1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't f I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 3: Lou Penrose sitting in for John all this week. Thanks 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 3: for tuning in. Good to have you along with us 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 3: the Katie Porter Revival tour. I guess is what this is? 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like it's going too well. The answers 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 3: to the questions were not clear, and lots of props 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 3: to Nicko Lorenzo from Inside California Politics. She got the 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 3: first interview, she asked the questions, she followed up twice 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 3: and still couldn't get a straight answer. 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 4: Can Hillers be confident that there won't be another one 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 4: of those videos that's going to come to life? 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:44,959 Speaker 5: What I do know is that I could have done 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 5: better on that. 15 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 3: Sue us on to know. 16 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 4: So is there potentially another video that we're going to see? 17 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 6: So? 18 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: Why doesn't she say? I don't know? There may very 19 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: well be. Why does it she say? 20 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 4: No? 21 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: Absolutely not. 22 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 3: I know everything I've ever said, and I know every 23 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 3: single time I've had an outburst, and that was a 24 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 3: one off. When they can answer yes or no questions, 25 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 3: there's something wrong. 26 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 1: And I know spin when I hear it. I think 27 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: you do too. 28 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 3: When someone asks you, are there any other videos out 29 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 3: there of you kicking your dog? And you come back 30 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 3: with what I can tell you is I have learned 31 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 3: my last answer the question. 32 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. 33 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 3: You went on television to address this issue and you're 34 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 3: still avoiding the only thing that we want to know, 35 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: is this a pattern? 36 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: Do you do this a lot? Are you going to 37 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: have you changed your ways? 38 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 3: Is this fifteen years ago or fifteen days ago? Because 39 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 3: we'll determine whether we want that in a candidate for 40 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 3: governor or a governor. And I think you know that 41 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 3: if there is a pattern, we don't want that. And 42 00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: that's why you're not answering the question. 43 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 4: Be confident that there won't be another one of those 44 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 4: videos that's going to come to life. 45 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 5: What I do know is that I could have done 46 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 5: better in that situe. 47 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 3: That's on a no. 48 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 4: So, is there potentially another video that we're going to see? 49 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: Yeah? Is there another video? Miss porter Nikki. 50 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 5: I'm going to be honest with you. 51 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 6: I know that that video and that video was several 52 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 6: years ago, as you know. 53 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: Here the condescension. 54 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 3: I love how all of a sudden now they're best friends, right, 55 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 3: she asked the question. She followed up pointing out that 56 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,399 Speaker 3: you didn't say no, And now it's like, Nikki, I'm 57 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 3: going to be on it like like they're chums. 58 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: She's the journalist, you're the subject. It's an interview. 59 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 3: This is a career ending time for Katie Porter. It 60 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 3: is an opportunity to turn it around. There are turnarounds 61 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 3: that I've seen in politics. This ain't one of them. Also, 62 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: you don't in politics want to say you don't want 63 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 3: to start any statement with the phrase to tell you 64 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 3: the truth. I know that it's just things that people say. 65 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 3: It's kind of like a mental stall. I gotta be 66 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 3: honest with you. But when you're in politics and we're 67 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 3: talking about whether or not there's going to be things 68 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 3: and whether or not there's not going to be things 69 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 3: on video, you don't want to get into the hole 70 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 3: to tell you the truth. I got to be honest 71 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: with you, of course, because the implication is you're just 72 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 3: now being honest with me, or that there are occasions 73 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 3: where you don't want to tell me the truth. 74 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 5: Nikki, I'm going to be honest with you. 75 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 6: I know that that video, and that video was several 76 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 6: years ago, as you know, and I apologize to. 77 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 5: The staffer that's super important. 78 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 6: To me, and will continue to try to hold myself 79 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 6: to do better. 80 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 5: That's what I can promise. 