1
00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,720
Speaker 1: The devastating fires across the Los Angeles to date have

2
00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,799
Speaker 1: killed at least twenty four people, destroyed more than twelve

3
00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,320
Speaker 1: thousand structures, and scorched more than sixty square miles, displacing

4
00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,520
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people. And that's just where it

5
00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,240
Speaker 1: stands today. So where does the state go from here?

6
00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,440
Speaker 1: Where does the Los Angeles area go from here?

7
00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:24,840
Speaker 2: Now?

8
00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,280
Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Knew some of California has ordered an investigation

9
00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,600
Speaker 1: into some of the causes behind water supply problems that

10
00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,840
Speaker 1: left fire hydrants dry and also hampered firefighting efforts during

11
00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:41,760
Speaker 1: these fires in southern California. But would that investigation lead

12
00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,320
Speaker 1: to him? I mean, he's come under fire for businessmanagement

13
00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,520
Speaker 1: of the state. Even President elect Donald Trump was talking

14
00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,400
Speaker 1: to Joe Rogan about some of the issues in California.

15
00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,240
Speaker 3: Listen, they said, we have no order. I said, do

16
00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,120
Speaker 3: you have a drought? No, I don't have a drought.

17
00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,440
Speaker 3: I said, why don't you have no water? Because the

18
00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,240
Speaker 3: water isn't allowed to flow down. It's got a natural

19
00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,280
Speaker 3: flow from Canada all the way up north, more water

20
00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,880
Speaker 3: than they could have use. And in order to protect

21
00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:15,160
Speaker 3: a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed

22
00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,560
Speaker 3: into the Pacific Ocean, millions and millions of gallons of

23
00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,040
Speaker 3: water gets poured. I could have water for all of

24
00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,000
Speaker 3: that land, water for your forests. You know, your forests

25
00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,920
Speaker 3: are dry as a bone. Okay, dangerous That water could

26
00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,360
Speaker 3: be routed, you know, you could have everything, not only dangerous.

27
00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,040
Speaker 3: Billions of dollars a year they spend on forest fires,

28
00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,520
Speaker 3: and you know, there's a case with the environment. They're

29
00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,840
Speaker 3: not allowed to rake their forests because you're not allowed

30
00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,319
Speaker 3: to touch it. And all they have to do is

31
00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,560
Speaker 3: clean their forest, meaning rake it up, get rid of

32
00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:48,400
Speaker 3: the leaves, get rid of you know, leaves that are

33
00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,760
Speaker 3: sitting there for five years, and they'll certainly get rid

34
00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,960
Speaker 3: of the dead fall and get rid of the trees

35
00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,520
Speaker 3: that are falling at the you know.

36
00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,160
Speaker 1: So how did California get it so wrong to the

37
00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,200
Speaker 1: point that the reservoir and the Palisades was out of

38
00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,960
Speaker 1: commission and empty during the fires. We'll talk to someone

39
00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,320
Speaker 1: who is now a member of Congress but has been

40
00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,720
Speaker 1: a big critic of Governor Gavin Newsom, so much so

41
00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,919
Speaker 1: that he published a book in January twenty twenty one

42
00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,800
Speaker 1: titled Recall Gavin Newsom. The Case Against America's most corrupt governor.

43
00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,200
Speaker 1: He also announced his candidacy in twenty twenty one for

44
00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,359
Speaker 1: governor of California in the twenty twenty one recall election

45
00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,000
Speaker 1: and since ran and was successfully elected to Congress. So

46
00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,120
Speaker 1: who better to turn to to talk about California's mismanagement

47
00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,480
Speaker 1: and particularly Governor Gavin Newsom's mismanagement of the state of California.

48
00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,160
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Congressman Kevin Kylie in just a moment,

49
00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,480
Speaker 1: but first Wired to Fish Coffee. They believe in more

50
00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,359
Speaker 1: than just a good cup of coffee. They believe in values,

51
00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,840
Speaker 1: hard work, faith, and stewardship. That's why twenty five percent

52
00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,240
Speaker 1: of every purchase goes back to causes that matter, eighteen

53
00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,120
Speaker 1: percent supports faith based initiatives, and seven percent conservation and

54
00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,760
Speaker 1: clean water projects. Fish Coffee is fair trade sourced, ensuring

55
00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:07,160
Speaker 1: ethical practices and supporting hard working farmers. Every sip offers rich,

56
00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,680
Speaker 1: bold flavors with a smooth finish, no bitterness, just the

57
00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,040
Speaker 1: way coffee should be. So why not make your coffee count?

