It looked quite unpleasant.

Yeah, it was a group of obviously paid Antifa thugs.

Most of them were masked.

They had horns and loud music with them, and they were clearly trying to pick fights with the peaceful people who showed up for the next Shirley Act, a lot of retirees, a lot of folks, you know, with American flag T-shirts on, a lot of folks in Trump gear.

And it was like a tea party rally is what it was like.

On the Shirley side.

Yes, clearly.

And so that's to keep anybody from trying to do this kind of reporting.

... with where you're at right now.

Yeah, I feel like definitely doing the bigger chunks of yardage has really helped.

Like, I don't...

I just, like, kinda really, like, zeroed in on that.

And, um, honestly, like, it hasn't been too hard mentally.

Like, just because knowing that that's what's gonna work for me has made it so much easier to, like, go in and do that set or, like, go in and, you know, know that I'm gonna be doing this, like, super long practice.

Um, but yeah, it's definitely helped just, like, not only my, like, physical abilities, but also just, like, my confidence.

[laughs]

Why are all these tires being banned? For what purpose?

Actually, your guess is as good as mine.

It's probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

What's interesting about it is it goes back to a 20-year-old assembly bill that was passed and signed into law but never implemented, which directs the California Energy Commission to adopt a replacement tire efficiency program to ensure replacement tires for passengers, cars, and trucks sold in California are at least as energy efficient as the tires sold locally.

as original equipment on new vehicles.

Bottom line, you try to buy, people buy retreads, I know that.

You try to buy some other, you know, less expensive discounted tire for your car.

And if I want to burn more gas, that's my business.

What's the general story for people not familiar?

The general story is that with the millions of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden administration, there were millions, children went missing.

And we heard little bits and pieces of that during the Biden administration.

There were reporters down at the border who were reporting on this stuff, but it never – any traction.

So now there is this new brief that's been done, which really goes into detail on how many of these children there were being handled by the Health and Human Services Agency, of which Javier Becerra was the director of, the secretary, and what these shelters were like, how these children were abused, I mean, little, little children, which had been separated from parents, separated from siblings, maybe they didn't even arrive with any family.

And they were subjected to the most horrific conditions that should make everyone in America just appalled.

And frankly, just, it makes me ashamed almost that this went on right under our noses.

And the police drive by it every day, and nobody does anything here.

Before we get to this unbelievable welfare fraud story, how much trouble is Gavin and his wife in with this where did their money come from scandal? Is this a real story?

Um, I do believe it is a real story.

Uh, and, and it's because this c- this kind of nonprofit NGO scandal has been building for a long time.

Um, frankly, some years ago, like 2006 to 2010, I was reporting fraudulent nonprofits to the California Attorney General back then, and that was when Jerry Brown was still AG, and nothing ever happened.

And then we watched them just exponentially grow, and they've become like this, this shadow government in California, where tons of taxpayer money goes into them.

Reporters like me c- that's where it stops because public records requests, you know, stop at the door of the nonprofit.

Um, and it's just been this massive, um, uh, just this is, this black market spending almost.

God, I'd say.

Is this a real story?

I do believe it is a real story.

And it's because this kind of nonprofit NGO scandal has been building for a long time.

Frankly, some years ago, like 2006, 2010, I was reporting fraudulent nonprofits to the California Attorney General back then, and that was when Jerry Brown was still AG.

and nothing ever happened.

And then we watched them just exponentially grow and they become like this shadow government in California where tons of taxpayer money goes into them.

Reporters like me, that's where it stops because public records requests stop at the door of the nonprofit.

I'd say.

Is this a real story?

I do believe it is a real story.

And it's because this kind of nonprofit NGO scandal has been building for a long time.

Frankly, some years ago, like 2006, 2010, I was reporting fraudulent nonprofits to the California Attorney General back then, and that was when Jerry Brown was still AG.

and nothing ever happened.

And then we watched them just exponentially grow and they become like this shadow government in California where tons of taxpayer money goes into them.

Reporters like me, that's where it stops because public records requests stop at the door of the nonprofit.

I'd say.

Before we get to this unbelievable welfare fraud story, how much trouble is Gavin and his wife in with this where did their money come from scandal? Is this a real story?

