May 6, 2026 • 14 mins
Brianna Lyman from The Federalist joins Buck to break down the Palisades fire, the alleged arson suspect and motive, the political fallout, and how it’s shaping the Los Angeles mayor’s race with Spencer Pratt entering the spotlight, plus a look at the broader California governor’s race.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who started that catastrophic fire in California and the Palisades
and why Brianna Alignman is with us now.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
She is a.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Writer for the Federalists with the Federalist dot Com at
great site. She's going to walk us through this and
other things. Brianna, just please jump right into it. What
do we know so far? We'll first tell everybody a
little bit of the background. They probably remember, but Palisades
essentially a whole neighborhood wiped out by a massive fire.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What happened, Yeah, twelve people dead, You have hundreds of
people displaced, still displaced this day. They're not even able
to rebuild their homes. And the New York Post is
reporting that the alleged thirty year old suspect was basically
inspired by Luigi Mangioni, right, the alleged assassin of United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And there's so many points in
(00:50):
this story, Buck. The first and foremost is that we
heard after that fire that that was climate change. You
were told by Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and the DC
apparatus that this was a result of climate change. And
Republicans don't care about climate policies. Your house burned down,
even though we had evidence that this was Arson from
day one, and now we do know for a fact
that it was Arson. And you don't hear anything from
(01:12):
any of these people. And the reason you don't hear
anything is because they do not want it coming back
to them. That is, their party has condoned the Luigi Mangiones.
Remember Taylor Lorenz called him a revolutionary figure, said the
young woman like him because he's cute, he's handsome, and
he has a good heart. They condoned his alleged violence,
(01:33):
which only inspires others, including this alleged Arson arsonist.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's it's remarkable that even after, for example, this lunatic
who just tried to run through the Secret Service with
a shot, he shot a Secret Service guy, but tried
to make his way into the main ballroom or assassinate
the president or top officials. And you look at this
guy's background and the only thing that is is consistent
across it is left wing Democrat belief. I mean that
(02:01):
the Democrats have a real violence problem. And you have
this guy Luigi being elevated as some kind of a
hero when he assassinated a guy who was a dad
who was a husband, who was the CEO of a company,
by shooting him in the back on a crowded Manhattan street.
Like the fact that anyone in the Democrat Party is
(02:24):
publicly praising this guy should give everybody the creeps.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I mean, should really freak people out. I think, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
And it's part of you know, my boss Sean Davis
at the Federalists, he coined this term, but it's part
of their assassination prep campaign. Right. So the way that
the left works with their rhetoric is they implicitly justify
resistance by any means necessary by calling, for example, Donald
Trump Hitler by claiming, as Hassan Piker did recently, that
Brian Topson was engaging in social murder. And so they
(02:56):
justify resistance by any means necessary, because, for example, anybody
would rightfully so fight back against actual Adolf Hitler. If
someone is coming to murder you, you have a right
to self defense. So their word and their rhetoric is
implicitly justifying this resistance, which is actually just vigilante violence.
And you don't see the condemnation that you would saw
(03:18):
maybe thirty years ago, which would be unified a rebuke
of such kind of violence because Democrats are implicitly okay
with political violence. And if you don't believe me, why
was J. Jones elected? Why did he not lose a
single endorsement when he fantasized about murdering Republicans and their children.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, it's another very good point to add on to
a whole range of data points here that show that
the left does have this violence problem. And I would
even offer to you you see what happens at anti
immigration or anti immigration enforcement protest. You know, I had
Savannah Hernandez. I don't know if you know Savannah. We
(03:57):
had her on radio last week and in a full
she's like, she's like you, She's a petite young woman
in her twenties. Yeah, and a full grown adult male
like shoved her to the like threw her to the
concrete because he didn't like that she was filming a
public protest, like who. And the thing is, does anyone
on the left. I think the Democrats call this out no,
(04:19):
because they think, you know what, she probably got what
was coming to her.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, And again the fact that they had grown man.
