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Speaker 2: It is election season.
Speaker 1: As of May twelfth, two percent of Californians have voted,
Speaker 1: one point eight percent of Democrats, two point nine percent
Speaker 1: of Republicans, and one point five percent of no party preferencers.
Speaker 1: The governor's race is the top thing that people will
Speaker 1: be voting for. All sixty one candidates are on the ballot,
Speaker 1: and we have some new polling out showing that the
Speaker 1: Javier Besserah bump is still climbing scrub a dub dub
Speaker 1: is in first place in the latest poll from Emerson
Speaker 1: College in California. Inside California Politics, Javier Bessera, the former
Speaker 1: secretary of Joe What was his job again?
Speaker 2: For Secretary of Health and Educations?
Speaker 3: Are I nominated Javier Bakaria?
Speaker 1: Wasn't his name? Wasn't the job? Besserah pulling at nineteen
Speaker 1: percent in this latest poll, followed by Steve Hilton at
Speaker 1: seventeen percent, tied with Tom Steyer. Interesting, Chad Bianco well
Speaker 1: below them at eleven percent. What we have seen, and
Speaker 1: this is pretty consistent with a lot of polls. After
Speaker 1: two weeks of NonStop debates, you had the kt you
Speaker 1: had the you had the KTLA debate. I'm forgetting what
Speaker 1: the company's name was, next our media excuse me, so
Speaker 1: KTLA and cron Ford and Fox forty. Then you had
Speaker 1: the CBS debate. That's the one that John and I
Speaker 1: got to attend thanks to our friend Julie Watts. Then
Speaker 1: you had the CNN debate, and then you had the
Speaker 1: NBC debate. After all of these debates, one thing is
Speaker 1: definitely clear that a lot of people who were looking
Speaker 1: at splitting the vote between Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco.
Speaker 1: Didn't really care for Chad Bianco's debate performance, and he
Speaker 1: is slipping far below where Bianco's at seventeen percent. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: Bianco's at eleven percent, Stiri and Hilton at seventeen percent.
Speaker 1: And again this is just one poll. We have another
Speaker 1: poll that we will cover. Kat Porter is in fifth place. Oh,
Speaker 1: Matt Mayhan is slowly climbing, but it's probably too little,
Speaker 1: too late, at eight percent, and Tonio Viragosa at four
Speaker 1: percent and Tony Thurman at one percent. Now, in just
Speaker 1: in case you don't think that that pole is super accurate,
Speaker 1: let's look at another pole. This has been to research,
Speaker 1: could be binder research, I don't know. And this one
Speaker 1: has Hilton in first place with twenty three percent, followed
Speaker 1: by scrub A Dub dub, Javier Bisera, followed by Tom
Speaker 1: Steyer at fifteen percent. So you have twenty three Hilton,
Speaker 1: twenty two Bisera fifteen Styre way below thirteen, Bianco, twelve, Porter, seven,
Speaker 1: Mayhen six, I don't know, two Viragosa and one Therman.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand why if you've gone this far,
Speaker 1: you're not going to drop out now, But Tony Thurman,
Speaker 1: it's not happening, and Tony V is not happening.
Speaker 2: In fact at this point.
Speaker 1: As much as I really like his policies and I
Speaker 1: was even considering voting for him, and I don't think
Speaker 1: you should ever vote for somebody based on that you
Speaker 1: think that they're going to win. You should vote whoever
Speaker 1: you think the best person is, regardless of you know
Speaker 1: of what their chances are. You vote for the person
Speaker 1: that you most identify with that you think is should
Speaker 1: be in charge of this massive state. But the Mayhem
Speaker 1: thing doesn't seem to be happening, and Katie Porter seems
Speaker 1: to definitely have a ceiling when it comes to her support.
