1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,239 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio 4 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 3: app every day. We're on from one until four o'clock 5 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 3: and then after four o'clock on Cobelt's show on demand 6 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 3: the podcast version. And if you've just missed our penis segment, 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 3: that's what the iHeart. 8 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 2: App is for. 9 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 4: Very exciting for the Debra spent more time discussing penis 10 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 4: filler than I've ever heard anyone. 11 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 5: Discuss what You're the one that brought that up. 12 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 3: Well, you didn't shy away, not at all. Anyway, that's 13 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 3: on the podcast for later, probably not during dinner though, 14 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 3: in front of your wife. Royal Oaks from ABC News, 15 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 3: We're going to talk to him because Elon Musk is 16 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 3: drawing the same kind of bizarre emotional rage that Trump 17 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 3: has been drawing for the last ten years, because he's 18 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 3: been in charge of DOGE and people are claiming this 19 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 3: isn't constitutional, He's unelected, and I says illegal. 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 2: There's lawsuits everywhere. I am baffled by all this. 21 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 3: Because the well, letting me get to, let me get 22 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: to we'real excited to talk about this. ABC News legal 23 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 3: analyst Royal how are you, John. 24 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: I mean, what it boils down to is the Constitution 25 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: has what's called an appointments Clause, and it says, hey, 26 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: if you want somebody who's an officer of the United States, 27 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: like an ambassador or cabinet secretary or judge, you've got 28 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: to go to the Senate of a hearing and they 29 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: have to say up or down. And so they should 30 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: have done that for Mosco, and they did. And that's 31 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: what the lawsuits say. And they've got an argument because 32 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: a couple of decades ago Supreme Court said an officer 33 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: of the US is an appointee exercising significant authority under 34 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: the laws of the United States. But Trump probably has 35 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: the stronger argument because his lawyers are pointing out, look 36 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: that this guy, he's the big deal, the richest man 37 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: in the world, but he doesn't have decision making powers, 38 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,559 Speaker 1: not like he's the Defense Secretary who runs the entire 39 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: Defense establishment makes decisions. This is all about Trump, and 40 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: all Musk is doing is making recommendations. So probably Trump 41 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 1: will survive these legal challenges to the Musk appointment. 42 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 3: And that's that's what I was thinking, because ultimately it's 43 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: Donald Trump's responsible responsibility if people are pissed, be pissed 44 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 3: at Trump, But muski Yea is just sending him paperwork 45 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 3: basically saying this is what you ought to do, and 46 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 3: Trump is apparently saying, yes, you're right. 47 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: I agree, that's right. 48 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: And one sign that Trump's going to be okay. And 49 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: this just broke a few minutes ago. One of the 50 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: suits seeking an injunction to stop Elon Musk was filed 51 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Federal Trial Court before Judge Tanya Chutkan. 52 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: And that sounds familiar. It's because she was a thorn 53 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: in Trump's side for years. She was a huge fan 54 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: of Jack Smith. She was absolutely ruling against Trump and 55 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: all of those election interference case decisions. She just now 56 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: today said no temporary restraining order, no injunction at this 57 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: point for the people object to two Musk. She made 58 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: an instant comment she'd gave a shot to Trump's lawyer. 59 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: She said defense counsel was reminded of their duty to 60 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: make truthful representations to the court. She thought maybe they'd fudge, 61 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: which is judge talk for you, lying sack. Don't ever 62 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: do that to me again. But for her to vote 63 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, this is a real good sign for 64 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: the administration. 65 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 2: What was the specific case here. 66 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: Well, in two cases. One is a coalition of fourteen states, 67 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: you know, blue states who Democrat attorneys general. They went 68 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: into court and sued saying, hey, you know this is 69 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: the illegal Musk hasn't been confirmed. Then there's a second 70 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: suit a group of a couple of dozen federal civil servants. 