1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Two runs of the 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Moistline coming up after three o'clock and then you could 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: get You can catch me on my wife's podcast, Deborah 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: Cobet Live. It's on YouTube. It's video, and we talked 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: about a lot of stuff in the news over the 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: last time. 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: You don't want to miss it. You definitely don't want 9 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: to miss it. 10 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be watching. That's better. That's that's much better. 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: There Deborah Cobet Live, and just go on YouTube and 12 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: you can watch it anytime. This weekend, I had mentioned 13 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: all the hypocrisy over the outrage regarding Jimmy Kimmel. Drew Holden, 14 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: he's the managing editor at some internet site called American Compass. 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: He has a long thread on x It's at Drew 16 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: Holden three point sixty if you're interested. He did a 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: great comparison of all the headlines about Trump and Jimmy 18 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: Kimmel compared to how they covered all the suppression on 19 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 1: social media in the Biden administration during the COVID lockdown 20 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: and the virus debate. It's actually hysterical. So just see 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: the outraged headlines over Trump and Kimmel and compared to 22 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: the headlines about the Biden administration shutting people down on 23 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: social media over COVID and vaccines, and you'll understand what 24 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: I'm talking about with hypocrisy and people virtue signaling its 25 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: performance are it's not reality. Let's get Royal Oakson. He's 26 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: the ABC News leal analysts. This is fascinating. The New 27 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: York Attorney General Letitia James famously wrote civil charges against Trump, 28 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: saying that he had inflated the value of his New 29 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: York real estate in order to get better terms from 30 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: banks in New York. Very found him liable. He was 31 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: originally punished for five hundred million dollars that was tremendously 32 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: knocked down, if not wiped out entirely, actually forget. But 33 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: he what he did is went for revenge and he 34 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: had federal prosecutors in Virginia go after Letitia James for 35 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: mortgage fraud. Well, they're telling him we can't find the 36 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: enough evidence for that. And now the Trump people are 37 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: so upset with the US attorney on that case, Eric Seybert, 38 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: they want him to be fired because he won't bring 39 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: criminal charges. And Cybert runs the Eastern District of Virginia. 40 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: He's the US attorney and they handle a lot of 41 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: espionage and terrorism cases across the country. And they're saying that. 42 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: People are saying, that's not a good idea. Let's get 43 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: to Royal Oaks Royal. 44 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 3: Yeah. John, it's a big, big kerfuffle over this US attorney, 45 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: Eric Sebert. You know, the bottom line is that the 46 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 3: president into the United States gets to appoint the US 47 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 3: attorney for all. They're about ninety districts around the country, 48 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 3: and they serve at his pleasure. He doesn't have to 49 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: show good cause to fire them. And so people can 50 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 3: criticize Trump for politicizing this, but he actually has a 51 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,119 Speaker 3: legal right to go to this US attorney and say, hey, 52 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 3: Eric Seedbert, you may have noticed. You know, I resigned 53 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 3: as a president of the Letitia James fan Club when 54 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 3: she sued me for fraud and won, you know, nearly 55 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 3: a billion dollars and fortunately I got all that damage 56 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 3: tossed out. But I want her prosecuted because she lied 57 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 3: when she got a home mortgage for her home in Virginia. 58 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 3: She said that was her primary residence and that was 59 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 3: a lie, So I want you to go get her 60 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 3: and put her in jail. He's looked into it for 61 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: four or five months and he really can't find enough 62 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 3: to having as prosecutor. And Trump is not happy. And 63 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 3: now he's apparently saying, look, either you quit or I'll 64 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,839 Speaker 3: fire you. But the fact is he does have a right. 65 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 3: Trump has a right to fire a guy for any 66 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 3: reason except some racially discriminatory reason. But Trump then has 67 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 3: to put up with the political in terms of the 68 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 3: public saying, hey, you're politicizing the Department of Justice. That's 69 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 3: essentially the controversy and. 70 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: Cyber Is he an important guy as far as you know, 71 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: especially with his office handling all these terrorism cases and 72 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: these espionage cases. 