interview goes on. as you might imagine, governor newsome and i strongly disagree on everything. but to the governor s credit, he sat down for an entire hour. he answered most of our questions. by the way, that was something that the president of the united st states, job is not remotely capable of doing. here s part one of my interview with california democratic governor, gavin newsome. all right. so i write you. pick out a lot of pickup. i m sure you saw it. i m like, okay, i want to do an interview. i don t want to do an interview. i want to make sure the audience understands up front, this is not i want you to answer and give your views. i d say you represent probably about half the country, your views and the other half represents mine. you agree? we re kind of divided. plus or minus. we re polarized, traumatized. we re in these eco chambers. let s be candidate. your folks are watching you and getting certain perspective and my folks are watching other networks y
Understands upfront this is not going to be me. I want you to answer and give your views. I would say you represent probably about half the country, your view about hst other half represents mine. You agree . What kind of divided plus or. Minus . Certainly divided, yeah. Question i mea plun, you know, pol were polarized, were traumatized. We clearly are in thesares. And were in these echo chambers. I mean, lets be candid, john. I mean, you know, night your folks are watching you and getting a certain perspectivin r my folks are watching other networks getting shot. We have Studies Thatorks and sht of democrats watch me. Well, including me. So im actually im here for watc too. Oint, with the point, though, i think we need more of that crosspollinatiowen. Lariza we need more of these kind ofti conversations. And we need to not just, you know, accusing each other of misleading the American People, but i think confront each other in the context of Providinother Ong Opportunitiesm to addres
challenge it. the challenge is, this is the first time in the history of this state that you lost a population. the first time. right. sean: i m going to give you another sheet here. this is about income tax. your state income tax is 13. 3% at the highest number. i also did more digging. the top 1% of californians pay 50% of their total income tax bill. roughly. sean: that s redistribution of wealth? progressive tax policy. sean: what is florida? what does that say? it s untrue. it s not zero. sean: they have zero state income tax. the top 1% pay. you re promoting sean: is that a lie? no. here s what you re promoting. you re promoting regressive tax policy. we don t believe in that. you re promoting one component of an entire tax system, the 1%. with all due respect you and i may pay the 1%. the vast majority don t.
d-a-v-i-d k-o-c-h. koch 4, david 5 45. there it is again. joining us now is scott ross, executive director of one wisconsin now which has had a lot of experience with the americans for prosperity organization there, mostly for being on the opposite side of both issues for them. thank you for joining us tonight. good evening, rachel. herman cain s campaign manager, mark block, was most recently the state director for the wisconsin chapter of afp. how much overlap do you see between that experience, the afp experience, and running republican election campaigns? well, i think from top to bottom, whether it s the staff that herman cain has hired to run his campaign, the astroturf way in which they re running the campaign. and most importantly and most sinister the message of the campaign. this pro corporate, pro regressive tax policy.