What are some of the maybe lessons learned that California has shown in the past that you're trying to write that maybe other states could learn from who aren't a California? Yeah.

Oh, wow.

You know, I think it's just what I did during the campaign, the things I said, I was just a regular person.

I mean, so many people said, you just seem like my neighbor.

And I think that in the beginning of the country, I mean, ironically, it's during the 250th you know, anniversary of our country.

Back in the day when our country was formed, it was just regular ordinary people who were running government, who were deciding what our government was going to look like.

And then, you know, getting into those first positions, the first president and all of those things.

this happening?

You didn't break the law.

Oh, yeah, we didn't.

We didn't.

If you...

And listening to the arguments yesterday, I was, I, I was biting my tongue the whole time.

I wish they would've asked me questions.

I wish it worked that way, but it doesn't.

Right

And again, he wants to run California, Chad.

Yeah.

And let's let's don't forget not just what you mentioned.

His entire political career has been an absolute failure and he's failed us as taxpayers.

His time as attorney general in California was all of this waste, fraud and abuse began under his watch.

And there was even allegations of it back then of him failing to investigate.

And nothing ever happens.

Minute left, Chad, tell them how you're

Are you worried about that?

No, I don't think so.

I think that if you...

We're only seeing these polls that are being the forward-facing polls that are being bombarded.

We're being bombarded with polls days before the election because they know that's when the majority of people vote, and psychologically, they're just trying to get you to go with who's in the lead, or it's a fear factor of, oh my gosh, I have to vote.

I can't vote for Chad, I gotta vote for Steve because look, Chad's at the very bottom.

The...

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Are you worried about that?

No, I don't think so.

I think that if you...

We're only seeing these polls that are being the forward-facing pollsThat are being bombarded.

We're being bombarded with polls days before the election because they know that's when the majority of people vote.

And psychologically, they're just trying to get you to go with who's in the lead, or it's a fear factor of, "Oh my gosh, I have to vote.

I can't vote for Chad, I gotta vote for Steve because look, Chad's at the very bottom." The, all of these polls changed within a matter of days.

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What's your response to Steve Hilton?

Well, he does make a compelling case because his entire life has been about making a compelling case that doesn't ever come to fruition.

It's great that he's calling for me to drop out, and he's using these polls that are used to manipulate people.

The funny thing is, is Steve spent over a half a million dollars on polling.

Why has he not released them? Well, my belief is he knows what those polls say, and his only way out now is get me to drop out to support him.

There is...

You know, we, we can sit and argue about whether or not the polls are accurate.

How will you get Democrat votes in November if you're the one of the top two?

Yeah

... that they would, they would immediately after June 2nd start raising money and collecting signatures for a recall effort to recall the next governor.

And so right after swear-in, you get served paperwork for a recall, and then they plan that recall for the next June and hope that they get that Republican governor out.

And the problem with that is, is I, I hope it wouldn't work anyway, but their thought process, I believe, is historically Republicans won't come out and vote for that.

They won't show up again right after an election to vote for a recall election.

It's that whole demoralizing, "Your vote doesn't matter.

It doesn't count.

Yep.

Have they tried to campaign around somebody that would bring the leftist policies in as a sheriff?

Yes, and they've even gone further.

So my election used to be on the governor's cycle.

In the midterms is when every sheriff in the state was elected at the same time.

Our elections were all on the governor's cycle, which is right now.

So in 2022, they tried to change it because, and they specifically said, and it was joked in Sacramento, it's the Bianco law.

because of COVID, what I did with COVID, and then other sheriffs across the state started standing up too, they figured out we can't control the sheriffs.

fix the homelessness

How often do you communicate with him? What do you think about what he's doing? I text

him every once in a while.

I think he's doing a good job.

I hope he's able to reach enough people.

I think that where people are in Los Angeles, they've been abused for so long.

I hope that he's able to show...

How dishonest they are.

This is no longer shock in Los Angeles.

Give us some of the big cases that you experienced.

We have a— What I have built is a massive human trafficking task force team.

And so we've got tons of people in my department, but then we operate also with task forces and we bring them in too.

But that was since I took over.

That's been a heart thing for me is trafficking kids, sex trafficking.