81 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: Okay, So we still don't know the answer to the question. 82 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: And I love that she's going to try and hold 83 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 3: herself to a higher standard. I should certainly hope. So 84 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 3: I don't know if Congress from importer knows this. We 85 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 3: all have to control ourselves, like that's what being an 86 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: adult is all about. And for those of you that 87 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 3: ever have ever been in this situation, and to remind 88 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 3: you of the situation, well there's two videos actually this 89 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 3: four now, but there's two videos that really got her 90 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 3: in hot water. One when she teed off on the 91 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 3: reporter from CBS about whether or not she needs to 92 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 3: get the forty percent of California voters that voted for Trump, 93 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 3: and that just so off put her and she realized she. 94 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: Really couldn't say yes or couldn't say no. 95 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 3: And then there is now the more famous one where 96 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: she's I don't know if she's in a hotel room 97 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 3: or in her kitchen or where she is, but she's 98 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 3: in a room and she's with a senior staffer and 99 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 3: she's on a zoom call, a video call with the 100 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 3: Secretary of Energy, talking energy policy. And the Secretary of 101 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 3: Energy is a cabinet member reports to the president, so 102 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 3: kind of an important call. There are four hundred and 103 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 3: thirty five members of the House of Representatives, Katie Porter 104 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 3: was one of them. While this call was taking place. 105 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 3: There's like a dozen cabinet members. So you don't want 106 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 3: to look like an idiot talking energy policy to the 107 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 3: Secretary of Energy, and you employ staffers to be up 108 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 3: to speed on the latest policy changes on energy. 109 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: So here she is. 110 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 3: They're talking about electric cars in California and how it's 111 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 3: good and how it's reduced the smog so therefore fewer 112 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 3: people are dying because of the electric car mandate and 113 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 3: a baboop, and then it all goes sideways when a 114 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 3: staffer tries to educate her that her position is technically wrong. 115 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: Here it is. 116 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 7: Bill in California's dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems, 117 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 7: and the state could lose. 118 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: You're out of my. 119 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 7: Shot, corect. 120 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 5: It's not that it's elected vehicles. 121 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 3: It's that I don't any climate word. 122 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:07,679 Speaker 5: Okay, it doesn't. 123 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: Okay, you also were in my shop before that. 124 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,239 Speaker 5: Stay out of my shot. 125 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna start again with that does not come 126 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: off becoming. That is unbecoming. We have all had bosses 127 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: like that. We all know people like that. 128 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 3: I don't want to work for anybody like that. I 129 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,239 Speaker 3: don't want anybody working for me with that demeanor and temperament. 130 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 3: And you don't want anybody like that in charge of you. 131 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 3: And she just couldn't find herself to say, Look, that 132 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 3: was a one off. It happened once, or it's happened 133 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 3: a couple of times and I've gone into anger management, 134 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 3: or I thought deeply about it, or bingo, you caught me. 135 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 3: I am a class a b Oh, but that's gonna happen, 136 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 3: like give us something to work with you, but. 137 00:06:57,839 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 4: Not that there's not going to be any more videos, 138 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 4: because that's that's some people are wondering. Are we going 139 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 4: to see something else like that? 140 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 6: I can tell you what I've told you, which is 141 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 6: that I am taking responsibility for this situation. 142 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: Okay. 143 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 3: Another short tip coming from somebody that worked on a 144 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 3: number of campaigns, don't tell the reporter. I can only 145 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 3: tell you what I told you, because by the very 146 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 3: nature of the follow up question, you've not answered the question. 147 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 3: So I can only tell you what I've told you. 148 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 3: If I'm the reporter at that point, I can only 149 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 3: tell you what I've told you. The interview's over, and 150 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 3: it's not that out of a question the voters want 151 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 3: to know, can we expect to see more of this 152 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 3: eltse like that? 153 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 6: I can tell you what I've told you, which is 154 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 6: that I am taking responsibility for this situation. And I'm 155 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 6: also not going to back down from fighting back for California, 156 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 6: from being tough. 