May 20, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/20) - CA State Senator Tony Strickland comes on the show to talk about why enough is enough with the CA high-speed rail boondoggle and a few other topics. Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about SCOTUS siding with Pres. Trump and lifting protections for 350K Venezuelans. LA is bankrupt.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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these excuses. Well, you find the time and later on
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you could listen to what you missed. First hour, we
spent a lot of time on well, they want to
raise taxes in Sacramento to cover healthcare, free healthcare for
all illegal aliens. The illegals already get free healthcare. Newsome
does not want to take any new sign ups, and
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the Latino Caucus is going nuts and they're willing to
raise taxes on you. So you want to hear that,
and you also want to hear some of the clips
we play it about Jake Tapper getting his rear end
roasted by Megan Kelly for actively covering up Joe Biden's
cognitive decline over the years.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So it's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Now we're going to go on to Tony Strickland, State
Senator from Huntington Beach, a Republican, I always got to
open any high speed rail segment by reminding you when
this passed in two thousand and eight, and many of
you voted for it, it was going to cost thirty
three billion dollars and we were going to get high
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speed rail from Sacramento to San Francisco to Los Angeles
to Anaheim to San Diego for thirty three million dollars.
And it was all going to be finished five years ago.
And now all these years later, seventeen years later, we
have blown at least eighteen billion dollars, although I see
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higher estimates than that, and there is no track laid down,
and right now they've shrunk it to Bakersfield to Merced
and they're over ten billion dollars short on that budget.
And someone wants to take some of the gas tax money,
you know, he calls it cap and trade money, it's
gas tax money, and spend it on high speed rail
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a billion dollars. Well, even if he does that, he's
still ten billion dollars short. Let's get Tony Strickland on, Tony,
how are you?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'm fantastic, how are you?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
What the hell, when when's this going to stop?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's absurd. You know, they said that they need seven
billion dollars this year to keep it going. Gavin Newsom
put a billion dollars. Everybody up here and knows that
this project as proposed is never going to be built.
It's become a slush fund. And it's about time that
my colleagues start having a serious discussion on you know,
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let's just continue this project. It's a failed project. The
people were fooled. They said, as you said in your
your opening, that this will go from San Francisco, Los Angeles.
Everybody knows, as proposed, it's never going to be built.
Now it's the cost of skyrocketed to ask them in
one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars, and we need
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that ten point two billion just to get from Merced
to Bakersfield. My guess is, if the voters have the opportunity,
and I think we should him the opportunity to vote,
would you spend over fifty billion dollars on a project
that goes from Mercet to Baker's Field?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
People will vote they'd vote no on that. That's absolutely, without.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Question, Yeah, without questions, and okay, and again, they just
keep spending more and more of these of our hardened dollars. Okay,
my proposal is to take the Cap and Trade SB.
My proposal is to take the money from the high
speed rail and lower the gas right for everybody in California.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, especially since we might be having eight to fifty
gas by next year, eight dollars fifty. Say, let me
ask you something, who is stealing the money? I know
they've done some audits. They can't seem to find that.
Apparently in some cases there's no paper trail. Nobody wrote
down where the money went. We got at least eighteen
billion dollars that was on up and smoke, no track
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laid down. Somebody stole it. Somebody collectively stole billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
My guess the consultant's got to paid a lot of
money up front, and a lot of consultants, you know.
And and look also the way we do everything in
California with business. You know, we have all these huge
bureaucracy of our environmental laws, secret laws. They cost a
lot of money. That's why it cost so much money
even to build a road in California. And so yeah,
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just because this legislature does what they do and created
all these laws and these regulations. It rises the cost
of doing anything. Uh, you know, whether that's trains, homes,
building your business. Everything is more expensive in California because
this legislature is out of touch.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
There's got to be corruption going on.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, there's no question. I think a lot of consultants.
We definitely need to full audit. I'm I'm welcoming Doge
and the federal government come in audit this whole high
stued rail because I guarantee you there's a lot of
money that's being stolen, because there's no way they're spending
these billions of dollars and we haven't laid down one track.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
How could you spend eighteen billion and have no track.
I mean, that's impossible unless it is it is total
thievery going on here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Correct. No, I couldn't agree with you more. And by
the way, in two thousand and eight, I was in
the legislature voted no. And my son at the time
was like six five, and I said, when he gets
to college, he's going to ask why there's a train
from nowhere to nowhere? Because they at the time they
promised all this money come from federal government when we
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knew full well the money wasn't kind of come from
the federal government. And I said, you know, he as
I take him to college, and next year he's going
to college. And look, we don't even have a train
from nowhere to nowhere. We don't even have a track
lead down.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I actually I actually saw a quote that they're looking
for private investment. They've been trying to get private and
that's been for over twenty years. They never got to
dine from anyone in the world.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, I've been asking the question, well, how much is
it going to cost to take this train? No one
could ever give you that answer. And I laughed when
they said private investment. Would any private investor invest in
something that originally was thirty three billion, That was one
hundred and twenty eight billion that was supposed to be
done in two thousand and twenty. Now it's twenty and
thirty two just for the first days. What private investor
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would invest in a product like this?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
All right, so why does it new some shut it down?