And so I built that to where now my guys are traveling the country teaching others trafficking.

what we're doing, what we're looking for.

of who's typically doing it, in what area, tied to who?

... has $24 billion and he couldn't do it.

Very easy.

It's a-- Well, there's no intent.

The, the people who we call homeless, what we see on the street living on our sidewalks, living under overpasses, they are nothing but pawns in this homeless industrial complex money laundering scheme.

That's all it is.

There is-- The, the money gets distributed to nonprofits and NGOs, and it stops one or two levels down.

It doesn't get down to here where the homeless are, where the, where they're suffering.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

In, in my line of work, I don't get paid to, to tie.

I don't get paid to lose, and I don't get paid to tie.

If you're going to come and try and fight with me with a knife, I don't pull out my knife and fight back with you.

It is my job to win.

It is my job to keep people safe.

It i- is my, to enforce laws and public safety, and we win in those situations.

Mm-hmm.

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But as the governor, I can remove all the regulatory environment from that.

So we can build roads faster, which is cheaper.

Time equates to money.

We can drive down the cost of living by lowering the price of gasoline, which a minimum of a dollar is regulatory, so we can take that off immediately.

61 cents is tax that nobody else in the country has, so we can remove that too.

That's gonna take the assembly doing that and the Senate doing that though, but we're gonna fight for it so we can actually afford gas, because gasoline is the number one driver of our cost of living.

Well, there are a couple other things we didn't have time for in some of these, but I, I guess since we're on immigration, I, I wonder, like, we talked about this before when I interviewed you, what you do see as the state's role when it comes to cooperating with immigration enforcement, enforcing immigration law, h- like, where do you draw those lines?

So of those three issues, I know they're all equally important, and maybe it just depends on the person, but how do you begin to tackle them and in what order?

Yeah, so the, that's the good thing.

The beauty about a leader is you don't get an order.

You get to put people in place that make it all happen at the same time because they, they are not independent of each other.

It doesn't matter how much I lower the cost of living.

If we are not safe here, it won't matter.

It doesn't matter how safe I make it here.

Why is this so difficult? What does that look like in the state of California with the, I think, common sense rule of making sure you are a registered citizen in order to vote?

Could you go into how you want to approach those three specific issues?

Yes, every single one of them have been destroyed in California because of excessive regulation and bad environmental policy.

Housing is purposely being stopped.

We, we cannot build housing in California.

This whole notion of affordable housing is a buzzword to, to make you feel bad that we...

It, it's ridiculous that government is causing it and yet they tell you they want to be the problem.

It is over-regulation of our building industry, bureaucratic red tape, three to five years to build a home instead of three to five months.

Okay.

Kaitlin, I have to be able to prove it

itNo one has broken the law in California, and this is why we fight in the streets and people are out rioting, burning down Los Angeles because politicians like this sit and lie to everyone.

They, they, they get them all infuriated up with emotion because they don't want to tell the truth.

ICE agents are enforcing the law, and sanctuary state policy Democrats forced ICE into our cities and streets and neighborhoods to find these criminals.

And I want Mr. Villaraigosa to tell the mother of the 14-year-old in my county that is dead because of an illegal immigrant that had been deported three times because of DUIs that sanctuary state policy keeps us safe.

I don't think she's gonna agree with you, and the mother of my dispatcher that was killed is not going to agree with you.

Sheriff Bianco, on the program itself and investigating fraud, a- and she's saying that it's political theater that is coming from the federal, uh, government.

I- it, it's only political theater if the fraud is happening and it happened on our watch.

But are they ready to vote for a Republican, a law enforcement guy, a guy who says, "I will fix what's broken," even though generally speaking they tend to be lefties?

Yeah, z- they definitely are going to vote for me, and they're going to vote for exactly how you described it, the law enforcement guy, to keep them safe, to make the safe sta- safer, to get rid of the crime, the corruption, the government corruption in this state that is rampant.

That's what they're going to vote for, and we've seen it over the years.

Every 20 years, a California governor is elected that's a Republican because we have Democrat rule in our assembly since the 1950s.

Every 20 years we've had enough.

It's been 20 years.

