WEBVTT - CA State Controller Doesn't Do Her Job (10/19) 0:00:00.700 --> 0:00:04.269 KFI AM 640, you're listening to the John Cobell Podcast 0:00:04.330 --> 0:00:12.590 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640, live everywhere on 0:00:12.610 --> 0:00:17.830 the iHeartRadio app. John Cobell Show, welcome. 24 hours from 0:00:17.910 --> 0:00:21.139 this minute, I'll be introducing Karen Bass. Karen Bass, the 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.070 mayor of Los Angeles, running against the DSA. 0:00:29.020 --> 0:00:33.850 Communist Nithya Raman and, uh, Karen Bass will be here 0:00:34.750 --> 0:00:37.170 and we'll have an hour together. Uh, we're actually going 0:00:37.190 --> 0:00:39.709 to do the interview, uh, up on the fifth floor 0:00:39.770 --> 0:00:43.690 in the performance room. We'll have a small audience there. And, uh, 0:00:43.830 --> 0:00:48.019 I want you to listen. And, uh, by the way, there's, uh, I'm, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:55.100 I'm not doing any endorsements. I am interviewing her. Uh, so, 0:00:56.020 --> 0:00:59.240 and I don't know what everybody's expecting, uh, But I 0:00:59.470 --> 0:01:03.330 plan to try to get information out of her. I 0:01:03.370 --> 0:01:06.429 have a lot of questions. I have a lot of whys. 0:01:07.350 --> 0:01:11.970 And I'm looking for answers to the whys. And answers 0:01:12.010 --> 0:01:15.940 to the what happens. What happened to what happens now. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:17.160 You'll see. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:17.720 All right. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.080 We will do that tomorrow at five o'clock. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:21.240 Now. 0:01:21.260 --> 0:01:27.850 There's. There's so many important races that get no attention 0:01:28.050 --> 0:01:32.679 because of the idiotic way the media covers things. But 0:01:32.819 --> 0:01:37.759 we'll keep trying here. Malia Cohen is the state controller 0:01:37.780 --> 0:01:42.740 in California. It's a constitutional office. And one of the 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.610 powers is they can audit how the money is being spent. 0:01:45.930 --> 0:01:53.330 I mean, the controller literally is the collector and payer 0:01:53.950 --> 0:01:58.370 of the money. Everything passes through the controller's office. And 0:01:58.430 --> 0:02:00.810 if they see something funky going on, they can audit. 0:02:01.710 --> 0:02:04.040 And they can stop things or slow things down or 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.780 reverse things. They do have that power. They work independent 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.990 of the governor. And if somebody doesn't like what they're doing, 0:02:12.050 --> 0:02:14.720 they can go to court. We had Herb Morgan on 0:02:14.780 --> 0:02:17.070 one of our live streams and it's on the audio 0:02:17.110 --> 0:02:19.079 podcast too. You should go find it and listen to it. 0:02:19.470 --> 0:02:22.270 And he talked about how much power a controller has. 0:02:22.450 --> 0:02:25.580 It's startling really. And what he would do or would 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.500 have done had he been the controller the last four 0:02:27.540 --> 0:02:33.320 years with the homelessness, uh, and the high-speed rail scandal 0:02:33.460 --> 0:02:36.709 and the unemployment scandal and the Medicare and Medicaid scandal. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.530 And this is tens of billions of dollars. I mean, 0:02:40.130 --> 0:02:47.710 Steve Hilton has identified over $ 400 billion wasted over the 0:02:47.750 --> 0:02:53.700 last few years of Newsom. So the state controller, Malia Cohen, 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.620 went on with KCRA's Ashley Zavala. We're going to play 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.540 some clips, but let me introduce Herb Borgen because Herb 0:02:59.580 --> 0:03:05.620 is going to be joining us and analyzing what Malia says. Herb, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:06.660 how are you? Welcome. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.220 It is great to be back with you. Thank you 0:03:10.260 --> 0:03:11.640 for the opportunity. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:11.520 To be on. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.200 All right, so I have a number of clips. They're short. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.120 So let's listen to them together, and I want you 0:03:17.139 --> 0:03:21.480 to have first crack to– With your reactions to whatever 0:03:21.540 --> 0:03:26.340 she says. So this first one is about Cohen's campaign 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.480 promise that she made to audit homelessness and housing money 0:03:31.100 --> 0:03:33.740 and the unemployment department. Play the clip. 0:03:34.050 --> 0:03:35.990 When you ran for this office, you did promise an 0:03:36.050 --> 0:03:39.080 audit of homelessness and housing money, also separately a look 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.180 into the EDD. 0:03:40.220 --> 0:03:40.420 Yeah. 0:03:40.940 --> 0:03:41.780 What happened to that? 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.280 Well, what happened is, is that when you're running and 0:03:44.300 --> 0:03:46.280 you're running for office, I think you have an idea 0:03:46.300 --> 0:03:49.850 about what the office is, the roles and the resources 0:03:49.870 --> 0:03:51.910 that are available to you. Then I get in and 0:03:51.930 --> 0:03:55.240 I look at the books. clear-eyed and sobered. And I 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.660 see that we have limited money on where we can 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.280 conduct audits. The other thing that I noticed is that 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:06.420 the legislature has done a considerable job, hours of hearings 0:04:07.140 --> 0:04:10.120 on homeless, on homeless dollars, on homeless spending, on different programs, 0:04:10.220 --> 0:04:14.220 including DMV as well as EDD. And so I thought 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:15.870 it would be a waste of money and time and 0:04:15.930 --> 0:04:19.270 resources to be duplicative in that area. Instead, so we 0:04:19.330 --> 0:04:22.409 pivoted and we focused on turning out these fiscal reports 0:04:22.470 --> 0:04:28.150 on time, on modernizing the payroll system, fiscal, widely reported 0:04:28.510 --> 0:04:31.760 by not only this organization, but every other organization in 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.480 the state as a joke. 0:04:35.950 --> 0:04:36.310 Okay. 0:04:37.290 --> 0:04:37.630 Herb? 0:04:39.779 --> 0:04:40.620 My goodness. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.440 How much time have we got to unpack that? 0:04:45.460 --> 0:04:50.400 She thought auditing and investigating all the fraud would be 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.810 a waste of time and resources because the legislature is 0:04:53.870 --> 0:04:57.390 already doing that, but the legislature is the one shoveling 0:04:57.470 --> 0:04:58.050 out the money. 0:04:59.410 --> 0:04:59.770 Yeah. 0:04:59.890 --> 0:05:03.070 So first off, the legislature wasn't doing any audits. The 0:05:03.130 --> 0:05:08.050 legislature doesn't do audits. There's the state auditor who does 0:05:08.150 --> 0:05:13.420 traditional financial audits. The state controller has two types of 0:05:13.500 --> 0:05:17.660 audits that she's supposed to do. Number one is pre-audit 0:05:17.820 --> 0:05:21.980 all state spending and for statutory compliance. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:22.980 Before it goes out the door. 0:05:23.779 --> 0:05:28.140 And number two is on a selective basis, do performance auditing. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.820 They're very different things. So for her to be. 0:05:31.810 --> 0:05:35.349 So confused about what the job is and what she's 0:05:35.370 --> 0:05:37.589 supposed to do, I've been saying this. 0:05:37.529 --> 0:05:39.110 For a year and a half on the campaign trail. 0:05:39.130 --> 0:05:43.529 She actually doesn't understand the job, and she just admitted 0:05:43.570 --> 0:05:46.190 it right there. She doesn't know the difference between the 0:05:46.290 --> 0:05:50.730 types of audits. And then she goes on, she says, 0:05:51.250 --> 0:05:57.030 I decided to focus on getting the reports out on time. Now, 0:05:57.150 --> 0:06:00.150 just so we're clear, she's supposed to put out the 0:06:00.450 --> 0:06:05.930 annual single file audit report. The fiscal year ends June 30th. 0:06:05.990 --> 0:06:09.190 The report is due March 15th. 0:06:09.250 --> 0:06:10.930 You have a long time to get that out. 0:06:11.470 --> 0:06:13.070 And if you don't get it out on time, you 0:06:13.130 --> 0:06:17.010 jeopardize a lot of federal funding and our debt credit ratings. 0:06:17.950 --> 0:06:21.820 She has been late every single year. The first year 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.940 she was 20 months late. And the most recent year 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.780 was her best performance. She was only late by six weeks. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:35.050 So she's spinning to suggest she's really improved. Well, yeah, 0:06:35.070 --> 0:06:37.170 I guess if you go from dead last in a 0:06:37.230 --> 0:06:40.330 foot race to second to dead last, I guess you 0:06:40.350 --> 0:06:43.219 could call that an improvement because Then she goes on 0:06:43.260 --> 0:06:46.840 and says, I'm trying to get the payroll system updated, 0:06:46.900 --> 0:06:50.680 and she refers to it as FizCal. Well, FizCal is 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.120 not the payroll software. 