Speaker 1: And we continue at two five in the afternoon on
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Speaker 1: Mister Randy Waggings in Culver City.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you said radio because some people are
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Speaker 1: You know what's funny. My friend Valentina posts on Facebook
Speaker 1: about three hundred times a day, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: she tags me in every single one of those posts.
Speaker 1: And she's in Istanbul, Turkey right now. And I received
Speaker 1: a number of messages this morning from people who thought
Speaker 1: I was in Turkey with her. I guess it's a possibility.
Speaker 1: I've been on vacation for a week. Eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five two two two is telephone number one.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two two. When Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: the federal government initially sent Ice into town, one of
Speaker 1: the places they went to was MacArthur Park. Because we
Speaker 1: know that MacArthur Park is a cesspool in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: that's filled with all kinds of criminal activity, including people
Speaker 1: who are in the country illegally.
Speaker 3: Many of home are.
Speaker 1: Members of street gangs that are based outside of the country.
Speaker 1: Anyone who lives in Los Angeles, has lived in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles or been to that part of Los Angeles understands
Speaker 1: that MacArthur Park is not exactly the park from Mary Poppins.
Speaker 1: It's the place you go to to buy something illegal. Well,
Speaker 1: when Galvenussiman Company decided that they were going to draw
Speaker 1: a line in the sand and fight the federal government
Speaker 1: on the deportations, they tried to characterize MacArthur Park as
Speaker 1: the park from Mary Poppins. It's not a place where
Speaker 1: illegal things happen. It's a place where people play softball.
Speaker 1: That's where you go for a picnic or play ring toss. Well,
Speaker 1: now that the federal government is no longer in MacArthur Park,
Speaker 1: and now that it's no longer a proxy battle between
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump, we can go back to
Speaker 1: all understanding that MacArthur Park is where the illegal stuff happens.
Speaker 2: And MacArthur Park is now losing bus benches because people
Speaker 2: are using them not to wait for the bus, but
Speaker 2: to smoke math.
Speaker 3: You don't say for more on this, We.
Speaker 2: Got a Fox eleven and the wonderful Matthew Seedorf bus.
Speaker 4: Stop bench is removed to MacArthur Park. After residents say
Speaker 4: homeless people were using it to sleep and do drugs,
Speaker 4: a small part of a much bigger crisis gripping the area.
Speaker 4: Fox seven's Matthew Seedorf walked one of the most troubled
Speaker 4: stretches in a story you'll see only on Fox eleven.
Speaker 5: We're on another location tonight just for safety reasons.
Speaker 2: Of course, he can't actually do the live hit at
Speaker 2: night at MacArthur Park. The insurance for Fox eleven isn't
Speaker 2: that good.
Speaker 5: We're on another location tonight and just for safety reasons.
Speaker 5: Start contrast to what's going on just a few miles away,
Speaker 5: the volatile sights and sounds of MacArthur Park. We're just
Speaker 5: walking down this sidewalk and spark tension without ward.
Speaker 3: Whoa that escalated very quickly? See or if you're a
Speaker 3: braver man than I, this man.
Speaker 5: In broad daylight beat to the ground.
Speaker 2: How do we not have I know, l a PDA stretch,
Speaker 2: But how do you not just have the police department
Speaker 2: patrolling that park on a daily basis? Because if you
Speaker 2: just did the Daniel Lurry strategy of find out who
Speaker 2: has an active warrant, it would be every resident of
Speaker 2: the park.
Speaker 1: I realize our union, the American Federation of Television and
Speaker 1: Radio Artists, is a very weak union. But how can
Speaker 1: they allow any of our members to go down to
Speaker 1: that park on the clock.
Speaker 2: It probably advised him against it.
Speaker 5: This man in broad daylight beat to the ground what's
Speaker 5: known as the fetinal fold, impossible to miss.
Speaker 2: I saw one of those when I was in San Francisco,
Speaker 2: And by the way I walked around San Francisco did
Speaker 2: not see a tent. I wasn't in the ten Deloino
Speaker 2: or the mission. But for the most part, the city
Speaker 2: outside of the bad neighborhoods is looking a lot better.
Speaker 2: That being said, I walked around on a Sunday morning
Speaker 2: in knob Hill. It was the first time I saw
Speaker 2: somebody fentanyl folded up close. They look like they're in
Speaker 2: the middle of a yoga studio. Uh oh, downward dog, Yes,
Speaker 2: but they're lying down and they do not look like
Speaker 2: they are alive.
