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E296: Meet the Sheriff Who Defied Newsom & Now Promises a Conservative California | E296 · The Lila Rose Show

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  I'm the sheriff of Riverside County.
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  And you decide I'm going to grow my hat in and run for governor
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  of California. Yes, the last time leadership
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  played a part in California was when Ronald Reagan was elected.
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  My rise in leadership across the country was because of 2020 was
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  because of nuisance mandates, because I was the first person
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  in the country in a position of authority to stand up and say
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  we're not going to do that here. He is expecting us to arrest
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  anyone violating these orders, cite them and take their money,
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  close their businesses. I'm going to eliminate state
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  income tax for everyone. How are we going to pay the
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  bills? The same way Tech does, the same
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  way Alaska does, the same way the Dakotas do.
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  Government doesn't have kids. Parents have kids and parents
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  raise their. Kids, if Steve Hilton Cams and I
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  say, well, what's your beef with Sheriff Bianca?
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  What would he say? He is claiming that I sided with
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  BLM. Do you have any regrets of how
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  you handled that situation? We set the tone for the country
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  to end those riots. It's often said in politics that
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  the country goes the way of states like California.
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  So whatever extremes are happening here politically,
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  culturally, tend to show up eventually in the rest of the
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  country. Well, as a native Californian
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  myself, and because we film here out of California, I care deeply
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  about what is happening in the state.
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  And guess what? As you might know, Gavin Newsom,
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  our current governor, is on his way out.
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  He's likely going to be running, by the way, for president of the
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  United States, maybe against JD Vance.
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  We'll see and cross that bridge when we get there.
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  But the race is on for the new governor in the state of
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  California. And today on the show, I'm
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  delighted to have the contender who is the top of the polls
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  right now, believe it or not, for the California gubernatorial
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  race, who is Sheriff Chad Bianco.
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  Now, Sheriff Chad Bianco is a pro-life, pro family candidate
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  and he has very strong opinions about many of the things that we
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  care about on this show. I have also extended invitations
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  to all of the other top contenders for the gubernatorial
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  race. We'll see if they take me up on
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  it, including Representative Eric Falwell, Katie Porter, as
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  well as Steve Hilton and others. Also a huge thank you to
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  in the ranks and reach more people.
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  Chad Bianco, welcome to the podcast.
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  Thank you very much. I should say Sheriff Chad
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  Bianco. They're both the same thing.
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  Thank you. So glad you're here.
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  Thank you for coming on the show.
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  Of course, I was excited to see your name, a pro-life Republican
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  from pro family Republican at the top of the polls for the
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  gubernatorial race that California's going to be voting
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  on our next governor. Thank God we'll no longer have
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  God bless him, but Gavin Newsom. And I was like, I got to get to
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  know this, this sheriff from Riverside County.
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  So thanks for sitting down with me.
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  Yes, you're welcome. And there have been multiple
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  recent polls and you are pulling at the top.
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  Yes, we've actually been at the top for the last four months.
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  And I think it's, it's like 11 out of the last 13 polls we've
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  been #1 and the other, the other ones I've been #2 so things are
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  going very well. Message is resonating well.
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  California's looking for change and I think that I, I my 32
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  years of doing what I'm doing or have been doing, I think that's
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  fitting exactly what they're looking for to to help rescue
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  our beautiful state. Now, we're going to run through
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  your positions and some of your history, but first, for people
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  who don't understand California, because we're a little unique in
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  how we run our governor races, when you when I say you're at
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  the top of the polls, we're talking about a poll that has
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  both Republicans and Democrats and anyone else on it.
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  Can you give people a quick primer for how the races the
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  races will happen for California, for us to decide our
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  next governor? So we have what is called a
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  jungle primary. So we are Democrats and
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  Republicans, but we don't have a Republican primary and a
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  Democrat primary. It is a jungle primary where
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  everyone goes together and the top 2 vote getters in the June
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  election end up in basically a runoff election in the in the
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  primary election in November. So it doesn't matter if you're a
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  Democrat or a Republican, your goal is to finish in the top 2.
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  If you don't finish in the top 2, then obviously you, you do
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  not get to go to November. And statistically it I, it's
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  probably not ever going to happen.
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  But statistically, it could be two Democrats going to November
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  or it could be two Republicans going to November.
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  That's it's a stretch, but it's certainly statistically
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  possible. So when is the first vote to
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  decide who goes to the final vote?
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  So June 2nd, you guys are all and, and just to throw out some
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  of the names that are out there, there's a bunch of Democrats
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  like Katie Porter, Eric Swalwell, others we're going to
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  get into. You have a Republican opponent
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  that we're going to talk about in a few minutes.
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  There's a, there's a lot, I think there's something like 108
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  total candidates, but there's probably like 6 or 7 prominent
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  Democrats and then really only two Republicans that are even
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  polling at all. And it would be myself and Steve
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  Hilton. And you're the top, you're at 20
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  plus percent depending on the poll.
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  Depend, yes. And so one other question just
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  for people who are in California, not as familiar
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  outside of California. So when you hit June 2nd, right,
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  is, is there a sense of what number you want to be at in
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  those polls to make sure you're going to be one of those top 2?
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  The number really doesn't matter.
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  We're extremely confident we're going to be #1 and then whoever
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  survives and makes it to #2 that's what we'll worry about
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  into November. Very.
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  Crazy if it was 2 Republicans. It would be crazy.
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  It's it's probably, it is extremely unlikely, extremely
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  unlikely. But it it, it, it's, and then
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  it's a completely different race.
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  It's two different strategies. You can't have the same strategy
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  for June that you have for November.
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  June is just making sure that you're top one or two.
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  And then November is all about changing California and policy
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  type issues where it's a Republican conservative against
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  a liberal progressive Democrat. That's really what it is.
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  Yes. All right.
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  So give us the background on on you, Sheriff.
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  Well, I was born and raised in Utah.
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  My dad was in the Air Force at the time.
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  I was born at Hill Air Force Base in Utah.
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  We traveled to California, Lompoc.
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  I don't remember that. So that way I had a a little bit
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  of a time spent living here only for about a year and then we
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  moved back home. That's where my mom and dad were
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  from. So I was raised there.
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  I was raised in a family of three.
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  My mom and dad were very young. My mom was 16 when she became
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  pregnant. She turned 17 when she had me,
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  but she was a senior in high school and my dad 18, and he
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  went off to Vietnam. So it was my mom had, I mean she
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  struggled. It was they were very young.
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  She she jokes and says she doesn't even know how she didn't
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  even know how she got pregnant. She didn't know.
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  We, we make fun of her now, but luckily we I had good
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  grandparents and they helped good great aunts that helped.
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  And then my mom had she ended up having three kids before she was
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  21. So all of their friends didn't
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  have kids. So my mom and dad were very
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  young and they didn't get to do the things that their friends
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  were doing. They were parents.
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  And so they, it was nice growing up with very young parents.
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  I mean, I was their friend, they were our friends.
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  They were, they were great parents.
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  But three kids, three boys and small town thousand people in my
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  town. The entire county probably had
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  1518 thousand. So it was, it was small, very
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  rural mining town in Utah and I grew up very athletic.
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  I was into everything. I eventually left the town
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  because of athletics. I would ended up getting a
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  college scholarship to play baseball and ended up in Salt
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  Lake City at the University of Utah and then after that moved
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  to California. Baseball is what gave me my love
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  for California. I came here to play in the
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  Little League World Series in I was 11, and I just fell in love
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  with it. Everything we were in Santa
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  Monica, everything about Santa Monica, I was absolutely in love
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  with. And I told my mom and dad when I
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  came home, I'm moving to California.
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  And she made me promise to do it when I was an adult.
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  So I did 22, finished school and moved to California.
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  I met my wife, I mean, raised a beautiful family.
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  We're very happy, very successful.
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  I found law enforcement. I got into this profession and
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  it suited me very, very well. It's I'm definitely a a believer
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  in God. As I progressed through life, I
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  realized that we're supposed to be doing everything we can to,
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  to do the things that we want and achieve the things that we
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  want. But sometimes that's not what
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  God wants us to do or where we're supposed to be.
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  And you know, selfishly, I was supposed to be a Major League
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  Baseball player and all of that stuff, but that isn't where God
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  had me. I had no interest in law
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  enforcement. I don't even really, I remember
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  one of my friends was in the Academy and it's like, oh, that
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  sounds kind of cool. And you know, that was, it's a
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  good career and paid more than what I was making at the time
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  and good benefits. So I put myself through a
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  sheriff's Academy and from day one it was like, Oh my gosh,
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  this is amazing. And I've had a fantastic career.
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  Very happy that I got into it and it's very rewarding and it's
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  for me how I was raised. I was raised by a very I don't
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  want to say he was strict, but he was, he was.
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  He made us grow up to be responsible kids.
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  We had to. We didn't throw.
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  Trash on the side of the road. No, no, we were, you know, we,
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  they taught us responsibility and they taught us respect.
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  And you know, I, I like saying I had probably 100 dads because I
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  grew up in a very small mining town, very ethnic, different
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  ethnic origins. Everyone came in the early 1900s
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  to work in the coal mines. And they, the, the values were
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  just very different. And it didn't matter if my dad
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  was there, someone else saw me. I was disciplined by someone
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  else. And so I grew up with
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  responsibility. I grew up caring about other
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  people. There were many times where we
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  would have to sacrifice things that we wanted to do or vacation
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  or something like that because my dad was helping someone and
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  we had to go help them. You know, I had to do labor, you
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  know, help someone pour concrete or build a wall or something.
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  We were just always helping people and that was, that was
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  really the community that I grew up in.
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  So that formed, I think perfectly for me to be in law
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  enforcement because that's really our job every single day
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  is helping other people in an emergency situation.
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  And I really as an adult now looking back, it's that's where
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  I get my joy. I, I, that's it.
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  I mean, I don't, there's nothing else that entices me.
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  I don't bothers my wife a little bit.
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  She wishes I cared about money a little bit more than I do, but
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  as long as we pay the bills we're good.
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  I I being a millionaire wouldn't impress me.
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  I'd I'd like to win the lottery but I don't really want to.
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  It's just more problems and it is long as I can help someone in
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  either a high 5 or a handshake or that even a look.
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  You can tell when you help people in my line of work they
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  don't even have to say thank you.
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  You can tell by the look on their face and that makes me
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  want to keep coming back and doing it over and over.
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  So I we raised our kids here, we have 4 kids, we have 5 grandkids
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  now and we are extremely happy in our lives.
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  Which brings me to this election.
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  Yes, why? Why did you decide to and were
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  were you retired at this point as sheriff?
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  You're still? Practicing the sheriff.
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  Sheriff of Riverside County. I'm the sheriff of Riverside
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  County and you? Decide I'm going to throw my hat
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  in and run for Governor of California.
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  Yes. And I and along those lines, I
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  never said I never had that feeling of I want to be
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  governor. I came to the realization that I
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  have to be governor if California is going to change,
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  we have to have something drastically different than what
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  we have and that what is coming next.
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  I watched the people that were lining up to run for election on
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  the Democrat side. You could tell who was coming on
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  the Republican side and being a part of government that I am.
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  I'm the highest elected official in Riverside County, two and a
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  half million people. So you elect sheriff in
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  Riverside County? You were elected.
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  So you say 2 million people elected you to be the top law
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  enforcement guy in Riverside County?
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  I was elected in 2018, re elected in 2022 and now my
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  election my next election is 2028.
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  So for this election, I am running as the current Sheriff
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  of Riverside County. We're the second largest
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  Sheriff's Department in the state, 4th largest in the
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  How do you do that? It's a massive operation and in
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  the end it it's, it sounds. I would let everybody else tell
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  you how you do it and then they would point to me and say that's
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  me. And I don't like bragging about
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  myself or saying that it's. You're here to brag.
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  I want you to tell us why we should vote.
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  It's. Complete leadership.
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  The only reason we are successful is because how I was
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  raised, what brought me to where I am today, the 32 years that I
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  how I operated in a law enforcement career.
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  It's leadership, it's integrity, it's honesty, it's leadership,
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  it's doing things for other people instead of yourself.
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  And I've emerged as a nationwide leader of law enforcement,
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  especially in this state. And that is why we're
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  successful. It's I didn't come into a
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  massive organization of 45144 hundred employees.
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  And I do all the work. It's, it's the vision that I
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  create. It's the direction that I
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  promote. It's the people that I put in
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  place to manage that direction. And it's making sure that what I
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  believe and what I want, what the voters voted for, that our
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  organization is, is living up to that.
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  It is following through with that.
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  And that is pure leadership. And for me in this state, that
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  is what we completely missing, completely missing.
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  We vote for bright shiny objects.
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  We vote for millionaires, billionaires, somebody with a
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  shiny name or somebody with a flashy attitude.
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  And we don't care about their integrity.
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  We don't care about their ethics and their morals and their
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  values. We don't even pay attention to
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  it. And certainly not leadership
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  ability. And we're putting the person in
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  the very top position in our state, the the person that
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  controls the agenda of our government and our state.
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  And we have no idea whether or not they can even lead people.
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  And that's why we failed. That's why we failed.
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  I talk all the time about about this, about leadership.
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  And truly in our government in California, the last time
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  leadership ever played a part in California was when Ronald
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  Reagan was elected. Ronald Reagan was elected
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  because he was recruited for that position because of his
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  leadership ability in the movie industry and in the Hollywood
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  arena. That's where that was his
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  livelihood. And he was a well known, well
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  respected leader with conservative values that was
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  recruited to run for governor and he won.
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  And it, I mean it, it was a, it was a godsend to California.
