March 4, 2026 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/04) - Head of the California High-Speed Rail Authority Ian Choudri is back at work and KCRA's Ashley Zavala reports that California taxpayers are paying for former VP Kamala Harris's security for her international taxpayer. More on Mojtaba Khamenei. Katy Grimes comes on the show to talk about the letter that Chevron sent asking Gov. Newsom and CARB to rescind all of the oil and gas restrictions in the state. Mark Halperin told Gov. Newsom that people don't like him to Newsom's face.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
You're just joining us now.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We had an hour long celebration about the demise of
Janice Quinnez as the head of the DWP. Bass finally
launched her because Bass is running for reelection.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
She can't afford to be on TV.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
When somebody says, hey, Jenise Communias didn't fill up the reservoir.
She had one thousand hydrants broken and she never cut
the power off to the electrical lines and that started
a whole new round of fires that night. Back on
January seventh, why do you still have her as the
head of the DWP. She couldn't fill the reservoir during
high fire season. So Bass realized I can't answer that question.
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I gotta get rid of her. So now, oh, excuse me.
She wasn't fired. She's part of a planned transition. That
is that the phrase they use, yes, a planned transition,
a coordinated trans I knew there was another word, Yes,
a planned coordinated transition. Now she got booted and she
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never should have been hired. Diversity higher and it was
pretty apparent when we played the clips last hour. That's
all she babbled about equity and social justice and nonsense.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So the person who's going to get her job, you think,
is going to make more or less?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The thing is what's fair is you can't get you
can't get somebody less qualified and less able the genie kinones.
So if she has set the standard at seven hundred
and fifty thousand, then I guess the next person ought
to get more because she had no qualifications for doing this.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
All right, John, I'm going to put my hat in
that running. Yeah. I don't know why you're sitting there.
I already actually did apply.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I mean, you could babble about Earth Day absolutely, you know,
you could throw it and make reservoirs are filled. You
could throw in a program for veganism. I could and
do press conferences on that. It's not so hard now,
it's easy. But there's one one dope who's been involved
in a number of scandals in a very short time,
and he's back at work. This is the California High
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Speed Rail Authority. CEO Ian Shaudri. This is the latest
guy to take over a state agency that has stolen
what seventeen billion dollars from California taxpayers and not laid
down any track, not produced any track at all. And
so Shaudry has been part of the scam, running running,
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running it for the last couple of years, I guess
as the CEO. And then last month he was arrested
on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence. He ended up in
a tussle with his living girlfriend and Chaudri's daughter. SHAUDRII
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came back from a Gavin Newsom press conference where they
tried to pretend they're making progress on high speed rail,
and after dealing with that nonsense, he comes home and
there's some fight going on between the fiance and the daughter,
and he gets involved and spills out to the front lawn.
It's midnight, so the neighbors call the police and they
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cuff up Shawdry and take them away to jail. He
never told the governor or anybody else about what happened,
and eventually it got leaked to KCRA channel three and
they reported it and since February seventeenth, Chouduri has been
on administrative leave using his paid time off, So these
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were vacation weeks that he took. I'm sure he gets
a lot of that. The thing is so, I mean
this scandal number two. Number scandal Number one is he's
running an agency that is on you know, seventeen billion
dollars from US. Number two is he's involved in this
dust up with the fiance and the daughter and didn't
tell anybody and ended up arrested, but he's never been
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charged with anything. Number three Chaudri's fiancee, a Ukrainian woman
named Lidumila Starotzyuk. Turns out she was hired by an
accounting company that has a twenty four million dollar contract
with high speed Rail. The company is KPMG, which is
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a well known accounting firm, and Ludmila Starostyuk works for them,
and somehow she got a job there as the wanna
bee wife Ian Chaudri and they got a twenty four
million dollar contract. I'd like to see the I'd like
to see the phone call records on how that worked out.
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Who called who to arrange this? So he's back at work,
I assume she's still as the job and they're going
to go on that agency is going to go on
looting the taxpayer by not laying down any track. Good,
everything's working according to plan. Speaking of wasted money, you'll
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enjoy this. Get cut one ready. Ashley Zavalla again is
the kcra Channel three Sacramento political director, the only person
in the entire state of California who covers the Sacramento
corruption Listen to her report. California taxpayers are paying for
Kamala Harris's security during her book tour.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
With several stops left on her nationwide book tour, Vice
President Kamala Harris continues to use California Highway Patrol officers
as her personal security that multiple sources unauthorized to speak
publicly about security matters told KCRA three she has dozens
of officers that have been traveling with her for nearly
six months and counting. The long list of stops have
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included cities across the country, plus London and Ontario. The
tour continues through California this month before stops in South Carolina,
North Carolina, and Georgia. She's promoting her book One hundred
and Seven Days, a memoir about her brief campaign for
president after Joe Biden dropped out of the twenty twenty
four race. Governor Gavin Newsom's office, which ultimately approved the protection,
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said it does not comment on security arrangements. State officials
won't provide specifics or say how much it's costing. Sources
tell us there are still credible breaths against her, and
do you have a sense of how much this could
be costing taxpayers?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
All I know is it's a lot. It is a
significant amount of money.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Retired California Highly Patrol officer and Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey
said state law allows for her protection because she served
as California's Attorney General.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
We're living in kind of an unstable environment right now,
so it's really hard to predict circumstances and people's behavior,
and so she deserves that kind of protection. But where
the slippery slope starts to show up as the personal.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Gain aspect, Right when someone's making an opportunity to make money,
should they be provided that same protection at taxpayer expense?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The public obviously is entitled to know what the cost
of that CHP personnel is.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
A junk McGeorge School of Law professor and longtime California
lobbist Chris mckayley said former state elected officials don't typically
get this kind of protection, including former governors.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I think folks have to examine the precedent being set.
But when it comes to is it the right thing
to do? Yes, but how much it is costing taxpayers
that they should know.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I reached out to the former vice president for comment
and more information on all of this, again sensitive to
the security situation, but I asked her spokesperson about the
costs associated with all of the travel for those dozens
of officers and if she's reimbursing the state for any
of these ex with the money she's making on that
book tour. We are still waiting for a response. We
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would also be remiss if we didn't mention that California
has been grappling with back to back to back budget
shortfalls and every penny should be accounted for.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You think that never should be made available. Further so,
where's the federal government on this right now? And does
any of.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
This have to do with President Trump provoking her security privilege?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Sure, and it depends on who you ask about this.