Speaker 1: You're out of my shot at least ever since that
Speaker 1: thing happened. But what we are seeing in these polls
Speaker 1: is Besserah, even with all the attacks that are getting
Speaker 1: thrown at him, whether it's the attacks about the scandal
Speaker 1: involving Dana Williamson where money was being wired out of
Speaker 1: his campaign account to his former aid who went to
Speaker 1: go work for him in the Fed government a lower salary,
Speaker 1: or the whole HHS Missing Kids scandal which the first
Speaker 1: thing that he'll say is oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that is just that's just magataking points right there, even
Speaker 1: though it was a New York Times investigation. But it
Speaker 1: hasn't really hurt him. And maybe part of the problem
Speaker 1: is both of those stories are very complicated and not
Speaker 1: as cut and dry as Eric Swalwell accused rapist. So
Speaker 1: with that being said, as Bessarah is riding quite a
Speaker 1: high on polls from last week, he ended up doing
Speaker 1: something this week that of every single thing that people
Speaker 1: are going after Javier Basera for might be the most
Speaker 1: damaging one to his campaign. Much like our girl Katie
Speaker 1: Porter when she was the front runner, she ended up
Speaker 1: getting knocked off of that perch for acting kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: In an interview with our friend Julie Watts of CBS
Speaker 1: News Investigates. In fact, it was this very show that
Speaker 1: and when John was on vacation where I found that
Speaker 1: sound in the middle of a thirty minute segment and
Speaker 1: I played it. We told people where it was and
Speaker 1: it went everywhere.
Speaker 4: Well to those voters.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you I don't want to keep doing this,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna call it. Thank you. You're not gonna do
Speaker 5: the interview with them. Nope, not like this. I'm not
Speaker 5: not with seven follow ups to every single question you ask.
Speaker 1: That was the moment where people started really paying attention
Speaker 1: to Katie Porter's temperament. And that's when somebody apparently affiliated
Speaker 1: with Stier released this video out of my shot. Javier
Speaker 1: Bisera has now had his Katie Porter moment, and it's
Speaker 1: not a good look for him.
Speaker 2: What is his Katie Porter moment? It's simple.
Speaker 1: He sat down with KTLA to do an interview because
Speaker 1: he's running for governor, and the very beginning of the
Speaker 1: interview something that maybe he thought they weren't going to
Speaker 1: include in the interview. He says something pretty darn telling.
Speaker 1: Let's go to KTLA and just a small note to
Speaker 1: everyone at KTLA, I'm glad you're doing these interviews. Can
Speaker 1: you please post the full interview on YouTube? And in fact,
Speaker 1: inside California Politics, which is the show that's hosted by
Speaker 1: Niki Lorenzo, they don't post any of their content on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Why. Annie Rose joins us now with that, Annie Rose, good.
Speaker 4: Morning, Hey guys, good morning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we approached all of the top gubernatorial candidates running
Speaker 6: in this race, leading us to six candidates.
Speaker 4: Our request was the same.
Speaker 6: To each of their teams for a sit down interview
Speaker 6: at a location of their choosing for roughly twenty five minutes.
Speaker 4: The purpose, so you are viewers.
Speaker 6: Could become acquainted with each candidate, their history, their campaigns,
Speaker 6: and their platforms. Here's our interview with former HHS Secretary
Speaker 6: Javier Bissetta. This is the start of our interview with
Speaker 6: Javier Bista in Highland Park.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece.
Speaker 8: This is not a gotcha piece.
Speaker 2: Right whoa.
Speaker 1: This is the first thing he says as they put
Speaker 1: the mic on him as the interview is about to begin.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if he thought he was trying
Speaker 1: to be funny, but that is a bad luck.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece. This is
Speaker 7: not a gotcha piece.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, look, I think we're these questions are fair.
Speaker 6: It's in order to learn about you as a candidate.
Speaker 9: So why it's about the profile.
Speaker 2: I don't know how the profile?
Speaker 1: Okay, somebody, Javier Bessera is uniquely bad at interviews. I
Speaker 1: know this from his first interview when he announced he
Speaker 1: was running for governor with Alex Michaelson of then Fox
Speaker 1: eleven scrub and he said that ten thousand times, and
Speaker 1: then we made fun of it. He stopped saying scrub
Speaker 1: it almost immediately. I feel like we influenced that campaign.
Speaker 9: But when you do the scrub but he's.
Speaker 1: Terrible on the debate stage. But the attitude that he
Speaker 1: has of is this a profile or is this a
Speaker 1: hit piece? I'm going to play you the exchange he
Speaker 1: had with Annie Rose Ramos uninterrupted.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece. This is
Speaker 7: not a gotcha piece. Right, Well, look, I.
Speaker 4: Think these questions are fair.
Speaker 6: It's in order to learn about you as a candidate.
Speaker 9: So one is about the profile.
Speaker 6: I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like
Speaker 6: to begin the.
Speaker 10: Interview the way I described profile is you talk about
Speaker 10: all the things that I've done, things I want to do,
Speaker 10: and along with some tough questions.
Speaker 7: But not only tough questions.