Speaker 3: It is wild the.
Speaker 5: Miss, the open drug use in plain sight and needles
Speaker 5: scattered all over.
Speaker 3: They' never gonna fix the problem.
Speaker 6: Day with violent venom victim looking.
Speaker 3: Look at them. Hey, that's some alliteration right there. He
Speaker 3: could do the news on Channel seven.
Speaker 6: Violent venom, victim.
Speaker 1: Look at venom, looking look into v vocabulary.
Speaker 3: It described how morono and seek.
Speaker 5: For William Howard Crumody's staying safe means staying ready.
Speaker 3: You gotta talk back, you can go talk back rough.
Speaker 5: He believes a drug epidemic has tightened its grip on
Speaker 5: the area.
Speaker 3: You see what I thought.
Speaker 2: Homelessness is down and crime is down, and uh nope,
Speaker 2: Park is still a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Huh Yeah. The marriage just told us she's doing little
Speaker 1: bang up job.
Speaker 7: You see them nod now, And I think that that's
Speaker 7: going to be a stain.
Speaker 3: On the Olympics and the World Cup that's coming here.
Speaker 3: The drug problems.
Speaker 5: About a week ago, federal agents swarmed in DA officers
Speaker 5: raiding businesses part of the massive drug operation. Then days
Speaker 5: later LAPD here for more arrest seizing fetanyl pills and cash.
Speaker 5: Despite everything going on in this area, the bus stop
Speaker 5: right here at six and Alli Verna was taken away.
Speaker 5: Apparently the homeless were using it as a shelter.
Speaker 2: So now have you actually live in that neighborhood and
Speaker 2: you're dependent on the bus, You have to stand in
Speaker 2: the sunshine.
Speaker 3: Many people sleep in there, jing drugs there sat especially for.
Speaker 8: Me when I was about six.
Speaker 5: By now where a bench used to be, Angela Robinson
Speaker 5: now waits for the bus, standing six months pregnant. It
Speaker 5: a bench now missing. In a community desperate for relief,
Speaker 5: looking and despite recent arround, many say, when the sun
Speaker 5: goes down, the problems come right back.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: If she's six months pregnant, she could not raise that
Speaker 1: kid in that neighborhood.
Speaker 5: Have you noticed a difference since then, No, because the
Speaker 5: same rants come out at night. A spokesperson for Mayor
Speaker 5: Karen Bass tells us one bench was removed for maintenance,
Speaker 5: another for public safety reasons.
Speaker 2: That we have to remove the bus bench. It's not
Speaker 2: safe to have one. This isn't even we can't have
Speaker 2: nice things. This is we can't have the most basic things.
Speaker 5: They say, this is one small example of the mayor's
Speaker 5: broad and comprehensive approach to finally improving public safety.
Speaker 3: MacArthur Park. No, think about that for a second.
Speaker 1: The mayor had to remove a bench for public safety reasons.
Speaker 2: It's a great park. Take your kids this weekend.
Speaker 3: They say.
Speaker 5: This is one small example of the mayor's broad and
Speaker 5: comprehensive approach to finally improving public safety. MacArthur Park a
Speaker 5: problem that's been decades in the making. Matthew Sedo reporting
Speaker 5: Fox eleven News.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Karen Bass's re election strategy. By the way,
Speaker 2: every problem in LA has been a big problem for
Speaker 2: forty years. I'm just starting to change it for the better.
Speaker 1: You know who one of the people was who came
Speaker 1: out and said that that's a great park where people
Speaker 1: take their families for picnics and people lie on the grass.
Speaker 3: In the on the weekends. Who was that?
Speaker 1: That was Eric Swollwell. I guess you should consider the sores.
Speaker 1: So that's what's going on in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, they're
Speaker 1: having very similar problems in the Mission District in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Since luriy is cracking down on the Tenderloin and since
Speaker 1: Lurie is cracking down on SOMA, the open air drug
Speaker 1: market is migrating to the Mission and business owners are
Speaker 1: not happy about it. For more, here's KTVU Fox two
Speaker 1: in the Bay First.
Speaker 9: Growing frustration for small business owners in San Francisco's Mission
Speaker 9: District as they continue to work around issues surrounding their community.
Speaker 10: Open air drug use strug dealing A lot of your.
Speaker 3: Nation like uh I guess they're well hydrated.
Speaker 10: Open air drug use strug dealing a lot of your nation,
Speaker 10: like the side of our building, which is our side entrance,
Speaker 10: just basically unusable.
