1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody the Clay Travis and Buck 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. I'm John Cobelt filling in for Clay and Buck. 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,159 Speaker 1: I want to thank them for letting me have this 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: opportunity today as they enjoy the vacation, enjoy the holidays off, 6 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: and I want to continue. I'm from cafe in Los Angeles, 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: and I've been talking a lot about the governor here, 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, because he is the leading presidential candidate on 9 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: the Democratic side, and this is a dire warning not 10 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: to let this happen. And I'm saying this to everybody, 11 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 1: not just Republicans listening, but Democrats and independence You don't 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: want this guy. He is a disaster with his policies. 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: And I'll go through more of that later, but I 14 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: want you to see a little a clip of his 15 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: act here. Look. I mean, he's absolutely running for president. 16 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: He's already toured primary state and he's obviously taken on 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: the job as being chief critic of Donald Trump, bizarrely 18 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: by trying to imitate Trump's Twitter style, and this is 19 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: getting him a lot of attention. This is what's boosted 20 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: up in the polls, but just last month. This is 21 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: last month. He goes on NBC Meet the Press. It 22 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: talks to the Kristen Welker, who asks about why he 23 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: wants to be president. Listen to this nonsense answer. 24 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 2: You said you'll make a decision about whether to run 25 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 2: for president after the midterms. 26 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean why do governor? 27 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 4: Let me ask you, why do you want to be president? 28 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: I don't. 29 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 2: I'm not suggesting I am. I'm saying I in response 30 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 2: to someone talked about it, and I hate when nothing. 31 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: I just like more than the politician that sits there 32 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 2: and lies to you and we all just sit there 33 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 2: rolling our eyes. Go and give me a break. So 34 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 2: as it relates to that, there's nothing on the right, 35 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 2: I'm focused on profit stay. I'm focusing on fair and 36 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 2: free elections and to the extent fate the future. There's 37 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: an alignment. You have a big enough why, you have 38 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 2: a what and how you meet a moment, and that 39 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: moment presents itself in a year, year and a half, 40 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. 41 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: What the hell did that mean? At the end there, 42 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: he says that he hates a politician sitting there and 43 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: lying to you, and we're we roll our eyes while 44 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: he's lying to you, and we're rolling our eyes, and 45 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: then he goes into this incomprehensible word salad that would 46 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: put Kamala Harris to shame. Ay. Yeah, Well, here's a 47 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: woman who's got a lot of stamina because she's been 48 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: covering Gavin newsom uh for many years, Katie Grimes, and 49 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: she writes for the for California Globe dot com California 50 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: Globe dot com. And if you want to know what's 51 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: going on in California news and politics, this is where 52 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: to go. Believe me. You may not have heard about 53 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: this particular website, but for me, it's replaced most of 54 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: the regular media out here, which simply doesn't cover anything. 55 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: I don't think there is one local reporter in Sacramento 56 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 1: that covers state politics. And there's nobody else in all 57 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 1: of California. Nobody, Nobody from the La Times, nobody from 58 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: the San Francisco Chronicle, nobody from all the network affiliates ABCNBCCBS, 59 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: all the affiliates in all these cities, Nobody covers Sacramento. 60 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: It's it's astonishing, But Katie does Katie, how are you 61 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: welcome doing. 62 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 4: Well, John, Good to be with you, Good. 63 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: To have you on. Well, why don't you give because 64 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,119 Speaker 1: we're you know, we're we're we're broadcast across the country 65 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: this time. What would you tell people about covering Gavin 66 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: Newsom for all these years? 67 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 4: Well, it's a it's a distasteful job, I must admit 68 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 4: if anybody kind of is trying to unders and who 69 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 4: Gavin Newsom is, which is difficult because every interview he 70 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 4: gives he's playing to whatever audience he thinks he's performing for. 71 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 4: But you have to think of like the worst of 72 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 4: Tim Waltz and the worst of Gretchen met Beer. But 73 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 4: just in a nice Italian suit, that's kind of Gavin Newsome. 74 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: The suits are nice? Are they nice? I think he's 75 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: he's you know, that's how he gets buy in life. 76 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: He's got nice suits, nice hair and a strong jawline. 77 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 4: Yeah. And he travels with his own personal hairstylist. 78 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. And I mean, you know, some people swoon. I 79 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: mean I see him referred to as Governor McDreamy. 