1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,239 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 2: We're on the radio from one until four, and after 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 2: four o'clock you can hear the show all over again. 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart apps. It 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 2: goes faster, same shows. Anything you missed you can pick up. 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 2: Thank you, Eric. Eric Squar's here and Debra's here. And 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: the rain is let up so there'll be minimal rain 9 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 2: discussion today. 10 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 3: Has your house survived or did that tree. 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: Fall on it? 12 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 2: I tell you all those sandbags that I lifted. 13 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: Up, the forty that you filled, the forty. 14 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: That I filled up and carried and put them at 15 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 2: all strategic points on the property work perfect. Oh good, 16 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 2: I saved my own house. 17 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 3: And what was your Well, remember you guys have been 18 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 3: really worried about a name of the tree tree and 19 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 3: there was a tree that fell in Brent would I thought, maybe, yes. 20 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,319 Speaker 2: That's about though it was probably a half mile from 21 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: my house. It's not that far away. I know that 22 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 2: corner and it was a big tree that fell over. 23 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: Well taught about you. 24 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 2: Well, we got alerted because there was a helicopter hovering 25 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 2: overhead for quite a while and you know, and turns 26 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: out it was I don't know if it was a 27 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: news helicopter or police or whatever, but yeah, the tree 28 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 2: completely blocked a road in Brentwood. 29 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,199 Speaker 3: It's what amazing how some trees they go down during 30 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 3: storms like this. And then you've had that tree that 31 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 3: you've been worried about right when we had the storms 32 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,559 Speaker 3: last year, you were worried and it's still surviving. 33 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, And the three brother trees, they were all part 34 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: of the same stand and it's behind our property, so 35 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 2: we have no control over it. And the first three 36 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 2: went down last year and then this one is stayed standing. 37 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 2: But we put some pressure on the homeowner. We don't 38 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 2: know the guy. He's behind our house diagonally. We called 39 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 2: the city up and the guy actually he's a listener 40 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: on the show and he doesn't have any jurisdiction, but 41 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 2: he did go over there to gently suggest that they, 42 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 2: you know, cut the if not cut the tree down, 43 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 2: at least trim it at the top because there's two 44 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 2: things that can make a tree fall down if it's 45 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: top heavy, right, or if the roots system is weak. 46 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 2: And eucalyptus trees are not meant to be growing. In 47 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 2: southern California, there's so many eucalyptus trees that fall, especially 48 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 2: on my side of town. They put them up all 49 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: over the place, the developers back in the nineteen forties. 50 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 2: And so if you have weak roots and a too 51 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: heavy top, it's going to go down. And this one 52 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 2: mom my wife wouldn't sleep up stairs in our bedroom 53 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: for the last few days. I know so, but I 54 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: I am willing and brave enough. You see down on 55 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: the tree. I always pay attention. If the winds are 56 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 2: blown from the northeast, then we could be in trouble. 57 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 2: If these winds were going from the southeast. So I 58 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: was rooting for it. I'm a root for it to 59 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: hit the guy's house, just not yours, just not. 60 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 1: No, not mine. 61 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 2: But he's too stubborn to cut the thing, so I 62 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,519 Speaker 2: hope he gets it, not us. I'm a good neighbor. 63 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 2: You are very compassionate. I have a story here. This 64 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 2: is a New York City story. But believe me, we 65 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 2: are going to get this story. 66 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 4: You know. 67 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 2: I was thinking just a few minutes ago, it's like 68 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 2: one day we'll get this same story and it will 69 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 2: be about the Los Angeles Housing Authority or some related nonprofits, 70 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,839 Speaker 2: whatever bureaucracy they have, right, they have all kinds of agencies. 71 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 2: And then I thought, well, wait a second, if if 72 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 2: this get if this, I'm sure this has happened in LA. 73 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 2: If it actually becomes public information and there's a criminal case. 74 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: Who's going to report on it? I got stumped there 75 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: for a minute. 