August 6, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/06) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the ICE operation at a Home Depot in Downtown LA this morning. More on the ICE operation at a Home Depot in Downtown LA this morning. Gov. Gavin Newsom has changed his tune towards the oil industry in the state of California. The process of naming fires is stupid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
The big story here locally in Los Angeles is the
return of ice. They had been told by a number
of judges to stop doing the roundups, stop arresting people
without reasonable cause, stop roving around, and today they had
a new tactic. They rolled up a rented Penske truck
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into the parking lot of a home depot in the
Westlake section of Los Angeles, and workers gathered around, thinking, oh,
we have some work today, and out jump all these agents.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Michael Monks, what went on?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
You described it well? If you think back to your
high school or undergrad days, you may recall the Greek
mythology story about the Trojan horse, where the Greeks were
able to infiltrate the city of Troy by gifting a
large wooden horse that, unbeknownst to the Trojans, was full
of Greek soldiers inside. So it is appropriately now known
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that this was called Operation Trojan Horse, as this Penske
truck that you noted, served that same role.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You said it right.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
This Penske truck pulls up to a home depot parking
lot in the mid city Westlake area of LA around
seven o'clock this morning. There is a home depot there.
There are often would be workers standing around outside. You
know this area, well, you see it a lot, and
apparently they thought they had the opportunity to get a
job because of whatever this Penske truck was up to.
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It was offering work and according to The Times, that
article notes that the driver of this truck told some
workers around thet we're looking. We're looking for workers. Workers
gather around the door, pops open and out pomps, ice
agents and a news crew that was embedded with them
to show this. Fox News was embedded inside this truck
as well, so it was quite a surprise. People started
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to run from the scene. Ultimately sixteen people were taken
into custody these witnesses described to our friends at NBC
four what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Fifteen or twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
These area, you know, where the people sell food every morning.
They are arrased five people in that area, but they
are raised more downstairs.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
They came in unmarked sprinter vans and trucks and then
a rental Penske brand moving van or a moving truck
rather like a box truck, and they pulled in over
by that Starbucks over there, and then up into this
front part of the lot off of Lulls for Boulevard,
and they grabbed whoever they could.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now, if this had happened too much ago, John, this
would have been just another immigration operation that we were
seeing pop up all over southern California. But since then
the district Federal court and a ruling that was upheld
by the Court of Appeals at the Ninth Circuit, said
it cannot be you federal agents going around and stopping
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people because they're Hispanic, because they're speaking Spanish, or because
they're hanging out in home depot, parking lots, car washes,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That is not probable call.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just because they fit the stereotype of what illegal alien
men do.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Around here.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So we need to learn more about what's different about
this case, because it did not stop those rulings all
immigration enforcement. So if you have a warrant, if you
have probable cause, then you can go about your business.
But because of these rulings, we have seen a sharp
dropped almost nothing as it relates to these raids.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It doesn't seem plausible that they would have background information
on random home depot workers at seven in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You may find yourself surprised that you are in agreement
with one. La Mayor Karen Bass. Here's what she said.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What I saw on the video, what I saw on
the pictures that were sent to me.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Looked like the same guys chasing people through a home depot.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
The only thing he gets her upset, the only thing
she gets really animated about.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, go ahead, No, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Incidentally, she is at an event today with business, government
community groups to talk about the impact of immigration enforcement
on the local economy that was scheduled ahead of this event.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Been seen in the Palisades in the last three months.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I don't know if she I think she must have
gone at some point, but maybe I'm not entirely certain
about that. Ask some people in the Palisades about how
they feel about our presence there, and you might understand
why it's not as frequent. Yeah, But she's clearly suggesting
that whatever this operation was, Operation Trojan Horse at the
Home Depot in Westlake, was out of bounds as it
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relates to the rulings that have come out out of
Wealth Circuit.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
All right, this is.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Something that's broil Oaks, the ABC News analyst, the legal
analysts on other issues. What happens if Trump ignores these
court orders and the appeals he loses every round and
then I just does it anyway?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Then who are you going to arrest? Who are you
going to punish?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's what I want to know too, because what are
the ramifications? What are the repercussions if the federal government
does violate the terms of this ruling. Now we don't
know for sure that's what happened yet, we're hoping to
find out more from.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
But I, you know, I'd like to know how they
knew in order to comply with the terms of the
appeals court ruling.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
How would they know these were illegal aliens? Exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Like I said the other day, you can go to
a factory and you could get a hold of their
payroll and you could run the names and see which
of them don't have Social Security numbers or stolen numbers,
you know, the paperwork stuff to track them or run
their names and see who has deportation orders in their past.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
When you and I talked on Monday about the Ninth
Circuit ruling that upheld the lower court rulings on Friday,
we talked about it on Monday, That's what I suggested
we could see happen more frequently was more legally sound enforcement.
