1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:05,199 Speaker 1: This is Gavin Newsom. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,719 Speaker 2: Please welcome to the stage Governor Gavin Newsom and President 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 2: Bill Clinton. 4 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: Morning everybody, Morning, morning, all right, twenty years I saw 5 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: that video. I was here, I think for nineteen of 6 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I've got more clintonisms. Let's I'm going to 7 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: enjoy this. This is going to be so far the 8 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: how business. I like that. 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 3: I met Gavin Newsom when he was mayor of San Francisco, 10 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 3: and he he looked like he was twelve years old, 11 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: and I said, guy, hey, this guy, he's so tall, 12 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 3: taller than I am, younger than I am, better looking 13 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: than I am. 14 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: Here we go. 15 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 3: But what really matters is he's a really good person 16 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:18,199 Speaker 3: and an extraordinarily gifted public service, and he represents along 17 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 3: with his family. Jennifer, where are you stand up? 18 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: All right? 19 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 3: Thank you. So I'm going to start with something that 20 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 3: is easy, but I think it's important because it's amazing 21 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 3: that a lot of people don't know anything about California 22 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 3: except a lot of the stuff that said yeah, and 23 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 3: I love it. I went to California had more problems 24 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 3: than you can imagine. When I was Electric President. I 25 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 3: went there twenty nine times in my first term. But 26 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 3: they were good to me. And what I found was 27 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 3: it was hundreds and hundreds of small towns in the 28 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 3: cities and certainly beyond. I've been to the town in 29 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 3: America that has the largest percentage of Japanese Americans. I 30 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: went to a town campaigning for Hillary. Were the mayor 31 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 3: this little town of northern California. The mayor was the 32 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 3: son of the local judge in Fayetteville, Arkansas, when Hillary 33 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 3: and I got married and went there to teach in 34 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 3: the law school, and the old judge was Acruss, the 35 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 3: old guy who let Hillary bring students into the legal 36 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 3: aid program for the first time. And I'm standing in 37 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 3: normal California with the murder's somebody there from everywhere. It's 38 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 3: a fascinating place. So tell us, and I think it's 39 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 3: now the fourth biggest economy in the world. 40 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: That's right your heart out UK Germany. 41 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 3: So tell us what you think we should know about 42 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 3: what's going right in California. 43 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: But I appreciate the context. Look, you know, California is America, 44 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: but only more so we're the most In the spirit 45 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: of your introductory marks, just just set the scene. It's 46 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: the size of twenty one state populations combined it's the 47 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: most diverse state in the world's most diverse democracy. Twenty 48 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: seven percent of my state is foreign born. We practice pluralism. 49 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: It's a point of pride. I say that because it 50 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: needs to be said, and you reinforce it here today. 51 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: It's in that diversity that we have achieved so much strength. 52 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: We dominate in every critical industry. Yes, we're the fourth 53 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: largest economy in the world four point one trillion dollars 54 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: a year, but we dominate with more engineers, more scientists, 55 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: more Nobel laureates, more venture capital, the finest system of 56 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: higher education public higher education in the world, and business 57 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: startups number one and two, way trade number one, and 58 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: direct foreign investment in every category, the dominant manufacturing state, 59 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: the dominant farming state, the dominant state. As it relates 60 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: to hunting jobs. You didn't know that jobs related in 61 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: every category. We have no peers. We talk about the future. 62 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: You're talking about what's next. California is in the future business. 63 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: But we're also in the spirit of the video, in 64 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 1: the how business, and so it's not about what and why, 65 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: And this notion of the future is what animates California 66 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,679 Speaker 1: and the future. As you said, the final words you said, 67 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,239 Speaker 1: word manifest. Future is not something to experience, it's something 68 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: to manifest. It's decisions, not conditions, that determine our fate 69 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: in future. And I think that mindset is the thing 70 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: that defines the game played in California versus the game 71 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: played many other parts of the country. 72 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 3: How have you used that to deal with the fires 73 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 3: in the after method? 