December 19, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/19) - Saied Kashani comes on the show to talk about the Santa Ynez Reservoir being drained again and the concerns Pacific Palisades residents have. Steve Hilton, leading Republican candidate for CA governor, joins the show to talk about a current California law that he says makes human trafficking easier.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to have
Steve Hilton on the show at two thirty, one of
the leading candidates for governor Republican. And we are also
going to have the Moistline twice next hour at three
twenty and three point fifty. And now we're going to
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talk with Sayed Kashani, who's an attorney from the Palisades
lost his home in the fire, and like many in
the Palisades, as you heard from the report we played
before Brigida's news, they cannot believe that the DWP is
draining the reservoir a second time, the one hundred and seventeen
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million gallon reservoir that was drained in twenty twenty four
before the fire, because the cover was torn. Well, they
put a new cover on. Eventually it was too late,
too late for to use the reservoir to fight fire.
But now it's been torn again, and so they're going
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to shut the reservoir down for another nine months, drain
it all over again. And they're still trying to sell
that this doesn't matter, except they've come up with a
backup water supply for fire safety. It's hard to keep
up with this. Let's get say ed Kashani on say it.
How are you hello?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Was the caball? Thanks for having me back. I appreciate
it makes.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
My head spin, So let me get this straight. So
they're actually draining the thing again, but they've always claimed
they would have not done any good at the fire.
But they have a backup water system this time, like
just in case.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, i'll tell you right now, that backup system, as
they describe it, is a going to help at all.
They're talking about a ten inch diameter water line that
possibly could bring more water over the help from PANG. Now,
the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You
cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a
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ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're
recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir
is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know,
the interesting thing is when they first put this cover
on in two thy eleven, the DWP had reports and
public meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be
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drained for a period of time. And back then the
LA fire department actually objected and said, we need this
reservoir for fire safety and if you drain it, there
has to be alternatives, and at the time there were
some alternatives. Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are
like the Chautauqua Reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now
closed down, not even available. So they're you know, they're
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putting the entire Polsage area at risk again.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Over and they keep insisting we have to protect drinking
water now this reservoir and correct me if I had
the dates wrong, didn't have a cover. For over forty years,
from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Was no cover exactly This cover is, you might say,
is kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I
don't want to get into the details and the chemistry
about it, but the idea is that having a cover
enables you to use a different type of chlorinating agent
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that supposedly is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact,
there's a epedeomologist, epidemiologist John Anstrom out of UCLA speaking
of UCLA who's been quite vocal on this and pointing
out that there's absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary
chlorine and no cover.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So that's why they got the cover. Well, because yeah,
I know it's not it's probably not where they're gone.
It's absurd because they drained this reservoir in early twenty
twenty four, So the Palisades went that whole year without
that reservoir supplying water, and it turns out I guess
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they didn't need it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did
they drain the reservoir, but the DWP never told anyone
for as far as I can tell, as far as
the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department.
So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the
fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty
and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of
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DWP gave an announcement and he said, and I quote,
our reservoirs are full. Well, what kind of thing to
say is that when you know that the most important
reservoir in that area is still empty at the.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Time, Why have they been lying so frequently so long
before the fire, During the fire, After the fire, all
they do is lie, or at least they cover up
and with whole information. What are they doing?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I think it all goes back to these environmental these
extreme environmental extremists. I mean, the environmental extremists at the
state water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk
of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, so
you need to cover the whole reservoir at enormous expense
and take it out of commission and put everyone at
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risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as
you know, from the fire, that in order to protect
some native species of plants, oh, they were unable to
fight the fire. Probably, Well, how did that work out
for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed anyway,
This is all.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So crazy, It really is. All the environmental extremists, it
really is. You know, you hear this, people complain about it,
and you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's
just people taking political shots at one another. But this
is a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into
the government have insane policies that kill people and destroy
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enormous amounts of real estate.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, the worst of it is these are people and
programs that operate behind the scenes that pass rules behind
the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature,
whatever you think of the legislature. At least there's public
hearings in the public vote. This cover idea started with
a regulation that started in some environmental bureaucracy that was
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never voted on, that never had public hearings. It was
just some decision that someone decided that if you use
this type of chlorine instead of other type of chlorine,
then somehow that I don't know, it makes a difference
to the water supply when the first type of chlorine
has been used for over one hundred years with no problems.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah. First, at first I heard of this, and now
they're going to close it down for nine months. Why
do they have to close it for nine months? They
repaired the old cover much more quickly than that.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
This work. This is what happens when you only have
one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with
a single company I won't give its name, but they're
out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this cover.
And it's only one company, it's a single source. Well,
guess what if your company knows that you're going to
get substantial business from repairing this cover. What's the incentive
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to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier
just to keep coming back and back and back and
repair and repair and repair. I mean, I'm not saying
they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean I
think it would be a better idea to do it
do it right the first time so it works. But
like I said, the whole idea of a cover was
never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by
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unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their
environmental agenda.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as
they passed through the bowels of the system. We don't
know their name. We know Jennie Canones. And by the way,
what does it take to get her removed? I mean,
this is one insane, stupid decision and one insane why
after another after another, And she's making seven hundred and
fifty thousand a year and all she's brought is devastation.
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How does she survive? As the.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It just gave her an award for Women of the Years, Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, the Times. The Times gave her a Woman of
the Year award.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I mean, it's it's completely ridiculous. But I mean, there's
no accountability. But look, the same people who made the
wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up.
For example, we sought a report from the state that
claim that the reservoir wouldn't have made a reference. Well,
who was who provided that report? That report came from
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state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover
regulation in the first place. In other words, three of
the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies
that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies
aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made
a mistake, and you know, we let the whole city
burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going
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to say, well, it never made any difference, say ed, well, obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
One hundred and seventeen million gallots they claim would have
had no effect. I met a guy in the Palisades
a few weeks ago. He had a two inch hose
connected to his swimming pool, and he saved his home
and two weather homes near him watered it down well
so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they didn't the
two inch holls one to his pool.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was
able to protect his house so long as there was water.