Mister president here, he's actually going to run on the
biggest boondoggle in American history. He's going to run for
president on this, Why doesn't he shut it down?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Give up?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I don't understand. And in fact, he put a billion
dollars here, but he didn't fund Top thirty six initiative
the past seventy percent of the vote across California to
make a crime illegal again, Who.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Do you think think owns him? Who owns newsome that
he won't do it?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know. This doesn't make sense. You know, he really,
really really wants to be president, but he's not. And
all he does he doesn't even weigh in on these
issues day day to day issues as governor. He's just
busy trying to figure out how to become president. But
he needs to realize, you know, things like this and
not funny Prop thirty six. How does he expect to
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become president of the United States when he's done such
a riffic as governor of California?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Do you got time for another segment?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
I do?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Can I want to talk about that the Prop thirty
six thing that's not getting enough attention. Nothing's getting enough attention,
And I want to talk about the twelve billion dollars
that the Latino Caucus is A state Senator Lina Gonzalez,
among others, twelve billion dollars they want spent on illegal
alien healthcare, and they want a new tax. It's coming
up next with Tony Strickland the State Center from hunting
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To Beach, Republican.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KYO six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
After Michael's two thirty news Royal Oaks. We'll be coming
on the ABC News Legal Analyst. You may have heard
that the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to
deport three hundred and fifty thousand venez of Whalens who
got temporary protected status. It was a back and forth
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situation in the lower courts, and at least for now
he can remove them. The Biden administration wild giving temporary
status to obviously one hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
We'll talk more of that with Royal coming up. Let's
get to back to Tony Strickland, the demo the Republican
Assemblyment from Huntington Beach, and we talked with him about
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high speed rail needing over ten billion dollars just to
complete Baker's Fieldmer said, but there's a couple other things
I want to talk about. You brought up one of them,
Prop thirty six, the public voted on by about seventy
to thirty and that makes stealing things illegal again, and
that makes doing drugs illegal again. And you have to
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either go to jail or you go to treatment. If
they go to treatment, the treatment has to be built,
has to be available. The state has to provide money
for this, and Newsome will not put that in the budget.
He's got twelve billion dollars for illegal alien healthcare and
he won't spend any more money on treating people for
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drugs under Prop thirty six.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
That's correct. We're talking about four hundred million dollars for
drug treatment and mental health services. And again, the budget's
your priorities. He puts in over ten billion dollars for
healthcare for illegals. He puts in ten point two billion
for a high speed rail on a train that everybody
knows is never going to be built. But he's not
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putting in to put public safety first and keep us safe.
I have very I have never seen. I can't recall
an initiative that won all fifty eight counties, even the
most liberal counties of Marine in San Francisco voted for
this initiative seventy percent of the vote, and he's willing
to ignore the voices of the people in California that
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wants to make public safety a top priority, wants to
keep us safe in our communities, and he's not willing
to fund four hundred million there. That just shows you
how Adam whack his priorities and the two thirds majority
up here in Sacramut.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But's drug and mental health treatment, yes, and.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's making crime illegal again. Part of that funding will
also be you know, probation funding, case management and also
you know corrections that when people can make crime over
and over again that they go to jail. So that's
what people want.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So he doesn't want to fund any of that.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He doesn't want to fund the drug rehab, the mental
health treatment, the probation department, the jails, the prisons, none
of it. None of it he wants to fund. Even
though Prop thirty six won all fifty eight counties by
seventy to thirty margin.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And I don't know if you remember, but he tried
every maneuver possible already legislature to keep that initiative from
the ballot. But now that it got to the ballot,
and seventy percent of the people vote for in all
eight counties. Now he's saying, well, I'm just not going
to fund it, which is which is you know again, Oh,
that's nuts, this is crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
This stuff defines analysis. This is simply nuts. People were
sick of the crime, They were sick of all the
drug addicts in the streets, all the mentally ill people.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Now there's a tool to either put them.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
In jail or to actually treat their illnesses or treat
their addictions.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He won't fund any event.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
That's coco, it is cuckoo.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, it's just And again, that's what the citizens of
California want to make crime a league. Again, the citizens
of California a bunch of the blue premier priorities. This
should be the first thing that gets funded is to
keep people safe.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
And that's the matter is.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
She tried every maneuver to keep it from the vote,
and the vote was overwhelming. The people spoken, and he's
still not willing to fund it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
All right, but he's willing to fund illegal alien healthcare.
On the state's medical gill a medical program, it was
twelve billion last year, be twelve billion this year. And
there's no money for it and his idea is, well,
we're not going to take any new illegals to sign up.
And you got Lena Gonzalez, the state senator, said well, no,
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we ought to raise taxes. And there's another state senator here,
she's from Long Beach, Gonzales, Carolina Minhivar from Van nys.
They want to raise taxes on Americans. We got we
got legals from one hundred and seventy countries now roaming
all over the country in California.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I mean that that is also completely nuts.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
It is. And remember or at the start of the year,
those same members said this year is going to be
a year for the affordability crisis in California. Affordability crisis
that they created. Now we don't look, we don't have
a revenue problem in California. We have a wasteful spending problem.
When I was in the legislature a little over ten
years twelve years ago, the entire budget was ninety eight billion.
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It is tripled since then, and the population has gone down,
So we've tripled the spending and we're wasting billions and
billions of dollars. And then they have a then they
want to come up with a tax increase when they
said we have a they admit that we have affordability crisis,
but they continue to raise our gas tax. They continue
to raise these extreme environmental rules that make our energy
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costs go way up. They don't let us, you know,
next year, we're going to have gasoline that's eight dollars
a gallon. They're just way out of touch, and hard
working families live in paycheck to paycheck. They're suffering the
consequences of these folks who are just out of touch.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They have a super majority in both the Assembly and
state Senate. They have a veto proof majority. Do you
think they would pass taxes and override Newsom's veto just
to get the money.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I don't know, you know, because a lot of them,
you know, how their pet bills that they really you know,
would be scared that Governor Newsom would veto their their
pet projects and their bills. And so I don't know
the answer to that. And there hasn't been a veto
override since Governor Jerry Brown back in the in the
mid seventies, so it's very unusual. And and yeah, the
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issue majority raised taxes over the objection of Governor Newsom.
That tells you how far out of touch everybody is.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Well, I'm wondering because Newsom made it clear that you know,
he's going to put a cap on on on the spending.
