1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 2: app all right every day from one until four o'clock, 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: on the iHeart app and you get to listen to 6 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 2: what you missed, same as the radio show. Welcome to 7 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: the program, and we're going to pick up now right 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: where we left off yesterday with this stunning indictment of 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson. And she 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 2: is a piece of work by herself. And we'll get 11 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 2: into a lot more details about this woman because and 12 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: it really has affected your personal lives. You may think 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: this is inside baseball stuff, it's not. Dana Williamson had 14 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: a lot of power and she was involved in a 15 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: lot of issues that we've all been fighting over the 16 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: last few years. She was indicted twenty three counts. So 17 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 2: she's the former Newsom chief of staff. The former Xavier 18 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 2: Besarah chief of staff. Sean McCluskey also indicted. And you 19 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 2: know Bisarah to be the attorney General used to be 20 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: in the Biden administration. Well, Williamson and McCluskey conspired with 21 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 2: other people to steal twenty two hundred and twenty five 22 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. It was a political account that wasn't being 23 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 2: used that I guess nobody was watching. And on top 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: of that, Williamson also got a million dollar COVID loan 25 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 2: and she was blowing them on it on all kinds 26 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 2: of stuff. I mean, we're talking luxury trips, hotel stays, 27 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 2: amusement park visits, Chanelle bags, Chanelle earrings, Fendi bags, apparently 28 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: a lot of food from the looks of her. We'll 29 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: we'll get into all those details. But here here's the 30 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 2: thing that hooked my interest, and we're gonna have Katie 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 2: Grimes on from californiaglobe dot com in just seconds to 32 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 2: talk about it. In the New York Times and in 33 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 2: the LA Times, they had this intentalizing detail that when 34 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: she was first approached by the FEDS, they wanted to 35 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: know if she had an information about a potential second 36 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 2: investigation targeting Newsom, and in fact, the Times printed a 37 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 2: line from Williamson's attorney saying they wanted her to wear 38 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 2: a wire. Well, she apparently didn't, and claimed she knew 39 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: nothing about anything, no wrongdoing on the part of Newsom. 40 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: But that's that didn't come out of nowhere. 41 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 2: Something has been going on or is going on. And 42 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: Katie Grimes order peace today in californiaglobe dot com because 43 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: she has some possibilities. 44 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: Katie, how are you hi, John, I'm doing well. 45 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 2: This is great to have you on here. Tell me 46 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: what you think they might be looking at when it 47 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: comes to Gavin Newsom. Now you write a lot about 48 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 2: these behested payments that Newsom demands from corporations, and that's 49 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 2: probably a term a normal person is not familiar with. 50 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 2: So if you could explain that and why that could 51 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 2: be a thread that would lead to an investigation. 52 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 3: Since she was elected governor, Newsom has raised a bunch 53 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 3: of money via these behested payments, and essentially I call 54 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 3: it like legalized extortion. What he does is he requires 55 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 3: certain large companies like Goldman, Sachs, Fidelity Investments, CBS Pharmacy 56 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 3: to contribute. And I'll say that in the air quotes 57 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 3: money to either one of his favorite charities, a nonprofits, 58 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 3: or a lot of this was also going into his 59 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 3: wife's nonprofits. So you know, there's certainly a lot of 60 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 3: speculation on how this money was used. The the behested 61 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 3: payments for the large companies really really look like pay 62 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 3: to play, because several of them, like Kaiser and UH 63 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 3: one of the other large how insurance companies he got 64 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 3: behested payments from and then turn around and gave them 65 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 3: no big contracts during COVID. 66 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: Blue Shield would be the other one. 67 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was another one, United Health, Thank you. 68 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 4: That was it. 69 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: So, you know, so clearly pay to play. And what's 70 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 3: so interesting too is that he actually got in trouble 71 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 3: for this in twenty twenty four from the Fair Political 72 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 3: Practices Commission. Not a lot of trouble. They find him 73 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 3: only thirteen thousand dollars for failing to report on time 74 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 3: lots of these charitable payments made at his request, So 75 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 3: you know, really, again, he appoints the people at the 76 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 3: Fair Political Practices Commission, so you know, we don't expect 77 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 3: much from them. But it's really really shady practice. And 78 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 3: I have wondered for a very long time if the 79 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: federal government was ever going to. 80 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 2: Look into this, well, what when do these behested payments 81 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 2: cross into extortion or bribery? This is what it understand 82 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 2: I've read about these exactly payments for years. Eric Arcetti 83 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 2: here in La was also a master at this stuff. 