Louisiana AG Jeff Landry is the leading candidate in this year's gubernatorial election in Louisiana. He has been a MAGA supporter since day one and is a great conservative and America First warrior. Attorney General Landry also got a huge win in his state s lawsuit against the Biden administration on Big Tech censorship and collusion. You're going to want to hear about this one because these are the things our AGs need to be fighting. Conservative AGs should be going after the insanity of the radical left. And unlike so many who just sort of sit there and are worried about what the left is going to say, AG Landry actually took it on and won. It's a really big deal. We'll get into all the details of that in this episode of Triggered. Also, check out Goldco and understand the importance of diversification in your portfolios. I want to make sure that if a disaster strikes you are all prepared for what's next and also invest in your family's food security. I've partnered with the great folks at My Patriot Supplies to help keep you and your family safe and secure in the event of a disaster. That's D-O-J-R Gold! Don Jr. Gold is a leader in emergency preparedness and the world is way too unstable frankly to rely on our government to ensure your family s safety and security. So go get your emergency food kits ready for a disaster and be prepared for the worst case scenario. . Don JR. Goldco is a company that helps thousands of Americans diversify and protect their retirement savings so they can have a solid, secure their futures and secure their future in gold, silver, and other precious metal investments. Go get your gold and silver! My Patriot Supply is a 3-month emergency food kit to keep your family healthy and keep them safe and your long term food supply in the long-term. My patriot supply is all in the best possible way. I'm going to help you be prepared and keep you on the brink of a major disaster! I hope you all have a safe, secure, secure and secure your family is ready to get off the road to safety in a disaster, not just in time and a good day! by being prepared for a major emergency. - Don JR JR Gold -Don JR Gold - Thank you Don JR Gold, I'm not joking! - That's what I'm gonna help you get you ready for the big one!
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00:06:15.000Attorney General Landry also got a huge, with a capital Y, win in his state's lawsuit against the Biden administration on big tech government censorship and collusion.
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00:06:36.000Conservative attorney generals need to be going after the insanity of the radical left.
00:06:42.000They got to be doing it. And unlike so many who just sort of sit there and they're worried about what the left is going to say, AG Landry actually did it.
00:06:56.000We've got to make sure we understand the details of that, so we'll get into all of that.
00:07:01.000But this is a huge win for freedom of speech, for anti-censorship, for not allowing government to collude with big tech to suppress the truth, the real news, and what you guys would all want to know.
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00:10:34.000With that, guys, we're going to go to my friend, Jeff Landry.
00:10:42.000And I'm here with my good buddy, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
00:10:47.000Jeff is, like I said, sort of in the intro, one of the guys that's actually doing all the things we want our Republican attorney generals doing.
00:10:57.000He's not just talking to a small group of conservatives, telling them what they want to hear, but then doing nothing.
00:11:02.000And he's one of the leaders of this major censorship lawsuit that we spoke about last week, where, well, I'll let him take us through it.
00:11:11.000So, Attorney General Landry, great to have you with us.
00:11:15.000Walk us through what the collusion was between the Biden administration and the big tech companies, and what about the ruling and the status of what's going on that we can learn from?
00:11:28.000Because this seems like a really big one.
00:11:30.000It is. Look, I have said all along since last year that this case is probably one of the most important cases, biggest First Amendment cases, certainly in modern times.
00:11:44.000And so let me just spend just a quick minute kind of walking everyone who's watching and listening to this through why this case is important and why we took this case on.
00:11:57.000So we know from decades upon decades of Fourth Amendment Supreme Court cases that the government cannot go out and coerce or collude or partner with a private citizen or a company to basically get information to, like, say, search your home, right?
00:12:17.000So Fourth Amendment. If the government doesn't have probable cause to get a search warrant, they can't go get your neighbor to go into your house and try to rifle through your stuff and find something and bring it back to the government.
00:12:32.000It'd be a violation of the Fourth Amendment because that neighbor then becomes a government actor.
00:12:37.000All right. So we have all these cases.
00:12:39.000So if it's applicable for the Fourth Amendment, It should work for the first.
