February 12, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/12) - Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about how the White House is saying that any pushback to Pres. Trump's executive actions amount to the "weaponization" of the courts. More on the FEMA money that was sent to New York meant for putting migrants in hotels. The California FAIR Plan is bankrupt. Pres. Trump had a victory in court today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Trump is doing just dozens of things every day. It
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almost seems like there must be three Trumps out there.
He's announced today that he's meeting with the Putin possibly
in Saudi Arabia. He has sent the Treasury secretary to
Ukraine to start doing a deal to end that war.
And meantime, he's he and Musk are trying to root
out all the fraud and the waste and all the
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criminal activity inside Washington, which has got a lot of
people angry and upset, and various entities are gone to
court to try to stop spending cuts or agencies being
closed down or people being laid off, and this has
created a fascinating debate. You know, Trump has a way
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of pushing the power that a president has to its
limits and eventually get into uncharted territory that's not necessarily
in the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's neither in it or it's.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Not in it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And you know when you tell him, well, you can't
do that, and he goes, well, why can't I do that?
Because the Constitution doesn't say you can. Well, it doesn't
say I can't. I mean, that's really what it comes
down to. Let's talk to Royal Oaks now, ABC News
legal analyst about all the lawsuits and judges trying to
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stop Trump's actions.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Here, Riley there, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And here absolutely right, John. I mean that the president's
anact for zeroing in on areas that you know, you
can call it a gray area, the birthright citizenship deal.
Everybody's reaction, a lot of reactions initially all that he's
trying to chase the constitution. Well, now he's interpreting the
language in the Constitution in a certain way. We'll see
what they to say. If you say, just the last
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day or two, the two big areas there seven, I'm
sorry eight fired inspectors generally like watchdogs for the federal agencies,
whistleblower and so on. They've been fired and they've sued
in DC and they say, hey, you know a Democrat
president appointed us and Trump can't fire us without giving
like thirty days notice and talk to Congress about it,
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and Trump saying no, no, When you're that high up
in the food chain, you know I can fire you.
The other deal is the funding freeze. He's freezing billions
of dollars, and twenty two states have sued him and
they're winning so far. They got a federal judge in
Rhode Island to say Trump's wrong. Now, the First District
Circuit Court of Appeals that is in Boston agrees with
the twenty two states, and now Trump can always try
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to go to the US Supreme Court for relief.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So if the stuff, if some of the money for
programs has been approved by Congress, then Trump is stuck
with it. That's what these judges are saying. That Trump
can't by himself repeal funding that's already been approved and
signed by a previous president.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Exactly what they're saying is he's violating the separation of powers.
The executive is encroaching on Congress's exclusive authority on federal spending.
His position, as Trump says, look executive branches the power
to direct federal agencies when it comes to disbursement of funds,
especially when it comes to complying with executive orders. So
you know, it's just going to get sorted out. And
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the problem for Trump is, first of all, us to
Breme cort canoli take on too many a few cases.
They just they don't have unlimited time. And secondly, even
though there are a couple of hard core justices you
can kind of always count on for votes for Trumplin,
Alito and Clarence Thomas, there are three liberals, and the
liberals have frequently gotten at least two of the conservatives
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to swing over to them. But you know what, what's
really got people hot and bothered, I think John is
this idea of a constitutional crisis, which is defined as okay,
one branch says X, like the Supreme Court or come
judge says X, and Trump says, ah, that's nice. In
case you haven't noticed, to your honor, the prosecutors work
for me in the Department of Justice, and they're not
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going to abide by your illegal order. Trump's talking about
weaponizing the legal system. Then we're in kind of a crisis.
Like you know, from our history, we remember Andrew Jackson
in the eighteen hundreds, he said, okay, Chief Justice Marshall,
You've made your ruling, now you enforce it. Well, okay,
there are no soldiers in the Supreme Court building, but
you know Eisenhower used troops to desegregate the schools in
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the fifties. But in terms of avoiding, you know, a
constitutional crisis or a couple of things that can happen. One,
the Democrats in Congress can threaten impeachment. They don't have
that many people there, but still that would be a
little ugly. And secondly, it's a little known fact. John
Judges actually like a democratic point of judge. If he
says Trump has gone overboard and the Dojas'm doing it right,
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a Democrat appointed judge could say, I'm going to appoint
my own special prosecutor. There's an exception of the law.
If you're ignoring contempt of court and violating the law,
a judge could bring in a new prosecutor. So then
we'd be in uncharted territory. It would be really ugly,
but we're not there yet so far.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Trump was saying, bring a judge could bring in a
special prosecutor against Trump if Trump doesn't follow a court order.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Exactly. And let's assume that Trump says aha, I run
the Department of Justice. That's where all the prosecutors at
the federal level work, and I'm telling my guys to
stand down and not to enforce, not enforce your crazy,
illegal rule. A judge theoretically could say, you know what,
am I taking crazy pills here? I'm going to appoint
my own special prosecutors. Very rare, but it could happen again.
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This is like doomsday stuff where things are just falling apart.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Lest I know, but I could see. I could see
Trump pushing this to the to the extreme.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, absolutely, and he's he's warmed up for two years.
You remember when he indicted him four times. All we
heard from him was, you have weaponized the illegal system.
You have weaponized the criminal justice system. It is totally unfair.
And he's saying the exact same thing. Now. What he's
saying is I'm trying to drain the swamp, and you
a bunch of judges appointed by Democrats in league with
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a bunch of folks in Congress. You're trying to stop
me from draining the swamp. And I'm not going to
let you do it. So that's the rhetoric as to
whether that's going to translate into some sort of a crisis.
We'll see, but so far, everybody's planning by the rules.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Let me offer this, and I'm not saying you'd have
an answer to this, but I'm just trying to game
it out. So let's say there's like a billion dollars
in some agency that Congress has appropriated the money, Biden
approved the spending, and the billion dollars is now an
account Musk and Trump find out this agency is filled
with all kinds of corruption, right that this money is
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certainly going to be wasted. And Trump's says, hey, I'm
in charge. I'm the executive in charge of the US government.
