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Iran War Update | California Gubernatorial Election · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 3: Okay uh. The Iranians are trying.
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  Speaker 2: To figure out who is going to be the Grand
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  Speaker 2: puba uh and dealing with the attack. So President Trump
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  Speaker 2: yesterday acknowledged the possibility that Iran's next ruler could be
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  Speaker 2: as bad as the Iola Jumeni. And it looks like
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  Speaker 2: he will be because his son Mojtaba Rameni JM and
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  Speaker 2: I Ramene hardliners, probably going to become the next Poohba.
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  Speaker 3: And it's nothing's going to change.
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  Speaker 2: There were some talk there the other two by the way,
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  Speaker 2: on this try triump for it. We're actually fairly moderate
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  Speaker 2: considering it's Iran. But it looks like that the supreme
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  Speaker 2: leader son is going to go ahead and become become
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  Speaker 2: the guy. And the Israeli's defense minister said that if
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  Speaker 2: that is who is going to happen, he is going
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  Speaker 2: to become an unequivocal target for elimination.
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  Speaker 3: Like those words. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So the bombing continues on command centers, police station detention centers,
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  Speaker 2: intelligence offices in Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Are continuing to be bombed.
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  Speaker 2: Stocks in Asia stock the market fell precipitously. The other thing,
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  Speaker 2: which yesterday I shared this matter of fact, I've been
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  Speaker 2: saying this for a few days, is why Iran is
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  Speaker 2: attacking its neighbors in the Gulf.
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  Speaker 3: Fighting goes on across the region.
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait all announced
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  Speaker 2: new Iran attacks on them yesterday actually today, it happened
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  Speaker 2: early this morning. I remember we're ten hours they're ten
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  Speaker 2: hours ahead of us. The US Central Command is conducting
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  Speaker 2: twenty four to seven strikes into Iran, and it's being
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  Speaker 2: described from.
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  Speaker 3: The seabed to space to cyber space.
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  Speaker 2: And in Lebanon, Israel is ramping up its fight against Hezblah,
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  Speaker 2: the lunatics that have decided they're going to join the fight,
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  Speaker 2: even though Lebanon or Hezbola and Lebanon has had nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with this. It was against Iran, So of
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  Speaker 2: course they start launching missiles and now Israel goes after them.
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  Speaker 2: Israeli military issued a warning to those people in South Lebanon,
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  Speaker 2: get the hell out.
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  Speaker 3: What else is going on.
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  Speaker 2: Funeral rights for the Grand Vizier there hormone has been postponed,
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  Speaker 2: although you're going to see millions of people out there
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  Speaker 2: who are going to be going to his funeral, and
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  Speaker 2: they will be demonstrating. The big issue also is evacuation
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  Speaker 2: of the hundreds of thousands of foreigners in these major capitals,
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  Speaker 2: major cities across the region. The US State Department is
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  Speaker 2: now facilitating charter flights. And this was a real tough
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  Speaker 2: one because the Trump administration had no plans, didn't have
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  Speaker 2: contingency plans to evacuate Americans from all of these gul states,
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  Speaker 2: and they were caught flat footed.
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  Speaker 3: And you got one reason going one way.
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  Speaker 2: You got Donald Trump saying something, Marco Rubio saying something,
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  Speaker 2: and they're just just absolutely bouncing around. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is not being handled well. This is the aftermath. Day
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  Speaker 2: two is not good at all. The attacks are brilliant,
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  Speaker 2: that's one thing that a military does brilliantly, our military.
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  Speaker 2: But the problem is what happens after that. That's where
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  Speaker 2: we're not very good at We're not good at all.
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  Speaker 2: So that's up in the air. The President said the
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  Speaker 2: United States might deploy the Navy to escort commercial ships
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  Speaker 2: through the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 3: The it just goes on the death toll in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: The Red Crescent Society, their Red Cross said the death
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  Speaker 2: toll is seven.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred and eighty seven. Also, this didn't get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of traction.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't understand why the bombing of a girls
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  Speaker 2: elementary school in Iran, it is being reported, killed at
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  Speaker 2: least one hundred and seventy five people, mainly girls, schoolgirls.
