THAT THE SHOPKEEPER DIDN’T GET
ARRESTED?
NOT A CHANCE.
NEW YORK IS UP IN ARMS LIKE THEY
ARE HERE IN CALIFORNIA.
ANOTHER CRAZY PROGRESSIVE D.A.
IS IN HOT WATER, WE’VE BEEN
FLIRTING WITH THIS NAME.
HOPEFULLY SOON HE WILL BE OUT OF
A JOB.
GEORGE GASCON, HE’S NOW ALMOST
CERTAIN TO FACE RECALL, HIS?
HAVE SUBMITTED OVER 700,000
SIGNATURES, NEARLY 200,000 MORE
THAN THEY NEEDED.
GASCON LIKE ALVIN BRAGG IN
MANHATTAN IN RECENT RECALL IN
SAN FRANCISCO, FORMER D.A. AND
CHESA BOUDIN, THEY COME UNDER
FIRE FOR THEIR SOFT ON CRIME
POLICIES.
FACTS DON’T LIE.
GASCON TOOK OFFICE, SHOOTINGS
ARE UP ALMOST 55% LEADING TO
INCREASE IN HOMICIDE, 29% IN
ROBBERY.
ONLY UP 17%, LA’S DEPUTY D.A.
SAID RECALL EFFORT HAS SOMETHING
TO DO WITH POLITICS AND ONLY
PUBLIC SAFETY.
>> I’M A DEMOCRAT AND MANY
INDIVIDUALS WHO SUPPORT THE
RECALL ARE DEMOCRATS.
THE CRIME RATE IS SKYROCKETING
UNDER GEORGE GASCON.
INNOCENT INDIVIDUALS ARE BEING
KILLED.
MANY OF THE INDIVIDUALS ARE
PEOPLE OF COLOR.
CHILDREN ARE BEING HURT, A LARGE AMOUNT OF CASH AND GRAB
AMOUNT OF CASH AND GRAB
BURGLARIES, A LARGE AMOUNT OF
ROBBERIES.
PEOPLE ARE SCARED, CONCERNED FOR
THEIR SAFETY.
KENNEDY: ARE SOME OF THESE
CITIES WAKING UP TO THEIR OWN
FAILURES?
ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT
CALIFORNIA IS THE RECALL
MECHANISM AND GEORGE GASCON IS
LIKE THIS IS PUTTING A THUMB IN
THE EYE OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PROCESS, REALLY POLITICS.
IS IT JUST POLITICS?
>> NO AND ONE OF THE OTHER
THINGS GASCON POINTED OUT IN HIS
LINE, IS A REPUBLICAN DRIVEN RECALL CAMPAIGN.
RECALL CAMPAIGN.
JOHN MCKINNEY, MICHELLE HANNITY,
ALL OF THESE DEPUTY D.A.’S WHO
WORK FOR THIS GUY WILL TELL YOU
THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL THING,
NOT DRIVEN BY REPUBLICANS, IT
CUTS ACROSS ALL POLITICAL
DIVISIONS AND ALL NEIGHBORHOODS
IN L.A. COUNTY.
HALF OF THE CITY’S HAVE VOTED NO
CONFIDENCE IN THE DISTRICT
ATTORNEY TO DO HIS JOB.
HALF OF THE CITY.
L.A. IS A PRETTY LIBERAL AREA
AND THE SUGGESTION THAT MAYBE
HALF OF THE CITY’S ARE
REPUBLICAN DRIVEN CITY COUNCILS
THAT WOULD VOTE LIKE THIS IS IN
TEN.
EVERYONE OF THEM HE TALKS ABOUT
IN TERMS OF THE PEOPLE HE
PROSECUTES AND THE FAMILIES OF
THE VICTIMS HE STICKS UP FOR,
THEY ARE THE ONES DRIVING THIS
RECALL CAMPAIGN.
PEOPLE OUT THERE HAVE LOST THEIR
LOVED ONES TO PEOPLE LET OUT OF
PRISON BECAUSE OF GEORGE
GASCON’S POLICIES.
