What is pointing voters to believe that, that big tech has gone more conservative?

It's simple.

They're eyes.

They're exactly what they're seeing.

You know, when tech started in the Bay Area, it was considered as sort of a libertine, liberal, socially conscious, new type of economy and new type of products out there.

Elon Musk was being praised for revolutionizing the electrical vehicle market and getting those cars on the road and sort of kicking off the whole EV boom.

Zuckerberg was leading the nation in sort of this is a new way to communicate and it's open to everybody.

Have you seen the needle moved on this from left to right?

And Phil, what do you think the federal officials are trying to accomplish here?

Shake things up.

Draw attention to, you know, the idea that there could be voter fraud in California, in Nevada and other possible states in the union.

But when you actually take a look at what's going on, it almost makes the case in the other direction.

as you said 28 people were charged across the entire state of california with illegally registering or voting in federal elections improperly and 11 were arrested and the rest are going to be arrested in a short period of time that's what they're expecting now these people weren't illegal aliens they didn't cross the border to vote in the midterm elections or to register to vote they were people that were legal residents of the state they were in the process of of becoming citizens and they did something stupid it looks like because they registered to vote you don't actually get any money for that it's not a gainful thing but it can be a stupid thing but there were 28 of them and that is their these feds are using that as to say that this is the reason why they want the state to go over this list of supposedly 20 000 people they have said that are improperly registered in the state of california And clear those roles out, okay? And the state is going, you know, what are you basing it on? And they haven't said.

But if you take a look at this, this is also, they have also charged that there's 190,000 supposedly people on the California rolls.

But when you, again, when you take a look at this, you know, 28 arrests.

How are they going to use this to respond?

Uh, did he maybe run a little too fast early on?

Yeah, I think there is that.

You know, we are a f- tend to be a fickle group.

You can be a hot, you know, item for a while, and then you sort of drop off, and then you maybe could come back.

But Gavin Newsom has a couple of things, you know, that he has to deal with, not the least of which is the state of the state of California.

We're hearing more and more about, you know, the, around the country, they're talking about California gas prices, uh, housing prices, utility costs.

Just basically saying that, you know, do you wanna turn your state into or the nation into California? Now, Gavin's people are calling this, you know, California hysterics or California derangement syndrome.

Is there a chance he will not run?

He spent tons and tons of money on his campaign, but it didn't really get him anywhere.

That's right.

That's right.

Now what we're talking about here, however, are local races.

This wouldn't apply to state races, but in local races.

And, uh, there's, uh, two cities in California that I know of already have it.

They're what's called charter cities, it gives them some exemptions from laws like this.

Yeah.

It's twenty billion." What do you think? Somewhere in the middle maybe?

Or north of twenty billion.

At least that's what, uh, PG&E's top, uh, brass told the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday, uh, when the discussion came up.

Uh, I c- I wouldn't even hazard to begin to guess, Steve.

Uh, somewhere in between, but I-- in this case, PG&E is holding a lot of the cards.

It's their equipment.

It's in the city.

I mean, why in the world would the city want to run the power grid? I mean, that just sounds like a boondoggle in the making.

But I that kind of struck me as kind of funny because I don't think that if you are born and bred San Franciscan, you probably don't need a nighttime ride to figure that out.

No, but he, you know, part of politics is performance and you get in the car and you do take the tour.

And he said that while there were some bright spots, in other words, areas that had cleaned up, that, yeah, that was still a problem.

And you don't need to take a tour with police, but that's how you sort of officially take Take a tour and see what needs to be done.

The question is what can be done about it? And there's a couple of answers, but unfortunately for politicians, they're not necessarily comfortable.

We've done a lot of work in San Francisco and what we called was harm reduction, which was basically we're trying to keep people alive, keep them out of jail and keep them safe.

uh in on the path towards uh sort of getting off drugs mayor lurie has come in and following the lead of london breed has put an end pretty much to the idea of distributing uh the paraphernalia to the extent that we were before we're not hearing a lot about needles in the streets We are, however, still, you know, fentanyl is a lot easier to access and it's out there.

Yeah, it seems like another problem too, at least just based on my anecdotal knowledge, is that the tenderloin is kind of used as a containment center for this type of activity.

How'd we get here?

We got here because she took her, put her hand out and she took a allegedly a and tried to arrange some sweetheart deals with Andy and David Duong, heads of California Waste Solutions.

which has run basically Oakland's recycling program.

It's about the last 30 years.

It's an exclusive contract.

It was awarded to them.

And they have been making about $20 million a year off of it.

This has to, you know, raise the eyebrows of other politicians locally, just about everywhere.