74 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: It depends which fire you're referring to, you know, the 75 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: physit if you come in twenty nine times, I'm just 76 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: glad Trump has only come one time. And it's a 77 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: hell of a time for us. Look as it relates 78 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: to fires, you know, we talk about the future happens 79 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: in California first, where America is coming to traction. Well, 80 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: that definitely relates to what's going on around us as 81 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: it relates to the hot's getting hotter, the dry is 82 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: getting dryer, the wet's getting wetter. This no that we're 83 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: dealing with extreme heat, extreme weather, and as a consequence, 84 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: the challenges that were presented as it relates to large 85 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: scale wildfires, and California had one of its most devastating 86 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: wildfires earlier this year in the middle of winter. And 87 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,919 Speaker 1: I just want to remind people in the middle of 88 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: winter in Los Angeles, in the most resourced region in 89 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: the United States of America, more firefighters per capita in 90 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: La County than any other part of the globe, in 91 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:37,359 Speaker 1: a state that has the largest civilian fleet of aircraft 92 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: for fire suppression anywhere in the world, In a state 93 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,679 Speaker 1: where I've doubled the budget in terms of the state 94 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: fire investments, and ten x the investments in forest management 95 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: and vegetation management. And yet still we lost sixteen thousand structures, 96 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: homes and buildings because we had a fire that was 97 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: attached to one hundred mile an hour winds in the 98 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: mintal of winter in southern California. And so I take 99 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: that issue very seriously. Places lifestyles, traditions being wiped off 100 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: the map. If you don't believe in science, you've got 101 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: to believe your own eyes. And this notion you talk 102 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: about small towns in California, Grizzly Flats, Greenville, Paradise, California, 103 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: been around one hundred and fifty years disappearing. And so 104 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: I'm here with you. Also here the UN Climate Week 105 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: reasserting California's leadership in this space and the absence of 106 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: national leadership California once again is reasserting itself on low carbon, 107 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: green growth, reasserting itself in the work we're doing to 108 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: address the challenges a climate truth and fires a huge 109 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: part of that. And if I may just extend forgive 110 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: the extent of point, we also dominate an innovation in 111 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: this space. And it didn't feel that way in the 112 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: aftermath of those fires. You're like, what the how did 113 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: you not prevent these? We had one hundred and four 114 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: engines that we had prepositioned down there from the state 115 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: two days in advance. I told you about the resources, 116 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: next level well the world literally, we have people from 117 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: around the globe that come to California to learn about 118 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: the latest technology, the latest innovation, twelve hundred AI cameras. 119 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: We were the first to demonstrate the benefits of those 120 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: a fire as system partnerships with Lockeed the Pentagon, next 121 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: level weather strategies and fusion centers and technology that we've 122 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: integrated all of those things, drone technology, all of that, 123 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 1: and yet still we face the realities of these wildfires. 124 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,599 Speaker 1: And it's not just in California, it's all over the 125 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: Western United States for that matter, across the globe. And 126 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: I think the issue that is so under resource in 127 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: terms of mind share is the insurance issue. And I 128 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: think this issue, I really believe this from a global perspective, 129 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,839 Speaker 1: may be one of the most pressing global issues as 130 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 1: it relates to the issues of climate change. The inability 131 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: to purchase a home, let alone, to get a mortgage 132 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: on a home, to develop a home with an insurance 133 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: market that simply is no longer viable because people are 134 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: unwilling to take the risk and make the kind of 135 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: capital out lais and investments to address that issue. I 136 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: think this issue requires leadership at the national level. It 137 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: is under resource, under focused. It's a challenge for me, 138 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: it's a challenge for Rhonda Santis in Florida, for governors 139 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: in most states. But it's not I think top of mind, 140 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: and we need to be more focused on it. 141 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 3: Well, what do you think should be done about it? 142 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not trying to get you into a 143 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 3: difficult right now, but I. 144 