1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock, 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock John Cobel Show on demand. 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 2: That's the podcast and that gets released, you know, a 6 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 2: little after four. 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: It's the same as the radio show. 8 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: You get to listen to wherever you missed and let's 9 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 2: get right into it. 10 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: This. 11 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: I found out some of this while I was having 12 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: lunch and it greatly upcept my lunchtime. You're not going 13 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 2: to believe any of this if you're a regular listener 14 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 2: to the show. Gavin Newsome, his approval rating is shooting skyward. 15 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 2: This is going to be hard for many of you 16 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: to stomach, considering nothing has changed. Everything's gotten worse in 17 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: the seven years that he's been the governor of California, 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: and it's his policy specifically that have made it worse. 19 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: And we know the whole list, don't. 20 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 2: We We have the highest taxes in the state, gas taxes, 21 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: sales taxes, income taxes, business taxes, our gas lean price. 22 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 2: What did I see in Oklahoma? They're selling gas for 23 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 2: two thirty six a gallon. Our average is four forty six. 24 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 2: But get this, there's a guy and finally he sent 25 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: me a photo with his location. It sent this the 26 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: other day. His name is John. He's in the Denver, 27 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 2: Colorado area. He took photos to prove this. He's buying 28 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 2: gas for a dollar eighty five, a dollar eighty five 29 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: near Denver, Colorado. And we're at almost four point fifty 30 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: average here in California, five bucks in some counties. 31 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: So we know that. 32 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 2: We know we've got the highest unemployment rate, we've got 33 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: the highest poverty rate, we've got the highest inflation rate, 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: we've got the highest cost of living. 35 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: I can go on and on and on. 36 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 2: What would you believe that Gavin Newsom's approval rating in 37 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 2: the state of California, according to the Public Policy Institute, 38 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 2: it's now at fifty four percent. 39 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: What happened? Exactly? 40 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 2: What the hell is going I feel like we are 41 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: trapped inside a cult. You know, I was figured, you know, 42 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 2: you hear about these cults, right, Maybe they're out in 43 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 2: the desert and they have their compounds and they have 44 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 2: security fencing around the compound and cement walls on the inside, 45 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 2: and it's really dark, and everybody scared and everybody bought 46 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 2: into the charismatic leader. And you're sitting there and thinking, 47 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 2: am I the only one who sees what's going on here? 48 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 2: Am I the only one? I mean the rest of 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: them in this joint. They're all lined up to have 50 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 2: sex with the guru. But I know this was a mistake. 51 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: I never should have joined the cult. But I'm trapped. 52 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: I'm inside the wall, inside the security fence. I know 53 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 2: they have armed guards here. I know I can't escape. 54 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 2: That's what this feels like in California. We're inside the 55 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 2: cement building. Maybe it's underground in a bunker. We can't 56 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 2: see daylight. We got the security fence, we got the watchtowers. 57 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 2: They'll tell you you're allowed to leave, but just try. 58 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: And so not only is news. 59 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 2: At fifty four percent, get this, the California legislature is 60 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 2: at fifty one percent. Fifty one more than half the 61 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: people in California approve of the legislature. Now, these numbers 62 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 2: were much lower. 63 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: Just a few months ago. 64 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: Nothing's changed in the state, obviously, right, nothing is better. 65 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: We can still one hundred and eighty thousand homeless people 66 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 2: in the street. But what changed was that Newsom decided 67 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 2: to focus his campaign on Trump to get California more 68 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 2: Democratic congressional seats, which led to Prop fifty, and you 69 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: know that story. So now we're going to end up 70 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 2: with over ninety percent Democratic seats in Congress by the 71 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 2: next election cycle in twenty twenty six. So he's and 72 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 2: he was relentlessly hammering on Trump, and all the advertising 73 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 2: was against Trump. And because Newsom is against Trump, now 74 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 2: he's got majority support here. So you have all these 75 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 2: people in California, and we all live amongst them. Maybe 76 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 2: you're one of them who decided that California is in 77 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 2: a much better place than a few months ago, that 78 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom is a much better governor, that the legislature 79 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: is a much better legislative body. Because Newsom spends all 80 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 2: day and night ripping on Trump. Now it's it is 81 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 2: like some kind of mass hysteria here because most of 82 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 2: the problems in California, the ones you really care about, 83 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 2: have zero to do with Trump, and it's zero to 84 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 2: do with Joe Biden, for that matter, or any president. 