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 Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one n till four, and 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 2: then after four o'clock we become a podcast, John Cobelt 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 2: Show on Demand hosted after four in the iHeart app, 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 2: So anything you missed on the radio, you can hear 7 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 2: on the podcast. Debora Mark is here and we have 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: a special guest to open up with, someone that I 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 2: have watched since I was a kid, and he was 10 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: a local television reporter in New York City and he's 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 2: had one of the great broadcasting careers ever, Heraldo Rivera, 12 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 2: and he's now on News Nation. He's an at large 13 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 2: correspondent and also a commentator, and he had a lot 14 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 2: to say this week about Trump's tarifs and his negotiating strategy. 15 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: And Corrado is kind enough to come on with us. Harado, 16 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 2: How are. 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,639 Speaker 3: You, John great? How you doing? 18 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: I'm very good. You have known Trump for a long time, 19 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: and I've seen you over the years on television. Sometimes 20 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 2: you're on panel shows where you're supposed to explain what 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 2: Trump just said or just did, and you've often criticized 22 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 2: him when you thought he deserved it. But on this issue, 23 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 2: you think he's brilliant. For all the people who are confused, 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 2: I think most people are confused. What what what is 25 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 2: the strategy that he had in mind? And how well 26 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:25,839 Speaker 2: do you think it worked this week? 27 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 3: Well, I think that I am confused. John. I thought 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: I knew what I what I knew. When the market 29 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 3: exploded yesterday afternoon, I said, see, I told you not 30 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 3: to sell you. Old timers hang on. The market always 31 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 3: comes back, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. It always comes back. 32 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 3: And then today I did not expect another body blow. 33 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 3: Yesterday turns out to be a one day wonder and 34 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 3: today is now looking uncertain again. I'm not sure you're 35 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 3: talking about my, uh my best friend, Donald Trump. I'm 36 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 3: not at all sure what his strategy is or how thoughtful. 37 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 3: Uh you know this, these moves are whether or not 38 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 3: he's playing it by the seat of his pants or 39 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 3: who he's listening to. But it just seems the market 40 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 3: is so mercurial, it's so uh you know, it's so unsettled, 41 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 3: it's so unstable that the slightest remark moves a moves millions, 42 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 3: even billions of dollars. So I don't don't listen to 43 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 3: me for a financial advice. 44 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: Well, yesterday it was looking as if you were right on. 45 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 2: But I guess it makes sense if if if the 46 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: investors generally hate uncertainty, that's all you have here is uncertainty. 47 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: Although I think if you want to get China to 48 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: somewhat play by the rules and and lower their tariffs 49 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 2: and open their markets to us, this is the only 50 00:02:59,000 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 2: weapon he's got. 51 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: He's got to play chicken with them. 52 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 3: Well, I think you're right about that, And you know, 53 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: that's the thing. Going back to my remarks about the 54 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 3: brilliance of Trump yesterday, in that context, what was brilliant 55 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 3: was that instead of his taking on the world, the 56 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: US against the world, We're going to tariff everybody, you know, 57 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 3: even though China was the prime antagonist. He wanted to 58 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 3: punish everybody. So then when people, you know, more prudent, 59 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 3: perhaps a more thoughtful, said, wait a second, as the president, 60 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 3: why take on the whole world? If China is the problem, 61 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 3: why not address the issue with China. So he decided 62 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 3: to do that. He went after China, and today, as 63 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: it turns out, the market responded when it became clear 64 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 3: how serious Trump was about going after China and how 65 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 3: severe the sanctions were going to be. He is now 66 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 3: imposing a one hundred and forty five per sent tariff 67 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 3: on everything coming in from China. When the market saw that, 68 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 3: when the market saw how draconian his his move was 69 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 3: vieas of each China is a way to take and 70 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 3: that's that's going to a bridge too far. So now 71 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, China's vowed to retaliate. President 72 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,239 Speaker 3: g says, you're not going to make him blink. President 73 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 3: Trump says, G's is a bosom buddy. They just have 74 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 3: to see eye to eye on that. Meantime, the Dow 75 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 3: closes down over a thousand, So you know, we've got 76 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 3: Oldzheimer's jumping out of the windows of the assisted living 77 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 3: and I'm one of them. 78 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: You rarely see this kind of drama when it comes 79 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 2: to stock investments. It's almost as if he's he's crafted 80 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 2: a script for a reality show or a streaming series, 81 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 2: because every day there's a twist, and every day there's 82 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 2: a cliffhanger. 