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What's up?

Thank you, people.

Hey, people. How are you?

Thank you. All right.

I appreciate that. Thank you. I know it's... Well,

thank you.

Thank you very much. An exciting show.

Exciting show. Exciting people here today. Exciting time of year.

very close.

Trump has the lowest approval rating of any midterm candidate ever. Only 1% of

the Republicans are mentioning him in his ads. It's gotten really bad.

The billboards outside of his rallies now just say, Lee Greenwood and Friends.

That's... And, uh... Oh!

This is the time of year it gets very nasty. John Ossoff, he's running in

Georgia, he said his opponent Mike Collins, they have evidence that Mike

Collins once said we should throw migrants out of helicopters.

Which may not be that far from what's going on because the administration has

approved now testing a heat ray for migrants attempting to cross the border.

Bad enough. I think they're rubbing it in when they said there are two

settings, mild and caliente.

I find that wrong.

Oh, and have you seen the ad that many people are calling the lowest ad ever

from Ramaswamy? You remember Ramaswamy? It's Pakistani for I'll say anything.

Okay, he's running in Ohio for the governor. Amy Acton is the Democrat

running for governor. Her story, an all too familiar story of the, when she was

12 years old, her parents split up.

Mom gets with the new guy, and the new guy abuses the kids.

Okay, Republicans got a hold of the mother, who hasn't even talked to the

kid since she was 12, and got her on tape as an ad saying the abused girl was

a liar, now running for governor.

Trump said this is fair game.

A 12-year-old rape victim is fair game? I know that looks bad. It sounds better

on a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.

All weekend.

No, this is the time of year when all the dirt comes out. Did you see this?

Three gay prostitutes have said that they had sex with Lindsey Graham.

Which answers the question, what is the opposite of an October surprise?

Oh, I can't.

One...

One of the gay prostitutes claims they had sex at John McCain's house.

I'm not that upset about this. Come on. First of all, John McCain was in the

Navy. His father was in the Navy. His grandfather was in the Navy.

The house was already famous for crusty old semen. Now, I... It's,

uh...

It's HBO, you know.

No, but everyone was talking now about how Trump is always these days

commenting on other men's physiques and stuff.

We did it just last week. He was campaigning for a guy who wants to be

Senator John Husted and said he was looking at his ass and called it.

He said it. He said his ass was a big pile of muscle.

And James Tallarico is the gay one?

I don't know what's going on.

I don't know what's going on. I'm not saying anything.

I just know this. The White House today sent out new red hats that say, make

America glee again.

It's just a little odd that Trump keeps gushing about men's bodies and how

handsome they are and their jawlines and their asses, their physiques.

I'm a little hurt. I was there for dinner for four hours last week. Not a

peep.

Nothing.

Uh... Yeah, I did it again, bitches.

I know.

I'm the bad guy.

because I go and say face-to-face to the man the things you write in articles

that he'll never read, but okay.

You know what? Fuck you. I like these dinners.

There's, uh... First of all, you're in the White House. There's just something

thrilling about being announced when you're in the White House. That moment

when you're outside the Oval Office and you hear the aide say, sir, your 7 o

'clock low-ratings dummy is here.

But the dinner went on for four hours, slightly longer than the press secretary

hired last week.

Well,

I... I met her. She seems nice. I feel

bad for her. They threw her in the deep end, but still, I lasted longer on prom

night. I mean... But, okay.

But, yes, it went a long time. I had a lot to bitch about.

I mean, we talked about a lot of things. The Supreme Court, ICE shootings,

pulling SkyLink down, abandoning the Afghans who helped us during the war.

Hegseth is dragging you down, sir. You know, I mean, when you say Obama's not a

centrist, your racism is showing.

Please don't name the ocean after yourself.

What else?

Oh.

You know, when President Xi says he's your friend, he doesn't really give a

shit about that.

Uh, losing the 2020 election, I was at the reflecting pool that day. It looked

like shit.

Or as Trump put it the next day, he's coming around.

Uh... No, I mean, coming around, I've always been there, that we should talk.

I'm glad that we talked. And by the way, if anyone lacked etiquette at that

dinner, It was me.

I brought Stephen A. Smith.

He was perfect on point.

I give myself an A-plus for choosing him.

But me. Trump never lost his temper. I kind of... He never yelled. He never

interrupted. Me. I did. I could not have been treated better if I was Russian.

A lot of people are very angry, including Republicans these days, that

Trump favors Russia so much in the Ukraine war. The latest is, you hear

about this Starlink? That's Elon Musk's thing, the satellite thing.

Okay, Ukraine needs it to find out when the Russian missiles are coming. And

someone threw a switch to slow it down. Now before they have to see if the

missiles are coming, they have to sit through an ad.

All right, we've got a great show. We have Governor Andy Beshear and Steve

Hilton running for governor out here. But first up...

She is the former White House spokesman and press secretary under the second

Trump administration, Caroline Leavitt. Caroline, how are you?

Great to meet you. Thank you for coming.

