1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: Welcome boy, this is packed today. We're on every day 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 2: from one until four o'clock. And if you miss anything 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: on the show today, you can and should listen to 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: the podcast after four o'clock. John Cobelt Show on demand, 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 2: the same as the radio show, because I've got so 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 2: much stuff lined up here and all of that is 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: all of it is big. And we're going to open 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 2: with a hearing, a Senate hearing. A lot of people 11 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 2: flew in from Washington, d C. And went to Pacific Palisades. 12 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: There's a real Senate investigation going into what happened that 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: the fire was allowed to be so widespread and damaging 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:57,319 Speaker 2: and deadly, and it's being led by Republican Chairman Rick 15 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: Scott another Republican Senator ron On Johnson. They had a 16 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 2: field hearing in Pacific Palisades today. They convened at the 17 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 2: American Legion Hall in the Palisades and it was entitled 18 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: Forgotten After the Flames, Stories from the Palisades Fire. And 19 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 2: this is where a number of residents came up and 20 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 2: told the stories of what happened. Scott and Johnson are 21 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 2: investigating this deeply because, as you are well aware, ever 22 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 2: since it happened, we've gotten nothing but platitudes, in most 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: cases silence from the people responsible for the fire being 24 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: so deadly and for being so destructive. Karen Bass says 25 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: almost nothing about it. Newsom says almost nothing about it 26 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 2: except when he leaves the country. He blames climate change. 27 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, since I go to Palisades about 28 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: three times a week, the construction is exceedingly slow, and 29 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 2: permits are still a huge problem. And we have found 30 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 2: out about the layers and layers and layers of incompetence 31 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 2: in Boobery right to this week. And I think the 32 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: final straw was finding out that the fire did come 33 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: from a hot spot related to the January first fire, 34 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 2: the Lockman fire they called it, and that firefighters were 35 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 2: at the hot spot and knew it was trouble. It 36 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 2: was smoldering ground, smoldering tree stumps, hot rocks, and it 37 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 2: needed it needed a lot of watering, it needed a 38 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: lot of treatment. And the battalion chief who was on 39 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 2: duty at the time, Mario Garcia, said pack up your hoses, 40 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 2: let's go home. And the firefighters didn't want to, but 41 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 2: he insisted, and you know what happened. But there's so 42 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: much more to that started on state land. The brush 43 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 2: wasn't cleared, The fire department showed up very late. Too 44 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 2: many trucks were busted, not enough mechanics, nobody wanted to 45 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 2: pay for overtime. Firefighters were sent home at the start 46 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 2: of the I mean the list fire hydrants were busted. 47 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 2: And I don't know why everyone is zombie like here 48 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 2: in California, but when people in other parts of the 49 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 2: country hear this stuff, it's like, this is not possible. 50 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 2: This has got to be science fiction. So Rick Scott, 51 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 2: Ron Johnson came to town. Scott's from a senator from Florida, 52 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: Ron Johnson and senator from Wisconsin. And I'm gonna play 53 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: some clips of Spencer Pratt. You know how the World series, 54 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 2: there's always like an unlikely hero, like somebody like Miguil 55 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 2: Rojas hitting home run late. This fire has produced an 56 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: unlikely hero in reality star Spencer Pratt. And if you 57 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 2: watch the show as you really. 58 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: Know who he is. And if you don't, you probably 59 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: have no idea. But he has. 60 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,119 Speaker 2: He lost his house in the fire, and he has 61 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: been extremely angry and active on social media and constantly 62 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: going after the people responsible for the allowing this to 63 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 2: happen and not responding to it effectively. So we're going 64 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: to start with some clips of Spencer Pratt at the 65 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 2: Senate hearing today and he goes through California not doing 66 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 2: prescribed burns. The firefighter leadership problem, Gavin Newsom let it rip. 67 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 3: Despite having routine fires every few decades, the state Park 68 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 3: has failed to do any real prescribe fire or fuels 69 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 3: mitigation