1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't find AM six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 2: If you miss anything, tune in on the iHeart app 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. It's John Cobelt on Demand. John Cobelt 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: Show on Demand. That's what it's going something like that. 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 2: The podcast versions the same as the radio John Cobelt 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 2: Show podcast. That works, John Cobelt Show Podcast. All Right, 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 2: my name just I can't even pronounce. 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: My name easily. 10 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 3: People have a hard time with your last name. 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: It's very I know I do too. I stumble it 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: over it all the time. 13 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 2: Let's uh coming up after in the next segment, if 14 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 2: we're gonna Debra's news and then we're gonna go away 15 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: one thousand dollars, and then I'm gonna tell you I'm 16 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 2: rooting for this so bad. It is possible that Trump 17 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: could take away over four billion dollars in high speed 18 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 2: rail money that they have not spent yet. They have 19 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 2: gotten state and federal government contributions totaling four billion dollars 20 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 2: never spent. It's in an account. Most of that came 21 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 2: from the federal government during the Biden administration. Is Trump 22 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 2: going to go after it. We'll talk about that coming up. 23 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 2: You know, that would really imperil the Bakersfield to Merced 24 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 2: leg of the project, which is the only leg they're 25 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: even trying to construct now. 26 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: Joe Khalil is the. 27 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 2: Capitol Hill correspondent for a News Nation, the cable TV 28 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 2: News network, which does great work. And there is now 29 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 2: a Doge subcommittee in Congress, led by Marjorie Taylor Green, and. 30 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: They want to partner up with Musk's. 31 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: Department of Government Efficiency and maybe legislation past legislation that 32 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: Musk says would be appropriate. 33 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: Let's get Joe Khalil. 34 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 4: On how you doing. 35 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: I'm doing good. They had the first hearing. 36 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 4: Today, Yes they did. This is the Doge Subcommittee in 37 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 4: the House, and you know, I got to say it 38 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 4: was probably more substantive than I expected. I was, frankly 39 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 4: kind of expecting an s H I T show, you know, 40 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 4: because Doge has really been at the center of, you know, 41 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 4: the biggest frustrations and fights between Democrats and Republicans over 42 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks here on Capitol Hill. And 43 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 4: definitely there was some of that. There was some partisan 44 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 4: back and forth, some tense moments, you know, some I 45 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 4: guess viral, you know, clips for social media. But there 46 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 4: was also what I perceived anyway was was a willingness 47 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,679 Speaker 4: from Republicans and from Democrats to actually take a look 48 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 4: at certain parts of federal spending, whether it's in medicaid 49 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 4: or whether it's in payouts or something else where there 50 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 4: is fraud, where there is abuse, where you know there's overspending, 51 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 4: and maybe try to find by Parson waste to clause 52 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 4: some of that back. There was a wide acknowledgment that 53 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 4: that is a problem that exists. The disagreements and then 54 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 4: the heated moments did come over Elon Musk and his 55 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 4: authority and whether you know his trying to scale back 56 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 4: federal agencies like USAID or the Treasury Department or you know, 57 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 4: the US Department Education. You know, he's trying to end 58 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 4: these agencies, whether that's legal what they are doing, whether 59 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 4: they're doing it in a way that you know allows 60 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 4: Congress to have a voice in it. So that was 61 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 4: the kind of thing we expected. But again, if you 62 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 4: go back and watch the whole thing, a bit more 63 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 4: substantive than I think a lot of folks expected. 64 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 2: Today, Trump is the one who will make decisions on 65 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: whether they can close down agencies. It's funny how Musk 66 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 2: is taking all this incoming fire, but he doesn't have 67 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 2: any real powers. He's like an outside consultant. He's set 68 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 2: up an office and he's recommending to Trump to do 69 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 2: this and that, cut this, you know, defund that. But 70 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: Trump hassed to sign off on all this. But Trump's 71 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 2: not getting a fraction of the criticism that Musk is getting, 72 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 2: which is fascinating. 