1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: Welcome to The Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show, and I'm 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: John Cobelt from KFI Radio in Los Angeles, filling in 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 2: today and happy to do it. And I want to 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: thank Clay and Buck and everybody connected with the show 7 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: for letting me have this opportunity. And we're going to 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: keep rolling along here. We've talked a lot in the 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: first two hours about Gavin Newsom and the disaster that 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: California has become under his rule. Another disaster is Tim Waaltz, 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 2: the governor of Minnesota. And this story took years to build, 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 2: finally became a criminal case, a set of criminal cases, 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 2: just in the last year, and now is exploded sky 14 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: high because nobody can believe the extent of the fraud. 15 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 2: And you've probably heard it's the Somali immigrant community was 16 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: able to access billions and billions of dollars of tax 17 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: money and they created all kinds of fake nonprofits, fake charities. 18 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 2: These nonprofits are the scourge of the country. It's a 19 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 2: scourge here in California and in Minnesota. And yesterday, well 20 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 2: just over the weekend, I should say. Nick Shirley, a 21 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 2: young independent journalist, released a forty two minute tape where 22 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 2: in one day he went to a series of these 23 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 2: daycare centers that were funded by Minnesota tax payers. It 24 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: was one hundred and ten million dollars of funding, and 25 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: he showed that every single one of them were phoning. 26 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 2: Sometimes they were just signs outside a doorway on the 27 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: side of a lot of them were industrial buildings, warehouse 28 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 2: style buildings, windows blacked out, no employees, no children being 29 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 2: taken care of, and it's just boosted this story to 30 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: an even higher level. Joe Khalil from Newstation, which is 31 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: a great cable TV news operation, is coming on with 32 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: us now to tell us the latest. Joe, how are 33 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 2: you hey good? 34 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 3: How are you doing? 35 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: Good? 36 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 3: To be with you? 37 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: I'm all right, So what's going on? Ever since this 38 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 2: new video was released, it's got one hundred and sixteen 39 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 2: million views on x Yeah. 40 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 3: It really made an impression, obviously, and I think, you know, 41 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 3: for those who may not have been paying attention before, 42 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 3: I think this recent video just added another layer to 43 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 3: some of the allegations that we've been reporting on that 44 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 3: several others have already been reporting on. And it got 45 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 3: the attention of the vice president, and they have the 46 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 3: I director and several other high profile officials. What's different 47 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 3: this time you referenced it here is this video particularly 48 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 3: focused on childcare centers. And if you go and watch 49 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 3: for those who haven't seen this video, this young independent 50 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 3: journalist essentially is going from childcare center to childcare center 51 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 3: and these places have individually gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars, 52 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 3: if not upwards of one million dollars each every single 53 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 3: year in Minnesota tax payer money. And you go there, 54 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 3: this guy goes there and each one he can't find 55 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: any children. There are no hallmarks of what you would 56 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 3: expect at a childcare center. You know, you think of 57 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 3: playscapes or things like that. Outside There's none of that. 58 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 3: So you know, the question becomes, are these actual legit 59 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 3: childcare centers or you know, are these fronts for fraud? 60 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 3: So that's the newest iteration of it, and again getting 61 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 3: a ton of attention. Beyond that, you know, there have 62 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 3: been already credible allegations and many actual prosecutions proven fraud 63 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 3: where he had like hundreds of millions of dollars, some 64 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 3: of it back in COVID that were supposed to go 65 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 3: for food assistance for needy people in Minnesota that was diverted. 66 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 3: In other cases it was medicaid fraud that has been 67 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 3: prosecuted under thisdministration. And we shall also mention our finness 68 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 3: too that there were you know, several dozen people within 69 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 3: the Somali community prosecuted, investigated, tried under the Biden administrations 70 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 3: Department of Justice and FBI as well. So you know 71 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 3: these allegations, these stories are not brand new. Some of 72 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 3: them go back again to COVID and people had been 73 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 3: held accountable in twenty one, twenty twenty two. But right 74 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 3: now what we're seeing is a continuation of it. And 75 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 3: I think Governor Tim Walls all of this has happened 76 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,239 Speaker 3: under his administration. He's obviously going to have to answer 77 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 3: for this at some point. 