Speaker 1: It's never a good look when the subject of the
Speaker 1: interview thinks that they get to dictate how the interview
Speaker 1: is going to go, especially when you've been in the
Speaker 1: public eye for decades and decades you know that you're
Speaker 1: miked in your on camera and you think this is
Speaker 1: a good look. Al I'm saying is, and this is
Speaker 1: such a minor thing compared to the AHHS scandal how
Speaker 1: he ran the AHHS or the emerging scandal with Sean
Speaker 1: McCluskey and Dana Williamson. But it is a something that's
Speaker 1: simple that people can digest. And also, every single one
Speaker 1: of his opponents have capitalized on this, and they're already
Speaker 1: running ads. In fact, Matt Mahan put together an ad
Speaker 1: featuring this nonsense matched up with this nonsense well to
Speaker 1: those voters.
Speaker 5: Okay, so I don't want to keep doing this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it, but let's hear the whole interview,
Speaker 1: because even though most people are just going to pay
Speaker 1: attention to those initial thirty seconds where he complains after
Speaker 1: sitting down that you're not going to do a hit
Speaker 1: piece on me, are you? The whole interview didn't go
Speaker 1: well for him, and we only have the snippets that
Speaker 1: they put in this seven minute piece, But I sure
Speaker 1: would love to listen to that whole thirty minute interview.
Speaker 1: You know who's great at posting the full interview even
Speaker 1: when all of it's not going to make the broadcast.
Speaker 1: Kc III Ashley Zavalla Every Sunday morning, the entire thirty
Speaker 1: minute interview right there on YouTube for me to do
Speaker 1: my meal prep.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece.
Speaker 8: This is not a gotcha piece.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, look, I.
Speaker 6: Think we're these questions are fair. It's in order to
Speaker 6: learn about you as a candidate.
Speaker 9: So why is about the profile.
Speaker 6: I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like
Speaker 6: to begin the interview.
Speaker 10: The way I describe profile is you talk about all
Speaker 10: the things that I've done, things I want to do,
Speaker 10: and a along with some tough questions.
Speaker 3: But not only tough.
Speaker 4: Questions profile peace or not.
Speaker 6: Katila had tough questions for Javier Bezerra, the nation's former
Speaker 6: Health and Human Services secretary in California's former attorney general
Speaker 6: now running for governor.
Speaker 1: If you want to make sure a reporter asks you
Speaker 1: a bunch of tough questions, ask them not to ask
Speaker 1: you tough questions.
Speaker 4: I want to begin with homelessness.
Speaker 6: We could not find a plan on your website when
Speaker 6: it comes to tackling this issue, So can you explain
Speaker 6: what your plan is?
Speaker 1: Seems like one of the big things, But Javier Besara
Speaker 1: doesn't really have a whole lot of details. And in fact,
Speaker 1: if there's any person on that stage, that would be
Speaker 1: a continuation of the eight years that we've had of Gavin.
Speaker 2: Newsom, began Berger.
Speaker 1: It's that Javier Bisera would be a continuation of big,
Speaker 1: bold proclamations with no follow through.
Speaker 10: That is something we are mindful of making sure we
Speaker 10: address the issue of accountability.
Speaker 3: If we're sending.
Speaker 2: Billions, already sending the Gavin new some.
Speaker 11: Word accountability, accountability, accountability.
Speaker 3: Making sure we address the issue of accountability.
Speaker 10: If we're sending billions of dollars into cities and counties
Speaker 10: from the state taxpayer dollars, we have to make sure
Speaker 10: that people see the results.
Speaker 4: So who is delivering results? In your mind, what city
Speaker 4: in California is doing this right?
Speaker 1: This is a great question, although he'll never answer it
Speaker 1: because you could say San Jose, But then why wouldn't
Speaker 1: we just vote for the mayor of San Jose.
Speaker 4: So who is delivering results? In your mind? What city
Speaker 4: in California is doing this right?
Speaker 10: I don't know if there's any city I would tell
Speaker 10: you that's doing it right. There are cities that are
Speaker 10: trying to do it, But when you still see that
Speaker 10: there are people living on the streets, you wonder, what
Speaker 10: can we do better.
Speaker 4: Let's move on to gas tax.
Speaker 1: Well, you could say Burbank's doing it right. They kick
Speaker 1: all those people out to North Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Let's move on to gas tax. Mayor mayhon is saying
Speaker 4: he'd suspend it.
