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00:00:00.000 All right, are we being set up for war with Russia?

00:00:03.180 Because something is wrong with this 60 Minutes story that ran on Sunday about the death ray.

00:00:11.040 There's a death ray.

00:00:13.540 I'm not sure we should believe that, and I'll explain why.

00:00:17.140 Also, we talked to Carol Roth.

00:00:19.880 She is fantastic today on the economy.

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00:00:26.260 We also talked to Steve Friend about a bill in Tennessee that is giving the power back to the people.

00:00:33.820 Very, very important, and so much more.

00:00:37.140 A lot of it coming out of California, which has gone insane.

00:00:41.360 I know, I know. You thought it was already insane?

00:00:43.660 No, it's getting worse.

00:00:45.360 That's all on today's podcast.

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00:02:19.800 There's something else that is bothering me.

00:02:23.280 In fact, let's, can we play from yesterday's clips,

00:02:28.980 can we play the 60 Minutes former Pentagon investigator says,

00:02:32.880 U.S. officers attacked by Russians.

00:02:34.980 This is cut four.

00:02:36.320 This is really important.

00:02:37.360 Listen to this.

00:02:38.340 Are we being attacked?

00:02:40.260 My personal opinion, yes.

00:02:42.220 By whom?

00:02:42.800 Russia.

00:02:44.860 Greg Edgreen ran the investigation for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

00:02:50.120 He would not discuss classified information,

00:02:53.200 but he described his team's work from 2021 to 2023.

00:02:57.840 We were collecting a large body of data ranging from signals intelligence,

00:03:04.300 human intelligence, open source reporting,

00:03:07.740 anything regarding the internet, travel records, financial records, you name it.

00:03:13.600 Unfortunately, I can't get into specifics based on the classification,

00:03:16.980 but I can tell you at a very early stage, I started to focus on Moscow.

00:03:22.360 Can you tell me about the patterns you began to see?

00:03:27.040 One of the things I started to notice was the caliber of our officer that was being impacted.

00:03:37.000 This wasn't happening to our worst or our middle range officers.

00:03:43.220 This was happening to our top five, 10% performing officers across the Defense Intelligence Agency.

00:03:50.060 And consistently, there was a Russia nexus.

00:03:54.680 There was some angle where they had worked against Russia, focused on Russia, and done extremely well.

00:04:00.680 The impact has been that the intelligence officers and our diplomats working abroad

00:04:06.940 are being removed from their posts with traumatic brain injuries.

00:04:10.580 They're being neutralized.

00:04:11.060 They're being neutralized.

00:04:12.060 They're being neutralized.

00:04:14.300 And Russia was involved.

00:04:17.040 I've got two pleas from today.

00:04:19.100 It was like this piercing feeling on the side of my head.

00:04:23.640 It was like, I remember it was on the right side of my head, and I got, like, vertigo.

00:04:28.700 Olivia Troy was Homeland Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence.

00:04:34.020 In our 2022 report, she told us she was hit outside the White House.

00:04:39.360 And then severe ear pain started.

00:04:41.880 So I liken it to if you put a Q-tip too far and you bounce off your eardrum.

00:04:45.400 Well, imagine taking a sharp pencil and just kind of poke in that.

00:04:48.240 And this man told us he was among the first publicly known cases in 2016 from our embassy in Cuba.

00:04:57.000 That's how the incidents became known as Havana Syndrome.

00:05:00.780 He's medically retired from an agency we can't name, blind in one eye, and struggling for balance.

00:05:11.300 Okay.

00:05:12.500 All right.

00:05:13.300 It's really weird.

00:05:14.940 It is weird, isn't it?

00:05:16.140 What do you go away with?

00:05:18.180 On that particular report?

00:05:20.380 On what you just heard.

00:05:21.680 What do you take away from that?

00:05:22.860 Russia is apparently attacking our government officials with some sort of weapon.

00:05:34.260 Not really explained there, but we've heard about Havana Syndrome before.

00:05:38.540 Right.

00:05:39.560 And it seems to be really affecting people that are hit with whatever this is.

00:05:44.240 Now let me take you back to 2023.

00:05:48.860 It's a briefing from the State Department.

00:05:54.140 Got three, please.

00:05:55.780 It has been the broad conclusion of the intelligence community since March 2023 that it's unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for these anomalous health incidents.

00:06:07.220 It's something that the intelligence community has investigated extensively and continues to look at.

00:06:12.820 We will look at new information as it comes in and make assessments inside the State Department and with our intelligence community.

