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Speaker 2: App live in Chicago.
Speaker 3: Of course, for day four of the Democratic National Convention,
Speaker 3: Vice President gets up there. She will accept a nomination today.
Speaker 3: Before her speaking, we'll see Senators Bob Casey and Tammy Baldwin.
Speaker 3: Also Alex Padilla, Elizabeth Warren, Mark Kelly, a couple of
Speaker 3: governors are going to be up there, some members of Congress.
Speaker 3: Interior Secretary Deb Holland if former Housing Secretary Marsha Fudge
Speaker 3: will be up there, Boy, she's gonna bring that house
Speaker 3: down yours.
Speaker 1: You're dying on the fudge hill. Keep bringing that up.
Speaker 1: You're like, it's fudge day.
Speaker 2: It is a suge day.
Speaker 4: So do you want fudge? Do you have a craving
Speaker 4: for fudge?
Speaker 2: You know what, last time I had fudge, I was
Speaker 2: very disappointed.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, I've got a great fudge place.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I really do.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 1: I know somebody locally in LA who makes homemade fudge
Speaker 1: and it's except she makes it around the holidays.
Speaker 2: It can be too rich, I would say that it
Speaker 2: can be too rich.
Speaker 1: She's got a great. She does it a real well,
Speaker 1: real good job. I think she's a listener too.
Speaker 3: Tonight when Vice President Harris is giving the keynote speech
Speaker 3: tonight and the acceptance of the nomination, we are also
Speaker 3: going to see Donald Trump doing a live play by
Speaker 3: play on his truth social Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's really taking up the mantle of the football analogy.
Speaker 1: I don't think he likes the buzz that Tim Wall's
Speaker 1: got last night for using all those football analogies. So
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is saying, oh, you coached football. Sometimes he's
Speaker 1: a semi coach, he's not even a real coach, and
Speaker 1: then saying I will be doing live play by play.
Speaker 1: And he wrote it in all caps on truth.
Speaker 2: So she called him a lightweight.
Speaker 6: Two guy is a lightweight. Lightweight shouldn't have access. And
Speaker 6: for him to say about Project twenty five is disgraceful.
Speaker 6: They know I have nothing to do with it. I
Speaker 6: had no idea what it was. A group of people
Speaker 6: got together, they drew up some conservative values, very conservative values,
Speaker 6: and in some case perhaps they weren't over the line,
Speaker 6: perhaps they didn't. I have no idea what Project twenty
Speaker 6: five is.
Speaker 3: Speaking of the football analogies, this was Governor Walls last
Speaker 3: night after he accepted the nomination and gave a speech,
Speaker 3: let me finished with this team they're calling him coach.
Speaker 2: That's the fourth quarter. We're down a field goal, but we're.
Speaker 4: On offense and we've got the ball.
Speaker 3: We're driving down the field, and boy, do we have
Speaker 3: the right team that.
Speaker 2: Hits you right in the lizard brain?
Speaker 4: I do it?
Speaker 5: Does it?
Speaker 4: Does you know this?
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of independent voters may this
Speaker 1: may benefit them when it comes to independent voters. When
Speaker 1: you've got, like I said earlier, Michelle Obama bringing down
Speaker 1: the house one night talking about how Donald Trump wants
Speaker 1: to take a black job, and then you've got a
Speaker 1: guy who's folksy football coach who speaks to a different population.
Speaker 1: And I just think that that's going to play well
Speaker 1: for them in those swing states.
Speaker 3: Folks, that's a good I mean, that was the word
Speaker 3: that I thought of last night while I was watching it.
Speaker 7: Is he is?
Speaker 4: He is that guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, you see politicians try to be folksy by
Speaker 1: saying things like listen, folks. Honestly, I mean look at
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom. He tries to be like down earth guy,
Speaker 1: and it just it backfires for him. But this is
Speaker 1: the actual guy like he is playing. He's not playing
Speaker 1: a part here.
Speaker 3: But is that going to be well, I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's not going to be enough. We've talked or heard
Speaker 3: discussion about also what he represents, and for some people,
Speaker 3: especially probably Midwest women, younger women, they feel like they
Speaker 3: lost their fathers, their uncles, et cetera when they went
Speaker 3: and supported Donald Trump for president, and that this guy
Speaker 3: represents that father figure who has more politics that fit
Speaker 3: what they think.
