and I cannot wait to celebrate this two
Speaker 7: hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 1: The feelings that you have that you just described about
Speaker 1: the United States of America, I imagine you have always
Speaker 1: felt that way, But has it elevated since you were governor,
Speaker 1: Like being a governor of a state as large as California,
Speaker 1: the United stated large state in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: Being a governor of that state for those years, did
Speaker 1: it make you elevate your level of appreciation for America
Speaker 1: even more so in the aftermath of being a governor
Speaker 1: than you had before you became governor.
Speaker 7: Well, I would say that, you know, I don't think
Speaker 7: that anything could elevate. Okay, my enthusiasm got it about
Speaker 7: being in America since nineteen sixty eight, since it came
Speaker 7: here and I was so enthusiastic being here. Then in
Speaker 7: nineteen eighty three it became an American citizen and that
Speaker 7: elevated it. Of course, now I am an American, so
Speaker 7: that was fantastic. When you become governor, it makes you
Speaker 7: realize since that didn't work, my way up the political ladder.
Speaker 7: It makes you realize of how complicated things really are
Speaker 7: and how difficult it is really to work and to
Speaker 7: bring everyone together, local government, state government, federal government. How
Speaker 7: you as a state could be kind of like an
Speaker 7: environmentally friendly state, but the federal government has no interest.
Speaker 6: So you have to understand that.
Speaker 7: You have to understand that not everyone can think the
Speaker 7: way you do, and you have to appreciate that. And
Speaker 7: that's what that did. I worked with everyone together. I
Speaker 7: never looked at anyone as the enemy, and I always
Speaker 7: was very inclusive and it it made this the capital
Speaker 7: of Sacramento kind of a university for me. I learned
Speaker 7: so much. And one thing I learned definitely is my
Speaker 7: interest in my love for policy, not so much so
Speaker 7: for politics, but for policy solving problems and how do
Speaker 7: we make life for people better.
Speaker 1: Now that you're back, you're out of officier, no longer
Speaker 1: in an elected official in Hollywood? Are you enjoying it
Speaker 1: now more than you did before?
Speaker 7: I love it, you know, But it's it's not just
Speaker 7: you know, doing foo bar. It's not just being on
Speaker 7: a set of food and working with wonderful actors and
Speaker 7: actresses and all of that it is that the whole
Speaker 7: combination of the movie business, TV business, Uh, the environmental
Speaker 7: work that I do, the after school broken work that
Speaker 7: I do. I make great, great family, I mean make kids.
Speaker 7: I'm so proud of them. And you know, yesterday my
Speaker 7: daughter came over with us three with us three kids,
Speaker 7: and make grand children just love coming over the house
Speaker 7: and feeding the animals and Lulu and Whiskey, my donkey,
Speaker 7: and you know, the the dogs okay, you know, and
Speaker 7: the pig and every I mean, they just love coming
Speaker 7: over and doing all of that with me, and so
Speaker 7: they love their Opah.
Speaker 6: That's what they call me Opah.
Speaker 1: Right, how do you feel about doing TV? Because this
Speaker 1: is your first ever TV role. You've been doing movies
Speaker 1: all of these years, but to my understanding, is your
Speaker 1: first TV role.
Speaker 7: Correct, it is the first TV series, and it is
Speaker 7: quite different because you work much faster, so you don't
Speaker 7: have much time. You know, in the movies, you maybe
Speaker 7: shoot three to four pages a day. When you do
Speaker 7: a TV it's like seven, eight, nine pages a day,
Speaker 7: sometimes even ten to twelve pages a day.
Speaker 6: So it really moves.
Speaker 7: Much faster because there is not as big of a
Speaker 7: budget as it is with movies.
Speaker 6: But I mean it's okay. You get used to that.
Speaker 6: You get very disciplined.
Speaker 7: To learn your lines and to hit the mark.
Speaker 6: That is the most important thing in this business.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: To me, is that kind of.
Speaker 7: Like listen to the director, listen to the writers, and
Speaker 7: hit your marks and say your dialogue and then work work.
Speaker 7: I feel like when I do like a movie, I
Speaker 7: feel like I'm a plumber. I get up in the
Speaker 7: morning at six o'clock in the morning, and they go
Speaker 7: to work and they do exactly what they ask me
Speaker 7: to do. And then they go home at night and
Speaker 7: you crash in bed, or you go and have some
Speaker 7: time to work out a little bit, because fitness is
Speaker 7: working out is very important.
Speaker 6: But I tell you it is. If this doesn't matter
Speaker 6: how old you are.
