March 3, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/03) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about the fact that he was thrown off the state's budget committee in an act of what he calls "retaliation". More on Assemblyman Carl DeMaio being kicked off the state's budget committee. Border crossings are at an all-time low! The Boston Mayor, Suffolk County DA and Boston Police Commissioner all expressed condolences for an attacker who was killed by a cop.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, I have been taught.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I've been saying longingly, I wish we had a doze
here in California, in Sacramento, in Los Angeles, because I
think the waste, the fraud, the criminal activity on the
part of the legislature and the city council here in
LA and just all of it. I think the criminality,
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the theft, the fraud is overwhelming. So Carl the Mile,
the Republican assemblyman from San Diego County, all by himself,
is trying to chip away at it. And late last
week at a budget hearing, he started talking about twenty
five million dollars for some COVID nineteen workplace outreach program.
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And of course COVID is long gone years ago. What's
this money for. Wow, it turns out it's going to
seventy six far left political organizations.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's a slushbud. It's a huge slushbud.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And he started talking about it publicly at the committee hearing,
and Robert Reevis, the Assembly speaker, a Democrat, got so
pissed that this had been unmasked that he kicked Demaya
off the committee by Friday afternoon, and now we have
Karl Demaya with us to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Carl, how are you, hey, John, How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I am good.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, tell us the story from the beginning. How did
you discover just this twenty five million dollar COVID workplace
outreach program?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh, here's the story from the very beginning. Your longtime
listeners know from my various appearances on your show that
in a previous life, before I got into politics, I
had started one of the largest good government groups in
the nation in the nineteen nineties and we audit government programs.
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We looked for cost efficiencies. We were a dozing government
before doze existed. And I love what Trump and Elon
Musk are doing. It's exactly what we need. And so
when I was elected to the Assembly, one of my
priorities was I want to take a fine tooth comb
go through the state budget, asked tough questions, audit programs
because we're in a budget crisis. We need to balance
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the budget without cutting services. And you know, frankly, I
don't think the legislature has done a very good job
for twenty years looking at the budget, and so this
was very important to me. I think it's very important
to my constituents and all Californians. So I got put
on the budget committee, and I was excited. I showed
up to my first meeting two weeks ago, and the
first thing I did is I called out Governor Newsom
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for lying to the public about the budget. He said,
we had a quote modest surplus, but we did an
audit and went through the actual transfers in the budget
and show that we were looking at, you know, seven
eight billion dollars easily using their numbers, but I don't
even trust their numbers. But we are looking at multi
billion dollars of red ink for the following several years.
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But then on top of that, I said, let's look
at where some of this money's going. I asked about
the illegal immigrant health care because Newsom said a year ago,
when you put this program in place to give free
healthcare to illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense, that oh, it's
only going to cost six billion, and most of this
money will be reimbursed by the federal government because they're refugees,
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and so tax beyers really aren't in the California state
tax bearers wouldn't really be shouldering the boat burden. Well,
my whistleblowers, who actually have inside knowledge and we work
with people inside and outside government, said it's much more
than that. But you know, you know, here's here's where
you can look into various accounts, and it looked to
me like it was not six billion, but substantially more.
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So I asked, on record, how much is it, because
I know it's more than six and I've got my information,
but I'm gonna give you a chance to give the
public an answer, and to their credit, at least, you know,
at the beginning, they said, yeah, you're right, it's nine
point five billion, and it's eight billion dollars in the
general fund, which means that is one out of four
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medical dollars in the general fund of the State of
California budget goes to an illegal immigrant. Those are all
costs that are not reimbursed by the federal government. They
are born entirely by taxpayers. Gavin Newsom lied to the public.
Either he was ignorant or he was dishonest, But we
got that out there. So that was two weeks ago.
Then last week I showed up and I found this
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COVID program in the budget. So that was what I
decided to ask about. I had my staff pull the
grantees and contractors that were getting money from this program,
because they said, look, we shouldn't even have a COVID
program in twenty twenty five. Nobody needs to be told
about the dangers of COVID in the workplace in twenty
twenty five. That is so twenty twenty. You know, you
know what we're gonna do, lockdowns, force everyone to wear masks.
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So I said, first, the program looks on the face
of it to be absolutely redundant and not necessary. But
when we followed the money, we figured out why they
still have this program. Twenty five million dollars. Seventy three
organizations got this money, all of whom are political groups,
left wing political groups. They are engaging in ballot harvesting,
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candidate training and recruitment, voter education, lobbying, ballot measures, tax increases.
I mean, these people look and there's nothing wrong with
groups engaging that behavior as long as they use their
own money, not our taxpair money. So I said, how
is this not money laundering? Because the best way I
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could describe this is putting together a program with a
stated purpose and then suddenly using that as the veil
or the conduit to transfer money for the real purpose
of the program. None of these programs, these these left
wing groups, john have any experience in healthcare or workplace safety.
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All of them are political groups. So to a reasonable
person looking at this, this is a money, money laundering scheme.
There's no other way to describe it. And that's how
we described it. That went viral last week. Well after
that hearing, that was it. The Democrats said, we can't
have this guy going after the budget and doing this.
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He has to be silenced for taking h off the committee.
It's abusive power. It's abusive power. But you know shows
that we're over the target.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, I know you. I mean you hit the target.
So Robert read this the Assembly speaker. Does he call
you and kick you off the committee or do you
get a Twitter.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Message or what?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
No? No, no, no, no, there's no such courtesy. It
just you know, might makes right. He just did it.
And let me just also point out, you know, how
how illegitimate this is from the standpoint of our democracy.
I understand that California Republicans are a minority party. We
didn't win as many seats as the Democrats, and so
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they have a right to run the Assembly, they have
a right to more vote, more seats on each of
the committees, and most committees have nine Democrats and three Republicans.
I'm not asking to change that. That is just simply math. However,
I'll be damned if the Democrats get to choose who
they square off with on those committees. This would be
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like saying, all right, we're in a football league and
we're gonna have fair competitions and fair games. But you
know what, at every game, the chosen team gets to
pick the players of the other teams and gets to
decide who gets to play and what positions they get
to play in, and the best players get to the sidelighted.
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That's not a fair competition. That's rigging the process. And
so what what the Democrats have done in Sacramento by
saying we get to choose which Republicans we square off with.
