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June 10, 2025 41 mins

This week on Power Hour, US Marines called in as LA anti-ICE riots escalate, Democrats defend “peaceful” chaos, Trump open to arresting Newsom, Greta’s Gaza trip flops, Musk-Trump ties improve, and Palace staff “tearing hair out” over Trump UK visit.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Power Hour with Gabriello Power.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello and welcome to Power Hour. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank
you for your company. We have a massive show coming
up today, starting with the violent rights unfolding in LA,
where masked protesters have been taken to the streets, setting
cars on fire, some waving the Mexican flag, some waving
the Palestinian flag, spraying graffiti that reads f America, thugs,

(00:30):
eluding stores and damaging property, and setting fire to the
American flag as they demonstrate against illegal immigrants being deported.
But according to California Governor Gavin Newsom, these protesters are

(00:54):
peaceful and LA authorities have it under control.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
But the peaceful protesters, we want to keep them safe.
We want them to exercise their fundamental rights. We want
to keep those that are enforcing the laws in a
respectful and responsible.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Way also safe.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
But Donald Trump needs to pull back.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Gavin Newsom says that LA has enough police officers. The
reality is LA has fewer police per capita than other
big cities, almost half as many as Chicago, and it
didn't take long for protesters to overrun police, block highways
and light police cars on fire. LA police have so

(01:37):
far made fifty arrests, including charges for attempted murder with
molotov cocktails. Five officers and lapd horses have sustained rather injuries,
and the LA Police Chief, Jim McDonnell, has admitted that
his police force has been completely overwhelmed.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people
out there engaged in the shape of activity and the
type of things that they're doing. They'll they'll take backpacks
and the backpack will have a cinder block, and if
they have a hammer, and they'll break up the center
block and use that pass it around to throw at officers,
to throw at cars, and throw at other people.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Now it's no secret that California Governor Gavin Newsom is
the worst governor in California's history. His policys have increased
violent crime so much it's now thirty five percent higher
than the national average. His handling of the deadly wildfire
crisis back in January that left more than ten thousand
homes destroyed and cost two hundred and fifty billion.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Dollars was disgusting.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
His failure to mobilize firefighters before the fire began is
what led to this catastrophe and when the cameras were
on him, we saw him weasel and gas light, claiming
that all the reservoirs were filled, when we know that's
not true. A major reservoir was sitting empty. And once
again we're seeing him do the exact same thing, just
gaslight deflect and blame Donald Trump for the chaos in

(03:00):
his state because Donald Trump sent the National Guard to
restore law and order, because LA police could not handle
this level of violence, and Gavin Newsom is now suing
Trump over this, which we'll get into later into the show.
But it's not just Gavin Newsom who seems to be
on another planet. LA Mayor Karen Bass is possibly worse

(03:20):
than he is. Looking at her latest budget proposal, she
wants to see hundreds of police officers laid off, around
four hundred of them. And we know her history making
sure there's plenty of money allocated to spend on deiprojects
in LA. But once again we're seeing how incompetent she
is in times of crisis. According to Karen Bass, the

(03:42):
National Guard should not have been deployed because police have
this under control.

Speaker 7 (03:47):
This is intentional chaos. You know, I had talked to
representatives of the Trump administration earlier on to tell them
that the Los Angeles Police Department could control things that
were happening here and that there was no need to
federalize troops, and so to have this here is really
just a provocation and something that was not needed in

(04:08):
our city.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
The calls for Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to resign
are back there right now, more than two hundred thousand
signatures on a petition calling for Mayor Bass to resign. Now,
this one was set up earlier in the year because
she ignored the fire warnings and advice from authorities and
flew to Ghana when La was on fire, and then
of course refused to answer questions. But Trump was asked

(04:31):
about Gavin Newsom today and he did not hold back.

Speaker 8 (04:35):
The crime has he committed? I think his primarily primary
crime is running for governor because he's done such a
bad job. What he's done to that state is like
what Biden did to this country, and that's pretty bad.
It's wrong philosophy. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants,

(04:56):
many of them prisoners, are taking up your health care,
taken up your space in schools, They're taking up your
hospital and in many cases they're criminals.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's estimated there are around ten million illegals in the
United States, and we know that Donald Trump promised that
he was going to deport them. But what is it
with the Democrats straight up lying about how violent these
riots have become, essentially siding with the thugs who are
destroying La forellowed presidential candidate Kamala Harris Wade in on
all of this, saying how appalled she was that Trump

(05:28):
sent the National Guard and that the protests were overwhelmingly peaceful.