0:06:52.140 --> 0:06:53.360 FizCal is a. 0:06:53.430 --> 0:06:57.770 Data transparency portal. Which doesn't work, and we spent a 0:06:57.820 --> 0:07:01.190 billion dollars building it. It took 20 years to build 0:07:01.230 --> 0:07:03.630 this website. By the way, I built a better version 0:07:03.710 --> 0:07:05.250 in 10 days for $ 1, 500. 0:07:05.110 --> 0:07:09.910 But FizCal is not the payroll system, Malia. She is 0:07:09.950 --> 0:07:11.670 the queen of the word salad. 0:07:11.990 --> 0:07:14.520 I think she's just trying to make Kamala Harris look smart. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:25.260 Yeah, they talk fast. But within seconds, you realize that 0:07:25.430 --> 0:07:28.550 she has no when she said she finally when she 0:07:28.590 --> 0:07:31.070 got elected, she looked at it clear eyed and sober. 0:07:33.690 --> 0:07:37.910 You're supposed to know what the job is before you 0:07:38.430 --> 0:07:41.420 officially run for it. And you're supposed to know how 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.560 much money you have available before you start making wild promises. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.960 And if you don't have enough money, then you have 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:52.510 to go public and let the voters know that put 0:07:52.550 --> 0:07:55.489 the pressure on the legislature to give more money because 0:07:55.510 --> 0:07:57.070 there's a lot of bad things going on. 0:07:57.970 --> 0:07:58.170 Right? 0:07:58.670 --> 0:07:59.110 Yes. 0:07:59.230 --> 0:08:02.570 In fact, what she just said, to quote the great 0:08:02.950 --> 0:08:06.170 movie Billy Madison, is one of the most insanely idiotic 0:08:06.210 --> 0:08:09.590 things I've ever heard. At no point in her rambling, 0:08:09.730 --> 0:08:12.810 incoherent response was she even close to anything that could 0:08:12.830 --> 0:08:14.640 be considered a rational thought. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.000 It literally made no sense. All right. 0:08:17.820 --> 0:08:19.860 When we come back, we're going to play more of 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.700 these clips. This is Ashley Zavala up in Sacramento interviewing 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:30.020 the California state controller, Malia Cohen. And here I've got 0:08:30.460 --> 0:08:36.530 her opponent, Republican Herb Morgan. And it's pretty clear Cohen 0:08:37.429 --> 0:08:39.429 doesn't know what her job's about. That's why she didn't 0:08:39.470 --> 0:08:42.370 do anything. She didn't audit anything for four years. And 0:08:42.490 --> 0:08:44.450 look at the hundreds of billions of dollars that have 0:08:44.470 --> 0:08:47.429 been wasted that Steve Hilton has documented, and we can 0:08:47.470 --> 0:08:50.490 all see with our own eyes. All that homeless money, 0:08:50.910 --> 0:08:53.640 tens of billions of dollars out the window, and the 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.600 homelessness is the same or worse. 0:08:56.500 --> 0:09:02.800 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:09:02.929 --> 0:09:05.849 We continue now with Herb Morgan on the phone. He's 0:09:05.929 --> 0:09:12.220 running for state controller against Malia Cohen, who's the Democrat 0:09:12.900 --> 0:09:15.960 and state controller. I'm telling you, it's really important. Listen 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.340 to me. You want to vote for Herb. The state 0:09:19.380 --> 0:09:22.450 controller can do a lot of auditing before the money 0:09:22.590 --> 0:09:25.950 even goes out and we can get a handle on 0:09:25.990 --> 0:09:28.580 a lot of this fraud. And he can do performance 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.599 auditing to see if the money paid out works. This 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.160 is what's needed. Because right now, Malia Cohen has been 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.580 sitting there for four years. You've probably never heard her name. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.880 And it's because she doesn't do anything. She doesn't do 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.780 the audits. And she has all kinds of excuses. On 0:09:45.820 --> 0:09:47.600 this cut, because we're going to play the cuts from 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:52.110 the interview that Cohen did with KCRA's Ashley Zavala. And 0:09:52.130 --> 0:09:57.210 Zavala asks Malia Cohen about her role as controller. It's 0:09:57.330 --> 0:10:00.890 separate from the state legislature. Play cut number three. 