WEBVTT - Xavier Becerra has his Katie Porter Moment 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.440 It is the John Phillips Show. Johnny is on vacation 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.240 and he'll be back on Monday. So it's Randy Wang 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.280 here and the phone number to join us is eight 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.639 hundred two two two five two two two one eight 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.239 hundred two two two five two two two. You can 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.919 email us at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.639 com or my personal email, Randy Wang Radio at gmail 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.000 dot com. Subscribe to my substack where you can see 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.239 all the show prep that we did for today, all 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.320 the stories that we're trying to cover at randywangradio dot 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.360 substack dot com. If this show was six hours, we 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.040 could cover all the stuff I prep for, and of 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.680 course search for the John Phillips Show wherever you get 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:39.720 your podcasts. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.680 It is election season. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.800 As of May twelfth, two percent of Californians have voted, 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.720 one point eight percent of Democrats, two point nine percent 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:57.160 of Republicans, and one point five percent of no party preferencers. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.800 The governor's race is the top thing that people will 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:05.080 be voting for. All sixty one candidates are on the ballot, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.560 and we have some new polling out showing that the 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:15.720 Javier Besserah bump is still climbing scrub a dub dub 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:21.440 is in first place in the latest poll from Emerson 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:26.680 College in California. Inside California Politics, Javier Bessera, the former 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.760 secretary of Joe What was his job again? 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.679 For Secretary of Health and Educations? 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.240 Are I nominated Javier Bakaria? 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:43.520 Wasn't his name? Wasn't the job? Besserah pulling at nineteen 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.040 percent in this latest poll, followed by Steve Hilton at 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:53.920 seventeen percent, tied with Tom Steyer. Interesting, Chad Bianco well 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.360 below them at eleven percent. What we have seen, and 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.559 this is pretty consistent with a lot of polls. After 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:05.160 two weeks of NonStop debates, you had the kt you 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:11.760 had the you had the KTLA debate. I'm forgetting what 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.920 the company's name was, next our media excuse me, so 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.280 KTLA and cron Ford and Fox forty. Then you had 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.520 the CBS debate. That's the one that John and I 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.280 got to attend thanks to our friend Julie Watts. Then 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.640 you had the CNN debate, and then you had the 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:32.120 NBC debate. After all of these debates, one thing is 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:37.680 definitely clear that a lot of people who were looking 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.640 at splitting the vote between Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.640 Didn't really care for Chad Bianco's debate performance, and he 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:50.240 is slipping far below where Bianco's at seventeen percent. Excuse me, 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.200 Bianco's at eleven percent, Stiri and Hilton at seventeen percent. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.040 And again this is just one poll. We have another 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:03.600 poll that we will cover. Kat Porter is in fifth place. Oh, 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.320 Matt Mayhan is slowly climbing, but it's probably too little, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.839 too late, at eight percent, and Tonio Viragosa at four 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:15.120 percent and Tony Thurman at one percent. Now, in just 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.000 in case you don't think that that pole is super accurate, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.120 let's look at another pole. This has been to research, 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.760 could be binder research, I don't know. And this one 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.840 has Hilton in first place with twenty three percent, followed 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:35.000 by scrub A Dub dub, Javier Bisera, followed by Tom 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.920 Steyer at fifteen percent. So you have twenty three Hilton, 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:45.200 twenty two Bisera fifteen Styre way below thirteen, Bianco, twelve, Porter, seven, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.800 Mayhen six, I don't know, two Viragosa and one Therman. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.960 I mean, I understand why if you've gone this far, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.960 you're not going to drop out now, But Tony Thurman, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.360 it's not happening, and Tony V is not happening. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.160 In fact at this point. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.840 As much as I really like his policies and I 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.840 was even considering voting for him, and I don't think 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.280 you should ever vote for somebody based on that you 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.480 think that they're going to win. You should vote whoever 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.920 you think the best person is, regardless of you know 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.560 of what their chances are. You vote for the person 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.240 that you most identify with that you think is should 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.480 be in charge of this massive state. But the Mayhem 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.599 thing doesn't seem to be happening, and Katie Porter seems 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.240 to definitely have a ceiling when it comes to her support. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.520 You're out of my shot at least ever since that 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:44.760 thing happened. But what we are seeing in these polls 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.279 is Besserah, even with all the attacks that are getting 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.320 thrown at him, whether it's the attacks about the scandal 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.560 involving Dana Williamson where money was being wired out of 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.640 his campaign account to his former aid who went to 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.880 go work for him in the Fed government a lower salary, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.560 or the whole HHS Missing Kids scandal which the first 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.479 thing that he'll say is oh no, no, no, no, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.200 that is just that's just magataking points right there, even 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.320 though it was a New York Times investigation. But it 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.359 hasn't really hurt him. And maybe part of the problem 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.000 is both of those stories are very complicated and not 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:28.440 as cut and dry as Eric Swalwell accused rapist. So 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.400 with that being said, as Bessarah is riding quite a 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.719 high on polls from last week, he ended up doing 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:41.440 something this week that of every single thing that people 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.120 are going after Javier Basera for might be the most 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:51.839 damaging one to his campaign. Much like our girl Katie 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:57.760 Porter when she was the front runner, she ended up 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:03.839 getting knocked off of that perch for acting kind of crazy. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:09.040 In an interview with our friend Julie Watts of CBS 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.440 News Investigates. In fact, it was this very show that 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.360 and when John was on vacation where I found that 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.400 sound in the middle of a thirty minute segment and 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.160 I played it. We told people where it was and 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.200 it went everywhere. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:27.680 Well to those voters. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.640 Okay, so you I don't want to keep doing this, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:34.640 I'm gonna call it. Thank you. You're not gonna do 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.560 the interview with them. Nope, not like this. I'm not 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.839 not with seven follow ups to every single question you ask. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.960 That was the moment where people started really paying attention 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.640 to Katie Porter's temperament. And that's when somebody apparently affiliated 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:54.200 with Stier released this video out of my shot. Javier 0:06:54.279 --> 0:07:02.880 Bisera has now had his Katie Porter moment, and it's 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.159 not a good look for him. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.839 What is his Katie Porter moment? It's simple. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:14.200 He sat down with KTLA to do an interview because 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.760 he's running for governor, and the very beginning of the 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.880 interview something that maybe he thought they weren't going to 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.880 include in the interview. He says something pretty darn telling. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.920 Let's go to KTLA and just a small note to 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:35.280 everyone at KTLA, I'm glad you're doing these interviews. Can 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.960 you please post the full interview on YouTube? And in fact, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.440 inside California Politics, which is the show that's hosted by 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.360 Niki Lorenzo, they don't post any of their content on YouTube. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.600 Why. Annie Rose joins us now with that, Annie Rose, good. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:51.680 Morning, Hey guys, good morning. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.760 Yeah, we approached all of the top gubernatorial candidates running 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.680 in this race, leading us to six candidates. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.320 Our request was the same. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.239 To each of their teams for a sit down interview 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.800 at a location of their choosing for roughly twenty five minutes. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.160 The purpose, so you are viewers. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.640 Could become acquainted with each candidate, their history, their campaigns, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.920 and their platforms. Here's our interview with former HHS Secretary 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.360 Javier Bissetta. This is the start of our interview with 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.040 Javier Bista in Highland Park. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.360 By the way, this is a profile piece. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:23.800 This is not a gotcha piece. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.680 Right whoa. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.880 This is the first thing he says as they put 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.760 the mic on him as the interview is about to begin. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.280 And I don't know if he thought he was trying 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.080 to be funny, but that is a bad luck. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.520 By the way, this is a profile piece. This is 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:43.679 not a gotcha piece. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:43.960 Right. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.400 Well, look, I think we're these questions are fair. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.320 It's in order to learn about you as a candidate. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:50.720 So why it's about the profile. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.160 I don't know how the profile? 0:08:54.040 --> 0:09:00.040 Okay, somebody, Javier Bessera is uniquely bad at interviews. I 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.280 know this from his first interview when he announced he 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.960 was running for governor with Alex Michaelson of then Fox 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.880 eleven scrub and he said that ten thousand times, and 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:13.079 then we made fun of it. He stopped saying scrub 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:18.000 it almost immediately. I feel like we influenced that campaign. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.839 But when you do the scrub but he's. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.400 Terrible on the debate stage. But the attitude that he 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.320 has of is this a profile or is this a 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.040 hit piece? I'm going to play you the exchange he 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.839 had with Annie Rose Ramos uninterrupted. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.200 By the way, this is a profile piece. This is 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.400 not a gotcha piece. Right, Well, look, I. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.079 Think these questions are fair. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.000 It's in order to learn about you as a candidate. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.400 So one is about the profile. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.520 I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:48.120 to begin the. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.040 Interview the way I described profile is you talk about 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.079 all the things that I've done, things I want to do, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.720 and along with some tough questions. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.360 But not only tough questions. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.560 It's never a good look when the subject of the 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.360 interview thinks that they get to dictate how the interview 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.520 is going to go, especially when you've been in the 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.520 public eye for decades and decades you know that you're 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.680 miked in your on camera and you think this is 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.680 a good look. Al I'm saying is, and this is 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.960 such a minor thing compared to the AHHS scandal how 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:33.240 he ran the AHHS or the emerging scandal with Sean 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.800 McCluskey and Dana Williamson. But it is a something that's 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.240 simple that people can digest. And also, every single one 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.280 of his opponents have capitalized on this, and they're already 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.120 running ads. In fact, Matt Mahan put together an ad 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:53.840 featuring this nonsense matched up with this nonsense well to 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:54.439 those voters. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.400 Okay, so I don't want to keep doing this. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:04.120 I'm gonna call it, but let's hear the whole interview, 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.079 because even though most people are just going to pay 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.960 attention to those initial thirty seconds where he complains after 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.160 sitting down that you're not going to do a hit 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.200 piece on me, are you? The whole interview didn't go 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.320 well for him, and we only have the snippets that 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.120 they put in this seven minute piece, But I sure 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.680 would love to listen to that whole thirty minute interview. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.880 You know who's great at posting the full interview even 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.040 when all of it's not going to make the broadcast. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:35.800 Kc III Ashley Zavalla Every Sunday morning, the entire thirty 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:39.600 minute interview right there on YouTube for me to do 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:40.520 my meal prep. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.640 By the way, this is a profile piece. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.079 This is not a gotcha piece. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:44.360 Right. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:45.160 Well, look, I. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.760 Think we're these questions are fair. It's in order to 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.760 learn about you as a candidate. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.120 So why is about the profile. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.280 I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:54.240 to begin the interview. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.880 The way I describe profile is you talk about all 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.800 the things that I've done, things I want to do, 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.439 and a along with some tough questions. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.160 But not only tough. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.840 Questions profile peace or not. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.000 Katila had tough questions for Javier Bezerra, the nation's former 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:13.160 Health and Human Services secretary in California's former attorney general 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:14.680 now running for governor. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.880 If you want to make sure a reporter asks you 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.680 a bunch of tough questions, ask them not to ask 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:20.760 you tough questions. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.559 I want to begin with homelessness. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.079 We could not find a plan on your website when 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.200 it comes to tackling this issue, So can you explain 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:29.240 what your plan is? 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.600 Seems like one of the big things, But Javier Besara 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.280 doesn't really have a whole lot of details. And in fact, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.840 if there's any person on that stage, that would be 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:42.640 a continuation of the eight years that we've had of Gavin. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.320 Newsom, began Berger. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.800 It's that Javier Bisera would be a continuation of big, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.439 bold proclamations with no follow through. 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.520 That is something we are mindful of making sure we 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.520 address the issue of accountability. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:58.720 If we're sending. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.480 Billions, already sending the Gavin new some. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.439 Word accountability, accountability, accountability. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.520 Making sure we address the issue of accountability. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.200 If we're sending billions of dollars into cities and counties 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.440 from the state taxpayer dollars, we have to make sure 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:13.840 that people see the results. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.400 So who is delivering results? In your mind, what city 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:17.960 in California is doing this right? 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:23.400 This is a great question, although he'll never answer it 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.680 because you could say San Jose, But then why wouldn't 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.520 we just vote for the mayor of San Jose. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.720 So who is delivering results? In your mind? What city 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.280 in California is doing this right? 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.000 I don't know if there's any city I would tell 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.079 you that's doing it right. There are cities that are 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.959 trying to do it, But when you still see that 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.800 there are people living on the streets, you wonder, what 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:44.679 can we do better. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.120 Let's move on to gas tax. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.520 Well, you could say Burbank's doing it right. They kick 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.160 all those people out to North Hollywood. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.520 Let's move on to gas tax. Mayor mayhon is saying 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:54.360 he'd suspend it. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.080 So did mister Mayhann explain how we would try to 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.000 fix those roads and bridges if he's going to set 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:00.880 in the gas tax. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.760 Just a quick reminder, and Besarah is the one who 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.960 wants to die on the hill of the gas tax. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.559 The gas tax, because of hybrids and electric and PEVs, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.200 has already gone down in the amount of revenue that 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.600 the state collects from it, to the point where last 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:24.040 year it collected eight billion dollars. The budget of the 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:29.720 state of California is around three hundred and fifty billion dollars. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.800 At this point. It's a rounding error. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.280 You could definitely find the money to fix our roads 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.120 and bridges, which by the way, are in terrible condition 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:44.480 compared to other states that have snow with the money 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.840 that we already have spend it. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.680 So did mister Mayhanon explain how we would try to 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.720 fix those roads and bridges if he's going to suspend 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:53.440 the gas tax. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.280 You do not need a specific tax to solve a 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.800 specific issue. We are starting to do democracy all the 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.120 cart in the state of California. You like the fire department, 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.160 well you better vote for the fire tax. You like 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.560 the roads, you better vote for the road tax. We're 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.720 supposed to pay a simple tax, and the government is 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:18.720 supposed to spend that money correctly and responsibly, not overspend 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.880 to the point where we're not spending on the things 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.760 that we need. And then they try to tach you 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:23.600 for those things. