Speaker 1: And Hi, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's Thursday. Today's the ninth day of October, year of
Speaker 1: Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan.
Speaker 1: So man alive. We've got ourselves a peace agreement, not
Speaker 1: a cease fire, a peace agreement between Hamas and Israel,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot to talk about there. We've got
Speaker 1: some governor's races that we are getting close to election day.
Speaker 1: We're less than about three weeks away. The fire that
Speaker 1: the guy that they caught the arsonist in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Told you about that yesterday, but today there are some
Speaker 1: fire victims I want to share with you that are
Speaker 1: looking at it and going I'm glad they got the guy.
Speaker 1: But the city of la is still failing, the people
Speaker 1: that had their homes burned down, and we've got the
Speaker 1: government shut down. We're in day I don't know what,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. They're still stuck. They're no, they're not.
Speaker 1: There's no solution there of any kind. So let's start
Speaker 1: with the peace agreement because there is a timeline to this,
Speaker 1: and I do want to go through that with you,
Speaker 1: but it is today is the phase one deal. The
Speaker 1: Israeli Parliament, they met and agreed for the deal, and
Speaker 1: then the President hild a cabinet meeting and everybody, everybody's
Speaker 1: on on the page of saying let's go ahead with
Speaker 1: this deal. So they had a cease fire agreement that
Speaker 1: had to be signed. This is the ceasefirepart had to
Speaker 1: be signed at noon today in Israel, and it was
Speaker 1: expected to take effect immediately, but not exactly. There were
Speaker 1: still some explosions early this morning, and they must within
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. IDF Israeli Defense Forces must withdraw to
Speaker 1: a yellow line that has been drawn on a map
Speaker 1: that President Trump came up with and said, all right,
Speaker 1: that'll still give the Israeli Defense Forces control over fifty
Speaker 1: three percent of Gaza, and everybody's agreed to that. The
Speaker 1: withdrawal by the IDF must be done by tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: then the hostages are set to be released between Saturday
Speaker 1: and Monday, and it's looking I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: going to bed. I've heard Saturday, I've heard Sunday, but
Speaker 1: now it seems like Monday is the big day to
Speaker 1: have the hostages released. So Nick Robertson is in the
Speaker 1: Middle East and has been for quite some time kind
Speaker 1: of lays out the timeline of how all of this
Speaker 1: ceasefire and peace agreement is going to be implemented.
Speaker 2: Then the twenty four hour clock starts ticking. I think
Speaker 2: that's the correct interpretation there. IDF troops pulled back to
Speaker 2: that line. It's a line that President Trump recommended, suggested
Speaker 2: it was agreed that gives Israel effects in control of
Speaker 2: fifty three percent of the cars a strip. I think
Speaker 2: that's the going figure at the moment. And then when
Speaker 2: they when that twenty four hour period has expired, and
Speaker 2: the idea is pulled back to that point, then the
Speaker 2: seventy two hour clock begins, and it's within that seventy
Speaker 2: two hour clock that the hostages will be released. As
Speaker 2: a couple of other things so that we can expect
Speaker 2: to happen later today, as well as signing ceremony, and
Speaker 2: which appears to be what Hamas is saying is required
Speaker 2: for them to move forward and release the hostages, that
Speaker 2: there is a formal recognition that this is more than
Speaker 2: just a ceasefire, that this is an end to the war.
Speaker 2: That's what Hamas is talking about at the moment as well.
Speaker 2: So these sequence of events are in play and beginning
Speaker 2: right now with a pre meeting in Israel Prime Minister
Speaker 2: Netno with some of his security officials ahead of that
Speaker 2: main cabinet. That's Judah first security meeting due to begin
Speaker 2: right now. So everything is rolling out, no hitches, but
Speaker 2: a lot of unanswered questions.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of unanswered questions, but one of
Speaker 1: the like I said, the deal has been announced and
Speaker 1: the various government agencies have all blussed this thing. The
Speaker 1: President said he's planning to travel to Egypt for an
Speaker 1: official signing of the cease fire deal. This he said
Speaker 1: during the cabinet meeting earlier today at the White House.
Speaker 1: And then the hostages, according to White House, are expected
Speaker 1: to be released now. They're saying on Monday. Mike Pompeo
Speaker 1: was involved in this when he was Secretary of State.
Speaker 3: We should start with the pure joy on the faces
Speaker 3: of those families that are going to get their loved
Speaker 3: ones home. It's truly quite remarkable. I think it's important
Speaker 3: to note too, none of this happens without American leadership.
