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Do you know who 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:48,799 Katie Porter is? She of the famous steak lineage. I'm kidding, 13 00:00:49,439 --> 00:00:52,359 no relationship to stake, although I do think she likes 14 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:54,840 to eat them, but I'm not sure. We'll have to 15 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:04,159 confirm that Katie Porter is this what should I say here? 16 00:01:05,879 --> 00:01:10,599 Trying to trying not to be mean, but she's kind 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:19,560 of this gross congresswoman from uh California, and uh she 18 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:26,799 has had any number of pr problems, let's say, over 19 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:33,400 her career, but I think she has torched her attempted 20 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:40,319 run now for governor, Okay of California because Gavin Newsom, 21 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,480 you know, running for president obviously, So he's been m 22 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:46,719 i a for a while when he's not standing in 23 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,640 front of me a burning home, blaming climate change for 24 00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:51,920 the Palisades fire, which, by the way, turned out not 25 00:01:51,959 --> 00:01:53,920 to be climate change. I'm as shocked as you are. 26 00:01:54,159 --> 00:01:58,000 That wasn't climate change that burned down the Palisades. No, No, 27 00:01:58,359 --> 00:02:03,640 it was an arsonist. Yeah, some whack job looks like 28 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,200 a firebug. That's you know, I know it's kind of 29 00:02:07,519 --> 00:02:10,560 antiquated now to think in those terms, but there are 30 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:16,240 people who are pyromaniacs and they like to light fires, 31 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,000 and they like to see stuff burn, and that like 32 00:02:20,039 --> 00:02:22,000 when I was growing up, that was really like if 33 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:24,400 anything caught fire, these wildfires, if it wasn't like a 34 00:02:24,479 --> 00:02:27,240 lightning strike or something, it was a pyro you know. 35 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,039 And that's what it seems like this guy was. That 36 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,199 they just arrested, I think, but yesterday or day before 37 00:02:34,759 --> 00:02:40,479 federally charged him. So not climate change anyway. So she's 38 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,639 running for governor. There are a bunch of people running 39 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,919 for governor of California. It's a very big state. It's 40 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,639 like basically the whole Left coast, which is to me ridiculous. 41 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,879 You need to break that state up into multiple states 42 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,360 because you can't even travel to your state capital in 43 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,680 like less than half a day or something from some 44 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,520 parts of the state. It's just ridiculous. So anyway, that's 45 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:07,800 a side side story. Katie Porter, she sat for an 46 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:14,599 interview with a local CBS affiliate news reporter. I believe 47 00:03:14,599 --> 00:03:19,360 her name is Julie Watts Uh. It's in here somebody, Yeah, 48 00:03:19,439 --> 00:03:23,960 Julie watts Uh, CBS News California based correspondent, and Julie 49 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,439 Watts was doing a series of interviews with all of 50 00:03:26,479 --> 00:03:31,439 the candidates, asking them basically the same questions, and then 51 00:03:31,479 --> 00:03:33,560 she was going to put it all together into you know, 52 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:38,800 longer form stories on the candidates and their positions on 53 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:43,360 the various issues. So she sits for this interview. I'm 54 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,000 gonna play for you the audio of this interview. It 55 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,759 doesn't run very long, Okay, it's like three minutes. It 56 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,879 doesn't it. It does not go well. And when I 57 00:03:54,919 --> 00:04:01,080 say that, I mean like it goes as bad as 58 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:05,159 the late Kay Hagan's re election announcement in North Carolina 59 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,800 for the US Senate when she was facing all of 60 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:13,039 these questions about why she wasn't attending the Armed Services 61 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,560 Committee meetings where they heard about the rise of ISIS 62 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:19,920 in Iraq, and she was, you know, blowing off all 63 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:23,600 these committee meetings and going to fundraise and such, and 64 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,800 so she was at the center of this swirl and 65 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:29,759 she decides to go to the Board of Elections and 66 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:36,439 announce her reelection intent and thinks that she can just 67 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:39,560 make the announcement and then walk out the back door 68 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,759 without taking any questions. And yeah, no, it did not 69 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,360 go well because the reporters that were there that were 70 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,920 wanting to get answers to the questions about why she 71 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,920 didn't attend all of these committee meetings about the rise 72 00:04:56,959 --> 00:04:59,720 of ISIS, which, if you recall at the time, this 73 00:04:59,879 --> 00:05:04,240 was when ISIS was was surging and they were murdering 74 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,800 people all over the place with these you know, live 75 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,240 streamed beheadings and such. They were taking over large pieces 76 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,680 of Iraq, and on the Armed Services Committee they were 77 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,600 getting briefs and she wasn't participating until people wanted to know, 78 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:19,240 why weren't you there, And so she goes to make 79 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,879 her announcement, I'm running again for reelection, yeay me, And 80 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:23,480 then she tries to duck out the back well. The 81 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:28,160 reporters then follow her out and they basically chase her 82 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:32,000 through the parking lot where she's like walking away from them, 83 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,079 not wanting to answer these questions. And I said at 84 00:05:35,079 --> 00:05:36,920 the time, like, I don't know if that could go 85 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,920 any worse unless she like took a baby bunny rabbit 86 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,519 and like lit it on fire for the cameras, you know, 87 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:49,040 don't I don't know how that goes any any worse. 