Scott Pelley Confronts New CBS Leadership

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Now in the governor's race, the top two candidates will uh advance it uh to November's general election regardless of party. So there could be two Democrats or a Democrat and Republican. There's only one man on planet Earth that can stop Bacera or Steyr from ending up being governor of California, and that is our guest today. Steve Hilton, former host of the podcast California Rebel Base, former Fox News host and truth teller Steve Hilton joins us now. Steve, how you feelin'? Goodness me, so it's on me. It's all to save California. Thanks a lot, guys. Yes, and a few million voters. Yes. It's all on you. Um Well how you feeling on election? I'm feeling I'm feeling good. I'm feeling confident. Um we feel that we are on track to get into the top two. Um most of the polls and there's been a lot of them in the last week or so have shown me either leading or number two. That's good news. However, there was one poll that showed me third, just slightly, just behind uh Passera and Styre, a very close race. And so I gotta tell you and everyone listening, I'm fighting like I'm third. We need to believe that one and act like it, because if we let this chance slip away, we are gonna regret it so massively 'cause I really believe that this is the year we can stop the insanity and get our beautiful state back on track. Because people are done with these Democrats. You look at the energy in LA for Spencer Pratt, you see the energy for my events up and down the state. And here's a very important number just in a poll that came out at the end of last week. Fifty six percent. That's the proportion of Californians who think that we're going in the wrong direction. In other words, there is a majority now for change in California. That means we really can win in November, but it's only gonna happen if you get me in the top two. And so this is the very important point everybody listening has to understand in California. Today is And I'm specifically talking about the other Republican in the race, Chad Bianco. I know there are some Republicans out there who say, Look, Steve looks like he's got this, he's leading in the polls, he'll be fine, he'll be in the top two. Let's give our vote to Chad so that maybe we can get two Republicans in the top two. He's too far behind. I'm sorry about that. It's not personal. It's nothing to do with anything that um we can affect at this stage. It's just the math. It's a it's not just a wasted vote. It's actually a dangerous vote because it could help get two Democrats in the top two and then we lose our chance of change. Please don't take that risk. I'm really asking every single person who cares about the future of California who wants change. There's really only one vote that can guarantee Turnout is always small for these elections for primaries. And it's the activists in the one party fixography of California who will show up. Those who are milking taxpayers dry will show up. So if you're not one of those people, by God, if you have Ebola, show up and vote today. Whatever it takes to vote. Wear a mask. Yeah, wear a mask. Just be you know, please. Finally we can agree we should wear a mask . Yeah, yeah. You know, Steve, it it's uh funny in my voracious preparation for the show today, I came across three articles right in a row about giant corporations and or giant incomes leaving blue states and crushing those states' finances because they're so unfriendly to business and wealth creation, that sort of thing. Are you uh how how people understand how successful business benefits them, not government handouts, but but a vital economy . Well they they generate the jobs, the wealth, the opportunity. If you don't have business, who's gonna create the jobs? If you don't have jobs, who's gonna pay the tax es? Everything depends on that. It really does. I've been a business I've been in business most of my career. Um people know me from Fox, but I've worked in business all over the world most of my career in business. I've started companies of my own, including a couple of restaur ants, um and a tech company here. That's what it's all about. And we as you say we're driving away the jobs and the opportunity. This is why we today in California we have the highest unemployment rate in America and the highest poverty rate in America tied with Louisiana. And that's because Chief Executive Magazine in their annual survey described that the ratings from actual business people California fiftieth out of fifty states for business climate. It is an absolute disgrace what's been done. That's why it's really at the heart of my plan to turn things around in California. My mission is very simple cut your costs, help your business, fix our schools. If we do that, we'll restore the California dream. Businesses will be coming back and tax tax revenue will increase even as I cut taxes. Because here's the other part we've got to cut the bloat and the bureaucracy. We've got this insane bloated nanny state bureaucracy in California that's built up over sixteen years of one party rule, bossing us around from morning till night, telling us