I will not allow any more money to go down
the toilet. I'm not going to allow the spending. Okay, Judge.
Let's say the Supreme Court says, well, too bad, you
can't stop it. You have to get Congress to repeal it.
And Trump says, make me make me pay this money
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to this program. Like you said, the Supreme Court doesn't
have an army, and the Republicans control Congress, so without
the Republicans, he can't be impeached. I just you end
up with a stalemate. And that's not really solvable, is it?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, you're right, I think maybe the answer there is
that politics intervenes. I mean, sure, you've got magnation, but
you've also got a bunch of Democrats, and you've got
a bunch of independents who are fed up with Biden
and everything else, and they voted for Trump. Maybe some
of them held their notes. If the independence plus the
Democrats got the sense that Trump's crossed the line. You know,
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these are essential services for education, health, and our infrastructure.
The bridges are crumbling, and if Trump is not going
to spend this money, that's really bad. And if the
public turns against him, regardless of the fact that he
could order his people to ignore the rule, I think
he'd be on shaky ground. And then also again you'd
have the impeachment routine. And again you could have a
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judge appointing a special prosecutor who would say, I'm going
to say that the Department of Education chief is breaking
the law and is going to go to prison. Or
they could try to go move against Trump himself, although
he's got some immunity. So yeah, there are ways that
you can sort of have a stop gap and prevent
a disaster. But you're right. I think at the end
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of the day, probably the course, they're going to look
at things and say, if it really is critical to
education and health, we're just going to make sure, you know,
we do whatever we have to be as a special prosecutor.
But if it's not essential, then let him have his way.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I heard a poll today that eighty three percent of
the country agrees we should have a substantial or complete
overhaul of the government. So right now Trump has eighty
percent of the country on his side on this issue.
Even people who hate him say, yeah, the government really
is wasteful and corrupt and something ought to be done.
That's why I'm curious how it would play out in
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the long run.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
All right, yell no, And I think I think it's
very smart for Trump to focus on issues that got
him elected, because he's forcing the Democrats to continue to
fight about transgenderism. It's on when the public is on
his side.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, all right, very good, Thank you for coming on,
Royal Oakes.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You bet.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
ABC News Legal analyst. We got a thousand dollars we're
going to give away, and we've got more stories on
more federal officials being fired and more absurd spending.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
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six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
All right, this is fascinating, and you know, I keep
like arranging stories I want to talk about here, and
then like five other things happened. This has been going
on all day or over the past twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Let's say.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yesterday, the Trump administration fired four people from FEMA, including
the chief financial officer, because Musk found that FEMA had
sent fifty nine million dollars that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Was supposed to go to disaster relief.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
All right, this is supposed to go for like, you know,
the people who suffer from fires or hurricanes. Instead it
went to New York City to pay for high end
hotels for illegal aliens. Musk said, this is against the law. Now,
the whole fifty nine million did not go for luxury hotels,
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which is what Musk claimed, but some of it did,
and all of it went for illegal aliens. New York
City officials said, hey, the federal money was properly allocated
by FEMA. Joe Biden authorized it last year. It's not
a disaster relief grant, and it's not all been spent
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on luxury hotels. Well, FEMA announced that the payments have
all been suspended anyway, even though most of the money
had already been dispersed, and that they also the acting director,
Cameron Hamilton, said the personnel will be held accountable for
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whoever facilitated this fifty nine million dollars in spending. Tricia
McLaughlan is a spokeswoman for the for DHS, which oversees FEMA,
and said these four employees have been terminated for circumventing
leadership unilaterally making egregious payments for luxury New York City
hotels for migrants.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Now, New York.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
City has processed two hundred and thirty thousand illegal aliens
since twenty twenty two in three years, almost a quarter
of a million. And their dope be Mayor Eric Adams
had said, hey, we're a sanctuary city.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
We welcome everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And that's what Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, said, Oh yeah,
well here you go.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We don't want these people.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And started sending thousands of illegal aliens on buses, and
then many more thousands decided oh, New York City must
be the place to go. That's where they're going to
take care of you. Because in New York City there's
a right to shelter law. It's true, they don't have
homeless people on the street.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Everybody has a.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Right to shelter, and the homeless have the obligation to
accept the shelter. So they started stuffing him into any hotel, motel,
abandoned buildings. Some of the hotels were luxury hotels, so
some of the money did go to high end hotels,
but not all of it. Well, here's what happened, And
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this story just came across the New York Times half
an hour ago. So Trump and New York City was
going back and forth over this FEMA money. The New
York City bureaucrats woke up this morning and looked at
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the bank accounts and found that eighty million dollars had
suddenly gone missing. Somehow, Trump and Musk sucked eighty million
dollars from city bank accounts. They decided to take back
the FEMA money on their own, and shortly after Department
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Homeland Security confirmed the money had been taken back. Now,
Trump had said We're either going to freeze or reverse funding. See,
even though this had been appropriate and Biden authorized it,
they took it right out of the New York City
bank accounts, which I've never heard it before. I guess
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when you're the federal government, you could you could do that.
You know, you don't need permission, so they I have
no idea if this will end up being a lawsuit,
which way a judge went rule, whether Trump's going to listen.
I mean, if they took the eighty million dollars and
we'll pay it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Back, are you gonna stop? Are you gonna stop? Trump?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
He's he's governing by the phrase remember as a kid,
make me, that's what he's doing. Hey, you can't do that, Yeah,
make me? I got I'm enjoying this a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I know.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I have been dreaming of this all my life, for
somebody just to bulldoze and steamroll these governments and all
the wasteful nonsense. Nobody in New York City. I've lived
in New York City. There's a lot of problems even
during good times, and the New York City residents need
that money they had. They have crappy services like we
do in LA. They have garbage services and garbage schools.
