WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.879 I'm of two minds on the Kamala Harris for California 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:10.000 governor speculation, and it seems like this speculation is really 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:15.599 ramping up. There are multiple stories out now where they're 4 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.600 detailing that Harris actually kind of has three options in 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:23.280 front of her that she's considering. She's considering, on the 6 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:26.120 one hand, running for governor of California in twenty twenty six, 7 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:30.440 running for the presidency in twenty twenty eight, or just 8 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.439 kind of taking a break from politics for a while. 9 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.359 Running for governor in twenty twenty six kind of precludes 10 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:45.159 the possibility of running for president in twenty twenty eight. 11 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:50.000 And there's a lot of sort of the straight media 12 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:56.679 discussions of it and the left wing discussions of it. 13 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:04.599 The discussions of it among left wingers are not not 14 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.400 super grounded in reality, because I think the reality is 15 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:12.319 the Kamala Harris is not a particularly adept leader in 16 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:14.319 a lot of ways. I think those of us from 17 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:19.200 the right are able without as much with our without 18 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:21.959 as much bias, although I guess we're biased the other 19 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:23.480 way to think that she's not a very good leader, 20 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.599 but I'd say we're correct. I don't think she's a 21 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.840 very good leader. I don't think she's demonstrated much great 22 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:33.480 leadership capacity. But a lot of the straight reporting is 23 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.200 whether whether you know she'd be is she up for 24 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.840 the challenge of you know, the California is facing very 25 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:42.799 serious problems, and she's wondering if she's up for the challenge, 26 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.519 and she's she's trying to immerse herself in what the 27 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.439 problems facing California are so that she can understand blah 28 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:55.400 blah blah, blah blah blah. Now I'm sort of two minds. 29 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.840 My one mind is I don't think any Democrat can 30 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.840 be successful because I don't know that any Democrat has 31 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:10.319 kind of the political strength needed to tick off the 32 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:14.120 kinds of essential power brokers you need on your side 33 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:16.280 if you're going to be a Democratic governor of California. 34 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:21.439 The powers that be in California politics want things to 35 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:26.719 be the way they are for a lot of really 36 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:34.840 essential problems we face. Whether it's water shortage, whether it's wildfires, 37 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:41.879 whether it's insufficient construction of new homes and therefore housing 38 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:46.280 prices being too high, energy shortages, gas prices being too high, 39 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:50.439 cost of living being too high. A lot of that 40 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:57.199 stuff is the result of a large array of environmental 41 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:01.639 and pro labor policies, especially a lot of the stuff 42 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:05.360 about construction and new home construction and building new homes, 43 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:09.560 building new businesses. All of that is the result of 44 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.719 why does it take so long? Why does it take 45 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:14.039 four years in California to build an apartment complex that 46 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.439 would take two years to build in Texas, And therefore 47 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.479 adding enormous extra layers of costs and outlays of loans 48 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.319 and blah blah blah blah blah blah outlays of time 49 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.840 and worker time and construction equipment time and blah blah 50 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.039 blah blah blah blah blah and more environmental reviews. That 51 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.280 happens because of California's array of environmental laws, in California's 52 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.560 array of pro labor laws that just make construction that 53 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:46.520 much more expensive. And that's the thing. Everyone knows that 54 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.240 this is the infuriating thing about California politics. There are 55 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:54.039 all these problems that everyone understands what the problems are, 56 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:57.240 They know how to fix them, they just don't want to. 57 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.599 They don't want to because the solutions are things that 58 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:10.240 would anger labor or environmentalists. That's it. We all understand 59 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:12.840 why gas prices are high in California. It's because of 60 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:16.920 environmental regulations, various kinds of environmental regulations. You got capentrate, 61 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:21.800 and most specifically, you've got a California specific blend of 62 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:26.680 gasoline that it has to be made in order to 63 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.680 fit California regulatory standards. This results in California being a 64 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:36.680 kind of gas island where our supply chain to refine 65 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.680 and then sell gas is a California specific supply chain. 