WEBVTT - Who is Gavin Newsom's book for exactly? 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.280 And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.280 on the Jihan and Phillips Show. Mister Randy wags in 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:07.000 Culver City. 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.320 John in health news, Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff, 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:14.080 Dana Williamson, successfully got a liver transplant, so she'll be 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:15.600 ready for trial this April. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.640 Wait, now, that was her excuse not to show up 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:19.520 in court. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.400 They had to push back the dates a little. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.239 So what is she going to do if she doesn't 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.080 want to show up to court anymore? Say that she 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.680 needs another organ? Well, how quickly can you blow out 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:37.320 the new lever Well? I would imagine it doesn't take long. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.000 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.920 the telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.760 two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.560 next guest to the program. He is the congressman representing 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.120 much of northern California, rural northern California. You can follow 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:02.800 him on exit. Tom mcclintalk Congressmanlintock, Welcome, Hi. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:03.480 John, how are you. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.039 I'm good, Thank you so much for stopping by this afternoon. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.560 Well, it's a pleasure, thanks for having me so. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:16.200 Gavin Newsom has released his new biography or autobiography. I 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.440 guess it is assuming he wrote it to members of 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.840 the press and they've written about it. And the book 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.920 includes a number of tidbits that I don't think really 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.520 surprised many of us here in California. But one of 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.760 the tidbits, I honestly have to say, did catch me 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.240 by surprise, and that is that Gavin Newsom admits that 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:44.720 he has modeled his life after Tony Robbins, the self 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:49.200 help buru from Late Night Television that according to Gavin Newsom, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.680 he had a rough childhood and he didn't have a 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:56.120 lot of self confidence and watching Tony Robbins, he after 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.960 watching Tony Robbins, he decided that this is the guy 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.680 I'm going to model my life life after. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.600 Okay, I have to tell you, I'm a fan of 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.720 Tony Robbins. I am not a fan of Gavin Newsom. Frank, 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.280 you don't see any comparison between the two of them. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:18.480 Yeah, something definitely went haywire there. But Newsom clearly thinks 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.120 that this book and putting these stories out there. Although 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.960 he didn't mention a lot of different things, or didn't 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.280 go into detail about a lot of different things, that 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.040 we know have wrecked the state of California because he 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.360 can't run on his record. If he would run on 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.679 his record in California, he wouldn't make it out of 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.519 the Iowa caucuses. So he's trying to create this image 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.400 of someone who had one parent that came from the 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.400 wrong side of the tracks, one parent who came from privilege, 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.600 and he's all things to all people and he is 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.320 the savior of the Democratic Party. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.120 Well, if that's the case, the Democratic Party is in 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:58.079 very big trouble of And I think the biggest problem 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.239 that he's going to have is explain how he and 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:07.840 years of leftist policies took the most beautiful, wealthiest, most 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.440 prosperous state in the country and turned it into a 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:16.320 socialist hellhole where millions of people are now fleeing from 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:21.240 UH to UH to states with lower taxes, UH, better schools, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.600 lower regulations. I mean, what what Gavin Newsom and the 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.880 left have done to California. They've done wherever they've they've 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.600 seized control of a jurisdiction for for more than a 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.400 decade or so, you see exactly the same pathologies. You 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:43.920 see sky high taxes, of failing schools, rampant crime, rampant homelessness, UH, 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:50.520 basic necessities and unaffordable prices for basic necessities like housing 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:58.640 and water and electricity and gasoline of UH, and ultimately 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:04.120 of failing businesses and leeing families. You've seen the left 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:10.040 destroy our most beautiful cities like San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.720 Saint Louis, you name it, and you've seen them destroy beautiful. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.000 Are the most beautiful and prosperous states that we had 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.840 in the country of the twentieth century, California, Illinois, and 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.000 New York. So that's the question that people are going 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.760 to have to answer as we approach these elections, and 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:31.120 the votes they cast are going to determine their quality 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.760 of life for generations to come. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.320 What's wild to me is that Gavin Newsom never accepts 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:41.599 responsibility for anything where for example, we raised one hundred 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.279 million dollars in fire aid for the fire victims in 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.640 Pacific Palace. It's in Altadena, and you talk to the 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.160 fire victims. I've had many of them on this program 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.880 and they say that they've received none of that money. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.520 When they call that organization, they cannot get a call returned. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.480 The money did not go to the fire victims, even 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.599 though they advertised that it would. They put the fire 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.400 victims on the telethon that motivated people to whip out 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.760 their checkbooks and write checks to the cause, and then 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.640 the money ends up going to all of these non 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.800 for profits that don't have anything to do with helping 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.680 the fire victims. It's akin to what's going on right 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.680 now in Minnesota with the graph that's going on on 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.520 Tim Walls's watch. But Gavin Newsom says, well, hey, I'm 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.080 the governor of California. This is a non for profit. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.600 I don't have anything to do with it. Don't ask 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.400 me any questions. What kind of leadership is that when 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.760 you have someone who's at the top of the food chain, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.480 at the top of the pyramid, you have a tragedy 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.960 like this, an avoidable tragedy, by the way, because now 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.080 that we're learning that it was arson that started it 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.360 from an anti Trump lunatic and then the city got 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.919 into a fight with the state over who had jurisdiction, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.279 and they just decided to leave the fire still going. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.839 And then the winds brought came up, and the mayor 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.200 was in Africa, and no water in the fire, hydrants 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.640 and then the governor to take a step back and go, well, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.599 it's not my fault that none of the money is 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.640 going to the fire victim. Stop asking me questions, stop 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.880 blaming me, Blame someone else. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.960 Well, I don't think that's going to get them very far, 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.159 because people are going to be asking fundamental questions. You know, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.160 it was Abraham Lincoln, the city of the voters or everything. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.760 If the voters get their backsides too close to the fire, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.160 they'll just have to sit on the blisters a while. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.520 I mean, that's a painful experience, but it's a learning experience, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.960 and then they usually come away with it sadder but wiser, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.480 and I think that's what's happening in California right now. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.080 It must be. You know, it's both a blessing and 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.599 a curse in a democracy, but it's always true. You 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.640 get the government you vote for. And what has happened 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:49.200 to California is not some random act of God. It 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.200 is acts of government determined by the votes that Californias 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.240 have cast in so many past elections. I mean, you 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.800 look at this beautiful state with everything going for it, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.600 most echoo climate in the entire Western hemisphere, the most 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.400 bountiful resources anywhere in the continental United States were poised 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.440 on the Pacific women in a position to dominate world trade. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.320 And yet look at the census data. In the last decade, 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.600 two and a half million more people have fled California 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.160 than have come to California. That is a dramatic reversal 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.440 of the trends that we saw throughout the twentieth century 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.000 when people were flocking to the opportunities of this state. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.000 And if you ask the census data, where are people 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.920 going to? The most popular destinations for California's patriots are 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.600 Nevada and Arizona. Now you tell me what conceivable act 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.840 of God could turn California into a less desirable place 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.960 for people to live in the middle of the Nevada 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.880 nuclear test range. I can't think of one. Acts of 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.120 God can't do that much damage, but acts of government can, 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.520 and they have. And that is a choice that we 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.200 make at the ballot box. And unfortunately, Gavin Newsom is 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.520 simply an instrument of that choice. And we've got to 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.320 be a lot more careful in the future if we 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:03.760 don't want to continue down the past. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:08.760 We've been to that point. Gavin Newsom is prohibited by 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.320 state term limit laws from running for governor again, and 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.680 California will have an opportunity to select a new governor 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.880 in the upcoming election. We have a primary in June 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.720 than the general in November. And so far, with the 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:27.280 exception of Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, all 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.520 of the Democratic candidates who are running for governor are 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:35.720 running almost exclusively on federal issues. They're running against Donald Trump, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:41.280 they're running against Ice, They're running on issues of international consequence, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:46.000 what's going on right now in Ukraine or whatever, and 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.040 they will not talk about issues that face people here 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.960 in California. Now, if you're a governor, you don't have 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.000 a say over what goes on in Washington, d C. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.080 You don't have a vote in the House, you don't 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.160 have a vote in the Senate. You're not running the 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.080 executive branch of the federal government. You are the governor 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:08.040 of California. And they seem disinterested in state issues. It 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.920 seems like they haven't thought about these things, they haven't 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.760 read about these things, they don't have any ideas on 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.120 how to fix any of these things. And when the 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.400 subject comes up, they almost dismiss it as a distraction 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.000 of what's truly important, which is hating on Donald Trump, 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.800 and so far they're getting away with it. So far, 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.800 it seems like those are the only subjects that they 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.520 talk about. But it just seems nuts to me that 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.560 you would run for an office that you don't have 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.439 any interest in the subject matter that the office has 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:39.240 influence over. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.320 Well, the national issues. You're basically hating on Donald Trump 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.520 certainly motivates they radical democratic base, which has shifted more 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.400 and more to the left in recent years. But I 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.560 think it is going to hit a sour note with 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.160 a lot of independence who are asking the fundamental question, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.199 and that is, do I want to continue to to 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.120 live under the additions the chronic shortages and the most 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:09.600 water rich regions of the country of rampant crime and homelessness. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.720 I mean, look at the amount of money that's been 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.280 squadned on the homeless, and all we get is more 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.719 of them. Because the policies that the left offers us 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.840 does do not work. They never have, and again you 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:25.040 can see very consistent results wherever they're applied. We're about 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.520 to get a graduate level course in the failures of 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:33.160 socialism from New York, but California is not far behind, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.480 and people are going to have to again. As a 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.640 very simple question, what path do you want to take. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.560 Do you want to continue down the road we're on 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.960 that has turned the most beautiful state in the country 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:51.959 into the most impoverished and resource scarce regions of the country, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.240 or do you want to restore the California that we 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.080 used to take for granted a generation ago, when we 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.760 had much lower taxes and we pay today, and yet 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.880 we had the finest highway system in the country. We 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.960 had the finest university system in the world. We had 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.440 the finest public school system is certainly in the country 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.959 of We were producing electricity and water so cheaply. Some 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:19.280 communities weren't even metering their water supply, and there was 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.200 a discussion over getting rid of electricity meters because it 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.640 was becoming so cheap those you know, if that's not 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.079 some fantasy, that's the state we lived in until the 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.959 left began to take it over in the nineteen seventies. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.040 And we can get back to that state. It's the 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.640 same state right under our feet, but we've got to 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.160 change the policies, and so far the people of California 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.600 have chosen to continue down this road. I can't imagine 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.120 them continuing down much further. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.880 Are you concerned about the Olympics? And I say that 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.800 because the condition of Los Angeles right now is appalling. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:57.120 There is trash everywhere, there is graffiti everywhere. Copper wire 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.079 is being stolen out of neighborhoods, out of the of 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.080 the telephone lines and everything else in neighborhoods all over 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.679 the region. Neighborhoods are in the dark. Neighborhoods are without internet. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.960 The city says that in certain areas they won't even 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.960 replace it because it'll just get stolen again. And what's 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.600 the point of replacing it, Including on the Third Street bridge, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.199 by the way, which is a bridge that we just 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.520 spent a gazillion dollars on that's supposed to be one 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.800 of these bridges that attracts people to come here from 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.439 other parts of the country to see the beautiful bridge. Well, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.480 the bridge is in the dark because the copper wire 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.280 all gets stolen. The copper wire gets stolen on public transit, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.679 It shuts public transit down. We certainly have retail theft 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.280 that has the shampoo behind the bulletproof class. I can't 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.480 imagine what the world is going to say when they 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.400 come to Los Angeles and see the city in its 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.880 current condition. And I don't know how much influence the 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.520 federal government can have over what goes on in Los 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.400 Angeles as it pertains to the Olympics. But there needs 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.280 to be adult supervision because the people who are in 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.120 charge of the city right now don't seem to care, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.360 and I don't think they're aware of what kind of 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.959 embarrassment is coming our way if things don't change quickly. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.440 Well, I mean, the embarrassment is the lease of our problems. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.439 Is the condition we're living in day by day. That's 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.560 the problem. And again, that's a policy choice that we've 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.319 made through the votes we cast. It's not that complicated. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:28.480 You know. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:34.120 Cicero has said that he didn't He says, I don't 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.440 blame Caesar, I blame those who cheered for Caesar. Well, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.360 the politicians who have made these bad choices have been 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:46.240 elected by voters. Voters ultimately have got to change those 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.000 decisions at the ballot box. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:54.720 The SEIU is promoting a wealth confiscation tax for the 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.760 November ballad that has already caused over a trillion dollars 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.920 of wealth to leave the state to California. Those who 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.199 are leaving the state of California aren't doing so quietly. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:10.240 They're explaining just exactly why they're leaving California for other states. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.720 There is a new poll that was just released that 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.320 said that if this initiative gets the number of signatures 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.520 that they need to make the ballot, it would likely pass. 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.600 What do you make of that poll. 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.840 If that's true, then the people of California still have 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.240 not learned their lesson unfortunately. I think you know, as 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.400 people wise up, there comes a point where it's just 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.120 a lot easier to move to another state. And that's 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.480 what that's what people are doing. So you're seeing the 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.320 people who are leaving California know why they're leaving. It's 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.520 up to those of us who are staying in California 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.520 to change the course of the state. And again, the 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.840 only way we can do that is at the ballot box. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.640 You know, Arthur Laughers often said that that there's nothing 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.880 in this world that is more portable than money and rich. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:05.280 You raise taxes beyond a certain point, capital flees, and 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.760 up until now it's been the middle class. It's been 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:13.160 hallowed up. I had a friend who advises companies on 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.760 relocating out of California, and his rule of thumb is, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.720 if you make under fifty thousand dollars, your taxes are 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.040 relatively low and there's lots of free stuff. If you 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.120 make over five hundred thousand dollars, well then you can 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.440 afford the nice weather. But if you make anywhere between 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.880 fifty and five hundred, you need to get out while 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.160 you still can. And that's what the middle class has 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.720 been doing. But now it's that top one percent that 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.600 is fleeing the state. And that top one percent pays 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.080 about half of all California income taxes. So it only 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.480 takes a few of those people to relocate out of 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.480 state before you have a major negative impact on your 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.000 state revenues. And I'm afraid that's what has now been 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.320 set in motion. I remember a story of a group 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.840 of business people being called together so that Jerry Brown 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.560 could sell them on his latest tax increased proposal, and 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.360 one of them said, you know, Governor, I don't think 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.480 you understand. You raised my taxes last year, and before 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.040 you raised my taxes, I used to give you five 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.560 million dollars a year when you raised my taxes, I 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.240 now give you zero. Do you understand that. And I 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:21.520 was told Brown looked completely confused, and this guy says, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.200 you know, and don't think I have deprived myself my 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.840 beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean. I've simply rearranged my 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:29.920 schedule so that I'm out of the state more than 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.600 half of the year. So it's not that hard for 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:37.120 money and rich people to leave inhospitable environments. And that's 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.360 what they're doing in California and that's going to be 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.160 felt big time as our revenues implode in the days ahead. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.200 Well, and it also shows you who calls the shots 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.160 in Sacramento, because the governor, at least on paper, says 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.880 that he's opposed to this initiative. He does not want 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.800 to be labeled as a tax and spender when he 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.920 runs for president in twenty twenty eight. The SCIU wants it. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.720 In a one party state, you're the governor, you can 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.639 tell just about any interest group you want, don't do 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.280 that or else. And either he did that and they 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.600 called his bluff, or he is so out to lunch 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.800 running for president that no one is minding the store 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.240 and the SEIU is calling the shots. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.400 Well, it really doesn't matter because he has been backing 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.440 such policies for many, many years. He might be now 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.200 opposing this one because this is the one that's really 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.760 going to break the back of California. But these are 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.199 the same policies that he has advocated during his entire career, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.680 higher taxes, more and more burdensome regulations. I many years 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:44.120 ago represented Tahoe in Congress, and my first trip up there, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.480 I met with the Tahoe Chamber and I said, well, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.040 just to break the ice, and I said, well, tell 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.880 me what it's like to do business in a community 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.399 it's divided between two states. And one of them quickly responds, oh, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.320 it's very simple here in Tahoe. On the Nevada side, 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.000 they asked, how can we help you? On the California side, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.000 they ask how can we stop you? And you might 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.959 notice all of the economic development in Tahoe is largely 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.800 on the Nevada side for that very reason. So, I mean, again, 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.080 these pollen is not just the It's not just Gavin Newsom. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:18.080 It is all of the politicians that who have imposed 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.520 these policies of higher and higher taxes, of more and 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.879 more burdensome regulation that has absolutely broken the back of 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.639 the California economy that used to be the strongest in 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:31.520 the country. I mean it wasn't long ago when we 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:36.639 would we would always run well below the national unemployment level. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.560 Now we are leading the country in unemployment as as 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.240 jobs flee the state and his families flee the state. 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.959 California Congressman Tom McClintock. You can follow him on exit. 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.159 Tom McClintock, Congressman, keep fighting the good fight. Thanks so 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:52.080 much for joining us. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.440 Thank you, Johnny, you too. Take care. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.040 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.400 telephone number. What eight hundred two to two two five 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.240 two two. If you'd like to email the show, you 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.560 can do so. 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She'll 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.720 tell you more about your taxpayer rights and protecting Prop thirteen. 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.000 As we have been telling you, the courts have made 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.320 it easier to raise your taxes. So come by and 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.520 sign the petition to save Prop thirteen. The deadline is 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.760 coming fast. We need all those signatures by February seventeenth. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.359 You can fill it out right now. Saveprop thirteen dot com. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.640 Come hang out with us, grab a biteen be part 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.600 of the broadcast. It's the John Phillips Show Live at 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.880 Gladstone's in Long Beach this Friday from noon to three. 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.720 And right now it's time to open up the California 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:12.520 Crime Blodder. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.200 It's happened yet again. 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:16.960 This wow, Wow, what's up here? 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.160 Dun dun dunk, dunn, dun dun dun preached the Carliponia 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.720 Crime Blodder with John. 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.480 Well. The first one has a happy ending of swords. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.200 Not that kind of story, but here's what happened. Everyone 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.640 on social media was making a big fuss about what 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.760 they thought was ice busting some teenager. Turns out no, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.120 it was the cops going after a smash and grabber 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.359 that drove through a jewelry store in Anaheim last month. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.880 And because it was Orange County, a suspect is in custody. 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:57.359 For more, here's ABC seven Eyewitness News in Los Angeles. 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.000 Video exploding on social media this weekend of a team 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.000 being punched and taken down by officers. It had many 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.760 commenting that federal agents need to be stopped, but these 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:07.280 were not federal agents. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.240 How many people post things on social media without ever 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:12.720 paying attention to what the video is or what the 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:13.399 article is. 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:17.520 I just saw some jackass flight attendant post something on 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.879 social media claiming that ice was at the airport and 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.399 now they're going to cause all kinds of problems at 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.840 the airport and people are going to miss their flights. 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.439 But undercover local police officers, they had been tracking that 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.439 team who was wanted for a violent crime. 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:33.040 I don't know if you saw this story. It was 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.280 last week, but out in Lynnwood at this shopping center, 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:40.360 there was a TSA agent eating dinner somebody thought they 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.840 were ICE, so they called the Rapid Response Network to 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.920 start protesting over a TSA agent. 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:51.919 This is organized. This is if every dumb person on 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.280 planet Earth got on the same text message spread I. 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.199 Win this new Supporterly and Sudor As More on that 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:01.880 viral video and the surprising story behind it, Leanne. 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:02.560 Mark. 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.320 That is right, that teen at the center of more 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.760 than one viral video, the most recent showing what many thought, 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:12.920 including witnesses themselves, was him being detained by ICE agents, 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.680 but Anaheim police speaking out tonight saying it was their 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.919 undercover officers who were taking him into custody, all because 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.000 of a smash and grab robbery captured on camera. 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.480