0:10:01.820 --> 0:10:07.699 But EDD, fiscal, and the homelessness money, they're still high-risk areas, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.980 according to the state auditor right now in the Newsom administration. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.740 I mean, you are a separate constitutional officer. Technically, you're 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.280 not necessarily supposed to... worry about the legislature and their hearings. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.740 I mean, should, like, will you do more in that space? 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.260 Even though I understand there's work underway, but given that 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.250 there was so much money, especially associated with the homelessness programs, 0:10:32.380 --> 0:10:35.250 and now the governor is claiming that, These are working 0:10:35.290 --> 0:10:37.330 and he's got safeguards in place. Who's going to check 0:10:37.370 --> 0:10:40.550 that those safeguards are actually working? So that's a good question. 0:10:41.230 --> 0:10:43.990 And there are many entities in the state that need 0:10:44.010 --> 0:10:46.320 to work collectively because the amount of money is so 0:10:46.500 --> 0:10:50.790 voluminous on homelessness. And then I would even say throw 0:10:50.809 --> 0:10:53.190 in high-speed rail as well in terms of the tax 0:10:53.210 --> 0:10:55.730 dollars that have gone to those projects. But you said 0:10:55.750 --> 0:10:59.580 something that was really critical. You said high-risk audits. High-risk 0:10:59.700 --> 0:11:03.440 audits are separate and apart from the audits that I'm 0:11:03.540 --> 0:11:08.440 constitutionally bound to perform. We perform our constitutional duty above 0:11:08.500 --> 0:11:13.710 and beyond. And we have actively been asking for more revenue, 0:11:13.790 --> 0:11:16.110 more money to come in to do these high-risk audits. 0:11:16.150 --> 0:11:16.890 How much more do you need? 0:11:17.510 --> 0:11:20.030 That's a good question. Tens of millions of dollars would 0:11:20.070 --> 0:11:22.610 be helpful to begin to do that. Because like you said, 0:11:22.770 --> 0:11:24.230 when you look at high-speed rail, when you look at 0:11:24.610 --> 0:11:27.349 the mental health system, the healthcare system, when you look 0:11:27.450 --> 0:11:34.700 at the homeless dollars, this is about a billion-dollar industry. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.220 All right, stop there. She goes on for a while more, 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.500 but you get the idea. She's really good at describing 0:11:40.540 --> 0:11:43.959 the obvious, which I've noticed a lot of people in 0:11:44.020 --> 0:11:45.760 public life, that's how they answer questions. 0:11:46.580 --> 0:11:46.800 Herb? 0:11:48.700 --> 0:11:51.700 We are all dumber for having listened to that. I 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.880 award her no points, and may God have mercy on 0:11:54.940 --> 0:12:00.059 her soul. To continue my quotes from Billy Madison, I mean, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.920 she was just rambling. She had obviously prepared. Somebody had 0:12:04.980 --> 0:12:08.020 prepared her. She was supposed to say certain things. She 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:13.560 mixed up literally everything. She started talking about the state 0:12:13.820 --> 0:12:19.110 auditor's high-risk report. Every two years in December, so the 0:12:19.150 --> 0:12:23.550 last one was December of 25, the state auditor, different 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.400 from the controller, puts out a high-risk report. In other words, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.760 it's the areas where he believes there is the greatest 0:12:30.860 --> 0:12:34.580 instance of theft and fraud. Now, on that list for 0:12:34.620 --> 0:12:40.570 the last five years is the state controller's office itself. 0:12:41.750 --> 0:12:46.410 It is on there for its own financial reporting and accountability. 0:12:47.190 --> 0:12:51.770 Also on there and been on there since 2007 is 0:12:51.809 --> 0:12:55.330 the Department of Healthcare Services. It has been on the 0:12:55.390 --> 0:13:00.690 report for 19 years. So what the state controller is 0:13:00.730 --> 0:13:04.770 supposed to be doing is helping get these agencies and 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.980 entities off of the high-risk report by actually helping them 0:13:10.340 --> 0:13:15.010 with proper accounting to get Goes on to talk about, well, 0:13:15.030 --> 0:13:18.350 we're really going above and beyond the Constitution. And that 0:13:18.390 --> 0:13:22.390 was probably the craziest thing she said, because the Constitution 0:13:22.450 --> 0:13:28.270 is clear. The state controller shall pre-audit all state spending. 