WEBVTT - The REAL Reason Gavin Newsom Dropped the High-Speed Rail Lawsuit 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.800 Shining a spot bite on the insane asylum that is 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.960 modern day California. 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:14.200 It's the John Phillip Show and very Happy Monday to you. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.680 At twelve oh seven. 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Listener Jim in 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.320 Temple City said John and Randy, I don't know anyone 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:36.480 more deserving than you guys to have your own Katie 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:37.880 Porter bobblehead doll. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:45.560 Oh my, what minor league baseball game did he have 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:46.679 to see to get that. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:48.760 Chicken dinner? 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.960 It was obviously from her time in Congress. I'm guessing 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.640 he did not make it because it has a label 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.960 from the Salvation Army on the bottom it, so it's secondhand. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:05.600 But the studio here at KABC has now been adorned 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:11.320 with a Katie Porter bobblehead doll. And I was afraid 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.520 to even bring this up, but it's a very nice 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.200 gesture as to what are they going to send us next. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.640 Now hold that up one more time for those watching 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:24.040 on YouTube, because that is a Katie Porter bibblehead doll. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.680 It's not called a bobblehead doll. Are you aware of that? 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.639 What is it called a nutcracker? 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.080 Why do you have to watch porn in the living room? 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:35.520 Feel like Christmas? 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.960 I feel like Seneca Scott with his Puppets. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.919 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.200 a jellphone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:55.799 two two two. Here with an update on California's Well 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.880 I'm not going to call it high speed rail because 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.960 none of it exists, but let's just call it the 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.560 bullet train in theory, mister Randy Way. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:09.960 There was an explosive report posted late last night from 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.880 our friend Julie Watts at CBS News Investigates. She actually 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.160 posted this as an X article so you can watch it. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.079 You can read it by going to X at Julie 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.200 Watts TV, which you should all subscribe to. I just 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.440 realized I didn't write a lower third for this. We're 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:33.280 gonna call it still no train, and check out Julie 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.240 Watts's article. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:40.560 I'm so fast at this. There we go. Here's the thing, Johnny. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:46.120 You remember how when Gavin Newsom at the beginning of 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.480 the second Trump administration said We're going to be sending 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.840 a whole bunch of money to Attorney General Bob Bonta. 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.040 So Bob Bonta can file lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.760 after lawsuit against the federal government and pretty much be 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.720 in a press conference almost on a daily basis. In fact, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.920 I think Bob Bonta had another one of those today. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.600 Some of those lawsuits have been successful, some of them 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.640 have been challenged, but only one was straight up withdrawn, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:21.279 and that was when Gavin Newsom and Bobert Bonta sued 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.960 the federal government for cutting four billion dollars of high 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:31.920 speed rail funding. They said this was purely political, This 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:37.320 was revenge and retaliation against the state of California, and 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.000 the President himself definitely made it seem that that was 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.320 going on with how he will trash high speed rail 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:47.039 any chance he gets, notably because it's a disaster. But 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.880 Julie Watts found out that there is much much more 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.640 to this story when it comes to why it was 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:58.160 four billion dollars, why it was cut, and most importantly, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:04.719 why and Bonta decided to drop this lawsuit late last year. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.080 You notice when they filed the lawsuit, they make a 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.680 lot of noise and they generate a lot of attention. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.320 But when they realized there's no merit to their lawsuits 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.000 and they withdraw the lawsuits, you don't hear a peep 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:18.840 out of these people. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.760 And this one is specifically again I highly recommend that 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.920 you read the entire article that's on Julie Watts's Twitter 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.719 x dot com slash Julie Watts TV. If you want 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.360 to know why it was four billion dollars that the 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.760 federal government cut from the high speed rail, it's because 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.360 when Biden was president, he had promised four billion dollars 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.920 to the high speed rail. But that wasn't no strings 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:50.960 attached money. There was a very important string, and that 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:56.239 string was very simply that the California High Speed Rail 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:02.680 had until December thirty first of twenty twenty to secure 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:07.840 a contract for the actual train for the high speed Rail, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:13.160 something that as of August third, twenty twenty six, they 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:14.760 still have not done. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:20.080 Of course, because that train is never going to be completed. Ever, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.280 whenever they rework how much it's going to cost, I 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.600 always tell people, don't even think about that in dollars, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.400 don't think about it in bitcoin, think about it in baniinas, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.960 because apes will be controlling the world by the time 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.920 they actually get done with this project. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.760 We told the Biden administration in a federal contract that 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.320 we would have the train purchased. We didn't need to 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:48.839 have it all built, but we needed to have a 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.960 contract for the plane and a design and guess what, 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:58.120 that never happened. In fact, the new CEO at the time, 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.680 Ian Chaudri, the guy that had all those questions about 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.360 the domestic, was very silent about if we were even 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:08.320 working on a design contract for the actual train. We 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:13.400 are now supposed to be like seven years away from 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.720 Fresno and merced to Wasco, and we don't have any 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.119 train and we don't have any track. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.800 I think the plan all along was for Biden to 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.840 be reelected and any strings that are attached to this 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.600 money would result in a waiver being given to the 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.480 state of California, and the waiver would allow us to 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.080 continue to collect the money without having to produce a 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.240 train that people can actually ride, because that's never going 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.840 to happen. What they didn't anticipate was that Donald Trump 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.760 would win the election, enforced the contract as written and 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:53.760 cut off the money. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.000 In fact, there was supposed to be a board meeting 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.640 where the High Speed Rail Authority would secure the contract 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.240 that was required to get this federal money, and that 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.800 board meeting was canceled. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.680 Well, this is what they always do. They have a 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:15.040 persecution complex. Whenever they don't get what they want. It's 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.720 never because it's a bad idea. It's because they're being 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.200 picked on by Donald Trump and the federal government. This 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.000 is what they told us about the investigation into the newsoms. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.880 They said it was a political witch hunt, and they 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.280 conveniently leave out the fact that the investigation started under 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.400 the Joe Biden administration, and it started when a California 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:42.760 whistleblower set information to a California office. The investigation was 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:48.000 started in California, not in Washington DC. Their own claims 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.000 don't hold up, but they continue to repeat them over 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.680 and over and over again. Same thing with the Bullet Train. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.120 We were getting the money cut because we're getting picked 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.240 on by Donald Trump because he rather spend the money 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.920 on his reflecting pool. Well, guess what. None of that 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.400 had anything to do with it. We did not fulfill 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.319 our obligations in the contract, and they cut off the 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.800 funds the way they were supposed to. It is as 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:17.560 simple as that. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.120 And you got to ask yourself, well, then, with that 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.560 four billion dollars we were getting from the FEDS that 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.280 was supposed to be to secure a contract for the train, 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.240 where did that money go? Where has the majority of 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.400 the money gone towards this project outside of digging a 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.440 bunch of holes that will never get filled. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.960 Maybe that went to Dana Williamson's liver too. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:45.520 So it was a big, bold proclamation, Bobert Bonta putting 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.000 out a press conference that we are suing the federal 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:52.760 government over there immoral cuts to California's high speed rail 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:57.240 and a cleaner, greener future. But two weeks before Christmas 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.320 in twenty twenty five, without any press conference, just a 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:06.240 notification with the courts, California dropped its lawsuit, the only 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.480 lawsuit against the Feds they have dropped, and we all 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.560 were wondering what it is. Well, it's because this one 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.680 was a loser upon arrival, thanks to what we know 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.680 now from Julie Watts that yes, the high Speed Rail 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.520 was supposed to fulfill their end of the deal with 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:27.640 the federal government, the former federal government, specifically for securing 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:32.000 a contract for the train, and they have not done, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.959 by the way. A couple of weeks later, Gavin Newsom 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:40.120 holds in Bakersfield where the podium said laying the tracks, 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.960 building the future. They still haven't been laying the tracks yet. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.240 You know, we know that Bob Bonta is corrupt as 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.920 attorney general. We know that Bob Bonta is the king 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.280 of the cliches. We know that Bob Bonta has no ethics. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.720 But one of the things that we forget about Bob 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:04.240 bonhas is that he is a horrible attorney too. Because 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.720 if you were an attorney who knew the basics about 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.199 the law, wouldn't you tell Gavin Newsom when he asked 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.439 you to file this lawsuit? Guess what. We're in violation 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.360 of the contract, and not only would we lose, but 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.360 we would be embarrassed. So let's not do this. But 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.880 instead of saying that, Bob Bonta just marches right along 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:27.040 with Galvin Newsom and files this lawsuit. We're all lucky 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.320 that this guy is not a criminal defense attorney, because 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.880 if you were accused of a crime and Bob bonto 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.880 was representing you, you'd get the gas chamber. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.160 Every type of leadership is about meeting the moment and 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.280 rising to the occasion, and this is what's required, and 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.320 so we're stepping up and getting it done. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.520 Listener, let's see listener. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.920 Jay to Stepha writes in Are John and Randy, saying 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.080 that I cannot take the high speed rail from San 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.040 Francisco to Los Angeles on Friday. It was to be 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:58.600 completed in twenty twenty. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.880 Yeah, if you want memories of riding the high speed rail, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.400 I suggest dropping acid. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.000 The train contract is still to be determined. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.080 We do not have it. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.880 And once you have the contract, you need four years 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.240 to build the train and two years to test it. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.320 So even if they fulfilled that deal today, it's another 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.199 six years until it's operational, which means as much as 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.800 they keep saying we're getting this central Valley line that 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:37.960 nobody's asking for by twenty thirty three, based on what 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.720 we're doing right now, not laying the track, still don't 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.800 even have a contract for the train. John, what are 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:49.319 the chances that the Merced Touasco line is even done 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:50.840 by twenty thirty three. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.480 Well, chick hern would say slim and none, and Slim 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:54.400 just left the building. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.880 It is an excellent piece. The link to the art 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.679 on CBS News is there as well. Julie Watts one 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.600 of the best reporters in the state of California, holding 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.880 the State of California accountable and letting us all know 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:16.400 why Gavin and Bob Bonta decided to, uh, just kind 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.280 of drop that lawsuit against the Feds because the FEDS 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.360 were completely in the right of clawing back that four 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.240 billion dollars because not only we are not are we 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.000 wasting that money and putting it in all kinds of unnecessary 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.960 things in overpaying contractors with change orders, what have you. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.960 We also weren't fulfilling the basics of the deal. We're 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.120 going to give you money to buy a train, and 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.680 then you don't buy the train. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.800 Well, and then you look at the budget where they 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.400 claimed they don't have the money they need for education, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.679 they don't have the money they need for fire mitigation, 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.679 they claim they don't have the money they need for 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.679 any number of other projects healthcare. Okay, if you don't 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.520 have the money, that means you either need to raise revenue, 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.200 which is people need to do better on the stock 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.880 market so more money comes in, or you raise taxes, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.120 which they love to do, or you need to cut 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:18.040 somewhere and redirect that money to more important priorities. I 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:22.280 cannot believe that we're still spending money on high speed rail, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.040 given the fact that no one in the state with 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.040 a brain in their head thinks that train will actually 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.560 ever be completed. If you want to find money without 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:37.160 having to raise taxes or without having to hope that 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.960 the stock market does better, you can do it real fast. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.480 All you have to do is cut bait on the 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.000 bullet train get for whatever reason, they refuse to do it. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.120 And I am convinced. I'm convinced that the only reason 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.840 that we have that stupid project in the first place 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:00.320 is because Jerry Brown feels inferior to his father. Father 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.240 gave us our freeway grid, his father gave us the 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.600 state university system. His father gave us our water. His 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.080 father gave us a lot of the infrastructure that we 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:14.600 use in California today. And then Jerry comes along in 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.800 the seventies with a minimalist approach and buys into the 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.560 theory if you don't build it, they won't come. That 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.040 was back before global warming, when overpopulation was a thing 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.240 that they all bought into. So we didn't build anything 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.280 in California for a long time, and because of that, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:36.160 our infrastructure is an abysmal shape. So Jerry doesn't want 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.200 to be remembered for that. So okay, fine, let's build 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.840 something big. Let's build something grand. Let's build something that 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.640 everyone will look at in the future when I am 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.280 dead and gone and it will remind them of me. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.120 And to Jerry, that was the bullet train. That's what 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.400 he wanted for his legacy. Well, how long has it 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.360 been since Jerry Brown has been governor? 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:02.800 Eight years? 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.800 Okay? Could we stop playing this game and feeding his 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.280 ego and just cut off a project that is obviously 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:11.160 never gonna happen. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.400 Well, at this point, this isn't even Jerry's baby anymore. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:18.120 This is Gavin's baby, because you remember Gavin, very soberly 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.960 when he started his term as governor in twenty nineteen, 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.240 was like, I don't think this project's going to actually 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.440 be a thing. I think we need to cut bait, 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.400 and then decided to double and triple down to the 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.280 point where we just extended our cap and trade program, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.600 which is part of the reason it's so expensive to 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.960 buy gasoline in the state of California for another twenty years, 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.000 all to fund one billion dollars a year going to 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.040 high speed rail and spoiler alert, it's not nearly enough. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.560 Well, if high speed rail is now Gavin's baby, it's 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:58.240 time for a late term abortion. It's the John Phillips 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:05.000 show eight hundred two two two five two two two 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.320 is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.440 five two two two. 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The OC Fair will be over. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.160 Great tickets are on sale now at pancap dot com. 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.840 But right now, calling number nine at one eight eight 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.560 eight seven ninety five two two two gets a pair 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.720 of tickets to the show in parentheses. This is a 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.159 post fair concert. I don't think I was supposed to 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:36.680 read that. Tickets furnished by the Pacific Amphitheater. Good luck dialing. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.720 But what if you want Friday oreos during the concert. 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:44.480 You're screwed. You should have gone last week. No, you 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.800 can go right now. The OC Fair is going on. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.040 That concert's not happening, So go to the OC Fair 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.960 this weekend. Lard up, and then in two weeks you 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:54.800 can go to that show. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.560 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.960 Chilli number one eight hundred two to two five two two two. 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.919 We are learning more details about California Governor Gavin Newsom's 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:13.040 tax returns and Randy. As I was looking through all 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.960 the news articles about Gavin's taxes over the weekend, I 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.760 thought to myself, I wonder how many kids in Africa 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:25.199 he's claiming to raise. Because if he's doing that, I 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.760 want to take the list of names and compare it 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.560 to the list on the roster at Oprah School in 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.560 Africa and see if they match up. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.119 See if there's any cross referencing there. 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.480 Because if there is, I think I want to blow 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:39.520 the whistle on fraud. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:40.800 Oh boy. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.440 Well, for more on Gavin's taxes, here's a report from 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:48.000 CACRA three and Sacramento and Ashley's Evalla. 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.119 Governor Gavin Newsom allowed us to inspect his most recent 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.399 tax returns, so the first time he's done this in 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:53.960 four years. 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:55.760 This comes as he and his wife are a parent's 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:00.520 so transparent, very transparent, only the target of a US 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.320 Department of Justice investigation, and as he's considering a run 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:04.920 for president. 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.240 Casey are three p I love that the top billing 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.400 is he's under investigation and the footnote is, oh yeah, 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:12.600 and he's running for president. 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.960 It was the only TV organization to review these records. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.439 Our political director, Ashley Zavalla, looked through hundreds of pages 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.160 of documents. So, Ash, what are the main takeaways here? 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.720 The strange thing about this was they released it with 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.119 certain reporters being able to look at it in a 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.280 room for just a few hours, and they could take notes. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.680 And I'm sure they were well aware that if they 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.920 did not include Ashley, they were never going to hear 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:42.719 the end of it. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.760 And they put all kinds of restrictions on them too. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.119 I don't think they could bring their phones in. I 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.880 don't think they could bring certain items in. They could 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.000 bring empty tax forms with them and I guess fill 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.160 them out with a pen. It was really weird how 0:21:58.200 --> 0:21:59.120 they set this up. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:01.960 Eighty Well, first, let me just lay out the ground 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.760 rules in order to go through any of this. We 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:06.080 could not take photos. 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:07.320 We couldn't make photo. 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:11.199 Copies or take video of these documents. We could just 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.640 record information with pen and paper. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:14.520 We were providing. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:18.480 Why this is like going to a stand up comedy concert. 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:20.959 You know what this is. 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:26.600 This is yet another emblematic Gavin Newsom move. What's the 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:30.639 big headline? Gavin Newsom releases his taxes. What's the details? 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.399 He let five reporters in a room take some notes. 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:38.359 I did with tax returns for the governor and his 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:40.880 wife for years twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four, 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:44.199 they filed their taxes jointly twenty twenty five was not 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:46.800 available because the Newsom's filed for an extension. 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.359 What they can't pay their taxes on time? What are 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:51.280 they busy doing? 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:57.840 Yeah, that's also fishy. I wonder somebody podcasts. 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.919 Does he get revenue for the podcast? How does that work? 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:06.160 What is the relationship with him and iHeartRadio? I really 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:10.920 would like to know this was although notably they got 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:16.040 a lot of PSA money during COVID. I know because 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:17.040 our company did not. 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.359