California Gov Issues Order to Remove Homeless Encampments

Episode Transcript

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Now, I talked about California andsome of the problems they have had.
One of those problems the homeless population. California Governor Gavin Newsom has apparently done
something about that, and I'm goingto tell you what he did and if
that's going to have any effect inthe way people view California. Coming up
next on news Radio eleven ten kfabEmrie Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab

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Kamala Harris just stepped up to legturn at the White House after talking to
Benjamin net Yaho. We'll just geta little bit of this before I get
the Gavin Newsom's deal Amas and hisBelah. From when I was a young
girl collecting funds to plant trees forIsrael to my time in the United States
Senate and now at the White House, I've had an unwavering commitment to the

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existence of the State of Israel,to its security, and to the people
of Israel. I've said it manytimes, but it bears repeating. Israel
has a right to defend itself andhow it does so matters. Hamas is
a brutal terrorist organization. On Octoberseven, Hamas triggered this war when it

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massacred twelve hundred innocent people, includingforty four Americans. Hamas has committed horrific
acts of sexual violence and took twohundred and fifty hostages. There are American
citizens who remain captive in Gaza,Sagi Dico, Hen Hirsch Goldberg, Poland

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Edon, Alexander Keith Siegel, omaerNeutra, and the remains of American citizens
Judy Weinstein, god Hagai and EtaiHen are still being held in Gaza.
I have met with the families ofthese American hostages multiple times now, and

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I've told them each time they arenot alone, and I stand with them,
and President Biden and I are workingevery day to bring them home.
I also expressed with the Prime Ministermy serious concern about the scale of human
suffering in Gaza, including the deathof far too many innocent civilians, and

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I made clear my serious concern aboutthe dire humanitarian situation there, with over
two million people facing high levels offood insecurity and half a million people facing
catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.What has happened in Gaza over the past

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nine months is devastating. The Imagesof dead children and desperate hungry people fleeing
for safety, sometimes displaced for thesecond, third, or fourth time.
We cannot look away in the faceof these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves

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to become numb to the suffering,and I will not be silent. Thanks
to the leadership of our President JoeBiden, there is a deal on the
table for a ceasefire and a hostagedeal, and it is important that we
recall what the deal involves. Thefirst phase of the deal would bring about

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a full ceasefire, including a withdrawalof the Israeli military from population centers in
Gaza. In the second phase,the Israeli military would withdraw from Gaza entirely,
and it would lead to a permanentend to the hostilities. It is

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time for this war to end,and end in a way where Israel is
secure, all the hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza ends,
and the Palestinian people exercizes their rightto freedom, dignity and self determination.

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There has been hopeful movement in thetalks to secure an agreement on this
deal, and as I just toldPrime Minister net Yahoo, it is time
to get this deal done. Soto everyone who has been calling for a
ceasefire, and to everyone who yearnsfor peace, I see you and I

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hear you. Let's get the dealdone so we can get a ceasefire to
end the war. Let's bring thehostages home, and let's provide much needed
relief to the Palestinian people. Andultimately, I remain committed to a path
forward that can lead to a twostate solution. And I know right now

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it is hard to conceive of thatprospect, but a two state solution is
the only path that ensures Israel remainsa secure, Jewish and democratic state,
and one that ensures Palestinians can finallyrealize the freedom, security, and prosperity

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that they rightly deserve. And Iwill close with this. Then, it
is important for the American people toremember the war in Gaza is not a
binary issue. However, too oftenthe conversation is binary when the reality is
anything but. So I ask myfellow Americans to help encourage efforts to acknowledge

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the complexity, the nuance, andthe history of the region. Let us
all condemn terrorism and violence, letus all do what we can to prevent
the suffering of innocent civilians, andlet us condemn anti Semitism, Islamophobia,

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and hate of any kind, andlet us work to unite our country.
I thank you. That is liveKamala Harris. He's not taking questions,
So she popped up onto the lecterand essentially as we were coming back from
break there pretty pointed terms there.She's going to be incredibly important for the