73 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, it is really interesting, and you wonder if maybe 74 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 4: President Trump you know, knows that and sort of benefits from, 75 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 4: you know, not having to take the incoming that Elon 76 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 4: Musk is getting. You know, I think the reason that 77 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 4: there's the perception among Democrats certainly they are trying, they 78 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 4: are pushing that that message is that, you know, over 79 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 4: the weekend before us AID had its funding frozen, it 80 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 4: was Elon Musk on X posting I think like three 81 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 4: dozen times about you know us A I D and 82 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 4: very making very bold statements about you know, this agency 83 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 4: is a criminal organization and it has to shut down. 84 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 4: We're going to put it through the wood shipper. I 85 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 4: think at one point he said it must die and 86 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 4: then that you know, that was Saturday Sunday and then Monday, 87 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 4: all of a sudden, the agency's website is like shut 88 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 4: down and closed down. So, you know, it offers, whether 89 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 4: that's the reality or not, this perception that he is 90 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 4: the driving force behind some of these closures and the 91 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 4: fact that it's DOGE representatives we know DOGE is led 92 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 4: by Elon Musk that are literally going to these offices, 93 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 4: knocking on doors and you know, doing these sort of 94 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 4: interviews with certain people, telling certain agency heads that they 95 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 4: no longer you have a job at these agencies. So 96 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 4: that's sort of fueling the democratic frustration here. But it 97 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 4: is a very interesting dynamic. You're right. 98 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 2: The Democrats keep positioning this as if it's some kind 99 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 2: of hostile takeover. But Trump has invited Musk and Musk's 100 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 2: crew into government and they are real government employees, now, correct. 101 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:44,919 Speaker 2: I mean, you have to go through a process to 102 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 2: work for the government, and Musk has gone through that process, 103 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 2: and there is legitimate a government employee is a set 104 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 2: of employees as anybody else's. 105 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, I mean, I think that's right. I 106 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 4: don't think there's any disputing, you know, just surely practically 107 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 4: and legally that anybody who works for Doge works for 108 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 4: the government, works legitimately for this administration. You know, I 109 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 4: think that where the pushback comes from from the other 110 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 4: side is you know, they say things like if USAID, 111 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 4: for example, it was strengthened by it was you know, 112 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 4: founded by executive order, but was written into law by Congress, 113 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 4: that if you want to end the program entirely or 114 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 4: significantly cut it, you need Congresses say in that. Or 115 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 4: if Congress appropriates ten billion dollars for USAID and Doe says, no, 116 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 4: you only can have one billion, and we're taking back 117 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 4: the rest because they think it's a waste of federal funds, 118 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 4: that that cannot be a decision that is made just 119 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 4: by Doge. That Congress is saying Democrats and Congress are saying, 120 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 4: you need to come back to Congress and make your 121 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 4: case for why nine billion out of that ten needs 122 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 4: to come back and Congress needs to approve it. Congress 123 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 4: is a majority Republican, by the way, So I am 124 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 4: if Elon Musk did come back to Congress, for example, 125 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 4: and ask for some of the things that he wants 126 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 4: to move forward, that he very well might have a 127 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 4: receptive audience for those things. 128 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, And Trump's argument is, I have to spend money 129 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 2: that's going for fraudulent programs because Congress authorized the money 130 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 2: not knowing that the programs are fraudulent. That's uh, well, 131 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 2: I guess all this is going to end up in 132 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: court eventually. 133 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know. I mean so it's interesting, like there 134 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 4: are there are definitely if you look at I think 135 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 4: any government agency, government program with a fine tooth comb, 136 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 4: what you're going to find is there is a lot 137 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 4: of waste, there's a lot of fraud. I think President 138 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 4: Trump and Elon Musk were absolutely correct in pointing that out. 139 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 4: At the beginning of their administration. You know, he was 140 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 4: riding this wave of popularity, and you heard a lot 141 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 4: of Democrats say, we are absolutely down for you know, 142 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 4: working with dose. Actually, I remember some two dozen Democrats 143 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 4: at that point raising their hand for the Dose committees 144 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 4: and saying, let's do it, let's work on this kind 145 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 4: of stuff. I think what starts to happen is when 146 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 4: the cuts actually go into practice all of a sudden, 147 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 4: It's like this program that benefits people in one state, 148 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 4: or this program that benefits people in a different state. 