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Speaker 1: been talking a lot about the governor here, Gavin Newsom,

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Speaker 1: because he is the leading presidential candidate on the Democratic side,

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Speaker 1: and this is a dire warning not to let this happen.

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Speaker 1: And I'm saying this to everybody, not just Republicans listening,

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Speaker 1: is a disaster with his policies, and I'll go through

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Speaker 1: a little a clip of his act here. He's absolutely

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Speaker 1: running for president. He's already toured primary states, and he's

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Speaker 1: and this is getting him a lot of attention. This

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Speaker 1: is what's boosted up in the polls. But just last month,

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Speaker 1: Press and talks to the Kristen Welker, who asks about

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Speaker 1: why he wants to be president. Listen to this nonsense answer.

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Speaker 2: You said you'll make a decision about whether to run

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Speaker 2: for president after the midterms. Yeah, I mean, why do

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Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not suggesting I am. I'm saying, in

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Speaker 3: I hate when I nothing I dislike more than the politician.

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Speaker 1: It sits there and lies to you and we all

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Speaker 1: just sit there rolling our eyes. Go and give me

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Speaker 1: a break. So as it relates to that, there's nothing

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Speaker 3: Fair, free elections and to the extent fate the future.

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Speaker 1: There's an alignment.

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Speaker 3: You have a big enough why you have a what

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Speaker 4: Moment and that moment presents itself in a year, year

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Speaker 1: What the hell did that mean? At the end there

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Speaker 1: he says that he hates a politician sitting there and

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Speaker 1: lying to you, and we roll our eyes while he's

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Speaker 1: he goes into this incomprehensible word salad that would put

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Speaker 1: Kamla Harris to shame. Ay. Yeah, Well, here's a woman

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Speaker 1: who's got a lot of stamina because she's been covering

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom for many years, Katie Grimes, and she writes

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Speaker 1: for California Globe dot com Californiaglobe dot com. And if

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Speaker 1: you want to know what's going on in California news

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Speaker 1: and politics, this is where to go. Believe me, you

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Speaker 1: may not have heard about this particular website, but for me,

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Speaker 1: it's replaced most of the regular media out here, which

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Speaker 1: nobody else in all of California. Nobody, Nobody from the

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Speaker 1: all the network affiliates, ABCNBCCBS, all the affiliates in all

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Speaker 2: Doing well? John, good to be with you, good.

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Speaker 1: To have you on. Well, why don't you give because

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Speaker 1: What would you tell people about covering Gavin Newsom for

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Speaker 1: The suits are nice?

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Speaker 1: I think he's he's you know, that's how he gets

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Speaker 1: I see him referred to as Governor McDreamy. Yeah, it's gross,

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Speaker 2: made worse by Gavin Newsom. I recently did an update

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Speaker 2: to my Top fifty Disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has ushered

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Speaker 2: I have people telling, you know, people were writing me saying,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the biggest ones, because you know,

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Speaker 1: all the news is raging about Tim Waltz and the

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Speaker 1: the homelessness, because he has admitted that twenty four billion

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well he only admitted to twenty four billion. The

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Speaker 2: state legislative analyst up it to thirty seven billion, and

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Speaker 2: that money disappeared into the black hole of newly created

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Speaker 1: No, you're making that up. That's this is tax money

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Speaker 1: and ad buys free shots of booze to street trunks.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and it's been going on for a number of years.

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Speaker 2: It was it was an organization that already existed, but

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Speaker 2: they beefed it up during COVID ostensibly to keep these

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, giving alcohol to alcoholics is like giving crack

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Speaker 3: It doesn't end it.

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Speaker 2: It makes it worse.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're close to doing that too, because I know

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Speaker 1: in La I just saw a program that UCLA is

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Speaker 1: and they hand out they hand out like meth pipes.

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Speaker 3: Right exactly.

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Speaker 2: They Yeah, they claim that this is a harm reduction

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Speaker 1: But they know this, don't they? Yes, And it's really

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Speaker 1: about funneling the money to friends and family. So everybody

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Speaker 1: all this nutty stuff doesn't work.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and in California, with forty million residents and a

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Speaker 2: legislature the same size as New Jersey, it's very easy

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Speaker 1: And and that. That's that's thirty seven billion right there.

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Speaker 1: Can you hang on, Yes, We'll talk a few more

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Speaker 1: I mean you add all those three scandals up and

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Speaker 1: And we're talking now with Katie Grimes. We've devoted a

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Speaker 1: last seven years. Katie, the high speed rail that's a

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Speaker 1: seventeen billion dollar disaster, and that's over an eighteen year period. Now, yes,

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Speaker 2: And that's exactly it. It's consultants that are getting paid

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Speaker 2: as I said, on consultants, on architects, on it's a

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Speaker 1: Then another one, and this may be the biggest one

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Speaker 1: of them all. During COVID, the state started handing out

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Speaker 1: they blew about at least thirty two billion dollars and

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Speaker 1: much of it went overseas. Yes, and at a state

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Speaker 2: This was the most unbelievable stam I think our state

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Speaker 2: And somehow the word got out pretty fast to every

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Speaker 2: She never got confirmed, but yeah, and then she forgave

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Speaker 1: That's crazy, you and I know what the record is.