(05:58):
And here's Democrat Maxi, what is telling the cameras that
there's no danger and no violence.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
We don't know why they're calling him the national guard.
There's no danger, there is no violence.

Speaker 9 (06:10):
The President of the United States hates Los Angeles because
you're a sanctuary.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
See, he doesn't like us, and we're targeted, and so I.

Speaker 10 (06:19):
Believe that he really wants to have martial law to show.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
That he's in charge. He's a president of.

Speaker 9 (06:26):
The United States and all of the city of la.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Historian and Democrat Corey Booker, what is he had to
say about all this?

Speaker 11 (06:35):
The reality is we see peaceful protests launching in Los Angeles,
and again, any violence against police officers should not be accepted.
Local authorities can handle that. But remember a lot of
these peaceful protests are being generated because the President of
the United States is sowing chaos and confusion by arresting
people who are showing up for their immigration.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Hearing Democrats once again lying, gas lining, blaming Donald Trump,
and it seems I'd rather see LA burn than law
and order be restored. But has the mainstream media been
telling you the truth about what's really happening. Let's find out.
So as we've seen so much violence, erupting, cars being torched,

(07:23):
protesters chanting f America, how to scene and describe it.

Speaker 12 (07:27):
There's unrest, Let's start with there's protest, lawful protest, which
is allowed in this country. There is some unrest generally
dealt with by local law enforcement, and that there needs
to be state support through state police some unrest.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's one way to put it. What about over on MSNBC.

Speaker 13 (07:49):
I believe that the LAPD has this underhand and they
are very, very experienced in riot control, so this is
something that they can handle. We do not have to
have the National Guard here. We certainly do not have
to have the Marines. Here, this is a manufactured crisis

(08:13):
and we do not need the Insurrection Act and that
is an understatement.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
And what about ABC, Well, this ABC reporter sounds a
bit like Gavin Newsom. According to her report, the riots
are peaceful.

Speaker 9 (08:29):
Demonstrations had been going on right outside the Federal Detention Center.
Most of those demonstrators were very peaceful. They were chanting,
they were shining, people were driving by planking their horns
and again they're expressing their anger about the detention of
so many immigrants at the federal center. Most of the
even the federal agents state inside the building, but at

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a certain point some of the demonstrators got very close
to the property effects. Some of them went on to
the properties, started tagging the building, started begging offences, and
shortly after all that happened, the agent started buying off
to your guests.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
And here's some more coverage on ABC suggesting that law
enforcement could be what's making this volatile. And ultimately these
protesters are having some fun.

Speaker 14 (09:14):
Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if
you move law enforcement in there and the wrong way
and turn what is just a bunch of people having
fun watching carsburn into a massive confrontation and altercation between
officers and demonstrators.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Joining us now is president and founder of Strellmak Hillary Ford,
which Hillary, Great to see you. There's so much to
unpack about what's happening in Los Angeles. Gavin Newsom is
now suing Donald Trump for sending in the National Guard
at a time of lawless riots and violent attacks on
law enforcement in LA.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
But for the past few days, all we've.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Really been hearing from Democrats and the mainstream media is
that these protests are peaceful.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Come on, can I get your reaction to all of this?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, great to be back with you again, Gabriella.

Speaker 15 (10:05):
You're absolutely right. Photographs don't lie. If a picture tells
a thousand words, what does a live video stream of
burning cars, violent rioters and burning American flag show. And
the other thing, Gabriella, is they're all waving Mexican flags.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well they can just cross the border.

Speaker 15 (10:22):
And go back to Mexico to be burning the flag
of the nation that you're in right.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
In front of the TV cameras. I think it says
it all absolutely.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
And look, Donald Trump said it would be a great
thing if borders our Tom Holman arrested Gavin Newsom and
Trump was asked about this today, I would do it.

Speaker 10 (10:40):
I God right, I think you're great.

Speaker 11 (10:42):
It pus y a bit like.

Speaker 8 (10:44):
The problems with this, and I.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Think we're here everything we said a terrible job.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:48):
People that are causing the problem are professional agitators, their insurrectionists.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
They're bad people.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
They should be in jail.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Look, that's classic Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
But you know has really failed California and he's blaming
Trump for the chaos.

Speaker 15 (11:06):
Yes, I'd actually like to have a taxpayer from Los
Angeles say on camera, I am really glad to pay
my taxes so that illegals can.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Come into my town, burn my town down, you know, be.

Speaker 15 (11:18):
Violent against the police officers, burning cup police officers at
book cars and spitting at them. I can't imagine any
sane taxpayer ever saying that, Gabriella.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
So, I think President Trump.

