One of the frequently asked questions from the people, the millions of American people, but what about the people that are paying her? What about the people above her? Anything you could say about any of that?

Yeah, so let's talk about Mr.

Brass.

Because, first of all, this is a major industry, as you've seen.

Ballot, petition, gathering in California is a major industry.

We have a very...

however you want to describe it, interesting legislature.

The incentives are off.

Talk about what you discovered.

Yeah, look, this came to light earlier this year.

You may recall James O'Keefe actually went and did a hidden camera report down in Skid Row, and he saw, hey, wait a minute, there's all these shady characters down here, and they're paying homeless people to sign petitions.

and it looked like they were signing under false names.

So that's when this came to light.

We opened a criminal investigation out of that.

We charged Brenda Brown a few months ago.

If James O'Keefe doesn't make this video, would Brass and his friends have gotten away with it? Was the video the key for your prosecution?

the Trump administration access? Why shouldn't that be public information?

So Congress has passed laws saying that only U.S. citizens are allowed to participate in federal elections.

The problem is Congress didn't put a lot of teeth with that statute.

And so they've relied on states to do their jobs and to ensure that only citizens are on the voter rolls.

It's kind of a recent phenomenon where you have states sort of just Looking the other way and just registering people through the DMV and all this mass registration stuff, and they don't really care if you're a citizen or not.

They just want to get people registered to vote so they can harvest those ballots and win their elections.

So we're in this position where I think the law hasn't fully caught up to where we are in time, which is you have states that have basically abandoned their responsibilities as responsible states.

It doesn't matter who

Bill, how are you?

Hey, John, I'm good.

Usually we don't like to try these cases in the public domain.

We like to try them in court.

But between that juror speaking out and the defense attorney and your last guest, I think it's important that we push back.

People are just not articulating what the state of the law is correct at all.

He is charged with arson.

What do you do in the next trial with trying to get your message that you just articulated across to a new set of jurors? Because clearly this first set didn't get it.

Bill, how are you?

Hey, John, I'm good.

Usually we don't like to try these cases in the public domain.

We like to try them in court.

But between that juror speaking out and the defense attorney and your last guest, I think it's important that we push back.

People are just not articulating what the say of the law is correct at all.

He is charged with arson.

What do you do in the next trial with trying to get your message that you just articulated across to a new set of jurors? Because clearly this first set didn't get it.

So this is just something that you're not going to consider or you can't consider?

It's extremely difficult to move, to change the venue of a case out of jurisdiction.

And by the way, our district's very large.

I have seven counties in the Central District of California.

So the jury pool is larger than just Los Angeles County.

Now, of course, that tends to be the most people.

But our district covers Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura.

What can you tell us about what went down this morning in that area well known for prostitution and trafficking?

Bill, how are you?

Hey, John, I'm good.

Usually we don't like to try these cases in the public domain.

We like to try them in court.

But between that juror speaking out and the defense attorney and your last guest, I think it's important that we push back.

People are just not articulating what the say of the law is correct at all.

He is charged with arson.

What do you do in the next trial with trying to get your message that you just articulated across to a new set of jurors? Because clearly this first set didn't get it.

Newsom said he already closed down the offending hospices years ago and that there is no fraud going on.

He's a liar.

Let me tell you what he's doing.

He put in a moratorium, so he says, oh, we're not going to give out any new hospice licenses.

Here's the problem.

They've already given out thousands.

So there's already plenty of fraudulent hospices out there that are operating.

He should be on your team.

with the election? I mean, with the governor's election and the mayor's election?

Well, that's a great question.

We're doing our job.

Our job is to investigate violations of federal law.

And we've already brought one case just about a month ago where an individual caught undercover by James O'Keefe was registering homeless people to vote using fake information and paying them to do so.

That person has pled guilty.

We have other investigations ongoing on election fraud.

How do you have an integrity system when you're mailing out absentee ballots when they're unrequested?

So what's gonna happen with the election with the go- I mean, y- with the, with, with the governor's election and the mayor's election?

Well, that's a great question.

