Full Transcript for JP11112"Fiercely Opposed": LA Council Faces Mayor Raman After Betting Against Her6_12

a smile on my face, like people saying that word for no reason. So for many years, I used to host a podcast, and almost all of the episodes are nowhere to be found anymore. I'm pretty sure when I was 23 and I was hosting a podcast, I said it all the time. 00:03:26 Speaker 3: You could have done a podcast with Shang, and both of you could have said it all the time. 00:03:32 Speaker 1: Hey, Shangi, if you get exonerated, you want to do a little YouTube show together? 00:03:35 Speaker 8: Absolutely. 00:03:38 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll just do it with her on the drops. 00:03:40 Speaker 7: Oh, you got to imagine that both Miralek Rahman and her council colleagues are pretty tired of the question of, okay, how are you guys all going to work together? What about all this bad blood? What happens next? And so they made a very big show today of showing the path forward. The moment of truth, or at the very least, A truce. 00:04:01 Speaker 9: We are excited to report that the people of this great city has chosen its 44th person to lead as mayor, and they have chosen one of this body's own council member, Council Member Nithya Raman. 00:04:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, Marqueezy's not pissed at all. 00:04:24 Speaker 7: At this morning's L.A. City Council meeting, incoming Mayor Nithya Raman listened to some of the nicest words her colleagues have said publicly about her in 10 months. 00:04:32 Speaker 8: Your superpower is always going to be when you believe deep in your heart that this is the right thing to do, you're always going to do it. 00:04:40 Speaker 1: And Hugo decided to go for Bass instead. 00:04:44 Speaker 3: Why is he dressed like a teller at Chase? 00:04:49 Speaker 1: Because inevitably, when he gets termed out, that'll be the only job he's qualified for. Yeah, clap that up. 00:04:55 Speaker 3: I don't think I want anyone who's on the L.A. City Council working at a bank. 00:05:00 Speaker 8: Let's catalyst the converters. Let's criminalize copper. And you were right. You presented your vision to the city of Los Angeles, and you're now the mayor-elect. 00:05:10 Speaker 1: Well, her vision was, I'm not Karen Bass. 00:05:12 Speaker 3: I love how passive-aggressively she was staring him down. 00:05:16 Speaker 1: Oh, there is so much bad blood. Don't forget that You know, it's not like this is the first big tussle between the establishment of the L.A. City Council and Nithya Raman. You want to go back in time with those tapes with Kevin DeLeon and Nuri Martinez and Gil Cedillo and Ron Herrera talking about how they were going to carve up the city? That was mostly about, people always remember, oh, it was about them saying racist things about Mike Bonin's adopted son. But what that meeting was really about was trying to redistrict Nithya out of a job. 00:05:53 Speaker 3: They have hated her for a very long time. And based on the looks that she was throwing at them, I don't think she's warmed up at all. 00:06:03 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. She said in her speech, We

just like to get spicy with each other. But I'm here to get spicy with you whenever you want. 00:06:14 Speaker 7: Fourth District City Council member sent shockwaves through City Hall when she reversed course from supporting Mayor Karen Bass's re-election bid to running against the mayor. None of her City Council colleagues endorsed her. Some scathingly criticized her. But today, everyone present congratulated her. 00:06:31 Speaker 10: I really, really am happy for you. 00:06:32 Speaker 3: You did something brave, um. 00:06:36 Speaker 6: You flew solo? 00:06:37 Speaker 1: Why is Isabel wearing glasses that her grandmother should be wearing? Those are like thick Coke bottle lenses. 00:06:45 Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe she thinks it'll help her get off of Nithya's list. 00:06:50 Speaker 10: And there's something to respect and admire about someone. 00:06:53 Speaker 6: Who does that. 00:06:55 Speaker 1: By the way, the bad blood here is when Nithya betrayed Karen, Nithya got kicked off all her committees, and Karen put... Isabel Harado in charge of homelessness. So that's going to be awkward. 