That's finding the employers who are knowingly employing illegal immigrants
and taking that route, because you could still probably round
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up plenty rather than just going around the streets. But
we haven't heard yet from the Department of Homeland Security
what exactly motivated this operation outside of their suggestion that
this is a part of the city that's been infiltrated
by MS thirteen gang members. And they didn't say for
certain that these guys waitning onside home depot are gang members,
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but that's.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
All members have a job. Gang members aren't looking for
day labors.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It's the same thing they said when they marched through
MacArthur Park, right, That's showy display a couple months back.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, you know, this does have a big effect on
getting people to self deport I mean we talked about
lists report from the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that
about a million people a million illegal aliens have taken
off on their own.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And today would be a reminder to those folks that
if you thought there's a little bit of comfort right
now because of these legal rulings in the ongoing case,
that case isn't finished. That was a temporary restraining order.
The comfort zone probably cleared up. We did hear from
Penske Truck Rental. This was the truck that was rented
by the federal government, apparently.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
At the official rental service of ICE.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
They would like to tell you, no, they are not.
Penske strictly prohibits the transportation of people in the cargo
area of its vehicles under any circumstances. The company was
not made aware that its trucks would be used in
today's operation. Now, I will note that that statement which
they posted on X was quote tweeted quote XD by
the Department of Homeland Security, which shared an article from
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twenty twenty three in which border agents found fifty eight
migrants crammed into a Penske truck in alleged human smuggle
in Yeah, and I don't think Pensken came out with
a public statement on that. Bill Saley, the acting US
Attorney here in Los Angeles, said, for those who thought
immigration enforcement had stopped in southern California, think again. The
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enforcement of federal law is not negotiable, and there are
no sanctuaries from the reach of.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The federal government. I guess it's not even negotiable with
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, that's what we have to find out, is it
was this operation and violation of the terms of that ruling.
We don't know for searching you, Yeah, we know that
it appears these were suspected illegal immigrants who were outsigned
this home depot in Westlake.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But were they gang members?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Were they on some list that motivated the officers to
go specifically to that area, or were they just roving
around in their Pinske trojan horse and found these guys.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, I mean they set out bait, right They rolled
up in the truck, so they didn't know who was
going to run up to the truck.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
They didn't know who was there it may be a
legal loophole that they pose as somebody offering, the same
way that a sting operation with a john and a prostitute. Right,
you might either pose as a prostitute or you might
pose as a john in order to but you have
to be careful in those instances too, so as not
to incriminate folks unlawfully.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I also noticed that the budget now that ICE has
is thirteen times what it used to be. I think
they're very anxious to spend it. Yeah, ten billion, that's
one hundred and thirty five billion. So there's no way
to stop these guys.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
The court rulings were supposed to at least pause this type,
this type that suspected of what this is.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But we've often wondered.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But the agents are wearing masks so you can't identify them,
and the illegals are gone. They're not going to be
seen again. So I just wonder, you know, what can
anybody do about it?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I mean, you see local governments trying to do something,
but they aren't ultimately going to have the authority to
unmask agents to stop the raids. But the courts should, ideally,
you know, regardless of your position on the immigration enforcement.
The courts do have a role to play in the
execution dall. But now we'll be curious to see whether
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this was determined to be outside the bounds.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Of I enjoy anarchy as much as anybody. Okay, so
Michael Monks, KFI News reporting, we will discuss this further.
I believe what all the ICE agents are saying and
all the other public officials that ICE is never going
to stop here, and they've made it clear that the
best thing to do is take your thousand dollars from
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Christy Nome and leave the country and get on a list,
apply to return at some future date, because the old
game is over, and they've got the money, and they
got they got the guts just to pull anything off
that they want to.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
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podcast coming up after one thirty after Deborah's News. Gavin Newsom,
with a lot of fanfare, has completely reversed some of
his some of his policies against the oil industry. You know,
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he's pretty much driven the oil industry out of California.
By next year at this time, we'll be down to
six refineries, and we used to have in the forties.
Twenty five years ago, we had over twenty and now
we've got six. And now the gas price could explode.
They might have to shut down the oil pipeline. And finally,
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now as he prepares to run for president, he realized
he can't run for president if he destroyed the oil
industry in California. And we're going to be paying eight
dollars a gallon. And it's actually really funny. Not only that,
but a number of Democratic legislators are admitting it's.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Like, okay, all right, all right, yeah, there's a little
too much.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Even environmental kids who run these environmental advocacy groups have said, yeah,
all right, all right, we went too far. It's it's
it's funny, except it's not funny. That'll be after one thirty.