71 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: So you know, if you usually you have multiple suits, 72 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: you're kind of judge shopping. They shopped, but be careful 73 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: what you wish for. And ultimately, John I think Trump 74 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: is the winner here in any event, because all right, 75 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: let's say they said, oh, you got to go to 76 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: the Senate. The Senate will probably approve elon Musk. And 77 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: in meantime, Trump is presenting himself as the guy who 78 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: wants to drain the swamp, and anybody opposing him in 79 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: Musk looks like they not only want to leave the 80 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: swamp intact, they want to feed the alligators. I mean, 81 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: Trump is talking about transgender stuff and immigration and DEI 82 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,119 Speaker 1: all the stuff that swept him into office, and he's 83 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: still doing it. 84 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 3: I'm looking at polling and on the issues he's pushing, 85 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 3: he's got anywhere from sixty to eighty five percent of 86 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 3: the public on his side on all these issues. There's 87 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 3: not a whole lot of controversy in the real world, 88 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 3: including significant in some cases majorities of Democrats. 89 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty amazing. It's an astounding turnaround. He just 90 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: has tapped into the issues that people care about about 91 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: cutting the bureaucracy and getting it rid of all the 92 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: DEI stuff. The only glimmer of rope for the Democrats 93 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: is that when I've seen polls like that, there is 94 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 1: one question in the poll where people are still a 95 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: little worried about inflation. So that unless Trump can turn 96 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: around the price of eggs or something, it could be 97 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: the old James Carville it's the economy stupe. But it 98 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: was true in nineteen ninety two with Clinton and still 99 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: true now. 100 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 3: Well, he's going to have to come up with a 101 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 3: bird flu vaccine. Yes, so with Musk also didn't understand 102 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 3: people keep calling them unelected. Well, there's only about what 103 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 3: five hundred and thirty five congressman and senators who are elected, 104 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 3: plus the president and vice president. The other two and 105 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 3: a half million, three million government workers are all unelected. 106 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 3: I don't understand how that's like some kind of winning 107 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 3: issue that he's unelected. 108 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 2: Of course, he's unelected. 109 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 3: Everybody's unelected outside of those categories I mentioned. 110 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: You're right, I mean, it's just a red herring and 111 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: they probably you know, focus group tested it and they 112 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,679 Speaker 1: liked the phrase unelected. But as you know, we talked 113 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: about the cabinet members, they do have to be approved 114 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: by the Senate. They're not elected either. Nobody elects the 115 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense. It's strictly up to the President of 116 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: the United States. So yeah, that's just loose rhetoric, and 117 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: it may sound good to some people, but it doesn't 118 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: matter whether Trump Musk is elected or not. The president 119 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: has a right to appoint him. And again, Musk isn't 120 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: making decisions like the Secretary of State does. He's just saying, 121 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: like a Blue Ribbon commission, Hey my really smart guys 122 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 1: that work for me. You have said A B and C. Donald, 123 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: you're the decider, what do you want to do? So 124 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,239 Speaker 1: in that sense, we don't really need confirmation for Elon Musk. 125 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 3: You may not have the answer to this, but why 126 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 3: would a political party want to side with promoting waste, 127 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 3: fraud and abuse. You just came off of shellacking in 128 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 3: November in the election, and these are your new issues 129 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 3: that you're trying to win on waste and fraud. 130 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: Absolutely right. The moderate Democrats in the nation are tearing 131 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: their hair out because they're saying to themselves and anybody 132 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: who will listen, guys, we got shellacked. And the reason 133 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: was we were perceived as progressive. We had Kamala Harris 134 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: who had the word salad problem, and we got to change. 135 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: And yet by Donald Trump's push of issues like transgender 136 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: during immigration, yeah, he's actually lured them into the cul 137 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: de sac where they're continuing to fight because they can't 138 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: hold back, and he's continuing to win the hearts and 139 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: minds of the public. Again, it's subject to the condition 140 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: of the economy. 141 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Royal, thank you for coming on. 142 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 3: You bet all right, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst. 143 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 3: When we come back, we got a clip of Musk. 144 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 3: He was on with Trump on Fox News. They did 145 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 3: an interview with Hannity and uh uh, he talks about 146 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 3: people who in person, when he's at dinner with people 147 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 3: that they start acting as if they have rabies. So 148 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 3: I play that clip. Also, they found two billion dollars 149 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 3: in tax money that was misplaced by the Biden administration. 150 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 3: I don't know how you misplace. You can misplace a wallet, 151 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 3: a scarf, but two billion dollars as honey, Look what 152 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 3: I found into the couch. 