Former vice presidents under law typically get six months of
federal protection once they're out of office. Before leaving office,
President Joe Biden quietly extended Harris's protection to July of
twenty twenty six. A source in the Trump administration told
us instead, they allowed an extra three months for Vice
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President Kamala Harris before cutting that off in September.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
I mean, we know that.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Also, why are.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We paying our state tax money so she can go
on a book tour? She should be paying for this.
This is just really crazy. I know I'm not working here.
Are you working here to give Kamala Harris security? And
she feels afraid and stay home, goes to hide in
the basement. You go out there, you pay for your
own security. They're wealthy, they're worth like fifteen million dollars.
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They got a big house in brent Wood.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And he's she's presumably making money with the stupid book.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And and no, you're only supposed to get under the law.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You get six months. And just because you have a
book tour, you don't get extra. And plus she's stunk
at her job. She was the borders are I mean,
she's going to London to sell books and I have
to pay for her security. No, I am tired of
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working for this stuff. Isn't everybody sick of working for
this nonsense? You're going to work.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So Kamala Harris, dozens of officers, dozens what's going on?
The Ia Tolaly didn't have this much protection.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Speaking of the Iya Tola, I got a story about
his son when we come back. His son is supposedly
in line to become the new Supreme leader in Iran,
and he's had a lot of medical issues over the years,
and we'll focus on one when we come back.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
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Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Coming up after Debra's news at four point thirty, we're
going to talk with Katie Grimes from the California Globe.
Chevron is sending a letter warning Governor Newsom again and
the California Air Resources Board and is asking them that
they've got to get rid of some of the regulations
or you're going to lose the entire oil and gas
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industry in California.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We already had two.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Refineries closed just in the last few months, and Chevron
is saying, we're all going to have to go unless
you rescind these regulations. We'll talk to Katie Grimes about
it coming up. I would take them seriously. All the
warnings they gave turned out to be true.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
We talked about the Ayahtola Harmoni and he got the
hard goodbye. The other day, he and forty of his
top leaders, many of them, were attending a meeting and
the Israelis had hacked into the actedto Tehran's video security
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system that keeps track of traffic, right and you know
all cities had that for traffic and crime purposes. Well,
they hacked in there a long time ago, and the
Israeli said, we knew Tehran like we knew Jerusalem, and
they were able to follow these people going to work,
going to meetings where they plotted their terrorist attacks. And
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they knew that Saturday, during the middle of the day,
you were going to have all these guys in there,
and now's the time to drop missiles on them. So
the Iotola is no longer with us, and there are
well you have forty successors.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I guess we're wiped out too.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So they're looking to his son and his son we
mentioned briefly the other day mo Taba mosh Taba Amani.
He's fifty six, but he'd be next in line. He
has had a high ranking position with the military, so
he's a psychotic.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
He's killed a lot of people. The thing is in.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Iran, you're expected as an heir to provide another generation
of leaders, another generation of children. And he's had problems
because of impotence. So his women have had trouble conceiving,
and he's had trouble holding onto wives because I guess
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they were never sure if it was the woman's.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Problem, always the woman's booked.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Turns out it was his. So he underwent treatment at
the Wellington and Cromwell Hospital in London because he could
not conceive a child, and in the late two thousands
his impotency. Impotency required four extended stays in the medical facility,
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including one that lasted two months. Is it working now?
How about this? How about if I do this? No,
this doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Not just just lay there like a dead fish.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He married at one point to the daughter of the
speaker hadad Adele. He also had two temporary marriages, which
is available under Iranian law, and he had it late
in life. He kept well, he had this impotency problem,
he'd treat it and then they would test things out
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with a temporary marriage and it wouldn't work, so the
marriage would end, and then they'd get another temporary wife
after another treatment, and she had she had no success.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's like, hey, you try, I can't do anything. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
He needed a fourth visit to medical treatment, and after
a stay of two months, finally his current wife got pregnant. Now,
in Islam, according to the Middle East Institute, a temporary
marriage allows for a man to marry a woman for
a predetermined amount of time. It can range anywhere between
an hour to several months, and then you can leave.
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The man can leave without any legal ramifications. And that's
a pretty good idea.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I think it's ridiculous. One hour marriage. What's the point
a little trial? You think he needs one hour?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well, it's not just for sex but compatibility, right, Actually,
why do you have to marry?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Huh? Well, why do you marriage?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Because there's there's a there's a feeling of commitment there,
right for.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
A predetermined were married for an hour?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Kind of if I was single, I'd marry you for
an hour. I'm glad you just don't have this law. No,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Thanks John well An hour.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We'll see how the hour goes. Maybe an hour and
a half. Okay, well it was a compliment.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No an hour? All right, how long you want? Well,
I mean, I presume.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
When you get married to somebody, you you hope I
mean you hope it's.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
For well, this is Islamic one. I was thinking like
a temporary run through might not be a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
For a lot of reasons. All right, I take my
hour back. Then that's the reception I'm gonna get. What
do you want me to say?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Thank you, John? Oh my god, I'm so flattery.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You can't. You can't please anybody. It's fine, it was
sincere I mean, if I.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Was signaled, I get it. Okay, I get.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
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We are on from three to six every day and
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demand and the iHeart app. That's the podcast, and special
attention to our first hour of the show. We had
an hour long celebration of Genie Knez finally being dumped
as the CEO of the LA Department of Water and Power. Yes,
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the Geniese Keez is out on the street. She's actually
gone to Puerto Rico to take over their electrical grid.
So I feel sorry for the Puerto Ricans because they're
going to be without power for the next ten years.