149 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 4: You've got representatives from those states, and actually sometimes that's 150 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 4: Republicans too, saying, hold on this. Actually, you know, here's 151 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 4: why we need this. So what we're doing, what we're 152 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 4: seeing now from the Trump administration, mostly led by Senator 153 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 4: excuse me, Secretary Rubio, by the way, is when it 154 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 4: comes to things like foreign aid, Rubio is saying, anybody 155 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 4: who has a case for why their funding was not 156 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 4: waste or not fraudulent, come back to us, explain it, 157 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 4: and we can make exemptions for program A or program 158 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 4: B or program X. So I think you're starting to 159 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 4: see that now, which is I think somewhat satisfying some 160 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 4: of the Democrats. But Republicans seem to be very okay 161 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 4: with the way that that system's working now. 162 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 2: All right, And of course, you know a year ago, no, 163 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,839 Speaker 2: but nobody on either side was for any of this. 164 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: It's just fascinating. 165 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 2: This stuff has been building up for decades and nobody 166 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 2: said a peep about it. 167 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there were you know, Elon Musky, it 168 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 4: was was absolutely an accelerant. And you know, there were 169 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 4: people that talked a lot about, you know, we need 170 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 4: to find waste and cut it out and root it out. 171 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 4: It was being done at a snail's pace and he 172 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 4: came in and he said, you know, let's torture all 173 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 4: this stuff. And so now you're seeing the rapid action 174 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 4: happen and some some rapid you know, response to it. 175 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 4: But we all hope as Americans that what ends up 176 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 4: as a product where you know, you are able to 177 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 4: claw back some of that money that's wasted and money 178 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 4: that's going for legitimate stuff continues to go for a 179 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 4: legitimate stuff. So let's see how you know, the next 180 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 4: couple of months here developed. 181 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: All right, Joe, thanks for coming on, of course, happy 182 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: to do it. 183 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 2: All right, Joe Khalil, Capitol Hill correspondent for a News Nation, 184 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 2: the cable TV network News Network. Are we come back 185 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 2: speaking a clawback? Is Trump going to claw back over 186 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 2: four are billion dollars from California high speed rail, which 187 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 2: is the biggest, most wasteful project you will ever see 188 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 2: in your life. That's coming up next. 189 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 190 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 5: six forty. 191 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,479 Speaker 2: We spent a lot of time today on the tremendous 192 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 2: amount of corruption and waste that Elon musk Is is 193 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 2: finding in Washington, d C. And you know, you know 194 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: what's funny is for all the squealing going on, you 195 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 2: can't argue against any of this stuff. I mean, I mean, 196 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 2: my favorite so far, just because this story came out 197 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 2: just a couple hours ago, was that they've got a 198 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:45,839 Speaker 2: limestone mine in Pennsylvania, and when people want to retire 199 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 2: from the federal government, they send in an application to 200 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 2: get their benefits and it goes to the limestone mine, 201 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 2: twenty three stories under the earth, and that's where they 202 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 2: process by hand the pay paper work. And it really 203 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 2: is paperwork. There's no computers, no technology, nothing electronic, and 204 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 2: all the retirement papers are put into manila folders and 205 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 2: they're stacked in cardboard boxes on metal shelves. This thing 206 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 2: was built in nineteen fifty five, and it looks and 207 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 2: runs exactly the way it did in nineteen fifty five. 208 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 2: It takes months and months to retire from the federal government. 