1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,479 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 2: app on the radio from one until four and after 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 2: Moistline is eighty seven seven moist eighty six. That's going 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: to be tomorrow eight seven seven moist eighty six and 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 2: we got one thousand dollars to give away. 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: Coming up in fifteen minutes. 9 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: New York Times is playing it straight with the Biden 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: documents story. Biden got a report today from the Special Counsel, 11 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 2: Robert Herr. Her is not going to charge Biden criminally 12 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 2: in the case, but said part of the reason is 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 2: he's elderly with a poor memory, and he couldn't remember 14 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: a lot of basic facts about his own life, like 15 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: what year he became vice president, what year his first 16 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 2: son died. He has a poor memory, said the Special Council, 17 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: and LA The New York Times has four stories on 18 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: that looks to be a straightforward account. I go to 19 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Times. They have absolutely nothing. This story 20 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 2: has been out for several hours. They have nothing on it. 21 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: But they have stories about Trump's case of the Supreme Court. 22 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 2: We will talk about that now with the ABC News 23 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 2: correspondent Steven Portinoy. 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: Today. 25 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 2: The case before the Supreme Court was Colorado taking Trump 26 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 2: off the ballot, claiming under the US Constitution's fourteenth Amendment, 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 2: it disallows people involved in insurrection from being in office, 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 2: including the presidency. Trump obviously disagreed with that, and we've 29 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: had a lawsuit and the Supreme Court heard the arguments, 30 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: the oral arguments, and we're going to talk to Stephen 31 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 2: Portnoy because it seemed that most of the Supreme Court 32 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: justices didn't like the idea of keeping Trump off the ballot. 33 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 3: Steven, how are you, hey, John, Good to talk to you. 34 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: I heard it like you did, and I counted I'd 35 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 3: say eight of the nine justices were leaning against the 36 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 3: Colorado ruling that orders Trump taken off the ballot in 37 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 3: next month's primary. And it was across ideological lines. I mean, 38 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 3: you can count the conservatives as being skeptical. But when 39 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 3: I heard the voices of Atlanta Kagan and Katanji Brown 40 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: Jackson questioning whether it was the right move to keep 41 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 3: Trump's name off the ballot, you had to know that 42 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 3: this is going to be an overwhelming and strong majority 43 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 3: to strike down the Colorado ruling. The bigger question is 44 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 3: how they're going to do it. You know, how they're 45 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 3: going to write this opinion. How is Chief Justice Roberts 46 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 3: going to thread the needle and you know, write a 47 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 3: majority opinion or assign a majority opinion that hits all 48 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 3: the points that the justices tried. 49 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: To make today, but they were varied. 50 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 3: I mean, one of the things you just said is 51 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 3: that you know, the fourteenth Amendment applies to the presidency, 52 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 3: does it. That was a question raised by Katanji Brown Jackson, 53 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 3: because if you read the text a second Tion III, 54 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 3: it specifically talks about senators, representatives, electors for president and 55 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 3: vice president. There as a people in the electoral college, 56 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 3: and it talks about state officials for sure, and then 57 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 3: offices under the United States. But does it say the 58 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 3: president and vice president. No, it does not. And Katanji 59 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 3: Brown Jackson, the liberal justice appointed by Joe Biden, said 60 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 3: why should we construe it to essentially be against democracy? 61 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 3: And she said she was troubled by that, So you 62 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 3: got to figure she's a vote to strike it down 63 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 3: for sure. And Elena Kagan said that there ought to 64 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 3: be a national standard for this, not individual states, not 65 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 3: a court in Colorado deciding who should or should not 66 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 3: be eligible to be president. Right, you could end up 67 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 3: with a tit for tat situation where states that lean 68 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 3: one way will always try to interfere with the candidacies 69 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 3: of those in the opposing party, and you could see 70 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 3: Justice John Roberts called that a pretty daunting consequence, and 71 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 3: he said, it's what would follow if the Colorado is 72 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 3: Court rulings allowed to stand. 