they re rapists. we will build a great, great wall. jerry said i ll wall off california if trump wins. how do i react to it? look, i ve been around this political business a long time. i ve seen things come and go. but trump is really he is way off the norm. the trump administration started to take shape. in california immediately there was just a scramble. not necessarily led by governor brown but legislators, you know, the attorney general, everyone just sort of scrambling to show defiance right off the bat. those first few days it was, well, we re just going to keep doing what we re doing. hopefully we ve got a partner in d.c. but if we don t, we re going to keep moving.
former ebay ceo had the resources to wage a serious battle. 40 years in politics and failure has followed him everywhere. she s running with an unlimited bankroll. whatever amount her advisers tell her you need to win the governorship, she will write that check and maybe a good more for measure. and jerry brown is looking at this race and saying maybe i ll lose this. and he had to do something very hard for him, call bill clinton. and he gets bill clinton to come out to california and campaign for him. will you do it? will you elect jerry brown? if you transported somebody from 1992 to 2010 california and showed them bill clinton and jerry brown standing on the same stage singing each other s praises, wouldn t have believed it. before midnight on election night whitman conceded and brown was about to begin an unexpected
brown, but by then the governor was looking away from the statehouse and towards the white house. coming up if jerry brown had made a decision two weeks earlier to get in, he would have been elected president of the united states. this is an insurance commercial. but let s be honest, nobody likes dealing with insurance. which is why esurance hired me, dennis quaid, as their spokesperson because apparently, i m highly likable. see, they know it s confusing. i literally have no idea what i m getting, dennis quaid. that s why they re making it simple, man in cafe.
my father had a limousine, i rode in it before. in fact i rode it in the opening of the stadium in san francisco. and people pounded on the window. they were not happy. and i said, wow, this is not a good move. i m going to avoid limousines. brown asked his chief of staff gray davis, a future guv negative himself to assign him a nondescript car other general legislators used. we ve got plymouths this year and i said blue. and there s only one car awaiting us, and it s blue all right but it s powder blue. and he says, oh, great, that s not it, is it? and i said i m not sure, governor, but i think it is. it was a bit not quite a muscular tone than i was probably looking for, but there it was and i accepted it. unlike most prior governors
serious problems. and let s get the bill signed. in july 2017 brown extended legislation signed by his predecessor, republican arnold shwarzenegger designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. there was arnold and there was jerry, and that is quite a contrast. but you have to remember this is california. and for californians the juxtaposition of jerry brown and arnold shwarzenegger probably isn t that remarkable. this is man who saw a lot of migs coming with climate change, global warming. and now he could play a leading role he was really ready to play several years ago. some the laws they have that are crucial to changing climate change go back to when he was first governor, the trump administration is trying to push back and revoke california s authority to do all these things, and he s dead set on not letting that happen. days after president trump