WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.759 Javier Besarah has announced that he is running for governor 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:07.360 of California, and this show is going to talk about 3 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.640 it all right. I want to in detail talk about 4 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:13.199 it because I think it means a lot of things 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.800 from a lot of different angles. And in announcing that 6 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:21.839 he was running for governor, but Sarah gave maybe one 7 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:24.320 of the more remarkable interview answers I've ever heard a 8 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:30.359 politician give, just an absolute master class in bsing. So 9 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:32.280 we're going to get to all of it. So let's 10 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:40.920 start with this hobby. Aerbasara is running for governor. I 11 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.719 have been joking with friends for the last month about 12 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.679 the possibility of Kamala Harris running for governor, and you know, 13 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:56.079 obviously not a fan, I've talked at length about how 14 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:01.799 I think she's the worst. She's terrible. She would probably 15 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.239 just completely dominate if she decided to run for governor 16 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:09.640 of California, because just on name recognition alone, I think 17 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:16.560 she would easily win. And I had to take all 18 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:19.560 of it back about her being the worst when Bessarah 19 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.519 jumped in, because Bessarah might have been my least favorite 20 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:31.560 person in the entire Biden administration, including Harris. Javier Bessara 21 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:43.319 is the worst. He is an aggressively pro abortion partisan hack. 22 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:52.599 He let's remember his what legacy does Besara have? So okay, 23 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.159 Besarah was a member of the House. He then becomes 24 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:59.560 the Attorney General of California, and as Attorney General of California, 25 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:07.200 he was basically the chief litigator against Donald Trump in 26 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.360 the first Trump administration. He filed lawsuit after lossit after 27 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:12.719 lawsuit in his role as Attorney General of California, lassit 28 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:16.400 after lawson after lawsuit against President Trump. He was like 29 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:20.439 one of the leading lights of the hashtag resistance, the 30 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:24.759 legal resistance against President Trump. And he was richly rewarded 31 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.280 for his efforts by being nominated in twenty twenty one 32 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.280 to serve as the Secretary for the Department of Health 33 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.919 and Human Services. And by the way, let's recall what 34 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:43.319 a crown jewel being the HHS secretary is. Just as 35 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:49.639 far as dollars managed. The Secretary of HHS is managing 36 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:54.879 a budget that's bigger than pretty much any other cabinet secretary. 37 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.000 Like it's over a trillion dollars we're talking about, especially 38 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:02.039 with Medicare and Medicaid. That's what the Secretary of HHS 39 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:06.560 is overseeing. It's a humongous role. He's one of the 40 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:11.439 most It's one of the most prominent roles within any 41 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:17.599 presidential administration. You know what would be the biggest cabinet positions. 42 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:25.479 Probably it's Secretary of State, Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, 43 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:28.039 and Health and Human Services. I mean, it's probably it's 44 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:33.240 probably the single most important I guess other than the 45 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:38.879 Attorney General, which has some it's mostly domestic, but probably 46 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:45.280 the single most important cabinet posts dealing with domestic issues 47 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:53.199 is AHHS. So bisserah is richly rewarded for his resistance, 48 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.919 and when he was nominated for HHS and got confirmed 49 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:02.879 in twenty twenty one, Republicans were understandably kind of bewildered. 50 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:07.800 I mean, he seems like the kind of person who 51 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.400 would have, you know, fit in well with the Biden 52 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.719 administration as a Biden administration appointee. But AHHS, the guy 53 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:23.079 has no background with healthcare whatsoever. Are we why make 54 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.240 him in charge of HHS. He seems to have had 55 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:32.000 no sort of interaction with intersection with expertise in the 56 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:36.720 healthcare industry at all. And the only answer that could 57 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.839 come back was that jab or Basera was just a 58 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.600 total abortion radical, even though I would say abortion is 59 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.800 not healthcare at all. Maybe if you want to argue 60 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:54.240 it's healthcare adjacent. I guess Visarah was an aggressive proponent 61 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.319 of legal abortion, and that was like the only thing 62 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.600 the Biden administration could sort of point to as sort 63 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:04.199 of sort of relevant hhustice experience. And but Sarah carried 64 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:08.639 over his aggressive left wing attitudes into HHS. I think 65 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:13.519 it was during his testimony, during his confirmation hearings, he 66 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:15.600 said that he could not think of a single legal 67 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.680 restriction of abortion that he on abortion that he would support. 