WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.720 I was laughing last week that I was imagining this 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:11.480 dream scenario, this imaginary scenario where the two people maybe 3 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:17.480 who were secretly happiest about Kamala Harris losing, were Gavin 4 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:20.640 Newsom and Joe Biden. And I liked to imagine the 5 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:24.600 idea that maybe Gavin came to visit Washington and was 6 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:27.879 hanging out with Biden, sitting on a couch in the 7 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:30.800 Oval office with the TV on, and that they were 8 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.759 both you know, popping bottles of champagne after Fox News 9 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:39.679 called Wisconsin for Trump. And I joke about this because 10 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:47.479 the path is more or less clear for Gavin Newsom 11 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:55.119 to run for president. If Kamala had won, then he 12 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:00.000 wouldn't have been able to run presumably until at least 13 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:04.400 he's twenty thirty two. God knows what Newsom would have 14 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:08.640 done with his time for the for the rest of 15 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.439 that you know, timeframe. God knows he's not very interested 16 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:18.159 even in being our governor right now and now though 17 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.159 the path is clear now actually not only is the 18 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:25.840 path clear, but if you think about it, I mean, 19 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.280 Democrats don't have a majority in the Senate, they don't 20 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.840 have a majority in the House. Who is the most 21 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:40.000 prominent Democrat in the country. I mean, it's not a 22 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:42.719 crazy thing to think that the governor of California is 23 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:47.200 the most prominent elected official, is the most prominent elected 24 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.480 official if you don't have, you know, someone as Leader 25 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:53.439 of the Senate or Leader of the House, Speaker of 26 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:56.239 the House, anything like that. I mean, Newsom is by 27 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:02.319 default now with Biden Harris gonna go away on January twentieth, 28 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:06.359 I think Newsom is kind of, in some ways almost 29 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:10.319 the default de facto leader of the Democrat Party, and 30 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:13.120 he's clearly trying to position himself that way. Here he 31 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.840 is he's calling for a special session of the California 32 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:20.919 State Legislature to come up with ways to combat Donald Trump. 33 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.120 It's amazing how the principle of federalism gets discovered when 34 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:36.599 Trump gets elected president. Now, what are Gavin Newsom's prospects 35 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:38.759 for the next four years? What is Newsom going to 36 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:43.360 be looking at? What's Newsom going to be doing. Newsom 37 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.560 has some clear advantages if he wants to run for 38 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:51.520 president in twenty twenty eight. The timing all makes sense 39 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:57.479 for him. It all works out. He will conclude eight 40 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.719 years as governor of California in January of twenty twenty seven, 41 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:06.039 perfect timeline for him to start revving his engines for 42 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.759 the Newsom twenty twenty eight campaign. So he's got two 43 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.680 more years as governor of California. Maybe he thinks he 44 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:17.280 can put a couple more Trump pelts on the wall. 45 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:20.000 Maybe he thinks he and the state legislation can do 46 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:28.240 a couple of things to block Trump legislative or regulatory moves. Clearly, 47 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:34.199 he is full bore into resistance mode. One of the 48 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:40.800 things that California did pretty consistently when Trump was first elected, 49 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.120 and that was the first two years of that were 50 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:45.919 under Jerry Brown and then the second two years were 51 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:51.039 under Gavin Newsom was then Governors Brown or Newsom and 52 00:03:51.360 --> 00:04:03.400 Attorney General Javier Basera were consistently constantly challenging Trump regulatory 53 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:07.560 moves in court. So basically what would happen, Well, Trump 54 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:11.680 would issue some immigration regulatory policy or this regulatory policy, 55 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:16.800 that regulatory policy that impacts the whole country, and Newsome 56 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:24.319 or really Javiersiah, the attorney general, would sue, and usually 57 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:27.000 he would sue in the Northern District of California. So 58 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:32.759 the federal court system is broken up into regions each, 59 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:37.160 so the district courts are all broken up into regions, 60 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:40.120 So California has a bunch of different regions. A small 61 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:44.720 state might just be one whole region. So you know, 62 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.959 take Wyoming, for example, might be the Federal District Court 63 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:50.439 of Wyoming and it's just all of Wyoming. All the 64 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:55.319 federal cases are heard sort of by one court, one 65 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.480 sort of division, one sort of unit of a federal court. 