00:06:20.220 But you can't confirm whether INR agrees with that in this building?

00:06:24.140 No, they do share that.

00:06:25.560 You do?

00:06:25.780 Okay.

00:06:25.960 They share that assessment.

00:06:27.520 Hmm.

00:06:28.560 Hmm.

00:06:29.140 Okay.

00:06:29.460 I remember that.

00:06:30.320 That was a big story.

00:06:31.400 Yeah.

00:06:31.540 This is from the Washington Post a year ago.

00:06:34.020 The mysterious ailment known as Havana Syndrome did not result from the actions of a foreign adversary, according to an intelligence report that shatters a long-disputed theory that hundreds of U.S. personnel were targeted and sickened by a clandestine enemy wielding energy waves as a weapon.

00:06:52.600 The new intelligence assessment caps a years-long effort by the CIA and several other U.S. intelligence agencies to explain why career diplomats, intelligence officers, and others serving in U.S. missions around the world experience what they describe as strange and painful acoustic sensations.

00:07:12.960 Many of the afflicted personnel say that they were victims of a deliberate attack, possibly in the hands of Russia or another adversarial government.

00:07:20.420 A claim that the report contradicts in nearly every respect, according to two intelligence officials who are familiar with the assessment described to the Washington Post.

00:07:31.320 Seven intelligence agencies participated in a review of approximately 1,000 cases of health incidences, the term the government uses to describe a constellation of physical symptoms, including ringing in the ears, followed by pressure in the head, and nausea.

00:07:48.800 Five of those agents determined it was very unlikely that a foreign adversary was responsible for the symptoms, either as a result of purposeful actions, such as directed energy weapons, or a byproduct of some other activity, including electronic surveillance that made people sick.

00:08:06.700 They spoke on the condition of anonymity.

00:08:08.820 One agency, which the officials did not name, determined that it was unlikely that a foreign actor was at fault, a slightly less emphatic finding that did not appreciably change the consensus.

00:08:23.420 One agency abstained in its conclusion regarding a foreign actor.

00:08:28.460 But when asked, no agency dissented from the conclusion that a foreign actor did not cause the symptoms, one of the intelligence officials said.

00:08:39.800 Now that came out a year ago.

00:08:43.040 So one would have to ask the government, were you lying then, or are you lying now?

00:08:50.800 Well, is it that these are just people within these investigations who are disagreeing with the final conclusion of the government report?

00:09:01.620 Because I remember that report.

00:09:02.880 It was a big story at the time.

00:09:04.360 I mean, it was a big thing.

00:09:05.360 Like everyone, for years and years and years, we were told about the Savannah syndrome, very suspicious and strange, but no one really knew.

00:09:13.100 And then they came out with this report, and it was, okay, this is our conclusion.

00:09:16.540 We came up with it.

00:09:17.320 It wasn't anybody.

00:09:18.160 I mean, they kind of made it seem like these were unrelated sort of general health ailments these people were going through.

00:09:27.220 Well, let's go through some of this.

00:09:28.680 60 Minutes spoke with retired General Officer Lieutenant Colonel Greg Elgreen.

00:09:34.940 Now, remember, he said one agency, or the report a year ago said one agency didn't agree.

00:09:41.580 So let's just say that Greg is the guy who said, I'm not taking a position on this one.

00:09:48.160 He said that a Russia appeared to be the common denominator across most cases concerning Havana syndrome.

00:09:54.540 One of the things I started to notice was the caliber of our officers.

00:09:58.280 Okay.

00:09:58.620 Remember what he just said, our top five or 10% performing officers.

00:10:04.020 So let's look at those who were targeted.

00:10:09.400 The investigative journalist also claimed to have obtained an accounting document linked to a top-secret Russian intelligence unit called 29-155,

00:10:20.960 which outlines a bonus payment for an officer who worked on a project concerning potential capabilities of non-lethal acoustic weapons.

00:10:29.780 When I saw it, I literally had tears in my eyes because it was spelling out what they had been doing, said one of the victims.

00:10:39.680 It's not definitive proof of Havana syndrome cause.

00:10:43.280 It's the closest to a receipt you can have, however, for this.

00:10:47.980 So who are some of these people?

00:10:57.280 Who are some of the people that were linked?

00:11:02.260 And is it real or a hoax?

00:11:06.620 Let's look at what's happening with CBS report.

00:11:13.360 CBS doesn't have, and neither does the FBI, have any interest in protecting one of the main sources there that is supposed to be high-level intelligence.

00:11:32.680 Nobody seems to care about hiding her identity.