76 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: It's like, well, yeah, who you know if a huge 77 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 2: bribery and extortion ring is found in LA City Housing 78 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: Authority circles. 79 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: What news media is going to discover it? It would 80 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: have to be us. 81 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 2: It would probably be us getting a tip from somebody 82 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: on the inside, and then we'd be able to publicize it. 83 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 2: But you're you're not going to get the remnants of 84 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 2: the ELSA Gundag Times to report on it, No, because 85 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 2: they don't report on things like that. But here's the 86 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: New York story, And tell me if you don't think 87 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 2: this will happen here really soon. Tuesday seventy seven, zero 88 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 2: seventy current and former New York City Housing Authority workers 89 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 2: were busted. They took collectively two million dollars in bribes 90 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 2: and a corruption scheme. And you know what the bribes 91 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: were about they were handing out city contracts to these 92 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: housing agencies, these nonprofit agencies, and in return, these employees 93 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 2: wanted a ten to twenty percent kickback. The kickbacks ran 94 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 2: from five hundred to two thousand dollars, sometimes higher, And 95 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 2: so the seventy workers received more than two million dollars 96 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 2: in total bribes, involving thirteen million dollars in contracts between 97 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: twenty thirteen and twenty twenty three. So, yeah, that's between 98 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 2: ten and twenty percent on the broad Can you imagine 99 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 2: that it's like dealing with the mob in New York City? 100 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: New York City Housing Agency, And I'm sure all the 101 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 2: directors would tell you how they worked tirelessly all day 102 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 2: to help the unhoused, the unsheltered, the people who are 103 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 2: poor and downtrodden and victims of capitalism. Yeah, I wouldn't 104 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 2: have many times they gave the victims of capitalism speech 105 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 2: capitalism was thriving in the New York City Housing Authority 106 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: two million dollars in bribes. 107 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 1: Took ten years to figure this out, and. 108 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: Sixty six of the seventy defendants were arrested Tuesday morning, 109 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 2: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and North Carolina. Well, because 110 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 2: this is over ten years, so some had probably taken 111 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 2: their winnings and moved somewhere better. The suspects were arrested 112 00:05:54,200 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 2: and hauled off hold off in cuffs, aft houses and 113 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 2: king houses both in Harlem and other city housing complexes. 114 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: So these are city owned housing structures, and I guess 115 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 2: they have offices in those housing structures in Harlem, and 116 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 2: that's where many many of the defendants were located. See, 117 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 2: as long as city contracts are worth under ten thousand dollars, 118 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 2: local development managers for the Housing Authority can award them 119 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: without going through the usual public bidding process. And you 120 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 2: know it means that there's no bids. It's just quick. 121 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 2: Here's the deal. You sign it, and you give me 122 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 2: a twenty percent kickback, right because if the contracts ten 123 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: thousand dollars and the city workers getting two thousand, that's 124 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 2: so you have to pay twelve thousand. And all the 125 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 2: housing agencies and nonprofits know this. You know who investigated 126 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 2: this is the federal government. The US Attorney Damien Williams 127 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: said that New York City Housing Authority residents deserved better. 128 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 2: Corruption has plagued the agency far too long, and the 129 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: culture of corruption ends today. 130 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: We'll see about that. 131 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 2: The subjects use their positions of public trust and responsibility 132 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 2: to pocket bribes in exchange for doling out no bid contracts. 133 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: The extensive bribery and extortion alleged to your calls for 134 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 2: significant reforms, blah blah blah blah. And this was the 135 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: great quote here the chief executive officer, Lisa Bova Hyphen 136 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 2: Hyatt said, New York City Housing Authority has zero tolerance 137 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 2: for wrongful of illegal activity. Dell, you're talking about this 138 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 2: went on for ten years, it was two billion dollars. 139 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 2: There was a lot of tolerance. You had seventy different 140 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 2: employees taking bribes, demanding bribes, or the nonprofits would not 141 00:07:58,680 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 2: get the contracts. 