Speaker 3: President Trump has done a remarkable job of bringing a
Speaker 3: huge coalition of parties together to put pressure on these
Speaker 3: terrorists who killed hundreds of israelis now just two years
Speaker 3: in a day ago, so full credit for that and
Speaker 3: prayerful that this will unfold the way everybody is hoping
Speaker 3: and anticipating. But to your point, it's the phase one
Speaker 3: that implies that there's a phase two. There's much more
Speaker 3: to bring broad piece to the Middle East. There's risk
Speaker 3: that this could there's something could happen in the next
Speaker 3: seventy two hours. But it looks like both both sides
Speaker 3: are committed to this. But we've all covered this, We've
Speaker 3: I've been part of this. We've seen that things can intervene.
Speaker 3: I'm sure in Tehran they're plotting, they're planning, to think
Speaker 3: about how they might upset this transaction. Lots of things
Speaker 3: that could interfere. But it's also very clear that the Cutteries,
Speaker 3: the Turks, the Egyptians, mister Wickcoff, mister Cushner, all of
Speaker 3: them have come together deliver what looks like a fantastic
Speaker 3: outcome for Israel and for the families of these hostages.
Speaker 1: Of course, Mike Bompeo will give credit to President Trump,
Speaker 1: but he's not the only one. Even the Democrats, even
Speaker 1: the left side media are grudgingly saying this is because
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump actually giving him credit.
Speaker 4: We've heard it again and again from a number of
Speaker 4: people today, really giving credit to President Trump forgetting this
Speaker 4: deal over the finish line.
Speaker 5: This is an enormous moment for the world, but also
Speaker 5: for this administration, a big win for the president.
Speaker 6: Think that this was not doable when President Biden was
Speaker 6: in office.
Speaker 7: The biggest problem that the President Biden had is there
Speaker 7: was no pressure from Qatar, from Turkey, from Egypt.
Speaker 8: By saying that, it's sort of an acknowledgement Trump has changed,
Speaker 8: not dynamic.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're they're giving him credit, like I said, begrudgingly,
Speaker 1: and there wasn't any pressure by Turkey and Qatar and
Speaker 1: not well, why didn President Biden get them to support this?
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, I've said it a thousand times, and it
Speaker 1: goes to the still the war that's going in Ukraine
Speaker 1: and Russia, and Joe Biden never did anything but sit
Speaker 1: back and send hundreds of hundreds and hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of dollars for equipment that was old equipment or would
Speaker 1: not be the equipment that the Ukrainians were asking for.
Speaker 1: He did nothing. And as much as Donald Trump can
Speaker 1: drive you crazy, he drives me crazy, but he does.
Speaker 1: That bull in a China closet personality that he has
Speaker 1: is what led to this success. Now you will also
Speaker 1: hear these people are all saying they're holding their breath,
Speaker 1: worried that something might fall apart between now and Monday.
Speaker 3: Back to Mike Pumpale, these moments don't just happen. President
Speaker 3: Trump credited luck. There's always a little bit of luck
Speaker 3: and the good Lord. But this was hard work over years,
Speaker 3: and President Trump's personal efforts to bring all of these
Speaker 3: parties together, and then of course enormous pressure put on
Speaker 3: Hamas has Bela the Iranian regime by the Israelis in June,
Speaker 3: and then the President's bold decision to take the strike
Speaker 3: and go after the nuclear facilities and Iran. Each of
Speaker 3: those things built to a place where you could bring
Speaker 3: that coalition together. The question of why President Biden couldn't
Speaker 3: pull this off is really quite straightforward. He didn't have
Speaker 3: the capacity to understand the dynamic in the Middle East.
Speaker 3: He didn't have the willing to put his own administration
Speaker 3: in the effort to deliver that coalition.
Speaker 9: He wasn't prepared to.
Speaker 3: Do the hard work to allow the Israelis to go
Speaker 3: pound Hamas for weeks and weeks and weeks to deliver
Speaker 3: what is this ultimate outcome where this is a capitulation
Speaker 3: by Hamas. I hope they're serious about disarming. That remains
Speaker 3: to be seen their resistance. If you don't resist in
Speaker 3: your resistance, you go away. So lot to still unpack
Speaker 3: to see what this transaction ends up looking like in
Speaker 3: the weeks and months ahead. But you don't get to
Speaker 3: where we are today. You don't get to be on
Speaker 3: the precipice of having all of these hostages returned home.
Speaker 3: With all of the work that happened in the first
Speaker 3: administration to deliver the United Arab Emirates and other nations
Speaker 3: into the Abraham Accords, and then what happened this past
Speaker 3: summer to demonstrate to the world that President Trump was
Speaker 3: serious about bringing peace to the Middle East. That leads
Speaker 3: to this joyous moment.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is no surprise. John Futterman, the Senator Democrat
Speaker 1: senator from Pennsylvania, he's been driving the Democrats crazy because
Speaker 1: he doesn't always march lockstep with their leadership. And this
Speaker 1: is another example where he's been a big supporter of
Speaker 1: Israel through all of this. And this is his reaction
Speaker 1: to hearing the news.
