Ask Dr. Drew - Cali Con: Inside The Radical Coastal Elite Scheme To Reshape America In California’s Dystopian Image w/ Susan Crabtree (of Real Clear Politics) + Joel Gilbert (Director of Roseanne Barr Is America) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 559

Episode Date: November 23, 2025

“Take a close look at today’s Democratic Party power brokers and you’ll quickly realize most of them share one thing in common: California,” writes Susan Crabtree, author of Fool’s Gold and ...National Political Correspondent for RealClearPolitics. “But what people don’t know is… how this contagion could spread to every other city and town in the United States if it isn’t exposed for what it is: failed far-left social experiments.” Susan Crabtree is the National Political Correspondent for RealClearPolitics and a 2024 Dao Prize recipient for investigative journalism. She has covered Washington politics for more than two decades and authored “Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con-Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All.” She has uncovered corruption that prompted FBI and congressional investigations. Learn more at https://x.com/susancrabtree Joel Gilbert is a filmmaker, journalist, and political commentator. He is the director of the film “Roseanne is America” and produces content through Highway 61 Entertainment. Follow at https://x.com/joelsgilbert 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 Find out more about the brands that make this show possible and get special discounts on Dr. Drew's favorite products at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/sponsors⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  • AUGUSTA PRECIOUS METALS – Thousands of Americans are moving portions of their retirement into physical gold & silver. Learn more in this 3-minute report from our friends at Augusta Precious Metals: ⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/gold⁠⁠ or text DREW to 35052 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• FATTY15 – The future of essential fatty acids is here! Strengthen your cells against age-related breakdown with Fatty15. Get 15% off a 90-day Starter Kit Subscription at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/fatty15⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/paleovalley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • VSHREDMD – Formulated by Dr. Drew: The Science of Cellular Health + World-Class Training Programs, Premium Content, and 1-1 Training with Certified V Shred Coaches! More at https://drdrew.com/vshredmd • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twc.health/drew⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kalebnation.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) and Susan Pinsky (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/firstladyoflov⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠e⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Executive Producers • Kaleb Nation - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kalebnation.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Susan Pinsky - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/firstladyoflove⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content Producer & Booking • Emily Barsh - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/emilytvproducer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hosted By • Dr. Drew Pinsky - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/drdrew⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 that dude newsome will just say anything he says stuff that you you he usually will just say things where he thinks he's being cool and he ends up making the point of the person who's asking him the question rather than making any sort of rejoinder amazing all right we're going to spend a little time on california today because as goes california sale goes the rest of the country pay attention to what's going on here it is not cool it's not been cool for quite some time and susan crabtree has been reporting on this real cruel real clear politics national political correspondent. 2024 Dow Prize winner.
Starting point is 00:00:32 She was actually working for that presentation just recently this evening, I think. Two decades covering politics in D.C., author of Fool's Gold, the Radicals, con artist, and traitors who killed the California dream and now threatened us all. Man, that is the truth. And they will be followed by Josh Gilbert, who has got some silver material, but he's a filmmaker, journalist, political commentator, who has a new documentary on our friend Roseanne. We'll talk about that. right after this.
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Starting point is 00:03:20 That is doctordrew.com slash paleo valley. All right. And perhaps later in the show, at the very end, we might get a, on-the-scene report from our friend Emily knows everything, Emily Hagan. Again, Josh Gilbert will be here to talk about the film he's made on Roseanne. You can learn about that. Rosanne isamerica.com is where you can find out about the film. And Joel S. Gilbert on X is his ex-handle.
Starting point is 00:03:49 We'll talk to him in a little while. Right now, however, it is Susan Crabtree. You can follow her, Susan Crabtree on X. let's see the book let's put that up there Caleb I'm going to read it right off the the cover which is fools gold no I'm not but I have to go into the into my material here
Starting point is 00:04:09 radicals con artist traders who killed the California dream and now threatened us all man that is a prescient title I have felt that way for a long time and Susan yeah I I'm sure you have two of you spent time here that kind of title is in our
Starting point is 00:04:29 sort of in the side guys like what are these guys doing and they went to put that guy in the White House are you kidding me? Yeah, exactly. I know it's a the title is a mouthful but it is you know exactly we went over and over again because it's exactly what we're feeling. I came back to California in 2017
Starting point is 00:04:49 after being 23 years in D.C. in that swamp and what I discovered is that I home my home state have become a, you know, cauldron of corruption. We all know about the policies, the bad policies of California. Viewers are well aware, you know, just highest gas prices, highest cost of living, highest insurance rates, highest energy prices. The list goes on and on. Highest poverty rates, highest homelessness, lowest literacy.
Starting point is 00:05:20 I mean, it's unbelievable. But what we wanted to do at this book, and I worked on it, with Peter Schweitzer's group, his top researcher, Jed McFadden. And we wanted to show the corruption. We did a two-year investigation digging really deep into Gavin Newsom's ties to China and his in-up to government, why we have wildfires. And we actually wrote a whole chapter about the wildfires and the bogus claim that it has anything to do with climate change in our book before the Palisades. So the book was due before the Palisades, whole chapter on that.
