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Speaker 2: strategist who you can follow on Exit The Thomas Guide.
Speaker 4: John Thomas.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Hey John, good to be with you and see
Speaker 1: you well.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much for stopping by. No problem. So let's start.
Speaker 2: Out by talking about the politics of scandal, because Eric Swalwell,
Speaker 2: for a moment in time, was arguably one of the
Speaker 2: biggest celebrities in the resistance movement. He was one of
Speaker 2: the Democrats who handled the impeachment of Donald Trump. He
Speaker 2: was a guy who lived on cable news and lusted
Speaker 2: for confrontation. I think he was one of the Democrats
Speaker 2: who would go on with Tucker Carlson on his program
Speaker 2: on the Fox News channel and they'd get into a
Speaker 2: catfight on live television. Then he became a candidate for
Speaker 2: governor here in California. I believe that is the reason
Speaker 2: that a Landy con Locus dropped out of the race.
Speaker 2: She thought she couldn't beat him. The polls indicated that
Speaker 2: he would likely be the top performing Democrat and the
Speaker 2: primary election, and then John when it rains, it pours,
Speaker 2: the allegation started coming out about sexual assault. He was
Speaker 2: forced to drop out of the race. He is now
Speaker 2: lawyered up. He has a criminal defense attorney and most
Speaker 2: recently his home.
Speaker 4: In Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: Was raided by the FBI and he himself was confronted
Speaker 2: by the FBI at SFO Airport and his phone and
Speaker 2: his laptop were all taken by the federal government. And
Speaker 2: it looks like they're investigating whether or not he is
Speaker 2: going to be charged with sexual assault. Everything just fell
Speaker 2: apart for him all at once. But these open secrets
Speaker 2: that existed were didn't impact his career up until the
Speaker 2: first woman came forward. What do you make of what
Speaker 2: has happened to him? How long he was able to
Speaker 2: keep these secrets hidden, and how quickly his world just
Speaker 2: fell apart.
Speaker 1: Well, you hit it on the head. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't a well kept secret in d C.
Speaker 1: Most most folks did know. I mean, in fact, you
Speaker 1: know Fox News and Tucker Carlson made fun of routinely
Speaker 1: the fact that Eric Swalwell was honeypotted by a Chinese spy.
Speaker 1: You know, these were pretty much out in the open.
Speaker 1: I think the issue, John, is Eric never really had
Speaker 1: real power as just another member of Congress, and the
Speaker 1: fact that he was about to approach real power in
Speaker 1: in a race in which he was the front runner
Speaker 1: for that race. The information came out out and it
Speaker 1: was incredible to me, not so much that it was covered,
Speaker 1: because this is kind of It's why you know, when
Speaker 1: you run for high profile races, particularly president of the
Speaker 1: United States, they call it the MRI for the soul
Speaker 1: because things that perhaps people didn't care about before, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden people begin to care about. What was
Speaker 1: stundying to me, John, is how quickly it happened, uh,
Speaker 1: And the fact that his Democratic colleagues let him hold
Speaker 1: the front runner status for so long. So the question
Speaker 1: I'm still interested to know, John, is it that this
Speaker 1: issue was forced by an opponent in the eleventh hour,
Speaker 1: because it honestly, a Katie Porter or somebody should have
Speaker 1: taken Swallowell out earlier on in the race, allowing other
Speaker 1: shuffling to happen. The late shuffle really was perfectly timed
Speaker 1: for Besserah as the only one to kind of take
Speaker 1: control of the race. So it's interesting to see that
Speaker 1: at the end of the day and Democrats knew that
Speaker 1: this he had all this baggage, they didn't care until
Speaker 1: it actually affected them, when Eric might actually have power.
Speaker 2: If he were to go to a consultant and say, Okay,
Speaker 2: I want to run for governor. I want to hire
Speaker 2: you to run my race. I would assume that most strategists,
Speaker 2: most consultants would then hire a firm to see what's
Speaker 2: out there on this candidate so they know what's coming.
Speaker 2: I would also assume that his opponents in the race
Speaker 2: would hire firms to figure out what was going on
Speaker 2: in his past that may or may not be relevant
Speaker 2: in this campaign. How did this not come up in
Speaker 2: his own internal organization or in the other campaigns, because
Speaker 2: it seems like it was it was the news media
Speaker 2: that brought these women out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. Well, let me tell you, first of all,
Speaker 1: you're right, I can say confidently I've done this hundreds
Speaker 1: and hundreds of times. It's called a self vulnerability study.