Speaker 7: If you have a clear vision of making something successful
Speaker 7: and being involved in a great project like this Netflix
Speaker 7: project is fuba. I mean, then you're enthusiastic about the
Speaker 7: whole thing. You have energy, and you want to go
Speaker 7: out there and promote it. Like sitting here right now
Speaker 7: and talking to you, It's not a job for me, right,
Speaker 7: It's fun for me. I love talking about you about that,
Speaker 7: to you, about my projects. And about Fouba and all
Speaker 7: those kind of things. So some people consider this as
Speaker 7: a job and part of the job. I don't consider
Speaker 7: the job. I consider it as a fun thing to do.
Speaker 1: I always tell people the difference between the job the career.
Speaker 1: As a job is doing what you have to do
Speaker 1: to sustain or elevate your quality of life. A career
Speaker 1: is doing what you want to do. It just so
Speaker 1: happens to do those things. And you're talking about a career.
Speaker 1: And and by the way, football, I mean, I got
Speaker 1: to talk to you about the title of this show. Now,
Speaker 1: it's originally you know, the acronym originated in the military,
Speaker 1: which stands for a situation that is f up beyond
Speaker 1: all recognition? Is that what football stands for with the
Speaker 1: title of this show? Or is there another.
Speaker 6: Yes, stands for fucked up beyond all recognition? Yes? Exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes. What did you pick that?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 7: I know you cannot say it then, yeah, because otherwise
Speaker 7: you get crucified.
Speaker 1: Oh I can say it fucked up beyond all recognition.
Speaker 1: I just said it, That's what I'm saying. Did you
Speaker 1: come up with it? Did you come up with the title?
Speaker 6: I suggested?
Speaker 7: Then the I think everyone liked the idea because the
Speaker 7: originally a different title and then they went for it
Speaker 7: with this title, and it's just such a great thing.
Speaker 7: I'm fouba, you know, it's just fun because everywhere you
Speaker 7: go in the world, when you promote this thing, people
Speaker 7: always ask is what does it mean?
Speaker 6: What does mean?
Speaker 7: Then I tell them what it means, and then they
Speaker 7: try to translate it in their own language. Of course,
Speaker 7: then it doesn't work the same way. But I mean,
Speaker 7: that's what it means. The other thing that makes the
Speaker 7: show success for reason, I just want this add that
Speaker 7: is which is maybe a term you don't know either
Speaker 7: or that you maybe don't know, and that is the
Speaker 7: seventh piece.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, but then I do not educate me.
Speaker 6: Please.
Speaker 7: Proper proper prior planning prevents pissed poor performance. Okay, okay,
Speaker 7: So that is very important because this show was really
Speaker 7: well written.
Speaker 6: This show was.
Speaker 7: Very well prepared, and that is the most important thing.
Speaker 7: Is did you go there for the resals, did you
Speaker 7: work on the stands, did you work or the magic
Speaker 7: stuff that you see on the screen, and then you
Speaker 7: go all out with that. But it's the proper prior
Speaker 7: planning that prevents pissed poor performance?
Speaker 2: You know last question.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about this now and I'm asking myself, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Speaker 1: an elite bodybuilder, world class athlete, and action hero.
Speaker 2: On what have you?
Speaker 1: You're approaching your seventy eighth birthday and you seem like
Speaker 1: you can go on and on, like you've got so
Speaker 1: much time left because you got so much energy. What's
Speaker 1: your advice to those out there who are younger, who
Speaker 1: haven't achieved as much yet walk around far too often
Speaker 1: acting like they're tired. What would you say to those
Speaker 1: folks about what they need to do to get a
Speaker 1: little spry in this step to be as energized as
Speaker 1: Arnold Swartzenegger appears to do as he's talking about his
Speaker 1: Netflix hit series Football right here.
Speaker 2: With your boy Stephen A. Smith, What advice would.
Speaker 6: You give Razieman.
Speaker 7: I tell you one thing, and I think you talked
Speaker 7: about that many times, and that is the only way
Speaker 7: you can have energy is when you have a vision.
Speaker 7: Because when you have a vision, that means that you
Speaker 7: have a specific goal that you want to go and
Speaker 7: chase after, and so everything that you do basically is
Speaker 7: a step closer to this gold and making discord a reality,
Speaker 7: and so to me, when I was working out in
Speaker 7: the gym five hours a day, I didn't say to myself,
Speaker 7: oh my god, I cannot wait until I have my
Speaker 7: fifty or five hundred sit ups over. Oh my god,
Speaker 7: I have to do another set of dead lifts with
Speaker 7: five hundred and fifty pounds or six hundred pounds.
