February 28, 2025 • 16 mins
California’s political landscape is shifting, but is it enough? Buck Sexton is joined by Katie Zacharia, senior advisor to Fix California and Republican strategist, to break down the state’s challenges—from Gavin Newsom’s policies and wildfire mismanagement to growing frustration among voters.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, everybody, let's check in on what's happening in California
these days. Democrats having a rough time at the national level,
state of California not seeming to change very much with
the times when it comes to its politics. Katie Zachariah
is with a senior advisor to fix California and a
Republican political strategist. Katie, There's so much that we can
(00:42):
dive into with California, but let's start with this. Elon
just retweeted something with this headline, maybe people in Santa
Monica should consider voting Republican. It is from the Social
Justice Santa Monica group. They're talking about all kinds of
stuff in Santa Monica, Reparations task force, cannabis equity. They
(01:08):
just go into all this left wing craziness. So is
this just going to continue on no matter what happens
in the state you live there?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
What's happening, Well, we're actually seeing a pretty big shift
in California. I think it goes under recognized and people
want to believe that we're completely out to see. However,
the fires completely highlighted the fact that we are absolutely
in a big shift. People see that the leadership is
not working. So what's happening in Santa Monica? Santa Monica
(01:38):
is adjacent adjacent to the Palisades fire, So the fact
that they're even talking about this this kind of ridiculousness
when people have lost their homes, when people are literally
literally have nothing left, have nowhere to go, and they're
they're worried about reparations and they're worried about lgbt Q
rights within Santa Monica is just more and more and
(02:02):
more the hypocrisy of the left and not actually serving
the needs of the people.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Right, how is that rebuilding? F And I know it's
very early, it's going to take a long time, but
we were led to believe meeting people that were just
paying attention to the news cycle that Gavin Newsom, who
will talk more about him a second, got a new podcast,
that Gavin Newsom was going to clear away all the regulations, so,
(02:27):
for example, people in the Palisades fire aftermath could clear
away the debris. How is that moving things more efficiently
actually going well?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I will say that I was able to be with
Ambassador Rick Rnell, who the President appointed to oversee the
fire damage, and an administrator from the EPA, Lee Zelden,
came out to visit a few weeks ago, and the
only reason that things started moving forward is because those
two were out with Mayor Karen Bass asking questions to
(03:01):
the people, what do you need to start rebuilding?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
What do you need to clear this debris? How can
we be helpful?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And Karen Bass there, Oh, well, they've been able to
get there, they've been able to come back in, and
the residents are saying, no, we have it.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
There's so much red tape that's not allowing us to
clear this debris.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So EPA administrator leez Eldon and then Ambassador Rick Rnell
pushed forward. And again it's so clear when President Trump came,
he told Karen Bass exactly how this was going to
go down and what she needed to do when she
started doing it. So what we're seeing is without leadership
from President Trump's team, nothing's getting done, and it's only
when they are told what they need to do that
(03:40):
they start doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So Gavin Newsom has announced a new podcast that is
out There is this real. Is he actually doing this
or is this a joe?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I thought the same thing when I first saw it.
I was is this from the Babylon Bee or is
this real? Why? Why is he starting a podcast when
he is responsible for one of the most devastating fires,
one of the most devastating losses of any state in history.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Right, what is he doing?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
He's sitting up in Sacramento starting a podcast talking about
the price of eggs, engaging MAGA conservatives, being the moderate
voice for who we need your leadership and we need
you to actually get stuff done. And enough of this
self aggrandizing and enough of this constant narcissistic self absorption.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
From Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He has no solutions, and honestly, the podcast is just
more symbolism of the fact that he doesn't really care
what is happening with Californians. He's already eyeing twenty twenty
eight and a potential presidential run, and he's trying to
make himself look magnanimous and approachable.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
The fight for life is ongoing day in and day out,
and on the front lines of it Preborn. Preborn has
a network of clinics across the nation who have a
very simple but profoundly important mission, which is to save
the lives of as many tiny babies as they possibly can.
