1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media, 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 2: trying to get to twenty five thousand followers John Cobelt 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: Radio on all social media platforms and we are on 6 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 2: every day from one until four o'clock. Well, Carl Demyo 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 2: was on this several weeks ago until they threw him 8 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: off the budget committee. He figured out that the amount 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 2: of money that Gavin Newsom is spending on healthcare is 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: way more than they estimated. Specifically the healthcare for illegal aliens. 11 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: It was supposed to be over six billion dollars according 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 2: to last summer's budget estimate. It's now nine and a 13 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 2: half billion dollars. And now Newsom is getting a loan 14 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: of three and a half billion dollars because nobody apparently 15 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: nobody expected illegal alien healthcare to cost this month much. 16 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: And why are we doing it? 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: Because our government is run by fanatics, by progressive lunatics 18 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 2: that you elect. And so what do they do. They 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 2: decide to give cradle to grave illegal al and health 20 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 2: care to anybody who crosses the border into our state. 21 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: And now we're stuck with this into eternity. Let's get 22 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 2: Karl to Maayan, the Republican Assemblymen from San Diego, Garl. 23 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 3: And John I'm seeking to you from the Capitol. So 24 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 3: if it's a little loud, it's because they're still having 25 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 3: legislative session. But I stepped out because this is important. 26 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 3: The public deserves to know that the healthcare of low income, 27 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 3: the neediest Californias people ad are below the poverty line. 28 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 3: Their healthcare is now in jeopardy because Medical the program 29 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 3: that covers their health expenses, is in financial insolvency because 30 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: Governor Gavin Newsom and California Democrats gave away the store. 31 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 3: They gave taxpayer funded free health care handouts to illegal immigrants, 32 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 3: and they lied. A year ago, Newsom said it would 33 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 3: only cost six point five billion. I was able to 34 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 3: shine a light on the actual number. It's nine point 35 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 3: five billion in counting. He said that we would be reimbursed, 36 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 3: and yet again in that same hearing, we were able 37 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 3: to drag it out of him that actually it's the 38 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: general fund of the state that is being saddled with 39 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 3: this cost, not the federal government through reimbursements. One out 40 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 3: of four medical dollars in the state's general fund budget 41 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 3: is now handed to an illegal immigrant one out of 42 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 3: four general fund medical dollars. That is insane. It is 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 3: so offensive. And again we just found out on Thursday 44 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: that because of all these giveaways and the massive costs 45 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: bite for health care for illegal immigrants, we now see 46 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 3: the medical system is insolvent and there was an emergency 47 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 3: loan that Newsom had to hand out to that program. 48 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 3: They don't have money to pay the invoices for doctors, nurses, 49 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 3: hospitals for citizen healthcare, and so they're going and doing 50 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 3: an emergency loan to keep the program running. I am 51 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 3: telling you this is just the beginning of the crisis. 52 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 3: It's going to get worse until they finally wake up 53 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 3: and stop the taxpayer funded handouts to i llegal immigrants. 54 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 2: I just got a flat out stop. Is there any 55 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 2: talk of doing this? They can't know, the math doesn't work. 56 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 2: They can't keep doing it, not another day. 57 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 3: Yeah. The reason why they took me off the Budget 58 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 3: committee is that we were literally exposing this step by step, 59 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 3: and they think by taking off the Budget Committee, we're 60 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 3: going to back down and be quiet. 61 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 4: Now. 62 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 3: I don't need to be on the committee to shine 63 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 3: a big old spotlight on their corruption. They're wasteful spending. 64 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 3: So we've been getting this out now in the form 65 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 3: of press conferences, and last Thursday I did a press 66 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 3: conference in the morning exposing the insolvency issues that have 67 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 3: been created in medical Now, let me be very clear, 68 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 3: Democrats say that Donald Trump is undermining Medicaid and medicare. 69 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 3: The only politicians in this country that have truly undermined 70 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 3: medical Medicaid for the neediest of amongst us are California 71 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 3: politicians who gave away our health care money to illegal immigrants, 72 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,679 Speaker 3: and they refuse to do anything to fix the problem. 