The Great America Show - February 11, 2022


L.A. SHERIFF： D.A. SPURS CRIME—ELDER SAYS BLM WRECKS FAMILIES


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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.

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00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America podcast with Lou Dobbs,
00:00:04.200 always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.
00:00:09.240 And now here he is, the Peabody award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.
00:00:14.440 Hello, everybody, and welcome to this edition of the Great America show,
00:00:18.540 dedicated as always to truth, justice, and the American way. Thanks for being with us,
00:00:25.220 sharing part of your day with us, and supporting the success of this podcast.
00:00:28.780 We thank you so much for your support, for your commitment to this great country of ours.
00:00:34.760 Our country, as you know, is in desperate need of loyal citizens committed to our national values,
00:00:41.380 our way of life, our constitution, because as a nation, we've rarely been this divided.
00:00:47.880 And the divide in America is very real. It is profound, and it is deepening in large measure,
00:00:54.720 thanks to President Joe Biden. President Biden bears much of the responsibility,
00:01:01.220 insisting as he does on open borders, flying illegal immigrants from the borders to towns and
00:01:07.280 cities all across the country in the dead of night. Biden is flaunting our laws and the constitution.
00:01:13.960 While sending our troops to Eastern Europe, he ignores the Mexican drug cartels that get ever richer, 0.57
00:01:20.720 more powerful, with Biden's assistance in keeping the border wide open, and the deadly drugs,
00:01:27.260 sex trafficking, and human smuggling that rages over that border. Mexico itself is now even more lawless
00:01:35.660 and violent, but so is our southern border. Border states and big Democrat-run cities are caught in a
00:01:42.980 nationwide rising violent crime wave. Gang violence and murders out of control, corruption of every
00:01:50.800 kind has captured our border and American cities alike. America is wracked by spikes in violent crime,
00:01:58.340 left-wing efforts to defund police and law enforcement everywhere, vicious and lethal attacks against
00:02:06.160 our police that are organized and orchestrated. There are simply too many murders of those law
00:02:12.840 enforcement officers for me to believe that they're not being targeted. Concurrently, left-wing prosecutors
00:02:19.740 are refusing to do their jobs to bring the killers to justice. Many of them supported those DAs that will not
00:02:28.240 will not prosecute the criminals who break our laws daily. Many of them are supported by George Soros and his
00:02:36.860 open society, neo-Marxist. But those left-wing prosecutors are now found all over the country. One of the most
00:02:44.580 liberal district attorneys supported by Soros, of course, is George Gascon in Los Angeles County. Gascon is a devout
00:02:53.420 left-wing prosecutor who is indistinguishable from any neo-Marxist, whose rhetoric is that of social
00:03:00.080 justice warriors and any left-wing activist. But when off-duty Los Angeles police officer Fernando Arroyo
00:03:09.000 was shot and killed by gang members, the prosecutor's office declined to file maximum charges against them.
00:03:16.100 Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva decided to go around Gascon's office and bring in the U.S.
00:03:24.760 attorney in order to prosecute, to the maximum, those accused of his murder. That's highly unusual. It's a
00:03:33.480 rare move, in fact. But that's the situation in Los Angeles with Gascon as district attorney. Joining us
00:03:40.620 now is the man who made that decision to go around Gascon. He is the sheriff of Los Angeles County,
00:03:47.500 the largest, by the way, sheriff's office in the country. Joining us now, Sheriff Alex Villanueva
00:03:54.120 here on The Great America Show. Sheriff Villanueva, thank you very much for being with us. Welcome to
00:04:00.100 The Great America Show. It's an honor to talk with you, and I know that this is a difficult day,
00:04:06.760 but we do appreciate it. No, my pleasure to be here, Lou, and yeah, we just finished the funeral services
00:04:17.560 for LAPD officer Fernando Arroyos. Friday was the officer, the services for NYPD officer Jason Rivera,
00:04:27.760 and the list goes on and on. It's, and it is a shame because we're experiencing it all over the
00:04:38.000 country. And to that end, I've got to ask you, Sheriff, as I said at the outset of my introduction
00:04:44.700 to you, I, there are so many of these murders. I have to believe that a number of them are targeted,
00:04:52.600 that there is an orchestration, a war on law enforcement in this country. Your thoughts?
00:05:00.940 Well, I think the politicians, their rhetoric, rising the temperature since 2020, the chickens
00:05:09.260 have come home to roost. Now there's people on the extremes that are believing in that ideology that
00:05:15.960 cops are the root of all evil and existential threat. So they're, all they're doing is raising
00:05:21.800 the conflict potential in any encounter between law enforcement and, for example, a bad guy doing
00:05:27.620 bad things and needs to be arrested. And we just had two officers shot and killed in New York.
00:05:36.740 The county, the district attorney's office is another Soros-backed prosecutor. It's very difficult
00:05:46.840 to understand what is going on when prosecutors, and I know George Gascon, the district attorney
00:05:53.700 in Los Angeles, you've sidestepped him. But to see what these prosecutors are doing, how much of that
00:06:00.300 leniency that it seems like maximum tolerance is, in your judgment, responsible for this crime wave?
00:06:09.680 Well, it bears a brunt. It's one of the elements that is definitely contributing towards this wave of
00:06:18.360 violence. Look at the lack of prosecutions for crimes involving guns. Well, now all the crooks have guns
00:06:25.540 because they know there's no consequence if they're caught with a gun. Difference between a strong armed
00:06:30.440 robbery and an armed robbery, for example. So there are definitely very bad consequences for failure to hold bad
00:06:38.960 guys accountable for the crimes they commit. And while the prosecutors are also moving toward lesser
00:06:47.860 crimes, pleading deals, refusing to bring, as in the case of the murder of Los Angeles police officer
00:06:58.120 Arroyo, the L.A. district attorney doesn't want to bring maximum charges against them,
00:07:06.180 against those members of a gang who killed him just wantonly. It boggles my mind to think that
00:07:16.680 such a person would be in office.
