June 3rd, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1

Our friend Steve Hillman will be here at the bottom of the hour. The House of Representatives passed the War Powers Act. Prohibition. To prevent us from continuing the war with Iran. They get. For Republicans to vote with the Massie Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania guy named Barrett and David’s. The act is unconstitutional. I I’ve explained why many, many times. Every single president has believed it such. The Office of Legal Counsel under every single president and attorney general has believed it as such. And that is kind of the constitutional authority of the executive branch. In 1983, the closest the U.S. Supreme Court came to ruling on it. Was my Congress claim that the resolution. Does not need the president’s signature, that they can cut off a war effort by a president. It doesn’t have to be treated as a joint resolution that often does require presidential signatures. And the Supreme Court ruled in 1983 correctly. Congress doesn’t have a veto power. The president has a veto power. So Congress can’t use a resolution to veto anything any more than it can use a statute to veto something. And you say, Ladies and gentlemen, if Congress were serious, they would use their budget authority, the power of the purse. And cut off the funding, but they have another problem with that. It would have to go through the Senate, too. And again, the president would veto it. And they don’t have a two thirds majority in both houses, do they? And so the resort to this performative stuff. But the fact of the matter is, it means absolutely nothing. Nothing. Except more propaganda, more wasted time in giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Who sees us divided. So I wanted you to be aware of it. The four Republicans were Massie, This guy Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania. Barrett and Davidson. I don’t really know who they are, but I’m sure somebody does. By the way, a side note, there is a. A barely. Barely readable magazine called Talkers magazine. And they claim to be the magazine of the talker industry. They’re not. And I know the man who owns it and runs it, Michael Harrison. And they put together this list of the top talkers and they have a long paragraph explaining that the list is not data driven, it’s not empirical. They just sit around. He and his family and a couple others and decide who should be number one, who should be number two. And so forth and so on. I don’t get along with them. Or him. He’s a big liberal. Used to get in touch with me, wanted to have lunch in Florida, and he’s very friendly, but it’s not something I do. Furthermore, the company I work for, Cumulus Westwood One, doesn’t advertise in that magazine. So every year he lowers me, lowers me, lowers me again. It’s not based on any ratings information, any station information, the size of the syndication know. So he puts us at number ten. To punish us. The fact is we’re number two. Empirically, we’re number two. Shawn’s number one. We’re number two. There are other syndicated shows that are very good. They’re not number two. And any of them. And I haven’t looked at this list. Somebody called me and told me, I don’t even waste my time reading it. It’s so ridiculous. I don’t care who is number three, four five, six, seven, eight nine, I’m telling you as the public. Then it is a bunch of crap. Absolutely phony. The whole thing is corrupt, in my view. Talkers magazine. I don’t even subscribe to. And I never have. And I never will. Because crap like that is a big lib. Okay. Gather their off my chest. I want to ask you folks a question. I want to ask you a question because this is starting to annoy me a lot. Do we ever berate any of the Arab leaders that is any of the kings and the dictators in the Arab world? Do we ever berate the crown prince, quote unquote, of Saudi Arabia? Do we ever berate the crown prince or whatever they’re called the King of Qatar doing? Of course not. We don’t do it publicly either doing. No, we don’t. I haven’t heard us berate. The current leaders of Iran. So why do we berate the leaders of Israel? Specifically Netanyahu. Why is that? I’ll tell you why. There’s a couple of reasons. Number one, because we can get away with. Because they rely on us for some support. Number two, it’s a democracy. It’s a democracy. It’s not. It’s not a theocracy. It’s not a monarchy. It’s none of that stuff. So you can kind of undermine a government. And carriage competitors. By doing that sort of thing. And they have a median Israel that is very, very left wing, with a few exceptions. And so they eat that stuff up. So it’s intended to create pressure. The leaking to Axios. And I have a different view of who’s involved in that, but I’m not going to say it. Which is a left wing. Left wing, say. And Barack Rave, who is a discredited left winger, in my view, and is really. More than happy. More than happy to use his. His name. To collect senior officials and one other official, quote unquote, who anonymously told him these are plants. And they’re intended to be plants. And their intended to have an impact. Because the media are not independent. They don’t think for themselves. They move, you know, like sparrows on a telephone wire. A crows on a telephone