NGOs like Weingart are running a grift where the city pays inflated prices for buildings — $29 million for a property that was on the market for $11 million six days earlier — using shell developers at $750/sq ft when the standard should be $250, with no requirement to actually house anyone, and the NGO retains ownership of the building.

(00:00:00) Spencer Pratt, welcome to the All In Podcast. (00:00:02) Thank you for having me. (00:00:04) You had an unbelievable debate performance the other night. (00:00:07) I have so many friends that were texting and people obviously were tweeting about it. (00:00:12) Let's start with that. (00:00:12) How are you feeling after the debate? (00:00:14) I just wish it had been like 2 hours or three hours because the list of their failures that we didn't even get to touch on, it's unbelievable. (00:00:21) So it was the most fun I've had in years because what people don't realize (00:00:25) is they're pathological liars. (00:00:27) So when somebody gets to be on the stage with only facts and the truth, that's why there's this incredible response to because everybody that always watches these lying politicians. (00:00:38) They know they're lying and nobody gets to yell, they're lying. (00:00:41) But it was very hard to be respectful because all the lovely Democrat moms that love me, that want to keep supporting me, they asked me to please stay calm, cool, and collected. (00:00:51) So the whole time I was doing my best behavior to not interrupt the lying, which if I hadn't been tasked with that mission, I would have been like, liar, liar. (00:01:07) Every few years, a new ad channel opens before the market catches on. (00:01:11) That's Axon.ai right now. (00:01:13) The AI ad platform behind one of the biggest runs in tech with access to over a billion daily active users. (00:01:18) Full-screen video ads in mobile games watched for a median of 35 seconds. (00:01:22) Businesses are profitably spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on it, and most advertisers don't even know it exists yet. (00:01:28) The window is open at Axon.ai slash all in. (00:01:32) A lot of people said they weren't expecting such a great performance. (00:01:35) Like you were so well prepped, so well versed on a lot of the facts on the actions you were going to take. (00:01:40) How did you get ready for the debate? (00:01:42) Did you do work to get after this? (00:01:44) Well, thankfully, people argue with me all day long in every single media hit that I've done for months because they don't want me to get into the machine. (00:01:54) So every interview I do, unlike these politicians, it's opposition. (00:01:58) It's (00:01:59) arguing, arguing, arguing. (00:02:00) When these, Mayor Bass or Councilman Rahman talk to the media, they can just lie. (00:02:05) And then the media people go, oh, thank you. (00:02:08) Thank you, Mayor Bass. (00:02:09) Thank you, Councilman. (00:02:10) If I say anything, I got to have who was there, what they were wearing, what they have for breakfast. (00:02:15) I have to have my information so fact-based (00:02:19) and be bulletproof to beat this machine that it's, I debate, all I do is debate people all day long. (00:02:26) You're held to a higher standard. (00:02:27) Exactly. (00:02:27) You're challenged all day. (00:02:28) And all I live in is facts and the truth. (00:02:31) And so I called my lawyer who's representing me in the case against the city and the state and LADWP, one of the most famous lawyers in the world. (00:02:40) And I said, I said, Peter, how do you stay so calm when you're arguing with these liars? (00:02:45) And he said, Spencer, I always have the truth. (00:02:49) I was like, okay, I got that. (00:02:52) Good strategy. (00:02:52) Yeah. (00:02:53) So that was a great just message I took into that. (00:02:57) Can we, for people that don't know your story, and I want to just give you a couple of minutes to tell it, let's go back to the fires. (00:03:03) Where were you and where was your family, your wife, your kids? (00:03:07) Where were you guys when these fires kicked off and how did you end up evacuating and what was that evening like? (00:03:12) Well, let's even rewind before the fires. (00:03:15) It just shows you that our emergency (00:03:17) situation is not the level it needs to be because I didn't even know that there was this crazy wind weather event. (00:03:24) My son had pneumonia, so I was up every night checking his temperature and I'm on my phone A lot. (00:03:30) I'm a phone person and I didn't even know this was extra dangerous dry weather. (00:03:35) So that just shows you, if you rewind, we weren't even informed at the level clearly we should have been. (00:03:42) So the morning of January 7th, (00:03:45) I was doing my normal routine, making my espresso about to dance to Taylor Swift, Look What You Made Me Do on Snapchat, which I've done since the Reputation album dropped. (00:03:54) And all of a sudden I see our nanny running down the street. (00:03:58) She comes in with our two-year-old all the time. (00:04:00) She's like, the workers up the street said there's a fire on the hill. (00:04:03) Again, this is not crazy. (00:04:05) Like Mayor Bassack's like, (00:04:07) We never knew, but we're well aware fires happen. (00:04:11) There had just been the Getty fire that everyone ran out of their houses for. (00:04:15) I grew up in LA. (00:04:16) I've been through the fires. (00:04:17) They've been going on for... (00:04:18) So 3 weeks before all my friends fought a fire in Malibu. (00:04:22) So I was even planning on starting my own fire brigade, like my friends had. (00:04:26) And I was talking to Heidi, like, we need to get a hose. (00:04:29) We need to get a truck. (00:04:30) And so I was well aware of fires, no matter what anybody says. (00:04:34) This isn't a shock. (00:04:35) We also know about Santa Ana winds. (00:04:37) So I run up the hill where we hike every day for the last nine years, and I see a smoke, coming from like the Highlands area, which is where Lachman, which we now know the fire was really from seven days earlier, and it had been smoldering for a week. (00:04:52) And I see the smoke, and I FaceTime my wife. (00:04:55) I was like, yeah, maybe pack, go down to my parents' house. (00:04:59) just