We're doing our job.

Our job is to investigate violations of federal law, and, uh, we've already brought one case just, uh, about a month ago where an individual caught undercover by James O'Keefe was, uh, registering homeless people to vote using fake information and paying them to do so.

That person has pled guilty.

We have other investigations ongoing on election fraud, but what I'm talking to you about is the system.

They've basically, in the state of California, they've decriminalized election fraud with the way they register voters, and then you have to understand what else goes with that.

How do you have a integrity system if when you're mailing out absentee ballots when they're unrequested?

with the election? I mean, with the governor's election and the mayor's election?

Well, that's a great question.

We're doing our job.

Our job is to investigate violations of federal law.

And we've already brought one case just about a month ago where an individual caught undercover by James O'Keefe was registering homeless people to vote using fake information and paying them to do so.

That person has pled guilty.

We have other investigations ongoing on election fraud.

How do you have an integrity system when you're mailing out absentee ballots when they're unrequested?

[laughs] What is going on in, in the, the Golden State, sir?

That's a great question, and you really have to understand what California's done over the last about decade in this election space.

I was in the legislature before I was appointed by the, by the president to be in my current position.

So California's basically eroded all of the election integrity measures.

Um, they've codified it out of the system.

It starts with registering people to vote.

Anybody can register to vote pretty much online.

Mm-hmm.

[laughs] What is going on in, in the, the Golden State, sir?

That's a great question, and you really have to understand what California's done over the last about decade in this election space.

I was in the legislature before I was appointed by the, by the president to be in my current position.

So California's basically eroded all of the election integrity measures.

Um, they've codified it out of the system.

It starts with registering people to vote.

Anybody can register to vote pretty much online.

Mm-hmm.

What is going on in the golden state, sir?

That's a great question.

And you really have to understand what California has done over the last about decade in this election space.

I was in the legislature before I was appointed by the president to be in my current position.

So California has basically eroded all of the election integrity measures.

They've codified it out of the system.

It starts with registering people to vote.

It's it's it's a tough pill to swallow here.

... drug crimes.

That's why we're here with LAPD.

So we're teamed up.

Uh, every DEA agent is, uh, teamed up with a LAPD officer, and, uh, we're here to support them.

Obviously, if there's somebody selling drugs or committing a federal crime, uh, we will, we will take that.

But as far as drug use, that is in the jurisdiction of the LAPD.

That's why this is a task force, and I'm gonna give huge, huge credit today to LAPD.

You've been working well with them on these, uh, on these raids that you've been doing.

I'm pretty shocked by that.

[laughs] So, but, but like you, we suspected ...

I mean, every time I'm down there and I see these, these Jeeps handing out crack pipes and, and needles and all, everything you need to use drugs, the word on the street is that they also deal drugs because it's very convenient that you would be in a position to do hand-to-hand exchanges with the people who are addicted to drugs.

As you're handing them the paraphernalia, you'd want to supply them the drugs as well.

But we didn't, we didn't have any concrete evidence of it until this case, which is frankly a little seren- uh, serendipitous to how it happened.

It was while we were getting ready to do the MacArthur Park takedown that we did about two weeks ago, LAPD happened to pull him over and find the drugs in his car, and it was the same day or, or just the day before we did that takedown.

So we weren't able to charge him in time to include him in that takedown, but we have since worked it up, uh, since then.

Just explain to people that it, w- when the state or local authorities don't want to take on cases like this for their, you know, for political reasons, right? Um, what gives you the right to come in to a local jurisdiction and slap federal charges? H- how, how does it transform into a federal crime and gives you the power to, to bust up, uh, these drug gangs?

Let's go through the basics to start.

Yeah, let's back up.

So actually, if you want to call it phase one, phase one started in March when we indicted and arrested a bunch of the MS. I'm sorry, not MS, but the 18th Street gang members, the leadership, the people actually running the gang organization that was done by FBI.

That was in March.

And they're the main gang.

Remember that claims this territory, this the north part of MacArthur Park is claimed by the 18th Street gang.