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Why are we spending tens of billions of dollars out
of legal aliens?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's nuts.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Sanctuary City, so Trump's right, sucked out the money, took
it back.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
What more.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
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I told you a few weeks ago that California's Fair Plan,
that's the public insurance that California has. You can insure
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your house as a last resort with the Fair Plan
in case you can't get insurreurance with a regular company.
I told you it was going to go bankrupt. Basically
is the the home insurance plan of last resort. That's
what the Fair Plan is. And the insurance department is
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run by an absolute idiot named Ricardo Lara, and you
probably know him as cal Fart Lara. He's the insurance commissioner.
And we call him cal Fart because when he was
in the legislature, he was pushing this mandatory device that
cows are supposed to wear on their back. Every time
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they farted, the cow gas would get trapped in this
box that the I'm not making this up that the
cows would would would carry carry around right, they'd had
this this this part box that they would have strapped
to their backs, so when they farted, the gas would
go through a hose and end up in the box.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And cal fart Lauer wanted to mandate this.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Now, I of course thought he should have been taken
to a mental institution. But progressive voters in the state
made an insurance commissioner, and now they wonder why the
insurance market is such a disaster because he wouldn't allow
most of the private insurance companies to raise their rates.
So the insurance companies looked around and said, we're getting
out of here. We can't afford this. So they expanded
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the Fair Plan, which is the California government run plan. Well,
now that thing is going bust. It's a terrible circle.
So here's where we are now. It looks like private
insurance companies and I guess they made this deal to
do business in California. They agreed to throw in extra
money into the Fair Plan. And state regulators say, now
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these companies are going to have to throw in a
billion dollars. Private insurance companies will have to contribute a
billion dollars into the Fair Place Plan to help pay
the claims. Now, in turn, if you have a policy
with one of these companies, your rates are going to
go up. Now you're going to have to pay half
the cost. It's going to be split fifty to fifty
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between the insurance companies and you if you have a policy.
So even though you weren't caught in a fire, you
didn't put in for any insurance coverage, You're going to
have to pay anyway. There's been thirty four hundred claims
from the Palisades fire, thirteen hundred claims from the Eaton fire.
This is again for the fair Plan. See as more
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insurers leave, more homeowners have to go to the fair Plan,
and there's less money for the next disaster. So they
keep raising the assessments on the existing insurance companies, and
then more of the insurance companies leave the state. And
this is where look, look, gr Carter, Larra is a disaster.
I don't know exactly what the answer is to this,
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but he doesn't have it. He's like Karen bass I
don't know what Karen Baths ought to do.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
She kind of cooked her goose when she went off
to Africa and left the Palisades to burn. And I
don't know what to tell Ricardo Lara, because he cooked
his goose by not allowing the private insurance companies to
raise their rates, and they said, well, we're just not
going to do business here anymore. In fact, somebody told
me that in the Palisades, State Farm pulled out because
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they knew the reservoir was empty. And you know, all
they had to do, all you had to do is
fly drones and you can see the reservoir was empty,
and you could see the brush clearing was not happening
on the government land, and State Farm realized this pace,
this place may blow and we're not going to We're
not gonna have the money to cover it.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So we're out. We're gone.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
And people in the Palisades, if they had State Farm,
started losing insurance coverage either got canceled or it wasn't renewed.
And so now people were thrown into the fair plan
if they applied, some of them didn't and are completely
out of luck. All this is going to do. And
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the companies have been constantly asking for insurance rate increases
and Lara has been saying no. Now he might allow
some increases because everybody's broke, everybody's out of money. In
twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, there was a big run
of fires and that wiped out a quarter century of
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profits for insurers. Twenty five years worth of profits were
wiped out, and so a lot of insurance carriers started
canceling or not renewing policies. And because calpart Lara wouldn't
allow these companies to raise their rates, more and more
of them just simply took their business out. There's forty
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nine other states that you could excel insurance. There's no
reason you should lose twenty five years worth of profit
by hanging around California, especially when the Karen Bass doesn't
keep the reservoir full and Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom
don't trim the brush. Well, if you're running an insurance company,
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what would you do?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You go, he said, a drone over the reservoir. It's like, wow,
that's empty. That's based one hundred and seventeen gallons of water,
isn't it. And everybody wants to get angry at insurance companies,
and they are a huge pain in the ass. Trust me,
I've got through plenty of things with insurance companies. But
they can't go bankrupt because they're going to leave before
they go bankrupt. See the insurance company executives, as corrupt
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and greedy as they are, they're not as stupid as
Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom. When they see trouble coming,
they hit the highway. So what do we got here?
The fair Plan is out of money, So the state
cal Fartlara is going to force the existing companies to
pay a billion dollars. Half of that is going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Made up by you. And here's this quote from Lara.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
He said, state regulations allow insurers to pass along half
the cost. Insurers must absorb the other half. Quote, They're
supposed to eat that through their profits. They're supposed to
eat that through their profits. Well, here you have an
insurance commissioner telling a company you're supposed to eat your
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profits there and pay in the public plan. Pay pay
a billion dollars to the public public plan, which exists
only because cal Fart Lara won't allow the private companies
to charge enough.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
To conduct their business properly.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
What is the point of limiting the private companies from
raising insurance rates if they have to end up paying
to cover their fair plan losses. Anyway, what is the
point of all this? But he's a progressive and progressives
are stupid. Most of the rest of the country has
figured out that progressive government is stupid government California and
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Los Angeles hasn't figured that out yet. I don't think
we would do well in a nationwide IQ test, I
really don't. I think we'd be down with the sheep
and goats. You'd see forty nine states on this end
of the IQ scale. Then you'd see some sheep, goats, cows,
and then come California voters. I mean, why would you
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give the power to the government to restrict insurance companies
from raising rates to the point that the insurance companies
all flee and then you set up a public program
as a backstop, except that goes bankrupt, you know, especially
when you have the kind of climate we do, where
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you have dry periods, and you have these idiotic energy
companies like Southern California Edison, and they apparently are the
cause for the Altadena fire.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
That's what's some nuts. You're going to.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Regulate something, make the energy companies put their transmission lines underground.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Why don't you do that instead? Southern California.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Edison keeps its transmission lines up in the air, the
winds blow, the lines start a fire, thousands of homes burn,
and all the insurance companies go broke. I mean, I
just I just don't understand this government. It's a stupid, stupid,
stupid government period. There's no intelligence, and you know, you
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expect Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom to figure this out.