She'll probably destroy the electrical grid like she destroyed or
destroyed the Palisades, I mean out and out. She's had
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at the top of the list along with Karen be
As for destroying the Palisades. She left that one hundred
and seventeen million gallon reservoir empty empty. There was not
a drop of water there. We had over one thousand
fire fire hydrants busted, and she turned off the electricity
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to the power lines the night of the fire, and
then the power power poles started tumbling down, dragging the
lines with it, setting fire to more brush which burned
down more homes. So she was won two three strikes
and she should have been out a long time ago,
never should have been hired. We'll talk to say Ed Kashani,
who's the attorney who's been attending these DWB meetings frequently
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for the last year, so he can have joined in
on the celebration. He's the attorney from the Palisades who
lost his home. His home burned to the ground because
of all the incompetence. But with Bass running for reelection,
you know, somebody's got to go. Somebody has to be tossed,
and Jenise Comona is is that person for now. All right,
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let's get Katie Grimes on. Katie Grimes from the California Globe. Today,
Chevron sent a letter to Gavin Newsom and the California
Air Resources Board because they have more regulations for climate change.
The regulations and taxes coming out of their climate change
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policies drove two more refineries out of the state out
of business just in the past few months. There aren't
that many left. There's seven refineries, and I think two
of those seven primarily refined biodiesel fuel. This the latest
set of regulations that are coming, Chevron is saying, is
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going to get rid of the rest of us. There's
going to be no oil and gas industry in California.
Let's get Katie on.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
How are you.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Well?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thank you. It sounds pretty dire.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And I noticed that all the warnings the oil industry
has given Newsome and the legislature and their Resources Board
over the years has turned out to be true, they
were just bluffing.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
No, Yeah, there's been no bloss at all. And yeah,
so much for Gavin Newsom's theory on the oil industry
is gouging. Therefore our prices are growing up. Yeah, what
a load of bs. These guys have been warning to
put the governor and the Air Resources Board and elected
lawmakers of what could happen, and I don't think anybody
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really gave it. Damn, And here we find ourselves now.
Chevron is warning, frankly, their warning of dire, irreversible economic
harm to California's, to the California economy. And when you
think about it, John, of course, absolutely everything everything we
make in California, everything we grow in California, everything we
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deliver to California's it takes oil and gas energy. And
we are already facing a world of hurt with you
down to seven refineries. And this is the second the
second energy company I wrote about one over the weekend,
PBF Energy that also wrote a letter to the governor
and the Air Resources Board warning them that if CARBS
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proposed amendments frankly escalating the cap and trade program which
they've lovingly changed to the cap and invest program, which
does nothing other than shakedown California's largest businesses because they
are addicted to the tax money that if this doesn't stop,
these companies are probably going to leave.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, the whole structure of these regulations and taxes is
to give Sacramento tens of billions of dollars, and they
don't and all these letters are will be absolutely right on.
But Newsom doesn't care. He clearly doesn't care if the
gas and oil industry goes out of business because it'll
happen in its entirety after he's out of office.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Well, except that we're going to be experiencing eight dollars
nine dollars up to twelve dollars a gallon gas probably
while he's sticking around. And you would think somebody who
claims to be so savvy and so sophisticated and smart
that he deserves to be president would understand that the
policies he's implemented in California that have caused so much
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widespread devastation to our state would probably preclude him from
ever being president. Did you hear the podcast Mark Halpern
had with him, who said, Hey, you'll never be president,
and even if you do run, you'll drop out because
nobody likes you and you.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yes, hold on second, but let's get that.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That's gold Mark Calprin.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, he's a longtime political writer, and so he had
Nusian and told Newsom that right to his face.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Huh yep, I wish I could tell him to his face.
But yeah, this is this is horribly serious. And as
I mean, I've been covering CARB for years, you have too.
It makes most people's eyes glaze over. But as I've explained,
they operate like no other state agency. They're totally rogue
that conduct their business in private. They opened up a
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corporation in Delaware where all these cap and trade funds go.
Was that in twenty twenty fifteen, and nobody seemed to care.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, I didn't know this it. Yeah, all all their
all their.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Cap and trade climate change tax money gets rooted to
Delaware and sits an account there.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, who knows where it goes after that?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
This is some kind of money laundering scam.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Of course it is. Of course it is. And what
they I mean, the whole the whole cap and trade
scheme to begin with, was we have to label the
state's largest companies polluters that we can extort money out
of them and make them pay these fines in this penance,
and the state's addicted to the money. As I said,
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who knows where it goes other than to this big
account in Delaware.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And by the way, it has had no effect on
the world's climate, and they know that, but they're they're
taking the money to take the money. They're not helping
the climate, and they're putting the oil and gas industry
out of business. And it doesn't matter them what happens.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
No, And that's what's so disturbing is that we have
elected officials who you know, I mean, I continually write
about this. They are supposed to represent the people and
solve problems for the people, and I'd say this is
probably one of our biggest problems. This in our water,
which they also don't seem to care much about.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And there's nothing there's nobody in the Democratic Party, since
they have all the power, nobody saying let's stop this.
It's not make it worse. I mean, when the Valero
plant closed, the refinery closed, gas went up forty since immediately.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think that's a case of what
we saw at the State of the Union the other night,
you had Democrats sitting on their hands, and even when
President Trump shamed them into standing up for military heroes,
they looked around like, well, if nobody else is, I'm
not going to either. And I think that's the mentality
we have in our legislature.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
So have we got to sit and watch and just
let them destroy the industry on us, and then we're
going to be paying ten twelve dollars a gallon or more.
