1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can'f I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one till four o'clock. After 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobel Show on demand, that's the podcast. 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 2: That's where you listen to whatever you missed. We got 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: the moistline coming up on Friday. Eight seven seven Moist 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 2: eighty six eight seven seven sixty six four seven eight 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 2: eighty six are usually talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 2: That's eight seven seven Moist eighty six for Friday, it 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 2: comes back. I've been telling you about Rich McHugh. I 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 2: was about to join the show. Rich mcusing a great 12 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: reporter for News Nation, the cable TV channel, and he's 13 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 2: on the case up in Minnesota. Tim Wallas is the governor, 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 2: ran and ran for vice president with Kamala Harris now 15 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 2: running for a third term, and he's got one whopper 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 2: of a scandal that he's trying to deal with here 17 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: because it turns out more than a billion dollars in 18 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: taxpayer money has been stolen by dozens of Somali immigrants 19 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 2: who set up many of these fake nonprofits and supposedly 20 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 2: was spending the money on child nutrition programs during COVID, 21 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 2: and there was no such thing. Actually, they were sped 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 2: to get on themselves all kinds of lavish lifestyle pursuits. 23 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 2: Let's talk to Rich McHugh from News Nation to flesh 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 2: this out. Rich, how are you. 25 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 3: I'm good, John, Thanks for having me back. 26 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, good to have you on. 27 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 2: Give people an overview if they're not real familiar with 28 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 2: this case. 29 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 4: Sure, So this cropped up. This was, first of all, 30 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 4: this is the largest ever COVID scam in all of 31 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 4: COVID scams. It cropped up in I believe it was 32 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 4: twenty twenty two when the district attorney of the prosecuting 33 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 4: attorney in Minneapolis first came forward with charges and announced 34 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 4: like sweeping allegations and charges against a program called Feeding 35 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 4: Our Future, which sounded like a noble cause at the time. 36 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 4: You know, it was created. This this non for profit 37 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 4: was created to like help you know, basically provide meals 38 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 4: for kids in underdeveloped areas. And very quickly it was 39 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 4: seized upon by fraudsters and essentially people figured out the 40 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 4: scam and got on board, and we're like saying that 41 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 4: they were feeding you know, thousands and then ten thousands. 42 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,399 Speaker 4: And you know, we went to one restaurant in Minneapolis 43 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 4: called it was called the Safari, which was said to 44 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 4: be feeding We did the math, said. 45 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 3: To be feeding eighteen thousand people a day. 46 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 4: There's like thirty three seats in this place, and they 47 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 4: claim to have, like you know, have fed something like 48 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 4: three point seven million people over the course of seven months. 49 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 3: It's just astounding numbers. 50 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 4: And so this fraud has been kind of broken wide 51 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 4: open by the prosecuting attorney there, the US attorney, and 52 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 4: they've charged I think it's it's mostly related to feeding 53 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 4: our future. 54 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 3: That charged I. 55 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 4: Believe eighty six individuals. I'm told that that number is 56 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 4: going to rise a lot. 57 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 3: But of those charged, of. 58 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 4: Those indicted, seventy nine of them are of Somali descent. 59 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 4: And you know, Governor Tim wats is on Meet the 60 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 4: Press talking about how this is you know, they're targeting 61 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 4: a small minority of you know, this community. But in 62 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 4: talking to federal sources there, they say, no, this is 63 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 4: widespread and this is just the beginning, and we don't 64 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 4: have enough. This was a quote I can't say from her, 65 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 4: but it was we don't have enough federal authorities here 66 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 4: to prosecute the individuals that we need to prosecute. 67 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 3: When I heard that, I was like, wow, this is 68 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 3: this is a big deal. 69 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 2: And some of the money may have gone to a 70 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: terrorist group, al Shabab. 71 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 4: So talking to federal sources, again I can't name them, 72 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 4: but I've talked to a number of people, federal sources, 73 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 4: current federal sources, former and Joint Terrorism Task Force folks, 74 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 4: and each of them said, look, this money has been 75 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 4: going to a big chunk of this money. 