78 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 2: This is indefensible, though I can't imagine that he I'm 79 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 2: sure he'll make a lot of sputtering noises, but there's 80 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: no way to deny this existence because what they surely 81 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 2: did is showed you the daycare centers and showed that 82 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 2: the buildings were empty and there was no playground equipment, 83 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 2: and that there were no kids and there were no workers. 84 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 2: There were simply signs in a lot of the cases 85 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 2: with locked doors. 86 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah. And you know what what the 87 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 3: governor's office has told us is that he is aware 88 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 3: of this stuff, that he has been investigating it, and that, 89 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 3: in fact, one of the child centers that was featured 90 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 3: in the video had actually already been shut down under 91 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 3: Tim Wall's administration. I don't think that that fully accounts 92 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 3: for the fact that this allegedly has been happening for 93 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 3: several years now and has continued to happen and even now. 94 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 3: I mean, if one of those centers was closed because 95 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 3: of fraud, that's that's wonderful. But there are still several 96 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 3: others that have been shown in that video that seemingly 97 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 3: are operational, that have been getting millions and millions of dollars, 98 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 3: you know, on an annual basis in Minnesota state funds. 99 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,679 Speaker 3: Those are taxpayer dollars. So you know what we're seeing 100 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 3: right now is the state legislature is doing investigations into that, 101 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 3: trying to rein in some of that fraud. We're seeing 102 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 3: here in Congress from DC where I'm at, the House 103 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 3: Oversight Committee says they're going to take this off. The 104 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: chairman James Comer says they may even bring in officials 105 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 3: from Minnesota and subpoena them and do investigations, potentially do 106 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 3: depositions with these folks. So you know, there there is 107 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,679 Speaker 3: some action now that seemingly is happening now that probably 108 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 3: should have been recognized and should have been happening more 109 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,239 Speaker 3: than it was. You know, even in the earlier stages 110 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 3: of this. 111 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 2: There's something comical about this though. I mean, nine billion 112 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 2: dollars out the door and suddenly it's like, well, we 113 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 2: had no idea, We're shocked. This is outrageous. Didn't any 114 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 2: Minnesota employees ever visit a child care facility? I mean, 115 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: we're talking about one of these licensed for ninety nine kids. 116 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 2: Don't you send an inspector there, you know, a child 117 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 2: services worker just to make sure that the kids are 118 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 2: all healthy and they're not being beaten and they're being 119 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 2: fed to decent food. I mean, isn't that routine for 120 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: the government employees to provide on the scene oversight? And 121 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 2: they were to have learned immediately because the doors were all 122 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 2: locked and the windows were blacked out. 123 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the big The big question is the how right? 124 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 3: That's the big question. How did this happen for so 125 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 3: long and seemingly fly under the radar? How long have 126 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 3: these schools been open? That's a question that the new 127 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 3: video even did not answer. That we're trying to look 128 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 3: into at NewsNation ourselves. You know, how for so long 129 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 3: was was no one aware that these these centers were 130 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 3: opening and we're we're getting funneled taxpayer dollars when they 131 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 3: again seemingly allegedly you know, we're a front for some 132 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 3: kind of fraud allegation. And again I go back to 133 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 3: the fact that you know, the COVID era schemes, many 134 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 3: of them were uncovered and were and you had seventy 135 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 3: eight people that were investigated and prosecuted and indicted under 136 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 3: the Biden DOJ. Presumably at that point state officials might 137 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 3: have had their their you know, ears perk up a 138 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 3: bit and say, okay, maybe we need to also, you know, 139 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 3: look at I don't know some of the other allegations 140 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 3: of fraud. It's not that there has been silence there. 141 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 3: There have been people reportedly at least over the last year, 142 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 3: that have been really raising questions about some of these 143 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 3: childcare centers. And and for whatever reason, only one that 144 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 3: that we know about has been sort of you know, 145 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 3: cracked down and closed and the others are open. So 146 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 3: how has this been going on for so long? And 147 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 3: there have been signs obviously, and and the ny. 148 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 2: Irony is though that there wasn't anything to shut down 149 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 2: or there was nothing to close, right because it was empty, 150 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: without employees and without children. It was it was just 151 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: storefronts and addresses. I guess, uh that was you know, 152 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 2: the address was on the forum, so you knew where 153 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 2: to send the check. 