May 21, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (05/21) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio got the Newsom administration to admit they are under federal investigation for misappropriating funds for illegal immigrant healthcare. New video could link fireworks to the possible cause of the Palisades Fire. LA tourism has completely fallen off the cliff. A Westminster police officer was caught at Stagecoach and skiing in Mammoth when she was supposed to be on disability.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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(00:22):
may not end up here for all three hours and
you're gonna wish you Werek. Now, I just got to
start out by saying, I really really don't understand the
world most days. But you know, we're letting the Benendez
brothers out, and there's one guy who stole a motorcycle
who's captured the local television stations because he's flying at
fifty plus miles an hour down the downtown boulevards and
(00:46):
it's getting wal to wall coverage. This is over a
stolen motorcycle? Or did he? Did he kill anybody? I
mean did he? I mean you get this kind of
coverage and this kind of police response for a motorcycle.
I don't understand. But you know, in a few months,
the Menendez brothers will be walking the streets to blow
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your head off, so you go figure what the priorities are.
Let me tell you, Carl de Meyer is going to
come out in an hour. You want to be there
when he comes on because he posted this online yesterday.
He's a Republican assemblyman who is just being a pain
in the rear end to Gavin Newsom because Demio keeps
telling the truth. And you know, Newsom made a big
(01:30):
deal about claiming he was he was not going to
allow any extra money to be spent on illegal alien healthcare,
and there were no more sign ups and the illegal
aliens would have to start paying one hundred dollars a
month premiums. You know, this is medical, This is our
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version of medicaid. Federal government will not pay for any
illegal alien health care. No other state does this. We do,
and it's bankrupting us. Literally. They spent twelve billion dollars
on it last year, and we have a deficit almost
exactly twelve billion dollars. So the entire deficit matches what
(02:11):
we're spending on illegal alien health care. Birth to death,
unbelievable benefits. Probably you don't have all the benefits the
illegal aliens are getting, but you're paying for their better benefits.
They have better benefits than you do, and you're paying
for it. So he said, well, no, no new sign
ups this year. Legal aliens are going to have to
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pay one hundred a month and and we're we're we're
cutting we're cutting some of the spending there. Well, Carl
Demayo has posted that he has exposed Newsom's lies about
cutting free health care for illegal aliens, and he got
the Newsom team to admit that actually one hundred thousand
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more illegals will get free health care. Here is a
bit of Carl demile in action.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Are you aware of any request by federal investigators for
documents or information from your department regarding use of federal
funds for ineligible populations that your office has received or
is working on.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So we are working with the federal government with regard
to how we do our claiming and our state Assistanctate
Medicane Director Lindy can also clarify even more information. But
it is a regular process by which we submit our
claims and we go through Q and A with them
on the information that we share with.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Them and based upon their queries and the intensity of
their queries, do you have concerns about financial exposure on
your reimbursements from the federal government that they may either
decline reimbursement or even clawback. Are you are you growing
concerned about financial risk in your budget assumptions.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So being good stewards of federal and state taxpaer dollars
as a priority for the department. So we work hard
every day to ensure that we are following we are
following state and federal rules with regard to how to
claim for federal financial participation for the various populations.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Various populations plural there, Oh, that would be the legal
and the illegal. So she's admitting they are under federal
investigation because you're not supposed to use federal Medicaid money
on illegal alien healthcare. So they are getting investigated and
they are not cutting free healthcare for illegals. The taxpayer
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increase is from nine and a half billion to twelve billion,
according to Demil. We will get into this in detail
with him coming up after two o'clock. And we talked
about this late yesterday. Well, we talked about this yesterday
during this hour as well. We're gonna have Karlin to
discuss these new taxes that the Democratic legislators led by
(05:01):
Lena Gonzalez and Carolina Minhivar, both from the LA area.
Gonzales from Long Beach, Benivar from Van Eyes. And they
think our taxes ought to be raised further for this
illegal alien healthcare monstrosity. We've got all that coming up. Also,
(05:21):
we've got to have Daniel Gusson in the two o'clock
hour from Well. He represents himself. Gus reports, he's got
a sub stack. He's an independent journalist here in LA
And it's about the two Asian elephants that disappeared and
Karen Bass ain't talking again. These two elephants were supposedly
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in distress and now they've been I don't know, kidnapped.
I think Karen Bass kidnapped the two elephants and they're
headed for Tulsa. I don't know if Bass is driving
the escape van or what, but it's caused quite an uproar.
They they wanted the elephants in a sanctuary where they
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would have more room to roam. Instead, they may be
moving to another zoo in Oklahoma. That is not good
for the elephants. I mean, nobody wants to end up
in Oklahoma. And if I was an elephant, I wouldn't
want to end up in the Tulsa Zoo. But all
this apparently was done in the middle of the night,
in the dark, and a lot of people are very upset.
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All right, when we come back, there is new video
of the first fire in the Palisades that happened on
New Year's Morning, and it seems this new video shows
the fire starting in the exact spot that the Big
fire started six days later, which gives some credence to
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the theory that the Big fire was a reignition of
the New Year's Day morning fire. And we've got a
report from Channel seven on this. The San Francisco Chronicle
has some information on this. We'll give it all to you.