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  It was a godsend to our country. But that was the last time.
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  And ironically, it was 58 years ago that he was elected to the
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  office. I know that because it was the
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  year I was born. So it's been a long time.
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  And that was, I think that's the appeal that I have why I'm
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  leading in all of these polls. It isn't because anything
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  special that Chad Bianco has to offer or share of Chad Bianco.
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  It's the leadership ability, it's the proven leadership.
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  It's how I carry myself. It's I'm no better than anyone
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  else. I'm just in a different
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  position, one that I can affect people's lives and I choose to
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  do it in a productive manner rather than to benefit myself or
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  for some other selfish reason. And that's really what we're
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  missing in California government.
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  We really are. I mean, immediately it's
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  flashing in my mind as Gavin Newsom during Covad and he's
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  like shutting down everyone's grandmothers funeral and, you
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  know, shutting down at the churches and everything else.
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  And then he's at the what's the name of the restaurant?
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  French Laundry, The French Laundry with a group of people
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  unmasked hanging out, dining on like, like, whatever.
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  He's dining on souffle. I don't know.
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  Yeah, I know. And then it's like oopsie.
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  And everyone just like, OK, whatever.
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  And it's like, this is like, this is emblematic of the
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  leadership, I would argue of Gavin Newsom is like rules for
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  thee but not for me and just enriching himself constantly.
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  I mean, he's become so successful financially.
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  And again, not that you can't become successful financially,
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  that's not inherently wrong. But you look at how he
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  personally operates and you look at how you know the the problems
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  that have plagued California. From everyone else.
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  And just like this is and then of course, his social policy.
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  I mean, you know, he just did this, you know, song and dance
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  press conference with his wife. Sorry, I've got a rant for one
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  minute because it's one of the reasons I'm excited about your
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  candidacy. But you know, just the extremism
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  of Gavin Newsom. He has this song and dance press
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  conference in the last couple weeks.
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  And I know you're not running against Gavin Newsom, but you're
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  running against Gavin Newsom wannabes really am Katie Porter,
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  Eric Sawwell. These are like Gavin Newsom is
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  like, is the extreme enough for us?
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  Like we're going to one up him. And that's what's happening,
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  that's they're doubling down on horrific policies that he has
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  implemented and that he has even followed that he came, I mean,
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  he followed some horrible ones, but then he's implemented the
• 19:43
  same of his own, some of his own, and then continued with the
• 19:46
  same. And the current ones coming
• 19:47
  after are doing the same thing. They're they're hailing him as a
• 19:50
  hero and then saying that they're even going to double
• 19:53
  down and do it bigger, more taxes, more cap and trade, more
• 19:57
  of the extremism that that's being forced on us.
• 20:00
  So I really am running against Gavin Newsom.
• 20:04
  Yes, I mean, the press conference recently, his wife
• 20:06
  was there too. And they're they're like
• 20:09
  laughing and gleefully about how they're going to give hundreds
• 20:11
  of millions of dollars to pay for abortions.
• 20:14
  And even the press there were not impressed.
• 20:17
  Even the liberal press are like, oh, gosh, like, guys, this is a
• 20:19
  loser for us. Like California's like in this
• 20:22
  huge deficit. And you're like spending money
• 20:23
  on abortions, like, that's going to save the day.
• 20:26
  And this like Mrs. Gavin Newsom gets up there and she's like,
• 20:29
  why aren't you guys more supporting us basically, and
• 20:32
  against the war on women? I'm like, guys, that is so.
• 20:35
  I don't know, 2015. I don't know what year that was
• 20:38
  that slogan, but it doesn't work anymore.
• 20:40
  Yeah. Like people.
• 20:41
  Yeah. It's just like it's.
• 20:42
  Tone deaf. 20 doesn't needs, isn't more abortions.
• 20:47
  And what destroyed California was not abortions.
• 20:49
  I mean, it's horrific, but that it didn't destroy California.
• 20:53
  Your policies destroyed California.
• 20:55
  And we're tired of your policies.
• 20:57
  And so when we ask you about your policies, we want to know
• 21:01
  why you're destroying California and what you're going to do to
• 21:03
  stop it before you leave. And the answer is nothing.
• 21:06
  They just get mad. Except fund abortions like as.
• 21:08
  Like, yeah, we're going to drop $100 million.
• 21:10
  It's crazy. For more free abortions.
• 21:12
  So I've got to ask you another question about your work as the
• 21:16
  sheriff of Riverside County. What did success look like for
• 21:19
  you? I know you mentioned leadership,
• 21:21
  obviously is your job. That's how you see it.
• 21:23
  You're there to serve. But in terms of how you made
• 21:26
  life better for the people, the residents of Riverside County,
• 21:31
  what did that look like for you as sheriff?
• 21:34
  Yeah. So it's it's kind of like a
• 21:37
  almost like an 8 year, seven-year.
• 21:39
  I'm in my 8th year now and it's almost a looking back, it's it's
• 21:44
  the difference in public safety in Riverside County in 2018
• 21:49
  compared to 2026. And it's night and day.
• 21:53
  And that part about Gavin Newsom and, and my popularity and my,
• 21:59
  my rise in leadership across the country was because of 2020 was
• 22:04
  because of nuisance mandates, because I was the first person
• 22:06
  in the country in a position of authority to stand up and say
• 22:11
  absolute ridiculous. And we're not going to do that
• 22:13
  here. What?
• 22:14
  What? Where is it that you were saying
• 22:15
  we're not going to do in Riverside County?
• 22:16
  We did not arrest anyone for not wearing a mask.
• 22:19
  We did not arrest anyone for not wearing a mask.
• 22:21
  We did not arrest anyone for not closing their business.
• 22:22
  If you went, if we did not arrest you for going to a
• 22:24
  restaurant, we did not arrest you for going to churches.
• 22:27
  And those were all the things that they were telling us they
• 22:29
  wanted done with all of the mandates.
• 22:31
  And you just said I'm. Not I'm not doing it.
• 22:33
  Yeah, this is my county. I won't do it right now.
• 22:36
  Are you allowed to do that? By the way?
• 22:37
  What's the law? The governor has the mandate and
• 22:40
  you're like, no, I don't want to do it that way.
• 22:41
  Yes. So the interesting part about
• 22:43
  that is, and I used to say it, it's like these are
• 22:45
  unconstitutional rules. They were not laws.
• 22:48
  They were never laws. Had they gone to the legislature
• 22:52
  and said we are going to pass these laws that that you as a
• 22:56
  resident can have to wear a mask or you can't go to church or you
• 22:59
  can't open your business, you can't shop in stores that we
• 23:02
  didn't tell you were good enough to shop in.
• 23:04
  If they would have made it a law, that would have been much
• 23:06
  more difficult for me. I could still have said no,
• 23:09
  we're not going to do it, but I would be technically violating
• 23:13
  that law by not enforcing it. And there's unfortunately, you
• 23:17
  can be removed from office if you do that, if you violate a
• 23:20
  law even. If you're if you're mounting A
• 23:22
  constitutional challenge that has to play out in the court
• 23:24
  system, you still have to in in the interim, abide by the law of
• 23:27
  your position. I would have probably been
• 23:29
  removed from office. We would have sued, but we would
• 23:31
  have won. We would have eventually won on
• 23:33
  constitutional grounds. But these orders in particular
• 23:37
  in 2020 were just Newsome's orders.
• 23:41
  It was just a political agenda, seeing how much they could get
• 23:44
  away with and imposing them upon us.
• 23:47
  And as the sheriff, I, I said no.
• 23:49
  So in California we have a lot of discretion as law enforcement
• 23:52
  officers, particularly from misdemeanor down as a felony.
• 23:56
  We really don't. I can't.
• 23:57
  If I know you have a felony warrant, I have to arrest you.
• 24:00
  If you commit a felony and I know you committed that felony,
• 24:04
  I have to arrest you. But misdemeanors is a
• 24:07
  discretion. Misdemeanors are a tool where I
• 24:09
  could, you know, if, if you, I mean, I don't know what driving
• 24:11
  without a license, that's a misdemeanor technically.
• 24:14
  And I can tell you, look, This is why you need to get a
• 24:16
  license. I'm going to let you go this
• 24:17
  time, but you need to go get a driver's license And it's a,
• 24:21
  it's a warning basically, but to get you to hopefully go do the
• 24:25
  right thing. So I do have a lot of
• 24:27
  discretion, but in this particular case it was twofold.
• 24:30
  I knew it wasn't a law. It was an order, which
• 24:33
  technically I have to abide by orders because there's another
• 24:35
  law that says that. But these were completely
• 24:37
  unconstitutional orders. And I gave a speech in front of
• 24:40
  the Board of Supervisors with the day that I knew they were
• 24:42
  going to follow the governor's orders.
• 24:45
  And I said, it's not going to happen here.
• 24:47
  We are not. I'm not taking away resources,
• 24:50
  law enforcement resources from keeping us safe from rapists,
• 24:54
  robbers, burglars, drug dealers, thieves, all of those things and
• 24:59
  make a criminal out of a single mom who's trying to put a roof
• 25:05
  over the head of her children. And I said it's never going to
• 25:07
  happen. I it's not happening here.
• 25:10
  And when I did that, that I shot onto the national stage because
• 25:15
  nobody had done that. No one was standing up for what
• 25:17
  we all felt was common sense and Riverside County benefited from
• 25:22
  that immensely. Immensely.
• 25:25
  We brought businesses to Riverside County that were being
• 25:27
  forced closed in other places. We bought residents that wanted
• 25:31
  to go to restaurants or church. They moved to Riverside County
• 25:34
  to do that. Employees.
• 25:37
  We had vaccine mandates where people were getting fired.
• 25:39
  Any anyone in law enforcement that got fired for not taking a
• 25:42
  vaccine, I hired them. If they applied for us, we hired
• 25:45
  them. We we made it to where the
• 25:49
  politics and the agenda we're taking out of it and we're just
• 25:52
  common sense legal law, constitution, all of those
• 25:56
  things. And that's what I mean, it
• 25:59
  skyrocketed me on the national stage.
• 26:01
  So that was for the beginning of me.
• 26:03
  That was the change in Riverside County and that was the change
• 26:06
  in our agency of what my goal was for us is by the time I
• 26:11
  left, I wanted to be the best law enforcement agency in the
• 26:14
  country. If you talk about like me
• 26:16
  growing up, law enforcement was LAPD or NYPDI mean those were
• 26:22
  oh, let's see what LA is doing. Let's see what New York is
• 26:24
  doing. And that's that was the epitome
• 26:26
  of law enforcement And I wanted to be Riverside sheriff and we
• 26:31
  took I took a almost failing organization.
• 26:34
  Morale was horrible. We were we were so short on
• 26:38
  employees not operating how we should.
• 26:41
  Public safety was a disaster in California.
• 26:42
  We weren't fighting crime. We weren't addressing issues.
• 26:45
  I changed the way we operated. We went to a instead of fighting
• 26:48
  crime, we attacked quality of life issues.
• 26:52
  So whatever your quality of life is, that's my main priority.
• 26:56
  So I have two and a half million quality of life issues that we
• 27:00
  address in Riverside County because that's what that's what
• 27:02
  concerns you. And if you're going to call us,
• 27:05
  we are going to make sure that that is our top priority is
• 27:08
  making sure that your life and whatever is affecting you is
• 27:11
  being made easier when we leave. And it was successful.
• 27:15
  And so now I am one of the most respected law enforcement
• 27:19
  agencies in the country. We, we are looked at to see how
• 27:22
  we're doing things right and to see that, you know, what
• 27:25
  mistakes we made and how did we fix them.
• 27:27
  And I, I'm sending deputies all across the country to, to train
• 27:31
  other people on what we're doing.
• 27:34
  One of the things that I'm just super, super proud of just
• 27:36
  because of other things in, in my career that I did is crimes
• 27:39
  against children there as a dad, as a man, as an as an adult, I
• 27:45
  as a cop, we have to protect kids.
• 27:48
  Kids can't protect themselves. Adults sometimes can protect
• 27:51
  themselves, but truly kids cannot.
• 27:53
  And when adults are going to victimize them or when adults
• 27:56
  need protection, if their parents aren't going to do it,
• 27:58
  then the cops have to and I have to make sure that they're safe.
• 28:01
  So we've, we've had a massive shift toward protecting our kids
• 28:06
  from human trafficking, from sex trafficking, molestation, abuse,
• 28:11
  all of those things. And we train other people in the
• 28:14
  country on what we're doing right and how successful we are.
• 28:17
  So that's really that success for me, it's not personal
• 28:21
  success. It was my life as a law
• 28:25
  enforcement officer, my, my identity as a lawman.
• 28:29
  I wanted the agency that I work for to be the best.
• 28:32
  And we, we truly are. I mean, we're not done, we're
• 28:35
  not perfect. There's a lot of things that we
• 28:38
  can always strive to be the best.
• 28:40
  And if you strive to be the best, you'll probably are the
• 28:43
  best because there's not too many people that are striving
• 28:46
  every single day to be better than they were yesterday.
• 28:48
  And that's what I want the mission of our agency to be.
• 28:51
  And it's. It seems to be working well.
• 28:54
  So I would love to explore just for a minute what this has
• 28:56
  looked like in Riverside County. Let's talk about the kids for a
• 28:58
  minute. You know, cops, our job is to
• 29:00
  protect kids. We protect kids.
• 29:01
  And you mentioned abuse, molestation.
• 29:04
  There's obviously trafficking, which is horrible when you show
• 29:07
  up, you know, 2018, right? And this is your new job.