But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story.
But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a
source of water. As long as the city supplied water,
he was able to keep his house safe. Once the
water shut off the evening of the first fire, that's
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when his house got fired and there was nothing he
would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said,
there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way,
the DWP story that houses water lines broke and that's
why they lost pressure. That doesn't hold up either, because
many areas of the palisades, if you see them after
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the fire, they were bone dry. That means the water
means did not break and spill water over. That means
the fire got to these areas after the water.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Was shut off.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So that story isn't going to hold up either. Again,
the only thing that's going to get us the truth
here is this pending litigation, and I'm hoping the courts
will let it go forward to the point that we
have a trial. We have witnesses, we have documents, all
presented in the light of days so people can see
exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Siah Kashani, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
No problem, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Sied as an attorney in the Palisades, lost his home there.
When we come back. Spencer Pratt, the reality star who
lost his home in the Palisades, he has seized on
Karen Bass admitting on a video podcast that La City
botched the fire response. This was the piece of video
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that was cut out of the final version posted to YouTube.
We talked about that a couple of days ago. I'll
play you Spencer Pratt's comments on Twitter about this. That's next.
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at John Cobelt Radio for all the other social media platforms. Well,
we just talked with Sayad Kashani, the attorney out of
the Palisades, about this, the insanity of the of the
DWP now taking the cover off the reservoir again. They're
going to close the reservoir again for nine months. This
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time they're proposing a ten inch water line from the
Panga Canyon. Reservoir has two thirty inch water lines that's
supposed to be used to fight fires. You can't replace
sixty inches of water line with a ten inch line.
That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well, they're going
to do it for fire. Well, I thought having a
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full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in the fire.
They're so full of it, they're so absolutely full of it,
and they keep saying, well, we got to keep the
drinking water safe. Well, when they closed it in twenty
twenty four, there was no drinking water that year, and
the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you think they need
it now? You know it's going to rain this week,
but you never know when the sant Ana winds may
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hit in the summertime. All the rain now, everything could
be bone dry come July or August or September. Next year,
and there'll be a lot more There'll be a lot
more brush that had grown because of all the rain
we've had so far this winter and that we're going
to get in the coming days. Spencer Pratt, the reality star,
we've had him on the show. He's responding to the
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Karen Bass botch comment. Just to quickly run down Karen
Bass appeared on a podcast called a Fifth Column, and
it was originally a sixty six minute podcast. The last
four minutes came after the host said goodbye to bad
on air, and then the video chems kept rolling and
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she started talking about how La City botched the response
the La Fire Department and the video was posted November.
At some point between November and this week, Bass's office
realized that that extra four minutes was up there and
she was admitting that the city had screwed up badly,
and so they took it down, and the weasel who
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hosted the podcast agreed to take it down, then hung
up on the La Times when he was questioned on it.
I got to get his name. While I look for
his name, just to remind everybody who the weasel is.
Here is Spencer Pratt on X with a post going
after Bass.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Mayor Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the
Palicies fire was quote botched while on a hot mic
at the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't
find that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that
they scrubbed that foot from the internet. Will guess what
by admitting that the Palises fire response was botched, she
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just earned herself a subpoena from our lawyers for the
Palises fire lawsuit. Her stunning admission is a massive departure
from the.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Ooh, we did everything we could. It was just one.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Hundred miles brough wins bs and narrative that they've been
spinning to date. But in a moment of accidental candor,
she let the truth slip, and this mistake will cost
her dearly. She has just signaled that we were right,
they did botch the fire response, and now we have
good cause to call her as a witness. What did
she mean by botched?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What went wrong? Who screwed up?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Thanks for playing Mayor Bass. It's time for my lawyers
to go fishing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's great, that is great, and he's absolutely right. She
and all her stooge fire chiefs and she said, three
of them this year, and countless other fire officials have
been insisting repeatedly, over and over again, we.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One hundred
miles of hour winds. There was no one hundred mile
an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read six
days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service and
had a of firefighters at the site of the original
January first fire, which was still smoldering, and it was
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smoldering because the ninnies in the State Parks Department went
down and kicked the LA Fire Department out on January
second because they wanted to save the freaking milk vetch plant,
the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the firefighters stepping
on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want LAFD bulldozers creating
a fire line. And I remember another LA time story.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Early in the year where they had long wanted to
build a fire road out of the Palisades up and
over the mountain going to the north, and they weren't
allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan. That is
a story from US January or February. Yeah, they botched it,
of course, they botched it. They had nobody there and
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Bass admitted it. And I hope she gets nailed by
the attorneys. But that's going to be a fight because
she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars
in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at taxpayer
expense to keep her from testifying in front of a
federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that
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the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are
they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of
the Palisades residents with? Twenty five thirty five? By the way,
the name of the host of the Fifth Column is
Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show
and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so
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beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty
eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city. She defunded
the fire department. What are these staff members? This is
your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and
bully him to take down the last four minutes of
the podcast and he does it. Wow, Wow, Wow, I
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don't get how the world works anymore. When we come
back Steve Hilton. He is one of the leading Republican
candidates for governor. He has intelligence and common sense, and
we're going to talk to him. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
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Speaker 1 (18:30):
We're going to talk with We're going to talk with
Steve Hilton. Now. He's a Republican running to be governor
of California, doing very well in the polls here in
the early going. And Steve Hilton did a visit to
South La. New York Times did an extensive story on
it a few weeks back. Nothing but sex trafficking, nothing
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but prostitution, very young girls. And he stood at the
corner of Figure Row on seventy seventh Street and he
blamed it on the twenty twenty two Safer Streets for
All Act, that's what they called it. This was out
of the perverted mind of State Senator Scott Wiener. This
act eliminated a law against loitering to sell sex. So
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police now are really constricted on cleaning up blocks of prostitution.
We're going to get Steve on here to talk about
what this law did. It's nothing but terrible things. Steve,
how are you.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'm great, It's great to be with you. I mean,
this is truly one of those shocking things I've ever seen,
and I've read about it, and I've been talking to
people who are working on this issue for years, but
to go there and see it, I mean, it's a
stretch of figure out. It's about fifty blocks is known
as the Blade, like miles long, and you drive along.
