That was a weird way to start an interview.<\/p>\n
Democratic frontrunner for California governor, Xavier Beccera, pressed a TV reporter to make sure she was not doing a \u201cgotcha piece\u201d on him \u2014 or ready to ask too many \u201ctough questions\u201d \u2014 immediately after the cameras started rolling.<\/p>\n
Becerra made the uncomfortable request during his interview with KTLA 5 reporter Annie Rose Ramos in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the way, this is a profile piece, this is not a gotcha piece, right?\u201d Beccera wanted to make sure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, look, these questions are fair. It\u2019s in order to learn about you as a candidate,\u201d Ramos told him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe line is about the profile,\u201d Beccera countered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how you define profile, but I\u2019d like to begin the interview,\u201d Ramos said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way I describe profile is, you talk about all the things that I\u2019ve done, things I want to do \u2014 along with some tough questions,\u201d Becerra said. \u201cBut not only tough questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a bizarre way to begin, and there was another awkward \u2014 or funny, depending on your point of view \u2014 moment a few minutes later.<\/p>\n
Ramos asked Becerra about his time serving as HHS Secretary under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025. She pointed to a 2023 report that said the HHS could not find 85,000 children who had been brought into the USA and were supposed to be monitored by the department.<\/p>\n
Becerra said that was not accurate and questioned if Ramos \u201cgot those talking points from Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s from a New York Times article<\/a>,\u201d Ramos told him.<\/p>\n Becerra protested \u201cthat\u2019s not what the New York Times article said\u201d \u2014 as the KTLA 5 broadcast highlighted the specific section of the report that Ramos just mentioned.<\/p>\n His interview with KTLA 5 comes as several polls have Becerra as the favorite to replace<\/a> Gavin Newsom<\/a> as California\u2019s next governor.<\/p>\n Ramos was asked about Becerra\u2019s \u201cgotcha piece\u201d comment after the interview by the KTLA morning anchors. She admitted she was \u201ccaught off guard\u201d by it, and said nothing like that happened in her other interviews with candidates like Tom Steyer (D) and Chad Bianco (R).<\/p>\n Watch above.<\/p>\n The post California Dem Frontrunner Argues With Reporter Over Whether It\u2019s a \u2018Gotcha Piece\u2019 Before Interview Even Starts \u2014 On Camera<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That was a weird way to start an interview. Democratic frontrunner for California governor, Xavier Beccera, pressed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130819,7,2926,9,8,4407,130821,130820],"class_list":["post-312187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-annie-rose-ramos","tag-california","tag-california-governor","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-ktla","tag-tough-questions","tag-xavier-beccera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}