00:07:20.120 Well, they've bought into this whole theory that it's systemic racism that has filled up our prisons,
00:07:27.220 and they're going to combat mass incarceration by emptying out the prisons and the jails as a way to
00:07:35.080 prove that they're anti-racist. In the actuality, what they're doing is they're condemning black and
00:07:42.020 brown communities to ever higher levels of violence because these people are back out in the street 1.00
00:07:47.860 as quickly as possible, facing the minimum consequences possible, and that is not going to end well for the
00:07:54.780 very same people they claim that they're trying to protect. And in Los Angeles County, you have
00:08:02.320 another element. You're one of the jurisdictions, your office in Los Angeles County, your funding has
00:08:11.580 been cut. The sheriff's office has actually been defunded. How do you even function? I mean, Los Angeles,
00:08:19.500 anybody who's been to Los Angeles knows what a vast area that is. You have the largest sheriff's office in the
00:08:25.540 country, but that is also one of the largest areas to police.
00:08:33.620 It's getting more challenging every single day. We lost, I started with $101 million deficit, then they defunded
00:08:41.920 $145 million one year. The next year they took out another $116 million. Then they removed $1,281 budgeted
00:08:50.940 positions. All of this, while homicides, grew 94% over the last two years. So we're facing the most
00:09:00.560 understaffed agency in the entire nation, yet they've frozen my ability to hire as they're defunding me,
00:09:07.660 so we're actually shrinking while crime is growing. It makes no sense whatsoever.
00:09:14.480 And unfortunately, there are other police departments and sheriff's offices that have
00:09:20.680 gone through the same thing, but many of them have been more adaptable, have come to their senses
00:09:26.620 and have refunded those departments initially. Yours is the largest defunding I'm aware of
00:09:33.080 that hasn't been restored. Is that correct? That is 100% correct. Every single city that
00:09:42.520 kind of played with the idea of defunding and went ahead and defunded, New York City, Minneapolis,
00:09:49.900 Rochester, New York, Rochester, Minnesota, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, the city of Los Angeles,
00:09:56.580 Austin, Austin, Texas, they all, in Oakland PD, they all defunded and then they regretted it,
00:10:03.620 refunded. Our board of supervisors in LA County, they've actually doubled down on stupid
00:10:08.880 and they're insisting on continuing the defunding effort.
00:10:13.320 So you are, I have to say, a man of immense patience and courage, obviously. But what they're
00:10:23.160 asking your department to do, your deputies on the street, I don't understand why there
00:10:30.840 wouldn't be consequences, why the board of supervisors could be that ignorant and not
00:10:37.100 be recalled or petitioned out.
00:10:41.820 Well, the only silver lining we have is that all of the supervisor district got redrawn by
00:10:48.640 an independent commission of citizens. So now they're all going to face the wrath of
00:10:55.220 constituents that did not used to be their constituents. So now the politicians don't
00:11:01.780 get to pick their voters. So we'll see how it pans out here in June and November of this election year.
00:11:08.840 And hopefully we're going to get a moderate board that actually will listen to the community
00:11:13.120 and the community itself. They want more cops everywhere we go. We need more to see more
00:11:18.220 deputies, not less.
00:11:20.860 Did those communities understand what their board of supervisors is doing to them?
00:11:25.680 They're really consigning some of their fellow citizens to death at the hands of gangs and street
00:11:32.840 thugs. It's to me, it's it's incomprehensible that a community wouldn't understand the consequences
00:11:40.180 of such a ignorant move on the part of a governmental body, whether it's a L.A.
00:11:45.580 County Board of Supervisors or a city council anywhere.
00:11:50.780 I have one supervisor, Holly Mitchell.
00:11:53.080 She has vowed not to allow one more nickel to go to the sheriff's department.
00:11:58.920 And her district, District 2, has the highest homicide rate and grand theft auto rate in the entire county.
00:12:06.700 Highest rate of homelessness. Every single demographic that's bad, she has it. 0.93
00:12:13.560 And she firmly believes that we're a threat to minority communities, not an actual source of protection.
00:12:22.340 So that we're living a very strange time right now.
00:12:25.300 Well, certainly, certainly we do.
00:12:29.280 I would like to get some.
00:12:31.260 I know that you have got a great reputation for being engaged with the community.
00:12:36.220 What can be done when you have, frankly, such institutionalized, it sounds to me,
00:12:44.420 ignorance on your board of supervisors and a community that desperately needs to understand
00:12:50.820 what's being done to them by the people they're electing?
00:12:55.780 I think ultimately, I've done 84, 85, actually, town halls since I took office in December of 2018.
00:13:04.460 So I've crisscrossed the entire county.
00:13:07.200 I've talked to tens of thousands of residents in person via Zoom.
00:13:11.780 And I have the supervisors, they're hiding behind their offices, behind plexiglass, in Zoom.
00:13:19.600 They don't do public meetings.
00:13:21.500 They do nothing with the public.
00:13:23.520 They don't take answers or questions from the public, not even from the media.
00:13:27.460 Unless it's very carefully scripted by the media, they will not address a question.
00:13:32.400 And I'm doing the exact opposite of everything they're doing, because I need to be held accountable
00:13:37.840 and accessible to the public.
00:13:40.000 And if these supervisors are not going to be that way, well, they need to be removed from office.
00:13:45.120 And I'm going to ensure that the voters do exactly that.
00:13:49.180 Well, good for you.
00:13:50.280 And I'm looking at some of your press that you're getting.
00:13:54.860 You're up for election this year.
00:13:56.700 I'm looking at people who are writing things, suggesting that you have moved to the right
00:14:03.480 while L.A. County has moved to the left.
00:14:07.620 And there seem, you know, they're obviously these writers of these articles are coming after you,
00:14:14.300 but they're scratching their heads figuratively, saying, well, you know, Sheriff Elanueva,
00:14:19.940 we just don't understand what he's doing.
00:14:21.980 Do any of these people understand that the country, young people indeed, are moving more
00:14:29.680 and more to the center and to the right in this country?