00:11:35.400 Moreover, CBS acknowledges on multiple occasions that the FBI has been in the loop regarding her appearance and talking points on CBS.

00:11:47.000 This means that CBS and the FBI have been working in concert on this story,

00:11:52.660 which leads to a variety of questions about the independence of 60 Minutes in reporting the story accurately without any bias.

00:12:00.780 Remember, the deep state, they keep going to the same sources that have lied to them over and over and over again.

00:12:09.140 Throughout the piece, there's a stunning lack of real evidence that delivers a direct link between the Russian agents,

00:12:16.440 directed energy weapons, and the variety of claimed injuries.

00:12:22.220 Now, is there any link?

00:12:26.040 Are there any questions that should be asked?

00:12:28.100 Well, here's one.

00:12:28.860 Why isn't Moscow using this weapon against Zelensky?

00:12:33.960 Why is there no evidence of Russia using these devices on any battlefield such as Ukraine or Syria?

00:12:44.140 There's a journalist.

00:12:46.620 His name is Hans Makany.

00:12:51.380 He noticed and spoke on X.

00:12:55.040 He said, it's really important to scrutinize the individual current and the former government agents who claim to be suffering.

00:13:04.900 So who are they?

00:13:06.800 Well, one of them is retired from the CIA in 2019, currently an MSNBC contributor.

00:13:13.040 He was one of the many former government agents who claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was disinformation.

00:13:21.180 Miles Taylor, another one, wrote the infamous anonymous anti-Trump letter, made a career of leveraging his government credentials to write bestselling Trump bashing fan fiction.

00:13:36.020 Olivia Troy, she's a former advisor to Mike Pence, she's followed a similar path to Mr. Taylor.

00:13:44.160 And the last one, waged the campaign to get social media to censor critics, falsely accused several people of being Russian-controlled accounts.

00:13:53.800 Seems like we have the same kind of people running around.

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00:15:05.440 Now back to the podcast.

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00:15:13.880 Carol Roth is joining us.

00:15:15.720 And Carol, I sent you a story a couple of days ago about how we are now paying more in interest than we are in, I think, Pentagon spending and Social Security.

00:15:29.920 I have heard that this time was coming for a long time.

00:15:35.260 Are we actually there?

00:15:37.560 So just to sort of set the stage, we're not exactly there yet.

00:15:45.120 That's the only piece of good news I'm probably going to deliver to you, Glenn.

00:15:48.620 We are on a trajectory.

00:15:50.140 And this is projections that I believe came out of Bank of America.

00:15:53.900 So a Wall Street analyst came up with these projections and basically said that if we continue with interest rates where they're at, the Fed doesn't cut interest rates this year, and we continue on the spending trajectory, he modeled that out to the end of the year and said this year we will pay $1.6 trillion in interest if nothing changes.

00:16:16.760 And if we were to hit that point, then yes, then it would become the biggest item in the budget, far exceeding what was paid for the military, and then even exceeding all of those other expenses, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the like.

00:16:34.340 So this is the trajectory that we're moving into, and is a very scary one that we've been warning you about because of what is something called fiscal dominance that you guys, you and I have talked about before.

00:16:48.060 Basically, we are in a scenario where we have high debts, and we have high deficits, and we have inflation that is too high.

00:16:56.020 And so when the Fed tries to do this monetary policy and to raise rates in order to bring down that inflation, it ends up being dominated by that horrible fiscal position of the United States.

00:17:09.820 It means that the interest on the debt explodes.

00:17:12.860 It means that the deficit, because that interest is bigger, widens.

00:17:16.660 It means that we have to then finance those bigger deficits, and that puts us into a vicious cycle.

00:17:22.940 And it's something that many of us have been warning about, and it really looks like we're sitting right in the middle of it.

00:17:29.420 And it begs the question, why didn't the Fed reset all of the loans when we were at zero?

00:17:37.060 Why didn't we take out all these loans and lock them in long-term at zero?

00:17:42.360 We were there for a very long time.

00:17:45.440 Now we have all of these loans that are starting every month.

00:17:48.920 They come in, and we have to reset the loans, and our interest rate is high.

00:17:56.400 And that, like you said, I just really want people to understand that because we have all of the $34 trillion,

00:18:06.400 and it is resetting all the time, different parts of it, we're paying that high interest rate.

00:18:14.460 So what's happening with you and your credit cards is now happening with the government.

00:18:19.000 Yeah, and I actually have an answer for that, Glenn, because this was something that I was very curious about too.

