the now, this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud.st yes just yesterday, wete learned tht nearly four hundred department of homeland security employees took pandemiarly 400c unemploymt even though they were working. but my friends, this is justinyc a teeny tiny fraction of the massive in brazen coviden theft that has occurred since d the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who s in chargeh of overseeing the distribution of the relieributionf has calleh the biggest fraud inbigges a generation. t frau it was the theft of asc as 80 billion dollars, or about 10% of the eight hundred billion dollars that was handed out in that paycheck protection program. now,in tha remember, that s on l the 90 billion to four hundredio billion believed to have been stolen from the nine hundred billion covid unemploy payment relief program. that s a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the tidal wave of inflatiotle n tha
firm. and i ve spent a lot of time in california, a lot of family there. fat is california the model? should imithe modet be the moder the rest of the country? t he well, cou gavin newsom, sud seems to think so.or havin and thanks for having me tonight, laura . .he said again and again that california is a model for the nation. and you know what you justrnia s said, california has so much going for it. ng foriti love california. a lot of the people who are leaving love california, too. they just hate the politics. and , you know, you mentioned how they use it s all aboutd it sort of control. and it reminded me oindef what gavin newsom said on april 1sttf of 2020. this was the last of the month e in to the whole covidco situation. he said thatvid situ this was an opportunity for, quote, a new progressive era. w and an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and the way we govern. he said out loud that this wasnc a chance to just fast forward this entire juste progressiveh s proje