73 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: Did any of Colorado's arguments impress the judges at all? 74 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: The one justice who I think spoke in a way 75 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 3: that was sympathetic was Sonia Sotomayor who raised this question. 76 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 3: Because not to get too deep in the weeds in this, 77 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 3: but one of the questions is should Congress have to 78 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 3: pass a law that gives a framework for how the 79 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 3: fourteenth Amendment should be enforced in this regard? You know, 80 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 3: believe it or not, John, there was such a law 81 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 3: in the aftermath of the Civil War, and it's kind 82 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 3: of complicated, but essentially the goal was for federal prosecutors 83 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 3: in that period of time, the late eighteen sixties early 84 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 3: eighteen seventies, to go into court and get a federal 85 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 3: judge to issue a writ or an order that determined 86 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 3: that a person had been a Confederate and couldn't serve 87 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: in a state or federal post. That law came off 88 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 3: the books by the middle of the twentieth century because 89 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 3: it was seen as antiquated and no longer necessary. Forward 90 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 3: to today, there is no legal framework in the statutes anymore, 91 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 3: and the question is does. 92 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: There need to be? 93 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 3: But beyond that, Sonya Sotomayor said, what about states? And 94 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 3: don't states have the right to say that within a state, 95 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 3: a certain individual under the fourteenth Amendment can't serve in 96 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 3: state government? And shouldn't a state like the state of 97 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 3: California be able to decide whether certain people who run 98 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,239 Speaker 3: for state or local office have violated the fourteenth Amendment? 99 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 3: And that was a question that I think, you know, 100 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 3: the judges, the justices might, you know, if there's anything 101 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 3: here they might seize on that, this idea that Congress 102 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 3: needs to pass a law. Well, what does it mean 103 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 3: for the states if, again, let's just say an LA 104 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 3: County official or an Orange County official were deemed an insurrectionist, 105 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 3: what does that have to do with. 106 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: The federal courts? 107 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 3: Can't the state of California handle it itself? 108 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 2: Did they discuss at all that Trump was not charged 109 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 2: or convicted of insurrection and you would think that would 110 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 2: have to be a requisite to ban him from the 111 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 2: ballot for insurrection? 112 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 3: That, well, yeah, certainly that did come up, I mean briefly. 113 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 3: Because of all the very big questions, and there are 114 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 3: lots of them, that's one of them. What about due process? 115 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 3: Who's to say that Donald Trump is did engage in insurrection? 116 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 3: Who's to say that January sixth was an insurrection? Brett 117 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 3: Kavanaugh said that this is the reason why you need 118 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 3: a federal framework here to at least have some sort 119 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,119 Speaker 3: of process whereby let's just say it's a trial. Yes, fine, 120 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 3: the habit in the under federal law, with federal statutes 121 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 3: passed with the federal rules of procedure. Because what has 122 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 3: happened to date has been a state court of Colorado 123 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 3: that had a trial and there was a judge who 124 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 3: ashul a ruling. It was overturned by the state Supreme Court. 125 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 3: But it's the state of Colorado under Colorado law. Different 126 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 3: states have different laws, different standards of evidence, and different rules, 127 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 3: and that's a problem when you're talking about the office 128 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 3: of president or any other federal office and applying a. 129 00:06:58,080 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: Constitutional rule. 130 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 3: Now, there's a fair question to be asked, does there 131 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 3: need to be a framework or a federal law to 132 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 3: see to it that someone who's eighteen can't run for president? Right? 