In this episode of the California Underground podcast, Phil discusses key political issues affecting California, including the controversy surrounding a Spanish national anthem performance at a Dodgers game, Senator Alex Padilla's dramatic actions during a DHS press conference, and the state's ongoing budget crisis. The conversation highlights the intersection of politics and culture, the implications of rising spending, and shifting public opinion on immigration and healthcare policies.
Chapters
01:05 The Controversy of the Spanish National Anthem
11:05 Senator Alex Padilla's Dramatic Incident
25:55 California's Spending Problem and Budget Deficit
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California has a spending problem at the Dodgers game this
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weekend. The national anthem was sung in
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Spanish and Senator Alex Padilla has the Spartacus moment.
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All that coming up on the California Underground podcast
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right now. What's going on, everyone?
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Thanks for tuning into another episode of the California
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Underground podcast, the most trusted podcast for all things
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California politics. We have a lot of stuff to get
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to. Tonight.
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We got three big stories, including a Spanish national
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anthem, Alex Padilla getting arrested and making a big scene
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about it. And finally, we're going to talk
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about how California has a spending problem and they
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continue to increase spending when they're already facing a
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$12 billion budget deficit. Let's get started with the first
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story. So this past weekend at a
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Dodgers Giants game, a Spanish singer by the name of Nezza
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decided that she was going to do a protest by singing the
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national anthem in Spanish, even though the Dodgers told her not
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to. Let's hop into that story, or
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right now. Now, at 5:30, a social media
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firestorm is brewing after a Dodger Stadium national anthem
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performance took an unexpected turn.
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A singer claims the team tried to stop her from performing the
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Spanish version on the very night fans were protesting ice
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raids in Los Angeles. Yeah, now the Dodgers are.
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Facing some backlash from critics for staying silent on
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this issue. Jennifer McGraw is live in Echo
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Park with that story for us, Jen.
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Rick and Karine As the Dodgers take on the Giants tonight, some
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people think that they should also be issuing a statement
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about ice. Some don't think they should get
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political. Others don't agree.
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We are going to do the following today.
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So I'm not sure if that wasn't transferred, that wasn't
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related. Singer and social media
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personality Nezza was told she was to perform the Star Spangled
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Banner in English before the game, but instead belted out a
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version commissioned in 1945 in Spanish.
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Among the organization certainly didn't seem to appreciate Neza
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posting this emotional video. I just felt like I needed to do
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it, but I'm. Hinted.
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Safe to say I'm. Never allowed in that I'm ever
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again. The Dodgers haven't commented on
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the recent angst over ice in our city, and some say they should
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keep it that way. Keep it sports, sports and when
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it's a Community Action type of. Response then that the community
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speak. You know, you have differences
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of both sides and I think. They should stay neutral about
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it so. You know, everybody has an
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opinion and I think it personally, but when it comes.
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To sports, it's sports. But others say teams should.
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We're really disappointed that the Dodgers, given their
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influence in the city and their importance to the Latino
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culture, hasn't said anything publicly about the horrors that
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people are going through. Well they haven't released a
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statement. The Dodgers have said that they
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will not tolerate fan misconduct.
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The other night we saw a rowdy fan being removed holding an
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anti eye sign. However one Dodger did speak
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out. Fan fave Kiki Hernandez posting
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this saying in part, this is my second home and I cannot stand
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to see our community being violated, profiled, abused and
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ripped apart. All people deserve to be treated
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with respect, dignity and human rights.
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Manager Dave Roberts was asked about it by the LA Times and he
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said I just hope that we can be a positive distraction for what
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people are going through in Los Angeles.
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We also reached out to the Dodgers and haven't heard back.
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Live in Echo Park, Jennifer McGraw, KTLA 5 News.
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All right, Jen, thank you so much.
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For that. As a big baseball fan like
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myself, I'm not a fan of any politics being injected into the
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baseball game. I just like to watch baseball
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because even though I spend all of this time talking about
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politics, researching politics and all that stuff, I don't want
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to watch a baseball game and have any sort of politics,
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whether it's right, left or center, anything shoved down my
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throat. I mean, I don't even like the
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idea of Pride Month because it causes fans to fight with each
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other over Pride Month. That puts players in like weird
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positions where they have to like support a 'cause that maybe
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goes against their religion. I know there's some players on
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my favorite team, the New York Mets, who are very religious,
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who aren't really all about Pride Month but keeping politics
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out of baseball. And this singer's, I'd never
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even heard of her before, but she decided to do this protest
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by singing in Spanish. Now, her excuse was that this
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was commissioned by FDR back in the 40s.
