Host critiques California Governor Gavin Newsom for alleged fiscal mismanagement, including a $350 billion budget deficit and diverted gas tax funds, while condemning his sanctuary city policies and comments on Israel. The discussion expands to national politics, attacking Democrats over voter ID opposition and ICE defunding, before a caller praises "Operation Midnight Hammer" against Iran and Venezuela. Ultimately, the episode frames these grievances as evidence of systemic Democratic failure, setting the stage for upcoming coverage of "Operation Epic Fury." [Automatically generated summary]
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It is kind of bewildering and odd and strange and spectacularly stupid that in spite of widespread criticism about what a failed governor he is, I think he's the worst governor in the country, Gavin Newsom in California, that he continues to just be a world traveler, showing up in Munich, showing up in Davos, a full-time Trump stalker.
I guess he assumes that that is his ticket to winning the nomination and thus having a chance to be president, a full-time podcaster, full-time ex-poster, full-time author now, full-time speech giver.
I mean, the guy's never in California.
People still can't get their building permits in the Pacific Palisades.
Never mind, they have the highest income taxes, sales taxes, and gas taxes, and that's going to make a big difference.
You're going to be paying $7 a gallon for gasoline out in California in this interim period with this conflict going on in the Middle East.
I hope that's not true.
And the fact that he takes in all of this money, and I was showing this the other day and talking about this the other day, takes in all of this money.
They have like a $350 billion budget every year, and they can't balance their budget because it's a sanctuary city, sanctuary state, and all of the benefits that they provide to illegals in the state of California.
I mean, it's basically state-sponsored protection.
You talk about obstructing in the course of justice or aiding and abetting in lawbreaking.
I mean, Gavin defines it all.
It's pretty insane.
Now, interestingly, this is his last term.
And our friend, who will join us in a moment, Steve Hilton, gubernatorial candidate, is now leading in the polls and working on doing just about anything he can.
He wants to save California, and he wants to transform California, stop the mass migration out of California, fix the homeless problem, get the budget under control, stop California from being a sanctuary state, stop the sanctuary cities.
I mean, gas taxes, property taxes, freeing child rapists.
You know, they don't keep records in terms of crimes committed by illegals in California because of their sanctuary policies.
But we have a list a mile long of people murdered and raped and child molesters and victims of other violent crime, but you rarely hear about it.
Newsom is now planning a $19 million push to polish California's national image that he destroyed.
You've got this referendum coming up in November that is chasing one billionaire after another out of Silicon Valley.
These people, they're very, very wealthy, and they made their money.
They pay their high taxes out in California on top of their federal taxes.
And now the government wants to come in and take 5% of their net worth.
And it's not even an accurate calculation in many cases.
If you own 25% of the stock, but you only really own 5% of the stock, but on paper, they're going to charge you the 25% rate.
It's insane.
And anyway, California is about to cross the threshold where taxes and fees levied on a gallon of gasoline will cost more than the actual price of the gallon of gasoline.
It's insane.
But, you know, Gavin keeps going on every show he can get on.
He's invited on this show, but he won't come.
He's on with Katie Kirk.
I didn't know Katie Kirk still is she still existing out there somewhere?
Where does she work?
Do you know, Linda?
I have no idea.
I know she's asking the hard-hitting questions as you're about to hear.
She is at the top of her game, no question.
Well, okay, let's play because she's asking Gavin Newsom if he's just too good looking.
Do you have a Zoolander problem?
No, I do.
Jesus.
Yeah, Zoolander.
Are you just ridiculously good-looking?
No, seriously, what do you do about that?
You don't do anything about it because if you're going to do something about it, then you're born people.
You know what?
I am who I am.
It's fine.
You don't have to like me.
Or maybe you like a slick person.
I don't know.
Whatever.
It's okay.
The reason why I brought it up because you talked about being authentic.
And I think it sometimes works against you.
Yeah.
It's just who I am.
It's just who I am.
He just agrees with the premise.
I'm just too good looking.
And then his talking about Israel being an apartheid state, that went viral this week.
Anyway, Steve Hilton is with us.
You know what?
You know, the good thing you don't have to run against somebody that's just too good looking.
I mean, that'd be horrible for you.
I know.
It's amazing, Sean, isn't it?
By the way, one of the things I say, I think it's time in California for a governor with less hair.
Definitely less air.
I can definitely.
I think that's the new the new it thing.
I don't know.
I'll have to shave mine off.
But this guy, it's unbelievable watching this rollout of his.
I mean, this is obviously the first step in his presidential campaign.
