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Speaker 2: Nathan Hakman, who at this point is presumed to be
Speaker 2: the next La County DA defeating incumbent George Gascone not
Speaker 2: a big surprise, not a big surprise at all. The
Speaker 2: headwinds against George Gascon, I'll say, the hate against George Gascone.
Speaker 2: And in the weird part was his reticence to even
Speaker 2: engage media, to engage his competition, to engage citizens, to
Speaker 2: engage his own deputy das just from the people that
Speaker 2: I spoke to, he would not even engage them, isolated
Speaker 2: himself to where that this was the eventual end to
Speaker 2: his I would say, his political career, at least as
Speaker 2: DA in Los Angeles County. I don't know what he
Speaker 2: may move on to next. I don't know if he
Speaker 2: will have a concession speech. I don't think he will
Speaker 2: because that's just not his style. He hasn't said much
Speaker 2: of anything about anything. And La County will move forward,
Speaker 2: we will have a different district Attorney who fundamentally will
Speaker 2: have a different approach to crime. And when you add
Speaker 2: that with Proposition thirty six, which is going to pass
Speaker 2: overwhelmingly more than three to one. You can see how
Speaker 2: people have spoken loudly and resoundingly about what they feel
Speaker 2: about crime in southern California, La County, specifically what needs
Speaker 2: to be done, what hasn't been done, what has been
Speaker 2: largely overlooked and excused. And I've said many times on
Speaker 2: my show that there's a culture of permissiveness and people
Speaker 2: have taken advantage of that, and I think part of
Speaker 2: the reason why we've seen the different types of crime.
Speaker 2: It's one thing to say crime is down statistically, which
Speaker 2: is true, but the types of crime has changed. The
Speaker 2: brazen nature of crime that we experience day to day
Speaker 2: in southern California, from the street takeovers to the robberies
Speaker 2: to what happens on the metro, it's just fundamentally different.
Speaker 2: And if you want to only talk in terms of
Speaker 2: numbers and statistics, yes, you can say that there are
Speaker 2: fewer violent crimes for capita than a year ago. But
Speaker 2: the bottom line is safety begins with how we feel,
Speaker 2: and you can't quantify that, but it's real and I
Speaker 2: don't think people, if they're being honest, feel generally safe
Speaker 2: when they go about their way here in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: County and this is the first step into changing that,
Speaker 2: and part of it is taking law enforcement and the
Speaker 2: laws seriously prosecuting crimes as they should. And we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens with Nathan Hoffmann and see if we get
Speaker 2: something different than what we had before. It's a CAFI
Speaker 2: election desk. I'm Moe Kelly. We're going to check in
Speaker 2: with Steve Roberts of ABC News and look at the
Speaker 2: national scene and the latest as far as state projections
Speaker 2: and whether there has been any updates to what we
Speaker 2: know in the presidential race.
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Speaker 2: Is the election Desk on mo Kelly as we continue
Speaker 2: to follow the events all across the nation, races both federal, national,
Speaker 2: and local. Joining me right now is Steve Roberts, ABC
Speaker 2: News political analysts to give us some analysis of what's
Speaker 2: going on around the country.
Speaker 3: Steve, how are you doing this evening? I know it's
Speaker 3: late where you are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gotten later too. It's gotten later for Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris too. You know, I think that any fair look
Speaker 4: at the trend lines now. We're very careful at ABC.
Speaker 4: We don't call races until we're absolutely sure. But the
Speaker 4: trend line is very clear, and unless something very very
Speaker 4: unusual happens, Trump is going to win this election. And
Speaker 4: this core reason for this is very obvious in actually
Speaker 4: in the exit polls from the very beginning mode this election.
Speaker 4: Despite all of the turmoil of Biden getting out and
Speaker 4: Harris getting in and Trump getting shot, the basic parameters,
Speaker 4: the basic foundation of this election has been exactly the
Speaker 4: same from day one, and that is that about two
Speaker 4: thirds to three quarters of Americans tell polsters we don't
Speaker 4: like the direction of the country. We're paying too much
Speaker 4: for gas and groceries, where don't like inflation. Inflation is
Speaker 4: always the most damaging of issues. It affects every family
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles every day. But it's beyond prices. There
Speaker 4: is this global gloom. Oh there's this infection of the
Speaker 4: spirit that has lasted long after the infection of COVID
Speaker 4: has gone away, and it helped defeat Donald Trump four
Speaker 4: years ago. It's defeating ruling parties in the UK and
Speaker 4: all over the world. And so when you step back
Speaker 4: in some ways tonight was inevitable that asking Kamala Harris
Speaker 4: to run as an incumbent vice president when the country
Speaker 4: is so gloomy, it was an enormously difficult task.
