1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 3: It's the John Cobalt Show. Lou Penrose in for Cobalt 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 3: all this week. Thank you for tuning in. Good to 5 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 3: have you along with us. What a day, and it's 6 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 3: been like this since for the most part last night, 7 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 3: but it came in strong and it stayed strong throughout 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 3: Los Angeles County, Ventura County, and Orange County on its 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 3: way now to San Diego County. 10 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: But the rain will continue. 11 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 3: Michael Monks is in the KFI newsroom. Michael, thanks for 12 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 3: jumping in. Everybody's got their eye on the same part 13 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 3: of Los Angeles, and that is the part that has 14 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 3: just a lot of dirt and now a lot of water. 15 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: You're exactly right. 16 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 4: I mean that the big fear about a storm like 17 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 4: this rolling in is how unfortunately fresh those burned scars 18 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 4: are around the palisades, around the Eton Fire, but even 19 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 4: some of our older fires, people have been told to 20 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 4: monitor and to be careful. Some folks were evacuated, in 21 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 4: fact in Orange County, or order to evacuate in Orange 22 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 4: County because of this rain that came in and that 23 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,839 Speaker 4: earth is so fragile and so vulnerable that it could 24 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 4: produce mud slize. I think the good news right now 25 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 4: is that the brunt of the. 26 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 5: Rain appears to be just about over. 27 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 4: So if there haven't been any significant problems yet, perhaps 28 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 4: a sigh of relief, a cautious sigh of relief. 29 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, like the heavy rain, right, the deluge, the stuff 30 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 3: that's dramatic. 31 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: You can hear it outside of the studio, like that's. 32 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 3: Kind of terrifying, especially if you are in an area 33 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 3: of concern. But as you see, it's still like sprinkling 34 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 3: out there, almost like spitting, and there's like a constant, 35 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 3: just annoying level of moisture falling. 36 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 4: Out of the sky and it's going to go on 37 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 4: through the evening. Oh, you're right, it is kind of 38 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 4: that annoying sprinkle right now. I can tell you here 39 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 4: in Burbank where the studio is, it was a mess 40 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 4: this morning. I mean coming out of the parking garage, 41 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 4: it was like stepping into the shower. So umbrellas were 42 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 4: absolutely necessary because it was an instant drench if you 43 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 4: were not protected. But right now, and in fact, I 44 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 4: should applaud the meteorologist. So we got word that Hey, 45 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 4: the rain's going to move out at about one o'clock. 46 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 4: We'll here it is one o'clock, and yeah, it is 47 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 4: virtually stopped except for that occasional spit that we're dealing with, 48 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 4: and where the real aftermath is now as long as 49 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 4: your earth isn't moving and you're in a safe terrain, 50 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 4: the aftermath is certainly being felt on the freeways. That's 51 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 4: really been the story all day long. The commute was 52 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 4: pretty awful and it's still a little bit bad out there, 53 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 4: although some of the worst problems we experienced this morning, 54 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 4: like the lanes closed on the northbound five and Sun 55 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 4: Valley and that was an absolute mess. 56 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 5: Most of that stuff is clearing up, but. 57 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 4: There are still other problems around the freeways, and that's 58 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 4: where people are feeling the impacts of this weather right now. 59 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, all three right lanes on the two Tanna closed 60 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: because of an accident there and just a lot of 61 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 3: skidding and a lot of And we see this in 62 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 3: October going into November, because it's now we're entering into 63 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 3: the wet season, so this is when the residue on 64 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 3: the road kicks up and all of a sudden, driving 65 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 3: on the freeways here in Los Angeles just become a 66 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 3: slick show. 67 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's really the first couple of range of 68 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: the season. 69 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 3: We always see that if we're lucky and we don't 70 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 3: have earth movement, then it's just a treacherous drive. 