1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: Six forty you're listening to the John Cobel podcast on 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. How are you You picked a good 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: day to show up? All right, We've got a lot 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: of fascinating news for you. This is our next to 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: last show in the time slot, come Tuesday, February seventeenth. 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: In case you haven't heard, we're moving to three to 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: six in the afternoon, three to six on Tuesday February seventeenth, 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: And from noon to three you're going to enjoy the 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: musical sounds of Michael Monks and Chris Merrill, both been 10 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: with KFI for a while and they're teaming together and 11 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: they're going to bring you a show from noon to three, 12 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: all right, and you listen to that, and then three 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: to six it's me and Deborah, and then coming up 14 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: after six, Conway returns to his home base. So the 15 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: world is back in order. The universe makes sense again, right, 16 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: Monks and Merril noon to three, then Me Deborah Eric 17 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: from three six, and then Conway and his crew coming 18 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: up from six to ten. All right. Should make everybody happy, 19 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: That's what we're here to do. Make people happy, not 20 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: upset people. I don't want to upset anybody. Well, maybe 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: a few people one point thirty. Steve Hilton is coming on. 22 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: Steve Hilton is a leading candidate for governor. He's a 23 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: Republican and he has put together his own organization called 24 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: cal Doge, and he's he and his staff are combing 25 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: through all the spending that the state does and he 26 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: found a whopper. And I'll give you a quick tease 27 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: because I really want you to hear this. Steve Hilton 28 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: is saying that there's three hundred and seventy million dollars 29 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: in state money that was supposed to go to substance 30 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: abuse programs and instead it went to over five hundred 31 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: nonprofits to help gin up the vote for Democrats, broken 32 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: up into every ethnicity and sexual demographic, race, demographic, you 33 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: name it. It's really stunning, and you're probably gonna ask 34 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: where did the set three hundred and seventy million come from? 35 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: This was the marijuana tax. All legally sold marijuana is 36 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: taxed in the state of California. And it looks if 37 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: I'm reading this right, we're gonna have Steve on. It 38 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: looks like all the money that they got from the 39 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: marijuana tacks was sent to these organizations to get out 40 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: the vote for the Democrats. Really, so we'll talk about 41 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 1: that coming up now. Big news today in the LA Times. 42 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: And you know, when I get a chance, somebody remind 43 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: me maybe next week, because we're too crammed to. 44 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: Oh. 45 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Times has consistently peeled back layer after layer 46 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: after layer of the fire story in the Palisades, how 47 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: they fouled up, the preparation, you know, Bass to Ghana, 48 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: the execution, fighting the fire that day that week, and 49 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: then the immense cover up. It looks like Bass has 50 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: got a full time staff trying to cover up all 51 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: the wrongdoing. And they've done an incredible job. And I've said, 52 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: you know, it's been very, very anywhere from disappointing to 53 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: infuriating reading The Times over the last few years, and 54 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: partly because they didn't have a competitor until the last 55 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: few weeks. But they you know, it was just a 56 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: left wing propaganda outlet, and then the fire, at least 57 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: on that subject, the fire, they turned into Pulitzer Prize 58 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: winners when it comes to the journalism they've produced. Now 59 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: they have competition too, the California Post, who is doing 60 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: a spectacular job. And you know, that's that's my dream 61 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: if we have two strong newspapers in town that has 62 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,839 Speaker 1: that have the budget and the desire, uh to to 63 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: get all the truth out, because that's all I'm looking for. 64 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: Just just tell me the truth. Well, uh, A lean 65 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: check Mitian, who's done a lot of a great writing 66 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: for The Times on this fire issue, had another one 67 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: today and she wrote that, well, the headline is Karen 68 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: Bass directed Palisades fire damage control. It looks like they 69 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: have emails to prove this. And she wrote that a 70 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: day after federal prosecutors announced that the fire was caused 71 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: by the rekindling of the Lockman fire. LA City officials 72 00:04:54,440 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: were in damage control mode because reporters we're deluging the 73 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: city with questions and Bass was the ultimate authority on 74 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: the media strategy. Okay, so this is after we found 75 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: out that that Palisades fire really was the same fire 76 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: as the Lachman fire seven days early, but the LA 77 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: Fire Department didn't put it out and maybe they were 78 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: chased off the land by the State Parks and w 79 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:34,679 Speaker 1: REC Department. But obviously biggest story in Los Angeles this decade, really, 80 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: at least and the ultimate authority on it, I had 81 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: to handle the inquiries. Like I said Karen Bass, the 82 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: carefully coordinated approach led by Bass involved this after action 83 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: report and listen to this. There was a spokeshole for 84 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: the fire department. Captain Eric Scott he right in an 85 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: October ninth email to Bass, to a Bass aid, and 86 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: then to the interim fire chief, Rone Villu and Oeva. 87 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: Captain Eric Scott wrote any additional interviews with the fire 88 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: chief would likely depend on the Mayor's guidance. Regarding a 89 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: press conference, I would be cautious as it could invite 90 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: a high volume of challenging questions. How about that, a 91 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: high volume of challenging questions, And this also would be 92 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: contingent on the Mayor's direction. This is what I tell 93 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: you about spokesols. These are professional liars, professional obfuskators. Is 94 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: that a word? Yeah? I think so. What they do 95 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: is they deflect, They muck things up, They throw up 96 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: all kinds of dirt and mud to confuse the issue. 97 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: Captain Eric Scott is paid by US taxpayers in the 98 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: City of Los Angeles, and his job should be to 99 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: tell us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but 100 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: the truth. And I like the ring of that. That's 101 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: his job. 102 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 2: Right. 103 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: Anybody disagree, you disagree that this spokes whole fire. Captain 104 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: Eric Scott, shouldn't he tell us everything freely? Shouldn't be 105 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: you know, like we have to open a bank vault here, 106 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: just tell us what happened. We paid for all this. 107 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: Some people voted for this mess. So what's the truth 108 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: and what's the truth now? Not in six months, not 109 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: in a year, not after your phony baloney investigative after 110 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: action reports. No, what is the truth? And Eric Scott 111 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: actually said that Ronnie V and a Wava should not 112 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: have a press conference because reporters are going to ask 113 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: challenging questions. Questions. Somebody asked the question, you answer it. 114 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: That's the way it works. The reporters are the conduit. 115 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: Should be the conduit they used to be years ago, 116 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: to the to the citizens, to the taxpayers. They're the 117 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: ones who go get the information, the truth out of 118 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: these public officials. So this was just a massive cover up, 119 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: and they put it in writing on what the rules 120 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: of the cover up were going to be. Now, mass 121 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: of course has been denying that that time story from 122 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:47,359 Speaker 1: last week that she directed changes what are down? Rewrote 123 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 1: cover it up? The after action report and she's trying 124 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: to deny it, but she's never given us the name. 125 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: Nobody's given us the name of Well, if you didn't 126 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: do it, who would it be? And as an example 127 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: of fire department officials removed language from the failures section 128 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: they actually had in the original Fire Department after action report. 129 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: They renamed the failure section. They called them primary challenges. 130 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 1: Everything's a challenge, a huge, deadly destructive screw up. That's 131 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 1: a challenge. You got dozens of reporters wanting to know 132 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: what happened? Why did it happen? Oh, those questions are challenging, 133 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: so we're not going to answer them. Actually, they actually 134 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: keep trying to get away with this. They keep trying 135 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: to get away with not telling us what happened, even 136 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: though most of us now have a pretty good idea. 137 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: It's just fascinating behavior. It's an amazing how this is 138 00:09:55,559 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: like psychotic. I mean, somebody tell bass It's like, we 139 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: know what's going on here. We're going to beat the 140 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: truth out of these people. And why am I working 141 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: all day so somebody like Eric Scott can lie to 142 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: me and withhold information? Why are you working all day 143 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: so Eric Scotts could set up some kind of barrier 144 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: between you and finding out how your money was spent, 145 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: not putting out a fire. Who the hell is he? 146 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: Who the hell is Karen Bass? We pay her, she 147 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: had a job to do, she abandoned the job. People 148 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: suffer horribly, and now they're working on plans on how 149 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: to handle the challenging questions by not holding press conferences. 