And we got to hope that all the oil and
gas we are now transporting from around the world doesn't
get caught up in this Iranian war situation.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeah, which, yeah, undoubtedly has to. It just makes you
wonder who who stands to benefit from the collapse of
California's economy.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
All right, Katie, it's good talking with you again. Eighty Grimes,
Californiaglobe dot com. I read it every day. First thing
you should too when we come back. The Gavin Newsom
of the Midwest is that hapless, hopeless fool Tim Waltz,
and he got just destroyed before a House committee hearing
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in Washington, d C. Today, they were going through all
the fraud going on in Minnesota because they have a
tremendous amount. We of course dwarf Minnesota with fraud, but
there was a I actually saw many clips today, but
one in particular Nancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman from South Carolina,
going after Tim Waltz over the autism funding fraud in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And we'll play that for you next.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 3 (25:54):
Sayed Kashawani, the attorney who's house burned down in the
Palisades fire. He's coming on after five o'clock because we
continue the celebration of Genice Canonia as the idiot in
charge of the LA Department of Order and Power, who
didn't fill a reservoir, who had a thousand hydrants broken,
who didn't turn off the electrical power to the electrical
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lines the night of the fire. But boy, more than
anything else, it was this one hundred and seventeen million
get reservoir she left empty. She's out. I think bass
tossed her because she's running for reelection. We'll talk with
Sayed Kashani coming up. We were just talking with Katie
Grimes from californiaglobe dot com and she mentioned that the
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political writer Mark Halpern on his podcast interviewed Gavin Newsom
and they had an exchange play it. Then you did
an interview with Dana Bash on CNAT as part of
the book tour, and you said, I may not run
because my family, you know, has ambivalents about it. I
say all the time, I don't think you're gonna run.
I think you may get in and then get out.
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But I think I think because so many people dislike you,
it's just true. Maybe the book will take the edge off.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
Of that, because because you're gonna get scrutiny for stuff
you've never gotten scrutiny before, that's what happens. I just,
I just I just think my gut says you're not
gonna run in the end.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Why doesn't everybody treat him like this? See Halperin works
independently now. I believe he's got his own podcast and
his own own writing online. So when you don't work
for some left wing progressive editor producer, you can tell
the truth. It's like, you've never had scrutiny, nobody likes you.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's all true.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
He's never had scrutiny, not even here in California. By
the idiots in the press. That is good, all right,
Let me play you this because the idiot, the Gavenusom
of the Midwest is the fool Tim Waltz, And you
know about all the fraud. One of the big areas
of fraud is autism funding. This is Nancy Mace, Congressman
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from South Carolina. They had a big hearing today and
Walts got roasted for hours and hours. Listen to this exchange.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in
twenty seventeen?
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Governor, I don't have those numbers in front of the congressos.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Did you prepare for this hearing today?
Speaker 10 (28:20):
Did you do anything? I take Congress seriously, and.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
You've seen the numbers about autism fraud in Minnesota. So
we're going to do some Minnesota math with you today. Okay,
are you ready? How much money was spent on twenty
seventeen for autism in Minnesota?
Speaker 8 (28:34):
How much?
Speaker 10 (28:35):
I don't know. I wasn't the governor. Okay.
Speaker 12 (28:38):
Did you not just say that you prepared for this
hearing today? One million dollars?
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (28:42):
A quick Google search or using your AI could tell
you one million dollars was spent. How much money was
spent on autism in Minnesota in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 10 (28:51):
I don't have a number in front of me.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
As you donor in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
I was, but I'm not the Okay, So.
Speaker 12 (28:58):
Your excuse before that you didn't know what twenty seventeen
ounts and numbers were because you were not governor, And
today you can't answer the numbers about twenty twenty four
as governor, and you still said you're prepared for this
hearing today, it's unbelievable. Three hundred and forty three million
dollars was spent in twenty twenty four. What percent increases
that from one million to three hundred and forty three million?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
What percentage increase is that?
Speaker 10 (29:21):
I'm not here to be your prop Go ahead and
tell me.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Well, are you governor of Minnesota or not?
Speaker 10 (29:26):
Yes, I am, I'm not one.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
I'm governor of South Carolina. You can sure as held
bet that I'm going to know the math. The math
is thirty.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
Four th two hundred percent increase, an increase of three
hundred and forty three times what it.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Was in this time period.
Speaker 12 (29:40):
Do you know the number of children in Minnesota?
Speaker 10 (29:44):
I know that Minnesota ranked as a top three state
for There.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
Is the total population in Minnesota five point seven million? Okay,
what is the total population of children in Minnesota?
Speaker 10 (29:56):
I don't have the number in front.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Of me, right, are you, governor of Minnesota?
Speaker 10 (29:58):
I know four hundred thousand work out of health care
last week actions you made?
Speaker 12 (30:04):
Are you governors of Minnesota? I am, and you don't
know the number of children.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
I don't have a specific number. It's five point seven million.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
That's your total?
Speaker 10 (30:16):
What is your ASI? What is the age? Your point
zero to five zero A nineteen.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Approximately one point two million children in Minnesota. What are even,
Governor of South Carolina? Our population in South Kunta's five
point five million. We have approximately one point one million
children under the age of eighteen in my home state
of South Carolina. Okay, as governor, I expect you to
know this information. Thank god you're not Vice president of
the United States. Do you know approximately how many children
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in Minnesota are autistic or on the spectrum?
Speaker 10 (30:46):
No? I don't. I don't have that number.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
Okay, Well, if you take the CDC's roughly one in
thirty six kids or on the spectrum, we're talking about
approximately thirty three thousand kids in South Carolina's about thirty
one thousand or so. What is do you know what
this is per child spending wise in the fraud for
autistic kids in Minnesota.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Again, I'm not here to be your prop.
Speaker 12 (31:09):
Go ahead and tell me this is it is doing
Minnesota math a prop.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
This is math. We're talking about fraud.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Minnesota ranks. Where do to South Carolina rank?
Speaker 8 (31:17):
We're talking about money?
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Where do South Carolina children rank?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
These are my questions for you.
Speaker 12 (31:23):
Doesn't go the other way around unless we're doing eating
on the debate stage, and we're not.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
If you're asking a questions about being governor.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
Being govern of Minnesota, which you can't answer. This is
basic math.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
One million dollars they spent in twenty seventeen on autistic
kids in twenty twenty four three hundred and forty three million,
and you'd have roughly the same proportion of children with autism,
an increase of thirty four thy two hundred percent. You
don't need to know anything else. You just need that
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statistic to give you an idea of the overwhelming amount
of fraud and money stolen from the Minnesota taxpayers. With
Tim Watts sitting right there and nodding along as they
hauled off the money. Wow, one million to three hundred
and forty three million, because a lot of those Somali
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scam artists set up autism nonprofit.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Agencies. That's how that happened.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
We come back, say Ed Kashani and his he's an
attorney house burned down in the Palisades and he's been
tracking Janice Cannas over the last year. She's finally gone
as the head of the LA Department of Order and Power.
