1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 2: Every day we are on one until four o'clock. You 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 2: can count on that after four o'clock John Cobbet Show 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app to catch up on 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 2: whatever you missed. We opened the show by telling you 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 2: about Karen Bass now being targeted by the former fire 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 2: chief Christian Crowley. Officially, it's it's a claim that Crowley 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: is making. This leads to a lawsuit and she's saying 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: Bass defameder when she got fired over the fire fiasco 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 2: in the Palisades when Bass was in Africa. Michael Munks 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 2: has looked into this matter and he has more details. 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 3: I am holding the claim in my hands and it's 14 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 3: interesting to look at this thing because it's basically the 15 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 3: same document you would fill out if you fell down 16 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 3: the steps at city hall or if a city vehicle 17 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 3: might have run over your foot. In fact, they've got this. 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 3: You know, our listeners can't see it, but you can. 19 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 3: There's a diagram where you could basically indicate with an 20 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 3: X which part of a street this crash might have 21 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 3: happened one. So it's a very simple city employee document 22 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 3: that she is filed. But as you know, this is 23 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 3: a legal claim that could be a precursor to a lawsuit. 24 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 3: So let's go back to earlier this year. Palisades catch 25 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 3: on fire in a very significant way, destroys this neighborhood, 26 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 3: and Mayor Karen Bass is under public pressure, and she 27 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 3: crobably claims here that the mayor wanted to deflect some 28 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 3: of that pressure towards her when she made this announcement 29 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 3: back in February. 30 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 4: As you know, I have called for a full investigation 31 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 4: of everything leading up to January seventh. A necessary step 32 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 4: to the investigation was the president of the Fire Commission, 33 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 4: link Chief Crowley, to do an after action report on 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 4: the fires. 35 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: The fire chief refused. 36 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 4: We all know that a thousand firefighters that could have 37 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 4: been on duty on the morning the fires broke were 38 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 4: instead sent home on Chief Crowley's watch. These actions required 39 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 4: her removal. 40 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: So that was the day that Chief Crowley was fired. 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 3: And you recall that shortly after that there was a 42 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 3: pretty dramatic hearing at LA City Hall. One of the 43 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 3: firefighters showed up to support the chief, but she did 44 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 3: not peel off enough support from city council members to 45 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 3: overturn Maherbas's decision. So today we learned this was not 46 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 3: the last we were hurt here, Chief. 47 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: Crowley, I'm sorry, I thought you were leading up to 48 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: a clip. She's looking for money ultimately here, right, she 49 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: wants to be made whole because she got. 50 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: She does claimrailed. She claims that she lost wages. 51 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 3: As I mentioned, this is a pretty typical city document, 52 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 3: and so it's like, is your claim under twenty five 53 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,119 Speaker 3: thousand or more than twenty five? 54 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 2: She checks more than twenty five. She's not fooling around there. 55 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: She's claiming that Bassi famed her. She said she only 56 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 2: got in trouble when she told the truth. Specifically when 57 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 2: she went on Fox eleven and she was asked repeatedly 58 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 2: that the city fail us, and she finally said yes, 59 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 2: and she said, we've been screaming for funding, we're underfunded 60 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: the whole routine. It did seem like that was the 61 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 2: turning point in the relationship there where she decided enough 62 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: of this, I'm going to tell the truth. 63 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: And bass has defunded us to some extent. That's exactly right. 64 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 3: And when you go back to that era, even to 65 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 3: the city council meeting where they decided they would not 66 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: overturn the mayor's decision. You saw people expressing sympathy for 67 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: the position she's probably found herself in, but saying that 68 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 3: this relationship between mayor and chief was clearly irrevocable at 69 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 3: this point, so it was for the best of the 70 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: city that the chief move on with her life. But 71 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 3: in the longer claim filed in addition to this city document, 72 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 3: Chief Crowley spells out each date in whichh one in 73 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,119 Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, she begged the city for more money 74 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 3: for the fire department to support her claim that she's 75 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 3: now making that the city cut her fire department budget 76 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 3: by more than seventeen million dollars. And then she goes 77 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 3: on the attack against Karen Bass, the mayor by early 78 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, saying that the mayor knew well in 79 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: advance that wild fire potential was extremely serious, but she 80 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 3: went to Ghana anyway, And the reason the mayor fired 81 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 3: the fire chief is because she was derelict in her 82 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 3: own duty and needed a scapegoat. 