It's almost unbearable listening to him, especially for those of us who have to experience the total failure that he is in California.
Another one of these interviews, he was saying someone asked him very specifically, okay, what's your pitch?
Just if you're talking to a regular person, not that interested in politics, just wants to know what are you going to do for them in a practical, simple way.
He literally said, you tell me.
That's what his answer was.
You tell me.
I'm not a great communicator.
He is so full of it, Kavanewson.
And everything he says just makes it worse.
And you laid it all out so perfectly.
And there's more.
I mean, the list goes on and on, as well as all the things that you said correctly.
We've got the highest poverty rate in the country, the highest unemployment rate in the country on education.
Actually, Katie Courry did push him on that.
She said, California is now being overtaken by Mississippi on education.
And do you know what his answer was?
Oh, that's because they hold back the kids.
Yeah, they hold back the kids so they make sure that kids learn to read by fourth grade, which is the basis for education.
In California, that doesn't happen, which is why you end up now with less than half the kids in public schools in California meet basic standards in English.
You had a report from UC San Diego at the end of last year that nearly 10% of the students, students, university students, can't meet high school levels of math and English.
It's just a total disaster.
You mentioned $350 billion.
You're right, that's the budget.
You know what it was just five years ago?
180.
They've nearly doubled the button.
He has nearly doubled the budget in the last five years.
Everything's worse.
Well, then why are they running between an $18 and $35 billion budget deficit on top of it?
Because it's going into fraud and corruption, and that's what we're exposing.
About a month ago, Sean, I set up Cal Doge, California Department of Government Efficiency, modeled on what the president has put into operation with Elon.
Obviously, we're not elected yet.
We're just doing this as volunteers.
I've got a team of volunteers, auditors, and a really strong businesswoman running it.
We've now done two fraud reports that we have found as volunteers.
Just last week, about a week ago, actually, the second one, $1 billion, right?
A billion with a B that was supposed to be spent on what they claimed was installing.
It was from the gas tax, actually, that you mentioned, and from the electric bill surcharges from what they call the cap and trade system.
It's their climate boondoggle.
So a billion dollars from that that we paid was supposed to be spent on installing solar panels on low-income apartment units.
The actual number that was spent on that, 72 million, 928 million, nearly the whole billion, went into Democrat activist groups, voter registration, all of that stuff, building their political machine.
That's where the money's going, and it's just absolutely unbelievable.
But finally, you know, prompted by Minnesota and the attention on that, and what the president's doing with JD and and, and we're doing, we're doing our part here with Caldoge, we're finally exposing it.
But that's how you answer that question.
How is it possible we have the highest taxes in the country for the worst results, because that's where the money's going?
I mean, the math just doesn't add up.
He's a no-show governor.
Does anybody out there even care?
I mean, i'd like to know, when the predictable wildfires occur, that they've adopted the science of forestry out in California, but I know that's not the case.
I'd like to know that the reservoir is going to be filled, or reservoirs around areas that would be susceptible to wildfires, and i'd like to think that they might have water in them.
I'd like to know that fire hydrants are working, uh.
I'd like the people whose lives have been upended uh, by those wildfires are now able to finally get a building permit and rebuild.
How is it possible year three, four months, whatever it is later that nobody has a building permit?
It's incredible.
I was speaking to some Palisades.
You know residents actually know the mobile home park that was burnt down.
Like it'd be easier to fix that than anything else they have.
They're not getting anything out of this guy.
They're sent from one place to another.
Same with Karen Bass.
These people are just so useless they have no idea how to get anything done.
This is why you've got to have a problem-solving business first.
You see it, with president Trump in the White House.
Most of my background's been in business.
My first job was project manager for a construction company.
I mean, you've worked construction.
You can't, you can't get away with this kind of bs.
If if, if this, you know, things don't happen.
Things aren't built, just really practical.
And it's a year on, more than a year on, and nothing's happening.
And you look at everything it's.
I mean just, I don't know where to start the.
The bullet Trend, the insane Bullet Train that was supposed to be open like nearly 10 years ago now for $30 billion.
How much have they spent on this boondoggle?
It's now the budget is $130 billion.
The money keeps coming in.
They've just announced that they've got a new business plan.
They laugh at laughably call it a business plan because they want to keep getting the money.
So they have to pretend this thing is actually going to happen.
He makes this announcement which you tried to pretend.
This is the other week.
Oh, we're moving forward.
We're laying tracks finally.
You know, like a decade.
They're not laying tracks.
When you actually look at what he said, this is what he does.
