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Speaker 1: And very happy Friday to you.

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Speaker 2: At twelve oh seven in the West, it's the John

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Speaker 2: Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Sacramento, California, the state Capitol.

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Speaker 2: Mister Randy wanings in Culver City.

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Speaker 3: John, the World Cup is here. World Cup excitement is increasing,

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Speaker 3: and we now gotten to the point where the idiots

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Speaker 3: are coming out. After a big celebration from Mexico beating Korea,

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Speaker 3: a bunch of dumbasses started doing donuts in Korea town

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Speaker 3: and shooting guns into the air.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's what happens here in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: I feel like for the next few weeks, the World

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Speaker 3: Cup is going to be heavily featured in the California

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Speaker 3: crime Ladder.

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Speaker 1: I think you might be right.

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Speaker 2: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is

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Speaker 2: the telephone number? What eight hundred two to two five two

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Speaker 2: two two. Well, the big talk here in Sacramento right

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Speaker 2: now is whether or not Gavin Newsom is going to

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Speaker 2: be able to talk the SCIU into standing down and

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Speaker 2: not putting their initiative on the November ballot that would

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Speaker 2: confiscate the wealth of billionaires here in the state of California,

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Speaker 2: driving yet even more wealth out of the state to

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Speaker 2: other places like Florida and Texas and Arizona and Nevada.

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Speaker 2: It's already been estimated that a trillion dollars in wealth

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Speaker 2: has already left the state of California because of the

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Speaker 2: possibility of this thing passing. Moosom knows that this initiative

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Speaker 2: passing would not only be poison for the state of California,

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Speaker 2: but poison for his presidential ambitions. He does not want

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Speaker 2: to be known as a tax and spend liberal who

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Speaker 2: drives business and wealth out of state. So he is

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Speaker 2: working right now negotiating with the sei you trying to

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Speaker 2: get this thing off the ballot. However, at least up

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Speaker 2: until now, those efforts have been unsuccessful.

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Speaker 3: So the SEIU went from of course, we're not going

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Speaker 3: to negotiate. We believe in this too. They gave an

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Speaker 3: offer to take this thing off the ballot to Gavin

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Speaker 3: Newsom and the legislature, and Gavin did not say yes

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Speaker 3: on the first offer. So let's find out what they

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Speaker 3: wanted to kill this thing from being on the November

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Speaker 3: ballot and why Gavin said no. Here is a quick

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Speaker 3: update from our friends at KCRA three in Sacramento Governor

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Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom is reacting tonight to the proposed California billionaire's tax.

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Speaker 4: It just got enough signatures to go before voters in November.

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Speaker 4: The five percent one time tax would apply to Californians

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Speaker 4: with a net worth of at least one point one

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Speaker 3: And somehow they wrote it that it's retroactive. So even

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Speaker 3: if you spent one day in the state of Californi

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: You're paying. How is that legal? That's a good question

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Speaker 1: for most of this.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if this actually passes, which it looking like

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Speaker 3: if it's on the ballot it will because that's where

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Speaker 3: the polling is right now. I'm sure there's going to

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Speaker 3: be a million to one legal challenges as to is

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Speaker 3: this constitutional.

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Speaker 4: So if you do the math, that could be fifty

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Speaker 4: five million dollars in a one time tax. The state

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Speaker 4: would have to spend that money on healthcare. Governor Gavin

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Speaker 4: Newsom says he is strongly against it, saying it'll drive

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Speaker 4: billionaires out of the state. Tonight, his office said the

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Speaker 4: governor supports making the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share,

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Speaker 4: but this poorly designed state only measure will defund teachers, schools, clinics,

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Speaker 3: Now, there was an offer that was made by the

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Speaker 3: SEIU two Gavin Newsom, and that was, Okay, we're going

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Speaker 3: to put on the ballot a five percent wealth tax.