71 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: And the best thing you can do while it's raining, 72 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: if you can, is stay where you are. 73 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 3: I mean, unless you're in the middle of a river, 74 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 3: like stay, be late to the appointment, be late for 75 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 3: your shopping appointment, because it's just not worth being out there, 76 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 3: no question about it. 77 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 4: And I noticed that on my own commute here from 78 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 4: downtown Los Angeles to Burbank, it did feel a little 79 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 4: lighter out there, and for the cars that were on 80 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 4: the freeways, and this is my commune involves the one ten, 81 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 4: the five, and the one thirty four, it was light 82 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 4: lighter than usual, but people were moving slowly, so they 83 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 4: were heating your advice. They know what to do in 84 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 4: these situations. But not everyone was so lucky we had 85 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 4: right now. I believe there's still a big rig that 86 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 4: had slammed into the center divider on the northbound fifteen 87 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 4: just south of Magnolia Avenue and River Sign, so that's 88 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 4: been a problem. But some of the other crashes. One 89 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 4: of these involved the spilling of a pool of chemicals 90 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 4: on the two ten freeway, and still. 91 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's always a bad thing. The has Matt spills 92 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 3: are the worst because they take hours to clean up. 93 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 4: The has Matt was there. We mentioned the situation on 94 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 4: the five that was a mess. So you check your traffic, you. 95 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 5: Listen to us. 96 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 4: We'll give you the traffic updates and I'll let you 97 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 4: know where the hotspots are. But this rain came hard 98 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 4: and fast. It started in the overnight hours for most 99 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 4: of us, and it just piled up so quickly. Downtown 100 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 4: LA saw just over one point two inches in a 101 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 4: twelve hour period, and that's a pretty good amount of rain. 102 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 4: Bell air more than two inches of rain over the 103 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 4: past twelve hours or so, and that's a significant I mean, 104 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 4: there are places in the country that might hear us 105 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 4: talking lou and laugh at us, because you know, for. 106 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 3: Sure, our friends in Pennsylvania are just thinking against us. 107 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 3: But we're just the two inches of rain over twelve hours, 108 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 3: and you people shut down and go to stormwatch center 109 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 3: on KFI. 110 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 4: But the folks in Pennsylvania aren't dealing with the aftermath 111 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 4: of wildfires they're not dealing with roadways, they're not designed 112 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 4: to carry this runoff. And so different geographies deal with 113 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 4: this type of weather differently. And you get this amount 114 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 4: of rain this quickly, you're going to have consequences in Hely, 115 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 4: more than three inches in the Supulvita Canyon area all 116 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 4: within the past twelve hours, more than an inch and 117 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 4: a half in East Pasadena, Eagle Rock. 118 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 5: These areas just a complete day loge. 119 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 3: Now, you mentioned that you gave a shout out to 120 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 3: the media around just and you're right, they said it 121 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 3: would side around one and literally at the top of 122 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 3: the hour bell, the rain just seemed to turn off. 123 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 3: But the National Weather Service has the flash flood warning 124 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,239 Speaker 3: and effect into the evening, and there were one hundred 125 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 3: homes in the Sunset area that were evacuated. 126 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: When does that evacuation worker lifted. 127 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 4: Well, you got to keep an eye on that because 128 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 4: there are occasions where those are extended. 129 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 5: We saw that just this morning. 130 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 4: We saw thunderstorm warnings extended for forty five minutes or 131 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 4: ninety minutes here and there. But it's also not out 132 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 4: of the realm of possibility that the National Weather Service 133 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 4: will rescind early. They tend to err on the side 134 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 4: of caution, and so you do get warnings even if 135 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 4: you feel like nothing is happening. They obviously pay very 136 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 4: close attention to the science and the forecast and don't 137 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 4: send those out willy nilly. So that is something just 138 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 4: keep an eye on, and that is what we will do. 139 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 4: But if conditions change for the better, I'm sure they'll 140 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 4: lift that sooner. 