1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 3: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After 5 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 3: four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app, 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 3: and you should demand it. If you can't listen to 7 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 3: the whole thing. I know it's three hours, and you 8 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 3: probably have work, and you have a family. There's all 9 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 3: these excuses. Well, you find the time and later on 10 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 3: you could listen to what you missed. First hour, we 11 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 3: spent a lot of time on well, they want to 12 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 3: raise taxes in Sacramento to cover healthcare, free healthcare for 13 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 3: all illegal aliens. The illegals already get free healthcare. Newsome 14 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 3: does not want to take any new sign ups, and 15 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 3: the Latino Caucus is going nuts and they're willing to 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 3: raise taxes on you. So you want to hear that, 17 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 3: and you also want to hear some of the clips 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: we play it about Jake Tapper getting his rear end 19 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 3: roasted by Megan Kelly for actively covering up Joe Biden's 20 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 3: cognitive decline over the years. 21 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 2: So it's good stuff. 22 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 3: Now we're going to go on to Tony Strickland, State 23 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 3: Senator from Huntington Beach, a Republican, I always got to 24 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 3: open any high speed rail segment by reminding you when 25 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 3: this passed in two thousand and eight, and many of 26 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,919 Speaker 3: you voted for it, it was going to cost thirty 27 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 3: three billion dollars and we were going to get high 28 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 3: speed rail from Sacramento to San Francisco to Los Angeles 29 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 3: to Anaheim to San Diego for thirty three million dollars. 30 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 3: And it was all going to be finished five years ago. 31 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 3: And now all these years later, seventeen years later, we 32 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 3: have blown at least eighteen billion dollars, although I see 33 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 3: higher estimates than that, and there is no track laid down, 34 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 3: and right now they've shrunk it to Bakersfield to Merced 35 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 3: and they're over ten billion dollars short on that budget. 36 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 3: And someone wants to take some of the gas tax money, 37 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 3: you know, he calls it cap and trade money, it's 38 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 3: gas tax money, and spend it on high speed rail 39 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: a billion dollars. Well, even if he does that, he's 40 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 3: still ten billion dollars short. Let's get Tony Strickland on, Tony, 41 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 3: how are you? 42 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: I'm fantastic, how are you? 43 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 2: What the hell, when when's this going to stop? 44 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: It's absurd. You know, they said that they need seven 45 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: billion dollars this year to keep it going. Gavin Newsom 46 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: put a billion dollars. Everybody up here and knows that 47 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: this project as proposed is never going to be built. 48 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: It's become a slush fund. And it's about time that 49 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: my colleagues start having a serious discussion on you know, 50 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: let's just continue this project. It's a failed project. The 51 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: people were fooled. They said, as you said in your 52 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: your opening, that this will go from San Francisco, Los Angeles. 53 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: Everybody knows, as proposed, it's never going to be built. 54 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: Now it's the cost of skyrocketed to ask them in 55 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,679 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars, and we need 56 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: that ten point two billion just to get from Merced 57 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:11,119 Speaker 1: to Bakersfield. My guess is, if the voters have the opportunity, 58 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: and I think we should him the opportunity to vote, 59 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: would you spend over fifty billion dollars on a project 60 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: that goes from Mercet to Baker's Field? 61 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 2: People will vote they'd vote no on that. That's absolutely, without. 62 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: Question, Yeah, without questions, and okay, and again, they just 63 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: keep spending more and more of these of our hardened dollars. Okay, 64 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: my proposal is to take the Cap and Trade SB. 65 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: My proposal is to take the money from the high 66 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: speed rail and lower the gas right for everybody in California. 67 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, especially since we might be having eight to fifty 68 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 3: gas by next year, eight dollars fifty. Say, let me 69 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 3: ask you something, who is stealing the money? I know 70 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 3: they've done some audits. They can't seem to find that. 71 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 3: Apparently in some cases there's no paper trail. Nobody wrote 72 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 3: down where the money went. We got at least eighteen 73 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 3: billion dollars that was on up and smoke, no track 74 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 3: laid down. Somebody stole it. Somebody collectively stole billions of dollars. 