1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. 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 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 2: four o'clock, it's John Cobel's show on demand. That's the 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 2: podcast that you can get on the iHeart app. Same 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 2: as the radio show. It's a way to listen to 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: everything that you missed the first time around. 8 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: We have much to do today. 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: Later on, there is a honest to god communist now 10 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 2: in the race, a well known communist here in Los Angeles, 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 2: a council member named Nitthia Rahman. And she's normally allies 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 2: with our other communist mayor, Karen Bass, but now she's 13 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: going after Bass's job. And wait till you hear about 14 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,319 Speaker 2: this woman's record, and wait till you hear about the 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,599 Speaker 2: platform that her party, the Democratic Socialists of America, what 16 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 2: they stand for, and the dssay is the modern version 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: of the Communist Party. One of their I'll give you 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 2: an example, one of their top tenants is seizure of 19 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 2: private property. You can't get any more communists than that. 20 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 2: She's the real thing. She's been a councilwoman for a 21 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 2: number of years and does not believe in reigning in 22 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 2: homelessness at all. Zero Bess tries to fake it, but 23 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 2: Ramen is the real thing, and we'll talk about her 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 2: coming up. But first the Nancy Guthrie case, Savannah Guthrie's mom. 25 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: The deadline is tonight five pm Mountain time, which is 26 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 2: four pm URT time here and the Pacific. Reportedly six 27 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 2: million dollars in bitcoin is the ransom that's been demanded 28 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 2: in these notes. But much of this shrouded and mystery. 29 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: Alex Stone from ABC News coming on here. Alex, I 30 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: just want to say up front, I feel like I'm 31 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: either hearing the same news story and people are having 32 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 2: the same conversations over and over again. Almost everything that 33 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: you'd want to know about a case like this, we 34 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: don't know other than that she's missing. But we don't 35 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 2: know if these ransom notes are real. We don't know 36 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 2: who these people are, and nobody knows if the Nancy 37 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 2: Guthrie is alive or not. And I can't get over 38 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 2: the idea that there is are they really going to 39 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 2: pay ransom when they don't know if she's alive? We 40 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 2: don't know, Yeah, we don't know if they're going to 41 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 2: pay it. Or not, and everything that you just said. 42 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 2: Police seemingly don't know either. At day nine and investigators 43 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 2: are telling us they have no suspect, no persons of interest, 44 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 2: no vehicles of interest. In fact, just a couple of 45 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 2: minutes ago, Samanda Guthrie put out a new video to 46 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 2: the world, this time not to the captors but to 47 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 2: the public, and she says that they believe that their 48 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: mom is still out there and can be recovered. 49 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: This is what she just said. 50 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 3: So I'm coming on just to ask you, not just 51 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: for your prayers, but no matter where you are, even 52 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 3: if you're far from Tucson, if you see anything, hear anything, 53 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: if there's anything at all that seems strange to you. 54 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 4: That you report to law enforcement. 55 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: So they don't know who took Nancy Guthrie. They have 56 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 2: no evidence that she is dead or alive. The focus today, 57 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 2: as you mentioned, John, is very much on that first 58 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 2: ransom note that came in that had the deadline of 59 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: five o'clock local time. 60 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: Today. 61 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 2: Another note came in on Friday night. We don't know 62 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: the exact contents of that, but sources say that that 63 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 2: is the note, the Friday night one that prompted Savannah 64 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: and her siblings to put out another video to the captors, 65 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 2: speaking not to the public but to the captors, and 66 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 2: the one on Saturday night when they said. 67 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 4: This, we received your message and we understand. We beg 68 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 4: you now to return our mother to us so that 69 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 4: we can celebrate with her. This is the only way 70 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 4: we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and. 71 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: We will pay that. 72 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 2: We will pay that. They are willing to pay the money. 