September 19, 2023 • 12 mins
Gavin Newsom was on CNN with Dana Bash. While she, as Joe said, should be working for the Biden administration, Gavin Newsom still seemed to dodge some of her softball questions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you believe that voters don't have any reason to
be concerned that he would be eighty six year years
old by the end of the second.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Quourerserve every right to be concerned. But maybe I'm a
little I remember Bobby Kennedy said it best said, what
the world needs are the qualities of youth, not a
time of life, but a state of mind, a quality
of imagination.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well, energy, sinility, the qualities of youth. That's a good
answer from the governor of California. I remember Bobby Kennedy,
he once said something that doesn't apply to this situation
really at all.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Let me quote it for you. Oh boy, that's a
good technique. Slick as can be.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That's a good technique. You hear politicians do a lot,
and that is exactly what happens. Let me hear with
your quote. That doesn't exactly line up with what you
just asked me, but it kind of stops this direction
we're going down, and then we'll turn.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
To something else.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So in this next clip, he makes a reference in
hilarious fashion to the Biden administration's master class in how
to govern Gavy is a mass class in how to
evade punches evade responsibility, deny reality. I mean, he's good
at it now? Is he ready for the national stage?
(01:11):
Governor of California is the closest you get to the
national stage, although the problem is it's a one party state,
so he hasn't really been tested. But here's here's the
oil slick himself Clip sixty one.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Michael, I could imagine three years ago that this president
could accomplish so much in such a short period of time.
I mean that, if this political season is all about
a celebrity, with all due respect, we had a celebrity
for four years. It didn't go well, and so I
want a seasoned pro that knows how to get things done.
I'm a little old fashioned. I want a guy who
(01:46):
produces results. And the results are in. It's been a
master class. There's simply no administration in my lifetime that's
been more effective, producing more substantive results. And we haven't
even started the campaign.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So was there any put back from the interviewer? The
results are in. Seventy percent of Americans think we're headed
in the wrong direction. He only whatever it is. Thirty
one percent of people think he has handled the economy well.
A ten digit lead for people thinking Trump would do
a better job with the The results are in.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Which results are you talking about? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I agree, that's significant. I was amused, slashed sickond by
his reference to being a little old fashioned, like trying
to convince confused twelve year old girls to have their
breasts cut off, for instance, old fashioned values like that, Gavin,
and passing laws that will deny custody to parents if
they say you're a girl.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You'll get past this, sick.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Let's see. Oh, he goes into the hole. There's no
evidence on Joe. Do you want to hear that part?
The results are in a good solid majority of Americans
feel like they're worse off than they were before Joe
Biden became president. This is all fact, actually true, what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
What you know.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
The other thing that strikes me is especially interesting is
he's doing a very very good job of genuflecting to
the throne, portraying himself as the loyal Democrats. So then
when the baton is handed from the decrepit one to Gavin,
you know, he won't look like some sort of upstart
who booted Biden out. Officers shoved him along too fast.
But here's my question. Biden has no constituency, he has
(03:26):
practically no fans, so I'm not sure why he has
to go to so much trouble to do that.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Right, He's probably told that's the way he ought to act. Also,
to try to.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Look at this from a Democrats point of view, for
those of you who are lean that direction, big government I
passing expensive bills is an accomplishment. So you look at
it and say, hey, look, the government spent five trillion
dollars with these giant bills. That's an accomplishment. Whereas I
lean the other direction, where it I'm horrified by the
government spending that much money. If you're a big government person,
(03:58):
you think that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
It's an excellent point. The hilarity continues in clip sixty two.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
There is no evidence that Joe Biden directly benefited from
anything that Hunter Biden was doing.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You may want to tell the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, Republicans have shown that Hunter Biden he tried to
leverage his father's name, and that the president, allegedly before
he was president, joined phone calls that Hunter Biden's business
associates were on. Do you see anything inappropriate there?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I don't know enough about the details of that. I mean,
I've seen a little of that. If that's the new criteria.