They're trying to rig our democracy once again. They're stripping
us of our minority rights. And it's all because they
don't want the public to know what scams and scenes
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they've been engaging in with our dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I mean, Reavis is basically admitting that you're right, but
I don't did he offer any evidence that you were
uh mistaken in your charges or you just no shut
you just shut you down, which means you're you actually
you were telling the truth that this has nothing This
has nothing to do with COVID, that's a cover story.
It has to do with funding these left wing activist
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organizations with our tax dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Oh and and and John. This is not the only
program where this money laundering is occurring. It is occurring
across the board. They're funding all sorts of uh political
groups with your taxpayer money in all sorts of accounts,
and we have a list of those accounts. By the way,
we have a whole char target list in my office.
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And when I said I was going to doze California
and then it now, I don't have the resources that
Elon Musk has in the federal government because he has
a full on government team that President Trump has entrusted
him with. What we're doing is working with outside whistleblowers,
outside resources, outside investigators, and the very hard working but
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limited staff I have in my Assembly office to do
this work. And I'll tell you we have other bombshells
coming down the road. I do not need to be
on the Budget Committee, although it'd be easier. I do
not need to be on the Budget Committee to do
this work. And if Robert Reeves, the Democrat speaker, thought
he was going to shut me up by taking me
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off of this committee, oh honey, We've got a whole
different story coming down the pike. We are not going
to be bullied into silence. We're not going to be deterred.
We're on a mission, and I think the public has
a right to know what's going on with their money.
That's important for us to get o.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
There is there anyone on the Republican side willing to
take up the mantle for you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean he can't.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He can't kick off all the Republicans. You're entitled to
three seats, right, I mean, I mean all the Republicans
really ought to be doing what you're doing here.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I think every legislator, whether they're a Democrat or Republican,
should be doing oversight and scrutinizing the numbers. But here's
the deal. I built a career out of this for
thirty years, and so I will admit I'm a geek.
I'm an accountant, I'm an auditor, I'm a forensic investigator.
That's my mindset, and that's why I was very successful
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for thirty years in doing that and helping troubled financial
financially troubled government programs balance.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, I'm not No.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I know maybe others have different talents, and you you're
the best at this. But I'm saying I think all
the other Republicans ought to say, no, you can't do this.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I mean that because.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
This is wrong well, and this is proving corruption, this
is proving money laundering here.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'll let my colleagues do what they feel comfortable doing.
I do know that this is a very punitive culture
up here, where might makes right the abuse of power.
And they have threatened other Republicans that if they rock
the boat, they'll be taken off committees. If they rock
the boat, their bills would be killed.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
They can't take everybody off all the committees, right, you're
entitled to certain number of seats.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Sure, you know I could, but we'll see every time
I think they've done something horrible, and they'll never never
sink lower. Oh they always surprise me. So look, the
reality is that instead of worrying about how do we
get the information out there. Let's get the information out there.
What they did by removing us from the Budget Committee.
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It was wrong, it was thubbery. There's no other way
to describe it. It's corruption, it's a cover up whatever.
But it's not going to deter us. And my hope
is that the public will support us and have my back.
If people are interested in supporting us outside, we are
hiring resource researchers. They can go to reform California dot org.
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That's our mothership. We even have a Doge page up there.
Now reform California dot org and join the fight, plus
share the videos that we're putting out. What I like
to do is put our findings in a video format
because things are very viral these days, and people like
to see charts and grabs, and so we make it
really simple. But we've got to get the word out
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there because what we're seeing with Elon must and Doge
is the latest polling shows about sixty five percent approval
of the Doze effort. I believe in California, even Democrat
voters want to see this sort of forensic accounting and
auditing of state government, and they're interested in what the
findings are.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Carl, keep doing it and anything you've got, you got
a home here, like I always tell you.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh, we are very appreciative of that, because while the
speaker wants to muzzle us, we're appreciative of John that
you do not want people to be left in the dark.
And we will show up anytime we have interesting information
to share.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
All right, Carl Demye, California Assemblymen, we'll talk more about this.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Did you just hear Carl Demaya? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Man, I hope you didn't miss this. That's why you
go to the podcast after four o'clock on the iHeart app.
Because Carl told the story of exposing twenty five million
dollars worth of fraud from Gavin Newsom the California Legislature,
twenty five million dollars that they're laundering through a program
called COVID nineteen workplace Outreach. And it's nonsense. The whole
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thing has nothing to do with workplace outreach for COVID.
It was seventy three politically political activist groups, left wing
activist groups who are getting money to do all sorts
of political agitation, like Carl said, which is fine, it's legal,
but not to be funded with tax money. And something
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Carl touched on, is there any well, however you vote,
Is there anybody who thinks this should be allowed? Are
are there Democratic voters who think our tax money twenty
five million dollars should be spent on political activism? Whether
you agree with the the messages or not, these are
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alleged nonprofit organization's political activism that should be funded by
the donors. For these groups, however, they raise their money
not funded by the tax beyers twenty five million dollars.
And this is just one program. And the reason Carl
Demio came on and he's the assemblyman out of San Diego,
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is he's starts talking about it and the Assembly speaker
kicks him off the budget committee Friday afternoon at five o'clock.
This is not something he wants discussed. This is criminal behavior.
If you have a budget item that says COVID nineteen
workplace outreach and it turns out it goes to political
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activities seventy three left wing groups, Clearly that's fraud. Clearly
that should be illegal. Clearly people ought to go to
jail for this. That's a lot of money, twenty five
million dollars, and so Reavis wants this covered up because
the videos go viral. But are there any I mean,
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people who support the mile obviously are gonna agree, But
independent and Democrat voters don't you agree?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Doesn't everyone? Isn't this like a shouldn't be one hundred
It should be one hundred percent? Right?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Tax money should not go to political activity, and then
the money shouldn't be laundered, covered up.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We shouldn't be lied to about it because how much?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
How many times do you how how many times are
we gonna hear about they don't have funding to help
the fire victims?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
How many times do we hear about.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Schools not having enough funding, the road's not having enough funding.