133 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 3: It says in the Constitution you have to be thirty five, 134 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 3: you have to be a natural born citizen, you have 135 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 3: to have lived in this country for at least fourteen years. Well, 136 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 3: what about someone who doesn't meet those qualifications. There's no 137 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 3: law that governs that. Does there need to be. That's 138 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 3: one of the arguments that the Colorado people were making 139 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 3: today that it should just be obvious and self enforcing, 140 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 3: self enacting that if the Fourteenth Amendment says you engage 141 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 3: in an insurrection, you can't be eligible for the ballot, 142 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 3: and it's the same in their mind as being under 143 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 3: the age of thirty five. It's just it's just provable. 144 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 3: The counter argument to that, though, is that the Fourteenth 145 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 3: Amendments third section has a final clause to it, and 146 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 3: what it says is that Congress can remove the disability 147 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 3: by a two thirds vote. It's unlikely, sure, but it 148 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 3: could happen. And because it could happen. It's different from 149 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 3: your age or the place where you were born, how 150 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 3: many years you've been in the country, because Congress at 151 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: any time, in theory, could make that decision even after 152 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 3: a person's been elected. 153 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: If need be. 154 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,239 Speaker 2: I assume this would block any other states from keeping 155 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: Trump off the ballot for insurrection reasons, because Maine, of 156 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 2: course has made some action against Trump and they were 157 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 2: awaiting on this decision. I mean, this would apply to 158 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 2: all fifty states for this particular case. 159 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 3: When the Court issues its opinion, we don't know when 160 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 3: it's going to happen. We'll read it, we'll be able 161 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 3: to analyze it, but undoubtedly it will reinterpret and really 162 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 3: interpret for the first time by the High Court what 163 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 3: the fourth Teenth Amendments, third Section means and how it 164 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 3: can be applied. I think after listening to the arguments today, 165 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 3: there are a number of ways that the Court can 166 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 3: say pretty firmly that what the Colorado Court did in 167 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 3: this case is wrong and that no other state court 168 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 3: should be in or official should have the power to 169 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 3: do what the Colorado Supreme Court has done. But we'll see, 170 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 3: we have to see the opinion. But again, what we 171 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 3: do longtime observers and brilliant journalists like myself. What we 172 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 3: do is we sit and we listen, and we analyze 173 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 3: these questions and we get a sense, just a sense 174 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 3: of how they're going to rule based on the questions 175 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 3: they ask and the statements they make is they ask 176 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 3: those questions. 177 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 2: Stephen Portnory, ABC News, thank you for coming on and 178 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: explaining all that. Now, you bet all right, Stephen Portnoy. There, 179 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 2: that's good stuff. So coming up, we're going to give 180 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: away one thousand dollars. Also, I'm going to give you 181 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 2: more details yesterday. You remember at this time we had 182 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,719 Speaker 2: Greg totten on and he is the head of the 183 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 2: organization that's going to get the Homeless Drug Addiction, Retail 184 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 2: Theft Reduction Act on the ballot in November. This is 185 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 2: the major rewrite of Prop. Forty seven. This would right 186 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 2: a lot of wrongs. Well, we've got some more movement 187 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 2: on that, more good news on that. 188 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: That's good news. Two days in a row. 189 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Coba on demand from KFI AM 190 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 4: six forty. 191 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 2: What is today? What's today's day? February eighth, Yes, okay, 192 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 2: mark this day. I say, this is the day of 193 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 2: the big turnaround in California because people are taking action. 194 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 2: It's finally going to be the death of all these 195 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 2: progressive policies regarding crime. Two things are happening. First is 196 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 2: where we talked about this yesterday at about this time. 197 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 2: Greg Totten, the CEO of the California District Attorney's Association, 198 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 2: was on with us yesterday. You could hear his interview 199 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 2: in the three o'clock hour on the podcast. But his 200 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 2: organization is called the Californians to Reduce Homelessness, Drug Addiction, 201 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 2: and Theft. 