154 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and if you open a business, you 155 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 3: open in a childcare center, you have to license it 156 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 3: with the states. So you know, it's not as if 157 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 3: the state doesn't know, you know, where these places are 158 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 3: or the names of them or the owners. 159 00:08:59,360 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 2: You know. 160 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 3: Again, all of that is very well publicly documented, so 161 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 3: you know it is at some point there's got to 162 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 3: the accountability. Again. We did get a response from the 163 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 3: governor's office that he said, well, we are cracking down 164 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 3: on this, but it just seems like there's been a 165 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 3: lot of it's going on and very few of these 166 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 3: places have actually gotten the accountability that you would hope. 167 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 2: All right, Joe, thanks for coming on with us, of course, 168 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 2: good to be with you, Joe Khalil with the News 169 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 2: Nation cable TV news channel on your system. I really 170 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 2: you should really look at Nick Shirley's video. This is 171 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 2: a case where people read news stories and this was 172 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 2: covered maybe in Minnesota some but it was just the 173 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 2: New York Times maybe two weeks ago, three weeks ago 174 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 2: that did a front page story and it finally blew 175 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 2: up international attention. But I have noticed the way people 176 00:09:55,400 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 2: process stories. A print story doesn't have earthshaking effect. It does, 177 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 2: you know inside Washington and New York City in those circles, 178 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 2: political circles, media circles. But to get the whole country 179 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 2: to notice, there has to be some visuals. And with 180 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 2: one hundred and sixteen million people watching Nick Shirley's video, 181 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 2: you realize that is like super Bowl sized numbers that 182 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 2: he got with a forty two minute video. And it 183 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 2: was shot I guess, with his iPhone. And there's no staff. 184 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 2: I mean, there's no CBS or NBC network, no CNN, 185 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 2: no New York Times. It's one guy, I think, with 186 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 2: a selfie stick pointing a camera as he's doing these interviews. 187 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: And he had another man with him who had done 188 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 2: a lot of the legwork to get the records from 189 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 2: the state government website. And if I could, I'm trying 190 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 2: to think of his name. First name was Dave. So 191 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 2: he was an older, gray haired guy, and Dave was 192 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 2: obsessed with digging up the records on the internet. And 193 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 2: so you were able to follow in the video how 194 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 2: much each of these child care sites received from the government. 195 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 2: And then they started interviewing random people who occasionally would 196 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 2: walk in and out. I'll tell you more about that 197 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 2: when we come back, because it was some of this 198 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 2: stuff was funny because there was run ins with these 199 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: little Somalian immigrant ladies who I guess had jobs there, 200 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 2: and they really freaked out when Nick Shirley started asking questions. 201 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 2: We'll continue. John Cobelt from CAMFI Radio, filling in today 202 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 2: on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Barry more 203 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 2: of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. John Coblt 204 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: filling in today from CAMFI Radio in Los Angeles, and 205 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 2: we were just talking with Joe Corleil from NewsNation, a 206 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 2: reporter there on the Minnesota scandal involving the billions of 207 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 2: dollars that were stolen by these Somali migrants in these 208 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 2: nonprofit organizations. It took the money for childcare centers to 209 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 2: feed children, and none of these programs existed. I was 210 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 2: just looking, Oh, well, let me tell you about this 211 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 2: headline first, because this just came out. I don't want 212 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 2: to New York Post has it on their front page. 213 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security announced they're launching door to door 214 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 2: searches for legal aliens at fraud sites in Minneapolis. It 215 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 2: just started this morning. DHS on the ground in Minneapolis 216 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 2: going door to door, according to a post on x 217 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 2: by DHS, and it showed a video of two agents 218 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 2: entering the Nicolat Tobacco and vape shop in Burnsville, seventeen 219 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 2: miles south of Minneapolis. And Homeland Security also wrote that 220 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 2: the American people deserve answers on how their tax money 221 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 2: is being used and arrests when abuse is found. And 222 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it, one hundred and sixteen million 223 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 2: people have already watched this local young journalist named Nick Shirley, 224 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 2: who just in an afternoon walking around with another local man, 225 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 2: they found all these empty childcare centers that collectively were 226 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 2: taking one hundred and ten million dollars in government money, 227 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 2: many of it federal government money and absolutely nobody there. 228 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 2: What they would run into is occasionally some Somali migrant women. 