00:14:34.400 Oh, definitely.
00:14:35.780 They live in a woke little bubble that they've created between the politicians and these writers.
00:14:42.480 Every single person, the people that I speak to on the street, especially regarding homelessness,
00:14:48.300 they do not care what party you belong to, what ideology.
00:14:53.780 They're concerned about the homeless men desiccating on their front lawn.
00:14:57.720 That is going to totally rearrange their thought process about what local politics is all about.
00:15:04.900 So if the Board of Supervisors wants to make that the new normal that they have to accept,
00:15:09.760 well, they'll go from ultra-liberal to ultra-conservative in the blink of an eye.
00:15:15.400 I understand that, but the Board is married to an ideology that has gone way past its prime.
00:15:23.400 I've never changed who I am.
00:15:25.200 I've always advertised that I'm a Democrat of the JFK and the FDR tradition, or a moderate,
00:15:32.400 and that's where most of the community lies, center-right, center-left.
00:15:36.260 But I can talk to Republicans.
00:15:39.020 I can talk to Democrats.
00:15:40.960 That is where the community lies.
00:15:42.460 They want to see results.
00:15:43.980 They want to hold politicians accountable.
00:15:46.520 Get the job done.
00:15:48.340 Well, I think that you've got it exactly right, and I think that anyone in any community,
00:15:54.840 irrespective of his or her party, would want the sheriff to be at the center of politics in both his thinking and his actions.
00:16:03.140 These woke prosecutors, and you've got one of the biggest in the country, is there any way to—I know that there's a petition out.
00:16:14.520 Is he going to be recalled, or is he going to continue to insult everyone in uniform,
00:16:20.700 everyone who puts his and her life on the line, to protect the community?
00:16:25.540 He is going to get recalled.
00:16:28.660 The first effort wasn't very well organized or funded, but I think they all learned their lessons now.
00:16:34.500 Now they have the funding-first organization.
00:16:38.040 They just pulled the petition, so it's now in circulation.
00:16:42.540 They have 160 days.
00:16:44.820 They've got to reach $800,000 to have a safe buffer.
00:16:47.680 And they will get the signatures, because, I mean, every decision he's made for our department alone,
00:16:55.780 his first year in office, 2021, he declined 12,074 cases.
00:17:03.720 12,074 cases that he declined, that we had the bad guy caught, evidence, everything, victim,
00:17:11.700 and he said no prosecution, so the bad guy walked away.
00:17:14.940 And the public is not putting up with that at all.
00:17:17.480 And that is across the ideological spectrum.
00:17:20.860 They want to tell it like, oh, these are disgruntled Trump supporters.
00:17:23.820 No, it's going to be majority Democrats that are going to vote.
00:17:27.740 Got to go out of office.
00:17:29.860 Well, the Democratic Party, as you noted, is no longer the Democratic Party of JFK.
00:17:37.780 For that matter, the Republican Party isn't the party of Eisenhower either.
00:17:41.520 I think I should make it very clear.
00:17:45.280 Yes.
00:17:45.580 The extremes are not helping us.
00:17:47.480 No, they're not.
00:17:49.000 And the extremes that have been embedded, it seems, in our cities and our communities are,
00:17:56.520 for example, Antifa, BLM.
00:17:59.660 And there are attacks on law enforcement in 2020, under any number of pretenses and pretexts.
00:18:06.380 I think, really, we're at the root of much of this hostility toward police and the actual orchestration of violence against police.
00:18:18.160 What do you think?
00:18:19.400 Well, I think they pretty much exploited the murder of George Floyd for their own financial gain.
00:18:29.140 And all that money they raised, over $90 million, lined the pockets of just a few individuals.
00:18:36.600 Some of them went out to buy mansions.
00:18:38.460 And the fact is, they tried to sell the idea that systemic racism is rampant all across the entire profession.
00:18:47.000 And it is a false narrative.
00:18:49.380 Yeah.
00:18:50.180 Unlawful uses of force that results in the death of a black man is an extremely rare event.
00:18:57.180 It's like a strike of lightning.
00:18:58.860 That's how rare it is.
00:18:59.880 But a cop dies approximately every single week, a cop dies at the hands of a felon during the commission of a felony.
00:19:08.960 That is something that is far more common.
00:19:11.600 Yet, Black Lives Matter tried to sell the idea that cops were an existential threat to young black men, not other young black men.
00:19:22.660 And part of the blame has to be laid at the feet of the popular media, if you can call it that.
00:19:29.620 It's not so popular anymore.
00:19:31.040 But the Los Angeles Times, your television news groups, how much of the problem do they represent?
00:19:40.320 Are they accurately reporting what's going on?
00:19:43.500 Or are they just following in line, as they do nationally, with the ideological narrative, the consensus narrative of corporate media?
00:19:52.960 Oh, they definitely are following along with that corporate media, because they talk about systemic racism and mass incarceration.
00:20:01.980 Yet, they can't acknowledge for, oh, and their favorite word is it's disproportional.
00:20:07.000 Everything that we do is disproportionately affects young people of color. 0.98
00:20:10.980 But when young people of color are disproportionately committing violent crime, that part they don't really want to talk about.
00:20:19.080 It's just the fact that, yes, the bad guy somehow is harmed by being incarcerated.
00:20:23.660 No, they got there by their own actions, not some outcome out of a systemic racist plan or something like that.
00:20:32.580 And that is that false narrative that the L.A. Times in particular keeps perpetuating in every single article they push out there.
00:20:41.060 And they have no evidence to support it.
00:20:44.740 It's in Chicago.
00:20:46.220 Black on black crime is just utterly ignored.
00:20:49.180 And other major cities.
00:20:50.700 When, as you well know, that is the preponderance of crime in black communities across the country. 1.00
00:21:00.160 But again, victims.
00:21:01.600 Yeah.
00:21:01.920 And 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,
00:21:17.880 because the teachers' unions wants them closed for their own reasons.