Speaker 10: Well, I know I've taken a lot of criticism because
Speaker 10: I've been very committed to Israel from the door this.
Speaker 10: I don't really understand that. I think our party should
Speaker 10: have been firmly behind Israel through this, but I'm going
Speaker 10: to follow Israel through it. And President Trump has a
Speaker 10: very strong commitment to Israel, and that's why I celebrate
Speaker 10: and support most of the things that I've done, including
Speaker 10: the Iranian nuclear sites. I believe I might have been
Speaker 10: the only Democrat that supported them through it. So now
Speaker 10: today I think it's entirely appropriate to celebrate this. I
Speaker 10: thank God, this terrible work is going to end and
Speaker 10: these poor souls kept underground for over two years can
Speaker 10: come back home. So I think I don't understand why
Speaker 10: anyone's reaction would be other than that at I know,
Speaker 10: I mean, I think it's incredibly a comprehensive kind of
Speaker 10: a plan. And you also see now you have Hamas
Speaker 10: fully saying they're committed to this, and of course Israel
Speaker 10: is now too.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 10: What's also very important too, all of the Arab nations around,
Speaker 10: whether it's Egypt and Turkey and Qatar as well. I've
Speaker 10: really pushed Hamas, saying this is going to be the
Speaker 10: best deal you're ever going to get, and this awful
Speaker 10: war needs to end. So I'm actually optimistic that this
Speaker 10: we have a chance for enduring peace. Another part of
Speaker 10: it is what Israel has accomplished through this entire war.
Speaker 10: They have destroyed Hamas, they have destroyed Hesbu Lah, and
Speaker 10: also they stopped Iran for acquiring a nuclear weapon, and
Speaker 10: I fully supported that. Now Syria now is free. Now
Speaker 10: I think what's accomplished here, So that's why we could
Speaker 10: have true peace in the region. Now.
Speaker 1: There's another question that comes out of all of this,
Speaker 1: and that is the question about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 1: It just so happens the Nobel Committee has been dishing
Speaker 1: out their annual awards all this week and Friday tomorrow
Speaker 1: they are scheduled to award the Nobel Peace Prize. And
Speaker 1: so the question is will Donald Trump be the recipient.
Speaker 1: He's been pressing forward. He even set it out loud
Speaker 1: when he was at the UN a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens tomorrow. John Fetterman was asked
Speaker 1: about should he get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 10: Well, I mean if this sticks, I think the whole
Speaker 10: point of having a Nobel Piece prize is for ending
Speaker 10: wars and per rning peace. And now I'm going to
Speaker 10: make a direct appeal to the President. I hope he
Speaker 10: chooses to provide the Tomahawks to the Ukrainians too, and
Speaker 10: give them the tools that they need to push back
Speaker 10: against the Russia. And if he brings the Ukrainian war
Speaker 10: to its end, I'll be the Democrat leading the committee
Speaker 10: for his a Nobel Price piece for ending both these
Speaker 10: terrible wards.
Speaker 1: But did Israel pay a major price in their efforts
Speaker 1: to try to keep these enemies from attacking them? Harry
Speaker 1: Enton checked on the American attitude toward Israel and the
Speaker 1: Palestinian people.
Speaker 12: Here's Harry, this war caused a historic shift in public
Speaker 12: opinion on how Americans view the Middle East conflict. What
Speaker 12: are we talking about here? Who voter sympathized more with
Speaker 12: the Israelis or the Palestinians. Back in October of twenty
Speaker 12: twenty three, it was the Israelis by forty eight points.
Speaker 9: Look at this shift.
Speaker 12: Now we're talking about the Palestinians by a point. I
Speaker 12: looked back at every single poll that I could possibly
Speaker 12: find since this question was first asked in the nineteen
Speaker 12: hundred and eighties, this is the first time ever in
Speaker 12: which the Palestinians had any sort of lead on this
Speaker 12: particular question. It is very clear that this war caused
Speaker 12: a historic shift away from the Israeli position in the
Speaker 12: Middle East conflict and towards the Palestinians. When it comes
Speaker 12: to who Americans and voters sympathized with, this of course
Speaker 12: was led by Democrats, because what are we talking about.
Speaker 12: We went from Democrats favoring the Israelis by twenty six
Speaker 12: points to the Palestinians by forty six points. That is
Speaker 12: a shift quickmathem I had of over seventy percentage points.
Speaker 12: But overall, the first time ever in which more American
Speaker 12: sympathized with the Palestinians over the Israelis. Truly historic shifts. Yeah,
Speaker 12: it's not just Democrats though, in which we have seen
Speaker 12: a real shift of opinion. Even within the Republican ranks.