Look at that.

People are... See?

Don't we have a nice crowd here? I didn't know I had fans in communist

California, but it's good to see all of you.

So what do you think? Am I back in the doghouse after that monologue? That was

a tough monologue. Okay, well... But the president sends his regards. I'm sure he

does. Told him I was coming on the show, and he said, tell him he loved that

dinner and he knows it. And you admitted it. You liked it. I do like it.

It's better to talk and... Look, let's talk about you first. It's not always

about him.

You're here. Let's talk about you for a minute.

So you talk a lot like him. Why?

No, I'm kidding.

You were the youngest one ever to do this job. 27.

Yeah. That's pretty... Youngest in history. Thank you.

And you're still, what, all of 31 or something?

So what are you going to do now?

Well, I'm on your show, so that's a lot of fun.

Okay, so... No, I...

I have two very young children, and that's why I left the job. I know a lot

of people use that excuse in Washington. No, sure. But for me, it was real. I

have a two-year-old and a six-month-old, so I'm spending a lot of time with them.

I'm still talking to the president, helping the team through these very

important midterm elections, and I start with Fox News on November 1st, so that's

exciting.

Thank you. So that's what you're doing. Okay.

I see now he wants to get rid of the press pool in the White House and make

it into an actual swimming pool. Did you see that? I have seen it, yes.

I have seen it. Look, it was a swimming pool at one time. It was. In fact, if

you go in the stairs underneath where the briefing room is, you can actually

see the tile from where the pool used to be. So he just maybe wants to restore it

to all of its glory. I don't know if he'll do it, but he's been flirting with

it. This is the one thing that people get mad at me.

Not one thing they get mad at me. Many things.

At least your aunts. I don't give a shit about any of this. I like the ballroom.

America does need a ballroom. I love that. We do.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's the United States of America.

They're having dinner in the grass. It's a shame. It's stupid.

Under a tent, with mud on your feet, you're wearing these expensive shoes. I

don't know about those ones, but maybe.

If you went to the White House, you would spruce it up.

Anyway.

But, I mean, you were known to be very sarcastic. I mean, people, you know, who

weren't on your team, like that time you said to somebody, your mom did.

Remember that?

Yeah. Well, if you met that reporter, you would be trying to insult him, too.

I mean, the guy sucks.

But look.

I loved my job, and I took it very seriously. And I think if you ask the

vast majority of the press in Washington, they'll say my team and I

had good relationships with them, just like President Trump does behind the

scenes. You know that better than anyone. But when you do that, when you

take that tack, I mean, I don't know if it can backfire on you, because I

remember when Biden was president, they used to put stickers on the gas pumps

that said, I did that.

Not so funny now that the gas prices is in your administration.

You know what I mean? I understand. Well, look, obviously we understand why

gas is where it is, and we're very sympathetic with the American people for

that. The president made, I believe, a courageous decision to launch military

action against Iran, which is a very dangerous regime that...

chance death to America. So some president had to do it. President Trump

was the first. And as he said repeatedly, it's a short-term cost for

the long-term game of ensuring Iran doesn't obtain a nuclear weapon. And I

think most of the American people understand that. I hope they do. So help

me understand this man, because I've been there now for quite a bit, like

seven hours total.

I heard.

Yeah, I know.

One thing I really think I understand about him is he loves the White House.

He does.

Who couldn't blame him? It is magnificent. He's actually made it

better. It's magical.

He told me this is his hobby.

It's fine. Everybody needs a hobby.

Redecorating and so forth.

He's a builder at heart.

I know. I get it. That's what he's good at. I get it. He could be building a

ship in a bottle. This is what he does. Whatever.

But he and he also feels safe and for a guy as they tried to kill three times I

don't blame him like they said in 60 minutes couple of weeks. It is the

safest place in America Yeah, so if you he just he's just so imperious when he's

out of the White House and when he's there The total opposite he never pulls

rank No matter how flippant I get he never goes. How dare you say that in the

White House? I mean I can talk to him just like I talked to any guy at a bar

and he does sound like a guy tomorrow

But he just seems to, like, go in and out. There are so many moments where he

gets it.

Like, I said to him, you know, when you said the Supreme Court, they're voting

against me, you know that's not how the Supreme Court is supposed to work,

right? It's not about they're not voting for or against you. You appoint them,

and then they make decisions.

And he went, yeah, I took that one too personal.

See what I mean? He gets it, and then he doesn't get it. Now, I'm an optimist. I

prefer to think of the president as half sane.

He's a lot more... Hey.

No. I think we can agree he is far more sane than the last one, okay? We had a

mental patient in the White House. He's far more energetic.

That's true, too, yes. I mean, okay, but then he says, like, at the dinner table,

it's amazing.

We have a nice conversation. He goes, you're my enemy.

Pass the peas.

But, I mean, he will say that. You're my enemy.