Speaker 15 (11:29):
Again, just like with the election when he received a
mandate to deport illegals, I think this is actually ironically
turning more Californians, probably away from the Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's what we've seen and act now they.

Speaker 15 (11:43):
Say that if it wasn't for actually the cities in California,
the rest of California would be Republican.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, that's a very good point.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
And look, these protests are against the ICE raids and
although violent protesters have been targeting ICE agents, attacking their
vehicles causing absolute ma this weekend, ICE agents were successful
in entertaining several criminal illegals, and according to reports, they
include sex offenders, gang members, and others who had been

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convicted on gun and drug chargers. And as you say,
this is what Donald Trump has a mandate for.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
He ran on deporting illegals.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
It was his number one issue during the election, and
it's what the majority of Americans voted for.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
This is what they want.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, you're absolutely correct.

Speaker 15 (12:29):
And what I always like to do is look at
the source of what is the source of a poll.
It was very interesting the legacy media ABC and CBS
and CNN, they even had to report the numbers that
this is what the American public wanted. And the screenshot
you just had up a moment ago was very good, Gabriella,
because it showed the wrap.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Sheets of these illegals.

Speaker 15 (12:47):
These aren't just people coming because they need a job
and want a job and want to have safety from
some kind of war. No, they're violent criminals, they're rapists,
there were child molesters, they're pedophiles. So again, let's ask
a taxpayer. Are you happy these people here?

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Would you like them in your neighborhood and your home
with your children? Absolutely not.

Speaker 15 (13:06):
I can't imagine a sane taxpayer wanting them in their community.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now I've got to ask you about Gaza. Greta climate
activist Greta Thumberg's publicity stunt sailing to Gaza on a
boat powered by Diesel engines, has achieved absolutely nothing. Here
she is in a pre recorded video.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Claiming that she had been kidnapped.

Speaker 16 (13:26):
My name is Githa Timber and I am from Sweden.
If you see this video, we have been intercepted and
kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces or
forces that support israel I. Urge all my friends, family
and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to

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release me and the others as soon as possible.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Poor choice of words, considering there are still fifty people
who were kidnapped on October seven still being held by
Hermas terrorists in Gaza, but the reality is Israeli force
has intercepted her yacht gave all the activists food and water.
She's even photographed smiling as she accepts a sandwich. They've
been taken it back to Israel, and it's been revealed

(14:11):
today that Greta Thunberg and the other activists refused to
watch a video which actually shows the atrocities committed by
Harmas on October seven. It's video that I've seen and
it's absolutely horrific. It shows Israeli's innocent people being killed,
women being raped.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
It's horrific.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
But it's no surprise that Greta Thunberg just doesn't want
to see it. She doesn't seem to care about what
happened to Israeli's on October seven. But Donald Trump was
asked about credit Thunberg and this is what he had
to say.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
So, you have a message for Greta Tunberg and did
she come up on your call with the Prime Minister today.

Speaker 8 (14:46):
Well, she's a strange person. She's a young, angry person.
I don't know if it's real anger. It's hard to believe, actually,
but I saw what happened. She's certainly different anger management.
I think she has to go to an anger management last.
That's my primary recommendation. For her, as she says, well

(15:08):
she can I find it. I think Israel has enough
problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg. And secondly, are you guys
what she said? She was kidnapped by.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
Israel anger management.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
He's not wrong, but you know, Greta's yacht was carrying
less than a single truckload of AID and just put
that into perspective, more than twelve hundred AID trucks had
entered Gaza from Israel within it the past two weeks.
This whole thing was just a big publicity stunt and
she's failed.

Speaker 15 (15:37):
Yes, absolutely, And on that note, I think the Israeli
government actually had a very good term for it.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
They called it the selfie.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
He visited her self healthie.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, the sealthie yacht. The show is over is what
they said. I thought it was.

Speaker 15 (15:50):
Very well chosen words, very succinct, and said it all.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Also, you referred to her with her smiling face.

Speaker 15 (15:58):
Yes, actually the Israel provided sandwiches and waters water to
all of them, though they weren't kidnapped. That was a
pre recorded video she made, so you're absolutely right. I
think this is abhorrent, and particularly that she refused to
watch the video. That was the forty five minute video
that many journalists such as yourself many have seen. Defence
Minister and Israel said before they are allowed to go

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back to Sweden, they should watch this video. The fact
that she refused, like you made the point, does she
absolutely not care about reality? And last but not least,
took out her dire concerns about the environment. What was
the carbon footprintic of this trip?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
And what about that? So that's actually I suppose being
solved all of.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
A sudden, Yeah, isn't that funny? All of a sudden,
it doesn't care about that. Look, there's been so much
news around, but it was actually just only a few
days ago. It's hard to believe is that the president
and the world's wealthiest man, Elon Musk, were fighting like
cats and dogs. Now it appears as though Elon Musk
is trying to make an effort to really smooth things over.
He's deleted that tweet linking Trump to the Epstein fars,

(17:02):
and he's now been resharing the President's posts on x
showing support for Donald Trump's handling of the anti Ice
riots in LA. He's also been sharing Jadie Vance's posts.
So what are your thoughts on there is this Elon Musk,
I suppose sucking back up to the president, and do
you think that this relationship can be repaired.

