1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 3: We're on every day from one until four after four o'clock. 5 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 3: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. Tomorrow, 6 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 3: the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments on whether 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 3: all these tariffs that Trump levied on the world are legal. 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 3: He used a law from nineteen seventy seven called the 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 3: International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy the tariffs. They've 10 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 3: collected hundreds of billions of dollars. And if the Justice 11 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 3: has decided all these tariffs are illegal, would the US 12 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 3: have to pay back the money? That could get really 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 3: complicated because the government's probably spent all that money. Let's 14 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 3: get to Royal Oaks. Now, ABC News Legal analyst Royal 15 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 3: How are you. 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: I'm doing great, John, Yeah, I don't think we're going 17 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: to have to pay any money back. But it could 18 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: be a big defeat for Trump and he's already twice 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: he lost in the Trout Court and the Appeals Court 20 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: and they said, oh, you can't do that out of 21 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: the Act. But the Fiel's Court did say, you know, 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: spring courss the boss. So we're going to wait to 23 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: see what the High Court says about it. And as 24 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: you say, it's going to be dramtic tomorrow morning. Is 25 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: zero argument. You know, Trump's got an argument because traditionally 26 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: this economic emergency law has been used for things like 27 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: freezing assets or the bad guys, you know, they make 28 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: war or take our hostages economic sanctions, and the statue 29 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 1: doesn't have the word tariff. But Trump's attitude is, look, 30 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: this was a crisis. I really think it was an emergency, 31 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: and so it's justified. And it wouldn't be a shock 32 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: if the court, you know, was six out of nine 33 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: that Republican appointees agree with Donald Trump. But you know, 34 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: real interesting to watch, you know, the tea leaves. Listen 35 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: to their questions in the morning, see if they indicate 36 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: which way they're leaning. 37 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 3: What is Trump's version of an emergency here? Why did he. 38 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 2: Call it that? 39 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: His attitude is that the other countries imposed tariffs on us, 40 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: and we are just getting screwed. We're losing money left 41 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: and right, and I have to fight back. And you remember, 42 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: for months everybody was totally freaked out and was just 43 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: going to do the stock market in the world economy 44 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: as it turns out, you know, it was kind of 45 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: a nothing burger in a way, in the sense that 46 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,679 Speaker 1: Trump would just make it deals. Just the other day, 47 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: you know, he's over there in China with she and he's, Okay, 48 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to cut your tariffs. It feel be nice 49 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: to me about this and that and the other. So 50 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: I don't think the Supreme Court feels like this is 51 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: some sort of existential threat. 52 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 2: But it is. 53 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: Interesting because you know, the whole year, people had been 54 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: fussing on both sides about, you know, what's the extent 55 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: of the president's power. Can he you know, fire agency heads. 56 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: Can he just say this is birthright citizenship or it's illegal. 57 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: So extent of executive power is a big deal, and 58 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: this tariff thing is symbolic of it. You know, I 59 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: think we really got to watch Tomorrow Morning, John to 60 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: people Chief Justice Roberts and Emmy Cony Barrett because recently 61 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: they had been working, they had been voting with the 62 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: liberals in a fair number of cases, and they joined 63 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: the three liberals. Its lights out for Trump's side, because 64 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what Alito and Thomas and Kavanaugh and 65 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: Gorset stay, They're going to lose five to four. 66 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 4: Does it. 67 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 3: Is it going to matter that? It seems like for now, 68 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 3: the way I'd been looking at this, the tariffs have 69 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 3: worked out. It's brought in hundreds of billions of dollars 70 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,239 Speaker 3: to the Treasury. It's given Trump leverage to negotiate much 71 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 3: better deals than we had with these countries. And he's 72 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 3: gotten dozens of companies to move their manufacturing to the 73 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 3: United States because it's cheaper now than paying the tariff 74 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 3: if they were making the stuff overseas. The fact that 75 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 3: it didn't cause a collapse and they actually benefit the 76 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 3: US in the long run, would that have any effect 77 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 3: on the judges' attitudes. 78 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 1: Absolutely, That's a great point, because you know, we think 79 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: of the judiciary, the justices in the black worlds, they 80 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: are above politics. They're not above politics, it's the human being. 