The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2074 Part 2 - CA State Attorney General Candidate Michael Gates Joins the Show!

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

CA State Attorney General candidate Michael Gates joins the show! They recount how Dr. Drew first met Michael and why he decided to enter politics. They revisit Adam's viral confrontation with Gavin Newsom over COVID beach closures, discuss Huntington Beach declaring itself a non-sanctuary city, and react to ICE controversies—including a sassy agent shutting down a shouting Karen.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Recorded live at Corolla 1 Studios with Adam Carolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice by getting on to mandate you. Get it on. Dr. Drew, board certified physician. Diction medicine specials. Wow, I actually understood what you said.

Michael Gates. Oh, Michael Gates. Because there's somebody in the studio here. Michael Gates. State Attorney General. That's what he's campaigning for, former Huntington Beach City. Sorry, Huntington City Beach Attorney, or so it says. Good to see you, Michael.

Huntington Beach. Huntington Beach City Attorney. So I got to know. Okay, I got Huntington City Beach. I mentioned it's... All right. I mentioned him several times to you because I got to know him on my streaming show when he was the Huntington Beach City Attorney because he was suing Newsom all the time.

and winning. And I thought you would like that. I would. Yeah. So, I mean, I think we're all in the same boat. We're all feel like L.A. and California is sort of falling apart. Yeah. And I mean, that's a nice way to put it.

But it's coming undone. And we sort of feel like we need to fix it and change things. And yet we keep electing people that keep going further down the road of chaos and us sloughing off and going into the ocean. And Michael pointed out to me, every election, 60% seems to go one way. How is this? Every election of every candidate, how does that possible? But before we go down this path, at the end of my conversation with him, when I first met him, as a city attorney, he goes, we have a pass together.

And I go, really? What are you talking about? And maybe tell Adam what the situation was. Yeah, so pretty fresh at a lot. law school, one of my first jobs was to work for a medical malpractice defense law firm. And so we would get cases randomly assigned to us as attorneys. And one of the cases that came across my desk was Dr. Drew's. And this was a suit primarily against his Pasadena rehab facility where he was the director. And it was, you know, a plaintiff attorney wanting to sue a celebrity. He was kind of an enterprising individual. Dr. Drew really,

had no liability or exposure, but it made good, it made good for his lawsuit. Never met the patient. Oh, yeah. The reason they got me in was when the patient was being discharged, I was sitting with his doctor, and the nurse went, the patient's been discharged, and the doctor went, thanks, good. And on the note, the nurse writes, patient discharge, Dr. Pinsky and Dr. Blum aware. That's it, I'm in.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the scary sentence ever is anyone can sue anyone over anything. I go, I don't like that world where anyone can sue anyone over anything all the time. And the litigious, whatever. I mean, it's weird that you don't really think about the damage that the attorneys have caused in Los Angeles and California and how insidious it is. Because we think of it as they're defending the rights of people who don't have, you know, whatever. but we have to be the most lawyered up city.

Los Angeles and California has to per capita. I mean, here's a deal. Every time you make a new rule, then someone's going to exploit that rule and then an attorney's going to get wise to it. By the way, it's almost impossible. You can't fire anybody.

I've had it a million times or like somebody quit and then next thing you know you get a thing and the wrongful termination. And then someone just goes, just pay him $86,000. You don't want to deal with this. And I'm like, I don't even know what this is.

Well, he's claiming racial discriminating. I didn't know what his, I didn't know what his heritage was. I didn't know what he was. You know, like, yeah, but. And it's like, oh, you're going to cripple business. Yes. I've seen that plenty of times in my career. What I can say, though, is I think our politicians in California do more damage and more harm than the lawyers do.

Finally were there. That's true. Well, they facilitate it. I mean, they open the door to this. I mean, even Mark Garagos, who owns restaurants, it's, oh, always gets a letter from a lawyer from the Americans with disabilities because the grab bar was a quarter inch too low by the commode at the restaurant or whatever. Like, he has to fend off this shit. So the politicians make the decree.

They go, we need to have something to protect. There's vulnerable citizens who are disabled. And now I have an act that says all public spaces and restaurants need to have grab bars next to the toilet. and then the lawyers slide in, right? And so the politicians are horrible. They're both horrible, but the politicians sort of enable them to exploit, right? All right. Well, and so, I mean, that's kind of a nice segue into where I came from and how I got here.

I was in private practice. I started in medical malpractice defense, like I said, with representing Dr. Druin a case. I was in private practice. I was really thriving, frankly, as an accomplished trial. I became partner to law firm. And then I said, you know what? I can go into government and local government, in this case, city attorney of Huntington Beach, which is an elected position.