• 29:11
  You got eight years, you got to like, fix, fix this.
• 29:13
  As you said, it was failing in many ways.
• 29:15
  What did it look like? What did your policies look
• 29:17
  like, your changes look like? And you're not just talking
• 29:19
  about who are we going to arrest?
• 29:20
  You were looking at the causal, you know, the, what are the, the
• 29:23
  factors that are causing this? And how can we use our agency
• 29:26
  and, and work with the rest of the city to solve or the county
• 29:28
  to solve these issues? What did it look like to make
• 29:31
  Riverside County safer for kids in the last, you know, going on
• 29:34
  88 years? It it's really enforcement.
• 29:37
  It was, there are, there are laws on the books that were not
• 29:39
  being enforced that we, we have a 0 tolerance for.
• 29:43
  And that's the, that's, we have a, we have a policy of a
• 29:47
  relentless pursuit of criminals. If you're going to victimize
• 29:51
  anyone in Riverside County, particularly a child, we are
• 29:54
  going to find you, we are going to hold you accountable and we
• 29:57
  are going to save or rescue that child from that abuse.
• 30:01
  So I doubled the size of our human trafficking team.
• 30:04
  We, we put way more money than had ever been utilized in that
• 30:10
  arena toward technology to help them identify suspects, identify
• 30:15
  victims, rescue victims. And it was, it really was just a
• 30:19
  mindset change. It was my agenda was letting
• 30:22
  deputies know that this is your goal, go out and do it.
• 30:28
  And if you can't do it, then let us know as an administration
• 30:31
  what we need to provide you to make sure you have the tools to
• 30:33
  do it. So it was training, it was
• 30:35
  resources, it was money, it was equipment, it was adding more
• 30:38
  personnel to to those arenas, to those task forces, partnering
• 30:43
  with other task forces. So we as a force multiplier, so
• 30:46
  we make sure that we do that And, and I really, I started, I
• 30:50
  started that arena for Riverside County in 2005.
• 30:54
  I, I was responsible for a sting operation that we did to
• 30:59
  basically arrest people who were attempting to, or were molesting
• 31:04
  kids using online access to get to, to gain contact with them.
• 31:10
  And we, we cooperated, I guess you could say with Dateline, NBC
• 31:16
  Dateline, we brought Dateline in and they recorded a three day
• 31:19
  operation where we arrested 51 people for traveling all over
• 31:24
  Southern California, one from another state.
• 31:26
  And they were coming to molest a 12 or 13 year old boy or girl.
• 31:30
  And we arrested them and it was shown to the shown to the
• 31:32
  country. I remember those.
• 31:34
  I didn't realize that was you behind that, and that was before
• 31:37
  becoming sheriff. Yes, I was a supervisor.
• 31:39
  I was a Sergeant in our department and of a detective
• 31:42
  Bureau that we saw this issue was happening and we wanted to
• 31:46
  do something big to try and stop it.
• 31:49
  And it eventually became NBC's number one.
• 31:52
  It it still is NBC's number one rated series or or program the
• 31:59
  dateline to Catch a predator and.
• 32:02
  That's amazing. When I did that, after we did it
• 32:05
  and it aired when we we late, we knew how big it was and we knew
• 32:09
  that it was it was bigger than what we thought.
• 32:12
  And so we laid the groundwork up until the time that it aired.
• 32:15
  And then right after it aired was a board meeting that the now
• 32:20
  the administrator back at the time went to the board and said
• 32:23
  we have a massive issue that we just showed and we need
• 32:25
  resources. And they formed 2 task forces.
• 32:28
  They formed the safe task force and a spider task force.
• 32:31
  And it was basically a it was to protect kids and it was an
• 32:35
  online, it was two things together.
• 32:37
  The sheriff before me stopped it, new sheriff, he ended it.
• 32:42
  I took over. We redid it.
• 32:44
  The DA at the time was running a lot with it.
• 32:47
  He was, he was trying to do what he could and we just gave more
• 32:50
  resources to him. We've combined them now into one
• 32:53
  program that actually the DA runs.
• 32:57
  The umbrella is under the DA's office now and we just provide
• 33:00
  more resources and more investigators to make sure that
• 33:03
  we do that. But super proud of that, super
• 33:06
  proud of that, what we did for the country.
• 33:08
  I helped hundreds of other agencies across the country do
• 33:12
  the same type of operation. I even helped Scotland Yard do
• 33:16
  one in London. I wish they would have sent me
• 33:18
  over there. I did it all by phone, but it
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  not realize is there's a lot of discretion, right, for law
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  enforcement in terms of resource allocation, what to focus on in
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  terms of investigating crimes and prosecuting crimes.
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  And that's where if you're not focused on the things that
• 35:29
  matter or you're not allocating enough to the the the least of
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  these, the victims, children in this case, then there might not
• 35:34
  be justice for them because of the bureau's distracted or
• 35:37
  working on other things. And I think that child first
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  mentality is so key. Have you seen more arrests made
• 35:44
  under your leadership of child predators or like what does that
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  look like in terms of the outcomes for arrests or for
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  prosecutions or convictions or, you know, anything in the area?
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  Yeah. I think statistically in the
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  beginning there were a lot more arrests, but then that tapers
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  down if you're doing, if you're doing.
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  A safer community. They don't want to and they also
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  don't want to come here. It's like they don't want to be
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  a a pedo in Riverside County. That's.
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  Exactly right. I mean, it's it and it's very
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  well known. It's very well known in the
• 36:12
  online community. We we are still we still have
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  investigators in those in those chat rooms, in those, I mean
• 36:19
  even Snapchat, I mean it, it is so easy to to get access to our
• 36:23
  kids. So we have the Intel, so we have
• 36:27
  the the resources that are put into those things to make sure
• 36:30
  that we're monitoring to find victims, to find, you know,
• 36:33
  human trafficking systems and the people responsible for them.
• 36:38
  And we go, then we go attack them and we go, we go find out.
• 36:41
  But in those systems, we also know that they talk about
• 36:45
  Riverside County, they, they don't want to go to Riverside
• 36:48
  County or they're aware that law enforcement is very active in
• 36:53
  undercover operations and, and, and finding out who they are.
• 36:58
  So we know that we've lowered it And it's, it's unfortunately,
• 37:01
  it's one of those things where it's like, well, people that my,
• 37:04
  my detractors will say, well, prove to me that you lowered it.
• 37:08
  It's like, well, I can't prove something that didn't happen.
• 37:11
  It's like it's it's impossible to take all the resources away
• 37:15
  and then wonder what it would have looked like now.
• 37:18
  Has it gone up in other counties?
• 37:20
  I know that you know child like the the proliferation of child
• 37:23
  sexual assault material as an example, C Sam has gone up.
• 37:26
  It's actually in. The last decade like an
• 37:28
  incredibly credible amount, which is terrifying.
• 37:30
  Yeah, not across all jurisdictions, but it certainly
• 37:34
  has in some. And we know that criminal
• 37:37
  behavior and criminal activity goes where it's easy.
• 37:40
  If there's the threat of getting caught, if there's a chance of
• 37:42
  getting caught, you don't, criminals will avoid it.
• 37:46
  Criminals will stay away. So it's there, there are so many
• 37:49
  different aspects of crime and how to identify them and how to,
• 37:54
  how to not only chase the reporting, but then follow up
• 37:58
  with the with the arrests and everything else.
• 38:00
  It's, it's hard to statistically come up with something that you
• 38:03
  can say, oh, look how great we did.
• 38:05
  It's because the I'm not a fan of of statistics because I can
• 38:11
  twist the statistics to mean something for me.
• 38:14
  But if you don't believe me, or if or if you think differently
• 38:18
  than me, you can use those same numbers and twist them into
• 38:21
  something different. And yours.
• 38:23
  Yours are not necessarily untrue, but neither are mine.
• 38:26
  They both say something different, but we use it for our
• 38:29
  own benefit. So that's why statistics.
• 38:31
  Aren't How would you measure if not statistics?
• 38:33
  If not like people. Feel.
• 38:34
  How people feel. So, and I'll give you an
• 38:37
  example, do you feel like California is safer today than
• 38:39
  it was 10 years ago? No.
• 38:42
  No one does but the statistics that the governor is going to
• 38:46
  promote. This is the gaslighting of San
• 38:48
  Francisco. They say statistically San
• 38:50
  Francisco is safer, but then people don't feel safe in San
• 38:53
  Francisco. And they say, well, my friend
• 38:54
  just got mugged and that wasn't happening 10 years ago, right?
• 38:57
  But you you're telling me I'm safer?
• 38:58
  Yeah, so and they they're twisting the statistics and then
• 39:01
  in California they've changed the laws to where crimes aren't
• 39:04
  crimes anymore. So if 50 before 2014 when we
• 39:09
  legalized almost everything in California made everything
• 39:12
  change from a felony to a misdemeanor, we don't report
• 39:14
  those anymore. They're no longer.
• 39:16
  Theft is no longer reported as a theft because it's less than
• 39:19
  $950. So it's petty theft, which now
• 39:24
  doesn't get reported the same way.
• 39:25
  So the statistics for theft show drastic decrease in crime.
• 39:30
  Overall crime is down. Well, that's because people
• 39:32
  don't report it anymore. It's not a crime.
• 39:34
  So you're twisting what is, what the numbers even show for your
• 39:39
  benefit. But yet we know in California, I
• 39:41
  know my deputies right now are far more busier than I was when
• 39:45
  I was a deputy. I I feel sorry for them
• 39:47
  sometimes. The amount of calls that they
• 39:49
  are going to, the types of calls that they're going to, it's far
• 39:53
  worse than when I was a deputy. 30 years ago.
• 39:55
  Why do you think that is? Because crime is getting worse.
• 39:58
  But why? Why?
• 39:59
  There's because crime in California is enabled.
• 40:03
  We are enabling criminal behavior.
• 40:05
  There is no consequence. We have a judicial that we had
• 40:08
  since 2012, we had criminal justice reform.
• 40:13
  That's what California was pushed on all of us.
• 40:15
  And when I tell you that we need to reform something, you're
• 40:18
  going to agree with me because you know what the word reform
• 40:20
  means something is broken and we're going to make it better.
• 40:23
  So if I say, hey, we need to reform the criminal justice
• 40:25
  system, of course you're going to say yes, we do.
• 40:28
  But the reality of California criminal justice reform was a
• 40:32
  love affair with criminals. They don't care.
• 40:35
  The lawmakers that have passed all these horrific laws don't
• 40:37
  care about the victims. They don't care about law
• 40:40
  abiding Californians. They care about suspects that
• 40:44
  they label as victims of society because we made them commit
• 40:48
  crimes. We made them do something wrong
• 40:50
  because we didn't take care of them socially.
• 40:53
  So there's no personal responsibility for bad behavior.
• 40:58
  So you're enabling more and more criminal activity, and that's
• 41:01
  what we see as cops. So in Riverside County, do you
• 41:03
  guys make more more arrests than like say, LAPD?
• 41:07
  I think we did at one point, but then again it our crime isn't.
• 41:12
  Safer so crime is less. Is crime better in Riverside?
• 41:15
  There's less crime in Riverside County now than there was in
• 41:18
  2018. I'm going to say yes.
• 41:20
  So crime all across the country went up.
• 41:24
  Ours in Riverside County didn't go up as much as everybody
• 41:27
  else's did. But crime is obviously going up
• 41:30
  just because of the environment that California is.
• 41:32
  In culture. Absolutely yes, and you can't
• 41:35
  help that you but. You're saying you're not, your
• 41:37
  crime isn't as high as other counties, right?
• 41:39
  And you're in it. And if it's gone up, it's gone
• 41:41
  up slower than other counties. It's gone up.
• 41:43
  And we use the metric of what do, What do California residents
• 41:47
  feel? What do Riverside County
• 41:48
  residents feel? And overall, my residents feel
• 41:53
  like their deputies are doing a fantastic job.
• 41:55
  They feel safe, they feel like they're being protected.
• 41:58
  They feel like we are doing everything we can to fight
• 42:01
  violent crime and crime in general.
• 42:03
  I do think the posture of, of the, the relationship between
• 42:06
  the average person and the, and the cops like do are the cops
• 42:09
  decent? Are the cops going to show up
• 42:10
  when we need them? Are the cops, do they, are they
• 42:13
  caring about the things that I care about and, and focus on the
• 42:16
  things I, I want them to focus on.
• 42:18
  That does go a long way for the feelings of safety of people.
• 42:21
  I do think there is probably a disconnect between objective,
• 42:24
  you know, objective standards of safety.
• 42:25
  But to your point, it's very convoluted today.
• 42:27
  It is, you know, San Francisco's that case in point.
• 42:30
  You know how Stanford's sister just talked about, oh, the crime
• 42:32
  has gone down. Like, no, it hasn't, right.
• 42:35
  OK, what about so there's crime? That's one bucket.
• 42:38
  But as sheriff, you were doing more than addressing crime in
• 42:42
  terms of arresting people. Your.
• 42:45
  Quality of life. Yeah, so tell me what that looks
• 42:47
  like as sheriff to be helping improve people's quality of life
• 42:50
  in Riverside. County quality of life doesn't
• 42:52
  necessarily have to be a crime. It could be a a problem in your
• 42:56
  neighborhood, anything, a bad neighbor a a horrific neighbor
• 43:00
  that really isn't breaking the law, but he is terrorizing the
• 43:03
  neighborhood. We will address that.
• 43:05
  We will address it with a person.
• 43:07
  We'll do everything we can legally through the criminal
• 43:09
  justice system, but also just going out and kind of hope
• 43:14
  hopefully educating the neighbor.