73 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 3: That's a fact. We've exposed what they've done. They're putting 74 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 3: poor people at risk and they should be held accountable. 75 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 2: Trump's not going to pay for this, I mean as 76 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 2: so as soon as they get into a position to 77 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 2: cut the funding to California, they're going to for Medicaid 78 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: because there's no way that Trump is going to pay 79 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 2: for illegal alien health career. 80 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 3: That is exactly true, and President Trump has said that 81 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 3: they will not reimburse for these expenses. The reason why 82 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 3: I say that the the loans that they're now issuing 83 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 3: are just the first of many multi billion dollar bailouts. 84 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 3: Is because President Trump still in his administration, they're sitting 85 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 3: on about two billion dollars of invoices from California that 86 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 3: they're going to reject. And so the three billion dollar 87 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 3: loan that we saw this week is going to turn 88 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 3: very quickly into a six to seven to eight to 89 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 3: ten billion dollar bailout. We don't have that money. It's 90 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 3: just plain and simple. Plus, I've asked the Trumpet Administration 91 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 3: Center for Medicaid Medicare Services to an initiate an investigation 92 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 3: of California's medical program because we believe that state politicians 93 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 3: have illegally received reimbursement for various expenses associated with the 94 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: illegal immigrants. We need to hold these politicians accountable. They've 95 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 3: broken the law. They need to be held accountable. And unfortunately, 96 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 3: what that means is that the state budget will get hit. 97 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: But that's again, those are the rules. The rules are. 98 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 3: If you spend money that you're not allowed to spend, 99 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: and you illegitimately ask the federal government for reimbursement, which 100 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 3: is what the new Suba administration did, they need to 101 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 3: be penalized for that. And politicians in California need to 102 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 3: be asked the tough question, why did you put poor 103 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 3: people's healthcare at risk to bend over backwards and give 104 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 3: these freeb's out to people who shouldn't be here in 105 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 3: the first place. I own a big scandal. 106 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: I always say, all the progressives, they have three constituencies, 107 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 2: and it's illegal aliens, homeless people, and criminals. Those are 108 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,119 Speaker 2: the three groups they serve. The rest of us, We're 109 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: just supposed to supply the money, but they do. 110 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 3: And remember in their campaign contributors, their campaign contributors are 111 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 3: also getting everything that they want. This system is so 112 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 3: broken up here that working families, poor people get the 113 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 3: shaft while very rich people are getting the benefits. Don't 114 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 3: for a moment think that the people up here are 115 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 3: fighting for poor people. They're not. This medical crisis puts 116 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 3: poor people at the risk because they're bailing out for 117 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 3: a variety of constituencies that are illegitimately getting our taxpayer money. 118 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: At this point, why are they doing this? Why are they. 119 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 3: Sacrificing Because they're doing it because they've gotten away with it. 120 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 3: No one has shined the light, no one has exposed 121 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 3: and that's why they've been able to give money to 122 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 3: these groups and not have the accountability. Now they're finally 123 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 3: being exposed. Now they're feeling the heat. So we have 124 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 3: got to make sure that people. I've been hearing from 125 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 3: Democrat voters and they say, we love what you're doing, 126 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 3: but don't always agree with you, but we love that 127 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 3: you're telling us the truth about what's going on with 128 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 3: the money. And let me just tell you right now, 129 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,239 Speaker 3: poor people are now being put at risk. Their healthcare 130 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 3: is on the chopping block, their health care is insolvent 131 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 3: because the medical program is broken. So do not buy 132 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 3: this nonsense that they care about poor people. 133 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: They don't. 134 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 3: They use poor people as window dressing. But they you 135 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 3: know who always gets taken care of the lobbyists up here, 136 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 3: They always get the money that they demand. 137 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: This is pretty shocking. I mean, this is outrageous even 138 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 2: by newsomme standards. To actually screw over all the poor 139 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 2: people in California for the sake of illegal alien healthcare. 