Speaker 2: Perhaps I've heard.
Speaker 1: That, rave I haven't heard anyone in real life say that.
Speaker 1: What I would love is for people, if you're still
Speaker 1: on the fence between Trump and Kamala Harris, I want
Speaker 1: to know who those people are and where you're at
Speaker 1: and what will do it for you, what will move
Speaker 1: you one way or the other.
Speaker 3: Well, and one of those things that may move people
Speaker 3: is that RFK thing. Whatever happens on Friday.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's going to make an impact whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's got the numbers that will. And
Speaker 1: I also think that his people are free thinking people.
Speaker 1: Just because he if he endorses Trump, I don't know
Speaker 1: if his people will automatically endorse Trump. Well, that's that's
Speaker 1: not that personality.
Speaker 3: There's a cadre of people who supported him because they didn't.
Speaker 2: Want to support you exactly.
Speaker 3: So jd Vance is on the campaign trailed down in Georgia,
Speaker 3: and we'll come back.
Speaker 2: We'll play a little bit of.
Speaker 3: His sound from today where he went and hit back
Speaker 3: at Governor Walls for that speech last night.
Speaker 2: This is the counter.
Speaker 3: Programming that they need, that Republicans need to try to
Speaker 3: some of the headlines away from the DNC because this
Speaker 3: is obviously sucking up all the all of the oxygen
Speaker 3: in the room. These are the kinds of things that
Speaker 3: jad Vance and Donald Trump are going to have to
Speaker 3: do is make these headlines. We'll play for you some
Speaker 3: of what he said today. Well, jd Vance said today
Speaker 3: down in Georgia.
Speaker 1: We are live in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: This is the final night, the big night, when Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris will accept the nomination. There is a little bit
Speaker 1: of buzz going on here and online as well as
Speaker 1: to the blank placeholder for an event in one of
Speaker 1: the spots on the agenda.
Speaker 2: We don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: We don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: We don't know if it's a code word for Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift a code word for Beyonce.
Speaker 1: Both would prompt the same response when it comes to
Speaker 1: preparation and security.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we'll get to Jady Vans in just a little
Speaker 3: bit in terms of some things that he set out
Speaker 3: on the campaign trail today.
Speaker 2: But we have we have a guest that we'd like
Speaker 2: to ring here.
Speaker 1: Well, we have been looking for him this whole week.
Speaker 1: We knew he was here. We know that he has
Speaker 1: this new exciting venture to run for governor of California.
Speaker 1: It is our old friend, mild friend, Antonio via Ragosa.
Speaker 5: And John and Ken's old friend.
Speaker 6: Of course.
Speaker 1: Yes, I like I told you just now, they need
Speaker 1: to write you a check for all you've done for them.
Speaker 7: Tellent to write a check to my governor's race, you
Speaker 7: know what.
Speaker 1: I bet they will, just so that they have fodder
Speaker 1: for Well, Ken's gone now, but just so John has
Speaker 1: fodder for another four years.
Speaker 5: Another four years.
Speaker 2: So what prompted him about me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I always had a smile on and not thin skinned.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah took it. I mean you took it.
Speaker 4: You know, we miss you.
Speaker 1: I think I like a lot of Democrats miss George
Speaker 1: w I think a lot of people miss you as
Speaker 1: mayor of Los Angeles after Garcetti and now Karen Karen
Speaker 1: Bass ditched us. By the way, I may have run
Speaker 1: a f I complimented her dress from the Olympics, and that.
Speaker 4: Was my lead in. And now she won't talk to us.
Speaker 2: You always have shocked for us.
Speaker 1: Yes, I am so what launched? Like what started this
Speaker 1: whole thing? To get back into it?
Speaker 7: You know when you well, first of all, thank you
Speaker 7: for having me on. I was walking out. We bumped
Speaker 7: into each other and said, oh, we got to do
Speaker 7: this interview.
Speaker 5: Look.
Speaker 7: A few years ago, I was on the ConA Nolan Show,
Speaker 7: and I think I surprised everybody when I said I
Speaker 7: was born and raised here. I've never seen the city
Speaker 7: so dirty, homeless grow so fast, crime out of control.
Speaker 7: It feels like Rome is burning and the city's adrift.