73 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 2: But you notice there she doesn't ask for proof of life. 74 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 2: So what's unclear is if they think they are paying 75 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 2: to get her body back, or a location of her body, 76 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 2: or actually to get her back alive. But the yeah, 77 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: is there anybody to know for sure if the person 78 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 2: or peed now sending this note really took her. Yeah, 79 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 2: they don't know. Law enforcement does not know either. So 80 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: we know that the sender used a VPN, a virtual 81 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 2: private network to mask where they are. This is not 82 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 2: an email conversation. Is that they are going to web 83 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 2: forms in the case of Friday Night's note to the 84 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 2: CBS affiliate KOLD and Tucson and the earlier note to 85 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 2: TMZ and to most of the TV stations in Tucson, 86 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 2: and they are filling out web forms, so there's not 87 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: even a tracing of an email that might be possible. 88 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 2: This is only knowing the IP address of the person 89 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 2: who filled out a form online. And they are different 90 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 2: IP addresses, we are told by sources, between the earlier 91 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 2: note and the one on Friday night, but they're from 92 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 2: the same encrypted type of encrypted browser. So because they're 93 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 2: using the same ENCRYPTI they were told it's called like 94 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 2: an onion browser is something that is meant to so 95 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 2: you can't peel back the layers of it. It's all encrypted. 96 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 2: That did they believe Because of that, the same person 97 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 2: send both of the letters. But there is nothing to 98 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 2: indicate really except for a few details in the initial 99 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 2: note that were kind of publicly known and been reported 100 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 2: in the media. Nothing that that proves that they were 101 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 2: really involved and it you know, it could be somebody 102 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 2: in Vietnam or China trying to get six million dollars 103 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: in bitcoin that can't be pulled back, and if the 104 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 2: family pays it, they may be paying a total spoofer 105 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 2: that is just trying to get money out of it 106 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 2: and they don't know. So there are IP addresses, because 107 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 2: if there really were IP addresses you could track that. 108 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 2: Not when it's in a VPN. They're doing everything they 109 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 2: can right now. But when you use a virtual private network, 110 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 2: it masks that address, so it is going back asks 111 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 2: the address. Yeah, so how do they know they're different, Well, 112 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 2: that the numbers are different, the IP addresses are different, 113 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: but they know that they go back to a They 114 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 2: know what browser you use. Typically when you fill out 115 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 2: a web form, know the browser using the type of 116 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 2: computer you're using. That your your location via IP address. 117 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 2: But if you use a VPN, and I mean there 118 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 2: are a million of them out there and people use 119 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 2: them all the time for business to secure their stuff, 120 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 2: it will say whatever the person chose for a server, 121 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 2: it will put them in We don't know in this case, 122 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 2: but you know it could have chosen Russia or China 123 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 2: or la or you get to choose where. 124 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: You want to be. And and at. 125 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 2: This point they are unable to trace, right, So you know, 126 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 2: when you hear there's a ransom note, you know, your 127 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 2: mind goes to an actual written note, right, someone scrawling 128 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: in magic marker the demands. But this this, these were 129 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 2: electronic notes run through this this form and yeah, a 130 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 2: VPR service at least the initial letter had some you know, 131 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,679 Speaker 2: signs that maybe it was put through like that GPS 132 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 2: can do that. 133 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, but it just to worry that. 134 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, the wording of it at least and I've seen 135 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 2: the original letter, it it gives some indication that that 136 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 2: maybe AI wrote it, you know, somebody had Ai, right, 137 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 2: but it's hard to tell. And it's at this point 138 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 2: they seem to have no idea where she is, what 139 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 2: happened to her, and they're they're really putting everything on 140 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 2: those notes because that's all they've got that everything else 141 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 2: has kind of panned out. A vehicle they were looking 142 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 2: at that had gone to a circle K and Tucson 143 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 2: around that time. They were just looking for anything of that. 144 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: There was surveillance video of a vehicle at that time 145 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 2: in the morning, like you know, two forty five in 146 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 2: the morning on that Sunday morning, and that maybe they 147 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 2: were