157 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: Ooh, so that's clever. So I can only tell you 158 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: what I told you, which is nothing. 159 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 3: I'm not going to answer the question of whether there 160 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 3: are more red hot videos out there of me being 161 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 3: a terrible person, a terrible boss, a terrible manager, and 162 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 3: a terrible leader. But she flipped it and said, I'm 163 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 3: not going to stop being tough. So she thinks this 164 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 3: is tough. She thinks this is a demonstration of maybe 165 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 3: I was a little terse, but there is some good 166 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 3: in that, in that I am tough, and that is 167 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 3: I think that's the coup de grass I mean, I 168 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 3: think that's the end, because that isn't tough, that's absolutely 169 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 3: weak and small. 170 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, let's go through the interview. 171 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 3: There's more of it, and then you tell me if 172 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 3: you want this person representing you as dog catcher, let alone, 173 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 3: governor of California. 174 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,319 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 175 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 8: six forty. 176 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 3: Lou Penrose Iva John cold Belt on the John Cobelt 177 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 3: Show talking about former Congresswoman Katie Porter, who still is 178 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 3: viewed as a front runner for the Democrat nomination for 179 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 3: governor of California and has decided to go back under 180 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 3: the lights with a reporter in this instance, it's inside 181 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 3: California Politics host Niki Lorenzo, and convince those of us 182 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 3: that are watching and keep an eye on these kinds 183 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 3: of things that she is qualified to be governor, has 184 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 3: the temperament to be governor. 185 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: And that's the question that was continually asked. 186 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,719 Speaker 4: Okaynfillers, be confident that there won't be another one of 187 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 4: those videos that's going to come to light. 188 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 5: What I do know is that I could have done 189 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:47,479 Speaker 5: better on that situe. 190 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:47,719 Speaker 3: Us on to know. 191 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 4: So is there potentially another video that we're going to see? 192 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 1: Yeah? 193 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 3: And three more times, and there was no confirmation that 194 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 3: there wasn't going to be another one of these. 195 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 5: You stink to lose, get out of my shots. 196 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 3: Oh boy, I don't see how that little SoundBite isn't 197 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 3: involved in every campaign video to continue continuously remind voters, 198 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 3: at least Democrat voters that she's got a heck of 199 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 3: a temper. 200 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: Now she's trying to play this off as a strength, 201 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: and it's an interesting play. I don't know that it 202 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: works for her. 203 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 4: You tell me, but not that there's not going to 204 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 4: be any more videos, because that's that's what people are wondering. 205 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 5: Are we going to see something else like that? 206 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 6: I can tell you what I've told you, which is 207 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 6: that I am taking responsibility for this situation, and I'm 208 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,119 Speaker 6: also not going to back down from fighting back for California, 209 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 6: from being tough, not back. 210 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: Down, fighting back, being tough. Those were chosen words. Somebody 211 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: on a. 212 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 3: Literally a communications disaster relief team had her put those 213 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 3: words practice with her tough strength, not backing down. So 214 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 3: this is going to be the narrative and we'll see 215 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 3: if it sticks. Let me give you a little bit 216 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 3: of an insight as to how this works. Having served 217 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 3: as senior staff for three members of Congress. If whether 218 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 3: she's in a hotel room, it appears to be I 219 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 3: think I see a luggage carrier, so it appears to 220 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 3: be a hotel room. That wouldn't be unusual. Or maybe 221 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 3: it's her own home in DC or her home in 222 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 3: Orange County. And if there's a meeting with a cabinet member, 223 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 3: then there's probably two people in that. 224 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: Room with the congresswoman. 