to protect our community. Then on January first, they 70 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 3: didn't even have the decency to extinguish a small brush 71 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 3: fire that ignite just above us, letting it continue to 72 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 3: burn unchecked for a week ahead of the forecastied Santa 73 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 3: Ana winds that eventually rekindled the fire and destroyed our 74 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 3: town on January seventh. As you know, my family and 75 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 3: I lost our hope, our home, and everything we own 76 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 3: in the Palasads fire. It's been ten months and our 77 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 3: government leaders, instead of helping us rebuild, have only served 78 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 3: to make the rebuilding process so painful and slow that 79 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 3: many just quit and are forced out of their hometown 80 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 3: through attrition. So vultures like Gavin Newsom and Scott Wiener 81 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 3: have a blank slate to remake the Palisades in the 82 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 3: vision of their wealthy donors and foreign investors. Gavin Newsom 83 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 3: receives billions in federal funds for fire mitigation, but it 84 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 3: would have only cost two hundred thousand to cut a 85 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 3: fire brake around our town and it would have saved 86 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 3: the Palacedes. The work never gets done and we all 87 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 3: pay the price. Many people shrug this off. Oh, the 88 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 3: Palisades are full of rich folks. They'll be fine. They 89 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 3: don't know the Palisades. Many of us are not rich. 90 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 3: We simply lived here, our whole lives. This place used 91 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 3: to be cheap. Houses get passed on from generation to generation. 92 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 3: It's a tightly knit family community, and none. 93 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: Of us ever leave. I mean, why would you look 94 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: at this view. We were born here. 95 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 3: Raised here, we were raising our families here, and we 96 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 3: all expected to die here one day, but not like this. 97 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: So that's Spencer Pratt. You can tell extreme pain in 98 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: his voice, and he's speaking for a lot of people 99 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 2: in the Palisades. Karen Bash has done nothing to expedite 100 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: any permits or anything else, and neither is Gavin Newsom. 101 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 2: They just lied to everybody and now they're ignoring it. 102 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 2: They have no shame. And what he was talking about 103 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 2: investors donors for Newsom, it's true. There are a lot 104 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 2: of developers who have spent a lot of money on 105 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and other politicians and they want to develop 106 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 2: low income housing, affordable housing, and Newsom and Scott Wiener 107 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 2: that weird little Gerbil from the legislature. They wanted to 108 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 2: kick Palisades residents out and replace it with high density housing, 109 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 2: apartment buildings. That's been the plan. Told you this within 110 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 2: weeks that this is what they were going to do. 111 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: They can't believe they have all this empty, fertile territory 112 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 2: to start building apartment developments and then call it affordable housing. 113 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 2: Really it's to make their donors a lot of money 114 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 2: in the construction and real estate development industry. And they 115 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: don't care what happened to the Palisades people. They wish 116 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 2: they'd all go away. You didn't die, well, could you 117 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 2: at least get out of town so we could give 118 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: the payoff to our donors. And that's the real worlds, 119 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 2: that's what Gavin Newsom is about. 120 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: And Wiener. 121 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 2: Here's a quite cut five Pratt talking about the twelve 122 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 2: people who died. 123 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: The twelve. 124 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 4: The Pallisades family, were killed in the fire, nearly all 125 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 4: of them elderly or disabled, left to die in their homes. 126 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 5: Is people. 127 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 3: It's twelve people deserved to feel safe in their homes 128 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 3: but were instead lost in fire. 129 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: It was a direct result of gross. 130 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 3: Negligent and mismanagement by our state and our local government. 131 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 3: I'm here to honor their memory by ensuring that their 132 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 3: deaths were not in vain and that their failures led 133 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 3: to this disaster fully exposed and corrected. 