Speaker 6: I didn't do any of that.
Speaker 7: I was looking forward to every single rep and every
Speaker 7: exercise that I did because it got me one step
Speaker 7: closer to this vision I had of being missed the
Speaker 7: universe being the world champion in body building. And the
Speaker 7: same was also the case with acting. When everyone said
Speaker 7: you would never be an actor, you would never be
Speaker 7: a leading man, I was and fighting because I had
Speaker 7: a clear vision of being another cleaned Eastwood or another
Speaker 7: one of the Hercules characters in the movies or something
Speaker 7: like that. So there's no one could shine me away
Speaker 7: from that. So that guy gave me energy. The same
Speaker 7: is when I had a vision about what to do
Speaker 7: with California, uh and I ran for governor, I could
Speaker 7: really talk to the people, you know, very openly and
Speaker 7: clearly about what I want to do with California, and
Speaker 7: they bought in because it was very clear, and because
Speaker 7: I had a very clear vision. So I think this
Speaker 7: is it's all about the vision, because the vision makes
Speaker 7: you have a purpose and a goal, and then you
Speaker 7: chase after that. So no matter how your old you are,
Speaker 7: as long as you have a vision, you're going to
Speaker 7: be in the right track and you always have energy.
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know it's such an
Speaker 1: honor and privilege to have been talking to you. I've
Speaker 1: been a fan for many, many years. True Lives is
Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite movies. I love total recall. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, are you ready for this? One of
Speaker 1: my favors. Is almost as crazy to say everybody talks
Speaker 1: about terminated, terminated terminator? You know another movie yours. I
Speaker 1: loved Kindergarten Cop. I loved that one. You're telling you
Speaker 1: a school teacher for crying out loud, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm massperated the school teacher. I've loved you for years
Speaker 1: and I can't thank you enough. And this Netflix series
Speaker 1: foot Ball is special. It's got that kind of potential.
Speaker 1: I really like it, I really enjoy it, and I'm
Speaker 1: honored to have had you on the show man.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you was a great pleasure. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, buddy, you take care of yourself. The one
Speaker 1: and only Arnold Schwartzenegger right here on the steven A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show.
Speaker 1: You can catch the season two premiere of Football June
Speaker 1: twelfth on Netflix. I know I'm not gonna miss it.
Speaker 1: I watched all the episodes from season one. I'm telling y'all,
Speaker 1: it's a hell of a show. It's a hell of
Speaker 1: a show coming up. Olympian some mom. Boles gets into
Speaker 1: a war of words with former swimmer Rileigh Gaines over
Speaker 1: transgender inclusion in women's sports.
Speaker 2: I'll discuss that before closing out the show in a minute.
Speaker 2: It's to steven A. Smith Show. Don't go away, Welcome
Speaker 2: back to steven E. Smith Show.
Speaker 1: Now, I want to get to a story that caught
Speaker 1: my attention this past weekend, and that's the class between
Speaker 1: Olympian Simone Biles and Raleigh Gaines over the inclusion of
Speaker 1: transgender athletes in women's sports. Gaines is a former NCAA
Speaker 1: swimmer turned conservative pundit who joined a lawsuit against the
Speaker 1: NCUBA in March of twenty twenty four. The suit from
Speaker 1: more than a dozen athletes accused the NCAA of violating
Speaker 1: their Title nine rights by allowing transgender swimmer Leah Thomas
Speaker 1: to compete at the national Championships in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: Gaines and Thomas toded for fifth, but only Thomas was
Speaker 1: awarded the fifth place trophy for the two hundred yard freestyle.
Speaker 1: Fast forward to last week, where Gaines spoke out against
Speaker 1: another transgender athlete. Gaines targeted a Minnesota state high school
Speaker 1: league for not allowing comments on their post about the
Speaker 1: Chaplain Park girls team celebrating the state championships. Chaplin Park's
Speaker 1: team includes a trans athlete, that prompted Simon Bowles to
Speaker 1: post this about Gaines quote, You're truly sick all of
Speaker 1: this campaigning.
Speaker 2: Because you lost the race, straight up, sore loser.
Speaker 1: You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding
Speaker 1: a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new
Speaker 1: avenue where trans people feel safe in sports.
Speaker 2: Instead you bully them.
Speaker 1: One thing's for sure is no one in sports is
Speaker 1: safe with you around end quote. Gaines responded to Biles
Speaker 1: in follow up posts, saying the seven time gold medalist
Speaker 1: stance on transgender athletes was disappointing and labeled her a
Speaker 1: quote male apologist at the expense of young girl's dreams.
Speaker 2: End quote. Then she went here, bringing.