75 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: My guess the consultant's got to paid a lot of 76 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: money up front, and a lot of consultants, you know. 77 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: And and look also the way we do everything in 78 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: California with business. You know, we have all these huge 79 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: bureaucracy of our environmental laws, secret laws. They cost a 80 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: lot of money. That's why it cost so much money 81 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: even to build a road in California. And so yeah, 82 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: just because this legislature does what they do and created 83 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: all these laws and these regulations. It rises the cost 84 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: of doing anything. Uh, you know, whether that's trains, homes, 85 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: building your business. Everything is more expensive in California because 86 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: this legislature is out of touch. 87 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 2: There's got to be corruption going on. 88 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: Oh, there's no question. I think a lot of consultants. 89 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: We definitely need to full audit. I'm I'm welcoming Doge 90 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: and the federal government come in audit this whole high 91 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: stued rail because I guarantee you there's a lot of 92 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: money that's being stolen, because there's no way they're spending 93 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: these billions of dollars and we haven't laid down one track. 94 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 3: How could you spend eighteen billion and have no track. 95 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 3: I mean, that's impossible unless it is it is total 96 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 3: thievery going on here. 97 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: Correct. No, I couldn't agree with you more. And by 98 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: the way, in two thousand and eight, I was in 99 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: the legislature voted no. And my son at the time 100 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: was like six five, and I said, when he gets 101 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: to college, he's going to ask why there's a train 102 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: from nowhere to nowhere? Because they at the time they 103 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: promised all this money come from federal government when we 104 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: knew full well the money wasn't kind of come from 105 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: the federal government. And I said, you know, he as 106 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: I take him to college, and next year he's going 107 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: to college. And look, we don't even have a train 108 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: from nowhere to nowhere. We don't even have a track 109 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: lead down. 110 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 3: I actually I actually saw a quote that they're looking 111 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 3: for private investment. They've been trying to get private and 112 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 3: that's been for over twenty years. They never got to 113 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 3: dine from anyone in the world. 114 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been asking the question, well, how much is 115 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: it going to cost to take this train? No one 116 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: could ever give you that answer. And I laughed when 117 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: they said private investment. Would any private investor invest in 118 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: something that originally was thirty three billion, That was one 119 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight billion that was supposed to be 120 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: done in two thousand and twenty. Now it's twenty and 121 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: thirty two just for the first days. What private investor 122 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: would invest in a product like this? 123 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 3: All right, so why does it new some shut it down? 124 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 3: Mister president here, he's actually going to run on the 125 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 3: biggest boondoggle in American history. He's going to run for 126 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 3: president on this, Why doesn't he shut it down? 127 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 2: Give up? 128 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: I don't understand. And in fact, he put a billion 129 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: dollars here, but he didn't fund Top thirty six initiative 130 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: the past seventy percent of the vote across California to 131 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: make a crime illegal again, Who. 132 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 3: Do you think think owns him? Who owns newsome that 133 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 3: he won't do it? 134 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. This doesn't make sense. You know, he really, 135 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: really really wants to be president, but he's not. And 136 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: all he does he doesn't even weigh in on these 137 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: issues day day to day issues as governor. He's just 138 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: busy trying to figure out how to become president. But 139 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: he needs to realize, you know, things like this and 140 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: not funny Prop thirty six. How does he expect to 141 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: become president of the United States when he's done such 142 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: a riffic as governor of California? 