85 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 2: All the issues here that we talk about every day 86 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 2: are all self inflicted issues. 87 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: All right. 88 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: The extra two bucks a gallon we're paying in gas 89 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 2: that's on the governor and the legislature. 90 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: The homeless people one hundred. 91 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 2: And eighty thousand of them, that's on the governor and 92 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 2: the legislature. We've got a big budget deficit approaching twenty 93 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 2: billion dollars. We've got the most illegal aliens, and we're 94 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 2: giving the illegal aliens free healthcare all their lives now. 95 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 2: In fact, we have a twenty billion dollar budget deficit 96 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 2: and we spend thirty five billion a year on illegal aliens. 97 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 2: And that is entirely made up that issues invented really 98 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 2: by the last two governors Brown and Gavin Newsom, and 99 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 2: the California Legislature, which has been two thirds Democratic for 100 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 2: many years now. 101 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: Now it. 102 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 2: Most of the people I talk to, and I have 103 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 2: friends of all political beliefs, and some of who don't 104 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 2: care at all about politics. And it's not so much 105 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 2: caring about the inner workings, the geeky stuff about politics. 106 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 2: It's just about the state of California. Everybody I know 107 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 2: that I talked to is upset with, you know, crime 108 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 2: issues in the streets, and the homeless issues in the streets, 109 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 2: and the taxes and the high rent and the and 110 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 2: the and the high mortgages. I mean we have the 111 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 2: most expensive more well, we have we have the costliest 112 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 2: real estate in the country, the costliest rent in the country, 113 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 2: and much of that is because of government policies. So 114 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 2: they're upset about all these issues ABCD, all the way 115 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 2: to Z. They know that government has a lot to 116 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 2: do with it. But when you ask them if they 117 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,239 Speaker 2: approve of Newsom of the legislature, more than half saying 118 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: oh yeah, because many of them, many of them are 119 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 2: their heads are spinning over Trump. Trump's approval rating now 120 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 2: is in California is twenty five percent. Twenty five percent, 121 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 2: So apparently all these problems we have here are his fault, 122 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 2: because Newsom says so. Congress's approval rating is eighteen percent. Now, 123 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 2: I am no fan of Congress, but very few of 124 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: the issues, again in California, are due to the US Congress. 125 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: We can debate Trump twenty five different ways. If you've 126 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 2: got seventy thousand homeless people in the streets here in 127 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: La County, that is because of the policies of Karen Bass, 128 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 2: the La County Supervisors, in Gavin Newsom. 129 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: Who else would it be. It's got to be then. 130 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 2: If you have the highest gas prices the highest electricity prices. 131 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 2: That's entirely due to the policies of Gavin Newsom and 132 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: the Democratic legislature. 133 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: Who else would it be. 134 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 2: We've got thirty six states selling gas for less than 135 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 2: three dollars a gallon. Two ninety five is the national average. 136 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 2: Electricity here is double what it is across the other states. 137 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: Double. 138 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: Now that's a significant issue when you want to debate 139 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 2: the cost of living. We're short on housing. Well, gee, 140 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 2: if you've got an extra five million people here illegally, 141 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 2: you think that takes up some housing, some land. Not 142 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: to mention although wacky zoning laws that they've had to 143 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: prevent developers from building new homes. Again, it's all self inflicted. 