153 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 2: It's at two billion dollars. Hey, you must have misplaced it. 154 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 3: And then, and this is the heart of the issue, 155 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 3: they discovered four point seven trillion in payments from the 156 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 3: Treasury Department that we're missing a critical code, which means 157 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 3: it's almost impossible to trace the payments. And we've been 158 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 3: telling you about that being an issue here in the state, 159 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 3: state government, high speed rail, local homeless, criminals. The trick 160 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 3: is just figure this out, you know, in the last 161 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 3: year is you don't write down what the payments are for, 162 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 3: the money disappears, can't be tracked, and that's how you 163 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 3: pay off let's say, cirked nonprofits who then give you 164 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 3: some kickback money also untraced. We'll explain this. Four point 165 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 3: seven trillion dollars in treasury payments, none of them have 166 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 3: a payments code that you need to track where the 167 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 3: money went. Four point seven trillion. We'll talk about it. 168 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 3: We come back. 169 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on Demand from kfi AM 170 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 6: six forty. 171 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 3: So Elon Musk so far has done only has done 172 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 3: good things. He is cutting government waste and government fraud. 173 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 3: And he doesn't even have the power to cut anybody 174 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 3: or fire anybody. So understand those of you who are 175 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 3: angry and upset. He's making recommendations which any American citizen 176 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 3: can do. 177 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 2: People call up. 178 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 3: Their congressmen and their senators all the time. They send 179 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 3: emails to the president all the time. They write letters 180 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 3: to the editor in the newspaper saying this is what 181 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: Congress should do, this is what the governor should do 182 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 3: all the time. All right, Really is the same thing, 183 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 3: Elon Musk is any easy thing is unlike you know, 184 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 3: some drunk old guy in a trailer just pop it off. 185 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 3: He's going into the databases and see line by line 186 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 3: what kind of nonsense is going on. This is criminal activity. Really, 187 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 3: you could not do this in any private company. He's 188 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 3: seeing what amounts to criminal activity, money launching, and he 189 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 3: says he's telling Trump, hey, look what's going on here. 190 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 3: And Trump looks at it and says, wow, that's bad. Yeah, 191 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 3: let's get rid of it. Let's fire people. This is 192 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 3: no good. We're thirty This is another thing. We're thirty 193 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 3: six trillion dollars in debt, and whenever I hear somebody 194 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 3: pop off about Musk and the cut, I say, all right, well, 195 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 3: how would you cut the thirty six trillion? It's another 196 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 3: trillion every ninety days, every three months. That's four trillion 197 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 3: dollars of extra debt. So it's thirty six now a 198 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 3: year from now, it's going to be forty two years 199 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 3: from now because it to fifty trillion. So what would 200 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 3: what do you want to cut? They don't know because 201 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 3: nobody knows this stuff. Not even people in government know 202 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 3: this stuff. Look at all this stuff Musk is uncovering 203 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 3: for the first time. Nobody knows because it's it's it's 204 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 3: it's built up over over decades and decades. Everybody goes 205 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 3: in there and waste money. All the Republicans, all the Democrats, 206 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 3: all these lazy deadwood people that populate government. They've been 207 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 3: stealing and running up the debt for decades, and it's 208 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 3: the first time anybody's looked at it. 209 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 7: Right. 210 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 3: Let me play you a clip because Trump and Musk 211 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 3: were on Sean Hannity last night and Musk starts to 212 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 3: talk about Trump derangement system syndrome and how how Musk's 213 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 3: presence is causing similar derangement in people. 214 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 8: I would think liberals would love the fact that you 215 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 8: have the biggest electric vehicle company in the world. 216 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I used to be adored by the left. 217 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: You not. 218 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: I mean I really did it well. 219 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 7: I mean this whole sort of like you know, it 220 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 7: is cut like Trump drangement syndrome, And I didn't know. 221 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 7: You don't realize how real this is until like it's 222 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 7: you can't reason with people. So like I was at 223 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 7: a friend's birthday party and ali just a birthday dinner 224 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 7: and there was like a nice quiet dinner and everything 225 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 7: was everyone was behaving normally. And then I happened to mention, 226 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 7: this is before the election, like a month or two 227 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 7: before after, to mention the president's name, and it was 228 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 7: like they got shot with a dart in the jugular 229 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 7: that contained like the methamphattermine and Raby's. Okay, I'm like, 230 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 7: what is guys, like you can't have like a normal conversation, 231 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 7: and it's like it's like that to become completely irrational. 