141 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 3: Michael Monks, NICKAYFI Newsroom, thanks so much for giving us 142 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 3: an update. We'll check in with you again as we 143 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 3: hopefully begin the exit of this very intense day weather wise, 144 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 3: thunderstorm warning, severe stuts thunderstorm warnings. And you're right, the 145 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 3: National Weather Service has been breaking in to KFI all morning, 146 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 3: since seven o'clock this morning, and those beeps and buzzes 147 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 3: and the automated voice, the Max Headroom voice from the 148 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 3: National Weather Service, it's always kind of a just a 149 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 3: somewhat alarming, especially the living side the areas that are 150 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 3: having these these burn scars, so we appreciate it. 151 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: Thanks Lly, good to talk with you. 152 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 3: We'll talk with you again, as Michael Monks from the 153 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 3: KFI News Center. Look, we got a lot to get 154 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 3: to I want to keep on this storm because it's 155 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 3: still in the southern parts of Long Beach and in 156 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 3: Orange County and it will head into San Diego County 157 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 3: and flash flooding warnings are still in effect from the 158 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 3: National Weather Service, so we'll continue. And the constant drizzle 159 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: is still water and water and volume is all it takes. 160 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 3: So while it's not torrential feeling, it's still volume, and 161 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 3: so we want to keep an eye on that. We've 162 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 3: we've we've we've had. We've had enough with natural disasters 163 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 3: in southern California for a little while. So we'd like 164 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: to get a pass on one and we're hoping that 165 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 3: this will be the one that just passes us over 166 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 3: uh and everyone that has been evacuated can get back 167 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 3: into their home very very quickly. Well, we have a 168 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: lot to get of course, it's day fourteen of the shutdown. 169 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 3: Governor Gavin Newsom has finished signing and or vetoing all 170 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 3: the legislation that's on his desk. We'll tell you what 171 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 3: some of the changes are and some news that maybe 172 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 3: this Prop fifty could have a backfire effect nationwide. 173 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: We'll get to all that. 174 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 3: Jam Pack Show to John Cobelt Show Louke Penrose sitting 175 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 3: in for Cobelt. 176 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 177 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 6: six forty. 178 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 3: Good to have you along with this as we keep 179 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 3: our eye on the storm as it does seem to 180 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 3: be following the meteorologist predictions. 181 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: And that is one o'clock and almost one o'clock on 182 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: the money. 183 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 3: The rain subsided, but traffic is still a nightmare out there, 184 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 3: so stay tuned to news to the traffic reports on KFI. 185 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: They'll be coming up here. We'll get you home. But 186 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: if you don't have to be on the road, don't 187 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: be on the road at all. 188 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 3: So it is day fourteen of the federal government shutdown, 189 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 3: and we are still alive. It is day fourteen of 190 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 3: the federal government shutdown, and we still have health insurance. 191 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 3: You know what day of the federal government shutdown it 192 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 3: is because it's the same number as the day of 193 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 3: the month. 194 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: So today's October fourteenth, and it's shutdown day fourteen. 195 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 7: The math remains the same, and that means the government 196 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 7: is still shut down. Republicans hope this week is an 197 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 7: inflection point on the government shutdown. They believe a combination 198 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 7: of miss paychecks and mass firings could force Democrats to 199 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 7: accept their position and reopen the government, So. 200 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: That would be interesting. 201 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 3: We picked up another what wasn't a Democrat senator, It 202 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 3: was a non Republican senator. There are two independents, and 203 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 3: there is the Senator of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, who is 204 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 3: a Democrat. He has been with the Republicans all along, 205 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 3: and so we picked up him and one other independent senator. 206 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: That put us to fifty five. 207 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 3: So we need fifty five more votes to simply reopened 208 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 3: the government at September thirtieth funding levels. 209 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: So I see this a lot. 210 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 3: I just was watching a clip from Jimmy Kimmel last night, 211 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 3: and a lot of Democrats are playing this game. They're saying, 212 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 3: how can you blame the Democrats for shutting down the 213 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 3: government when Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the 214 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 3: White House and they certainly know better. Kimmel, maybe not. 215 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 3: But if you have that same curiosity, let me explain 216 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 3: it to you. 217 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: It's very simple. 