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00:00From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:04Tonight, Governor Gavin Newsom,
00:07plus music from the head and the heart,
00:10with the Klee Tones!
00:12And now, Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:32I'm Jimmy. I'm the host.
00:34Thanks for watching.
00:35Thank you for joining forces with us tonight.
00:38We are coming to you from our home in Hollywood.
00:42We have a big show tonight with a man
00:44who might be the 48th president of the United States
00:46one of these days.
00:49Governor Gavin Newsom is here.
00:51Garrett, did you bring all your parking tickets
00:53to have them voided like I told you to?
00:56I did. I already gave it to him in the green room.
00:58You know, Gavin Newsom might be the only guy
01:01who wears more hair gel than you do.
01:03I don't know.
01:04I don't know about that.
01:05Anyway, Governor Newsom will be here shortly,
01:07and if you're watching in bed at the White House,
01:09you might want to stay up,
01:10because we are definitely going to be talking about you, girl.
01:13Okay?
01:17President Donald Trump did find time between bombings yesterday
01:21to post what the New York Post called
01:24apocalyptic footage of San Francisco under Gavin Newsom.
01:28The liatola is pulling out all the stops lately.
01:31Team Trump was on Capitol Hill today
01:33to brief Congress about the strikes on Iran.
01:36Usually, that happens before we invade a country,
01:39but technically, only Congress has the power to declare war.
01:43But also, technically, you're supposed to get a permit
01:46to tear down the East Wing of the White House,
01:48and they're not going to get bogged down in technicallys
01:51with this group.
01:52The president sent a letter to lawmakers
01:54in which he claimed that it is too soon to know
01:57the full scope and duration of this conflict.
01:59Now, on Sunday, he said it could last four to five weeks.
02:03Yesterday, he said it could be more than four to five weeks.
02:05Today, he said it's too soon to know,
02:07and tomorrow, we'll be shooting for Christmas, I guess.
02:10However long it takes until everyone stops talking
02:13about how many times his name is in the Trump-Epstein files.
02:16That's how...
02:17And one of the concerns...
02:22One of the concerns that has been raised
02:25is that dropping all these bombs
02:27could deplete our weapons reserves
02:29and put us in a tough spot
02:30if another conflict were to arise somewhere else,
02:33like if Greenland decides to launch a preemptive attack.
02:36There are reports that the reason we've been moving
02:39so fast with this is that they want to finish the job
02:41before we run out of munitions.
02:43But don't worry.
02:44President Donald J. Rumsfeld says
02:46we are locked and loaded for the long haul.
02:48He says the United States munitions stockpiles
02:51have, at the medium and upper-medium grade,
02:53never been higher or better.
02:54As was stated to me today,
02:56we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.
02:59Wars can be fought forever
03:00and very successfully using just these bombs.
03:03Oh, good. The war can be fought forever.
03:06That's exactly what we wanted to hear.
03:08Just like the war, his stomach is fighting with his pants.
03:11It would belong...
03:14Now, listen, I'm not an expert in this,
03:17but I'm pretty sure our military
03:19doesn't have unlimited weapons.
03:21It's a stockpile.
03:22It's not the buffet at the Golden Corral.
03:24You know, last night I mentioned that the only good thing
03:26I could say about Trump, before Saturday anyway,
03:29was that he didn't start any wars.
03:31And I'm not the only one who felt this way.
03:33We found this op-ed from the Wall Street Journal in 2023,
03:36written by a senator who said he was endorsing Trump because,
03:39quote,
03:40I know he won't recklessly send Americans to fight overseas.
03:43And that senator, you know who that is?
03:45He's not a senator anymore.
03:46Now he's the vice president, J.D. Vance.
03:49Same fellow who called Trump America's Hitler.
03:52Good thing for J.D., his boss does not read,
03:55so he should be okay.
03:57This is all very tricky...
04:00for Trump because his followers in the MAGAverse
04:03most definitely did not vote for this war.
04:06This is the opposite of what Trump promised he would do.
04:09And so now his nut jugglers are working overtime
04:12to spin this in a positive way.
04:15B.B. and Trump are the modern Roosevelt-Churchill combination.
04:21B.B. and President Trump are Roosevelt-Churchill.
04:24That's right.
04:25Taken from Henry S. Kissinger,
04:27they are Roosevelt and Churchill.
04:30I assume Trump is...
04:32Does it go by Wade?
04:33Trump would be Churchill, right?
04:34And then we have Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma,
04:37who doesn't seem to know which country we bomb.
04:40There's no question that Iraq...
04:42Iran clearly fits in that picture.
04:45It's up to the Iraqi people...
04:47I'm sorry, the Iranian people declare war
04:49and ask for Congress to declare war on Iraq.
04:52Oops. Has there ever been a Mark Wayne-ier person
04:57than Mark Wayne?
04:59Unfortunately, you have, uh, President Hegseth,
05:01or I say President Hegseth, Secretary Hegseth,
05:03um, that has got a great relationship with President Trump,
05:07and President Hegseth's been there.
05:08Okay. Now you're fired. Now you're in trouble.
05:12These guys, they can't even get their story straight.
05:14Uh, first, Trump and his special envoy, Steve Wyckoff, said,
05:17Iran posed an imminent threat because they were probably a week away
05:21from having nuclear material and ICBMs
05:24that could strike the United States.