00:07:12 Speaker 7: Some directly address the elephant in the room. 00:07:16 Speaker 11: The campaign is over. 00:07:18 Speaker 7: And where we align, we will work together. 00:07:21 Speaker 10: And where we don't, I will be fiercely opposing. 00:07:25 Speaker 7: Most discuss the path forward. 00:07:27 Speaker 2: You are a person that knows how to find common ground. And we will find common ground on major policy issues. And we'll find common ground on... the hyper-local things that are important to our constituents. 00:07:37 Speaker 1: Poor Nithya. Now she's actually going to have to drive to San Pedro, which seems like it shouldn't be in the city of Los Angeles because it's really far away for the rest of the city of Los Angeles. 00:07:47 Speaker 3: It is connected to the city by the 110 freeway, and it is part of the city of LA because the city of LA needed a port. 00:07:55 Speaker 7: Even though there was a clear spirit of moving on from the past, it's unclear if that past will ever be forgotten. 00:08:01 Speaker 11: Maybe some of your podcast friends in the past, they have made fun of me saying that I'm a fool for saying housing should have dignity and think about our seniors and youth. 00:08:11 Speaker 1: I don't think that was it, Imelda. Well, they were making fun of her for a bunch of reasons. 00:08:16 Speaker 11: The neighborhood kids, the down-ass kids don't like it. 00:08:19 Speaker 1: And they don't know what we know. They don't know when she did that whole speech about how she used to have rickets. 00:08:28 Speaker 11: I don't plan to change that. 00:08:31 Speaker 1: Is she dressed like she's at a funeral? 00:08:34 Speaker 3: Well, she kind of is. A funeral for the city. 00:08:38 Speaker 1: Nobody mean-girled Nithya harder than Imelda Padilla, including going on a podcast and saying that Nithya's people call me when they won't get an answer from her to clean up the homeless, and I threaten Nithya that if you don't clean it up, I'm going to clean it up. That relationship is not getting sanded over, I'll tell you that. 00:08:58 Speaker 11: I do want to give you credit for, in your campaign, making sure that you also now have a platform for seniors and youth. 00:09:08 Speaker 3: What? Trying to psychoanalyze what she's saying is a losing battle, so let's just move on. 00:09:17 Speaker 1: Well, and the thing that you need to remember about this crowd, these 15 members of the L.A. City Council, which we've played you sound of some of them, they're fairly remedial. 00:09:28 Speaker 11: Broken, windy theories. 00:09:29 Speaker 1: They're some of the highest paid politicians in the entire country. The starting salary for an L.A. City Council person is... is $ 225, 000. They are full-blown remedial. 00:09:48 Speaker 7: So that's what the colleagues had to say. What did Merelyk Rahman have to say? Well, we're going to have those details in her class act coming up at four. Armand Dickerson, NBC4 News. 00:09:57 Speaker 5: All right, well, stay tuned for it, Karma. 00:09:58 Speaker 1: Thank you for that. But Johnny, the big question is, that is looming over these initial days of the Rahman era is, is Nithya going to follow through with her promise of firing the police chief, Jim McDonald? Because sometimes mayors got to come in and show who's boss. 00:10:16 Speaker 12: Like, don't waste our time. 00:10:17 Speaker 1: We have a whole city to run. 00:10:21 Speaker 3: And that girl boss fired her police chief lickety split. 00:10:25 Speaker 1: Yes, you did. I can get that. And Oakland crime went through the roof. Now, Jim McDonald is speaking out and he says he talked to Nithya and he thinks he's staying employed. 00:10:41 Speaker 3: No, you're not. 00:10:43 Speaker 1: Well, let him believe it for a little while longer. He's a nice guy. Here is NBC L.A. 00:10:50 Speaker 13: In his first interview since the election, LAPD chief Jim McDonald says he hopes to keep his job despite voters. 00:10:56 Speaker 1: Notice how everybody can say his name correctly except for Rick Caruso, who the only reason he said he endorsed Karen Bass was to keep Jim McDonald. 00:11:05 Speaker 3: Do you think he mispronounces it on purpose the way that people who hated Ronald Reagan always called him Regan? 00:11:14 Speaker 1: I think he was just hungry. 00:11:16 Speaker 13: Electing a mayor who campaigned on replacing him. The chief spoke today exclusively with our McCullough Medina, who joins us live now from LAPD headquarters with more on what he had to say. 00:11:26 Speaker 3: Mac. 00:11:28 Speaker 14: Jonathan, we spoke with the chief here at headquarters after that police commission meeting today. And despite the mayor elects campaign promise to replace him, the chief says he is pretty much hopeful about his future. 00:11:40 Speaker 1: Hopeful doesn't mean much. 00:11:43 Speaker 3: Nope. 00:11:45 Speaker 1: I was