229 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: I wouldn't call them employees. I don't know who they were, 230 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 2: but some of them were inside the empty offices. They 231 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 2: didn't they weren't doing any work. But maybe they were, 232 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 2: you know, collecting the money of filling out paperwork. I'm 233 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 2: not sure. But they were dressed in traditional Somali garb, 234 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 2: and they would become enraged when Nick and Dave would 235 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 2: approach them and ask them questions and just start screaming 236 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 2: at them, like hysterically. And another person screaming at him 237 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: was a white woman with severe looking with those heavy, 238 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 2: dark rimmed glasses, and she showed up with her phone. 239 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 2: And don't you love the way people use their phones 240 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 2: as weapons. They try to intimidate you and frighten you 241 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 2: by pointing a camera at you. And I've never understood 242 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: that because Nick and Dave weren't doing anything. They were 243 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 2: standing out. They weren't even they weren't on the property, 244 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 2: they weren't inside somebody's office. They were standing in a 245 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 2: parking lot. And she's screaming, Ice, Ice, I mean, she's screeching, 246 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 2: don't let them in. Don't let them in. I said, yeah, 247 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 2: I have some crazy woman. It's amazing how many mentally 248 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 2: deranged people are walking around. How they got aware of 249 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 2: what Nick was doing? I don't know, but I marvel. 250 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 2: I mean, if we even in its desiccated state, we 251 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 2: added up all the employees of all the major networks, 252 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 2: all the local stations in Minneapolis, all the major newspapers, magazines, 253 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 2: internet news sites, everything, and you stacked up their budget 254 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 2: and the number of employees and all the resources they have. 255 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 2: And then look at Nick, Shirley and Dave and their 256 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 2: selfie stick camera and a little tiny toy microphone he 257 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 2: was holding. What do people do all day at all 258 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 2: these newspapers and television stations? What do they do? And 259 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 2: it shows you the tremendous amount of not just bias, 260 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 2: but intentional lack of reporting. This is the biggest story 261 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 2: that Minnesota's had in a long time, with a governor 262 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 2: who was running from vice president, and it had been 263 00:15:54,880 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 2: going on for years, and people were afraid that if 264 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 2: you investigate Somali's you'd be called racist. That's the beginning 265 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 2: and end of the story. That's what the fear was. 266 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 2: They'd be called racist, so there was no coverage being done. 267 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 2: All right, we got more coming up. I'm gonna do 268 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 2: one more rundown of all the worst, all the categories 269 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: where California is the highest the most are the worst, 270 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 2: and they're all bad categories. That continues on the Klay 271 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 2: Travis and Buck Sexton Show on John co Belt. 272 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: Clay Travis with the Clay and Buck Show, wishing you 273 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: and your family of very merry Christmas and happy New Year. 274 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Here, the entire Clayan Buck Show wish you 275 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: and your family a warm Christmas season and a joyful 276 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: New Year. 277 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 4: Hello John, this is Ron from Mesa, Arizona. I heard 278 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 4: your name on the radio this morning and I text 279 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 4: saying John Cobelt co Belt co Belt, and I remembered 280 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 4: I left California in twenty fourteen to come to Arizona 281 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 4: to help my mother. 282 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 2: And you were my daily fix. 283 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 4: And after I got here and saw the prices, I 284 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 4: never went back to California. 285 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 2: I miss it. I really do. Oh thank you, Ron. Yes, 286 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:21,959 Speaker 2: we have a lot of California refugees around the around 287 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 2: the country. We got this from Cameron too. 288 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 4: What a great surprise to turn on Buck and Clay 289 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 4: in here, John, he is the best. 290 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 3: He is. 291 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 2: What a nice surprise. Good job, John, We love you. Oh, 292 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 2: thank you very much. Cameron's from New York City too. 293 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many people have fled California. 294 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 2: Actually I can, but I don't have the exact number 295 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 2: in my I believe I saw the other day that 296 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 2: about two million plus people have fled California since the 297 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 2: year two thousand and last twenty five years, two million 298 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 2: people fled, largely replaced by illegal aliens, no joke, And 299 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 2: so a lot of them were conservative to middle of 300 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 2: the road voters, Republican independent voters. And when they started fleeing, 301 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 2: and maybe that was the plan, that's when Democrats started 302 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 2: winning elections by lopsided margins and started getting these super 303 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 2: majorities in California in the Assembly and in the state Senate. 