Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses the state's surplus and California's tax system. California Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher stops by to discuss inflation, gas prices and the GOP's 2022 outlook. Rep. Pete Aguilar weighs in on this week's Jan. 6 committee hearings and LA Times Sacramento bureau chief John Myers discusses his retirement from journalism.

Fresh off his leading performance, Governor Newsom returned to “The Issue Is” for an expansive conversation with Elex Michaelson, to talk crime, climate change, gun control, the national Democratic party.