73 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. You know, some districts are arguably more important 74 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 3: than others. And you know, maybe Montana has some you know, 75 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 3: interesting criminal matters, but they're not as important as you 76 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 3: suggest that. 77 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: Could you have the stolen cattle rings in Montana? 78 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 3: But that's true, that's true. But you know, so it's 79 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 3: controversial and it's an extent. This guy, you know, is 80 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 3: a solid US attorney. But you know, you remember every 81 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 3: time a new president comes in all ninety or so 82 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 3: US attorneys are out of there because elections have consequences, 83 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 3: and even though they're not really inherently political, that's one 84 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 3: of the perks of the presidency. You get to a 85 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 3: point US attorneys in all of the districts, Now, is 86 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 3: that true? 87 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: Isn't there? They're all wait, they're all got to work 88 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: as soon as the new president takes over. 89 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 3: Absolutely. Now, not every president says to all nighty, Hey, 90 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 3: you know, new sheriff and talent, you're fired. You're fired. 91 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 3: But in general, yes, basically that happens. You know. The 92 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 3: most famous example of people going crazy when a president 93 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 3: gets rid of a prosecutor was the Saturnying massacre when 94 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 3: Nixon back in the day fired Archibald Cox. But he 95 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 3: had the right to do it. But you know, when 96 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 3: you fire them, not at the outset of your term, 97 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 3: but in between, then people say, hey, what's going on here? 98 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 3: And that's why people are getting lathered up about the 99 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 3: politicization of the Department of Justice. 100 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: You know. 101 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: The ultimate protection John against politicizing this is regardless of 102 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 3: what a Department of Justice or a US attorney does. 103 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 3: You know, fire charge somebody and diet them, file criminal charges. 104 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,679 Speaker 3: A judge gets to decide if there's a real legal 105 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 3: basis for it, and if there's some you know, rogue 106 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 3: US attorney that prosecutes somebody for no reason or a 107 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 3: purely political reason, that's when the federal district judge says, hey, 108 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 3: I read your complaint, this is a croc I'm tossing 109 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 3: it out. Then if he messes up, you go up 110 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 3: to the Court of Appeals. So it's not the end 111 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 3: of the world if the Department of Justice is inspired 112 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 3: by politics. You don't want politics to be running the 113 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 3: Department of Justice, but let's face it, that's the way 114 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 3: it is. You know, the Attorney General is the handmaiden 115 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 3: of the president appointed to the cabinet, and all the 116 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 3: Department of Justice US attorneys around the country are the 117 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 3: handmaidens of the Attorney general. So it's drenched in politics. 118 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 3: And even though you don't want people going to jail 119 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 3: because of politics, you know, that's just the system. But 120 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 3: the backstop is the judges. Hopefully you make a fair decision, they. 121 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: Can throw these things out. I find it fascinating on 122 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: so many issues that the Democrats of the left wing 123 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: gets gets crazy and they obscure the fact that Trump 124 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: has the power to do all these things. The executive branch, 125 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: the president himself has tremendous power. He's in charge of 126 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: all this stuff, and he may be making the wrong 127 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: decision and you may hate the decision, but he does 128 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: have the power to do it, and that really gets 129 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,239 Speaker 1: lost in all this overheated rhetoric. 130 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 3: Absolutely, elections have consequences, and the party out of power 131 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 3: doesn't like that and they rail against it. But that's 132 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 3: just the inherent nature of the system. 133 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: All right, very good, Thank you Royal Oaks for explaining 134 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: all that. ABC News legal analysts on the Trump's quest 135 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: to get Letitia James, the New York State Attorney General, 136 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: thrown into jail for something. When we come back, the 137 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: City Council voted overwhelmingly to send another five million dollars 138 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: to a law firm whose main job was to keep 139 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: Karen Bass from testifying before a federal judge on where 140 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: two billion dollars in homeless money disappeared to And they 141 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: did a good job of that, and they want to 142 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: get paid, and they want another five million, And the 143 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: City counsul said, oh sure, let me bend over right here. 144 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,559 Speaker 1: That's your tax money. You're you're you're live in broke 145 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and they're now shoveling more money for a 146 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: law firm that's helping to keep Karen Bass from answering 147 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: questions about the missing two billion in homeless money. You 148 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: cannot make this stuff up. We'll get to that coming up. 149 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 150 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 4: six forty. 