WEBVTT - Xavier Becerra sits down with Ashley Zavala 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.120 And very Happy Monday to you. At twelve oh six 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.840 in the West, it's the Giant Philip Show. Mister Randy 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.120 Wegg's across the Glass. John, I'm gonna need Henry Lee 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.600 for this one. It's happened yet again. We are now 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.040 up to twenty home burglaries in the San Fernando Valley 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:23.920 since April tenth, and the last one happened in my neighborhood. Well, 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.800 it's only a matter of time before the Brady Bunch 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:33.000 house gets hit too. It's happened yet again. What's going 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:38.560 on in the valley. The criminals are realizing how easy 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.080 it is to get away with this. We don't have 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.960 the kinds of surveillance that you see in other big 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.279 cities like San Jose or even San Francisco or Oakland. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.720 The valley doesn't have flock cameras. We don't have license 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.560 plate reading cameras. So they're casing these joints. They're figuring 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.520 out who has money, and they're breaking in. This couple 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.600 was out to dinner. They came back and the door 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.440 was wide open and the house was sacked. Uh oh, 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.560 so their electric bill is going to be huge too. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.640 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.040 telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.319 two two, Randy. 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All right, now, let's just 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.359 go ahead and dive right into the news of the day, 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:31.280 shall we because the new front runner on the Democratic 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.480 side in the race for governor here in the state 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:40.400 of California, Javier Bakaria, did a sit down with the 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:45.720 one and only Ashley Zuvalla scrub it and I listen 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.760 to the entire unedited thirty five minute interview and it 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.200 did not go well. We're going to start it from 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.880 the beginning. We're going to get to as much as 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.800 we can, but we will definitely make sure by the 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:03.280 end of this hour we play the Zavala question, which 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.360 is great Gavin Newsom because it is a filibuster like 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.120 you've never heard before. And he refused to answer. He 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.160 said he was gonna answer, and then he didn't answer. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.200 But first let's see what's going on in the state 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:22.079 of California. Here is Ashley Zabala on California Politics, three p. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:26.520 Sixty at Arizon KCRA three in Sacramento. It also airs 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.200 on Fox eleven in Los Angeles and k TVU Fox 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.120 two in the Bay. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.320 Abed Reshide, thank you so much for making time for us, Ashley. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:34.720 Thank you. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.760 This is a hard job at a really hard time. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.880 Why do you want to be California governor? 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:40.240 Now? 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:45.320 Yes? Seriously, why who would want this job at this point? 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.920 Because it's a hard job and you need someone who's 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.640 gone through these tough times and it knows what it's 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.000 like to have to balance a big budget. Someone who 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:59.680 knows what it's like to deal with emergencies, crises and 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.880 how to get out of him, someone who knows how 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:02.240 to fight. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.520 Just starting off with all the cliches, and it sounds 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.560 like he's falling asleep as he's answering the question, doesn't it. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.360 He is a very low energy candidate. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.760 Someone who knows how to fight, and someone who knows 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.479 how to win. I'm getting to do what my parents 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.360 didn't have a chance to do, and that is live 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.640 a life based on your dream. And I'm getting to 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.960 do it with people who also want to see California thrive. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.000 So why not? 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:35.800 California, though, is facing multi year money problems. If you know, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.839 whoever the next governor is is really going to have 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.560 to deal with that. According to our state's legislative analysts 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:41.720 budget experts. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.040 Yeah, Gavin is leaving you with a big ol' houl 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:49.120 in the budget. And by the way, if California is 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.440 in the hole that it's in, why didn't he do 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.159 something about it. He was an assemblyman, he was a 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:01.320 congressman from California. He was the Attorney General from California. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.400 He was the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Why 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.600 at any point in the past did he not do 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.720 something about all of these perennial problems. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.080 In really every side of the aisle At this point, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.359 the options that have been laid out are to either 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.760 cut spending, cutstack programs, or race taxes. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.920 Which option do you see yourself choosing. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:27.400 Both? 