58
00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,639
Speaker 1: Head over to Wired Tofishcoffee dot com. That's wired the

59
00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,840
Speaker 1: number two Fishcoffee dot Com. Don't forget to use code

60
00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,520
Speaker 1: Lisa for ten percent off your first order. Together we

61
00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:30,200
Speaker 1: can brew a better tomorrow. Well, Congresslating Kevin Kylie, I

62
00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,760
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time to come on the show, sir.

63
00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,400
Speaker 2: Of course, thanks for having me.

64
00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we all witnessed these horrific fires across Los Angeles.

65
00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,120
Speaker 1: They've killed that at least twenty four people, destroyed more

66
00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:47,120
Speaker 1: than twelve thousand structures, scorched more than sixty square miles

67
00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,400
Speaker 1: of land as well, displacing tens of thousands of people.

68
00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,800
Speaker 1: I guess we'll start off with you know, where does

69
00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,120
Speaker 1: the state go from here? You know, where do we

70
00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,920
Speaker 1: go from here at this point with all this?

71
00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:00,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that.

72
00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,400
Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, I want to say, my

73
00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,160
Speaker 4: heart just goes out to all of the victims and

74
00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,840
Speaker 4: their families and all of the first responders and firefighters

75
00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,280
Speaker 4: from LA, all around California, all around the country who

76
00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,799
Speaker 4: have come together to try to get this just nightmare

77
00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,400
Speaker 4: under control. It is just truly horrific scenes that we're seeing.

78
00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:27,839
Speaker 4: You know, whole communities that have been destroyed. That's not

79
00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,000
Speaker 4: my district, but I actually used to live in the

80
00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,800
Speaker 4: Greater LA area for some time, and it's really surreal

81
00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,880
Speaker 4: just seeing what's going on. And you know, obviously, right

82
00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,479
Speaker 4: now the focus needs to continue to be doing everything

83
00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,280
Speaker 4: possible to get resources to those who are contending with

84
00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,040
Speaker 4: what is still a very dangerous situation, especially with the

85
00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,640
Speaker 4: winds picking up. I will say I found it pretty

86
00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,719
Speaker 4: appalling on that note that the state legislature is focusing

87
00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,279
Speaker 4: its energies instead on a special session called by Gavin

88
00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,320
Speaker 4: Newsom to uote unquote frump proof California by providing tens

89
00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:08,520
Speaker 4: of millions of dollars for future hypothetical lawsuits against the administration.

90
00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:10,640
Speaker 4: I don't think that needs to be the priority right now.

91
00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,479
Speaker 4: I think the priority needs to be dealing with the

92
00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,560
Speaker 4: crisis at hand and then looking at what it is

93
00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:16,640
Speaker 4: that goddess to this point.

94
00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,880
Speaker 2: And there's a whole host of policy failures that got

95
00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:19,320
Speaker 2: us here.

96
00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,160
Speaker 1: I guess let's let's dig into that, and our heart,

97
00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,039
Speaker 1: you know, does go out. I mean, just watching some

98
00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,839
Speaker 1: of these videos, I just I can't imagine you know,

99
00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,640
Speaker 1: having to leave in short order with your family trying

100
00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,840
Speaker 1: to escape something as horrific of what we saw. I mean,

101
00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,119
Speaker 1: it truly looked like hell, and then you know, losing

102
00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,640
Speaker 1: everything you have and having no home to go back to.

103
00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,680
Speaker 1: I just like my heart breaks for these people. But

104
00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,479
Speaker 1: let's dig into some of those those policy failures. You know,

105
00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,960
Speaker 1: you you've been a critic of Cavin Newsome to stay lightly. Well,

106
00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,800
Speaker 1: we'll dig into that as well in the conversation. But

107
00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, take us through from your perspective, you know

108
00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,679
Speaker 1: what kind of breakdown, you know, go through the policy

109
00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,240
Speaker 1: failures that you've seen, you've witness.

110
00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, goshch I mean, where do you even start but

111
00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,440
Speaker 4: with it? When it comes to this particular situation, what

112
00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,800
Speaker 4: clearly stands out to begin with is just water and

113
00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:15,120
Speaker 4: fire forestry policy, both of which have been totally backwards

114
00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,919
Speaker 4: in California for a long long time. And when you

115
00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:23,719
Speaker 4: look at our forests, they've just become severely overgrown. The

116
00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,920
Speaker 4: timber industry, by the way, has been totally decimated, and

117
00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,720
Speaker 4: that's in a large part because of policies at the

118
00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,720
Speaker 4: state level and frankly the federal level as well, that

119
00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,560
Speaker 4: have made it unduly difficult to manage the forests, to

120
00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:42,560
Speaker 4: clear out overgrowth, to remove trees, to do prescribe burns. Indeed,

121
00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,360
Speaker 4: there was just a halt on prescribe burns just this

122
00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,240
Speaker 4: last fall, the sort of science based practices that we

123
00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:53,280
Speaker 4: know mitigate fire risk. And on top of all of that,

124
00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,919
Speaker 4: Newsome even lied about how much work could have been done.