So the border patrol agents is fascinating. So I you know,
they spent a few weeks quiet, and I'm sure some
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of these smug, arrogant a whole activists, so oh yeah,
we beat them. We beat them in court, We had riots,
we messed up.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
All their raids. Blah blah lah. Well they reconvened.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And one of the things about driving around in an
ice truck is it draws a lot of attention. Right
if you're driving through neighborhoods where there's lots of illegal aliens,
many people are going to see the ice truck coming through.
And so what they didn't in the raid this morning
at the home depot is they rented a generic Penske
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truck just had the name of the company, the rental
company Penske on the side. So no, oh, and this
way the CHURLA, which is that illegal alien nonprofit activist
group which is heavily funded by California taxpayers, they weren't
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aware because what they do if they get a phone call,
they have this rapid response network. Right, Let's say there's
some illegal aliens in the neighborhood and they see an
ICE patrol coming through, and maybe there's a home depot
at the end of the block. Well, they'll call CHURLA
and Surla has a rapid response network where they have
protesters and violent thugs show up to try to get
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in the way of the raid and try to harm
the ice officers. So this was different, right. They were
hiding inside the Penske truck and they had a driver,
and the driver pretended to be just a guy who's
looking for workers for a construction project. And then the
back of the truck the door rolled up and here
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comes all the ICE agents. Because that truck was used
is bait. It attracted the illegal alien workers. They were
surrounding the truck and then they rolled up the back
and all these ICE agents wearing masks, you can't identify them,
they jump out and they arrested maybe up to sixteen
illegal aliens. And that's why they called it Operation Trojan Horse.
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And I have not seen the Fox video yet. Fox
was heavily covering the shooting in Georgia, but they had
a reporter and a cameraman I guess embedded in this operation.
One of the mask agents was wearing a cowboy hat,
a cowboy hat, and he started chasing people. So Ice
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ICE is always going to allow Fox these these these
local activists because.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Look at the firepower they have.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Now one hundred and thirty five billion dollars, and this
is the emphas the epicenter of illegal immigration. There are
more illegal immigrants in Los Angeles than any other city
in the country. I mean, they could blow half their
budget here and it would be pretty proportional. There's a
million illegal aliens living inside the city of Los Angeles alone,
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and they think four million people in California, a lot
of them here in southern California. So now, now, whether
whether they violated the court order or not, you know what,
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I agree with the Trump attorneys.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
People who are here illegally, I don't think have any
They shouldn't have these constitutional rights.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm waiting for a judge to say, wait a second.
The Constitution was.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Written for the American people and people that we had
proper license to be here, whether they're tourists, or they're
on visas, or they've got a green card, or you know,
any variation. That's who the Constitution's for. I think if
you just wander in here, no, sorry, you don't get
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any special protections. You're a citizen from somewhere else, whether
it's Mexico or Venezuela or El Salvador. And besides that,
they found people from one hundred and seventy different countries
had crossed the border during the Biden era. So they're
subject to the jurisdiction of those one hundred and seventy countries.
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And believe me, if you went to one hundred and
seventy of these countries and tried to live there and
work there, you wouldn't last five minutes in most cases.
So you know, enough this crap. And it is a
great question. Though I'm not saying I'm not saying that
Ice violated the court order necessarily because we don't know
the specifics of how they put this raid together. But
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even if they did, I don't care. Who cares, Like,
what are you gonna do about it? There are no
such thing as sanctuaries. Federal government has the absolute right
to deport at legal aliens. So enough of this, enough
of these fake rights and these fake legal analysis.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
If there is some kind of law that affects us,
you know what, nobody else.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Seems interested in forcing and enforcing the law. Why do
we have to enforce these rules? Why for what? Look
at all the laws that are violated every day in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Everybody's like sleeping in the streets and they're doing drugs
and they're stealing stuff. And you're saying, hey, it law
is being violated here, and people go, oh so so
why okay, Wilson, So what on this? So we read
up the legal aliens and we don't go through the
official procedure. So what so what on the on the
thieves at the target stores and the convenience stores? So
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what on public drug use? So what on sleeping in
the streets? So what on? On all all all the
burglaries and all the crime. Because these people get caught,
they don't spend much time in jail. Everything is so
what what's the big Okay, fine, we'll play game. So
what's the big deal? So they're rounding people up indiscriminately. Well,
you know, you can choose your laws to ignore, and
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I'm gonna I'm gonna choose my laws to ignore. We
got more coming up about Gavin Newsom next. He is
a changing changing all his some of his policies on
the oil industry because he screwed himself, backed himself into
a corner, and has so severely damaged the oil industry.
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There may be very little gas and oil available in
this state very soon. We'll tell you about it coming up.