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Speaker 3: Gavin will kill this thing if you sign into state

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Speaker 3: law a two percent wealth tax. And Gavin said hell

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Speaker 3: to the Now. Well, Gavin's in a world hurt here

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Speaker 3: in part because I believe you are right.

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Speaker 2: If this thing does go to the ballot, it is

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Speaker 2: going to pass, and it's going to pass by wide margins.

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Speaker 2: And Gavin knows that California is a democratic state. So

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Speaker 2: if Democratic voters want something in a statewide election, odds

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Speaker 2: through some new numbers that just came out about Democrats

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Speaker 2: and their attitude about socialism, which this would be socialist

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Speaker 2: legislation if passed. Capitalism has fallen through the floor with Democrats.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two percent of Democrats not in the state, but

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Speaker 2: So it's now fallen under fifty percent nationally. Socialism, on

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Speaker 2: the decline. And we have seen this proven time and

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Speaker 2: of DSA candidates on the city council, which is really

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Speaker 2: important because the city council is where the legislation comes from.

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Speaker 2: In the city of Los Angeles, that DSA block has

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Speaker 2: There's polls that show that there's a longtime Democratic congresswoman

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Speaker 2: all over the country. Well, if you're willing to vote

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Speaker 2: see how the opposition defeats something like that. Now, maybe

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Speaker 2: because the unions are split, you can take the teachers

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Speaker 2: can go to Democrats and make the argument, hey, this

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Speaker 2: and just try to make it an initiative that pits

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Speaker 2: voters go, well, we're not even capitalists, so why does

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Speaker 1: You're going to lose.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now, the people that are getting

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Speaker 3: That's the sentiment that's out there right now. Too many

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Speaker 3: people have way too much money, including Tom Steyer, who

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Speaker 3: blew two hundred and fifty million dollars on a failed

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Speaker 2: But what's odd to me is the animosity that these

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Speaker 1: It's towards the boomers.

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Speaker 2: Because a lot of these people who can't afford to

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Speaker 2: at letter carriers who own homes in the San Fernando Valley,

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Speaker 2: or teachers who own homes in the South Bay or whatever,

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Speaker 2: they look at them as the problem. They want those

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Speaker 2: years ago, when you could buy a house in the

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Speaker 2: and now everything is over a million dollars, you have

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Speaker 2: So screw these people, Let's tax them to death. That's

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Speaker 2: the attitude. So anything that is that can pass targeting

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Speaker 2: on paper in terms of wealth are technically millionaires.

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Speaker 3: And one of the technicalities that is in this legislation

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Speaker 3: one hundred millionaires. And then when we drive them out,

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Speaker 3: it affects the ten millionaires. And when it drives them out, yes,

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Speaker 3: it affects all the people who own a two bedroom

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Speaker 2: Usually, when politicians try to pit us against each other,

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Speaker 2: it is class resentment, it's racial resentment, it is religious resentment.

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Speaker 1: It's those sorts of things.

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Speaker 2: Right now, they're kind of shifting how they're targeting the

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Speaker 2: and right now it's based on age. They're going after

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Speaker 2: people who bought homes and are now in their fifties, sixties, seventies,

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Speaker 3: And thinking about going back to that Tom Steyer campaign

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Speaker 3: who leaned heavily into socialist policies, what was his big

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Speaker 2: Yes, and that is reflected in this tax policy and

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Speaker 2: Sacramento's point of view, if we lose a lot of

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Speaker 2: you have to make it up somewhere else. You have

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Speaker 2: to find other groups to open up their checkbooks and

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Speaker 2: start writing, because your budget is going to take a

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Speaker 1: You don't make it up.

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Speaker 2: And right now, if you look at homeowners who are

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Speaker 2: push them out of the state. Let's send them to

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Speaker 3: Well, and I think this is kind of a sentiment

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Speaker 3: that you create and is unique in Los Angeles. Now

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Speaker 3: that we are a majority renter city, you have a

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Speaker 3: they're like, all right, well, if I can't create it

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Speaker 3: because they're taking it away from us, So let's go

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Speaker 2: And this is where Gavin Newsom right now is in

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Speaker 2: big trouble because if you look at his negotiating position,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't really have much.