83 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 3: That's a good point because it's not just about terrors. 84 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 3: If you look at the Trump forty seven as opposed 85 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 3: to Trump forty five, Trump forty seven. It seems to 86 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 3: me has needed a major, a major innovation every day 87 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 3: they wanted another news cycle to be there is with 88 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 3: some other you know wrinkle, whether it was you know, 89 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 3: federal workers loud, or the sweeping up of anybody with 90 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 3: a you know, a tattoo, a gang tattoo, shipping them 91 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 3: off to l Salvador, or you know, this this this 92 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 3: messing around with the markets. It just seems that he's 93 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 3: got ants in his pants, you know. And that's what 94 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 3: bothers me more than anything about this Trump term. He 95 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,239 Speaker 3: seems to be governing the country based on notes someone 96 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 3: put on the back of an envelope someplace, you know, 97 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 3: late at night, you know, in a wrap session in 98 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 3: the Oval office. And you know, it just seems, sue, 99 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 3: what's the word I'm looking for? Too temporary, to temporary 100 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 3: to too innovative, improvisational, that's the better word. Improvisation. Yeah, yeah, 101 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 3: it's too much improv And I need the markets, need stability, 102 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 3: need a clear path forward, you know, with a very 103 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 3: inherently conservative, very very on edge constantly, particularly people who 104 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 3: need you know that this is the money they you know, 105 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 3: there are I R A or forty four one ks, 106 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 3: this is what they're counting on, This is what they're 107 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 3: giving away to their kiddies, to their grandkids, And all 108 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 3: of a sudden it gets. 109 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 4: Threatened by you know, some some silliness, some something, some 110 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 4: words that just come out, and you know, I can't, 111 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 4: I can't follow him. 112 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 3: I hope that he has more reason and thoughtful sobriety 113 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 3: than I'm giving him credit for right now. But I'm 114 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 3: not at all sure. 115 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: John, what flashes of his personality today when he's on 116 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 2: stage as president reminds you of when you knew him 117 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 2: privately years ago and you guys were running around New 118 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 2: York City together. 119 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 3: Well, you know, Trump hasn't changed very much since the 120 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 3: mid seventies. What has changed is his reach. What has 121 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 3: changed is, you know, he's always had, He's always projected supreme, 122 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 3: sublime self confidence. He's always you know, been in the 123 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 3: you know, he sees deals everywhere. Some of his ideas 124 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 3: have gone into the crapper you know, it's casino and 125 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 3: you know some of the food products and wines and 126 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 3: steaks and this and the other thing. But he, in 127 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 3: his own way, with his own hutzpah, has managed to 128 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 3: become president. And I say it's not once, but twice. 129 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 3: Not twice. But you know, after being indicted, after being 130 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 3: you know, context food all around the country, be accused 131 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 3: of this, that and the other thing, He's managed to 132 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 3: succeed despite everything. That's why I urge everybody not to 133 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 3: sell him short. You know, he he could still pull 134 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 3: this out and tomorrow could be the dow up another thousand. 135 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 3: I wish I could give some you know, some advice, 136 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 3: but I can't. 137 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: No, I'm with you. I'm just sitting still. I'm not 138 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: going to react to all this. 139 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 2: Eventually, both sides need each other, both sides want to 140 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 2: make the money from each other, so I think that 141 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 2: wins out. It just me, you know, everybody also has 142 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 2: to save face, so this may just stretch out a 143 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 2: few weeks. 