1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. Want sure to 3 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: know it's over. 4 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: Well, but. 5 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 1: Audios mofo. 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 3: The votes for President of the United States are as follows. 7 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 3: Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 3: three hundred and twelve votes. We are going to the border. 9 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: We've been to the border. 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 3: So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. 11 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: We've been to the border. We've been to the border. 12 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: You haven't been to the border, and I haven't been 13 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: to Europe. You know, we have to say woke. 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 4: Like everybody needs to be woke, and you can talk 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 4: about if you're the wokest or woker, just stay more 16 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 4: woke than less woke. 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, when it comes to the economy, do you believe 18 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 5: Americans are better off than they were four years ago? 19 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 3: So I was raised as a middle class kid. An 20 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 3: undocumented immigrant is not a criminal, And we have to 21 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 3: correct course in this conversation. Buona personas not as criminals. 22 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: I will snatch their cabin so that we will take over. 23 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: Yes we can do that, Yes, because we can do that. 24 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: But more important, I'm vice president of the United States. 25 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 3: Anything that I handle is because it's a tougher shit. 26 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: If anything which you have. 27 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 2: Done something differently than President Biden during the past four years, 28 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: there is not a. 29 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: Thing that comes to mind. 30 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 2: Ukraine is a country in Europe. 31 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 3: It exists next to another country called Russia. And as 32 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: a woman, there is a balance to be struck between 33 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 3: being tough and being a bit Tramla de Harris of 34 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 3: the state of California has received two hundred and twenty 35 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 3: six volt. I can imagine what can be and be 36 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: unburdened by what has been. 37 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: I've become friends with school shooters. 38 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 5: As a student of history, learned that nations. Civilizations are 39 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 5: known by their leader, whether that be Napoleon or Catherine 40 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 5: the Great, were Genghis Khan or Kublai Khan Hannibal. Nations 41 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 5: are known by the personality, which is always an oversized ego, 42 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 5: a larger than life persona, and people gravitate to that. 43 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 5: The American people have always been a proud people. You 44 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 5: will hear it said the loud American. In Europe, people 45 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 5: who are less proud of their place, their culture, their history. 46 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 5: And I don't just mean winning wars. Sure, we're the 47 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 5: defending champion of World Wars. I mean people who are 48 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 5: so proud of their culture, whose movies are shown around 49 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 5: the world, whose language is spoken around the world, whose 50 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 5: currency is used. The lingua franca meant the French tongue, 51 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 5: because the French believed that their language was superior and 52 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 5: the world would speak it, it would be the common language. 53 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 5: But the lingua franca today is not French. It is English, 54 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 5: American English. Just got back from two weeks in Japan. 55 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 5: The people of Japan, not just the educated, the teeming masses, 56 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 5: from from the rickshaw carrier to the trader on the Nike. 57 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 5: They speak English two varying degrees. They know American television. 58 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 5: There was a guy we were talking talking to who 59 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 5: was saying that. He asked if we were if we 60 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 5: were NFL fans. My boys are big boys. They're not 61 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 5: you know, they're not massive, but they're big boys, are 62 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 5: seventeen and nineteen years old, and they're black. So this guy, 63 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 5: of course kind of thing that would be considered offensive here, 64 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 5: but we laugh, my kids laugh. 65 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: He'll play football, he says, and he's broken English. 66 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 5: And my oldest said, yeah, but I'm graduating in college 67 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 5: and not anymore. He said y'all play foot Yeah, we 68 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 5: play football. And he said you like you like NFL says, yeah, 69 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 5: we like the NFL. And he says, you like Houston Texans. 70 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 5: He didn't know we were from Houston, and we see, yeah, 71 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 5: we liked the Houston Texans. He said, I like CJ. 72 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 5: Sploud because he can't say the R. It's an L. 73 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 5: Not making fun of people, it's a reality. And he 74 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 5: goes through Nico Coorin's for Nico Collins. We're Anderson Anderandalson. 75 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: He goes through. This guy has. 76 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 5: Never been trained in English, and he's watching NFL games. 