66 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.399 The Northern District of California is full of Federal District 67 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:07.519 Court judges who were appointed by Democrats. It is the 68 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.720 most consistently left one of the most consistently left wing 69 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:15.920 courts in the country. And so Jabier Bassera would bring 70 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.839 lawsuits against the Trump administration in front of these ultra 71 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.759 left wing judges and get a favorable ruling. And what 72 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:25.519 they would try to do is get a nationwide injunction 73 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.319 against any Trump policy they were fighting against. Get one 74 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:31.639 of these Federal District Court judges in the Northern District 75 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:38.199 of California to issue a nationwide injunction to stop nationwide 76 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:42.240 some Trump policy with which they disagreed. Republicans were trying 77 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:45.680 to do similar kinds of law fair things against the 78 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:50.040 Biden administration bringing lawsuits in the Northern District of Texas, 79 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:54.120 which is maybe the most conservative court in the country. 80 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:55.680 I think it only has one judge and he's a 81 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:06.000 super right wing Trump appointee. So Newsom is signaled I'm 82 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.000 going to do that again. I'm going to be leading 83 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:13.319 the Democrat resistance. He's doing the special session of the legislature. 84 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.680 It seems like the idea of the special session of 85 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:18.560 the legislature is to give more money to Rob Bonta, 86 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.720 the attorney General. Empower Rob Bonta so that he can 87 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.920 file more and more and more lawsuits against an incoming 88 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:32.600 Trump administration. Now I read this column that I really 89 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:34.959 want to recommend to you all. I've got to retweet 90 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.240 it from my Twitter account Twitter dot com slash Fresno 91 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:40.759 Johnny at Fresno Johnny. And it's written by this guy, 92 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:47.399 David Mastio, whom I hadn't heard of before. I guess 93 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:52.560 he's really just a newspaper guy. He worked for the 94 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:56.439 Washington Times, and he's the founding editorial page editor for 95 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:02.399 the Washington Examiner. And he he has a really insightful, 96 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:08.360 great column about Newsom. And every so often someone writes 97 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:12.560 a column giving the overview on Newsom that just it's 98 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.720 always so devastating, just how terrible things are in California. 99 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.120 So I'm going to try to read through this without 100 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.319 repeating things too much that you already know. But let's go. 101 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:23.279 Let me go through this. Presido B published this to 102 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.959 their credit. I think I think this was probably in 103 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:33.199 the Sunday edition. He writes, Newsom in the Golden State, 104 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:38.519 standing athwart the Trump train tracks yelling stop is about 105 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:43.319 the best news Republicans could get. California is everything that 106 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:48.800 the nation just voted against in a convenient package. To 107 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:52.759 put things in perspective, Democrats completely dominate the state, from 108 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:56.040 the governor's mansion and the Attorney General's office to supermajorities 109 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:58.680 in the state legislature that run roughshot over the paltry 110 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:02.879 number of Republicans who fight back, and local governments where 111 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:07.319 Trump loyalists are nearly non existent. The state is progressivism 112 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.519 in its purest form. Take the top three issues in 113 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:16.199 the election to start Inflation, immigration, and crime. So he 114 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:18.839 goes through each of these issues one by one. Inflation, 115 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:23.360 California has the nation's most expensive housing because state and 116 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:27.560 local laws make it increasingly impossible to meet growing demand. 117 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:31.680 He gave this stat that blew my mind. The Dallas 118 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:37.639 area of Texas, which I assume means Dallas for Worth Arlington, 119 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:42.519 the Dallas area of Texas builds more housing annually than 120 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:47.559 the entire state of California. Let me repeat that the 121 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:53.360 Dallas area of Texas builds more housing annually than the 122 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:58.720 entire state of California. Building is so difficult that this 123 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:02.519 year the state legislature had to exempt itself from its 124 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:07.440 own environmental laws to build new offices. That's been going 125 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.320 on for a while. So at the state Capitol and Sacramento, 126 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:14.159 they have this very expensive project to renovate the State 127 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:17.600 Capitol building. Basically, you have the old historic State Capitol 128 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:22.600 building and then they had attached to it all of 129 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:27.159 the Assembly members, state senators' offices, and it was all 130 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:31.759 attached to the old historic building. And it's that attached 131 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:36.240 part that they're redoing, and it's costing a gazillion dollars 132 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.240 and they have to pass laws to exempt themselves from 133 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.759 normal environmental laws. Probably sequi I'm imagining the California Environmental 134 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:50.360 