144 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: Hey, just so, just. 145 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 3: One one thing. I was my wife and I just 146 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 3: came back from Japan. There was not a single American 147 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 3: car on the streets of not one. There's not a Buick, 148 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 3: not Afford, not a Chevy, not a Caddy, not even 149 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 3: an Escalade. Not zero Japanese cars, I mean US cars 150 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 3: on the streets of Japan. There's no doubt that the 151 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 3: United States gets screwed in international trade. I understand his 152 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 3: frustration and his desire to be, you know, the advocate 153 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 3: for America in the American pocketbooks, America person, all the 154 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 3: rest of it. I just need a more measured approach, 155 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 3: more sober approach, more predictable prost shop. 156 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: All right, eraldo Oh one more thing. 157 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 2: I got somebody wh wants to say hi to you, 158 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 2: because my my newswoman here was your newswoman some years ago, 159 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 2: Gabra Mark. 160 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 5: Hey, HAROLDO. I don't know if you remember me from KBC. 161 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 3: Of course, what I remember you? Yeah, those were the days, 162 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 3: Those were the days. You know, that was a wonderful 163 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 3: experience KABC. It was a terrific it was in KFI. 164 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 3: Wasn't the power aspic KFLI is, but you know we 165 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 3: have lower angle from those days from KFI. 166 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she became a big star here at KFINE, 167 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 2: went on to Fox and now News Nation. 168 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 3: Yeah. That was after Michael Jackson and of course O. J. Simpson. Yeah, 169 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 3: we had quite a run in those decades. 170 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, or Heraldo, good talking with you. I hope you 171 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 2: can come on again sometime. 172 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 3: Okay, John, Thanks, all right, talk. 173 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: To you later. Heraldo. We're there. You've worked with all 174 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: the big names, right I have. 175 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 6: It's crazy how long I've been in this. It's kind 176 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 6: of scary. 177 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: Every day they let you win. 178 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 179 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 7: six forty. 180 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show. 181 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio and social 182 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio. We only need less than 183 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 2: five hundred followers to twenty five thousand. And if you 184 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 2: want to see me on my wife's video podcast, Ebbor 185 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 2: Cobelt Live, it's posted on YouTube. In case you couldn't 186 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 2: find it yesterday, it is there. I just go to YouTube. Dever, 187 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 2: cobelt Live is also the audios on the iHeartRadio app. 188 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 2: And we were talking about Trump and the tariffs and 189 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 2: lots of stuff going on here in Los Angeles, like 190 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 2: the homelessness. So that's Deborah Cobet Live on YouTube. In 191 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: a few minutes, I got a whopper of a story. 192 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 2: The theme recently has been all the corruption and the 193 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 2: fraud and just the theft of government money, whether it's 194 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 2: the high speed rail characters stealing the seventeen billion dollars 195 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 2: for the last seventeen years, whether it's two billion dollars 196 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 2: in homeless money that disappeared at LASA and the lady 197 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: who ran that place, of Alicia Adams Kellum, she's gone. 198 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 2: And I could go on and on, you know the list. 199 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 2: Well we got another one here, a nonprofit in Long 200 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 2: Beach known as the Food Bank, the Food Bank of 201 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: Southern California. Well, they're getting sued by the State of California. 202 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 2: They're getting investigated because it looks like most of the 203 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 2: executives and board members were stealing money left and right 204 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 2: and living a good life. And this is an extensive story. 205 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 2: La Times CBS has covered it, and we're going to 206 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 2: get into it in detail coming up after one point thirty. 207 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 2: All right, so that's coming up next. There is so 208 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 2: much fraud and so much theft going on in government 209 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 2: and with the nonprofits. If you knew you you would 210 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 2: get sick, You would just get physically ill if you 211 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 2: knew how much was happening. Now at three o'clock, Bill 212 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 2: of Sale's coming on. He's the new US attorney, former 213 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 2: assemblyman out of the Inland Empire. He's the United States 214 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 2: Attorney for the Los Angeles District, and he's put together 215 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 2: this multi agency investigative force to find out about all 216 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 2: the corruption going on in the homeless industry, the government 217 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 2: agencies here in LA, all these corrupt non profits. There 218 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 2: is a tremendous amount of theft going on and Bill A. 219 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 2: Sale wants to do something to stop it. I'll tell 220 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 2: you about the food bank story coming up in a 221 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 2: few minutes. You know, you have people here in LA, 222 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 2: including Karen Bash, claiming that they're making minuscule progress in 223 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 2: removing homeless people off the streets. And whether that's true 224 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 2: or not, there are public officials actively getting in the 225 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 2: way of taking people off the streets. And we have 226 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 2: a state senator at a Pasadena who knows this woman here, 227 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 2: Sasha Perez. She's a Democrat at a Pasadena, and she 228 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 2: has written a bill, Brace Yourself. The bill would stop 229 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 2: cities and counties from issuing fines and jail time for 230 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 2: homeless people for acts related to experiencing homelessness. 