304 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 2: By the way, did I mention who I am here? 305 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 2: It's John Cobelt KFI Radio filling in. They can play 306 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 2: Travis and Buck Sexton show. Sometimes they just go off 307 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 2: and it takes me ten minutes. But you know, I 308 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 2: told everybody formattox is not my strong point in any event. 309 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 2: We've heard from so many people over the years who 310 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 2: follow the podcast. In fact, if you're interested, you could 311 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 2: follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio at 312 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Radio and you spell at kobylt And we 313 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 2: have a video on YouTube now post a segment every day, 314 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 2: and you subscribe to the John Cobelt Show by going 315 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 2: to YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show. YouTube 316 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 2: dot com slash at John Cobelt Show. We've got a 317 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app and it is to service 318 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 2: all the Californias who have fled and they've gone to 319 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 2: all the obvious states Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and everywherewhere else. 320 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 2: And it's a shame, but it wears you down. And 321 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a list. And this is 322 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 2: on Gavin Newsom over the last eight years, and then 323 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 2: before that, Jerry Brown was the governor for eight years, 324 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 2: and this is what they collectively created. During one of 325 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 2: the commercial breaks just this morning, I tried to think 326 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 2: off the top of my head all the categories that 327 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 2: California performs the worst in negative categories where they've had 328 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 2: the highest whatever or the most whatever. Do you know 329 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 2: we have the worst inflation in the whole country. And 330 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 2: it's even worse than that in Los Angeles County. At 331 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 2: the same time, we have the highest unemployment rate. The 332 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 2: nation's unemployment rate is about four point four percent in California, 333 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 2: it's five point six in LA County five point nine. 334 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 2: Where if the nation had the numbers we did, you'd 335 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 2: be see people screaming in the streets. Yet much of 336 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 2: the country is doing quite well. Constant criticism leveled at Trump, 337 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 2: constant nonsense. It's California that's in the dumper, five point 338 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 2: six percent statewide unemployment five to nine in LA County. 339 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 2: Listen to this. We have the highest income tax. You know, 340 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 2: the income tax on the wealthy is like thirteen to 341 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 2: fourteen percent. And you may be saying, well, those are 342 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 2: wealthy people. I don't care. We also have the highest 343 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 2: income tax on middle class people as well. Everyone thinks 344 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 2: it's just loaded on the rich tech bros in northern California, 345 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 2: and it is, but the middle class really gets soaked badly. 346 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 2: Only Oregon is near the top with us. We have 347 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 2: the highest gas tax. I told you gas is averaging 348 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 2: almost four thirty a gallon. We have the highest sales tax. 349 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 2: We got the triple Crown, highest income, highest highest sales. 350 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 2: There's people packing up right now. You can hear them 351 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 2: as I go through this list. As I talked extensively 352 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 2: earlier in the show, we have the most homeless. Do 353 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 2: you know? We have a hundred and ninety thousand homeless people, 354 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 2: one hundred ninety thousand, and we have seventy thousand in 355 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 2: LA County and about forty five thousand in LA City. 356 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,400 Speaker 2: And let me tell you what they do with homelessness 357 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 2: this way shock you. But they lie about them. Because 358 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, came out and 359 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 2: claimed to have this new program and we've reduced homelessness 360 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 2: by three percent, five percent, you know, some little single 361 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 2: digit number, and released all those statistics. They do a 362 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 2: point in time count, that's what they call it, where 363 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 2: they actually walk through the streets and alleys and count 364 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 2: the bodies laying around one, two three. So they put 365 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 2: out their numbers, and then the RAND Corporation did their 366 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 2: own count and they took three of the sections with 367 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 2: the highest homelessness, like Venice, Hollywood, and they found out 368 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 2: that Karen Bass had undercounted by forty percent. So she 369 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 2: releases a set of numbers and then a private research 370 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 2: group a think tank says, I don't know, why do 371 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 2: we count of ourselves and you missed by forty percent 372 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 2: in one of the districts. They just make stuff up. 373 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 2: It's like the made up crime numbers. And why Washington 374 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 2: d C. You probably heard about that the other day 375 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 2: when they didn't want Trump to barge into Washington. Oh, look, 376 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 2: all the crime is actually down. No books were cooked. 377 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 2: The police lied, well, books are cooked. In La the 378 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 2: mayor lies. We have the most illegal aliens and oh boy, 379 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 2: I forgot that one. And this is one of the biggest. 