143 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 2: Do you got time for another segment? 144 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 4: Of course? 145 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 5: I do? 146 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 2: Okay? 147 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 3: Can I want to talk about that the Prop thirty 148 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 3: six thing that's not getting enough attention. Nothing's getting enough attention, 149 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 3: And I want to talk about the twelve billion dollars 150 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 3: that the Latino Caucus is A state Senator Lina Gonzalez, 151 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 3: among others, twelve billion dollars they want spent on illegal 152 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 3: alien healthcare, and they want a new tax. It's coming 153 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 3: up next with Tony Strickland the State Center from hunting 154 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 3: To Beach, Republican. 155 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KYO six forty. 156 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 3: After Michael's two thirty news Royal Oaks. We'll be coming 157 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 3: on the ABC News Legal Analyst. You may have heard 158 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 3: that the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to 159 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 3: deport three hundred and fifty thousand venez of Whalens who 160 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 3: got temporary protected status. It was a back and forth 161 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 3: situation in the lower courts, and at least for now 162 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 3: he can remove them. The Biden administration wild giving temporary 163 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 3: status to obviously one hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. 164 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 3: We'll talk more of that with Royal coming up. Let's 165 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 3: get to back to Tony Strickland, the demo the Republican 166 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 3: Assemblyment from Huntington Beach, and we talked with him about 167 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 3: high speed rail needing over ten billion dollars just to 168 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 3: complete Baker's Fieldmer said, but there's a couple other things 169 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 3: I want to talk about. You brought up one of them, 170 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 3: Prop thirty six, the public voted on by about seventy 171 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 3: to thirty and that makes stealing things illegal again, and 172 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 3: that makes doing drugs illegal again. And you have to 173 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 3: either go to jail or you go to treatment. If 174 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 3: they go to treatment, the treatment has to be built, 175 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 3: has to be available. The state has to provide money 176 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 3: for this, and Newsome will not put that in the budget. 177 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 3: He's got twelve billion dollars for illegal alien healthcare and 178 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 3: he won't spend any more money on treating people for 179 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 3: drugs under Prop thirty six. 180 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 2: Is that right? 181 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: That's correct. We're talking about four hundred million dollars for 182 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: drug treatment and mental health services. And again, the budget's 183 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: your priorities. He puts in over ten billion dollars for 184 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: healthcare for illegals. He puts in ten point two billion 185 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: for a high speed rail on a train that everybody 186 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: knows is never going to be built. But he's not 187 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 1: putting in to put public safety first and keep us safe. 188 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: I have very I have never seen. I can't recall 189 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: an initiative that won all fifty eight counties, even the 190 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: most liberal counties of Marine in San Francisco voted for 191 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: this initiative seventy percent of the vote, and he's willing 192 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: to ignore the voices of the people in California that 193 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: wants to make public safety a top priority, wants to 194 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: keep us safe in our communities, and he's not willing 195 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: to fund four hundred million there. That just shows you 196 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 1: how Adam whack his priorities and the two thirds majority 197 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: up here in Sacramut. 198 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 2: But's drug and mental health treatment, yes, and. 199 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: It's making crime illegal again. Part of that funding will 200 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: also be you know, probation funding, case management and also 201 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: you know corrections that when people can make crime over 202 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: and over again that they go to jail. So that's 203 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: what people want. 204 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 2: So he doesn't want to fund any of that. 205 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 3: He doesn't want to fund the drug rehab, the mental 206 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 3: health treatment, the probation department, the jails, the prisons, none 207 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 3: of it. None of it he wants to fund. Even 208 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 3: though Prop thirty six won all fifty eight counties by 209 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 3: seventy to thirty margin. 