Speaker 10: So did mister Mayhann explain how we would try to
Speaker 10: fix those roads and bridges if he's going to set
Speaker 10: in the gas tax.
Speaker 1: Just a quick reminder, and Besarah is the one who
Speaker 1: wants to die on the hill of the gas tax.
Speaker 1: The gas tax, because of hybrids and electric and PEVs,
Speaker 1: has already gone down in the amount of revenue that
Speaker 1: the state collects from it, to the point where last
Speaker 1: year it collected eight billion dollars. The budget of the
Speaker 1: state of California is around three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 2: At this point. It's a rounding error.
Speaker 1: You could definitely find the money to fix our roads
Speaker 1: and bridges, which by the way, are in terrible condition
Speaker 1: compared to other states that have snow with the money
Speaker 1: that we already have spend it.
Speaker 10: So did mister Mayhanon explain how we would try to
Speaker 10: fix those roads and bridges if he's going to suspend
Speaker 10: the gas tax.
Speaker 1: You do not need a specific tax to solve a
Speaker 1: specific issue. We are starting to do democracy all the
Speaker 1: cart in the state of California. You like the fire department,
Speaker 1: well you better vote for the fire tax. You like
Speaker 1: the roads, you better vote for the road tax. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to pay a simple tax, and the government is
Speaker 1: supposed to spend that money correctly and responsibly, not overspend
Speaker 1: to the point where we're not spending on the things
Speaker 1: that we need. And then they try to tach you
Speaker 1: for those things.
Speaker 6: But experts we spoke to this morning say California is
Speaker 6: on the verge of a gas crisis because the state's
Speaker 6: largest refineries are shutting their operations.
Speaker 4: What is your plan to bring down gas prices?
Speaker 6: Would you try and get any of these oil refineries
Speaker 6: to reopen?
Speaker 3: Those refineries do something very important.
Speaker 10: They make it possible for California drivers to have access
Speaker 10: to the gasoling we need.
Speaker 4: What are you doing here?
Speaker 1: He doesn't really have any answers for any of these problems.
Speaker 1: Javi Arbasara might be even more light on the details
Speaker 1: than Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 4: I don't know why we're so damned sheepish.
Speaker 1: And what does it say about the average California voter
Speaker 1: that this guy is the front runner now.
Speaker 10: No, I don't know enough to give you any good information,
Speaker 10: but good luck finding someone who does.
Speaker 1: We've got more of this disaster of an interview with
Speaker 1: Javier Bacharia, so stick it right here and you can
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Speaker 1: writes in and says, wtf does this idiot think are
Speaker 1: already high taxes are for? They always need a little more.
Speaker 1: Open the books and show me what you're doing with
Speaker 1: the money we're already giving you, and what road repair
Speaker 1: every road in La is like riding the matterhorn as
Speaker 1: somebody that drives the roads of La every day. I
Speaker 1: can say that statement is true. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: more coming up from this javierba Sera interview Javier, but
Speaker 1: Sarah pulling in first place now. But of every damaging
Speaker 1: thing that has been talked about with his campaign, nothing
Speaker 1: is getting more attention than him complaining to the reporter
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Speaker 1: Javier Besserah is not going to be having a very
Speaker 1: good week because of the interview he did with KTLA.
Speaker 1: Which is funny because a day after this interview is
Speaker 1: when we saw polling showing him overtaking Steve Hilton for
Speaker 1: that first spot. At this point, the top two Republican things,
Speaker 1: at least in my opinion, is not going to happen.
Speaker 1: John has put that on his voter guide that that's
Speaker 1: the thing that he is wanting to have happen.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: But Javier Bisera of all the scandals that have pretty
Speaker 1: much bounced off of him, whether it be the Dana
Speaker 1: Williamson thing, whether it be the stuff when he was
Speaker 1: at HHS, all that is so complicated. What's not complicated
Speaker 1: was this exchange with Annie Rose Ramos of KTLA.
Speaker 6: This is the start of our interview with Javier Brissa
Speaker 6: in Highland Park.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece. This is
Speaker 7: not a gotcha piece.
Speaker 8: Right, Well, look, I.
Speaker 6: Think we're these questions are fair. It's in order to
Speaker 6: learn about you as a candidate.
Speaker 9: So why it's about the profile.
Speaker 6: I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like
Speaker 6: to begin the interview the way.
Speaker 10: I described profile is you talk about all the things
Speaker 10: that I've done, things I want to do, and along
Speaker 10: with some tough questions, but not only tough questions.