05:25But Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State,
05:27said Iran was not enriching uranium.
05:29U.S. intelligence said they were still a decade away
05:32from having long-range missiles.
05:33Trump then floated the idea that the war was about regime change,
05:37while Pete Hegseth was saying this wasn't a war of regime change,
05:41even though the regime did change.
05:42And yesterday, Marco Rubio said,
05:45we attacked because Israel was about to attack Iran,
05:47so we had to strike first.
05:49But today, Trump put the kibosh on that idea,
05:51saying Israel did not force his hand,
05:54and if anything, he forced their hand.
05:56And they can't even agree on whether or not this is a war.
05:59Trump keeps calling it a war,
06:01whereas his minions in Congress, like Anna Paulina Lunatic,
06:05and the always confused Mark Wayne Mulliner saying it ain't.
06:08Are there measures being taken not to eliminate
06:10other possible alternatives to leadership?
06:13This is war, and we're taking out the threat.
06:16Senator, can we talk about?
06:17You'll concede this is war.
06:18We haven't declared war.
06:19They declared war on us, but we haven't...
06:20The person called it war on Secretary Hexel.
06:22No, no.
06:22We haven't declared...
06:23Just now, you said this is war.
06:25They called it war.
06:25They called it war.
06:26What I was saying...
06:27Okay, well, that wasn't misspoke,
06:28but I was saying that they declared war on us,
06:30but war is ugly.
06:32Oh, Mark Wayne, you done mixed yourself up again.
06:37Mark Wayne Muller, earlier in the day today,
06:39he was talking about the smell of war,
06:41and I was interested in hearing him talk about it.
06:43He said, you can taste it.
06:44He said, it fills your nostrils and you never forget it.
06:47I thought it was fascinating until I found out
06:49he was not in the military.
06:51He was...
06:52He was a plumber before this.
06:54He took over his father's plumbing business.
06:56That smell wasn't war.
06:58It was a septic tank that he plunged.
07:01What a croup.
07:01Meanwhile, the president is ending another war,
07:04which I think would be his tenth,
07:05with the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
07:08Trump is planning to attend the formerly annual event
07:11for the first time as president.
07:13He wrote,
07:13The White House Correspondents' Association
07:16has asked me very nicely
07:18to be the honoree at this year's dinner.
07:20Wow. The honoree...
07:22The president is the honoree
07:23at every White House Correspondents' Dinner.
07:26It's why they call it
07:27the White House Correspondents' Dinner,
07:29and not the Big Mama's House Correspondents' Dinner.
07:33If it was the Big Mama's House Dinner,
07:34the honoree would be Big Mama.
07:36But since it is the White House, it's you.
07:38But I digress.
07:39The dinner is a long and storied tradition
07:42since it began in 1924
07:43under then-President Calvin Coolidge,
07:45in honor of our nation's 250th birthday,
07:47and the fact that these correspondents now admit
07:50that I am truly one of the greatest presidents
07:52in the history of our country.
07:53The GOAT, according to many.
07:55It will be my honor to accept their invitation
07:58and work to make it the greatest, hottest,
08:00and most spectacular dinner of any kind ever.
08:05Can you imagine?
08:06You just started a war on another country,
08:09and this is what you're posting about today.
08:11Also, I have some bad news.
08:13When they call you the GOAT,
08:14it isn't an acronym.
08:16It's an animal.
08:17It's an animal that eats garbage.
08:22You know, the dinner is traditionally hosted
08:25by a comedian.
08:26Al Franken hosted it, Ray Romano, Seth Meyers,
08:29Jon Stewart, Conan, Wyandus Sykes.
08:31I Googled it this morning.
08:32Turns out I even hosted it back in 2012.
08:34This year, I guess Trump didn't want to be made fun of
08:37by a comedian, so the host is a mentalist.
08:40We'll have a mentalist and a mental case
08:42onstage together.
08:44The mentalist is a guy named Oz Perlman.
08:48He's an amazing performer,
08:50and I'm sure he'll be able to predict
08:52what Trump isn't thinking,
08:53but this feels like a cop-out to me,
08:55and I want to address the president directly on this.
08:58Um, Mr. President, please, let me host this dinner.
09:02I've never asked you for anything,
09:04but can you imagine you, me, the commissioner of the FCC,
09:07all at a table together?
09:09Think of the ratings.
09:11I'll even throw in an award.
09:12You like an award.
09:13I'll give you a brand-new award.
09:15The Correspondee.
09:17The Dondi Correspondee.
09:18No one will ever get it besides you.
09:20Please, give the people what they want for once.
09:23This is our destiny.
09:24Together, you and me.
09:25Think about it.
09:26Let's make it the greatest, hottest,
09:28most spectacular dinner of any kind ever.
09:35I don't know why he's...
09:38Maybe he's worried I'll make fun of his blotches.
09:42I don't know. Man, oh, man.
09:43You know, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out
09:45what's going on in the president's head.
09:46I am now wondering what is happening on top of it.
09:49I have...
09:50This photo just came out.
09:51I've never seen three different parts on one hair.
09:55It's a comb over, a comb under, and a comb around,
09:58all there together with a little Gulf of America,
10:01a little heart shape in there.