202 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: That's the name of it. 203 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 2: They have collected three hundred and six signatures to do 204 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: a huge rewrite on Prop forty seven. This has the 205 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 2: support of about ninety percent of the public. And there's 206 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 2: three components to this. If you didn't hear, and the 207 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 2: three components are they'll start prosecuting for repeated theft. You 208 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 2: won't be able to steal nine hundred and fifty dollars 209 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 2: every day anymore. I think the third time you're going 210 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 2: to be charged with a felony. Also, if you're have 211 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 2: drugs on you, that'll be a felony unless you want 212 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 2: to go to drug treatment. 213 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: Okay, that's the second part. 214 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 2: Third part is they're going to go after fentonl traffickers 215 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 2: with stiff felonies and prison sentences, and when you look 216 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 2: at all three of those, the support goes all the 217 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 2: way up to ninety four percent. 218 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: So it's a rewrite of Prop. 219 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 2: Forty seven when it comes to theft, when it comes 220 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 2: to sending drug addicts on the streets, forcing them into 221 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 2: treatment or they go to jail, and then major strengthening 222 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 2: of the laws against fentanyl trafficking, which are pretty flimsy 223 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 2: right now. This is huge. Second thing that's happening is 224 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 2: two left wing Democratic mayors from northern California, San Francisco 225 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 2: Mayor London Breed and San Jose Mayor Matt Mayheon, are 226 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 2: endorsing the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, Retail Theft Reduction Act. They're 227 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 2: endorsing it. Mayor San Francisco London breeders up for reelection. 228 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 2: She says, the challenges we are facing related to fentanyl 229 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 2: and organized retail theft require real change to our state laws. 230 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 2: This act will make targeted, but impactful changes to our 231 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 2: laws around fentanyl and help us tackle chronic retail theft 232 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 2: that hurts our retailers workers and our cities Mayhem. The 233 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 2: San Jose mayor says, we cannot be afraid to challenge 234 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 2: the status quo when it is clearly not working for 235 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 2: our residents. Top forty seven is well intended, but what 236 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 2: really matters is its impact, and it's hurting far too 237 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 2: many families and small businesses across the state. This is 238 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 2: huge when you look at the number of votes in 239 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 2: San Francisco and San Jose, which normally goes for progressive ideas, 240 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 2: they vote for these these idiotic propositions. And now you 241 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 2: got the two mayors because San Jose, I think, is 242 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 2: the second largest city by population in the state, and 243 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 2: so that the two major political figures in these cities 244 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 2: are saying no, no, no, This has got to be rewritten. 245 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: In a very meaningful way. I mean that that is fantastic. 246 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 2: You know, they see that they're going to go down 247 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 2: the drain with this this crime. Nobody wants this crime. 248 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 2: I don't care about your political persuasion unless you have 249 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 2: an affinity for criminals like George Gascone does. Nobody wants this. 250 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 2: You don't want to live this way. It's funny. I 251 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 2: had this vague memory and I looked it up. Three 252 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 2: years ago, London Breed wrote an op ed piece for 253 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Sentinel, which is a newspaper of a 254 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 2: large black readership, and she urged that you do not 255 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 2: vote for Gascone, that you vote for Jackie Lacy. Again, 256 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 2: Breed was the mayor when Gascone was the district attorney, 257 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 2: and she wrote, Gascone left town before his turn was finished. 258 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: He has a long history. 259 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 2: Of going whichever the way the wind blows, saying whatever 260 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 2: suits his political purposes, and only looking out for himself. 261 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 2: I have opposed his candidacy from the start, and for 262 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 2: that very simple reason. Gascon was bad for San Francisco 263 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 2: and he would be bad for la I remember this. 264 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: Nobody listened to her, but this. 265 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 2: Woman was the mayor of San Francisco when Gascone started 266 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 2: the destruction of that city. He wrote, he co wrote 267 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 2: Prop forty seven, He co wrote Prop forty seven DA 268 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 2: in San Francisco when they started going in the toilet. 269 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 2: And now look what's happened here the last three years. 