66 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.920 We can't use the gas that's sold in Arizona, Nevada, 67 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:50.360 or Oklahoma or whatever. So that is a drastic added cost, 68 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:54.480 added costs to the gas companies for those refineries and 69 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:58.639 that supply chain. And now we've got two refineries that 70 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:00.720 are closing down in California. That's going to lead in 71 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:02.600 twenty twenty six they're gonna be parts of California that 72 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:04.279 are going to be paying over eight dollars a gallon 73 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:07.560 for gas. Why. Well, because Gavin Newsom passed a stupid 74 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.399 los saying that refineries had to maintain a certain artificially 75 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.079 high level of gasoline at all times in order to 76 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.959 avoid price spikes, which the gas companies told him. That's 77 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:20.240 incredibly difficult for us to do. That's going to be 78 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:21.680 very expensive for us to do. You're just going to 79 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:25.000 permanently keep prices high, and maybe we make the business 80 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:28.399 decision that we're not going to maintain refineries in California 81 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.279 as many of our refineries in California anymore, because it 82 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:35.000 costs us a lot of money to maintain these refineries. 83 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.199 It's like three hundred million dollars a year for maintaining them. 84 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:40.879 And if we're not going to make enough money, we're 85 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:45.079 just gonna shut these refineries down. And new some sort 86 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:48.839 of decided to play chicken with them and lost got 87 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:51.680 run over by the truck. The refineries are moving out 88 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:53.519 of California, and now our gas prices are going to 89 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.839 go up enormously because we won't have as many refineries. 90 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.600 Supply will be down, demand will still stay where it is, 91 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:04.519 cost will go up, all right, So on the one 92 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.160 but that's the thing, so we know exactly how to 93 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.279 fix the problem with gas. Just replace all of our 94 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:15.959 body of environmental regulation that we have on gasoline and 95 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.959 replace it with Oklahoma's body of regulations, replace it with 96 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:21.560 Oregon's body of regulations. If you want a blue state, 97 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:24.759 to make yourself feel better, like it's not hard, it's 98 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:28.279 not rocket science. That's how you would lower gas prices 99 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:35.360 in California, make us not a gas island anymore. But 100 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.839 we don't do it. We don't do it because it 101 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.439 would anger the environmentalists and it would anger their billionaire donors. 102 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.319 So there's a part of me that says, I don't 103 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:49.480 care if Kamala Harris or Shmamala Harris runs for governor 104 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:55.560 of California. Kamala Harris won't fix that problem. She won't 105 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:59.079 fix that problem unless she's willing to anger all of 106 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.839 the donors who put into office, Unless she's willing to 107 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:07.399 anger this key political constituency of the environmentalist. They don't 108 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:08.560 have a lot of votes, but they have a ton 109 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:13.000 of money. Unless she's willing to tick them all off 110 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.560 early on in her time in office. And if she's 111 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:17.000 going to run for governor, she's gonna have to work 112 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.399 with these people for eight years. Unless she does that, 113 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.160 the problem of high gas prices won't be solved. And 114 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.839 I don't think she's got the political conviction or courage 115 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:37.279 to really do that. I don't think any Democrat has 116 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:40.480 the political courage and conviction to do that. Javier Basera 117 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:45.879 has pretty much said so Javierbsera, who's running for governor California, 118 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:50.680 the former HHS secretary, former Attorney General of California, he 119 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.199 has pretty much just said when he was directly asked 120 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:59.160 in an interview in Los Angeles on a local TV 121 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:02.199 news station down there, if you're elected governor, you know, 122 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.480 what would you do differently from the prior to governors 123 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.879 and specifically talking about like cost of living and stuff, 124 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:11.120 and he refused to say any specific policy he would 125 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:12.920 do differently. He just said he would gather a bunch 126 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.879 of experts together, put all their ideas on the table, 127 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.680 and then he kept using the metaphor that he would 128 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.800 scrub out their ideas and use whatever the best idea 129 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.240 remaining was, scrub it out. I don't know that metaphor, 130 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:30.600 I don't think makes a ton of sense. So basically 131 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.120 what Bisarah admitted was I'm going to do what other 132 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.320 people tell me to do. I'm going to do what 133 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.759 quote the experts tell me to do, and presumably environmentalists 134 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:40.679 would be the experts if he's trying to figure out 135 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:45.840 what he's going to do about high gas prices. So 136 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:48.799 I don't think it matters. I don't think any governor 137 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:53.519 of any Democrat governor of California, if they are beholden 138 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:58.480 to environmentalists and they're billionaire donors, which they will be, 139 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:01.200 I don't think I think any Democrat is going to 140 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:08.519 do that. So that's my on the one hand. Here's 141 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:13.120 my on the other hand, though, with these same big 142 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:21.039 time donors. Okay, whom do Democrat politicians fear, rank and 143 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:25.600 file members of the Assembly and State Senate, the governor. 