And then a minute later, we're just talking normally and we don't act like

enemies. And I worry that if this election goes as badly as it looks like

it's going to go for him and the Republicans, we're going to have a guy

who doesn't have as much power as he did. And he's just, we know he likes

vengeance. Do you worry about this last two years, what any president would call

a lame duck time, even a successful presidency?

What's he going to be like in that scenario?

I don't worry about it, actually. And I think, you know, we understand where

history is with these midterm elections coming up, I think, in 11 days.

The president does have a way of defying history.

He was in the Oval Office not once but twice, and every poll said he wouldn't

make it there. So I think he's working really hard out on the road to turn

Republicans out to vote. So let's wait and see before jumping to conclusions on

the midterms.

And I don't worry about the president. Look, he loves our country very much,

and he wants to make it right. And he has said—you've heard him say this—I

will work— with Democrats to do what's best. You look at what he's done in D.C.

with Mayor Bowser, who's a Democrat mayor, cleaned up the homelessness,

cleaned up the crime. The city is beautiful. I've lived there the past two

years and saw the transformation.

Maybe your governor should call. Maybe your mayor here should call in L.A. and

California would look a lot better. If more Democrats actually want to work

with the president, he is always the type of guy who is willing to do that.

And I think you've seen that yourself at the White House. To the point of, you

know, me going to the White House and talking to him, I, this week, could not

help but think a lot about Lindsey Graham.

No.

Because the first thing I raised with the president was

Starlink and taking that down. And honestly, I think what he's doing with

Russia is unconscionable. And Lindsey Graham.

was the guy who always talked him out of that if lindsey graham was alive i just

don't think that trump would be doing the stuff he's doing uh basically

putting a knife in the back as olenski in and and also he was going to do an

execution a couple of weeks ago somebody talked him out of that remember that

we're going to have a live execution of the ford hood shooter somebody talked

about he does listen when he's in that white house he looks you in the eye he

never interrupts he never gets mad he listens yes yeah and he surveys the room

i mean as something that i find you know admirable about him is he'll look around

the room and he'll ask the opinions of everyone in it, whether it's a low-level

staffer or his chief of staff. He genuinely wants to know how people feel,

what they think. He takes their counsel and advice.

And then I think he makes the best decision that he believes is best for

the country in that moment. So is there anything that could make you, because a

lot of Republicans now say we've had enough, make you...

not be loyal to whatever he was doing?

Principle, is it more important than person, or is the person always more

important? Well, look... You know, my relationship with the president,

obviously, he was my boss. But to me, he's also a friend, and he gave me the

opportunity of a lifetime. I mean, I don't think I'd be sitting on your show

right now if not for him giving me that chance. So I'm grateful for that, always

will be. And I've also seen him behind the scenes, as you have.

And I know his heart, and I know he loves this country. He wants to do

what's right. And that's who he's always been to me. He's been nothing but kind,

uplifting, encouraging.

He did name me the youngest press secretary ever. And a lot of people told

him he shouldn't.

He shouldn't. He told me that. He said, honey, lots of people said you were too

young, and I told them I was building buildings in Manhattan when I was your

age, and you can do it. And I am indebted to him for that, and I am very

grateful for the opportunity.

Any advice

for the one who didn't last quite as long as you?

Look,

it's a tough job.

It's a very tough job.

People say it's one of the hardest jobs in Washington.

And when you step to that podium, I give anyone who steps up to that podium

credit, because only 37 people in United States history have been the White House

press secretary.

That pressure in that room is enormous.

The press are vicious.

And, you know, I give her credit for standing up there. And as the president

said, it wasn't a good fit. And that's OK. I wish her well.

And we're on to the next. And he has a lot of options. I mean, it's a great

job. It's a fun job.

And there's a lot of qualified people who want it. But one day, I mean, you

know, sometimes you give up a home run at the first inning.

They don't usually go to the bullpen that quick.

Well, look, I mean, the president did have a hit show called The Apprentice

where he's known for, you know, moving on from people. So, hey, it's in his

nature to do that type of thing, I guess.

Oh, well, I just hope I'm not next because I have a few more things I want

to say. You might be. After that monologue, you might be next. I know. I

appreciate you coming on here. I always do. Thank you so much. It's an honor.

All right. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Appreciate it.

All right.

What do you think about that?

All right, Caroline, let's meet our panel.

Hey, guys.

All right, here's the Republican nominee for governor of California, Steve

Hilton.

That's funny.

Pack the audience.

He is the Democratic governor of Kentucky and author of Go and Do

Likewise, How We Heal a Broken Country. Governor Andy Beshear is back with us.

Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. All right.

I have a very interesting question that this panel demands to be asked. I think

we have here a governor from a Democratic governor who's very popular

in a red state.

You don't see that a lot.

And then we have a Republican who can't get within 20 points in a blue state.

Why the discrepancy? Is it just because you're a bald British guy?

Is it the nature of the voters in the two states? Why can you get red votes

being a blue guy and you can't get blue votes being a red guy in this state?

Well, I think it starts out being less political and more pragmatic.

Being focused on solving people's challenges, the cost of living, housing,

health care, being focused on all those pieces.

