Riots erupt in Los Angeles and other major cities across the country. Demonstrators demonstrate against the deportation of illegal immigrants and the use of force by the federal government to quell the protests. President Trump has been accused of being out of touch with reality and out of control.
00:06:32.840As I say, somebody paid for the BRICS.
00:06:37.720Now, as far as the claims that this is a peaceful demonstration and the fact that both Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass have denounced the president for mobilizing 2,000 National Guard troops.
00:06:55.380And Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, says he has, I believe now, as many as 6,000, I believe that's the right number, active duty Marines prepared to go to Los Angeles to restore order.
00:07:11.260Newsom, of course, is playing politics with this.
00:07:15.100This is actually his huge opportunity.
00:07:17.760He botched the California fires badly.
00:07:44.920They can't put out a fire in Los Angeles in one of the ritzier sections because they cut off the water because they didn't want to endanger some little fish that was the environmentalist said was rare.
00:09:13.340This is when Newsom suggested was responding to Homan's suggestion that he and L.A.
00:09:19.040Mayor Karen Bass could be arrested if they crossed the line by harboring and concealing illegal aliens or assaulting law enforcement.
00:09:27.260So, in other words, as long as Gavin Newsom is simply running his mouth, he's well within his rights.
00:09:32.500If he physically acts to harbor or conceal an illegal or interfere in the election of the arrest of an illegal or if he assaulted law enforcement, rather than just encourage all those things, which is what he and Mayor Bass are doing today, then and only then do I think he would be subject to arrest.
00:09:55.300It's kind of like throw me in the briar patch.
00:10:01.720But here is a development, however, in which Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDowell, now let's be very clear, he works for Karen Bass.
00:10:11.260He works for L.A. Mayor Karen Bass at the pleasure of Governor Newsom.
00:10:15.480He called the wave of anti-ice riots sweeping across the city disgusting and warned that the violence is swiftly escalating.
00:10:24.880Law enforcement has struggled, as I say, to contain the growing violence that began last Friday, picked up steam over the weekend.
00:10:32.640This comes as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement was serving a series of criminal warrants at businesses under investigation for money laundering, fraud and other additional violations.
00:10:44.140The protests very quickly became violent riots.
00:10:48.220That was the plan, the Antifa plan, over the course of the weekend, forcing the LAPD to declare them an unlawful assembly.
00:10:59.220Waymo cars that arrived on the scene were vandalized in torch, with rioters smashing the cars with skateboards, rocks and other objects, setting them ablaze.
00:11:08.620Law enforcement vehicles also came under attack.
00:11:11.220They always attacked the police cars, were set on fire after rioters stormed onto the 101 freeway, shutting down traffic entirely.
00:11:21.840Hey, Cory Booker, this doesn't sound too peaceful to me.
00:11:25.400During a press conference Sunday night, Chief McDowell, who again works for Karen Bass,
00:11:31.840described scenes of chaos and deliberate attacks on law enforcement officers, including the use of commercial-grade fireworks, hammers, and unknown liquids.
00:11:42.580This violence that I have seen, it's disgusting, said Chief McDowell.
00:19:20.180So I really want to get your take not only on what's unfolding in Los Angeles, but also the politics of it.
00:19:30.500To me, and I said this earlier, this is a golden opportunity for Gavin Newsom, whose prospects to be president prior to this were pretty dismal, given the condition of California.
00:19:45.180And the fact that California may have another Californian ahead of him, should she decide to run Kamala Harris, who most polls show would lead as the first choice and who may be eyeing a bid to be governor of California and take his job anyway.
00:20:01.060Well, it's really hard to look at Gavin Newsom on TV right now and not think that he's enjoying this because he is the guy who, I guess he calculated that the Democratic Party, after they lost the last election to Trump, would move to the right.
00:20:21.060And that's why he started the podcast and invited Charlie Kirk and Michael Savage and Steve Bannon and others.
00:20:29.200And that blew up in his face like a hillbillies rifle because the Democratic Party isn't moving to the right.
00:20:34.780They're digging in their heels and Trump derangement syndrome is real and they're only getting a stronger case of it right now.
00:20:44.040And so this situation, these riots that are playing out right now in Los Angeles, give him an opportunity to recalibrate himself and to present himself to the nation as the chief foil of Donald Trump, which is why he challenged Trump on TV to arrest him.