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Speaker 1: He's a lame duck.

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Speaker 2: So he can't say, if you don't do this next year,

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Speaker 2: And also go back to the story that broke earlier.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you right now, if this thing

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Speaker 5: Welcome, hey John, Good to be with you. Happy Friday.

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, tou too.

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Speaker 2: So today I am broadcasting from Sacramento, California, the state Capitol.

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Speaker 2: I'm here to watch the Angels loot play this weekend,

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Speaker 2: Of course, the SCIU is trying to negotiate with Gavin

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Speaker 2: So far, Gavin hasn't accepted any of the terms that

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Speaker 5: Well, I was listening to your conversation before, and I

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Speaker 2: I talked to a Republican consultant who did polling on it,

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Speaker 5: I mean that that does make sense. I mean there

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Speaker 2: run against the billionaires and the tech guys in Vermont,

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Speaker 2: then what does it matter to you? You know, that's

441
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Speaker 2: not your dominant industry. If you do it in Oregon,

442
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 2: who cares, they're a great boogeyman for you. But in California,

443
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Speaker 2: when you think of our dominant industries, our industries that

444
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Speaker 2: pay our bills, that allow us to make our budget,

445
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Speaker 2: a lot of the industries that we relied on for

446
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Speaker 2: a long time are gone. I mean, in the old

447
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Speaker 2: days it was a railroads that hasn't been a thing

448
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Speaker 2: for a long time. We had the oil companies and

449
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Speaker 2: the banks, and the defense industry, and aerospace that is

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Speaker 2: largely gone. We have Hollywood that's gone. Where you have

451
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Speaker 2: only a small portion of movies and television programs filmed

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Speaker 2: in the state of California. Yes, they're headquartered here, but

453
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Speaker 2: the filming itself, much of it is done elsewhere. When

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Speaker 2: you look at who pays the bills that allows us

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Speaker 2: to exist here in California, there is one dominant industry

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Speaker 2: that without it, I don't know what our budget would

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Speaker 2: look like. I don't know what our employment situation would

458
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Speaker 2: look like. It would certainly be shaky at best, but

459
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Speaker 2: it would likely fall apart if you push Silicon Valley

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Speaker 2: out of the state of California. What do we have left?

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Speaker 5: Right? I mean, that's the reason we are the fourth

462
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Speaker 5: largest economy in the world is almost entirely because of

463
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Speaker 5: Silicon Valley. I mean, as you know better than anybody,

464
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Speaker 5: rich people, really really really rich people pay almost all

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Speaker 5: the bills in California. So as long as we're in

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Speaker 5: that system, how does it make sense to have something

467
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Speaker 5: that pushes all the people that pay all your bills out?

468
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Speaker 5: Then who pays the bills? Who pays for all this stuff?

469
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Speaker 5: We clearly don't have enough money to pay for the

470
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Speaker 5: stuff as it is based off of the way things

471
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Speaker 5: are at. So all of these unions who enjoy the

472
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Speaker 5: payoffs they have from a system which has been set

473
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Speaker 5: up to pay them off, all of a sudden if

474
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Speaker 5: Daddy who pays the checks is no longer paying the checks,

475
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Speaker 5: they're not going to get their money either. So this

476
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Speaker 5: system could collapse if this wealth tax goes through. It

477
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Speaker 5: fundamentally does not work given the way that California is paid,

478
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Speaker 5: which is why a lot of the folks that have

479
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Speaker 5: been in the system, like Gavin Newsom, who actually understands

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Speaker 5: the budget and knows the numbers, realizes that this thing

481
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Speaker 5: could be a disaster for the state, and which is

482
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Speaker 5: why they're pushing back. Which is why every single Democrat,

483
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Speaker 5: knowing the poll numbers of where they are, was against

