WEBVTT - Katie Porter And Xavier Becerra Sit down with Elex Michaelson 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.240 And we continue at two five in the afternoon on 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.520 the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City. 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.440 John Time is running out to get your message out 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.440 for the June primary. So you're seeing a blitz from 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.720 all different candidates trying to get their message out go 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.240 on different places, including places they said they weren't going 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.000 to go. Katie Porter did a whole lot of interviews 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.680 over the weekend Chicken Dinner, and while we are going 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:31.400 to play you her interview with Alex Michaelson, Johnny, can 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.919 I just play you the first five seconds of her 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.360 interview with Ashley Zavalla. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.480 Oh my, Katie Porter, thank you so much for making 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.520 time for us. I'm excited to be in conversation. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:50.520 Oh my, what voice was that? Perky housewife, Katie. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.720 Katie Porter, thank you so much for making time for us. 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.200 I'm excited to be in conversation. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:01.160 Also, maybe I'm just kind of old fashioned. Who says 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.160 I'm excited to be in conversation. I think she was 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.520 just happy that no one was in her f and shot. 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.480 You're out of my shot, Katie Porter, thank you so 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.480 much for making time for us. I'm excited to be 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:14.160 in conversation. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.600 I'm telling you she has handlers who have told her 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.560 you cannot look like you're going to hit the person 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:24.600 who's interviewing you. 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.199 But that was her whole appeal to begin with. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.320 I know, but it blew up in her face like 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.840 a hill billy's rifle. So then they had to do 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.800 a course correction. So now they're trying to sell her 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:42.240 as being nice. But you can't do it because even 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.600 Stevie Wonder can see the rage that's bubbling up beneath 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:46.920 the surface with her. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.280 Well, and she's already tried this before. That was the 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:55.560 Senate campaign where she didn't win. Yeah, no one's buying it. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.080 Katie Porter, thank you so much for making time for us. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.160 I'm excited to be in conversation. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.160 Now. There is a thirty minute interview of Zavala sitting 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.320 down with Porter. I listened to the entire thing while 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.200 walking up and down the Katie Trail in Dallas yesterday. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.080 The Alex interviews a little juicier, but it's only eight minutes, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.239 so I think we'll start with the Alex one. Let's 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.239 do it. Here is Katie Porter giving her final pitch 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.840 to Alex Michaelson of CNN's The story. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.600 Is The story is the race for California governor. The 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:35.040 San Francisco Chronicle has endorsed former Congresswoman Katie Porter, one 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.320 of several newspapers across the state to back her campaign. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.640 In fact, every newspaper with an editorial board that's endorsed 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.160 has backed her. But a new internal poll from the 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.400 California Democrat. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:50.639 That's interesting, they don't like Styer. I guess well, they've 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.400 all had to talk to Bessara, so I can understand 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.000 why they're not getting that endorsement. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.000 But a new internal poll from the California Democratic Party 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.320 shows that Republican Steve Hilton and Democrats Javey are Butsarah 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.960 and Tom Steyer are the front runners to advance to 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.760 the general election. Former Congresswoman Katie Porter joins us here 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.280 live right now in the studio. Congresswoman, welcome back to 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:14.880 the story. Is great to have you in person here 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:15.440 for the first time. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:16.320 It's great to be here. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.880 So how do you see the state of the race. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.880 We've had this interesting phenomenon where ballots were mailed out 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.200 a couple weeks ago, and yet people are holding on 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.600 to their ballots in a way we've never seen before. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:35.720 They're waiting for a May surprise. How many more surprises 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.440 do we need? I mean, wasn't the Eric Swallwell surprise 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.360 enough that practically jumped out? 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.680 Okay, and particularly slow among Democrats. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.880 Why don't you wait for him to finish asking the question? 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.480 Bellot return is slow, and particularly slow among Democrats. I 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.520 think that's because a lot of people are still making 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.960 up their mind. I think there was a lot of 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.080 concern a few months ago about whether or not two 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.760 Republicans could get through. That is now not a concern, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.560 and I think some Democrats are starting to realize, oh, actually, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.920 we should just get to know the Democratic candidates and 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.800 pick who we think is going to be the best leader. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.960 And somehow they're picking Besarah. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.000 That must kill her the fact that she's losing to 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.920 the village idiot, like. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.760 I think it's one thing to lose to Stire because 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.200 he has ungodly amounts of money, But to lose to Besarah, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:37.840 who arguably might be the dumbest candidate on that stage, that's. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.640 Valuably what are you talking about? That guy has the 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.839 IQ of an ice cube. In August. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.200 And they were having a chance now to do. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.440 That why do you think Javier Bessera has sort of 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.200 rocketed up after the. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.200 Swallowell dropping out. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.960 I can't really figure someone's trying to astir the pot. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:00.080 I love it. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.040 I can't really figure that out entirely, but I will 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.000 say that I think. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.520 Well, have you met the average California voter? 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.280 No, I don't know enough to give you any good information, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:10.960 but good luck finding someone who does. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:11.880 Well. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:16.360 Here's the answer. Tom Steyer oversaturated the market with ads 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.040 and people are sick of him, and Katie has the 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:20.680 personality of an hoa. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.240 No, I can't really figure that out entirely, but I 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.040 will say that I think the way that we've conducted 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.039 this campaign, focusing on what we would actually do to 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.680 lower costs for families, has been a real contrast to 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.160 what he's talked about. There's a lot of all get 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:39.600 or done. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.960 A lot of that is besserah be Sarah has no 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.400 specifics to anything. What are you going to do to build? 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.160 We are you going to build? And don't forget he's 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:53.000 going to scrub it too, Oh, scrub a dub dub. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.480 There's a lot of all get or done, a lot 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.600 of all have a meeting and I think what we've 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.920 really tried to say is look at your paycheck. Look 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.080 how much is coming out for California's state income taxes. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.799 If you're earning less than a one hundred thousand dollars, 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.360 when I'm governor, you won't have that money gone from 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.240 your paycheck. Talking about saying to people, look at what 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.960 college is going to cost, Imagine being able to raise 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.320 a family here, knowing that you could have free college, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.479 period full stop. These are real solutions to bring down costs. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.640 And I think that for people who care about the 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.400 future of California, you ought to be looking for concrete, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.720 real policy solutions, and I think that's what drove those 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:29.720 newspaper endorsements. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.520 And yeah, but the average California voter doesn't care about 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.800 any of that. They like Baker Rhea. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.279 And by the way, if you chase out all of 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.040 the wealthy people, which is what Gavid Dusom has been 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.520 telling people that she would do if elected, and all 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.800 of a sudden, everyone making under one hundred grand a 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.960 year doesn't have to pay taxes anymore. How are you 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:51.680 going to afford all of these things? 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.799 And it's interesting that you and Steve Hilton, the Republican 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.000 and the race are both for this tax cut for 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.599 people under one hundred thousand dollars. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.360 I think it reflects the fact that both of us 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.640 are really focused on not doing the same things that 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.920 Democrats have been doing. I'm a Democrat, Steve's a Republican. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.120 We are very different on so many issues, including the 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.400 environment and obviously on Donald Trump. But I think what 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.920 we're seeing from a lot of politicians is describing the 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.160 problem of unaffordability. You hear this from Tom Steyr all 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.800 the time. He says, you know, I've heard that California 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:25.560 is unaffordable. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.560 She hates him so much, She's not alone. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.920 Do you think she has one of those voodoo dolls 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.280 of Tom Steyer in her house? 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.000 Well, we do know that when this moment happened. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:41.920 Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.960 That's when she did that Instagram live video where she 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.320 was talking about all the money that Tom Steyer was 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.840 putting into his own campaign. What do you think she's 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.320 going to do after she loses? 