210 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: And I don't know if you remember, but he tried 211 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: every maneuver possible already legislature to keep that initiative from 212 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: the ballot. But now that it got to the ballot, 213 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: and seventy percent of the people vote for in all 214 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: eight counties. Now he's saying, well, I'm just not going 215 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 1: to fund it, which is which is you know again, Oh, 216 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: that's nuts, this is crazy. 217 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 3: This stuff defines analysis. This is simply nuts. People were 218 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 3: sick of the crime, They were sick of all the 219 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 3: drug addicts in the streets, all the mentally ill people. 220 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 2: Now there's a tool to either put them. 221 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 3: In jail or to actually treat their illnesses or treat 222 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 3: their addictions. 223 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 2: He won't fund any event. 224 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 3: That's coco, it is cuckoo. 225 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: No, it's just And again, that's what the citizens of 226 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: California want to make crime a league. Again, the citizens 227 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: of California a bunch of the blue premier priorities. This 228 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: should be the first thing that gets funded is to 229 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: keep people safe. 230 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 5: And that's the matter is. 231 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: She tried every maneuver to keep it from the vote, 232 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: and the vote was overwhelming. The people spoken, and he's 233 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: still not willing to fund it. 234 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 3: All right, but he's willing to fund illegal alien healthcare. 235 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 3: On the state's medical gill a medical program, it was 236 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 3: twelve billion last year, be twelve billion this year. And 237 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 3: there's no money for it and his idea is, well, 238 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 3: we're not going to take any new illegals to sign up. 239 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 3: And you got Lena Gonzalez, the state senator, said well, no, 240 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 3: we ought to raise taxes. And there's another state senator here, 241 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 3: she's from Long Beach, Gonzales, Carolina Minhivar from Van nys. 242 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 3: They want to raise taxes on Americans. We got we 243 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 3: got legals from one hundred and seventy countries now roaming 244 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 3: all over the country in California. 245 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 2: I mean that that is also completely nuts. 246 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: It is. And remember or at the start of the year, 247 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: those same members said this year is going to be 248 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: a year for the affordability crisis in California. Affordability crisis 249 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: that they created. Now we don't look, we don't have 250 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: a revenue problem in California. We have a wasteful spending problem. 251 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: When I was in the legislature a little over ten 252 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: years twelve years ago, the entire budget was ninety eight billion. 253 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: It is tripled since then, and the population has gone down, 254 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: So we've tripled the spending and we're wasting billions and 255 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: billions of dollars. And then they have a then they 256 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: want to come up with a tax increase when they 257 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: said we have a they admit that we have affordability crisis, 258 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: but they continue to raise our gas tax. They continue 259 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: to raise these extreme environmental rules that make our energy 260 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: costs go way up. They don't let us, you know, 261 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: next year, we're going to have gasoline that's eight dollars 262 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,079 Speaker 1: a gallon. They're just way out of touch, and hard 263 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 1: working families live in paycheck to paycheck. They're suffering the 264 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: consequences of these folks who are just out of touch. 265 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 3: They have a super majority in both the Assembly and 266 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 3: state Senate. They have a veto proof majority. Do you 267 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 3: think they would pass taxes and override Newsom's veto just 268 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 3: to get the money. 269 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, because a lot of them, 270 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: you know, how their pet bills that they really you know, 271 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: would be scared that Governor Newsom would veto their their 272 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: pet projects and their bills. And so I don't know 273 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: the answer to that. And there hasn't been a veto 274 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: override since Governor Jerry Brown back in the in the 275 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: mid seventies, so it's very unusual. And and yeah, the 276 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: issue majority raised taxes over the objection of Governor Newsom. 277 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: That tells you how far out of touch everybody is. 278 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 3: Well, I'm wondering because Newsom made it clear that you know, 279 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 3: he's going to put a cap on on on the spending. 