144 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:29.679 Whom do they fear from the environmentalist side. They don't 145 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:33.919 really fear the environmentalist groups themselves. I think whom they 146 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.120 actually fear are the big time donors who give to 147 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.919 the environmentalist groups. That's what they're afraid of. And at 148 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.039 a certain point, problems in California might just get so 149 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:52.919 large that even those people will eventually say, all right, 150 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:57.759 all right, you can change this. Like this is going 151 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:59.960 to cause a disaster, all right, you can change it. 152 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:06.159 We're seeing an example of this right now. The California 153 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:10.360 State Assembly just passed AB six zero nine, a bill 154 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:21.120 introduced by Buffy Wicks, who's a Democrat Assembly member from Oakland, 155 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:26.639 to basically amend SEQUA the California Environmental Quality Act. The 156 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.440 California Environmental Quality Act was passed by Ronald Reagan, but 157 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:34.039 has been maintained by generations of Democrat politicians and Democrat 158 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:38.559 and liberal activists who have weaponized it to stop construction 159 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:44.080 on anything they don't like, anything that might, maybe, somehow 160 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:48.279 possibly result in more emissions. The most ridiculous example of 161 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:51.679 it I ever saw was that in the town of Pixley, California, 162 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:55.000 a left wing nonprofit group used SEQUA to stop the 163 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:59.840 construction of a green energy, zero emissions hydrogen power plant 164 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:02.200 on the grounds that it would bring too much truck 165 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:04.840 traffic to Pixley, which I don't know if you've ever 166 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:08.759 driven through Pixley, but all it is is truck traffic. 167 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.159 It's a pit stop on the ninety nine. They are 168 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.240 about the whole I don't know that there's a single 169 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:16.879 part of the town that's more than a quarter mile 170 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.759 away from a half mile away from the ninety nine. 171 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:24.399 There are about one hundred million trucks driving through large 172 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:27.320 portions of Pixley every single day. And the idea that oh, 173 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.240 a few trucks will park there to drop off hydrogen 174 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.159 for this power plant, and oh, will that'll that's what's 175 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:36.720 going to really deteriorate the environment, the air quality around Pixley. 176 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:42.480 Give me a break anyway. Anyway, Buffy Wicks introduced this 177 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:46.639 bill to a mend SEQUA basically to say we're going 178 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:54.600 to not require SEQUA and sequa's requirements for SEQUA has 179 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.759 all these requirements that basically, if you're starting a new 180 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:00.519 construction project, you have to create a very very large, 181 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:07.519 very costly, very elaborate environmental impact report, and you prepare it, 182 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:10.919 you submit it, it has to get approved, and then still 183 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:14.000 other people can fly in to sue you to say 184 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.360 that your environmental impact report is inadequate. So it's a 185 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:22.720 major hindrance to construction, not only because it's very expensive 186 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.120 and takes a really long time bunch of lawyers to 187 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:28.720 make the environmental impact report, but you have this huge 188 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.559 litigation threat that can stop your whole construction project, your 189 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:34.279 whole housing development, your whole warehouse that you're building, whatever, 190 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:39.960 it can stop it cold because of one Yahoo left 191 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:42.120 wing nonprofit group flying in to say that this is 192 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:47.200 going to have a harmful environmental impact. So Buffy Wicks 193 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:50.519 introduces this bill. Finally, a Democrat from Oakland introduces a 194 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:54.679 bill to say, hey, let's not require this for urban 195 00:12:55.399 --> 00:13:00.320 infill housing. So an urban area, you're in the middle 196 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.679 of a city, you have a vacant lot, You're just 197 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:06.000 doing an infill of a vacant lot. You're not expanding 198 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.960 the boundaries of the city or going out into suburbs 199 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:16.519 or anything. You're putting in housing in an area that's 200 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:21.559 already