And they do this by putting their clinics in areas
of the country where abortion rates are highest and offering
(05:15):
women an alternative to abortion with love and care and support. Now,
this process usually starts with an ultrasound, because once mom
sees that tiny heartbeat, she knows the choice here has
to be for life. But Preborn needs your help in
this mission. They get no government funding. All you have
to do, and what you can do right now to
(05:35):
help them is go to preborn dot com slash buck
that's preborn dot com. Slash b u c K considered
donating twenty eight dollars a month to be a sponsor
for Preborn's incredibly important network saving lives day in and
day out. How do you assess Newsome as the standard
(05:56):
bearer for Democrats in California going forward? Twenty twenty eight
feels like a long time away. It'll come here very quickly,
But Gavin Newsom as the person to represent Democrats from
that state or Kamala Harris, I'm I'm somewhat amazed to
look at the polling and see that Kamala Harris is
still the far and away favorite, at least according the
(06:19):
most recent polling that I've seen, to be the Democrat
nominee overall, not just to be the person that California
would choose the Democrat Party nationwide. So who's stronger right now?
Newsome or Harris?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well? Are those polls taken from Ann Seltzer? I mean
I just want to ask the question.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, no, because she doesn't do polls. She doesn't do
polls anymore, she retired.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I know. It's more that they're so ridiculous that how
can they even be true?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What is behind Kamala Harris?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
We have a DA of San Francisco, failed attorney general,
failed vice presidential state senator, did a terrible job for
US vice presidential candidate borders are failed, did it and failed.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And got beat very well, beat.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
By President Trump in both the popular vote and electoral
vote in the presidential election. Where is her political future?
I don't see her running for anything again. I think
that she would be best to stay on the sidelines.
She signed some deal in Hollywood with a talent agency,
probably going to make money and be relegated to the
has beens of US politics. Gavin Newsom, on the other hand,
(07:30):
I think is making a very clear directed pledge and
were seeing it in California that he wants to run
for president and it is our job as Californians to
expose what a terrible leader he is. What has he
done right? That is the question I wonder, why are
we not running twenty four to seven? The things Gavin
(07:52):
Newsom has done wrong in California. It's an endless abyss
of things he's done wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Are you seeing any data to support the notion that
more and more Californians if not turning on turning their
party affiliation toward either independent or Republican, are they turning
on Newsom? Because I remember there was a recall and
he did better in the recall than did I think
in the initial election, which felt pretty disappointing to those
(08:20):
of us who are hoping that sanity would reign in California.
Is or we're returning California at least? Is that? Is
that starting to happen? Or is it just so entrenched,
so left wing, that Gavin Newsom is going to be
the guy no matter what.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well, I point you to the fact that Kamala Harris
won every state without voter ID, right, And so when
President Trump landed in North Carolina to go see the
damage Trum the hurricane, the second he got off the plane,
he said, you know, maybe I should require voter ID
from California as a quid pro quo essentially for federal
(08:54):
fire for federal aid for the fires. And what I
think we're seeing is California is not deep blue. California
came in third in the nation for votes for President Trump.
So the data shows that we came in third. Most
people don't know that it was Florida, Texas in California
and California gains six percentage points from twenty twenty to
(09:16):
twenty twenty four for President Trump. We have seen a
massive shift statewide. And this is Kamala Harris's home state,
and there was this shift from twenty twenty to twenty
twenty four without voter ID, without a requirement of paper ballots.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Every single person in California.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Is mailed a ballot or twenty and there's no regulations
on ballot harvesting.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So if we could get at least control.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Of the federal elections where the presidential or congressional are
required same day voting and voter ID. We would see
that the rest of this that the state is turning red,
if it's not already deep red.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
In my opinion, Let's.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Talk about what's going on with Elon Musk and doge
out out in the Capitol. These federal workers, I don't
know if you've seen some of them have taken to
TikTok and Instagram to show how upset they are. Once
said that it feels like she's in North Korea because
she he has to tell people that she did something
last week, or she has to respond to an email
(10:17):
to me. The work of dough so far off nothing
else is at least showing that a lot of federal
governm employees don't believe they work for the executive branch.
