Speaker 1: And very happy Thursday to you. At twelve oh six
Speaker 1: in the West, it's the Giant Phillips Show, Mister Randy
Speaker 1: Weggs in Culver City, John, we have.
Speaker 2: A brand new poll in the California Governor's race. This
Speaker 2: comes from the Anti Tom Steyer Committee. California is Not
Speaker 2: for Sale and in first place in this poll with
Speaker 2: twenty four percent of the vote, a nine point jump
Speaker 2: from the previous poll of the same respondents is Javier.
Speaker 1: Buckeria scrub it. Now. I'm going to reserve judgment until
Speaker 1: we see an independent poll because this poll has an agenda.
Speaker 1: The poll was paid for and conducted by a group
Speaker 1: who hates Tom Steyer. So I'm sure the objective is
Speaker 1: to make Tom Steyr look bad. And if Tom Steyer
Speaker 1: didn't look bad, they wouldn't have published the results. I'm
Speaker 1: waiting to see what the poll from Emerson College or
Speaker 1: PPIIC or one of the big newspapers finds. This is
Speaker 1: the fourth or fifth poll in a row that has
Speaker 1: shown the Besarah bump, what some are calling the beceleration.
Speaker 1: So again, Besserah.
Speaker 2: In this poll, which is commissioned by the we Hate
Speaker 2: Tom Steyer people, is at twenty four percent. Hilton, a
Speaker 2: three point bump, is at twenty three percent. Right behind him,
Speaker 2: Tom Steyer is flat in this poll at fifteen percent.
Speaker 2: Chad Bianco drops three points, it is down to eleven percent.
Speaker 2: Right behind him is kt Porter and Katie Porter in
Speaker 2: this poll has ten percent. May Hen flat with six,
Speaker 2: Via Goosa at two and Tony Thurman at one percent.
Speaker 1: Well, now that Baker Rhea is seeing a bump, and
Speaker 1: we know that he is seeing a bump, we just
Speaker 1: don't know to what degree quite yet. He is doing
Speaker 1: what the other candidates have already done, and that is
Speaker 1: take a pilgrimage to the Tijuana River.
Speaker 2: Katie Porter went to the Tijuana River, Tom Steyer went
Speaker 2: to the Tijuanna River and.
Speaker 1: You can literally see it, smell it, and feel it.
Speaker 2: And now it's Besera's turn to smell up the Tijuana River.
Speaker 2: Here is NBC seven in San Diego.
Speaker 3: Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Javier Bassera
Speaker 3: got an up close look at the Hell.
Speaker 1: Wait, that wasn't his job or his name, Granpy Joe for.
Speaker 4: Secretary of Health and Educations over I nominated Javier Bakaria.
Speaker 1: Now before we get into this. If the locals are
Speaker 1: saying it's a federal issue, and he was the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services, wouldn't this fall under his umbrella?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it would also the EPA. And I'll give
Speaker 2: you ten bucks if you could tell me who the
Speaker 2: EPA administrator was under Biden.
Speaker 1: No clue.
Speaker 3: Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services Javier Basera
Speaker 3: got an up close look at the heavily polluted Tijuanna
Speaker 3: River today as NBC seven's South Bay reporter Joe Little
Speaker 3: shows us. Butsera is the latest candidate for California governor
Speaker 3: to visit this environmental crisis ahead of the election.
Speaker 1: Everyone's going to the river.
Speaker 6: Take a with Javier Basera is just the latest gubernatorial
Speaker 6: candidate to accept Supervisor Ploma Gary's invitation to come down
Speaker 6: and tour the polluted Tijuana River valley. So far, five
Speaker 6: current candidates have accepted the invitation. All five said they
Speaker 6: would declare a state of emergency.
Speaker 5: And this is the entryway of the river.
Speaker 6: Once again, Gary gave the hard sell to someone who
Speaker 6: could beat California's next governor.
Speaker 7: We build this in Mexico, will do something to build
Speaker 7: on their own.
Speaker 6: She wants these candidates to see and smell this seuw
Speaker 6: it from Mexican.
Speaker 1: They're all using the same terminology that came from Katie.
Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.
Speaker 6: She wants these candidates to see and smell this sew
Speaker 6: it from Mexico and hear firsthand from the people dealing
Speaker 6: with the pollution that's destroyed the environment, tainted the air,
Speaker 6: and crippled businesses for years.
Speaker 1: You don't really get a feeling for what's truly going
Speaker 1: on until you do that.
Speaker 6: But Sarah is not new to this chat.
Speaker 7: When I was Attorney general, I had to sue the
Speaker 7: federal government to try to get them to do the
Speaker 7: right thing.