I can actually get sort of into politics and still be a lawyer. And I really felt a calling at that time in 2014 to become the city attorney because I just wanted to fight for the folks. You know, I just wanted to fight for everyday Californians, everyday residents of Huntington Beach who were really, their rights were being trampled by Sacramento. Meno. There were just a whole host of issues that were going on in the city I grew up in in Huntington Beach. And so it was a totally different world. In the private sector, if you're good, you have repeat business, you get referrals, you make lots of money. But in the government sector, it was really very, very rewarding, pretty amazing the kinds of things we were doing. I was on the Dr. Drew show and talked about the topic was COVID. And what happened during COVID and all the tragedies that happened at the hands of greedy. and pompous politicians in California during COVID. And believe it or not, you probably heard when Newsom came down and shut down our beaches in Huntington Beach.

So Huntington Beach... Oh, I may have heard something about this. Well, Huntington Beach is... I confronted him on it. It was a... Did you ever see that tape? I have not seen it. Oh, get that tape out of it.

You got to get me confronting him with Chris Cuomo. Yeah. We've got eight miles of pristine coastline, and he literally sent down armed state troopers to Huntington. To Huntington Beach and concrete barricades and bulldozers to push sand on our boardwalks. He literally kept us off of our beaches. And so I said, enough is enough. So I sued. And then a few days later, he decided that's a bad look.

So he pulled it all back and opened up our beaches. But those are the kinds of fights I've been engaged in. He's so worried about democracy. You know what I mean? It's so worried about Trump. He's so sickening. And it's sad that people can't or more people can't really understand. It's odd.

It's weird that they can't understand. Who he is. I ask him about closing. in the beaches, by the way. I was just, he didn't know I was going to pop up in this. Oh, I think I have some of this. I have some of this. Yeah. Adam Corolla here.

Governor, why did you shut the beaches in California during COVID? Yeah, I think we all were working on information at the time. We had no basis of deeply understanding the virus. I think they did the same thing. So you didn't know anything, so why did you shut the beaches? If you didn't know anything, why'd you shut the beaches? Well, we didn't know. know because people were concerned early in the pandemic information was coming out as

related to how it was transferred the disease and people were cautious trying to keep people alive and i should say this i didn't let him go into sunshine and get vitamin d and exercise so you shut the beaches okay and you arrested a guy was paddleboarding in the bag and health wealth and he's just trying to see it yeah any science behind that all genius there's an outdoor dining. Why just sit down outdoor dining? It's good that you didn't come up

with a time, Adam. The hindsight. Go ahead. Go ahead. Science. It's good to see. Adam. Based on science you didn't have.

The debate tonight, it's not a debate. You shut down outdoor dining. You've canceled businesses. It's nothing to do with science. All right. Go ahead. All this happened in the.

That was great. I do remember that. And actually the crime we were committing in Huntington Beach was we were having too much fun in the sun. Yes, I know. When everything else was You were doing, you were living your life when he'd locked down everyone else and told him he was controlled. If you can't go to church, you can't go to the grocery store and you can't go to the bank.

You may as well go to the beach. Right, right. He didn't like being defied. Right. Right. Okay. Ultimately, it's not his fault. He's a fucking tyrant douchebag and he's delusional.

He's a sociopath. What's up with the people? What's up with the cowards? What's up with the sheep? What's up with the pussies? That's what I've been yelling about. Where's the interview? Why doesn't anyone else?

ask him any tough questions, journalists. Ask a fucking question. Where's the apologies? Where are the fucking apologies from the journalists and the scared sheep? Who enabled him? He would have stopped if you guys would have hit the beaches. But you enabled this behavior.

You people did it. So it's your fault. Not his fault. He's a dime a dozen. These guys will be around all the time trying to control. There'll be another guy trying to do what he's doing. Why did you listen to him, you fucking cowards? Weird way, though, one of the evil characters in this was his eternally general.

Yeah. He's the one that has continuously attacked. You know, it's brutal. And Adam, really, to your point, that's why Huntington Beach said, look, enough is enough. There's 482 cities in the state of California. If we're going to be the only one to take on Newsom and to fight back and call out the nonsense, then we'll do it. And so we, you know, look, we sued them over the beach closures. And we brought in, we ushered in our own voter ID law.

I mean, I was the architect of the voter ID law. We have the only city in the state of California with local voter ID law. Right. We sued over many other mandates. So you established Mike's a racist. Against women, too, I understand. Women can't. Oh, yeah, women.

No, it's not women now. Yeah, so Huntington Beach did this, and then Burbank went and shut down family-run businesses that have owned it for over 50 years. That's how Burbank snapped into action by attacking the people. You guys snapped into action by opening the beaches. Yes. It's so fucking sad, isn't it? It is sad.

And even the attack on children and parents' rights with that new law from 2024 that basically mandates that teachers keep secrets from the parents with regard to their children's gender identity and gender issues. We sued the state over that law, challenging that law is unconstitutional. So Huntington Beach is the land of the free and home of the brave and crazy California. And I've been there for 10 years fighting for Huntington Beach. But as much as anything else, pushing back on Sacramento. the crap, the nonsense that's coming out of Sacramento, it's beyond the pale. Attorney General Bonta is now touting the fact that he's now suing hospitals and a children's hospital to boot for refusing to perform trans surgeries on minors.