hopeful. I'd get my bonuses this year. 00:11:47 Speaker 3: I was hopeful the Angels wouldn't lose 100 games. 00:11:52 Speaker 1: How'd that work out? 00:11:56 Speaker 14: Has she asked you to resign at all? 00:11:57 Speaker 11: I know you had a conversation. 00:11:59 Speaker 15: No, we had a conversation, and it was upbeat, it was positive, and we talked about mutual goals, and so. 00:12:04 Speaker 3: I am hopeful. 00:12:06 Speaker 14: In his first interview since the election of Mayor-elect Nithya Raman, who campaigned on replacing him, LAPD Chief Jim McDonald makes it clear he wants to stay, and he's optimistic about working with the mayor-elect. 00:12:18 Speaker 15: People have spoken, and that's part of the democratic process. People say a lot of things during campaigns. The objective is different than it is once you get into the seat. 00:12:26 Speaker 14: McDonald says Rahman initiated a phone call with him after she was projected the winner. He describes her conversation as positive, but declined to share more details. Can you give us more details about what you said? 00:12:39 Speaker 3: If you're a McDonald, what is he in his 60s or 70s? 00:12:42 Speaker 1: He's got to be in his 60s, but I will. Let's see if we can. Jim McDonald. Age. Age. He is 67. 00:12:51 Speaker 3: Okay, at 67 years of age, after a lifetime in law enforcement, you've reached the pinnacle. You're the police chief of Los Angeles. You were the sheriff of L.A. County. You ran the Long Beach Police Department. Now a lunatic just gets elected to be mayor of L.A. who doesn't want the police to do their job fundamentally, doesn't believe in public safety fundamentally, has already said that she wants to fire you, called you every name in the book. Her podcast friends hate your guts and regard you as a racist. Why in the world would you want to work for that nut? Why not call it quits, retire, and spend the remaining portion of your life playing golf, going on cruise ships? 00:13:38 Speaker 1: I mean, I can think of about 450,000 reasons he wants to keep that job. 00:13:44 Speaker 3: But wait a minute. I'm sure he gets a city pension. I'm sure he gets a county pension. I don't know if he was in the military when he began his career, but if he was, he'll get a pension from them. My guess is he'll do just fine in retirement. 00:14:00 Speaker 14: It may not be as simple as a mayor-elect might want. Under the city charter, the mayor cannot directly fire the police chief on her own. That power rests with the five-member police commission. 00:14:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, but who appoints the police commission? 00:14:13 Speaker 3: The mayor. 00:14:14 Speaker 14: Or the city council through a separate process. The commissioners are appointed to a five-year term by the mayor and confirmed by the city council. And whether the current commission would support removing McDonald is unclear. We asked the chief if he believes he has their support. 00:14:27 Speaker 15: You know, I won't speculate as

to their feelings, but my thoughts are that we've had a very good relationship. 00:14:33 Speaker 14: At today's police commission meeting, NBC4 requested interviews with the commissioners, and they declined. And while the mayor-elect could eventually appoint new commissioners, Any change in leadership could take years. Meanwhile, the police union has raised concerns about officers potentially leaving under the new administration. 00:14:50 Speaker 1: The police union spent about $ 7 million of dues money going against Nithya. 00:14:55 Speaker 3: How'd that work out? Why in the world, if you're a beat cop, would you want to work for her? I don't understand how they keep anyone. Whether you are the chief, you're somewhere in management, or you're the cop on the beat. Who in the world would want to subject themselves to a mayor who hates you? 00:15:21 Speaker 1: Well, Karen Bass said she loved them and they were still quitting and transferring and retiring early. 