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Shangy's back 0:01:42.180 --> 0:01:46.780 in the news because Johnny... Shang-E's trial starts this week. 0:01:47.060 --> 0:01:47.600 Absolutely. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:48.340 Absolutely. 0:01:48.420 --> 0:01:53.810 Jury selection, I believe, is on Tuesday for the corruption 0:01:53.890 --> 0:01:57.470 trial of former Oakland mayor Shang-E Tao. 0:01:57.490 --> 0:01:59.110 The bureaucracy is real. 0:01:59.550 --> 0:02:02.770 And that means that all of this evidence that we've 0:02:02.810 --> 0:02:06.810 been hearing about is starting to get released, including some 0:02:06.940 --> 0:02:11.440 of the phone calls that Andy Dong recorded of Shang-Tao. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.220 Remember back in the old days when there would be 0:02:15.260 --> 0:02:18.980 a big celebrity trial and hard copy and a current 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.260 affair would all have correspondents outside the courthouse doing live shots? 0:02:24.530 --> 0:02:24.870 Oh, yeah. 0:02:25.850 --> 0:02:28.430 We don't have that. But what we do have is 0:02:28.590 --> 0:02:30.790 an incredible reporter in the Bay Area by the name 0:02:30.830 --> 0:02:34.690 of Dan Noyes, who will be in that courtroom every 0:02:34.750 --> 0:02:38.490 single day for the five to six weeks that this 0:02:38.550 --> 0:02:42.400 trial is going to go on. So for an overview 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.459 of what we're hearing about from the trial that starts finally, 0:02:47.020 --> 0:02:49.660 here is ABC 7 in the Bay. 0:02:49.990 --> 0:02:53.170 The federal bribery and corruption trial against former Oakland Mayor 0:02:53.190 --> 0:02:56.549 Sheng Tao is set to begin on Tuesday, two years 0:02:56.889 --> 0:02:59.650 and four months after the FBI raided her house. 0:02:59.870 --> 0:03:02.910 Also charged in the case, Tao's partner, Andre Jones, as 0:03:03.010 --> 0:03:06.190 well as father and son, David and Andy Duong from 0:03:06.230 --> 0:03:07.369 California Waste Solutions. 0:03:07.510 --> 0:03:09.070 Seven on your side, investigate. 0:03:09.290 --> 0:03:12.690 Hey, Johnny. Quick pop quiz. What's Andy Dong's middle name? 0:03:13.290 --> 0:03:15.940 Hung. Accurate. 0:03:16.139 --> 0:03:18.240 It's the exhibits that will be part of the trial. 0:03:18.500 --> 0:03:21.420 What prosecutors say is evidence of the bribery of elected 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.560 officials and not just town. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.639 Dan Noyes is here with the story. Dan. 0:03:25.700 --> 0:03:28.430 Dan has spent a long, constant job keeping up with 0:03:28.450 --> 0:03:32.290 the court filings. Now, more than 400 entries on the docket. 0:03:34.550 --> 0:03:37.310 Prosecutors contend that David Duong, with the help of his 0:03:37.330 --> 0:03:40.000 son Andy, bribed public. 0:03:41.610 --> 0:03:42.710 Such a cheese ball. 0:03:43.210 --> 0:03:46.390 He looks like such a dirt bag in every video 0:03:46.410 --> 0:03:47.190 they play of him. 0:03:47.210 --> 0:03:52.400 Public officials to further their recycling business, California Waste Solutions. 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.800 But in Exhibit 540, they were celebrating the start of 0:03:55.860 --> 0:04:00.480 another business, Evolutionary Homes, which would turn shipping containers into 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:01.600 housing for the homeless. 0:04:01.900 --> 0:04:05.960 For, you know, $ 300, 000 a pop. And this was the 0:04:06.020 --> 0:04:09.360 scam they were selling to Oakland and to San Leandro. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.670 That's a markup. that you would only see on batteries 0:04:13.710 --> 0:04:17.450 at a 7-Eleven after an earthquake. 0:04:17.450 --> 0:04:21.570 $ 300, 000 per unit. Here, their business partner, Mario Juarez, toasts 0:04:21.630 --> 0:04:22.710 the new company's launch. 