involved. It doesn't seem like that's gone anywhere. It 148 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 2: really comes down to these two notes that they are 149 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 2: putting everything in it right now, and they may not 150 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: be real, they don't know. They're hoping that they're real, 151 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 2: that they can get some communication going and maybe that 152 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 2: the person will point them toward their mom, but they 153 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 2: don't know. So she lives in an area remote enough 154 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 2: where there isn't security cams, cameras from a gas station, 155 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 2: a convenience store, a life since plate reader camera, anything 156 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 2: like that. She's in a pretty remote neighborhood where the 157 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 2: homes are set far back from the street with a 158 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 2: lot of cacti and scrub rush and different things in between. 159 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 2: So those who have like doorbell cameras, you can see 160 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 2: their driveway, but she had kind of a horseshoe driveway. 161 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 2: You don't see much when it comes to out on 162 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 2: the street because it's so far away. There is a 163 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 2: major intersection down the road. They have pulled the cameras 164 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 2: from those they are pulling like at that circle. K 165 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 2: anybody who was at those gas stations before or afterwards, 166 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 2: hoping that the that's going to answer it. So far, though, 167 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 2: the indicators from the FBI and from Tucson or the 168 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 2: Pima County Sheriff's Department is that they haven't turned up anything. 169 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 2: There is nothing indicating who are there. So you don't 170 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 2: get the sense from anyone that you or your colleagues 171 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 2: have talked to that there is a secret story that 172 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 2: they can just can't share. 173 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: No, not at all. 174 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 2: And maybe we're going to find out that they have 175 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 2: been very good actors through this whole thing. But if 176 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 2: they are, they haven't found her. And you know, we 177 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 2: thought maybe a week ago that they were hiding something 178 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 2: they haven't founder and they are flat out saying right 179 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: now they have no idea, and we're going to find 180 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: out they do have more of an idea, but right 181 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 2: now they say they have no idea. Well, what's weird 182 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 2: is what would be the point of this if you 183 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 2: don't want money, or at least you haven't made like 184 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 2: a political statement you wanted to get you know, the 185 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 2: world's attention, and so you're going to release a manifesto 186 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 2: and once the world understands then maybe you'll return. Mind, So, 187 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 2: what if it was, you know, a burglary and something 188 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 2: happened where they freaked out, and you know, we don't know. 189 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 2: It could be any number of things, but it may 190 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 2: not have been this orchestrated thing that that initially look like, 191 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 2: or maybe it's something totally that we just don't understand 192 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 2: right now. It does not add up right now, it 193 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 2: doesn't add up. It doesn't make any sense based on 194 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 2: the narrative that we know, but they say that they're 195 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 2: looking for those answers that they don't get it either. 196 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 2: So this is like the first time I can remember 197 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: in a case like this where the fake world of 198 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 2: the Internet has taken over and you truly can't trust 199 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 2: single shred of the evidence because everything can be explained 200 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 2: away as. 201 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and every little thing. 202 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 2: You know, when they were searching the septic tank over 203 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 2: the weekend, all the tabloid sides going nuts on that 204 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 2: and the car, the circle k and but this is 205 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 2: what investigators do. They're gonna go and look at every 206 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 2: camera that they can find. They want to know who 207 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 2: is a gas stations because one of these might lead 208 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 2: to being connected. But it doesn't mean that that they 209 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 2: all are. The search of Annie Guthrie's home last night, 210 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 2: you know, and there have been fingers pointed over there. 211 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 2: The sheriff's apartment says there's nothing pointing toward Annie Guthrie's husband. 212 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 2: They were there last night because that is the last 213 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 2: place that Nancy Guthrie was known to have been. They 214 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 2: took some things, but the FBI wasn't even there. That 215 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 2: was only a sheriff's department. You would think if it 216 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 2: was serious that they were going after somebody at that home, 217 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 2: that the FBI would have been there. Since they are 218 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: a big part of this case, they are trying to 219 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 2: retrace every step, look at every little thing, put it 220 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 2: all together. But now it's that all these theories are 221 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 2: being developed and not having information. Everybody is putting together. 