0:13:28.650 --> 0:13:32.510 That means the state controller is uniquely responsible for signing 0:13:32.590 --> 0:13:34.510 off on every dollar before it leaves. 0:13:35.570 --> 0:13:39.330 And what is a pre-audit, though? Explain to people, what 0:13:39.350 --> 0:13:40.270 do you do in a pre-audit? 0:13:40.290 --> 0:13:42.200 A pre-audit is... A pre-audit is this. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.750 The CEO of the high-speed rail submits an invoice for 0:13:45.750 --> 0:13:49.050 $ 400 million to go to a consultant. It goes through 0:13:49.090 --> 0:13:52.390 the approval process, and then the final person that pre-audits. 0:13:51.970 --> 0:13:53.989 And says, is it statutorily compliant? 0:13:54.530 --> 0:13:58.400 Is the receiving entity, is there W-9 on file? Are 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.980 they legally able to accept it? Is the contract in 0:14:01.020 --> 0:14:04.320 good working order? It's a pre-audit before you spend the money. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:10.030 And the constitutional duty of the controller is specifically that function. 0:14:10.860 --> 0:14:15.120 Malia Cohen doesn't do that function. Instead, she allows the 0:14:15.230 --> 0:14:20.930 agency who's requesting the payment to self-attest that the payment 0:14:21.090 --> 0:14:25.310 is authorized. This is why we have a fraud. We've 0:14:25.470 --> 0:14:29.230 narrowed it down to the exact crux of why we 0:14:29.250 --> 0:14:30.690 have a fraud problem in California. 0:14:31.210 --> 0:14:33.350 And her own spokesman and. 0:14:33.330 --> 0:14:37.170 Number two executive, Bismarck Obondo, was caught by a James 0:14:37.210 --> 0:14:38.170 O'Keefe media group. 0:14:38.460 --> 0:14:42.270 He said, quote, We just don't do the audits. The 0:14:42.410 --> 0:14:45.420 audits aren't getting done. We can't do the audits. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.160 When he was pressed further, he said the politicians actually 0:14:49.220 --> 0:14:53.090 don't want us to do the audits. She's literally not 0:14:53.150 --> 0:14:56.010 doing the main constitutional duty of the job. 0:14:58.170 --> 0:15:02.170 And they won't fund her office, the legislature that doesn't. 0:15:01.930 --> 0:15:02.600 Want the audits. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.010 Well, part of that is just, okay, she says they 0:15:07.030 --> 0:15:09.030 don't want to fund her office because she would spend 0:15:09.050 --> 0:15:14.330 the money on auditing them. Okay, but she's got 1,600 employees. 0:15:14.930 --> 0:15:17.030 She's got a whole bunch of them that are dedicated 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.900 to policy. I'm sorry, this is not a policy shop. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.400 This is a state controller. When I'm the state controller, 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.120 I'm literally going to be the help. I don't set policy. 0:15:29.140 --> 0:15:34.050 I don't need environmental views. I don't need social services views. 0:15:34.770 --> 0:15:36.890 I need to make sure the money's not getting stolen. 0:15:37.050 --> 0:15:38.920 It's fraud prevention. That's the job. 0:15:38.980 --> 0:15:40.120 It's not a policy shop. 0:15:40.540 --> 0:15:42.560 She's got a bunch of people in PR that do 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.660 press releases and make sure she looks good. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:45.360 On social media. 0:15:45.380 --> 0:15:47.110 So she can get rid of those people and replace 0:15:47.130 --> 0:15:48.050 them with real auditors. 0:15:49.060 --> 0:15:50.280 Exactly my point. 0:15:50.340 --> 0:15:55.360 She also hires, she's hired these third-party bounty hunters, and 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.440 she gave them the title auditor, and they run around 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.990 the state, and they earn commissions if they cheat, if 0:16:02.020 --> 0:16:06.270 they find, quote, lost property, bring it into the state. 0:16:06.630 --> 0:16:09.530 She's made it now the fifth largest revenue source for 0:16:09.550 --> 0:16:12.790 the state. She's being sued both personally and in her 0:16:12.850 --> 0:16:15.150 role as the, or excuse me, in her role as 0:16:15.580 --> 0:16:18.760 as the state controller. In fact, the plaintiffs filed a 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:23.140 federal injunction request last week, asking a federal judge to 0:16:23.260 --> 0:16:29.740 shut down her unclaimed property division because they allege that 0:16:29.780 --> 0:16:33.440 she used these bounty hunters to fake, to change people's addresses. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.620 And then as she take their stock, sell their stocks, 0:16:37.700 --> 0:16:40.540 bonds and mutual funds and pocket the money for the 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.350 benefit of the state of California general fund. I mean, 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.130 it is, It is a textbook case in incompetence. 0:16:47.550 --> 0:16:48.630 And it really is. 0:16:48.690 --> 0:16:50.609 When you boil it down, everybody wants to get mad 0:16:50.630 --> 0:16:52.489 about the fraud. We want to blame Gavin Newsom, and 0:16:52.510 --> 0:16:54.250 I get that, and Nick Shirley's our hero. 0:16:54.290 --> 0:16:55.070 I get that too. 0:16:55.830 --> 0:16:58.740 But the reason, the bottom line reason for the fraud 0:16:58.770 --> 0:17:02.940 in California is the failure to perform the constitutional duty 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.119 of pre-auditing the spending. She doesn't do it. Her spokesman's 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.580 admitted she doesn't do it. That's why we have fraud. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.609 This fraud is at the feet of Malia Cohen. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.619 Herb, it's good to have you on again, and I 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.659 hope we can talk more before the election. And I 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.200 hope very much that you win this because I know 0:17:23.220 --> 0:17:24.600 it is winnable. You're doing well. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.400 Thank you very much, everybody. Take care. 0:17:27.580 --> 0:17:32.110 Malia Cohen is running against Herb Morgan. Herb is a Republican. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:37.150 He's got years of experience in business and finance. Cohen, 0:17:37.390 --> 0:17:41.230 I don't know what she's done. She clearly is another 0:17:41.310 --> 0:17:44.320 one completely in over her head. Doesn't have. She might 0:17:44.340 --> 0:17:47.000 have been in a fugue state. I don't know. But 0:17:47.180 --> 0:17:49.640 she's a disaster. I mean, Herb summed that up perfectly. 0:17:51.150 --> 0:17:55.010 So trying to give you, you know, tell people about 0:17:55.030 --> 0:17:55.470 this stuff. 0:17:56.650 --> 0:18:03.830 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. KFI. 0:18:04.090 --> 0:18:07.760 Tomorrow at 5 p.m. Bass has wasted billions of dollars 0:18:08.060 --> 0:18:10.100 for four full years. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.080 A conversation years in the making. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.180 People are finally saying, oh, my goodness, we are having 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:17.919 an election. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.940 Live and in person, in front of a studio audience. Suddenly, 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:23.240 her schedule had opened up. 0:18:23.380 --> 0:18:23.960 It's L.A. 0:18:24.020 --> 0:18:27.720 Mayor Karen Bass on the John Kobelt Show. No topics 0:18:27.900 --> 0:18:28.419 off limits. 0:18:28.500 --> 0:18:32.820 There are no rules. No subject out of bounds. No 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.240 chance you're going to miss this. It's Kobelt and Bass. 0:18:36.420 --> 0:18:38.000 Is that what you really want? 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:39.580 Tomorrow at 5 p.m. 0:18:39.660 --> 0:18:42.560 On KFI AM 640. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:45.280 Sounds frightening, doesn't it? 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:47.540 Are you ready? 0:18:47.580 --> 0:18:49.300 You have your outfit picked out. 0:18:49.340 --> 0:18:49.720 You have. 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:55.720 My outfit. That is definitely... You're going to comb your hair. Oh, 0:18:55.780 --> 0:18:56.980 I got to do that too? 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:57.300 Yeah. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:02.060 What else? Please shower. Well, I do every day. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:02.500 I know. 0:19:02.540 --> 0:19:07.740 I'm just joking. Any other requests about maybe the substance 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:08.320 of the. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:10.800 I know you're working very hard on that. 0:19:11.340 --> 0:19:11.560 I am. 0:19:11.980 --> 0:19:12.139 I am. 0:19:13.290 --> 0:19:18.970 I just wish I had several hours of broadcast time 0:19:19.020 --> 0:19:19.580 to do the show. 0:19:19.730 --> 0:19:20.020 I know. 0:19:20.060 --> 0:19:22.320 And then I'm going to be interrupting you with news. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.200 Well, only once. Only once? You haven't heard? 