Speaker 6: He helped pressure Congress into handing over money to fix
Speaker 6: the broken South Bay International Wastewater Treatment plans.
Speaker 1: Well, obviously that didn't work. And why didn't he do
Speaker 1: anything about it? When he was in the majority government.
Speaker 1: He was part of the executive branch, as a member
Speaker 1: of the cabinet whose position dealt with health.
Speaker 2: This is one of these issues that you only care
Speaker 2: about while you're running for governor.
Speaker 5: This is what we call the hotspot.
Speaker 6: But the problem hasn't gotten better.
Speaker 8: These pipes we have four that are just constantly shooting
Speaker 8: into the air.
Speaker 5: The scientists now have an inventory of what those look like.
Speaker 5: It's been great to have all of the candidates I have.
Speaker 6: Come down here, especially since current Governor Gavin Newsom has
Speaker 6: not been down here.
Speaker 1: If Gavin doesn't want to smell it, no, can you
Speaker 1: imagine the pictures of him in a gas mask in
Speaker 1: front of a river with raw sewage and chemicals and
Speaker 1: metals flowing into California from Mexico and you can literally
Speaker 1: see it, smell it, and feel it. That would blow
Speaker 1: up his opportunity to be president.
Speaker 6: And he hasn't declared a state of emergency despite countless
Speaker 6: requests from local leaders like A. Gary.
Speaker 1: We are going to look back and we're going to
Speaker 1: look at who took action and who did so what
Speaker 1: we're trying to get the prop for funding.
Speaker 6: She argues that declaration would open up funds faster to
Speaker 6: protect the thousands who live down.
Speaker 2: Here, and yeah, how about some relief for the people
Speaker 2: that are suffering through this. There are people that report
Speaker 2: daily migrains and that's not something that just happens. That's
Speaker 2: because of the toxicity in the air.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that They're looking for every way
Speaker 1: to fix this problem except to tell Mexico to knock
Speaker 1: it off.
Speaker 6: And fix this hotspot that's aerosolizing the pollution. Would you
Speaker 6: declare state emergency to win this election.
Speaker 7: I'll do anything I can to make sure that we need.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: Javier Bisera just the latest candidate to take a whiff
Speaker 2: down at the TJ River Valley.
Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.
Speaker 1: It sounded like he was in a gas mask too.
Speaker 6: He was.
Speaker 1: He had like a cloth over his mouth. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: he was down in San Diego County. He also had
Speaker 1: time to fit in a town hall.
Speaker 2: He had a town hall in Balboa Park, which means
Speaker 2: he probably had to pay for parking.
Speaker 1: Here is CBS eight.
Speaker 9: Supporters are calling it the Basara era.
Speaker 1: No, they're not.
Speaker 2: Who I was on board with beceleration, the Besara era.
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift's gonna sue your ass.
Speaker 9: Supporters are calling it the Bisara era. Tonight, hundreds of
Speaker 9: San Diegans packed a town hall at Balboa Park to
Speaker 9: hear Democratic candidate Javier Basara make his case to be
Speaker 9: California's next governor. Good evening, I'm Marcella Lee I'm Carlo Chiquetta.
Speaker 10: Bisara has been steadily rising in the polls in recent
Speaker 10: weeks as the June second primary draws near his It's
Speaker 10: Richard Allen, his live in Balboa Park with more and
Speaker 10: Bessera's top priorities and how he's responding to his opponent's criticisms.
Speaker 5: Richard and Carlo and Marcella.
Speaker 8: Just a few weeks ago, Javier Besserra was pulling in
Speaker 8: the single digits in this chaotic race for governor.
Speaker 2: I would really love to see a focused group where
Speaker 2: they're doing these polls and ask somebody that was maybe
Speaker 2: they were a swallowell person before that blew up?
Speaker 1: Why Bessarah? It's interesting that they chose him over Tony
Speaker 1: v or some of the others.
Speaker 5: And Carlo and Marc.
Speaker 2: Is just based on the interviews that I've seen, is
Speaker 2: it that Javier Bessera seems to be the most malleable
Speaker 2: of all the candidates?
Speaker 5: Must be and Carlo and Marcella.
Speaker 8: Just a few weeks ago, Javier Besserra was pulling in
Speaker 8: the single digits in this chaotic race for governor. But
Speaker 8: following Eric Swalwell's exit from the race, he has seen
Speaker 8: his campaign gained major traction. A new CBS News poll
Speaker 8: finds him now pulling at thirteen percent, just behind Steve
Speaker 8: Hilton and Tom Steyer.