00:18:25.280 You know, to me, we had near 15 years of zero interest rate or almost zero interest rate policy.

00:18:31.900 And so it would say to you, why wouldn't you go ahead and lock that zero interest rate in forever?

00:18:37.860 And there has been some really great research that I'm following that I will probably reference several times today from Luke Grauman at FFTT.

00:18:46.680 And he went back and he looked at, you know, central bank holdings of treasuries versus how much debt we have increased.

00:18:55.480 And over the last, I think it's 10 years, we have increased, you know, more than $16 trillion in debt.

00:19:04.100 But at the same time, central banks have actually lightened up their reserves.

00:19:10.000 They've sold $100 billion.

00:19:12.540 So the 10 years prior to that, you had central banks that were loading up on treasuries and they were there as a buyer.

00:19:19.240 And now all of a sudden you have this huge buyer that is out of the market.

00:19:23.220 So it doesn't mean that there were no buyers.

00:19:26.200 There are certainly banks and insurance companies and other foreign buyers.

00:19:31.060 But the price that they would have had to pay wouldn't have been zero.

00:19:35.940 And I think that's the reality.

00:19:37.620 And that's an important piece of the discussion that we're having today is that, you know, the federal government, even though everybody else may say, well, I can still get a loan or I can still do this.

00:19:47.520 Because the federal government is having a very difficult time getting long-term loans, in particular, at a interest rate that is anywhere near acceptable and that would keep the treasury market from going into mass chaos.

00:20:02.640 So here's the problem.

00:20:04.020 They need to keep the interest rate low for them, but they don't have any buyers.

00:20:10.380 And the way you increase the buyers is you offer them more money, in other words, a higher interest rate.

00:20:17.260 And you say, no, look, we'll pay you back, you know, 4%, 6%, 8%, whatever it takes to get people to buy the bonds.

00:20:26.040 Nobody's buying.

00:20:27.160 And if they keep raising the interest rates, our debt completely cripples us.

00:20:33.760 You can't pay the interest rates.

00:20:35.860 Yeah, this is why I have been saying and still believe that the Fed is going to be forced to pivot.

00:20:43.360 They want to keep these interest rates high in an effort to try to control inflation.

00:20:48.640 But the U.S. government and their rampant spending, their dereliction and their financial duty to be responsible has created that as an impossibility and is now meaning that if you keep interest rates high, that in and of itself will also stoke inflation.

00:21:07.040 So the Fed has been doing a lot of things in its toolkit to become more accommodative.

00:21:12.640 When you talk about lowering rates, it's more accommodative or looser fiscal policy.

00:21:19.080 And while they haven't come out to do that quantitative easing, the straight up buying of the bonds that we saw that brought their balance sheet from a couple trillion dollars up to almost nine trillion dollars, they've been doing a lot of things that look and taste and feel a lot like that.

00:21:34.820 In Jerome Powell's last press conference, he's basically said, our policy of letting the assets on the balance sheet run off, we're going to slow that down.

00:21:46.200 So now they're going to still be in the market buying a little bit more.

00:21:49.460 And the last thing that they're holding out on, because remember, it's an election year, is lowering that interest rate.

00:21:55.320 At some point, that's going to be the only thing that they have left other than just a wholesale buying of bonds program.

00:22:02.140 And they're going to have to do that. And what that's going to do, boys and girls, this is the important thing, is that is going to restoke inflation.

00:22:10.560 Anybody who is an asset holder is going to see their assets melt up, continue to rise in value.

00:22:16.580 And the middle class, the working class, is going to continue to get crushed, because this is the basically one of the only things that they have available to them, or certainly the only one that they're going to be willing to enact, is to inflate the debt away.

00:22:34.640 Well, that's happy news.

00:22:35.940 So what does the average person do, Carol? Buy stuff now?

00:22:42.480 It is a really tough, tough question.

00:22:46.700 It's one that I have multiple times on a daily basis.

00:22:50.380 And, you know, it's a horrible scenario that we have to be in this discussion and worry about the American dream slipping away, because we know asset prices have already increased.

00:23:02.440 And so I do think that if you are in the middle and working class and you're worried, you've got to do everything you can to try to get your expenses down and to live with as much austerity as you can to have some money to put them into a diverse portfolio of assets.

00:23:19.880 You know, things like hard metals, you know, the gold and the silver, some stocks, you know, real estate to the extent you can.

00:23:28.700 And I know that I can just hear right now, Glenn, people are yelling and saying, but Carol, I can barely afford my rent or my mortgage or my groceries.

