00:00:47.840What's the latest with you and Newsom?
00:00:50.040Right now they're trying to pass a bill that would stop investigative journalism for nonprofits that support immigration, support services.
00:00:57.340They're trying to hide our tax dollars from these NGOs.
00:04:43.740You'd know that if you look at some of the work I did on the budget subcommittee.
00:04:46.880So Mia Bonta, her husband's the Attorney General of California,
00:04:54.080and it was only until I exposed fraud that they actually cracked down on the fraud
00:04:58.260and made some arrests here, especially with the hospices.
00:05:00.820And do you know that if this bill were to pass, it'd make it illegal for someone to go after fraud, especially if it's based off of immigrants, for instance, Armenians in California?
00:05:12.660No, no, I think that that's a misinterpretation of the bill, but I'm happy to talk with you more about it.
00:05:18.640And I thought in investigations and defraud or something that's been happening for a very long time, the attorney general handles those cases.
00:05:26.780this is an ongoing issue? You think it's a little weird that the wife of the Attorney General,0.98
00:05:30.300Mia Bonta, is now pushing this bill that literally goes against the First Amendment?
00:05:35.720No, I actually don't. I don't think that this bill violates the First Amendment. I mean,
00:05:41.220that's the whole purpose. We have ledge counsel and ledge attorneys that talk with us about this.
00:05:47.060Constitutionality is really important to the work. So your bill criminalizes publication of images
00:05:50.560recorded in public. Do you believe the government has the right to punish journalists for filming
00:05:54.780in public space no i think that that is a complete misinterpretation of actually the
00:06:01.240no because if legislation it is that is not that's literally what happened speaker revis
00:06:07.400how are you doing what do you think about the stop nick shirley act ab 26 24 these guys are
00:06:15.960like literally running i don't know anything about it and do you think there's any conflict
00:06:18.480of interest there with Mia Bonta and her husband being the AG. That just shows you everything you
00:06:26.180need to know. These people won't even answer the questions. Crazy. Crazy. Like these people are
00:06:32.800co-authoring bills, yet they don't even know what's on these bills. And it's a direct violation
00:06:39.260of the First Amendment too. Who else did you get a chance to speak to while you were out there?
00:06:43.040All the other co-authors. And some of them had no idea that they had even passed their committees.
00:06:48.100Some people had no idea they were actually authors of the bill.
00:06:51.100They wouldn't answer any questions about the bill.
00:06:54.500And the bill literally says it would make it confidential how much money,