68 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:26.160 I don't know, the third trimester, no, not one. And 69 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.920 as Secretary of HHS, he carried over his pro abortion positions. 70 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:31.160 I mean, one of the things he tried to do 71 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:34.319 was after Rove Wade was overturned, the Biden administration tried 72 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:38.480 to interpret m TALA, which is a federal law, the 73 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:45.920 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. M TALA is basically, 74 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.680 it's this law that was originally passed in nineteen eighty six, 75 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:53.600 and it governs emergency rooms and hospitals that for hospitals 76 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:57.879 that receive Medicare patients. So it's certain kinds of standards 77 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:01.560 for emergency rooms. This novel and interpretation of MTALA that 78 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.759 had never before been seen or done or attempted to 79 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.279 say that every emergency room in America has to offer 80 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:13.279 abortion services, a totally novel interpretation that would violate the 81 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.879 state laws of a number of states that had outlawed abortion. 82 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:24.680 President Trump has dropped that interpretation of MTALA immediately upon 83 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:35.639 assuming office. So I despise Javier Bessara, but I want 84 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:39.920 you guys to listen to this remarkable interview. If you 85 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.759 want to watch it yourself after this, you finished listening 86 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:44.800 to this show, go to my Twitter account Twitter dot 87 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:47.639 com slash Fresno Johnny at Fresno Johnny, I've retweeted it. 88 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.519 This was an interview that the Sarah sat down for 89 00:06:52.680 --> 00:07:00.639 with the Fox broadcast news television station in law Los Angeles, 90 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:08.879 Fox eleven I think it's KTTV, and with their anchor 91 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:18.319 Lex Michaelson, and he asks Bessarah this question about, well, 92 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.199 you know, Democrats have run things for a while, what 93 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.319 would you do different? I want you guys to listen 94 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:29.959 to this answer. It's really remarkable. Here here's Alex Michaelson 95 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.560 starting off with question, and Besarah starts trying to answer. 96 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.519 Too expensive to live in California for a lot of people, right, 97 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.879 that housing affordability, it is all the rest of that. 98 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.439 But whose fault is that? Because Democrats have had a 99 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:48.439 super majority in Sacramento for decades now run every statewide office, 100 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.000 isn't that the Democrats fault? 101 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.879 Well, it's a growing issue we've had. Remember we've had 102 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:54.600 Republican governors as well. At home. 103 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:57.879 Yeah, Arnold Towrzenegger was elected in two thousand and six. 104 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:05.360 I gary you, so we're starting off great. Alex Michaelson says, Hey, 105 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:08.040 whose fault is it that we have high costs of living? 106 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:13.720 Housing costs? Democrats have controlled everything, And but Sarah says, oh, 107 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:17.839 well we've had Republican governors. Yeah, but not for fifteen years. 108 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:25.399 You're gonna blame Arnold Schwarzenegger. What's next? You're gonna drag 109 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:26.720 up George Duke masion. 110 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:32.799 We continue to you homes in California two thousand and six. 111 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:34.320 We're too expensive back then. 112 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:35.960 You know, but it's gone up a lot in the 113 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:37.000 last twenty years. 114 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.399 We have not tackled it the way we should. And 115 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.840 I think principally, the reason we have this issue in 116 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:45.320 California on prices is because we haven't built enough, and 117 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.440 that means it's a type market. Everyone still wants to 118 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:49.799 come to California. People may be levy, but there are 119 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:51.440 a whole bunch of people who would love to be 120 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:52.799 at a live in California. 121 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:57.559 But from a policy Okay, so here's we haven't built enough. 122 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:05.960 He refuses to say that it's the Democrat's fault. We 123 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.679 haven't tackled the issue. Well, who is the we here? 124 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.759 First he disclaims it by trying to somehow drag up 125 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:19.360 Republican governors. He cannot, and again he has to drag 126 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:22.480 out the corpses of you know, Arnold Schwarzenegger and I 127 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:25.679 don't know Pete Will, I don't know unnamed Republican governors, 128 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.039 again refusing to acknowledge the last fifteen years we've had 129 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:34.200 a Democrat governor and Democrat supermajorities in the legislature. So 130 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:37.279 whose fault is it? We need to build more? Ah, 131 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:39.639 what a novel solution that everyone's been saying for the 132 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:44.639 last fifteen years and no one has actually done. We continue, let's. 133 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:49.159 See perspective, what specific change are you proposing that would 134 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.440 be different than the status quo right now, that would 135 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.559 make a difference and make prices less in California. 