0:04:23.100 --> 0:04:26.280 Mario Juarez, the man who is one of the whistleblowers 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.020 in this case, after allegedly the Dung sent a hitman 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.880 after him and there was a shoot-up in front of 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:38.340 his house by the name of Hermolindo Ramos Ramos. He's 0:04:38.420 --> 0:04:41.099 also the guy, Johnny, that sent Bob Bonta the letter 0:04:41.140 --> 0:04:44.250 saying that The Dongs have a compromising video of you. 0:04:45.900 --> 0:04:49.600 I cannot wait to see what's on that video. 0:04:49.820 --> 0:04:52.380 Hopefully this is many, many, one in many five years 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:53.720 that we did together that we made a lot of money. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.380 In another part of the toast, prosecutors say Juarez describes 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.979 how he and David Duong paid cash to Oakland City 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.589 officials after CWS obtained the recycling contract in 2015. 0:05:04.580 --> 0:05:08.030 The day after you won the city of Oakland contract. 0:05:08.470 --> 0:05:16.210 You were there paying everybody. these people really aren't that 0:05:16.270 --> 0:05:17.160 smart are they. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.460 It makes me wonder how the trial is going to 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.540 last six weeks when they're one piece of evidence dead 0:05:23.580 --> 0:05:26.599 to rights they were bribing everybody. 0:05:27.660 --> 0:05:33.849 Everybody was like piranhas after you right and i remember 0:05:33.940 --> 0:05:35.410 because i saw i was there i was i was 0:05:35.450 --> 0:05:35.729 in your. 0:05:35.670 --> 0:05:39.299 Office Mario Juarez was also the guy who the Dongs 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.520 hired to make racist ads against then mayoral candidate Lauren Taylor. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.440 And then Mario Juarez stiffed the printing company. 0:05:47.750 --> 0:05:49.289 Why are they taping this? 0:05:51.150 --> 0:05:58.030 Because Andy taped everything. He videotapes everything that the feds 0:05:58.089 --> 0:06:01.460 have against them in evidence is some video that Andy 0:06:01.500 --> 0:06:02.220 Dong taped. 0:06:02.220 --> 0:06:06.070 $ 50, 000, $ 100, 000, whatever it was. 0:06:06.550 --> 0:06:10.210 After his FBI interview, agents wrote, Juarez knew his role 0:06:10.250 --> 0:06:13.370 in his relationship with the DeWongs was to help facilitate 0:06:13.470 --> 0:06:18.070 bribes to public officials. Juarez recounted, Individual One was paid 0:06:18.070 --> 0:06:21.000 $ 300, 000 in cash in a black gym bag. 0:06:21.380 --> 0:06:23.760 Shouldn't we know then who Individual One is? 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:25.640 Yeah, because that's a crime. 0:06:26.670 --> 0:06:29.120 They could currently still be on the city council. They 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.480 could have moved on to the board of supervisors. We 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.380 should know who the people are that haven't been named 0:06:34.420 --> 0:06:35.920 yet that got the bribes. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.010 He knew the amount because, quote, Juarez helped count the money. 0:06:40.730 --> 0:06:43.529 Duong's lawyers tried to exclude that video from the trial, 0:06:43.589 --> 0:06:47.469 telling the judge, these claims, which principally concern supposed millions 0:06:47.490 --> 0:06:50.880 of dollars in bribes, are unrelated to the charged scheme. 0:06:51.650 --> 0:06:55.120 That is quite a move from the defense. This corruption 0:06:55.180 --> 0:06:58.280 scandal has nothing to do with the other corruption scandal. 0:06:58.660 --> 0:07:01.900 We're on trial for the shipping containers, not how we 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.359 bribed our way into a very lucrative contract with the 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:06.240 city of Oakland. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.799 Oakland justice, ladies and gentlemen. 0:07:09.860 --> 0:07:13.060 But Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers is allowing the jury to see 0:07:13.190 --> 0:07:16.530 this video as evidence and to hear several phone calls 0:07:16.610 --> 0:07:17.230 recorded by. 0:07:17.750 --> 0:07:23.100 He is... I use this term... Not often. Andy Duong 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.750 is such a douche. Everything he does is tacky. 