Deborah Mark still sick. I think did you get her sick? Michael,
did you do something?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I mean, I have done nothing to her, but you know,
Amy King has been sick too.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I don't know what's going on, but I think something
is affecting the ladies in this news booth. Is this
some ladies only though diabolical plot on your part To
take control of the entire news department. One has to
move up the way. One has to move up Michael
Monks live in the KFI twenty four hour news center.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
The San Francisco Chronicle got hold of a video. This
video was taken by San Diego's Wildlife Cameras. They have
many of them in the Santa Monica Mountains and elsewhere
to track wildlife. It also tracks fires, and this new
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footage that the Chronicle got shows the ignition of the
New Year's Day morning fire. It seems to be at
the exact spot where the Palisades fire began. Six days later,
on January seventh, they published it in the Chronicle for
the first time. Now it's all over the internet. Here
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is a TV report from ABC seven and The Reporter's
Kevin Ozebek.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Videos first obtained by the San Francisco Chronicles. Some fire
investigators believe it's clear video evidence that a New Year's
fire likely rekindled into the most destructive fires in California history.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I think calling it a rekindle is a valid thing.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Retired fire investigator Terry Taylor has studied these two videos
obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle side by side. This
nighttime video is from right around midnight New Year's Day.
You see a flash on the ground and that a
fire up's near the top of a hill. It's a
small brush fire dubbed the Lachman fire, sparked after neighbors
say they heard fireworks.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
We were in the neighborhood in the morning of New
Year's and we heard some fireworks going off around us.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And here's what that's same.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You see San Diego camera captured around ten thirty am
on Tuesday, January seventh. These first flames exploded into the
Palisades fire. Let's show you them side by side again.
Some experts like Taylor Thing these videos support the theory
that the Palisades fire started from a still smothering hot
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pocket left behind from that New Year's Day fire.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It's certainly a good supposition.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
The theory is nothing new. Just days after the La Fires,
seven on Your Side Investigates showed you these side by
side satellite images showing the burn scar from January first
and the beginning of what would be the behemoth Palisades
fire six days later. Just listen to what this Palisades
homeowner told us.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Is there a connection? One, there's a connection standing in
the exact same X mark. Looking in the same direction,
you'll see.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
The same cloud of smoke in the exact same spot.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Both fires remain under investigation, so the question of did
l ef D miss a hot spot remains. Acting Fire
Chief Rodney Villa Duaba told us today he doesn't want
a Monday morning quarterback because he wasn't chief when either
fire sparked. Hey, Chief, can we ask you a few
questions about this new reporting potentially linking the Lockman of
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Palisades fire? What'd you say?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I was at position and this afternoon and I spoke
to the acting chief again over the phone. He says
he has never received a briefing that ever connects these
two fires. Now, the ATF is also investigating, and the
agency told us today no final conclusions have been made.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Well, what's with this new interim chief being a wavern?
I wasn't there. I wasn't the fire chief. That that's it.
That's the extent of his curiosity. He hasn't seen any
of this. Nobody showed it to him. He's the new
fire chief for the moment. The hell, because if it
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is the exact same spot, then whoever whoever was in
charge of putting out the fire on New Year's Day morning,
and their supervisors really really screwed up because they should
have stayed on top of that site. It was only
six days later, and in fact, the high wind warnings
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and the fire warnings were the day after the original fire.
Remember January first was the original fire, and January second,
that evening they started issuing the first warnings, So they
should have been all over monitoring that spot for that
entire five day period. They should have had a squadron
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right there and everybody who had just went home. It's
pretty common knowledge in fire circles that fires can get
kicked up by powerful winds very easily because there's hot
spots underneath the ground. The chronicle quotes Tom Pearce, a
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certified fire investigator. He's done two thousand fire investigations, and
he looked at the video and he says, you could
see from the terrain it was the same area. I'd
say it's a rekindle from the original fire. And they
said it this would be like lightning striking twice in
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the same place. Some of the worst wildfires in history
started with festering embers. Nineteen ninety one, Oakland Hills fire,
the twenty twenty three Maui fire that wiped out Lehena,
But that would go to fire department management from Kristin
(13:12):
Crawley on down, I don't understand they started issuing fire
warnings and heat and wind warnings on January the second.
How in God's name did they not be monitoring that
twenty four to seven? How could that possibly be? What
so everybody goes home and stays home. We didn't have
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like even one guy to stand watch. If this turns
out to be the truth and it started at the
exact spot of the original fire, what is everybody doing
when they show up for work? What do people do
with their days at Norskag has investigated more than two
hundred wildfires, and he's written a book Arson investigation in
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the wild Lands. He looked at the video and he said,
these videos show the fires starting basically in the same spot,
give or take a few hundred yards. That's pretty compelling.