270 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 2: I cannot think of another man in the history of 271 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 2: California who's done more destructive things to the day to 272 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 2: day life of ordinary, innocent people than George Gascone. He 273 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 2: really stands by himself. And the ballots went out in 274 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: the mail, I believe on Saturday, on Monday. On Monday 275 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 2: they were mailed out. So Tuesday and Wednesday yesterday, you 276 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 2: should have gotten them in the mail. Vote for district attorney. 277 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 2: We're going to talk more about the candidates. There are 278 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 2: certain candidates that are stronger than others. We want to 279 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 2: get two of the candidates in the runoff, neither one Gascon. 280 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 2: We have to get two opponents in the runoff, neither 281 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 2: one Gascon. I wish I could split up the whole 282 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 2: audience and say, on this side, you vote for candidate A. 283 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 2: This side, you vote for candidate B. Nobody votes for Gascon, 284 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 2: and then we'll figure it out after March fifth or 285 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 2: coming up. 286 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six. 287 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 2: We've had a lot of serious, heavy stuff today, a 288 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 2: lot of breaking news involving Biden and Trump, and you 289 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 2: know the rewrite of Prop forty seven. We have a 290 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 2: couple of funny things. This one cracked me up, and 291 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 2: we got a TV report. Do you know somebody based 292 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 2: on this story, somebody one day could steal kfill. 293 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 1: They steal us two. They could. 294 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 2: Well, in Alabama, there was a radio station and thieves 295 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 2: stall their two hundred foot radio tower like the actual transmitter. 296 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: They stall the whole thing. Wow, and here we. 297 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 2: Got a report on this. I don't want to give 298 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 2: anybody out their ideas. I mean, everyone's stealing everything in sight. 299 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 2: If they could do it in Alabama, they could do 300 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 2: it here. This is WBrC Fox six and the station 301 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 2: is WJLX in Jasper, Alabama. 302 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: At five. 303 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 5: Station general manager Brett Elmore remains hopeful that somebody shares 304 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 5: information that allows law enforcement to find those responsible for 305 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 5: the theft. Still, even he is blown away by what happened. 306 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 6: I've tried all weekend to figure it out and I 307 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 6: just can't. I've been in the radio business around it 308 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 6: all my life, and then been in it for twenty 309 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 6: six years professionally, and I can say I've never heard 310 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 6: of anything like this, and this one I've seen it 311 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 6: all now. 312 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 5: Elmore says they first learned the theft on Friday. He 313 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 5: says a bush LL crew went down to the w 314 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 5: JLX tower site to clean up the property, but the 315 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 5: thieves had already cleared it. 316 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 1: Out when he arrived. 317 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 6: He called me on Friday and said the tower's gone 318 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 6: and huh And so I said, what do you mean 319 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 6: the tower's going, you know? And are you sure you're 320 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 6: at the right place, you know? And he said no, 321 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 6: he said, the tower is gone. There's wires everywhere and 322 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 6: it's gone. 323 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 5: Elmore says they're working with the SEC to get temporary 324 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 5: authority to carry on while they rebuild the AM side 325 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 5: of their operations. Still it's unclear just how long the 326 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 5: rebuilt efforts could take. 327 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 6: This really hurts a small operation like this, But like 328 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 6: I say, I believe we're going to find out who 329 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 6: did this. It's a federal crime and it absolutely will 330 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 6: not be worth it to them. 331 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 5: Again, if you know anything at all, they're asking you 332 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 5: contact either crime stoppers. 333 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 2: You see someone walking around with a two hundred foot 334 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 2: radio tower, all right. So I'm staring at this thing 335 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 2: today and I was trying to figure out, well, if 336 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 2: somebody stole the tower, didn't. 337 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: You notice in the studio that you were no longer broadcast. 338 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask a very same question. 