And I admit, it helps having a less partisan background.

It's a little tougher if you've been a Fox News host.

And so I think that's a challenge as you go into it.

Oh, I love the way you put the knife in. I know, it's right. It's amazing. So

gently.

We try to do it kindly and get something. You really do, yes.

The bipartisanship is going well so far. Nice to see you.

And just to reassure everyone, yeah, I know I still have the accent, Bill, but

I am a proud American, and I have the jacket to prove it, which you can all

see.

And a proud Californian as well.

I think the point, Bill, is that you're talking about polls, not votes, and we

still have...

People voting right now in California.

And I've got to tell you, every single day, this morning in L.A., and it

happens every day, people come up to me now and they say, I'm a lifelong

Democrat, but this year I'm voting for you because we've got to have some

balance in California. We've got to have something change.

And I think we absolutely have a shot at winning this election precisely because

it's not healthy.

to have one-party rule for so long. And I think Andy shows that in Kentucky. So

you think you can make up 25 points in two weeks? Yeah, there's another poll

today that was half that, and there was one last week that was six points. I

think we can do it, because, look, I think we all agree, 16 years now, we've

been... doing the D in California, and we're not in great shape. But don't you

think the real reason is you haven't distanced yourself enough from Trump? As

long as Trump is the president, and he has an R by his name, and you have an R

by your name, you have to go way further than you have and distance yourself from

a guy who's not even popular with his own party right now. So Kentucky is 10

points redder.

then California is blue. Really?

Yes. And so when I ran, it was all about representing my people. I would stand up

against a president of any party if they were doing something that would harm the

Commonwealth of Kentucky. As Attorney General, I sued the Obama administration

for certain regulations that hurt us. But right now, we've got a president

that sent National Guard to occupy this city.

He's not going to be popular in California. And if you're going to be

the governor of California...

You've got to stand up for its people, even against a president of your own

party. Well, I think I know a

little bit more about the people of California than Andy does, because I've

been traveling this state for years.

I've been to every one of our 58 counties.

We've done hundreds of events.

Thousands of people coming out with their real problems. They're at breaking

point financially.

I promise you, in all of those events, and most of them now we're doing them in

Democrat areas, places that you would think you'd have Democrats.

We promote the events to Democrats and independents. No, people are fed up.

There's no doubt about it. Yeah, but, Bill, I promise you, not once has anyone

asked me about Trump.

I understand the point that President Trump is not popular.

Let's... just put it mildly, in California.

But this isn't about an opinion poll on President Trump. It's about, can we do

something about the cost of living? Can we clean up the streets? I got a perfect

opportunity for you to show us that you're not a shill for President Trump,

which is voting. Yes. Because he's coming after the voting.

Now, the question to me, the big question here, is not whether once in a

while someone votes in this country who really shouldn't.

It's, is it significant?

Yes, I agree with you. You do?

Yeah, I do. Okay. I think I know where you're going, and I think that's the eye

-to-eye. I'm going to read you some numbers.

Okay, because I think numbers don't lie.

Justice Department, in the last two months, federal prosecutors have

charged, charged, just charged, 113 citizens in 20 states with illegal

voting.

That's out of 227 million registered voters.

113 out of 227 million.

They looked into it, the Heritage Foundation, conservative organization.

Arizona, they went back 25 years, 36 elections, 42 million votes cast,

36 cases of fraud.

Pennsylvania, 100 million votes cast over 30 years, 32 elections, 39 cases.

They went to Nevada just this year in July, the DHS did.

They thought there were 16,000 non-citizens illegally registered.

They did a big follow-up. It turned out 185, not 16,000. They did another follow

-up. Turned out it wasn't 185. It was zero.

With these kind of numbers, don't you think the Republicans are making a big

mistake, as well as a moral mistake, pursuing this avenue?

Yeah, I think it's crazy to...

lift this up as some kind of central issue. Look, of course we've got to

enforce the law. It's illegal to vote if you're not a citizen. But I agree with

your point about the proportionality. And by the way, I'd go further in terms

of voting. I've said all along that he didn't win the 2020 election. I mean,

that's the big one. You probably came up at your dinner.

Oh, it always does. Exactly.

So I'm with you on that. I'm with you on that.

But look, I agree.

But I think that, as I think we can all agree, we've got a lot of problems with

the election system in California, mainly that it takes a month to count

the votes. I mean, that's stuff that I think we can all agree we should fix.

Okay. How about another one? How about Ukraine and Russia?

Even a lot of the Republicans now are condemning Trump.

Some of the things that he's done just in the last week is just crazy.

The price of diesel is off the charts here. All-time high. All-time high. So,

but... The sanction relief has to come from Russia. We were trying to starve

them out of winning this war, starve them of funds, lift the sanctions on the

diesel, lift sanctions in general, throws them a lifeline with Starlink.

Somebody was mutting around with Starlink.

Musk blames him. He blames Musk.

Saying that Russia isn't doing much in the way of...

killing people left and right. And he says, oh, they're not doing much.