88 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,920 You look like you're doing a purp walk, like you've 89 00:05:50,959 --> 00:05:54,519 been arrested, like this guy, Cecil Brockman was right. Anyway, 90 00:05:56,439 --> 00:06:01,959 Katie Porter's performance in this interview this is as bad 91 00:06:02,199 --> 00:06:05,439 of a performance as Kay Haagen's. I think it's actually 92 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,160 worse when you actually see the video. And I know 93 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:13,120 this is radio so you can't see it, but you're 94 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,600 gonna hear it. And just the contempt that she displays 95 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:23,519 for what for being asked a question? For being asked 96 00:06:23,639 --> 00:06:30,639 a follow up question? What have I been saying? Democrats, 97 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,639 because of the kid glove treatment that they receive from 98 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:39,240 the media on the regular they are not prepared to 99 00:06:39,399 --> 00:06:43,519 answer questions on the rare occasion when they are confronted 100 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,839 by an actual journalist that asks them actual questions that 101 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,720 might be a little difficult for them to answer, particularly 102 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:56,680 a journalist who asks follow up questions. Right. It's one 103 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,519 thing to go in there and ask them a question 104 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:02,560 and the politician then tapped answers away from the answer, 105 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,240 doesn't address the question, and then the journalist just moves on. 106 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:10,000 But when you keep trying to drag that politician back 107 00:07:10,079 --> 00:07:14,160 to answer your question, right, they eventually have to answer 108 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,879 it if you, as the reporter, keep dragging them back, 109 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,000 and that's on you as the reporter. And look, I've 110 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,839 done it. Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable because you 111 00:07:23,959 --> 00:07:27,879 know they don't want to answer the question, and then 112 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,399 they get frustrated, and then you risk burning a bridge 113 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:36,199 and all of this. So this reporter sits down for 114 00:07:36,319 --> 00:07:40,560 this interview, and the first sign that something is amiss 115 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,879 to me, this is just me, is that somehow, some reason, 116 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,560 I don't know who, decided they were going to do 117 00:07:48,639 --> 00:07:53,959 this interview in master control. Now master control at all 118 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,120 TV stations, right, Master control is this dark room. It's 119 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,319 got a bunch of tables all looking like sort of 120 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,000 like the mission control at NASA. You know, you're all 121 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,959 looking up at the wall, and they're all these TV 122 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,720 monitors on the wall and stuff from all these different 123 00:08:07,759 --> 00:08:10,680 you know, live feeds coming in and such, and so 124 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,600 it's a very dark room. And so they they sit 125 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,279 there and then they do this interview with the two 126 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,519 seats facing each other. So you get it's these are 127 00:08:21,639 --> 00:08:26,000 so the camera angle is a profile of both of them. 128 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,199 And let me just say it this way. Katie Porter 129 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:37,399 in profile not her most flattering angle. Okay, it's not 130 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,159 a flattering angle for her. And I've seen people say 131 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,320 that this is indicative that her staff hates her. And 132 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,799 by the way, that would actually track because up in Washington, 133 00:08:49,879 --> 00:08:54,320 d C. There is this sort of the worst bosses 134 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,080 kind of list that is known among the people on 135 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,559 Capitol Hill, and she's on that list. 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She's being interviewed by Julie Watts of the 163 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,000 CBS affiliate, and right out of the gate, it did 164 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:45,320 not start. 165 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 2: Well, what do you say to the forty percent of 166 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,759 California voters who you'll need in order to win, who 167 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:51,440 voted for Trump? 168 00:10:53,159 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 3: How would I need them in order to win? 169 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:56,799 Speaker 2: A man, Well, unless you think you're going to get 170 00:10:57,279 --> 00:11:00,279 sixty percent of the vote, you think you'll get all 171 00:11:00,639 --> 00:11:02,480 everybody who did not vote for Trump will vote for you. 172 00:11:02,799 --> 00:11:05,279 Speaker 1: Okay, So hang on a second. So when she says that, 173 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:08,120 why do I need the forty percent to win? Ma'am? 174 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,759 She does this thing where she leans over and they're 175 00:11:11,759 --> 00:11:16,639 sitting very close together. She leans forward, says that to her, 176 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:21,279 and then turns to the camera and starts mugging for 177 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,519 the camera. Yuk, yuck, yuck ha ha, Like, oh, why 178 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,480 do I need the forty percent? Uh ah? Check me out, singer. 