Real Coffee with Scott Adams - The Scott Adams School - STEVE CORTES Returns. Newsome. SCOTUS. & More

00:00:00.000 Hey, we're going live.

00:00:03.540 Okay, I think we should be live.

00:00:06.700 And when they catch up to us, I usually like to start the stream early.

00:00:11.760 And I didn't do it today, guys.

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00:00:14.340 Good morning.

00:00:15.000 I see you guys there.

00:00:16.000 Look who's here.

00:00:17.820 Not only Marcella, she's back.

00:00:22.000 And Owen, he's here.

00:00:24.480 But Steve freaking Cortez. 0.83

00:00:27.960 Can you stand it?

00:00:28.960 Good morning, everyone.

00:00:30.000 I love it. Thank you, Steve, for coming back. We love that you join us and we get so much out of

00:00:37.020 our shows when you're here with us. We so appreciate it. Of course. No, listen, it's an

00:00:41.740 honor to be here. You folks are fantastic. You produce terrific content and it's also an honor

00:00:46.220 anytime I can pay tribute to Scott Adams and to continuing his work and his legacy, which

00:00:51.700 certainly does continue. And thankfully, one of the things he did as an expert and particularly

00:00:57.120 on communication is he gave us so much content, right? So much writing, so many videos so that

00:01:01.800 he does effectively live on, right? And I can tell you for one, as somebody who communicates for a

00:01:06.080 living, I learned so much from him. He made me such a better communicator, both from his public

00:01:11.800 work, but then also privately, you know, he would at times critique me, you know, always in a very

00:01:15.500 kind way, but you know, he would critique my media appearances. And this is going all the way back

00:01:18.500 to 2016 when I was new at politics. I wasn't new to TV, but I've been in financial TV. That's a

00:01:23.220 very different animal uh and once i got into politics uh he was just so so helpful to me

00:01:27.860 both personally and as well as his public stuff so i would encourage anybody out there who you

00:01:32.140 know really where if communication is an important part of your life and it is for many people of

00:01:36.620 course right if it's important part of your job or whatever it is you do philanthropically or uh

00:01:40.940 your social life uh pay attention if you haven't already uh get scott's work right read his stuff

00:01:47.160 watch his videos because i think it'll make anybody even somebody like me who does it for

00:01:50.680 a living, it will make you a better communicator. What do you think are the biggest lessons you

00:01:54.300 picked up from Scott? Yeah, you know, it's a, it's a great question. I think one of the biggest is

00:01:59.320 learning to reframe things, right? In other words, not accepting whatever, you know, in an interview,

00:02:04.380 don't accept the framing that is presented to you by the interviewer, particularly if they're,

00:02:07.660 you know, not a person of real character, which so many folks in media are not, right,

00:02:11.680 where they're propagandists effectively. But even not just in an interview setting,

00:02:15.820 just in general, if they're sort of quote, you know, conventional wisdom about something,

00:02:19.580 don't accept it, challenge it, reframe it. And he was so good at, to me, at pointing out

00:02:26.840 when there are logical inconsistencies, if you are the logical one, you can be an effective

00:02:33.340 communicator. And most of the time, by the way, conventional wisdom isn't terribly logical,

00:02:38.480 right? In other words, it's powerful interests pushing a narrative that is often at odds with

00:02:43.940 facts and with, you know, correct thinking. So he was very, he just, he was such a critical thinker

00:02:49.520 and, and then reasoned through, okay, now how do you take actual critical thinking and communicate

00:02:54.700 it well? That was just super, super effective for me. And you know, obviously he did it very well

00:03:00.860 himself. Yeah, for sure. That's so true. So you guys reframing is a big part of what Scott taught

00:03:08.500 us. And if you haven't purchased Free Frame Your Brain, get it anywhere on Amazon. And if you want

00:03:15.880 it on Audible or however you read, just get it. It's so good. And we're going to do more reframing

00:03:22.200 actually next week. So that'll be great. And in the meantime, I think we're parched. And let's

00:03:28.260 hope that this is not yesterday's sip. We'll see if Scott's here messing with me. Hang on one

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00:04:27.720 Okay. So note to everybody, I spoke with our best DJ Plemons yesterday. I said, Jay,

00:04:34.360 I love the sip clips, but can we get through the pandemic and just skip all the ones that say

00:04:39.940 coronavirus? And he said, yes. So as soon as we've run out of these, you guys, we'll be done

00:04:45.140 with that. So listen, I found out that Steve has a new nickname. He was on Gutfeld the other night.

00:04:53.020 And if you missed it, I have the little clip for you. Here you go.

00:04:57.720 He's Irish and Colombian, making him the original Jack and Coke. 0.70

00:05:02.140 Former Trump advisor, Steve Cortez.

00:05:07.240 I love that. Jack and Coke.

00:05:10.540 Get it, you guys? Get it, get it?

00:05:13.540 Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

00:05:15.300 I mean, Greg's always funny, of course, but that was a new one.

00:05:18.560 And I loved it, of course.

00:05:20.400 And I didn't say this on Fox because I wasn't sure if they would bleep it out.

00:05:23.680 But there's a more crude version of that nickname.

00:05:27.380 When I was in high school, my friends called me the McSpick because I'm Irish and Latin and Colombian.

00:05:34.360 But they said it in love. 1.00

00:05:35.400 It was okay.

00:05:35.960 I can take the pejorative.

00:05:37.340 And we weren't exactly politically correct, especially back in the 80s, a bunch of high school guys on the south side of Chicago.

00:05:44.560 You could probably guess we weren't terribly PC.

00:05:46.900 Nor should you be.

00:05:48.220 Yeah, exactly.

00:05:49.020 But Jack and Coke was a really fun one.

00:05:51.080 And I was thrilled to be on Greg's show once again.

00:05:54.260 He has me on about once a month.

00:05:55.740 And it's just super fun.

00:05:57.380 Um, and I think it's one of the best, funniest shows on all of television, not just in the

00:06:02.100 news genre, but I just think, you know, in general, I mean, it's a legit funny show that

00:06:05.720 does make some important cultural and political points, but does it through a heck of a lot

00:06:09.820 of humor and the rest of late night has become a scold session and they don't even attempt

00:06:13.960 to, you know, do humor.

00:06:15.000 They just do left-wing propaganda and from a pretty angry lecturing perspective.

00:06:19.880 So I think that's why he's become the number one show.

00:06:22.060 He's earned it.

00:06:23.080 And, uh, it's, it's great when I get to be on there.

00:06:25.500 And, of course, he was and is a massive fan of Scott Adams and Scott's work.

00:06:30.700 Yeah, and similar to Scott with him, yeah.

00:06:34.200 Steve, do you see news as entertainment?

00:06:37.240 I mean, sure, it can be, right?

00:06:39.100 I mean, it has to be to some degree, right?

00:06:40.960 I mean, there's a reason sets look great.

00:06:42.860 There's a reason there's good-looking people, you know, often in news.

00:06:46.540 So, I mean, of course, there's an entertainment element.

00:06:48.480 Even to sort of hard news, there's still an entertainment element, right?

00:06:50.960 There has to be.

00:06:52.000 And then some shows, you know, are mostly entertainment.

00:06:54.260 And I would say Gutfeld's roughly half-half, I think, you know, as a viewer, and I don't know if they're purposely going for that, but roughly half, you know, let's have fun and half, you know, hey, let's get real points across.

00:07:04.100 But, you know, again, often through humor, and humor can be such a great vehicle to convince people.

00:07:08.560 I think also for those of us on the right, you know, because we view the world really logically, right, and we should, of course, right, we shouldn't be captive to our emotions.

00:07:17.160 But at the same time, when it comes to media and communications, I think sometimes we put emotion too far to the side.

00:07:23.220 And we need to remember that most human beings are more emotional than they are logical.

00:07:27.180 That's just reality. And they're and they're more persuaded by an emotional appeal that conveys an underlying logical truth.

00:07:34.680 OK, like we're never going to be emotion for the sake of emotion or emotion for the sake of just slogan or narrative.

00:07:40.860 But I think on the right, and I think we're getting better at this, but this is something that I've always kind of preached, you know, behind the scenes to my teams, like a Trump 2016 and 2020 and any race I'm involved in to the candidate to their team is whatever argument you're making, we have to find the emotional hook.

00:07:55.640 It cannot just be pure. Hey, look at my white paper. Look at these facts and figures. I'm right. You may be right, but that's not enough.

00:08:02.960 You've got to figure out the emotional hook and how can we convey it really quickly and in the most effective, persuasive way.

00:08:10.580 And so that's what I try to do always is find the emotional hook to make a more important underlying point.

00:08:16.060 And certainly I think Scott Adams did that super well and Greg Gutfeld does that super well.

00:08:21.040 I think with the when President Trump emerged on the scene, everybody had to up their game because he's so entertaining and persuasive and just a master at everything he does.