77 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 5: He said he was the quarterback of his local team 78 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 5: and had been for twenty years, probably thirty eight. He's 79 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 5: probably late thirties, and he loved American football. America gave 80 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 5: football to the world. America gave basketball to the world. 81 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 5: America gives so much to the world. We should be proud. 82 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 5: The American left has taught Americans to shut your mouth, 83 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 5: to be ashamed, to feel guilty, and we have allowed 84 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 5: them to dictate our behavior, to dictate our behavior and 85 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 5: our mindset, or at least many people have, because I 86 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 5: certainly haven't. I'm proud of my country. I'm proud of 87 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 5: my people, I'm proud of our culture, and nobody can 88 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 5: take that away from me just because they're bitter and angry. 89 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: Of course they don't leave. 90 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 5: I start the show with this subject because President Trump 91 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 5: has declared with great bravado that we're not going to 92 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 5: call it the Gulf of Mexico any longer. It's the 93 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 5: Gulf of America. And of course that's driving the left crazy. 94 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 5: But we have to move beyond our greatest accomplishment being 95 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 5: trolling the left and instead accomplish the things that we 96 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 5: can do that make them crazy. This is a guy that, 97 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 5: in the last two weeks has talked about making Canada 98 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 5: the fifty first state, referred to the Canadian Prime Minister 99 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 5: as the go of the State of Canada, who, now 100 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 5: having been taunted tail between his legs, is resigning. 101 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau. Donald Trump Junior is. 102 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 5: In Greenland, where Trump has called in where he was. 103 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 5: I think the people there they don't want to be 104 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 5: under Danish rule. Taking back to Panama Canal and now 105 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 5: the Gulf of America. 106 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: I love it. 107 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 6: Girls all get pretty close in time when you're listening 108 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 6: to the Michael Berry Show. 109 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 5: Interestingly, I live on the Gulf of America. When you 110 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 5: look at the Golf of America, it is. 111 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: The water body. 112 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 5: For those of you not in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida. 113 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 5: First of all, I feel bad for you, because this 114 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 5: is God's chosen country. We are better for our suffering. 115 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 5: It is a war zone like existence because of the 116 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 5: hurricanes that come through here. But you know it is 117 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 5: through that suffering. I believe that people learn to rely 118 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 5: on each other. People learn you can't afford not to. 119 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 5: It builds an incredible sense of community. But living on 120 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 5: the Gulf of America as I do, the reality is 121 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 5: this should be named for our great nation. 122 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: We should be willing to plant. 123 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 5: Our flag wherever we go, to fly it high, to boast, 124 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 5: to brag, to be proud. That's what people do who 125 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 5: are confident in who and what they are. Don't let 126 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 5: anyone steal that confidence from you. Trump's saying it is 127 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 5: now the Gulf of America and not the Gulf of 128 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 5: a third world, broken, corrupt, cartel ridden country is yet 129 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 5: another sign of a man who is proud of this 130 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 5: country and wants to promote it. He's a promoter, and 131 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 5: there's nothing wrong with that. Americans are the best salesman 132 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 5: in the world. And I don't know why when I 133 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 5: say that, people are ashamed around the world they want 134 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 5: to hire Americans as salesman. We sell better than anyone. 135 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 5: What's wrong with selling, persuading, convincing, arguing, winning, Because in. 136 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: Order to sell, you have to close. 137 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 5: Don't make me go Glengarry Glenn Russell, and you don't 138 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 5: make me do it, You'll be stuck with the steak knives. 139 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: Don't make me do it. 140 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 5: But you know, this whole concept of the Gulf of 141 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 5: America and not the aforementioned, well you know what it 142 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 5: was called. It got me thinking because people keep telling 143 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 5: me that we should take in Mexico. You don't want Mexico. 144 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 5: You haven't been there obviously. First of all, if you're 145 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 5: going to take in Mexico, you're going to have an 146 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 5: actual war with the cartels. Now Trump has said he 147 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 5: would like to have that war, and I'm comfortable with that, 148 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 5: but you've got to it can't be like Iraq. You 149 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 5: can't go in there and violate the power doctrine because 150 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 5: you break it, you own it. Just like at the store. 