thanks, brian. good morning. first off, phil, out of all the causes that comes after a big name like with you a bright personality, why does illiteracy mean so much? education is the greatest gift that you could give anybody. kpmg s family for literacy has been involved for the last five years in getting over 2 million books into the hands of youngsters and there is no better way to help a child than to give them a path to education. this has been a fun program and right now we re in the middle of our reading relay. across 80-plus cities that they re involved throughout the nation, we re having this reading relay, getting a couple hundred thousands books into the hands of young kids. john what, is this reading relay. your new goal is 15,000 books to support the reading relay initiative. so john, what s it about? we started this program about five years ago to really deal with some pretty alarming statistics in this country.
is lacking, so i m going to go do some sports. you want to stay with me on that. megyn: she s a lovely woman. brian: right. the spurs take game five of the nba finals. this is true, megyn. they re now one win away from capturing their fifth title since 1999. 25 points, tony barker, who has been battling a hamstring injury had 26 points. the hee will try to stave off elimination and not get back to back titles by winning game 6 and 7. it s going to be tough for both squads. i can see a scenario where they come out victorious. the u.s. open, justin rose, not american, claiming his first win at a national championship. the first brit to win the u.s. open in 40 years. he finished at 1 over par. two strokes ahead of phil mickleson on his birthday, who came in second at the event. the sixth time in his career. because it s mickleson s birthday, he gave him the title. that is not true. megyn: wow.
become a magnet for businesses not just from california, but from everywhere, as well as florida. california is outpacing job creation in texas. texas has no taxes, like income taxes, but their property taxes that are over two times higher than the state of california. so before everybody gets their moving vans out, consider the property tax impacts. that said, california has more scientist, more engineers, more nobel laureates, more venture capital, more patents emanating from it. it is still an essential place to do business. brian: i lived there for a while. you start off with a huge lead to anybody that comes to visit. you got rural, you got urban, you have everything you want and you got this incredible scenery. but you re losing people. look at the unemployment in california. 9.8%. in texas, it s 6.1%. we go on. and talk about other things that could be attractive about texas is there is a sense there that there is a growth in these different cities. look, again, it s not
those comments. look, we can sit here and debate this thing all day. but what die admire is people in the game that are aggressive. rick perry doesn t need to be out there them hymn self. he put an austin chamber of commerce in our state. other states have done the same thing. $1.9 trillion a year economy. people will be aggressive. what california needs to do is acknowledge that and we ve got to lean in and do the same thing. real economic development plan, address that very high unemployment rate, 1.8 million people without jobs in california, it is our number one issue because the number one issue of the past was the deficit and we brought that down. we re looking at a surplus. brian: you re sure you re not italian? irish italian. brian: lieutenant governor, you still may be losing phil mickleson. a lot of people said keep me away from keep book. my space will never last. you embraced it right away. that s really what this book is about. having your voice heard.
who has a single shot gun. but if a band of marauders comes kicking your door down and all you have gone is a double shot gun god help you as joe biden won t. golfer phil mickleson made headlines when he suggested he could move out of home state of california because of potential tax hikings. on wednesday he apologized for making his feelings so public. i love it here and grew up here and i am certainly concerned for it. my apology is for talking about it publicly. because i shouldn t have taken advantage of the forum as i have as a professional golfer to try to ignite change over the issues. oh, phil. think about all of your friend in the california and all of the folk in hollywood who use celebrity to try to affect change. think about how many