00:08:34.100 And I think everybody was like, oh, you know, we look like boring politics.

00:08:38.040 like i think of i sorry mitt romany but i picture you and i was just like you know like falling

00:08:43.400 asleep like i don't i don't even know what you're saying i'm so tired but i can sleep to hearing your

00:08:48.280 voice um but then you have like trump burst on the scene and everything changes and yes greg is the

00:08:54.200 same way always has been like i i like i scream when greg's speaking like of joy because i'm like

00:09:01.880 yes this is exactly how i feel and he delivers it with anger sarcasm and humor when appropriate

00:09:09.320 where appropriate and it really i think it really touches the emotions and somebody was just talking

00:09:13.880 about this on x yesterday about how performative politicians have become in that you know especially

00:09:19.880 the democrats are you know like theater kids and i think of adam schiff immediately because

00:09:26.520 he wanted to be an actor um that's the actual fact and everything he does he's like i'm kevin

00:09:33.400 spacey coming to you with a camera you know like he's always performing and you're just like you

00:09:37.320 guys are so full of it and phony so if it's not authentic it's not a good look that's correct no

00:09:42.760 and he can't pull it off there are some dems who do pull it off though and so for example this new

00:09:47.880 you know crop of communists who are winning they won last night now in colorado so this isn't just

00:09:52.280 a new york thing right uh you know an actual young communist beat a 15 term congresswoman that's not

00:09:58.680 easy to do to beat somebody who spent decades in congress in a very blue district so she's going to

00:10:03.080 win she's going to be a congresswoman i think her name last name is kiros with a k and i mean she's

00:10:08.040 dreadful i mean you know hates the united states blames us for 9 11 wants to abolish the police

00:10:12.520 abolish prisons the borders the whole deal i mean an all-out communist however and i don't know about 0.59

00:10:16.680 her specifically because i didn't watch her a lot but she's part of this crop of young sort of 0.97

00:10:21.080 influencer types on the hard left that are following Mondani. And Mondani himself, I believe,

00:10:27.240 is a very effective communicator. Now, he's evil. He hates America. Okay, we have to defeat him and

00:10:32.160 his movement. However, I think we can't do it without also recognizing his talents. And he

00:10:37.120 comes across as very authentic. Now, I don't know if it's because he actually believes it,

00:10:40.520 or he's just a great actor. I'm not sure. But he doesn't have sort of that shift problem,

00:10:43.740 or that Mitt Romney problem. He's more like Trump, except instead of Trump, who loves America,

00:10:48.240 this guy hates America. He's trying to destroy us, but he's got some of Trump's media skills

00:10:51.980 and some of that charisma. And again, it plays well on camera. So I think we need to just be

00:10:56.320 aware of that. Like always assess your opponent, right? And be honest about them. And just because

00:11:00.720 they're evil, don't dismiss them as untalented. No, evil people can have a lot of talents.

00:11:05.300 And I think Mondani does. And we have to be very skilled in how we counter that, right? And we need

00:11:10.860 excitement, emotion, appeal on our side too, with the right ideas and with America loving

00:11:17.180 patriotic populist ideas, not communist left ideas.

00:11:21.360 Mamdani definitely strikes me as an actor.

00:11:23.440 I think I would say the same thing about AOC.

00:11:25.040 And I know there are stories about her being recruited for the role and a bunch of these

00:11:28.760 other people being recruited.

00:11:31.080 But I think, you know, my question is, like, what's really going on here?

00:11:35.120 Like, I don't really believe that this is just an organic movement that everybody suddenly

00:11:38.980 likes socialism.

00:11:40.780 I mean, it seems more like an operation of some sort, probably well funded, where they're

00:11:45.080 going after people in the primaries because most people aren't paying attention yeah well listen i

00:11:49.900 mean it is certainly well funded i mean that you know without a doubt and uh look you know i live

00:11:54.420 in in that world of into it's called you know i independent expenditure world it's sometimes

00:11:59.160 called dark money i don't like that term because it makes it sound like something nefarious is going

00:12:02.840 on uh and it's certainly not and the operations i'm involved in is not nefarious but it's dark

00:12:07.060 money because it doesn't have to all be disclosed in other words it's not like an actual campaign

00:12:10.720 right they're parallel campaigns which in many ways are bigger than the actual campaigns now

00:12:14.800 And the left does this and the right does it. And it's legal. And it's, you know, it's done on both sides. So but because I'm in that world, we have I have a really good idea of what's going on on the right, in terms of outside groups. And I and we have a decent idea of what's going on on the left. And yes, these are absolutely being funded by very powerful outside groups. Paradoxically, people leftists, communists who've made fortunes, I mean, communists ideologically, but not personally, people who have made fortunes through capitalism, right? People like Reed Hastings, people like George Soros, who effectively

00:12:44.800 exploited American capitalism to make fortunes from it and are now seeking to destroy the very

00:12:51.600 country, the very vehicle, the very system that allowed them to get so prosperous. It's sick 0.87

00:12:56.100 and it's evil and tragic, but it's reality. And again, we need to be aware of it. So there's

00:13:01.380 plenty of money behind these folks who claim to be, oh, I owe nothing. I'm just a young

00:13:07.340 bartender communist. No, there's lots and lots of money and organization behind this. And yeah,

00:13:12.580 They absolutely are recruiting young, dynamic people, often good looking, good on camera, and who have that kind of charisma and appeal.

00:13:22.520 So, again, I'm not saying that I fear them.

00:13:25.500 I mean, we're going to win, okay, but I'm saying respect them.

00:13:29.140 Have the correct – and I don't mean respect their ideas.

00:13:31.360 I'm saying respect the talent.

00:13:32.660 The game.

00:13:33.220 Right, exactly.

00:13:34.500 You can have an awful opponent who you despise, but you still need to recognize where are their strengths and how do we counter them, right?

00:13:42.160 And I'm saying this group, particularly with young voters, particularly with young women voters, they really have a lot of appeal.

00:13:50.020 And I think we need to realize, too, and I see this in all of my polling, that affordability is still, inflation slash affordability, this is still the number one issue by far in America.

00:14:00.440 Middle income folks are still struggling.

00:14:02.780 They've been struggling really for about five years, really, you know, basically since the pandemic with prices that they can't afford.

00:14:07.660 initially got that they got this wave of sort of charity money from the government and so they were

00:14:12.240 okay initially that was quickly spent and middle class folks are still struggling and they now

00:14:17.940 blame they blame joe biden which is why he you know effectively lost you know kamala lost in his

00:14:22.920 stead uh they now blame republicans and you might say that's not logical and maybe it isn't and

00:14:28.280 maybe it's not reasonable to blame republicans for the inflation but the point is they do

00:14:32.160 And as the governing party, the Republicans have a task in overcoming this. And these communists, these leftists, like this Kiros, who won last night, they are effectively exploiting that anxiety and saying, I'm going to make your whole life affordable and I'm going to do it through free everything, which of course is an absurdity. But that's the promise and it can be seductive.

00:14:52.040 I fear that the more we have these people getting elected, which I can't even believe Kyrus could be could even be qualified to run.

00:15:03.620 I think we need to make some official changes through Congress about who actually can run and who can't because she's crazy. 1.00

00:15:13.120 She's like a complete terrorist sympathizer, hates our country, yet wants to represent. 1.00

00:15:19.160 And and we don't have fair elections.

00:15:20.700 We can't, we have no way of auditing them as Scott would tell us.

00:15:23.740 So how do we know they're even fair or right?

00:15:27.260 But the more that these people get in and take over, the less chances we're going to

00:15:31.320 have of making official laws to change and secure our country is what worries me.

00:15:37.620 And I, you know, Marcella, I keep thinking like, you know, where you came from and, you

00:15:42.540 know, what your family escaped.

00:15:44.700 And then it's like, do you see the changes happening here in America and worry at all?

00:15:49.700 or are you okay with it? Not okay with it, but. No, what I was going to add is that,

00:15:56.200 and I'll answer that, but the Colorado situation and the situation in Los Angeles in the mayor

00:16:03.200 race with Rahman and Karen Bass and in New York is that the Democrats they are pushing out are

00:16:14.280 actually, the Democrats themselves are like, like us, they're tired of their regular Democrats not

00:16:23.360 doing anything, like Nancy Pelosi, you know, the main names that are sort of, you know, leftist,

00:16:30.760 but yet part of the swamp. So like Trump changed the Republican Party, the DSA is trying to change

00:16:38.940 the Democratic Party. I'm sure that's obvious. But, you know, I think it's not organic.

00:16:44.280 I think China is very much involved in having this connection, as well as some of the Saudi

00:16:52.080 and South, some of the Arabian, some of the Middle Eastern countries.

00:16:58.680 One of the people that is under investigation, and this is all alleged, is Neville Roy Singman.