In a way, there's going to be no one, no
new sign ups allowed, and in fact, the people who
already signed up are going to have to pay one
hundred dollars a month. So I think he has hit
his limit for the time being. And the next thing
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you know is Lorena Gonzales and Carolina Menavar is saying, well, no, no, no,
let's raise taxes, no limit, Let's keep signing people up,
Let's not make them pay one hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So I'm wondering how much support you think they have.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, I honestly don't think they're going to be successful
on raising taxes. But you know, you mentioned you know
they have the super majority. I'll tell you this right now,
not a flaw. We picked up a couple of seats
in the couple in the Assembly, and they continue to
do this the mismanagement of the fires. People have to
wake up, they have to open their eyes and see
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who they're sending. The Sacramento does not represent them at all.
And so we need common sense and balance. And I
do believe that people are starting to wake up. I
really do.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
All right, Tony, I gotta go. Tony Strickland, the state
Senator from Huntington Beach, thank you for coming on. We've
got Royal Oaks from ABC News coming on next. Three
hundred and fifty thousand Venezuelan and illegal aliens can be deported,
says the Supreme Court. At least for now, we'll talk
to him.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app Moist Fine eight seven seven Moist eighty six.
Come on eight seven seven Moist eighty six. So he
use the talkback feature on the iHeart app. The Supreme
Court is allowing the Trump administration for now to deport
three hundred and fifty thousand illegal aliens from Venezuela who
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were under temporary protected status. This is as Gavindussom is
giving free healthcare to illegal alien So, gee, which issue
do you think is going to play better when Newsom
runs for president let's go to Royal Oaks.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Now, the ABC.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
News legal analyst to explain how how this works, what
this case is about Royal How are you?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I'm doing great, John, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
This actually goes back to a law that went into
effect when Bush the Elder was president back in nineteen
ninety And as you say, it's called temporary protected status.
But the important thing is what does that really mean.
The law basically said, look, if you've got people in
foreign countries that are in a real bad way, like
a civil war, armed conflict, environmental disasters, hurricanes, earthquakes, hey
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we'll let them stay here for a while. They don't
have green cards. It's not like they can work here indefinitely,
but just for a humanitarian reason, they may stay. But
the Congress said that the president gets to decide when
the party's over, when the emergency is over, and these
folks have to go back. So the Trump administration recently says, yeah,
three hundred and fifty thousand people from Venezuela and a
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bunch of folks from the Nicaragua, Sudan, Al Salvador, they
got to go home because the crisis they complained about
is no longer a crisis, and yesterday the US Supreme
Court said we go along with the Trump administration. Here
the Trump folks have the right to say when this
is over.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Opponents who are saying that we can't ever send these
people back home, I don't understand the legal argument. If
it says temporary status, then it's temporary, which means it.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Comes down in right. And here's the deal. Because it's
so political, people who are in favor of open borders say, oh,
my gosh, look look at Venezuela. For example. Hunger is rampant,
there's malnutrition, they've got a collapsing healthcare system, rampant crime
and violence that they were pressed ascent. That sounds like
a humanitarian crisis to me. So you folks can stay.
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And of course those things that I ticked off, they're
not going to get better. So what that translate to
translates to is an excuse to basically have open borders.
And from you know, an empathetic standpoint, you know, we've
got to solve suffering. But obviously, if we spend the
money to admit everybody around the world who are facing
problems with hunger and malnutrition, healthcare systems on, we will
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be broke even broker than we are in about two months.
And so really it boils down to a political issue
about whether the Trump administration is right that we got
to start cracking down. And he says, you know, if
you don't have a border, you don't have a country.
And ultimately you Supreme Court didn't get into a lot
of details, John, They basically just said we're letting the
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lower court decision in or Trump stand. So we don't
know all about how every big feels on this, but
I think they just you know, the Congress is the
bills actually says that it's up to the president totally
to say when, you know, to turn this bigot on
and when to turn it off.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
All right, let me ask you this because that sometimes
I don't really understand as it bounces from one court
to another. The lower court blocked the deportation of these Venezuelans,
and the Supreme Court set that aside. So now what
happens are they telling them the lower court go change
your mind or does it just go into limbo now indefinitely?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah, great question, and it actually rates the whole national
injunction thing that we've all been talking about recently. Many
lawsuits were filed after Trump said go home. In some
of the lawsuits, Trump won, and in some of the lawsuits,
Trump lost. So you've got conflicting different opinions, which is
a formula for having the Supreme Court step in. So
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what happened is in one of the cases where Trump won,
the folks who wanted Trump to stop sending people home
appealed to the US Supreme Court, And they usually don't
take appeals, but this one they took up and they said,
we specifically are letting stand the pro Trump decision below.
So you're right, it's a whole mess of conflicting decisions
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all around the because they've got hundreds of the federal
judges issuing in national injunctions and saw it. But the
bottom line is, because the Supreme Court took this one up,
whichever way they ruled, that now governs all the lower
court stuff. And so as a result, Trump is free
to say, Okay, you guys have to go home.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Does this eventually get revisited in the near future.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah, it could. And here's the deal. Even though there's
a lot of discretion by the president according to the
congressional law in terms of when to send people home
or not is in fact you could allege and say
a separate new lawsuit. Oh well, Trump's doing this because
he's a racist, and that's why he's sending people from
the Sudan home. Or look at Trump denied due process.
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Some people sued Donald Trump and his Homeland Security folks,
and what he did was he just sent them back
and he ordered them deported and put them on a
plane or whatever, even without giving them a hearing. So
if you violate the law by not giving people hearings,
or if there's evidence you know that there's a racist motivation,
sure could they could double down and file brand new lawsuits.
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But except in an extraordinary situation like that, you know this,
this is really over. Trump is going to be allowed
to have his immigration officials say, look, either you leave
yourself or you know, we're going to deport you, and
that'll be it.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
All right, very good, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst sorting out this Supreme
Court decision that Trump and the administration can deport three
hundred and fifty thousand Venezuelans. They had temporary protected status.