83 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 2: It's impossible to believe that Karen Bash didn't know that 84 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 2: the firestorm was coming. Maybe it's because we work in 85 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: the bubble of a radio station. But that was big 86 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 2: news for a number of days that it was coming, 87 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 2: because the warnings when as early as January second, I think, 88 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 2: And it was January seventh when this happened, and she 89 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 2: was here until the fourth or fifth. I just I'm 90 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 2: astonished at she's sticking to the story that she had 91 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 2: no idea as possible. 92 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 3: The timeline provided by the fire chief in this complaint. 93 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: In this claim, she spells out where Bass was basically 94 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 3: minute by minute on January seventh with her public statements, 95 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 3: saying not only was the mayor talking about the danger 96 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 3: that the area was facing, she was praising the very 97 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 3: fire department that Chief Crowley was leading for the positions that. 98 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 2: It was a public statements about the ifending fire possibility. 99 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 3: By by almost noon on January seventh, after Chief Crowley 100 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,559 Speaker 3: again this is a quote I'm reading from the claim, 101 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,359 Speaker 3: Crowley again updated Bass's office on the Palisades fire. Bass 102 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 3: posted a message on x accurately advising the public that 103 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 3: in preparation for high winds, LAFD pre deployed strike teams 104 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 3: in and near areas prow to wildfire. Firefighters now actively 105 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 3: and aggressively responding. 106 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 2: Nobody saw those strike teams in the Palisades. I have 107 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 2: a lot of friends who lived there. Nobody was there 108 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 2: well in the morning. In fact, nobody was there even 109 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 2: to sunset. 110 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: Nobody showed up. 111 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 3: And the questions that you're raising are related to the 112 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 3: job that was done by the LA Fire Department. I 113 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 3: don't think we've seen a full picture on what the 114 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 3: plan was, and we are still waiting on that after 115 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 3: action report, which was just delayed again this week, so 116 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 3: we don't know everything. 117 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: It should have been out by now. 118 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 2: That's right now, it's been delayed because they're claimbing the 119 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 2: Feds and gotten involved. 120 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 3: It was a very strange position for just bystanders, especially 121 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 3: Palisades residents, to find themselves in in this Karen Bass 122 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 3: versus Kristen Crowley battle, because there were apparent deficiencies in 123 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 3: both of their performances leading up to the fires and 124 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 3: in the aftermath of the fires. So a lot of 125 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 3: people felt weird perhaps having to take a side in 126 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 3: this battle, because it does seem that it might be 127 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 3: fair to say that each of them made mistakes. 128 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 2: Oh, A lot of the charges came from LA Times reporting, 129 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 2: for example, claiming that Crowley sent home a thousand firefighters, 130 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 2: that there was forty engines sitting idle and could have 131 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 2: been used. The Times reported that, and Bass is it 132 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: taken that information to bolster her argument that Crowley had 133 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 2: to be fired. Crowley is outright denying those cors, completely 134 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 2: denying them. And you notice in the clip that we 135 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 2: played of the mayor when she announced the removal of 136 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley as fire chief, she only named two things. 137 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: She did not say. Kristin Crowley went on Fox eleven 138 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 2: and said, we didn't give them enough money, even though 139 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 2: we knew that that was where the relationship started to 140 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 2: break down. She cited two things. One, we've asked the 141 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 2: fire Commission to do an after action report and the 142 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: chief allegedly refused to participate in that. 143 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: And two, there were a thousand firefighters who should have 144 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 3: been made available who were sent home instead on the 145 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 3: fire chief's watch. 