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: Don't want people didn't come here talk about insurance. But 145 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: we just put out our sustainable insurance strategy. We just 146 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: had four of our omitted market come back in in 147 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: the last fact, two days ago, we had our fourth 148 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 1: come back in we had a lot of folks that 149 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,959 Speaker 1: were leaving the market simply said we can't insure folks here. 150 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: It's too expensive and the losses are too significant. We 151 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: had to address the reinsurance market. We had to address 152 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: the capital needs of these companies, and we also had 153 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: to address the fact that California, and you wouldn't know 154 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: this is among the most affordable insurance markets in the country. 155 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: Because the voters initiated a framework on regulation that denied 156 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: significant rate increases. As a consequence of that, people started 157 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: exiting the market. And the reforms we've just put into 158 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: place allow for more rapid rate increases, and that's the 159 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: pressure point now as we move from about average to 160 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: below average in our rates, we're now starting to see 161 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: those tick up. But the benefit of that now part 162 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: of the strategy is a requirement to come into California 163 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: market and also to ensure in what we refer to 164 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: as the WUI, which is the wild, lab and urban interface, 165 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: and to cover eighty five percent of the WUI in 166 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 1: return for those rate increases. That is not something that 167 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: on the macro is the solution from the US prism 168 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: or the global perspective, But at the state level is 169 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: advancing our reforms. 170 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 3: But this insurance issue is facing every slate in one 171 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 3: form or another the globe. 172 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's not sustainable. And again it should 173 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: unite everybody. I mean, there's no Republican Democratic thermometer. I 174 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: heard you, and forgive me, I need come up here 175 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: to take cheap shots. But pretty remarkable what was said 176 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: by the current president yesterday at the UN about climate. 177 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: The hell is that there is just it can't be normalized. 178 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: It can't be normalized. It's notion that it's a hoax. 179 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: I mean, the vend what this guy has done. Look, 180 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: I live in a state and was president. You'll appreciate this. 181 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 1: You know former presidents you know well for me. One 182 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: of them was a governor. Ronald Reagan established a modern 183 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: environmental movement in nineteen sixty seven, year of my birth, 184 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: with the California Air Resources Board. And he did so 185 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: because of the smog in Los Angeles. Was a business 186 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: driven decision. Business community said we simply can't do business 187 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: in La mister governor, and he established the Air Resources Board. 188 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: Three years later was Richard Nixon that codified that under 189 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: the Clean Air Act and gave California a waiver that 190 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: allowed us to pursue aggressive environmental policy, and that's why 191 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: California has dominated the national debate in this space. What 192 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: this president has done in eight months is job dropping. 193 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: What he has done to the EPA, what he's done 194 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: to California's leadership, he's neutralized, he's eliminated under that Clean 195 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: Air Act, our authority to regulate tailpipe emissions. What he 196 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: continues to do in terms of trying to stop California's 197 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: global leadership as it relates to our partnerships around not 198 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: only the country at a subnational level, but around the globe, 199 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: in relationship to our cap and trade program, in relationship 200 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: to our other partnerships that we've established, as it relates 201 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: to carbon capture and direct air capture, and the technology 202 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 1: in the space cannot be understated. And so we are 203 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: we're the last. We're well a game in town right 204 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: now as it relates to large scale environmental leadership. And 205 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,959 Speaker 1: I'll just close on this. We have six times more 206 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: green collar jobs green tech jobs, and we do fossil 207 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: fuel jobs. We're on the other side of the debate, 208 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: and I think this is a point that should be 209 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: emphasized you talk about California more than I emphasize that 210 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: sixty seven percent of our electricity grid is completely green 211 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: and clean and we have run as of which is 212 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: not bad. But get this, nine out of ten days 213 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty five, we've run the fourth largest economy 214 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: in the world at one hundred percent clean green energy 215 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: one hundred percent as of last Friday, two hundred and 216 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: seventeen out of two hundred and forty three days, one 217 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: hundred percent clean energy. We're proving the paradigm, you know, 218 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: the genius of Ann versus the tyranny of ore. And 219 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: I think you know there's there's power and emulation success 220 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: Leslie clues, and I think California has been an interesting 221 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: and a successful model in this space. And we're just 222 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: trying to navigate this new space as it relates to 223 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: the macrohead winds coming from sixteen hundred Pennsylvania. 