Starting point is 00:05:58 You know, we just, we talk about all of his letting out all of these prisoners during COVID and how he's, you know, suddenly surprised that there's all these smash and grabs at every major urban center across the state. So, yeah, it's a deep dive and we hope, we're glad that you got your attention. It's exactly what we, everybody needs to know in this country as he's looking to. to get into the White House, sail right into the White House in 2028. So I want to hear about how they perpetrate because it feels to me less like palm greasing and more like cronyism with irresponsible, incompetent subcontractors.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Am I right on that? Well, okay, yes, he has a lot of people surrounding him. Now we know Dana Williamson, his former chief of staff, is included in that. But we found dozens of people that he's appointed or worked for him directly or he in some way is affiliated with him that have either been convicted of criminal acts or found guilty of ethical violations by the California Fair Practices Commission. So, you know, a lot of it we did because that's Schweitzer's specialty is the China connection. But, you know, it goes into just kind of bad policy
Starting point is 00:07:24 and incompetent government in San Francisco emanating from San Francisco. But there's so much money that goes down a rabbit hole, it just goes into a pit and it feels like, and I think
Starting point is 00:07:40 you're going to tell me about AG Attorney General Bonta also, who's way into these problems, but let's take the train to nowhere. You had to have attorneys, you had to have environmental engineers. You had to have lobbyists. You had to have structural engineers. But then you had to have people, they had to meet equity practices to get the right balance of people in there doing the
Starting point is 00:08:02 trains. And no train is built. No train is built. And $93 billion gets spent. I mean, is it literally just people being grifting and doing nothing? Or are they doing things that don't accomplish anything? I think it's the latter. We had the same situation, as you're mentioning, with the high sprail, with the homeless. You know, we call it the homeless industrial complex because there's so many NGOs out there. And there was one instance, and I know Bill O'Saley finally exposed it, but we had pieces of it in our book before the U.S. Attorney, Trump appointed U.S. attorney in Los Angeles did. And we found that this group called Shangri-La, you can't make these things up, had a 20-something CFO who took more than $100 million from the California government, yours and mine taxes, tax dollars, and expended it on a Beverly Hills mansion rent, lots of wonderful cars, luxury vehicles, burke and bags for his
Starting point is 00:09:15 girlfriend, jewelry. I mean, it just, the list goes on and on. And that story was based in my hometown. They were converting these former motels to hotels. And so we dug into that because, you know, obviously it literally hit home for me. And, you know, it was just flake. He used it on his credit to pay off his credit cards. And it wasn't producing this homeless shelter as quickly as he said it would.
Starting point is 00:09:44 and it certainly wasn't taking as much money, as he said it was. And, you know, we thought, let's do a little, some little research on this because these criminal indictments, we knew they were pending going to come out. So we just looked up the lobbying database, Shangri Law. And guess who came up? A lobbyist who had worked directly for Gavin Newsom's housing department, and she had worked for the lieutenant government, governor. And, you know, this isn't rocket science.
Starting point is 00:10:14 is basic journalism. So why did it take, you know, a book that came out months later after we first heard about these rumblings to expose this? It's just, you know, it's all access journalism in California and the reporters aren't doing the real work that, you know, and it used, the reporters used to provide to provide accountability. They don't, they, they do the opposite. They provide cover for these assholes, which I, I, I don't understand why your book isn't on the cover of every newspaper in the country? I don't understand this. Well, there's some backstory to that, but it has to do with our publisher. But our publisher has been great to us, and we're very thankful to them. But I honestly am just
Starting point is 00:11:02 trying to promote the heck out of it personally and get it out there. The Government Accountability Institute, which is Schweitzer's Group, is also doing the same. We have our new podcasts. Not to compete with your podcast, true. But it's called On Background. So we're trying to get the word out. But it is, the Washington Examiner did a book review of our book. And it says it's undisputably a takedown of Gavin Newsom. So it is so well researched.
Starting point is 00:11:33 And he can't. We knew, you know, we had to be airtight with this stuff. There are no anonymous sources. And there's a thousand end notes. You made me look up the publisher. You wouldn't tell me the publisher. But I don't know what's wrong with that publisher. Oh, it's competition with other publishers.
Starting point is 00:11:52 Hashit is the publisher and it's great publisher. But, yeah, there's a story there. But I am just thankful. We got a very good advance for our first-time authors because of our relationship, Hashid's relationship with Government Accountability Institute. So, you know, it's been a great experience. But, yeah, we need to get the word out.
Starting point is 00:12:14 So I'm just so thankful to you, Drew, that you really care about these issues and you want to improve the state. It's just unbelievable what's going on. Look, to me, it's unbelievable what's going on. So to me, the first thing that drives me out of my mind in this state is the homelessness, right? Because these are population, these are, let me be clear what this is in California. These are open-air hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, without walls, that do not allow doctors or nurses in and are run by social workers who are not trained to take care of the most ill psychiatric cases.
Starting point is 00:12:56 It's as sick as you can get psychiatrically. This is it. They're on their streets. And social workers are not, they're wonderful. They're not trained to take care of advanced medical illness. They have zero training on that. And they will always tell you the same thing that leads me to understand how deep their lack understanding is they go, well, we have to meet the patients where they are. Are you effing
Starting point is 00:13:19 kidding me? Their brains aren't working. You take them and you go, hey, come on, let's go. You have a show of forest around them. Let's do this. You're going to die out here. Let's go. We'll take care of you. No problem. We've got good services for you. Let's get you off the drugs. They clear then, and they become magically willing. But it's just unbelievable to me. it's like i'm some sort of surgeon looking at people lying in the street that i could fix but you're not allowed to oh yeah this is the thing i did in 2019 uh i did it with umly compano and we just went around and you know i i was looking at explained to her everyone is on drugs everyone's on meth uh the rat problem was about to explode the plague was going to come it did plague came miryne typhus came
Starting point is 00:14:03 It's just, it's all, it is just so. And so rather than building homeless shelter, we need to build psychiatric hospitals and then residential treatment programs like RFK Jr. wants to build. None of this is going to do anything, none of it. Yeah. Well, you know, everyone likes to blame Reagan in California. Oh, he took away the mental health hospitals. Do you know, do you know the story?
Starting point is 00:14:29 Susan, do you know the story? The story, there's a book called American. psychosis. I suggest you read it. The story is we had three, the guy that established, I want to tell you, I think our audience might be interested in this too. So you guys all listen to this. Sure. The initial, the psychoanalyst, there were no psychiatrist in the mid-20th century. They were all psychoanalyst. And these guys were idiots. They did not know what they were doing. The first, the guy, the first three heads, the National Suit of Mental Health, had never set foot in a psychiatric hospital. hospital. They thought hospitals cause psychiatric illness, and their great insight into humanity as analysts would solve all the problems. And they found a sympathetic senator, a young senator, whose sister had been subjected to a brutal lobotomy. And he was very interested in helping these guys change the mental health system. And when he became president, his last signature before his fateful trip to Dallas was on the Community Mental Health Act, which was a dismantling of the state
Starting point is 00:15:39 health care system that had taken 150 years to develop with no plan for where the patients in these hospitals go. So they went to the street, the prisons, and to death. Those are the places they all went and remain to this day. And what those psychoanalyst did was set up community mental health centers all over the country that were designed to prevent mental illness, which is a fool's errand. Speaking of fools gold, this is a fool's error. You can't do that. And they were abject failures.
