1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're all working very hard 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: for you here. We are going to have next hour 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: at three o'clock the Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher, because 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: the California Supreme Court is going to hear as to 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: whether we can vote on something called the Taxpayer Protection Act, 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: which if it passes in November, if it gets on 8 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: the ballot and passes, then we will have the final 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: say on tax increases in the state. The legislature can 10 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: pass a tax and the governor can sign it, but 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: it will not become law unless the public votes on it. 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: And that's what this proposition would do in November. But 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: the Democrats are trying to stop it and they're going 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court to do so. To talk about this, 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: James Gallagher, the Assembly Republican Leader, because this Supreme Court 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: decision is going to be very important to see how 17 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: much we can get back at a Sacramento. All right, 18 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: you'd probably know about the Stormy Daniels situation by now. 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: From yesterday extensive sexual testimony about his or night with 20 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, including images that none of us can wipe 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: out of our minds once you hear them. Well. Peter 22 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: Haralambos from ABC News, he's covering this case. Peter, how 23 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: are you hi? 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: John? Thanks for having me? 25 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: What's your day? After? Memory of what went on yesterday 26 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: in the courtroom with Stormy Daniels like it. 27 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 2: Was shocking and vivid. I think shocking because I don't 28 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 2: think I grasped the idea of Donald Trump sitting ten 29 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 2: twenty feet away from Stormy Daniels as she laid out 30 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 2: their sexual encounter in detail and vivid. In that Stormy 31 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 2: Daniel's testimony was detail rich. It was, if anything, it 32 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 2: had too much information, according to the judge ever seeing 33 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 2: the case, who said they were things that were better 34 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: are left unset from that testimony. But she laid out 35 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: the full picture, this entire affair that Trump denies, and 36 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 2: it provided the jury an idea of what story that 37 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: Trump was trying to kill out of the twenty sixteen election. 38 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 2: They heard the entire story from the moment they met 39 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: until their last phone call, and to have Trump in 40 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 2: the room for the entire thing was hard to comprehend, 41 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: I'd say. 42 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: And what was his demeanor throughout this? Because it's terribly 43 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: embarrassing at best for somebody. I mean, there are a 44 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: lot of people with embarrassing sexual affairs in their past 45 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: and they keep it to themselves and nobody knows to 46 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: have this laid out for the entire world. I mean, 47 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: what was he doing? 48 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 2: You know, it depended on what time of the day 49 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 2: he was in the courtroom, right, So by the afternoon session, 50 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: Trump had his eyes closed for long periods of time. Honestly, 51 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: he might have been asleep for some portions of it. 52 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 2: But in the morning during the direct examination, when we 53 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 2: heard the explicit details of the testimony, Trump was livid. 54 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 2: We know from the transcript in the case that on 55 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 2: multiple occasions Trump was cursing audibly. An earshot of the jury, 56 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 2: he was shaking his head as Daniels was detailing the 57 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: sexual encounter. He was reminding his lawyers, poking them, prodding them, 58 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 2: reminding them please object. There were multiple objections from Trump's 59 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 2: defense attorneys in the mornings that were only started because 60 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 2: Trump kind of first reminded them, like, please stop this now. 61 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 2: So it was an embarrassing testimony for him, for sure, 62 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: and he certainly was not happy about it. The judge 63 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: even had to ask Trump's lawyers to have their clients 64 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 2: settle down after he cursed too many times in front 65 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: of the jury. 66 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: Well, one thing I was confused by is the judge 67 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: one Marchon allowed the testimony and then at the end said, oh, 68 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: that was too much. Why did he allow it? And 69 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: then he complained that the Trump attorneys didn't object enough. Well, 70 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: how come they have to object to stop testimony that 71 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: Marchon later realized should never have been aired. I mean, 72 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: I didn't understand the judge's role in this. 73 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 2: So I've spent a ton of time in the courtroom 74 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: with Judge Marcheon, and honestly, this might have been one 75 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: of the first strategic mess ups on his behalf. Here 76 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 2: where at the beginning of the day, Trump's lawyers remade 77 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 2: their request to stop this testimony, warning Mahon that this 78 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 2: testimony was going to be too much. Prosecutors responded by saying, look, 79 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: we're not going to ask her too much about the 80 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 2: sexual encounter. We're not going to get into the details. 