00:00Well, we, I mean, I've made this crystal clear.
00:04Donald Trump knows he's going to lose the election.
00:05The only way he has any chance is to rig it and to steal it.
00:12And we don't need a history lesson to be reminded what he did after January 6th.
00:17He tried to light democracy on fire. He tried to steal the election.
00:20Well, we, I mean, I've made this crystal clear.
00:23Donald Trump knows he's going to lose the election.
00:25The only way he has any chance is to rig it and to steal it.
00:32And we don't need a history lesson to be reminded what he did after January 6th.
00:37He tried to light democracy on fire. He tried to steal the election.
00:40He tried to do the same thing when he called Greg Abbott and saying he's entitled to five seats in
00:43a mid-decade redistricting.
00:45He's been trying to do that consistently to our state for months and months and to other states across the
00:50country as it relates to accessing voter rolls.
00:52He's been doing that in terms of intimidation tactics, including putting board tech teams down there at Dodger Stadium on
00:58the day of the election last November in order to intimidate diverse communities from coming out and voting.
01:03He tried to do that by sending out DOJ monitors saying the election's rigged.
01:07He tried to do that by going to the court, by actually asserting the election was rigged.
01:12And thank God the court didn't take that case.
01:16These guys are not screwing around. He's ruthless.
01:21This is just about 2026. It's also about 2028.
01:24So absolutely, we need to litigate and we also need to prepare.
01:29And that's why we have tens of millions of dollars in the budget to support county officials.
01:33And that's why we also have strategies to have to require a higher level of accountability, felony for people that
01:42interfere in elections.
01:43And we're working with the legislature, many of the bills we're working on, what I'll be discussing this afternoon, to
01:49see where we land on those as well.
01:51So a combination of all those factors that need to be leaned in.
01:54And as well as Dolly Parton, what I love is the punditry, that I love that everyone loved her.
01:59I loved that everyone loved her for all the right reasons, that she was other people oriented.
02:05I think the biggest thing that defined her spirit was that she grew taller because she lifted other people up.
02:13And I think that's that's that's a life worth emulating.
02:17It's a white life worth living.
02:19And in a world where it's so reductive, it's so short term, it's so extractive, getting mine, what a contrast
02:28to what's going on in Washington, D.C.
02:31And what a contrast for our children to look to someone like Dolly Parton for inspiration.
02:37Governor, Senate Democrats yesterday released their proposal on wildfire accountability and utility.
02:42There's a direct contrast to your proposal.
02:44So they want to continue subrogation for insurance companies, whereas your proposal said you would want to stop it?
02:48Let's keep those insurance companies, keeping them ahead of the victims.
02:55Well, I don't.
02:57They do.
02:58I mean, if you're with the insurance companies and you think they should be paid before victims, okay.
03:03I mean, that's a point of view.
03:04I'm not going to defend that.
03:06If you think hedge funds should get paid before victims, you can defend that.
03:12I'm not going to defend that.
03:13If you think billboard lawyers should get paid before victims, you can defend that.
03:20I'm not going to defend that.
03:20So our proposal doesn't do any of those things.
03:25They may have a different point of view.
03:27Insurance industry is going to do everything to make sure they get paid first, to make sure through subrogation claims
03:34they get theirs.
03:36Hedge funds want to get theirs.
03:38You know, billboard lawyers want to get theirs.
03:41And then they'll prop the victims up and they'll say it was always about the victims.
03:45Was it?
03:46Our proposal is about the victims first and about accountability for CEOs.
03:50No bonuses if you have a major safety violation.
03:54And if you continue to have safety violations, we need stepped-up sanctions so that we can take over the
04:00utility.
04:01We also want to 10x the fines to shareholders who also should have skin in the game if they're not
04:07meeting those safety requirements.
04:08Again, or you could defend the status quo.
04:12And I assure you, I promise you, I don't think this, a lot of experience in this space, having done
04:18two wildfire funds.
04:22You are going to be secure in a matter of months with a new administration and a new legislature, and
04:28they're going to have to make tough choices.
