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Susan Dyer Reynolds Welcome, Hello, well, 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:37.640 thank you, birthday. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:39.200 Hey thanks Susan. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.319 All right, now, you have been reporting extensively on all 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:49.240 the chaos going on in Oakland, whether it be related 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:54.320 to the former mayor of Shang Tao, California Waste Solutions, 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:59.320 the down family, and one name that seems to escape 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.520 a lot of the coverage, although if you read between 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.960 the lines, he's there in just about all of it, 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.280 and that is the Attorney General Rob Bonta, who was 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:16.240 the former assemblyman from Oakland who used California Waste Solutions 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.600 as his chief benefactors throughout his political career, at least 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.799 when he was a politician in Oakland. But you look 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.640 at the big papers in the state, You look at 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.160 the LA Times, you look at the Sacramento b you 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.119 look at the San Francisco Chronicle, and none of them 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.440 have been able to connect the dots and say, now, 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.760 wait a minute. This is a scandal that doesn't just 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.880 involve a lot of local figures in Oakland. This goes 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.200 all the way to Sacramento, to the Attorney General's office. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.160 Why do you think that hasn't happened yet. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.760 Well, it did in the Chronicle, ironically, and I wrote 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.320 about it at the time, So two and a half 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.040 up to two years ago July for twenty twenty four, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.240 I wrote a piece called the Bonta Money Trail, and 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.600 in that I connected all the dots, and I even 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:15.480 connected the dots to the music cafe, which was Dwangs 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:21.640 Andy Dwong's karaoke bar where it was busted for drugs, prostitution, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:27.480 human trafficking, underage girls being trafficked. And I connected the 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:33.840 dots because the person who was Duong's straw donor donated 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.600 a lot of money to not just Bonta, but his wife, Mia, 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.040 who took his place in the Assembly when he went 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:44.160 to become Attorney General. About a year later, the Chronicle 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:48.800 came out with a story that plagiarized my story almost 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.960 word to word, and it was insane. I've never been 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.840 plagiarized so completely, but I've been plagiarized before, but I've 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:01.080 never been plagiarized so completely by a mainstream newspaper. Other 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.680 people noticed it. That's how I found out. They said, oh, look, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.160 they took your story, so that was the only thing 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.120 they ever did it, by the way, took them four 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.320 reporters to plagiarize me. But the four reporters that were 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.920 listed on the article, they just took what I had 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.640 and maybe added a couple of details here and there, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.440 a couple of quotes, and then that's the last thing 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.920 they've said about it. And you're right, nobody else has 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.520 written about it other than me. I keep writing about 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:33.599 Bonta because I feel he's the biggest crook in the 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.240 bunch of them. To be honest, I mean, shing Tau 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.000 isn't the brightest buld in the box, and so it 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.040 was no surprise to me when that happened. You can 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.680 just get a feel for who she is when you 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.719 see or speak. I think she was in it for 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.839 the money all along, had no business being but Rob 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.480 Bonta has no business being attorney general. And the reason 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.200 he didn't run for governor is I definitely believe he 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.560 knows there's a problem, and so I think he's running 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.360 for his old seat simply because he thinks that he doesn't. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:06.720 That will look even weirder. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.320 So let's go back to when this whole thing started 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.760 in terms of being on the radar of the federal government. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:21.320 The whistleblower letter that came out from Mario Warrez included 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:27.800 a paragraph about Rob Bonta saying that California Waste Solutions 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:34.440 Andy Gong specifically had compromising videos and photos of Rob Bonta, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.640 the implication being that the comproman could be used to 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.640 blackmail him into manipulating his behavior, I guess, either as 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.599 assemblyman or Attorney General, or whatever position he happens to 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.520 be in at any given time. The report that came 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:57.279 out in the San Jose Mercury News recently authenticated those 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:02.080 photos and those videos not necess necessarily of Bonta specifically, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.120 but of quote unquote politicians, and he had a number 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.440 of them involving a number of politicians. Well, that seems 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.440 to me that there's confirmation that the what was in 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:18.400 the initial whistleblower letter has been authenticated, because if he 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.640 has photos and videos of politicians, and this whole thing 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.120 started because of a whistleblower saying he has photos and 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:30.640 videos of Rob Bonta. That is blackmail material. I think 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.120 we know what's happening here. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:38.800 Well, combining that with the fact that after the you know, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.440 all of this started to come to light, Bonta took 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.520 almost five hundred thousand dollars out of his campaign fund 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:53.000 for legal defense because of the corruption case. So he says, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.919 you know, well, of course I had to protect myself. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.000 I knew these people, well, you more than knew them. 