Starting point is 00:16:11 And that is what Reagan closed in the 80s. That is what he closed. The state hospitals were already undone. So this whole mythology, it has American psychosis, write it down. It's a great book. I think guys name is Jaffe. Maybe put it up, Caleb, if you can find it. it. But in any event, it's worth everyone's read because you realize, oh, that's why they're all
Starting point is 00:16:34 over the streets. And then if you don't allow psychiatrists and medical doctors to treat them, they're going to die. They have progressive illness. Then fentanyl came along and then meth came along and they put rocket fuel on all this and expanded the population. So there we are. Sorry, that is my California brand. So I see that all the time and I know how I could fix it. No problem. It's not that hard, but you have to actually fix the problem. And, but this, This is the thing about California. So you heard about this fire that smoldered prior to the big conflagration in the palisades, right? So there was a group of firefighters that were asked to stand down.
Starting point is 00:17:10 I want to hear from the firefighters. I don't want to hear from the firefighters. They're not speaking up. I don't want those guys to get blamed for anything. I want them to speak up. I bet they have a story. But they don't. Another thing for Susan Crabtree to look into.
Starting point is 00:17:23 And so the LA Time writes a relatively scathing article. The mayor goes, oh my goodness, this is terrible. We're going to form a committee to talk about this. I thought, that is what we do in California. We only talk. We don't make decisions. We don't solve any problems. We do not govern.
Starting point is 00:17:42 We do not govern in this state or in the city or in this county. Am I wrong? Tell me I'm wrong. Absolutely not. No. The issue with the fires, you know, when the I-10, it came, it was burned underneath because of the homeless. But the reporters weren't allowed to ask about the homeless. that caused the fires.
Starting point is 00:18:01 I mean, Karen Bass was sitting there lecturing the reporters and saying, don't you dare tell us it was the homeless or ask any questions about it. 90% of fires, you ask any firefighters, 90% of their calls are for homeless for fires or dead, or overdose. But I have a friend that runs the aircraft that put the fires out.
Starting point is 00:18:23 He says homeless, all homeless. They just have to drop on homeless shelter, camp encampments all over the place. So look, this is ridiculous. It's absurd. It's in some sort of upside downland we live in here. And the sane people need to...
Starting point is 00:18:39 So my question always, what happened to the voters in California? What happened to us? What's going on here? Well, I think, you know, honestly, you have so many of the conservatives leaving in Exodus. And you had a lot of the... And just the immigration over the course of the last two decades has really changed the nature of the state.
Starting point is 00:19:01 And that's how the Democrats wanted it. That's why they opened the floodgates. I don't know that I buy that, though. Susan, I get that. But all the Hispanic families I know are very conservative and very concerned with house ownership and very concerned with working hard. I don't see this. I don't see ideologues that are turned on by some of these ideas. I don't see a group of people that don't want competent governance. I don't see that. In fact, I see the opposite.
Starting point is 00:19:28 Well, if you look at our state legislature, a lot of them are Hispanic. I'm just telling you, it's a supermajority to just take a look at the names in that and that supermajority. And you're going to find a lot of, like Lorena Gonzalez, who was a San Diego rep and then, of course, now she's running one of the biggest unions in California. And that's sort of where the money is in all of the. The unions are behind some of these, a lot of these failed policies in California.
Starting point is 00:19:57 That could explain. That could explain something. Yeah. When you talk about the homelessness, I came from D.C. And there's plenty of homeless in D.C., but nothing like California. So I first came down to San Diego. And I remembered Horton Plaza in this beautiful sparkling bay, this, you know, 80s type of outdoor mall. It was gorgeous.
Starting point is 00:20:17 I always go down there and get my prom dresses in high school. It was a treat. And here it was all boarded up. and there's homeless everywhere. It melts to high heaven. And I was taking my daughter, my six-year-old at the daughter at the time, to a Sandcastle building contest on the pier. I thought that would be a great family.
Starting point is 00:20:36 And this homeless individual came towards us. And it was so sad because the stench was so, it was awful. He was in such sanitary conditions. And then the next thing I know, Drew, is there was a hepatitis outbreak. and it killed 17 people in San Diego. I mean, this is third world stuff. And then the wildfires started coming one after another. And I thought, and they're actually creating,
Starting point is 00:21:04 if you believe in climate change, if you're concerned about climate change, you certainly don't want these wildfires. And, you know, we know that the one. It contributes to the climate change. Contributes to it. I saw some estimations that 20 years, of all electric vehicles in California
Starting point is 00:21:25 does not match the savings that will be contributed by a single wildfire. A single wildfire contributes essentially. UCLA study. 20 years of electric vehicles, yeah. So why aren't we doing forestry management? Why aren't we doing CO2 capture? Because they don't care.
Starting point is 00:21:43 These are all frauds. People are frauds, they don't care. They say what's convenient, what seems, what's cool. They don't actually care about solving problems or doing anything. So what was your take on the firefighter thing with on the forestry management? Because I just look in the mountains behind me and I can see what the problem is. I see it.
Starting point is 00:22:01 I see the problem. It's obvious. Well, it's absolutely forest management. I have a family in Oregon as well and they have terrible wildfires there too. And they're caused by the homeless and people, you know, smoking meth and lighting things on fire and in this highly dense forests up. in Oregon. But in California, we started with the spotted owl. You know, that was in my generation where that was a big issue. So we didn't stop thinning the forest. We stopped doing this basic force management. And, but you know, I personally
Starting point is 00:22:36 believe most of the wildfires, and according to the Wall Street Journal, this is true. 1,500 wildfires were started by PG&E utility caused by negligence. And they're one of the biggest donors. The utilities are one of the biggest donors. to Newsom and to the Democrats. In fact, Gavin Newsom's and his wife, her gender justice films or documentaries, got $750,000 both of them and campaign contributions and donations to her documentaries.