You know, I don't have enough money to clean the forests,
to keep the beaches clear. How you constantly hear we
all have enough money? You won't to have twenty five
million dollars? I mean, this is fraud. These guys are snakes,
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the criminals, these legislators are criminals. The NEWSOB administration is
filled with a bunch of criminals siphoning off money. This
is just one little tiny sliver, one little tiny sliver.
It's like the crap that they're finding in Washington, and
it's been going on for many years both parties, and
if legislators are not part of it, and a lot
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of more part of the scam, then they're too cowardly
to make a ruckus about it. And Carl Demles seems
to be the only guy. How could it be. We've
got eighty assembly people, forty states senators, thousands of people
in government and Carl de Myles the only guy in
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the whole state.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But I guess it is like Washington too, right there.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We've got five hundred and thirty five senators in congressman
hundreds of millions really when it comes to government workers,
and nobody ever blew the whistle on all the ways
that Musk is finding. You know, every five minutes that
there has to be a complete sea change. And I'm
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just asking you who cares who found it? Every Democratic
legislator ought to be digging this stuff out. Unless again,
two things, they're part of the racket. They're one of
the criminals laundering the money somehow they're getting the proceeds,
or they're that cowardly that they're willing to spend millions
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of dollars of your money just to reward political activist lunatics.
In case you wonder where the people come for these protests,
they come from these kinds of organizations. You're paying for
these protests. Just as one example, the the UH one
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of these UH one of these the congregations organized for
prophetic engagement. It's a weird name, makes it sound like
it's religious. I guess that's part of the scam. Oh
congregations fetic engagement. Now, it's not a religion. They're engaged
in ballot harvesting during elections. So when you see some
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of these candidates with a big surge when they start
counting the mail in ballots, they're fake ballots, really, and
you're paying for them with your tax money, and maybe
that's why your guy can't win. Carl Demaya has found
something momentous here, momentous. It's astonishing. But there's there's got
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to be follow up besides Demayo doing this Otherwise it's
again another one of these one day stories. Every single person,
every taxpayer in California ought to be enraged about this stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
People were clutching their well, by the way, before I continue, Deborah,
what what what agency said you have to go back
to working these four days a week having Yeah, the
state workers, Yeah, they still weren't working.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
So they have to go back four days a week.
And there is but it's fluid, and you know some people,
depending on their case, you know, they might still be
able to work from home.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
What a bunch of lazy slabs. Five years later, there
were people not showing up for work. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Even Newsom's had it. Wow when mister Lockdown says you
have to come in and work. Good lord, in a minute,
I got to tell you. You know all everybody was clutching
their pearls and fainting because Trump had that televised argument
with Zelenski, the Ukrainian President. Well, Ken and I always said,
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give any story three days. We had a three day rule.
Just wait. You know the tendency, especially when you do
a radio show, is to have a knee jerk reaction
to stuff. But wait three days. Well, guess who also
had a fight with Zelenski. And except it wasn't televised
and it was over the exact same issue.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Tell you about it just a moment. But here is
this is the best news.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Trump went on social media Saturday and declared the invasion
of our country is over. In his first full month
in office, that would be February, there was only eighty
three hundred apprehensions of illegal aliens at the border, on
all time record low. Christy nom the Homeland Security secretary,
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said February was our lowest month in recorded history for
encounters at the border. The world is hearing our message.
Do not come to our country illegally. If you do,
we'll find you, arrest you, and send you back. How
about that? Do you know they cut the apprehensions by
ninety six percent the highway December are twenty twenty three.
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Just fifteen months ago, they had three hundred and one
thousand encounters at the border, and the vast majority of
those people got into the country here. It was a
little over eight thousand, and nearly all of them, as
Trump said, were quickly ejected or when necessary, prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
For court crimes.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You notice they didn't need a big congressional bill, They
didn't need anything special done. You just had to do
your job and let the border patrol do their work
and tell Mexico We're not putting up with this anymore,
and reinstated all the policies that were in effect up
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until January twenty twenty one. They all back in effect.
Mexico got pressured. All the other countries were told take
your deported aliens now or you're gonna lose US funding.
And everybody complied. Country started supplying planes, they started Venezuela
of all places, started helping out taking back.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Sorry about that. What did you did? You yawned?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I did? I did? I did?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
That?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Was am pair ofssing?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I keeping you up?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
You are?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I didn't sleep well the earthquake.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
I told you the three point nine earth break yesterday.
I was in a dead sleep and it woke me
up and I couldn't go back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Nobody's ever done that before.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
And I didn't realize my MIC was on.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Just now.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh well, first of all, thanks for the support. You know.
I'm paying attention.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
And I had my no I was because my MIC
was on in case I wanted to do it, But
I just the yawn just.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'm tired, John, I've.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Been on the air.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Since ten thirty this morning.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Someone's taking another gummy tonight or did you have a
gummy this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Well, what I'm telling you, I couldn't go back to
sleep after that earthquake.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That earthquake, it was three point nine in Hollywood, for
God's sake, John, it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Was a huge jolt.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
That's you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I through it too, didn't And I was a lot
closer than you were.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Your wife felt it because she.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Texted she she's up twenty four to seven. OK, all right,
but she never sleeps.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Well either do I?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But I actually did.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I took a gummy last night, just slept until I.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Got Can you say that because we keep that?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, I got you. Don't worry, you got it, Okay.
I can't believe I did that.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I didn't realize my mic was on.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You're right, But now I know what's going on in there.
Though I thought I'm like too loud. You know, everybody
says you're you're loud. You screamed too much. You might
do and you do, yeah, but not enough to keep
you awake. You got your headphones.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
On, and you see me yawning all the time. It's
just this time I had my mic.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I just never had sound to go along with it. Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Gee, I've I've lost my will to carry on here.
If I can't keep doing interested, what's the point of this.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Come on, let's live it up. Come on, let's go.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The Trump administration said it was a ninety six percent drop,
and this could have been done on day one. You
have to understand the Biden people did this on purpose.
If Trump was able to cause a ninety six percent
drop and get everyone to cooperate, what was I saying
before so rudely yawned debt. Colombia is sending planes to
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take back Colombians. Venezuela is helping out. Everybody's helping out.