It's just the BF.
He said, we are moving into the track laying phase.
They're not actually laying any tracks.
Okay, now explain to me this.
Wasn't this originally planned to be from LA to San Francisco?
How did it become Bakersfield to Mercer or wherever else in California this thing is going to end up?
Yeah, so they diverted it.
So it goes from San Francisco inland through the Central Valley, down the Central Valley, which is totally flat, should be incredibly easy to build on, and then back to LA through the mountains, right?
This is what they actually are now saying is going to happen.
And that was all supposed to be up and running by 2018 with no public subsidy.
Okay.
What's actually the business plan now is from San Francisco to the top of the Central Valley in Merced, they're using the existing rail that we already have.
Then you have to change to get onto the high-speed rail, which starts in Merced, goes down to Bakersfield.
Then you get off the high-speed train.
This is their actual plan.
Guess what the last leg is from Bakersfield to LA?
A bus.
I'm not making it up.
A bus.
That's their business plan.
You could get a Greyhound bus now from Bakersfield to LA for 50 bucks or whatever it is.
It takes two and a half hours.
The whole journey was supposed to take two and a half hours from San Francisco to LA.
Now just the bus part is going to take that.
It's unbelievable.
Let me play two recent comments of Gavin and get your reaction to it.
One is he suggests support for an arms embargo of Israel, calling Israel an apartheid state.
And he called Trump a piece of Adam Schiff.
These guys want to roll back the last half century of racial justice, voting rights, civil rights, because we want voter ID.
Here's what he said.
He's arbitrarily just fing with different Democratic states and cities.
100%.
Yeah.
It's what it all has in common.
And by the way, and he went into Democratic cities won by African-American mayors as well.
This guy's a piece of call yours.
Oh, no.
No, I mean, this is the guy that put out the Obama video just a few weeks ago.
I mean, you know, and that didn't even get as much outrage as it deserved of Michelle Obama and Barack Obama.
It's the birther guy.
This is the guy called, you know, countries called countries.
I mean, it's all connect all these damn dots.
These guys want to roll back, you know, the last half century on racial justice, on issues of voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, women's rights.
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You've seen it.
I mean, anyway, so this is like, for me, it's code red.
People need to wake up.
We can lose this country.
I really believe that.
I talked about rigging the election before.
I wasn't bullshit about that.
He doesn't believe in fair and free elections.
He's a competitive authoritarian, which means he wants elections, the veneer one, just like Putin, who got 87.3% of the vote.
Good for him.
I mean, really?
I mean, in California, correct me if I'm wrong.
If you want to buy a pack of cigarettes or you want to buy a six-pack or alcohol or a jewel pod, don't you need an ID?
Of course.
It's ridiculous.
The whole thing is a joke.
I'm on the road the whole time in California.
We're doing our town.
Every time I check, you know, we stay at the Hampton Inn usually.
You check in the Hampton Inn ID.
I mean, it's just totally normal.
What are they talking about?
By the way, it's got massive support across the board in California, and it's a really big reason why I'm very confident I'm going to win.
Because you've got, I don't know, something like 75% agree with voter ID, even in California.
But actually, it's Republicans who really, really want voter ID.
And we've now got it on the ballot.
You have a shot to win.
This poll shows me you have a shot, and they're going to split the Democratic vote.
How do people get in touch with you if they want to help you?
Thank you, Sean.
Steve Hilton for governor.com, F-O-R.
Steve Hilton for Governor.com.
It's a really good shot.
Not going to be easy, but we can do it.
And all the help we can get, much appreciated.
Well, I admire the fact that you're taking this on.
It's a huge undertaking.
Steve Hilton, thanks so much for being with us.
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Let's go back to the state of the union this year.
And what did we see?
President Trump asking, for those of you in this room that agree with this, please stand with us that you think it's the first role of government to protect American citizens over illegal immigrants.
With the exception of John Fetterman, not one Democrat stood, not one.
They didn't stand.
If you go back a year before the joint session of Congress speech to be official, the president honored Lake and Riley's family and Jocelyn Nungari's family, two families that lost loved ones because of illegal immigrants led into this country, unvetted by Harris, Biden, Mayorkas.
And this has happened so many times.
And they wouldn't stand for the families of Lake and Riley and Jocelyn Nungari.
And I said at the time, and I repeated after this year, because the song remains the same, and that is this is a party that has lost its heart and its soul and its conscience.
They have lost their way.
They have lost the plot.
And I don't care if it's voter ID, which they're against, or proof of citizenship, they're against that.