They think they're their own branch of government. Where do
you think this goes? I mean, are the firings going
to start mounting up more and more? Are they going
to be able to stop him in the courts? How
do you see it playing out?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, By and.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Large, I think they've gotten away with not having to
work for the executive and Elon and President Trump talk
about this bureaucracy has been created and is enabling this
group of people to not be accountable to anyone, right,
they're accountable to the bureaucracy that has been created. And
so I think what President Trump and Elon are doing
is they're exposing the bureaucracy. They're exposing that the bureaucracy
(11:01):
is not accountable, and they're now holding them all accountable.
So yes, I think that they're going to hold true
to their promises. They fire people for not responding to
these emails, and they should be fired. And I think
there have to be very swift consequences for not showing
up to work, for not delivering on what's requested of
(11:21):
you unless you have a clear directive from I know
Director Patel said, hey, we're going to take an assessment.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Don't respond yet to this.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But there had to be some agreement made in advance
that you know, he was literally coming in that week
and he had to assess what's going on with the staff.
But otherwise, outside of that type of scenario, every single
employee that's requestive should absolutely be responding.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think it's been really illuminating as well for people
to see that a lot of the individuals working at
USAID who have been affected so far By this feel
like there should be no justification necessary for the money
that they are spending because there are other buddies in USAID. Right,
they get they get funded by by Congress, and they
(12:06):
get all this money, billions of dollars, and then they
just get to determine what to do with it. The
American people saying hey, hold on, why are you doing
that with this money? Is they think of it almost
as as rude, I think, or they think this is tyranny.
It would seem to me that this kind of transparency
is the bare minimum that the American taxpayer should have.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's it's the bare minimum, and the light needs to
be shed on what's happening. And actually the tyranny is
not the exposure. It's the keeping this secret that our
tax dollars are being wasted, that they're being you know,
flown over seas to endless causes that don't benefit us
and likely probably launderd once they once they really follow
(12:49):
that money, they're not really spending fifty million dollars on X,
y Z, these these different causes.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I think it was a circumcision in.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Mozambique, right, you go follow the money and see who
is actually taking that money, and what are they using
it for, and who's getting paid outside of that and
how much what percentage is actually going to the stated cause.
But more more, for the President Trump, what he is
continuing to do is say the American taxpayer is not
going to bear.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
The burden of the world's problems any longer.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He is delivering on the promise that he will put
the American citizen first, not just with this USAID, but
in the deportations and making our cities safer and really
making our entire country safer by.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Securing the border.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
So he's all across all fronts delivering on this and
on transparency. He's not hiding what he's doing with the
border and the deportations either.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
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in this incredibly difficult time. Israel has been through war,
as you know, and is still dealing with the constant
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groups who seek to destroy the Jewish state. But there
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(14:04):
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you're bio, it says former Beijing xpat. How was that?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I graduated from Pepperdine School of Law, and I moved
over to China to Beijing, and I worked in a
law firm called Junglun Law Firm, and I was the
outside council to the IFC in the World Bank.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It was an interesting and exciting experience.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I will say, how many years are you over there?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I was over there for about three years, traveled extensively
through China, Southern China, Western China to Benton Plateau. It
was it was actually one of the most exciting and
invigorating things to see pre COVID. I can't imagine how
much has changed since then now and now under Egen Ping.
(15:23):
I was there between Ujin Tao and Xi Jinping, so
I really saw a massive shift between the two leaders
and really what the availability and excitement of Westerners being
there towards kind of a much more closed approach under
Jen Ping.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
How's your Mandarin?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
My Mandarin is okay.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I wouldn't sit here and try to have a long conversation.