04:30This is not easy.
04:31You're going after major, powerful, entrenched special interests.
04:37This was out of a plan that we did together, an independent analysis, and I hope people read that analysis
04:47because it said the status quo is untenable in the short term and in the long term catastrophic potentially.
04:53And what that will mean is the victims even further behind chasing crumbs in bankruptcy court.
05:01And I'm just not going to leave without trying.
05:05And I'm not naive because I feel like Lombardi or something.
05:08Did you lose?
05:09No, we just ran out of time.
05:10I wish I had a little few more months here.
05:13And, yeah, well, I've got a few more months, but a few more, a few more at best with the
05:18legislature on this.
05:19I get how hard it is.
05:20And I talked to those same folks that were talking to me about those other bills you were referencing the
05:24other night.
05:25It's hard.
05:26And, of course, it's hard.
05:27The first two were hard.
05:29It's complicated.
05:30You have a lot of new members.
05:31What does subrogation mean?
05:33What is it?
05:34I mean, it's tough stuff.
05:35I mean, people, it takes years to even understand the language of this.
05:39And so, at least, you know, I think we're making progress.
05:43And we have some ideas, additional ideas.
05:45We're creative.
05:46It's part of my day today, tomorrow, and my Friday and Saturday and Sunday.
05:50And we're going to, you know, we're going to lean forward.
05:54I'm confident we're going to make progress.
05:56I want to just keep leaning forward.
05:57But where's the three-party deal lay with the legislature ending next Monday?
06:01The session ending next Monday.
06:02Where does the three-party deal stand?
06:03Exactly.
06:04When are we getting dealing with the governor?
06:05I know.
06:06This is the question we want to know.
06:07So you're still determined to not hand over next to the next governor?
06:10I'm going to try to clean up as much of it as I can.
06:14Would you call a special session if it doesn't come together?
06:16And I'll answer that.
06:19As much as I can.
06:20You have a special session now.
06:21It's just, it's the art of possible.
06:22I actually might be an expert in this.
06:26You've never heard me say that about it much.
06:28I have a little experience in this subject matter.
06:30So I also understand the limits.
06:33I understand reality.
06:34But we're going to, we're going to clean up some of it.
06:37And I'd like to, and, and we're going to create a pathway where they can quickly do what I think
06:43inevitably will need to be done.
06:44And to the extent there's, there's a, there's a special session.
06:47I'm sure Lori wants to, she would love a special session.
06:53Do the people's work.
06:54Do the people's work.
06:55So I don't, no, it's, it's the, we'll see how life unfolds.
07:01There's a lot of time between now and that 72 hour rule.
07:07Four more months to the end of the year.
07:09All right.
07:09So.
07:10But to get you, can we get you to respond though?
07:11Because I mean, just in fairness to, I mean, to give you an opportunity to say how you feel about
07:16this.
07:17The, I mean, the coalition against what you're proposing.
07:21They're pointing to your relationship with you.
07:23How about, how about, how about the support I've gotten from the people I'm opposing?
07:27Probably three X more.
07:29I imagine they're not, they're admitting that, aren't they?
07:32Ask Rex how much those guys have supported.
07:34That was the trial attorneys.
07:36Come on.
07:36I mean, just, that's not how you, you guys know me well enough.
07:39No, I operate, I've been at this and this topic in particular.
07:43You can look back how we, how we, how we manage all that.
07:46It's interesting.
07:47That's a good question because last year we were, I'm not sure we are this year, up in Placer County.
07:51It's a good question.
07:52And we need to depopulate the fair plan.
07:54So that's, that's just, and that's, that's disappointing that they, they go there.
08:02Are you serious?
08:04Really?
08:05Did you fill this, the wine store?
08:06No, I never filled it.
08:07I just, I didn't even know it had that much until I read that in your newspaper.
08:10I literally didn't even know that.
08:12Seriously.
08:12By the way, I put books in there.
08:13I don't know if you saw the photos.
08:14There's no wine there.
08:15It's books.
08:16Yeah.