Speaker 1: It even has a term a package that we start
Speaker 1: when consultants start with with a candidate that you typically
Speaker 1: top level consultants would mandate that as part of their engagement,
Speaker 1: even before they're getting engaged, saying I need I need
Speaker 1: that full self vulnerability package. And that's not just because
Speaker 1: we want to decide, hey, is this candidate safe to
Speaker 1: work with? Are they going to implode? But also John
Speaker 1: because when we do an extensive benchmark survey and we
Speaker 1: test all the messages both against our opponents but also
Speaker 1: for our guy, we also test the hits on ourselves
Speaker 1: to understand are there any are there any fatal hits?
Speaker 1: If there are really hard hits, what are the right
Speaker 1: responses do we get out ahead of it? Do we
Speaker 1: ignore it? It's you can't ignore those. It looks like
Speaker 1: his campaign consultants committed malpractice because they didn't they didn't
Speaker 1: conduct that study. Now maybe it's because Eric didn't want
Speaker 1: that information to be held by his team. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but there's no excuse for a Katie Porter or others
Speaker 1: to have not conducted that same level of opposition recent
Speaker 1: that's campaign malpractice.
Speaker 2: How reckless was it of Nancy Pelosi, who was then
Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House and Democratic leader when Swallwell
Speaker 2: served in the House of Representatives, and Adam Schiff, who
Speaker 2: was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to leave
Speaker 2: him on that sensitive committee, knowing there was all of
Speaker 2: this compromat out against him, and knowing that he was
Speaker 2: sleeping with the Chinese spy, because that which he had
Speaker 2: denied publicly has since been verified. She acknowledged that she
Speaker 2: had an affair with him on more than one occasion.
Speaker 2: I believe he was left on that committee and exposed
Speaker 2: to some of the nation's biggest secrets, and they were
Speaker 2: asked to remove him from that committee, and they all
Speaker 2: stood by him, and they all defended him, and they
Speaker 2: said that these attacks on him we were part of
Speaker 2: a partisan witch hunt. We now know that's not true.
Speaker 1: Well, that actually was the thing that was most shocking
Speaker 1: to me when it was going down, was that the
Speaker 1: Democrats are so in such a partisan like tribal cocoon
Speaker 1: that they can't do the obvious right thing because it
Speaker 1: would be perceived perhaps as agreeing with the President Trump
Speaker 1: or agreeing with the Republicans. But I also john think
Speaker 1: the mainstream media are to blame The fact is the Democrats,
Speaker 1: like Adam Schiff, weren't under sufficient external pressure from the
Speaker 1: media to remove and take action against Swalwell.
Speaker 2: The race to replace Swalwell has been decided, at least
Speaker 2: in the short term, and a DSA candidate who the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party did not want to win ended up winning
Speaker 2: that election. They wanted just a standard rank and file
Speaker 2: Democrat who would vote the party line. They didn't get that.
Speaker 2: They ended up with another DSA problem child. What do
Speaker 2: you make of the fact that the DSA is still
Speaker 2: is still not just a New New York state, but Colorado, California,
Speaker 2: all over the place. They are still rolling up the
Speaker 2: wins in these Democratic primaries.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the story to me. You could have
Speaker 1: written it off as a one off if Mendami won,
Speaker 1: but you weren't seeing a pattern in politics particular as
Speaker 1: we're going into a big cycle like this, a midterm
Speaker 1: cycle where I'm always trying to identify larger trends and patterns,
Speaker 1: and we can't ignore it any longer. That this is
Speaker 1: a serious tailwind and movement within the Democratic Party. It's
Speaker 1: where the intensity lives is with Democratic Socialists. This should
Speaker 1: be a serious red flag for Democrats because they're nominating
Speaker 1: these candidates, quite frankly, in a wobbler of a swing district,
Speaker 1: are not electable to defeat a Republican candidate. Now maybe
Speaker 1: there's a one off exception where they do win, but
Speaker 1: it creates viability challenges for the Democrats. But then, of course,
Speaker 1: if these Democrats, these Democrats social start winning, then of
Speaker 1: course good luck to a Hakeem Jeffries to govern with
Speaker 1: these socialists because it used to be just wing wing
Speaker 1: nuts like AOC and others that didn't have much power.