125
00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,560
Speaker 4: There was an investigation by NPR of all outlets showing

126
00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,920
Speaker 4: that he exaggerated the amount of the amount of forest

127
00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,600
Speaker 4: management work by a factor of six hundred and ninety percent.

128
00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,160
Speaker 2: Is that's a big number. It's a pretty big number

129
00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:11,880
Speaker 2: to a big number.

130
00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,320
Speaker 4: And so you know, when you look at everything that

131
00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:18,880
Speaker 4: California's political class has done in the name supposedly of

132
00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,120
Speaker 4: the climate, I mean they're banning, you know, lawnmowers and

133
00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,000
Speaker 4: electric cars and electric trains and leaf blowers and everything else.

134
00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,720
Speaker 4: When you look at all of the emissions that have

135
00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,840
Speaker 4: you know, in theory been saved by these policies in California,

136
00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,200
Speaker 4: all of that gets wiped out many times over when

137
00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,560
Speaker 4: you have a blaze of this scale. And so it

138
00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,480
Speaker 4: could not be more backwards from the perspective of the environment,

139
00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,080
Speaker 4: as well as from the perspective of property and human

140
00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,040
Speaker 4: life and the stability of our communities and the insurance

141
00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,640
Speaker 4: market and everything else. On top of all of that,

142
00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,080
Speaker 4: we have failed to build significant water infrastructure in California

143
00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,680
Speaker 4: in you know, several generations now really since the State

144
00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:03,280
Speaker 4: Water Project, and you know that is sort of manifested

145
00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,800
Speaker 4: itself here in terms of fire hydrants that don't have

146
00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,239
Speaker 4: water coming out of them, a reservoir which was completely dry,

147
00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,280
Speaker 4: and not having the resources that really the basic resources

148
00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,880
Speaker 4: that should have been on hand to try to stop

149
00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,080
Speaker 4: this blaze from getting out of control in the first place.

150
00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,160
Speaker 1: Well, and to that point, you know, Governor Gavin Newsom

151
00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,000
Speaker 1: has said that he's ordered an investigation and the causes

152
00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,760
Speaker 1: behind some of the water supply problems that left the

153
00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:31,720
Speaker 1: fire hydrants dry and hampered or firefighter firefighters' ability to

154
00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:37,080
Speaker 1: fight these devastating fires. I mean, would that investigation lead

155
00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:37,400
Speaker 1: to him?

156
00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,000
Speaker 4: I would think so. You know, this is a classic

157
00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,640
Speaker 4: Newsome tactic. We've seen this time and time again. Whenever

158
00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,199
Speaker 4: there's some catastrophe, something goes wrong, he immediately announces he's

159
00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,360
Speaker 4: going to do an investigation. He knows that it's not

160
00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,520
Speaker 4: his faults, that's very clear always, but he's going to

161
00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,240
Speaker 4: do an investigation, and you usually don't even find out

162
00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,880
Speaker 4: what happens with this investigation. Honestly, I think we need

163
00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,440
Speaker 4: a federal investigation into everything. That went wrong here in

164
00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,480
Speaker 4: order to play accountability where it belongs. And you know,

165
00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,640
Speaker 4: especially when you look at the situations that led to

166
00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,600
Speaker 4: the fire here. You know, we were in a time

167
00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,560
Speaker 4: of the year where we knew this was the region

168
00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,840
Speaker 4: of the state where there was risk. There wasn't as

169
00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:13,360
Speaker 4: much risk in other regions.

170
00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:13,400
Speaker 2: Of the state.

171
00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:18,320
Speaker 4: So it's really perplexing how it is that he as

172
00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,880
Speaker 4: governor was not mindful of that and was not assuring

173
00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,560
Speaker 4: that we had every resources we would need in order

174
00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:25,600
Speaker 4: to mitigate risk there.

175
00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're to the the reservoir and Pacific

176
00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,600
Speaker 1: Palisades out of commission and empty during the fires. I

177
00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,600
Speaker 1: mean it's you know a lot of people asking themselves,

178
00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:37,440
Speaker 1: you know, how do you even get to that point

179
00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,520
Speaker 1: of mismanagement? You know, Trump has taken a truth social

180
00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,920
Speaker 1: obviously been critical of Gavin Newsom. He also, in his

181
00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:50,240
Speaker 1: interview with Joe Rogan prior to the election, was condemning

182
00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,400
Speaker 1: and you know, criticizing California and its protection of a

183
00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,480
Speaker 1: fish called the smelt. You know, can you dig into that?