to be safe, because my parents live in the Palisades. (00:05:01) I grew up in the Palisades. (00:05:03) It's the opposite side of where we are. (00:05:05) We're at the top of the hill, next to the state park, there by the bluffs, next to the ocean. (00:05:09) You would think that would be safe. (00:05:10) So she loads up, just diapers. (00:05:13) kids clothes and goes to my mom's house. (00:05:15) I stay up there, FaceTiming every local, what's going on? (00:05:20) Very confident because I assume I've been paying. (00:05:23) I don't have any money because all my money goes to taxes. (00:05:25) So I assume all these tax money is firefighters are coming. (00:05:29) Gotta be going somewhere. (00:05:30) It's going somewhere. (00:05:31) You know, I was very naive. (00:05:33) And I also live next door again in the debate when Mayor Bass was like, he's lying or that's not true. (00:05:39) There was only one reservoir that was empty. (00:05:41) Ma'am, Mayor Bass, I live next to the one you don't know existed, the Palisades Reservoir, 5 million gallons next door to my house that the fire department would do almost... (00:05:53) not weekly, but bi-weekly drills. (00:05:56) They would connect up there. (00:05:57) They would make me move cars if they needed to, bring the hoses. (00:06:00) I was always saying to my life, well, this is annoying, but gosh, we're set. (00:06:04) They have a thing where the helicopter could dip in there, not the Sandy Yanez reservoir that she was referencing that she lied about and said it was for drinking water, which obviously if you Google, LA Times will show you when it was made, it was for wildfire protection. (00:06:19) That's why it has cisterns. (00:06:21) That's why it has helicopter dip (00:06:23) site because it's for wildfire. (00:06:25) So I was very confident. (00:06:26) I have a video of myself filming, can't wait till the helicopters get here, not realizing that they drained that, Janice Quinones, the LADWP, drained that reservoir in June of 2024. (00:06:39) I must have been out at Erewhon when they were emptying it or whatever. (00:06:44) So I was very confident in 2025 (00:06:49) in Pacific Palisades that pays probably almost, what, 1/4 of the taxes for the whole city, I would guess at this point, they are not letting the entire town burn to the ground. (00:06:59) So I didn't pack anything. (00:07:01) I didn't prepare for a house to burn down. (00:07:04) I called the fire department. (00:07:06) directly because I have their number. (00:07:07) I'd say, hey, we just see one truck up here because, if the fire comes around, there's just this one place of dead brush. (00:07:14) And if you put water on it, won't come and hit all these houses. (00:07:18) And they said, we have no assets available. (00:07:20) I'm like, whoa, that's scary. (00:07:23) So then my dad comes up, you know, and we got the hose and he's hosing a hillside and (00:07:29) Finally, I'm like, dad, let's get out of here. (00:07:31) firefighters are probably coming. (00:07:33) And your wife and kids are gone at this point? (00:07:35) They're at my dad's house, which ends up now the fire's come from Temesco Canyon and it's crossed over. (00:07:41) So my older sister calls, like, what are your kids doing there? (00:07:44) They better get out of there. (00:07:46) I'm like, what is happening? (00:07:47) So now I'm (00:07:49) what? (00:07:49) This is insane. (00:07:50) It's like a bad movie. (00:07:51) And I never heard any sirens. (00:07:53) People like real locals will tell you if you talk to me, there was no sirens. (00:07:57) Yeah, I've heard this from a lot of friends in the palace. (00:07:59) So that was the, if I had heard sirens, I would have like started packing things. (00:08:04) which maybe stayed, but you don't feel scared if you don't hear sirens. (00:08:08) There's no sheriffs or LAPD or any emergency vehicles coming up on the street. (00:08:14) You know, everybody get out of the hut, you know, like in a movie. (00:08:17) There was no movie stuff. (00:08:18) And you know, so you always think everything's like a movie, but nothing was like a movie. (00:08:23) So then I stayed till the fire comes down the hill at 5, 6 o'clock at night. (00:08:28) Again, when she was talking about this wind, Mayor Bass, (00:08:31) I'm standing at the top of the Palisades. (00:08:33) I connect to the state park. (00:08:36) There was no scary winds. (00:08:38) It did not go past 40 mph and it's now been, you know, even CBS did a great debunk post yesterday, CBS News, with a journalist that was up there that I was correct and I wasn't lying in the debate. (00:08:50) And there were planes flying. (00:08:52) Yeah, it moved and it was windy, but it wasn't. (00:08:54) So I talked to the chief, Bobby Garcia, at the US Forest Service about what he thought (00:09:00) went sideways the day of. (00:09:02) We don't know because the after action report has been edited multiple times by Mayor Bass, which she denies, but the LA Times stands by their reporting. (00:09:10) And he said the initial fire wasn't made skinny. (00:09:15) You're supposed to attack the fire on both sides. (00:09:17) And that did not happen because ready for this, you know, Mayor Bass brought up like, oh, there was no planes. (00:09:24) No, Mayor Bass, you never called in fixed air wing support. (00:09:28) She never did. (00:09:29) You know why? (00:09:30) She was in Africa. (00:09:31) She was in Africa. (00:09:32) And you know who was supposed to do it? (00:09:33) Her deputy mayor, but he was on house arrest. (00:09:35) So LA City never even called in fixed air wing support to drop water. (00:09:40) Thankfully, LA County, Cal Fire showed up and the US Forest Service. (00:09:44) But that's how out of the loop Mayor Bass was on this. (00:09:48) So when did you find out your house was gone? (00:09:49) I watched it burn on my first on my security (00:09:54) cameras. (00:09:55) I watched my son's bed burn in the shape of a heart, which is the most spiritual, crazy, like shape of a heart coming through the bottom of his bed. (00:10:03) And then I watched each room until I watched- You're watching it on the cameras. (00:10:07) On my phone in gridlock traffic. (00:10:10) like where the 405, like where the 10 goes to the 405, that one