134 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 2: A lot of credit to Pratt for keeping this story alive, 135 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: because the media gets bored and wanders away and they'll 136 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: do anything to protect Newsom in Bass. There's nothing but 137 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 2: partisan dishonesty, partisan hackery in our local media. They don't 138 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 2: really have state media. But the LA media should be 139 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 2: ashamed of themselves. They should be chasing Newsom and Bass 140 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 2: every day. They've done nothing to ease the pain. It's 141 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 2: a bureaucratic mess. And Pratt's right. Newsom's got billions of 142 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 2: dollars in tax money and he's supposed to clear out 143 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 2: all the brush to try to make the Palisade safe. 144 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 2: It's a lot of state land. Fire started on state land. 145 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 2: He did nothing, He's a fake and we come back. 146 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: Got another. 147 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,839 Speaker 2: At the end of Spenser Pratt statement, I also want 148 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 2: to play the Florida Senator Rick Scott flat out says 149 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 2: the Palisades fire could have been prevented, and LA and 150 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 2: California politicians failed, and they did, and this is not 151 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 2: going to be forgotten. This is going to be brought 152 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 2: up every single day and I can't wait till the 153 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 2: Bass and new some campaigns start. 154 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 155 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 5: six forty. 156 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 2: Today at the Palisades American Legion Hall, they had a hearing. 157 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 2: The US Senators came to town, specifically Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, 158 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 2: and we had the Senator from Florida, Rick Scott, and 159 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 2: the two of them listened to Palisades residents tell stories 160 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 2: about what it's been like. As it's coming into clear 161 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 2: focus every day, that massive, massive failure. Every level of government, 162 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 2: from the Fire Department to Karen Bass, the City Council, 163 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, whatever agencies we're supposed to make sure people 164 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,839 Speaker 2: are safe failed. I haven't even gotten to the insurance 165 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 2: scandal with Ricardo Lara and Newsom, where they concocted a 166 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 2: new set of insurance rules which backfired and people got 167 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 2: thrown off their insurance policies a month or two before 168 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 2: the fire hit. I was just talking to a friend 169 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 2: of mine last night who's got hundreds of thousands of 170 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 2: dollars because the fair plan didn't cover all the damage 171 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 2: that his home suffered. I have a number of friends 172 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 2: this way. You have no idea about the difficulty people 173 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 2: are in because of the incompetence and the corruption. That 174 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 2: whole Lara Newsom insurance deal is corrupt. This whole thing 175 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 2: with Newsom and Scott Wiener getting low income house going 176 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 2: into the Palisades, and what they do is they they're 177 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 2: strangling everybody by not issuing permits. Bast willon't issue the permits, 178 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 2: and then Newsom and Lara can I'm sorry, Newsman Wiener 179 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 2: can reward their uh real estate development donors by giving 180 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 2: him large tracts of land to put up housing, affordable housing, 181 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 2: apartment buildings. And that's what's going on here. It is 182 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 2: It is disgusting corruption, and the people in the Palisades 183 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 2: have to be victimized, are being victimized, and uh, I'm 184 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: going to play a little more Spencer of Spencer Pratt, 185 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 2: the reality star who's really almost all by himself, has 186 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 2: kept public attention on what's going on in the Palisades. 187 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 2: He was at the Senate hearing today and you also 188 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 2: hear Senator Rick Scott on this clip. 189 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 3: I remember Senator Scott, when we met in your office 190 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 3: in DC. You've shared that when a town gets destroyed 191 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 3: in your state from a hurricane, the pitchforks come out. 192 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 3: If it's not all rebuilt within three that's like science 193 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 3: fiction to us. Just up the canyon of Malibu Lake, 194 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 3: there's still dozens of burnout lots from the Woosley fire 195 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 3: that hit seven years ago, lots that still look like 196 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 3: the Palisades does now. Up north in Paradise, seventy five 197 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 3: percent of the town is just barren, untouched lots seven 198 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 3: years after their big fire. It's hard to see that 199 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 3: and believe our town will ever be rebuilt in our lifetime. 