339 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 2: Well, and as I'm looking through here, apparently it's an 340 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 2: FM AM combination. They have an FM translator and they 341 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,400 Speaker 2: have an AM signal, but I guess everybody must listen 342 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 2: on FM, and none of the listeners on AM noticed, 343 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 2: or they didn't notice looking at their own. 344 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: Maybe they just don't have any listeners. 345 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 2: That's another possibility, Eric, if somebody stole the KFI transmitter, 346 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 2: you'd notice on the control board there, right. 347 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 7: Yeah, we have a whole system where if we go 348 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 7: off the air and there's dead air and no one's 349 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 7: talking for a certain amount of time, we have an 350 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 7: alarm that goes off and that basically tells us we 351 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 7: are off the air and we need to get it 352 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 7: to fix this. 353 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: How did they how did they steal it? And the 354 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: owner didn't know? That's a great question because I mean, 355 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: our transmit. 356 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 7: I'm not going to say where it is, but passed 357 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 7: by our transmitter on the freeway and it is huge. Yeah, 358 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 7: I've been there. It's gigantic. So I don't know how 359 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 7: they did this. This is quite the feat too. I'm 360 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 7: kind of impressed it is. And and you know what 361 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 7: was funny about this story. I don't know if you 362 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 7: had noticed. He was he set a bush hog crew 363 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 7: went down to the tower to clean up the property, 364 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 7: and they just dropped that phrase BushHog crew. I guess 365 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 7: all the locals in Jasper know. 366 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: What that means. Yeah, what's that bushog crew? 367 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:47,360 Speaker 3: Yeah? 368 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: That made sense to the to the TV viewers. What 369 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: is a bush hoog crew? I don't know. 370 00:20:54,440 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 2: Two hundred foot radio tower? Wow, they need, they need 371 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 2: to work on their market. 372 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: But what do you want to do with that? 373 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 2: I'm guessing recycle the Uh yeah, the steal, Yeah, that's 374 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 2: what I thought. It's like stealing copper wires here. Now 375 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:20,239 Speaker 2: this story is also funny in a different way. The 376 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 2: mayor of Dalton, Illinois is Tiffany Henyard, and uh, Tiffany 377 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 2: is under fire from everybody else on the uh on 378 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 2: the town council. 379 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: They call it the board. Uh. 380 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 2: You know they average the median salary in Dalton is 381 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 2: twenty four thousand dollars, and she makes a lot more 382 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 2: than that, and uh, they're accusing her. 383 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: Let me, let me get the story here. 384 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 2: Okay, she makes a combined salary of nearly three hundred 385 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. The median income in Dalton is twenty four thousand. 386 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 2: She not only has a hefty paycheck, she uses the 387 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 2: town credit card a lot and she spends a lot 388 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 2: of money on her hair and her beauty treatments. 389 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: Well, it's expensive being a woman. 390 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 2: She and other officials spent sixty seven thousand dollars on 391 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 2: trips to New York, Austin, Atlanta, and Portland. First class flights, 392 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: first class accommodations, four seasons hotel. They spent nine thousand 393 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 2: dollars In New York, they spent thirteen thousand dollars. So 394 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 2: the rest of the members of the board were laying 395 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 2: into her about all the successes spending. Now, I saw 396 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 2: a picture and she's got really nice hair. 397 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: I thought, why would Hope so really nice hair? 398 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 2: And she's really nice fashion stude. She dresses really well. 399 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 2: But she got angry at the board and claimed that 400 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 2: they were all picking on her because she was black, 401 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 2: except the whole council is black. If you look in 402 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 2: the photo anyway, listen to her, she goes off for 403 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 2: about a minute. 404 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 8: Here, got false narratives out there, and y'all should be 405 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 8: shamed of y'allself. Y'all black, y'all black, and y'all sitting 406 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 8: up here beating and attacking on a black woman that's 407 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 8: in power. Y'all should be shamed of yourselves. All the 408 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 8: stuff that y'all to did to get people to come 409 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 8: to our community, to just this and down our community. 