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Gavin Newsom is suddenly changing his policies on oil production
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because he's so screwed the state. He screwed the states
so badly that, as you know if you listen to
the show, there's two oil refineries closing, so we're going
to be down to six in the state we used
to have twenty five years ago, over twenty and the
oil industry is in ruins. It's possible that they're going
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to shut down the main oil pipeline in California because
there's not enough oil to keep it functioning. And this
is at the hands of really one of the stupidest,
most arrogant men you will ever see in politics, Gavin Newsom.
I cannot explain to you. I cannot do justice with
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the English language to explain how absurd his policies are,
how damaging and destructive and just stupid because the world,
and California is still part of the world, runs on
oil and gas. I know the fanatics wish otherwise, but
and it will for the rest of our lifetimes. It's
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never going to change, not in our lifetimes. And Gavin
Newsom has done everything he can to shut down the
industry and force us to pay way too much for gas.
Where were you showing me? Eric Jersey checked in with
two eighty seven a gallon? Yeah, two eighty seven a gallon,
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And Jersey's no picnic to live in either. They got
progressives running that state, but you know, they're not quite
as stupid as Newsom is and not as destructive.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So now he's got these oil.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Refineries closing and we could be looking at gas six
seven eight dollars a gallon. So the boy is panicking.
He first, he first. First of all, almost every other
thing he says is a lie. Maybe everything he says
is a lie. Because Newsom said last month that refineries
all across the globe are struggling to try to explain
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away what's happening here, that is completely false. Refineries are
not struggling all across the globe. On the one hand,
he claims that oil companies are gouging everyone and they
have record profits. On the other hand, they claim he's struggling.
He's just so full of stinking garbage. So now he's
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trying to get buyers around the world to purchase one
of the closing oil refineries. Now he's offering incentives to
open up drilling. Current County, Bakersfield has a gigantic amount
of oil buried beneath it's land, a huge oil reservoir.
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It's hard to explain. If I gave you numbers, it
wouldn't mean anything to you, but it's huge. It's one
of the largest in the country. Can't use any of it.
He doesn't allow drilling. So now he wants to open
up the drilling in the current County, the Bakersfield area.
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And because it's that's they're going to need to do
that to try to lower the price. We don't we
don't process our own oil very much here. We have
to get it imported from all over the world, which
adds to the excessive cost. Henry Stern is a state senator,
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a Democrat, and at a legislative hearing, Henry Stern said,
call me born again, but I've seen the light on
exactly what you're talking about. Current County should be unleashed.
He's saying this to Republican senators, current County should be unleashed,
and I'm there, and then he said, don't send that
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to the White House please. So he does what he
used it as a political weapon against him. But he's
admitting that we're screwed because we haven't pumped oil for
so long. There's I listened to the environmental crowd. Bill
mcgavern is some wiener who's the policy director at the
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Coalition for Clean Air. It seems like a lot of
our elected officials are driven, above all by a fear
that they'll be blamed for high gas prices. Yes, they
should be blamed because they're responsible. It's not just blame.
They're the cause of it. They're responsible for it. Newsom
took the action to drive gas prices way beyond reason.
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It's already, you know, at least a dollar fifty more
than most of the states, and it's two dollars more
than many states. That's on him and the legislature. They
did it their fault. Refineries are closing, pipeline getting shut down,
and on and on. All their fault and what's fascinating
is I always tell you that we've got a lot
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of poverty in the state. About a quarter of the
state is in the poverty range. There's about a third
of the states on Medicaid, thirty five percent of the
state has to choose every month whether to pay bills
for food or for housing. And yet so many of
these people vote for Gavin Newsom. And what does he do.
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He drives their gas prices up way beyond what any
other state is paying. And electricity prices in this state
are double the national average.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Double. Now you're struggling for money.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You can't pay your rent, you don't have enough food,
you can't afford the gas, you can't afford.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
The electrical bill every month.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Why do you keep voting for Gavin Newsom and the
legislators who keep driving up the cost Because there are
a bunch of religious fanatics about climate change, or they're
corrupt and they're taking money from those who are making
a windfall in the climate industry. One of the two,
probably both. There's one in the California Democratic campaign consultant
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named Andrew Acosta. The reality is if those refineries closed
and we have increased gas prices, it's going to be
a problem for everybody, not just Gavin Newsom, but every
Democrat running for office.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Here is another.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Environmentalist, Caitlin Roadner's suitor, California director for the Environmental Defense Fund.
All Right, she says, I think that had sort of
failed to read the room, perhaps in a way that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Unfortunately Trump did. Why is it unfortunate?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
At least we got at least people who want normal
gas prices have somebody on their side. Why is that unfortunate?
Maybe it's unfortunate for Caitlin Roadner's suitor. If we're not
acknowledging people's day to day reality and the challenges they face,
it's hard for them to care about the existential threat
that is climate change. There's one phrase I just ought
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to be banned from life, existential threat.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Shut up right, Oh, it would be that like the
polar ice caps are melting.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, right, the North Paul was supposed to be gone,
I think thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Existential threat.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
This is a racket, and they've gotten people like emotionally
whipped up, believing in nonsense, to the point now that
we're down to very few oil refineries, we're paying exorbitant
money for gas and oil. We're paying exorbitant money for
electrical prices for electrical energy and for what for what?