76 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: Goes to Somalia. And they you know, some of them are. 77 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 4: More specialized and how they understand this, especially the JTTF guys, 78 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 4: but they say, like, all the money that goes to Somalia, 79 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 4: the Alcated backed terror group al Shabab, takes a cut 80 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 4: of everything that comes in the country because there's no 81 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 4: centralized banks, there's no there's no real government there as 82 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 4: far as I can tell, and everything comes in through 83 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 4: what what are called jualas, which are like they're like, 84 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 4: you know, mom and pop, you know down in dirty 85 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 4: western unions that there might be a juala in you know, 86 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 4: on the outskirts of Minneapolis and some strip mall and 87 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 4: some some person sends money over to somebody over in there. 88 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 4: People take cuts and they say that the Al Schabob 89 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 4: takes a cut. 90 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 3: Of everything coming in. 91 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 4: So yes, they don't have a forensic accounting of exactly 92 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 4: how much is going into the pockets of Al Schabab, 93 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 4: but they said unequivocally, yes, money is. 94 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 3: We are these tax dollars are going into the pockets 95 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 3: of this terror group Al Schabab. 96 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 2: That's that's stunning. It's a billion dollars. It was that 97 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: easy to create a fake nonprofit and claim your free 98 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 2: feeding kids and they start sending you millions of dollars. 99 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 2: I mean, any anybody could have done this, and I 100 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 2: guess just about anybody. 101 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: Did do this. 102 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 4: It's stunning, and it sounds like there's there's a number 103 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 4: of outreaches, a number of like outcroppings from this, not 104 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 4: just feeding our future, but they're is you know, autism 105 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 4: scams related for children, there's home relocation services. Basically, they're 106 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 4: kind of like they inserted themselves anywhere where. It was like, 107 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 4: you know, people in need or distressed, and nobody was 108 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 4: going to question it, and nobody did question it for 109 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 4: for a long time. But you know, the question that 110 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 4: I have is I first reported on this in twenty 111 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 4: twenty two for a nation admittedly. 112 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 3: Sort of forgot about it. 113 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 4: I was like, Oh, the Feds are on it, but 114 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 4: it's it's blown open in scale since then. 115 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 3: And the question I. 116 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 4: Have is, you know, how is nobody in the in 117 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 4: the government there really doing anything about this? 118 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 3: You know, in my conversations with federal sources, it's. 119 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 4: All driven by them. There's no there was no there 120 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 4: was nothing. There was no assistance coming from the state, 121 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 4: and looking into this, into these allegations, it felt like 122 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 4: just the opposite. 123 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 2: Frankly, and there's a story in the New York Times 124 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 2: quoting KESA Magon. He's a Somali American and he worked 125 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 2: as a fraud investigator in the Minnesota Attorney General's office, 126 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 2: and he said elected officials, particularly those Democrats, they did 127 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 2: not want to prosecute the Somalis because they were afraid 128 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 2: of being called racist. So the Waltz administration backed off 129 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 2: and just let them take whatever they wanted to take. 130 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 2: And this is from a Somali, a fraud investigator. 131 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 3: What I heard from. 132 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 4: A lot of people in Minnesota who provided this unprompted 133 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 4: was that you cannot win office in Minnesota anymore without 134 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 4: having the Somali community, because there are that many people 135 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 4: in the Somali community. 136 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 3: In Minnesota and they vote as a block. 137 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 4: And so if you don't have their support, you don't win. 138 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 3: And so there's a. 139 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 4: Reluctance, according says the people that live in Minnesota of 140 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 4: calling out what it really is. But now that it's 141 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 4: been exposed, I think everybody's talking about is up. 142 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 2: Oh the damn, it's really burst here. Rich, excellent reporting. 143 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on and taking the time with 144 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 2: US News Nation, Rich McHugh NewsNation Cable News Channel. 145 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: Go find it and watch it. 146 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 2: Rich and many other reporters they are doing doing a 147 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 2: great job. 148 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: We come back. 149 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 2: I want to go further down that road because the 150 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 2: Time New York Times has some more details on this story. Yeah, 151 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 2: the Walls administration was paralyzed. They wanted some Mali American 152 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 2: votes so badly. They let all these Somali American fake 153 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 2: nonprofit thieves steal a billion dollars because they didn't want 154 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 2: to be called racist and they didn't want to lose 155 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 2: the votes. And this is a this is a charge 156 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 2: coming from other Somalis. 