Steve Hilton & Spencer Pratt: Fixing California, Cheaper Gas, Ballot Fraud & CA Republicans

27:45But what's actually happening? This was a Tuesday morning last week, about 10.30, mid-morning. He said, come and see what's happening. It's like whack-a-mole because you go out into MacArthur Park, 10.30 on a Tuesday morning, every single place you look, you've got the people you described, you've got crack pipes, people smoking crack, injecting drugs, folded over with fentanyl, in the middle of a beautiful sunny day in the center of LA. Dozens and dozens of people. Why? Because every single day, four non-profits show up handing out crack pipes, handing out needles, handing out drugs. Who's paying for that?

28:26You are. We are. We are paying these people. What do you mean we're paying for drugs? Because the taxpayers are funding the non-profits who are handing out the crack pipes, the needles, and the drugs. No, what drugs are we talking about? Fentanyl.

28:38Jason Calacanis:They hand out fentanyl needles, a black Jeep. I pay taxes. They take the taxes. They buy fentanyl, and then they give it to... No, they buy the needles. And interestingly enough, one of these people from the NGOs that was handing out the needles, Bill Assaylee also caught him selling the drugs too. So technically you're not buying the drugs, but the people that were paying for the needles happened to also be selling the drugs on the side. Can I just tell, I'm going to be... It's called the side quest in our industry. I just want to say one other story that really captured... Side hustle. Side quest.

29:14I just want to tell this other story that captured... This story that we've just had experience of and one other that actually captures for me in a deeper way what this election is all about. Just a couple of days before that experience in MacArthur Park, there's this Latino couple wanting me to come and see their business. In South Central LA, it's not Skid Row, but it's pretty rough, and it's the usual squalor that I'm afraid we're used to in this city because they don't know how to run the place. But in the middle of all that squalor, this beautiful little store, They run a store. It's a shoe store.

29:47And they've been running it 14 years. Latino couple. We went in. We were talking. They gave me all the usual things that I'm very familiar with. The taxes, the ridiculous bureaucracy, the permits that get more complicated and costly every year, the electric bill, et cetera. But that's not why we wanted you to come here. Come with me. They took me outside. You walk along. We went for a walk. Two city blocks could have gone even further. Every single part of the sidewalk, street vendors. You think illegal street vendors, what are they selling? Shoes, an apparel, t-shirts, just the entire sidewalk.

30:26This 14-year business, a lovely little local business, everything spotless, everything clean, exactly what we would want to see is going out of business because you've got people there that are not paying tax, not paying electric, not paying rent, not complying with any licensing. And then I said to the guy, when did all this happen? When did it start? Has this been here all the time you've been here? No, it's the last six or seven years. I said, is it something to do with the pandemic? No. I looked into it eight years ago in 2018. They passed a bill in Sacramento to legalize street vending in California across the state.

31:02Cities can't do anything about it. counties can't do anything about it you've got, and langurs, you've got food stands there that are pouring their grease into the drain right in front of their store, you've got rats, you've got all of it legalized and what does it tell you when you take that into account and then what you see in MacArthur Park with the drugs. You know what you guys should do? Can I just tell you what the lesson is from this? That we've become a state where if you do the right thing you're punished and if you do the wrong thing you're rewarded that is upside down but that's the story beneath everything and that's what we need to turn around that's what this election

31:42Jason Calacanis:is actually about no i i really think it's important for you guys to be able to tell the stories of these specific laws because it doesn't it doesn't matter your political persuasion when you hear that if it is as accurate as you say it's functionally one of the stupidest things i've ever heard and if there's a 20 or 30 of these examples it's important for people to know this because that's the only thing that cracks this entrenched system because i do think that these belief systems are very difficult to turn over and you have to just hit them with facts over and over but these things are insane if if act as accurate as you said steve it's insane the craziest part about this.

32:23So there's, they say there's 50 ,000 food vendors, 50 ,000, and they made it more affordable. So most of them don't even have the permit that costs$21. But our city council, green lit, and they already did this. They gave these food vendors a$500 ,000 to give them an actual cart. My town burned down because Mayor Bass and the LADWP didn't repair the reservoir cover that was$200 ,000. So they have money to have, a lot of these people are not tax-paying citizens, they have the money to give them$500 ,000 for food cards, but they can't get, the Pacific Palisades is paying most of the taxes for the whole city, they can't get the reservoir cover.