Speaker 1: But you could have a critical mass of these and
Speaker 1: then let's fast forward to the presidential cycle. It's possible
Speaker 1: that the Democrats, instead of nominating kind of a milk
Speaker 1: toast Midwestern Democrat, it's very possible that the intensity continues
Speaker 1: to nominate an AOC type candidate, which both is scary
Speaker 1: for the country but also a gift for the Republicans
Speaker 1: because arguably you could defeat an extreme leftist.
Speaker 2: What does the party do? Because you look at this map,
Speaker 2: the calendar is now out. We know that South Carolina
Speaker 2: is going first. We know that Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia, Michigan.
Speaker 2: They'll also be voting early on in the Democratic primary,
Speaker 2: if you have a bunch of establishment candidates who are
Speaker 2: essentially all working the same corner where you have Kamala,
Speaker 2: you have.
Speaker 4: New Sin, you have JB. Pritzker, you have I guess
Speaker 4: Gretchen person.
Speaker 2: She's not going to run, but yeah, you have all
Speaker 2: of those just standard partisan Democrats who are in the race,
Speaker 2: and you have either an AOC or a Bernie or
Speaker 2: someone from that part of the DSA who is going
Speaker 2: to run and have that lane all to themself. If
Speaker 2: you split that vote among the standard partisan Democrats enough ways,
Speaker 2: you can almost create a lane for the DSA candidate
Speaker 2: to grab the ball and run right into the end zone. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's actually obviously completely different on the issues, John, but
Speaker 1: it's actually the similar dynamic to what President Trump enjoyed
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, when the establishment lane was split many
Speaker 1: different ways. President Trump held on to his lane in
Speaker 1: the mid twenties, and everybody said that he couldn't win.
Speaker 1: It's like, actually he did because he was able to
Speaker 1: hang onto a large enough portion of his base, of
Speaker 1: the base of the Republican Party uninterrupted. I could see
Speaker 1: the same thing going on here. And here's the other truth. John, Yes,
Speaker 1: the intensity right now is with socialism, which is crazy
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party. But let's also look at mainstream Democrats.
Speaker 1: I mean, what have they done. What solutions are they
Speaker 1: offering to Democratic voters? Nothing? Really, nothing really innovative, no
Speaker 1: new policy proposals, Whereas at least on the far left,
Speaker 1: there is a although they're crazy, I believe AOC believes
Speaker 1: what she's saying. I'm not so sure that there's a
Speaker 1: conviction and intensity from other Democrats on the kind of
Speaker 1: the more middle of the road lane.
Speaker 2: Is there anyone within the Democratic Party, the chairman of
Speaker 2: the party, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, whomever, who has the
Speaker 2: power in the stature to go to these candidates and go, Okay,
Speaker 2: if we split the vote too many ways, the DSA
Speaker 2: is going to win the nomination, and we can not
Speaker 2: have that because the likelihood that we will lose the
Speaker 2: November election becomes very high. So Pritzker, it's not your time,
Speaker 2: get out. Paulus, it's not your time, get out. Mowsome,
Speaker 2: it's not your time get out. Does anyone have that power? Not?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: You look at the state of the Democratic Party, it's
Speaker 1: in complete disarray. The Democratic National Committee's leadership is feckless
Speaker 1: and broke. I think John, that might work in the
Speaker 1: eleventh hour as the field begins to narrow, But the
Speaker 1: politics of self interest in a presidential cycle is just
Speaker 1: why not, you know, why not run? You know, stranger
Speaker 1: things have happened if you're if you're a Democrat, to
Speaker 1: perhaps be the last They all believe that the last
Speaker 1: man could be the last man standing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I think a name that I still think it might
Speaker 1: be one of the top contenders if it isn't an
Speaker 1: AOC is John Ossif. I'm really impressed by him. Obviously
Speaker 1: he's Jewish, which is a problem for the anti Semitic
Speaker 1: wing of the Democratic Party. But I think Osif might
Speaker 1: be able to straddle both kind of a fresher new
Speaker 1: generational face, but kind of that centrist centrist lane. So
Speaker 1: I wouldn't count Osif out, but I think they might
Speaker 1: end up just running too many standard Democrats, leaving an
Speaker 1: AOC open.
Speaker 2: What do you make of his philosophy. He's running for
Speaker 2: reelection in the state of Georgia, which is a state
Speaker 2: that voted for Donald Trump last time around. It's a
Speaker 2: state that has historically voted Republican, they have a Republican governor,
Speaker 2: they have Republican state wide elected officials. He's almost bypassing
Speaker 2: his reelection. He's not running as a red state Democrat.