157 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 158 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 5: six forty. 159 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 2: We'll give you details about the pastathon coming up in 160 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 2: about ten minutes, and Deborah will do a long soliloquy 161 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: about how wonderful it would be for you to spend 162 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 2: thousands of dollars to co host the show with me 163 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 2: for an hour? Correct, and you could she could describe 164 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 2: the thrill that she has every day. Oh yeah, being 165 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 2: here with me. Yes, So we'll do that after what 166 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 2: time is it? 167 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: Two thirty? Okay? 168 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 2: We just had Rich mcew on from News Nation, the 169 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 2: cable news channel, and he had some of this story 170 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 2: coming out of Minnesota. What a huge embarrassment to that 171 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 2: boob Governor Tim Wallas. What a loser this guy is. 172 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 2: It turns out he's been governor now for two full 173 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 2: terms and the Somali immigrants in Minnesota looted a billion 174 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 2: dollars in tax money from Waltz since since COVID because 175 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 2: they have a very generous welfare system there. 176 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 1: The New York Times calls it. 177 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 2: A Scandinavian style welfare system. So they shovel the money 178 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: out to you know, lazy people, people who refuse to work. 179 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 2: And that's just a matter of normal business for people 180 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 2: in Minnesota. But then the Somalis came. Now they have 181 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 2: eighty thousand people from Somalia in Minnesota and they are 182 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 2: now a big voting block. You know, they got they 183 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 2: got citizenship and they all vote Democratic. So now the 184 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 2: likes of Tim Walls has to appeal to them. And 185 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 2: if there are enough Somalians involved in an extensive fraud ring, 186 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 2: he's not going to prosecute them. And again I'm going 187 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 2: to read you the words of a of a Somalia, 188 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 2: Somalia American named Casa Magan, who is a fraud investigator 189 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: for the Minnesota Attorney General's office. He set elected officials 190 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 2: in the state, especially the Democrats, were reluctant to go 191 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 2: after the Somalians who are stealing the money. There's a 192 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 2: perception that forcefully tackling the issue might cause political backlash 193 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 2: among the Somali community, which is a court voting block. 194 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 2: Out of eighty six people so far that's been indicted, 195 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 2: seventy nine are Somalian. 196 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: Fifty nine have been convicted. 197 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 2: And listen to Tim Wallashsey I'll meet the press yesterday 198 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 2: dancing around. 199 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 6: This speaking of the Somali community. President Trump is targeting 200 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 6: them and your state and party. Citing fraud is the 201 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 6: reason for his crackdown. Dozens of people of East African 202 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 6: descent have been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more 203 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 6: than a billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs 204 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 6: during COVID. As you know, Governor, that is more than 205 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 6: Minnesota spends each year to run its Department of Corrections. 206 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 6: So I want to give you a chance to respond 207 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 6: to this. 208 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: Stop that for a second. I don't want that to 209 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: get lost. This was more. 210 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 2: This stolen money was more than Minnesota spends on their 211 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:23,239 Speaker 2: prison system every year. That's how much these this Somalian 212 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 2: fraud ring pulled off. 213 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: All right, play somewhere. 214 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 6: As you know, Governor, that is more than Minnesota spends 215 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 6: each year to run its Department of Corrections. So I 216 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 6: want to give you a chance to respond to this. 217 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 6: Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud 218 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 6: in your state? 219 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 7: Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail. 220 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 7: Governors don't get to just talk theoretically, we have to 221 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 7: solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somalis. 222 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 7: Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous days, a 223 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 7: well run state or triple A bond rated. 224 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: About that. Stop. 225 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 2: Seventy nine out of the eighty six were Somalis. Okay, 226 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 2: not all of them, more of them were play some more. 227 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 7: A well run state or triple A bond rated. But 228 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 7: that attracts criminals. Those people are going to jail. We're 229 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 7: doing everything we can, but to demonize an entowerent community. 