• 43:16
  It's like, look, you're destroying your entire
• 43:18
  neighborhood because of your attitude and we just all want
• 43:21
  you getting along. Quit, stop.
• 43:22
  We have to stop them from calling us on you.
• 43:24
  But it's your behavior that's causing it.
• 43:27
  And I mean, that's a, that's an off the wall, you know, way to
• 43:31
  describe it. But it could be any quality of
• 43:33
  life. It could be.
• 43:35
  Pit bulls on the loose? Absolutely.
• 43:37
  We could. Be in our neighborhood not long
• 43:39
  ago, yeah, there was just a pit bull.
• 43:41
  And I said, what's going like, what is this?
• 43:43
  You know, like, yeah. So that's a, that's a, that's a
• 43:45
  whole nother animal to open up it with animals in California,
• 43:49
  because we have in from a law enforcement perspective, when we
• 43:53
  have animal issues, that's animal controls responsibility.
• 43:57
  And I'm not a fan of animal control.
• 44:00
  I don't, I wish they fell under law enforcement.
• 44:02
  They fell under that. Would make sense to me.
• 44:05
  It makes sense to me, but they won't put it under me and
• 44:08
  because. The point of animal control is
• 44:10
  the safety of people, right? And yeah, you treat the animals
• 44:13
  with dignity. You treat the animals with
• 44:15
  dignity. But the number one?
• 44:16
  The animals and everything. Else that's true, but the number
• 44:18
  one priority in the end will be human safety.
• 44:20
  Yeah, and there's no enforcement.
• 44:22
  We have rules and we have laws, but there's no enforcement.
• 44:25
  It's everything is social and everything is we don't want to
• 44:28
  offend anybody and we don't want to make anybody mad.
• 44:30
  And it's like, well, it's past that point and we need to take
• 44:34
  action. And so the state is broken in.
• 44:38
  It's in, it's in the way it protects animals or protects
• 44:42
  people from animals or animals from people.
• 44:44
  And I mean, that's a whole nother Side Story of of what
• 44:47
  we'll have to deal with. When you, when you said, when
• 44:49
  you said the two and a half million, I might have misheard
• 44:51
  you when you said I think it was two and a half million.
• 44:53
  There's two and a half million residents in Riverside.
• 44:55
  Residents. So when you said the 2 1/2
• 44:57
  millions concerns about safety, you're part of what you've
• 45:01
  prepared your department to do is receive concerns and be able
• 45:04
  to address them in a more personalized way, even if it
• 45:06
  doesn't have to do with outright law breaking.
• 45:08
  Absolutely. So it's like that neighbor who's
• 45:10
  just seems threatening or like not being neighborly, Can you go
• 45:13
  chat with him? I mean, what?
• 45:15
  Yeah. What does it look like
• 45:16
  practically? What do you have your guys do?
• 45:17
  We respond to everything. There are law enforcement
• 45:20
  agencies across the state and across the country that no
• 45:23
  longer respond to certain crimes.
• 45:25
  We respond to everything. Yeah, we respond to everything,
• 45:27
  and we prioritize it. I mean, there are some people
• 45:29
  that are angry that it took us 4 hours or six hours to get to
• 45:33
  their call, but we have to prioritize them, too because
• 45:36
  we're answering everything and we're limited in how many people
• 45:40
  are actually working in the day in order to get to that call.
• 45:44
  We have to prioritize them. A crime against a person that's
• 45:46
  happening right now is obviously a bigger priority than I had an
• 45:50
  argument with my neighbor because he cut my tree.
• 45:53
  So those we have to prioritize, but we're going to respond to
• 45:57
  everything and we're going to do everything we can.
• 45:59
  The deputies know that you respond to every call and you,
• 46:03
  it is your job to resolve that issue before you leave.
• 46:07
  And we do everything we possibly can to try and make that happen,
• 46:10
  whether it's, and sometimes it doesn't have to be arrest
• 46:12
  someone, if it has to be arrest somebody, then then that's what
• 46:17
  has to happen. But if a peaceful resolution can
• 46:20
  come because of the actions that the deputies taking, then that
• 46:24
  emergency in your life is now handled.
• 46:27
  And that's really what a 911 call is.
• 46:29
  It is your emergency, the most important thing in your life at
• 46:32
  the time. And we are coming out there to
• 46:34
  handle it for you. Is your goal to you're helping
• 46:37
  to solve the emergency, but how do you focus on fostering more
• 46:40
  Community Trust, right? Because the ideal is people are
• 46:43
  not calling 911 on their neighbors, right?
• 46:45
  Yeah. So that's the the feeling that
• 46:48
  people know that the deputies are responding and handling that
• 46:51
  situation. There's there was when I was
• 46:54
  before I ran for office. I mean, it was deputies don't
• 46:57
  show up, deputies don't do anything.
• 46:59
  I had all these problems and right and that I knew that
• 47:04
  wasn't true because I knew who I worked with.
• 47:07
  I knew the I knew what deputies wanted to do and I knew what we
• 47:10
  tried to do. It was just not the direction of
• 47:13
  the department so everybody wasn't forced to be doing the
• 47:15
  same thing. And it's we just changed.
• 47:19
  We just changed not only our approach to how we did things,
• 47:25
  but in doing that, we changed people's perception of what we
• 47:28
  were doing. So now they see us constantly.
• 47:31
  They see us in their neighborhoods all the time.
• 47:33
  When they caught, they know we're going to, we're going to,
• 47:36
  if we're going, if you're going to be late to that call,
• 47:38
  dispatch will call them back and say we're coming, we're still on
• 47:42
  our way. Or the deputy will call and say,
• 47:45
  I was on my way to your call and I had to stop this car.
• 47:48
  As soon as I finish this, I'll I'm still coming.
• 47:51
  You don't have to call again. We're going to be there.
• 47:53
  So it's just taking more of a personal responsibility in
• 47:57
  making sure that the community that you're protecting and the
• 48:00
  community that you're serving is taken care of.
• 48:02
  I changed our motto to service above self-service.
• 48:06
  The service that we are providing goes in front of you,
• 48:11
  taking care of yourself. You sacrifice yourself, you
• 48:13
  sacrifice your time. Unfortunately, we know that in
• 48:16
  our lives, we sacrifice our family sometimes and but that's,
• 48:20
  that's what we got into. That's that's what, that's how I
• 48:23
  want to be. Better is making sure that the
• 48:25
  people that we serve are more important than us.
• 48:28
  So I want to get into your policy differences between
• 48:32
  yourself and some of the folks you're running against.
• 48:35
  Now there's the Democrat bucket, which the differences are going
• 48:38
  to be pretty extreme. We're going to get into that
• 48:39
  night and day. And then there's this Republican
• 48:42
  ish bucket. And then I want to get into the
• 48:45
  critic, the criticisms that you have of some of your, you know,
• 48:50
  folks next to you running as Republicans, as well as the
• 48:53
  criticisms that they have levied against you and your response to
• 48:56
  that. So let's start with the
• 48:57
  Republican bucket. There's another gentleman
• 49:00
  running right now for governor named Steve Hilton.
• 49:04
  And we were talking briefly about him before you, you sat
• 49:06
  down. I was asking about, you know,
• 49:08
  your thoughts, the differences. How do you see your leadership
• 49:12
  and policies as different from Hilton's?
• 49:16
  The the difference is one of us is a leader and the other one is
• 49:19
  not. And it's not just me saying
• 49:22
  that. I mean, I've never heard him say
• 49:25
  he's a leader. At least he's not going to lie
• 49:28
  and tell you he is. He's never done anything to
• 49:31
  prove anything otherwise. And I what's?
• 49:33
  His background that you would say that about him?
• 49:35
  He's a political strategist. His entire adult life has been a
• 49:39
  political strategist and a political strategist mission is
• 49:43
  to convince you of something that either may or may not be
• 49:46
  true. And for him, we have,
• 49:49
  thankfully, we have history that proves that it's not true.
• 49:53
  I mean, he was a political and, and he's not even from the
• 49:55
  United States. It was a political strategist in
• 49:58
  another country with a completely different government
• 50:01
  running different, different beliefs than American
• 50:05
  government. And we know from history that
• 50:09
  he, in that strategy that he was responsible for, he convinced
• 50:14
  the entire country that they were going to change their
• 50:18
  country in a more fiscally conservative Republican manner.
• 50:22
  And they were elected. His the person that was his boss
• 50:28
  was elected. But then quickly the government
• 50:30
  found out they weren't anything close to conservative
• 50:34
  Republicans. They were very liberal.
• 50:36
  They were very globalist. What country is this?
• 50:39
  England. So he basically helped run a
• 50:41
  campaign for. David Cameron.
• 50:43
  And he said we're so conservative, it's going to be
• 50:45
  great. We're going to not be like those
• 50:46
  other guys. And then you're saying they
• 50:48
  didn't fulfill those promises. But he was very good at making
• 50:50
  the promise in Europe. They made the promise.
• 50:52
  They convinced everybody of something that wasn't true.
• 50:54
  And then when they got into office, they changed and they
• 50:57
  went very green, very left, very liberal, very globalist.
• 51:01
  Steve Hilton might say, if he was here, I'm going to guess and
• 51:04
  we're going to try to have him on the show to talk what he
• 51:06
  wants to say, but he's going to say, well, that was not any
• 51:09
  faults or bosses, you know, it was his strategy.
• 51:12
  I would do it differently. I I mean, I don't know what he'd
• 51:14
  say, but maybe something along those lines.
• 51:16
  But we know that he was the chief strategist.
• 51:18
  He was behind the entire thing. And then when the country found
• 51:21
  out that they had been duped, he was unelected.
• 51:25
  And I mean, I'll say this, Steve was run out of England.
• 51:29
  He didn't voluntarily come to America.
• 51:31
  His political career was over in England because they figured him
• 51:35
  out and they it was over. He had to come to America.
• 51:39
  And he came to California. I don't know where he came to.
• 51:42
  I don't know if he started here or started.
• 51:44
  He been a resident here. Well, I think 10 years maybe,
• 51:49
  maybe a little bit more than that.
• 51:50
  He's just been five years, maybe as a citizen.
• 51:53
  So it is relatively new. But his past and my past are
• 51:57
  completely different. Mine is based on one of truth of
• 52:00
  integrity, honesty, leadership and his is about political
• 52:06
  strategy for a personal end, personal means for an end.
• 52:12
  And I've never flip-flopped. There's so that's and that's the
• 52:16
  difference. We don't like politicians
• 52:18
  because politicians say one thing and do something else.
• 52:21
  That's his entire life. And it's it's a little bit
• 52:24
  frustrating for me in this world right now knowing in California
• 52:28
  that we absolutely must change from Democrat the every 20 years
• 52:32
  we elected Republican governor. So even Steve.
• 52:35
  California gets bad enough and they're like, let's get the.
• 52:38
  Yes. So even Steve knew several years
• 52:40
  ago, we've all known that this was going to be the election
• 52:44
  that if we are going to win Republicans, it was going to be
• 52:46
  this one. Because every 20 years we do it.
• 52:49
  And California is horrible right now.
• 52:52
  So a lot of things are going wrong to convince people let's
• 52:54
  go a different path. And so like, for instance, I'm
• 52:59
  I, my entire life, there is nothing about me other than
• 53:02
  fiscally conservative Republican.
• 53:05
  Everything about my life says that I'm a Christian
• 53:09
  conservative Republican. When Steve first came to the
• 53:15
  United States, he formed a business to raise money for the
• 53:18
  Democrat Party. His candidate.
• 53:21
  Was like 10 years ago. That was in 2016.
• 53:24
  OK, so that was. I mean, even to the point where
• 53:27
  he has said that he wanted Bernie Sanders to be president
• 53:32
  and he did not support President Trump originally, but then jumps
• 53:38
  on the bandwagon because he sees that's where everybody else is
• 53:40
  going and now has changed his tune for this.
• 53:43
  So he's not a Republican, he's a globalist, self-proclaimed.
• 53:49
  He won't say he's a globalist. He says he's a populist.
• 53:52
  But when you look at what he's done, what he did in England,
• 53:55
  it's globalist that is not Republican.
• 53:57
  That is that is what California is technically doing now that
• 54:01
  the socialism, globalist, everybody the same and all those
• 54:04
  things. That's what we're fighting
• 54:06
  against. But that's his core beliefs.
• 54:08
  And so there's everything is completely opposite about he and
• 54:13
  I. My life is based on integrity
• 54:15
  and honesty. Law enforcement, I can be fired
• 54:20
  for lying. I can lose my position for
• 54:24
  lying. In law enforcement world, we
• 54:26
  call it you lie, you die. That's just a phrase.
• 54:28
  We have that if you lie, you can no longer be a cop because you
• 54:33
  can never go to court. You can never arrest someone.
• 54:36
  Exactly. And that's how it should be.
• 54:39
  But along those lines, in this election, for all of you out
• 54:44
  there watching and listening, you can be rest assured that I'm
• 54:47
  the only one telling you the truth 100% of the time.
• 54:50
  And so if someone else is saying something different, you can be
• 54:55
  guaranteed that I'm not lying. So you.
• 54:57
  Might have to question that if you lie in your campaign, could
• 55:00
  you be fired for that? Technically, I technically I can
• 55:03
  be removed or prevented or it's going to be, it's going to,
• 55:07
  it's, it's basically going to taint all of the deputies that
• 55:11
  work under me. If your boss is a liar, then the
• 55:14
  whole organization, right? Then the whole organization is
• 55:18
  dishonest and distrustful and everything else.