Speaker 15 (17:22):
Well, we'll put it this way for the good of America,
I really hope.

Speaker 9 (17:25):
So.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
I think it's a great pretty they had of falling out.

Speaker 15 (17:28):
There was a time there you talked about fighting like
cats and dogs, and I thought it was like two
little schoolboys actually in the playground throwing stones at each other.
Very I will say, actually though not that this was planned.
Obviously it wasn't. But if it was that, there wasn't
a way really to do two things unintended consequences.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Gabriella.

Speaker 15 (17:48):
Number one, Elon Musk actually made Trump take the high road.
He looked far more professional, far more saying. I think
he had great appeal to many people in America because
most people would have expected him to get down in
the mud.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
He didn't. He took the highway. That's number one.

Speaker 15 (18:03):
Number two, it actually Gabriella made a number of Republicans
that were on the fence about the big beautiful bill
that he initially criticized. It brought them two together, and
it's made the few Republicans sort of rally around President Trump,
so unintended consequences that have actually ended up being rather good.
As for their relationship, I do predict eventually, unlike other

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relationships like Prince Hary and King Charles, I do think
there is a chance for this to be repaired because
it's in their mutual best interests economically.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
So yeah, I agree with you. They are both patriots.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
I think a lot of Americans would like to see
that relationship repair. But it's interesting watching this play out.
So many Democrats were so fearful of their relationship, thinking
that Elon Musk had too much influence over President Trump,
and he has proved them all wrong, that he is
of course in charge and he cannot be bought. I
have to ask you about this story. Chinese national has

(19:01):
been arrested and charged for allegedly trying to smuggle biological
materials from Wuhan into the US and then lying to
federal agents about it.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
Chong shun Han.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Was taken into custody at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after arriving
from Shanghai. She's been charged with smuggling goods into the
US and making false statements. And she's a third Chinese
scientist charged in recent weeks with smuggling illegal biological materials
into Michigan.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
I mean, what more can you tell us?

Speaker 15 (19:30):
Yes, no, I think this is absolutely ghastly and actually
is very scary because this is not the first attempt.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Gabriella. She actually you're right.

Speaker 15 (19:36):
She was king from Shanghai and this was sent to
the University of Michigan.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
She denied it.

Speaker 15 (19:41):
She was gruel, she finally admitted. But there were also
two other in quotes scientists that have tried to smuggle
a fungi in in their shoe soles.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
So this is not the very first incident.

Speaker 15 (19:52):
The other thing is, and this is something sort of
related the President Trump has been putting his foot down about.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Is these Chinese that are.

Speaker 15 (19:58):
Over here, they don't get to leave China without the
approval of the communist planty Gabriella, So we know that
they're coming here with a mission, and many of them
like these are coming here with the attempt actually to
destroy props.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
These fun guy, we're going to be.

Speaker 15 (20:13):
Destroying the food supply in the United States, which is
a terrifying thought, and I'm really glad they thought. The
question is how many more of them? How many more
students are here on a dafted my mission.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, very concerning Hillary fordwidg thank you so much for
your time.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Great to speak with you, Oh pleasure.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Gabriella joining us now is host of Primetime with Alex Stein. Alex,
it is great to see you. Look, LA is right
now bracing for more riots. We know, the five hundred
Marines and mobilizing to LA to respond to the anti
immigration enforcement riots. And this of course comes after Trump

(20:52):
sent around two thousand National guardsmen to LA. What's your
take on what's unfolding at the moment and how the
president has been able to res fond.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Well, you know, it sets a very scary precedent using
United States military on even though there's a lot of
illegal immigrants on United States citizens. So I, personally, I
don't like to see it. It's a stain. It's an embarrassment.
California was literally just on fire and they didn't even
have water and the fire hydrants to put it out.
And now there's so much civil unrest. It literally looks

(21:23):
like out of an action movie or a video game.
It is so bad. So, you know, I'm happy that
Donald Trump is using the National Guard, but at the
same time. I don't like the National Guard being deployed
on American citizens. This just is it's a slippery slope.
And you know, with the pandemic, they didn't use the
military against United States citizens, but theoretically in a future pandemic,
it might be more normal after this instance to use