Starting point is 00:23:08 And they're so close to PG&E that they had one of the PG&E executive listed as an assistant producer on her films, and they were screened in PG&E headquarters in downtown San Francisco. I mean, this is the kind of level. of corruption that we're dealing with. And he asked PG&E and other utilities
Starting point is 00:23:28 to contribute to his wife's films. They have business before him, and he's asking them to, in these behested payments that are unique to California, we found so much in these behested payments, that's how we've discovered the bronze bust that became such a viral moment on Fox News from the book when it first came out,
Starting point is 00:23:49 that Gavin Newsom paid for, he'd like to say, oh, I have this bronze bus. I'm so embarrassed that I have this bronze bus in downtown San Francisco City Hall made out to me. It looks like, you know, a prince and the little mermaid, you know, with his open collar and everything. And he actually, I'm not kidding. Then we find out that he actually was contributing to the creation of the bus from the Plunkjack wineries. He was donating to his own monument to me. And so, you know, Gutfeld and your friend Gutfeld had a great, had a field day with that.
Starting point is 00:24:25 And Jesse Waters made his own little monument to me and brought it out. And that was a funny moment. It's just so, you know, these behested payments, they have these companies that have business before the state. He can ask them, and he has, they've skyrocketed under his leadership. They've got, you know, Jerry Brown had enough of that going on under his watch. And it was like triple or quadruple the amount of money. He's asking for companies like TikTok, even TikTok. You know, he had that terrible PPD deal with TikTok in China during COVID where we were getting,
Starting point is 00:25:03 they didn't even meet their deadlines. The material they were using was terrible. And guess what? They paid TikTok, paid $350,000 to, for the public service announcements to get us to all mask up during COVID. and, you know, to take it down during Thanksgiving when he was, remember that in-between bites, you've got to take it down and put it up. When he was at the French laundry. That is the most ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous thing ever.
Starting point is 00:25:29 So it just gets me upset. Yeah, he ruined a generation of young people, too, with his two-year lockdown of schools. But anyway, but the forestry thing, I watched it happen. You haven't lived here long enough to know. It was it was environmentalists. They got in the way of the fire breaks because it was affecting the migration of a field mouse or something. And then they just started piling on one concern after another. And they were all spurious and they were all nothing compared to the damage done by the fires themselves.
Starting point is 00:26:03 So it was, you know, saving a penny to burn a dollar, essentially. And it was just so, it's just so, so ridiculous. And is there, but now I was talking to somebody yesterday, I was screaming about. about this very issue. And she said, well, maybe we could get forestry management back, get the fire breaks up, but there's no money to do it. California is broke. California, don't we have a mandate for a balanced budget and yet we have $30 billion deficit or something? How does that work? Well, it's $100 billion. He had a surplus when he came into office, Gavin Newsom.
Starting point is 00:26:35 And then he's tucking it to like a $48 billion. Depends on who you ask, you know, you can fudge the numbers to make it anything you want. But it's something like a $48 billion deficit. And all that had to do with the EDD money that we lost the employment money that went out the door and we were given it to gangsters and we were given it to people on death row and people like listing Mickey Mouse as their name and Diane Feinstein. So now we got to pay the federal government back for that, I just think, $30 billion. It's like always tens of billions in California, everything. So, you know, that was contributing to it, but it was really the health insurance for the illegal immigrants that he, He under way underestimated when he decided that I was going to provide that.
Starting point is 00:27:18 And it's now like upwards of $11 billion for one year. Go look at that. I'm coming up all these assignments I want you to do for me because I trust you to do it. But back in the 80s, we had a similar problem with migration from Central America. And the state refused under Duke Majin to cover it. And the counties had to cover it because people don't get turned away for help. health care in this country. We don't. And the counties went bankrupt doing it. So it's kind of an interesting thing. Somebody gets screwed by this. Whether the state gets screwed or the counties
Starting point is 00:27:54 get screwed, there's just no way to, if you're going to let them in, we don't turn people away for health care. And I just don't, it's just kind of an interesting chapter that everybody forgets that we've done this before. And when the state turns it away, somebody else gets screwed. But, oh, shoot. Well, tell us about Banta and his thing, the attorney general. Yeah. Well, now he's under deep scrutiny right now because he has, he spent 500 grand on lawyer fees from his campaign account. So, and so what it was is the FBI was looking into the Oakland mayor and this contract has ties to this contract for, it was truck, it was trash recycling is what it was,
Starting point is 00:28:38 renewable biodiesel, but it was really trash recycling is what it was. So actually, Bonta was the one who got the contract for this company, but the company didn't use it correctly. And so, and actually he got the contract
Starting point is 00:28:54 because it didn't, it was rejected initially in the normal contracting process. So Banta's now saying, oh, his story has been changing every day this week. since it came out. I mean, it doesn't a day go by in California
Starting point is 00:29:10 that we don't have another story dropping about California corruption. So I think the House of Cards is starting to fall. But Bont is at the center of it. But no one's covering it. It's not in the early front of the L.A. Times. I know you are and you've got to keep screaming about it,
Starting point is 00:29:24 but it needs to get into the public consciousness. It's not leaking in you. So please keep punching. Keep punching. And then you have a story about the Secret Service also. You were in the intelligence world there for a minute And can you tell us about that? Oh, I had a whole series of Secret Service stories.