80 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gross. 81 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: And they don't connect him to the everything that's fallen 82 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: apart in the state. 83 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I believe it was Michael Savage who said 84 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 4: liberalism is a mental disorder, and then I think we're 85 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 4: seeing the fruition of that today after so many years 86 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 4: of Democrat super majority rule in California, and it got 87 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 4: really ugly during when Jerry Brown came back as governor 88 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 4: second time around, which you know, so unfortunate for all 89 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 4: of us who've lived here for decades, but it was 90 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 4: made worse by Gavin Newsom. I recently did an update 91 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 4: to my Top fifty Disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has ushered 92 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 4: into California fifty wall. 93 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: I got to just stop in a second, Top fifty disasters, right, 94 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: and there's more. 95 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 4: I have people telling that, you know, people were writing 96 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 4: me saying, but you forgot this, and you forgot this, 97 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 4: and it's like we could have Top five hundred. It 98 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 4: would take, you know, a twenty thousand word essay. 99 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the biggest ones, because you know, 100 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: all the news is raging about Tim Waltz and the 101 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: nine billion dollar Somali scandal, for the empty daycare centers 102 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: and the children's feeding programs that don't exist. But he's 103 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: got several here, you know, that add up to about 104 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: eighty billion dollars worth of fraud. Let's talk about the homelessness, 105 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: because he has admitted that twenty four billion dollars in 106 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: homeless money over the years has disappeared and is it 107 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: was spent, but nobody knows what it was spent on 108 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: and what if it did any good? And that's what 109 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: this one fascinated me because he actually admitted it. 110 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, he only admitted to twenty four billion. The 111 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 4: state legislative analyst uped it to thirty seven billion, and 112 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 4: that money disappeared into the black hole of newly created 113 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 4: nonprofits and NGOs non governmental organizations, and those people hired 114 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,679 Speaker 4: you know, friends and family, and the CEO was making 115 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 4: two fifty a year and they just would spend the 116 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 4: money as fast as humanly possible. I did an article 117 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 4: that posted today just highlighting one of these organizations in 118 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 4: San Francisco, which is supposed to be providing free shots 119 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 4: of alcohol to homeless alcoholics and years, at sixteen sixteen 120 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 4: million dollars a year, they've served fifty five clients. 121 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: No, you're making that up. That's this is tax money 122 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: and ad buys free shots of booze to street drunks. 123 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and it's been going on for a number 124 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 4: of years. It was it was an organization that already existed, 125 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 4: but they beefed it up during COVID ostensibly to keep 126 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 4: these homeless alcoholics out of emergency rooms. And you know, 127 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 4: it's under the you know, we're kind of trying to 128 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,239 Speaker 4: reduce harm to these people. And you know, as I said, 129 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, giving alcohol to alcoholics is like giving crack 130 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,559 Speaker 4: to crack heads and heroin to heroin addicts. It doesn't 131 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 4: end it. It makes it worse. 132 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: Well, they're close to doing that too, because I know 133 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: in La I just saw a program that UCLA is 134 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: involved with where they hand out they hand out needles. Yeah, 135 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: and they hand out they hand out like meth pipes, 136 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: right exactly. 137 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. They claim that this is a harm reduction program 138 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 4: when all you're doing is is the classic codependent concept. 139 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: But they know this, don't they. Yes, And it's really 140 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: about funneling the money to friends and family. So everybody 141 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: has their own multimillion dollar empire, and everybody knows that 142 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: all this nutty stuff doesn't work. 143 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 4: Yes, And in California, with forty million residents and a 144 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 4: legislature the same size as New Jersey, it's very easy 145 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 4: to hide this. 146 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: And that's that's thirty seven billion right there. 147 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 2: Yep. 148 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: The high speed rail, that's a seventeen billion dollar disaster. 149 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: And that's over an eighteen year period. Now, yes, and 150 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: there is not one inch of track laid down after 151 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: seventeen billion dollars in eighteen years, not an inch of track. 