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a military on United States citizens again in the future.
So I just don't like it. I wish that we
could actually stop this with the LAPD. But what is
Gavin Newsom? What are they telling? What is the mayor
of Karen vassawing them to do stand down? So it's
sad that it's gotten to this because the leadership in
California is so terrible.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
So terrible, and Democrats have been calling these riots peaceful.
I mean, Gavin Newsom has been posting all over x constantly.
He recently wrote, California, don't give Donald Trump what he wants.
Speak up, stay peaceful, stay calm, do not use violence,
and respect the law enforcement officers that are trying their
best to keep the peace. So he's acknowledging that there

(22:23):
is violence and the same breath as saying stay peaceful.
And Karen Bassi mentioned went on CNN making her case
for troops to be withdrawn.

Speaker 7 (22:33):
This is intentional chaos. You know, I had talked to
representatives of the Trump administration earlier on to tell them
that the Los Angeles Police Department could control things that
were happening here and that there was no need to
federalize troops, and so to have this here is really
just a provocation and something that was not needed in

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our city.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
You know, it's amazing watching Karen Bass being proven wrong
in real time. She's on CNN saying that it's peaceful. Meanwhile,
that's vision showing just how badly the riots have escalated.
And what do you make of the two leaders, Bass
and Newsome?

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Well, you know, to be fair to Governor Newsom and
Mayor Bass, I guess since most of the cars that
they've blown up are self driving cars, theoretically, yeah, I
mean they're I guess they're not hurting less people are
getting hurt. They're just burning the cars. And since it's
AI driving it, I guess less people are getting hurt.
In their book, No, it's insane. I mean, it's just
like the President of Mexico telling that ICE needs to

(23:34):
stand down here in America. It doesn't make sense. Why
do foreign countries want to dictate what our government and
military and police force can do here. And why does
Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom what to lie and
obfuscate the truth of what's happening in their state, Like
it's just so obvious that the rest of the country
looks at this and it's just appalling, and they are

(23:56):
seeing the same exact footage that we're seeing in that
they want to look rite in our faces and lie
and say it's not a big deal, it's just mostly peaceful.
When we can see the cars that are on fire,
we can see the people getting shot with non lethal beanbags.
It's not a nothing burger. It's a very serious issue,
and I think there's going to be more unrust like

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this in the country. But because la is such a
Hispanic dominated area, I think this is going to be
the epicenter of even all the future protests when it
comes to the immigration conflicts here in America.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
And it seems that the Democrats just have such a
big issue with ICE agents doing their job.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
We know that Donald Trump promised that he.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Was going to deport illegal immigrants, and now the Democrats
just don't want this to go ahead. I Suppose here's
Gavin Newsom saying that some of the illegals that are
riding in the strat are just here to live their
lives and pay taxes.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Put your hands off.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
These poor people are just trying to live their lives,
man their lives, paying their taxes, been here ten years.
The fear, the horror, the hell is this guy?

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Come after me? Arrest me.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Let's just get it over with.

Speaker 8 (25:09):
Tough guy.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
You know, I don't give a damn, but I care
about my community. I care about this community. The hell
are they doing. These guys need to grow up, They
need to stop, and we need to push back. And
I'm sorry to be so clear, but that kind of
bloviating is exhausting. So Tom arrests me.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
And when we hear from Karen Bass, she seems to
lumping illegal immigrants with legal migrants, as if there's no distinction.

Speaker 10 (25:35):
We are going to fight for all Angelinos, regardless of
when they got here, whether they have papers or not.
We are a city of immigrants, and this impacts hundreds
of thousands of Angelinos.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
So Alex's paper is an audit, it doesn't matter. According
to Karen Bass.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yeah, I mean these people are absolute lunatics. I mean,
they want to actually give health care to illegal immigrants
instead of gets. It's a tax paying Americans in California.
That's how absurd things have gotten. So once again, I'm
not shocked at all. And of course Gavin Newsoon wants
to paint these Hispanics that have been here for ten
or twenty years as victims. Yet they've been here ten

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or twenty years and they haven't even bothered to take
care of their immigration status whatsoever. So it just doesn't
make sense why they have so many excuses for illegal
immigration when in reality, all of the people that had
to come here and immigrate legally, they feel like every
bit of effort that they put in was meaningless. So
you're actually taking away from the gravitas of becoming an

(26:37):
American citizen the right way. You're integrating those people for
doing it the right way, and you're encouraging people to
do it the wrong way, which is just absolutely pitiful
when it comes to a country like America. We should
encourage people to come here the right way and not
come here illegally and setting up their family for failure.
In ten years, when the immigration policies changed and all
of a sudden, you're afraid that you might get deported.