144 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 2: So there's no logic here. There's no rational thinking at all. 145 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 2: It is a cult. It is crazy land. Now we 146 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 2: come back. I'm going to play a clip I was 147 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 2: on CNN last night Alex Michaelson as a new show 148 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 2: called The Story Is. He's been doing this for I 149 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 2: guess about six weeks. You know, he usually he was 150 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 2: the anchor at Fox eleven for many years and he 151 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 2: had a show called The Issue Is that I appeared 152 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 2: on a number of times. Well, this is CNN. The 153 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 2: story is and from nine to a every night on 154 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 2: the Pacific coast, And I was on last night and 155 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 2: I debated a civil rights attorney, Ariva Martin, and I'll 156 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 2: play one specific clip because yesterday's story was Gavin Newsom 157 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 2: being shut out by the Trump administration when he was 158 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 2: begging for money to try to rebuild the paddle stats 159 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 2: and he went there on Friday and nobody would speak 160 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 2: with him. 161 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: So that's what we discussed. 162 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 2: I want to play that clip, and then I want 163 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: to focus on one little piece of our exchange. 164 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: That is next. 165 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 166 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 2: Forty Moistline for Friday Swiss Today. I've been so busy 167 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 2: last few days. I totally lost track of times Tuesday 168 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 2: okay eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven 169 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 2: Moist eighty six. 170 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: Or used the talkback. 171 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: Feature on the iHeart app for the Moistline and you've 172 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 2: all your anger and frustration. So last night I was 173 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 2: on CNN. The story is Alex Michaelson hosts, and he's 174 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 2: on nine to eleven every night. It's a really good show. 175 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 2: And he was kind enough to have me on and 176 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 2: I was paired up with a civil rights attorney named 177 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 2: Areva Martin, who had been paired up with before on 178 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 2: his old show. And one of the things we talked about, 179 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 2: and the clip we're going to play here is Newsom 180 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 2: being shut out of meeting with the Trump administration in Washington, 181 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 2: d C. Newsom went there and wanted to meet with 182 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 2: FEMA people and they said no. And here's our discussion 183 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 2: last night on CNN. 184 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 4: Do you have a problem with the Trump administration not 185 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 4: meeting with the governor to talk about this issue? 186 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 2: If I was in the Trump administration, I'd be asking myself, 187 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 2: how would I trust Newsom with tens of billions of 188 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,080 Speaker 2: dollars he wants almost thirty four billion dollars When you 189 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 2: look at twenty four billion dollars in homeless money that 190 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 2: Newsom admits disappeared and he doesn't know where it is, 191 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 2: Seventeen billion dollars in high speed rail money, same thing, 192 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 2: and there's no high speed rail. Thirty three billion dollars 193 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 2: in unemployment funds during COVID that disappeared, most of it 194 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 2: to fraud. Why would you give Gavin Newsom thirty four 195 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 2: billion dollars when you've got over seventy billion unaccounted for 196 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: in those other three categories. 197 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 5: Well, first of all, those facts just aren't facts. Those 198 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 5: are no Gavin Newsom has never said I can't account 199 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 5: for thirty billion dollars that's been given to me by 200 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 5: the federal government. 201 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: Twenty four billion at homeless money. He doesn't know what it. 202 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 5: Is, absolutely positively not And the question was meeting with 203 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 5: Gavin Newsom. Look, the reality is Donald Trump is the 204 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 5: president for all Americas, not just those that live in 205 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 5: red states. And he's not hurting Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom's 206 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 5: home didn't burn in the palaces. He's hurting voters, he's 207 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 5: hurting first responders, he's hurting small business owners, he's hurting 208 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 5: the people of the state of calif On you, and 209 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 5: he's setting a horrible precedent for individuals or voters, for 210 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 5: citizens of this country that live in states that have 211 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 5: been the victims of disasters like these fires. And for 212 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 5: him not to meet or have someone from his administration 213 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 5: meet with his governor is childish. This is this is 214 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 5: school yard energy. This is not leadership energy, which we 215 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 5: need and should expect from a president. It's ridiculous that 216 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 5: he wouldn't sit down or have his administration meet about the. 217 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: Victims, these fire victims. 