I don't think those two can count to ten, let
alone handle the complex math of these insurance companies and
the fair plan and the the insurance rates and all this.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
They can't handle it. In fact, what was I what
was I reading they? Uh? I think they upped the UH.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Estimates of the damage here more than two hundred and
fifty billion dollars, one of the costliest natural disasters in
US history. And maybe maybe if they had fire crews
up in the Palisades that morning, and they had drones
flying around, and they had the reservoir filled and the
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hydrants worked and everybody was ready to go, maybe they
would have noticed the first smoke rising up on the hillside,
and maybe they could have squelched that thing right away.
Maybe if it came from the New Year's Day fire.
They if they had constantly checked it to make sure
it couldn't be reignited, and now nobody did their job.
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Two hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of damage. Two
hundred and fifty billion talk more coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Trump just went around in court. This just came over
what two minutes ago. A federal judge said, Oh, it's
it's that buyout program. Remember he's offering a buy out
to thousands of government workers. You get eight months pay,
and thousands are taking the buyout. But then the unions
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sued the unions and this is the whole lawsuit thing.
I didn't understand. He's not firing anybody. He's just saying, hey,
here's a big payout. You don't have to work for
eight months. I mean, you're not working anyway, You're not.
You know, I heard today, you know what percentage of
federal workers show up in the office. Six percent, six percent.
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Ninety four percent of federal workers do not show up
in the office to work. That's why I don't care
what happens to these people, because we're paying for them.
You know, you got to keep like reorienting your mind.
It's like, hey, I'm the boss here, it's my money.
Not only we're the bosses, we're paying our money.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
You know, most.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Supervisors are not financing the company. We are the owners
of this company, and ninety four percent of our workers
aren't showing up, and then we offer an eight month
severance package and their union sues. Well, a judge had
put this program on hold a few days ago and
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now has said no, the program can proceed. Judge George A. O'Toole,
Junior District Court judge in Massachusetts. He said that he's
denying this lawsuit because the union doesn't have any standing.
The union is not being affected by this. It was
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various state and federal unions and some stupid nonprofit left
wing group, and they said the order was unlawful because
Congress had already appropriated the funds. No, actually, they said
Congress had not appropriated the funds yet that are needed
to compensate the workers who agreed to the buyout. And
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the judge said, well, that's all irrelevant because you don't
have standing to file the suit, says one of these
nuisance lawsuits just to slow up the process. This is
just throwing, you know, wrenches into the gears. Sixty five
thousand government employees had volunteered for the buyout as of
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last Thursday.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That was the original deadline. So what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Sixty five thousand people don't want to work anymore and
they agreed to eight months pay, then.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
The Judge SI sided with Trump and said the Indians
can go pound salt.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
All right, we got Conway here, Dang dong with you, buddy.
We've got a lot going on. This rainstorm's coming in
tonight and tomorrow. It's gonna be pretty heavy. I don't
know what you're how you're preparing for, but you.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Should prepare gonna get wet.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
David Vassay is coming on and talk about your world
champion La Dodgers, and I don't mean twenty twenty four,
I mean twenty twenty five World Champion La Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (29:28):
They're gonna win the World Series? You're gonna put money
on that. You don't think they're gonna win the World Series?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Really? Really? Is that right? You want to bet? Yeah? Okay,
all right, you got to take a team though. You
can't just take the rest of the league. I'll take
the Mets.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Okay, I'll think I'll definitely take the Dodgers over the Mets. Right,
So what are we betting your car up against your.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Car at two thousand and six?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Car?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I want that? Oh you want? I'll put that up, okay?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
And against what.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
A car do you have? I don't want to say
better than yours?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Alright, I'll put the Lincoln Navigator up against Let's say
I don't want to take.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Your car from you.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I'd feel horrible because the Dodgers are going to sweep.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Up this year.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
We'll figure it out, Okay, all right, but I don't
want to take your car from you. No, you don't
want to give up that. No, I'll give you that
car tonight. You're right, the right amount of money, you know.
I don't take anything over a grand if yours.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
We've got.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
The investigation finds more than one tho three hundred fire
hydrants need maintenance across LA. That wasn't enough scared to
scare the hell out of them. That those fires in Alta, Dina, Yeah,
and eating fire Pacific valis Ades of Malibu. There's thirteen
hundred hydrants. Who's there's an investigation going on. Jeez, Ellio's
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handling the investigator.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
We have no government. Do you have thirteen hundred fire
hydrates not working?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
How do they have thirteen hundred five period? It's a lot.
That's a lot of fire. Just none of them are
any good. Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
And you know, and and and we really I really
missed the reporters, you know, like David Goldstein, Eric over
at at NBC, you know, Joel Grover, the guys that
used to really go out and make sure that people
were behaving, they're no longer around. Eric's still around, Joel
Grover's gone, you know, yeah, he retired that. Yeah, and
(31:26):
then David Goldstein retired, So Eric's the last one left,
last guy, yeah, you know. And then it's the most
of the local.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Newscasts are just stupid, you know they are.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
They're just stupid.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
I like the people. I don't like the news. It's
not news, it's not news. That's how that's why the
city went to hell. Ellen Lava is leaving.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I love her.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
She's great, nice over Channel seven. She's been there thirty years.
Ellen Lava. She started when her daughter was like eight
months old. I remember the I remember the and now
it's over. And then Lyft is in the news as well.
They're gonna roll out autonomous rides in twenty twenty six
in and out Burger relocating its Orange County headquarters. We'll
tell you where that's going, all right, Conway thing go
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Trump is doing just dozens of things every day. It
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almost seems like there must be three Trumps out there.
