heather, you are all over this and i thank you. thanks for leading off the show. we just told you about san francisco s radical d.a., eahis name is chesa boudin. voters have gathered enough petitions to force them to a recall election. it willre happen next year. richie greenberg is a san francisco political commentator joins us. what drovet voters to this poin? didn t they know what they were getting? first of all, thank you for having me here today. he saw a charismatic person and when he was campaigning back in 2019, a lot of voters actually believed what he was saying. they believe that he was going to make a difference. they believed that he was going to tweak the system, tweak the criminal justice system using this concept of restorative justice which after he was elected, and by the way he was not electeded with a huge margi. but once he was elected, the first thing he did is he fired
he s a businessman. that s what i liked about trump. i didn t know much about politics..li i was just a 17-year-old kid. but you liked andrew yang. i liked andrew yang. i likedou his policy little bit. he s very smart, interesting guy. has this changed your politics? i don t know. i ve been trying to stay out of politics lately. no matter what direction i m going to go, there is going to be people who don t support me no matter what. i think it s just in my best interest to avoid politics. i m not a political person. i m just a person who was attacked and defended myself. brian: wow. that didn t make the original cut. that was fascinating. talking about malice, his lawyers selling him down the river, leaving them in prison, not bein able to shower. response to the interview. that story is next. don t move. don t move.
i want you to keep in mind this was before rush limbaugh signed any big syndicated deals, before rush limbaugh the multimillionaire, before rush limbaugh on the track to blazing success. before any of that. this was before there was a bo snerdley becausesu bo snerdley didn t exist. james golden, this black kid from queens sitting in the newsroom who would take rush stories. so i m sitting in the newsroom pulling stories again. it s rush. hey, james, can you come into the office for a second? sure.ti go to the office. close the door. close the door. rush has an envelope. he pushes the envelope to me and says here. what is this? inside is a check for $5,000. whoa, $5,000 is still a lot of money to me. it was a lot of money then. it was unheard of. what rush said to me was i don t want you to tell anybody about this. this is between you and me.
thanks for leading off the show. we just told you about san francisco s radical d.a., his name is chesa boudin. voters have gathered enough petitions to force them to a recall election. it will happen next year. san francisco political commentator joins us. what drove voters to this point? didn t they know what they were getting question mike didn t they say didn t he say he was going to do this. thank you for having me here today. he saw a charismatic person and when he was campaigning back in 2019, a lot of voters actually believed what he was saying. they believe that he was going to make a difference. they believed that he was going to tweak the system, tweak the criminal justice system using this concept of restorative justice which after he was elected, and by the way he was not elected with a huge margin. but once he was elected, the first thing he did is he fired
that s what i liked about trump. i didn t know much about politics. i was just a 17-year-old kid. but you liked andrew yang. i liked andrew yang. i liked his policy little bit. he s very smart, interesting guy. has the stranger politics? i don t know. i ve been trying to stay out of politics lately. no matter what direction i m going to go, there is going to be people who don t support me no matter what. i think it s just in my best interest to avoid politics. i m not a political person. i m just a person who was attacked and defended myself. brian: wow. that didn t make the original cut. that was fascinating. talking about malice, his lawyers selling him down the river, leaving them in prison, not be able to shower. response to the interview. that story is next. don t move.