ramp. (00:10:14) I'm just stuck in traffic watching it. (00:10:16) But thank God, as I'm watching it, I can't reach my dad, who I'm thinking is dying, trying to save his house on the bluffs. (00:10:24) And I'm calling 911. (00:10:25) I've been trying to get these audio calls to just post the level and they say they don't have them. (00:10:30) But I'm calling 911 to find out if my dad is okay, if he tripped. (00:10:34) So even though I'm watching my house burn down, I can't reach my dad. (00:10:37) So that's taking away the material (00:10:41) connection. (00:10:42) I'm like, my dad cared more to me than my house burning. (00:10:44) So I get on 9-1, they're like, what's the address? (00:10:47) Like, oh, no emergency personnel can go there. (00:10:50) My dad lives on the bluffs. (00:10:51) There's like. (00:10:52) So you're like losing your mind at that point. (00:10:53) There's 12 ways to get to my parents' house. (00:10:56) So. (00:10:57) This idea that there's no emergency personnel and I'm telling them my dad could be burning up. (00:11:02) So these 12 people that did burn alive, I know firsthand if one of their family members or relatives or neighbors was calling 911, they were told no emergency personnel can go help them. (00:11:13) So thank God my dad obviously lived and he got out and I was like, dad, could you get out? (00:11:17) He's like, yeah, it was a drove all, he could drive anywhere. (00:11:20) So they didn't even. (00:11:21) Brutal. (00:11:22) So in the aftermath, this hits you, must have hollowed you, wrecked you. (00:11:27) How was the next couple of weeks kind of trying to put everything back together? (00:11:30) And at what point were you like, man, I'm going to try and figure this out? (00:11:35) Like, was it an immediate call to action for you? (00:11:37) Or was there a period of time there where you were trying to put everything together? (00:11:41) So my wife and I, when we were very successful in 2009, we spent millions of dollars on her pop music album with all the most famous (00:11:52) music producers and writers in the world, but it was a, we didn't have the money to promote it. (00:11:57) It's just, nobody ever heard it. (00:11:59) But we did that. (00:12:00) The 15 year anniversary of that album happened to be January 10th. (00:12:05) The house burned down January 7th. (00:12:08) So when I have zero money now, because everything I ever put into was in this house for my sons, all everything I own was in this house. (00:12:17) I'm like, my God, we have no money. (00:12:18) We're done. (00:12:19) I'm getting emails because January 10th is this anniversary date, 15 years of our album. (00:12:25) So I go on TikTok live and I say, anybody please, you know, I have no money right now. (00:12:31) Our house is burned down. (00:12:32) Please stream my wife's album, buy it. (00:12:36) And thank God for the planet Earth getting behind me. (00:12:39) I think maybe 12 countries put it #1. (00:12:43) Everyone streamed it. (00:12:44) was the first time an album from 15 years went to #1 on Billboard charts. (00:12:49) So that was taking me out of the dark trauma, because I'm focusing on right away, pivoting into like, we're going to rebuild. (00:12:57) And I was naive to think streaming music. (00:12:59) you could get a house back. (00:13:01) thank God it didn't make like $150,000, but if this was 2006, we would have made millions of dollars. (00:13:08) So it took my mind off it. (00:13:10) Obviously, my wife is trying to get our kids into new schools. (00:13:13) She's not even (00:13:15) connecting to this. (00:13:16) is so positive, honey. (00:13:17) Everyone's supporting you. (00:13:19) So when that wears down, I realize, oh my God, this is not enough money to build anything. (00:13:24) We were stuck with California Fair Plan because we were dropped by farmers after paying for eight years, and we have no money to rebuild. (00:13:31) And I start questioning, like, why did our house burn down? (00:13:33) It shouldn't have burned down. (00:13:35) And I call up my friend, who I just was at a groomsman in his wedding, and his dad had just fought Edison in the campfire. (00:13:45) I'm pretty sure it was Campfire Paradise, and he beat Edison. (00:13:48) So I call him, I was like, can you represent me? (00:13:51) I want to sue the city. (00:13:52) I want to sue the state. (00:13:53) I want to sue LAD. (00:13:54) So you're a fighter, you go after him. (00:13:56) I'm just done. (00:13:57) Case out. (00:13:57) Fast forward a little bit. (00:13:59) 5,000 homes burnt. (00:14:00) 7,000. (00:14:01) 7,000 structures, yeah, 7,000 homes, whatever it is. (00:14:04) Why are you the guy (00:14:06) that comes out of the fire and says, I'm going to fight and I'm going to do something about it and I'm going to change it. (00:14:10) Well, thankfully, I had this experience of already being like a hated media personality. (00:14:15) When you put yourself out there, especially when you're fighting machines like Gavin Newsom and his social team and they're calling you a conspiracy theory and the LA Times is calling you a conspiracy theory because they're saying, this is climate change. (00:14:28) There's nothing that could happen. (00:14:29) Well, guess what? (00:14:30) The day of the debate, the judges overruled the appeal by the state and the city of LA. (00:14:36) LA. (00:14:36) Guess why? (00:14:37) Because of the negligence that caused the Palisades fire. (00:14:40) It's moving forward. (00:14:41) Discovery's open. (00:14:43) So this idea that I was this conspiracy theory, climate change wind guy, that a normal person would have, oh my God, I'm being attacked by the governor of California on social media, most people back down. (00:14:57) You've been through it. (00:14:59) You've been in the public. (00:15:01) You've been a fighter in public. (00:15:03) You've got this character that allows you to kind of stand up. (00:15:06) You have this capacity and you have a bit of a platform going into it. (00:15:10) So it was on. (00:15:11) Yeah. (00:15:11) And once I got the truth, all the LAFD whistleblowers were coming to me, telling me that they were told to leave the smoldering Lachman fire on January 1st. (00:15:20) They told me that Mayor Bass was fighting the battalion chief who's editing