10:02And then his makeup is so orange,
10:06and it would appear that someone forgot to bronze his jowls.
10:10He's got...
10:10He's got this wild hair.
10:12He's got swollen legs.
10:14He's got orange skin.
10:15It's like we're watching him transform into gritty
10:18before our very eyes.
10:20And if that wasn't enough,
10:23he now has...
10:24I don't know if you've seen it.
10:25He has a big, red, gross mark on his neck.
10:28Who knew diaper rash could go up that high?
10:32Trump's doctor actually issued a statement
10:34that said President Trump is using a very common cream
10:38on the right side of his neck,
10:39which is a preventative skin treatment
10:41prescribed by the White House doctor.
10:42A very common cream.
10:44If it's so common,
10:45why don't you tell us what cream it is
10:47so we can not put it on our necks?
10:49Because one thing we know for sure,
10:51it's not a hickey from Melania.
10:54It's...
10:54It's probably a vampire bite
10:56from Rudy Giuliani or something.
10:58But...
10:58Anyway, every day,
10:59our president looks more like Pizza the Hut
11:01from Spaceballs.
11:03And now he's trying to cover the thing.
11:04Today, he added a thick layer of paint to the...
11:09Adding yet another swatch
11:10to his never-ending color palette.
11:12Speaking of cover-ups,
11:14I don't know if I mentioned the Trump Epstein files.
11:16Did I...? Oh, yes.
11:16Let's not forget those.
11:18We...
11:19We do not want to forget those.
11:21The House Oversight Committee released footage
11:23of both Bill and Hillary Clinton's depositions,
11:25including this exchange
11:27with Congresswoman Lauren Boebert,
11:29who used some of her time
11:31to ask the former Secretary of State,
11:33Hillary Clinton, about Pizzagate.
11:35So, excuse me.
11:36Your question is about whether or not
11:38she has reviewed any emails
11:40in the Epstein release files
11:42about Pizzagate.
11:44Correct.
11:48Pizzagate was totally made up.
11:50I can't believe you're even referencing it.
11:53You should be...
11:54There...
11:55There are connections to the language.
11:58Well, the QAnon people believe there are, so...
12:00I-I don't know what QAnon people believe.
12:02Have at it.
12:02Have at it.
12:03You know, the last time
12:03somebody told Lauren Boebert
12:05to have at it,
12:05Beetlejuice had to take
12:06an unscheduled intermission.
12:08Mrs. Clinton was not amused
12:11by Lauren Q. Bird,
12:12asking her about this weird,
12:14nonsensical fairytale,
12:15but she was more comfortable
12:17when asked about Jeffrey Epstein himself.
12:19There are many files
12:20where Jeffrey Epstein seems to speak
12:23as though he does know you personally.
12:25He quotes,
12:26Hey, Hillary Clinton is much prettier in person.
12:30This was Tuesday, September 20th, 2011.
12:34And then another...
12:35I'm not gonna object to that.
12:40I guess Epstein didn't have a type.
12:42Where was that Hillary in 2016?
12:45Then it was Hillary's turn to question the questioners
12:48about the fact that she and her husband
12:49were asked to testify,
12:51whereas Epstein's BFF was not.
12:54Reasonable people would have to assume
12:58they are engaged in a massive cover-up.
13:02As an American, as a citizen,
13:04all of us should be, regardless of party,
13:08wondering what are they hiding.
13:10The president of the United States
13:12is not above the law
13:15and should be in a setting like this
13:17answering questions under oath.
13:21I don't know.
13:22Hey, listen.
13:24The president is very busy right now
13:26picking out table runners for his new ballroom.
13:29So lay off.
13:30But happy Women's History Month, everybody.
13:33You know, March is Women's History Month.
13:36And, of course, no one loves women
13:38more than our fearless leader.
13:39And with that said,
13:40we've collected some of the many wonderful sentiments
13:41our president has shared about America's mothers,
13:45sisters, daughters, reporters, and future ex-wives
13:47to bring you this tribute to women
13:49from our first feminist.
13:51You're the most obnoxious reporter
13:53in the whole place.
13:54Actually, a terrible reporter.
13:56What a stupid question.
13:57You ask a lot of stupid questions.
13:59Are you stupid?
14:00Are you a stupid person?
14:01You're a terrible person
14:03and a terrible reporter.
14:04I have two questions, Mr. President.
14:06Next, please.
14:07You are the worst reporter.
14:08I don't think I've ever seen you smile.
14:10You're so disgraceful.
14:11You know you're a fake.
14:12I got a perfect mark,
14:13which you would be incapable of doing.
14:15We're going to have to bring the women's tea
14:17if you do know that.
14:17Absolutely.
14:18And when you're a star,
14:19they let you do it.
14:20You can do anything.
14:21You dropped to your knees.
14:23Yes.
14:23Must be a pretty picture you dropping to your knees.
14:25A person who's flat-chested
14:26is very hard to be a 10.
14:28She would not be my first choice.
14:30I wouldn't want to go home to her.
14:32You could see there was blood coming out of her wherever.
14:35There has to be some form of punishment.
14:37For the woman?
14:37Yeah.
14:38Rosie O'Donnell's disgusting.
