NewsConference

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Chuck Todd of NBC’s Meet the Press talk about President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress this past Wednesday. Why is President Biden spending tons and tons of money? What is likely to happen? Taxing the rich and corporations, tax hikes?

NBC4’S Conan Nolan and Chuck Todd of NBC’s Meet the Press talk about the divisiveness in the Democratic Party. The split could give the GOP a win in the 2022 mid-term elections. Defunding the police is one issue that could be an advantage for the GOP. And, Xavier Becerra, the new Secretary of Health and Human Services is facing criticism...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) joins a lively conversation with NBC4’s Conan Nolan about the controversial comments she made at the end of the Derek Chauvin trial. Waters says her comments shouldn’t have been controversial at all and she explains why.

There’s been another mass shooting, the fifth in five weeks. Why is it so difficult to get gun reform legislation passed out of Congress more so than even 20 years ago?  NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Chuck Todd host of Meet the Press.

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Eric Garcetti, the 42nd mayor of the City of Los Angeles, about getting back to near normal in the next two months. Plus, closing the racial divide in vaccinations, and was the removal of the homeless encampment in Echo Park necessary? 

This week, for the first time in over a year, there will be students on campuses at the Los Angeles Unified School District. NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Superintendent Austin Beutner as to what to expect and why it took so long.

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with and political journalist Ronald Brownstein on his new book on a remarkable year in the history of Los Angeles. “Rock Me on the Water, 1974, The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics.”

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with State Senate Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) about the California Supreme Court ruling that the state’s bail system is unconstitutional. There is more to do, says the senate leader. He explains why the bail system is unjust and why it must be changed. We also get his reaction to the appointment of Assemblyma...

NBC4’S Conan Nolan talks with Los Angeles Times Reporter Colleen Shalby. She has been covering the vaccine rollout for the newspaper. They discuss the new protocol for getting a vaccination in this state and whether or not could it be moved sooner than April 15th for everybody who wants to get one.

California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) has held that job now for five years, longer than anyone since Willie Brown some 25 years ago. He talks with NBC4’s Conan Nolan about the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. Plus, did the legislature hand over too much authority to the governor on the COVID-19 response? And is anybody worried in ...

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with one of the newest members of the United States Senate, and California’s first Latino Senator, Alex Padilla (D-California). He is also the new chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration. The crisis at the US-Mexico border is the direst in 20 years, so what needs to happen? Should we get rid of the filibuster? An...

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with California Republican Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson about the who and why is behind the recall of California Governor Gavin Newsom. She says it’s wrong to assume the recall is just supported by extremists.

Proposition 19 passed last November. Voters voted for it. Now, they know what the new law really does and they don’t like it. How does Proposition 19 really impact homeowners and what can be done–if anything– to change the law? NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Los Angeles County Assessor Jeff Prang about this constitutional mess.