152 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 4: Talk about that, No, And that's exactly. It's alms that 153 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 4: are getting paid. It's union employees. This was supposed to 154 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 4: be a big boondoggle for the labor unions in the state, 155 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 4: particularly the SEIU, which is public employees. And all they're 156 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 4: doing is spending money, as I said, on consultants on 157 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 4: you know, architects on it's a lot of make work, 158 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,839 Speaker 4: and it's a multi billion dollars of money just being 159 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 4: funneled down the drain. And as you say, there's no track, 160 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 4: there's no trains, there's no high speed, there's no nothing. 161 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,839 Speaker 4: It's unbelievable that this is going on. And I think 162 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 4: it's even more unbelievable to you and to me, John, 163 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 4: that we have, you know, the Los Angeles Times, which 164 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 4: hasn't done a massive investigation on this because they have 165 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 4: the resources to do it, and expose where the money's 166 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 4: actually going. 167 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 1: Then another one, and this may be the biggest one 168 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: of them all. During COVID, the state started handing out 169 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: unemployment money to anybody who claimed they were unemployed, and 170 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: they blew about at least thirty two billion dollars and 171 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: much of it went overseas. Yes, and at a state 172 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: talk about that this was the. 173 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 4: Most unbelievable stam I think our state has ever seen. 174 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 4: And unfortunately the perpetrators failed up into the Biden administration. 175 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 4: So what they did during COVID was took off all 176 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 4: of the security measures that are normally in place when 177 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 4: people apply for unemployment benefits in California. And somehow the 178 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 4: word got out pretty fast to every prisoner in every 179 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 4: state prison in our state and other states that there 180 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 4: was this free money to be had. We had prisoners 181 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 4: on death row getting unemployment benefits fraudulently. 182 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: Scott Peterson, who killed his wife, Lazy Peterson was getting 183 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: unemployment benefits while sitting on death row. 184 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 4: Yep, Yeah, Russians, were Ukrainians, were you know, people from 185 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 4: all over the world. We're applying and receiving California unemployment benefits. 186 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 4: And the head of the agency who should not only 187 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 4: have been fired but prosecuted, was hired by the Biden administration. 188 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: She became the acting Labor Secretary Julie Sue right, Yes 189 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: she did. 190 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 4: She never got confirmed, but yeah. 191 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: And then she forgave some of the debt California had 192 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: to the federal government. She created the debt while running 193 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: the California Labor Department, and then forgave her own debt 194 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: when she took over Biden's or Labor Department. 195 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 4: Correct, And the remaining debt is now being paid by 196 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 4: California's business owners because Gavin Neilson will not repay the 197 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 4: debt to the federal government. 198 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: That's crazy. Can you hang on? Yes, we'll talk a 199 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: few more minutes here with Katie Grimes from California Globe 200 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: dot Com. So, I mean you add all those three 201 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: scandals up and you get near eighty billion dollars. I mean, 202 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: I mean, Tim Waltz is a rookie compared to what 203 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has done to the state. And by the way, 204 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 1: this is going on in a lot of states. It's 205 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: not just Minnesota. In California, I mean this it is 206 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: a free for all now with local governments. We'll talk 207 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: more about this. John Cobelt from KFI filling in today 208 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Welcome, this 209 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: is the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John 210 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: Cobelt from CAFI Radio in Los Angeles, filling in today 211 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 1: normally on in the afternoon in the LA area, and 212 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 1: we're talking now with Katie Grimes. We've devoted a lot 213 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: of time to Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who's 214 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: the leading Democratic presidential candidate. A lot of people think that, 215 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: you know, he's clearly got the best chance to being 216 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: the Democratic nominee. Katie Grimes is with us from California 217 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: Globe dot Com and she's been chronicling Newsome and the 218 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: decline of the state over the last seven years. Katie, 219 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: you and I know what the record is. And he's 220 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: going to be running against I don't know, six or eight, 221 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: ten other Democratic candidates right in the primaries. Not to mention, 222 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: if he made it through, it would be the Republican nominee, 223 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: whether it's JdE Vans or Marco Rubio or whoever. Isn't 224 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: he going to get eviscerated in about ten minutes? Or 225 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: do you think he's got the ability to slime and 226 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: slink his way out of this. 227 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 4: Well, an answer to your question, yes, he will be 228 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 4: eviscerated most definitely. To think back to his disastrous debate 229 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 4: with Rond de Santis, Governor Ronda Santis of Florida, which 230 00:13:54,280 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 4: was a