Speaker 1: In Larry Nasser, a former national team doctor who sexually
Speaker 1: abused a multiple US gymnasts, including Biles, under the gouds
Speaker 1: of medical treatment. She wrote, quote all the horrific sexual
Speaker 1: abuse Simon Biles witnessed and spoke out against caused by
Speaker 1: one man, yet believes women should be forced to strip
Speaker 1: naked in front of men to validate the man's feelings.
Speaker 1: You know how many gold medals you'd have if your
Speaker 1: inclusive dream came true?
Speaker 2: Zero?
Speaker 1: End quote, Respectfully, gains I was with you until that
Speaker 1: last quote.
Speaker 2: Respectfully, that's going a bit too far.
Speaker 1: Talking about transgender women competing in sports is one issue.
Speaker 1: Using a guy like Larry Nasser, one of the most
Speaker 1: despicable human beings we've ever witnessed on this earth, who
Speaker 1: molested and abused numerous women, numerous gymnasts, including Biles, and
Speaker 1: to go that low gains you lost all credibility. You
Speaker 1: could have made your argument without going that far. No
Speaker 1: matter what Simone Biles said to you, how she may
Speaker 1: disagree with you on your position, did now warrant you
Speaker 1: to go that far. Certainly you're not suggesting that it
Speaker 1: was okay for her to be molested. Certainly you're not
Speaker 1: suggesting it was okay for her to be abused.
Speaker 2: So why would you say something like that that's just cruel.
Speaker 1: Just because she says something that hurt your feelings didn't
Speaker 1: mean that you had to double down on it by
Speaker 1: being a gazillion times worse, which Riley gains is what
Speaker 1: you are at this particular moment in time. I'm speaking
Speaker 1: specifically about you going that far. Having said that, the
Speaker 1: points that you made to some mong biles outside of
Speaker 1: the Larry Nasa.
Speaker 2: Comment that shit gives us all cause to pause.
Speaker 1: The reality is is that it is a disservice to
Speaker 1: women in a lot of people's eyes that men transitioning
Speaker 1: to women get to compete in women's sports. Leah Thomas
Speaker 1: was a perfect example. Her highest ranking at the time,
Speaker 1: her highest ranking as a male participant was like five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty fourth in the world. He transitioned into
Speaker 1: being a woman and it was top ten.
Speaker 2: That speaks for itself. You're born, you got an x
Speaker 2: Y chromosome. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: It's different, and the reality is that there are an
Speaker 1: abundance of women out there who have a right to
Speaker 1: feel the way that Raleigh Gains feels.
Speaker 2: Simon Biles.
Speaker 1: Now, whether it's right for me or somebody else to say,
Speaker 1: it's a different argument.
Speaker 2: But in the.
Speaker 1: Age that we're living in, with Title nine in existence,
Speaker 1: with us being protective of fairness and equal rights and
Speaker 1: equal opportunity to women, to then piggy back off of
Speaker 1: that and follow up on that years later by allowing
Speaker 1: transgender athletes transitioning from male to female to compete against
Speaker 1: women doesn't appear to be fair. And when we lean
Speaker 1: on this argument about fear, fear fear, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: somebody's not talking about your civil liberties. Somebody's not talking
Speaker 1: about equality. Somebody's not talking about those things living you,
Speaker 1: allowing you to live and let live. They're talking about
Speaker 1: competition in sports. And if you allow somebody to compete
Speaker 1: in swimming, it's not gonna stop you from allowing them
Speaker 1: to compete in boxing. It's not gonna allow you to
Speaker 1: dis allot of competing in other sports. I remember years
Speaker 1: ago when Ronda Ralsey joked about how she when she
Speaker 1: was undefeated before a man, the nowoness put.
Speaker 2: It on her no disrespect to Ronda Ralsey.
Speaker 1: But she was talking about how she could beat Floyd
Speaker 1: money Mayweather. Now, come on, now we now know what
Speaker 1: would have happened to her. We knew it before, but
Speaker 1: we certainly knew after what we saw in Manda Nuna's
Speaker 1: Do the Her and Holly Holmes by the way, before that,
Speaker 1: we saw that. We know that in most instances, even
Speaker 1: though there are women that can beat some men out
Speaker 1: there buying large, the elite women don't deserve to be
Speaker 1: competing against the elite men. And by deserve, I mean
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about warranted based on their credentials.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about based on their gender. You shouldn't be
Speaker 2: competing against men.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see a claricious shields in the
Speaker 1: boxing ring against the Terrence Crawford or Tamar Charlow or
Speaker 1: Canilo Alvarez.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see one of these ladies in
Speaker 2: UFC going up against morob.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see them going up against I
Speaker 1: don't want to see somebody going up against John Jones.