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We have no effect on the climate. You're a complete ninni.
If you think the state of California has any effect
on the global climate, you are at absolute ninni, a
vegetable because we don't. No matter what we do, we don't.
But you've got it. Vote for different people. I mean,
this is just And now they're admitting it. Now the
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Democratic legislators are admitting it. Newsom is admitting it, the
environmental activists are admitting it, the political consultants, everybody's now
admitting it. Oh well, thanks, do we get any of
our money back.
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Coming up after two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Royal Oaks is the ABC News legal analyst who comes
on frequently with us, and we've got we've got several
legal stories.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
One is.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
James Comer, who's the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Is issuing subpoena is like crazy. They want the complete
Jeffrey Epstein files from the Trump administration. Not only he's
going after the Trump administration, he's going after Bill and
Hillary Clinton. See what Bill was up to on those
plane flights.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Uh. And then a whole bunch.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Of Obama era officials like James Comey and Loretta Lynch
and Eric Holder and Merrick Garland and on and on
and on. And also other issue we're going to cover
is is well we'll talk about it's one of the
it's got to do with the Texas situation and that
that's coming.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Up next with the Royal Oaks here on.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Kfive the now, if I said the gift, would you say, oh,
I know where that is?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
No, that that's what makes me crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
The Gifford fire has eighty thousand plus acres No wait, yes,
eighty two thousand acres has been burning in Santa Barbara
County and San Luis Obispo County. And I bring this
up for a reason. And there's also a news story coincidentally,
but we were up in Lake Arrawhead over the weekend
and I went out on I got a little motor boat.
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So Sunday morning, I go out and I walk outside
and I smell smoke and I thought, oh, I was
a strong it's a strong smell of smoke. I started
burning right away. I felt it in my throat and
I went to my wife. I said, you smile it.
She goes outside, You go yeah. Called nine one one
and the lady on the phone goes, oh, that that's
(29:53):
the Gifford fire. My life goes, well, what's the Gifford fire? Well,
I don't know, Well where is it? Why know, we're
busy here, I don't have time to see where it is.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I think.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You know, if you said it was I don't know,
the Big Bear fire, right, or the San Bernardino fire,
the Helmet fire, the Studio city fire.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Right, then we know right away how far away it is,
because this was important.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Is it on top of us or is it smoke
blowing from one hundred miles away, which is what it was.
There must have been some strong westerly or easterly flow
from west to.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
East, and.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I I'm thinking, why do they insist on doing this?
I was fighting with people in the news department too.
They latch onto the official name of the fire, and
they name it after I don't know a local canyon
or a gully or a road.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
It's like, no, no, pick the town.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Because if I hear it's you know the uh, you know,
the Crestline fire, then I know, Oh my goodness, well
I'm an arrowhead. That's only a few miles away. I
got to get out of here, right here. It's a
Gifferd fires one hundred miles away. Do you what's wrong
with you? And then New York Times has a story
about this Gifford fire because now that it's fire season,
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and it's always fire season in August right every year,
the usual suspects in the media are ask climate change,
and our studies are okay, sit down, it's that climate change.
Because the New York Times found out the fire began
Friday afternoon in the Santa Barbara County area. Started as
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four smaller fires along a Highway one sixty six. Four
small fires merged and they were burning on both sides
of the road. Now, if you hear that there's four
small fires burning in the same area on both sides
of Highway one sixty six, what does that tell you?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Could be a crazy guy.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Could be a crazy guy, an arsonist who's starting the fires,
which has nothing to do with climate change. It has
to do with a crazy guy who probably has a
long record and was never put away for well, it
was not put away for a long enough time. If
there's a guy starting fires out there, people know that
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he's nuts and he's probably done bad things in the past.
They usually this is a lifetime obsession they have, but
it was. It was eighty two thousand acres as of
yesterday morning, and it was threatening. Eight hundred structures went
through part of San Luis, Pispo and Santa Barbara counties.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But call it that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Called Highway one sixty six fires, just something so geographically
we could figure.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
This out.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And then stop putting in your climate change prayers at
every report, climate change does not start four small, separate
fires along a short distance of the same highway if.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You scroll down enough.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
In the New York Times article, they admit that ninety
percent of fires are started by humans. Ninety percent. That's
not climate change. That's stupid psychotic human beings who should
be put away.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
But we don't see.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You know, hundreds of years ago, before this deviant species
was wandering the planet, fires would mostly start around here
from lightning strikes, but now it's mostly US.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Says.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Fires that begin near roads are often caused by cars
or discarded cigarettes, or campfires or the arsonists, trailer chains
or if you have a junk car and your muffler's dragging,
that'll cause sparks, brakes that have worn thin, same thing
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under inflated tires might cause cars to drive on exposed
wheel rims, so hot exhaust pipes, mufflers like I mentioned.