150 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: This is so crazy. But now when we come back, 151 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about a US senator who, 152 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: after reading this story, has completely had it with Karen Bass, 153 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: and he put together a list of demands for his 154 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: committee in Washington to get the truth. And he actually 155 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: requested all all this information back in October. But Bass, 156 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: and I guess Captain Eric Scott would be part of 157 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: this right as the chief spokeshole. They have stiff armed 158 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: Senator Rick Scott from Florida. They won't give him all 159 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: the evidence, all the emails. I'm going to read you 160 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: a list of everything Scott wants. I want this. You 161 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: probably want this too, of course you do, but they 162 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: won't give it up because the cover up continues. And 163 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: then after one thirty Steve Hilton, I'm going to find 164 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: out about his story. He says, three hundred and seventy 165 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: million dollars of California marijuana tacks went to the Democrats 166 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: to gin up the vote. Five hundred plus organizations, nonprofits, 167 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: scandals just keep coming. 168 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 3: All right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from 169 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 170 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: All right, let me continue. Now, we've got Steve Hilton, 171 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 1: the Republican gubernatorial candidate. He's going to be on with 172 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: us after Devers one thirty news. He has an organization 173 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: called cal Doge, and he's finding all the outrageous waste 174 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: and theft and spending that is going on in Sacramento. 175 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: And he's got a whopper three hundred and seventy million 176 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: dollars of California tax money going to the Democratic what 177 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 1: he calls these voter machines. This is where they spread 178 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: the money to these organizations to increase the vote, increase 179 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 1: registration among various Democratic demographics. The three hundred and seventy 180 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: million dollars was apparently off from the marijuana tacks, So 181 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: we'll see what that's about. From Steve Hilton coming up now. 182 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: I was telling you that Karen Bass got roasted again 183 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Times. You know, I think I 184 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: started talking and I interrupted myself. But next week, next week, 185 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: I want to read the La Times endorsements of Karen 186 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: Bass from mayor. They did two, one for the primary, 187 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: one for the general election against stick Crusoe. Because they're 188 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: pretty funny because now they have a story once a 189 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: week that shows how inept and corrupt and dishonest. But 190 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: back then, boy, those editorial writers they don't put their 191 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 1: names to the editorials though, which is such chicken bleep. 192 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: It's like, if this is what you believe, sign your 193 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: name on. I suppose we could find out. Rick Scott, though, 194 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: saw this La Times story that immediately after the federal 195 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: investigators discovered that the Pallistates was really the Lockman fire 196 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: from January first, it was the same fire. Fire department 197 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: just didn't put it out. Bass immediately took control of 198 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: the messaging and Eric Scott, the spokeshole captain in the 199 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: fire department, was laying down the law, the rules. And 200 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: one is Ronnie van Away that wasn't going to have 201 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: a press conference with reporters because there'd be too many 202 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: challenging questions. Well, Rick Scott, who we've had on the show, 203 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: he's the Florida Republican senator, and he and Ron Johnson 204 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: of Wisconsin have been investigating this. They've held hearings here 205 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: and in Washington. And he wrote today on X I 206 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: requested these emails referenced in the Times in October after 207 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: we launched our investigation enough of the stall tactics. Mayor 208 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: bass I fully expect to receive these emails and all 209 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: requested records as soon as possible. And the last four words 210 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: are in capital letters. Here's what he wants and here's 211 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: what bass is not giving him. He wants all records 212 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: referring or relating to wildfire preparation, suppression, and response between 213 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: December twenty eighth and twenty twenty four, so we're going 214 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: back a week and a half before the fire from 215 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: there until now, including the response to the Palisades Lockman fires. 