Saying Zelensky is the problem.

The Wall Street Journal is against him on this. The Post, the conservative

outlets.

Is this something you can full-throatedly condemn Trump about? It

would be very concerning. We're going to agree on too much.

There's something very important about today, actually, the day we're sitting

here having this conversation. It's the 70th anniversary.

of the Hungarian Revolution, 1956.

My parents are Hungarian.

My whole family grew up under communism.

And it was exactly an example of... I mean, my stepfather, also Hungarian,

tells the story of the Russian tanks rolling into Hungary.

And nobody stood up, nobody fought back. So I've got a very personal belief that

you just can't allow countries to roll in and occupy other countries. I've said

that all along, specifically on...

On the oil, though, I mean, that's, by the way, one of the most crazy things

going on right now in California is, of course, the oil and diesel is much

higher as a result of the Iran war. What is gas here?

It's 650, 670. What's it in Kentucky?

It is about 450, but diesel is 650, the highest it's ever been in Kentucky. So

I've got soybean farmers.

100% of them voted for Trump. They lost their first client in the USAID.

Because if we feed starving countries, they like us better. It makes sense for

soft power.

Then Linda McMahon canceled the farm to cafeteria program.

Then Trump's tariff pushed China away, our largest purchaser of soybeans.

Then all of your farm machinery runs on diesel.

And finally, a third of the fertilizer in the world goes through the Strait of

Hormuz. And so you've got all these farmers who supported Trump so strongly

that are on the verge of declaring bankruptcy that don't even know if they

will play. plant their crops. And this thing about Ukraine trying to claim that

that is the reason that diesel is so high is just totally false.

And Vladimir Putin is a violent dictator who engaged in the largest land grab

since World War II. This should be really easy.

Our farmers would love those prices here, but diesel in California is $9,

and that's because of Democrat policies here.

It's not because of the war in Iran?

It's both. The craziest thing, though, is that we have abundant oil reserves in

California, but they're being shut down, so we now import 80% of the oil that we

use on giant supertankers shipped halfway across the world, and now

because the refineries have closed, we're actually importing refined

gasoline. Our number one supplier of that is India.

Where does India buy its crude oil? Russia. So because of Democrat climate

policies in California, we are buying indirectly oil from Russia. Today, here

in California. One year ago, the price of diesel was less than half that it is

right now.

Donald Trump and Donald Trump alone has caused that increase, and anybody who

supports him is responsible for it, too.

Except in California.

You can't argue with the fact that the national average is in the $4 range, and

here it's $6. Even with the Iran war, even with Ukraine, even with all these

things, it's $2 higher. In California, there's nothing that explains. That's

not Trump. He's not in charge of those policies. It's California.

Democrats in California. That's why we need a change and a bit of balance in

the government.

Okay.

I noticed during this...

Election cycle. Democrats are really fed up with not being the macho party.

Well, they did, in the cycles to Trump, they lost a lot of, you know, manly man

votes. I mean, let's be honest. I mean, these guys do everything they can to

look manly. They blow up fishing boats.

You know, they've got the big heat right now at the border. I mean, they don't

fucking do anything. They're moving away from veganism, apparently, which is,

like, very... What I think is hysterical is Pete Hegseth is running around

talking about testosterone, but he has a makeup stand and wears more hair gel

than a boy band.

In any event... You're funnier this time.

Also the knife going there. In any event, I noticed that a lot of the ads

that the Democrats are running, I mean, Abdul Isaid running in Michigan, he's

got one where he's coming out of the gym, you know, and then there's Bo Bai

in Indiana. He's always working out. James Tallarico, he's like, oh, you say

I'm gay? I'm eating steak with my hands, okay?

I'll give you gay.

So...

We noticed the Democrats are putting out some more campaign posters to show just

how macho they are. Would you like to see them? I thought you would.

I knew you would.

Okay, uh, for example, they have the Democrats. Unlike the Republicans, our

big dick energy is sustainable.

Uh, the Democratic Party no longer afraid to go on Rogan.

Democrats, we're the party of the Nazi tattoo guy.

Democrats, it's morning in America and we've got the wood to prove it.

Democrats,

this ass kicks you.

Democrats,

when we get impeached, it's over a blowjob.

Democrats, you don't think we have balls? Well, just look in AOC's purse.

And Democrats, not the party where a closeted gay guy dies and they replace

him with his sister. All right.

Now the Republicans are booing me. I love it.

So let's talk about your book. You got a book. It's about faith, and you know me,

a person of faith.

But, you know, I want to read your quote, because you say, Republican

officeholders hold the banner of being the Christian party while they do some

very unchristian-like things. I've heard this many times over the years. I may

have said it myself.

There is certain some truth in that.

Things like, you cite, cutting food assistance to the poor, health care,

rounding up immigrants.

But... I don't know. It sounds to me like what you're saying is if you're not

for the Democratic position, you can't be a good Christian.