280 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 3: In a way, there's going to be no one, no 281 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 3: new sign ups allowed, and in fact, the people who 282 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 3: already signed up are going to have to pay one 283 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 3: hundred dollars a month. So I think he has hit 284 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 3: his limit for the time being. And the next thing 285 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 3: you know is Lorena Gonzales and Carolina Menavar is saying, well, no, no, no, 286 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 3: let's raise taxes, no limit, Let's keep signing people up, 287 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 3: Let's not make them pay one hundred dollars a month. 288 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: So I'm wondering how much support you think they have. 289 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: Well, I honestly don't think they're going to be successful 290 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: on raising taxes. But you know, you mentioned you know 291 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: they have the super majority. I'll tell you this right now, 292 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: not a flaw. We picked up a couple of seats 293 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: in the couple in the Assembly, and they continue to 294 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: do this the mismanagement of the fires. People have to 295 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: wake up, they have to open their eyes and see 296 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: who they're sending. The Sacramento does not represent them at all. 297 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: And so we need common sense and balance. And I 298 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: do believe that people are starting to wake up. I 299 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: really do. 300 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 3: All right, Tony, I gotta go. Tony Strickland, the state 301 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 3: Senator from Huntington Beach, thank you for coming on. We've 302 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 3: got Royal Oaks from ABC News coming on next. Three 303 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand Venezuelan and illegal aliens can be deported, 304 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 3: says the Supreme Court. At least for now, we'll talk 305 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 3: to him. 306 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 307 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 4: six forty. 308 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. 309 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 3: After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 310 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 3: iHeart app Moist Fine eight seven seven Moist eighty six. 311 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 3: Come on eight seven seven Moist eighty six. So he 312 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 3: use the talkback feature on the iHeart app. The Supreme 313 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 3: Court is allowing the Trump administration for now to deport 314 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty thousand illegal aliens from Venezuela who 315 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 3: were under temporary protected status. This is as Gavindussom is 316 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 3: giving free healthcare to illegal alien So, gee, which issue 317 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 3: do you think is going to play better when Newsom 318 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 3: runs for president let's go to Royal Oaks. 319 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 2: Now, the ABC. 320 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 3: News legal analyst to explain how how this works, what 321 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 3: this case is about Royal How are you? 322 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 5: I'm doing great, John, Yeah. 323 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: You know. 324 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 5: This actually goes back to a law that went into 325 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 5: effect when Bush the Elder was president back in nineteen 326 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 5: ninety And as you say, it's called temporary protected status. 327 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 5: But the important thing is what does that really mean. 328 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 5: The law basically said, look, if you've got people in 329 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 5: foreign countries that are in a real bad way, like 330 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 5: a civil war, armed conflict, environmental disasters, hurricanes, earthquakes, hey 331 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 5: we'll let them stay here for a while. They don't 332 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 5: have green cards. It's not like they can work here indefinitely, 333 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 5: but just for a humanitarian reason, they may stay. But 334 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 5: the Congress said that the president gets to decide when 335 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 5: the party's over, when the emergency is over, and these 336 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 5: folks have to go back. So the Trump administration recently says, yeah, 337 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 5: three hundred and fifty thousand people from Venezuela and a 338 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 5: bunch of folks from the Nicaragua, Sudan, Al Salvador, they 339 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 5: got to go home because the crisis they complained about 340 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,719 Speaker 5: is no longer a crisis, and yesterday the US Supreme 341 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 5: Court said we go along with the Trump administration. Here 342 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 5: the Trump folks have the right to say when this 343 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 5: is over. 344 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 3: Opponents who are saying that we can't ever send these 345 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 3: people back home, I don't understand the legal argument. If 346 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 3: it says temporary status, then it's temporary, which means it. 347 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 5: Comes down in right. And here's the deal. Because it's 348 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 5: so political, people who are in favor of open borders say, oh, 349 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 5: my gosh, look look at Venezuela. For example. Hunger is rampant, 350 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 5: there's malnutrition, they've got a collapsing healthcare system, rampant crime 351 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 5: and violence that they were pressed ascent. That sounds like 352 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 5: a humanitarian crisis to me. So you folks can stay. 353 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 5: And of course those things that I ticked off, they're 354 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 5: not going to get better. So what that translate to 355 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 5: translates to is an excuse to basically have open borders. 