He looked like he was in his late forties and fifties,
so he didn't even necessarily grow up in the age
of political violence that my generation is growing up in.
And yet he has transformed himself into one of these
so called, you know, social justice warriors that think that
violence is justified so long as the target is bad, right,
bad by their own standards. And then his daughter was
(04:45):
involved in this as well, which means she learned this
from somewhere. If I ever raised my hands to another
person in front of my parents, my parents would probably
beat me, even at this age, because they taught us
that violence is never acceptable unless someone's coming after you.
And Savannah Hernandez was not. She was on a threat
to anybody. She was being a reporter, and the reason
they stopped her, the reason they don't like conservative journalist
(05:05):
is because we expose the massive problems with the left
with their policies, and they don't want people waking up
to that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It really is, I think not a case where anybody
should allow them to get away with this.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Both sides have a problem situation.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I mean, think about this. We had the assassination of
Charlie Kirk. I don't know if you knew Charlie. I
knew Charlie. I mean it's still a shock. Yeah, it's
still a horrific shock to all of.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Us who knew him. It's so awful.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And you've had multiple assassination attempts against Trump, including a
bullet that actually went through his ear as we know,
and was inches from killing him. And we've had people
trying to arrest it for and trying to kill breast
Justice Brett Kavanaugh. We've had we had the incident back
in twenty eighteen of a lunatic yelling this is for healthcare,
(05:58):
shot Steve Scalise and tried to shoot Ran Paul on others.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
There's just nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The only thing they'll point to what they say, Oh,
it's similar to this is January sixth, where no one
had weapons.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I mean not really, they had like placards.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
No one had guns, No one killed anybody, and the
only person who was killed as we know, was Ashley Babbitt.
I just you just look at the record, side by side.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
One side is doing this, the other is the recipient
of the violence.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Right And eventually it makes me wonder, because President Trump himself,
he has been the victim of multiple assassination attempts. At
what point is he going to take this more seriously?
I know he obviously takes political violence seriously, but my god,
to your point, we lost Charlie Kirk in the most
brutal fashion. That was a public execution, and it doesn't
feel like we've had any real crackdown on any of
(06:45):
the online chats where this leftist rhetoric is brewing. We
saw thousands of people on social media celebrating the murder
of Charlie Kirk, others calling for more, and you don't
see the kind of crackdown that is needed to put
a stop to this type of political violence. And the
fact again, and you know, Secret Service, no one's getting fired.
I'm sorry, but the fact that that man was even
allowed in the building to begin with is a fireable offense.
(07:07):
That was the president and the entire chance of command,
and your first line of defense was also your last
line of defense. President Trump needs to take seriously. There
are people out there who want him dead and they
are not going to stop until he's dead. So he
needs to make sure he has the best defense, and
I don't think he does right now.
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Speaker 2 (08:16):
Today.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Now we see some of these elections that are coming up,
and there's a lot that we could talk about here.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
We're going to be talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Of course, with the midterms approaching, one that's getting more
attention than I think people anticipated is the Los Angeles
We talked about the Palisades fire before, right, the Los
Angeles mayor's race. Karen Bass is running for reelection. Karen
Bass is an incompetent and an imbecile and was in
I believe Ghana during the Palisades fire, and so bring
(08:47):
us back to that story for a moment. She's running
against a reality TV star. Now, I never said, are
you familiar with them from his work? Spencer Pratt? Like
the reality show? I never saw this show. Do you
know about this?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I never saw the show, but I do know who
him and his wife Heidi, Heidi Montag.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I know who they are Montage, Yeah, yeah, so they're
from like the They're yeah, they're from the Hill Montague Montag.
I don't know they're from the Hill of the Hills, right,
and I just know their reality TV show stars. But
have you seen his ads? The ads are are way
more compelling and interesting. The guy understands media. I've got
to say, I'm pretty impressed with the campaign that he's running,
(09:28):
given that he's running against a communist and a communist
enclave of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah. Yeah, And understanding media in today's political age is
the most important thing you probably can do for your campaign.