33:08What does it say, Spencer, if this city elects Karen Bass again, and what does it say in terms of lessons about your campaign, that you can't beat somebody that incompetent. I mean, we're up against dumb and dumber. I would say they're less dumb than picking this socialist, communist, alleged terrorist supporter, Nithya Raman. So we're in a position where it's either worse or worse. And at least with Mayor Bass, we know, oh, she only burns out one town every four years. Right. How many does Nithya Raman burn down? We'll find out. I hate to say that, but let's hope we don't. What can I say? It's not a complete joke, right?

33:52What you just said. So we launched our general election campaign after the primary in Boyle Heights, East L.A. Why? Because that was the site of another fire where Karen Bass was out of town. Incredible. The warehouse fire that burned for a week. She was out of town for that one as well. And it was a warehouse. you had 85 million pounds of rotting meat that was left there for five weeks. This is a working-class Latino neighborhood in LA. It's just, we launched our campaign that the press wasn't very happy because you have flies everywhere. The whole place stinks. You have rats, medieval diseases.

34:33This is in the second city of America. I mean, it's just what these people have done is actually unforgivable. We've got to kick these people out this year. We really do. Spencer, before Steve leaves, any advice for him? I feel like Steve doesn't need my advice. He's doing incredible. What he just needs to continue doing, and he does it, is appealing because you're never going to win as a Republican in California. But what he's running is common sense. And the message is, you know, for the people that are like, I'm voting for Basara. What does Biden call him? Backer Ria? I think we say we're going to take Basura from Karen Bass and apply it there.

35:16These people think they're voting because he says, I'm going to fight president. The president is gone in two years. So then what? You're just going to have another entrenched, terrible person running the state? And don't worry. The whole entire state is run by Democrats. If there's one registered Republican, it's okay. So I would say the message is Steve is about common sense, and he just wants our tax money to stop being stolen and he wants kids being able to go back to parks. These aren't a Republican or a Democrat. It's just a non-communist message. So you're going to stay with us for a bit.

35:55Steve, I know you got to run. Any last words, anything you want to say before you head out? I just want to tell everyone that actually it's not just about stopping the crazy stuff that we've been talking about. There's so much we can do in this amazing state. I've got a plan here. that we're publishing today, 10 new cities for California. We've got so much opportunity here. If we just have some common sense, we get rid of these insane regulations and lawsuits and fees and taxes. The talent is here. The energy is here. We can once again be the place where people are coming to build amazing businesses and companies and houses and the great things we built in the heyday of California.

36:36We can be all that again and very, very quickly because we've got everything we need to be truly magnificent again, except a good governor. But very soon we'll have that as well. Thank you very much. Thanks for being here. Thank you. What's your favorite viral Spencer Pratt video? I know mine. It's, we have the money, it's just being stolen. You remember that one? I do. I mean, what I loved about running so much is it was finally a way to channel all of my anger. And it was it was so therapeutic. This feels so good. But yeah, Steve's incredible. I pray for him. I obviously everybody who I thought was a genius involved in my campaign connected these people.

37:28Jason Calacanis:So he's got Spencer, what's going to happen in this election now? If people vote, Steve wins, but people need to vote. You think there's still an opportunity to vote in the state versus having the machine fill it out for me? Correct. I'm so optimistic. Psych! No, I mean, you just got to be, we got to try. People need to vote, and I don't think the machine and the idea that we can't win should stop from trying. yeah like if i thought that way i mean i had my plan i would 100 ben the mayor i didn't know they were going to pull what they pulled that soon i thought they were going to wait till november so i had the plan to win but i'm going to save it for my next election so you know what uh what does that what does that mean exactly well i mean behind off stage i can tell you you know i can't give the basically you need a better vote stealing operation than they have right what i've learned is it's not stealing, it's legal.

38:32Right. I got my own plan now. Mellow harvesting they call it, yeah. You know, I got something up my sleeve. Well, no, no, in seriousness, Spencer. He is being serious. I am dead serious. Okay, so you have legal recourse. Voter fraud is a very significant crime. People have been prosecuted very regularly for committing voter fraud. You're making these claims, Freeberg's making these claims, you're piling on. Hold on, what claims did I make? You just said if you can actually win or that somebody automatically signs it for you. You're insinuating that the system is corrupt. Let me finish my question.