0:07:29.290 --> 0:07:34.610 Andy Duong. Exhibit 6. In April of 2019, CWS faced 0:07:34.690 --> 0:07:39.630 accusations that it was overcharging customers. Prosecutors say then-councilperson Sheng 0:07:39.670 --> 0:07:45.090 Tao provided Andy Duong... with information on sensitive internal city 0:07:45.130 --> 0:07:46.290 council deliberations. 0:07:46.570 --> 0:07:49.410 Noelle feels like there should be a refund of some sort. 0:07:49.910 --> 0:07:53.310 This is where Rebecca got caught up because she didn't 0:07:53.330 --> 0:07:54.310 have an answer for it. 0:07:54.890 --> 0:07:56.750 So you guys. 0:07:56.610 --> 0:07:58.300 Have an answer for it, right? 0:07:59.900 --> 0:08:05.280 There's our girl. I've said it before. I'll say it again. 0:08:05.300 --> 0:08:08.100 I think her best defense is that she's slow. 0:08:10.860 --> 0:08:14.290 There was a... closed session meeting of the Oakland City 0:08:14.330 --> 0:08:18.510 Council to discuss the allegations that California Waste Solutions was 0:08:18.750 --> 0:08:22.580 overcharging customers, which in a small way led to the 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.640 illegal dumping crisis that we see in Oakland today. And 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.920 Shang Tao leaked all the details of that to the 0:08:29.980 --> 0:08:33.839 Dongs in a call that Andy Dong recorded. And it 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.740 implicates a whole bunch of other people, including Rebecca Kaplan. 0:08:38.140 --> 0:08:40.960 Duong set up a meeting to discuss strategy. but she 0:08:41.010 --> 0:08:44.980 was unhappy with the location. The restaurant was normally too crowded, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:45.440 she said. 0:08:45.460 --> 0:08:47.739 But we don't want people hearing us talk about this stuff. 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:54.810 You know? See, she's not that dumb. We can on 0:08:54.830 --> 0:08:57.230 the phone talk about our illegal dealings, but we shouldn't 0:08:57.270 --> 0:08:58.490 be seen in public together. 0:08:58.990 --> 0:09:01.390 Yeah, that restaurant is too crowded. Let me talk into 0:09:01.429 --> 0:09:03.170 this telephone that's being recorded. 0:09:04.130 --> 0:09:04.770 Right, right. 0:09:04.790 --> 0:09:06.110 You know what? 0:09:10.350 --> 0:09:14.270 HBO, David Simon, it's time to reboot the wire and 0:09:14.340 --> 0:09:16.410 do it in Oakland and do it on this thing. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.300 It is just golden. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.720 I really want to be seen with you guys. 0:09:22.420 --> 0:09:23.040 Right, right. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.980 Prosecutors say the recording shows the deep and long-term relationship 0:09:27.020 --> 0:09:30.700 between Tao and the DeWongs and CWS and their modus 0:09:30.820 --> 0:09:35.000 operandi of conducting sensitive meetings in person and in private. 0:09:35.380 --> 0:09:36.059 Andy, what's up, brother? 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.160 Exhibit I is Andy Duong calling city council member Kevin Jenkins. 0:09:40.900 --> 0:09:43.809 And by the way, Kevin Jenkins is currently the president 0:09:43.890 --> 0:09:45.410 of the Oakland City Council. 0:09:46.230 --> 0:09:48.610 And not that it means anything because it's anything that 0:09:48.650 --> 0:09:51.610 goes in this state. It's not legal to record a 0:09:51.650 --> 0:09:56.090 telephone conversation in California unless you have express permission. 0:09:56.929 --> 0:09:57.489 January 2024. 0:09:57.470 --> 0:09:58.090 Jenkins says he can't. 0:10:00.110 --> 0:10:03.050 Attend a cruise the next weekend, and Duong says they 0:10:03.070 --> 0:10:04.290 can arrange another time. 0:10:04.550 --> 0:10:07.930 We can party up up in the yacht, but I'll 0:10:07.950 --> 0:10:09.370 keep you posted on another one next time. 0:10:10.940 --> 0:10:15.579 This criminal, this mobster, is telling Kevin Jenkins of the 0:10:15.660 --> 0:10:18.600 Oakland City Council, oh, you can't make the yacht party? 