surrounded by development. Which, for some reason, somehow, the 201 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.879 research has come around to say that maybe that's not 202 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.559 actually environmentally harmful. I don't know how that works. Maybe 203 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:32.639 this is just the left rationalizing things. It just passed 204 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:36.919 that bill just past the California State Assembly sixty three 205 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:44.799 to nothing, with the Republicans joining in and obviously a 206 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:47.960 ton of Democrats joining it. Just to note, Democrats have 207 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:50.519 sixty of the eighty seats in the California State Assembly, 208 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:58.960 and I can't wait to see the Democrats all just 209 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:03.720 erupting into rocket applause over Oh this is. It's so 210 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:07.519 brave of the Democrats to decide to change their position 211 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:12.240 and decide to you know, think more progressively about about 212 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:15.480 this issue and not not be locked into the dogmas 213 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:20.080 of the past and agree to reforming SEQUA in an 214 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:24.559 environmentally responsible way, and everyone's gonna pat them and Newsome's 215 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:27.440 gonna sign it, and he's gonna be all of his 216 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:29.320 teeth and all of his veneers, and all of his 217 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:31.440 teeth on top of his veneers, on top of his teeth, 218 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.840 on top of his veneers, smiling for the camera. Oh see, 219 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.320 I'm a moderate time guy should run for president. And 220 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.399 everyone's gonna tear their rotator cuffs, patting themselves on the 221 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:45.759 back for doing something that Republicans have been screaming at 222 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:51.240 them to do for twenty years, Like this is not 223 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.279 rocket science. Republicans have been saying the SEQUA is a horrible, 224 00:14:54.440 --> 00:15:00.360 disastrous impediment to development for forever. But oh, all of 225 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:06.279 a sudden, when Democrats do it, Oh, now it's environmentally responsible. 226 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:10.840 But even then they have to put this facade on 227 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:15.799 this veneer on the oh that we're doing this environmentally responsibly. Now, 228 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:26.320 that's maybe the only case for why Kamala Harris or 229 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:31.559 any other Democratic governor might be successful. California will eventually 230 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:41.879 be confronted by these horrible, insurmountable problems, and the problems 231 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:44.960 are all a creation. So many of the problems have 232 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:50.120 their roots in Democrat policies, and eventually they'll be faced 233 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:53.360 with the impossibility of us carrying on with those policies. 234 00:15:56.120 --> 00:16:01.080 Democrats will eventually get the okay from their brokers for 235 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:06.279 some of these things, for Democrats to change course on 236 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:12.480 some of those policies, but it'll only be when those 237 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:14.879 groups give them permission, and to the extent that those 238 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.440 groups give them permission, and those groups might not always 239 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.399 give them permission or all the way give them permission. 240 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.919 So that's why I don't really see Kamala Harris as 241 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:31.720 being anything special, especially good or especially bad. Relative. I mean, 242 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.000 I think she's pretty bad. I think she's sort of 243 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:39.559 I don't know that she's even as politically savvy or 244 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:43.399 competent as Gavin Newsom is. Gavin Newsom has been a failure, 245 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:47.200 not because he's an inept person necessarily, although I think 246 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:48.919 he does kind of hate being governor and I think 247 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:53.759 he's tired of the job. Newsom has been ineffective because 248 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:58.080 he embraces all of these bad policies that are forced 249 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:01.279 on him by the powers that be. You can see 250 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:05.920 Newsom straining to get away from some of those policies 251 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.880 on certain things, he's trying to get more water delivery 252 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:12.920 to southern California, which is right in the current budget. 253 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.480 He's trying to get more water delivery to southern California. Hmm. 254 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:17.480 What could that be in response to maybe the horrible 255 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.680 wildfires where they didn't have enough water to put it 256 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:24.960 out and environmentalists are all ticked off at him for it. So, 257 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:29.839 at any rate, I don't think Harris running or not 258 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.559 matters that much because she's certainly not going to be 259 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:35.720 anything impressive. She's not going to have the political courage 260 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:41.480 to actually refute reject the dictates that come to her 261 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.599 from the big time Democrat power brokers. When we return, 262 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:47.559 has the Biden news kind of cooked Harris's chances of 263 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:52.160 being president? Next on the John Girardi Show, here's a 264 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:57.119 question I'm wondering about the Biden, the various Biden scandals 265 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:04.079 and Kamala Harris. What did she know and when did 266 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:09.960 she know it? And how that could impact her kind 267 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.559 of desire possibly to run for president in twenty twenty eight. 