484
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Speaker 5: this wealth tax running for governor except for Tom Steyer,

485
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Speaker 5: a billionaire. They all know that it's a bad idea,

486
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Speaker 5: and yet the people who are just so frustrated by

487
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 5: a system that has so screwed them over are so

488
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Speaker 5: desperate to say few to somebody that it most likely

489
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Speaker 5: would pass just because people are that angry.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to what Gavin Newsom had to say.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this week at this press conference where he announced

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Speaker 2: that he and his wife are under investigation right now

493
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Speaker 2: from the Department of Justice, he implied that it was

494
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Speaker 2: politically motivator didn't imply. He said it was politically motivated

495
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Speaker 2: that Donald Trump was targeting him specifically over his Twitter

496
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Speaker 2: feed and social media accounts, and because he is likely

497
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Speaker 2: to be a candidate for president in twenty twenty eight,

498
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Speaker 2: the first time to my eye, he's ever publicly come

499
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Speaker 2: out and confirmed that. The last time I heard him

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Speaker 2: speak of it, he said he had sub zero interest

501
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Speaker 2: in running, and all of us, of course, believed him

502
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Speaker 2: when he.

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Speaker 1: Said that he's moved on that before to say the least,

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Speaker 1: I think the electricity.

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Speaker 5: Some places, including in an interview with me, he had

506
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Speaker 5: confirmed that he's considering running, so well, that part of

507
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Speaker 5: it news, But go ahead, Yeah.

508
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Speaker 2: I think someone unplugged that sub zero freezer at some

509
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Speaker 2: point between the now.

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Speaker 1: But yes, I digress.

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Speaker 2: But you look at what we know about this investigation

512
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Speaker 2: that the FBI is not publicly confirmed, but they never

513
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 2: do that. They never speak to active investigations or rarely

514
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: speak to them until or unless someone is indicted or

515
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 2: formally charged. But what we believe to know about this

516
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 2: is that this investigation started out under the Biden administration,

517
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Speaker 2: not the Trump administration, and it started here in California,

518
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 2: not in Washington, d C. Potentially from California whistleblowers who

519
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: saw something that didn't look right to them. It's going

520
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 2: to be very difficult, if in fact those things are true,

521
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Speaker 2: for him to portray this as the Trump administration coming

522
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Speaker 2: after him, if in fact it started under Biden and

523
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Speaker 2: started out of the California office, particularly when you're running

524
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Speaker 2: in a Democratic primary against oh I don't know the

525
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Speaker 2: former attorney general of the state of California.

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Speaker 5: Right who I talked to a couple of days ago

527
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Speaker 5: in Vienna at the Schwarzeneger Austrian Global Austria Summit, which

528
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Speaker 5: was and I had an opportunity to talk to Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 5: and I asked her about Gavin Newsom, and she never

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Speaker 5: even said his name. She said, you know, she don't

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Speaker 5: talk about her President Trump potential going after opponents as

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Speaker 5: something that she had talked about, she said the current governor,

533
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Speaker 5: which was interesting.

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Speaker 1: Look, we don't know exactly the facts here.

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Speaker 5: We know for sure that there was an investigation that

536
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Speaker 5: was launched during the Biden administration from the West Attorney's office.

537
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Speaker 5: We know that the Dana Williamson investigation was launched during

538
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Speaker 5: the Biden administration during by his Department of Justice. It

539
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Speaker 5: is possible that Newsome people seem to think that there

540
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Speaker 5: was a second, separate investigation launched into Jennifer Siebel Newsom

541
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Speaker 5: about a year ago. We don't know for sure, because

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Speaker 5: the DOJ hasn't confirmed that that's what they believe based

543
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Speaker 5: off of the way things have gone, So it'll be

544
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Speaker 5: interesting to see what started where and who. It certainly

545
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Speaker 5: seems like that a lot of this was driven by

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Speaker 5: the US Attorney's office in California, but we know that

547
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 5: the US Attorney reports to the DOJ, which reports to

548
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Speaker 5: President Trump. So we'll see in terms of the timing

549
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Speaker 5: of all of that. But it certainly seems like some

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Speaker 5: of what Gavin Newsom was saying in that first wave

551
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Speaker 5: of him trying to spin this thing, that this all

552
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Speaker 5: just came from Trump's DOJ and it was all just

553
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Speaker 5: about targeting him. The facts, for what we know so

554
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Speaker 5: far do not seem to support that.

