October 6, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (10/06) - CA State. Senator Tony Strickland comes on the show to talk about federal law enforcement officers having bounties on their head. More on federal law enforcement officers having bounties placed on them. The former LA Deputy Mayor was sentenced today for calling in bomb threats to City Hall but received a very light sentence. There was a testy exchange between two CNN commentators over the idea of free illegal immigrant healthcare being one of the causes of the government shutdown.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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let's continue with what we were discussing in the last segment.
Christinome went on Fox yesterday and said that their drug
cartels and gangs now have bounties on ice agents by name,
and they're offering ten thousand dollars if you kill, two
thousand dollars if you kidnap. And this is exactly what
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Gavin Newsom has been has been supporting by calling it
a Trump's private army. Then they swear an oath to
Trump and he demanded everybody take off their masks. Well,
here's why they wear masks because drug cartels are trying
to kill them. It's because that the Trump administration has
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cut off billions of dollars in profits. They can't smuggle
people and they can't smuggle young girls for prostitution, and
they can't smuggle their drugs, so they're out a lot
of money and they're going to start killing the agents.
Let's get Tony Stricklin on the state senator from Huntington Beach, Republican, Tony,
how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm good. Thanks for having me on, John, I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, what do you make of this is? This is
pretty bid.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's exactly what I said when we were debating this
on the Senate floor. It's reckless, it's dangerous. Bleds on
their hand.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
At end of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It also doesn't apply to the federal agents because we
have no jurisdiction as a state legislature. But you know again,
it's Governor Newsum grand standing and really bloods on his hands.
It's not only them that have a bounty on them.
I'm also concerned about their families and social media and
everything else. We have a hard enough time to get
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people to sign up to be in law enforcement and
ice and law enforcement to keep us safe. This is
just going to deter anybody else. I'm getting involved because
not only are they trying to keep us and protect us,
which is the most successual role of government. Now we're
exposing them on their private time and their families because
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of these reckless bills and laws that Gavin Newsom tries
to pass.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
In soccer, that's the plan of the progressives. They defunded
the police. They have demonized the police and destroyed their
morale to try to get them to quit. And as
they quit, there's no money to replace him. That's why
we're down to eighty three hundred cops here in Los
Angeles instead of ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Crime and crime is spiraling out of control. And that's
why we passed Proposition thirty six. All fifty eight counties,
even the most liberal counties of Moran and San Francisco,
voted favor to make sure that public safety is a priority.
It's the most successful role of government. And what does
Gavin Newsom do He doesn't fund And again it is
the you're absolutely right. They want us to be unsafe.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And now they want more ICE agents to quit, more
law enforcement to quit because their wives and kids are terrified.
Some of their names and faces are on the internet
having been docked. Now they fear that their husbands or
wives aren't going to make it home alive. And everyone's
saying this not worth it, and so you start defunding,
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you start demobilizing Department of Homeland Security, because why would
you volunteer for this. I know they had a record
recruitment going on, but too much of this stuff. And
to see the governor and the mayor against you, that's
terribly demoralizing.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And blood's on their hands. I mean again, and I'm
not just talking about the people who serve us well
in public safety. I'm talking about the average person who's
on that bus who gets assaulted. I'm talking about the
people who are just finding their own business. And crime
is going up because we have criminals that commit crime
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after crime after crime, and we have no accountability and
they go back out on the street. And and then
we wonder why we lose loved ones for census acts.
And again, I think the most exceptual role of government,
what we do both in the state at local level,
is keeping people safe. And we are less safe with
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Governor Newsom as governor at California.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They can't seem to accept, they don't accept that this
is the law. The law is being enforced. For maybe
the first time in their lives, they can see the
law being enforced. Immigration law, and and it's it's it's
made them crazy. It's literally made them crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh and and I also I also want to point
out that you know, these sanctuary cities and Sinsbury state laws,
if you don't want to see it out in the
spot meet or the car wash, get rid of these
sanctuary city and laws. We're going to be absolutely more
precise and deport folks who need to be deported. And
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is it a stock to anybody that Trump has fallen through?
It was a major part of his campaign. The reason
why he is in the White House is because he
says we are going to enforce our federal immigrats laws.
That's where the country is. And that's why he got
voted in overwhelmingly a large part because that was his
policies when.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He campaigned Newsim really believes in this concept that California
is its own nation and it's no longer subject to
United States law, but that he's going to decide what
federal law California cooperates with.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And it's really he clearly wants to pick. And two
is what laws you follow, what laws you don't. And
again I always say that I don't think we have
a governor of California. We have someone who has the title,
but he wakes up every morning to try to come
up with the new formula to be president of the
United States. And really that's what's driving him. He's not active,
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engaged in everyday policies in Sacramento. Uh, he's just trying
to figure out what he needs to do to try
to become president of the United States. And he'll be
He's all things to all people. And now he feels
like I could be the anti Trump guy to get
the nomination, but by.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Signing by but by siding against ICE agents. That's what's weird.