Speaker 2: He's almost running as a national candidate. And he's not
Speaker 2: running to the right of the Democratic Party. He's running
Speaker 2: as a hard partisan who is out to get Donald
Speaker 2: Trump at every opportunity. Is he looking beyond his reelection
Speaker 2: too soon with that strategy or do you think that
Speaker 2: he believes correctly that he has this in the bag.
Speaker 1: Well, I know his team fairly well, so I can
Speaker 1: speak with pretty good certainty about this. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of things motivating his national profile. One is he's trying
Speaker 1: to raise small dollars. So the best way to raise
Speaker 1: small dollars right now is to run against Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So you can send email and text solicitations to you know,
Speaker 1: the unmarried white woman in Orange County, California that maybe
Speaker 1: voted for Katie Porter and is angry. So it's a
Speaker 1: lot about small dollars, but it's also John It is
Speaker 1: a little bit of arrogance because I think in part
Speaker 1: the Assoff team sees such an incredibly weak field going
Speaker 1: into the next presidential cycle that they want to begin
Speaker 1: into position themselves. But I've cautioned ASA's team as I
Speaker 1: would kash If Kasha Newsom's team. You know, you run
Speaker 1: the risk here of just peaking too soon. At least
Speaker 1: Newsom doesn't have a re election to contend with. But
Speaker 1: Austin has to pay close attention. Anything can happen in Georgia,
Speaker 1: and if he nationalizes this too quickly, it could backfire.
Speaker 2: Let's come back to California for a moment, because Xavier
Speaker 2: Besserra is running really a shell of a campaign. After
Speaker 2: he won the primary, he disappeared and we haven't seen
Speaker 2: much of him. Steve Hilton has challenged him to a
Speaker 2: series of debates. Bessara says, at some point in the
Speaker 2: future we will debate, but he really won't give details
Speaker 2: beyond that he's not sitting down for many interviews. He's
Speaker 2: not having many press availabilities. What do you make of
Speaker 2: this strategy? We know that he doesn't think he has
Speaker 2: to campaign that hard as a shifted not but it's
Speaker 2: becoming an issue.
Speaker 4: It's becoming something.
Speaker 2: That's talked about in ways that it hasn't been in
Speaker 2: previous campaigns. Do you think that this is going to
Speaker 2: give Hilton an opening to go after Besara.
Speaker 1: On It's an interesting dynamic. First, Sarah is taking his
Speaker 1: lead and hoping that it just becomes a race of
Speaker 1: rs versus d's, and the math is you can't get
Speaker 1: around the math, and conventional wisdom would say that's right.
Speaker 1: The other thing is, I think but Sarah knows that
Speaker 1: he's not an incredibly strong candidate head to head with
Speaker 1: other candidates like a polished Steve Hilton. So for him,
Speaker 1: he has to make no mistakes. That's kind of a
Speaker 1: rule number one. So he's laying low. Now, the question
Speaker 1: is is he laying too low? I'm not sure. I
Speaker 1: think Steve has to disrupt this race somehow, and the
Speaker 1: best way he can do it is by engaging with Javier,
Speaker 1: And if Avier doesn't engage with him, it limits Steve's
Speaker 1: opportunities to to shuffle this race up. My hunches, Javier
Speaker 1: is basically saying, look, I'm going to raise just enough
Speaker 1: money from I'm kind of a call it the I'm
Speaker 1: sorry establishment money that didn't come to me. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let my TV ads role in the home stretch and
Speaker 1: that should be sufficient and that should work. But if
Speaker 1: something were to break out that's bad in the state.
Speaker 1: For instance, it could look at one of those moments, John,
Speaker 1: where Bessarah was nowhere to be found, in a moment
Speaker 1: where Californias were expecting his leaderships. So I think it
Speaker 1: probably works. But look, if we zoomed out, he's not
Speaker 1: a good candidate. If you ran in any other competitive state,
Speaker 1: he would be losing. He'd be ten points behind. He's
Speaker 1: lucky that registration just so heavily favors Democrats right now.
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Speaker 4: So I've been all.
Speaker 2: Over the place recently promoting the Accountability Podcast, and one
Speaker 2: of the places I stopped by last week, I think
Speaker 2: it was the end of the end of last week,
Speaker 2: was with Jesse Kelly and we talked about any number
Speaker 2: of subjects involving both California and the nation, and we
Speaker 2: decided that we would play that interview for you right now.
Speaker 3: Here is John's latest appearance on Jesse Kelly Show on
Speaker 3: the first So.
Speaker 2: Would you be a good president?