356 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 5: And from you know, an empathetic standpoint, you know, we've 357 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 5: got to solve suffering. But obviously, if we spend the 358 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 5: money to admit everybody around the world who are facing 359 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 5: problems with hunger and malnutrition, healthcare systems on, we will 360 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 5: be broke even broker than we are in about two months. 361 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 5: And so really it boils down to a political issue 362 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 5: about whether the Trump administration is right that we got 363 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 5: to start cracking down. And he says, you know, if 364 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 5: you don't have a border, you don't have a country. 365 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 5: And ultimately you Supreme Court didn't get into a lot 366 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 5: of details, John, They basically just said we're letting the 367 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 5: lower court decision in or Trump stand. So we don't 368 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 5: know all about how every big feels on this, but 369 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 5: I think they just you know, the Congress is the 370 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 5: bills actually says that it's up to the president totally 371 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,439 Speaker 5: to say when, you know, to turn this bigot on 372 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 5: and when to turn it off. 373 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 3: All right, let me ask you this because that sometimes 374 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 3: I don't really understand as it bounces from one court 375 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 3: to another. The lower court blocked the deportation of these Venezuelans, 376 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 3: and the Supreme Court set that aside. So now what 377 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 3: happens are they telling them the lower court go change 378 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 3: your mind or does it just go into limbo now indefinitely? 379 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, great question, and it actually rates the whole national 380 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 5: injunction thing that we've all been talking about recently. Many 381 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 5: lawsuits were filed after Trump said go home. In some 382 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 5: of the lawsuits, Trump won, and in some of the lawsuits, 383 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 5: Trump lost. So you've got conflicting different opinions, which is 384 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 5: a formula for having the Supreme Court step in. So 385 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 5: what happened is in one of the cases where Trump won, 386 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 5: the folks who wanted Trump to stop sending people home 387 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 5: appealed to the US Supreme Court, And they usually don't 388 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 5: take appeals, but this one they took up and they said, 389 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 5: we specifically are letting stand the pro Trump decision below. 390 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 5: So you're right, it's a whole mess of conflicting decisions 391 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 5: all around the because they've got hundreds of the federal 392 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 5: judges issuing in national injunctions and saw it. But the 393 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 5: bottom line is, because the Supreme Court took this one up, 394 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 5: whichever way they ruled, that now governs all the lower 395 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 5: court stuff. And so as a result, Trump is free 396 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 5: to say, Okay, you guys have to go home. 397 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 2: Does this eventually get revisited in the near future. 398 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, it could. And here's the deal. Even though there's 399 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 5: a lot of discretion by the president according to the 400 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 5: congressional law in terms of when to send people home 401 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 5: or not is in fact you could allege and say 402 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 5: a separate new lawsuit. Oh well, Trump's doing this because 403 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 5: he's a racist, and that's why he's sending people from 404 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 5: the Sudan home. Or look at Trump denied due process. 405 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 5: Some people sued Donald Trump and his Homeland Security folks, 406 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 5: and what he did was he just sent them back 407 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 5: and he ordered them deported and put them on a 408 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,719 Speaker 5: plane or whatever, even without giving them a hearing. So 409 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 5: if you violate the law by not giving people hearings, 410 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 5: or if there's evidence you know that there's a racist motivation, 411 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 5: sure could they could double down and file brand new lawsuits. 412 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 5: But except in an extraordinary situation like that, you know this, 413 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 5: this is really over. Trump is going to be allowed 414 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 5: to have his immigration officials say, look, either you leave 415 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 5: yourself or you know, we're going to deport you, and 416 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 5: that'll be it. 417 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 2: All right, very good, Thank you so much. 418 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 3: Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst sorting out this Supreme 419 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 3: Court decision that Trump and the administration can deport three 420 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand Venezuelans. They had temporary protected status. 