If you want to take on Trump, take on an
issue that's not so wildly popular, that isn't one of
the very top reasons Trump got elected, you have to
have some other issue that maybe Trump is not doing
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well on that you you could you can build the
following liberals.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I think these liberals are in their own little vacuum
of people that agree with them. I always say, you know,
when you're in the legislature, there's a little vacuum. They
don't talk to everyday people. John, they don't talk to,
you know, people who are just living paycheck to paycheck.
Trying to make ends meet, just you know, picking up
their kids from school, dropping them off at the baseball practice.
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They talk to each other in this little bubble that
they have, and they they're really not a part of reality.
What's really going on in California. They I call him
the modern day Marie Antoinette, letting eat cake, just like
we did with when we had the government shutdowns, with
the mask and everything. He went to a restaurant himself,
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but he wanted everybody else to wear a mask. He's
willing to put laws onto other people that he's not
willing to abide for by himself.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
All right, Tony, thanks for coming on again.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I really appreciate you. You have me on. Thanks again, John.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's State Senator Tony Strickland, Republican from Huntington Beach. And
if he didn't hear, Christinome was on television yesterday and
said the cartels are now targeting ICE agents with ten
thousand dollars bounties, ten thousand to kill two thousand for
their capture. You think Gavenussen would help provide more protection
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for the ICE agents. Instead, he's calling them Trump's private
army who swore an oath to Trump and they're the
enemy and they need to take off their masks. I
still haven't seen one California law enforcement agent arrest an
ICE agent for wearing a mask. That hasn't happened yet.
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We're waiting on that. Now we come back, someone who
maybe even crazier and encouraging even more violence to Gavin
Newsom is the Democratic Attorney general candidate in Virginia. There
was one big story that broke over the weekend, two
big stories about him in encouraging violence against a sitting
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legislature a sitting legislator in Virginia. And now they found
a second incident involving him hoping that get killed. We'll
talk more about it we come back.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
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Speaker 2 (09:11):
This show flew by. I thought it was last hour,
but it's this hour. Aren't you tired? No, I'm not.
I don't know. For some reason, everything there's so much
going on, it's just whizzing by. Let's do one more hour. Yeah,
I know, I could keep going here. I actually haven't
even touched a lot of the stuff that I wanted
to do. But well, we'll just deal with what we
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have here. We were just talking with State Senator Tony
Strickland on at last segment because Christy nom the Department
of Homeland Security Secretary, went on television had said, now,
the drug cartels and the gangs have bounties on the
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heads of ICE agents, they have their names. They've been
doxing them, and it's ten thousand dollars for a kill,
tw dollars for kidnapping. And she says, everybody's got to
stop this nonsense. And at the top of the list
is Newsome, and right behind him is Karen Bass, along
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with the with the mayor of Chicago, the governor of Illinois,
the mayor of Portland, the governor of Oregon. They're all
encouraging this violent resistance against ICE agents for enforcing federal law.
I mean you talk about like trying to overthrow the system.
The law is the law. Congress passed these laws. A
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lot of the stuff's written into the Constitution, Presidents signed it.
It had nobody's overturned it. No Congress has repealed the law,
no president has issued in order repealing the law, no
Supreme Court, nothing. The representatives have to get in session
and change things. And when they had full power, and
they had full power for two years under Obama, they
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had full power for two years under Biden. They didn't
do anything about it. So this is how bad it's gotten.
Jay Jones.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Is a.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Was a Democratic legislator in Virginia and he's running for
attorney general. He is the nominee for the Democrats as
attorney general. And these texts that he sent have surfaced,
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and you go back a couple of years and they
he wrote texts. Apparently a state legislator named Joe Johnson,
a Democrat, had died. He was a long time legislator
and everybody liked him, and even republic legislators were honoring
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Joe Johnson's memory, including the House Speaker Todd Gilbert, and
j Jones, the Democratic attorney general nominee, wrote a text saying,
if those guys died before me, meaning the Republicans who
were honoring Johnson, I will go to their funerals to
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piss on their graves. Just send them out a wash
in something he then wrote, and he wrote this to
another legislator, Republican Carrie cont Coiner. Woman. Jones then wrote
that the then Speaker of the House, Todd Gilbert, if
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he had a choice of murdering Gilbert or two dictators,
he would shoot Gilbert every time. Here's the exact quote.
J Jones wrote, three people, two bullets, Gilbert and Paul Pott.
Gilbert gets two bullets to the head, and then he wrote, spoiler,
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put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people
you know, and he receives both bullets every time. All right,
this is the attorney general nominee for the Democrats in Virginia.
And Carry Coiner wrote back, Jay, please stop, and j
Jones said, lol, okay, okay, it really bothers me when
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you talk about hurting people or wishing death on them.