We were there Friday night. We could go around midnight
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for hours, and it's just everywhere you look out in
the open. You hear that term child sex trafficking and
you just think of maybe dingy basements and some you know,
hidden place. No, it's on the street, on the main road.
It's just driving past. I saw with my own eyes
a guy in a car, these sick people picking up
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these young girls. There was an older girl negotiating through
the window with this guy for a young girl that
was right there next to her. She couldn't have been
more than about eight or nine years old.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Really, it's just the.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Unspeakable evil just going on right there. And this is normal.
I was with a nonprofit that rescues girls, and you know,
pastors and former military guys, and they they've been doing
it for many, many years, and they tell me that
the typical age of the girls that they rescue twelve
to fourteen. That's typical many many younger than that. It's
just it's just like it's beyond It is a total evil.
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It's thick, disgusting evil. It has been going on for years,
but exactly as you said, it's been made much much
worse by this legislation. It's another Scott Weener special signed
by Gavin Newsom, which exactly as you said, it constrains
the law enforcement from going up and actually doing anything
about it. Why where did this legislation come from. It's
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another example of their insane far left gender ideology. This
time it was about trans women, which is you can't
go up to people based on an assumption about who
they are or what they're doing based on their appearance.
That's the issue. And so this is supposed to be
non discrimination against trans women, and it's ended up in
young girls being sold for sex on the streets of
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Los Angeles with impunity. And now it's got to the
point where we here in California are now the world.
According to the people I was with the world capital
for child sex trafficking. So you can add that to
the list of great accomplishments of Gavin Newsom. And this
now is going to be sixteen years of one party rule.
It's just beyond belief. And I was there to say, look,
we're not going to put up with it. When I'm governor.
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We're going to clean it all up. We're going to
get law enforcement involved. I actually called on the National
Guard did be deployed. We're going to reverse that disgusting legislation.
We're going to deal with the fact that most of
these girls come from foster homes. Again, a really important
point for everyone to understand. You hear the word trafficking,
you think maybe this is cross border, this is all
part of the open borders Biden insanity, and there is
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a part of that, But most of the girls are
American American girls and a large proportion, more than half,
from the foster care system here in California, foster who government.
It's just unbelievable what's going on.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And Dows some signs this he has daughters. All these
legislators that voted for this, they have daughters. How could
they do this to other people's girls?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well, The thing is that you could even you can say, right,
you know, this is three years ago. Whatever, you can say, well,
it didn't you know, they didn't know that this would
be the consequence it was, it was, I mean, I know.
But now, well they've been told repeatedly. The law enforcement
up and down the state have been raising the alarm
about this for years, and they're refusing to do anything
about it. And they're still defending it. And out there
Scott Wiener is defending it and saying, oh, it's you know,
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law enforcement should do their job. I mean, it is
just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Well LAPD has well, their organization is the Los Angeles
Police Protective League, and they said that that Bill Wiener's
bill was a human sex trafficker and pimp's dream come
true and should be repealed, right right, And they're right.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
And it's not. It's and you see this exact same
point from law enforcement right across the state. And I
want to tell you a story which really captures this
for me. I'll do this briefly if I can, But
this was a happy ending. It was a girl that
was rescued by the crew that I was with just
weeks ago. This is recently. This was a fourteen year
old girl from Orange County. She posted online on one
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of her social media platforms she just bought some weed
or something and she owed forty five dollars, and within
minutes one of these disgusting pimps botted it, got hold
of her, agreed to meet up. Now, you can say,
none of that should have happened, right, shouldn't have been drugs,
shouldn't have agreed to meet with a stranger. That's all true,
of course, as a parent, that's the first thing that
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comes to mind. But nevertheless, she did meet up with
this guy. Within two hours of meeting him, she was
on the streets in la He took her up there,
forced her to change her clothing, gave us some drugs
to take her, you know, put her in the right zone,
as it were, and she's on the streets within two hours.
She was rescued five days later. In that five day period,
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she had been traded three times from one group to
another like a piece of meat. I mean, this is
so evil. It's so evil, and I just cannot believe
that you and these people, the Democrats, who just sort
of let this go on year after year. They're the
constantly lecturing us about compassion and social justice and my goodness,
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you know, gender equality in women's rights. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, it's a huge meat market for of underage girls.
And they not only it's they're not only don't care,
they actually helped build the market by by they's stupid
they did. They created this mark straordinary.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I know, why, why.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
What goes on with them? What's missing?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
The this? It's this is it, it's it's this is
what happens when you get ideal, total fanatical ideologues in charge. Right,
they had they had to do not care about the
real world and the practical consequences of what they do
in a in a less emotive and serious way. You
see exactly the same with their insane climate crusade, where
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they're doing things that just make no sense, like you know,
but stopping our oil and gas industry in California, but
meanwhile importing it from halfway around the world, increasing carbon
emissions that they're doing it to the ideology says we've
got to fight the fossil fuel injury. None of this
makes sense. It's ideology totally gone mad. And that's what
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happens when you have one party rule. That's why it's
so important we win next year. That's why I'm confident
we will win next year because people can see how
far this has gone and we're not going to put
up with it anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Can you hang on for another segment? Absolutely time, Okay,
we'll come back. I want to talk about one of
your one of your opponents, Eric Swawell, who is doing
well on the Democratic side in the polls. Okay, because
he's apparently giving up his day job as a congressman
in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Are we going to have some fang fang jokes coming up?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Look far to that.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
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Speaker 1 (26:51):
'ron every day from one until four o'clock. After four
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you could hear what you missed. We continue with Steve Helton,
the top candidate's running for governor as a Republican here
in California. Another top candidate on the Democratic side is
Congressman Eric Swalwell. Quite anti Trump over the years, involved
(27:12):
in the impeachment. And it turns out New York Post
has a story today that he doesn't show up to
vote very often. In fact, he misses more votes than
almost any other congressman except for one. And he's missed
ninety five votes at a three hundred and forty two.