A rekindle is entirely possible. The winds were extraordinary. It
could rekindle a fire even seven days later. Even seven
days later, any wildline fire investigator will tell you it
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happens all the time, and Tom Pierce said having two
fires break out so close in proximity and time too
much of a coincidence. He's the one who said it's
like lightning striking twice. Wow, No wonder. Nobody's had any
news to tell us about the fire investigation for the
(14:39):
last four and a half months. And you combine that
with Jenny's Kinonge's Department of Water and Power not turning
off the electrical wires the night of the big fire,
allowing secondary fires to erupt. If she had the electricity
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turned off, and nobody knows why that didn't happen, there
might have been significantly less damage to certain neighborhoods because
we're talking about like three different fires. Now, we're talking
about the January first fire, then we're talking about the
big one that started ten thirty in the morning on
the seventh, and then we're talking about the electrical polls
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collapsing and the electrified wires that should have been turned
off plummeting to the ground, igniting dry vegetation and setting
up all these secondary fires, and nobody in government did
anything about it. All right, war coming up and then
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carled by on just after two o'clock about he says
the newsomb administration has finally admitted they're getting investigating. They're
getting investigated by the FEDS for giving this federal money
for illegal alien health care. So Carl will beyond with that.
In a half hour.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
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Speaker 1 (16:04):
We have the moistline going eight seven seven moist eighty six.
We have vacancies, it's already Wednesday. We have space for you.
Eight seven seven moist eighty six. So let's get going,
or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Michael
had a story in the News of I'm sorry, did
(16:25):
I wake you? It's like a little puppy when you
say his name is tail starts wagging at police. You
haven't been sitting there yawning like Devery usually is. No,
I'm engaged. She usually hits me with about six yawns
the show. You had a story. I just want to
make sure I get this right. That that La is
way down the list on people's summer vacation planning. Yeah,
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apparently all of California. Yeah, like twenty seventh place. Yeah,
La is in San Diego's fortieth. Well that got my interest.
Because just yesterday in SFGate dot com they had a
story that Los Angeles tourism has fallen off a cliff.
The everybody thinks that La burned down apparently, and it's
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all gone, And so they're trying to do heavy marketing
to convince the rest of the world that you can
come here. We're not all dead. It's not all rubble.
One travel expert who's from the Palisades, his name's Gabe
Saglely said, you wouldn't realize that ninety eight percent of
Los Angeles is still open the way people are not
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booking trips. Give you some examples. San Diegoo Tribune said
that canceled bookings at the Georgian, which is a beautiful
ocean view hotel in Santa Monica. All the cancelations cost
that hotel seven hundred thousand dollars. January February saw an
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extreme drop in hotel bookings in West Hollywood. It went
from seventy five percent occupant seat around twenty percent after
the fires. WHOA air travel has dropped dramatically. International bookings
in March to LA were down three and a half percent,
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but among Canadians, well, there's other reasons for this. Canadian
bookings to LA fell by more than seventy percent. In fact,
the airlines have cut three hundred thousand airline seats coming
from Canada to LAX. They just, I guess there is
(18:34):
an anti Trump boycott really took hold in Canada. The
LA Tourism and Convention Bureau is anticipating year over year
reductions for international visitors twenty five to thirty percent. Mexican
tourism also down twenty four percent. HIA Mexicans are upset too.
(18:58):
I guess they know what, you know, you know what
they don't want what they're dancing around here. Everybody has
seen all the videos of the thousands of homeless people
that live in the streets, people getting people getting murdered,
and all the crime going on between the smashing those
smash and grab videos. You know, you can parade politicians
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who give you a bunch of statistics and claim that
they've got new laws and new enforcement mechanisms, but people
are going to remember that smash and grab stuff for
years and years. That's why you can't let it happen,
because that's going to shape people's perceptions forever. This writer
for sf Gate went to downtown LA and found that
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LA live. There are very few people, plenty of empty
restaurant patio seats, and Third Street Promenade wasn't any better. Well,
Third Street Promenade has really gone to hell. And I
don't live far from there. And what they what the
I mean, the absolute psychopaths that run Santa Monica have
(20:05):
destroyed really one of the most fun stretches commerce restaurant
sections of any town I've ever seen. That Third Street
Promenade used to be great. Uh and and and and
it's all the progressives. It's the progressives with their obsession
in uh in in in coddling you know, mental patients
(20:27):
and drug addicts and criminals and sex offenders. I mean
the progressives who run the city council and who rotate
as mayor. For the most part, Phil Brock was an obsession,
an exception to it. They're so insane. They have this weird,
sick religious ideology where they have to worship uh criminals,
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uh and and and and mental patients and drug addicts.
And so they've taken over the streets and now nobody
wants to visit see people in in Around the rest
of the world, they've got based common sense and They've
got thousands of places they could travel to and they
don't have to come here and uh, you know, get
stabbed by a drug addict, get stabbed with a with
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a with a needle, or you know, have somebody vomit
on them, or somebody set them on fire when they
take the metro train. And then of course the Canadians
are angry for a whole other set of issues with
Trump and and the twenty five percent tariffs, and so
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now the whole, the whole tourism industry is in damage
control and trying to rebuild itself. But I mean that,
you know what, I don't know how if you keep
tracking the news, you can't get a sense that la
is totally lawless. There's nobody in charge. There's nobody care
that cares, right, That's the thing we we discovered and
(21:54):
I discovered this personally during the fires. Uh when when
the looters took over my neighborhood and I realized we
were entirely on our own here. Everybody in the Palisades,
we just talked about this yesterday, who are trying to
get permits to rebuild. There's nobody at city Hall who
wants to approve the permits. I think there's been forty.