00:21:22.420 Meanwhile, the greatest equalizer in our society, our public school system, isn't working for those who need them most.
00:21:30.660 It's outrageous.
00:21:32.160 That is very true.
00:21:34.360 And then you hear complaints about school discipline and who is suspended and is disproportionate.
00:21:39.860 Well, 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.
00:21:57.800 It's as long as they're all being treated the same is what counts.
00:22:01.500 And that's the part they don't want to answer that question, because the answers doesn't satisfy the narrative.
00:22:07.300 Sheriff, how do we how do we turn this around?
00:22:11.000 You're having to eat all of these budget cuts.
00:22:14.180 You're losing officers on the street.
00:22:19.480 The community is losing protection.
00:22:23.340 It is a mad, an absolutely mad piece of architecture.
00:22:29.660 It doesn't make sense intellectually, logically, empirically.
00:22:33.240 There is no evidence to say anything but the inverse.
00:22:36.900 That the community suffers mightily.
00:22:39.360 What what can be done?
00:22:41.980 Well, there's there's a glimmer of hope.
00:22:44.820 And 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.
00:22:56.020 And 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.
00:23:14.980 So they got to start paying attention and start working together on what they share the common interest public safety knows no party.
00:23:23.360 And I think when we start working together like that, people realize, wow, we can actually make a difference locally.
00:23:30.360 Homelessness is a prime example. 0.54
00:23:33.140 Absolutely.
00:23:33.540 Well, we all should want the same things that is safety protections, our family safe, our neighbors safe, our communities safe.
00:23:43.340 And 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.
00:23:58.440 But it's got to be fixed for the good of the country, and it's got to be fixed very, very soon.
00:24:05.280 Sheriff, I can't tell you how much I admire what you're doing there.
00:24:09.120 I appreciate it.
00:24:10.500 I know your community does, even though probably they don't express it.
00:24:14.260 You know, that's the problem across this country.
00:24:17.140 We don't say thanks to our law enforcement nearly as much as we should.
00:24:21.180 But I want to say thank you, and I give you the last word as our custom here.
00:24:28.740 But, 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.
00:24:38.220 Well, I want to thank you, Lou, for the opportunity to speak to your audience.
00:24:42.440 And just let them know that help is out of the way.
00:24:45.520 We're going to get the left and the right to talk.
00:24:48.640 And by doing so, we're going to bridge that gap of mistrust and ignorance and get people educated, hold our elected officials accountable.
00:24:59.260 And we have the solutions.
00:25:00.800 We just got to generate that political will.
00:25:04.080 Sheriff, we appreciate it.
00:25:05.940 Sheriff Ellen DeWeva, thanks so much for being with us.
00:25:08.400 And I want to just say, God bless you, and I look forward to our next conversation.
00:25:14.700 All the best of luck.
00:25:15.900 All right.
00:25:16.720 You got it, sir.
00:25:18.660 Bye-bye.
00:25:19.380 Bye-bye.
00:25:20.900 And today we have with us a great American, a patriot.
00:25:24.500 He's smart.
00:25:25.380 He's got a great sense of humor.
00:25:26.760 With us straight from Los Angeles, the Salem Radio Broadcasting Network's host of the Larry Elder Show.
00:25:35.620 Great American, great broadcaster, great guy and friend.
00:25:40.040 Larry Elder, welcome.
00:25:42.000 How are you on this beautiful day in America?
00:25:45.400 Lou, I am excellent.
00:25:46.820 Thank you very much.
00:25:47.500 I appreciate your having me.
00:25:48.940 Well, it's a delight to have you with us and to talk with you as always.
00:25:52.560 I want to start with something kind of different here.
00:25:56.540 I've been watching Wall Street.
00:25:58.120 There's nothing new about me watching Wall Street.
00:26:00.120 But it's a tough day for Mark Zuckerberg and, of course, his investors.
00:26:06.400 Meta stock, Facebook stock, down 26%.
00:26:11.200 And, of course, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry, did the thing you would expect of great leaders.
00:26:17.000 He immediately took responsibility and blamed TikTok.
00:26:21.700 You've got to love that kind of leadership, Larry.
00:26:23.680 Well, you know, young people are increasingly going to TikTok, so there may be something there.
00:26:30.580 I would love to say that what's happening is a whole bunch of people are becoming ticked off at Facebook.
00:26:36.400 If 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.
00:26:48.480 And 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.
00:27:02.720 All I know is my young friends don't use Facebook.
00:27:05.180 They use TikTok.
00:27:05.960 They think Facebook is for old people, and there's nothing worse than your product being accused of being for old people.
00:27:12.760 Well, 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.
00:27:24.200 He'll be down to his next ten or his last ten or twenty billion dollars if he keeps this up.
00:27:30.840 The idea that...
00:27:32.000 It's scary to me.
00:27:33.220 Go ahead.
00:27:34.060 I was going to say, it's just scary to me, Lou, the power these social media platforms have.
00:27:38.640 You 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.
00:27:47.640 I'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.
00:27:57.020 And it isn't because people don't know who I am.
00:27:59.320 I'm clearly being shafted because of the stuff I post.
00:28:01.880 You 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.
00:28:10.420 And it's just absolutely scary, frightening how much power they have.
00:28:14.180 It 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.
00:28:27.600 That stayed pretty much the same over the last couple of years.
00:28:31.840 It'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.
00:28:38.540 But we'll see how things work out.
00:28:40.900 The 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%.
00:28:49.660 I want to turn to your run for governor, your political aspirations.
00:28:56.520 I know you just started a pack as well.
00:28:59.740 Give us a sense of what your political aspirations are now with your looking at the rearview mirror at your run for governor.
00:29:10.360 Well, by any stretch of the imagination, we did extremely well in our run.
00:29:17.280 We only got into the race, Lou, with eight weeks left.
00:29:20.800 And in eight weeks, we raised $22 million.
00:29:23.020 That was more than all my Republican rivals combined, including a millionaire who self-funded.