224 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 3: To tell our audience here a little more about what 225 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 3: the components of your clean energy are. 226 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: I think the thing that we've dominated in is the 227 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: electricity architecture, and we've dominated in clean cars. I signed 228 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: the first executive or in the United States to require 229 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: alternative fuel vehicles by twenty thirty five. That was just 230 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: taken away by Congress, the Supine Congress, and the President. 231 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: But we created the market. There is no elon Musk, 232 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: there's no Tesla. Without California's regulatory framework, period full stop, 233 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: it wouldn't exist. It was because of the regulations, because 234 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: of those signals and the subsidies over three point two 235 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: billion dollars direct subsidies that Tesla received just in my 236 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: state alone, that built this market. Over a quarter of 237 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: all new car purchases in California are alternative fuel vehicles. 238 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: What Trump has just done, and with respect some of 239 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: the automobile manufacturers, is they've seated this to China. They've 240 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: seated our competitiven to China. And it's not just the 241 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: electric vehicles. It's the tech stack that's part of these 242 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: electric vehicles. It's the mobility space more broadly defined. It 243 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: is an act of vandalism on an economic basis, not 244 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: just an environmental basis. That is deeply alarming, and I 245 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: hope people wake up to how China is just flooding 246 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: the zone globally in this space, and we have doubled 247 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: down on stupid. We're trying to recreate the nineteenth century. 248 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: We really have you talk about what's next. It's not 249 00:16:54,160 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: going to be American automobile manufacturers. Bill bill Ford may 250 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: run contra to that. He seems to get it deeply. 251 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: I give him tremendous credit, markable, iconic brand, but I 252 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: cannot impress upon you more how proud I'm sixty headquarter 253 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: manufacturer EV Companies in the state of California's supply show 254 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: is one of our biggest exports five years ago. And 255 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: it's all about innovation. It's all about that entrepreneurial spirit. 256 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: And you see if any of ven in San Francisco, 257 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 1: half the damn cars are driving themselves. It's here. It's happening, 258 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: all the bi directional opportunities, the two way charging, the 259 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: fact that these cars are a little power plants on wheels, 260 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 1: all this extraordinary opportunity, and it's seeing it's slipping away 261 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 1: because of bad policy making and short termism. So we're 262 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: going to continue to push back against that. But I 263 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: think from a tech in innovation stack, that's our biggest 264 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: area of focus to. 265 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 3: Say a little bit about. It's a practical matter where 266 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 3: you are right now, where they and is there has 267 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 3: there been any obvious downside. 268 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 1: And if so, what is it? NA Shall we manage 269 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: it well? And I sound like I'm bloviating and packing 270 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: I can get into all the real problems in my state, 271 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: affordability being number one, two, three, But we dominate in 272 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. We have no peers. Thirty two of the 273 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 1: top fifty market cap companies on the globe. In the 274 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: globe are in California. And for obvious reasons, back to 275 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: this conveyor belt for talent, the UC's and the CSUS 276 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: and cal Tech and Stanford University Research and Development, the 277 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: Lawrence Livermore Labs and Sendia Labs, and all the investments 278 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: we're making in science, and so it's happening there because 279 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 1: the human capital's there. That's why you know Elon talks 280 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: a big game about Texas, but all of his folks 281 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: are in the Bay Area. They're all in California. All 282 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: those AI folks are there. His global headquarters for R 283 00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 1: and D is in California, which by the way, is 284 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 1: eighteen percent of the globe's R and D. China, Germany 285 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: and California eighteen percent of the global R and D 286 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: in the state of California. So it's unsurprising we're driving 287 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 1: that innovation. But it's all about truth. It's all about trust, promise, peril. 