380 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 2: Can't believe it took me two and a half hours 381 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 2: to get here. Do you know we spend no kidding, 382 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 2: thirteen billion dollars a year on illegal alien healthcare. If 383 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 2: you make it into California from any one of the 384 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 2: two hundred countries in the world, you get across that border, 385 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 2: your first foot, you step here, you have guaranteed healthcare 386 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 2: until the day you die. No kidding. He knew. Gavin 387 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: Newsom just started this last year and he said it 388 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 2: was going to cost six billion, and it turned out 389 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 2: a cost more than double that. It's at thirteen billion. 390 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 2: And then he said, oh, we have this bad budget deficit. 391 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 2: The budget deficit for this coming year is eighteen billion 392 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 2: dollars and illegal alien healthcare is almost three quarters of it. 393 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 2: From birth to death, you go to the emergency rooms 394 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 2: in California, it is filled with illegal migrants. Filled. In fact, 395 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 2: a lot of people go, I'm not gonna I'm gonna 396 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 2: go to the emergency room. I'll just stay at home 397 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 2: and die because who wants to sit in a three 398 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 2: hour line. And I'm not making this stuff up. It's true. 399 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 2: I've seen it. So we've got illegally on healthcare. Now, 400 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 2: how is this going to play when he runs as 401 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 2: a national candidate? I mean Trump demolished Biden and Kamala Harris. 402 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 2: There were two big issues, inflation and immigration. And after 403 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 2: being told for years you know this story, Biden kept claiming, well, 404 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 2: I need Congress to pass a law. Trump did it 405 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 2: in what about eight minutes? Porters completely shut. And now 406 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom is going to come and say, well, I'm 407 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 2: giving a legal aliens free healthcare, I mean absolutely free. 408 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 2: The hell? How do you run on that? We have 409 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 2: the highest housing prices you hear the new trendy line 410 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 2: of the day is affordability homes are more costly here 411 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 2: than anywhere else. Why because it's very difficult to build homes. 412 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 2: There is so much environmental regulation and nonsense that developers 413 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 2: often just give up. The only way to lower housing 414 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 2: prices anywhere is to is to build more housing. It 415 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 2: is the purest supply and demand industry. Right, if you 416 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 2: have one hundred houses with ninety eight people, you're gonna 417 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,959 Speaker 2: the seller is going to be able to dictate the price. No, 418 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 2: the buyer's going to dictate the price. But you know, 419 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 2: if you have one hundred and fifty people, what's going 420 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 2: to happen here? The seller dictates the price. So we 421 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 2: have the highest housing prices, we have the highest rental prices. 422 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 2: California schools are thirtieth, but in the cities we have 423 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 2: dozens and dozens of schools that are the absolute worst. 424 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 2: California roads forty eighth place. A quarter of the roads 425 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 2: in poor condition. Now, when you pay taxes, what do 426 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 2: you want? Right, you're paying the highest taxes, highest gas, 427 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: highest sales, right, highest income. What do you want? You 428 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 2: want smooth roads? We don't have that. Okay, a quarter 429 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:46,120 Speaker 2: from poor and then you want a school system, most 430 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 2: of them are bad, below average to disastrous. Do you 431 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 2: want a police department, Well, in La our police department 432 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,199 Speaker 2: is almost well, it's been defunded. They successfully defunded the 433 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: police in La Angeles. We're supposed to have ten thousand, 434 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 2: We have eight thousand. The Olympics are coming and we 435 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 2: really need twelve thousand, so we're one third short. It's true. Oh, 436 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 2: the fire department, which nobody knew until we had the 437 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 2: Big Palisades fire. Do you know we have half a 438 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 2: fire department half a fire department. You're supposed to have 439 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 2: like two firefighters for every thousand residents some formula like that. 440 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 2: We have less than one firefighter. We have zero point nine. 441 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 2: We're supposed to have two. We have zero point nine. 442 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 2: So we have fifty percent of a fire department. In 443 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 2: case you're wondering why that one of the many reasons 444 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 2: why the fire got out of control. We don't have 445 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 2: the bodies. And there were forty fire trucks that were 446 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 2: busted on the day of the big fire broken. Why 447 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,360 Speaker 2: weren't they fixed. We don't have the mechanics, we don't 448 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 2: have the firefighters. We don't have the mechanic, we don't 449 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 2: have the fire trucks. We don't have. We have two 450 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 2: thirds of a police department. And when you pay these 451 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 2: kinds of taxes, you want police, fire, schools, roads, right, 452 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 2: those are the big ones. We got none of that. 453 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 2: We got roads that look like they're from Afghanistan. We've 454 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 