151 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: All right, so just demanded two runs of the Moistline 152 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: coming up. So you know this is this, This really 153 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: fries me, This makes me crazy. You're an LA texpayer too, Yes, 154 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: I am. Don't remind me Los Angeles. Just a brief 155 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: rundown in case you just came out of a coma today. 156 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: So Karen Bass, uh is, there's two billion dollars missing 157 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: from the homeless money that we pay in taxes. It 158 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: goes to LASA, and it goes to the city. The 159 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: city is as a partnership with the county and LASA, 160 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: which is the LA Homeless Services Association. Anyway, it's a 161 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: all big mix, big bowl of money. Two billion is missing. 162 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: Two billion, Okay, that's two Comma zero zero zero, Comma 163 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: zero zero zero, Comma zero zero zero. Nobody will say 164 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: where it is. A federal judge tried to figure it out. 165 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: David O. Carter. There was a civil lawsuit by a 166 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: private group called La Alliance for Human Rights. It was 167 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: made up of local businesses and people, and they wanted 168 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: to know where the money went because they could see 169 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: by looking out the window that it didn't go to 170 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: get the homeless off the streets. It's a citizens group 171 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: and a business group. They're the good guys in this 172 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles. Bad guys because the two billion 173 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: is missing, and shockingly, there's no investigation that I'm aware 174 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: of into it. Now. Judge Carter tried to do one, 175 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: and he mandated an audit of sorts, and but you know, 176 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: it wasn't an investigatory audit. It was just, hey, do 177 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: these numbers add up? And it's like, huh, there's two 178 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: billion missing. So Karen Bass hired fifteen lawyers. Four of 179 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: them worked for the city elet of eleven of them 180 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: worked for Gibson Done and Crutcher. Gibson Done and Crutcher 181 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: provided eleven lawyers to try to block the La Alliance 182 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: group from hearing Karen Bass's potential testimony. They threw every 183 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: roadblock in the way to delay this potentially for months 184 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: and months, and eventually La Alliance gave up and the 185 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: judge David Carter allowed this to happen. Now, originally the 186 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: city had agreed to give Gibson, Done and Crutcher and 187 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,239 Speaker 1: eight other guys nine hundred thousand dollars for legal services. 188 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: But they had so many people protecting Karen Bass the 189 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: keep her from testifying about the missing two billion, that 190 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: the contract ballooned from nine hundred thousand dollars to five million. No, 191 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: five million extra. So now we're at six billion, six 192 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: million dollars. I'm getting dizzy. I'm getting a headache here 193 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: and Done had charged the city almost two million for 194 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: two weeks of work. Attorneys were billing individual attorneys were 195 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: building nearly thirteen hundred dollars an hour. By August the 196 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: bill had grown to over three million, and Kenny Arslovsky, 197 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: the incredibly empty headed councilwoman, she's in charge of the 198 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: budget committee. No wonder we're bankrupt, apparently incapable of doing 199 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: simple mass. She defended the decision, saying that Gibson Dunn's 200 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: work had been essential to protecting the city's interests. The 201 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: city's interests, you blew two billion dollars in homeless money 202 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: that you can't account for, and now you're spending six 203 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: million for attorneys to provide enough interference to protect Karen Bass, 204 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: who must know where the two billion went. I think 205 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: that's reasonable to assume, right, but she can't be questioned. 