And this is on top of another list of 15,000 that L.A. County reported.

From last year.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

And I think that what's so frustrating about this is it's almost becoming so ho-hum that LA has dead voters.

I mean, this goes back years, absolutely years.

I mean, Judicial Watch has been suing California and LA County now for many years over their documented dead voters.

This is what the machine does.

[laughs]

Um, but this, that, that we have the governor's wife, who goes by the first partner, which is so annoying to begin with, but that she's now delving into the loneliness problem in California is stunning to me because, as I point out in the article, um, what about all of the California school kids who Gavin Newsom locked down for three years during the COVID years? Schools were closed, kids were ordered home, and there was a lot of mental health problems then that nobody seemed to care much about, other than parents.

Um, the other thing that I point out is what a couple of hypocrites they are, because while the rest of the state was locked down, they were living their best lives, you know, vacationing at a $29,000 per night Daka in Cabo.

We know about his French Laundry dinner.

They vet- traveled to visit her parents, blah, blah, blah.

Their kids probably weren't suffering loneliness, 'cause their kids were also in school at a private school here in Sacramento.

So, um, you know, you have to get the hypocrisy out on the table.

Are we a communist state yet, Katie?

I mean, that's all [laughs] you'd need to say.

I agree.

Uh, and now that we're having, um, the unbelievable explosion of, of, you know, government-funded fraud that's being, you know, uncovered, not just Nick Shirley, but now we've got a lot of people focusing, uh, on our state, I think that's gonna get hung around his neck also because it was all funding through California.

Even if it came from the feds, it still was filtered through the state.

And, um, that, that sets Republicans and Democrats and Independents on edge because that's our tax money that is going to these fraudsters.

Right.

Um, [clears throat] he was talking about how he does have regrets over some of his decisions during the COVID lockdowns.

And again, this is another thing, I'm sorry, I documented it very, very well what life was like in California.

How did it work? How is it working?

Well, this is very fishy.

You are right.

And it sounded like a money laundering operation to me, to be honest with you.

So in May, Governor Newsom holds this big to-do press conference about how the state's going to give away free diapers to to 400 million women, it sounded like.

Not quite, but for all the women who have babies at participating hospitals are going to get free diapers for a year.

And when I first heard this, I went, wait a minute.

Yeah,

So can you describe what's going on here?

Yeah.

It looks like Gavin Newsom's got himself knee-deep into a diaper gate.

Um, on Friday he announced the state, meaning taxpayers, would be contributing $20 million a year, or 20 million right now, um, so that he could take credit for giving free diapers to all of California's new mothers when they go home from the hospital.

Um, so I just...

That, that made me do a, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait." It's been a while since I had a baby, 37 years, but even back then I got a box of Pampers when I left the hospital.

Um, they still give diapers to moms when they leave the hospital, but what Gavin Newsom wants to do is provide the 400,000 women who have babies in California every year, uh, diapers, 400 diapers at no cost to the family.

So the new moms in Bel Air are getting free diapers? Why, why would you do that?

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?

Talk about that.

No.

Uh, 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 s- the labor unions in the state, particularly the SEIU, which is public employees.

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

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

Katie, how are ya? Welcome.

Doing well, John.

Good to be with you.

Good to have you on.

Um, [laughs] well, why don't you give ... 'Cause w- you know, we're, we're, we're broadcast across the country this time.

What would you tell people about covering Gavin Newsom for all these years? Well, it's a, it's a distasteful job, I must admit.

Um, it, if anybody kind of is trying to understand who Gavin Newsom is, which is difficult because every interview he gives he's playing to whatever audience he thinks he's performing for.

Talk about that.