That protection is now over. Another aspect to this is
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the first charter flight for illegal aliens who agreed to
self deport left the US yesterday. You remember this, The
Trump administration offered one thousand dollars to each illegal alien
who agreed to voluntarily leave the country. You could register
on the CBP home app and they're given travel assistance,
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a stipend in three weeks to get your affairs together.
So you replane ticket and one thousand dollars. And the
first plane took off with sixty four people aboard, and
in if they landed, sixty four citizens of Columbia and Honduras.
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They were on board the plane in Honduras. Once you
got off, you were eligible for one hundred dollars in
government assistance and food vouchers. All right, but only sixty four.
I believe Biden led in eight million, so they were
sixty four willing to take the thousand bucks and go.
Coming up after three o'clock Roger Bailey, he's the attorney
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representing over fourteen hundred Pacific Palisades residents who are struggling
to find out how the hell they can rebuild the
house because Karen Bass's a brick wall there, and they
think nobody's listening and nobody cares, and they would be right.
We'll talk to Roger Bailey coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Lot's gone on so far. You should listen to the podcast.
If you're just joining us now, I'll explain what we've
done a little later. Right after three o'clock, we're gonna
have Roger Bailey, an attorney. He's been with us a
number of times ever since the Palatin's burned down because
he's representing over fourteen hundred Palisades residents. And if you
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saw that La Time story over the weekend. We discussed
this yesterday. Everybody's hit a wall. Karen Baths does not talk,
does not explain anything, and she just does these little brief, raw,
raw press statements, and people can't get their homes built.
Very few have gotten permits. It is that this is
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part two of the disaster, which we knew was going
to happen. I mean, right after the fire, you know,
was put out, and you start looking ahead, what's next.
What's next was going to be incomp in action, idiocy, bureaucracy,
and that's what they're getting in the Palisades. And I
tell you, in the Palisades. Those are not people used
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to this, and they're not people who are going to
put up with it. They're actually intelligent, successful, driven people.
That's how they ended up in the Palisades, and they
don't know this world of government in competence and stupidity
which Karen Bass represents. Tell you how stupid the City
of Los Angeles is. We're bankrupt in LA and I
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say we because I pay them plenty of tax money.
They get a third of their tax money from property
taxes and then their sales, business utility taxes. That's seventy
percent of the general fund. There are endless lawsuits against
the City of Los Angeles for all kinds of things.
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You know, somebody trips on a sidewalk that was never
paved over, maybe a cop roughs you up. And the
general Fund in the last two years had to pay
a half a billion dollars in liability claims a half
a billion. Now, these are mostly settlements because hardly anything
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goes to trial. The city is afraid of going to
trial because what do you have on a jury. You
have a bunch of bunch of idiot losers who weren't
smart enough to get out of jury. Duty, and with
civil cases things can get really complicated. There are certain
legal angles and medical angles, and you know, you know
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police use of force angles. People really are emotional beings.
Most aren't very thoughtful. I think the average IQ in
this country is ninety eight, and anybody who winds up
on a jury is sub ninety eight. And they're not
going to understand all these medical and legal issues. And
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the city knows this. The city administrators say, you can't
trust a jury. There are craig you know, the award,
but fifty million dollars when it should be five hundred dollars.
But so a lot this encourages a lot of people
to sue. It's like, hey, I'll sue, city will settle.
You know, they won't litigate this. I won't have to
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spend a lot of money on my end. So that's
how you get five hundred and twenty five million dollars
in liability claims. Must people sue every stupid thing? Yeah,
somebody trips, You got to just get up and keep walking.
But of course these are all everything's a racket, everything's
a scam. So you trip, it's like, oh my god,
I have brain damage. I'm crippled. I'm paralyzed, somebody roll
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out a wheelchair and I'll fake disability, and you know,
then you get a shyster lawyer and they go in
front of an idiot jury and there you go. The
plaintiff will walk away with the twenty million dollars. Los
Angeles has a City Claims Board. On May fifth, they
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had a meeting to discuss the settlement of eleven cases.
April twenty first settling forty others, and the session before
that twenty cases. So we're talking about in about a
month's time, seventy one cases, all behind closed doors, all
discussed for settlement. What are the claims? Who knows how
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much are they paying? Well, sometimes it's tens of millions
of dollars that's how you get to So it's a
big chunk of the city budget and it goes up.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And up and up.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And I think the employees who caused the trouble, Like,
if your job is to fix sidewalks and you don't
fix sidewalks, who's ever in charge of that department?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You didn't fix the sidewalk, you pay the set shake down.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
That guy, liquidate his house, liquidate his insurance, let him
move his kids into a into a shelter somewhere. You
didn't do your job and somebody got hurt. Or maybe
they should contest some of these cases to get rid
of the fakers.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Same thing with a cop.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Cop goes too far and it's obvious what the cop pay.
Always make the city employees pay. Of course, nobody wants
to pay for the for the fire disaster. Jenise Kenonias
ought to pay for not filling up the reservoirs. You
ought to pay for not turning off the electricity to
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the Palisades that night, which started the second round of
fires in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
How come Genie Kenonias isn't paying.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
How come Karen Basset isn't paying for running off to
Africa to abdicating your duty. You gotta be held responsible,
you gotta be liable for this instead. Well, West Side
Current is covering this and on January June thirtieth, they're
going to have a follow up report on the settlement totals.
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So all this comes before the Palisades litigation, and we
will talk about the Palisades litigation coming up with Roger Bailey.
He's the attorney representing fourteen hundred Palisades residents. Who were
completely abandoned by the LA government and they're homes burned
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down and now they can't get a permit to rebuild
in most cases, and they're going to be filing lawsuits.
They deserve some money for this. This clearly was incompetent negligence.