184
00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,000
Speaker 1: Is there truth to that and what he's saying? And

185
00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,480
Speaker 1: that's sort of also leading to some of these water

186
00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,280
Speaker 1: issue supply issues in the state.

187
00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:08,120
Speaker 2: Yes, one hundred percent.

188
00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,000
Speaker 4: The delta smelt has long been the justification for water

189
00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,360
Speaker 4: policies that have sent a good measure of our water

190
00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,240
Speaker 4: straight out into the ocean. And the perverse irony of

191
00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,040
Speaker 4: it is, you know, you have all these policies in

192
00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,600
Speaker 4: California designed to restrict our water use for agriculture as

193
00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,840
Speaker 4: well as for folks just in their home. You have

194
00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:30,959
Speaker 4: parts of the state where people are told you've got

195
00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,040
Speaker 4: to take a shorter shower, you get a low flow

196
00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,560
Speaker 4: shower head plugged in. And then their new laws all

197
00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,640
Speaker 4: the time restricting water use to like thirty five gallons

198
00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,720
Speaker 4: a day, banning businesses from watering their lawns, and all

199
00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,640
Speaker 4: the while we have this abundance of water that gets

200
00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,800
Speaker 4: let out into the ocean because of a lack of

201
00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,880
Speaker 4: adequate storage that hasn't been built, and because of these

202
00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,600
Speaker 4: supposedly environmental policies designed to protect things like the delta

203
00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,840
Speaker 4: smelt that send the water that comes down and diverts

204
00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:01,719
Speaker 4: it away from productive use.

205
00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,240
Speaker 2: So absolutely, the.

206
00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:07,880
Speaker 4: President is tapping into a basic underlying reality of the

207
00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,360
Speaker 4: failed politics of California, which kind of, if you wanted

208
00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,400
Speaker 4: to sum it up, is that our state fails to

209
00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,680
Speaker 4: do the basics. There's a lot of stuff the state's

210
00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,280
Speaker 4: doing that it has no business doing, right, like restricting

211
00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:24,720
Speaker 4: water use, or banning leaf blowers, or enacting sanctuary policies,

212
00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,319
Speaker 4: which the city of la did just what a month ago,

213
00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,000
Speaker 4: even as it was cutting the fire department budget. And

214
00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,640
Speaker 4: then at the same time, we're failing to do the

215
00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,640
Speaker 4: basic things the government actually needs to do, like manage

216
00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,679
Speaker 4: our forests, like store our water, like provide for public safety.

217
00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,400
Speaker 1: We've got more with the congressman, but first, on January

218
00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,959
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the great

219
00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,679
Speaker 1: evil of the Holocaust, when millions of Jews were slaughtered

220
00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,360
Speaker 1: during the Nazis reign of terror. Today, the rise in

221
00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,720
Speaker 1: global anti Semitism and the constant attacks on Israel show

222
00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:56,800
Speaker 1: us that it's more important than ever to remember the

223
00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,000
Speaker 1: atrocities of the Holocaust to ensure it never happens again.

224
00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,520
Speaker 1: That's why I've partnered with the International Fellowship of Christians

225
00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,880
Speaker 1: and Jews. They provide food, shelter, and safety to Jews

226
00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,960
Speaker 1: in Israel and around the world, including those remaining Holocaust survivors.

227
00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,640
Speaker 1: Your donation today will help provide food, water, medicine, and

228
00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,600
Speaker 1: other basic necessities to Jewish communities.

229
00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,400
Speaker 2: And through your gift, you will stand with.

230
00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,920
Speaker 1: The Jewish people and against the growing anti Semitism and hatred.

231
00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,560
Speaker 1: Give a gift to show your support of the Jewish

232
00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,559
Speaker 1: people by visiting support IDJ dot org. That's one word

233
00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,760
Speaker 1: support IDJ dot org or call eight eight eight four

234
00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,520
Speaker 1: A eight I s CJ. That's eight eight eight four

235
00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,600
Speaker 1: eight eight I FDJ eight eight eight four eight eight

236
00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:45,240
Speaker 1: four three two five. You know, it's interesting we've seen

237
00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,440
Speaker 1: a lot of leftists take to social media. You know,

238
00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,920
Speaker 1: obviously you look at the Pacivic Palisades and you know

239
00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,000
Speaker 1: that area of Los Angeles. You have a lot of

240
00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,160
Speaker 1: wealthy celebrities and you know Hollywood types that live there

241
00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,440
Speaker 1: as well. A lot of these people have can demned,

242
00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,640
Speaker 1: you know, Careen bass As, you know, mayor of Los Angeles,

243
00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,960
Speaker 1: and have condemned the leadership in the area. Is this

244
00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,680
Speaker 1: an awakening for people to sort of realize that their government,

245
00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:13,240
Speaker 1: both locally and at the state level, have you know,

246
00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,120
Speaker 1: completely mismanaged and misprioritized what's important in the state in

247
00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,240
Speaker 1: the local area.