Speaker 9: Tonight's small business owners in San Francisco's Mission districts say
Speaker 9: they are fed up with worsening drug use, encampment, fires,
Speaker 9: and crime taking over their streets and sidewalks. Good Evening
Speaker 9: on this Friday night.
Speaker 11: I'm Greg Lee and I'm Christina Rendon.
Speaker 2: They say, it's like almost the strategy as well. We
Speaker 2: can keep most of the city clean, but we have
Speaker 2: to push the entire problem to one neighborhood, and this
Speaker 2: year that neighborhood is the Mission Edits anything goes.
Speaker 9: Good Evening on this Friday night.
Speaker 11: I'm Greg Lee and I'm Christina Rendon. They say, as
Speaker 11: the city clears major hotspots, the problems are being pushed
Speaker 11: into their small community. Ktv's Betty You joins us in
Speaker 11: studio with.
Speaker 12: The story, Betty, Christina, we saw it firsthand tonight in
Speaker 12: this pocket of the Mission, open drug use in broad daylight,
Speaker 12: people passed out on sidewalks, and frustrated business owners who
Speaker 12: say conditions have spiraled in recent months. On side streets
Speaker 12: tucked behind Valencia. Small business owners say they've reached a
Speaker 12: breaking point.
Speaker 2: This is by the way near where they put that
Speaker 2: insane bike lane where it was the center of the
Speaker 2: road and they took away all the parking and all
Speaker 2: the businesses were about to go out of business. The
Speaker 2: reverse course on that. But then they brought in all
Speaker 2: the drug addicts.
Speaker 3: Well, if you're going to ride a bike through.
Speaker 1: All of that, maybe we now know why Lance Armstrong
Speaker 1: juiced up.
Speaker 3: You'd need to be on Royds to take these people on.
Speaker 12: They shared video burn debris from frequent and camp and fires,
Speaker 12: open drug use and trash sidewalks just steps from storefronts,
Speaker 12: scenes they say have become part of their daily reality.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, it has gone worse lately in the
Speaker 7: last few months. Has been extremely out of control. It
Speaker 7: feels more violent. There's you see open drug dealing, you
Speaker 7: see dog fighting, people injecting and people passing out.
Speaker 12: Daniel Agenow opened as used to.
Speaker 2: Just be a tenderloin. Things move to the mission people.
Speaker 2: They have dog fights down there too. Oh it's skid
Speaker 2: row they do as well.
Speaker 3: What is Michael Vick homeless?
Speaker 12: Daniel Agenow opened his chiropractic clinic in twenty nineteen. Now,
Speaker 12: he says safety concerns sometimes force him to close early.
Speaker 7: I have to clean it up around here. The smells
Speaker 7: always lingers.
Speaker 2: He arrives early every Maybe I know the election's almost over,
Speaker 2: but may we get Katie up there to a video?
Speaker 1: You can small, hey, that could be the next rite
Speaker 1: of passage after the Tiawana River.
Speaker 12: He arrives early every morning to clean up outside his business.
Speaker 12: Other owners say they keep their doors closed during the day.
Speaker 7: I worked so hard to get to where I am,
Speaker 7: and then I get patients saying it's hard for me
Speaker 7: to walk here anymore too, because I feel unsafe. It
Speaker 7: breaks my heart. It's out of my control. I love
Speaker 7: San Francisco. I moved here from Ethiopia.
Speaker 2: About a dozen business Yeah, it's not a good look
Speaker 2: when you came here from Ethiopia and you're disgusted.
Speaker 3: Oh my.
Speaker 12: A dozen business owners on Clinton Park and Stevenson Street
Speaker 12: have joined together, asking city leaders and SFPD for more
Speaker 12: patrols and long term solutions. Race Cooper owns SF Square Gym.
Speaker 13: As cleanup crews were cleaning maybe Soma area, a lot
Speaker 13: of different people started moving into this area, and what
Speaker 13: happened from there is that drug dealers started moving as well,
Speaker 13: and then there started to be the cycle of criminality
Speaker 13: that started happening.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, start enforcing the hondos, which is what they
Speaker 2: call the honda and drug dealers, they're going to start
Speaker 2: moving to another neighborhood. And wherever the hondos go, that's
Speaker 2: where the zombies go to get their fix.