Speaker 12: This war has caused real division. What are we talking about? Well,
Speaker 12: we often talk about by age within the Democratic Party,
Speaker 12: but what about by age within the Republican ranks? Who
Speaker 12: Republicans sympathize with? You see a massive, huge age divide
Speaker 12: those fifteen over. What we see amongst Republicans is they
Speaker 12: sympathize more with the Israelis by sixty six points. But
Speaker 12: look at the voters under the age of fifty. They
Speaker 12: do sympathize with the Israelis, but just by twenty five points.
Speaker 12: We're talking about a forty point difference, with the youngest
Speaker 12: Republicans being far more sympathetic to the Palestinian position than
Speaker 12: older Republicans are. I think Americans are really going to
Speaker 12: like it. And why do I say that, Because just
Speaker 12: look at the polling of permanent Israeli Jimas ceasefire, that is,
Speaker 12: negotiating one highly important, that is extremely a very important
Speaker 12: fifty one percent of Americans. And then you see somewhat
Speaker 12: important thirty one percent. Over eighty percent of Americans said
Speaker 12: the idea of negotiating a ceasefire permanent one was at
Speaker 12: least somewhat important. So the bottom line is, I think
Speaker 12: a lot of Americans are really going to like this.
Speaker 7: See.
Speaker 1: So finally, let's check in with General Jack Keene from
Speaker 1: the military view of a ceasefire and a piece agreement.
Speaker 13: Well, we're in a better place than we've ever been
Speaker 13: here we're talking about finally the end of the war
Speaker 13: in Gaza. And listen, there's a lot of credit to
Speaker 13: be given here in all the countries involved in participating
Speaker 13: in this and the feeling that we had to get
Speaker 13: it done this time or this war was not going
Speaker 13: to end.
Speaker 1: But when it really.
Speaker 13: Comes down to it, Hamas had the change its mind
Speaker 13: and who got them to change his mind? And as
Speaker 13: one person that did that, and that's President Trump. And
Speaker 13: it's the strength of his leadership and the fact that
Speaker 13: he has huge credibility in terms of when he says something,
Speaker 13: he means it. What gave him that credibility. The attack
Speaker 13: on the huthis the attack on Iran, which was decisive.
Speaker 13: The fact that he's full out support for Israel but
Speaker 13: at the same time is wanting to criticize Israel when
Speaker 13: he thinks they're when he thinks they're wrong. And the
Speaker 13: fact that his words were loud and clear, end this war,
Speaker 13: released the hostages, or there will be hell to pay,
Speaker 13: and we will finish you.
Speaker 1: They looked at that.
Speaker 13: They knew he meant what he is saying, and that
Speaker 13: is why we're in this phase one hostage release with
Speaker 13: the potential end of the war more to do here,
Speaker 13: as you just pointed out very accurately in this outline,
Speaker 13: and there are things there that could go wrong, but
Speaker 13: in the back of the Hamas mind, they know what
Speaker 13: they're dealing with here, and President Trump means what he says,
Speaker 13: and hopefully these steps go through as predicted here and
Speaker 13: we truly get an end to the war. And if
Speaker 13: that happens, then the huge possibility of stability and peace
Speaker 13: in the region are very very real and something we
Speaker 13: haven't seen in forty plus years. With the Iranians influence
Speaker 13: in the region that is going to take a backseat
Speaker 13: as a result of all of this. The strategic opportunities
Speaker 13: here are huge.
Speaker 1: So there's no question that this is a huge story
Speaker 1: and we may actually be on the cusp of peace
Speaker 1: in the Middle East, but with the history of that
Speaker 1: part of the world and the fact that they continue
Speaker 1: to keep coming to agreements and then somebody breaks them
Speaker 1: and they're back to fighting each other again. So General Keane,
Speaker 1: do you think that this is going to last?
Speaker 13: No, I'm not convinced it's over, but the thank you
Speaker 13: for it is clearly there, and we're in a place
Speaker 13: we haven't been before. So yes, we're on a very
Speaker 13: very good path, and it really comes down to where
Speaker 13: is the mass's mindset on this. Do they truly want
Speaker 13: to survive or and voluntarily surrender in a sense is
Speaker 13: what's happening here? Or are they just going to fight
Speaker 13: it out to the end. It appears that they do
Speaker 13: want to survive and move to a different place than
Speaker 13: where they've been. If that's the case, then we're going
Speaker 13: to get a final deal. They have opportunities to change
Speaker 13: their mind and some of this could be a game
Speaker 13: that they're playing, and we've seen that in the past,
Speaker 13: but they know full well what has been said. If
Speaker 13: you were a nag on the deal and you're not
Speaker 13: going to disarm and you're not going to give up control,
Speaker 13: President Trump has told Prime Minister Yao, you have my
Speaker 13: full support to finish them once and for all. And
Speaker 13: I believe Hamas knows that is a fact, and that's
Speaker 13: a true statement.