136 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.559 Yeah, I can tell you that status quo business as 137 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:02.960 usual is not on California California voter's mind as the 138 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:05.480 thing to do. And so I think all of us 139 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:06.960 are going to be talking change. But here's what I 140 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:09.639 would do. I would take the experience I had having 141 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:12.039 to lead this country at the Department of Health and 142 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.639 Human Services out of a pandemic, a once in a 143 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.840 lifetime pandemic, having to negotiate for the first time in 144 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:22.120 our history the lower prices for prescription drugs of some 145 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:22.519 of them. 146 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.840 Do you notice that we're not even close to approaching 147 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:31.000 an answer to that question? He says, all that no 148 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.039 one wants the status quo. I would take my experience 149 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.240 that I had, as Ah says, negotiating drug prices during 150 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.519 the pandemic a once in a lifetime event. And if 151 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:45.679 you're wondering, okay, well is he going to get around 152 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.000 to an answer here, Well, keep waiting. 153 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.039 The most expensive drugs that our seniors on Medicare program 154 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:55.240 have to use, I would say, you need to bring 155 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.039 the problem right to the table with the best experts there. 156 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:01.440 You scrub it and then what whatever is left, whatever's 157 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.240 clean and survives. That's what you do. And we've not 158 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:07.879 been willing to do that because of all the politics, 159 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:09.200 all the old. 160 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.240 Oh my gosh, all right, so much to work with here. Okay, 161 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:17.480 Remember he was asked about what is a specific policy 162 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:22.000 proposal that you Javier Basera, You Javier Baserro, who is 163 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.200 running for governor of California, doing this interview on a 164 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:27.519 big TV station in Los Angeles. Right after he announces, 165 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.720 Javier Basera, what specific policy would you enact to reduce 166 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.320 cost of living in particularly for home prices. His answer, 167 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:40.279 after all the bs and throat clearing about how wonderful 168 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.360 he was during a once in a lifetime pandemic and 169 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:46.159 helping out our seniors with lower cost of drugs from medicare, 170 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:53.480 blah blah blah, usual politician, Yes, he finally says he 171 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:57.559 would get a bunch of experts together, bring all the 172 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:02.519 ideas to the table and scrub it out. He keeps 173 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:07.080 using that verb scrub it out until we find what's left. 174 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:14.960 Let's think about what that means. What he means, I 175 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.919 think what he's saying is I don't actually have an idea. 176 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:26.360 My idea is to gather experts together, get their ideas, 177 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:33.080 and distill them down. So why the hell would we 178 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.240 vote for you? Why don't we vote for some of 179 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.960 these experts. They're the guys with ideas. Why are we 180 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:49.120 voting for you? And here he is a big time 181 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:53.519 interview on a big television news broadcast in Los Angeles. 182 00:12:54.960 --> 00:13:00.120 What specific he's acknowledging nobody wants the status quo and 183 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.200 his idea is gather all the experts together and listen 184 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:08.120 to them, as if Democrats haven't been doing that for 185 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:14.639 a while. And this is a thing with jab Or 186 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:18.759 Bessera that I think I'm starting to learn here what 187 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.039 was his approach to COVID. His approach was that of 188 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:29.200 the Biden administration, which was effectively, trust the experts. We 189 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:37.559 do what the public health so called experts tell us. 190 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:44.480 We should do. Whatever the sort of credential middle management 191 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:49.720 professional managerial class tells us to do, That's what we do. 192 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.799 As if that hasn't been a major part of California 193 00:13:55.799 --> 00:14:05.440 governance over the last fifteen years. The expert opinions of academia, government, 194 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:13.080 et cetera. Saying that your plan for reducing affordability is 195 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:15.720 just to gather all the experts together and scrub out 196 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.120 their ideas until you come up with the best solution. 