Speaker 1: You see, this is why the system needs to work
Speaker 1: in tandem with one another, because just because the mayor
Speaker 1: won't put up with it or tells the police department
Speaker 1: not to put up with it, the DA has to
Speaker 1: be on board, the juries have to be on board,
Speaker 1: the judges have to be on board, and everyone just
Speaker 1: has to decide that they're not going to put up
Speaker 1: with this anymore. If there's one element of the system
Speaker 1: that consistently drops the ball, you're never going to fix
Speaker 1: the problem.
Speaker 3: You're just going to move it.
Speaker 13: And then they're starting to be the cycle of criminality
Speaker 13: that start happening. So I've seen not all instances of
Speaker 13: arson where cars have exploded. I've seen instances of knife
Speaker 13: fights that are on the street.
Speaker 3: How long has this knife fights? What is this?
Speaker 1: The Michael Jackson beat it video. I wouldn't if there's
Speaker 1: any crutch grabbing too.
Speaker 12: How long has this been here?
Speaker 13: This broken glass has probably been here for the last
Speaker 13: two weeks.
Speaker 12: Business owners point to this vacant property and alcoves they
Speaker 12: say have become magnets for vandalism and drug activity.
Speaker 10: I want to see support for the fact that there's
Speaker 10: a bunch of small business owners that have been trying
Speaker 10: every avenue they can, you know, with the Mayor's office, SFGIDE,
Speaker 10: community meetings, small business liaisons and everything. Times out we
Speaker 10: get ghosted and nothing happens.
Speaker 13: It's aggravating to be doing this for this long, like
Speaker 13: for two years to go by, for me being here
Speaker 13: and still not being heard. But I'm willing to work
Speaker 13: with them and trying to find a solution because we
Speaker 13: care so much about this street and for all the
Speaker 13: businesses that are here.
Speaker 12: And business owners really wanted to emphasize that they love
Speaker 12: San Francisco. They want to be a part of the solution.
Speaker 12: But they say enforcement alone isn't enough. They're calling for
Speaker 12: faster police response times, more consistent patrols, and long term
Speaker 12: action to keep this neighborhood inviting and safe.
Speaker 9: Greg Yeah, real concerns from all those neighbors tonight, Betty,
Speaker 9: you thank you.
Speaker 2: You know they keep pushing the problem westward. It's going
Speaker 2: to the castro next.
Speaker 1: You notice none of those people said what we need
Speaker 1: is more safety ambassadors. If only we had more social workers,
Speaker 1: this wouldn't be a problem.
Speaker 2: Oh, San Francisco's past that, la We're still into that.
Speaker 2: San Francisco rejected that when they decided that London Breed
Speaker 2: was not getting a four year extension.
Speaker 14: Wow, this is really nice.
Speaker 1: And Karen Bass is still talking about the alternatives to policing.
Speaker 2: Alternative crisis response, social workers, mental health workers.
Speaker 3: Nine to one two.
Speaker 1: What evidence exists out there that says that any of
Speaker 1: that works.
Speaker 3: Well, we know from London Breed's case it doesn't.
Speaker 14: People have been stabbed, earpen out to me, they've been shot,
Speaker 14: they've been attacked, and they still show up every single
Speaker 14: day as an alternative to policing for this community.
Speaker 3: Jer I wonder why she lost.
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Speaker 2: Night on Tuesday, June second, two weeks from tomorrow, John
Speaker 2: and I are coming back for a special live event.
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Speaker 3: The polls close at eight o'clock.
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Speaker 1: So tune into us on election night. Let's go to
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Speaker 15: I really like your show. I got a question about
Speaker 15: the governor's race a couple weeks ago, and I haven't
Speaker 15: voted yet. I'm holding out. A couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 15: I was thinking of doing what you were talking about,
Speaker 15: the Bianco strategy of trying to get two Republicans in. Now,
Speaker 15: the polls have closed in the last few days and
Speaker 15: it looks like Steier, the Sarah, and Hilton are very
Speaker 15: closely clustered near the top. So I'm wondering, and Bianca
Speaker 15: has Beyoncle's fallen off. Do you think a vote for
Speaker 15: Banco could possibly take Hilton out and having those other
Speaker 15: two get in. Does Hilton need all the votes he
Speaker 15: can get now?
Speaker 1: No, just wonder what you think, because if you look
Speaker 1: at the poll that you just referenced, and you add
Speaker 1: up Hilton's numbers with Bianco's numbers, you get thirty percent.
Speaker 1: As of right now, Republicans are making up thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent of the electorate, and that's not counting any of
Speaker 1: the nonpartisans who typically vote Republican.
Speaker 3: And according to.