209 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 2: They don't have any computerized, digitized records at all. They're 210 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 2: carrying around manila envelopes and putting them in boxes. And 211 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 2: this is a mine shaft, and the processing slows down 212 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 2: whenever the mine shaft elevator breaks. This is the government, 213 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 2: and the government here in California is just as incompetent, 214 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 2: just as backwards. And we've had this long running show 215 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 2: right in front of our eyes. For seventeen years. We've 216 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 2: been hearing about high speed rail and nothing's been built. 217 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 2: And there's a story today in the Fresento b that 218 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 2: they've already spent eleven and a half billion dollars eleven 219 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 2: and a half billion dollars on high speed rail. You'd 220 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 2: think there'd be something to show for it. This is 221 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 2: state money, federal money, and there's almost two billion more 222 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 2: budgeted from now until June. And they think Trump is 223 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 2: gonna come in and start clawing back some of the 224 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 2: money because there's over four billion dollars remains unspent. It's 225 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 2: sitting in the bank accounts. They got their first grant, 226 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 2: it passed in eight they got their first grant from 227 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 2: Obama in two thousand and nine, and there's four billion 228 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 2: dollars plus that is unspent. 229 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 4: The U. 230 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 2: And they had an interview with Brian Kelly, who recently 231 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 2: stepped down. He ran the rail authority for six years. Boy, 232 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 2: I'd like to put this guy in there, inject him 233 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 2: with truth serum. Imagine you've run this thing for six 234 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 2: years and you have nothing to show for it, and 235 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 2: you spent billions. Remember, their their goal is to build 236 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 2: the high speed rail from Merced to Bakersfield, and there's 237 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 2: no interest that anyone has in taking that route. Although 238 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 2: technically it's going to be from the town of Shafter 239 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 2: to the town of Madera. Shafter is near Bakersfield. I 240 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 2: think it's an open field at this point on both ends. 241 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 2: I mean, what kind of a crime is this going 242 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: to be? After they end up spending tens of billions 243 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 2: of dollars and all you get is Shafter to Madera. 244 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 2: Shouldn't people go in prison. Shouldn't they go to prison 245 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: and be tortured. They should be sent to El Salvadoran 246 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: prisons with all those tattooed gang members. That's what should 247 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 2: happen to these high speed rail executives and the consultants. 248 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: Kelly told the Fresno b last year, I look at 249 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 2: how we're doing in Mersadenberykersfield with those extensions, and we 250 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 2: still have to get more federal money to get them done. 251 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: There's no reason to get them done. There's no market 252 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: for this. 253 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 2: And what's going to be needed for San Francisco to 254 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 2: La is we're going to need a federal partner to 255 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: say get that done. Well, it ain't going to be 256 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 2: Trump that Trump should go and grab all this money back, 257 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: because how could this not be illegal? How could this 258 00:14:54,280 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 2: not be criminal? Here are the various grants they got. 259 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: They got a grant of twenty four million from the 260 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 2: Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program. The hell 261 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 2: is that twenty five million they got the next year 262 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 2: for the same program, twenty million in twenty twenty three, 263 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: two hundred and two million in twenty twenty three from 264 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Program. Then they 265 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 2: got three hundred million in in awards to pay to 266 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 2: acquire land and design and construct Fresno's high speed rail station. 267 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 2: Who wants high speed rail and you end up in Fresno, 268 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 2: that's a disappointment. I want to get the Fresno and 269 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 2: I want to get the Fresno fast. I want to 270 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 2: get the Fresno now, and I'll spend billions to get 271 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 2: the Fresno one hundred and seventy one miles and Brian Kelly, 272 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 2: the former CEO, talks like the this is entirely normal, 273 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 2: Like it's entirely normal to spend eleven billion dollars and 274 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 2: have a train that nobody wants that goes nowhere, and he. 275 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: Keeps insisting we need a federal partner. 