Speaker 7: I felt like there was no leadership. And that was
Speaker 7: a few years ago. And then I was asked to
Speaker 7: be Governor Newsom's infrastructure advisor, and I went up and
Speaker 7: down the state from the Oregon to the Mexican border,
Speaker 7: and people said you need to come back. They said,
Speaker 7: we're looking for a problem solver. You know, I'll tell
Speaker 7: you something what I've liked about this convention. There's too
Speaker 7: much screaming on both sides. I'm a Democrat, and you know,
Speaker 7: unabashedly so, but I'm not a screamer. I like working
Speaker 7: with people I like, you know, I know that people
Speaker 7: have other views, that they're not made in my image,
Speaker 7: and that when you work together, you get things done.
Speaker 7: And that's why when I was speaker, I got two
Speaker 7: budgets on time when we didn't have a supermajority. I
Speaker 7: had forty two votes members one year, forty eight another.
Speaker 7: I had to work with Republicans. We got two budgets
Speaker 7: on time with a surplus, and invested more money and
Speaker 7: education that we had previously. I did the same thing
Speaker 7: as mayor. You know, I took on my friends from
Speaker 7: time to time, not because I was looking for a
Speaker 7: fight with my friends, but because I understood, you know,
Speaker 7: in these jobs, you got to make the tough calls.
Speaker 7: Sixty percent increase in the graduation rate, forty eight percent
Speaker 7: drop in violent crime number one American city, and reducing
Speaker 7: carbon emissions number five in the world. So I think
Speaker 7: people are looking for people that don't just talk and
Speaker 7: you know, I like to talk to We all do,
Speaker 7: especially if you're a politician. But they want to do
Speaker 7: they want to roll up their sleeves. I was joking
Speaker 7: with one of my assistants. I said, you know, I'm
Speaker 7: an eighteen hour day guy. Get up before you and
Speaker 7: go to sleep after you. And that's what these jobs
Speaker 7: are all about.
Speaker 1: It's weird hearing somebody talk about policy and numbers here
Speaker 1: at this movie that.
Speaker 2: Has not yet used the word joy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard joyful warrior or anything, but I mean this,
Speaker 1: This convention seems short on facts and figures and policy
Speaker 1: and big party right yeah, yeah, so this is this
Speaker 1: is refreshing. What is your what has been your takeaway here?
Speaker 1: You'd agree with us, don't you?
Speaker 5: That's okay to say it's our I like the joy part.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 7: I like what the admonition from Bill Clinton and Oprah
Speaker 7: that those people are neighbors.
Speaker 5: And I think we forget that.
Speaker 7: You know, how many of us go to a Thanksgiving
Speaker 7: dinner and have family members that have diametrically different views
Speaker 7: in you, and you love them. They're good people, they
Speaker 7: just don't agree with you. And I think if we
Speaker 7: approach that so that part of it, I like, I
Speaker 7: agree that, you know, we need to define Kamala Harris
Speaker 7: before the other side does, and that's why they focused
Speaker 7: on a lot of that because they know in a
Speaker 7: couple of days, you know, somebody else is going to
Speaker 7: define her. But you know, look, in the course of
Speaker 7: this campaign, you're going to see more press conferences because
Speaker 7: you got to have them, and more detail to the program. Remember,
Speaker 7: she's part of the Biden Harris team. We know what
Speaker 7: their politics were all about, we know what their policies
Speaker 7: are all about. So it's not as if we don't
Speaker 7: know what Democrats have for because we do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk specifically about California and the legislature, and
Speaker 3: you mentioned super majority. If you were to become governor,
Speaker 3: is super majority with your party in power? Is that
Speaker 3: the most optimal way for you to run a state
Speaker 3: of California?
Speaker 2: Or would you rather see.
Speaker 3: Without campaigning for Republicans obviously because that's not going to
Speaker 3: happen from you, But would you rather see a more
Speaker 3: evenly split legislature so that work can be done with
Speaker 3: a little bit more bipartisan work.
Speaker 7: I actually would like to campaign for Republicans. I won
Speaker 7: every vote not just a Democratic vote. But I recogniz
Speaker 7: I'm not Pollyannish. I recognize that we've gotten.
Speaker 5: So partisan, so polarized.
Speaker 7: People see a D or an R in front of
Speaker 7: your name and they just say, no, what I like,
Speaker 7: you know, a more even legislature. If there was more
Speaker 7: consonants in terms of our policies.
