1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome everybody, the Clay Travis 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobel, filling in for 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck. I want to thank them for letting 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: me have this opportunity today as they enjoy the vacation, 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: enjoy the holidays off, and I want to continue. I'm 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: from cafe in Los Angeles, and I've been talking a 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: lot about the governor here, Gavin Newsom, because he is 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: the leading presidential candidate on the Democratic side, and this 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: is a dire warning not to let this happen. And 11 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: I'm saying this to everybody, not just the Republicans listening, 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 1: but Democrats and independence You don't want this guy. He 13 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: is a disaster with his policies. And I'll go through 14 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: more of that later, but I want you to see 15 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: a little a clip of his act here. Look, I mean, 16 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: he's absolutely running for president, already toured primary states, and 17 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: he's obviously taken on the job as being chief critic 18 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, bizarrely by trying to imitate Trump's Twitter style, 19 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: and this is getting him a lot of attention. This 20 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: is what's boosted up in the polls. But just last month. 21 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: This is last month. He goes on NBC to meet 22 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: the press. It talks to the Kristen Welker, who asks 23 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: about why he wants to be president. Listen to this 24 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: nonsense answer. 25 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 2: You said you'll make a decision about whether to run 26 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 2: for president after the midterms. 27 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean why do you governor? 28 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: Let me ask you, why do you want to be president? 29 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 3: I don't. I'm not suggesting I am. I'm saying I 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 3: in response to someone talked about it. I hate when 31 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 3: I nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits 32 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 3: there and lies to you and we all just sit 33 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 3: there rolling our eyes. Go and give me a break. 34 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 3: So as it relates to that on the right, I'm 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 3: focused on Prop fifty. I'm focusing on fair, free elections 36 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: and to the extent fate the future. There's an alignment. 37 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 3: You have a big enough why, you have a whate 38 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 3: and a how you meet a moment, and that moment 39 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,119 Speaker 3: presents itself in a year, year and a half, we'll 40 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: see what happens. 41 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: What the hell did that mean? At the end there, 42 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: he says that he hates a politician sitting there and 43 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: lying to you, and were we roll our eyes while 44 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: he's lying to you, and we're rolling our eyes and 45 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: then he goes into this incomprehensible word salad that would 46 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: put Kamala Harris to shame. Ay. Yeah, Well, here's a 47 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: woman who's got a lot of stamina because she's been 48 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 1: covering Gavin Newsom for many years, Katie Grimes, and she 49 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: writes for California Globe dot com Californiaglobe dot com. And 50 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 1: if you want to know what's going on in California 51 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: news and politics, this is where to go. Believe me. 52 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: You may not have heard about this particular website, but 53 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: for me, it's replaced most of the regular media out here, 54 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: which simply doesn't cover anything. I don't think there is 55 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: one local reporter in Sacramento that covers state politics. And 56 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: there's nobody else in all of California. Nobody, Nobody from 57 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: the La Times, nobody from the San Francisco Chronicle, nobody 58 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: from all the network affiliates ABC, NBC, CBS, all the 59 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: affiliates in all these cities, Nobody covers Sacramento. It's it's astonishing, 60 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: But Katie does Katie how are you welcome doing well? 61 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 2: John, Good to be with you, Good. 62 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: To have you on. Well, why don't you give because 63 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: we're you know, we're we're we're broadcast across the country 64 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: this time. What would you tell people about covering Gavin 65 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: Newsom for all these years? 66 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: Well, it's a it's a distasteful job, I must admit, 67 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 2: it's if anybody kind of is trying to understand who 68 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom is, which is difficult because every interview he 69 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: gives he's playing to whatever audience he thinks he's performing for. 70 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 2: But you have to think of like the worst of 71 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: Tim Waltz and the worst of Gretchen met Beer. But 72 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: just in a nice Italian suit, that's kind of Gavin Newsome. 73 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: The suits are nice, Are they nice? I think he's 74 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: he's you know, that's how he gets buy in life. 75 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: He's got nice suits, nice hair and a strong jawline. 76 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. 77 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: And he travels with his own personal hairstylist. 78 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: Yeah. And I mean, you know, some people swoon. I 79 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: mean I see him referred to as Governor McDreamy. 80 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gross. 