We'll talk about it. The celebration continues. Debra Mark live
in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. You've been listening
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
We had an hour long celebration about the demise of
Janice Quinnez as the head of the DWP. Bass finally
launched her because Bass is running for reelection.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
She can't afford to be on TV.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
When somebody says, hey, Jenise Communias didn't fill up the reservoir.
She had one thousand hydrants broken and she never cut
the power off to the electrical lines and that started
a whole new round of fires that night. Back on
January seventh, why do you still have her as the
head of the DWP. She couldn't fill the reservoir during
high fire season. So Bass realized I can't answer that question.
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I gotta get rid of her. So now, oh, excuse me.
She wasn't fired. She's part of a planned transition. That
is that the phrase they use, yes, a planned transition,
a coordinated trans I knew there was another word, Yes,
a planned coordinated transition. Now she got booted and she
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never should have been hired. Diversity higher and it was
pretty apparent when we played the clips last hour. That's
all she babbled about equity and social justice and nonsense.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So the person who's going to get her job, you think,
is going to make more or less?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The thing is what's fair is you can't get you
can't get somebody less qualified and less able the genie kinones.
So if she has set the standard at seven hundred
and fifty thousand, then I guess the next person ought
to get more because she had no qualifications for doing this.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
All right, John, I'm going to put my hat in
that running. Yeah. I don't know why you're sitting there.
I already actually did apply.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I mean, you could babble about Earth Day absolutely, you know,
you could throw it and make reservoirs are filled. You
could throw in a program for veganism. I could and
do press conferences on that. It's not so hard now,
it's easy. But there's one one dope who's been involved
in a number of scandals in a very short time,
and he's back at work. This is the California High
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Speed Rail Authority. CEO Ian Shaudri. This is the latest
guy to take over a state agency that has stolen
what seventeen billion dollars from California taxpayers and not laid
down any track, not produced any track at all. And
so Shaudry has been part of the scam, running running,
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running it for the last couple of years, I guess
as the CEO. And then last month he was arrested
on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence. He ended up in
a tussle with his living girlfriend and Chaudri's daughter. SHAUDRII
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came back from a Gavin Newsom press conference where they
tried to pretend they're making progress on high speed rail,
and after dealing with that nonsense, he comes home and
there's some fight going on between the fiance and the daughter,
and he gets involved and spills out to the front lawn.
It's midnight, so the neighbors call the police and they
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cuff up Shawdry and take them away to jail. He
never told the governor or anybody else about what happened,
and eventually it got leaked to KCRA channel three and
they reported it and since February seventeenth, Chouduri has been
on administrative leave using his paid time off, So these
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were vacation weeks that he took. I'm sure he gets
a lot of that. The thing is so, I mean
this scandal number two. Number scandal Number one is he's
running an agency that is on you know, seventeen billion
dollars from US. Number two is he's involved in this
dust up with the fiance and the daughter and didn't
tell anybody and ended up arrested, but he's never been
(04:11):
charged with anything. Number three Chaudri's fiancee, a Ukrainian woman
named Lidumila Starotzyuk. Turns out she was hired by an
accounting company that has a twenty four million dollar contract
with high speed Rail. The company is KPMG, which is
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a well known accounting firm, and Ludmila Starostyuk works for them,
and somehow she got a job there as the wanna
bee wife Ian Chaudri and they got a twenty four
million dollar contract. I'd like to see the I'd like
to see the phone call records on how that worked out.
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Who called who to arrange this? So he's back at work,
I assume she's still as the job and they're going
to go on that agency is going to go on
looting the taxpayer by not laying down any track. Good,
everything's working according to plan. Speaking of wasted money, you'll
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enjoy this. Get cut one ready. Ashley Zavalla again is
the kcra Channel three Sacramento political director, the only person
in the entire state of California who covers the Sacramento
corruption Listen to her report. California taxpayers are paying for
Kamala Harris's security during her book tour.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
With several stops left on her nationwide book tour, Vice
President Kamala Harris continues to use California Highway Patrol officers
as her personal security that multiple sources unauthorized to speak
publicly about security matters told KCRA three she has dozens
of officers that have been traveling with her for nearly
six months and counting. The long list of stops have
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included cities across the country, plus London and Ontario. The
tour continues through California this month before stops in South Carolina,
North Carolina, and Georgia. She's promoting her book One hundred
and Seven Days, a memoir about her brief campaign for
president after Joe Biden dropped out of the twenty twenty
four race. Governor Gavin Newsom's office, which ultimately approved the protection,
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said it does not comment on security arrangements. State officials
won't provide specifics or say how much it's costing. Sources
tell us there are still credible breaths against her, and
do you have a sense of how much this could
be costing taxpayers?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
All I know is it's a lot. It is a
significant amount of money.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Retired California Highly Patrol officer and Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey
said state law allows for her protection because she served
as California's Attorney General.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
We're living in kind of an unstable environment right now,
so it's really hard to predict circumstances and people's behavior,
and so she deserves that kind of protection. But where
the slippery slope starts to show up as the personal.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Gain aspect, Right when someone's making an opportunity to make money,
should they be provided that same protection at taxpayer expense?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The public obviously is entitled to know what the cost
of that CHP personnel is.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
A junk McGeorge School of Law professor and longtime California
lobbist Chris mckayley said former state elected officials don't typically
get this kind of protection, including former governors.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I think folks have to examine the precedent being set.
But when it comes to is it the right thing
to do? Yes, but how much it is costing taxpayers
that they should know.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I reached out to the former vice president for comment
and more information on all of this, again sensitive to
the security situation, but I asked her spokesperson about the
costs associated with all of the travel for those dozens
of officers and if she's reimbursing the state for any
of these ex with the money she's making on that
book tour. We are still waiting for a response. We
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would also be remiss if we didn't mention that California
has been grappling with back to back to back budget
shortfalls and every penny should be accounted for.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You think that never should be made available. Further so,
where's the federal government on this right now? And does
any of.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
This have to do with President Trump provoking her security privilege?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Sure, and it depends on who you ask about this.