00:12:45.000And that was our legal theory because we knew that throughout the pandemic and throughout the election cycle in 2020, that many conservative voices were basically muzzled where the volume was turned down on their pages.
00:13:10.000And, you know, I was one of the first people that would, and honestly, even before 2020, but like even once we got involved in politics, I go, you know, hey, I'm being shadowbanned.
00:13:38.000I don't have access to the algorithm, but it was clearly happening.
00:13:42.000Right. And so what we found, what our theory was, was that the government was actually involved in basically going to the social platforms, media platforms, and saying, hey, we don't like this particular post.
00:14:06.000And so we want you to throttle them back.
00:14:08.000We want you to take them off of basically social media.
00:14:12.000Maybe place some people in Facebook jail or take their accounts away.
00:14:17.000When the government does that, when the government then coerces big tech to do that, and then big tech does it, that's a First Amendment violation.
00:14:47.000And then we started doing depositions.
00:14:49.000Remember, we deposed Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:14:51.000We deposed Elvis Chan and the FBI. And I mean, it was a treasure trove, Don.
00:14:57.000I mean, the things that we found, like we found like Robert Flattery.
00:15:02.000White House IT guy working directly for the President of the United States, President Joe Biden, saying, listen, I thought you guys were going to get Tucker off the air or you're going to throw that back or Robert Kennedy Jr.'s stuff has to be taken down.
00:15:16.000Like, I mean, email threads of back and forth discussions with Facebook and Twitter about censoring American citizens.
00:15:28.000Then we start putting together, let's just talk about the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:15:33.000Yeah, I was going to say, that's obviously the other big one, right?
00:15:36.000You had everything with COVID. You have everything with masks.
00:15:38.000You have everything with just the general censorship of conservative.
00:15:41.000But, I mean, that was direct election interference as far as I'm concerned.
00:15:45.000I mean, when you look at the statistic, I think it's like 17% of Democrats said that had they known anything about it, they wouldn't have voted for Joe Biden.
00:15:55.000Like, so for the people that complain a lot about election interference, they're awfully silent about the fact that they were actually doing it themselves.
00:16:03.000Well, let me tell you, if I was you, I would get this 154-page opinion.
00:16:10.000I can flag the pages for you because Judge Doty goes through that extremely carefully and very articulately.
00:16:20.000Exactly. What the FBI knew when they had the laptop, they refused to tell the social platforms that this was not Russian disinformation or Russian interference, and basically spells out for you that guess what?
00:17:03.000And the FBI, don't you think the FBI had the responsibility?
00:17:08.000To tell the American people, certainly to tell the platforms, hey...
00:17:12.000Well, if we're naive enough to believe that they're good actors, yes.
00:17:16.000I mean, if they're truly law enforcement and trying to act impartially, the answer is yes.
00:17:21.000But I don't know that they've done anything, not a thing that I've seen in the last five or six years, maybe longer since we've gotten into politics, to actually...
00:17:32.000Earn that trust and that respect, the reputation that perhaps they used to have.
00:17:37.000I think, frankly, they've done the opposite.
00:17:39.000I think they've functioned as one of the worst state actors perhaps we'd ever seen.
00:17:44.000I think they're making Mao, Stalin, those people, they're making them blush because they're doing it.
00:17:51.000At least those guys didn't pretend to be objective.
00:17:54.000These guys are pretending to be objective while functioning as a wing of the other side.
00:18:01.000Well, you know, the interesting part is the difference between America and, say, Russia or Germany or China, okay, when those dictators We're basically terrorizing their citizens.
00:18:13.000The one difference, the major difference between us and them was that they didn't have a First Amendment right, but we do.
00:18:21.000That First Amendment is what is supposed to guard us from exactly that type of conduct because free speech is not supposed to have an approval process, right?
00:18:32.000And so what we found inside of this case and what the judge found, and he lays out an opinion— Or those exact same things.
00:18:42.000And he spells it out. Look, they had possession of the laptop.
00:18:45.000They did not notify the social media platforms.
00:18:47.000They did the opposite. He goes to the gain of function in Dr.
00:18:51.000Fauci, where they throttled back epidemiologists and virologists who were questioning the origins of COVID-19.
