WEBVTT - Steyer and Becerra are going at it 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.520 And we continue at two five in the afternoon on 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.160 the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.800 John. Governor Gavin Newsom is in DC this week taking 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.440 a whole lot of different meetings. He just posted this 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.599 on social media. I had a productive meeting in DC 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.720 today with the EPA Administrator Lee Zelden, discussing federal lee 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:25.000 for wildfire recovery and tackling the pollution crisis in the 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:26.000 Tiajuana River. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:27.600 Who can smell it right here? 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.479 You think Lee is his legal name or do you 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.440 think it's short for Leroy? Well, Gavin and Lee, we're 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.800 talking the tj River in DC. Has Gavin been down 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.199 there to observe it himself? 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.960 I don't think there is any video of Gavin Newsom 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.320 in a gas mask saying that you can smell it 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:53.640 right here. He cannot allow that image to exist where 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.440 he's down there in the full hazmat suit looking like 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:05.559 he's at Trenobyl when he's in San Diego County in California. Well, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:07.920 he didn't do it, and he didn't have to do 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.800 it in his campaigns, but every single candidate for governor, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.360 as a rite of passage, has to go to the 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:15.480 Tijuana River. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.119 And you can literally see it, smell it, and feel it. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.440 But no one's had a campaign rally down there. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.720 Can you blame them? 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.520 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:33.520 telephone number? 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:33.720 What? 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.680 Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.000 now that the election is heating up, two of the 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:45.080 top Democratic candidates running for governor are going at it 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.720 with each other. Tom Steyer and Javier Bessera. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.080 Can you find a different way to describe it? 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.880 I didn't say, Katie Porter, but. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.920 There's a little fight going on. When you say going 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.800 at it with each other, that can mean a few 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.720 different things. By the way, this is a profile piece. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.200 This is not a gotcha piece? 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:09.480 Right? 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.200 All right? How about this? They're in a quarrel with 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:15.760 one another. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:22.480 Perfect The Beserah people are accusing the Stire people of 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.200 paying a bunch of influencers to promote their campaigns without 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.240 disclosing that and the Stire people are alleging that the 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.040 Besera people are doing the same thing. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:35.920 My guess is they're both right. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:41.920 For more on this, we go to ABC ten in Sacramento. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.480 Let's turn out with the race for governor New details 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.480 tonight after a story that Tom Steyer's campaign is under 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.240 investigation by the California Fair Political Practices Commission. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.800 The accuser, if we truly have a fair Political Practice commission, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.840 how is it fair that you could spend one hundred 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.600 and fifty million dollars of your own money to run 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:04.200 for governor? 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:07.280 He's still not going to win. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.440 They're accused of failing to properly disclose payments for campaign 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.400 related social media content. Now the Styer campaign is making 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:21.040 the same accusations against another Democratic candidate. ABC ten State 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.160 Matters political reporter Jenny hud joins us now with where 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:24.800 things stand. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.040 Jenny, I mean you got to think about this. The 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.760 average age of your TikTok content creator is under thirty. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.800 Do you think anybody in California under thirty has any 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.760 idea who Javierbisera is, who Tom Steyer is. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.440 Did you see the footage of Tom Steyer at one 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:48.320 of these I guess music events where he's trying to 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.520 gain popularity and he decided that he was going to 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.200 dance to R and B music. Oh no, he looked 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.040 like he was coming down off a heroin. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.160 Well, it's really a war of words right now, proof 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.800 that we are deep into election season. But this is 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.040 also about transparency for voters. Is a campaign paying for 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.840 what you are seeing online? 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.640 So he invited me to ask him some questions. What 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.920 do you have to say to young people? 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:16.960 I love it? 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:22.760 So it's these social media videos at the center of debate, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.880 content by popular creator supporting or opposing candidates for governor. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.640 It is not illegal to expend money to have people 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.480 promote your message both. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.080 But you need to disclose it. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:39.040 Okay, But here's the question. How much of an appetite 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.279 is there for the audience of a wrap podcast to 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.320 hear Tom Steyer talk about the Tiawana River. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.840 I don't know if there's much at all, but the 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.880 consultants say it is. And that's another place where they 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.479 can do a big buy. And that's another place where 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.240 I'm sure they get a big, fat commish. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.279 But none of this is going to result in votes. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.560 You're preaching a message to an audience that doesn't want 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.159 to hear it. If they were interested in California politics, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.520 they'd be listening to different podcasts. They're interested in rap 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.680 music or whatever it is that they talk about on 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.400 the podcast. And then all of a sudden Tom Steyer 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:21.120 shows up. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.160 You think the book talk crowd is going to get 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.559 their head out of the sand and pay attention to politics. No, no, no, no, no, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:33.000 no no. They're going to continue to read ten thousand 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.200 romanzity books about fairy sleeping with dragons, and they're gonna 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:37.600 love it. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.440 Most candidates advertise online. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:46.800 We've see more and more social media content relating to candidates, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.360 relating to ballot measures, and that that is. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.800 This is this generation's rock the vote. 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.400 I'll tell you, though, the podcast world is so fragmented. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.600 Listen in my free time to podcasts about cruise ships. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.760 I'm a massive ship nerd, so I spend my free 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.240 time listening to cruise ship podcasts. And I do listen 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:12.479 to Todd Grisly too. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:13.719 Of course you do. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.440 If all of a sudden, I tune in to my 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.359 favorite cruise ship podcast expecting to hear a review of 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:26.160 the latest Royal Caribbean ship, and instead of hearing that, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.560 I hear some politician in a state I don't even 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.560 live in. What am I going to do with. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:39.919 That product of frankly, a society that is hooked on 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.880 and tied to social media? 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.960 What is required by state law. Is payment disclosure, both 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.479 by the campaign and the content creator. That's why the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.960 Styr campaign and influencer Isaiah Washington, to whom he paid 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.159 ten thousand dollars are under investigation by the FPPC. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:56.680 I think that's Taeizon day. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:58.440 Oh? Is that so? 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.400 Steyer says his campaig how's been transparent in disclosing payments. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.719 Washington has not responded to requests for comment. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.040 This is how this generation we are and right now, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.960 Tom Steyer puts out on social media a four page 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.720 letter explaining how he works with influencers and to most 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.040 of us, that was a TLDR too long, didn't read. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.400 Well, you know what's gonna happen is these podcasters are 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.440 all gonna turn on them because they don't pay attention 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.680 to politics. They certainly don't pay attention to state politics. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.880 They don't know any of the rules. They expect that 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.800 the campaigns are gonna understand the rules and let them 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.880 know what they need to know. And if the campaign 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.440 doesn't tell them to disclose that they're being paid and 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.040 then they get in trouble for it, they're gonna feel 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.480 like the campaign burned them. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.120 Stier says his campaign how's been transparent in disclosing payments. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.160 Washington has not responded to requests for comment, but those 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.680 who filed the complaint also content creators argue Styr needs 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.720 to ensure the influencers disclose it too. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.120 Engaging in these partnerships is not problematic that they need. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.840 To disclose for the benefit of the public to understand 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.040 where the payment is coming from. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.800 Caitlin Hennessey and Beatrice Gomberg also accused numerous other creators 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.200 of not disclosing payments despite posting near identical pro st 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:17.880 Diyar content. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.200 They all, Oh, yeah, have you seen it goes around 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.160 social media of all these random people who are tweeting 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.679 out like the same paragraph about why they like Tom Steyer. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.840 I'll tell you that campaign, if you look under the hood, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.720 I'm sure they would get in trouble all over the place. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.800 Remember when we played sound of him on a morning 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.600 radio program in Los Angeles? Oh you mean when he 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.200 went on Real ninety two to three on the Jay 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.000 Cruz Show. How do I remember these things? 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.600 And that's an FM morning show. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.319 Correct, We're a big ass crisis. He talked about his kicks, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.320 were they typically play music, yes, and they chat a 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.720 little bit in between the songs so they can promote 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.439 whatever big events coming up. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.000 I'm not making any allegations here, but what do you 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.679 think the odds are the producer of that show would 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.000 reach out to Tom Steyer to book him as a 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.640 guest out of the blue. Oh. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.360 I don't think it's that nefarious. I think he was 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.840 going to do a big buye with iHeartRadio and as 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.000 a little prebe They're like, why don't you go on 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.200 the Jay Cruz Show. Yeah, I think it's I'm not 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:36.920 alleging that anything illegal happened, but I think that's how 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.079 Tom Steyer does business. I think he throws his wallet around, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.679 and when he throws his wallet around, he gets exposure. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.959 We're in a big ass crisis. Oh we heard about 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.320 that one. How many votes do you think that interview 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:51.840 got him? 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:52.360 Zero? 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.160 They also flagged this job posting, which the Styer campaign 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.439 confirmed the validity of offering creators one thousand dollars a 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.720 month plus bonuses depending on views to post prost diar 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.440 content one to three times a day. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.559 This is a situation that we're at right now. Look, 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.560 the broadcast business of radio and television when it comes 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:17.640 to elections, is highly regulated. The internet world in social 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:22.440 media is not. So it is very possible that whoever 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.960 you're following that talks about politics what have you, are 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.319 being paid directly by the candidate they're promoting. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.720 Let's address that issue here for a second. Because we 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:38.000 get emails on this on a regular basis. The rates 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.400 that the radio station can charge a political candidate for 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:46.360 office are regulated by the government. Correct, yes, and I 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:50.400 also believe that the radio station has limited control in 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.680 terms of who they choose to sell to and who 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.160 they can prevent from buying ad time. Correct. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.520 If it's a political ad and we're in the political window, 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.840 we can reject an ad. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.839 Right. So people get mad at us at times if 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.680 someone's buying time on the radio station that they don't like, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.320 and they go, why are you selling them time? 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.000 Well, we got to make budget somehow. But the answer 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.800 is we don't really have a choice. It just is 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.240 what it is, because, as you said, correctly, we're in 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:29.800 a highly regulated industry. For the podcast world, it's anything goes. However, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.599 if you're part of the audience of a particular podcast 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.720 where you understand it's totally out of character to book 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.240 someone like Tom Steyer, or to promote Tom Steyer. I 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.080 would imagine that everyone in that audience knows what's going on. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:47.960 That it's paid a play. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.319 Offering creators one thousand dollars a month plus bonuses depending 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.080 on views, to post pro Styer content one to three 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:55.720 times a day. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.079 If you see anybody tweeting positively about Tom Steyer that 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.080 is not from the tom HQ Twitter account, what have 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.360 you? You know what's going on there? They are getting paid 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.280 to do it. They don't believe it, and I wouldn't 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.439 be surprised if almost every campaign is doing the same 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:14.200 damn thing. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.840 He just has more money to throw around than the 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:17.440 rest of them. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.960 A Sorry spokesperson says creators are notified of their legal 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.959 obligation to disclose payments. This part of my interview with 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:24.920 Steyer Monday. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.080 What do you pay them for? 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:31.360 Absolutely not we pay them for their time, but what Jane, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:35.280 we are completely that means that we pay them for 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.760 doing work. They choose what to do. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.880 You have what they choose what to do? Even though 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.320 they all post the exact same paragraph. Does he think 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.760 this is a this is a good look he's a billionaire. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.880 He thinks if he just spends enough money, everything's gonna 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:52.840 work out. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:58.480 Okay, he's a billionaire who's out there buying his friends 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.800 and buying his supporter and he's trying to appeal to 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.800 the crowd that thinks it should be illegal to be 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:05.560 a billionaire. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:11.200 Yes, well, he paid them too. I mean, who's to 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.480 say that the voting members of the Bernie crowd at 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:20.160 our Revolution weren't paid by Stier to nudge that endorsement. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.280 Dude, you have no way in on the content. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:31.000 They are independent businesses, independent small businesses. We pay them 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.840 for their time. They do whatever they want to do. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.280 Tuesday, the Starr campaign filed an FPPC complaint against the 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:40.160 Javier Bassara campaign over the same allegations. The complaint to 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.480 Lodge's content creators, Jay Gonzalez and Maggie Reid were paid 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.560 to post Probiserra content, but that both parties failed to 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.160 disclose that the Basara. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.120 Can you know what this is. I'll tell you what 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.600 this is. In the last election, one of the things 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:58.120 that Donald Trump did that really made a difference was 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.760 he made himself a vail as a guest to go 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.240 on the Joe Rogan podcast, and he went on I 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.160 think THEO Vaughn and he went on with The Undertaker, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.560 and he went on with a lot of these popular podcasts, 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:17.320 and he just made himself available and it worked and 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.480 he got young people, young men in particular, to go 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.640 out and vote for him. He was able to expose 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:29.120 himself to the social networks of all of these podcasts 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.720 that wouldn't be watching Fox News or Newsmax or listening 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.960 to talk radio or reading newspapers or the normal places 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:42.240 that politicians would go, and it really produced great results 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:48.000 for him. However, political science is a science of one 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:53.240 time occurrences. People forget this. Before Donald Trump became a politician, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.479 Donald Trump was a public person who had a huge personality. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.560 He used to go on The Tonight Show. He used 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.520 to go on with Letterman, he used to go on 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.600 The View, he used to go on Howard Stern. He 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.720 used to go on all of these shows. And he 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.680 knows how to be a great guest. He knows how 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:18.040 to bring the content that listeners respond well to. That's 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.000 the reason why it worked out for him. It was 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:26.000 those shows with those audiences, with that candidate, with that personality, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.080 and because it worked out for him, everyone's trying to 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.480 find their own angle to copy him. It was Gavin 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.080 Newsom who decided, Okay, podcasts produced results, Let's do my 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.040 own podcast with Marshawn Lynch. And then that didn't work out, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.120 and then it is okay, I'm gonna be the Democrat 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.120 who can talk to Red America. Let's have Charlie kirk 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:53.040 On and Michael Savage and the rest of them. And 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.680 then that didn't work out. And now Tom Steyer, who's 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.680 running for governor, is trying to just buy the affection 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.680 of all of these hosts. And what these politicians and 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.520 these consultants don't understand is the reason that it worked 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.080 out for Trump was because it was natural. It wasn't 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.320 forced or contrived. It was someone who knows how to 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.520 talk talking to podcasts that had an audience that responded 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.240 well to it. It's literally as simple as that. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.080 The Bassara camp says they have never paid a single 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.080 creator for content, and that Gonzalez is a paid digital 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.800 strategist for the campaign, and a statement Maggie Reid said 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:32.720 in part quote. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.520 I think we didn't pay for any of this content, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.320 but of course our team is full of content creators 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.200 that are getting paid by the campaign, how convenient. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.480 And a statement Maggie Reid said in part quote, I 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.960 have never accepted, nor have I been offered money from 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.400 Javier Bassero's campaign. Now, Hennessy and Gomberg, the two creators 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.920 that filed the complaint against Steyer, are Basara supporters, though 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.880 they say they have no affiliation to Bessara's campaign. And 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.240 I want to REAMPERI. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.960 Who is just will nilly posting about how great Javier 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:08.240 Bessera is or Tom Steyer is unless they are getting 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.240 paid makes sense to me. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.400 And I want to reemphasize the Styr campaign is under 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.880 investigation by the FPPC, but it's unclear right now if 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.320 they will be investigating the Bassara campaign. Jenny Huh, ABC ten. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.040 So that's what's going on on the Democrat side. Is 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.480 it possible this is also going on on the Republican side. Maybe, 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.920 but what is going on is that fight is getting 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:30.600 real ugly. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.640 It's possible, but they don't have the money that Styer has, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.720 and Bassarah only recently has been able to raise money, 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.840 so he has the ability to do something like this. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.400 If you're gonna throw that kind of money around when 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.560 you know that the odds of it paying off are 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.600 relatively low. You have to have a ton of money 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.919 at your disposal, and I just don't think the Republicans do. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:02.000 I think there are certain influencers who are attracted to 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.120 each one of the candidates, and they're certainly going at 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.360 each other's throats on x and other social media platforms, 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.760 and I've taken some of that incoming fire recently, thank 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.359 you very much. However, I don't think there's a paycheck 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:22.240 that's associated with it. Maybe I'm wrong. We certainly have 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.359 seen social media influencers for sale in Washington, DC at 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.520 the federal level on both sides of the aisle. But 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.919 I don't know if Bianco and Hilton are playing in 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:37.720 that sandbox as of now. Maybe they are. 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Klubec was apparently intimidating witnesses in his 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:21.520 girlfriend's trial about her theft because he's been dating an 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.760 Only Fans model who's been stealing from people, and apparently 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.320 he was going after the people that were going to 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:33.520 testify in the trial, intimidating them not to testify against 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:38.200 his girlfriend, Mia Ventura, the Only Fans model who was 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.600 caught stealing from other rich, old creepy guys. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.160 With that much drama, they should be on Bravo, Don't 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:47.280 Bust the Trust. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:53.359 Stephen Klubec is a weird, weird dude, once again proving 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.520 my theory that there's no such thing as a normal billionaire. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:02.600 I think he'd be fun to hang out with, though, 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:03.040 don't you. 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:09.960 Oh, I don't know. He might be into some things 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:11.040 that I'm not ready for. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:13.720 He seems like the kind of guy that would go 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:17.240 to a steakhouse and start out with the seafood tower 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.680 and get one of those steaks. It that's so big 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:27.480 it has to be carved at the table. No, well, 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:29.320 with all that time share money. He can buy as 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.960 many steaks as he wants, except he might be going 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:35.320 to prison for a very long time because witness intimidation 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:39.080 is a very serious charge. Yeah, you're not supposed to 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:47.879 do that. Let's go to Chris in San Francisco. Chris, Hello, Hello, John, 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.760 Hi there, Hi. 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.200 I just wanted to get your opinion. I was listening 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:57.879 to Armstrong and Gety this morning, hearing on KSFO in 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:02.480 San Francisco and Steve Hilton as a guest, and he 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:04.320 was telling them that he was going to try to 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.879 get Chad Bianco to drop out so they could coalesce 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:12.600 around him since he's got double his rate his voters. 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.240 And then I thought to myself, well, that's going to 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:17.960 blow John's whole theory up if that happens. 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.600 Yeah, Chad Bianco is not going to be dropping out 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:26.480 of the race, nor should he. Two strong Republican candidates 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.760 who make the November runoff is the best case scenario 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:35.600 for Republicans, and I would argue is the only scenario 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:40.000 where a Republican ends up winning that office if you 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:44.679 look historically at the vote chair that Republican candidates get 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:50.679 on the November ballot in California, it fluctuates between thirty 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.920 eight percent and forty one percent. That's the high water 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:59.320 mark in the last two elections, forty one percent. Now 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.960