84 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 2: And you know, if a normal person reads this, it's like, 85 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 2: well that this is legalized briberly, and I guess it 86 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 2: is legalized. 87 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: And that's what's really shady. You know, I've never seen 88 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 3: a piece of legislation that authorized this. I don't know 89 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 3: if it's just some practice that was kind of adopted 90 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 3: and it's a wink wink, nod nod. Everybody does this. Well, 91 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 3: I'm sorry. We've been under Democrat supermajority rule in this 92 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 3: state now for fifteen years and the behested payments have 93 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 3: done nothing but increased, and particularly. 94 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 2: By this governor, there's healthcare payments really gregious because you 95 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: write in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, United Health donated two 96 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 2: hundred and twenty thousand dollars to political committees controlled by Newsom, 97 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 2: and then he awarded four hundred and ninety two million 98 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 2: in contracts to United Health subsidies, no bid expedited. WHOA, 99 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 2: that's a half of billion dollars almost exactly. 100 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 3: And a lot of this went on during COVID when 101 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 3: there was no access to the governor. There was no 102 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 3: access to the legislature. The media was kept far away 103 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 3: from all of this stuff from happening. It just happened, 104 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 3: and it was it was particularly egregious. 105 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: And then he started asking greaton Rancheria to contribute to 106 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: a total of a million dollars to his wife's nonprofit. 107 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 2: What is greaton Rancheria? What was the payoff there? 108 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 3: Well, that's an Indian casino that was trying. They were 109 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 3: very very upset about another one coming into their area, 110 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 3: which was they felt was going to, you know, take 111 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 3: away some of their gambling riches. So, yeah, this one, 112 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 3: and we've reported on this a couple of times. The 113 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 3: Free Beacon actually broke the story that this big Rancheria 114 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 3: contributed five hundred thousand to the first partner's charity to 115 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 3: California Partners Project, and then again another five one hundred 116 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 3: thousand dollars. And then they turned around and next thing 117 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 3: you know, Gavin Newsom is vetoing the bill in the 118 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 3: legislature that would have authorized another tribal deal in their region. 119 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 3: So it's totally paid to play. 120 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 2: So he blocked a competitor for this tribe, a competitor 121 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 2: competitive casino, and got a million dollars for his wife's 122 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 2: charity in return. Exactly. 123 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you know, I grew up 124 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: in the New York, New Jersey area. 125 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: This was bribery and extortion where I grew up, and 126 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 2: people were taken to jail. They've taken a federal prison 127 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 2: for this stuff. 128 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. And this has been probably one of my 129 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 3: pet peeves ever since I started reporting on politics and 130 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 3: California is this. It's a shadow government California is operating 131 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 3: via the nonprofits and particularly I mean it's right here 132 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 3: in black and white, how much money was given to 133 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 3: his wife just from this one contributor, and then what 134 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 3: happens to the money once it hits the nonprofit. It's 135 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 3: just a black hole. There's no requirement for them to 136 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 3: report unless they choose to where that money really goes. 137 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 3: And a lot of these nonprofits in California get government funding. 138 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 3: And that's where I really want to blow the lid 139 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 3: off of it. 140 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: Williamson was originally investigated going back to twenty twenty two. Yes, 141 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 2: and by twenty twenty four she was notified of it 142 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 2: and they said, well, what do you know about Newsom? 