268 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.720 Let's recall the three options that are before Kamala Harris 269 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.640 right now, and all this different reporting is all affirming 270 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.799 the same thing. This was kind of in the news 271 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:25.559 before the Jake Tapper book got released and the Biden 272 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:30.640 cancer diagnosis got released, that Harris Harris is struggling. Harris 273 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.440 is internally struggling. It sounds like she's got analysis paralysis. 274 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:35.160 I don't know why it would take her this long 275 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:38.839 to figure it out, but that's just me. Harris is 276 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:43.240 the struggling between three options. Run for governor of California, 277 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:46.240 run for president in twenty twenty eight, or take a 278 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:53.920 step back from politics altogether. With all this Biden news 279 00:18:53.960 --> 00:19:00.680 coming out and the left beginning to acknowledge it, and 280 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.000 the left is still insisting on calling it a cover up, 281 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.640 which which I hate. The phrase cover up cover up 282 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:11.200 implies that no one everyone was duped, everyone was deceived, 283 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:14.519 no one could have no one could have discovered it 284 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:19.359 because of how expertly they hid. Oh, we were all here, 285 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:21.759 we are here, we were all thinking. All of us 286 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.920 here were thinking Biden was so sharp, and they just 287 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:27.680 deceptively lied to us. So we no sixty percent of 288 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.880 the country thought he was too old, like a super 289 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:33.960 majority of the country saw it with their own eyes, 290 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:38.400 and the media was so politically blinded by their desire 291 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.119 for Trump to lose and for Biden therefore not to 292 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:44.559 be bad, not to be in a bad way. That 293 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:49.720 they just refused to acknowledge it, and they refused to 294 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:52.559 investigate it when when the signs were like right there 295 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:55.400 in front of them, including the her report, that the 296 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:59.640 her transcript from Biden's interview with specially counsel Robert Heart, 297 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:08.240 et cetera. And it makes me wonder, how does Kamala 298 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:11.400 Harris fit into that if she runs for twenty twenty 299 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:13.880 eight for office in twenty twenty eight, how many people 300 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:17.359 on that debate stage you're gonna look at her and say, well, 301 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:22.680 where the heck were you? Why weren't you initiating if 302 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:25.640 he was in such a bad way, why didn't you 303 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.759 initiate twenty fifth Amendment proceedings? Did you know he had cancer? 304 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:34.359 Did you know he was senile? Surely you interacted with him. 305 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:38.680 You must have seen something that's gonna be hard for her. 306 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.960 All right, when we return, I want to envision the 307 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:47.559 hypothetical twenty twenty eight Democrat primary debate stage with Kamala 308 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:56.720 Harris Gavin Newsom, and we'll have some neutral, aggressive, non 309 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:01.359 Biden person as a third party, maybe Josh Shapiro. I 310 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:03.359 want to imagine what that's going to look like, and 311 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:07.400 that'll be next on the show. I want to envision. 312 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:09.640 I want to put the image in your in front 313 00:21:09.640 --> 00:21:14.400 of you. It's late in twenty twenty seven, maybe like 314 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:22.319 December twenty twenty seven. It's the Democrat primary debate stage. 315 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:27.359 We're hosting a Democratic Party primary. It's MSNBC or CNN 316 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:31.440 or something. And we got a whole cast of characters there. 317 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:34.119 We got we got Mayor Pete. We got Pete Budhagig 318 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.519 up there. We got Josh Shapiro up there. We've got 319 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:39.720 who else? Who else do we got? Maybe we got 320 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:44.160 Gretchen Whitmer up there. We'll have someone who has no 321 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.559 business being up there. Maybe we get I don't know, 322 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:52.359 Katie Porter's up there, or someone ridiculous. And then we've 323 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.640 got the two stars of the proceedings, maybe two or 324 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.559 three stars of the proceedings. We got Josh Shapiro. And 325 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:07.880 then we get Gavin Newsome and Kamala Harris there in 326 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:15.359 the middle, all the spotlights shining on them. Now, if 327 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:19.319 you're Josh Shapiro, and I have no great love for 328 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:24.079 Josh Shapiro, A lot of people joke that he's kind 329 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:28.960 of white Obama basically that he seems to have robbed, 330 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:35.359 basically shamelessly stolen President Obama's speaking style from him, and 331 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:39.039 just he's basically just trying to do an elaborate Barack 332 00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:44.359 Obama impression as a white guy. So and he's been 333 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:46.599 pretty successful as a governor. I think he I mean, 334 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:49.680 he's he got elected as governor of Pennsylvania, a state 335 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:55.519 that Trump won. He I think made a good impression 336 00:22:55.640 --> 00:23:00.000 for himself as governor of Pennsylvania by how he received 337 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:05.759 bonded to the shooting in Butler when President Trump was almost, 338 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:10.359 you know, one inch away from being assassinated. I think 339 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:12.920 he responded to that very well and in a very 340 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:15.160 appropriate way, and that left a kind of a good 341 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:23.119 taste in a lot of people's mouths. And I think 342 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:28.680 he's I think he is well positioned to have kind 343 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:32.640 of broad appeal, more so than pretty much any other Democrat. 