Speaker 2: Well, there was history which was working against hers, just
Speaker 2: as far as vice presidents trying to become president usually
Speaker 2: don't do well, with the notable exception of George H. W.
Speaker 3: Bush. We know what happened to al Gore and what
Speaker 3: have you.
Speaker 2: But I wonder, though, was this more You say that
Speaker 2: there was an economic reason primarily, how much do you
Speaker 2: think was it an embrace of Donald Trump as well?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Sure, you know, it's always hard to evaluate which variables
Speaker 4: were more important, because, as you certainly rightly point out,
Speaker 4: mode every voter is a combination of many factors. And
Speaker 4: you know, a woman whom I care about reproductive rights
Speaker 4: also is paying too much for eggs and milk at
Speaker 4: the grocery store. I mean, you know, so everybody is
Speaker 4: a mixture of factors. Where you can see evidence of
Speaker 4: Trump's personality making a difference is in the votes of
Speaker 4: black and Latino men. Twenty percent of Black men voted
Speaker 4: for Donald Trump, but over fifty percent of Latino men
Speaker 4: voted for Fifty three percent of Latino men voted for
Speaker 4: Donald Trump. And you have to at least hypothesize that
Speaker 4: his the whole aura around Donald Trump is sort of
Speaker 4: strength and power and and and sort of masculinity at
Speaker 4: least was one of the reasons why those numbers were
Speaker 4: so different. There were enormous gender gaps both the black
Speaker 4: and Latino communities. Latino and Black women voted pretty much
Speaker 4: the way they have in the past for Harris, but
Speaker 4: there was a big shift among men.
Speaker 2: Did you get a sense from at least the data
Speaker 2: that there were more black mail and Latino male voters. Now,
Speaker 2: if we look at history, the Democratic Party has had
Speaker 2: a strong base among Black women voters, less so with
Speaker 2: black men. Even though there may have been an upward
Speaker 2: shift towards Donald Trump, does the data suggest that more
Speaker 2: black men came out to vote this particular election cycle.
Speaker 4: You know, that's hard to tell. Not really. I haven't
Speaker 4: been struck by any real significant shift. The real shift
Speaker 4: is in the way they're voted. And you know, you
Speaker 4: look at another number that was really striking to me.
Speaker 4: You know, a week or or so before the election,
Speaker 4: there was a lot of talk about late movement toward Democrats.
Speaker 4: There was that outlying Poland Iowa was showed Harris had
Speaker 4: by three points. There was all this talk about momentum
Speaker 4: on the Harris side. They were putting out press releases,
Speaker 4: and it didn't show up tonight. In fact, of the
Speaker 4: folks who decided in the last week or so, by
Speaker 4: seven points, they voted for Donald Trump, not Harris. So
Speaker 4: that's yet one more number to factor into the mix.
Speaker 4: But you made a very important point, and it's not
Speaker 4: just that Harris was caught in this trying to run
Speaker 4: as the vice president from with a very unpopular administration.
Speaker 4: But history is really very telling here. It's sometimes called
Speaker 4: the Curse of Martin van Buren. Martin van Buren was
Speaker 4: the vice president who has succeeded Andrew Jackson eighteen thirty six,
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty eight years since then. As you
Speaker 4: point out, George Bush forty one, the only vice president
Speaker 4: who's ever been able to run directly. And when the
Speaker 4: presidents see that, people like both Joe Biden and Richard
Speaker 4: Nixon had once been vice presidents when they finally won
Speaker 4: the presidency, but they didn't do it directly. And that's
Speaker 4: because there are only two slogans in American politics when
Speaker 4: it really comes down to it, you never had it
Speaker 4: so good, which is what all incumbents say, and it's
Speaker 4: time for change, which is what all challenges say. Now,
Speaker 4: when you're the vice president of an incumbent party, you
Speaker 4: actually got to say both things at the same time.
Speaker 4: You got to say, I'm defending the record, I'm proud
Speaker 4: of my service in this administration. But by the way,
Speaker 4: I'm also a change agent. There's an inherent mixed message.