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.600 But experts we spoke to this morning say California is 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.200 on the verge of a gas crisis because the state's 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.320 largest refineries are shutting their operations. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.440 What is your plan to bring down gas prices? 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.680 Would you try and get any of these oil refineries 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:38.400 to reopen? 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.240 Those refineries do something very important. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.440 They make it possible for California drivers to have access 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:46.640 to the gasoling we need. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:47.920 What are you doing here? 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.440 He doesn't really have any answers for any of these problems. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.440 Javi Arbasara might be even more light on the details 0:15:58.920 --> 0:15:59.880 than Gavin Newsom. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:01.960 I don't know why we're so damned sheepish. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.280 And what does it say about the average California voter 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.080 that this guy is the front runner now. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.960 No, I don't know enough to give you any good information, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:13.680 but good luck finding someone who does. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:18.240 We've got more of this disaster of an interview with 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.960 Javier Bacharia, so stick it right here and you can 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.800 always email us at Johnny don't like show at gmail 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.240 dot com, or if you want to send me a 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:30.360 personal email, Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com. Greg 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.200 writes in and says, wtf does this idiot think are 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.560 already high taxes are for? They always need a little more. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.960 Open the books and show me what you're doing with 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.240 the money we're already giving you, and what road repair 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.360 every road in La is like riding the matterhorn as 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.280 somebody that drives the roads of La every day. I 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.600 can say that statement is true. We've got a lot 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.200 more coming up from this javierba Sera interview Javier, but 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.680 Sarah pulling in first place now. 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At this point, the top two Republican things, 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.639 at least in my opinion, is not going to happen. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.200 John has put that on his voter guide that that's 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.800 the thing that he is wanting to have happen. 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:02.480 I don't think it's going to happen. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.320 But Javier Bisera of all the scandals that have pretty 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.639 much bounced off of him, whether it be the Dana 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.720 Williamson thing, whether it be the stuff when he was 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:18.320 at HHS, all that is so complicated. What's not complicated 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.280 was this exchange with Annie Rose Ramos of KTLA. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.920 This is the start of our interview with Javier Brissa 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:25.800 in Highland Park. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.399 By the way, this is a profile piece. This is 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:29.560 not a gotcha piece. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:30.600 Right, Well, look, I. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.240 Think we're these questions are fair. It's in order to 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.200 learn about you as a candidate. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:36.600 So why it's about the profile. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:38.760 I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.360 to begin the interview the way. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.680 I described profile is you talk about all the things 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.720 that I've done, things I want to do, and along 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.880 with some tough questions, but not only tough questions. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.600 That is just succynct enough. And because it is on video, 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.359 it's getting shared everywhere. Look, if there is anything that 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.280 is going to slow down the Baccaria train as people 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.760 are currently voting, in my opinion, that might do it, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.680 scrub it, because let's not forget who was the front 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.720 runner in this race before a bad interview changed everything. 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.239 Well to those voters. Okay, so you I don't want 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.600 to keep doing this, I'm gonna call it. Thank you. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.720 You're not gonna do the interview. 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:24.919 With them, Nope, not like this. I'm not not with 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.960 seven follow ups to every single question you ask. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.440 With that, let's get back to the interview between Javier 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:37.480 Bsera and KTLA's Annie Rose Ramos. She was asking him 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:38.879 about what are you going to do to keep the 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:39.879 refineries open? 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.719 What is your plan to bring down gas prices? 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:44.959 Would you try and get any of these oil refineries 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:45.680 to reopen? 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:46.880 Those refineries? 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:51.200 Do something very important they make it possible for California 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.880 drivers to have access to the gasoling we need. 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.359 So what do you do to keep the refineries open? 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:04.840 Refineries good? I'm sure every single person that is running 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.400 for governor, at least the top candidates, they all have 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:13.560 a certain level of intelligence. You would imagine they've had careers. 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:17.480 A lot of them have law degrees. That being said, 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:21.520 just as an objective watcher and consumer of a lot 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:26.680 of interviews with a lot of candidates, in my humble opinion, 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.800 the dumbest sounding candidate of all of them, and it's 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:36.680 not even close, is Javier Bessera scrub It. Going back 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:41.439 to that original interview with Alex Michaelson. Maybe he's a 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:45.320 lot smarter off camera, but he sure doesn't come off 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:46.840 that way on camera. 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:49.879 What are you doing here? Are you taking away regulations? 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:51.120 Are you asking them to come back? 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:52.960 I want to work with them so they can continue 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:54.240