Deputy District Attorney George Gascon and Sheriff Alex Villanueva join host Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to discuss the recent shooting of off duty Los Angeles Police Officer Fernando Arroyos and the lack of action by the DA s office in response.
00:21:01.920And you would think just as the school closings disproportionately, to use that that word, disproportionately affects the minority students who are deprived of an opportunity to be in public school,
00:21:17.880because the teachers' unions wants them closed for their own reasons.
00:21:22.420Meanwhile, the greatest equalizer in our society, our public school system, isn't working for those who need them most.
00:21:34.360And then you hear complaints about school discipline and who is suspended and is disproportionate.
00:21:39.860Well, you tell me if someone assaults a teacher and should get, you know, kicked out of school or suspended, as long as they're doing the same thing, be it white, black, Latino, Asian, there's nothing, you can't be complaining about the disproportionality.
00:21:57.800It's as long as they're all being treated the same is what counts.
00:22:01.500And that's the part they don't want to answer that question, because the answers doesn't satisfy the narrative.
00:22:07.300Sheriff, how do we how do we turn this around?
00:22:11.000You're having to eat all of these budget cuts.
00:22:41.980Well, there's there's a glimmer of hope.
00:22:44.820And when we cleared out the Venice boardwalk, the homeless encampments, I got Democrats to start talking to Republicans and start looking at each other as neighbors.
00:22:56.020And we're realizing that, you know, whoever they vote to send to Washington or Sacramento to yell at each other doesn't really matter as much as who is their city council, their mayor, their sheriff, supervisor, DA, their local elected officials are going to make or break their community.
00:23:14.980So they got to start paying attention and start working together on what they share the common interest public safety knows no party.
00:23:23.360And I think when we start working together like that, people realize, wow, we can actually make a difference locally.
00:23:33.540Well, we all should want the same things that is safety protections, our family safe, our neighbors safe, our communities safe.
00:23:43.340And I, for one, just cannot comprehend how this narrative that was ginned up in 2020 primarily took on such a strong, prominent place in the narrative of the left in this country.
00:23:58.440But it's got to be fixed for the good of the country, and it's got to be fixed very, very soon.
00:24:05.280Sheriff, I can't tell you how much I admire what you're doing there.
00:24:10.500I know your community does, even though probably they don't express it.
00:24:14.260You know, that's the problem across this country.
00:24:17.140We don't say thanks to our law enforcement nearly as much as we should.
00:24:21.180But I want to say thank you, and I give you the last word as our custom here.
00:24:28.740But, Sheriff, I just want to say thanks for your time, all that you do for the community, and all that your department does for Los Angeles County.
00:24:38.220Well, I want to thank you, Lou, for the opportunity to speak to your audience.
00:24:42.440And just let them know that help is out of the way.
00:24:45.520We're going to get the left and the right to talk.
00:24:48.640And by doing so, we're going to bridge that gap of mistrust and ignorance and get people educated, hold our elected officials accountable.
00:26:11.200And, of course, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry, did the thing you would expect of great leaders.
00:26:17.000He immediately took responsibility and blamed TikTok.
00:26:21.700You've got to love that kind of leadership, Larry.
00:26:23.680Well, you know, young people are increasingly going to TikTok, so there may be something there.
00:26:30.580I would love to say that what's happening is a whole bunch of people are becoming ticked off at Facebook.
00:26:36.400If you saw the Molly Hemingway book called RIG, it turns out Mark Zuckerberg spent over $400 million to, quote, get out the vote, close quote, to influence the election in favor of Democrats.
00:26:48.480And everybody knows that Facebook has been depressing conservative content, so I'd love to say that perhaps there's a realization on the part of a lot of users that Facebook is not your friend, and maybe that's what's causing the decline, but I really just don't know.
00:27:02.720All I know is my young friends don't use Facebook.
00:27:05.960They think Facebook is for old people, and there's nothing worse than your product being accused of being for old people.