225 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 3: There's probably the chief of staff and the legislative aid 226 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 3: that handles energy, and they're just with the boss making 227 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 3: sure everything is hooked up, or or the chief of 228 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 3: staff and the communications director. But it's not like there's 229 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 3: going to be some intern there that trips over the 230 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 3: wire and disconnects you. There's only going to be senior 231 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 3: staff with you, because there's just no reason to overburden 232 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 3: the room. And this is what chiefs of staff do. 233 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 3: They manage the amount of people that around the boss 234 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 3: and these important meetings. And if you're on a conference 235 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 3: call with a cabinet secretary with the Secretary of Energy 236 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 3: talking energy policy, you better believe you want the boss 237 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 3: to be prepared. And if the boss goes off script 238 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:38,359 Speaker 3: and starts saying things that are just untrue or really inaccurate. 239 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 3: As a congressional staffer, it's your job to step in 240 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 3: and interrupt. Now, in this case, the conversation was being recorded, 241 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:56,719 Speaker 3: but the secretary was still live on the zoom call, 242 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 3: so it's not like it's in front of a live audience. 243 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: You would probably write a note and slip it to 244 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: the boss. 245 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 3: Or at a committee hearing you see on c SPAN 246 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,199 Speaker 3: or on TV where they're all up in the committee 247 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 3: hearings and you see all these younger people whispering in 248 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 3: the ears of members of Congress. 249 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:13,679 Speaker 1: That's what they're doing. 250 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 3: They're correcting or advising, or otherwise supplying information that's not 251 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 3: at the fingertips of the member of Congress. That's your job, 252 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 3: and I don't think that's a whole lot different than 253 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 3: the regular world. If you're responsible to make sure that 254 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 3: your superior is prepared and they're on the spot, you've 255 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 3: got to get in there and you've got to say, hey, boss, 256 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 3: that was incorrect, So here's what you should have said, 257 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 3: And then a good boss will be excuse me, Madam Secretary, 258 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 3: I was just informed that I had my facts wrong. 259 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 3: Let me correct myself and you know what, maybe in 260 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 3: the moment, the boss is going to scream at you, 261 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 3: why are you interrupting me? Can't you see them working? 262 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,199 Speaker 3: Can't you see them in a comvers like that might 263 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 3: happen because that's human nature. But a good boss will, 264 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 3: as soon as the call is over, as soon as 265 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 3: the lights are out, as soon as the meeting is adjourned, 266 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 3: as soon as they have a private moment with you, 267 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 3: will come to you directly, maybe even in front of 268 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 3: other staffers, and say and thank you for not making 269 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 3: them look like a fool, and applaud your strength and courage, 270 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 3: and recognize your strength and courage, and reward your strength 271 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 3: and courage. That's what good management is. That's what good 272 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 3: bosses do because it's not easy to contradict the boss. 273 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: It's certainly not easy to interrupt the boss in front 274 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: of important people, and like this, this is the perfect example. 275 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: This is textbook good staff work. 276 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 3: If I was a chief of staff and that legislative 277 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 3: aid did that, I would go to my I would 278 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 3: make sure that more than just an apology, you have 279 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 3: to recognize the strength of the staffer to be able 280 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 3: to pull that off, and then a relationship bills right 281 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 3: with the boss. 282 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: So now when somebody interrupts you, you have experienced knowing that. 283 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 3: Okay, I must really be inaccurate, I must really be 284 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 3: setting myself up to look foolish because I have trust 285 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 3: that this person is not interrupting me for no reason. 286 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 3: I saw none of that in Katie Porter. I saw 287 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 3: none of that. Even in the moment. It wasn't like, Okay, well, 288 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 3: I appreciate that. It was just stay out of my shot. 289 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 3: Let's roll through it again. And this is just a 290 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 3: side note, but it's always interesting to me when we're 291 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 3: talking energy. No matter what policy we're talking, when you're 292 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 3: dealing with Democrats, everything's death. 293 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: You're always dying. 294 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 3: Whether it's energy policy and smog emissions and clean vehicles. 295 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: It's death. 296 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 3: We avoided death by having more electric cars, whether it's 297 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 3: Department of Train Inspectation and widening off ramps on interstate 298 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 3: you for. 299 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: Democrats, it's death. 