00:17:05.020 and he's a Maoist and he's under investigation in the DOJ and he has

00:17:12.260 adjacently supported the DSA. A lot of very popular, very rich people have supported the

00:17:23.000 DSA that want to push the Democrats way over to the extreme. For example, for me,

00:17:30.740 when I graduated law school, even before I was trying to be, they were trying to recruit me.

00:17:36.880 Like I literally, they went to my graduation, different, different politicians, different

00:17:44.460 people from like, you know, La Raza, Mecha, all these people that are very pro, not only

00:17:53.900 are they anti-republican but they are also communist in their sense of belief um and i

00:18:05.360 would even go to the point of saying races against white people um and european and like the colonizer

00:18:13.540 kind of thing so this is all like they're right there like if you are a college student or you 0.54

00:18:20.080 are a lawyer you're going to be of any ethnicity you're going to be hounded by these people to be

00:18:28.560 part of their group and a lot of people want to be a part of the group like they want to belong

00:18:33.740 to something yeah and in the pays well you know like like they pay money to people you know for

00:18:42.160 doing this type of yeah uh but it's been a long transition it hasn't just been from these

00:18:49.340 politicians now is the the the college system and the education system has has created this

00:19:00.380 uh individuals um what they're being taught all the time i had to get into quite a lot of

00:19:07.980 arguments with professors about what oh being rich is evil uh having money is evil and all these

00:19:16.460 things like so yeah so there was a lot I was not a popular person oh but you were independent

00:19:23.920 individualistic and you were right um so do you agree with that Steve what Marcel is saying I

00:19:29.700 mean you know yeah certainly and particularly uh in terms of the ideological capture unfortunately

00:19:35.060 of so much of education you know and it's it's probably most obvious and at its worst in higher

00:19:40.600 education but of course it's everywhere throughout the educational system and unfortunately the left

00:19:44.740 really effectively played a long game, right? They said, you know, we are going to take over

00:19:49.280 education in this country, K-12, as well as the colleges. And they did pretty successfully. And

00:19:55.120 while a lot of right-wingers, frankly, were, or even just centrists, were asleep at the wheel and

00:20:00.040 uninvolved, they took over school boards, teachers unions, obviously, the administrative posts,

00:20:06.020 the textbook companies, I mean, all of it, the entire ecosystem of education in America.

00:20:10.540 And it made a huge, huge, you know, and very nefarious difference in this country.

00:20:16.080 And and they created a, you know, a wave of very misled, misinformed, and in some cases, America hating young people.

00:20:25.120 And we certainly see that, you know, particularly with the millennials. 0.59

00:20:27.460 Now, things are a bit better with Gen Z, particularly Gen Z men.

00:20:31.960 Gen Z is by no means right wing. It's not a conservative demographic, but it's better than the millennials were. 0.94

00:20:36.700 So I think there is at least a reaction against it. 0.94

00:20:39.000 And thankfully, since COVID, one of the only actual blessings of all of the COVID panic and all the tyranny of COVID was that a lot of parents around the country got really aware of what was going on in schools because the school came into their home, right, via the laptop, effectively.

00:20:54.020 And they said, wait a second, what are we teaching?

00:20:56.520 And so thankfully, there is a revolt going on.

00:20:59.560 So there is a movement now the other way in terms of education.

00:21:03.280 Homeschooling has exploded.

00:21:05.000 Public schools are getting a lot more scrutiny.

00:21:07.480 Conservatives are running for school board all over the country.

00:21:10.700 You know, the most ludicrous abuses of children like Loudoun County, Virginia, are getting exposed, at least, even if it's not being changed in that really liberal locale.

00:21:19.340 So I do think things are getting better.

00:21:20.900 But, yeah, I completely agree, of course, with Marcella that much of the problem flows from our schools.

00:21:26.620 And unfortunately, right now, you know, if you want to be a young person of character, of patriotism, of Christianity, you have to really, you have to have the personal resolve to stand up against the system, which isn't always easy for a young person, right, for them to do.

00:21:43.520 And they shouldn't be put in that position.

00:21:44.800 But the reality is they are in too many of our institutions.

00:21:47.200 I'll give you one example.

00:21:48.020 I was talking to a very good doctor friend of mine, really renowned physician, and his daughter wants to be a doctor.

00:21:54.320 and she just got into medical school, one of the best medical schools in America.

00:21:57.780 And he's, you know, of course, thrilled about that.

00:21:59.120 It's really hard to get into med school, especially the one she got into.

00:22:02.060 And he said, he's like, but I'm worried, even though it's prestigious.

00:22:04.600 He said, I can't tell you how woke this place is, right?

00:22:07.120 This is a school that's supposed to be teaching science.

00:22:09.080 It shouldn't even matter what their philosophy is, but it does, right?

00:22:12.720 And, you know, I think people would be shocked at what's going on in med schools.

00:22:16.520 You know, both, by the way, in terms of the DEI nonsense, you know,

00:22:19.200 so in terms of who they're letting in, what kind of doctors are we going to end up with?

00:22:22.180 are they actually qualified or were they just there because of some characteristic you know

00:22:26.300 they couldn't even control right they just had the right melanin or the right sexual preference

00:22:30.700 so that's alarming of course but then on top of that the medical schools indoctrinating physicians

00:22:35.560 who are supposed to be healing scientists not propagandists with all kinds of woke nonsense

00:22:40.440 and he I mean and he was even asking me you know should she go there I said well look you've got

00:22:43.760 to be the judge of that and she has to of course I'm like you know if you you formed her as a young

00:22:47.980 woman of integrity and high principles. And in her case, I think she's also deeply faithful.

00:22:53.360 So I mean, I'm like, I think she'll be fine and have the perseverance to stand up against the

00:22:58.140 nonsense. But how ludicrous that we even have to think about it, right? 0.84

00:23:02.360 Like med school is not hard enough. Now you got to get through all that, right? It's like,

00:23:05.980 I've got to figure this out.

00:23:07.960 Yeah.

00:23:08.140 You know what? What came to mind as Rush Limbaugh would always say, and this might be,

00:23:14.000 Steve you might you might agree with this is that they make it seem like there's a lot of them

00:23:19.600 um that they the the very left is the very common is this lady the one on Colorado yesterday

00:23:27.920 um the people the one in New York oh you know everybody is supporting them they're popular

00:23:35.120 Erica mentioned like oh when you have to stand up like everybody else is going this other way so you

00:23:42.060 have to kind of be the person against the popular the crowd but what ended up happening with rush

00:23:49.100 is that they were trying to take him off air and what they discovered is that there was a lot of

00:23:54.380 bots not bots per se back then but he realized that there was like 20 people uh not like the

00:24:02.260 immense amount but they made it look like there was all this huge amount of people that wanted to

00:24:08.440 have his show end and then he realized they discovered that the advertisers and all this

00:24:17.100 they were all connected it was like it was just smoke and mirrors that goes back to the theater

00:24:22.180 kids you know but I don't believe I believe in New York that they figured it was one of those

00:24:29.100 elections that many people don't show up to and I think it was like six percent of the electorate

00:24:34.260 that like actually supported these people. So do you think that there's this huge approval? I think

00:24:42.620 it's just, they're pretending that it's being approved by the fake news and all of that. It's

00:24:48.020 like a hoax sort of. Yeah. Yeah. No, Marcella, I think you're making a good point. Look, and

00:24:52.660 because I do a ton of polling. And so, you know, for example, if we just poll objectively and ask

00:24:56.960 objective questions about issues, America is still a center-right country. I mean, we are,

00:25:02.040 You know, America is not as right wing as I am. I'll be the first to admit that roughly 25 percent of America is.

00:25:08.780 I mean, there is a significant minority that is, you know, what I would call, you know, pretty hardcore patriotic populace, America first, right wing, whatever you want to say.

00:25:18.200 But but on issues generally, America is a at least a center right party when you ask the questions, you know, in an objective way and correct, they're not party of a country.

00:25:28.160 So you're exactly correct. However, the leftists have been very skilled at accessing the levers of power and exaggerating their strength.

00:25:36.240 And of course, in certain places, they are very strong, right? Like New York City, like Denver, where we saw last night.

00:25:42.220 And the other aspect is the left is always going to be better at organizing and, for example, turning out the vote. Why?

00:25:50.700 Because to them, politics is religion. I think that's really important to realize because they are so secular.

00:25:56.160 And the Democrat Party of the 2020s is a thoroughly secular party now, right?

00:25:59.880 There is no place for, you know, for religious people and not even just Christian religions. 0.52

00:26:05.060 There's no place for religious people, period, but certainly not for tradition minded Christians who used to be Democrats, right?

00:26:11.580 Catholics, for example, overwhelmingly used to be Democrats in this country. 0.75

00:26:14.360 That's changed dramatically. There's no home for them now, the Democratic Party. 0.73

00:26:17.020 So because the Democratic Party is so secularist and because they worship politics and government as their God, I truly believe,

00:26:24.100 You have to realize there is the devotion of faith is actually real to them.

