Jason

My competitor is building an indoor mall with no trees or light and an escalator.

So you're just shaking your head like, how is this even possible?

Well, don't you want to be in a place that feels good, makes you happy?

You see trees, you have water, you have flowers, there's nice music.

So that's where that platform gives you this incredible power and authority to go do things.

I mean,

you look at the rosewood miramar our resort we have a full train running through it everybody stayed away from that property and when i announced we're going to build a five-star hotel everybody said you're crazy got a train running through it we made the train an amenity right we built a bar next to it with a bell that gets rung when the train comes by and people celebrate it yeah so that's enriching lives i i just love watching people

enjoy their life.

And that's what fuels my public service.

And it's what I really enjoyed when I worked for three mayors, when I worked for Tom Bradley and Dick Reardon and Jim Hahn.

You can actually make changes in public service that makes people's lives better

How great is that?

I think the state of California should lead the nation in everything that we do.

I think the state of California should have the best housing, it should have the best school system, the lowest crime rate, we should not have homeless living on the streets, we should have opportunities for people to grow a business, raise their family, feel good about life, be enriched, and we should be in the top

of every category that you want to measure quality of life.

If you say we're the fourth largest economy in the world, which our elected officials say very often, then act like it and the people of California should be benefiting from being the fourth largest economy in the world.

It has.

Well, my approach was simple when I ran is you can't allow encampments on the street, but you've got to give people who are on the streets an opportunity to have a productive life.

So give them the services they need, build the housing that they need.

We are spending in the city of Los Angeles.