Speaker 5: Sure, right now there's not.
Speaker 7: I want to bring people to a results or in
Speaker 7: the politic.
Speaker 5: You know, people love to talk about fifth.
Speaker 7: Largest economy in the world. How about highest effective poverty
Speaker 7: rate in America? You know, how about too many people
Speaker 7: you know work in every single day and don't.
Speaker 5: Make enough to pay rent.
Speaker 7: You know, it used to be that buying a house
Speaker 7: was part of the American dream.
Speaker 5: Now renting an apartment with three roommates.
Speaker 7: Talk to my kids and everybody else. So yeah, I do.
Speaker 7: I will try to work with the other side. I
Speaker 7: don't think there's a problem with it. I'm proud of that.
Speaker 7: When they asked me to be infrastructure advisor, the first
Speaker 7: thing I did. Met with the speaker, met with the
Speaker 7: pro tem, met with the two Republican leaders. They were
Speaker 7: so surprised that I sat down with them and I
Speaker 7: said infrastructures are not partisan. Man, Let's put people to work,
Speaker 7: you know, Let's build rebuild our roads, in our highways
Speaker 7: and our bridges.
Speaker 5: So I think you're going to see somebody's going to
Speaker 5: reach out. I think at first, you know, there's not
Speaker 5: going to be a lot of folks running too my candidacy.
Speaker 7: But I think over time, when people see I'm a nighter,
Speaker 7: I want to work with everybody.
Speaker 5: You know. Here's what I John and Cam.
Speaker 3: We're on right now, live in Chicago. We're at United
Speaker 3: Center for day four of the Democratic National Convention. The
Speaker 3: big deal is that tonight Kamala Harris, vice President, will
Speaker 3: accept the nomination and then give her big speech. But
Speaker 3: we're talking with former La Mayor Antonio via Ragosa, the
Speaker 3: governor's candidate or candidate for governor, just announced a short
Speaker 3: time ago.
Speaker 1: California is a cesspool. Okay, we're both from San Francisco area.
Speaker 1: That was a shining city on that I mean, it
Speaker 1: was a wonderful place. It was one of the best
Speaker 1: toy It was a tourist destination. I don't go there anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go there. It's very I got
Speaker 1: married there, like I love that city, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to go there anymore because it's it's scary, frankly,
Speaker 1: like the crazy people, the people on the fentanyl, the
Speaker 1: open drug markets. I mean, I'm not being super conservative.
Speaker 1: I'm saying what I see with.
Speaker 4: My own eyes.
Speaker 1: You know, Gavin Newsom comes to Los Angeles a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago and he starts tearing down an encampment and
Speaker 1: he's like, if you're not paying attention.
Speaker 4: It's like, what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: We're paying attention, We're living in it. You're not living
Speaker 1: in it. So what's your plan to clean up the
Speaker 1: cesspool that has become California?
Speaker 7: You know what side talks constantly about we can't criminalize homelessness,
Speaker 7: and I agree we can't, but we we can't have
Speaker 7: the chaos we have today too.
Speaker 5: Look, I've said.
Speaker 7: As an example, you can't put a tent and an
Speaker 7: encampment in front of a school because I know what
Speaker 7: neighborhoods are going to go to them.
Speaker 5: I know what neighborhoods are going to go.
Speaker 7: So they're not going to go to the affluent and
Speaker 7: they're going to go to the poor neighborhoods. Those kids
Speaker 7: are going to have to walk in the street while
Speaker 7: somebody is urinating, defecating.
Speaker 5: Or taking drugs.
Speaker 7: Yes, I want to build more housing because we know
Speaker 7: building housing with wraparound services for the chronically homeless is
Speaker 7: one of the solutions. More drug rehabilitation programs. But you
Speaker 7: can't not refuse to go to rehabilitation, stay on the
Speaker 7: street and say that there aren't going to be consequences
Speaker 7: for it. So I'm not a criminalization person, but I'm
Speaker 7: not for the chaos that you talked about either.
Speaker 5: That's why I said a few years ago.
Speaker 7: And let's be clear, I think Karen Bass has done
Speaker 7: a really different job with respect to homeless and you
Speaker 7: know her predecessor. Let's just be honest and so but
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, I think we need
Speaker 7: to cut red tape and permitting build more housing. You know,
Speaker 7: I never was afraid to go to a town hall
Speaker 7: where everybody would scream at me.