276 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 2: How about no, I mean, I am going to have 277 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 2: a party if Trump finally shuts this thing down for good. 278 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 2: What a horrific waste. This is our money. I take 279 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 2: it personally. I get pissed off every week. Every week 280 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 2: I look, I have how much in taxis they take 281 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 2: out of my check? And I get pissed off because 282 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 2: I know it's going for this nonsense. All right, we 283 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 2: come back. One word I hate or it's actually an 284 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 2: acronym nimbi, and the New York Times used it, and 285 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 2: it's over the toxic waste from the LA fires. You're nimby. 286 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 2: Now if you don't want the toxic waste, then you're yeah, no, no, 287 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 2: nobody wants that. But it's used as as some kind 288 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 2: of an insult. We'll talk about this coming up. 289 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am 290 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 5: six four. 291 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:08,199 Speaker 2: Their newsom was here in California yesterday. You see that jacket. 292 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 1: He was well, he looked, he looked very handsome. He 293 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: did what what kind of jacket. Is that it's a blazer. Yeah, 294 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: but it wasn't a normal blazer. It was stylish. John, 295 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Kind of matched the pants, 296 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: didn't it. 297 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 2: Uh? I don't look at the pants. I saw the jacket. Anyways, 298 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 2: we're very dressed up to uh have a news conference 299 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 2: on toxic waste. 300 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 5: Uh. 301 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 2: People are very angry in the towns where they're dragging 302 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 2: the toxic waste from the fires, and the New York 303 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 2: Times can be really hateful against normal people who live 304 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 2: in the suburbs, in single family homes with families, because 305 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: people who live in those kind of homes, and I 306 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 2: know much of our audience lives that way in suburban 307 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,959 Speaker 2: single family homes. The progressives the New York Times, they 308 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 2: hate you and when you don't want things in your 309 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 2: neighborhood that they think you should find appropriate, such as, 310 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 2: you know, drug treatment, halfway houses, homeless shelters, affordable housing. 311 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 2: You know, if you you, you know, you you work 312 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,400 Speaker 2: all your life, you want to live in a nice 313 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 2: neighborhood with the civilized people, and you don't want raft 314 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 2: and affordable housing is code word for riffraff, and they 315 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 2: want to force the riffraff on you when they want 316 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 2: to force the drug addicts, they want to force the 317 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 2: homeless people on you. 318 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: But they're not going to live in those areas. 319 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, you'll never. I am sure you 320 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 2: go to an area that has what's the other ethan 321 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 2: is a mixed housing. Find me like an Allied Times 322 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: journalist that lives next door to affordable housing. Find me 323 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 2: a politician that lives next door to some kind of 324 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 2: a homeless shelter. Yeah, it's forever. So they've come up 325 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:06,479 Speaker 2: with this said, this insult, this epithet. A nimby stands 326 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 2: for no in my backyard. 327 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: You probably know that. 328 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 2: And so the Times has the new Nimby battle over 329 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 2: waste from the La Fires. Now, if you don't want 330 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 2: toxic waste in your neighborhood, you are now a nimby. 331 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 3: That is ridiculous because nobody is going to want toxic waste, 332 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 3: and nobody that you would be an idiot to want that. 333 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 2: That's right, The New York Times and they got the 334 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 2: Katie selig Hey suss him and Az and Mimi Dwyer 335 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 2: think that you should inhale poisonous toxins. 336 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 3: Okay, then let's move them into those areas and let 337 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 3: them inhale the toxins. 338 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: Oh, I'd like to find their addresses and see where 339 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 1: they live. I'm sure we can. 340 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, so they So you're a Nimby and you're you're 341 00:19:54,080 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 2: you're to be disrespected, insulted, shunned. I'm a Nimby. We've 342 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 2: got to turn that into something positive. 343 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: We need to. 344 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 2: We need Nimby flags, nimb Nimby bumper stickers, Nimby T shirts. 345 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 346 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 2: No in my backyard, No toxic waste, No homeless shelters, 347 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 2: no drug rehab, no affordable housing with crazy people inside. 348 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 2: So Newsom went to Alta Dina, now the Alta Dina 349 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 2: toxic waste. And I know what this stuff is. This 350 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 2: is asbestos. This is lead that was in all the paints. 