WEBVTT - The Knives are out for Xavier Becerra 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:02.400 And very happy Friday to you. 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.000 At twelve oh seven in the West, it's the Giane 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:09.880 at Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Las Vegas, Nevada. Mister 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.080 Randy Weggs in Culver City, John. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.960 We have some breaking news involving a lot of cheap 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.960 flights from La to Las Vegas. Spirit Airlines may be 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:25.160 ceasing operations as of this weekend. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:30.280 Okay, who ends up with the Spirit Airlines passengers? 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:33.800 Because hear me out for a second. 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.680 If all of the Spirit Airlines passengers who live in 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.440 California could then get stranded in some other city and 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.280 we just leave them there, we might be able to 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.080 fix the state just from doing that. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:54.280 Apparently, the government bailout of Spirit is not going to happen, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.720 and they run out of money this weekend, so Spirit 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.480 might be gonzo. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.680 Have you ever flown Spirit Airlines before? 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.480 No, because I have class. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.840 I'm not sure how much class I have, but I'm 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:14.720 six foot four and the idea of trying to cram 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.039 myself into one of those seats without the assistance of 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.720 a stick of butter and being charged for literally everything, 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.800 including trips to the bathroom, maybe not bad, but everything 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.959 else just has zero appeal to me. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.319 There's always that chart that goes around like what the 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.399 legroom is on all the major airlines, and Spirit is 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.440 by far the worst. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.679 Remember when we sat down at the debate, they put 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.960 us in the front row, and everyone around us was 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.680 concerned because we had tons of legroom. There was no 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.440 one in front of us. I could stretch my legs 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.560 all the way out and not touch anyone or anything. 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.600 And the people around us were like, wait a minute, 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.559 these aren't EIGHTYA seats, are they? If these are eighty 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.240 A seats, we can't sit here. Don't put us in 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.440 eighty A seats. And then the docent was like, oh no, 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.160 I thought so too, but they're not. These are regular seats. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.400 They're not eighty A seats. And they had a little chuckle. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.040 How both of them were on the same page. And 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.280 you and I were sitting there with our heads down, thinking, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.720 who cares, let's just enjoy the leg room. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.040 At no point were we concerned that we were sitting 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.880 in seats that had handicap signs on them. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:32.040 Not at all. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.560 And you know what, being six foot four in a 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.359 theater that was built in the nineteen twenties, that's handicapped 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.160 as far as I'm concerned. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:46.560 Eight hundred two two two five two two two East 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.200 telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:50.679 two two. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.239 So Javier Bacaria is seeing the Bakaia bump right now 0:02:55.360 --> 0:03:00.480 in the polls to determine who will be California's next governor. However, 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.920 there are now storm clouds on the horizon as his 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.160 former top aide, Sean McClusky, who has pleaded guilty to 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:14.720 federal charges related to corruption, and Dana Williamson, who is 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.480 the woman that was Gavin Newsom's top aid for some 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.600 time and did some work for Javier Bachariea, who was 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.560 accused by the FEDS of stealing. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:26.640 From some of his bank accounts. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.720 She has not decided if she's going to plead guilty 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.360 and cut a deal with the Feds quite yet, or 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.520 put her innocence out there and say that she is 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.480 not guilty and try to beat the charges in court. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.560 What we do know is that all of this is 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.560 a great, big problem for Javier Bakariea due to the timing. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.360 And the timing gets worse for the new possible front 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:57.160 runner in the race because the political consulting firm that 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:02.280 is connected to McCluskey and Williams. Well, they're spending a 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.240 whole bunch of money to prop up Bakaria, which means 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.080 the Dana Williamson story is back in the news. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.160 Scrub it now, listen to this. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.960 This is a tweet that was put out by Michael Trehillo, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:19.080 who is a Democratic political consultant based in Los Angeles 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.600 who has worked with Antonio via Rigosa over the years. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.240 Here's what he put out this morning five hours ago 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:32.160 on X quote. Let's be absolutely clear, the FBI has 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.200 a file on Javier Bakaria in their wire taps of 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:41.360 Bakaria's campaign manager, Dana Williamson and Javier's chief of staff. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.360 How many times does Bakaia's name appear in their evidence 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:51.320 collection process? Five thousand times the higher or lower. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.760 But when you do the scrub, is he going to 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:54.960 go put that one on Calshi? 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.960 Maybe only the Biden DOJ since that's who launched the 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:08.880 investigation on Bakaria's political operation. Javier Bakaria getting into the 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.960 runoff hands the Trump administration the power to release Bakaria's 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:19.520 FBI file and make Hilton our next California governor. Buyer 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.760 Beware end quote. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.640 And there could be something there, but it's also very 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.360 possible that Bessera's name is in the file because it 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.040 was his account they were stealing from. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.320 Now we have more information on Dana Williamson and all 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.040 of her trouble and how it's going to impact Javier Bakaria. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.640 Here is Casey A three and Ashley Zavalla. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.000 There are some questions tonight's surrounding Democratic candidate for governor Javier. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.679 Pasera, A political firm with close ties to the people 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.680 accused of stealing money from his campaign account, is now 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.240 running a campaign to support him. Case Are three's political director, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.920 Ashley Zavala, joins US Now to explain what's going on. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.800 Adian Gulston. Federal prosecutors have said a business called The 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.320 Collaborative was part of the scheme ran by Dana Williamson 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.560 and Greg Campbell used to steal a quarter of a 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.640 million dollars from one of Javier Bessea's campaign accounts. Williamson 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.640 was Bassa's advisor and former campaign manager. Her case is 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.440 still ongoing and she's in talks for a possible plea deal. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.520 Campbell was a Sacramento lobbyist and consultant who has already 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.280 pleaded guilty. In this case, a powerful political firm called 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.080 bear Star was associated. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:36.159 Hey, that's a smith, this firm, and that's also Gavin's firm. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.080 It's all connected. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.279 A powerful political firm called Bear Star was associated with 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.880 the two at the time of the alleged crime and 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.400 were members of the collaborative. Bear Star has not been 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.880 implicated in this case, but tonight we're learning Bear Star 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.240 is now running a new campaign to support Javier Bessea's 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.520 run for governor, a situation that's. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.039 Reason that's funny because wasn't ace miss people trying to 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.960 figure out trying to figure out who was going to 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.279 be a viable candidate. They wanted to put their money 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.600 behind Banta, but that didn't happen. They wanted to put 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.160 their money behind Padilla, but that didn't happen. Of course, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.960 Rick Caruso hired them for La Mayor, but then he 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.480 didn't run for governor. So now they're getting behind Bisera. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:19.320 Oh. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.840 They are a blue chip firm looking for a horse 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.560 to ride, and now they've settled on baker Ria. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.680 They were the firm that ran Adam Schiff's campaign when 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.080 he ran for Senate, and they helped devise the strategy 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.440 to elevate Steve Garvey, which Katie Porter called. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.600 I call it the shift gift, and she's still mad 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:40.000 about that. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.760 A situation that's raising more questions about this case. It's Williamson. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.239 Do you have anything to say to Javiata Bassetta? 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:47.680 Right now? 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.160 Nearly six months since Javier Massea's former campaign manager. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.680 Wait a second, that was when she talked to Dana 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:59.160 after the initial court appearance, right and all the reporters 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.320 had this scrun, and she's trying to walk to her 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.760 car and the car is blocking the bike lane, and 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:04.640 then this happened. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.240 I do want to correct you on one point that 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.160 you made. I don't think she was walking. I think 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:17.880 she was waddling. I stand corrected. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.760 Nearly six months since Javier Bessera's former campaign manager was 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.360 accused of stealing his money. The business she allegedly used 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.640 to do it is in the process of shutting down. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.120 Federal prosecutors say Dana Williamson and Sacramento lobbyist Greg Campbell 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.640 used their LLC, The Collaborative, to help funnel nearly a 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.960 quarter of a million dollars from Javier Beascera's campaign funds 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.040 to the personal bank account of his longtime chief of staff, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.240 Sean mclusky, and then. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.120 They all went to Mexico. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:54.079 Everyone around this guy who was in the inner circle 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:55.760 was robbing him blind. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:56.880 Yep. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.880 Court records say McCluskey was taking a pay cut to 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.640 follow Bassera from California to Washington, d C. To work 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:04.959 in the Biden administration. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.520 Oh oh, oh wait, there might be something else here. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.800 Is it at all possible that what this scheme really 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.520 was supposed to be about was as the secretary of HHS, 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.520 he could only pay this guy so much money, but 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:25.000 he was accustomed to those California campaign salaries, and they 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.199 figured out a way to even. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.480 That out one hundred percent. That's what this is. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:38.720 This is him augmenting his income, augmenting his top eight income, 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.680 so the aid would leave the high paying job in 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.160 California for the lower paying job in Washington, d C. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.520 To work for Besara at HHS. Because let's not forget 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.559 Basarah had very few friends in Washington, d C. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.720 Pelosi hated him, the Biden. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:00.000 Administration regarded him as the worst pick for the cabinet, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.240 that the Republicans certainly had no love for him. Bassara 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.640 was on an island in DC. He needed to bring 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.840 someone with him that he trusted so that someone had 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:17.200 his back. My opinion is that what he did was 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.480 he brought that guy with him to Washington, d C. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:25.080 Augmented the income by whatever it was that they negotiated. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.320 And my guess is that Dana wasn't stealing either. That 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.080 what she was doing was she was being paid a 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.200 retainer to stay out of the governor's race so when 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.720 Bessara got out of the Biden administration, he could come 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.760 back and run for governor and have the campaign manager 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:44.320 he wanted. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.920 That's all very very possible. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.880 Court records say McCluskey was taking a pay cut to 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.480 follow Bassera from California to Washington, d C. To work 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.600 in the Biden administration. McCluskey pleaded guilty in the case. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.880 In my sit down conversation with Vessea earlier this month, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.640 he said he was truly misled and thought he was 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.800 paying for account management that didn't raise any flags for you, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:10.480 that those payments. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.679 So we were paying for management of a dormant account, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.760 making sure that nothing was no to laws were violated. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.120 And that costs ten thousand dollars a month, you. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.480 Know, It's funny is that this sort of thing goes 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.160 on in the private sector all the time. I know, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.320 for example, and I'm not going to reveal any names, 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.000 but a host who went from being a local host 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.760 on a local station in a big market to a 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:43.280 nationally syndicated host. And what happened sometimes is you go 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:48.400 from working for an affiliate to working for a syndication service. Well, 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.480 sometimes it's not what you think. Sometimes the money isn't 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.360 better in syndicated radio. Sometimes the money's better in big 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.600 market radio. So this guy wanted to bring his producer 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:06.560 with them, and the producer decided that they would go 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.680 along with the host because they had a good working relationship. Well, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.600 the producer would have to take a pay cut to 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.920 go from working in the big market to working for 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.560 the syndicated show. So the producer goes, why in the 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.040 world would I ever agree to do that? More responsibility, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.920 more tasks, less pay. And so what the host did 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.040 was the host figured out a way to augment the 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:36.240 producer's income, so the producer would make more money, not 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.360 less money. But the money didn't come from the syndication service. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.240 The money came from the host. In the private sector, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.120 you can do these sorts of things provided everyone pays 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.120 taxes and you know it's all declared and kosher. But 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.400 you can't do that in the public sector. You're not 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.439 supposed to be able to do that. And what Besarah did, 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.400 in my opinion, is he did with that host did 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.760 when the producer was asked to take a pay cut. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.959 In this case, it was McCluskey who was asked to 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.400 take a pay cut to work for the federal government. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.000 Now he knows where his bread is buttered. He didn't 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.560 rat his boss out. He took a plea deal and 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:27.040 he expects, I guess, the process to take care of him. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:28.920 I don't know if he's going to get a pardon 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.040 at some point in the future. I don't know if 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.640 he's got a job waiting for him on the other side. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.760 I don't know what kind of deal has worked out 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:40.760 on he worked out on his behalf. But Dana Williamson 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.480 is kind of a wild card at this point because 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.559 she appears to be the target of this investigation. She's 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.480 the big fish. She was the big name that was 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.280 involved here, so you can go after her for many years. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.800 She's an old, fat, sick woman who just got a 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:05.640 new liver. You can squeeze her. She's probably of retirement age, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.400 So what motivation does she have to protect Psara at 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.560 this point? Her motivation, to my eye, is to save 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.960 herself and to keep some of those handbags. 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.720 That too, because I was Secretary of Healthy Human Service 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.400 as a cabinet member, I had to distance myself from 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.640 anything that looked political or campaign related. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.640 But I wanted to make sure I took those people 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.880 with me, and we had to figure out how to 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.320 pay them and put them on retainers. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.600 An attorney for the collaboratives, manager Jim Deboo, told us 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.359 in a statement quote the Collaborative is non operative, inactive, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.760 and is in the process of being dissolved. It has 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.560 no material assets, no business activities, no revenue, nor will it. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.480 The only item remaining for the final dissolution is to 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.040 file a certificate of cancelation. The Collaborative was an alliance 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.520 of political consultants including Bear Star Strategies. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.520 It's the Avengers for hacks. 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.480 The homepage of the Collaborative's website featured this proverb call 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.040 one wolf. You invite the. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.440 Pack sounds like a prison gang. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.640 The homepage of the Collaborative's website featured this proverb, call 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.040 one wolf, you invite the pack. Bear Star was not 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.920 part of the pack of people indicted for the federal crimes, 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.920 and a spokesman told Ksey three on Thursday, Bearstar has 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.280 had no involvement, interest, or stake in the collaborative since 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.960 twenty twenty two, but they were still listed on the 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:35.280 website when Williamson was indicted in November. This week, Bearstar 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.200 launched a new independent expenditure campaign to support Besserra in 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.600 his bid for governor. We're asking experts if the optics 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.480 of this are problematic. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.880 And the fact is that this Dana Williamson individual is 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.880 part of Bear Stars and their collaborative. It's title voters 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.800 across the state that something sinks. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:00.359 I mean, it's a little more complicated than Swallowell accused racest, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.200 but there might be something here. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.680 No, what it is when you distill it down, is 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.760 it's money laundering. Mike true Heeal money laundering. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.800 Mike true Hee. You is a democratic strategist based in 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.960 Los Angeles. With Bear Star running this ie, does it 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.640 make Javier's claim that he's a victim in this harder 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:21.840 to believe for the public? 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:23.880 It should the answer is yes. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:29.120 It should remind people though that you know, this scandal 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.040 is not completely resolved. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.000 Republican strategist Rob Stutzman used to lead the communications team 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.880 for former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:41.040 No, there is this unspecter of these unknowns, a swirl 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.360 around Javier but Sarah, whether he did anything wrong or not, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.560 he just can't escape it. And now when the same 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:52.160 consultants that are tangential to all this, not directly involved, 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.200 no evidence of that, but tangentially involved, we're in business 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:56.040 with the people. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:56.800 That were involved. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.360 It's going to be hard to kind of get away 0:16:59.360 --> 0:16:59.960 from the question. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.200 Bear Star is seen as a political consulting powerhouse in California, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.880 with clients and successful campaigns that include Governor's Gavin Newsom, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.080 Jerry Brown, former Attorney General Kamala Harris, and US Senator 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.040 Alex Padilla. Bear Star has already. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.720 They really wanted Padia to run. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.399 Oh yeah, they want all the boldface names. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.560 Bear Star has already tried to back several possible candidates 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.320 for governor, including Lieutenant Governor Elenni Kunolakis, who dropped out 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:28.360 of the race last year. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.280 And by the way, that just mentioned all of Bear 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.879 star's successful campaigns. Their most profitent full campaign was the 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.040 Rick Caruso campaign, and it was not successful at all. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.120 Oh, that one's putting their great grandchildren through college. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.040 There you go. 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Tickets furnished by Live Nation Good Luck dialing. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.560 Just would you think that fire victims can't get disrespected anymore? 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:06.479 They find a way to do it. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:13.240 Residents in Alta, Dina are getting hit with two years 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:18.200 worth of property tax bills because Gavin Newsom put an 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.439 executive order not to waive the property tax fees for 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.439 all the people whose homes burned down, but just to 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.480 delay them for a year. And now there's a push 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.440 to get them to delay them even longer. But why, 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.920 oh why are we charging fire victims for property taxes 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.200 when they cannot live on their property? 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:41.320 Because that's what we do. 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:51.440 From more on this here is CBSLA. That's their fire 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:52.400 theme music. 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.800 For thousands of homeowners still reeling from devastating wild buyers. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:20:59.639 The recovery isn't just emotional. 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.520 Financial, Yes, property owners and burn zones are facing a 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.600 new kind of burden, a tax bill. Those bills, those 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:12.560 bills do tonight or residents' risk penalties unless yeah. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.680 So last night was when all property taxes were due 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.960 at the end of April, including for people whose homes 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:20.840 are burned down so that I got to pay taxes 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.359 on their empty lot. 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.199 And this is not an administrative oversight. They're doing this 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:28.440 on purpose. 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.240 Unless they take action. And cbsla's Jasmin Vial is live 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.760 and Alta Dana with how these fire survivors can still 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:43.280 get some tax relief Jasmine. 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:44.080 Yeah, and much needed pat as we all well know. Right, 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:47.399 So basically it's now in these individual property owners to 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:51.240 seek out that tax relief and take action, like you said, 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:53.280 if they don't, I mean, it is the depth. 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.960 It's we're not talking about that many people here. You're 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:02.960 talking about you know, ten total between the Palisades and Altadena, 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.680 Like how hard would it be to all right, we're 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.680 waving those fees. We're waving the property taxes obviously because 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:13.359 you're still trying to rebuild your home. 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:17.160 Well, and especially when you know that you've failed them 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.320 time and time again. I mean, think about it. The 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:24.440 government has fallen down on getting those permits issued quickly. 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.720 The government has fallen down on holding the insurance company's 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:32.040 feet to the fire, so they are obligated to fulfill 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:36.800 the contractual obligations related to the policies. And then I 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:39.040 mean you can go down the list of every other 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:42.640 complaint that the fire victims have that the government has 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:46.840 not performed at an acceptable level on and instead of 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.959 cutting them a brake for all of the trauma that 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:53.040 they've been through. The government is there and they want 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.159 their shekels. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.919 That tax relief and take action, like you said, if 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:00.320 they don't, I mean, it is the deadline for these 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.560 fire survivors to pay up in terms of these property taxes. 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:06.639 I mean, look behind me, even though we see some progress, 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:08.800 I mean you just see these empty lots still right, 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:10.239