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:02.679 Because I could see her, I could see her doing 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:07.560 a political podcast where it's the filthiest thing you've ever 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.400 heard before in your entire life. Like a dirty club 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.320 comic from the nineteen eighties without the jokes, where it's 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:20.760 just her raging on other candidates for office in the 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.520 most vulgar terms, imaginable. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.800 Uncensored with Katie Porter. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:31.560 Oh well, we would have to hear it because it's 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.040 not unaffordable for Tom. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:34.480 But I think it's a billionaire. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.680 He's a billionaire and almost two hundred million dollars on 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:37.160 the camp. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.800 Making this now the most expensive goodnatorial race in the 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.480 nation's history. But I think what I'm focusing on. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.520 We didn't get a dime of that money. What the hell. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.760 I don't think we got any on KSFO either. What 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:54.080 the hell could have made budgets tire. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.480 But I think what I'm focusing on is what do 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.320 we do about that problem. I don't need as a 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.000 single mama three kids. I know it's expensive here. I'm 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:04.560 the one who pushes a shopping. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:05.080 Cart there it is. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.280 Yep, you knew we were going to hear about food. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.120 And by the way, you live in taxpayer subsidized housing. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.319 I'm pulling in to the bakery. I don't need as 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.920 a single mama, three kids. I know it's expensive here. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.400 I'm the one who pushes a shopping cart. I'm focused 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.560 on and what could we change. What are the levers, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.839 what are the tools that the governor has to actually 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.720 bring down costs and quickly, because we need to keep 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.000 growing our population, We need to keep adding people to 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:32.480 our state. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:33.160 One of the. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.560 Biggest costs for do you think when she's pushing that 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:41.760 grocery cart, I'm assuming it a Ralph's or a Trader 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.800 Joe's in the Irvine area. Do you think she's eating 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.800 grapes while she's pushing the cart and doing the shopping 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.080 so when they weigh them, she has to pay less. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.440 How about the rotisserie chicken? You think there's any meat 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.199 left on the bones or do you think it's pick 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.200 clean by the time she checks out. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:03.880 Winter winter chicking dinner. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.520 One of the biggest costs for families is healthcare. And 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.960 you have been very clear that you believe in single 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:14.080 payer healthcare in California. Javier Bessera has not been as 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.480 clear in terms of what he's going to do. That's 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.280 something we got into during the debate on CNN. But 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.520 let's drill down on what single payer healthcare costs, because 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.440 an estimate by UCLA said it would cost over seven 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:30.800 hundred million dollars, which would make it billion dollars, seven 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.079 hundred billion dollars. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.640 For a second, I'm like, wait, that's a pretty good deal. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.679 Yeah, I thought, Oh boy, if it was seven hundred million, 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:38.760 Gavinan had done it. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.160 Which would make it three times more expensive than the 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.240 entire state budget right now. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.800 Actually, the budget got so big, it's only double the 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:47.959 size of the state budget. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.040 Imagine though, if going to the doctor was like going 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:55.160 to the DMV. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.559 Kind of already is, how do we afford well? 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.800 So let's remember healthcare today isn't free. Employers are paying 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.480 for it. Employees are paying for it, people are paying 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.680 the military is paying for it, medical is paying for it. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.160 It's a big chunk of our federal budget. So the 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.400 real question with single payer is does single payer allow 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.760 us to reduce as an economy, as a society looking 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.520 across all the different people who chip in for healthcare, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.120 which right now is businesses and workers and the state 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.079 and the federal government is doesn't let us deliver care 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:34.360 more off. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.280 And it's still ungodly expensive. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.800 This is not doable, by the way, not even close 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.360 to being doable. But it's something that she thinks will 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.000 separate her from the others, doesn't let us. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:55.320 Deliver care more effectively. Look, Medicare spends only two percent 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:00.640 of its healthcare money on administrative costs. Private health insurance 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:05.200 spends seventeen or eighteen percent. So the question is people 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.080 hear that price tag, they're forgetting to add up all 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.280 of what we spend on healthcare right now, it's a 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.160 big reason that employers are struggling. They're spending more and 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.120 more of their budget. Families are spending more of their budgets, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.160 especially after what Donald Trump's done on healthcare. So the 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:23.360 question is, does single payer let us drive down the total? 