14:39That fat, ugly face of hers.
14:41You're a stupid person.
14:42Quiet, piggy.
14:43Pocahontas.
14:43Horseface.
14:44She's a low IQ person.
14:46Angry woman.
14:47Nasty woman.
14:48Vicious, horrible person.
14:50Such a nasty woman.
14:51Nobody has more respect for women than I do.
14:54Nobody.
14:54Now they're making Ghostbusters with only women.
14:58What's going on?
15:01That's right.
15:02Melania is a very lucky lady.
15:04We have a good show for you tonight.
15:06We have music from the head and the heart.
15:08And we'll be right back with Governor Gavin Newsom.
15:10She's big around.
15:18I'm running out of patience.
15:27Hi there.
15:28Welcome back to our show.
15:29That is Si Smith sitting in with the Cleetones tonight,
15:32celebrating the anniversary of their debut album,
15:35music from the head and the heart,
15:37whom you can see live on their 15th anniversary tour
15:40starting May 1st in Nashville, Indiana.
15:43I didn't know they had a Nashville.
15:45Did you know this, Gary?
15:45No, I didn't know either.
15:47You had no idea, right?
15:48No idea at all.
15:49Usually you know those things.
15:50Yeah, but no.
15:51You're from Indiana.
15:52No, no.
15:53But I didn't know that.
15:56It was good talking to you.
15:58Yeah, it was nice.
15:58Yeah.
15:59It's great.
16:00Tomorrow night, we'll be joined by Ike Barinholtz
16:02and Wagner Moura with music from Tyler Ballgame.
16:05So join us for that.
16:06Our guest tonight is Donald Trump's favorite governor,
16:09whether he'll admit it or not.
16:10He runs the state of California,
16:12and he's got a new memoir.
16:14It's called Young Man in a Hurry.
16:16Please say hello to Governor Gavin Newsom.
16:33Oh, my God.
16:35Please.
16:36Well, first of all...
16:37All right.
16:38I want to tell you how honored I am and we are
16:42not only to have you here, but to have you here
16:45announcing that you are running for president.
16:47Oh, yeah.
16:48Wow.
16:51Oh, God.
16:53Unbelievable.
16:54How are you, Jimmy?
16:55I'm good. How are you?
16:56That's a good way to change this subject.
16:58I appreciate that.
16:58I appreciate this audience as well.
17:00It's good to be back with us.
17:01You're invested in, I have to say.
17:02Wow.
17:04I feel kind of...
17:05I'm slightly embarrassed because I assumed,
17:08I don't know why, I thought you grew up rich.
17:10I read the book, and I'm like, oh, yeah,
17:12not only didn't you grow up rich,
17:14your dad left when you were how old?
17:16He left when I was two or three years old, yes.
17:18Your mom was a waitress at a Mexican restaurant.
17:21Yep.
17:21She had a variety of jobs.
17:23Yeah, 19, when she was pregnant with me,
17:25a couple years later, she's raising two kids on her own,
17:27and my father had a breakdown, ran for public office.
17:30Lost, ran again for office, was broke and broken,
17:33and then just took off.
17:35I don't want to paint a negative picture of him,
17:36but as a father in those early age,
17:40he left us wanting a little bit.
17:42But, no, it was, you know, just the grit and the,
17:45you know, the hard work and the example of a single mom.
17:48And to all the single...
17:49I know you did the Women's History Month.
17:51To all the single moms out there, you know, hats off,
17:54because there's no more important and extraordinary job than them.
17:58So, that's a big part of the why I wrote the book.
18:01You deal with dyslexia.
18:03You barely got into college.
18:05Yeah.
18:05And yet, you somehow...
18:07Remind me of that, yeah.
18:08Somehow, this beautiful head of hair and face
18:12carry you all the way to the governor's mansion.
18:14Is that it?
18:14Is that it?
18:15But I wrote the book because...
18:17You look rich.
18:18You know that, right?
18:20Is that it?
18:23You think that's it?
18:23And by the way, I get the whole thing, right?
18:25Yeah.
18:25I get why people have perception of me.
18:27And, you know, so this was a book...
18:29Finally tell my story.
18:30It wasn't a way of sanitizing, but really scrutinizing
18:32that story as well, because I played into that type.
18:35I played into that type.
18:36I'm not naive about that perception of me.
18:38It was aided and embedded by mistakes I made.
18:41And also trying to be a little defensive about it as well.
18:43And what this book allowed me to do,
18:45and I call it a memoir of discovery, is let all that go.
18:48I put a lot of masks on when I grew up.
18:50I tried to be someone, you know, strike a pose.
18:52Someone that, you know, frankly, at times,
18:55I wasn't particularly proud of.
18:57And my face was growing into that mask a little bit.
18:59And right now, I'm sort of unmasking that.
19:01And I'm allowing the good and the bad
19:03and sort of reflect on that history and past
19:05in the present to become something more and better.
19:08And so it's not a typical politician's book.
19:11And, you know, I know a politician and a book.
19:15And actually, he's going to raise, you know, eyebrows,
19:17you're rolling in the eyes.
19:18But it's really a book, you know, it's a love letter to mom.
19:21It's a love letter to my family, my grandparents.
19:24And it's a book I wrote for my kids.