200 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 3: It's hard not to feel abandoned by our state and 201 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 3: local politicians, and it's hard to not lose hope. Thank 202 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 3: you to the committee for providing the Palisades with a 203 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 3: voice and a glimmer of hope. 204 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: All we want to do is rebuild our. 205 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 3: Town the way we remember it, protect our neighbors from 206 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 3: these predictable and preventable fires. I'm grateful that you are 207 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 3: using your power to investigate what went wrong and how 208 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 3: to prevent tragedies like this from happening. I'm grateful that 209 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 3: you are shedding a light on all the issues we're facing. 210 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 3: We will do our part, and we will continue advocate 211 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 3: getting for our community. We will not be lost or forgotten. 212 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 2: And that's Spencer Pratt, and I'll play you the Scott 213 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 2: clips later on. And what Pratt says is absolutely true. 214 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 2: What Scott says is true. In Florida, you wouldn't have 215 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 2: rebuilds that would take years and years and years with 216 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 2: little to show for it. These fires were started by 217 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom. Donors PG and E started the Paradise fire. 218 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 2: Gaven Newsom donor to him and to his corrupt wife. 219 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 2: Southern California, Edison down Here started the Altadena fire. Again 220 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 2: major government donors. They were never forced to bury their 221 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: power lines, They were never forced to take mitigation exercises 222 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 2: when high winds blew they were never forced to do 223 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 2: basic maintenance and prevention. They just paid everybody off in 224 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 2: the legislature and then made sure that we all got 225 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 2: charged all the damages, after all the lawsuits, and for 226 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 2: all the remedial work they have to do. 227 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: Now we get. 228 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 2: Charged, and Newsom mikes Greece is that wheel. He gets greased, 229 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: and he greases right back to so cal Edison and 230 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 2: to PG and E. That's the way it is. And 231 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 2: then again now he's greasing the developers that donate to 232 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 2: him and Scott Wiener, who wrote the law mandating more 233 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 2: apartment housing, you know, six seven nine story buildings and 234 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 2: residential areas. It is just out and out corruption. And 235 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: I don't know why the Palisades people are are taking 236 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 2: out the pitch pork pitchforks like in Florida. I have 237 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 2: no idea why. I mean, you talk about battered voter syndrome, 238 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 2: That's what this is. We are the people here in 239 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 2: California are so abused. They're they're like battered voters, some 240 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: kind of Stockholm syndrome, or you're identifying with your captors. 241 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 2: They are bad people governoring La and California. Gavin Newsom, 242 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 2: Karen Bass Ricardo, Lara Scott Weary is a bad people 243 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 2: and they've caused a lot of damage. And Dasty funded 244 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 2: the fire department, and Kristin Crowley, the fire chief, was incompetent, 245 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 2: incredibly incompetent. And I go on later on, I'm gonna 246 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 2: play you Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, the Senators at least 247 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 2: they're coming to town. At least they're coming to town 248 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 2: and trying to get some justice for the Palisades people. 249 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 2: There's almost nobody in the California political classes doing it. 250 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we're gonna talk to 251 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 2: John Ally. He's an LA businessman and he spoke at 252 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 2: this hearing in the Palisades. 253 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 254 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 5: six forty. 255 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four after 256 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand Moistline eight. 257 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: Seven seven Moist eighty six. 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We're using the talkback feature on 261 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. We've been telling you about this federal hearing. 262 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 2: Senate hearing in the Palisades today at the Pacific Palisades 263 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 2: American Legion Hall, where two senators came to town, Republicans 264 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 2: Rick Scott from Florida and Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, and 265 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 2: we played you a number of eclips by Spencer Pratt, 266 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 2: one of the more high profile residents in the Palisades 267 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 2: reality star who's been on social media relentlessly holding to 268 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 2: account Bass and Newsome and highlighting their lies, their indifference 269 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: and the incredible frustrations everybody in the Palisades is feeling. 270 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 2: We're going to talk now to California businessman John Ally. 271 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 2: He showed up at the hearing today. John, Hi, John, Well, 272 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 2: why were you there at the hearing and what did 273 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 2: you contribute? 