248
00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:21,199
Speaker 4: I think it very much. Is I think this is

249
00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,720
Speaker 4: a moment where just the sheer scale and horror of

250
00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:31,000
Speaker 4: this tragedy has crystallized for many people things that have

251
00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,600
Speaker 4: become more and more evident over time up until this point.

252
00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,319
Speaker 4: So I think that, you know, even before all this,

253
00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:42,160
Speaker 4: you really had a growing movement for more common sense

254
00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,840
Speaker 4: in California. I mean, this last election, we actually had

255
00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,079
Speaker 4: a measure and initiative that passed with almost seventy percent

256
00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,680
Speaker 4: of the vote, the tough and criminal penalties and over

257
00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,600
Speaker 4: to reverse some of these reckless crime policies that we have.

258
00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,080
Speaker 4: And you had seen other significant signs as well that

259
00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,600
Speaker 4: people are increasingly frust with the fact that we pay

260
00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,480
Speaker 4: the highest taxes in the country and you get the

261
00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,160
Speaker 4: lowest quality of government service. And so I think that

262
00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:12,319
Speaker 4: this disaster sort of will supercharge in a sense, that

263
00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,160
Speaker 4: growing sense of a need for change in our state.

264
00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,640
Speaker 4: And it will be interesting to see where this all leads.

265
00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,040
Speaker 4: And I think that at the end of the day,

266
00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,720
Speaker 4: it can sort of you know, underline that aside from

267
00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,760
Speaker 4: what people might believe on these kind of you know,

268
00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,520
Speaker 4: controversial political issues of the day, just the issue of

269
00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,480
Speaker 4: basic core competence, the government doing the things government is

270
00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,760
Speaker 4: supposed to do. Is that's so really lacking in California,

271
00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,040
Speaker 4: and I think that that could drive a lot of

272
00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,360
Speaker 4: calls for change going forward.

273
00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:48,680
Speaker 1: Well, and you had mentioned being in one of the

274
00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,440
Speaker 1: highest tax states, but also just to be able to

275
00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,720
Speaker 1: be as in debt as the state is in total

276
00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,760
Speaker 1: mismanagement a budget when you know Californians as you know,

277
00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,960
Speaker 1: better than living in California and representing the state in Congress,

278
00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,320
Speaker 1: you know, so high So where I guess, you know,

279
00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,800
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen a total dollar amount. You know,

280
00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're probably still trying to figure that out

281
00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,560
Speaker 1: of how much it's going to cost to try to

282
00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,480
Speaker 1: address some of the needs of the local area and

283
00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,000
Speaker 1: the damage done. But you know, where are that money

284
00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,960
Speaker 1: going to come from? When California is so in debt

285
00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,720
Speaker 1: and you know, the federal government's thirty six trillion dollars

286
00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:28,520
Speaker 1: in debt.

287
00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:30,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good question.

288
00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,880
Speaker 4: I mean, there is going to be disaster relief coming

289
00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,080
Speaker 4: from the federal government, and I think it's it's important

290
00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,480
Speaker 4: that we provide that. That's you know what just kind

291
00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,320
Speaker 4: of the basic social compact is in our country. But

292
00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,480
Speaker 4: I think it's also incumbent on us to try to

293
00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:51,200
Speaker 4: see that the state makes the reforms that are necessary

294
00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,680
Speaker 4: to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. And

295
00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,560
Speaker 4: I think that that's actually true across a whole host

296
00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,840
Speaker 4: of policy areas where there is a federal connection to

297
00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,480
Speaker 4: the way policy is formed in California. I mean, you

298
00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,000
Speaker 4: can make this argument when it comes to fire and

299
00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,720
Speaker 4: forest management, when it comes to water policy, when it

300
00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,040
Speaker 4: comes to immigration policy like sanctuary cities and medicaid being

301
00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,680
Speaker 4: given to all illegal immigrants. You know, even when it

302
00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:18,960
Speaker 4: comes to things like the high speed rail train, or

303
00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,480
Speaker 4: the ev mandates, or homelessness or crime to some extent,

304
00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,320
Speaker 4: in all of these ways, there's actually an exus to

305
00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,360
Speaker 4: federal policy. And so that's actually why I'm really excited.