231 00:13:58,240 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 1: The help. 232 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 2: Related to experiencing homelessness because in a lot of cities now, 233 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 2: sleeping camping on public property, sidewalk, streets, parks is illegal 234 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 2: and the cops can come and if you don't move on, 235 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: they can't arrest you, and they can't issue fines and 236 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 2: they could take your stuff. And the Sacramento Bee gives 237 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: an example of what happened to a woman in North Sacramento, 238 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 2: and this is apparently one of the stories that inspired 239 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 2: this Sasha Perez, the writer bill. It's about a homeless 240 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 2: woman named Ginger Gibbons and Sacramento police and Sacramento, on 241 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 2: a per capita basis, had the worst homeless problem in 242 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 2: the state for a population as size. They had an 243 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 2: extraordinary mental for homeless people. So they're trying to stop it. 244 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 2: A city ordinance was passed that camping on public property 245 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 2: is illegal, and Ginger Gibbons was arrested, and she's spent 246 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: a few hours at the jail, and she came back 247 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 2: to her camp and found all her belongings gone, and 248 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 2: her dogs were gone too, her new ice chest where 249 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 2: she planned to keep water bottles for herself and her neighbors, 250 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 2: you know, in the summer's coming, and the city took everything. 251 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 2: Well they should take everything, because it's illegal. Nobody was 252 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 2: ever allowed to camp out on public property for you know, 253 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 2: most of our lifetimes until the last ten years. In fact, 254 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 2: in Sacramento they have handed out five hundred and forty 255 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 2: three citations from August of twenty twenty three through December 256 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 2: of twenty fourth. And now, Sasha Perez, you know some 257 00:15:54,960 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 2: cities are trying to stop this. San Francisco is sacri meno. 258 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 2: Is La is incompetent and corrupt. So we're not but 259 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 2: the state. Now you have Sasha Perez who votes for 260 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 2: her in Pasadena. 261 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: Why would you vote for this woman? 262 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 2: She wants to protect homeless people so that they can 263 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 2: continue defecating and urinating and leaving their needles behind, and 264 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 2: smoking their crack and storting their meth and injecting their 265 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: fentanyl in public and in front of children and fouling 266 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: up the parks. That's what you elected Sasha Perez for. 267 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 2: This lady's a nut, she said. We've seen jail stays 268 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 2: for people simply for being homeless. No, you don't get 269 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 2: put in See they always twisted, they always lie. 270 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: No one's thrown in jail for being homeless. 271 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 2: You're thrown in jail because you're camping in a public place, 272 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 2: and that's illegal. It's not legal to be homeless, it's 273 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 2: illegal to camp in a public place. So anyway, we're 274 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: gonna keep an eye eye on this. Sasha Perez and 275 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:08,719 Speaker 2: this idiotic bill. I cannot believe, after everything that's gone on, 276 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 2: that the Democrats are actually going to give all these 277 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 2: vagrants and mental patients and drug addicts legal protection and 278 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 2: that they're going to be allowed to live on the 279 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 2: public on public property. All right, we come back the 280 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: big scam in Long Beach Food Bank of Southern California. 281 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 2: The executives running the food bank and the board members 282 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 2: have run off with eleven million dollars eleven million dollars 283 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 2: in either donations or government grants. I don't know specifically 284 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 2: how this place is funded, but it's not their money. 285 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,239 Speaker 2: It's somebody else's money, and now they're being sued by 286 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 2: the state. 287 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI AM 288 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 7: six forty. 289 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four and 290 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 2: join the millions who download the podcast John cobelt Show 291 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app. It's posted after four o'clock, 292 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 2: same as the radio show. And the first half hour 293 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 2: we had Heraldo riveron, who remembered you look at that. 294 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: You didn't think he would. 