206 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: It's not in the city's interests. It's in the interest 207 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: of Karen Bass, and our friends are protecting her. It's incredibly, 208 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 1: incredibly overwhelming corrupt. It's just so corrupt in the city. Eventually, 209 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: Carter broke her to settlement between the city and LA Alliance, 210 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: and Carter is appointed a former city controller, Ron Galprin, 211 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: and another data expert, Daniel Geary, to independently monitor the 212 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 1: city's homelessness data. But again, nobody is trying to find 213 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,959 Speaker 1: the six billion, and nobody's making Karen Bass talk about it. 214 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: Remember it was Karen Bass's buddy, Felicia Adams Kellum who 215 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: was in charge of LASA. She was forced out and 216 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: she was the one caught giving two million dollars to 217 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: her husband's nonprofit. I can't believe this is just an 218 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: absolute rate of the taxpayer. This is completely corrupt. There 219 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: is missing money, stolen money. Nobody wants to talk about it. 220 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: You got fifteen attorneys lined up surrounding Karen Bass, so 221 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: she doesn't have to talk. Absolutely nobody, nobody, nobody in 222 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: the media is demanding any answers outside of us. And 223 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: now I'll get to this. Next, La City Council is 224 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: saying they're going to withdraw a major funding from LASA. Well, yeah, 225 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: because a lot of the funding they gave to LOSSA 226 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: disappeared when it was run by Karen Bass's friend. We'll 227 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: tell you about this coming up, Okay, So that's why, 228 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: that's why there's still tens of thousands of homeless people 229 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: on the street after eight years of billions of dollars 230 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: because somebody stole the money, lots of somebody stole the money, 231 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: and now nobody wants to talk about it. And let's 232 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: just pretell oh, you know what, well, we'll just pull 233 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: out of that organization. We'll pull out out a loss 234 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, we'll oversee things ourselves. Yeah, let's pay 235 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: six million to these attorneys. And that was their only job, 236 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: that was the only thing of note they did. They 237 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: kept Karen Bass. I was going to say, out of jail, 238 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: but from testifying sometimes you can testify you end up 239 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: in jail, but. 240 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty. 241 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: Now, I told you in the last segment, oh by 242 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: the way, where we got the moistline coming up twice 243 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: next hour. It's coming up very close. And also, if 244 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: you'd like, I'm gonna I'm appearing on my wife her, 245 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: well I'm not appearing on my wife. I'm appearing on 246 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: her podcast, Deborah Cobelt Live. And that's on YouTube, Debora 247 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: Cobet Live on YouTube, and you punch into that and 248 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: you can watch me and my wife talk about all 249 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: the issues of the day. And it got kind of 250 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: intense at one point. Did you guys fight right on 251 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: the verge of it? I don't really. She might have 252 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: cut something out, I don't know. But it didn't get physical. No. 253 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: I have never gotten physical in my life with a girl. 254 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: I say you, I have not gotten physical since I 255 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: was getting assaulted on the fifth grade playground. I didn't 256 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: say you. 257 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 2: I wonder if you know she slapped some sense and. 258 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: You thought, no, no, she didn't hit me, not not 259 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: this time. Anyway. Go to Deborah Cobet Live and on 260 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: YouTube you could see me and it's very peaceful. The 261 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 1: city council. Now, what did I say in the last 262 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: segment that the City council voted six billion dollars in 263 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: Los Angeles to pay a bunch of lawyers whose main 264 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: job was to keep Karen Bass from testifying as to 265 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: where two billion dollars disappeared to. I don't know why 266 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,880 Speaker 1: the judge wasn't all over this more. But I don't 267 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: know if there was just some limitations on his domain 268 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: because this was a civil case brought by a group 269 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: of businesses and citizens. But seriously, there's two billion dollars missing. 270 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: For that matter, I think there's twenty five billion missing 271 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: on the state level. But they did also vote to 272 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: this week to withdraw all homeless funding from LASA. The 273 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: county has withdrawn from LASA. It was a joint project 274 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: between City and County of La LASA is LA Homeless 275 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: Services Authority. Council members, some of them asked for an 276 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: analysis of what this would mean. They have LAS has 277 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: existed since nineteen ninety three. They're the lead agency for 278 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: coordinating housing and social services. If you were here in 279 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three, a tiny amount of homelessness existed on 280 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 1: skid row in downtown in LA and nowhere else, nowhere else. 281 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 1: I was here, you were here, right, I was. Did 282 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: you ever see any of this stuff in nineteen ninety three? Oh? 283 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 2: Actually, you know what. I wasn't here in ninety three. 284 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I left in ninety two, all right, years, 285 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: all right? Ninety two? Was it okay? In ninety two? 286 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 4: Yes? 287 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: Yes, okay. So now the county has a Department of 288 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 1: Homeless Services and Housing. They're going to take three hundred 289 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: million dollars in tax money from Measure A. That was 290 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: the new tax the debora and I are paying under protest. 