Arnold Schwarzenegger says January 6 insurrection is what happens ‘when people are being lied to about the elections’
“I just felt that it was so sad of what happened on January 6,” Schwarzenegger said. “Eventually, this whole thing can go really quickly south.”
The former governor’s candidness is on display in the latest installment of “Total Recall: California’s Political Circus,” in which Bash sits down with the bodybuilder-turned-movie-star-turned-politician at his Los Angeles home. Schwarzenegger takes a rare, detailed look back at the 2003 recall election that made him governor.
The recall against Newsom was only the second attempt to recall a sitting governor in California history that reached the ballot. The last time was in 2003, when voters recalled Democrat Gray Davis and replaced him with Schwarzenegger, a Republican.
Schwarzenegger, in his conversation with Bash, also talks about being a celebrity turned politician, his relationship with the Kennedy family and the Los Angeles Times investigation that came out in the final month of his campaign for governor.
The former governor, who is California’s most recent Republican leader, said that in addition to worrying about election lies, he is concerned about partisanship.
“I’m worried about both parties. Both parties need to come together and work together because you cannot have just run the country on 50% of the brainpower. You need 100% of the brainpower,” he said.
“So therefore, you need Republican ideas when you do health care reform. You need Democratic ideas when you do health care reform. You need Republican ideas when you do the infrastructure. You need Democratic ideas when you do the infrastructure.”