• 55:20
  And this is their agenda. So we also have peace officers.
• 55:25
  We have, we have a certificate now that the state controls.
• 55:29
  So our ability to be peace officers is because we have a
• 55:32
  law enforcement certificate that can be revoked if we violate
• 55:37
  those law enforcement rules. So the state of California can
• 55:40
  take away my peace officer powers, my ability to be a peace
• 55:44
  officer if I violate those rules.
• 55:47
  And if that happens, then I'm not qualified to be the sheriff.
• 55:50
  So I can't be the sheriff if I'm not even a law enforcement
• 55:52
  officer. It's, it's a, it's nuanced and
• 55:55
  it's technical, but that's been my life.
• 55:58
  My life is about honesty, integrity, transparency.
• 56:02
  And you just do the right thing for the right reasons.
• 56:03
  And it doesn't matter what the consequences are because you're
• 56:06
  always telling the truth and you always do something right.
• 56:09
  And that's the difference between he and I.
• 56:11
  So if Steve Hilton comes in and we're going to invite him on the
• 56:13
  show, we'll see if he shows up. But if, you know, he's welcome
• 56:15
  to join the show, I'm going to invite Katie Porter on the show.
• 56:17
  I'm going to write Erica Swalwell.
• 56:18
  We're going to bite them all. I'm glad you're you're here
• 56:20
  first. So if Steve Hilton cams and I
• 56:23
  say, well, what's your what's your beef with Sheriff Bianco?
• 56:28
  What would he say? I'm standing in his, well, he's
• 56:30
  standing in anything. I'm standing in his way of
• 56:32
  winning. But what's his criticism of you?
• 56:34
  He he does have a pot I was just looking at yesterday.
• 56:37
  His only criticism of me right now is he is claiming that I
• 56:40
  sided with BLM in the riots of 2020 when the reality of that
• 56:44
  was right. At the same time that I hit the
• 56:47
  national stage with COVID and standing up to COVID, I also hit
• 56:51
  the national stage for standing up to BLM and eliminating them
• 56:56
  from our county. And we did it with overwhelming
• 56:59
  force. And but the one particular thing
• 57:02
  that he's claiming, and he's being dishonest in his
• 57:05
  representation because he knows he has to harm me to elevate
• 57:10
  himself. His qualifications are not going
• 57:12
  to put him above me in this campaign.
• 57:15
  So he somehow has to harm me. My campaign is based on honesty,
• 57:18
  integrity, leadership. And So what does he have to do?
• 57:22
  He has to attack honesty, integrity and leadership.
• 57:26
  So he's making up all of these allegations that I'm not being
• 57:29
  honest, that I don't have any leadership ability and I don't
• 57:33
  have any integrity. And in this particular case,
• 57:36
  back in 2020, there was right when when it started going from,
• 57:40
  I don't want to say peaceful protest, it was never peaceful.
• 57:43
  But when it went from protest to violent, we told them it was
• 57:47
  over. We told them you have 20
• 57:49
  minutes. This is now an unlawful
• 57:50
  assembly. We're going to physically,
• 57:52
  violently maybe, and remove you from this area.
• 57:58
  And the organizers at the time, I had met with them several days
• 58:02
  prior and going over the ground rules and everything else.
• 58:06
  I had been with them for hours on the front line.
• 58:09
  We had 1200 officers that were there on the front line, 10,000,
• 58:12
  roughly about 10,000 protesters. And I had been in between those
• 58:16
  two groups. There's a line of deputies and
• 58:19
  cops behind me. Protesters are all this way, and
• 58:21
  I'm in the middle. And we were making sure that
• 58:24
  everything was perfect. We will protect your right to
• 58:28
  protest, but we're not going to allow you to break the law.
• 58:32
  And so I told them it was over, and they thanked me for
• 58:35
  everything that we had done for the last several hours.
• 58:37
  And they asked if they could pray for my deputies.
• 58:40
  I'm never going to say no to that.
• 58:42
  So they asked people around them to pray.
• 58:45
  I asked deputies if they wanted to pray.
• 58:47
  I told them I couldn't force anybody, but if they want to,
• 58:49
  they can. And we prayed.
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  So the pictures and the and the video snippets that are being
• 58:55
  posted by Steve and paid for by Steve for everybody to see today
• 58:59
  is just saying, look, he he kneeled to BLM.
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  And so you have that connotation that by bending a knee or by
• 59:08
  kneeling to BLM means that I cowered to BLM or I sympathize
• 59:11
  with them or I was on their side.
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  Well, that doesn't go together with an organization that was
• 59:20
  basically a mortal enemy of law enforcement.
• 59:23
  They were a domestic terrorist organization that hated cops.
• 59:28
  So how does, how do I, how am IA national leader of law
• 59:34
  enforcement right now? If I I bent the knee to a
• 59:40
  domestic terrorist organization that hates cops.
• 59:42
  In in this in this incident that Steve Hilton's talking about and
• 59:46
  there's AI mean I've watched the video, right.
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  And so you see it all. You can see it all in videos.
• 59:49
  It's there are. Are you saying that the the
• 59:52
  organizers, the BLM, because all the BLM is monolith.
• 59:55
  There's some people that earnestly went out.
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  My friends, yeah, I had friends and extended family members that
• 1:00:01
  were there. Because there was a true
• 1:00:03
  sympathy for some people who have been victims of yeah, there
• 1:00:06
  have been events of police brutality that does exist.
• 1:00:09
  Now, does that mean that all police are bad?
• 1:00:11
  No. Like, so there's the nuance,
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  right? And, and there was overwhelming
• 1:00:14
  sympathy for, you know, you watch anyone killed on camera or
• 1:00:18
  die on camera afterwards. It was discovered he had all
• 1:00:20
  these, you know, drugs in his system and stuff.
• 1:00:21
  But you watch that, and it's devastating, right?
• 1:00:23
  And so of course, there's an understanding of it.
• 1:00:26
  And Derek Chauvin, he's in jail for it.
• 1:00:28
  I know. Will he be let go of jail?
• 1:00:30
  I mean, there's obviously this whole debate around that.
• 1:00:32
  But the point is to watch a gentleman, you know, a
• 1:00:37
  ultimately a person made in God's image, any human being
• 1:00:39
  killed on camera is going to create sympathy and concern.
• 1:00:42
  And then you're going to get concerned about is the police
• 1:00:44
  doing the best tactics here and is there police brutality?
• 1:00:47
  Here brought the protesters out there.
• 1:00:48
  Right, so I'm not. They weren't all rioters trying
• 1:00:50
  to burn it down. Some of them weren't all bad.
• 1:00:52
  Yes. So when you were talking to
• 1:00:54
  those people on the front line and you're having this
• 1:00:56
  interaction, they're asking to pray, was that a friendly?
• 1:00:59
  I mean, it sounds like it was a very friendly interaction
• 1:01:01
  because you actually, you were not afraid of them.
• 1:01:02
  You got on your knees in front. I was not afraid.
• 1:01:05
  I was. Not afraid you were on their.
• 1:01:06
  Knees and they weren't afraid of the deputies.
• 1:01:07
  I mean, when not the the there were three real organizers that
• 1:01:11
  organized the event, that got their permits and all of those
• 1:01:13
  things. They did the right thing.
• 1:01:15
  But we all knew that we were watching LA burn the night
• 1:01:18
  before they were getting. Heated up and that's when you
• 1:01:21
  said you guys got to stop now because it's just it could go,
• 1:01:23
  it could get violent, was your concern.
• 1:01:25
  Yes, and and we waited until it did.
• 1:01:28
  So the first bottle that got thrown at us, that's when I said
• 1:01:32
  OK, it's over. So there was a bottle.
• 1:01:33
  Oh yes, absolutely. There were several all at once.
• 1:01:36
  They it was, it was, that's what every one of those protests.
• 1:01:39
  Not everyone. The majority of those protests
• 1:01:42
  at the time, that's what they turned into.
• 1:01:44
  They were all peaceful protests until they weren't.
• 1:01:47
  But they all ended up or the majority of them ended up not.
• 1:01:51
  And then what we see on TV was when they spiraled because there
• 1:01:54
  was no enforcement, so there was no one stopping.
• 1:01:56
  So they're getting down on one knee?
• 1:01:57
  Was this after the bottle was thrown?
• 1:01:59
  No. Oh, I see.
• 1:02:00
  That was 1/2 hour before. OK, so there were things were
• 1:02:03
  peaceful at that point and. And it was getting to it well.
• 1:02:06
  It was at the point where I said, OK, it's over now.
• 1:02:09
  We're going to give you 30 minutes to clear out this is an
• 1:02:12
  unlawful assembly. We made the announcements of the
• 1:02:14
  unlawful assembly, told everybody that they had to
• 1:02:16
  leave. I told them that they had to
• 1:02:18
  leave. At the time.
• 1:02:19
  They told me basically, thank you.
• 1:02:21
  Your deputies were unbelievably professional when they probably
• 1:02:25
  shouldn't have been because of how we were being treated.
• 1:02:28
  And then they told me what was going, what we could expect.
• 1:02:31
  They told me where the weapons were, what was going to be used
• 1:02:34
  against us. The general description of the
• 1:02:36
  people that were, they're all dressed the same.
• 1:02:38
  The Antifa types that were going to be instigating the crowd and
• 1:02:42
  that we're going to be driving what was going to come next.
• 1:02:44
  They knew what was coming next. We all that's what we had
• 1:02:47
  planned for. And so when I told them it was
• 1:02:50
  over, they thanked me. Everything's good.
• 1:02:53
  They had been in my office prior prior days and before they left,
• 1:02:56
  they prayed, we prayed that everything was going to end up
• 1:02:59
  well. So that night they said, can we
• 1:03:01
  pray for your deputies? We know this is not going to end
• 1:03:03
  well. Can we pray for everybody's
• 1:03:05
  safety? And I said yes.
• 1:03:07
  So in hindsight. Did they ask you to kneel?
• 1:03:09
  Yes. I see so in.
• 1:03:11
  Trying to trick you or. I don't.
• 1:03:13
  Well, if I looked back now I could say possibly, but.
• 1:03:17
  Because they wanted that gotcha shot.
• 1:03:18
  Time in the me to the moment and this is the problem that I have
• 1:03:20
  where I get so frustrated with people because there's a lot of
• 1:03:23
  people saying that I should have known better and you and you
• 1:03:26
  know, I should have done something different.
• 1:03:28
  Well, that's easy for you to say sitting in your living.
• 1:03:32
  Room. Exactly from the safety of your
• 1:03:35
  television. But I was in front of 10,000
• 1:03:38
  people yelling, deaf to cops, calling me and my parents, every
• 1:03:43
  name in the book and mixed in with some of my friends.
• 1:03:48
  Now I couldn't believe that they were there.
• 1:03:50
  I didn't want them there, but that was still their right to do
• 1:03:53
  it. So we maintained the the safety
• 1:03:56
  and security of the protesters. But at the same time, we had to
• 1:03:59
  protect the buildings, we had to protect the businesses, we had
• 1:04:01
  to protect the people that lived there.
• 1:04:03
  We had to protect the people that weren't there to be
• 1:04:04
  violent. And when it became violent, we
• 1:04:07
  ended it. And so to be very brutally
• 1:04:10
  honest, I was the first person in the country to actually end
• 1:04:15
  their riots to the point where I had conversations with the
• 1:04:18
  sheriff of Los Angeles saying you've got to do the same thing.
• 1:04:21
  You can't let this get Snowball out of control.
• 1:04:24
  You have to end it now. And then they eventually did.
• 1:04:27
  It took them a couple of days because they they were kind of a
• 1:04:30
  little bit behind the 8 ball, but we never got behind the 8
• 1:04:32
  ball. We eliminated them at the time.
• 1:04:35
  So in hindsight, looking back was were we played?
• 1:04:38
  Maybe, but I don't care. I know what I did during that
• 1:04:42
  time was the exact right thing to do.
• 1:04:45
  I know that everything that happened that day worked out
• 1:04:48
  perfect because we had no injuries.
• 1:04:50
  We had no businesses looted, we had no businesses damaged.
• 1:04:54
  We had them eliminated from our downtown.
• 1:04:57
  No fires, no buildings burned down, nothing of the sort.
• 1:05:01
  And to this day, they haven't come back.
• 1:05:04
  They've gone into everywhere else, but they haven't come back
• 1:05:07
  to Riverside County. And we follow them online.
• 1:05:10
  We follow the groups that are organizing all these paid
• 1:05:13
  protests because that's what they are.
• 1:05:15
  And they warn people don't go to Riverside County.
• 1:05:18
  Well, and I think like saying, OK, I'll kneel.
• 1:05:19
  I'll kneel to pray. You just said it.
• 1:05:21
  And in the moment, yeah, I'll kneel to pray.
• 1:05:23
  It's not thinking of a bigger agenda of getting a gotcha
• 1:05:25
  moment for politics or something.
• 1:05:27
  And you held your line, like you said, you prevented property
• 1:05:29
  damage. You prevented a riot from
• 1:05:31
  forming. And I think, you know, again,
• 1:05:34
  we'll hear Steve Hilton give his best case.
• 1:05:36
  If he comes on about why, you know, that's just unacceptable
• 1:05:39
  or whatever. But I'm like, big deal, big
• 1:05:41
  deal. Yeah.
• 1:05:42
  Is it wrong to kneel to pray as a cop in public?
• 1:05:44
  Is that wrong? Is that like against code?
• 1:05:46
  I don't, I've never heard of that.
