1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: until four o'clock and then after four o'clock you can 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 1: listen to the podcast John Colbet's show on demand on 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: the iHeart app. This story really means something to me personally. 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: One of our friends, Michelle Shane in Malibu. He and 7 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: his wife Ellen suffered the worst tragedy back in twenty ten. 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: Their thirteen year old daughter was run down a Pacific 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 1: Coast highway by a crazed driver named Sina Kankanion, and 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: it came out in court that he actually it was 11 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: very angry, very emotionally upset, and aimed his car right 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: at Emily and he was eventually it was kind of 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: a long running legal case. He eventually was from murder 14 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: fifteen years to life, but eligible for parole after twelve 15 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: well twelve years more or less has passed and he's 16 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: gotten parole from the pro board. Newsom was the last 17 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: stop and Gavin Newsom rejected Michelle and Ellen Shane's appeal 18 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: and now Sena Konkanyan is going to be released after 19 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: just twelve years. Nowhere near the fifteen to life, and 20 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to Michelle now about that and 21 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: also about what kind of mental condition is Sena Kankanian 22 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: being released in considering the way he's been living the 23 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: last few years in prison. Let's get to Michelle. Michelle, 24 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: thank you for coming on again. 25 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 2: Heank John, thank you. 26 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. I know this isn't easy, but I do think 27 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: people should hear all this because it's hard to believe 28 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: this goes on. So, your daughter, as we've talked about 29 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: a number of times, was run down on PCH. You 30 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: were going to pick her up and this guy, I 31 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: guess explain what came out in court. He actually aimed 32 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: the car right at her. 33 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, he was going around seventy plus miles an hour 34 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 2: and aimed his car at her, and I guess that 35 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: caused the screech of the wheel. And she was wearing 36 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: a headset and turned around and he hit her straight on. 37 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: She went fifty feet in the air, hit a sign 38 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 2: and landed in the field. 39 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: So he hit her. 40 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, there's no doubt. And he has spent fifteen years. 41 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 2: He will have spent fifteen years in prison. 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 1: We've been doing. 43 00:02:52,800 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 2: Parole now for since twelve years and we found out 44 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: that the governor denied it. But what we did find 45 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 2: out is he didn't deny it wholeheartedly. He denied it 46 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 2: and sent it back to the parole board full board 47 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 2: to review the case one last time. 48 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: And why does the parole board think this guy should 49 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: be free after what he did? A deliberate, intentional, murderous act. 50 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: What's the rationale of parole board? Do they say? 51 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: No? But one put in perspective. First of all, he 52 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: was never in general population. He was put in a 53 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: mental drug rehab facility, so he's been under observation, taking meds, etc. 54 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: Going to plasses, et cetera. Since he's been in prison. 55 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 2: He went in he killed Emily when he was twenty six, 56 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 2: was put in jail, and then convicted when he was 57 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 2: twenty eight. Finally after one mistrial, and they believe in 58 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: there in all their wisdom back by releasing and he's 59 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 2: okay to go back into society. And I'm just saying, 60 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: or has it even been in the general population? So 61 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 2: we have no idea how he's going to react. And 62 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: at the board hearing, the Parole Board asked him, how 63 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: will you behave if you get angry and he went, 64 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: I'll do deep breathing and meditation. Let me just tell you, 65 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 2: when I'm angry or when you're angry. Does that work 66 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 2: for you? And we're technically stable. 67 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: People, No, it doesn't. There's no instant meditation. You just 68 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: you're his wiring is to have extreme anger, to have 69 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: an extreme violent act as the resu ault of his anger. 70 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: You you don't meditate your way out of that. That's 71 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: that's nonsense. That's the feel good, that touchy feeling nonsense 72 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: that they have been embracing for years. How could it work? 73 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's why we couldn't wrap our head 74 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 3: around it. And we did a huge letter writing campaign. 75 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 3: I mean I had Senator Ben Allen, Senator Henry Stern, 76 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 3: assembly Person Irwin all wrote letters asking the governor not 77 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 3: to release him. The city councilor here At Maliviu wrote letters, 78 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 3: the community wrote letters. Everybody reached out. I mean, there 79 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 3: must have been hundreds of letters said saying, don't release 80 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: this guy, and they released them. To have released them, 81 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 3: they're going to be releasing him because I just thought 82 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 3: that this was rubber stamp. But I was informed early 83 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: this morning that it's not a rubber so have they 84 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 3: actually look back at it. 85 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: And so do you have any idea when he gets 86 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: released where he's going to go. You're saying he's coming 87 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: out of this mental health rehabilitation facility, and and then 88 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: why read online? 