00:26:29.280 It's a pagan religion, right? 0.99

00:26:30.840 It's false.

00:26:31.560 But regardless, it's very motivating, right?

00:26:33.860 Just as the faith of an authentic Christian is very motivating, the faith of the secular humanist leftist is really motivating.

00:26:40.400 And so they're organized and they get out and they vote.

00:26:44.180 Whereas our people generally who agree with us are harder to turn out.

00:26:47.760 Now, we can do it, right?

00:26:48.760 We did it in 2024.

00:26:49.620 of course, we had Trump on the ballot, which makes everything easier because he's got such

00:26:53.400 amazing persuasion skills. It is just so dynamic. Although he also turns out the other side. So it

00:26:59.500 also cuts both ways, right? He's a turnout machine in both directions. You know, let's be just honest

00:27:05.080 about that. But this is one of the challenges we face. So for example, when I talk about Gen Z,

00:27:09.580 I did a national Gen Z poll. And the split between men and women among Gen Z is just profound and

00:27:16.000 widening. And it's kind of scary to me, frankly, way, way wider than any other age group. In

00:27:20.920 general, men lean more to the right than women at any age group, but it's a massive split among

00:27:25.700 young men and young women. But here's the deal. Young women vote at a far, far higher rate than

00:27:31.040 young men. It's hard to get young men to vote, right? It just is. It's hard to even get them

00:27:34.600 registered. Because the men are working, Steve. I'm just kidding. Well, no, I mean, I think that's

00:27:38.200 part of it, but yeah, it's just, it's not cool. It's whatever. There's a lot of reasons, you know,

00:27:41.760 right, that they don't, that it's not easy to get them to vote. But like, so those are the

00:27:46.260 challenges we face, you know, but hey, I'm also the belief as a campaign guy, like, you know,

00:27:49.400 we don't, we don't complain about it. We don't whine and moan, we figure it out, right? Like,

00:27:52.680 okay, well, how do we win anyway? And we did it in 2024. Now, you know, like, for example,

00:27:57.380 I mentioned, we've got challenges this election, okay, affordability, and inflation anxiety is

00:28:02.060 real, right? It is. And President Trump, you know, says the polling's fake, it's not fake,

00:28:06.400 okay, I'm doing this polling, I, you know, I don't do fake polling, right? I don't put my thumb on

00:28:09.860 the scale. Either way, I want accurate polling so that we can figure out what we need to do.

00:28:13.940 People are, and again, you can say that it's wrong that they're blaming Republicans. Maybe it is.

00:28:19.080 Maybe it's totally illogical. The point is, this is where we are right now. The people are very

00:28:24.280 anxious about the economy. They can't afford their lives. And now they're just as mad at

00:28:29.240 Republicans and Trump as they were at Democrats and Biden a couple of years ago. Now, I think

00:28:34.500 if the war ends, I think it truly ends, I think things are going to get much, much better. I think 0.96

00:28:39.540 We were on a great economic trajectory pre-war, and unfortunately, that improvement, that

00:28:44.940 ascent was totally artificially halted by the Iran war. 0.93

00:28:50.020 So I'm confident that we're going to get back there to that positive trend of real

00:28:54.540 wages growing, and that will improve sentiment, improve confidence, and improve the chances

00:28:58.860 for Republicans into November.

00:29:00.740 But I'll also be the first to admit, I'm not sure if we have enough time, even if the war

00:29:05.640 truly ends this weekend.

00:29:07.420 That's 4th of July, sort of gift to America.

00:29:09.300 Okay, we're done fighting. We have a reasonable deal with Iran. Is there enough time between now and November? I think there is, but admittedly, that's a subjective analysis. But regardless, we need to know, what do we need to do from here? 0.98

00:29:21.640 And so, for example, let me be specific. My polling tells me that still, by far, our strongest issue is immigration. It's also the issue on which the Democrats remain just stubbornly radical. They are absolute extremists, and especially this new crop of Democrats, these DSA Democrats.

00:29:37.540 I mean, they literally say open borders. I mean, they're they are they are overt about their their opposition to any kind of immigration control, any kind of immigration enforcement.

00:29:49.140 They are open borders radicals. Many of them, of course, are foreigners who came here and clearly didn't love America when they came and still don't love America now. 0.73

00:29:57.340 right uh including this kiros and um and so that to me is where both number one we have a strength 0.99

00:30:04.640 that immigration control immigration enforcement is popular in this country it's by far the most

00:30:10.300 popular issue for trump for the gop and our opponents remain totally radicalized like they

00:30:17.100 haven't normalized or gotten reasonable in any way so to me like this is the issue that we and

00:30:21.820 by the way i'm also a believer it relates right back to the anxiety over inflation i think these

00:30:26.360 are inextricably linked, meaning the more we control immigration and the more we get

00:30:31.220 illegals out of this country, it relieves stress on the housing market.

00:30:35.220 It means there are fewer illegals competing against Americans in the labor market. 0.99

00:30:38.160 So wages rise, costs come down. 0.52

00:30:40.920 So not only is it the right thing to do for our country, just for our sovereignty, for

00:30:45.640 our cohesion as a nation, for our street safety, our national security, it's also, I think,

00:30:49.880 an economic policy.

00:30:51.020 It's an economic plan to get Americans more prosperous.

00:30:54.900 So to me, that's the place for us to work.

00:30:58.720 It's a tall order.

00:31:00.680 I'm going to sort of pivot because there's a couple of things I really want to make sure

00:31:04.420 we get to with you being here.

00:31:06.900 Well, one, let's talk about your documentary that you made, Paradise Lost, right?

00:31:13.140 Yes.

00:31:13.580 I love that you've been doing these series of mini documentaries because my attention

00:31:18.140 span is perfect for your documentaries, I must say.

00:31:20.840 Uh, but this one pertains to, um, just like we were saying theater kids, which is Gavin Newsom.

00:31:28.440 Um, the man has, he is, he is that quintessential snake in the grass. He will change his opinion

00:31:36.400 and the way he speaks about things with whatever way the wind is blowing that guides him toward 0.73

00:31:41.820 that white house. And it is so disgusting to watch. And the state of California itself is just 0.98

00:31:50.500 it's gone you guys it's gone i i don't even know how he can even show his face let alone think that

00:31:56.760 he wants to represent our country and the world um so i'm going to show you a trailer of steve's

00:32:03.560 latest uh documentary called paradise lost and then we're going to talk about it on the other

00:32:08.420 side just as two minutes gavin newsom destroyed paradise he has brought suffering failure

00:32:18.120 and misery to the state of California.

00:32:21.900 A place once so revered and admired

00:32:25.220 that it was compared to the Garden of Eden.

00:32:29.060 It's a great place to live if you're part of the feudal elite.

00:32:32.460 If you're not, it's a nightmare.

00:32:34.380 Our leadership has failed us.

00:32:35.900 It's gotten really dangerous.

00:32:37.060 The crime is out of control, the homelessness.

00:32:39.060 It's scary these days.

00:32:40.240 It's the highest rate of poverty,

00:32:41.960 the American dream in California.

00:32:44.100 It's very, very difficult to achieve.

00:32:45.940 His policies have failed in every possible way regarding the rebuild of Pacific Palisades.

00:32:54.200 As of November of 2025, only one home has been rebuilt.

00:32:58.320 Do not expect any rebuilding. You have no idea how much red tape there is in regulation.

00:33:03.580 It is not going to happen.

00:33:04.840 I haven't seen one construction worker.

00:33:07.000 No, not one.

00:33:07.800 What's going on? Why is this not happening? Why is this not the busiest construction site in America?

00:33:12.720 Gavin Newsom says it's gone because of climate change.

00:33:15.940 we're on the tip of the spear you saw one of the most devastating wildfires in american history

00:33:21.060 in the middle of winter there is nothing at all unusual about this fire unleashing in january

00:33:28.740 because that is right when the santa anta winds kick up california fails to manage its many

00:33:36.180 forests correctly it does not clear brush an effectively thin forest as it needs to do

00:33:43.300 The nearby San Yanez Reservoir was empty when the fires began.

00:33:47.900 Actually, Gavin, it was arson and totally negligent initial fire response, not so-called climate change.

00:33:57.780 Meanwhile, Newsom actively runs for president.

00:34:01.180 While the Palisades sits in ruins, it's truly paradise lost.

00:34:07.460 And it's Gavin Newsom's fault.

00:34:11.260 Amen.