Speaker 2: That's a female.
Speaker 1: So when we're talking about it from that premise, it's
Speaker 1: one thing for ladies to look at somebody like me
Speaker 1: or somebody say, who are you?
Speaker 2: It's another thing.
Speaker 1: Entirely for ladies to be looking at ladies acting like
Speaker 1: ladies don't have a right to feel like there's a
Speaker 1: disadvantage for them if they're going up against the male
Speaker 1: transitioning to female.
Speaker 2: We can't have it all, ladies and gentlemen. We can't
Speaker 2: have the we can't have it all in my in
Speaker 2: my if you ask me.
Speaker 1: My preference, I hope a whole bunch of men transitioning
Speaker 1: to women come out of the woodwork so we can
Speaker 1: have men going up against men, women going up against women,
Speaker 1: and transgenders going up against transgenders.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 1: But what Riley Gaines is talking about does seem a
Speaker 1: bit unfair, and she has a right to express those
Speaker 1: thoughts without Simon Biles coming at her that way just
Speaker 1: because she lost. She's talking about an unfair advantage, and
Speaker 1: there's no one that can really dispute that if you
Speaker 1: are male transitioning to female, that there is an unfair advantage.
Speaker 1: I don't see women transitioning into men trying to compete
Speaker 1: in men's sports. If it's happened and I've missed it,
Speaker 1: I've apologized, But I've missed it.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that. I haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: Sage Still my former colleague at ESPN, a conservative pundit,
Speaker 1: she had her own thoughts on this matter, and let's
Speaker 1: read what.
Speaker 2: She had to say here.
Speaker 1: Easy to say this, Simon Biles, when you only had
Speaker 1: to compete against fellow women, every one of your Olympic
Speaker 1: medals came competing against fellow women. Raleigh Gaines was not
Speaker 1: only forced to compete against a man, but forced to
Speaker 1: share a locker room with a man. That is sick, shocked,
Speaker 1: and disappointed that you'd attack another woman who has done
Speaker 1: nothing but uplift other women. If you think it makes
Speaker 1: sense to create a league for trans people, go for it,
Speaker 1: use that huge platform of yours. But to attack Raleigh
Speaker 1: for what she has done for little girls who want
Speaker 1: to be the next Simone Biles is sick. Maybe I
Speaker 1: would have used the other word other than sick or whatever.
Speaker 1: But it's not like Sage Steel is wrong. Based on
Speaker 1: what she described and the facts that we know, Raleigh
Speaker 1: Gaines is perfectly within our right to have the opinion
Speaker 1: that she has, as she's an American citizen who's using
Speaker 1: the courts to make her argument, which is what we
Speaker 1: do in our democratic society, whether you like it or not,
Speaker 1: Simone Biles, it's just the truth. I respect where you're
Speaker 1: coming from. I respect your passion the look out for
Speaker 1: those you feel are being victimized by a large segment
Speaker 1: of our population.
Speaker 2: I understand that.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of young ladies out there
Speaker 1: who were born women that feel this is a flagrantly
Speaker 1: unfair advantage.
Speaker 2: What about their feelings? What about theirs?
Speaker 1: Now, let's get to your calls before I get on
Speaker 1: out of here for the day, because I see some
Speaker 1: people that.
Speaker 2: Wanted to call me.
Speaker 1: I'll get to Kamala Harris about something to close out
Speaker 1: the show in a minute, but not before I get
Speaker 1: to the calls.
Speaker 2: I want to get to the calls first.
Speaker 1: And now I got some news to give y'all about
Speaker 1: the former Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the phones right now. Let's go to Ni Kan. You're
Speaker 1: live with Steven A. Nikon out of California. What's up
Speaker 1: in Econ?
Speaker 3: How are you hi, Stephen? I wanted to know when
Speaker 3: you have a great score like James Harden, and when
Speaker 3: you have a player like Dwayne Wade, who won many rings.
Speaker 5: Who do you think is better at all time?
Speaker 2: I got to give it to Dwayne Wade. Do you
Speaker 2: know why?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 1: Because Dwayne Wade showed up win he counted. See, if
Speaker 1: you're looking at the stats and you're looking at the
Speaker 1: one on one skill set, and you're looking at the
Speaker 1: prolific scoring prowess of a James Harden over several years
Speaker 1: of his career, particularly when he was in Houston, you
Speaker 1: have a point. The problem with James Harden's resume is
Speaker 1: that there has been too many occasions where the moments
Speaker 1: call from him. A Game six close out game against
Speaker 1: San Antonio, a Game seven in Houston against Golden State,
Speaker 1: a Game six and seven with the Philadelphia seventy six
Speaker 1: is against Boston, a Game seven just now against Denver.