Speaker 1: So we hope and pray that that peace does last.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's got to keep one eye on that
Speaker 1: part of the world. So how about some US politics.
Speaker 1: We've got a governor's race going in New Jersey and
Speaker 1: another one in Virginia, and there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: controversy in New Jersey. They had a big debate last
Speaker 1: night on local television, and at this point the Democrat
Speaker 1: is slightly ahead of the Republican, but it's New Jersey
Speaker 1: and New Jersey has primarily been a blue state. Here's
Speaker 1: Carl Rove on his observations about the race in Jersey.
Speaker 14: Well, I think it's likely to be closer. It was
Speaker 14: very close, as you recall four years ago, and New
Speaker 14: Jersey between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four was the
Speaker 14: second biggest shift to the Republicans of any state in
Speaker 14: the Union. Only New York had a bigger shift. And
Speaker 14: I think that's still going to be resident there because
Speaker 14: she's ahead, but it's going to be tighter than the
Speaker 14: head to head polemation may suggest because of the enthusiasm
Speaker 14: get game.
Speaker 1: Another big race is the one in Virginia, and that's
Speaker 1: where you've got the governor's race, and the Democrat is
Speaker 1: leading there as well. However, the big focus has been
Speaker 1: on the guy running for He's a Democrat running for
Speaker 1: attorney general. This is the guy who sent text messages
Speaker 1: and phone calls for quite some time. He has a
Speaker 1: history of threats and talking about how he would want
Speaker 1: to put he would want to shoot his opponent who
Speaker 1: was a Republican at the time, and when he was
Speaker 1: a delegate to the state Legislature, he wanted to shoot
Speaker 1: him in the head. And he also wanted to kill
Speaker 1: Republicans' children. I mean, this is pretty outrageous stuff. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't just some one off. He's done this apparently
Speaker 1: for some time. This guy has got a dark, dark mind.
Speaker 1: So will this have an impact on the race for
Speaker 1: the Attorney General in the state of Virginia.
Speaker 14: Honest and think about it. This is a member of
Speaker 14: the House of Delegates who told a Republican colleague that
Speaker 14: he put two bullets in the speaker the head, the
Speaker 14: speaker's head, and even if he was with you know,
Speaker 14: Adolf Hitler, and then when she gave him a chance
Speaker 14: to back down, he doubled down. No this look, I've
Speaker 14: started my politics in Virginia. There is something about the
Speaker 14: Commonwealth that this offends the decency and the standards that
Speaker 14: the Virginians expected their public officials. This may be the
Speaker 14: end of mister Jones' career. I would not be surprised
Speaker 14: to see him lose. And he's not pulling out, which
Speaker 14: is a mistake for the Democrats. The next couple of
Speaker 14: weeks are going to be about their inability to get
Speaker 14: this guy off of the tear. So let's go out
Speaker 14: to California where Katie Porter, who ran for US former
Speaker 14: congresswoman from Orange County, California. She wanted to run for
Speaker 14: the Senate and she lost big times. She didn't even
Speaker 14: come close. Now she's running to be the governor of
Speaker 14: the state of California. Yesterday I told you about the
Speaker 14: fact that she got into a tiff with a reporter
Speaker 14: who was interviewing her at the CBS station in Sacramento,
Speaker 14: and she basically, well, she was clearly indignant and arrogant
Speaker 14: about the fact that the reporter was asking follow up
Speaker 14: questions to her answers.
Speaker 1: That's what reporters do. But this woman, Katie Porter, has
Speaker 1: been so coddled by friendly media and this is CBS.
Speaker 1: So this made national news last night. Here's the CBS
Speaker 1: Evening News reporting about Katie Porter.
Speaker 15: Voters in California, the nation's most populous state, we'll elect
Speaker 15: a new governor next year after Governor Gavin Newsom's second
Speaker 15: term runs out.
Speaker 12: The Ray say is getting a lot of attention this
Speaker 12: week after a CBS News interview with the early front
Speaker 12: runner was posted online.
Speaker 15: Form a Democratic Congresswoman, Lady Porter nearly walked out when corresponded.
Speaker 15: Julie Watts asked about redistricting and what Porter would say
Speaker 15: to the forty percent of Californians who voted for President Trump.
Speaker 5: We've also asked the other candidates, do you think you
Speaker 5: need any of those forty percent of California voters to win?
Speaker 6: And you're saying no, you don't.
Speaker 16: No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every
Speaker 16: vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is
Speaker 16: that well.
Speaker 6: To those voters. Okay, so you I don't want.
Speaker 16: To keep doing this, I'm going to call it. Thank you.
Speaker 6: You're not going to do the interview with them?
Speaker 10: No, not like this.
Speaker 16: I'm not not with seven follow ups to every single
Speaker 16: question you ask.