81 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,119 Speaker 1: And they don't connect him to the everything that's fallen 82 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 1: apart in the state. 83 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I believe it was Michael Savage who said 84 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 2: liberalism is a mental disorder, and then I think we're 85 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: seeing the fruition of that today after so many years 86 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 2: of Democrat super majority rule in California, and it got 87 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 2: really ugly during when Jerry Brown came back as governor's 88 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: second time around, which you know is so unfortunate for 89 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 2: all of us who've lived here for decades, but it 90 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 2: was made worse by Gavin Newsom. I recently did an 91 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 2: update to my Top fifty disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has 92 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 2: ushered into California to twenty top fifty. 93 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: Wait, I got to just stop in a second, Top 94 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: fifty disasters, right, and there's more. 95 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: I have people telling me, you know, people were writing 96 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: me saying, but you forgot this, and you forgot this, 97 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 2: and it's like we could have top five hundred. It 98 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: would take, you know, a twenty thousand word essay. 99 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the biggest ones, because you know, 100 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: all the news is raging about Tim Watz and the 101 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: nine billion dollar Somali scandal, for the empty daycare centers 102 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 1: and the children's feeding programs that don't exist. But he's 103 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: got several here. You know that add up to about 104 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: eighty billion dollars worth of fraud. Let's talk about the homelessness, 105 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: because he has admitted that twenty four billion dollars in 106 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: homeless money over the years has disappeared and is it 107 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: was spent, but nobody knows what it was spent on 108 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: and what if it did any good? And that's what 109 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: this one fascinated me because he actually admitted it. 110 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he only admitted to twenty four billion. The 111 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 2: state legislative analyst uped it to thirty seven billion, and 112 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: that money disappeared into the black hole of newly created 113 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 2: nonprofits and NGOs non governmental organizations, and those people hired 114 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 2: you know, friends and family, and the CEO was making 115 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 2: two fifty a year and they just would spend the 116 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 2: money as fast as humanly possible. I did an article 117 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 2: that posted today just highlighting one of these organizations in 118 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 2: San Francisco, which is supposed to be providing free shots 119 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 2: of alcohol to homeless alcohol and in five years, at 120 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 2: sixteen sixteen million dollars a year, they've served fifty five clients. 121 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: No, you're making that up. That's this is tax money 122 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: and ad buys free shots of booze to street drunks. 123 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and it's been going on for a number 124 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: of years. It was it was an organization that already existed, 125 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 2: but they beefed it up during COVID ostensibly to keep 126 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: these homeless alcoholics out of emergency rooms. And you know 127 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: it's under the you know, we're kind of trying to 128 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 2: reduce harm to these people. And you know, as I said, 129 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,559 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, giving alcohol to alcoholics is like giving crack 130 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 2: to crack heads and heroin to heroin addicts. It doesn't 131 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 2: end it, it makes it worse. 132 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: Well, they're close to doing that too, because I know 133 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: in La I just saw a program that UCLA is 134 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: involved with where they hand out they hand out needles, Yeah, 135 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: and they hand out they hand out that like meth pipe. 136 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 2: Yes, right exactly. They claim that this is a harm 137 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 2: reduction program when all you're doing is is the classic 138 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 2: codependent concept. 139 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: But they know this, don't they. Yes, And it's really 140 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: about funneling the money to friends and family. So everybody 141 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: has their own multimillion dollar empire, and everybody knows that 142 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: all this nutty stuff doesn't work. 143 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 2: Yes, And in California with forty billion residents and a 144 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 2: legislature of the same size as New Jersey. It's very 145 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 2: easy to hide this. 146 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: And that's that's thirty seven billion right there. Yep. The 147 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: high speed rail, that's a seventeen billion dollar disaster. And 148 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: that's over an eighteen year period. Now, yes, and there 149 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: is not one inch of track laid down after seventeen 150 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: billion dollars in eighteen years. Not an inch of track. 