179 00:11:27,759 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 3: You know. 180 00:11:29,279 --> 00:11:32,759 Speaker 1: So it's just kind of a weird start. Now I 181 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:39,159 think that the question was It wasn't exactly, So let 182 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,240 me just read. This is from Jeffrey Blair at National Review. 183 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,039 He says the interview began with Watts asking porter about 184 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:48,639 the recent move by Gavin Newsom and state Democrat lawmakers 185 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,600 to redistrict Republican congressmen out of their seats in retaliation 186 00:11:52,759 --> 00:11:56,600 for the redrawing of other red state legislative maps. Right, 187 00:11:56,639 --> 00:11:59,480 So that's been the issue that's taking up a lot 188 00:11:59,519 --> 00:12:01,799 of the politic gal oxygen in this election. Is this 189 00:12:01,919 --> 00:12:06,120 independent redistricting Commission to be temporarily suspended so then they 190 00:12:06,159 --> 00:12:09,519 can jerrymander all of the Republicans out of their seats. 191 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:15,039 Watts misspoke on her very first question, ensuring there would 192 00:12:15,039 --> 00:12:17,519 not be a second, because the question was what do 193 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,279 you say to the forty percent of California voters who 194 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,720 you'll need in order to win who voted for Trump? 195 00:12:23,799 --> 00:12:27,799 Jeffrey Blair says, that's tautologically false that you need the 196 00:12:27,799 --> 00:12:31,039 support of the losing parties voters to win. But candidates 197 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,639 are not supposed to say things like, ha, we live 198 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,639 in a one party state, so it doesn't matter what 199 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,399 Trump voters think. You're not supposed to say that. Watts 200 00:12:39,519 --> 00:12:42,639 was actually attempting to pose a simple challenge to the 201 00:12:42,759 --> 00:12:46,600 would be governor, as she later made clear many times, 202 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,159 what do you say to the forty percent of the 203 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:55,440 Californians you're seeking to federally disenfranchise right of California voters 204 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,840 are Republicans, and you guys want to jerrymander the maps. 205 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,919 I want to suspend state law for your independent redistricting 206 00:13:02,919 --> 00:13:05,600 commission that you've had for like twenty years now. You 207 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:08,080 want to get rid of that temporarily so you can 208 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,519 disenfranchise all the Republican voters. Yet you want to be 209 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:13,759 the governor of those forty percent? What do you say 210 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:16,440 to them? That's the question, and you should have an 211 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,720 answer for that. My goodness, it's like the top issue 212 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:23,960 in this election cycle. Okay, and it gets worse. 213 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 4: You're in a general election. 214 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 3: Yes, if it is me versus a Republican, I think 215 00:13:29,519 --> 00:13:31,639 that I will win the people who did not vote. 216 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 4: For Try what if it's you versus another Democrat? 217 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:34,639 Speaker 3: I don't intend that to be the case. 218 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,879 Speaker 4: So how do you not intend that to be the case? 219 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:40,519 Do you? Are you going to ask them not to run? No? 220 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 3: No, I'm saying I'm going to build the support. I 221 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:45,000 have the support already in terms of name recognition, and 222 00:13:45,039 --> 00:13:46,559 so I'm going to do the very best I can 223 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:48,399 to make sure that we get through this primary in 224 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,440 a really strong position. But let me be clear with you. 225 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,240 I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I 226 00:13:54,279 --> 00:13:56,399 have stood on my own two feet and one Republican 227 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,120 votes before. That's not something every candidate in this race 228 00:13:59,159 --> 00:14:01,519 can say. If you're from a deep blue area, if 229 00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:03,960 you're from LA or you're from Oakland, you. 230 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:06,399 Speaker 4: Don't have an experience, is that you don't need those 231 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:07,039 Trump voters. 232 00:14:07,039 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 3: So you asked me if I need them to win? 233 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:11,720 So you don't think like this is unnecessarily argumentative. 234 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:12,519 Speaker 4: What is your question? 235 00:14:13,159 --> 00:14:15,919 Speaker 2: The question is the same thing I asked everybody that 236 00:14:16,039 --> 00:14:17,279 this is being called. 237 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: Okay, let me stop there for a moment. She says 238 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,279 she doesn't intend it to be the case that she 239 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,240 will have to run against the Democrat in the general election. 240 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,080 I don't know how she thinks she gets to determine 241 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:37,440 that because California has what they call a jungle primary. 242 00:14:41,159 --> 00:14:45,600 Jeffrey Blair described this well here it is the divide. 