how to live, how to raise our kids, how to run our businesses, what car to drive, what kind of house to live in, how to cook our food enough? Leave us alone. You're crushing us with all of this. We did a calculation. We put it out last week. The total cost of bloated regulations in California on the economy seven hundred and forty five billion dollars a year. If we cut that out, and that's my plan, we would overtake Germany and be the third biggest economy in the world. The business going back, the jobs will be here. Uh uh I was just gonna say the gas tax goes up again July We will sus we the the the gas tax is something that we can deal with because the cost of gas is not just the tax, it's all these regulations that are driving the industry to almost destruction in California. I can open up oil and gas production in California through an agency called Cal Gem. That'll start to get gas prices down my target is three dollar gas. We can cut the bloat in the budget. The governor sets the budget. Then cut taxes. Your first hundred grand , tax free. The best way we can put more money in your pocket is to stop taking so much out of it. Another example, getting rid of the small business tax. Eight hundred dollars a year. Every business has to pay in California, even if you don't make any money. Drives people crazy. Vehicle registration. We pay hundreds of dollars a year to register your car or your truck, and maybe over a thousand for some people, even as high as two thousand. My plan is to strip out all the nonsense so we just do the basic registration fee which is seventy one dollars per vehicle per year. These are all simple, positive, practical things we can get done, but you've got to go and vote for it today, otherwise it won't happen. Because with Steyr, the billionaire climate fanatic, you're gonna get nine dollar gas. He's gonna make everything worse. But Sarah, just the same. He's been a career politician in the demo in the Democrat machine for thirty six years. He was asked the other day the Kamala Harris question on the view during the election. Oh, is there anything you do differently? Do you remember? She said, Nothing comes to mind. Same with Pisera . Do you remember that? He was asked the same question. This is seriously what he said. This was on CNN, Alex Michaelson. He said that the the host said to Becerra, you know, things aren't great, we got the poverty, the homelessness, all the things I just mentioned. D is there anything that you'd have done differently to Gavin Newsom who's been in power, the Democrats been have in power all these years. But Sarah says, well, you know, it can't be that bad because lots of people are still going to Disneyland. Oh my God, we gotta get that audio. That is something. Hey, I know I know you've got to go. I want to put something on your radar really quick. Bill Maher, Friday night, talking about how Mississippi's beating California with schooling. Texas is beating California with green energy. Those are great talking points. Anyway, have a great day. Good luck out there. I'll go vote for you. Steve Hilton. Thank you. Thank you guys. Steve Hilton. Go get 'em. Yep, you got it . It's got a chance. Got a chance. So you're saying there's a chance. Yeah. Uh chance to get in the top two? Definitely. Chance to actually become governor? I don't know. Well, it will get so much attention. Oh, it's a good . His arguments are crystal clear and they're they're right. He's he is a very, very effective communicator. So you know, is it uh you know, as they say it used to say in boxing, it's a puncher's chance. Right. Well one thing uh you learn uh by getting older is uh movements happen over time and you get all caught up in like an individual person and they political or bowel just I'm trying to clarify here. Both especially as you get older. All right. We're seeing some mov ement. I think maybe by next quarter. Don't rush it. Don't rush it. Uh movements happen over time and you know, you fight this fight and uh he he could lose I hope he I hope he ends up governor, but uh he could lose in a close race , but all those arguments have been had and you got a bunch of people stirred up and then maybe the next time around and it's frustrating when you're young because you know four years later when you're 22 seems like, you know, you'll be dead by then. So uh I know, but just because I have a couple of teenagers and the way they look at the world and time is so different than me. But um it'll be interesting to find out California is still not miserable enough to try something new if that ends up being the case. Right. Yeah, you're absolutely right. So what a beautiful uh segue this is uh from our friends at Simply Safe. In the US, there's a break in every twenty-six seconds. In California, that's probably every six seconds. That means somewhere right now an intruder is getting closer. And the problem with most security systems is they only alert you after the break-in is already started, which is too late, obviously. That's why we both love SimpliSafe so much. Using the outdoors camera series two and advanced AI alerts, Simply Safe's US based live agents. Hello . Uh identify threats in your property and help deter them stopping crime before it starts. Now that's peace of mind. US based live agents. How much do you love that? 