(27:35):
He's missed more votes than a guy named Raoul Garrava,
a Democrat from Arizona, who missed sixty nine votes, but
he died in March, so he's got an excuse.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, Now, the days he's missed some votes, there's photos
of him, well, he was appearing on Jimmy Kimmel wive
missed two votes on November twentieth. And then let's see
another example. He missed two days of votes in February.
There's photos of him attending the LA premiere of the
HBO show White Lotus. He's one of your one of
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your opponents, and he's doing well on the Democrat side.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, I mean he's there. You go, White Loaded. Obviously
very important research there. I mean, we've got to go
back to Fang Fang. This is this is the you know,
his focus. Clearly there's there's a very interesting aspect to
the kinds of things where he puts his attention. Let's
let's leave it at that the Chinese spy what is
the Chinese spye. It's just the name is, you know,
(28:38):
Fang for unbelievable work.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
In his office.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
It's just it's just too much. The thing that this
tells you is that it's just he's just not a
serious person. He's not He's a social media phenomenon. And
that like these Democrats. Now you got IOC and all
these people who think they're I mean, obviously he's in
the sort of you know, minor league compared to her,
But this is what they're all about. Just like actually
they think that now the job of being in office
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is to troll President and Trump on social media. They
literally think that's their job. Look at how Trump usance
now spending our tax paying money on this website. That's
just a sort of Trump trolling website. It's got no purpose.
It's going to benefit to anyone in California. You look
at Eric Swoll, well, that's what's you know, he's putting
out of these videos and he did among those videos
(29:26):
like cringe videos in the gym and whatever, trolling Trump.
It's just it's not serious, and we have really serious
problems in California. You need people who understand policy, who've
got experience in government and experience in an executive role
like I have in business as well as in government,
so you actually get things done. You've got that business mindset,
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especially when you get these legislators who just literally or
they think that doing something is the same as saying something,
putting out a press release, putting out a post on
Instagram or whatever. They think that's it. They think that
means you've done something. Well do you haven't. And this
is why we're in such a mess in California. You've
got people like that whose only skill is kind of,
you know, sucking up to the activists and the unions
(30:08):
and all the kind of constituencies you have to panned
too on the left, that's what they're like. That's all
they know how to do. So this guy would be
a disaster, just like any other time. I can't see
a single Democrat there that is that really you could say,
represents the kind of serious change we need in California.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Why didn't they want to help people? That's if I
don't understand. I mean, he's hobnobbing in Hollywood, hobnobbing with
the Chinese spies. He's not voting anymore in Washington, d C.
He's putting out all kinds of nonsense about Trump taking money.
He's got fifteen grand he got from Sean Penn, ten
grand from Robert De Niro, money from Kathy Griffin, money
(30:47):
from reality show producers. What is he doing? There's states
in ruins, and you can see it with your own eyes.
It's in ruins.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
It's in ruins. I mean, it's the subt you know,
before I jumped into Race, wrote the book Cali Failure,
Reversing the Ruin of America's worst run State. That's exactly
the word that I used, because it's just obvious. I mean,
every single thing you look at as a disaster. What
is that answer to any of this. It's so hilarious
watching them. I've actually done it. I haven't done an
event with him yet, actually, to be fair, but I
(31:18):
have with some of the other ones. You know, these
four not debates yet, but they're just like these candidate
forums when you speak one after the other and they
have nothing. You know, they say the same things, which is, oh,
it's terrible. Oh it's so expensive in California, the business climate,
so everything's so difficult. The bureaucracy, the taxes, as if
it's got nothing to do with them, or their party
or their ideas. They don't have a single constructive thing
(31:40):
to say about how they'd fix it, because of course,
fixing it means going in a completely different direction to
where they are politically, because.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
They're all in office now or have recently been in office,
and they look around and they tell you what you
can see with your own eyes. You don't even have
to pay attention to the news as a voter, as
a resident. Go outside and it's like you took that
drive on Cigaroe and you saw three and a half
miles worth of little girls being sold into sex slavery.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yes, just go and fill your car up with gas,
open your electric bill, I mean, pay the rent. I
mean all these things are way more expensive than anywhere
else in the country as a direct result of Democrat policies,
and there's nowhere else to blame. What explains the difference?
I mean they keep saying, oh, it's Trump. Well, if
gas is double the price of another state, Trump's president
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in that state as well, how can it be Trump?
It's obviously the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
The average in the country is below two ninety now
and we're near four point fifty.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
I know. I mean my policy, the first plan I
announced in the campaign, because it just hurts working people
so much, And that's really my focus is working class
California's and small businesses who've really been screwed by these policies.
The first one was my plan to dismantle the climate
disaster and the climate say, and so instead of five
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four point fifty five six seven eight dollar gas which
is projected, we'll have three dollar gas in California. Now
you say that is the other I say on national
television sometimes and they and the host look at me
and say, what's so good about that?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Like, there are thirty six states in America, Like I'm
saying three dollar gas, and people are saying, wow, that's ambitious.
How are you going to do it? There are thirty
six states in America with not three dollar gas or lower,
and they don't have oil reserves like we do.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I'm looking at it right now, seventy eight, nine, ten,
there's actually forty states now under three dollars? Is it
forty today as of the update today? Yeah? There, there's amazing.
It's shocking, as the thing is, it's big states like
Texas and Florida, really low. It's it's left wing states
like New York and New Jersey and Massachusetts. It's nearly
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the whole country.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
And exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, all right, let's got a run. Got into the news.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
About next year. We're gonna we're gonna make everyone aware
that it's the Democrats causing it. And the only answer
is to stop voting Democrat, vote for Republic. And that's
why I'm confident I'll be the governor this time next year,
I'll be governor elect and be a very happy Christmas
the new year.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
All right, thank you very much, Steve Hilton.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
John Pine, we'll have you on again soon and when
we come back. Speaking of climate policy, Ford lost thirty
five billion dollars on electric vehicles. I'll tell you about
it when we come back. 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
(34:37):
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to have
Steve Hilton on the show at two thirty, one of
the leading candidates for governor Republican. And we are also
going to have the Moistline twice next hour at three
twenty and three point fifty. And now we're going to
(00:21):
talk with Sayed Kashani, who's an attorney from the Palisades
lost his home in the fire, and like many in
the Palisades, as you heard from the report we played
before Brigida's news, they cannot believe that the DWP is
draining the reservoir a second time, the one hundred and seventeen
(00:41):
million gallon reservoir that was drained in twenty twenty four
before the fire, because the cover was torn. Well, they
put a new cover on. Eventually it was too late,
too late for to use the reservoir to fight fire.