00:15:28 Speaker 14: We asked McDonald if officers are leaving. 00:15:30 Speaker 15: I think everybody has got a kind of a wait-and-see attitude, but I'm optimistic. 00:15:35 Speaker 14: Optimistic and certainly hopeful to continuing on as chief of the country's third-largest police department. 00:15:40 Speaker 3: It sounds like you intend to remain chief when she takes office. That's my hope. Poor guy. 00:15:47 Speaker 1: Dead man walking. 00:15:50 Speaker 14: McDonald's also defending his record, saying that Los Angeles right now has a very low crime rate and describes. 00:15:56 Speaker 1: Have you seen our show? 00:16:00 Speaker 3: We have a couple of blotter segments coming up later on. 00:16:03 Speaker 14: What he calls an improved morale within the department. 00:16:06 Speaker 1: Improved morale? The department is bleeding. 00:16:11 Speaker 3: Everyone I know who works for LAPD has either transferred to a different department, retired early, or can't wait to retire. 00:16:22 Speaker 14: He also says that LAPD is still short about 1,500 officers, and he hopes to work with the mayor-elect to hire more. 00:16:29 Speaker 3: For Live Downtown, I'm McConnell. 00:16:30 Speaker 14: Medina, NBC4. 00:16:31 Speaker 1: So there you go. Jim McDonald, we hardly knew you, but I guess you got another few weeks. 00:16:38 Speaker 3: If you want to email the show, you can do so at johnnydontlikeshow at gmail.com. That's johnnydontlikeshow at gmail.com. And if you want to watch us perform the show live, participate in the chat and click that like button. In addition to subscribing, Randy, that's easy to do at johnnydontlike.com. 00:16:58 Speaker 1: It's how you can help this show grow every single day by participating in the chat room, leaving comments in our on-demand videos, hitting those like buttons on every video we do, including today's show and making sure you're subscribed to the channel, which according to my analytics over half the people that watch this channel have not subscribed yet. It's completely free. 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There is an audio version as well, but I haven't posted that yet, so I have to do that when I get home. 00:18:05 Speaker 3: If you want to watch us perform the show live, go to johnnydontlike.com, click the Like button, and also be sure to subscribe. 00:18:14 Speaker 1: Got to grow this channel every single day so we stay employed. 00:18:19 Speaker 3: Here with an update on the disgraced former mayor of the city of Oakland, Shang Tao, Mr. Randy Wang. 00:18:26 Speaker 12: Absolutely. 00:18:27 Speaker 6: Absolutely. 00:18:28 Speaker 1: It is time for yet another edition of Dumb Mafia. 00:18:32 Speaker 6: That's right. 00:18:33 Speaker 3: I like that. 00:18:34 Speaker 1: That was amazing. And the update this time from our friend Dan Noyes is that Shang Tao's defense attorney tried to get the whole case thrown out and a mistrial declared because Mario Juarez, while he was on the witness stand being cross-examined by four different lawyers, said something that you're not supposed to say as a witness. What was that? Let's find out. Here is ABC 7 in the Bay as we continue to follow... The insane Oakland corruption case that is now in week four of this never-ending trial. Oakland Bs! By the time this trial is over, the Oakland Bs will be having their new season. 00:19:17 Speaker 7: And we still got our Oakland A's, baby. 00:19:19 Speaker 1: You really don't. 00:19:20 Speaker 3: They might be in Las Vegas, too, by the time this ends. 00:19:26 Speaker 1: Here's ABC 7. 00:19:27 Speaker 6: Today, former Oakland Mayor Sheng Tao's defense team warned the judge they could move for a mistrial in the federal bribery and corruption case. 00:19:35 Speaker 16: That's after an outburst from the government's key witness in the midst of another day of tough cross-examination. 00:19:40 Speaker 6: 7 On Your Side investigates reporter Dan Noyes has been following the trial since the very beginning and joins us live from the Oakland federal courthouse with more. Good evening, Dan. 00:19:51 Speaker 4: J.R. 00:19:52 Speaker 10: And Ama, it's his fourth day on the stand and the judge had to direct Mario Juarez to stick to the questions asked. At one point, he blurted out, the whole thing is a scandal. The mayor of Oakland agreed. 00:20:02 Speaker 6: To a bribe. 00:20:04