140 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: That is so crazy. 141 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 3: And this is why I knew some last week was 142 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 3: you know, hooton and holler and about medical and my 143 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 3: Democrat colleagues want to vote on a regul resolution on 144 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 3: medical and Trump when I had. They're the ones that 145 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 3: have created the damage, and so we need to make 146 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 3: sure that people understand our medical program is important. I 147 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 3: support medic health when people are down on their luck, 148 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 3: when they fall behind, seniors, young children, who are impoverished, 149 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 3: they deserve coverage. But that's all been put at risk 150 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 3: by the negligent approach that these lawmakers and the governor 151 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 3: have chosen to put this state on. 152 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: All right, Carl, you do great work. No one else 153 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 1: is doing it. 154 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on, and when you get more, 155 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 2: feel free to give us a call right away. 156 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 3: Okay, well watch what we reveal next week. Okay, next 157 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 3: week we're going to be going after programs that once 158 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 3: again are supposed to be helping the neediest among us. 159 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 3: But guess what part of the funding going to the 160 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 3: welfare programs will be going to left wing groups for politics. 161 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 3: Who are these programs helping. They're not helping poor people, 162 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 3: They're helping politicians stay in office. And that's our next 163 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 3: big bombshell is the use of state taxpayer money for 164 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 3: left wing politics. It needs to be exposed. It's going 165 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 3: to be exposed, and frankly, at some point when it 166 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 3: deals with federal dollars. I believe that there will be 167 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 3: federal criminal investigations that will result. 168 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: I hope. So that's thank you, John for covering it. 169 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 2: I appreciate it, all right, always, all right, Carl Demiel, 170 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 2: the Republican assemblyment out of San Diego. These people, I 171 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 2: keep saying it. You might think I'm looney. You're going 172 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 2: to see over time, these people are criminals. They've been 173 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 2: intentionally stealing the money. And now they're stealing money from 174 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 2: poor people in California to give it to legal alien healthcare. 175 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 2: And now they got caught. They're three and a half 176 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 2: billion dollars short. They've had to borrow that money, and 177 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 2: they're going to have to borrow this money every year 178 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 2: that this goes on. You simply, we have millions of 179 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 2: illegal aliens. You can't pay for all their health care. 180 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 2: It's impossible. Legal aliens pay very little in taxes, negligible amount, 181 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 2: no matter what the activists lie about, they don't pay 182 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 2: anything useful in taxes. It's all costs on us billions 183 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 2: of dollars, and healthcare is one of the biggest and 184 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 2: it is so criminal in Sacramento. But you know that 185 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 2: Madison McQueen pole I mentioned in the first hour. If 186 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 2: you didn't hear the first hour, listen to to the 187 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 2: one to one thirty segments because lay it all out. 188 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: The public is turning against all this in California, against 189 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: Democratic policies that have created a lot of bad situations. 190 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: It's starting to happen. 191 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 192 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 4: six forty. So. 193 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: Couple of mornings a week, my wife sends me out. 194 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 2: I usually go out and get a bagel for myself 195 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 2: and she likes this, this egg breakfast from a deli, 196 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 2: and up until a few weeks ago, I go there, 197 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 2: it's basically two scrambled eggs. Right, I go there, and 198 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 2: the price of the two scrambled eggs including tax five 199 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 2: dollars and five cents. Last week I order the same thing, 200 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 2: it is suddenly six dollars and fifty nine cents. 201 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 5: Well because of egg prices. 202 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: Because of egg prices, that's right. 203 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 5: But they've gone down now, have things? 204 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: Last week? 205 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 5: Yes, Yeah, there's a new report out today that they're down. 206 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 2: Well, maybe go tomorrow and maybe tomorrow. As of this 207 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 2: morning it was still six fifty nine. Oh so, well, 208 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: you know they already paid for the eggs. You see, 209 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 2: that's true. You know, maybe with. 210 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 5: The next maybe wait a week or so. 211 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 2: It has created a crime wave at the border that 212 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 2: exceeds the fentanyl issue. According to Customs and Border Protection, 213 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 2: since October, border officers have seized three thousand, seven hundred 214 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 2: and sixty eight poultry related products. That is more than 215 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 2: ten times the seizures of fentanyl. 