eleni: i'm the mom, eleni. nice to meet you. lemonis: eleni, how are you? very nice to meet you.ou? george: hello, marcus. lemonis: george, right? george: yes. lemonis: nice to meet you. george: nice to meet you. -petros: how you doing? petros. -lemonis: petros, how are you? petros: nice to meet you, marcus. lemonis: now, you've been in the chocolate business for how many years? -george: almost 40 years. lemonis: and how long ago did you meet? eleni: 39 years ago. he was in greece. lemonis: oh, you were in greece. who are these pictures of? -zoe: that's my mom's parents. petros: yeah, and a little push cart in baltimore. zoe: in baltimore, where they were hand-rolling chocolates, and my dad came over. he learned the trade. george: i love to work for my kids. lemonis: it's nice to have your children support you. george: oh, yes. i think that's the most important, to love each other. lemonis: this place is -- it got a lot bigger. -petros: yeah, right. -lemonis: it goes back even -- petros: it goes back farther, yeah. lemonis: holy... petros: this is the kitchen, where we manufactur

. >> here in california lieutenant governor eleni kounalakis is soon set to announce the exact date of governor gavin newsom's recall election kron four's capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala sat down virtually today with the governor. talk about the timeline. >> the lieutenant governor's office is the final stop in this recall process before the issue hits the let me come to la kiss will have the final say in when the election is held. she's giving us some insight on when that could be. >> the coming weeks. the picture will start to get much california lieutenant governor eleni kounalakis is preparing for her role in governor gavin newsom's recall process. it's up to her to decide when the election will be suspect that we'll know relatively soon. there are a few steps that need to happen before can unlock his calls. it first, the cost of the election needs to be analyzed between the department of finance and joint legislative budget committee. the state department of finance thursday center preliminary cost estimate to the legislature with a 250 million dollar price tag for counties

the picture will start to get much california lieutenant governor eleni kounalakis is preparing for herole in governor gavin newsom's recall process. it's up to her to decide when the election will be suspect that we'll know relatively soon. there are a few steps that need to happen before can unlock his calls. it first, the cost of the election needs to be analyzed between the department of finance and joint legislative budget committee. the state department of finance thursday center preliminary cost estimate to the legislature with a 250 million dollar price tag for counties once the cost analysis is finished. the secretary of state will certify the election. that's when the governor gets involved and we set a date 60 to 80 days after the secretary of state certifies it. so all of this is very carefully determined by at the statue. the joint legislative budget committee has indicated that they. >> could have this figured out by next tuesday, possibly how much time does that save. and does that factor into the 60 to 80 days that you're looking at. >> yeah, it does appear that it that

the picture will start to get much california lieutenant governor eleni kounalakis is preparing for her role in governor gavin newsom's recall process. it's up to her to decide when the election will be suspect that we'll know relatively soon. there are a few steps that need to happen before can unlock his calls. it first, the cost of the election needs to be analyzed between the department of finance and joint legislative budget committee. the state department of finance thursday center preliminary cost estimate to the legislature with a 250 million dollar price tag for counties once the cost analysis is finished. the secretary of state will certify the election. that's when the governor gets involved and we set a date 60 to 80 days after the secretary of state certifies it. so all of this is very carefully determined by at the statute. the joint legislative budget committee has indicated that they. >> could have this figured out by next tuesday, possibly how much time does that save in. does that factor into the 60 to 80 days that you're looking at. >> yeah, it does appear that it tha

the picture will start to get much california lieutenant governor eleni kounalakis is preparing for her role in governor gavin newsom's recall process. it's up to her to decide when the election will be suspect that we'll know relatively soon. there are a few steps that need to happen before can unlock his calls. it first, the cost of the election needs to be analyzed between the department of finance and joint legislative budget committee. the state department of finance thursday center preliminary cost estimate to the legislature with a 250 million dollar price tag for counties once the cost analysis is finished. the secretary of state will certify the election. that's when the governor gets involved and we set a date 60 to 80 days after the secretary of state certifies it. so all of this is very carefully determined by at the statue. the joint legislative budget committee has indicated that they. >> could have this figured out by next tuesday, possibly how much time does that save. and does that factor into the 60 to 80 days that you're looking at. >> yeah, it does appear that it tha