the, they're editing the after action report. (00:15:26) Obstruction adjustment. (00:15:27) is they're telling me that the chief fought her for that 17 million and warned her that Angelenos would not be safe. (00:15:34) So I'm getting all this information so I don't feel like just this fringe social media voice. (00:15:40) You're like, man, I'm not crazy. (00:15:41) Yeah. (00:15:42) So you fast forward, the campaign's up and running now. (00:15:45) Well, let's rewind. (00:15:47) So when I see that no one's running against her, I reach out to Rick Caruso. (00:15:51) I call him and I say, you're going to run after Mayor Bass because she's going to guaranteed win June 2nd, 51%. (00:15:57) Totally. (00:15:57) And I cannot accept this as a human being at this point. (00:16:01) And I call him and he says, go after Bass, implying he's not going after Bass. (00:16:07) And so game on, no one else stepping up. (00:16:10) He told you to do it. (00:16:10) Yes. (00:16:11) But I was already doing it, but if he was going to do it, obviously I wasn't going to go against. (00:16:17) Totally. (00:16:18) Yeah, I was like, okay, are you going to do it? (00:16:20) He said, go everyone. (00:16:21) So how's the campaign going after this debate this week? (00:16:23) And I want to talk about the campaign ads because the ads have almost elevated you to what I am hearing from a lot of people is almost like a historic campaign. (00:16:32) The ads are cutting through in a way that people have never seen before. (00:16:36) Are those your ads or are they being (00:16:39) produced by a third party and put out there, because I've heard from some folks, there's a guy, Charlie Curran, that might be involved or other folks that might be separate from your campaign that are putting these out there. (00:16:49) They're breaking through the mold that everyone's like, this isn't a political campaign. (00:16:52) This is almost emotional. (00:16:53) It's a movement. (00:16:54) People want to get behind you. (00:16:56) They don't even live in LA. (00:16:57) So the ad that blew up crazy is when I showed Bass's house, (00:17:03) Nithya Raman's $1,000,000 mansion, multi-million dollar, and then my Airstream, that one broke every ad record in history. (00:17:11) That is, if it has my name on it, it's legally mine. (00:17:14) Anything like these incredible grassroots ads, if I don't put my name on it, it's legally not mine. (00:17:21) So there are people out there doing these ads, not in your campaign, that are creating this movement. (00:17:26) Correct, because people feel the common sense. (00:17:29) They feel the emotion, totally, it's connecting. (00:17:31) I keep trying to tell everybody. (00:17:33) everyone that, they try to put me in a box. (00:17:35) I didn't run for it to be a political party. (00:17:37) I didn't run to be a politician. (00:17:39) I ran because I experienced what city leadership failure at the ultimate level is. (00:17:45) That's why I stepped up. (00:17:46) That's what cuts through. (00:17:47) So the media and everyone wants to jump on and be like, oh, Spencer's our guy. (00:17:51) No, I'm the citizen. (00:17:52) I'm the angry taxpayer. (00:17:55) You can be a Democrat and love me. (00:17:56) You can be a Republican and love me. (00:17:58) The only people that don't love me are communists and socialists, and I don't want them to love me. (00:18:02) there was a saying from John Adams, 1776, where he said, public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, implying that citizenship involves sacrificing your personal interest for the greater public good. (00:18:16) And Thomas Jefferson also spoke at length about taking a turn providing civic duty. (00:18:23) Everyone has a civic responsibility to support society at large, but if you're going to go into government, if you're going to go into politics, you do a tour of duty. (00:18:30) It's not a career. (00:18:31) It was never meant to be a career. (00:18:33) And it's almost like the local, the state, and the national level, there's an entire industry of people that have built a career in politics. (00:18:41) And then you come along, I would think Donald Trump's come along, he's almost like another one of these enigmas that came out that people, it resonated with people, that you're actually standing up and saying, I'm the guy who's on the other side of the problem with all of this. (00:18:55) And this is why this needs to change. (00:18:57) It seems to be creating a movement. (00:18:59) I feel like I connect more with Cincinnitus, this guy that was a farmer. (00:19:04) I actually have Cincinnitus written down right here. (00:19:06) I was going to mention, I'm like, oh, it's too esoteric. (00:19:09) Oh, no, that's what I connect to because I'm like, this guy went and fought this battle. (00:19:13) They wanted to give him all the power. (00:19:15) And he's like, no, I want to go back to my family. (00:19:16) And I keep, initially when I ran, I would say, I want to do my four years and then go back. (00:19:22) I realized (00:19:23) I need to do the eight years, lock this in, get LA, the number one city in the world, then I can go back to my family. (00:19:29) So I'm prepared to do the eight. (00:19:31) That's my tour of duty. (00:19:32) And when people say, oh, this is your house, this airstorm, I go, no, that's my forward operating base, because this is a battle against good and evil. (00:19:40) They let seven people die in the street every day with our billions of tax dollars. (00:19:45) And they say, we need new beds. (00:19:48) It's a drug problem. (00:19:49) 90% of these people are drug addicts. (00:19:51) We need to get these people mandatory treatment. (00:19:54) Then we can get them beds. (00:19:55) And also, they don't have to have a bed in on the west side or next to people's houses or in. (00:20:00) in San Pedro and right next to schools. (00:20:02) They can have beds in facilities that we build out. (00:20:06) My friend Matt Hess has an incredible facility in Bentonville. (00:20:09) He built for veterans. (00:20:10) I've been talking with him where he has veterans come here. (00:20:13) They have all these services. (00:20:15) It's beautiful. (00:20:16) I'm like, how do we build this? (00:20:18) Credible compound, beautiful possibilities. (00:20:21) I