• 1:05:47
  I don't know. And so for, and so I'll, I'll, I
• 1:05:50
  don't, I'm not going to defend him because he's being dishonest
• 1:05:53
  about the whole thing, but he's going to say this is where he is
• 1:05:56
  attacking my leadership, integrity and honesty because
• 1:05:59
  his answer is I'm lying. His answer is that I'm making
• 1:06:02
  that up that we didn't pray because in his little video,
• 1:06:06
  there's no mention of praying. So therefore, Chad Bianca's a
• 1:06:10
  liar. That's, that's his position.
• 1:06:13
  And I, I tell everyone this, everyone, I don't care what you
• 1:06:20
  think. I care what the 1200 cops there
• 1:06:23
  think. And the 1200 cops that were
• 1:06:25
  there know exactly what happened that night.
• 1:06:28
  They know that I didn't kneel to BLM.
• 1:06:30
  They know I didn't side with them one single bit.
• 1:06:34
  They know that we were asked to pray.
• 1:06:35
  So was that happened off camera? Like how does that work?
• 1:06:38
  Then someone they you guys were discussing, they said hey, we.
• 1:06:40
  Don't know where those cameras came from.
• 1:06:42
  They're not ours. I mean, they're cell phones and
• 1:06:44
  they. What was the time sequence?
• 1:06:46
  And then we can move on to some of the policy stuff.
• 1:06:47
  But the time sequence was they talk, they ask you to pray, and
• 1:06:51
  then you. The news, the interview with the
• 1:06:55
  news lady, there was only one news lady there and she didn't
• 1:06:59
  come there until after. So she came there after it was
• 1:07:02
  over. But then I sat there and
• 1:07:03
  interviewed with her. And so she's got her camera,
• 1:07:07
  she's sitting on the ground with her camera and she's has me
• 1:07:10
  kneeling there on the camera and I did an interview with her on
• 1:07:13
  the camera. Do I maybe regret that part?
• 1:07:16
  Yes. But I still wouldn't change it.
• 1:07:18
  I don't care because I know what we were doing at the time.
• 1:07:22
  And it's the decisions that I have to make that are different
• 1:07:27
  than everyone else is. My decisions involve or could
• 1:07:33
  involve life and death on the other side.
• 1:07:34
  Do you think it diffused the tension that you were on your
• 1:07:37
  knees? We know it did.
• 1:07:38
  We know it did. Everyone there said it did.
• 1:07:41
  If you look back now, I'll give you a perfect example.
• 1:07:44
  There is a reporter from one of our newspapers that I probably
• 1:07:50
  don't know if there's another person in the world that he
• 1:07:53
  dislikes more than me. I don't care for whatever
• 1:07:57
  reason, I he just does not like me being the sheriff and he does
• 1:08:02
  everything he can to badmouth me.
• 1:08:04
  And he just did an op-ed saying how wrong it is for them to
• 1:08:07
  attack me on this because I'm the only law enforcement officer
• 1:08:12
  at the time leader that saved my city.
• 1:08:16
  And he said he doesn't care. He doesn't necessarily he one
• 1:08:20
  way or the other, he doesn't believe me or not believe me.
• 1:08:22
  He just knows that I made the right decisions at the right
• 1:08:25
  time in that moment and I protected our city.
• 1:08:29
  And he even says it hurts him to even say that because he doesn't
• 1:08:32
  like me. But in that particular
• 1:08:34
  situation, I did the right thing.
• 1:08:36
  And I will tell you from a leadership perspective, I was
• 1:08:40
  leading both sides there. And do you know it at the time?
• 1:08:43
  No, you don't. But but my, my being, my ability
• 1:08:47
  to be a leader is leading both sides.
• 1:08:50
  Those 3 organizers of that event were not against me.
• 1:08:55
  They were doing everything they could to work with me to make
• 1:08:57
  sure that they got what they wanted, to make sure that they
• 1:09:00
  were able to protest. And maybe maybe part of them
• 1:09:02
  asking you to kneel to pray, but that sign of almost a sense of
• 1:09:06
  solidarity that they wanted you to show for the good people in
• 1:09:10
  the crowd, for them to feel like, yes, they got me.
• 1:09:13
  They got our message. Now we can now we can disband.
• 1:09:17
  I mean, I wonder if that was part of like almost like a
• 1:09:19
  diploma diplomatic thing that they were trying to do with you
• 1:09:22
  all. It may be.
• 1:09:23
  Prevent some of the more violent folks from taking advantage of
• 1:09:26
  the crowd's zeal. It may be, and there's even
• 1:09:28
  proof that that could be it because they were kneeling too.
• 1:09:32
  Oh, they kneel too. Oh absolutely.
• 1:09:33
  The BLM people kneel, yes. So were they kneeling to me?
• 1:09:36
  That you guys were both kneeling.
• 1:09:38
  Yes, they're they weren't kneeling to me.
• 1:09:40
  They're not going to say they were kneeling to me.
• 1:09:42
  We were kneeling to pray and. So both sides kneeled?
• 1:09:46
  Yes. Do you have any regrets?
• 1:09:49
  None. Of how you handled that
• 1:09:51
  situation. None, none.
• 1:09:53
  We set the tone for the country to end those riots and knowing
• 1:09:58
  now the riots that happened in LA recently about ICE and they
• 1:10:02
  can't. They were coming to Riverside.
• 1:10:04
  The groups and the the websites and the instant message or the
• 1:10:08
  the social media sites were directing them to Riverside.
• 1:10:11
  And then came the warnings from the organizers.
• 1:10:15
  We advise you not to go there specifically, they said, and I
• 1:10:20
  haven't, I could read it to word for word, but it's you're going
• 1:10:24
  to Riverside County and Riverside County is controlled
• 1:10:26
  by Sheriff Chad Bianco. We cannot help you there.
• 1:10:29
  If you do go there, do not go around anyone in a 10° uniform
• 1:10:33
  and avoid county buildings and county controlled cities.
• 1:10:36
  That's what they told the protesters because I set the
• 1:10:39
  tone. They know exactly where they fit
• 1:10:42
  in the in the public safety realm.
• 1:10:44
  You can protest, but you're not going to be violent.
• 1:10:46
  We've had, we've had several protests and they are very
• 1:10:50
  peaceful. They are very calm.
• 1:10:52
  They come out and they do their protest for an hour and then
• 1:10:56
  they leave. But the riots, the violence is
• 1:10:59
  never going to come to Riverside County.
• 1:11:01
  So how is your policy different and how do you talk about your
• 1:11:04
  policy being different, if at all, from Steve Hilton's?
• 1:11:06
  I, I, I know you're talking about leadership, your
• 1:11:08
  positioning, your experience. So you've talked about that, but
• 1:11:10
  do you have any differences in policies that voters should know
• 1:11:13
  about? No, because I came out with all
• 1:11:16
  of my policies in February and then in April he repeated all of
• 1:11:20
  them. So there, there is nothing
• 1:11:22
  different. Mine is more bold because I know
• 1:11:25
  exactly what I can do. I know exactly why California's
• 1:11:27
  broke and I know exactly how we can fix it.
• 1:11:29
  And I know that I have the leadership to do it, the desire
• 1:11:33
  and the leadership ability to do it.
• 1:11:35
  So he's claiming that he's going to lower taxes for those that
• 1:11:39
  make less than $100,000. I'm going to eliminate state
• 1:11:42
  income tax for everyone. I'm going to make us 100% oil
• 1:11:48
  independent in California. Wait a minute, you want to
• 1:11:51
  eliminate Allstate income tax? Because there's several other.
• 1:11:54
  States that do this, which is amazing. 10 other U.S. states
• 1:11:58
  have no have no income tax. How are you going to?
• 1:12:00
  We're going to be the 11th. How I love that.
• 1:12:03
  I mean, sounds good to me. How are you going to how are we
• 1:12:04
  going to pay the bills, oil and how are we?
• 1:12:07
  Going to get Texas does the same way Alaska does, the same way
• 1:12:09
  the Dakotas do, the same way everybody else that has oil does
• 1:12:13
  it. We have more oil than anyone.
• 1:12:16
  Aren't they shutting down a refinery as they speak?
• 1:12:18
  Our California government is forcing oil out of our state,
• 1:12:22
  and here's the billions. Of dollars.
• 1:12:23
  We're bleeding right when we do that.
• 1:12:25
  Billions. Probably hundreds of billions,
• 1:12:28
  whether you like or want to be green or save the environment,
• 1:12:32
  we all want to save the environment.
• 1:12:33
  As God fearing people, as God believing people, we are called
• 1:12:37
  to save the environment. We are called to protect what we
• 1:12:40
  are given. And we are going to do that the
• 1:12:42
  same way every other state in the country does.
• 1:12:44
  But California is not going to live in a Pollyanna world where
• 1:12:49
  we're going to save the world on Californians backs where no one
• 1:12:53
  else is doing anything. The rest of the country is doing
• 1:12:56
  what they should be doing to save the environment, but
• 1:12:59
  California does it on steroids and it's basically just
• 1:13:02
  punishing us for living in California, taking away our
• 1:13:04
  money. So oil is not bad.
• 1:13:08
  We have been lied to and said that oil is bad.
• 1:13:11
  And the reality of oil is oil runs the world and oil will run
• 1:13:17
  the world for the next 100 years.
• 1:13:19
  We're never going to run out. We're not going to run out.
• 1:13:21
  It's not a it's not a, a resource that is being
• 1:13:25
  eliminated. We have far more oil than we
• 1:13:28
  will ever, ever, ever use. California has more heavy crude
• 1:13:32
  than any place in the world and we're 4th and sweet crude.
• 1:13:35
  And yet we import 80% of our oil.
• 1:13:38
  There is a benefit to drilling your own because when you drill
• 1:13:41
  your own, the oil company pays the state of fee.
• 1:13:43
  For every gallon they drill, they pay a fee to the state.
• 1:13:46
  The 80% coming in pays absolutely nothing.
• 1:13:49
  So that so when oil is being drilled in California as if it
• 1:13:52
  is, it's already paying fees. Right now it is.
• 1:13:55
  When you and and are those fees enough to replace?
• 1:13:58
  If we let all the companies back into drill here, would that be
• 1:14:02
  enough to replace? Abolishing income tax for
• 1:14:05
  really? Yes, that's crazy because we
• 1:14:07
  would now become an exporter of oil.
• 1:14:09
  Yes, if we were oil independent in California, the money
• 1:14:12
  generated from drilling our own oil and using our own oil
• 1:14:15
  completely fund state government.
• 1:14:17
  So what are the environmental realities if we were to do this,
• 1:14:21
  become more oil, not just independent, but now we're at
• 1:14:24
  oil power, we're exporting it, we're making money off of it.
• 1:14:27
  It's it's funding our state. What are the like real world
• 1:14:31
  experiences that people might have in terms of is it going to
• 1:14:34
  pollute our environment more? It is going to do absolutely
• 1:14:37
  nothing. Really absolutely nothing.
• 1:14:40
  We have been lied to. We have been misled.
• 1:14:42
  We have been abused by activists, by climate activists,
• 1:14:46
  by environmental activists that have been controlling the entire
• 1:14:50
  state of California at our expense.
• 1:14:53
  It won't have any negative impact on our oceans.
• 1:14:55
  It's actually going to be a better impact if you're if you
• 1:14:58
  care about the environment and you care about green and you
• 1:15:00
  care about your whole carbon footprint.
• 1:15:03
  It is far worse for the world and California that we get our
• 1:15:10
  oil from the Middle East because they have 0 restrictions, 0
• 1:15:14
  regulations. They're just doing whatever it
• 1:15:16
  is they're doing in the Middle East to get as much oil as they
• 1:15:18
  can to sell it to us. Then we load it onto ships and
• 1:15:21
  then ship all that oil over here.
• 1:15:23
  The carbon footprint is 10 * 100 times worse than if we drilled
• 1:15:28
  our own oil from California. They, they want you to believe
• 1:15:32
  they're going to the, the left when they attack me for this.
• 1:15:36
  They're going to show you pictures of the Middle East.
• 1:15:38
  They're going to show you pictures of Venezuela.
• 1:15:40
  They're going to show you pictures of these horrific,
• 1:15:43
  horrible things that are happening to the environment and
• 1:15:46
  make you believe that it's oil in California and it's not.
• 1:15:49
  Can we drill though that that physical amounts of oil while
• 1:15:53
  maintaining our environmental standards?
• 1:15:55
  Completely. Completely.
• 1:15:57
  Can you explain that a little more for people?
• 1:15:59
  What does that what what are the environmental standards that we
• 1:16:01
  can maintain while drilling at the amount where we could fund
• 1:16:04
  the government, the oil independent?
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  The same ones that the the Dakotas have the same 1 Colorado
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  has the same one Texas has the same one Alaska has.
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  So is Texas destroyed or any other state that is oil
• 1:16:18
  independent? Are they, have they been
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  destroyed? Is Alaska destroyed?
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  Alaska is one of the most beautiful places on the entire
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  planet. How can that be?
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  Their oil independent, They, they supply the world with oil.
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  So how can that be? The reality is we've been lied
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  to. We've been lied to for an
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  agenda. And they've, they're playing on
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  our hearts and our emotions of us wanting to do the right thing
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  because we're good people. And Oh my gosh, we have to
• 1:16:44
  protect our environment. Well, OK, yes, that's right.
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  And we're going to protect our environment.
• 1:16:49
  We're not going to just allow unfettered drilling and oil
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  flowing down the sidewalk. I mean, that's that's not going
• 1:16:59
  to happen. Where?
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  Where is the oil in California? Just for people's.