Donald Trump understood the entertainment world and media, which is
partially why he handles it so well. And Spencer Pratt
had an ad come out just last week that I
have seen so many people that I wasn't expecting complimenting it.
And I think what Spencer Pratt offers to the people
(09:54):
of Los Angeles is an alternative to your political uh
you know, lifelong politician. This is not someone who probably
thought he ever would run for office, but when push
came to shove, when his house burned down and he's
living in a trailer, you have to take matters into
your own hands. This is how you take matters into
your own hands. That is a message to the left
(10:17):
who says that you could take matters into your own
hands and kill people. No, if you have a problem,
you run for office. You do with Spencer practice. You
try to become an elected official to make your community better.
And I do think I don't think he has a
legitimate chance unfortunately, much like I don't think a governor
there does. And it's not because they're not good candidates.
They're great candidates, but it's because the voters are not
(10:38):
as informed as they should be.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, I wonder if California can be saved. Have you
been following some of are saved? Is too strong or
turned around? Even a bit would be nice. But Gavin
Newsom and Steve Hilton are running against each other, it
seems or not. I'm sorry, not Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Pamala or not Kambala.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Katie Porter, thank you, I was I was like a swallow. Well, no,
it's not. Well, this is the whole point though.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The California governor's race has turned into a complete mess,
and it looks like there's a chance that Steve Hilton
could really make a go of it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You know, Steve Hilton is, first of all, a great
candidate and California to be lucky to have him. Steve
Hilton had a better chance of winning when Eric Swalwell
was in the race. You know, Katie Porter is someone
who is an alleged domestic abuser. She poured I think
hot meshed potatoes on her husband's head. And so it's
like Democrats got rid of the guy who allegedly sexually
harassed and assaulted women, and then they replaced him with
(11:40):
a woman if that's what she is, who allegedly assaults
her husband. Like, both candidates are both morally reprehensible, and
Democrats can't find a better candidate. And I don't think
it's that they can't find a better candidate. It's at
any decent candidate. It's probably two in the center for them.
They want a hardcore left wing progressive and that's what
they found. And Katie Port and Katie Porter and Eric.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Swawell, Yeah, no, it's it's remark about you mentioned Kamala,
So I got to bring you back to this for
a second. Have you seen that Kamala is leading among
Democrat candidates for the nomination?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I you know, you know Clay obviously, my co host
on radio. He is.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
He is just completely spiking the football on my face.
I assumed after the twenty twenty four election, I was like, Kamala,
that was such a disaster that she couldn't possibly be
the nominal.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
He thinks she's gonna be the nominee.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I'm worried because I made fun of him when
he said that, and now it's looking like that's the
best the Democrats have If it's not Gavin Newsom, it's
Kamala and Gavin Newsom seems to be losing ground, not
gaining it.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, I hope you didn't bet money on that on
Kamala things.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I bet a steak, I bet a steak dinner, so
it's as good as money.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I'm gonna get rinsed.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Just take him to take him to a chain. Look,
I think Gavin Newsom kind of proved himself this week
and that he is not the strongest frontrunner. I don't
know if you saw his interview he did with Bill Maher,
but Bill Maher lobbed very basic criticisms against Gavin Newsom.
He mentioned the high speed rail trout, the exodus, and
Gavin Newsom floundered. And a seasoned politician like Gavin Newsom
(13:09):
should have prepared rebuttals for those basic criticisms because they're
the most common criticisms. But he didn't. And so in
my opinion, that showed that Gavin Newsom not only can't
handle a friendly fire interview, he's not going to handle
a vance, a rubio. A dissent is on stage grilling
him over those things. And I think Democrats may know that,
So I don't think he's the strongest candidate. And I
(13:30):
think Kamala Harris, for as many word sells as she
whips up, people bought into that still, so that's not
a liability for her going into twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It's just remarkable to me that that is where we are.