218 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 2: Have you seen what he's done for months? The stuff 219 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 2: he's said about Trump? 220 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: On how much stuff is Trump said about him? Hello, 221 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: I know. 222 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 5: There's a difference that doesn't have anything to do with 223 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 5: the victims. I'm a I'm a resident of this state. 224 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: Doesn't have any leverage on Trump. So if you're a politician. 225 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 5: As a victim is to have leverage. What about the voters? 226 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 5: Do you care about the voters? Aren't there Republican voters 227 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 5: that live. 228 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: In the Palace? Yes? 229 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 6: There aren't deserved there are and and new Some spends 230 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 6: thirty five billion dollars a year on illegal aliens, So 231 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 6: why doesn't he spend it on Americans and rebuild the 232 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 6: fire ravaged areas instead of on illegal aliens who aren't 233 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 6: don't have it. 234 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 4: Don't you have a problem though, with this concept of 235 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 4: sort of let's help the states that help me. I mean, 236 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 4: isn't that different. 237 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: Than what in an ideal world? 238 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: Yes, but you know Trump's games Again, He's been around 239 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 2: eleven years. If Newsom was smart, why would he go 240 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 2: in insult Trump every day? If you want to get 241 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 2: tens of billions of dollars out of somebody. 242 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: And again, you have no leverage. 243 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 2: And Trump really really values leverage, and he's looking at it. 244 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: He's looking at Newsom the way you look at Zelenski. 245 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 4: You have no car, which is what Newsom did during COVID, 246 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 4: which is why Trump said so many nice things about 247 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 4: him during COVID, and which is why California got amongst. 248 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 5: The most money on the playground. 249 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: This is about the victims. Let's keep the focus. Smart 250 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: guy plays the game. Stay focused on the victims. All right, 251 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: that's going to be the last word, right. That's Alex 252 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: Michaelson CNN. 253 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: The story is Last Night hosting and Arriva Martin, a 254 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 2: civil rights attorney. You're dealing with Trump here. You're not 255 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 2: dealing in some ideal world, utopian bubble. In the real world. 256 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 2: He plays the leverage game. This is how he negotiates. 257 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 2: You want my help. Newsom has no way to force 258 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 2: Trump to give him any help, none whatsoever. 259 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: There. 260 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 2: I mean, what do you do when you want to 261 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 2: get something out of anybody, your bosses, your family, right, 262 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 2: your wife or your husband, whether you're in business, whether 263 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 2: you're in a private situation. The person you want to 264 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 2: get something from, you have to treat nicely. And if 265 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 2: they have one hundred percent leverage on you and you 266 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 2: have zero percent, and then you go out of your 267 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 2: way to insulted inflame, what do you think is going 268 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 2: to happen? Plus, I go back to my original point. 269 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 2: If you're in the Trump administration and you know that 270 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 2: Newsom has blown tens of billions of dollars on everything 271 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 2: from homeless money to high speed rail to unemployment money 272 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 2: during COVID documented and I'm gonna because I know she 273 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 2: objected to the idea that there's tens of billions of 274 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: dollars unaccounted for. I'll address that in the next segment. 275 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 2: But it's clearly not None of this has been spent properly. 276 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 2: A lot of it is outright missing money or the 277 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 2: money where they knew it went was completely ineffective in 278 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 2: all three categories. Seriously, you put yourself in the position 279 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: of being the president. Let's say you want to help 280 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 2: rebuild the Palisades. Why would you trust that Newsom and 281 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 2: Karen Bass We're going to spend the money wisely. 282 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: Make me that case. 283 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:14,479 Speaker 2: Make me the case that you have complete faith that 284 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: Newsom and Bass are going to spend thirty four billion 285 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 2: dollars and wisely efficiently. 286 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: Can anybody make that case? They couldn't make the case. 287 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 2: You know, if you asked either one of them, they'd 288 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: be jibbering and jabbering and babbling all kinds of gobbledeguck 289 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 2: because you cant them to account for all the money 290 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 2: they've blown already, going back thirty fiur to five billion 291 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 2: for illegal aliens. How does that help people into Palisades? 