222 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: They're filling the holes and whatnot. And at this point 223 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 2: the Sheriff's Burman says, they just don't know, no sense 224 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 2: if the Guthrie family or NBC or someone who's gonna 225 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: pay the six million just to see We don't know, Yeah, 226 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 2: And the FBI has said it's up to the family 227 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 2: that at this point. You know, typically the FBI says, 228 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 2: don't pay ransoms, but they have to leave it up 229 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 2: to the family and ask for another six million after 230 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 2: you've paid it. They could and it may very well 231 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 2: go to somebody who was not involved there. They could 232 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 2: say haha, we fooled you. Yeah, and you know, then 233 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 2: we find out that it didn't involve these people at all, 234 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 2: and they just got the money and they ran away. 235 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: We don't know. 236 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 2: Wow, all right, Alex, thank you, you got it. Thanks John, 237 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 2: We'll talk again. Alex Stone ABC News. Jeez, it's just 238 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: like it's like the fake world we have to deal 239 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 2: with now. You can't you can't trust anything you read 240 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 2: or anything you see. You don't have any evidence is 241 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 2: real evidence. 242 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 243 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 5: six forty. 244 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 2: Well, you may have been surprised over the weekend if 245 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 2: you follow all our social media. But I wrote a 246 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 2: column for the New California Post, and it was about 247 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 2: all the critics of the Dodgers who were upset because 248 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going to Washington, d C. In April 249 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: to see Trump. Because every year every sport, the champion 250 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 2: goes to the White House, no matter who the president is, 251 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 2: and they have ceremony celebrating the championship. So in April, 252 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 2: when the Dodgers are in Washington, d C. To play 253 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 2: the Nationals, they're going to go see Trump at the 254 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 2: White House, which they did in twenty twenty. And every 255 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 2: team does this unless you know there's a political revolt 256 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 2: in the organization. So many journalists here, like La time 257 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: as writers, were upset and they're all scolding and lecturing everybody. 258 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 2: So I wrote a column on the absurdity of all it, 259 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 2: and we didn't promote it on Friday because I was 260 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 2: writing it at the last minute during the show. It 261 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 2: was quite impressive to watch you do that. That was 262 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 2: a new balancing act, actually do a radio show and 263 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 2: write a newspaper column simultaneously. So we didn't get a 264 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 2: chance to promote it. But it is out there. Just 265 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 2: google my name, California Post dodgers Trump and you'll find it. 266 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: Link is in the Instagram bio as well. 267 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 2: Yes, the link is there, but they put it on 268 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 2: the front page of their website and it was there 269 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 2: for a few hours until Trump did something and knocked 270 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 2: it off. 271 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,839 Speaker 1: Got pushed down a bit, but oh I did. 272 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 2: I did buy the paper copy copy at a newsstand, 273 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 2: so I meant to bring it in I forgot. Anyway, 274 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 2: if you want to read it, you can find it 275 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 2: all right, California Post from Friday under my name. Speaking 276 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 2: of the California Post, let me tell you they've only 277 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: been publishing for two weeks and they have produced more 278 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 2: worthwhile stories about all the insanity and corruption in LA 279 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 2: and California government than the Los Angeles Time Times is 280 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 2: done in the last five years. It's something else and 281 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 2: one of their best writers is Jamie Page, and she's 282 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 2: got a piece that was published over the weekend about 283 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 2: how much money just the city of Los Angeles spends 284 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 2: on the homeless issue, because you know, there's a lot 285 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 2: of agencies out there. You have the county and the city, 286 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 2: and then you have LOASA, which is an agency that 287 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 2: was run by both the county and the city, and 288 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 2: that was a huge black hole for billions of dollars 289 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 2: of money. When we talk about the two billion dollars missing, 290 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 2: we're talking a lot of that in LASA. And that's 291 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 2: the money that Karen Bass will not account for, is 292 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 2: where the two billion went. And what Jamie Page did 293 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: in the California Post, she says that Los Angeles isn't 294 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:21,119 Speaker 2: ending homelessness, it's financing it, spending four hundred and eighteen 295 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 2: million dollars in twenty twenty five, with only ten percent 296 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 2: of that going towards getting people permanently off the streets. 