B (2:44)

Yeah, of course. So my concern is first and foremost for what's going on in California. And Gavin Newsom is a unique threat to democracy. He is trying to overturn the will of voters who put in place an independent citizens redistricting commission. He's come up with a scheme to sideline that commission and to seize its powers for himself in order to draw a hyper partisan map that, as you said, will reduce Republicans to holding nine out of 52 seats. That's what we have right now. Not that many, but that's too many for him. So he's going to, you know, just total sociopaths, right? They're bullies. And then you punch back and then they go, they're coming after me. I'm the victim. They're coming after me. Then you've got this MAGA Republican candidate for California governor, this Steve Hilton guy. He's like, newsom started it. Newsom started it. Here, watch this. Well, of course, like everything else that Gavin Newsom touches, a disaster and a fake and a phony. Because what he's saying there is a total lie. He's saying that his scheme to steal power back from the people and write the maps to suit Democrats is responding to Texas. That's not true at all. It's a complete lie. California started. California started it. Of course it was California. No, it didn't. What world are you living? And then you had MAGA Republican Congressmember Darrell Issa. Here's what he's got to say. Let's play it well.

A (4:07)

I mean, Governor Newsom fired off a Trump style tweet yesterday saying, saying this Donald Trump, the lowest polling president in recent history. This is your second to last warning. The next one is the last one. Stand down now or California will counter strike legally Trump to destroy your illegal crooked maps in red states. Press conference coming, hosted by America's favorite governor, Gavin Newsom. Final warning next. You won't like it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Is he, Is he joking? Is this a joke?

B (4:36)

Well, you know, the ultimate in false statement, Trump's low approval rating.

C (4:41)

It couldn't be higher.

B (4:42)

I know, but from a, from a more practical standpoint, look, in some states, the voters have allowed politicians to draw their own line.

C (4:52)

In California, the voters made a decision that it was going to be done by an independent commission, and he's trying.

B (4:58)

To override that so we can go back to having politicians draw lines for themselves.

A (5:03)

All right, we will leave it there.

B (5:05)

Let's bring in California Congressmember Brad Sherman. Congressmember, I showed you those clips right there. You see your maga, Republican Congress members, they're trying to rewrite history a little bit, huh?

C (5:19)

What incredible hypocrisy. First of all, the voters will be very involved in this process. I believe it's today. The maps are going to be published in November. The voters vote and they'll have a choice. Do you want the maps that you had last election, or do you want this set of maps? You couldn't. Every single voter in the state is going to participate. And, Kylie, you know, we've been pushing for a decade and longer, so Lofgren and I and others, for every state to have to have a independent redistricting commission. And he never supported that at all until the day that it could adversely affect him personally.

B (6:02)

You see right here, though, with Democrats fighting back. The reactions, though, you're seeing from your Republican colleagues, like they're not used to getting counterpunched, it seems. And their response, though, is to now play the victim, like they're under attack. And you're coming after me when, as you said, look, Democrats yesterday, tomorrow, you name the time, would get rid of partisan gerrymandering in general. And they're the ones who have been the ones supporting partisan gerrymandering. They're the ones who supported, you know, all getting rid of campaign finance. They're the ones who are doing all of this, huh?

C (6:42)

Yeah. And this idea that California started it, the whole country knows Texas started it, but we also know that Trump is ordering his allies in Florida, Indiana and Missouri to do more of it. And we would be very happy as California Democrats, to have an immediate ceasefire. But the only person proposing that on the Republican side is Kylie, and he doesn't speak for the Republican Party nationwide.

B (7:11)

You know, you talk about a ceasefire when it comes to partisan gerrymandering. I mean, Donald Trump is. Went to Russia on. I mean, went to Alaska on Friday, which he called Russia repeatedly. You had Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, wearing a CCCP T shirt or already going into the negotiations wearing USSR gear. Just think about the message that that's sending to start this thing in your career as a congressmember. Could you fathom this scene right here of in Alaska as Russia setting the terms of a negotiation, America excluding Ukraine and Europe from it. And then the foreign minister, the main negotiator with Putin shows up like a conquering her wearing USSR gear. And Donald Trump just lands like, everybody, okay, let's do it. High stakes, everybody.

C (8:10)

It doesn't look good going in, but the real outcome will be apparent soon. And if the president starts trying to force Ukraine to give up more territory than it's lost on the battlefield and to give up, it's. I mean, Putin is pushing for there to be severe limits on the future Ukrainian army. So he's invaded Ukraine twice and now he's saying, we want you to have a much smaller military in the future so that when we invade for a third time, you won't be able to defend yourself. This meeting shouldn't be happening, but we'll wait to see what effect it has. We'll know pretty soon.

B (8:54)

One of the things Donald Trump has desperately trying to do, whether it's because that's one of the reasons why he's doing this meeting now, or he's talking about 2016 conspiracies involving Hillary Clinton and he's like, russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. It's like, dude, you're meeting with Russia in Alaska today while they're wearing USSR gear. Like, arguably what's happening today is even worse than the worst conspiracies that you're even talking about from 2016. But a lot of people are saying he's trying to distract from Epstein. He's trying to distract from his dark past. I mean, he's already given preferential treatment to Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker, while the DOJ has ignored and re victimized the victims of Epstein and Ghislaine. What do you, Congress, y' all aren't going to let this go, right? I mean, when you get back into session, you're going to be bringing back up, you know, front and center. You know, Trump's cover up of Epstein, right?