00:21:02.500And he's having these angry press conferences and angry interviews where he's blaming everything that's going on right now in the streets of Los Angeles on Trump because he wants to turn this into a Gavin Newsom versus Donald Trump situation that lifts him up and puts him in a place where he thinks Democrats will rally around him.
00:21:26.700Yeah, I actually had to go and check this out.
00:21:29.740Tom Homan never specifically threatened to arrest him.
00:21:34.180He said he would arrest any public official who assisted illegals from avoiding arrest or assaulted a law enforcement officer.
00:21:45.760So this was clearly Gavin Newsom trying to bait Tom Homan to give him the golden headline.
00:21:53.920He he he nothing could be better for Gavin Newsom than to be arrested.
00:21:59.080But if he can't be arrested just for for defending a violent quote unquote protesters or extremists or terrorists, he could only be arrested if he acted in some way to impede an arrest or assault an officer and so on.
00:22:14.540So so so he's posturing it's drama, a drama that I think Tom Homan is not going to take him up on.
00:22:23.540Posturing. And what's funny is Gavin Newsom is such a sociopath that getting as much publicity as possible and furthering his political career and keeping his political career alive is really the goal.
00:22:37.560And he's willing to put people's safety at risk by doing that, because the position that Gavin Newsom has been taking is there's nothing wrong here.
00:22:47.540There's nothing going on that's unsafe.
00:22:54.440The LAPD has all of this taken care of.
00:22:57.460And Donald Trump is just trying to stir the pot.
00:23:00.920And that same claim has been repeated by not just him, but other members of the political establishment, Democratic political establishment here in California over and over and over again.
00:23:13.980But then last night, the police chief, police chief McDonnell, went on TV of the LAPD and said that none of that was true, that it was violent.
00:23:38.520And right now, because the police chief destroyed Gavin Newsom's narrative, there's trouble in paradise.
00:23:46.860And the last time that this happened, it was right after the L.A. fires, when the fire chief came out and said that the budget cuts that the city imposed on the fire department prevented them from being able to fully respond to the fires.
00:24:00.460The moment she said that she was a dead man walking because she destroyed the narrative that the mayor was putting out, and then the mayor's poll number started to crater.
00:24:11.060The fact that the police chief went out there last night and destroyed Gavin Newsom's narrative, I think, makes that man a dead man walking.
00:24:19.740I think Newsom is going to target him.
00:24:22.000I think the mayor is going to target him because that man has turned their framing upside down.
00:24:27.820Well, of course, they continue to insist these are peaceful demonstrations, but the actual numbers that we see coming back, protesters hurling rocks, bottles, Molotov-style cocktails, fireworks, bags of urine and feces, chunks of concrete rocks at law enforcement and ICE officers.
00:24:51.800We're seeing this before our very eyes, cars set on fire, both police cars and these driverless cars.
00:25:02.480I mean, to say that there's no violence here, don't believe what you're seeing on video.
00:25:07.980Believe what Cory Booker and Gavin Newsom tell you.
00:25:12.460In the wake of the fires and the horrific mishandling of the fires by Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, I'd have to believe that their standing in California is weakened.
00:25:25.220I think here, by going to the most radical left position, perhaps they feel they can rebuild their political strength on the left within the state.
00:25:35.160Yeah, don't forget, when Gavin Newsom was being recalled and the focus was on his performance as governor, there were a series of polls that showed him losing the recall and that Larry Elder would be elected governor of California.
00:25:50.200It wasn't until he recalibrated that and nationalized that election where he was able to win, because California is a deep blue state.
00:26:01.240If you get the Democrats to vote for the Democratic candidate, that's all she wrote.
00:26:06.180And by federalizing the recall election and making it all about Donald Trump and making it about abortion and other federal subjects that really have nothing to do with the state of California, he was able to divert attention away from his failures, whether it's with the homeless, the crime, the budget, the bullet train, the insurance crisis, you name it.
00:26:30.200So, President Trump called the rioters paid insurrectionists.
00:26:36.040I just saw that Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna got very specific in identifying those funding the riots.
00:26:43.360I mean, John, these pallets of bricks, these pallets of cement blocks, these flatbed trucks who are delivering them, they didn't just come from nowhere.
00:26:55.080Who do you think is funding this insurrection?
00:26:57.460Well, I think it's probably the usual suspects.