143 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 2: This is all under the Biden administration. Correct, and because 144 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 2: a lot of people had a knee jerk response yesterday, 145 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,839 Speaker 2: well that this is Trump and his retribution to her, 146 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 2: and it's not. It started with Biden for several years 147 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 2: and was this in some way and you kind of 148 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 2: insinuate it in your story. It was some way to 149 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 2: tell Newsom to knock it off, because he was openly 150 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 2: touring Washington, d C. A few years ago as if 151 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: he was ready to move into the White House tomorrow. 152 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 3: Exactly, and he waited until Joe Biden, then President, was 153 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 3: on a out of the country trip to the Middle East. 154 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 3: He shows up for some BF Education award, which, as 155 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 3: I point out, was like a joke since California ranks 156 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 3: fiftieth in the country for literacy. But then it's like 157 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 3: he goes over to the White House and starts measuring 158 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: the drapes and looking at the you know, the family's 159 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 3: private quarters. And I have sources in DC that at 160 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 3: the time told me, wow, did he veer out of 161 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 3: his lane with that? Because it was very evident he's 162 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 3: so arrogant and he's entitled. He assumed he was next 163 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 3: in line for the presidency, which displeased a lot of 164 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 3: the top Democrats at the time. And then do you 165 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 3: remember I didn't put this in that article just because 166 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 3: it's me thinking out loud. Remember what a suck up tour? 167 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 3: He went on how he was going to be Joe 168 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 3: Biden's stand in and he was his best friend for 169 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 3: the longest time. I think that was his way of going, no, I. 170 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 2: Love you, I swear Maybe that was the deal. This 171 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 2: is af fascinating, Katie. Was you find out more, let 172 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 2: us know and we'll put you on right away. 173 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 3: You betcha thanks John. 174 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 2: All right, Katie Grimes, California Globe dot Com. We are 175 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 2: going to talk more about this and put all the 176 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 2: puzzle pieces together. John Cobelt, CHOKFI AM six forty eight. 177 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 178 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 5: six forty. 179 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: All right, let's continue. 180 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 2: We just had Katie Grimes on from California Globe dot 181 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 2: com and she had a story on what the investigation 182 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: into Gavin Newsom may have been or maybe it's going 183 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 2: on now. We don't know because when the story broke 184 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 2: yesterday that Dani Williamson, his former chief of staff, was 185 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 2: getting indicted for stealing money in both the La Times 186 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: and The New York Times. It said that the attorney 187 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 2: claimed that when she was first approached by federal FBI officials, 188 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 2: they wanted to know what she knew about new and 189 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 2: possible crimes because of a separate investigation. LA Times said 190 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 2: they asked her to wear a wire. She didn't wear 191 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 2: a wire as far as we know, and she claimed 192 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 2: to the FBI at the time that she didn't know 193 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 2: about anything bad going on. 194 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: So what could it be? 195 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 2: And so Katie says, maybe it has something to do 196 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 2: with this Behesting process where corporations donors give Newsom hundreds 197 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 2: of thousands, millions of dollars to his various nonprofits and 198 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 2: phony outside committees, and then he rewards them, like in 199 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 2: the case of United Healthcare, he rewards them with a 200 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 2: half a billion dollars in no bid expedited healthcare contracts. 201 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,959 Speaker 1: Is that legal? Is that what they're investigating? Or is 202 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: it something else we don't know? I wanted to. 203 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 2: Tell you too about who this Dana Williamson is because 204 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 2: you might be thinking, well, who care? 205 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: Just who cares? It's another inside hacked never heard of 206 00:11:58,320 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: the woman? What has it meant? 207 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 2: Do you remember last year how hard it was to 208 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 2: get Prop thirty six on the ballot. Prop thirty six 209 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 2: was going to repeal Prop forty seven. It was the Homelessness, 210 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 2: Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act. Remember Prop thirty six 211 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 2: to start prosecuting shoplifting and other thefts as felonies again, 212 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 2: drug use as felonies, set up felony fentanyl crimes, and 213 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 2: Newsom and the Democratic Legislature blocked this with every trick 214 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 2: they had. Well, the tricks were being orchestrated by Dana Williamson. 