guess in Italy, some billionaire did this for addicts. (00:20:24) That's my vision where we have all this. (00:20:26) Take care of people the right way. (00:20:27) Exactly. (00:20:28) All the services that you'll ever need. (00:20:30) in a beautiful setting, not in a cement brick building that looks like a prison. (00:20:35) An attic, when they're getting off drugs, they don't want to be in a 250 square foot little cell, no service. (00:20:40) We put them out in nature. (00:20:42) We're spending $25 billion plus. (00:20:44) We have enough money where it's actually cheaper to build the most incredible facility out in nature to bring these services, that provide for these attics. (00:20:53) And you separate people. (00:20:55) Everybody doesn't go in one building like they do right now. (00:20:57) If you're a veteran, you go over here. (00:20:58) Single mothers with their kids, (00:21:00) families over here. (00:21:01) Somebody who's just a hardened criminal drug addict, you go over here on this side of the hill. (00:21:06) And we need to build this out and we have the money. (00:21:09) But guess who doesn't make money if I do that? (00:21:12) than NGOs that are stealing all of our tax money to increase problem, giving these people pipes, giving them needles, giving them the Narcan, letting them OD 14 times a night. (00:21:22) Let me just hit on the NGO point. (00:21:23) What is the corruption there? (00:21:24) Help people understand, because a lot of people think this is like a MAGA talking point. (00:21:28) I hear this thrown about all the time. (00:21:30) People use MAGA (00:21:31) as a term to dismiss when someone says something that is factually jarring to you. (00:21:36) I've noticed this. (00:21:38) Someone comes along and they point out something and it's like, oh, that's a MAGA talking point as a way of just dismissing it instead of actually listening to what the person is saying. (00:21:46) Can you explain what goes on with these NGOs? (00:21:48) Like how do NGOs create a system that the more we spend, and in the last 10 years, city of Los Angeles, I think has increased homeless spending by 10x, (00:21:57) and the homeless population has doubled and clearly it's gotten a lot worse. (00:22:00) Why is that relationship there and what's the role that the NGOs actually play in this? (00:22:04) And I promise not to call you a MAGA guy for telling me. (00:22:07) Well, first off, when you said homeless is 2X, homeless is... (00:22:12) 200X. (00:22:13) The count for homelessness, when Mayor Bass in the debate was like, it's down 17% from like, these are the most cooked numbers. (00:22:20) Even the RAND Corporation says what they're saying is 30% increase. (00:22:24) But they just drive around and they go, one, two, three, 4, 5, 6. (00:22:28) They're not going in under these encampments and bridges and bushes and unzipping these tents and going into the sewers. (00:22:34) So we don't even know the count. (00:22:35) But let me tell you my first experience with NGOs after the Palisades fire, fire raid, 100 million raised, every single (00:22:42) person I talk to messaging me. (00:22:44) No one's getting this money. (00:22:45) No one's seeing a dollar. (00:22:47) I go to Washington. (00:22:48) I ask senators to investigate this. (00:22:50) We open up the case. (00:22:51) Now all of a sudden, fire aide puts out a legal letter to defend themselves in their own legal letter from the law firm. (00:22:57) They say several, several of these NGOs gave directly to fire victims. (00:23:03) The list for the 100 million is 200 plus. (00:23:06) Google several. (00:23:08) It's under 10. (00:23:09) So even in their defense, they're telling you, and again, I don't believe (00:23:12) I believe one of those 10 gave directly. (00:23:15) The people that they said did, they're like, we gave gift cards. (00:23:18) Who would you give gift cards to? (00:23:19) You don't think one fire victim, they're messaging me all day long saying, hey, I got a $500 gift card. (00:23:25) So that's what I learned firsthand that these NGOs will take right in your face 100 million and just steal it. (00:23:32) So back to it being a MAGA thing. (00:23:34) The person who really exposed the details to me is this incredible Democrat mom, Samantha from the Integrity Project. (00:23:42) She made (00:23:42) her own little charity, nonprofit, because she's now tapped out of her own money in her neighborhood in Westwood. (00:23:49) Her and her husband, they're both lawyers. (00:23:51) And this homeless housing went up on their block. (00:23:55) It was senior citizens. (00:23:56) They kicked the senior citizens out. (00:23:58) And it's Weingart. (00:24:00) Their audit is late. (00:24:02) Let's put it that way. (00:24:03) They're making hundreds of millions of dollars. (00:24:05) This is the best part. (00:24:06) So the building goes on the market for $11 million. (00:24:11) Six days later, the city with our tax money gives Weingart $29 million, $28 million to buy this same building that was $11 million. (00:24:20) There's nobody to this day, years later, being housed in this. (00:24:24) Weingart has developers paying $750 a square foot. (00:24:28) When I've talked to developers and contractors, it should be $250 a square foot. (00:24:33) So they make this money with these developer kickbacks. (00:24:35) They have all these shell companies that, oh, this is our developer. (00:24:38) It has nothing to do (00:24:40) I'm ready for one of my favorite parts. (00:24:41) With that $30 million, who do you think owns that building in Westwood? (00:24:45) Not the taxpayers, Weingart. (00:24:48) So this is the Shelby house. (00:24:50) I just went to San Pedro. (00:24:52) right across the street from a school 600 feet away, right across this beautiful little nice with old people in this community. (00:24:58) They're kicking senior citizens out of 1 in San Pedro. (00:25:01) And they're going to put hardened criminals, same thing. (00:25:04) This one's like $80 million. (00:25:05) So what they do is they take our tax money, they take grants, they take federal and state grants, and they cook up a little plan. (00:25:14) Here's this, we're going to house 80 people, yet they don't tell us that that's $700,000 a person. (00:25:22) But everyone's