197 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:23.639 That's no proposal at all. You're hiding the foot. You 198 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.440 either actually do have ideas of what you're going to 199 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:29.639 do and you're just afraid to say them, or you 200 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.919 don't even have an idea, in which case, why on 201 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.240 earth would we vote for you for governor? And either 202 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.279 this is Javi orb Sarah, we're talking about Javierbserra, former 203 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:44.000 Attorney General of California, the secretary of HHS. This guy 204 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:51.320 is extremely plugged in with national and California Democrat politics, 205 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:56.000 within the legal community, within academia. Like it's not like 206 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.639 he can't get those experts now, it's not like he 207 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.120 couldn't have gotten those experts at any time over the 208 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:08.919 last two months. And it's not like he's a total dummy. 209 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.600 I mean, he's an attorney, he's been in public policy, 210 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.080 he's been a member of the House, he's been involved 211 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:18.679 and concerned with California politics. He was Attorney General of California. 212 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.120 In theory, nobody should understand California public policy issues or 213 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:25.000 few people should understand California public policy issues better than 214 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:28.720 he does. You mean to tell me he couldn't have 215 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:33.720 gathered those experts together to scrub their ideas out on 216 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.360 his own and then, like you know, come to the table, 217 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.960 maybe do all that scrubbing that allegedly he's gonna do 218 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:47.600 before he sits down for this interview. When we return, 219 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:53.039 we will see Javier Abisserra yet again not answer anything 220 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:56.720 that he would do as governor of California. That is 221 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:02.600 next on the John Girardi Show. Javier Bessera, former Attorney 222 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.519 General of California than the former Secretary of Health and 223 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.399 Human Services under Barack Obama, announced that he is running 224 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:12.519 for governor of California. The only person in America who 225 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:16.879 might be worse than Kamala Harris. And he had this 226 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:23.360 remarkable interview with Fox eleven in Los Angeles and with 227 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:29.080 their news anchor Elex Michaelson. It's remarkable in interview in 228 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:33.279 which Michaelson gives him opportunity after opportunity to say, what 229 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:39.480 specific policies would you propose or push for that are 230 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:45.279 different from what the Democrat status quo in Sacramento has 231 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.840 advanced over the last fifteen years, Democrats have had total 232 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:55.320 control over everything. They've had total control over the governor's man, 233 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:58.320 the governor's does the governor have a mansion in California, 234 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:01.559 I don't know. Over the governor's office, over the State Assembly, 235 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:04.240 over the State Senate, over the courts, over the whole 236 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:08.720 executive branch apparatus, all the appointed boards, everything. Democrats have 237 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.960 had complete control for fifteen years. And housing affordability is terrible. 238 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.000 And we're still dealing with these same problems that Jerry 239 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.119 Brown and Gavin Newsom said they would deal with when 240 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.960 they started running for governor. So what are you going 241 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:28.640 to do differently? And Bessarah just won't say what he's 242 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:33.160 going to do. Let's listen again to this exchange between 243 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:37.799 Michaelson and Bessarah Born. 244 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:42.319 But from a policy perspective, what specific change are you 245 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.559 proposing that would be different than the status quo right 246 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.440 now that would make a difference and make prices less 247 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:49.240 in California. 248 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:53.240 Yeah, I can tell you that status quo business as 249 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:57.599 usual is not on California California voter's mind as the 250 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.359 thing to do. And so I think all almost going 251 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:02.039 to be talking change. But here's what I would do. 252 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:06.680 All of us are going to be talking change, but 253 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:10.519 here's what I would do. Do you really no content 254 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:13.880 was transmitted at the start of that question. That was 255 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.039 a throat clearing hamahmahama. Let me think of something to say. Here, 256 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:17.880 he goes, I. 257 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:20.160 Would take the experience I had having to lead this 258 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.720 country at the Department of Health and Human Services. 259 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:24.839 All right, this is where he starts preaching about how 260 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:28.200 wonderful he was at HHS and helping out seniors, negotiating 261 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:32.640 price for Medicare drugs, all the normal politician bull crap 262 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:36.400 where they try, you know, just appealing to senior citizen 263 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:39.359 voters because they're the best, most reliable voters anyway. 264 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:43.359 The lower prices for prescription drugs of oh my god, 265 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:47.160 expensive drugs that are seniors on that, I would say, 266 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:50.000 you need to bring the problem right to the table 267 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:53.200 with the best experts. There, you scrub it and then 268 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:56.799 whatever is left, whatever's clean and survives. That's what you do. 269 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.240 And we've not been willing to do that because of 270 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.279 all the politics, all the old ways of doing things. 