215 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 2: So while you're suffering, maybe you run a business or 216 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 2: work in a business and you're watching thieves clear your 217 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: shelves every day, or you have drug addicts harassing you 218 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 2: in the street, or maybe one of your kids was 219 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 2: sold some fentanyl that nearly killed them, or a lot 220 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 2: of cases actually did kill them. 221 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: Dana Williams's data. 222 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 2: Williamson was the leading bigure to stop Prop thirty six 223 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 2: from getting on a ballot. And I'm not going to 224 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 2: get into all the complicated tricks she was trying to pull. 225 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: But she was trying to get the legislature to pass 226 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 2: a group of bills. But these bills would self destructive. 227 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 2: Prop thirty six past these bills were supposed to be 228 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 2: crime fighting bills, but they were nothing like Prop thirty six. 229 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 2: They were trying to play a distraction game. Hey, look 230 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 2: over here at this package of bills. Well go ahead 231 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: past those. Well we'll only do it as long as 232 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: you take thirty six off the ballot. And that's how 233 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 2: she was negotiating with the district attorney's organization that was 234 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 2: sponsoring Prop thirty six. 235 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: So she was a very devious person. 236 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 2: She's also, by all accounts, a big bully. And I'm 237 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 2: trying to see you know, I don't have enough time 238 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 2: to play this. I have to do it right after 239 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 2: we get to get back. Because Jerry Brown's former press secretary, 240 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: his name is Gil Duran, and Gil Duran went on 241 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 2: Alex Michaelson Alex Michaelson last night on CNN. Alex has 242 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: a new show called The Story Is, and he had 243 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 2: experience working with Dana Williamson, and so you wait to 244 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 2: hear what he has to say. Another thing she did 245 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 2: all this excessive spending. She also needs a liver. Apparently 246 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 2: it was well known that she was a very very 247 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 2: heavy drinker. So presumably some of this stolen money went 248 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 2: to the booze that she used to kill her liver 249 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 2: and now she wants a new one. And then I 250 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 2: was thinking, how just a week or two ago, there 251 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 2: was a story that Newsom down a bottle of tequila 252 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 2: after the Palisades fires because he was so distraught. 253 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: Truck was calling in names, and. 254 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 2: I'm thinking, you know, it does seem like this government 255 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 2: is run by a bunch of drunks. And maybe that's 256 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: the truth. Maybe between Newsom and Williamson, the two of 257 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 2: them have been loaded so often they have no idea 258 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 2: what they're doing. They do know how to steal money, 259 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 2: though they do know how to accept money, in Newsom's case, 260 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 2: from these corporations. It's extortion in any other world. It's 261 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 2: bribery in any other world. But they give it a 262 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 2: weird name called behesting that most people don't understand. And 263 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 2: it's the way Newsome and dand Williamson sells the government 264 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 2: to these donors and sells you out. 265 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: This is massive corruption. And we'll see if. 266 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 2: This investigation is still going on or not, but there's 267 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 2: definitely something to this, all right. When we come back, 268 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 2: we'll let the words of Gil Duran, Jerry Brown's former 269 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 2: press secretary, describe Dana Williamson, who's been indicted. 270 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: I think this is just the tip of it. 271 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 272 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 5: six forty. 273 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. 274 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 2: After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 275 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 2: iHeart app moistline. We got two rounds of it coming 276 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 2: in the three o'clock hour, and of course you can 277 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 2: call in for next week, right, because all this, all 278 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 2: this criminal stuff in the Newsom administration is fresh, so 279 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: might as well get it out of your system now. 280 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 2: Eight seven seven Moys staighty six eight seven seven Moist 281 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 2: eighty six or used the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. 282 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 2: I think I got what Eileen had. There's something in 283 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: the air here, probably poisoning us. All right, I was 284 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 2: telling you about Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff. 285 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 2: She and others are accused of stealing almost a quarter 286 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 2: billion dollars from a political account belonging to Javier Bicera, 287 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 2: a former attorney general. In addition, she got hundreds of 288 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 2: thousands of dollars in a phony COVID loan, and she 289 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 2: failed to report one point seven million dollars in income. 