Starting point is 00:29:43 The problems with after Butler assassination attempt, that's why I got the Dow Award last year for those stories. And I continue to write about the Secret Service failures. And I don't think they've done a good job responding to that. And then they've got, they had cronianism and corruption for years and years and years that I reported on dating back 15 years. years during the Obama administration and even before that and there was, you know, prostitution scandals of the Secret Service. But what we after, during the Biden era, the
Starting point is 00:30:17 Kimberly Cheatel, the director, when the Butler happened, she, she pushed DEI, this 30 by 30 pledge, meaning 30% women by 2030. She was letting her, and she was prioritizing LGBTQ staffers to go to Australia for national conferences for LGBTQ law enforcement and to Disney World right after COVID, I mean, sorry, right after the Butler, they went to Disney World for a Pride Summit and they were trying to these summits, their takeaways where how can we make your law enforcement agency, including the Secret Service trans inclusive. So their priorities were completely upside down. And so you've had a series of scandals that I broke and you had. two women cap fighting outside of Obama's residence earlier. You had a Glock that was recently
Starting point is 00:31:12 missed at one of Trump and during screening at one of the Virginia Trump Golf Course. You had an African American agent overweight falling asleep at the UN General Assembly and posed in clear public view and leaving his fully automatic rifle sitting there and the NYPD turned him in because I thought this is absolutely insane. The list goes on and on, but, you know, really the people that were in charge of that Butler security, they were a lot of inexperienced women that had no business being in charge of that security for an outdoor rally. I think what we're learning about the Secret Service and the FBI and even the, I don't know about the CIA so much, but certainly the FBI and the FBI and the Secret Service of that era is there was something desperately wrong, desperately wrong with these organizations. I mean, just like California. Everybody reminds me of California.
Starting point is 00:32:11 It's just not governing, not doing their job, not focusing on the job at hand, not making good decisions, having some other priority other than your job, other than getting things done. But it's just beyond me that we're, I don't know. I think that is the Secret Service writing their ship? Are they getting better?
Starting point is 00:32:31 That's the problem. Because they have such a storied past. Yeah. It's such a vaunted agency. And in the past, you know, when we grew up and watching the line of fire, and the real answer, the short answer is I'm sorry to say that I don't feel like the reforms have been forthcoming. I don't think the new director, Trump appointed director, Sean Curran, is digging in. He doesn't have the leadership skills.
Starting point is 00:32:55 Even Dan Bonino, you know, former Secret Service agent, who's now the FBI director, said that before joining the government. And I was on his podcast, and we agreed with that. He doesn't have what it takes to really shake up an agency that it needs. And, you know, he's letting these DEI policies continue. Several of his promotions have been to people who were instrumental in the previous administration's DEI priorities, executing them and coming up with them. And he's promoting these people. I don't get it. I really don't get it.
Starting point is 00:33:26 He allowed Kimberly Cheadle to renew her security clearance. It was going on going that I found out about it. And I called Senator Ron Johnson. And I said, hey, you need to, what do you think about this? He said, absolutely not. Wrote a letter, Senator Blackburn wrote a letter, sent him over. They stopped it. It's just, you know, it's business as usual, swampy Washington stuff where, because they use those security clearances to get Fortune 500 jobs, you know, so they can be in charge.
Starting point is 00:33:54 Who's in your crosshairs next? What's going up to you next? Who are you going to go after? Who am I going after? Well, I am looking at Rob Bont to very, very harshly. I wrote a profile of him and they were going to do a sit-down interview with me and they rescinded it, which I found was interesting because that was in November of last year.
Starting point is 00:34:13 I was doing a story on his lawfare against the oil and gas industry. So, yeah, he is there. I'm going to continue to do C. Uh-oh. We're still here. We're still here. He froze on me. Okay, good.
Starting point is 00:34:31 Do you want to take a break? take our break and then we'll give her a chance to wrap up and then we'll bring joel in here how about yeah good idea let's do that okay so you guys will wrap up with susan crabs tree after this break and they'll bring uh our second guest in here talking about his rosan he's also a a journalist as well uh joel gilbert will bring him in after we wrap up with susan after this i'm excited to bring you a new product a new supplement fatty i take it i make susan take take my whole family takes it this comes out of believe it or not dolphin research the navy maintains a fleet of dolphins and a brilliant veterinarian recognize that these dolphins sometimes
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Starting point is 00:39:01 Dr. Pinsky told me that you are having some issues? He says I'm depressed. Are you? Dr. Drew. My friend, Jim. Fool's Gold, the radicals, con artists, and traitors who killed the California Dream. now threaten us all. It is Susan Crabtree. She is the author. There is the book. Get it, read it. It's, uh, it's all true. It's just, I can, I'm here to vouch for it. And you were
Starting point is 00:39:32 saying you were going after the attorney general kind of hard now. Is there anything else in your crosshairs? Parental rights is also on your, on your, uh, agenda, correct? Oh, yeah. Is that something in California that's bad here too? Uh, you know what Jack Drew. I, we have problems with, you know, hiding the general. Gender transitions that are happening in our schools. The administrators are told to hide it from parents. We also have, I just recently did a story about a BDSM expert that was allowed to come into the school or was invited. The parents finally stopped it.
Starting point is 00:40:06 But other counselors for gender dysphoria coming into the schools and indoctrinating children during, you know, cafeteria Pride Week. So these types of things are happening in public schools on a regular basis. So yes. But of course, Gavin Newsom is our main target. And we're going to keep him, we're holding him accountable. And this Dana Williamson story about his chief of staff, I think it has a lot of legs. And so we're going to follow it wherever it goes. I am just dedicated to providing accountability.
Starting point is 00:40:38 There's another thing. I've heard many, many stories of extramarital misadventures from some participants, frankly. And why isn't anybody going after all that? If that's going to be a presidential candidate, I suggest we might be interested in some of that stuff, no? Well, I think it's all in my book, so you can take a look at that. But, you know, I don't know if the American public so much for that. I think, you know, the writing is on the wall for him because just took it his state. You know, it's a failed state.
Starting point is 00:41:16 You have an incompetent government. You're trying to save environmental plants in the Lackland area instead of bulldozing. that area and now guess what there are no environment there no environmentally protected plants left there because they've all been burned it's just absurd policies like that it's it's that we take a look at in the book but i'm excited about the california post coming to town i think that's going to be a game changer and it's come they're coming in january i hear i like my job at real clear politics but i have nothing but support and i hope that they can change the narrative in the a narrative in California, provide some accountability.
Starting point is 00:41:56 We're looking there at the Newsom budget problems. Yeah, one last question before you go. I thought we had a constitutional obligation to have a balanced budget in this state. Is that just not true? Or they just ignore the Constitution? How does that work? They write themselves out of it, just like they did with Prop 50, right? We had an independent commission that was voter approved.