421 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 3: That protection is now over. Another aspect to this is 422 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 3: the first charter flight for illegal aliens who agreed to 423 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 3: self deport left the US yesterday. You remember this, The 424 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 3: Trump administration offered one thousand dollars to each illegal alien 425 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 3: who agreed to voluntarily leave the country. You could register 426 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 3: on the CBP home app and they're given travel assistance, 427 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 3: a stipend in three weeks to get your affairs together. 428 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 3: So you replane ticket and one thousand dollars. And the 429 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 3: first plane took off with sixty four people aboard, and 430 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 3: in if they landed, sixty four citizens of Columbia and Honduras. 431 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 3: They were on board the plane in Honduras. Once you 432 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 3: got off, you were eligible for one hundred dollars in 433 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 3: government assistance and food vouchers. All right, but only sixty four. 434 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 3: I believe Biden led in eight million, so they were 435 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 3: sixty four willing to take the thousand bucks and go. 436 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,360 Speaker 3: Coming up after three o'clock Roger Bailey, he's the attorney 437 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 3: representing over fourteen hundred Pacific Palisades residents who are struggling 438 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 3: to find out how the hell they can rebuild the 439 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 3: house because Karen Bass's a brick wall there, and they 440 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 3: think nobody's listening and nobody cares, and they would be right. 441 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 3: We'll talk to Roger Bailey coming up after three o'clock. 442 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI. 443 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 3: Lot's gone on so far. You should listen to the podcast. 444 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 3: If you're just joining us now, I'll explain what we've 445 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 3: done a little later. Right after three o'clock, we're gonna 446 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 3: have Roger Bailey, an attorney. He's been with us a 447 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 3: number of times ever since the Palatin's burned down because 448 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 3: he's representing over fourteen hundred Palisades residents. And if you 449 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 3: saw that La Time story over the weekend. We discussed 450 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 3: this yesterday. Everybody's hit a wall. Karen Baths does not talk, 451 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 3: does not explain anything, and she just does these little brief, raw, 452 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 3: raw press statements, and people can't get their homes built. 453 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 3: Very few have gotten permits. It is that this is 454 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 3: part two of the disaster, which we knew was going 455 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 3: to happen. I mean, right after the fire, you know, 456 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 3: was put out, and you start looking ahead, what's next. 457 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 3: What's next was going to be incomp in action, idiocy, bureaucracy, 458 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 3: and that's what they're getting in the Palisades. And I 459 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 3: tell you, in the Palisades. Those are not people used 460 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 3: to this, and they're not people who are going to 461 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 3: put up with it. They're actually intelligent, successful, driven people. 462 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 3: That's how they ended up in the Palisades, and they 463 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 3: don't know this world of government in competence and stupidity 464 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 3: which Karen Bass represents. Tell you how stupid the City 465 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 3: of Los Angeles is. We're bankrupt in LA and I 466 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 3: say we because I pay them plenty of tax money. 467 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 3: They get a third of their tax money from property 468 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 3: taxes and then their sales, business utility taxes. That's seventy 469 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 3: percent of the general fund. There are endless lawsuits against 470 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 3: the City of Los Angeles for all kinds of things. 471 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 3: You know, somebody trips on a sidewalk that was never 472 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:09,199 Speaker 3: paved over, maybe a cop roughs you up. And the 473 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 3: general Fund in the last two years had to pay 474 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 3: a half a billion dollars in liability claims a half 475 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 3: a billion. Now, these are mostly settlements because hardly anything 476 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 3: goes to trial. The city is afraid of going to 477 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 3: trial because what do you have on a jury. You 478 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 3: have a bunch of bunch of idiot losers who weren't 479 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 3: smart enough to get out of jury. Duty, and with 480 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 3: civil cases things can get really complicated. There are certain 481 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:44,199 Speaker 3: legal angles and medical angles, and you know, you know 482 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 3: police use of force angles. People really are emotional beings. 