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Do you see any of the bombing in Ukraine from Russia overnight and they're still bombing them? Uh might turn out to be the biggest attack since day one of the war. Anyway, civili ans did. One of the things they blew up was a Chinese electric car dealership just destroyed it. Now I wonder how China's gonna react to that. I gotta believe President She says, hey, yo . Because they're really trying to get that going. You know, they really are trying to make a foothold, uh, you know, get a real strong foothold on being the dominant car maker in the world, let alone electric car maker in the world, and Russia. I'd say it's a minor wedge between them, uh, because the whole attack on Ukraine's been really inconvenient for uh China. I want to talk more about the Ukraine slash Russia Russia situation . Uh Putin's growing desperation and uh one of the titles I proposed for the show was The Storm Before the Storm. I ought to explain what the big storm I'm talking about is. So stay tuned for that. And then later this hour we're gonna beat the crap out of Scott Pelly and he deserves it. Verbally Verbally You're going to beat the crap out of me. And then I've got to lean back in the most pompous way possible and put my glasses in my mouth and look off into the sky. Oh my lord he's hard to take and he was hard to flex a little bit under his sport coat. Wait till you hear what he said to his bosses yesterday. Um this is an interesting story here that came out. The stunning moment a united flight from Newark to Spain , turned around mid-flight. Someone decides to name their Bluetooth devices are in four-letter words, so they're evacuating the aircraft. This screenshot shows what passengers logging onto their own devices saw. That device named Bomb on their list. A passenger who saw this alerting the crew. Bound for Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with a hundred and ninety passengers and twelve crew on board. like your Wi-Fi or your Bluetooth or whatever. Right. Um my my w my Wi-Fi at home is the bomb. So when I search for it, I never really thought about it. That was just a clever name for when I'm looking searching, you know, if I if I get a new TV and I gotta Wi-Fi from all my neighbors and then mine is the bomb and I log into it. But this kid had named his Bluetooth the bomb and the pilot said this. Because we have one passenger that seems to be making a uh a funny joke that isn't so funny and uh it's going to be compromising um the safety of the spike. Federal agents will be coming on board and they will be doing a uh search for the person at uh stop that this was money and which is a very serious issue. So Wow, here's my question. How long did it take the passengers to beat the young man to death? You're heading to Spain and they gotta turn the plane around. Well uh like I said, my wifi's named the bomb. So did this kid name his Bluetooth bomb knowing it would get picked up on the plane because he thought it would be clever, or did is that just what he had named it? Uh so that's two things. And then I thought it was kind of interesting . You know it's a joke, but you're still turning the plane around and and doing this. I mean you just announced suspected strongly it was a joke, but they they got regul Well I'm sure they do have regulations, but I I to me this would be one of those can we put it to a vote of the passengers? Look, we got a teenager who thought it'd be funny to name his Bluetooth thing the bomb. Uh I don't have any reason to think there's actually a bomb. You look at the kid and it's some you know you can just picture the sort of teenager that would do this. Does he look like a terrorist? No. Do we want to turn around or do we want to go to Spain? To Spain! I would vote. Blan ol. Uh yeah, I'm I'm thinking it must have been like a Bluetooth device. Yeah, because at least on one of my things you can rename it. You could have it be Apple headphones if you want, which I just leave them named that so I know what the hell I'm talking about. Or you can change it to a name if you want. Right, yeah, I was just looking at that. Oh man. You know, i i i I can see from the perspective of a fifteen year old why that would seem funny. Oh Lord, son, bad decision. But you know, human beings used to understand that if the intent doesn't equal And it's a child . Ugh, you roll your eyes, you give them a good spanking, whether real or metaphorical. Let's go to Spain. Well, you know what? I I'll lift my s angria to that idea. Hey kid, kid, seriously. What are you doing? I thought it was funny. All right, we're going to Spain. Exactly . Anywho. Uh kick 'em right in the castanets, huh? What? No, no physical violence. So Joe ump opened the show uh basically saying uh Trump is desperate for a deal with Iran. And um is that what's going on? There was a fair amount of news yesterday around yelling at Netanyahu and dropping F bombs and uh telling Iran I don't even care anymore, I'm bored with the whole thing. Yeah. Women and deal makers can smell desperation. And I think I smell it. Is that my problem? Um so we got the uh details on that coming up. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty . This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. It's more than just fireworks. Learn more about this landmark celebration 250.org . AirTasker helps you get things done. First, gifts for every firehouse. Then find an ice sculpture guy. Post your tasks on airtasker.com or download the app, and local taskers will help. 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Was that uh designed to try to convince the Iranian leadership, whoever's making the decisions that he's not desperate. Look, I don't even care. But does anybody feel a threat from him at this point? I doubt it. I'd be not significant. Anyway, apparently Trump was pretty angry that Netanyahu was continuing to attack Hezbollah because he thinks it's throwing off the whole us ending the war with Iran thing and he was on the phone with Netanyahu yesterday and here's a little reporting from MSNBC actually quoting Axios on this story. Axios has some new reporting on that call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The president reportedly lashing out at Netanyahu during expletive laden conversation, that's according to U.S. officials. And a third source briefed on the call. According to one U.S. official, Trump told Yanyahoo he was effing crazy and that the Prime Minister would be in prison if it were not for Trump. You're effing crazy. You'd be in pris on if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this . What the F are you doing? He said. Now I thought it was interesting. Mark Halprin's reporting was this is like the fifth president because Net anyahu has been prime minister a few times and longer than anybody in Israeli history. So he's worked with I think four or five presidents. And uh and uh they've all ended up frustrated by BB Netanyahu and cussing at them, all of them. So the unique thing here is that somebody leaked out the private phone call, not that somebody was cussing at BB Netanyahu. Because Trump did, I mean uh Biden did it and Obama did it and Bush did it. I think maybe even Clinton did it. I I feel like that's a different topic. Um but all of those presidents contributed to what led to October 3rd. And that is the idea that you could 7th, sorry, 23. I knew that was wrong when I said it. Anyway, uh October seventh, uh the idea that you can negotiate with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and uh and get them to be good actors if you you know uh cut the right deal. They're completely wrong. And I think BB n knew that at the time. But uh putting that aside, uh I I happen to agree with, for instance, the well the Wall Street Journal's news piece on this is entitled Trump Pushes to End Lebanon Conflict in Hope of Unlocking a Deal with Iran. Their editorial board's headline is Iran gets Trump to rescue Hezbollah. And I happen to agree with that. I I think Trump uh Trump is willing to subordinate anything to his personal interest, his ego, and his uh desired reputation as the greatest deal maker who's ever lived. He's willing to subordinate Israel in a second to getting what he sees as the big win or avoiding the big loss in a way that I think is uh really, really unhealthy. B B has become completely convinced that there is no living with Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran. They made that clear on October seventh when they were pretending for years, saying publicly, look, we've given up the terrorism game. We just want to govern. We just want to bring peace to the territories. We're nice fellows. Then the moment they saw the opportunity, they get slaughtered, raped, tortured, burned, and took thousands of Israelis hostage. And and BB and the Israeli people said, Nope, that's over. We're gonna beat you now. And anything that gets in the way of that beating, I am against So Trump watches a lot of Morning Joe, MSNBC. So he knows that a constant refrain on MSNBC is BB Netanyahu runs a corrupt government, and the moment he leaves office he's gonna be charged with all kinds of things and he's probably gonna end up in prison. So that's on Trump's mind because they talk about that weekly on MSNBC. How true that is, I don't know, because I don't follow internal Israeli politics, but uh it certainly could be. So that's what Trump was talking about. You'd be in jail , I saved your ass, et cetera, et cetera , um by by uh uh getting you re-elected campaigning for you basically. Uh but what's interesting is the media , the same media that loved the story whenever that was a month or so ago, that Netanyahu came to the United States, told Trump what to do, that he wanted Trump to go to war against Iran and Trump did it. We're dancing to Israel's tune. We are a puppet of Israel. And the Jews which fed the left and the right wing uh anti Israel people and everything like that. That same crowd last night I was watching it was saying, and this is the way Trump talks to an ally. So okay. You're not happy no matter what happens. Either you're dancing to his tune or you're not being nice enough to him. Which is it? Yeah, that's