Speaker 1: That is just succynct enough. And because it is on video,
Speaker 1: it's getting shared everywhere. Look, if there is anything that
Speaker 1: is going to slow down the Baccaria train as people
Speaker 1: are currently voting, in my opinion, that might do it,
Speaker 1: scrub it, because let's not forget who was the front
Speaker 1: runner in this race before a bad interview changed everything.
Speaker 5: Well to those voters. Okay, so you I don't want
Speaker 5: to keep doing this, I'm gonna call it. Thank you.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna do the interview.
Speaker 5: With them, Nope, not like this. I'm not not with
Speaker 5: seven follow ups to every single question you ask.
Speaker 1: With that, let's get back to the interview between Javier
Speaker 1: Bsera and KTLA's Annie Rose Ramos. She was asking him
Speaker 1: about what are you going to do to keep the
Speaker 1: refineries open?
Speaker 4: What is your plan to bring down gas prices?
Speaker 6: Would you try and get any of these oil refineries
Speaker 6: to reopen?
Speaker 3: Those refineries?
Speaker 10: Do something very important they make it possible for California
Speaker 10: drivers to have access to the gasoling we need.
Speaker 1: So what do you do to keep the refineries open?
Speaker 1: Refineries good? I'm sure every single person that is running
Speaker 1: for governor, at least the top candidates, they all have
Speaker 1: a certain level of intelligence. You would imagine they've had careers.
Speaker 1: A lot of them have law degrees. That being said,
Speaker 1: just as an objective watcher and consumer of a lot
Speaker 1: of interviews with a lot of candidates, in my humble opinion,
Speaker 1: the dumbest sounding candidate of all of them, and it's
Speaker 1: not even close, is Javier Bessera scrub It. Going back
Speaker 1: to that original interview with Alex Michaelson. Maybe he's a
Speaker 1: lot smarter off camera, but he sure doesn't come off
Speaker 1: that way on camera.
Speaker 4: What are you doing here? Are you taking away regulations?
Speaker 4: Are you asking them to come back?
Speaker 10: I want to work with them so they can continue
Speaker 10: to provide to Khasoline.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna work with him. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 1: His answer to everything is we're gonna put everyone in
Speaker 1: a room and we're gonna come to a decision. He
Speaker 1: has no concrete plans for anything. How do you going
Speaker 1: to solve the housing crisis. Well, we're gonna build. Okay,
Speaker 1: If it was that simple, why isn't Gavin Newsoen doing
Speaker 1: that right now?
Speaker 2: I don't know what we're gonna build.
Speaker 4: Want to move on to affordability.
Speaker 6: As governor, you say you will declare a state of
Speaker 6: emergency that would then allow you to quote freeze utility
Speaker 6: rates which continue to increase because these private investor utility
Speaker 6: companies aren't making profit.
Speaker 3: You're paying a lot of money.
Speaker 10: I bet you couldn't explain why, And that's why I'm
Speaker 10: saying it's time to freeze the rates right now. Let's
Speaker 10: get behind the current, figure out why.
Speaker 1: So they're already expensive, let's make sure they don't go
Speaker 1: up anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, bet you're paying a lot of money.
Speaker 3: I bet you couldn't explain why.
Speaker 1: TG and E got six rate increases in a year.
Speaker 1: Can we explain that?
Speaker 10: One bet you're paying a lot of money. I bet
Speaker 10: you couldn't explain why. And that's why I'm saying it's
Speaker 10: time to freeze the rates right now. Let's get behind
Speaker 10: the current, figure out why, and if the companies have
Speaker 10: a great explanation, will accept it.
Speaker 3: I think people will accept that want to move on.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to tell you right now, this right here,
Speaker 1: this answer tells me that he will be another in
Speaker 1: the long line of politicians paid off by pg and EF.
Speaker 10: You're paying a lot of money. I bet you couldn't
Speaker 10: explain why. And that's why I'm saying it's time to
Speaker 10: freeze the rates right now. Let's get behind the current
Speaker 10: figure out why, and if the companies have a great explanation,
Speaker 10: will accept it.
Speaker 9: I think people will accept that.
Speaker 1: So what's going to happen is he is going to
Speaker 1: with the stroke of a pen, freeze the rates till
Speaker 1: we can investigate why the rates are so high. And
Speaker 1: then he will come out with a press conference with
Speaker 1: PGD and so cal Edison and they will say, well,
Speaker 1: we need to raise the rates so that we can
Speaker 1: continue to protect this state from wildfires and improve our infrastructure,
Speaker 1: and Bisarah will say that's great, you can continue to
Speaker 1: increase your rates.