292 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 2: Seventeen billion on high speed rail, twenty four billion on homeless. 293 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 2: Karen Bass has blown several billion dollars just here in 294 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 2: La and she hired she hired fifteen lawyers to keep 295 00:17:58,760 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 2: her from. 296 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: Testifying about it in court. 297 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 2: Now, when you have a mayor of a city who 298 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 2: hires lawyers by the dozen, literally by the dozen, to 299 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 2: keep her from testifying about where the homeless money went, you're. 300 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: Going to write a check and the rest of the country. 301 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 2: Has to pay, because we vote for morons to run things. 302 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, even though he keeps lying this tappen on 303 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 2: state land. The state needed to clear all the brush 304 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 2: around the perimeter of the Palisades years ago, never did. 305 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 2: That's his fault. He has oversight over the California Parks Department. 306 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 2: It's not like fire is a new thing in the 307 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 2: state and her. We'll start with the with the reservoir, 308 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 2: the fire department being half funded. I rest my case already. 309 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 2: So people here in LA it's easy to get righteous. 310 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 2: We have to think of this as Americans and they're victims. 311 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 2: And they said, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I believe me. 312 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 2: Nobody's a bigger advocate for the victims here in the 313 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 2: Palisades in Altadena. 314 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: I'm well aware of that. 315 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 2: But seriously, if you live in the other forty nined 316 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 2: states and you're looking at California and you're looking at 317 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 2: the horrific fire policies, both from the state and locally, 318 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 2: and now you want the money from those forty nine 319 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 2: other states they have to pay because you elected two 320 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 2: boobs who can't provide basic services. This is a tough sell, 321 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 2: tougher than anybody wants to admit. We look like any 322 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,679 Speaker 2: to the rest of the country. We are idiots. You 323 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 2: can't put those two characters in charge, and they have 324 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 2: demonstrated for many years they have no idea what they're doing. 325 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 2: They're completely incompetent, and corrupt, and now you got your 326 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 2: hand out to Trump, and then you try to play 327 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 2: the guilt card. It's like, well, you know, I have 328 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 2: to have compassion, and they're all Americans and we're all Americans, chair, 329 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 2: but I'll stop it. We got to take care of 330 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 2: ourselves too. We're obligated to take care of ourselves, and 331 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 2: we don't. 332 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: We just. 333 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 2: Hire idiots, watch them blow tens of billions, hundreds of 334 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 2: billions of dollars, and then look around for a bailout. 335 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 1: We come back. 336 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 2: I want to focus on what a Reeva Martin says 337 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 2: that the twenty four billion dollars that Newsom Blue hasn't 338 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 2: that it's not a fact that it hasn't been accounted for. No, really, 339 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 2: it hasn't been accounted for. And I'll talk about it 340 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 2: because I've got the goods here. 341 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI. 342 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: A M six forty. 343 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio, social media 344 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 2: at John co Belt Radio, and you can subscribe to 345 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 2: our YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash at John Clobelt Show. 346 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 2: Slightly different YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show. 347 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 2: And we have posted what we've posted from Alex Michaelson 348 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 2: Show last night. 349 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 7: Well, there's a clip about you and Revi Martin talking 350 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 7: about Jasmine Crockett that CNN The Story is posted. 351 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 1: That's on our page. 352 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 7: There's the clip that we just played in the last 353 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 7: segment of you talking about Gavin Newsom going to DC 354 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 7: that's on our page as well. 355 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: And then also a couple behind the scenes pictures. 356 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 2: So if you didn't see last night's CNN show The 357 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 2: Story Is, then you could look at these clips on 358 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 2: all our media channels and then the usual stuff that 359 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 2: we push. Now I'm gonna play you a short, shorter 360 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 2: clip of me with a Reva Martin on CNN last night. 