142 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: We have zero tolerance. Get out of here. 143 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 2: It's the largest public housing authority in the country and 144 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 2: receives more than a billion and a half dollars in 145 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 2: federal funding. That's why the federal investigators were involved. The 146 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 2: the housing authorities in these big cities and the homeless 147 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 2: authorities in these big cities. It is a cesspool, a sore, 148 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 2: rat infested pool of corruption. They're criminals. These these these 149 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 2: these agencies are criminal enterprises and I don't know how 150 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 2: many years it took for them because they had to 151 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 2: get evidence on seventy different employees. So you had to 152 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 2: get you know, at least seventy different cases and probably 153 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 2: much more than that. And you have to you had 154 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 2: to get testimony from the people who ran all these 155 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 2: agencies and nonprofits, right. You had to get them to cooperate. 156 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 2: They have to had to be willing to admit that 157 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 2: they were they were paying these bribes in order to 158 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 2: get business. These these are complex rackets here. It's the 159 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 2: homeless industrial complex. High speed rail is the same thing. 160 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: That is another criminal racket that's been going on for 161 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: sixteen years now right in front of our noses. It's 162 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 2: billions of This is why you work. You work and 163 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 2: go look at the box on your paycheck. See how 164 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 2: much money goes to the city and the county and 165 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: the state government, the federal government, and it's going for 166 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 2: this stuff. 167 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: I mean, two billion dollars is not nothing. 168 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to set up the 169 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 2: case about Oakland because eventually what's going on in Oakland 170 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 2: is going to come here to la as well. A 171 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,599 Speaker 2: lot of it already is here, and there's a tremendous 172 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 2: amount of crime. The city is run by these cop 173 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 2: hating lunatics, and now Newsom is so embarrassed about all 174 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 2: the crime in Oakland that he's sending in one hundred 175 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 2: and twenty CHP officers to Oakland. We're going to talk 176 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 2: to Assemblymen Bill Saley in about twenty minutes, but first 177 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 2: I'm going to explain to the next segment just how 178 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 2: bad it is in Oakland why Newsome is sending in 179 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty CHP officers. 180 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 181 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 5: six forty. 182 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 2: We are going to talk just after Dember's one thirty 183 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 2: news with Bill Saley, who is one of the very 184 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 2: few rational people in Sacramento government in the legislature. He's 185 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: an assemblyman in the sixty third district, which covers the 186 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 2: parts of the cities of Riverside, Corona, and Norco and 187 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 2: Menafeine Lake, Elson, or that whole area. So Bill a 188 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 2: Sale is going to come on over this. Gavin Newsom 189 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 2: planned to send one hundred and twenty CHP officers into 190 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 2: Oakland because Oakland is such a murder disaster area, so 191 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 2: many bad things are happening in Oakland. By the way, 192 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 2: the root of this is these stupid, failed progressive policies 193 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,119 Speaker 2: period and the story this is the worst most destructive 194 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:20,239 Speaker 2: political movement that we have seen in modern times, absolutely 195 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: the worst most destructive movement. Cities that were built and 196 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 2: thrived for one hundred, two hundred years are being destroyed 197 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 2: in a matter of months by progressive politicians and district 198 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 2: attorneys and police chiefs and all these people. It's like 199 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 2: they're in it. It's like a suicide cult. It's a 200 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 2: death cult. Remember the old Oakland mayor was a or 201 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 2: a crazy woman named Libby Shaff and she hated the police. 202 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 2: She was so anti police, and she was leading the 203 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 2: charge during the twenty twenty riots. And you know, there 204 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 2: was one time my wife and I had driven up. 205 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: To the Bay area. 206 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 2: One of our sons was going to school at the time, 207 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 2: and it was it was the year, it was twenty twenty, 208 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 2: and we're on the side of the road on a 209 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 2: ramp because we'd run out of gas. I'm not gonna 210 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 2: blame anybody, but I wasn't driving. We ran out of 211 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 2: gas and the police came to help us, and they 212 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 2: stood guard to protect our car on the ramp, and 213 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 2: I saw this with my own eyes. There were a 214 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 2: couple of drivers who saw the police car and they 215 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 2: swerved really hard, pretending they were going to run over 216 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 2: the cops and slam into the car. And I said, 217 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 2: are they doing this on purpose? He goes, yeah, he goes, 218 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 2: that's what we're dealing with these days. It was right 219 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 2: at the height of the George of Floyd, George Floyd nonsense. 