291 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 2: Yes, I want it rescinded. 292 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: It should have already been recented. It should have if 293 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: people were just would wake up and pay attention. And 294 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: they're supposed to have this new agency running July at 295 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. And that came in response, according to 296 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: The Daily News, came in response to scathing audits of 297 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: LASA that suggested, oh listen to this, can't somebody write 298 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: in English? Suggested a lack of transparency related to services 299 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 1: provided in funding. No, no, no, here's the translation. There's 300 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,959 Speaker 1: two billion dollars missing and unaccounted for a lack of 301 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: transparency related to services. Whah who wrote this? Jose Herrera, 302 00:19:52,680 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 1: Jose back to journalism school. I hate it when writers 303 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 1: speak like bureaucrats. You're writing to regular people who speak 304 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: and read the English language. The English language is not 305 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,479 Speaker 1: suggested a lack of transparency nowhere. It's two billion dollars missing. 306 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 1: LOSSA have refuted such claims, saying any problems came as 307 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,479 Speaker 1: a result of rapid expansion and crises. Oh, they're blaming 308 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: the coronavirus pandemic. Stop it. The two billion dollars is missing. 309 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: That's got nothing to do with the virus. So the 310 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: city has established a homelessness oversight bureau, and the county 311 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: has its own thing now and it looks like Losses 312 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: going to go out at business, which it should. That 313 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: was an incredibly wasteful, bloated, corrupt agency, and homelessness is 314 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: worse in all ways. There are more vagrants, mental patients, 315 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: and criminals running around drug addicts than ever before. Exponentially 316 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: it's increased. I don't know if there's any way to 317 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: get the to get the number of homeless people here 318 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: in LA in nineteen ninety three, I don't even know 319 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: if they were counting homeless people back then because there 320 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: were so few of them and you knew where they were. 321 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: They were on skid row. I mean, I lived here. 322 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: I don't remember encountering any serious homeless people until the 323 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: mid twenty tens under the idiot Garcetti. I'm sorry, Garcetti, 324 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: the idiot, the idiot Garcetti the second, not to be 325 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: confused with Gil Garcetti. The idiot Garcetti the first lost 326 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: the ojks. It's amazing how many sins against the public 327 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: those two have committed, all from the same genetic line. 328 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: Hoping there are no more Garcetties in the pipeline cause 329 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: any more damage anyway. And man, can you imagine you 330 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,880 Speaker 1: woke up in the morning and the La Times had 331 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: ten riders. I mean they got, they got, They got 332 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 1: so many stories on Jimmy Kimmel, And really, at the end, 333 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: who gets a crap? Guys got tens of millions, maybe 334 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars, but we got plenty of 335 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: stories on him. Where the two billion dollars in your 336 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: tax money goes? Nobody even asked the question. Imagine if 337 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: all the television channels did expose's and documentaries and sixty 338 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: minutes special reports in prime time on where did the 339 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: two billion go? And track down all the criminals that 340 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: work in the bureaucracy in La City, La County, LASA, 341 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: all the nonprofits, the nonprofits, that's where the real criminals are, 342 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: all the fake nonprofits, all the people with titles. They've 343 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: all got six figure salaries. Some of you may have 344 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 1: seven figure salaries now. But we'll keep doing what we're 345 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: doing because we want that tax repeal. I do, yeah, 346 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: really desperately. 347 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 348 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 4: six forty. 349 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock. We were going to pull 350 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: out our Kamala Harris Pinata, Oh man, if I thought 351 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: she was if I thought she was an empty bag. 352 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: Before today, some of the excerpts from her book leaked out, 353 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: and boy, she really really is floating in her own orbit. 354 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: I'll try to be kind. Well, the excerpts are pretty entertaining, 355 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: and she's now going after she's all going after Biden, 356 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: and she's going after the other people who wanted to 357 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: run for president and those who she looked at to 358 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: be vice president. It's like, Wow, what a crowd you're 359 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: bidding on the Uh if you bet on the Kamala 360 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 1: Harris horse, you had no idea what a waste of 361 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: time that was. Uh. You remember this bozo, Peter Aikman. 