It wasn't that hard. You just say, hey, you you
fly back your illegal aliens, or you lose all the
federal money we give you all the USA. It's not
that difficult. Now here's the other story. Maybe this would
be more interesting. So everybody. Some people freaked out very
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angry when Trump and JD. Vance be rated Zelensky, and
they were upset that he wasn't appreciative, wouldn't sign the
minerals deal that everybody had worked out behind the scenes.
I mean that that little Oval Office meeting was just
supposed to be a performance. It was supposed to be
just a formality, and then they were all they were
going to sign the documents and have lunch and everybody
was going to be happy. And then Zolensky, for whatever reason,
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backed out, demanded more money and made comments that enraged Trump. Well,
and everybody said that that was that was disastrous for Trump.
It made America look terrible. That's not the way a
president should act. And my first reaction was, this stuff
goes on all the time. We just happened to see it,
and I'm glad I saw it. I want to know
what they're really doing behind closed doors. It's our lives
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that they are playing with, it's our money that they're spending. Yeah,
I want to see what really happens. Why do people
not want to see reality? World leaders yell at each
other all the time. Here's some proof. Took three days,
but there was a story in October thirty first, twenty
twenty two. It took three days before somebody dug it up.
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Joe Biden and Voldemir Zelensky speak by phone whenever the
US announces a new package of military assistants for Ukraine.
By this time, the war was what seven months old,
but according to NBC News, a phone call between Zelensky
and Biden over the summer played out differently. According to
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four people familiar with the call, Biden had barely finished
telling Zelensky that he had just approved another billion dollars
in military assistance for Ukraine when Zelensky started listing all
the additional help that he needed and wasn't getting.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
In other words, there wasn't a thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's like, wait, I need this and this and this
and this, and Biden lost his temper. He started yelling
at Zelensky that the American people were being quite generous
and his administration and the US military were working hard
to help Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Started raising his.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Voice and said Zelensky could show a little more gratitude,
which is exactly what Trump advanced told him, because I
think Zelensky turns out to be an annoying little jerk,
and no matter how much you give him, he always
wants more. We get three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
You know what Trump said today. I don't know if
it's true, but you'll get the idea. He said, we
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could have rebuilt our entire US Navy with three hundred
and fifty billion dollars, Like at some point, there's got
to be a limit here, right, there's got to be
a limit. Three hundred and fifty billion Jesus, and we
got nothing out of it. And uh so, anyway, this
goes on all the time. What you saw and maybe
(28:54):
maybe you were horrified by it's like, would you grow up?
Every acts like a child?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
More? Coming up? How are you doing in here? I'm
ready to go to bed.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Obviously, first first newscaster in the history of the show Town.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
During the program, I'm embarrassed. You're making me feel worse.
But this is how I amuse myself.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
I please, Eric, don't save it?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, no, no, save it? We got it? Do you
have it? Lay back? Okay? Good yet? Okay, I can
go all right tomorrow definitely.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You're not gonna believe this, but I'm gonna play the
audio so you see that this is true. There's something
really sick about progressive politicians. This really happened in Boston.
Two people ran into the Chick fil A in Kopley
Square and they were being chased by a guy with
(30:03):
a knife who is trying to stab them. This happened
at five point thirty in the afternoon on Saturday daylight.
There was an off duty cop inside the restaurant. He
saw this crazy guy trying to stab the two people,
and the cop, identified himself as an officer, told the
(30:26):
man to drop the knife. The man did not, and
the cop shot him and killed him. Here's the reaction
from the Boston Mayor, Michelle wou the Suffolk County DA
Kevin Hayden, and the Boston com Police Commissioner Michael Copp.
Michael Cox, listen to who they expressed condolences for.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
My condolences and all of our thoughts are with the
family of the individual whose life has been lost.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Our thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
With the family and friends of the individual who's been lost.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
So our condolences go to the individual who is killed tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's the mayor, the County DA, and the police commissioner
expressing their condolences and prayers to the guy with the
knife who tried to stab two innocent people in a
Chick fil A in Boston. Seriously, that's exactly what they did.
No condolences for the two people who nearly got killed.
(31:38):
Condolences for the guy who got shot dead by the
cop still holding the day Conway's here, Hey.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Now, why that's that's never a surprise anymore. It was shocking,
you know, twenty years ago. Now it's just like, okay,
that's what they do, and I'm okay to do.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
That's what they do. Alex done'es going on.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
We're going to talk about Jeane Hackman, who was honored
last night during the Oscars.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Did you watch the Oscar Awards the Academy Awards kind of?
I mean the TV was on, but we had friends over.
We were talking and not really paying attention. Really, Yeah,
And then I watched the first part over again.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I wanted to see Conan O'Brien. He was pretty good. Yeah,
I like him a lot.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, And I bet I bet a lot of money
on Demi Moore that she would win.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
There's only two movies I knew out of that, like,
out of the whole night, there were two.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I'd seen two of them, what two?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Which it was the Bob Dylan movie and I only
saw that on Saturday night or Friday night. And then
that that movie that Kieran Culkin was in.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Oh, a real pain fried green tomatoes. No, I saw
that a while back. But anyway, so Big Night at
the Oscar is one of those speeches. Got Adrian Brody
went on for almost seven minutes, six and a half minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Self important, pomp, honest to god. But you know who
he's married to.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
He's married to Jeffrey Epstein's nor Harvey Weinstein's ex wife.
As a matter of fact, his kids are Harvey Weinstein's kids.
Would you kiss a woman who physically pleasured Harvey Weinstein?
I don't know, but I look, he was accused by
hundreds of women of rape and sexual advances and all stuff.
(33:24):
And she didn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I guess she didn't. I guess wow, that she didn't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Maybe like Karen Best, not know when the fire was coming.
Maybe maybe they live in their own world. And then
that earthquake happened, the three point nine earthquake right under
my house. I mean literally, I'm like like a couple
hundred yards away from the epicenter.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I guess is a fault. It was huge running through
your house. It felt like a train was coming through
the house. Yes, I slept through it.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
It had happened at ten thirteen, which happens to be
my birthday, October thirteenth. And I knew was coming because
I won money at the racetrack, and every time I win,
something bad happen. Right, at least your house didn't split
the pieces. When I say I wanted the racetrack, I
broke even, all.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Right, Come along with you, Michael Kruzher with the news
live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
always hear the show live on KFI Am six forty
from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and
of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, I have been taught.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I've been saying longingly, I wish we had a doze
here in California, in Sacramento, in Los Angeles, because I
think the waste, the fraud, the criminal activity on the
part of the legislature and the city council here in
LA and just all of it. I think the criminality,
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the theft, the fraud is overwhelming. So Carl the Mile,
the Republican assemblyman from San Diego County, all by himself,
is trying to chip away at it. And late last
week at a budget hearing, he started talking about twenty
five million dollars for some COVID nineteen workplace outreach program.