300 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 3: Death was avoided, agriculture death, Department of Interior debt, forest 301 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 3: rangers death. It's always death with these people. But you 302 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 3: hear it talking about the death that's being avoided. 303 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 7: In Californian's dying prematurely, the air pollution and other problems. 304 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 5: And the state could lose. You're out of my shot. Okay, 305 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 5: it does Okay, you also were in my shot before that. 306 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 5: Stay out of my shot. 307 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a terrible look. That is unbecoming with politicians. 308 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 3: As I've said, it is not the fumble, it's the recovery. 309 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 3: They all will fumble, they all flobbed, they all make 310 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 3: mistakes because they're live all the time. 311 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: But how do you recover? Katie Porter does not recover well, 312 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: Louke Penrose. 313 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 3: If John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show on KFI 314 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 3: AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 315 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 316 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 8: six forty. 317 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 7: Oh, for heaven's sakes, Katie Porter is not being tough, 318 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 7: not bagging down. 319 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: She's just being a full on Yeah, that's what they're saying. 320 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 3: So President Obama cut an ad now for PROMP fifty 321 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 3: ballots are out. There's some controversy in some counties. Some 322 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 3: ballots are odd in that there's a whole punched in 323 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 3: the ballot right where the no stamp is where you 324 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 3: fill out no. That's almost impossibly an accident. But Nevertheless, 325 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 3: ballots are out and ballot turn ins are favoring Democrats. 326 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 3: Democrats are out performing voter registration, which means independence and 327 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 3: registered Republicans just don't have the motivation to turn in 328 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 3: their ballot. And the assumption is Republicans certainly, but at 329 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:06,959 Speaker 3: least a portion of registered independents or what they call 330 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 3: no party preference would vote no. 331 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: And they're just not doing it. 332 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 3: But President Obama weighed in. Here's a bit of the 333 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 3: ad that he cut for the yes on Prop fifty California. 334 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 3: The whole nation is counting on you. Democracy is on 335 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 3: the ballot in November fourth. 336 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 9: Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to written 337 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 9: the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years. 338 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,719 Speaker 9: PROMP fifty, you can stop Republicans in their trends. 339 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: So it does go on. 340 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 3: But that's the real that's the heavy press. And I 341 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 3: have to say I am disappointed. Former presidents are not 342 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 3: supposed to do this now can he absolutely does he 343 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 3: have a right to do it. 344 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 1: Sure, he doesn't live in California, so I don't know 345 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: why he needs to do this. 346 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 3: That he felt like he needed to do it tells 347 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 3: me that there is a chance that this could go down. 348 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 3: Right now, the ballots turned in are favoring Democrats, but 349 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 3: that might run out of steam, and then when all 350 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 3: Republicans and Independents turn in their ballots, this thing could 351 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 3: go down to a solid note, which would be a 352 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 3: tremendous embarrassment to Governor Gavin Newsom. 353 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: But again. 354 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 3: That part doesn't matter to me so much as the 355 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 3: really the breaking of the mold of the former presidents. 356 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 3: I liked it when former presidents just were elder statesmen 357 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 3: and the only time they would weigh in on policy 358 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 3: is when they could do some good for a charitable cause. 359 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 3: And that is really the tradition that has been the 360 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 3: tradition for quite some time. 361 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: When you have former President George H. W. 362 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 3: Bush and former President Clinton getting together to go help 363 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 3: the disadvantage to Haiti. 364 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: Even though it didn't work, the goal was noble. 365 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 3: Here you have former presidents getting together to do what 366 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 3: they can to try and raise awareness and do some good. 367 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 3: Like that's the role President Jimmy Carter like he embraced 368 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 3: his elder statesman role very well, except for Trump. He 369 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 3: did take some shots at Trump, but Trump is like that. 370 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 3: He's kind of a lightning rod to get people to 371 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 3: break with tradition. But this is unnecessary for Obama and 372 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 3: it is unbecoming in my opinion, it truly is. 373 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: This is not what former presidents should be doing. 