306
00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:29,640
Speaker 4: I had the chance to go to mar A Lago

307
00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,440
Speaker 4: a couple of days ago and met with President Trump

308
00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,280
Speaker 4: to be in Washington right now, I think we do

309
00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,800
Speaker 4: have an opportunity to sort of put ourselves on the

310
00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,680
Speaker 4: side of the people of California, even if that means

311
00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,440
Speaker 4: working against the government of California, because right now there

312
00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,040
Speaker 4: is such a clear disconnect between the two.

313
00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,960
Speaker 1: Should strings be attached to the federal funding to address

314
00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,360
Speaker 1: some of these forest mismanagement and water issues because you know,

315
00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,120
Speaker 1: if they're not addressed, then you know, obviously we'll continue

316
00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,080
Speaker 1: to have these types of fires. In the need for

317
00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,320
Speaker 1: federal funding, well.

318
00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,479
Speaker 4: I think that we, you know, we need to make

319
00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,960
Speaker 4: sure that the folks who need help, the victims of

320
00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,320
Speaker 4: this wildfire, get the assistance that they need. And so

321
00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,840
Speaker 4: I don't want to put anyone in a situation where

322
00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:19,240
Speaker 4: they're sort of punished again for the incompetence and mismanagement

323
00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,199
Speaker 4: of our government. So I'm going to be fighting to

324
00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,520
Speaker 4: make sure that the victims get the help that they need.

325
00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,440
Speaker 4: But I think that there is a key point there,

326
00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,720
Speaker 4: which is that going forward, given the amount of federal

327
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,679
Speaker 4: funding that California receives across a whole host of areas,

328
00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,800
Speaker 4: when it comes to water, when it comes to our forests,

329
00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,200
Speaker 4: when it comes to even you know, infrastructure, we can't

330
00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,840
Speaker 4: just continue to write checks and then see the money

331
00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,840
Speaker 4: vanished without any discernible effect. Like a very clear example

332
00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,200
Speaker 4: of that is California High Speed Rail, which has gotten

333
00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,680
Speaker 4: billions and billions and billions in federal funding and yet

334
00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,480
Speaker 4: nothing has been built. It's maybe the biggest boondoggle in

335
00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,560
Speaker 4: US history. When we look at infrastructure project so I

336
00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,760
Speaker 4: do think that there is going to be a more

337
00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:09,879
Speaker 4: sort of discerning I cast on what is happening with

338
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,240
Speaker 4: federal dollars when they go from here to California.

339
00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,919
Speaker 1: We've got more with the Congressman. But first, while we

340
00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,080
Speaker 1: may have won this selection, the fight to restore our

341
00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,960
Speaker 1: great nation is only beginning. Now is the time to

342
00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,640
Speaker 1: take a stand, and Patriot Mobile is leading the charge.

343
00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,399
Speaker 1: As America is only a Christian conservative wireless provider, Patriot

344
00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,040
Speaker 1: Mobile offers a way to vote with your wallet without

345
00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:34,040
Speaker 1: compromising on quality or convenience. Patriot Mobile isn't just about

346
00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,160
Speaker 1: providing exceptional cell phone service. It's a call to action

347
00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,280
Speaker 1: to defend our rights and our freedoms. With Patriot Mobile,

348
00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,320
Speaker 1: you'll get outstanding nationwide coverage because they operate in all

349
00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:44,400
Speaker 1: three major networks.

350
00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:45,920
Speaker 2: If you have a cell phone.

351
00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,760
Speaker 1: Service today, you can get a cell phone service with

352
00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,480
Speaker 1: Patriot Mobile with a coverage guarantee. But the difference is

353
00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,840
Speaker 1: that every dollar you spend supports the First and Second Amendments,

354
00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,119
Speaker 1: the sanctity of life and our veterans and first responders.

355
00:18:58,359 --> 00:18:59,320
Speaker 2: And switching is easy.

356
00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,480
Speaker 1: You can keep your number, you can keep your phone,

357
00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,600
Speaker 1: or you can upgrade They're one hundred percent US based.

358
00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,000
Speaker 1: Customer support team will help you find the perfect plan

359
00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,600
Speaker 1: right now. Go to Patriot Mobile dot com, slash Lisa

360
00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,240
Speaker 1: or call nine seven to two Patriot and get a

361
00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,960
Speaker 1: month free of service with promo co Lisa. Switch to

362
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,240
Speaker 1: Patriot Mobile today and defend freedom with every call and

363
00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:24,000
Speaker 1: text you make. Visit Patriot Mobile dot com, slash Lisa

364
00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:31,120
Speaker 1: or call nine seven two Patriots. How did Gavin Newsom

365
00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,240
Speaker 1: rise to such prominence? I mean, if you you, but

366
00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,000
Speaker 1: I mean like seriously though, Like you look at all

367
00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,280
Speaker 1: the issues in California and it totally in debt, like

368
00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,720
Speaker 1: just your high as tax, homeless crisis, you.