But later on he continued going crazy against the speaker
Todd Gilbert, suggesting that he wished Gilbert's wife could watch
her own child die in her arms so Gilbert might
reconsider his political views. He said that on the phone,
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and Carry Coyner hung up in disgusted, and Jones start
writing text messages saying he was just asking questions and
Coyner couldn't believe that quote. You were hoping Jennifer Gilbert's
children would die? Well, Jones said, yes, I told you
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this before. Only when people feel pain personally, do they
move on policy? He wrote this. Coiner pushed back some more,
and Jones said, I mean, do I think Todd and
Jennifer are evil? That's Todd Gilbert and his wife and
that they're breeding little fascists. Yes, so he thinks Gilbert
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Gilbert's wife, Jennifer and their two children should die because
he doesn't like Gilbert's political positions. I think the actual
attorney general candidate for the Democrats in Virginia. They found
that in twenty two Jones was convicted reckless driving one
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hundred and sixteen miles an hour on the interstate. But
then here's what just got released an hour ago. Jay
Jones said if more cops got killed, then they wouldn't
shoot so many people. According to another lawmaker, as Carrie
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Coiner is once again speaking out against Jones, that during
a twenty twenty conversation, she told Jones that if the
cops didn't have legal protection, police officers would get killed,
and Jones responded, well, maybe if a few of them died,
they would move on and not shoot people, not killing people,
And they have they have the text here. No, this
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was in a phone conversation.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I guess h.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Jones is denying saying that, but this is the kind
of sickness now Attorney general obviously most powerful law enforcement
official in the state, and this is the guy the
Democrats have running. They don't even want to defund the
police anymore, they want to kill them.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
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We're on every day one until four after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand, the podcast on the iHeart
app same as the radio show. Well, this story just
broke in the last hour. Do you remember, of course
you do January seventh when the Palisades fire went crazy,
and Karen Bass was in Ghana in Africa, and there
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was nobody in charge of the government to help assess
in the run up to January seventh of how they
were going to respond, because the winds were going to
be fierce and if a fire started, it was going
to spread very quickly. And you had the empty reservoir
that nobody told us about, and they had the fire
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department that was half funded, and they had all the
engines that were busted, and you had all the fire
personnel that were not assigned to patrol the foothills in
Los Angeles. A lot of this right, and with Bass
gone and the fire breaking out, somebody had to help
coordinate the response, as feeble as it was. Well, who
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would be second in command to Karen Bass? Well, maybe
the deputy mayor for Public Safety who provides oversight to
the fire and police department. His name is Brian K. Williams,
and he was the guy. Should have been the guy,
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except he'd been sent on administrative leave to his house
because in October he told police that he'd gotten a
call on his cell phone from an unknown man who
claimed to have placed a bomb in city Hall, anti
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Israeli stuff, and Brian K. Williams, the Deputy Mayor for
Public Safety, actually relaid the bomb threat. Turned out it
was fake, and Williams was told to go home. Eventually
he's charged. Well, today was sentencing day. Say here's what.
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Williams claimed that he was suffering mental health issues because
he had some family deaths, and he pleaded guilty to
a single count of threats regarding fire and explosives. Said
he was overwhelmed with stress and anxiety. He also it
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was desperate to get out of an ongoing meeting and
he got probation, no jail time. He's going to get
a year probation and fifty hours committey service. So when
Bass went to Africa, he should have been the guy
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running the response, but he wasn't there. And he says, now,
follow this, I mean, mental illness is extremely unpredictable. But
he says his mother and nephew died in the previous year,
and his brother was diagnosed with cancer that happened in
the year and a half, and dealing with those two
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deaths and his brother having cancer led him to call
in a fake bomb threat. I don't follow. I don't
want to be hardhearted here, but and he gets nothing
for that. Well, they don't put anybody in prison anymore.
I can't say if it was a regular criminal, he'd
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be put away because he wouldn't be put away. So
you get a free bomb threat now, and you because
you're going through emotional stress? Is that the standard?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, that's not going to be much of a deterrent,
is it. And the prosecutors agreed with all this, which
I think is nuts. Because he was overwhelmed with stress
and anxiety. He wanted to get out of a meeting.
Couldn't he just call him sick. He was in a
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virtual meeting at City Hall and he wanted to get
out of the virtual meeting. Oh, you could turn off
your computer, and he admitted he left the meeting and
then he called an aid to the police chief. Well
why not just go home? Why do you? I guess
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I had to clear out the building and that gave
him a good excuse for signing off the meeting. He
sent messages saying bomb threat. I received a phone call
on my city cell at ten forty eight this morning.
The mail caller stated he was tired of the city
support of Israel, and he decided to place a bomb
in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda. I
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immediately contacted the chief of staff of LAPD. They're going
to send a number of officers and do a search
of the building and determine if anyone else received a threat.
That's just crazy, so he gets nothing for that. Meantime,
he was not working on January seventh, Well, Bass wasn't
working either. There was nobody, nobody providing oversight to police
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and fire that day. And if you didn't hear earlier
in the show, since there were tens of billions of
dollars in fire damage, and the insurance companies had pulled
out of the Palisades to a large extent. A lot
of people were thrown into the Fair Plan, which is
the insurer of last resort, and they have a limited
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cap on payouts. Well, the Fair Plan is now basically bankrupt,
and they won a thirty six percent increase. So if
you're in the Fair Plan for your home insurance here
in the state of California, you're going to have to
have to pay thirty six percent more because they blew
all their money on the fire. That Karen Bass was
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in Ghanaphor, and that Brian K Williams was at home
for put on leave because he made a fake bomb threat.