274 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 6: Well? Homeowner, my parents lost her home, my sister lost 275 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 6: her home, my niece and nephew lost their home, and 276 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 6: my home's on the was damaged and it was saved. 277 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 6: But like many others, ninety nine year old dad, a 278 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,360 Speaker 6: mom that was ninety six who died in part due 279 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,640 Speaker 6: to the confusion. It was a great hearing. There's motivation 280 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 6: from both senators and their staffs to provide a report 281 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 6: and to take action and to make sure that the 282 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 6: theme of money that is that comes is actually used 283 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 6: the right way and not dispersed irresponsibly to local leaders. 284 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 6: That was the main consensus. Nobody in that room today, 285 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 6: even in the audience, felt that Karen Baths, the governor or, 286 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 6: Lindsay Horvath, a supervisor, could or would use that money 287 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 6: properly without having a go to other causes. And the 288 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 6: other issue that came up was, and this was important. 289 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,360 Speaker 6: You know, as a mayor, you need to convene your 290 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,719 Speaker 6: department heads at least on a regular basis. Let's put 291 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 6: it that way, to determine if there's an emergency, if 292 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 6: there's something that happens, are we prepared, what do we need? 293 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 6: What are we lacking? We have a mayor that doesn't 294 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 6: do that. She didn't even discuss our resources, and we 295 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 6: don't know, and she still hasn't how our city and 296 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 6: community is prepared for an emergency or evacuation of any kind. 297 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 6: And because of that, because death relocation of so many 298 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 6: families mine included, directly affected the safety of children, you know, 299 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 6: parents and our treasured aged. And the senator he's on 300 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 6: the committee for aging, and he was very concerned about 301 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 6: how it affected. There was no notification, There was no 302 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 6: evacuation notice. People were told ten minutes before the fire 303 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 6: was across the street that they had to leave, just 304 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 6: from neighbors. And when they got down there were stories 305 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 6: from penelists. When they got down to pch after waiting 306 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 6: forty five minutes on Chemiscal Canyon or Chautauqua, they were 307 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 6: told to go north and it was black, full of flames. 308 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 6: Then they were told they had to stop and turn around. 309 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 6: They went the other way. It was a disaster, total unpreparedness. 310 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 6: And yet they want to do They want more density, 311 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 6: and it's worse now because now we've got more loiters. 312 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 6: The street lights, all the street lights still aren't working 313 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 6: in the Polisades. Karen bass Is cut back the police, 314 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 6: and incidentally she did that the same day that she 315 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 6: allocated Secret Service police LAPD for UH our vice president, 316 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 6: our former vice president. 317 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: Kama Harris, Last Long Yeah, for her book, Last Long Yeah. 318 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 6: But you know, we've we've still got you know, unfortunately, 319 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,959 Speaker 6: Santa Monica's approved bus service to the Palisades where there 320 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 6: aren't many services going on. So instead of the homeless 321 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 6: and the attics staying in brush areas, they're making their 322 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 6: way into empty homes that still remained, into the patios. 323 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 6: There's a graffiti, there's tagging, it's a mess. And and 324 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 6: and you know, I questioned why the mayor still hasn't 325 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 6: dealt with the forty or forty five fire trucks that 326 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,120 Speaker 6: are in a yard waiting to be repaired. 327 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: Still, the fire trucks haven't been fixed. 328 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 6: Not all of them. And and we're at a budget 329 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 6: that it's still not more than it was in twenty nineteen. 330 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 6: So yes, more money was given to the fire department 331 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 6: in the recent budget, but not as much as we 332 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 6: had four years ago. So we're going to have another fire. 333 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: It will happened. 334 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 6: And I just wonder if the rest of the Palisades 335 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 6: and Brentwood and the hills above Mandeville, the Santa Monica 336 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 6: Mountain area, how much of that will burn because there's 337 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 6: less told of back now. The Palisades is desolate, very 338 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 6: few homes remain, and those that remain, there's nobody there, 339 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 6: hardly anyone there. 