230 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 3: Stop. 231 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 2: They're going to jail because Trump's federal government investigated, because 232 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 2: your state government backed off because he didn't want to 233 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 2: piss off Somali voters. 234 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 7: I continue, but to demonize an entire community on the 235 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 7: actions of a few, it's lazy. And as you heard 236 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 7: Senator Kelly say, this president has cut a lot of 237 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 7: inspector generals. He's cut programs that could help us take 238 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 7: tackle the. 239 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 1: Song we got. It's Trump's fault. 240 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 2: They hand out a billion dollars to criminals in Minnesota. 241 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 2: They did it while Biden was president. Trump's federal investigators 242 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 2: are busting the case. 243 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: But it's Trump's fault. 244 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 2: This guy, this blubbering buffoon, is one of the all 245 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: time biggest idiots ever elected in office. I can't believe 246 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 2: he almost made it his vice president. I'm just absolutely 247 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 2: shocked that this guy could have been a heart beat 248 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 2: away from being president. 249 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 7: Play some more programs that could help us tackle us on. 250 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 7: So we are, We'll take it on. We'll put folks 251 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 7: in jail. I don't care what your nationality is, I 252 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 7: don't care who your religion is, your color, you get 253 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 7: committing crimes. These are programs that were meant to serve 254 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 7: students with autism, to housing, and to making sure people 255 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 7: had enough to eat. There's a reason Minnesota ranks as 256 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 7: the top lowest childhood poverty, best place for children to live. 257 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 7: People are taking advantage that they're going to prison. That 258 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 7: is totally disconnected with demonizing an entire group of people 259 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 7: who came here fleeing civil war and created a vibrant 260 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 7: community that makes Minnesota in this country better. But that's 261 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 7: Donald Trump to flect again. I come up with no solutions. 262 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 7: He's not going to help fix anything. On fraud, my god, 263 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 7: there's a big difference between fraud and corruption, and corruption 264 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 7: is something he knows about. 265 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 2: You believe him. What a brainless hack, what a Sacafeci's unbelievable. 266 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 2: Listen to this. Here's a prosecutor. The federal prosecutor named 267 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 2: Joseph Thompson. He says that he's a career prosecutor who 268 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 2: was a U interim US attorney. Said he believed the 269 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 2: race sensitivities played a major role in the rise of 270 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 2: fraud because as the pandemic money was being handed out, 271 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 2: the state was also reeling from the George Floyd incident 272 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 2: which happened in Minneapolis. This was a huge part of 273 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 2: the problem, said Thompson. Allegations of racism can be a 274 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 2: reputation or career killer. 275 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. 276 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 2: Can you imagine, because that was the side of the 277 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 2: George Floyd killing and subsequent riots. Everybody in the Walts 278 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 2: administration was terrified of accusing the Somalis, and so that 279 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 2: group of thieves stole a billion dollars free money because 280 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 2: Tim Walls was filling his pants up, worried, worried that 281 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 2: he was going to be called a racist. This is 282 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 2: a great way to govern, isn't it. He would have 283 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 2: been a genius to have as vice president. And now 284 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 2: he admits that the state may have erred on the 285 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 2: side of generosity. This is so, this is so awful. 286 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 2: Somalia doesn't have a government. It Al Shabab is a 287 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 2: terrorist organization that runs parts of the country. Some of 288 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 2: the money that the Somalis were stealing in Minnesota went 289 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 2: to al Shabab, who in turn is connected to al Qaeda. 290 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: Our tax money because. 291 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 2: A lot of this federal tax money, our tax money 292 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 2: gets funneled to organizations that want to kill us. Going 293 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 2: back to rich mccu's report, a good example of the 294 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 2: Safari restaurant in downtown Minneapolis owners right now in federal prison. 295 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 2: It's a thirty five seat restaurant supposedly served eighteen thousand 296 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 2: meals a day. I mean, it was so overwhelmingly blatant 297 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 2: because Walts wasn't gonna do anything about it. He wants 298 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 2: to run for reelection, he wanted to be vice president, 299 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 2: he wanted a national political career. He wasn't going to 300 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:35,360 Speaker 2: be accused of racism. What a disaster, What a pathetic 301 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 2: What a pathetic disaster. Oh, just one more quick thing. 