Speaker 2: With different teams. There have been several occasions where he
Speaker 2: has not shown up.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about just the lack of efficiency.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a lack of aggression where he's attempted
Speaker 1: nine shots, eleven shots, ten shots, or whatever, acting like.
Speaker 2: He didn't even want to be there in games where
Speaker 2: it was on the line.
Speaker 1: That has never happened to Dwayne Wade. Who's a three
Speaker 1: time champion and an NBA Finals MVP and a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer that ain't even a discussion.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call. Let's go to Trey in Texas. You're
Speaker 2: live or steven A. What's up? Tray?
Speaker 3: Hey, Steve Man, this is Trey.
Speaker 9: First of all, I'm going to thank you for stning
Speaker 9: my book and for being an inspiration to me growing up.
Speaker 9: So my question to you is how do you get
Speaker 9: more involved in sports media at a twenty two years
Speaker 9: as a twenty two year old person, We'll.
Speaker 2: Go to number one. Go to school, get education. Number two.
Speaker 1: Edify yourself as much as possible, Make sure you stay
Speaker 1: up on the issues or whatever, and practice repetition contributes
Speaker 1: to excellence. Do it over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: And don't be about the money, be about the substance,
Speaker 1: be about building something. You're twenty two years of age.
Speaker 1: You wet behind the ears. You're young, you got your
Speaker 1: whole life ahead of you, a whole career ahead of you.
Speaker 1: You know, study the issues, Study how to be on
Speaker 1: in front of the camera, Study how to speak in
Speaker 1: front of that microphone. Pay attention to what makes a
Speaker 1: good subject matter approach and what makes a good subject
Speaker 1: matter to avoid. Understand what the people want, what the
Speaker 1: public at large wants, what they would have a sense of,
Speaker 1: what's newsworthy and what resonates with an audience on a
Speaker 1: day to day basis. And when you do that, it'll
Speaker 1: go a long way towards assisting you and your aspirations.
Speaker 1: Did I answer that question?
Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you.
Speaker 9: Man, here to go, Man, thank you for being an
Speaker 9: inspiration to me all these years. Man, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you Man, I appreciate it. Trey, appreciate you. Anthony
Speaker 2: in New York City, the last call of what's going on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: How are you well?
Speaker 8: You work on ESPN?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 8: So I'm calling about these ice protests in Los Angeles
Speaker 8: and I want to get your pain on it. Honestly,
Speaker 8: I think it's disgusting. I think it's distasteful.
Speaker 2: Hold what hold on? What's this us?
Speaker 1: Just just for clarity, what's disgusting and what's distasteful? For
Speaker 1: my audiency, we don't understand you what's disgusting and what's distasteful.
Speaker 8: The way they're protesting is not peaceful. I seem industry
Speaker 8: burning things is not peaceful, Okay, And I'm more, who
Speaker 8: are people coming into this country, you know, better, opportunity,
Speaker 8: all that, But they got to do it the right way.
Speaker 8: Steven A. There's a process for that, and I don't
Speaker 8: know how I gavin loose some and people sand support
Speaker 8: them being here the illegal way when they don't belong
Speaker 8: here the a process. You have to go to court
Speaker 8: get asylum. They're not doing that. They're questing the border illegally,
Speaker 8: and we certain states are defending that, and I don't
Speaker 8: understand that, and that's what really drives my gears. I
Speaker 8: want to just your thought on that.
Speaker 2: Well, a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Number one, and don't hang up, because I want to
Speaker 1: hear your response to what I have to say. Number One,
Speaker 1: California is a sanctuary state, and when you look up
Speaker 1: the definition of the sanctuary state, it basically gives you
Speaker 1: a license to fight and fend off federal mandates that
Speaker 1: may come your way because you don't agree with them.
Speaker 2: That's what our court system is for.
Speaker 1: So even though it's a sanctuary state, it doesn't make
Speaker 1: the State of California illegal in their actions according to
Speaker 1: the courts. Now, after courts reach a ruling, particularly after
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom goes about the business of suing the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: and the court rules in Trump's favor, and then Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom in the state of California DeFi those courts. Now
Speaker 1: you're venturing into illegal status. But until that time comes,
Speaker 1: if you're labeled a sanctuary state or a sanctuary city,
Speaker 1: then you're not considered lawless.
Speaker 2: That's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two, everybody out there protesting ain't illegal, ain't undocumented.