151 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 5: When you go into Mexico and you take on the cartel. 152 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 5: If you go for the king, you better take him out. 153 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 5: I don't think Americans understand how power full the cartels are. 154 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 5: The firepower they have, the number of men and women, 155 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:16,119 Speaker 5: they have, the equipment, they have, the sophistication of their drones, 156 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 5: of their communication systems. 157 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: But they have something even more powerful. They own the government. 158 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 5: They own the government, which means that if you go 159 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 5: in and you get the local town mayor, I'll call 160 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 5: they behind you, and you're going to reform that community. 161 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 5: The cartels just call up the governor and they that 162 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 5: the mayor is dead. By tomorrow, you get the governor 163 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 5: on your side, they call up the FEDS, and by 164 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 5: tomorrow the governor's dead. They don't just kill people the 165 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 5: way the mafia did. The mafia steered clear of famous people. 166 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 5: They made it a point not to. The cartels make 167 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 5: it a point to kill famous people, to kill powerful, 168 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 5: prominent people, and to put their fingerprints all over it. 169 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 5: There was a mayor in Mexico last year. He ran 170 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 5: on a on a reform platform. He got elected, and 171 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 5: within the week his head was placed on top of 172 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 5: his car. 173 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: It's uncanny. You see the picture. It looks like it's photoshopped. 174 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: It was real. 175 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 5: They hang the heads of journalists who are writing stories 176 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 5: about him, investigating him, and judges. They hang them from 177 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 5: the from the overpass. You're driving along and they're dangling 178 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 5: down is the head of a prominent person. It's a 179 00:13:55,559 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 5: powerful message. You think about that, it's a very powerful message. Hey, 180 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 5: you want to mess with them, you want to mess 181 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 5: with them, this is what will happen to you. It's 182 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 5: a scarecrow effect. I don't want Mexico. You might go 183 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 5: down to Cancun and have a nice time at a 184 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 5: wet hang, or you might go down to one of 185 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 5: your favorite beaches and have a hell of a good time, 186 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 5: but you want to come back home. 187 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: You might go down to Cabo for a period. 188 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 5: You don't want the burden of the corruption because you 189 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 5: don't want the Mexicans running their own government. There's too 190 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 5: much corruption within it. Of course, Ron White had a 191 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 5: Ron White had an interesting idea on what to do 192 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 5: with Mexico. Since we're since we're moving our chest pieces here. 193 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 6: And we take the money we make from selling the 194 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 6: rest of Florida to Israel, we buy Mexico, fix it 195 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 6: up and flip it Now we'll have to send down 196 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 6: some painters and landscapers, because they're all up here, and 197 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 6: when they're gone, you're a wonder where they went. Because 198 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 6: you ain't gonna want to do this shit yourself, not 199 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 6: if you're anything like me. We sell Mexico to a 200 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 6: country they can put a ton of cash down, but 201 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 6: you know they can't make the payments. 202 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: Like Peru. 203 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 6: Peru has trillions of US dollars in cash and banks 204 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 6: all over Peru. That's your cocaine money they tricked you 205 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 6: out of. We get all that money back. We financed 206 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 6: the balance of Mexico to Peru. We let them get 207 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 6: behind on the payments. We repossess Mexico. Now we have 208 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 6: Mexico free and clear, new paint, new shrubs. 209 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: Now with all that cocaine. 210 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 6: Money, we start buying countries south of Mexico. 211 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: We buy them all. We buy believe, Honduras. 212 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 6: Nigga, Rockwell, salvad or Costa Rica. And every time you 213 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 6: buy one of those countries, that long ass wall this 214 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 6: country needs to build gets a little thing shorter, doesn't it, 215 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 6: until eventually we buy back the Panama Canal, which we built. Anyway, 216 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 6: stand there and go swim this bit, and you know what, 217 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 6: we'll call it North America. 218 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: If you can't say something nice, you can all ways 219 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: say it. 220 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 7: On the Michael Verie Show in the early eighties, under 221 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 7: Republican gubernatorial direction, the state of California, with its gorgeous beaches, 222 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 7: it's an incredible climate. 