232 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've run into that now. 233 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 3: I run into that where somebody somebody I know or 234 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 3: somebody I'm friends with, and they listen to the radio 235 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 3: show and they realized that I voted for Trump and 236 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 3: I like, I like a lot of Trump's policies, and 237 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 3: they just completely become unhinged, just unhinged. It's I remember 238 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 3: I had two mothers run up to me, and I 239 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 3: think it was a Super Bowl party, two mothers from 240 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 3: the school we went to, and it was just going 241 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 3: back to when Trump was first president, and they ran 242 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 3: up to me, and they used to be very nice 243 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 3: to me because they wanted me to do stuff. They 244 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 3: would say, hey, you know, they were the ones who 245 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 3: put on the school galis and they would want me, hey, 246 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 3: would you would you be the MC or would you 247 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 3: would you offer a tour of the station as a prize? 248 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 3: And I said, yeah, sure, I'll do that. I'll do 249 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 3: the tour and they were very nice. And then Trump 250 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 3: came and they listened to the show and they heard 251 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 3: me talking positively and suddenly it's like, well, how could 252 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 3: you I don't under you know, and they're giving me 253 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 3: this this third degree at this party and it's like 254 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 3: I'm looking at him like they crawled out from under 255 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 3: a rock. It's like, would you go away? So you disagree? 256 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 3: So what who cares? I remember one guy, this is 257 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 3: another Well, I didn't know all that well, but we 258 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 3: were at a cocktail party. This is all west side stuff, 259 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 3: west side parents around and he comes up to me. 260 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 3: He looks at me, and he looks left, and he 261 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 3: looks right, and he goes. And I didn't know him well, 262 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:15,719 Speaker 3: but he knew I was on the radio, and he 263 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 3: knew how I felt about Trump running for president. He goes, 264 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 3: I can't tell anybody this, and I can't tell my 265 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 3: wife this, but you know, I really like this guy Trump. 266 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 3: I thought he was going to tell me he's gay. Honestly, 267 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 3: that's the way he was at you know. It was 268 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: like it was like a coming out of the closet approach, 269 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 3: which he was. And he was afraid that it. Kept 270 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 3: looking around because what if somebody overhears him? What if 271 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 3: his wife overhears him. It's like, all right, well then 272 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 3: then vote for And I don't care what other people 273 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 3: vote for. I've never understood. It's like you can get met. 274 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 3: You're getting met at me over how I vote. 275 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: Well, go away? Is that your business? I did ask somebody. 276 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 5: I asked somebody about that exact thing. 277 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 4: You know, Well, why can't you be friends with somebody 278 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 4: who votes for somebody different than you know what you think? 279 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 4: And she said, because that tells me a lot about 280 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 4: that person. 281 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 5: If that person is okay. 282 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 4: With voting for whomever, Yeah, and I don't like that 283 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 4: person's policies or I think that person's awful, Well, then 284 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 4: how am I supposed to be friends with you? That's 285 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 4: because you are aligned with something I just I don't 286 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 4: agree with. 287 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 3: Except I've been friends with you for twenty years, so 288 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 3: you know exactly what I'm about, what my character is, 289 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 3: and how I treat people, and how I treat you. 290 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 4: I'm not talking about me, by the way, I'm just 291 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 4: talking about that. That's that was kind of the. 292 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 2: I know, but it's a but it's a general thing. 293 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 3: People you know for years, and most of my friends 294 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 3: i'd never knew. I had friends like for forty years 295 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 3: going back to school. I didn't know ever, and I 296 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 3: stayed in touch with them. We've had plenty of conversations 297 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 3: about interesting stuff. I never knew what they're power politics was, 298 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 3: or if I got a whiff of it, I didn't care. 299 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 3: And suddenly in the last ten years, you're supposed to 300 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 3: care and you're supposed to not be friends. 301 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 2: It's like, this is stupid. 302 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 3: You're stupid if you create or break friendships. If you 303 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 3: break friendships over stuff like this, or you break romantic 304 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 3: relationships over stuff like this, please don't reproduce. You should 305 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 3: break off the relationship and take your genetics somewhere else 306 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 3: because you're an idiot. 307 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 4: Well, if you're so against somebody right in your spouse 308 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 4: or your friend is constantly talking about it and you 309 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 4: just can't stand it, I can understand. 