Speaker 6: Want to move on to your time as HHS secretary.
Speaker 6: Some critics called you the quote invisible Secretaries.
Speaker 3: Came in during the height of the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 10: When we left after seven hundred million COVID vaccine shots
Speaker 10: in the arms of Americans. Never once people having to
Speaker 10: pay a penny so they could be safe and not die.
Speaker 6: During your time as anxious as Secretary, a New York
Speaker 6: Times investigation found the Health Department couldn't find some eighty
Speaker 6: five thousand children it had released.
Speaker 3: That's not accurate. What you just read is not accurate.
Speaker 2: That's what the report says.
Speaker 3: That's not accurate. What you just read is not accurate. First,
Speaker 3: that's what I'll say, because it was never the case that.
Speaker 9: We could not find kids.
Speaker 10: You're essentially, I don't know if you've got those talking
Speaker 10: points from Donald Trump, So now.
Speaker 1: You're accusing the local KTLA journalist who's referencing a New
Speaker 1: York Times report of spouting out MAGA talking points. He
Speaker 1: gets really defensive about this, And what's funny is a
Speaker 1: lot of the incoming fire about his time in the
Speaker 1: Biden administration is coming from a lot of the Biden people.
Speaker 12: For Secretary of Health and Educations over I nominated Jaber Bakaria.
Speaker 1: Don't forget that Nancy Pelosi threw a fit when they
Speaker 1: nominated Besserah for HHS because she said he's domb and
Speaker 1: not trustworthy. She didn't exactly say that, But to my understanding,
Speaker 1: it was something like that we love everybody.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you do.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've got those talking points from
Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: It's from a New York Times article.
Speaker 9: That's not what the New York Times article said.
Speaker 10: The New York Times said that individuals of the children
Speaker 10: and their sponsors did not respond to cause they didn't
Speaker 10: say we couldn't find kids.
Speaker 1: Well, wouldn't that mean that you couldn't find them if
Speaker 1: they the number that was provided to the guardian that
Speaker 1: you released them to didn't return the call. Again, I
Speaker 1: think this is a very complicated story, and it was
Speaker 1: from a long time ago. If anything's going to knock
Speaker 1: him off the perch of first place, it's this interview.
Speaker 6: Working overnight in slaughterhouses replacing roofs, operating machineries and factories,
Speaker 6: children as young as fourteen years old.
Speaker 10: That part occurred after these children had left the care
Speaker 10: of Department of Healthy Human Services.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but who did you release them to?
Speaker 1: Traffickers, coyotes, people that wanted to employ child labor.
Speaker 2: Kathy Lee Gifford, do.
Speaker 6: You let these children go into those individual sponsors in
Speaker 6: their responsibility?
Speaker 10: Some of these kids, probably because they needed to earn
Speaker 10: some money, started working places that were very exploitive.
Speaker 1: All the kids needed to make a buck, so they
Speaker 1: needed to just get a job. It wasn't that we
Speaker 1: released them into an exploitative environment. They just you know,
Speaker 1: they had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Speaker 10: Some of these kids, probably because they needed to earn
Speaker 10: some money, started working places that were very exploited.
Speaker 6: You've said, we need a governor who is going to
Speaker 6: quote fight Donald Trump, not agree with him.
Speaker 4: So how will you work with the President Donald.
Speaker 3: Trump the way I did it when I was attorney general.
Speaker 4: So you're going to continue to take him to the
Speaker 4: courts as Keviny.
Speaker 10: What we'll also do is work on the other side,
Speaker 10: because it's not just about attack, attack attack. We will
Speaker 10: defend ourselves as we must, but also work with them.
Speaker 1: I would really love to hear that entire twenty five
Speaker 1: minute interview, because I don't think in the four and
Speaker 1: a half minutes that we've heard so far, of the
Speaker 1: snippets from the interview, we've heard one actual concrete policy
Speaker 1: idea from this guy.
Speaker 6: Now, we also press Secretary of Bassetta about how his
Speaker 6: former chief of staff pleaded guilty to stealing money from
Speaker 6: Bassetta's campaign account, the Sarah describing this as a gut
Speaker 6: punching everyone.
Speaker 1: That's his scripted line, and he says it every single time.