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And of course COVID is long gone years ago. What's
this money for. Wow, it turns out it's going to
seventy six far left political organizations.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's a slushbud. It's a huge slushbud.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And he started talking about it publicly at the committee hearing,
and Robert Reevis, the Assembly speaker, a Democrat, got so
pissed that this had been unmasked that he kicked Demaya
off the committee by Friday afternoon, and now we have
Karl Demaya with us to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Carl, how are you, hey, John, How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I am good.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, tell us the story from the beginning. How did
you discover just this twenty five million dollar COVID workplace
outreach program?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh, here's the story from the very beginning. Your longtime
listeners know from my various appearances on your show that
in a previous life, before I got into politics, I
had started one of the largest good government groups in
the nation in the nineteen nineties and we audit government programs.
(02:04):
We looked for cost efficiencies. We were a dozing government
before doze existed. And I love what Trump and Elon
Musk are doing. It's exactly what we need. And so
when I was elected to the Assembly, one of my
priorities was I want to take a fine tooth comb
go through the state budget, asked tough questions, audit programs
because we're in a budget crisis. We need to balance
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the budget without cutting services. And you know, frankly, I
don't think the legislature has done a very good job
for twenty years looking at the budget, and so this
was very important to me. I think it's very important
to my constituents and all Californians. So I got put
on the budget committee, and I was excited. I showed
up to my first meeting two weeks ago, and the
first thing I did is I called out Governor Newsom
(02:49):
for lying to the public about the budget. He said,
we had a quote modest surplus, but we did an
audit and went through the actual transfers in the budget
and show that we were looking at, you know, seven
eight billion dollars easily using their numbers, but I don't
even trust their numbers. But we are looking at multi
billion dollars of red ink for the following several years.
(03:11):
But then on top of that, I said, let's look
at where some of this money's going. I asked about
the illegal immigrant health care because Newsom said a year ago,
when you put this program in place to give free
healthcare to illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense, that oh, it's
only going to cost six billion, and most of this
money will be reimbursed by the federal government because they're refugees,
(03:32):
and so tax beyers really aren't in the California state
tax bearers wouldn't really be shouldering the boat burden. Well,
my whistleblowers, who actually have inside knowledge and we work
with people inside and outside government, said it's much more
than that. But you know, you know, here's here's where
you can look into various accounts, and it looked to
me like it was not six billion, but substantially more.
(03:55):
So I asked, on record, how much is it, because
I know it's more than six and I've got my information,
but I'm gonna give you a chance to give the
public an answer, and to their credit, at least, you know,
at the beginning, they said, yeah, you're right, it's nine
point five billion, and it's eight billion dollars in the
general fund, which means that is one out of four
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medical dollars in the general fund of the State of
California budget goes to an illegal immigrant. Those are all
costs that are not reimbursed by the federal government. They
are born entirely by taxpayers. Gavin Newsom lied to the public.
Either he was ignorant or he was dishonest, But we
got that out there. So that was two weeks ago.
Then last week I showed up and I found this
(04:39):
COVID program in the budget. So that was what I
decided to ask about. I had my staff pull the
grantees and contractors that were getting money from this program,
because they said, look, we shouldn't even have a COVID
program in twenty twenty five. Nobody needs to be told
about the dangers of COVID in the workplace in twenty
twenty five. That is so twenty twenty. You know, you
know what we're gonna do, lockdowns, force everyone to wear masks.
(05:02):
So I said, first, the program looks on the face
of it to be absolutely redundant and not necessary. But
when we followed the money, we figured out why they
still have this program. Twenty five million dollars. Seventy three
organizations got this money, all of whom are political groups,
left wing political groups. They are engaging in ballot harvesting,
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candidate training and recruitment, voter education, lobbying, ballot measures, tax increases.
I mean, these people look and there's nothing wrong with
groups engaging that behavior as long as they use their
own money, not our taxpair money. So I said, how
is this not money laundering? Because the best way I
(05:47):
could describe this is putting together a program with a
stated purpose and then suddenly using that as the veil
or the conduit to transfer money for the real purpose
of the program. None of these programs, these these left
wing groups, john have any experience in healthcare or workplace safety.
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All of them are political groups. So to a reasonable
person looking at this, this is a money, money laundering scheme.
There's no other way to describe it. And that's how
we described it. That went viral last week. Well after
that hearing, that was it. The Democrats said, we can't
have this guy going after the budget and doing this.
(06:28):
He has to be silenced for taking h off the committee.
It's abusive power. It's abusive power. But you know shows
that we're over the target.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, I know you. I mean you hit the target.
So Robert read this the Assembly speaker. Does he call
you and kick you off the committee or do you
get a Twitter.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Message or what?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
No? No, no, no, no, there's no such courtesy. It
just you know, might makes right. He just did it.
And let me just also point out, you know, how
how illegitimate this is from the standpoint of our democracy.
I understand that California Republicans are a minority party. We
didn't win as many seats as the Democrats, and so
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they have a right to run the Assembly, they have
a right to more vote, more seats on each of
the committees, and most committees have nine Democrats and three Republicans.
I'm not asking to change that. That is just simply math. However,
I'll be damned if the Democrats get to choose who
they square off with on those committees. This would be
(07:28):
like saying, all right, we're in a football league and
we're gonna have fair competitions and fair games. But you
know what, at every game, the chosen team gets to
pick the players of the other teams and gets to
decide who gets to play and what positions they get
to play in, and the best players get to the sidelighted.
(07:52):
That's not a fair competition. That's rigging the process. And
so what what the Democrats have done in Sacramento by
saying we get to choose which Republicans we square off with.