81 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: And they felt that the economy is coming crashing down 82 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: around our ears, then they'd rule one way. But if 83 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: it looks like it's okay, I mean often they follow 84 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: public opinion. I mean, you're back in the day, you know, 85 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: we had it was illegal to have interracial marriage, and 86 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: then when the public opinion polls made it pretty clear 87 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: that everybody thought that was a crock it should be 88 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: legal suddenly, the US Supreme Court after two hundred years ago. 89 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's legal. So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised 90 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: if politics enterors into their decision. 91 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 3: Upon further review reading the Constitution. That always amused me, 92 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 3: because you know, we're taught a lot of propaganda in 93 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 3: school about how they go by the letter of the law. 94 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 3: You know, this is what they teach in school, you know, 95 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 3: in your seventh grade, and then you got in the 96 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 3: real world and it seems like they're politicians like everyone else, 97 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 3: and that you know, it depends what we've talked about 98 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 3: this many times. 99 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: It depends what judge you get as to what the 100 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 2: decision is going to. 101 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: Be exactly right. It's such a crock because if you 102 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: look to the president who appointed a justice, you can 103 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: almost always predict how that person is going to vote 104 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: on a high profile, you know, sexy political case. Is 105 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: that right? I mean, they're supposed to be totally independent. 106 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: It's a freaking lifetime appointment. But yeah, it's very disappointing 107 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: you kind of know in advance how they're going to vote. 108 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 3: I guess he could run all this through Congress and 109 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 3: that would make it legal. But there's many different viewpoints 110 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 3: in Congress, and he probably wouldn't get this kind of 111 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 3: power or the approval of this kind of power on 112 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 3: his own. There were plenty of Republicans against tariffs, and 113 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 3: funny Democrats as well. 114 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: Actually, since the leads in the Senate House are so 115 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: small that you get a few Republicans where liberals they 116 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: joined the Democrats and then it's like, no, the GOP 117 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: doesn't have the majority after all. So yeah, I don't 118 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: think he could go. 119 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 3: Because there's some Republicans who believe in absolute free markets. 120 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 3: You're not supposed to have any taxation to impede in 121 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 3: international commerce. 122 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, ran Paul Libertarian. He can't count on everybody's votes, 123 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: so on the GP side at all. 124 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 3: All right, you got a hunch on which way this 125 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 3: is going to go or is it really a wild card? 126 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,919 Speaker 1: I think that Trump's going to win because you know, 127 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: they've been very deferential, like that immigration thing. The Supreme 128 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: Court has said, you know, the princedent gets to decide 129 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: if there's a national emergency where you use military and 130 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: the troops. They don't like the second guessing. So yeah, 131 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: if I had to go to Vegas and bet I'd 132 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: say trumble win. 133 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 2: All right, we'll see what happens. Thank you. 134 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 3: Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analysts on the Supreme Court 135 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 3: hearing tomorrow on Trump's tariffs. He used emergency powers to 136 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 3: bypass Congress, and the debate is going to be whether 137 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 3: it was a real emergency. He says it was a 138 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 3: real economic emergency because we've gotten screwed for you know, 139 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 3: trillions of dollars over the years by other countries. So 140 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 3: we'll we'll you know, that hearing will be tomorrow when 141 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 3: we come back. Ah, there's one less possible goobernatorial candidate, 142 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 3: A big name dropped out today before he was even 143 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 3: in and you'll know him by one thing, by one sound, 144 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 3: and we'll play it for you when we come back. 145 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 146 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 147 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 3: Well, it was pretty sad news today. I was, it's 148 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 3: kind of devastated by this. But the senator that nobody 149 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 3: ever heard of until very recently, Senator Alex Padia from California. Yeah, 150 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 3: it's California Senator. It's not just that stupid crook Adam 151 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 3: what's his name? Padilla was rumored he was thinking about 152 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 3: running for governor, and story was like leaked, and you 153 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 3: never know if that's a real story. If somebody was 154 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 3: just trying trying to do a test balloon, you know, 155 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 3: trying to see what the response would be, and then 156 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 3: they were going to convince the diator ron As all 157 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 3: kinds of stuff like that. But today he decided to 158 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 3: announce he's not running, which I sound funny because it's like, well, 159 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 3: who asked you? Like you're saying, I don't know who 160 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 3: Alex Padilla is. Well, remember you weren't the only one. 161 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 3: Because during the immigration raids in la back in June, 162 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 3: when Christy nom the Homeland Security Secretary, was holding a 163 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 3: mini press briefing in one of the offices, Padilla stormed 164 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 3: in dressed in ordinary street clothes and no identification on 165 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 3: him that he was a senator, and nobody recognized him. 166 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: So security went to work. And here's what it sounded like, hands. 