So he's suing them. So they're refusing, trying to do the right thing, and he's suing them. And I've told people on the campaign trail already, I've only been out for about four weeks campaigning. But I've told them, like, look, when I'm in office, when I'm the Attorney General, not only are those lawsuits going to go away, we're going to support and defend hospitals doing the right thing, and we're actually going to prosecute doctors that mutilate children. I mean, those are crimes.

And for Bonta to be out there, look, if there's a 70-30 issue or an 80-20 issue, he'll find the wrong side of it. I mean, he will absolutely find the wrong side. Is Bonta dumb or is Banta just, because some of these people are dumb? I mean, Maxine Waters is semi-retarded and addled. And there's a lot of these, you know, who is it, Lute? Is it Ted Loo? Oh, yeah.

He's fucking dumb. He's a dumb dude. Seems like it. I've heard him talk. He's stupid. We've got a lot of 10 cent head types, and Bontas probably a 10 cent head. But is he just doing whatever would please Gavin Newsom, or does he have his own thoughts? I don't know that he has his own thoughts.

I don't think he's stupid, but I think there is a single-track extremist playbook. And just like we saw, you know, last year or the year before, when Schumer, and everybody was out there, you know, trying to push these woke messaging and ideology when it was 80, 20, like the rest of the country was like, wait a second, what are you doing and why are you saying these things? It's how they got Trump elected. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Right.

That really led to Trump's election or pushed him over the edge. Bonta's just pulling the same talking points out of the same playbook. He's also out there with campaign videos now. He's not campaigning, which is interesting because he must think that there's something there with me entering the race. He was going to go to governor, too, that at one point, resident. He was going to go to. go for governor and he did polling, Adam, check this out. So he was going to run for governor just a few weeks ago, did some polling and there wasn't enough support in the polling to support

his candidacy for governor. So he's a compromised candidate. Democrats, independence, and Republicans are like in California don't like our leadership in Sacramento and they certainly don't like Attorney General Bontor. How does, this is the part that mystifies me. To me, when I lost absolute faith in the electorate is when they recalled Newsom and then put him back in office. That was uncanny to me. So is there something wrong with our voting system? Is something broken here? There are a lot of issues with the voting systems. And one of the things that I'm going to do when I'm Attorney General, too, is enforce our elections laws, both the state and the federal laws. We are currently not federal law compliant. For instance, here's a quick example. So when you register

voters, it's incumbent upon the states to verify the eligibility of those registering to vote. That's an affirmative duty to verify the eligibility. In California, we don't do that. You go up to a touchscreen at a DMV and just start clicking boxes. A lot of people accidentally vote or register to vote at the DMV because they're just clicking boxes. On a touchscreen, that's not affirmatively verifying the eligibility of voters, which necessarily requires people to be citizens. So there's a whole host of issues that I'm going to address on day one when I'm Attorney

General. But there are, look, there are reasons to be hopeful and positive. There's voter ID that's going to be voter ID on the ballot here in November, right? And so that's going to change the turnout of the electorate. There are going to be people who normally think my vote doesn't count, but they're going to go to the polls to vote in favor of voter ID. Because in California, voter ID has 72% support and even has like 60 plus percent among Democrats. And so if it loses, aren't we learning something about the voting systems?

Right? So I am hopeful that with the cleaning of the voter rolls, which we are doing in California, because the DOJ has been applying pressure with the federal government federal government yeah exactly U.S. Department of Justice. Were you part of that when you were there? I was. I actually was the one that sued California and I sued Orange County, California

in part because there was a little dog that was registered to vote. Little dog named Maya registered to vote in Orange County, California. Dog had been registered for six years, voted in two election cycles. Wow. It's shocking. So for anybody to say, oh, our system's fine and everything's clean and like, who are you to say otherwise?

It's like you had a dog, a dog, a pet registered. You worked with Hermit Dillon. You know what I love Hermit. There's this thing, and we'll take a quick break, but I'll tell you right after this. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla show. Prediction markets talk outcomes. Bet online puts odds behind them. For decades, betters have trusted bet online for accurate lines, deep prop markets,

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elections and clean elections and I don't want any of this. And then I say it's the what's in the trunk thing because it's like a cop pulls you over. And he goes, hey, could you pop the trunk? And you go, no, I'm not going to pop the trunk. And then he goes, what's in the trunk? And you go, nothing. I guess, well, then pop the trunk. And you go, no, no, I'm for law and order.

I'm just not doing it. I'm calling my attorney. And you're like, well, let me just see what's in the trunk. No. Well, look, there's nothing in the trunk. Then you pop the trunk and you're on your way. Now we have to wait for your attorney to pull in and you're going to be detained and whatever that you do have a warrant.