89 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 2: So we're read online. It takes three months from the 90 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 2: time they say you're you're release till you're released, and 91 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,679 Speaker 2: then I have no idea. Does he go back home? 92 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 2: Does he go to a halfway house? Do they let 93 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 2: him out on the street. I mean, technically he's not 94 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 2: allowed to drive, but how's how are they going to 95 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 2: monitor that. 96 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: It's very difficult to change internal wiring, and the first 97 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: time he's got some kind of tension or he is 98 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: disappointed or rejected in some way, it's going to flare 99 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: up again. It doesn't change. 100 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 2: Listen, there's no remorse from this guy. It's all been 101 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: a game some the day he killed her. And that's 102 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: what upsets us because, honestly, John, I don't think about 103 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 2: this guy. He's not in my life, and he won't 104 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 2: be in my life when I don't have to fight 105 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 2: to keep him in prison. I'm just concerned for the 106 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 2: next person, whether it be a child, someone you love 107 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 2: that this guy loses it and does it again, and 108 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 2: they put him back in prison. 109 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: And all these arguments were made, all the letter writers 110 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: made the arguments the other politicians, and Newsom rejected all 111 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: all those Please. 112 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when I told a senator Allen he 113 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 2: you know, explicit words, couldn't believe it. 114 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: It is It is very difficult. It's considering who it 115 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: is Newsome, I can believe it. But in a normal 116 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: world this is impossible to believe. It's impossible because I mean, 117 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: I obviously I've read all the details of the case, 118 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: and you've talked about it on and off the air 119 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: many times, and if anybody paid attention to the details 120 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: of this case, you would be absolutely shocked that he 121 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: would be considered for parole. This is just this is 122 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: just so heinous. 123 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 2: Oh, you know, it's really simple. I'm not a vindictive person, 124 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 2: and my wife's even less. But my feeling is he's 125 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 2: forty one, forty two years old. Let him stay in 126 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 2: prison for another fifteen years so when they were released 127 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 2: it there's no more youth in his mind, there's no 128 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 2: patten stride in his step. 129 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 3: Let him pay. 130 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 2: My daughter had only thirteen years and we've been fortunate 131 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 2: in keeping her alive through the m Machine Foundation. But 132 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: you know what has this guy done with his life 133 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 2: except take someone else's. 134 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: Before you go quickly talk about him Emily sh Shane Foundation, 135 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: because I know that's the charity that you and your 136 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: wife have been working on ever since Emily died, and 137 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: just talk about what it does and how people can 138 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: find out more. 139 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 2: Sure so, Emily Shane dot org Ellen runs the Emily 140 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 2: Shane Foundation. She's the executive director, and she built it 141 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 2: up from three children to over eleven hundred to date. 142 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 2: And what we do is we go into middle school 143 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 2: and show children that are falling through the cracks that 144 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 2: they can succeed. We put them together with a university 145 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 2: student who becomes their mentor tutor, almost a big brother, 146 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 2: someone who doesn't judge them, who they can, who helps 147 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 2: them with their work, helps them succeed, and there's an 148 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 2: unbelievable symbiotic relationship that is established. And you think it's 149 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: only the child that's getting the benefit. Think about it 150 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 2: for a second. When was the last time you hung 151 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 2: around with a ten, eleven, twelve year old that wasn't 152 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: yet you weren't related to, and the only cops to 153 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 2: the child is they have to pass it forward. They 154 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 2: have to do a good deed before each mentoring, mentoring, tutoring, 155 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 2: such a. 156 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: Back and people find you online. What's the website? 157 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 2: Emily Shane dot org. 158 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: Emily Shane dot org. All right, Michelle, talk with you soon. 159 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on. 160 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 2: Thanks so much, John, appreciate it all right. 161 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: More coming up. There is an ad for the first 162 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: recall Karen Bass campaign. There's some good news to brighten 163 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: your day. We'll play the ad when we come back 164 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: and talk about a couple of news bits. The day 165 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: after Christine Crowley lost her appeal after getting fired by 166 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: Karen Bass, who remains in hiding. 167 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 168 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 4: six forty. 