There are a lot of folks in a lot of industries,
not just in politics, where people have family members and
relationships and they're trying to parlay and a little and
get a little influence and benefit in that respect, that's
hardly unique.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Dana Bash ought to be on the Biden cabinet. She
is such a shameless water carrier for the administration it's
practically hilarious. Yeah, I am the moving goalposts. So she
opened with the there's still no proof that he directly
benefited from his son's business dealings. That's where we are now.
You got to find a canceled check somewhere to show
(05:10):
that he actually got money straight from China or Ukraine
when originally it was I've never talked to my son
about business at all. If there is anyone listening, anyone
who could make it so that my children and perhaps
even my grandchildren should I have some will never know
(05:30):
the fear of financial difficulties or financial ruin. If you
could do that for me, I would appreciate that more
than any personal enrichment you could possibly send my way,
the idea that I wouldn't benefit from that, I wouldn't
like bend FCC rules to help you. You having ensured
(05:53):
my children will never face financial difficulties. And Dana Bash
can't do that math in her pretty little empty head.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It's astonishing to me. What's the matter with you people.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So that's the argument that Joe Biden, your yelk a
lot younger than Joe Biden. That's the argument that at
Joe Biden's age, he's not trying to get more money
for him. It's it's all about the future generations. Oh yeah,
he's decades older than me and a great deal richer
as well. So yeah, it's just And then I'm troubled
(06:26):
by He's absolutely right, Kevin Newsom's absolutely right, But I'm
troubled by the excuse now is Hey, everybody does it.
So let's just this is the way government works. People
use their family members to get for the whole family
to get rich, and that's what happens, and everyone knows it.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Everyone knows it.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
So the human oil slick has really stuck landing on
defending Biden and the phone calls and the rest of it.
But can he rise to the challenge of defending one
Kamala Harris. Let's find Out sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Four Nancy Pelosi phraise on Kamala Harris, but she declined
to say whether or not she thought that the vice
president is the best person to be on the ticket
with Joe Biden A twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Four Do you, of course she is Biden Harris administration
masterclass in terms of performance, bipartisan deals on infrastructure, bipartisan
deals on guns and debt ceiling on the chips and side.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
She's the best choice.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I mean, by definition, if I think this administration lasts
two and two and a half years, been one of
the most outstanding administrations in the last few decades, and
she's a member of that administration, she gets the lady
and claimed credit to a lot of that success. The
answer is absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's truly interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, that is something.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Come for the bull crap reasoning and stay for the
heartfelt loyalty pledge. They must have well, and they have
to somehow come up with a plan that ensures Kamala
Harris isn't just completely humiliated on the world stage in
(08:05):
return for her compliance with Plan B. Right, So we
have been saying for a while we don't feel like
it'd be that big a deal to Dumper that most
people wouldn't care because I mean, most Democrats didn't vote
for she didn't even make it to Iowa, et.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Cetera, et cetera. Came across this over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I don't know. The Washington Posts Colbert King. Colbert King,
one of their writers, anyway, speaks for an important wing
of the Democratic Party and implicitly pushes it back against
those who wrongly assume. Says Mark Alprin, it would be
easy and cost free for Biden to dump Harris. I've
always thought it would be cost free. But this is
what the Colbert King writes in the Washington Post. There's
(08:43):
been talk of dropping tried and trusted Vice President Harris
from the Democratic ticket to strengthen the general election slate.
Do that and kiss the White House goodbye. Has Harris
made the best use of the vice presidency on behalf
of issues and interest important to the Democratic base as
much as Biden's senior staff has allowed, and her hand
me down staff is tolerated. But Harris has traction with
the party's most loyal constituency. Voters of color show Harris
(09:07):
a door and watch how many walk out behind her.