223 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 8: The beauty of the people, attracted by Hollywood and Rodeo drive, 224 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 8: the mountains, Pacific Coast Highway. 225 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 5: California was America's dreamland. People would vacation in California and 226 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 5: come home and say, why can't where I live be 227 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 5: like this? 228 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: Somehow? 229 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 5: And there was a there was a bumper sticker at 230 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 5: the time. It was very popular. It said there were 231 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 5: there were billboards it said welcome to California and now 232 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 5: go home. And they didn't want Texans coming out there. 233 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 5: They want us to go home, not don't relocate there. 234 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: The state. The U haul. 235 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 5: Just came out with for the fifth year in a row, 236 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 5: the number one place for people to take to rent 237 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,239 Speaker 5: a U haul and move to was Texas, followed by 238 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 5: South Carolina. 239 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: California. Nobody wants to go to California. 240 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 5: Well, the weather didn't change, the beautiful beaches didn't change, 241 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 5: the water didn't change the mountains, didn't change the coastline. 242 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 5: None of that changed the beautiful homes to look at. No, 243 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 5: what changed was bad policies that drove people out of 244 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 5: the state, and many of them ended up in Texas, 245 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 5: some of them ended up in Tennessee, many of them 246 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 5: minted up in Florida. I have maintained for some time 247 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 5: since before Kamala Harris was the Democrat nominee, that Gavin 248 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 5: Newsom would be their nominee in twenty twenty four. I 249 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 5: was sure of it, and I still maintained that Gavin 250 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 5: Newsom would have been a much stronger candidate than Kamala Harris. 251 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 5: Is everything the Democrats like, which is a good looking 252 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 5: white guy who talks constantly about race, so you pick 253 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 5: up all their coalition groups. But at the end of 254 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 5: the day, Democrats still want a white candidate and a 255 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 5: young white male like a Bato O'Rourke. Oh it hearkens 256 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 5: back to John Kennedy. Totally different politics, but that's what 257 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 5: the Democrats think they want. Well, Gavin Newsom wasn't the nominee, 258 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 5: as you know, it was Kamala Harrison. She wasn't a 259 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 5: good candidate, although she was from California, and it sure 260 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 5: seems to be the case. Sitting in Texas as I 261 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 5: am that California politics are polluting America's politics. And that's 262 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 5: not limited to Kamala Harris. This goes back to Crazy Moonbeam, 263 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 5: Jerry Brown, this goes back to Nancy Pelosi. California values 264 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 5: are corrupting the Democrat Party, which is corrupting the country. 265 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 5: Gavin Newsom would like to be president, and there are 266 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 5: plenty of people who are willing to help him make 267 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 5: that happen. The Democrats don't have an air apparent. But 268 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 5: Gavin Newsom has a lot of problems, and our guest, 269 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 5: Susan Crabtree is going to tell us all about him. 270 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 5: She's written a book called Fool's Gold. The radicals, con artists, 271 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 5: and traders who killed the California Dream and now threaten 272 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 5: us All Ramon, When I said traders, could you tell 273 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 5: that I was referring to people who've committed treason and 274 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 5: not people who trade things? Okay, all right, I'll say 275 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 5: it again so you can hear it. Probably Fool's Gold. 276 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 5: The radicals, con artists, and tradeurs who killed the California 277 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 5: Dream and now threaten us All But the reason she's 278 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 5: our guest today and came to our attention as the 279 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 5: political correspondent for Real Clear Politics is a story that 280 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 5: she has broken on Gavin Newsom and corruption and PG 281 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,360 Speaker 5: and Eve Susan, welcome to the program and take us 282 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 5: right into this story of Gavin Newsom's most recent corruption. 283 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,719 Speaker 2: Well, it's on go as we speak, because we have 284 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 2: new rate hikes. We've had several rate hikes from PG 285 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 2: and E over the past year, several years, and that 286 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 2: is to pay for. 287 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: What they their role. 288 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 2: And they have been found guilty of manslaughter in some 289 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 2: of California's worst wildfires in history. In fact, they were 290 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 2: found guilty of manslaughter in twenty twenty twenty for eighty 291 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 2: four instances for eighty four deaths in the Campfire, the 292 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 2: most destructive wildfire in California history. And he is literally, 293 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 2: well not literally, but he has been so close to 294 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 2: PGNE over the years that PGNE has funded his wife's 295 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 2: gender justice films that promote transgender They have a trend 296 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 2: what they call the genderbred Man diagram that she I'm 297 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 2: not kidding you to school. They have even to public 298 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 2: schools all over this country, not just in California. So 299 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 2: when you start, when you talk about exporting the values, 300 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 2: there is one big instance right there, where a very 301 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 2: fine example where PG and E is so close to 302 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and other members of the Democratic Party that 303 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 2: they are funding both his campaign and his wife's campaign. 