369
00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,760
Speaker 2: Know, so many issues in the state.

370
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,680
Speaker 1: Yet his name continues to sort of be floated as

371
00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,960
Speaker 1: you know, potential presidential nominee for the right. It's like

372
00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,000
Speaker 1: he's still in such prominence and held in such high

373
00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:56,600
Speaker 1: regard in the Democrat Party.

374
00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,040
Speaker 2: So like, how does that.

375
00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 1: Happen when you look at all of his failures? How

376
00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:03,919
Speaker 1: is he able to do that?

377
00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess it's called failing up.

378
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 4: I will say that I think that Newsom's performance here,

379
00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,560
Speaker 4: even aside from the neglect and the policy failures that

380
00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,760
Speaker 4: help to fuel this crisis. What he's been doing the

381
00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,879
Speaker 4: last few days is just totally repugnant. I mean, we

382
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 4: have this fire that is still out of control, people

383
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,880
Speaker 4: still being victimized, structures still being burned, and what's Newsome doing.

384
00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 4: He's going after Elon Musk, who, by the way, has

385
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,440
Speaker 4: been providing starlink terminals to help with the firefighting. He's

386
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,360
Speaker 4: been setting up a website to try to blame other

387
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 4: people or to try to praise himself. He's been looking

388
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 4: for scapegoats like you mentioned, calling for an investigation like

389
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,879
Speaker 4: his attention. Oh and by the way, the legislature is

390
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:54,160
Speaker 4: doing a special session that he called about trump proofing California.

391
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 2: These are his priorities.

392
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 4: His focus should be one hundred percent on doing whatever

393
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,960
Speaker 4: is necessary to get as much important resources to LA

394
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 4: as possible. And you know, I do think that you're

395
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 4: seeing even before all of this, he is as unpopular

396
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,119
Speaker 4: as ever in California. The more people see him, the

397
00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,679
Speaker 4: less they like him. In one recent survey, actually he

398
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 4: had the lowest approval rating of any governor in the country,

399
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 4: which is pretty hard to pull up when he actually

400
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:21,280
Speaker 4: has a pretty.

401
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 2: Blue state to start with.

402
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 4: His attempts to sort of build his national profile, which

403
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,600
Speaker 4: is behind ninety nine percent of what he always is

404
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 4: doing is trying to raise his national profile, have really

405
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,960
Speaker 4: fallen flat. I mean, he thought he was going to

406
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 4: be the person to run for president this last year

407
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,120
Speaker 4: when Biden pulled out instead it was Kamala. He has

408
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 4: done these red state tours where he's tried to go

409
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 4: to red states and tell them how wonderful California is,

410
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,760
Speaker 4: and even the local Democrats have said, please stop, we

411
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,199
Speaker 4: like you to go home. He didn't even get a

412
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 4: speaking role at the Democrat convention a few months ago,

413
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 4: and it was essentially sidelined throughout that campaign.

414
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 2: So I do think that there is a.

415
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 4: Growing realization even among Democrats nationwide of just how toxic

416
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,440
Speaker 4: he is, and given the failures across the board that

417
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 4: we see in California, where for the fifth straight year

418
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,879
Speaker 4: now California has led the nation in one way you

419
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,959
Speaker 4: haul rentals outbound, you haul rentals. The way Newsom has

420
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 4: driven people to leave the most beautiful state in the country.

421
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 4: That's just not something that politicians on the of any

422
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 4: stripe really want to be associated with.

423
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 1: You know, and you're someone I mean you announced your

424
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 1: candidacy for governor of California in the twenty twenty one

425
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: recall election. You know, you wrote a book about Gavin

426
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: Newsom titled Recall Gavin Newsom, The Case against America's Most

427
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,640
Speaker 1: Corrupt Governor. Well, first of all, I'd love to hear

428
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,160
Speaker 1: your case for him being the most corrupt governor, although

429
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 1: you're not going to get any You're not going to

430
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: get any resistance from me. And then the secondly, you know,

431
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 1: sort of you know, kind of tipping your hand and

432
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 1: or you know, kind of getting involved in the state

433
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 1: wide level. Would love to know if California is possible

434
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: for a Republican And I know you Trump's made inroads

435
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four elections. So first start with

436
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: the case against GAVINUSO with the most Corrupt Governor, and

437
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: then would love to hear about how Republicans can make

438
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 1: more inroads in the state.