19:26Speaking of kids, my daughter,
19:28who was in the fourth grade last year,
19:30they have a fourth grade trip up to the state capitol
19:32with her class.
19:33And she came home raving about you.
19:35And I was cracking up because I didn't think
19:37she was going to meet you.
19:39You know, they're like, yeah, we're going up to the capitol.
19:40And then the whole class went into your office,
19:42and they saw a Trump pen on your desk.
19:46And my daughter was like, oh, he's a Trumper.
19:50And then you came in and made a joke about Trump.
19:53I don't remember.
19:54Is there, like, a joke that you tell the kids about Trump?
19:56I don't have, like, a standard joke.
19:57But the joke was, you know, it's interesting.
20:00That pen, by the way, I have seven others.
20:02I was in the Oval Office about this time last year,
20:0690 minutes with Trump.
20:08And I couldn't get out of it.
20:09He started stacking them up with all kinds of coins.
20:12And he goes, here's a pen.
20:13Here's a pen.
20:13And then he just took all the pens off his desk.
20:15Tell him about the autograph he signed for you.
20:17The piece.
20:19He signed a piece of paper for you and handed it to you, right?
20:22No.
20:22Of course.
20:23I mean, yeah.
20:25Where do we even begin?
20:26Give this to your kids?
20:27Give this to your kids.
20:28I mean, thank you, sir.
20:30What a gift.
20:31And this is what they've been missing in their lives.
20:33You handed it.
20:34Yeah.
20:35You handed my daughter Jane a set of keys
20:37for whatever reason.
20:38The key to, well, that was the key to San Francisco,
20:40the key to city.
20:41By the way, she has the key to my heart.
20:42She's amazing.
20:43I did not know that was your daughter.
20:45She said to you, I can't be trusted with this.
20:47And gave me the key back.
20:48She actually did say that.
20:50No, it's an old brass key.
20:51And she was fascinated by it.
20:53But look, nothing better, by the way.
20:55I've got four young kids, 10, 12, 14, and 16-year-old.
20:59But fourth, I mean, fourth grade.
21:00Good spacing, by the way.
21:01Really disciplined.
21:03We were very disciplined.
21:03Your lovemaking is like clockwork.
21:05It's incredible.
21:07My wife is right there.
21:09She's raising her.
21:09Of course, she's affirming all of that.
21:12Your wife is the greatest.
21:14Why are you outside right now?
21:16Why are you outside?
21:18You're supposed to shake your head.
21:19Sometimes I hear people talking about California,
21:23and I wonder, like, where are they getting this?
21:26Yeah.
21:26Where are they getting this?
21:28Well, Fox Derangement.
21:29I mean, it's 24-7, the California Derangement Syndrome.
21:31It's through these propaganda networks, focusing on what's wrong every single day.
21:35And there's an old adage here, nothing more than your consistent thoughts.
21:38Whatever you focus on, you find more of.
21:41And these networks have really honed in on California for one reason.
21:44Our success runs completely contra to their entire world view.
21:49The fact that California is the fourth largest economy in the world, has more scientists,
21:54engineers, more Nobel laureates, the finest system of higher education, more venture capital
21:58than in the state of America.
21:59We got the TMZ tour.
22:00We got TMZ tours.
22:03You know?
22:06Not that we don't have problems.
22:08We do have problems.
22:09We have problems.
22:10But there's an energy and daring and an entrepreneurialism that defines the state.
22:14It's the best state.
22:14It is the best state.
22:15Yeah, come on.
22:16No question.
22:19And, you know, it's also in, you know, this is part of it.
22:21It's also the most diverse state in the United States of America.
22:2427% of this state's foreign-born.
22:27And that offends these guys.
22:28And, you know, it's interesting.
22:29It's all state with universal health care.
22:31It's $25 minimum wage for health care workers.
22:34$20 minimum wage for fast food workers.
22:36Yes, it has a progressive tax code.
22:39But it's very different than the tax systems in places like Texas and Florida that tax their
22:45lowest wage earners more than we tax our highest wage earners.
22:49The question is, who is the high-tax state?
22:52Now, we do have problems with there are people living on the streets.
22:56Yep.
22:56And this is something that every governor, every mayor comes in and says, this is what
23:00I'm going to work on.
23:01This is number one.
23:03And it seems like, is this an unsolvable problem?
23:06No, it's solvable.
23:06This year, we did something we hadn't done in 15 years.
23:09And that is, we saw close to a double-digit decline in unsheltered homeless.
23:13That had not happened in the state of California, down 9%.
23:16That's progress.
23:17We're finally seeing real progress.
23:20We're finally seeing it.
23:21But, Jimmy, this is important to know.
23:23As a former mayor, the state of California, as when I was mayor, the state was not involved
23:28in homeless policies and completely abandoned the cities and counties.
23:30We were on our own.
23:31That's radically changed since I've gotten there.
23:33We've taken responsibility, accountability.
23:35We're moving aggressively with the most significant mental health reforms and investments in U.S.
23:40history.
23:41Same with housing.
23:42We're focusing on encampments.
23:44And we're finally, finally, it's a flywheel, all these years later, finally seeing real progress.
23:49At the same time, and you saw this last year with the numbers nationally, it went up 18.13%
23:55nationally.