Speaker 2: We have to keep that in mind. Some are, there's
Speaker 2: no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: Obviously, most if not all of those protesters support illegal
Speaker 1: and undocumented immigrants, which is a different subject altogether, something
Speaker 1: close to what you're alluding to. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: every one of them is illegal and undocumented. There are
Speaker 1: legal citizens in the United States. There are people here
Speaker 1: on their visas. There are people here that are documented
Speaker 1: and naturalized immigrants. And because that's the case, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that that would make them legal. And under our laws,
Speaker 1: you do have the right to protest, Okay, Now, that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you have the right to burn cars and
Speaker 1: businesses and steal like folks were stealing from Jordan's store
Speaker 1: in downtown LA. They showed footage of that taking place. No,
Speaker 1: you don't have a right to engage in lawlessness, but
Speaker 1: sometimes the art of a protest is being as disruptive
Speaker 1: as you possibly can be, so you can garner the
Speaker 1: tension not just of the federal government and our elected officials,
Speaker 1: but the world, making sure the eye of the nation
Speaker 1: and the world is upon you so they could see
Speaker 1: what your vociferous or protests are all about. That's what's
Speaker 1: transpiring here, and that's what we have to pay attention to.
Speaker 1: So again it's not ideal, we don't like it. We
Speaker 1: see what's going on in the state of California in
Speaker 1: terms of their spending compared to the revenue that they're generating,
Speaker 1: the fact that they're approaching a deficit in the tens.
Speaker 2: Of billions of dollars. We understand that. We understand that in.
Speaker 1: A lot of people's eyes, illegal immigration contributes to that
Speaker 1: because you got people using medicaid and a medical system
Speaker 1: as their form of healthcare and it's costing tax.
Speaker 2: Payer dollars a lot.
Speaker 1: We get all of that, and in somehow, some way
Speaker 1: it's got to be fixed. But a tho Sworts and
Speaker 1: Negga said it best. It could easily be fixed that
Speaker 1: they were committed to doing it, but either side uses
Speaker 1: it as a tool to favor themselves when they're running
Speaker 1: for election, and as a result of that, it's in
Speaker 1: the politicians benefit to not resolve this issue. And that's
Speaker 1: what the problem is right now, and that's why all
Speaker 1: parties are to be blamed for this as opposed to
Speaker 1: just one party.
Speaker 2: Anthony, all right.
Speaker 8: Right, And I respect for you saying I understand all that.
Speaker 8: And I live in a Saintuary. I'm from New York City,
Speaker 8: so I see it here too. And why don't like
Speaker 8: it when you speak about illegal immigration? People want to
Speaker 8: call you a racist or tell me you know I work. Oh,
Speaker 8: you don't care about his people, and so I don't
Speaker 8: care about people. This made me a racist. I wanted
Speaker 8: them to do it the right way, the legal way.
Speaker 8: That's what I'm saying, mister Stephen A.
Speaker 7: Smith.
Speaker 8: I thought I told it today.
Speaker 2: All right. I appreciate it. Good points, Anthony.
Speaker 1: Not going to sit up there and to cry that,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, And I thank you for the call.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get on out of here, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: but before I do, I wanted to show you this
Speaker 1: statement from former Democratic nominee for the presidency of the
Speaker 1: United States former Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: who issued this statement. This was not today, This was
Speaker 1: put out there yesterday, Okay, she wrote, Kamala Harris. Over
Speaker 1: the past few months, I've been deeply moved by the
Speaker 1: outpouring of encouragement from Californians urging me to return home
Speaker 1: and run for governor. California has always been a place
Speaker 1: where my story began. It's where I was raised, where
Speaker 1: I built my career in public service, and where I've
Speaker 1: seen firsthand the power of progressive, people centered leadership. After
Speaker 1: careful thought and heartfelt conversations with my family and trusted advisors,
Speaker 1: I have decided not to enter the race for governor
Speaker 1: of California.
Speaker 2: This was not an easy decision.
Speaker 1: I hold tremendous respect for the work ahead in Sacramento,
Speaker 1: and I know California will continue to lead the way
Speaker 1: on the urgent issues facing our nation, from climate change
Speaker 1: to reproductive freedom to economic justice. But as I've traveled
Speaker 1: across the country and listened to people from all walks
Speaker 1: of life, I feel an even deeper sense of responsibility.
Speaker 1: In this moment, our nation is at an inflection point.
Speaker 1: The challenges we face are profound, and the need for
Speaker 1: steady principal leadership has never been greater. There's more work ahead.