216 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: He also wants all records referring or relating to proposed 217 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: budget cuts and workforce reductions to the Fire Department. All 218 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: records referring or relating to the Palisades Eaten fires, including 219 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: the communications between employees in the Mayor's office, any other 220 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: after action or assessment on the cause of the fires. 221 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: All communications related to suspected non natural or man made causes. 222 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: All communications referring to the arsonist Jonathan Rinderneckt. All communications 223 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: related to the residents of the Palisades. All records referring 224 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: to investigations of arson, burglary, theft, looting, the santien as 225 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: A reservoir and the Chautakar Reservoir that were empty because 226 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: the dope that runs the d Wpgenies Kinnunya, has ever 227 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: filled it. All the communications with the DWP regarding the 228 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: closure of the reservoir. All records regarding the removal of 229 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: Christin Crowley as fire chief. All records referring or relating 230 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: to the creation of diversity, equity and inclusion hiring policies 231 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: for the Mayor's office, the fire department in the laed WP. 232 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: Oh that's going to be rich. Huh. They start digging 233 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: into why we have somebody Bozo's running these departments and 234 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: staffing at high levels. Yeah, this is part of the 235 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: Dei scourge. These people weren't qualified to have their jobs. 236 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: They got them another way, including a mayor Garcetti executive director. 237 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: All records referring or relating to your travel to the 238 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: Republic of Ghana, from January fourth to January eighth. Let 239 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: me see all, let me see all risk assessments, staff recommendations, 240 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:39,360 Speaker 1: warnings regarding potential emergency response conflicts. And this goes on 241 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: and on and on. All briefing materials, talking points relating 242 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: to the Ghana travel, any references to the trip's timing, cost, 243 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: or public perception following the wildfires. Yeah, I'd like to 244 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: see you think there was any text or any emails 245 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: saying to Karen Bass, maybe you shouldn't go. This is 246 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: going to be predicted to be the worst fire La 247 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: has ever seen. Maybe you want to stay here. Any 248 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,199 Speaker 1: phone calls and there's some. Of course, she deleted all 249 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: of her January text messages and then said, oh, well 250 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: that was the auto delete. Well we found some of them. Yeah. Sure. 251 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: These people are compulsive, psychotic liars, and so Rick Scott 252 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 1: is making these requests. I hope eventually they turned into subpenis. 253 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun. This is gonna be a 254 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: new game. Just keep beating on the pinata until it breaks. 255 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: By the way, you know, this is really upsetting, sitting 256 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: here just trying to concentrate, and you know, we got 257 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: a couple of TVs on just in case the world 258 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: falls apart. See it ends on. And they got a 259 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: woman up there. She's been interviewing Gavin Newsom for fifteen 260 00:18:54,720 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: minutes a live interviews. He's in Munich at some international conference. 261 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: Spent the whole morning denouncing Trump and pushing his climate 262 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: change nonsense. He doesn't know that's over, man, I'm watching it. Oh, 263 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 1: it's just going on and on and on and on. 264 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: It's not that interesting. Got Deborah Mark Steve Hilton's deck. 265 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: Steve Hilton running for governor as a Republican. He's coming 266 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 1: up about all the waste he found in the budget. 267 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A 268 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 3: six forty. 