81 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 2: But they very promptly got into the details. That's why 82 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 2: Marshon kind of falted them for not objecting enough, because 83 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 2: they allowed part of the testimony. But by the afternoon, 84 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 2: Mrshawn acknowledged that perhaps the degree of this testimony was 85 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 2: a mistake, telling the parties that Stormy Daniel's testimony had 86 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: included parts that were better left un said for this jury. 87 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 2: Though he didn't think it was so bad that it 88 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 2: merrit in a mistrial. He thought that any harm that 89 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 2: was done could be remedied over cross examination. But in 90 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 2: a world in which Trump loses this case a few 91 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 2: weeks from now right and he eventually appeals, I could 92 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,919 Speaker 2: very likely see the transcript or Masterday playing a starring 93 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 2: role in the appeal, given the fact that the jury 94 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: got all this additional information about past bad acts that 95 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 2: have in the past been successfully used to overturn convictions, 96 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 2: like if you look at Harvey Weinstein's conviction here in 97 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 2: New York, introducing testimony about past bad acts that are 98 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 2: unrelated to the actual underlying criminal conduct, it can be 99 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: grounds for a successful appeal. So we might hear about 100 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 2: this again one day when we talked about an appeal 101 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 2: for this case of Trump loses, I was. 102 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,799 Speaker 1: Going to say, by the end of the day, everybody 103 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: had forgotten that this was a case about Trump falsifying 104 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: business records, and whether that was that the purpose of 105 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: falsifying the business records was to influence the election. It 106 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: made it sound like it was a Harvey Weinstein style 107 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: case that some sort of sexual assault had happened, which 108 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: didn't happen and had nothing to do with the falsifying 109 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: of the records. 110 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 2: I mean. The one thing though, that Mersham pushed towards 111 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 2: with this, and he said this in a pre trial 112 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 2: ruling kind of reiterated yesterday, was in a way, despite 113 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 2: the fact that this testimony about the sexual act didn't 114 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 2: really relate to the underlying criminal contact, those there for 115 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 2: thirty four counts of false flying business records, they are 116 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: a vital context in his eyes for the jury, right 117 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 2: because we're talking about a hush money payment to stop 118 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 2: exactly the story that the jury heard yesterday from getting 119 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 2: to voters ahead of the twenty sixteen election. So in 120 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 2: Mashan's eyes, yes, the testimony went too far, but they 121 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 2: still needed to hear it because in order to kind 122 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 2: of understand the full case, they need to understand the 123 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 2: story that was getting quashed in the days before the 124 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 2: twenty sixteen election. So it kind of cuts both ways. 125 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 2: But it certainly seemed like an area where Mashan got frustrated, 126 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 2: Trump's lawyers got frustrated, and perhaps prosecutors stepped little too far. 127 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: You know, And I wonder maybe this is too convoluted. 128 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: But while I'm sure there isn't a whole lot of 129 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: sympathy for Trump in among random New York City jurors, 130 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: it must have occurred at let's say, to the guys 131 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: on the jury, like, oh, I could see why he 132 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: would want to keep the story a secret from his family. 133 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: He's running for president, Well, of course he would do this. 134 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: He would cover it up almost like yeah, maybe it's illegal, 135 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: but it's certainly explainable, understandable. 136 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 2: And Trump's lawyers have emphasized that point that they argue 137 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: that the entire story hears about something that they say 138 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 2: is false, and that they say, we would be embarrassing 139 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 2: to Trump's family. And I mean, from the story we 140 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 2: heard yesterday didn't come off well for Donald Trump. We heard, 141 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: for example, that Trump mentioned his wife Malania during the 142 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 2: conversation with Stormy Daniels, saying that they sleep in separate bedrooms. 