151 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: Talk about that, No. 152 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 2: And that's exactly it. It's consultants that are getting paid. 153 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 2: It's union employees. This was supposed to be a big 154 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 2: boondoggle for the labor unions in the state, particularly the SEIU, 155 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: which is public employees. And all they're doing is spending money, 156 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 2: as I said, on consultants, on architects, on it's a 157 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 2: lot of make work, and it's a multi billion dollars 158 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 2: of money just being funneled down the drain. And as 159 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 2: you say, there's no track, there's no trains, there's no 160 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 2: high speed there's no nothing. It's unbelievable that this is 161 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 2: going on. And I think it's even more unbelievable to 162 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 2: you and to me, John, that we have the Los 163 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 2: Angeles Times, which hasn't done a massive investigation on this 164 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 2: because they have the resources to do it and expose 165 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 2: where the money's actually going. 166 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: Then another one, and this may be the biggest one 167 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: of them all. During COVID, the state started handing out 168 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: unemployment money to anybody who who claimed they were unemployed. 169 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: And they blew about at least thirty two billion dollars 170 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: and much of it went overseas. Yes, and at a 171 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 1: state talk about that. 172 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 2: This was the most unbelievable scam I think our state 173 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 2: has ever seen. And unfortunately the perpetrators failed up into 174 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 2: the Biden administration. So what they did during COVID was 175 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: took off all of the security measures that are normally 176 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 2: in place when people apply for unemployment benefits in California. 177 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 2: And somehow the word got out pretty fast to every 178 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 2: prisoner in every state prison in our state and other 179 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 2: states that there was this free money to be had. 180 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 2: We had bid prisoners on death row getting unemployment benefits fraudulently. 181 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: Scott Peterson, who killed his wife, Lazy Peterson was getting 182 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: unemployment benefits while sitting on death row. 183 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 2: Yep, Yeah, Russians were Ukrainians were you know, people from 184 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 2: all over the world were applying and receiving California Unemployment 185 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: Benefits and the head of the agency, who should not 186 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 2: only have been fired but prosecuted, was hired by the 187 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:13,839 Speaker 2: Biden administration. 188 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: She became the acting Labor Secretary Julie Sue Right, Yes 189 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: she did. 190 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 2: She never got confirmed, but yeah. 191 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: And then she forgave some of the debt California had 192 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: to the federal government. She created the debt while running 193 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: the California Labor Department, and then forgave her own debt 194 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: when she took over Biden's Labor Department. 195 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 2: Correct, And the remaining debt is now being paid by 196 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 2: California's business owners because Gavin Newsom will not repay the 197 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 2: debt to the federal government. 198 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: That's crazy. Can you hang on, Yes, We'll talk a 199 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: few more minutes here with Katie Grimes from California Globe 200 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: dot Com. So, I mean, you add all those three 201 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: scandals up and you get near eighty billion day. I mean, 202 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: I mean, Jim Waltz is a rookie compared to what 203 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has done to the state. And by the way, 204 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: this is going on in a lot of states. It's 205 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: not just Minnesota, in California. I mean this it is 206 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: a free for all now with local governments. We'll talk 207 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: more about this. John Cobelt from KFI filling in today 208 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 209 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 210 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 4: six forty. 211 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: Welcome. This is the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 212 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: I'm John Cobel from KFI Radio in Los Angeles, filling 213 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: in today normally on in the afternoon in the LA area, 214 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: and we're talking now with Katie Grimes. We've devoted a 215 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: lot of time to Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, 216 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: who's the leading Democratic presidential candidate, and a lot of 217 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: people think that, you know, he's clearly got the best 218 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: chance to being the Democratic nominee. Katie Grimes is with 219 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: us from California Globe dot Com and she's been chronicling 220 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: Newsome and the decline of the state over the last 221 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: seven years. Katie, you and I know what the record is, 222 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: and he's going to be running against I don't know 223 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: six or eight ten other Democratic candidates right in the primaries. 224 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: Not to mention, if he made it through, it would 225 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: be the Republican nominee, whether it's JD. Vans or Marco 226 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: Rubio or whoever. Isn't he going to get viscerated in 227 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: about ten minutes or do you think he's got the 228 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: ability to slime and slink his way out. 229 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 3: Of this. 230 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 2: Well? In answer to your question, yes, he will be 231 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 2: eviscerated most definitely. Just think back to his disastrous debate 232 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 2: with Rond de Santis, Governor Rond dea Santis of Florida, 233 00:13:55,400 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 2: which was a squirming, uncomfortable experience to have to watch. 