Speaker 6: The Sarah describing this as a gut punching. Everyone should
Speaker 6: be accountable for what they do. And while Bassetta has
Speaker 6: not been charged with any wrongdoing in this case, Sacramento
Speaker 6: Bee is now reporting this morning anonymous complaints were submitted
Speaker 6: just yesterday accusing Baseta of violating campaign finance laws. He
Speaker 6: has not yet commented on this report.
Speaker 1: I was struck by how the conversation began with this
Speaker 1: idea of your doing a profile.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna this isn't a hit piece.
Speaker 8: Well well context.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even Frank Buckley is perplexed, like, boy, are you
Speaker 1: just trying to implode your own campaign?
Speaker 8: Well, totally context.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I was caught off guard.
Speaker 1: Because, especially in the context of a former front runner
Speaker 1: imploded her campaign by saying stupid things to a reporter
Speaker 1: totally context.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I was caught off guard because it was so
Speaker 6: dramatically different from any of the other candidates that we
Speaker 6: had approached and sat down with. This was one of
Speaker 6: our final interviews as you saw, We've interviewed Sheriff Chad Bianco,
Speaker 6: Tom Steyer, and really the only question I've gotten with
Speaker 6: from anyone consistently, Matt Mahon.
Speaker 4: Is is it Annie or Annie Rose?
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, That's been the main question from anyone. And
Speaker 6: so to have this start this way before I had
Speaker 6: even asked a question, I mean, you're part of the debate,
Speaker 6: you know, it's about asking some of the hard questions sometimes.
Speaker 1: But even before she asked a question, he wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure there were no tough questions, uh uh.
Speaker 4: Allowing our viewers to get to know each candidate.
Speaker 6: And so that is why, not just myself, but our
Speaker 6: editors and executive producers here at KTLA decided to include
Speaker 6: that portion.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I was also surprised there were a couple of candidates
Speaker 12: so you've spoken to already, who didn't have a plan
Speaker 12: for homelessness on their websites, which is one.
Speaker 1: Of the In fact, their interview with Katie Porter was
Speaker 1: really damning because she starts saying, well, I would do
Speaker 1: is I would put a bunch of people in motels,
Speaker 1: and Annie Rose says that's what they're doing here and
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked, which She says, why I haven't really
Speaker 1: been paying attention to what LA is doing.
Speaker 12: On their websites, which is one of the biggest concerns
Speaker 12: Cali Fournian tab which strikes me because I've heard that
Speaker 12: a couple of times.
Speaker 4: I think that's why it was a priority to ask.
Speaker 6: I mean, not just for myself as a woman who
Speaker 6: lives on our own in the city.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is one of those problems that affects
Speaker 1: all the senses because you can feel it, you can
Speaker 1: see it, and yeah, you can smell it.
Speaker 6: Right here for myself as a woman who lives on
Speaker 6: our own in the city of Los Angeles. But I
Speaker 6: think for so many people that we speak to out
Speaker 6: on the street, they want to know how they how
Speaker 6: a governor or candidate is going to solve this or
Speaker 6: at least work on this, And so that's a huge priority,
Speaker 6: I know for voters who are focusing in and deciding
Speaker 6: on who to choose, and so it's why we wanted
Speaker 6: to sort of press on this issue for each candidate.
Speaker 1: All Right, we should say that Javier Brissara is one
Speaker 1: of the top polling candidates right now and continue, what
Speaker 1: does that say about the electric But this is what's
Speaker 1: really funny is because of our early voting system, where
Speaker 1: everyone already has the ballot. The election day is June second,
Speaker 1: there are people there could be people out there that
Speaker 1: would be very turned off by this exchange in the interview,
Speaker 1: but they already voted for him.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece. This is
Speaker 7: not a gotcha piece.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, look, I think we're these questions.
Speaker 2: I just got to save that. I mean, it's pretty golden.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece.
Speaker 8: This is not a gotcha piece.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: the telephone number if you want to weigh in on
Speaker 1: this one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: the telephone number, and you can email us at Johnny
Speaker 1: don't like show at gmail dot com. Bob Wright's in
Speaker 1: listening in Yuma. I'm so glad I left California when
Speaker 1: I did. But whoever wins, you and Johnny are going
Speaker 1: to have a gold mine of drops.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece.