Um, I do believe it is a real story.

Uh, and, and it's because this, this kind of nonprofit NGO scandal has been building for a long time.

Um, frankly, some years ago, like 2006, 2010, I was reporting fraudulent nonprofits to the California Attorney General back then, and that was when Jerry Brown was still AG, and nothing ever happened.

And then we watched them just exponentially grow, and they've become like this, this shadow government in California, where tons of taxpayer money goes into them.

Reporters like me ca- That's where it stops because public records requests, you know, stop at the door of the nonprofit.

Um, and it's just been this massive, um, uh, just this, this, this black market spending almost.

God, I'd say.

So can you tell us more of the details of what exactly they were doing and what they were looking for?

Well, as we know, the federal government is really cracking down on all kinds of fraud, whether it's hospice or health fraud.

This is food stamp fraud.

And so this was a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security, LAPD was in on it.

And, of course, our assistant U.S. attorney, Bill Asaley, for the Central District down there in L.A., And they have been, so the undercover agents posed as fraudsters, and what was going on is they were getting cash kickbacks.

So people would turn in their, you know, quote, food stamp snap cards, get cash, and then these guys would provide kickbacks and whatnot to, you know, to them and then other people who would purchase them.

What's interesting is one of our readers left a comment on the article today saying he's actually been offered one of those food stamp SNAP cards and declined it.

I mean, what are they doing beyond moving money around?

I've learned now that when I look at the month and defaults are like, why does this feel so weird? Or why am I overthinking all of these things? Like you said, to check in and be okay with wherever you are has made a huge

difference.

Yeah.

And it's not tried and true.

I mean, there's been times in ovulation where I start overthinking and I'm being really critical of myself.

And I was reminded recently, like, oh, well, that's because the hormones, even though they're up, they're about to come down.

And so they might have just come down a little early or whatever the case may be.

my God, what did they need to talk to me about?

Why don't we start with sort of the political side of things, where maybe there's a there there for the DOJ.

Well, we've got a couple things going on with the political issues.

Gavin Newsom has a kind of strong-armed, big contributors using what's known as behested payments.

He is behesting them to contribute to a favorite nonprofit or charity.

And then what he does, this is definitely quid pro quo, something for something, turns around and gives these companies big government contracts.

So in, I'm trying to, let's see, in 21, he accepted $700,000 from two major law firms, um, to both create and defend his executive order.

Remember he promised he was going to repeal the death penalty when he was elected and he didn't.

Tell us what's going on with this.

I mean, I'm staggered they've gotten away with this, but part of it is hardly anybody reports on it besides you.

Well, what's frustrating is we'll get other news outlets to report on something, but they kind of then wash their hands of it and go, there, I did it.

move on to something new, whereas that's just the tip of the iceberg, usually.

And that's what we keep finding.

So just in the compilation of some of our reporting on these, so there's the fire aid relief funds, $100 million disappeared.

How about the state auditor findings where they found Governor Newsom and agencies at high risk criticizing management of billions of federal COVID fund spending? That was That was billions.

We have the issue of Gavin and Jennifer Newsome's weird real estate holdings.

I mean, I know you're not surprised by this, but this is astounding if it's been going on for this long, kind of in plain sight, that nobody in the media, with all the television stations we have and major newspapers and various political news operations based in California, none of them covered this outside of you.

So if you had a crystal ball now and you were looking into it, what would make you smile and just be super proud?

Oh.

[laughs] Um, uh, I think just like, well, I, I know that we're gonna swim really well.

Like I just know it.

Like it's in my gut.

It's in our, like all of us just collectively are really excited, and I feel like the energy's really tangible.

And like so that part I'm really excited for, and I know that's gonna happen.

So any advice to someone out there who's kind of in that flux of, what do I do next?

What do you think the story is here?

well there have always been whispers and rumors um as i as i say in this post that i did you know i i covered the thousands of non-union farm workers in the central valley who for 15 years were um being you know the usw was trying to force unionization on them i got to know a lot of them i got to know some of the farmers in the region and as i said it's been an open secret That Cesar Chavez, I said, was a serial womanizer.