And Jenny's Cononiez never filled the reservoir and she's still
making seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Don't
you feel like you've gone insane? When we come back,
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we're gonna play you an argument between a CNN host
Abby Phillips and Scott Jennings, a CNN commentator, And I
will tell you the answer to the question that they're
debating this government shutdown. Is it because the Democrats want benefits?
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Health benefits for legal aliens. Republicans insist, yes, Democrats say no.
I have the answer, and I'll play you the clip
of the debate and you'll see what the truth is.
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same as the radio show. All right, you may have heard,
you've ever heard about the government shutdown, and the fight
centers around the Democrats not endorsing a seven week extension
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of the current budget, and the Republicans say it's because
they the Democrats want to change and they want funding
for legal alien healthcare. Democrats say, no, that's not true.
Republicans say, yes it is. Here's an exchange gets heated
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between CNN host Abby Phillips and Republican commentator Scott Jennings.
And listen to this back and forth.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Other debate about who's going to get taxpayer funded medicaid
in this country. That's what the memes are about, That's
what the fight is about. Democrats want to make it
about this subsidy issue. They don't want out to the
end of the year.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
But the real thing is they filed legislation to repeal
what the Republicans did this summer, and so these two
issues have been conflated. But the fact is they don't
just want the subsidies. They want other things, and the
President is drawing attention to it. I think in a
pretty clever way. We just had a national emergency.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Medical medical was still not going to illegal immigrants. Scott,
is it really does? It's not, so it doesn't state Scott, No,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It really does.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Listen the part of the bill that deals with the
money that goes to UH to states, it doesn't say
anything about their immigration policy. So red state or blue state,
those states are getting less money from the federal government
that still has to be dealt with and that has
nothing to do with immigration. And again, medicaid does not
go to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
UH.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
SNAP does not go to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You know, SHIP does not go to undocumented immigrants. I
don't know. I mean, Scott, prove me wrong.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
How many blues states showed me the law? How many
showed me Mike Johnson showed.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
It, Scott, show me the US Show me the US
Code where it says that they're allowed to get medicaid funding.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I will on social media.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It doesn't.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And in fact, the law says exactly the opposite.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
So it's trying to repeal the Republic's got.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Scott, that is a lie. Okay, Now you might you
might want to dispute whether or not states should get
reimbursed from the federal or should get federal dollars for
medicaid at the levels that they got it before. That's
a different issue, But that's not an issue that's actually
tied to immigration.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And you know it well, she's wrong, and Jason rich
Wine in the New York Post laid out what's really
going on. Joe Biden ballooned the number of illegal immigrants
with temporary protected status to one point two million during
his turn. Now, if you get temporary status, you have
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no legal right to live here, and the government promises
not to deport you until the crisis in your home
country is over. And of course, in truth, everyone's allowed
to stay forever. For example, if there's an earthquake, and
if you have temporary status, it's constantly renewed. There's also
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another three million illegal aliens who got parolled by the
Biden administration. They were allowed to enter the US even
though they had no legal right to do so, but
the Biden administration would parole them even before they got
here as long as they filled out a form on
an app. Well, these migrants still are counted as illegal aliens,
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and they could access Medicaid after a five year waiting period,
and they also couldn't qualify for Obamacare subsidies after one year.
If you had a temporary protected status, you could access
Obamacare subsidies as well. And then illegal aliens get emergency
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Medicaid money. Illegal aliens wi show up in emergency rooms,
including expectant mothers, will have their health care expenses covered
by federal taxpayers. And then you have the state California, Illinois,
New York, fourteen states that fund coverage for illegal alien children.
California covers every illegal alien. They ran out of money
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for health care and they had to borrow money from
the federal government. Center for Immigration Studies found that fifty
nine percent of households headed by an illegal alien consume
at least one government benefit. Thirty nine percent get Medicaid.
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You get the point here. So what happened is in
Trump big beautiful bill, all this stuff was put a
stop to. No more money for all these different groups
of illegal alien invaders, millions of them. No more money,
No more Medicare money, Medicaid money, Obamacare subsidy money, this,
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that and the other thing. No more money. And the
Democrats want to repeal it. Republicans have said, no, we're
not repealing it. And so that's why we have a
government shutdown, among other issues. So Scott Jennings was right,
Abby Phillips was wrong. And because it's not a ten
second answer, can't fit that on a cable news debate.
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And you think an anchor would know that and take
the two minutes that I just did to explain it,
But they don't. What did I read the other day?
Eleven percent of the public, only eleven percent has high
confidence in television news percent. That means nine out of
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ten view to viewers do not have high confidence in
television news, and actually most of them have low or
no confidence. All right, Conway's up next, and we'll see
you tomorrow. Michael Kurzer's the News Why in the KFI
twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
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pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on
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Can't.
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let's continue with what we were discussing in the last segment.