216 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 5: Can't you guys live without eggs? 217 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: You guys? Oh, you mean like the rest of America? 218 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, like everybody, everybody normal who has. 219 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: I forgot. 220 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 2: It's not only anti eating meat, it's anti eating eggs. 221 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 2: Like eating the unfertilized embryos are now violation. 222 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: I had three scrambled eggs for breakfast yesterday. Yeah, like stoneface. 223 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 5: Well that's exciting. 224 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 2: They were delicious. Egg eggs are delicious. 225 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 5: I mean you could live without them. 226 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 2: Well, we could live without everything. I mean, can we 227 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 2: enjoy good food because it tastes good? It's really nutritious. 228 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 2: You know, you start your morning with eggs, you know 229 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 2: it's I don't. 230 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 5: I don't start my morning with eggs. 231 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: You go out in the backyard and graze. 232 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 2: I know, since egg interceptions are up thirty six percent 233 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 2: since October compared to the previous year. It says parts 234 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 2: of Texas they're hotspots for egg smuggling. Egg seizures up 235 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 2: fifty four percent. In San Diego they'd more than doubled. 236 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 2: There are thousands of illegal egg seizures. In al Paso. 237 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 2: Agents have foiled ninety egg smugglers just since January. Because 238 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 2: the price of eggs in Mexico is a third of 239 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 2: what it is in the US, why is that? Why 240 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:51,959 Speaker 2: are those chickens more expensive? People are buying their own chickens? 241 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 5: Oh, I know. 242 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: My wife asked me if I wanted to do that. 243 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 5: You do have kind of a farm already. 244 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 2: Well, I know, I mean I thought, you know, except 245 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 2: you know, we're not always home. We're way a lot, 246 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 2: so I you know, you have to, Yeah, you have to. 247 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: You have to be there all the time. A dozen 248 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 2: large great A eggs cost five to ninety on average 249 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 2: last month. 250 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: So where they dropped I don't know. 251 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 5: I just know that they've dropped. Well I could actually 252 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 5: look it up, but I do know that they have dropped. 253 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 2: A year ago is three bucks, So it's gone from 254 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 2: roughly three to six bucks. All on the Avian flu. 255 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 5: You know, if I sold eggs, I would never lower 256 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 5: my prices ever again ever, because people want eggs so badly. 257 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 5: I mean, you can make a lot of money. 258 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 2: Well yeah, but then somebody across the street's going to 259 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 2: sell them for a normal procerace. 260 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 5: So ABC News is saying that the average wholesale price 261 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 5: has fallen to four fifteen a dozen. Two weeks ago 262 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 5: it was eighty five. 263 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 2: The I mean, the Avian flu wiped out millions and millions. 264 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 2: It's not like they were able to grow new chickens that. 265 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 5: I think people are just the demand. The demand is 266 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 5: lower now. I mean not you, but other people have 267 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 5: decided that they can live without eggs. 268 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 2: There at New York City, you know those bodegas, they're 269 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 2: like local delis. They're selling loose eggs. They're called Lucy's 270 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 2: Lucy's and you can buy three eggs for three dollars 271 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 2: instead of twelve eggs for twelve dollars. And then people 272 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 2: are taking the three eggs for three dollars and selling 273 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 2: them one egg at a time on the street. 274 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 5: I mean, come on, this is look. You know how 275 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 5: much I love avocados. If avocados suddenly became scarce, or 276 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 5: so unaffordable. I move on. I find something else that 277 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 5: I enjoyed just as much. 278 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 2: You're running out of things to enjoy, have to have 279 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 2: so much food on the blacklist. And I told you 280 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 2: the avocados feed into the drug cartels. Yeah, but you 281 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 2: don't care about it. 282 00:15:58,600 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: I do. 283 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 5: I told you that I've looked into that where I 284 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 5: buy them. That's not the case. 285 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 2: People are dying because of your avocado fetish. 