290 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 2: She's known as an angry, nasty, vindictive chief of staff 291 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 2: working for Newsom. She also worked for Jerry Brown. She 292 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 2: worked for Greg Davis and somebody who I suppose knew 293 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 2: who pretty well is Guild Duran, the Foreign Press secretary 294 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 2: for Jerry Brown. Listen to a Guild Duran said last 295 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: night Sann Alex Michaelson's news show. The story is this 296 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 2: is Guild Duran on Dana Williamson. 297 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: What was she like to work with? 298 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 4: Well, Dana has a reputation for being reckless, for being irresponsible, 299 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 4: and for being a bully. She was somebody who loved 300 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:29,199 Speaker 4: power and loved to abuse power often if you look 301 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 4: at some of the indictment, but she's talking about getting 302 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 4: people fired, you know, laughing and calling people's names. This 303 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 4: is very much how she was. And you know, on 304 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,239 Speaker 4: a personal level. You know, years ago, I was up 305 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 4: for a job. I was offered a job, and Dana 306 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 4: called my prospective employer and told them that if they 307 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 4: hired me, they would be dead to the governor's office. 308 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 4: I got that job anyway, But this was how she 309 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 4: operated like a mafia boss. And now she's being treated 310 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 4: by a mafia boss. 311 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 2: What does it say about Governor Newsom that he put 312 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 2: a person you're describing in charge of his office running 313 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: the state? 314 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 4: Well, I would say that Governor Newsom, as well as 315 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 4: Governor Brown, for whom I worked, and Javier Bessera, should 316 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 4: be ashamed of their terrible lapse of judgment here. The 317 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 4: only reason Dana Williamson acted the way she did for 318 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 4: so many years and what led to this situation, was 319 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 4: that she felt she could act with impunity, and she 320 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 4: felt she could act with impunity because of the power 321 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 4: she was given, despite the very obvious problems with her 322 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,439 Speaker 4: behavior that were a parent for years. And so I 323 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 4: think there's going to have to be a lot of 324 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 4: soul searching in Sacramento. You know, this isn't just any 325 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 4: Democratic operative. Dana Williams had had so much power in 326 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 4: the California Democratic Party that there's a statue of her 327 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 4: daughter on top of California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento. 328 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 4: So I think there's going to have to be a 329 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 4: lot of soul searching about exactly what went wrong and 330 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 4: how to root out this culture of corruption that always 331 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 4: seems to form in Sacramento, and to be frank, in 332 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 4: city halls and in state capitals across the country. The 333 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 4: FBI is always there. The FBI is always bringing people down. 334 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 4: So this is not exactly a shock that you would 335 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 4: get caught if you tried to do something as ridiculous 336 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 4: as this soprano like scheme they had going on. 337 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 2: She got a statue for her daughter on the roof 338 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 2: of one of the government buildings in Sacramento. The hell 339 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 2: is going on? Good lord, that's Terry Brown's form of 340 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 2: press secretary. You wonder why California is in the state 341 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 2: it's in now, do you understand We've been telling you 342 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 2: for years. These are a bunch of nasty, ugly criminals. 343 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 2: They're thieves, they're literally drunks. In fact, Williams's attorney is 344 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 2: not trying now you just heard Gil Durand describe what 345 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 2: she really is. Well, now, her attorney is trying to 346 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 2: get sympathy for her because she blew out her liver 347 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 2: drinking too much. After Williamson's arrest, and this is according 348 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 2: to RedState dot Com, her attorney said she had severe 349 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 2: health issues was recently put on a waiting list for 350 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 2: a liver transplant. I'm sure there's somebody more deserving of 351 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 2: that liver. There have been concerns throughout Sacramento political circles 352 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 2: for years about the fifty three year old's heavy drinking, 353 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,199 Speaker 2: so this is not surprising, and the attorney believes that 354 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,199 Speaker 2: because of her health issues, the FEDS should not have 355 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 2: descended upon her home and arrested her without warning. Why 356 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 2: do you get special treatment because you steal a lot 357 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 2: of money and you drink too much and you're not 358 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 2: supposed to be warned. Well, if you're warned, you might disappear, 359 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 2: you might get on a plane. Because a lot of 360 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 2: times these people send their money to bank accounts in 361 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 2: foreign countries where it's difficult to track to track the money, 362 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 2: So of course you arrest people without warning. 