So phase one was taking out their leadership structure.

She

Bill, how are you?

We are doing well.

We had a very busy morning.

You only mentioned two of the people arrested.

We arrested a lot more than that.

We actually announced charges on 15 different people.

This morning, we conducted multiple arrests and raids throughout Southern California this morning, and we did that in conjunction with the Vice President's new Task Force on Fraud.

this something that the state should have easily detected?

It's a tremendous amount of crime they were involved in and how you guys busted the whole operation because I know it isn't easy.

Yeah, no, this was a multi-year investigation.

This involves what's called the 18th Street Gang, which actually originated right here in Los Angeles.

They've got over 100,000 members nationwide, and they also have members in Central and South America.

They control, you know, each gang sort of claims control of a particular area or neighborhoods.

Of interest, this gang claimed the north side of MacArthur Park, and I'm sure you're very familiar with MacArthur Park and all the lovely things that happen there.

So they control the north side of MacArthur Park.

So is there going to be a noticeable, visible change in the atmosphere around MacArthur Park after these arrests and indictments? Or do you still have a lot of work to go?

We're taking that car.

We're taking a lot of his other goods.

This guy, it's frankly outrageous.

You have homeless people literally dying in the street.

He had contracts to house 600 homeless people and to feed them three nutritious meals a day.

What did he do with the money? He used it as a down payment for that mansion in Westwood.

He bought a $150,000 Range Rover, which we seized this morning.

That's incredible.

Bill, your turn.

Did she win – did she get elected sheriff that I'm not aware of? Because that's not really her call.

But let's just be very clear, John, what the Democrats want to do.

They want to set up a confrontation between federal and local law enforcement.

That's what all these laws they're trying to do with the mask ban, making that a crime.

What they're trying to do in other contexts is they want – local law enforcement to resist and stand up to federal law enforcement.

That's not going to happen.

But these are really, really bad guys that you're rounding up.

Explain the violation that is being charged here and explain the Equal Protection Clause.

Sure.

Well, let's start with the basics here.

Under the Constitution, it is illegal and unlawful for the government to make decisions based on race.

We call that racist or racism.

And that is what we're alleging California did when it designed or drew the Prop 50 maps, when the legislature drew that.

And let's be honest, the legislature didn't really draw it.

How long does a case like this have to go through the system here? I mean, is this a quick decision or a quick analysis of the maps by the federal judge, or is this going to be a lengthy, twisted thing?

What is, what are some of the fights that you guys are engaged in in California to bring down crime? Please walk us through it.

Oh, uh, Charlie, thanks for having me on.

And, uh, since I've gotten here in April, we have, uh, taken on a huge initiative here.

I would say the first thing I've made a priority is going after this homelessness fraud that happens here in the state of California.

We've had $24 billion spent over five years, and it's only gotten worse and, uh, there's a lot of people who've seen, been enriched off that.

So, we have open investigations into that and I think you'll be seeing some of the fruits of that here very soon.

Uh, we are going after sanctuary cities and jurisdictions.

Uh, so, so, uh, w- walk us through what are the other issues that we are fighting h- that you are fighting first hand in California and how present is the cartel activity?

Yup.

... and she's disappeared.

This type of stuff keeps popping up here.

It's designed to inflame the public's emotions and to delegitimize our federal agents.

That, that...

It's, it's very organized.

And so what we saw there was an immigrant attorney group hold the press conference, coordinated with this lady's family, and they even had a GoFundMe and a financial structure set up to raise money off of it as well.

Justice still is possible and it's, and it's happening." Um, go ahead.

Uh, let's start with what happened in San Diego with the arrest that you've just made, uh, with the, uh, prosecution of the US Chinese citizen.

Yes.

This is a individual who is a dual citizen with the United States and China.

He got employed at some really sensitive, uh, technology companies where he stole trade secrets and other confidential proprietary information.

Um, and we're not just talking about any proprietary confidential information.

We're talking about systems that are used to detect missile launches and ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

We're talking about nuclear program systems.

Yep.