169 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: I continue every day looking for more truth about the fire. 170 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 1: We certainly spent a lot of time on it yesterday, 171 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: and we've just got I just got a couple of 172 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: things today. And and one is, uh, there's a there's 173 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: a lot of people in the Palisades and they're going 174 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: online on nextdoor app and other other online message services, 175 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: and and they're trying to figure things out for themselves, 176 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: and they're trying to convince other people to understand what's 177 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: going on, because you know, you still have pockets of 178 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: support for Karen Bass or the the the fire chief, 179 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: and and and people also want to want to know. 180 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 1: They want to go in a new direction, They want 181 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: a new era to start, They want to rebuild, to 182 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: go quickly and successfully. And they know this. This Bass 183 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: growd is a bunch of failed losers. But but what 184 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: do you do? Where do you go? How do you organize? 185 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,199 Speaker 1: There is a recall effort going on, and uh, I'm 186 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: sure eventually get somebody on the air about this. But 187 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: all we've got right now is this one minute clip 188 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 1: on recalling Karen Bass. This is an ant so roll 189 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: it the we have a corporate in the next morning minute. 190 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 5: I was trying to contain those massive passageless wildfires. 191 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 6: At least twenty four people have tragically been killed when 192 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 6: the fires broke out. 193 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: La Mayor Karen Bass was in Africa. 194 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 5: We know that there was warnings about the weather before 195 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 5: you went. 196 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: When you returned, Instead of answering critical questions from reporters, 197 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 1: she chose to just ignore those questions and stay silent. 198 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent? 199 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 2: Weather homes were burned mother, mayor have you absolutely nothing 200 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 2: to say to the citizens today you are dealing with 201 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 2: this disaster. 202 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 7: Really accept coumblat right. 203 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 6: So there at early times we endorse current Bass. 204 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 2: That's a mistake we. 205 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 8: Had midnight there are calls a Karen Bass to resign 206 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 8: that those calls are getting loud up. 207 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: Oh, that's the first recall that on Karen Bass. So 208 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: I went into a Karen Bass rabbit hole and I 209 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: found a story from November which we talked about on 210 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: the air. But that's the thing. You talk about it 211 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: for a day, for a segment. Maybe the Times does 212 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: the story, maybe this three minutes on Channel eleven, and 213 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: then it disappears, and the significance of it is actually enormous. 214 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: This came out November of twenty twenty four, November twenty first, 215 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 1: Doug Smith of the La Times. And this is one 216 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: of the root causes. You know Kama Hiris was always 217 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: looking for root causes. Well, this is a root cause. 218 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: We spent a billion, three hundred million on homelessness for 219 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four fiscal year. 220 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 1: When I say we spent, well that's what was appropriated. 221 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: We actually only spent half of that, over a half 222 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: billion dollars was unspent. And that's really important because we 223 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: spend a half billion dollars more on homeless programs than 224 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: we do on the fire department, and the difference between 225 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: what we spend on the fire department and on the 226 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: homeless industry is the same as the money that we 227 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: appropriated but never spent last year in Los Angeles. So 228 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: they steal money out of the budget from the fire 229 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: department to give it to the homeless, but they don't 230 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: actually spend it on the homeless, so the money's not 231 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: available to get these people off the streets. So they 232 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: stop starting fires, and they start fourteen a year, and 233 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: there's no money for the people who put out the fire. 234 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: The money is sitting in bank accounts, unused. And then 235 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: the next year they get another billion three even though 236 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: there's a half million left over from last year, and 237 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: the firemen still don't get any of it. This is 238 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: all crazy. This is all absolutely nuts. It's it's just 239 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: it's just stupid management, incompetent management. This is on Karen Bass. 240 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: This is the people. The things people don't know because 241 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: in because how many people are reading the La Times 242 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: these days, right, and a story is posted a few 243 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: days before Thanksgiving. I'm sure this got next to no coverage, 244 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: and even if it did, nobody really noticed it or 245 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: remembered it. But here is a root cause you have 246 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,359 Speaker 1: a half a billion dollars laying around in bank accounts 247 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: that should have gone to the fire department. Instead it 248 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: goes to the homeless scam. But they don't even spend 249 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: it on the homeless. It just doesn't go anywhere. That's incompetence. 