00:19:00.000I mean, don't the American people have a right to have a debate as to where the origins of the virus is?
00:19:08.000In what universe was the Wuhan lab leak theory not the most plausible answer?
00:19:15.000You know, of course it came from there.
00:19:16.000Like, no, no, no, it came from six feet outside of the lab that studies the exact virus in question.
00:19:23.000Obviously nothing happened, and if you believe something happened, and even if you ask the question when it's clearly the most plausible answer, You were thrown out of academia.
00:19:53.000That's basically saying that your viewpoint It should be muzzled.
00:19:59.000We're going to control exactly what people say, hear, and understand.
00:20:06.000And that's problematic. Of course, it's completely un-American.
00:20:09.000And that's the kind of conduct that went on in this case.
00:20:12.000I mean, it goes all the way through it.
00:20:13.000It's unbelievable. And of course, here's the lovely part.
00:20:16.000The mainstream media, oh my word, their hair is on fire.
00:20:20.000This case is a threat to national security.
00:20:26.000The government's not going to be able to handle pandemics.
00:20:29.000Well, I think it tells you everything you need to know about the left's love of censorship.
00:20:35.000I have it right here. You know, the left has been freaking out.
00:20:37.000They claim disinformation will run rampant.
00:20:41.000It's like, wait, wait, what disinformation?
00:20:43.000You mean like that maybe masks aren't effective?
00:20:46.000Like a doctor debating that when, oh, like so many of the conspiracy theories, again, Wuhan lab leak, masks, efficacy of, you know, everything.
00:20:57.000The conspiracy theorists, All were right.
00:22:03.000So I liked what you said, which is, like, even fact-checking the notion of discourse, because that's different than fact-checking a fact, that we can all object, you know, one plus one is two.
00:22:58.000He was deceitful to then, your dad, the president.
00:23:01.000He was deceitful to the American public.
00:23:03.000He was trying to hide the gain-of-function trail of money that they were colluding.
00:23:08.000I mean, not colluding, they were basically working with the Chinese.
00:23:11.000So our government was out there spending American tax dollars in China to basically do research on things that are going to harm Americans.
00:23:22.000That's one of the big things he was trying to hide.
00:23:24.000And the genie ain't come out the bottle.
00:23:29.000Didn't he say that it wasn't happening?
00:23:30.000I mean, he told the public it wasn't happening, and then of course it was, because we all knew it was, because that's the kind of scumbag that he is.
00:23:37.000But because, again, he was carrying the, you know, it's like Brennan and Strzok.
00:23:42.000You know, you can lie to the FBI. You can lie to the American people.
00:23:45.000You can lie to Congress. As long as you're doing their bidding, nothing's going to happen.
00:24:13.000There would be backdoor channels of information going between the White House and social media.
00:24:21.000Their ability to basically hide the fact that there was cocaine found in the White House would be greater today had this case not been filed, had this judge not enjoined it.
00:24:32.000I mean, to what limit does the government get to hide things from the American people about their government and about the people who operate inside of their government?
00:24:41.000I mean, what do you think would have happened if they'd have found cocaine in the White House when your dad was there?
00:24:47.000Jeff, just so we understand, I saw a lot of people last week saying that it was me.
00:24:58.000I haven't been in the White House in three years.
00:25:00.000They were out there saying that it was me.
00:25:02.000Not the guy that's on video the same week, really, smoking crack, going 170 miles an hour in a car.
00:25:09.000Not the guy that's repeatedly on video doing pretty serious illicit drugs.
00:25:40.000Everyone else goes through serious screenings.
00:25:43.000Guys that are protectees of the United States Secret Service, of which Hunter is one, don't go through the same level of screening.
00:25:48.000Of course he could do it. And you have the minor issue of he's a known person.
00:25:56.000I mean, look, all you got to do is take a look at what's in the laptop.
00:26:02.000I mean, there's a very detailed report that's out there on the internet.
00:26:05.000I forgot the name of the fella who did the Marco Polo report.
00:26:12.000That just basically lays everything out.
00:26:14.000But again, all of that is information that the American public has a right to know.
00:26:19.000Listen, in our private capacity, you as a private citizen, the things that you do, yeah, you've got an expectation of privacy.