They want to defund, dismantle the police.
That is insanity.
They want no bail laws.
That is insanity.
They want sanctuary cities and states.
That's insanity.
You know, they want amnesty for all the illegals in this country.
They think that'll be a voting base down the road for them.
That's insanity also.
This is a party that is even lashing out against Donald Trump, that is eviscerating Iran right now, and any possibility that one day in the future, our children and grandchildren will have to live under the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran,
which would be extraordinarily dangerous because that, you know, is extreme religious, Islamo-fascist mentality coupled with weapons of mass destruction could lead to a modern-day Holocaust.
Anybody with an ounce of common sense would understand that.
There are people that don't.
There are isolationists that never understood Donald Trump, don't want to understand Donald Trump.
They don't want to understand the Trump doctrine.
Now we have the latest examples.
I can't even believe I'm reporting on this.
Mark Warner asked about the murder of a Virginia woman.
Now, this woman was murdered by an illegal immigrant, but Senator Warner says he's more concerned with ICE detaining illegals with no criminal record than he is about the murder of a woman in his state, a woman murdered by an illegal allowed into our country.
I can't even believe he would say what he's saying, but he said it.
Then you have a state Senate majority leader in Virginia, some guy Scott Servell is his name, Senate majority leader, blaming ICE for the murder of this woman.
The woman was murdered by an illegal alien.
He took to the Virginia Senate floor.
This guy's lost his mind too.
They've lost the plot.
If you look at all of the people that ICE has been arresting, well, we know, for example, in the year 2025, over 2,100 convicted or charged illegals charged with killing, murdering American citizens.
We know in that particular case that ICE was able to apprehend 2,100 of them in a single year.
Over 5,400 illegals convicted of or charged with rape or serious sexual assault were also arrested.
And ICE gets called Gestapo, Nazi, and fascist.
And of course, then the Democrats want to defund ICE and the Department of Homeland Security and with it the Secret Service and with that FEMA and with that the Coast Guard.
I mean, this is madness.
Democrats still won't complete funding in the U.S. Senate.
It's unbelievable.
Incredible times we're looking at, I'm telling you.
Paul in Arizona.
Paul, how are you?
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Glad you called, sir.
Sean, it is a pleasure to speak with you, sir, today.
And one thing that just keeps standing out, okay?
And I tell my kids, my grandkids, you can educate ignorance, but you cannot fix stupidity.
And those people who didn't stand, those people who are against the whole situation going on in Iran, and a good portion of the so-called quote-unquote leaders in California, they're beyond ignorance.
They're out of that category.
They're still stuck in the stupid category, and you can't fix it.
There's just nothing else you can do about it.
But I will share this with you.
This is just my world, how I perceive it.
I truly believe that the best thing, and I think the Democrats are probably kicking themselves, the best thing for us, the Republicans, is when Donald Trump did not win in 2020.
It gave him four years to get people together to think about what needs to really be done to turn this around.
And by having those four years off, it created the incredible momentum that we have right now in what, a year and what, 15 months that he's been in office.
And I really believe that because he took those years off, he came back even stronger.
And what he's doing now is, and someday somebody's going to be able to tap somebody on the shoulder and say, kids, the reason why Iran did not bomb anybody is because it was shut down back in 2026.
And in a perfect world, maybe by the year 2070, we'll still be having the same conversation of, nope, they still do not have the capability.
Sean, I appreciate you, and thank you for everything you do.
Thank you.
I appreciate your call.
The one thing I did say to President Trump when we had just a private conversation about this, you know, we were looking at this from all sides.
And it was, I had no agenda except that I wanted him to make the right decision.
And in the end, I have found on these important issues, he always ends up in the right place.
And I believe everything he did with Operation Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury was 100% right with incredible results.
I supported what he did with Maduro as well.
But the question was, if they're ever, if they get a nuclear weapon, do you think they will use it based on who they are, what they say?
That was one question.
I was going through a series of questions that you need to ask before you make an important decision as commander-in-chief.
There's a lot of weight on his shoulders.
And we were just talking really more as friends than anything else and just kind of, you know, gaming out what could potentially happen.
And then I said, and if it happens on your watch and then down the road one day, they use those weapons, who do you think they're going to blame?
You know, if it had happened in the interim when Obama and Biden were dropping, you know, cargo planes full of cash and other currency on the tarmacs for the Mullahs, we would have rightly been able to blame them.
If they ever got them, I think, frankly, that played a big part in it and they would have helped pay for it, which was stupid.