234 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 2: Governor Desantus was fabulous and just like pummeled Governor Newsom 235 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 2: on his record, on his lies, on you know, his exaggerations, 236 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 2: on his word salads. I mean just it just went 237 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 2: on and on. And can you imagine j d Vance 238 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 2: debating him or Marco Rubio, even any of the other 239 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 2: potential Democrat want to be candidates. I think other than 240 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: Tim Walls, Gretchen Whitmer could just eat him for lunch. 241 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 2: I think it'll be entertaining to watch. It may make 242 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: a lot of people squirm though, when you when you 243 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 2: see him really put to. 244 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: The test, why do you think he survived here? He's 245 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: won every election twice for mayor, twice for lieutenant governor, 246 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: three times for governor because there was a recall. I mean, 247 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: that's a seven and zero record, Like, what's wrong with 248 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: people here? 249 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: Well, we are a Democrat majority state, super majority in 250 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 2: our legislature. We have some of the most liberal media 251 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 2: in the entire country, and as you correctly stated in 252 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 2: your opening, they just choose not to cover certain things. 253 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 2: And Gavin Newsome, for that very reason, has never been 254 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 2: put to the test in California, not the way he 255 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 2: should have been. There's never really been. He hasn't had 256 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 2: to run a tough election, is the point. I think 257 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 2: that will change on the national stage. 258 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: He is not really quick under pressure. No, every once 259 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: in a while a reporter gets a hold of him 260 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: and he becomes a blithering mess. 261 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, and his first go to is to tell a 262 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 2: big fat lie, you know, as he encountered the mom 263 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 2: in Pacific Palisades or Kristen Welker in her interview. I 264 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 2: think he thinks he can shoot from the hip on 265 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 2: everything he does, and it just doesn't work on a 266 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 2: national stage. California media might give him a pass, but 267 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 2: I don't think national media will now. 268 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a rich target environment Newsome's record 269 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: because I know a lot of people think he's going 270 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: to win in a breeze, and I always think you 271 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: have no idea how much baggage he carries. Katie Grimes, 272 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: I've got to go. Thank you for coming on with 273 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: us from californiaglobe dot com. 274 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Jonasan great to be with you. 275 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: All Right, we're going to talk more about the situation 276 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: out here in California on the Clay Travis and Buck 277 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. 278 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 279 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 4: six forty. 280 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 5: Thank you John Cobalt for hosting a Clay and Buck 281 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 5: and you and Katie Grimes so letting the world know 282 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 5: that California has gone from the land of melcon honey 283 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 5: to fruits and nuts, now to doom and gloom. I'm 284 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 5: a seventy seven year old native and it's I'm just 285 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 5: terribly depressed. So please, we cannot let newsom ruin our country. 286 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, And this is the Clay 287 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobelt from CAFI 288 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles on every afternoon on the radio here 289 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: in southern California, and yes, I'm here to let the 290 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: world know just what a freaking disaster Gavin Newsom has 291 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: been to the state, and it's been destroyed right in 292 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: front of our eyes. As I said in the opening 293 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: of the show, you know, I've been here over thirty years, 294 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: and when I was a little kid, this looked like 295 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: paradise on TV. I came here, and it actually was. 296 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 1: And it stayed that way for the first, you know, 297 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: twenty plus years or so, and then it's gone really downhill, 298 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: and it's it's almost entirely due to self inflicted bad 299 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader for any political party, 300 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: but I am telling you that this progressive movement over 301 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: the last ten years has utterly disemboweled the state. It 302 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 1: is terrible, and it's heartbreaking. It's very sad, and you know, 303 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 1: it's funny. I've got I've got three sons who are 304 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: in their twenties and they all they all moved out, 305 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: and none of them want to come back to California, 306 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: And but we visit them around the country. And when 307 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: I go to other states, within a few hours, I 308 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: look around and I go, what happened? Like where are 309 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 1: the homeless people? You know, where are all of the 310 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: low level criminals skulking about. Look at that gas price, 311 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 1: that's two eighty nine, that's two sixty nine a gallon. 