Speaker 4: We'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a difficult question to answer. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's so I have no idea.
Speaker 5: I would like to think I would be, but that's
Speaker 5: for others to determine.
Speaker 2: By the way, I think I was a pretty good mayor.
Speaker 5: I think I pretty good, but people have opinions, and
Speaker 5: so I'm not naive about it. That's a terrible answer.
Speaker 5: How about showing some confidence joining me now? John Phillips,
Speaker 5: host of the accountability podcast Available What Johnny Don't Like
Speaker 5: Don't dot Com? All right, John, that answer sucked. I'm
Speaker 5: not sure it sounded so effeminate.
Speaker 2: Well, I can answer the question for him. He'd make
Speaker 2: a horrible president, And how do I know he was
Speaker 2: a horrible governor? And how am I judging him before
Speaker 2: he became governor. I could buy my shampoo without it
Speaker 2: being behind bulletproof class and now I have to buy
Speaker 2: shampoo that's locked up behind bulletproof glass, So yeah, I
Speaker 2: can answer it confidently. He'd be awful.
Speaker 5: John.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 5: Look, when you're in the limelight, obviously you're going to
Speaker 5: get a lot of tomatoes thrown at you. So all politicians,
Speaker 5: Republican and Democrat, after too much time in the spotlight,
Speaker 5: the bloom falls off.
Speaker 4: The roads a little bit.
Speaker 5: Look at Trump's approval numbers. At the same time, it's
Speaker 5: hard to forget that. I feel like we were sitting
Speaker 5: here a year ago, and maybe you weren't, but I
Speaker 5: was thinking to myself, Gavin Newsom's the nominee, the presumptive
Speaker 5: Nominee's gonna have the fundraising structure in place, He's gonna
Speaker 5: have the California I mean, it's gonna be set. He
Speaker 5: doesn't feel set anymore. Was I wrong then?
Speaker 4: Or did something happen in the last year?
Speaker 2: You know what's funny? And I actually just had this
Speaker 2: conversation a couple of days ago on my program with
Speaker 2: Chuck Todd, of all people, and he believes that Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom's window was actually last time around. Where had he
Speaker 2: had the guts to challenge Joe Biden in the Democratic
Speaker 2: primary to be the first Democrat to say, let's be honest,
Speaker 2: Joe is senile. He can't be president for four more years.
Speaker 2: And he was the guy that may have been his
Speaker 2: one and only opportunity. And it looks like the window
Speaker 2: on Galvin new has closed. These politicians think that there's
Speaker 2: more windows in the Crystal Cathedral for their careers, and
Speaker 2: the reality is there's not. Had Trump not run in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen in that climate, in that environment, he probably
Speaker 2: would have never become president. And you look at Barack Obama,
Speaker 2: who ran when he was relatively new in the United
Speaker 2: States Senate in two thousand and eight. Had he waited
Speaker 2: his turn, he probably would have never been president. I
Speaker 2: think Gavin Newsom missed his window, and I think he's
Speaker 2: trying to create something that's not organically there this time around.
Speaker 5: Okay, I don't necessarily disagree, but to play devil's advocate, Okay,
Speaker 5: he challenges a sitting president of the United States of America.
Speaker 5: You and I both understand that the fundraising infrastructure of
Speaker 5: the Democrat Party. In the Republican Party, they would punish
Speaker 5: you severely for that. Even if you were able to
Speaker 5: actually win a primary, he would f find yourself in
Speaker 5: the general election with the inside of your pockets hanging
Speaker 5: out of your pants, right.
Speaker 2: Well, that's assuming that the poll numbers never materialize for him.
Speaker 2: Look at all of these incumbents who are losing this cycle,
Speaker 2: longtime members of Congress, longtime Democratic politicians in good standing
Speaker 2: with the party. You're not talking about blue dog Democrats
Speaker 2: who are losing, people like Diana Deguett and Colorado and others.
Speaker 2: You're talking about people who were impeachment managers, people who
Speaker 2: were partisan Democrats who voted the party line for decades.
Speaker 2: They're the ones who are losing. So if you are
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and you run against Joe Biden, and you
Speaker 2: showed better numbers against Trump than Biden, and you show
Speaker 2: that you can beat Joe Biden in a Democratic primary,
Speaker 2: I think the party almost is going to be forced
Speaker 2: to take you.
Speaker 5: Seriously, Let's broaden this a little bit, John, to make
Speaker 5: it just about politics in general. Where we are, because
Speaker 5: I've been thinking about this, brew on this quite a bit.