They're trying to rig our democracy once again. They're stripping
us of our minority rights. And it's all because they
don't want the public to know what scams and scenes
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they've been engaging in with our dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I mean, Reavis is basically admitting that you're right, but
I don't did he offer any evidence that you were
uh mistaken in your charges or you just no shut
you just shut you down, which means you're you actually
you were telling the truth that this has nothing This
has nothing to do with COVID, that's a cover story.
It has to do with funding these left wing activist
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organizations with our tax dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Oh and and and John. This is not the only
program where this money laundering is occurring. It is occurring
across the board. They're funding all sorts of uh political
groups with your taxpayer money in all sorts of accounts,
and we have a list of those accounts. By the way,
we have a whole char target list in my office.
(09:01):
And when I said I was going to doze California
and then it now, I don't have the resources that
Elon Musk has in the federal government because he has
a full on government team that President Trump has entrusted
him with. What we're doing is working with outside whistleblowers,
outside resources, outside investigators, and the very hard working but
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limited staff I have in my Assembly office to do
this work. And I'll tell you we have other bombshells
coming down the road. I do not need to be
on the Budget Committee, although it'd be easier. I do
not need to be on the Budget Committee to do
this work. And if Robert Reeves, the Democrat speaker, thought
he was going to shut me up by taking me
(09:43):
off of this committee, oh honey, We've got a whole
different story coming down the pike. We are not going
to be bullied into silence. We're not going to be deterred.
We're on a mission, and I think the public has
a right to know what's going on with their money.
That's important for us to get o.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
There is there anyone on the Republican side willing to
take up the mantle for you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean he can't.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He can't kick off all the Republicans. You're entitled to
three seats, right, I mean, I mean all the Republicans
really ought to be doing what you're doing here.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I think every legislator, whether they're a Democrat or Republican,
should be doing oversight and scrutinizing the numbers. But here's
the deal. I built a career out of this for
thirty years, and so I will admit I'm a geek.
I'm an accountant, I'm an auditor, I'm a forensic investigator.
That's my mindset, and that's why I was very successful
(10:38):
for thirty years in doing that and helping troubled financial
financially troubled government programs balance.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, I'm not No.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I know maybe others have different talents, and you you're
the best at this. But I'm saying I think all
the other Republicans ought to say, no, you can't do this.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I mean that because.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
This is wrong well, and this is proving corruption, this
is proving money laundering here.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'll let my colleagues do what they feel comfortable doing.
I do know that this is a very punitive culture
up here, where might makes right the abuse of power.
And they have threatened other Republicans that if they rock
the boat, they'll be taken off committees. If they rock
the boat, their bills would be killed.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
They can't take everybody off all the committees, right, you're
entitled to certain number of seats.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Sure, you know I could, but we'll see every time
I think they've done something horrible, and they'll never never
sink lower. Oh they always surprise me. So look, the
reality is that instead of worrying about how do we
get the information out there. Let's get the information out there.
What they did by removing us from the Budget Committee.
(11:50):
It was wrong, it was thubbery. There's no other way
to describe it. It's corruption, it's a cover up whatever.
But it's not going to deter us. And my hope
is that the public will support us and have my back.
If people are interested in supporting us outside, we are
hiring resource researchers. They can go to reform California dot org.
(12:11):
That's our mothership. We even have a Doge page up there.
Now reform California dot org and join the fight, plus
share the videos that we're putting out. What I like
to do is put our findings in a video format
because things are very viral these days, and people like
to see charts and grabs, and so we make it
really simple. But we've got to get the word out
(12:33):
there because what we're seeing with Elon must and Doge
is the latest polling shows about sixty five percent approval
of the Doze effort. I believe in California, even Democrat
voters want to see this sort of forensic accounting and
auditing of state government, and they're interested in what the
findings are.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Carl, keep doing it and anything you've got, you got
a home here, like I always tell you.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh, we are very appreciative of that, because while the
speaker wants to muzzle us, we're appreciative of John that
you do not want people to be left in the dark.
And we will show up anytime we have interesting information
to share.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
All right, Carl Demye, California Assemblymen, we'll talk more about this.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Did you just hear Carl Demaya? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Man, I hope you didn't miss this. That's why you
go to the podcast after four o'clock on the iHeart app.
Because Carl told the story of exposing twenty five million
dollars worth of fraud from Gavin Newsom the California Legislature,
twenty five million dollars that they're laundering through a program
called COVID nineteen workplace Outreach. And it's nonsense. The whole
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thing has nothing to do with workplace outreach for COVID.
It was seventy three politically political activist groups, left wing
activist groups who are getting money to do all sorts
of political agitation, like Carl said, which is fine, it's legal,
but not to be funded with tax money. And something
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Carl touched on, is there any well, however you vote,
Is there anybody who thinks this should be allowed? Are
are there Democratic voters who think our tax money twenty
five million dollars should be spent on political activism? Whether
you agree with the the messages or not, these are
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alleged nonprofit organization's political activism that should be funded by
the donors. For these groups, however, they raise their money
not funded by the tax beyers twenty five million dollars.
And this is just one program. And the reason Carl
Demio came on and he's the assemblyman out of San Diego,
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is he's starts talking about it and the Assembly speaker
kicks him off the budget committee Friday afternoon at five o'clock.
This is not something he wants discussed. This is criminal behavior.
If you have a budget item that says COVID nineteen
workplace outreach and it turns out it goes to political
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activities seventy three left wing groups, Clearly that's fraud. Clearly
that should be illegal. Clearly people ought to go to
jail for this. That's a lot of money, twenty five
million dollars, and so Reavis wants this covered up because
the videos go viral. But are there any I mean,
(15:44):
people who support the mile obviously are gonna agree, But
independent and Democrat voters don't you agree?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Doesn't everyone? Isn't this like a shouldn't be one hundred
It should be one hundred percent? Right?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Tax money should not go to political activity, and then
the money shouldn't be laundered, covered up.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We shouldn't be lied to about it because how much?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
How many times do you how how many times are
we gonna hear about they don't have funding to help
the fire victims?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
How many times do we hear about.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Schools not having enough funding, the road's not having enough funding.
You know, I don't have enough money to clean the forests,
to keep the beaches clear. How you constantly hear we
all have enough money? You won't to have twenty five
million dollars? I mean, this is fraud. These guys are snakes,
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the criminals, these legislators are criminals. The NEWSOB administration is
filled with a bunch of criminals siphoning off money. This
is just one little tiny sliver, one little tiny sliver.