344 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:34.400 I don't think he's got kind of the negatives that 345 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:37.279 like Gretchen Whitmer has or that Bodagich has, And I 346 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:39.839 think he's actually might have some kind of bipartisan appeal. 347 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:43.240 And he's the governor of the most important swing state 348 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.680 in the Union. I think Democrats are probably still scratching 349 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:50.359 their heads on why Kamala Harris decided to get the 350 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:54.079 governor of Minnesota, a state that was not really in question, 351 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:56.599 a state that she was never at jeopardy of losing 352 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:02.000 over Shapiro. And the answer a lot of people have, 353 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:04.519 the conclusion a lot of people jump to is that 354 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:07.599 Harris was so insecure that she didn't want a vice 355 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:11.279 president who would out Shiner. And certainly Tim Walls did 356 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:17.599 not out Shiner, that's for sure. Now let's go on 357 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:27.279 the let's go on here. Here we are on the 358 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:32.960 debate stage, and Josh Shapiro turns to Kamala Harris, and 359 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:35.759 you know, no love lost there, probably for not picking 360 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:39.119 him to be a vice president. And this guy wants 361 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:42.079 to be president of the United States. He's ambitious. And 362 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.160 the critical thing is that someone like Josh Shapiro, he 363 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:50.000 wasn't in the Biden administration. He wasn't in the Biden cabinet. 364 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:53.519 Pete Boodagi can't make this complaint because Pete was Secretary 365 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:57.279 of Transportation. Presumably he was supposed to have met with 366 00:24:57.319 --> 00:25:02.839 Biden at least occasionally. Pete doesn't have this, you know, 367 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:05.880 standing to do this, but Josh Shapiro does. Shapiro turns 368 00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:11.200 to Kamala Harris and he says, hey, Kamala, you were 369 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.880 the vice president of the United States. Everyone now knows 370 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:22.079 that Biden was senile, and we now have very serious 371 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:28.680 reason to suspect he had cancer. Did you know, If 372 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:31.960 you know, why didn't you say anything? If you knew, 373 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:36.799 why didn't you initiate the twenty fifth Amendment proceedings? So 374 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:41.880 the twenty fifth Amendment, the vice president can uniquely herself 375 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:45.799 initiate twenty fifth Amendment proceedings by convening the rest of 376 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:49.680 the cabinet and to have the cabinet vote that the 377 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:54.039 president is not qualified to do his job. Harris never 378 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:58.039 did that. She never did that, even after Biden dropped out. 379 00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:02.000 She I mean, Biden dropped out of the presidential contest 380 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:05.720 purportedly on the grounds that he wasn't quite I mean, 381 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:09.599 the understood reason was that he wasn't sharp enough to 382 00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:11.960 still run for president. But for some reason, he was 383 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:18.440 still sharp enough to be president. And so now Harris 384 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:21.240 has to ask answer these questions, how can you with 385 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:24.359 a straight face tell us that you were the vice 386 00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:27.759 president and you didn't know because I mean, the cat's 387 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:30.200 out of the bag now and it's now a pretty 388 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:35.720 much bipartisan position. No one needs to defend Biden anymore. 389 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:39.240 That's why these books are coming out now, because Biden 390 00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:42.599 is not politically important anymore. Biden is a politically expendable person. 391 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:45.200 At this point, Jake Tapper can all of a sudden 392 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:47.240 develop the courage to talk about how what a horrible 393 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:49.640 person Hunter Biden is and what a you know, how 394 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:53.039 irresponsible Joe Biden was, and oh, now we've discovered how 395 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:56.319 they knew. They knew all along that he was senile. 396 00:26:57.319 --> 00:26:59.519 Anyone with eyes to see k who he was senile. 397 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:02.200 They just refused to investigate it because they didn't want 398 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:08.279 to know. But Josh Shapiro doesn't. He has no that 399 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:12.880 he is in no way harmed by just totally trashing 400 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:17.599 Joe Biden. And importantly, Harris is gonna be like, it's 401 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:20.039