Speaker 4: It's inherently muddled, and you can see this with Kambala Harris.
Speaker 4: You could see that day when she was on the View,
Speaker 4: when she made one of the worst mistakes of the campaign,
Speaker 4: when she was asked, well, can you name a single
Speaker 4: issue the difference that I can't think of one because
Speaker 4: she was caught. She didn't want to insult Joe Biden,
Speaker 4: but at the same time, she came across to someone
Speaker 4: who was too tied to the past. Even though she
Speaker 4: kept talking about changing the page and talking about turning
Speaker 4: over in a new day, she was inevitably tied to Trump,
Speaker 4: and Trump's ads hammered that home. They talked all the
Speaker 4: time about how it's been three and a half years
Speaker 4: she's been part of the Biden administration. They showed every
Speaker 4: ad I saw in the last few days started with
Speaker 4: images of Biden and Harris standing together and holding hands,
Speaker 4: and they just hammered home because they knew that this
Speaker 4: was the single biggest weakness she had.
Speaker 2: Steve Roberts, I'm running out of time with you, but
Speaker 2: let me ask you this question, and this is a
Speaker 2: general question. As I look at the Senate map and
Speaker 2: I looked at Republicans they now have control of the Senate,
Speaker 2: that the House is still to be decided, is it
Speaker 2: fair to posit that this might be beyond Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: a referendum against Democrats, and the Democratic Party is going
Speaker 2: to have to do some soul searching between now and
Speaker 2: the next midterms.
Speaker 3: I think that's certainly.
Speaker 4: I mean, the Democrats have already clearly lost the Senate
Speaker 4: seat in Ohio incumbent there Sheried Brown. Their incumbents in
Speaker 4: Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are hanging by a thread. They could
Speaker 4: lose as well. You know, But you're right to point
Speaker 4: out the importance of the House because and then right
Speaker 4: there in southern California, as you well know, some of
Speaker 4: the key races are going to decide in the end
Speaker 4: whether the Democrats take the House. If Donald Trump this
Speaker 4: this next couple of years in Washington.
Speaker 3: Will be very, very different.
Speaker 4: If Donald Trump comes in not only with the Senate,
Speaker 4: but with the House and also of course a Supreme Court.
Speaker 4: With a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, There'll be
Speaker 4: no guardrails, there'll be no obstacles. If the Democrats manage
Speaker 4: even by one seat to hold the House, that means
Speaker 4: that they will have some leverage, they will have some power.
Speaker 3: If they don't hold the.
Speaker 4: House, they'll be left with only one source of any
Speaker 4: kind of leverage or power in Washington, and that's the
Speaker 4: Senate philibuster. And it wasn't that long ago that a
Speaker 4: whole lot of Democrats, including Joe Biden and Kamla Harris,
Speaker 4: said let's do away with the philibusters and we can
Speaker 4: pass all these wonderful things. Aren't they really glad that
Speaker 4: they are going to have the filibuster if that's the
Speaker 4: only way they can exert any kind of checking balance
Speaker 4: on Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: We will find out.
Speaker 2: Steve Roberts, ABC News Political Analysts, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for staying up late with us, and.
Speaker 3: Thank you for what you do.
Speaker 2: Sure anytime, I am six forty is the election desk,
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Speaker 2: And joining us right now with some local updates is
Speaker 2: kfi's own Michael Monks, who joins me in studio. Michael,
Speaker 2: how long has your dave been going today?
Speaker 5: You know, I attended the city council meeting this morning
Speaker 5: into the afternoon just to you know, take some notes
Speaker 5: he was going on. I didn't want to miss anything.
Speaker 5: And now here we are.
Speaker 2: I see your five o'clock shadow, but it's not really
Speaker 2: a five o'clock shadow because it's like ten o'clock at
Speaker 2: night it is, and it starts three days earlier, so
Speaker 2: it's about five o'clock Monday shadow.
Speaker 3: I suppose you got it that row very fast. Anything
Speaker 3: surprising in the data that you have right now? Where
Speaker 3: would you like to start? Sure?
Speaker 5: So, I mean, you know, I'm following the county, I'm
Speaker 5: following the city. So I've got some county ballot measures
Speaker 5: and the la City council races that are going on.
Speaker 3: Let's start with Measure A. All right, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Measure A.