310 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 2: If they're constantly talking about it, but that's another issue. 311 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 5: That's a whole difference. 312 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 2: That means they're. 313 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 3: Annoying in some obsessive way. But I'm saying your vote, yeah, 314 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 3: I who care? We come back, all right, We're going 315 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 3: to talk about the nearly two billion dollars that they 316 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 3: found misplaced, the four point seven trillion dollars that were 317 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 3: missing a critical code. And this is going to be entertaining. 318 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 3: I'm gonna play a clip of four of the biggest 319 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 3: Democratic names of the last thirty years, and you listen 320 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 3: to what they say and tell me the difference between 321 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 3: these four major Democratic figures and anything Trump or Musk 322 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 3: has said on the same matter that is coming up 323 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 3: to the next segment. 324 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 325 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 6: six forty. 326 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 3: We're gonna have Todd Benzman on, have Todd Stale aborting 327 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 3: he must be getting lonely. Todd Benzman from the Center 328 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 3: for Immigration Studies. He writes a lot of pieces for 329 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 3: the New York Post and the Daily Mail, and we're 330 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 3: gonna have them on all the criminals, the legal alien 331 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 3: criminals that are being arrested. Some of them are being 332 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 3: handcuffed and shackled for their flights back home. And there 333 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 3: are progressives who are outraged. These are illgal alien criminals 334 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 3: and you're handcuffing them as you're deporting them. Why I'm 335 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 3: going to talk to Todd Bensman, see what that's about. 336 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: Coming up? All right, back back to Musk. Imagine this. 337 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 3: His group DOGE said it found one point nine billion, 338 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 3: let's call it two billion that was misplaced by the 339 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 3: Biden administration. 340 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 2: Misplaced, uh. 341 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 3: They they was earmarked for financial services. The money was 342 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 3: no longer needed and it just sat there in the account. 343 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 3: Nobody knew it was there. And I guess as they 344 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 3: were going through all these God imagine how many bank 345 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:47,439 Speaker 3: accounts they have, how many line items they have. And 346 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 3: the thing is, it's one billion, nine hundred million dollars 347 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 3: and I was just sitting there in an account. So 348 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 3: they de obligated the funds. That's what one of the 349 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 3: secretaries said. So now they're going to use it for 350 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 3: something else. There's this housing an Urban Development secretary, Scott Turner, 351 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 3: who said they also identified two hundred and sixty million 352 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 3: dollars in savings just two days earlier. In fact, the 353 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 3: grand total of money that Musk's team has saved in 354 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 3: just a month has been fifty five billion dollars. Fifty 355 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 3: five billion, and that's money that was lying around contracts 356 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 3: that were signed and now canceled, people that have been fired. 357 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 3: The EPA sent one hundred and sixty million dollars to 358 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 3: a Canadian electric bus manufacturer. Well that's been canceled, he said. 359 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 3: The Biden administration sent the full amount to the manufactur 360 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 3: You're in advance rather than making payments along the way 361 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 3: as the school buses were being produced. I hope they're 362 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 3: going to get it back. The head of the EPA League, Zelden, 363 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 3: says he's canceled a Joe Biden fifty million dollar environmental 364 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 3: justice grant. Oh you hear that phrase environmental justice. You 365 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 3: know that is a scam, That is some nonprofit racket. 366 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 3: It was granted to an organization that believes, listen to this, 367 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 3: climate justice travels through a free palestine. 368 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 2: How does that mean? 369 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 3: It means we're stealing fifty million dollars, But we dressed 370 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 3: it up in language that makes progressives. 371 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: Start to start to swell. 372 00:20:54,440 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 3: With pride and arousal Climate justice through a free palaceine 373 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 3: fifty million dollars. 374 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 2: This is this is like comedy stuff. Can't make it up? 375 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 3: All right, let me play these clips and then we're 376 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 3: going to get to the big one, the four point 377 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 3: seven trillion, Yes, four point seven trillion. You know how 378 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 3: if you write it up to five, how long do 379 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 3: you think it takes to count to five trillion? Because 380 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 3: people have a hard time with these digesting these numbers. 