wire. You get my point. They move in one direction. They’re like the rock cats, but a very ugly version of the rock cats. Now I want to ask you a question. There’s a lot to get to today. But I want to ask you a question. What is this? Effectively immune, immunizing a terrorist organization that killed hundreds of Americans, our Marines. Our personnel in two embassies. Our personnel in a building, big facility in Saudi Arabia. For the last 40 some years. It is the militia wing of the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran. It has shot tens of thousands, fired tens of thousands of missiles into Israel. Drones by the thousands. Since the so-called cease fire starting on April 8th. It’s fired thousands of missiles into Israel. Northern Israel has been depopulated. Israel has tried to abide by the ceasefire. But the other thing is this America, several decades ago we signed an agreement. Lebanon signed an agreement. Israel signed an agreement that is a condition of Israel withdrawing from Lebanon because Menachem Begin moved forces into Lebanon to go after Hezbollah to put an end to this two. The deal was the arrangement that was signed was. That there would be a buffer zone. That Hezbollah would be disarmed by the Lebanese government and military. And that we would help oversee that. It never happened. It never happened. Now, the point is, Israel is a democracy. And you’re the prime minister of Israel. You’ve been elected to represent your people. Just as we elected our president to represent us. Now, I’ve said this to you before. The drug cartels, terrorists in Mexico with the support of the Mexican government. Fired tens of thousands of missiles into our country. For the deep population of the Southwest. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, you name it. Would we not go into Mexico? To wipe them out. And if the Mexican government contacted us and said, no, no, if you want peace with us, if you want us to work with you. You can’t do that. Would we stop? So when the Iranian regime says to our government. We’re going to cut off talks unless you stop the Israelis from going after Hezbollah. And by the way, Hamas, too. Wasn’t Hamas supposed to be disarmed like six months ago? They’ve rearmed. And you’re the elected representative of the people of a country with 10 million people that have been through hellacious war for three years that have lost. A significant number of soldiers and citizens. And you’ve had to deal with hostages and on and on and on. Are you just going to bow? So discussions can continue. At the whim of Iran. I just can’t get my head around this, folks. I just cannot get my head around this. As a red blooded American. The callers that have called this program, we have said again and again and again, finish off this regime. You’ve got tens of millions of people in Iran who want to be liberated. Arm them. We’re not arming them. I’ve told you before about this movie, The Bridge over the River Kwai. I know. You had this British colonel. He was in charge of the P.O.W.s there, the Japanese. Had these British P.O.W.s. They were brutalized, of course. And they were directed to build a a bridge over the River Kwai. And they had some architectural skills, construction skills and so forth and so on that way when the Japanese. Troop train came through. It would go over the River Kwai. And this bridge was built. Under the command of this Colonel. And he fell in love with the bridge. He lost sight of the mission. But he loved the bridge. It’s a beautiful bridge that they built with their own bare hands. And it can handle the weight of a train. But the plot was. And that troop train. Was on the bridge, crossing the bridge to blow it up. You had a plunger and a tier and TNT that was placed under the bridge. And here comes the Japanese troop train. And the colonel. It’s sitting near the plunger that’s hidden. And you can hear some of. The British P.O.W.s yelling to him. Hit the plunger. Hit the plunger. Press the plunger. But he won’t do it. He fell in love with the bridge. He wouldn’t do it. He wouldn’t push down the plunger and blow up the bridge. So in the movie. He shot by the Japanese. They notice him. And as he’s falling from being shot, he literally falls on the plunger and the bridge blows up. And the train with all the Japanese soldiers falls into the river. Mission accomplished. I wonder if we have a bridge over the River Kwai issue here, ladies and gentlemen, that the deal. Is what so damn appear to be the greatest deal of all deals. Don’t get me wrong. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2

I have found in this business. I have a lot of enemies now because I look for them, but because I’m different, I don’t spend time schmoozing these. You know, like Talkers magazine types. Cumulus. Westwood One doesn’t put ads in that magazine. I paid no attention at all. Mr. Producer said you weren’t 10th. You were number 12 when he said, I don’t even know who any of these people are. That’s the point. It’s phony, in my view. It’s fraudulent. Whole thing is B.S.. It’s not even based on ratings or sales or any data whatsoever. Zero station numbers, period. But I’m only pointing this out to you. People leaked to the media constantly. I don’t. People schmooze the media or have lunch with some of these people, why they’re trashing them. That was a big Tucker Carlson thing. I don’t think what you see is what you get and it drives them nuts. When we come back, Steve Hilton is scheduled to be here. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3