23:56But California, finally, on the other side, seeing real progress.
24:010.13.
24:02That's really something.
24:02You're really getting into the double test.
24:04Well, I mean, it's an exact number.
24:05But, I mean, it's, you know, I'm politifact all the time.
24:07It sounded pretty exact to me.
24:08But it's, yeah.
24:09Why does it take so long to get things built here?
24:11I feel like, is California overregulated?
24:14Because it feels like there are a lot of well-meaning laws, rules, et cetera, that get in the way
24:19of building your house, of opening a restaurant.
24:22You know, I've experienced this myself.
24:25What do we do about that?
24:27No, I mean, we need a liberalism that builds, and we have to own that.
24:31And I'm very much part of this sort of new nomenclature we call this abundance agenda.
24:35And we've got to reconcile that.
24:36We've got to be more focused on time to delivery, not just rhetoric, not just what we're for.
24:43We've got to actually deliver and manifest it.
24:45That's why this year we did the most significant housing reforms in our state's history.
24:49We did something that hadn't been done in decades.
24:52We've tried to address land use reforms, what we call secret reforms.
24:55We weren't able to get it done.
24:57We finally were able to get it done this year in a meaningful way.
25:00But this is a meaningful topic for Democrats to recognize we have to deliver on big and bold things.
25:07Trump breaks things.
25:09Democrats need to build things.
25:11But we have to actually deliver on that promise.
25:14And that means reform.
25:16Why didn't you think to turn that giant valve of water to turn that on and just have all the
25:23water, beautiful water from Russia to put out all the fires last year?
25:27It was that key.
25:28I left it in the office.
25:30Your daughter was looking at you.
25:31This is my daughter's fault?
25:32Yeah, it was your daughter's fault.
25:33I had misplaced the damn key.
25:37Are we rebuilding the city quickly enough?
25:39And should we even be rebuilding in places where we know it is very dangerous?
25:44Well, we have to rebuild differently.
25:46And speaking of reforms, 28 executive orders I have put into place to radically change the regulatory thickets in the
25:55state.
25:56So there are no statewide issues as it relates to getting these projects done.
26:00You have literally, as of today, 1,258 housing construction projects that are done.
26:06A few dozen are already done a year after this fire.
26:09You had recovery for the debris removal that just completed itself about seven, eight months ago.
26:14So in terms of progress compared to other major disasters, we're well ahead.
26:20That said, there are thousands of people that are still frustrated and they want us to move faster and much
26:26more efficiently.
26:26And that's why every day we're pounding the pavement to deliver on that promise.
26:303,800 permits have been approved.
26:33But right now we need the president of the United States to approve a disaster supplemental to support the people
26:40in Palisades and support the folks in Altadena.
26:44And he refuses to do that. He refuses to help the people here in Los Angeles.
26:50This is his book, Young Man in a Hurry. We'll be right back with the governor.
27:03We are back with Governor Gavin Newsom. This is his book, Young Man in a Hurry.
27:07You know, a lot of Democrats, you hear this a lot, and I'm probably one of them who complain that
27:12we're not, that leaders of our party are not fighting back hard enough.
27:16And then you led this effort to pass Prop 50, which added districts to the state of California and to
27:24counteract what was going on in Texas.
27:25By fire with fire. Trump is an historic president, historically unpopular.
27:30He's going to get crushed, shellacked in the midterms. He is. He's toast.
27:35And he knows it. Why else did he call Greg Abbott, saying he's, quote, unquote, entitled to five seats in
27:42a mid-decade redistricting?
27:44They, of course, obliged in Texas. What Trump thought would follow was maybe a conversation about writing an op-ed
27:51in California to try to win the argument as they're consolidating power.
27:55Instead, we decided to redraw the lines, and over a 90-day period, raised $120 million, and we kicked his
28:02ass in November and redrew the lines.
28:06And, Jimmy, this is an... You know, I know we're all prone to a little hyperbole. This is not hyperbolic.
28:13You saw what happened on January 6th. Try to wreck the country, light democracy on fire. Dialed up for 11
28:19,000, 12,000 votes in Fulton County.
28:21That's exactly what he's doing all across the United States, not just as it relates to redistricting.
28:27Trying to nationalize the election. Trying to take those voting rolls and purge voters, decide who can vote, who cannot.
28:33Ask the folks in Fulton County what he's just done. It's happening in plain sight.
28:37He has mass men marauding all over the streets of America. Started here first in L.A.
28:43Guys, secret police that took an oath to office to Trump, not the Constitution.
28:48Greg Bovino, dressed up as he's cosplaying off a 1930s set in nearby Burbank.
28:54It's happening in plain sight. On election day, you may recall this, he sent out the BORTAC teams,
29:00the Border Patrol folks, the Apache helicopters, to chill free expression on election day.
29:06Sending a message to everyone, diverse communities, if you go out and vote, you may be next.
29:11He is not screwing around, and nor can we. To the spirit of this moment, we've got to be tougher,
29:18we've got to be more aggressive, and call this stuff out. We'll lose our country.
29:23You know, I feel like Trump secretly loves you. Like, he used to, he feels, I think, you know, now...
29:29I mean, after two or three pens, I may have been, but when you get up to eight pens...