286 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: All right, we come back Karen Bass. 287 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 2: Karen Bass is in so much trouble, obviously, but she 288 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 2: does have supporters, and there is a recall effort against her, 289 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 2: and now her supporters, and we will give you their names, 290 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 2: are going after They're trying to defend Bass by going 291 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 2: after billionaires, apparently successful, successful people who make money and 292 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 2: employ a lot of other people. They're the problem, not 293 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 2: the dilettants like Bass who gatherleing off to Ghana when 294 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 2: a huge wind and firestorm is bearing down in La. 295 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 2: It looks like people who earn a good living and 296 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: are successful at what they do. That's the enemy to 297 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 2: be fought against. That's what Karen Bass's crowd is saying. 298 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: We'll get into that coming up. 299 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 300 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 4: six forty. 301 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: Oh. 302 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 2: You really shouldn't miss stuff after four o'clock though it's 303 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 2: in a podcast John Cobelt Show on demand also on 304 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 2: the iHeart app. We are going to talk to Art 305 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 2: Arthur after three o'clock, Center for Immigration Studies. He's a 306 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 2: national security and immigration expert. If you didn't see the 307 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 2: news over the weekend, this is something to go looking for, 308 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 2: just to see the photos or the videos. We deported 309 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty one violent criminal illegal aliens, many 310 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 2: of them with that Venezuelan gang trend de Ragua, and 311 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 2: also many Salvador and MS thirteen gang members, and they 312 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 2: were all shipped to El Salvador. The president there, Nahib Bokeli, 313 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 2: said hey, bring him in here, because he's got a 314 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 2: prison filled with thousands of the worst characters, gang member 315 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 2: and criminals and murderers, and they all are forced to 316 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: work constantly. And you see pictures of them, they're laid 317 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 2: out by the hundreds on the ground, lying or sitting 318 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 2: next to each other, nearly naked. I think they're wearing 319 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 2: just some kind of speedo and nothing else, and they're 320 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 2: yes a speedo. 321 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 1: Have you seen all these new L. Salvadoran men. 322 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 5: I have not. 323 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: Oh you should see this if that's your thing. 324 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 5: No, it's not my thing. 325 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 2: And they're all covered with tattoos, I mean everything. Even 326 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 2: they're shaven heads, they look green, they look like martians. Anyway, 327 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 2: we sent two hundred and sixty one I legal aliens 328 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 2: and a judge tried to stop it, and the Trump 329 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 2: people said too late. Pl had already left the country 330 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 2: in international airspace. 331 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: And then the L. 332 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 2: Salvadoran presidents sent out a tweet saying, oopsie little late. 333 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: Actually did write oops se. 334 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 5: See I know I said that on the air a 335 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 5: couple of times. 336 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: Oopsie. 337 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 2: So anyway, Art Arthur is going to explain how this 338 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 2: operation went and also the legality of it, because Trump 339 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 2: is using a law from seventeen ninety eight when we 340 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 2: were afraid Friends was going to invade us. That's coming up, 341 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 2: you know, lost in the lost in the whole fire 342 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 2: is Karen Bass will be up for reelection next year 343 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 2: and obviously this is very destructive to her campaign. And 344 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: don't know what Rick Ruso is going to do. He's 345 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 2: actually putting together a pretty strong organization to try to 346 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 2: help people rebuild, you know, do something practical and rational. 347 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: But nobody likes Bass, and for good reason. And so 348 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 2: her crowd is getting very nervous and they're starting to 349 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 2: go on the offensive. And there is nothing more stupid 350 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 2: than when a politician and their backers are backed into 351 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 2: a corner. They've got nothing going for them, no way 352 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 2: to defend themselves, and then they come up all kinds 353 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 2: of wild They come up with, like a wild political 354 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 2: strategy to change the narrative, I think is what they say. 355 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 2: They have to change the narrative. And they start talking 356 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 2: about all this nutty stuff. And Karen Bass has a 357 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 2: supporter named Joanne Kim. Now, joe Anne Kim is the 358 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 2: chief of staff to the City Council President Marquis Harris Dawson, 359 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 2: who was the acting mayor of the day of the 360 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 2: fire and did nothing useful, all right, so he was 361 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 2: a complete waste. Joan Kim is the chief of staff. 