squirming, uncomfortable experience to have to watch. Honor 231 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 4: de Fatus was fabulous and just like hummeled Governor Nasom 232 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 4: on his record, on his lies, on you know, his exaggerations, 233 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 4: on his word salads. I mean just it just went 234 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 4: on and on. And can you imagine jd Vance debating 235 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 4: him or Marco Rubio, even any of the other potential 236 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 4: Democrat want to be candidates. I think other than Tim Walls, 237 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 4: Gretchen Whitmer could just eat him for lunch. I think 238 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 4: it'll be entertaining to watch. It may make a lot 239 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 4: of people squirm, though, when you when you see him 240 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 4: really put to the test. 241 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: Why do you think he survived here? He's won every 242 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: election twice for mayor, twice for lieutenant governor, three times 243 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: for governor because there was a recall. I mean that's 244 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: a seven and zero record. What's wrong with people here? 245 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 4: Well, we are a Democrat majority state, a super majority 246 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 4: in our legislator. We have some of the most liberal 247 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 4: media in the entire country, and as you correctly stated 248 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 4: in your opening, they just choose not to cover certain things. 249 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 4: And Gavin Newsom, for that very reason, has never been 250 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 4: put to the test in California, not the way he 251 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 4: should have been. There's never really been. He hasn't had 252 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 4: to run a tough election, is the point. I think 253 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 4: that will change on the national stage. 254 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: He is not really quick under pressure. No, every once 255 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: in a while a reporter gets a hold of him 256 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: and he becomes a blithering mess. 257 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, and his first go to is to tell a big, 258 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 4: fat lie, you know, as he encountered the mom in 259 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 4: Pacific Palisades or Kristen Welker in her interview. I think 260 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 4: he thinks he can shoot from the hips on everything 261 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 4: he does, and it just doesn't work on a national stage. 262 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 4: California media might give him, you know, a past, but 263 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 4: I don't think national media will now. 264 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a rich target environment Newsome's record, 265 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: because I know a lot of people think he's going 266 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: to win in a breeze, and I always think you 267 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: have no idea how much baggage he carries. Katie Grimes, 268 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: I've got to go. Thank you for coming on with 269 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: us from californiaglobe dot com. 270 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Jonathan, great to be with you. 271 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: All Right, we're going to talk more about the situation 272 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: out here in California. I'm the Clay, Travis and Buck 273 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. 274 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 3: Thank you John Cobalt for hosting a Clay and Buck 275 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 3: and you and Katie so letting the world know that 276 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 3: California has gone from the land of love, milcon honey, 277 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 3: to fruits and nuts, now to doom and gloom. I'm 278 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 3: a seventy seven year old native and it's I'm just 279 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 3: terribly depressed. So please, we cannot let Newsom ruin our country. 280 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, And this is the Clay, 281 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobelt from CAFI 282 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles on every afternoon on the radio here 283 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: in southern California, and yes, I'm here to let the 284 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,959 Speaker 1: world know just what a freaking disaster Gavin Newsom has 285 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: been to the state and it's been destroyed right in 286 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: front of our eyes. As I said in the opening 287 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: of the show, you know I've been here over thirty years, 288 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: and when I was a little kid, this looked like 289 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: paradise on TV. I came here and it actually was. 290 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 1: And it stayed that way for the first, you know, 291 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: twenty plus years or so, and then it's gone really downhill, 292 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: and it's it's almost entirely due to self inflicted bad 293 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader for any political party, 294 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: but I am telling you that this progressive movement over 295 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: the last ten years has utterly disemboweled the state. It 296 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: is terrible, and it's heartbreaking. It's very sad, and you know, 297 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: it's funny. I've got I've got three sons who are 298 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: in their twenties and they all they all moved out, 299 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: and none of them want to come back to California, 300 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: And but we visit them around the country. And when 301 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: I go to other states, within a few hours, I 302 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,199 Speaker 1: look around and I go, what happened? Like where are 303 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: the homeless people? You know? Where are all the low 304 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: level criminals skulking about? Look at that gas price that's 305 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: two eighty nine, that's two sixty nine a gallon. It's 306 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: I feel like I've broken out a Cuba. I mean, 307 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: or we're communist Russia. I really have that feeling. And 308 