302 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 2: The Department of Human Services at Minnesota, they have an 303 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 2: ex account represents four hundred and eighty employees. 304 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: They said Walts is one. 305 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 2: Hundred percent responsible for the massive fraud that's Minnesota government 306 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 2: employees putting out on their x that he's one hundred 307 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 2: percent responsible. 308 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: More coming up. 309 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 5: To John Cobels on demand from KFI AM. 310 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: Six forty the fifteenth Annuel KFI Pastathon. 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You get to 336 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 8: sit in the studio with John right across from him, 337 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 8: so you get to see his face for an hour. 338 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 8: He gets to spit on you when he yells and squeeze. 339 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 8: Oh you might want to wear a mask. 340 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: Can you make it sound a little more attractive? 341 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 8: Seriously, it would be a lot of fun. I mean, 342 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,880 Speaker 8: who wouldn't want to co host with John? I mean, 343 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 8: if I was eligible, I would do it. I mean 344 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 8: I have so much fun being his sidekick every day. 345 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 4: And uh. 346 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: Getting paid? I get paid? Right, That's true. 347 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 8: You won't get paid. You pay to co host with John. 348 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 8: So go to kf I am six forty dot com right, 349 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 8: go to our website and you can make a donation. 350 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 8: And not only that, not only do you get to 351 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 8: co host with John for an hour, but I strongly 352 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 8: encourage people to come to Pastathon the White House, the 353 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 8: Anaheim White House and Anaheim. Tomorrow we're gonna be on 354 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 8: the air live. John is gonna do something ridiculous again. 355 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: But we need you to come with cash. 356 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 8: We need you to make a donation so that you 357 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 8: can see John humiliating himself again. 358 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: Yes, so this is a two parter. You can do 359 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: one or the other, or you can do both. You 360 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: don't want to know. Geez, you will have so much fun. 361 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 8: Look, coming to the KFI Postathon is really fun. Right, 362 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 8: we have chairs. You can watch us do the show live. 363 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 8: But you need to come and bring money because you 364 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 8: need to donate to Postathon so you can watch John. 365 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 1: You're gonna humiliate me. 366 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 2: You're gonna be dressed in leather and I'm gonna have 367 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 2: a ballgag in your mouth or what. 368 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 8: I'm not going to be humiliated. 369 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: It's for the children. 370 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 8: Sorry, Okay, that's a wrong type of event. Come out 371 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 8: to scare me come out tomorrow and uh yeah, We're 372 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 8: gonna have so much fun. 373 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'm really looking for we really are all right, well, 374 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 2: thank you. 375 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: All right. 376 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 2: Now, we told you last week about how the the 377 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 2: attorneys for the Palisades Residents uh demanded some documentation out 378 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: of the state. The suspicion was that the state parkland 379 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 2: to Banga State Park is where the fire started, and 380 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 2: that the state had policies which prevented the LA Fire 381 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 2: Department from putting it out properly. Turned out, the attorneys 382 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 2: were correct. That's exactly what happened. I read some of 383 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:26,239 Speaker 2: the report and it says explicitly that when you have 384 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 2: like the New Year's Day fire, when the mop up 385 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 2: crew comes, they're not allowed to disturb the vegetation. The 386 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 2: milk vetch plant is the plant in question here, and 387 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 2: there is photographic evidence of a rather overfed state employee 388 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 2: getting in the way of the LA Fire Department when 389 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 2: they wanted to do the mop up, and instead they 390 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 2: left early and left the tree stumps and the rocks 391 00:22:55,760 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 2: too hot and the. 392 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: Smoke smoldering out of the ground. 393 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 2: And it was Newsom's Parks Department that insisted the La 394 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 2: Fire Department, go home, and now just to follow up 395 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 2: on this because it's getting more and more attention. The 396 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 2: New York Post Joel Pollock has a story the headline 397 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 2: all you Need to Know Smoking Gun. Gavin Newsom's Plant 398 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 2: Police set the stage for the deadly Palisades fire because 399 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 2: the mop up duty was January second, the day after 400 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 2: the original fire. January seventh is when the fire took 401 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 2: off and did all the damage we're well aware of, 402 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 2: but that's really what it was. It was the Plant Police. 