You know what I mean? And it's like, they keep saying they want fair elections, except for, every time somebody suggests something that would make it a fair election, they fight it tooth and nail. And it's the same with the border. They go, we want a secure border. Okay, let's build a wall. No, we will not build a wall. And then they go, Governor Abbott of Texas goes, well, I'm going to put up shipping containers to stop and no, we're going to sue you. It's like, well, wait a minute. Do you want this or don't you want this? And if you don't want it, why do you fight every single? single attempt at fixing this problem. When you claim it's a problem you want to fix. And by wait, pardon me if I don't believe you. Well, and our current Attorney General Rob Banta basically has been providing cover and running interference for wrongdoers. You know, we have heard about the lost taxpayer money. Now the estimate is $250 billion of hard-earned taxpayer money lost by Sacramento to waste fraud and abuse.

He's been in office for five years. It's now ballooned to $250 billion, which is over... In California. In California. Just California. Just California, which is over $6,000 per person in California, per resident. 40 million people, 6,000 or more per. And all of this has happened on his watch and not a single mention of an investigation,

not a single mention of taking a look at, you know, where is this money gone? And Bill Ossaley, as you know, in Central District, he's the one that found somebody defrauded the homeless program of $24 million. I think it was a food assistance program for the homeless, 24 billion, or 24 million, rather. But where was Bonta on that? Why is it up to Bill O'Saley, to Police California? Where's our attorney general? There's a lot of independent authority that the attorney general has. And when I get there, there's a whole host of things I'm going to do, including tackling the problems that we've already talked about. On day one, I don't need the governor's approval for that. I don't need the legislature's approval for that. There's a lot

actually that can be done. I won't be running interference or covering. I'm going to be rolling up my sleeves and tackling the problems that every day, that face everyday Californians. Well, the Democrats got, they painted themselves into a corner because fraud, waste and abuse was sort of a universal problem. And the right and the left could equally agree that we don't want waste, fraud, and abuse. So then we could equally pursue waste fraud and abuse. So then we could equally pursue waste, broad and abuse. And it was the same as the border. Everyone just went equally across the aisle 20 years ago. Yes, we want a secure border. No, nobody gets to come here. And if you do, we got to find you and process you and push you out or whatever. Well, at some point, they started to become

the open border. And then they weren't pro fraud. It's that Trump made fraud an issue and they must fight Trump. So Trump said, I'm going to deal with fraud and then forced all the blue states in cities to circle the wagons to protect the people who are perpetrating the abuse against the investigation because Trump said to do the investigation. And so now they're in this bizarre position and we as taxpayers and citizens are an insane position of watching our attorneys general protect and try to run interference for the people who are committing the fraud and then attack. But it's the same thing with ICE. It's ice, the fraud, the border. It's the same thing. So now we have the mayor and the governor of Minnesota and Minneapolis attacking the police

who are trying to get rid of the murders and rapists who live amongst your citizens. That's something I don't think anyone anticipated. It's also how fucking bat-shit crazy all these people are and how hard they can go. Chick-think, Drew. Serious chick-think. That is all chick-nink. It's hysteria. It's hysteria.

And so now they're in the, now if an illegal murders a family of 19, they have to defend that guy. Right. Which is a bizarre position to put Attorney General and law enforcement and governors and mayors in, right? And by the way, they always take debate. All Trump does is goes, a bunch of fraud. I'm going to send my guys in there. We're going to clean it up. And then he does this, because you guys aren't capable of doing it yourself.

And then they go, fuck you. And then they start protecting Somali fraudsters. It's awesome. This partisan politics is the only thing that matters to them and to hell with all else. I really believe that. I don't think they care at all. Well, in the case of Orange County with that little doggy being registered to vote for six years, and showing up on the voter rolls, in response to that news article, that news story coming out,

the board of supervisors there took a vote on whether they should clean the voter rolls of pets, basically. Go through the voter rolls there and make sure that if there are any pets, we get them off. The board voted no. Yes. The board voted no. Why? Because they didn't, like you said, didn't want to expose.

They needed to run interference. They needed to run cover. So it absolutely, the things that our leaders are doing at the council, county level, particularly at the state level, it makes no sense. It's completely out of touch. It's corrupt. And everyday Californians are suffering. I mean, just look at it this way. We live in the state with the highest gas prices, the highest rates of crime, the highest rates of homelessness. Worst education? Yes, the worst education. The list goes on and on and on. And yet our Attorney General Bonta is really only talking about suing hospitals because they won't be able to

I'm telling Adam is that the government officials now are no longer interested in governing. They're interested in representing. Exactly. I'm representing a point of it, representing an ideology. Governance is out. You know, and so first things, okay, remember when Newsom used to claim the reason our gas prices were so high was because the oil companies were gouging us. Yes. Now, listen everybody.