It’s a great honor to have our friend Steve Hilton here after a victory even though there be counting until probably three years from now. Steve, how are you, my friend? I’m very well, thank you so much. You’ve been an absolute rock on this. You’ve been so behind me, Sean HANNITY as well. Laura Ingram It’s just been wonderful. What I love about it is, is that you don’t give up on California just like we haven’t. And it’s been rewarded. The energy we put into the campaign, it’s great to see. And there’s hope. There’s hope for this state. We can’t let California sink further into insanity and chaos and decline. And I’m feeling very good. Honestly, it’s still possible that with all these votes that they still have to count the the order will be switched. At the moment, I’m leading Harry Becerra. Biden’s useless health secretary is. Yeah, second, that could flip around. But potentially they say that the votes that are still out there are more Democrat. But I think that we’re very confident that we’re not going to be in a situation which we did worry about for a while, which is that based on some of the polls, which clearly were wrong, that the both of the Democrats, Becerra and the billionaire climate fanatic Tom Steyer, could overtake me and squeeze us out. That just doesn’t seem plausible now. So we’re not declaring officially the victory yet, but we’re very confident we’ll be in the top two. And that’s the most important thing, because it means that in the election in November, this state will have a chance to choose a new direction and vote for change. And that’s right. The state actually has a chance to save itself or to continue where it’s headed. And we’ll see if that happens. Now, my right is about 50% Democrats, about 30%, independents, about 20% Republicans, give or take. Yeah, it’s a little bit closer than that. So I think it’s 45. This is registration, 45 Democrat, but 25 Republican now just slightly less than independent. But, you know, the vote share has been high, that it’s been a pretty steady like high thirties, 40% share of the vote for a long time. Now. We’ve got to break out of that and get a majority. And the good news on that front is that there is a majority in California for change. If you just asked that basic question, is the state going in the right direction or the wrong direction? Just a poll was out the other day, California Post poll, 56% wrong direction. Now, you could say who the 44 you think the state’s going in the right direction because it’s so obviously failing on every front under this far left democratic governance that we’ve had. But it’s okay. We don’t need, you know, a simple majority will do. I think we have got a shot this year at Saving California. Are you going to try and get him to debate on several occasions? You think he’ll do that? Yes. Yes. I mean, he looks like if he doesn’t, what a humiliation. I mean, this guy, Becerra, is is a real joke. I mean, he’s the living embodiment of more of the same. He’s been nothing but a career politician for 36 years in the Democrat machine. I mean, as I always point out, his former colleagues in the Biden cabinet are leaking to the press and briefing the press. He’s completely incompetent and barely showed up to work and was the most useless member of the Biden cabinet. So you go to ask if you know, if you’re considered to be useless by the Biden Cabinet, how bad are you really? And then on top of that, he’s got a massive corruption scandal He’s in the middle of he can’t tell you anything he would do differently. He was asked the same question that Kamala Harris completely, you know, humiliated herself within the in her presidential campaign. What would you do? Is there anything you would have done differently from Biden that, oh, she looks in the air. Nothing comes to mind. He basically gave an answer like that. The CNN is on CNN. The host said to him. It’s not going well in California. We’ve got the highest poverty rate, highest unemployment rate of all 50 states, highest cost of living by far. Is there anything you would have done different policy wise from what we’ve had here? And he and he said no. And he literally said his answer was, it can’t be that bad because more people are going to Disneyland. That’s literally what he said. They’re probably trying to escape the reality of the hell they’re dealing with. That’s what Disneyland. Exactly. Who doesn’t want a £25 soft pretzel? You know that. That’s kind of down minds on there. I love that. Let me ask you this. How’s the media treatment? You know, are they going to turn on your very badly if they haven’t already? No, not yet. It’s been interesting. We did a I mean, we as I said, you know, there’s no rest. We’re fighting hard. The next phase started today. I went to Sacramento. Sacramento right now. We did a press conference. We got a rally this evening. Press conference. A lot of the press came. And, you know, it was pretty respectful. Of course, they’re all obsessed with the Trump question. What about the Trump endorsement? Doesn’t that hurt