Speaker 1: You almost have to try to mess California up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what Gavin Newsom has done since he's been governor.
Speaker 1: He's the first governor to ever lose population. They actually
Speaker 1: at one point ran out of U hauls in the
Speaker 1: state of California because so many people were leaving. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's imposed restrictions on his own people while exempting himself
Speaker 1: from those restrictions and going to the French laundry while
Speaker 1: his people were suffering. He led the country in school closures,
Speaker 1: locking kids out of school, while he had his own
Speaker 1: kids in private school. In person, now, he's very good
Speaker 1: at spinning these tales. He's good at being slick and slippery.
Speaker 1: He'll tell a blizzard of lies to be able to
Speaker 1: try to mask the failures. But the reality is they
Speaker 1: have failed because of his leftist ideology. And the choice
Speaker 1: for America is this what Biden and Harris and k
Speaker 1: news want to do is take the California model and
Speaker 1: do that nationally. In Florida, we showed the conservative principles work.
Speaker 1: This country must choose freedom failure.
Speaker 2: The Santus came out hot last night.
Speaker 3: That was his opening remark about he's going to hit
Speaker 3: you with a blizzard of lies the debate between Ron
Speaker 3: De Santus of Florida and Gavin Newsom of California.
Speaker 2: I was so excited about it.
Speaker 3: What effect it will have, whether electorally or ideologically in America,
Speaker 3: I have no idea. I'm sure it'll be less than
Speaker 3: I would hope. By the way, that a response to
Speaker 3: that from Gavin Newsom was he went on a different topic.
Speaker 2: He didn't respond to it, right, Yeah, I dodged it completely.
Speaker 3: I know one interested observer along with the US and you,
Speaker 3: was Kevin Kyleie, Congressman for the third Congressional district in California. Also, Kevin,
Speaker 3: if you don't follow him on Twitter ex whatever you
Speaker 3: want to call it or otherwise, is one of the
Speaker 3: most articulate and thorough critics of Gavin Newsom and progressive
Speaker 3: politics in California around and he joins us, Now, Kevin,
Speaker 3: how are you, sir?
Speaker 4: I'm doing very well.
Speaker 2: How are you good? Good?
Speaker 3: Did you force yourself to watch most or all of
Speaker 3: the debate last night?
Speaker 4: That's a good term for it, having to listen to
Speaker 4: do some for that long.
Speaker 5: But you know, I actually felt like it was important
Speaker 5: to fact check him as he sort of filled the
Speaker 5: airtime with a whole array of completely.
Speaker 4: False and misleading statements. So I actually, yeah, I was.
Speaker 5: On Twitter or x and trying to keep up fact
Speaker 5: checking what he said to make sure that the reality
Speaker 5: in life of California was understood for those watching.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I followed your Twitter feed during and after the debate.
Speaker 3: What stood out to you most in terms of misleading
Speaker 3: things that the governor may have said?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, where do we even start. I mean,
Speaker 5: the governor has this way of sort of just asserting
Speaker 5: the most absurd thing possible, Like, you know, Florida was
Speaker 5: a lockdown state, when California by far had the worst
Speaker 5: lockdowns of any state in the country. We're fifty at
Speaker 5: out of fifty and getting kids back to school. So
Speaker 5: for the governor to stand up there and assert that
Speaker 5: the governor of Florida shut down schools when actually Florida
Speaker 5: was third in the country and getting kids back to school,
Speaker 5: California was fiftieth in the country and getting back.
Speaker 3: To California was which is why my oldest is in
Speaker 3: private school. California was fiftieth and letting kids go back
Speaker 3: to school unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Absolutely worst in the country.
Speaker 4: Fiftieth out of fifty.
Speaker 5: And that's true, by the way, across basically everything with COVID,
Speaker 5: business shutdowns, church shutdowns, all of the mandates, California was
Speaker 5: the most draconian in the country. Or when you talk
Speaker 5: about the California exodus, the reality of the situation where
Speaker 5: you have people leaving this state.
Speaker 4: In record numbers.
Speaker 5: California has led the nation and UHUL rentals each of
Speaker 5: the last three years.
Speaker 4: This has never happened before.
Speaker 5: In our history. We've gained population every single year. The
Speaker 5: state of California has been all that it's the state
Speaker 5: everyone wants to come too, because we have everything here.
