In this episode, we discuss California Governor Gavin Newsom s decision to allow women to compete in the state s women's sports. We also hear from Carrie Sheffield, Terry Schilling, and Steve Kamb of the Independent Women's Forum.
00:02:57.540But let's not forget, I am old enough to remember that he was trying to punish parents who were upset for schools for transitioning their children without their permission.
00:03:21.080It's also about women's shelters, women's prisons.
00:03:24.360Let's see if he—because California is ground zero for shipping off men into women's prisons.
00:03:30.260And there we hear reports of alleged rapes and assaults by men being shipped by yours truly, Gavin Newsom, by the government of California, allowing this to happen.
00:03:40.680So I respect that perhaps he might be having a change of thought here.
00:03:50.360Terry Schilling, I remember, you know, with what Kerry just said that you told me one time that, hey, it's all going to be about California because that's the railhead of this quite dangerous transgender ideology.
00:04:04.360And I think all of us are old enough to remember, as Kerry said, that Gavin Newsom was kind of the leader of the pack of this, correct?
00:04:13.660So is this something where you guys should just take the win because this guy's had a metanoia?
00:04:18.440He's had a change of heart or a change of being?
00:04:21.300Or do you think he's just a narcissistic opportunist?
00:04:44.540And it can actually be in response to President Trump's threats to withhold federal funding for states that put boys in girls' sports, right, endangering girls.
00:04:54.540This is – I just want to point out how groundbreaking President Trump's actions are on this, Steve.
00:04:59.620Name the last time a Republican president ever withheld federal funding from a state over any issue, right?
00:05:48.800Kerry, is that – do you read the same way he's genuflecting now to the fact that we've taken the high ground on this issue, which is essentially common sense?
00:05:56.240And your point, it's an 80-20, that Gavin Newsom, understanding he wants to be a national figure, he's going to run against Stephen A. Smith and Mark Cuban and others, that he's seen the light and realizes that he's been way too radical in this.
00:06:08.600He's got to get to the center on this issue.
00:06:10.600And if you don't get to the center on this issue, you're just not viable as a national political figure, ma'am.
00:06:34.060Let's not forget also this week that the U.S. Senate had a chance to ratify the House bill that Speaker Johnson pulled through to protect women's sports.
00:06:43.860And there was basically, correct me if I'm wrong, Terry, unanimous Democrat opposition to this bill.
00:06:50.900The Republicans only had 51 votes, so they couldn't overcome the filibuster until this bill right now is dead.
00:06:56.900And so that is truly upsetting for us at Independent Women's Voice because this is an 80-20 issue.
00:07:04.780In fact, a majority of Democrats do not want men in women's sports.
00:07:09.060So these Democrats who voted against this, that 45 Democrats, they are going against the majority of their own base.
00:07:16.720And as far as Gavin Newsom is concerned, the fact is that he's kind of desperate right now because of how terribly he's mismanaged the fires.
00:07:26.220And I hope the people of California do not forget this.
00:07:30.720I'm old enough again to remember that when he completely botched it.
00:07:34.960And then he tried to do a romance or a bromance with President Trump because President Trump was riding high on his electoral victory, his historic victory.
00:07:45.240And so I just, I think the uttering competence of how Gavin Newsom has driven people out of his state.
00:07:54.000There's so much that he has to do to unroll his damage that he's been inflicting on his own people.
00:07:59.760It is shocking that for California's first time in his history under Gavin Newsom, it has lost population and it's lost congressional districts.
00:08:08.620So, again, it has to do with the way they bankroll illegal immigrants, the way they, their housing and their zoning, the EV mandates.
00:08:18.480I mean, this is, the gender stuff is just the tip of the iceberg as to the failures of Gavin Newsom.
00:08:24.800And I just hope, I believe the American people have enough common sense to see through his snake oil.
00:08:32.720Well, let's talk about some of the common sense.
00:08:34.960Let's go, I think, Harry Enten at CNN, I want to play you a little bit of polling, then I want to bring both you guys back in the conversation.
00:08:44.600In another tariff twist, President Trump started threatening new tariffs as soon as tomorrow on Canadian dairy and lumber, a product used extensively in building homes.
00:09:19.700We have some polling, Terry Schilling, that shows that Americans overwhelmingly, and this is CNN, Harry Enten, says that Americans overwhelmingly support the common sense, the common sense revolution that you've been talking about.
00:09:36.400What is it going to take, back to Kerry's point, what is it going to take to get the U.S. Senate to move off the dime here and move this kind of legislation that's very common sense about this and actually start to codify because we can't depend upon executive orders forever?
00:10:03.600I mean, this fight did not come from academia.
00:10:06.540This fight, this pushback didn't come from Hollywood.
00:10:09.220It happened because President Trump jumped in the arena and he saved the day and made this an issue.
00:10:14.780So, what that poll showed on the CNN segment, and this is the second time they've run that segment, so they want these Democrats to moderate on it.
00:10:22.220But it showed that before the election, before Trump had actually taken office and run on this, the support for this issue was at 63 percent.
00:10:30.300After President Trump signed that executive order and campaigned on it, the support for it was 79 percent in support and 19 percent against.
00:10:39.880This is now a super-duper majority, Steve.
00:10:43.300What other issue is a four-to-one, right?
00:11:04.880But they need to feel the pressure from voters.
00:11:07.740They need to get the phone lines lit up.
00:11:09.880And so we need the war room posse to light these guys' phone lines up.
00:11:13.100But they've got to start losing more elections over this.