381 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 3: Our brains aren't really designed. You know, a couple hundred 382 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 3: years ago, we were just we were growing vegetables and 383 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 3: we were milking cows. Right, none of our brains are 384 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 3: designed to handle the concept of five trillion. So five 385 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 3: trillion if you counted one, two, three, four, it would 386 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 3: take you over thirty one years. So start now. You 387 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 3: can't sleep. You have to do this twenty four hours 388 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 3: a day, every hour, seven days a week. Start counting, 389 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 3: and let's see in twenty In twenty fifty six, you'll 390 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 3: be done counting to a trillion. That's how much money 391 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 3: in treasury payments they can't trace. I'll tell you about 392 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 3: that in a minute. But for all the idiots in 393 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 3: the media and all the progressive fools who are squealing 394 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 3: about cutting all the waste and fraud, we're gonna pill 395 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 3: you eclipse from maybe some of your heroes. I would say, 396 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 3: these are the four biggest names in democratic politics over 397 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 3: the last thirty years. And you listen to them talk 398 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 3: and tell me if there's one word different from what 399 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 3: Trump and Musk have been saying. Let's start with Cut 400 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 3: four from September nineteen ninety seven, Al Gore and Bill Clinton. 401 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 9: Everyone, this report tells us how to cut waste, cut 402 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 9: red tape, streamline the bureaucracy, change procurement rule, change the 403 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 9: personnel rules, and create a government that works better and 404 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 9: costs less. 405 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 8: I've read it, and where it says the President should 406 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 8: the president will herey go. 407 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 3: September ninety seven, the team of Gore and Clinton very 408 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 3: forceful saying that wasteful spending is going to be cut definitively. Now, 409 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 3: let's move ahead the early days of the Obama administration. 410 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 3: You'll hear Joe Biden on this. It's kind of a 411 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 3: montage between Obama and Biden. And you can tell Biden 412 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 3: was was still saying he was still in command, which 413 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 3: when Biden was first became president, and you know, I said, oh, 414 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 3: he's senile. 415 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 2: Oh do you know that you're not a doctor. I 416 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 2: said no, he's see noile. Listen, go go back, go 417 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 2: back to two. 418 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 3: Thousand and eight and listen to his debate with Sarah Palin. 419 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 3: I did that and I was like, oh my god, 420 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 3: he's so far gone. You know, this was in the 421 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 3: first days of his administration. Well, listen to this. This 422 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 3: is Obama and Biden talking about the same thing. 423 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 10: Budget reform is not an option, it's a necessity. 424 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 8: The American people are entitled to transparency. 425 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 10: We can't sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer 426 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 10: dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness or exist 427 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 10: solely because of the power of politicians, lobbyists or interest groups. 428 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 8: They're entitally be able to figure out where their dollars 429 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 8: are going, and they're entitled to accountability to make sure 430 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,120 Speaker 8: that we're using. 431 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 2: The dollars for what we said it was for. 432 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 10: We are going to go through our federal budget as 433 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 10: I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line, 434 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 10: eliminating those programs we don't need, and insisting that those 435 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 10: that we do need operate in a sensible, cost effective way. 436 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 10: It should be easy is getting rid of the pointless 437 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 10: waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody. 438 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 8: We hope to be instilling an enti hire new culture 439 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 8: the not only our administration, but every succeeding administration will 440 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 8: in fact pursue. 441 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 10: No amount of waste is acceptable, not when it's your money. 442 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 3: And of course Biden went on to blow literally trillions 443 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 3: of dollars. I will say, during the Clinton years they 444 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 3: ran that pretty tight. Of course, they had a Republican 445 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 3: Congress that provided a lot of guidance and direction. But 446 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 3: when Clinton left office, the budget was balanced. And then 447 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 3: Bush took over and he was a disaster, and so 448 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,199 Speaker 3: Obama wanted to clean up Bush's mess, but Biden was 449 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 3: completely out of hand. So there you go, Al Gore, 450 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 3: Bill Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Those are all the Democratic 451 00:25:55,560 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 3: presidents and vice presidents of the last twenty five years, 452 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 3: thirty years. Yeah, four main Democratic figures speaking exactly like 453 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 3: Trump and Musk. 454 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 2: And now. 455 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 3: The four point seven trillion dollars that DOGE has discovered, 456 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 3: this is payments from the Treasury Department. All government payments 457 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 3: out of Washington passed through the Treasury Department, and four 458 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 3: point seven trillion dollars of payments. We're missing a critical 459 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 3: tracking code. So now tracing the transactions are almost impossible. 