Steve Hilton

The California Post did some great reporting there, talked to all the neighbors.

They'd never seen him.

But what was discovered...

in his campaign finance reports was endless hotel bills in his district and in the Bay Area, including five-star hotels.

That's all public.

And he's charging his donors for that.

Now, why would someone who claims to live in his district be billing his donors for hotel rooms in his district?

or hotel rooms in the Bay Area.

Good question.

That's been out there for ages, and it totally connects, of course, to the tape you just played of those people and their testimony about asking them to go to hotel rooms.

So all of the, you know, the idea that they didn't know or hadn't heard, I just want to be really clear, hadn't heard this stuff.

And therefore, the fact that they were so eager to get behind him, which is exactly what was happening in the last couple of weeks, is just unbelievable.

The business community, everyone, there was a real sense that he was the guy that they were consolidating behind.

One thing I'd say is that one of the things you hear

in the chatter around all of this, and it's particularly coming from the Katie Porter camp, is that actually it was Tom Steyer who kind of engineered this coming out now.

I don't quite understand the theory of how that happened because the stories have been out there for a while.

I think that's right.

I mean, look, they, this is the arrogance again.

They just, they think it's unthinkable that you'd have a Republican governor of California, even though their record is so disastrous.

Like let's just remind ourselves how bad it is.