250 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: How do you not spend half of the homeless budget. 251 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: And of course the half they do spend didn't do 252 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: any good anyway, And the fire department still goes unfunded. 253 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: Remember the fire department is only half funded, it's only 254 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: half staffed. It should have double the money and double 255 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: the staffing. And that doesn't mean you double their salaries. 256 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: It means you double the number of people working at 257 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: the fire department, you double the number of fire engines 258 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: and everything else. But that's just And I stumbled on this. 259 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: Somebody had a link on the next door app post 260 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: and oh yeah, I forgot about this. I do this 261 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: every day and I forget this stuff. How do you 262 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: keep track of it? Nobody puts together the whole story. 263 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: That's why I'm trying to tell you what goes on. 264 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: People in the palace, says, everybody in the city, in 265 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: the county, in the state ought to know this stuff, 266 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: all right. Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to 267 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: have Todd Bensman on from the Center for Immigration Studies. 268 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 1: He's got a story about the great mass migration to 269 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: the US, greatest one in history. It's over the end. 270 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A 271 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 4: six forty. 272 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: So I tried watching Trump's speech last night. I had 273 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: a lot to do last night, so I was like 274 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: double distracted trying to do other things. But I had 275 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: it on the iPad and I saw most of the 276 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: beginning first half hour, which is where all the good 277 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: stuff happened. And I couldn't believe, Like it's like listening 278 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: to the city council meeting with Kristin Krowley. I could 279 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: believe how stupid many of these congress people are. Maybe 280 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: you saw it, maybe you heard about it. All the 281 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: Democrats they sat off to Trump's right, and they're all 282 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: holding paddles with signs. What a bunch of dumb Clucks. 283 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: I mean, you're holding a paddle up in the air. Well, 284 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: what's that gonna do. You're all pissed off that he's president. 285 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: You're pissed off that he won the popular vote and 286 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: the thirty one states and all the electoral votes. You 287 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: pissed off that the Republicans won the House In the Senate. 288 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: Did you ever think that if you didn't have all 289 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: these weird, strange beliefs, that you might have won if 290 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: you had just done what was obvious. And now you 291 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: got kicked out of power and you're holding up paddles. 292 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: It's wrong with you? What if you had closed the border? 293 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: Rump did it and in six weeks encounters are down 294 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: ninety six percent, ninety six percent, and on top of that, 295 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: he's got eighty one percent support among the public. Well, 296 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: why didn't you do that? Paddle heads? You could have 297 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: done that. Maybe if you had done that, maybe you 298 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: would have won. What's wrong with you? 299 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 9: You know who was one of the people that was 300 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 9: holding the signs was Melanie Stansbury, the woman we played 301 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 9: the audio from early She yeah, she was the one 302 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 9: holding that this is not normal sign that one of 303 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 9: the Republican senators grabbed out of her hands while Trump 304 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 9: was walking in. 305 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: Maybe well, maybe maybe that's why she started shrinking today 306 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 1: at the hearing because holding up the path. I'm looking 307 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: at a photo and there are quite a few paddles, 308 00:19:52,840 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: musk steals. Musk steals what? And women are wearing pink 309 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: for some reason, the Democratic women. It seems like every 310 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 1: year they have a new color. They're wearing pink. One 311 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: year they're wearing white, another year they're were in black, 312 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: they're wearing red. What what does that mean? What's the 313 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: color going to do? They're into all this symbolic nonsense, 314 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: like little eight year olds protect veterans, Protect veterans. The 315 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 1: most corrupt, inefficient agency in the federal government is the VA. 316 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: I saw this firsthand when there were fifty veterans living 317 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: in the street in front of the VA. For four years, 318 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: there were fifty vagrant veterans and the VA didn't do 319 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: anything to take them in until finally the sleepy town 320 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: I live in on the West Side, they finally revolted 321 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 1: and forced the issue. It's like, well, why didn't you 322 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: take the fifty four years ago? I just I don't 323 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: understand this era of political people. And then this bozo. 324 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: This is Congressman Al Green, not the singer. It's from Texas. 