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.080 By the way, this is one thing that AI is 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:30.280 going to fix in part because a lot of these tasks, 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.679 a lot of these administrative tasks, these repetitive tasks that 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.880 have to be done, pushing paper, entering information, that sort 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.160 of thing that's going to be taken over by the 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:42.600 computers and the robots. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.320 Well, we're already seeing that they have robot AI decision 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.319 makers who are denying your coverage. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.439 At some point in the not too distant future, it's 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:53.960 going to be robots are going to be the ones 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.199 performing the surgeries. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.000 The total cost of care and put more of our 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:02.480 healthcare dollars toward making people healthy and curing illness rather 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.320 than toward pushing paper and denying claim. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.080 If we do that here away, Wait a minute, Wait 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.080 a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.079 trying to tell me that she's trying to sell herself 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:15.920 as the paragon of health. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.120 She did lose like eighty pounds. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:20.480 Uh? 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:21.079 Yeah. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.679 Do you think that happened naturally or do you think 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.960 that was pharmaceutically induced? 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.040 Do you think she's injecting herself in the tummy with 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.400 an eel every night? Oh, her stomach probably looks like 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:34.239 a pincushion. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:36.839 You can smell it right here. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:44.600 Are you kidding me? She did say she got a peloton. Yeah, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.520 she says she has it in the kitchen too. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.520 Curing illness rather than toward pushing paper and denying claim. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.400 If we do that here in California, but other states. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.080 Now, I will say, the other candidate who's pushing single 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.960 payer is Tom Steinle. And for all his billions and 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.960 billions of dollars, have you ever seen a man, and 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.280 we saw him up front in person of that debate, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.679 who looks more sickly no, he looked like he was 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.920 ready to roll a seven right there in front of us. 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.920 And by the way, let's just say that they move 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.640 forward with us and bankrupt everything to provide single payer healthcare. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.760 Do you realize what kind of loser magnet that's going 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.160 to be for the rest of the nation. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.760 If we do that here in California but other states 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.480 don't do that. What's to stop people from coming to 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.680 California taking advantage of our healthcare not necessarily paying into 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.400 the system, and then you know, us all having to 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:39.840 pay for that. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.920 And by the way, some of that's already happening. Part 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.360 of the way that we've got into this mess with 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:50.680 homelessness is that Covered California automatically qualifies you for thirty 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.880 days of rehab the second you step on California soil, 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.360 no matter where you're from. So all these crooked rehab 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.320 centers that operate in Malibu and Orange County, they're advertising 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.600 in Ohio to come out in pet horses and will 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.400 treat your drug problem. And then when the thirty days 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.200 of Covered California runs out, they throw you on the street. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.440 But this is another one of these things where if 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.320 you're taking the position that it's the high cost of 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.760 housing that is causing people to live on the streets. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.200 You're not being honest about us taking all the losers 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:29.320 from Ohio and Vermont and Massachusetts and everywhere else, which 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:30.720 is exactly what's happening. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.640 Well, look, everyone will in a single payer system. You 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.280 would have employers making a contribution to it, and you 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.640 would likely have employees making some contribution. The money isn't 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.840 going to fall from the sky elex. It would be 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.800 funded in the same way with Medicare. People pay for Medicare. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.360 Medicare is not free our seniors. Medicare is a single 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:49.080 payer system. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.760 The government, well it's free if you're in the country illegally. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.160 The government is the payer. But people chip in, they 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.760 have copays, they have deductibles, they have supplements, so it 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:02.720 would be the same kind of thing. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.480 Then they have that whole scam they call Medicare advantage, 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:08.280 so it. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.240 Would be the same kind of system here. People who 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.680 would come to California will be part of our society 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.480 would be contributing to that single payer system in the 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.480 same way that we have seniors contributing to Medicare, both 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.160 while they're working, but then also when they're seniors using 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:21.600 that care. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.480 What do you see as sort of the most important 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.640 thing as we head towards the finish line of this 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.840 race for voters that are now looking at that ballot, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.280 they haven't been able to decide. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.680 Which, according to today's numbers is ninety percent of the electorate. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:46.600 Especially Democrats, because in twenty twenty two, Democrats turn their 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.120 ballots in at a much higher rate than Republicans, and 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.040 now the opposite is true. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.720 We're at about fourteen percent of Republicans right now, nine 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.880 percent of Democrats and seven percent of my people the end, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.080 what's your message to them? 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.919 So? I think voters need to really focus on what 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.679 kind of future do they want California to have. And 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.960 I think that if they want California to just keep 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.000 ongoing exactly the way it has been going, then I 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.200 think that Javier Bessara is that candidate. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:25.840 Burn Yeah, she doesn't hate him as much as she 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:31.080 hates Tom Steyer, but he's getting there. Haadirbasara is the 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.960 status quo candidate for sure, though well he would be 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:43.080 worse than Newsome because Newsom has presidential aspirations. So even 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.200 though he is buying into a lot of the crazy 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.760 policy proposals that come out of Sacramento. There are still 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.160 limits that he has because he has to get elected 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.600 in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan and Nevada and Arizona. 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.600 If he's going to be the president, if you were 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.400 to put Javier Besserra in there, this is the last 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.160 stop on the subway for him. A career politician who's 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.800 been in California politics forever, who is a complete empty 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:16.320 suit his entire time. The entire time that he's up there, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.719 he's going to spend trying to stay out of prison 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.880 because that's where all of his cohorts are, that's where 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.320 all his buddies are who have worked with him in 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.960 politics for years and years and years. So we're going 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.119 to have the California version of Joe Biden in charge 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.720 of government, where you just have the figurehead of the 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:39.320 coalition who's there, and it's the coalition who's calling the shots. Well, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.800 if you want to know what government run by committee 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.120 looks like, look at the Biden administration. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:46.760 He's been pretty clear. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.920 I think he's the most like Gavin Newsom No. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.280 I think he's the most like Sacramento. The most he's 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.800 been a politician for thirty seven years. He's been doing 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.639 this since he was elected. I think the first time 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:58.880 when I was in high school or. 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:05.720 College, Accurate started out in the Assembly and. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.479 I'm as my kids were my me and unk and 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.120 so I think the question is, like, do we want 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.320 to actually tackle some of the biggest challenges we're facing. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.760 Housing costs is not going to come down and we're 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.520 not going to grow our economy if we don't elect 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.080 a governor who has more bold policies on housing. The 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.520 specifics that I'm offering are different, and look, Tom Steyer 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.960 has been really clear in this race about who he's against, right, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:35.040 he's against the big utilities, he's against corporations, he's against billionaires. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.280 But I think what makes me different is what I'm 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.679 for and what I'm offering to do. So I just 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.560 invite California families think about what it would mean to 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.720 have free healthcare, free healthcare, to have free childcare. Think 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.160 about what it would mean to have a corporate tax 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.200 system where the most profitable corporations paid a little bit 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:52.840 more and struggling small businesses. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:54.879 That's why Gavin says she going to chase all the 0:19:54.920 --> 0:20:01.120 businesses out and he's right. Katie Partter only got about 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:06.120 a week left to you. Are you gonna miss her? Well, 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.000 of course, what I'm gonna miss is the light of 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.080 the smile on your face. And I tell you we 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:19.080 have new Katie Porter sound Hello. Eight hundred two two 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.600 two five two two two is cellphone number one eight 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.960 hundred two to two five two two two. 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