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INTERVIEW: Attorney General Aaron Ford Talks Running For Nevada Governor, Affordability, AI Data Centers + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Hold up. Every day I wake up.
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Speaker 2: Wake your ass up.
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Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 2: Y'all finished or y'all done? Morning, everybody.
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Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
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Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. Our sister, Miss Angela, rides with us today.
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Speaker 3: We got a special guest in the building.
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Speaker 4: And you better get his name right. He just gave
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Speaker 4: you a whole tutorial on how to say his name.
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Speaker 2: You just messed with me, but I had it flowing.
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Speaker 1: Now I can't remember. He's running for Nevada.
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Speaker 2: No, you better get that right, too.
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Speaker 4: He did.
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Speaker 2: I think Nevada.
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Speaker 1: Don't let him get to the intro.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Aaron Ford. Aaron Ford. That's right.
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Speaker 1: Not Aaron.
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Speaker 2: Aaron.
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Speaker 1: It's spelled Aaron, but Aaron. That's right.
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Speaker 2: The 34th Attorney General.
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Speaker 5: Excuse me. I was doing that right now. Just go ahead.
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Speaker 2: You stay excited.
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Speaker 6: He's the 34th Attorney General of Nevada, and he is
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Speaker 6: the first black Attorney General.
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Speaker 5: Before that, a state legislator, now running for governor.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Well, welcome, brother. How are you feeling? Hey, I'm feeling good, man.
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Speaker 1: Happy to be here. Good to see everybody.
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Speaker 2: Why do you want to be governor, man?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny, right? Some people thought it was
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Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion I was going to run, but I
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Speaker 1: didn't make my mind up, frankly, until after Trump won.
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Speaker 1: You know, I knew. I talked to my wife. I
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Speaker 1: talked to my family. We prayed on it, thought about it,
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Speaker 1: talked about it. We just knew that we'd have a
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Speaker 1: governor who wasn't going to stand up to Trump, who
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Speaker 1: wasn't going to defend the badness from what I anticipated
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Speaker 1: would be some unlawful action, some undermining of our ability
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Speaker 1: to even exist or survive, let alone thrive. And, you know, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: I've been proven right. whether it is the tariffs that
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Speaker 1: he didn't stand up to, whether it's trying to get
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Speaker 1: rid of the Department of Education, whether it's been birthright citizenship.
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Speaker 1: Our governor hadn't stood up, and I knew I would
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Speaker 1: need to. And so praying on it, thought about it,
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Speaker 1: and here we are.
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Speaker 4: I respect that answer, but I don't like it. And
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Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you why, because everybody says it.
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Speaker 4: Everybody says it's because of Trump. What is it about
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Speaker 4: your vision for Nevada that requires you to act?
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Speaker 2: Nevada.
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Speaker 5: You already missed it.
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Speaker 1: First, I'll get it right. It's Nevada.
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Speaker 2: Nevada.
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Speaker 1: What is it about you?
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Speaker 2: Aaron Ford's vision.
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Speaker 5: Aaron Ford.
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Speaker 2: Attorney General Ford.
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Speaker 1: How about that? I'll take that.
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Speaker 2: You can just call me General.
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Speaker 4: What is it about Attorney General Ford's vision for Nevada.
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Speaker 2: That requires you to have this job?
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Speaker 1: That's a different question, and I'm glad you asked me that.
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Speaker 1: So here's what I have learned talking to folks all
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Speaker 1: across the state. They broke. stuff's too expensive right now.
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Speaker 1: They broke, right? And whether it's housing, whether it's healthcare,
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Speaker 1: whether it's gas, whether it's groceries, whether it's our energy prices,
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Speaker 1: they want somebody who's going to help them be able
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Speaker 1: to pay for their lives and take care of themselves
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Speaker 1: and take care of their families. Look, like me, I'm
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Speaker 1: in a sandwich generation. I got older parents and I
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Speaker 1: have grown kids, but they sit in my pocket.
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Speaker 2: You understand?
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Speaker 1: And so I know what they're going through. And this
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Speaker 1: is something that, frankly... The word is affordability. That's what
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Speaker 1: you hear all the time, Charlemagne. I didn't know what
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Speaker 1: that word meant when I was seven or eight years old,
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Speaker 1: but I know my parents couldn't always afford food. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? I mean, I grew up eating
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Speaker 1: stale candy bars for dinner that my daddy found next
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Speaker 1: to the dumpster behind the grocery store he worked at. Right?
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Speaker 1: The grocery store was throwing them away because they couldn't
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Speaker 1: sell them because they were stale, but the fours got
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Speaker 1: to eat. So my daddy bought him these stale candy bars.
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Speaker 1: And to this day, I keep a candy bar on
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Speaker 1: my nightstand at home from that day. Score. A score bar.
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Speaker 4: S-K-O-R.
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Speaker 1: I keep it on my nightstand. I keep it on
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Speaker 1: my office desk at work, all my offices. It's a reminder.
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Speaker 1: First thing I see when I get up in the morning.
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Speaker 1: Last thing I see when I go to bed. I
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Speaker 1: think about it all throughout the day when I'm at work.
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Speaker 1: I'm reminded of what struggle feels like, what it looks like,
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Speaker 1: and who I'm fighting for. You know, your boy went
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Speaker 1: from eating stale candy bars to being a single dad
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Speaker 1: in college.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Welfare, living on Section 8 housing, Medicaid, food stamps. So,
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not talking about what I heard, like
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Speaker 1: I said in church. I'm talking about what I know.
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Speaker 1: And that's why my message is resonating with folks in Nevada.
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Speaker 1: That's why we're going to win.
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Speaker 6: I want to ask you, you know, talking about the
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Speaker 6: struggles that you've endured. Some of the struggle is normally
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Speaker 6: fought hard and won in solidarity. So there are a
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Speaker 6: lot of attorneys general who have worked really collectively and
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Speaker 6: together to fight against some of the onslaught of Trump
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Speaker 6: administration's policies. You've done that with several black AGs. But
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Speaker 6: when you look at what's happening with governor's mansions all
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Speaker 6: over the country, it's just Westmore. So, of course, Governor Moore,
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Speaker 6: Maryland governor, he is now the chair of the Democratic
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Speaker 6: Governors Association. And recently, he said over the weekend during
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Speaker 6: the annual legislative conference for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation,
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Speaker 6: he said, I'm looking forward to a gubernatorial black caucus
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Speaker 6: so we can come together.
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Speaker 5: And be in fellowship with you. How important is that?
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Speaker 6: I think sometimes we do, and we talk about this
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Speaker 6: all the time, talk about the symbolism of the moment,
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Speaker 6: but there's something way more important about electing black governors
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Speaker 6: that goes beyond the symbolism.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, no question. And I, like Wes, has been,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've been the only black person in a
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Speaker 1: lot of my environments, right? And I'm looking forward to, frankly,
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Speaker 1: replicating what we did in the AG space. When I
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Speaker 1: was elected attorney general, before I got elected, there was
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Speaker 1: only one black Democratic attorney general. It was Carl Racine
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Speaker 1: out of D.C. Carl Racine's work, when we were done
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Speaker 1: in 2018, we went from one to five black Democratic AGs.
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Speaker 1: We had a Democratic Black Caucus immediately, right? And Wes,
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Speaker 1: the work he's putting out right now, he has the
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Speaker 1: ability to go from one to several as well. And
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Speaker 1: so it is going to be a great opportunity for
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Speaker 1: us to, you know, obviously not only represent our states,
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Speaker 1: but represent our culture, represent who we are, represent the background,
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Speaker 1: show what it's like to be able to, you know,
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Speaker 1: manifest at this particular level, and I'm looking forward to that.
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Speaker 5: But why does that matter in terms of, like, that representation?
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Speaker 6: So, again, going beyond the symbolism of us being able
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Speaker 6: to see it, which is important for our kids, for
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Speaker 6: our communities to see ourselves represented, but why.
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Speaker 5: Does it matter?
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Speaker 1: Look, I think it matters for a number of reasons,
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Speaker 1: and not the least of which is because I've raised
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Speaker 1: three black sons and a black nephew, right? I come
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Speaker 1: from eating stale candy bars and being a single dad.
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Speaker 1: I come from tough times and tough neighborhoods. And my
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Speaker 1: sons have always been taught that they can be whatever
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Speaker 1: they want to be, irrespective of what the world would
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Speaker 1: expect of them or how they want to pigeonhole them.
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Speaker 1: And so I think it's a visual manifestation of opportunity
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Speaker 1: and the ability to accomplish. Look, I learned this when
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Speaker 1: I was working on my, this is funny, my PhD program.
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Speaker 1: There was a word I learned, efficacy, self-efficacy. This notion
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Speaker 1: of seeing somebody who looks like you doing something that
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Speaker 1: you want to do. And when you see that, it
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Speaker 1: makes you think you can actually do it as well.