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.120 You were heavily involved with them. His wife Mia, when 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.120 she was running for Assemblies, shared in office with Juarez, 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:08.640 and they regularly socialized with the Dwongs, as we know 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.360 from all the photos. Not they're not alone. Of course, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.400 he has pictures with you know, Javi or Sarah who's 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.520 running for governor. He has pictures with current governor Gavin Newsom. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:20.640 But there are an awful, as I always say, an 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.880 awful lot of very personal photos of him with the Bonta. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.240 They didn't look like a one off selfie. They looked like, 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.160 you know, he called him his brother. So I think it, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.160 you know, I do think it probably confirms it, you 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.560 know it. I mean, who else would he be? I mean, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.160 I know there's a lot, but who else would he 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.920 be talking about. You know, it's like that there was 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.400 a confirmation letter, in my opinion, and if he's not 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.640 in there, I find it strange also that you know, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.840 neither Bonta is listed on the witness list. Clearly they 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.200 were very tied to the Dwong. So that's interesting because 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.280 sometimes that's a sign, just like with Rebecca Kaplan not 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.160 being listed, sometimes that's a sign that there's more to 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.520 come in the indictments. When I broke the story about Mohamnuru, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.400 the DPW head that ended up going down in San Francisco, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.640 he had a girlfriend who I had brought to light 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.840 in an article, and she did not appear on the 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.080 witness list, and the reasons because they were going after 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:13.760 her separately. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:20.520 Go back to Bonta here for a second, because the 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.200 way I see it covering California politics for as long 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.240 as I have, if there is a video of him 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.880 getting a dirty massage, if there is a video of 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.240 him with a prostitute, if there are pictures of him 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.880 in compromising situations with people other than his wife, I 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.520 think it would be an embarrassing story. I don't think 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.599 it would be a career ender because if it's consenting adults, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.920 or even if it's a sex worker who wasn't underage 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.480 or wasn't sex trafficked, or those sorts of things, I 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.760 think you could survive that. To my eye, the more 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.560 damaging aspect of this story for Rob Bonte is assuming 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.520 that he was blackmailed, what did he give them? What 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.720 did he do with his power in his office that 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:15.440 benefited Andy or anyone with California Waste Solutions that came 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.040 as a result of the compromat. That I think is 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.000 something that not only could kill his political career, but 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.960 could put him in prison. Is that how you're seeing 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:25.320 it too? 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.640 Yeah, So I think it goes much deeper than some 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:33.959 dirty pictures. There's reasons why Duong seem you know, seems 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:39.600 to feel certain politicians need to have blackmail material. There 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.880 is also, of course, you know Veritas Fuels, the entire 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:49.120 mess that that became, they were you know, they went 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.000 to well, Andy, you know, we know Andy Dwong was 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.880 with California Waste Management Services and then he had the 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.840 whole thing with Veritas Fuels, which was run by Kaffe 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.760 Neil who is Ellie who Harris's former wife, and Ellie 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.920 who is the former mayor of Oakland. She was on 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:10.680 the port. They both contributed to, you know, the campaign 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.000 for Banta, and then he gave you know, he went 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.000 to the to the Energy Commission and got that big 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:21.600 loan for them. So along with taking donations, he's also 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:27.560 gotten them money from taxpayers to do their dirty fuel business, which, 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.520 as we know, was a complete scam, and all the 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.120 while the address for that was the same as Mia 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.080 Banta's office address. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.040 You mentioned that the comperment may be something more severe 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.559 than just pictures of a dirty massage. Have you been 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.200 briefed on what this compromat might be. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.720 No, I mean, I you know, I keep digging, but 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.960 I do think that there is a lot behind Bonta 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.839 that that isn't just the dawn. I think that he's 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.120 one of the dirtiest politicians that the East Bay has 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:10.320 ever seen. He's owned by the uns. He will take 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.920 money from anybody, you know, even though he's complaining and 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.200 saying I'm going to sue Trump and do this, and 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.360 that he's taking you know, he talked, took almost six 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.640 million dollars from unions and banks and healthcare companies, tech giants, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.720 all the people he claims he's gonna you know, you know, 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.680 sue and and and take care of and make sure 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.600 that the taxpayers are protected from he's there then taking 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.920 their money. So I think it goes beyond the Dwans. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.320 I think that he's been dirty, and I think his 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.400 wife is as well. I mean, you know, and she 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.400 wants to do this, you know, prevent journalists from from 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:51.000 going and investigating because she's afraid she's of being investigated. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.320 And I've you know, never let up on them, and 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.280 I never will because I think there's a lot more. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.040 And I just wrote a story, in fact, it just 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.000 came out last week that really drills down on all 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.520 all of this and the connection to people like Kathy 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.280 Neil and Ella Lou Harris. And I'm about to do 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.920 a timeline where you're going to see who all those 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.480 people are and how they got involved and how dirty 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:10.440 it all has been. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.640 And Ellahu Harris, the former mayor of Oakland, was so 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.720 bad and so corrupt as mayor of Oakland, he lost 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.640 an Assembly race to a woman in the Green Party, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.680 which I can't think of the last time one of 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.960 these minor parties has been able to outright win an 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.439 Assembly seat. But Addie Bop found a way to do 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:36.680 that when she was running against Ellahu Harris. It happened, honey. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.160 Also, you know, appointed his wife at the time, Kathy Neil, 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.000 to the port and was signed for that. And this 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.640 is who Varitius Fuels chooses as their you know, number 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:52.439 one advisor. So clearly Bonta knew all of this when 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.920 he went and got them, you know, millions of dollars 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.840 from the Energy Commission, so that there's so many ties 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:04.920 to there, this giant wheel of corruption that has been 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.720 around as you know, parole to college and all of that. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.960 There's been the Ellie who, Harrising and Kathy Neal, They've 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.800 all been involved and just sort of very you know, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.520 and Willie Brown too, frankly, was involved in all of it. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.920 So you look and you say, well, these people have 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.880 just never gotten caught. That's the only thing. They just 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.640 have never never been caught. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.520 You said that Mia Bonte is just as corrupt as 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:34.560 your husband. She was also eyeing higher office this time around. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.960 She was thinking about running for state Superintendent of Public Instruction. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.520 And she never pulled the trigger on that is it. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.120 Did she do that for the same reason that her 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.200 old man didn't do it for governor. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.079 Well, yeah, I think that she knows the eyes are 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.520 on him, and that means the eyes are on her. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.240 I definitely think he's more corrupt, simply because he's had 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.400 more opportunities corrupt. But she's taken her fair share of 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.839 money from the Dwans, and she's been snapped in many 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.240 photographs and limos and looking very friendly. Again, not like 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.400 a one off selfie. Some of the politician photographs look 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.280 like you just caught them at the right moment and 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.040 they smiled and took a picture. These are pictures where 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.080 they've clearly been out and about together, Warriors games, you know, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.920 the trip to the Philippines that there, there's I don't 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.280 see any way Bonta can deny there was a close 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:33.600 relationship there. And that's why he's getting legal help because 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.560 he's afraid this is all going to come out. And 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.480 you know, we've only seen a little snap of what 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.760 what the prosecutors have. This is just because they you know, 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.280 the defendants wanted some things removed from evidence, and they 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.000 you know, released what it was they wanted removed. You know, 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.440 there's a lot more. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.720 Chan Tao is not someone who I would regard as 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.520 an honest person. But one of the things that she 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.880 has said quite consistently, and I believe the government has 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.240 backed her up on this, was that she was not 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.640 the target of this investigation. And she has said that 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.920 over and over and over again. Her attorney has made 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.160 that claim. And yes, and if she is not the 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.880 target of this investigation, that means someone else is. And 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.320 I can't look at this any other way than to 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:30.840 say it has to be rab Bonta because. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.360 All the you know, the Dlongs are they're big. I mean, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.560 they took a lot of taskpayer money and they had 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.600 grown very powerful, so I can see why they need 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.720 to come down off their pedestal. But it certainly wasn't Wars. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.800 I mean, he's cooperating right and has become their star 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.360 witness in some ways, So it's not war as they 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.560 certainly went through warre Is to get to shang Tao, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.160 the Dwongs, and now they're probably gonna try to go 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.280 through them to get to Bontu, who to meat would 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.200 be the big the biggest prize for them to take down. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.360 It's you know, rarely when they go after the small 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.840 fries that they really after the small fries. They're hoping 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.600 they'll they'll turn I mean a good example is you 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:25.000 know Dwayne Jones who in San Francisco. You know Shaman Walton, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:30.400 supervisor with his his mentor. You know, it's been what 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.640 two three years since my stories were mentioned in his indictment, 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.440 and he still hasn't gone to trial. That's because they're 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.760 trying to get him to talk, and they've got bigger 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.360 fish to fry, and I I think, you know, for example, 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.480 Shaman Walton is probably one of them they're looking at. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.880 He's got a lot of issues, but they always start 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.760 somewhere and then they hope that you'll talk. And I 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.040 have no doubt that Shang Tao will sing like a 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:55.760 bird if she thinks that it's going to get her 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:56.400 out of prison. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:03.320 There was an alleged fascination attempt on the whistleblower, Mario Warrez, 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.400 who said that he believed that someone put a hit 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.359 out on him and tried to kill him so he 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.159 would not be able to cooperate with the government. Do 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.320 we believe him and if so, who did that? 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.439 Yeah? I looked into the incident and actually had a 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.639 couple of DMS back and forth with him. Early on 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:28.560 in this investigation, and yes I believe him because the 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.440 police were called and there were you know, there was 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.080 a shootout. He also shot back. It wasn't just them, 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.879 but he was also beaten up outside of outside of 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:44.520 the Duong's office space after a heated meeting there. I 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.640 have no doubt that the Duangs would like to silence him. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:52.000 I wouldn't personally want to be him, just because you know, 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.800 now he's out there as the guy that kind of 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.000 blew this whole thing up. But yes, I do believe him, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.640 and just having spoken to him been DMS and you know, 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.520 just the basic premise of how it occurred. When I 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.359 read the police report, it was a you know, definitely 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:09.720 a shootout. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:15.160 Last after him, last question before you go. When Rob 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.280 Bonta became attorney General, he did not run and beat 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.159 an incumbent. He did not run for an open seat. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:26.560 He was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom. No governor 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.560 appoints someone for a high office like that, a statewide 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:35.480 constitutional office like attorney general, without a vetting process. I 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.000 would imagine that if you did a legitimate vetting of 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.040 Rob Bonta, then a lot of this would come up 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.080 what happened there? How did that go sideways? How did 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.600 Newsom not become aware of it? Or was he? 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.160 I think Newsom was aware of it. I mean, how 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.399 could he not being in the Bay Area politics. I 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.440 mean the stories about Rob Bonta were well known, and 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.479 I think, you know, Gavin Newsom's part of the city family, 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.680 and it all goes back to Willie Brown. I think 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.560 that there's a connection between these people. They all keep 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:15.640 each other secrets. And the reason he would want someone who, 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.200 in my opinion, Rob bonto has never qualified to the 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.440 Attorney General and still isn't is because he's a yes 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.000 man for one thing and probably has some secrets on 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.000 him and vice versa, because you know, Gavin Newsom isn't 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.600 clean either, So you know, they all keep each other's secrets, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.000 and I mean that's why San Francisco and Oakland have 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.200 been politically compromised for decades. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:44.200 Susan Dyer Reynolds, the editorial director and CEO The Voice 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.800 of San Francisco, a one woman wrecking crew doing the 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.879 work that the San Francisco Chronicle, La Times and Sacramento 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.120 b won't or refuse to do. You can read her 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.560 online at the voice sf dot org and follow her 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:03.720 x at the VOSF Susan Diya Reynolds. Excellent work and 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.280 thank you so much for stopping by. 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:08.200 Oh always, thank you for having me. 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.679 It's the John Phillips Show. If you'd like to email 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.720 the show, you can do so at Johnny Don't Like 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.359 Show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.320 at gmail dot com. And Randy. If you were to 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.760 watch us perform the show live, you can do that 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:25.520 at Johnny Don't Like dot Com. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.280 We've made it so easy. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.560 Whether you're on a phone or on a browser, go 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.000 to Johnny Don't Like dot Com. 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Let's go ahead 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.879 and watch the interview that it took place earlier this morning. 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.879 All right, friend of the show podcast host radio hosts 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:17.920 John Phillips is here. 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.240 Yeah, he hosts What Else with The John Phillips Show 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.639 weekdays on AM seven ninety KABC. How nice would it 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.080 be to have your own show with your name attached 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:26.280 to it? 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:28.320 Bob, we have her own show? 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.280 Would you like the Bob DeCastro Show someday? 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:32.719 That's still my show someday someday. 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.680 Lots to talk to you about lots going on in 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:39.000 the world of politics. So can we start with the 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:39.680 mayor's race? 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:40.280 Sure? 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:44.560 And this Boyle Heights mess. What do you think that's 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:47.800 going to do to the way this mayor's race plays out? 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:49.399 What kind of impact do you think it's going to have. 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.640 Well, it's causing massive problems for Karen Bass. I mean, 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:55.040 she just went down there and spoke in front of 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.760 the community forum and got cursed out in both both 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.600 English and Spanish. And what I don't understand is why 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:06.520 she's not blaming the county, because it's the county that's 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.640 in charge of the public health department. It's Barbara Ferrer, 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:12.280 who is the one who came out after this fire 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:15.119 was burning for something like a week, right, and told 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.120 these people it was safe to breathe in the smoke. Well, 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:23.240 that neighborhood smelled like Lucille Ball's lungs. Everyone knows it's 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.040