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Speaker 3 (14:40):
Thanks Buck
Who started that catastrophic fire in California and the Palisades
and why Brianna Alignman is with us now.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
She is a.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Writer for the Federalists with the Federalist dot Com at
great site. She's going to walk us through this and
other things. Brianna, just please jump right into it. What
do we know so far? We'll first tell everybody a
little bit of the background. They probably remember, but Palisades
essentially a whole neighborhood wiped out by a massive fire.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What happened, Yeah, twelve people dead, You have hundreds of
people displaced, still displaced this day. They're not even able
to rebuild their homes. And the New York Post is
reporting that the alleged thirty year old suspect was basically
inspired by Luigi Mangioni, right, the alleged assassin of United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And there's so many points in
(00:50):
this story, Buck. The first and foremost is that we
heard after that fire that that was climate change. You
were told by Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and the DC
apparatus that this was a result of climate change. And
Republicans don't care about climate policies. Your house burned down,
even though we had evidence that this was Arson from
day one, and now we do know for a fact
that it was Arson. And you don't hear anything from
(01:12):
any of these people. And the reason you don't hear
anything is because they do not want it coming back
to them. That is, their party has condoned the Luigi Mangiones.
Remember Taylor Lorenz called him a revolutionary figure, said the
young woman like him because he's cute, he's handsome, and
he has a good heart. They condoned his alleged violence,
(01:33):
which only inspires others, including this alleged Arson arsonist.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's it's remarkable that even after, for example, this lunatic
who just tried to run through the Secret Service with
a shot, he shot a Secret Service guy, but tried
to make his way into the main ballroom or assassinate
the president or top officials. And you look at this
guy's background and the only thing that is is consistent
across it is left wing Democrat belief. I mean that
(02:01):
the Democrats have a real violence problem. And you have
this guy Luigi being elevated as some kind of a
hero when he assassinated a guy who was a dad
who was a husband, who was the CEO of a company,
by shooting him in the back on a crowded Manhattan street.
Like the fact that anyone in the Democrat Party is
(02:24):
publicly praising this guy should give everybody the creeps.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I mean, should really freak people out. I think, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
And it's part of you know, my boss Sean Davis
at the Federalists, he coined this term, but it's part
of their assassination prep campaign. Right. So the way that
the left works with their rhetoric is they implicitly justify
resistance by any means necessary by calling, for example, Donald
Trump Hitler by claiming, as Hassan Piker did recently, that
Brian Topson was engaging in social murder. And so they
(02:56):
justify resistance by any means necessary, because, for example, anybody
would rightfully so fight back against actual Adolf Hitler. If
someone is coming to murder you, you have a right
to self defense. So their word and their rhetoric is
implicitly justifying this resistance, which is actually just vigilante violence.
And you don't see the condemnation that you would saw
(03:18):
maybe thirty years ago, which would be unified a rebuke
of such kind of violence because Democrats are implicitly okay
with political violence. And if you don't believe me, why
was J. Jones elected? Why did he not lose a
single endorsement when he fantasized about murdering Republicans and their children.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, it's another very good point to add on to
a whole range of data points here that show that
the left does have this violence problem. And I would
even offer to you you see what happens at anti
immigration or anti immigration enforcement protest. You know, I had
Savannah Hernandez. I don't know if you know Savannah. We
(03:57):
had her on radio last week and in a full
she's like, she's like you, She's a petite young woman
in her twenties. Yeah, and a full grown adult male
like shoved her to the like threw her to the
concrete because he didn't like that she was filming a
public protest, like who. And the thing is, does anyone
on the left. I think the Democrats call this out no,
(04:19):
because they think, you know what, she probably got what
was coming to her.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, And again the fact that they had grown man.
He looked like he was in his late forties and fifties,
so he didn't even necessarily grow up in the age
of political violence that my generation is growing up in.