220 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 2: And so that's what they created in Oakland. Because we 221 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 2: weren't that far from Oakland. They created a situation where 222 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 2: random drivers would threaten, would tend that they were going 223 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 2: to crash into cop cars and run over police officers. 224 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: It was like a mania. 225 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: This this is such a poisonous, destructive political belief system 226 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 2: and it's got to be destroyed one way or the other. 227 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 2: This political belief system has to be destroyed. They have 228 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 2: destroyed Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland. They did a lot 229 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 2: of damage here to Los Angeles. This is an awful, 230 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 2: awful political ideology, just just the worst that I've ever 231 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 2: seen in my life. So in Oakland they have smash 232 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 2: and grab robberies constantly, and violent crime is up twenty 233 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 2: one percent from the year before. Homicides over one hundred 234 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 2: in Oakland for the fourth straight year, robberies up thirty 235 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 2: eight percent, burglars up twenty three percent, motor vehicle theft 236 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 2: surged forty five percent. In fact, you remember I told 237 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: you that they were the rental car companies at the 238 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 2: Oakland Airport where we're telling people not to gas up 239 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: on the main road it's called Hagenberger Road leading to 240 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 2: the airport, because people were getting robbed while they were 241 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 2: pumping their gas, because the thieves knew that these people 242 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: were going down the road to the airport, so they 243 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 2: knew there was a lot of luggage in the trunk 244 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 2: and in the back seat, and while you're pumping gas, 245 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: they would run up to your car and steal all 246 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 2: their stuff in front of you, because what are you 247 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 2: gonna do. The number of a vagrants increased by one 248 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 2: thousand in three years. It's now over five thousand. People 249 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 2: that are sleeping in tents, cars, RVs on the street, 250 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 2: abandoned buildings. And this is all from the horrible mare 251 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 2: that they had. Libby Schaff the new mayor, is just 252 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: as big an idiot. In fact, she's being recalled and 253 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 2: her name Shang Foul Cheng Foul. The also being recalled 254 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 2: is the Alameda County district attorney, Pamela Price. 255 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: These are all, I tell you, these district attorneys. 256 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 2: We got gascon here, Chesebodeine got recalled in uh San Francisco. 257 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 2: You got Pamela Price getting getting a possible recall in Oakland. 258 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 2: This is all George Soros money. George Soros, this Hungarian 259 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 2: billionaire who has has blown many millions of dollars and 260 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 2: created an extensive network of I don't know what they're 261 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 2: political agencies that fund all these campaigns. And they figured 262 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 2: out that nobody ever paid attention to district attorney races, 263 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 2: and much of the advertising is now done online and 264 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 2: they have a way of targeting people who are open 265 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 2: to the progressive refeigm messages, which is the way they 266 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 2: build these things. But he's into progress, everyone's into reform. 267 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 2: And actually it's about the destruction of our way of life, 268 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 2: destruction of civilization, capitalism, safety, and you see what it's done. 269 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: I mean In and Out. 270 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 2: Has moved out, and Denny's has moved out. I got 271 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 2: a story about the San Francisco Giants. One of their 272 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 2: players is giving the impression online that he wants to 273 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 2: get out because of all the. 274 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: Crime former players Jock signed with the. 275 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 2: Oh Doc Peterson side with the Diamondbacks, right, yes, well 276 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 2: he and they think that the Giants never got a 277 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 2: crack at show. Hey Otani, because Otani was looking around, 278 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 2: is like, this doesn't look like Japan here. He didn't 279 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 2: want to leave the stadium for the meeting. Yeah, because 280 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 2: Japan I went there once on a trail. It's squeaky clean. 