351 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 2: This is the lithium ion batteries that all melted, and 352 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 2: the stuff has been in the air. And if you've 353 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 2: lived near Pasadena and Altadena area, lived on the West side, 354 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 2: we've all been breathing this. They quote one woman here 355 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 2: names Catalina. She's a real estate agent in Duarte where 356 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 2: they want to put where they've put one of the 357 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 2: toxic waste sites. She said the smoke exacerbated her asthma. 358 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 1: I was wheezing. 359 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 2: I know I had a horse voice. I was wheezing 360 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 2: for a few day. I have the same and I 361 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 2: know this poisons in my lungs. And who knows when 362 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 2: it's gonna turn into something, right, maybe we're all going 363 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 2: to get weird tumors in ten years. And this is 364 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 2: the part that got me as skeptical as the New 365 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 2: York Times is of you know, Trump and Musk. If 366 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 2: it's federal bureaucrats, they always believe. Federal officials say the 367 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 2: four temporary sites processing the debris pose no threat to 368 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 2: public health or to the environment. Well, why don't they 369 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 2: use the standard that they use with Musk? 370 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: Prove that. 371 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 2: Let's have details. How do you know none of this 372 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 2: stuff is a threat to my public health or to 373 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 2: my environment? Because the next paragraph says this is one 374 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 2: of the most complex removal efforts in US history. An 375 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 2: EPA official assured this crowd in Duarte. They had this 376 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 2: town hall meeting. Apparently people were yelling, or as the 377 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 2: Times puts it, emotions ran high. That means they were 378 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 2: yelling at all these these mayors and these EPA officials 379 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 2: and EPA officials assured the crowd that the hazardous materials 380 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 2: would be properly packaged and transported, and the audience started yelling, 381 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 2: do the right thing, fight another place. So the waste 382 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 2: they're packaging up and they're taking to temporary sites, and 383 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 2: that those temporary sites is what has residents in those 384 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 2: neighborhoods screaming bloody murder. They don't know how long those 385 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 2: sites are going to be in use. I mean it 386 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 2: could be months. And here's newsome. These sites are being monitored, 387 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 2: they're being assessed, and we're going to hold everyone to 388 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,719 Speaker 2: a level of accountability as it relates to those sites 389 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:54,439 Speaker 2: coming back cleaner than when they found them. Okay, So 390 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 2: I'm reading this this morning, right, and I was I 391 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 2: was remembering something. Remember two and one, the nine to 392 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 2: eleven attacks. World Trade Center was hit and it was 393 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 2: on fire and there were huge clouds of toxic materials 394 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 2: and gases and smoke, and Christine Todd Whitman was the 395 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 2: head of the EPA. This was under the Bush administration, 396 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 2: and the Bush administration was a huge disaster. I knew 397 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 2: Christine Todd Whitman a little bit because back when we 398 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 2: did our show in New Jersey. She first ran for 399 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 2: senator and lost, and then ran for governor and won. 400 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 2: And I interviewed her a number of times in studio. 401 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 3: Did she tell you never to go to New York again? 402 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 2: Well, I interviewed her before all this happened after, but 403 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 2: she was like she seemed nice, she was smart, she 404 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 2: was moderate and reasonable. After she was done being governor, 405 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 2: she ended up in the Bush administration running the EPA, 406 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 2: and the most important job she had was to tell 407 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 2: the truth about what the air was like around the EPA. 408 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 2: And she issued a statement a week after the World 409 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 2: Trade Center collapsed, and it said, I'm glad to reassure 410 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 2: the people of New York that their air is safe 411 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: to breathe and their water is safe to drink. 412 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: This was a week after the crash. 413 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 2: There's still clouds of toxic smoke in the air and gases. 414 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 2: And since then she's always maintained she was simply passing 415 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 2: on what government scientists were telling her. She was warning 416 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 2: those working at ground zero to wear respirators, but dismissed 417 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 2: concerns over the surrounding area, which was engulfed in the 418 00:24:53,680 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 2: same dust and ash. Three days after the attacks, she 419 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 2: said the good news continues to be that air samples 420 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 2: that we have taken all have been at levels that 421 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 2: caused us no concern. Well, it was completely wrong. Could 422 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 2: not have been more wrong. And I found this article 423 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 2: from twenty sixteen. More than thirty seven thousand people registered 424 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 2: with the World Trade Center Health Program. It was a 425 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 2: federal organization to help those affected by exposure to the toxins. 