00:29:28.040 There are 58 counties in California.
00:29:29.900 We carried 57 of them on the replacement side.
00:29:32.400 The only one we didn't carry was San Francisco.
00:29:34.680 And Lou, we didn't spend one dime or one minute campaigning there.
00:29:37.340 We got 49% of the vote.
00:29:39.680 That was more than all of the 45 rivals on the replacement side combined.
00:29:45.680 Gavin Newsom had to outspend us 10 to 1.
00:29:48.420 In came Barack Obama.
00:29:49.860 In came Kamala Harris.
00:29:51.380 In came Nancy Pelosi.
00:29:54.060 Bernie Sanders cut a commercial for him.
00:29:55.880 Elizabeth Warren cut a commercial for him.
00:29:57.760 Biden came out and campaigned for him.
00:30:00.080 And all they said, Lou, was stop the Republican takeover.
00:30:03.800 Elder is a Trump Republican.
00:30:05.320 Elder is a Trump wannabe. 0.51
00:30:06.280 I think Joe Biden said I was more Trump than Trump, whatever the hell that means.
00:30:10.200 And it worked in California.
00:30:11.840 And so, you know, the temptation to try it again.
00:30:14.840 He's up for re-election in November.
00:30:16.720 But I felt that I could probably win with a recall election because you could win conceivably
00:30:22.740 with as little as 25% of the total votes cast.
00:30:25.700 You can't do that in a mono, a mono, a mono race against Gavin Newsom in a landscape like
00:30:30.420 California where Republicans are up number three to one.
00:30:33.080 So I'm not going to run against him.
00:30:34.220 Larry, I just want to explain what you're talking about there just for a moment.
00:30:39.000 In the runoff, all that had to happen was Gavin Newsom be recalled.
00:30:44.100 And immediately the front runner amongst all opponents would be the new governor, correct?
00:30:50.600 That's right.
00:30:51.140 It was a two-step deal.
00:30:52.740 First, 50% one of the voters had to vote to recall Gavin Newsom.
00:30:57.060 Then you go to the replacement side, and whoever gets the most votes to replace him would become
00:31:01.620 the next governor.
00:31:02.580 And I clearly got more votes than anybody else, as I mentioned, combined.
00:31:05.780 So had 50% plus one voted to recall Gavin Newsom, I'd be talking to you from Sacramento,
00:31:11.060 too.
00:31:11.300 But that didn't happen.
00:31:12.500 It didn't happen for all the reasons I mentioned.
00:31:14.580 Big Tech came out.
00:31:15.400 They were scared to death.
00:31:16.940 The recall was losing by double digits until I got into the race.
00:31:20.540 And then it went into the margin of error.
00:31:22.040 And that's when Gavin Newsom called out the dogs.
00:31:24.980 And by that, I'm talking about Big Tech, Hollywood, the public sector unions, the teachers
00:31:29.240 unions.
00:31:30.280 Reed Hastings, the co-CEO of Netflix, gave him $3 million to defeat the recall.
00:31:35.840 Snoop Dogg tweeted to his 14 million followers on Twitter that I'm a really bad person, that
00:31:41.040 they ought not recall me.
00:31:42.500 They ought not recall Gavin Newsom, even though Snoop Dogg is big on education, big on urban
00:31:48.220 engine.
00:31:48.720 And one of the big issues in the campaign was my support for school choice.
00:31:52.180 So that's what they had to do in order to defeat me.
00:31:55.120 So what I've done is set up a political action committee.
00:31:57.140 It's called elderforamerica.com.
00:31:59.320 I'm asking people to throw a little something in the tip jar because with my newfound footprint,
00:32:04.960 I'm able to travel around the country, campaign for Republicans in very important swing races
00:32:11.220 and swing districts.
00:32:12.320 We're going to campaign to get rid of these soft on crime DAs.
00:32:15.120 We're going to campaign for school choice.
00:32:16.620 We're going to campaign to get rid of critical race theory.
00:32:18.920 So those are the issues I'm going to be raising and campaigning for with elderforamerica.com.
00:32:23.580 So you're going to be a helper, not a candidate.
00:32:27.080 Funny you should say that, Lou.
00:32:28.780 I have a FedEx driver who kept dropping off stuff during the campaign.
00:32:33.700 And when the race was over, he kept asking me, am I going to run again?
00:32:36.680 Am I going to run again?
00:32:37.400 Am I going to run again?
00:32:38.600 And I decided, as I mentioned, to start this pack.
00:32:41.160 I just launched the pack about two or three weeks ago.
00:32:43.740 I walk outside, and the FedEx guy is there.
00:32:46.400 And he goes, Larry, are you going to run again?
00:32:48.360 And I told him what I told you.
00:32:49.860 I'm starting Elder for America, political action committee, helped Republicans take back the House, the Senate, campaign for school choice.
00:32:55.700 And he said, oh, you're going to direct.
00:32:59.380 That's a lot of doing.
00:33:00.880 That's only somebody in Hollywood would say something like that.
00:33:03.380 Oh, you're going to direct.
00:33:05.040 Only somebody in California would say something like that.
00:33:07.480 And me being a country boy, I just said, you're going to be a helper.
00:33:11.160 You know, I don't know.
00:33:12.820 I'm going to have to get up to Hollywood standards.
00:33:15.080 But let me ask you this.
00:33:16.860 With the pack, with radio, you're going to continue doing radio, of course.
00:33:21.480 What 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.
00:33:46.200 What are you going to do about that?
00:33:49.860 The San Francisco Police Department head, the chief of police there, is now bypassing that DA for the same damn reasons.
00:33:59.680 What is it that California doesn't seem to understand about the importance of having law enforcement and prosecution of lawbreakers?
00:34:09.460 Well, there is an increasingly greater understanding of what George Soros has done by putting these two people in San Francisco and in Los Angeles.
00:34:22.600 You're finding now crime hitting the suburban areas.