0:19:25.220 --> 0:19:25.280 No. 0:19:25.540 --> 0:19:27.920 Oh, yeah. Just one newscast? 0:19:28.020 --> 0:19:28.240 Yeah. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:29.520 One newscast at 530. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:29.879 Oh. 0:19:30.220 --> 0:19:33.000 No one told me that. So you can sit around 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:34.280 and do your nails. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.290 Maybe I'll just go home early. 0:19:36.330 --> 0:19:39.310 Well, you can come up there and visit for a 0:19:39.350 --> 0:19:39.689 little bit. 0:19:39.890 --> 0:19:40.190 Okay. 0:19:40.210 --> 0:19:42.070 Maybe I'll do that. Oh, I can't go home early 0:19:42.109 --> 0:19:42.990 if I have to do it. No, you can come 0:19:43.060 --> 0:19:44.260 up and you can tell me if my hair is 0:19:44.300 --> 0:19:45.159 all messed up or something. 0:19:45.180 --> 0:19:45.460 Oh, yeah. 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:46.699 That's what I want to do. You helped me with 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.359 something I know. You had a hole in your jacket. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:49.700 Right. 0:19:49.780 --> 0:19:50.000 I know. 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.220 Because I brought the wrong jacket. 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:54.360 All right. 0:19:55.180 --> 0:20:00.170 We are going to have Karen Bass 5 o'clock tomorrow. Now, 0:20:01.650 --> 0:20:07.770 I told you last hour that Javier Baccaria is not 0:20:07.830 --> 0:20:11.440 running a campaign. In the month of September, he only 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:16.320 had two events over 30 days. Steve Hilton had 14. 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:20.200 And Steve Hilton is going into great detail about all 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.440 the big problems that we can see with our eyes, 0:20:22.980 --> 0:20:27.730 and he's got a lot of solutions. Javier Baccaria offers 0:20:27.810 --> 0:20:31.710 nothing other than he said quite a while ago that 0:20:32.570 --> 0:20:36.570 there's no big changes from Gavin Newsom. I think we 0:20:36.590 --> 0:20:40.430 ought to take him at his word. So the extreme 0:20:40.470 --> 0:20:43.930 homelessness will continue. The extremely high gas prices will continue. 0:20:44.450 --> 0:20:54.610 The extremely nonexistent high-speed rail will continue. Hilton today unveiled 0:20:54.670 --> 0:20:59.449 a plan to clear every homeless encampment in the state 0:21:00.260 --> 0:21:02.420 by the end of next year. Did it at a 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.700 news conference in San Diego. Can you listen to me? 0:21:06.820 --> 0:21:13.370 His plan is to clear... every homeless encampment in the state. 0:21:15.970 --> 0:21:22.920 And you're probably saying, well, how's he going to do that? Well, 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:27.580 his plan calls for a network of homeless recovery centers. 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:33.040 There's a project in San Diego County known as the 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:41.040 Sunbreak Ranch Project, and that's the prototype. These centers, Hilton says, 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:48.990 would provide beds, meals, showers, medical care, drug treatment, psychiatric care, 0:21:49.270 --> 0:21:54.330 and job training. Each person would have someone responsible for 0:21:54.650 --> 0:21:58.390 helping to get them into stable housing and continued care 0:21:58.450 --> 0:22:02.550 for those who need it. Hilton said no one is 0:22:02.570 --> 0:22:05.090 going to get their life back on the streets. No, 0:22:05.170 --> 0:22:07.810 I'm sorry. Let me say it again. Hilton said no 0:22:07.869 --> 0:22:10.540 one is going to get their life back on track 0:22:11.660 --> 0:22:14.459 if they're on the streets. We're going to get people 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:18.180 off the streets and into a place where they can 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:23.950 actually get help. Now, this is what I want to hear, 0:22:24.090 --> 0:22:25.570 and I'm sure you want to hear. This is what 0:22:25.590 --> 0:22:28.850 I'm saying. Would you vote for the guy who says, 0:22:28.869 --> 0:22:32.730 I got a deadline, everybody's going to be off the 0:22:32.770 --> 0:22:36.699 streets by the end of 2027, and here's how we're 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.220 going to do it. We have a prototype project in 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:43.440 San Diego called the Sunbreak Ranch. Here's what the Sunbreak 0:22:43.500 --> 0:22:45.840 Ranch provides. We're going to set up more of these 0:22:45.900 --> 0:22:54.400