I'm just saying the people responsible, let's they're going to
have to use city tax money to settle these cases,
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but let's start by liquidating Bass's estate and Jeniez Kionia
is a state, and all the other geniuses. Roger Mainley
coming up next to the attorney. We have Michael Krozier
live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've
been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
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the whole thing. I know it's three hours, and you
probably have work, and you have a family. There's all
these excuses. Well, you find the time and later on
(00:24):
you could listen to what you missed. First hour, we
spent a lot of time on well, they want to
raise taxes in Sacramento to cover healthcare, free healthcare for
all illegal aliens. The illegals already get free healthcare. Newsome
does not want to take any new sign ups, and
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the Latino Caucus is going nuts and they're willing to
raise taxes on you. So you want to hear that,
and you also want to hear some of the clips
we play it about Jake Tapper getting his rear end
roasted by Megan Kelly for actively covering up Joe Biden's
cognitive decline over the years.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So it's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Now we're going to go on to Tony Strickland, State
Senator from Huntington Beach, a Republican, I always got to
open any high speed rail segment by reminding you when
this passed in two thousand and eight, and many of
you voted for it, it was going to cost thirty
three billion dollars and we were going to get high
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speed rail from Sacramento to San Francisco to Los Angeles
to Anaheim to San Diego for thirty three million dollars.
And it was all going to be finished five years ago.
And now all these years later, seventeen years later, we
have blown at least eighteen billion dollars, although I see
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higher estimates than that, and there is no track laid down,
and right now they've shrunk it to Bakersfield to Merced
and they're over ten billion dollars short on that budget.
And someone wants to take some of the gas tax money,
you know, he calls it cap and trade money, it's
gas tax money, and spend it on high speed rail
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a billion dollars. Well, even if he does that, he's
still ten billion dollars short. Let's get Tony Strickland on, Tony,
how are you?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'm fantastic, how are you?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
What the hell, when when's this going to stop?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's absurd. You know, they said that they need seven
billion dollars this year to keep it going. Gavin Newsom
put a billion dollars. Everybody up here and knows that
this project as proposed is never going to be built.
It's become a slush fund. And it's about time that
my colleagues start having a serious discussion on you know,
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let's just continue this project. It's a failed project. The
people were fooled. They said, as you said in your
your opening, that this will go from San Francisco, Los Angeles.
Everybody knows, as proposed, it's never going to be built.
Now it's the cost of skyrocketed to ask them in
one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars, and we need
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that ten point two billion just to get from Merced
to Bakersfield. My guess is, if the voters have the opportunity,
and I think we should him the opportunity to vote,
would you spend over fifty billion dollars on a project
that goes from Mercet to Baker's Field?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
People will vote they'd vote no on that. That's absolutely, without.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Question, Yeah, without questions, and okay, and again, they just
keep spending more and more of these of our hardened dollars. Okay,
my proposal is to take the Cap and Trade SB.
My proposal is to take the money from the high
speed rail and lower the gas right for everybody in California.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, especially since we might be having eight to fifty
gas by next year, eight dollars fifty. Say, let me
ask you something, who is stealing the money? I know
they've done some audits. They can't seem to find that.
Apparently in some cases there's no paper trail. Nobody wrote
down where the money went. We got at least eighteen
billion dollars that was on up and smoke, no track
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laid down. Somebody stole it. Somebody collectively stole billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
My guess the consultant's got to paid a lot of
money up front, and a lot of consultants, you know.
And and look also the way we do everything in
California with business. You know, we have all these huge
bureaucracy of our environmental laws, secret laws. They cost a
lot of money. That's why it cost so much money
even to build a road in California. And so yeah,
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just because this legislature does what they do and created
all these laws and these regulations. It rises the cost
of doing anything. Uh, you know, whether that's trains, homes,
building your business. Everything is more expensive in California because
this legislature is out of touch.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
There's got to be corruption going on.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, there's no question. I think a lot of consultants.
We definitely need to full audit. I'm I'm welcoming Doge
and the federal government come in audit this whole high
stued rail because I guarantee you there's a lot of
money that's being stolen, because there's no way they're spending
these billions of dollars and we haven't laid down one track.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
How could you spend eighteen billion and have no track.
I mean, that's impossible unless it is it is total
thievery going on here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Correct. No, I couldn't agree with you more. And by
the way, in two thousand and eight, I was in
the legislature voted no. And my son at the time
was like six five, and I said, when he gets
to college, he's going to ask why there's a train
from nowhere to nowhere? Because they at the time they
promised all this money come from federal government when we
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knew full well the money wasn't kind of come from
the federal government. And I said, you know, he as
I take him to college, and next year he's going
to college. And look, we don't even have a train
from nowhere to nowhere. We don't even have a track
lead down.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I actually I actually saw a quote that they're looking
for private investment. They've been trying to get private and
that's been for over twenty years. They never got to
dine from anyone in the world.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, I've been asking the question, well, how much is
it going to cost to take this train? No one
could ever give you that answer. And I laughed when
they said private investment. Would any private investor invest in
something that originally was thirty three billion, That was one
hundred and twenty eight billion that was supposed to be
done in two thousand and twenty. Now it's twenty and
thirty two just for the first days. What private investor
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would invest in a product like this?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
All right, so why does it new some shut it down?