Speaker 6: Every other candidate has a don't care.
Speaker 16: I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation,
Speaker 16: which you asked me about every issue on this list,
Speaker 16: and if every question you're going to make up a
Speaker 16: follow up question, then we're never going to get there.
Speaker 10: We're just going to.
Speaker 16: Circle around the other had to do this before ever.
Speaker 5: You've never had a conversation. Okay, but every other candidate
Speaker 5: has done this.
Speaker 16: What part of I'm me. I'm runing for governor because
Speaker 16: I'm a leader, so I am going to make.
Speaker 6: So you're not going to answer questions from reporters. Okay,
Speaker 6: why don't we go through.
Speaker 5: I will continue to ask follow up questions because that's
Speaker 5: my job as a journalist, but I will go through
Speaker 5: and ask these and if you don't want to answer,
Speaker 5: you don't want to answer.
Speaker 6: So nearly every legislative I.
Speaker 16: Don't want to have an unhappy experience with you, and
Speaker 16: I don't want this all on camera.
Speaker 5: Now, it's important to know that this viral moment is
Speaker 5: an excerpt from a much longer piece where viewers here
Speaker 5: from all twelve of the candidate's side by side, and
Speaker 5: some of them, including former state Controller Betty Yee, the
Speaker 5: other high profile woman, are calling for Porter to leave
Speaker 5: the race.
Speaker 1: So I said yesterday and I'll say it again, there's
Speaker 1: something about Katie Porter that's bothered me ever since she
Speaker 1: first came on the scene when she was elected as
Speaker 1: a congresswoman from southern California. And she just comes across
Speaker 1: as I'm better than you. Very arrogant, very condescending. And
Speaker 1: what she did in Congress was she would be in
Speaker 1: a hearing and she would ask whoever was testifying before
Speaker 1: the committee. She would get out a whiteboard, and she
Speaker 1: had a way of doing gotcha questions that the people
Speaker 1: would never have the answer, and then she would act
Speaker 1: all indignant about the fact that she's somewhat smarter than them.
Speaker 1: It's a very off putting personality that she has, and apparently,
Speaker 1: according to Carl Rove, people in Washington don't like working
Speaker 1: with her. Oh, it confirms what we know about her,
Speaker 1: which is she's a very unpleasant person. Remember she ran
Speaker 1: for Senate last time around in twenty twenty four in
Speaker 1: the Democrat You know, they have a jungle primary about there.
Speaker 1: Everybody runs.
Speaker 14: She spent thirty one million dollars and got fifteen percent
Speaker 14: of the vote, and Adam Shiff spent thirty five million
Speaker 14: dollars and got thirty one percent of the vote. It
Speaker 14: says something about it that she looks she's an unpleasant person.
Speaker 14: We've toned that from ed the day that she entered
Speaker 14: the US House Representatives. This merely affirms it. And she's
Speaker 14: going nowhere. In my opinion, is she was going I
Speaker 14: think nowhere before because people, the knowledgeable Democrats in California
Speaker 14: knew what a nasty person she is. Well, it may
Speaker 14: draw other Democrats into the race.
Speaker 1: It made a.
Speaker 14: Senator Padilla, made the senator. A new senator from the
Speaker 14: state may decide I want to go home to California
Speaker 14: and run the government. It may gate Rick Caruso, who
Speaker 14: nearly got elected mayor of Los Angeles in the last
Speaker 14: mayorial race, to think about running state wide. What this
Speaker 14: says is is, look, she is not going to be
Speaker 14: a player. She's going to have an insignificant role. She
Speaker 14: got one out of every six votes last time around
Speaker 14: in the primary. Nothing she has done in the intervening
Speaker 14: two years is going to raise that number, and as
Speaker 14: a result, other smart Democrats may say I'm getting in. Meanwhile,
Speaker 14: with all this fuss about her getting mad at the
Speaker 14: CBS reporter, another vehicio popped up.
Speaker 1: This is from a couple of years ago where she
Speaker 1: is doing an interview and she's in front of the
Speaker 1: camera from her office and apparently a staffer walked in
Speaker 1: the way. In the background, some staffer was doing something
Speaker 1: back there, and this is what Katie Porter did. We
Speaker 1: had to bleep out some of her explotives.
Speaker 8: You're out of my shot.
Speaker 6: That's actually incredible. Okay, you also were in my shot
Speaker 6: before that. Stay out of my shot.
Speaker 1: She was cursing out her staff because they were in
Speaker 1: her shot, but they were way of this one woman
Speaker 1: away in the back doing work. It looked perfectly fine,
Speaker 1: but she uh just swearing up one side and down
Speaker 1: the other, cussing this staffer out. I'm sure the staffer
Speaker 1: really loved working for her, even Whoopee Goldberg. It made
Speaker 1: the view whoopee Goldberg is mocking her.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm not giving away Matt shot. Shot given away, Matt.
