WEBVTT - Xavier Becerra visits the Tijuana River 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.040 And very happy Thursday to you. At twelve oh six 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.480 in the West, it's the Giant Phillips Show, Mister Randy 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:08.560 Weggs in Culver City, John, we have. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.559 A brand new poll in the California Governor's race. This 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:17.480 comes from the Anti Tom Steyer Committee. California is Not 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:22.920 for Sale and in first place in this poll with 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.880 twenty four percent of the vote, a nine point jump 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:33.479 from the previous poll of the same respondents is Javier. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:42.640 Buckeria scrub it. Now. I'm going to reserve judgment until 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:47.280 we see an independent poll because this poll has an agenda. 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.920 The poll was paid for and conducted by a group 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.720 who hates Tom Steyer. So I'm sure the objective is 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.720 to make Tom Steyr look bad. And if Tom Steyer 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.920 didn't look bad, they wouldn't have published the results. I'm 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.960 waiting to see what the poll from Emerson College or 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:08.840 PPIIC or one of the big newspapers finds. This is 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.280 the fourth or fifth poll in a row that has 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.520 shown the Besarah bump, what some are calling the beceleration. 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.959 So again, Besserah. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.479 In this poll, which is commissioned by the we Hate 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.959 Tom Steyer people, is at twenty four percent. Hilton, a 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.160 three point bump, is at twenty three percent. Right behind him, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:36.200 Tom Steyer is flat in this poll at fifteen percent. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:41.520 Chad Bianco drops three points, it is down to eleven percent. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:49.560 Right behind him is kt Porter and Katie Porter in 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.000 this poll has ten percent. May Hen flat with six, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:59.240 Via Goosa at two and Tony Thurman at one percent. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.720 Well, now that Baker Rhea is seeing a bump, and 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.640 we know that he is seeing a bump, we just 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.200 don't know to what degree quite yet. He is doing 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.520 what the other candidates have already done, and that is 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.600 take a pilgrimage to the Tijuana River. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.919 Katie Porter went to the Tijuana River, Tom Steyer went 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.480 to the Tijuanna River and. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.919 You can literally see it, smell it, and feel it. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:33.320 And now it's Besera's turn to smell up the Tijuana River. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.880 Here is NBC seven in San Diego. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.840 Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Javier Bassera 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.799 got an up close look at the Hell. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:49.960 Wait, that wasn't his job or his name, Granpy Joe for. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:56.079 Secretary of Health and Educations over I nominated Javier Bakaria. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.440 Now before we get into this. If the locals are 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.200 saying it's a federal issue, and he was the Secretary 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:08.040 of Health and Human Services, wouldn't this fall under his umbrella? 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:08.560 Why? 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.400 Yes, yes, it would also the EPA. And I'll give 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.240 you ten bucks if you could tell me who the 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.440 EPA administrator was under Biden. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:19.320 No clue. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.560 Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services Javier Basera 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.840 got an up close look at the heavily polluted Tijuanna 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.240 River today as NBC seven's South Bay reporter Joe Little 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.360 shows us. Butsera is the latest candidate for California governor 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.080 to visit this environmental crisis ahead of the election. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:40.120 Everyone's going to the river. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.920 Take a with Javier Basera is just the latest gubernatorial 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.400 candidate to accept Supervisor Ploma Gary's invitation to come down 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.720 and tour the polluted Tijuana River valley. So far, five 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.680 current candidates have accepted the invitation. All five said they 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.240 would declare a state of emergency. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.800 And this is the entryway of the river. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.000 Once again, Gary gave the hard sell to someone who 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.120 could beat California's next governor. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.600 We build this in Mexico, will do something to build 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:11.119 on their own. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.360 She wants these candidates to see and smell this seuw 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:16.080 it from Mexican. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.479 They're all using the same terminology that came from Katie. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.039 You can smell it right here. 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.480 She wants these candidates to see and smell this sew 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.280 it from Mexico and hear firsthand from the people dealing 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.640 with the pollution that's destroyed the environment, tainted the air, 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.839 and crippled businesses for years. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.640 You don't really get a feeling for what's truly going 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.200 on until you do that. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.839 But Sarah is not new to this chat. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.080 When I was Attorney general, I had to sue the 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.000 federal government to try to get them to do the 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:49.440 right thing. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.240 He helped pressure Congress into handing over money to fix 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.760 the broken South Bay International Wastewater Treatment plans. 0:04:55.880 --> 0:05:00.680 Well, obviously that didn't work. And why didn't he do 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.440 anything about it? When he was in the majority government. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.479 He was part of the executive branch, as a member 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.640 of the cabinet whose position dealt with health. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.599 This is one of these issues that you only care 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.920 about while you're running for governor. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.279 This is what we call the hotspot. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.480 But the problem hasn't gotten better. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.640 These pipes we have four that are just constantly shooting 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:27.640 into the air. 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.640 The scientists now have an inventory of what those look like. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.719 It's been great to have all of the candidates I have. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.960 Come down here, especially since current Governor Gavin Newsom has 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.239 not been down here. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.760 If Gavin doesn't want to smell it, no, can you 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.480 imagine the pictures of him in a gas mask in 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.920 front of a river with raw sewage and chemicals and 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:57.760 metals flowing into California from Mexico and you can literally 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:02.400 see it, smell it, and feel it. That would blow 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.000 up his opportunity to be president. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.880 And he hasn't declared a state of emergency despite countless 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.480 requests from local leaders like A. Gary. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.120 We are going to look back and we're going to 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.040 look at who took action and who did so what 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.800 we're trying to get the prop for funding. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.400 She argues that declaration would open up funds faster to 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.200 protect the thousands who live down. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.080 Here, and yeah, how about some relief for the people 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.000 that are suffering through this. There are people that report 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.440 daily migrains and that's not something that just happens. That's 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.719 because of the toxicity in the air. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.919 I love the fact that They're looking for every way 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.080 to fix this problem except to tell Mexico to knock 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:41.720 it off. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.760 And fix this hotspot that's aerosolizing the pollution. Would you 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.760 declare state emergency to win this election. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.839 I'll do anything I can to make sure that we need. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:51.039 So there you go. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:56.159 Javier Bisera just the latest candidate to take a whiff 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.120 down at the TJ River Valley. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:06:59.599 You can smell it right here. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.200 It sounded like he was in a gas mask too. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:03.080 He was. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:12.600 He had like a cloth over his mouth. All right, Well, 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.200 he was down in San Diego County. He also had 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:16.680 time to fit in a town hall. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.560 He had a town hall in Balboa Park, which means 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.000 he probably had to pay for parking. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:23.480 Here is CBS eight. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.440 Supporters are calling it the Basara era. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:27.640 No, they're not. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:36.240 Who I was on board with beceleration, the Besara era. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.000 Taylor Swift's gonna sue your ass. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.120 Supporters are calling it the Bisara era. Tonight, hundreds of 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.200 San Diegans packed a town hall at Balboa Park to 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.120 hear Democratic candidate Javier Basara make his case to be 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:56.280 California's next governor. Good evening, I'm Marcella Lee I'm Carlo Chiquetta. 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.440 Bisara has been steadily rising in the polls in recent 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.320 weeks as the June second primary draws near his It's 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.360 Richard Allen, his live in Balboa Park with more and 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:10.120 Bessera's top priorities and how he's responding to his opponent's criticisms. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.680 Richard and Carlo and Marcella. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.560 Just a few weeks ago, Javier Besserra was pulling in 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.280 the single digits in this chaotic race for governor. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.440 I would really love to see a focused group where 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:26.040 they're doing these polls and ask somebody that was maybe 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.520 they were a swallowell person before that blew up? 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:34.840 Why Bessarah? It's interesting that they chose him over Tony 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.240 v or some of the others. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:38.680 And Carlo and Marc. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.760 Is just based on the interviews that I've seen, is 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.920 it that Javier Bessera seems to be the most malleable 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.200 of all the candidates? 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.360 Must be and Carlo and Marcella. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.240 Just a few weeks ago, Javier Besserra was pulling in 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.240 the single digits in this chaotic race for governor. But 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.400 following Eric Swalwell's exit from the race, he has seen 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.800 his campaign gained major traction. A new CBS News poll 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.040 finds him now pulling at thirteen percent, just behind Steve 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.640 Hilton and Tom Steyer. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.320 People that we're supporting the rapists, support me, excuse me, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:14.320 alleged rapist. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.120 That is quite a credential. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.400 Hundreds of supporters pack Wednesday Nightstown Hall. It's Javio Bessera 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:22.560 took to the stage. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.080 Now that we have rocketed to the top, everyone's coming 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:26.760 after us. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.319 The former state attorney Jim. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.280 Could you imagine what a disaster he would be as governor? 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.520 It could happen if these polls are real, He'd be 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.320 in the top spot with Hilton. And there is a 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:45.400 very very very very very likely chance that Besarah wins 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.560 by twenty points. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.400 I've said it before. I really do believe he is 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.480 the Joe Biden the race, because don't forget in twenty twenty, 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.480 the Democrats didn't know what to do where I think 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.400 Mayor Pete won the Iowa caucus and then Bernie did 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:07.480 well in New Hampshire and in Nevada, and people thought 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.280 that Bernie was going to steamroll his way to the nomination, 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.760 and the Democrats freaked out. But it wasn't until South 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.560 Carolina where they decided that they would just all get 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:23.160 behind a deeply flawed candidate to save them from what 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.440 they thought was a sure loss. And it seems like 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.439 the Democrats in California are panicking and they're going to 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.920 get behind a deeply flawed candidate who is a guy 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.720 who has no energy and no ideas and no knowledge. 