Speaker 1: Other polls, Republicans the candidates were doing quite well with
Speaker 1: the independence. So I do not think the pie is
Speaker 1: at thirty percent for Republican candidates. I think the pie
Speaker 1: is much higher than that. And if it's much higher
Speaker 1: than that, there's no risk or minimal risk. I guess
Speaker 1: I should say eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five two two two. Here with an update
Speaker 1: the Tiajuana River, mister Randy Wang.
Speaker 2: They fixed a ruptured sewer that was leaking a bunch
Speaker 2: of sewage into the Tiawana River.
Speaker 8: You can smell right here.
Speaker 2: When I flag these stories, I know it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: what's going on in the news. If there's a Tijuana
Speaker 2: River Valley story, John's gonna want to cover it for
Speaker 2: the sole reason of playing that drop. You know, we
Speaker 2: spend so much time talking about the Tiajuana River. I
Speaker 2: think you and I should buy a boat for more
Speaker 2: on the never ending crisis going on in the Tijuana
Speaker 2: River Valley. Here is NBC seven in San Diego.
Speaker 16: Emergency repairs on a crosswater wastewater pipeline. They are now complete.
Speaker 16: Late Thursday, a leak in Tewana triggered increased sewage flows
Speaker 16: to the wastewater plant in the South Bay. NBC seven's
Speaker 16: MG Perez reports from the area hit hardest by pass
Speaker 16: pollution and the ongoing problems.
Speaker 6: Abigail Castillo chops fresh fruit every weekend here at her
Speaker 6: pop up stand at the entrance to the Tijuana River
Speaker 6: Valley Regional Park. It's a hotspot for hikers to refresh
Speaker 6: themselves with a juicy fruit cup unless the stench of
Speaker 6: raw sewage ruins appetites and the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: What hiker out there goes? You know? What? What do
Speaker 3: you say?
Speaker 1: We head down to the Tiajuana River and do a
Speaker 1: hike there and then celebrate with some papaya.
Speaker 11: Oh.
Speaker 16: No ramos.
Speaker 6: These pictures were provided by Mexican water authorities and show
Speaker 6: repairs Friday to stop leaks in the parallel gravity line,
Speaker 6: the huge pipes that carry wastewater through Tijuana. Leaks and
Speaker 6: breaks and backed up raw sewage have flowed into the
Speaker 6: river here and onto the Pacific Ocean for decades.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, so I guess fixing this is progress.
Speaker 6: Besides polluting water here in the Tijuana River Valley, the
Speaker 6: sewage stinks polluting the air too with hypen.
Speaker 3: And we do have evidence.
Speaker 8: You can smell it right here.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she's our resident scientist.
Speaker 2: With hydrid And of course she wasn't the only one
Speaker 2: who decided to have a little stint in the river.
Speaker 3: And you can literally see it, smell it, and feel it.
Speaker 3: Don't touch it.
Speaker 6: With hydrogen sulfide that smells like rotten eggs, something residents
Speaker 6: here are very familiar with. Not good for someone just
Speaker 6: trying to breathe.
Speaker 2: Well, And the hydrogen sulfide not only does it smell awful,
Speaker 2: but every single one of those residents talks about migraines
Speaker 2: and nose bleeds. They're being actively poisoned. At what point
Speaker 2: do you leave?
Speaker 1: Who wants to live around that stens with the pot
Speaker 1: of gold at the end of the rainbow, as you
Speaker 1: get cancer.
Speaker 6: This is a graph created by the San Diego County
Speaker 6: Air Pollution Control District. Readings take an hourly last week
Speaker 6: for hydrogen sulfide levels spiking Monday and Wednesday, even before
Speaker 6: the latest Tijuana pipeline leak. This was a surf rider
Speaker 6: cleanup day for volunteers combing nearby Imperial Beach. A group
Speaker 6: of coworkers from Enterprise Bank and Trust come at least
Speaker 6: once a month to pick up trash and anything swept
Speaker 6: into the frequent sewage flows from Mexico.
Speaker 2: That sure sounds like cruel and unusual punishment for a
Speaker 2: bank employee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if someone asked me to spend my Saturday doing that,
Speaker 1: I'm washing my hair.
Speaker 12: I just feel like, if you know, we don't come
Speaker 12: out and help the community, then I feel that it'll
Speaker 12: just get worse.
Speaker 8: We as a younger generation, we.
Speaker 17: Like to come out and enjoy the views, enjoy the beach,
Speaker 17: you know, But unfortunately we just can't do that if
Speaker 17: you know, we have these problems.
