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More on what we're learning about the alleged assassin who stormed that huge dinner in Washington, at which you had pretty much everybody right you had

high-profile cabinet officials and yet the secret service you missed it in hour one we

talked to a former secret service agent at the senior level who gave us the the lay of

the land on that and it's all pretty straightforward but there are a couple of

interesting twists and turns along the way you'll find that in the podcast.

Now I turn to California and the billionaire tax, the gubernatorial race, the Swalwell seat, all of it with political ninja for iHeart Radio. Gary Dietrich.

Welcome, Gary.

No, you got Gary on the line? You got him? Okay. Hey, good to be with you,

Mark. There you go. So first, I want to visit this billionaire tax because they've just,

I apparently reached the threshold in terms of signatures to get it on the ballot. Speak to what it is,

and it has some interesting pushback from Newsom and other Democrats.

Yeah, this may surprise people.

SEIU, the big public employer union behind this, Mark,

and they have announced today they think they have to be verified by the Secretary of State,

but they think they have plenty of signatures to get it on the ballot.

By the way, also the big voter ID ballot measure also is just

qualified officially. But this billionaire tax, you know, as you know, is already apparently driven

several major high-tech CEOs out of the state, most notably to Florida. But you're absolutely

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