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  Speaker 2: And you would think the killing of those many people
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  Speaker 2: with a direct hit, those many youngsters, with a direct
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  Speaker 2: hit on the school, would be huge news with huge reaction.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of surprised that did not happen. And here
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  Speaker 3: in the United.
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  Speaker 2: States, a Fed Reserve officer told The New York Times
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  Speaker 2: energy prices could translate to a more persistent inflation problem.
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  Speaker 3: How is it that it could persist? How is it that.
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  Speaker 2: Higher prices don't specifically translate to.
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  Speaker 3: Inflation?
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  Speaker 2: And then I want to end with this one, and
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  Speaker 2: then I'm going to go on with California politics a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, and that is Turkey's Defense ministry announced that
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  Speaker 2: a ballistic missile fired from Iran had been shot down
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  Speaker 2: by NATO air defenses heading towards Turkey, heading towards Turkish airspace.
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  Speaker 2: Now this one, I can't believe that Iran is this nuts.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's pretty nuts.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've talked about this before and I will
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  Speaker 2: again as to why Iran is in this position and
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  Speaker 2: why these hardliners I think are kind of nuts, but
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  Speaker 2: this one is particularly crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: Because an attack on Turkey means it's an attack on
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  Speaker 2: a NATO country, which means under Article five of the
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  Speaker 2: NATO Charter, every single one of those NATO countries, twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven of them would be at.
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  Speaker 3: War with Iran.
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  Speaker 2: And now Iran is at war with basically the entire world,
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  Speaker 2: the entire Western world. And if they think Putin is
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  Speaker 2: going to jump in and defend, or maybe China is
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  Speaker 2: going to jump and defend, ain't going to happen. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I just I don't get it. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't in many cases. And it's really important to
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  Speaker 2: them to develop those ballistic missiles, and it's really important
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  Speaker 2: for them to develop that nuclear program. Although I will say,
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  Speaker 2: and one of the other controversies is the argument is
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  Speaker 2: that there was no eminent fear of attack. There was
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  Speaker 2: no eminent attack. I agree Iran was not imminently within
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  Speaker 2: days or weeks of having a bomb and using it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so but long term, I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: already had the three thousand missiles is what's being counted
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  Speaker 2: and reported on. So do you wait until they have
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand missiles? Do you wait until they actually do
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  Speaker 2: develop a bomb? So let's say it's a year from now,
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  Speaker 2: when do you cut off the head of the snake?
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  Speaker 3: Do you wait?
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I think there's a lot of justification
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  Speaker 2: here my call on this. Okay, California politics are fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: A couple things about California politics, state politics.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting thing.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, if you're a Republican, particularly right, Democrats outnumber Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by about two to one, Republicans
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  Speaker 2: don't have a much of an easy shot at getting
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  Speaker 2: elected in this state. The Democratic Party has a super
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  Speaker 2: majority both the Senate and the Assembly. They can override
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  Speaker 2: and veta override any veto, and they have a Democratic governor,
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  Speaker 2: which means that well, basically, anything that the governor and
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  Speaker 2: or the legislature wants happens.
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  Speaker 3: That's one.
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  Speaker 2: The other issue is that California runs the top two
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  Speaker 2: winners in the primary in the gubernatorial primary, and it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter what party they are. So if you have
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  Speaker 2: two Democrats that are in the top two. You have
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat running against a Democrat. Now, usually when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to primaries, you think of a Republican versus a
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  Speaker 2: Democrat running and then you elect one or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Not in California, it's the top two, no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that so important? I mean, come on, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Democrat is going to be elected. Yeah, hang
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  Speaker 2: on a minute. The Democrat State Democratic Party Chair Rusty
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  Speaker 2: Hicks wrote a letter, an open letter, and he said
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  Speaker 2: that the Democratic candidates who are the lowest in the polls,
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  Speaker 2: the opinion polls, should drop out of the race. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, even though the odds are relatively low, California
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  Speaker 2: cannot risk a Republican being elected as the next governor
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  Speaker 2: at a time when President Trump is in the White House.