362 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 2: So she has put out an email trying to round 363 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 2: up support saying that right wing billionaires have weaponized the 364 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 2: fire and is waging a disinformation campaign against the mayor, 365 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 2: a disinformation campaign. She went to Africa. There's photos of 366 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 2: her in Africa drinking? What disinformation campaign? Seriously, you think 367 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 2: this is going to sell? You got twelve people dead 368 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 2: and just a reminder of Joe ad Kim, whoever the 369 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 2: hell you are. Let's see how many, uh I'd see? 370 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 2: You know, how many structures were destroyed in the Palisades fire? 371 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 2: Six eight hundred and thirty seven five thousand, four hundred 372 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 2: and nineteen homes single family homes, one hundred and thirty five, 373 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 2: multifamily homes, one hundred and fifty eight commercial structures. Total 374 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 2: number of structures that were destroyed sixty eight hundred and 375 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 2: thirty seven. I mean, how crazy are you? How crazy 376 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,440 Speaker 2: are you? You're saying, well, this is uh the oh 377 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: you know what she was after she's claiming Karen Dash 378 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 2: is under attack from wealthy oligarchs. Olig garks has been 379 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 2: the new word of the year, hasn't it. How many 380 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:17,199 Speaker 2: times did you hear the word oligarch before Musk and 381 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 2: Trump took over? And now she's trying to throw Rick 382 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 2: Caruso in the same category because all these people are 383 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 2: really successful. They make a lot of money and employ 384 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 2: a lot of people. Being successful used to be. 385 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: Well. 386 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 2: It used to be that people admired the successful, because 387 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 2: what has Rick Cruso done other than build these beautiful 388 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 2: shopping centers and resorts that people enjoy by the many 389 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 2: millions people go to the Grove. The only thing bigger 390 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 2: than the Grove in southern California in terms of attendance 391 00:22:54,640 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 2: is Disneyland. But now he's a wealthy oligarch. Nicole Shanahan. 392 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 2: She bankrolled Robert Kennedy's campaign, and now Nicole Shanahan is 393 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 2: bankrolling a campaign to recall bass. 394 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: Basses. 395 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: People are claiming these are highly partisan attacks amplified by 396 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 2: a hard right media apparatus. A hard right media apparatus, 397 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 2: we don't have any in Los Angeles. 398 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: What is she talking about? No, it's that you. 399 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 2: You went off to Africa and almost seven thousand buildings 400 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 2: burned in the Palisades, and then when you came back, 401 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 2: remember that walk, that walk of shame at the airport. 402 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 2: You wouldn't speak, and you have been cold and hard. 403 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 2: There's been no empathy, no understanding, no apology. And should 404 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 2: we go through the list of sins. You half funded 405 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 2: the fire department. Fire department is funded by fifty percent. 406 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 2: The reservoirs were empty. That was your fire chief. That 407 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 2: was your DWP head. The hydrants didn't work, the fire 408 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 2: engines were by a one hundred of them were in 409 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 2: the shop getting fixed, except we have no mechanics. This 410 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 2: is a highly partisan hard right media apparatus that's making 411 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 2: all these facts up. 412 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 5: I know plenty of people, plenty of Democrats, who are 413 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 5: very pissed off about how Bass handled this situation. 414 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, because you live among a lot of Democrats, 415 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 2: and so do I believe me, the west side of LA. 416 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 2: There's no hard right apparatus built on the west side 417 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 2: of LA. Most of the people I know are Democrats. 418 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 2: Most of the people I know our Democrats lost their 419 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,959 Speaker 2: homes in the Palisades. Many of them voted for Bass. 420 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 2: They are angry because Bass is incompetent and overwhelmed. And 421 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 2: I don't think theglectful begins to describe what's going on. 422 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: How do you know? 423 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 2: How do you not know one hundred and seventeen million 424 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 2: gallon reservoir is sitting empty? How do you not know that? 425 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 2: How do you you picked Genice Kenonias, you picked the 426 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 2: fire chief. How do you not know that the fire 427 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 2: department's only fifty percent funded? That's your stretch. You did 428 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,719 Speaker 2: that on purpose. You decided, this is what we're going 429 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 2: to spend. We're going to spend fifty percent more on 430 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 2: homelessness than we are going to spend on the fire department. 