00:26:29.000However, people like me who put themselves out, who right now I'm running for governor, I don't have that same expectation of privacy.
00:26:38.000And as the Attorney General, Then the public has a right to say, well, you know what, I want to be able to judge the things that he's doing as his official capacity or not.
00:27:55.000It's a pause. So will the injunction hold?
00:27:58.000Now, I mean, it seems like a no-brainer, but, you know, the other side has this thing where they...
00:28:02.000You know, they'll get it in front of an appeals judge, and then they'll sort of, you know, they'll keep trying to put it in front of someone until they find a leftist who doesn't exactly believe in the Constitution, you know, who will then say, oh, it's, you know, while it may be obviously a free speech issue, that doesn't matter. We're going to rule against it.
00:28:20.000So, you know, talk about that, because I think it has and could have an incredible effect on 2024.
00:28:27.000Not having it had, in my opinion, an incredible effect on 2020.
00:28:33.000Again, on a Biden laptop, whatever it may be, just the general suppression of anything positive that Trump could have done, the suppression of any negative information about Joe Biden, as well as the artificial boosting, you know, of The incompetence that we see in the White House today to make him seem like he's a reasonable guy with a good record and yada, yada, yada, as opposed to what everyone knew, which was he's the dumbest senator that was currently in my lifetime occupying an office in the United States Senate.
00:29:14.000Like, you know, it's literally the free speech issue of our time, because if it doesn't stand, if someone's able to do it with the weight, the power, the one-sidedness of big tech, I mean, this is everything.
00:30:59.000And when we continue to litigate and move towards an actual trial, so we'll do more discovery, we'll ask for more emails, we'll really start prying into what exactly the conduct was.
00:31:13.000And then, of course, they'll appeal it.
00:31:16.000And ultimately, I think this case ultimately ends up at the Supreme Court.
00:31:21.000But you're right. It's important for the 2024 election cycle.
00:31:25.000Why? Because it should have a chilling effect on the government interfering in Americans' rights to go to the poll and have the information necessary for them to make an informed decision.
00:31:44.000Now, again, and I also don't want to say, I love where it's going, but I have a feeling big tech is still going to do the bidding of the Democrat Party, almost irrespective.
00:31:55.000This just makes it a little bit harder.
00:31:57.000I mean, this is a step in the right direction.
00:32:01.000It's a chip. You know, off the block of what's been going on forever with the Democrats and their ability to do that.
00:32:08.000You know, they have it with the mainstream media.
00:32:27.000Well, we're trying to take one of the players off the field, right?
00:32:30.000And that is like the federal government.
00:32:32.000I mean, right now, we've got the federal government, the Democratic Party, okay, and big media, all right, and social media, so mainstream media, the Democratic Party, the federal government, okay, they all are marching to one drum, censoring Americans, suppressing their speech, Trying to do what they can to stifle debate in the public square, in the virtual public square.
00:33:00.000And so what we're doing here is taking one of those players off the field.
00:33:04.000The player that should not have ever been.
00:33:07.000That's the player that should have never appeared.
00:33:10.000The federal government has no place in this.
00:33:12.000This is completely a violation of the First Amendment.
00:33:15.000And I'll tell you something else. The courts or Congress must act.
00:33:18.000One of the things that I would hope to come out of this right now is for Congress to act and for Congress to put in place a statute that creates civil liability.
00:33:30.000For government actors, for government employees who engage in violating Americans' free speech.
00:33:38.000So anyone watching, like, make sure you speak to your congressman about that.
00:33:43.000Now, the problem is they'll probably die in the Senate, right?
00:33:45.000So we got to win back the House, the Senate in 24 so that we can do it and we can actually effectuate that.
00:33:50.000But you're right. I mean... If they continue to try to bypass that, there should be consequences to essentially stymieing Americans' free speech because, I mean, this is happening from the government.
00:34:01.000It's happening one-sided. I have a feeling that if the roles were reversed, it was conservatives that controlled it, the Democrats would be trying to throw everyone in jail.
00:34:09.000So I love that, and that's the next step of that progression.
00:34:13.000They're not trying to throw everyone in jail.