Speaker 1: Well, we know that part. Ooh, Sheng, you're wearing a pantsuit today. 00:20:10 Speaker 3: She looks so studious. 00:20:12 Speaker 10: The defense team for former Oakland Mayor Sheng Tao told the judge they could ask for a mistrial after the key witness, Mario Juarez, was getting grilled about the alleged bribery scheme. Juarez motioned toward the former mayor and blurted out, she's right there, ask her. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers snapped at Juarez about his gratuitous comments, adding every defendant has a constitutional right not to testify. 00:20:38 Speaker 1: So apparently you're not allowed to, while you're on the witness stand, ask the lawyer. Just ask the defendant. They're the one that did it. 00:20:46 Speaker 3: No one in this group is real big on rules. 00:20:50 Speaker 1: Nope. 00:20:51 Speaker 10: During the break, Jeff Sy for Sheng Tao told the court. He reserves the right to file motion for a mistrial, saying the judge's admonition in front of the jurors wasn't strong enough. Former federal corruption prosecutor Wilson Leung tells me it was a serious misstep for Juarez. 00:21:06 Speaker 13: The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is sacrosanct. 00:21:10 Speaker 15: And anything that even vaguely hints at a defendant's failure to testify is. 00:21:16 Speaker 6: A big no-no. 00:21:17 Speaker 10: When Juarez returned after recess, the judge told him, now I have to clean up your mess. 00:21:26 Speaker 1: This poor judge, she knows that she's going to have to cancel her Thanksgiving plans. 00:21:34 Speaker 10: And warned him against any further outbursts. Mario Juarez has testified he set up an agreement where the DeWong family would funnel money to then-Mayor Sheng Tao through. 00:21:43 Speaker 1: Boy, they love showing that one lately. This is the new favorite picture of Shang. Shang and Andre Jones while she's wearing her Shang Tao jersey as they're about to fly business class to Vietnam so AJ and Brian Acevedo and Andy Dong can go see some hookers. There's no way he did not participate. 00:22:07 Speaker 10: Through her romantic partner, Andre Jones, calling it a $ 300, 000... What did he bring to the courthouse? 00:22:14 Speaker 1: A sack lunch? 00:22:15 Speaker 3: It looked like it. 00:22:17 Speaker 10: No show job with their container homes project. But on cross-examination, Jones' attorney, Sean Halbert, highlighted texts and photos that show Andre Jones involved and attending meetings, including this scene in San Jose after one session with then-supervisor Cindy Chavez. The Andre Jones defense team also revealed that Mario Juarez asked the government for favors, including an expedited visa for his fiancée. She's not a U.S. 00:22:46 Speaker 6: Citizen. It didn't work. 00:22:50 Speaker 3: I wonder if he met her in Vietnam on that trip. Oh, boy. 00:22:54 Speaker 10: In Oakland, Dan Noyes, ABC7 Eyewitness News. 00:22:58 Speaker 1: So the trial continues as Mario Juarez continues to be grilled by everybody's defense attorney in this case. But, I mean, you can discredit the witness all you want, but there is so much hardcore evidence, including all of the emails and text messages and video and audio tapes that they got from Andy Dong's phone that lay out the conspiracy bare for everybody to see. 00:23:26 Speaker 3: And then the judge had to clean up his mess. Meanwhile, in the city of Dumpy, they just decided to extend their ban on data centers. 00:23:39 Speaker 1: Oakland don't like data centers, so don't build them, even though there's tons and tons and tons of empty office space in downtown Oakland. For more, here is NBC in the Bay. And we got to have it. 00:23:52 Speaker 12: Whatever goes on here in Oakland, we are supposed to know about it. 00:23:57 Speaker 4: Right now at 11 o'clock, they have big concerns. 00:24:00 Speaker 10: It's tonight the city council listened. 00:24:02 Speaker 14: Oakland has handed down a notable decision regarding data centers. 