374 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 3: And Obama is really kind of ending his elder statesman 375 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 3: career by enter of all races to get involved in. 376 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 3: You want to get involved in a close Senate race. 377 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 3: You want to get involved even in a presidential race. 378 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 3: You want to go to the Democrat National Committee and 379 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 3: speak on behalf of the nominee. You want to advance 380 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 3: a candidate in the primaries. Those are all fine things 381 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 3: to do as an older statesman of the Democrat Party. 382 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 3: But to get involved in a state special election proposition 383 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 3: which is unnecessary, Like nothing is gonna happen if President 384 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 3: Trump holds the House of Representatives, like it'll just be 385 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 3: like it is today, So there's nothing like, there's no 386 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 3: pressing concern. The saving of democracy. 387 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: Line is worn out. Man, Come up with some new words, 388 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: come up with a different script. 389 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 3: How about coming up with some ideas, like public policy ideas, 390 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 3: lowering taxes, advancing freedom, deregulation. 391 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: I don't know anything. A chicken in every pot come 392 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: up with an idea instead of just stopping Trump. So 393 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: I looked at some path statistics, and. 394 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 3: These are different times, so you really you can't rely 395 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 3: anymore on what traditionally has happened in American politics. But 396 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 3: that's all we got is contemporary American politics and the 397 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 3: history of it. It is not unusual for newly elected 398 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 3: presidents in their first mid term election to lose seats 399 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 3: in the House to the opposite party. It's more than 400 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 3: not unusual, it's quite common. It almost always happens, and 401 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 3: it's usually their biggest loss. And it doesn't mean that 402 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 3: the newly elected president has so quickly fallen from favor. 403 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything. It just seems to be the 404 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: way things go here in America. 405 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 3: We tend to elect a Republican president, and then two 406 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 3: years into the first midterm election, we elect a bunch 407 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 3: of Democrats into the House of Representatives, or vice versa. 408 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: We elect a Democrat. 409 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 3: President, and two years go by and we elect a 410 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 3: bunch more Republicans into the House of Representatives. Now it 411 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 3: only works in the first did term election, so Congress 412 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 3: is elected every two years. Presidents are elected every four years. 413 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 3: So the president will get elected and then in two 414 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 3: years he will have his first mid term election. It's 415 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 3: a little bit different now because President Trump has had 416 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 3: two non consecutive terms, so these rules might not apply. 417 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: But going back nineteen. 418 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 3: Seventy two, Richard Nixon was elected in seventy four, he 419 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 3: lost forty. 420 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: Eight House seats to Democrats. 421 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 3: Carter was elected in seventy six and seventy eight, he 422 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 3: lost fifteen House seats to Republicans. Reagan, elected in eighty 423 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 3: eighty two, loses twenty six House seats to Democrats. 424 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: Clinton in ninety two. 425 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 3: In ninety four, he loses fifty four House seats to Republicans, 426 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 3: ushering House Speaker New Gingrich. 427 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: First time Republican controls the House in forty years. 428 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 3: Two thousand and two thousand and two was an anomaly 429 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 3: and we were at war. So Obama two thousand and 430 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 3: eight wins the election. Twenty ten loses sixty three House 431 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 3: seats to Republicans. Trump in twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen loses 432 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 3: forty one. I noticed that Trump didn't do as well 433 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 3: as Reagan, but did better than Obama with respect to coattails. 434 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: So my point is it would mean nothing. It wouldn't 435 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: mean that Trump is losing popular support, it wouldn't mean 436 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: the Republican Party is falling apart. It wouldn't mean Maga 437 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: is over. 438 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 3: If Trump loses House seats to Democrats, it would be 439 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 3: quite usual. 440 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: So there's no need to rig it. 441 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 3: You could just rely on history, or if you really 442 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 3: believe that you're right, go win over the voters with 443 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 3: your ideas in Republican districts. If Newsom is right, then 444 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 3: any Democrat candidate in a Republican district, in a Republican 445 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 3: congressional district in California ought to be able to go 446 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 3: directly through the voters of that district and make the. 447 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: Case that democracy is in peril. 