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We are going to now talk with John Fleischman.

He's got a website, So Does It Matter.com.

He's a political writer and commentator.

And there is

a story that has been bubbling in the background.

We've covered it some because there's only one

reporter in the whole state

trying to find out the truth. And her name's

Ashley Zavala for Channel 3 in

Sacramento, K-C-R-A.

And this thing, like I said,

for all the people just beside themselves with anger and

fury over Trump using private money to build that ballroom in Washington, we got Newsom

spending over a billion dollars on something called the State Capitol Annex Project.

It's a new large section of the state

capital over a billion dollars but nobody really knows how much it's going to cost or when

it's going to be built it there's a tremendous amount of secrecy a lot of non-disclosure agreements

and it looks like a big stinking boondoggle that nobody wants to acknowledge. So we'll talk to

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