The State of the Governor's Race after Swalwell Dropped Out

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Speaker 1: And we continue at what five in the afternoon on The John Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mister Randy Wag is downstairs.

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Speaker 2: John. Hollywood is starting to have a little bit of a bounce back, but box office numbers are through the roof this quarter, way higher than they were last year, which has Hollywood executives and people in Hollywood thinking that maybe the jobs will be coming back. And that is music to Karen Bass's ears. Hollywood is Hollywood. I mean, it's the symbol for the entire world.

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Speaker 1: Forgot the D I'm telling you. I've said it before, I'll say it again. She has dropped more ds than Bruce Jenner.

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Speaker 3: Hollywood is Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's the symbol for the entire world.

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Speaker 1: Did the Wall Street Journal just have a front page piece saying Hollywood is gone and it's not coming back.

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Speaker 2: Movie people are seeing movies. They're just not being shot the way they used to in California, specifically in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: No, they're being shot in Canada, they're being shot in Georgia, they're being shot in Louisiana, and they're being shot where we are today in the state of New Mexico.

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Speaker 2: That's right, they got a great tax credit. Over here.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one eight hundred two to two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. She is the editor of the California Globe. You can read her online at California Globe dot com and follow her on exit Katiesax. Citizen Katie Grimes, Welcome.

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Speaker 4: Hi John, Thank you well.

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Speaker 1: I think the theme of the last five or six days or so is Eric Swalwell.

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Speaker 4: We hardly knew, ye, yeah, except that I keep hearing from members of the media. Oh, we all knew this was going.

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Speaker 1: It seems like he was the Grampy Joe was Senile of California politics, where everyone knew that Grampy Joe was senile privately, but publicly they had to say, oh yeah, you know, you get him behind closed doors. He's doing advanced calculus. He's putting Rubik's cubes together. He can do circles around all of us. It's just on television. He's falling when he's walking up the stairs to get on the airplane. And with Eric Smallwell, you saw all of these gushing quotes from all of these people in Hollywood, these people in politics, these people in the news media about what an upstanding guy he was, a man who was saving democracy, the guy who was willing to stand up to tyrants, a guy who you could always trust to do the right thing. And then we find out that privately they all knew he was a cad, but publicly they postured the opposite way.

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Speaker 4: I think it's because he was a useful idiot to Democrat leadership when you have something on someone who wants to keep his job. He loved obviously being a member of Congress and all the perks that go with it. In his own style, I think he was all too happy to go out there and be the public face of Russia collusion and you know, all the Donald Trump conspiracies. It makes me wonder what they have on Adam Shift, since he doesn't seem to be too different well.

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Speaker 1: And it also makes you wonder how long this is going to go on, because the first one dropped on Friday, and that was a woman who talked to the San Francisco Chronicle and what she really detailed was a violent rape. And then CNN talked to I think four women where they all had different stories. And then yesterday we saw a press conference or maybe it was the day before with another accuser who described a violent rabe and Lisa Bloom, her attorney, said a number of women have contacted her office who say that they have similar stories, similar encounters with Eric Swalwell. You now have prosecutors from all over the country, including Alamede County, Los Angeles County, New York, who are now looking at prosecuting him for sexual misconduct, sexual assault, and rape. And you say to yourself, when is this going to end? Because the guy clearly had no morals. He clearly disrespected women at every opportunity. And I think the people who were trying to use this politically to knock him out of the race may not have anticipated as to how many victims there actually were and how long the story could go on for.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. I think they probably only figured the interns who might have kept text messages and body part photos and that you know, would have and should have been enough to knock him out of office.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I think this thing is going to continue going rather deeply. But I think it also speaks volumes.

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Speaker 5: To the corruption and.

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Speaker 4: Lack of ethics doesn't even sound strong enough in Congress, And I was hearing today that Representative Anna Paulina Luna is forcing the issue on the sexual you know, the payout list, and that never should have been a big secret in Congress. That should have been public all along. I kind of call this the Trump Effects, John, because all this garbage is bubbling to the surface right now, whether it's you know, Somali fraud or or you know, hospice fraud in California, or you know, creep psych Eric Swawell. It's just absolutely fascinating this lensing that seems to be taking place.