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There's sixty eight hundred structures that burned, and forty permits
have been approved after four and a half months. I mean,
we have no government at all. And then you hear
the clip we played a few minutes ago. They discovered
video of the New Year's Day morning fire in almost
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the exact same spot as the January seventh fire, and
they asked the interim fire chief in a way, what
do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I wasn't here. That wasn't me. I wasn't look jeez,
thanks buddy, Thanks for stepping up and explaining what went
on here. Obviously there are failures in the department that
you run. Apparently this guy's no different then the last bozo,
Christen Crowley. Wow, I wasn't here.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I was in.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Whatever the hell he was mumbling, jikes, we come back. Well,
let me tell you a two o'clock we're gonna have
Carl Demyo. Is he the only guy in Sacramento who's
uh fighting for taxpayers and citizens? He got the news
(23:27):
of administration to admit they're under investigation for misappropriating federal
money for legal alien healthcare. We will bring you Carl
Demyo coming up.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
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track of every single thing we do here. Right after
two o'clock it's Carl Demyo, the Republican Assemblyman. He got
the new administration to admit. Yeah, they're getting investigated by
the federal government for giving possibly giving a federal money
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away for illegal alien health care. That don't cover that nonsense. Well,
listen to this. There's just nobody you can trust, nobody
to believe in. A Westminster police officer claimed over six
hundred thousand dollars in workers comp for a head injury
that she claimed kept her from working. Investigators found that
(24:32):
she had no trouble skiing at Mammoth Mountain, going to Disneyland,
or dancing at Stagecoach. She's now facing fifteen felonies workers'
comp insurance fraud. Her name is Nicole Brown. If she's
convicted of all the charges, she faces up to twenty
two years in prison. That's six hundred thousand dollars tax money. Yeah,
(24:55):
she ought to go to prison for twenty two years.
She had a minor on her forehead while trying to
handcuff a suspect in March of twenty twenty two, she
goes to the emergency room. The er doctor releases her
no restrictions, but she didn't return to work for more
than a year. She claimed severe concussion syndrome she was
(25:20):
diagnosed with That found some suspect doctor and started collecting
over six hundred thousand dollars. They also think her stepfather,
Peter Schumann, worked with Nicole brown To I just realized
her name to orchestrate the whole scheme. She claimed she
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couldn't work, she had headaches, dizziness, sensitivity to light and noise. However,
in April of twenty twenty three, she was dancing and
drinking at Stagecoach. Seventy five thousand other people were there,
seventy five thousand witnesses, loud music, bright lights, temperatures were
over one hundred degrees, and she was having no problem.
(26:06):
They also found that she went snowboarding or skiing at
Mammoth Mountain and Big Dare, Big Bear she ran two
five k races, She went to three soccer conferences, she
went to Disneyland, went out golfing, and she started taking
online courses with the local university. Three days after she
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was at Stagecoach, she had a zoom meeting to talk
with the Westminster Police Department about what duties she still
could perform even though she had this head injury. Brown
was sitting in a dark room, claimed she could not
look at the screen. The stepfather Schumann, did all the
(26:51):
talking and stated she couldn't even she couldn't even do
the paperwork. Maybe can't do phone calls either, And then
she was admitted to an inpatient center for traumatic brain injuries.
All apparently fake according to prosecutors. You know what she
fore of the jobs she had when she was a
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Westminster police officer, A homeless lives on offer, lives on
officer trying to connect people experiencing homelessness to resources. What
why do journalists write in government jargon which is designed
to obscure the truth. It's drug addicts and mental patients.
(27:36):
They're not experiencing homelessness. They're experiencing drugs and mental illness.
And what's resources? Somebody who could treat the drug addiction
and the mental illness. Could you write in English as well?
It's the La Times. Of course, of course they write
in nonsensical gibberish. Go back to the English language. Oh
(27:59):
my god, that is a lot you know, And I
know there's a lot of there's a lot of fraud
in fake in workers' comp there always has been. I mean,
you really have to be outrageous. But because you know,
when you go to a when you go to a
stagecoach festival, there's seventy five thousand people, and you go
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to Big Bear, and you go to Mammoth where there
are thousands of people, and then you're running publicly in
five k races. People are gonna notice. Somebody's gonna get
wind of it and make a phone call, leave a tip.
That's outrageous. Nicole Brown. Prison, Prison for that woman if
she's guilty. All right, when we come back, we are
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going to have Carl Demaian and Carl's gonna I feel
like it's Carl and me against the entire government structure, city, county,
in the state. Carl found out that, yeah, the News
administration is getting investigated by the federal government for misappropriating
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federal money for illegal alien healthcare. Meantime, the Democrats in
the Assembly want to tax us more for illegal alien healthcare.
