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And with me right now is Steve Hilton. Steve, I know you're on the campaign trail out in California. I get it. But did you catch any of RFK's push to define how he's revamping HHS? Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you, Brian, the main thing I thought watching that was: I don't know how it's going to happen.
I don't know what I have to do to get there. I want to go in front of these absolutely. Jokers, these people who make a total spectacle of themselves, who do they think they are? These arrogant, pompous, grandstanding senators. I'm honestly sick of it.
Exactly as you say, they weren't interested in finding out anything about what's going on, they were only interested in performing for the cameras and for their partisan. audiences and it's just disgusting. It completely brings Yeah. The whole of Congress sent it into disrespect and disrepute and I cannot believe that time after time they get away with it. And the people who stand up to them and try and actually hold them accountable and tell them the truth and call out their BS behaviour, they're the ones that get gaveled down and shouted down.
It is completely disgusting. I mean he's got the challenge of his voice, we know that. And here is some of the exchange cut nine. Eight out of ten of our kids cannot qualify for military service. This is a national security issue.
When my uncle was president, we spent zero on chronic disease. Today, we spend $1.3 trillion. It's the biggest cause that's increasing.
So You know, he sees what's going on and he sees what's out there, and he's got new policies. He walked in there, and a lot of people don't want to change.
So he fired him. And now they're like, well, explain yourself.
Okay, but they'll keep cutting you off every time you go to talk. You know, the best thing I saw spoken about this as so often Was President Trump later in the day? He was at the AI thing at the White House and he was asked about the hearings. And he was just very simple and clear, as he always is. He said, look, this guy's got new ideas, different ideas.
And I like him for that. He's challenging the status quo. That's the whole point of what we all voted for in the election. And exactly as Robert Kennedy pointed out, like, who the hell are you? People to lecture me on any of these issues when you've been sitting there for decades presiding over a system that's given us the most unhealthy population of any rich nation in the world.
At the same time, we're spending more money on health care than any other nation in the world. It doesn't add up. And they're the ones who should be held accountable for this. He's trying to change it. Yeah, let's talk about what's happening in California.
Gavin Newsom is putting hundreds of millions of dollars raising it in order to gerrymander further the state and get rid of the seven-plus seats that you guys have representing California in the House of Representatives. Where is that referendum now? Yeah, you're right to use the word re-gerrymandering. It's already gerrymandered. Here's the situation in California.
If we had fair votes and fair representation and fair maps, Republicans would have an additional twelve House seats in California today.
Now Gavin Newsom, purely For his own political benefit, he's just running for president. This is effectively a taxpayer-funded, corrupt contribution to his presidential campaign, spending $250 million to steal another five House seats by rigging the maps. He's drawn the maps up, he's putting them on a ballot, and it's all set to go ahead in November. I filed a lawsuit yesterday to stop this obscene power grab. And the basis of our lawsuit, which is different from anything we've seen before from Republicans in California, you've already seen Republicans at the state level, the state party, state legislators, file lawsuits in state court to try and stop this on constitutional procedural grounds.
Those lawsuits have already been thrown out. My lawsuit is different. It's in federal court and it's based on the Equal Protection Clause of the US and the California Constitution, which over the years has been defined very clearly by the courts to mean a couple of things. One person, one vote, and one person's vote should have the same weight. As anyone else's vote.
You shouldn't have a bias there in the districts. Right now in California, it basically takes roughly 200,000 votes to elect a Democrat to Congress, nearly over 600,000 votes to elect a Republican.
So today, A Democrat vote is worth three times a Republican vote in California. With these rigged maps by Gavin Newsom, it will be eight times as much. It will take around 190,000 votes to elect a Democrat to Congress. 1.52 million votes to elect a Republican. It's a totally grotesque rigging of the elections.
And so we filed this lawsuit in federal court where we think we have a stronger chance because we've got to fight this. We can't let him spend this money, our money, on something that nobody asked for.
Meanwhile, the state's falling apart on every single measure. You talk about the jobs report. One thing to remember, California right now, we have the highest unemployment in the country. in the country as well as the highest poverty and the highest taxes, highest costs and all the rest of it. All these problems going on.
Gavin Newsome not interested. He's trolling President Trump on social media, trying to rig our elections. I'm standing up to fight him and stop this absolute obscenity from moving forward. Optimism isn't sunshine and rainbows. It's fixing things.
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So Rick Caruso, who ran for mayor, lost to Karen Bass.
Some say a Republican, but knew there was not much Republican foundation.
So he ran as a Democrat. And of course, he was one of the few to keep his community from burning to the ground because he did it with a private fire department. That he had for his condos and his And his houses. Here's what he said about the state of California Cup 43. It's painful.
I think it's painful for so many of us in LA. And so. painful for so many of us in the state of California to see the decline. that we have because of crime and homelessness. the increased cost of living in Los Angeles, the state of California.
the lack of affordable housing. That's desperately needed, again, in Los Angeles and throughout the state. And we've got to do better. We can do better.
So your thoughts exactly while you're running, right?
Well exactly. I mean look we should be the engine of the American economy and opportunity America right now US News and World Report ranked the states on opportunity California 50th out of 50 states. I mean on everything highest gas prices highest electricity costs water everything is absolutely out of control. It's a direct result of Democrat policies 15 years now of one party rule. We've got to turn it around.
That's why I'm running. I've been working on this as you know Brian for many years now. I've been working on the plans to give us not the worst business climate in America, which we have now, but the best by getting rid of the bloated nanny state bureaucracy that's been built up over the years where these Democrats who are in charge of this corrupt ruling elite, they're not interested in anyone's lives. They're not interested in making life easier for families or small businesses. It's all about their own political bandering to the unions who run the Democrats in California, the far-left activists, their climate elite.
Elitism, which is what's pushing up the cost of housing and everything else. That's why I'm running. We're going to turn this around. We can't let California just slip further and further into decline. How's her campaign going?
It's great. We're just at the end now of a fantastic series of comedy nights, Brian. How about that? Actual jokes, not yet illegal in America. We've had some great comics on tour with us in Orange County and in LA the last few nights.
It's a new way of doing politics. We've had hundreds of people come out. It's been really great. I'm getting great reaction. You know, for too long, I think people have been giving up in California and this idea that the Democrats are going to be in power forever.
It's never going to change. I think it's so exciting to see the energy that's out there. People are sick of this BS. And Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, prancing around doing all this political stuff for his own career while everyone else in California suffers. And so I'm feeling really good about our chances.
It's not going to be easy. I've always said that. It's going to be hard. But it's not impossible we can save California. Who do you know is in?
So, right now, we've got, I mean, the front runners, according to most of the polls, and myself. and Katie Porter. Remember her? She was the congresswoman from Orange County. It's really a two-horse race at this point.
Look, there may be other people, it's getting a bit late. Carmela Harris, of course, has said that she wasn't gonna get in. A little bit disappointed about that. I was very much looking forward to debating her. Looks like that's not gonna happen.
So I don't know. We've got we've got a real fight here, but a real shot at turning things around. It's gonna be a big, big surprise next year for a lot of people, but I think we can pull it off. Thanks so much. Appreciate it.
Steve Hilton, he's California's GOP gubernatorial candidate from of course, he's coming from the right. Can they right the ship in California? We'll find out. Steve, great job. Best of luck.
Great to see you, Brian. Hey, I'm Trey Gaddy, host of the Trey Gaddy Podcast. I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side. Listen and follow now at FoxnewsPodcast.com.