00:27:12.760Well, Facebook particularly, because he's got a lot of land in Hawaii to pay for and to sustain over there, and I just hate to see him get hurt like that.
00:27:24.200He'll be down to his next ten or his last ten or twenty billion dollars if he keeps this up.
00:27:34.060I was going to say, it's just scary to me, Lou, the power these social media platforms have.
00:27:38.640You know, when I ended my campaign for governor, I was a smidge just under a million followers on Twitter, and I've never had a bigger footprint.
00:27:47.640I've never been more well-known than I am right now, and I've lost 30,000 followers since September the 14th, and I lose about 100 every day on Twitter.
00:27:57.020And it isn't because people don't know who I am.
00:27:59.320I'm clearly being shafted because of the stuff I post.
00:28:01.880You post anything at all skeptical about the 2020 election, anything at all skeptical about what CDC is doing regarding COVID-19, and you're hurt on these platforms.
00:28:10.420And it's just absolutely scary, frightening how much power they have.
00:28:14.180It is indeed, and I will tell you, not even running for office, I've been shadowbanned on Facebook for a very long time, over two million people on Twitter.
00:28:27.600That stayed pretty much the same over the last couple of years.
00:28:31.840It's, as you say, it's pretty clear what's going on, and it's not so clear why there isn't something done about it.
00:28:40.900The markets tend to always be self-correcting in these things, and I think we're seeing an example of it today with Facebook stock off 26%.
00:28:49.660I want to turn to your run for governor, your political aspirations.
00:28:56.520I know you just started a pack as well.
00:28:59.740Give us a sense of what your political aspirations are now with your looking at the rearview mirror at your run for governor.
00:29:10.360Well, by any stretch of the imagination, we did extremely well in our run.
00:29:17.280We only got into the race, Lou, with eight weeks left.
00:29:20.800And in eight weeks, we raised $22 million.
00:29:23.020That was more than all my Republican rivals combined, including a millionaire who self-funded.
00:32:49.860I'm starting Elder for America, political action committee, helped Republicans take back the House, the Senate, campaign for school choice.
00:32:55.700And he said, oh, you're going to direct.
00:33:16.860With the pack, with radio, you're going to continue doing radio, of course.
00:33:21.480What is it that you think is going on in the state, your state, when we talked recently with the county sheriff, the Los Angeles County Sheriff, Alex Villanueva, who has bypassed George Gascon, the district attorney there, the, what would we call him, a Soros-molded and supported district attorney.
00:33:49.860The San Francisco Police Department head, the chief of police there, is now bypassing that DA for the same damn reasons.
00:33:59.680What is it that California doesn't seem to understand about the importance of having law enforcement and prosecution of lawbreakers?
00:34:09.460Well, there is an increasingly greater understanding of what George Soros has done by putting these two people in San Francisco and in Los Angeles.
00:34:22.600You're finding now crime hitting the suburban areas.
00:34:26.100As you probably know, there was a UCLA grad student who was murdered, stabbed to death, in Hancock Park, for crying out loud.
00:34:32.600That is the trendy area, high-end area, where Maxine Waters has her $5 million mansion.
00:34:37.140There was an 80-year-old man whose wife was murdered in Beverly Hills.
00:34:42.400He's a music mobile, and it turns out the thug had a long record, should never have been out.
00:34:47.420We have these soft-on-crime DAs, a soft-on-crime governor, who's bragged about the fact that he's overseeing the release of almost 18,000 convicted felons since he's been governor.
00:35:02.700You have Proposition 47 that allows criminals to steal $950, not a day, but per store.
00:35:10.480And if they get caught, the worst that will happen is they get a ticket as a misdemeanor and, of course, cashless bail, so they don't have to show up.
00:35:17.960So what I'm saying is a greater number of people are recognized in what's going on.
00:35:21.700Crime is up in L.A. where I'm talking to you from, Lou, 40% year to year.
00:35:26.600And the disproportionately large number of the victims of this crime are the very black and brown people that people like Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi and these DAs brag that they're protecting.