167 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 2: Up, hands up, I'm Senator Dwich. 168 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 5: Could I have questions for the secretary because the fact 169 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 5: of the matter is. 170 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 6: A dozen violent criminals that you're on your. 171 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 3: He's tackled faced down on the ground. 172 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 2: I have a question. My hand's going right behind my 173 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 2: back all right cool one hand handcuff other hand other man. 174 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 2: I love that. 175 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 3: I could listen to that all day, the big wind bag. 176 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 2: Nobody knew who he was. No man had any idea 177 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 2: who this guy is. 178 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 3: Just I mean, because you don't know, right, I mean, 179 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 3: there's been so many assassination attempts and threats and actual assassinations. 180 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 3: You know, he goes charging in there without I d 181 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 3: but Tommy identifies himself. 182 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 2: He was already being haulted. 183 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 3: Uh so today announced he's not You know, you played 184 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 3: the clip of him announcing he's not running. 185 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 7: You want to hear it? 186 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: Ye, yeah, play it again. 187 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 3: He has a he's a particularly weak voice, like he 188 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 3: does not inspire strength and leadership. 189 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 7: Okay, I found it. 190 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 2: Just hit play. 191 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 7: Okay, Well I had to. 192 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 8: Get it up on my screen first, and then I 193 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 8: know how to hit play. 194 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 2: I know how to trigger you. 195 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 9: And so it is with a full heart and even 196 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 9: more commitment than ever, that I am choosing to not 197 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 9: run for a governor of California next year. 198 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 2: I don't hear any moans or groans or people yelling 199 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 2: no no, say it isn't so tell me you're running. 200 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 7: I have another. 201 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 2: Is anybody in the streets. 202 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 7: I have another one. You want to hear that, all right, 203 00:10:58,880 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 7: let's hear this one. 204 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 9: I choose not just to stay in the Senate. I 205 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 9: choose to stay in this fight because the Constitution is 206 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 9: worth fighting for. Our fundamental rights are worth fighting for. 207 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 9: Everybody's fighting. Everybody's fighting. Everyone's fighting for the Constitution, fighting 208 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 9: for rights. He's uh, he's he's got to stay and 209 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 9: fight Trump. Everybody's fighting Trump. 210 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 4: It's funny. 211 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 3: Trump is steamrolling everybody. But they're all fighting, right, They're 212 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 3: all under the steamroller. They're all flat out on the ground. 213 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 3: Play again, play padilla, getting the tossed again. I want 214 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 3: this on a loop. 215 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 5: Sir, hands up, I'm senator said, I have questions for 216 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 5: Secretary because. 217 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is it's half a. 218 00:11:53,679 --> 00:12:02,479 Speaker 6: Dozen fighting criminals that you're rotting on your there's your question, off. 219 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 3: Ask your question from down there. Ask it while you're 220 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 3: on your stomach. 221 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 4: Your backs going back right, cool one hand la la 222 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 4: Platt lake clat other answer. 223 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 3: The great leaders, you know, like he doesn't know he's 224 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 3: a clown. He doesn't know he's a buffoon. That's what 225 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 3: That's what I love about these guys. They like Newsom 226 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 3: doesn't know. He's obviously a pathical, pathological war he doesn't know. 227 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 3: He's just a bumbling clown. It's it's just so funny, 228 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 3: all right, when we come back. How many Californians do 229 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 3: you think are on food stamps? This number is worse 230 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 3: than I thought it was. Why don't people go and 231 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 3: get work anymore? I don't understand. 232 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A M. 233 00:12:59,040 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 4: Six forty. 234 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 3: Well, here's a breaking news. Mayor Karen Bass lifted her 235 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 3: declaration of emergency on homelessness, but. 236 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 2: Says the crisis persists. 237 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 3: I don't understand this, and then she said, you know 238 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 3: she would not hesitate to read stated. Let me be clear, 239 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 3: the crisis remains, so does our urgency. But she's lifting 240 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 3: the state of emergency. It's tough when you have an 241 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 3: insane person running things. She doesn't care people dining in 242 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 3: the street every day. I think five die every day 243 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 3: in the street. You have to force them into mandatory 244 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 3: alcohol and drug treatment programs, or you have to force 245 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 3: them into a mental institution. Anything else is just theft. 246 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 3: That's what's going on. Massive theft. And she's sitting at 247 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,719 Speaker 3: the top of the theft pyramid there, all right, how 248 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 3: many people do you think on food stamps in California? 249 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 2: Forty million people. 