288 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: And as a consequence of having so much leadership residing 289 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: in such a concentrated place California, we have a sense 290 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 1: of responsibility and accountability to lead. So we support risk taking, 291 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 1: but not recklessness. From a regulatory frame, we're pretty much 292 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: the only game in town as well. You're seeing what 293 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:41,199 Speaker 1: they're trying to do federally to preempt states from regulating. 294 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz a few days ago doubling down on that 295 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: that California needs to be neutered, he says, in this space, 296 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: even though we're dominating in this space. And so we 297 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: have worked with fay fe Lee, the Godmother of AI. 298 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: We're working with Stanford MIT, We've worked with Berkeley, and 299 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: we put out a comprehensive of white paper that really 300 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: analyzed where we were from a regulatory frame. We've signed 301 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 1: dozens I've signed dozens of bills in the space, did 302 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: the first executive order in the country in the space. 303 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: But in relationship to the unwinding of President Biden's leadership 304 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: in the space and the new focus on just let 305 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: it rip coming out of the White House, that David 306 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 1: Sachs and others are promoting and we have a bill 307 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 1: forgive me that's on my desk that we think strikes 308 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 1: the right balance. And we worked with industry, but we 309 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: didn't submit to industry. We're not doing things to them, 310 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: but we're not doing things necessarily for them. And we're 311 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: trying to answer that question from a policy perspective and 312 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: find that right balance where we can continue to dominate 313 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: in the space, continue to support the ecosystem at the 314 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: same time address that peril and the concerns that legitimate 315 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:57,239 Speaker 1: people have. 316 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 3: Want to change the subject commitment back to insurance. Yes, No, 317 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 3: everywhere in the country we read that the men are 318 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 3: eighteen eighty, that they they're not going to college as 319 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 3: much as they did, they are not necessarily proud prepared 320 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 3: for other jobs they can have. And you actually tried 321 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 3: to address this in a fairly comprehensive way. And I'd 322 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 3: be surprised if almost anybody in the audience who's not 323 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 3: from California knows anything about it. So tell us a 324 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 3: little about what you've tried to do to help young men. 325 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: You I'm going back to your opening remarks. Everything. Look, 326 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: I was here twenty years ago, because you tap me 327 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: on the shoulder of part of America's promise, you tap 328 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: me on the shoulder. And then a bipartisan way with 329 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 1: General Powell, and I'll never forget General Powell come in 330 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 1: here and said, no one stands taller than when he 331 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: or she bends down on one nee to lift someone 332 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: else up. I love that I wrote that down and 333 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: I repeat it all the time. California now has a 334 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: service Corps that's larger than the Peace Corps. It's the 335 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: largest service corps in America, College Core Climate Corps in 336 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: every category, building on your work, building on America Corps. 337 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: So we just announced to your question in order to 338 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: address the crisis of men and boys, the crisis of 339 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: men and boys. And I say that because it's hard 340 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: for members of my own party to say that, because 341 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: we some feel it's a zero sum game that we 342 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 1: have to address the issues of women and girls and 343 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: solve for them before we can get to the crisis 344 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: of men and boys. And when I say crisis, look 345 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: at the suicide rates, look at the dropout rates, look 346 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: at the deaths of despair, look at the issues around loneliness, 347 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: look at every critical category. It's just blinking red lights 348 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: for young men. And in order to address this, we've 349 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: been working with Richard Reeves, We've been working at the 350 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: Institute of Boys and Men. We've been working with a 351 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:17,679 Speaker 1: lot of other folks to develop a framework, a plan 352 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 1: to implement that builds on the constructs that you have 353 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: framed around service, around mentorship, around tutoring, the work my 354 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: wife has done, who's done a number of documentaries in 355 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: this space, including one called mascul Living about the crisis 356 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: of masculinity, and begin to substantly address these underlying issues 357 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: and target interventions. Service is at the core, but it's 358 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: a component part of a larger strategy that we've just 359 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: advanced at scale in California. And I'll just end on this. 360 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: I know our times up. Just as an example, one 361 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: of the areas that I never fully appreciated was the 362 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: lack of men educating our kids. I didn't fully appreciate 363 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 1: how few men are in those kindergarten classes, in those 364 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: second third grade classes, in middle schools. And so it 365 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: just it begins with just simple interventions, but we also 366 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: have to acknowledge it. Final word, I love the open hand, 367 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: not a closed fist. You know, I got a lot 368 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: of close fists. When I did a podcast I started 369 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: a few months ago, my first guest was Charlie Kirk, 370 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: who flew out and visited with me, and second was 371 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: Steve Hannont. And the reason I had them on was 372 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: this issue because they have weaponized this grievance and electorally 373 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: they achieved remarkable results. Charlie Kirk's ability what he was 374 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: able to achieve in terms of organizing the campuses, engaging 375 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 1: these young men, addressing their grievances, giving them some sense 376 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: of hope that someone cared that they mattered, that they 377 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: were seeing. He was able to produce and organize around 378 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: that in a deeply meaningful way. In the Democratic Party 379 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: was nowhere to be found on the issue, and Bannon 380 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,120 Speaker 1: as well. And so I say that to say this, 381 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: we need to address the issue because it's the right 382 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: thing to do, but it's also the smart thing to do. 383 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 3: We have to wrap up. But if you were to 384 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 3: say to this crowd, you have lots of concerns, You 385 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 3: know a lot about everything, which is why I like 386 00:25:51,920 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 3: talking to you, But a group like this emphasize one 387 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 3: thing that we could do in America in the midst 388 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 3: of all this political bis that we're dealing with every day. 389 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 3: What would you ask, what do you think the most 390 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 3: important thing in terms of citizen action is that we 391 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 3: could be doing. 392 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 2: I remember Justice Brandeis had a wonderful quote he wrote 393 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 2: a lot about citizenship said in democracy, the most important office, 394 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,959 Speaker 2: brand I said, is not the office of presidency with 395 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 2: respect certainly not governor. 396 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 1: Or mayor, but it's the office of citizen. This notion 397 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,239 Speaker 1: of active not inert citizenship, and I think at the 398 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: core of that is this idea that we have agency, 399 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: that we can shape the future, that we're not bystanders 400 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: in the world. And I think back to the spirit 401 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: of your opening remarks, is this notion that we have 402 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: the capacity to shape our future. And we also have 403 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: to recognize that we have to reconcile each other's futures 404 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: in relationship. And forgive me, I'm closing with my deep 405 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: cgi absorbing what you've been about for all these years, 406 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: this idea that divorce is not an option, as you 407 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: say all the time, we have to define terms of 408 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: our future. And I think that spirit of grace and 409 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 1: humility is also part of that as well, and so 410 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 1: I just I thank you. In final words, you know, 411 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: two decades of preaching this gospel but also practicing it, 412 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 1: and I just think, at this precious moment in our life, 413 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: we need to be reminded. We all want to be loved, 414 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: we all need to be loved. We all share, as 415 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: you said, this same short moment in life. I want 416 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 1: to be protected. We all want to be respected, we 417 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: all want to be connected to something larger than ourselves. 418 00:27:53,320 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: And I think in that space we find the answer 419 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: to your question. 420 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 3: A long time ago, when I met the mayor of 421 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 3: San Francisco, I came home and told Hilary, I said, 422 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 3: you know, I wanted to dislike this guy. I mean, 423 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 3: he's good looking, and he's tall, and he's younger than 424 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 3: I am, but there's something special about him. I still 425 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 3: believe that. And I thank you for your service, and 426 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 3: I thank you for being here. 427 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: It's give the men