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Speaker 1: Well now, Eric Swalwell is out of the race, and we don't have any public pulling that has come out yet showing us just exactly where out Eric Swalwell supporters are landing. But conventional wisdom is that billionaire Tom Steyer will benefit the most, partly because he has the most money on hand. He has certainly spent the most money in this race so far, and he has the biggest ability to go find more dollars out of his own bank account to put into this race. But his positions on the issues are totally bonkers. He claims that if he were to get elected governor, that he would call for a special election to obliterate Proposition thirteen. That Prop thirteen will be the first thing in his crosshairs. He also says that he wants socialized medicine. He wants single payer healthcare in all of California, which means if you have a PPO because your union has negotiated for a generous health care plan, that is going away. If you are a hard working business person and you have earned a nice PPO, a nice Cadillac health care plan, that would be going away. Certainly, single payer health care in California would cost a fortune. Galvin Newsom ran on that plank when he ran for governor and quickly realized that was undoable. Tom Steyer says he has the ability to make it happen. How we don't know. He hasn't really told us, but he says that he would move forward with payer health care. And here's what he's had to say on the subject of immigration. Tom Steyer claims that he would abolish ICE. How you can abolish a federal department as a state governor, I don't know, but that's what he said.

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Speaker 2: That he's going to do.

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Speaker 1: He said that he would put ICE agents in jail and treat them like the mob. He said he would bring those quote kidnapped and detained by eyes back home, which I meet guess means he would take people who have been deported to other countries and buy them plane tickets to come back to California. He said he would give the California Attorney General power to imprison ICE agents and their leadership. He said that taxpayer funded legal representation and support for illegal aliens would happen on his watch. And he said he would ignore a Supreme Court ruling that allows ICE to utilize to use race, language, job, and location to contribute to reasonable suspicion for immigration arrests, and instead California should take matters into our own hands and extend legal protections to his residents despite the federal government's failure. Tom Steyer said, quote, this is about our right as a state to protect our residents.

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Speaker 2: End quote.

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Speaker 1: So he's a guy who doesn't believe in federalism, and he says he's not going to follow federal law and he's going to arrest federal agents when they're in California. This is as far to the left as we think that Newsom is. This is decidedly to the left of where Gavin Newsom positions himself. This guy is looney Tunes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's quite Looney Tunes. But remember Gavin Newsom ran to the left of Gavin Newsom also when he was running for governor. It's once you get in office you realize, oh, we're not a sovereign nation here in California. We're just a state.

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Speaker 5: We're one of.

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Speaker 4: Fifty states that are part of the United States of America. I think I think Tom Steyer has absolutely nothing to campaign on any more than any other Democrat. They already gave away all the free stuff, and so now they're having to tack left of each other every time they campaign. He's just another tax and spend leftist. I wrote this week that he's exposing his political and financial illiteracy. Just because he made a lot of money doesn't mean he knows how to run a state. That's for darn sure. And I think he's just another activist with a big bank account. He's obviously willing to screw California property owners by trying to blow up Proposition thirteen. You know, the more radical, the more lest he runs, the crazier he comes off. And perhaps that's the real Tom Styer.

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Speaker 1: The California Teachers Association, which had endorsed Eric Swalwell for governor, just endorsed Tom Steyer for governor. What do you make of that? Do you think that they made that decision in part because he said he would go after Prop thirteen and he's certainly taking their position on just about every issue of significance in California. Or is it because he has the money and they think he's going to be the winner and they want to bet on the winning GORSQ.

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Speaker 4: Just said he has the money. They're betting on what they think is the winning horse. They want that money, they want the sicko policies that he's pushing because they are certainly not doing anything to help our public school kids. You know, it's just again, it's just it's this moving further and further to the left is exposing that Democrats, particularly in California, have absolutely nothing to offer the voters at all, and the CTA is certainly.

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Speaker 6: Part of that.

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Speaker 1: There is widespread speculation that more videos regarding Katie Porter and I assume mistreating other individuals, whether it's a spouse, a staffer, an intern, someone asking her questions, whatever the case may be, is going to drop and it's going to be extremely damaging. Are you hearing that too? And oh boy, is she keeping a low profile ever since? Eric swallwell and loaded.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I am hearing that too. And I am hoping that Katie Porter is the Democrat nominee for governor in California because that would make a far more interesting race than Tom Steyer.

