the call

“I wanted a show where I was not No. 1 on the call sheet,” he says.

He said he “agonized” over the decision but was ultimately swayed by the fact that Pineda didn’t respond to the call with the intent to kill Ordaz and had to make the decision to fire “in the blink of an eye.”

The governor touted the state’s “first in the nation” study on providing reparations for the descendants of African Americans who were enslaved in the United States, an issue that polled so poorly in California and on the national level that the governor and legislative Democrats distanced themselves from the call to deliver remedies in an election year.

Although the specific wording of the call was redacted, prosecutors alleged it “provides the clear inference that the defendant’s goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses either into silence or provide testimony helpful to his defense.”

Along with the call on Sunday for a “fair investigation,” Joe Brings Plenty Sr. talked about his son’s work as an activist, which he called “quite scary, because the Indian issue isn’t a popular issue.”