361 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 2: The story is, and this is about the twenty four 362 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 2: billion dollars because she completely and she's a very nice person, 363 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 2: but she completely dismissed the concept that Newsome admitted that 364 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,880 Speaker 2: there's really no accounting for the twenty four billion and 365 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 2: whether there was any use for it when it's done, 366 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 2: where just you know, it's a mess. And then I 367 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 2: went to check GPT after she disputed that can't do 368 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 2: it live on TV. 369 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: I did it this morning. 370 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 2: And let me tell you, this thing is a wonder 371 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 2: if you're doing a radio show, because you go on television, 372 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 2: you don't know where the conversation is going to go, right, 373 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 2: So somebody can make any kind of a wild claim, 374 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 2: and no, nobody, not even the host, the anchor, everybody 375 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 2: can't refute it in real time. It's impossible. Next day, though, 376 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 2: is something different. So she says that it's these aren't facts. 377 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 2: The idea that there's twenty four million dollars twenty four 378 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 2: billion dollars on accounted for, well, I got to check 379 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 2: GPT and ask it, and they pulled together no less 380 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 2: than nine different sources to give us the answer. 381 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: First, listen to the clip. 382 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 4: Do you have a problem with the Trump administration not 383 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 4: meeting with the governor to talk about this issue? 384 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 2: If I was in the Trump administration, I'd be asking myself, 385 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 2: how would I trust Newsom with tens of billions of 386 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 2: dollars he wants almost thirty four billion dollars When you 387 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 2: look at twenty four billion dollars in homeless money that 388 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: Newsom admits disappeared and he doesn't know where it is, 389 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 2: seventeen billion dollars in high speed rail money, same thing, 390 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,959 Speaker 2: and there's no high speed rail thirty three billion dollars 391 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 2: in unemployment funds during COVID that disappeared, most of it 392 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 2: to fraud. Why would you give Gavin Newsom thirty four 393 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 2: billion dollars when you've got over seventy billion dollar accounted 394 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 2: for in those other three categories. 395 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 5: Well, first of all, those facts just aren't facts. Those 396 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 5: are Gavin Newsom has never said I can't account for 397 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 5: thirty billion dollars that's been given to me by the 398 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 5: federal government. 399 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 1: Twenty four billion at homeless money. 400 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 5: Doesn't know what it is, absolutely positively. 401 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 2: Not Well, the twenty four billion dollars was not pulled 402 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 2: out of thin air or any other place. It comes 403 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 2: from a recent state audit covering the twenty eighteen to 404 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 2: twenty twenty three spending. So that's just that period of spending. 405 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 2: The total is now at to thirty seven billion, by 406 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 2: the way, but the audit covered twenty eighteen to twenty 407 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 2: twenty three, and it went towards dozens of homelessness related 408 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: programs administered by nine different state agencies. 409 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: All right, and but. 410 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 2: Newsom and his administration say the result the results are 411 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 2: hard to measure. Well, you and I can measure it 412 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 2: with our own eyes, can't we In fact, where's the 413 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 2: thing you sent me, Eric? The video your sister sent you? Oh? 414 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 7: Yeah, she saw a homeless encampment fire this morning in 415 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 7: Van Eys and not a single firefighter around to put 416 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 7: it out. 417 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, say he sent the video. Did your sister take 418 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 2: that video? Yes, she took that video. Okay, So I'm 419 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 2: looking at this video and there's clearly a bumfire going 420 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 2: on in Van NY's And as the car pulls up, 421 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 2: they got a shot of the encampment and you could 422 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 2: see the flames shooting out of the tent. So you 423 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 2: don't have to use an audit. You don't have to 424 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 2: use statistical analysis to say that these all this homeless 425 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 2: money went down a soore. 426 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: Use your own eyes. 427 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 2: There was smoke because they started that video a couple 428 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 2: of blocks away. 429 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: There's smoke billowing in the air. 430 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 2: The closer you get you see bright orange and yellow flames. 