312 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: It's I feel like I've broken out of Cuba, I mean, 313 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: or we're communist Russia. I really have that feeling. And 314 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 1: my sons used to hear my wife and I complain 315 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: and grumble all the time about various policies and taxes 316 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: and just everything quality of life issues, and used to 317 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: roll their eyes at us until they moved out. And 318 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: so now they go out. And I have one son 319 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: of Wyoming, one in North Carolina, one in Louisiana going 320 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: to school or various early parts of their career. And 321 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: they come back and they go they're shocked. Now they're 322 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: shocked by LA because they spend you know, three six 323 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: months in peace before they return for a visit, and 324 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: they go, you know, now, I know what you're talking about, 325 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: because they get so used to normal life, pleasant life. 326 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: I visited one of my sons in North Carolina over 327 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,479 Speaker 1: the summer, and then we took a road trip. We 328 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 1: went through Savannah, Georgia, we went to Charleston, South Carolina. 329 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: We ended up in Sarasota, where my wife grew up 330 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: a part of her childhood as a teenager and beyond 331 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: because her parents had moved. And so just seeing those 332 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: four cities, seeing Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Sarasota, and I'm looking around, 333 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: it's like, look at this, no bodies on the sidewalks. 334 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: We're not looking at our shoulder. We're not afraid. And 335 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: that is the single thing that makes you crazy. In La. 336 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: We never know when somebody's gonna come flying at you, 337 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 1: because it happens. People get punched in the face, they 338 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: get stabbed. There is a girl that my sons went 339 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: to school with from the local school, and she'd gone 340 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: to college and she was taken a job to earn money, 341 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: had to leave it a furniture store, homeless guy who 342 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: had been arrested, you know, many many, many times, walked 343 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: in one day and stabbed her to death right in 344 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 1: the furniture store. It's like, oh my god, you know what. 345 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: My sons knew that girl. I used to see her. 346 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: She used to work out at a park that I 347 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: worked out at, and I remembered her. And this it 348 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,719 Speaker 1: really hits home to a lot of people. I mean, 349 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,239 Speaker 1: we know, we know dozens and dozens of people who 350 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: lost their homes in the fire. Because many of the 351 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: people in the Palisades went to the same schools my children, 352 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: and and and so the the pain is intense, The 353 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: pain is personal. You go from paradise to what we 354 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: have now, and it makes you. Now a lot of 355 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: people have packed up and left, and I understand. And 356 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: people always say, well, why are you staying? Well, I 357 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: do have a good job, and and we do have 358 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: a lot of friends. You know, there are you do 359 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: spread roots, and I don't really want to go to 360 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: another state and not know anybody. That's That's just doesn't 361 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: sound appealing. Let me, let me tell you about about 362 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 1: some of the fraud. And we went over with Katie 363 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,959 Speaker 1: Grimes from California Globe dot Com. We're gonna have, oh, 364 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: next hour, we're gonna have from news Nation. Let me see, 365 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: uh uh, We're gonna have Joe Khalil from news Nation 366 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: and he's going to talk about the Minnesota case with 367 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: Tim Waltz. And so I keep saying, if like you 368 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: think Waltz is something else with the fraud, just listen 369 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: to these guys newsom stories. And this week California dropped 370 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: its lawsuit four billion dollars in federal money was supposed 371 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 1: to come for high speed rail and Trump pulled it. 372 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,120 Speaker 1: And Trump has done a lot of damage to Newsom. 373 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 1: This is one example, four billion dollars of federal money. 374 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: Obama had originally appropriated some of it. And the first 375 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: thing that Newsom and the Attorney general in California does, 376 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: Rob Bonta, is they hold a press conference. We're suing Trump, 377 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: big headlines in all the left wing papers. Newsom sues Trump, 378 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: Bonta sues Trump. Well, the follow up to that is 379 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: that Newsom and Vanta dropped their four billion dollar lawsuit. 380 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: They're not even going to try to get the four 381 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:59,120 Speaker 1: billion back because guess what they did violate the loan 382 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: agreement or were the grant agreement. They dismissed their own lawsuits. 