00:34:26.100 As you probably know, there was a UCLA grad student who was murdered, stabbed to death, in Hancock Park, for crying out loud.
00:34:32.600 That is the trendy area, high-end area, where Maxine Waters has her $5 million mansion. 1.00
00:34:37.140 There was an 80-year-old man whose wife was murdered in Beverly Hills.
00:34:42.400 He's a music mobile, and it turns out the thug had a long record, should never have been out.
00:34:47.420 We 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.
00:34:57.220 What could possibly go wrong?
00:34:58.880 Many of these convicted felons were violent offenders.
00:35:00.860 You have cashless bail.
00:35:02.700 You have Proposition 47 that allows criminals to steal $950, not a day, but per store.
00:35:10.480 And 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.
00:35:17.960 So what I'm saying is a greater number of people are recognized in what's going on.
00:35:21.700 Crime is up in L.A. where I'm talking to you from, Lou, 40% year to year.
00:35:26.600 And 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.
00:35:35.960 So there's a greater understanding that these people have to go.
00:35:40.380 There have been two recall efforts against both the DAs.
00:35:43.220 One in L.A. has failed because they couldn't gather enough signatures.
00:35:45.920 But there's another effort that's being started, one also in the Bay Area that's being started.
00:35:51.240 And 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. 1.00
00:35:57.420 But I'm telling you, crime is going up not just in the inner city, but in the suburbs.
00:36:01.820 And 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.
00:36:10.860 I hope so anyway.
00:36:11.540 Yeah, I know what you're saying when you talk about those rich white people that are helping those DAs out. 0.91
00:36:18.420 But let's be real clear.
00:36:20.100 The communities, whether African-American or Hispanic, and their organized left-wing initiatives, I'll call it that, are not helping either. 1.00
00:36:30.140 They're certainly helping those DAs and are very pleased with the results.
00:36:34.780 This is a mess, and it's a mess that – is your PAC going to be supporting these petition efforts, these recall efforts?
00:36:41.920 Oh, absolutely.
00:36:43.380 That's one of the things I'm doing with it.
00:36:45.020 We're going after these soft-on-crime DAs.
00:36:46.960 We'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.
00:36:54.800 That's what we're going to be doing with the PAC, all these kinds of issues.
00:36:58.140 But this is absolutely outrageous.
00:36:59.520 You know, come on, Lou.
00:37:00.660 What's the number one responsibility of government?
00:37:02.740 To protect people and property, and it's not being done.
00:37:05.580 Yeah.
00:37:06.460 You know, government has turned on the people of this country, whether at the local level, the state, or the federal.
00:37:13.380 They do not feel that government is working for them.
00:37:17.000 In fact, they figure government is working against them.
00:37:19.640 This January 6th committee is an example where Americans are being abused.
00:37:24.540 They're taking political prisoners.
00:37:26.660 It's a partisan initiative that's worthy of the Soviet-era show trials. 0.92
00:37:33.880 It'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.
00:37:50.600 You know, Lou, the biggest neutron bomb that government has dropped on this society is what they've done to the family.
00:37:58.980 We talked about crime a moment ago.
00:38:00.960 Much 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. 0.99
00:38:18.160 And forget about elder, Lou.
00:38:19.700 Barack 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.
00:38:29.440 We'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.
00:38:37.720 Twenty-five percent of white kids are now into the world without a father married to the mother.
00:38:42.160 Half 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. 0.56
00:38:51.220 It'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.
00:39:01.300 We don't have school choice.
00:39:02.540 I could go on and on and on, but the number one sin is what they've done to the nuclear intact family.
00:39:08.220 For 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.
00:39:23.580 It's breathtakingly offensive what that movement has done and what the government has done in general, especially in America.
00:39:30.280 But the good news is no one can find their leadership anymore.
00:39:34.840 No one knows what they're doing, and they took ownership of the Communist Party headquarters mansion in Canada.
00:39:44.860 Isn't that great?
00:39:45.760 In Canada.
00:39:47.520 Right.
00:39:48.100 And the co-founder of Black Lives Matter is named Hillary.
00:39:52.180 She calls herself a trained Marxist.
00:39:54.100 And, of course, the founding principle of Marxists is that there should not be any private property.
00:39:59.480 She owns four pieces of property, including one at Topanga Canyon, over $2 million.
00:40:05.620 I think it's about 0.1% of the people there are Black.
00:40:10.120 So the Black Lives Matter founder has a mansion in an area where basically there are no Blacks.
00:40:15.020 You can't make this up.
00:40:16.960 Well, 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.
00:40:26.940 Basically, 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.
00:40:44.220 I 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.
00:41:00.600 I want to turn, if I may, to the president's mental and physical health, which seems to be in decline.
00:41:09.000 I want everybody listening to us that have not seen the video of Jill Biden.
00:41:15.080 I 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.
00:41:28.120 She is not a medical doctor, and I won't be calling her Dr. Jill.
00:41:32.560 I 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.
00:41:52.300 Plowing is a little strong for what she was doing. 1.00
00:41:56.300 It's embarrassing.
00:41:58.060 It was clear the president of the United States could not have left that stage without someone's assistance.
00:42:04.200 Your thoughts?
00:42:05.700 Well, and of course, Joe Biden is not just a regular guy.
00:42:09.660 He happens to be the leader of the free world and the most powerful person on the planet.
00:42:14.580 But, Lou, let's not forget about Dr. J.
00:42:16.720 He earned that title.
00:42:18.400 But getting back to Biden, remember, Biden's job was to do one thing and one thing only,
00:42:24.600 and that's to make sure that Donald Trump did not have a second.
00:42:27.260 After that, the Democrats did not care, do not care.
00:42:31.140 And the plan is for, at some point, him to turn over the reins to Kamala Harris, as unpopular as she is. 0.80
00:42:38.100 That was the entire game plan.
00:42:39.660 They wanted to make sure that Bernie Sanders did not get the nomination because, remember, he won the Nevada caucuses.