431 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 2: You see it coming from an encamp meant so Lely backtracked, 432 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 2: why is Newsome and his administration admitting that results are 433 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 2: hard to measure well? According to the audit by the 434 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 2: California State Auditor, the state, specifically the California Interagency Council 435 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 2: on Homelessness known as cal ICCH quote has not consistently 436 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 2: tracked and evaluated unquote homelessness programs spending at outcomes, So 437 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 2: it means while the money was spent, the state often 438 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 2: lacks data to confirm whether it reduced homelessness. Yes, he 439 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 2: doesn't know where it went or if he could identify 440 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 2: the agency where it went. The specific programs produced no 441 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 2: results that they could measure. And since I can see 442 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 2: that bumfire burning out of the tent with my own eyes, 443 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 2: it looks like the money was wasted or more likely 444 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 2: stolen by the nonprofits that these agencies sent the money to. 445 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: What do you think happened? 446 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 2: Because of this lack of rigorous tracking and reporting, it's 447 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 2: difficult or sometimes impossible, to connect dollars spent to concrete outcomes, 448 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 2: making the twenty four billion dollar lost more about missing 449 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 2: accountability than proven disappearance. When asked directly about the audit, 450 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 2: Newsom said he was quote not. 451 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: Surprised by the findings. 452 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:40,439 Speaker 2: That is, he acknowledged the state hadn't been consistently tracking data. 453 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 2: By the way, the sources for this arecalmatters dot com, 454 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 2: The Independent, which is a British newspaper. They seem to 455 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 2: be more on top of things. California Insider, Los Angeles Times, Breitbart, 456 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 2: The Guardian, and the governor's own press releases. Newsom is 457 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 2: pushing for stronger accountability and reporting requirements. There you go, 458 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 2: why would you want stronger accounted It's your administration. 459 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: You authorized the twenty four billion it was spent. 460 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 2: It's like, well, we need an accountability, We need accountability 461 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 2: from you. 462 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: These are your programs, this is your spending. 463 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 2: He's threatening to withhold funding from counties or cities that 464 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 2: failed to show measurable progress. This is after six now 465 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 2: seven years of failed programs. I want accountability. You go 466 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 2: to Karen Bass and you can't fight her because she's 467 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 2: literally got fifteen lawyers keeping her from testifying. I don't 468 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 2: give a crap if fifty four percent approve of what 469 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 2: he's doing. Here's what's really going on in the world. 470 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 2: And he says he warns again, he warned against expecting 471 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 2: the money alone to solve the crisis. Local execution matters, well, 472 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 2: local execution, I know here Los Angeles has been a 473 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 2: massive failure, and we're not the only city. 474 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: It's just insane. They do it in plain sight. 475 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 2: You drive down the road and you see flames shooting 476 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 2: in the air, smoke billowing sky high. And then you'll 477 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 2: turn on the radio on the television and Karen Bass 478 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 2: will tell you how successful the Inside Safe program has been. 479 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, all right, coming up after two o'clock. Well, 480 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,959 Speaker 2: you know about the Minnesota situation with the Somali fraud, 481 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 2: and that's a bill million dollars that was meant for 482 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 2: all kinds of welfare and social services. Tim Walls watched 483 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 2: all that money go out the window. He's just like Newsome. 484 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 2: Now there's a whistleblower in Maine who says this program, 485 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 2: this fraud is going on in Maine in their medicaid program. 486 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 2: And we're going to talk with Rich McHugh from Newstation. 487 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 3: Next you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI 488 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 3: AM six forty. 489 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 2: We're on every day one till four after four o'clock, 490 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show on demand, same as the radio show. 491 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 2: Right after two, Rich McHugh from NewsNation and Minnesota. There's 492 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 2: a whistleblower, I'm sorry, in Maine. There's a whistleblower saying 493 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 2: that the main medicaid program has a Minnesota like fraud. 494 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 2: So we have a whistleblower in another state saying that 495 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 2: there's a lot of federal money being stolen. 496 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: UH. And we're going to talk to Rich McHugh. 497 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 2: He's an investigative reporter with News Nation, the cable news 498 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 2: channel UH in Los Angeles. 