Obviously, the secrets and whispers were a little more serious than that.

And so they all covered it up and they all praised him for the money because they could rake in lots of money for their foundation and their union and everybody got rich.

I guess, you know, as I said, I smell a gigantic rat.

The other thing that's fascinating is that she was in such a long-term relationship with Cesar Chavez's brother and had four children by him.

Everybody thought they were married.

And so if there's, you know, people are now saying, well, this is easy to figure out, you know, just do some 23andMe genetic testing.

They weren't just bluffing.

No. Yeah.

There's been no bluff at all.

And, yeah, so much for Gavin Newsom's theory on the oil industry is gouging.

Therefore, our prices are going up.

Yeah, what a load of BS.

These guys have been warning the governor and the Air Resources Board and elected lawmakers of what could happen.

He clearly doesn't care if the gas and oil industry goes out of business because it'll happen in its entirety after he's out of office.

Yeah.

It was really confusing for me.

And so I would say that was like the hardest thing to grapple with, was like, "I've worked so hard." Like, I, the people around me have been helping me a lot.

Like, I've really been, you know, I thought I was like fully trusting what I was doing.

And um, so yeah, it was just like confusion was the main emotion coming out of that.

But so I, I came out of NCAAs and I was like, "Okay, I really have to like evaluate my mindset," and like started seeing a sports psych for a little bit after that.

And um, like really like evaluated everything, got like health testing done, like blood work done, because it was like I have to check every aspect of my life.

What do you think?

Talk about that.

No, and that's exactly it.

It's consultants that are getting paid.

It's union employees.

This was supposed to be a big boondoggle for the labor unions in the state, particularly the SEIU, which is public employees.

And all they're doing is spending money, as I said, on consultants, on, you know, architects.

It's a lot of make work and it's a, you know, multi-billion dollars of money just being funneled down the drain.

Isn't he going to get eviscerated in about 10 minutes? Or do you think he's got the ability to slime and slink his way out of this?

And a lot of this has to do with illegal alien health care, doesn't it?

Yeah, it does.

Gavin Newsom even had to finally admit that the Medi-Cal system, which he opened up to every illegal alien in the state, is insolvent and had to go back to the legislature to do something about it.

As for the $18 billion budget deficit, I would venture to say that's going to be adjusted up also.

There's no way it's only $18 billion, but it's still $18 billion, and it sounds horrible.

I think the thing, though, this week, or it was actually released on Friday, the California State Auditor issued a report, and in it they named eight California state agencies as high-risk.

And that means within those agencies, in order to be designated such, waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement must be present.

Talk about that.

For people just hearing about this, what is this California state capital annex? What is this thing?

So a big portion of the Capitol has not the old beautiful, you know, classic structure, but the part that was built in the fifties where all the legislative offices were in committee hearing rooms and kind of, you know, where all the sausages made, uh, that part has been torn down.

This started in 2020 when California was under Gavin Newsom, strict lockdown and, um, For some reason, the governor and the legislators decided, oh, now would be a good time to tear half of our capital down and rebuild it and stick the cost to the taxpayers.

So at the time, the and again, remember, there were no committee hearings going on.

Media had no access to the governor.

Everything we ever did was on Zoom.

And so they just jammed this through, got it approved.

What do you know about this?

So if you could explain that and why that could be a thread that would lead to an investigation.

Since he was elected governor, Newsom has raised a bunch of money via these behested payments.

And essentially, I call it like legalized extortion.

What he does is he requires certain large companies like Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, CVS Pharmacy to... contribute, and I'll say that in air quotes, money to either one of his favorite charities, a nonprofit, or a lot of this was also going into his wife's nonprofit's.

So, you know, there's certainly a lot of speculation on how this money was used.

The the behested payments for the large companies really, really look like pay to play because several of them like Kaiser and one of the other large health insurance companies, he got behested payments from and then turn around and gave them no big contracts during COVID.

And was this in some way and you kind of insinuate it in your story with some way to tell Newsom to knock it off because he was openly, you know, touring Washington, D.C. a few years ago as if he was ready to move into the White House tomorrow.

Exactly.