Speaker 5: And sometimes, you know.
Speaker 7: You think at first you'd say, wow, they don't like me,
Speaker 7: and then when soon it's over, they're taking pictures with you.
Speaker 5: And self and will you sign my hat?
Speaker 4: Isn't it weird?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 5: So it's like it's noise, man.
Speaker 7: And what I noticed after all these years that I've
Speaker 7: been involved, is like, do the right thing. It's not
Speaker 7: always going to be popular. People be upset. But I'll
Speaker 7: tell you what you just said. San Francisco's a great city.
Speaker 7: Let's make it beautiful again. La is a great city.
Speaker 7: Let's make it beautiful again.
Speaker 1: What do you think about George Gascon? You know, I'll
Speaker 1: be real clear, because it's bad.
Speaker 4: La is bad right now.
Speaker 1: Ellie County is lawlessness, I mean no law and order.
Speaker 4: It's horrible.
Speaker 1: And like you said, the homeless people are not going
Speaker 1: to go to the affluent neighborhoods. Guess what the criminals
Speaker 1: are going to wreak havoc on the most vulnerable citizens
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: And that's what's happening under his reign.
Speaker 7: I think we have a lot of things going. I
Speaker 7: think it's a district attorney. I also think that it's
Speaker 7: that we're.
Speaker 5: Going to have to beef up some of our laws.
Speaker 5: You know Prop forty seven I voted for.
Speaker 7: It wasn't perfect. We can't be afraid when something's not
Speaker 7: working to fix it. I'm not for thirty six. And
Speaker 7: I'll tell you why you don't make change In my
Speaker 7: opinion with a sledgehammer.
Speaker 5: You make it with, you know, surgically.
Speaker 7: So there are things we need to do, you know,
Speaker 7: whether it's smash and grab, whether it's people that walk around,
Speaker 7: rob you once, get out and then rob you again.
Speaker 5: No, that is unacceptable. You know. Look, I was.
Speaker 7: Doing criminal justice reform in the nineteen eighties and nineties
Speaker 7: when I was president of the ACLU.
Speaker 5: I believe in that we were incarcerating more.
Speaker 7: People than anybody in the world per capita. But some
Speaker 7: people belong there, and particularly people who are violent, you know,
Speaker 7: who are sexual predators. There are people that belong in jail.
Speaker 7: And this notion that, oh, you know those people can
Speaker 7: be redeemed, Yes, some of them can.
Speaker 5: But yes they're going to jail first.
Speaker 7: And let me just say something else about that forty
Speaker 7: eight percent drop in violent crime. We went from one
Speaker 7: of the most dangerous big cities, more dangerous in Chicago,
Speaker 7: to one of the safest.
Speaker 5: How did we do it? More cops putting a.
Speaker 7: Thousand cops on the street or close to a thousand,
Speaker 7: but also kicking guns off the street. Prevention and intervention
Speaker 7: program I expanded dramatically after school programs, summer youth Jobs,
Speaker 7: summer night likes which you've gone to Shannon, So you
Speaker 7: got to do all.
Speaker 5: Of the above.
Speaker 7: I want to do all of the above, not just
Speaker 7: talk tough, be smart on crime. But let's be clear
Speaker 7: about one thing. You got to be accountable for your actions.
Speaker 5: And so that's what I think.
Speaker 3: Describe the relationship between the mayor of a big city
Speaker 3: like you were and the governor whoever it is at
Speaker 3: the time, because you're going to be you want to
Speaker 3: be on the other side of that. You want to
Speaker 3: be the governor who helps out these you know, big
Speaker 3: city mayors. What is that relationship? Like, how do you
Speaker 3: work with somebody in that capacity.
Speaker 7: Well, you're a supplicant, you know, you got to go
Speaker 7: to the governor and the legislature for resources, for money,
Speaker 7: for changing laws, for making laws, so you know, trying
Speaker 7: to be nice, right, trying.
Speaker 5: To work with them. But you're also an advocate.
Speaker 7: If you remember, we cut redevelopment in the middle of
Speaker 7: the worst recession since the nineteen twenties, and I had
Speaker 7: to take on the governor and he was the governor
Speaker 7: of my own party when I was Speaker. From time
Speaker 7: to time I took on Pete Wilson, but I also
Speaker 7: worked with him.