(26:57):
This is a bad situation, but the Democrats are to
blame for setting it up like this.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well, moving on to another big story in the United States,
a gymnasts among biles is facing pretty big backlash after
slamming women's sports advocate Riley Gains.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
In a heated post on x Simon Barles wrote, your.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Truly sick all of this campaigning because you lost a race,
straight up saw loser. You should be uplifting the trans
community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive
or creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports,
maybe a transgender category in all sports, But instead you
bully them. One thing for sure is no one in
sports is safe with you around bully someone your own size,

(27:38):
which ironically would be a male. Now, this post has
drawn widespread criticism, especially as Riley Gains has been such
a big supporter for safety for women in sports. You
lost to a biological male a few years ago. What's
your take on all of this?

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Well, the reason why this is such a big issue,
it's not about being progressive or fairness, because it's an
a problem. If you look at this. Why is it
always male to female athletes that are going into women's
sports and dominating. Yet there is not one example of
a female to male going into male sports and dominating.

(28:16):
And on top of that, all male sports are open
to the best women. You can play college football if
you're the best female kicker. There's been women that have tried.
So this is an asymmetrical problem that only affects female
sports and that's why it needs to be shut down.
But Simone Biles wants to continue to do this as
some sort of weird virtue signal because she's probably told
you by her Hollywood agent and her NFL husband, So

(28:37):
anything she says you can take with a grain of
Saltan she's a great gymnast, don't get me wrong, but
she could actually be a freedom fighter for some of
the terrible things that you know, Larry Nasser and just
some of the horrible things that happened to the gymnast.
Instead of being a champion for other victims like herself,
she wants to go and attack Riley Gaines, who is

(28:57):
a victim of Leah Thomas. So it's just kind of
victim shaming. It's really sad. She should be lifting women
up instead of putting them down to help transgenders and
women's sports. It's just it's absolutely ludicrous.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
Yeah, well said Alex.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Look, finally, if there's any doubt about this how popular
the president is right now, we have to take a
look at how the crowd goes absolutely wild at this
UFC where Donald Trump walks out with Dana White.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
I mean, look at that. The crowd is roaring.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah, but you know who wasn't roaring. Elon Musk was
crying watching that. On Twitter. He says, I.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Miss you, Donald.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
I think you retweeted him today. So yeah, that was all.
It was all electricity in that arena. But Elon Musk,
you know, he felt like, you know, his prom date
left him at the prom, or he didn't get a
date to the prom. He definitely felt left out. He
had a lot of fomo seeing that on his Twitter
feed last night.

Speaker 6 (29:59):
Are they going to touch the do you think?

Speaker 4 (30:02):
I mean, I think that would be the smartest thing
for Elon Musk. I mean, Donald Trump obviously trusted the guy,
let him in his inner circle. But you hear some
of these stories about Elon Musk assaulting people, and it
just seems like personally, if I was just judging it,
it seems like Elon was the more volatile one of
the two and that it would be his responsibility, I think,

(30:22):
and I don't know the inner workings, but I believe
that it would be on Elon to repair that relationship.
And I think Donald Trump is that public future lots
of people and repair those repair their relationship. So I
wouldn't put it past them to actually repair things. But
once again, I think it'd have to be Elon that
would have to spearhead that if they had a reconciliation.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, I agree with you, Alex Stein. Thank you so
much for joining us on Alla. Great to talk to you.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Always a pleasure to talk to you guys again.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Soon joining us now for all the royals and entertainment
news is news Court.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Columnist Angela Mollard, Angela, great to see you. To see
you too, Gariana Megan Markle.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
She may have stepped down from royal duties more than
five years ago, but she keeps taking aim at the monarchy.
The Duchess of Sussex has made reportedly at least half
a dozen swipes at the royal family this year, and
it's only June.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
So that's up right, that's right.

Speaker 17 (31:15):
Well, she very first, obviously, when she launched as Ever,
her new company, the very first thing she said was, look,
you know, when I had the Tig, which was her
previous lifestyle website, you know, I loved cooking and I
loved gardening and being a hostess, and that she basically said,
I had to keep my light under a bushel at
this time because of the Royal family. Then we get
her show, her Netflix show, and there's digs throughout that show.