making these people, the NGOs get $1,000,000 salaries. (00:25:26) The people below them get 500. (00:25:28) Nobody's actually helping anyone because ready for this, there's no requirement to house people. (00:25:33) And then in the state of California, this is the craziest part, with the home key rules, the state won't give the city a lot of the money if you require the people to be off of drugs. (00:25:43) If you say you can't do drugs in this housing, oh, then you can't get the access to this money. (00:25:49) That's unbelievable. (00:25:49) And just to be clear, what an NGO is legally, it's a 501c3 organization. (00:25:54) Anyone can set one up. (00:25:56) Anyone can file the IRS form, create this entity. (00:25:59) Once you've created the entity, you've legally created it. (00:26:02) You've got an IRS form, cost a couple 100 bucks to do it. (00:26:04) Now, theoretically, someone who might want to be, I don't know, a crony or a thief or a criminal, as you might call them, whatever you want to call them, they can now use this entity that they've created to basically get access to all this money from government (00:26:19) that aren't necessarily keeping a good eye on the money. (00:26:23) How do the politicians that are allowing it to happen, or the bureaucrats in the government that are allowing that to happen, how do they benefit? (00:26:28) Because why would they do this? (00:26:30) Why would they let this money flow out to these NGOs in a way that's clearly not in the taxpayer's best interest? (00:26:36) Well, you can go the conspiracy route, or you can just go, look at all these things we're doing. (00:26:42) So there's two ways to look at it. (00:26:43) They get to say, oh, we have this housing and this services. (00:26:47) These people just bring them this easy out, like they're trying to fix something while still looking good. (00:26:54) Like, oh, that's this NGO. (00:26:56) Oh, they, oh, criminal, they got caught. (00:26:59) So then you go conspiracy and you could say, well, are these people helping campaigns? (00:27:04) Are they putting, do they have PACs? (00:27:06) So there's money going, are they helping? (00:27:07) So that's more conspiracy, that's confringe, but in just the sense, it's an easy way out. (00:27:12) We're solving this. (00:27:13) We're working on this. (00:27:15) Two ways you can look at it. (00:27:16) I think they're all criminals. (00:27:17) Thankfully, I've talked to the Justice Department sources and city officials are going to go down. (00:27:24) They are complicit. (00:27:26) Here's the hard part about catching these people. (00:27:29) They're literally taking money with poker chips, goods and services. (00:27:33) Criminals are smart now. (00:27:34) They're not just saying, sell me the money. (00:27:37) But from my sources, we are going to see actual city officials go down. (00:27:43) Not quick enough because they got to frame these people up. (00:27:46) But again, how does Spencer stop this when he's mayor? (00:27:49) I've met with the criminal investigation team, the IRS 6 times. (00:27:53) First week in office, you bring all of them in. (00:27:55) We audit every NGO, every document that hasn't been shredded. (00:28:00) Some people, insiders at City Hall have told me, you know they're shredding these documents. (00:28:04) I have more faith in my criminal investigation team. (00:28:06) They'll be able to figure out without the documents, even if they're shredded. (00:28:09) But that's what's happening. (00:28:10) They're shredding the documents. (00:28:11) So let me ask, Karen Bass, a lot of people you would assume would feel like she failed the city? (00:28:17) with the fire. (00:28:18) Why is she still able to stay in office? (00:28:21) And why is she in the lead in the polls for running for mayor? (00:28:24) Why are people still voting for her? (00:28:26) She's the lowest in the history of the polls of an incumbent. (00:28:30) So she has 20%. (00:28:31) So 80% of LA does not believe that. (00:28:33) So the polls are confusing. (00:28:36) She's the worst record in the history of the city. (00:28:38) So 80% of people do not think she's doing a good job. (00:28:41) 20% is crazy bad. (00:28:43) That's why Councilman Rahman jumped in the race one hour before the closing because she saw I was going to beat Mayor Bass and her DSA team, three people that don't know, Democratic Socialist America that she co-governs with as a city council member. (00:28:56) They were like, get in. (00:28:57) You can be the fake Democrat and Spencer will take out Bass and then you'll get in. (00:29:02) She endorsed Mayor Bass 2 weeks before (00:29:06) She jumped into the race. (00:29:07) They worked together on all these things. (00:29:09) Mayor Bass door knocked to get Councilwoman Rahman, who was about to lose her councilman's seat. (00:29:14) She door knocked with her to get her in and backed her. (00:29:17) So (00:29:18) Nobody backs Mayor Bass and any of the media that's trapped in these lies, they are on, it's not Mayor Bass's fault. (00:29:26) It was high winds. (00:29:28) It's an unprecedented disaster. (00:29:30) It's not true. (00:29:31) It's precedent. (00:29:32) We had the Bel Air fire, Mayor Bass was alive for. (00:29:34) With the Mandeville Canyon fire, Mayor Bass was alive for. (00:29:38) Not unprecedented. (00:29:39) So (00:29:41) The polls mean nothing. (00:29:42) Everyone that's voting for me is not taking a spam call, first off. (00:29:46) They're not talking to a stranger on the street because they already feel so unsafe. (00:29:50) They're not letting a rando approach them, period. (00:29:53) So. (00:29:53) You know, it's interesting, both candidates, Rahman and Bass, are, I don't know if Bass is self-declared socialist, but obviously she spent time with Castro's organization in Cuba. (00:30:07) She's A Vencer Ramos Brigade member. (00:30:09) She spent 20 times going to Cuba. (00:30:11) So when they say, Switzer doesn't have any experience, look, he's a reality star and swing. (00:30:16) No, I wasn't training with terrorists that would later bomb the capital. (00:30:20) That's who Mayor Bass is, who only denounced anything communist when they were trying to make her the vice president. (00:30:26) But my point is we have like a self-declared socialist