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Speaker 2: Let's shift gears here for a second and talk about

556
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Speaker 2: the LA mayor's race, because we will see a November

557
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: matchup of Karen Bass, the incumbent embattled LA mayor, against

558
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Speaker 2: Nthia Rahman, the DSA council woman, who is I guess

559
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Speaker 2: running in second right now in that race for mere

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about that in the context of

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Speaker 2: a report that came out recently, or a story that

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Speaker 2: came out recently from one of your colleagues at CNN,

563
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 2: Harry Enton, who looked at Democratic voters and their attitudes

564
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Speaker 2: regarding capitalism and socialism and how it's changed over time.

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Speaker 2: According to Enton, only forty two percent of Democrats right

566
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Speaker 2: now have a favorable view of capitalism, while two thirds

567
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Speaker 2: have a favorable view of socialism. When you put that

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Speaker 2: in the context of mayoral results that we've seen in

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Speaker 2: places like New York City, in Chicago, in Seattle, what

570
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Speaker 2: we're seeing right now play out in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: It is entirely possible that a socialist candidate could become

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Speaker 2: mayor of the second largest city in the country, something

573
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Speaker 2: I would have told you five years ago was not possible.

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Speaker 5: Now socialist became mayor of the largest city country. So

575
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Speaker 5: we've already seen that, right, I mean in Zoron Mundani.

576
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Speaker 5: So yeah, I think it is possible. What I'm curious

577
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Speaker 5: about given those numbers is how much does Nithia Rahman

578
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Speaker 5: emphasize the fact that she is a member of the DSA.

579
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Speaker 5: In the primary, she seemed to sort of suppress it

580
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Speaker 5: a bit. Does she lean into it, does she make

581
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Speaker 5: the argument that LA needs to be more progressive those numbers,

582
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Speaker 5: does she actually try to rally those people to her side,

583
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Speaker 5: or does she try to win over the Spencer Pratt

584
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Speaker 5: voters who really want to who don't like Karen Bassan

585
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Speaker 5: want to change and make the argument that she's a

586
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Speaker 5: better and more confident manager and she's going to change

587
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Speaker 5: the system. And I'm really curious. I haven't had a

588
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Speaker 5: chance to interview her yet since she moved on. In

589
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Speaker 5: terms of where Nifia goes, what do you think is

590
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Speaker 5: the more effective strategy for her if you were advising.

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Speaker 2: Her, Well, I think a lot of the Pratt people

592
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Speaker 2: are just going to leave it blank. I don't think

593
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Speaker 2: that they're going to vote for her. If I lived

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Speaker 2: in the city of Los Angeles, I would leave it blank.

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Speaker 2: Mayor bass does not deserve a second term after her

596
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Speaker 2: performance in the Pacific Palisades. Under no circumstances would I

597
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Speaker 2: vote for her, And under no circumstances would I vote

598
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Speaker 2: for a socialist. So I think that they're going to

599
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 2: be talking to their people and they're going to have

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Speaker 2: to convince I guess people who voted for some of

601
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Speaker 2: the non Pratt candidates who are also on the ballot,

602
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Speaker 2: and those people will be the ones that decide who

603
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Speaker 2: the winner is and who the loser is. What I

604
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 2: don't understand is why the Democratic candidates in these races

605
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Speaker 2: seem to be so afraid of creating separation between themselves

606
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Speaker 2: and their ideology and the DSA candidate and their ideology.