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Speaker 1: We've also seen some speculation that there could be some movement among those candidates pulling in single digits that propels them into the double digit category. We've certainly seen a lot of money get behind the mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahon. Javier Becerra seems to see some traction going on right now on social media, a lot of followers, a lot of people who are interested in hearing what he has to say. And then certainly Antonio via Ragosa, who just pledged to only serve one term if elected. What do you make of the odds of one of these single digit candidates busting their way through to the double digits.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think with with Eric Swalwell's demise. I think it had to happen.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I don't think Eric Swalwell was a shoe in for the nominee uh at all.

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Speaker 5: But and I think it's why.

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Speaker 4: These these single digit candidates have hung in there a hoping something would happen like this, but be trying to hang in long enough so that you know, they could get enough interviews, there could be enough debates that you know, some of their positions would gain some traction. And now, particularly with Antonio Villa Rugosa coming out and saying on you know, on a news interview that the problems in California were not are not Donald Trump's if they are caused by Democrats in charge, that is going to gain him a lot of attention.

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Speaker 1: If the Democratic friend were to come to you right now and say, Katie, I know you're not a Democrat, but you do follow California politics closely. I want to vote for a Democratic candidate who's a serious person who will tackle California's problems. What advice would you give them?

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Speaker 4: I would say, that's not possible in California.

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Speaker 2: Well not at that point.

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Speaker 1: To that point, let's talk about the Republican candidates, because Donald Trump, the President of the United States, endorsed Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton clearly is creating separation between himself and the Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who wanted the endorsement of the president didn't get it. Neither one of them won the endorsement of the California Republican Party when they met in San Diego last weekend and took the vote on which candidate to endorse. Although it was Bianco who did better than Hilton when the votes took place, he just didn't get over that sixty percent hump that you needed to get to officially win the party endorsem Do you see Hilton running away with this and creating even more separation between him and Bianco, or do you see Bianco fighting his way back.

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Speaker 4: I actually see Hilton running away more with this than I do Bianco being able to fight his way back.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, strategically speaking, if you are a Republican voter who wants a Republican to be elected governor, to my eye, and maybe you disagree, I don't know what Republicans should do is try to split their vote as close to fifty to fifty as possible. If Republicans could take their thirty eight percent or whatever it is and split it fifty to fifty between two candidates, that is their best, if not only, shot at having a Republican be governor.

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Speaker 4: Interesting. I hadn't thought of it like that, John, That is very interesting.

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Speaker 1: Because then you end up with two candidates in the high teens or maybe one in the twenties, and if a Democrat cannot leapfrog that number, which according to public polling, none of them have been able to do that so far, then you end up with two Republicans. For example, I personally prefer Steve Hilton to Chad Bianco, but I want a Republican governor more than I want anything. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to vote for the candidate who's polling behind the Republican leader right now.

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Speaker 2: That's Chad Bianco.

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Speaker 1: So even though I prefer Hilton, I'm going to vote for Bianco because I want a Republican. I want two Republicans on that November ballot.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I wish the California GOP had as much strategy as you do, John.

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Speaker 2: Well, brilliant, you know.

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Speaker 1: I wish they would have endorse both of them and then said, vote for whichever one you want, or maybe, as Randy has suggested, go back to the nineteen seventies when people would by gasoline and if your license plate ended in a value, vote for one. If it ended in a consonant, you voted for the other. And let's just go ahead and split this thing right down the middle.

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Speaker 4: That's even a good strategy. It's better than what they've offered, that's for sure. And I'm with you. I recently gave a talk to a group and told them, look, the worst Republican in California is far better than any Democrat that could lead the state, as we've seen, because they're all going so crazy that so I'm with you, totally with you. I would say I would pray for two Republicans to choose from, all right.

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Speaker 1: Katie Grimes the editor of the California Globe. You can read her online at California Globe dot com and follow her on x at Katie Sach Citizen Katie Grimes, thanks so much for stopping by.

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Speaker 4: Thanks John, good to be with you.

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Speaker 3: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 2: Nice ce.