All that ahead, Michael monkshos live in the KFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every
day one until four o'clock. Today is a real good one,
so you ought to be listening between now and four,
and then if you miss anything after four o'clock, go
to the iHeart app John Cobelt's show on demand. It's
the podcast version same as the radio show, because you
(00:22):
may not end up here for all three hours and
you're gonna wish you Werek. Now, I just got to
start out by saying, I really really don't understand the
world most days. But you know, we're letting the Benendez
brothers out, and there's one guy who stole a motorcycle
who's captured the local television stations because he's flying at
fifty plus miles an hour down the downtown boulevards and
(00:46):
it's getting wal to wall coverage. This is over a
stolen motorcycle? Or did he? Did he kill anybody? I
mean did he? I mean you get this kind of
coverage and this kind of police response for a motorcycle.
I don't understand. But you know, in a few months,
the Menendez brothers will be walking the streets to blow
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your head off, so you go figure what the priorities are.
Let me tell you, Carl de Meyer is going to
come out in an hour. You want to be there
when he comes on because he posted this online yesterday.
He's a Republican assemblyman who is just being a pain
in the rear end to Gavin Newsom because Demio keeps
telling the truth. And you know, Newsom made a big
(01:30):
deal about claiming he was he was not going to
allow any extra money to be spent on illegal alien healthcare,
and there were no more sign ups and the illegal
aliens would have to start paying one hundred dollars a
month premiums. You know, this is medical, This is our
(01:50):
version of medicaid. Federal government will not pay for any
illegal alien health care. No other state does this. We do,
and it's bankrupting us. Literally. They spent twelve billion dollars
on it last year, and we have a deficit almost
exactly twelve billion dollars. So the entire deficit matches what
(02:11):
we're spending on illegal alien health care. Birth to death,
unbelievable benefits. Probably you don't have all the benefits the
illegal aliens are getting, but you're paying for their better benefits.
They have better benefits than you do, and you're paying
for it. So he said, well, no, no new sign
ups this year. Legal aliens are going to have to
(02:34):
pay one hundred a month and and we're we're we're
cutting we're cutting some of the spending there. Well, Carl
Demayo has posted that he has exposed Newsom's lies about
cutting free health care for illegal aliens, and he got
the Newsom team to admit that actually one hundred thousand
(02:57):
more illegals will get free health care. Here is a
bit of Carl demile in action.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Are you aware of any request by federal investigators for
documents or information from your department regarding use of federal
funds for ineligible populations that your office has received or
is working on.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So we are working with the federal government with regard
to how we do our claiming and our state Assistanctate
Medicane Director Lindy can also clarify even more information. But
it is a regular process by which we submit our
claims and we go through Q and A with them
on the information that we share with.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Them and based upon their queries and the intensity of
their queries, do you have concerns about financial exposure on
your reimbursements from the federal government that they may either
decline reimbursement or even clawback. Are you are you growing
concerned about financial risk in your budget assumptions.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So being good stewards of federal and state taxpaer dollars
as a priority for the department. So we work hard
every day to ensure that we are following we are
following state and federal rules with regard to how to
claim for federal financial participation for the various populations.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Various populations plural there, Oh, that would be the legal
and the illegal. So she's admitting they are under federal
investigation because you're not supposed to use federal Medicaid money
on illegal alien healthcare. So they are getting investigated and
they are not cutting free healthcare for illegals. The taxpayer
(04:37):
increase is from nine and a half billion to twelve billion,
according to Demil. We will get into this in detail
with him coming up after two o'clock. And we talked
about this late yesterday. Well, we talked about this yesterday
during this hour as well. We're gonna have Karlin to
discuss these new taxes that the Democratic legislators led by
(05:01):
Lena Gonzalez and Carolina Minhivar, both from the LA area.
Gonzales from Long Beach, Benivar from Van Eyes. And they
think our taxes ought to be raised further for this
illegal alien healthcare monstrosity. We've got all that coming up. Also,
(05:21):
we've got to have Daniel Gusson in the two o'clock
hour from Well. He represents himself. Gus reports, he's got
a sub stack. He's an independent journalist here in LA
And it's about the two Asian elephants that disappeared and
Karen Bass ain't talking again. These two elephants were supposedly
(05:42):
in distress and now they've been I don't know, kidnapped.
I think Karen Bass kidnapped the two elephants and they're
headed for Tulsa. I don't know if Bass is driving
the escape van or what, but it's caused quite an uproar.
They they wanted the elephants in a sanctuary where they
(06:05):
would have more room to roam. Instead, they may be
moving to another zoo in Oklahoma. That is not good
for the elephants. I mean, nobody wants to end up
in Oklahoma. And if I was an elephant, I wouldn't
want to end up in the Tulsa Zoo. But all
this apparently was done in the middle of the night,
in the dark, and a lot of people are very upset.
(06:27):
All right, when we come back, there is new video
of the first fire in the Palisades that happened on
New Year's Morning, and it seems this new video shows
the fire starting in the exact spot that the Big
fire started six days later, which gives some credence to
(06:51):
the theory that the Big fire was a reignition of
the New Year's Day morning fire. And we've got a
report from Channel seven on this. The San Francisco Chronicle
has some information on this. We'll give it all to you.