439
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 4: Well, it relates to the question you asked Rayer, like,

440
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 4: how does he continue to win elections or how has

441
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 4: he become governor of the state given the fact that

442
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 4: he's failed so badly at every stage of his political career.

443
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 4: And it is sort of I think something that is

444
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 4: very puzzling. But the answer is that he is someone

445
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 4: who is just so shamelessly willing to sell.

446
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 2: His powers to the highest bidder.

447
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,639
Speaker 4: We saw this d during COVID, when it's like everything

448
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 4: that he did was to favor this donor or that donor.

449
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 4: He'd award no bid contracts and all of this sort

450
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 4: of thing. So I think that if there's anything that

451
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:55,360
Speaker 4: explains his rise, it's that here just corruption that's at

452
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 4: the heart of everything that he does. And link to

453
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 4: that is the fact that he'll take actions for the

454
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 4: sake of promoting himself and getting himself, you know, media

455
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 4: coverage or trying to raise his national profile, irrespective of

456
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 4: the effect they have on Californians. And we saw, you know,

457
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 4: the recall happened during COVID. We saw California had by

458
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 4: far the worst COVID response in the country. We had

459
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,879
Speaker 4: the longest school shutdowns of any of the fifty states.

460
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 4: We had the worst business closures, we had the worst

461
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 4: church shutdowns. We had the most onerous and restrictive mass mandates,

462
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 4: vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, every step of the way, in

463
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 4: every way. We had the absolute worst pandemic response. And

464
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,199
Speaker 4: it was sort of Newsome's you know corruption that was

465
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 4: behind all of that. So that's I guess what I

466
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 4: would That's why I chose that particular word to describe

467
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 4: him in that book.

468
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 2: I'll say, by the way, that the recall was.

469
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 4: Actually pulling very favorably for quite a while, and it

470
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 4: could well have succeeded, but Newsom himself changed the rules

471
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 4: for recall in the middle of the election to move

472
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 4: it way up so you couldn't have really a campaign

473
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 4: against it. And then you know, you had this Adelata

474
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 4: wave of COVID broke out, and he had unlimited campaign

475
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 4: contributions and spend over one hundred million dollars.

476
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 2: So at the end of the.

477
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 4: Day, I didn't succeed, but I didn't it did serve

478
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 4: to really begin a movement that has continued to this

479
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 4: day of folks who just want common sense back in

480
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 4: our state. And so I do think that we're at

481
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 4: an inflection point potentially in California. We saw that in

482
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 4: the last election that just happened. Where As I mentioned

483
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 4: Prop thirty six, this pro public safety initiative, passed with

484
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 4: almost seventy percent of the vote, even though Newsome did

485
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 4: everything he possibly could to oppose it. Even though the

486
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 4: super majority opposed it, it passed in all fifty eight of

487
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 4: California's counties. You saw the state legislature would picked up

488
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 4: seats in both the Assembly and the Senate, the first

489
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 4: time that's happened in a very long time. You saw

490
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 4: rogue district attorneys like George Gascon in La lost reelection,

491
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 4: or in fact, the DA in Oakland was recalled from

492
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 4: office and the mayor of Oakland was recalled from office.

493
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 2: You've actually had the share of voters.

494
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,439
Speaker 4: Who identify as Republican California has increased, I think for

495
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 4: five straight voter registration cycles. So all of this is

496
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 4: markedly different, and indeed the exact opposite of the trends

497
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,479
Speaker 4: that we've had in California for quite a while. And

498
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 4: so I think that, you know, in the twenty twenty

499
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 4: sixth race, we're going to have some interesting candidate, Steve Hilton,

500
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 4: someone whose name has been mentioned among among others, and

501
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 4: I think that, you know, there is going to be

502
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 4: an opportunity to really get our state back on track.

503
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 1: I love Steve Hilton, He's great. I know him from

504
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 1: Fox very well. Yeah, I mean, do someth didn't even

505
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: end California state of emergency until February twenty twenty three,

506
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: tell through everything about his abuse of government right there,

507
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: Covers and Kevin Kylie, we appreciate you coming on the show.

508
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: We're praying for the state of California and the Los

509
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: Angeles area and we'll continue to cover it.

510
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: We appreciate your time, sir, thanks so much much appreciated.

511
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: As Congressman Kevin Kylie of California, we appreciate him for

512
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: making the time to come on the show every Monday

513
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,400
Speaker 1: and Thursday, but of course you can listen throughout the week.

514
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: I also want to thank my producer, John Cassio for

515
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 1: putting the show together.

516
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 2: Until next time.