146 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: That's what the mayor said. That's why Kristin Crowley had 147 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: to go. 148 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that came from the Times reporting. That's nothing 149 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 2: that Bass would know independently, and also something that Crowley 150 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 2: very adamantly denies. 151 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how they're going to sort this out. 152 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 3: Well, again a precursor to a lawsuit. We shall see 153 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 3: another lawsuit that the city might have to pay with 154 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 3: what we're never going to dig out of this hole. 155 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 2: All right, Michael Monk's very good CAFI News on the case. 156 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 157 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 5: six forty. 158 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 2: Coming up after two thirty, we're going to have Kevin 159 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 2: Kylie on the Northern California Congressman and two things to 160 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 2: talk to him about. One is he is trying to 161 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 2: get a bill passed in Congress to get rid of 162 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 2: these middle of the decade redistricting ideas, which is what 163 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 2: Newsom wants to pull off here in California, and also 164 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 2: stop it in Texas as well. 165 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: None of this ought to be going on. And this 166 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: is wrong in Texas. 167 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 2: This is wrong here, and it's especially wrong here because 168 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 2: Newsom is only doing it because they what's going on 169 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 2: in Texas and that's not our business. And he's taken 170 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 2: away Californians choices. When it comes to voting, we're only 171 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 2: going to have Democrats win forty eight out of fifty 172 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 2: two congressional seats. Well, there's a lot of independent voters, 173 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 2: a huge number of independent voters in the state. I 174 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 2: think more than a third or a dependent, a quarter 175 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 2: or Republican and suddenly they're in districts where they can 176 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 2: only vote for Democrats, even. 177 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: More Democrats, even more districts. 178 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 2: That's just wrong. That's this, you know. And then he's 179 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 2: blustering around of authoritarianism. What a fraud, what a fake, 180 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 2: what a phony. We're going to talk to Kevin Kyleie 181 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 2: about Newsom's big plan here. Also about the fire aid money, 182 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 2: because Kevin and another congressman have said they wanted accounting 183 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 2: some kind of investigation one hundred million dollars in fire 184 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 2: aid money for the Palisades and Altadena, and it went 185 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 2: to ultimately to a bunch of nonprofits. Nobody can seem 186 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 2: to figure out if it went to any of the 187 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 2: people who lost their homes. So we'll talk about that 188 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 2: coming up. One more thing about the Palisades fire. We 189 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 2: just said Michael monks in because fire chief Christian Crowley 190 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 2: has filed a precursor to a lawsuit claiming that she 191 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,199 Speaker 2: was unfairly fired and defamed by Karen Bass, who lied 192 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: about what Crowley did during the fire. And there's supposed 193 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 2: to be an after Action Report that the state law 194 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 2: requires the report to examine the city's response to the fire, 195 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 2: but Bass says that the US Attorney's Office the FEDS 196 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 2: this would be Bill of Saley's office, reached out to 197 00:10:53,920 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 2: La city leaders to postpone its release. Federal government, specifically 198 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 2: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco on Firearms, is still investigating 199 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 2: what started the fire on January seventh. This is such 200 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 2: a peculiar case, and the longer it goes on, the 201 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 2: longer I think there's some something bad here that nobody 202 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 2: wants publicized, or some big lie was told. Don't I 203 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 2: don't only get it. You may may know that The 204 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 2: story is teenagers started a fire early New Year's Eve morning, 205 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: two three in the morning, and it burned a number 206 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 2: of acres. Fire department put it out, but the big 207 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: wins a week later may have stirred it up again, 208 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 2: which is possible, not likely, but it's possible. And if 209 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 2: it is possible, why didn't the fire department have a 210 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 2: crew right there on the spot. It did start near 211 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 2: where the old fire happened, and I don't know how 212 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 2: seven months later they don't seem to have a handle 213 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 2: on this yet, at least nothing they want to admit to. 214 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 2: Bass had a statement saying, according to state regulation, cities 215 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,719 Speaker 2: required to complete an after action report. Last week, US 216 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 2: Attorney's office requested the report be held to avoid interference 217 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 2: with the ongoing federal investigation. Don't know what that's about. 