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Speaker 3: Time for the California crime Blodder.

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Speaker 2: And Randy noticing a theme.

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Speaker 1: There appears to be a lot of arson going on right now in Ontario. Let me just reiterate, we're about to do a story about an arsonist in Ontario and it is a completely different story and a completely different guy than the arsonist in Ontario we told you about last week.

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Speaker 2: A lot of firebugs out there. That guy was torching a toilet paper warehouse. This guy tried to torch the Ontario Mills Mall not a fan of hot topic for mar Here is CBSLA.

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Speaker 7: There was a large fire at a commercial building in Compton today. This is the Magnesium Alloy Products Company on North Alameda Street. Flames burned through the roof, with smokes seen for miles before crews were able to get a handle on it.

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Speaker 8: Fires started inside several stores inside the Ontario Mills Mall and now as suspect is facing arson charges. Cbsla's Joy Benedict speaking customers still shaken by what happened.

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Speaker 3: Get on your stomach right now.

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Speaker 9: A terrifying scene inside the Ontario Mills Mall as alarms went off.

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Speaker 2: I got to get you to evacuate.

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Speaker 9: As alarms went off in Flames seemed to crawl up the wall at the True Religion store inside on Friday, but this wasn't the only fire.

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Speaker 7: It's scary, basically kind of cautious of wanting to go inside.

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Speaker 9: Tuesday shoppers are still wary about the why.

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Speaker 2: Like outdoor malls, if someone tries to start a fire, it's a lot easier to get outside. You're already there.

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Speaker 9: Tuesday shoppers are still wary about the arson as inside the store remains closed. The smell of smoke still lingering days later, but the man taken into custody is now charged with sixteen felony counts, including eleven for.

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Speaker 2: Arson eleven different arsen counts. That means he intentionally set eleven different fires.

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Speaker 1: At what point can we just determine that this guy has a problem.

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Speaker 9: Police say he lit multiple fires inside the mall, not only at True Religion, but north Face, Marshals and Nordstrom Rack not norths from Rack.

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Speaker 1: Hey is someone with a size fourteen foot that's the only place that sells shoes in my size.

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Speaker 10: He could have put lives of this.

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Speaker 9: Employees tell us off camera the suspect was going around the mall with a lighter.

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Speaker 1: WHOA okay, you can file that away in the incriminating evidence file.

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Speaker 9: We're told he lit multiple fires inside the Marshall store alone, but they saw it on security video and were able to get them out. We're told by employees that he also threatened a manager who tried to stop him.

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Speaker 10: Recrect Louis Boy.

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Speaker 2: Imagine if clothing had feelings. You already didn't get sold at an apartment store, so they sold you to Marshalls, and then someone tried to light you on fire.

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Speaker 1: It still beats being a seven to eleven clerk in Oakland.

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Speaker 9: Yes, fab Luis Javier Diegos Junior was arrested inside the clothing store. In addition to the multiple arson charges, he's also facing charges for making criminal threats and resisting arrest the.

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Speaker 2: Twenty eight Why this guy's just an upstanding citizen all around, sounds like it.

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Speaker 3: The twenty eight.

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Speaker 9: Year old is from Rancho Cucamonga, and although his crimes appear similar to that of the suspect in the Ontario warehouse arsen fires a few days before, the District Attorney's office says it does not appear that the two men know each other.

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Speaker 2: Well, they don't have to know each other, but we do know that copycats are a thing. You see something and for some reason you think, Hey, that sounds like a great idea. I should start lighting everything on fire. That guy had a really good message.

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Speaker 1: They don't know each other, but they're fond of each other's work well.

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Speaker 2: And as you have mentioned, of all the crimes that you can commit, fire can be so damaging so quickly.

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Speaker 9: Although the motive for the mall fires were made under investigation.

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Speaker 2: Yes, kind of like actor too. He was pissed at the players closed and he couldn't get his ears pierced.

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Speaker 10: Yes, kind of like my active.

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Speaker 2: But with so many Actually, yes, that is an act of terrorism.

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Speaker 1: Well, especially if the Santa Ana winds are going. You start one fire in the state of California, you can burn down the whole state.

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Speaker 9: But with so many fires in the same city in three days, it has many in this community on edge.