Quality Act. Basic. He keeps going. Basic housing for the 135 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:55.519 homeless costs several times as much as an average home 136 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.879 in the rest of the country. See this is an 137 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:04.519 This is why the only kinds of housing that builders 138 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:08.879 can actually really afford to build is either high end 139 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:12.720 housing housing that's going to be like high end apartments, 140 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:21.039 high end condos, or quote lower income housing units because 141 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.440 if you build the quote lower income housing units registered trademark, 142 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:27.320 the state gives you a subsidy to do it. But 143 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:29.799 those are the only two things that builders can afford 144 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:35.159 to build. Pretty much. There's very little middle class home 145 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:40.600 new home building because you can't make enough off of it. 146 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:44.559 You can make if it's high end apartments where you're 147 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:47.399 getting high end rent or people pay top dollar for it, 148 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.399 or if it's something where the state of California is 149 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.600 going to subsidize you, then you can make some money. 150 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.519 Other than that, there's no way you can make money. 151 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:03.840 They continue continuing just with the theme of inflation. California 152 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.879 is a top ten oil producer among US states, but 153 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:10.639 has the nation's most expensive gasoline. And by the way, 154 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.080 this is a new recent story about the California Air 155 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:17.320 Resources Board, a state regulator. The Air Resources Board is 156 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:19.919 about to impose new climate change rules that will boost 157 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.799 the cost of gas another fifty cents a gallon. By 158 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.879 its own low estimate, this will cost consumers one hundred 159 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:31.399 and sixty billion dollars. A previous round of environmental rules 160 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.399 passed by the legislature led one of the state's few 161 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:37.240 oil refineries to announce it is shutting down. Perhaps that's 162 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:39.440 because it would cost the company a fortune to comply. 163 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.679 Less gas means higher prices. Two other refineries are considering 164 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:49.480 their options. It's unbelievable how expensive gas is going to 165 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:52.639 get going to get on top of how expensive it 166 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:57.000 already is between these new regulations that are going to 167 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:01.159 make gas fifty cents a gallon more expensive. Plus if 168 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:04.519 more of these oil refineries go away, as Chevron flat 169 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:10.200 out threatened that, like, if you keep passing these insane regulations, 170 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:13.440 we will not keep investing here. It costs US hundreds 171 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.000 of millions of dollars to invest keep our refineries here. 172 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.519 And again that's because California is a gas island. We 173 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:26.919 have our own specific blend of California compliant gasoline that's 174 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:30.720 different from gasoline you can sell in Arizona and Nevada 175 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:35.960 and Wyoming and Oklahoma and Texas and Michigan or wherever, 176 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:43.039 so gas companies have to set up a separate refinery system, 177 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:51.240 sort of sort of production chain just for California compliant 178 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:55.120 refined gas. That's why our gas is more expensive. It's 179 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:59.320 that in taxas. It's it's not a it's not some 180 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:04.720 secret why gas is more expensive here. Everyone understands why. 181 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:10.080 It's environmental regulation that creates this gas island that we 182 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:11.519 have in California. In spite of the fact that we 183 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.639 got tons of oil, we could produce gas like the idea, 184 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.679 it's this would be like if Saudi Arabia were charging people, 185 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:21.879 you know, eight dollars a gallon for gas or whatever. 186 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.039 Saudi Arabia doesn't do that. Gas is cheap in Saudi Arabia. 187 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:28.000 They pump they got it right there, pump it out, 188 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.519 refine it and there you go. But no, we would 189 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:37.080 rather import gas from Saudi Arabia to California than actually 190 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:41.279 produce it here ourselves, because we hate because we hate 191 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:50.320 ourselves and we think that we're helping the environment. There's 192 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:52.840 more stuff in here. You know, I'm gonna save the 193 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.720 rest of this piece, but again, this is fantastic piece. 194 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:57.080 You can read it int my Twitter account Twitter dot 195 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:00.720 com slash President Johnny uh California special session of the 196 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:04.080 Legislature to fight Trump is a gift to Republicans by 197 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:07.120 David Mastio's published in The President b this weekend. We're 198 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:09.120 going to keep going through it. That's next on the 199 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:14.159 John Girardi Show. A great column that the President will 200 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.960 be published a couple of days ago, great op ed 201 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:21.440 piece written by David Mastio's editorial writer for The Washington 202 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:25.120 Examiner and a number of other conservative outlets talking about 203 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:30.440 Gavin Newsom trying to set up California as Trump's chief 204 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.440 foil over the next four years. Newsom calls this special 205 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.679 session of the legislature. He's giving more money to Rob Bonto. 