mayor in Seattle and now in New York. (00:30:31) What is going on in cities? (00:30:33) that people are standing up and raising their hand or filing a ballot saying, I want a socialist to be my mayor. (00:30:39) And now we're seeing this kind of emerge on a national basis. (00:30:42) I've talked about this a lot. (00:30:43) I got my own perspective on it. (00:30:45) But like, what do you think is going on with the people on the street as you meet with people, as you get to talk to them? (00:30:50) Why do they want that persona? (00:30:51) Why do they want that policy, the socialist policy? (00:30:55) I don't even think they're aware of it. (00:30:56) I think we have such tribal politics that people that are against me just think, (00:31:02) he's not with us. (00:31:03) It's so gang, gang that they don't even realize who they're with and what these people represent. (00:31:09) They just think, oh, it's not that group. (00:31:12) And that's the problem when you nationalize politics. (00:31:14) We should be a city. (00:31:16) We should be all together making sure the streets are safe, the lights are on, there's no potholes, the sidewalks are there. (00:31:24) It's that basic. (00:31:25) But we've gotten to this nationalized politics where they don't even care who, they just think, oh, they're not that person. (00:31:31) They're not connected. (00:31:32) connected to that party. (00:31:33) So also they tell these people, we're going to make things more affordable. (00:31:37) We're going to give you free money. (00:31:39) This idea that works. (00:31:40) I had this guy, Rafa, he manages a bunch of the Dodgers. (00:31:44) He's Venezuelan. (00:31:45) He came up to me at an event recently. (00:31:47) He's like, I felt like I was in a scene in Braveheart. (00:31:49) It was so intense. (00:31:49) It's like William Wallace in my face, big Venezuela dude. (00:31:52) And he's like, I fled Venezuela because of socialism. (00:31:55) And I fought everything for my family. (00:31:57) And I will not let my kids have this socialism in LA. (00:32:00) I know what happened. (00:32:01) And I was like, (00:32:02) I know, bro. (00:32:02) We're good. (00:32:03) Like, join the team. (00:32:04) You're with me. (00:32:05) Let's go door knock. (00:32:06) But people who know what these, this idea of giving you money, giving, it does not work. (00:32:12) It's this fake lie. (00:32:13) What people forget is they can't lower the cost of goods. (00:32:17) The only thing you can do to make things more affordable as mayor, which I will be able to do, is put more money in people's pockets. (00:32:23) We need to put more revenue in the city. (00:32:25) We're over here. (00:32:26) They're always asking me, how are you going to balance this budget, Spencer? (00:32:29) There's going to be no money to do us. (00:32:31) We should be the number one city in the world. (00:32:32) We should have money shooting out of ATMs. (00:32:35) We're Los Angeles. (00:32:36) There will be plenty of money when we let the systems work, when we let business work. (00:32:40) How can you let business work if you have drug addicts going #2 and #1 in front of every cafe? (00:32:46) We lost over 100 restaurants in LA, not because they weren't good food, because you have drug addicts scaring people to go out. (00:32:52) That's why they're Uber Eating, they're doing DoorDash. (00:32:56) I talked to a mom the other day who works in downtown as a lawyer. (00:33:00) I know her because of her friends, her kids are my friend's kids. (00:33:03) Shit Spencer, we're not allowed to leave the office building. (00:33:06) Our food has to be delivered in. (00:33:08) That's why restaurants are closing around downtown LA, because the workers that are still trying to work can't go outside of their buildings because it's unsafe. (00:33:16) The number one thing in a functioning city that we don't have is safety. (00:33:21) If you don't have a safe city and they'll tell you, Mayor Bass will tell you, Councilwoman Rumman, crime's down. (00:33:27) They'll just say the murder rate's down. (00:33:28) Well, that's a national trend. (00:33:30) Please don't try to take credit for that. (00:33:31) But crime's down because people have given up calling 911. (00:33:35) I talked to a guy today at lunch. (00:33:37) He said he watched a lady the other day on Wilshire Boulevard right in front of the federal building, the FBI building, these nice, (00:33:45) Latino lady get punched in the chest by a crazed drug addict. (00:33:48) He pulled over his car, tried to like be a Batman hero, jumped out. (00:33:51) He's like, stop that. (00:33:52) The ladies were so used to like, thank you. (00:33:54) They get on the bus and go. (00:33:56) He watches this guy get a PVC pipe, start banging on cars. (00:34:00) He calls 911 and he's like, they just act like it's no big deal. (00:34:03) It's just normal LA. (00:34:05) Finally, he starts ripping a bike off of the (00:34:08) off of a bus. (00:34:09) He calls N1, he's like, he's ripping the bike, no big deal. (00:34:12) Now the guy's coming at him, he says, he's coming after me, and they're like, okay, somebody's coming. (00:34:18) Police come. (00:34:19) He's like, arrest this guy. (00:34:20) Like, well, nobody's here and there's no witnesses. (00:34:22) He's like, arrest this guy. (00:34:24) He's arguing with the cops. (00:34:25) Every cop I talk to wants to enforce a law, but they can't because the power is behind them. (00:34:31) They're not taking any of these citations ready because it's culturally insensitive to cite and ticket someone without an address. (00:34:38) That's why the dogs are being abused, tortured, mutilated, raped on the side of the street. (00:34:43) People are filming this. (00:34:44) They know what's happening. (00:34:45) But even (00:34:47) Stacey Daines or whatever, Stacey Daines was head of the animal control or whatever, animal services. (00:34:52) She said, oh, we can't. (00:34:54) The city mayor's office said, culturally insensitive. (00:34:56) Don't, we can't go after people without addresses. (00:34:59) Dude, that's unbelievable. (00:35:00) Makes me so angry. (00:35:02) That's the problem. (00:35:02) They keep on calling me the angry white guy. (00:35:05) They don't get every race, every gender, however you