Listen all. You guys who listen are smart, but tell your dingbat mother-in-law, do you think, And I said at the time, why is Exxon only gouging California? There's so much money to make and all the rest of the states. If you're going to gouge, you gouge Texas and Illinois and Indiana, you gout, you do it universally. You get a lot more money. So first off, you know it's bullshit because why would they only gouge California?

And also when you gouge, it's glaring because it's $5.50 in California and go to Arizona. it's 275. Now it looks like you're gouging. If it's $4 everywhere, then you make more money and you won't be accused of gouging. So first off, you know it's bullshit because Gavin Newsom's accusing. Then they go run a bunch of shit. But here's the thing. Could some reporter who's interviewing Gavin Newsom ask him? You said we were paying the most because of gouging. They went and did a study and it turned out was all the taxes and all the mixes and the summertime California other refineries and all that kind of stuff. stuff, which caused the cost of gas to be twice the national.

He chased out the last reminder. Can we ask him that, or is we just going to let him say it's because Exxon was gouging for five years and then proven to be wrong, and we'll just turn the page and go to the next thing? Ask him a fucking question. Would you, please? And by the way, and people go, yeah, well, we can't do that because we do that, then we'll never get another interview.

Yes, but if everybody does it, then you'll get another interview because he'll have no choice. Yes. Sorry. Yes. I have a question about, I think it's, what is it, Article 2, Section 6, the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution. We are a sanctuary state. Is that true?

Presently. So the state of California is a sanctuary state. And what happened to the Supremacy Clause? You're allowed just announced that, by the way? Yeah, well, that's my question. What happens to describe it? Well, I mean, there's a whole lot to this. First of all, it is the exclusive purview of the federal government to regulate.

immigration and enforce immigration laws, the exclusive preview. So for the state or any city to come up with their own immigration policy, which is essentially what a sanctuary state. It's nonsensical. It's nonsensical and it's not found or grounded in any authority whatsoever. Right. So it doesn't exist. It's what Lincoln called out of alignment.

It's like he never called the Confederacy of Confederacy States because he said Confederacy so called. Right. Because you can't do that. Completely phantom. It's phantom. Right. And so what we did in Huntington Beach, believe it or not, is I, I,

I drafted an ordinance and presented it to the city council saying, hey, why don't we, in the face of all this nonsense coming out of California, Sacramento, why don't we declare ourselves a non-sanctuary city? And so we did. So Huntington Beach, actually, we declared, the city council adopted that ordinance or resolution a couple years ago declaring, hey, the state wants to do this, but it's nonsense. We're going to cooperate with the federal government. We're going to recognize the supremacy clause in the federal government's authority, and we're going to declare ourselves a non-sanguary city. Yeah. What's wrong with the supremacique? What is wrong with these governors who speak in such a way that they don't seem to understand the Constitution?

Well, I think it's abundantly clear that our leaders in Sacramento, both the governor and attorney general, they're just picking and choosing the laws they want to enforce anyway. Look no further than Prop 36 that the state overwhelmingly passed. And for the listeners who may not know, that sort of restores some of the teeth back into criminal law. It basically helps make crime illegal again. Yeah, you can stop. you can steal and be prosecuted for it. And be prosecuted, right? But our attorney general and our governor are saying, oh, well, the folks passed it, but we don't like it. So we're going to,

we're going to not implement it. We're going to blame it on lack of funding, okay? But then a few weeks later, when Newsom unveiled his new budget for next year, he didn't put funding in for Prop 36. So that's another thing that I'm campaigning on. When I'm Attorney General, I'm going to enforce Prop 36 on day one with or without funding. I don't, no excuses and no exceptions. but my point is they don't care about the law. I've said this on the campaign trail before. But that's criminal. They're lawless.

California is lawless, true. Why doesn't the federal government do something? Is there something they can do? And when I was at the DOJ, and I would still say today, I'm back in Huntington Beach now fighting for California. But when I was there last year, I had a number of conversations about this conflict or clash between the feds and the states and the locals. And I said, look, I was advocating for. the view that if a state or local is going to fight and push back, then they're violating, expressly violating federal law, which is Title VIII, Section 1324 of the U.S. Code that basically

said you can't harbor illegal aliens. And as long as you're going to push back or have sanctuary policies or resist the feds, you're harboring. So you're violating federal law. So there are conversations being had like that. And when I'm Attorney General, one of the other things I've been campaigning on is like, look, I promise you on day one, we're going to be compliant. with all federal laws and all state laws.

And if we have a state law that conflicts with federal law, we're going to deal with it immediately, even if it means by executive order to repeal whatever's in conflict with federal law. We will be compliant with federal law. That goes to Title IX. You know, protecting our young girls and young women and our sports and education programs.

Up and down the state of California, on day one, I promise you, we're going to be Title IX compliant. Have you met Tish Hyman yet? I have. Oh, good. Okay. Yeah, she's amazing. She's...