This is another reality for Joe Biden's top political advisors
that they know.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I don't know if I'd buy that. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I can't speak for that group of humans, obviously not eh,
but it's so interesting and revealing that they go to
the Has she been able to accomplish as much as
we'd hoped as vice president? Nobody expects the vice president
to accomplished much at all. She's an idiot who inspires
no confidence. She has no charisma, none. She is a
terrible liability on the ticket. Everybody knows it, and all
(09:42):
your fancy talk doesn't in any way counter that. I
could be wrong, Like you know, I don't know. I
don't know all these voting blocks either, but I feel
like I feel like they skip over Kamala Harris completely
risk free and run somebody else, And we're often going
with whoever it is versus Donald Trump, and not a
(10:05):
word has spoken about the fact what happened to Kamla Harris.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
That's what I think happens.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well, I think you're standing in a burning house saying
if we run outside, we might be attacked by a bear.
Your current plan is completely untenable. You can't stay with
Kamala Harris and win, especially with and I still don't
think this is gonna happen an incredibly old, senile guy
at the head of the ticket. Of course, hyper focus
(10:30):
will be, you know, put toward the VEEP can.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That's an excellent got a dope. That's what's left out
of that little piece I read there. She can't win.
Nobody believes she could get elected president. Nobody.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So even if there is a risk, which I don't
believe in that person does. Even if there is a risk,
you gotta take it. Yeah, Yeah, that's hilarious. I wish
we had time to make the case against again he
Knewsome as president. There's part of me that wants to
just wait on that, although it's not like our listeners
will determine whether he's the nominee or not.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
But when you go through a list.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Of the things that are wrong with California, whether it
be you know, financially practical or ideologically, from being the
transgender child sanctuary state to spending two hundred million dollars
for anybody wants to come to California to get an abortion.
(11:32):
Katie Grimes in the fabulous California Globe pointed out the
other day that Gavy passed or mandated a vaccine mandate
for little school children days after opposing one for prison
guards because the prison guards union told him no. Just
utterly despicable, kept the schools closed longer than anyone.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
That's pretty rough. I sure hope he debates DeSantis and
that could be pointed out. We have much armstrong and
getty
Do you believe that voters don't have any reason to
be concerned that he would be eighty six year years
old by the end of the second.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Quourerserve every right to be concerned. But maybe I'm a
little I remember Bobby Kennedy said it best said, what
the world needs are the qualities of youth, not a
time of life, but a state of mind, a quality
of imagination.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well, energy, sinility, the qualities of youth. That's a good
answer from the governor of California. I remember Bobby Kennedy,
he once said something that doesn't apply to this situation
really at all.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Let me quote it for you. Oh boy, that's a
good technique. Slick as can be.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That's a good technique. You hear politicians do a lot,
and that is exactly what happens. Let me hear with
your quote. That doesn't exactly line up with what you
just asked me, but it kind of stops this direction
we're going down, and then we'll turn.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
To something else.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So in this next clip, he makes a reference in
hilarious fashion to the Biden administration's master class in how
to govern Gavy is a mass class in how to
evade punches evade responsibility, deny reality. I mean, he's good
at it now? Is he ready for the national stage?
(01:11):
Governor of California is the closest you get to the
national stage, although the problem is it's a one party state,
so he hasn't really been tested. But here's here's the
oil slick himself Clip sixty one.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Michael, I could imagine three years ago that this president
could accomplish so much in such a short period of time.
I mean that, if this political season is all about
a celebrity, with all due respect, we had a celebrity
for four years. It didn't go well, and so I
want a seasoned pro that knows how to get things done.
I'm a little old fashioned. I want a guy who
(01:46):
produces results. And the results are in. It's been a
master class. There's simply no administration in my lifetime that's
been more effective, producing more substantive results. And we haven't
even started the campaign.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So was there any put back from the interviewer? The
results are in. Seventy percent of Americans think we're headed
in the wrong direction. He only whatever it is. Thirty
one percent of people think he has handled the economy well.