410 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 8: Shame on y'all, because when I want attack and take 411 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 8: any of y'all seats, I run. I run for the seat. 412 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 8: I don't do spill campaigns. I don't do all this mess. 413 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 8: It's nonsense because at the end of the day, we 414 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 8: still gotta live in this village. Oh well, well, y'all 415 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 8: don't live in the village, but we still gotta live 416 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 8: in the village. Y'all got prostitute rings, y'all got car 417 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 8: rings on y'all block dog stolen dolls in your block 418 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 8: Britney Northwood two doors from you, and you don't. 419 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: Even know it. 420 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 8: Come on, but you live here, y'all stuck with the nonsense. 421 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 8: Y'all do pay the play, But yet y'all point fingers 422 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 8: that other people stop. 423 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,199 Speaker 1: I'm sick of it. 424 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 2: Well that's Tiffany Henyard, the mayor of Dalton. They think 425 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 2: her spending is so bad it might bankrupt the town. 426 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 2: Oh my, because if people are only making twenty four grand, 427 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 2: they're paying very little in taxes, and she's taken in 428 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 2: three hundred grand and spending tens of thousands more on 429 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 2: these trips. 430 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 1: But really nice hair? Yeah, with enough, Well, she should 431 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 1: have nice hair. 432 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 5: She spends so much, she should look beautiful and amazing 433 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 5: for all that she spends herself. 434 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 2: She's the mayor. The mayor has to have nice hair. No, 435 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 2: you would appreciate her hair. 436 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: I'm sure I would. I don't spend that much money 437 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: on myself. 438 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,479 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 439 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 4: six forty. 440 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 2: I've been tracking the Los Angeles Times and after God, 441 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,479 Speaker 2: when did I first hear about this story was breaking? 442 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 2: I know when I was driving in so As eleven thirty, 443 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 2: twelve o'clock. Yeah, they had the story of on cable 444 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 2: news on CNN and Fox that the special counsel in 445 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 2: the Joe Biden documents case had released his official report, 446 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 2: no criminal charges, but that Biden has a very poor memory, 447 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 2: and he couldn't remember the years he was vice president, 448 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,159 Speaker 2: and couldn't remember the year that his son died, among 449 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 2: other things. He couldn't remember the tales about the Afghanistan 450 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 2: conflict when he was in office. And basically they said 451 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 2: they're not going to charge him because they don't think 452 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 2: a jury would convict a well intended elderly man with 453 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 2: serious memory problems. In other words, nobody, nobody would be 454 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 2: able to tell if he did this willfully or not 455 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 2: hied the documents he just and so this really is 456 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,959 Speaker 2: case closed on whether Biden should be president today, let 457 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 2: alone campaign and run for a second term. Because if 458 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 2: it's this bad in February of twenty twenty four, what 459 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 2: do you think it's going to be like five years 460 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 2: from now, in January of twenty twenty nine. So who's 461 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 2: going to vote for him? Why would anybody vote for him? 462 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 2: I mean, certainly there's got to be a couple of 463 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 2: hundred other people who at least would be conscious, even 464 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 2: if they're going to even if they have the same policies. 465 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 2: It's really stunning here. What's funny is New York Times 466 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 2: is running several straight ahead stories about it on the 467 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 2: top of the front page, at least four the. 468 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Times. 469 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 2: I saw that they had allegedly gutted their Washington bureau. 470 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: I guess that's true because there isn't a single story 471 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 2: in the LA Times about this, and it's the lead 472 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 2: story everywhere else, multiple lead stories in some publications, But 473 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 2: with the La Times. It's as if it hasn't happened, 474 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 2: or are the progressives there. They don't want to share 475 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 2: the bad news. They don't think it would be appropriate 476 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 2: to share the bad news because that would only strengthen 477 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 2: Donald Trump. 478 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: I mean, that's really possible. It's possible. 