Former vice presidents under law typically get six months of
federal protection once they're out of office. Before leaving office,
President Joe Biden quietly extended Harris's protection to July of
twenty twenty six. A source in the Trump administration told
us instead, they allowed an extra three months for Vice
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President Kamala Harris before cutting that off in September.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
I mean, we know that.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Also, why are.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We paying our state tax money so she can go
on a book tour? She should be paying for this.
This is just really crazy. I know I'm not working here.
Are you working here to give Kamala Harris security? And
she feels afraid and stay home, goes to hide in
the basement. You go out there, you pay for your
own security. They're wealthy, they're worth like fifteen million dollars.
(09:12):
They got a big house in brent Wood.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And he's she's presumably making money with the stupid book.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And and no, you're only supposed to get under the law.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You get six months. And just because you have a
book tour, you don't get extra. And plus she's stunk
at her job. She was the borders are I mean,
she's going to London to sell books and I have
to pay for her security. No, I am tired of
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working for this stuff. Isn't everybody sick of working for
this nonsense? You're going to work.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So Kamala Harris, dozens of officers, dozens what's going on?
The Ia Tolaly didn't have this much protection.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Speaking of the Iya Tola, I got a story about
his son when we come back. His son is supposedly
in line to become the new Supreme leader in Iran,
and he's had a lot of medical issues over the years,
and we'll focus on one when we come back.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
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Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Coming up after Debra's news at four point thirty, we're
going to talk with Katie Grimes from the California Globe.
Chevron is sending a letter warning Governor Newsom again and
the California Air Resources Board and is asking them that
they've got to get rid of some of the regulations
or you're going to lose the entire oil and gas
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industry in California.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We already had two.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Refineries closed just in the last few months, and Chevron
is saying, we're all going to have to go unless
you rescind these regulations. We'll talk to Katie Grimes about
it coming up. I would take them seriously. All the
warnings they gave turned out to be true.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
We talked about the Ayahtola Harmoni and he got the
hard goodbye. The other day, he and forty of his
top leaders, many of them, were attending a meeting and
the Israelis had hacked into the actedto Tehran's video security
(11:31):
system that keeps track of traffic, right and you know
all cities had that for traffic and crime purposes. Well,
they hacked in there a long time ago, and the
Israeli said, we knew Tehran like we knew Jerusalem, and
they were able to follow these people going to work,
going to meetings where they plotted their terrorist attacks. And
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they knew that Saturday, during the middle of the day,
you were going to have all these guys in there,
and now's the time to drop missiles on them. So
the Iotola is no longer with us, and there are
well you have forty successors.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I guess we're wiped out too.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So they're looking to his son and his son we
mentioned briefly the other day mo Taba mosh Taba Amani.
He's fifty six, but he'd be next in line. He
has had a high ranking position with the military, so
he's a psychotic.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
He's killed a lot of people. The thing is in.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Iran, you're expected as an heir to provide another generation
of leaders, another generation of children. And he's had problems
because of impotence. So his women have had trouble conceiving,
and he's had trouble holding onto wives because I guess
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they were never sure if it was the woman's.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Problem, always the woman's booked.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Turns out it was his. So he underwent treatment at
the Wellington and Cromwell Hospital in London because he could
not conceive a child, and in the late two thousands
his impotency. Impotency required four extended stays in the medical facility,
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including one that lasted two months. Is it working now?
How about this? How about if I do this? No,
this doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Not just just lay there like a dead fish.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He married at one point to the daughter of the
speaker hadad Adele. He also had two temporary marriages, which
is available under Iranian law, and he had it late
in life. He kept well, he had this impotency problem,
he'd treat it and then they would test things out
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with a temporary marriage and it wouldn't work, so the
marriage would end, and then they'd get another temporary wife
after another treatment, and she had she had no success.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's like, hey, you try, I can't do anything. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
He needed a fourth visit to medical treatment, and after
a stay of two months, finally his current wife got pregnant. Now,
in Islam, according to the Middle East Institute, a temporary
marriage allows for a man to marry a woman for
a predetermined amount of time. It can range anywhere between
an hour to several months, and then you can leave.
(14:40):
The man can leave without any legal ramifications. And that's
a pretty good idea.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I think it's ridiculous. One hour marriage. What's the point
a little trial? You think he needs one hour?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well, it's not just for sex but compatibility, right, Actually,
why do you have to marry?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Huh? Well, why do you marriage?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Because there's there's a there's a feeling of commitment there,
right for.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
A predetermined were married for an hour?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Kind of if I was single, I'd marry you for
an hour. I'm glad you just don't have this law. No,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Thanks John well An hour.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We'll see how the hour goes. Maybe an hour and
a half. Okay, well it was a compliment.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No an hour? All right, how long you want? Well,
I mean, I presume.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
When you get married to somebody, you you hope I
mean you hope it's.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
For well, this is Islamic one. I was thinking like
a temporary run through might not be a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
For a lot of reasons. All right, I take my
hour back. Then that's the reception I'm gonna get. What
do you want me to say?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Thank you, John? Oh my god, I'm so flattery.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You can't. You can't please anybody. It's fine, it was
sincere I mean, if I.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Was signaled, I get it. Okay, I get.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
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We are on from three to six every day and
after six o'clock. Whatever you miss John Cobelt's show on
demand and the iHeart app. That's the podcast, and special
attention to our first hour of the show. We had
an hour long celebration of Genie Knez finally being dumped
as the CEO of the LA Department of Water and Power. Yes,
(16:36):
the Geniese Keez is out on the street. She's actually
gone to Puerto Rico to take over their electrical grid.
So I feel sorry for the Puerto Ricans because they're
going to be without power for the next ten years.