39:09That's not a claim I made. That was a joke about them. Okay, fine, but in our private chat, in our private chat, you say all the time, no. I'll totally insinuate it. I'll assert it. Anyway, the point is. The system is corrupt. It's statistically impossible. We all saw the lines. Here, here. Okay, but hold on. Let me, let me. I know where this is going. Everyone says, well why didn't you why didn't you investigate da da da da so obviously i got the top law firms i'm like yeah we're gonna get them and then you ready for this the second those mail-in ballots get to where they count the votes because they say come down here check this out the second they get there you know what they do with the ballots they separate them from the envelope so let's say i know 42 000 of these were cooked with the ngo drug addicts and the people that are paying them billions of dollars because they want that money to keep i know it's all from there oh well we can't connect those ballots to those envelopes we separated the chain of custody from those so the certification signature is on the envelope to be clear it's like right there so you so i know let's say i know this dsa terrorist commie person signed all these i know that's this one they go and this is where they're from oh we don't have that person's signature to connect those ballots So you can't, I could have definitely said, I want to recount.

40:21Jason Calacanis:You can't audit is basically what you're saying. And they would have recounted the same ballots. So I'm not alleging anything. This is just a fact in California. This is what I mean by the machine. I didn't get to ask my question. Because this is legal and the way it's set up legally is what makes it impossible to intervene unless you are willing to go play that game where you're now going to go collect all the ballots from the apartment buildings and fill them all out and get someone to put a happy smiley face on it and be like, here you go. So that's the mechanism that ultimately I think the other side is going to end up having to employ if they actually want to get people elected in a state that's two-thirds one side of the aisle.

40:55So President Trump did 60 of these lawsuits when he lost last time and claimed the same thing. All 60 he lost. You're not even willing to do a lawsuit. But is your contention that you lost because of fraud, yes or no? It's a trick question. Well, no, it's a simple question. It's a trick question. Without evidence, I would say no.

41:21Jason Calacanis:Okay. But the thing is he can't collect audits. So if I had the evidence, I would tell you I would be the mayor right now. Okay. Well, what I would say is that on an election night, you were the clear number two. And then a week later, you had been narrowly displaced by a bunch of ballots that were counted out. Yeah, it seems like there would have to be, in this case, correct me if I'm wrong, tens of thousands of faked ballots. No, I'm not saying fake. This is where this is again. It's not fraud, Jason. It's that they're following the law that was created to let them do what they're doing. It's legal.

41:56Why is voter ID illegal? All right. So watch this. Watch this. Watch this. I'm in favor of voter ID, to be clear, but you're still having explained where the crime occurred here. Watch this. The ballot harvest. Go ahead. Ready for this. I'm awake now. All right, here we go. So if I go up to you when you go to like a basketball court to vote, you know, with the nice people, and they say in California, they say, don't show us your ID. That's illegal. Those people, if I go up to you and I'm wearing like Mayor Pratt hat and I say, who's on your ballot? This is why you should vote for Spencer Pratt.

42:30This is electioneering. This is illegal. but it's not illegal for DSA commies to ride around on their bikes and to go into your apartment building knock on your door say hey this is your ballot you got to vote for Nithya Raman she's going to make everything cheap give you free money a cell phone she's going to pay for your Netflix all these things fill it out we'll take it in this is would be illegal at the gym but it's not in California with ballot harvesting. So what these DSA soldiers, these are true believers do, they do it in New York, they're doing it all over, they go around, thousands of them, and they go get these ballots.

43:11So they're not fake ballots, it's ballot harvesting. And they can, people pay these people. I did legal ballot harvesting. You just can't pay them per ballot. And this became law, legal, in California how many years ago, like a decade ago? Now the claim is, so I understand, I just want to make sure I understand the claim. The claim now is that DSA soldiers went, gave money to people, and convinced them to place their vote and then brought their document in. They're not giving anyone money. You let him answer, Freeberg. The DSA operatives are being paid. Got it. And some do it as for free because they are true believers.

43:46Like people who knock on doors and say, I'd like you to vote. My campaign had legal door knockers. You pay half a million dollars. They knock and they say, Spencer's so great. And they say, no, I don't want to vote. and the door shuts and they walk away. These people continue. You go on the DSA website, they'll tell you, there'll be a whole breakdown on ballot harvesting and they'll say, go back three times. It becomes harassment. Finally, somebody's gonna be like, here, yeah, take this, get out of my - So now the claim is the DSA is persistent and you weren't. You go one time, they go three. Just so I'm clear.