431 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 2: You chose that, even though the homeless set more than 432 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 2: half the fires, that was your value judgment. 433 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 5: How come we don't know the cause yet of the fire? 434 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 5: We don't hear anything about that anymore I know, or 435 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 5: about people that we know who's homes burned, because not 436 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 5: a single fire engine showed up. 437 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 2: I don't know where that's gone away. They they don't 438 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 2: discuss it, and there is no sign that they ever 439 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 2: will discuss it. But what started the Palisades fire? I 440 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 2: see periodic stories on the Eton fire because they're looking 441 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 2: at a particular electrical. 442 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 5: Line, right so cal Edison. 443 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 2: So cal Edison, And they thought it was de energized, 444 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 2: but they think it may have gotten re energized through 445 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 2: a process that's not worth explaining at this point, and 446 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 2: that might have been the ignition. 447 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 1: But nothing on the Palisades. 448 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 5: Except that there was a fire New Year's Day that 449 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 5: was put out, and then the theory is it possibly reignited. 450 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 5: That's it. But that's a theory, and we haven't heard 451 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 5: anything more. 452 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 2: Well, and they've been investigating it for two and a 453 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 2: half months by now there's nothing more to investigate. And 454 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 2: if they don't know, or it was another homeless guy, 455 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 2: some other bum in the wilderness there and they don't 456 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 2: want to admit it, right, that's the last thing Bass 457 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 2: is going to admit that one of our homeless guys 458 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 2: got loose, didn't end up inside saying. 459 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 5: And then today we have the mayor and police chief 460 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 5: talking about crime down in twenty twenty four. So we've 461 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 5: moved away, we've done right. 462 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: Changed the subject. 463 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, so this Joe Anne Kim goes again, chief of 464 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: staff to the City Council President. 465 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: She wrote a thousand word email quote. 466 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 2: This is their strategy. This is the right wing disinformation campaign. 467 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 2: Exploit tragedy, distort reality, divide the people. We won't let them. 468 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 2: What do you mean distort reality? You mean there's not 469 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 2: seven thousand buildings burned, there's not twelve people dead. Somebody 470 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 2: go up to the twelve people, make sure they're dead. 471 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 2: Maybe that's a distorted reality and they're actually alive. Divide 472 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 2: the people, divide who We all watch this live on 473 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 2: television We all saw the photos online that she was 474 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 2: drinking in Ghana, that she came off the plane looking 475 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 2: sullen and angry. Kim wrote, I ask you to use 476 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 2: every communication platform you have to shut down the lies 477 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 2: and show where we stand with our mayor where you're 478 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 2: gonna go on Twitter and say Karen Bass is great. 479 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 2: Karen Bass wasn't in Africa. Seven thousand homes didn't burn, 480 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 2: twelve people didn't die. That whole corner. Los Angeles is 481 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 2: not a not all a barren wasteland. We drove through 482 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 2: there over the weekend. We were on our way to 483 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 2: something in Malibu. Oh man, it's just so bad. It's 484 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 2: just so sad and so awful. There's some other nut 485 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 2: named well, I gotta take a break. Vaheed corsand president 486 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 2: of the city's Board of Public Works. He recirculated the 487 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 2: email warning that the billionaires are coming for La. He's 488 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 2: running the Board of public Works and he's that nuts. 489 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: Course onto a high level Bass employee. Oh maybe some 490 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 2: of these people are afraid they're gonna be unemployed. 491 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM. 492 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 2: Six FORTYFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 493 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 2: app after Deppor's news. Arthur's coming on from the Center 494 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: for Immigration Studies. He's their national security and immigration expert. 