00:34:12.140 So Steve, my question is, I don't, I believe this, like, I just have like this, like feeling

00:34:18.900 that I believe this, that, but, but my question is how, how could they time it and make it this

00:34:26.500 way? But I do believe they wanted it to burn. I do believe they wanted the land and I do believe

00:34:31.060 they want 15 minute cities. I don't know, like, you know, it was arson. I don't know if they,

00:34:36.680 you know, knew this just would eventually happen, but you know, having, I don't live there. I live

00:34:41.240 on the East coast. I'm here in New Jersey. I completely know about what happens in California

00:34:45.580 every year with the fires. I know this. I know about the Santa Ana winds. I know that they have

00:34:50.740 an issue putting fires out. There's like always a water problem. So what, you know, what's the

00:34:56.940 conclusion? Because I feel like that they were like, yeah, screw it. Let it burn and we'll rebuild 0.70

00:35:01.660 the way we want. And one home is rebuilt. And like you said, I'm here on a Tuesday at three

00:35:07.220 o'clock and there's no construction workers, what's happening? Yeah. No, everything about it

00:35:12.140 is appalling. You may be right that it's intentional because the level of incompetence

00:35:15.460 is so extreme that it's hard to believe that in America, especially, and especially in a state

00:35:20.440 like California, right, where there's so much talent, it's hard to believe that the cascade

00:35:26.140 of failures that happened pre-fire and now post-fire, you know, could really just unfold

00:35:31.640 organically, right? So yes, it's not, you don't have to be conspiracy theorists to think

00:35:35.500 how purposeful was a lot of this? And the answer is, I don't know for sure. It could be, you know,

00:35:41.780 but regardless, what we do know for certain, right, is that this fire, this tragedy was 100%

00:35:47.620 preventable. And that to me, even worse, the failure to rebuild ever since is an example

00:35:54.800 of the complete failure of Gavin Newsom in California. And it's what he wants to bring

00:36:00.580 to america so in other words he wants to bring misery and tragedy and then a total inability

00:36:05.740 an almost third world-like corrupt inability to address the tragedy or failure that he created

00:36:12.160 in the first place right and that's just you know the reality i mean this fire i mean yes it was set

00:36:17.220 by an arsonist but the point is it was actually that fire that he set was actually quickly put

00:36:21.900 out yes but it was allowed to smolder right why was it allowed to smolder well because there were

00:36:26.940 there were protected plants okay i'm not kidding because there were protected plants in the area

00:36:31.980 and they literally we have the email they said quote let it burn so it burned for days smoldering

00:36:37.100 low level uh burned for days then the winds pick up which again 100 predictable everybody knows

00:36:42.380 they knew the wind was coming they knew it was coming uh the wind comes and then even you know

00:36:48.300 like i said it's just a cascade of fair failures okay then the winds come and then it started then

00:36:53.580 Then it blows into Pacific Palisades. It's still, I mean, OK, bad at that point, dangerous, but it still could have easily been contained if they had freaking water.

00:37:02.460 OK, but no water. Why? Because the reservoirs are empty.

00:37:06.240 Because what did Gavin Newsom do every five or six years? It's been this way in California for all of history.

00:37:11.800 OK, California goes through a series of droughts that are followed by intense snowfall in the Sierra Nevadas.

00:37:17.440 All of the snow melts. Tons of water comes down into all of California, really.

00:37:22.240 but particularly Southern California in that area.

00:37:24.320 It's one of the reasons California is such a wonderful place

00:37:27.260 because it's most of the time hot and dry,

00:37:29.520 but they get the water when they need it from the snowfall.

00:37:32.300 And they well know, that's why they have these giant reservoirs,

00:37:35.600 that you need to collect that water

00:37:37.080 because you need to use it then during the inevitable drought years

00:37:40.360 and you need to use it to fight fires.

00:37:43.240 San Yanez Reservoir was empty.

00:37:45.720 Why? Because Gavin Newsom said,

00:37:47.260 we are going to let all of the snowfall run into the ocean.

00:37:50.580 Okay, so literally collected.

00:37:51.860 none of it. So the firemen show up, they have no water. By the way, and I document this in the

00:37:58.100 film, private Rick Caruso ran for, people might remember, ran for mayor there, very wealthy land

00:38:03.220 developer. He has an entire shopping and housing complex in the middle of Pacific Palisades.

00:38:09.020 He knew of the ineptitude of the fire response of LA and California. And so he had his own

00:38:13.680 private fire department, his own water, his own system. He saved his block. It's still fine. Okay.

00:38:19.100 it's totally fine. It's untouched. He saved his block. So a private citizen proved this isn't

00:38:23.760 rocket science. Okay. You can do this, right? Have water for that. That's number one. Um, you know,

00:38:29.180 that didn't happen in Pacific Palisades and 5,000, as many as 6,000. And you're on the coast,

00:38:34.420 which is another, it's like, there's a whole ocean right there. Figure it out. Plan ahead. Like,

00:38:38.600 hello, the water is right there. And all of that Malibu burned down right there.

00:38:44.180 And to me, though, the aftermath is even worse, as bad as those failures were.

00:38:50.400 And people died. It's not just homes, of course.

00:38:52.860 But to me, the ensuing failures since the fire are even worse, I think, than those that allowed this tragedy to unfold.

00:39:01.880 Because to me, and to your point, for folks who haven't been there, and of course I show this in the documentary,

00:39:06.500 but to your point, Erica, this is some of the most beautiful land on planet Earth, and I'm not exaggerating.

00:39:11.440 The Palisades are almost sort of a terrace, almost a stair step down to the Pacific Ocean with just almost everyone has a view because of that, because it's so sloped, you know, perfect climate, this very high end, very expensive real estate.

00:39:24.480 A lot of very powerful, wealthy people live there. And that was fascinating to me, by the way.

00:39:28.500 Like, look, if even powerful, wealthy people in Pacific Palisades, most of whom are Democrats, by the way, many of whom are friends and supporters of Gavin Newsom.

00:39:36.140 If even they can't get permits, even they can't get their homes rebuilt.

00:39:41.080 And it was appalling.

00:39:43.140 You know, I stood there in literally ashes, just a mess, almost nothing going on.

00:39:48.960 No construction, no trucks, no hammers swinging, you know, no guys in hard hats.

00:39:54.680 It should be the busiest construction site in America.

00:39:57.160 It should be intense, right?

00:39:58.380 There's plenty of money.

00:39:59.300 There's plenty of will to get it done in a beautiful place, and it's not happening.

00:40:02.920 So my point is, let's expose this, show it to America.

00:40:06.900 This is who Gavin Newsom is, because he's running for president.

00:40:09.840 He's got a pretty good shot of being the Democrat nominee.

00:40:12.380 According to the betting markets, it's either going to be him or Kamala Harris.

00:40:15.480 Now we'll see. We've got a ways to go.

00:40:16.820 What about Ro Khanna, another snake?

00:40:19.020 Yeah, I mean, you know, and I think AOC is going to jump in. 1.00

00:40:21.340 I mean, it'll be a crazy race on their side.

00:40:22.900 But again, according to the betting markets right now, you have two Californians as the two favorites.

00:40:26.720 And I'm going to do everything I can this year and next year to expose both of them through documentaries and other, you know, other work I do so that there's a record, whoever that nominee is, we're going to show exactly what did they do, particularly those two, what did they do in California?

00:40:41.560 Because California for so long in American history has been truly the golden land, right?

00:40:46.800 America has just always revered and admired California.

00:40:50.260 And you shouldn't revere and admire California anymore if you do.

00:40:53.460 You know, we pointed out there Susan Crabtree from RealClearPolitics, who's fantastic and literally wrote the book on Gavin Newsom and his corruption.

00:41:00.140 It's a great book.

00:41:00.660 I used a lot of that in my documentary.

00:41:03.240 You know, she points out California has the highest poverty rate in America, and I think that will shock a lot of people.

00:41:08.460 People don't believe me when I tell them.

00:41:09.880 I said, go look it up.

00:41:11.140 U.S. Census Bureau puts out poverty rates, and they do it the right way, which is adjusting for cost.

00:41:15.400 So when you adjust for costs, which are sky high in California, everything, housing, electricity, gasoline, everything, costs are sky high in California.

00:41:24.420 When you do poverty rates the right way, the poorest state in America is California.

00:41:30.460 And also with school, too, the kids are some of the worst educated.

00:41:35.080 And Goldie wants to know, is Gavin the favored candidate?

00:41:40.400 I think in the betting markets right now he is.

00:41:42.160 Yeah, I believe.