383 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: Trump's Transportation Department said they did a compliance review and 384 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: found that California didn't meet federal grant requirements. There were 385 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: too many costly changes to the contracts, the ridership forecasts, 386 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: where bogus and on and on and on. Let me 387 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: tell you when this thing passed in two thousand and eight, 388 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: what the voters were told. I think it passed fifty 389 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: two to forty eight. It was a statewide referendum, do 390 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: you want high speed rail? Here is what they sold 391 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: the public. I voted no. I knew it was a 392 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: bunch of lies. A lot of people went for it, 393 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: and I understand why because at the time, and this 394 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 1: was a remnant of like the Schwarzenegger administration. They said, 395 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: you were going to have two hundred and twenty mile 396 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,360 Speaker 1: an hour trains. Yeah, really two hundred and twenty mile 397 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: an hour trains, and they were going to run from 398 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: get This was going to run from Sacramento to San Francisco, 399 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: then to Los Angeles, then to Anaheim, then to San Diego. 400 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: The whole state, all the major cities from north to 401 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 1: south would be connected by a single track. And we 402 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 1: were gonna build that in about I think it was 403 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: gonna be by within fifteen years, by twenty twenty, and 404 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: the total price was going to be thirty three billion 405 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: dollars thirty three billion. 406 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 6: Dollars for the whole thing, Sacramento, San Francisco, La Anaheim, 407 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 6: San Diego, and the trains would go two hundred and 408 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 6: twenty miles an hour and you'd be able to order 409 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 6: from San. 410 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: Francisco to Los Angeles in like, I don't know, two 411 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: and a half hours and people got excited. Right, people love. 412 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 7: It. 413 00:24:53,880 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: It's science fiction, right, shiny bullet trains speeding you know, 414 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 1: through the California farm regions, connecting the cities. Everyone bought 415 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: into it. So now what have we got eighteen years later? 416 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 1: We have no track. What we have is scattered out 417 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: in the California, the Central Valleys they call it. That's 418 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: a lot of farmland, right. Well, they tore up a 419 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: lot of farmland, and they have left these pillars. And 420 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: someday someone's going to come back to California and wonder 421 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 1: what these pillars are for because they're really high. They're 422 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: like twenty thirty feet high. They're supposed to hold up 423 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: the railroad track, the overhead railroad track, except the railroad 424 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: track was never built. So you have these things and 425 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: it looks like Stonehenge out there. Like if you had, 426 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: i know, people from a foreign country come, they'd be 427 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: looking around. It's like this, this is the ancient civilization 428 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: that left behind. You know, where they tracking the sun? Here, 429 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 1: where they plotting the stars? Do these cast shadows? Uh? 430 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: That's all we have are these Stonehenge pillars to hold 431 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: up track that's ever been built. They have reduced the 432 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: train to Bakersfield to Merced. Bakersfield is an oil town. 433 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: Merced has a University of California campus there. Bakersfield's industrial. 434 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: It kind of looks like an oil town would. Merced 435 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: is just you know, a little suburb. You can't run 436 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,239 Speaker 1: a train back and forth. There's no market there. There 437 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: are no commuters wanting to go from Bakersfield to Mercet. 438 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: And even then, the train stops are outside Bakersfield and Mercette. 439 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: And that's the extent of the train they're trying to build. 440 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,360 Speaker 1: It's gonna be one hundred and seventy one miles. There 441 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: is no Sacramento, there's no San Francisco. There's no Las Anels, 442 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: no Anaheim, no San Diego, there's nothing. There's Baker's Field 443 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: to Merceaid. And now they're estimating it's like, well, if 444 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: we ever built the whole thing, which we're not going to, 445 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: it would cost you know, one hundred and thirty million dollars, 446 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: which means it would probably cost one hundred and thirty billion, 447 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: which means it would probably cost two hundred and fifty billion. 448 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: Remember what I said at the beginning, it's gonna be 449 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: thirty three billion, all five major cities. It's gonna be 450 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: done about twelve to fifteen years now. I but end 451 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: when they did, they did several audits. And when the 452 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 1: auditors went in because somebody else says want they do 453 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: an audit, I don't do it forensic audit and track 454 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: down every penny. Well, when they do the audits, they 455 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: find out the money evaporated. It's it's not written down, 456 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: there's no paperwork. There's literally no paperwork. The money was withdrawn, 457 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: tax money was withdrawn from accounts, and then it was gone. 458 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 1: We agreed to borrow ten billion dollars that we're now 459 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: paying back. They also said, well, we're going to get 460 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: private investors. Way back when Well and Newsoman Bonta dropped 461 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: this lawsuit this past week, somebody said, well, where are 462 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: you going to get the money. Oh, we're going to 463 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: get private investor. There are no private investors in the world. 464 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: They've been trying for twenty five years to get private investors. 