Speaker 5: This is this will impact everybody who buys anything in
Speaker 5: the city, right Like, so, we're already currently paying a
Speaker 5: quarter cent sales tax to support homeless efforts on purchases,
Speaker 5: and that is supposed to go away in measure that
Speaker 5: used to be. Yes, that's what the current one is exactly.
Speaker 5: These measures start to get confused, I guess it is.
Speaker 5: But the current Measure A would basically repeal that one,
Speaker 5: but not get rid of it. It would double the
Speaker 5: amount that you're paying in order to fund homelessness. So
Speaker 5: from a quarter cent sales tax to a half a
Speaker 5: cent sales pack at sales tax without us on st clause,
Speaker 5: So in perpetuity and extra ever, forever, ever, ever, until
Speaker 5: you a voter or somebody says, Okay, enough is enough,
Speaker 5: let's put it on the ballot to repeal it. That's
Speaker 5: winning right now pretty overwhelmingly fifty five to forty five percent.
Speaker 3: So yes, we're going to have more sales tax.
Speaker 5: What I saw from the campaign and support of this
Speaker 5: was a lot of the large nonprofits in the area,
Speaker 5: including the United Way, pushing the message that if we
Speaker 5: don't adopt this, the people who have been helped and
Speaker 5: brought into housing from homelessness will be back on the street.
Speaker 2: Is this a guilt conscience where we feel like you,
Speaker 2: if I just say yes to this, I've done my
Speaker 2: little part to help in homelessness.
Speaker 3: Be damned.
Speaker 2: The fact that we haven't made any inroads. It just
Speaker 2: seems like it feels like that. This is what I
Speaker 2: was anticipated.
Speaker 5: This was because remember, just last year we voted on
Speaker 5: or just in the primaries, we voted on a statewide
Speaker 5: ballot measure related to more funding for mental health and
Speaker 5: homelessness and that sort of thing. It was very close,
Speaker 5: and so I was curious about how this one was
Speaker 5: going to turn out, whether folks have decided, Look, we've
Speaker 5: thrown billions of dollars at this problem. We're not seeing
Speaker 5: any tangible difference in testing exactly. Now you'll hear from
Speaker 5: homeless advocates and the organizations that are supported by these
Speaker 5: funds that homeless homelessness finally dropped in both the city
Speaker 5: and the county very modestly, but after years of an increase,
Speaker 5: it did level off and drop for the first time
Speaker 5: in the official homeless count that was released earlier this year.
Speaker 5: So they may think they've got some momentum and maybe
Speaker 5: with a little more money they'll be able to address
Speaker 5: it more. But right now the voters agree fifty five
Speaker 5: percent to forty five percent. I think the most surprising
Speaker 5: one that I'm seeing, though, mo is is measured G
Speaker 5: and this was the proposal to take the five county
Speaker 5: supervisors and make them not county supervisors and CEO.
Speaker 3: This is basically a county mayor.
Speaker 5: And based on the support that I mean, like every
Speaker 5: week I was getting press releases, We're gonna have Asians
Speaker 5: for measure, G, Gays for measure, G, Jews for measured G,
Speaker 5: Latinos from measure.
Speaker 3: It was all these different.
Speaker 5: Rank that opportunity on their right. It looks like President
Speaker 5: Trump's gonna be an office. I think it'll be allowed
Speaker 5: to make those jokes. Yeah, we'll see, but all of
Speaker 5: these different groups who represent diverse viewpoints, because that was
Speaker 5: one of the messages that like, look, we've got ten
Speaker 5: million people in this county. Each supervisor is basically representing
Speaker 5: two million. That's more than some governors, and it doesn't
Speaker 5: leave a lot of opportunities for a variety of the
Speaker 5: county's rich cultural diversity to be represented. On the Council,
Speaker 5: on the Board of Supervisors. I have to say this one.
Speaker 5: I thought it was going to pass. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: not a good I'm not good at handicapping, But just
Speaker 5: based on all the attention it was getting, I thought,
Speaker 5: it looks like the right people are supporting this. I
Speaker 5: guess it's been fifty to fifty right now, maybe fifty
Speaker 5: one forty nine.
Speaker 3: At no is winning right now.
Speaker 2: No on that, I thought if it didn't have the
Speaker 2: CEO component, it would have passed overwhelmingly.
Speaker 3: Are you saying you wouldn't want another mayor in La County?
Speaker 2: Well, not only that, it just was unclear, and I
Speaker 2: talked to a number of the supervisors about it directly.
Speaker 2: It was unclear as far as how that position would work.