HE MENTIONED THE 200,000 MORE
THAN NECESSARY IN TERMS OF THE
NUMBER OF SIGNATURES THEY’VE
TURNED IN, ALMOST ALL OF THOSE
EXTRA SIGNATURES CAME IN AFTER
TWO ALMONTE POLICE OFFICERS LOST
THEIR LIVES TO A GUY ON PAROLE WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN, SHOULD
WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN, SHOULD
HAVE BEEN IN JAIL FOR A VERY
LONG TIME BUT BECAUSE OF THE
POLICIES GEORGE GASCON -- HE
EVEN HAD THE AUDACITY TO SAY, A
CONVICTED FELON ALREADY, WHEN HE WAS CAUGHT WITH A GUN, THAT DOES
WAS CAUGHT WITH A GUN, THAT DOES
NOT SHOW VIOLENCE IN HIS FUTURE.
IF I GOT CAUGHT WITH A GUN
DRIVING HOME TODAY, I WOULD BE
PUT IN JAIL FOR A LONG TIME.
KENNEDY: YOUR RAP SHEET IS
LONGER THAN A CVS RECEIPT.
[LAUGHTER]
DEFORMITY, VERY IMPRESSIVE.
DO YOU THINK THE RECALL IS GOING
TO BE SUCCESSFUL?
IF YOU HAVE THE TWO DAS FROM THE
TWO BIGGEST CITIES IN
CALIFORNIA, WHAT MESSAGE DOES IT
SEND TO NOT ONLY THE REST OF THE
STATE BUT OTHER STATES AND
CITIES WHO HAVE THE SAME KIND OF
PROBLEM ASK.
>> I DO THINK IT’S GOING TO BE
SUCCESSFUL, I CAN’T GO GROCERY
SOME WITHOUT BEING BOMBARDED
OUTSIDE RALPHS WITH A GUY WITH A
CLIP BOARD.
THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE SIGNING
A PETITION.
I’VE SEEN IT IN REAL LIFE.
NUMBER TWO, I JUST MOVED HERE
LIKE A MONTH AGO, IT WASN’T AS A
CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER, I’VE
HEARD CRAZY CASES HE HAS TO DEAL
WITH AND IT’S NO JOKE.
LIVING HERE FEELS LIKE IT’S
OFTEN CITY, A LITTLE SCARY.
I’M ALL FOR THE RECALL.
THE MESSAGE IT WILL SEND IS EVEN
DEMOCRATS MONITOR INDEPENDENCE
REJECTING THIS PROGRESSIVE KIND
OF FAR LEFT EASY ON CRIME
POLICIES MESSAGING, THIS IS WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN YOU GOVERN A CITY
ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
INSTEAD OF LAW AND ORDER IN MY
OPINION.
KENNEDY: SO YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT,
OR YOUR FELLOW DEMOCRATS FED UP
WITH A SENSE OF LAWLESSNESS AND
LACK OF SAFETY WE WANT TOOK FOR
GRANTED AS CALIFORNIANS.
>> YES, I’M ONE OF THE PEOPLE
WHO SUPPORT THE RECALL, I’M A
DEMOCRAT BUT NOT TO ME DEMOCRAT
LIKE MYSELF IS A FAR LEFT WING
PROGRESSIVE, MANY LIKE MYSELF
ARE MODERATE, CENTRIST AND
COMMON SENSE.
THERE ARE COMMON SENSE POLICIES
AND LAW.
I’M VERY CONSERVATIVE WHEN IT
COMES TO CRIME AND SO ARE A LOT
OF MY FELLOW DEMOCRATS AND WHAT
GASCON HAS DONE HIS TAKING THIS
OUT OF THE POLITICAL ARENA AND
PUT IN THE ARENA OF COMMON
SENSE.
HOWEVER, THERE WERE PETITIONS
GOING AROUND DAY AFTER HE WAS
ELECTED AND HASN’T YET DOING
ANYTHING.
KENNEDY: MAYBE THOSE PEOPLE, NOT
JUST POLITICAL MOTIVATION, MAYBE
IF HE HAD FORESIGHT BECAUSE THEY
WANT TO SAVE THEIR BEFORE IT
GOES SWIRLING DOWN THE TOILET.
HATS OFF TO THEM, THEY HAVE THE
RIGHT TO DO THAT AND I LOVE THAT
YOU ARE SO CONSERVATIVE.
I KNOW YOU ARE TEARING WHEN ROE
V. WADE WAS OVERTURNED, YOU’RE
LIKE AN ABORTION NOW AND I WAS
LIKE LESLEY, SO WEIRD.
[LAUGHTER]
>> I NEVER SAID THAT.
KENNEDY: THE HOTEL?
JAIL AND FOREVER SMOKING CRACK,