Speaker 5: We have so much to offer. So we've run each
Speaker 5: and every year since we've been a state in eighteen
Speaker 5: fifty until Gavin Newsom became governor, when not only did
Speaker 5: that trajectory reverse, but we now have the highest outmigration
Speaker 5: rate in the entire country. And yeah, last night Newsom
Speaker 5: stood up and tried to assert that it was directly
Speaker 5: the opposite.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't want to get hung up on
Speaker 3: this point, but it was. That was one of a
Speaker 3: couple of occasions where Newsom tech dissensus from the right,
Speaker 3: calling him a lockdown governor. And I don't know if
Speaker 3: that's just because he'd prefer Trump to be the nominee
Speaker 3: or whatever, but that was just weird.
Speaker 4: Kevin.
Speaker 3: I know you have some pretty strong feelings about the
Speaker 3: so called homeless policy in Californian Knewsom's claims to that effect.
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean, Newsom made some claims about how he's
Speaker 5: spent a ton of money on homework, and actually that
Speaker 5: was true.
Speaker 4: Maybe the one true thing that he.
Speaker 5: Said in the entire debate is that he has poured
Speaker 5: twenty billion dollars of our tax dollars in tulwith over
Speaker 5: the last five years. But even he has said that
Speaker 5: Californians are wondering where the heck all their tax dollars
Speaker 5: are going, because the problem has he spent more and
Speaker 5: more money.
Speaker 4: Has gotten worse and worse.
Speaker 5: California's homeless population has grown fifteen times faster than the
Speaker 5: rest of the country over the last few years. I mean,
Speaker 5: if you look at what's happening in San Francisco, I'd
Speaker 5: be walked through the streets of San Francisco and you're
Speaker 5: going to tell me that the problem is getting better.
Speaker 5: I mean, if it was getting better, they wouldn't have
Speaker 5: needed to do this fire drill to clean up the
Speaker 5: city for the arrival of the President of China like
Speaker 5: they did just a couple of weeks ago. And so
Speaker 5: California at this point has half the unsheltered homeless in
Speaker 5: the entire country.
Speaker 4: And you know this has only gotten worse on Diston's.
Speaker 3: Watch, indirectly back to the COVID thing. So the reason
Speaker 3: states were shutting down on counties and cities was to
Speaker 3: try to save lives, right, So it's all about was
Speaker 3: that successful or not? Or is there you know that
Speaker 3: did Florida have a lot more people die because they
Speaker 3: didn't shut down as much? What are the actual statistics
Speaker 3: on that, because they had battling stats that didn't match up.
Speaker 5: Well, the statistics are very clear, which is that California
Speaker 5: did not gain anything. If you look at however, whichever
Speaker 5: way is plice it. If you look it, for example,
Speaker 5: at excess mortality over twenty twenty to twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: the COVID years, Florida and California are the same. But
Speaker 5: actually that means Sporta did better because California has the
Speaker 5: younger population. Generally speaking, you expect word to be harder
Speaker 5: hit by a disease that primarily affected seniors.
Speaker 4: So when it comes to the or the lands.
Speaker 5: That did a study which basically standardized for those factors
Speaker 5: and found that California actually had one of the worst
Speaker 5: mortality rates in the country, did worse than Florida. And
Speaker 5: so when you look at that, the fact that California actually.
Speaker 4: Did worse from a public health perspective, and.
Speaker 5: Then we had the absolute calamity to our economy, to
Speaker 5: our our education system, and all of the other harms
Speaker 5: from these lockdowns that we are going to be experiencing
Speaker 5: for generations to come in this country. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: hard to imagine a more consequential failure of political leadership
Speaker 5: than what happened here in California, which is why Governor
Speaker 5: Newsom is desperate, desperate to rewrite history.
Speaker 4: Simply try to put it through.
Speaker 5: I call it the COVID memory hold, to pretend we
Speaker 5: didn't shut down schools, to pretend.
Speaker 4: We didn't do these lockdowns and everything else.
Speaker 5: But you know, we have forty million people who actually
Speaker 5: get the little less more some thirty nine million and
Speaker 5: change now who remember all too well what we had
Speaker 5: to live through.
Speaker 3: Well, he was up there defending the end defensible, and
Speaker 3: you've got to admire his pluck and even trying that.
Speaker 3: Kevin Colley's the congressman third District California on the line,
Speaker 3: what did you make of the exchange about pornography in schools, or,
Speaker 3: as Gavy would put it, the book banning binge in Florida.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, the interesting thing about this is that
Speaker 5: you can ask the governor. He's talking about all of
Speaker 5: these books that are allegedly banned, so you can ask them, Okay, well,
Speaker 5: what grade level do you think kids should have access
Speaker 5: to this book or that book? And what wad L
Speaker 5: do you think it should be part of the curriculum
Speaker 5: in it? And I bet he wouldn't say it should
Speaker 5: be available in every grade level.