143 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 2: That he compared Stormy Daniels to his daughter, saying that 144 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 2: they were both beautiful and intelligent women. Who were underestimated. 145 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 2: You know, these were details that Trump's lawyers might use 146 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 2: in their closing statement to be like, look, you heard 147 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 2: it straight from the source. These were embarrassing details that 148 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 2: could have really heard in this man's family, and that's 149 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 2: why he covered up. And that's been a constant theme 150 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 2: of the case. 151 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: It's so funny that Trump even now insists that none 152 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: of that happen. I mean, after hearing the story from 153 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: Stormy yesterday, it's clear it happened. And he's still going 154 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: to go around, maybe for the rest of his life 155 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: saying I don't know this woman. 156 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 2: And it might hurt his credibility too if he takes 157 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 2: the witness stand. Especially, we saw the contexts in Stormy 158 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 2: Daniel's phone, for Trump's assistance, for Trump's security, there was 159 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 2: evidence here to back up the fact that at least 160 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 2: this encounter in two thousand and six in California happened. 161 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 2: So we'll see if they continue. It seems like they 162 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 2: will continue to insist this story was made up, which 163 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 2: doesn't really help their case if the jury believes it happened. 164 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: Peter, thanks very much, great for Peter. Harralambus from ABC 165 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: News on the Trump Stormy Daniels trial. We've got The 166 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: New York Post has discovered just how much money the 167 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: prosecutor and the judge have donated to Joe Biden and 168 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: various Democratic campaigns, and the judge's daughter will tell you 169 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,719 Speaker 1: all about that coming up. They chose sides a long 170 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: time I go. 171 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 172 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 3: six forty. 173 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: We just had a report from Peter Harralumbus all of 174 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: the way his name flows harral Ambus from ABC News, 175 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: and he actually was in the court yesterday and witnessed 176 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: up close what was happening between Stormy Daniels and the 177 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: attorneys and Trump yesterday. All we had was a printed summary, 178 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: but you could get a sense of what it was 179 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: like to feel all that energy in person. And the 180 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: prosecutor in the case who was going for all the 181 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: sex details is a woman named Susan Hoffinger. Susan Hoffinger 182 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: Joe Biden fan two hundred and fifty dollars she donated 183 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: to his campaign in February twenty twenty, and then gave 184 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: another two hundred and fifty dollars the following month. This 185 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: is alien to me. I have never I would never 186 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,719 Speaker 1: contribute to a campaign simply because of the I have right. 187 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: I do not want to be involved with any politicians. 188 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: Somebody's got a good idea, we'll promote the good idea. 189 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: But as far as the politician's career, they're all bastards 190 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 1: and they're they're they're they're liars and thieves, most of them, 191 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: not all of them, most of them, but sometimes you 192 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: can't tell. Anyway, Hoffinger was so excited by Joe Biden, 193 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: of all people, five hundred bucks to the to the 194 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: Biden campaign. She was hired by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan 195 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: DA in twenty twenty two and gave another nine hundred 196 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: dollars to a group called Act Blue. Excuse me for 197 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election cycle. What is act Blue? Well, 198 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: it's the fundraising platform that politicians and liberal organizations use 199 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party. Hoffinger, the Prosecutor, appears to have 200 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: exclusively donated to Democrats going back to two thousand and four, 201 00:10:54,360 --> 00:11:00,959 Speaker 1: with her first contributions going to John Kerry. What would 202 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: you ever give money to John carry It's worth a 203 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: billion dollars anyway. Then we go to the judge. Now 204 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: the judge's contributions are actually funny. The Joe Biden donated 205 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: to Joe Biden's campaign. What did I say? 206 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 4: No, you said Joe Biden donated to Joe Biden's campaign. 207 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: Isn't that a Joe Biden moment right there? 208 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 2: That is? 209 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: That is you know, I think I had a parasite 210 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: that died in my brain. Oh no, yeah, like Robert Kennedy. 