(31:38):
She says, you know, Daniel Martin, her makeup artist, has
been her friend during the before, the during the after,
she talks about her creativity being stunted. She says that
when you know she first, and you know, as a
result of the Royal family. She says that when she
became a mum, she would have thought that she'd be
able to have a baby on her hip and give speeches,
But then you know the whole drama and the pain

(31:59):
and everything that was caused by being part of the
royal family. They're all very carefully considered. They're not a
direct assault on the Royal family. But you only have
to follow it to know that she's just getting these
constantly gigs in all the time, which means that she
can't quite disengage herself from being royal. Why would she.
It's the only reason that she actually has a platform,

(32:20):
and she has to keep having a go at them.
She's smart enough to know that we'll be talking about
it if she has a go, so it keeps her
in the news cycle, which means Netflix keeps hiring her
because even if the ratings aren't great, which they weren't,
the fact that she's constantly being discussed means that you
know she's a bona fide person to be engaging with.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
But it's no wonder that her popularity just keeps dropping
and people that have been falling along can see right
through this. And yes, I'm sure, seeing as it's only June,
there'd be more to come unfortunately, But let's talk about
Princess Anne, because Princess Anne has declined parties and personal
fanfare for her seventy fifth birthday and she's instead said
more than one hundred of her charities at Buckingham Palace,

(33:03):
So she reportedly spent more than two hours at this
event and personally greeting more than two hundred guests and
thanking them for their work can tell us a bit
more about this.

Speaker 17 (33:12):
It's interesting we go from Megan to Princess Anne, two
totally different representations what it.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Is to be royal. That's right.

Speaker 17 (33:20):
She's spent her her seventy fifth birthdays in August, but
obviously that's the time of the year Midsummer for the Brits,
when they're not around, so she doesn't want.

Speaker 15 (33:27):
To party, any fanfare anything like that.

Speaker 17 (33:30):
She's had these two hundred guests, all from one hundred
different charities. She of course is the hardest working royal
member of the royal family and has been for years.
And it's not just some of these charities. If you
look back, she's been with Save the Children, for instance,
since nineteen seventy. She's been engaged with a charity which
works with horses and disabled children since nineteen seventy one.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
I mean not These are back.

Speaker 17 (33:54):
When she herself was in her twenties, which illustrates what
she sees being royal to be, that being the monarchy
is not just crowns and castles, it's actually doing the work.
And there was a brilliant profile of her earlier in
the year with the Telegraph where she allowed a journalist
to accompany her on one of her one of her
patronages meetings and duties.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
She spent a day.

Speaker 17 (34:16):
They spent a day, and this journalist just said she
just knew everything about this charity. She knew all the
people involved, the work that they were doing. So lending
her name to it of course draws attention to it,
allows for a bit of fundraising. This is of course
what the Royal family, the whole ethos of the Royal
family for generations incredible.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
I absolutely love to hear it.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Now there's been a bit of parking and neighbor drama
involving the King. Residents living near King Charles's High Grove
house are apparently frustrated that they can't get a park
in summer because of all the visitors to the royal mansion.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
So they apparently have to pay six.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Hundred and fifty pounds a year for a season ticket,
and locals say that they struggle to find a spot
all day due to you know, there's so many people parking.

Speaker 6 (34:59):
There, the visits that the house. It just shows how
popular the King is. That's right.

Speaker 17 (35:04):
This is High Grave, which is the house that he
lives in with Kimilla This is a private house and
it's only the gardens that are opened, but it's open.

Speaker 15 (35:11):
For these summer months. Can you imagine, though you've paid.

Speaker 17 (35:14):
Effectively twelve hundred Australian dollars to park your car there.
There's no designated parking just for the residents. So those
bus loads, those visitors, they can just pull in there.
They can whack into anyone's car. There's people who live
in these houses that you have disabilities, that can't get
to their car.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
To get to hospital pointments.

Speaker 17 (35:32):
But you can imagine, you know, somebody said to the King,
you know, do you think we might be able to,
you know, have more parking at High Grove if that
were the case. No way, they don't want them, not
the public there. So while they're happy to open the
gardens to show them and look, it's great for the
local village. Of course in terms of tourism and spending
in the village, it's not great if you live there.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
They just they're gonna have to do it.

Speaker 17 (35:53):
I mean, they just have to put up those little
orange cones, wouldn't they.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Spot Now Donald Trump is coming to London in September.
He'll be the first US president to have two state visits,
and he's this is apparently causing a few headaches because
of the President's expectation. So there are negotiations happening right
behind the scenes because of what Trump wants.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
What's going on here.