Christinome went on Fox yesterday and said that their drug
cartels and gangs now have bounties on ice agents by name,
and they're offering ten thousand dollars if you kill, two
thousand dollars if you kidnap. And this is exactly what
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Gavin Newsom has been has been supporting by calling it
a Trump's private army. Then they swear an oath to
Trump and he demanded everybody take off their masks. Well,
here's why they wear masks because drug cartels are trying
to kill them. It's because that the Trump administration has
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cut off billions of dollars in profits. They can't smuggle
people and they can't smuggle young girls for prostitution, and
they can't smuggle their drugs, so they're out a lot
of money and they're going to start killing the agents.
Let's get Tony Stricklin on the state senator from Huntington Beach, Republican, Tony,
how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm good. Thanks for having me on, John, I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, what do you make of this is? This is
pretty bid.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's exactly what I said when we were debating this
on the Senate floor. It's reckless, it's dangerous. Bleds on
their hand.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
At end of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It also doesn't apply to the federal agents because we
have no jurisdiction as a state legislature. But you know again,
it's Governor Newsum grand standing and really bloods on his hands.
It's not only them that have a bounty on them.
I'm also concerned about their families and social media and
everything else. We have a hard enough time to get
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people to sign up to be in law enforcement and
ice and law enforcement to keep us safe. This is
just going to deter anybody else. I'm getting involved because
not only are they trying to keep us and protect us,
which is the most successual role of government. Now we're
exposing them on their private time and their families because
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of these reckless bills and laws that Gavin Newsom tries
to pass.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
In soccer, that's the plan of the progressives. They defunded
the police. They have demonized the police and destroyed their
morale to try to get them to quit. And as
they quit, there's no money to replace him. That's why
we're down to eighty three hundred cops here in Los
Angeles instead of ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Crime and crime is spiraling out of control. And that's
why we passed Proposition thirty six. All fifty eight counties,
even the most liberal counties of Moran and San Francisco,
voted favor to make sure that public safety is a priority.
It's the most successful role of government. And what does
Gavin Newsom do He doesn't fund And again it is
the you're absolutely right. They want us to be unsafe.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And now they want more ICE agents to quit, more
law enforcement to quit because their wives and kids are terrified.
Some of their names and faces are on the internet
having been docked. Now they fear that their husbands or
wives aren't going to make it home alive. And everyone's
saying this not worth it, and so you start defunding,
(03:26):
you start demobilizing Department of Homeland Security, because why would
you volunteer for this. I know they had a record
recruitment going on, but too much of this stuff. And
to see the governor and the mayor against you, that's
terribly demoralizing.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And blood's on their hands. I mean again, and I'm
not just talking about the people who serve us well
in public safety. I'm talking about the average person who's
on that bus who gets assaulted. I'm talking about the
people who are just finding their own business. And crime
is going up because we have criminals that commit crime
(04:05):
after crime after crime, and we have no accountability and
they go back out on the street. And and then
we wonder why we lose loved ones for census acts.
And again, I think the most exceptual role of government,
what we do both in the state at local level,
is keeping people safe. And we are less safe with
(04:25):
Governor Newsom as governor at California.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They can't seem to accept, they don't accept that this
is the law. The law is being enforced. For maybe
the first time in their lives, they can see the
law being enforced. Immigration law, and and it's it's it's
made them crazy. It's literally made them crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh and and I also I also want to point
out that you know, these sanctuary cities and Sinsbury state laws,
if you don't want to see it out in the
spot meet or the car wash, get rid of these
sanctuary city and laws. We're going to be absolutely more
precise and deport folks who need to be deported. And
(05:07):
is it a stock to anybody that Trump has fallen through?
It was a major part of his campaign. The reason
why he is in the White House is because he
says we are going to enforce our federal immigrats laws.
That's where the country is. And that's why he got
voted in overwhelmingly a large part because that was his
policies when.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He campaigned Newsim really believes in this concept that California
is its own nation and it's no longer subject to
United States law, but that he's going to decide what
federal law California cooperates with.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And it's really he clearly wants to pick. And two
is what laws you follow, what laws you don't. And
again I always say that I don't think we have
a governor of California. We have someone who has the title,
but he wakes up every morning to try to come
up with the new formula to be president of the
United States. And really that's what's driving him. He's not active,
(06:02):
engaged in everyday policies in Sacramento. Uh, he's just trying
to figure out what he needs to do to try
to become president of the United States. And he'll be
He's all things to all people. And now he feels
like I could be the anti Trump guy to get
the nomination, but by.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Signing by but by siding against ICE agents. That's what's weird.
If you want to take on Trump, take on an
issue that's not so wildly popular, that isn't one of
the very top reasons Trump got elected, you have to
have some other issue that maybe Trump is not doing
(06:40):
well on that you you could you can build the
following liberals.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I think these liberals are in their own little vacuum
of people that agree with them. I always say, you know,
when you're in the legislature, there's a little vacuum. They
don't talk to everyday people. John, they don't talk to,
you know, people who are just living paycheck to paycheck.
Trying to make ends meet, just you know, picking up
their kids from school, dropping them off at the baseball practice.
(07:08):
They talk to each other in this little bubble that
they have, and they they're really not a part of reality.
