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Oct 15, 2026
Becerra vs. Hilton: What California's Governor's Debate Did (and Didn’t) Change
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Beth RuyakHOST
That was not in either of your reporting, but Jeannie, have you taken a look at any fact-checking from other journalism sources?
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18:58Jeannie KuangGUEST
I don't know if any of this came out right after the debate, but it did come up a lot during the primary, and so I would just bring it up now, which is that there's, uh, been a concerted effort by Steve Hilton to draw attention to Xavier Becerra's record as a Health and Human Services secretary, particularly the treatment of migrant children.
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19:17Jeannie KuangGUEST
There was a New York Times investigation, uh, that won the Pulitzer Prize during President Biden's time in office that showed that, um, Xavier Becerra's agency had placed, uh, you know, was trying to very quickly move unaccompanied migrant children through the system so they could be placed with adult sponsors in the community, and that there was poor vetting by his agency, and that many of these children ended up working in this surge of child labor in dangerous jobs, like jobs you really don't want children to be working.
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19:48Jeannie KuangGUEST
Um, and this was something that came up a lot as an attack on Becerra during the primary from other Democrats.
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19:55Jeannie KuangGUEST
And it didn't really stick, but it was one of those things he had to kind of answer for a little bit more.
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20:01Jeannie KuangGUEST
His line throughout this entire controversy has been, "That is a Trump misinformation line," and he was able to really just continue saying that, especially now that he's in the general election.
12 MINS LATER
Nicole NixonGUEST
And so I think that, you know, I think that he just wants to be careful and wants to, um, be in control, um, so he does controlled events or, or tends to.