00:24:06 Speaker 3: No new data centers for nearly a year. 00:24:09 Speaker 16: Now, data centers continue to be a hot button issue across the country. The Oakland City Council pushing the pause button on them. 00:24:16 Speaker 3: I've got to admit, I don't understand why data centers are so unpopular. And whenever we talk about it, we get a bunch of emails from people who hate them and don't want them anywhere near their house. I don't understand how we can use our cell phones and how we can use our laptops and how we use all the technology that we like to use unless they have the infrastructure to make it work. 00:24:43 Speaker 1: People are apprehensive at best, afraid or angry at AI, and they associate data centers with AI. So they don't like it. Look, the way that they're built here, it's not really the same thing as where they're taking up these massive fields in places like Texas or Virginia, and they're using up resources. But people also, and probably rightly so, believe that the more of these that get built, the more our energy rates are getting jacked up by PG & E, SoCal, Edison, LADWP, what have you. 00:25:18 Speaker 3: But it's like prisons. Everyone, well, not everyone, In fact, not even a majority in this state. In the old days, people wanted criminals to be locked up. Well, okay, if you want bad guys to be locked up so they can't hurt anyone else, you have to have some place to put them, which means you have to build prisons. No one wants a prison in their community, but people want bad guys locked up. Well, you can't have it both ways. If you want bad guys to be locked up, you have to build prisons somewhere. It's as simple as that. 00:25:54 Speaker 16: Pete Serratos is in the East Bay, and Pete, the current moratorium was actually set to expire next week, but now it's actually next year. 00:26:04 Speaker 4: Yeah, and those city council members tonight voting unanimously to extend Oakland's data center moratorium. 00:26:10 Speaker 1: I mean, and this is at this point because of

the public sentiment on data centers. It's very easy for a politician to just ride what they believe the wave of public sentiment is and say, well, people don't like these things. I mean, you saw several governors completely flip-flop on the issue when they realized that this became an 80-20 issue, whether it's logical or not, including Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, including Greg Abbott in Texas, although it didn't work for Abbott at all. They thought he already sold off the entire state before he reversed course on a moratorium for data centers that would have ended right after the election. 00:26:45 Speaker 3: Didn't Gavin do something similar? Because he was a guy that's a creation of the tech industry. The tech industry has funded so many of his elections in the past, and now he understands that that subject is unpopular, so he doesn't want to be attached to it. 00:27:02 Speaker 4: For nearly a year, and some community advocates say that these temporary pauses could be the first step toward permanent restrictions. A standing ovation inside Oakland City Hall as council members approved a 10-month extension of its current 45-day moratorium, giving the city more time to study data center development. 00:27:23 Speaker 12: We need more research, and that's what the community acts for. 00:27:26 Speaker 1: You know what they should do? They should just call them what they used to call them, server farms. People won't have a problem at all with them. 00:27:33 Speaker 13: Want to know the health risks that's attached to these moratoriums. 00:27:36 Speaker 12: They want to know the risks of, you know, water going up, PG & E going. 00:27:40 Speaker 1: Up, and they deserve that. You know, if you need a wide open space that nobody is going to be bothered by because nobody goes there, why don't you turn the Coliseum into a giant data center? 00:27:52 Speaker 4: But before the vote, people at tonight's city council meeting voiced their concerns about data centers and the importance of the city keeping them informed. 00:28:00 Speaker 3: We pay taxes here. 00:28:03 Speaker 12: And we got to have whatever goes on here. 00:28:05 Speaker 1: In Oakland, we are supposed to know about it. 00:28:09 Speaker 4: Over the next 10 months. 00:28:10 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this is just people are scared to death about what AI means, whether it's good or bad. And this is the way that they can tangibly, physically react to it. 00:28:20 Speaker 3: You might be right. And look, I get it. AI is going to eliminate a lot of jobs in the not too distant future. But it's also going to find cures for a lot of diseases that kill people. It's going to allow self-driving cars to reduce the number of road fatalities that we have on our highways and freeways and city streets. It's not all bad. There are many benefits that are going to come from AI. Plus, the toothpaste is already out of the tube. You can't put it back. AI is coming whether you like it or not. And if we put all kinds