499 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 1: This is how nuts it is. 500 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 2: How many times have you maybe called the police because 501 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 2: vagrants are waving their arms and screaming and motioning and threatening, 502 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 2: and they're defecating and they're throwing their their fittone needles 503 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 2: all over the ground their crack pipes. Here comes a 504 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 2: group of activists, peaceful activists in Westwood. The group is 505 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 2: called People's Vision Zero, and they want to make the 506 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 2: streets safer. Jonathan Hale and a dozen other activists were 507 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 2: painting a crosswalk at an intersection in Westwood. Two police 508 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 2: cars pulled up to bust them. That's right, they were 509 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 2: painting an unauthorized crosswalk. Have you seen the graffiti in 510 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 2: this city? Have you seen the graffiti towers downtown? Some 511 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 2: of the ugliest buildings in Los Angeles are covered in graffiti. 512 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: These massive towers. 513 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 2: Every time they do a shot from the Staples Center 514 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 2: like an aerial shot. You could see these two things 515 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 2: sticking up in the air with all this graffiti. 516 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 7: Uh. 517 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 2: Jonathan Hale and his group were so they're painting the 518 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 2: crosswalk and the LAPD shows up and told to stop painting, 519 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 2: and they handcuffed Jonathan Hale. They handcuffed him. Woman says, 520 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 2: leave him alone, he's not doing anything wrong. And the 521 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 2: officer says, you're vandalizing city property without a permit. 522 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 1: So I'll ask you all nicely. 523 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 2: Y'all can record all you want, but back up or 524 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 2: I will take everybody to jail. 525 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: This is over crosswalk paint in Westwood. 526 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 2: This is what the police respond to in Los Angeles, 527 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 2: not the vagrants with fire billowing out of their tents 528 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 2: and smoke going sky high. And Hale was sided with 529 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 2: a misdemeanor for vandalizing property. I didn't know vandalizing was 530 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 2: a crime in Los Angeles. Only if you're painting a 531 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 2: crosswalk so people don't get run over. Apparently there's a 532 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 2: lot of delays in getting straight intersections painted, so people 533 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 2: are taking it upon themselves to do the work them 534 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 2: on their own. The Mayor's office says it offered to 535 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 2: collaborate with Hale. They want to work with any Angelino 536 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 2: who wants to make our streets safer. Well, if you 537 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 2: want to work with him, why did you arrest him? 538 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 2: What'd you handcuff him and charge them with a misdemeanor crime. 539 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 2: He says he met with the office and the Department 540 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 2: of Transportation in September, but there's been little follow up, 541 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 2: and he told them he was going to do this, 542 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 2: he wrote the Mayor's office December first, ahead of the 543 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 2: painting on Sunday, because a pedestrian had been hit and 544 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 2: injured several years ago at another nearby intersection. Police reopened 545 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 2: the road, the car started passing through, and the wet 546 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 2: paint was being tracked by vehicle tires down the street. 547 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 2: This is what Karen Bass does, six the police on 548 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 2: people trying to take a paid a crosswalk. 549 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,280 Speaker 1: To make the road safer. 550 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,239 Speaker 2: But the homeless tent in flames that Eric's sister saw 551 00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 2: with the smoke billowing all over the place. No cops there, 552 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 2: no fire trucks there. Nobody arrested, nobody handcuffed, nobody cited 553 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 2: for a felony or a misdemeanor or anything. It's perfectly 554 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 2: legal to set a tent on fire and Uh, have 555 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 2: it burned until there's nothing left. That's okay. No law 556 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 2: enforcement for that paint a crosswalk? Well, who do you 557 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 2: think you are? 558 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 1: All Right? We come back, the lawlessness continues. Now we 559 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: go to Maine. 560 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,359 Speaker 2: There's a whistleblower Remain who says we have the same 561 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 2: problem in our medicaid program, just like Minnesota. And Rich 562 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 2: McHugh from News Nation, their investigative reporter is going to 563 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,359 Speaker 2: come on and tell us the story that's coming up 564 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,040 Speaker 2: in for Deborah Mark, Virginia Diegostino live in the CAFI 565 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 2: twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the 566 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 2: John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show 567 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 2: live on KFI AM six forty from one to four 568 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 2: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on 569 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeartRadio app.