00:23:37.860 And I understand this is a horrible, horrible position that the government and the Federal Reserve has put every American into.

00:23:46.220 And we just have to do the best that we can to try to hold on to to something to preserve some level of wealth, because this is what we are facing, because we don't have the fortitude of politicians who are willing to do the hard work.

00:24:02.700 They weren't willing in the Biden administration to go through a small, you know, a longer term recession.

00:24:08.640 We had a tiny recession, but to make that a little bit longer term to help normalize us, normalize things and get some breathing room.

00:24:14.860 And I think that politicians are going to continue to act like politicians.

00:24:18.780 So you have to be prepared for that.

00:24:20.620 So Art Laffer told me years ago when we were we were talking about the interest rates and I said, if we keep just printing money like this, there's going to come a time where you have to raise the interest rates.

00:24:34.980 And, you know, I said, Art, when you did it, it was, you know, 18, 19 percent interest rates.

00:24:40.780 And I said, you can't do that to the economy in this scenario, can you?

00:24:45.800 And he said, no, it will stop the heart of the economy.

00:24:48.900 It just collapses at that point because it's too weak.

00:24:53.300 You can't you.

00:24:54.800 Everything stops.

00:24:57.020 It's a different time.

00:24:58.380 This is what people need to understand, because they're going to go back and look historically at other periods in the United States and say, well, this is what we did then.

00:25:05.940 And this is what we did then.

00:25:07.520 But it's different now.

00:25:08.760 We don't have that luxury because we have debt to GDP that exceeds one hundred and twenty percent.

00:25:14.460 We have the balance sheet of basically an emerging market in crisis that would have put it, you know, a while ago if we didn't have the world's reserve currency, which we know that a lot of folks are trying to get away from.

00:25:26.660 We didn't have thirty four trillion dollars in debt and a massive deficit that just kept running and running.

00:25:32.320 We didn't have all of these interest payments that we're going to pay for things that we've already bought and not new spending.

00:25:38.420 So we are in a different world here today.

00:25:41.900 And as we've talked about before, you get close to that cliff and eventually you come off and you never know that exact point in time.

00:25:48.060 But we are speeding towards it.

00:25:50.380 Just look at how fast the debt, the deficits, the interest, how fast this is growing.

00:25:55.680 It is starting to spiral away from us.

00:25:58.600 Stu, do you remember when we had when we were talking about Obamacare?

00:26:05.600 And I think the government at that point, if they took Obamacare, they would they would rule about 30, 25 to 30 percent of the of the economy.

00:26:17.880 Do you remember that?

00:26:18.820 I don't remember the statistic, but I do remember the general conversation.

00:26:21.320 The general conversation and it wasn't that high.

00:26:23.800 I mean, it was like 30 percent.

00:26:25.440 And we were like, oh, my gosh, it's almost forty nine percent now that the economy is driven.

00:26:32.300 Almost half of it is driven by government spending.

00:26:37.200 Incredible.

00:26:37.720 And that's what's putting us here.

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00:26:46.640 Bill O'Sealy is with us, California State Assemblyman.

00:26:52.440 Welcome to the program, sir.

00:26:53.580 How are you?

00:26:54.760 Good morning, Glenn.

00:26:55.480 Thank you for having me.

00:26:56.660 So you say that California property rights are under attack.

00:27:00.680 How exactly?

00:27:02.640 Well, California historically has had strong property rights protections.

00:27:07.000 We have this Proposition 13 that was passed by the voters in the late 70s.

00:27:10.840 And it did really two things that limited how much your property taxes could go up based on appreciation.

00:27:17.580 It caps it at no more than, I believe, two percent a year.

00:27:20.760 And what that did is it's kept property taxes historically low in California, because when property values go up very quickly, the state would love to reassess the value and tax it.

00:27:33.480 So that has historically kept us with lower than usual property tax.

00:27:38.760 The other thing Prop 13 did, and this is what's really under attack right now, it said to the government that if you want to raise taxes on the people of the state of California, you need to submit, you need to get a two-thirds approval, either through the legislature or through the voters, to raise taxes.

00:27:56.000 And we've had this high bar now forever.

00:27:58.560 What happens, though, and this is what the left does, they never stop, and they look for loopholes.

00:28:06.020 Well, the court gave them a loophole and said, oh, but that's a tax initiated or sponsored by the government.

00:28:12.300 If there's a tax proposed by a private person or a union goon, that's not subject to the two-thirds requirement.

00:28:20.060 Wait.

00:28:20.340 So.