325 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: He was. And again I saw this out of the 326 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 1: corner of my eye. Trump is early on in his speech, 327 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 1: and I see some guy standing waving a cane, and 328 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: I know who he was, and I thought, well, who's 329 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: this jackass? And he looked like a homeless guy. He 330 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 1: didn't look like a congressman to me. He looked like 331 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: some street person that somehow had gotten in and he's 332 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: waving his cane in the air like a weapon. We're 333 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 1: gonna play in the back and forth here, because he 334 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: kept heckling Trump interrupting him, and then the Republicans start 335 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: booing Green. Well, you'll hear it. Eventually Green gets kicked out. 336 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: So play this. 337 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 8: We won the popular vote by big numbers, and one 338 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 8: counties in our country. 339 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: See there's the Republicans drowning out Al Green, who's just 340 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: shouting incoherent nonsense. Look, it looked like a street person. 341 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 8: And one counties in our country two thousand, seven hundred. 342 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: To five twenty five. 343 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 8: On a map that reads almost completely read for Republican. Now, 344 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 8: for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe 345 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 8: that our country is headed in the right direction than 346 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 8: the wrong direction. In fact, it's an astonishing Green is 347 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 8: still a hecky seven point swing, the most ever. 348 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: And if you're watching TV, you can't really hear the 349 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: heckling that much, but it's it's Trump and Mike Johnson, 350 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: the speaker can hear it. 351 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 8: Likewise, small business optimisms are it's single largest one month 352 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 8: game ever recorded, Mister forty. 353 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: One point Mike Johnson. 354 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 10: Here members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in 355 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 10: the House and to cease any further disruptions that you're warning. 356 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: It's like a hockey game. 357 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 10: Members are engaging in wilflin continuing breach of decorum, and 358 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 10: the Chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at Arms 359 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 10: to restore order to the joint session. 360 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 11: What a bunch of barbarians, A bunch of incompetent, ineffectual, 361 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 11: stupid barbarians. 362 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 1: Now all they got left is shouting. They had Green take. 363 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 10: Your seat, Take your seat, sir, take your seat. 364 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 1: Now Green won't sit down. 365 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 10: Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concert 366 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 10: the disruption or proper decorum, the Chair now directs the 367 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 10: Sergeant at arms to restore order. 368 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: Remove this gentleman from the chamber, Trump standing there. I 369 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: didn't notice this last night. They're singing, he kiss him goodbye. 370 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: This is what people elect, and you wonder, wonder why 371 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: we're all left up. 372 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 10: Members are directed to uphold and maintain the korum in 373 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 10: the House. 374 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: Mister President, you continue, Thank you. Most of those people 375 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: don't even know what the word decorum means. They couldn't 376 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: even spell it. We got more. Do we have to 377 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: quorum on this show? 378 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 5: Uh? 379 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: No, But I'm going to get a gabble and I'm 380 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: going to start pounding it when you're out of order. 381 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 12: Oh, I'm going to start pounding it when you're out 382 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 12: of order. But then I'm going to be hurting my 383 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 12: hand because I'll be pounding it so much. 384 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFIM six. 385 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: More on this the nutty State of the Union address 386 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 1: last night, where I'm sorry, the Democratic Congress people just 387 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:01,959 Speaker 1: acted like a bunch of stupid children, just a little 388 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: childish a holes. Did you say they wouldn't even stand 389 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 1: up and applaud the kid who had brain cancer? 390 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 12: I did not notice that they didn't stand up. I 391 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 12: was waiting for the cameras to go to that section, 392 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 12: so I didn't. I didn't see whether they did or not. 393 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: All the reports say they didn't stand up, they didn't applaud. 394 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: And there's this this little boy suffered from brain cancer, 395 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: so touching and his dream is to be a police officer. 396 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: And Trump from the podium said, I'm officially making you 397 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: an honorary secret service. 398 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 12: Did you see his eyes when Trump said that? 399 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, and he was so happy and it was it 400 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: was a touching moment. And yeah, I know all presidents 401 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: do this, they use citizens, and it's usually an emotional, 402 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: little uh moment, right, but it truly was something something 403 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: sweet and the not only did none of the Democrats 404 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: applaud or stand up and embrace the moment in any 405 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: way you had. And I don't watch these shows, but 406 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: I saw clips these these whack chob uh anchors on MSNBC. 