And I remember the one last year, and I think
it was an Orange county. They were doing some kind
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of roadside construction project. They were picking up boulders and
moving them, and the scraping of the scooper, the metal
scraping of the scooper that started a huge fire. So
enough with the climate change, and enough with the absurd
names for the fires, so that you know immediately we
know if a fire is nearby or not. All right,
(34:50):
we come back. We're gonna have royal oaks. The House
Oversight Committee, James Comer is the chairman. He issued a
wide array of subpoenas members of the Trump administration, to
the Bill and Hillary Clinton, and it seems everybody in between.
It's coming up next. Steber Mark live in the CAFI
twenty for our newsroom.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
The big story here locally in Los Angeles is the
return of ice. They had been told by a number
of judges to stop doing the roundups, stop arresting people
without reasonable cause, stop roving around, and today they had
a new tactic. They rolled up a rented Penske truck
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into the parking lot of a home depot in the
Westlake section of Los Angeles, and workers gathered around, thinking, oh,
we have some work today, and out jump all these agents.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Michael Monks, what went on?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
You described it well? If you think back to your
high school or undergrad days, you may recall the Greek
mythology story about the Trojan horse, where the Greeks were
able to infiltrate the city of Troy by gifting a
large wooden horse that, unbeknownst to the Trojans, was full
of Greek soldiers inside. So it is appropriately now known
(01:23):
that this was called Operation Trojan Horse, as this Penske
truck that you noted, served that same role.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You said it right.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
This Penske truck pulls up to a home depot parking
lot in the mid city Westlake area of LA around
seven o'clock this morning. There is a home depot there.
There are often would be workers standing around outside. You
know this area, well, you see it a lot, and
apparently they thought they had the opportunity to get a
job because of whatever this Penske truck was up to.
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It was offering work and according to The Times, that
article notes that the driver of this truck told some
workers around thet we're looking. We're looking for workers. Workers
gather around the door, pops open and out pomps, ice
agents and a news crew that was embedded with them
to show this. Fox News was embedded inside this truck
as well, so it was quite a surprise. People started
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to run from the scene. Ultimately sixteen people were taken
into custody these witnesses described to our friends at NBC
four what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Fifteen or twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
These area, you know, where the people sell food every morning.
They are arrased five people in that area, but they
are raised more downstairs.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
They came in unmarked sprinter vans and trucks and then
a rental Penske brand moving van or a moving truck
rather like a box truck, and they pulled in over
by that Starbucks over there, and then up into this
front part of the lot off of Lulls for Boulevard,
and they grabbed whoever they could.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now, if this had happened too much ago, John, this
would have been just another immigration operation that we were
seeing pop up all over southern California. But since then
the district Federal court and a ruling that was upheld
by the Court of Appeals at the Ninth Circuit, said
it cannot be you federal agents going around and stopping
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people because they're Hispanic, because they're speaking Spanish, or because
they're hanging out in home depot, parking lots, car washes,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That is not probable call.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just because they fit the stereotype of what illegal alien
men do.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Around here.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So we need to learn more about what's different about
this case, because it did not stop those rulings all
immigration enforcement. So if you have a warrant, if you
have probable cause, then you can go about your business.
But because of these rulings, we have seen a sharp
dropped almost nothing as it relates to these raids.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It doesn't seem plausible that they would have background information
on random home depot workers at seven in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You may find yourself surprised that you are in agreement
with one. La Mayor Karen Bass. Here's what she said.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What I saw on the video, what I saw on
the pictures that were sent to me.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Looked like the same guys chasing people through a home depot.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
The only thing he gets her upset, the only thing
she gets really animated about.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, go ahead, No, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Incidentally, she is at an event today with business, government
community groups to talk about the impact of immigration enforcement
on the local economy that was scheduled ahead of this event.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Been seen in the Palisades in the last three months.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I don't know if she I think she must have
gone at some point, but maybe I'm not entirely certain
about that. Ask some people in the Palisades about how
they feel about our presence there, and you might understand
why it's not as frequent. Yeah, But she's clearly suggesting
that whatever this operation was, Operation Trojan Horse at the
Home Depot in Westlake, was out of bounds as it
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relates to the rulings that have come out out of
Wealth Circuit.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
All right, this is.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Something that's broil Oaks, the ABC News analyst, the legal
analysts on other issues. What happens if Trump ignores these
court orders and the appeals he loses every round and
then I just does it anyway?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Then who are you going to arrest? Who are you
going to punish?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's what I want to know too, because what are
the ramifications? What are the repercussions if the federal government
does violate the terms of this ruling. Now we don't
know for sure that's what happened yet, we're hoping to
find out more from.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
But I, you know, I'd like to know how they
knew in order to comply with the terms of the
appeals court ruling.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
How would they know these were illegal aliens? Exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Like I said the other day, you can go to
a factory and you could get a hold of their
payroll and you could run the names and see which
of them don't have Social Security numbers or stolen numbers,
you know, the paperwork stuff to track them or run
their names and see who has deportation orders in their past.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
When you and I talked on Monday about the Ninth
Circuit ruling that upheld the lower court rulings on Friday,
we talked about it on Monday, That's what I suggested
we could see happen more frequently was more legally sound enforcement.