Speaker 5: It feels like there is such anger, such dissatisfaction with
Speaker 5: the economic situation, with the jobs market, with inflation in
Speaker 5: this country, and that that is not going to go away.
Speaker 5: It didn't go away under Joe Biden. Hasn't gone away
Speaker 5: under Donald Trump. I know that we had more primary
Speaker 5: losses since nineteen seventy. Recently, it feels like, right now,
Speaker 5: the worst thing you can be is somebody who's been there.
Speaker 4: Is that right?
Speaker 2: I think there is a lot of truth to that,
Speaker 2: and you're seeing that with the popularity of the DSA.
Speaker 2: If people think that the party establishment has failed them,
Speaker 2: they're going to look for alternatives. And right now, particularly
Speaker 2: within the Democratic Party, the DSA is the only one,
Speaker 2: or they're the only ones talking about policy. The Standard
Speaker 2: Democrats make Trump the villain in every story. All they
Speaker 2: do is talk about Trump, and let's face it, Trump
Speaker 2: can't put his name on the ballot again. He's turned out.
Speaker 2: He's a lame duck, and all the Democrats want to
Speaker 2: do is beat the same dead horse. Well, if you're
Speaker 2: doing that, then you're giving the floor to the DSA
Speaker 2: on talking about ideas. Now they're bad ideas, but they
Speaker 2: frame them as ideas that will improve the lives of
Speaker 2: the voters, and that puts the Standard Democrats in these
Speaker 2: primaries in a very dangerous place.
Speaker 5: Grima Vodka was out there talking about Joe Biden.
Speaker 6: Here she was see I had been speaker, And when
Speaker 6: I was speaker, I saw the president all the time.
Speaker 6: But when I wasn't then I saw maybe three times
Speaker 6: that whole year, and so I didn't know, and I
Speaker 6: don't and I think he had his sort of ups
Speaker 6: and downs. And when he when I saw him one time,
Speaker 6: he was giving me the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So
Speaker 6: that was a short vent and he was right, perfectly
Speaker 6: fine that day, I thought. And so I didn't know,
Speaker 6: but I do think that those who did know should
Speaker 6: have acted upon that information.
Speaker 7: Whatever that miss Staff and family both, you mean.
Speaker 6: Well, whoever knew, who ever knew there was the staph
Speaker 6: saying the family knew, the family saying the stuff. I
Speaker 6: don't know, but they should, I consume her. It should
Speaker 6: have been caused. This was a great man.
Speaker 5: You know what I heard there, John, I heard an
Speaker 5: old tiff between Grandma Vodka and Jill Biden. And that
Speaker 5: was a nice, little subtle way to slip another knife
Speaker 5: in the ribs.
Speaker 2: If there's one thing about Nancy Pelosi, she never lets
Speaker 2: a grudge die. If you rob her, she will remember
Speaker 2: that and till the day that she is dead. Now,
Speaker 2: in terms of her not being able to tell that
Speaker 2: Biden was out of it, talk about the pot calling
Speaker 2: the kettle black. I talked to two people who were
Speaker 2: recently in the same room as Nancy Pelosi and had
Speaker 2: pretty close contact with her, and on TV. She's got
Speaker 2: the hair, she's got the makeup, she's got the jewelry,
Speaker 2: she's got thousands of dollars of clothes. She looks well
Speaker 2: put together when you see her in person. According to
Speaker 2: two different people, she's extremely frail, I mean, bone skeleton thin.
Speaker 2: She hangs on to a security guard with one hand.
Speaker 2: She's got a handful of Kleenex in the other. She
Speaker 2: doesn't touch anyone. One of the people I know who
Speaker 2: talked to her has met her and dealt with her
Speaker 2: on a number of occasions. She walked in totally vacant,
Speaker 2: not knowing who he was. After they started talking a
Speaker 2: little bit, she was with it and she could answer
Speaker 2: all the questions fluidly, but it took her a minute.
Speaker 2: She's eighty six years old. She's older than Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Don't forget about that. So the fact that she couldn't
Speaker 2: pick up on it doesn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 5: Is the Democrat Party suffering because Nancy Pelosi? You know
Speaker 5: father time came for her as he comes for us.
Speaker 5: All lost their fastball and she needs Kleenex in a
Speaker 5: security guard. And there's no longer anybody in the Democrat
Speaker 5: House of Representatives to take the animals and drag them
Speaker 5: into a room and slam the door and say shut
Speaker 5: your friggin mouth, or I'm going to make sure you leave.