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Speaker 2: Do you have to be cautious where you go nowadays?

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Speaker 6: Situationally aware all the time?

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Speaker 9: Chargers, We're fun.

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Speaker 2: That's a comfortable day of shopping thinking is somebody going to burn this place down? Constantly looking over your shoulder.

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Speaker 9: Argers were filed Tuesday afternoon. Gayegos is expected to make his first appearance in court later this week. From Rachel Kukamunga, I'm Joy Benedict to CBSLA.

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Speaker 2: And just to reiterate, that is a completely different arsonist in Ontario than the warehouse guy.

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Speaker 1: All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blotters to catch his dummy.

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Speaker 2: We shouldn't make this stuff up.

00:25:26
Speaker 1: If we tried, I said, hell no, ready, boy, let me get up one out of here. It's the California crime bloater, and this edition takes us to the state Capitol.

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Speaker 2: Here's some advice. If you see a hitchhiker on the road, giving him a lift of the gas station might be the dumbest thing you've ever done.

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Speaker 1: That's right, because if someone legit needs a ride in the state of California in twenty twenty six, they can whip out their smartphone and call an uber or a lift.

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Speaker 2: In some neighborhoods, they can call a waimo. For more on the guy who decided to give a lift to a stranger who then ended up getting carjacked, here is ABC ten.

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Speaker 11: In Sacramento, Primento County Sheriff's Office is investigating a deadly officer involved shooting that first started as a carjacking in Citrus Heights.

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Speaker 2: A spoiler alert, the cop shot this guy and good riddance, Eddie Osamigo.

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Speaker 11: Officials say the suspect led them on a chase send pointed a gun at deputies several times.

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Speaker 12: The deadly shooting happened on I five New Arena Boulevard around three am. No deputies were hurt. The suspect was killed and has not yet been identified.

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Speaker 11: Denied in an ABC ten Exclusive. We're learning more about the initial carjacking.

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Speaker 12: Indeed, we're talking to the man who says he was carjacked. ABC ten's guards Paul Sanga is live in the studio with the exclusive interview.

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Speaker 3: And Chris Laura. He's still trying to process every thing that happened, but sharing with us what happened in the early events dad let ended up leading to a deadly officer involved shooting.

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Speaker 10: Traumatic, uh, super traumatic.

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Speaker 3: An active kindness ended in chaos for Alexandra Opdyke.

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Speaker 10: I still am not really so poetic.

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Speaker 3: An active kindness ended in chaos for Alexandra Opdyke.

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Speaker 10: I still am not really sure what to make of it.

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Speaker 3: Opdyke, a local musician, says he was outside a safe way on green Back Lane in Citrus Heights trying to get Wi Fi and struck up a conversation with another man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is already suspicious. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: When I'm out pumping gas, or I'm walking to my car with my groceries, or I'm doing something like that, I'm not talking to the people around me. I'm focused on what I'm doing and I want to get the hell out of there because I don't want one of these people to carjack me.

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Speaker 10: He had a gas can in his hand. I asked him if you needed a ride to the gas station. It's like a mile or two too far to walk, and he had a girl with his girl in the car.

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Speaker 3: But he says, the situation shifted instantly.

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Speaker 10: Almost immediately, he started, like his whole demeanor change. He started, uh cussing out his girl and like getting loud and you know, highee, and.

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Speaker 2: Uh, okay. This guy must have instantly realized I have made a very very very bad decision.

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Speaker 1: You take one look at him, and you go, Okay, if I give this guy a ride, I'm gonna get car jacked, and then he's gonna get shot by the cops and not be alive tomorrow.

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Speaker 10: Cussing out his girl and like getting loud and you know, hiphie. And then it quickly went to me. He's like, you know, I have to take this car right. I'm like, nah, dude, you don't got to do that.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he does. This guy is a very stereotypical California laid back kind of victim.

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Speaker 10: Then it quickly went to me, He's like, you know, I have to take this car right. I'm like, nah, dude, you don't got to do that.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that was convincing. No, you guessed wrong.

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Speaker 10: He's like, yeah, I do. I'm gonna take this car. And he said he's wanted for twenty five to life or something. And then he showed me and then he flashed his gun at me and said, this is a cops guy.