But now it's been torn again, and so they're going
(01:03):
to shut the reservoir down for another nine months, drain
it all over again. And they're still trying to sell
that this doesn't matter, except they've come up with a
backup water supply for fire safety. It's hard to keep
up with this. Let's get say ed Kashani on say it.
How are you hello?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Was the caball? Thanks for having me back. I appreciate
it makes.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
My head spin, So let me get this straight. So
they're actually draining the thing again, but they've always claimed
they would have not done any good at the fire.
But they have a backup water system this time, like
just in case.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, i'll tell you right now, that backup system, as
they describe it, is a going to help at all.
They're talking about a ten inch diameter water line that
possibly could bring more water over the help from PANG. Now,
the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You
cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a
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ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're
recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir
is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know,
the interesting thing is when they first put this cover
on in two thy eleven, the DWP had reports and
public meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be
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drained for a period of time. And back then the
LA fire department actually objected and said, we need this
reservoir for fire safety and if you drain it, there
has to be alternatives, and at the time there were
some alternatives. Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are
like the Chautauqua Reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now
closed down, not even available. So they're you know, they're
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putting the entire Polsage area at risk again.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Over and they keep insisting we have to protect drinking
water now this reservoir and correct me if I had
the dates wrong, didn't have a cover. For over forty years,
from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Was no cover exactly This cover is, you might say,
is kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I
don't want to get into the details and the chemistry
about it, but the idea is that having a cover
enables you to use a different type of chlorinating agent
(03:36):
that supposedly is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact,
there's a epedeomologist, epidemiologist John Anstrom out of UCLA speaking
of UCLA who's been quite vocal on this and pointing
out that there's absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary
chlorine and no cover.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So that's why they got the cover. Well, because yeah,
I know it's not it's probably not where they're gone.
It's absurd because they drained this reservoir in early twenty
twenty four, So the Palisades went that whole year without
that reservoir supplying water, and it turns out I guess
(04:18):
they didn't need it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did
they drain the reservoir, but the DWP never told anyone
for as far as I can tell, as far as
the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department.
So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the
fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty
and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of
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DWP gave an announcement and he said, and I quote,
our reservoirs are full. Well, what kind of thing to
say is that when you know that the most important
reservoir in that area is still empty at the.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Time, Why have they been lying so frequently so long
before the fire, During the fire, After the fire, all
they do is lie, or at least they cover up
and with whole information. What are they doing?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I think it all goes back to these environmental these
extreme environmental extremists. I mean, the environmental extremists at the
state water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk
of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, so
you need to cover the whole reservoir at enormous expense
and take it out of commission and put everyone at
(05:30):
risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as
you know, from the fire, that in order to protect
some native species of plants, oh, they were unable to
fight the fire. Probably, Well, how did that work out
for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed anyway,
This is all.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So crazy, It really is. All the environmental extremists, it
really is. You know, you hear this, people complain about it,
and you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's
just people taking political shots at one another. But this
is a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into
the government have insane policies that kill people and destroy
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enormous amounts of real estate.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, the worst of it is these are people and
programs that operate behind the scenes that pass rules behind
the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature,
whatever you think of the legislature. At least there's public
hearings in the public vote. This cover idea started with
a regulation that started in some environmental bureaucracy that was
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never voted on, that never had public hearings. It was
just some decision that someone decided that if you use
this type of chlorine instead of other type of chlorine,
then somehow that I don't know, it makes a difference
to the water supply when the first type of chlorine
has been used for over one hundred years with no problems.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah. First, at first I heard of this, and now
they're going to close it down for nine months. Why
do they have to close it for nine months? They
repaired the old cover much more quickly than that.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
This work. This is what happens when you only have
one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with
a single company I won't give its name, but they're
out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this cover.
And it's only one company, it's a single source. Well,
guess what if your company knows that you're going to
get substantial business from repairing this cover. What's the incentive
(07:38):
to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier
just to keep coming back and back and back and
repair and repair and repair. I mean, I'm not saying
they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean I
think it would be a better idea to do it
do it right the first time so it works. But
like I said, the whole idea of a cover was
never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by
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unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their
environmental agenda.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as
they passed through the bowels of the system. We don't
know their name. We know Jennie Canones. And by the way,
what does it take to get her removed? I mean,
this is one insane, stupid decision and one insane why
after another after another, And she's making seven hundred and
fifty thousand a year and all she's brought is devastation.
(08:29):
How does she survive? As the.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It just gave her an award for Women of the Years, Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, the Times. The Times gave her a Woman of
the Year award.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I mean, it's it's completely ridiculous. But I mean, there's
no accountability. But look, the same people who made the
wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up.
For example, we sought a report from the state that
claim that the reservoir wouldn't have made a reference. Well,
who was who provided that report? That report came from
(09:07):
state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover
regulation in the first place. In other words, three of
the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies
that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies
aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made
a mistake, and you know, we let the whole city
burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going
(09:29):
to say, well, it never made any difference, say ed, well, obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
One hundred and seventeen million gallots they claim would have
had no effect. I met a guy in the Palisades
a few weeks ago. He had a two inch hose
connected to his swimming pool, and he saved his home
and two weather homes near him watered it down well
so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they didn't the
two inch holls one to his pool.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was
able to protect his house so long as there was water.
But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story.