She's... She's one's kicked out of the gym? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes. You know, I find it amazing. I mean, it's infuriating, but it's also kind of, you know, interesting when you hear, like, the mayor of Minneapolis, what's his douche up there? And he's like, hey, we're not, we're not going to cooperate with any ice or any. They're not welcome here.

We're not going to help them. We don't have to, you know, it's like, what are you doing? You're just running your own pirate ship here? You're just doing whatever you want. You know, it's a chop zone now. You've said law enforcement, not welcome. To be clear, they're being shifting and playing word games because it's also clear in law that the federal government, when it attempts to effectuate its programs or enforce its laws,

can't commandeer local resources to do so. And that's fine. Look, look, if the feds have an issue and they want to enforce, if it's up to them to do it and they can't commandeer local resources to do it fine. But when you then have the local resources, you then have the local resources, resources saying, F you, we're going to fight you, now we're going to actively resist you. That's a whole different ballgame. So that's a whole other, you know, area of conflicts that should not occur and have to be

reconciled in favor of the feds. So you don't have to be commandeered and help the feds, but you can't resist them either. Well, they're getting their citizens killed because they go get in their face, push back, fight back. You know, yet that's what's getting them killed. It's the getting in their face pushing back. The part where you go down there to be an observer, fine. And the part where you peacefully protest or you exercising your civic duty, whatever, that's all fine.

But eventually you get in someone's face and it gets physical and you're getting physical with someone with a gun. And you don't have a gun. Sometimes you do. But you don't have a gun. You have a minivan. But that guy has a gun. now you're doing things and you're asking these people to make decisions in a split second, and they have the gun.

And when you have the gun, you're not going to flip a coin on whether that sandwich that's in a tinfoil wrappers a gun or a knife or a sandwich, you have the gun and you just shoot because that's the way it works. And then you go, well, shouldn't they have no? Yeah. If he'd gone home and reviewed the tape, then maybe he'd know. But right now, there's a crazy woman in an AroStar van that's coming at him and you get shot. But it's the politicians who begged them to go out, hit the streets.

And by the way, be heroes. Be heroes. Do your duty. Push back. Get in their faces and stay in your ground. And there would be two more people alive today but for sanctuary policies. They would actually be alive today. It's the sanctuary policies.

and I'm not sure everybody completely understands what a sanctuary policy means and how it functions. But federal immigration enforcement has been occurring for decades. And it happened under Obama. Obama deported, I think, over 8 million people, thousands of which were actually criminals who were picked up by the feds at the local level. And that occurred in jails. And it occurred in a peaceful manner. It was a peaceful transition because it was in a highly controlled environment where

The ICE would come in, the feds would come in, and the criminals would be handed over by the local officials. It was peaceful, and then those individuals were deported. The sanctuary policies basically said, well, we're not going to hold these individuals subject to ICE detainers in our jails anymore for a peaceful transfer. We're going to throw all this out on the street in front of Grandma's house and watch the feds fight the folks to try to get those criminals out of the country. That's the only difference. So Obama did exactly what Trump's doing. Obama administration did exactly what Trump's doing, but it was under different circumstances without sanctuary policies.

So it was peaceful. Now it's not peaceful simply because of the sanctuary policies. That's literally how it functions. Well, you know, in Andrew, you can find the tape, the recent one, I think it was a woman filming from in her minivan again and the ice guys were telling her she was following them around. It's made the rounds. People have seen it.

There was interesting about, you know, they're sort of explaining that. this guy was, you know, abused a child or something. We're trying to catch him, whatever. And she's like, you guys are just going after citizens or something. But I realized her brain was so polluted with these. Again, it's one thing. Brainwashing. Yes.

It's one thing to see it on CNN and MSNBC and all the other bullshit networks or hear it from the New York Times. But when the governor and the mayor get up there and say the same thing CNN is doing, they really get a deep brainwash. I would take quick break. I'll play you this tape. I'm not sure. No, this is from inside the car.

This is the POVs from inside the car. And the ice guys are walking over to her because she's following them around another middle-aged woman. She goes, why can't you do something else? Why make a living another way or something like that? No, but the part that's interesting is they go, we're arresting criminals. This guy's a rapist.

And she goes, you're not, you're only arresting innocent people that didn't do anything. It's like, where did she learn that? Yeah. And she learned it from, yeah. I think he said, don't you care about rapists and criminals? And she says no. Because I reposted that video on my own social media. I couldn't believe it.

And my headline was doesn't care about crime or rape. Yeah, my takeaway was she literally is so. hived off and just listening to Tim Walz and Jacob Fry and the CNN anchors that she actually thinks they're just roaming around pulling. I think even citizens. These people think they're just stopping citizens walking down the street. They just walk up the van and take them away. That's all. Yeah. It's out there, Andrew. It's it made the rounds. I'm sure I'm sure fine. But it's a POV of her sitting in her minivan and talking to the cops. And by the way, you'll see one of the ice guys basically do what I do when I argue with women at some point.