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.000 I'll have the combo platter please. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.320 You got to do a little bit of both. I 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.920 had to do that when I was secretary at HHS 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.680 in the midst of the worst pandemic. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.039 Wait, is that the right acronym? Because I thought you 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:47.200 had a different job for Secretary of Health and Educations 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.159 over I nominated Jabbier a BA Korea. Wasn't his name? 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.440 Wasn't the job? Good job, Grampy Joe. And that was 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.120 like the first month of the administration. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.240 In the midst of the worst pandemic any of us 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.320 had ever seen. I had to save lives, manage a budget. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.240 Oh boy, he is really putting himself on the cross 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.159 every time he talks about COVID every single time. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.440 And do it without making cuts to the most essential programs. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.440 We were able to do that. We got the economy 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.000 and the country out of COVID. It took a lot 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.760 of work, but you have to do it with a 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.480 mix of measures. And I think in the case of California, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.120 we'll need new revenue. And there are people who aren't 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.120 paying their fair share. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:40.320 Never heard that before, by the way, within the Biden administration, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.719 and we know what a disaster that was across the board. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.560 When you listen to the Biden people, you read the 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:52.240 books about the election, about the Biden administration, he is 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.919 universally regarded within that circle as being the biggest bomb 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.880 of all of the department heads. Who have to pay 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.680 Pelosi tried to warn them, so he did. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.760 Who have to pay a little bit more. At the 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.799 same time, we have to take a look at programs, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.160 as I had a look at programs when I was 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.720 at HHS, and we had to make decisions on where 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.320 to cut to make sure that we balanced our books. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.000 So you mentioned people needing to pay their fair share, 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.440 So what does that look like. You're essentially saying you'd 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.000 raise taxes on the wealthy in the state for. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.800 The most part. Yeah, I think of it this way. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.320 Not sure what bracket you're in, what tax bricket. All 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:38.920 I know is that there are people who are paying doctors, nurses, teachers, firefighters, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.880 police officers, folks who you think of in the middle. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.640 If you're making way more money than any of those 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.880 professionals and you're paying at a tax rate lower than them, 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.240 you're not paying your fair share. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.440 So wait, did he just group doctors in with teachers. Yeah, 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.240 that's a weird one. Okay, I have doctors in my family. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.200 They all do well. I guess it depends what your 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:12.040 specialty is, But for the most part, they're not standing 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.440 on the street corner with a tin cop. The doctors 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.120 in Beverly Hills performing the world's best button plants. They're 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:20.920 doing okay. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.560 So I think it'll be pretty quick or pretty easy 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.040 to calculate if you're gonna have to pay a little 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.160 bit more, Because if you're paying less in taxes and 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.360 make you're a billionaire and you're paying less than that 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.760 teacher in your effective tax rate, you're likely going to 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:36.400 have to pay more. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.800 How exactly would that happen under governor? 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.280 Besides, if anyone wants to get specifics, it's Zabala And 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:48.360 if anyone is devoid of any specifics, it's Bisera. He 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.200 really doesn't know much about this, does he know? And 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.400 this is the new guy that's gonna save the party 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:55.760 from Tom Steyer. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.520 How exactly would that happen under? 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.839 Okay, by the way, pause the tape here for a second. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.079 That made no sense to me. So I just randomly 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.720 looked up on Twitter. What does Xavier Bessera's wife do? 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:15.000 Javier Besseerra's wife is doctor Carolina reyis a Harvard trained 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:23.680 physician and Perry nadologist. She specializes in high risk pregnancies 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.840 and practices at the University of California at Davis. That's 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.040 why he grouped in doctors with teachers, because that's what 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:32.920 the wife does. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.439 How exactly would that happen under Governor Vessea? 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.839 So we would try to have a policy on revenue 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:47.000 that is predictable and consistent. That's one thing I've learned 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.760 that when I was on the Ways and Means Committee 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.040 in the Congress. Ways and Means Committee is a tax 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:52.400 writing committee, so I did text. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.800 One thing I'm learning is this guy's been around for 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:59.280 way too long. Oh, he's been an elected office since 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:00.200 Hector was a pu up. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.880 Ways, he means committee is a tax writing committee. So 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.760 I did tax policy for about twenty years. What you 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.560 need to do is give people predictability. You want people 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.480 to pay their taxes, they got to know more or 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.120 less what they're going to owe at the end of 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.080 the year. You want a business to be able to 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.480 invest in your state, they got to know what they're 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.479 facing in terms of taxes and regulations. Give them predictability, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:25.160 and so I would make sure that we're developed. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:26.320 You have to think about this one. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:27.520 Okay. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.000 As I sit here listening to him, I'm thinking to myself, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:36.679 he sounds about as old as Antonio via Gosa and 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.480 I just looked it up. He's sixty eight years old 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.000 and Viera Gosa is like seventy one. Yeah, they're about 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.720 the same age, the two of them. Nobody wants to retire. 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.680 Huh Nope, full government pension still can't retire. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:58.280 Developing a tax code that gives people predictability. That means, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.640 if you know you're paying in effective tax straight lower 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.640 than that teacher, a firefighter. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:08.080 Or doctor, especially ones that deliver high risk pregnancies. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.319 You you should expect you're going to be paying more 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:11.000 at the end of the year. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.560 But I mean, California's budget does rely heavily on the 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.680 state's top earners. I mean, the top one percent account 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.040 for like almost. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.520 Half of It's just it's always so jarring to me. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.440 And Ashley does such a great job. But when the 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.720 reporter knows more about the state than the person that's 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.760 running to run it, what's going on here? Okay, if 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:37.120 we elect this guy to be governor, that says more 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.880 about this electorate than it does about him. He is 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.120 running on the platform of Gavin Newsom did a bang 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.679 up job on homelessness and deserves an a And if 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.240 you elect me, I'm going to raise your taxes. Let's 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.320 check in with the average California voter. What do they 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:54.360 think about that statement? 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.040 No, I don't know enough to give you any good information, 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:58.760 but good luck finding someone who does. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.760 And that's why we are where we are. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.760 The income tax at the state collects do you risk 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.040 I mean, I'm potentially driving them out of state and 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.400 putting us in an even worse revenue situation than we 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:12.720 could be. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:18.040 No, No, because think of it, most of those doctors. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.000 Back on the doctors. Boy, he really has that on 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.720 the top of his mind. Yeah, doctor, that's a fake doctor. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.680 Lawyers, A lot of those professionals who are making three 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:36.520 four five, one hundred thousand, eight nine million dollars. I'm 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.880 not looking to go after them because they already are 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.360 paying a sizeable tax to the state of California for 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.200 their income. I'm talking about folks who don't have that 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.520 wealth because of their income. They have it because of 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:51.680 their investments. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.679 And Okay, so he wants to jack up capital gains. Okay, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.559 So that means if you own a home in California 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.080 and you sell your home coming after you oh no. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.400 And investments in this country are taxed at lower rates 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.240 than the effective tax rate of that firefighter and that teacher. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.840 And it's because so many billionaires have their wealth in 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.320 those investments that they get off without paying a fair 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:19.000 share of tax. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:23.160 Do you realize, by the way, that if you count property, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.959 if you throw that into the mix, we're all quote 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:31.440 unquote millionaires and billionaires. Because even if you own a 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:36.280 dumpy home in the San Fernando Valley, hey, that probably 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:40.560 just got robbed. Accurate, that home is worth over a 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.000 million dollars it's getting up there, because that's just what 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:50.760 happened to California real estate. Go to any part of 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.160 a population center and look at any home, any single 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:59.559 family home. They're all over a million dollars. So on paper, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.680 I'm not going after the doctors and the lawyers, and 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.920 the teachers and the firefighters. I'm just going after the 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:10.040 people who pay capital gains taxes and are worth over 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:15.559 a million dollars. Well, that's all of us, dummy. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.520 To the state where they make their living, where they 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.640 love to enjoy. And you know, most of the folks 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:24.200 that I've encountered who are fairly wealthy don't mind paying 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.840 their fair share, and they're willing so long. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.240 As it can. You name some examples of anyone that 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.480 you've talked to that said, please tax me more. Didn't 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.920 Tom Steyer get asked that very question on the debate stage, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.400 and he goes, me, paying more in taxes is not 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.600 the answer. He did say that. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.560 And they're willing so long as they can understand why 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:45.000 they're being. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.640 Just remember, kids, there are worse options than this. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.000 And they're willing so long as they can understand why 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.600 they're being taxed, so long as it's predictable. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.760 Well, right now, we're all getting taxed and we don't 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.760 see where any of that money is going. So how's 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.160 that working out. You know what's awful about this is 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.120 if you go back and I'm not even talking about 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.760 ancient history, if you go back to California politics in 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.440 the nineteen nineties early two thousands, everything that he's just 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.080 said in this interview would have been a line crossing 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:23.000 event that would prevent him from being elected statewide. Saying 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.440 that this level of homelessness. We'll get to that later 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.680 on where he defends Gavin Newsom and his policies on homelessness. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:30.800 He did that at the debate. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:31.560 He gave him an a. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.400 That would be disqualifying, saying that one of the highest 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.720 tax states in the Union, we need to raise more 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.520 taxes because that's just what needs to happen. That would 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:49.360 be a disqualifying event. And the fact that he goes 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.560 on an interview like this and he says all of 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.120 these nutty things and he's still regarded as the front 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.520 runner shows you how far the state has moved from 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.440 the nineties in the early two thousands, when this guy 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.200 would be an unelectable pariah. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.880 Everyone understands we pay a premium to live in this 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.680 great state of California. Go take a look at the 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.200 price at the gas pump today. We're paying a premium 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:17.400 mostly because Donald Trumpy. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.560 Oh there's the first mention. Oh yeah, okay, here's the 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.040 follow up question to that. Why is it still less expensive? 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.720 In Nevada and Arizona they have the same president. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.400 Got us into this reckless foreign war. But I will 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.280 tell you we like California. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.080 Was he trying to say reckless but then said ereckless? 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.040 Play that a good. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.720 Got us into this reckless foreign war? 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.720 But I think you got to take a pill for that. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:49.320 I think so Bob Dole has one that he recommends. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.160 I will tell you we like California. We want to 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.000 stay in California, but it's got to be affordable. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.600 You mentioned but everything you just said was going to 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.960 make things less affordable. Yeah, you just said you were 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:05.399 jack taxes up capital gains specifically, and by the way, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.640 for a lot of people who are working here, they 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.240 regard their California single family home as a second pension 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.040 of sorts, where you sell that and you use that 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:24.199 money to live on in retirement. In Arizona, exactly, and 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.840 those are the people he wants to target. We're just 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.159 getting started here. We are five minutes into this thirty 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.200 five minute gem of an interview. If you want to 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.480 watch the entire thing, you can go to case or 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.520 A three's YouTube page, or I have it on my 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.840 substack at Randy Wangradio dot substack dot com. It is 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.720 it is worth your time. Eight hundred two two two 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.040 five two two two is a telephone number one eight 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.440 hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.359 like to email the show, you can do so at 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.840 Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny, 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.240 don't like show at gmail dot com, and Randy you're 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.040 monitoring In the mail bag, Kevin writes in at Johnny, 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.640 don't like show at gmail dot com. On Besera's tax policy, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.359 it's very easy to figure out. Doctors and nurses scrub 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:15.359 their hands. Lawyers scrub confidential documents, police officers scrub crime scenes, 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.000 hedge fun guys don't do any of that. If you 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.400 scrub it, you won't pay a dime more. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:21.439 Scrub it. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:28.280 Maybe that emailer is onto something, and Randy, you and 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.639 I aren't going anywhere anytime soon. John and I just 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:36.119 inked a three year plus extension to do this show 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.719 from noon to three on KABC in southern California and 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.400 KSFO in the Bay Area, and of course our weekend 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.760 hour on KMJ and Fresno, and much more exciting stuff 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.240 to come. But we are very excited to be sticking 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.840 around here and continuing to do this every single day, 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.800 fifteen plus hours a week. Some people are asking why 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.959 three years in My answer to them is, I'm an 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.840 Angel fan. If we signed for eight years, I would 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:09.400 immediately fall down a flight of stairs. I'll move vaugh. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.360 What do you say? We make a couple of listeners 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.840 very happy. Well, let's do that right now. Seven ninety 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.399 k ABC welcomes Howard Jones. Things Can Only Get Better 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.719 tour at the Greek Theater July twenty third. Tickets are 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.200 on sale now at ticketmaster dot com. But right now, 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.680 caller number nine at one eighty eight seven ninety five 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:29.480 two to two two gets a pair of tickets to 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:34.639 the show. Tickets furnished by Live Nation. Good luck dialing. Okay, 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.439 let's go back to Gooblatorial candidate Javier Bakaria in a 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.560 sit down interview with Ashley Zavola we heard about his 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.880 text policy. What's up next, Ashley? 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.200 You mentioned you'd also cut programs. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.200 Is there anything like immediately on the docket that you 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:49.520 see that you'd want to cut right now? 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:56.080 Yeah? Oh, anything for the homeless. Wait, I have a 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:56.879 balanced budget. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.200 I would take a real close look at these homeless program. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.240 Hey, look at that. All right, we're getting warmer. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:08.439 We have not had accountability. I believe that every dollar 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.919 that we invest in homelessness is going to be a 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.800 very precious dollar, and I'd like to make sure that 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.560 it leads to results. And results for most of us 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.640 are when I look at those streets, I don't see 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:27.359 people lying there in the morning, having slept there. I 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.119 want to see results. I want to have accountability. 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.840 How many times has he said that word so far? Yeah? 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.600 The fact that he's using the same hollow words is 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:38.959 Gavin Newsom is a red flag. 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:45.440 Accountability. Accountability, accountability. I'm willing to invest in having assistance 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.960 for those who are homeless, but we have to have results. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.680 And if you can't produce the results in that accountability, 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:52.680 then you shouldn't get the money. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.480 So, because I mean, cities and counties might watch us 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.320 right now and think, oh, my gosh, are you talking 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:02.120 about half the homelessness Housing Assistance and Prevention grant program. 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:03.280 It's the main. 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:07.840 Way the state provides dollars to these local governments. I mean, 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:09.399 is that something that would be on the table for 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:10.360 you to potentially cut. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:12.640 The counties want you to make it. Rain Hoavy aer 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.040 Oh in La County wants to make sure that all 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.639 of those homeless services groups they're rolling in dough. 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.520 I would certainly make sure that they are delivering results. 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.520 But what is results? Because if results is we pay 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.240 a nonprofit to pass out meth pipes and they pass 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.960 out the meth pipes. Technically that is results. Oh and 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:36.240 then they pat themselves on the back and give each 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:37.040 other awards. 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:40.439 And if they can't deliver results, I'll take that dollar 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:43.320 to someone who is delivering results. And so we have 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.359 to make the best use of that dollar, because there 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:49.040 are always programs that have to deal with something like homelessness. 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.280 I only have so many of those dollars. If I 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:53.320 have to make a decision, I'm going to put that 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.840 one dollar into that one organization that's delivering accountable results. 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.159 Another expensive program right now, and we have yet to 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:04.960 really see the effectiveness of this one is providing healthcare 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.639 to a documented people through the state's medic health program. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.760 In fact, the first year that it was implemented, Gavin 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.679 Newsom had to take out several loans from the state 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.760 to keep it afloat. Oh yeah, it was another promise 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:18.600 he can't keep. 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:21.800