He's announced today that he's meeting with the Putin possibly
in Saudi Arabia. He has sent the Treasury secretary to
Ukraine to start doing a deal to end that war.
And meantime, he's he and Musk are trying to root
out all the fraud and the waste and all the
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criminal activity inside Washington, which has got a lot of
people angry and upset, and various entities are gone to
court to try to stop spending cuts or agencies being
closed down or people being laid off, and this has
created a fascinating debate. You know, Trump has a way
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of pushing the power that a president has to its
limits and eventually get into uncharted territory that's not necessarily
in the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's neither in it or it's.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Not in it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And you know when you tell him, well, you can't
do that, and he goes, well, why can't I do that?
Because the Constitution doesn't say you can. Well, it doesn't
say I can't. I mean, that's really what it comes
down to. Let's talk to Royal Oaks now, ABC News
legal analyst about all the lawsuits and judges trying to
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stop Trump's actions.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Here, Riley there, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And here absolutely right, John. I mean that the president's
anact for zeroing in on areas that you know, you
can call it a gray area, the birthright citizenship deal.
Everybody's reaction, a lot of reactions initially all that he's
trying to chase the constitution. Well, now he's interpreting the
language in the Constitution in a certain way. We'll see
what they to say. If you say, just the last
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day or two, the two big areas there seven, I'm
sorry eight fired inspectors generally like watchdogs for the federal agencies,
whistleblower and so on. They've been fired and they've sued
in DC and they say, hey, you know a Democrat
president appointed us and Trump can't fire us without giving
like thirty days notice and talk to Congress about it,
(02:34):
and Trump saying no, no, When you're that high up
in the food chain, you know I can fire you.
The other deal is the funding freeze. He's freezing billions
of dollars, and twenty two states have sued him and
they're winning so far. They got a federal judge in
Rhode Island to say Trump's wrong. Now, the First District
Circuit Court of Appeals that is in Boston agrees with
the twenty two states, and now Trump can always try
(02:54):
to go to the US Supreme Court for relief.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So if the stuff, if some of the money for
programs has been approved by Congress, then Trump is stuck
with it. That's what these judges are saying. That Trump
can't by himself repeal funding that's already been approved and
signed by a previous president.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Exactly what they're saying is he's violating the separation of powers.
The executive is encroaching on Congress's exclusive authority on federal spending.
His position, as Trump says, look executive branches the power
to direct federal agencies when it comes to disbursement of funds,
especially when it comes to complying with executive orders. So
you know, it's just going to get sorted out. And
(03:36):
the problem for Trump is, first of all, us to
Breme cort canoli take on too many a few cases.
They just they don't have unlimited time. And secondly, even
though there are a couple of hard core justices you
can kind of always count on for votes for Trumplin,
Alito and Clarence Thomas, there are three liberals, and the
liberals have frequently gotten at least two of the conservatives
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to swing over to them. But you know what, what's
really got people hot and bothered, I think John is
this idea of a constitutional crisis, which is defined as okay,
one branch says X, like the Supreme Court or come
judge says X, and Trump says, ah, that's nice. In
case you haven't noticed, to your honor, the prosecutors work
for me in the Department of Justice, and they're not
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going to abide by your illegal order. Trump's talking about
weaponizing the legal system. Then we're in kind of a crisis.
Like you know, from our history, we remember Andrew Jackson
in the eighteen hundreds, he said, okay, Chief Justice Marshall,
You've made your ruling, now you enforce it. Well, okay,
there are no soldiers in the Supreme Court building, but
you know Eisenhower used troops to desegregate the schools in
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the fifties. But in terms of avoiding, you know, a
constitutional crisis or a couple of things that can happen. One,
the Democrats in Congress can threaten impeachment. They don't have
that many people there, but still that would be a
little ugly. And secondly, it's a little known fact. John
Judges actually like a democratic point of judge. If he
says Trump has gone overboard and the Dojas'm doing it right,
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a Democrat appointed judge could say, I'm going to appoint
my own special prosecutor. There's an exception of the law.
If you're ignoring contempt of court and violating the law,
a judge could bring in a new prosecutor. So then
we'd be in uncharted territory. It would be really ugly,
but we're not there yet so far.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Trump was saying, bring a judge could bring in a
special prosecutor against Trump if Trump doesn't follow a court order.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Exactly. And let's assume that Trump says aha, I run
the Department of Justice. That's where all the prosecutors at
the federal level work, and I'm telling my guys to
stand down and not to enforce, not enforce your crazy,
illegal rule. A judge theoretically could say, you know what,
am I taking crazy pills here? I'm going to appoint
my own special prosecutors. Very rare, but it could happen again.
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This is like doomsday stuff where things are just falling apart.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Lest I know, but I could see. I could see
Trump pushing this to the to the extreme.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, absolutely, and he's he's warmed up for two years.
You remember when he indicted him four times. All we
heard from him was, you have weaponized the illegal system.
You have weaponized the criminal justice system. It is totally unfair.
And he's saying the exact same thing. Now. What he's
saying is I'm trying to drain the swamp, and you
a bunch of judges appointed by Democrats in league with
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a bunch of folks in Congress. You're trying to stop
me from draining the swamp. And I'm not going to
let you do it. So that's the rhetoric as to
whether that's going to translate into some sort of a crisis.
We'll see, but so far, everybody's planning by the rules.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Let me offer this, and I'm not saying you'd have
an answer to this, but I'm just trying to game
it out. So let's say there's like a billion dollars
in some agency that Congress has appropriated the money, Biden
approved the spending, and the billion dollars is now an
account Musk and Trump find out this agency is filled
with all kinds of corruption, right that this money is
(06:57):
certainly going to be wasted. And Trump's says, hey, I'm
in charge. I'm the executive in charge of the US government.
I will not allow any more money to go down
the toilet. I'm not going to allow the spending. Okay, Judge.
Let's say the Supreme Court says, well, too bad, you
can't stop it. You have to get Congress to repeal it.