206 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.759 He's loading up again for California to be the legal 207 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:46.919 resistance movement to the federal government, to the Trump administration. Basically, 208 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:52.360 if Trump says black, Newsom will say white. If Trump 209 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.639 says up, Newsom will say down. They will use the 210 00:14:55.679 --> 00:15:00.960 Attorney General's office to fight every Trump regulatory posle, every 211 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.600 Trump law, whatever they can tooth and nail. And David 212 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.679 Masio is pointing out, what a gift to Republicans because 213 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:11.480 they'll get to see that all this opposition is coming 214 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.399 from this state. That is absolutely everything the country voted against. 215 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:26.399 So he went through inflation, housing costs, gas prices. Now 216 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:30.960 let's go to immigration. While the Biden Harris administration was 217 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:34.399 desperately trying to end a wave of millions of undocumented 218 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:39.480 undocumented immigrants at the southern border, California's legislature was adding 219 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:42.120 new incentives for them to come. Since it's so hard 220 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:45.399 for poor undocumented immigrants to buy houses at the inflated 221 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:47.480 prices of the Golden State, this year, the legislature made 222 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:51.480 them eligible for six figures worth of taxpayer finance downpayment 223 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:54.759 assistance that might never have to be paid back. A 224 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:57.480 new law allowed state universities to use public funds to 225 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:01.320 hire undocumented immigrants students for jobs at the schools, in 226 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:07.960 violation of federal law. Delightful crime. The state's crime problem 227 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:10.879 is so bad after passing laws that turned some felonies 228 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:15.799 into rarely prosecuted misdemeanors and opening the doors to state 229 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.320 prisons that Newsom had to call out the National Guard 230 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.799 to fight drug crime and assist with local prosecutions in 231 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:27.279 multiple cities in one of the nation's most liberal states. 232 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.120 An initiative to tough in laws back up specifically for 233 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.000 drug crimes and theft pass with over seventy percent of 234 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.519 the votes. So that was Prop thirty six. So again, 235 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.440 why does Newsom think that California is a great winning 236 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:50.159 representative of who should be fighting against Gavin Newsom? Maybe 237 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:53.879 let Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania lead this chart. 238 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.399 Oh no, we don't want to do that. We don't 239 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:58.879 want Josh Shapiro to run for president in twenty twenty eight. 240 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.440 We want Gavin Newsom to run for President's That's maybe 241 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.680 what's happening here at Newsom wants see, that's what's going 242 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:13.200 on here. Newsom is in such a bubble in California, 243 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:17.240 and I think this this is true. I think Harris 244 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.960 suffered from this bubble too. All Right, So how do 245 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:24.039 you get elected to state white office in California. The 246 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:26.079 way you get elected to state white office in California 247 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:30.880 is if you have money. You get the money from 248 00:17:31.319 --> 00:17:35.839 the big time San Francisco Democrat donors. They anoint you, 249 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:37.759 they decide they like you, sort of the Willie Brown 250 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:40.680 magic circle. They decide that you're their horse that they're 251 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.480 going to back. And with that money, you're able to 252 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:50.480 fund big time ad buys in the Los Angeles market. 253 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.160 That's how you win. That gets you the name recognition, 254 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:58.000 that gets you in front of the voters in the primary, 255 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.920 you beat out whatever other Democrat you hope that you 256 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.839 fight against a Republican in the general election, because then 257 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:08.960 it's going to be just a cake walk. And I 258 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:16.279 think as a result, statewide California politicians aren't very tough. 259 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:23.680 They don't get exposed, or their personal faults and weaknesses 260 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:29.880 and failures don't really get exposed. Gavin Newsom's only ever 261 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:35.559 had to run in San Francisco, ultra left wing place 262 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:38.759 where he had all the advantages of again Willie Brown 263 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:44.440 and friends money and backing. He ran for lieutenant governor again, 264 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:47.079 a statewide thing where he and that's the thing with 265 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:51.920 with governor's races or senator's races in California. You don't 266 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:55.079 win on the strength of a debate. All right, Adam 267 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:57.599 Schiff and Steve Garvey had a debate. They might as 268 00:18:57.599 --> 00:18:59.799 well have had it on the moon or something, for 269 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:03.519 all it was worth. Nobody cares what you know, No, 270 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:08.640 nobody really cares about the outcome of that debate. Steve 271 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:10.640 Garvey wasn't going to be in front of the voters. 