403 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 2: The document which I have seen. We in fact, we 404 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 2: have a copy here at the station defines avoidance areas 405 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 2: all sensitive natural and cultural resources and there's to be 406 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 2: no heavy equipment, vehicles and retardant allowed and the public 407 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 2: should not be told where those areas are. Avoidance areas 408 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 2: should be shared with the incident command, but measures should 409 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 2: be taken to keep the information confidential. They also advised 410 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 2: firefighters to use modified fire suppression techniques, consider allowing large 411 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 2: logs to burn out. No mop up techniques are allowed 412 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 2: in avoidance area without the presence of an archaeologist. 413 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: I don't think one was available. 414 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 2: And this is one of the other attorneys who gave 415 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: this information to The New York Times. His name is Robertson. 416 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 2: He says the wildfire management plan prevented the LA Fire 417 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 2: Department from fully extinguishing the fire. We believe this is 418 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 2: the reason the LA Fire Department was restricted from performing 419 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 2: a normal mop up of the Lockman fire. He told 420 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 2: the Post. I suspect the State Park Resources advisors shared 421 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 2: the avoidance map with the Lackman Incident Command, and LAFD 422 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,239 Speaker 2: was forced not to mop up. So that's why the 423 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,919 Speaker 2: fire reignited on January seventh. 424 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: And again. 425 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, the attorney is Alexander Trey Robertson, who's representing, along 426 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 2: with Roger Bailey, thousands of residents. My personal opinion is 427 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 2: that we will learn this is why the fire rekindled. 428 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 2: The plant police prevented LA Fire Department from doing their job. 429 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom's plant Police, the milk Vetch plant, among others, 430 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 2: really was their policy. I have seen it in black 431 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 2: and white. We're holding onto the report. We will refer 432 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 2: to that report over and over again so that everybody 433 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 2: listening to the show knows that it was a real 434 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom California State Department policy. There was a real 435 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 2: employee that basically chased the LA Fire Department off the 436 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 2: spot where the January first fire happened, and that allowed 437 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 2: it to rekindle on January seventh. It is the state's responsibility. 438 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 2: It is their fault. It is Newsom's fault. It is 439 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 2: the fault of the California Parks Commissioner, the agency, the 440 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 2: employees there, and everybody ought to be subpoened and forced 441 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 2: to testify. And there should be criminal charges there. Absolutely. 442 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: I think when you wipe when you killed twelve people 443 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 2: and you wipe out seven thousand homes, I think you 444 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 2: committed a crime there. I don't think you should have 445 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 2: any kind of a government immunity for being that stupid. 446 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 2: All right, more coming up. 447 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 448 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 5: six forty. 449 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock. 450 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 2: Well, this is a pretty scary headline California Globe has 451 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 2: California's oil and gas industry hit the point of no return. 452 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 2: We have chased so many oil companies out, We do 453 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 2: so little oil production in the state. The main oil 454 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 2: pipeline is about to shut itself down. Two more refineries 455 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 2: are closing. I'll give you one statistic and then I 456 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 2: tell you who we're having on after three o'clock. Katie 457 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 2: Grimes to the LA and the California Globe dot com. 458 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 2: She wrote this line. In nineteen eighty eight, the state 459 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 2: of California only imported four and a half percent of 460 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 2: all the oil that we consumed four and a half percent. 461 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 2: By twenty twenty, we were importing over seventy percent. What 462 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 2: is the point of this. We're using more oil than ever, 463 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 2: more oil and gas than ever, but we're importing it 464 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 2: seventy percent instead of four percent. We're going to talk 465 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 2: with Michael Miche the USC professor, because he and two 466 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 2: other professors in a report warned that without oil and 467 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 2: gas it's to devastate the economy. 468 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 3: Here. 469 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that coming up. 470 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 2: We were talking about incredibly stupid politicians like Tim Watts 471 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 2: in Minnesota, where we have a collection here, especially most 472 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 2: of the LA County supervisors. I mean, these are really 473 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 2: empty heads. Janice Hahn and Lindsay Horrth. Janice Han and 474 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 2: Lindsay Horrivath now this week are voting on an ordinance 475 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 2: that's going to ban masks on ice agents. First of all, 476 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 2: the state already issued the ban, so that would override 477 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 2: whatever the county does. Secondly, the federal government overrides the 478 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 2: state and the county. 