297 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 2: All right, So this is an addition to all the 298 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 2: other money spent on homelessness at the state and the 299 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 2: county level and through LAS. This is four hundred and 300 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 2: eighteen million dollars in city taxes, and this four hundred 301 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 2: and eighteen million is every year roughly, it always goes up, 302 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 2: so maybe that adds up to the two billion. I 303 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 2: don't know, but this is a report at a city 304 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 2: hall and Jamie Page writes that thee has poured hundreds 305 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 2: of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars into making street 306 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 2: homelessness more comfortable and more serviced and more permanent. The 307 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 2: analysis was produced by the city administrative officer, the mayor 308 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 2: right and the city council's chief financial watchdog LA now 309 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 2: has to slash their homelessness spending by ten to fifteen 310 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 2: percent because they're so broke. So they spent themselves broke 311 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 2: on vagrants, mental patience and drug addicts. And now after 312 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 2: raising taxes on all of us, raising sales taxes, they're 313 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 2: cutting the budget because they blew so much money. 314 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: Is everything's inverted here. 315 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 2: They're cutting the budget after raising taxes because they blew 316 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 2: through so much money and didn't do anything. This counsel 317 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 2: woman Monica Rodriguez from the Valley, we're hemorrhaging money on 318 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 2: a homelessness system that was never designed to succeed, and 319 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 2: no one is being held accountable for the failure. And 320 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 2: of course the top two of the top candidates rather 321 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 2: along with Spencer Pratt for mayor are Karen Bass and 322 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: Nitthia Rahman, the councilwoman. 323 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: And they're responsible for this. They've been pushing this, they 324 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: believe in this, she writes A. 325 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 2: Los Angeles spent four hundred and eighteen million last year 326 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 2: largely on programs. They don't move people off the streets, 327 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 2: but it sustains and in trenches homelessness where it already exists. 328 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 2: The Post review to report. When we come back. I'll 329 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 2: give you some of the details. When we come back, 330 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 2: I'll tell you how many millions of dollars we spend 331 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 2: on hygiene stations. Doesn't that sound gross? Just that term 332 00:17:58,280 --> 00:17:59,440 Speaker 2: hygiene stations. 333 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 6: People be clean than not. I'd rather, you know. 334 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: I wonder if this has much of an effect on 335 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 2: their cleanliness. Oh yeah, we'll we'll tell you. We'll tell 336 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 2: you more on this coming up. 337 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 338 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 5: six forty. 339 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four o'clock and then after 340 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. 341 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 2: That's where you hear what you missed. You can follow 342 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 2: us on social media at John Cobelt Radio at John 343 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 2: Cobelt Radio, or subscribe on YouTube. Apparently we had a 344 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 2: major surgeon YouTube subscribers in the past week. 345 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 1: So right, this is the hottest thing going. Huh. 346 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 2: YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt's show is how 347 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 2: you subscribe. So address a little different YouTube dot com 348 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 2: slash at John Cobelt's show. You subscribe there and then 349 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 2: you'll get notification every time we put out another video 350 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 2: segment of the program. We've got Michael Monks coming on 351 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 2: at two o'clock to talk about Nithea Rahman, who is 352 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 2: a LA councilwoman running for mayor against Karen Bass. Now 353 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 2: as far left as Karen Bass is and as incredibly incompetent, 354 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: Nythia Rahman is even farther left and more incompetent. But 355 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 2: she's the darling of the Democratic Socialists of America, which 356 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 2: is the political party that is infiltrated the political process 357 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles, also in New York City. Really 358 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 2: they're modern day communists and I'm gonna I'm gonna read 359 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 2: you next hour their their platform. So you understand that 360 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. This isn't hyperbole. This is what these 361 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 2: people are about