That's finding the employers who are knowingly employing illegal immigrants
and taking that route, because you could still probably round
(06:23):
up plenty rather than just going around the streets. But
we haven't heard yet from the Department of Homeland Security
what exactly motivated this operation outside of their suggestion that
this is a part of the city that's been infiltrated
by MS thirteen gang members. And they didn't say for
certain that these guys waitning onside home depot are gang members,
(06:43):
but that's.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
All members have a job. Gang members aren't looking for
day labors.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It's the same thing they said when they marched through
MacArthur Park, right, That's showy display a couple months back.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, you know, this does have a big effect on
getting people to self deport I mean we talked about
lists report from the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that
about a million people a million illegal aliens have taken
off on their own.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And today would be a reminder to those folks that
if you thought there's a little bit of comfort right
now because of these legal rulings in the ongoing case,
that case isn't finished. That was a temporary restraining order.
The comfort zone probably cleared up. We did hear from
Penske Truck Rental. This was the truck that was rented
by the federal government, apparently.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
At the official rental service of ICE.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
They would like to tell you, no, they are not.
Penske strictly prohibits the transportation of people in the cargo
area of its vehicles under any circumstances. The company was
not made aware that its trucks would be used in
today's operation. Now, I will note that that statement which
they posted on X was quote tweeted quote XD by
the Department of Homeland Security, which shared an article from
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twenty twenty three in which border agents found fifty eight
migrants crammed into a Penske truck in alleged human smuggle
in Yeah, and I don't think Pensken came out with
a public statement on that. Bill Saley, the acting US
Attorney here in Los Angeles, said, for those who thought
immigration enforcement had stopped in southern California, think again. The
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enforcement of federal law is not negotiable, and there are
no sanctuaries from the reach of.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The federal government. I guess it's not even negotiable with
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, that's what we have to find out, is it
was this operation and violation of the terms of that ruling.
We don't know for searching you, Yeah, we know that
it appears these were suspected illegal immigrants who were outsigned
this home depot in Westlake.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But were they gang members?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Were they on some list that motivated the officers to
go specifically to that area, or were they just roving
around in their Pinske trojan horse and found these guys.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, I mean they set out bait, right They rolled
up in the truck, so they didn't know who was
going to run up to the truck.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
They didn't know who was there it may be a
legal loophole that they pose as somebody offering, the same
way that a sting operation with a john and a prostitute. Right,
you might either pose as a prostitute or you might
pose as a john in order to but you have
to be careful in those instances too, so as not
to incriminate folks unlawfully.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I also noticed that the budget now that ICE has
is thirteen times what it used to be. I think
they're very anxious to spend it. Yeah, ten billion, that's
one hundred and thirty five billion. So there's no way
to stop these guys.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
The court rulings were supposed to at least pause this type,
this type that suspected of what this is.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But we've often wondered.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But the agents are wearing masks so you can't identify them,
and the illegals are gone. They're not going to be
seen again. So I just wonder, you know, what can
anybody do about it?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I mean, you see local governments trying to do something,
but they aren't ultimately going to have the authority to
unmask agents to stop the raids. But the courts should, ideally,
you know, regardless of your position on the immigration enforcement.
The courts do have a role to play in the
execution dall. But now we'll be curious to see whether
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this was determined to be outside the bounds.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Of I enjoy anarchy as much as anybody. Okay, so
Michael Monks, KFI News reporting, we will discuss this further.
I believe what all the ICE agents are saying and
all the other public officials that ICE is never going
to stop here, and they've made it clear that the
best thing to do is take your thousand dollars from
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Christy Nome and leave the country and get on a list,
apply to return at some future date, because the old
game is over, and they've got the money, and they
got they got the guts just to pull anything off
that they want to.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock.
After four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the
podcast coming up after one thirty after Deborah's News. Gavin Newsom,
with a lot of fanfare, has completely reversed some of
his some of his policies against the oil industry. You know,
(11:16):
he's pretty much driven the oil industry out of California.
By next year at this time, we'll be down to
six refineries, and we used to have in the forties.