269 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: We've got Steve Hilton coming on now. He is the 270 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: leading Republican candidate for governor. The primary is less than 271 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: four months away. It's June the second, and he has 272 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: set up his own organization to investigate all the excessive 273 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: spending and waste and fraud in the Sacramento government. And 274 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: he found a whopper today was in the California Post. 275 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: Do you remember a few years ago we passed Prop 276 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: sixty four, which created the California Cannabis Tax fund. Marijuana 277 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: was being sold legally in California and it's taxed, and 278 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: the money was supposed to go in this fund to 279 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: pay for substance abuse programs, yeah, to help people out 280 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: addicted to drugs and alcohol. The money instead, three hundred 281 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: and seventy billion dollars went to all these nonprofit organizations 282 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: who were designed to gin up the vote for Democratic candidates. 283 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 1: It was all carved up according to different demographics, religions 284 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: and race and ethnicities. And this is not where tax 285 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: money ought to be going. Obviously, let's get Steve Hilton on, Steve, 286 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: how are you? 287 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 4: I'm great, thank you, but like so many Californias, infuriated. 288 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 4: I mean, this is why I set up cal Doje 289 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 4: to start to get to these answers. Obviously, for the 290 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 4: last few months, we've had a lot of focus on fraud, 291 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 4: rightly so, and in California. All of that energy has 292 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 4: been coming from the federal government. And that's great that 293 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 4: we're seeing that doctor oz on the medical fraud, and 294 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 4: Kelly Leffler was here with a small business administration fraud, 295 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,959 Speaker 4: and Bill A. Saley of course now part of the 296 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,719 Speaker 4: federal government then in the Justice Department, prosecuting the homeless 297 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 4: Industrial Compact. That's all great, but until now we haven't 298 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 4: had anything equivalent from within California. That's what Caldoje is doing. 299 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 4: We set it up just over just a couple of 300 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 4: weeks ago, and we are already at work and this 301 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,959 Speaker 4: is our first fraud report and we just found this 302 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 4: by going through the data. We've got an ali partner 303 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 4: who helps us go through the spending in the grants 304 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 4: and flag things that are suspicious. And this was suspicious 305 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 4: because basically you've got three hundred and seventy million dollars. 306 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 4: It's going to a front organization, the Center at Sierra 307 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 4: Health Foundations Elevate Youth Program and then they pass out 308 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 4: into hundreds of small grants to organizations like Asian Refugee United, 309 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 4: the Jaikara Movement, Young Invincibles, and they are spending it 310 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 4: on things like activism, organizing voter registration. This is absolutely theft. 311 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 4: The money was voted. There's the ballot initiative that set 312 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 4: this up. We voted, whether you voted or not, that's 313 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 4: the verdict of the people. We're going to legalize cannabis. 314 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 4: The money is going to the tax. Money is going 315 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 4: to be spent on this and they're stealing it for 316 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 4: their own political purposes. It's absolutely outrageous. 317 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: Supposed to got a substance abuse programs. Let's look at 318 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 1: one example here. You mentioned the Jaikara movement. They got 319 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand dollars that went towards get 320 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: this seek youth empowerment and voter registration. This seeks that's 321 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: a religious group in India and they got three hundred 322 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars so that they would I guess 323 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:51,719 Speaker 1: vote democratic. 324 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 4: Exactly and all. It's all the usual thing. And this 325 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 4: is just like it's very similar to the fire Raid scandal. 326 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 4: So you had all that far Aid money. I mean, 327 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 4: at least that wasn't taxpayer money. That was voluntary. And 328 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 4: it's bad that this is actually taxpayer money. Basically it's 329 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 4: a tax and it's the same kind of thing. Instead 330 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 4: of going to where we think it's going and where 331 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 4: it's supposed to go, it's siphoned off into slush funds 332 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 4: to entrench Democrat political power. 333 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: God and the way far Aid money they really sliced 334 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: the demographics really thin. Asian Refugees United, a San Francisco 335 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: social Justice group part of the Asian Americans for Civil 336 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: Rights and Equality Network, and they got eight hundred thousand 337 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: dollars for get this LGBTQ plus Asian storytelling. 338 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 4: Hell that I know. But and then and also the 339 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 4: CEO of the organization that's operating this slush fund, the 340 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 4: slash fund itself, this Sierra Health whatever it's called, we've 341 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 4: expanded just in the last few years from about eleven 342 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 4: million budgets to nearly two hundred million, and the guys 343 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,719 Speaker 4: paid six hundred thousand. Who runs it? It's a nonprofit. 