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So that means we have a Spanish national anthem that we have it
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in Spanish. I want to clarify here, just
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because you use the fancy word commissioned, that doesn't mean
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that it is the sanctioned or approved version of the national
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anthem that you can sing. What they're talking about was
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around the close of the World War 21945, the US Division of
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Cultural Cooperation of the Department of State worked with
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Music Educators National Conference to collect
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submissions for an official Spanish language version that
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could be distributed in Latin America to share United States
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values, aspirations and patriotism.
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Peruvian American composer and lyricist Clotilde Arias took on
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the task of creating a truly singable version of the anthem.
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What remains the only official translation of the national
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anthem allowed to be performed. A letter to Arias from the
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Department of State, dated May 16, 1946, mentions a contract
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granting her $150.00 for a satisfactory translation.
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Now what does that mean? Is they're using this term like
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commissioned as if, oh, it's, it's approved, it's fine.
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We can sing it in Spanish. We just choose not to sing it in
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Spanish even though it's been written in English.
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Commissioned according to Merriam Webster.
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This is the exact definition from Merriam Webster when it
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comes to any art or project. It's ordered to be made in
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exchange for payment. So arise who is wrote this
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translation? She was paid 150 bucks to
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translate it. And why did they do this?
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What was FD Rs purpose for this? Well, it wasn't to create
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another version to sing. It was to spread what he
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believed was American values with with our national anthem
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around the world, especially Central and Latin America.
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I liken it to this. It was a commercial.
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It was basically advertising for the United States to do.
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So it was basically here's our national anthem.
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We're giving it to you in Spanish so that you can see all
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the wonderful things that we stand up for.
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This is our national anthem. This is what America is about.
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So this is what it's for. I liken it to to the kind of
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commercial you'll see on any TV or you know, if you're on
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YouTube and all of a sudden it goes from you've seen the same
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ad for let's say Cascade Don or like Cascade dishwasher and it's
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in English. And then all of a sudden, for
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some reason, there's another ad on YouTube and then all of a
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sudden it's in Spanish. I wouldn't say that all of a
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sudden that makes it the official.
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It's just they're they're doing it because they're trying to
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reach more people. So for her to say this is like
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this was Commission and this is part like people just don't know
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about it, that there's a Spanish national anthem and we just
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never sing it. I again, this is a protest that
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you bring up at a baseball game, a classic baseball game between
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the Dodgers and the Giants. And I agree with the people who
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are in that video saying just just stay out of it.
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We, we come to these Dodger games or we come to baseball
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games because we we like to just enjoy baseball.
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Baseball is been around for 200 plus years in America.
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Like this is part of our culture.
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It's the American pastime and there's no reason to insert
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politics into it and to make it into a big political thing.
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I know they want the Dodgers to speak out about the ice raids.
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Now another point I wanna make was this isn't the first time
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that the Dodgers have gone through a controversial issue
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that they didn't really want to be a part of.
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If you remember a couple years back they were planning on
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hosting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
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And if you don't know, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
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are they are a L GB TQ plus I drag queen group that dresses up
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in comical or not comical but sort of outlandish like nun
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costumes and basically making a mockery of Catholicism.
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And they were invited to Dodger Stadium for some part of Pride
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month and there was enormous backlash because I guess they
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forgot that if most of their fanbase or a lot of their
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fanbase is Hispanic, they must have not made the connection
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that a lot of Hispanics are actually very Catholic as well.
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So if you're going to bring in a group that is making a mockery
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of your religion, that's not going to go over so well.
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So the Dodgers, I don't know why they couldn't pull the plug.
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I don't know why they just, maybe they just sat there in awe
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about it. But either way, the Spanish
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national anthem, it was commissioned in 1945 as sort of
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an ad. It was sort of a commercial to
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Central Latin America to kind of spread American values from FDR.
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So for people to say that, oh, FDR approved this and all that,
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it was part of a council they commissioned and they paid
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someone to do the translation. And that's, that's basically it.
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It that's really the only reason that there even is a Spanish
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national anthem out there. It's not an official.
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I don't think it's officially recognized as an, an alternative
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national anthem. We have one national anthem,
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which is in English, so Nezza and and I don't think this is
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something that they wanted to I I don't think the Dodgers wanted
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this to get out there and and cause more controversy for them
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as well. And the Dodger fans who are
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like, we keep this all out of baseball.
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I agree with them. And let me know what your
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thoughts are about that. Let me put it down in the
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comments or put it down in the chat as well, because when I
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heard this, I was like, this is a, this is more people trying to
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rebel at the wrong place in the wrong time.
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You're not really winning hearts and minds.
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All right, I want to talk about our next story.