243 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,480 So right now the divided primary field. Also because they 244 00:14:49,519 --> 00:14:54,360 have a primary, and then the top votainers, not vote getters, 245 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:58,159 people votainers, they move on to the general. Okay, So 246 00:14:58,279 --> 00:15:05,679 the field right now has HHS Secretary Xavier Bessera, Lieutenant 247 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:13,639 Governor Ellenie Cunilakis, former Los Angeles mayor, Tony Viagarosa and 248 00:15:13,759 --> 00:15:17,600 Fox News commentator Steve Hilton, a Republican, and then six 249 00:15:17,639 --> 00:15:21,240 other guys you've never heard of. Okay, So, California has 250 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,240 used a jungle primary system since twenty twelve, meaning the 251 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:33,039 top two votainers advanced to the November ballot regardless of party. Now, 252 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:37,759 her lead right now is not commanding, and it's primarily 253 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,399 due to name recognition as a former congresswoman from one 254 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,039 of the LA suburbs, although now her name recognition is 255 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:49,879 probably going to be a little bit greater. Yeah, So 256 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,279 I don't know how she thinks that she's not going 257 00:15:53,279 --> 00:15:56,639 to face a Democrat in the election, because the jungle 258 00:15:56,679 --> 00:16:03,000 primary system allows for two Democrats to assent, right, So 259 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:05,320 I don't understand her response there where like, oh, I 260 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,720 don't intend that to be the case. And then she 261 00:16:07,759 --> 00:16:11,600 says I can pull votes from the Republicans. 262 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,519 Speaker 2: The empowering voters to stop Trump's power grab. Every other 263 00:16:14,559 --> 00:16:15,600 candidate has answered this, all. 264 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:20,919 Speaker 1: Right, this is the redistricting question to suspend the Independent 265 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:27,639 Redistricting Commission and Jerrymander in order to disenfranchise all of 266 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:30,200 the Republicans in California, or as many as you can 267 00:16:30,559 --> 00:16:35,840 in order to preserve the House of Representatives numbers for 268 00:16:35,919 --> 00:16:37,360 Democrats in Congress. 269 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,519 Speaker 4: Right, question, this is not I said, I support it. 270 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 2: So and the question is what do you say to 271 00:16:43,519 --> 00:16:46,080 the forty percent of voters who voted for Trump? 272 00:16:46,159 --> 00:16:48,039 Speaker 3: Oh, I'm happy to say that. It's the do you 273 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,279 need them to win part that I don't understand. I'm 274 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:51,840 happy to answer the question aswer the question as you 275 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:52,919 haven't written and all answer. 276 00:16:53,039 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 2: And we've also asked the other candidates do you think 277 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,240 you need any of those forty percent of California voters 278 00:16:58,240 --> 00:16:58,440 to win? 279 00:16:58,480 --> 00:16:59,519 Speaker 4: And you're saying no, you don't. 280 00:16:59,639 --> 00:17:01,679 Speaker 3: No, I'm saying I'm gonna try to win every vote 281 00:17:01,679 --> 00:17:04,039 I can. And what I'm saying to you is that, 282 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,640 well to those voters, Okay, so you I don't want 283 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:08,880 to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it. 284 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:09,799 Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. 285 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: About her answer there was perfectly fine. 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This 316 00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:08,400 is a very bad week. Or actually it's just been 317 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,240 like forty eight hours. It hasn't even been a week 318 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,519 for Katie Porter. She sits for this interview with the 319 00:19:14,519 --> 00:19:19,440 local CBS correspondent who's doing a story with interviews with 320 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,799 all of the candidates for governor, talking about the race, 321 00:19:21,839 --> 00:19:25,680 but also talking about the referendum where California voters are 322 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:30,160 being asked to suspend their independent Redistricting Commission, which is 323 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,559 in their constitution, which they put there by a referendum vote. 324 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,279 They are being asked by Democrats to suspend it so 325 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:44,279 Democrats can jerrymander and draw new districts, new congressional lines 326 00:19:44,799 --> 00:19:50,119 to remove all Republicans from any congressional seat in California. 327 00:19:50,599 --> 00:19:54,880 That's what they're doing okay, and so like the question 328 00:19:55,079 --> 00:19:57,440 is what do you tell these voters forty percent of 329 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,559 the state voters or Republicans, What do you tell them 330 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,119 that you're out here lobbying to disenfranchise them. You don't 331 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:08,119 want them to have any congressional representation in Congress, but 332 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,799 you want them to get your vote for governor. Like 333 00:20:11,839 --> 00:20:16,519 how are you making that message? Why would a Republican 334 00:20:16,599 --> 00:20:21,759 vote for you when you're actively telling people to disenfranchise them, Right, 335 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:25,559 that's the question. That's what this reporter is focusing on. 336 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,640 And Katie Porter is not happy. She says it, She'll 337 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,319 tell you not happy. And then she says, I'm gonna 338 00:20:33,319 --> 00:20:36,400 call it, claps her hands together like I'm gonna call it, 339 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,200 puts her palms, you know, towards the reporter like I'm done, 340 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,160 and she starts to like fiddle with her microphone. But 341 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,799 the reporter just presses on to her credit like this 342 00:20:46,839 --> 00:20:49,240 is a good move by her tactically, Like just keep 343 00:20:49,279 --> 00:20:53,240 pressing on to try to keep the subject seated in 344 00:20:53,319 --> 00:20:56,200 the chair and not abandon the interview. So this is 345 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:57,960 what's trying to save the interview. 