What's really going on in California. They I call him
the modern day Marie Antoinette, letting eat cake, just like
we did with when we had the government shutdowns, with
the mask and everything. He went to a restaurant himself,
(07:31):
but he wanted everybody else to wear a mask. He's
willing to put laws onto other people that he's not
willing to abide for by himself.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
All right, Tony, thanks for coming on again.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I really appreciate you. You have me on. Thanks again, John.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's State Senator Tony Strickland, Republican from Huntington Beach. And
if he didn't hear, Christinome was on television yesterday and
said the cartels are now targeting ICE agents with ten
thousand dollars bounties, ten thousand to kill two thousand for
their capture. You think Gavenussen would help provide more protection
(08:05):
for the ICE agents. Instead, he's calling them Trump's private
army who swore an oath to Trump and they're the
enemy and they need to take off their masks. I
still haven't seen one California law enforcement agent arrest an
ICE agent for wearing a mask. That hasn't happened yet.
(08:26):
We're waiting on that. Now we come back, someone who
maybe even crazier and encouraging even more violence to Gavin
Newsom is the Democratic Attorney general candidate in Virginia. There
was one big story that broke over the weekend, two
big stories about him in encouraging violence against a sitting
(08:52):
legislature a sitting legislator in Virginia. And now they found
a second incident involving him hoping that get killed. We'll
talk more about it we come back.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
This show flew by. I thought it was last hour,
but it's this hour. Aren't you tired? No, I'm not.
I don't know. For some reason, everything there's so much
going on, it's just whizzing by. Let's do one more hour. Yeah,
I know, I could keep going here. I actually haven't
even touched a lot of the stuff that I wanted
to do. But well, we'll just deal with what we
(09:33):
have here. We were just talking with State Senator Tony
Strickland on at last segment because Christy nom the Department
of Homeland Security Secretary, went on television had said, now,
the drug cartels and the gangs have bounties on the
(09:53):
heads of ICE agents, they have their names. They've been
doxing them, and it's ten thousand dollars for a kill,
tw dollars for kidnapping. And she says, everybody's got to
stop this nonsense. And at the top of the list
is Newsome, and right behind him is Karen Bass, along
(10:14):
with the with the mayor of Chicago, the governor of Illinois,
the mayor of Portland, the governor of Oregon. They're all
encouraging this violent resistance against ICE agents for enforcing federal law.
I mean you talk about like trying to overthrow the system.
The law is the law. Congress passed these laws. A
(10:36):
lot of the stuff's written into the Constitution, Presidents signed it.
It had nobody's overturned it. No Congress has repealed the law,
no president has issued in order repealing the law, no
Supreme Court, nothing. The representatives have to get in session
and change things. And when they had full power, and
they had full power for two years under Obama, they
(10:59):
had full power for two years under Biden. They didn't
do anything about it. So this is how bad it's gotten.
Jay Jones.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Is a.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Was a Democratic legislator in Virginia and he's running for
attorney general. He is the nominee for the Democrats as
attorney general. And these texts that he sent have surfaced,
(11:36):
and you go back a couple of years and they
he wrote texts. Apparently a state legislator named Joe Johnson,
a Democrat, had died. He was a long time legislator
and everybody liked him, and even republic legislators were honoring
(12:01):
Joe Johnson's memory, including the House Speaker Todd Gilbert, and
j Jones, the Democratic attorney general nominee, wrote a text saying,
if those guys died before me, meaning the Republicans who
were honoring Johnson, I will go to their funerals to
(12:24):
piss on their graves. Just send them out a wash
in something he then wrote, and he wrote this to
another legislator, Republican Carrie cont Coiner. Woman. Jones then wrote
that the then Speaker of the House, Todd Gilbert, if
(12:45):
he had a choice of murdering Gilbert or two dictators,
he would shoot Gilbert every time. Here's the exact quote.
J Jones wrote, three people, two bullets, Gilbert and Paul Pott.
Gilbert gets two bullets to the head, and then he wrote, spoiler,
(13:09):
put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people
you know, and he receives both bullets every time. All right,
this is the attorney general nominee for the Democrats in Virginia.
And Carry Coiner wrote back, Jay, please stop, and j
Jones said, lol, okay, okay, it really bothers me when
(13:31):
you talk about hurting people or wishing death on them.