Speaker 2: People that we're supporting the rapists, support me, excuse me,
Speaker 2: alleged rapist.
Speaker 1: That is quite a credential.
Speaker 8: Hundreds of supporters pack Wednesday Nightstown Hall. It's Javio Bessera
Speaker 8: took to the stage.
Speaker 7: Now that we have rocketed to the top, everyone's coming
Speaker 7: after us.
Speaker 5: The former state attorney Jim.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine what a disaster he would be as governor?
Speaker 2: It could happen if these polls are real, He'd be
Speaker 2: in the top spot with Hilton. And there is a
Speaker 2: very very very very very likely chance that Besarah wins
Speaker 2: by twenty points.
Speaker 1: I've said it before. I really do believe he is
Speaker 1: the Joe Biden the race, because don't forget in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: the Democrats didn't know what to do where I think
Speaker 1: Mayor Pete won the Iowa caucus and then Bernie did
Speaker 1: well in New Hampshire and in Nevada, and people thought
Speaker 1: that Bernie was going to steamroll his way to the nomination,
Speaker 1: and the Democrats freaked out. But it wasn't until South
Speaker 1: Carolina where they decided that they would just all get
Speaker 1: behind a deeply flawed candidate to save them from what
Speaker 1: they thought was a sure loss. And it seems like
Speaker 1: the Democrats in California are panicking and they're going to
Speaker 1: get behind a deeply flawed candidate who is a guy
Speaker 1: who has no energy and no ideas and no knowledge.
Speaker 1: People may forget, but Biden in twenty nineteen or in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, he came in fifth place in the Iowa
Speaker 1: caucus and then we went to sleep, and then he
Speaker 1: got his clock cleaned in New Hampshire and Nevada too.
Speaker 8: The former state attorney General and Secretary of Health and
Speaker 8: Human Services hammered home his message of bringing affordability to California.
Speaker 1: How yeah, he's kind of light on the details. If
Speaker 1: you haven't noticed, Oh, we're just gonna build. How are
Speaker 1: you gonna do that? Well, we're just gonna do it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna scrub it. M mmm. You notice he never
Speaker 1: says that anymore. Scrub it? Well. That interview was one
Speaker 1: of the most embarrassing interviews I've ever seen. That term
Speaker 1: has been scrubbed from his campaign.
Speaker 7: From housing to healthcare, we're gonna get people into homes.
Speaker 7: We're gonna build more homes. We're gonna make sure you
Speaker 7: have your healthcare because I'm not bending ane to Donald
Speaker 7: Trump just because he cut a trillion dollars out of
Speaker 7: the healthcare system.
Speaker 1: One of two easy applause line. By the way, just
Speaker 1: think about this for a moment. How damning is this
Speaker 1: for the California Democratic Party that in a state where
Speaker 1: they control everything. They control all the state wide constitutional offices,
Speaker 1: super majorities in both houses of the state legislature, they
Speaker 1: have a super majority in the congressional delegation. They have
Speaker 1: all the big city mayorships, they have almost every single
Speaker 1: seat on the city council in all the big cities.
Speaker 1: They have almost every single seat on the county Board
Speaker 1: of supervisors in the big cities, in the big counties.
Speaker 1: And this is the best they can do. This, This
Speaker 1: is the guy.
Speaker 2: Well, there were better people than him, better you know,
Speaker 2: from their standpoint, but they didn't want to do it.
Speaker 2: Gavin was pushing real hard for Padilla, and apparently Alex
Speaker 2: is doing an interview with Padilla that's going to air
Speaker 2: this weekend where he says, yeah, they all wanted me
Speaker 2: in there and I didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: This is an indictment of that machine.
Speaker 8: One attendee at community college professor asked what he plans
Speaker 8: to do to make higher education more accessible under my watch.
Speaker 7: We will make the first two years of tuition free
Speaker 7: at the community colleges.
Speaker 1: Where you can.
Speaker 2: Wait, we already did that. Is it community college already
Speaker 2: free for two years?
Speaker 1: This guy just doesn't read the paper.
Speaker 2: Maybe he meant the UC's and the CSUS, which is
Speaker 2: the Katie Porter idea that he wants to rip off.
Speaker 2: But we already have this.
Speaker 7: We will make the first two years of tuition free
Speaker 7: at the community colleges where you can.
Speaker 1: And did the audience not know that it's already free
Speaker 1: with cal grants if you're not wealthy, I think through
Speaker 1: cal grants, most if not all, of your education at
Speaker 1: the California State University System and UC system is covered.
Speaker 2: Our community college system right now is so generous. We're
Speaker 2: giving out free tuition to all the robots that are
Speaker 2: scamming the system.