A ten digit lead for people thinking Trump would do
a better job with the The results are in.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Which results are you talking about? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I agree, that's significant. I was amused, slashed sickond by
his reference to being a little old fashioned, like trying
to convince confused twelve year old girls to have their
breasts cut off, for instance, old fashioned values like that, Gavin,
and passing laws that will deny custody to parents if
they say you're a girl.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You'll get past this, sick.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Let's see. Oh, he goes into the hole. There's no
evidence on Joe. Do you want to hear that part?
The results are in a good solid majority of Americans
feel like they're worse off than they were before Joe
Biden became president. This is all fact, actually true, what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
What you know.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
The other thing that strikes me is especially interesting is
he's doing a very very good job of genuflecting to
the throne, portraying himself as the loyal Democrats. So then
when the baton is handed from the decrepit one to Gavin,
you know, he won't look like some sort of upstart
who booted Biden out. Officers shoved him along too fast.
But here's my question. Biden has no constituency, he has
(03:26):
practically no fans, so I'm not sure why he has
to go to so much trouble to do that.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Right, He's probably told that's the way he ought to act. Also,
to try to.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Look at this from a Democrats point of view, for
those of you who are lean that direction, big government I
passing expensive bills is an accomplishment. So you look at
it and say, hey, look, the government spent five trillion
dollars with these giant bills. That's an accomplishment. Whereas I
lean the other direction, where it I'm horrified by the
government spending that much money. If you're a big government person,
(03:58):
you think that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
It's an excellent point. The hilarity continues in clip sixty two.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
There is no evidence that Joe Biden directly benefited from
anything that Hunter Biden was doing.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You may want to tell the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, Republicans have shown that Hunter Biden he tried to
leverage his father's name, and that the president, allegedly before
he was president, joined phone calls that Hunter Biden's business
associates were on. Do you see anything inappropriate there?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I don't know enough about the details of that. I mean,
I've seen a little of that. If that's the new criteria.
There are a lot of folks in a lot of industries,
not just in politics, where people have family members and
relationships and they're trying to parlay and a little and
get a little influence and benefit in that respect, that's
hardly unique.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Dana Bash ought to be on the Biden cabinet. She
is such a shameless water carrier for the administration it's
practically hilarious. Yeah, I am the moving goalposts. So she
opened with the there's still no proof that he directly
benefited from his son's business dealings. That's where we are now.
You got to find a canceled check somewhere to show
(05:10):
that he actually got money straight from China or Ukraine
when originally it was I've never talked to my son
about business at all. If there is anyone listening, anyone
who could make it so that my children and perhaps
even my grandchildren should I have some will never know
(05:30):
the fear of financial difficulties or financial ruin. If you
could do that for me, I would appreciate that more
than any personal enrichment you could possibly send my way,
the idea that I wouldn't benefit from that, I wouldn't
like bend FCC rules to help you. You having ensured
(05:53):
my children will never face financial difficulties. And Dana Bash
can't do that math in her pretty little empty head.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It's astonishing to me. What's the matter with you people.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So that's the argument that Joe Biden, your yelk a
lot younger than Joe Biden. That's the argument that at
Joe Biden's age, he's not trying to get more money
for him. It's it's all about the future generations. Oh yeah,
he's decades older than me and a great deal richer
as well. So yeah, it's just And then I'm troubled
(06:26):
by He's absolutely right, Kevin Newsom's absolutely right, But I'm
troubled by the excuse now is Hey, everybody does it.
So let's just this is the way government works. People
use their family members to get for the whole family
to get rich, and that's what happens, and everyone knows it.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Everyone knows it.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
So the human oil slick has really stuck landing on
defending Biden and the phone calls and the rest of it.