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  Speaker 2: And why, hang on a minute, does that make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: A Democrat, of course, is going to be elected. Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are out number two to one, well with the two
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  Speaker 2: party with the two top candidates rule getting There are
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  Speaker 2: nine Democrats that are running, only nine and the fear
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  Speaker 2: is they are going to split the vote, cannibalize each
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  Speaker 2: other in such a way as that the two top
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  Speaker 2: candidates may be Republicans because there are so few Republicans running,
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  Speaker 2: and now here comes the argument of racism.
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  Speaker 3: I even love this one.
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  Speaker 2: So Thurman, Okay, Tony Thurman, who is is black and Latino,
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  Speaker 2: he states superintendent of public Instruction.
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  Speaker 3: He posted a.
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  Speaker 2: Video accusing the party of urging every person of color
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  Speaker 2: to drop out of the race. All you care about
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  Speaker 2: is white people. Well, actually, what we care about are
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  Speaker 2: the polls. If you look at the polls, it shows
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  Speaker 2: that you who happened to be black and a Latino
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  Speaker 2: or black, you're not getting the support in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the electorate. We want you to drop out. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: you want me to drop out because I'm black. Bernie
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  Speaker 2: Sanders was right. Our political system is rigged, corrupted by
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  Speaker 2: the political elites, the wealthy and the well connected.
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  Speaker 3: He sounds like Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: The California Democratic Party is essentially telling every person of
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  Speaker 2: color in the race for governor to drop out. And
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  Speaker 2: he said the party favored three flawed white candidates, billionaire
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  Speaker 2: Tom Steyer, Representative electric Eric Stallwell, and former Representative Katie Porter.
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  Speaker 2: Now I find that fascinating because is everything racial?
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  Speaker 3: Is that where we're at?
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  Speaker 2: Because let's say you happen to be part of a
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  Speaker 2: group and you are arrested. Let's say let's say you're
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  Speaker 2: in South Central, which is primarily black, and you get arrested.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't get arrested because you may be a criminal
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  Speaker 2: or the accusation is real.
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  Speaker 3: You've got arrested because you're black.
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  Speaker 2: If you're polling less than two percent of the vote,
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  Speaker 2: and the state party chair says, hey, stay the hell
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  Speaker 2: out of the race because you're so low in the polling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, it's not because of that. It's because I
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  Speaker 2: am black. That's how crazy it has. Is there anything
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't touch an argument or an acquisition of racism anymore?
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  Speaker 3: It does not.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got two nine Democrats running and you've got
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  Speaker 2: two Republicans running, And is the splintering going to happen
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  Speaker 2: to such an extent that Republicans are going to be
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  Speaker 2: at the top.
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  Speaker 3: Of the market.
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  Speaker 2: There, wow, really really crazy stuff. And the five candidates
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  Speaker 2: is a Public Policy Institute poll find that the five
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  Speaker 2: candidates who lead the contests have well, each of them,
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  Speaker 2: I have more than five percent of the vote, the
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  Speaker 2: other ones have. Of the other four, each of them
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  Speaker 2: have less than five percent. But if you have four
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  Speaker 2: each of them having let's say four percent, that's sixteen
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  Speaker 2: percent of the vote. You think that's enough to really
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  Speaker 2: affect a primary election, you bet it is. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 2: the elections are coming up November, as you know, big time.
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  Speaker 2: And here is the argument that's being made, since the
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  Speaker 2: elections are rigged as a matter of course, because to
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  Speaker 2: certainly MAGA followers and the president, if a Democrat wins
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  Speaker 2: an election, it is rigged. The only free election in
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  Speaker 2: this country is if a Republican wins. That is our democracy. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: with that in mind, here is the myth that's going around,
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  Speaker 2: and that is that the president will declare a national
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  Speaker 2: emergency based on the fact that we have no democracy
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  Speaker 2: and the elections are rigged and will eliminate the elections
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  Speaker 2: in November. We'll simply say that's democracy demands that we
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  Speaker 2: have an election that is not rigged, and therefore I
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  Speaker 2: am declaring an emergency. This is Donald Trump saying that
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  Speaker 2: and election the election will be either eliminator or postponed.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the president remains a president. Well, that
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  Speaker 2: is a myth. Now, as much as the president is
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  Speaker 2: interfering or wants to interfere, that's not the avenue he's
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  Speaker 2: going to take. That's not the way it works at all.