and they're very patient. They have four 362 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 2: city council members now who are DSA members. These are 363 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 2: not Democrats, even though they put the word democratic socialists, 364 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 2: they are not Democrats. They're a separate party with a 365 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 2: separate philosophy, and I don't think anybody well, we've taken 366 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 2: them seriously. We've been talking about for years, and we've 367 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,360 Speaker 2: been talking about Nythia Rahmen for years because her policies 368 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 2: in our home district, especially about homelessness, have been atrocious 369 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 2: and dangerous. So we'll tell you all you need to 370 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 2: know about Nathia Ramen and Karen Bass coming up next hour. 371 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 2: Did you, I mean, if you're old enough to remember 372 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 2: real communists, did you ever think they'd make that series 373 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 2: to come back in this country and they actually have 374 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 2: and actually gaining power and influence. Come back to the 375 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 2: California Post. Jamie Page, one of their reporters, did a 376 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 2: story on what the City of Los Angeles is spending 377 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 2: on homelessness, because there are different componentonents to the spending 378 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 2: on the vagrants. There's what the county spends, there's what 379 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 2: Los spends. Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which is jointly 380 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 2: run by the county and the city. Then there's the 381 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 2: city by itself, and these are all different pools of money. 382 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 2: All comes from taxes, all goes for programs that don't 383 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 2: work by design because they want to keep the bureaucracies 384 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 2: and the nonprofit the nonprofits in business. The nonprofits are parasitical. 385 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,959 Speaker 2: They need tax money and they need the city, county, 386 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 2: state agencies to transfer the tax money to them. They're 387 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 2: run by people who are politically connected, maybe actually blood related, 388 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 2: and they siphon off billions of dollars in homeless money. 389 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 2: And there's very few of these programs that are geared 390 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 2: towards getting these people off the street. So what I 391 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 2: told you in the last segment, according to Jamie Page's story, 392 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 2: is what they do is they make people more comfortable, 393 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 2: give them more services on the street. 394 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 4: HM. 395 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 2: And she and the California Post showed you they looked 396 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 2: at a report that showed that. And I want to 397 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 2: emphasize this report is from the city administrative office, from 398 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 2: the Mayor's office, from the city council's chief financial watchdog. 399 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 2: This is their own numbers, their own admission. It shows 400 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 2: three million dollars last year was spent just on hygiene stations, 401 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 2: mobile showers, and even laundry trucks. Laundry trucks. So we 402 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 2: bring a toilet to them, we bring a shower to them, 403 00:22:53,320 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 2: and then we take their laundry and deliver the clean laundry. 404 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: Back to the homeless. We go back to the encampments. 405 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: We go back. 406 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 2: They have free laundry service, free shower service at basically 407 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 2: free bathrooms. Why would you leave the sidewalk. You could 408 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 2: sit in your tent. You could snort all the meth 409 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 2: you want, inject all the heroin and fentanel, snort the cocaine. 410 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 2: They'll bring you food. They've got like twenty four hour 411 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 2: twenty four hour uber eats. 412 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 6: Then what am I doing here? 413 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: What's why are any of us working? We're working for them. 414 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 6: You and I doing laundry, John, I would love for 415 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 6: somebody to do my laundry. 416 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: I hate doing laundry too. I hate having to cook 417 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: for myself. Me too. 418 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 2: I don't even like getting up and having to walk 419 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 2: across the room and take a shower, you know, I 420 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 2: hate that. 421 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 6: I only do it once. No, I'm just kidding. I 422 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 6: need this HYGIENEA. 423 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're you're very hygienic. I'm glad you don't 424 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: hate it enough not to do it. 425 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 6: Well, I said, I only did it once week. 426 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 2: I'm talking about John No. I do it every day. 427 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 2: But uh, I just I hate the ritual. I'm tired 428 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: of it. You could see when every older people, yeah, 429 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 2: what's a lot of work. You can tell when they've 430 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 2: gotten sick of it. I know there's this this old 431 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 2: old person order, which is a distinctive odor. 432 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. 