Speaker 7: We will make the first two years of tuition free
Speaker 7: at the community colleges where you keep.
Speaker 2: At some point, you just keep saying the same campaign
Speaker 2: things over and over and over again and don't realize, oh,
Speaker 2: we already did that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what GROC says. GROC says, here's the
Speaker 1: current situation. We have something called the California College Promise Grant.
Speaker 1: This is the main program. It waives enrollment fees for
Speaker 1: eligible students. You qualify if you meet income guidelines or
Speaker 1: other criteria meaning receiving colworks, SSI or certain financial aid.
Speaker 1: It is not limited to two years. You can receive
Speaker 1: it for as long as you qualify. And then we
Speaker 1: have the California College Promise Program. This program aims to
Speaker 1: make the first two years tuition free. It's available at many,
Speaker 1: but not all, of the community colleges, and it usually
Speaker 1: requires you to be a first time, full time student.
Speaker 1: Some colleges automatically wave fees, others use the money for
Speaker 1: support services instead. The bottom line is that low income
Speaker 1: students often attend completely tuition free, and they also get
Speaker 1: help for their books. Middle income or higher income students
Speaker 1: usually still have to pay the fee of forty six
Speaker 1: bucks per unit unless their specific college offers a full waiver.
Speaker 1: So what we have in California is anyone who grows
Speaker 1: up in a lower middle class or poor family gets
Speaker 1: it for free, including the books. So what he's talking
Speaker 1: about to this audience is making it free for middle
Speaker 1: class and upper middle class and wealthy families. But at
Speaker 1: forty six bucks a unit, you're already talking about an
Speaker 1: education that's about as heavily subsidized as it gets.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what happens if you pay attention to the details.
Speaker 2: We don't do that in baccarea Land.
Speaker 7: We will make the first two years of tuition free
Speaker 7: at the community colleges.
Speaker 1: Where you can.
Speaker 8: Bessarah was also asked about how we plans to respond
Speaker 8: to the Tijuana River Valley sewage crisis.
Speaker 7: I am prepared to declare a state of emergency for
Speaker 7: the Tijuana River when I become governor, so we free
Speaker 7: community college.
Speaker 2: Got a bigger applause than cleaning up the Tijuana River. Well,
Speaker 2: they probably don't live in that direct community.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no. That's the southern tip
Speaker 1: of the San Diego County.
Speaker 7: When I become governor, so we can start to take action.
Speaker 8: The biggest applause of the evening came after Bisera was
Speaker 8: asked how he plans to address the threat of violent
Speaker 8: ice raids.
Speaker 7: This ice Trump's ice, We need to abolish it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how does that work? Okay? As governor of California,
Speaker 1: you have no control over what goes on in federal departments,
Speaker 1: and as a cabinet member you should know this, but
Speaker 1: you're pretty dim and clearly you don't.
Speaker 8: After the debate, I asked Bessera how he plans to
Speaker 8: bring down skyrocketing gas prices here in the Golden State.
Speaker 7: Push Donald Trump to stop getting us into reckless wars?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Push what you want to ran or a rack? And
Speaker 1: why is gasoline more expensive here than Arizona and Nevada
Speaker 1: because they have the same president.
Speaker 7: Push Donald Trump to stop enacting reckless terror policies.
Speaker 8: Many of Bessarah's opponents have taken him to task for
Speaker 8: having big plans but with few details to back them up.
Speaker 5: Just look at my record. You'll see all the details.
Speaker 1: He goes what record, boy, I'll tell you Gavin has
Speaker 1: a lot of faults, but he's not stupid. He's clever.
Speaker 1: This guy is about as dumb as they get. Scrub it.
Speaker 2: Hey, Pelosi told everyone, don't forget when he was named
Speaker 2: Attorney General by Jerry Brown. He didn't even have an
Speaker 2: active BARCRD still trying to go back and get it.
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to figure out that appointment.
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Speaker 2: the program. He is a candidate for California Attorney General.
Speaker 2: He's a registered Republican and he'll be on your ballot
Speaker 2: next month, which I guess is in a couple of days.
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Speaker 1: Now. You can get him online at gatesfoag dot com.
Speaker 1: That's Gates for ag dot com. Michael Gates, welcome.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: It's good to be here.