281 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 2: They're not a single homeless person in the street. There's 282 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 2: no crime going on. There's no nothing. And I can't 283 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 2: imagine what Japanese tourists think if they ever end up 284 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 2: in Oakland or bad part of San Francisco. Anyway, We're 285 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 2: going to talk with Bill Saley more about the newsom 286 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 2: stunt today because that's what it is. One hundred and 287 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,959 Speaker 2: twenty HP officers and so what if they end up 288 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 2: making a lot of arrests? What happens after that? We'll 289 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 2: talk with Bill. 290 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 291 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 5: six forty. 292 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 2: We're on the radio from one until four and after 293 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 2: four o'clock. John Cobelts Show on demand on the iHeart 294 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 2: app as well. We are going to talk now with Well, 295 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 2: let me tell you, I'm hoping this is all headed 296 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 2: towards some kind of tipping point. Gavin Newsom, for the 297 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 2: second time in the last year, has pulled this stunt 298 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 2: of sending a California Highway Patrol officers into a bad 299 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 2: section of a big city where progressive politics has destroyed neighborhoods. 300 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 2: Did it in San Francisco to try to go after 301 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 2: the drug trade, sent CHP and also National Guard troops 302 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,719 Speaker 2: as well. We're going to talk about that now. One 303 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 2: hundred and twenty CHP officers in Oakland because people are 304 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 2: murdering each other at ever increasing rates. Theft is completely 305 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 2: out of control. Businesses are moving out. Kaiser just today 306 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 2: told their employees don't leave for lunch, stay in the building, 307 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 2: don't go anywhere. You have rental car companies telling their 308 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 2: customers don't gas up on the road leading into the airport. 309 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 2: You got in and out, the only in and out 310 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 2: in Oakland going out of business. You got all their 311 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 2: major league teams moving out, and he's is sending in 312 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty CHP officers. Well, let's talk to 313 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 2: a Republican assembling them. Bill Saley from the Inland Empire, 314 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 2: see what he thinks about all this Bill? 315 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 4: How are you great, John? How are you? 316 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 2: I'm all right? One hundred and twenty. Cops are going 317 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 2: to do what. 318 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 4: Nothing? It is window dressing. I mean maybe may go 319 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 4: in there and make some arrest, But then what the 320 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 4: problem is this is a structural issue with the policies 321 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 4: that this legislature has been pumping out for the last decade. 322 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 4: Began with AB one oh nine, Prop. Forty seven and Prop. 323 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 4: Fifty seven. They've emptied the prisons. We have half as 324 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 4: many people in prison as we did ten years ago. 325 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 4: We went from about one hundred and eighty thousand to 326 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 4: now down to ninety thousand, and he's continuing to close prisons. 327 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 4: It does not matter if you go in and arrest someone, 328 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 4: if they're not going to be held in prison, they're 329 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 4: just going to get out and reoffend, and they know 330 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 4: there's no consequences. So this is just a gimmick. They 331 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 4: know public safety is top of mind right now on voters, 332 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 4: on voters' minds, especially in these big cities, and people 333 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 4: are demanding action. So what did he do? He sends 334 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty speech pe officers there to make 335 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 4: it look like he's tough on crime. Meanwhile, he won't 336 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 4: actually do anything to reverse the policies that got us here. 337 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: Well, some of these some of these guys are not 338 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: even going to be held on bail. 339 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 4: No, well, there's nowhere to hold them. So let's talk 340 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 4: about theft for a second. They talk about car theft, 341 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 4: retail theft, and they say, you know the locals aren't 342 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 4: arresting them. Well, I talked to my sheriff Riverside County 343 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 4: were very tough on crime. He tells me he's got 344 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 4: four thousand beds in the county jail because of AB 345 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 4: one oh nine, which shifted the prison population from the 346 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 4: state to the counties. He says, every single bed is 347 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 4: filled with a person who's committed a crime against another person. 348 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 4: He cannot hold people for property crimes. He does not 349 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 4: have the bedspace for any property crimes. So it doesn't 350 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 4: matter if you arrest them or you convict them, there's 351 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 4: no beds for them. And that's by design that I'm 352 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:45,719 Speaker 4: the people. 