271 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.880 All right, let's listen to that. Let's think about that answer. 272 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:10.880 So we talked about that in the last segment. His 273 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:14.680 proposal is to gather all the experts, bring all the 274 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.839 ideas for how to Apparently this is for lowering costs 275 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:23.400 of housing to the table. Scrub it his words, not mine, 276 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:28.880 Scrub it and see what's left over, which, as I 277 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.240 said in the last segment, why are we voting for you? Then, 278 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:35.640 if you haven't already done that, you, Javier Bacerra, who 279 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.880 have ready access to any experts you want. Okay, you 280 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:41.759 were the secretary of HHS, you were a former attorney general. 281 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:48.119 You have plenty of friends in academia, in the legal realm, 282 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.799 in public policy. Likely you can get those expert opinions 283 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:54.920 anytime you want. You could have gotten those expert opinions, 284 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.400 surveyed them, scrub them out and then actually, you know, 285 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:00.359 had a policy proposal before you announce you you were 286 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:04.319 running for governor, before you sat down for this interview, Like, 287 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:06.920 why should we vote for you if you know, I 288 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:09.039 don't want to vote for a governor who I don't 289 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:11.400 know and he doesn't even know apparently what he's going 290 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.559 to do. He's just gonna wait until he hears from 291 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:20.839 the experts. Secondly, he says during that answer. We haven't 292 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:26.559 been willing to do that, i e. Gather together experts, 293 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.039 get all their ideas on the table, and scrub it 294 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:32.640 out to see what the best ideas are because of 295 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:44.759 all the politics, he says, what politics. Democrats control every 296 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:51.400 statewide office, from governor to insurance commissioner, governor, lieutenant governor, 297 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:58.279 Secretary of State, Attorney general, insurance commissioner, what is a treasurer. 298 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:08.519 They own the courts, They own all of the executive 299 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:12.279 appointee boards like the California Air Resources Board, the California 300 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:17.200 Coastal Commission, everything. And they don't just have a super 301 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:20.279 majority in the state legislature. You need a two thirds 302 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:22.519 majority in the state legislature to do certain things like 303 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:28.319 qualify a constitutional amendment for the ballot or increased taxes. 304 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:30.720 You need a two thirds majority in the state legislature 305 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:32.880 to do that. Democrats don't just have a super majority. 306 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:36.519 They have a super duper majority. They have a three 307 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:41.680 quarters majority in the Assembly and in the Senate, sixty 308 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:44.519 of eighty votes in the Assembly, thirty of forty votes 309 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:52.759 in the Senate. Because of all the politics. What politics 310 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.759 are you talking about? There are no politics in California. 311 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:01.000 On a certain level. Nobody disagree agrees with each other. 312 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:07.759 Who is in charge. It's one party rule. Also, you 313 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:10.680 haven't had the willingness to gather all the experts. What 314 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:16.880 do you mean? That's what the Democrat Party does. They 315 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:25.680 completely own academia. You really think that the Democrats in 316 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:30.720 Sacramento would have been unwilling to gather together or haven't. 317 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.240 I'm sure they have at some point over the last 318 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:36.400 fifteen years. Gather together some kind of blue ribbon commission 319 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:43.559 of professors from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford, cal Stanford, UCLA, 320 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:47.519 USC Gather a bunch of liberal professors together who know 321 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:50.559 a thing or two about housing and economics and housing 322 00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:55.799 affordability and whatever. Gather them all together in a room 323 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:58.000 and get policy proposals. You think no one's been willing 324 00:22:58.039 --> 00:23:03.359 to do that. Everyone's been willing to do that. He 325 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.160 is so full of it. His isyes are turning brown. 326 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:13.319 When we return, Javier Basera is the cardboard box with 327 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:16.759 the letter D on it. Next on the John Girardi Show, 328 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:21.480 Javier Basera announced he's running for governor. He does his 329 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.559 first interview and he refuses to say a single thing 330 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:29.119 he would do differently from other Democrats who have gone 331 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:31.599 before him on the issue of housing affordability. Even though 332 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:33.400 I was saying, oh, no, one wants a status quo. 333 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:39.400 His grand idea is to gather together experts and basically 334 00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:43.359 see what they have to say. Here is again his 335 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:47.759 interview with Lex Michaelson from Fox eleven in Los Angeles. 