218 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 3: You always hear about this sixty vote threshold in the Senate. 219 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: You always hear that. People ask all the time. I 220 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: don't get it. This is a democracy. Fifty plus one. 221 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 3: You know, majority rules, Why can't it just be fifty 222 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 3: one senators? 223 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: Why does it have to be sixty? And it's really simple, 224 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: it's arcane. 225 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 3: So there are four hundred and thirty five members of Congress, 226 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 3: thirty five members of the House of Representatives, and they're 227 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 3: a simple majority rules. So if all four hundred and 228 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 3: thirty five are seated, then two hundred and eighteen is 229 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 3: the magic number. You get the two hundred and eighteen 230 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 3: and it's passed. You don't have to worry about anything. 231 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 3: That's the House. The Senate a little different, and this 232 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 3: rule goes back to nineteen seventeen. And in order the 233 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 3: Senate has an open debate forum and in order to 234 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 3: stop talking, stop debating, stop arguing, and that's it. 235 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: We're going to stop now and just call the vote. 236 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: To win. 237 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 3: To win, you need fifty plus one, but to stop arguing, 238 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 3: you need sixty. It's called cloture, not closure like you're 239 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 3: getting closure when you get over something. It's cloture cloture e. 240 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 3: And that's just the Senate rule. And that Senate rule 241 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 3: has been there for over one hundred years and it's 242 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 3: designed to protect the minority in the Senate and to 243 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 3: be fair, Republicans have been in the minority in contemporary 244 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 3: American politics. The Senate has been in the minority way 245 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 3: more than they've been in the majority. So, frankly, Republicans 246 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 3: have benefited from the sixty vote threshold to achieve cloture 247 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 3: in order to move forward to have a vote. But 248 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 3: there are a lot in the Republican Party now that 249 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 3: are saying, Look, Democrats tried to eliminate the sixty vote 250 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 3: threshold when Trump was in office in twenty and sixteen, 251 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 3: from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty. 252 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: So they are willing to end tradition. Why shouldn't we 253 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: do it now? 254 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 3: When Democrats take control of the Senate someday, and they 255 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 3: will someday, the assumption is they'll not hesitate to break 256 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 3: with tradition and eliminate the sixty vote threshold and shove 257 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 3: through whatever socialist thing they want to shove through. 258 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: So why are we waiting to be proven wrong? Proven right? 259 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: I guess it would be. And so that's the new fight. 260 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: Now should we go ahead? 261 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 3: And because a simple majority could change that rule, and 262 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 3: then a simple majority can reopen the government and then 263 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 3: Democrats will be left with nothing they'll have zero. 264 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: Cards in their hands. They'll have no cards at all. 265 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 3: Here is a Republican Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia, 266 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 3: saying exactly that. 267 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 8: So Democrats will blow through the fellow buster. They'll use 268 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 8: the nuclear option when they get control again. 269 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer already tried. 270 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 8: It, and so I think that Republicans need to govern 271 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 8: and they should use the nuclear option and get rid 272 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 8: of that sixty vote rule. 273 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 3: So she is a part of a growing Republican chorus 274 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 3: to say, look, the time to be stately is over, 275 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 3: the time to be bipartisan is over. 276 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: We've turned a corner in this country. 277 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 3: And that's what this would mean, at least to senators 278 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 3: and really what it would mean to the folks that. 279 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: Watch these things for a long long time. 280 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 3: The sixty vote threshold was more than just a rule 281 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 3: put in place to protect the minority party. It was 282 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 3: put into place to keep a sense of stateliness in 283 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,439 Speaker 3: the United States Senate. It was designed this way on purpose. 