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Speaker 1: And so, you know, I've had the ability to look
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Speaker 1: at a black attorney general and Carl Racine and see
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Speaker 1: myself doing it. I'm looking at Wes Moore. I can
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Speaker 1: see myself doing that. And I want others to be
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Speaker 1: able to look at us and see, yeah, I can
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Speaker 1: do that as well. And that's that's what's so important
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Speaker 1: to me about this.
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Speaker 3: I want to start from the beginning, if you don't know,
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Speaker 3: if you don't mind.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Talking about Aaron, a person, right?
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Aaron.
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Speaker 1: Aaron, a person, right? Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Originally from Dallas, right?
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 3: Now you went to Texas A & M.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 3: Explain your process and what got you to Nevada.
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Speaker 2: Cowboy fans?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. All right. That's what I'm talking about. I'm glad.
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Speaker 5: I didn't know if that was going to.
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Speaker 1: Be a setup or not.
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Speaker 2: Watch that now.
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Speaker 1: It's a rebuilding year.
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Speaker 3: What got you in politics and why the move from
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Speaker 3: Texas to Nevada?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a great question. So, yeah, like you said,
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Speaker 1: from Dallas, went to Texas A & M. My first
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Speaker 1: degree was in teaching. I used to be a teacher.
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Speaker 1: Met my wife my junior year in college. college, and
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Speaker 1: then I went down to Austin and taught school. And
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Speaker 1: when we graduated, I got a scholarship to go to
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Speaker 1: George Washington. I went there for my first master's degree
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Speaker 1: in international education, went to Ohio State for my law degree,
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Speaker 1: my second master's degree, and my PhD in education. Now,
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Speaker 1: what took us to Vegas in the first place was
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Speaker 1: because my wife was a lawyer. She got a job
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Speaker 1: with a federal judge. So we were out there, I
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Speaker 1: like to say, at the turn of the century, in
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Speaker 1: the year 2000, we moved there. I got involved in
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Speaker 1: politics a couple years after that, you know, seven years
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Speaker 1: after that, because We had just moved my son back
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Speaker 1: to Texas, my whole family. My oldest son, the one
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Speaker 1: I had in college, was a freshman in high school.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't happy to be moving back to Vegas because
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Speaker 1: he had made friends in Dallas and this, that, and
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Speaker 1: the other. And so he said to me, he thought
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Speaker 1: he was cracking a joke. He said, Dad, you say
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Speaker 1: everything you do is for the family, right? I said,
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Speaker 1: that's right. I'm glad you recognize every decision I make
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Speaker 1: is for the family. He said, well, why you move
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Speaker 1: us from Texas to Nevada, which is ranked like number
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Speaker 1: 50 in education?
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Speaker 2: Damn.
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Speaker 1: He was like, ha, got you, Dad. And I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's not a good one. I mean, actually, I hear
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Speaker 1: what you're saying. And so I got engaged and I
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Speaker 1: got involved and I ran for office to help improve
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Speaker 1: the educational system because my son has always wanted to
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Speaker 1: be a medical doctor. And I saw the schools weren't
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Speaker 1: prepping him for that, you know, and so I got
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Speaker 1: involved and I got engaged. I ran for office in 2010.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't successful then, but I ran again in 2012. Juan, 2014,
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Speaker 1: I became the minority leader in the state senate. 2016,
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Speaker 1: became the majority leader in the state senate. In 2018,
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Speaker 1: I became the attorney general for the state of Nevada.
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Speaker 1: In 2026, I intend to be the next governor for Nevada. Now,
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Speaker 1: you always talk about your arrest. Why do you feel
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Speaker 1: important to talk about your arrest?
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Speaker 3: Is it because you don't want other people to talk
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Speaker 3: about it, or is it you're owning it and saying, hey,
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Speaker 3: I did it when I was young.
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Speaker 1: And all that? Yeah, so college was tough for me, man.
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Speaker 1: College was tough for me. I transitioned tough times, tough neighborhoods.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't just that. It was from being a young
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Speaker 1: boy to a young man. I remember being in high school.
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Speaker 1: I was president of a club called Allied Youth. which
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Speaker 1: was a no drugs, no drinking thing, right? I got
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Speaker 1: to college and I started drinking. And so as a
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Speaker 1: freshman walking home on campus, I was walking on campus,
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Speaker 1: not driving. I was walking on campus and the cops
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Speaker 1: stopped me because I had been drinking. They had a choice, obviously, right?
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Speaker 1: You got a DUI for walking? For walking home to
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Speaker 1: my dorm on campus. That's insane. Campus police stopped me
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Speaker 1: and gave me and took me to the holding cell.
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Speaker 1: You know, I was one of the, I was the
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Speaker 1: only one. I'll leave it that way. But yes, I'm
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Speaker 1: just saying I was walking home to my dorm and
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Speaker 1: they could have driven me. They could have walked me,
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Speaker 1: but they gave me a ticket.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: And so for my lifetime, I've been. having to answer
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Speaker 1: yes when asked, have you ever been arrested for anything
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Speaker 1: other than a minor traffic violation? So yes, public intoxication.
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Speaker 1: But I also got in trouble because I used to
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Speaker 1: drive home, you know, in my little hoopty between A &
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Speaker 1: M and Dallas three and a half hours. And so
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Speaker 1: I would get speeding tickets. And in Texas, if you
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Speaker 1: don't pay your speeding tickets, they go to warrants. especially
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Speaker 1: if you don't go to court. And so I had
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Speaker 1: a couple of warrants for speeding tickets I didn't pay.
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Speaker 1: Your boy broke, didn't pay him speeding tickets, and I
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Speaker 1: got in trouble. And then that last one, I'll just
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Speaker 1: say it out loud because people say it is wrong.
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Speaker 1: They say I stole tires. First off, it was not tires, plural.
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Speaker 1: It was only one, number one. But number two, I
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Speaker 1: didn't steal it. What had happened was real talk. So
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Speaker 1: this was right after.
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Speaker 5: You know whenever somebody says what had happened was.
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Speaker 1: But that's why I followed up with real talk. Because
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Speaker 1: I want you to understand.
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Speaker 2: What happened was real talk.
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Speaker 1: Real talk, real talk, real talk. No, this is real talk.
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear this because this is real talk.
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Speaker 1: So this was in 1994. I just had my son.
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Speaker 1: But my wherefore hadn't come through yet. So I was
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Speaker 1: still living on campus and my son was back with
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Speaker 1: my mama down in Dallas. And I would drive home
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Speaker 1: every weekend. And this one weekend I went to drive home.
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Speaker 1: I had a slow leak in my tire. I needed
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Speaker 1: to get it patched. They told me I couldn't patch it.
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Speaker 1: So they gave me a tire on layaway, essentially. They
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Speaker 1: let me use it. I had to pay it off.
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Speaker 1: Paid it off too slowly. Old boy filed a theft
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Speaker 1: charge against me. And, you know, I paid it off
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Speaker 1: and then they dismissed the charge. So I didn't steal
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Speaker 1: the tire. It was just. a payment dispute, essentially. But
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Speaker 1: that's what happened, right? But that's what happened 33 years ago.
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Speaker 2: Attorney General Ford, respectfully, who gives a fuck?
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Speaker 1: I'm with you.
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Speaker 4: With all the stuff that we done seen these crazy
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Speaker 4: ass people do nowadays, what you talking about sounds like.
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Speaker 2: I hear what you're saying. I wouldn't even explain that
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Speaker 2: to no one.
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Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. But they're using it.
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Speaker 2: They're using it right now.
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Speaker 1: They try to use it, quote, unquote, against them. You
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Speaker 1: know what's funny? Joe Lombardo, the guy who's the governor
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Speaker 1: right now, his own people talking about the only thing
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Speaker 1: he's scared of is you stealing his tires.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff they said. You feel me?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: So that's the kind of stuff. So they're going to
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Speaker 1: use that. You know, they're going to villainize me. And
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Speaker 1: so the fact of the matter, though, is that look
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Speaker 1: at what I've done in the last 33 years. I've
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Speaker 1: gone from being on Medicaid to having a son who's
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Speaker 1: a medical doctor. You feel me? My middle son's a
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Speaker 1: third-year law student. My youngest son's a biochemistry major who
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Speaker 1: wants to go to med school.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: My wife and I have done, I think, yeoman's work
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Speaker 1: in representing. And so we're proud of that. Proud of that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but isn't Joe Lombardo a Trump guy?
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Speaker 1: A very big Trump guy.
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Speaker 2: Okay then, so therefore he has no problems with criminals.
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Speaker 1: I agree with what you said. Pedophiles and criminals and
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Speaker 1: Epstein-Fowl participants. You're right.
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Speaker 4: Like you said, you've been AG, state senator, Senate majority leader.
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Speaker 4: How do you know the difference between wanting to serve
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Speaker 4: and just simply wanting the next position?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because I've never had to worry
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Speaker 1: about that. If you pick up my phone, if you
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Speaker 1: look at my Twitter page, On Purpose by Design, this
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Speaker 1: is how I describe myself because I don't want nobody
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Speaker 1: to get confused. I want nobody to get confused. Look
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Speaker 1: at how I describe myself, Charlemagne. I want you to
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Speaker 1: see it. When you look at there, it says, how
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Speaker 1: do I describe myself?