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: my sons used to my wife and I complain and 309 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: grumble all the time about various policies and taxes and 310 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 1: just everything, quality of life issues, and the insta role 311 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: arives on us until they moved out. And so now 312 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: they go out and I have one son of Wyoming, 313 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: one in North Carolina, one in Louisiana going to school 314 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 1: or various early parts of their career. And they come 315 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: back and they go they're shocked. Now they're shocked by 316 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: LA because they spend you know, three six months in 317 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: peace before they return for a visit and they go, 318 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: you know, now I know what you're talking about, because 319 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: they get so used to normal life, pleasant life. I 320 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: visited one of my sons in North Carolina over the summer, 321 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: and then we took a road trip. We went through Savannah, Georgia. 322 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 1: We went to Charleston, South Carolina. We ended up in Sarasota, 323 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: where my wife grew up a part of her childhood 324 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: as a teenager and beyond because her parents had moved. 325 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: And so just seeing those four cities, seeing Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Sarasota, 326 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: and I'm looking around. It's like, look at this, nobody's 327 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: on the sidewalks. We're not looking at our shoulder. We're 328 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: not afraid. And that is the single thing that makes 329 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: you crazy in La. You never know when somebody's gonna 330 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: come flying at you, because it happens. People get punched 331 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: in the face, they get stabbed. There was a girl 332 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: that my sons went to school with from the local school, 333 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: and she'd gone to college and she was taken a 334 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: job to earn money, had to leave it a furniture store. 335 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,360 Speaker 1: Homeless guy who had been arrested, you know, many many, 336 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: many times, walked in one day and stabbed her to 337 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: death right in the furniture store. It's like, oh my god, 338 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 1: you know what, My sons knew that girl. I used 339 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: to see her. She used to work out at a 340 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,479 Speaker 1: park that I worked out at, and I remembered her. 341 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: And this it really hits home to a lot of people. 342 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: I mean, we know, we know dozens and dozens of 343 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: people who lost their homes in the fire because many 344 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: of the people in the Palisades went to the same 345 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: school as my children, and and and so the the 346 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: pain is intense, the pain is personal. You go from 347 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: paradise to what we have now, and it's just makes 348 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: you Now, a lot of people have packed up and left, 349 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 1: and I understand and people always say, well, why are 350 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: you staying? Well, I do have a good job and 351 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: and we do have a lot of friends. You know, 352 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 1: you do spread roots, and I don't really want to 353 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: go to another state and not know anybody. That's that's 354 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: just doesn't sound appealing. Let me, let me tell you 355 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: about about some of the fraud. We went over with 356 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: Katie Grimes from California Globe dot Com. We're gonna have, oh, 357 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 1: next hour, we're gonna have from news Nation. Let me see, Uh, 358 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 1: We're going to have Joe Khalil from News Nation and 359 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: he's going to talk about the Minnesota case with Tim 360 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: wats And so I keep saying, if, like you think 361 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 1: Waltz is something else with the fraud, just listen to 362 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 1: these Gavin Newsom stories. And this week California dropped its lawsuit. 363 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: Four billion dollars in federal money was supposed to come 364 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: for high speed rail and Trump pulled it. And Trump 365 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: has done a lot of damage to Newsom. This is 366 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: one example, four billion dollars of federal money Obama had 367 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: originally appropriated some of it. And the first thing that 368 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: Newsom and the Attorney General in California does, Rob Bonta, 369 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 1: is they hold a press conference. We're suing Trump, big 370 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: headlines in all the left wing papers. Newsom sues Trump, 371 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: Bonta sues Trump. Well, the follow up to that is 372 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: that Newsom and Bonta dropped their four billion dollar lawsuit. 373 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 1: They're not even going to try to get the four 374 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: billion back because guess what they did violate the loan 375 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: agreement or they were the grant agreement. They dismissed their 376 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: own lawsuits. Trump's Transportation Department said they did a compliance 377 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: review and found that California didn't meet federal grant requirements. 