00:35:35.960So there's a greater understanding that these people have to go.
00:35:40.380There have been two recall efforts against both the DAs.
00:35:43.220One in L.A. has failed because they couldn't gather enough signatures.
00:35:45.920But there's another effort that's being started, one also in the Bay Area that's being started.
00:35:51.240And I think if they get the signatures in time, there's going to be a recall of both these bozos, and hopefully they'll be recalled.
00:35:57.420But I'm telling you, crime is going up not just in the inner city, but in the suburbs.
00:36:01.820And once these rich white people that have been writing these checks for these left-wing politicians get hurt, then maybe then there'll be an awakening and a reassessment.
00:36:20.100The communities, whether African-American or Hispanic, and their organized left-wing initiatives, I'll call it that, are not helping either.
00:36:30.140They're certainly helping those DAs and are very pleased with the results.
00:36:34.780This is a mess, and it's a mess that – is your PAC going to be supporting these petition efforts, these recall efforts?
00:36:43.380That's one of the things I'm doing with it.
00:36:45.020We're going after these soft-on-crime DAs.
00:36:46.960We're going to be supporting people that actually believe bad guys should go to prison for the time required given the gravity of their sentences.
00:36:54.800That's what we're going to be doing with the PAC, all these kinds of issues.
00:37:26.660It's a partisan initiative that's worthy of the Soviet-era show trials.
00:37:33.880It's disgusting, and we have to get by this, and we have to bring into balance the left-wing Marxist energy in this country that is overwhelming our governments, our way of life.
00:37:50.600You know, Lou, the biggest neutron bomb that government has dropped on this society is what they've done to the family.
00:38:00.960Much of this crime is being committed by people of color, and the government has incentivized women to marry the government and incentivized men with financial and moral responsibility, to the point now where 75 percent of black kids enter the world without a father married to the mother.
00:38:19.700Barack Obama once said a kid raised without a father is five times more likely to be poor and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.
00:38:29.440We've gone from having 25 percent of black kids born into the world without a father married to the mother in 1965 to, as I mentioned, almost 75 percent now.
00:38:37.720Twenty-five percent of white kids are now into the world without a father married to the mother.
00:38:42.160Half of Hispanic kids do, and 40 percent of all kids in America now enter the world without a father married to the mother, and it is a direct consequence of the welfare state.
00:38:51.220It's destroyed the family, caused crime to go up, caused a decline in the quality of public education, caused people to, when they do graduate from high school, they can't read, write, and compute at grade level.
00:39:02.540I could go on and on and on, but the number one sin is what they've done to the nuclear intact family.
00:39:08.220For crying out loud, you've got movements like Black Lives Matter that attacks the nuclear family they had on their website, that the nuclear family was a Western civilization construct, and that they should look to alternative ways of raising children.
00:39:23.580It's breathtakingly offensive what that movement has done and what the government has done in general, especially in America.
00:39:30.280But the good news is no one can find their leadership anymore.
00:39:34.840No one knows what they're doing, and they took ownership of the Communist Party headquarters mansion in Canada.
00:40:16.960Well, you can tell that nothing matters to her but the improvement of the quality of life and the standard of living of Black people, just as the name of the organization would imply.
00:40:26.940Basically, we find out they've done nothing, absolutely nothing for their community and done everything to them by taking the money, buying up, as you say, mansions and spending it.
00:40:44.220I mean, there's $60 million missing, and corporate America has been pouring money into that organization, which might just well set up many of these corporations for a class action lawsuit from their shareholders, because fiduciary responsibility they have not demonstrated.
00:41:00.600I want to turn, if I may, to the president's mental and physical health, which seems to be in decline.
00:41:09.000I want everybody listening to us that have not seen the video of Jill Biden.
00:41:15.080I don't call her Dr. Jill Biden because I reserve that, and I always have, whether on the broadcast or in my personal life, I would not call anyone doctor unless they were a medical doctor.