But can he rise to the challenge of defending one
Kamala Harris. Let's find Out sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Four Nancy Pelosi phraise on Kamala Harris, but she declined
to say whether or not she thought that the vice
president is the best person to be on the ticket
with Joe Biden A twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Four Do you, of course she is Biden Harris administration
masterclass in terms of performance, bipartisan deals on infrastructure, bipartisan
deals on guns and debt ceiling on the chips and side.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
She's the best choice.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I mean, by definition, if I think this administration lasts
two and two and a half years, been one of
the most outstanding administrations in the last few decades, and
she's a member of that administration, she gets the lady
and claimed credit to a lot of that success. The
answer is absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's truly interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, that is something.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Come for the bull crap reasoning and stay for the
heartfelt loyalty pledge. They must have well, and they have
to somehow come up with a plan that ensures Kamala
Harris isn't just completely humiliated on the world stage in
(08:05):
return for her compliance with Plan B. Right, So we
have been saying for a while we don't feel like
it'd be that big a deal to Dumper that most
people wouldn't care because I mean, most Democrats didn't vote
for she didn't even make it to Iowa, et.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Cetera, et cetera. Came across this over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I don't know. The Washington Posts Colbert King. Colbert King,
one of their writers, anyway, speaks for an important wing
of the Democratic Party and implicitly pushes it back against
those who wrongly assume. Says Mark Alprin, it would be
easy and cost free for Biden to dump Harris. I've
always thought it would be cost free. But this is
what the Colbert King writes in the Washington Post. There's
(08:43):
been talk of dropping tried and trusted Vice President Harris
from the Democratic ticket to strengthen the general election slate.
Do that and kiss the White House goodbye. Has Harris
made the best use of the vice presidency on behalf
of issues and interest important to the Democratic base as
much as Biden's senior staff has allowed, and her hand
me down staff is tolerated. But Harris has traction with
the party's most loyal constituency. Voters of color show Harris
(09:07):
a door and watch how many walk out behind her.
This is another reality for Joe Biden's top political advisors
that they know.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I don't know if I'd buy that. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I can't speak for that group of humans, obviously not eh,
but it's so interesting and revealing that they go to
the Has she been able to accomplish as much as
we'd hoped as vice president? Nobody expects the vice president
to accomplished much at all. She's an idiot who inspires
no confidence. She has no charisma, none. She is a
terrible liability on the ticket. Everybody knows it, and all
(09:42):
your fancy talk doesn't in any way counter that. I
could be wrong, Like you know, I don't know. I
don't know all these voting blocks either, but I feel
like I feel like they skip over Kamala Harris completely
risk free and run somebody else, And we're often going
with whoever it is versus Donald Trump, and not a
(10:05):
word has spoken about the fact what happened to Kamla Harris.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
That's what I think happens.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well, I think you're standing in a burning house saying
if we run outside, we might be attacked by a bear.
Your current plan is completely untenable. You can't stay with
Kamala Harris and win, especially with and I still don't
think this is gonna happen an incredibly old, senile guy
at the head of the ticket. Of course, hyper focus
(10:30):
will be, you know, put toward the VEEP can.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That's an excellent got a dope. That's what's left out
of that little piece I read there. She can't win.
Nobody believes she could get elected president. Nobody.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So even if there is a risk, which I don't
believe in that person does. Even if there is a risk,
you gotta take it. Yeah, Yeah, that's hilarious. I wish
we had time to make the case against again he
Knewsome as president. There's part of me that wants to
just wait on that, although it's not like our listeners
will determine whether he's the nominee or not.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
But when you go through a list.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Of the things that are wrong with California, whether it
be you know, financially practical or ideologically, from being the
transgender child sanctuary state to spending two hundred million dollars
for anybody wants to come to California to get an abortion.
(11:32):
Katie Grimes in the fabulous California Globe pointed out the
other day that Gavy passed or mandated a vaccine mandate
for little school children days after opposing one for prison
guards because the prison guards union told him no. Just
utterly despicable, kept the schools closed longer than anyone.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
That's pretty rough. I sure hope he debates DeSantis and
that could be pointed out. We have much armstrong and
getty
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