250 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 3: Five and a half million, five and a half million 251 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 3: are on the staff program food Stamps. California gets a 252 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 3: billion dollars from the federal government every month. For this, 253 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 3: We're spending twelve billion dollars in tax money on people 254 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 3: who claim they don't have enough food to eat. Katie 255 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 3: Grimes actually has a hysterical piece in californiaglobe dot com 256 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 3: and I totally agree with her on this. How many 257 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 3: Californians are really hungry, really hungry. Everywhere I go, everywhere, 258 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 3: everywhere I look, Walmart, Targets, Starbucks, CBS, Trader Joe's college campus, 259 00:14:54,760 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 3: launching dining out, high end shopping mall. Californians are clearly wealth, chunky, hefty, 260 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 3: and far too many are fat, seriously and dangerously fat. 261 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 3: In fact, I read today that the obesity rate in 262 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 3: this country is at forty percent. 263 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 7: With Wgov and Wallows. 264 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 2: That was zempic, that was the story. This year. 265 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 3: For the first time in history, the obesity rate has 266 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 3: dropped down all the way to thirty seven percent. 267 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 7: That's what I thought. 268 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: Last year it was forty. 269 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 3: Oh you can tell, you can tell that it's three 270 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 3: percent less bad out there. 271 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 8: I can't tell you how many people I know that 272 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 8: are on those drugs. 273 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 2: Oh, it's a trendy thing in your neighborhood. 274 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 8: I'm not saying they're my friends. I'm not even saying 275 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 8: they're in my neighborhood. I just people are on these 276 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 8: drugs big time. 277 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I know a lot of people on them, 278 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 2: and they work as. 279 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 7: Far as I can tell your neighborhood. 280 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 3: Ohh yeah, because it's very a body. Body beauty is 281 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 3: very competitive. 282 00:15:58,480 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: My side of town. 283 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, I just naturally am able to compete and I 284 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 3: don't have to resort. 285 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 2: You know, Well, whatever. 286 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 3: Sound you made there, that snor it was really uncalled 287 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 3: for that, Yes you did. That was not a lady 288 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 3: like sound. I'm lady apparently not. I But here's what 289 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 3: she says. So they, she says, many of these folks 290 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 3: are well groomed, manicured nails and toes, gorgeously professionally colored 291 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 3: and styled hair, donned in expensive athleisure wear. They wear 292 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 3: Apple watches, carry fourteen hundred dollars phones, driving late model cars. 293 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 3: In other words, there look like ordinary upper middle class 294 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 3: to wealthy people, okay, and they got food stamps because 295 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 3: it's just fraud. Everybody figured out how to defraud the government, 296 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 3: especially here in California. So everybody's happy to spend the 297 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 3: money that they're making on the stuff they like. 298 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 2: And in addition, they get a little kickback from. 299 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,239 Speaker 3: The government every month that they could cash it at 300 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 3: the grocery store. Many are using the EBT cards for 301 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 3: their grocery purchases. They think it's free money they're entitled to, so, 302 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 3: Katie Grime says, at the grocery stores, I frequent women 303 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 3: drive up in expensive cars carrying Louis Vuitton bags using 304 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 3: California EBT VISA cards to purchase their groceries. 305 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 2: You don't do this to you. 306 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 7: No, I do not do that. 307 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 3: And they treat it as if it's a secret society, 308 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 3: laughing as they screw the state government and their neighbors. 309 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 3: Several friends in the grocery business alerted to this to 310 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 3: me years ago, well off people using the food stamp 311 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 3: scam in her neighborhood where many homes sell for more 312 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 3: than a million dollars two million plus Teslas Mercedes BMW's 313 00:17:54,760 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 3: range drovers, Maseratis, ferraris everything else. They're using foodstafms. She 314 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 3: sees women rolling into parking spots at Von's Raleigh Supermarket 315 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 3: driving a Tesla, a Suburban, a Cadillac, Porsches. 316 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 2: Louis Vutan or Blenciaga bags. 317 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 7: Good, very good. No, I do not have one. 318 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 2: You don't have one. I don't, And you don't use 319 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 2: the food stamps. 320 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 7: I do not, do you. 321 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 2: No? 322 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 3: I actually tried to apply for food stamps once in 323 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 3: my early twenties. I was making one sixty a week 324 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 3: in radio. I was making too much money. It's really 325 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 3: supposed to be for poor people. 326 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 7: I get that. 327 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 3: But another girl I knew at the station. We both 328 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 3: went to the food stamp office. We both got rejected. 329 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 3: Hair nails, skin lashes, quaft shaped, peeled and injected. They 330 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 3: have the latest iPhone and they shop for food and 331 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 3: pay with an EBT card. So I guess this is 332 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 3: all the rage. 333 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 2: And the rich circle. 