495 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 2: And Trump and Tom Homan they sent out two hundred 496 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 2: and sixty illegal aliens on planes, really bad guys, violent 497 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 2: criminal gang member aliens from trendyar Ragua, that Venezuelan gang 498 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 2: and also MS thirteen, the El Salvadorian gang. They all 499 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 2: sent them to this horrific prison in l Salvador, and 500 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 2: we'll talk about that. We'll also talk about one of 501 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 2: the laws that Trump used to send these guys out 502 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 2: and kind of semi defy to judge's order, which is 503 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 2: its own amusing story. But he used the law from 504 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 2: seventeen ninety eight. You know, I didn't even we got 505 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 2: so off track with our outrage and anger. I didn't 506 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 2: even finish the Karen Bass story about her supporters going 507 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 2: on the offensive, and specifically the chief of staff to 508 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 2: the city council president, the useless Marquis Harris Dawson again 509 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 2: acting mayor the day of the fire. So he's got 510 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 2: this Joanne Kim who's the chief of staff, and she 511 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 2: sends out this rally around Karen Bass email, and I 512 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 2: forgot to. She said that these attacks against Bass are 513 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 2: highly partisan, amplified by a hard right media apparatus. I 514 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 2: don't know what that would be, and rooted in racism. Haha, 515 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 2: it had to be that people in the palisades are 516 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 2: angry because Karen Bass is black, not because their home 517 00:30:58,720 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 2: burned to the ground. 518 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: Do you understand that those are even Pacific palisades? 519 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 2: According to Joe and Kim, it's because you're a racist 520 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 2: that you're angry at Karen Bass. 521 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: Probably didn't know that. 522 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 2: You probably thought it's because she ran off to Ghana 523 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 2: while you're home burned to the ground and nobody from 524 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 2: the fire department showed up. Ah, you're wrong. This is 525 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 2: exactly why the right is coming after her. It's why 526 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 2: they're using any means they can, like this windstorm. Oh, 527 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 2: the firestorm has been diagraded to a windstorm. They're using 528 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 2: any means they can to attack her. They know that 529 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 2: Karen puts people first. Maybe the president of Ghana, she 530 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 2: put him first? Is that crazy? And that last quote 531 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 2: came from Vahed krsand the president of the Border Public Works. Wow, 532 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 2: he got on a zoom webinar to praise the mayor 533 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 2: for the recovery process. By the way, she did go 534 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 2: public and say that, you know, they got a lot 535 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 2: of it cleaned up in the first twenty eight days. 536 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 2: Phase one is over, and she kind of stood there 537 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 2: and took the glory. That was all the federal government. 538 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 2: That was the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers. 539 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 2: Karen passed had nothing to do with that. That was 540 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 2: the That was the federal government. Yes, you know, he's right, 541 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 2: That's that's why everybody's going after her. They're going after 542 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 2: her because of race, and they're going after her because 543 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 2: Karen puts people first. 544 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: What does it even mean? 545 00:32:51,360 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 2: Karen puts people first? Also, a strategist for the bass 546 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 2: reelection campaign is some loser named Doug Herman. Imagine having 547 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 2: this job. What do you do? I'm trying to get 548 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 2: Karen Bass reelected. Really is she still running? Doug Herman 549 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 2: says that mayor's closest allies will rally behind her in 550 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 2: the face of a recall. He said the mayor's team, 551 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 2: the mayor's team did not ask Joan Kim or Vahid 552 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,920 Speaker 2: Corsand to advocate on her. Behalf right, Okay, I believe 553 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 2: that there was no coordination at all. They embarrassed themselves 554 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 2: entirely on their own. This is going to be a 555 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 2: very entertaining year. Karen Bass tries to get us to 556 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 2: forget there was a fire. There was never a fire 557 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 2: because they never found a cause. And if there's no cause, 558 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 2: then there was no fire. When we come back Arthur 559 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 2: from the Center for Immigration Studies, Trump and Homan gave 560 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 2: the heave ho to two hundred and sixty one mostly 561 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 2: gang members from Trendyarragua and Venezuela and MS thirteen and 562 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 2: Outsalba or send him to an Ol Salvador prison, and 563 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 2: the president of El Salvador was happy to take them in. 564 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 2: A judge tried to stop the planes in mid flight, 565 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 2: and Trump told him what, I can't hear you. What 566 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 2: did you say something? That's all next? Debor Mark live 567 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 2: in the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. 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