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next few months. We're gonna needto listen to a lot of the things
that she says, the way shecommunicates. Joe Biden doesn't do a lot
of those because they needed to protecthim. They're gonna throw her out there
and do stuff like that every chancethey get, because this is going to
be the first time in three anda half years there's a coherent person talking
about things from a position of potentialpower who has been involved in the White
House currently. It is going tochange, I think the way people see

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this race again. You're not goingto see a lot of change in policies,
but the way that communication is rightthere. If you're a Republican or
you're somebody in the Trump administration,you're watching something like that and recognizing,
Okay, this is going to bea race. This is going to be
an actual race. Now again shetalks about a two state solution. She
condemned hamas she said Ja started this. Israel has a right to defend itself.

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All those things are one hundred percentin line with NATO and with what
the American perspective is on Israel asa secured Jewish and free democratic state.
But also she is outlining ways thatmaybe she can bring people who have been
actively protesting against Israel, especially thosevandals that she took her a little bit,
but eventually she condemned yesterday after seeingall the destruction and the spray painting

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on all these monuments in Washington,d C. And talking about the way
that she and the American government rightnow are trying to get this ceasefire deal
done so the fighting ends as soonas possible. Those are going to be
things that I think are going tocreate a real challenge, I think for
the Republicans, because there's not goingto be the cake walk that they thought

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it was with the guy like JoeBiden, who was not going to be
able to accurately or with any sortof true enthusiasm deliver remarks like this and
inspire Americans to actually think about thingsfrom that perspective. So that was Kamala
Harris live remarks after she had immediatelygot out of her meeting with Benjamin Nett
and Yahoo, and that was whatshe said. We basically caught the whole

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thing. And it's definitely something tothink about in the way that if they're
able to get something done ahead ofthe election in November, I mean,
you have to consider that in someways, even if we're not one hundred
percent directly related, they're going tobe able to take a victory lap on
that and said, hey, wemade a big difference and ended that war
in Israel. If they're able todo that, that is going to be

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a feather in the cap of theDemocrats. The Republicans are going to have
to get on the offensive in waysthat aren't just talking about Kamala Harris in
the way that she laughs, orthe fact that Joe Biden has been a
nobody for three and a half years. You don't want to keep up with
a lot of this stuff. Ifthey start getting wins at the end.
Talk about football, right, it'sor basketball when the NCAA tournament's rolling around,

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to talk about it's a matter ofplaying your best ball at the end
of the season, you can makeit to the playoffs and you have a
chance to get into the tournament.You'll have a chance to win the championship
if you're playing well at the endof the season. And for all of
the failures that this administration has had, with Kamala Harris being a very integral
part of it over the last threeand a half years, if they start

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stacking some important wins here toward theend of the year and of the end
of this campaign, even with abrand spanking new candidate, and they're able
to stack these wins in a waythat the independent public of America says,
you know what, this actually mightbe the safer option. I think there
is actually some potential here for thisto be better in the last three years
because they're going to stack some wins. There is a chance that this election

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is not just a toss up,but maybe Donald Trump on the back end
of it and having to overcome lowerpolling numbers like he had two in twenty
sixteen. But again, if wereally truly care about America as a whole,
think it is important for us tobe able to share these ideas and
talk about these things as candidly aspossible. It isn't just about necessarily winning.

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Winning is the most important thing asfar as the politicians are concerned.
But we as Americans, we justneed America to get back on the right
track. And the politics that theleft has had for the last three and
a half years have been abject failures. They can start stacking wins, though,
that changes the conversation because it's whathave you done for me lately?
World, and people who out payinghaven't been paying attention closely until we get

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the run up to the election herein the next couple of months. Ah,
you know, might change the waythat this thing is viewed. It
is five thirty. We'll have more. Gavin Newsom, I'll tell you all
about that California thing coming up nexton News Radio eleven. To ten kfab
Emery's songer on News Radio eleven tenkfab, I did want to talk about
this. We finish up that hearingwhat Kamala Harris said as she spoke for

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about four or five minutes after speakingwith Benjaminett Yahoo and talking about Israel and
that situation and all this stuff.And I think there's a power to that
when you have somebody who is newto this race, getting her out in
front of it and speaking with peoplein a way. And I think it
is important who her running mate isgoing to end up being. And apparently,

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according to NBC News, she haswhittled it down to six people as
her potential running mate. At thispoint, I'm sure she's getting all the
help that she needs from all ofthe people in the Democratic Party. And
these are very interesting people. Thereare six names, and they're all white
males. So anybody thinking it couldbe a woman, if anybody thought it
could be like another person of color, it doesn't appear to be the case.