00:41:28.120She is not a medical doctor, and I won't be calling her Dr. Jill.
00:41:32.560I won't call her Jill, but I will call her Mrs. Biden, she leading the president of the United States as if he were a dog, off a stage, down the steps, and through the crowd, with her head bowed, plowing straight ahead at a very slow rate.
00:41:52.300Plowing is a little strong for what she was doing.
00:42:39.660They wanted to make sure that Bernie Sanders did not get the nomination because, remember, he won the Nevada caucuses.
00:42:44.440And for one shining moment, he was the frontrunner, a self-described socialist, was the frontrunner, and the Democrats knew he couldn't win.
00:42:52.720So, Joe Biden, they coalesced around him after James Clyburn endorsed him before the South Carolina primary.
00:42:59.120He was the amiable guy, perceived to be a moderate, perceived to be somebody who would not send out nasty tweets like Donald Trump did and defeat Donald Trump.
00:43:19.360Yeah, the left may be fine with it, but the rest of the country isn't.
00:43:23.620They're very disturbed about what this president is doing.
00:43:26.380The country is going in the wrong direction, say more than two-thirds of Americans.
00:43:30.600Right now, I don't believe, I don't know what the correct process would be,
00:43:36.880because she is reviled, and he is loathed almost as much, and no one trusts either one of them to be capable of carrying out the functions of the commander-in-chief in this country.
00:44:21.100Because if she is perceived to have been kicked out of the number two spot, swept aside in some sort of way, the wrath of Black females would be something to behold.
00:44:33.260And again, that's the most loyal part of the Democratic base.
00:44:36.080I'm not saying they'd vote for Donald Trump as he ran in 2024.
00:44:39.400What they would do is stay home, and they would encourage other people to stay home.
00:45:26.280The left is in control all the way with the Democratic Party.
00:45:29.800Keep in mind, we just need a few swing states.
00:45:34.640Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Michigan, Detroit, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, heavy, heavy Black populations, heavy, heavy Democrats.
00:45:43.840And you take away that, and the Republicans can win those swing states.
00:45:50.240So the Black vote is very important in states like that, Georgia as well, Atlanta.
00:45:55.820That's how Joe Biden won, by overperforming in Milwaukee, overperforming in Philadelphia, overperforming in Atlanta, and overperforming in Detroit.
00:46:30.900Either way, voodoo or doo-doo, we know one thing, playing a very large part in what transpired in Wayne County in Michigan and Fulton County in Georgia,
00:46:44.540playing a very large part where those drop boxes, which are illegal in many states,
00:46:50.080but suddenly took on great importance and currency and legitimacy of conferred by the secretaries of state in those states for those counties in particular.
00:47:06.620We, right now, you see the Democratic Party just about, they're apoplectic,
00:47:12.080apoplectic, because state after state is now saying there will be no more drop boxes and absentee ballots will not be shipped out by the millions to a few hundred thousand people.
00:47:34.900Well, you know, Lou, I want to break some news on your program.
00:47:37.680Last night, I saw a part of a film that Dinesh D'Souza is doing, talking about all these drop boxes and about these mules who went to drop boxes one after another, after another, after another.
00:47:54.360They've got videotape of people stuffing things into these drop boxes.
00:47:59.080I can't say a whole lot more about it.
00:48:02.240But there's a trailer that you can see on YouTube, and I'm telling you, it is jaw-dropping the information that I've seen with my own baby brown African-American eyeballs.
00:48:13.840And if one-tenth of what I just saw is accurate, it's going to be an earthquake.
00:48:19.540Even people who are partisan are going to have to look in the mirror and say, I cannot ignore all of this evidence.
00:48:25.360And remember about these drop boxes, let's take one state, Wisconsin.
00:48:30.320Donald Trump, of course, sued Wisconsin to have the election overturned, and that went all the way up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:48:36.760And it was a 4-3 decision, and there was a dissent filed by the chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:48:44.760These drop boxes are absolutely illegal.