00:27:02.540If I had to bet money on it, I would say that you're going to find some Soros money somewhere in there, although that's just my opinion.
00:27:09.140But I spoke with someone at the FBI today who said that it's a different ballgame now, because when you had when you had George Gascon as the district attorney, who essentially was pro-criminal and was a Soros DA,
00:27:23.720he didn't have any interest in ever prosecuting anyone for assaulting a police officer, destroying police property, all the things that you saw happen on television.
00:27:33.740But there's a new U.S. attorney that President Trump just appointed for the Central District of California, Bill Shaley, who came from the California State Legislature and is really a shining star in the Trump administration as U.S. attorney.
00:27:48.800And he has been very aggressive at saying that he is going to go after these people, these looters, these people who have been attacking federal police officers at federal property, and he's going to hit them with everything he can.
00:28:02.620And when you start leaning on these people in a federal sort of way, you can find out just exactly who was supporting them, who was putting them up to it, and figure out who are the important players in the social network.
00:28:17.420And the fact that arrests have been made, and prosecutions will commence, and a U.S. attorney is very interested in getting to the bottom of it, leads you to believe that they'll figure this out, and we'll know exactly who was funding what you saw play out over the weekend.
00:28:35.140It seems to me the other real question is to see whether these outbreaks of violence begin to spread.
00:28:42.480Remember, in the beginning, it was Minneapolis, St. Paul, before long Chicago was burning, and other cities.
00:28:50.800General Flynn has outlined that he thinks this is a much broader strategy to destabilize the Trump administration and the country.
00:28:59.440I will be very interested to see whether there is a further effort to create chaos, to mobilize the dissenters, disrupt law enforcement operations, and incite even more violence.
00:29:12.300One thing is clear, and that is President Trump's very quick move to send 2,000 National Guardsmen, and the statement by the Secretary of Defense that he's prepared to send in the Marines, if necessary, shows the president will not repeat the mistakes of 2020 when his advisors urged him to let the governors handle it.
00:29:34.320And governors like Tim Walz, well, they couldn't handle it.
00:29:37.560The governor of Illinois could not handle it.
00:29:39.600There was $2 billion worth of public and private property destroyed, 54 people murdered, thousands of people injured.
00:29:49.360He's not going to make that mistake again.
00:32:20.780In fact, I assumed that they would probably bump heads sooner.
00:32:24.740The fact that their bromance lasted as long as it did kind of shocked me.
00:32:31.000But I'm also not surprised that they made up as quickly as they ended up fighting, because ultimately they're on the same page.
00:32:40.220I mean, you pay attention to what what Musk's beefs are with Trump, and Musk is basically attacking them from the right.
00:32:48.080So I don't think there's any threat at all that he's going to start funding Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of them,
00:32:58.480because those aren't the arguments that he's making.
00:33:01.460I think as soon as these hot heads cool down, and Trump has already cooled way down from where he was when the fight first started,
00:33:10.480and based on what I saw today, it looks like Elon's doing the same thing.
00:33:15.040I don't know if they'll ever be as close as they once were.
00:35:02.080Well, I read the book Fight about the 2024 presidential election, and the authors of the book essentially concluded that the main reason that she lost was she never really had a reason for running.
00:35:14.740She was just a candidate because Biden had to drop out, and she was the vice president.
00:35:19.440But outside of that, she didn't really have a reason.
00:35:21.360And based on everything I've seen and heard out of Kamala Harris, if she runs for governor of California, she's prepared to make all of those same mistakes a second time.
00:35:33.920California has a million and one problems.
00:35:36.120And when you read the articles about her as a potential candidate, it talks about what it will do for her resume.
00:35:43.760It talks about what it will do for her legacy.
00:35:46.300It talks about how it would make her the chief loyal to Donald Trump, how it could position her to run for president again.
00:35:54.520It doesn't have much to do with what she would do for the state of California.
00:35:57.820And if you're going to be a strong candidate for governor in California, you probably should have thought through some of our problems and have solutions to offer.
00:36:10.660So in a weird sort of way, even though they just spent over a billion dollars promoting her nationally and her name ID is higher than all the other candidates, if there's a strong Republican candidate in that race, she might actually be the most beatable.
00:37:07.260The last time a Republican won the statewide race in California was Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010 for governor and Steve Poizner in 2010 for insurance commissioner.
00:37:16.760So it is possible for California to elected a Republican.