284 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 3: So House members are re elected every two years, so 285 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 3: they are most they're closest to the voter. They have 286 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 3: to go in front of the voter every two years. Frankly, 287 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 3: every eighteen months, if you think about it. So they 288 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 3: really need to represent the voters, and they need to 289 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 3: reflect the voters, and or they will suffer the wrath 290 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 3: of the voters. The president's elected every four years and 291 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 3: only serve two terms. The Senate is voted, is elected 292 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 3: every six years, so they are the least sensitive to 293 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 3: what's going on in the hearts of the voters. 294 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: They don't have to be. They don't have to face 295 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: the voters for another five and a half years. 296 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 3: And that's by design so that majorities in the House 297 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 3: don't force things to happen. In the United States, the 298 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 3: founding fathers wanted to create a system that was so 299 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 3: gummy that that that majorities couldn't force things to happen. 300 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 3: And it's often referred to as the Senate is the 301 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 3: saucer that cools the coffee in the coffee cup. So 302 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 3: they've always wanted the Senate to be the place where 303 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 3: everybody calms down. We're all gentlemen here. You know, we 304 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 3: don't have a gavel. Notice, they don't have a gavel. 305 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 3: We don't bang hammers here. Everybody relax, everybody quiet down, 306 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 3: Let's talk about this, let's sort this out. 307 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: Let's figure let's respect the minority opinion and the debate. 308 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 3: Those crazy people down at the House of Representatives, they're 309 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 3: just worried about their reelection, so they get a little 310 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 3: extreme h and the president's up for reelection or he's not. 311 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 3: We're here for a while now. We don't have to 312 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 3: worry about such things. And that's the way it was designed. 313 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 3: So it would be significantly changing something if we decided 314 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: to do away with the sixty vote threshold to move 315 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 3: forward on a vote. And I have my thoughts on 316 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 3: which way we should go, and I'll share them next 317 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 3: lou Penrose Info John Coblt on the John Coblt Show. 318 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI Am 319 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 6: six forty. 320 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 3: Lou Penrose Info co belt This week in early season 321 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 3: early season store, the setting a delude jerrain throughout southern California, 322 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 3: and the National Weather Service has issued a flood flash 323 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 3: flood warning and we will continue to stay on top 324 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 3: of it, but for right now, it seems that the 325 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 3: biggest problem are on our roadways, So stay tuned to 326 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 3: KFI for the latest and traffic information. So it's day 327 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 3: fourteen of the federal government shutdown. There is no movement 328 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:56,239 Speaker 3: on either side at this point. Senators need five Democrat 329 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 3: senators to get to sixty, and the sixty is when 330 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 3: you can stop debate and call the question as it's 331 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 3: called in Roberts rules of order, which means you can 332 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 3: go to a vote, and then the vote can be 333 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 3: just fifty plus one. Actually you could just be fifty 334 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 3: to fifty because the Vice president breaks the time. But 335 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 3: Republicans have fifty three senators. They picked up a Democrat 336 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 3: from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, and today picked up an independent, 337 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 3: so we're at fifty five. But still five is a 338 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 3: big number in the United States Senate on the Democrat side. 339 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,239 Speaker 3: So there is talk of changing the rules, ending this 340 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 3: sixty vote threshold thing. And this is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. 341 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 3: She's in the House, so she's not a senator, she 342 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 3: can't vote on it, but she's calling upon the Senate 343 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 3: Republican leader John Thune to stop being respectful, effectively saying, 344 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 3: you know, I get it. You want to be you know, 345 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 3: stately and the orderly and leader ship and bipartisan and 346 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 3: let's all get along and try and find common ground. 347 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: Those days are long gone. 348 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 8: He's made the excuse that he has to preserve the filibuster, 349 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 8: which is the sixty vote rule in the Senate, because 350 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 8: he wants to be able to continue bipartisanship with Democrats. 351 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 8: My argument back against sad Matt is that bipartisanship has 352 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 8: been proven to be dead. Democrats and Republicans couldn't be 353 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 8: further divided. We have a one time opportunity here controlling 354 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 8: the White House, the House, and the Senate. 