Speaker 2: So there you go, a little bit of progress as
Speaker 2: they cleaned up a ruptured sewer pipe that was dumping
Speaker 2: even more raw sewage into the Tijuana River Valley.
Speaker 8: You can small right here.
Speaker 1: Okay, We'll wait. Two beats, three beats, four beats, five beats.
Speaker 1: In an unrelated story, Randy, you have a Katie Porter
Speaker 1: update for US. Katie Portter is still running for governor,
Speaker 1: and she sat down with ABC seven in the bay.
Speaker 1: Why are we doing this story back to back with
Speaker 1: the other one? I think you know why?
Speaker 18: All right back here at home, we're counting down to
Speaker 18: the June primary. Just eighteen days now from the election.
Speaker 18: On June second, Californians will choose their top two picks
Speaker 18: to replace termed out governor Newsom aby Cy.
Speaker 11: Seven Eyewitness news political reporter Monica Madden is catching up
Speaker 11: with candidates in these final weeks and spoke one on
Speaker 11: one with former Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter. Still think
Speaker 11: it's important to give voters something.
Speaker 1: No, we're doing high pitch, Oh yeah, little girl voice hello.
Speaker 3: A little different then?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 11: Absolutely think it's important to give voters some choice here.
Speaker 17: In this crowded race for governor. Former Orange County Congresswoman
Speaker 17: Katie Porter believes voters are still looking for detailed policy plans.
Speaker 2: You have, have you met California voters Gavin Newsome get
Speaker 2: elected twice and being a recall on detailed policy plans.
Speaker 11: No, I don't know enough to give you any good information,
Speaker 11: but good luck finding someone who does.
Speaker 17: Voters are still looking for detailed policy plans. You have
Speaker 17: several proposals for how to make the cost of living
Speaker 17: better for Californians, one of them being free childcare, free
Speaker 17: college tuition at state universities, and then eliminating the state
Speaker 17: income tax for families that are making under one hundred
Speaker 17: thousand dollars.
Speaker 14: What's yours?
Speaker 2: That's the idea that she openly says, I ripped off
Speaker 2: from Steve Hilton.
Speaker 1: And by the way, did you see that there's only
Speaker 1: two of them that won't sit down with Ashley Zavalla
Speaker 1: and Katie Borter is one of them.
Speaker 3: What is that about? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, of all the interviews you're going to do
Speaker 2: in election season, and it'll probably be the toughest. And
Speaker 2: you know that every single time she asks a candidate
Speaker 2: that final question of how would you grade Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 2: and they all answer it terribly. It goes viral, like
Speaker 2: Tom Steyer saying, I haven't followed it closely.
Speaker 1: I think this is Katie Porter's staff. They're trying to
Speaker 1: protect her by keeping her away from reporters who might
Speaker 1: trigger her because they can't have any more meltdowns between
Speaker 1: now and the election. So that's the reason Katie Porter
Speaker 1: is not sitting down with Ashley Zavalla. What's the reason
Speaker 1: that Antonio Vira Goso won't do it.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have enough campaign money for a ticket on Southwest.
Speaker 2: It is either that or maybe he's trying to control
Speaker 2: himself because he has the hots for another reporter.
Speaker 3: Well, she's a good looking woman.
Speaker 17: Tacks for families that are making under one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 17: what's your plan for how to pay for those things?
Speaker 11: I would pay for it by doing for corporations in California,
Speaker 11: what we ask families to do, what we ask workers
Speaker 11: to do, which is, in our higher earning years, when
Speaker 11: we earn a little bit more, we pay a little
Speaker 11: bit higher tax rate. And I think that's a fair thing.
Speaker 2: It is an interesting place to be in in the
Speaker 2: state of California where several of the people who are
Speaker 2: running for governor are running on the platform of I
Speaker 2: will raise more taxes.
Speaker 3: Don't forget.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom was not quoted, but it was reported in
Speaker 1: that CNN article that his criticism of Katie Porter was
Speaker 1: if she were to be elected, all of the business
Speaker 1: would move out of California.
Speaker 11: We pay a little bit higher tax rate, and I
Speaker 11: think that's a fair thing to ask corporations to do too.
Speaker 17: The Democrat.
Speaker 2: The budget is three hundred and fifty billion dollars. It
Speaker 2: was two hundred billion dollars seven years ago. But yes,
Speaker 2: we need even more money.