Mister president here, he's actually going to run on the
biggest boondoggle in American history. He's going to run for
president on this, Why doesn't he shut it down?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Give up?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I don't understand. And in fact, he put a billion
dollars here, but he didn't fund Top thirty six initiative
the past seventy percent of the vote across California to
make a crime illegal again, Who.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Do you think think owns him? Who owns newsome that
he won't do it?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know. This doesn't make sense. You know, he really,
really really wants to be president, but he's not. And
all he does he doesn't even weigh in on these
issues day day to day issues as governor. He's just
busy trying to figure out how to become president. But
he needs to realize, you know, things like this and
not funny Prop thirty six. How does he expect to
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become president of the United States when he's done such
a riffic as governor of California?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Do you got time for another segment?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
I do?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Can I want to talk about that the Prop thirty
six thing that's not getting enough attention. Nothing's getting enough attention,
And I want to talk about the twelve billion dollars
that the Latino Caucus is A state Senator Lina Gonzalez,
among others, twelve billion dollars they want spent on illegal
alien healthcare, and they want a new tax. It's coming
up next with Tony Strickland the State Center from hunting
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To Beach, Republican.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KYO six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
After Michael's two thirty news Royal Oaks. We'll be coming
on the ABC News Legal Analyst. You may have heard
that the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to
deport three hundred and fifty thousand venez of Whalens who
got temporary protected status. It was a back and forth
(08:25):
situation in the lower courts, and at least for now
he can remove them. The Biden administration wild giving temporary
status to obviously one hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
We'll talk more of that with Royal coming up. Let's
get to back to Tony Strickland, the demo the Republican
Assemblyment from Huntington Beach, and we talked with him about
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high speed rail needing over ten billion dollars just to
complete Baker's Fieldmer said, but there's a couple other things
I want to talk about. You brought up one of them,
Prop thirty six, the public voted on by about seventy
to thirty and that makes stealing things illegal again, and
that makes doing drugs illegal again. And you have to
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either go to jail or you go to treatment. If
they go to treatment, the treatment has to be built,
has to be available. The state has to provide money
for this, and Newsome will not put that in the budget.
He's got twelve billion dollars for illegal alien healthcare and
he won't spend any more money on treating people for
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drugs under Prop thirty six.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
That's correct. We're talking about four hundred million dollars for
drug treatment and mental health services. And again, the budget's
your priorities. He puts in over ten billion dollars for
healthcare for illegals. He puts in ten point two billion
for a high speed rail on a train that everybody
knows is never going to be built. But he's not
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putting in to put public safety first and keep us safe.
I have very I have never seen. I can't recall
an initiative that won all fifty eight counties, even the
most liberal counties of Marine in San Francisco voted for
this initiative seventy percent of the vote, and he's willing
to ignore the voices of the people in California that
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wants to make public safety a top priority, wants to
keep us safe in our communities, and he's not willing
to fund four hundred million there. That just shows you
how Adam whack his priorities and the two thirds majority
up here in Sacramut.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But's drug and mental health treatment, yes, and.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's making crime illegal again. Part of that funding will
also be you know, probation funding, case management and also
you know corrections that when people can make crime over
and over again that they go to jail. So that's
what people want.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So he doesn't want to fund any of that.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He doesn't want to fund the drug rehab, the mental
health treatment, the probation department, the jails, the prisons, none
of it. None of it he wants to fund. Even
though Prop thirty six won all fifty eight counties by
seventy to thirty margin.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And I don't know if you remember, but he tried
every maneuver possible already legislature to keep that initiative from
the ballot. But now that it got to the ballot,
and seventy percent of the people vote for in all
eight counties. Now he's saying, well, I'm just not going
to fund it, which is which is you know again, Oh,
that's nuts, this is crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
This stuff defines analysis. This is simply nuts. People were
sick of the crime, They were sick of all the
drug addicts in the streets, all the mentally ill people.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Now there's a tool to either put them.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
In jail or to actually treat their illnesses or treat
their addictions.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He won't fund any event.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
That's coco, it is cuckoo.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, it's just And again, that's what the citizens of
California want to make crime a league. Again, the citizens
of California a bunch of the blue premier priorities. This
should be the first thing that gets funded is to
keep people safe.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
And that's the matter is.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
She tried every maneuver to keep it from the vote,
and the vote was overwhelming. The people spoken, and he's
still not willing to fund it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
All right, but he's willing to fund illegal alien healthcare.
On the state's medical gill a medical program, it was
twelve billion last year, be twelve billion this year. And
there's no money for it and his idea is, well,
we're not going to take any new illegals to sign up.
And you got Lena Gonzalez, the state senator, said well, no,
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we ought to raise taxes. And there's another state senator here,
she's from Long Beach, Gonzales, Carolina Minhivar from Van nys.
They want to raise taxes on Americans. We got we
got legals from one hundred and seventy countries now roaming
all over the country in California.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I mean that that is also completely nuts.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
It is. And remember or at the start of the year,
those same members said this year is going to be
a year for the affordability crisis in California. Affordability crisis
that they created. Now we don't look, we don't have
a revenue problem in California. We have a wasteful spending problem.
When I was in the legislature a little over ten
years twelve years ago, the entire budget was ninety eight billion.
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It is tripled since then, and the population has gone down,
So we've tripled the spending and we're wasting billions and
billions of dollars. And then they have a then they
want to come up with a tax increase when they
said we have a they admit that we have affordability crisis,
but they continue to raise our gas tax. They continue
to raise these extreme environmental rules that make our energy
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costs go way up. They don't let us, you know,
next year, we're going to have gasoline that's eight dollars
a gallon. They're just way out of touch, and hard
working families live in paycheck to paycheck. They're suffering the
consequences of these folks who are just out of touch.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They have a super majority in both the Assembly and
state Senate. They have a veto proof majority. Do you
think they would pass taxes and override Newsom's veto just
to get the money.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I don't know, you know, because a lot of them,
you know, how their pet bills that they really you know,
would be scared that Governor Newsom would veto their their
pet projects and their bills. And so I don't know
the answer to that. And there hasn't been a veto
override since Governor Jerry Brown back in the in the
mid seventies, so it's very unusual. And and yeah, the
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issue majority raised taxes over the objection of Governor Newsom.
That tells you how far out of touch everybody is.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Well, I'm wondering because Newsom made it clear that you know,
he's going to put a cap on on on the spending.
In a way, there's going to be no one, no
new sign ups allowed, and in fact, the people who
already signed up are going to have to pay one
hundred dollars a month. So I think he has hit
his limit for the time being. And the next thing
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you know is Lorena Gonzales and Carolina Menavar is saying, well, no, no, no,
let's raise taxes, no limit, Let's keep signing people up,
Let's not make them pay one hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So I'm wondering how much support you think they have.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, I honestly don't think they're going to be successful
on raising taxes. But you know, you mentioned you know
they have the super majority. I'll tell you this right now,
not a flaw. We picked up a couple of seats
in the couple in the Assembly, and they continue to
do this the mismanagement of the fires. People have to
wake up, they have to open their eyes and see
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who they're sending. The Sacramento does not represent them at all.
