Jon Favreau

How do we dig ourselves out of this hole?

And how do you do it when it's not just the mayor that's kind of making these decisions, but also the city council and other people that feel beholden to these groups, even if they're supportive of making sure public employees receive good benefits and good pay?

Can you talk about what happened with the convention center?

So I think this is a good example.

There was a proposal to expand the convention center.

You just tell people what happened, how much it's going to cost and what happened there.

How long would the project take to like how many years would it take to build this convention center?

And that's going to cost $6 billion.

Including all the costs plus the borrowing and all the rest is going to cost the city $6 billion.

And how long would it take us to make back that $6 billion?

I mean, this is... Terrific.

Love that for us.

All right.

Sorry.

So how does it get to the point where a small group of people, Democrats or, you know, left associated people are all coming together to make these decisions?

Not Republicans that are causing these problems.

It's not Donald Trump.

It's this is a problem generated by the only thing between us and solving these problems is Democrats.

Right.

And so for people that maybe aren't from Los Angeles and see this, what have you learned being in the city council about what it takes to get a group of people that are maybe ideologically aligned to care about just the basics of good governing?