218 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this today. I like 219 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:32,959 Speaker 2: Times had a story. You know that downtown skyscraper that 220 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,359 Speaker 2: has graffiti all over it. It's the most disgusting iesore imaginable. 221 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 2: You see it whenever they kind of a sporting event 222 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 2: in La Now if they have an aerial shot from 223 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 2: a helicopter or a blimp. This is one of the 224 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 2: towers that sticks up into the sky and it has 225 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 2: all this primitive looking graffiti all over it. 226 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: Just nonsense. 227 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 2: And because you have all these local street thugs climbing 228 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 2: over the fence, climbing up the stairs, and they painted 229 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: all this graffiti on three unfinished high rises. You can 230 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: see it on the one, ten, you can see it 231 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 2: on the ten, and it's right across the street at 232 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 2: from the Crypto Arena, and it's still there and no 233 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: actions being taken to get rid of this. It's so embarrassing. 234 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like this. This is almost like 235 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 2: a sign of LA's just total decay, total collapse. 236 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: They want to get rid of it. 237 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 2: Before the World Cup comes next year and certainly by 238 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 2: the Olympics. The towers, one of them is forty nine 239 00:13:51,800 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 2: stories high and it's really depressing. Casey Horton is co 240 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 2: founder of the Downtown La Residents Association and said the 241 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: graffiti towers have worldwide infamy. It's like this beacon that 242 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 2: shines and says, come create mischief down here and you 243 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 2: won't get into trouble. 244 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 1: This is the spot to do it. I don't know why. 245 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 2: I don't understand where the sea can't go in and 246 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 2: clean it up, just so it doesn't look so gross. 247 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 2: They're waiting on a new owner. They're going to auction 248 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 2: the property off September seventeenth. Actually they auctioned it off 249 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 2: September seventeenth, but the winner couldn't come up with the money, 250 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: so I the real estate broker handling the case said 251 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 2: there are two companies that are competing as bidders, but 252 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 2: it might be the end of the year before it closes. 253 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: There's a lot of debts to pay and it's obviously 254 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 2: very expensive to continue to rebuild. I should be covering 255 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 2: it up, or they should send a team up there 256 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 2: and scrub that away, and they should build impenetrable security, 257 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: you know, kind of like the border wall. Speaking of 258 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 2: the border wall, I don't know if you saw, but 259 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 2: Trump is having the border wall painted black, so it's 260 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: always really really hot, and it'll make it difficult to climb, 261 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 2: especially in the summertime, because it'll be hot steel. So 262 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: that border wall, because they still are going to build 263 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 2: I think about seven hundred miles worth, and because Biden 264 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: stopped the construction, but it's going to be so hot 265 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 2: and it kind of also they're also drilling the wall 266 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 2: spikes deep into the ground. So those spikes are going 267 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 2: to be deep in the ground, and there's going to 268 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 2: be spikes on the top. And it's one hundred and 269 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 2: twenty degrees in the desert there, so god knows what 270 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 2: the temperature is on the steel itself. And this is 271 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 2: the answer to I remember hearing this for years. It's like, oh, 272 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 2: you build a wool, they'll figure a way over it. 273 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 2: They'll go under it. It's like, well, no, they won't. 274 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 2: You build the spikes deep enough they can't go under it. 275 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 2: You build it high enough, painted black. If they touch it, 276 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 2: they'll they'll they'll burn their hands off. Say you do it. 277 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 2: You can always make something impenetrable. Our prisons are all impenetrable. 278 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 2: Nobody gets in, nobody gets out. El Salvador has got 279 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 2: that supermax prison. Yeah, the dig a hole. I heard 280 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 2: so many stupid excuses over the years. All right, we 281 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 2: come back Kevin Kylie. He's the Republican congressman in northern California, 282 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 2: and he has bill out to try to stop the 283 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 2: redrawing of districts in the middle of a decade wait 284 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 2: to the census, and he's going to talk about Newsom's Shenanigans. 