378 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: There were too many costly changes to the contracts, the 379 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: ridership forecasts, where bogus and and on and on. Let 380 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 1: me tell you when this thing passed in two thousand 381 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: and eight, what the voters were told. I think it 382 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: passed fifty two to forty eight. It was a statewide referendum, 383 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: do you want high speed rail? Here is what they 384 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: sold the public. I voted no. I knew it was 385 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: a bunch of lies. A lot of people went for it, 386 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: and I understand why because at the time, and this 387 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: was a remnant of like the Schwarzenegger administration, they said, 388 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: you were going to have two hundred and twenty mile 389 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: an hour trains. Yeah, really two hundred and twenty mile 390 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: an hour trains, and they were gonna run from get this, 391 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: It was gonna run from Sacramento to San Francisco, then 392 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, then to Anaheim, then to San Diego. 393 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 1: The whole state, all the major cities from north to 394 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: south would be connected by a single track. And we 395 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: were gonna build that in about I think it was 396 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: gonna be by within fifteen years, by twenty twenty, and 397 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: the total price was gonna be thirty three billion dollars, 398 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:44,400 Speaker 1: thirty three billion dollars for the whole thing, Sacramento, San Francisco, La, Anaheim, 399 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: San Diego. And the trains would go two hundred and 400 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: twenty miles an hour and you'd be able to order 401 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: from San Francisco to Los Angeles, uh in like I 402 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: don't know, two and a half hours. And people got excited, right, 403 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 1: people love it's science fiction, right, shiny bullet trains speeding 404 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: you know, through the California farm regions, connecting the cities. 405 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: Everyone bought into it. So now what have we got 406 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: eighteen years later? We have no track. What we have 407 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:31,679 Speaker 1: is scattered out in the California, the Central Valleys they 408 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: call it. That's a lot of farmland, right. Well, they 409 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: tore up a lot of farmland and they have left 410 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: these pillars. And someday someone's going to come back to 411 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: California and wonder what these pillars are for, because they're 412 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: really high. They're like twenty thirty feet high. They're supposed 413 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: to hold up the railroad track, the overhead railroad track, 414 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: except the railroad track was never built. So you have 415 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,360 Speaker 1: these things and it looks like Stonehenge out there. Had 416 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: I know, people from a foreign country come, they'd be 417 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: looking around. It's like this, this is the ancient civilization 418 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: that left behind. You know, were they tracking the sun? 419 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 3: Here? 420 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: Were they plotting the stars? Do these cast shadows? 421 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: Uh? 422 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: That's that's all we have are these Stonehenge pillars to 423 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: hold up track that's ever been built. They have reduced 424 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 1: the train to Bakersfield to Merced. Bakersfield is an oil town. 425 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: Merced has a University of California campus there. Bakersfield's industrial. Uh, 426 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: it kind of looks like an oil town would. Merced 427 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: is just you know, a little suburb. You can't run 428 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: a train back and forth. There's no market there. There 429 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: are no commuters wanting to go for Bakersfield to merced 430 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: And even then the train stops are outside Bakersfield and Mercene. 431 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: And that's the extent of the train they're trying to build. 432 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: It's gonna be one hundred and seventy one miles. There 433 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: is no Sacramento, there's no San Francisco. There's no Los Angeles, 434 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 1: no Anaheim, no San Diego, there's nothing. There's Baker's Field 435 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 1: to Mercede. And now they they're estimating it's like, well, 436 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: if we ever built the whole thing, which we're not 437 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: going to, it would cost a one hundred and thirty 438 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 1: million dollars, which means it would probably cost one hundred 439 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: and thirty billion, which means it would probably cost two 440 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion. Remember what I said at the beginning, 441 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: it's gonna be thirty three billion, all five major cities. 442 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: It's gonna be done about twelve to fifteen years now. 443 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: I but end when they did, they did several audits, 444 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: and when the auditors went in because somebody elseys want 445 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: to do an audit, I don't do it a forensic 446 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: audit and track down every penny. Well, when they do 447 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: the audits, they find out the money evaporated. It's it's 448 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: not written down, there's no paperwork. There's literally no paperwork. 449 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: The money was withdrawn, tax money was withdrawn from accounts, 450 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: and then it was gone. We agreed to borrow ten 451 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: billion dollars that we're now paying back. They also said, well, 452 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna get private investors. Way back when Well and 453 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: Newsoman Bonta dropped this lawsuit. This past week, somebody said, well, 454 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 1: where are you going to get the money. Oh, we're 455 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: gonna get private investor. There are no private investors in 456 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: the world. They've been trying for twenty five years to 457 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: get private investors. But it's a boondoggle. You know, when 458 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: the private sector says this thing is a scam, it's 459 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 1: a scam. But it keeps the unions employed who are 460 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: busy building these stonehenge pillars for no reason. It's it's astonishing. 