304 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 2: I found that they gave more than seven hundred thousand 305 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 2: dollars to both entities, and that Gavin Newsom's wife screened 306 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 2: her gender justice films at PG and headquarters in San Francisco. 307 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 2: The problem with all of this, of course, is that 308 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 2: they talk about climate change being the main culprit for 309 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: all of these wildfires that we see year after year. 310 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 2: It's almost like it's inevitable in California, and they claim 311 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 2: to be so concerned about pollution, but even Stanford University 312 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 2: has said that the those wildfires from twenty seventeen to 313 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:09,719 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen twenty twenty put more particulates contaminants into the 314 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 2: air than all of the efforts to try to move 315 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 2: to ev carbon free environment, to EV vehicles that the 316 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 2: state has done over the last decade. So it's just 317 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 2: unbelievable the close nature that PGN has with Democratic politicians. 318 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 2: Willie Brown sort of captured it the best when he 319 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 2: openly told the New York Times that he was he 320 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 2: was lobbing Gavin Newsom's office to help them get out 321 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 2: of their bankruptcy issues and create a fund that would 322 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 2: prevent them guarantee that they would not have liability for 323 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 2: future wildfires. And he wouldn't talk about the details of 324 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 2: what he was lobbing about, but he told New York 325 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 2: Times that he loves getting a call from PG and 326 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 2: E because it always generates an invoice. 327 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 5: Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and lover married 328 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 5: at the time to Kamala Harris, who has managed to 329 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 5: get rich and powerful off of the people, and it's 330 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 5: a truly truly disgusting thing to behold. PG and E 331 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 5: is a name that is well known to my neighbors 332 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 5: back home in Houston, Texas, because we have a company 333 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 5: called Centerpoint Energy that absolutely fell down on the job 334 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 5: this last year. And the guy who leads this company, 335 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,959 Speaker 5: who made seven million dollars last year, there is a 336 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 5: call by the Lieutenant governor for him to step down. 337 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 5: They want his head. This guy's bad and where did 338 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 5: he come from? But PG and E a company that 339 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 5: just keeps coming up and worth noting you said this 340 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 5: at the beginning of your statement. I want to make 341 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 5: sure people, if they're driving, heard this clearly. PG and 342 00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:02,360 Speaker 5: E pled guilty to eighty five felonies for recklessly sparking 343 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 5: the fire which destroyed Paradise, California, in the largest mass 344 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 5: homicide committed by a corporation in the United States of America. 345 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 5: That is worth noting. This is the sort of thing 346 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 5: that people's heads should be gone over. 347 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: Heads should roll. At a minimum, head should be gone. 348 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 5: This is as disgusting and despicable as I can imagine. 349 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 5: We'll continue our conversation with Susan Crabtree, the political correspondent 350 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 5: for Real Clear Politics, on Gavin Newsom, California corruption Moore 351 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 5: coming up. Yet, people to understand giving information is not snickning. 352 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: Susan Crabtree is our guest. 353 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 5: She's political correspondent for Real Clear Politics. She came to 354 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 5: our attention. She's the author of Fool's Gold, The Radicals, 355 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 5: con artists and traders who killed the California Dream and 356 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 5: now threaten us all. But she came to our attention 357 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 5: with a story she had written on on Gavin Newsom 358 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 5: and another round of corruption Susan, I want to bring 359 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 5: into our discussion the law firm of o'melviny and Myers. 