334 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 7: I have never heard this. 335 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 2: You haven't run into this. 336 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 7: I have not. 337 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 2: Honestly, I haven't seen this either. But I'm going to 338 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:10,360 Speaker 2: go looking now. 339 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,959 Speaker 7: Yeah I am too, But are you going to say, 340 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 7: excuse me, how much is your purse. How much did 341 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 7: you pay for those shoes? 342 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 3: Well, you you got to school me and what these 343 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 3: look like so I can identify the persons in the shoes. 344 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 3: Everything looks the same to me. 345 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 7: And that is maddening if that is truly happening five. 346 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 2: And a half billion people. 347 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 3: That say, by the way, even among the poor people, 348 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 3: most of them are fat. I mean really, there's a 349 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 3: well they are. It's I got statistical proof here. We've 350 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 3: bumped down to thirty seven percent, and the wealthy people 351 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 3: are taking the ozempic and then we go VI because 352 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 3: the poor people can't can't afford that those things are expensive. 353 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 8: Yes they are, and no I don't take it, but 354 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 8: I know they're very expensive. 355 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 2: All right, You. 356 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 3: Don't take it. You don't have these bags, you don't 357 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 3: buy foods, you don't do any show. 358 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: I do not. 359 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 2: I have to do my investigating. I don't know why 360 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 2: I thought of you. 361 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 7: I don't know why either, But I'm insulting. You say 362 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 7: I insult you, You insult me. 363 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 2: But I got it. 364 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 7: I'm out of here. 365 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: We have such a dysfunctional relationship. 366 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty. 367 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 3: We're on from one till four John Cobelt Show. 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Gee, I'm sure 388 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 3: there's no fraud. You just heard that there's there's probably 389 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of people defrauding of the state on 390 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 3: food stamps. There's wealthy people, probably progressive, wealthy Democrats, running 391 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 3: around wearing nice clothes, driving cars, knights phones, and they 392 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 3: pay their grocery bills at Trader Joe's or Vond's with 393 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 3: EBT cards because they're defrauding the food stamp. They're defrauding 394 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 3: the state government and federal government because they supply the money. 395 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 3: So of course there's probably a lot of voter ID 396 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 3: fraud going on. There's a lot of people showing up, 397 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 3: tell me illegal aliens or aren't voting. Come on, that 398 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 3: was the whole reason they're here. Huntington Beach is a 399 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 3: charter city, and they say, as a charter city they 400 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 3: can set their own rules to some extent, and they 401 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,120 Speaker 3: had their own voter ID law you have to show 402 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 3: ID or you don't get to vote. And their law 403 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 3: was Measure A and was backed up by a California 404 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 3: District court. Well now went to the California Appeals Court 405 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 3: and the appeals Court said, no, you have no right 406 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 3: to demand voter ID in Huntington Beach. 407 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 2: Rob Bonta was doing a victory dance over this. 408 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 3: This is what they fight for, the fight to have 409 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 3: an election where no one has to show an ID. 410 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 3: And then everybody beats on Trump when he says the 411 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 3: system's corrupt. Of course it's corrupt. You wanna take a 412 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 3: big step towards proving it's not that you can only 413 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 3: do that with voter ID like many many states have. Instead, Bonta, 414 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 3: who's always auditioning to be Newsom's mini me, said no 415 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 3: matter where threats to voting rights come from, whether Washington, 416 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 3: DC or within California, we will continue holding the line. 417 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 3: And you know, part of the fight is whether they 418 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 3: have the rights as a charter city to have their 419 00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 3: own voting rules. But Carl Demio as a proposal to 420 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 3: put on the ballot a referendum to require voter ID. 421 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,959 Speaker 3: In fact, Carl's going to be on tomorrow because we're 422 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 3: going to talk about you know, Prop fifty, which is 423 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 3: expected to pass today, and he was about the only 424 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 3: Republican official who fought against it. It's fascinating how a 425 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 3: Republican party, both in the state and nationally, spent almost 426 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 3: no time and no energy on fighting Prop fifty, even 427 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 3: though it's their party that's losing about five seats in 428 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 3: the end from this. 429 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 2: You know, if they don't want to fight for you anymore, 430 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you. 431 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: They just. 432 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 3: Rolled over and gave up on this one. All right, 433 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 3: we'll see you tomorrow. We've got Conway with the new 434 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 3: with his show coming up in minutes. 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