460 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 3: Each transaction is supposed to get what they call a 461 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 3: thaf thas excuse me, a Treasury account symbol, its identification 462 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 3: an identification code, and that links a treasury payment to 463 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 3: a budget line item. 464 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 2: Does that make sense? 465 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 3: You have a line item in the budget saying a 466 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 3: million dollars to debor mark for the oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 467 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 3: for face filler or something. Okay, I'll take it, okay, 468 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 3: And they're supposed to be a TIS, a Treasury account symbol, 469 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 3: so that they can connect the million dollars to debormark 470 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:23,439 Speaker 3: for the face filler. It's standard financial process. Well, what 471 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 3: doeses found That particular box where you put the symbol, 472 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 3: where you put the code was optional and it was 473 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 3: often left blank. So Musk is saying that traceability is 474 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 3: almost impossible. This is exactly what they found with high 475 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 3: speed rail with the billions of dollars that disappeared there 476 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 3: after they did to audits. This is what they found 477 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 3: in Sacramento with Gavin Newsom's homeless waste of twenty four 478 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 3: billion dollars. This is what they found here in Los 479 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 3: Angeles with the audits into homelessness as well. When I 480 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 3: first heard this was the high speed rail story, and 481 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,159 Speaker 3: I didn't understand because they said, well, we looked at 482 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 3: the paperwork and it was blank. There was no indication 483 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 3: of where it went. And I thought, well, that's not possible. 484 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 3: And now I realize this was standard operating procedure all 485 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 3: the way up to the federal government. They simply don't 486 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 3: write down what they're spending the money on, and it 487 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 3: added up, according to Musk, to four point seven trillion dollars. Now, 488 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 3: I don't know what period of time that is, but 489 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 3: as a Saturday, that code is not is now required, 490 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 3: so they are gonna, I mean you, and why don't 491 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 3: they put in the code? Because the money is being 492 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 3: wasted and stolen, that's why. And the people doing the 493 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 3: paying are getting kickbacks because we are run by criminals. 494 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 3: In Washington, Sacramento, in Los Angeles and everywhere else, we 495 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:04,479 Speaker 3: are run by criminals, and so they had a racket 496 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 3: scam going for decades and decades. I always wondered, like, 497 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 3: if you look at the spending here in California, and 498 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 3: I know, I gotta go. Spending has gone up dramatically 499 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 3: last fifteen years under Brown and new Something. Everybody goes, well, 500 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 3: what's it going for? Spending has gone up dramatically in 501 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,479 Speaker 3: the last few years under Biden. What's it going for? 502 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 3: It's going up. The spending is up dramatically because they're 503 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 3: stealing the money. That's the reality. They're actually stealing the 504 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 3: money and they're leaving no trace. 505 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 506 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 3: After three o'clock. We're talking to Todd Bensman from the 507 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 3: Center for Immigration Study. He's got a piece in the 508 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 3: New York Post today. Find out if Todd has anybody 509 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 3: to talk to over at the border. Because the border 510 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 3: crossings are down to a couple hundred a day, there 511 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 3: is some contra. Some of the sensitive, fragile progressives are 512 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 3: very upset that these illegal alien felling criminals are being 513 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,959 Speaker 3: handcuffed and shackled before being shoved on a plane and 514 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 3: sent home. So that should be entertaining. Also, next hour, 515 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 3: in case you're hungry, we have you know what, we 516 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 3: have a Kamala Harris word salad. 517 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 2: Yes we do. 518 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 3: The next governor of California. You're gonna hear her in 519 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 3: all her oratorical glory. Now ozempic story I promised Deborah 520 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 3: Today he's going to be penises and a zempic. In 521 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 3: Brazil there is a crime wave. Thieves are demanding from 522 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 3: pharmacists that they hand over the ozempic. Give you an example. 523 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 3: Ten thirty on a Friday evening in January. David Fernando 524 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 3: is a pharmacist. He's working behind the counter in sal Polo. 525 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 3: Man walks out to him and flashed a gun. He 526 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 3: asked for money from the refrigerator. No, he asked for 527 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 3: money from the register. 528 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 5: Okay, that makes more sense. 529 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 3: And medications from the refrigerator. Medications from the refrigerator is 530 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 3: a code word for give me the ozempic and all 531 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 3: the other variations we go vi Saxende. 