Speaker 2: There weren't any real term limits. There wasn't clarity about
Speaker 2: how the supervisors county supervisors would be subordinate to this person.
Speaker 2: If they said, hey, we're going to go from five
Speaker 2: to nine and make it more manageable and less unwieldy,
Speaker 2: I think voters would have passed that overwhelmingly.
Speaker 5: I think you might be right about that, because there
Speaker 5: did seem to be a Now, look, this is also
Speaker 5: something that's come up over the years and has been
Speaker 5: rejected by La County voters eight times. But they basically
Speaker 5: had the same number of supervisors for I mean since
Speaker 5: nineteen fifteen, and the county's population has grown. So a
Speaker 5: lot of the arguments you heard made sense objectively, like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, there are a lot more people living here
Speaker 5: and the same number of people representing all these different
Speaker 5: points of view, It does make sense to at least
Speaker 5: consider how you might be able to get closer to government.
Speaker 2: They do it with the census as far as congressional representatives,
Speaker 2: so why not do it on a county level.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 5: That's exactly right, and that was the argument that was taken,
Speaker 5: and it's very curious to me that it's as close.
Speaker 5: This is also an issue that divided the current Board
Speaker 5: of Supervisors. Now I attend a lot of their meetings too,
Speaker 5: every Tuesday, and most of the stuff sales through. They're
Speaker 5: a very polite group to one another. They tend to
Speaker 5: vote five nothing on things, occasional dissent on an item
Speaker 5: here or there. This one created some very serious friction.
Speaker 2: Holly Mitchell and also Catherine Barger, who you would think
Speaker 2: are ideologically opposed to just about everything were in agreement.
Speaker 5: As far as the opposition to this, they absolutely were.
Speaker 5: So Catherine Barger, a Republican from you know, the High Desert,
Speaker 5: I guess, and Holly Mitchell from here in the city
Speaker 5: is jus my supervisor. Yeah, so they teamed up to
Speaker 5: say like this was rushed through, it was not well
Speaker 5: thought out.
Speaker 3: They also said they support.
Speaker 5: Exploring an expansion of the board, but they didn't like
Speaker 5: this proposal at all. What was strange was that the
Speaker 5: opposition of this really had no serious campaign. The yes
Speaker 5: on g had a lot of press and push this
Speaker 5: really hard, and for it to be as tight as
Speaker 5: it is is really interesting.
Speaker 2: Michael, can I lean on you to get one more
Speaker 2: segment out of you because we got to talk about
Speaker 2: the La City Council, whether Kevin de Leone has another life,
Speaker 2: did he avoid the end of his political career somehow,
Speaker 2: some way? And also Prop thirty six. We all know
Speaker 2: what's going to happen with Prop thirty six, But what
Speaker 2: does it mean? You know, after Prop thirty six passes,
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Speaker 3: Let me just give everyone the national update.
Speaker 2: Georgia has just been called for former President Trump.
Speaker 3: It adds to a total.
Speaker 2: So my tope board, as it were, is Donald Trump
Speaker 2: two forty eight, Kamala Harris two sixteen. That's the national
Speaker 2: Senior And you and I were talking about how Ohio interesting,
Speaker 2: What is going on in Ohio, how the Democratic incumbent
Speaker 2: Shared Brown lost to a relative unknown, relative unknown, and
Speaker 2: how the politics of that state have shifted so greatly
Speaker 2: in the past I'll say six years or so.
Speaker 5: I come here directly from the Cincinnati media market. That's
Speaker 5: where I worked for a long time, interviewed Shared Brown
Speaker 5: many times, and even interviewed Bernie Marino when he was
Speaker 5: just a guy who owned car dealerships because he was
Speaker 5: going to open a new one in an area that
Speaker 5: I covered as a newsman. There and it is interesting
Speaker 5: that Ohio has become very reflective of the rural urban
Speaker 5: divide that we see across the country. Ohio is a
Speaker 5: very populous state. You know, there's about ten million people
Speaker 5: there and there's probably five good sized cities, and when
Speaker 5: you look at the map of how they vote, it's
Speaker 5: exactly what you would think. It's overwhelmingly blue and Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Dayton,
Speaker 5: and read everywhere else and there is a very serious
Speaker 5: disconnect between the city and the country. Shared Brown, over
Speaker 5: all these years has been able to bridge those gaps.