272 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:12.799 I mean, Brian Dolly, God bless him. When he ran 273 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:19.359 against Gavin Newsom, nobody knew who the guy was. And 274 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:24.119 as a result, I think these California statewide politicians get 275 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:26.599 in this little bubble where no one challenges them. They 276 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.680 never have to actually fight for what they believe. They 277 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:32.319 never take a punch to the mouth. And then when 278 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:36.519 they get on a national stage where they have to 279 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.400 sort of reveal themselves a little bit, and their faults 280 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:43.319 and peccadillos could be shown to the world, everyone realizes 281 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:46.799 what a putts they are if they are in fact 282 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:50.920 the putts. We all saw it with Kamala Harris in 283 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:56.079 twenty nineteen when she was in the Democrat primary debates 284 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:03.440 and Rose Tulci Gabbard absolutely skewered her and roasted her, 285 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:10.480 and she look Harris was very well set up to 286 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:15.480 win that twenty twenty primary process for the Democrats. She 287 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.240 had all the money behind her, she had all this enthusiasm. 288 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:20.680 Everyone was like, oh, she's the next Obama. And she 289 00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:25.480 did so badly in the primary, so badly in the debates, 290 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.759 especially that her money dried up and everyone was like, nope, 291 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:32.359 she dropped out of the race before they even got 292 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:37.680 to twenty twenty. Then again, though she gets picked by 293 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:42.880 the donors because she's their favorite child, she was their 294 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.240 favorite black woman left after Biden sort of boxed himself 295 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:51.680 in with that stupid pledge, and then in the presidential race, 296 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.240 she continues to reveal herself to not be a very 297 00:20:55.279 --> 00:21:00.440 adroit politician. I think Gavin Newsom is similar. I think 298 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:05.160 Gavin Newso thinks he's this brilliant politician. I think Gavin 299 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:10.160 Newso thinks he's like really popular. I think Gavin Newsom 300 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:14.480 thinks that he's really well set up for running in 301 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.720 twenty twenty eight and getting this national wave of support 302 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.160 against JD Vance. Jady Vans, by the way, the only 303 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:26.000 one of the four people from the two tickets trump Vance, 304 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:28.400 Harris Walls, the only one of the four of them 305 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:32.599 who now has a above water favorability rating after the election. 306 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:37.039 By the way, I think Newso thinks he's like so beloved, 307 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:39.839 and what he doesn't realize is no, you're not well beloved. 308 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:43.119 You live in a media bubble in California where ninety 309 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:48.000 nine percent of California media doesn't ever criticize you. You're 310 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:50.920 in a state where politically you have no opposition. Really, 311 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:53.640 there's no one to argue with, there's no one to debate. 312 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:58.880 You knew some wishes he had a Republican fight against. 313 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:00.920 He had to fly all the way to Flipping Florida 314 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.880 to go debate Ronda Santis, to define Ronda Santis, to 315 00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:10.039 debate him. He's got nobody, He's had no actual reps, 316 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:14.759 if you will, getting ready for a national state. And 317 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:17.720 I think he thinks he's like hot, you know what. 318 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.000 And yet he just had seventy percent of the voters 319 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:32.480 demolish his favored positions when it came to criminal law enforcement, 320 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:38.759 seventy percent of the voters. Clearly the state is sort 321 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:43.680 of fed up with what he has wrought for the 322 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:48.480 last six years his own state. And by the I 323 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.039 think the Tim Walls experience shows you you probably shouldn't 324 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:56.440 nominate someone for president whose home state is pretty anemic 325 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:01.240 about him. It's not like Minnesotan's were like ready to 326 00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:04.599 crawl over broken glass to vote for their beloved governor 327 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:07.519 Tim Walls. Look, I know Ron de Santis didn't win, 328 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:13.400 but people in Florida love Ron de Santis just as 329 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:17.960 they love Donald Trump, they love Ron de Santis. I 330 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.640 don't think anybody in California feels that way about Gavin Newsom. 331 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:25.759 I don't think Democrats feel that way about him at all. 332 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:33.519 So I'm gonna be very curious to see I'm gonna 333 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.319 watch Gavin Newsom the next four years with great curiosity 334 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.440 because he's clearly lining things up to run. He's gonna 335 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.279 have all that Pelo c, Willie Brown, Kamala Harris money 336 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:51.799 coming to him. I'm really interested to see his balloon 337 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:55.400 get popped in the next couple of years when we return. 