353 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: This was the plan. 354 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 2: They wanted to empty and close the prisons, and that's 355 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 2: what they're doing. They fill them up in the local 356 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 2: jails and then nobody can get arrested. And the local 357 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 2: sheriff is saying, hey, there's no more room, what do 358 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 2: you want me to do? And that has worked now 359 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 2: for over ten years and has completely screwed the cities. 360 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 4: It's totally screwed them, and it is shifted to blame 361 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 4: to them because now what I see in Sacramento, these Democrats, 362 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 4: they're changing there too, and they're saying it's the locals fault. 363 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 4: They're not doing their job. They're not arresting these guys. 364 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 4: It's still illegal. Did you hear Newsom have this tirade 365 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 4: at Target? Yeah, cashier. Cashier said we just let them 366 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 4: go because of the governor. I mean, he said, well, 367 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 4: it's still a crime. You can still arrest them. This 368 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 4: is by design. They want to make it look like 369 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 4: it's the locals fault, but it's the state's fault because 370 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 4: they've abandoned the responsibility to house prisoners. 371 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,360 Speaker 1: By the way, what's wrong with him? 372 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 2: He's telling a young woman that she should go and 373 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 2: stop the thief. He should stop the thief. 374 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 4: He should stop the thief. Go conduct the citizens, arrest 375 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 4: mister Newsom, Governor where's your CHP detail that's surrounding you. 376 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 4: Why don't you send your protective detail that's with you 377 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 4: at Target, because we know you're not shopping at Target 378 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 4: on your own and probably with some PR stunt. Go 379 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 4: send them to go get the guy at the door. 380 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 2: I make any sense, And I can't believe he was 381 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 2: bragging about that story, Unvidio. 382 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 4: He's so tone deaf and the guy. The problem with 383 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 4: Newsom is he he just lies, but it sounds so 384 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 4: believable and credible. He's got this gift of deception. I've 385 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 4: never seen anything like it. He just lies and people 386 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 4: accept it as truth. The reporters don't question it. Nobody 387 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 4: questions it. The problem we're having now, John is now 388 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 4: they're pretending to talk about like they care about Prop 389 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 4: forty seven. They're going to reform Prop forty seven. This 390 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 4: is really important. The das of this state have gotten together. 391 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:44,399 Speaker 4: They have a ballot initiative coming. They have this website 392 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 4: Casafecommunities dot com. This will be actual reform to Prop 393 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 4: forty seven. It will be able to send people back 394 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 4: to prison on some of these serious offenses. The legislature 395 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 4: now is tinkering. They want to put their own ballot 396 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 4: initiative to deal with Prop forty seven on the ballot 397 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 4: that will be watered down. Won't actually do anything, but 398 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 4: it's so they can vote on it and say, look, 399 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 4: we've gotten tough on crime. We have to be very 400 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 4: careful about this. They're going to try to confuse the voters. 401 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 2: Yes, well, that's they confused the borders the voters to 402 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 2: get Prop forty seven and fifty seven passed. Remember what 403 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 2: Prop forty seven was called the Safe Neighborhood and Schools Act. 404 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 2: That was the title the Kamala Harris wrote back when 405 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 2: she was Attorney General, let me talk about a similar 406 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 2: newsom stunt, because he did this last spring. He sent 407 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 2: the National Guard and the California Highway Patrol to San Francisco, 408 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 2: claiming they were going to go after a drug trafficking 409 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 2: in the Tenderloin and the South of Market neighborhoods. Now 410 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 2: they're bragging about four hundred and sixty arrests and confiscating 411 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 2: eighteen thousand grams of fentanyl and five thousand grams of meth. 412 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: But the four hundred and sixty arrests, they don't tell 413 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 2: you how many of those people went to jail or 414 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 2: to prison. 415 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 4: It's just a wrest that an arrest. If you cite 416 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 4: them for a misdemeanor, they count that as an arrest. 