Speaker 2: And I made the comparison off there talking about how
Speaker 2: he was able to connect even though it was a
Speaker 2: my word, rural state in the way that Joe Manchin
Speaker 2: did in rural West Virginia or John Tester did in
Speaker 2: a rural Montana.
Speaker 5: And this is a state that Barack Obama won two
Speaker 5: times when you know, not that long ago, but now
Speaker 5: it does feel like a lifetime ago. That's how much
Speaker 5: that shift has taken. And I think this ousting of
Speaker 5: Shared Brown really represents a strengthening of that divine that
Speaker 5: we've got growing urban and rural across America.
Speaker 2: Let's bring it back locally, Kevin de Leone, he is
Speaker 2: a politician of many lives. You think that he's done,
Speaker 2: and he keeps coming back. There was the controversy of
Speaker 2: the tape. I'll just call it the tape. In paraphrasing,
Speaker 2: he said, I'm not stepping down. He was going to
Speaker 2: write it out. Is he able to write it out? Well,
Speaker 2: this is the counselman like you noted that was part
Speaker 2: of that tape. He was the only one of the
Speaker 2: three who is still around at city Hall. One of
Speaker 2: them lost their election, another one resigned and ran away.
Speaker 2: Kevin de Leon said, no, I'm gonna work on this.
Speaker 2: I'm going to repair my image, my relationship with the community.
Speaker 2: Right now, though he's facing the toughest threat to his
Speaker 2: seat and in his political career because he's losing, and
Speaker 2: he's losing pretty comfortably to challenger Isabelle Herado, the tenants
Speaker 2: rights attorney who probably got the most press she's ever
Speaker 2: had just in the past couple of weeks because of
Speaker 2: the remarks she made at cal State LA to a
Speaker 2: group of students. And of course we found the question
Speaker 2: was asked by a student who works for Kevin daly On.
Speaker 2: But it did bait her into saying f the police,
Speaker 2: and that has been the theme of the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, Kevin da Leon hitting her really hard on that.
Speaker 2: So we're looking at about a four thousand vote lead
Speaker 2: for Isabel Herado over Kevin Dalyon. I just checked the
Speaker 2: LA County Registrar. That first batch of votes came from
Speaker 2: mail ballots, the second batch came from early voting periods
Speaker 2: over that ten days, and then the third batch of
Speaker 2: votes that had been part of this update are also
Speaker 2: vote by mail. So the question I guess Moe, is
Speaker 2: has Kevin Dallyon got enough of a voter turnout ground
Speaker 2: game kids, He got enough people out there willing to
Speaker 2: go directly to the polls and in person to help
Speaker 2: put him over the edge. I guess there's a little
Speaker 2: bit of room and a little bit of hope for him.
Speaker 2: But right now this is the toughest fight of his life.
Speaker 2: Close out our conversation and this hour talking about Proposition
Speaker 2: thirty six, but against the backdrop of crime more generally
Speaker 2: here in southern California. In California, I look, I know
Speaker 2: how people feel about crime. I know how people feel,
Speaker 2: and I think the LA District attorney's race was part
Speaker 2: and parcel of Prop thirty six. Prop thirty six. I
Speaker 2: don't need to look at any outlet. I know that
Speaker 2: it's going to pass overwhelmingly. But what do you think
Speaker 2: that says going forward?
Speaker 5: I think it's connected to the LA County District Attorney's
Speaker 5: race as well, right, I mean there is a perception regardless.
Speaker 5: It's the eyeball test, is what I think. You just
Speaker 5: called it a little bit ago, Like what can I
Speaker 5: see with my own eyes? And what I see is
Speaker 5: making me uncomfortable and unhappy, and that is a rise
Speaker 5: in crime or the perception that crime is on the rise,
Speaker 5: regardless of the stats that you can quote or manipulate.
Speaker 5: So what we are seeing is Californian saying, look, enough
Speaker 5: is enough. We're too lenient on this. I can't go
Speaker 5: buy deodor and at Walgreens without some combination. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: like I have the buzz, Like what if I'm buying
Speaker 5: some something embarrassing. I'm getting older, I'm buying embarrassing stuff
Speaker 5: at Walgreens. Nowak for yourself.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to own that yet, you know, I
Speaker 6: don't want to have the buzz every you know, so
Speaker 6: I guess that's the feeling. But you walk around downtown
Speaker 6: LA and you see open air drug use all over town.