It's like the crap that they're finding in Washington, and
it's been going on for many years both parties, and
if legislators are not part of it, and a lot
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of more part of the scam, then they're too cowardly
to make a ruckus about it. And Carl Demles seems
to be the only guy. How could it be. We've
got eighty assembly people, forty states senators, thousands of people
in government and Carl de Myles the only guy in
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the whole state.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But I guess it is like Washington too, right there.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We've got five hundred and thirty five senators in congressman
hundreds of millions really when it comes to government workers,
and nobody ever blew the whistle on all the ways
that Musk is finding. You know, every five minutes that
there has to be a complete sea change. And I'm
(17:59):
just asking you who cares who found it? Every Democratic
legislator ought to be digging this stuff out. Unless again,
two things, they're part of the racket. They're one of
the criminals laundering the money somehow they're getting the proceeds,
or they're that cowardly that they're willing to spend millions
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of dollars of your money just to reward political activist lunatics.
In case you wonder where the people come for these protests,
they come from these kinds of organizations. You're paying for
these protests. Just as one example, the the UH one
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of these UH one of these the congregations organized for
prophetic engagement. It's a weird name, makes it sound like
it's religious. I guess that's part of the scam. Oh
congregations fetic engagement. Now, it's not a religion. They're engaged
in ballot harvesting during elections. So when you see some
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of these candidates with a big surge when they start
counting the mail in ballots, they're fake ballots, really, and
you're paying for them with your tax money, and maybe
that's why your guy can't win. Carl Demaya has found
something momentous here, momentous. It's astonishing. But there's there's got
(19:32):
to be follow up besides Demayo doing this Otherwise it's
again another one of these one day stories. Every single person,
every taxpayer in California ought to be enraged about this stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
People were clutching their well, by the way, before I continue, Deborah,
what what what agency said you have to go back
to working these four days a week having Yeah, the
state workers, Yeah, they still weren't working.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
So they have to go back four days a week.
And there is but it's fluid, and you know some people,
depending on their case, you know, they might still be
able to work from home.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
What a bunch of lazy slabs. Five years later, there
were people not showing up for work. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Even Newsom's had it. Wow when mister Lockdown says you
have to come in and work. Good lord, in a minute,
I got to tell you. You know all everybody was clutching
their pearls and fainting because Trump had that televised argument
with Zelenski, the Ukrainian President. Well, Ken and I always said,
(20:48):
give any story three days. We had a three day rule.
Just wait. You know the tendency, especially when you do
a radio show, is to have a knee jerk reaction
to stuff. But wait three days. Well, guess who also
had a fight with Zelenski. And except it wasn't televised
and it was over the exact same issue.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Tell you about it just a moment. But here is
this is the best news.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Trump went on social media Saturday and declared the invasion
of our country is over. In his first full month
in office, that would be February, there was only eighty
three hundred apprehensions of illegal aliens at the border, on
all time record low. Christy nom the Homeland Security secretary,
(21:37):
said February was our lowest month in recorded history for
encounters at the border. The world is hearing our message.
Do not come to our country illegally. If you do,
we'll find you, arrest you, and send you back. How
about that? Do you know they cut the apprehensions by
ninety six percent the highway December are twenty twenty three.
(22:02):
Just fifteen months ago, they had three hundred and one
thousand encounters at the border, and the vast majority of
those people got into the country here. It was a
little over eight thousand, and nearly all of them, as
Trump said, were quickly ejected or when necessary, prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
For court crimes.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You notice they didn't need a big congressional bill, They
didn't need anything special done. You just had to do
your job and let the border patrol do their work
and tell Mexico We're not putting up with this anymore,
and reinstated all the policies that were in effect up
(22:49):
until January twenty twenty one. They all back in effect.
Mexico got pressured. All the other countries were told take
your deported aliens now or you're gonna lose US funding.
And everybody complied. Country started supplying planes, they started Venezuela
of all places, started helping out taking back.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Sorry about that. What did you did? You yawned?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I did? I did? I did?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
That?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Was am pair ofssing?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I keeping you up?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
You are?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I didn't sleep well the earthquake.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
I told you the three point nine earth break yesterday.
I was in a dead sleep and it woke me
up and I couldn't go back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Nobody's ever done that before.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
And I didn't realize my MIC was on.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Just now.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh well, first of all, thanks for the support. You know.
I'm paying attention.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
And I had my no I was because my MIC
was on in case I wanted to do it, But
I just the yawn just.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'm tired, John, I've.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Been on the air.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Since ten thirty this morning.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Someone's taking another gummy tonight or did you have a
gummy this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Well, what I'm telling you, I couldn't go back to
sleep after that earthquake.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That earthquake, it was three point nine in Hollywood, for
God's sake, John, it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Was a huge jolt.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
That's you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I through it too, didn't And I was a lot
closer than you were.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Your wife felt it because she.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Texted she she's up twenty four to seven. OK, all right,
but she never sleeps.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Well either do I?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But I actually did.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I took a gummy last night, just slept until I.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Got Can you say that because we keep that?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, I got you. Don't worry, you got it, Okay.
I can't believe I did that.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I didn't realize my mic was on.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You're right, But now I know what's going on in there.
Though I thought I'm like too loud. You know, everybody
says you're you're loud. You screamed too much. You might
do and you do, yeah, but not enough to keep
you awake. You got your headphones.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
On, and you see me yawning all the time. It's
just this time I had my mic.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I just never had sound to go along with it. Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Gee, I've I've lost my will to carry on here.
If I can't keep doing interested, what's the point of this.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Come on, let's live it up. Come on, let's go.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The Trump administration said it was a ninety six percent drop,
and this could have been done on day one. You
have to understand the Biden people did this on purpose.
If Trump was able to cause a ninety six percent
drop and get everyone to cooperate, what was I saying
before so rudely yawned debt. Colombia is sending planes to
(25:36):
take back Colombians. Venezuela is helping out. Everybody's helping out.