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Democrats must have all grown up as theater kids because they're
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all very dramatic and they're all looking for their moment to
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shine. And Senator Alex Padilla is no
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exception. He must have taken lessons from
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someone like Cory Booker is also very dramatic because last week,
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if you haven't heard, Senator Alex Padilla was not arrested.
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He's manhandled by Secret Service and FBI for crashing
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ADHS presser with Christino. And it got all over the Internet
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and it went super viral. Let's watch the video now about
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just so you can have some context if you haven't seen it.
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It's been around for the past couple days and that's all
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they've been talking about. But we're also going to talk
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about sort of the fallout and Padilla's reaction to it.
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Spoiler alert, he's not letting it go and he is running.
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He is running with this for as much as he possibly can.
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So I want to say thank you to every single person that has
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been able to do this. Also I want to.
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Talk specifically to the rioters and to the politicians in Los
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Angeles on your on your back, hands on your back.
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On the back. All right, cool.
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Hand lay flat, lay flat. Other hand, Sir, other hand.
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There's no recording loud out here, all right?
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I did not know there's no recording loud out here per up
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guy, right? So that's the video.
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That's Alex Padilla getting dragged out and put in handcuffs
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for crashing a presser. Now there's, there's conflicting
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reports. He's saying I, I mean, he did
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shout himself that he was Senator Alex Padilla.
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He wasn't wearing his Senate pin, which designates that he is
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a senator. It's a pin that's given out just
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to senators. He didn't have that.
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Regardless, regardless of all of that, I think you don't crash
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into ADHS presser when you're the senator because you know
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why? As a senator of the United
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States, you have access to get to Christy Noem.
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You have a way to sit down and talk to her.
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There is a way you can contact her office and say, I'd like to
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sit down with Christy Noem and talk about everything that's
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going on and have an adult and professional conversation about
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it. Instead, Alex Padilla marched
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into a presser, acted a fool, got pushed back because I
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couldn't, let me tell you that I follow politics a lot.
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But I'm pretty sure outside of like the big senators that are
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out there, I, I don't think I'd be able to recognize probably
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more than 80% of the senators if they passed by me on the street.
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I wouldn't be able to like, if you just walked by me as a
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senator, I wouldn't be, oh, that's a senator.
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I, I know I gotta, you know, stand back and like, that's a
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senator. And most of these guys who are
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secret serves right, they're probably just trained in
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reactionary tactics. If someone's barging in, they're
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shouting, they're causing a disturbance, they're marching
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towards Kristi Noem. Their instinct in their training
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is to stop what they believe or perceive to be a threat.
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And again, if you're not well versed in politics and you're
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not up on it and a guy comes crashing in, he has no
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identification. He just yells something.
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Obviously they're going to have a reaction.
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And the reaction was, OK, you're causing a disturbance, we got to
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take you out. This could be a security threat.
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But again, I come back to this whole thing of like, you could
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have gone through like the professional route.
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You could have gone through the mature adult route, which is you
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could have said, I want to sit down and talk to Christy Gnome
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in DC where we both work and it's not very far from each
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other. But instead, I'm going to come
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crashing into this presser and make a big scene.
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Now, obviously he went viral. He's gotten a lot of attention.
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It was all over the place. Everyone was talking about it.
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The whole thing was, well, if they can do this to a sitting
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senator, if they can do this to a sitting senator, then imagine
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who they can do this to. It's more of this fear mongering
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of, well, if they can do it to a a sitting senator and imagine
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what they can do to you. And I remember not too long ago,
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I thought I was told like, nobody's above the law and
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treating senators like there's some sort of royalty is not
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really in our American values. But here he is appearing on CNN
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discussing that and whether it really was his intent to go
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viral or not. I'm sure you've seen the DHS
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spokeswoman, Tricia. McLaughlin posted that you
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quote. Tried to manufacture a viral.
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Moment. Nothing could be further from
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the truth. Again, what are the odds I was
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in a federal building a couple of doors down, awaiting a
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briefing from Northern Command? Because I still believe the
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federalization of the National Guard troops and deployment in
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Los Angeles was not only unlawful, unjustified, but
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counterproductive. It's what's escalated the
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tensions in Los Angeles, the sending in the Marines as a
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result, like things have been quieting down day after day.
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So why do you escalate by sending in the Marines and an
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opportunity to ask a question, maybe get answers that DHS,
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including the secretary, will not provide in committee
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hearings in the Senate, will not respond to the letters that
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we've sent inquiring there was an opportunity to ask a question
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and do my job as a senator, right?
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Do my job as a senator in questioning a cabinet secretary.
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It was obviously to go viral. Like I think we can.
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I mean, I think we can be pretty clear that it was to go viral.
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There's there's no question that you wanted this so that it would
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go viral so you could make a big scene.