Speaker 6: You and I have talked many times about what happens
Speaker 6: on the transit system. Yeah, across the region, people are
Speaker 6: fed up with it. And that's why you're seeing Prop
Speaker 6: thirty six right now with about forty two percent of
Speaker 6: the vote come in. Seventy percent are saying yes, let's
Speaker 6: have tougher penalty. Never for some of these proposition in California. Never,
Speaker 6: you don't see a vote that wide in margin, No,
Speaker 6: you really don't.
Speaker 5: I mean we've even got like raised the minimum wage
Speaker 5: on the bow and that usually is something that people
Speaker 5: are well rally behind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, let's let's pay the word.
Speaker 5: No, even that one's like about fifty to fifty right
Speaker 5: now with the same number of votes, and Prop thirty
Speaker 5: six is where it was at today on the state
Speaker 5: wide ballot.
Speaker 2: I wonder, and this is a question I was just
Speaker 2: positing out loud, if I had a chance to speak
Speaker 2: to Nathan Hockman is going to be our next district attorney.
Speaker 2: You know, when are we going to feel something? When
Speaker 2: are we going to see something? Because look, you have
Speaker 2: to either wait for crime to happen so you can
Speaker 2: prosecute it, or you have to do something to try
Speaker 2: to thwart it in advance. I wonder what the future
Speaker 2: is going to look like in the short term, as
Speaker 2: in when Hawkman takes office. In the long term, as
Speaker 2: we see Proposition of thirty six really play out and
Speaker 2: people get the word in that there's figuratively a new
Speaker 2: sheriff in town and he has new laws to use.
Speaker 5: I think that's the challenge for everyone who's winning today,
Speaker 5: even at the top of the top of the ticket
Speaker 5: at the presidential candidates. I mean, whoever it is that wins,
Speaker 5: and if it's Donald Trump, for example, you say a
Speaker 5: lot of stuff, going to do this, We're going to
Speaker 5: do this and do that, and people's attention shifts really
Speaker 5: quickly from adulation to complaints and then rejection.
Speaker 2: No politician is more popular than the day that he
Speaker 2: or she is alleged exactly, and after that disappointment starts
Speaker 2: to creep in. The difference is there's a possibility, not
Speaker 2: a probability, but a possibility that a future President Trump
Speaker 2: would have a Senate, a Republican Senate, and possibly a
Speaker 2: Republican House and a Scotis with a conservative majority, they're
Speaker 2: more levers at his disposable. Presumably, if it plays out
Speaker 2: like that, then just a local politician, that's.
Speaker 5: Right, And then what kind of news will we be
Speaker 5: giving a district attorney in Hawkman when you know, just
Speaker 5: some random guy who committed a felony that didn't garner
Speaker 5: headlines is getting a tougher penalty. I mean, part of
Speaker 5: that's going to be our responsibility. I supposed to make
Speaker 5: sure that we're looking at data, looking at statistics and saying, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, people who are being arrested for this or that,
Speaker 5: they are paying a higher price for it, and now
Speaker 5: we need to figure out a way to quantify that
Speaker 5: to reflect higher safety standards in our community.
Speaker 2: Speaking of safety standards, I know you have more work
Speaker 2: to do tonight, but you're not taking the metro home.
Speaker 2: They giving out free rides tonight, you know that, right
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 5: Indeed, my spouse took the free bus.
Speaker 3: She did around. You know, it's a good time.
Speaker 5: But today I did take the official iHeart vehicle that
Speaker 5: they give me to ride around in, so.
Speaker 3: I did look at that. That was very nice of them.
Speaker 3: It was very nice of them, you know.
Speaker 5: I got to get down to the downtown headquarters every
Speaker 5: now and then, and so they've they've given me the
Speaker 5: iHeart vehicle too to do that.
Speaker 3: I heard they have a nice studio at the Downtown Heart.
Speaker 5: It's lovely, little loud because it's next to the firehouse.
Speaker 5: So you know, if I'm everlive from there on your show,
Speaker 5: you've probably heard the sirens. Don't they serve drinks there too, Okay,
Speaker 5: Shmoal you should come down check it out.
Speaker 3: See there's a cat.
Speaker 2: See. I've been invited to the downtown iHeart studios where
Speaker 2: they serve drinks.
Speaker 3: They do serve drinks and anything. Michael Monks, thank you
Speaker 3: so much for my pleasure.
Speaker 4: Mo.
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