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  Speaker 2: What he wants to do is simply ban mail ballots,
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  Speaker 2: ban voting machines because of foreign intervention, and demand ID
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  Speaker 2: for voting to prove your an American citizen. Now a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us think that, you know, demanding ID. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it says only citizens can vote, that's the law.
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  Speaker 2: Then what is wrong with saying, okay, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: prove it. So here is what the other side says
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  Speaker 2: that demanding ID disenfranchises people because a lot of really poor.
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  Speaker 3: People don't have ID. But then the argument.
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  Speaker 2: Also reads that by law they should be transported to
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  Speaker 2: polling booths because they can't get there.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's a dumb argument.
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  Speaker 2: I think that somehow does away with the mail in
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  Speaker 2: ballot and the votes. And even though the president says
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  Speaker 2: that he has the right to go in and institute changes,
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  Speaker 2: he does. The Constitution is very very clear, which says
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  Speaker 2: the states control the manner and the place and the
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  Speaker 2: time that elections will be held. It's right there. The
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  Speaker 2: federal government does not have the power to do that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's a stretch to say that the very nature of
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  Speaker 2: elections are fraudulent and the president therefore can declare an
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  Speaker 2: emergency and undo the voting itself. That is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a stretch and where the court's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to go with that one? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: And the guy who was part of the lawsuits on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of Donald Trump to undo all this a guy
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  Speaker 2: by the name of Peter Tickton.
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  Speaker 3: He's a Florida lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: And what he is advocating is this draft executive order
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  Speaker 2: that's going around and he is part of the pro
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  Speaker 2: Trump activists to say their in coordination with the White
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  Speaker 2: House on the seventeen page draft executive order that claims
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  Speaker 2: China interfered in the twenty twenty election. That's the basis
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  Speaker 2: to declare a national emergency because of a.
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  Speaker 3: Foreign power interfering in our election.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore the president has the right to come in and
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  Speaker 2: change it. By the way, I don't know how China
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  Speaker 2: interfering or not undoes what the Constitution says in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the states controlling it. I have yet to figure
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  Speaker 2: that one out. But here is the well, here's exactly
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  Speaker 2: the argument, and this from a Tickton. Here we have
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  Speaker 2: a situation where the president is aware there are foreign
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  Speaker 2: interests that are interfering in our election process, and that
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  Speaker 2: causes a national emergency where the president has been able
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  Speaker 2: to deal with. Now, there is evidence that China considered
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  Speaker 2: influencing the election but didn't go through with him. And
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind, in the twenty sixteen election where he won,
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  Speaker 2: where there was more than just an argument that Russia
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  Speaker 2: was interfering with the election, the president said that that
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  Speaker 2: is a hoax because Putin was in favor of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And therefore, again, anybody in favor is a friend, anybody
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  Speaker 2: against is an enemy. So there is the president coming
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  Speaker 2: in and interfering with the election, seeking executive power over
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  Speaker 2: the elections by declaring an emergency that a foreign power
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  Speaker 2: is interfering. Therefore he has the right to override the constitution, override.
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  Speaker 3: Article one straight out. Where do you think the courts
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  Speaker 3: are going to go on this one? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is chutzpah with a capital ch. That's
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  Speaker 2: it's astounding. It's weird times weird, okay. And and Padilla,
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  Speaker 2: Alex Padilla, our senator is preparing for the president to
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  Speaker 2: declare a national emergency. And now can you imagine the
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  Speaker 2: state senator saying, let's prepare for this to undo the
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  Speaker 2: state election power. It's crazy stuff, okay, good news. Why
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  Speaker 2: you can no longer afford auto insurance? Okay, auto insurance
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  Speaker 2: here in California. Boy are we lucky? Rate increases exceeding
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent since twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Why, well, it's a perfect storm. And let me put
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  Speaker 3: the reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's several reasons. One of them the price. The
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  Speaker 2: cars are heavier, okay, and they do more damage. The
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  Speaker 2: prices of parts are way more. You've got evs, which
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  Speaker 2: are more expensive to fix if a battery goes south
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  Speaker 2: or is somehow damage. The cost of a battery in
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  Speaker 2: an EV is let's say, astronomical. You also have the
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  Speaker 2: tariffs that make cars more expensive, and it just keeps ongoing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. The other thing is it's the insurance.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner here in California who either okays or.