211 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: Oh I got to talk about that. 212 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 5: Oh that's so disgusting. 213 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: I know I thought of you right away, and I 214 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: saw a parasite diving. 215 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 5: I can't even Yeah, all right, well we're. 216 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 1: Going to get there next. Anyway, it's Wan Mochon. The 217 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: judge donated to Joe Biden's campaign, you know how much? 218 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: Fifteen dollars, and then another ten dollars to a group 219 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: called Progressive Turnout Project, and another ten dollars to a 220 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: group called Stop Republicans. So and we're talking thirty five 221 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: dollars here. Now, the state of New York prohibits judges 222 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: from making contributions to candidates and political organizations, so these 223 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: are forbidden donations, but apparently they were viewed as trivial, 224 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: so nobody ever enforced the law on judge murchan, and 225 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: he did not recuse himself. However, his daughter ah different 226 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: story here. His daughter, Lauren Merchon is the president of 227 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: Authentic Campaigns. That is a progressive political consulting group. Top 228 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: clients include Adam Schiff, the line dirt bag here in Burbank, 229 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: who's running against Steve Garvey for Senate. So Richon has 230 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: actually the daughter has raised ninety three million dollars through 231 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: this group, and they're running off off the evil of 232 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. That's that's that's how they fundraise. Fighting Trump 233 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: is the draw to bring in money. So his daughter 234 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: is raising an unbelievable fortune for Democratic candidates and of 235 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: course probably very well paid herself. So Trump is like 236 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: the best thing that could ever have happened to his 237 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: family in terms of raising money for the daughter's political 238 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: action group and also making one Rchon famous when we 239 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:42,719 Speaker 1: come back, I guess since we've brought it up Robert Kennedy. 240 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 5: And I was hungry too. 241 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is why you know two things. He claims 242 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: over ten years ago suffering from brain fog bad memory, 243 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,839 Speaker 1: and it was a parasite that crawled into his brain 244 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 1: and died after eating a part of his brain The 245 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: second thing thinks he ate too much fish and suffered 246 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: mercury poisoning, which also fogged his brain. So that's all ahead. 247 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: How could you not want to hear that? 248 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 5: That will inspire you? 249 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: You see, I'm inspired, you are. 250 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 4: You are an inspiring talk shops and I'm going to 251 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 4: be productive. 252 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 253 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 3: six forty. 254 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: We're on from one to four. You want the moistline 255 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: eight seven seven moist eighty six. There's no moistline unless 256 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: you call and complain, So that's your job. We can't 257 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: do everything here. Eight seven seven moist eighty six. We 258 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: have some vacancy. If that's too complicated to dial a number, 259 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. All right, 260 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: now on to Robert Kennedy, JUNR. Running for president. He's 261 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: on the ballot in a small number of states, and 262 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: he says he's going to get on all fifty states 263 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: as an independent. He's not going with any any party. 264 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: He has now a running mate named Nicole Shanahan, who's 265 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: got a huge tech fortune, so presumably she's going to 266 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: be paying for this. I don't know how much money 267 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: he has his share of the Kennedy Empire. But anyway, 268 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: it's they're they're they're largely self financed, and uh, you 269 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: pay the fee and get enough signatures. I think that's 270 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: the way it works in a lot of states. You 271 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: got to get signatures on the ballot and then if 272 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: you get enough, uh, they'll they'll put your name there. 