285 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 2: Newsom wants to get rid of Kevin Kylie. They've been 286 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 2: at each other for years and so they want to 287 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 2: redraw Kylie's district out of existence. 288 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: Also going to talk to him about the. 289 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 2: Fire aid situation, because that's one hundred million dollars and 290 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 2: nobody knows if it went to any homeowner in Palisades 291 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 2: or Outa, Diana. Went to a lot of nonprofits, but 292 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 2: you know what nonprofits are like when it comes to 293 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 2: the homeless and. 294 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: Green energy. So we'll talk to Kevin next. 295 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 296 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 5: six forty. 297 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on every day from one until four, 298 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock you could listen to what 299 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 2: you missed on the podcast John Cobelt Show on Demand. 300 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 2: We have Congressman Kevin Kylie from Northern California, Republican coming 301 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 2: on with us. Two things. One, He and another congressman 302 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 2: have called for some kind of accounting investigation into what 303 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 2: happened to the fire aid money that was supposed to 304 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 2: benefit the homeowners in the Palisades and in Alta Dina. 305 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 2: It was one hundred million dollars and there's been a 306 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 2: lot of questions, a lot of complaints saying, hey, we 307 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 2: don't know anybody who's seen the money. And also, obviously 308 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 2: we have to talk about the redistricting idea that Newsom 309 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,479 Speaker 2: has because Kevin, they're trying to redistrict Kevin Kylie out 310 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 2: of existence. 311 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: So let's get Kevin on. 312 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 6: How are you so, I'm doing great? How are you? 313 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 1: I'm all right. 314 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 2: Let's start with the redistricting thing, because that is the 315 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 2: hottest thing going in the moment, and then we'll talk 316 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 2: about fire aid It's like, so you're you're under threat 317 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 2: personally if his redraw goes through. 318 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 6: Well, you know what else is new Newsom has come 319 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 6: after me and never really we can. We've beat back 320 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 6: every attempt that he's made to house me from office. 321 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 6: He even sent his own staff member to run against 322 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 6: me last year. We won by forty six thousand votes. So, 323 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 6: one way or another, even if this Jerrymander map goes through, 324 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 6: I'm confident that I can defeat Newsom again. But we're 325 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 6: going to make sure it doesn't go through. This is 326 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 6: absolutely outrageous. It's an affront to the voters of our state. 327 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 6: It is an attempt to blow up our state constitution. 328 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 6: And so we have a lot of ways to stop this. 329 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 6: I'm working on a bill in Congress. We've got lawsuits coming, 330 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 6: and we can beat them at the ballot box despite 331 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 6: every attempt news We'll make to defraud voters. 332 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 2: Is there a federal angle to this legally that a 333 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 2: federal lawsuit can be filed to stop this nonsense? 334 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 6: Well, there will be lawsuits, I expect under the Voting 335 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 6: Rights Act. Probably at some point. Most of the legal 336 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 6: avenues that are going to be in the state court, right. 337 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: And did this surprise you that? 338 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 2: I mean, it seemed to blow up out of nowhere 339 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 2: that he suddenly I mean, oh, is in response to 340 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: Texas still? I mean, we have a state constitution that's 341 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 2: pretty clear and it's an independent redistricting panel that does this. 342 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 2: It passed in twenty ten, like sixty one thirty nine. 343 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 2: I think it is still according to the poll last 344 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 2: week popular sixty four to thirty six. I mean, I mean, 345 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,679 Speaker 2: most people like having I know this is not a 346 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 2: perfect panel, but it's better than what he's proposing. 