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Speaker 2: The old time any ones do that, I remember, maybe

608
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Speaker 2: it was even with you. Nancy Pelosi gave an interview

609
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Speaker 2: where she was being peppered with questions about the squad

610
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Speaker 2: and she said, look, I'm a capitalist and I make

611
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Speaker 2: no apologies about being a capitalist. They're socialist.

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Speaker 1: That's not me.

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Speaker 2: And she made a clear distinction that she was a

614
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Speaker 2: Democrat and a capitalist and not a socialist. And I

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00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 2: don't see many of these other Democratic candidates doing that,

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Speaker 2: And I don't know why, because it seems like if

617
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Speaker 2: you're trying to create a distinction between yourself and these challengers.

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Speaker 2: Highlighting some of their more radical positions and how you

619
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Speaker 2: don't take those positions would be something that would benefit you,

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Speaker 2: but they haven't done that.

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Speaker 5: I think Karen Bassey is going to try to do that,

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Speaker 5: and we've gotten some hints of that already, sort of

623
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Speaker 5: leaning into how she sees Nythia Rahman as too liberal

624
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 5: on homelessness in terms of the tent encampments and other

625
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 5: positions that she's already highlighted in the last week or two,

626
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 5: trying to cast Nythia Rahman as too liberal. We know

627
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 5: Karen Bass's passed association with Castro and Cuba from many,

628
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 5: many decades ago, but I would I actually think that

629
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Speaker 5: the Bass plan is to run to the right of

630
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Speaker 5: Nythia Rahman and to try to make the argument that

631
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Speaker 5: she is more centrist and that Nythia Rahman is too

632
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Speaker 5: far out there, and that Bass in a way is

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Speaker 5: going to be appealing to some of those Pratt voters

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Speaker 5: to try to say you may not love me, but

635
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Speaker 5: you do not want to go DSA. And I think

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Speaker 5: that's going to be really interesting to see her try

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Speaker 5: to execute that.

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Speaker 2: What's funny is I asked Roxanne Hoague if the Bass

639
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 2: people have reached out to her, the answer no, it's

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Speaker 2: my understanding that they haven't reached out to the Pratt people.

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Speaker 2: She's not appearing on any right of center radio, television,

642
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: internet programs, podcasts, whatever. If she's reaching out to those voters.

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Speaker 2: There's no eva evidents of that happening to me.

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00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, and she I think she should, you know, I mean,

645
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 5: I think she should. She should be out there. But

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Speaker 5: I've been interested, frankly, and I've tried honestly to interview

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00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 5: both of them, with the Raman and Karen Bass, and

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Speaker 5: I was surprised that in the days after that election

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00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 5: that neither one of them were all that present media wise.

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Speaker 5: To me, it was an opportunity when people were really

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Speaker 5: paying attention to try to, you know, set where things

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Speaker 5: are at, especially for some of the Pratt people, to

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Speaker 5: like give people a fresh view when that race was

654
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Speaker 5: so hot, and at least when it comes to me

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Speaker 5: and I didn't see them that many other places, they

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Speaker 5: really chose not to engage, and I personally think that

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Speaker 5: was a mistake. They're free to run their campaigns the

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Speaker 5: way that they want, but I think their people at

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Speaker 5: that moment were ready to hear from them. And I

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Speaker 5: don't know if in two weeks or three weeks people

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Speaker 5: are going to be as interested in the LA Mayor's race.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think people will be in October, but

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Speaker 5: I think that, you know, people's attention spans are short,

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Speaker 5: and it would have made sense to really lean in

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Speaker 5: when people were really paying attention.

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Speaker 2: Alex Michaelson, host of the Story Is, which hears week

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Speaker 2: can't follow him on exit Alex Underscore Michaelson. Alex Michaelson,

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Speaker 2: thanks so much for stopping by. Thanks John, It's the

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Speaker 2: John Phillips Show. We've got two more hours coming up

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