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Speaker 3: Fearing for a f life.

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Speaker 2: Why did you think this was the guy to ask if he had WiFi? Again, not good judgment.

00:29:27
Speaker 10: And said this is a cops guy.

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Speaker 2: This guy's the victim. But still he voluntarily put this person in his car.

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Speaker 10: And said this is a cops guy fearing for a life. He got out, I'm not trying to catch the butt of a gun right now to my face or you know words, get shot, and then he fires around off into the air.

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Speaker 6: They did fire off around from a forty five acquordings with RP just mact me to comment that he is not afraid to kill a cop.

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Speaker 2: Just before leaving.

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Speaker 3: The Sacondo County Sheriff's Office says the suspect led deputies on a chase did on southbound I five near Arena Boulevard. Investigators say he pointed a gun at deputies, who then shot and killed him. No deputies were hurt.

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Speaker 2: In a way, I feel like this job well done. Boyce.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're gonna get involved in an arm confrontation with the cops, telling someone who you know is going to call nine one one right before it happens that you don't care if you kill a cop is probably not the right way to go.

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Speaker 10: In a way. I feel like it's my fault for you know, don't don't give strangers rides, that whole thing. But I was just trying to do a nice thing for somebody and ta him to get some gas, and it's just.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: You know, some people have to learn lessons the hard way. Hopefully he has learned the hard way that he should not pick up strangers in twenty twenty six and give them a ride.

00:30:51
Speaker 1: I know I'm going out on a limb here, but one hundred percent he would do this again.

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Speaker 10: Backfired really really tough. He got my favorite guitar, all my tools are in there, almost all all the money I had to spend on a car because I'm also my need to move out soon of my current house. So it's just like my finances are miss right now. But this doesn't help.

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Speaker 3: Even with this experience, he's trying really hard not to change who he is.

00:31:19
Speaker 10: Don't want to shy away.

00:31:20
Speaker 1: I think you need to learn from this, buddy, change your way. Did I not predict this?

00:31:26
Speaker 2: Yes you did.

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Speaker 10: Don't want to shy away from people that need help. You know that's it's in my nature and greet everybody with almost naive optimism.

00:31:35
Speaker 3: Now Optike is now without a car while it's being held in evidence. A friend has set up a goal.

00:31:40
Speaker 2: So even though he was the victim and he got car jacked, because it was involved in an ois and the suspect got killed, he can't have his car back for a while. This guy had a lot of problems and now he has more.

00:31:55
Speaker 3: A friend has set up a GoFundMe to help. A link can be found under this story ABC dot Com.

00:32:01
Speaker 12: Chris Okay, guards Paul, thank you.

00:32:03
Speaker 2: There you go. The good samaritan who got carjacked in Sacramento County.

00:32:09
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Let's go to Cheryl in Upper Lake Cheryl, Hello, Hello.

00:32:23
Speaker 5: Uh, I wanted to tell you just a brief story about something that turned out another way, like the carjacking story that you just told. Randy could look this up. Even It was in nineteen eighty one and I was sitting with a neighbor on a country road when a vehicle pulled up. This is outside of Vacaville. When a vehicle pulled up and just started throwing things out the door, and we said, hey, you know this is BS. We're going to call it in. We called it in and immediately we're it's right off Highway eighty. So immediately an officer pulled in where we could even see the bridge just around the corner, pulled the vehicle over and was immediately shot and killed. It turns out it was a stolen vehicle. And I just wanted to say that his name was Officer, Officer Cis and Narrows, And I just wanted to say that I understand that the guilt on the report that you do feel because you feel like if we hadn't have called in the littering officers, scenarios would be alive. But I just want to say that you can't live your life on shoulder what it could is, or none of us would smile again. You know, you have to do the right thing.

00:33:33
Speaker 2: That's very true. Dost you could with the information you had.

00:33:37
Speaker 5: No, we can't live with all that guilt all the time, So you just have to forgive yourself.

00:33:42
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're a blackjack player or not, but there is a way to play the game.

00:33:48
Speaker 2: What's that I use the machines.

00:33:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a gambler.