And Trump says, make me make me pay this money
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to this program. Like you said, the Supreme Court doesn't
have an army, and the Republicans control Congress, so without
the Republicans, he can't be impeached. I just you end
up with a stalemate. And that's not really solvable, is it?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, you're right, I think maybe the answer there is
that politics intervenes. I mean, sure, you've got magnation, but
you've also got a bunch of Democrats, and you've got
a bunch of independents who are fed up with Biden
and everything else, and they voted for Trump. Maybe some
of them held their notes. If the independence plus the
Democrats got the sense that Trump's crossed the line. You know,
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these are essential services for education, health, and our infrastructure.
The bridges are crumbling, and if Trump is not going
to spend this money, that's really bad. And if the
public turns against him, regardless of the fact that he
could order his people to ignore the rule, I think
he'd be on shaky ground. And then also again you'd
have the impeachment routine. And again you could have a
(08:19):
judge appointing a special prosecutor who would say, I'm going
to say that the Department of Education chief is breaking
the law and is going to go to prison. Or
they could try to go move against Trump himself, although
he's got some immunity. So yeah, there are ways that
you can sort of have a stop gap and prevent
a disaster. But you're right. I think at the end
(08:40):
of the day, probably the course, they're going to look
at things and say, if it really is critical to
education and health, we're just going to make sure, you know,
we do whatever we have to be as a special prosecutor.
But if it's not essential, then let him have his way.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I heard a poll today that eighty three percent of
the country agrees we should have a substantial or complete
overhaul of the government. So right now Trump has eighty
percent of the country on his side on this issue.
Even people who hate him say, yeah, the government really
is wasteful and corrupt and something ought to be done.
That's why I'm curious how it would play out in
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the long run.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
All right, yell no, And I think I think it's
very smart for Trump to focus on issues that got
him elected, because he's forcing the Democrats to continue to
fight about transgenderism. It's on when the public is on
his side.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, all right, very good, Thank you for coming on,
Royal Oakes.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You bet.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
ABC News Legal analyst. We got a thousand dollars we're
going to give away, and we've got more stories on
more federal officials being fired and more absurd spending.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
All right, this is fascinating, and you know, I keep
like arranging stories I want to talk about here, and
then like five other things happened. This has been going
on all day or over the past twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Let's say.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yesterday, the Trump administration fired four people from FEMA, including
the chief financial officer, because Musk found that FEMA had
sent fifty nine million dollars that.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Was supposed to go to disaster relief.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
All right, this is supposed to go for like, you know,
the people who suffer from fires or hurricanes. Instead it
went to New York City to pay for high end
hotels for illegal aliens. Musk said, this is against the law. Now,
the whole fifty nine million did not go for luxury hotels,
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which is what Musk claimed, but some of it did,
and all of it went for illegal aliens. New York
City officials said, hey, the federal money was properly allocated
by FEMA. Joe Biden authorized it last year. It's not
a disaster relief grant, and it's not all been spent
(11:16):
on luxury hotels. Well, FEMA announced that the payments have
all been suspended anyway, even though most of the money
had already been dispersed, and that they also the acting director,
Cameron Hamilton, said the personnel will be held accountable for
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whoever facilitated this fifty nine million dollars in spending. Tricia
McLaughlan is a spokeswoman for the for DHS, which oversees FEMA,
and said these four employees have been terminated for circumventing
leadership unilaterally making egregious payments for luxury New York City
hotels for migrants.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Now, New York.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
City has processed two hundred and thirty thousand illegal aliens
since twenty twenty two in three years, almost a quarter
of a million. And their dope be Mayor Eric Adams
had said, hey, we're a sanctuary city.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
We welcome everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And that's what Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, said, Oh yeah,
well here you go.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We don't want these people.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And started sending thousands of illegal aliens on buses, and
then many more thousands decided oh, New York City must
be the place to go. That's where they're going to
take care of you. Because in New York City there's
a right to shelter law. It's true, they don't have
homeless people on the street.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Everybody has a.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Right to shelter, and the homeless have the obligation to
accept the shelter. So they started stuffing him into any hotel, motel,
abandoned buildings. Some of the hotels were luxury hotels, so
some of the money did go to high end hotels,
but not all of it. Well, here's what happened, And
(13:06):
this story just came across the New York Times half
an hour ago. So Trump and New York City was
going back and forth over this FEMA money. The New
York City bureaucrats woke up this morning and looked at
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the bank accounts and found that eighty million dollars had
suddenly gone missing. Somehow, Trump and Musk sucked eighty million
dollars from city bank accounts. They decided to take back
the FEMA money on their own, and shortly after Department
(13:48):
Homeland Security confirmed the money had been taken back. Now,
Trump had said We're either going to freeze or reverse funding. See,
even though this had been appropriate and Biden authorized it,
they took it right out of the New York City
bank accounts, which I've never heard it before. I guess
(14:10):
when you're the federal government, you could you could do that.
You know, you don't need permission, so they I have
no idea if this will end up being a lawsuit,
which way a judge went rule, whether Trump's going to listen.
I mean, if they took the eighty million dollars and
we'll pay it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Back, are you gonna stop? Are you gonna stop? Trump?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
He's he's governing by the phrase remember as a kid,
make me, that's what he's doing. Hey, you can't do that, Yeah,
make me? I got I'm enjoying this a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I know.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I have been dreaming of this all my life, for
somebody just to bulldoze and steamroll these governments and all
the wasteful nonsense. Nobody in New York City. I've lived
in New York City. There's a lot of problems even
during good times, and the New York City residents need
that money they had. They have crappy services like we
do in LA. They have garbage services and garbage schools.
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Why are we spending tens of billions of dollars out
of legal aliens?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's nuts.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Sanctuary City, so Trump's right, sucked out the money, took
it back.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
What more.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
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I told you a few weeks ago that California's Fair Plan,
that's the public insurance that California has. You can insure
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your house as a last resort with the Fair Plan
in case you can't get insurreurance with a regular company.