Starting point is 00:42:17 And they just decided to put that aside and, you know, flood the zone with George Soros ads and union ads, and they won. They're going to get rid of four to six Republican members to Congress if it doesn't get overturned by the, ultimately by the Supreme Court. But that's what's going. I've been covering that issue as well. They just have the money on their side, and they just, the super majority, it's a one-party state, and they do what they want. It doesn't matter what impact it has on our citizens. It's so, it's so, So, it's so un-American, undemocratic, corrupt. It's just a mess.
Starting point is 00:42:58 All right, S-Crabbtree at realclearpolitics.com. Are you on X also? Yes, Susan Crabtree on X. Anywhere else you'd like people to go, other than Amazon to go get the book? Sure, yeah, that would be excellent. Thank you so much, Dr. Drew. I am been a fan of yours since Loveline,
Starting point is 00:43:16 so it's been a long time. I love it when you're on Gutfeld. I appreciate your podcasts. and I am just so thankful that you care so much about these issues to bring it to light. Well, I am so grateful you're out there fighting the fight. I'm just shaking my head going, what is that going on here? And then worrying about the literally thousands of people dying on our streets, that's just like, I can't even believe it, but here we are.
Starting point is 00:43:40 All right, I'm sure we will speak to you again, but keep up great work. Thank you, Susan. Thank you so much. Take care. You got it. next up is Joel, let me get Joel's material Joel Gilbert, Joel S. Gilbert on X.
Starting point is 00:43:56 Roseanne is America is where you can find out more about the documentary. Let's see. I guess Joel has other films. You can, that's for me.
Starting point is 00:44:08 Let's talk to Joel now about the Roseanne film. I watched a trailer, but it looks pretty damn good. Joel, welcome. Okay, thanks. Hey, good to be here. I appreciate you're having me. Yeah, Roseanne Barr,
Starting point is 00:44:19 is an iconic American comedian and a great American patriot. She has legions of fans for many years, number one comedy show in the 90s and just a great personality. And this film is called Roseanne Barr is America because it's Roseanne telling her full life story, starting when she grew up as an Orthodox Jewish girl in a Salt Lake City of all places, growing up with Holocaust survivors. and she talks about how she got into comedy and the comedy clubs in Denver.
Starting point is 00:44:52 She came to Hollywood and they put her right in the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. She started opening for Julio Iglesias and pretty much landed the Roseanne show within a couple of years. And she takes us through her whole life history, including when she gets into politics. She was a loudmouth socialist in 2012. She actually ran for president on the far-left Freedom and Workers Party ticket. And then a couple of years later, she kind of had a ideological conversion and she became a Trump supporter in 2016. And that led to them resurrecting her show. 20 years later, they put the Roseanne show back on TV.
Starting point is 00:45:31 It was number one again. And what they were doing at the time, Roseanne was a Trump supporter in real life. And she was a Trump supporter on her TV show as well. And she kind of featured a Hillary supporter under the same roof. and they would have these interesting conversations. But at the time, the Democrat Party and the media were trying to frame all Trump supporters as racist. This was their big thing.
Starting point is 00:45:56 If you support Trump, you must be racist. So you might remember, Roseanne put out a very funny tweet regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes movie. And she said, if they had a baby, it'd be Valerie Jarrett, because Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran. And she thought she was Iranian, and she was making a joke.
Starting point is 00:46:16 about the Planet of the Apes movie, which is about taking over the world. And they immediately said, oh, well, did you know that Valerie Jera was 10% black? And Roseanne said, no. And they said, well, that must be racist, you're racist. And even though Roseanne was a lifelong civil rights supporter and, you know, did all these anti-racist shows, they said, oh, well, that's racist and canceled her show within like 20 minutes and she got completely canceled out of Hollywood. So she was pretty much the biggest victim of the cancel culture at that time.
Starting point is 00:46:52 And so the movie she walks us through, how she perseveres and kind of comes back. So the film is actually on all the live streaming platforms, Amazon Prime, YouTube movies, Apple TV, 2B TV, you name it, it's everywhere. I will watch. I got a couple of questions. I understand vocal production a little bit. did she do a little training before she sang in the national anthem for her uh so her what do we call that uh when somebody comes back and does something again is her command performance well in the
Starting point is 00:47:29 movie she actually sings the national anthem you does a good job but uh she does tell the story but i'm saying though she sings it she sings it so well that i think i hear a little vocal training there like she did something to get to get herself in shape for that well i think she took, you know, people remember that she did a national anthem on working women's night at a San Diego Padres game back of the 90s, and she completely butchered it. She started off too high. National anthem is a song, if you start out too high, you're dead. So she started out too high, and it just became a terrible mess. And, you know, they made a big deal about it at the time, but it didn't really hurt her. But she is very famous for, you know, probably the worst national
Starting point is 00:48:11 anthem ever at a major league baseball game. Well, it's interesting now that she gets attacked now for being a Patriot, she got attacked then for butchering the National Anthem. That's right. So you can't win. You cannot win. So you've got other films, too. Is that right?
Starting point is 00:48:27 You do documentaries generally? You want to tell us about some of those? Yeah, I'm pretty well known as kind of the conservative Michael Moore. I'm pretty well known for a film called Dreams from My Real Father, and from 2012 about Obama's background, I presented a mountain of evidence that his real biological father was not the Kenyan student, Barack Obama. Instead, it was the man who raised him in Hawaii named Frank Marshall Davis that Obama looks just like, who was an American communist out of Chicago, who was actually a Soviet agent during the Cold War. And you can watch that movie. It's
Starting point is 00:49:00 everywhere. It's been seen by millions of people. I made a film investigative report about the Trayvon Martin case, 2019, called the Trayvon Hoax. And in that one, I showed that the key witness, Rachel Gentel, the hefty Haitian American girl who said she was on the phone with Trayvon and she was his girlfriend that got Zimmerman arrested. I proved that she was not his girlfriend. She was not on the phone with him. She was two years older and 200 pounds heavier than Trayvon. And it was actually a different girl named Diamond Eugene and she's in the movie.