417 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 2: And a misdemeanor like in La County, misdemeanor is no 418 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 2: jail time. 419 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 4: There's no jail time. But they're not even really arresting them. 420 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 4: Arrest is a term that's used when you when you 421 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 4: cite someone. So if you cite and release them for 422 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 4: a crime, they'll book that. They'll count that as a 423 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 4: staff from arrest, but it doesn't mean someone was actually 424 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 4: handcuffed and taken to jail. 425 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,360 Speaker 1: So if they just they play a lot of games. 426 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 2: Right, if they give you a slip of paper, you've 427 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 2: been cited, that's an arrest. 428 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: Yes, how long can this deceit go on? 429 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 2: I mean it's gone on a long time, which is 430 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 2: why some I mean Oakland's collapsing completely, a good chunk 431 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 2: of San Francisco's collapsed. La is a mess. Is this 432 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 2: just going to go on until everything is destroyed? 433 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 4: Well, I'm telling you the Democrats are shifting their tone 434 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 4: in Sacramento. They know this is a big deal this 435 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 4: election year. So we have an opportunity here and we 436 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 4: can't squander it. We need to keep we need to 437 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 4: keep exposing that they're the one who broke it. The 438 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 4: Democrats are the ones that put us here. They're not 439 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 4: going to fix it. They're not going to make it better. 440 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 4: They have no credibility on this topic. We should not 441 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 4: be taking any proposals or solutions from them. So when 442 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 4: it comes to fixing Prop forty seven, I am behind 443 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 4: this ballot initiative that is written by the men and 444 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 4: women of law enforcement, by our das. You should have 445 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 4: them on to talk about it. We need the voters 446 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 4: and the people to get behind this ballot initiative this 447 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 4: year and pass it. 448 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 2: Well, we're going to We're going to do some signature 449 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 2: drives on the show within the next few weeks. 450 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 4: I'll be there. You tell me where. I'll come support 451 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 4: it myself, okay. And the other thing that I want 452 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 4: to do is we need to start talking about AB 453 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 4: one oh nine. That is to me a bigger issue 454 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 4: than Prop. Forty seven and. 455 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 2: Again that emptied the prisons and sent those prisoners into 456 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 2: the local jails, and now the local jails are at 457 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 2: full capacity, correct. 458 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 4: And they cannot hold or punish misdemeanors because they're full. 459 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 2: Well, Bill, we got a lot of work to do, 460 00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 2: and I'll let you know when we're going to be. 461 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 2: These are going to be live appearances, road shows, and 462 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 2: we're going to have people drive up and sign these 463 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 2: petitions to get this on the ballot and try to 464 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 2: change things ourselves since they won't do it in Sacramento. 465 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: Bill, thank you for. 466 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 4: Coming on any time. Thank you. 467 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 2: Johns all right, Bill Saley, and he is Assemblyman from 468 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 2: the Inland Empire Republican and it's time to be really 469 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 2: blunt about this. These progressive democratic philosophies have had a 470 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 2: good run now for the last ten years, and it's 471 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 2: nothing but destruction, destruction and filth, crime, people dying in 472 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 2: the streets. They had their experiment. They weren't trying to experiment. 473 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 2: This movement is being funded by people who actually want 474 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 2: to undermine our cities, our way of life, our civilization. Really, 475 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 2: they find America to be an illegitimate place, capitalism to 476 00:26:55,359 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 2: be illegitimate, our society to be illegitimate, and they're trying 477 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 2: to destroy the society from the inside out, and people 478 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 2: there is I got to take a break. 479 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: We'll talk more when we come back. 480 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM. 481 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 1: Six forty coming up after two o'clock. 482 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 2: Daniel Gus is an independent journalist here in Los Angeles, 483 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 2: and last week he had a column on Karen Bass 484 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 2: and the LA City Council. They are now displacing homeless 485 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 2: people and from recreation centers. They're displacing civic groups that 486 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 2: have meetings, groups like Narcotics Anonymous. They're displacing school children 487 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 2: and turning these recreation centers in LA City parks over 488 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 2: to illegal aliens. 489 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: We have our own illegal alien surge. 