362 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: He was an executive in the video game industry, and 363 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: during the fire in the Palisades, he's the one who 364 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: went on a roof of a building in a Santa 365 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: Monica parking garage. He led to the top and he 366 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: launched a drone into the fire. He wanted to he 367 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: was curious about how much was burning, and he was 368 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: also curious about a friend's home. Well, he lost track 369 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: of the drone. And this is the drone that slammed 370 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: into the Super Scooper, that gigantic plane that we borrow 371 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 1: from Canada every year, and Peter Aikman's drone punched a 372 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: three x six eight hole in the wing, so on 373 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: day three of the Big Palisades Fire, it was out 374 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: of service. Now that plane has a huge water tank. 375 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: It's an amphibious plane, so we can fly down low 376 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: and scoop enormous amounts of water out of the reservoir, 377 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: out of the lake. And he's not been sentenced fourteen 378 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: days in prison, thirty days of home detention, one hundred 379 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: and fifty hours of community service, one hundred and forty 380 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: six thousand dollars in restitution because he's got to pay 381 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: for the the hole that they that he put in 382 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: the plane, eighty one thousand to go to La County's 383 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: fire department. The rest will go to the government of Quebec, 384 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 1: which owns the plane. He owes a ninety five hundred 385 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: dollars fine to the US government. His lawyers had lobbied 386 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: the judge just a sentence into probation because he was remorseful. 387 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 1: He wrote a letter to the judge saying, my decision 388 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: to fly a drone in that time and place was 389 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: a stupid and reckless thing to do. But the judge decided, no, 390 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: you gotta at least sit in jail for two weeks. Now, 391 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: he was a big time gaming executive. He created the 392 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: try Arch Studio Trey Art Studio behind the Call of 393 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: Duty franchise, and he has most recently been running a 394 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: startup entertainment and video game company executive director of technology 395 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: to be specific. But now he's I can't imagine the 396 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 1: urge somebody would get to send a drone into the 397 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: Palisades fire I'm just y. I don't know what overcomes people. 398 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 2: Well, now they're sending drones over people's homes, these these crooks, 399 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 2: so they can see this home. 400 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew it. 401 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 2: I saw what looked like drones kind of in my 402 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,199 Speaker 2: my my neighborhood, and I said to my husband, I 403 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 2: bet you that that's a drone. And they are doing 404 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 2: searches of people's homes. And then I heard her news 405 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 2: story the other day and I forgot where it was 406 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 2: somewhere in the San Fernando Valley and homeowners said the 407 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 2: exact same thing. 408 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: They're looking for open windows, doorries that can be easily breached. 409 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking to see what people's you know, they're 410 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 2: comings and going right. 411 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you got what you got to shoot 412 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: them out of the sky. Yeah. Probably. I'm so sick 413 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: of crooks. I can't like. I'm I'm listening crooks. Don't 414 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: go near her, Okay, oh yeah, don't. She's going to 415 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 1: take you out. I'm not going to tell you how. 416 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 2: But well, what about I heard yesterday, you know, when 417 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 2: I was I was driving and I heard on the 418 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 2: news that somebody, what was it in West Hollywood broke 419 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 2: into a house and killed somebody's dog, really, really a 420 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 2: small dog. You got to kill a dog? Sorry, I 421 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 2: don't on a tangent. 422 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: I no, no, I understand. I know that was that 423 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: was a heinous a death penalty for that guy. Absolutely, 424 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: you kill a dog absolutely should be the death pens 425 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. All right, we have more 426 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: coming up. Kamala Harris uh more excerpts from her book 427 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: I I don't know. It looks like she doesn't want 428 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: to have anything to do with any of the people 429 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: that she knew in politics, and she is ripping them 430 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: all and embarrassing them all. And we'll go through a 431 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: list because those excerpts have been released. We've got two 432 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: rounds of the Moistline coming up. Hey, you've been listening 433 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 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