And the sheriff defends it.

Yes, he does.

Well, you have to understand something about San Francisco.

It is unique on a lot of fronts.

And one of them is the sheriff's department.

San Francisco is both a city and a county.

And it's the only one in the state.

And it's just kind of OK.

Here's Phil Matier in the Bay Area.

You've known Kimberly Guilfoyle for years.

What is going on here? When did the wheels kind of come off the cart?

greek ambassadorship and for being kind of uh close with greek certain greek companies that she seemed to be showing deference with and lobbying around with them in europe as well so put it all together you got the latest chapter in the ongoing soap opera with all those characters involved

yeah now the white house is reportedly asking her to leave i did she have a bright future back then i mean you know did it hit a curve somewhere

What is going on here? When did the wheels kind of come off the car?

the wheels have always been spinning fast with kimberly yeah i first came and met her when she was a deputy district attorney in san francisco she's san francisco native and she was uh co-counsel and co-prosecutor with the d.a terence hallinan um on the infamous dog mauling trial in presidio heights where a woman who was taking care of a dog for an inmate at pelican bay the dog mauled one of the neighbors and it made international news It also paved the way for Kimberly to move on to Court TV and eventually at Fox as well.

But while she was at the district attorney's office, she started dating a guy by the name of Gavin Newsom, who was a supervisor at that time.

She also started to have a feud with a fellow deputy district attorney by the name of Kamala Harris, which lasted for some time, too.

The office just wasn't big enough for both of them.

And so she eventually married Gavin Newsom.

They got divorced.

yeah now the white house is reportedly asking her to leave i did she have a bright future back then i mean you know did it hit a curve somewhere

What is going on here? When did the wheels kind of come off the cart?

The wheels have always been spinning fast with Kimberly.

Yeah, I first met her when she was a deputy district attorney in San Francisco.

She's San Francisco native, and she was co-counsel and co-prosecutor with D.A. Terrence Hallinan on the infamous dog mauling trial in Presidio Heights, where a woman who was taking care of a dog for an inmate at Pelican Bay, the dog mauled one of the neighbors, and it made international news.

It also paved the way for Kimberly to move on to Court TV and eventually at Fox as well.

But while she was at the district attorney's office, she started dating a guy by the name of Gavin Newsom, who was a supervisor at that time.

She also started to have a feud with a fellow deputy district attorney by the name of Kamala Harris, which lasted for some time, too.

yeah now the white house is reportedly asking her to leave i did she have a bright future back then i mean you know did it hit a curve somewhere

So, Phil, can you tell us why this particular demographic?

well it's kind of obvious i mean what we have here is that uh you know the chinese americans represent about 22 of san francisco's population but they only represent about 15 of the registered voters because a lot of them are immigrants and yet to become citizens a lot of them are young a lot of them are old a lot of them are monolingual they only speak chinese and the idea is that they will are one of the most significant groups in san francisco and in this particular election it's going to be key especially for connie chan this is election between scott state senator scott wiener and supervisor connie chan to replace nancy pelosi and connie chan came in second as somewhat of a distant second to scott wiener in the uh primary and so it's felt and i say felt with quotations around that that she needs to really capture the chinese-american vote in order to win the election and the idea is that since her name is chan and she's from taiwan that the chinese americans are going to vote for her that's the hope and that's why everybody says it's quote unquote key and scott weiner is courting the vote as well whether they do vote for her is a different issue because the irony here is that her politics are distinctly different than that the chinese american voters in san francisco

Yeah, although I did read that she does seem to be kind of performing well or appealing to both moderate and progressive Chinese voters and then even like former Republicans campaigning for her now.

Right.

But the Chinese vote in San Francisco tends to be on the conservative side.

They're the ones that led the recall against Chesapeau Dean, the district attorney, a few years back.

They got recalled for being too progressive, for letting people off the hook.

They're very big on public safety.

Who is Doug Emhoff telling that he'd prefer she didn't run again?

You know, he's been talking for a while and you, myself and Mayor Willie Brown have talked about the odds of Kamala Harris launching a another bid for president.

And we've said all along that, you know, it was questionable and that her husband had been letting it be known that, you know, she might not be doing it.

What's interesting here, this is definitely a smoke signal coming out of Camp Kamala, but it's going to be interesting to see whether it's a trial balloon for her not to run, whether it's to try to get people to encourage her to run, or if it's just steam coming off her because her husband, Doug Emhoff, was talking to people who are talking to the Wall Street Journal.

Now, I got to ask you, Steve, you've been around the news a while.

I mean, when something like this shows up at the Wall Street Journal, it's not this is not happenstance.