Deborah Mark still sick. I think did you get her sick? Michael,
did you do something?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I mean, I have done nothing to her, but you know,
Amy King has been sick too.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I don't know what's going on, but I think something
is affecting the ladies in this news booth. Is this
some ladies only though diabolical plot on your part To
take control of the entire news department. One has to
move up the way. One has to move up Michael
Monks live in the KFI twenty four hour news center.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
The San Francisco Chronicle got hold of a video. This
video was taken by San Diego's Wildlife Cameras. They have
many of them in the Santa Monica Mountains and elsewhere
to track wildlife. It also tracks fires, and this new
(08:00):
footage that the Chronicle got shows the ignition of the
New Year's Day morning fire. It seems to be at
the exact spot where the Palisades fire began. Six days later,
on January seventh, they published it in the Chronicle for
the first time. Now it's all over the internet. Here
(08:22):
is a TV report from ABC seven and The Reporter's
Kevin Ozebek.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Videos first obtained by the San Francisco Chronicles. Some fire
investigators believe it's clear video evidence that a New Year's
fire likely rekindled into the most destructive fires in California history.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I think calling it a rekindle is a valid thing.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Retired fire investigator Terry Taylor has studied these two videos
obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle side by side. This
nighttime video is from right around midnight New Year's Day.
You see a flash on the ground and that a
fire up's near the top of a hill. It's a
small brush fire dubbed the Lachman fire, sparked after neighbors
say they heard fireworks.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
We were in the neighborhood in the morning of New
Year's and we heard some fireworks going off around us.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And here's what that's same.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You see San Diego camera captured around ten thirty am
on Tuesday, January seventh. These first flames exploded into the
Palisades fire. Let's show you them side by side again.
Some experts like Taylor Thing these videos support the theory
that the Palisades fire started from a still smothering hot
(09:33):
pocket left behind from that New Year's Day fire.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It's certainly a good supposition.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
The theory is nothing new. Just days after the La Fires,
seven on Your Side Investigates showed you these side by
side satellite images showing the burn scar from January first
and the beginning of what would be the behemoth Palisades
fire six days later. Just listen to what this Palisades
homeowner told us.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Is there a connection? One, there's a connection standing in
the exact same X mark. Looking in the same direction,
you'll see.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
The same cloud of smoke in the exact same spot.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Both fires remain under investigation, so the question of did
l ef D miss a hot spot remains. Acting Fire
Chief Rodney Villa Duaba told us today he doesn't want
a Monday morning quarterback because he wasn't chief when either
fire sparked. Hey, Chief, can we ask you a few
questions about this new reporting potentially linking the Lockman of
(10:32):
Palisades fire? What'd you say?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I was at position and this afternoon and I spoke
to the acting chief again over the phone. He says
he has never received a briefing that ever connects these
two fires. Now, the ATF is also investigating, and the
agency told us today no final conclusions have been made.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Well, what's with this new interim chief being a wavern?
I wasn't there. I wasn't the fire chief. That that's it.
That's the extent of his curiosity. He hasn't seen any
of this. Nobody showed it to him. He's the new
fire chief for the moment. The hell, because if it
(11:17):
is the exact same spot, then whoever whoever was in
charge of putting out the fire on New Year's Day morning,
and their supervisors really really screwed up because they should
have stayed on top of that site. It was only
six days later, and in fact, the high wind warnings
(11:41):
and the fire warnings were the day after the original fire.
Remember January first was the original fire, and January second,
that evening they started issuing the first warnings, So they
should have been all over monitoring that spot for that
entire five day period. They should have had a squadron
(12:04):
right there and everybody who had just went home. It's
pretty common knowledge in fire circles that fires can get
kicked up by powerful winds very easily because there's hot
spots underneath the ground. The chronicle quotes Tom Pearce, a
(12:28):
certified fire investigator. He's done two thousand fire investigations, and
he looked at the video and he says, you could
see from the terrain it was the same area. I'd
say it's a rekindle from the original fire. And they
said it this would be like lightning striking twice in
(12:50):
the same place. Some of the worst wildfires in history
started with festering embers. Nineteen ninety one, Oakland Hills fire,
the twenty twenty three Maui fire that wiped out Lehena,
But that would go to fire department management from Kristin
(13:12):
Crawley on down, I don't understand they started issuing fire
warnings and heat and wind warnings on January the second.
How in God's name did they not be monitoring that
twenty four to seven? How could that possibly be? What
so everybody goes home and stays home. We didn't have
(13:34):
like even one guy to stand watch. If this turns
out to be the truth and it started at the
exact spot of the original fire, what is everybody doing
when they show up for work? What do people do
with their days at Norskag has investigated more than two
hundred wildfires, and he's written a book Arson investigation in
(13:57):
the wild Lands. He looked at the video and he said,
these videos show the fires starting basically in the same spot,
give or take a few hundred yards. That's pretty compelling.