How can you call yourself a good Christian if you're not for these

programs? But isn't that a little too easy? I mean, these are political

positions. If you have a different idea of how we should do health care or

immigration or anything, isn't it a little... But that's actually doing

health care or providing food in a different way.

I mean, the idea that the big, ugly bill kicked 25,000 Kentucky kids off their

food assistance means 25,000 Kentucky kids are hungrier today than before.

Now, the miracle of the fishes and the loaves is so important, it's in the

first four books of the New Testament. It's about providing enough, especially

in a time of scarcity.

And so I don't think that the position is unchristian because it's Republican.

I think it's because it's tearing food away from hungry kids.

What does the Republican say about that?

It's just not how I think about it, honestly. I think that these things are

practical.

Questions of policy and competence in government. We got, I mean, just the

devastation on our streets in California.

I've been out a lot here in Los Angeles, Skid Row, MacArthur Park, everywhere you

go in California.

Desperate people living on the streets, drug addiction, untreated mental health

illness. This state's been run by Democrats for 16 years, completely,

every level of government. I don't think it's because of anything to do with the

faith or lack of it of Democrat politicians. I think it's because they

got the wrong idea. and are not competent at running things. I don't

think it's got anything to do with faith. I do agree that faith isn't one

party or the other, but it can be judged in the actions that you take.

But why is there never anything given to people like me who are increasingly more

of the population?

I mean, it's always working families and people of faith.

I'm working. I don't have a family to work for. And I'm not a person of faith.

But you do seem to be doing all right. I'm doing... Yeah, I'm not... Phil, I

got something. I'm going to give you...

$3 gas.

That's something you'll bet. $3? You're going to cut it in half?

Yeah. Right now, you've got states where gas starts with a three. Your first $150

,000, tax-free, no state income. Actually, that's something we probably

agree on. Andy just signed a tax cut in Kentucky. I agree with that. We're going

to have that here. We're going to clean up the streets, finally, in California.

We're going to end mass homelessness. Let's talk about that. And also, the

regulations, so you can build shit in your yard, like, and not have to go

through the...

regulations so the only thing really the Republicans have going for them in this

election I think other than of course the cheating and the bullshit election

finagular is is that the Democrats still really are not renouncing their far-left

I don't hear it. Maybe I can get at it to you tonight. That would be awesome.

Every election, I think, is always the first battle in the next election.

So this 2026 election is the first battle in the 2028 election.

I think a lot of Democrats are getting a false positive. Like, I think they're

going to kick ass, and they're going to think, oh, the people want what we were

giving them back in 20... And they don't. I don't think they do.

The DSA, I would love to hear a Democrat say, the DSA...

which, again, I've read this on the show, their own words, it's not

socialism. It is communism.

It is communism.

I'm sorry, but he's just right about that. You're right. Are you talking

about taking over the means of production? Exactly.

And taking over key industries? But you know, there's only one current elected

official in all of America that is taking government stakes in the means of

production, and that's Donald J. Trump. Well, that's true, too. Yeah.

But again, that's not really answering the question. Sure. I mean, I would love

to hear somebody say, you know, you are not the Democratic Party. You are free

to do this, but you should take it somewhere else and be your own party.

Yeah. I mean, we're going to have a DSA mayor here in Los Angeles.

Nithya Rama looks like she's going to be elected mayor.

DSA mayor here. I mean...

That's why I think it's so important we have some balance here, because

otherwise, who's going to push back on this stuff if we just have more and more

of this and no one pushing back? That's why I think it's so important.

My race, you're going to get finally someone to push back on the far left in

California.

So, Bill, socialism is a failed experiment. It's not some big, bold new

idea. But I can work with.

anybody who wants to solve a problem. I come at issues like hunger or health

care in a very different place than DSA candidates, but we both want people to

be able to see a doctor when they're sick. There's a difference between

problem solvers and problem causers.

And the Republicans and the big ugly bill could close 35 rural hospitals in

my state. No one can see a doctor when that happens.

All right. Let me read a quote from Daniel Lurie. He's the San Francisco

mayor. Friend of mine. Great guy.

Yeah, and very popular.

Yes. Very popular Democratic mayor in a city where it was really going off the

rails. Exactly.

And he owned it. He said, we lost our way as a city.

We got so entrapped in our progressive values and talking about progressivism,

we weren't taking stock of what was happening in our streets. We were

focused on the wrong things, and we weren't focused on common sense.

Is that something you could endorse?

Absolutely. I mean, we need to be focused on people's every day. Oh, the

party needs to be hyper-focused.

Right? When most people wake up in the morning, they're not thinking about

party ideology.

They're thinking about their job, their next doctor's appointment, the roads and

bridges they drive, the school they drop their kids off at, and whether they feel

safe in their community.

That ought to be the focus of the Democratic Party.

I mean,

we totally agree about that. But, you know, at some point, you've got to look

at the record and the places where Democrats have had complete control.

I obviously know most about California.

Roads, I completely agree. I drive them the whole time. We're officially ranked

as having the worst roads in the country, in California.

And so I think that...