336 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.720 Here he is again offered an opportunity to say what 337 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:55.079 he would do differently from the last fifteen years of 338 00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:58.839 Democrat governors and not answering there. 339 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:02.279 A specific policy change that you would propose to make 340 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:04.680 a difference on some of these affordability issues. 341 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:09.559 I think so housing, I think so, Oh good. I'm 342 00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:13.519 glad you think so. Maybe you could know, so let's keep. 343 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:17.319 Going a development. I think everyone agrees we don't build enough. 344 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:19.480 It's not enough to say, okay, we all agree we 345 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:21.440 don't build enough, and they're not do anything about it. Okay. 346 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.920 If we all agree, then everyone from all sides of 347 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.039 this sit down scrub. 348 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:28.400 It from all sides of this. What do you mean 349 00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:31.400 from all sides of it? Democrats have three quarters of 350 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:33.720 the votes in the state legislature. They can do whatever 351 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:37.839 they want. Republicans have nothing. They can say, Republicans have 352 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.039 been saying ideas different from the status quo, and you've 353 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:48.599 ignored them for fifteen years. He continues, by the way, 354 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:52.519 with this metaphor of getting expert ideas together and scrubbing 355 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:53.359 them out here he is. 356 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:56.160 Sit down, scrub it because this is what I had 357 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:57.880 to do with COVID. This is what I had to 358 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:00.599 do when we're trying to get rid of monkey pocks, MPOs. 359 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:02.000 This is what I had to do when we were 360 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:05.359 figuring out what prices to negotiate on the drugs. You 361 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:07.599 figure out where we could go, and then you go 362 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:11.000 and you just say, damn the torpedoes, we gotta go. 363 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:20.599 Again. His question was is there a specific policy proposal 364 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:26.359 you would enact, and his answer again was no. His 365 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:36.480 answer was gathered together expert opinions and pursue them. Now, 366 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.880 this leads me to my thesis of Javier Besera the 367 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:47.279 cardboard box with the letter D written on it. I'll 368 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:51.200 admit I had texted friends when I first before I 369 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:53.559 saw this interview, and it was really the first time 370 00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:59.039 I'd really sat down and watched Javier Bessera like talk 371 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:04.000 at length, do a long form, do an interview. I'll 372 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:08.440 admit that I had texted some friends after be Sarah 373 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:12.519 announced that he was running. Besarah might actually be worse 374 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:15.039 than Kamala Harris. I think he might actually be smarter 375 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:19.839 than she is, or maybe more effective than she is. Well, 376 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:25.920 after seeing this interview, I'm not sure that even that's true. 377 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:30.119 This interview might have been worse than as as bad 378 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:36.960 as the worst Kamala Harris interview. He will not say 379 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:41.079 something he will do about policy. All he can do 380 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.559 is talk about gathering together expert opinions. That's what he 381 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:49.640 repeatedly says. He would gather together expert opinions, scrub them 382 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:51.400 out to find the best opinions, and then go with that, 383 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:54.920 which again would raise the question of one, why are 384 00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:56.440 you running for governor? Why don't we get some of 385 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.240 these experts to run for governor? Two you mean you 386 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:04.640 can't do that now before you run for governor, Like, 387 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:07.720 maybe we would rather vote for someone who we know 388 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:09.279 what they're going to do. It's not like you are 389 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:14.519 incapable of gathering together expert opinion, surveying expert opinion yourself, 390 00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:21.519 and coming forward with your own ideas. And it leads 391 00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:25.799 me to this, I think Javier basera is an empty vessel. 392 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:33.319 It's one of the defining features of modern day democrat governance. 393 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:43.359 Trust the experts, trust the science, trust the experts, where 394 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:51.720 we look to the received wisdom of institutions as are 395 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:59.119 guiding loadstar as are guiding light. You saw this with 396 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.839 stuff like content moderation on Facebook and Twitter before Elon 397 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:07.599 Musk bought it that basically, what were they defining as 398 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:12.480 COVID misinformation quote, Well, they would just turn to if 399 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:16.160 you're gonna have a policy of not allowing information to 400 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:18.839 be spread, you need some authority to define what is 401 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:23.920