00:34:16.000Listen, I mean, they're trying to throw my father away for a little bit of time, 450 years.
00:34:21.000You know, what's 450 years between friends?
00:34:24.000It's only, you know, a little less than half a millennia.
00:34:29.000But yeah, no, I think that's a really important point.
00:34:31.000So talk about, because you're running for governor, you're attorney general now.
00:34:37.000How do you make sure that the guy that gets Sort of the keys to this lawsuit in the end, right, if you're running it now, is going to see it through the way that you do.
00:34:48.000Well, look, we've got a great candidate that's running for attorney general.
00:34:52.000You might have met her before, Liz Muro.
00:34:56.000She's the one that built the team that brought this case with Missouri, with Eric Schmidt in Missouri.
00:35:05.000But, you know, I'll tell you, you know, let's talk about that for a second.
00:35:08.000Let's talk about the governor's race, if we could.
00:35:10.000You know, for many people that are listening and watching out there who feel the frustration, who have anxiety about the direction of the country, who are frustrated with the swamp and with Congress, rightfully so, I believe that one of the ways That we fix the country is by fixing our states.
00:35:30.000And when there's a critical mass of states that are pulling in the same direction, okay, and you do that through the governors, that you start to actually impact the overall policies of the country.
00:35:45.000And that's one of the reasons I'm running, because I'm going to tell you, I love the job.
00:35:48.000I mean, this is a great job. I've had so much fun, met so many great people, done some great work, like this case and others that we've taken before.
00:35:57.000But, you know, Louisiana is in a tough spot in the South.
00:36:01.000It's one of the only states in the South where more people are moving out than moving in.
00:36:05.000It's a shame because you can go anywhere in the country and find a taste of Louisiana on any menu.
00:36:09.000I mean, look, you don't have to come here, hunt, fish.
00:36:11.000We've got great people. The culture is wonderful.
00:36:14.000Everybody says, man, the people in Louisiana are just so great.
00:36:16.000They deserve a government as good as the people of this state.
00:36:19.000And that's what we're trying to give them. Yeah, no, I think that's, I mean, that's really well said because it's true.
00:36:23.000I mean, I think we saw that certainly during COVID. You know, Trump left it to the states because as conservatives, that's what we believe, you know, the states' rights.
00:36:30.000And you see what happened in the liberal states controlled by the left.
00:36:34.000They took power. They wanted to keep it as long as they possibly could.
00:36:36.000In the conservative states, it was the opposite.
00:36:39.000And so, you know, the governors in many cases, for you as an individual, as a citizen, means much more, you know, than probably, you know, we need them all, but like then your congressman or your senator in terms of what you're seeing and living on a daily basis.
00:36:54.000I mean, and you're right, I love Louisiana.
00:36:56.000I go there, for those of you guys who don't know, like I've known Jeff for a while, he puts on a great It's a gator hunt.
00:37:02.000People come in from all over the country.
00:37:04.000I got a little trouble with my Secret Service detail a couple years ago the first time I went because someone bet me a couple bucks that I wouldn't jump in like the lily pads where we just pulled out like three 12-foot gators and go for a swim and I'm getting there undressed and they're like, what's going on?
00:37:19.000And that one went a little bit viral because I was like, hey, you know, a bet is a bet.
00:37:23.000We're going to do this. I don't think any of them were coming in to rescue me if I got bit, but it's an awesome time.
00:37:29.000You know, I go there for sporting stuff.
00:37:31.000I go there deer hunting. I go there duck hunting.
00:37:33.000I go there gator hunting. The fishing's incredible.
00:37:35.000I mean, it is an amazing state for that.
00:37:37.000But I've also seen, like, the stats, not surprisingly, right, but in the big cities.
00:37:43.000I think Louisiana has three cities in the top 10 most dangerous cities in the country.
00:37:49.000So, you know, I mean, you do have a Democrat governor right now, but why is crime so out of control?
00:37:59.000The crime there, things pass through the rest of the state to happen, whether it's drug traffic or whatever it may be.
00:38:05.000Other people are affected by that crime in those cities, not just the residents of those cities who are getting crushed.