355 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 3: Okay, so I think she's half right. I think she 356 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 3: is absolutely right that bipartisanship is dead and there's no 357 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 3: need to pursue it. 358 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: However, I don't think you have to change the rules. 359 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 3: Like certainly it is true that if Democrats get controlled, 360 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 3: they'll change the rules and be unabashed about it. They 361 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 3: don't care about bipartisanship and we know that. But we 362 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 3: don't have to change the rules. It's better to keep 363 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 3: it in your back pocket. We're winning anyway, and I 364 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 3: just I don't like to change the rules of the game. 365 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 3: That's why I'm against Prop. Fifty, and that's why I'm 366 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 3: opposed to what they're doing in Texas and what other 367 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 3: states are doing Republican and Democrat to get even with California. 368 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 1: In Prompt fifty. You don't have to change the rules. 369 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: You can just win the argument. Right. 370 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan used to say all the time, good policy 371 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 3: is good politics. 372 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: You win the argument and then you win the vote. 373 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 3: That was the magic of Reagan Republicans back in the eighties, 374 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 3: and frankly, that is the magic of President Trump today. 375 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 1: The reason Trump won all. 376 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 3: Seven battleground states and the popular vote to defeat to 377 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 3: defeat Kamala Harris wasn't because of any trick. 378 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: He won the argument and then he won the vote. 379 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: And that is for me. That's the blueprint for Republican success. 380 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 3: It always has been, and it's the blueprint for Republican 381 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 3: success here in California. 382 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: Win the argument. It should be pretty easy to win 383 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: the argument. But go directly to the voters. 384 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 3: Stop holding press conferences, stop with the rallies, stop with 385 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 3: the campaigns. 386 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: Just go directly to the voter with very simple questions. 387 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be better if we produced our own energy 388 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 3: domestically instead of buying it by the barrel from countries 389 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 3: that don't like us very much? 390 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: Right? Simple questions? 391 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 3: Should government workers have higher salaries than private sector workers. 392 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 3: Should government workers have better pensions than private sector workers? 393 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: Are you better off than you were? 394 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 3: Like these simple questions that every normal person can understand 395 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 3: and relate to. 396 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: And if you win the argument, you'll win the vote. 397 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: You don't have to change the rules. 398 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 3: But now it looks like the whole redistricting thing that started, 399 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 3: well it started in Texas, to be fair, but the 400 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 3: reaction to it in California might be backfiring on Democrats. 401 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 3: Apparently a lot of states are saying, all right, if 402 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 3: this passes in California, then we're gonna do it in 403 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 3: our state, and then our state and then our state. 404 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 3: And they're just more places where you can go and 405 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 3: find Republican votes than Democrat votes. 406 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: Here is the analysis on CNN. Democrats, you tak California, Maryland. 407 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: Look at this. 408 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 3: If you offset California and Texas, everything left over. 409 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: Is an advantage to the Republicans. Yeah, that's a real problem. 410 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: If they go through all. 411 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 3: This work and change the law in California and then 412 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,719 Speaker 3: set it up where they draw congressional districts that are 413 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 3: so gerrymandered on purpose, too cheat to Democrats a better 414 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 3: chance of taking over the House of Representatives, and that 415 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 3: triggers into action other states doing the exact same thing. 416 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 3: In Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Kansas, and New Hampshire. You'll pick 417 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 3: up more Republican seats than California, will pick up Democrat 418 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 3: seats Texas. 