She'll probably destroy the electrical grid like she destroyed or
destroyed the Palisades, I mean out and out. She's had
(16:58):
at the top of the list along with Karen be
As for destroying the Palisades. She left that one hundred
and seventeen million gallon reservoir empty empty. There was not
a drop of water there. We had over one thousand
fire fire hydrants busted, and she turned off the electricity
(17:18):
to the power lines the night of the fire, and
then the power power poles started tumbling down, dragging the
lines with it, setting fire to more brush which burned
down more homes. So she was won two three strikes
and she should have been out a long time ago,
never should have been hired. We'll talk to say Ed Kashani,
who's the attorney who's been attending these DWB meetings frequently
(17:42):
for the last year, so he can have joined in
on the celebration. He's the attorney from the Palisades who
lost his home. His home burned to the ground because
of all the incompetence. But with Bass running for reelection,
you know, somebody's got to go. Somebody has to be tossed,
and Jenise Comona is is that person for now. All right,
(18:04):
let's get Katie Grimes on. Katie Grimes from the California Globe. Today,
Chevron sent a letter to Gavin Newsom and the California
Air Resources Board because they have more regulations for climate change.
The regulations and taxes coming out of their climate change
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policies drove two more refineries out of the state out
of business just in the past few months. There aren't
that many left. There's seven refineries, and I think two
of those seven primarily refined biodiesel fuel. This the latest
set of regulations that are coming, Chevron is saying, is
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going to get rid of the rest of us. There's
going to be no oil and gas industry in California.
Let's get Katie on.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
How are you.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Well?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thank you. It sounds pretty dire.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And I noticed that all the warnings the oil industry
has given Newsome and the legislature and their Resources Board
over the years has turned out to be true, they
were just bluffing.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
No, Yeah, there's been no bloss at all. And yeah,
so much for Gavin Newsom's theory on the oil industry
is gouging. Therefore our prices are growing up. Yeah, what
a load of bs. These guys have been warning to
put the governor and the Air Resources Board and elected
lawmakers of what could happen, and I don't think anybody
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really gave it. Damn, And here we find ourselves now.
Chevron is warning, frankly, their warning of dire, irreversible economic
harm to California's, to the California economy. And when you
think about it, John, of course, absolutely everything everything we
make in California, everything we grow in California, everything we
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deliver to California's it takes oil and gas energy. And
we are already facing a world of hurt with you
down to seven refineries. And this is the second the
second energy company I wrote about one over the weekend,
PBF Energy that also wrote a letter to the governor
and the Air Resources Board warning them that if CARBS
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proposed amendments frankly escalating the cap and trade program which
they've lovingly changed to the cap and invest program, which
does nothing other than shakedown California's largest businesses because they
are addicted to the tax money that if this doesn't stop,
these companies are probably going to leave.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, the whole structure of these regulations and taxes is
to give Sacramento tens of billions of dollars, and they
don't and all these letters are will be absolutely right on.
But Newsom doesn't care. He clearly doesn't care if the
gas and oil industry goes out of business because it'll
happen in its entirety after he's out of office.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Well, except that we're going to be experiencing eight dollars
nine dollars up to twelve dollars a gallon gas probably
while he's sticking around. And you would think somebody who
claims to be so savvy and so sophisticated and smart
that he deserves to be president would understand that the
policies he's implemented in California that have caused so much
(21:29):
widespread devastation to our state would probably preclude him from
ever being president. Did you hear the podcast Mark Halpern
had with him, who said, Hey, you'll never be president,
and even if you do run, you'll drop out because
nobody likes you and you.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yes, hold on second, but let's get that.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That's gold Mark Calprin.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, he's a longtime political writer, and so he had
Nusian and told Newsom that right to his face.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Huh yep, I wish I could tell him to his face.
But yeah, this is this is horribly serious. And as
I mean, I've been covering CARB for years, you have too.
It makes most people's eyes glaze over. But as I've explained,
they operate like no other state agency. They're totally rogue
that conduct their business in private. They opened up a
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corporation in Delaware where all these cap and trade funds go.
Was that in twenty twenty fifteen, and nobody seemed to care.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, I didn't know this it. Yeah, all all their
all their.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Cap and trade climate change tax money gets rooted to
Delaware and sits an account there.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, who knows where it goes after that?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
This is some kind of money laundering scam.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Of course it is. Of course it is. And what
they I mean, the whole the whole cap and trade
scheme to begin with, was we have to label the
state's largest companies polluters that we can extort money out
of them and make them pay these fines in this penance,
and the state's addicted to the money. As I said,
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who knows where it goes other than to this big
account in Delaware.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And by the way, it has had no effect on
the world's climate, and they know that, but they're they're
taking the money to take the money. They're not helping
the climate, and they're putting the oil and gas industry
out of business. And it doesn't matter them what happens.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
No, And that's what's so disturbing is that we have
elected officials who you know, I mean, I continually write
about this. They are supposed to represent the people and
solve problems for the people, and I'd say this is
probably one of our biggest problems. This in our water,
which they also don't seem to care much about.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And there's nothing there's nobody in the Democratic Party, since
they have all the power, nobody saying let's stop this.
It's not make it worse. I mean, when the Valero
plant closed, the refinery closed, gas went up forty since immediately.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think that's a case of what
we saw at the State of the Union the other night,
you had Democrats sitting on their hands, and even when
President Trump shamed them into standing up for military heroes,
they looked around like, well, if nobody else is, I'm
not going to either. And I think that's the mentality
we have in our legislature.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
So have we got to sit and watch and just
let them destroy the industry on us, and then we're
going to be paying ten twelve dollars a gallon or more.
And we got to hope that all the oil and
gas we are now transporting from around the world doesn't
get caught up in this Iranian war situation.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeah, which, yeah, undoubtedly has to. It just makes you
wonder who who stands to benefit from the collapse of
California's economy.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
All right, Katie, it's good talking with you again. Eighty Grimes,
Californiaglobe dot com. I read it every day. First thing
you should too when we come back. The Gavin Newsom
of the Midwest is that hapless, hopeless fool Tim Waltz,
and he got just destroyed before a House committee hearing
(25:21):
in Washington, d C. Today, they were going through all
the fraud going on in Minnesota because they have a
tremendous amount. We of course dwarf Minnesota with fraud, but
there was a I actually saw many clips today, but
one in particular Nancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman from South Carolina,
going after Tim Waltz over the autism funding fraud in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And we'll play that for you next.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Sayed Kashawani, the attorney who's house burned down in the
Palisades fire. He's coming on after five o'clock because we
continue the celebration of Genice Canonia as the idiot in
charge of the LA Department of Order and Power, who
didn't fill a reservoir, who had a thousand hydrants broken,
who didn't turn off the electrical power to the electrical
(26:15):
lines the night of the fire. But boy, more than
anything else, it was this one hundred and seventeen million
get reservoir she left empty. She's out. I think bass
tossed her because she's running for reelection. We'll talk with
Sayed Kashani coming up. We were just talking with Katie
Grimes from californiaglobe dot com and she mentioned that the
(26:38):
political writer Mark Halpern on his podcast interviewed Gavin Newsom
and they had an exchange play it. Then you did
an interview with Dana Bash on CNAT as part of
the book tour, and you said, I may not run
because my family, you know, has ambivalents about it. I
say all the time, I don't think you're gonna run.