346 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 4: You're not going to do the interview with them. Nope, 347 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:02,559 not like this. 348 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,759 Speaker 3: I'm not not with seven follow ups to every single. 349 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 4: Question you ask every other candidate has. 350 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 3: I don't care. 351 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:08,839 Speaker 4: I don't care. 352 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 3: I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation which you 353 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,559 asked me about every issue on this list. And if 354 00:21:14,599 --> 00:21:16,960 every question you're going to make up a follow up question, 355 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:18,359 then we're never going to get there. 356 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: But yeah, that's her job. You're sitting for an interview 357 00:21:23,519 --> 00:21:25,720 with a member of the media. And I mean, just 358 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:30,039 think about the mindset of this woman, Katie Porter, this 359 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:34,480 congress member. The idea that a reporter would ask her 360 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:39,119 a series of follow ups to a question on the list. 361 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,200 This is outrageous to her. I'm not going to sit 362 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,359 for an interview where you get to ask me just 363 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:50,400 anything right like by comparison, I will tell you when 364 00:21:50,799 --> 00:21:53,759 Congressman Tim Moore, former Speaker of the North Carolina House, 365 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,079 happened to be in West Charlotte the other day. His 366 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,160 people called us up and said, Hey, he's down on 367 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,319 the street. Do you want him on the show? He'll 368 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,680 drop in, And I said, sure, he dropped in. I'd 369 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,519 done no prep for the interview, and I had. When 370 00:22:08,559 --> 00:22:10,359 he came, I said, he sat down I said, is 371 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,039 there anything that you want to like hit on? Is 372 00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:14,480 there any topic or whatever that like you're in town 373 00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:18,440 for or whatever? And he says, no, just ask me anything. 374 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,960 That is usually the case in my career. That is 375 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,720 usually the case with every Republican member of Congress I 376 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:29,359 have ever interviewed. If I call them and say, I 377 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,640 want to ask you about this topic, because that's standard, 378 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,680 you ask you tell the subject I want to interview 379 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,720 you about, you know, this topic, so they have an 380 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,359 idea when they go into the interview. They have an 381 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,000 idea of what the topic is going to be. They 382 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,960 don't know the questions. I have had people ask me, Hey, 383 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,759 can you send among the questions for the congress member, 384 00:22:49,759 --> 00:22:51,880 And I say no, I will not send you questions. 385 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,079 You don't get the questions ahead of time. This isn't 386 00:22:54,079 --> 00:22:56,759 an open book test, right, We're just gonna have a 387 00:22:56,799 --> 00:22:59,559 conversation and if I think up a question while we're chatting, 388 00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:02,960 I'm gonna ask it. So that's the deal, and they 389 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,759 all take the deal. But for some reason, Katie Porter 390 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,160 has made it to the wholes of Congress and has 391 00:23:09,279 --> 00:23:13,119 never had follow ups to questions. This is what I 392 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:18,960 mean intellectually flabby. I'm not making any comments about her 393 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,920 appearance that is not a reference to her appearance that 394 00:23:22,039 --> 00:23:24,200 I have been saying that phrase for a long time. 395 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,400 And yes, I do recognize that she does have a 396 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,279 bit of an eight head. It's like twice the size 397 00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:30,759 of a normal forehead. But I'm not focusing on her 398 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:31,720 personal appearance. 399 00:23:31,799 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 4: Okay, and we're just going to circle around. And I 400 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,799 had to do this before ever You've never had had 401 00:23:38,839 --> 00:23:43,160 a conversation to Okay, but every other candidate has done this. 402 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,400 Speaker 3: What part of I'm me? I'm running for governor because 403 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,799 I'm a leader, so I am going to make. 404 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,559 Speaker 4: So you're not going to answer questions from reporters. Okay, 405 00:23:52,559 --> 00:23:53,480 why don't we go through. 406 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,039 Speaker 2: I will continue to ask follow up questions because that's 407 00:23:56,079 --> 00:23:58,079 my job as a journalist. But I will go through 408 00:23:58,119 --> 00:23:59,920 and ask this, and if you don't want to answer, 409 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:03,839 don't want to answer, so nearly every legislative. 410 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,400 Speaker 3: I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you, 411 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,000 and I don't want this all on camera. 412 00:24:08,279 --> 00:24:10,279 Speaker 4: I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either. 