483 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 3: Most aren't very thoughtful. I think the average IQ in 484 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 3: this country is ninety eight, and anybody who winds up 485 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 3: on a jury is sub ninety eight. And they're not 486 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 3: going to understand all these medical and legal issues. And 487 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 3: the city knows this. The city administrators say, you can't 488 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,719 Speaker 3: trust a jury. There are craig you know, the award, 489 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 3: but fifty million dollars when it should be five hundred dollars. 490 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 3: But so a lot this encourages a lot of people 491 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 3: to sue. It's like, hey, I'll sue, city will settle. 492 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 3: You know, they won't litigate this. I won't have to 493 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 3: spend a lot of money on my end. So that's 494 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 3: how you get five hundred and twenty five million dollars 495 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,880 Speaker 3: in liability claims. Must people sue every stupid thing? Yeah, 496 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 3: somebody trips, You got to just get up and keep walking. 497 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 3: But of course these are all everything's a racket, everything's 498 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 3: a scam. So you trip, it's like, oh my god, 499 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:51,360 Speaker 3: I have brain damage. I'm crippled. I'm paralyzed, somebody roll 500 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 3: out a wheelchair and I'll fake disability, and you know, 501 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 3: then you get a shyster lawyer and they go in 502 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 3: front of an idiot jury and there you go. The 503 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 3: plaintiff will walk away with the twenty million dollars. Los 504 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 3: Angeles has a City Claims Board. On May fifth, they 505 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 3: had a meeting to discuss the settlement of eleven cases. 506 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 3: April twenty first settling forty others, and the session before 507 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 3: that twenty cases. So we're talking about in about a 508 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 3: month's time, seventy one cases, all behind closed doors, all 509 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:34,959 Speaker 3: discussed for settlement. What are the claims? Who knows how 510 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 3: much are they paying? Well, sometimes it's tens of millions 511 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 3: of dollars that's how you get to So it's a 512 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 3: big chunk of the city budget and it goes up. 513 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 2: And up and up. 514 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 3: And I think the employees who caused the trouble, Like, 515 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 3: if your job is to fix sidewalks and you don't 516 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 3: fix sidewalks, who's ever in charge of that department? 517 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 2: You didn't fix the sidewalk, you pay the set shake down. 518 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,959 Speaker 3: That guy, liquidate his house, liquidate his insurance, let him 519 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 3: move his kids into a into a shelter somewhere. You 520 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 3: didn't do your job and somebody got hurt. Or maybe 521 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 3: they should contest some of these cases to get rid 522 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 3: of the fakers. 523 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 2: Same thing with a cop. 524 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 3: Cop goes too far and it's obvious what the cop pay. 525 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 3: Always make the city employees pay. Of course, nobody wants 526 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 3: to pay for the for the fire disaster. Jenise Kenonias 527 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 3: ought to pay for not filling up the reservoirs. You 528 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 3: ought to pay for not turning off the electricity to 529 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 3: the Palisades that night, which started the second round of 530 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 3: fires in the Palisades. 531 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 2: How come Genie Kenonias isn't paying. 532 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 3: How come Karen Basset isn't paying for running off to 533 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 3: Africa to abdicating your duty. You gotta be held responsible, 534 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 3: you gotta be liable for this instead. Well, West Side 535 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 3: Current is covering this and on January June thirtieth, they're 536 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 3: going to have a follow up report on the settlement totals. 537 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 3: So all this comes before the Palisades litigation, and we 538 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 3: will talk about the Palisades litigation coming up with Roger Bailey. 539 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 3: He's the attorney representing fourteen hundred Palisades residents. Who were 540 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 3: completely abandoned by the LA government and they're homes burned 541 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 3: down and now they can't get a permit to rebuild 542 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 3: in most cases, and they're going to be filing lawsuits. 543 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 3: They deserve some money for this. This clearly was incompetent negligence. 544 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 3: I'm just saying the people responsible, let's they're going to 545 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 3: have to use city tax money to settle these cases, 546 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 3: but let's start by liquidating Bass's estate and Jeniez Kionia 547 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 3: is a state, and all the other geniuses. Roger Mainley 548 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 3: coming up next to the attorney. We have Michael Krozier 549 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 3: live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've 550 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 3: been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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