00:38:13.000Well, I think, look, one of the reasons is we made some very damaging and systematic changes to our criminal justice system.
00:38:21.000Whereby they just tried to empty our jails.
00:38:24.000The goal in reforming the criminal justice system should always be how do you keep people from going to jail, not how you let people out of jail.
00:38:32.000Okay, as a police officer, a sheriff's deputy, as attorney general for seven, almost eight years now prosecuting cases.
00:38:41.000That's what I've seen. And so what we did was we really dismantled our criminal justice system.
00:38:47.000We made it less transparent rather than more transparent.
00:39:35.000New Orleans is unique because New Orleans is under a consent decree which really handcuffs the police instead of the criminals.
00:39:43.000And I've been railing about that for about the last eight years.
00:39:46.000But there are some things structurally we are going to make Louisiana a safe place.
00:39:52.000That's great. What are the issues that are, you know, on the top of voters' minds?
00:39:57.000I mean, I was watching last week, you know, Joe Biden ran around doing his, you know, talk about Bidenomics and, you know, how great it is.
00:40:04.000I'm trying to... I'm like, I don't know, man.
00:40:08.000If I have sticker shock when I go into a grocery store or when I see interest rates or anything, like, I'm the son of a billionaire.
00:40:15.000Like, if I notice it, it's got to be hitting everyone.
00:40:19.000You know, what does Bidenomics look like in Louisiana, and what are the other issues that may be on top of voters' minds there now?
00:40:28.000Well, first of all, Bidenomics is crushing Louisiana jobs, right?
00:40:32.000He has done everything he could to stifle the manufacturing that goes on.
00:40:37.000You know, Louisiana used to be home to 23% of the refining capacity in the entire country.
00:40:43.000Wow. After the last eight years under this current governor, we've lost 2% of that over to Texas.
00:40:49.000But they're doing everything they can to hurt those refineries, to hurt that manufacturing space, everything they can to stifle oil and gas exploration.
00:42:15.000We're not learning. I mean, I assume that's all coming from the teachers' union, or is it worse than that?
00:42:21.000I think it's worse. You know, we've actually...
00:42:23.000I've been talking to a lot of teachers and to actually superintendents, and they're seeing the same thing, and they're feeling the same thing.
00:42:30.000I don't know what's going on in other states.
00:42:32.000You know, Louisiana's kind of a right-to-work state.
00:42:35.000Unions are not, you know, where they are, like, on the East Coast.
00:43:19.000And if you have a dissenting opinion, rather than having Healthy and civil discourse or an argument about it, which does teach you critical thinking.
00:43:28.000The only way you can actually get ahead is by just regurgitating what they tell you, even if it's ridiculous or ludicrous.
00:43:34.000Right. Well, you know, you took the words right out of my mouth.
00:43:37.000This actually started in the universities and has trickled down into our K-12 schools now, okay?
00:43:44.000And you're right. And it started out by, again, basically doing the same thing That we discussed at the beginning of this show was having viewpoint discrimination, not allowing young minds and young people to be able to debate.
00:43:59.000Let me give you a great example of this.
00:44:19.000I don't know. But either way, this is the question I asked them.
00:44:22.000So let me ask you, do y'all learn Keynesian or Austrian economics?
00:44:29.000And they look at me like I got horns coming.
00:44:32.000What is that? And to me, that's the point.
00:44:36.000The university should be able to teach or offer to the student both sides of the equation so that those students have the ability to look at those things, weigh them out, discuss them, debate them, and then decide for themselves, hey, do I like this type of economics or this type of economics?
00:44:56.000I mean, we don't even do that in America anymore.
00:44:58.000And those universities were built to do exactly what I'm telling you, to give students the ability to balance and to debate those issues.
00:45:06.000You know it, but what they've done, they indoctrinate kids.
00:45:09.000Yeah. So, you know, you're running for governor.
00:46:28.000We want an opportunity to do the same thing to fix our educational system, to fix our crime problem, and to create great jobs in Louisiana and get people moving in rather than moving out.
00:46:41.000So what role do you currently have as Attorney General in being able to fight crime?
00:46:49.000You mentioned the consent decree, and I think that's something done with New Orleans and the Justice Department, almost carving out.