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Again, you wouldn't have marched into a presser like that and
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caused the scene if you didn't want the scene to go viral.
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It's sort of like Lomonaco did the thing at in like the New
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Jersey facility. She made a whole big scene.
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It's like AOC showing up in her whole viral scene.
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And then it's like Maxine Waters showing up to check on David
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Huerta in the ice facility. Like, these are all, like,
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manufactured public publicity stunts that aren't really
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changing the narrative. They're not really accomplishing
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anything besides getting that viral moment.
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And I want to say something about Alex Padilla real quick.
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Alex Padilla was appointed by Gavin Newsom to be senator.
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He took over for, was it Barbara Boxer, who had been there
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forever? So he was appointed because
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Barbara Boxer had stepped down, and he was appointed only on the
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basis of a court. Well, not according to Gavin
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Newsom, but one of the biggest reasons was that he was the
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first Latino senator from California.
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That was the big thing. Alex Padilla was appointed.
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Now he's won every subsequent election since then, because
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once you're an incumbent, it's impossible to get you out.
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So he was gifted the Senate seat and he's going to probably be
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there forever. And who knows if he's ever going
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to move on to something else like governor or president or
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anything like that. But he was gifted this seat and
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now he's trying to up his his profile.
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He's trying to make a big deal about this.
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There is an article that came out recently in the California
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Globe that shows that not only was he not trying to go viral,
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but he also used this to go ahead and try and fundraise off
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of it. He has an e-mail that says I'm
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Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for his
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secretary because the fact of the matter is a half dozen
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krills now that's part of what he said.
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But he did send out an e-mail basically talking about what had
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happened to him and used it as a fundraising opportunity.
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So even though he says it wasn't to go viral, he's definitely
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upping his status, basically his personality and fundraising off
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of it as well. But not to be outdone, not to
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let it go so quickly, he had to get one more moment, one more
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dramatic moment on the Senate floor about his harrowing
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experience. I apologize.
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This clip does have some music in the background.
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But either way, you'll get the, you'll get the per, you'll get
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the idea. Was forced to the ground 1st on
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my knees and then flat on my chest and it's I was handcuffed
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and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking.
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Why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why.
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I pray you never have a moment like this.
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But I will tell you, in that moment, a lot of questions came
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to my mind. First of all, where are they
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taking me? Because I know I'm not just
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being escorted out of the building.
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Am I being arrested here? And what will a city already on
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edge from being militarized think when they see their United
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States senator being handcuffed just for trying to ask a
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question? Very dramatic how how moving to
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say that on the the again, he probably took lessons from Cory
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Booker because that sort of drama definitely comes from
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someone like Cory Booker. But again, you tried to ask a
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question in a way that was confrontational.
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It was taking a lot of Secret Service and law enforcement off
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guard. Nobody, a lot of people didn't
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know who you were. You just came barging in.
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Stephen A Smith, who is, I guess the, I don't know, they keep
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saying he wants to run for president in 2028 or something
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like that. He keeps getting more and more
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involved in politics. He had this take to say about
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Alex Padilla. Here you have this Senator Alex
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Padilla. Can Christy Noem?
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Speak. Could you have waited?
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Till she finished to ask your questions, to shout your
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questions. You are a senator, right?
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You couldn't wait. So that was just you out of
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control because you were just losing it, huh?
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You or United States Senator couldn't compose yourself and
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let the head of Homeland Security finish her thoughts
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before you ask the question. Couldn't do that, huh?
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Couldn't do it, huh? Right.
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It's it's he couldn't wait. He had to create this scene.
00:22:35
And I want to bring this up real quick because I, I think it's
00:22:39
worth repeating over and over again, Democrats are making this
00:22:44
an enormous issue and it's still not a winning issue for, for
00:22:50
Democrats. And I'm not sure what some
00:22:54
people have their theories, some people want to say like they
00:22:56
have all these different theories why they keep doing
00:22:58
this, but it has not been a winning theory.
00:23:03
This was CNN. They talked about it.
00:23:06
Corner analysis of American National election studios.
00:23:10
Immigrant voters who favored Democrats by 32 points on
00:23:13
immigration policy in 2020 now trust Republicans more on the
00:23:17
issue by eight points, a staggering 40 point swing swing.
00:23:22
Trump's share of the immigrant vote has steadily increased from
00:23:26
36% in 2016 to 39% in 2020, and now to 47% in 2024.
00:23:35
Perhaps even more telling. This is all from Newsweek.
00:23:37
It's more telling how an immigrant voters feel about
00:23:39
immigrants who are in the country illegally.
00:23:41
In 2020, their net favorability stood at 23 points.