413 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:11,079 Speaker 1: Oh my God. 414 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 2: To continue to ask these questions so that we can 415 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,680 show our viewers, what every candidate feels about every one 416 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,400 of these issues that they care about, and redistrit taking. 417 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 4: It's a massive issue. 418 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,279 Speaker 2: We're going to do an entire story just on the 419 00:24:22,319 --> 00:24:25,279 responses to that question and have asked everybody the same 420 00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:26,200 follow up questions. 421 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you, ma'am. 422 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,599 You're running for governor. This is a journalist asking you questions. 423 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,440 Think about the Democrat privilege here. That's what we're looking at. 424 00:24:42,519 --> 00:24:48,319 That's what you're hearing. Democrat privilege that you can have 425 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,559 a career in politics and never face These aren't even 426 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,559 tough questions. These are like, this is sort of the 427 00:24:56,599 --> 00:24:58,559 equivalent of why are you running? 428 00:24:59,279 --> 00:24:59,319 Speaker 2: Like? 429 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,839 Speaker 1: Tell us your origin story? How awesome of a candidate 430 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:03,319 are you? 431 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 4: Like? 432 00:25:03,799 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: These aren't difficult questions. But she thought she was just 433 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,119 going to be able to say whatever she wanted to 434 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,640 say and move on, because that's what Democrat privilege allows 435 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,000 you when you are dealing with legacy media outlets. And 436 00:25:17,039 --> 00:25:20,839 for some reason, poor Katie Porter happened to cross paths 437 00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:24,759 with Julie Watts, who happens to be an actual reporter 438 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:31,799 and asked follow up questions. It really is remarkable, but 439 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:37,240 not as remarkable as what happened next. After this video 440 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,839 came out, another video dropped. So when I was a kid, 441 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:44,680 my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my 442 00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:46,599 mom and my dad took care of him as he 443 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,480 got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and 444 00:25:49,599 --> 00:25:52,640 not much support for caregivers and family. But things are 445 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,279 different today because of the work of so many people, 446 00:25:55,519 --> 00:25:58,880 including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great 447 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,119 organization with awsome some people with huge hearts. I've been 448 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,920 a supporter for twenty five years. This cause means a 449 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,279 lot to me. I participate in the annual walk to 450 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,160 end Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte team again this 451 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:14,480 year and it's called once again Pete's Pack. You can 452 00:26:14,519 --> 00:26:16,599 sign up and you can join the team and walk 453 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,960 with us. It's on October eighteenth that truest field sign 454 00:26:20,039 --> 00:26:23,519 up at alz dot org slash walk and then you 455 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:26,559 can search for my team name Pete's Pack. There's also 456 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:29,480 a link at thepetepod dot com. There's also a link 457 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,559 in the description of this podcast. Also, I'll be am 458 00:26:32,559 --> 00:26:35,519 seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and so you 459 00:26:35,519 --> 00:26:37,799 can make a team and join that one too, or 460 00:26:37,839 --> 00:26:39,759 make a donation and help me hit my goal of 461 00:26:39,799 --> 00:26:42,599 five thousand dollars. If you do, I really appreciate it. 462 00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:45,279 There are a bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. 463 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,039 You can go to alz dot org slash walk for 464 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,920 all the dates and locations. We're closer than ever to 465 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,319 stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help us get there? Will you 466 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,279 walk with me? For a different future, for families, for 467 00:26:56,319 --> 00:27:00,519 more time for treatments. This is why we walk. Jiji 468 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,599 on the text line says she needs an emotional support 469 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,559 puppy in a safe room, grow up and run a campaign, 470 00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:10,759 an actual campaign. John from New Jersey says Porter's total 471 00:27:10,839 --> 00:27:18,519 lack of self awareness is astounding. Seth says, could you 472 00:27:18,559 --> 00:27:21,039 imagine doing a job interview and telling the interview or 473 00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:23,279 after the first question that you're not answering any more 474 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,920 questions because it's not leading to a happy place. Yeah, 475 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,720 I've never I've never seen anything like this before from 476 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:38,039 a candidate. Well, with the exception of Alvin Green who 477 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:43,640 ran for US Senate in South Carolina, who literally put 478 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,680 his hands over his ears and started going when he 479 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,000 didn't want to hear any more of the questions. But 480 00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:54,960 he was a little off, you know, And the only 481 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,200 reason he