448 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 3: And if you're right, then the voter will agree with 449 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,680 Speaker 3: you and real democracy will happen. 450 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: But that's not what they're doing. 451 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 3: They're literally rigging it on purpose, and Obama is going 452 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 3: along with it, and I think it is unbecoming of 453 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 3: a former president of the United States. Loup Penrose in 454 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,640 Speaker 3: for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show on KFI 455 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 3: AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 456 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 457 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 8: six forty. 458 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 3: Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show. 459 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 3: Coming up following the news at three, we'll get an 460 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 3: update from Zach Schoeffeldt. He's with the Hill on the 461 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 3: US Supreme Court hearing a redistricting case out of Louisiana 462 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 3: that might impact the outcome of a lot of this 463 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 3: redistricting talk that's happening not just in Texas and California, 464 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 3: but a number of states that are looking to do 465 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 3: what califiate Cornia is doing and cheat and switch up 466 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 3: the lines for political purposes to increase the odds of 467 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 3: them getting one particular political party over another. Also, Gavin 468 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,719 Speaker 3: Newsom went on a podcast and he coined a new phrase, 469 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 3: California to arrangement syndrome. 470 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: We'll find out what that is, what he thinks it is, 471 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: and if he's right, Oh my god, you are the 472 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: biggest hypocrite. 473 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 10: It's not okay, it's unbecoming for Obama to stump for 474 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:36,360 Speaker 10: the redistricting in California, but it's absolutely becoming for Donald 475 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 10: Trump to actually call Texas and say, oh, I need 476 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 10: five more seats. 477 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: Get them for me, And that's what they went and 478 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: did you guys. Yeah, that is not what happened. 479 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 3: It is unbecoming, in my opinion, of a former president 480 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 3: of the United States to get involved in politics at 481 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 3: this level, particularly on this issue, which everyone agrees is 482 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 3: changing the rules of the game on purpose, just so 483 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 3: there's a better chance that Republicans don't hold the House 484 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 3: of Representatives. 485 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: Like, no one is being unclear that it's cheating. 486 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 3: Even Gavin Newsom, he doesn't say it's cheating, but it's 487 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 3: certainly cheating. 488 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: Now, is it legal? Yeah, you know why. 489 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,960 Speaker 3: It's going to go on the ballot, so the legislature 490 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 3: can put a special election together. The governor can spend 491 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 3: your money to hold a special election, and it's in 492 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 3: front of the voters, and the Democrats Secretary of State 493 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 3: can misword it to make it sound like it's protecting 494 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 3: democracy when it is certainly cheating. What is it when 495 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 3: you jerry mannder a congressional district mid census on purpose 496 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 3: to give Democrats or Republicans a better chance at winning 497 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 3: the seat, specifically in this election, specifically because you're unhappy 498 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 3: that the president of the United States won all seven 499 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 3: battleground states and the popular vote and won two non 500 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 3: consecutive presidential elections for the first time since the eighteen nineties. 501 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 3: Newsom and the. 502 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: Democrats and Sacramento are just sore losers. That's all that's 503 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: going on here. Let's be honest. 504 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 3: Now, Can they be sore losers and play the game 505 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 3: in their state where they have complete control and try 506 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 3: and jerry rig this thing and trick the voters. 507 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: Sure they can. They can. 508 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 3: It's not becoming, but they can, and they're doing it. 509 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 3: The Texas State Legislature decided to revisit the Texas districts. 