2: got But the legal aliens get free healthcare. US residents 455 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 2: don't get cradle to grave free healthcare. Right. That's what 456 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 2: constantly the fight is about in Washington, d C. Trying 457 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 2: to ensure everybody, but in California, no problem. Any foreigner 458 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 2: comes stumbling in here. And by the way, you're it's 459 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 2: it's hard to deport people here, as you saw, because 460 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 2: you have these sanctuary city, sanctuary state nonsense, and the 461 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 2: local politicians deploy shock troops to interfere with ice and 462 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 2: they start riots. Those riots that we had in June 463 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 2: here were started by these taxpayer funded pro illegal alien 464 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 2: organizations that Karen Bass would hold press conferences with. All right, 465 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 2: we'll wrap up. Coming up next. John Cobelt from KFI 466 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 2: Radio in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Welcome, final 467 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 2: segment here on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 468 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 2: I'm John Cobelt from KFI Radio, and thank thanks again 469 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 2: to playing Buck and everyone connected to the show for 470 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 2: letting me fill in today. It's really been a good time. 471 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 2: I want to close with one more incredibly stupid idea 472 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 2: that is floating around in California and that may turn 473 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 2: some people on the idea of a wealth tax on billionaires. 474 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 2: The hatred that some people have for billionaires is actually 475 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 2: mind boggling to me. I don't think most people hate billionaires, 476 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 2: but certainly the loudest progressive elements have created this hysteria 477 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 2: against them. And when I hear people making comments, I 478 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 2: always ask him. It's like, well, do you buy products 479 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 2: from Amazon? Well? Yeah, Well if a guy like Jeff 480 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 2: Bezos invents Amazon and then you know, puts in decades 481 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 2: of his life into building this company which provides a 482 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 2: service that clearly billions of people want to use. First 483 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 2: of all, it's a little hypocritical, hypocritical to be using 484 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 2: it yourself. Secondly, what do you care? You didn't think 485 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 2: of the idea, you didn't build the company he did. 486 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 2: Remember those famous photos of bezas sitting in a garage 487 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 2: with a a vinyl sign on the back wall that 488 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 2: said Amazon. He's got a card table in front of 489 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 2: him and a computer. He built it literally from the 490 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 2: back of a garage, and look what it is today. 491 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 2: And I always want to say to people that I 492 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 2: don't want to be mean and cruel. It's like, well, 493 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 2: what did you do today the day he was sitting 494 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 2: in that garage? You know, back in the mid nineties, 495 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 2: as Amazon was chest it was embryonic and its size, 496 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 2: What did you do that day? And what did you 497 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 2: do the day after that? The same thing with Elon Musk. 498 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 2: It's like Elon Musk sends sends rockets into space, he 499 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 2: builds the only electric car that anybody seems to want. 500 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 2: He's coming up with brain trips that might allow paralyzed 501 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 2: people to walk. Again, what did you do today? It's 502 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 2: a free country. You could do what you want. You 503 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 2: want to sit all day and drink beer, have at it. 504 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 2: But then you start shaking your fist at billionaires. Makes 505 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 2: me absolutely crazy, because I am I am. Do remember 506 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 2: a day when people admired those who accomplish stuff instead 507 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,239 Speaker 2: of wanting to steal from them. And here's what the 508 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 2: unions in California want to do. They want to put 509 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 2: a ballot initiative to tax billionaires five percent of their 510 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 2: assets five percent. And this is all their stockholdings on paper, 511 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 2: what they call unrealized gains. It's not stocks that they 512 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 2: cash out, it's what the stock is worth on paper. 513 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 2: And then you have to pay the tax. Of course, 514 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 2: you know the next day can drop thirty percent. Oh well, 515 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 2: you've already had to pay the tax and ob tax 516 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 2: on all your bank accounts, all your real estate, all 517 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 2: your possessions, your artwork, your cars, everything, And that's what 518 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 2: the California unions want. And then the billionaires are saying, well, 519 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 2: then we're moving out of California, and the REPLI is, 520 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 2: oh no, you're not. Oh yeah, they will a lot 521 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 2: of very wealthy people already moved out of California. And 522 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 2: then you have no revenue to run the state. Then 523 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 2: the state truly collapses because half the revenue tax revenue 524 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 2: in California income, half of it comes from the top 525 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 2: one percent. All right, we are done here, John Cobalt, 526 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 2: KFI Radio in for by Travis and Buck Sexton. Thank 527 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 2: you for having me 528 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: Play Travis and Buck Sexton on the front Lines of Truth.