That's right, and that's why Daniel's doing such a good job in California,

because he's putting the ideology aside and just saying, let's clear the

homeless encampments. Let's actually reduce the burdens on small business

owners in San Francisco. There's no sign of any other Democrat in California

doing that. That's why I think it's so important I get elected as governor,

because I'll be a partner for that kind of pragmatic, problem-solving approach

to things.

Do you talk to the president?

Not often.

You don't? No, not often. But you would?

Yes. What's your message to my haters?

To your haters? Yeah.

What's your message to the people who say, I shouldn't talk to him at all? If

you get an opportunity to talk to any president, obviously you do it. And when

I disagree with this president... Thank you.

And while I disagree with this president on a lot of things, I've actually sued

this president 30 times from a state he won by 30 points.

And some people have said, well, aren't you worried about your approval rating?

And my response is, what's an approval rating worth if you don't use it for

something?

If he is doing something that's positive for Kentucky, I need to give voice to

that if I'm going to have any legitimacy opposing him when he does something

negative for Kentucky. I just really wish he'd do something positive for

Kentucky.

But honestly having a personal relationship, I think helps you have to

you have to you have to talk to people Well, you have to deal with the person

who's there who he is. He's 80 years old. He's not gonna change I'll tell you

something interesting this time We were waiting outside the Oval Office and this

you know, like in many offices. Look at how casually you say that We're just

waiting outside drinking and

There's a table that a lot of places have where they put, like, publications.

We have one here, all the things that you get at the office, the magazines and

newspapers.

The one I noticed was not there was the New York Times.

Now, maybe it was 7 o'clock at night, and maybe everyone had already taken

one. I don't... I think it's just that he does not read it, you see? So you can

put all the editorials you want in the New York Times.

I just don't think it matters. You know what sentence never came up at the

dinner? I read an interesting piece in The Atlantic.

You know, if a tree falls in the woods, nobody hears it kind of thing, you know?

So you have to go where the person is. This is a people person.

People are saying...

You've got to get in there and be one of the people saying, because you're not

going to read it in the New York Times. Well, we've got to keep talking as a

country. I mean, the moment we refuse to have certain conversations is the moment

we give up on unity and being able to come back together.

Okay. So you write a book. Usually when people write a book in an election

year... It's for the royalties.

But usually it means that there could be running for president I mean, I don't

know why this is a ritual we do does it really help with the campaign? That's

upcoming when you put out the book because everybody seems to do it well

This book to me was was very personal I saw an administration that had co-opted

faith that is is my why it drives me to do what I do. I've seen it used to

divide people, to try to even make some people hate other people, and that is

the antithesis of what I believe in. And so, to me, this was a chance to stand up

for my faith, that it should be used to help people and to not hurt people.

And it's just so important that it's not Democrat or Republican, but it is

right versus wrong. What do you see as your... He's running.

Let's not assume that. Who do you see as your biggest competition for the

nomination? Well, if I... Yes.

I will say this.

If I choose to get in, it's not who else is running. I've heard some people say,

if this, then that. I believe in primaries. I believe in democracy.

And you've got to earn every vote. And so if I get in, whoever else gets in, it

ought to be a battle of ideas. Whoever. We act like there's not a guy here in

California who's going to be in.

We've got a guy. We've got a guy. I will say, by the way, I will say I believe

our nominee should be.

a democratic governor whether that's me or anyone else and that's because the

president promised a lot of things he promised he'd bring prices down he

promised he'd keep us out of forever wars and he did the opposite what

democratic governors have are receipts you can look at have you built the

housing have you built the high-speed rail no he said yeah oh

yeah we're gonna have a field day with that No, you're right. Trump said, I

alone can fix it, and he made it worse, and now the people are, thank you, next.

And that's why Steve can't win. All right.

Thank you very much, guys. Time for new rules.

Well, if you can find a set or photo than these grown men at Comic-Con trying

and failing to break the world record for the largest gathering of people

dressed as Spider-Man, I don't want to see it.

Let me put it this way, guys. I know your name is Peter Parker, but I can

think of one place you won't be parking your Peter.

Thank you.

So someone has to explain to Russell Brand that if you don't want to be found

guilty of rape, try not to look so much like a rapist.

Who's your lawyer, Andrew Tate?

There must be one shirt in your closet

that buttons all the way.

If you walk into a courtroom and everyone on the jury covers their water

glasses, You probably need a different outfit.

Now that Johnny Depp's new movie is called Day Drinker and Russell Crowe's

new movie is called The Wait, Sidney Sweeney's new movie must be called I

Have Big Tits.

And be sure to catch Jared Leto's new one, The Guy Who Approaches Your

Daughter at the Mall. All right.

All the people buying these red light therapy masks have to admit that in five

years, they'll be selling them at a garage sale along with their Shake

Weight and their Peloton.

On the plus side, you've already got your Halloween costume this

year. You're going as Michael Myers with moderate to severe plaques or eyes.

Don't worry about the well-being of the employees of this Illinois Taco Bell

after a truck drove into it.