Speaker 5: I think the Democrat Party is suffering without her.
Speaker 2: They are She is their MVP. Now we don't like
Speaker 2: her politics, but she ran that caucus like a gangster.
Speaker 2: She made sure that people fell in line, and if
Speaker 2: you misbehaved, there was punishment. They were afraid of her.
Speaker 2: She could make the rain with all the campaign contributions
Speaker 2: and the endorsements and the unions and the money, but
Speaker 2: she could turn it on, and she could turn it off.
Speaker 2: All of the people that she was training to take
Speaker 2: over for her to run that caucus left for one
Speaker 2: reason or another. You had Chris van Holland who left
Speaker 2: to run for the Senate. You had Joe Crowley who
Speaker 2: got beat by AOC. You had Steve Israel who left
Speaker 2: to write mystery novels for whatever reason. But you had
Speaker 2: three or four people that she had been taking the
Speaker 2: time to train as to how to run that caucus
Speaker 2: the way that she did, and they all left. So
Speaker 2: they now have Hakim Jeffreys in charge of that caucus.
Speaker 2: And comparing him to Nancy Pelosi's like comparing the New
Speaker 2: York Yankees to the mud Hens. The guy just doesn't
Speaker 2: have the skills, he doesn't have the ability, and Nancy
Speaker 2: Pelosi did. And it's very hard to create that. It's
Speaker 2: very hard to pick up those skills in a very
Speaker 2: short amount of time. She had been around a long time.
Speaker 4: Don't forget.
Speaker 2: She was in her forties. Before she was even elected
Speaker 2: to Congress. She ran the California Democratic Party. She was
Speaker 2: a big time fundraiser in San Francisco. Her dad was
Speaker 2: the mayor of Baltimore. She came into this business knowing
Speaker 2: this business backwards and forwards, and then she perfected it.
Speaker 2: They can't recreate that, and right now they're suffering because
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 5: John, final one from me. But I just had to
Speaker 5: get this to you before I let you go. Did
Speaker 5: a former mayor of Los Angeles just get busted being
Speaker 5: a Chinese spy?
Speaker 2: Well it wasn't Los Angeles. It was Arcadia, which is
Speaker 2: a city in Los Angeles County. But yes, there was
Speaker 2: a mirror of Arcadia, who apparently was working for the
Speaker 2: CCP the entire time that she was an elected official
Speaker 2: in California. And what's funny is like, Okay, you think,
Speaker 2: all right, she's a spy. They play it good, they
Speaker 2: make it that she's under the radar, that no one
Speaker 2: could tell that she's a spy. And then you go
Speaker 2: back and you look at what she did during the
Speaker 2: campaign and the presentation that she put out, and it's
Speaker 2: like the Chinese version of Boris and Natasa from Bullwinkle,
Speaker 2: where it was so cartoonishly obvious the entire way through
Speaker 2: the campaign that everyone should have picked up on it,
Speaker 2: and apparently nobody did until finally the FEDS blew the whistle.
Speaker 5: Jeez, john thank you brother.
Speaker 4: I'm back. So there you go.
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Speaker 2: Here with an update on the disaster that is Boyle Heights.
Speaker 4: Mister Randy Wayne.
Speaker 3: We're gonna need Katie Porter for this one. For our
Speaker 3: latest installment of Lineage has changed the figures, and while
Speaker 3: they were ninety nine percent done with the cleanup last week,
Speaker 3: now they realize they're actually only ninety percent done, and
Speaker 3: they're past Karen Bass's deadline. They're also past their own deadline,
Speaker 3: and Boyle Heights is stinking up in the middle of.
Speaker 4: This heat wave.
Speaker 3: For more, here's NBCLA continues in Boil Heights.
Speaker 7: Last night, Lineage, which owns the burned out warehouse, announced
Speaker 7: cleanup is now ninety percent complete. That's a revised number
Speaker 7: from earlier this week. And these are new photos from
Speaker 7: in and around the warehouse. NBC fours and Ariola live
Speaker 7: outside the aqmd headquarters in Diamond Bar this morning. On
Speaker 7: that good morning, it sounds like the agency is calling
Speaker 7: the company out on those cleanup numbers.
Speaker 8: Michelle, good morning to you, and they are a bit confusing.
Speaker 8: So South Coast AQMD sais.
Speaker 3: Well, especially because Karen Bess said this thing would be
Speaker 3: all cleaned up in forty five days and I'm going
Speaker 3: to hold them to that.