Speaker 1: So California has an Attorney General. Rob Bonta, the incumbent
Speaker 1: Democrat who was appointed to that office by Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: who seems to be obsessed with two different things. He
Speaker 1: seems to be obsessed with chasing national headlines by suing
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and he almost sees the office as being
Speaker 1: a federal office of sorts because the only subjects he
Speaker 1: seems to ever comment on are federal in nature, where
Speaker 1: he doesn't really have any jurisdiction. And the other thing
Speaker 1: that he does is he seems to act on behalf
Speaker 1: of his benefactors. Of all all of the problems facing
Speaker 1: the state of California, he has chosen, to the extent
Speaker 1: that he spends any time on California to spend his
Speaker 1: time going after the card clubs because his big campaign
Speaker 1: contributors are the Indian casinos, and they don't want the
Speaker 1: competition of card clubs, particularly in population centers, so he's
Speaker 1: been going after them, trying to make their lives miserable.
Speaker 1: At the same time that he's doing this, California has
Speaker 1: multiple disasters on its hands, including an environmental disaster at
Speaker 1: the southern border in the Tijuana River where Mexico is
Speaker 1: dumping ross sewage into that river and people in San
Speaker 1: Diego County are getting ill because of it. No one
Speaker 1: seems to care about that. We also, thanks to Nick
Speaker 1: Shirley and CBS News, have seen all kinds of fraudulent
Speaker 1: business licenses being issued by the State of California to
Speaker 1: hospice care facilities in the San Fernando Valley that we
Speaker 1: now know are not actually treating people. They're just fronts
Speaker 1: for scam operations so that California taxpayers can send them
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars. If you're elected Attorney General,
Speaker 1: are you going to stop this focused on Washington, DC
Speaker 1: and focus on the problems facing California.
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean the short answer is absolutely yes. There
Speaker 4: are so many problems in California right now, and everybody's
Speaker 4: pointing the finger at Governor Newsom. Governor Newsom and he's culpable,
Speaker 4: But I think what people are missing is Rob Bonta
Speaker 4: is probably more culpable because a lot of the things
Speaker 4: that we're experiencing in our society today, whether it's the
Speaker 4: high crime, the waste, fraud and abuse, the lack of
Speaker 4: prosecution for crime, the games being played with the Attorney
Speaker 4: General's office, where as you said, he's being selective and
Speaker 4: weaponizing the office. All of this is the Attorney General's responsibility.
Speaker 4: And as you said, he was appointed by Newsom. He
Speaker 4: was a political appointee by Newsom in twenty twenty one
Speaker 4: to fill a vacant seat that was left by the
Speaker 4: Sarah to go on to the Biden administration. So Bonta
Speaker 4: was handpicked by Newsom and placed there as AG And
Speaker 4: ever since then, he has been running interference on justice.
Speaker 4: He has been running interference on cracking down on crime.
Speaker 4: He has been running interference on getting to the truth,
Speaker 4: running having investigations done where they need to be done.
Speaker 4: And he's been covering for corruption, just like you said,
Speaker 4: with his political associations, his political friends. We know that
Speaker 4: he's connected to the Dwongs and all of the corruption there,
Speaker 4: with all of the illegal activity, and the former mayor
Speaker 4: of Oakland who's now been indicted, been paying a penalty
Speaker 4: at the federal level for the crimes committed. And so
Speaker 4: he's got some bad associations, he's got some bad friends,
Speaker 4: some bad owmbrace and he's been acting as a political
Speaker 4: operative ever since. I mean, just look at what the
Speaker 4: federal government's been doing in California. They found JD. Vance's
Speaker 4: task force, his anti fraud task force, in California, has
Speaker 4: found that in La County alone, there are over four
Speaker 4: hundred and forty five fraudulent hospice locations in California. Again,
Speaker 4: in La County alone, over four hundred and forty five
Speaker 4: different locations. Rob Bonta hasn't lifted a finger on any
Speaker 4: of these. In fact, he just had a press conference
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago announcing that he found fourteen
Speaker 4: that he found fourteen hot fraudulent hospice locations in the
Speaker 4: state of California. And he only did that because the
Speaker 4: polling is showing that he's in the toilet. His polling
Speaker 4: numbers are absolutely in the toilet. Some polling numbers have
Speaker 4: been coming out on the Attorney General's race and his
Speaker 4: are absolutely miserable, and he's hitting the panic button, and
Speaker 4: he's holding these sham press conferences claiming to now suddenly
Speaker 4: have found fraud when he's also him and his wife
Speaker 4: have been going after Nick Shirley, even promoting legislation called
Speaker 4: the Stop Nick Shirley Act that basically will punish criminalize
Speaker 4: in journalism in the state of California, which is in
Speaker 4: attack on the First Amendment as a tack on every
Speaker 4: day Americans, every day Californian. So this guy's corrupt. I'm
Speaker 4: not afraid to say it. He's been running and covering
Speaker 4: four corruptions since he's been in office. He's not a
Speaker 4: serious lawyer. I, on the other hand, am a serious laurier.