you on and on about that? But that’s to be expected. Basically, it’s been fine, honestly. Hmm. You know, it’s funny. They’re not going to want to talk issues, any of them or that sort of thing. You know, it’s all going to be superficial stuff. And yeah, I mean, they’re I mean, I’m just very direct about it. And I was incredibly honored to have the president’s support. Of course, you know, he obviously endorsed me back in you know, it was Easter Sunday, I’ll always remember. But he he reiterated it on the eve of the election and on the morning of Election Day. And then the vice president did a beautiful endorsement message. And I just thought it incredible honor. And and I’m sure that played a part in a really great result. Hmm. Do you think what’s going on in L.A. has been helpful, too? Yes, very much so. L.A. is really big. Of course, we know it’s America’s second city, but L.A. County, which is one out of 58 counties, is 23% of the total vote. Just L.A. County now. Now, L.A. City is about just under half of the county in terms of population. But, you know, it’s one media market. And so and it’s one one place, really. And so you’ve got the energy that Spencer Pratt has generated has just been completely infectious. Obviously, he’s got he’s you know, we’ve both been very busy doing our campaigns. I’ve been up and down the state all over the state. But we’re both outsiders. We’ve never run for office before. We’re both very directly challenging a completely failed and corrupt system. And I think that’s there’s a massive overlap with our supporters, both in the financial and otherwise in L.A. And I’m absolutely certain that the energy he’s generating there contributed to a pretty good result for us in L.A.. Mm hmm. Now, my question would be, let’s say you win, you’re still going to have heavy Democrats in the legislature. But if you win, that means you’re going to coattails and bring in a number of Republicans, too, I would think. Yeah, I mean, it’s a very big one, actually, because we’ve still got I know they gerrymandered California almost to death Newsom in order to show how much he hated Trump last year. But actually, we’ve got a shot at saving some of the House seats in California that they thought were completely in their column. And if we have a good, strong campaign, we can save a couple, maybe three House seats in California could be very useful in in terms of the national picture with the House. And so it’s going to be very important that we have a very strong L.A. campaign, which, of course, is what I’m planning to do. And in fact, one of the things that I’ve been doing today, we had a meeting in party headquarters in Sacramento. Effectively, I’m now the leader of the party in California, and I’ve always seen this as a team effort. And so we’re going to have a very strong, unified campaign for the state legislature, for the other statewide offices in a way that’s never been done before in in California. And I’m excited about that because I think that all contributes to the overall energy level. You’ve run a very, very competent campaign. Seems like you had a plan. You have followed the plan and so forth and so on. You have a plan already for the general campaign? Yeah. And it’s it’s not that different, honestly, because it’s focused on real simple, practical things that everyone can get behind. I mean, you know, the basis of it is actually a very, you know, traditional Reaganite conservative populist argument, which is I remember actually it was funny, I did an event for the Four Hills that the Hillsdale College supporters in in Orange County a few weeks ago. And they gave me an hour speaking slot. And I noticed on the program it was billed as California diagnosis and prescription. And I stood up and I said, I don’t need an hour. I can do it very briefly. Diagnosis, too much government prescription less government. So in a way, that’s what we you know, and that’s what it’s all based on. But of course, I focus on the on the end results for people, which is, you know, we need to cut the bloat and spending in the government in order so we can cut taxes. Your first hundred grand tax free, we got to reverse the insane energy policies that have a shipping oil halfway around the world rather than producing it here in California. So. We can have $3 gas, we go to end the insane obsession with windmills and solar power, use our own natural gas to generate electricity so we can cut electric bills in half and so on. So I focus on the positive benefits to people, very practical, focused on the kind of core issues here, which is really the fact that everything’s so expensive and it’s impossible to run a business because of the endless regulations and red tape and people are responding to that. And that I’m going to basically continue with that into the general election, just, you know, with more energy and and, you know, a stronger wind behind me. Has the sheriff endorsed you now? He has not. We haven’t we haven’t had a conversations. You know, I’ve been running around pretty much back to back today. I’m very much hoping we can get together because it’s got to be a team approach, you know, And and I’m sure we’ll have a conversation in the next day or so, but we’ll sometimes let’s let’s put it that way. But I hope very much that we can work