00:23:46
This year, that has flipped to -6 a 29 point decline in support
00:23:52
for undocumented immigrants among immigrants themselves.
00:23:56
So even immigrants themselves are turning on this issue.
00:24:03
So if Democrats think they are winning immigrants on this
00:24:06
issue, they are on the losing side of this issue.
00:24:10
So it doesn't matter how many viral moments, how much you cry,
00:24:15
all of that stuff, you're on the losing side of this.
00:24:18
The American people and and those who are voting are not on
00:24:22
your side about this. Let's take a minute, minute to
00:24:26
check how the chat is doing, how people are doing in the chat.
00:24:31
Something went on with Instagram.
00:24:33
That's odd. I thought we were live on
00:24:35
Instagram, but I guess something happened.
00:24:39
So anyway, sorry about that. To Instagram viewers, YouTube
00:24:44
still up sounds. I wish we had a single
00:24:46
congressman or senator like Thomas Massie in California.
00:24:50
I would agree, like Thomas Massey.
00:24:52
I know some people don't like him 'cause he disagrees with
00:24:54
President Trump, But I love Thomas Massey because he speaks
00:24:57
his mind and he's he's pretty straightforward.
00:25:00
He seems to be right about a lot of things.
00:25:04
Someone else said it was a press conference.
00:25:06
Speakers talk, then it's Q&A. Padilla was unhinged and
00:25:10
unprofessional. He looked menacing.
00:25:11
He was rude talking over gnome. The security did their job.
00:25:14
Yeah, it's again, somebody comes barging in out of nowhere, just
00:25:19
barges in, starts screaming something and charging towards
00:25:23
Kristi Noem. They're all trained to do one
00:25:26
thing, which is stop and neutralize the threat.
00:25:28
And that's exactly what they did.
00:25:30
And you know, he wasn't. He said he yelled his his name.
00:25:35
I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I don't know if that's good
00:25:38
enough for security, because you could, I guess you could walk in
00:25:42
anywhere and say you're senator of something.
00:25:45
What if he was, you know, just a local state senator or something
00:25:49
like that? Like we don't a lot of people.
00:25:50
You don't know every single politician who's out there.
00:25:53
So for him to to just be like, I, everyone should know who I
00:25:57
am. I'm Alex Padilla, kind of
00:25:59
presumptuous. You know, there's decorum,
00:26:01
there's ways to act. And Alex Padilla did not act
00:26:05
like he should have. All right, so I do want to get
00:26:10
to the big story tonight. California has a spending
00:26:15
problem, and it's bad. We know that California really
00:26:20
has a spending problem this year.
00:26:22
They are increasing spending from the previous year and it's
00:26:28
gone up. They are proposing a $325
00:26:30
billion budget. That's what the Legislature has
00:26:33
passed. That is a 10% increase from the
00:26:37
budget last year. There is some sticking points
00:26:41
about this, but we'll get into the video and then we'll comment
00:26:46
and talk all about what is happening and what's going on
00:26:49
with the budget. And, you know, are people tired
00:26:53
of it? Are people tired of the
00:26:54
overspending? So.
00:26:57
From the state assembly. The measure passes.
00:26:59
The state Senate. A majority of Democratic
00:27:01
lawmakers in both houses approved their proposed state
00:27:04
budget, a $327 billion spending plan.
00:27:07
We have to make sure that we are meeting the basic needs of
00:27:11
Californians, and I think we're doing that in a responsible way.
00:27:15
Some really important investments Housing.
00:27:17
In in higher education, in. Wildfire prevention and public
00:27:20
safety. But the big issue front and
00:27:22
center whether to go along with the governor's plan to pause the
00:27:25
state's expansion of medical, publicly funded healthcare by
00:27:28
2026 for undocumented immigrants.
00:27:31
Newsom's plan also calls for undocumented people already on
00:27:34
medical to pay a $100 monthly premium.
00:27:36
We spent a balanced budget. At his budget presentation last
00:27:39
month, Newsom said his proposals on medical were a last resort,
00:27:42
but he added he felt he had no choice in order to help close
00:27:45
California's projected 12 billion investments.
00:27:49
That we are making. That we simply cannot continue
00:27:51
to make. But Democratic legislative
00:27:52
leaders put forth their own proposal that, like Newsome's
00:27:56
plan, would pause medical healthcare coverage for
00:27:58
undocumented people. But unlike Newsome's plan, the
00:28:01
Democratic Legislative Leaders plan would reduce the governor's
00:28:04
proposed monthly premium for the undocumented from $100 per month
00:28:07
to $30.00 per month. Our budget does continue to keep
00:28:11
our promises to ensure that our most vulnerable Californians
00:28:16
safe and healthy. That's what several Democrats
00:28:18
argued. But other Democrats, including
00:28:20
Fresno Assembly member Joaquin Arambula, himself a medical
00:28:23
doctor, argued the latest proposed budget does not do
00:28:26
enough to protect the health of undocumented people in
00:28:28
California. Healthcare is a human right for
00:28:32
all, regardless of immigration status, and that we can't be
00:28:36
party to creating a. Two tiered healthcare system
00:28:40
that. Sees.