Speaker 2: When I hear it's ninety percent done, all I can
Speaker 2: think about is it still stinks.
Speaker 8: They now believe that the amount of waste was out
Speaker 8: actually greater than was originally reported.
Speaker 3: So it was more than eighty five million pounds of
Speaker 3: food what was it ninety.
Speaker 8: That's so gross estimated by Lineage. So what happens now? Well,
Speaker 8: As a result, the agency has now directed Lineage to
Speaker 8: correct their cleanup numbers and reports to accurately reflect the
Speaker 8: progress that they've been making, which, as you mentioned, stands
Speaker 8: at ninety percent completion.
Speaker 3: You remember last week they put out a letter saying
Speaker 3: there were one hundred and one percent done with the cleanup,
Speaker 3: and we're like.
Speaker 4: What, I think they just make all of this up,
Speaker 4: don't they?
Speaker 8: Yes, versus the one hundred and one percent that the company.
Speaker 3: Every time they show these shots of Lineage, they show
Speaker 3: all of these aerosol spuares. Those aren't doing anything. It's outdoors.
Speaker 8: Put out initially that the Air Quality Management District says
Speaker 8: it's still conducting daily inspections of the facility. They're also
Speaker 8: reviewing the data on waste disposal, as well as doing
Speaker 8: independent assessments of emissions coming from this site. Now, Lineage
Speaker 8: has now missed two deadlines, one of them given by
Speaker 8: the city. Residents have been waiting for for two months
Speaker 8: now for the cleanup to be completed. Neighbors telling us
Speaker 8: they're just exhausted, exhausted by the stench and the flies
Speaker 8: surrounding their homes.
Speaker 7: Take a listen.
Speaker 4: It's not maybe as frequent as before, not consistent, but
Speaker 4: there will be at times.
Speaker 3: Well, it's where it still smells heavy.
Speaker 4: Poor girl can.
Speaker 2: At least go outside for a while. But I mean
Speaker 2: it's not a pleasant smell.
Speaker 4: So even the baby's upset about it. Yeah, i'd be
Speaker 4: crying too.
Speaker 8: Troublesome now right now, Michelle Cruz are still on site
Speaker 8: at Boyle Heights there gathering loose food that is still
Speaker 8: there at the facility. And they have another critical deadline
Speaker 8: coming up next week on the twenty seventh, that is
Speaker 8: when the entire completion of the cleanup is expected to
Speaker 8: wrap up.
Speaker 4: And no, they're not going to make that one either.
Speaker 2: If you're one of the workers that's cleaning up that facility,
Speaker 2: what do you do? You wear an astronaut outfit.
Speaker 8: As well as the disinfecting and deodorizing of the facility.
Speaker 8: And that is the very latest reporting line this morning
Speaker 8: from Diamond Bar. I'm going at Ariola four today in LA.
Speaker 7: Hopefully they can make that deadline. Annett, thank you so
Speaker 7: much for that update.
Speaker 4: Adam, Well, they.
Speaker 3: Missed the first two deadlines, so I don't think they're
Speaker 3: going to really make the third deadline. But the thing
Speaker 3: that's hilarious is last week they were one hundred and
Speaker 3: one percent done and now they're only ninety percent done.
Speaker 2: Well, if they missed the third deadline, maybe they can
Speaker 2: buy the coliseum in Oakland.
Speaker 3: There it doesn't look like it's going to get any
Speaker 3: better anytime soon. And even if they finished the cleanup,
Speaker 3: there still seems to be this residual smell that's like
Speaker 3: burned into the ground.
Speaker 4: Now, what do you do about that?
Speaker 2: Move?
Speaker 4: It's a very very good point.
Speaker 2: You know where it smells good? Where's that Pineapple Hill
Speaker 2: in the San Fernando Valley. Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill,
Speaker 2: one of my favorite spots. We're gonna be there on Friday,
Speaker 2: September fourth, from noon to three on the patio. Come
Speaker 2: hang out with us as we all are there to
Speaker 2: talk about Prop forty three the Local Taxpayer Protection Act.
Speaker 2: Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association will join us.
Speaker 2: So make sure you come out and say hi, Get
Speaker 2: a beer, get a sandwich. You're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 2: Pineapple Hill a week from Friday, from noon to three.
Speaker 2: I am literally flying back from Santa Fe to make
Speaker 2: this remote and then I'm flying right back. So you
Speaker 2: better make it out there because I don't want to
Speaker 2: be the person who traveled the furthest to get there.
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