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.320 We'll take you to a different yacht party. 0:10:20.340 --> 0:10:23.679 And look at him. He looks like Captain Lee from 0:10:23.740 --> 0:10:26.099 Below Deck, just spread out on that couch. 0:10:27.380 --> 0:10:29.610 We'll do a private one for us only. 0:10:31.020 --> 0:10:32.100 Okay, for sure. 0:10:32.340 --> 0:10:34.300 The defense said the phone call has more than a 0:10:34.380 --> 0:10:38.760 modest likelihood of unfairly prejudicing Andy DeWong, painting him for 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.400 the jury as a foul-mouthed party boy. 0:10:42.700 --> 0:10:49.729 Well... He wasn't trying to take him to the library. 0:10:51.090 --> 0:10:53.450 Now, Johnny, are you ready for this story to take 0:10:53.550 --> 0:10:55.450 a very weird turn? 0:10:55.470 --> 0:10:59.770 All right, let's see. Let's see. 0:11:00.790 --> 0:11:03.429 Buckle up, buttercup. It's about to get weirder. 0:11:03.630 --> 0:11:06.170 The judge is allowing the jury to hear the call. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.459 In it, DeWong tells Jenkins that Sheng Tao was not 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.699 moving quickly enough to purchase units from Evolutionary Homes and 0:11:13.740 --> 0:11:16.040 that he might pool the family support for the mayor. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.480 DeWong claimed he told Sheng Tao. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.570 If you really want to continue for another term, then 0:11:21.590 --> 0:11:24.870 you better start acting right. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.540 So now he's on the phone with Kevin Jenkins threatening 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.840 to destroy Shang Tao because she's not working fast enough 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.330 to buy the crooked shipping containers. 0:11:39.780 --> 0:11:42.850 Well, she really bought into being a girl boss very 0:11:42.990 --> 0:11:46.150 early on. And girl bosses aren't going to be told 0:11:46.210 --> 0:11:48.349 what to do by any Andy Dong. 0:11:52.630 --> 0:11:54.110 A small portion of the evidence. 0:11:54.250 --> 0:11:55.130 Now, one other note. 0:11:56.050 --> 0:11:56.990 Here's where it gets weird. 0:11:57.050 --> 0:12:00.330 Look at this documentary featuring David DeWong and his flight 0:12:00.390 --> 0:12:01.190 from Vietnam. 0:12:02.630 --> 0:12:04.709 My father, the king of trash. 0:12:06.809 --> 0:12:07.809 The king of trash? 0:12:09.630 --> 0:12:13.250 As the trial is starting, the Dongs have put out 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.679 a movie, a documentary called The King of Trash. 0:12:20.420 --> 0:12:24.910 Had to escape from Vietnam with nothing so that He 0:12:24.929 --> 0:12:26.650 could start over from scratch. 0:12:27.340 --> 0:12:30.760 And now, it's my turn to build a new empire. 0:12:32.500 --> 0:12:35.600 David DeWong held free screenings of The King of Trash 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.300 at local theaters the last, just this past weekend, in Emeryville. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:40.940 In a pre-trial motion. 0:12:41.020 --> 0:12:43.100 Wait a minute. How come we didn't get invited? We're 0:12:43.140 --> 0:12:44.340 part of the local media. 0:12:45.660 --> 0:12:48.800 Well, we're going up to the Bay Area in just 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.699 over two weeks. Maybe we can go sneak into a screening. 0:12:53.220 --> 0:12:53.959 Trash King. 0:12:55.070 --> 0:12:58.970 Okay, we'll have to bring some popcorn, some milk duds, 0:12:59.670 --> 0:13:04.500 maybe a $ 45 Dr. Pepper, bonbons, raisin ads. We'll be 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:05.120 good to go. 0:13:05.140 --> 0:13:09.080 That the Ruang's lawyers might try to introduce the movie 0:13:09.100 --> 0:13:13.100 as evidence of his good character. But the defense responded 0:13:13.140 --> 0:13:15.750 they had no plans to show the film to the jury. 0:13:16.370 --> 0:13:19.170 The timing is quite a coincidence. Here's our documentary. And 0:13:19.210 --> 0:13:21.290 by the way, our trial starts next week. 0:13:21.970 --> 0:13:24.709 How is that relevant evidence where you just show some 0:13:24.770 --> 0:13:28.770 propaganda film to the jury talking about how great you are? 0:13:29.850 --> 0:13:34.130 It is a strange, strange tactic. But these people have 0:13:34.190 --> 0:13:36.670 a ton of money and they're not very smart. 