A rekindle is entirely possible. The winds were extraordinary. It
could rekindle a fire even seven days later. Even seven
days later, any wildline fire investigator will tell you it
(14:17):
happens all the time, and Tom Pierce said having two
fires break out so close in proximity and time too
much of a coincidence. He's the one who said it's
like lightning striking twice. Wow, No wonder. Nobody's had any
news to tell us about the fire investigation for the
(14:39):
last four and a half months. And you combine that
with Jenny's Kinonge's Department of Water and Power not turning
off the electrical wires the night of the big fire,
allowing secondary fires to erupt. If she had the electricity
(14:59):
turned off, and nobody knows why that didn't happen, there
might have been significantly less damage to certain neighborhoods because
we're talking about like three different fires. Now, we're talking
about the January first fire, then we're talking about the
big one that started ten thirty in the morning on
the seventh, and then we're talking about the electrical polls
(15:20):
collapsing and the electrified wires that should have been turned
off plummeting to the ground, igniting dry vegetation and setting
up all these secondary fires, and nobody in government did
anything about it. All right, war coming up and then
(15:41):
carled by on just after two o'clock about he says
the newsomb administration has finally admitted they're getting investigating. They're
getting investigated by the FEDS for giving this federal money
for illegal alien health care. So Carl will beyond with that.
In a half hour.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
We have the moistline going eight seven seven moist eighty six.
We have vacancies, it's already Wednesday. We have space for you.
Eight seven seven moist eighty six. So let's get going,
or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Michael
had a story in the News of I'm sorry, did
(16:25):
I wake you? It's like a little puppy when you
say his name is tail starts wagging at police. You
haven't been sitting there yawning like Devery usually is. No,
I'm engaged. She usually hits me with about six yawns
the show. You had a story. I just want to
make sure I get this right. That that La is
way down the list on people's summer vacation planning. Yeah,
(16:46):
apparently all of California. Yeah, like twenty seventh place. Yeah,
La is in San Diego's fortieth. Well that got my interest.
Because just yesterday in SFGate dot com they had a
story that Los Angeles tourism has fallen off a cliff.
The everybody thinks that La burned down apparently, and it's
(17:09):
all gone, And so they're trying to do heavy marketing
to convince the rest of the world that you can
come here. We're not all dead. It's not all rubble.
One travel expert who's from the Palisades, his name's Gabe
Saglely said, you wouldn't realize that ninety eight percent of
Los Angeles is still open the way people are not
(17:33):
booking trips. Give you some examples. San Diegoo Tribune said
that canceled bookings at the Georgian, which is a beautiful
ocean view hotel in Santa Monica. All the cancelations cost
that hotel seven hundred thousand dollars. January February saw an
(17:53):
extreme drop in hotel bookings in West Hollywood. It went
from seventy five percent occupant seat around twenty percent after
the fires. WHOA air travel has dropped dramatically. International bookings
in March to LA were down three and a half percent,
(18:13):
but among Canadians, well, there's other reasons for this. Canadian
bookings to LA fell by more than seventy percent. In fact,
the airlines have cut three hundred thousand airline seats coming
from Canada to LAX. They just, I guess there is
(18:34):
an anti Trump boycott really took hold in Canada. The
LA Tourism and Convention Bureau is anticipating year over year
reductions for international visitors twenty five to thirty percent. Mexican
tourism also down twenty four percent. HIA Mexicans are upset too.
(18:58):
I guess they know what, you know, you know what
they don't want what they're dancing around here. Everybody has
seen all the videos of the thousands of homeless people
that live in the streets, people getting people getting murdered,
and all the crime going on between the smashing those
smash and grab videos. You know, you can parade politicians
(19:21):
who give you a bunch of statistics and claim that
they've got new laws and new enforcement mechanisms, but people
are going to remember that smash and grab stuff for
years and years. That's why you can't let it happen,
because that's going to shape people's perceptions forever. This writer
for sf Gate went to downtown LA and found that
(19:44):
LA live. There are very few people, plenty of empty
restaurant patio seats, and Third Street Promenade wasn't any better. Well,
Third Street Promenade has really gone to hell. And I
don't live far from there. And what they what the
I mean, the absolute psychopaths that run Santa Monica have
(20:05):
destroyed really one of the most fun stretches commerce restaurant
sections of any town I've ever seen. That Third Street
Promenade used to be great. Uh and and and and
it's all the progressives. It's the progressives with their obsession
in uh in in in coddling you know, mental patients
(20:27):
and drug addicts and criminals and sex offenders. I mean
the progressives who run the city council and who rotate
as mayor. For the most part, Phil Brock was an obsession,
an exception to it. They're so insane. They have this weird,
sick religious ideology where they have to worship uh criminals,
(20:48):
uh and and and and mental patients and drug addicts.
And so they've taken over the streets and now nobody
wants to visit see people in in Around the rest
of the world, they've got based common sense and They've
got thousands of places they could travel to and they
don't have to come here and uh, you know, get
stabbed by a drug addict, get stabbed with a with
(21:11):
a with a needle, or you know, have somebody vomit
on them, or somebody set them on fire when they
take the metro train. And then of course the Canadians
are angry for a whole other set of issues with
Trump and and the twenty five percent tariffs, and so
(21:31):
now the whole, the whole tourism industry is in damage
control and trying to rebuild itself. But I mean that,
you know what, I don't know how if you keep
tracking the news, you can't get a sense that la
is totally lawless. There's nobody in charge. There's nobody care
that cares, right, That's the thing we we discovered and
(21:54):
I discovered this personally during the fires. Uh when when
the looters took over my neighborhood and I realized we
were entirely on our own here. Everybody in the Palisades,
we just talked about this yesterday, who are trying to
get permits to rebuild. There's nobody at city Hall who
wants to approve the permits. I think there's been forty.