00:41:42.720 uh you know personally i think kamala is in my opinion uh i would say kamala is a favorite right

00:41:48.960 now well only because listen gavin's got a lot going for him meaning he uh he's gotten very

00:41:53.860 radical which you need to be of course you know and to your point erica like you know he's just

00:41:57.620 a chameleon and a snake and he goes wherever he thinks the votes and the money are so he's gotten

00:42:01.640 more radical over time he's he's you know inching over to that dsm you know excuse me dsa side now

00:42:07.320 of the communists of the democrat party and uh he's got a ton of money behind him you know there's

00:42:12.840 there is enormous wealth in california it's very concentrated among a few among an elite but you

00:42:17.720 know enormous tech and hollywood wealth behind him of course the getty family who has effectively

00:42:22.520 made him his entire life he's a created politician you know in very many ways because

00:42:27.720 his father was an attorney for the getty family and he grew up almost as a as an adjacent getty

00:42:32.520 child. And so the Getty, uh, very radical San Francisco oil family fortune has always been

00:42:37.740 behind him. So he's going to have a lot of money. Um, he's, he's radical, which you need to be in

00:42:41.920 the democratic side. And listen, we were talking about media skills before he's good. Okay. He's

00:42:45.640 good on air. He's slick as hell. He's great at debating too. Yeah. I think he's a demon. I do,

00:42:51.220 but I respect this demons media skills. He's a good looking savvy, a sharp guy, quick on his

00:42:57.820 feet throws tons of facts out much of which most of which have no relevance to what he's actually

00:43:02.880 claiming you know to be true but regardless he sort of snowballs you with facts that's clearly

00:43:07.380 his strategy uh with facts and statistics and he does have the kind of mind who can remember them

00:43:12.380 i'll give him that um so uh you know i i take him seriously but having said all of that about you

00:43:17.820 know okay why don't i think he's going to win the demo nominee and he could i mean i look i don't

00:43:22.200 pretend to to know exactly what they're going to do on their side my guess is though in the end

00:43:26.660 he still is a straight white man and i just don't know that that can win the dem primary

00:43:31.620 uh and kamala you know checking several boxes right uh you know indian black daughter of

00:43:39.320 immigrants woman uh mentally handicapped i just my guess is in the end she went but we'll see

00:43:46.220 you know we'll see i gotta be ready for which or whomever it is it could be aoc i mean don't don't

00:43:50.720 she's not out of it all right i mean she's popular if she can get young people out i mean who knows

00:43:54.860 right but but for newsome i just think it's important to uh to expose who he is and to also

00:44:00.460 show people hey california which was maybe about the best place on planet earth i know uh it's been

00:44:06.160 ruined by leftists oh and can you do it quickly because there's something we really have to get

00:44:09.520 to go ahead well i just want to ask like how in the face of all this did spencer pratt not even

00:44:13.220 get second place for the la mayor race cheating yeah it just doesn't make any sense i mean i it

00:44:19.500 It seems like everything like the L.A. up to the state is just like hostile to its citizens.

00:44:25.880 It's like they're doing the worst things possible for people, making it worse at every step.

00:44:29.280 And no one seems I mean, you know, if you believe the elections were legitimate, no one seems to care.

00:44:35.640 Right. Yeah, I know. It's pretty sick.

00:44:39.840 We're going to you know, you guys push that out. Let's let's embrace and amplify, as Scott would say.

00:44:45.300 um please share steve's uh steve's documentary everywhere you know even to other platforms

00:44:52.300 whatever you can do just to get it out there and we'll we'll stay on it and steve will be back and

00:44:57.240 we'll talk about the things but i have to have to get to this because uh yesterday sheridan gorman's

00:45:04.140 mom spoke in front of the horrendous politicians um it was for the angel families and we were

00:45:11.600 talking about illegal immigration, being killed by illegal immigrants, which just shouldn't even

00:45:20.620 be a thing. And I want to play two clips for you. One was, I don't have the whole thing of J-PAL,

00:45:27.860 but you'll, is that her name? J-PAL? She's disgusting. She's a Democrat. And the way she

00:45:34.060 spoke about like these angel families, like I've already had to listen to four of these today.

00:45:39.500 it's like, oh, I'm sorry, four people here whose family had a family member killed by an illegal

00:45:46.380 immigrant and you have to listen to it? Too bad. So here's Sheridan Gorman's mom. Steve can speak 1.00

00:45:51.260 about this because he also did a documentary about this situation. Let's listen. Unfortunately,

00:45:58.060 it's the fourth time in this committee that we've had a hearing on sanctuary cities. There's many 0.99

00:46:03.340 other things that we could be doing other than this. Get so upset with your butts and you don't 0.98

00:46:08.760 want to talk about this this is the fourth hearing do you know what I'm thankful for and this is so 0.95

00:46:14.240 messed up I'm going to say I'm thankful after hearing I didn't even know what an angel family

00:46:18.520 was had no idea never even heard about it there's so many out here you know what I'm thankful for 0.59

00:46:23.980 I'm thankful that my daughter was just shot in the back of the head not raped murdered dismembered 0.62

00:46:31.140 put in a put in a garbage can like Megan boss with bleats poured on her and they didn't fire 0.87

00:46:36.480 fight her for 50 days and you can actually dismiss the angel families you

00:46:40.720 can say but you don't want to hear four four sessions on angel families I'm

00:46:45.720 sorry you need to you need to I'm actually thankful that my daughter

00:46:52.080 wasn't raped how messed up is that that I'm thankful every day that she was just 0.51

00:46:56.880 murdered not raped and dismembered like think about that like how messed up is

00:47:02.280 that do you know what I thought of this morning when I got up what the joy of

00:47:07.080 anyone have a baby here the joy of picking out their first outfit that

00:47:10.920 they're gonna wear on their ride home from the hospital I had to pick up my 0.99

00:47:14.820 daughter's last outfit and she was a fabulous dresser we had a hundred 0.94

00:47:19.660 people come to our home a hundred friends and family came to her home we 0.86

00:47:23.400 had her cremated actually after and they all decorated her urn with rhinestones

00:47:29.700 all of them put it on there she's fabulous even in death but the first time all the excitement

00:47:35.800 of having a child and then having people make excuses and butts i'm sorry this is unacceptable

00:47:41.900 i don't you know there are so many angel families out here and the day that i have to wake up and

00:47:46.800 be thankful that my daughter was only shot and not raped should tell you something it's crazy

00:47:54.380 she's incredible and you know to any angel family man i am so effing sorry that our country has

00:48:06.420 failed all of you like you have no idea it's a disgusting travesty and this shouldn't happen

00:48:11.840 to anybody and i hope mrs gorman that you can keep being a voice because she is so effective

00:48:20.300 and you just feel it from her heart.

00:48:22.900 And she's so right.

00:48:23.760 Like that comparison of like,

00:48:25.140 she was just shot in the back of the head 1.00

00:48:26.920 and not dismembered and raped 1.00

00:48:29.140 and put in a garbage can with bleach on her. 0.97

00:48:31.500 I mean, what are we doing in this country? 1.00

00:48:33.780 And any politician that just can't get out

00:48:37.440 of their own fricking way

00:48:38.700 and start caring about American people, 0.99

00:48:41.680 America and Americans should be thrown the hell out of here. 0.95

00:48:46.060 And I'm like, I was so upset watching her. 0.99

00:48:48.980 I feel so terrible. And Steve, you met her, right? I did not meet her. But I did do a documentary

00:48:56.700 at the scene of the crime right there at Loyola Beach, right next to Loyola University on the

00:49:01.540 north side of Chicago, which by the way, is a seemingly very, very safe neighborhood,

00:49:05.700 especially compared to a lot of Chicago. Because generally the lakefront, the waterfront in most

00:49:09.820 places is higher income. By the way, the creep who killed her lived right there, okay? Lived in an

00:49:16.280 expensive lakefront neighborhood, we were paying his rent. I point this out in my documentary,

00:49:22.140 and that's really a short one, by the way. I think it's about a 10 minute. You can find all

00:49:24.760 of my docs at cortesinvestigates.com, but that one is up there, the Sheridan Gorman.

00:49:28.540 I know this area very well. I've lived in Chicago for most of my life until the crazies chased me

00:49:33.000 out of there, but know the area very well. Love Loyola University, or at least what it used to

00:49:36.880 be. It's become a crazy, you know, wokeatorium like so many of these schools, but they have a

00:49:40.880 magnificent piece of real estate on the lake on the north side of Chicago. And she was at an area,

00:49:45.520 They were out trying to see the northern lights, you know, late at night, but doing nothing wrong.

00:49:49.720 A group of friends sitting on a pier in a seemingly safe neighborhood. 0.96

00:49:53.100 And without any provocation, without anything preceding it, this crazy creep whose rent we paid, illegal alien, broke into this country illegally. 0.73

00:50:02.100 Biden, instead of deporting him, sent him to Chicago. 0.94

00:50:05.000 We paid to get him to Chicago.

00:50:06.800 He then commits additional crimes, gets picked up by the Chicago PD instead of being turned over to ICE for deportation.