identify. (00:35:09) If you live in LA and you're paying your taxes, you are angry. (00:35:12) But most people don't see it. (00:35:13) It's the other thing. (00:35:14) So like Skid Row, most people aren't there all the time. (00:35:16) We host our (00:35:17) all in summit in downtown LA. (00:35:18) It's our last year. (00:35:19) We're doing it in September. (00:35:20) It's a really big event, but we're not coming back. (00:35:23) So most people I know like don't get down there. (00:35:24) We have people from all over the world, 60 countries come to our event. (00:35:27) They're like, what the hell is this place? (00:35:29) We can't be down here. (00:35:30) When you see it, you're like, what? (00:35:32) Well, here's the problem. (00:35:33) We keep talking about Skid Row in LA. (00:35:36) This is all over the valley. (00:35:37) This is in Westwood. (00:35:38) This is in Hollywood. (00:35:40) This is everywhere. (00:35:41) Before my house burned down in front of Palisades Elementary School, across the street, my son's (00:35:46) Methodist Preschool, where I went to preschool, there was a lady cleaning her private parts in front of kids almost every morning at 7.45 A.m. (00:35:54) We call LAPD, they come and they go, man, no more. (00:35:58) She'd go walk down the street and she'd go #2 in front of Joe's Barbershop. (00:36:02) So who's coming to the Palisades? (00:36:03) It's coming everywhere. (00:36:04) This is not a, when I went to USC, it was Skid Row. (00:36:08) So we had this issue in San Francisco where I live and Mayor Leary came in. (00:36:13) I don't know if you followed what he's done. (00:36:14) He's an unbelievable guy. (00:36:15) old friend of mine and done an incredible job. (00:36:18) He arrests people. (00:36:19) He puts them in jail, but crime has stopped. (00:36:22) Car break-ins are down 87% in the city. (00:36:25) 87%. (00:36:25) You no longer have hordes of people walking into stores, stealing everything, walking out. (00:36:28) As soon as you just enforce the law that's already in place, boom, you're 90% of the way there. (00:36:33) Everything kind of, it doesn't take a miracle. (00:36:37) It just takes a will and someone who can actually manage and organize to get this stuff done. (00:36:41) Give them the votes. (00:36:42) Get them there. (00:36:43) So I met with Victor Coleman, who owns most of the studios, a lot of real estate in LA. (00:36:48) And he talked to me about Mayor Lurie in San Francisco. (00:36:50) He said, Spencer, when they tell you have no experience, you just tell them Mayor Lurie didn't have any experience running a city. (00:36:55) What he did, he's came in and forced a law. (00:36:57) He said, my portfolio in San Francisco is booming again. (00:37:00) My portfolio in Los Angeles (00:37:03) It's not doing as well, let's say. (00:37:04) And he said, you just need to force the laws that exist. (00:37:08) And a lot of people always say this to me, they go, what are you going to do with all these people? (00:37:11) A great quote of famous. (00:37:14) police chief told me, once you start putting handcuffs on people, watch how many people leave. (00:37:19) 100%. (00:37:19) This idea that everyone, if you let everyone do drugs and do whatever they want and let the criminals make the outside asylum and with no guards, if you let them do that, they're going to do that. (00:37:30) But if you, so when I'm mayor, my plan is first three weeks, signs up across the city, no more nakedness, no more drug use, no more robbing, no worse. (00:37:41) No more burning dogs in the street. (00:37:42) No more dog abuse. (00:37:45) on every sign, on every word, so that, and we're going to go around, we're going to warn everybody, hey, got three more weeks of this, like clock's ticking, just keep telling everyone, just so the people that are aware, they're like, oh, wow, there's a new mayor in town, they may start leaving. (00:37:59) And then when the three weeks, or maybe we'll even do 2 weeks, maybe people will want it faster. (00:38:03) And then once we start enforcing laws, (00:38:06) Boom. (00:38:06) Streets will be back. (00:38:08) You know who else I'm going to bring in? (00:38:10) The CDC, because there's medieval diseases in these encampments. (00:38:14) They're not swabbing these encampments. (00:38:16) They're not swabbing the streets. (00:38:17) People are just living in feces and drug use and dogs burning and body. (00:38:22) We need these streets cleaned. (00:38:26) What about the building of the team to execute? (00:38:29) You're looking to sit in this executive role. (00:38:31) Have you ever had a role where you've overseen 10s of thousands of employees before? (00:38:35) I'm assuming not. (00:38:37) I've read your bio, but how do you execute? (00:38:39) Who do you bring in under you that actually knows how to manage the system, manage the people, deliver the message? (00:38:46) You can form strategy and set objectives and so on. (00:38:48) But walk us through how you're actually going to deliver as mayor operationally when you step in on day one. (00:38:56) So the great news about running for mayor of LA is everyone wants to save LA. (00:39:01) Everyone wants LA to be #1. (00:39:03) The meetings I'm taking every week now, the lunches, the brunches, the dinners of beyond successful people that are willing to work for a dollar a year, pause their companies to come in, people are telling me just with algorithms alone, they have (00:39:20) We get 100X the bureaucracy of the city and building and development. (00:39:24) When I'm mayor, there's so many cranes in the city because we're going to be rebuilding the amount of money. (00:39:31) Just last week, I probably met with 10 billionaires that are ready to come in and build LA up to be the number one city in the world. (00:39:38) So when they say, oh, you have no experience? (00:39:40) Well, what I do have is humility. (00:39:42) I'm humble. (00:39:42) I know I've never ran the second largest city. (00:39:45) I know smart people who have done it. (00:39:47) We need to be bringing in the CEOs that have ran the biggest corporations in the world to come in and work with, you know, because they'll tell you, no, you need to know the city at a certain level. (00:39:56) You bring those people in, but the people that execute