(22:15):
There's sixty eight hundred structures that burned, and forty permits
have been approved after four and a half months. I mean,
we have no government at all. And then you hear
the clip we played a few minutes ago. They discovered
video of the New Year's Day morning fire in almost
(22:38):
the exact same spot as the January seventh fire, and
they asked the interim fire chief in a way, what
do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I wasn't here. That wasn't me. I wasn't look jeez,
thanks buddy, Thanks for stepping up and explaining what went
on here. Obviously there are failures in the department that
you run. Apparently this guy's no different then the last bozo,
Christen Crowley. Wow, I wasn't here.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I was in.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Whatever the hell he was mumbling, jikes, we come back. Well,
let me tell you a two o'clock we're gonna have
Carl Demyo. Is he the only guy in Sacramento who's
uh fighting for taxpayers and citizens? He got the news
(23:27):
of administration to admit they're under investigation for misappropriating federal
money for legal alien healthcare. We will bring you Carl
Demyo coming up.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
John Cobelt's Show. We're on from one until four. After
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast
downloaded millions due. You should too, and you can keep
track of every single thing we do here. Right after
two o'clock it's Carl Demyo, the Republican Assemblyman. He got
the new administration to admit. Yeah, they're getting investigated by
the federal government for giving possibly giving a federal money
(24:06):
away for illegal alien health care. That don't cover that nonsense. Well,
listen to this. There's just nobody you can trust, nobody
to believe in. A Westminster police officer claimed over six
hundred thousand dollars in workers comp for a head injury
that she claimed kept her from working. Investigators found that
(24:32):
she had no trouble skiing at Mammoth Mountain, going to Disneyland,
or dancing at Stagecoach. She's now facing fifteen felonies workers'
comp insurance fraud. Her name is Nicole Brown. If she's
convicted of all the charges, she faces up to twenty
two years in prison. That's six hundred thousand dollars tax money. Yeah,
(24:55):
she ought to go to prison for twenty two years.
She had a minor on her forehead while trying to
handcuff a suspect in March of twenty twenty two, she
goes to the emergency room. The er doctor releases her
no restrictions, but she didn't return to work for more
than a year. She claimed severe concussion syndrome she was
(25:20):
diagnosed with That found some suspect doctor and started collecting
over six hundred thousand dollars. They also think her stepfather,
Peter Schumann, worked with Nicole brown To I just realized
her name to orchestrate the whole scheme. She claimed she
(25:43):
couldn't work, she had headaches, dizziness, sensitivity to light and noise. However,
in April of twenty twenty three, she was dancing and
drinking at Stagecoach. Seventy five thousand other people were there,
seventy five thousand witnesses, loud music, bright lights, temperatures were
over one hundred degrees, and she was having no problem.
(26:06):
They also found that she went snowboarding or skiing at
Mammoth Mountain and Big Dare, Big Bear she ran two
five k races, She went to three soccer conferences, she
went to Disneyland, went out golfing, and she started taking
online courses with the local university. Three days after she
(26:31):
was at Stagecoach, she had a zoom meeting to talk
with the Westminster Police Department about what duties she still
could perform even though she had this head injury. Brown
was sitting in a dark room, claimed she could not
look at the screen. The stepfather Schumann, did all the
(26:51):
talking and stated she couldn't even she couldn't even do
the paperwork. Maybe can't do phone calls either, And then
she was admitted to an inpatient center for traumatic brain injuries.
All apparently fake according to prosecutors. You know what she
fore of the jobs she had when she was a
(27:12):
Westminster police officer, A homeless lives on offer, lives on
officer trying to connect people experiencing homelessness to resources. What
why do journalists write in government jargon which is designed
to obscure the truth. It's drug addicts and mental patients.
(27:36):
They're not experiencing homelessness. They're experiencing drugs and mental illness.
And what's resources? Somebody who could treat the drug addiction
and the mental illness. Could you write in English as well?
It's the La Times. Of course, of course they write
in nonsensical gibberish. Go back to the English language. Oh
(27:59):
my god, that is a lot you know, And I
know there's a lot of there's a lot of fraud
in fake in workers' comp there always has been. I mean,
you really have to be outrageous. But because you know,
when you go to a when you go to a
stagecoach festival, there's seventy five thousand people, and you go
(28:20):
to Big Bear, and you go to Mammoth where there
are thousands of people, and then you're running publicly in
five k races. People are gonna notice. Somebody's gonna get
wind of it and make a phone call, leave a tip.
That's outrageous. Nicole Brown. Prison, Prison for that woman if
she's guilty. All right, when we come back, we are
(28:41):
going to have Carl Demaian and Carl's gonna I feel
like it's Carl and me against the entire government structure, city, county,
in the state. Carl found out that, yeah, the News
administration is getting investigated by the federal government for misappropriating
(29:01):
federal money for illegal alien healthcare. Meantime, the Democrats in
the Assembly want to tax us more for illegal alien healthcare.
All that ahead, Michael monkshos live in the KFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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