Whoever you're talking to, you know, they're going to be talking to somebody else.

But after talking with my family,

There are just so many things that we need to be focused on trying to make a reality on the date in November when the votes are cast.

You know, Steve, if you take a look at it, you know, the House of Representatives, which a lot of people are talking about, a lot of that's a stacked deck now.

What with the gerrymandering going on, both in California and Texas and like that, there's you know, there's there's a few contested seats in California, but very few.

And across the country, the Republicans have their gerrymandering.

What's not gerrymandered are the Senate seats because you can't redraw a state map.

And those are where the Democrats really are.

trying to get their upper hand, because also that is the body that either accepts or rejects Supreme Court nominees.

And so all of those things don't translate for me into a blue wave.

Why this move now?

Well, it's trial balloon.

He's sending up the idea of pardoning the death row inmates, although there's no death row anymore.

And, you know, he said it on his podcast.

And then this morning there was a rather well done story in The New York Times stating his position in his AIDS positions and such like that.

It's to see not necessarily how this fall falls in California or what we think about it.

It's what does the rest of the nation think about it? Because if he's running for president, this is and could be a hot button issue, not in the Democratic primary, but in the national.

I guess this is really a hot button issue with the whole Krista Pike debacle in Tennessee.

I guess there aren't a lot of Republicans for the Democrats to beat up on, so they're beating up on themselves?

That's right.

And when a politician sees an opportunity, they're going to take it.

And let's take a look at some of these races.

It's kind of interesting, and some of it even boils down to how the districts have been redrawn.

Okay, so in San Francisco, we have the race that lots of people are watching from around the country, and that is between Senator Scott Weiner and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, who is looking to replace Nancy Pelosi as San Francisco's representative in Washington.

Now, it's going to have been an interesting fight because Wiener is sort of the new guy on the block.

We need that on a T-shirt, I think, Phil.

Do you think officials learned their lesson?

Oh, definitely, definitely.

As a matter of fact, we saw the test run in August in outside lands.

I mean, they would be morons if they kept just things the way they were, and they're not.

So what we're seeing is the area where they're expecting upwards of a million people to be coming around the city, that'll be on Treasure Island, that'll be in the East Bay, that'll be in San Francisco, also mainly along the waterfront, from the marina to Golden Gate Bridge, all the way down to the Ferry Building, basically.

People line up, they pour in to watch the Blue Angels and the other displays.

And it's a packed scene.

So do you think this is embarrassing for Waymo? Or do you think they might be happy that because of these like geofencing restrictions, they're not going to have to worry about service getting disrupted? No more hits to their image?

... those remarks.

Don't take that as the idea that they didn't know what they were hearing.

President Trump has a long history of saying what he thinks with unchecked and unfazed, and that's what he did again in the, at the rally.

What he said was that American cities would be under threat if Iran got a nuclear weapon, and that they could lob one at an American city.

That's not new.

That goes back to the 1950s when we were wor- worried about the Russians.

And he said, for example, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Right

What do you make of this?

Well, pretty much expected.

I mean, it's not just that he said that they could take him out.

He said to let him take out Los Angeles and San Diego.

You know, Donald Trump is pushing for the midterms.

But interestingly enough, he's not coming to blue states like California or even, you know, hitting heavy on the battleground states.

He's staying in solid red territory.

He leaves alone San Francisco, where Daniel Lurie is the mayor.

So, Phil, can you tell us what this poll found?

Well, basically, it shakes down and this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.

But the biggest support is renters and people under 35.

Younger people, renters.

Why? Because they're the ones that you're mostly going to find in the urban areas that use mass transit, whether it be AC Transit or VTA or BART or Caltrain to get to work and back.

So they are the ones that are supporting this.

It's the older voters that have questions about it.

If that, in

If nothing else, I love the soundbite.

That's right.

You know, the ballots are going out and the burn man has come to San Francisco and California.

know it's it's take a trip at a time capsule back to what 2020 when bernie sanders was running for president last time and you know he scored very highly in california i think he got more votes than anybody in the primaries um and he's back he's a very popular figure in california politics and he is picking up the uh the gauntlet and running with the uh proposition 40 the billionaire's tax it fits right into his wheelhouse it's something he supports And he's saying it's the most important initiative on the midterm ballot.

And regardless of how it turns out in California, he thinks it's going to be the national issue and really big in the presidential race as well.

And I think he is.

The billionaires are the attack target of the progressives.

yeah that's a really good question and you point out that bernie sanders has uh scored well here uh in the past but i i wonder are california democrats bernie sanders aoc democrats