But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a
source of water. As long as the city supplied water,
he was able to keep his house safe. Once the
water shut off the evening of the first fire, that's
(10:17):
when his house got fired and there was nothing he
would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said,
there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way,
the DWP story that houses water lines broke and that's
why they lost pressure. That doesn't hold up either, because
many areas of the palisades, if you see them after
(10:38):
the fire, they were bone dry. That means the water
means did not break and spill water over. That means
the fire got to these areas after the water.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Was shut off.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So that story isn't going to hold up either. Again,
the only thing that's going to get us the truth
here is this pending litigation, and I'm hoping the courts
will let it go forward to the point that we
have a trial. We have witnesses, we have documents, all
presented in the light of days so people can see
exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Siah Kashani, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
No problem, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Sied as an attorney in the Palisades, lost his home there.
When we come back. Spencer Pratt, the reality star who
lost his home in the Palisades, he has seized on
Karen Bass admitting on a video podcast that La City
botched the fire response. This was the piece of video
(11:33):
that was cut out of the final version posted to YouTube.
We talked about that a couple of days ago. I'll
play you Spencer Pratt's comments on Twitter about this. That's next.
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at John Cobelt Radio for all the other social media platforms. Well,
we just talked with Sayad Kashani, the attorney out of
the Palisades, about this, the insanity of the of the
DWP now taking the cover off the reservoir again. They're
going to close the reservoir again for nine months. This
(12:37):
time they're proposing a ten inch water line from the
Panga Canyon. Reservoir has two thirty inch water lines that's
supposed to be used to fight fires. You can't replace
sixty inches of water line with a ten inch line.
That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well, they're going
to do it for fire. Well, I thought having a
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full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in the fire.
They're so full of it, they're so absolutely full of it,
and they keep saying, well, we got to keep the
drinking water safe. Well, when they closed it in twenty
twenty four, there was no drinking water that year, and
the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you think they need
it now? You know it's going to rain this week,
but you never know when the sant Ana winds may
(13:19):
hit in the summertime. All the rain now, everything could
be bone dry come July or August or September. Next year,
and there'll be a lot more There'll be a lot
more brush that had grown because of all the rain
we've had so far this winter and that we're going
to get in the coming days. Spencer Pratt, the reality star,
we've had him on the show. He's responding to the
(13:42):
Karen Bass botch comment. Just to quickly run down Karen
Bass appeared on a podcast called a Fifth Column, and
it was originally a sixty six minute podcast. The last
four minutes came after the host said goodbye to bad
on air, and then the video chems kept rolling and
(14:04):
she started talking about how La City botched the response
the La Fire Department and the video was posted November.
At some point between November and this week, Bass's office
realized that that extra four minutes was up there and
she was admitting that the city had screwed up badly,
and so they took it down, and the weasel who
(14:26):
hosted the podcast agreed to take it down, then hung
up on the La Times when he was questioned on it.
I got to get his name. While I look for
his name, just to remind everybody who the weasel is.
Here is Spencer Pratt on X with a post going
after Bass.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Mayor Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the
Palicies fire was quote botched while on a hot mic
at the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't
find that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that
they scrubbed that foot from the internet. Will guess what
by admitting that the Palises fire response was botched, she
(15:06):
just earned herself a subpoena from our lawyers for the
Palises fire lawsuit. Her stunning admission is a massive departure
from the.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Ooh, we did everything we could. It was just one.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Hundred miles brough wins bs and narrative that they've been
spinning to date. But in a moment of accidental candor,
she let the truth slip, and this mistake will cost
her dearly. She has just signaled that we were right,
they did botch the fire response, and now we have
good cause to call her as a witness. What did
she mean by botched?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What went wrong? Who screwed up?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Thanks for playing Mayor Bass. It's time for my lawyers
to go fishing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's great, that is great, and he's absolutely right. She
and all her stooge fire chiefs and she said, three
of them this year, and countless other fire officials have
been insisting repeatedly, over and over again, we.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One hundred
miles of hour winds. There was no one hundred mile
an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read six
days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service and
had a of firefighters at the site of the original
January first fire, which was still smoldering, and it was
(16:23):
smoldering because the ninnies in the State Parks Department went
down and kicked the LA Fire Department out on January
second because they wanted to save the freaking milk vetch plant,
the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the firefighters stepping
on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want LAFD bulldozers creating
a fire line. And I remember another LA time story.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Early in the year where they had long wanted to
build a fire road out of the Palisades up and
over the mountain going to the north, and they weren't
allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan. That is
a story from US January or February. Yeah, they botched it,
of course, they botched it. They had nobody there and
(17:05):
Bass admitted it. And I hope she gets nailed by
the attorneys. But that's going to be a fight because
she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars
in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at taxpayer
expense to keep her from testifying in front of a
federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that
(17:25):
the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are
they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of
the Palisades residents with? Twenty five thirty five? By the way,
the name of the host of the Fifth Column is
Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show
and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so
(17:48):
beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty
eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city. She defunded
the fire department. What are these staff members? This is
your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and
bully him to take down the last four minutes of
the podcast and he does it. Wow, Wow, Wow, I
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don't get how the world works anymore. When we come
back Steve Hilton. He is one of the leading Republican
candidates for governor. He has intelligence and common sense, and
we're going to talk to him. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
We're going to talk with We're going to talk with
Steve Hilton. Now. He's a Republican running to be governor
of California, doing very well in the polls here in
the early going. And Steve Hilton did a visit to
South La. New York Times did an extensive story on
it a few weeks back. Nothing but sex trafficking, nothing
(18:53):
but prostitution, very young girls. And he stood at the
corner of Figure Row on seventy seventh Street and he
blamed it on the twenty twenty two Safer Streets for
All Act, that's what they called it. This was out
of the perverted mind of State Senator Scott Wiener. This
act eliminated a law against loitering to sell sex. So
(19:18):
police now are really constricted on cleaning up blocks of prostitution.
We're going to get Steve on here to talk about
what this law did. It's nothing but terrible things. Steve,
how are you.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'm great, It's great to be with you. I mean,
this is truly one of those shocking things I've ever seen,
and I've read about it, and I've been talking to
people who are working on this issue for years, but
to go there and see it, I mean, it's a
stretch of figure out. It's about fifty blocks is known
as the Blade, like miles long, and you drive along.