00:28:21.680 How does the union goon have standing to propose taxes?

00:28:26.800 Private citizens in California, we have the initiative process.

00:28:30.960 We're a direct democracy in some sense under our constitution.

00:28:34.660 So citizens have the ability to place measures on the ballot.

00:28:38.460 So the Howard Jarvis Association, who initially wrote Prop 13, has now come back with a new initiative and says, no, no, no, we're going to close that loophole.

00:28:46.940 It's a taxpayer protection ballot initiative.

00:28:49.260 And guess what?

00:28:50.180 We've gotten the signatures to put that on the ballot and to close all these loopholes.

00:28:54.720 And it will ban things like they're doing now.

00:28:57.520 They want to do income-based electricity prices.

00:29:00.000 So the more money you make, the more they charge you for electricity, all this crazy stuff.

00:29:03.940 So we got this on the ballot.

00:29:05.240 But how do the Democrats respond?

00:29:08.200 They're putting a competing ballot initiative that says, if you put anything on the ballot that raises the threshold to vote, so from majority to two-thirds, your initiative has to pass by two-thirds vote.

00:29:21.940 And this is a poison pill.

00:29:24.100 And that's what the legislature has put on the ballot now. 0.57

00:29:26.280 So they put that on to try to kill it.

00:29:28.980 So it's very difficult to pass a constitutional amendment on two-thirds, which is what this is.

00:29:33.880 And at the same time, Glenn, they've gone to the California Supreme Court.

00:29:37.560 They've made some – they're not even coherent arguments to get the court to take off our ballot – our taxpayer protection initiative off the ballot.

00:29:45.480 That's what the left does here in the state of California.

00:29:48.720 So wait a minute.

00:29:51.120 So what's on the ballot?

00:29:54.100 What is on the ballot?

00:29:55.320 There are two competing initiatives.

00:29:58.180 The first is our initiative, which is the good one.

00:30:00.600 It's going to close the loopholes.

00:30:02.280 Which is – what is the proposition number?

00:30:06.280 They won't give us the numbers yet, so I can't even tell you.

00:30:09.200 You'll have to have me back.

00:30:10.180 They play all kinds of games to make it hard for us to campaign.

00:30:13.220 So we don't have the numbers yet.

00:30:14.480 We will get them sometime this year.

00:30:17.560 The second initiative is one put on by the legislature, Glenn, and that says if you're going to raise the threshold to raise taxes,

00:30:24.320 your initiative on the ballot has to pass by the same number, by the two-thirds number.

00:30:30.440 Prop 13 didn't even pass by two-thirds.

00:30:33.340 So this is the type of gamesmanship that they're more than happy to do here in California because it's all about serving their party.

00:30:42.320 It's all about getting more money to the state and the people be damned.

00:30:47.640 How much does the state need?

00:30:49.780 Because you had a surplus.

00:30:51.780 You've blown through that.

00:30:53.760 Now you have a deficit.

00:30:56.440 And if they can just continue to raise taxes, they will.

00:31:00.680 They will.

00:31:01.240 And they'll drive everybody out of California.

00:31:05.260 Our budget is totally out of control, Glenn.

00:31:08.100 Last year was about $300 billion, which is about double than what it was in the previous decade.

00:31:13.080 So we have plenty of money.

00:31:15.040 But what happens is when they get a windfall like the COVID money, we got $100 billion surplus.

00:31:20.880 As a business person, you would say, well, that's not money we could expect to get every year, right?

00:31:25.300 Right.

00:31:25.600 So we would do maybe one-time spending or put it in the reserve.

00:31:28.060 No.

00:31:28.620 They spend it on ongoing programs that are not sustainable.

00:31:33.920 So now we're facing that.

00:31:35.160 We have, according to the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, he says, oh, it's only about a $38 billion deficit.

00:31:43.260 Well, the legislative analyst's office, who does tend to be nonpartisan, says, no, it's actually $73 billion.

00:31:49.700 And we have a budget deadline, Glenn.

00:31:51.840 At the end of June, we have to pass a balanced budget.

00:31:54.000 These Democrats up here are in total denial.

00:31:57.020 They've not cut anything.

00:31:58.660 And these people we've had up here because of term limits have never been here to cut any.

00:32:03.600 They've never cut anything.

00:32:04.260 They barely cut their hair.

00:32:06.140 So I don't know what's going to happen here in June, but we have a financial cliff.

00:32:12.420 And I think they will be more than happy to raise taxes than to cut any of their precious programs that they've passed.