360 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 5: When I was in law school at the University of 361 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 5: Texas School of Law, most folks would have been very 362 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 5: proud to get an offer from this prestigious firm over 363 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 5: o'melviny and Myers, LA based firm, I believe, powerful firm. 364 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 5: And you write about the fact that they seem to 365 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 5: be writing the laws that keep PG and E executives 366 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 5: out of prison. And there is this sort of revolving 367 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 5: door between O'melviniye and Myers and Gavin Newsom the Governor's 368 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 5: office and PG and E the utility. They keep coming 369 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 5: up again and again. Can you explain this to folks 370 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 5: outside of California. 371 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, PG and E had been using that particular 372 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 2: law firm for decades and just it's just as a coincidence, 373 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 2: right that when Gavin Newsom was using backroom maneuver and 374 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 2: deals to come up with a pathway to save EG 375 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 2: and E, that that is the same firm that he chose, 376 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 2: and he spent millions of dollars in taxpayer money to 377 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 2: provide their services their counsel. They basically wrote the bill 378 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 2: that was later passed. In the back room of the 379 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 2: Governor's office, they wrote the bill that was later passed 380 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 2: that would give the PG and E, would prevent them 381 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 2: from having any more liability, and create a fund to 382 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 2: pay the victims. But the biggest part of it is 383 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 2: it denurres them from any liability for the future fire 384 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 2: wildfire devastation. And I talked to a whistleblower who was 385 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 2: the executive director of the California Public Utilities Commission, which 386 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 2: is a long way of saying, it's the government agency 387 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 2: that's supposed to regulate the utilities that keeps that serves 388 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 2: as the revolving door between PG and the executives and 389 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 2: the in itself and the government and Gavin Newsom's government. Basically, 390 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: what that woman said to me, your name is Alice Devans. 391 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 2: She said that they were forced her to sign off 392 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 2: on a certificate of security, basically that PG and E 393 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 2: was now a safe company, had safe practices, and she 394 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 2: regrets that entirely. And she told me exclusively that Gavin 395 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 2: Newsom that everyone thought that that the previous governor, Jerry Brown, 396 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 2: as you mentioned, he was corrupt with PG because one 397 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 2: of his best friends. Michael Peevey was a president of 398 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 2: the Public Utility Commission, and he was thrown out after 399 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 2: scandal after scandal, But Brown's sister served on Sempra Energy 400 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 2: and other companies board, making a million dollars over a 401 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 2: course of a few weeks, just a few years. But 402 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: really he said that PG and E and legislature and 403 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 2: the Public Utility Commission were acting far more independently than 404 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,959 Speaker 2: when Gavin Newson came on. And as he can see 405 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 2: even he finally Newson, after so much bad publicity for 406 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 2: PG and his their contributions to him and his life, 407 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 2: he finally said a few years ago, when at the 408 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 2: height of the wildfire problems, that he was not going 409 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 2: to take any money from Vicini. Well, guess what his 410 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 2: big proposition to save to try to stop homelessness that 411 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 2: he barely passed because Californias are sick of spending billions 412 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 2: with no results on homelessness. Last year they funded that 413 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 2: proposition to the two of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 414 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 2: So that the nations are still coming, They're just not 415 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 2: coming directly into Gavin Newsom's campaign, coffers. 416 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 5: It's sickening. It's third world standards. It's not only beneath 417 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 5: the standards we expect of the United States of America. 418 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 5: This is a state that was once a pinnacle. You know, 419 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 5: the state of California had a bigger economy than almost 420 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 5: any country in the world. 421 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: It was a high point. It was a beacon. 422 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 5: We all held up California, not just as a beautiful 423 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 5: place to visit, but powerful companies head orders and not 424 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 5: just Hollywood, and to think that they have so corrupted 425 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 5: this and it's brazen. I mean, is there nobody to 426 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 5: prosecute this nonsense? Is there nobody to step in and say, 427 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 5: we've got to take back our state. 428 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: This is horrible. 