But later on he continued going crazy against the speaker
Todd Gilbert, suggesting that he wished Gilbert's wife could watch
her own child die in her arms so Gilbert might
reconsider his political views. He said that on the phone,
(13:54):
and Carry Coyner hung up in disgusted, and Jones start
writing text messages saying he was just asking questions and
Coyner couldn't believe that quote. You were hoping Jennifer Gilbert's
children would die? Well, Jones said, yes, I told you
(14:15):
this before. Only when people feel pain personally, do they
move on policy? He wrote this. Coiner pushed back some more,
and Jones said, I mean, do I think Todd and
Jennifer are evil? That's Todd Gilbert and his wife and
that they're breeding little fascists. Yes, so he thinks Gilbert
(14:39):
Gilbert's wife, Jennifer and their two children should die because
he doesn't like Gilbert's political positions. I think the actual
attorney general candidate for the Democrats in Virginia. They found
that in twenty two Jones was convicted reckless driving one
(15:02):
hundred and sixteen miles an hour on the interstate. But
then here's what just got released an hour ago. Jay
Jones said if more cops got killed, then they wouldn't
shoot so many people. According to another lawmaker, as Carrie
(15:31):
Coiner is once again speaking out against Jones, that during
a twenty twenty conversation, she told Jones that if the
cops didn't have legal protection, police officers would get killed,
and Jones responded, well, maybe if a few of them died,
they would move on and not shoot people, not killing people,
And they have they have the text here. No, this
(15:55):
was in a phone conversation.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I guess h.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Jones is denying saying that, but this is the kind
of sickness now Attorney general obviously most powerful law enforcement
official in the state, and this is the guy the
Democrats have running. They don't even want to defund the
police anymore, they want to kill them.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We're on every day one until four after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand, the podcast on the iHeart
app same as the radio show. Well, this story just
broke in the last hour. Do you remember, of course
you do January seventh when the Palisades fire went crazy,
and Karen Bass was in Ghana in Africa, and there
(16:47):
was nobody in charge of the government to help assess
in the run up to January seventh of how they
were going to respond, because the winds were going to
be fierce and if a fire started, it was going
to spread very quickly. And you had the empty reservoir
that nobody told us about, and they had the fire
(17:08):
department that was half funded, and they had all the
engines that were busted, and you had all the fire
personnel that were not assigned to patrol the foothills in
Los Angeles. A lot of this right, and with Bass
gone and the fire breaking out, somebody had to help
coordinate the response, as feeble as it was. Well, who
(17:30):
would be second in command to Karen Bass? Well, maybe
the deputy mayor for Public Safety who provides oversight to
the fire and police department. His name is Brian K. Williams,
and he was the guy. Should have been the guy,
(17:52):
except he'd been sent on administrative leave to his house
because in October he told police that he'd gotten a
call on his cell phone from an unknown man who
claimed to have placed a bomb in city Hall, anti
(18:13):
Israeli stuff, and Brian K. Williams, the Deputy Mayor for
Public Safety, actually relaid the bomb threat. Turned out it
was fake, and Williams was told to go home. Eventually
he's charged. Well, today was sentencing day. Say here's what.
(18:37):
Williams claimed that he was suffering mental health issues because
he had some family deaths, and he pleaded guilty to
a single count of threats regarding fire and explosives. Said
he was overwhelmed with stress and anxiety. He also it
(19:00):
was desperate to get out of an ongoing meeting and
he got probation, no jail time. He's going to get
a year probation and fifty hours committey service. So when
Bass went to Africa, he should have been the guy
(19:23):
running the response, but he wasn't there. And he says, now,
follow this, I mean, mental illness is extremely unpredictable. But
he says his mother and nephew died in the previous year,
and his brother was diagnosed with cancer that happened in
the year and a half, and dealing with those two
(19:47):
deaths and his brother having cancer led him to call
in a fake bomb threat. I don't follow. I don't
want to be hardhearted here, but and he gets nothing
for that. Well, they don't put anybody in prison anymore.
I can't say if it was a regular criminal, he'd
(20:09):
be put away because he wouldn't be put away. So
you get a free bomb threat now, and you because
you're going through emotional stress? Is that the standard?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, that's not going to be much of a deterrent,
is it. And the prosecutors agreed with all this, which
I think is nuts. Because he was overwhelmed with stress
and anxiety. He wanted to get out of a meeting.
Couldn't he just call him sick. He was in a
(20:47):
virtual meeting at City Hall and he wanted to get
out of the virtual meeting. Oh, you could turn off
your computer, and he admitted he left the meeting and
then he called an aid to the police chief. Well
why not just go home? Why do you? I guess
(21:09):
I had to clear out the building and that gave
him a good excuse for signing off the meeting. He
sent messages saying bomb threat. I received a phone call
on my city cell at ten forty eight this morning.
The mail caller stated he was tired of the city
support of Israel, and he decided to place a bomb
in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda. I
(21:32):
immediately contacted the chief of staff of LAPD. They're going
to send a number of officers and do a search
of the building and determine if anyone else received a threat.
That's just crazy, so he gets nothing for that. Meantime,
he was not working on January seventh, Well, Bass wasn't
working either. There was nobody, nobody providing oversight to police
(21:57):
and fire that day. And if you didn't hear earlier
in the show, since there were tens of billions of
dollars in fire damage, and the insurance companies had pulled
out of the Palisades to a large extent. A lot
of people were thrown into the Fair Plan, which is
the insurer of last resort, and they have a limited
(22:20):
cap on payouts. Well, the Fair Plan is now basically bankrupt,
and they won a thirty six percent increase. So if
you're in the Fair Plan for your home insurance here
in the state of California, you're going to have to
have to pay thirty six percent more because they blew
all their money on the fire. That Karen Bass was
(22:42):
in Ghanaphor, and that Brian K Williams was at home
for put on leave because he made a fake bomb threat.