00:32:19.720 Can we talk about the other erosion of property rights, and that is the home squatters?

00:32:26.380 Yes.

00:32:27.140 This is nuts.

00:32:29.160 It is nuts.

00:32:30.520 So this goes back.

00:32:32.080 You have to understand neo-Marxism.

00:32:34.760 I call it neo-Marxism because it's a new thing now.

00:32:37.320 They don't talk about Marxism.

00:32:38.440 They talk about people who are oppressed and people who need help.

00:32:42.600 Correct.

00:32:42.720 And so now the people who need help, Glenn, are the renters, the poor renters who are being taken advantage of by the mean, greedy landlords who keep raising rent.

00:32:52.940 And so they've built in all these protections that make it very impossible to kick people off property who are not paying rent or let alone they're just squatters.

00:33:01.120 They're people who showed up and moved in, and the police will not lift a finger because the laws are written in such a sense that you have to go to court to evict even a squatter.

00:33:11.040 And good luck.

00:33:11.760 It takes months to go through the court system.

00:33:13.520 And for a while, during COVID, we had an eviction moratorium.

00:33:16.340 For over two years, you couldn't even go to court to get an eviction.

00:33:21.100 And it all, you know, there's two ways to seize property, Glenn.

00:33:24.140 It's either through force to the government, or in this way, they're letting the people that they deem to be oppressed to seize the property of other people.

00:33:32.740 They don't care.

00:33:33.780 I mean, we have in the legislature very unserious activists who run the legislature.

00:33:38.960 They're not serious people.

00:33:39.940 They just formed, and it's embarrassing, they formed the Renters' Caucus because they're proud of how many legislators in the state are renters.

00:33:49.680 You know, they're not even homeless.

00:33:50.960 These are adults.

00:33:52.040 They've never had a mortgage, and they're proud to be renters, and they're going to look out for the other renters.

00:33:55.740 That's the people running this place. 0.99

00:33:57.620 God.

00:33:59.160 I don't know.

00:34:00.000 Have you heard about the rapid transit system with the new cards?

00:34:04.820 I have not heard that.

00:34:05.980 Okay, BART on Friday, this is for Northern California, Bay Area, Rapid Transit.

00:34:11.820 BART on Friday posted instructions on Ask for these new cards.

00:34:17.760 You can ask any station agent for BART's free bystander intervention cards, which you can use if you're experiencing or witnessing harassment in stations or trains.

00:34:30.720 Apparently, the post includes a video featuring two female college students who ride BART and explain how the cards work.

00:34:38.800 When the writers are being harassed, they hand out the you got me cards as a request to help.

00:34:46.260 When writers believe they're witnessing others being harassed, they can hand out the I've got you card to the perceived victim.

00:34:54.260 Now, I don't know exactly what these cards are supposed to do, and I don't know.

00:35:00.120 If I'm being beaten up, I don't know if I can reach into my pocket to get my stack of do-you-have-me cards.

00:35:09.700 I mean, the people in California have gone insane.

00:35:14.000 I've said it, Glenn, they have unserious people up here running the legislature. 0.99

00:35:20.440 Most of them are former union activists.

00:35:22.900 A lot of them are former staffers.

00:35:24.700 They're people who've never done anything in the real world.

00:35:27.620 They're here to serve the state, not just Democrats, by the way.

00:35:31.420 That's on both sides.

00:35:32.740 So we need serious people to step up to run for office.

00:35:36.060 That's one of the reasons I ran.

00:35:37.220 I gave up my job as a prosecutor to come up here and serve.

00:35:41.340 And I bring the perspective of the people.

00:35:43.120 When I'm in this meeting, they said, oh, but we have to fund this agency or they're going to lay off.

00:35:48.080 I go, I don't care.

00:35:49.200 We don't have the money.

00:35:51.060 Defund them.

00:35:51.660 I will not vote for the budget because it is not balanced.

00:35:54.560 And I'm one of the few Republicans who votes no down the line on the entire budget.

00:35:59.200 And the others, you know, they're afraid of being called names because there might be a nice program in there that, you know, helps people.

00:36:06.500 I don't care.

00:36:07.500 But we need serious people in office to take control back of our government.

00:36:11.000 It is the senior staff and these activists are running the joint here in California.

00:36:16.540 So what is the plan for these people who don't want to cut the budget when you have a balanced budget amendment?

00:36:23.380 You know, Glenn, this is a good question.

00:36:24.980 I don't know what they're going to do because, like I said, we have a deadline in June and they're going to have to make tough cuts.