>> join me now to discuss this is nbc correspondent cans eleni. i have a question for you. this was happening? walk me through it. >> that's an excellent question and i think it's one that the inspector general would hope for in the bottom of. he's investigating this matter but this is a complicated issue that goes beyond a typical partisan food fight, maria teresa because the prosecution of leaks has been going on for a long time. in fact, the obama administration prosecuted more people feel even crowd classified information to any other administration in history so their career prosecutors at the justice department, career civil servants who are only too happy to try to put people in prison if they leaked classified information and apparently they're willing to go after reporters, phone records, and democratic members of congress phone records to do it. normally though the attorney general and the people at the top of the executive branch would ring those prosecutors in would say hey there are leaks are bad and so is investigating and grabbing reporters phone records as a

the picture will start to get much california lieutenant governor eleni kounalakis is preparing for her role in governor gavin newsom's recall process. it's up to her to decide when the election will be suspect that we'll know relatively soon. there are a few steps that need to happen before can unlock his calls. it first, the cost of the election needs to be analyzed between the department of finance and joint legislative budget committee. the state department of finance thursday center preliminary cost estimate to the legislature with a 250 million dollar price tag for counties once the cost analysis is finished. the secretary of state will certify the election. that's when the governor gets involved and we set a date 60 to 80 days after the secretary of state certifies it. so all of this is very carefully determined by at the statute. the joint legislative budget committee has indicated that they. >> could have this figured out by next tuesday, possibly, how much time does that save in. does that factor into the 60 to 80 days that you're looking at. >> yeah, it does appear that it th

lieutenant governor eleni cooler lakas could set an election date sooner.r this month, county clerks urged the lieutenant governor to not schedule the recall before mid september. some are concerned that there wouldn't be enough paper ballots or poll workers. for them. starting today, people who are fully vaccinated will no longer be required to wear a mask in the alameda county superior court building in oakland. court officials also say the visitors on the longer be required to practice physical distancing. court expects to reopen more courtrooms for in person legal hearings in the coming weeks still to come at noon, it's taken three years to transport from city college to the san francisco museum of modern art up next, the mural that's on here are the two battling to the line and allyson felix... simone manuel's above her trying to fight on, and above simone... getting an opportunity to show her stuff. nonstop, displayed at the highest performance level... finding something and the us takes gold! ♪ dream on ♪ ♪ dream on ♪ ♪ dream on ♪ ♪ dream on ♪ - yes!

i would also like to thank the can tenant governor eleni kounalakis state controller betty yee and assembly member to and ting. and senator wiener for all of their supports. and i would be remiss if i didn't thank speaker pelosi and u.s. senator dianne feinstein for including ports in the american recovery plan. this is truly a historic one-time investment for california ports. i'd like to recognize my commissioners commission president kimberly brandon commissioner gail gillman are here today and they were unwavering in advocating for part relief. and i'd like to think that commissioner who is in senator john burton who helped us quite a lot advocacy. our california ports will continue to be the envy of the world moving people and goods and driving local and regional economies up and down the state. we are the golden state and our beautiful courts will continue to spur economic recovery. offer people unparalleled experience is an access to our water. this sounds like not going to find out about that incentive program. everybody wants to know about this dream vacation. it was hinted at in t

the state senate still has to vote on that decision if senators approve it, the lieutenant governor, elenilection, but it would have to be between august 24th and september 12th. many democrats have said an earlier election would help the governor as california continues to reopen an. governor is suing the state elections chief to make a change on the recall ballot. governor newsom and his staff did not fill out the ballot paper work that would list him as a member of the democratic party. the current law gives him seven days after the recall was certified to turn in that request, but he missed that deadline. the lawsuit says. the short time frame is arbitrary and that there's still plenty of time to include his political party information because the ballots have not yet been printed. one of the candidates hoping to replace governor newsom on the ballot made a stop in san jose. today republican john cox, perhaps the best known candidate on the recall ballot to replace governor newsom, if he is, in fact recalled its the second statewide campaign tour for cox, who considers himself a politi

however, californias current governor eleni kounalakis says that she has no intention of entering theace. >> this election is between governor newsome and the republicans who are trying to get a shot at using this surely are relatively few killed her processed to be able to win an election that they ordinarily would not be able to win. >> the lieutenant governor is the one who will ultimately set the date for the recall election as of now, she says it will likely happen sometime in the fall as early as september or as late as november. >> coming up in sports, the a's take on the royals. the coliseum kylen mills has the highlights and is not the bay area, but the monterey bay certainly has plenty to offer for summer vacation from art galleries to beaches to wineries. find out what you've wineries. find out what you've been missing next. at worksman cycles, wineries. find out what you've been missing next. we've been building bikes for a hundred years. but our customers' needs have changed, so we expanded our product line to include electric cycles. we used the unlimited 1.5 percent cas