It's gotten worse and worse as time goes on, but
I can understand a good amount. And what's fun is
when I'm with a group of Chinese people or in
a grocery store, they're speaking in you know, this blonde
pops in and says something, and oh, they're so excited
that someone knows how to speak at least a little bit.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Very cool. Well, Katie Zachariyah, Senior advisor to Fix, California
Republican political strategist, thanks for coming on to talk and
we'll speak to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Thank you,
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, everybody, let's check in on what's happening in California
these days. Democrats having a rough time at the national level,
state of California not seeming to change very much with
the times when it comes to its politics. Katie Zachariah
is with a senior advisor to fix California and a
Republican political strategist. Katie, There's so much that we can
(00:42):
dive into with California, but let's start with this. Elon
just retweeted something with this headline, maybe people in Santa
Monica should consider voting Republican. It is from the Social
Justice Santa Monica group. They're talking about all kinds of
stuff in Santa Monica, Reparations task force, cannabis equity. They
(01:08):
just go into all this left wing craziness. So is
this just going to continue on no matter what happens
in the state you live there?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
What's happening, Well, we're actually seeing a pretty big shift
in California. I think it goes under recognized and people
want to believe that we're completely out to see. However,
the fires completely highlighted the fact that we are absolutely
in a big shift. People see that the leadership is
not working. So what's happening in Santa Monica? Santa Monica
(01:38):
is adjacent adjacent to the Palisades fire, So the fact
that they're even talking about this this kind of ridiculousness
when people have lost their homes, when people are literally
literally have nothing left, have nowhere to go, and they're
they're worried about reparations and they're worried about lgbt Q
rights within Santa Monica is just more and more and
(02:02):
more the hypocrisy of the left and not actually serving
the needs of the people.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Right, how is that rebuilding? F And I know it's
very early, it's going to take a long time, but
we were led to believe meeting people that were just
paying attention to the news cycle that Gavin Newsom, who
will talk more about him a second, got a new podcast,
that Gavin Newsom was going to clear away all the regulations, so,
(02:27):
for example, people in the Palisades fire aftermath could clear
away the debris. How is that moving things more efficiently
actually going well?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I will say that I was able to be with
Ambassador Rick Rnell, who the President appointed to oversee the
fire damage, and an administrator from the EPA, Lee Zelden,
came out to visit a few weeks ago, and the
only reason that things started moving forward is because those
two were out with Mayor Karen Bass asking questions to
(03:01):
the people, what do you need to start rebuilding?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
What do you need to clear this debris? How can
we be helpful?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And Karen Bass there, Oh, well, they've been able to
get there, they've been able to come back in, and
the residents are saying, no, we have it.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
There's so much red tape that's not allowing us to
clear this debris.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So EPA administrator leez Eldon and then Ambassador Rick Rnell
pushed forward. And again it's so clear when President Trump came,
he told Karen Bass exactly how this was going to
go down and what she needed to do when she
started doing it. So what we're seeing is without leadership
from President Trump's team, nothing's getting done, and it's only
when they are told what they need to do that
(03:40):
they start doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So Gavin Newsom has announced a new podcast that is
out There is this real. Is he actually doing this
or is this a joe?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I thought the same thing when I first saw it.
I was is this from the Babylon Bee or is
this real? Why? Why is he starting a podcast when
he is responsible for one of the most devastating fires,
one of the most devastating losses of any state in history.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Right, what is he doing?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
He's sitting up in Sacramento starting a podcast talking about
the price of eggs, engaging MAGA conservatives, being the moderate
voice for who we need your leadership and we need
you to actually get stuff done. And enough of this
self aggrandizing and enough of this constant narcissistic self absorption.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
From Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He has no solutions, and honestly, the podcast is just
more symbolism of the fact that he doesn't really care
what is happening with Californians. He's already eyeing twenty twenty
eight and a potential presidential run, and he's trying to
make himself look magnanimous and approachable.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
The fight for life is ongoing day in and day out,
and on the front lines of it Preborn. Preborn has
a network of clinics across the nation who have a
very simple but profoundly important mission, which is to save
the lives of as many tiny babies as they possibly can.