00:46:57.000Explain how that works, because it feels like You have the federal government essentially making almost your job, or at least a component of your job, a lot harder to accomplish because they're basically carving you out of it.
00:47:11.000How does that work so that people really understand it in detail?
00:47:14.000That's a great question because people should understand that irrespective of where they live.
00:47:18.000Because when I became Attorney General, I think there were like 12 or 13 cities that the Obama administration had placed under consent decrees.
00:47:27.000Some of them are in, many of them, in the top 10 most dangerous cities.
00:47:33.000And basically what those consent decrees do is it's a federal takeover of your police department.
00:47:40.000And so people who are listening out there and watching should always...
00:47:46.000Be alert when they hear consent decree.
00:47:49.000That equals, that translates to the federal government taking over some function of what belongs to either your local government or the state.
00:47:58.000Listen, the federal government, we know, doesn't do a whole lot good, okay?
00:48:01.000And they certainly can't manage a police department.
00:48:03.000If you want to go see one, what it looks like when the federal government manages,
00:48:07.000when a federal judge manages a police department, go down to New Orleans right now,
00:48:11.000which is one of the most dangerous cities in the entire country.
00:48:15.000And it's that way because they put in place policies that handcuff the police.
00:48:21.000They're constantly, you know, making them train more.
00:48:24.000You know, we've got a, they're under a policy.
00:48:59.000I mean, think about it. And so those are the things that happen when you get into a consent decree.
00:49:02.000And we've been railing against this thing.
00:49:04.000And I'm going to tell you, when your dad was the president, we were like this close to getting that consent decree lifted.
00:49:11.000And really, the federal government has no business taking over any state or any city's jobs.
00:49:19.000So, you know, yeah, because I've seen that.
00:49:21.000Obviously, you're a friend. And so I follow what's going on.
00:49:23.000I see one of your opponents in the governor's race is sort of trying to blame you for that.
00:49:27.000But it it doesn't seem like you actually have anything to do with it.
00:49:30.000I mean, would you as governor be able to push back on that?
00:49:34.000Would you be able to, you know, break that up?
00:49:37.000Or does the federal government in this case actually sort of, you know, let's call it Trump the state's rights?
00:49:45.000No, the good news is the governor's in charge of the state police.
00:49:48.000I'm in charge of like 35 investigators.
00:49:51.000And we don't have original jurisdiction on prosecutorial matters.
00:49:54.000We only have supervisory jurisdiction.
00:49:56.000So it's real hard for us to get a hold of cases or to wrestle cases away from, say, local DAs.
00:50:02.000We want to, as governor, we will be able to change that particular policy or if we need to change it.
00:50:07.000And put in a place where we can hold those DAs and judges accountable.
00:50:13.000So that's a major, major difference from being the Attorney General and the Governor.
00:50:18.000I mean, look, we've done everything we could to combat crime.
00:50:21.000We were the only statewide elected official, the only one, to push back against the things that the Governor and them were doing that basically have caused violent crime in Louisiana to escalate.
00:50:32.000We were the only ones who went out there and tried to reform our drug courts.
00:50:36.000Because look, the criminal justice system, it's important.
00:50:39.000And you know this, because y'all worked on it.
00:50:42.000It's important that when good people make a bad decision, they get a second chance.
00:50:46.000When bad people make a bad decision again and again and again, they got to go.
00:50:50.000or when they do real awful things, they get to be put away for a long time. And so that's the
00:50:56.000kind of system we want to build. We went and reformed our drug court system. The state of
00:51:01.000Louisiana is getting $750 million from the opioid settlement that we litigated. We wanted to put
00:51:07.000that into our drug courts. The governor vetoed it. Why?
00:51:10.000Politics, because it had my name on it.
00:51:12.000We're not going to play politics. We want to take care of people.
00:51:18.000You know, speaking of sort of, you know, playing politics, you know, where do you see the 2024 Republican primary going?
00:51:24.000I mean, you see Trump now with over 60% in the polls.
00:51:27.000It feels like so many, to me, so many of the candidates are We're good to go.
00:51:54.000Well, I think, you know, the sad part is, is that Republicans out there who do those kind of things, all they do is create losers on our side, right?