of restrictions on it, it's going to be China that eats our lunch. 00:29:03 Speaker 4: The city will study energy use, environmental impacts, and possible new regulations for data centers. They also plan to hold community meetings, giving neighbors a chance to weigh in. 00:29:14 Speaker 12: The importance of extending the moratorium is to give the city the adequate amount of time for our staff to do the proper research and community engagement that would necessitate coming back to the council with some firm guidelines. 00:29:29 Speaker 1: That means we know that there's a lot of money on the table but we have to wait until people aren't thinking about this anymore because right now it's too hot of an issue and why. 00:29:37 Speaker 3: Is she dressed like paula poundstone Good question. 00:29:40 Speaker 1: That's Carol Fife. She has a relationship with the Dongs, too. When's she going to the trial? 00:29:45 Speaker 4: For some advocates, this is just the beginning. 00:29:48 Speaker 5: This is really a first step for a lot of communities. 00:29:51 Speaker 4: Zoe Jonick is an organizer with 350 Bay Area, a climate group that's helped communities across the Bay Area push for similar moratoriums. She says the end game for some advocates is to ultimately ban data centers from being built. 00:30:05 Speaker 11: You heard that a lot in the meeting tonight in Oakland, where a lot of people said, yes, we want this extended 10 months, but really we want it extended forever. 00:30:15 Speaker 1: What the hell happened to Ken Houston's face? 00:30:18 Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe he was with me yesterday. 00:30:21 Speaker 4: It's more time to decide what rules should apply to future data centers. Now, Oakland's original 45-day moratorium was set to expire next week on November 20th, but tonight's extension keeps those restrictions in place through October 5th of next year. We're live here in the East Bay. Pete Serratos, NBC Berry News. 00:30:43 Speaker 5: Okay, thank you. 00:30:43 Speaker 1: You notice that even though this was a story about Oakland completely taking place in Oakland, the reporter for NBC in the Bay did the live hit from Emeryville? 00:30:56 Speaker 3: Well, they don't want the camera being stolen. I said, hell no, baby boy. 00:31:01 Speaker 1: Let me get up on out of here. 00:31:04 Speaker 3: If you want to watch us perform the show live, go to johnnydontlike.com. 00:31:09 Speaker 10: All right. 00:31:10 Speaker 3: California Republicans are facing historic losses in Sacramento after this month's election. 00:31:18 Speaker 1: I believe the term is now super duper majority as the Republican representation in the state of California and Sacramento is It will be lower than in 1875. 00:31:33 Speaker 3: That's going back a ways. For more. 00:31:36 Speaker 1: Here's KCRA 3. 00:31:37 Speaker 17: I'm going to give you a live look over the state capitol right now where Republicans in California are facing potentially historic losses after last week's

election. And when the results are final, Democrats could end up with a record amount of representation in both the state, Senate, and the Assembly. KCRA 3 political director Ashley Zavala. 00:31:54 Speaker 3: You know, if the Republican caucus meets for lunch and they go to a pizza parlor, I don't even think they have to order an extra large to feed everyone. 00:32:03 Speaker 1: They might just go to a slice house. 00:32:06 Speaker 17: Has been tracking this and has where the numbers stand right now. 00:32:10 Speaker 18: In this upcoming term, even though they have had no power at our state Capitol, Republicans could have the fewest amount of California state lawmakers than ever. In the big picture, there are 120 lawmakers total between the state assembly and Senate, 30 of those seats total. 00:32:27 Speaker 3: 30. 00:32:30 Speaker 1: Yep. Wait, this is what it was. 00:32:35 Speaker 18: Have been held by Republicans. Of those 30, we're tracking 10 seats that are at risk. That includes the two Republican minority leaders in the state Senate. That's Sacramento County's Roger Nilo. He is in a tight race with Sean Frame, separated by about 5,000 votes and 1.9 points. The Assembly's Republican minority leader, Alexandra Macedo, also hanging on by a razor-thin margin of 1.2 points. Staying with the assembly, that's where most of the losses are happening in Southern California. Assembly members Jeff Gonzalez, Leticia Castillo, Greg Wallace and Trita have lost their seats, according to AP projections. 00:33:14 Speaker 1: Not Trita. I didn't know who he was. 00:33:18 Speaker 3: You're losing trees. 00:33:20 Speaker 18: Assemblywoman Lori Davies is trailing her Democratic opponent by two points. And in our area, Assemblyman Josh Hoover tonight has conceded to Democrat Amy Slavensky. Back in the Senate, Democrat Mara Elliott has taken the San Diego seat that was held by termed-out Republican leader Brian Jones. And down in Huntington Beach, a safe Republican seat, State Senator Tony Strickland is trailing Democrat Chris Duncan by 1.8 points. 00:33:47 Speaker 1: And I believe I saw that Strickland conceded. 00:33:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that too. So he's not coming back for another four years. 00:33:57 Speaker 18: If these numbers hold, that means Democrats could tie the record amount in the state Senate that was first set in 2018 with 32 Democrats. And in the assembly, 64 members would be the most Democrats in modern history. Numbers not seen since the 1800s, according to McGeorge School of Law professor Chris McKaylee. Now, at this point, Republican lawmakers have been fairly quiet in response to these outcomes, waiting for them to be final before talking about what may have gone wrong here. 00:34:26 Speaker 1: So there you go. The bloodbath that was this election had quite the ripple in Sacramento as Republicans will have the lowest amount of representation in 150 years. 00:34:42 Speaker 3: Here's the truth. And if you're the one who lost the election, it sounds like you're making excuses, so they probably won't do it. But when you're running in one of these down-ballot races... and the top of the ticket gets blown out the way that it did this time, not just in California, but nationally. This was a blue tsunami, and it hit not just blue states, not just the Pacific Coast, but it hit the entire country, except for Florida. Those candidates didn't have a fighting chance. They lost the election not because of what they did or didn't do. They lost the election because of the national mood. 00:35:24 Speaker 1: It didn't matter who they were or what they've done or weren't able to do. If you had an R next to your name, the vast majority of voters said, nope, not you. 00:35:36 Speaker 3: And it'll be interesting to see how many of them come back and run again for their old seats. Because sometimes what happens is there's a wave election, you get blown out, and then you come back and run in two years with the mood different. And you can win back your old seat, especially if you lost to a very weak candidate, which many of these Democrats who are winning these elections are very weak candidates. They weren't regarded as viable. They weren't regarded as people who had a chance. They got in because they were in the water when the wave hit. 00:36:13 Speaker 1: It's possible we could see that, but if the mood is the same, it might be an even worse majority in 2028. 00:36:20 Speaker 3: It's possible, but go back and look at history. 1994 was a huge year for Republicans. That's when Republicans took control of the House and the Senate for the first time in decades. In 1996, two years later, Bill Clinton, who was the unpopular president at the time of the 1994 election, ended up winning reelection by a wider margin than he won in 1992. 00:36:50 Speaker 1: Well, people didn't take Perot seriously the second time. 00:36:54 Speaker 3: In 2010, Republicans had huge victories in the midterm election. That was the Tea Party revolution. But then two years later, Obama bounced back and won re-election. Two years is an eternity in politics, particularly because of our smartphones and our laptops and how fast the world moves. People have the attention span of a net. And they're angry at Trump now. They're angry at the Iran war now. But the issues that might decide the 2028 election might not be issues that we're even talking about right now. You just don't know because it's impossible to see the future.