I told you it was going to go bankrupt. Basically
is the the home insurance plan of last resort. That's
what the Fair Plan is. And the insurance department is
(16:18):
run by an absolute idiot named Ricardo Lara, and you
probably know him as cal Fart Lara. He's the insurance commissioner.
And we call him cal Fart because when he was
in the legislature, he was pushing this mandatory device that
cows are supposed to wear on their back. Every time
(16:39):
they farted, the cow gas would get trapped in this
box that the I'm not making this up that the
cows would would would carry carry around right, they'd had
this this this part box that they would have strapped
to their backs, so when they farted, the gas would
go through a hose and end up in the box.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And cal fart Lauer wanted to mandate this.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Now, I of course thought he should have been taken
to a mental institution. But progressive voters in the state
made an insurance commissioner, and now they wonder why the
insurance market is such a disaster because he wouldn't allow
most of the private insurance companies to raise their rates.
So the insurance companies looked around and said, we're getting
out of here. We can't afford this. So they expanded
(17:27):
the Fair Plan, which is the California government run plan. Well,
now that thing is going bust. It's a terrible circle.
So here's where we are now. It looks like private
insurance companies and I guess they made this deal to
do business in California. They agreed to throw in extra
money into the Fair Plan. And state regulators say, now
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these companies are going to have to throw in a
billion dollars. Private insurance companies will have to contribute a
billion dollars into the Fair Place Plan to help pay
the claims. Now, in turn, if you have a policy
with one of these companies, your rates are going to
go up. Now you're going to have to pay half
the cost. It's going to be split fifty to fifty
(18:15):
between the insurance companies and you if you have a policy.
So even though you weren't caught in a fire, you
didn't put in for any insurance coverage, You're going to
have to pay anyway. There's been thirty four hundred claims
from the Palisades fire, thirteen hundred claims from the Eaton fire.
This is again for the fair Plan. See as more
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insurers leave, more homeowners have to go to the fair Plan,
and there's less money for the next disaster. So they
keep raising the assessments on the existing insurance companies, and
then more of the insurance companies leave the state. And
this is where look, look, gr Carter, Larra is a disaster.
I don't know exactly what the answer is to this,
(19:00):
but he doesn't have it. He's like Karen bass I
don't know what Karen Baths ought to do.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
She kind of cooked her goose when she went off
to Africa and left the Palisades to burn. And I
don't know what to tell Ricardo Lara, because he cooked
his goose by not allowing the private insurance companies to
raise their rates, and they said, well, we're just not
going to do business here anymore. In fact, somebody told
me that in the Palisades, State Farm pulled out because
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they knew the reservoir was empty. And you know, all
they had to do, all you had to do is
fly drones and you can see the reservoir was empty,
and you could see the brush clearing was not happening
on the government land, and State Farm realized this pace,
this place may blow and we're not going to We're
not gonna have the money to cover it.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So we're out. We're gone.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
And people in the Palisades, if they had State Farm,
started losing insurance coverage either got canceled or it wasn't renewed.
And so now people were thrown into the fair plan
if they applied, some of them didn't and are completely
out of luck. All this is going to do. And
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the companies have been constantly asking for insurance rate increases
and Lara has been saying no. Now he might allow
some increases because everybody's broke, everybody's out of money. In
twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, there was a big run
of fires and that wiped out a quarter century of
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profits for insurers. Twenty five years worth of profits were
wiped out, and so a lot of insurance carriers started
canceling or not renewing policies. And because calpart Lara wouldn't
allow these companies to raise their rates, more and more
of them just simply took their business out. There's forty
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nine other states that you could excel insurance. There's no
reason you should lose twenty five years worth of profit
by hanging around California, especially when the Karen Bass doesn't
keep the reservoir full and Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom
don't trim the brush. Well, if you're running an insurance company,
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what would you do?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You go, he said, a drone over the reservoir. It's like, wow,
that's empty. That's based one hundred and seventeen gallons of water,
isn't it. And everybody wants to get angry at insurance companies,
and they are a huge pain in the ass. Trust me,
I've got through plenty of things with insurance companies. But
they can't go bankrupt because they're going to leave before
they go bankrupt. See the insurance company executives, as corrupt
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and greedy as they are, they're not as stupid as
Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom. When they see trouble coming,
they hit the highway. So what do we got here?
The fair Plan is out of money, So the state
cal Fartlara is going to force the existing companies to
pay a billion dollars. Half of that is going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Made up by you. And here's this quote from Lara.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
He said, state regulations allow insurers to pass along half
the cost. Insurers must absorb the other half. Quote, They're
supposed to eat that through their profits. They're supposed to
eat that through their profits. Well, here you have an
insurance commissioner telling a company you're supposed to eat your
(22:34):
profits there and pay in the public plan. Pay pay
a billion dollars to the public public plan, which exists
only because cal Fart Lara won't allow the private companies
to charge enough.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
To conduct their business properly.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
What is the point of limiting the private companies from
raising insurance rates if they have to end up paying
to cover their fair plan losses. Anyway, what is the
point of all this? But he's a progressive and progressives
are stupid. Most of the rest of the country has
figured out that progressive government is stupid government California and
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Los Angeles hasn't figured that out yet. I don't think
we would do well in a nationwide IQ test, I
really don't. I think we'd be down with the sheep
and goats. You'd see forty nine states on this end
of the IQ scale. Then you'd see some sheep, goats, cows,
and then come California voters. I mean, why would you
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give the power to the government to restrict insurance companies
from raising rates to the point that the insurance companies
all flee and then you set up a public program
as a backstop, except that goes bankrupt, you know, especially
when you have the kind of climate we do, where
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you have dry periods, and you have these idiotic energy
companies like Southern California Edison, and they apparently are the
cause for the Altadena fire.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
That's what's some nuts. You're going to.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Regulate something, make the energy companies put their transmission lines underground.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Why don't you do that instead? Southern California.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Edison keeps its transmission lines up in the air, the
winds blow, the lines start a fire, thousands of homes burn,
and all the insurance companies go broke. I mean, I
just I just don't understand this government. It's a stupid, stupid,
stupid government period. There's no intelligence, and you know, you
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expect Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom to figure this out.