And so we need common sense and balance. And I
do believe that people are starting to wake up. I
really do.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
All right, Tony, I gotta go. Tony Strickland, the state
Senator from Huntington Beach, thank you for coming on. We've
got Royal Oaks from ABC News coming on next. Three
hundred and fifty thousand Venezuelan and illegal aliens can be deported,
says the Supreme Court. At least for now, we'll talk
to him.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app Moist Fine eight seven seven Moist eighty six.
Come on eight seven seven Moist eighty six. So he
use the talkback feature on the iHeart app. The Supreme
Court is allowing the Trump administration for now to deport
three hundred and fifty thousand illegal aliens from Venezuela who
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were under temporary protected status. This is as Gavindussom is
giving free healthcare to illegal alien So, gee, which issue
do you think is going to play better when Newsom
runs for president let's go to Royal Oaks.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Now, the ABC.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
News legal analyst to explain how how this works, what
this case is about Royal How are you?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I'm doing great, John, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
This actually goes back to a law that went into
effect when Bush the Elder was president back in nineteen
ninety And as you say, it's called temporary protected status.
But the important thing is what does that really mean.
The law basically said, look, if you've got people in
foreign countries that are in a real bad way, like
a civil war, armed conflict, environmental disasters, hurricanes, earthquakes, hey
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we'll let them stay here for a while. They don't
have green cards. It's not like they can work here indefinitely,
but just for a humanitarian reason, they may stay. But
the Congress said that the president gets to decide when
the party's over, when the emergency is over, and these
folks have to go back. So the Trump administration recently says, yeah,
three hundred and fifty thousand people from Venezuela and a
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bunch of folks from the Nicaragua, Sudan, Al Salvador, they
got to go home because the crisis they complained about
is no longer a crisis, and yesterday the US Supreme
Court said we go along with the Trump administration. Here
the Trump folks have the right to say when this
is over.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Opponents who are saying that we can't ever send these
people back home, I don't understand the legal argument. If
it says temporary status, then it's temporary, which means it.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Comes down in right. And here's the deal. Because it's
so political, people who are in favor of open borders say, oh,
my gosh, look look at Venezuela. For example. Hunger is rampant,
there's malnutrition, they've got a collapsing healthcare system, rampant crime
and violence that they were pressed ascent. That sounds like
a humanitarian crisis to me. So you folks can stay.
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And of course those things that I ticked off, they're
not going to get better. So what that translate to
translates to is an excuse to basically have open borders.
And from you know, an empathetic standpoint, you know, we've
got to solve suffering. But obviously, if we spend the
money to admit everybody around the world who are facing
problems with hunger and malnutrition, healthcare systems on, we will
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be broke even broker than we are in about two months.
And so really it boils down to a political issue
about whether the Trump administration is right that we got
to start cracking down. And he says, you know, if
you don't have a border, you don't have a country.
And ultimately you Supreme Court didn't get into a lot
of details, John, They basically just said we're letting the
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lower court decision in or Trump stand. So we don't
know all about how every big feels on this, but
I think they just you know, the Congress is the
bills actually says that it's up to the president totally
to say when, you know, to turn this bigot on
and when to turn it off.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
All right, let me ask you this because that sometimes
I don't really understand as it bounces from one court
to another. The lower court blocked the deportation of these Venezuelans,
and the Supreme Court set that aside. So now what
happens are they telling them the lower court go change
your mind or does it just go into limbo now indefinitely?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah, great question, and it actually rates the whole national
injunction thing that we've all been talking about recently. Many
lawsuits were filed after Trump said go home. In some
of the lawsuits, Trump won, and in some of the lawsuits,
Trump lost. So you've got conflicting different opinions, which is
a formula for having the Supreme Court step in. So
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what happened is in one of the cases where Trump won,
the folks who wanted Trump to stop sending people home
appealed to the US Supreme Court, And they usually don't
take appeals, but this one they took up and they said,
we specifically are letting stand the pro Trump decision below.
So you're right, it's a whole mess of conflicting decisions
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all around the because they've got hundreds of the federal
judges issuing in national injunctions and saw it. But the
bottom line is, because the Supreme Court took this one up,
whichever way they ruled, that now governs all the lower
court stuff. And so as a result, Trump is free
to say, Okay, you guys have to go home.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Does this eventually get revisited in the near future.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah, it could. And here's the deal. Even though there's
a lot of discretion by the president according to the
congressional law in terms of when to send people home
or not is in fact you could allege and say
a separate new lawsuit. Oh well, Trump's doing this because
he's a racist, and that's why he's sending people from
the Sudan home. Or look at Trump denied due process.
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Some people sued Donald Trump and his Homeland Security folks,
and what he did was he just sent them back
and he ordered them deported and put them on a
plane or whatever, even without giving them a hearing. So
if you violate the law by not giving people hearings,
or if there's evidence you know that there's a racist motivation,
sure could they could double down and file brand new lawsuits.
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But except in an extraordinary situation like that, you know this,
this is really over. Trump is going to be allowed
to have his immigration officials say, look, either you leave
yourself or you know, we're going to deport you, and
that'll be it.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
All right, very good, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst sorting out this Supreme
Court decision that Trump and the administration can deport three
hundred and fifty thousand Venezuelans. They had temporary protected status.
That protection is now over. Another aspect to this is
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the first charter flight for illegal aliens who agreed to
self deport left the US yesterday. You remember this, The
Trump administration offered one thousand dollars to each illegal alien
who agreed to voluntarily leave the country. You could register
on the CBP home app and they're given travel assistance,
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a stipend in three weeks to get your affairs together.