00:28:41
Others as less than. He was the lone Democrat to vote
00:28:44
no on the budget proposal, even as other Democrats expressed
00:28:47
similar concerns. Even the suggestion that we
00:28:51
slash. Program programs on the backs.
00:28:53
Of immigrants who, let's be clear, pay.
00:28:55
Taxes. Is not acceptable.
00:28:57
Republicans, meantime, point to a new statewide poll this week
00:29:00
indicating 58% of Californians are against the state funding
00:29:04
healthcare for undocumented people.
00:29:06
The problem is it's not. Affordable.
00:29:09
We just simply can't afford it. When that originally was
00:29:12
proposed, it was said it would. Be a $4 billion.
00:29:16
Cost, it's $12 billion. It is clearly.
00:29:19
Not sustainable, and despite those concerns, the proposed
00:29:23
budget passed primarily by a party line vote.
00:29:26
Important to note though, this is not final.
00:29:29
Over the next two weeks, the governor and the Legislature are
00:29:32
expected to negotiate some final changes before the start of the
00:29:34
new fiscal year on July 1st. Reporting at the state Capitol.
00:29:38
Covering local news that matter, say Tom Wallace, FOX 40 News.
00:29:43
If you're a man who. Makes at least. 150 grand.
00:29:49
So obviously the biggest sticking point that I've brought
00:29:53
up on this show numerous Times Now is the disastrous promise by
00:29:59
Gavin Newsom that they were going to provide and they did
00:30:03
medical to 1 all undocumented citizens here in the state.
00:30:08
And I've said this before and it's worth repeating.
00:30:11
That was less than a year between inaction and when they
00:30:15
had to start borrowing money from their own coffers to pay to
00:30:20
even keep it going. It was started as $2 billion a
00:30:24
couple months ago that they needed it within a couple weeks.
00:30:27
They needed $6 billion to keep paying for this.
00:30:31
And this has become one of the biggest drains on our budget
00:30:35
right now. So there are Democrats who are
00:30:37
saying we need to continue to pay for this regardless.
00:30:41
We just need to figure it out whether we need to borrow more
00:30:45
money, whether we need to, you know, make more bonds or
00:30:49
whatever. We need to figure it out and we
00:30:51
need to keep paying for it now as sort of running the numbers.
00:30:57
This is probably why medical for illegal immigrants is causing a
00:31:01
deficit. It currently covers
00:31:04
approximately 1.6 undocumented immigrants, with an estimated
00:31:08
annual cost of $8.5 billion from the state's general fund.
00:31:13
This was from last year 24 to 25.
00:31:16
Basically, the monthly cost to continue medical for
00:31:21
undocumented citizens is $708 million a month, 700 million,
00:31:29
almost a billion dollars a month to provide medical for
00:31:35
undocumented citizens in the state of California.
00:31:39
And I want to contrast this, this fight with something else
00:31:44
that is interesting because when you, this is where tribalism and
00:31:52
political tribalism really takes over.
00:31:55
When it's something you want, it's a human right and it has to
00:31:59
be paid for. And what you know, damn, the
00:32:02
torpeo will, will just go straight ahead and we're going
00:32:05
to keep firing all on all cylinders.
00:32:08
And it doesn't matter if the numbers and the evidence is in
00:32:12
front of you that this is causing a drain, it's causing a
00:32:16
deficit. The state is facing a $12
00:32:18
billion budget deficit, which they can't figure out how to
00:32:21
close. They want to increase spending,
00:32:24
not cut spending, to figure out how to balance the budget.
00:32:28
But I want to compare it with this idea of if it's something
00:32:31
you like for your team, you will figure out ways to fund it and
00:32:37
make it happen. And if not, then they will not
00:32:45
figure out how to do it and they will make all sorts of excuses.
00:32:49
What I'm talking about is Prop 36.
00:32:52
Prop 36 was passed by a large majority of Californians, an
00:33:00
overwhelming majority of Californians.
00:33:01
It won with 70% approval from Californians.
00:33:06
Every county in California voted for Prop 36.