And yet he has transformed himself into one of these
so called, you know, social justice warriors that think that
violence is justified so long as the target is bad, right,
bad by their own standards. And then his daughter was
(04:45):
involved in this as well, which means she learned this
from somewhere. If I ever raised my hands to another
person in front of my parents, my parents would probably
beat me, even at this age, because they taught us
that violence is never acceptable unless someone's coming after you.
And Savannah Hernandez was not. She was on a threat
to anybody. She was being a reporter, and the reason
they stopped her, the reason they don't like conservative journalist
(05:05):
is because we expose the massive problems with the left
with their policies, and they don't want people waking up
to that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It really is, I think not a case where anybody
should allow them to get away with this.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Both sides have a problem situation.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I mean, think about this. We had the assassination of
Charlie Kirk. I don't know if you knew Charlie. I
knew Charlie. I mean it's still a shock. Yeah, it's
still a horrific shock to all of.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Us who knew him. It's so awful.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And you've had multiple assassination attempts against Trump, including a
bullet that actually went through his ear as we know,
and was inches from killing him. And we've had people
trying to arrest it for and trying to kill breast
Justice Brett Kavanaugh. We've had we had the incident back
in twenty eighteen of a lunatic yelling this is for healthcare,
(05:58):
shot Steve Scalise and tried to shoot Ran Paul on others.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
There's just nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The only thing they'll point to what they say, Oh,
it's similar to this is January sixth, where no one
had weapons.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I mean not really, they had like placards.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
No one had guns, No one killed anybody, and the
only person who was killed as we know, was Ashley Babbitt.
I just you just look at the record, side by side.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
One side is doing this, the other is the recipient
of the violence.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Right And eventually it makes me wonder, because President Trump himself,
he has been the victim of multiple assassination attempts. At
what point is he going to take this more seriously?
I know he obviously takes political violence seriously, but my god,
to your point, we lost Charlie Kirk in the most
brutal fashion. That was a public execution, and it doesn't
feel like we've had any real crackdown on any of
(06:45):
the online chats where this leftist rhetoric is brewing. We
saw thousands of people on social media celebrating the murder
of Charlie Kirk, others calling for more, and you don't
see the kind of crackdown that is needed to put
a stop to this type of political violence. And the
fact again, and you know, Secret Service, no one's getting fired.
I'm sorry, but the fact that that man was even
allowed in the building to begin with is a fireable offense.
(07:07):
That was the president and the entire chance of command,
and your first line of defense was also your last
line of defense. President Trump needs to take seriously. There
are people out there who want him dead and they
are not going to stop until he's dead. So he
needs to make sure he has the best defense, and
I don't think he does right now.
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Speaker 2 (08:16):
Today.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Now we see some of these elections that are coming up,
and there's a lot that we could talk about here.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
We're going to be talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Of course, with the midterms approaching, one that's getting more
attention than I think people anticipated is the Los Angeles
We talked about the Palisades fire before, right, the Los
Angeles mayor's race. Karen Bass is running for reelection. Karen
Bass is an incompetent and an imbecile and was in
I believe Ghana during the Palisades fire, and so bring
(08:47):
us back to that story for a moment. She's running
against a reality TV star. Now, I never said, are
you familiar with them from his work? Spencer Pratt? Like
the reality show? I never saw this show. Do you
know about this?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I never saw the show, but I do know who
him and his wife Heidi, Heidi Montag.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I know who they are Montage, Yeah, yeah, so they're
from like the They're yeah, they're from the Hill Montague Montag.
I don't know they're from the Hill of the Hills, right,
and I just know their reality TV show stars. But
have you seen his ads? The ads are are way
more compelling and interesting. The guy understands media. I've got
to say, I'm pretty impressed with the campaign that he's running,
(09:28):
given that he's running against a communist and a communist
enclave of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah. Yeah, And understanding media in today's political age is
the most important thing you probably can do for your campaign.