08:17Well, trust me, it's my only inheritance from my father.
08:19Last question.
08:20Gun to your head, favorite daily part is on.
08:34I will always love you because that's, that was the swan song from the family, right?
08:37So it's like, so it seems like that's the thematic one.
08:40And I will always love you, and especially you, for all these questions.
08:43I'm going to miss you.
08:45Can I just get your reaction to the meta settlement?
08:48Oh, yeah.
08:48So you can tell us about that.
08:49It seemed like that was a good move, but it's not going far enough to say you need to do
08:52more.
08:52Yeah, it's 100 pages.
08:57But I will say, it reminded me, it's interesting.
08:59I was, I got a paying Senator Skinner, reminded me of the 2022 bill I signed, that these same
09:07folks litigated, net choice.
09:11The age-appropriate design bill of 2022 reminded me a lot of the bill I signed in 2024, SB 1976,
09:22which dealt with mental health and harms.
09:24I mean, you quite literally look at at least the review I did, top line, it was,
09:29what we said needed to happen, and it seems to have happened on the back end, through litigation.
09:34Now, there are questions, and this is, again, part of my afternoon, of what pending bills,
09:40with the legislature we've been working on, how that also overlays on the settlement and where
09:45those gaps are.
09:45And there could be some last-minute amendments to address that on the basis of what this
09:50settlement ultimately offers.
09:51But 51 states, my understanding, and I think it's an encouraging development.
09:56It's the right question on $201 billion of top-line revenue.
10:00Top-line is 17.
10:03It's the right question.
10:11Which one's that?
10:12It was Senator Wahab's bill that would require more oversight for Alameda County.
10:17Oh, yeah.
10:18I haven't done that, looked at it yet.
10:19No.
10:20They're letting you to veto.
10:20She's worried about some of the non-profit spending and no oversight over it.
10:24Oh, wait.
10:25And she mentioned that at the same event, the paper on that.
10:30Yeah, so I've got to get to that.
10:32I'm not kidding.
10:33No position?
10:33I actually, I don't know.
10:34It's in my positions in my paper.
10:36There's a lot of bills.
10:37There's 700 bills.
10:38I got a story to write.
10:39I know.
10:39I know you got a story.
10:40Newsom Refinance.
10:44We'll take a look.
10:45Go ahead.
10:45Friday marked six months since the war with Iran broke out.
10:49It's been six, yeah.
10:49Would you say that it's still driving economic uncertainty in California, and how do you address that at
10:54the state level?
11:05You know, you saw today, nationwide, diesel prices are near record high, and how that's
11:10impacting farmers and blue-collar workers in this country disproportionately.
11:16Inflation continues to be stubborn.
11:18The impacts of, I mean, what Trump just did in terms of the impacts of these tariffs,
11:25tariffs, and this trade war that's going to disproportionately hurt those northern states,
11:31particularly states like Maine and Michigan, Ohio, on tariff war in Canada.
11:38All these things are, you know, creating a lot of pressure and a lot of stress, and it trumps just
11:43complete inability to figure this out on how the hell he ends this war in Iran.
11:48And you saw some of the reporting as it relates to how China is responding to those secondary
11:53sanctions in this D-Day, as Bessett says, in terms of the economic sanctions.
12:02So he's just created an unbelievable mess, and it's going to take years and years and years to clean it
12:08up, and we're just going to have to continue to do our best under these circumstances.
12:14And I'll just close on that without quoting Prime Minister Carney, who I think, he was at Newsome Met Shea
12:22News, that you kind of clean up your own house, meaning it's not what happens to you, it's how you
12:29respond to what happens to you.
12:30And I think that's indicative of what we're trying to do here today.
12:34We're responding not by just lamenting about it, but by leaning in, by suggesting maybe Solano needs to lean in,
12:41by suggesting that we need to step up our game across the series of issues, by suggesting we can't just
12:47delay difficult decisions, that we have to take on vaccine and tough stuff.
12:54And I think this moment demands that across the spectrum of issues.
12:58Thank you, guys.
12:59Thanks.
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