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And I'll tell you why in asecond. But the list of running
mates include three governors from swing stateswe have I would say there are seven
states at least before the Biden dropout, that you could pretty reliably say
are going to probably decide the election. It's Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, and Georgia, andthen over in the western part of the

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United States, Arizona and Nevada.All of those seemingly are kind of up
for grabs. Those were You're goingto see a lot of the campaigning being
done by each of these candidates intheir campaigns. Well, three of those
states governors are in the final sixof the running mates, and that's Josh
Shapiro Pennsylvania, who we've talked aboutas being somebody that could be like if

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a fairly moderate guy who's got agood head on his shoulders. It seems
he talks in a very professional manner, talks like that in a lot of
ways about, you know, peopleon the other side of the aisle.
It doesn't really seem to have awhole lot of hate rhetoric around him,
which is a pretty safe pick.I think Roy Cooper, who's the North
Carolina governor, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. Sorry he's not a governor, but

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he's a senator from Arizona, anotherswing state. You bring one of those
people in that could give you aleg up potentially in taking one of those
states. Kentucky Governor Andy Basheer MinnesotaGovernor Tim Waltz, who are both been
pretty active on social media these daysmaking sure people understand like who they are,
maybe their lobbying for potentially getting thatnod. And then the last one,

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of course, is a name thatwe would expect, and that is
Transportation Secretary Pete Budajic now Ashley Etin who is a former communications director for
Kamala Harris, was interviewed by NBCNews and I'll just give the quote as
to what she thinks they should bedoing for this, and she says,
you need some moderate obviously a whitemale. I would say she needs someone

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from a border state. I thinkshe choosing a white male counterbalances her race
and her gender in a way thatcould open her up to peeling off many
of those Nicky Haley voters, thosedisaffected Republicans, those independents, and I
think it rounds off the ticket ina way that I think feels fresh,
feels also forward, but also feelsfully of or where we are as a
nation. End quote. That isa person who was the what was Kamala

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Harris's communications director before. So interestingto hear that perspective that they really need
to be as safe as possible andpeeling off Nicki Haley voters haven't heard that
in a few months, But thefact that those could be for the taking
right now, if those people arereally up against they just don't like Donald
Trump. And Nicki Haley's appearance inher endorsement of Donald Trump at the Republican
National Convention last week. If thatdidn't do it for them to, you

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know, get on board with theconservative politics, I don't know if that's
a ton of people that are sokind of about their conservative that they're willing
to move from Donald Trump potentially andflip back over to the left just because
Kamala Harris is the person and notJoe Biden. I don't think that number's
very big. But if there's anyof those people to be had, especially

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in those swing states, those purplestates, then I guess it's a shot
worth taking if you're the Democrats inthe Harris campaign. And don't mistake me
talking about it like this is megiving an endorsement or me applauding or anything
like that. I'll applaud people fordoing good things. Kamala Harris's speech that
we just played, you know,twenty minutes ago, which was live,
is as presidential of a speech thatwe've heard from a president or a presidential

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candidate that's a Democrat since Barack Obama, probably right, like I mean,
Joe Biden has been stumbling and bumblingthrough every possible speech. I mean,
I guess Hillary Clinton had her ownkind of things about her and the way
she spoke, but it obviously didn'ttrack with many Americans the way that she
spoke. I think there's a waythat the more you hear Kamala, and
I think she's going to be infront of the camera and have microphones in