273 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: Uh So uh he he take he gets double digits 274 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: in some polls. Uh. And and he takes a chunk 275 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: away from both Trump and Biden. And there are people 276 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: who they aren't a living trying to figure out all 277 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: day how much of a chunk he's going to take 278 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: from either candidate. And it's impossible to know right now. 279 00:15:54,040 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: But Robert Kennedy, he's he's causing enough notice that news 280 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: organizations are delving into his background. And they found a 281 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: twenty twelve deposition The New York Times did and it 282 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: related to a divorce he was going through at the time, 283 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: and I think he was trying to downplay how much 284 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: money he has or how much money he makes, and 285 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: he was claiming that he has brain fog, cognitive problems, 286 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: short term and long term memory loss, and that was 287 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: diminishing the amount of money he can take in. So 288 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if this was a divorce ploy or 289 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: this was for real, but doctors and then this is 290 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: all from Kennedy all right. Now in the timeline, it's 291 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: twenty ten, and around that time, his uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, 292 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: got a brain tumor and died. And so Robert Kennedy 293 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: is trying to figure out what's causing his cognitive issues. 294 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: And he goes for a brain scan, a number of 295 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: brain scans, and they see a dark spot and the 296 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: doctors think it's a tumor, and he was scheduled for 297 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: a procedure at Duke University by the same surgeon who 298 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 1: had operated on his uncle. Now he's packing for the 299 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 1: trip and he got a call from a doctor at 300 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: New York Presbyterian Hospital who'd seen the brain scan, and 301 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 1: he had a different opinion. He thought Robert Kennedy had 302 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: a dead parasite in his head. The abnormality on the 303 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: scans was caused by a worm that got into my brain, 304 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: ate a portion of it and died. Do you think 305 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: you can feel that there's a. 306 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 5: The worm dying or nibble nibbling on the brain. 307 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 4: Your brain, like if. 308 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: You suddenly have a little problem communicating or understanding what's 309 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: going on. Is it? Is it the worm eight? Just 310 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: the right set of seals, and now you can't process 311 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: which you're I don't know. 312 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 5: How would I know that? And I don't want to 313 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 5: know that you. 314 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: Don't have any any worms in your head? 315 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. 316 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 1: So the doctor thought the abnormality on the scans was 317 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: not a tumor, but a worm that that ate a 318 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 1: portion of it and then died. Now he claims he 319 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 1: recovered from the memory loss and the fogginess and had 320 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: no after effects because I guess after the worm died 321 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 1: then there was no no further disruption. They talked to 322 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: other doctors to see is this real? Is this a thing? 323 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,959 Speaker 1: And The Times talked to doctor Clinton White, professor of 324 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: infectious disease at the University of Texas, and he said, oh, 325 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: you're gonna like this. Microsquad Microscopic tapeworm eggs are sticky 326 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: and easily transferred from one person to the next, so 327 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: that once once hatched, the larvae came and travel in 328 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: the bloodstream and end up in all kinds of tissues. 329 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: Now Kennedy thinks he might have gotten it in South Asia, 330 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,400 Speaker 1: where he was traveling. And you can get it from 331 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: undercooked pork. 332 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 5: Oh, I don't have to worry about that. 333 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's there's I guess there's worms and pigs. 334 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: And if you don't cook your pork like you can't 335 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 1: have medium raress. That has to be well done otherwise 336 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: you're eating the parasite eggs. That the only time I 337 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: got a really really weird sickness that wouldn't go away. 338 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 5: Did you have a worm? 339 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 1: No? No, but it was some kind of some kind 340 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: of virus. I think I was the first person to 341 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: get COVID back in twenty sixteen. Yeah, because we went 342 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,679 Speaker 1: to Thailand and Vietnam and Cambodia, and by the second 343 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: week in Thailand, I got this ferocious It wasn't a cold, 344 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: it was something worse than a cold, just a horrific cough. 345 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,160 Speaker 1: I came back here and for weeks afterwards, I am 346 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: hacking up along every few minutes. I couldn't sleep at night. 347 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: On a few times I couldn't sleep. I almost broke 348 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: my ribs. I'm coughing so hard, I feel like my 349 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: ribs are going to burst into pieces. And then one 350 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: time I had a coughing fit while I was walking 351 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: from my bedroom to the. 352 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 5: Bathroom, and a worm came out of your mouth and. 353 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: I up chucked a worm, like like a whole family worms. No, well, 354 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: the thing is, it was such a violent cough. I 355 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 1: was holding my iPad and I ended up whacking myself 356 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: in the head with the iPad and knocking myself out 357 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: on the ground. Oh God, I either either it was 358 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 1: either that or when I fell I hit the wooden 359 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: chest that I was found lying next to watch I 360 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 1: found myself lying next to it. I woke up. I 361 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: was unconscious, I guess for a short time. I woke 362 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: up and there was blood all over the carpet. 