It wasn't that hard. You just say, hey, you you
fly back your illegal aliens, or you lose all the
federal money we give you all the USA. It's not
that difficult. Now here's the other story. Maybe this would
be more interesting. So everybody. Some people freaked out very
(26:01):
angry when Trump and JD. Vance be rated Zelensky, and
they were upset that he wasn't appreciative, wouldn't sign the
minerals deal that everybody had worked out behind the scenes.
I mean that that little Oval Office meeting was just
supposed to be a performance. It was supposed to be
just a formality, and then they were all they were
going to sign the documents and have lunch and everybody
was going to be happy. And then Zolensky, for whatever reason,
(26:25):
backed out, demanded more money and made comments that enraged Trump. Well,
and everybody said that that was that was disastrous for Trump.
It made America look terrible. That's not the way a
president should act. And my first reaction was, this stuff
goes on all the time. We just happened to see it,
and I'm glad I saw it. I want to know
what they're really doing behind closed doors. It's our lives
(26:47):
that they are playing with, it's our money that they're spending. Yeah,
I want to see what really happens. Why do people
not want to see reality? World leaders yell at each
other all the time. Here's some proof. Took three days,
but there was a story in October thirty first, twenty
twenty two. It took three days before somebody dug it up.
(27:12):
Joe Biden and Voldemir Zelensky speak by phone whenever the
US announces a new package of military assistants for Ukraine.
By this time, the war was what seven months old,
but according to NBC News, a phone call between Zelensky
and Biden over the summer played out differently. According to
(27:36):
four people familiar with the call, Biden had barely finished
telling Zelensky that he had just approved another billion dollars
in military assistance for Ukraine when Zelensky started listing all
the additional help that he needed and wasn't getting.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
In other words, there wasn't a thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's like, wait, I need this and this and this
and this, and Biden lost his temper. He started yelling
at Zelensky that the American people were being quite generous
and his administration and the US military were working hard
to help Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Started raising his.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Voice and said Zelensky could show a little more gratitude,
which is exactly what Trump advanced told him, because I
think Zelensky turns out to be an annoying little jerk,
and no matter how much you give him, he always
wants more. We get three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
You know what Trump said today. I don't know if
it's true, but you'll get the idea. He said, we
(28:33):
could have rebuilt our entire US Navy with three hundred
and fifty billion dollars, Like at some point, there's got
to be a limit here, right, there's got to be
a limit. Three hundred and fifty billion Jesus, and we
got nothing out of it. And uh so, anyway, this
goes on all the time. What you saw and maybe
(28:54):
maybe you were horrified by it's like, would you grow up?
Every acts like a child?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
More? Coming up? How are you doing in here? I'm
ready to go to bed.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Obviously, first first newscaster in the history of the show Town.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
During the program, I'm embarrassed. You're making me feel worse.
But this is how I amuse myself.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
I please, Eric, don't save it?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, no, no, save it? We got it? Do you
have it? Lay back? Okay? Good yet? Okay, I can
go all right tomorrow definitely.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You're not gonna believe this, but I'm gonna play the
audio so you see that this is true. There's something
really sick about progressive politicians. This really happened in Boston.
Two people ran into the Chick fil A in Kopley
Square and they were being chased by a guy with
(30:03):
a knife who is trying to stab them. This happened
at five point thirty in the afternoon on Saturday daylight.
There was an off duty cop inside the restaurant. He
saw this crazy guy trying to stab the two people,
and the cop, identified himself as an officer, told the
(30:26):
man to drop the knife. The man did not, and
the cop shot him and killed him. Here's the reaction
from the Boston Mayor, Michelle wou the Suffolk County DA
Kevin Hayden, and the Boston com Police Commissioner Michael Copp.
Michael Cox, listen to who they expressed condolences for.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
My condolences and all of our thoughts are with the
family of the individual whose life has been lost.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Our thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
With the family and friends of the individual who's been lost.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
So our condolences go to the individual who is killed tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's the mayor, the County DA, and the police commissioner
expressing their condolences and prayers to the guy with the
knife who tried to stab two innocent people in a
Chick fil A in Boston. Seriously, that's exactly what they did.
No condolences for the two people who nearly got killed.
(31:38):
Condolences for the guy who got shot dead by the
cop still holding the day Conway's here, Hey.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Now, why that's that's never a surprise anymore. It was shocking,
you know, twenty years ago. Now it's just like, okay,
that's what they do, and I'm okay to do.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
That's what they do. Alex done'es going on.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
We're going to talk about Jeane Hackman, who was honored
last night during the Oscars.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Did you watch the Oscar Awards the Academy Awards kind of?
I mean the TV was on, but we had friends over.
We were talking and not really paying attention. Really, Yeah,
And then I watched the first part over again.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I wanted to see Conan O'Brien. He was pretty good. Yeah,
I like him a lot.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, And I bet I bet a lot of money
on Demi Moore that she would win.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
There's only two movies I knew out of that, like,
out of the whole night, there were two.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I'd seen two of them, what two?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Which it was the Bob Dylan movie and I only
saw that on Saturday night or Friday night. And then
that that movie that Kieran Culkin was in.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Oh, a real pain fried green tomatoes. No, I saw
that a while back. But anyway, so Big Night at
the Oscar is one of those speeches. Got Adrian Brody
went on for almost seven minutes, six and a half minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Self important, pomp, honest to god. But you know who
he's married to.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
He's married to Jeffrey Epstein's nor Harvey Weinstein's ex wife.
As a matter of fact, his kids are Harvey Weinstein's kids.
Would you kiss a woman who physically pleasured Harvey Weinstein?
I don't know, but I look, he was accused by
hundreds of women of rape and sexual advances and all stuff.
(33:24):
And she didn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I guess she didn't. I guess wow, that she didn't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Maybe like Karen Best, not know when the fire was coming.
Maybe maybe they live in their own world. And then
that earthquake happened, the three point nine earthquake right under
my house. I mean literally, I'm like like a couple
hundred yards away from the epicenter.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I guess is a fault. It was huge running through
your house. It felt like a train was coming through
the house. Yes, I slept through it.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
It had happened at ten thirteen, which happens to be
my birthday, October thirteenth. And I knew was coming because
I won money at the racetrack, and every time I win,
something bad happen. Right, at least your house didn't split
the pieces. When I say I wanted the racetrack, I
broke even, all.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Right, Come along with you, Michael Kruzher with the news
live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
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