We were there Friday night. We could go around midnight
(19:58):
for hours, and it's just everywhere you look out in
the open. You hear that term child sex trafficking and
you just think of maybe dingy basements and some you know,
hidden place. No, it's on the street, on the main road.
It's just driving past. I saw with my own eyes
a guy in a car, these sick people picking up
(20:21):
these young girls. There was an older girl negotiating through
the window with this guy for a young girl that
was right there next to her. She couldn't have been
more than about eight or nine years old.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Really, it's just the.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Unspeakable evil just going on right there. And this is normal.
I was with a nonprofit that rescues girls, and you know,
pastors and former military guys, and they they've been doing
it for many, many years, and they tell me that
the typical age of the girls that they rescue twelve
to fourteen. That's typical many many younger than that. It's
just it's just like it's beyond It is a total evil.
(20:56):
It's thick, disgusting evil. It has been going on for years,
but exactly as you said, it's been made much much
worse by this legislation. It's another Scott Weener special signed
by Gavin Newsom, which exactly as you said, it constrains
the law enforcement from going up and actually doing anything
about it. Why where did this legislation come from. It's
(21:17):
another example of their insane far left gender ideology. This
time it was about trans women, which is you can't
go up to people based on an assumption about who
they are or what they're doing based on their appearance.
That's the issue. And so this is supposed to be
non discrimination against trans women, and it's ended up in
young girls being sold for sex on the streets of
(21:40):
Los Angeles with impunity. And now it's got to the
point where we here in California are now the world.
According to the people I was with the world capital
for child sex trafficking. So you can add that to
the list of great accomplishments of Gavin Newsom. And this
now is going to be sixteen years of one party rule.
It's just beyond belief. And I was there to say, look,
we're not going to put up with it. When I'm governor.
(22:01):
We're going to clean it all up. We're going to
get law enforcement involved. I actually called on the National
Guard did be deployed. We're going to reverse that disgusting legislation.
We're going to deal with the fact that most of
these girls come from foster homes. Again, a really important
point for everyone to understand. You hear the word trafficking,
you think maybe this is cross border, this is all
part of the open borders Biden insanity, and there is
(22:23):
a part of that, But most of the girls are
American American girls and a large proportion, more than half,
from the foster care system here in California, foster who government.
It's just unbelievable what's going on.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And Dows some signs this he has daughters. All these
legislators that voted for this, they have daughters. How could
they do this to other people's girls?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well, The thing is that you could even you can say, right,
you know, this is three years ago. Whatever, you can say, well,
it didn't you know, they didn't know that this would
be the consequence it was, it was, I mean, I know.
But now, well they've been told repeatedly. The law enforcement
up and down the state have been raising the alarm
about this for years, and they're refusing to do anything
about it. And they're still defending it. And out there
Scott Wiener is defending it and saying, oh, it's you know,
(23:12):
law enforcement should do their job. I mean, it is
just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Well LAPD has well, their organization is the Los Angeles
Police Protective League, and they said that that Bill Wiener's
bill was a human sex trafficker and pimp's dream come
true and should be repealed, right right, And they're right.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
And it's not. It's and you see this exact same
point from law enforcement right across the state. And I
want to tell you a story which really captures this
for me. I'll do this briefly if I can, But
this was a happy ending. It was a girl that
was rescued by the crew that I was with just
weeks ago. This is recently. This was a fourteen year
old girl from Orange County. She posted online on one
(23:55):
of her social media platforms she just bought some weed
or something and she owed forty five dollars, and within
minutes one of these disgusting pimps botted it, got hold
of her, agreed to meet up. Now, you can say,
none of that should have happened, right, shouldn't have been drugs,
shouldn't have agreed to meet with a stranger. That's all true,
of course, as a parent, that's the first thing that
(24:16):
comes to mind. But nevertheless, she did meet up with
this guy. Within two hours of meeting him, she was
on the streets in la He took her up there,
forced her to change her clothing, gave us some drugs
to take her, you know, put her in the right zone,
as it were, and she's on the streets within two hours.
She was rescued five days later. In that five day period,
(24:39):
she had been traded three times from one group to
another like a piece of meat. I mean, this is
so evil. It's so evil, and I just cannot believe
that you and these people, the Democrats, who just sort
of let this go on year after year. They're the
constantly lecturing us about compassion and social justice and my goodness,
(24:59):
you know, gender equality in women's rights. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, it's a huge meat market for of underage girls.
And they not only it's they're not only don't care,
they actually helped build the market by by they's stupid
they did. They created this mark straordinary.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I know, why, why.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
What goes on with them? What's missing?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
The this? It's this is it, it's it's this is
what happens when you get ideal, total fanatical ideologues in charge. Right,
they had they had to do not care about the
real world and the practical consequences of what they do
in a in a less emotive and serious way. You
see exactly the same with their insane climate crusade, where
(25:48):
they're doing things that just make no sense, like you know,
but stopping our oil and gas industry in California, but
meanwhile importing it from halfway around the world, increasing carbon
emissions that they're doing it to the ideology says we've
got to fight the fossil fuel injury. None of this
makes sense. It's ideology totally gone mad. And that's what
(26:09):
happens when you have one party rule. That's why it's
so important we win next year. That's why I'm confident
we will win next year because people can see how
far this has gone and we're not going to put
up with it anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Can you hang on for another segment? Absolutely time, Okay,
we'll come back. I want to talk about one of
your one of your opponents, Eric Swawell, who is doing
well on the Democratic side in the polls. Okay, because
he's apparently giving up his day job as a congressman
in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Are we going to have some fang fang jokes coming up?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Look far to that.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
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Speaker 1 (26:51):
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the top candidate's running for governor as a Republican here
in California. Another top candidate on the Democratic side is
Congressman Eric Swalwell. Quite anti Trump over the years, involved
(27:12):
in the impeachment. And it turns out New York Post
has a story today that he doesn't show up to
vote very often. In fact, he misses more votes than
almost any other congressman except for one. And he's missed
ninety five votes at a three hundred and forty two.