347 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: Are you surprised he's taking this one? 348 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 6: Well, I guess I'm not surprised in that nothing that 349 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 6: Newsom does surprise me. There seems to be sort of 350 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 6: no limit to his corruption and what he will do 351 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 6: in terms of overturning the will of voters, in terms 352 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 6: of ignoring what is legally allowable in order to advance 353 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 6: his own political self interest. But I guess to your point, 354 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 6: for a second, when you look at it, you're like, 355 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 6: even produce them? This seems to beyond the pail. 356 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, onto the fire aid money. So one 357 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 2: hundred million dollars they raise. I mean, our company did 358 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 2: a lot for publicizing the concert, and because the fire 359 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 2: was raging at the time, I was only dimly aware 360 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 2: of the details. If you could explain to people what 361 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 2: was promised or what was implied as to where the 362 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars was going to end up. 363 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know, they did this massive concert and 364 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 6: yet a lot of celebrities who came and performed very generous, 365 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 6: and then you had Californians and people across America who 366 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,399 Speaker 6: gave just in an amazingly generous way, raised over one 367 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,439 Speaker 6: hundred million dollars for the fire victims. And that is 368 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 6: the claim that was made time and time again and 369 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 6: connection with this concert is that these are funds that 370 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,479 Speaker 6: are going to go to the victims. And so we 371 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 6: have now learned that actually the funds did not go 372 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 6: to the victims. None of the money went to the victims. Instead, 373 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:00,199 Speaker 6: it was distributed to a whole host of nonprofit and 374 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 6: so that raises the question, all right, who are these 375 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 6: nonprofits and what exactly did they do with the money? 376 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 6: And you know, if you look at the list that 377 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 6: we to the extent that we have one now, there 378 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 6: are some that appear to be worthy groups like food 379 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 6: banks and that sort of thing. But then there are 380 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 6: others that don't seem to really have any connection to 381 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,959 Speaker 6: fire release. There's one group that was focused on voter registration. Granted, 382 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 6: after I pointed this out, they have now given the 383 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 6: money back, or at least so I'm told, But we've 384 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 6: asked for an investigation. I asked this of the Attorney General. 385 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 6: So the President Trump has referred to the Attorney General, 386 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 6: and then Sherman Jordan and I on the Judiciary Committee 387 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 6: have just directly asked fire Ate. We want a full 388 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 6: list of all the nonprofits when they got. 389 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 2: The money, and then you're going to go to the 390 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,399 Speaker 2: nonprofits and ask what did they do with the money 391 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 2: and prove where it was spent? 392 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 6: Right, Well, the fire rate should happen. We're asking that 393 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 6: of them, and then yeah, there's any questions we can 394 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 6: always follow up. 395 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 2: Is there a sense in these communities that this wasn't right, 396 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 2: that something shady happened, Well, it would appure. 397 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 6: So, I mean, even before this certain became a national 398 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 6: story over the last month or so, a few months ago, 399 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 6: the Pacific Palisades Community Council actually wrote a letter to 400 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 6: fire Aid asking about this very issue, saying, we actually 401 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,959 Speaker 6: haven't seen any of this money that's been used and 402 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 6: distributed to local groups. So this is very much an 403 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 6: issue that has arisen from those in the affected area. 404 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 6: And I think that, you know, it's it's vital that 405 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 6: when people give the causes like this, that the money 406 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 6: goes towards what it was intended for. Otherwise people will 407 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 6: be less likely to give the victims in the future. 408 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 6: So we want to make sure that we can restore 409 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 6: trust among the donors and the victims in terms of 410 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 6: how this process as well. 411 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 2: You know, nonprofits is a pretty questionable culture. I mean, 412 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 2: there's been so many billions that have disappeared through nonprofits. 413 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 2: Was supposed to be homeless money here in California, as 414 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 2: I'm sure you know from Gavin Newsome, Mondana, Karen Dass, 415 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 2: and then I was just reading a story today about 416 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 2: the nonprofits connected to the climate change scandal, you know, 417 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 2: the the Lee Zelden and the EPA trying to find 418 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 2: out where twenty billion dollars went, and everything's funneled through nonprofits. 419 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 2: So this whole system seems to be really corrupt. 