532 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 5: I haven't heard of that one. 533 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 3: No, they're all the same injectable weight loss drugs. Most 534 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 3: Brazilians can't afford. These are very expensive arry if. 535 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 5: Your insurance doesn't cover it. It's a lot. 536 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 3: The thief made off with five boxes. Each box has 537 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 3: a month's worth and costs about to convert it about 538 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 3: to one hundred and ninety dollars, which may not seem 539 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 3: like a lot in America, but the average Brazilian income 540 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 3: is three hundred dollars, so imagine paying two thirds of 541 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 3: your monthly income for a zempic for a zempic was 542 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 3: not a surprise. Third time his drug store has been 543 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 3: held up. Now they have a security guard outside to 544 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 3: try to word off the ozempic thieves. There was a 545 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 3: robbery a few blocks north in August. Police interrupted an 546 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 3: ozempic robbery resulting in a shootout and a woman was injured. 547 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 3: There's another one on an afternoon. Two guards stood washed, 548 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 3: one inside the door and the other near the back room. 549 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 3: He's guarding the door to the refrigerator that holds the ozempic. 550 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 3: It's in Sapaulo. It's Brazil's richest city. Many wealthy neighborhoods, 551 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 3: many pharmacies stocked the drugs for the wealthy women. 552 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 2: But then you have a lot of poor people like. 553 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,720 Speaker 5: That, wealthy women. What about the wealthy men. 554 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 2: I don't know a lot of Mostly it's women taking it. 555 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 4: There are guys, there are guys that are taking these, yes, yeah, 556 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 4: but they don't talk about it. 557 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 10: Some do. 558 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 3: I don't hear guys talking about it very much, but 559 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 3: you're right, some do, all right. So in twenty twenty two, 560 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 3: there was only one ozempic robbery in Brazil, and it 561 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 3: was four boxes from a single drug store. Last year 562 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 3: thirty nine of them. And anyone who stocks a zempic 563 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 3: cannot work in peace, said the manager of one store. 564 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 3: People ask do you have ozempic? And he says, no, 565 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 3: we don't. This way, we don't get robbed. 566 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 5: It's liquid gold, it is. 567 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 2: How quickly does that stuff work? 568 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 5: I don't take it, so you. 569 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 3: And I don't take anything. We don't know anything. In 570 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 3: the last hour. I couldn't help you on the penis filling. 571 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I couldn't help you on that either. I 572 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 4: don't know how quickly it works, actually maybe a few months. 573 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 4: I mean, I know that it stops you from being hungry, right, 574 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 4: so you eat less, So maybe, I mean, and I 575 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 4: think it also depends on how much weight you have 576 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 4: to lose. If you have a lot of weight, obviously 577 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 4: it's going to take longer, so maybe you lose a 578 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 4: few pounds a week. 579 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 3: In Brazil, ozempic sales grew from twenty seven million five 580 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 3: years ago to over six hundred million two years ago. 581 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 3: That's the last year they have data. God, it makes 582 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 3: be spid how many billions and billions are they spending here? 583 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:40,919 Speaker 4: People are desperate well to lose weight to look nice. 584 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 4: I mean, we were talking about fillers earlier. 585 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 5: I'm not just talking about Peenis. 586 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, but then they end up with a zepic face, 587 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 3: and then you have to get the face fillers. 588 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:48,479 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. 589 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 2: Well, end the ball was deflated looking. 590 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 5: Not everybody has a zempic face, but a lot of 591 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 5: people do. 592 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,800 Speaker 3: When we come back, we're going to talk to Todd Benzman. 593 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,439 Speaker 3: He's has been covered border issues for many years now. 594 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 3: And are there border issues anymore? We don't know. Well, actually, 595 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 3: in a way, there are so few border issues the 596 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 3: progressive nuts are making stuff up. They're angry that some 597 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 3: of the criminals being deported on planes are wearing handcuffs 598 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 3: and shackles. 599 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 2: Why is this. 600 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk to Deborah Mark next. No, we're gonna 601 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 3: talk to Todd Bensman next. Well, we're gonna hear from Debormark. 602 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:24,799 Speaker 5: Now, you hear from me all day long. 603 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 2: That's right. 604 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 3: I know, I feel like I'm constantly talking to you. 605 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 3: Debra's got the news live in the KFI twenty four 606 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 3: hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt 607 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,279 Speaker 3: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 608 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,359 Speaker 3: KFI Am six forty from one to four pm every 609 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,319 Speaker 3: Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on 610 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app.