They work at Taco Bell.

They're used to people destroying the bathroom.

And finally, new rule, now that socialism is having a moment, we have to

get real about how much of it we have and how much of it we can afford,

because when you don't, this is what you get.

Yeah, that's France. The French are an interesting people. They gave us the

word blasé because their reaction to any crisis is either shrugging or setting

things on fire.

The five-week-old countrywide riots there have brought in a lot of

peripheral actors because everything's always better by adding a dash of Gaza.

But in essence, the unrest was about young people being fed up with crummy

schools. They're mad.

that the government isn't providing the tools to give them a good education.

And that must be true, because they're completely ignorant about why there is

such a lack of money.

As Neil Ferguson writes, the French rioters say their principal grievance is

under invested schools, but it should really be overinvestment in French

retirees. Yes.

Forget eat the rich. Eat grandma.

She's the one with all the disposable income.

Same here in America.

When MAGA people picture government money going out the window, they imagine

it going to a foreigner.

But it didn't go to a foreigner. It went to the banned foreigner.

This is why socialism is so popular with the young. They see the government

paying older folks to sit around all day, and they say, hey, where's my

monthly check for doing dick?

Well, kids, part of the answer there is that older folks did do dick when they

were young like you are now.

That's the time of life when you do do dick.

And when you're old, it's okay that you don't do dick.

Look, old... Old people legitimately need more services, and the young need

less, because the young generally are not sick and dying, with the possible

exception of the ones who buy their vapes at a gas station.

But make no mistake, the young want socialism,

because they're jealous that the older people have it and they don't.

Everything socialists want, we already have.

Government-paid universal health care? We have it. It's called Medicare.

Universal basic income?

We have it. It's called Social Security.

Medicaid is adult day care.

If you're a senior citizen, you're already living like Mandami is

president.

Now, these are historic, necessary programs.

But we have to admit, the redistribution of wealth has gotten out of whack.

Same as in France.

The schools are crumbling there because a third of their education budget goes

to pensions for people who don't teach anymore.

Here in America, we spend six times more on every person over 65 than we do on

those under 25, and this is not sustainable.

When Social Security went into effect in 1940,

Life expectancy for an American man was 61, and Social Security kicked in at 65.

So you can see why it was such a workable way of getting money to older

people. Because they were dead before they got it.

That's not the case now, that people live longer and there are less young

workers paying in. But rather than fix it at the source, and putting more money

in the hands of the young, we keep giving it to the old, who then have to

turn around and give it to their broke kids anyway.

Almost half of young adults live with their parents.

And even worse, it's the half that pees all over the toilet seat.

Is this really the most efficient way to do this? By taking money from working

people, giving it to retired people who then give it back to their adult

children so they can pay rent?

Half of U.S. parents with grown kids give them regular help with not just

rent, but groceries, cell phones, health care, car payments, coughing up an

average of almost $1,500 a month.

Beats the hell out of my allowance as a kid.

You thought you raised a couple of young adults? No, you raised a subscription

service that automatically renews.

And buying a house? A quarter of millennial homeowners needed to get help

with the down payment from the bank of dad.

The median starter house in L.A. costs $639,000. The only way the average young

person could afford that is by dating Bill Belichick.

We have to stop robbing tomorrow because we're paying so much for yesterday.

That's the part boomers have to own up to. But the younger generations, they

have to own up too.

Because the other reason there's not enough money is there's a lot of faking

and idling and grifting. Yes. Did you know that in the UK, one out of every

seven new cars until recently, including luxury brands like BMW, is paid

for by the government to give to someone with a disability?

And disability now counts for 10% of the population because it includes mental

health conditions, which we used to call life.

But now... Now you can get government money

if you have ADHD, anxiety, depression, wheat intolerance, tennis elbow, acne.

Really, those are real.

Oh, and dyslexic, too.

They're the ones driving BWMs.

England is becoming a nation of moochers. No wonder Harry and Meghan

moved back.

The

UK... has

had seven prime ministers in the last 10 years. That's because no politician can

be what the people want. A genius who figures out how to give out endlessly

more money with ever less working people. And we're headed down the same

road, only with bigger cars and fatter people.

Twenty years ago, in his hit documentary, Sicko, Michael Moore

celebrated France for its social safety net, including the scene where a French

citizen tells Michael that their childcare there is so generous that when

you have a baby, someone from the government comes over to your house and

does your laundry.

And if she wears the French maid's outfit, that's extra.

Now, it's a great movie.

But if you think Social Security here isn't going to run out, it is in six

years, or that there's a government anywhere in the world that can afford to

give you a car for being sad or do your fucking laundry for you, then you'll do

well to remember this about the French.

They're famous for two things, welfare and oral sex.

And in both cases, you can't all just receive.

All right, that's our show. I want to thank Steve Hilton, Governor Andy

Beshear, Caroline Leavitt, Club Red. Random drops every Monday on YouTube or

listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Now go watch Overtime on YouTube.

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

Mwah. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.