Starting point is 00:49:31 She's the one that was on the phone with Trayvon. She was the girlfriend. Ben Crump had said she's only 16 years old. Rachel Gentel was 19. So Diamond Eugene would not lie to the police. so they subbed in a fake witness was this mentally challenged girl to get Zimmerman arrested. And you learn in that case, of course, Pam Bondi, the current Attorney General. She was the Attorney General of Florida at the time, and she caved into the mob.
Starting point is 00:49:56 The local police exonerated Zimmerman. They said self-defense, but Pam Bondi caved into the mob protest and appointed a special prosecutor to arrest Zimmerman. I don't know if Zimmerman, I don't know if Trump knew about her lack of backbone when he hired her for U.S. General. It made a film called Trump, The Art of the Insult, very funny movie about Trump's 2016 campaign. The Climate, according to A.I. Al Gore, I exposed the climate hoax, came out last year. Many films about, several films about Bob Dylan I've made in depth about his career. Comedy about Paul McCartney called Paul McCartney Really Is Dead. Elvis Found Alive. I have about 20 different films. You can go to Highway 61.E.N.T.com.
Starting point is 00:50:41 A lot of films about music history, comedies, and a lot of kind of conservative-leaning political documentaries. You've got to get some of these on the documentary lineup for the airlines. That's when I end up watching all my documentaries is when I'm sitting in an aircraft to try to kill time. Please get them on there. They all sound great. I guess I can pull up on my computer. Well, one of my films about the Middle East from 2007, I'm actually a Middle East scholar. It's my original field of study.
Starting point is 00:51:13 It was called Farewell, Israel, Bush, Iran, and the revolt of Islam, the history of Islam and Islamic Jewish conflict since the time of Muhammad. And actually, I was watching that on a plane one time, and I got turned into the TSA or something because for the next couple of years, they would haul me off the airplane. When it landed, they would grab me and talk to me. And I got put on some kind of watch lists. So when you talk about watching films on airplanes, you do have to be. be careful if it's a conservative-related film.
Starting point is 00:51:44 I got put on a watch list. Be careful of spurious associations. I get that treatment at airports. You used to get it all the time, all the time. Now I get it some of the time. So you never know where it's coming from. You, am I right that you wrote an editorial about Epstein, who wins, who loses? No, I've written since March of this year.
Starting point is 00:52:08 I'm the one that broke the story about Letitia James and her mortgage fraud investigated and published on Gateway Pundit, a series of articles about her apartment building in Brooklyn, which she bought. It's a five-unit apartment building, and she claimed for 20 years every time she refinanced it, she said it's either one unit or four units because you get lower residential interest rates and residential low closing costs. If she was honest and said it was five units, which it legally is, according to the certificate of occupancy, she would have had to pay much higher commercial interest rates and closing costs. So she's a serial mortgage fraudster for 25 years. I even found that her first mortgage when she was only 24 years old, she bought a townhome in Queens with her father, and she told the mortgage company on the documents that her father was her husband.
Starting point is 00:53:02 She said she married her father, and they posed as husband and wife, so that Letitia qualified for the loan. She also purchased three houses in Virginia that my colleague, Sam Antar, did a lot of work on, and there she claimed that they were her principal residences or her second home in order to qualify for lower interest rates. So she's got a 43-year history of mortgage fraud. It's obvious, it's intent, and she's finally got one charge from the Department of Justice for just one of these crimes.
Starting point is 00:53:36 I think there are superseding indictments coming because she has a mountain of mortgage fraud for her entire career. Isn't there something similar coming with Swalwell? Are you familiar with that story too? Yeah, I actually also broke the story on Swalwell. You're talking to the right person. I found his mortgage in Washington, D.C.
Starting point is 00:53:59 He bought a $1.2 million home and declared it as his principal residence. Now, the problem with that is that, The U.S. Constitution says that congressmen must be an inhabitant of their home state. California state law goes even further. Election code 349 says you have to have a domicile. You have to have an actual residence in your home state. Turns out that Eric Swalwell has no address, no home in California.
Starting point is 00:54:25 So he's either violating California election law or he's committing mortgage fraud in Washington, D.C. Now, I compared that to Maxine Waters, of all people. Maxine Waters is a congresswoman in many years. She owns a home in L.A. And in her mortgage document in Washington, D.C., she said she told the bank it would be her second home. So she did it correctly, and she accepted slightly higher interest rates for a second home. When you're a principal residence, that's the lowest mortgage rates available because it's the lowest risk. the banks assess risk that if you're living in the house, you're going to take care of it and you have
Starting point is 00:55:05 less defaults. Second homes, rental properties, those are different levels of risk and different mortgage rates. So I also looked into Swalwell's financial statements from when he ran for Congress in 2011. He's got very strange things happening on his financial disclosures. He has not paid down his student debt in 20 years. Nothing. 100,000. He has not paid down 100,000 in credit card debt. Now, he's been making $174,000 a year as a congressman, yet he hasn't paid off any of these bills. It's very strange. He also owns, it's somewhat of a dumpy house in D.C.
Starting point is 00:55:46 It's not a nice house, but it costs him $1.2 million, and that he had to, you know, take out this principal residence loan. So Eric Swalwell has very, very strange goings on. he's taking a lot of money from foreign donors to fly him around the world. I think he is thinking and probably will declare for governor of California, but he's somebody that I'm continuing to publish articles on because of his very, very strange financial situation and the fact that I believe he's in violation of mortgage fraud laws in D.C. and in violation of election law in California.