Speaker 5: We did healthy families together. We did the largest school
Speaker 5: bond in US history together, nine billion dollar bond we did.
Speaker 7: We did a lot of things together, and so you know,
Speaker 7: you mostly try to work on them because you are
Speaker 7: a supplicant.
Speaker 5: You're going to them. But sometimes you got to stand
Speaker 5: up for what you got to stand up for.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you cut your hair. It was getting a
Speaker 1: little wild there. I was worried about you.
Speaker 3: There was a great picture that we saw yesterday. We
Speaker 3: were talking about trying to find you here at the convention.
Speaker 3: It's a picture from a few years.
Speaker 4: Ago, your hairs a little bit longer, like what's going on?
Speaker 7: Call?
Speaker 2: You got like pokashees or something.
Speaker 4: It's like a burning man.
Speaker 2: What are we doing here?
Speaker 5: Boks.
Speaker 7: So my people tell me certain, you know, this jacket
Speaker 7: with a T shirt.
Speaker 5: Jeans and sneakers ain't gonna give out it. You can't
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 2: I don't have to have a tie anywhere.
Speaker 5: I want to be a regular guy. And they said,
Speaker 5: please put on a suit.
Speaker 3: They are and Tonio Viragoso also running for governor. Twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six is the election. Thanks for stopping by, Thanks
Speaker 3: for making time for us.
Speaker 2: Man thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you to you.
Speaker 3: Now, there's one thing I will say, disagree with with
Speaker 3: vir Gosa on most of his politics.
Speaker 2: But I know who he is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean there's I don't feel like he hides much
Speaker 3: of anything.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with a lot of my friends on
Speaker 1: all politics.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's it's but I know who they are as people.
Speaker 1: And that's the difference between someone like him or somebody
Speaker 1: like Gavin. Gavin what my first name basis. Now, listen,
Speaker 1: I've been sitting in this soup week. I've had it.
Speaker 1: I've had it with politics. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: So August twenty, second day four of the Democratic National
Speaker 3: Convention in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump just arrived in Arizona. He'll visit the southern
Speaker 1: border before a rally in Glendale tonight, part of the
Speaker 1: campaign's effort to counter program the DNC this week, Trump
Speaker 1: will be at the Desert Desert Diamond Arena this evening,
Speaker 1: the same venue Kamala Harris drew a crowd of fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand earlier this month, no doubt to talk about how
Speaker 1: his crowd is bigger and more beautiful.
Speaker 3: He's also going to be busy tonight. He says, he's
Speaker 3: going to be doing play by play of Kamala Harris's
Speaker 3: acceptance speech on truth Social He's been trying to get
Speaker 3: some attention and actually they're doing, I guess as good
Speaker 3: a job as you could possibly do in terms of
Speaker 3: trying to get some of the headlines away from Democrats,
Speaker 3: because this is their week, this is their party.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi not a fan of the popular camp pain
Speaker 1: pin that's been floating around here. This is the one
Speaker 1: we told you about yesterday. It's a picture of her face.
Speaker 1: It's a black and white pin, and it's the Godmother.
Speaker 1: It's the Godfather's same font and same little puppet master
Speaker 1: type thing that hangs down there with the strings, and
Speaker 1: Pelosi says, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Amused by that. I don't appreciate people.
Speaker 1: Making pins with my image without my approval.
Speaker 2: But it's one, true, accurate.
Speaker 3: Royals beat the Angels three to nothing yesterday, so the
Speaker 3: Angels are in Toronto to take on the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: Dodgers completed the sweep of the Mariners with an eight
Speaker 3: to four win yesterday.
Speaker 2: Borrow night.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Dodgers take on the Tampa Bay Rays first
Speaker 1: pitch at seven. Listen to every play of every Dodgers
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Speaker 3: So we had said that the protests up to this
Speaker 3: point outside United Center and throughout downtown chicag go relatively quiet.
Speaker 3: I mean a couple thousand people at a time that
Speaker 3: are making are putting together these demonstrations. We saw dozens
Speaker 3: of people arrested outside the Israeli Consulate. There were another
Speaker 3: couple thousand people who were protesting yesterday, and to be honest,
Speaker 3: they didn't There were no arrests according to the according
Speaker 3: to the Chicago Police Department. And when you look at
Speaker 3: what was promised, or at least what we had seen
Speaker 3: in terms of pro Palestinian protesters over the last couple
Speaker 3: of months, several months, it had the opportunity, it had
Speaker 3: a real chance of getting out of hand, and at
Speaker 3: this point it has well.