363 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 5: Oh geez. 364 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: And I crawled into the bathroom to get a towel 365 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 1: to soak up the blood. And I opened the cabinet, 366 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: which was at floor level, and the first thing I thought, 367 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 1: it's like, Oh, those are the new white towels. I 368 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 1: don't want to mess them up. 369 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 5: Well, your wife would kill you. 370 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 2: No. 371 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: Well, she walks in and she sees blood spattered all 372 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: over the ground. It figured somebody got in the house 373 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: and murdered me. What happened? Runs into my son's room 374 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: and starts screaming. The dad got attacked and my son 375 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: just goes, oh okay and he rolls over. That's life 376 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: in my house. I was in the bathroom. I had 377 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: to go get get stitches. 378 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 4: Wow, Well did they ever determine what was wrong with you? 379 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: You know, there's another guy who works here at the 380 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: station and he had gone to Asia too, and he says, 381 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: you have one hundred day cough. And I looked this 382 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: up and it is a real thing. There is There 383 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: is different kinds of viruses on the other side of 384 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: the world. 385 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,120 Speaker 5: So didn't you get any vaccinations before you went? 386 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, we did, but but there's no vaccination for these 387 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: kinds of odd ball mutantviruses. You just yeah, because you 388 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: don't have any natural antibodies because we don't live there. 389 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: I think people there maybe they don't get these. 390 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. 391 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 5: I know that's true. 392 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: But he had gone and he got one, and I went, 393 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 1: I got one and look at Kennedy. He ended up 394 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: with worms in his head. Where did you go? Went 395 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: to Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand? And how long ago was this? 396 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen? Oh, this is pretty recent. Yeah, yeah, well. 397 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 5: Those places are on my list. 398 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: Now I'm not going, Well, you're definitely not going anywhere 399 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: after your last couple of trips. 400 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 4: Well, I would you know what, at least I didn't 401 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 4: come back with a worm. 402 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: You promised that when you decign your next trip, you're 403 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: going to tell everybody, so the rest of us don't go, 404 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: I know, and it would be a service to the listeners. 405 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: Show Okay, all right, because nothing good happens. We coming 406 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: up after three o'clock. We're going to talk to James Gallagher. 407 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is looking as at a proposed initiative. 408 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: The News administration is trying to block this initiative, claiming 409 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: in advance it's some constitutional But if this got on 410 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: the ballot and passed, then we would have the final 411 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: final say on state tax increases. It could pass the 412 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: legislature and the governor could sign it. But it's no 413 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: go unless the public are agreed. And it's a fascinating case. 414 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: We had John Coopaul from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association 415 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: on the other day to talk about it. And you're 416 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: going to hear from James Gallagher, Republican Assembly leader. 417 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 418 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 3: six forty. 419 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: Get ready. After three o'clock, we're going to talk to 420 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: the Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher. He is going to 421 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: talk about this proposition, which if the Supreme Court gives 422 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: the okay, we'll be on the ballot in November and 423 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: we could vote to have the final say on statewide 424 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 1: tax increases. Doesn't matter if the Legislature votes yes and 425 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: the Newsom signs that we get to have the final no. Now, 426 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 1: I thought, since we had such a fascinating discussion on 427 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: worms dying in Robert Kennedy's brain and he thinks he 428 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: got it, probably the doctor's thinking he might have eaten 429 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: undercooked pork in Asia and that's how he got the worm. 430 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 1: It's happened years ago, just by coincidence, this story out 431 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: of Oakland. There are no good stories coming out of 432 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: Oakland these days. A McDonald's in Oakland, the workers are 433 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: going on strike because they found a dead rat in 434 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: the kitchen. They are saying in a strike notice, we 435 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: are not trained to clean up rat feces and urine. 