433 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 6: And then when you try to cover it, well, when 434 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 6: they try to cover it up with cologne. 435 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: Or perfume, it's even worse, I know. 436 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 6: I mean, that's what we have to look forward to. 437 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 2: John No, No, I'm going to keep motivating. I actually 438 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 2: it's in my mind. Whenever I feel really lazy, it's 439 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 2: like I don't want to do this. It's like, no, 440 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 2: you're not going to be that guy. Okay, you're not 441 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 2: going to be that guy that walks around with whatever 442 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 2: starts growing on your skin after after a week. 443 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: Uh, it was terrible, it is I used to I 444 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: think I think I think my parents at some point 445 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: gave up. 446 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 6: Really yeah, so then they smelled all the time. Yeah, 447 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 6: you live with that, well, you already moved out. 448 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 2: I'd already moved out, yeah, but when i'd come back, 449 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 2: it's like, guys, come on, you didn't give up, did you? 450 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: If you now all right? 451 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 2: So three million dollars on hygiene stations, laundry trucks, laundry trucks, 452 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 2: mobile showers. 453 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: Another four million. 454 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 2: Was spent on Operation Healthy Streets in skid Row that 455 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 2: focused on sidewalk cleanups and gave them medical services and 456 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 2: more hygiene products. I guess soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, maybe some shampoo. 457 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 2: Maybe they could go to an open hydrant and take 458 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: care of their needs. But all this just it's just 459 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 2: free services. It doesn't get them any closer to getting 460 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 2: them off the street. 461 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 1: It makes it more comfortable to stay on the street. 462 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 1: That's what's nutty about this. 463 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 2: And what they do is they try to use a 464 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 2: compassionate argument. Well, they have to make them more comfortable. 465 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 2: They really don't want to be this way, Yes, they 466 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 2: do want to be this way. And if you make 467 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 2: it more comfortable, it's more reasons to be this way. 468 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 2: And you know what you're doing. You're just building a 469 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 2: larger company with more employees who can make more money. 470 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 2: This is a business decision you're making to give out 471 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 2: these services because then you could justify the money that 472 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 2: you're requesting from the government, and then in turn the 473 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 2: politicians justify the tax increases. But this doesn't get them 474 00:26:55,320 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 2: off the street. Monica Rodriguez, the council woman, said, if 475 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 2: we really wanted to do something, we would be advancing 476 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 2: real oversight, demanding results and shutting down programs that don't work, 477 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 2: not protecting a system they keep spending while delivering less. 478 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 2: But there's only about three council people in LA who 479 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 2: speak like this. Thirteen and a half million goes to 480 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 2: supportive services and like street medicine and moving assistance. What 481 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 2: do they move you to a to another tent on 482 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 2: a better street. Nineteen million for navigation systems to help 483 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 2: people get into permanent housing, safe parking so people can 484 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 2: live in vehicles under city supervision. That's three and a 485 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 2: half million dollars. 486 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: Well, we'll have more than later. 487 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 488 00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 5: six forty. 489 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,919 Speaker 2: We have Michael Monks coming in and we are going 490 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 2: to delve deeply into the disaster that Nythia Rahman is. 491 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 2: She's the La City Council woman who announced on Saturday 492 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 2: she's running for amer against Karen Bass. Karen Bass is 493 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 2: a complete disaster and Nythia Ramen is a disaster. Plus 494 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 2: I don't know how to describe this because I don't 495 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 2: want to leave the impression that, well, I guess Karen 496 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: Bass is not so bad. 497 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: No, no, she's. 498 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 2: Really really bad. But Nythia Ramen is really, really, really bad. 499 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 2: And we'll explain coming up. Would you believe another tax 500 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 2: increase proposed from La County held us the Lease and 501 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 2: Holly Mitchell, who were two of the five city council 502 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 2: members who did not have the county fire Department, Sheriff's department, 503 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 2: or emergency service is prepared for the Altadena fire, which 504 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 2: is one of the big reasons that nineteen people died 505 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 