From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty show.

Hey, glad you're here.

Jack has got the COVID and is feeling pretty rotten.

But we're hoping for a quick recovery. He's got some medicine and who knows?

A quick note from last hour when we were talking about the Gold Star families and the hearing in which they testified to the other lack of accountability that they've encountered the loss of their children at Abigate there during the evacuation of Kabul.

And my mind blanked senior moment, if you will, on the title of the fabulous book that describes the effort to get people out of there.

It's the fifth act America's end in Afghanistan by Elliott Ackerman.

And it's absolutely terrific. He served four combat tours in Afghanistan with the Marines and knows the ground very, very well.

And it's just a terrific book, but it is very, very troubling about that chaos.

So having said that, are we good, Michael? Good to go. Excellent.

Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty show. Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County, first elected in 2018, reelected in 2022 to his second term, a 29 year veteran of the Sheriff's Office.

Chad is the chief law enforcement officer of Riverside County and beautiful Southern California. Sheriff, how are you, sir?

I'm doing well. Thank you. Thanks for having me on.

Oh, it's our pleasure. We played a bit of audio from you the other day in which you're describing the California Sheriff's Association.

And it's long history of, of meeting with and conferring with governors because obviously the chief executive of the state needs to be in touch with law enforcement.

And we are just shocked and appalled and not like fake talk show host appalled, but just appalled by the fact that governor Gavin Newsom has not met with you folks. Is that right?

That is 100% correct. And it's in the first time ever. I mean, we talk about all the sheriff's, you know, we have a long history of meeting with the sheriff's and the sheriff's meeting with the governor about crime in the state.

It's a unique place to meet with only 58 sheriff's and talk about what everyone is experiencing across the state in terms of public safety.

And Newsom flat out refuses to meet with us. We beg we've pleaded we've tried and he's the only governor that anyone can remember that has refused.

And so, you know, that did me saying that and that play did get a lot of of traction and the funny thing about it is his crazy little run for governor, which are for president, which I hope the rest of the country clues in on what we already know.

He immediately reached out and said, Oh, we need to work together and we need to please stop stop Sheriff Bianco from saying that.

And so now he met with with a group of five sheriff's. It was completely uneventful. It was a token meeting. So technically, I can't say he doesn't meet with us because he did arrange one meeting, but it was useless.

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