She goes, you're only arresting innocent. And he goes, like, oh, God. Like, God. What's it? Like, he just goes, every woman I've argued with at some point, I go, what the full? God. Oh, God. What are we even talking about?

Why are we? He goes, he said, I. guy goes like he does that you're arguing with your wife movie where you just go you're bringing this up again I can't believe you're doing this he's like that's what you think that's what you think that's what you think all right where is

that thing I don't it's it's it's it's it might be it might be it like I can likely help you get that person out of here these families are well this is the beginning part yeah for a wrong just like with that a if you

have a person, let us help me. I know what I can't tell about why the internet's so confounding me? To this is, this thing is all over the internet. Yeah, yeah. But you don't see the chick that's talking. She's holding the, but maybe go to the middle of this. Maybe she swings around or something. No, no, she's talking to ICE.

Okay, so Andrew, again, she's holding the camera. She's in the driver's seat. She's talking to ICE officers who are approaching the car for following her. You don't really see her. talking to a neighbor. It's on my feed. It's on my feed. Michael Gates, ESQ, if you.

Michael Gates, ESQ. It's hard. I know. I know. Listen. I'm going to the internet. But it'll be her inside a car talking to ICE officers standing outside the car. So if she's talking to a parked car.

And they're walking. They're walking around. It's great. It won't be that. All right, girl, go ahead. At Pluto TV, we're celebrating Black History Month with our free curated collection of black entertainment. No ifs, and or buts about it.

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Because I wouldn't be surprised if my parents paid all my bills. There is. sure you got home. This isn't where I live. It's okay, Olivia. We appreciate it. You can go talk to them. This isn't where I live.

So if this is not where your vehicle's rest, you might want to look that up with their state. It is, buddy. My address is correct on my ID and where my car is registered. Good try, though. All right. Thanks, Olivia. Do you feel strong or what?

We're good. Have a great day, okay? I'll keep following you, okay? We may have a gay ice officer, too, because he gives her a little, a little schooling on her parents. Do you hear that part? He gets her look. How does it feel to be a race traitor? Watch him. Listen.

You know, we were trying to get a child molester, right? No, you weren't. Yes, we were. How would you know? Because it was a woman you talked to. And then his play came back as murder. Also, I was going to say, talking to someone a race traitor?

I don't know. I hope you realize that is the most racist thing you can say as a wife woman. Of course, it is. So, you know, this isn't a good look for you. Watch. you think I care about my look. Oh, no, no, trust me. When you guys are...

It is evident by how you would, you don't care. He made me the first K-I shop, sir. He gave the hand? If you actually cared, you probably would... Watch the guy free when she does this. Watch the other guy. There goes. Watch the guy.

No, I don't care because you guys try... Thank you. You just try to detain legal immigrants. None of you actually give a shit. If you were here to get illegal, violent immigrants off the street... By the way, pause it. He does the move.

Every time I argue with a woman, he just the hands his head, Jesus Christ. And then this one, that he's doing next. It's like, oh! You believe this shit! Why do you believe this stuff? That's awesome. Yeah, all right, roll it back five seconds. Sorry, I love the hand and head.

That's to argue with a chick move, right? You are here to get illegal, violent immigrants off the street. That would be fine. That's not what you're doing. It's not. No, hold on. It's okay. It's not what you're doing.

Is that every argument you ever have ever happened? What? You're going, I don't, what? How many times do you have to say this thing? He goes, pop. Yeah. That's fantastic. All right, go back 20 seconds.

I haven't seen this guy. This poor guy, he's been in a lot of arguments with women. And you see, this guy's gay? He gives her the hand and tells her, oh, I know about your look. You don't care about your look. Let's watch his hand. I'm telling he's a little sassy. This guy and he's not built like the other guys either.

Let's see. I hope you realize that is the most racist thing. can say as a white woman. Of course. It is. So, you know, um, this isn't a good look for you. You think I care about my look. No, oh, no, no, trust me. When you guys are- It is evident by how you look, you don't care. We get that. Trust me. No, that's what I'm saying. I'm just saying this. Yeah. If you actually cared, you probably would care about the child who got raped and also the person got murdered by the person that we were looking for. But see, you don't care. No, I don't care because you guys try, you just try to detain legal immigrants.

Now, this guy probably got an argument with his wife before he left the house, right? And she tried, let's keep it going. I want to just watch the guy with the hands on the head. That's an argument with every woman. You don't care. No, I don't care because you guys try, you just try to detain legal immigrants. None of you actually give a shit. If you were here to get illegal, violent immigrants off the street, that would be fine.

That's not what you're doing. This is our argument. You need to back up. It's not. It's not what you're doing. I have a greater appreciation for this video. It's Kenny from South Park. She said you're only here, you're only here to round up legal immigrant.

Did she say legal? Running interference. Wait, go one more time. I just want to hear what she's not. You don't have to go back that far. No, you're going way back. At the very end there, what does she say? Just where we were.