338 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:58.960 Now comes the difficult business of governing. Some ideas and 339 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:00.839 thoughts for the next Trump to next on the John 340 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:06.440 Girardi Show. Trump has won. Now comes the difficult business 341 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:12.720 of governing. It seems as though Trump is keeping a 342 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:18.599 tighter lid, a tighter control, with more sort of hymn 343 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:26.440 loyalists picking people for the next Trump administration. There's also 344 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:29.920 a lot of there's a lot of infighting right now 345 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:34.200 between the Trump camp and some of the old hardliners 346 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:38.799 for sort of traditional governance in the Senate about the 347 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:46.319 idea of recess appointments. So basically the problem one of 348 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:48.720 the problems that plague the Trump administration in twenty seventeen 349 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:51.920 was that it took years for the Senate to confirm 350 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:57.119 all of these appointees that Trump nominated for the federal government, 351 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:03.519 and basically Trump wasn't able to get his administration staffed 352 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:05.599 in a very timely way. There were people who waited 353 00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:08.880 around two years before they could actually get appointed to 354 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:12.920 their Trump jobs. And one of the things that Trump 355 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:18.640 people want to do is they want to have the 356 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:23.519 Senate be supportive of recess appointments, so the idea of 357 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:30.720 a recess appointment. Obama did this. Obama did this occasionally, 358 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:34.480 but basically, in the United States, a recess appointment is 359 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:37.480 an appointment. Reading it off Wikipedia for the simple description, 360 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:41.279 is an appointment by the president of a federal office 361 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:44.680 when the US Senate is in recess, so the president 362 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:50.319 is empowered to nominate. Usually, the President has to nominate 363 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:53.440 and the Senate has to give their advice and consent, basically, 364 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:58.119 vote for an appointee to some of the top people 365 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:02.319 at various executive agency Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, 366 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:05.799 and then several people lower on the totem poll to 367 00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:12.119 like the assistant secretary deputy secretary whatever. So a recess 368 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:15.319 appointment is an alternative method of appointing officials that allows 369 00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:18.799 the temporary filling of offices during periods when the Senate 370 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:26.000 is not in session. And there's already sort of a 371 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:28.759 fight between Trump and the Senators of like Trump saying, well, 372 00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:31.440 will the Senate support recess appointments to allow me to 373 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:34.400 get my people confirmed more quickly? I think it's kind 374 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:38.440 of silly. And there's some older like people who are 375 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.359 like trying to be protective of the Senate and think 376 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:44.039 that this is a constitutional problem, or like, no, the 377 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:46.880 Senate shouldn't recognize any recis appointment. They should be fighting 378 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:49.000 against this idea of resais appointment. Trump should just nominate 379 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:51.160 as people let the Senate confirm them. I think the 380 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:55.559 whole argument's kind of silly. Frankly, because the Senate has 381 00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:59.400 fifty three Republicans, Trump should be able to get his 382 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:02.319 people confirm much more quickly than in twenty seventeen and 383 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:05.200 twenty seventeen there were only fifty one Republicans in the Senate, 384 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:09.079 and two of them were Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. 385 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:17.799 So with fifty three senators and only really two of 386 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:21.559 them are you know, only really two of them are 387 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:25.599 pretty big libs, Murkowski and Collins. You should be able 388 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:30.319 to get people confirmed pretty easily. So I'm hopeful that 389 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:34.440 Trump camp can just get everyone confirmed. But that's a 390 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:38.839 really important thing. Trump should get his people in quickly. 391 00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:48.240 That needs to happen. There were also Now let's think 392 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.039 through other sorts of things that the Trump folks should do, 393 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:55.559 could do, should do. It's still going to be hard 394 00:27:55.599 --> 00:28:04.039 to pass kind of comprehensive immigration legislation. I wonder if Trump, 395 00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:09.680 given the mandate he has, and given that there are 396 00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:13.200 a lot of Democrat senators who you know, are looking 397 00:28:13.319 --> 00:28:18.079 towards their reelection someday. I'm thinking of, you know, Democrat 398 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.160 senators who are in Republican states states that Trump just won. 399 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.319 I'm thinking of the two senators from Georgia and a 400 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:30.440 number of others. Can Trump actually get some kind of 401 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:37.279