C (9:57)

Well, Speaker Johnson sent us home early, in effect canceling Congress because they had to spend time trying to put together their pedophile protection project. But when we reconvene, he's going to face a Bill that has 11 Republican co sponsors and every Democrat would support this requiring the release of the Epstein files. He's going to be desperate to try to avoid a vote on that. Now, his method will be to turn to those who Republicans who co sponsored it and said, well, you co sponsored it, but don't sign the discharge petition. So you say you're a sponsor of the bill, but don't actually take any action so that the bill will get a vote on the floor of the House, and we'll see if he can find a few hypocrites to stick with him on that. And they are so desperate to avoid a vote on this. As to the Russiagate and all that, the Republicans conflate three different things. First, did Russia try to affect the election? Yes, they did. They had a fair amount of Internet advertising, and most significantly, they hacked the DNC and released a memo that was embarrassing to the Democratic Party. The second issue is, did Trump collude with Russia to help their efforts? And that hasn't been proven. I've never alleged it, but it can't be disproven either. We just don't know if they talk to each other. And the third issue is, did Russia successfully deal with the tabulation system? And the answer there is clearly no. But what Republicans will do is say they didn't mess with the tabulation system, therefore they didn't try to affect the election. That's absolutely absurd. I've been in elective office for a long time. I try to affect every election. I never mess with the tabulation system. So whether it is, you know, Russia clearly preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton. They did what they could. And the material that they stole from the files, the electronic files of the, of the Democratic National Committee and released, that was a harmful blow to Hillary's campaign. Whether it was decisive or not, I don't know.

B (12:31)

Yeah, you know, and Donald Trump said, russia, if you are listening, do something. And then shortly after that thing happened, and it's not normal. I always try to say this on the show. This is not normal political behavior. And I always get mad when corporate news normalize it. That someone running for the presidency of the United States says to any country, ally or foe, yet alone foe, if you're listening, I need you to do something illegal. You got to do a little hacking scheme for me. And he said it. I mean, it's on tape. And so every time they go back to it, I say it's on tape. You may want to address that, but let me just. I also want to, before we go talk about the Palisades, because that's you in your congressional district. Donald Trump, as I also like to say, I don't like normalizing his behavior. And there are so many things that he says that just go unreported because it's, oh, it's just Trump being Trump. And as it relates to the fires. You know, he keeps on saying that he turned on a magical spigot on the border between California and Canada, which he thinks Canada borders California, and he turned on the water and then that's what saved the day. And in reality, he emptied reservoirs after the fire was contained into farmland that was not connected to Southern California. And at the end of the day, I just think people want just, can you help us here or you're not? Are you just gonna do these, like, weirdo fantasies? So talk to us about where we're at right now, what you wanna see. And just the kind of the barrage, the deluge of lies that came out from the White House and still do today.

C (14:16)

Well, water's a precious commodity out here in California, and there are three ways to use it. You supply cities, you grow crops, or you let some of that water flow to the ocean to create the estuaries that fish and fishermen need. And it's always controversial, but the cities get the water they need. And yes, there are pictures of fire hydrants dry in the Palisades that had nothing to do with how much water was available to Los Angeles. Everybody in Los Angeles was living their lives taking showers if they felt like taking it right through those fires. We had plenty of water in la. The problem is the Palisades is up on a hill and we did not have the capacity to pump the water up to those fire hydrants because we had a system that was designed to allow the people of Palisades to live normal lives and even put out a couple of house fires at the same time. Nobody created a system up there that would allow you to move enough water up the hill to deal with hundreds of homes all burning at the same time. So this had nothing to do with Canada fish or farmers. It had everything to do with a firefighting system in LA that was not designed to deal with something that nobody imagined, and that was hundreds of fires and 100 mile hour winds. And as we deal with climate change, we have to start imagining things we didn't imagine 50 years ago. And we have to be resilient, we have to be prepared for it before we go.

B (15:53)

I know also you've been pushing back against Trump's crypto schemes and that's a big deal for you. I'd love to hear more about that because with, again, all of the deluge of stuff that comes out, out of the fire hose, of disinformation and the craziness, we shouldn't forget the grift that's taking place before our Eyes. Can you speak to that?

C (16:16)

Oh, I mean, this is kind of like Hunter Biden's paintings on wow steroids. Hunter Biden could spend an hour making a painting and then sell it for 50 grand and somebody might buy it. Hoping to have some influence with his father back then. What Trump does is he literally creates cryptocurrency. It's no different than, you know, creating a finger painting. And then he sold $300 million of Trump coin to the Chinese business interests that control TikTok. Then he provides $2 billion of quote, Trump stablecoin to Abu Dhabi, which is part of the United Arab Emirates. And with that stablecoin, at least in theory, they can get their money back. In theory, they're supposed to be reserves, but he gets an interest free loan of $2 billion that's worth millions every week. And then if he ever adopts a foreign policy that Abu Dhabi doesn't like, they can pull their money back out. It's the perfect bribery spruce scheme. It's like having the president on retainer. He makes a couple million a week.

B (17:37)

Congressman. Great to see on the Midas Touch network.

C (17:40)

Come back anytime.

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