00:42:44.440 And for one shining moment, he was the frontrunner, a self-described socialist, was the frontrunner, and the Democrats knew he couldn't win.
00:42:52.720 So, Joe Biden, they coalesced around him after James Clyburn endorsed him before the South Carolina primary.
00:42:59.120 He 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.
00:43:07.280 After that, mission accomplished.
00:43:08.780 Everything, as far as they're concerned, is gravy.
00:43:12.580 They intend to turn it over to somebody else, and that somebody else is very likely going to be Kamala Harris.
00:43:17.060 And the left is fine with that.
00:43:19.360 Yeah, the left may be fine with it, but the rest of the country isn't.
00:43:23.620 They're very disturbed about what this president is doing.
00:43:26.380 The country is going in the wrong direction, say more than two-thirds of Americans.
00:43:30.600 Right now, I don't believe, I don't know what the correct process would be,
00:43:36.880 because 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.
00:43:52.460 What do we do now, Larry?
00:43:54.980 I agree with your analysis, but I'm telling you, they painted themselves into a corner.
00:43:59.280 The most loyal part of the Democratic base are Black females, and Black females love, love, love Kamala Harris. 0.89
00:44:07.620 And if somehow, some way, they try and get rid of her, the only way they can pull that off is if she walked into the Oval Office and said,
00:44:15.040 Joe, I want to be the next Supreme Court justice, and I want to go.
00:44:19.720 That's the job I want.
00:44:21.100 Because 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. 1.00
00:44:33.260 And again, that's the most loyal part of the Democratic base.
00:44:36.080 I'm not saying they'd vote for Donald Trump as he ran in 2024.
00:44:39.400 What they would do is stay home, and they would encourage other people to stay home.
00:44:42.660 So they're trapped.
00:44:43.480 They're stuck with her.
00:44:44.820 Yeah, that's interesting, because if you do that demographically, take a look at our population.
00:44:50.100 The African-American population in this country is just a little over 12%.
00:44:54.360 The female proportion of that would be about 6% of the population then, Black women, females.
00:45:05.420 And you think they have that much control and power over the Democratic Party?
00:45:10.040 I'm not arguing with you, but I'm just highlighting how few people can have a position of strength within a caucus
00:45:18.120 and constituent and coalition party like the radical Dems.
00:45:25.000 It is really crazy.
00:45:26.280 The left is in control all the way with the Democratic Party.
00:45:29.800 Keep in mind, we just need a few swing states.
00:45:34.640 Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Michigan, Detroit, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, heavy, heavy Black populations, heavy, heavy Democrats. 0.68
00:45:43.840 And you take away that, and the Republicans can win those swing states.
00:45:50.240 So the Black vote is very important in states like that, Georgia as well, Atlanta.
00:45:55.820 That's how Joe Biden won, by overperforming in Milwaukee, overperforming in Philadelphia, overperforming in Atlanta, and overperforming in Detroit.
00:46:05.040 And that's the Black vote. 0.89
00:46:06.540 You get rid of that, and the Democratic Party is in deep, deep voodoo.
00:46:10.720 Well, deep, deep doo-doo.
00:46:14.480 You know, that deep, deep.
00:46:15.460 I said voodoo. 0.99
00:46:17.880 V is in victory.
00:46:20.000 V is in victory.
00:46:21.060 I'm glad you straightened that out, because I, you know, I kind of, I got to be honest with you, I kind of like that deep, deep doo-doo. 0.99
00:46:29.380 No, deep, deep voodoo.
00:46:30.900 Either 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, 0.54
00:46:44.540 playing a very large part where those drop boxes, which are illegal in many states,
00:46:50.080 but suddenly took on great importance and currency and legitimacy of conferred by the secretaries of state in those states for those counties in particular.
00:47:05.300 It was determinate.
00:47:06.620 We, right now, you see the Democratic Party just about, they're apoplectic,
00:47:12.080 apoplectic, 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.
00:47:24.740 It won't happen again.
00:47:26.320 So says the Republican Party.
00:47:29.300 Now, I've heard of their BS before, but that's what they're saying right now.
00:47:33.700 What do you think?
00:47:34.900 Well, you know, Lou, I want to break some news on your program.
00:47:37.680 Last 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.
00:47:54.360 They've got videotape of people stuffing things into these drop boxes.
00:47:59.080 I can't say a whole lot more about it.
00:48:01.200 I've been sworn to secrecy.
00:48:02.240 But 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.
00:48:13.840 And if one-tenth of what I just saw is accurate, it's going to be an earthquake.
00:48:19.540 Even people who are partisan are going to have to look in the mirror and say, I cannot ignore all of this evidence.
00:48:25.360 And remember about these drop boxes, let's take one state, Wisconsin.
00:48:30.320 Donald Trump, of course, sued Wisconsin to have the election overturned, and that went all the way up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:48:36.760 And it was a 4-3 decision, and there was a dissent filed by the chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:48:43.800 And he said what you said.
00:48:44.760 These drop boxes are absolutely illegal.
00:48:47.300 And recently, just a few days ago, a judge in Waukesha County ruled that going forward, these drop boxes are illegal.
00:48:53.780 And 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.
00:49:03.560 Yes, and I can't wait to see that.
00:49:06.140 I understand you've even got a role in the Dinesh D'Souza documentary.
00:49:12.140 Are you narrating that?
00:49:13.820 I've got a cameo.
00:49:16.660 All right, all right.
00:49:17.880 And speaking of films, my documentary, Uncle Tom 1, we raised about a million dollars to do it, Lou, and it grossed almost $5 million.
00:49:30.240 Uncle 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.
00:49:38.600 But I'm looking forward to that.
00:49:40.240 And I also have a cameo role in that.
00:49:41.680 I'm the executive producer of both documentaries, and I have a cameo role in both of them.
00:49:47.720 Well, you are a camera hog, I swear.
00:49:53.420 I'm delighted you are.
00:49:55.100 I 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?
00:50:03.580 Is that your idea of a cameo?
00:50:05.540 No, not even that.