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Speaker 2: Tired thief. Husband. Tired thief.
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Speaker 1: You a fool. You a fool. Angela, why you bring
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Speaker 1: me here?
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Speaker 2: Why you bring me here, Angela? Let me just say this.
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Speaker 4: Now that ain't nothing.
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Speaker 5: Wait, hold on. Here's the problem. So you can't tell
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Speaker 5: us on here that you're not a tired thief, and
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Speaker 5: that's self-described.
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Speaker 2: It ain't on there.
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Speaker 6: Don't say that.
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Speaker 1: Don't say that.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't.
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Speaker 2: I thought he was.
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Speaker 5: Leading into it.
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Speaker 1: This is the real answer right here.
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Speaker 2: Husband, father, and Nevada Attorney General. Attorney General.
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Speaker 1: In that order.
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Speaker 2: Running for governor.
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Speaker 1: Get my phone, man.
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Speaker 2: That's right. I can't believe you did that.
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Speaker 1: I believed you for 35 seconds. No, no.
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Speaker 5: I would not do that.
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Speaker 1: I would not do that. I was like, why would
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Speaker 1: you do that?
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Bernard did it.
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Speaker 1: Pretty usual. But to his question, though, that's how. That's how. Because, look,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people get, I've seen it happen before.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people get in these positions and it
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Speaker 1: becomes our identity.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: It's what defines them. It's where they get their prestige,
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Speaker 1: their influence, their power, their ability to convene. It's where they...
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Speaker 1: And when you attack their ability to be elected or reelected,
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Speaker 1: they view it as you attacking them. I've never had
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Speaker 1: that problem. Because this is what I do. It's not
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Speaker 1: who I am.
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Speaker 6: You know, I do want to say this, and I
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Speaker 6: think it's important for you all to know. I've known
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Speaker 6: Attorney General Ford for some time, and I could say
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Speaker 6: in every position, you've been the exact same person. And
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Speaker 6: I do think there's something... unique about candidates who hold
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Speaker 6: on to their personhood as their superpower. So can you
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Speaker 6: talk about why, not just how you grew up eating
14:32
Speaker 6: what you had to eat or the challenges that you
14:34
Speaker 6: experienced being a single dad, but talk about the other
14:37
Speaker 6: points of connection in Nevada that's so important because It
14:40
Speaker 6: can be purplish. And so you've got to build inroads
14:44
Speaker 6: with other people. You've done that statewide once.
14:46
Speaker 5: What's the difference?
14:47
Speaker 6: What are the tactics that you're deploying this time that
14:50
Speaker 6: are different to connect with everyday Nevadans?
14:52
Speaker 1: Look, here's the deal. I remember being a single father
14:57
Speaker 1: about to drop out of college. I couldn't even think
15:00
Speaker 1: about education because I was thinking about food for my
15:02
Speaker 1: kid and a roof for my son. You understand? And
15:07
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for welfare, give me a Section 8
15:08
Speaker 1: housing and Medicaid for health care and food stands for food,
15:12
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have finished college, you see? So I think
15:15
Speaker 1: about that in terms of how people today are likely
15:18
Speaker 1: living as well. They broke, Charlemagne. They can't afford gas
15:22
Speaker 1: and groceries, and so they're not thinking about other things,
15:25
Speaker 1: and so I'm thinking about what they're thinking about. What
15:28
Speaker 1: can I do to help you fulfill what it is
15:30
Speaker 1: you're trying to do, which is take care of yourself?
15:32
Speaker 1: And so we have plans that are going to help
15:33
Speaker 1: lower drug costs. We've got plans that are going to
15:35
Speaker 1: help free up housing. We're going to have plans that
15:39
Speaker 1: address the energy costs. So this is the way I'm connecting.
15:42
Speaker 1: By talking to folks, my philosophy is that take no
15:45
Speaker 1: one for granted, especially your friends, and then talk to everybody,
15:48
Speaker 1: especially those who may not be your friends, so that
15:50
Speaker 1: you can hear what's going on and be responsive and
15:52
Speaker 1: be responsible and responsive to what their needs are, and
15:56
Speaker 1: that's how we win this race.
15:57
Speaker 5: There are Trump voters now, Cy Brother, there are Trump
15:59
Speaker 5: voters now.
16:00
Speaker 6: Who are experiencing some regret from the votes they cast
16:03
Speaker 6: in 2014. What have been some of the ways that
16:06
Speaker 6: you've worked to connect with them? I know they were
16:09
Speaker 6: bought and sold into the idea of, like, we're going
16:11
Speaker 6: to make eggs more affordable. Eggs is more expensive now.
16:13
Speaker 6: Gas is more expensive now. So what are the connection
16:16
Speaker 6: points with them?
16:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're right. They are disappointed because they were
16:20
Speaker 1: lied to. Egg prices ain't gone down. Gas prices have
16:24
Speaker 1: actually gone up, right? But here's what I've learned. I've
16:27
Speaker 1: learned that irrespective of who I'm talking to, because I've
16:29
Speaker 1: done these statewide tours, I could be talking to an urban, rural, suburban,
16:34
Speaker 1: a black, white, Latino, Asian. I can talk to a
16:36
Speaker 1: man or woman, Democrat or Republican. Here's what I'm hearing.
16:39
Speaker 1: Most folks just want a good job to buy a
16:41
Speaker 1: house in a safe neighborhood, whether schools are preparing their
16:46
Speaker 1: children for careers or college, whether healthcare systems are available
16:49
Speaker 1: and affordable to them, and then finally, through all of that,
16:52
Speaker 1: to be treated with humanity, dignity, and respect. That's across demographics, period.
16:57
Speaker 1: Whether I'm talking to a Trump voter or a Kamala
16:59
Speaker 1: Harris voter. It's the exact same. And so speaking to
17:02
Speaker 1: those commonalities is what has allowed me to be neck
17:05
Speaker 1: and neck against the incumbent in this race, even though
17:08
Speaker 1: they've spent $ 30 million against me with negative lies and ads.
17:12
Speaker 1: I'm still neck and neck. In fact, the last poll
17:13
Speaker 1: has us up two points. I'm running like I'm back 10,
17:16
Speaker 1: to be clear.
17:17
Speaker 2: Right.
17:17
Speaker 1: But it's because we're able to talk about things that
17:19
Speaker 1: are resonating across the board and across demographics.
17:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw the latest, I think it was the
17:24
Speaker 2: Emerson poll.
17:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
17:25
Speaker 2: And it found 43 percent. of Nevadians. Am I saying
17:29
Speaker 2: that right?
17:29
Speaker 1: Nevadians.
17:30
Speaker 2: Nevadians.
17:30
Speaker 1: It's all right.
17:31
Speaker 5: Just say the people of the state.
17:33
Speaker 4: The people of the state of Nevada. They named the
17:37
Speaker 4: economy as their top issue. And housing was second at 15%.
17:40
Speaker 4: What has gotten too expensive in Nevada? And what can
17:43
Speaker 4: a governor actually do about it?
17:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's great. Housing's too expensive. 15% of the
17:49
Speaker 1: homes in the Clark County, which is where Vegas is, 25%
17:51
Speaker 1: of the homes in North Las Vegas, they're owned by corporations.
17:55
Speaker 1: Corporations are living homes. Even Trump said that, you know,
17:57
Speaker 1: people live in homes.
17:58
Speaker 2: Right.
17:58
Speaker 1: And they are pricing us out of our neighborhoods. You
18:01
Speaker 1: can't go in and apply for a 30 year mortgage
18:03
Speaker 1: like my son wants to do when he graduates law
18:05
Speaker 1: school and compete against a company buying a home in cash. Right.
18:08
Speaker 1: So I'm going to limit how many homes corporations can
18:10
Speaker 1: buy up. That's one of the things that's tangible. Rental
18:14
Speaker 1: prices in our state right now, the average price is
18:16
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars a month, maybe more now. And they
18:18
Speaker 1: can charge three times as much for a security deposit.
18:20
Speaker 1: $ 6, 000 before you can even move in. We're going to
18:23
Speaker 1: limit how much they can charge to one month of
18:25
Speaker 1: security deposit. Healthcare, we're going to limit certain amounts of
18:28
Speaker 1: drugs to the Medicare negotiated price. I talked to a
18:32
Speaker 1: lady in Minden, Minden, Nevada, which is a rural part
18:34
Speaker 1: of town who was buying groceries, had a basket full,
18:37
Speaker 1: went over to the pharmacy section to pick up her prescription,
18:39
Speaker 1: looked at their price and left those groceries in the
18:41
Speaker 1: aisle because she couldn't afford both. See, Joe Lombardo could
18:44
Speaker 1: have signed a bill, number one, that would have did
18:46
Speaker 1: what I said about housing. He could have signed a
18:48
Speaker 1: bill that would have limited her drug prices. that puts
18:51
Speaker 1: money back in people's pockets. They can use on those
18:53
Speaker 1: expensive-ass eggs. Oh, sorry, I shouldn't say that on TV.