363 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: This woman. 364 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 2: Had the number one position behind Gavin Newsom. You know, 365 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 2: Newsom spends most of his day preening and prancing in 366 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 2: front of television cameras, holding nonsense press briefings, flying around 367 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 2: on jets, fouling the atmosphere while fighting climate change. He 368 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: doesn't do much hard work of substance. If Iraghosa was 369 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 2: like that too, You actually look at these guys' schedules. 370 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 2: There isn't a lot of detailed work they're doing. She 371 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:40,360 Speaker 2: really acted as the center of power. She actually governed California, 372 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 2: and you trace all this corruption. For example, what did 373 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 2: we tell you about PGNE. Over the years, PG and 374 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 2: E donates huge amounts of money to Gavin Newsom and 375 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 2: to Gavin Newsom's wife for her irritating feminist films. PG 376 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 2: and E then murdered eighty five people in Paradise, California. 377 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 2: It was there mectrical equipment that started that huge fire, 378 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 2: burned the whole town, killed all these people, and then 379 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 2: got Newsom to bail and Pgeny out because Pgeny again 380 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 2: it's a circle, donated so much money to Newsom and 381 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 2: Missus Newsom. And it turns out Williamson worked together with 382 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 2: one of the co conspirators, a woman I hadn't mentioned yet, 383 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 2: Alexis Podesta. 384 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: She had a role in this scam, and. 385 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 2: They worked together at PGNA for three years. Williamson was 386 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 2: director of public Affairs, Podesta was special assistant to another executive. 387 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 2: They then went to the Jerry Brown administration and worked 388 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: together for years, and then they went and then Williamson 389 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 2: went on to the Newsom administration and think about how 390 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 2: California has been degraded over the last ten to fifteen years, tremendous. Well, 391 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 2: these two women and Newsom and Brown have been driving 392 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 2: the state off the cliff and it has destroyed the 393 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:12,479 Speaker 2: place and they've gotten rich. But we told you this 394 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 2: for a long time. And remember this was a federal 395 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 2: investigation that came out of the Biden administration. There's even 396 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 2: more coming. I'm just certain of it. We'll continue. 397 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 398 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 5: six forty. 399 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's Show, and you could follow us on social 400 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio, at John Cobelt Radio and 401 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: all social media platforms including TikTok. 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And 412 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 2: we've got some clips to play from some of the victims, 413 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:34,120 Speaker 2: including this poor woman ninety four years old. Her name's 414 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 2: Rachel Schwartz. She was a Holocaust survivor. She was passed 415 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 2: around three Holocaust camps concentration camps when she was a 416 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 2: little girl, lost everything in the fires. You'll hear her 417 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 2: testimony before the committee. 418 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 1: And by the way, everyone is bitching, oh, you have 419 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: two Republicans come into Where is Adam Schiff? 420 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 2: Oh? I guess he's awaiting his own indictment? And where 421 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 2: is old face down Padia? How come he doesn't hold 422 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 2: a hearing? He's got time to storm in on an 423 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 2: immigration press conference that Christy Nolan was holding before they 424 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 2: dragged him out in the hallway and pulled him face 425 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 2: down and handcuffed him. Why isn't Chef and Padia holding 426 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 2: these hearings? How come it's a Republican from Florida and 427 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 2: a Republican from Wisconsin. What's that about? Here's another atrocity. 428 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 2: Do you remember the American Idol producer Robin Kay and 429 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 2: her musician husband Thomas de Luca who were murdered in 430 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 2: Encino back in July. They were found in their house 431 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 2: shot multiple times. Well, the guy who was charged with 432 00:25:55,200 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 2: murder is Raymond Boudarian. Raymond Boudarian has been declared mentally incompetent. 433 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 2: He has to report to mental health court and he 434 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,479 Speaker 2: maybe sent to a mental health facility for treatment. This 435 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 2: isn't good because he's got a one criminal history brandishing 436 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 2: a knife and threats against his stepfather two years ago, 437 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 2: battery against his mother, battery against his sister last year. 438 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 2: All the cases were dismissed because he was declared mentally incompetent. 