00:36:29.380 Now, one thing that came on my radar is when Senator Paul introduced an amendment in the Senate that did not pass, but it really raised alarm flags for me.

00:36:37.440 And he had an amendment to ban the feds from buying up state debt.

00:36:42.040 So can the feds intervene and buy up the state's debt?

00:36:50.980 Because I'll tell you, the people up here do not walk around with any concern.

00:36:53.920 I feel like something's up.

00:36:55.860 But, you know, in 2008, we learned an important lesson, Glenn, and there were some entities are too big to fail.

00:37:01.820 And if we bailed out the banks, do we really think they're not going to bail out the states?

00:37:07.740 So I don't know, to answer your question, but I'm very suspicious.

00:37:12.380 If they bail California out, I think you're going to hear voices from all over the country. 0.99

00:37:22.780 I mean, I've always wanted to live in California, but the people there are so insane that they wrecked living there because of all of their stupid, impossible schemes. 0.98

00:37:38.580 And I just couldn't live there because I'm not paying that kind of tax for things that are not going to work. 0.98

00:37:44.160 And if you guys pass on your debt to us, oh, my gosh, I'm going to have a really hard time paying my taxes.

00:37:53.380 Really hard time. Really hard time.

00:37:55.840 I don't blame you.

00:37:57.400 But this is what I worry about because they feel at the end of the day the feds will be there to bail them out.

00:38:01.880 Uncle Joe will come to their rescue.

00:38:04.820 It's sort of the vibe I get up here.

00:38:07.120 But I can't, I don't have any direct knowledge.

00:38:09.520 They don't include me in any serious conversation in the super majority.

00:38:13.280 But this is the symptom when you have a super majority government, a party that is totally out of control, the Democrat Party here in California, and they serve one thing, their own power and their own party.

00:38:24.740 It is party over country.

00:38:26.720 And I see it firsthand.

00:38:28.460 And people really need to make a change.

00:38:31.620 And I advocate in California.

00:38:33.300 What can people say?

00:38:34.240 What can Republicans do?

00:38:35.240 I don't like to be always down, down in the dumps.

00:38:38.040 And I said, we got to learn from the Democrats and how they win elections.

00:38:41.180 We don't go run on a 10-point plan with all these nuances.

00:38:45.520 We got to pick an issue in California that is widely popular and that's emotional and it resonates with voters.

00:38:52.260 The Democrats pick abortion.

00:38:54.260 I personally think the issue of Republican voters should be parental rights.

00:38:58.840 They are coming for your kids.

00:39:00.920 They want to indoctrinate them.

00:39:02.760 They're going to transition them at school.

00:39:04.200 They're not even going to tell you.

00:39:05.540 They're going to let your girl get out-compete by a boy. 0.99

00:39:08.040 And they're going to medically sterilize your kids. 0.71

00:39:10.180 How can anyone stand for the sterilization of children?

00:39:12.820 We're going to look back at this, Glancy.

00:39:14.280 What the hell were we doing?

00:39:16.320 Sterilizing children.

00:39:18.120 And that should be the issue of the Republican Party.

00:39:21.700 It's been a tough sell to the party bosses.

00:39:24.120 But I'll tell you, at the grassroots level, it really resonates.

00:39:27.180 Yeah, of course it does.

00:39:28.400 And I think that's our issue.

00:39:29.220 Of course it does.

00:39:30.660 Don't listen to the party. 0.99

00:39:31.780 These Republicans that are running things are just the biggest dopes in the world. 0.94

00:39:39.020 They continue to lose time and time again and then say, well, it's because we didn't do it, you know, right enough. 0.97

00:39:46.420 Well, that sounds like a Marxist on why it always fails.

00:39:51.980 Bill, thank you so much.

00:39:53.640 Bill Esaley, he is a California State Assemblyman.

00:39:57.720 Keep up the hard work.

00:39:58.980 God bless you.

00:39:59.600 I don't know how you stay sane.

00:40:00.640 No, thank you, Glenn.

00:40:02.260 Happy to be here.

00:40:02.940 And if anyone wants to follow us, they can as Bill Esaley on our social stuff.

00:40:06.620 Thank you.

00:40:06.980 Okay, thank you.

00:40:08.060 By the way, it's spelled E-S-S-A-Y-L-I.

00:40:14.780 What a California way to spell you, Salian. 1.00

00:40:18.960 You should find an easier way.

00:40:21.060 I mean, I know it's your name and everything, but give us a break, man.

00:40:24.560 Na-na-na-na.

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