Speaker 1: This is not a gotcha piece, right, Nadia writes in
Speaker 1: the only reason Javier Basera is ahead of the polls
Speaker 1: is name recognition. That's it, which is funny because even
Speaker 1: the former President of the United States didn't know what
Speaker 1: his name was. Robert says, I'm waiting to send in
Speaker 1: my ballot. I was planning on voting for Chad Bianco
Speaker 1: as a strategic vote, but based on the latest pollings,
Speaker 1: it seems more advantageous to vote for Hilton at the moment.
Speaker 1: I'm still holding my vote in case something major happens
Speaker 1: and wrecks the Bakaria train. Cammi writes in and says
Speaker 1: Bakaia is a feckless turd. All I heard was defensive
Speaker 1: verbal diarrhea mixed with tds. Rick writes in and says, Hey, Randy,
Speaker 1: that quote about a profile and not a gotcha piece
Speaker 1: might win Drop of the year. Well, if John has
Speaker 1: anything to say about it, this will be the.
Speaker 2: Drop of the year.
Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.
Speaker 1: He gets tickled pink every single time we play that
Speaker 1: one three time. He's obsessed, and John writes in it
Speaker 1: Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com on the
Speaker 1: voting strategy that John has put up on his voter guide,
Speaker 1: KBC dot com slash John's ballot KSFO dot com slash
Speaker 1: John's ballot. John in view of Chad Bianco pulling forth,
Speaker 1: I honestly think we need to rethink your strategy of
Speaker 1: directing Republicans to vote for him. This will only harm
Speaker 1: Steve Hilton shot at the top two of the top
Speaker 1: three too will advance, hopefully Hilton will be one of them.
Speaker 1: And siphoning off his votes to Bianco in a vain
Speaker 1: attempt to allow both Republicans to advance is a strategy
Speaker 1: doomed to fail. It can only result in Styre and
Speaker 1: Bakaria advancing that there are some polls where it's stire
Speaker 1: Besarah one two are but Sarah Styer one two. In
Speaker 1: a perfect world, Bianco would bow out and endorse Hilton.
Speaker 1: He needs to do that asap. Hopefully people are bringing
Speaker 1: this up to him at this point. Nobody else is
Speaker 1: dropping out unless some major scandal drops, because they all
Speaker 1: are so delulu that they think they can run this state.
Speaker 1: They think I alone can fix it. Eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five two two two is the telephone number.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Robert and Santa Clara. Robert, Hello, did Randy,
Speaker 1: how you doing?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 11: You know, remember this thing with Kamala Harris and uh
Speaker 11: Javier Psara going after David Delight and Sandrea Wood and
Speaker 11: what they were these independent journalists were trying to report
Speaker 11: about baby body parts and tissues being sold out of
Speaker 11: the back door of planned parenthood. Buckery is like another
Speaker 11: hit man. He's another bonta. You're gonna get more of
Speaker 11: the same sanctuary cities. He's not gonna you know, you're
Speaker 11: gonna still be appeasing pgen like you said, he's gonna
Speaker 11: be new some two point oes. It's horrible and that's
Speaker 11: pretty you know, he's a hit man and he's talked
Speaker 11: about making a hit piece. I mean, he's just another bonta.
Speaker 11: And then that's you know, they just they just install
Speaker 11: these people. But it's also outrageous what they've been involved in,
Speaker 11: especially that particular vampire is sic. Things that they've trying
Speaker 11: to destroy. This guy trying to expose real gross things.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the call, Robert, appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: gotta say it is it is just interesting how things
Speaker 1: have happened. For a good month, it seemed like it
Speaker 1: was either going to be Steve, it was going to
Speaker 1: definitely be Steve Hilton in the top spot. I think
Speaker 1: everyone could agree with that, but the second spot, it
Speaker 1: could have been Beyon Covid. That's definitely not happening now,
Speaker 1: but it looked like it was going to be Styre
Speaker 1: or Swallwell, and then the Swallwell thing explodes, and almost
Speaker 1: all of that support, when there's so many other candidates,
Speaker 1: goes to Bisera, including a lot of the endorsements.
Speaker 2: They go to Bisara.
Speaker 1: I just I wonder why he was the choice because
Speaker 1: just in everything that I've covered with him over the years,
Speaker 1: there's not one part of him that's impressive.
Speaker 7: By the way, this is a profile piece. This is
Speaker 7: not a gotcha piece.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 1: We'll see in next week's polls if this interview has
Speaker 1: any effect on the Baccharea bump. It's Randy Wang here
Speaker 1: on The John Phillips Show.