420 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 6: Absolutely, And you know, we also want to make sure 421 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 6: that if there's going to be a relief measure coming 422 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 6: from Congress for the victims in LA, that we don't 423 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 6: then see this same thing repeat itself on a larger scale, 424 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 6: because we've seen you know that certainly nonprofits could have 425 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 6: benefited from government grants and. 426 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 5: All of you saw this. 427 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 6: The riots SHERLA was the recipient of a substantial amount 428 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 6: of state and even some federal funding. 429 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 2: Thirty four million they got from the state. I saw 430 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 2: the documentation thirty four million guide. 431 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 6: Exactly thirty four million, and then they helped to organize 432 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 6: that like the central player organizing these riots, these attacks 433 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 6: on law enforcement. I've introduced to Bill and Congress, by 434 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 6: the way, the No Tax Dollars for Riots Act, that 435 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 6: would make sure that's like that don't get any money 436 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 6: going forward. And President Trump is said it should be 437 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 6: passed immediately. 438 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: This this is what we've come to. You have to 439 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: write a bill. 440 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 6: Shouldn't be necessary. 441 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 1: Jeez. 442 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 2: All right, well, Kevin, thank you for coming on with us, 443 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,199 Speaker 2: and this is going to be an exciting few months 444 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 2: and anytime anytime you want to come on, you're welcome here. 445 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 6: Thanks very much. We're gonna have to get the word 446 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 6: out of this, come to do. 447 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: A most Oh yeah, definitely. 448 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 2: All right, that's it's Kevin Kylie, the Republican congressman in 449 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 2: northern California. Him hates him for various reasons because Kylie 450 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 2: makes sense and Newsome is I mean, it's. 451 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: Really like a like a mob boss. 452 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 2: Now when we I also should point out that, you 453 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 2: know what, I Heart publicized the concert heavily. They didn't 454 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 2: have anything to do with the distribution, collection or distribution 455 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 2: of the money. That all happened after the fact outside 456 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 2: of iheart'sbur review. 457 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: All right, more coming up. 458 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 459 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 5: six forty. 460 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock. I want to read you 461 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 2: something from one of my favorite writers, Joel Kotkin, and 462 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 2: he wrote this on a website called Spiked commentary website 463 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 2: Joel cockin As. We've had him on the show many times, 464 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 2: and I think I want to have him on again 465 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 2: soon just to talk about this. But I want to 466 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 2: read you some of his stuff in a column for Spiked. 467 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 2: He's a not only writer, he's a researcher. He's a 468 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 2: Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University. Also does 469 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 2: research at the University of Texas, and he has written 470 00:26:54,320 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 2: like the most eloquent indictment of Gavin Newsom just by 471 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:06,119 Speaker 2: explaining what's really happening in people's lives here in southern California, 472 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 2: in terms of how bad the economy is here and 473 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 2: the unemployment and the lack of wages. Because Newsom is 474 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 2: on a new kick where he's got those those strange 475 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 2: little political nerds and weirdos on his staff writing all 476 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 2: of these incendiary tweets, sometimes mimicking Trump style, sometimes just 477 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 2: their own brand and nastiness, and they think it's really cool, 478 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 2: and there's political obsessives who think it's really cool. It's 479 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 2: got nothing to do with an ordinary person's life, and 480 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 2: it's kind of hijacked all the stories about Newsom about hell, 481 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 2: he's a fighter. Look at this, Look how clever this is. 482 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 2: Look at that he's making fun of Trump, you know, 483 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 2: and it's behind all this redistricting nonsense too. 484 00:27:58,840 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: None of it has. 485 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 2: Anything to do there's a lot of people struggling in 486 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 2: California more than any other state, not just in raw 487 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 2: numbers because we're the largest state, but in terms of 488 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 2: the percentages. And Joel Cockin puts this together so well 489 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 2: and I'll read you some of it and something you 490 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 2: absolutely have to listen to, because in this distracted, hyperactive 491 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 2: media environment, you can only think of one thing at 492 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 2: a time, you can only read one thing at a time, 493 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 2: you can only discuss one thing at a time, and 494 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 2: everybody gets so far afield worrying about a Twitter feed 495 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 2: an xpet that they completely forget what it's like for 496 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 2: most people just getting up in the morning and trying 497 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 2: to make it to the end of the day or 498 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 2: the end of the week. So I'll tell you about 499 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 2: that coming up. I mentioned in the last segment we 500 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 2: had Kevin Kyleie on and he wants well, the Hause 501 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 2: representatives has set out official legal letters and they want 502 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 2: to know what happened to the fire aid money that 503 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 2: was meant for the outbul to Dina and Palisades owners. 