I don't think those two can count to ten, let
alone handle the complex math of these insurance companies and
the fair plan and the the insurance rates and all this.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
They can't handle it. In fact, what was I what
was I reading they? Uh? I think they upped the UH.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Estimates of the damage here more than two hundred and
fifty billion dollars, one of the costliest natural disasters in
US history. And maybe maybe if they had fire crews
up in the Palisades that morning, and they had drones
flying around, and they had the reservoir filled and the
(25:34):
hydrants worked and everybody was ready to go, maybe they
would have noticed the first smoke rising up on the hillside,
and maybe they could have squelched that thing right away.
Maybe if it came from the New Year's Day fire.
They if they had constantly checked it to make sure
it couldn't be reignited, and now nobody did their job.
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Two hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of damage. Two
hundred and fifty billion talk more coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Trump just went around in court. This just came over
what two minutes ago. A federal judge said, Oh, it's
it's that buyout program. Remember he's offering a buy out
to thousands of government workers. You get eight months pay,
and thousands are taking the buyout. But then the unions
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sued the unions and this is the whole lawsuit thing.
I didn't understand. He's not firing anybody. He's just saying, hey,
here's a big payout. You don't have to work for
eight months. I mean, you're not working anyway, You're not.
You know, I heard today, you know what percentage of
federal workers show up in the office. Six percent, six percent.
(26:57):
Ninety four percent of federal workers do not show up
in the office to work. That's why I don't care
what happens to these people, because we're paying for them.
You know, you got to keep like reorienting your mind.
It's like, hey, I'm the boss here, it's my money.
Not only we're the bosses, we're paying our money.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
You know, most.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Supervisors are not financing the company. We are the owners
of this company, and ninety four percent of our workers
aren't showing up, and then we offer an eight month
severance package and their union sues. Well, a judge had
put this program on hold a few days ago and
(27:39):
now has said no, the program can proceed. Judge George A. O'Toole,
Junior District Court judge in Massachusetts. He said that he's
denying this lawsuit because the union doesn't have any standing.
The union is not being affected by this. It was
(28:00):
various state and federal unions and some stupid nonprofit left
wing group, and they said the order was unlawful because
Congress had already appropriated the funds. No, actually, they said
Congress had not appropriated the funds yet that are needed
to compensate the workers who agreed to the buyout. And
(28:24):
the judge said, well, that's all irrelevant because you don't
have standing to file the suit, says one of these
nuisance lawsuits just to slow up the process. This is
just throwing, you know, wrenches into the gears. Sixty five
thousand government employees had volunteered for the buyout as of
(28:44):
last Thursday.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That was the original deadline. So what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Sixty five thousand people don't want to work anymore and
they agreed to eight months pay, then.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
The Judge SI sided with Trump and said the Indians
can go pound salt.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
All right, we got Conway here, Dang dong with you, buddy.
We've got a lot going on. This rainstorm's coming in
tonight and tomorrow. It's gonna be pretty heavy. I don't
know what you're how you're preparing for, but you.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Should prepare gonna get wet.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
David Vassay is coming on and talk about your world
champion La Dodgers, and I don't mean twenty twenty four,
I mean twenty twenty five World Champion La Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (29:28):
They're gonna win the World Series? You're gonna put money
on that. You don't think they're gonna win the World Series?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Really? Really? Is that right? You want to bet? Yeah? Okay,
all right, you got to take a team though. You
can't just take the rest of the league. I'll take
the Mets.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Okay, I'll think I'll definitely take the Dodgers over the Mets. Right,
So what are we betting your car up against your.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Car at two thousand and six?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Car?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I want that? Oh you want? I'll put that up, okay?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
And against what.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
A car do you have? I don't want to say
better than yours?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Alright, I'll put the Lincoln Navigator up against Let's say
I don't want to take.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Your car from you.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I'd feel horrible because the Dodgers are going to sweep.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Up this year.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
We'll figure it out, Okay, all right, but I don't
want to take your car from you. No, you don't
want to give up that. No, I'll give you that
car tonight. You're right, the right amount of money, you know.
I don't take anything over a grand if yours.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
We've got.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
The investigation finds more than one tho three hundred fire
hydrants need maintenance across LA. That wasn't enough scared to
scare the hell out of them. That those fires in Alta, Dina, Yeah,
and eating fire Pacific valis Ades of Malibu. There's thirteen
hundred hydrants. Who's there's an investigation going on. Jeez, Ellio's
(30:53):
handling the investigator.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
We have no government. Do you have thirteen hundred fire
hydrates not working?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
How do they have thirteen hundred five period? It's a lot.
That's a lot of fire. Just none of them are
any good. Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
And you know, and and and we really I really
missed the reporters, you know, like David Goldstein, Eric over
at at NBC, you know, Joel Grover, the guys that
used to really go out and make sure that people
were behaving, they're no longer around. Eric's still around, Joel
Grover's gone, you know, yeah, he retired that. Yeah, and
(31:26):
then David Goldstein retired, So Eric's the last one left,
last guy, yeah, you know. And then it's the most
of the local.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Newscasts are just stupid, you know they are.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
They're just stupid.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
I like the people. I don't like the news. It's
not news, it's not news. That's how that's why the
city went to hell. Ellen Lava is leaving.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I love her.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
She's great, nice over Channel seven. She's been there thirty years.
Ellen Lava. She started when her daughter was like eight
months old. I remember the I remember the and now
it's over. And then Lyft is in the news as well.
They're gonna roll out autonomous rides in twenty twenty six
in and out Burger relocating its Orange County headquarters. We'll
tell you where that's going, all right, Conway thing go
(32:10):
and rain, Buddy rain, I heard rain gonna get wet. Yeah,
don't stand in front of any mudslides, right, you get
wiped out. Kruzher's got the news live in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
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