won that race was because his name was 482 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,400 Al Green. He won the Democrat prime and then he 483 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,799 got just demolished by I think it was Jim Demnt anyway. Yeah, 484 00:28:04,839 --> 00:28:08,519 his campaign shirt was the Green family Reunion T shirt 485 00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:10,960 that they hand out at his family reunion every year. 486 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:17,839 So that was his campaign shirt. Jeffrey Blair at National 487 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,640 Review says, the first thing that that must be said 488 00:28:21,079 --> 00:28:25,000 about this implosion is that it is perfectly in keeping 489 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,480 with everything else we know about Katie Porter, a woman 490 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,039 who once poured scalding hot mashed potatoes on her husband's 491 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:38,039 head in a fit of peak. They're now divorced. Surprisingly, 492 00:28:39,559 --> 00:28:44,759 Porter's petulance, lack of preparation, and sense of entitlement were staggering. 493 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:48,519 She was genuinely offended to have to answer a mildly 494 00:28:48,599 --> 00:28:51,640 difficult question. She acted like it was an insult not 495 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,839 only to her intelligence, but her personal dignity. Also, her 496 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,359 beastly reputation has long preceded her. You don't become an 497 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:06,119 inner circle member of Washington's informal bad Bosses Hall of 498 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,839 Fame any other way. But this interview is an amazing 499 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,119 display of who she really is, the ugliness inside her 500 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,079 heart that voters will find impossible to ignore. Okay, so 501 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,799 this video comes out. Then within twenty four hours another 502 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,680 video is published, this one over at Politico where this 503 00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:31,200 is from twenty twenty one. She's sitting for this sort 504 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:38,160 of fake interview with the Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholme, and 505 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:43,599 they're talking about the awesomeness of electric vehicles. And so 506 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,640 she's doing this over a zoom call and you don't 507 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,519 see grand home. You just see Katie Porter, you know, 508 00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:55,319 like way too close to the laptop camera for my taste, 509 00:29:55,319 --> 00:29:59,200 at least way too close. But in the background, she's 510 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,519 doing it from like her apartment or something. And in 511 00:30:01,559 --> 00:30:06,640 the background you see a staffer moving around a little bit. 512 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,119 There's a woman in the background far in the background, 513 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,640 and you could just see your head kind of moving 514 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,799 around a little bit. And this is what happens. You're 515 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:15,960 ready for stat number two? 516 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 5: I am all right, six hundred and thirty two dollars 517 00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:26,839 and thirty two, which is how much you save in 518 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:31,079 fuel and maintenance costs when you replace your traditional car 519 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,039 with an EV with an electric vehicle. So I drive, 520 00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:35,599 I lease a Chevy Bolt. 521 00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: It is the best car that. 522 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 4: I have ever owned. 523 00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 5: I just plug it into the garage three hole prong 524 00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:43,759 plug and I never. 525 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,799 Speaker 1: Have to go Who calls it a three hole prong plug? Nobody, nobody, 526 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,839 Who watches this crap? Who is going to sit there 527 00:30:49,839 --> 00:30:50,960 and like, you know, what I need to do is 528 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,880 I need to sit down and watch like a webinar interview, 529 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,759 a zoom call between these two talking about how they 530 00:30:56,799 --> 00:30:59,759 save six hundred and thirty two dollars by switching over 531 00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:01,960 to an EV golf. 532 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 5: Go to the gas station. 533 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,319 Speaker 6: That's awesome, And six hundred and thirty two dollars is 534 00:31:07,359 --> 00:31:10,480 real money. And I know here at UCI, we have 535 00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:14,319 a National Fuel Center research center, and they're also doing 536 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,759 work how to make electric vehicles affordable, including for low 537 00:31:18,799 --> 00:31:21,880 and modern income people, working moms, single moms like me, 538 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,920 people who really could benefit from an extra six hundred 539 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,400 and thirty two dollars in their pocket. 540 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,119 Speaker 1: By the way, she's a single mom now because her 541 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,599 husband divorced her after she you know, dumped a bunch 542 00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:32,319 of scalding hot mashed potatoes on its head. 543 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 6: And it's also not just the individual savings, but it's 544 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,880 also the total savings for our economy. So I'm on 545 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,279 the oversight committee, you might know, and that is where 546 00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:45,759 we did a study recently this fall in September, and 547 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:51,240 what it showed is if we don't electrify our transportation sector, 548 00:31:51,599 --> 00:31:53,759 that we're going to lose more than half a million 549 00:31:53,839 --> 00:31:58,559 Californians dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems, and 550 00:31:58,599 --> 00:32:02,440 the state could lose for you're out of my shot. 551 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,960 I actually correct. 