490 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 2: It's not just in New York and Chicago, it's here too, 491 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 2: but here in La nobody covers it. There's some sort 492 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 2: of weird news blackout in Los Angeles about a lot 493 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 2: of things, and one of it is is that is 494 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 2: that the illegal aliens have arrived here. They're being shoved 495 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 2: into onto city property that's supposed to be used by 496 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 2: the local citizens for their kids preschool, or for their 497 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 2: Narcotics Anonymous meetings, or for other homeless people who are Americans. 498 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: We'll tell you. 499 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 2: What Daniel Guss has found out, because he's in his 500 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 2: second week of investigating this case and he's I'll go 501 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 2: through his column about that. By the way, just to 502 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 2: follow up on the Oakland situation, we mentioned Kaiser, Clorox 503 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 2: and another company has has all told their employees to bluesheer. 504 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 2: They've told their employees to be cautious when they come 505 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 2: to the office because of the crime in the neighborhood. Now, 506 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 2: these are huge employers in the Oakland area. And what's 507 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 2: amazing is the lack of a coherent response from the politicians. 508 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: Do you know what. 509 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 2: The NAACP in Oakland has publicly denounced all the progressive politics. 510 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 2: They wrote a letter a few months ago and it blasted, criticized, ridiculed, 511 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 2: failed progressive policies that allowed all this crime to flourish. 512 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 2: And they were demanding the politicians get their act together. 513 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 2: This is the NAACP says. Oakland residents are sick and 514 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 2: tired of our intolerable public safety crisis that overwhelming the 515 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 2: impacts minority communities. Oakland has a huge minority population. They're 516 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 2: the victims of all these crimes. They're not the victim 517 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 2: of police, They're the victim of the criminals. And it's 518 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 2: it's almost like, what are normal people going to have 519 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 2: to riot in order to get things changed. Now, I 520 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 2: have to blame a lot of these people who are complaining, 521 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 2: these organizations that are complaining, because who do you think. 522 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: They vote for? They vote for Gavin Newsom. 523 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 2: You know, they voted for Pamela Price, the district attorney 524 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 2: up there. 525 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: They voted for the Oakland mayor, shang Thal. 526 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 2: We voted for Karen Bass, We voted for George Gascon, 527 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 2: we voted for the La City Council, which is eighty 528 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 2: five percent insane. I wouldn't call them democrats and call 529 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 2: them liberal. They're insane. They're all part of this destructive 530 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 2: death cult called progressivism. So I don't know what it 531 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: takes to get people to vote differently. This is a 532 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 2: because people are so used to looking at the world 533 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 2: in a binary sense, where either Republican or Democrat, conservative 534 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 2: or liberal. This is off the chart, This is off 535 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 2: the spectrum, these progressive policies. This is anarchy and destruction, 536 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 2: and you know it is. Nobody can make the case 537 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 2: that it's not anarchy. It is and it's by design. 538 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 2: This is exactly what Newsom wanted, and Jerry Brown wanted, 539 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 2: and Kamala Harris wanted when she deceptively marketed prop forty seven, 540 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 2: ten years ago. This is what they were thinking, This 541 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 2: is what they wanted to happen. You dump out half 542 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: the prisoners in the state of California, and ten years 543 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,959 Speaker 2: later you're shocked that there's this massive crime surge. Really, 544 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 2: think what BILLI. Saley said in the last segment. They 545 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 2: dumped out half the population. A lot of them are 546 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 2: in the local jails. But now all the new up 547 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 2: and coming criminals when they get arrested, there's nowhere to go. 548 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 2: There's no room in the jails. When we come back, 549 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 2: we're going to talk about Daniel Guss, who's got a 550 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 2: new piece. He's got a column Daniel gusts at substack 551 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 2: dot com and it's about this assistant to scam. Really, 552 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 2: the Karen Bass and the city council are pulling on 553 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 2: the city and it's going uncovered, unreported by the remnants 554 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 2: of the El Segundo Times. But Daniel Gust is on 555 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 2: top of it, and we'll talk about his latest column next. 556 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 2: Deborah Mark is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 557 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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