Speaker 1: I plan to be a part of it. End quote
Speaker 1: Kamala D. Harris, former Vice President of the United States
Speaker 1: of America. I think she had a t chance to
Speaker 1: win the gubernatorial seat for governors California. There were some
Speaker 1: people who thought otherwise. There were some people thought that
Speaker 1: she had chances in the past. She had a chance
Speaker 1: to be the president in twenty twenty, she had a
Speaker 1: chance to be the president in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Both chances came up short, and that.
Speaker 1: Her star has dissipated dramatically, and that she probably would
Speaker 1: not have won the governor's.
Speaker 2: Chair for the state of California. I beg to differ.
Speaker 1: I think she would have had a chance, but she's
Speaker 1: entitled to her feelings. She knows what's best for her,
Speaker 1: and I wish her nothing but the best. What I
Speaker 1: will say is this, respectfully, I hope she's not pushing
Speaker 1: aside the race for governor for the state of California
Speaker 1: because she thinks she has a chance in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that's the case.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that Kamala Harris nor any Democrat from
Speaker 1: the old guard per se has a chance. I think
Speaker 1: the only shot a Democrat has of winning the presidentc
Speaker 1: c in twenty twenty eight is for there to be
Speaker 1: complete new blood.
Speaker 2: The old god needs to be purged. Now.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean somebody like AOC needs to replace Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 1: as you know, a minority whipping the Senate.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that needs to happen.
Speaker 1: Because the more progressive you go, the further way you
Speaker 1: go from the center as a Democratic Party, the less
Speaker 1: your chances are going to be of recapturing the White House.
Speaker 2: You will not do it.
Speaker 1: And Kamala Harris, sad to say, couldn't make it to
Speaker 1: Iowa to the IOWUR caucuses in twenty twenty and despite
Speaker 1: having over a billion and a half dollars to spend,
Speaker 1: probably in some people's eyes, because she has such a
Speaker 1: short period of time to really campaign against Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: they're trying to blame it on that loss.
Speaker 2: No, that's not it.
Speaker 1: You were the vice president when Joe Biden was the president,
Speaker 1: when he clearly was a bit diminished. I never blamed
Speaker 1: her for not saying anything. Who's going to dime out
Speaker 1: their boss. But what could have happened collectively was for
Speaker 1: folks within the Democratic Party to rally and insist and
Speaker 1: ultimately do what they ended up doing in July of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four when they forced Joe Biden to step
Speaker 1: down and acknowledge that he was not going to run
Speaker 1: for reelection. You might not have been able to get
Speaker 1: him to leave office at that particular moment in time,
Speaker 1: nor should you have.
Speaker 2: Because he was in office, you ride the wave.
Speaker 1: But for folks to try to sell the American people
Speaker 1: that that man could give you four more years with
Speaker 1: such an egregious miscalculation on a part of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: anybody associated with it, whether directly or indirectly, is toast
Speaker 1: and there's no way you're winning an e lefe. So
Speaker 1: I sincerely hope that Kamala Harris is making this decision
Speaker 1: with the understanding that she's got a lot of things
Speaker 1: to achieve in her life that she can achieve.
Speaker 2: She's smart, she's educated.
Speaker 1: She's a former vice president, she's a former senator, she's
Speaker 1: a former prosecutor, a former state attorney general. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that she can do. She just don't
Speaker 1: need to have herself thinking about the presidency of the
Speaker 1: United States. That ain't gonna happen. They're in my opinion,
Speaker 1: there is no way in hell she would win the
Speaker 1: Democratic nomination, let alone the presidency in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: So since she's.
Speaker 1: Not running for California governor, unless she plans on doing
Speaker 1: that at a later date, she's essentially telling us her
Speaker 1: political career is over. I don't know if that's what
Speaker 1: she's saying, but it certainly seems that way.
Speaker 2: She's not winning the presidency. Y'all.
Speaker 1: I told you about Joe Biden more than a year
Speaker 1: in advance, and I'm telling you about Kamala Harris now
Speaker 1: she ain't winning the presidency. They won't do it. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now. Remember I said that. Remember I
Speaker 1: said that.
Speaker 2: That took for this edition to the Stephen Nate Spishal,
Speaker 2: I gotta get on out of here. I hope y'all
Speaker 2: enjoyed the show.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to the great Arnold Schwarzenegger for coming on
Speaker 1: the show and talking about his hit Netflix series Football
Speaker 1: Season two June twelfth, don't miss it. Stephen a signing
Speaker 1: off until the next time ladies and gentlemen. I gotta
Speaker 1: go back to covering the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: I'll see you soon. Tell that piece of Leven