together. Yeah, the more the merrier at this point if people want to help you because now you’re going into the general election, where do they go? Yes. Thank you. Get Steve Hilton for governor dot com. Are we all going to need a lot of resources and any volunteer help we need? We have we’ve got a very good, well-organized volunteer army actually already It’s going to be a big fight. You know, the machine is very powerful. It’s corruptly funded through the government unions. It’s basically taxpayer money. And, you know, it’s going to be tough. I’m not under no illusions, but we definitely can pull this off. And that’s going to be a great thing for the whole country if we save our biggest state from the lunacy of this far left. You know, 16 years now, they’ve been in power. That time is up, you know. Well, we wish you all the best and we’re definitely going to have you back a few more times here. And I appreciate you, buddy, and thank you for doing this. This is very, very crucial. Well, thank you, Mark. Great to be with you. Thanks. And congratulations. You too. There he is, Steve Hilton. I’m telling you, he’s I mean, he’s so honorable. Honestly, just a really good guy. I’ve always liked him. I didn’t know him that much at Fox. I don’t know anybody because I don’t work out in New York and so forth. Well, I know some, obviously, but not in the way if you work closely with people. And he was always a good guy. But I’ve gotten to know him. He’s just fantastic. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4

In order to coherently discuss what the President has discussed with others and so forth and so on. We’re going to have to wait for the next hour. But there’s other important matters out there. The New York Post. The feds raided $35 million Southern California mansion of tech boss charged with sending secret shipments to Iranian military nuclear programs. Federal agents in a daring pre-dawn raid today pounced on the opulent $35 million Newport Beach mansion of an Iranian tech boss charged with supplying U.S. computer hardware, parades, military nuclear programs. The California Post, a great paper headed by our friend Joel Pollack, was there as the feds arrested Jamshid Gomi, 63, of Newport Coast, who was charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and is expected to appear this afternoon, which he already did in Santa Ana federal court. The businessman, who’s a dual citizen of Iran and the U.S. is accused of selling computer hardware to the Iranian government for use in its military nuclear operations. Prosecutors allege he made millions with those deals. He made millions on those deals and invented elaborate schemes to hide the transactions. He’s accused of aiding our declared enemies by selling U.S. origin computer networking parts to Iran and earning millions of dollars in violation of U.S. sanction laws, said Le top federal prosecutor. They are easily this guy’s good, that prosecutor. We will hold him accountable by seeking a prison sentence and a sentence. Excuse me. My mouth broke. And by seizing his assets, including his $35 million Newport mansion. And early this morning, dozens of agents dressed in tactical gear and carrying automatic weapons gathered early at a parking lot in Toney, Newport Beach, near the accused defendant, I guess palatial pad. From there, agents sped in a convoy to the property on 31 high water within an exclusive gated community encircling the mansion’s manicured grounds before calling for him to come out. There are pictures of this in the post. It’s quite a property. It looks like a real bum. By the way, what’s going on is one of the stunned occupants of the mansion as to his got. His adult sons and his wife were laid outside by agents. More agents carrying power tools and evidence boxes entered the the Italianate estate while an interpreter arrived to interview him. Gomi eventually emerged after the interview and was taken into custody by agents who placed him in a silver SUV. In addition to allegedly violating U.S. sanctions laws, federal authorities are investigating GOMI for money laundering, tax evasion and other crimes. He’s accused of taking in more than 10 million annually in sales from his computer firm, while only reporting a maximum income of $20,000 to the IRA. Ira. You’re living in this massive mansion. You claim you’re only taken in $20,000. In addition to alleging violations of. I already read that I wrote on this you know in these advertisements pop up. Real pain in the neck. Here we go. For more than a decade, Comey allegedly used a Tehran based computer networking company he founded, called for as far as whatever yabba dabba to bring court procure U.S. networking equipment for customers in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. Comey arranged the secret shipment of more than 250 tons of controlled U.S. technology and used his own eBay and PayPal accounts to make hundreds more purchases of computer networking equipment that were shipped to Iran illegally. And he personally negotiated the purchase of the accused excuse me, the computer equipment directly from suppliers in Minnesota and Nebraska. Routing the hardware through the UAE front company and then on to his company in Iran. Wow. Hmm. I think he’s going to be serving in prison a long, long time.