18:55
Speaker 2: Go ahead, man.
18:56
Speaker 1: Okay. Be myself. Okay, be myself, right on. My people
18:59
Speaker 1: won't get mad because I said the A word, but whatever. But, yeah,
19:02
Speaker 1: so they can, this extra money, they can spend on
19:05
Speaker 1: other things, right? So these are the types of things
19:06
Speaker 1: we're going to do. And we've laid this out on
19:09
Speaker 1: our website, FordForNevada.com, under the issues prong with all of
19:13
Speaker 1: our different planks on all of these things. And they're tangible.
19:15
Speaker 1: These aren't pie-in-the-sky stuff, by the way, that I sat
19:17
Speaker 1: in a corner pontificating about. This is me talking to
19:20
Speaker 1: Nevadans all across the state and getting ideas and putting
19:24
Speaker 1: them down and figuring out ways we're going to get
19:26
Speaker 1: this stuff passed.
19:27
Speaker 6: You've done a lot as attorney general for consumers. Under
19:31
Speaker 6: this presidential administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is virtually gone.
19:37
Speaker 5: Can you talk about the importance of.
19:39
Speaker 6: Affordability and protecting consumers, how those two agenda merge, and
19:43
Speaker 6: how you would continue to protect consumers in Nevada as governor?
19:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, and this is the prime example of one
19:49
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I had to run, because I
19:51
Speaker 1: knew we would have a governor who is not going
19:53
Speaker 1: to look out for everyday Nevadans, who himself has said
19:57
Speaker 1: he and Trump need to look out for the billionaires, right,
19:59
Speaker 1: because they're the ones creating jobs. And what we see
20:03
Speaker 1: is that we have consumers every single day who are
20:06
Speaker 1: being scammed and defrauded, and who aren't able to make
20:09
Speaker 1: their own ends meet. And so the Democratic attorneys general,
20:12
Speaker 1: generally speaking, well, I should back up. Consumer protection oftentimes, frankly,
20:16
Speaker 1: is a bipartisan issue. We have Democrats and Republican attorneys
20:19
Speaker 1: general working on these things. But I'm proud that I brought,
20:22
Speaker 1: for example, $ 200 million of settlement funds back for consumer
20:27
Speaker 1: fraud things, whether it relates to housing and the mortgages
20:30
Speaker 1: or whether it relates to medicines or whether it relates
20:33
Speaker 1: to you know, insurance policies. We've been able to do that,
20:36
Speaker 1: put money back in people's pockets, utilizing our Consumer Protection
20:40
Speaker 1: Bureau and my state to do that. You know, we've
20:42
Speaker 1: sued the opioid companies for, and I've gotten $ 1. 2 billion. Wow.
20:48
Speaker 1: That's coming back to the states. Now, that's not in
20:50
Speaker 1: people's pockets per se, but it's helping folks who have
20:52
Speaker 1: been affected by the opioid epidemic, right? Whether it's mental health,
20:56
Speaker 1: whether it's, you know, drug treatment programs, whether it's, you know,
20:59
Speaker 1: you name it. And so these are the types of
21:01
Speaker 1: things that my office has done in the seven years
21:04
Speaker 1: and nine months I've been there, and we're very proud
21:06
Speaker 1: of their work.
21:07
Speaker 3: I was always curious to the casinos in Vegas, right?
21:09
Speaker 3: And they say that some of the state tax that
21:11
Speaker 3: they have to pay is some of the lowest of
21:13
Speaker 3: states that actually have casinos. Is there ever a thing
21:15
Speaker 3: to go at the casinos to make them pay money
21:17
Speaker 3: to help some of the problems that Nevada is having?
21:20
Speaker 1: Well, to be fair, they come to the table frequently.
21:25
Speaker 1: they do have some of the lowest tax rates in
21:27
Speaker 1: the nation, but they also are the main driving force
21:31
Speaker 1: for our economy in Nevada. So there's always conversation around
21:36
Speaker 1: how to improve resources in our state. I'm proud to
21:39
Speaker 1: say when I was in the legislature, the gaming community
21:42
Speaker 1: would come to the table and oftentimes volunteer additional taxes.
21:46
Speaker 1: They wanted other folks to chip in, though, right? And
21:50
Speaker 1: so there's a business tax now that's broader, that more
21:52
Speaker 1: people can actually chip in to to share that burden
21:55
Speaker 1: these days.
21:56
Speaker 2: I saw you say that you don't want to raise taxes, right?
21:58
Speaker 1: That's right.
21:59
Speaker 4: But you're promising better schools, more affordable housing, better health care.
22:03
Speaker 4: Where's that additional money going to come from?
22:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great question. And here's the response. First off,
22:07
Speaker 1: let me tell you the reason why we can't raise
22:09
Speaker 1: taxes right now. We are in the midst of a
22:11
Speaker 1: Lombardo-Trump economy that's demolishing small businesses, that's making it tougher
22:16
Speaker 1: for people to afford to live in their lives. And
22:20
Speaker 1: I want to look people in the eyes and tell them,
22:22
Speaker 1: I'm not raising your taxes because during this affordability crisis
22:25
Speaker 1: that your governor has created. But here's what we're going
22:28
Speaker 1: to do in the alternative. Also say that we intend
22:31
Speaker 1: to improve the circumstances, but be real about it. No
22:34
Speaker 1: one gets everything. I'm not going to be able to
22:37
Speaker 1: jump our per-people expenditure score from where we are now
22:41
Speaker 1: to the national average in one year. I'm going to
22:44
Speaker 1: make modest increases, to be sure, but make no mistake
22:47
Speaker 1: about it, it's not in one fell swoop. We're not
22:49
Speaker 1: going to be able to pay our state workers... fairly
22:52
Speaker 1: at the level they need to be paid, but you're
22:53
Speaker 1: going to get something, right? So be real about what
22:56
Speaker 1: we're talking about. And then also check out the fact
22:59
Speaker 1: that we do, you know, this fraud, waste, and abuse
23:01
Speaker 1: conversation is a real one as well, right? So, you know,
23:04
Speaker 1: I know that the current governor hasn't collected some taxes
23:08
Speaker 1: from businesses that owe them. Give me that money because
23:10
Speaker 1: we can use that in order to be able to
23:14
Speaker 1: fund our state. So these are the different types of
23:16
Speaker 1: ways that we're going to have to operate. We cannot
23:18
Speaker 1: raise taxes during this crisis. but we can still make progress.
23:22
Speaker 1: And it's about budgeting. I'll be quiet after this because
23:24
Speaker 1: I know you probably got another question, but... No, talk, man.
23:26
Speaker 1: All right, look, check this out. Our governor, one of
23:29
Speaker 1: the worst antics we have in our state is one
23:32
Speaker 1: in four of our kids don't know where the next
23:34
Speaker 1: meal is going to come from. I was one of
23:36
Speaker 1: those kids in Texas, right, eating stuck candy bars. Our
23:40
Speaker 1: governor had the ability to do something about that. He
23:43
Speaker 1: could have signed a bill that would have guaranteed school
23:45
Speaker 1: meals to our kids. But he vetoed that bill. He
23:50
Speaker 1: vetoed guaranteed school meals for kids for two reasons. He
23:53
Speaker 1: says it was too expensive and it was a waste
23:55
Speaker 1: of money. It wouldn't have been a waste on a
23:58
Speaker 1: kid like me who was sitting in a classroom with
23:59
Speaker 1: my stomach growling, not able to concentrate. Or when I
24:02
Speaker 1: was a teacher teaching those kids whose stomachs were growling
24:05
Speaker 1: and couldn't concentrate. And it ain't that much of a
24:08
Speaker 1: waste of money because he said no to school meals
24:10
Speaker 1: and then went and spent $ 25 million on office furniture.
24:14
Speaker 1: So I give you that example as a priority. Your
24:18
Speaker 1: budget shows your priorities. My budget, I'd rather sit on
24:21
Speaker 1: the floor than have my kids go starving, right? So
24:23
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put 25 million in office furniture.
24:25
Speaker 1: I'm going to use that money to do things. 25
24:27
Speaker 1: million in office furniture? 25 million in office furniture. And
24:30
Speaker 1: the school meals, by the way, was 48 million. So
24:32
Speaker 1: he was halfway there, right?
24:35
Speaker 3: So let me be very clear.
24:42
Speaker 1: Let me be very clear. I'm sitting in the exact
24:45
Speaker 1: same desk surrounded by the exact same credenzas and bookshelves
24:51
Speaker 1: in my office than were there the day I started.
24:52
Speaker 1: So I didn't get my office. I did not get
24:54
Speaker 1: that furniture. It was his budget, by the way. He
24:57
Speaker 1: did that. And I give you that as an example
24:59
Speaker 1: of what we can do in order to prove circumstances.
25:01
Speaker 1: We can budget better. We can prioritize better. And you
25:04
Speaker 1: show your priorities by showing your budget.
25:06
Speaker 6: Is that one of the things that you would have
25:08
Speaker 6: brought up in a debate with Joe Lombardo?