510 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 3: Not the President of the United States and not the 511 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 3: members of Congress of the state of Texas, but the 512 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 3: State House of Texas. Now, what they do in Texas 513 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 3: doesn't affect me here in California, and what Democrats are 514 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 3: trying to do in California is negated by what's going 515 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 3: on in Texas. That's the irony to all this is 516 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 3: that this can be a complete This could be a 517 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 3: complete blowout because if California cheats and you think Texas 518 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 3: is cheating, then they cancel each other out, and then 519 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 3: every other Republican state or red state then they cheat 520 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 3: and it's a net gained for Republicans. And you said 521 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 3: in your call that Trump says he needs five more votes, 522 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 3: he doesn't. Republicans controlled the House of Representatives now he 523 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,959 Speaker 3: doesn't need five more votes. And in fact, Democrats are 524 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 3: pulling down going into the midterm election. They were doing okay, 525 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 3: And I just pointed out historically they ought to pick 526 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 3: up House seats. It's a slim majority, so it would 527 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 3: not be at all a political science major news story 528 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 3: if Democrats regained the House of Representatives in the first 529 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 3: midterm election, it just really wouldn't be that big of 530 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 3: a deal. They'll make it out to be a big deal, 531 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 3: but historically speaking, is just not big of a deal. 532 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: But Trump doesn't need the House seats. 533 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 3: It was never the plan to hold the House of 534 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 3: Representatives for all four years of the presidency. 535 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: That's why he's moving so quickly. 536 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 3: You only have a really a two year runway, in fact, 537 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 3: more like an eighteen month runway. 538 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: And Trump knows that. So yeah, it's a not hypocrisy. 539 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: And Trump is not a former president, so he should 540 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: be involved in politics. 541 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 7: To shine a little light on the fraud. 542 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: So of course fifty is favoring the Democrats. 543 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 7: One of my best friends moved to Kawhai six years ago, 544 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 7: and last week she received a ballot for. 545 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: Fifty Yeah, happened to me too. Where I live. 546 00:30:54,720 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 3: My niece, my brother's oldest daughter, was living working in California, 547 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 3: and during COVID they shut down where she worked and 548 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 3: she worked. 549 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: She worked at a blowout place in. 550 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 3: Beverly, Glenn and the blowout people were the last ones 551 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 3: to get back to work. Remember, you could get a haircut, 552 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 3: but you couldn't have the blow dryer because that would 553 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 3: blow COVID on you. 554 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: So she came to live with me, and she lived 555 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: with me for a couple of years, and then eventually 556 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: he's just moved to Arizona and we still get her ballot. 557 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: I got it again. I constantly call the Registrar of 558 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: voters and they say, yeah, not a problem, just don't 559 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,719 Speaker 1: worry about it. And I call her and say, your 560 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: ballots here, you want to mail it to you. 561 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 3: But it's been years since she has moved out of 562 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 3: the state of California. 563 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: She is not registered to drive in California. She's registered 564 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: to drive in another state. 565 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 3: She has a license a mutationian's license in another state, 566 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 3: and she continues to get at a ballot in California, 567 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 3: and I don't know if she's a registered Democrat or Republican. 568 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: She won't tell me. But I don't know why this 569 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 1: can't be resolved. 570 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 3: I think that we need to really take this component 571 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 3: of the Registrar of voters. Most registrar of Voter's office, certainly. 572 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: Riverside does a good job. They've win awards. Orange County 573 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: wins awards. LA County. 574 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 3: I think has a strong registrar's office. I've worked with them. 575 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 3: But this thing, voter registration numbers. This needs to be 576 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 3: bifurcated and taken away from the Registrar Voter's office and 577 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 3: subcontracted out to people that handle data well, like Massive Card, 578 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 3: Visa and American Express. 579 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: Those people know how to handle data. 580 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 3: You lose your If my wife loses her Nordstrom credit card, 581 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 3: it'll be overnighted to her. My niece continues to get 582 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 3: ballots to vote in elections in states that she doesn't 583 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 3: lived in four years. 584 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: Absolutely unbelievable. 585 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 3: Lou Penrose if of John Coblt on KFI AM six 586 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 3: forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 587 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John Coblt Show podcast. 588 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 589 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 590 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app