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  Speaker 3: Denies rate increases.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, a couple of times, like State Farm
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  Speaker 2: had a rate decrease during the pandemic because they were
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  Speaker 2: sell you were still paying insurance and you weren't driving,
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  Speaker 2: and so we actually got a rate decrease.
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  Speaker 3: How is that for a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: So you have an insurance commissioner who is elected.
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  Speaker 3: That's very few states do that, and so the.
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  Speaker 2: Insurance commissioner sort of has a duty or has a
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  Speaker 2: responsibility to the electorate, which means that since he in
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  Speaker 2: this case has to be elected, you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: see him jumping on rate increases.
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  Speaker 3: It just isn't a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: So it's very difficult to get a rate in a
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  Speaker 2: rate increase in California, and.
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  Speaker 3: It bills, and it bills and it.
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  Speaker 2: Bilds, and finally the balloon pops and there is no
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  Speaker 2: choice because insurance companies are saying, Okay, we're leaving the state.
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  Speaker 2: We can't make any money, We're out the door. Oh wait, oh,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: wait a minute. What's going to keep you here? How
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: about you getting the rates or part of the rates
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: that you want so you can stay here.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: That is the other problem.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: What was it last year averages six percent up the
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: top ten insurers. In twenty twenty four, that was a
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: fifteen percent height. Now this is cumulative, this is year
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: to year. So let's start in twenty twenty three, thirteen
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: percent jump, twenty twenty four fifteen percent jump. Last year
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: only six percent jump. But add all that together and
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: that means the California driver paid the state's average premium
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: of eighteen hundred or one thousand dollars in twenty twenty
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: two is going to be paying hundreds dollars more today.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, there we go.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Also the new safety features that help reduce collisions and
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the other thing about cars. Do you remember there was
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: a law that was passed that say that a bumper
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: had to somehow maintain the ability to keep its shape
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: and not be repaired with a collision of five miles
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: an hour or less. That used to be the law
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: that it literally had to sustain, be able to sustain
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: a five mile an hour collision and not be damaged
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: at all. Today, a five mile per hour collision, your
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: bumper is going to cost forty eight thousand dollars to replace.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Now is that hyperbole? Maybe, but not very much. Have
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: you done a car repair lately? It's thousands of cars
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: are just that more expensive. And that's why Proposition one
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: O three passed by the way in nineteen eighty eight,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: because the premiums were skyrocketing. So there we Therefore, we
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: elected an insurance commissioner who has the authority to reduce
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: or deny insurance requests. And what ends up happening is
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the insurance the uh. The insurance commissioner makes the decision.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I mean he has he has the pencil, and if
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: an insurance company's selling millions, hundreds of millions of dollars
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: in California insurance maybe billions, has to go to the
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: insurance commissioner and go please please, unlike ol of for twist,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: can I have seconds? Please?
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: It's excuse me, sir? May I have some more? Yeah?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: There's that too. Yeah, okay, you got the point. Don't
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: correct me.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, after today, the day after, No, it's tomorrow, tomorrow.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's annie.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: No, well seconds isn't the seconds Oliver twist? Do I
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: have that? Right?
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: No?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Can I have some more? No?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I understand that, But where did it come from?
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I am the ghost of Christmas? Further on the.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that didn't happen either, No, no, I don't think so. Okay,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: we're done coming out. Yeah, not that one either, right, Okay,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: we are so done. We'll come back. Doctor Jim Keeney
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: joins us. We have some medical news. Oh no, we don't.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: We have the midterm contest. We have that, right, Yeah, yep.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: It's going to.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Reveal a lot about Trump and Democrat doctor Jim is
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: at eight thirty, So we'll be right back about some
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: election news yesterday with some big news, and then we
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: have an initiative here in California that is really big
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: news and the Trump followers and the Conservators are jumping
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: up and down on this one. This is a win
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: for California for them, or in California for them. We'll
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: be back with all of that, and I'm sure you're confused,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: because I was just confused.
• 25:23
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