So you replane ticket and one thousand dollars. And the
first plane took off with sixty four people aboard, and
in if they landed, sixty four citizens of Columbia and Honduras.
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They were on board the plane in Honduras. Once you
got off, you were eligible for one hundred dollars in
government assistance and food vouchers. All right, but only sixty four.
I believe Biden led in eight million, so they were
sixty four willing to take the thousand bucks and go.
Coming up after three o'clock Roger Bailey, he's the attorney
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representing over fourteen hundred Pacific Palisades residents who are struggling
to find out how the hell they can rebuild the
house because Karen Bass's a brick wall there, and they
think nobody's listening and nobody cares, and they would be right.
We'll talk to Roger Bailey coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Lot's gone on so far. You should listen to the podcast.
If you're just joining us now, I'll explain what we've
done a little later. Right after three o'clock, we're gonna
have Roger Bailey, an attorney. He's been with us a
number of times ever since the Palatin's burned down because
he's representing over fourteen hundred Palisades residents. And if you
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saw that La Time story over the weekend. We discussed
this yesterday. Everybody's hit a wall. Karen Baths does not talk,
does not explain anything, and she just does these little brief, raw,
raw press statements, and people can't get their homes built.
Very few have gotten permits. It is that this is
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part two of the disaster, which we knew was going
to happen. I mean, right after the fire, you know,
was put out, and you start looking ahead, what's next.
What's next was going to be incomp in action, idiocy, bureaucracy,
and that's what they're getting in the Palisades. And I
tell you, in the Palisades. Those are not people used
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to this, and they're not people who are going to
put up with it. They're actually intelligent, successful, driven people.
That's how they ended up in the Palisades, and they
don't know this world of government in competence and stupidity
which Karen Bass represents. Tell you how stupid the City
of Los Angeles is. We're bankrupt in LA and I
(25:34):
say we because I pay them plenty of tax money.
They get a third of their tax money from property
taxes and then their sales, business utility taxes. That's seventy
percent of the general fund. There are endless lawsuits against
the City of Los Angeles for all kinds of things.
(25:58):
You know, somebody trips on a sidewalk that was never
paved over, maybe a cop roughs you up. And the
general Fund in the last two years had to pay
a half a billion dollars in liability claims a half
a billion. Now, these are mostly settlements because hardly anything
(26:21):
goes to trial. The city is afraid of going to
trial because what do you have on a jury. You
have a bunch of bunch of idiot losers who weren't
smart enough to get out of jury. Duty, and with
civil cases things can get really complicated. There are certain
legal angles and medical angles, and you know, you know
(26:44):
police use of force angles. People really are emotional beings.
Most aren't very thoughtful. I think the average IQ in
this country is ninety eight, and anybody who winds up
on a jury is sub ninety eight. And they're not
going to understand all these medical and legal issues. And
(27:05):
the city knows this. The city administrators say, you can't
trust a jury. There are craig you know, the award,
but fifty million dollars when it should be five hundred dollars.
But so a lot this encourages a lot of people
to sue. It's like, hey, I'll sue, city will settle.
You know, they won't litigate this. I won't have to
(27:25):
spend a lot of money on my end. So that's
how you get five hundred and twenty five million dollars
in liability claims. Must people sue every stupid thing? Yeah,
somebody trips, You got to just get up and keep walking.
But of course these are all everything's a racket, everything's
a scam. So you trip, it's like, oh my god,
I have brain damage. I'm crippled. I'm paralyzed, somebody roll
(27:51):
out a wheelchair and I'll fake disability, and you know,
then you get a shyster lawyer and they go in
front of an idiot jury and there you go. The
plaintiff will walk away with the twenty million dollars. Los
Angeles has a City Claims Board. On May fifth, they
(28:14):
had a meeting to discuss the settlement of eleven cases.
April twenty first settling forty others, and the session before
that twenty cases. So we're talking about in about a
month's time, seventy one cases, all behind closed doors, all
discussed for settlement. What are the claims? Who knows how
(28:35):
much are they paying? Well, sometimes it's tens of millions
of dollars that's how you get to So it's a
big chunk of the city budget and it goes up.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And up and up.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And I think the employees who caused the trouble, Like,
if your job is to fix sidewalks and you don't
fix sidewalks, who's ever in charge of that department?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You didn't fix the sidewalk, you pay the set shake down.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
That guy, liquidate his house, liquidate his insurance, let him
move his kids into a into a shelter somewhere. You
didn't do your job and somebody got hurt. Or maybe
they should contest some of these cases to get rid
of the fakers.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Same thing with a cop.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Cop goes too far and it's obvious what the cop pay.
Always make the city employees pay. Of course, nobody wants
to pay for the for the fire disaster. Jenise Kenonias
ought to pay for not filling up the reservoirs. You
ought to pay for not turning off the electricity to
(29:44):
the Palisades that night, which started the second round of
fires in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
How come Genie Kenonias isn't paying.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
How come Karen Basset isn't paying for running off to
Africa to abdicating your duty. You gotta be held responsible,
you gotta be liable for this instead. Well, West Side
Current is covering this and on January June thirtieth, they're
going to have a follow up report on the settlement totals.
(30:12):
So all this comes before the Palisades litigation, and we
will talk about the Palisades litigation coming up with Roger Bailey.
He's the attorney representing fourteen hundred Palisades residents. Who were
completely abandoned by the LA government and they're homes burned
(30:32):
down and now they can't get a permit to rebuild
in most cases, and they're going to be filing lawsuits.
They deserve some money for this. This clearly was incompetent negligence.
I'm just saying the people responsible, let's they're going to
have to use city tax money to settle these cases,
(30:53):
but let's start by liquidating Bass's estate and Jeniez Kionia
is a state, and all the other geniuses. Roger Mainley
coming up next to the attorney. We have Michael Krozier
live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've
been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
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