Speaker 17 (36:16):
It's hard to believe that President Trump has expectations. Look,
he's he's, as you say, coming over in September second visit.
The thing is that what he would love, of course,
is to visit Buckingham Palace and to ride down the
mall in one of those state carriages, which of course
the Chinese president she jimping. He did that back in
twenty fifteen or sixteen. I believe it was now anything

(36:39):
that another president or prime minister does Trump wants to do.
The trouble with these carriages, though, is they don't have
suitable armory, and obviously Trump is the greatest assassinate assassination
risk probably in the modern world, so they can't get
him in one of the carriages, but they've got to
keep him happy other ways, so there's lots of that.
He also can't go to Buckingham Palace because that's under renovation.

(37:03):
But it's a headache for the palace because when he
came last time the Queen, he was flying by helicopter
between the Palace and the High Commission where he was
staying the US Commission, but apparently his helicopter left all
these divots in the lawn and Scott Morrison visited not
long afterwards, and the Queen pulled Scott Morrison to the

(37:25):
window and said, look what primus President Trump did to
my lawn. So it's not just trying to keep Trump happy,
it's also making sure that it doesn't cause a mess
when he's there. Obviously diplomatically he's problematic as well. Last time,
Theresa May, the Prime Minister, was trying to push through
Brexit and then Trump gave it an interview to the
Sun completely off script that no one was expecting. So

(37:46):
there needs to be careful management. But of course they
want this visit the Brits because the tariff situation between
the UK and the US, also the defense negotiations. It's
imperative that they keep Trump on site. And you know
he's having a bromat with Prince William and King Charles,
but it's got to be on his terms. So can
you imagine being one of the aides working on this visit.

(38:07):
You just wouldn't want you to be chearing your hair out, yes,
because you.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Wouldn't want to get it wrong. And there's a lot
to juggle.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
But let's talk about what's happening in the world of entertainment.
There's more shocking revelations coming out of Sean diddy Comb's
sex trafficking trial. We've now heard from Ditty's ex girlfriend,
who's been identified in court under the pseudonym as Jane.

Speaker 6 (38:26):
She's taken to the.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Stand and she's made more allegations that did he allegedly
made her take drugs before having sex with the male escort.

Speaker 6 (38:35):
She also testified about Diddy's.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Alleged violent behavior, said that there was an incident where
he put her in her chokehold, was kicking, punching her.
You know, really awful things coming out of this trial.
Can you bring us up to speed?

Speaker 17 (38:47):
That's right. So she's, as you said, she's anonymous and
she's using the name Jane. She also, of course she
was there when did he made the video where he
apologized to Ventura, another girlfriend about assaulting her, and that
that incredible video that we've seen many many times. So look,

(39:08):
all these layers and previous girlfriends are just stacking up
and adding up. It marks a month on Wednesday, a
month since this trial began.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Look, there just seems to be more.

Speaker 17 (39:18):
More corroboration of the claims, and you know, it's it's
really distressing hearing a lot of this evidence. Look, Diddy's
pushed back on a one witness saying that you know,
her claims that he held her over a balcony should be
a mistrial because that he couldn't have been in Los
Angeles at the time, and that the prosecution knew this.

(39:38):
So he's all constantly and his team are trying to
mundy the waters along the way. But it's very compelling
evidence at this stage, isn't it. I mean, only as
we know allegations, but look the fact that we keep
and look, I think Gabrielle, it's the fact that they
each allegation seems to mirror the previous ones. So the
evidence it's aligned with each witness. So an interesting case.

(40:01):
We can never know a case until it comes to
its conclusion, but you know, the he'll have minimum fifteen
years if he's found guilty of these charges.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Now, finally there's been a major development in Dustin Baldoni's
lawsuit against Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and their publicist. A
judge has tossed out the four hundred million dollar lawsuit,
a major blow to Justin Baldonike Lively's lawyer say says,
rather that this is a total victory, complete vindication.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
Can you tell us about this case?

Speaker 17 (40:29):
So this is a defamation case that Baldoni has brought
against Blake Lively and her husband, basically saying that what
they've said about him is defamatory. Now the judges come
back and said all of this has been anything they've
said has been delivered in legal argument is you know
it is part of the allegations against Baldoni, So of
course it's not. It can't be seen as defamation. So

(40:51):
it's a risky talk to bring this case. He of
course at this stage, yes, the judge has thrown it up,
but we don't know what damage it at what costs
he will have to pay to them, the Lively team.
But this just gets nastier and more toxic. It is
a win for Blake Lively. The case. The sort of
bulk of this case, of course, with her allegations against
him about what happened on set about lack of consent,

(41:14):
that sort of thing. That's still due to go to
trial of course in March twenty twenty six. But the
toxicity between this pair will mean that once we get
to March next year, all eyes will be on that
case absolutely.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Angela Mollard, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks
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