00:11:15.300I think we will get to 60 votes in the Senate for this if we win the next midterm and we win the next presidential when these issues are central.
00:12:13.860Now, Harry, it is important to point out that Newsom also said that he had a difficult time seeing how transgender folks have been treated by some.
00:12:23.880He believes that they should not be disparaged for choices that they make and ways that they are described in the public.
00:12:30.720I do wonder, where do Americans stand on this issue of transgender folks in sports?
00:14:59.520We were talking about Democrats, but amongst Republicans, this is really what riles them up.
00:15:03.940Again, GOP who strongly want to ban transgender female athletes from women's sports.
00:15:08.880Look at that, 84 percent who strongly want to, not somewhat feel it, they strongly want to.
00:15:14.120And to put that into some perspective, right, how about the percentage of Republicans who strongly want to deport all immigrants in America legally?
00:18:30.800Look at those numbers with the Democrats. 67% are on our side on this.
00:18:36.740It's not insane to think that the Democrats will have a primary challengers from the right on this.
00:18:43.660These incumbents that are voting against it, they could have primary challengers that run on and make this a central part.
00:18:49.200So, next week, I want to come back on, Steve. We're dropping some stuff. We've got to light John Ossoff's phones up. He's got to feel the heat.
00:19:00.060Look, we're launching an always-on campaign, Steve. We've got to soften these guys up. We've got to attack them throughout the whole year.
00:19:06.660They've got to feel the pressure. I know this from an experience when my dad was in Congress.
00:19:10.720I want to come back on. I've got some stuff to share with you guys. It's going to be very exciting.
00:19:13.620Perfect. By the way, I think Newsom's taking your political strategy.
00:19:20.840They're not going to get to the right of Newsom on this issue.
00:19:23.620That's why Charlie Kirk was the first guest on this podcast. He wanted to get it out there.
00:19:28.940You're not going to get to the right of Newsom on this, at least the new, reconstructed Gavin Newsom.
00:19:34.300You watch. I think he believes his first-mover advantage.
00:19:38.060Terry Schilling, where do people go? What's your handle on social media? Where do they go to find out more about American Principles Project?
00:19:45.780It's just AmericanPrinciplesProject.org, and you can follow me on all social media sites at Schilling1776, S-C-H-I-L-L-I-N-G-1776.
00:19:58.140Thank you, brother. Appreciate you, sir. Terry coming on next week.
00:20:05.600By the way, we're also going to have more about Wisconsin, if not tomorrow, than on Monday, but this Supreme Court race there, all important.
00:20:14.900I want to bring in one of my favorite journalists at one of my favorite papers, the Epoch Times, Josh Phillips, the guy that does amazing work on a paper, does amazing work.
00:20:25.280Okay, so I think it's 10 or 12 Chinese nationals have been, I think, indicted.
00:20:33.580They're actually in mainland China, so they haven't been arrested.
00:20:36.980And there are hackers, and one of the institutions they're hacking and doing constant cyber attacks is our beloved Epoch Times.
00:20:46.780Josh Phillips, unpack that for us. What in the hell is going on?
00:20:49.400Well, geez, I mean, we were kind of surprised to find out, too.
00:20:53.760I mean, at Epoch Times, we get a lot of cyber attacks. We are aware of it.
00:20:58.840What is interesting with this is, yeah, a dozen Chinese nationals have now been indicted by the FBI.
00:21:06.380About 10 of these, you know, were, well, eight of them are with a private company called iSoon.
00:21:12.780And apparently this was like a mercenary company that the CCP was hiring.
00:21:17.760They're like, they're hackers for hire, and they would charge the Ministry of Public Security, which is like one of their big spy branches.
00:21:25.160They would charge them for every email they breached or every cell phone they breached and so on.
00:21:31.060The Ministry of Public Security, two of them were indicted on this.
00:21:34.860And the Ministry of Public Security, those are the guys who run the secret Chinese police stations.
00:21:39.820That's the one that does the secret Chinese police stations.
00:21:43.360And so, you know, this whole case gets unsealed.
00:24:26.300And they're the ones also targeting Americans, doing things against us right here,
00:24:30.080you know, right here in our own backyards.
00:24:34.080Could you get any better validation of the great reporting?
00:24:38.600Because Epoch Times, I mean, the paper every day, you got five or six main stories you can get into,
00:24:42.700plus you got the features, you got all the investigative reporting you do.
00:24:45.500Could you guys ever wish to have a better validation of how serious your reporting is on exposing the dictatorial nature of the Chinese Communist Party
00:24:56.360than to have the Chinese Communist Party literally try to get into on your servers and find out who's reading it in China so they can go arrest them, sir?
00:25:04.640It's, you know, I call it the Chinese Pulitzer.
00:25:10.200You know you're doing something right if you get blacklisted by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:25:15.560But at the same time, too, we actually found out there's a lot going on.
00:25:19.500We had whistleblowers come out, and this has been revealed now by the diplomat, by other reporting.
00:25:24.620It turns out that Xi Jinping himself, the head of the Chinese Communist Party,
00:25:30.180gave orders a couple years back to mobilize all of their spies, all of their overseas resources,
00:25:36.860to attack the Epoch Times, Shenyang Performing Arts, and our sister media, NTD.
00:25:42.440Because according to these whistleblowers, again, verified now,
00:25:46.540they believe that we can inform, you know, the current government about the threats from China,
00:25:51.780and they regard us as a national security threat to, like, the survival of the Communist Party.
00:25:57.020And so they're coming after us, it seems, with everything they have right now.