And they do this by putting their clinics in areas
of the country where abortion rates are highest and offering
(05:15):
women an alternative to abortion with love and care and support. Now,
this process usually starts with an ultrasound, because once mom
sees that tiny heartbeat, she knows the choice here has
to be for life. But Preborn needs your help in
this mission. They get no government funding. All you have
to do, and what you can do right now to
(05:35):
help them is go to preborn dot com slash buck
that's preborn dot com. Slash b u c K considered
donating twenty eight dollars a month to be a sponsor
for Preborn's incredibly important network saving lives day in and
day out. How do you assess Newsome as the standard
(05:56):
bearer for Democrats in California going forward? Twenty twenty eight
feels like a long time away. It'll come here very quickly,
But Gavin Newsom as the person to represent Democrats from
that state or Kamala Harris, I'm I'm somewhat amazed to
look at the polling and see that Kamala Harris is
still the far and away favorite, at least according the
(06:19):
most recent polling that I've seen, to be the Democrat
nominee overall, not just to be the person that California
would choose the Democrat Party nationwide. So who's stronger right now?
Newsome or Harris?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well? Are those polls taken from Ann Seltzer? I mean
I just want to ask the question.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, no, because she doesn't do polls. She doesn't do
polls anymore, she retired.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I know. It's more that they're so ridiculous that how
can they even be true?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What is behind Kamala Harris?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
We have a DA of San Francisco, failed attorney general,
failed vice presidential state senator, did a terrible job for
US vice presidential candidate borders are failed, did it and failed.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And got beat very well, beat.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
By President Trump in both the popular vote and electoral
vote in the presidential election. Where is her political future?
I don't see her running for anything again. I think
that she would be best to stay on the sidelines.
She signed some deal in Hollywood with a talent agency,
probably going to make money and be relegated to the
has beens of US politics. Gavin Newsom, on the other hand,
(07:30):
I think is making a very clear directed pledge and
were seeing it in California that he wants to run
for president and it is our job as Californians to
expose what a terrible leader he is. What has he
done right? That is the question I wonder, why are
we not running twenty four to seven? The things Gavin
(07:52):
Newsom has done wrong in California. It's an endless abyss
of things he's done wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Are you seeing any data to support the notion that
more and more Californians if not turning on turning their
party affiliation toward either independent or Republican, are they turning
on Newsom? Because I remember there was a recall and
he did better in the recall than did I think
in the initial election, which felt pretty disappointing to those
(08:20):
of us who are hoping that sanity would reign in California.
Is or we're returning California at least? Is that? Is
that starting to happen? Or is it just so entrenched,
so left wing, that Gavin Newsom is going to be
the guy no matter what.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well, I point you to the fact that Kamala Harris
won every state without voter ID, right, And so when
President Trump landed in North Carolina to go see the
damage Trum the hurricane, the second he got off the plane,
he said, you know, maybe I should require voter ID
from California as a quid pro quo essentially for federal
(08:54):
fire for federal aid for the fires. And what I
think we're seeing is California is not deep blue. California
came in third in the nation for votes for President Trump.
So the data shows that we came in third. Most
people don't know that it was Florida, Texas in California
and California gains six percentage points from twenty twenty to
(09:16):
twenty twenty four for President Trump. We have seen a
massive shift statewide. And this is Kamala Harris's home state,
and there was this shift from twenty twenty to twenty
twenty four without voter ID, without a requirement of paper ballots.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Every single person in California.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Is mailed a ballot or twenty and there's no regulations
on ballot harvesting.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So if we could get at least control.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Of the federal elections where the presidential or congressional are
required same day voting and voter ID. We would see
that the rest of this that the state is turning red,
if it's not already deep red.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
In my opinion, Let's.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Talk about what's going on with Elon Musk and doge
out out in the Capitol. These federal workers, I don't
know if you've seen some of them have taken to
TikTok and Instagram to show how upset they are. Once
said that it feels like she's in North Korea because
she he has to tell people that she did something
last week, or she has to respond to an email
(10:17):
to me. The work of dough so far off nothing
else is at least showing that a lot of federal
governm employees don't believe they work for the executive branch.
They think they're their own branch of government. Where do
you think this goes? I mean, are the firings going
to start mounting up more and more? Are they going
to be able to stop him in the courts? How
do you see it playing out?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, By and.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Large, I think they've gotten away with not having to
work for the executive and Elon and President Trump talk
about this bureaucracy has been created and is enabling this
group of people to not be accountable to anyone, right,
they're accountable to the bureaucracy that has been created. And
so I think what President Trump and Elon are doing
is they're exposing the bureaucracy. They're exposing that the bureaucracy
(11:01):
is not accountable, and they're now holding them all accountable.