• 1:17:03
  Predominantly Kern County, but then also there's tons of oil
• 1:17:07
  reserves along the coast. So the Central Valley from
• 1:17:12
  probably like San Bernardino, the edge of San Bernardino
• 1:17:14
  County, north all through Kern County, all through the Central
• 1:17:17
  Valley, tons and tons and tons of oil reserves.
• 1:17:21
  And then even along our coastline, there's oil
• 1:17:23
  everywhere really. But the majority of the big
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  deposits are Kern County and our coastal.
• 1:17:28
  Areas. So does that mean we'll see?
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  We would see drilling on the beach.
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  No, no, absolutely not. We have several.
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  We have several offshore drilling wells now that have
• 1:17:38
  been there for a long time. They've just shut them.
• 1:17:40
  Down you don't even. We don't really see them even.
• 1:17:42
  I mean, you can see them. You don't really know what they
• 1:17:44
  are. It's like, oh, I wonder what
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  that is. It's a big, it's a big platform
• 1:17:47
  out there in the ocean. But the reality?
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  And I think there's this like, again, these are the climate
• 1:17:52
  activists stories of that can instill fear, but well, there's
• 1:17:56
  an oil spill and now our beautiful Pacific.
• 1:18:00
  Ocean, we have to take care of it, and we absolutely do the
• 1:18:03
  same way Texas does, the same way every other state that
• 1:18:07
  drills oil, they do the same thing.
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  There's there's there's no one in those states complaining.
• 1:18:14
  There's no one in the rest of the country complaining that
• 1:18:16
  Texas uses its own oil. Texas just benefits from it.
• 1:18:20
  Texans love it. Alaska.
• 1:18:22
  Alaskans love it. If you live in Alaska, you get
• 1:18:26
  paid for being an Alaskan at the end of the year because of the
• 1:18:29
  revenue generated from oil. Does Alaska have no income tax?
• 1:18:32
  No income tax and then they get a check at the end of the year
• 1:18:35
  because of oil. Because of oil.
• 1:18:37
  That's wild. Right.
• 1:18:38
  That's what Texas is. It, it, it's, it's, I'm not
• 1:18:42
  reinventing the wheel. I'm just allowing.
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  Well, I will tell you I also during this campaign, one of my
• 1:18:50
  big issues is is convincing conservative Republicans to stop
• 1:18:54
  being so pessimistic. Wow.
• 1:18:55
  We are the most pessimistic people everywhere.
• 1:18:58
  We're everything is always no. No, I believe you.
• 1:19:01
  I believe you. But I think, I think the average
• 1:19:03
  person, we're not even. I think the.
• 1:19:04
  Conditioned for that. We're not conditioned for it.
• 1:19:07
  Yes, we think, oh, it's hell in a handbasket.
• 1:19:09
  And I hate this when people say that California is impossible to
• 1:19:11
  change it it's locked in, you know, it's it's gonna, it's just
• 1:19:14
  going downhill, downhill. I said, why does it always?
• 1:19:17
  Leadership is what can change it.
• 1:19:19
  Leadership is what can make people change their behavior,
• 1:19:21
  change their. You can't change your behavior
• 1:19:23
  if you have a different vision. And I think you casting a vision
• 1:19:26
  of what's possible is half the battle.
• 1:19:28
  Yeah, I'll give you a perfect example.
• 1:19:31
  Outside of the environment. I I love the environment.
• 1:19:33
  I want my kids to enjoy California, everything about it.
• 1:19:36
  I want them to enjoy the beach. I want them to enjoy their
• 1:19:39
  mountains. I want them to enjoy their
• 1:19:40
  valleys. I want the I want them to enjoy
• 1:19:42
  the food that California grows. Everything about California.
• 1:19:46
  I want my grandkids and my kids to enjoy.
• 1:19:48
  I don't want them going to another state to do it.
• 1:19:50
  I want them doing it here. So I do care about the
• 1:19:53
  environment. I do care about what what our
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  what our world looks like, what our country looks like, what our
• 1:19:59
  state looks like. I don't want black skies.
• 1:20:01
  I don't want oil running down the sidewalk.
• 1:20:03
  I don't want any of those things.
• 1:20:04
  And we'll make sure that that never, ever happens just like
• 1:20:06
  other places are doing. Perfect example is wildlife.
• 1:20:11
  I am and and. California's wildlife is being
• 1:20:17
  absolutely destroyed by animal activism.
• 1:20:20
  How so? We have a hands off approach to
• 1:20:24
  animal to to wildlife in California particularly the
• 1:20:28
  perfect example is wolves. So wolves are extinct in
• 1:20:32
  California. Well, people that like looking
• 1:20:35
  at wolves in magazines living in San Francisco decided that they
• 1:20:39
  wanted wolves back into because how horrible people are that we
• 1:20:44
  made wolves extinct. Well, we didn't really make them
• 1:20:47
  extinct. They still live everywhere, just
• 1:20:50
  not in California, because we live here and we are the
• 1:20:54
  predominant species and wolves didn't want to be around us.
• 1:20:58
  So wolves moved away. They went far north into the
• 1:21:01
  more secluded areas and everything else.
• 1:21:03
  So Californians decide to decide that they want not Californians.
• 1:21:07
  The majority of Californians don't want them, but the
• 1:21:10
  politicians decide that they're going to bring wolves back.
• 1:21:12
  We import what we did we. Did we put them in Northern
• 1:21:15
  California? Shasta County, Siskiyou County,
• 1:21:18
  those northern county, the the northern counties in our state
• 1:21:21
  in the mountains. So now their farmer farmers are
• 1:21:24
  being their, their ranches are being destroyed by wolves eating
• 1:21:27
  cows, eating all the livestock. Now they're eating their they're
• 1:21:31
  killing their horses, they're killing their dogs.
• 1:21:33
  They're missing, they're missing animals from all over.
• 1:21:35
  The deer in the elk herds are being completely decimated by an
• 1:21:40
  overpopulation of lions, bears, and now wolves.
• 1:21:45
  A true wildlife management program manages that wildlife so
• 1:21:50
  all of them thrive. You can't have an unlimited
• 1:21:53
  amount of mountain lions in California.
• 1:21:55
  You do, and that's wildlife management.
• 1:21:57
  That's what I want. I know that in order for us to
• 1:22:01
  have deer so everybody can see an an elk and bears and mountain
• 1:22:05
  lions and wolves, we have to manage all of them.
• 1:22:08
  And it's not a hands off approach.
• 1:22:10
  But we are controlled by activists.
• 1:22:13
  That's who runs our state activist lawyers and in those
• 1:22:16
  activism groups control our state.
• 1:22:19
  And so all of us are being, we're suffering the consequences
• 1:22:23
  of that and we just have to put common sense into it.
• 1:22:26
  Common sense has to be put back into how we manage every aspect
• 1:22:29
  of our state. What would you do differently
• 1:22:31
  now? We're talking about your
• 1:22:32
  differences with obviously the Democrats big time here.
• 1:22:34
  So we're talking about the environment, we're talking about
• 1:22:36
  the economy and how you would just transform that by removing
• 1:22:40
  the income tax and then? We remove taxes.
• 1:22:42
  We remove regulation that's causing fees and businesses to
• 1:22:46
  flee. And it's it.
• 1:22:48
  We, we have a, we have a regulatory process in California
• 1:22:52
  that's been weaponized by lawyers and activism groups to
• 1:22:55
  prevent growth. That's truly what they represent
• 1:22:58
  is no growth. There can be no home building,
• 1:23:01
  there can be no businesses. There can be no new businesses,
• 1:23:04
  no expanding of cities, no new cities.
• 1:23:06
  Everything has to be what we already have, which is why they,
• 1:23:10
  they want every place to just be built straight up.
• 1:23:13
  Everybody live in an apartment. You don't get to to have your
• 1:23:15
  own house anymore. You have to live in an apartment
• 1:23:17
  where we tell you to live. That's activism and it has to
• 1:23:21
  stop. That's not American, that's not
• 1:23:24
  Californian, that's not what we all want, and it has to
• 1:23:27
  absolutely stop. What about these issues that by
• 1:23:31
  quite frankly, as a parent find terrifying coming down the Pike?
• 1:23:34
  Like children are not, you know, children become basically wards
• 1:23:40
  of the state effectively. And if they decide they're trans
• 1:23:43
  at, you know, nine years old, you can lose custody if if
• 1:23:46
  you're not affirming their new trans identity and you're not
• 1:23:48
  allowed to take your child to counseling if they're struggling
• 1:23:51
  with same sex attraction. I mean, this is already the
• 1:23:53
  stated law in California. They call it conversion therapy.
• 1:23:56
  I've had on these so-called conversion therapists.
• 1:23:58
  They're actually just counselors who are helping people navigate.
• 1:24:00
  Why do you experience same sex attraction?
• 1:24:02
  What does it mean? So there's all of this.
• 1:24:04
  It's insane social engineering when it comes to our children
• 1:24:08
  and healthcare and they're saying parents aren't allowed to
• 1:24:11
  basically be parents anymore. Yeah, absolutely not.
• 1:24:14
  Government doesn't have kids. They have no ability to have
• 1:24:18
  kids. Parents have kids and parents
• 1:24:21
  raise their kids. It's parents responsibility to
• 1:24:24
  decide what goes into their kids body, how their kids think, how
• 1:24:28
  their kids are raised, that their values, their beliefs, all
• 1:24:33
  of those things are the parents responsibility, not the
• 1:24:35
  government's. And the government doesn't get
• 1:24:37
  to take your kids away and then decide to teach them something
• 1:24:40
  different while at the same time telling them to keep secrets
• 1:24:43
  from you. As a parent, as a cop, I am
• 1:24:46
  telling you right now there is. And as a dad, there is
• 1:24:51
  absolutely nothing more terrifying than another adult
• 1:24:56
  telling a child to keep a secret from a parent that ethically,
• 1:25:01
  morally, criminally, everything about it is 100% wrong.
• 1:25:07
  And that's the agenda and that's the mission of California State
• 1:25:10
  government in our education system.
• 1:25:12
  And it absolutely ends with me as your governor.
• 1:25:15
  Absolutely ends. What?
• 1:25:17
  What about education? Our.
• 1:25:19
  Educational education, you know, our education system is there's
• 1:25:24
  a lot of complaints about California's education.
• 1:25:27
  There's also concerns about vaccine policies where families
• 1:25:30
  are being told that unless they fulfill the schedule, I mean,
• 1:25:33
  even the CDC came out with a new schedule and California's like,
• 1:25:36
  screw you, we're going to give them all hepatitis B, the kids.
• 1:25:39
  I mean, that's what's your take on all that?
• 1:25:41
  That's going to end. You are not going to have to
• 1:25:43
  vaccinate your kids to get them into school.
• 1:25:45
  That is up to a parent. What happens to?
• 1:25:48
  What they think is best for their kids.
• 1:25:49
  Absolutely, Absolutely. If they want the child to be
• 1:25:52
  protected in that way, they can choose that.
• 1:25:53
  If they don't want that, then they they don't need to do.
• 1:25:55
  That and for all of the detractors that are looking me
• 1:25:57
  saying how I'm not a doctor, I actually just pay attention to
• 1:26:01
  doctors and scientists and everything else.
• 1:26:03
  And there's just as many doctors and scientists that are saying
• 1:26:06
  that we are being harmed and killed by medical intervention,
• 1:26:10
  by vaccines, by treatments, by whatever the case as doctors and
• 1:26:16
  scientists on the other side that are saying how necessary it
• 1:26:19
  is. So when that happens, that's
• 1:26:21
  what trusting the sciences is. You learn both sides and you
• 1:26:24
  trust, you trust what the science is.
• 1:26:27
  And if you trust the science, this is saying that these these
• 1:26:29
  vaccines are causing autism, these vaccines are causing
• 1:26:32
  death, these vaccines are causing all of these issues,
• 1:26:34
  then you decide whether or not your child is going to get those
• 1:26:37
  vaccines with can with informed consent of what the consequences
• 1:26:42
  are of not only not getting in the vaccine, but also getting
• 1:26:46
  the vaccine. But that is your job and your
• 1:26:48
  right as a parent. It's not up to the government
• 1:26:51
  because the government is nothing but a political agenda.
• 1:26:54
  That's all the government is, is a political agenda.
• 1:26:57
  And we have to. We, we are not taking away the
• 1:27:00
  rights of parents, the ability of parents to be parents, just
• 1:27:04
  simply because we have a different agenda of where we
• 1:27:06
  want society going. So it sounds like you're not
• 1:27:09
  anti vaccine per SE, you're not saying you can't get vaccines if
• 1:27:12
  you want to, etcetera. You're just saying parents need
• 1:27:14
  to have the choice. Yes, I am not anti vaccine.
• 1:27:17
  You get to decide. I'm not taking a vaccine, I'm
• 1:27:20
  not putting that in my body. If it's my child, my child,
• 1:27:24
  that's not going in my child's body.
• 1:27:26
  We will be healthy. We will do all of those things,
• 1:27:29
  but I'm not putting that substance in my child's body.
• 1:27:32
  That's what I'm in favor of. And for you, if it's if you
• 1:27:36
  believe that everything is is all legitimate and you want to
• 1:27:39
  take those risks and you believe that it's more beneficial for
• 1:27:42
  you or your child, then that's your right to do that too.
• 1:27:45
  So I'm not anti vaccine. I'm anti vaccine for me and my
• 1:27:48
  family but not you and your family if that's what you
• 1:27:51
  decide. What about pregnancy resource
• 1:27:55
  centers and the pro-life issue? So right now California is
• 1:27:57
  spending money on abortion. It's disgusting.