Speaker 4: So this idea that we're banning books is just ridiculous.
Speaker 5: The entire you know, issue is about what materials are
Speaker 5: age appropriate for which age groups. But the larger point
Speaker 5: is this, Gavin Newsom loves talking about this. This state
Speaker 5: is than in this book the status that he is
Speaker 5: very concerned about what kids in other states are reading.
Speaker 4: He's not an all.
Speaker 5: Concerned with the fact that our own kids in California
Speaker 5: all too often cannot read at all. We have the
Speaker 5: lowest literacy rate in the entire country.
Speaker 4: We have eight hundred schools.
Speaker 5: In California where seventy five percent of the kids are
Speaker 5: not at reading level.
Speaker 4: Our eighth grade.
Speaker 2: Reading I need you. I need you to say that again.
Speaker 2: Say that again.
Speaker 5: Our eighth grade reading scores are the very worst in
Speaker 5: the entire country. Our fourth grade reading scores are third
Speaker 5: worst in the country, out of any state. So we're
Speaker 5: not teaching our kids the basics of reading at all.
Speaker 5: In fact, there was a lawsuit the state had to
Speaker 5: settle for tens of millions of dollars where kids sued
Speaker 5: the state of California for not teaching them to read.
Speaker 4: By the way, I was.
Speaker 5: A tenth grade English teacher in inner City, LA and Maya.
Speaker 4: I saw this first hand. I've top tenth.
Speaker 5: Grade and my students came in with an average reading
Speaker 5: level of fifth grade.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow, Well, maybe I'm more concerned about the genderbread person
Speaker 3: than I ought to be because the kids can't read
Speaker 3: those words anyway.
Speaker 2: But that is shocking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you talk about an under appreciated problem nationwide, and
Speaker 3: as you just heard, especially bad in California. Is this
Speaker 3: this kids not being able to do basic math and reading.
Speaker 3: It's just amazing. I don't even want to go to
Speaker 3: that argument when we're talking about teaching the kid's critical
Speaker 3: race theory, radical queer theory, gender theory, that sort of thing,
Speaker 3: because I think on its face it's awful and immoral.
Speaker 3: But the fact that they're not learning the very basics
Speaker 3: is I mean that that should settle the argument enough, genderbread,
Speaker 3: person more phonics.
Speaker 2: How could you disagree with that?
Speaker 3: Well, the only way you can disagree is put it
Speaker 3: the way Gavin would have last night. Joe Getty is
Speaker 3: against the rights of LGBTQ plus minus students, which is
Speaker 3: not in the least true right.
Speaker 5: He needs to take the basic failures of government and
Speaker 5: try to conceal them using these you know, culture war
Speaker 5: type issues. That's, you know, straight out of Newsom's playbook.
Speaker 5: And frankly, our whole governing class in California is to
Speaker 5: sort of conceal the very anti progressive realities the state
Speaker 5: where you have huge achievement gaps in our schools, when
Speaker 5: you have kids who are not being given.
Speaker 4: The opportunities they need to succeed in life.
Speaker 5: That they're not being taught the basics and try to
Speaker 5: conceal all of that with this smoke screen of sort
Speaker 5: of cartoonishly woke or progressive policies.
Speaker 4: That's the playbook.
Speaker 5: In California, and you know, it's what is enabling Newsom
Speaker 5: to go out and somehow tout California as a model
Speaker 5: for the nation because it's where sort of these uh,
Speaker 5: you know, progressive policies have been taken to the utmost extreme.
Speaker 5: But if you look at the actual results in places
Speaker 5: like San Francisco, in places like Los Angeles, where they
Speaker 5: tell you not even to where your jewelry when you
Speaker 5: go outside, it's very clear that California is not some
Speaker 5: model for the nation, like Newsom says, it's a warning
Speaker 5: to the nation about the terrible consequences of these policies.
Speaker 3: Kevin Kyleie, Congressman, third District, California. If you are not
Speaker 3: familiar with Kevin, you are now You've got to follow
Speaker 3: him on x or Twitter, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3: One of the truly effective fighters for reasonable, realistic conservative values.
Speaker 3: Kevin well done, is always good to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: That rising star right there, yeah, Armstrong and Getty