340 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I go there several through there, several times a week, 341 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 2: so I see it. 342 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 6: And our house is on Patrol Canyon, and Patrol Canyon 343 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 6: is a brand new Canyon funded a great expense by 344 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 6: the city new fire roads. Those fire roads were never 345 00:22:55,560 --> 00:23:00,479 Speaker 6: opened during the fire, so homes on both sides totally 346 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 6: about four thousand. The Alphabet streets, the Huntington all the 347 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 6: way to castelmar El Medio Bluffs, Dale burned, Dale burned, 348 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 6: and the fire road it splits those areas was never 349 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 6: used because the fire trucks weren't there. They were told 350 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 6: to go home. 351 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: They were told to go home. 352 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 2: See I keep hearing this over and over again, wine 353 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 2: God's name, while the fire is burning and threatening new neighborhoods. 354 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: Would the fire trucks be told to go home? 355 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 2: No, I've never heard an answer to it was hard 356 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 2: to believe this is really true. 357 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: What's the story? 358 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 6: To be specific, they were told to go home on 359 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 6: January first, that the Slumber fire that was still smoldering 360 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 6: was out. That's when they were told to go home. 361 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 6: But during that reignited when the winds came. And these 362 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 6: fires are very very common in the Midwest where there's 363 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 6: six pack six six feet of snowpack. Every year they 364 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 6: reignite in the same areas, and that's what happened on 365 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 6: January seventh, the same fire, the same place. Yes, it 366 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 6: was intentionally set, but it reignited on January seventh, and 367 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 6: the Palisads burned, and we weren't prepared. We had fire 368 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 6: trucks that were then to Hollywood. We had fire trucks 369 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 6: that the text messages between the supervisor and the Mayor's 370 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 6: office show they didn't want going to the Pulisades because 371 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 6: each fire truck has a paramedic and they didn't want 372 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,479 Speaker 6: the rest of the city to suffer if paramedics were 373 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 6: needed in other parts of the city. Meanwhile, homes started 374 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 6: burning at twelve two o'clock in the afternoon January seventh. 375 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 6: The next day, at five am, six am, on my 376 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 6: electric bike with a friend, I drove by my sister's 377 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 6: house and what they call the Alphabet Street area, and 378 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 6: those homes were just burning. No fire trucks. They gave 379 00:24:59,359 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 6: up on the area. 380 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 2: They let it burn. The city of Los Angeles let 381 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 2: the Palisades burn. John, we'll talk again soon. Thank you 382 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 2: for coming on again. Oh you're welcome, businessman, John Alley. 383 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: That's what happened. 384 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 2: Fire trucks and paramedics are largely used to put out 385 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 2: homeless fires all day, by the thousands each year. Here 386 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 2: you had a brush fire taking out one of those 387 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 2: beautiful sections of LA and Karen Bass kristin Crowley, LA 388 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 2: City Council. They let it burn and now it's gone 389 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 2: and there's been no repercussions, no consequences for these people. 390 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: Got more coming up after two o'clock. James Gallagher. We 391 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 2: were gonna have him one and we will talk a 392 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 2: bit about how he wants California split in two. But 393 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 2: we're also going to get him to talk about this 394 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 2: fraud case, a federal fraud case against Gavin Newsom's former 395 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 2: chief of staff Dana Williamson, and they were also wanting 396 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:21,640 Speaker 2: to investigate Newsom perhaps in an unrelated matter. By the way, 397 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 2: this investigation started during the Joe Biden administration. 398 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 399 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 5: six forty. 400 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 2: We are going to go into this story extensively after 401 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 2: Devers two o'clock News, and we're gonna start off with 402 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 2: James Gallagher. He's a Republican assemblyman and this is the bombshell. 