Can Anyone Fix California?

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Host Brian Stelter goes deep on the state of California with Vanity Fair special correspondent Joe Hagan, whose feature on California’s crises is stirring debate this week, and Marisa Lagos, a government and politics correspondent for KQED in San Francisco. They discuss the state’s pressing issues, from homelessness to climate change to crime, along with how California’s challenges are perceived by locals and portrayed in the national media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, what did you set out to find out?
0:03.3	What did you want to answer in this article?
0:05.1	I see the story as California is a laboratory of the Democratic Party.
0:10.9	And that within the Democratic Party, there is a lot of debate and conflict right now.
0:17.3	It's in the Diane Feinstein race.
0:20.0	It's down to the city council level in Los Angeles.
0:25.1	There's progressives who see the problems need to be solved this way.
0:30.0	Deal with income inequality.
0:32.1	Because if you don't deal with the disparity in income equality in the housing situation,
0:36.0	you're never going to deal with the other things, the homelessness and the crime.
0:39.2	And then there's people coming from the other direction.
0:41.1	Nancy Pelosi, one of them is like, safety is a huge concern.
0:45.0	She sees crime in the polling going up.
0:47.1	She sees what happened in New York State when Democrats lost some seats that they didn't
0:52.0	need to lose because they dropped the ball on crime.
0:55.1	So, they're thinking very politically about it from a centrist point of view.
0:59.8	And I was interested in that debate and in that conversation, which I kept running into
1:03.8	every place I went from a dinner party to, you know, taking a tourist kid row with Rick
1:08.7	Caruso.
1:09.7	That's Joe Haken, special correspondent for Vanity Fair.
1:12.8	His latest feature for the magazine is titled, Can anyone fix California?
1:16.9	And we're also joined here by Marisa Lagos, a government and politics correspondent for
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