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Speaker 1: You think he survived here? He's He's won every election

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Speaker 1: He is not really quick under pressure. No, every once

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Jonasan, great to be with you.

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Speaker 1: going to talk with Steve Hilton. Now he's a Republican

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Speaker 1: This was out of the perverted mind of State Senator

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Speaker 3: That's another Scott Weener special signed by Gavin Newsom, which

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge meat market for of underage girls.

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Speaker 1: Can you hang on for another segment?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Okay, we'll come back.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about one of your one of

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Speaker 1: your opponents. It's Eric Swalwell, who is doing well on

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Speaker 1: up his day job as a congressman in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 3: Are we going to have some seinfang chokes coming up?

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Speaker 1: Look far to that when we come back, more of

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Speaker 1: Steve Hilton, Republican candidate for governor. Listen to the guy

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Speaker 1: life would be better under him. I think that's obvious.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 1: with Steve Helton, one of the top candidates running for

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Speaker 1: governor as a Republican here in California. Another top candidate

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Speaker 1: on the Democratic side is Congressman Eric Swalwell, quite anti

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Speaker 1: Trump over the years, involved in the impeachment, and it

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Speaker 1: turns out New York Post has a story today that

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Speaker 1: he doesn't show up to vote very often. In fact,

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Speaker 1: he misses more votes than almost any other congressman except

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Speaker 1: for one, and he's missed ninety five votes at a

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Speaker 1: three hundred and forty two. He's missed more votes than

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Speaker 1: a guy named Raoul Garrava, a Democrat from Arizona, who

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Speaker 1: missed sixty nine votes, but he died in March, so

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Speaker 1: he's got an excusebelievable. Yeah, Now the days he's missed

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Speaker 1: some votes, there's photos of him, well, he was appearing

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Speaker 1: on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Missed two votes on November twentieth.

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Speaker 1: And then let's see another example. He missed two days

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Speaker 1: of votes in February. There's photos of him attending the

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Speaker 1: La premiere of the HBO show White Lotus. He's one

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Speaker 1: of your opponents and he's doing well on the Democrat side.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's there, you go, White Loaded obviously

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Speaker 3: very important research there. I mean, we've got to go

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Speaker 3: back to Fang Fang. This is this is the you know,

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Speaker 3: his focus. Clearly there's there's a very interesting aspect to

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Speaker 3: the kinds of things where he puts his attention. Let's

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Speaker 3: let's leave it at that. The Chinese spy, what is

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Speaker 3: the Chinese spy. It's just the name is you know, Fang.

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Speaker 1: For unbelievable office.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's just too much. The thing that this

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Speaker 3: tells you is that it's just he's just not a

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Speaker 3: serious person. He's not he's a he's a social media phenomenon.

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Speaker 3: And that like these Democrats. Now you've got AOC and

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Speaker 3: all these people who think they're I mean, obviously he's

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Speaker 3: in the sort of you know, minor league compared to her,

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Speaker 3: but this is what they're all about, just like Newsome.

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Speaker 3: Actually they think that now the job of being in

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Speaker 3: office is control President Trump on social media. They literally

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Speaker 3: think that's their job. Look at how trump use is

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Speaker 3: now spending our tax paying money on this website. That's that.

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Speaker 3: It's just a sort of Trump trolling website. It's got

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Speaker 3: no purpose, it's going to benefit to anyone in California.

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Speaker 3: You look at Eric Swoll, well, that's what's you know,

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Speaker 3: he's putting out of these videos and he did one

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Speaker 3: of those videos like cringe videos in the gym and whatever,

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Speaker 3: trolling Trump. It's just it's not serious, and we have

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Speaker 3: really serious problems in California. You need people who understand policy,

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Speaker 3: who've got experience in government and experience in an executive

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Speaker 3: role like I have in business as well as in government,

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Speaker 3: so you actually get things done. You've got that business mindset,

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Speaker 3: especially when you get these legislators who just literally or

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Speaker 3: they think that doing something is the same as saying something,

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Speaker 3: putting out a press release, putting out a post on

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Speaker 3: Instagram or whatever. They think that's it. They think that

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Speaker 3: means you've done something. Well you haven't. And this is

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Speaker 3: why we're in such a mess in California. You've got

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Speaker 3: people like that whose only skill is kind of, you know,

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Speaker 3: sucking up to the activists and the unions and all

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Speaker 3: the kind of constituencies you have to cand to on

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Speaker 3: the left. That's what they're like, that's all they know

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Speaker 3: how to do. So this guy would be a disaster,

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Speaker 3: just like any other time. I can't see a single

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Speaker 3: the kind of serious change we need in California.