25:10
Speaker 5: I understand he's refusing to debate you.
25:13
Speaker 1: He's scared.
25:13
Speaker 6: Do you think there will be a debate before the general?
25:19
Speaker 1: In my heart of hearts, I think he's too afraid
25:21
Speaker 1: to debate me.
25:22
Speaker 6: What are some of the things that you would say...
25:25
Speaker 6: to him if given the opportunity to debate.
25:28
Speaker 1: You know, he has made several statements that, in his
25:31
Speaker 1: own words, demonstrate his unfitness, if that's a word for office.
25:35
Speaker 1: And I can give you a rundown of those. But
25:37
Speaker 1: one of the things that comes to mind about the
25:39
Speaker 1: purpose of the debate is to, he said he can't
25:43
Speaker 1: do anything about affordability. That's what he said. He said
25:46
Speaker 1: that anybody who tells you they can do something about affordability,
25:50
Speaker 1: that's bullshit. These are his words.
25:52
Speaker 2: He just told us a bill that he vetoed.
25:55
Speaker 1: And my response to him is, what's bullshit is that
25:57
Speaker 1: you vetoed a bill that could have fed our kids.
25:58
Speaker 2: That's right.
25:59
Speaker 1: What's bullshit is that you vetoed a bill that could
26:01
Speaker 1: have limited how many homes corporations can buy up. What's
26:03
Speaker 1: bullshit is that you vetoed a bill that would have
26:05
Speaker 1: limited the cost of certain prescription drugs. What's bullshit is
26:09
Speaker 1: that you vetoed some protections for seniors who are suffering
26:12
Speaker 1: from rental increases year over year when they're on a
26:14
Speaker 1: fixed budget. There's plenty he could have done, too. We
26:17
Speaker 1: could be experiencing relief from him from those bills right now, right?
26:21
Speaker 1: And so he needs to get on that stage and
26:23
Speaker 1: talk about that. Instead, he wants to talk about, you know,
26:26
Speaker 1: his people want to talk about, you know, cracking silly
26:28
Speaker 1: jokes or whatever and lying about things because he can't
26:31
Speaker 1: talk about the affordability crisis that he has created.
26:34
Speaker 6: If people came back to you and said, what's BS
26:37
Speaker 6: about what you're saying is during the primary.
26:39
Speaker 5: You also refused to debate. What would your response be
26:42
Speaker 5: to that?
26:42
Speaker 1: My response is during the primary, I was talking. I
26:45
Speaker 1: was on my statewide tours talking to voters, getting my
26:47
Speaker 1: plans together. My affordable Nevada plan. Again, it didn't come
26:51
Speaker 1: from your corner sitting pontificating. I was talking to folks,
26:54
Speaker 1: developing my plans. Right. And at the end of the day,
26:57
Speaker 1: you know, we won by 40 points in the primary.
27:00
Speaker 1: So I spent my time doing what I thought was necessary,
27:03
Speaker 1: which was talking directly to voters, hearing what they had
27:06
Speaker 1: to say so I can develop plans that respond to them.
27:09
Speaker 1: And that's how we're in this fight right now, because
27:10
Speaker 1: we actually have done the work. Joe Lombardo has not.
27:13
Speaker 2: You know, you're asking people to fire an incumbent governor. Right.
27:16
Speaker 4: So is there one thing that you could look at
27:18
Speaker 4: and say, all right, Joe Lombardo, You did this.
27:21
Speaker 2: That was actually good for Nevada.
27:22
Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
27:23
Speaker 2: Nevada. Nevada. I'm sorry. Nevada.
27:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. I got tired.
27:26
Speaker 5: Come on.
27:27
Speaker 2: You've been doing it for 48 years. I'm trying. It's
27:29
Speaker 2: only been 30 minutes. Nevada.
27:32
Speaker 4: Nevada.
27:32
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, absolutely. So he signed my bill related to
27:36
Speaker 1: fentanyl trafficking. I'm glad about that.
27:39
Speaker 2: Right?
27:39
Speaker 1: We had to lower the threshold for trafficking in fentanyl.
27:46
Speaker 1: He signed it.
27:46
Speaker 5: Right.
27:47
Speaker 1: I mean, he's also... you know, signed some bipartisan bills
27:50
Speaker 1: that the Democratic legislature has sent to him. So, you know,
27:53
Speaker 1: he gets credit for signing on the good idea. There's
27:55
Speaker 1: no question about that.
27:57
Speaker 4: What's the strongest argument somebody could make for voting for
28:00
Speaker 4: him instead of you?
28:03
Speaker 2: And what would you say to that voter?
28:04
Speaker 1: What's the strongest argument they could make?
28:06
Speaker 4: They could make for voting for him instead of you.
28:09
Speaker 2: And what would you say to that voter?
28:11
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I guess what he's saying right now
28:14
Speaker 1: is that, you know, he's doing okay with the economy.
28:17
Speaker 1: He's saying he's created all of these jobs and we've
28:20
Speaker 1: gotten some economic development. And my retort is tell that
28:24
Speaker 1: to the people who are telling me they can't afford
28:26
Speaker 1: their lives right now. What kind of jobs are you creating?
28:32
Speaker 5: Are you being the fans today?
28:33
Speaker 2: I know, right?
28:34
Speaker 3: I got a security system, so when somebody comes on
28:36
Speaker 3: the property, I got kids and family.
28:37
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I know.
28:39
Speaker 3: I got to call 911, you know, make sure the
28:41
Speaker 3: family's safe.
28:41
Speaker 5: Sorry, Envy, that's a good reason.
28:43
Speaker 1: Look, when I tell you that this man has said
28:46
Speaker 1: things that show his true character, I mean that. I mean,
28:48
Speaker 1: I told you one about, he said, this bullshit, you know,
28:50
Speaker 1: if someone says that can affect the economy. He's also
28:53
Speaker 1: said that if you are unemployed right now, this is his, because,
28:56
Speaker 1: you know, under his tenure, we've had one of the highest,
28:58
Speaker 1: if not the highest, unemployment rate for his entire tenure, y'all.
29:02
Speaker 1: Right now, I think right now we rank number four
29:03
Speaker 1: or five.
29:03
Speaker 2: Right.
29:04
Speaker 1: So but he says if you're unemployed, in his words,
29:07
Speaker 1: behind closed doors, talking to some of his friends, he
29:09
Speaker 1: says it's because you're lazy. And he said this is
29:12
Speaker 1: the type of disdain he has for Nevadans. You're lazy.
29:15
Speaker 1: It's because you don't want a job that's available. You'd
29:18
Speaker 1: rather rely upon the government. That's what he said. You
29:20
Speaker 1: remember when we had the no kings marches? He said, yeah,
29:23
Speaker 1: they must be getting paid. Right. He doesn't believe you
29:25
Speaker 1: have the wherewithal to actually have an opinion. And by
29:28
Speaker 1: the way, if you have an opinion that's opposite his,
29:30
Speaker 1: you know what he says? He has two words for you.
29:34
Speaker 1: F you. These are his words talking about the people
29:37
Speaker 1: who he's supposedly representing. It shows the disdain. that he
29:40
Speaker 1: has right you know he he he's just not um
29:45
Speaker 1: and he thinks he's better than all of us to
29:47
Speaker 1: tell the truth right he's abused his authority on you
29:49
Speaker 1: know at least one time that we've seen on camera
29:52
Speaker 1: right Y'all have heard about the body camera thing?
29:54
Speaker 2: No, I haven't.
29:54
Speaker 1: Oh, come on now. So he's mad about it, by
29:56
Speaker 1: the way. I can tell you he's mad about it
29:58
Speaker 1: because I'm the one who passed the bill that made
30:00
Speaker 1: the cops wear body cameras. So a cop pulls him over, right?
30:05
Speaker 1: He's with his wife. He gets pulled over. A cop
30:08
Speaker 1: walks up to the passenger side and says, sir, I
30:10
Speaker 1: pulled you over because, and before he can finish his sentence,
30:13
Speaker 1: the governor says, I'm Joe Lombardo. And the officer says, well,
30:19
Speaker 1: I'm well aware. And I pulled you over because you
30:21
Speaker 1: ran a red light. And before he can finish his sentence,
30:24
Speaker 1: the governor says, oh, come on, man. And the officer
30:28
Speaker 1: ultimately lets him go, right? I'm not talking about the officer.
30:31
Speaker 1: It's his discretion to let people go. I'm talking about
30:34
Speaker 1: a governor who abused his authority, who invoked his name
30:37
Speaker 1: to avoid a consequence, right? This law and order guy.
30:41
Speaker 2: I ain't mad at that. I can't sit and act
30:44
Speaker 2: like I'm mad at that.
30:45
Speaker 1: Let me tell you who mad at it, though.
30:46
Speaker 2: Because I would want you to do the same thing.
30:48
Speaker 1: I'm going to pay my ticket.
30:49
Speaker 2: I would hope you wouldn't get one.