00:50:12.780 and none of this ever happens. He is released because the Chicago PD, and I don't blame the

00:50:17.620 cops, the Chicago PD is unable to cooperate with federal law enforcement because of Mayor Johnson

00:50:22.680 and Governor Pritzker and a bunch of other cruel communist radicals in Illinois and a lot of these

00:50:28.420 states in America. And then this cretin, for whatever reason, decided to go buy a gun and 0.99

00:50:35.740 without provocation, just, you know, in cold blood, murder a precious young American woman. 0.98

00:50:42.620 And for Jayapal, by the way, to sit there and disrespect this tragedy and this grief,

00:50:48.620 you know, Jayapal should be deported, all right? Not only does she not belong in Congress,

00:50:52.360 she doesn't belong in the United States. This Kiros we've been talking about came here from 1.00

00:50:56.640 Ethiopia. Rashida Tlaib came from overseas. Unfortunately, we can go on and on. Yeah,

00:51:02.800 Ilhan Omar. These people do not belong in our country. Forget about in Mandani, of course,

00:51:09.380 himself. Forget about in high office, you know, or in the U.S. Congress. But yeah, gosh, I mean,

00:51:14.560 watching Mrs. Gorman, you know, I both wanted to cry and punch something, right, because I'm so

00:51:19.620 angry at the same time. But what a wonderful woman. It's heart-wrenching what she's going 0.98

00:51:24.720 through. Any person with a heart, of course, has such compassion for her, but especially those of

00:51:28.860 us who are blessed with children um you know especially the children of roughly that age you

00:51:32.640 know college age or so it's just an unimaginable tragedy that she's enduring but god bless her

00:51:36.880 that she is trying to take that unbelievable grief and she's trying to turn it into something

00:51:41.160 positive and to prevent it from happening to other families and it has to be so hard for her right

00:51:46.200 to get in front of the camera to get in front of the microphone to be in front of people like jay

00:51:50.220 appell and but god bless her for doing it because i think it's really really important and it's got

00:51:55.180 to be so so difficult to do that but yeah I went there to the scene of the crime to honor her let

00:51:59.320 me just tell you this too quickly because I think this is instructive that neighborhood in Chicago

00:52:02.820 Rogers Park is a lot of sort of older they call the lakefront liberals it's sort of older

00:52:07.480 kind of aging hippies right so boomer left-wingers that's that's that neighborhood in Rogers Park as

00:52:14.680 we were filming I took more grief from the neighborhood for filming I'm like okay you're

00:52:20.660 more upset about me telling the story than about what happened here and uh now thinking they were

00:52:25.900 mostly you know sort of like I said sort of sort of uh hippie Karens so I wasn't I wasn't fearful

00:52:31.420 that the crew or I were in danger but boy were they messing with our filming were they screaming 0.57

00:52:35.300 at me were they getting involved like I really kind of needed security I mean this had just

00:52:38.820 happened I'm like why don't you direct your anger at the murder right here you know within steps of

00:52:44.940 where you live of a precious young American woman who had her whole life to look forward to um you

00:52:50.380 But that's not the anger. You're mad at me for telling the story and for reporting on this.

00:52:54.040 But it's just it's indicative, unfortunately, of where the hardcore left voters are.

00:52:58.580 So it's not just the office holders. They're terrible. 0.91

00:53:00.300 But there is a hardcore left communist constituency, unfortunately, in this country.

00:53:03.520 And they dominate in places in urban places generally like Rogers Park in Illinois.

00:53:08.260 And I experienced that firsthand. And Steve, I'm really glad that you called out some politicians by name.

00:53:13.840 And I feel like people are doing that more now because we're fed up and like we're not trying to be polite anymore.

00:53:19.860 because that was the suicidal empathy, you know, Gad Saad came on here and we talked all about it.

00:53:25.740 And I am all for calling people out by name, taking a stand for the people who are dead now

00:53:31.660 or can't take a stand now, you know, like it's up to us. And we're watching our country being

00:53:37.160 systematically taken over by really vile and disgusting people who hate our country. That 0.99

00:53:43.300 woman, I don't even care to learn her name. That one last night, she said she uses the American 1.00

00:53:47.740 flag as a napkin. You know what, bitch, get out of here. How about that? How about get out of our 1.00

00:53:52.540 country? So I appreciate you doing that. I have one other quick clip. I know we only have five

00:53:57.880 minutes, but I just, I want to highlight these things. One second. Ms. Pierce, I don't think

00:54:05.080 you're going to do, I have a request, but I don't think you'll do it. I really love you to look to

00:54:09.260 your right because they'll look to you and look to your left and tell them about all your numbers

00:54:17.060 and all your grants and all your BS

00:54:20.460 and why we shouldn't arrest and deport people 0.72

00:54:25.280 who are here illegally and commit crimes.

00:54:29.220 Do you want to do that? 0.95

00:54:30.220 Explain to them.

00:54:31.160 And also explain to the sheriff why you're correct and he's wrong,

00:54:36.280 even though he's been on the ground and in the street.

00:54:38.860 Have you served in law enforcement?

00:54:41.000 Have you been a law enforcement official?

00:54:43.220 No, sir.

00:54:44.020 Okay.

00:54:45.220 He has.

00:54:46.120 he's seen it he's been on the street he's seen the blood and the guts this isn't some philosophical

00:54:52.680 thing out in space we're talking about these are real people who are really getting hurt

00:54:58.680 because of bad politics

00:55:00.800 i i have a quag a time i think for one question um in your testimony you listed and this appears

00:55:11.360 to you, four practical concerns that you say drive the needs for sanctuary policies. We should have

00:55:16.640 sanctuary policies because of your complicated formula here, community trust, local control,

00:55:22.520 legal liability, and staffing. And can you look at them and say that those four pillars

00:55:29.020 of your thesis, of your idea, of your think tank are worth the lives of their children?

00:55:41.360 I'm just asking you a question. Please answer. Yeah, I would love to answer it. The children of Mr. Abraham and Mrs. Gorman should be alive. The fact that they are not is a travesty, and I'm extremely apologetic. But it's because of your policies. You're the one doing it. No offense, but you are.

00:55:59.100 I'm here today to testify to the American people and to Congress about how federal policy should operate. I'm an expert on federal policy. I'm out of time. Thank you. I yield back.

00:56:08.500 I just, you know, we're trying, we're trying. I appreciate Jeff, Jeff Andrew, trying to highlight

00:56:16.860 it's you're the cause, like you're the cause of allowing this to go on and they just don't want

00:56:22.380 to take accountability. So what's the answer, Steve? You know, what are we to do? Yeah. What

00:56:28.620 can we do? Yes. Well, well, we can pressure Congress to completely defund these NGOs who

00:56:34.740 are doing this awful work right in favor of illegal migrants all over the world unfortunately 0.94

00:56:40.100 and a lot of it was done by getting rid of USAID that was amazing or at least defanging USAID 0.67

00:56:45.740 but there's there's more to do there's a lot more to do and for example listen I'm a committed

00:56:50.620 Catholic I love the church but Catholic Charities is one of the worst offenders in this realm in

00:56:55.540 terms of taking massive amounts of government money to facilitate mass invasion of our country

00:57:01.000 And that is just simply reality. It has become in some ways a racket rather than a charity or a religion. It's really a leftist racket that we are funding, that we ourselves are paying for. Those funds need to be cut off by the Congress and they can do it. And again, there's been some work here, but not enough.

00:57:17.560 And these NGOs are really, you know, they are the main vehicle through which the mass invasion of America has been occurring for decades.

00:57:26.800 And we need to realize that because they get paid handsomely to get people across the border, to house them once they're here.

00:57:32.120 And when I talked about the murderer of Sheridan Gorman being taxpayers paying for the funding, it's via an NGO.

00:57:37.760 So it's not direct. It's not just state of Illinois just directly pays his rent.

00:57:41.120 It's all filtered through these leftist NGOs under the guise of doing something charitable or doing something philanthropic or community based.

00:57:48.300 In reality, they're paying the rent of a heartless invader killer who ends up murdering an American citizen.

00:57:56.020 That's the reality. So we need to we need to continue to to choke off the financing, you know, starve the beast, right?

00:58:03.740 starve the fuel effectively because we shouldn't be paying for our own destruction via leftist

00:58:10.780 NGOs that facilitate a mass invasion of our country. So let's say we call our Congress

00:58:15.200 people. That's who we should call. And what do we say? What's our message? Yes. No more funding

00:58:20.620 of leftist NGOs and full transparency from these NGOs because often they are able to operate

00:58:25.860 relatively with opacity. In other words, they're not, I mean, yes, they have to be

00:58:30.800 generally transparent about their finances, but not specifically. So we should have, if the

00:58:35.980 government is paying these NGOs, they should effectively be treated like government entities

00:58:39.180 themselves, meaning that we have full access to every, just like we do as taxpayers with government

00:58:44.340 entities, to every expenditure they're making. So that would also help. Absolute full transparency.