295 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 5: I don't know if he really did. I couldn't tell. 296 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 5: You know how people say yes they do, but they 297 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 5: really don't. I don't want to be embarrassed. 298 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: I think he really remembered you. 299 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 6: I only worked with him for maybe a year, and 300 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 6: it was that's one many years ago. 301 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 2: It's a year of you ten years to somebody else. 302 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 2: So no, he remembered you. Nobody could forget. He was 303 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 2: very nice when Yeah, so we had him on because 304 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 2: you know, we didn't have time to get into it. 305 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 2: But he was best friends of Trump back in the seventies. 306 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 2: And I think when the two of them were in 307 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 2: their playboy era, they were always running around town together. 308 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 5: Wouldn't you like to hear those stories? 309 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: I can't imagine. 310 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: And so you know, and he's had a long, long 311 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 2: broadcasting career, has done just about everything. But really, when 312 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 2: I was a kid, I watched him on local news 313 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 2: Channel seven in New York. He was an investigative reporter. 314 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 6: Well remember his the Heraldo Rivera show. It was a 315 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 6: silly show. 316 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I was on that once by phone 317 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 2: and he hung up on me. 318 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 5: You were on his show, I mean when he did. 319 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 2: That version. Yeah, that was that syndicated daytime show. 320 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 5: Oh yeah. 321 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 2: There was some crime story here in LA I think 322 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 2: it was about vigilantes going after taggers, and they well, 323 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 2: because I said something he would like. It wasn't about him. 324 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 2: It's just a head of an opinion. I don't think 325 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 2: he liked I was on the side of the vigilantes. 326 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 2: I forgot. 327 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: This is years ago. 328 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 2: And anyway, I hate a panety guests on stage. And 329 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 2: then they piped me in because you know, it was 330 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 2: a live story in LA and I got the dial tone. 331 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,880 Speaker 6: I can't imagine anybody would ever hang up on you. 332 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 2: A lot of people have, mostly mostly customer service representatives. 333 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 1: That I get, sir, I've got to go. 334 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 2: All right, here's our big scandal story of the day 335 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 2: to see the LA Times and CBS. 336 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: In Long Beach. 337 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 2: Anyone ever contribute money to Food Bank of Southern California, Well, 338 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 2: they probably stole your money. The food bank closed last October. 339 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 2: It started with a state Department of Social Services investigation. 340 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 2: The former CEO, Gene Cooper, was among many executives and 341 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 2: board members who stole at least eleven million dollars of 342 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 2: state and federal money. You wonder why Bill of Salley 343 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 2: is going to be doing a massive investigation as the 344 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 2: new US attorney and we'll have him on after three. 345 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: They opened in. 346 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy five, and they were supposed to feed poor 347 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 2: people food in La County. If you looked at their website, 348 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 2: it says we've won awards for sound fiscal management and 349 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 2: commitment to accountability and transparency out for the last ten years. 350 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: At least. 351 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 2: According to state attorneys, food bank officers, directors, and vendors 352 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 2: diverted millions of dollars of state and federal funds that's 353 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 2: our tax money, and diverted the money into their own pockets. 354 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 2: Department of Social Services started investigating the food bank June 355 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 2: last year, and by October it closed. They are accusing 356 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 2: the food Bank of a variety of wrongdoing the CEOs, 357 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 2: the old CEO, Gene Cooper, and the CEO who replaced her. 358 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 2: His name is Brian Weaver. I got to tell you something, Weaver. 359 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 2: Weaver got the job, he said, I got the job. 360 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 2: I took over because we suspected fraud, and now they're 361 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 2: accusing him of fraud. Not only the old CEO but 362 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 2: the replacements. Brian, Yeah, Brian Weaver, They're both accused of it. 363 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 2: The lawsuit names twelve members of food Bank's board, including 364 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 2: Dion Rambo, sweet Alice Harris who's ninety years old, ninety 365 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 2: years old, and they say she was stealing money. And 366 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 2: Michael Barrett and the old CEO's husband, Lamar Ramsey also accused. 