00:50:07.880 If you saw the first one, I was barely in it.
00:50:09.820 And, no, these documentaries are not about me.
00:50:12.220 They're about how the Black community has sent you to the government for family and for God, and that's what we're talking about. 0.85
00:50:21.320 Yeah, I'm just kidding you, Blair.
00:50:22.900 Come on.
00:50:24.040 Black Americans doing New York City over there, a proposal to grant voting rights to illegal immigrants. 0.93
00:50:29.280 That, 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. 0.69
00:50:41.360 Your reaction to what I think is a seminal moment in establishing the integrity of the American electoral system?
00:50:51.780 Well, I understand there's something like 800,000 people, and I don't think they're illegal aliens.
00:50:56.180 I think they're non-citizens. 0.94
00:50:57.120 I think they're here legally, but they are not citizens. 0.58
00:51:00.260 But 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.
00:51:15.180 Basically, you're suppressing our vote by allowing non-citizens to vote. 1.00
00:51:19.680 So it's really interesting.
00:51:20.580 What I find fascinating, Lou, is that why is it only Black Americans who are suing?
00:51:24.860 Why isn't everybody suing?
00:51:25.980 The whole thing is outrageous.
00:51:27.940 Are you kidding?
00:51:28.400 These people are here.
00:51:29.720 White people don't have- 1.00
00:51:30.740 They're not citizens.
00:51:31.240 Why is it-
00:51:32.120 White 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.
00:51:46.120 You mean white voodoo?
00:51:47.680 You mean white voodoo?
00:51:48.680 You mean white voodoo?
00:51:49.260 The white voodoo? 0.81
00:51:49.800 Yeah, you mean white Democrats.
00:51:51.260 You mean white voodoo, but- 0.60
00:51:53.260 I mean white voodoo. 0.61
00:51:54.720 I mean white voodoo. 0.61
00:51:58.980 Well, I'm just surprised there isn't greater outrage.
00:52:01.820 I remember once even Hillary Clinton saying that non-citizens should not be allowed to vote.
00:52:06.260 That was years ago.
00:52:07.180 You know, at one time, the Democrats sounded like Trump on immigration.
00:52:11.780 It was Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein.
00:52:16.960 I 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.
00:52:31.920 Democrats used to sound like Trump before Trump sounded like Trump on immigration.
00:52:37.020 And they did a 180 because they made the calculation that illegal aliens, current citizens, current voters would vote Democrat.
00:52:44.060 Exactly.
00:52:44.700 And we're voting Democrat.
00:52:46.220 And by the way, Harry Reid caught holy hell for what he said and how he said it.
00:52:51.460 And you haven't heard a Democrat take up that tone or that side of the argument since.
00:52:57.540 You know, Mary, as always, it's great to have you with us and it's great to spend some time talking with you.
00:53:04.240 I 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.
00:53:21.080 We appreciate it.
00:53:22.080 We thank you for your time.
00:53:23.200 As always, our guests get the last word and this is yours.
00:53:28.220 Well, thank you.
00:53:28.840 And, Lou, I also have a book about my campaign coming out pretty soon.
00:53:33.480 But I want to say this about you.
00:53:35.080 I'm sorry, Larry.
00:53:38.760 I can't keep track of everything you're doing.
00:53:41.880 Keep it up.
00:53:42.800 Go for it.
00:53:43.300 I'm sorry to interrupt.
00:53:45.020 You know I'm a New York Times bestseller.
00:53:46.860 I've had two books on the New York Times bestselling list.
00:53:49.160 My first book was called The Ten Things You Can't Save America, which came out in 2000.
00:53:53.380 But, Lou, what I wanted to say real quickly is we were talking about illegal immigration.
00:53:57.540 You were on the vanguard of bringing that issue to the forefront.
00:54:01.640 It 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.
00:54:07.700 And you talked about it over and over and over again.
00:54:10.620 You made the Republicans feel uncomfortable about it.
00:54:12.780 But ultimately, you opened their eyes and people began to realize this was a very important issue.
00:54:18.060 And 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.
00:54:27.400 So 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.
00:54:40.380 No one was talking about that until you did.
00:54:42.060 Well, you're very kind to say so, and I appreciate your kind words, as always, Larry.
00:54:48.960 I even appreciate your words when they're not kind, and I appreciate you taking time to be with us.
00:54:54.720 And I hope you'll come back soon.
00:54:56.420 I wish you all the best, and thanks for being with us.
00:54:59.740 I know you've got a lot of pressure on your schedule, and we're thankful.
00:55:04.160 So have a great one.
00:55:05.780 Anytime, Luke.
00:55:06.540 Thank you.
00:55:07.400 And God bless you.
00:55:09.480 God bless.
00:55:12.060 Larry Elder, a great American, and a terrific broadcaster, and a man who you can always count on him to know what he's talking about.
00:55:21.040 It's terrific.
00:55:21.860 Can't wait to see all of this unfold.
00:55:24.280 But two documentaries.
00:55:26.100 He's got the book.
00:55:30.220 He's got, what else?
00:55:31.720 The PAC going.
00:55:32.620 And, oh, yeah, his day job.
00:55:36.100 The Larry Elder show on the great Salem radio network.
00:55:42.520 Folks, we appreciate you being with us.
00:55:44.600 Thank you for doing so.
00:55:46.800 And we'll see you tomorrow.
00:55:49.060 God bless.
00:55:50.480 Join us again tomorrow for the Great America podcast.
00:55:53.680 Stay in the fight.
00:55:54.660 Truth, justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies, against all odds.
00:56:00.040 Now, let's start with the tabii.
00:56:04.620 Peace.
00:56:06.140 Not all odds.
00:56:08.300 And we'll be close.
00:56:09.000 So long goes twice.
00:56:09.380 We can see you tomorrow night.
00:56:09.720 We'll be close.
00:56:10.660 But for quite a while.
00:56:10.700 And we'll see you tomorrow night.
00:56:10.780 Hope he's got the help for the great Romans.