344 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 4: I mean, the whole thing is just such a scam. 345 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 4: But it starts to answer that question which we all 346 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 4: have in California. How is it that we pay the 347 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 4: highest taxes in the country but we get the worst results. 348 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 4: Everything's a disaster everywhere you look. Nothing works properly. The 349 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 4: roads are a disaster, the schools are a disaster. I 350 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 4: know the money going, but it's gone for all kinds 351 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 4: of answense. 352 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: What period of time did this three hundred and seventy 353 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: million dollars cover. 354 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 4: The last couple of years. It's amazing. And by the way, 355 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 4: this is small, I mean, this is actually it's a 356 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 4: good one. And it's the first one we found. This 357 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 4: is absolutely just a beginning. I mean, I've set the 358 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,959 Speaker 4: team at Caldos. By the way, this is all voluntary volunteers. 359 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 4: This is part of my campaign. 360 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: Tell us who's volunteering, fantastic people. What kind of people 361 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: are volunteering for this? 362 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 4: So that Jenny ray LaRue is running it, she's the 363 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 4: direct some people might remember if she ran for governor 364 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 4: last time round as a Republican. She's a very serious 365 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 4: and accomplished businesswoman. She's been in the audit business man, 366 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 4: supporting training at financial analysts. So she's a very serious 367 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,679 Speaker 4: businesswoman who's running the whole operation. We've got on the 368 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 4: fraud side, a guy who's to be a fraud inspector 369 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 4: for decades at the highest level for inspector general departments 370 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 4: for the Department of Defense, for example. So we've got 371 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 4: serious people there. We've got we've got special investigators like 372 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 4: Amy Reiker down in San Diego. We've got a really 373 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 4: powerful advisory bought people like Katie Grimes, editor in chief 374 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 4: of the California Globe, whom and Hermadi, who's helping us. 375 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 4: I thank there's a story that came in through our 376 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 4: tip line. This was the last week, just extraordinary. We 377 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 4: haven't got the numbers on this yet. We're looking for that, 378 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 4: which is, but we've got many accounts of it, which 379 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 4: is thanks to Gavin you some free healthcare for illegal 380 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 4: immigrants twenty billion dollars a year. That's total. Now, when 381 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 4: you add it all up, you've actually got Mexican citizens 382 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 4: living in Mexico claiming health benefits in California pretending to 383 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 4: be illegal immigrants. We have faith illegal immigrants getting healthcare 384 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 4: funded by us. 385 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: We're paying it to Mexican citizens who are not illegal immigrants. Yes, 386 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: they're actually living in Mexico. We're getting American healthcare benefits 387 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: from California. 388 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, including ozenpic Come on, I know it's so crazy, 389 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 4: but this is what happens when you have this unrestrained, 390 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 4: bloated welfare state that just keeps getting pumped up with 391 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,959 Speaker 4: our money to pay off their activist groups and their 392 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 4: constituents and the unions and all the leftist causes, and 393 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 4: there's no restraint. They have a super majority in the legislature, 394 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 4: this one party rule for sixteen years. This is what happens. 395 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 4: They don't care about the real world. They don't care 396 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 4: about the consequences for regular working people, and they think 397 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 4: they can get a with it forever, where they can't. 398 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 4: Those days are over. We're already holding them account. I'm 399 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 4: not even elected yet and we're doing this. Well, wait 400 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 4: till we do get there, And by the way, won't 401 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 4: just be me, and there will be consequences because you've 402 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 4: got Herb Morgan running with me to State Controller. He's 403 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 4: my running mate. He's going to be auditing every The 404 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 4: state Controller has the power to audit every organization that 405 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 4: receives state money. We can really open the books. And then, 406 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 4: very importantly, my running mate for Attorney General. By the way, 407 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 4: we've never had this before where you've got a team 408 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 4: running to these statewide officers. Michael Gates, the former city 409 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 4: attorney running to Beach fantastic fighter. He will be prosecuting. 