Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reacts to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s endorsement of Mayor Karen Bass, discusses the city’s homelessness crisis, outlines his plans to root out fraud, and more in an interview with FOX News Channel host Kayleigh McEnany on “Saturday in America.” Full transcript below, via FOX News Channel: <\/p>\n
KAYLEIGH MCENANY, ANCHOR, SATURDAY IN AMERICA:\u00a0 Now, I had the opportunity to sit down with Spencer Pratt, and while he was with me, he learned in real-time that California Governor Gavin Newsom had endorsed Karen Bass’ re-election campaign.\u00a0 \u00a0 Here’s my exclusive interview with Los Angeles Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt. Let’s bring in L.A. mayor candidate Spencer Pratt. Spencer, thank you for being here.\u00a0 \u00a0 SPENCER PRATT, LOS ANGELES MAYORAL CANDIDATE:\u00a0 Thank you for having me.\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 It’s an honor, truly. I wanted to start by asking you about Gavin Newsom, who has chosen to endorse Karen Bass, citing an 18 percent decline in homelessness, dropping violent crime and a stellar record, I guess, and that was Newsom.\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 That must be breaking news because I had not heard that. But it’s not shocking because their alleged criminal partners, not only did they work together in their negligence in burning down 7,000 houses and 12 people alive, but they’re both complicit in laundering what? \u00a0 Twenty-four billion dollars to actually increase homelessness. Newsom and Karen Bass make up stats. Those are not real numbers. Anybody with eyeballs in the state of California or Los Angeles knows that there has not been a reduction in one homeless person.\u00a0 \u00a0 Actually, there’s been an increase of naked drug-addict zombies in front of every kid’s playground, every kid’s school, every coffee shop. So, that is, of course, because they’re — you know, they both should be in jail together for their — I personally believe what they did to the Palisades is criminal negligence. \u00a0 So, they need to cover for each other so they don’t end up in jail for letting 12 people burn alive from their negligence.\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes, other real numbers, and this comes from the chief auditor, it’s the financial watchdog for the mayor. The city administrative officer said $ 418 million has been spent on homelessness per year, only 10 percent of that went to getting people permanently off the streets.\u00a0 \u00a0 And a watchdog says we can’t even begin to calculate the total fraud in Karen Bass’ homeless program. Are you committed to rooting fraud out of the system?\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Let’s go back to these numbers. You know they just pick a day and they have volunteers, and they drive around and go, one, two, three, it’s the most — it’s insane. That number — even that number is made up. \u00a0 The RAND Corporation says that even they’re not accurate number — is 30 percent higher than that fake number — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Wow —\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 And, again, why I will be one of the most successful mayors in the history of the country is\u00a0\u00a0 because I’m going to have full accountability and transparency for every dollar of our tax money. Not just in this homeless industrial complex scam, but in the Police Department, in the Fire Department, in Transportation.\u00a0 \u00a0 We need to know where all of our tax money is going, and not confusing dashboards on dot-gov, where you need to be an accountant and a forensic investigator — even know what they’re saying. These need to be very easy to read. \u00a0 High school kids should be able to log on and know where their parents’ money is going, and they should be able to catch it themselves. If there’s failure in the city and waste, I would like high\u00a0\u00a0 school kids to be able to say, is that much money for this refrigerator at the Fire station?\u00a0 \u00a0 That refrigerator at Costco is a third of that.\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 That’s the Los Angeles that I will be creating.\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes, I think Los Angeles a lot of people hope for. There’s something really bizarre that Karen Bass said in a CNN interview. She said, the reason she didn’t root out homelessness a 100 percent is because she found something that surprised her. \u00a0 She found people internal in the system that are very resistant to ending homelessness. What does that even mean? Have you heard of this?\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 I have not heard, but she’s connected to, obviously, a mafia-like organization. The NGOs that are stealing billions of our tax money to increase drug addicts naked on our sidewalks –she’s complicit. These are her — these are her associates. \u00a0 These are — she’s in e-mails with the same people that have Department of Justice investigations right now against them. So, I believe maybe that’s the only honest thing she’s ever said in the fact that, yes, they’re all criminals.\u00a0 \u00a0 So, maybe criminals are resistant to stopping the crime because they’re profiting off these poor souls that the mayor and these NGOs let seven of them die on the sidewalk a day in their own feces. So, yes, it’s — these people are — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Crazy — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Evil.\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Absolutely. I mean, it is evil to allow that to happen. You’ve been very vocal on Skid Row dogs. It appears there are people injecting dogs on Skid Row. What is going on?\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 It’s so disgusting that even testing your drugs on a dog is the least of the worst of what these demons are doing to these poor animals. They’re lighting them on fire, they’re raping these dogs, they’re abusing them, they’re breeding them to the point that they die because they’ve been so overbred.