44:20No, what I'm saying is it's illegal to harass people into who they vote. That's illegal. What the DSA does... Has any of those people ever filed a complaint about being harassed? Do you know where they're going? These people don't... I'm asking you, you're the one making this claim that you lost because of fraud. No, I also didn't. I said I don't have the evidence. You literally tweeted that the fraudsters stole the election from people. No, I said 200 ,000 Republicans didn't show up and vote. Okay, so that's why you lost. There's many reasons to not win and lose in games, also in politics. Do you think that the other side, that Republicans are going to start to employ the ballot harvesting tactic?

44:57It won't work. I did it. Unless you are nefarious, it doesn't work. If you are just like a genuine, like, hello, knock, knock, you like to vote? That doesn't work. These people, so tell me this. Talk about claims. Why won't California clear their voter rolls?

45:19Jason Calacanis:What does that mean? Right now, the voter rolls, if you moved out of California, if you're dead, these are all ballots. There's an empty parking lot downtown LA that gets hundreds of ballots mailed to it. An empty parking lot. And people have registered to this address. Hundreds of ballots show up there. So back to your thing of these are fake ballots. They're not fake ballots. There could be potentially a million ballots out and about that now a DSA person could harvest, get these ballots, fill in a circle, and then do a smiley face as the witness and mail that in. So we can call it a claim or we could call it who knows.

45:57It's like, who knows what's going on? The point is we need voter ID. People need to get that on the ballot. Yeah, no, I mean, you're the person who made these claims, so I'm just asking you the questions. And for the record, I think if, hold on, let me finish. Stop interrupting me. For the record, I think if you have to show an ID to get on a plane, it's quite reasonable that you should show one to vote. So I'm for a voter. You also need an ID to shop at Kami Mom Dami's new markets. So if you want Kami food, you need an ID. Spencer, what are you doing next? Let's move on past LA. Oh, this is it.

46:35You're joining the show, Fifth Bestie? You know, I have Zoom. You have Zoom and you have time. I do love premium tequila. uh you know this could work this could work fifth bestie there's a lot of i mean brad gerster is very popular but i think you have a he we might need to move him to sixth bestie what uh i will continue doing because i only ever ran for mayor to increase my message of fighting these people who have destroyed my beautiful state my beautiful city and then and your home my home my parents home, all my neighbors. Let me ask you a question about the incompetence of these idiots. They burn your home down because they can't keep water in the reservoir.

47:19And then, have you been able to rebuild? What's the state of the palisades right now? So here's the best part. That empty reservoir is still empty. And the reservoir across the street from my house that I was convinced, my house was never going to burn, the one they didn't even talk about, that one's still empty. They have a hose. I just posted a video about this. They have a hose that comes all the way from Topanga through all the regrown dead brush. This is the hose now supplying the Palisades. But back to rebuilding, what happened is we all had farmers and all these great insurance, but, and I don't blame the insurance companies because it's our Gavin Newsom and our state parks that allowed the 60 years of dead fuels, dead brush to surround our communities knowing that there's no fire break.

48:06All they would have had to do, I talked to the top guy that does all the cutting of this brush. And I said, how much would this have cost to cut a whole fire break 300 yards around the palace? He said under$500 ,000 to save billions of dollars. So back to rebuilding. Insurance dropped everybody because they were smart. They saw all this dead brush into every, it's illegal if I go cut. So if my backyard has Gavin Newsom State Park dead brush coming into it, if I cut it, those are protected milk vetch. You're going to get a fine. The LADWP got fined$1 million for cutting some dead brush around a downed pole in these state parks.

48:47So the CARB who's in charge of this, these people that care more about plants, they're also ruining the Federal Fire Service right now, and they're fighting literal the federal government to protect these plants again over people. So back to building. No, I won't be able to build until we win the lawsuit against Gavin Newsom and his state parks and the city and the LADWP, which we are - What is the lawsuit that you filed? It's a mass tort. It's 10 ,000 victims for the negligence. They let, so, but people don't realize because they're not in the weeds or should we say in the milk vetch on this.

49:24On New Year's Eve, there was a fire in the Pacific Palisades. Eight acres. They put it out. The state park did not monitor that fire, which is in their state park manual, and they let it smolder, leading into a known wind event that was coming on January 6th, January 7th. I've now had firefighter whistleblowers tell me that there was clearly smoldering coals on the side of this hill and now in the depositions with the state park employees, we have their photos. They took photos of the hillside just smoking. And when asked, why didn't you do anything? They say, oh, we're not firefighters. So the state park is liable for allowing a dangerous condition to burn down the community.

50:08The LADWP is liable for leaving the reservoirs empty and having no water. And the city is liable.