Starting point is 00:56:26 And Joel, these are these just, all public records, you just open them up? Do you go online and ask for them? And boom, there's all the smoking guns? Yeah, I mean, I've had kind of this little career out of just looking at public documents, including the Trayvon Martin case. I just looked at Trayvon's text messages. You know, he had 3,000 text messages, and he's exchanging photos with his girlfriend named Diamond Eugene. And that's not Rachel Gentel. It's not the girl that showed up in court. So it's just so obvious. So, yeah, all the mortgage documents are online.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Now, the Department of Justice, once Swalwell just got referred to the Department of Justice, just like Letitia James, they can then subpoena mortgage records and actual applications that are not public that they can get even more information. One of the biggest ones is Letitia James in 2010, she had a 10% adjustable loan on her apartment building in Brooklyn. and she applied for a U.S. government HAMP loan under the TARP program. She wanted to reduce from 10% to only 2.7%. Now, to get that loan, she lied and said it's only four apartments.
Starting point is 00:57:36 It wasn't available for more than four apartments. She had five. She also lied and said she had to say she had a financial hardship to get it on the back of the American taxpayer. She said, I have a financial hardship. Now, she was making $14,000 a month. So I think that was a lot. lie. So the Department of Justice can subpoena her documents that are not public and see what the
Starting point is 00:57:59 heck she said she, you know, because that was perjury. So, but most of this stuff is so odd. Most of this stuff is online. Come on you stand up in public and give lectures, you know, about how they're coming for me. They just, it's just revenge. It's just, she's just so crazy. Well, she set the standard with Trump. She said any tiny error in a mortgage application is a grave crime that you cannot get away with it. You have to be held accountable because regular people would go to jail. So she said any little mistake even is a grave crime. Now in Letitia's case, she actually committed about 30 grave crimes, not little crimes, big fraud crimes for 43 years. So the hypocrisy is breathtaking. Breatthaking, truly. Well, Joe, I appreciate all your work.
Starting point is 00:58:50 I appreciate, I want to take a look at all the documentaries. Tell people, again where they can see your docks and particularly the Rosanna's America doc. Yeah, start with Rosannaisamerica.com. Watch the trailer and you can hook up there where to watch it live stream just about anywhere and the DVD on Amazon, of course. Highway 61ENT for entertainment, Highway 61E&T, all my films are there on my corporate site. Joel S. Gilbert on Twitter, I do a lot of posting. All my articles, check the Gateway Pundit. I'm publishing there several times a week all my investigations and uh you know rosan is america dot com it's probably the funniest most interesting film you've ever seen yeah i i know rosan well i love her she's fascinating
Starting point is 00:59:36 did she talk about them she has a whole thing about them those people the ultra something i can ever figure who she's talking about well you got to watch the film there's just so much information i i haven't talked to anybody that only watched it once they all said i had to watch it again. There's just so much in there. It's so funny and it's so entertaining. You'll just love it. And are there any investigative reports we should look out for? Who is in your crosshair? Is anything we should be sitting tight or looking forward to finding? Yeah, it can be a lot more in Eric Swalwell because he's got this pack that he started. He put his wife in charge of this pack that I'm investigating that raised all this money that she's
Starting point is 01:00:21 benefiting from and getting this huge salary. He's still, I mean, he could literally be charged today in California for not maintaining a California residence violating the election law. There's a lot more coming on Swalwell. You know, he's got so many strange things going on in his life. And the finances, looking at Swalwell's finances, you're going to learn more and more about the problems this guy has. Just who we need in charge of the, uh, offers here in California, which has got enough problems on its own. Joel, appreciate your work. We'll look for more.
Starting point is 01:00:56 Thank you so much for joining us. Okay. Thanks for having me. Thank you. You got it. Let's see, Caleb, what's coming up. Emily has got tied up in Washington. We're not going to be seeing her today. Where is the list that Emily very kindly sends me? Caleb, you want to put up the list that you have?
Starting point is 01:01:16 And we'll talk about who's coming up. Here we are. Here's the list. I will say I was able I got a preview of the Thomas Massey interview that Emily Hagan did and you
Starting point is 01:01:28 people need to go follow her it's Instagram.com slash Emily knows everything EM what E M I L-E am I saying there? Yeah E M-I-L-E knows everything She gave us
Starting point is 01:01:39 Explosive stuff Yeah Yeah she gave us a little hint yesterday and she didn't think it was anything And I thought that was explosive So there's this stuff coming Ryan Sickler tomorrow for our, wait, tomorrow, it's
Starting point is 01:01:50 Thursday, is it Tuesday? Monday. We're going to be Monday, right? Correct? Yes, Monday. Monday show next week. To Georgeu is a, one of the women that was trafficked and sort of groomed by Gisland Maxwell is hold on a second.
Starting point is 01:02:08 There's a shift mortgage investigation now too, breaking. And is she going to be in studio, Caleb? Do you know? Because she was in studio last time. She was recently added Brian Sikler, good friend. He's the Honeydue podcast. Then Chef Grohl is going to come by and talk a little turkey, literally with us.
Starting point is 01:02:26 The next following week, Tim Hardaway, great basketball player, basketball great. Cory DeAngelis, Rob Henderson, Chloe Carmel. These are all great, great grass. So you want to miss the week after Thanksgiving. We'll be back home. Be full throttle again moving forward with you guys. Appreciate you all watching the restream. Let me quickly look at what you guys are up to.
Starting point is 01:02:46 I didn't realize questions there. Do you remember we had Martha Byrne on the show a few months ago because her husband was, he was being jailed? I forget for what, and she was trying to get a pardoned from Trump. I didn't realize he actually did. Trump pardoned him, convicted of acting as an agent of China, which was a false story. But, yeah, I didn't realize that.
Starting point is 01:03:09 Here's a new story from the hill. Just broke, just broke. DOJ opens probe into handling of shift mortgage investigation. Meaning what? Meaning he doesn't have mortgage fraud and he's going to counter sue or something? I don't know. So there's some breaking news on that.
Starting point is 01:03:26 Christine Bisch running for Congress, California. Previously claimed to have whistleblower information about Schiff's mortgage has been called before a grand jury. Peers investigators were primarily interested in whom she spoke to about the claim. So she'll be in studio, Emily said.
Starting point is 01:03:41 So keep an eye on the shift situation. The Swalwell seems to have no such sort of alibi. All right. Let's see. We'll see you on Monday at 2 o'clock because we're going to do one show on Thanksgiving week and we will see you there at 2 o'clock Pacific
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