2: burned to death is because they didn't get warnings for 506 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 2: a six thirty fire the night before. They got warnings 507 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 2: at three o'clock the next morning. And now they want 508 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 2: a half cent sales text increase because they say the 509 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 2: federal government is threatening cutting medical. They're threatening to cut 510 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 2: medical because here in Los Angeles we've got a tremendous 511 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 2: amount of fraud between medical and medicaid. They're Medicaid. You 512 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 2: know for sure there's tons of legal aliens, tons of them, 513 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 2: I mean hundreds of thousands of the legal aliens. And 514 00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 2: it's costing US about twelve and a half billion dollars 515 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 2: for the medical illegal aliens. And we just had we 516 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 2: just had doctor Oz driving around Van NY's pointing out 517 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 2: the dozens of hospice, fake hospice businesses that are costing 518 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: US billions of dollars in that one slim category hospices. 519 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 2: So the Trump government is wise to this, all this corruption, 520 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 2: all this fraud. And Hilda Salase and Holly Mitchell, well 521 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 2: they see the federal money being cut potentially, so they 522 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 2: want to increase sales taxes so the fraudsters can keep 523 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 2: getting paid. Hilda Salase and Holly Mitchell are on the 524 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 2: side of the fraudsters. They're upset that the fraudsters are 525 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 2: going to have to take a pay cut. The tax 526 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 2: would apply to retail sales and restaurant purchases, so this 527 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 2: would raise the price of groceries, the price of restaurant 528 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 2: meals and shopping. And this is gonna fall disproportionately on 529 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 2: poor residents. Mark Chaffe is with the California Policy Center said, 530 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 2: why should the less affluent La County residents be required 531 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 2: to pay more for clothes, more for school supplies, more 532 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 2: for their cars when a sales tax burden is already high, 533 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 2: everything that you buy, you're gonna have to pay more for. 534 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,239 Speaker 2: The people just stupidly approved a sales tax increased two 535 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 2: years ago for homelessness, and now they're cutting the homeless 536 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 2: budget because they've blown so much money that the fraudsters 537 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 2: in the homeless industry are taking pay cuts, and we 538 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 2: can't have that. So they raise the sales tax for 539 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 2: the homeless industry to benefit them. And now they've raised 540 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 2: the sales tax to benefit the fraudulent medical industry. Kill 541 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 2: us Lease and Holly Mitchell. They brought this before the 542 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 2: La County Board of Supervisors to decide whether it's gonna 543 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 2: be on the June sixth, twenty twenty six primary ballot. 544 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 2: Listen to this phony, Holly Mitchell told cal Matters. I 545 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 2: do not take lightly asking fellow residents to impose a 546 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 2: half percent sales tax. This option is on the table 547 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 2: because safety net services are unraveling for millions. 548 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: This is what they do. They pull a fire large. Oh, 549 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: the poor people are gonna die. The children are gonna die, 550 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: the old people are gonna die. No, they're not. 551 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 2: Get rid of all the criminals that are stealing the money. 552 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 2: And they're stealing it in plain sight, right in front 553 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 2: of us. Why don't you where'd you go on the 554 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 2: doctor Oz tour through van eyes? It would raise taxes 555 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 2: raised for five years a billion dollars a year. It 556 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 2: would be subject to public oversight and audits. That's a 557 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:27,479 Speaker 2: good one, like like all the homeless audits and all 558 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 2: the homeless oversight we have. You can't vote for this. 559 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 2: You can't vote for another sales tax. It's gonna be 560 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 2: over ten percent in the whole county. I think up 561 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 2: in Lancaster and Palmdale, it's gonna be over eleven percent. 562 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 2: What are you doing? 563 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 6: Why do you do? 564 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 2: We come back? Michael Monks from KFI News. Nitya Rahman 565 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 2: is running for mayor. Actually an even bigger disaster than 566 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, Which is no reason to vote for Karen Bass. 567 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 2: But Nitthia Rahmen, holy moly, full blown communist. We'll talk 568 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 2: about it coming up. Deborah Mark live in the KFI 569 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 2: twenty four newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 570 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,439 Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 571 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,320 Speaker 2: on KFI Am six forty from one to four pm 572 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 2: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand 573 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:25,879 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app