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Speaker 1: Well, why didn't they want to help people? It's aboutter

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Speaker 1: to understand. I mean, he's hobnobbing in Hollywood, hobnobbing with

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Speaker 1: the Chinese spies. He's not voting anymore in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: He's putting out all kinds of nonsense about Trump taking money.

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Speaker 1: He's got fifteen grand he got from Sean Penn, ten

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Speaker 1: grand from Robert de Niro, money from Kathy Griffin, money

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Speaker 1: from reality show producers. What is he doing? There's states

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Speaker 1: in ruins, and you can see it with your own eyes.

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Speaker 1: It's in ruins.

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Speaker 3: It's in ruins. I mean, it's the subt you know.

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Speaker 3: Before I jumped into race, I wrote a book Cali Failure,

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Speaker 3: Reversing the Ruin of America's Worst run State. That's exactly

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Speaker 3: the word that I used, because it's just obvious. I mean,

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Speaker 3: every single thing you look at as a disaster. What

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Speaker 3: is that answer to any of this. It's so hilarious

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Speaker 3: watching them actually done. I haven't done an event with

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Speaker 3: him yet, actually, to be fair, but I have with

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Speaker 3: some of the other ones. You know, these fo not

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Speaker 3: debates yet, but they're just like these candidate forums when

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Speaker 3: you speak one after the other and they have not

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Speaker 3: you know, they say the same things, which is, oh,

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Speaker 3: it's terrible. Oh it's so expensive in California, the business climate,

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Speaker 3: so everything's so difficult, the bureaucracy, the taxes. As if

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Speaker 3: it's got nothing to do with them or their party

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Speaker 3: or their ideas. They don't have a single constructive thing

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Speaker 3: to say about how they'd fix it. Because of course fixing.

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Speaker 3: It means going in a completely different direction to where

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Speaker 3: they are politically, because they're all.

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Speaker 1: In office now or have recently been in office, and

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Speaker 1: they look around and they tell you what you can

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Speaker 1: see with your own eyes. You don't even have to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to the news as a voter, as a resident.

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Speaker 1: You just go outside and it's like you took that

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Speaker 1: drive on Figaro and you saw three and a half

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Speaker 1: miles worth of little girls being sold into sex slavery.

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Speaker 3: Yes, just go and fill your car up with gas,

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Speaker 3: open your electric bill, I mean, pay the rent. I

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Speaker 3: mean all these things are way more expensive than anywhere

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Speaker 3: else in the country as a direct result of Democrat policies,

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Speaker 3: and there's nowhere else to blame. What explains the difference?

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Speaker 3: I mean they keep saying, oh, it's Trump, Well it's

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Speaker 3: if it's double. If gas is double the price of

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Speaker 3: another state, Trump's president in that state as well. How

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Speaker 3: can it be Trump? It's obviously the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: The average in the country is below two ninety now

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Speaker 1: and we're near four point fifty.

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Speaker 3: I know. I mean my policy, the first plan I

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Speaker 3: announced in the campaign, because it just hurts working people

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Speaker 3: so much, and that's really My focus is working class

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Speaker 3: California's and small businesses who've really been screwed by these policies.

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Speaker 3: The first one was my plan to dismantle the climate disaster,

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Speaker 3: and then the climate crusade, and so instead of five

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Speaker 3: four point fifty five six seven eight dollar gas which

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Speaker 3: is projected, we'll have three dollar gas in California. Now,

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Speaker 3: you say that is the other I say on national

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Speaker 3: television sometimes and they and the hosts look at me

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Speaker 3: and say, what's so good about that? You know, like

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Speaker 3: there are there are thirty six states in America. Like

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Speaker 3: I'm saying three dollar gas, and people are saying, wow,

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Speaker 3: that's ambitious. How are you going to do it? There

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Speaker 3: are thirty six states in America with three dollar gas,

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Speaker 3: all lower, and they don't have oil reserves like we do.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right now, seventy eight, nine ten.

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Speaker 1: There's actually forty states now under three dollars?

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Speaker 3: Is it forty today.

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Speaker 1: As of the update today? Yeah? There, there's amazing. It's shocking.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is it's big states like Texas and

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Speaker 1: Florida really low. It's it's left wing states like New

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Speaker 1: York and New Jersey and Massachusetts. It's nearly the whole country.

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Speaker 3: And exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, got a round, gotta do the news.

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Speaker 3: About next year. We're gonna make everyone aware that it's

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Speaker 3: the Democrats causing it, and the only answer it is

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Speaker 3: the stop voting Democrat, vote for Republic. And that's why

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Speaker 3: I'm confident I'll be the governor this time next year,

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Speaker 3: I'll be governor elect.

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Speaker 1: All Right, thank you very much, Steve Hilton, good to

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Speaker 1: be with you.

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Speaker 3: John Pain, we'll have.

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Speaker 1: You on against So okay, we've got more coming up

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