And Jenny's Cononiez never filled the reservoir and she's still
making seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Don't
you feel like you've gone insane? When we come back,
(23:07):
we're gonna play you an argument between a CNN host
Abby Phillips and Scott Jennings, a CNN commentator, And I
will tell you the answer to the question that they're
debating this government shutdown. Is it because the Democrats want benefits?
(23:30):
Health benefits for legal aliens. Republicans insist, yes, Democrats say no.
I have the answer, and I'll play you the clip
of the debate and you'll see what the truth is.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
John Cobelt here at John Cobelt Radio. You can follow
us on social media at John Cobelt Radio, and after
four o'clock we'll have the podcast on the iHeart app
same as the radio show. All right, you may have heard,
you've ever heard about the government shutdown, and the fight
centers around the Democrats not endorsing a seven week extension
(24:11):
of the current budget, and the Republicans say it's because
they the Democrats want to change and they want funding
for legal alien healthcare. Democrats say, no, that's not true.
Republicans say, yes it is. Here's an exchange gets heated
(24:33):
between CNN host Abby Phillips and Republican commentator Scott Jennings.
And listen to this back and forth.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Other debate about who's going to get taxpayer funded medicaid
in this country. That's what the memes are about, That's
what the fight is about. Democrats want to make it
about this subsidy issue. They don't want out to the
end of the year.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
But the real thing is they filed legislation to repeal
what the Republicans did this summer, and so these two
issues have been conflated. But the fact is they don't
just want the subsidies. They want other things, and the
President is drawing attention to it. I think in a
pretty clever way. We just had a national emergency.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Medical medical was still not going to illegal immigrants. Scott,
is it really does? It's not, so it doesn't state Scott, No,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It really does.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Listen the part of the bill that deals with the
money that goes to UH to states, it doesn't say
anything about their immigration policy. So red state or blue state,
those states are getting less money from the federal government
that still has to be dealt with and that has
nothing to do with immigration. And again, medicaid does not
go to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
UH.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
SNAP does not go to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You know, SHIP does not go to undocumented immigrants. I
don't know. I mean, Scott, prove me wrong.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
How many blues states showed me the law? How many
showed me Mike Johnson showed.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
It, Scott, show me the US Show me the US
Code where it says that they're allowed to get medicaid funding.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I will on social media.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It doesn't.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And in fact, the law says exactly the opposite.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
So it's trying to repeal the Republic's got.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Scott, that is a lie. Okay, Now you might you
might want to dispute whether or not states should get
reimbursed from the federal or should get federal dollars for
medicaid at the levels that they got it before. That's
a different issue, But that's not an issue that's actually
tied to immigration.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And you know it well, she's wrong, and Jason rich
Wine in the New York Post laid out what's really
going on. Joe Biden ballooned the number of illegal immigrants
with temporary protected status to one point two million during
his turn. Now, if you get temporary status, you have
(26:51):
no legal right to live here, and the government promises
not to deport you until the crisis in your home
country is over. And of course, in truth, everyone's allowed
to stay forever. For example, if there's an earthquake, and
if you have temporary status, it's constantly renewed. There's also
(27:17):
another three million illegal aliens who got parolled by the
Biden administration. They were allowed to enter the US even
though they had no legal right to do so, but
the Biden administration would parole them even before they got
here as long as they filled out a form on
an app. Well, these migrants still are counted as illegal aliens,
(27:45):
and they could access Medicaid after a five year waiting period,
and they also couldn't qualify for Obamacare subsidies after one year.
If you had a temporary protected status, you could access
Obamacare subsidies as well. And then illegal aliens get emergency
(28:12):
Medicaid money. Illegal aliens wi show up in emergency rooms,
including expectant mothers, will have their health care expenses covered
by federal taxpayers. And then you have the state California, Illinois,
New York, fourteen states that fund coverage for illegal alien children.
California covers every illegal alien. They ran out of money
(28:35):
for health care and they had to borrow money from
the federal government. Center for Immigration Studies found that fifty
nine percent of households headed by an illegal alien consume
at least one government benefit. Thirty nine percent get Medicaid.
(28:56):
You get the point here. So what happened is in
Trump big beautiful bill, all this stuff was put a
stop to. No more money for all these different groups
of illegal alien invaders, millions of them. No more money,
No more Medicare money, Medicaid money, Obamacare subsidy money, this,
(29:18):
that and the other thing. No more money. And the
Democrats want to repeal it. Republicans have said, no, we're
not repealing it. And so that's why we have a
government shutdown, among other issues. So Scott Jennings was right,
Abby Phillips was wrong. And because it's not a ten
second answer, can't fit that on a cable news debate.
(29:41):
And you think an anchor would know that and take
the two minutes that I just did to explain it,
But they don't. What did I read the other day?
Eleven percent of the public, only eleven percent has high
confidence in television news percent. That means nine out of
(30:02):
ten view to viewers do not have high confidence in
television news, and actually most of them have low or
no confidence. All right, Conway's up next, and we'll see
you tomorrow. Michael Kurzer's the News Why in the KFI
twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
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