Speaker 4: I've tried many, many multi million dollar cases at trial.
Speaker 4: I've argued in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. I
Speaker 4: have won multi million million dollar cases. I'm actually even
Speaker 4: admitted to the United States Supreme Court bar So if
Speaker 4: I was called upon to go argue a case back
Speaker 4: in Washington, DC tomorrow at the US Supreme Court, I'm certified,
Speaker 4: I could get in and argue the case. So I'm
Speaker 4: actually a real lawyer with real solutions. I'm going to
Speaker 4: turn the Attorney General's office completely around, turn the turn
Speaker 4: California ture law enforcement back over to the interests of
Speaker 4: every day Californians. The Attorney General has purview over all
Speaker 4: fifty eight district attorneys in all fifty eight sheriff in
Speaker 4: the state of California. So when I go to Sacramento
Speaker 4: and I'm tough on crime and I reduce crime, I'm
Speaker 4: like I did in Huntington Beach when I was the
Speaker 4: city attorney there by double digits, and we make every
Speaker 4: city in the state of Californian's top in the top
Speaker 4: ten safest cities, just like Huntington Beaches. I can do
Speaker 4: that with the sheriffs and the DA's on day one.
Speaker 4: So there are things that I can do absolutely on
Speaker 4: day one, including cracking down the fraud, waste, and abuse.
Speaker 4: We're going to put people behind bars. We're going to
Speaker 4: claw back that money and return it to every day Californian.
Speaker 4: So you know, I know the segment isn't long enough
Speaker 4: to go through all of this in the high level
Speaker 4: of detail, but my list of to dos on day
Speaker 4: one is absolutely long. And I am going to go
Speaker 4: to Sacramento not to make friends. I'm going to make
Speaker 4: some enemies, but I'm going to go there to return
Speaker 4: California to a law and order state. We are going
Speaker 4: to return to the rule of law in California on
Speaker 4: my watch.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Rob Bonta's ties to the Dong family. They
Speaker 1: have been indicted by the federal government. They are facing
Speaker 1: federal charges this family California Waste Solutions. These are the
Speaker 1: political benefactors of Rob Bonta. Shang Tao the former mayor
Speaker 1: of Oakland, who came from that same political machine in
Speaker 1: that city, is also facing federal charges. We know that
Speaker 1: Rob BoNT has spent five hundred thousand dollars of his
Speaker 1: campaign money on a white collar criminal defense attorney. He
Speaker 1: says he spent the money because he was talking to
Speaker 1: the federal government as a potential victim of a crime.
Speaker 1: Why a victim would spend five hundred thousand dollars on
Speaker 1: a white collar criminal defense attorney is beyond my ability
Speaker 1: to comprehend. Do you think it's outside the realm of
Speaker 1: possibilities that he could be indicted or facing federal charges
Speaker 1: before the end of the year.
Speaker 4: Well, all I understand is that through the upcoming trials
Speaker 4: that are anticipated at toward the end of this year,
Speaker 4: but before the election, that there might be a lot
Speaker 4: of interesting information and evidence that comes out in open
Speaker 4: court that is going to implicate Rob Bonta. So that's
Speaker 4: what I'm hearing. It remains to be seen what that
Speaker 4: looks like. I'm not going to come into any further
Speaker 4: on it right now, but what I will tell you is,
Speaker 4: when I'm Attorney General, I don't care if somebody was
Speaker 4: the age of the State of California, held other high
Speaker 4: political office, or were or or was a common you know,
Speaker 4: everyday Californian, no matter what position they held, if they
Speaker 4: committed a crime, they're going to jail. They are going
Speaker 4: to pay the price to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 5: Period.
Speaker 4: So I am very very serious about the rule of law,
Speaker 4: upholding and defending the rule of law, and enforcing criminal laws.
Speaker 4: Like I said, as city Attorney hunt Beach, I had
Speaker 4: a city level prosecutor. We treated everyday quality of life
Speaker 4: crimes like felonies. We were so tough on the law
Speaker 4: that we reduced crime in hunting To Beach by double
Speaker 4: digits after Prop. Forty seven and fifty seven past and now,
Speaker 4: where every crime is rising in every other city, crime
Speaker 4: is dropping in Huntington Beach. We're in the top ten
Speaker 4: safeest cities in the state of California out of almost
Speaker 4: five hundred cities. So I'm going to be extremely tough.
Speaker 4: Rob Bonta has there's a lot of questions about his
Speaker 4: record and his associations that need to be asked. And
Speaker 4: look at that's what he's done with the office. He's
Speaker 4: been suing hospitals to force them to perform trans surgeries
Speaker 4: on minors. When I'm attorney general, I'm going to be
Speaker 4: dismissing these lawsuits that he filed to force hospitals, including
Speaker 4: a children's hospital, to mutilate children. And I'm going to
Speaker 4: be prosecuting doctors in hospitals that seek to mutilate children.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's completely on the wrong side of these
Speaker 4: eighty twenty issues. He's weaponized his office. He sued Catholic hospitals,
Speaker 4: he sued charitable organizations. He sued parents, he sued school
Speaker 4: boards that are just trying to protect their children. He
Speaker 4: sued the Trump administration. He's suing and suing and suing
Speaker 4: and spending all these millions and millions and tens of
Speaker 4: millions of dollars of taxpayer money fighting these political partisan lawsuits.
Speaker 4: Yet we are all suffering from the highest crime. The
Speaker 4: audience needs to know that California ranks number six out
Speaker 4: of fifty states and highest crime in the nation. I'll
Speaker 4: say it again, California ranks number six in highest crime
Speaker 4: out of fifty states across the nation. We are a
Speaker 4: crime ridden state, and he's the top law enforcement officer
Speaker 4: in state of California. He is not doing his job
Speaker 4: he needs to be get back to work, rollup sleeves,
Speaker 4: work with the district attorneys, all fifty eight of them
Speaker 4: throughout the state of Californian all fifty eight sheriffs, and
Speaker 4: he needs to make sure that their departments are being
Speaker 4: tough on crime and looking out for everyday Californians and
Speaker 4: not being focusing resources on political weaponization lawsuits.
Speaker 1: It was recently revealed that Mario Warrez is in fact
Speaker 1: the whistleblower in the case of California Way Solutions, Shang Tao,
Speaker 1: the Dong family, and others, and he has alleged that
Speaker 1: the Dong family has a video tape of Rob Bonta
Speaker 1: in a quote compromising situation that has been used to
Speaker 1: blackmail him into doing certain things. Do you know if
Speaker 1: that video exists, and if so, do we know what's
Speaker 1: on that video.
Speaker 4: I've heard the same thing. I don't know about the
Speaker 4: video itself, but I've heard exactly what you just stated.
Speaker 4: And any top level official, particularly the top law enforcement
Speaker 4: official in the state of California, which Rob Bonte is
Speaker 4: as Attorney General, should never be in a position of
Speaker 4: being blackmailed and should never have put himself in a
Speaker 4: position of being blackmailed. But that's what happens when you
Speaker 4: have unsavory relationships, you have bad political associations, you do favors,
Speaker 4: you don't have integrity, you don't have character. Look, I've
Speaker 4: been married for almost thirty years. I have five kids,
Speaker 4: four grandkids. I'm a family man. I've worked my entire life.
Speaker 4: Most of my life as blue collar. I was grinding
Speaker 4: it out, just like everyday Californians, trying to make ends,
Speaker 4: me trying to provide for my kids, trying to provide
Speaker 4: for education.
Speaker 6: And I saw.
Speaker 4: Crime and other things. Crime go up and other things
Speaker 4: start to go wrong in my area. And that's why
Speaker 4: I ran for Huntington Beach and so I started fighting
Speaker 4: for everyday Californians in Huntington Beach. And I was so
Speaker 4: serious about the rule of law. I actually took my
Speaker 4: when my police officers were suit for doing their job.
Speaker 4: I took those cases to trial and I defended them
Speaker 4: at trial, in front of a jury in court, and
Speaker 4: I ended them successfully. I've never lost a cop case.
Speaker 4: I'm talking multi million dollar cases that other attorneys would
Speaker 4: never try because there's too much risk. I believe in
Speaker 4: the rule of law. I believe in law and order,
Speaker 4: and it was so affected in Huntington Beach. Like I said,
Speaker 4: we are really counted among the top safest cities in
Speaker 4: the state of California, and Huntington Beach is considered the
Speaker 4: Land of the Free and home of the brave in
Speaker 4: large part because I fought so hard just for the
Speaker 4: rule of law, for the Constitution, for every day Californians
Speaker 4: in hunting To Beach, two hundred thousand residents there. I
Speaker 4: fought every single day. I'm an anti government guy. I'm
Speaker 4: an anti establishment guy. I think government's too big. It
Speaker 4: needs to be smaller. We need to get back to
Speaker 4: having the people be self determinat to make decisions for
Speaker 4: their own towns, their own cities, make decisions for their
Speaker 4: own lives, and not have Sacramento dictate it, especially by
Speaker 4: crooked politicians that have lost nearly five hundred billion dollars
Speaker 4: of our harder and taxpayer money through waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 4: That's just not an abstract concept. That's five hundred nearly
Speaker 4: five hundred million dollars lost of our hardered tax paramney
Speaker 4: lost at the hands of Sacramento and Rob Bonta. Until
Speaker 4: very very recently with the fourteen hospice locations, never announced
Speaker 4: an investigation or asked a question why because he knew
Speaker 4: for past five years, he knew who was taking that money.
Speaker 4: He knew who was taking that money. He knew it
Speaker 4: was going to Democrat operatives and political organizations, and he
Speaker 4: did nothing about it, even though that money was stolen
Speaker 4: not only from the taxpayer but for the people in
Speaker 4: need whose services were there to go and serve those
Speaker 4: people who were in need. He allowed that money to
Speaker 4: be taken and he never stopped it, and he could have.
Speaker 4: So he's this guy's a bad guy. And if anybody
Speaker 4: in California, if if the audience is listening, we absolutely
Speaker 4: need a new attorney general. And if we get a
Speaker 4: new attorney general, when I'm attorney General on day one,
Speaker 4: We're going to notice a difference in California. I Am
Speaker 4: literally going to get to work write it right away
Speaker 4: on day one, and I don't have to ask the
Speaker 4: governor's permission or the legislature's permission. I'm beyond the reach
Speaker 4: of the legislature. I can do everything on this call
Speaker 4: that I've talked about doing, dismissing the weaponized lawsuits, cracking
Speaker 4: down crime, reducing homelessness. We're going to be Title nine
Speaker 4: compliant throughout the state of California. Another thing is I
Speaker 4: going to tell on my sheriffs that we're going to
Speaker 4: be Second Amendment compliant. They are going to be issuing
Speaker 4: concealed carry weapons permits within ninety days or else, or
Speaker 4: else they will be deemed in violation of the Second Amendment.
Speaker 4: We're going to be Second Amendment complying up and down
Speaker 4: the state of California. I'm going to work with my
Speaker 4: sheriffs to do it. We're going to turn California back
Speaker 4: over to everyday Californians, and I am going to be
Speaker 4: there to protect their constitutional rights and ensure that we're
Speaker 4: compliant with all federal laws, and we're enforcing all state laws.
Speaker 4: And we're going to give California back to Californians. And
Speaker 4: we are going to return California to a law and
Speaker 4: order state.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you last question. We have about sixty seconds left.
Speaker 1: One of the jobs of the Attorney General is to
Speaker 1: write the title and summary for ballot initiatives. We know
Speaker 1: that the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has one that'll be
Speaker 1: on the November ballot to protect Prop thirteen. We know
Speaker 1: there's one that's going to be on the ballot that
Speaker 1: is going to require photo identification to vote. We know
Speaker 1: that Rob Bonta doesn't want either one of these two
Speaker 1: initiatives to pass. What do you think the odds are
Speaker 1: he's going to play it straight or try to sink
Speaker 1: those two initiatives with a heavily biased title. In summary,
Speaker 1: you about sixty seconds.
Speaker 4: The public's been paying attention to this, and I think
Speaker 4: they already know it's coming. And those props are pulling
Speaker 4: at sixty I'm sorry, eighty five percent approval. They're pulling
Speaker 4: at eighty five percent approval, so they'll pass. But what
Speaker 4: the public needs to know is if you don't have
Speaker 4: an attorney general who is going to defend those once
Speaker 4: they pass, defend those in court, because once those pass
Speaker 4: on the November ballot, they will be attacked as unconstitutional
Speaker 4: or a violation of law or whatever. They will be
Speaker 4: attacked and they will be brought to court. If Rob
Speaker 4: Bonta does not show up to defend those props, the
Speaker 4: passage of those props or the new law of the land,
Speaker 4: they will fail. We saw that with Kamala Harrison Prop eight,
Speaker 4: where marriage equals a man plus a woman. Back in
Speaker 4: twenty ten, she did not show up to court to
Speaker 4: defend it and it failed. So if we don't have
Speaker 4: a new ag in when these props pass, they may
Speaker 4: as well fail. We absolutely need Bonta out. He will
Speaker 4: not show up to court to defend them. So this
Speaker 4: is critical. We are in a crisis right now and
Speaker 4: we need to rescue California.
Speaker 1: Michael Gates, candidate for Attorney General here in California, registered Republican.
Speaker 1: You can get them online at gatesfoag dot com. That's
Speaker 1: Gates the number four AG dot com. Michael Gates, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for stopping by.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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