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Who 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:00.600 who knew you had a face for Rideo. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.920 Hey, I'm just happy you're wearing a hat that's not 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.640 a Dodger hat, because you know, us angel fans don't 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.399 have a lot to hang on to This year. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.239 It was tough. I went to Chavez Ravine last night 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.720 to watch the final game and the sweep. Boston's on 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.960 a tear and they just tore right through the Dodgers. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.760 It actually reminds me of the previous season where the 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.919 Dodgers went on to win the World Series, but lost 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:27.760 all six games against the Angels. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:28.800 I was there for. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.560 Yeah, so you can never tell what's going on, So 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:33.680 we'll see what happens. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.720 There was a guy who was giving me a hard 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.000 time for wearing an Angel's hat at Dodger Stadium, and 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.560 I said, listen, dude, when October rolls around, you're going 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.840 to be watching baseball and I'm gonna be watching reruns 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:47.639 of Judge Judy. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:53.760 Give me something that's perfect, all right. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.520 So let's get to the top story here in the 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.800 state of California, which is the California Governor. Gavin Newsom 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:07.079 made his taxes available to select reporters for a select 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.760 amount of time, with very specific rules that they had 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.119 to abide by if they were allowed to look at 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:19.040 his taxes. He is now patting himself on the back 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.800 and doing a victory lap for allowing this to take place. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.920 I look at it, and I say, okay, there's no 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.440 law that requires him to release his taxes as California governor. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.080 He can keep them private if he wants to. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.400 He's doing this for political reasons because he knows as 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.080 a candidate for president it's not a good look for 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.680 a Democratic candidate, in particular after they went after Donald 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.520 Trump for as long as they did about not releasing 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:51.040 his tax returns to keep their own tax returns secret. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.560 But when you add all of these rules into the mix, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.920 I don't think he's going to get the bounce out 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.320 of this that he thinks he is. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.800 Your thoughts, you. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.520 Know what I think? It's what here's what I think. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.760 I think that Gavin Newsom staked out this territory because 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.280 everything's about running for president, right, So he staked out 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.760 this territory that he was going to be the anti 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.159 Trump guy, and that got him a big boost for like, 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.760 you know, six eight months where he was the troll 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.120 to Trump. Now Trump is kind of his own troll, right. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.600 Trump's brought his numbers down. More people are attacking Trump 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.520 from both sides of the aisle, so it's he's not 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.440 like the only anti Trump guy in the room. So 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.599 in the meantime, people are now looking at him and saying, well, 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.200 what is there beyond the fact that he wants to 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.440 take on Donald Trump? And you know a lot. I mean, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.760 the FED are investigating him now, the DJ's investigating and 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.480 so we had had to deal with that, then move 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.960 along to Oh, I'm going to It turns out he 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:54.560 whitewashed his affair with you know Rippy that he had, 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.600 and I'm sure you've talked plenty about that on your show, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:04.680 because nobody gets more into salatious detail them. But the 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.160 broader point is that he opened that up by publishing 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:12.800 his memoir and by you know, understating what happened to 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.000 the point where she was compelled by either a suddenly 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.200 need to tell the truth combined with who knows what 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.760 kind of a check from from from Vanity Fair and boom. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.880 Now that opens up a keg of worms. And now 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:29.119 chapter three he who releases their taxes but doesn't release 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.640 their taxes And the answer is somebody with something to hide, 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.640 because you don't go through that kind of an exercise. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.560 What you do is you say, hey, you know what, 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.080 go TOGAVINEUSOM dot com. Anybody who wants to. I don't 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.760 care if you're in the media, I don't care. If 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.480 you're a constituent, you can go there. My tax return 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.800 is there for anybody to see, which, by the way, 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.200 that is the state of affairs for the tax return 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.839 of Steve Hilton. That is even the State of Affairs 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.360 for the tax returns of Bessarah. Now they had a 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.960 law they had to follow, but it doesn't change the 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.480 fact that where you know, when you do what you 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.279 just described, come on into this secret room. No no, no, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:09.039 not you, and come on in here and we're going 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.960 to open it up. And you've got a number two pencil. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:16.000 I need that. And you have a smart smartphone. No no, no, no, no, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.240 no no no, there's no smartphones anywhere near my tact 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.119 So my broader point, and I think it was your point, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.800 is that this is just one more narrative that Gavin Newsom, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.120 who has been used to being a combination of softballed 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.680 by the California Press Corps plus the California Press Court, 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.479 just isn't what it was in terms of its size 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.240 and depth or anything like that. You end up with 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.080 a situation where he's now running for president and it's 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.599 the big leagues, and I think he's now demonstrating week 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.039 over week over week that he's not ready to play 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.320 at that level. And I don't think he's prepared for 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.839 the critique he's going to get. And this is just 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.520 amateur hour. So that's my ten cents on video on 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:57.200 the show. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.280 Well, and you look at his situation, and he's going 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.880 to turn into a pumpkin at the end of the 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.920 year because he turns out as governor and he's not 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.920 going to be a somebody. He's going to be a 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.800 former somebody. And you look at Cable News, which is 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.600 littered with former somebodies. Every former senator, every former governor, 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.800 every former congressman has a contributorship to one of the 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.560 channels on cable. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.400 And he's going to find it, I think, very. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.800 Difficult to be able to make news and make noise 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.240 the way he was able to do so as governor 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:39.120 of California. And I almost see abudding John Cox on 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.400 the horizon where I could totally picture Gavin riding a 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.360 bear around county fairs in Iowa. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.840 Well, it's even going to be worse for him because 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.320 you can see the news now, I mean, CNN comes 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.360 on and says, and now for some counterpoint to what's 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.120 going on with the Trump administration, we turn to our 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:00.760 voice in California and it's not Gavin Newsom. It's Congressman 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.520 Garcia of Long Beach, the new chairman of the House 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:09.080 Oversight Committee, and he will become the new California talking 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.000 head when it comes and because that, if you know, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.840 Democrats are likely to take the House, and if they do, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.640 you could be sure that how you know, think think 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.600 back with those of you who've been on this program 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.200 and have been around a bit a bit when Barack 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.160 Obama was president, dere Elisa kind of changed that House 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:31.040 Oversight Committee role into really pitbull, a tack dog. And Garcia, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.760 I'll give credit where credit is due. That guy's a 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.600 pit bull and that guy's be an attack dog. And 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.199 he will have a committee, he will have subpoena power. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.000 It's going to be happening all of the time. And 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.440 the context here is that no one's going to care 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.480 about Gavin Newsom, not even as the guy from California. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.520 And by the way, whatever oxygen in the room Garcia 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.200 isn't is not taking up. He's got to, you know, 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.480 Newsom's got to share it with with Harris, who is 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.840 going to be out there prognosticating about you know, her bid, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.360 which is a whole other topic of discussion. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.240 Well, and don't forget about Rocanna, who is the darling 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.480 of the DSA who might run for president too, right. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.720 And so I think that, you know, I think that 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.240 Gavin Newsom is going to wake up and start to 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.640 realize that his biggest challenge to becoming the next president 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.800 of the United States is looking back at him in 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.000 the mirror. I think he's just not ready for prime time. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.959 And he's you know, he he's been advantaged by being 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.120 the you know, kind of pretty boy from California. He 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.520 waltzed into the lieutenant governorship by being mentored by the 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.840 Pelosi Organization and all, you know, again when we get 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.240 into the networks of who's supporting who, I'm talking to 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:49.640 the expert, but you know, he and then as lieutenant governor, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.040 he just turns around as the quote unquote he was 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.280 still in that weird phase where he was calling himself 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.679 the pro business Democrat before he made the complete one 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.840 eighty and so he started raising money everywhere. He couldn't 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.560 even walked into being governor. The guys really had no 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.439 real challenge. Well, you don't walk into the White House, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.640 and you don't walk into the nomination for the Democrat 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.880 Party for the White House. It's hard thought and it's 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.920 real and he is not remotely up for this challenge, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.480 not even remotely. AOC is better prepared than he is. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.760 Let's talk about Boyle Heights for a second, because we 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.959 have a public health disaster, we have an environmental disaster 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.679 that's going on right now in an area that is 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:38.400 very densely populated, just outside of downtown Los Angeles. Steve Hilton, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.040 when he ran for governor, announced that he was running 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.120 for governor, had the press conference outside of Ground zero 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.440 at Boyle Heights with Glory Romero, the candidate for lieutenant governor, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.880 right beside him. So far, Gavin Newsom has not shown 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.920 up so far. Javier Bessera, who represented that area in 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.320 both the California Assembly and the House of Representatives, has 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.400 not shown up to my knowledge. They certainly don't want 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.160 any pictures of themselves in a situation like that that'll 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.079 be used against them at some point in the future. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.679 But you had a public health director who went on 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.360 TV and a mayor of Los Angeles and told the 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.760 population that it was perfectly safe to breathe in the 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.880 smoke of this chemical fire that burned for a week. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.160 Now you have people with fluid in their lungs who 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.679 are going to these public health clinics and being told 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.079 to take aspirin and go home, or tile it all 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.800 and go home. Apparently they're bleeding from the nose, they 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.079 have rashes all over their body. This seems like a 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.080 ticking time bomb to me, and the attitude of the 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.120 powers that be in this one party state, which include 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.680 Gavin Newsom and Javier Bisera, are taking the position if 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.240 you just ignore it, it's not that big a deal. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.640 Your thoughts on how they're handling that, well. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:00.959 I guess I would say a couple of things. One 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.440 you certainly left out as we as we do this 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.839 kind of walking dead walk through, you've left out now 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.640 this stinky roddy food phase where everything just the stench 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:15.360 is overwhelming and you literally can't make it up. They're 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.800 handling it poorly, but they're handling it poorly for a reason, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.760 which is that when you have single party rule for 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.480 so long in so many places, they've moved away from 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:31.040 actual any need to perform anything substantively. It's all performative 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.079 because you know, basically, as long as the unions keep 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.520 electing them and they give the unions raises, there's nobody 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:42.360 sorting for competence anymore. And they're quickly moving all of 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.840 the money away from like in the city of Los Angeles. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.800 The Los Angeles the resources that you would want to 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.600 bring to bear to deal with a crisis like this 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.640 aren't available for because it's all being resourced to giving 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.559 raises to the SEIU, to providing funding for illegal immigrants, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.600 and money for NGOs that are, you know, the passion 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.120 projects of the left, and so you don't have the 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.880 money that's in place, the resources in place to really 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.880 deal with practical problems, whether it's a fire in the 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:18.760 Palisades or whether it's this stinky, horrible disaster in the 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.800 center of Los Angeles. And then what happens is they 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.000 elect leaders like Karen Bass who are dumb dabbed down 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.480 to that level. Karen Bass wouldn't know what to do 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.040 with the resources if she had the resources, which is 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.640 kind of the whole point. She's willing to trade all 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.719 of the money away for her reelection to all these 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:41.440 political groups because she wouldn't use resources anyway. She was 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.400 never qualified to be the mayor. She's not qualified to 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.199 be the mayor now, and you know, there you go. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.880 So I feel bad for all of the people in 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.040 this very awkward situation. These are people in very real pain. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.760 These are people that have had a very real trauma 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.000 take place, and frankly, right now, there ought to be 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.520 an awful lot of deployment going on there sorting out 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.480 the situation, and there should be not a single person 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.320 who's a victim of this tragedy who is not saying 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.320 I don't know. They may be saying I don't know 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.319 how it's going to go, but you know what, I'm noticed, 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.800 I'm part of a process. There's a system, I'm being 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:21.000 taken care of. There's been an intake process, and in 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.760 the meantime, we can all see. You know, when was 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.200 the do you recall John seeing Karen Bass in front 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.680 of a camera with her responders behind her with a 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.760 timeline saying, this is what happens in week one, week two, 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.120 week three. Now we're bringing our triage director to come forward. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.760 Here's the number of cases we've identified, Here's what we 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.120 brought in. Here's what's being treated. Oh, by the way, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.160 here's our experts to talk about why this has affected 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.560 them this way. None of what you'd expect anywhere else 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:49.560 but here in California. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:54.400 Nothing, which is sad because for people who haven't been 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.920 here a long time. I try to explain to them 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:03.000 how when the Northridge quake hit, the rebuilding process worked 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.360 like a Swiss clock, where, for example, the freeway got 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.360 knocked down and we were told that the freeway would 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.160 be back up and running the ten Freeway in a 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:13.120 certain amount of time. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.280 They beat the timeline. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.800 Because you had competent people in charge at the time, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.400 where you had all the shot callers. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:21.800 Don Knabi came on. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.280 This program and told the story as to how that worked, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.000 where you had Pete Wilson, the Governor, Dick Reared, the Mayor, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.480 Don Knabi, who I think was in charge of the 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.160 Board of Supervisors at the time, the Secretary of Transportation 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.960 flight to Los Angeles. They all sat in the room 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.160 person in charge of caltrans, and it was what are. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.040 You doing today? What are you doing today? What are 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:42.840 you doing today? 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.760 And it wasn't like, oh, I need to talk to 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.680 the boss, because the boss was in the room, and 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.680 there was this open line of communication and the expectation 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.480 that no one would drop the ball. And because all 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.600 the shot callers were there, they held each other accountable 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.320 to borrow a word and it worked. But we don't 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.600 have that anymore here, God forbid, if we get hit 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.360 by the big one. With these people in charge, we'll 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:08.680 go back to the Stone Age. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.280 Yeah, one hundred percent. Hey, John, am I allowed to 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.360 break news on your show. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:14.520 You can break news. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:16.960 It's even stuff we were going to kind of talk 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.000 about anyway. But I just found out through four different 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:24.960 sources that the Assembly Republican Caucus has dumped their leader, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.560 he Flora, and the new leader is assembly Woman Ali Mercedo, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.960 who hails from out of the Central Valley. And that literally, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.560 I mean, I mean, you talk about breaking news on 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.200 the John Phillip Show. I don't even think they this 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.440 is like announcing what the cardinal the College of Cardinals 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.640 does before the smoke blows, because I don't even think 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.920 they'd come out of the room to make the announcement yet. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.720 And the best part is somebody in a room but 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.920 going who tipped off Weischman, not knowing that half the 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:58.400 room probably did. Right. So it's but it's it's but 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.480 if we're going to there's plenty to talk about about 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.760 why Flora was a problem. Uh And and actually I 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.960 think that may have been on our conversational list anyway, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.720 but apparently it all bubbled over and well actually came 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.120 down apparently he'll be able to cheat on his wife 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.760 and drink at will, at nausea, without any without any 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.200 without any any fear of reprofession. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.160 Right, all right, we're running out of time, So let 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.280 me ask you this one question, because a lot of 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.159 people in the audience probably don't know who Heath Flora is. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.639 It seems like in a one party state, the party 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.000 that is out of power just kind of accepts the 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:43.080 fact frequently that life is just set up in a 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.280 way to where they're always going to be the losers 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.600 and the other side are always going to be the winners. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.919 And we have these leaders that constantly capitulate to the 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.320 majority and almost acts as if they work for them. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:59.320 We had that with Christian Olsen, had from Marie Waldron. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:04.119 This will be the biggest distinction. Flora was part of 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:05.120 the surrender caucus. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:05.360 Right. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.840 He wouldn't even get like when the when the governor 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.760 would give speeches, James Gallagher, the former leader, would give 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.400 the opposition speech. Flora is a creature of Sacramento. Who 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:19.439 and by the way, probably the least of James Gallagher's 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.040 things was to leave us with this guy on his 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:26.520 way out the door, who is unimpressive and is a 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.320 back room dweller. He prefers to not be in the 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.080 spotlight and he's not a fighter. I will tell you 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.960 we will be pleasantly surprised. Ali Mascedo understands that the 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.320 most powerful weapon you have in the super Minority is 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.119 your voice. So we're going to see a big upte 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:49.399 upta uptick on, an aggressive posture from Assembly Republicans taking 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.600 on the corruption and all the stuff going on. So 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:53.639 this will be good. This is going to be a 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.720 lot more for us to cover on the show because 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:57.360 she's going to do a great job and I'm sure 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:58.480 you'll have her on soon enough. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.400 Well, this is great eight news and breaking news courtesy 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.200 of John Fleischmann. If you want more from John Fleischman, 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.760 more breaking news like this and excellent excellent analysis, including 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.879 one of Katie Porter. You explain why Katie Porter is 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.800 getting out of politics. That was a humdinger. 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