367 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 2: He's a defendant and he didn't even work for the 368 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 2: Food Bank. So Department of Social Services says Cooper and 369 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 2: her husband Ramsey used the nonprofit money art tax money 370 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 2: to pay for home renovations, lawn services, and an artificial 371 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 2: Christmas tree. And they also used the corporate accounts and 372 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,159 Speaker 2: credit cards to spend two hundred and twenty eight thousand 373 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 2: dollars at Best Buy Home Depot, Lowe's Office depot, and. 374 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 1: At and T Geene. 375 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 2: Cooper also sent almost five thousand dollars to her sister 376 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: in law for transportation expenses. She gave seven thousand dollars 377 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 2: to her spouse for repairs that were never made at 378 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 2: the Food Bank, and she spent twenty six hundred dollars 379 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 2: on her husband's company to decorate two business trucks. The 380 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 2: Food Bank gifted Ramsey a ten thousand dollars back box 381 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 2: truck because the wife said so. 382 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 3: So. 383 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 2: Then Brian Weaver takes over as the new CEO, and 384 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 2: then he's accused of taking a twenty thousand dollar cashiers 385 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 2: check from the food bank and not documenting what it 386 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 2: was used for. Wea were also used the funds to 387 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 2: buy a Tesla for himself. This was this was the 388 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 2: new guy who knew he was being hired because they 389 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 2: suspected the previous boss was stealing money, and so then 390 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,360 Speaker 2: he goes and steals money. According to the state, they 391 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 2: claimed he also hired his family members. One family member 392 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 2: became a project manager an accountant. Then there's another guy 393 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 2: on the board, Dion Rambo. He he he pocketed the 394 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 2: money two hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars that was 395 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 2: supposed to go to a second company named Southwest Group South. 396 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of service Southwest Group was 397 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 2: supposed to provide, but they never got the money because 398 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 2: Dion Rambo kept it. 399 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: According to the state. 400 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 2: Then there's another guy here it's hard to keep up with, 401 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 2: named Michael Barrett, and he used food banks accounts to 402 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 2: pay his company five thousand dollars every quarter for a billboard. 403 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: Over his church. He's a pastor of the Do Write 404 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: Christian Church, Do Right, Do Right. 405 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 5: Wow, you're wrong. 406 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 2: He used the money to make direct payments to his parish. 407 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 2: K l News contacted Jeane Cooper and all the board 408 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 2: members I mentioned, but nobody called back. Now here's sweet 409 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 2: Alice Harris. She's ninety years old, a prominent philanthropist. She's 410 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,959 Speaker 2: been called a beacon of hope for the community by 411 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 2: an LA City Council member who's probably in jail two. 412 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 2: She had an intersection dedicated in her name. But she 413 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 2: used her status on the board to send one hundred 414 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 2: and seventy two thousand dollars to a group called Parents 415 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 2: of Watts. And she used the food bank accounts to 416 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 2: send donations to that Parents of Watts organization and buy bicycles, 417 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 2: gift cards, suits and turkeys. And they claim that she 418 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 2: used the accounts to say money to her family, to 419 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 2: her family's organization, just caring for folks, She claims, I 420 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 2: am innocent. They say she hired a granddaughter for a 421 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 2: taxpayer paid position at the food bank. I've never been 422 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 2: taking one penny, said Harris. I can go on and 423 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 2: on here, but this is what I'm talking about. When 424 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: I say they hired their friends and relatives, it's because 425 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 2: they hire their friends and relatives, and then everybody dives up. 426 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 2: To these up millions of dollars, and this crowd did 427 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 2: it for ten plus years. And even when they fired 428 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 2: the old CEO, the new CEO used money, according to 429 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 2: the state, to buy himself a Tesla. 430 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: This is one food bank operation in Long Beach. 431 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 2: If you wonder how they lost track of two billion 432 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 2: dollars at LASA. I mean, there's hundreds of these nonprofits 433 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles and they're taking money for poor people, 434 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 2: for food, for homeless, for this and that, and and 435 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 2: they're get they're getting wealthy off it, and it's hard. 436 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 2: It's all our tax money. Although Sale is also going 437 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 2: to look how many private donations were misdirected. So Bill's 438 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 2: going to be coming on about the homeless nonprofits after 439 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 2: three o'clock. The new US Attorney here in Los Angeles. 