an excellent, excellent point. Iran ? You know, they are the living proof of uh you know Sung Tzu and and other military genius is saying you should you must never ever underestimate your enemy. If anything, overestimate him. And I I don't think Trump and I could be wrong. It there could be stuff going on behind the scenes uh that that it completely blows what I'm about to say out of the water, and if it does, I will manfully come to you good people and admit it . I think brutal religious zealot negotiators are playing Trump . They're playing Trump against Netanyahu . They're trying to rescue their uh their surrogate, their proxy, Hezbollah, by saying, Look, Donald , we would rush to the table and settle this whole nuke thing. If only that mean BB would stop beating up on Hezbollah. Please make him stop, and then we'll make a deal with you. And they don't have a single effing intention of doing that . God, I've been watching this for decades. Yikes. Uh I'll bet Trump hasn't, is part of it. Has not been following like the Palestinian conflict and all that over the many, many years. Um what about people who say Iran's gonna come out of this in a stronger position than when the war started? That doesn't make any sense Yeah you know no it's it's a bad argument. They have a the shred of truth in it in that the Iran's realized, wow, we really can control the Strait of Ormuz and scre That was always true. That was always true. They just didn't know it apparently. Or didn't dare do it. Um leadership at the time. But no, they're not stronger, quote unquote. They can't project any power. They can barely defend themselves. It's ridiculous. More on that in a moment after a word from our friends at Rough Greens. Closer to home, your beloved pup. Jack had a funny idea for a movie On your way home with your new baby, you stop and get a puppy. Right. Kill me. Kill me. Anyway, but uh we all know the the the joy and love and everything of having a puppy and a dog and you you want them to be healthy, you want them to live longer. 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I hope I'm wrong, but I feel like uh he's getting played. I don't know why he doesn't go back to bombing. What's the main thing keeping him from bombing the crap out of him? He's desperate to open the straits and get the world economy humming again and gas prices to drop in the U.S. And th th if we were to rest art the kinetic effort to bring Iran to heel, uh that would postpone that. So back Perhaps for months. Back when he said, you know, we're gonna wipe a civilization off the face of the earth and all that sort of stuff and I never bel ieved that he meant that. But w was he never ever going to start bombing him really hard again? Was that never really on the table? I don't know. I I just think his the number one legacy he wants to leave behind is that he's the greatest deal maker to ever walk the planet. Well and he sees a giant opportunity. Like I said yesterday, and I do think this is true. We'll find out. I think what he's got going for him is I don't think people pay much attention to this and we have short memories. So he could walk away from this and you know, to my mind, why did we do it wasn't a very good we didn't do, blah blah blah but but nobody's gonna care, nobody's gonna pay any attention. I don't think he's gonna get hurt by that in the polls really. They'll try to make a big deal out of it, but most people don't care. They they most people, the average person would think it's over, cool, good. Not care about the result at all. That's not good. I don't like that. You should care about the result or whether they get a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, if the IRGC at leadership was listening, they would be texting right now saying, fellas, we've manipulated every US president since we took power in nineteen seventy-nine. And we're manipulating this one, and guess what? We're gonna manipulate the next one. Ha ha well they're gonna get a noop then . That is gonna be a big moment. I truly thought Donald J. was finally the president who was Well remember after the epic fury began, George Will in the Washington Post, who couldn't hate Trump more , said Said the return of American deterrence. He was so happy that we'd let the world know, no more pushing us around. I'm not sure that's the way the world's gonna feel if we walk away from this. Yeah. The next two weeks to me will be uh what's the term they use in fancy pants circles? It will be uh declarative, definitive, uh something like that. Big F and deal. Yes, that's what I was going for. Uh because if two weeks from now we're having the same conversation, that's I think everything you need to know. So Scott Pelle of sixty minutes yelled at his new bosses yesterday, like really yelled at him, got in their faces . Uh see what you think of that. He accused Barry Weiss of trying to kill sixty minutes. Not at all flamboyantly overly dramatic and flappingly stupid. Shut up, you idiot. Yeah, it helps to get paid whatever he gets paid twenty million dollars a year to get in your boss's face. But uh get that and other stuff on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty .