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So, let me ask you this then.
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Do you believe there is fraud
and waste in the government?
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Let me start there.
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Do you believe there is fraud
and waste in the government?
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Congressman Robert Garcia: Absolutely.
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I was mayor of my city for eight years.
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I mean, of course there
is, of course there is.
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Welcome to the All in Long Beach podcast.
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Stuart Takahara here, your host
of the All In Long Beach podcast.
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And today, Boy, I don't know how many
of you heard it yesterday, but there's a
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new subcommittee on Doge, the Department
of Government Efficiency, which is
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being held at, headed by Elon Musk.
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So now Congress wants to create
their own subcommittee, and it's
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being led by Marjorie Taylor
Greene, and on this committee.
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is Long Beach's own Robert Garcia,
our former mayor, former city council
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person, now congressman, who represents
you and represents me in the United
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States House of Representatives.
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And yesterday, in subcommittee,
this is what he had to say.
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Congressman Robert Garcia: Now, I
find it ironic, of course, that our
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chairwoman, Congresswoman Greene, is
in charge of running this committee.
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Now, in the last Congress, Chairwoman
Greene literally showed a dick pic in
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our oversight congressional hearing.
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So I thought I'd bring one as well.
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Stuart - All In Long Beach: And
he turns over his shoulder and one
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of his people has a huge picture,
a huge picture of Elon Musk.
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And then you can kind of hear the
chamber's little echo a little bit, and
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kind of like, ha ha, a little laughter.
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And then I couldn't help but this guy
to the left, I don't know who it is, but
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the guy to the left of Robert Garcia,
he kind of looked up, and he saw this,
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and he kind of, he kind of moved away.
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He kind of like, you know how
someone says something, and you kind
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of want to like distance yourself
a little bit from that person?
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That's exactly what this guy did.
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He kind of looked at it, he goes, Oh crap.
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This is gonna be making
the news everywhere.
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I don't want to be a part of this.
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I need to, I want to see if I
can try and get out of this shot.
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Unfortunately, the camera's kid came
out and did a wide shot to get the
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photos in so you can see everybody.
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You can just see he was like,
oh my gosh, what is he doing?
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What are we doing here?
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This is, how is this helping?
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How is this helping?
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Congressman Robert Garcia: And it's
important that we actually call out
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What is happening at this subcommittee?
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This is not about working with
the richest man on the planet.
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This is actually about empowering.
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This committee wants to empower the
richest person in the world to hurt
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people so they can take all of this
money that they so called want to save
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and then give it to themselves, their
companies, and their billionaire friends.
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. Stuart - All In Long Beach: I
have not maybe been paying the
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most attention to what's going on.
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I'll read the headlines and I'll see
some of this crazy spending that's
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going on in the federal government.
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I think that we can all agree, at
least for my entire adult life,
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new existed like ridiculously, but
I had no idea that it was this.
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But uh, Congressman
Garcia here is claiming.
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And maybe he has proof that is out there.
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Maybe he knows something that I
don't know about this, but he's
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saying that they're going to take
the money from the taxpayers and give
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it to, I don't know how that works.
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We are saving money.
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This committee, the DOJ committee is
supposed to be saving us, the taxpayers,
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a ridiculous amount of money because
of all this ridiculous spending,
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all this waste that's going on.
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There's no evidence.
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I don't see how they're going to
take this and funnel it to you.
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They're billionaire friends, as,
as Congressman Garcia is saying.
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I don't know how that's going to
happen unless they create movements.
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I, I want to, here's what I want
to see out of this committee.
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So I want two things.
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I want my taxes to go down, and I
want the national debt to go down.
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Congressman Robert Garcia:
that is the attack that is
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happening in this committee.
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And across this country, and it's
important that we call it out.
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Stuart - All In Long Beach: So we're
trying to figure this out, right.
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We all have to try and work together.
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Democrats have been saying
that forever and ever and ever.
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Even when Kamala Harris was
running for president, she's
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like, we have to work together.
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We have to come together.
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We're a united front.
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We're, you know, all this other stuff.
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And now all of a sudden she doesn't win.
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Doge is doing exactly what
they said they would do.
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And now they don't want to play nicely.
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And here's Congressman Garcia's on
the same day on MSNBCs morning, Joe.
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Congressman Robert Garcia: I
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Stuart - All In Long Beach: would say
that, um, first I have zero interest.
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working with Marjorie Taylor Greene, our
chairwoman on this committee, or the House
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Republicans on this committee, to help
them with anything as it relates to DOJ.
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Did you just hear what he said there?
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I have zero interest, zero interest in
working with Marjorie Taylor Greene, House
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Republicans on this committee, to help
them with anything as it relates to DOJ.
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Well then what the heck
are you doing there?
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Congressman Robert Garcia: What we're
there for, and what we're there to do,
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is to fight, to push back on the lies, to
bring attention to what's going on right
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now at our agencies, and to make sure that
people know that we are going to fight
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every single day to ensure that we get
Elon Musk out of our private information.
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But let's make no mistake about it.
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We are not going to be working
with the House majority, and we're
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certainly not going to be working
with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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I think folks, I think folks today
are going to see us get really engaged
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and ask really tough questions.
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Stuart - All In Long Beach: Really tough
questions, like, is Elon Musk a dick?
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Those are the tough questions that's
being asked by congressmen today.
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So Congressman Garcia has his moment.
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All the cameras are on him.
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All the eyes are on him.
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And he has this moment to
actually say something meaningful.
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And he blows it.
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By doing the exact same thing
that he calls out President
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Trump for doing so many times,
which is badgering, name calling.
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And he's right out there doing
it again, and he's fine with it.
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He's fine with it.
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He actually says that he wants
to bring the same kind of fight.
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And I'll have the clips of this
is somewhere in my archives.
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He says he wants the same kind of fight,
same kind of tools for the bar fight.
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He actually refers this to this
whole doge thing as a bar fight.
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Now, granted, I know we're
all from Long Beach, right?
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We understand what bar
bar fights are like.
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We've all been, you know,
to some of these places.
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That maybe aren't the safest or the areas
you turn on our news all the time and we
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see stabbings and shootings and things
like that going on at bars in Long Beach
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and throughout Southern California.
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But this is how he sees this.
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He sees himself as in a bar fight with
the President of the United States
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and the richest man in the world.
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But with all that being
said, let's talk about Doge.
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Let's talk about their mission.
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Let's talk about why they
even are there to begin with.
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That same day, Robert Garcia,
he's making the rounds.
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I mean, like, he's everywhere.
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And today, on ABC News, he gets asked the
question that I think we should be asking.
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And that question is, do you believe there
is fraud and waste in the government?
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Do you believe there is fraud
and waste in the government?
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And this is his response.
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Congressman Robert Garcia: Absolutely.
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I was mayor of my city for eight years.
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I mean, of course there
is, of course there is.
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Stuart - All In Long Beach: Can we
just, can we just stop right here?
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I was mayor of my city for eight years.
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I mean, of course there is.
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Of course there is.
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We need Doge to come into
Long Beach right now.
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This is a great question.
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I think we should be asking our current
mayor and our current city council,
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where is this waste that our previous
mayor, our now congressman says.
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exists.
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What can we be doing on this local level
to say, listen, it's been admitted by
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our former mayor of eight years that
of course there is waste in the, in
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the government system, in the Long
Beach, that's where we need to be.
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We're talking about a 30 million fiscal
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shortage, budget shortage
for upcoming fiscal year.
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What are we going to do about that?
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Can this be solved without all
these crazy tax increases that, that
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they're already starting to plot for?
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This Measure A stuff that's been
going on with the sales tax stuff.
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Why don't we do this?
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Why don't we look around and
say, let's go find the waste that
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Congressman Garcia, our former
mayor, says exists in this city.
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That's going to do it for this episode
of the All in Long Beach podcast.
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Let's take some action here.
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Let's ask the city council,
where is this waste?
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Let's ask the mayor,
what is he talking about?
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Let's ask Congressman Garcia,
what are you talking about?
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Where is this waste?
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He admitted it's there,
so let's go find it.
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