440 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 441 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 7: six forty. 442 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: Coming up. 443 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 2: On our show after two o'clock, Michael Munks is going 444 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 2: to be on for the first time in seventeen years. 445 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 2: LA City Council wants to raise garbage. 446 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 5: Fee because we're not pain enough here. 447 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 2: Garbage fees, Yeah, because they're a billion dollars in debt. 448 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 2: Because they've blown so much money that now they're going 449 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 2: to jack up trash collection fees. 450 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: By fifty four percent. 451 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 2: And if you live in a multi family building, it's 452 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 2: going to go up one hundred and thirty percent. 453 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is. 454 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 2: The corrupt La City Council and the idiot Karen Bass, 455 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 2: her lack of intelligence and their corruption. Now you're getting 456 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 2: whacked with a garbage increase. A garbage fee increase of 457 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 2: fifty four percent or one hundred and thirty percent. We'll 458 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 2: get into that with Michael Monks coming up after two 459 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 2: o'clockhead Also horrifying news. Big La Times profiles Kamala Harris 460 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 2: is she leaning towards running for governor rather than president. Ah, 461 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 2: So we are going to replay the Doritos clip just 462 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: to remind everybody if you pick her for governor, We're 463 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 2: going to remind you what you're getting. 464 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: Now. We've just gone through a story. 465 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 2: The Food Bank, Southern California Food Bank or the Food 466 00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 2: Bank of Southern California, located in Long Beach, is suing 467 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 2: a multitude of their nonprofit executives, directors, board members, the 468 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 2: wall crew there. They have stolen eleven million dollars over 469 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 2: the last decade, according to the state. Well there's more, 470 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 2: and this is a federal story. Elon musk Doze found 471 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 2: millions of dollars in unemployment claims have gone to fake people. 472 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 2: They're so fake they haven't even been born yet. Oh yes. 473 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 2: Doze claims that since twenty twenty, there's nearly ten thousand 474 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 2: people whose birth dates aren't for another fifteen years. These 475 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 2: unborn fake people have claimed sixty nine million dollars in benefits. 476 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 2: In one case, there's a person who has yet to exist. 477 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 2: Their birthdate is listed in the year twenty one fifty four, 478 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 2: and they've gotten forty one thousand dollars. 479 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 5: That's just stupid. 480 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 2: Another twenty four thousand people over the age of one 481 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen. Now that's important because the oldest person 482 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: in the country right now is one fourteen. These are 483 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 2: we've missed twenty four thousand people who are one hundred 484 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 2: and fifteen and they got fifty nine million dollars in benefits. Wait, 485 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 2: there's more. There's twenty eight thousand people between the ages 486 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 2: of one and five who got another two hundred and 487 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 2: fifty million dollars in Social Security benefits, said said one senator, 488 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 2: Jony Ernst of Iowa. Of course, toddlers and someone with 489 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 2: a birth date one hundred and twenty nine years in 490 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 2: the future are unemployed. But they definitely don't qualify. Thank you. 491 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 2: She began, I'm a US senator. 492 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 5: He's a smart one. 493 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 494 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 2: But then again, Kamala Harris became vice president and almost 495 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 2: became president, and she wants to run for governor. Maybe 496 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 2: big story of the New York Times, and we'll talk 497 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 2: about that coming up. And we're every time she comes 498 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 2: up to the news, we're playing the Doritos Cliff. You 499 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 2: have to go on offense and Michael Monks is coming 500 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 2: in next because trash collection fees are going up big 501 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,479 Speaker 2: in the city of Los Angeles, because the city has broke, 502 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 2: because the city Council is made up of a bunch 503 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 2: of crooks and Karen Bass as dumb as a box 504 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 2: of rocks. 505 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 6: Why can't we get Elon Musk to come here to 506 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 6: LA and do a little dojing? 507 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 2: Oh we need a dojing, we too, I mean a 508 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 2: painful doj We really they need to bend everyone over 509 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 2: at city Hall and give them a dojing. 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