So these are very hard questions that presidents have to answer.
In this case, I don't think it was that hard a question.
I think in the end, it was very obvious what the president needed to do.
What he did is hard.
I mean, there's a reason he had such a large military presence.
There's a reason he used such overwhelming force.
There's a reason that the Israelis joined with us, our closest allies in the region.
And I'm getting a little sick and tired, by the way, of the anti-Semitic wing in both parties, because there is one.
Now, I'm a little, I am just tired of the virulent anti-Semitism.
Oh, this is Bibi's war.
Oh, President Trump is doing Bibi's bidding.
No, he's not.
He's doing America's bidding.
Oh, Bibi convinced him.
No, nobody convinces Donald Trump to do anything.
And I can tell you, there have been times I've tried to persuade him to do something that I believe strongly in, and he makes up his own mind.
He's a man of his own mind.
He's the president.
I'm not.
I'm a talk show host.
It pisses me off that people are so ignorant.
And it's such a, I mean, it's so obvious it's about clicks and algorithms and monies.
And God only knows where some of these people, I really do wonder if one day we'll find out about shell corporations that are paying prominent, quote, names for their commentary.
Why do I suspect that, Linda?
I don't know.
Just a little suspicion of mine.
I'm not mentioning names.
Well, I like to mention names.
You're much nicer than me.
I am much nicer than you.
That's true.
No, but in all fairness, and I've told this story before, Since Donald Trump has been elected, every country in the region, in that region of the world, has reached out wanting private meetings with me.
Pretty much every country in the region, including direct calls from kings and queens offices.
Would you like to have tea?
I'm like, no.
Would you like to have a meeting?
No.
Would you like to have a briefing?
No.
I have no desire.
I'm an American citizen.
I'm a proud American.
And I wonder, Linda, if I was in those meetings and I said, you know, I have some business interests in here.
You might think you might be interested in partnering with me.
What do you think they might say?
I think there's a high probability that they would be interested.
A high probability.
Do you think that maybe that's what they wanted to feel out in the beginning?
Yeah.
I mean, their first mistake was offering you tea.
You're clearly a coffee guy.
You know, if they had said, hey, we have an abundance of Zins, an endless supply, it'll be a wonderful time.
You'd be like, you know what?
I'll just listen.
It's fine.
All right.
Are you done making fun of me?
Are you done?
Just a little.
You know, I don't talk about it a lot, but the outreach has been intense.
They've even gone to people in my orbit.
I don't know if they've gone to you.
Have they ever come to you?
But they've gone to people in my orbit to try to get my attention that way because after I just flat out say no, you don't want to talk about it.
I mean, we can talk about it.
You know, people love it.
Talk about it.
I want to be honest with the audience, to quote you.
The audience knows that at the end of the day, there are people that are getting paid all the time to keep stuff real quiet.
It's happening in Congress.
It's happening in business.
It's happening on Wall Street.
So when things don't make sense, it's not that you're losing your mind.
It's that they don't make sense because people are on the take.
They're saying things that don't make sense.
They're saying things that are either anti-Semitic.
I'm just suspicious.
I don't know for sure that any of this is true.
I am just telling you, you know, the Bible has a great verse that I think everybody really needs to live by.
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What profit a man to gain the whole world and lose their soul?
You remember when Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert and the devil came to him and offered Jesus the entire world if he would just bow before the devil and, you know, get behind me, Satan.
And he reached out to his father.
It's a beautiful moment in the Bible about, you know, our Lord and Savior.
And there's nothing that I want or need in this world.
I mean, I guess everybody would like to have more money or more this or more that.
I really, I'm pretty satisfied.
I love doing what I do.
I don't really need anything.
Do you know what makes me satisfied?
When you listen to me, when I tell you it's time for you to do your commercial, that's what makes me super happy.
I feel fulfilled.
How fulfilling scale to one to 10.
Like a 20, bro.
It's amazing.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We are loaded up.
Operation Epic Fury on the march.
Are we going to be able to wrap this up in four plus weeks, as the president says?
We will have Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL, will join us.
James Blair, Deputy White House Chief of Staff.
Also, the great one, Mark Levin, Joey Jones, Nicole Parker, Ari Fleischer, Jason Chaffetz, Set Ya DVR tonight.
Hannity, live coverage, Operation Epic Fury on the Fox News channel.
News you won't get from the legacy media mob.
We'll see you tonight, back here tomorrow.
Well, actually, back here Monday.
Have a great weekend with you and your family, and we'll see you Monday.
Have a great weekend.
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