Just go back five seconds, ten seconds. There we are. There we go. Here we go. You think I care about my look. No, no, no, trust me. It is evident by how you wish you don't care. We get that. Trust me.

No, that's what I'm saying. I'm just saying this, trying to be a social warrior, if you actually cared, you probably would care about the child who got raped and also the person got murdered by the person that we were looking for. But so you don't care. No, I don't care because you guys try. Thank you. You just try to detain legal immigrants.

None of you actually give a shit. You just try to detain legal immigrants. which could be anybody. I think she means her for checking her ID or something. What I'm saying is, is where does she get the information that these guys are here to go after legal immigrants? Facts don't matter. And by the way, if that is a fact, then what she's doing is correct. Yeah, yeah.

And what we're doing is wrong by sitting on the sidelines silently while they go round up. legal immigrants. Now, the problem is the rhetoric and then the left always with the rhetoric, but never with the Miakopas with the rhetoric. It's always like we've got to tone down the rhetoric. Well, you saying that they're going after legal residents and rounding them up and disappearing them is ultimate rhetoric. In a weird way, you're going, well, J.D. Vance is Hitler 2.0, you just go, yeah, okay, all right, Jim Crow, Hitler, yeah, okay, Jim Crow. But when you go, here's what's going on. These guys, these mass thugs, unmarked vans, hitting the streets, no identification, dressed all in black,

kicking open doors, grabbing people that look different than them, and disappearing them to some sweatshop in Honduras or some gulag in Central America, that's what's going. When you start saying that, then dumbo's like this go, oh, wow. What? No. That's what's going on. Because these idiots really think that's what's going on. Now, Chuck Schumer doesn't think that's what's going on, and neither's Nancy Pelosi and neither's Gavin Newsom. They're just lying. But there's dumb people in minivans who believe you, idiots, and are going out and getting shot. Thank you. Nice job. I like the way, how your brain works. Most of us caught the race-baiting thing in that. And you got all the other details about arguing with women. And the gay and the gay isation all become evident. Because I was like I was looking in the mirror when I did the hand to the heads. And the dear Lord, just help her understand this thing we've talked about so many times.

It's how she feels, Adam. I know. That's how she feels. That's how she feels. Oh, God. And I don't know if that guy's gay, but he's as close to gay as ice gets. Oh, no, no. He gave a hand.

He's very evident. He's also, look, there's lots of stuff. His eyes are a little tender. He's a little billowing as billed. You know, these other guys have like special units, kind of small-waist, big-shall beards, you know what I mean? Like, they look like those guys. He's got a little different look,

a little different movement. His brows are manicured, and he gave a little jazz hand to the woman. and he took a dig at a woman, and he took a dig at a woman's physicality. Yeah. Which straight guys, they know sort of better than to dig at a woman's.

He went right in. Gay guys can make fun of a woman's physicality. So, just saying. Interesting. Yeah. Well, where do we go to support you? Oh, by the way, check the ice roll, see if there's any agent named Bruce.

Quickly, Andrew, quickly. Go ahead. Sorry. To support me, well, you can check out the campaign on my social media at Michael Gates ESQ, which stands for attorney. So Michael Gates ESQ on X. And then on Instagram, Michael. dot E.d.g. And then my website is Gates4AG.com. That's Gates the number fourag.com. And it's so far, thank you for asking him. It's so far a great campaign, raised a bunch of money. and I said this early in the program,

it's largely because people are so fed up in California. Democrats, independence, and Republicans are like, they feel not heard. They feel like the elitist in Sacramento are completely out of touch. And so when I'm out there just talking about these kitchen table issues, protecting young girls in our education and sports programs, stopping the mutilation surgeries, lowering crime, lowering homelessness. When I'm talking about all these issues, people are just lapping it up.

They're like, oh my gosh, like this is just stuff that, Sacramento's not talking about. They just keep talking about Trump, Trump, Trump, and in Bontas case, suing hospitals for not mutilating children. So there's just a whole bunch of stuff that, you know, I'm just talking about that resonates with Everyday California. So the campaign's off to a great start. Great, great reception so far.

He's got kids that are, he's got kids that are college athletes, too. You love that. Oh, my son pitched at USC. Oh, they got a hell of a baseball team, or at least traditionally. did. I realize I'm basing some of my stuff on 1980s data. They're still good now. Vanderbilt and that's so you good. Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess you could say they've always had a good program. Yes. All right. I'll be in Texas. I'll be doing a couple of shows there at Hyenas. I'll be there at 27-28 out in Hyenas Comedy Club. Where is that? Where are Texas? I can't, is it Dallas? I got a camera in

the way. Alice, yes. Dallas. Yeah. All right. I'm going to havecrow.com for my date. So what do you got, Drew.com. Dot drew on X. Check out the streaming show. So, until next time, Sam Crow for Dr. Drew and Michael Gates saying, Mahala.

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