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front of her an awful lot enoughto where she's going to really get a
chance to introduce herself to the nationover the next few weeks. That's going
to be a powerful thing for herbecause she sounds so different than what Joe
sounds like. And that's not mesaying, Wow, she's an incredible speaker
and communicator, Holy cow, bestspeech ever, That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying the change up from hearingBiden speak and the unsurety of that,

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and then of course kind of thecrass nature of the way that Trump
speaks, in the way that hereally gets his followers and the people that
are really into the way that hetalks, he gets them to be very
enthusiastic about him and his cause.That's a trick that he has and nobody
else has figured out. He isreally really strong at communicating to his followers
and his supporters. The Democrats haven'thad somebody like that since Obama. Now

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I'm not saying Kamala is like that, but it is such a change that
I think it does affect the waythat an independent voter who isn't thinking necessarily
issue by issue, which many ofthem do not. They don't really even
know a whole lot about the issuesuntil right up against the election. Many
people out there, I know thismight be hard for us to swallow,
but they don't pay attention to thenews cycle on a day to day basis.
They kind of catch up right atthe end. And if they start

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hearing Kamala Harrison, the way thatshe communicate, oh well, yeah,
she sounds like a president. Yeah, yeah, she sounds so much more
professional. Yeah, I could votefor her just because of the way she
talks. It makes a difference.It changes the complexion of the race.
That's all I'm saying. Don't readmore into that than you need to.
I'm talking about this from a purelyanalytical perspective and how the strategy could unfold

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for the political landscape over the nextfew months ahead of the election. Please
don't think that I'm sitting here wavingall of a sudden a Donkey flag for
the Democrats all of a sudden,because I'm talking about how much better she
is at public speaking than Joe Bidenhas been over the last three and a
half years. Anybody who doesn't evenpay attention to politics could tell you that.
I'm just pointing out what could bea factor in November. I will

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finally get to this Gavin Newsom story. He knows that you think of homelessness
when you think of California. Whatis he doing about that. I'll tell
you what it is next on newsradio eleven to ten Kfab Governor of course
of California has now made any executiveorder and has told California officials to dismantle
homeless encampments across the state of California. Newsom says in a statement. This

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executive order directs state agencies to moveurgently to address dangerous encampments while supporting and
assisting the individuals living in them,and provides guidance for cities and counties to
do the same. So, basically, if you're in one of these major
cities, and this is one thingthat we have noticed about California, and
this is one thing that many ofus who don't live there or really have

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visited California that often. I think, Yeah, I've only been to California
one time. I was there forlike two weeks, But you know,
I've only been to California once.And the stigma. Now, while I
didn't necessarily run into a whole lotof homelessness in the places that I was
as a tourist, you know,I kind of knew the places to go.
If you go you talk about SanFrancisco, Los Angeles and a lot
of the major areas metropolitan wise inthe state of California, the first thing

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you think about is how dirty itis and how much homelessness exists there.
Now, you can be like thatwithout demonizing the people that are homeless,
and I think that that's an importantthing to be doing. But it is
interesting that maybe Gavin Newsom finally iscaught on to the fact that people from
outside of California look at the homelessissue, the homelessness issue over there,
and the crime that kind of goeshand in hand with homelessness as a whole,

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and that he needs if he's goingto have a political career ahead of
him beyond the state of California,which I'm sure based on everything that we've
seen from him, he probably does. I think it's pretty important for him
to address that and at least letpeople from around the country, especially people
in the Midwest like us, belike, you know what, California is
not a place I want to bevisiting him because I'm just not sure how
clean it is, and I'm notsure about how all these homeless population,

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how difficult it is to even navigatearound that stuff. Now via executive order,
Gavin Newsom saying dismantle homeless encampments.But they do have some resources because
of course their taxes are so high, that they can utilize to potentially help
the individuals that are living there.It'll be something to keep in mind and
see if that kind of a narrativeabout California changes over the next couple of

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years, if this is a successfulexecutive order for them. But definitely he
seems to be getting the hint thatthe rest of us just feel like it's
a dirty place. As long asthat's the case, his ceiling as a
politician is probably capped.