439 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 2: So he committed these terrifying crimes against his family, didn't 440 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 2: go to jail. Oh, mentally incompetent, go for treatment, go 441 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 2: to a diversion program. 442 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 1: He gets out and he kills. 443 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 2: Two people in the neighborhood and so they declare mentally 444 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 2: incompetent again. Is he going to be out in a 445 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 2: few months to kill somebody else? And this program was 446 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 2: described for Channel seven by a criminal defense attorney named 447 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 2: Lou Shapiro. 448 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: Oh, we've had Lou on the show. 449 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,479 Speaker 2: And he said, well, some of the questions are going 450 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,199 Speaker 2: to be why was this case dismissed, meaning the cases 451 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 2: against his family members. Was he put on some type 452 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 2: of diversion where he proved to the court that he 453 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 2: had rehabilitated or did he slip through the cracks? And 454 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 2: this case was dismissed by accident, which is very rare. No, 455 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 2: this is the system. You assault your family members or 456 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 2: threaten them with weapons. Oh, he's just emotionally distraught. Let's 457 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 2: give him a diversion program. Let's give him some mental 458 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 2: health treatment. Let's give him a Teddy Bear and some cookies. 459 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 2: This guy's an adult twenty two years old. Shapiro said 460 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 2: it might have been in California's legal system then played 461 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 2: a role, you think, in Budarian's release so he could 462 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 2: kill Robin Ka and Thomas de Luca. She was a 463 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:16,120 Speaker 2: music supervisor for American Idol. Shapiro said, there's a separate 464 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 2: court just for people with mental health issues. If they're eligible, 465 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 2: they get put on a different track, And for the 466 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 2: most part, most people on that track do well. 467 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: But every so often we have a situation. 468 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 2: Like this where it didn't go the way it should 469 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 2: have gone, and very tragically we have two people who are. 470 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: Dead because of it. 471 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,640 Speaker 2: I don't know if he was threatening his family members. 472 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 2: He got this fake mental health diversion treatment, and then 473 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 2: he comes back and kills two people, Maybe it's time 474 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 2: to lock him up forever. He's gonna get what what 475 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 2: is the treatment? What do you do with a guy 476 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 2: like this who has violent, impulsive, crazy actions. He got 477 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,719 Speaker 2: a gun and he shut them both up. There's no 478 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 2: counseling for that. Everybody's insane. Everybody's absolutely insane. All Right, 479 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 2: we'll come back. Oh yeah, I want to talk about 480 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 2: the hearing yesterday that apparently, you know, our two Democratic senators, 481 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 2: Chef and Padia, have no interest in holding these kind 482 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 2: of hearings. So we've got two Republicans from Wisconsin and 483 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 2: Florida to try to find justice for the people of Palisades. 484 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: Debra Maark's off. Today. 485 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 2: We have Ileen Gonzalez live in the KFI twenty four 486 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 2: our newsroom, John Cobelt's Show, and you could follow us 487 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 2: on social media at John Cobelt Radio, at John Cobelt 488 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 2: Radio and all social media platforms including TikTok. We also 489 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 2: now put video clips on YouTube and you could subscribe 490 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 2: to our YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash at John 491 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 2: Cobelt Show YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show 492 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 2: and then you subscribe. Now next hour we're gonna talk 493 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 2: about I had some more clips to play from yesterday's 494 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 2: hearings that two Senators Rick Scott from Florida and Ron 495 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 2: Johnson from Wisconsin held in Pacific Palisades to try to 496 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 2: sort out the atrocious failures by the local and state 497 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 2: government for the Palisades fire and for the Altadena fire 498 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 2: for that matter. And we've got some clips to play 499 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 2: from some of the victims, including this poor woman ninety 500 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 2: four years old. 501 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: Her name is Rachel Schwartz. She was a Holocaust survivor. 502 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 2: She was passed around three Holocaust camps concentration camps when 503 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 2: she was a little girl, lost everything in the fires. 504 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 2: You'll hear her testimony before the committee. And by the way, 505 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 2: everyone is bitching. 