465 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: But it's a boondoggle. You know, when the private sector 466 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: says this thing is a scam, it's a scam. But 467 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: it keeps the unions employed who are busy building these 468 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: Stonehenge pillars for no reason. It's it's it's astonishing. And 469 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: that that other thing that we talked about with Katie. Yeah, 470 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: death row inmates really got really got unemployment money. Scott 471 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: Peterson really got an unp boymancheck while sitting on death row. 472 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: You just can't make this stuff up. All right, We've 473 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: got more coming up on. This is John Coblt from 474 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: KFI Radio on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 475 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 476 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 4: six forty. 477 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 7: Hey, John, this is Timothy in More, Oklahoma, formerly from 478 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 7: San Diego, California. Used to love the John and Ken 479 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 7: Show back then moved out here in twenty two, left 480 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 7: that hell hole California behind. And I just paid a 481 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 7: dollar ninety three from Leaded Gas here in Oklahoma. God 482 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 7: bless Mary Christmas, Happy New Year. 483 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: A dollar ninety three, he said. Huh, John Cobelt here 484 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: from CAFI, Los Angeles, filling in today on the Clay 485 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And yeah, California gas is 486 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: I think the average four twenty nine right now, And 487 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: I don't know where the where the cheaper stations are 488 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: but on the west side of Los Angeles where I am. Yeah, 489 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: I set a stoplight just yesterday. It was five oh 490 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: nine at the corner. So I don't know who's who's 491 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: paying the cheap gas to average get to that four 492 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: twenty nine average. But it's it's it just I look 493 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: at the gas prices every day and what the reason 494 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: for the gas hike here is entirely taxes. We have 495 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: a dollar fifty in extra taxes and it's all climate 496 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: change nonsense, and it has had no effect on the climate. 497 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: The climate on Earth has not cooled by a single 498 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: one one millionth of a degree since they started charging us. 499 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: You know, the extra buck fifty. It's not just a 500 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: climate tax, it's all the different taxes. But this is 501 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: what really boosted the gas into the stratosphere, was the 502 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: climate change tax. The Earth is no cooler, California is 503 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: no cooler. The I mentioned the other they have. Trump 504 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: has done a lot of damage earlier in the show 505 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: how Trump's done a lot of damage to Newsom, for example, 506 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: by with withdrawing the billions of dollars in high speed rail. 507 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 1: He also got rid of Newsom's electric car mandate starting 508 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: next week. Next week, thirty five percent of the cars 509 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: in California were supposed to be electric, thirty five percent 510 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 1: of the cars sold, and it was going to ramp 511 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: up from there, and in less than ten years, one 512 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: hundred percent of the cars sold were supposed to be electric. Now, 513 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: a lot of the electric cars are difficult to deal with, 514 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: as you know, which is why this has been a 515 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: bus Tesla's are great. I see Tesla's on the West Side. 516 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: There's a lot of rich people on the West Side. 517 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: Lot of guys it's their third cards, their weekend car, 518 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: and they could pay seventy five or one hundred thousand 519 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: or whatever those things cost. But again for the working class, 520 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: for the middle class, electric cars not feasible. For one thing, 521 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: we don't have any charging stations. I mean we really don't, 522 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,479 Speaker 1: and we don't have an electric grid to support the charging. 523 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: If we all switched to electric like Newsom was mandating, 524 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: there's absolutely no power source to provide the electricity. And 525 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 1: for years and years we've been talking about this, it's like, well, 526 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: if we're going to do this, we need more power. Instead, 527 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: they were closing natural gas plants, they were closing a 528 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: nuclear plant, and then changed their mind at the last minute, 529 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,719 Speaker 1: and then change their minds on the gas plant. They 530 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 1: were going to go all wind and solar. They didn't 531 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: build charging stations, they don't have a rid, but we 532 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: were mandated to buy electric cars. That's part of the 533 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: insanity that we have. All Right, we come back Joe 534 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: Khalil and Joe's with News Nation and we're going to 535 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: switch to the Minnesota insanity, very similar and all the 536 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: fraud with the Somali community there. There's a new video 537 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: out that has shocked country one hundred million views and 538 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: that's coming up next on The Clay Travis and Buck 539 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt 540 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: Show podcast. 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