• 1:27:59
  They're saying Gavin Newsom created this abortion
• 1:28:01
  destination state literally I'm going to pay for he set up
• 1:28:04
  billboards in other states in 2022 and he said we will pay for
• 1:28:08
  you to fly to California. We're going to pay for your
• 1:28:10
  abortion. And then California Democratic
• 1:28:12
  leadership is gone after pregnancy resource centers that
• 1:28:15
  are providing free confidential care to moms and babies in need.
• 1:28:19
  Free diaper papers, free pregnant, you know, prenatal
• 1:28:21
  care, all these things, you have to post abortion advertisements.
• 1:28:24
  This went to the Supreme Court, by the way.
• 1:28:27
  Becerra, who I think is on the ticket too, he's running for
• 1:28:31
  governor, too. He's crazy.
• 1:28:32
  He was the attorney general. He tried to force the pregnancy
• 1:28:34
  resources. Xavier Becerra tried to force
• 1:28:37
  pregnancy centers to do this. He lost in the Supreme Court.
• 1:28:40
  What's your view on all of this? So I support those in my county.
• 1:28:44
  I have spoken at their events. I have given money to them.
• 1:28:47
  The pregnancy resource centers. And it is, name one other
• 1:28:52
  elective surgery, elective medical procedure that taxpayers
• 1:28:57
  pay for. There's nothing.
• 1:29:00
  There's nothing. If you want a facelift, go get a
• 1:29:02
  facelift. But you're paying for it.
• 1:29:04
  Your insurance isn't going to pay for it.
• 1:29:05
  My taxpayer dollars are not going to pay for it.
• 1:29:08
  Healthcare. Why?
• 1:29:11
  Number one, it's not healthcare. I, I do not believe that an
• 1:29:15
  abortion is healthcare. We've been that's one of those
• 1:29:17
  play on words that of course I can't take healthcare away from
• 1:29:21
  someone, but it's not healthcare, it's birth control.
• 1:29:24
  You're using abortion as birth control.
• 1:29:27
  Why am I paying for your birth control if you.
• 1:29:29
  Want to pay for it? Fine.
• 1:29:30
  Absolutely, Absolutely. If you want to pay for it, fine.
• 1:29:34
  We unfortunately made it the law here.
• 1:29:36
  And if that's the way you're going to choose if, if, if
• 1:29:39
  you're not going to have the same beliefs as I am, that's OK.
• 1:29:42
  But I'm not paying. I'm not agreeing with yours and
• 1:29:44
  I'm not paying for your, for your decisions that there's,
• 1:29:48
  there will not be as a governor, I will not fund Planned
• 1:29:52
  Parenthood. There's, there's, and, and I
• 1:29:54
  know that Planned Parenthood is, is not all about just abortions.
• 1:29:58
  I know there's birth control and everything else, but why am I
• 1:30:01
  paying for your birth control? I mean, we have, we have plenty
• 1:30:04
  of resources available to, of birth control that I mean
• 1:30:08
  there's plenty of ways not to have a baby.
• 1:30:09
  The number one way is you don't have sex if you're not married
• 1:30:11
  and ready to have. A baby.
• 1:30:12
  Why aren't we talking about that?
• 1:30:13
  We don't talk about that We think people are animals when
• 1:30:15
  they're not they we have. Them we have them in school
• 1:30:18
  teaching 3rd graders how to have sex.
• 1:30:21
  It's very, very diabolical. It is that that's not going to
• 1:30:25
  happen with me as your governor. What, what, how is it going to
• 1:30:27
  work if your governor, sheriff, when you're dealing with a
• 1:30:31
  legislature that is likely going to be radically opposed to you
• 1:30:36
  and you're dealing with when it comes to abortion abortions
• 1:30:38
  right now enshrined in the state constitution?
• 1:30:41
  So you have this like block that the Democrats have just built
• 1:30:45
  this like, you know, iron box of all of these, quite frankly,
• 1:30:49
  many of them evils, right, and these agendas.
• 1:30:51
  But I control the budget and a constitutional right isn't
• 1:30:55
  something that is funded. We don't fund your
• 1:30:59
  constitutional rights. I firmly believe in the Second
• 1:31:02
  Amendment. It's my right to have an own
• 1:31:04
  guns. The government's not buying me
• 1:31:06
  guns. So why?
• 1:31:09
  Why isn't another what acclaimed constitutional right?
• 1:31:13
  Why is that being funded? It shouldn't be funded.
• 1:31:15
  And I mean, if we're and if you're going to say, if you're
• 1:31:18
  going to say and maybe, maybe maybe an agreement, if they're
• 1:31:22
  going to say that, you know, the legislature is going to say that
• 1:31:25
  they want this in the budget and they're not going to agree to
• 1:31:27
  anything else. It's like, OK, whatever you want
• 1:31:30
  for your mission. We're putting the same amount of
• 1:31:32
  money in the pregnancy centers that help women or help couples
• 1:31:37
  deal with maybe they weren't ready to have a baby, but now
• 1:31:41
  we're going to going to help them be successful.
• 1:31:43
  We're going to help them raise their child.
• 1:31:44
  We're going to help them with with medical and all those
• 1:31:47
  things and we'll put the same amount of money.
• 1:31:48
  Why is it nothing? And and that side is shunned and
• 1:31:53
  labeled called names, but the other side is funded.
• 1:31:57
  It doesn't make any sense How? Are you going to negotiate if
• 1:32:00
  your governor with the with with the crazies in Sacramento?
• 1:32:04
  I mean, how are you going to do it?
• 1:32:07
  I'm involved with them now anyway, and people don't like
• 1:32:10
  hearing this and they don't like to believe it because we're so
• 1:32:13
  broken. But I know that there's probably
• 1:32:16
  only about 20 seriously broken people in Sacramento.
• 1:32:22
  Unfortunately, they're the ones running everything.
• 1:32:24
  Yes, and the governor's office and the attorney general.
• 1:32:26
  You're saying you're saying a lot of the other people,
• 1:32:28
  including the Democrats, are are decent.
• 1:32:30
  They. Are middle of the road decent
• 1:32:31
  people that do not believe in the agenda.
• 1:32:33
  The problem is is they have no cover above them.
• 1:32:36
  They're and I tell them some of them I've told them you're not
• 1:32:39
  leaders, you're not doing what you were elected here to come
• 1:32:42
  and do and their answer is you have to get along.
• 1:32:45
  And if I can't help my constituents, if I don't go
• 1:32:49
  along with their agenda because I won't get the money or the
• 1:32:51
  help or my bills won't get passed.
• 1:32:53
  And it's it, it's it's like bully tactics kind of you that
• 1:32:59
  you support us or you're not getting anything.
• 1:33:01
  And if you go against us, we're going to destroy you.
• 1:33:03
  But it's only coming from a handful of people there, maybe
• 1:33:07
  less than 20. When you have a governor that is
• 1:33:12
  now on the page of sanity that we are not going to do these
• 1:33:17
  ridiculous things, then those middle of the road people have
• 1:33:20
  something to stand up to. They have something to help
• 1:33:23
  them. They will side with the
• 1:33:24
  Republicans. The Republicans will side with
• 1:33:25
  some of the moderate Democrats. And then you stand up to the 20
• 1:33:30
  that are making all of the rules and you just override them.
• 1:33:33
  And then you have a governor that supports you.
• 1:33:35
  There are plenty of Democrats in Sacramento that want safety for
• 1:33:39
  their families, that don't believe in indoctrination, that
• 1:33:41
  don't want forced vaccines. There are plenty of them.
• 1:33:45
  This this idea that Democrats have to hate Republicans and
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  that we have to believe in everything on the Democrat side.
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  If if you have to believe that you're, you know, a socialist
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  just because you want to be a Democrat or say you're a
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  Democrat is not true. There are plenty of middle of
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  the road Democrats. If you become governor, can you
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  say now that you would not fund abortions you're not going to
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  use tax pay dollars for? Abortions.
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  I most certainly could say that, yes.
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  Thank you. I know lots of people are going
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  to be excited to fight for your campaign because of that,
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  because it's just of all the insults that have been levied
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  against the people of California that we're now in complicit and
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  bloodshed and we're paying for it and it's just deteriorating
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  the state even more. It's just devastating.
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  We're, we're supposedly broke. Well, we know we're broke.
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  We're in debt. We have debt like you cannot
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  believe the the state budget has the, the committee, the state
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  Budget Office has said that the governor's budget is setting us
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  up for failure for the next 5 years.
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  And then to the point where they said that the next governor is
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  going to fail, has no ability to operate government.
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  Why would he do that? If he thought that a Democrat
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  was going to win, he wouldn't. He knows I'm going to win and
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  he's going to try and sabotage everything about state
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  government. So we're broke, we're in debt in
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  the millions, if not billions, where it's billions in debt, and
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  yet he can miraculously come up with $100 million for abortions.
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  And we're already funding through Medicaid, right?
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  So why do you think you're going to win?
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  You keep saying you're going to win.
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  You know you're going to win. You believe you can win.
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  The same, the same reason why we're seeing me it leading every
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  poll because people are over it. People, even Democrats.
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  Democrats have told me, I don't really believe in everything you
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  say, but I know you have to win because we are broken.
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  We are going in the wrong direction.
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  There has to be drastic change. And I believe you're going to
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  make the right decisions for California and then they'll
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  throw out, but you can't do this and you can't do this, but we
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  know you're going to make the right decisions for California.
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  That's the people that are behind my campaign.
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  It's not. It's not just the.
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  Republican. You have Democrats.
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  And independents, I've been endorsed already by the American
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  Independent Party. So the, the middle of the road
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  people know that I'm going to be the only one making this change.
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  California, when you look at everything that's broken in
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  California, crime is rampant. We are not safe here.
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  Our kids aren't safe. Our businesses aren't safe.
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  The homeless issues are just out off the hook.
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  The drugs, the alcohol abuse, the mental health addiction, the
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  those causing psychosis and seeing what we see in the
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  streets, everything is broken about public safety.
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  It's not necessarily safe. People don't feel safe in
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  California anymore. Now combine that with what we're
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  seeing that we're the most corrupt state in the country
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  with the abuse of our money, the fraudulent abuse of our money,
• 1:36:41
  the stealing of our taxpayer money, the laundering through
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  these nonprofits and Ng OS that are getting unbelievably wealthy
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  and then getting the same people elected again with the money
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  going in the back door. And they're looking for the rest
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  of the state. The people that are propping me
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  up in all of these polls want a sheriff to go in here and fix
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  our state, go fix our public safety, make us make us safe and
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  go stop the waste, the fraud, the abuse and the corruption in
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  our state government. That's what they're looking for.
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  And they, it's not even me saying it.
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  They have 32 years of proof. I'm the only person on this
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  ballot that is proof of concept. They can tell you anything they
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  want. Democrats are proof.
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  No Eric Swalwell ever had a job. I don't think.
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  So it's being in, I don't think. And Katie Porter, what did she
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  do? Yeah, I mean, she's kind.
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  Of crazy to think about. She's a teacher or a professor
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  or something. But.
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  I'll use that as a poster child. In politics now for a decade,
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  right, I mean. Yeah, and horrible at it.
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  I mean, she didn't do a good job.
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  She. Yells at her staff, right.
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  She see if she was willing to come on the show.
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  I'll ask her to explain that I asked you the tough questions
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  about your thing that you know you get accused of.
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  So we'll ask about those those questions if those folks will
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  come in here. I'm as transparent as you can
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  get. I mean, everyone.
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  I've been through three elections for elections as as a
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  sheriff. This is the fourth, you know, in
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  state government. If there's anything bad about
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  me, everybody knows it. There's nothing bad about me.
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  It's it's going to be made-up. This whole thing, this, this
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  concocted, fabricated story of the honest ethical leader has
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  been concocted to attack that. So another Republican who's
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  failing in his campaign, he can't go above me, so he's
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  trying to lower me. I mean that that's really how it
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  works. And in the campaign world, in
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  politics, everyone knows that you only attack your opponent if
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  you're losing. And so now we know that he's
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  absolutely losing. He knows he's losing.
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  So now he has to attack me. Even attacked Mayhem.
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  Who do you think's going to be #2 if you're #1 on June 2nd, who
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  do you think's going to be? Who do you think your your
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  opponent is going to be this fall?
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  If I if I had to say just off of the trajectory and how things
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  are working in the polls, I would have to say Swalwell.
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  I I can't. It's hard to imagine California
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  voting for Swalwell over you, but we'll see.
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  We'll see. Yeah, I don't think they will.
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  I think when we get to policy and when we get to where it it,
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  it truly is going to be one concept versus the other
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  concept. I represent everything that
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  Californians want different and he represents the status quo or
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  worse. And so when I go into November,
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  that's really going to be the difference is the Democrat
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  policy in California is indefensible.
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  There's not one thing that they can point to in California to
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  say, look, we're a success, point to a city where they've
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  been successful, point to point to the train to nowhere where
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  they're successful. I mean, everything about the
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  Democrat progressive agenda in California is a failure.
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  And I represent everything opposite.
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  And that's what the November elections going to be.
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  So this June election is just making sure that I'm #1 or #2 I,
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  we believe I'm going to be #1 just based off of numbers and
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  who we think is going to vote for me.
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  And then we'll worry about November when it comes to it.
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  But when it comes down to picking between change and
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  status quo? Worse, we think that
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  Californians over it. I think we're ready for change
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  in California. Sheriff Chad Bianco, thank you
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  so much. How can people find your
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  campaign and learn more about you?
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  Thank you. I would have I would have been
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