506 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: Oh, you have two Republicans come into too. 507 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 2: Where is Adam Schiff? Oh, I guess he's awaiting his 508 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 2: own indictment. And where is old face down Padia. How 509 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 2: come he doesn't hold a hearing, He's got time to 510 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 2: storm in on an immigration press conference that Christy Nolan 511 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 2: was holding before they dragged him out in the hallway 512 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 2: and pulled him face down and handcuffed him. Why isn't 513 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 2: Chef and Padia holding these hearings? How come it's a 514 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 2: Republican from Florida and a Republican from Wisconsin. 515 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: What's that about? Here's another atrocity. 516 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 2: Do you remember the American Idol producer Robin Kay and 517 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 2: her musician husband Thomas de Luca, who were murdered in 518 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 2: Encino back in July. They were found in their house 519 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 2: shot multiple times. Well, the guy who was charged with 520 00:31:53,040 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 2: murder is Raymond Boudarian. Raymond Boudarian has been declared mentally incompetent. 521 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 2: He has to report to mental health court and he 522 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 2: maybe sent to a mental health facility for treatment. This 523 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 2: isn't good because he's got a long criminal history. Brandishing 524 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 2: a knife and threats against his stepfather two years ago, 525 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 2: battery against his mother, battery against his sister last year. 526 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 2: All the cases were dismissed because he was declared mentally incompetent. 527 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 2: So he committed these terrifying crimes against his family, didn't 528 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 2: go to jail. Oh mentally incompetent, go for treatment, go 529 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 2: to a diversion program. He gets out and he kills 530 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 2: two people in the neighborhood, and so they declare mentally incompetent. 531 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: Again, Well, then is he going to be. 532 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 2: Out in a few months because somebody else? And this 533 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 2: program was described for Channel seven by a criminal defense 534 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 2: attorney named Lou Shapiro. Oh, we've had Lou on the show, 535 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 2: and he said, well, some of the questions are going 536 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 2: to be why was this case dismissed, meaning the cases 537 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 2: against his family members. Was he put on some type 538 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 2: of diversion where he proved to the court that he 539 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 2: had rehabilitated or did he slip through the cracks? And 540 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 2: this case was dismissed by accident, which is very rare. No, 541 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 2: this is the system. You assault your family members or 542 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 2: threatened them with weapons. Oh, he's just emotionally distraught. Let's 543 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 2: give him a diversion program. Let's give him some mental 544 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 2: health treatment. Let's give him a Teddy Bear and some cookies. 545 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 2: This guy's an adult twenty two years old. Shapiro said 546 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 2: it might have been California's legal system then played a role, 547 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 2: you think in Boudarian's release so he could kill Robin 548 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 2: Ka and Thomas de Luca. She was a music supervisor 549 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 2: for American Idol Shapiro said, there's a separate court just 550 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 2: for people with mental health issues. If they're eligible, they 551 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 2: get put on a different track. And for the most. 552 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,399 Speaker 1: Part, most people on that track do well. 553 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 2: But every so often we have a situation like this 554 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,760 Speaker 2: where it didn't go the way it should have gone, 555 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 2: and very tragically, we have two people who are dead 556 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 2: because of it. I don't know if he was threatening 557 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,360 Speaker 2: his family members. He got this fake mental health diversion treatment, 558 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,879 Speaker 2: and then he comes back and kills two people. Maybe 559 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 2: it's time to lock them up forever. He's gonna get 560 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 2: what what is the treatment? What do you do with 561 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 2: a guy like this who has violent, impulsive, crazy actions. 562 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 2: He got a gun and he shot them both up. 563 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 2: There's no counseling for that. Everybody's insane. Everybody's absolutely insane. 564 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 2: All Right, we'll come back. Oh yeah, I want to 565 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 2: talk about the hearing yesterday that apparently, you know, our 566 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 2: two Democratic senators, Chef and Padia, have no interest in 567 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 2: holding these kind of hearings. So we've got two Republicans 568 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 2: from Wisconsin and Florida to try to find justice for 569 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,279 Speaker 2: the people of Palisades. 570 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 1: Debra marks Off. 571 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,080 Speaker 2: Today we have Eileen Gonzalez live in the KFI twenty 572 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 2: four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John 573 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,279 Speaker 2: Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 574 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 2: on KFI Am six forty from one to four pm 575 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 2: every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand 576 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,720 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app