(27:35):
He's missed more votes than a guy named Raoul Garrava,
a Democrat from Arizona, who missed sixty nine votes, but
he died in March, so he's got an excuse.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, Now, the days he's missed some votes, there's photos
of him, well, he was appearing on Jimmy Kimmel wive
missed two votes on November twentieth. And then let's see
another example. He missed two days of votes in February.
There's photos of him attending the LA premiere of the
HBO show White Lotus. He's one of your one of
(28:12):
your opponents, and he's doing well on the Democrat side.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, I mean he's there. You go, White Loaded. Obviously
very important research there. I mean, we've got to go
back to Fang Fang. This is this is the you know,
his focus. Clearly there's there's a very interesting aspect to
the kinds of things where he puts his attention. Let's
let's leave it at that the Chinese spy what is
the Chinese spye. It's just the name is, you know,
(28:38):
Fang for unbelievable work.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
In his office.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
It's just it's just too much. The thing that this
tells you is that it's just he's just not a
serious person. He's not He's a social media phenomenon. And
that like these Democrats. Now you got IOC and all
these people who think they're I mean, obviously he's in
the sort of you know, minor league compared to her,
But this is what they're all about. Just like actually
they think that now the job of being in office
(29:05):
is to troll President and Trump on social media. They
literally think that's their job. Look at how Trump usance
now spending our tax paying money on this website. That's
just a sort of Trump trolling website. It's got no purpose.
It's going to benefit to anyone in California. You look
at Eric Swoll, well, that's what's you know, he's putting
out of these videos and he did among those videos
(29:26):
like cringe videos in the gym and whatever, trolling Trump.
It's just it's not serious, and we have really serious
problems in California. You need people who understand policy, who've
got experience in government and experience in an executive role
like I have in business as well as in government,
so you actually get things done. You've got that business mindset,
(29:47):
especially when you get these legislators who just literally or
they think that doing something is the same as saying something,
putting out a press release, putting out a post on
Instagram or whatever. They think that's it. They think that
means you've done something. Well do you haven't. And this
is why we're in such a mess in California. You've
got people like that whose only skill is kind of,
you know, sucking up to the activists and the unions
(30:08):
and all the kind of constituencies you have to panned
too on the left, that's what they're like. That's all
they know how to do. So this guy would be
a disaster, just like any other time. I can't see
a single Democrat there that is that really you could say,
represents the kind of serious change we need in California.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Why didn't they want to help people? That's if I
don't understand. I mean, he's hobnobbing in Hollywood, hobnobbing with
the Chinese spies. He's not voting anymore in Washington, d C.
He's putting out all kinds of nonsense about Trump taking money.
He's got fifteen grand he got from Sean Penn, ten
grand from Robert De Niro, money from Kathy Griffin, money
(30:47):
from reality show producers. What is he doing? There's states
in ruins, and you can see it with your own eyes.
It's in ruins.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
It's in ruins. I mean, it's the subt you know,
before I jumped into Race, wrote the book Cali Failure,
Reversing the Ruin of America's worst run State. That's exactly
the word that I used, because it's just obvious. I mean,
every single thing you look at as a disaster. What
is that answer to any of this. It's so hilarious
watching them. I've actually done it. I haven't done an
event with him yet, actually, to be fair, but I
(31:18):
have with some of the other ones. You know, these
four not debates yet, but they're just like these candidate
forums when you speak one after the other and they
have nothing. You know, they say the same things, which is, oh,
it's terrible. Oh it's so expensive in California, the business climate,
so everything's so difficult. The bureaucracy, the taxes, as if
it's got nothing to do with them, or their party
or their ideas. They don't have a single constructive thing
(31:40):
to say about how they'd fix it, because of course,
fixing it means going in a completely different direction to
where they are politically, because.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
They're all in office now or have recently been in office,
and they look around and they tell you what you
can see with your own eyes. You don't even have
to pay attention to the news as a voter, as
a resident. Go outside and it's like you took that
drive on Cigaroe and you saw three and a half
miles worth of little girls being sold into sex slavery.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yes, just go and fill your car up with gas,
open your electric bill, I mean, pay the rent. I
mean all these things are way more expensive than anywhere
else in the country as a direct result of Democrat policies,
and there's nowhere else to blame. What explains the difference?
I mean they keep saying, oh, it's Trump. Well, if
gas is double the price of another state, Trump's president
(32:30):
in that state as well, how can it be Trump?
It's obviously the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
The average in the country is below two ninety now
and we're near four point fifty.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
I know. I mean my policy, the first plan I
announced in the campaign, because it just hurts working people
so much, And that's really my focus is working class
California's and small businesses who've really been screwed by these policies.
The first one was my plan to dismantle the climate
disaster and the climate say, and so instead of five
(33:01):
four point fifty five six seven eight dollar gas which
is projected, we'll have three dollar gas in California. Now
you say that is the other I say on national
television sometimes and they and the host look at me
and say, what's so good about that?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Like, there are thirty six states in America, Like I'm
saying three dollar gas, and people are saying, wow, that's ambitious.
How are you going to do it? There are thirty
six states in America with not three dollar gas or lower,
and they don't have oil reserves like we do.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I'm looking at it right now, seventy eight, nine, ten,
there's actually forty states now under three dollars? Is it
forty today as of the update today? Yeah? There, there's amazing.
It's shocking, as the thing is, it's big states like
Texas and Florida, really low. It's it's left wing states
like New York and New Jersey and Massachusetts. It's nearly
(33:50):
the whole country.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
And exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, all right, let's got a run. Got into the news.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
About next year. We're gonna we're gonna make everyone aware
that it's the Democrats causing it. And the only answer
is to stop voting Democrat, vote for Republic. And that's
why I'm confident I'll be the governor this time next year,
I'll be governor elect and be a very happy Christmas
the new year.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
All right, thank you very much, Steve Hilton.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
John Pine, we'll have you on again soon and when
we come back. Speaking of climate policy, Ford lost thirty
five billion dollars on electric vehicles. I'll tell you about
it when we come back. Hey, you've been listening to
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