30:50
Speaker 1: Well, but I'm not going to invoke my name. I'm
30:54
Speaker 1: not going to be the one to say it before
30:55
Speaker 1: you can even tell me what the charge is. Oh,
30:57
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm Aaron Ford. So you might not
31:01
Speaker 1: want to give me this ticket right here. Right.
31:02
Speaker 5: Well, you can't because of white privilege in this country.
31:05
Speaker 1: That's a whole nother question. That's a whole nother. You
31:07
Speaker 1: brought that up.
31:07
Speaker 2: Attorney general privilege, too, though.
31:10
Speaker 6: I actually, this is going to sound elitist, but I
31:12
Speaker 6: agree with you on this. I'd be like, do you
31:14
Speaker 6: know who I am? What's my fucking name?
31:16
Speaker 2: Attorney General Ford. Like, look at him.
31:18
Speaker 5: He's like, I see nothing wrong with this.
31:20
Speaker 2: I get pulled over all the goddamn time.
31:21
Speaker 4: He's going to be like, I'm DJ Henry.
31:22
Speaker 1: And you'd be driving it, huh?
31:23
Speaker 2: You'd be driving it.
31:23
Speaker 1: You know why?
31:24
Speaker 3: Because a lot of times, yeah, like, you know, sometimes
31:26
Speaker 3: you do get pulled over for things that you don't know.
31:27
Speaker 2: You don't recognize his voice. Absolutely. No, I don't do that.
31:30
Speaker 4: If the person recognizes me and be like, oh, I'm like, yeah.
31:33
Speaker 5: No, I will.
31:34
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say it.
31:35
Speaker 5: He's definitely doing it.
31:36
Speaker 1: I'm going to say it.
31:36
Speaker 2: I got what you're saying.
31:37
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask him and say, hey, what happened? Oh,
31:38
Speaker 1: I ran a red light.
31:39
Speaker 2: I'll be like, hey, you listened to the breakfast of
31:40
Speaker 2: some DJ Gammon.
31:41
Speaker 1: And he's usually like, oh, okay, yeah.
31:42
Speaker 2: But also, we're talking about elected officials. It's the governor
31:46
Speaker 2: of the whole state. You should know who I am.
31:48
Speaker 2: It's the attorney general.
31:49
Speaker 5: Also, where was his detail? Why was he driving?
31:51
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
31:53
Speaker 5: Where was he going?
31:53
Speaker 1: I don't know.
31:54
Speaker 2: That's the question.
31:55
Speaker 1: Well, he was with his wife, though. He was with
31:57
Speaker 1: his wife, though.
31:58
Speaker 5: Oh, but still, where were they going? Where they couldn't
32:00
Speaker 5: go with the detail? These are the questions I would ask.
32:03
Speaker 5: Area 51.
32:03
Speaker 2: Hey.
32:03
Speaker 5: Or maybe, you know.
32:05
Speaker 1: That ain't my business.
32:06
Speaker 2: I'm just saying. Bunny Ranch out there.
32:08
Speaker 4: Oh, Lord.
32:08
Speaker 2: See there. Both of them going?
32:11
Speaker 5: You never know.
32:13
Speaker 1: I mean, true that.
32:14
Speaker 2: They were going to Area 51.
32:14
Speaker 5: Were they in Vegas?
32:15
Speaker 2: Yes. I'm just saying.
32:19
Speaker 5: I would definitely. Y'all causing problems.
32:22
Speaker 1: Y'all causing problems.
32:24
Speaker 2: I'm squeaking.
32:25
Speaker 1: I'm making a noisy withdrawal from this conversation right now.
32:29
Speaker 1: I'm making a noisy withdrawal from this conversation. This is
32:32
Speaker 1: good opposition.
32:34
Speaker 5: Research for an ad. It might be for independent.
32:36
Speaker 6: Expenditure not associated with your campaign, but I mean, ask
32:39
Speaker 6: the questions.
32:40
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
32:42
Speaker 4: What's something you couldn't fix as AG that you believe
32:44
Speaker 4: you could fix as governor?
32:47
Speaker 1: Oh, look, that's a great question. Look, I think one
32:49
Speaker 1: of the main roles as governor is to be the
32:52
Speaker 1: biggest cheerleader for our state is to stand up. And again,
32:55
Speaker 1: I told you I knew he wasn't going to stand up.
32:58
Speaker 1: And as AG, I'm able to sue and I'm able
33:00
Speaker 1: to win, which is great. But I need to be
33:03
Speaker 1: able to I mean, our state deserves a governor who
33:06
Speaker 1: is willing to stand up to people who are hurting us.
33:10
Speaker 1: I did it with Biden. I sued Biden several times.
33:13
Speaker 2: Right. Four.
33:14
Speaker 1: Well, one of them was meant for Pristone that comes
33:16
Speaker 1: to mind, dealing with birth control issues and some other
33:19
Speaker 1: things related to climate, as I recall. But the point
33:22
Speaker 1: I'm making is you've got to be willing to stand up.
33:24
Speaker 1: And from the top, he's not. He lies down. He capitulates.
33:28
Speaker 1: He kisses up to and kowtows to Donald Trump at
33:32
Speaker 1: every turn. And then when I stand up and defend us,
33:36
Speaker 1: he says my lawsuits are unfortunate. I won that terrorist lawsuit.
33:40
Speaker 1: I said we need to get refunds. He said we
33:42
Speaker 1: don't deserve refunds. I mean, this is the kind of
33:44
Speaker 1: mess that this man says. This is the one who
33:46
Speaker 1: says billionaires need to be taken care of, but we
33:48
Speaker 1: don't do our refunds from the tariffs that I've had.
33:51
Speaker 1: $ 1, 700 extra I had to pay because it is unlawful tariffs.
33:54
Speaker 1: It's that level of disdain that he shows from that
33:57
Speaker 1: level that needs to be replaced.
33:59
Speaker 6: I'm curious to know, you've done a lot of work
34:02
Speaker 6: around voting rights, protecting election integrity in the state. Mail-in
34:10
Speaker 6: voting is big in Nevada, just like it is in
34:12
Speaker 6: my home state in Washington. Can you talk about the
34:15
Speaker 6: frustration you're experiencing having to litigate these issues in 2026
34:20
Speaker 6: with the Voting Rights Act essentially gone, all those protections
34:24
Speaker 6: gone that were hard fought in 1965?
34:26
Speaker 5: Can you talk a little bit about that?
34:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, I sure can. And, you know, I get asked,
34:30
Speaker 1: you know, what my favorite part of being in this
34:32
Speaker 1: job is, is the fact that Lord DeLore put me
34:34
Speaker 1: here for a time such as this. Because we are
34:37
Speaker 1: fighting fights that my grandparents had to fight. And the
34:40
Speaker 1: alternative to me in this office? I can guarantee you
34:43
Speaker 1: would not be standing up for these rights, right? So
34:46
Speaker 1: we have led the lawsuits, actually. Me, I've co-led with
34:50
Speaker 1: a few of my colleagues in lawsuits that have defeated
34:53
Speaker 1: Trump's effort to take over the state's role in elections, right?
34:58
Speaker 1: We've defeated his lawsuits as it relates to birthright citizenship, right?
35:03
Speaker 1: These are the types of things that we've had to
35:04
Speaker 1: stand up for. It's painful to have to re-litigate these
35:11
Speaker 1: issues But it's powerful in a sense that we get
35:14
Speaker 1: to reiterate and reaffirm to Nevadans and others all across
35:19
Speaker 1: the nation now that the law still means something. We
35:22
Speaker 1: don't win all of them, but we win 85 to
35:24
Speaker 1: 90 percent of them. Right. We got a B plus,
35:27
Speaker 1: a minus.
35:29
Speaker 2: Right.
35:29
Speaker 1: And working hard on this stuff. And it's a and
35:32
Speaker 1: it's also part of why I say my name is
35:35
Speaker 1: I'm a husband and a father and then attorney general,
35:37
Speaker 1: because it frees me up. It frees me up to
35:40
Speaker 1: take on challenges that some people would be afraid to
35:42
Speaker 1: take on because they don't want to be, they want
35:46
Speaker 1: to be reelected. I'm going to take up these challenges
35:48
Speaker 1: because these things, they have more permanence beyond my position
35:53
Speaker 1: right now. And I'm proud to continue fighting.
35:56
Speaker 4: What did you tell Nevada businesses that, you know, I
36:00
Speaker 4: was going to let you finish before I correct you.
36:02
Speaker 2: Nevada.
36:03
Speaker 5: Long A.
36:04
Speaker 2: Long A. Yeah. Nevada.
36:06
Speaker 4: No.
36:07
Speaker 2: Nevada.
36:07
Speaker 1: Yes.
36:08
Speaker 2: Okay.
36:08
Speaker 4: What did you tell Nevada businesses that convinced them you'd
36:11
Speaker 4: be better for business than a Republican governor because they
36:14
Speaker 4: backed Lombardo in 2022, right?
36:16
Speaker 2: The Retail Association of Nevada?
36:18
Speaker 1: Yeah.
36:18
Speaker 2: So what did you tell them to convince them to
36:19
Speaker 2: back you now?