00:33:51
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's say the dealer gives you an eleven and he's got a six showing the correct play is to do down. That's how you play the game of blackjack. That's what the book says. That's what gives you the best odds of winning the most money. Now, it's going to work out more often than not, but sometimes it's not going to work out. And even though you doubled down and you don't get the desired result, that doesn't mean that you did the wrong thing. You did the right thing with the information that you had in that moment. And if it were to happen again and I were to get an eleven and the other the dealer has a six, I would double down on that ten times out of ten because it's the right.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: Thing to do.

00:34:35
Speaker 5: Can I just say one more thing about being a samaritan. Yeah, that guy did the right thing as a samaritan to help a fellow out. And it's just so sad these days that you can't we can't pick up hitchhikers anymore. But do you recall when Bill Cosby's son helped a guy with a flat and he.

00:34:50
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, mikel Marcuscheff was the name of the guy that killed him.

00:34:56
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to repeat that.

00:34:57
Speaker 1: Michel Marcuscheff was the name of the guy that alb them.

00:35:00
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, well, thank you so much.

00:35:03
Speaker 10: John.

00:35:03
Speaker 5: I really enjoy your show. And Randy could lick this officer Cis Scenario's thing up if he cared to verify.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, thank you for the call.

00:35:10
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Let's go to Dan and Sonoma. Dan, Hello, Hey.

00:35:16
Speaker 13: Johnah, Randy. A couple things sort of dovetailing off of Katie Grimes's interview you had earlier in the hour. Republicans do have options. I'm talking about the California Republican Party, which I used to be part of. Here now since President Trump poorly endorsed Steve Hilton, which I like Hilton as a candidate, but he ruined the one and two spot for him and Chad Biancle. Now, the California Republican Party traditionally does not endorse pre primary, but after pop fourteen they need to start thinking outside the box. Is one thing they could do is endorse Chad Bianco. That might elevate him in status and get that one into spot. I know it's a bit of a stretch, but the other reason you you might want to do that is because let's say for some reason Bianco and Hilton do wind up as one and two. Well, that squares off conservative versus big government Republican, which is what the California Republican Party has become, and that would have to have a debate. And this is something that most people aren't aware of. The Republicans here in the state of California, the establishment should say, are not conservative. They're a very very big government, very left wing and this explains why they lose all the time. One of the benefits would be if that did happen, we'd have that debate, which is long overdue in my opinion, regarding what conservatism is, how that should be the party's base versus the big government establishment types which lose all the time, and the Republican voters don't care for all.

00:36:46
Speaker 1: Right, thank you for the call, sir. Let's go to Dave and Calabasis.

00:36:49
Speaker 6: Dave below, Yeah, I heard you mentioned Viterra Goos is only going to run for one term. So I looked up the press release. John, What a dumb thing to say that he's only going to I'd rather be excellent for one term than mediocre in two terms. What do you think he's doing that for. It's like, you're not gonna It's like, well, gee, nobody wants to vote for me, but vote for me because I'll only run for one term. I'll only half suck. What do you think?

00:37:17
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:37:17
Speaker 1: I think it's a big mistake because if he gets elected, you know, he's going to go back on his word. You know, that's one of those promises that he is going to break because he's going to enjoy being governor and he's not going to want to be a lane duck the moment he puts his hand on the Bible, he's gonna want to be there for eight years.

00:37:35
Speaker 2: And I get it.

00:37:36
Speaker 1: He thinks that some voters are avoiding him because he would be an eighty seven year old governor. But this is the state that elected Jerry Brown, this is the state that voted for Joe Biden. I don't think it's as big of a problem. We voted for Diane Feinstein. I don't think it's as big of a problem as he thinks that it is. And I think it's a stupid promise to make.

00:37:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think you hit it on the head. It is because of his age. He thinks people are worried about his age and he'll be eighty because he said he'll run for one term then pass the baton to the next generation. So uh yeah, he'll say he'll say, well, gee, I'm gonna run because there's more work to be done. But meanwhile, I don't want somebody to only run for one term. It takes a lot to get things done in the state of California, and I think you need eight years. You know, I want, I want want. I wouldn't want my girlfriend to say, Gee, I'm going to date you for four years and break up.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: Some guys love that. Thank you for the call, sir,