Speaker 1: Apparently there's been a groundswell of Democratic lawmakers in just
Speaker 1: the last hour who have announced their support for scheduling
Speaker 1: a pro Palestinian speaker to discuss the war in Gaza
Speaker 1: at this convention tonight. Among them Representative Roe Conna of California.
Speaker 3: Now he has actually posted on social media the Palestinian
Speaker 3: right to self determination was erased by the British with
Speaker 3: the Valfour declar which mentioned civil and religious but not
Speaker 3: political rights. The dem Party is making a tragic mistake
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four perpetuating this erasure of the Palestinian
Speaker 3: story and voice at this I mentioned earlier that somebody
Speaker 3: had gone to the campaign, a campaign spokesman for Harris,
Speaker 3: and asked how come there is no pro Palestinian speaker?
Speaker 2: And all they said.
Speaker 3: Was Vice President Harris is in favor of a ceasefire
Speaker 3: in Gaza. That's It wouldn't explain why they were not
Speaker 3: going to allow somebody on the stage.
Speaker 1: Why would they allow somebody on the stage to speak
Speaker 1: for this movement when it's at odds with the administration
Speaker 1: currently and the incoming if she were to win, Why
Speaker 1: would you want to highlight that at your event, at
Speaker 1: your party.
Speaker 3: Well, and I think that's part of what some people
Speaker 3: are not recognizing. I think we've done a good job
Speaker 3: of pointing out this is a giant choreographed event. It's
Speaker 3: all flash, it's zero policy's.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a fair contact. This is not
Speaker 1: like you know, you want the fair go to Pomona.
Speaker 1: This is not what's fair and what's not. It's just
Speaker 1: their party the way that they want to do it.
Speaker 4: And there's no way they're going to.
Speaker 1: Give the stage to people that are protesting this very event.
Speaker 4: This is not going to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it would be surprised if they do. I
Speaker 3: know that we talk about it, you know, gaining some momentum,
Speaker 3: and this uses the word groundswell. I don't think it
Speaker 3: rises to the level of getting somebody on stage that's
Speaker 3: going to say something. Because listen, if we're talking about also,
Speaker 3: I mean to keep in mind how much of a
Speaker 3: show this is. We were literally talking earlier about this
Speaker 3: open spot on the schedule for tonight that nobody knows
Speaker 3: what's going on. It's just a blocked out time that
Speaker 3: could be anything. Yes, there were rumors about Beyonce to
Speaker 3: prove how much of a show this is, or even
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift whatever, But but they're not going to erase that.
Speaker 2: They're not going to get rid of that.
Speaker 3: They're not going to overshadow that by having somebody come
Speaker 3: in and talk about war.
Speaker 2: So Trump Tower, by the way, we took a picture.
Speaker 3: Of Trump Tower just the other day when we were
Speaker 3: walking through downtown to get to the California delegate breakfast.
Speaker 3: And Trump Tower is one of those hotels that is
Speaker 3: not getting business downtown, or probably the only one that's
Speaker 3: not getting business downtown. But the Republican counter programming has
Speaker 3: been taking place in vivek Ramaswami has been a Trump
Speaker 3: surrogate holding news conferences down there. There was a pro
Speaker 3: Palestinian protester, a guy named Bennett Hazelton, who, hours after
Speaker 3: vivik Ramaswami wrapped up a news conference, actually sat down
Speaker 3: and had a conversation with Vivek Ramaswami. They talked briefly,
Speaker 3: they shared a handshake, and according to The New York Times,
Speaker 3: this pro Palestinian protester then said of Vivek, he comes
Speaker 3: across as sincere in being open to debate.
Speaker 2: So that's good.
Speaker 1: Do you see this pass from Justin to Q. Look
Speaker 1: at this perfectly placed.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that Justin's practice.
Speaker 1: He's back at practice, and he all he threw were
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. Yesterday, Day twenty one a training camp.
Speaker 2: There is no chance he's playing on Saturday.
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
Speaker 1: Do you know how refreshing it is to just sit
Speaker 1: here and watch Justin Herbert throw the football as opposed to.
Speaker 4: Anything else, all the other stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk trending when we come back to
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