36:20
Speaker 1: Yeah. I can show them better than I can tell them.
36:24
Speaker 1: I mean, these tariffs. So let's back up again. Your governor,
36:27
Speaker 1: our governor says that We need to protect the billionaires
36:30
Speaker 1: because they just create the jobs. Last I checked, small
36:32
Speaker 1: businesses are the ones creating those jobs. And they're getting demolished.
36:36
Speaker 1: And so the 8,000 members of the Retailers Association appreciate
36:39
Speaker 1: the fact that I recognize that they're the ones, they're
36:41
Speaker 1: the backbones, they're being demolished. And I stood up and
36:44
Speaker 1: fought those tariffs while Joe Lombardo said we should feel
36:46
Speaker 1: a little pain from them.
36:48
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Trump said that too. That's talking points great
36:51
Speaker 2: from Trump.
36:51
Speaker 1: I mean, when I tell you that this is his acolyte,
36:54
Speaker 1: it's Trump's acolyte, when I tell you that this boy...
36:57
Speaker 1: Kisses up to, kowtows and capitulates. This is what I mean.
36:59
Speaker 1: He lies down. This is what he does.
37:01
Speaker 2: Right.
37:02
Speaker 1: And so the retailers have seen that they've seen me
37:03
Speaker 1: fight for the tariffs against the tariffs. They've seen me
37:05
Speaker 1: fight against organized retail crime. Right. They see me fight
37:09
Speaker 1: against them on things, but do so in a in
37:11
Speaker 1: an amicable way. You know, I know how to work
37:13
Speaker 1: with folks.
37:14
Speaker 2: Right.
37:15
Speaker 1: I return phone calls. That's important.
37:17
Speaker 2: Right.
37:18
Speaker 1: And so at the end of the day, the retailers,
37:21
Speaker 1: I think, appreciate it and recognize the fact that I'm
37:23
Speaker 1: going to be a governor who represents the entirety of
37:25
Speaker 1: the state, businesses and consumers, right, who's open-minded, who understands
37:30
Speaker 1: that we've got to move the ball forward. And that
37:33
Speaker 1: requires us to work across the aisle and across industries.
37:37
Speaker 1: And so I think that's one.
37:39
Speaker 2: Of the reasons why they— You said organized retail crime?
37:41
Speaker 1: Yeah.
37:42
Speaker 2: What is that real quick?
37:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got groups of folks who literally are— groups
37:48
Speaker 1: who organize how they're going to steal stuff. Gotcha.
37:51
Speaker 2: Okay.
37:52
Speaker 1: We used to call them boosters.
37:54
Speaker 2: We used to call them boosters.
37:56
Speaker 1: I do have a question.
37:56
Speaker 3: So would you, I don't want to say attacking, but
37:58
Speaker 3: suing and getting a lot of money from people, whether
38:01
Speaker 3: it's the Warner Brothers Paramount lawsuit or the energy company lawsuit.
38:06
Speaker 3: When you start suing these companies and these huge companies, Now,
38:11
Speaker 3: on the other side, are these companies against you on
38:13
Speaker 3: the other side, giving money to the people that you're
38:15
Speaker 3: going against and giving them millions of dollars?
38:17
Speaker 1: And how does that affect your campaign? My presumption is
38:22
Speaker 1: that some of that money is going to the other side.
38:25
Speaker 5: Right.
38:25
Speaker 1: I don't track it, frankly, because it doesn't matter to
38:28
Speaker 1: me one way or the other. I'm going to do
38:29
Speaker 1: what I think is right.
38:30
Speaker 3: Period.
38:31
Speaker 1: If you're harming the bad ones, I got to get you. Right. Period.
38:35
Speaker 1: So but let's be clear. Business interests have more generally
38:40
Speaker 1: aligned themselves with the Republican in the race, the incumbent, right?
38:44
Speaker 1: And mine has been more grassroots. We've been able to
38:48
Speaker 1: break records in terms of our fundraising. Nowhere near what
38:50
Speaker 1: he's raised, though. Of course. Let's be clear. You know,
38:54
Speaker 1: this data center conversation that's happening right now, he's received
38:57
Speaker 1: $ 2 million from data centers into a pack, right? Flock cameras,
39:01
Speaker 1: you've heard this whole thing about. He's gotten at least
39:05
Speaker 1: half a million, I think maybe a million dollars from
39:06
Speaker 1: flock camera folks, right? from the energy company out there,
39:11
Speaker 1: he's gotten tens of thousands of dollars. I've gotten zero.
39:14
Speaker 1: Not that I would take it. But you sued him,
39:16
Speaker 1: so they ain't going to give you nothing. I mean,
39:17
Speaker 1: you know, I guess though, but even if they try it,
39:20
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the fact of the matter is,
39:22
Speaker 1: you know, we are, you know, we have different opinions
39:25
Speaker 1: on these issues that, you know, I'm fine with them
39:28
Speaker 1: not supporting me on this. You know, we're going to-
39:30
Speaker 1: to win. This is always a case between the money
39:33
Speaker 1: versus the many.
39:33
Speaker 2: Of course.
39:35
Speaker 1: He got the money. I got the many. And this
39:37
Speaker 1: is how we're going to win.
39:38
Speaker 2: Do you want more data centers?
39:40
Speaker 1: I do not want more data centers per se. What
39:42
Speaker 1: I want is that data centers are going to actually
39:45
Speaker 1: be in our state. They're going to have to do
39:46
Speaker 1: a few things. Number one, not raise money. a consumer
39:49
Speaker 1: rate by one red cent, right? And I've already introduced
39:53
Speaker 1: legislation to stop them from doing that, right? They're going
39:55
Speaker 1: to have to ensure they use something alternative to our
39:58
Speaker 1: fresh water. They're going to have to build out the
39:59
Speaker 1: grid to accommodate their need. They're going to have to
40:01
Speaker 1: use green energy to fuel their facility. They're going to
40:06
Speaker 1: have to have community input before these things come in.
40:09
Speaker 1: If they don't want them, they should be forced on them.
40:12
Speaker 1: And I'm going to end the tax breaks going forward
40:14
Speaker 1: because our current governor hasn't audited the other data centers
40:18
Speaker 1: to see if they've actually upheld the end of the
40:19
Speaker 1: bargains relative to what they're supposed to do to get
40:23
Speaker 1: these tax breaks.
40:23
Speaker 2: That just makes sense. I was just thinking about this,
40:25
Speaker 2: but I don't know anything about any of this. Right.
40:27
Speaker 4: But I was just thinking for all of these communities
40:29
Speaker 4: that don't want data centers in their communities, if the
40:32
Speaker 4: data centers are going in their communities, why don't the
40:35
Speaker 4: data centers just pay the community's water.
40:37
Speaker 2: And electric bill?
40:39
Speaker 1: There's a community benefits program. portion that i think is
40:43
Speaker 1: very important i don't know if that's what it would
40:44
Speaker 1: be i mean that you know communities need to be
40:46
Speaker 1: able to organize and and negotiate that themselves but there
40:49
Speaker 1: certainly should be a benefit that these data centers are
40:51
Speaker 1: bringing to the communities in which they're operating.
40:53
Speaker 2: Because they're making billions of dollars absolutely yeah yeah.
40:56
Speaker 1: So i mean that's part of what i would say
40:58
Speaker 1: as well there needs to be a community benefits plan
41:00
Speaker 1: that requires local higher union work and you know things
41:02
Speaker 1: of that sort so some of it.
41:04
Speaker 6: Ain't worth the death you know like there's all the
41:06
Speaker 6: environmental issues that they bring to like dirtying the water.
41:09
Speaker 5: It's not just paying the bill, but what it does
41:11
Speaker 5: to the actual water.
41:12
Speaker 1: And we live in the desert, man, so you can't
41:13
Speaker 1: take my water.
41:14
Speaker 5: You can't mess up with the water.
41:15
Speaker 4: I'm with you, but they're building them anyway. So to
41:18
Speaker 4: your point, there has to be some type of community benefit.
41:22
Speaker 6: I'm curious on this, because this has overwhelmingly and disproportionately
41:25
Speaker 6: impacted communities of color throughout the country, the data center issue.
41:30
Speaker 6: You are a black man from Dallas, running in Nevada.
41:35
Speaker 6: The black population there is roughly 10%. But overall, do
41:40
Speaker 6: you have a targeted black agenda? Like so often our
41:43
Speaker 6: folks are asked to wait until after election and then, well,
41:47
Speaker 6: let's just wait for the second term. We saw that
41:49
Speaker 6: happen with President Obama. How important is it to you
41:53
Speaker 6: that black Nevadans know that you're not going to just be, again,
41:56
Speaker 6: a symbolic figure, but a representational one with an agenda
41:59
Speaker 6: that meets the demands they have?