\u00a0 \u00a0 And it’s not just animals on Skid Row. We have L.A. city shelter system that is supposed to be a no-kill shelter, that’s killing thousands of dogs also — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Wow — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Because it’s underfunded, and it doesn’t have the people that need to be running it, running it.\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 The images are astonishing. What do you hear from moms? You know, I’m a mom, I hope to one day take my kids to L.A. and be able to walk around with them and show them this beautiful city. What are you hearing on the trail from moms? \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Yes, keep saying I become the mayor because of moms. Moms are getting me elected. Moms do not feel safe in Los Angeles. Not just feel safe, they are not safe. Nobody is safe really in L.A. unless you’re a drug dealer.\u00a0 \u00a0 The drug dealers and the people giving them the needles, the city, our taxpayer money, those — the needle-givers, they are safe. The meth pipe givers, they’re safe. Everyone else is not safe in Los Angeles. So, moms are getting me elected because I’m saying as mayor, I’m going to enforce the law and make sure moms and kids can use their parks again. \u00a0 They can go to school without encampments with drug dealing and naked drug-addicts having sex in front of these schools on the sidewalk. I’m stopping this because it’s illegal. All these things are illegal. I’m just going to be the mayor that comes in and says, hey, everybody, the law is back, the laws that all exist.\u00a0 \u00a0 These incredible laws that our incredible Democrats voted for, I’m going to enforce them for everybody as mayor. And if my LAPD chief that I put in, doesn’t do it, we’ll get a new LAPD chief.\u00a0\u00a0 And if anybody LAPD doesn’t want to enforce the law, we’ll get new officers. \u00a0 We are going to make sure that moms feel safe in Los Angeles. That is my number one priority of eight years of being mayor, just to make L.A. the safest city in the country.\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 You’ve been very vocal about your faith. And you said that you prayed to Jesus Christ before you decided to run. You were praying to God before the debate. Tell me about how your faith has informed this.\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Well, thankfully, I married an angel who is very connected to Jesus and has brought me to the light. You know, I was always not so bright in the light on the Lord’s path here, and thankfully, my wife has always just been so connected with Jesus and God. \u00a0 And they’re like, Spencer, if this is God’s plan, then it will be. And if not, then it won’t, then come home and help me with the kids. \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 So, it’s been very empowering to just pray and just be on this path and just say, God, if you want me to save these animals, save these humans and protect my city, just keep putting me in the place where I can do that.\u00a0 \u00a0 And if it’s not God’s plan, it won’t happen and I won’t have that pressure and that burden on my heart that I now feel because I am so close to being able to do it. And if that’s not the plan, I won’t feel that anymore. So that will be a blessing also.\u00a0 \u00a0 But going into the debate, I was very nervous because, again, I’ve never been a politician. I’ve never done a — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Debate, and I’ve never argued with two lying demons live on TV in a political setting — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Technically maybe in my past reality TV career, we could say that happened before. But — and I just said, God, if you want this for me, please, just have me destroy them live on TV, and I walked off that stage and this young high school kid came right up to me, and he said, thank you, sir, for being the only one that told the truth up there on the stage.\u00a0 \u00a0 And for me, when I set out on this mission, it was just to get the truth at the highest platform I could. That’s all — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 I ever thought I was going to be able to do. Obviously, I know what needs to be done, but if it was only to expose the lies and the corruption of our beautiful city, I would have been fine. But that was God’s plan.\u00a0 \u00a0 But it seems like God has me going all the way in five days if everyone just turns in their ballots right now and votes.\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 God is clearly guiding your path. I agree, Heidi is an absolute angel. I’m a big fan of her’s. And final question for you, you know, here in New York City, Zohran Mamdani was — proudly got the Knicks there to the NBA finals in his first year. Do you think you can get L.A. to the finals in your first year?\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 You know, for the championship for me as mayor is making the streets safe. That’s all the medals I — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 The city needs right now. We’ve — that’s great with sports, but right now people are dying on the sidewalk. \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Yes — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Moms aren’t feeling safe. Sports are cool, but I am so about making the city safe that — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 And focused —\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 The championship will be moms getting to go back to the park —\u00a0 \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Love that — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 And take a stroll whole there — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Love that, that’s the true championship —\u00a0 \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Yes — \u00a0 MCENANY:\u00a0 Thank you so much, Spencer Pratt. What an honor — \u00a0 PRATT:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n