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:44.560 People may forget, but Biden in twenty nineteen or in 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:49.520 twenty twenty, he came in fifth place in the Iowa 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.680 caucus and then we went to sleep, and then he 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.720 got his clock cleaned in New Hampshire and Nevada too. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.280 The former state attorney General and Secretary of Health and 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:05.000 Human Services hammered home his message of bringing affordability to California. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:10.000 How yeah, he's kind of light on the details. If 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.560 you haven't noticed, Oh, we're just gonna build. How are 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:13.960 you gonna do that? Well, we're just gonna do it. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.640 We're gonna scrub it. M mmm. You notice he never 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.440 says that anymore. Scrub it? Well. That interview was one 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.000 of the most embarrassing interviews I've ever seen. That term 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.160 has been scrubbed from his campaign. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.160 From housing to healthcare, we're gonna get people into homes. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.199 We're gonna build more homes. We're gonna make sure you 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.800 have your healthcare because I'm not bending ane to Donald 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.320 Trump just because he cut a trillion dollars out of 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.480 the healthcare system. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.520 One of two easy applause line. By the way, just 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:51.480 think about this for a moment. How damning is this 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.560 for the California Democratic Party that in a state where 0:11:55.600 --> 0:12:01.679 they control everything. They control all the state wide constitutional offices, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:07.280 super majorities in both houses of the state legislature, they 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:12.000 have a super majority in the congressional delegation. They have 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:17.000 all the big city mayorships, they have almost every single 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.960 seat on the city council in all the big cities. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.720 They have almost every single seat on the county Board 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.960 of supervisors in the big cities, in the big counties. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:34.360 And this is the best they can do. This, This 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:35.760 is the guy. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.560 Well, there were better people than him, better you know, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.120 from their standpoint, but they didn't want to do it. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.760 Gavin was pushing real hard for Padilla, and apparently Alex 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.680 is doing an interview with Padilla that's going to air 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.640 this weekend where he says, yeah, they all wanted me 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.280 in there and I didn't want to do it. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.160 This is an indictment of that machine. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.760 One attendee at community college professor asked what he plans 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.679 to do to make higher education more accessible under my watch. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.400 We will make the first two years of tuition free 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:11.760 at the community colleges. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:11.920 Where you can. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:17.640 Wait, we already did that. Is it community college already 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:18.880 free for two years? 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.079 This guy just doesn't read the paper. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.880 Maybe he meant the UC's and the CSUS, which is 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.640 the Katie Porter idea that he wants to rip off. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.839 But we already have this. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.520 We will make the first two years of tuition free 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.160 at the community colleges where you can. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:41.880 And did the audience not know that it's already free 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:49.320 with cal grants if you're not wealthy, I think through 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.240 cal grants, most if not all, of your education at 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.840 the California State University System and UC system is covered. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.400 Our community college system right now is so generous. We're 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.080 giving out free tuition to all the robots that are 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:06.160 scamming the system. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.400 We will make the first two years of tuition free 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.160 at the community colleges where you keep. 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.240 At some point, you just keep saying the same campaign 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.560 things over and over and over again and don't realize, oh, 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:18.280 we already did that. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.560 Okay, So here's what GROC says. GROC says, here's the 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:31.160 current situation. We have something called the California College Promise Grant. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.520 This is the main program. It waives enrollment fees for 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:40.160 eligible students. You qualify if you meet income guidelines or 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:45.720 other criteria meaning receiving colworks, SSI or certain financial aid. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.200 It is not limited to two years. You can receive 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.760 it for as long as you qualify. And then we 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:57.560 have the California College Promise Program. This program aims to 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.880 make the first two years tuition free. It's available at many, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.520 but not all, of the community colleges, and it usually 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.680 requires you to be a first time, full time student. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.960 Some colleges automatically wave fees, others use the money for 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:19.040 support services instead. The bottom line is that low income 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:25.080 students often attend completely tuition free, and they also get 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:30.320 help for their books. Middle income or higher income students 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.960 usually still have to pay the fee of forty six 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:38.960 bucks per unit unless their specific college offers a full waiver. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.440 So what we have in California is anyone who grows 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.040 up in a lower middle class or poor family gets 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:53.120 it for free, including the books. So what he's talking 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.960 about to this audience is making it free for middle 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:02.560 class and upper middle class and wealthy families. But at 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.640 forty six bucks a unit, you're already talking about an 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.320 education that's about as heavily subsidized as it gets. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.480 Well, that's what happens if you pay attention to the details. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.480 We don't do that in baccarea Land. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.400 We will make the first two years of tuition free 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:20.840 at the community colleges. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:20.920 Where you can. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.000 Bessarah was also asked about how we plans to respond 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.640 to the Tijuana River Valley sewage crisis. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.320 I am prepared to declare a state of emergency for 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.040 the Tijuana River when I become governor, so we free 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:34.960 community college. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.080 Got a bigger applause than cleaning up the Tijuana River. Well, 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.360 they probably don't live in that direct community. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.000 No no, no, no, no no. That's the southern tip 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.680 of the San Diego County. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.360 When I become governor, so we can start to take action. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.160 The biggest applause of the evening came after Bisera was 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.720 asked how he plans to address the threat of violent 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:55.600 ice raids. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.880 This ice Trump's ice, We need to abolish it. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.880 Yeah, how does that work? Okay? As governor of California, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.080 you have no control over what goes on in federal departments, 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:12.080 and as a cabinet member you should know this, but 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.480 you're pretty dim and clearly you don't. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.359 After the debate, I asked Bessera how he plans to 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.600 bring down skyrocketing gas prices here in the Golden State. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:25.240 Push Donald Trump to stop getting us into reckless wars? 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:25.760 Uh? 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.960 Push what you want to ran or a rack? And 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:34.119 why is gasoline more expensive here than Arizona and Nevada 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.280 because they have the same president. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.679 Push Donald Trump to stop enacting reckless terror policies. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.280 Many of Bessarah's opponents have taken him to task for 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.000 having big plans but with few details to back them up. 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:48.960 Just look at my record. You'll see all the details. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:55.560 He goes what record, boy, I'll tell you Gavin has 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.760 a lot of faults, but he's not stupid. He's clever. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.919 This guy is about as dumb as they get. Scrub it. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:11.080 Hey, Pelosi told everyone, don't forget when he was named 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.679 Attorney General by Jerry Brown. 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Michael Gates, welcome. 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:23.040 Thank you for having me. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:23.800 It's good to be here. 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:29.639 So California has an Attorney General. Rob Bonta, the incumbent 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:33.000 Democrat who was appointed to that office by Gavin Newsom, 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.560 who seems to be obsessed with two different things. He 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.320 seems to be obsessed with chasing national headlines by suing 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.720 Donald Trump, and he almost sees the office as being 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:48.080 a federal office of sorts because the only subjects he 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.720 seems to ever comment on are federal in nature, where 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.280 he doesn't really have any jurisdiction. And the other thing 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.840 that he does is he seems to act on behalf 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.359 of his benefactors. Of all all of the problems facing 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.760 the state of California, he has chosen, to the extent 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.840 that he spends any time on California to spend his 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:12.480 time going after the card clubs because his big campaign 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.960 contributors are the Indian casinos, and they don't want the 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:21.360 competition of card clubs, particularly in population centers, so he's 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.720 been going after them, trying to make their lives miserable. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.600 At the same time that he's doing this, California has 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:33.239 multiple disasters on its hands, including an environmental disaster at 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.359 the southern border in the Tijuana River where Mexico is 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.760 dumping ross sewage into that river and people in San 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:43.400 Diego County are getting ill because of it. No one 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.680 seems to care about that. We also, thanks to Nick 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:51.040 Shirley and CBS News, have seen all kinds of fraudulent 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:55.080 business licenses being issued by the State of California to 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:59.520 hospice care facilities in the San Fernando Valley that we 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.320 now know are not actually treating people. They're just fronts 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:09.960 for scam operations so that California taxpayers can send them 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:14.600 millions and millions of dollars. If you're elected Attorney General, 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.680 are you going to stop this focused on Washington, DC 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.760 and focus on the problems facing California. 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:21.800 Well? 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.880 Absolutely, I mean the short answer is absolutely yes. There 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.080 are so many problems in California right now, and everybody's 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:34.520 pointing the finger at Governor Newsom. Governor Newsom and he's culpable, 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:37.600 But I think what people are missing is Rob Bonta 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:40.840 is probably more culpable because a lot of the things 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:43.680 that we're experiencing in our society today, whether it's the 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:48.040 high crime, the waste, fraud and abuse, the lack of 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:53.400 prosecution for crime, the games being played with the Attorney 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.840 General's office, where as you said, he's being selective and 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:59.840 weaponizing the office. All of this is the Attorney General's responsibility. 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.960 And as you said, he was appointed by Newsom. He 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.879 was a political appointee by Newsom in twenty twenty one 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:09.080 to fill a vacant seat that was left by the 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.200 Sarah to go on to the Biden administration. So Bonta 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:16.119 was handpicked by Newsom and placed there as AG And 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:20.240 ever since then, he has been running interference on justice. 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.080 He has been running interference on cracking down on crime. 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:26.040