We know it's going to happen this time, and they're gonna vote for a sheriff.

How do you solve that problem?

You're loud and clear now.

Oh, no. That's quite all right.

Good.

Very good.

So Sh- uh, so Sheriff, uh, uh, Eric Swalwell, uh, did you know about this? D- is this a rumor? Is it, did, did people know that this was happening behind the scenes?

Y- I think it's been rumored out there for a long time, and it's not like controversy, especially with women, haven't followed him throughout his career.

The bad part about putting people in power who have no morals and have no integrity or ethics, this, these are the things that happen.

And telling a, a woman that they have to sign an NDA to put up with being victimized is absolutely morally wr- wr-

No shit.

So if I, as the sheriff, s- so I'm in the Constitution, everything else as a constitutional officer from, for the state and everything else, but I'm not the top.

In the Constitution, the attorney general is the top, and the attorney general oversees sheriffs and DAs.

And then that's, then it's us, but it's, the attorney general's higher.

So if I violate the law, I can be removed from office.

If I violate sanctuary state law, the attorney general can remove me from office.

So if I cooperate with ICE and turn th- and this is how bad it is.

That's fucked up, dude.

So what specific evidence are we looking at here in terms of irregularities that led you to seize these ballots? What are you hoping to prove through the investigation? Good morning to you.

Good morning.

Appreciate being here.

It's very, very, very easy.

And unfortunately, these politicians are lying to everyone and making it very, very difficult.

This is the evidence that we have is evidence that was seized from the registrar of voters itself.

It's just their daily records.

It's actually disgusting.

Have you heard a single criticism by a Democratic candidate of a single Newsom policy?

No.

And they actually...

They won't talk about anything in California.

They talk about Trump, and they talk about having to fight the federal government and Trump policies that are harming California, when in the reality is there's not one single thing that President Trump has done that's harming California.

California is being harmed by every single one of those people that are running.

They were all part of putting us in this position.

And nobody in these debates from the news media I've read, and maybe they're covering it up, nobody ever talks about the homeless situation and where all the money went.

Tell us what you mean.

Yeah, we've had, and actually it's been longer than that.

From the 1950s, our assembly and our Senate has been in control of the Democrat Party since the 1950s, 1956 and 1958.

And every 20 years or so, we get a reprieve with a Republican governor.

And it's been 20 years now since we've had that Republican governor.

It's way past time to have it again.

And everything about California now is worse than it was 20 years ago.

Where do you make the difference up, or do you?

What's their purpose behind this?

Well, you got to remember who you're talking to.

I mean, my life is about investigation.

And when something doesn't make sense, you go down that path to find out why.

So this particular case, if you don't want voter ID and 80% of the population does, the 20% that want it know that they're cheating and they want to keep that cheating going.

They know that they've rigged the system.

They know that illegal people are voting.

What's the new approach to reducing the amount of homelessness in California?

Okay, so what do you mean as ca- about California functioning as a fertile ground for the cartel? And then maybe after you explain what you've seen and the, the gravity of this news, you can respond to what's happening in Mexico.

Uh, absolutely.

So for the last 12, 15 years, California has, uh, has basically...

Our California government has an absolute love affair with criminals.

They have done everything they could to pass laws, rescind laws, that basically enable criminal behavior.

They've made drugs basically legal in California, and especially with what happened over the last four years with the Biden administration, we had a massive influx and control of, of the cartels into California.

Because California is the, basically the, the hub of where everything gets sh- shipped east.

Yeah.

You're, in most of the polls, the number one candidate, even over the Democrats.

Yeah, it, it's, it's showing that things are changing.

Things can change, uh, in California, even in California, and when you talk about all of the failures of California, it's, it's not a secret that it has to be related to Democrats.

It is-- They've been in complete control of the Assembly, the Senate, and the governor for the last fourteen years.

So everything is a, really, a progressive agenda failure, and I represent a one hundred and eighty-degree turn and real common sense to make sure that we, that we save our beautiful state, and I think that's really...

That's, that's really the issue.

And it's the first time that really anyone can remember that a Republican has led in a statewide poll, and it may even go all the way back to President Reagan when he was governor here in California.

What message has that been sending in the political landscape right now?