0:13:37.050 --> 0:13:39.720 Okay, but weren't they arguing that the sex tapes weren't 0:13:39.780 --> 0:13:45.400 relevant because it's just salacious? How is it that the 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.560 sex tapes aren't relevant, but that is? 0:13:48.740 --> 0:13:51.360 You could definitely argue it is very relevant to have 0:13:51.420 --> 0:13:53.900 Brian Acevedo and Andy Dong in the back of a 0:13:53.940 --> 0:13:57.920 limo in Vietnam talking about the gentleman's massages they received 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.829 the night before from the prostitutes. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.580 The problem is, they said that there's too much of it. 0:14:04.530 --> 0:14:07.130 That it would be very salacious to show sex tape 0:14:07.210 --> 0:14:11.430 after sex tape after sex tape after sex tape. Well... 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.000 Why didn't you go to a museum the entire time 0:14:15.020 --> 0:14:17.480 you were in Vietnam? Why is it that you just 0:14:17.540 --> 0:14:20.880 jump from one massage parlor to the next? Are you 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.090 really that horny where you're going to take in none 0:14:24.110 --> 0:14:27.150 of the local culture? All you're going to do is 0:14:27.190 --> 0:14:30.050 go from one seedy strip mall to the next? 0:14:31.990 --> 0:14:32.230 Yeah. 0:14:32.610 --> 0:14:34.270 It's a little soap opera quality. 0:14:34.410 --> 0:14:34.790 Absolutely. 0:14:34.820 --> 0:14:35.250 That's right. 0:14:35.270 --> 0:14:36.500 And you'll be following it every day. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:37.400 You'll be there in court. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.000 Yes, I will. 0:14:38.500 --> 0:14:39.220 Thank you, Dan, very much. 0:14:40.140 --> 0:14:44.940 The trial starts now. This week, it's supposed to last 0:14:45.060 --> 0:14:49.120 five to six weeks. You have to wonder, as you've 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:54.090 seen Mario Juarez pleading guilty, cooperating with the feds, Brian 0:14:54.130 --> 0:14:58.270 Acevedo pleading guilty, cooperating with the feds. What kind of 0:14:58.370 --> 0:15:02.490 case does Shang-Yi think that she has to defend herself 0:15:02.570 --> 0:15:05.250 in this? And how is she just not cutting a deal? 0:15:06.250 --> 0:15:09.609 Has it ever been alleged that Andy Dong and Shang-Tao 0:15:09.690 --> 0:15:11.570 ever had a sexual relationship together? 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.560 I have never heard that. That is not something I've 0:15:16.620 --> 0:15:19.060 ever heard. It seems like she's been with Andre for 0:15:19.100 --> 0:15:22.870 a very, very, very long time, even though the relationship 0:15:22.890 --> 0:15:26.190 with Andre is bizarre. And when she got inaugurated, he 0:15:26.210 --> 0:15:28.530 brought his ex to the party as his date. 0:15:29.910 --> 0:15:32.970 But if he's worried about coming across as a playboy, okay, 0:15:34.230 --> 0:15:36.540 he's a young guy. He's a good-looking guy. He's a 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:41.000 rich guy. People are going to assume what they're going 0:15:41.020 --> 0:15:44.660 to assume. But why would that be prejudicial in this 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.620 case unless there's something else? 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.280 Sheng, if you ever dipped your ink in that company pool, 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.860 you need to get checked. How many STDs do you 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:56.960 think Andy Dong has? 0:15:57.460 --> 0:15:59.680 Well, with all the massage parlors that he went to 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.060 just in Vietnam alone, I mean, come on. There's some 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.400 miles on those tires. 