00:58:50.900 Open the books entirely on the NGOs who do receive government money, but I think even more importantly,

00:58:55.800 cut off the money in the first place. And specifically, again, I say this as a committed

00:58:59.540 catholic let's start with catholic charities just say hey guess what all of your border and refugee

00:59:03.780 and immigrant operations they're done we're not funding them anymore so we need to put them on

00:59:07.780 the chopping block is called catholic charities he's not saying catholic charities as a general

00:59:12.660 statement it's called catholic charities so um yeah so call call call all the congress people

00:59:19.220 if you want and you can call every single morning write down their phone numbers call every single

00:59:23.700 day they have to take your message um you can either leave a voicemail or you can speak to

00:59:28.820 someone if you if you're nervous to speak to somebody call after hours and leave a voicemail

00:59:33.460 every message has to be handed over so make a stink we can be useful that way owen anything

00:59:39.700 you want to say about this well i think that's a good plan i mean i think we should be defunding

00:59:46.180 all these things at every step and um trying to drive more visibility more transparency and i

00:59:51.300 think just to me it's a big impetus to just keep cracking down on the border keep deporting illegal

00:59:57.220 aliens keep getting rid of the people that are not supposed to be here and i think to steve's

01:00:03.100 earlier point it helps with the economy it helps with our safety it helps with everything really

01:00:08.200 and i think we just went way way too far especially under the biden administration

01:00:12.780 and we need to correct this because it's just eroding all of our systems medical systems

01:00:18.280 education systems welfare systems everything we depend on is being torn apart by all these 1.00

01:00:25.180 mass illegal immigrants. I agree. Marcella, anything in closing? 1.00

01:00:31.480 Just the desiring or wanting the laws to apply and enforcing the immigration laws of this country

01:00:38.780 is not racist. I'm an immigrant, but you went through the immigration process. So

01:00:48.900 um what we're asking is enforcement of the laws so that's not anything because what they tried

01:00:57.080 to pinpoint it is as oh racist or oh you're not understanding the plight of these people

01:01:03.140 um no that's not about that open borders leads to people like uh this killer that killed this

01:01:13.800 18 year old um and it leads to all of this you know so they don't have a right to be here and

01:01:24.360 especially if you already are like steve was explaining he was already uh caught by the

01:01:30.120 chicago police and he was already had um criminal past so it's not like um they tried to portray

01:01:39.000 this as racism or always yeah always everything's racist to them it applies to whoever it is it is

01:01:47.300 your your skin color um steve what where is it that uh everybody wants to know where they can

01:01:54.280 watch all your documentaries yes please cortez investigates.com cortez with an s at the end

01:01:59.900 cortez investigates.com uh also it's pinned to the top of my twitter which is at cortez steve

01:02:05.880 So two S's together at Cortez, Steve.

01:02:08.400 So no, I'd appreciate it.

01:02:09.280 There's no paywall.

01:02:10.060 We don't try to make money off these.

01:02:11.140 We just want the word out there.

01:02:12.500 So please watch them, share them.

01:02:15.220 It's important, please.

01:02:16.020 Yeah, please, you guys.

01:02:16.960 And the thing that's nice is they're short enough

01:02:19.620 that you can tell someone like,

01:02:20.860 listen, I'm not asking you to spend two hours

01:02:22.620 watching a movie.

01:02:23.760 It's just, here's the meat.

01:02:26.620 So that's perfect, Steve.

01:02:28.460 And we thank you so much for coming on.

01:02:30.860 And we can't wait till you come back.

01:02:32.420 you know, we, we all, we all really want to be useful as Scott said and affect change and whatever

01:02:37.700 we can do you guys. So get uncomfortable for five minutes a day, maybe make a couple of phone calls

01:02:43.160 again, if it makes you nervous and it really makes you uncomfortable, do it in the evening

01:02:47.500 when the offices are closed and you can just leave a voicemail and don't be afraid to speak up

01:02:52.740 because that's what got us where we're at now was being afraid to speak up when we knew in our gut

01:02:58.820 that what was happening was wrong um so steve thanks a million you guys that want to stick

01:03:04.720 around i will play an akira the dawn song when we leave and if any of the hosts need to bail after

01:03:10.460 we say goodbye please feel free um and we'll be back tomorrow and we we've got to cover the mk

01:03:16.100 ultra stuff oh my god it's gonna be amazing so as always we like to thank scott and shelly for

01:03:22.860 allowing this show to continue and for you guys for showing up and being so freaking amazing you

01:03:27.660 are absolutely the smartest, most fun group of people ever. And let's be useful today. Call

01:03:33.660 your Congress people and let's, you know, let's get the word out there. Let's take our country

01:03:38.100 back. Okay. And no matter what country you live in, call your representatives also. Like this is

01:03:44.420 not America exclusive. We're all having the same problem. So don't be afraid to call your

01:03:49.540 representatives either. Okay. So let's have a closing sip to Scott and then we'll do a Kira

01:03:55.240 to scott to scott

01:03:57.920 thank you steve all right you guys i think what should we do today how about

01:04:07.400 happy canada day by the way oh happy canada day okay let's do this i think we just did this but

01:04:13.800 i think it's important let's do do something sounds appropriate here we go steve thanks again

01:04:25.240 have you heard the phrase freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose

01:04:33.540 we know we just did this but we need it you've heard that right

01:04:36.900 freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose

01:04:43.200 how about that college class you were going to sign up for how about that sport you wanted to

01:04:49.280 get involved in how about that motorcycle you wanted too dangerous right you're free

01:04:55.240 you're free. Every one of you who is depressed and anxious, you're free. You're free. Because

01:05:08.480 nothing you do will be worse than the way you feel right now. Do something. Do something

01:05:15.060 dangerous. Psychologically dangerous. Take a chance. Put yourself out there. Flame out.

01:05:21.780 Get killed. Just get smashed. Just go do it. You're free. 1.00

01:05:27.840 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to live.

01:05:32.140 You're free. Do something.

01:05:37.460 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to live.

01:05:41.720 You're free. Do something.

01:05:45.500 Do something.

01:05:47.620 If you want to meet people, here's the best way to do it.

01:05:49.960 You have to join activities.

01:05:52.580 there is no other way to meet people and inform lasting friendships hear this clearly

01:06:00.900 there's no other way to do it you have to join an activity a club a sport a gym

01:06:09.620 an organization a political movement nothing else right you can't just make a friend

01:06:17.060 like good luck you could try but i don't think i've ever seen at work

01:06:23.020 hiya you know baba hearing good things about you i think we could be friends

01:06:28.920 do something do something enjoy the thing make a sport form a club of your own

01:06:39.040 Just go do it

01:06:42.620 You're afraid?

01:06:44.620 Freedom is just another word

01:06:46.120 But nothing left to lose

01:06:48.120 You're afraid?

01:06:51.260 Do something

01:06:52.240 Do something

01:06:53.480 Freedom is just another word

01:06:55.720 But nothing left to lose

01:06:57.740 You're afraid?

01:07:00.560 Do something

01:07:01.460 Do something

01:07:02.980 Why would you not form a club of your own?

01:07:06.880 Because you're afraid nobody would come, right?

01:07:09.040 what's the difference you're as good as dead you're depressed you're anxious you hate your

01:07:14.880 life you're thinking about putting a i can't say that here but you're thinking about maybe life

01:07:21.040 isn't worth it you're afraid you're absolutely afraid go have some fun

01:07:28.720 freedom is just another word there's nothing left to lose

01:07:36.080 You're free

01:07:37.840 Do something

01:07:40.240 Freedom's just another word

01:07:43.720 For nothing left to live

01:07:45.640 You're free

01:07:47.460 Do something

01:07:49.500 Do something

01:08:06.080 now i gotta tell you i've used this technique a number of times and man does it work

01:08:15.460 it really works you're free just remember that people criticizing you are narcissists

01:08:21.260 they are broken don't let it break you you've got some techniques now and i think you're gonna

01:08:29.520 be a lot better go get yourself some friends and you'll find your mental health problems

01:08:33.380 feel a lot better. Go get involved in something. Join a group. Form a group. Be the boss.

01:08:39.980 That is your advice for the day, and I will talk to you.

01:08:48.580 We're a group. We're friends. We're a club. We're a cult. Just kidding. We're not a cult.

01:08:54.340 Not yet. Not yet. After the spring break weekend, maybe. But you guys, we're all here for each

01:09:00.520 other. Thank you metal seer. Um, so we'll be back tomorrow and I don't know what we'll be doing,

01:09:06.980 but I want it to be MK ultra. Don't you Marcella? Oh yes. Like MK ultra like week month

01:09:14.020 for me. I know. I know. I know. There's so much juicy news out there. All right, guys. Um, I love

01:09:21.500 Steve Cortez, such a good soul. Please share his message. Um, for the sake of our country,

01:09:26.740 very handsome. He is very handsome, isn't he? And he's got that voice. I'm Steve Cortez.

01:09:33.160 I love that. I know. I'm going to talk like that from now on.

01:09:40.400 Oh my gosh. All right, you guys. Say your goodbyes. We don't want to cut you off.

01:09:45.620 And we love you. And we will see you all tomorrow. Bye, guys. Bye, Marcella. Love you.

01:09:54.500 Bye.

01:09:56.740 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 01, 2026

The Scott Adams School - STEVE CORTES Returns. Newsome. SCOTUS. & More

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