504 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 2: And we were talking about nonprofits and a lot of 505 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: these a lot of these nonprofits are just I you know, 506 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 2: they're just fronts for criminal operations. Do you remember earlier 507 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: this year Lee Zelden, he's the head of the Environmental 508 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 2: Protection Agency, and he said there was twenty million, twenty 509 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 2: billion dollars being that the Biden administration sent to nonprofits 510 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 2: that was being thrown out the door. Do you remember 511 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 2: that there was an interview undercover interview done with a 512 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 2: Biden bureaucrat who admitted it was like tossing gold bars 513 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 2: off the Titanic. After Biden lost the election, Trump was 514 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 2: coming in and they knew all the green energy spending 515 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 2: was going to be blocked. Well, Zelden went on a 516 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 2: podcast that The New York Post has called Pod Forest one, 517 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 2: and he said they started investigating with great enthusiasm and eagerness, 518 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 2: and every time we overturned a rock this is about 519 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 2: the twenty billion in green new deal spending, we found 520 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 2: something under it that was either filled with self dealing 521 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 2: and conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients, or reduced oversight. 522 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: They listen. This is how they do it. 523 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 2: The Biden administration decided to have it was a certain 524 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 2: bank that had about twenty billion dollars in an account. 525 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: It was City Bank. 526 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 2: So Biden's government put twenty billion dollars into City Bank, 527 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 2: and they decided to have that bank send the money 528 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 2: through eight pass through nonprofit entities they're called NGOs on 529 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 2: government organizations, eight of them, so that anybody on the 530 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 2: outside would quickly lose track of the money and get 531 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 2: bored and not be able to follow it. 532 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: There was corruption at all eight. 533 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 2: Stops, and it was it was executed by former Obama 534 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 2: and Biden officials, Democratic donors. And this was EPA climate 535 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 2: change money that was being rooted to the nonprofits and 536 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 2: stolen it called them slush funds. For an example, they 537 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 2: found a slush fund called Power Forward Communities. That's a 538 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 2: whole coalition of nonprofits. It's layer after a layer after 539 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 2: a layer, and connected to a former Georgia coubernatorial candidate, 540 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 2: Stacy Abrams, you remember her. That nonprofit was worth about 541 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 2: one hundred dollars. Literally, they had one hundred dollars. The 542 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 2: Biden EPA gave them, gave them two billion dollars two billion. 543 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 2: They had nothing to do with climate change, but they 544 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 2: got two billion dollars worth of funding. And Zelden and 545 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 2: his team have been working for the last eight months 546 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 2: to try to claw this money back. This is the 547 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 2: nonprofit scam. It is certainly infested the entire homeless industry 548 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 2: here in California, not to mention the green energy industry. 549 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 2: And then Kevin Kylie suspects there is some chicanery going 550 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 2: on with the money that was supposed to help out 551 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 2: the fire victims in Altadena and Palisades. So we're gonna 552 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 2: stay on top of that. When we come back, I'm 553 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 2: gonna read you from Joel Kackin. He's a Democrat and 554 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 2: he has wrote a great indictment of Gavin Newsom. If 555 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 2: you ignore all his public hysterics and his tweeting, and 556 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 2: you look just at what he's done, what he's done 557 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 2: to the state, it's astonishing. It's sickening. Really, I got 558 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 2: sick reading it, and I knew much of this. We've 559 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 2: got Brigindia Diagristina live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 560 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 561 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 562 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 563 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.