461 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: And that other thing that we talked about with Katie, Yeah, 462 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: death row inmates really really got unemployment money. Scott Peterson 463 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: really got an unemployment check while sitting on death row. 464 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: You just can't make this stuff up. All right, We've 465 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: got more coming up on. This is John Coblt from 466 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: KFI Radio on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 467 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 5: Hey John, this is Timothy in More, Oklahoma, formerly from 468 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 5: San Diego, California. Used to love the John and Ken 469 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 5: Show back then moved out here in twenty two, left 470 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 5: that hell hole California behind. And I just paid a 471 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 5: dollar ninety three from leaded gas here in Oklahoma. God 472 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 5: bless Mary Christmas, Happy New Year. 473 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: A dollar ninety three, he said. Huh. John Cobelt here 474 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: from calf By, Los Angeles, filling in today on the Clay, 475 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And yeah, California gas is uh. 476 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: I think the average is four twenty nine right now. 477 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: And I don't know where the where the cheaper stations are, 478 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: but on the west side of Los Angeles where I am. Yeah, 479 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: I've set a stoplight just yesterday it was five oh 480 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: nine at the corner. So I don't know who's who's 481 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: paying the cheap gas to average get to that four 482 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: twenty nine average, but it's it's it just I look 483 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: at the gas prices every day. And what the reason 484 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: for the gas hike here is entirely taxes. We have 485 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: a dollar fifteen extra taxes and it's all climate change nonsense, 486 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: and it has had no effect on the climate. The 487 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: climate on Earth has not cooled by a single one 488 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: one millionth of a degree since they started charging us. 489 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: You know, the extra buck fifty. It's not just a 490 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: climate tax, it's all the different taxes. But this is 491 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: what really boosted the gas into the stratosphere, was the 492 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: climate change tax. The Earth is no cooler, California is 493 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: no cooler. The I mentioned the other they had. Trump 494 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: has done a lot of damage earlier in the show 495 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: how Trump's done a lot of damage to Newsom, for example, 496 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: by with withdrawing the billions of dollars in high speed rail. 497 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: He also got rid of Newsom's electric car mandate starting 498 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: next week. Next week, thirty five percent of the cars 499 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: in California were supposed to be electric, thirty five percent 500 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: of the cars sold, and it was going to ramp 501 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: up from there, and in less than ten years, one 502 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: hundred percent of the cars sold were supposed to be electric. 503 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: Now a lot of the electric cars are difficult to 504 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,719 Speaker 1: deal with as you know, which is why this has 505 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: been a bus Tesla's are great. I see teslas on 506 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: the West side. There's a lot of rich people on 507 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: the West side. There's a lot of guys. It's their 508 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: third cards, their weekend car, and they can pay seventy 509 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: five or one hundred thousand or whatever those things cost. 510 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: But again for the working class, for the middle class, 511 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: electric cars not feasible. For one thing, we don't have 512 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: any charging stations. I mean we really don't, and we 513 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: don't have an electric grid to support the charging. If 514 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 1: we all switch to electric like Newsom was mandating, there's 515 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: absolutely no power source to provide the electricity. And for 516 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: years and years we've been talking about this. It's like, well, 517 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: if we're gonna do this, we need more power. Instead, 518 00:32:55,320 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: they were closing natural gas plans. They were closing a 519 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: nuclear plant and then changed their mind at the last minute, 520 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: and then changed their minds on the gas plan. They 521 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: were going to go all wind and solar. They didn't 522 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: build charging stations, they don't have a grid, but we 523 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 1: were mandated to buy electric cars. That's part of the 524 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: insanity that we have. All Right, we come back, Joe 525 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 1: Khalil and Joe's with News Nation and we're going to 526 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: switch to the Minnesota Insanity, very similar and all the 527 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: fraud with the Somali community there. There's a new video 528 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: out that has shocked country one hundred million views and 529 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: that's coming up next on The Play Travis and Buck 530 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: Sexton Show