426 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 2: Many have chronic respiratory illnesses or cancer. More than eleven 427 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 2: hundred people at the time died, a lot of firefighters 428 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 2: and police officers and workers. The number included first responders 429 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 2: who were at Ground zero and people who lived worked 430 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 2: in the surrounding area. Over eleven hundred people died, and 431 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 2: this was almost ten years ago. I don't know what 432 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:53,360 Speaker 2: the total is. And she says now she cringes every 433 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 2: year at the anniversary because she knows she's going to 434 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 2: get more crap. She said some years ago. If people 435 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 2: are dying from this and I have not seen the data, 436 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 2: and they believed that everything was fine, then you have 437 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: to blame the message they were hearing. And what they 438 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 2: were hearing was that the air quality and Laura Manhattan 439 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 2: at the time was okay, except it wasn't okay because 440 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 2: you just trusted whatever the dumbass bureaucrats told her. 441 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 3: Why can't people just be honest. I get that people 442 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 3: will panic, of course, but just be honest. So you 443 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 3: know what, the air is toxic. It's bad. We don't 444 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 3: know how long it's going to be bad, but it's bad. 445 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 3: Wear a mask every day. We're protect yourself. 446 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 2: Whitman said it was known that asbestus led and other 447 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 2: toxins that's the same toxins from this fire were in 448 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 2: the wreckage of the twin towers, and that those working 449 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 2: on rescue and recovery should wear respirators. 450 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 1: Most did not. 451 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 2: So I'm telling you people in the Palisades area Malibu 452 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 2: where they had that toxic site at will Rogers Beach, 453 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 2: people in Alta Dina along the foothills out to d'Arte, 454 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 2: do not believe Gavin Newsom, do not believe the EPA, 455 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 2: Do not believe anybody. There's toxins in the air, and 456 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 2: you breathe in too much of this, you're going to die. 457 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 2: We've already seen it happen with the World Trade Center. 458 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 2: This is no different. It's the same same materials, it's 459 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 2: the same lead and asbestos and chemicals. 460 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: Don't trust. 461 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 2: Do not trust Gavin Newsom telling you that the readings 462 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 2: are going to be checked and monitored. It's a lot 463 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 2: to Huey, all right. The government cannot be trusted on 464 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 2: this stuff. 465 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 466 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: Oh, I want to play a clip here. This was funny. 467 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: I actually heard this. 468 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 2: I was driving yesterday evening and I sometimes listened to 469 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 2: the audio version of CNN and Fox, and I had 470 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 2: on Anderson Cooper and he had one of those panels 471 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 2: and they were discussing Trump and Musk right, and on 472 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 2: the panel was a new Hampshire governor, Chris Sanunu, former governor. 473 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 2: He just he just stepped down after serving I don't 474 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 2: know how many terms. And also Jeffrey Tuban. I have 475 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 2: surprise Like Jeffrey Tubin. Last I heard of him, he 476 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 2: was caught pleasuring himself on camera at some Zoom meeting. Yeah, 477 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 2: I mean, nothing ruins your career anymore, which I guess 478 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 2: is a good thing. But you could even he's like 479 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 2: moaning and groaning and because he has he also worked 480 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 2: for a magazine. I think it was the New Yorker 481 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 2: and so they had a New Yorker Zoom meeting and 482 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 2: he was doing his thing, not knowing the audio was 483 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 2: still on any event, He's on this panel Chris Sanunu. 484 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 2: And Sununu was pushing a point that Anderson Cooper was saying, Hey, 485 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 2: Musk isn't showing any evidence, he isn't showing details. Why 486 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 2: should we trust this? And Snunu was saying, hey, what 487 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 2: do you want him to do? Bring ten thousand pages? 488 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 2: So listen to this. Because Anderson Cooper loses his temper 489 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 2: and calls Sanunu a bad word. 490 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: I have to be clear. 