0:16:05.100 --> 0:16:08.160 Well, and it's not just the Vietnam trip. Don't forget 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.600 that a lot of the... Blackmail videos that Andy Dong 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.220 had were at their karaoke bar where they would take 0:16:15.260 --> 0:16:19.610 the politicians and they'd start hanging out with the strippers 0:16:19.670 --> 0:16:21.930 that were at the karaoke bar doing things you're not 0:16:21.950 --> 0:16:24.670 supposed to do and he filmed all of it. You 0:16:24.710 --> 0:16:27.100 gotta wonder who else he has tapes of that has 0:16:27.150 --> 0:16:28.760 not been announced in this case. 0:16:29.420 --> 0:16:31.340 These people are all trash. 0:16:32.780 --> 0:16:35.820 Well, they do call themselves the king of trash. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.400 Well, I guess in that regard, they aren't lying. 0:16:43.050 --> 0:16:45.930 So there you go, Johnny. The trial starts this week. 0:16:46.150 --> 0:16:49.810 We're in jury selection. And the more evidence is going 0:16:49.850 --> 0:16:51.950 to come out, we're going to have more tapes because 0:16:52.110 --> 0:16:54.930 Andy put everything on tape of Shang just straight up 0:16:55.090 --> 0:16:57.990 implicating herself in this bribery scandal. 0:16:58.710 --> 0:17:01.510 It's funny. People go to school and they study political 0:17:01.550 --> 0:17:04.170 science for years so they can go into the government 0:17:04.690 --> 0:17:06.869 and they can try to make the government work for people. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.420 And they never tell you how crass it actually is. 0:17:14.910 --> 0:17:17.149 If you'd like to email the show, you can do 0:17:17.230 --> 0:17:24.560 so at johnnydontlikeshow at gmail.com. That's johnnydontlikeshow at gmail.com. 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We'd appreciate it. 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.500 So despite the fact that only one candidate is actually campaigning, 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.040 there is, in fact, a gubernatorial race going on in California. 0:20:55.060 --> 0:21:00.679 Javier Becerra came out of hiding to do an event 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.340 in Sacramento where he was asked about the fact that 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.720 he's not campaigning. Let's hear what he had to say. 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.379 Here is ABC 10 in Sacramento. 0:21:14.390 --> 0:21:17.900 And both candidates for governor, Democrat Javier Becerra and Republican 0:21:17.940 --> 0:21:21.320 Steve Hilton, were busy today on the campaign trail. Becerra 0:21:21.340 --> 0:21:24.260 made a stop in Sacramento this afternoon, and our state 0:21:24.300 --> 0:21:27.180 matters political reporter, Jenny He, had a chance to ask 0:21:27.220 --> 0:21:27.840 a few questions. 0:21:29.970 --> 0:21:32.750 We're less than a month out from the November general election. 0:21:32.970 --> 0:21:36.070 Democratic candidate for governor, Javier Becerra, has been making his 0:21:36.109 --> 0:21:37.790 way up and down the state campaigning. 0:21:38.109 --> 0:21:38.469 Has he? 0:21:39.830 --> 0:21:40.210 Really? 0:21:40.230 --> 0:21:45.209 For other Democrats. including in Sacramento on Saturday. We had 0:21:45.230 --> 0:21:47.210 the chance to ask him about some of the biggest 0:21:47.270 --> 0:21:49.910 criticisms he's been receiving on the campaign trail. 0:21:53.980 --> 0:21:56.300 Oh, he showed up with Richard Pan, the guy that 0:21:56.340 --> 0:21:57.480 hates Ashley Zavala. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.920 And he's wearing dark tinted glasses at an indoor event. 0:22:04.060 --> 0:22:08.590 Whenever I see someone wearing dark tinted glasses indoors, they 0:22:08.740 --> 0:22:12.980 either look like Gorilla Monsoon or or a European pornographer? 0:22:14.580 --> 0:22:15.260 I'll go with B. 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.210 We understand how important our vote will be on November 0:22:18.230 --> 0:22:27.800 the 3rd. Becerra in recent weeks has been attacked by 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:31.600 opponent Republican Steve Hilton, who says Becerra is taking votes 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.899