436 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: We do not have protective equipment. We demand that management 437 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,640 Speaker 1: bring in professionals to deal with the unsanitary, unsafe environment. 438 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: We see rats in the kitchen every day. This McDonald's 439 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: is at thirteen thirty Jackson Street in Oakland, in case 440 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: you happened to be up there. We see rats at 441 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: the grill where we make the hamburgers, nibbling on pieces 442 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: of bacon or on hamburgers that are ready to be 443 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: sent to the customers. 444 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,719 Speaker 5: And I still send them to the customers. 445 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: What do you think? We see rat droppings next to 446 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: the bags of chicken, next to the bags of chicken 447 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: nuggets and the Big Max, and in the papers we 448 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: wrap around the cheeseburgers. I've seen rat excrement in the 449 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: paper that we used to wrap food. Buy the nuggets 450 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: and buy the sauce packet containers at the drive through, 451 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: said one worker in the complaint. They even have video 452 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: showing a rats scurrying on top of the bacon station. 453 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: See bacon is good, I appreciate it, Eric does and rats? 454 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 2: The workers get this? They found they. 455 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: Found rats lodged in a hole in a food warmer. 456 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: And get this, the workers have personally killed several rats 457 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: with brooms. 458 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 5: This is not. 459 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: Well, you wouldn't be caught dead and McDonald's anyway, that's true. 460 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 5: There's nothing really there for me to eat. 461 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: Uh, the management sent out exterminators, but the employees say 462 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: we still hear and see the rats every day come 463 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: the uh. The franchise owner, a guy named Joseph Wong, says, 464 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: it's very important to me, as a small business owner 465 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: in Oakland that my employees have a safe place to work. 466 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: When we became aware of the issue, we immediately contacted 467 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: pest control and continued to work with them. Well, if 468 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: you did that right away when you see the first rat, 469 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 1: but if you if you're at the point where they're 470 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: at the bacon station, they're in the food warmer, they're 471 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: in the in the in the paper wrapping, they're nibbling 472 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:02,719 Speaker 1: on the hamburgers. I don't think he responded that quickly. 473 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: I think he got out of hand. And then of 474 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,479 Speaker 1: course the dead rat in the kitchen. 475 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,120 Speaker 4: You know, I really have to thank you for doing 476 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 4: these stories, because seriously, I was so hungry and I've 477 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 4: already I've already had enough calories, you know, before dinner, 478 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,640 Speaker 4: and I was debating, and now I am so sick 479 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 4: to my stomach. 480 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 5: I am not hungry any This. 481 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: Most disgusting half hour, This and Robert Kennedy's parasite. There's 482 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: actually a photo of one of the rats walking on 483 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: the like the tray area where they I think put 484 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: food to warm. If you want me to pass my photo, Larne. 485 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 5: No, I don't like to see that. 486 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:47,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, thirteen thirty Jackson Street in Oakland's 487 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: you've been warned. When we come back, Okay, we're gonna 488 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 1: get serious again. We're going to have James Gallagher on. 489 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: He's the Republican assemblyman and he is well, actually he's 490 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: the he's the Uh he's got a title in the 491 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: Republican Assembly, doesn't he. I know, I say he's a 492 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: Republican Assembly leader. Yeah, and he's going to talk to 493 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: us about the Supreme Court and what's the likelihood that 494 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: we'll get this proposition on the ballot in November that'll 495 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: give the people the final say on statewide tax increases, 496 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: not just the governor and the legislature, but we get 497 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: the final veto Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty 498 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 499 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 1: Cobalt Show podcast. 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