00:52:05.000I mean, if you look at what the Democrats do, why they've been able to make the gains they've made, why the country is crumbling is because they've been able to consolidate their power and their power.
00:52:17.000You know, groups of voters and move in one uniform direction, okay?
00:52:24.000They pick a candidate or they see a candidate doing extremely well in the poll, they're like, let's not go beat him up.
00:53:12.000I think some of them get in. And they don't get out there.
00:53:16.000The one thing I have to say about your dad, whether people like him, dislike him, whatever, The man actually, this is the one thing people will actually say, oh, you met Donald Trump.
00:53:27.000Tell me about him. I say, you know what?
00:53:28.000He's got a tremendous amount of humility.
00:53:33.000He won't walk over and talk to anybody, okay?
00:53:36.000And he cares deeply about the conversation that he's having with them, whether they're a janitor, a cook, a teacher, a police officer, whomever it is, irrespective of their economic background or whatnot, he doesn't Truly cares what they have to say.
00:53:51.000To me, that's really what public servants are supposed to do.
00:54:16.000Yeah, we'll see. By the way, it's an interesting point you make, because I've had this conversation with a couple people who also know him like you do.
00:54:22.000And I'm like, even during other things, I'm like, he actually has the empathy that he does not like the show, because he doesn't want to...
00:54:32.000I'm dealing with Iran and China and Putin and North Korea.
00:54:36.000If I'm the nice guy here, it makes me look weird.
00:54:39.000There's an old school mentality there, but I'm like, man, I don't want to say it's...
00:54:44.000I'll get in trouble for it. But perhaps that's the political liability because he has something.
00:54:51.000We know those people who are incapable of empathy or emotion.
00:54:57.000That's different. When you're capable of it, but you actually sort of don't want to show it because of a different reason, it's an old school mentality.
00:55:04.000But I'm like, man, I wish he saw that.
00:55:05.000You see that maybe with some of his competition where they're incapable of talking to regular people.
00:55:11.000They're, you know, on some level, they're not that way.
00:55:17.000And they can... Create a personality online, having influencers do it, but it doesn't translate to the real world.
00:55:23.000He actually has that, just doesn't like to show it often enough.
00:55:26.000That's why, like, the behind-the-scenes things, you know, when he's at McDonald's and he's going back and forth, you'd like to see, oh, people love him because he actually has that ability, and not everyone does.
00:55:35.000He just doesn't like to really show it on purpose, you know, which is weird.
00:55:39.000Well, you know, it's two things I say about that.
00:55:41.000One, that's what scares the bejeebies out of the Democrats and the liberals, right?
00:55:49.000Like, he'll go outside of the political norm and talk to anybody and, like, want to hear what they say.
00:55:54.000And then he'll say, hey, you know, this person told me this, and it makes a whole lot of sense.
00:55:58.000We should go do it. That strikes fear in the establishment.
00:56:03.000You know, and two, going back in that vein, I love to talk to people, okay, who maybe don't have the greatest opinion of him, and they'll ask me that question, and I'll give them that answer, and they'll look at me like, really?
00:56:18.000And then I'll tell them that, and they're like, hmm.
00:56:21.000And they just, like, you can see the wheels turn.
00:56:23.000I'm like, look, this is a man who will literally go out there and listen.
00:57:12.000And they're looking for leaders out there that are going to stand up and say, you know what, America is still going to be a place of freedom, a place of greatness, and a place of exceptionalism.
00:57:23.000There's nothing wrong with being exceptional.
00:57:26.000Well, I think that's really well said, buddy.
00:57:28.000And I think, you know, you're going to do that in Louisiana.
00:57:30.000Where can our viewers, where can they follow you?
00:57:33.000Where can they see what's going on so they can follow this race?
00:57:36.000Because again, as you sort of alluded to, and where I actually agree 100%, you know, what was perhaps the great awakening of COVID was that Who your governor is matters a lot.
00:57:50.000Their willingness to take on that stuff matters a lot.
00:57:53.000In terms of your day-to-day life, that matters more than anything, whether it's towards your prosperity, freedoms, all those things that we hold dear.
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