552 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,119 Speaker 4: It's not that vehicles. 553 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 2: It's that you don't need the commitments pars climate. 554 00:32:11,279 --> 00:32:12,119 Speaker 3: Okay, it does. 555 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 6: Okay, you also were in my shot before that. Stay 556 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:17,839 out of my shot. 557 00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 4: Okay. 558 00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:22,279 Speaker 3: I'm going to start again with electric vehicle sabingus money. 559 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:29,119 Speaker 1: Perfect, Okay, Okay, So do you understand what you just heard. 560 00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:34,559 She's reading through her bullet points about how awesome the 561 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,079 evs are, and she's quoting these things and stats and 562 00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:40,799 the work they're doing and all of this, and she 563 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:46,039 says something wrong, and so her staffer, who is like 564 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,759 at one point you see her kind of come into 565 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:49,480 the frame in the background a little bit. I mean, 566 00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:51,640 she's behind like a shelf, like an open shelf kind 567 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,400 of thing with some plants on it, So you don't 568 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,519 really see. You just know there's somebody back there moving around. 569 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,880 But she's obviously back there monitoring the zoom call here, right, 570 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,400 And so when Katie Porter says something incorrect, the staffer 571 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,000 comes out from behind this wall, from behind that shelf 572 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:13,200 comes out behind her, and that's when Porter loses her 573 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:14,279 mind on her. 574 00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 6: Get out of my shot. 575 00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:22,319 Speaker 1: Get out of my bleeping shot. She screams this at 576 00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:27,839 her staffer right behind her, like without even breaking cadence. 577 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:33,759 She's like, out of my shot. And Jennifer Grahholm is 578 00:33:33,799 --> 00:33:36,039 on the other side of this and her staffers are 579 00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:38,039 on the other side of this call, like they all 580 00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:42,519 see this happen once again. Privilege that you could behave 581 00:33:42,799 --> 00:33:47,319 this way in front of people, right, Like I'm smart 582 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,119 enough to know that when I say this kind of 583 00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:52,000 stuff to my producers, it's off air. Nobody hears me 584 00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:55,960 saying this and being abusive to Nick and Bernie, and 585 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:03,359 I am abusive to them. I like, I don't get it. Now, 586 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,759 here's the key. This video drops. This thing is four 587 00:34:07,839 --> 00:34:12,760 years old. Somebody has been sitting on this video for 588 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:18,960 four years, and it drops within twenty four hours after 589 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:24,480 her meltdown in the CBS interview. Within twenty four hours, 590 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:29,119 Politico is handed this video and they make a point 591 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:32,280 to say that the staffer that Politico is not identifying 592 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,559 out of privacy concerns, and who is not the source 593 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,639 of the video, declined to comment, So they know who 594 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,880 that staffer was that got yelled at. But she's not talking. 595 00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:43,239 She wasn't the source of the video. Somebody else gave 596 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,559 it to her. So I'm thinking the knives are out 597 00:34:46,559 --> 00:34:49,960 for Katie Porter inside the Democrat Party, That's what I'm thinking. 598 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,880 Like they saw their opportunity to like make this into 599 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:00,719 a thing and to introduce Katie Porter to more California voters. Now, 600 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,760 Katie Porter put out a statement saying, quote, it's no 601 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,119 secret I hold myself and my staff to a high standard, 602 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,360 and that was especially true as a member of Congress. 603 00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:13,719 I have sought to be more intentional in showing gratitude 604 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:18,000 to my staff for their important work. Which is not 605 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,239 an apology, in case you missed it, There not an apology. 606 00:35:21,599 --> 00:35:24,039 She's just like, you're damn right, I ordered the code 607 00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:26,639 read like that's what Her response is like, I try 608 00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:29,519 to show gratitude more, but I'm still gonna cuss people out. 609 00:35:29,559 --> 00:35:34,239 I guess that's I guess that's what she's saying. This 610 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,360 woman is a monster. All right. That'll do it for 611 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,079 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could 612 00:35:41,079 --> 00:35:43,360 not do the show without your support and the support 613 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,239 of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if 614 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,280 you'd like, please support them too and tell them you 615 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,400 heard it here. 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