50:15Jason Calacanis:So basically, you're just trying to set the record straight, hopefully get back some recompense for you and these other families. but is most of it this first part of just like make the record public of of all of this incompetence and the hope that people realize that it doesn't need to be this way that was initially why i was out making my videos and doing the content to like help my community and then when i saw mayor bass was just automatically going to be the mayor again i was like oh no way and then i called rick caruso i said are you gonna run or what he's like no he's like oh it's on so then i ran with the intention to just try to stop her from becoming mayor if that meant me being mayor it honestly people like oh you have no experience oh to enforce the law what LA needs is a mayor that enforces the law neither Mayor Bass nor Nithya Raman have any intention on enforcing the laws because it doesn't look good it doesn't look good if you tell the illegal food vendors that they can't ruin a small business that's been paying taxes for 40 years oh you're you're messing with this community this at-risk community no this is illegal.

51:19They're destroying this family's business. So these simple things that I would have been able to do as mayor that's unfortunate that it's going to take four years of pure destruction for them people to call me up in four years like, let's go, and I'll be ready. So, you know. Spencer, are you still doing content? Like, what are you doing right now with your time? So there's three opportunities that, you know, are in play. And yes, you know, content, what I realized when I got out of this is the media, and this sounds very POTUS, but the media just lies. Like, there's so many lies that I witnessed all day long firsthand in my city that was like, I need to be out here making content with the truth.

52:02It's not, it's not a, it's in the center. I keep saying, people are like, oh, he's a Republican. No, the truth doesn't have a side. It's that simple. And these people across the country now are trying to destroy it. They truly are. And when you start living this all day long, like me, it's not for LA now. And I'm like, damn, I got to fight for America. Like I'm like, Jason Bourne is crazy. So yeah, no, I, you know, now I'm flying to New York and meeting with people in New York, trying to help them because I don't want New York to go down even worse than. I have a suggestion for you. What were the other two things?

52:35You said there was three things that, that all three? No, there's, there's three plays, you know, but I mean, I was going to be the big guy in AI as mayor because I was going to turn skid row into all just data centers so i mean you're weaving you're speaking our language i had a i actually had a call trying to like get the information about data centers with a guy that knows data centers well he said and he said spencer do you understand this is the time for like a city like la whose infrastructure is collapsing into the ground to take private business and billions And so I was like, hey, yes, you can put this data center where we have naked drug addicts, zombies, and no actual human being can go for 50 blocks.

53:16We're going to put that here, but you need to redo our water pipes. You need to redo our electric... We can retrain the fentanyl addicts to be electricians. Meta's got a program for that. You know, as I drove over here... You solved two problems at once. You know, I was going to solve a lot of problems. But Spencer, in real seriousness, you're incredibly quick-witted and entertaining on camera. You should consider doing reality TV. You know why I don't like reality TV, and it's the only thing worse than people in politics, is there's too much image crafting. And that's what makes a bad reality show.

53:52Now everyone is image crafting trying to create a persona, what's going to be in the comments section. What are people going to say on the blogs? You cannot be on reality. like the last reality show I was on when they rebooted the hills you were on a reality show a couple a couple you know you know I am the reality candidate reality check but everybody was just faking their actual identity and now what's so funny is if you watch any politician they're just a bad tiktok influencer like you look at Abdul Saeed he thinks he's Alex Earl It's like, what are you? Honestly, I just got to tell you, I love you.

54:30And what a mistake because not only would you have gotten some great s*** done, this would have been the most entertaining mayorship in history. Well, he's got time. Yeah, you got to run again. He's got a lot of time. This is amazing. He's not going anywhere. Yeah, no. What's funny is I actually am way more of a threat to these people now because I have - You're dangerous. Two years to really get into these communities. I suggest you torture them. Torture Karen Bass for the next two years. You know, Karen Bass is not our worst nightmare. And I will never say anything positive. Nithya Raman and the DSA, people do not get, my Democrat friends do not understand what the DSA is.

55:12I keep telling them, go on their website. It's not a conspiracy. Read their website. And you tell me. Abolish the police, yes. I mean, the list goes on and on. And this is what they stand behind. And then I used to call them commies and it'd be like, oh, you can't call them commies. Now I'm like, that sounds nice. It's a compliment to them. They're anarchists. Like gassing them up. Crazy. Ladies and gentlemen, Spencer Pratt. Wow.

55:38Jason Calacanis:Thanks, bro. All right. Great stuff.