I think you may get in and then get out.
(26:58):
But I think I think because so many people dislike you,
it's just true. Maybe the book will take the edge off.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
Of that, because because you're gonna get scrutiny for stuff
you've never gotten scrutiny before, that's what happens. I just,
I just I just think my gut says you're not
gonna run in the end.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Why doesn't everybody treat him like this? See Halperin works
independently now. I believe he's got his own podcast and
his own own writing online. So when you don't work
for some left wing progressive editor producer, you can tell
the truth. It's like, you've never had scrutiny, nobody likes you.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's all true.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
He's never had scrutiny, not even here in California. By
the idiots in the press. That is good, all right,
Let me play you this because the idiot, the Gavenusom
of the Midwest is the fool Tim Waltz, And you
know about all the fraud. One of the big areas
of fraud is autism funding. This is Nancy Mace, Congressman
(28:03):
from South Carolina. They had a big hearing today and
Walts got roasted for hours and hours. Listen to this exchange.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in
twenty seventeen?
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Governor, I don't have those numbers in front of the congressos.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Did you prepare for this hearing today?
Speaker 10 (28:20):
Did you do anything? I take Congress seriously, and.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
You've seen the numbers about autism fraud in Minnesota. So
we're going to do some Minnesota math with you today. Okay,
are you ready? How much money was spent on twenty
seventeen for autism in Minnesota?
Speaker 8 (28:34):
How much?
Speaker 10 (28:35):
I don't know. I wasn't the governor. Okay.
Speaker 12 (28:38):
Did you not just say that you prepared for this
hearing today? One million dollars?
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (28:42):
A quick Google search or using your AI could tell
you one million dollars was spent. How much money was
spent on autism in Minnesota in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 10 (28:51):
I don't have a number in front of me.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
As you donor in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
I was, but I'm not the Okay, So.
Speaker 12 (28:58):
Your excuse before that you didn't know what twenty seventeen
ounts and numbers were because you were not governor, And
today you can't answer the numbers about twenty twenty four
as governor, and you still said you're prepared for this
hearing today, it's unbelievable. Three hundred and forty three million
dollars was spent in twenty twenty four. What percent increases
that from one million to three hundred and forty three million?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
What percentage increase is that?
Speaker 10 (29:21):
I'm not here to be your prop Go ahead and
tell me.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Well, are you governor of Minnesota or not?
Speaker 10 (29:26):
Yes, I am, I'm not one.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
I'm governor of South Carolina. You can sure as held
bet that I'm going to know the math. The math
is thirty.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
Four th two hundred percent increase, an increase of three
hundred and forty three times what it.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Was in this time period.
Speaker 12 (29:40):
Do you know the number of children in Minnesota?
Speaker 10 (29:44):
I know that Minnesota ranked as a top three state
for There.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
Is the total population in Minnesota five point seven million? Okay,
what is the total population of children in Minnesota?
Speaker 10 (29:56):
I don't have the number in front.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Of me, right, are you, governor of Minnesota?
Speaker 10 (29:58):
I know four hundred thousand work out of health care
last week actions you made?
Speaker 12 (30:04):
Are you governors of Minnesota? I am, and you don't
know the number of children.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
I don't have a specific number. It's five point seven million.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
That's your total?
Speaker 10 (30:16):
What is your ASI? What is the age? Your point
zero to five zero A nineteen.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Approximately one point two million children in Minnesota. What are even,
Governor of South Carolina? Our population in South Kunta's five
point five million. We have approximately one point one million
children under the age of eighteen in my home state
of South Carolina. Okay, as governor, I expect you to
know this information. Thank god you're not Vice president of
the United States. Do you know approximately how many children
(30:41):
in Minnesota are autistic or on the spectrum?
Speaker 10 (30:46):
No? I don't. I don't have that number.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
Okay, Well, if you take the CDC's roughly one in
thirty six kids or on the spectrum, we're talking about
approximately thirty three thousand kids in South Carolina's about thirty
one thousand or so. What is do you know what
this is per child spending wise in the fraud for
autistic kids in Minnesota.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Again, I'm not here to be your prop.
Speaker 12 (31:09):
Go ahead and tell me this is it is doing
Minnesota math a prop.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
This is math. We're talking about fraud.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Minnesota ranks. Where do to South Carolina rank?
Speaker 8 (31:17):
We're talking about money?
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Where do South Carolina children rank?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
These are my questions for you.
Speaker 12 (31:23):
Doesn't go the other way around unless we're doing eating
on the debate stage, and we're not.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
If you're asking a questions about being governor.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
Being govern of Minnesota, which you can't answer. This is
basic math.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
One million dollars they spent in twenty seventeen on autistic
kids in twenty twenty four three hundred and forty three million,
and you'd have roughly the same proportion of children with autism,
an increase of thirty four thy two hundred percent. You
don't need to know anything else. You just need that
(31:56):
statistic to give you an idea of the overwhelming amount
of fraud and money stolen from the Minnesota taxpayers. With
Tim Watts sitting right there and nodding along as they
hauled off the money. Wow, one million to three hundred
and forty three million, because a lot of those Somali
(32:19):
scam artists set up autism nonprofit.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Agencies. That's how that happened.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
We come back, say Ed Kashani and his he's an
attorney house burned down in the Palisades and he's been
tracking Janice Cannas over the last year. She's finally gone
as the head of the LA Department of Order and Power.
We'll talk about it. The celebration continues. Debra Mark live
in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. You've been listening
(32:48):
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