479 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 2: They have no writer in Los Angeles and Washington to 480 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 2: write about it, but they had the Associated Press. They 481 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 2: could just rewrite what The New York Times has done. 482 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 2: You know, plagiarism is popular these days. Here's some of 483 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: the exact quotes from the Special Counsel's report. Robert her 484 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 2: in his interview with our office, mister Biden's memory did 485 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 2: not remember when he was vice president, forgetting the first 486 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 2: the first day of the interview, he forgot when his 487 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 2: term ended, quote when did I stop being vice president? 488 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: And on the second day of the interview, he couldn't 489 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 2: remember when his term began. Was I still vice president? 490 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 2: He did not remember even within a few years when 491 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 2: his son Bo died. His memory was hazy about the 492 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 2: Afghanistan debate. He didn't seem to remember who who on 493 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 2: his staff were his allies and who argued against him. 494 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 2: And we considered that Biden would present himself at a 495 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 2: jury as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a 496 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 2: poor memory, and that they wouldn't be able to get 497 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 2: a conviction because you'd have to prove a mental state 498 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 2: of wilfulness. 499 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 1: Wilfulness. 500 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 2: Biden's memory was significantly limited, both in recorded interviews with 501 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,679 Speaker 2: a ghostwriter in twenty seventeen and in the interview with 502 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 2: our office in twenty twenty three, So they have documentation 503 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 2: and in case Biden was having serious memory problems seven 504 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 2: years ago, Conway's. 505 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: Here, Hey, I find it all pretty sad. 506 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 7: I mean, if you know, when my dad got to 507 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 7: that stage, he needed somebody around, you know it, to 508 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 7: helped me out. Now, he didn't run the country. Now, 509 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 7: my dad was in a nursing home. But let me 510 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:53,479 Speaker 7: see if I can figure this out. 511 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: Okay. 512 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 7: Obama won first in two thousand and eight, So February 513 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 7: or late January, early February two thousand and nine to 514 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 7: twenty seventeen, he was vice president. Yes, I got it. 515 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 7: I don't follow this crap. That closed and you're not 516 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 7: that shrupy no, no, no, no no, no, I know 517 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 7: when he's vice president. 518 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, and as wild he didn't know. Yeah, that's crazy. 519 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 7: There's something comforting about losing that kind of memory and 520 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 7: that kind of you know, daily. 521 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: God, isn't there a lot of things you'd like to forget? 522 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of looking forward to that. All Right, 523 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 7: we got no rain in the forecast, so we're not 524 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 7: going to talk a lot about the rain. 525 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: Dean Sharp is coming on. Well, that that guy's great. 526 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 7: We have some bad news the Five Marines aboard a 527 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 7: helicopter that went down out in San Diego or confirmed dead. 528 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: The bravest guys in the world. Man, it's so tough 529 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: to lose really brave men like them. 530 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 7: And then we have the Super Bowl coming up, and 531 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 7: also Kobe Bryant is getting a statue at Crypto. 532 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 1: Are you going to them? 533 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 3: Uh? 534 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 7: No, no, I asked patros If he's going, he's a 535 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 7: sports guy, He goes, I don't go on anything right now. 536 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 7: It is happening right now. Yeah, I'm watching down now, 537 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 7: get down there, got to hurry. Yeah, but that's Eric, 538 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 7: Why aren't you there? Well, someone's got to run John's board. Yes, done, 539 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 7: sound sometimes anybody runs it. That's a mode on you, Eric, 540 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 7: that's a smoke smoked him, smoked him? 541 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: Are you done? Abusing him. 542 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 7: Ah, at least no one stole our transmitter. Yeah, two 543 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 7: hundred foot transmitter gone. That's great, that's a great story 544 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 7: right now, Way to keep an eye on. 545 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: The equipment that could happen to us, sting dog. 546 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 7: That's right, phone might be out there now, that's right, 547 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 7: all right, dam dog with you Johnny Colebelt. 548 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've got Crozier with the news live in 549 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four our newsroom. 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