42:01
Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked. And my answer is similar to
42:03
Speaker 1: what I said a minute ago. I can show you
42:04
Speaker 1: better than I can tell you. I've been in office
42:06
Speaker 1: now since 2012, and I have always demonstrated my desire
42:11
Speaker 1: to ensure that all communities, including the African-American community, get
42:14
Speaker 1: opportunities that are presented to them. I'll give you a
42:16
Speaker 1: prime example. When we were bringing the Raider Stadium deal,
42:19
Speaker 1: I was the minority leader in the state Senate. They
42:23
Speaker 1: needed votes because they needed some of my votes because
42:25
Speaker 1: it was more than just a half, you know, a
42:28
Speaker 1: 50 percent plus one vote. And part of my negotiation
42:31
Speaker 1: was that I speak in the community benefits plans. you
42:34
Speaker 1: have to have a community benefits agreement associated with anything
42:37
Speaker 1: coming out of this chamber. And that agreement is going
42:40
Speaker 1: to have to include opportunities for minority owned businesses, black
42:42
Speaker 1: owned businesses, women owned businesses, veteran owned businesses. And not
42:46
Speaker 1: just at the, you know, operation stage at the design
42:50
Speaker 1: stage and the construction stage. And so I initiated the
42:54
Speaker 1: conversation and that type of conversation has occurred subsequent. You know,
43:00
Speaker 1: when we talked about trying to, we try to bring a,
43:02
Speaker 1: electric car shop called Faraday. You know, I reiterated that.
43:06
Speaker 1: You know, if you're going to do it in North
43:07
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, North Las Vegas has a lot of black folks.
43:09
Speaker 1: I want them employed, right? And so, you know, I
43:14
Speaker 1: stand on that. And part of it is because of
43:17
Speaker 1: my philosophy that the entirety of the Nevada family deserves
43:20
Speaker 1: to be represented, period. I believe everybody from every background
43:23
Speaker 1: should have an opportunity to succeed in our state. And
43:26
Speaker 1: I'm going to stand on that when I'm governor as well.
43:28
Speaker 2: I mean, it's interesting, right?
43:30
Speaker 4: Because we was just in Vegas over the past weekend
43:32
Speaker 4: and it feels to me like, you know, this beautiful
43:36
Speaker 4: state that was built around gaming and tourism is kind
43:41
Speaker 4: of changing a little bit.
43:42
Speaker 2: I don't know if people are gambling like they used
43:45
Speaker 2: to be. I don't know, right?
43:45
Speaker 1: I don't think people got the money.
43:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't have the money.
43:47
Speaker 1: That's right.
43:48
Speaker 4: So when you got AI and technology reshaping the economy,
43:52
Speaker 4: what does the state's next industry need to be? Mm-hmm.
43:57
Speaker 1: Well, I think we need to be open to Many
43:58
Speaker 1: different industries. One of the ones in which I've said
44:00
Speaker 1: I want to try to attract and diversify is the
44:03
Speaker 1: financial industry. We're one of the largest metropolitan areas in
44:06
Speaker 1: Las Vegas without a financial district. And I've already been
44:09
Speaker 1: in conversation with some folks in the chamber organizations to
44:13
Speaker 1: see what that looks like. I'm not trying to replicate
44:15
Speaker 1: Wall Street, per se, but certainly an industry that can
44:21
Speaker 1: chime in when we are existing like we are right now,
44:23
Speaker 1: which is with a downsizing of tourism. and gaming numbers
44:28
Speaker 1: going down. I do have one.
44:30
Speaker 2: I know you got to go.
44:30
Speaker 1: I do have one question.
44:31
Speaker 3: You know, just reading some of the, when I read
44:34
Speaker 3: Reddit and some of the things when I ask about you, brother,
44:36
Speaker 3: some people would say, well, you know, you do a
44:37
Speaker 3: lot for the community, meaning you see a lot of
44:39
Speaker 3: these companies, whether it's Discord or social media companies or,
44:42
Speaker 3: you know, kids being addictive, whether it's fighting monopolies in
44:46
Speaker 3: the city with ticket sales or it's different targeting, deceptive lending.
44:50
Speaker 1: People always say that's amazing, but how does that help Nevada?
44:54
Speaker 1: Did I say it right? Yeah, you said it right.
44:55
Speaker 2: How does it help Nevada? Yeah.
44:56
Speaker 1: So what would you say to those people? Well, I say,
44:58
Speaker 1: I think in a few ways, let's talk about protecting
45:01
Speaker 1: our kids in the first place, right? That's actually, it
45:04
Speaker 1: makes me smile because that's, that's, that's one of the
45:06
Speaker 1: most things, the things I'm most proud of is this
45:08
Speaker 1: meta settlement that we just got. I sued Facebook, Instagram,
45:11
Speaker 1: and Messenger, I think three years ago, maybe two years ago.
45:14
Speaker 1: And about a month ago, we settled this case in
45:16
Speaker 1: a multi-state settlement, which is separate and apart from our
45:19
Speaker 1: own lawsuit. And because of that work, our kids' mental
45:23
Speaker 1: health is going to improve virtually overnight, right? Because they're
45:26
Speaker 1: not going to be getting these pings during school. They're
45:29
Speaker 1: going to be off the thing between 12 a.m. and
45:32
Speaker 1: 6 a.m., right? They're getting rid of the filters that
45:35
Speaker 1: are causing young girls to have body dysmorphia issues, right?
45:38
Speaker 1: They're getting rid of the likes and the loves as defaults, right?
45:41
Speaker 1: These are the types of things that we know because
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Speaker 1: we've done a study in our own state. Our university has.
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Speaker 1: University of Nevada has done a study, and it has
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Speaker 1: demonstrated that these things have bad mental health impacts on
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Speaker 1: our children. And there, there, there is no question that
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Speaker 1: there's a positive impact on those types of things. I
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Speaker 1: was in my state. I got a settlement with Roblox,
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Speaker 1: which is a, you know, a kid's social.
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Speaker 2: We know what Roblox is.
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Speaker 1: I got six kids.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Well, you would, you'd be happy to know then that
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Speaker 1: I have gotten a settlement with them. There's requiring them
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Speaker 1: to put in new requirements and protections to keep your
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Speaker 1: kids from having sexual predators approach them on Roblox. That
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Speaker 1: that's my word.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 1: That's what I was able to do. And it's through
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Speaker 1: working with other attorneys general to be clear, but also
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Speaker 1: being being unafraid of these big corporations who have a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, who might give their money to the
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Speaker 1: other team, to your point. But it's benefiting our children.
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Speaker 1: And I'm happy about that.
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Speaker 6: The one thing that I that I would say to
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Speaker 6: Envy's point is there is now running for governor in particular,
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Speaker 6: an intense focus that has to be placed on Nevada
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Speaker 6: as attorney general. And in a certain period, oftentimes in
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Speaker 6: the courtroom you have a closing argument. So if you
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Speaker 6: were making a closing argument to Nevadans, what would your
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Speaker 6: closing argument be for why you're the best person for
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Speaker 6: this role as governor?
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Speaker 1: No, thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Look, I
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Speaker 1: just firmly believe that Nevadans deserve to have a governor
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Speaker 1: who's going to look out for the entirety of the
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Speaker 1: Nevada family. And by that, I mean as broad as
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Speaker 1: you can think of it. You could have been here
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Speaker 1: for three generations or for three days. If you live
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Speaker 1: in Nevada, you're part of the Nevada family. You can
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Speaker 1: be married with two and a half kids or a
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Speaker 1: single parent with three kids. If you live in Nevada,
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Speaker 1: you're part of the Nevada family. Black, white, Latino, Asian,
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Speaker 1: Native American, if you live in Nevada, you're part of
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Speaker 1: the Nevada family. Gay or straight, if you live in Nevada,
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Speaker 1: you're part of the Nevada family. Democrat, Republican, Independent, you
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Speaker 1: deserve to have someone who's going to look out for you, period,
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Speaker 1: point blank. And I've demonstrated my ability to do that
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Speaker 1: as your senator, as your attorney general, and I'm looking
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Speaker 1: to take that fight for you over to the governor's office.
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Speaker 1: And I hope I get that opportunity.
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Speaker 4: You'd be the first black governor. How significant would that
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Speaker 4: be to you?
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Speaker 1: Very meaningful. And at the same time, pretty pitiful.
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Speaker 2: Attorney General hungry, man. His stomach been over here growling.
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Speaker 1: Why you calling me up, man? I shouldn't have told
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Speaker 1: you nothing. He didn't even hear my stomach growling.
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Speaker 6: If that doggone Republican governor takes that tire thief.
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Speaker 1: I'll fight you.
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Speaker 2: I think we got a chocolate bar if he that hungry.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Can I get a stale score bar or something?
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Speaker 2: We appreciate you. We wish you the best of luck.
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Speaker 1: Please visit my website, ford4nevada. com. Check us out. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: A-Ron Ford.
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Speaker 5: Did I say it right?
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Speaker 2: A-Ron.
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Speaker 4: A-Ron.
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Speaker 1: Damn it, damn it, man.
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Speaker 2: I've been practicing, too.
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Speaker 1: A-Ron Ford.
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Speaker 2: It's The Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: Good morning. Hold up. Every day I wake up.
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Speaker 2: Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. Y'all finished or
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Speaker 2: y'all done?