Speaker 17: Two, the Democrat, making the case that she has the
Speaker 17: most thought out proposed.
Speaker 11: Nobody said that my idea to pay for it is
Speaker 11: a bad idea. These are actual things that give California
Speaker 11: families more money in their pocket. So when we hear
Speaker 11: candidates say things like when I'm governor, you'll have healthcare, like.
Speaker 3: That's a shot at baccarreea.
Speaker 11: Like how and at what price point? So I'm really
Speaker 11: focused on very concrete policies.
Speaker 17: Porter also pushing back on criticism about her temperament after
Speaker 17: a video of her beating a staffer resurfaced earlier in
Speaker 17: the campaign.
Speaker 2: Do you think that there's a you hear that now
Speaker 2: she's like going all in on the conspiracy theory that
Speaker 2: it was styr that found that video.
Speaker 1: Okay, but wasn't the stire aid that found the video
Speaker 1: an aid that used to work for Katie Porter too, Yes,
Speaker 1: get out of my shot.
Speaker 17: After a video of her beating a staffer resurfaced earlier
Speaker 17: in the campaign. Do you think that there's a double
Speaker 17: standard here.
Speaker 11: Temperament is a word that you mostly hear used for
Speaker 11: show dogs and race sources and women candidates.
Speaker 3: Well, how about the rajaholic bipolar ones.
Speaker 2: I mean, to be fair, you don't hear a lot
Speaker 2: of criticism of Chad Bianco's temperament when he's raging out
Speaker 2: at the debates.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a difference between getting a little hated in
Speaker 1: a debate where the whole point of the debate is
Speaker 1: to get everyone's blood pressure up and snapping at someone
Speaker 1: who works for you when you're cutting a video for
Speaker 1: your party's nominee.
Speaker 11: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots. Most importantly, when
Speaker 11: it happened years ago with that staffer. That's who I
Speaker 11: owed the apology to, when I made it five years ago,
Speaker 11: to that staffer, And that's what really matters to me.
Speaker 11: That's the mark of my character, and I think that's what.
Speaker 3: The mark of the beast of these moments. Johnny. She's
Speaker 3: not gonna be around much longer. Oh no, she's going away.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna need a fix, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: go enroll at UCI.
Speaker 3: I think she's gonna run for office for all of eternity.
Speaker 2: You think she's just gonna be one of those Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think she's going away. And you know what,
Speaker 2: she has the ability to raise a ton of money
Speaker 2: because she built up a fundraising list be rating all
Speaker 2: of those CEOs with the whiteboard. So who knows. I mean,
Speaker 2: just think about this.
Speaker 1: If Rob Bonta had run for governor, he would have
Speaker 1: gotten crushed. But had he run for governor, that seat
Speaker 1: would have opened up. My guess is Katie Porter would
Speaker 1: have run for attorney general instead of governor, and she
Speaker 1: would have won because she would have been able to
Speaker 1: raise a lot more money than some random assemblyman.
Speaker 2: But at this point, if she doesn't, and it's not
Speaker 2: looking like it's going to happen, she ran for Senate laws,
Speaker 2: she ran for governor and lost. Do you go to
Speaker 2: a step down or do you go even further? And
Speaker 2: you're like, screw it? Katie Porter for president?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: What I think she does if she when she loses
Speaker 1: this time around, Bonta will be termed out as attorney general.
Speaker 1: That seat will open up. I think she runs for
Speaker 1: attorney general four years from now.
Speaker 11: That's the mark of my character, and I think that's
Speaker 11: what we ought to be talking about, is what is
Speaker 11: the character of each of these candidates.
Speaker 17: On the future of California. Porter says she believes AI
Speaker 17: can be an opportunity if leaders handle it correctly.
Speaker 11: But AI also has the potential to fuel tremendous investment
Speaker 11: in California.
Speaker 2: So I have done it's pretty much keeping the entire
Speaker 2: economy propped up right now.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 11: I have done battle with large and powerful interests before,
Speaker 11: with some of the you know, the most wealthy and
Speaker 11: well connected in the world, and come on as a winner.
Speaker 11: And I think that's what it's going to take to
Speaker 11: steer California in a way that makes things like AI positive.
Speaker 17: Monicam mat In ABC seven Eyewitness.
Speaker 2: News, there's the latest on Katie Porters candidate for governor,
Speaker 2: a campaign that will most likely end in two weeks.
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Speaker 1: All right, We have more sound of La Mayor Karen
Speaker 1: Bass's disaster of a performance with ABC seven.