429 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 2: Kama Harris, interestingly enough, was supposed to be prosecuting BG 430 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 2: and E, and there was a lot of push for 431 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 2: her to do so by consumer watchtok organizations and across 432 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 2: the ide biological spectrum. But she let the statute of 433 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 2: limitations run out on some of these prosecutions that she 434 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 2: could have gone after. And a source of from her 435 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 2: office it says I reported this when she was running 436 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 2: for president. But oh, you know, it's very difficult to 437 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 2: prosecute some of these complicated cases. Did not give me 438 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 2: any specific reason why did they let the statue of 439 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 2: limitations run out, But there was a lot of outrage 440 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 2: over that. But also her successor did the same thing. 441 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 2: And now Rob Bonta, as you know, is spending his 442 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 2: time along with Gavin Newsom, launching off there against the 443 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 2: gas companies a well in gas companies, but yeah, he's 444 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 2: basically in bed with the electric utility companies because there's 445 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 2: such a monolith in monopoly in serving five million residents, 446 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 2: and they have so much money rolling around that they're 447 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: supposed to be spending on trimming trees and taking care 448 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 2: of their equipment. But instead, right when all of this 449 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 2: backroom deals were going on, they paid their incoming CEO 450 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 2: fifty million dollars, so it fifty forty of that was 451 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 2: in shares in stock, but still it's fifty million dollars, 452 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 2: and they're saying that they can't pay the victim, that 453 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 2: they're having trouble paying the victims, and they would go 454 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 2: into bank ruptcy. This is the second bankruptcy for them 455 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 2: in a matter of fifteen years. So it's just unbelievable that. 456 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 2: The really sad part I think is that the California 457 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 2: you think about California's weather some of the best weather 458 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 2: in the country. But Californians are paying the highest utility rates, 459 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 2: the highest electrotricity rates, more than eighty percent more eighty 460 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 2: percent more than the national average. So what's driving all 461 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 2: of this? And they're using the funds now. They keep 462 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: saying we need more rate hikes and more rate hikes. 463 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 2: And twenty percent of California consumers are in debt. They 464 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 2: can't pay their utility bills and the average bill that 465 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 2: they have in debt is eight hundred dollars. This is 466 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 2: a cost of living issue. Gavenue semester day just had 467 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 2: a big press conference where he laid out all his 468 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 2: budget priorities, and he has a three hundred and twenty 469 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 2: two billion budget and suddenly his forty to fifty billion 470 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 2: dollar deficit just suddenly with a raised in his new 471 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 2: budget proposals through budget gimmicks and increasing taxes. But he 472 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 2: had as asking using five million dollars of the taxpayer money. 473 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 2: Even though a lot more congressional districts turned red because 474 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 2: of Donald Trump that you're about ten congressional to districts 475 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 2: became majority of Republican districts after the election, he's using 476 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 2: twenty five million dollars of taxpayers money to wage lawfare 477 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 2: against President Trump. And last time around, the California governor 478 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 2: of the state of California launched one hundred and twenty 479 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 2: two lawsuits against Trump to the tune of forty million. 480 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 2: So we know that twenty five million is just the 481 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 2: starting point. And Gavin Newsen basically said that yesterday that 482 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 2: he could definitely go up from there. It was pretty 483 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 2: slick press conference. You have to really know what you're 484 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 2: talking about to read between the lines when he is 485 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 2: That's the problem with Kamala Harris was that she's not 486 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 2: very articulate. The opposite is true for Gavin Newsom. He 487 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 2: comes off so slick because he has manipulating language. He's 488 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 2: talking about accountability for homelessness, that he has a new 489 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 2: accountability website, and all it does is it provides a 490 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 2: way for him to cite to put pressure on the 491 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 2: county to do more on a homeless and you know 492 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 2: what's crazy, were just launching it twenty twenty eight campaign. 493 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 5: Yes, we have seen this across the country. Whenever you 494 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 5: throw money at a problem like homelessness, you actually institutionalize it. 495 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 5: Because now the organizations that survive off of the money 496 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 5: over homelessness are never going away that becomes their mother's milk. 497 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 5: Susan Crabtree, political correspondent for Real Clear Politics. 498 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: The book is fool's gold. 499 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 5: The radicals, con artists, and traitors who've killed a California 500 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 5: dream and now threatened us all. 501 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: Thank you, dear, thank you so much for having me. 502 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 2: Take care