419 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: Net it zeros out the. 420 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 3: Pick up in California and you actually have a loss 421 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 3: and Democrats will have a net loss going into the 422 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 3: twenty twenty six midterm election, and then all gloves are off. 423 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 3: I mean, at that point, why not remove the sixty 424 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 3: vote threshold to pass anything in the Senate. I mean, 425 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 3: everyone's cheating, and then that's what it is to be 426 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 3: fair to Republicans in Texas, to Democrats here in California, 427 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:55,479 Speaker 3: you're cheating. You're creating conditions for political purposes, not for 428 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 3: fair representation, on purpose to get even with Donald Trump 429 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 3: because you don't like the outcome of the twenty twenty 430 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 3: four election. 431 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: That's what it is. I mean, I think at. 432 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 3: The very base level, you have to be honest about 433 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 3: what you're trying to do. It's Trump derangement syndrome in politics. 434 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 3: But wouldn't that be amazing if it turned out to 435 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 3: completely backfire and Republicans pick up seats and a bunch 436 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 3: of states lose Democrat members of Congress as a reaction 437 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 3: to what California is doing. On Prop fifty The John 438 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 3: coblt Show, lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt this week. 439 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 440 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 6: six forty. 441 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 3: Louke Penrose in for John Cobelt on The John coblt Show. 442 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 5: Speaking of simple majorities. 443 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 2: A Democrat won that special election at Arizona in a 444 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 2: landslide a few weeks ago, but the grinder lover, Mike 445 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 2: Johnson won't swear her in. 446 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: Right because you call him a grinder lover. That's my point. 447 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 3: Why why do we have to be bipartisan? Why we 448 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 3: have to swear her in? Why can't we play hardball? 449 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 3: You're calling the Speaker of the House a grinder lover, 450 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 3: and you're wondering why he won't be kind to the 451 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 3: opposition party. Do you think if the shoe was on 452 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 3: the other foot and Hakim Jeffries was Speaker of the 453 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 3: House and a Republican one in a special election, and 454 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 3: that Republican vote. 455 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: Was going to. 456 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 3: Change the narrative in the House on some unpopular or 457 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 3: red herring of an issue like the Epstein list. You 458 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 3: think the Democrat would allow that Republican to be sworn 459 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 3: in and grab the narrative away. I know what you're 460 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 3: trying to accomplish, and we know what she's trying to accomplish, 461 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 3: and we're not letting her accomplish it because the majority matters. 462 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 3: It's interesting to me how much Democrats don't like being 463 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 3: in the minority. You see it with Senator Alex Padia. 464 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 3: That's why he's spending so much time in California. You 465 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 3: talking about Prop fifty. I am certain that he's warming 466 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,959 Speaker 3: up to jump in to the governor's race because he 467 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 3: doesn't like Washington because he's not in the majority. He's inconsequential, 468 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 3: and Democrats are not, especially California Democrats. 469 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: They don't like not being in the majority. 470 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 3: They frankly have no experience being in the minority, and 471 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 3: they don't know what to do. 472 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 1: And certainly Senator Perdilla doesn't know what to do. 473 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 3: He's still running ads on television about how he got 474 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 3: tackled by the Secret Service Protection of the Department of 475 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 3: Homeland Security Secretary Christinoman and how that somehow shaped him 476 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 3: into wanting to fight for people and it's unbecoming and 477 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 3: he's always crying about it. And I just think that 478 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 3: his star hasn't really moved. It was never really rising 479 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 3: in DC. He was not destined to be anything big. 480 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 3: He didn't earn the Senate seat and he's in the 481 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 3: minority and he didn't like it. So same here with 482 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 3: this congresswoman from the Colorado River area of Arizona. She 483 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 3: isn't like not getting her way. But you know what, 484 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 3: too bad, so sad when we come back. So gas 485 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 3: prices are falling nationwide, and it really is amazing to me. 486 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 3: In politics, it's better to be lucky than good. And 487 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom is lucky. He is absolutely lucky. He imposes 488 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 3: gas taxes at a time when Californians can least afford 489 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 3: an increase in their fuel costs at the pump. It 490 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 3: is unpopular, it's unpopular, and it's tripartisan unpopular. Republicans, Democrats, 491 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 3: and independents. A majority of all three, when asked do 492 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 