00:33:12
It won by a landslide. And I've said this, if it's very
00:33:18
hard to get Californians all to agree on something, but the fact
00:33:22
that every single county agreed on Prop 36 shows you that the
00:33:27
overwhelming amount of people in California want Prop 36 to
00:33:33
happen. Gavin Newsom, who hated Prop 36
00:33:37
from the beginning, his initial budget had no funding for Prop
00:33:42
36. Now this budget does have a
00:33:45
little bit more, but not a lot. Not what it needs to get done.
00:33:49
So Prop 36, something that was approved by the voters by 70%,
00:33:56
overwhelmingly every county in the, in the entire state voted
00:33:59
for Prop 36. Yet people are scratching their
00:34:02
heads and going, I don't know how we're going to pay for it.
00:34:05
And we're talking about, you know, I'm saying this in grand
00:34:09
scheme of, you know, a $325 billion budget, it's a couple
00:34:14
$100 million to to fund Prop 36 just for personnel and stuff
00:34:19
like that. Like there, there needs to be
00:34:20
more people involved with Prop 36.
00:34:23
It's going to cost more money for law enforcement.
00:34:26
Compare that. Compare that a couple $100
00:34:29
million for probably the entire year to make this happen.
00:34:33
Compare that with almost a billion dollars for undocumented
00:34:38
free healthcare for undocumented citizens.
00:34:41
Now that that is a human right and we got to figure out how to
00:34:45
pay for it. If we have to borrow into
00:34:46
oblivion, if we have to borrow against bonds and all this stuff
00:34:49
and borrow against our own money, we'll do it.
00:34:52
It doesn't matter. We'll do.
00:34:53
We'll find the money, but when it's something that the people
00:34:58
voted for overwhelmingly just because you don't like it, like
00:35:02
Gavin Newsom didn't like it, Democrats hated it.
00:35:04
They hated the idea of Prop 36 calling them out for all of the
00:35:09
problems that were going on with public safety and crime and
00:35:13
everything like that. We, we can't figure out how to
00:35:16
pay for it. Hands up, I don't, I don't know.
00:35:18
We can't figure out how to pay for Prop 36.
00:35:21
That's ridiculous. And they start blaming the
00:35:24
people who drafted the ballot measure.
00:35:26
Oh, you didn't. You didn't say how we were going
00:35:28
to fund it. You just said approve or not
00:35:30
approve. And so that's the blame get rid
00:35:33
of. But when it was something like
00:35:35
this, that was an executive order by Gavin Newsom, not
00:35:38
something that people voted on to give free healthcare to
00:35:42
undocumented citizens. And remember, this was executive
00:35:44
orders from Gavin Newsom back to Jerry Brown.
00:35:46
It slowly got to this point. It's a human right.
00:35:50
It's a human right and we have to figure out how to pay for it.
00:35:54
Hook line and Singer. That's the bottom line.
00:35:56
So we got to figure out how to pay for it.
00:35:58
So I wanted to say those two examples of when you have
00:36:03
something that people on your team, when they they support
00:36:07
something that's for the benefit of their team, cost is no
00:36:10
option. When it's something you hate,
00:36:13
you're going to figure out how to neglect it or not pay for it.
00:36:18
But also, what's more important I think here is that I think the
00:36:24
California Democrats are getting more and more out of touch with
00:36:30
Californians. And I think they they've gotten
00:36:33
to the point where they don't think their actions have any
00:36:37
consequences and that people aren't going to pay attention.
00:36:41
I think they've gotten to this point where they think we're
00:36:42
going to rule this state forever.
00:36:46
We can basically do anything. We're basically royalty at this
00:36:48
point. We're untouchable.
00:36:51
You know, Prop 36, which passed by a Democratic vote by a large
00:36:54
margin. And then this PPIC, which is
00:36:58
Public Institute of California, this, this is the poll that
00:37:04
everyone has been talking about that came out most recently.
00:37:09
And this is the, the part I want to show you.
00:37:11
Californians have feral view of immigrants.
00:37:14
But opinions have shifted recently.
00:37:16
When asked in 2024 whether immigrants are a benefit to
00:37:19
California because of their hard work and job skills or burden
00:37:21
because of their use of public services, 60% of Californians
00:37:24
say immigrants are a benefit, down from 66% in June 2023 and
00:37:30
78% in 2021. So it's going down.
00:37:34
The four in 10 Californians say the border situation has reached
00:37:37
a crisis level. 2/3 of residents think border policy should focus
00:37:41
on ensuring the process for who is admitted is more efficient,
00:37:45
while that third say it should focus on blocking migrants
00:37:47
crossing the border, Which is insane that that is being
00:37:52
mentioned here in California that this is, this is really
00:38:00
something that like this issue is, again, I know we just talked
00:38:05
about it with that last story, but it's not an issue that is
00:38:10
winning for Democrats. They are not winning on this
00:38:13
issue. People are turning against them
00:38:16
on this issue. Yet for some reason, they're
00:38:19
doubling down on issues that are not really favorable to them.