Speaker 2: Let's hear what she has to say about the competition.
Speaker 19: Why do you think someone like reality TV star Spencer
Speaker 19: Pratt is doing well in this race?
Speaker 8: Oh, I think he's tapping into the anger frustration that
Speaker 8: people have. I think he's doing that, But I think
Speaker 8: we're a celebrity driven culture. The fact of the matter is, though,
Speaker 8: is that I've been on the job addressing the concerns
Speaker 8: of Angelino's.
Speaker 3: Which ones you burned down? The town.
Speaker 8: Street lights? Street lights has been a major challenge for
Speaker 8: years and years. We just kept replacing copper lights, even
Speaker 8: though we knew the copper would be stolen.
Speaker 3: And so this isn't a good argument.
Speaker 1: No, I love the fact that she's unwilling to arrest
Speaker 1: people for stealing the copper wire. So let's just switch
Speaker 1: to solar, so there's nothing valuable for them to steal.
Speaker 8: And so I rolled out establishing and installing sixty thousand
Speaker 8: copper lights. As a matter of fact, I'll be doing
Speaker 8: that later on today. So why would we continue to
Speaker 8: replace copper with copper solar? We meet our environmental goals.
Speaker 8: Plus there's nothing to seat deal.
Speaker 2: We're and she's charging homeowners a property is to a
Speaker 2: tax assessment to do it because we're broke.
Speaker 3: That's a feather in her cab.
Speaker 8: We're installing these lights several hundred over each month.
Speaker 19: Do you think that Spencer Pratt knows what it takes
Speaker 19: to run the.
Speaker 8: Second largest He has a clue?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 2: Okay, we know you don't what exactly has all of
Speaker 2: this experience got nuts.
Speaker 8: A clue about what how to run the nation's second
Speaker 8: largest city.
Speaker 19: And why then, why are some Democrats supporting him?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, we'll see the election is you know,
Speaker 8: ends on June second.
Speaker 11: We will see.
Speaker 8: But I will tell you that we started a job.
Speaker 8: I want to be able to finish this job because
Speaker 8: we should not have street homelessness in the nation second
Speaker 8: largest city.
Speaker 3: It went up. You've made it worse.
Speaker 8: We made some bad decisions a couple of decades ago.
Speaker 8: Those need to be rectified.
Speaker 2: We need And what she's talking about is when we
Speaker 2: locked everybody up. That's the bad decisions.
Speaker 1: When we locked people up, they weren't living on the
Speaker 1: streets doing meth out in front of us.
Speaker 8: We made some bad decisions a couple of decades ago.
Speaker 8: Those need to be rectified. We need to get people
Speaker 8: off the street, and I know how to do that.
Speaker 2: We have, No, you don't. It hasn't worked. It's been
Speaker 2: a complete failure. You only addressed a small portion of
Speaker 2: the population. And even the people that you did shove
Speaker 2: in the motel, forty percent of them went back to
Speaker 2: the street.
Speaker 3: That is a failure.
Speaker 1: You know, there are elections where they're just ideological differences.
Speaker 1: And I would never vote for a particular candidate, but
Speaker 1: I could see how other people could. At this point,
Speaker 1: even if you're a left winger, she's demonstrated that she's
Speaker 1: totally incompetent and she's going to make you live in filth.
Speaker 1: Why in the world would anyone vote for four more
Speaker 1: years of that.
Speaker 8: I couldn't agree with you more and I we know
Speaker 8: how to do that. We have been doing that.
Speaker 19: There's an idea that's been floated about homelessness, and Spencer
Speaker 19: Pradd actually mentioned this at a fundraiser recently, that he
Speaker 19: plans to build a massive campus for the homeless on
Speaker 19: the outskirts of LA where he would move all the
Speaker 19: homeless that would be funded by a billionaire.
Speaker 3: Is that a good idea.
Speaker 8: Well, anyway, let me just say that.
Speaker 2: No, she doesn't want to take that idea, which is
Speaker 2: one of those things where people always wonder, why can't
Speaker 2: you centralize the problem and put it somewhere where it's
Speaker 2: away from our eyes.
Speaker 3: Well, that won't work.
Speaker 1: Either these people need to be in prison or they
Speaker 1: need to be in the funny form one of those
Speaker 1: two places. If you stick them out in the middle
Speaker 1: of the desert, you're just going to have a massive
Speaker 1: problem out in the middle of the desert, and they're
Speaker 1: going to leave breadcrumbs and find their way home.