3: not want to pay Newsom's gas tax increase. He had 493 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 3: the opportunity to suspen he had the opportunity to hold 494 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 3: off on it. It would have been good politics, and 495 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 3: frankly it would have been good policy because the most 496 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 3: regressive thing in California is the price of gas. The 497 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 3: people that make the least is impacted the most. Right, 498 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 3: It's just annoying if you have a good salary. But 499 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 3: if you are in one of these businesses that drive 500 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 3: around a truck all day, if you are a landscape 501 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 3: guy or the pool cleaning guy or the cleaning people, 502 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 3: or people that just driving trucks all day, right, and 503 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 3: you don't have an ev or alexis, then when gas 504 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 3: is four forty nine, four sixty nine, four eighty nine, 505 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 3: five twenty nine, that really hurts you when it doesn't 506 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 3: have to be that price. And Newism did it anyway, 507 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 3: and it immediately raised the price of the pump, hurting 508 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 3: people and regressive in its pain. And at the same time, 509 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 3: in Trump gets elected and embarks upon a domestic petroleum 510 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 3: exploration campaign opens up and war in Alaska. Remember that 511 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 3: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We fought about that for years. 512 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, can't do that. The elks and the 513 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 3: polar bears, and it would be an environmental disaster. And 514 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 3: in a day President Trump opened it up and has 515 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 3: given out more leases for domestic exploration for everything, petroleum, coal, fracking. 516 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: I mean everything. So we're doing it all. We're doing 517 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: exactly what we want. 518 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 3: And he has promised in delivering everything that he said, 519 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 3: and that is we are going to domestically produce power 520 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 3: and energy and tell the Saudis to leave the barrels 521 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 3: of oil on the dock, sell it. 522 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: To somebody else. 523 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 3: And it takes a little bit of time to scale 524 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 3: that up to the needs that we have here in 525 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 3: the United States, but it's well worth the time and 526 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 3: the investment. So while Newsom was jacking up the price 527 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 3: of the pump through gas taxes, Trump was lowering the 528 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 3: cost of petroleum on the market. And now the price 529 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 3: is down and so Newsom's tax increases are effectively absorbed 530 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 3: by the lowering of the prices across the board. 531 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: It's amazing. 532 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 3: It is absolutely amazing that Newsom actually benef like he'll 533 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 3: benefit politically. He'll go out there and say that the 534 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 3: gas prices in California at the lowest level they've been 535 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 3: since I took office and take a bow as. 536 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: If he caused it by raising your gas tax. But 537 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: he'll take credit for it. No question about it. 538 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 3: And the reality is that it is one hundred percent 539 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 3: this new administration's work that caused the actual price of 540 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 3: the gasoline to go down, and the gasoline has gone 541 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 3: down so much that you don't even notice that you're 542 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 3: being screwed by a gas tax. So we will talk 543 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 3: when we get back about how that's how long that's 544 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 3: going to stay into effect. Alex Stone from ABC News 545 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 3: will be with us to give us the latest numbers, 546 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 3: But just to give you an idea if you're driving 547 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 3: around and you need to get gas, the average price 548 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 3: of the lowest gas price in the United States right 549 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 3: now is in Oklahoma two dollars and fifty seven cents 550 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 3: a gallon. Two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon. 551 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: Can you imagine if. 552 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 3: Gas was two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon 553 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 3: here in California? Now the average price in California is 554 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 3: coming down too. Today it's at four dollars and sixty 555 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 3: six cents. So you didn't even notice that you got 556 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 3: screwed by Sacramento in the form of attax. But you 557 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 3: can thank President Trump and domestic energy policy. Lou Penrose, 558 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 3: if of John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show on 559 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 560 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 561 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 562 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 563 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.