29:34He's moved on to Mondani now, but you were his first Mondani.
29:38I think I was. By the way, Mondani, I just, you know, I know how this movie ends.
29:43But it's... You, in the book, talk about some phone calls,
29:46some strange, unusual phone calls that you got from Donald Trump.
29:49Can you share those here? I've had many interesting calls.
29:53The last time I called him was right before he federalized the National Guard here.
29:564,000 of our National Guard were federalized. He sent 700... I'll remind people.
30:03He sent 700 active-duty Marines, not overseas, but the second-largest city in the United States of America.
30:08That happened last June. People should not forget that.
30:11But I had a conversation with the night before where he alleged that he read me the riot act.
30:16Here's how it went. It was about 10.30 my time, 1.30 his time.
30:19And he goes, hey, Gavin, Gavin, what do you think of new scum? What do you think of new scum?
30:24It's his nickname for me. I said, what are you talking about?
30:25He goes, it's pretty original, right? I said, actually, it's not.
30:28There was, like, an eighth-grade bully that did that when I was a kid.
30:32And then he goes, well, MAGA's pretty good. I'm like, are we serious?
30:34I literally said, are we having a MAGA? He goes, how many hats do you think I sold last month?
30:38I said, I don't know. He said, like, 211. I said, that's impressive.
30:42And it was literally a conversation like that. These are the conversations with Trump.
30:47You can't make this stuff up. And about 12 hours later, he said he had read me the riot act
30:52and then moved forward with the federalization of the guard.
30:56And so I've had some really interesting conversations.
30:58He was upset that you hurt his feelings at one time, right?
31:02Yeah. Well, I am sorry.
31:06Yeah, at the inaugural, my inaugural, and by the way, oh, God, I write a little bit about this in
31:11the book.
31:12My little one, number four, just turned 10 two days ago.
31:15And he was three years old, a little pacifier, and he had a little blanket.
31:20I'm giving a speech. And again, as a guy who can't read a speech, I can do teleprompters, but they're
31:24not easy.
31:25So I'm fixated on this teleprompter, and I see all this fuss in the audience.
31:29And it's my three-year-old who runs up on stage and comes right to me during the inaugural.
31:33I can't screw up. I can't look away. And he's right on my leg.
31:36And he ran up to his dad, and then I picked him up, and then he starts to put his
31:41head and falls asleep.
31:43As I'm reading my speech, Trump calls me the next day and said, I saw that.
31:49I said, thank you, Mr. President. I thought it was going to be a positive conversation.
31:53And he goes, and he talks about my wife, said something interesting about her.
31:56But he goes, Melania's upset. I said, Melania's upset? I said, what about?
32:00He goes, well, you said some pretty harsh things about me.
32:03And I said, oh, Mr. President. And I was about to explain what I said.
32:06And he goes, oh, I get it. We're all good. He was hurt.
32:09Let me just say this. It's just interesting.
32:11There's no way Melania was upset. She probably wrote that stuff.
32:15Right? Melania was upset. Thank you.
32:17Thank you. No doubt about it.
32:19It's just that he's a guy, I mean, this is, if we called him right now, he'd answer.
32:24And if you got my cell phone, I'm happy to, you know, I got a Mar-a-Lago number.
32:29And, look, being in public life in this moment, dealing with Trump and Trumpism
32:34and every single day, the scrutiny and the attacks.
32:36And, you know, I mean, we went through a recall.
32:39We had to homeschool my oldest daughter because of all the interaction,
32:43because of other families. My daddy hates your daddy.
32:47And that's where, I mean, when they went after Ted Cruz's daughter,
32:49I tried to reach out to Cruz and just, you know, check in on him.
32:54That's neutral ground. He was in Mexico when you called?
32:56He was not. He was in Cancun.
32:57He was on his foot.
33:00We're going to take a break. The governor of California is here.
33:03Gavin Newsom, this is his book, Young Man in a Hurry.
33:10There's a time when we can't respect.
33:16All right, we're back with Governor Gavin Newsom.
33:19His book is called Young Man in a Hurry.
33:22There's some funny stuff in the book.
33:23And one of the funny things in the book is, tell us where you discovered your style,
33:29your overall style when you were a teenager.
33:31I don't know if I discovered my style, but when I grew up, I wanted to be Remington Steel.
33:36I wanted to be Pierce Brosnan. I don't know what it was.
33:39And, you know, literally, I started wearing this.
33:41I mean, again, none of you are all going to go, of course.
33:44But I started wearing suits to school.
33:47I was such it.
33:48It was embarrassing just to try to be like Remington Steel.
33:51Like Remington Steel.
33:52Hear you.
33:53And I have to say, it's not too small.
33:54No, it's not.
33:56Oh, God.
33:57Oh, that's bad.
33:58That's bad.
33:59Oh, God, that's bad.
34:01No, we got to figure that one out.
34:03If you'd been watching the A-Team, you'd have a mohawk right now.
34:07Have you ever met Pierce Brosnan?
34:09I haven't.
34:10Here he is.
34:10No, he's not here.
34:12Actually, listen, I know you have an ongoing back and forth with the president, as do I.
34:17And we have a surprise for you tonight that I think is going to make him very jealous.
34:22The president?
34:22Yes.
34:23Please, ladies and gentlemen, here to present that surprise to Governor Gavin Newsom.
34:28Please welcome Governor Gavin Newsom.
34:30All right.
34:34Whoo!
34:36Unbelievable.
34:37There we go.
34:38Yo!
34:40What's up, J-Bone?
34:41Hey, Governor.
34:42How's it hanging?
34:43How's it hanging, G-O-double-B?
34:46G-O-double-B?
34:47I like it.
34:48I like it.
34:48Thank you for being here tonight.
34:50I was hoping you would be here tonight for this.
34:52Oh, man, I am so psyched to be here for a new-some-twosome.
34:57I mean, I just came from a ribbon-cutting session, a shelter for nine years.
35:00These are non-binary chihuahuas.
35:02Uh-huh.
35:03Oh.
35:03That's nice.
35:04I mean, they might be small enough to fit into a fanny pack, but those sneaky little
35:08freaks are horny as hell.
35:10Grrr!
35:12I don't mean to...
35:13I'm sorry to interrupt, but where's the trophy, Junior?
35:15Oh, right.
35:15Oh, right.
35:16Guillermo, ayúdame, por favor.
35:18Here.
35:19Governor, say hello to my little friend.
35:24All right, what do we got here?
35:27GovGav, for your tireless work in uniting the people of Cali.
35:33From the meth dealers of Riverside to the shapely Armenians of the Glendale Galleria.
35:41From chakra doulas and yoga thems to farmer's market furries and rollerbladers with gluten
35:48sensitivities, I, Governor Gavin D. Newsom, in association with the Wounded Waymos Project,
35:57and the three remaining original members of Incubus, present to you Governor Gavin C.
36:05Newsom with the 2026 FIFA Skydance Paramount Netflix Warner Bros. Big Ass Lipton Cup Oat piece.
36:18Unbelievable.
36:19Wow.
36:20What is that?
36:21Unbelievable.
36:22What is that made of?
36:24Unbelievable.
36:25Unbelievable.
36:26Plated with platinum that was ethically sourced from all my expired Amex cards.
36:32And it holds an entire magnum of this thick-ass Sauve Blanc.
36:38Oh, my goodness.
36:40Oh, my goodness.
36:42That is crispy.
36:43Unbelievable.
36:43That is crispy.
36:44Do you smell the fruit?
36:46Jimmy, can you smell the fruit?
36:47I did smell the fruit.
36:49This is crisp.
36:50Paper straw?
36:51Oh, paper straw.
36:52Yeah.
36:53Gotta keep it that way.
36:54Hold on.
36:55I'm still pouring.
36:55Congratulations.
36:57That's the thing about a magnum.
36:58They're bigger.
36:59Yeah.
37:00On this historic honor, Governor, would you like to say a few words?
37:04Unbelievable.
37:04I mean, look, this is long overdue.
37:07Oh, yeah.
37:08I mean, and I assume it comes with a third term, Mr. Meek.
37:12Oh, absolutely.
37:13I appreciate this.
37:14I just want to thank Meek for this unbelievable award.
37:18What are you going to do with it?
37:19What are we going to do with it?
37:20Well, hey.
37:21What are we doing with it?
37:22I'll help you load it into your Prius.
37:23I love this.
37:24I love it.
37:25Where's Trump?
37:26You know, this is an act of Trump.
37:27Eat your heart out, Donald.
37:29I'm going to see you.
37:30Jimmy!
37:31A real deal, Jimmy.
37:32A real deal.
37:33There it is.
37:34There's the book, Young Man in a Hurry, A Memoir of Discovery.
37:38It's out now.
37:38Oh, my God.
37:39Thank you, Governor Newsom.
37:41We'll be back with the Head and the Heart.
37:43Unbelievable.
37:43Let's go.
37:55It is music time.
37:57This is the 15th anniversary of their debut album.
38:00Here with the song, Rivers and Roads, The Head and the Heart.
38:04You and I will all be gone.
38:11All our friends will move away.
38:15And they're going to better places.
38:21But our friends will be gone away.
38:32Nothing is as it has been
38:37And I miss your face like hell
38:42And I guess it's just as well
38:48That I miss your face like hell
39:12We've been talking about the way things change
39:21And my family lives in a different state
39:29And if you don't know what to make of this
39:34Then we will not relate
39:39Said if you don't know what to make of this
39:45Then we will not relate
40:14Rivers and roads, oh rivers and roads
40:20Rivers till I'll reach you
40:26Rivers and roll it all
40:29Rivers and roll it all
40:32Rivers and I'll reach you
40:37Rivers and roll it all
40:40Rivers and roll it all
40:42Rivers till I'll reach you
40:47Rivers, rivers, rivers.
40:52Till I reach you.
40:57Rivers, rivers, rivers.
41:01Rivers, rivers.
41:03Till I reach you.
41:07Rivers, rivers, and roads.
41:12Rivers till I reach you
41:18Rivers and walls
41:21Rivers and walls
41:24Rivers till I reach you
41:41Well, thanks to Governor Gavin Newsom, Josh Myers, and the Head and the Heart. Apologies to Matt Damon. We did
41:48run out of time for him. He will be rescheduled. Nightline is next. Thanks for watching. Good night.
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