403 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 2: Last night, Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff was arrested 404 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 2: and charged with skimming two hundred and twenty five thousand 405 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 2: dollars from a dormant campaign fund. Her name is Dana Williamson, 406 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 2: fifty three years old. She was Newsam's top aid for 407 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,120 Speaker 2: two years from twenty twenty two to twenty four. Charged 408 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 2: by a federal grand jury with twenty three counts conspiracy 409 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 2: that can make bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, fraud 410 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 2: to a conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruct justice. 411 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 2: Also accused of accessing an illegal COVID loan for a 412 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 2: million dollars, which she used to go on luxury vacations, 413 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 2: home improvements, a new heating and air conditioning system, a 414 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,679 Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars cash gift to a relative, and. 415 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: Chanel and Fendi handbags. 416 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 7: I love that you texted that to me yesterday. That 417 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 7: cracked me up. 418 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 1: It was a fifteen thousand dollars Chanel handbag. 419 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 7: No, I do not have one, John, so. 420 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: Sound about right though? Fifteen grand. 421 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 7: No, that actually sounds like a lot. But maybe, I 422 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 7: mean that's not my price range, so maybe there are 423 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 7: some you. 424 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: Just don't shop on it on that I. 425 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 7: No, I can't afford fifteen thousand dollars handbags. 426 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: Well that wasn't the question, though, What was the question? 427 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 1: Do you want a fifteen thousand dollars Are. 428 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 7: You offering to get me one for Christmas? Then I 429 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 7: won't turn it down. I like black, it's just neutral color. 430 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 2: So I was just trying to confirm that these exists, 431 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 2: that women really do spend. 432 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 7: This kind of money a lot of celebrities. 433 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 2: Any Dana Williamson is an out and out crook. And 434 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 2: here's the weird twist. And I don't know what this means, 435 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 2: but in the there's a front page t's on the 436 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 2: La Times on their website and it says that Newsom's 437 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 2: I'm sorry that Williamson's attorney said she was asked to 438 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 2: wear a wire. 439 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: Now that line is not in the story. 440 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 2: But what's in the story is that they wanted her 441 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 2: provide information on Newsome because of a separate investigation that 442 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 2: he may be involved in. So the teaser paragraph on 443 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 2: the front doesn't quite match up with the actual story, 444 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 2: but it appears there may be a second investigation into 445 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 2: Newsom himself. Newsom, of course, has said nothing since this broke. 446 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 2: She was the most important person in his administration for 447 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 2: two years, and of course she's claiming I know nothing. 448 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 2: She left in November of twenty twenty four after telling 449 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 2: Newsom she was under federal investigation. He of course did 450 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 2: not share that information with the public at all until 451 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 2: it came out she was involved in this conspiracy with 452 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 2: a guy named Sean McCluskey who's already pleaded guilty. McCluskey 453 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 2: was the chief of staff for Xavier. 454 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: Bessera Pavier Bakaria, who. 455 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 2: Who is running for governor to replace Newsom, and was 456 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 2: attorney general for four years here in California. And so 457 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 2: they've accused her of working with McCluskey to direct two 458 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from a dormant campaign 459 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 2: account that Bessarah. 460 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: Had jaber At bat Karia. 461 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 2: But Sarah apparently didn't know there was two hundred and 462 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 2: twenty five thousand dollars lying around, and Williamson and McCluskey 463 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: approached it and then they gave the money to McCluskey's 464 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 2: wife for a no show position. 465 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: They're much more to this. 466 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 2: We're going to start over James Gallagher, a Republican assemblyman, 467 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 2: and we're also going to play more eclips from the 468 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 2: fire hearing as well. So we have a tremendous news 469 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 2: day involving all the incompetence and corruption of the people 470 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,479 Speaker 2: that you vote for and that your taxes pay their 471 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 2: salaries and are still in office, and they're screwing you 472 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 2: left and right. They're letting your homes burn, and they're 473 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 2: stealing your money. We'll talk about it. 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