00:38:25
Just to bring up again, the 58% of Californians do not approve
00:38:31
of giving free health care to undocumented citizens.
00:38:33
That in itself should probably be enough of a wake up call to
00:38:45
California Democrats that this is an unpopular opinion, This is
00:38:49
an unpopular policy that 58% of Californians do not approve of.
00:38:56
This right? This is not a simple majority.
00:38:59
This isn't 48%. This is 58% of Californians do
00:39:05
not approve of this. There was one more story that I
00:39:10
did want to get to. Basically, I'm going to show
00:39:15
this right now. This is from a blog talking
00:39:17
about spending in California. So this is another PPIC and this
00:39:25
is another poll conducted by Public Policy Institute of
00:39:27
Californians says a whopping 55% now opt for lower taxes and
00:39:33
fewer state services, a turnabout from pre pre 2023
00:39:37
trends toward increased taxation.
00:39:40
This stance supported by 86% of Republicans and 62% of
00:39:43
independents. Mind you, that is really
00:39:46
important. If independents are swinging
00:39:49
this way, 62% of independents. Just to break it down and put
00:39:54
the numbers out there, yes, 48% of the state is registered
00:39:58
Democrat and the rest is 25% or so like 20-5 around that number
00:40:03
as Republicans, 25% as independents with the rest kind
00:40:06
of going to like different parties.
00:40:09
If independents are breaking this way towards more fiscal
00:40:15
responsibility as opposed to increase taxation.
00:40:21
That's a whole stance that is a big swing of voters who used to
00:40:24
break for Democrats, but now if taxation and spending is a big
00:40:28
thing, it may break another way. Let's see.
00:40:33
This is stems from the dissatisfaction with the state's
00:40:36
11 point one $11.9 billion budget shortfall described as a
00:40:41
big problem by 43% disinclination of borrow 7.1
00:40:47
billion from the rainy day fund. 56% find it a bad idea is a
00:40:52
demand for responsible budgets. Faith in government is a rodent
00:40:56
alarming rate. A staggering 90% believe the
00:40:59
federal government wastes tax dollars and 84% says it's
00:41:02
operates for a privilege. Few special interests in
00:41:05
California, support for Gavin Newsom hovers at a tepid 44%
00:41:08
while the legislature registers at 41% backing for shrinking the
00:41:13
federal government 57%, blah, blah, blah.
00:41:17
So there is something happening here in California and whether
00:41:27
it's going to start bearing out and it's going to start bearing
00:41:30
in a change of the state, we have yet to really see.
00:41:36
We did see it in 2024. A lot more counties did break
00:41:39
for President Trump. They went red as it, you know,
00:41:42
they went red as opposed to blue, but as they were before
00:41:44
they, we flipped 3 or 4 Assembly seats from Democrat to
00:41:49
Republican. And by we, I mean Californians
00:41:53
just in general, we flipped those seats out of, you know,
00:41:55
got rid of Democrats. Maybe the tide is, is shifting
00:42:00
here in California. Maybe if you have a majority of
00:42:05
people who do not approve a free health care for illegal
00:42:07
immigrants, you know, 4 in 10 think that the border crisis is
00:42:12
a problem. That's almost up to 50% of
00:42:14
people, almost a third think that there needs to be stricter
00:42:18
enforcement of what's going on at the border and who gets LED
00:42:21
into the border. If that many people are thinking
00:42:25
that, let's see what was it, what was the number?
00:42:28
I just want to pull this again, 55% now want lower taxes and
00:42:34
fewer state services. That is a big turn around here
00:42:39
in California and the California budget that is been proposed.
00:42:45
And I wanted to just focus on this one issue of medical for
00:42:48
undocknined citizens. There's a whole bunch of slew of
00:42:50
other things that are in there, but I didn't want to bore
00:42:52
everybody with the with the details because this was I
00:42:55
really think the pressing thing. This is the sticking point and
00:43:00
it's not finalized yet. The governor still has to figure
00:43:02
out, legislature still has to figure it out, but they keep
00:43:07
hanging their hats on these issues that are not winning for
00:43:11
them. Polls are showing everything's
00:43:13
going in the wrong direction. And like I said, I don't know if
00:43:16
this is a foreboding of what's going to happen in California.
00:43:21
I don't know if this shows that there is a a changing tide, if
00:43:25
there is a changing attitude amongst voters to slowly start
00:43:28
rolling these things back. We have yet to see, but
00:43:33
increasing spending at a time when $12 billion budget deficit
00:43:38
exists is not a good look if you're a California Democrat.
00:43:42
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