Speaker 8: You know she just have in Menopausta. You know, listen,
Speaker 8: anything as possible. But she said in a statement that
Speaker 8: she's striving to do better quotes saying I have sought
Speaker 8: to be more.
Speaker 1: On a menopausal moment. Now, apparently she has a bad reputation,
Speaker 1: but people may vote for They don't care whether she's
Speaker 1: nasty or not. They just want somebody to run the
Speaker 1: state of California. Anyway. It's a fascinating side of this
Speaker 1: lady who thinks she's better than you. One of the
Speaker 1: candidates running against her is Chad Bianco. He's the sheriff
Speaker 1: of Riverside County and he's in the government's right behind
Speaker 1: her in the polling. Here's Chad Bianco.
Speaker 11: No, it's not you can't fake being a good person.
Speaker 11: You can't fake being a leader. She showed us exactly
Speaker 11: who she is. She's actually the epitome of the Democrat
Speaker 11: Party right now. And that the entitlement, that narcissism just
Speaker 11: keeps coming over and over and over. She thought that
Speaker 11: the media had to bow down to her, and the
Speaker 11: reality is she made a comment of being a leader.
Speaker 11: She's not a leader. A real leader will answer every
Speaker 11: question that you have gladly so.
Speaker 1: Chad Bianco also was part of the Southern California law
Speaker 1: enforcement that did the investigation to find the guy who
Speaker 1: set the fire that burned down all those people's homes
Speaker 1: in the Palisades. Yesterday, we had this clip from Bill Elise,
Speaker 1: who was the US Attorney for Southern California.
Speaker 4: Brittan Neck was the only person at the location of
Speaker 4: the origin of this fire. He called nine one one
Speaker 4: a few times to try to report the fire himself,
Speaker 4: and we could geolocate him to the exact location of
Speaker 4: the fire. No one else was there again.
Speaker 1: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianca was asked about the investigation
Speaker 1: into the fire.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's good. We've known about this for a long time.
Speaker 11: It takes a long time to build this case.
Speaker 6: So it was known.
Speaker 9: You've known about it for some time.
Speaker 11: What we've known that there was someone that started the fire.
Speaker 11: This investigation into figuring out who it was and tracking
Speaker 11: him down. It took a long time. Federal investigation, state investigations.
Speaker 11: It's a great cooperation between the agencies to make sure
Speaker 11: we bring this to justice. But yes, law enforcement, we
Speaker 11: knew that's what it was. We've been the media. Governor
Speaker 11: Newsom said that it was climate change. So this apparently
Speaker 11: this kid's nickname might be climate change.
Speaker 10: But we've known that this is what happens.
Speaker 11: Unfortunately in California, we have a fire season and it
Speaker 11: brings criminals like this out that start these fires to
Speaker 11: get attention.
Speaker 1: Leeve he's right. I believe Governor Newsom blamed the fire
Speaker 1: on climate change. Fire victims, people who lost their homes
Speaker 1: mentioned it yesterday. I can't imagine any worse tragedy because
Speaker 1: everything is just ash. Everything that you own all of
Speaker 1: your memorabilia, all of your family heirlooms, everything. So there's
Speaker 1: a couple that did live in Pacific Palisades. Their home
Speaker 1: was burned down, their children's school was burned down, and
Speaker 1: their business was burned down. They had a business in
Speaker 1: the Palisades area. They were interviewed this morning, and what
Speaker 1: comes from this interview listens Jamie and Michael Geller. What
Speaker 1: comes from this is they're devastated by the fire, and
Speaker 1: the arrest doesn't change their devastation one ounce. But what
Speaker 1: they're mad at is the failure of the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: City government.
Speaker 17: If I'm being honest, yesterday we started the news broke
Speaker 17: and I felt nothing other than more angry. If that's
Speaker 17: possible to know that whoever started they're trying to put
Speaker 17: whoever started the fire a week before as a person
Speaker 17: who started the Palisades fire. It just shows me that
Speaker 17: our government failed us even more that they couldn't put
Speaker 17: out a fire after a week, that they let this happen,
Speaker 17: that they knew the wind was coming, that they didn't
Speaker 17: fill the reservoirs, that they didn't have enough water, and
Speaker 17: it's something that was so preventable. If they had had
Speaker 17: fire engines sitting there waiting to put out a fire
Speaker 17: where it could possibly reignite, and Michael catching the man
Speaker 17: doesn't make me any better.
Speaker 1: What she's talking about is the fire actually was started
Speaker 1: by this guy on New Year's Day or New Year's
Speaker 1: e that night, and the fire department came and they
Speaker 1: put the fire out, and then they went about their business.