479 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: I don't think they understand this. 480 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 2: Janie Han says that federal government probably will take action, 481 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 2: but she thought, never thought she'd see the day with 482 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 2: a masked, anonymous federal police force with target people based 483 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 2: on their skin color and spoken language and forced people 484 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 2: into unmarked lands a gunpoint. You know, if we had 485 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 2: a preponderance of Scandinavians immigrating illegally into the country, you 486 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 2: might seem some word diversity, But immigrants are who they are. 487 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 2: The skin color doesn't matter. It matters that they're breaking 488 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 2: the law. We've got many, many, tens of millions of 489 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 2: people of color who aren't getting arrested by Ice because 490 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 2: they're legal residents. Janis Han is is she too stupid 491 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 2: to understand it or she's just wilfully lying and misleading people. 492 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 2: And Lindsay Horvath, well, you can see how she's streamlined 493 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 2: the county permitting process for all the people in Altadena 494 00:29:59,000 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 2: and Ballistdes. 495 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: Huh, she's done a hell of a job on that. 496 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 2: I mean, these just so they're still beating this drum 497 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 2: that they can mandate no masks on ice agents. You can't. 498 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 2: It's a federal operation. It's federal law. Han when asked 499 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 2: if the board is considering alternatives, if the ordnance fails 500 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 2: to stand the legal inspection, the supervisors would cross that bridge. 501 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 2: If we come to it. You're there, You're at the bridge. 502 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 2: There's no chance. Do you really think the Supreme Court 503 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 2: of the United States is going to say that a 504 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 2: local counties law on masks overrides. 505 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: Federal policy on masks. 506 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 2: We're talking about federal law enforcement and these penny ante 507 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 2: local supervisors. By the way, Jennis Hahn allows seventy thousand 508 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 2: homeless drug addicts and mental patients to live in the 509 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 2: streets and every day between five and ten die in 510 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 2: the county. Every day she lets them die. She says 511 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 2: nothing about it. She's done. She's spent her whole life 512 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 2: in local politics, and every year it got worse. But 513 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 2: she's putting all her energy in a useless, wasteful piece 514 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 2: of nonsense trying to ban masks on ice agents. 515 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm stupid. 516 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 2: Doesn't even begin to describe this, and she even knows 517 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 2: it's it's empty. 518 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: She admits it. What are you doing. 519 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 2: Where did the billions of dollars in homeless money go. 520 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 2: We have our own Somali fraud situation here in Los Angeles, 521 00:31:53,680 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 2: probably times a hundred. The massive amount of fraud in 522 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 2: the homeless industry that Han is embedded in, along with 523 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 2: Lindsay Horvat she's embedded in. 524 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: They don't do They enable everything. 525 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 2: And when you're a politician and you enable that kind 526 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 2: of fraud for so many years, you have to wonder, 527 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 2: are some of these politicians. 528 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: In on it? Somewhere along the line. 529 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 2: Through sitting politicians, are they getting a cut that's funneled 530 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 2: back to them somehow? Maybe did their brother in law 531 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 2: or their brother or a cousin or a business partner 532 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 2: or cash under the cash under the table bags of 533 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 2: money accounts in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands or the Bahamas. 534 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 2: Something is really rotten in La County and La City government. 535 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 2: Billions of dollars in homeless money have disappeared. You see 536 00:32:55,120 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 2: the template that Tim Watts allowed in Minneapolis. You apply 537 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 2: that template here, multiply it by one hundred, and that's 538 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 2: what we've got. We come back. It is the oil 539 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 2: and gas industry at the point of no return, that's 540 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 2: the story. In the California Globe Californiaglobe dot com, Katiegrimes 541 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 2: wrote it, We're gonna have Michael miche on from he's 542 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 2: the USC professor. 543 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: Here's all you need to know. 544 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty eight, state of California only imported four and 545 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 2: a half percent of the oil we consumed. By twenty twenty, 546 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 2: we were importing over seventy percent. From four and a 547 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 2: half to seventy percent. I don't exactly know how that 548 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 2: helped the climate, because it didn't. 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