410 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 4: And so we are working together on this, along with 411 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 4: Gloria Romero running with me for Lieutenant governor. We call 412 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 4: ourselves the Golden Ticket, but it's a very real team approach. 413 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 4: We launched Caldoze together because we're going to be working 414 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 4: together once we're elected to stop this fraud so we 415 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 4: can cut spending and cut taxes. 416 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: The five hundred and seventeen companies. Were they all listed 417 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: individually in the funding by the by the Democratic Legislature 418 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: or is a lump sum given No, I'm saying were 419 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: they were was a lump sum given to this this bureaucracy. 420 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: And then they went and found all these groups exactly right. 421 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 4: Okay, that's why it's hard to find initially. That's why 422 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 4: we've if you go through the money trail, you can 423 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 4: get there. 424 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: Wow, this is this is astonishing. Do you get any 425 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: response from anybody inside Sacramento. I know you're getting a 426 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: lot of tips, but I mean this, this has got 427 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: to be widely publicized. It just can't be The California 428 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: Post and me here this this ought to be the 429 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: lead story on every single newscast in the state of California. 430 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 4: Yeah. And this is just this week's John just this week. 431 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 4: There'll be another one next week. This is I've set 432 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 4: the team the goal of finding one of these every week, seriously, 433 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 4: and we know there's a lot to find because we 434 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 4: did our estimate of the fraud at the beginning of 435 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 4: the year just based on the reported numbers that we're seeing, 436 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 4: the error rates and welfare payments, all these kinds of things, 437 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 4: some of the tip line items that have come into us. 438 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 4: We think it's up to two hundred and fifty billion dollars, 439 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 4: So there's a lot of money there to find, and 440 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 4: we're going after it. And we're going after it now. 441 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 4: We're not waiting till we're elected. 442 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: I have never seen it. For the other point of it, 443 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: you go ahead, col No, no, no, I'm just gonna 444 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: have to wrap it up in a half minut but 445 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: go ahead, finish up. 446 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 4: I was very importantly, We're we're just just exposing it. 447 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 4: We're going we're making police criminal referrals. We're going to 448 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 4: be referring these to the police for further investigation. Now, 449 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 4: whether anything happens to it, whether DA's or the AG prosecutes, 450 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 4: who knows. We will prosecute once we are there as 451 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 4: a team, for sure. We've made that clear. Michael Gates 452 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 4: has made that clear as State Attorney General. He will 453 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 4: go after this and prosecute it. But in the meantime, 454 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 4: we will be making police referrals. 455 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,479 Speaker 1: Steve Hilton, I have never seen a candidate put together 456 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: a machine like this to go after the corruption and government. 457 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: I've been waiting for this all my life to see 458 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: somebody do something like this and use it to run on. Steve, 459 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: anytime you want to come on and give us more, 460 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: We're there for you. 461 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 4: All right, fantastic, thank you. I really appreciate it. 462 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: All right, thanks a lot. Steve Hilton, leading Republican candidate. 463 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: Huh you want to? You want to? You want to 464 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: see him running against a Democrat in November. You want 465 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: to see him because ingle line by line through the 466 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: budget and show you that all this stuff is being 467 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:28,959 Speaker 1: wasted on nonsense. 468 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 469 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: Coming up at two o'clock. Who do I have on? 470 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: Somebody tell me John Mahallock ABC News. He is a 471 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: law enforcement analyst and he's a retired senior Secret Service 472 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: agent about the latest in the Nancy Guthrie case. And 473 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: we just we just had Steve Hilton on and uh. 474 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: He has a group of very smart, driven in individuals 475 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: who've created something called cal Doje, which has found three 476 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy million dollars in California tax money. This 477 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 1: is from the Cannabis Tax Fund. Remember proposition was passed. 478 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: Marijuana is legal and it's going to be taxed, and 479 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy million dollars was then stolen by 480 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: whoever runs this agency and spent on over five hundred nonprofits. 