Donald Trump understood the entertainment world and media, which is
partially why he handles it so well. And Spencer Pratt
had an ad come out just last week that I
have seen so many people that I wasn't expecting complimenting it.
And I think what Spencer Pratt offers to the people
(09:54):
of Los Angeles is an alternative to your political uh
you know, lifelong politician. This is not someone who probably
thought he ever would run for office, but when push
came to shove, when his house burned down and he's
living in a trailer, you have to take matters into
your own hands. This is how you take matters into
your own hands. That is a message to the left
(10:17):
who says that you could take matters into your own
hands and kill people. No, if you have a problem,
you run for office. You do with Spencer practice. You
try to become an elected official to make your community better.
And I do think I don't think he has a
legitimate chance unfortunately, much like I don't think a governor
there does. And it's not because they're not good candidates.
They're great candidates, but it's because the voters are not
(10:38):
as informed as they should be.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, I wonder if California can be saved. Have you
been following some of are saved? Is too strong or
turned around? Even a bit would be nice. But Gavin
Newsom and Steve Hilton are running against each other, it
seems or not. I'm sorry, not Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Pamala or not Kambala.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Katie Porter, thank you, I was I was like a swallow. Well, no,
it's not. Well, this is the whole point though.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The California governor's race has turned into a complete mess,
and it looks like there's a chance that Steve Hilton
could really make a go of it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You know, Steve Hilton is, first of all, a great
candidate and California to be lucky to have him. Steve
Hilton had a better chance of winning when Eric Swalwell
was in the race. You know, Katie Porter is someone
who is an alleged domestic abuser. She poured I think
hot meshed potatoes on her husband's head. And so it's
like Democrats got rid of the guy who allegedly sexually
harassed and assaulted women, and then they replaced him with
(11:40):
a woman if that's what she is, who allegedly assaults
her husband. Like, both candidates are both morally reprehensible, and
Democrats can't find a better candidate. And I don't think
it's that they can't find a better candidate. It's at
any decent candidate. It's probably two in the center for them.
They want a hardcore left wing progressive and that's what
they found. And Katie Port and Katie Porter and Eric.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Swawell, Yeah, no, it's it's remark about you mentioned Kamala,
So I got to bring you back to this for
a second. Have you seen that Kamala is leading among
Democrat candidates for the nomination?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I you know, you know Clay obviously, my co host
on radio. He is.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
He is just completely spiking the football on my face.
I assumed after the twenty twenty four election, I was like, Kamala,
that was such a disaster that she couldn't possibly be
the nominal.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
He thinks she's gonna be the nominee.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I'm worried because I made fun of him when
he said that, and now it's looking like that's the
best the Democrats have If it's not Gavin Newsom, it's
Kamala and Gavin Newsom seems to be losing ground, not
gaining it.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, I hope you didn't bet money on that on
Kamala things.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I bet a steak, I bet a steak dinner, so
it's as good as money.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I'm gonna get rinsed.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Just take him to take him to a chain. Look,
I think Gavin Newsom kind of proved himself this week
and that he is not the strongest frontrunner. I don't
know if you saw his interview he did with Bill Maher,
but Bill Maher lobbed very basic criticisms against Gavin Newsom.
He mentioned the high speed rail trout, the exodus, and
Gavin Newsom floundered. And a seasoned politician like Gavin Newsom
(13:09):
should have prepared rebuttals for those basic criticisms because they're
the most common criticisms. But he didn't. And so in
my opinion, that showed that Gavin Newsom not only can't
handle a friendly fire interview, he's not going to handle
a vance, a rubio. A dissent is on stage grilling
him over those things. And I think Democrats may know that,
So I don't think he's the strongest candidate. And I
(13:30):
think Kamala Harris, for as many word sells as she
whips up, people bought into that still, so that's not
a liability for her going into twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It's just remarkable to me that that is where we are.
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