So yes, I think that they're going to hold true
to their promises. They fire people for not responding to
these emails, and they should be fired. And I think
there have to be very swift consequences for not showing
up to work, for not delivering on what's requested of
(11:21):
you unless you have a clear directive from I know
Director Patel said, hey, we're going to take an assessment.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Don't respond yet to this.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But there had to be some agreement made in advance
that you know, he was literally coming in that week
and he had to assess what's going on with the staff.
But otherwise, outside of that type of scenario, every single
employee that's requestive should absolutely be responding.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think it's been really illuminating as well for people
to see that a lot of the individuals working at
USAID who have been affected so far By this feel
like there should be no justification necessary for the money
that they are spending because there are other buddies in USAID. Right,
they get they get funded by by Congress, and they
(12:06):
get all this money, billions of dollars, and then they
just get to determine what to do with it. The
American people saying hey, hold on, why are you doing
that with this money? Is they think of it almost
as as rude, I think, or they think this is tyranny.
It would seem to me that this kind of transparency
is the bare minimum that the American taxpayer should have.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's it's the bare minimum, and the light needs to
be shed on what's happening. And actually the tyranny is
not the exposure. It's the keeping this secret that our
tax dollars are being wasted, that they're being you know,
flown over seas to endless causes that don't benefit us
and likely probably launderd once they once they really follow
(12:49):
that money, they're not really spending fifty million dollars on X,
y Z, these these different causes.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I think it was a circumcision in.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Mozambique, right, you go follow the money and see who
is actually taking that money, and what are they using
it for, and who's getting paid outside of that and
how much what percentage is actually going to the stated cause.
But more more, for the President Trump, what he is
continuing to do is say the American taxpayer is not
going to bear.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
The burden of the world's problems any longer.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He is delivering on the promise that he will put
the American citizen first, not just with this USAID, but
in the deportations and making our cities safer and really
making our entire country safer by.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Securing the border.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
So he's all across all fronts delivering on this and
on transparency. He's not hiding what he's doing with the
border and the deportations either.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews standing with Israel
in this incredibly difficult time. Israel has been through war,
as you know, and is still dealing with the constant
menace of Hamas on its borders, along with other terrorist
groups who seek to destroy the Jewish state. But there
are people around the world, including you, who have taken
(14:04):
action to show their support for Israel, and in this
time it is greatly appreciated. Providing food, providing medical necessities,
all kinds of things that can be given of a
humanitarian nature to help the people of Israel right now,
good to IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ dot org. Or
(14:26):
call eight eight eight four eight eight IFCJ that's eight
eight eight for eight eight IFCJ on X. By the way,
you're bio, it says former Beijing xpat. How was that?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I graduated from Pepperdine School of Law, and I moved
over to China to Beijing, and I worked in a
law firm called Junglun Law Firm, and I was the
outside council to the IFC in the World Bank.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It was an interesting and exciting experience.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I will say, how many years are you over there?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I was over there for about three years, traveled extensively
through China, Southern China, Western China to Benton Plateau. It
was it was actually one of the most exciting and
invigorating things to see pre COVID. I can't imagine how
much has changed since then now and now under Egen Ping.
(15:23):
I was there between Ujin Tao and Xi Jinping, so
I really saw a massive shift between the two leaders
and really what the availability and excitement of Westerners being
there towards kind of a much more closed approach under
Jen Ping.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
How's your Mandarin?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
My Mandarin is okay.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I wouldn't sit here and try to have a long conversation.
It's gotten worse and worse as time goes on, but
I can understand a good amount. And what's fun is
when I'm with a group of Chinese people or in
a grocery store, they're speaking in you know, this blonde
pops in and says something, and oh, they're so excited
that someone knows how to speak at least a little bit.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Very cool. Well, Katie Zachariyah, Senior advisor to Fix, California
Republican political strategist, thanks for coming on to talk and
we'll speak to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Thank you,
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