481 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: The purpose was supposed to be this was in the 482 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: law substance abuse programs in the state for addicts. Instead 483 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: it went to all these whack job nonprofits to get 484 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: out the vote for various interest groups. And of course 485 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: you know that the people running these nonprofits stole the money. 486 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: There was no get out the vote effort. I mean, 487 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: some of this stuff is comical. I'm just going to 488 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: repeat eight hundred thousand dollars for an LGBTQ plus Asian 489 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: story telling program. What is that? It's probably nothing. It's 490 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: just that the people running the place paid themselves big 491 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,719 Speaker 1: salaries and had this as a cover. And so I'm 492 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: thinking it's like, who would you like to have as 493 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: governor right now? Steve Hilton or this guy Gavin Newsom 494 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: who even though he got embarrassed out of Davos at 495 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: the last international conference, remember that when he went to 496 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: Switzerland and everybody was laughing their asses off at him. 497 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: Well he went back. Now to Munich, they're having some 498 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 1: international security conference. Like, what the hell would he know 499 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: about that? And he stood up at some event, it's 500 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,479 Speaker 1: the Munich Security Conference, and he starts whining about Trump 501 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: calling him names. Cut forth. 502 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 2: There's probably not a politician in the United States, and 503 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm under assault attack by this guy every 504 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 2: single day. Here's the president of the United States. He's 505 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 2: eighty years old, and he's calling me a nickname that 506 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 2: an eight year old called me new scum, the president 507 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 2: of the United States. You saw the racist tropes he 508 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 2: put out. President, this is the President of the United 509 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 2: States of America. Call this guy out. Stop this committing. 510 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 2: Stop with the bs diplomacy. Then this is you're in 511 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 2: the rear view mirror, right, the recklessness of our own actions. 512 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 2: I mean, we're all becoming Chamberlain's in this space. We 513 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 2: have a supine United States Congress, so we have to 514 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,680 Speaker 2: stand up. Corporate leaders have to stand up. People have 515 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 2: to stand up. 516 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: He's white. He calls me newscomb. Way, he's calling me newscomb. 517 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 1: Somebody tell him to stop. So he's going to the 518 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: leaders in Europe. You're supposed to call Trump and say, hey, 519 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: stop calling newsomb newscomb. It upsets him. It's not nice. 520 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: It hurts his feelings. He's such a bojo. They're not 521 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 1: going to tell him anything. We are the most powerful 522 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: nation in the world. They have to deal with Trump. 523 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: We provide all the security for Europe. If Russia or 524 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: some other country wants to cause trouble, we have to go. 525 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: We're most of NATO, We're most of the budget, We're 526 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 1: most of the military force in NATO, We're most of 527 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:27,359 Speaker 1: the economy, we're the we are the customer for all 528 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: these European countries. Those leaders aren't telling Trump anything, no 529 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,799 Speaker 1: matter how much they feel, and they're certainly not going 530 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:43,400 Speaker 1: to complain that he's calling Gavin new some names. I 531 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: guess it brought up all the humiliation he suffered when 532 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 1: he was eight years old, and he's still working it 533 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 1: out publicly. What a bozoe. Meantime, Steve Hilton found three 534 00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:00,360 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy million dollars worth of fraudulent spending just 535 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: in one program, the cannabis tax program, the Marijuana Tacks. 536 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: Three hundred and seventy million dollars has been looted and 537 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: is being spent on nonsense. I don't even know if 538 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 1: it's being spent on nonsense. I think it's all just looted, 539 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,759 Speaker 1: five hundred and seventeen organizations. It was supposed to go 540 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: for substance abuse. Again, who would you rather have as governor? 541 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:25,240 Speaker 3: What a bozo? 542 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: What a child? All Right, we come back. We're going 543 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: to have Don mahalakan ABC News law enforcement analyst and 544 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,279 Speaker 1: former Secret Service agent, and we're going to talk about 545 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: the Nancy Guthrie case Deborah Mark live in the CAMFI 546 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The 547 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,239 Speaker 1: John Cobalt Show podcast. 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