Speaker 1: They didn't check to see if it was smoldering. They
Speaker 1: never went back to look to find out. As apparently
Speaker 1: in the fire business it's not uncommon for there to
Speaker 1: be smoldering embers or smoldering plants that they did not see,
Speaker 1: cannot see. And with the heavy winds that came along
Speaker 1: long a week later, it took all of those smoldering
Speaker 1: fires plants and turned them into a raging bonfire that
Speaker 1: burned down the homes. That's why she's upset that the
Speaker 1: LA Fire Department did not do a basic fire prevention technique.
Speaker 9: It really just reiterates what we've been saying all along.
Speaker 9: I mean to try to deflect focus, I mean from
Speaker 9: the real the real jews of you know, the lack
Speaker 9: of resources that are city officials, you know, ultimately, let
Speaker 9: let happen. It's hard to swallow that of fire rekindled
Speaker 9: seven days later.
Speaker 6: It honestly feels like a bigger slap than the faith.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's like to think that this rekindled seven days
Speaker 9: later and they were not able to I mean, this
Speaker 9: went unchecked for seven days. Nobody went up there and
Speaker 9: checked and and and you know, maybe parked an engine
Speaker 9: there and waited to see what would happen after a
Speaker 9: few days. I mean, it's just it's it's it's kind
Speaker 9: of silly, to be honest.
Speaker 1: So the obvious question is how are they doing now
Speaker 1: nine months after the fire. Are they getting their house rebuilt,
Speaker 1: are they moving back in, what's their current status.
Speaker 17: Honestly, it's really hard because the first few months we
Speaker 17: were all on adrenaline and you're like, I got to
Speaker 17: find somewhere to live, I got to get my kids
Speaker 17: in school because our school is also burned. And I
Speaker 17: think now that adrenaline has worn off and the reality
Speaker 17: of it has really hit that this is not a
Speaker 17: one year process. This is not going to be a
Speaker 17: two year process. This is going to be a five
Speaker 17: to seven year process. So it's been really difficult to
Speaker 17: feel uncomfortable in my own skin. I don't know about you,
Speaker 17: but like uncomfortable in our own skin, working where we
Speaker 17: don't want to work, living where we don't want to live,
Speaker 17: going to schools we didn't intend for, nothing that we
Speaker 17: planned for. It's like the rugs whipped out from under you.
Speaker 17: And now that pain is really starting for me. And
Speaker 17: I still cry every day. Nine months and four days later,
Speaker 17: I still cry every day, whether it's for a minute
Speaker 17: or all day. But that's my experience.
Speaker 9: It's yeah, it's a lot. It's it's it's getting into
Speaker 9: a new routine. It's getting our children into a new routine.
Speaker 9: It's it's starting over. It's trying to find some normalcy,
Speaker 9: trying to cut through all the red taped even you know,
Speaker 9: nine months later, we still haven't actually officially begun construction.
Speaker 9: We're close, we're getting very close, but it's been a
Speaker 9: lot of you know, red tape with with with you know,
Speaker 9: the building departments and the coastal commissions and the entities
Speaker 9: that we're supposed to be on our side to help us,
Speaker 9: you know, expedite this process. It's been nothing. There's been
Speaker 9: nothing like that, and nothing's been nothing's been expedited. It's
Speaker 9: it's still a lot of stuff to go through to
Speaker 9: even get to be able to begin to rebuild our
Speaker 9: homes and and and get back to you.
Speaker 17: Know, and fight the insurance company every day.
Speaker 9: Even though we're insurance for nine months. It's been a
Speaker 9: full job to get into insurance.
Speaker 1: Sadly, it doesn't surprise me these people are having to
Speaker 1: deal with all kinds of red tape, all kinds of agencies,
Speaker 1: all kinds of government people. And they promised that they
Speaker 1: would cut through the red tape, and here they are
Speaker 1: nine months later, and they still haven't begun the rebuilding
Speaker 1: of their home. And the insurance companies. We all pay
Speaker 1: an armor a leg to our insurance companies to protect us.
Speaker 1: And you heard them. They're still fighting the insurance companies.
Speaker 1: I wish them, I wish them and all the other
Speaker 1: people that were victims of that fire all the best.
Speaker 1: So with that, let's check out what happened on Wall
Speaker 1: Street today. The Dow Jones industrials. The market was down.
Speaker 1: The Dow was down even more, down two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three. The Dow at forty six three point fifty eight,
Speaker 1: SMP down eighteen, NASDAK down eighteen. Gold was down seventy
Speaker 1: nine dollars to thirty nine ninety one, and oil down
Speaker 1: a dollar. There's just a glut of oil in the
Speaker 1: world markets right now, down a dollar to sixty one
Speaker 1: dollars for one barrel of oil.
Speaker 2: Thank you for.
Speaker 1: Coming by today. We'll be back again tomorrow, hope see