491 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 6: To complain about this administration about transparency. When this president 492 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 6: takes open questions on a daily basis, yet Joe Biden 493 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 6: didn't show up for a press conferences six months is insane. 494 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: These guys are being extremely transparent. 495 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,959 Speaker 6: They don't have to sit there and take the questions, 496 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 6: but they do. That's all on the website, it's all 497 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 6: out there. 498 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 2: It's not transparency to say things that have no factual background. 499 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: I mean to say we're cutting. 500 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 2: You know, we've found a billion dollars trillion dollars in 501 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 2: waste with no specifics. 502 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 6: That's just talk that's not transparent. It's twenty three days 503 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,959 Speaker 6: in here, guys, twenty three days. You're you're you were 504 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 6: talking about two point three billion that was saved last year. 505 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 6: These guys are saving two point three billion a day. 506 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 5: No, well, it's. 507 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: Incredible, that's what they're saying. But where's the game. 508 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 6: You're not going to be satisfied till he shows up 509 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 6: at ten thousand pages. He's giving very specific things he's giving, 510 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 6: but he's not actually giving any evidence of that. It's 511 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 6: all going to come because what they also said was 512 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 6: if we have to go to Congress, we'll go to Congress, right, 513 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 6: but we'll show. 514 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 4: Where some of the details that have come out, like 515 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 4: the you know, fifty nine million dollars spent on luxury hotels, 516 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 4: it's actually not. 517 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 6: There's about the femal money that was used for migrants. 518 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 6: That was, yeah, FEMA money for migrants. That's okay. 519 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 2: Now no I'm not saying it, so I'm not saying 520 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 2: it's okay. 521 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: Don't put words so when. 522 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 6: You stop, that would stop that process. 523 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 2: Don't be the portrayal on what I'm saying is the 524 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 2: portrayal called d word is. 525 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: Just not factually accurate. He's talking about luxury hotels. 526 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 2: There you can. I'm not I'm not a big look. 527 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: I wasn't hurtan to send you saw what FEMA does 528 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: and I believe it. 529 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 2: I guess so Anderson Cooper said, don't be a D word. 530 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: And I heard this because. 531 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 2: They didn't bleep it out on the honey audio and 532 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 2: that can't be. 533 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: It's completely at a character and uh. 534 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 2: And then a few minutes later at the end, Cooper apologizes, I. 535 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: Want to apologize. 536 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 4: I was mean. 537 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: I was I was route to you and I never. 538 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 6: Are you kidding. I grew up with seven brothers and anybody. 539 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 6: I want to know what I'm normally called. That's one 540 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 6: of the nicest things I've been called all week. 541 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: It's no but that I have homes. No, No, it's 542 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: not it's I don't know said that, I really do. 543 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: We're all friends. I mean, I like to. 544 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 6: Keep it, keeps it hot. It's post eight o'clock, have 545 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 6: some fun on CNN. 546 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. 547 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. That's why nobody watches. 548 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 2: I watch every night. And we're going to cause guests 549 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 2: the D words, all right, when we come back, We're 550 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 2: gonna have wear oaks On from ABC News, the legal analyst, 551 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 2: Uh to try to explain, well, uh, there's inspector generals 552 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 2: that have been fired by the White House. They're now 553 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 2: suing the Trump administration saying these firings were illegal, and uh, 554 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 2: there's all kinds of legal fights because, uh, people are 555 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 2: saying you can't freeze billions of dollars in spending without congression, 556 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 2: congressional approval. Judges are issuing rulings all over the place, 557 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 2: and we're gonna have royal orcs try to sort it out. 558 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 2: Coming up next, Debor Mark Live in the CAFI twenty 559 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 2: four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John 560 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 561 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 2: on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm 562 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 2: every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand 563 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.