00:48:47.300And recently, just a few days ago, a judge in Waukesha County ruled that going forward, these drop boxes are illegal.
00:48:53.780And so, as I said, the evidence I saw with my own eyes was pretty compelling, and it's going to shake this country up once that documentary comes out.
00:49:17.880And speaking of films, my documentary, Uncle Tom 1, we raised about a million dollars to do it, Lou, and it grossed almost $5 million.
00:49:30.240Uncle Tom 2 is coming out within the next couple of months, and it's going to be every bit, in my opinion, as impactful as the first one was.
00:49:55.100I can't wait to see the documentaries and your cameo role, which I suspect means you take about, what, 20% of the time in that documentary?
00:50:24.040Black Americans doing New York City over there, a proposal to grant voting rights to illegal immigrants.
00:50:29.280That, I think, is one of the biggest deals here of late for African Americans to be suing New York City because the city is going to allow illegal immigrants to vote.
00:50:41.360Your reaction to what I think is a seminal moment in establishing the integrity of the American electoral system?
00:50:51.780Well, I understand there's something like 800,000 people, and I don't think they're illegal aliens.
00:50:57.120I think they're here legally, but they are not citizens.
00:51:00.260But either way, it's interesting because Black people are apparently victimized by the Republicans who supposedly are suppressing the vote, and now you're having Black people say, we're suing the city of New York because you're watering down our vote.
00:51:15.180Basically, you're suppressing our vote by allowing non-citizens to vote.
00:51:32.120White people have been trying to get these voting rights stripped from jurisdictions that allow non-citizens or illegal immigrants or both to vote because they're called racists if they do.
00:52:07.180You know, at one time, the Democrats sounded like Trump on immigration.
00:52:11.780It was Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein.
00:52:16.960I remember after the first attempt to bomb the World Trade Center, Harry Reid went off about how easy it is to become a citizen, that you can have a child on American soil and you're a legal alien and that child is a citizen.
00:52:31.920Democrats used to sound like Trump before Trump sounded like Trump on immigration.
00:52:37.020And they did a 180 because they made the calculation that illegal aliens, current citizens, current voters would vote Democrat.
00:52:46.220And by the way, Harry Reid caught holy hell for what he said and how he said it.
00:52:51.460And you haven't heard a Democrat take up that tone or that side of the argument since.
00:52:57.540You know, Mary, as always, it's great to have you with us and it's great to spend some time talking with you.
00:53:04.240I am delighted you've got your hand in a lot of fires, two documentaries, your pack, your radio show, and your terrific, just terrific commitment to being a great American.
00:53:45.020You know I'm a New York Times bestseller.
00:53:46.860I've had two books on the New York Times bestselling list.
00:53:49.160My first book was called The Ten Things You Can't Save America, which came out in 2000.
00:53:53.380But, Lou, what I wanted to say real quickly is we were talking about illegal immigration.
00:53:57.540You were on the vanguard of bringing that issue to the forefront.
00:54:01.640It was considered to be almost a fringe, almost a racist thing to bring up when you were talking about this when you were on CNN.
00:54:07.700And you talked about it over and over and over again.
00:54:10.620You made the Republicans feel uncomfortable about it.
00:54:12.780But ultimately, you opened their eyes and people began to realize this was a very important issue.
00:54:18.060And I don't think but for you and the way you were just hammering and hammering, hammering away on this issue, I'm not sure it ever would have risen to the level of concern that it has right now.
00:54:27.400So you should take a bow for bringing this issue up, for having the courage to do it, and running the risk of being called all sorts of nasty names as you were when you brought up the issue of illegal immigration and things like chain migration for crying out loud.
00:54:40.380No one was talking about that until you did.
00:54:42.060Well, you're very kind to say so, and I appreciate your kind words, as always, Larry.
00:54:48.960I even appreciate your words when they're not kind, and I appreciate you taking time to be with us.