407 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 1: We're criticizing Trump for that. They ought to be ashamed 408 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: for using the little kid as a political prop. It's like, 409 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 1: you people just jump into an oven. I mean, what 410 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: are you doing? Jump into an oven? Jump into an oven? Yes? Wow, yeah, 411 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: that's harsh. I'm feeling harsh. I mean, that was just 412 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: so now here's some other nutting moments. Well, let's go 413 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: with Al Green again. Al Green was the guy that Trump, uh, well, 414 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: that Mike Johnson kicked out of the State of Union 415 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: address because he was standing there like a vagrant, waving 416 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: a waving a cane in the air. And you know 417 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: you can't hear him on TV anyway. He's not miked up. 418 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: So I didn't. I don't want unless you try to 419 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: hit Trump with it, I don't know what you're going 420 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 1: to accomplish. Here here's Green talking to the media afterwards. 421 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 8: So you shouting to the president. 422 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 6: The President said he had a mandate, and I was 423 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 6: making it clear to the president that he has no 424 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 6: mandate to cut Medicaid. I have people who are very fearful. 425 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 6: These are poor people and they have only Medicaid in 426 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 6: their lives when it comes to their healthcare. And I 427 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 6: want him to know what is that his budget calls 428 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 6: for deep cuts in Medicaid. He needs to save Medicaid, 429 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 6: protect it. We need to raise the cap on Social Security. 430 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 6: There's a possibility and it's going to be hurt, and 431 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 6: we've got to protect Medicare. 432 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: These are the safety net. I doubt any of that's true, 433 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: but we'll go with it. That's for a committee hearing. 434 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: Since Congress is in charge of the budget, right, all 435 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: money spent comes out of the House, and it starts 436 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,719 Speaker 1: with the committees. And then you fight over that, standing 437 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: with a cane, waving it in the air at the 438 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: President and shouting and nobody at home can understand what 439 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: you're doing, and you look like a nut, and then 440 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: you get thrown out. Kind of misses the point. And 441 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: by the way, there's stuff that's going to be cut 442 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,959 Speaker 1: from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security because there is a 443 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: huge amount of fraud, a tremendous amount of fraud. They 444 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: think there's one hundred billion dollars a year in Medicare fraud. 445 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: One hundred billion a year. I can't imagine the Medicaid fraud. 446 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: I mean here in California, that money goes to a 447 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: large extent of illegal aliens. So god knows what they're 448 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: going to find. 449 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 12: What did you think of the Social Security and all 450 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 12: the waste? They are people three hundred years old, obviously 451 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 12: they're not alive, but social Security going to people one 452 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 12: hundred and fifty years old. Enough, this this amount, this amount, 453 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 12: and that was crazy. 454 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's just insanity, that's what they're defending. 455 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: If that's I mean, if that's true. I find it 456 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: hard to believe three hundred years old, three three hundred 457 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: years old, if somebody's still getting a check at the 458 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: age of three hundred and you're telling me that Elon 459 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: Musk and Trump shouldn't be going line by line over 460 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: every single expenditure. Can you imagine what's gone on there. 461 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: Nobody's wanted to look at it. Neither party has ever 462 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: wanted to do this. So this is this is built 463 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: up for over decades. He started carrying on about all 464 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: the money we sent to Ukraine, and that was the 465 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: one time the Democratic the Democrats applauded because they're happy 466 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: about sending three hundred and fifty billion dollars to Ukraine. 467 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: I don't know why that much money for no result. 468 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: Listening to cut number four. 469 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 5: The United States has said hundreds of billions of dollars 470 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 5: to support Ukraine's defense with no security, with no. 471 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: Innyferent Democrats clapping there, two hundred and fifty billion for 472 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: a war nobody's won. Do you want to keep it going. 473 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 7: For another five years? 474 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 5: Yeah? 475 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 7: Yeah, you would say Pocahonta says, yes, I haven't. 476 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: Heard that one in five years. 477 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 8: Two thousand people are being killed every single week. 478 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: More than that. 479 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 7: They're Russian young people, they're Ukrainian young people. 480 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: They're not Americans. 481 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 5: But I wanted to stop. 482 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: That was Elizabeth Warren getting some attention. All right, we 483 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: come back. Todd Benjamin has a story center for Immigration Studies. 484 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: The greatest mass migration border crisis in US history is over. 485 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: He has been writing for years and years at the border, 486 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: chronicling all the insanity and chaos, and Trump stopped it 487 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: cold ninety six percent, fewer engagements at the border ninety 488 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: six percent. And he's got the support of over eighty 489 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: percent of the public. And Todd Bendon. I don't know 490 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: what Todd's going to cover now. Dever Mark live in 491 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 492 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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