Twenty five years ago, we had over twenty and now
we've got six. And now the gas price could explode.
They might have to shut down the oil pipeline. And finally,
(11:38):
now as he prepares to run for president, he realized
he can't run for president if he destroyed the oil
industry in California. And we're going to be paying eight
dollars a gallon. And it's actually really funny. Not only that,
but a number of Democratic legislators are admitting it's.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Like, okay, all right, all right, yeah, there's a little
too much.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Even environmental kids who run these environmental advocacy groups have said, yeah,
all right, all right, we went too far. It's it's
it's funny, except it's not funny. That'll be after one thirty.
So the border patrol agents is fascinating. So I you know,
they spent a few weeks quiet, and I'm sure some
(12:18):
of these smug, arrogant a whole activists, so oh yeah,
we beat them. We beat them in court, We had riots,
we messed up.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
All their raids. Blah blah lah. Well they reconvened.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And one of the things about driving around in an
ice truck is it draws a lot of attention. Right
if you're driving through neighborhoods where there's lots of illegal aliens,
many people are going to see the ice truck coming through.
And so what they didn't in the raid this morning
at the home depot is they rented a generic Penske
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truck just had the name of the company, the rental
company Penske on the side. So no, oh, and this
way the CHURLA, which is that illegal alien nonprofit activist
group which is heavily funded by California taxpayers, they weren't
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aware because what they do if they get a phone call,
they have this rapid response network. Right, Let's say there's
some illegal aliens in the neighborhood and they see an
ICE patrol coming through, and maybe there's a home depot
at the end of the block. Well, they'll call CHURLA
and Surla has a rapid response network where they have
protesters and violent thugs show up to try to get
(13:35):
in the way of the raid and try to harm
the ice officers. So this was different, right. They were
hiding inside the Penske truck and they had a driver,
and the driver pretended to be just a guy who's
looking for workers for a construction project. And then the
back of the truck the door rolled up and here
(13:56):
comes all the ICE agents. Because that truck was used
is bait. It attracted the illegal alien workers. They were
surrounding the truck and then they rolled up the back
and all these ICE agents wearing masks, you can't identify them,
they jump out and they arrested maybe up to sixteen
illegal aliens. And that's why they called it Operation Trojan Horse.
(14:18):
And I have not seen the Fox video yet. Fox
was heavily covering the shooting in Georgia, but they had
a reporter and a cameraman I guess embedded in this operation.
One of the mask agents was wearing a cowboy hat,
a cowboy hat, and he started chasing people. So Ice
(14:40):
ICE is always going to allow Fox these these these
local activists because.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Look at the firepower they have.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Now one hundred and thirty five billion dollars, and this
is the emphas the epicenter of illegal immigration. There are
more illegal immigrants in Los Angeles than any other city
in the country. I mean, they could blow half their
budget here and it would be pretty proportional. There's a
million illegal aliens living inside the city of Los Angeles alone,
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and they think four million people in California, a lot
of them here in southern California. So now, now, whether
whether they violated the court order or not, you know what,
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I agree with the Trump attorneys.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
People who are here illegally, I don't think have any
They shouldn't have these constitutional rights.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm waiting for a judge to say, wait a second.
The Constitution was.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Written for the American people and people that we had
proper license to be here, whether they're tourists, or they're
on visas, or they've got a green card, or you know,
any variation. That's who the Constitution's for. I think if
you just wander in here, no, sorry, you don't get
(16:00):
any special protections. You're a citizen from somewhere else, whether
it's Mexico or Venezuela or El Salvador. And besides that,
they found people from one hundred and seventy different countries
had crossed the border during the Biden era. So they're
subject to the jurisdiction of those one hundred and seventy countries.
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And believe me, if you went to one hundred and
seventy of these countries and tried to live there and
work there, you wouldn't last five minutes in most cases.
So you know, enough this crap. And it is a
great question. Though I'm not saying I'm not saying that
Ice violated the court order necessarily because we don't know
the specifics of how they put this raid together. But
(16:43):
even if they did, I don't care. Who cares, Like,
what are you gonna do about it? There are no
such thing as sanctuaries. Federal government has the absolute right
to deport at legal aliens. So enough of this, enough
of these fake rights and these fake legal analysis.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
If there is some kind of law that affects us,
you know what, nobody else.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Seems interested in forcing and enforcing the law. Why do
we have to enforce these rules? Why for what? Look
at all the laws that are violated every day in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Everybody's like sleeping in the streets and they're doing drugs
and they're stealing stuff. And you're saying, hey, it law
is being violated here, and people go, oh so so
why okay, Wilson, So what on this? So we read
up the legal aliens and we don't go through the
official procedure. So what so what on the on the
thieves at the target stores and the convenience stores? So
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what on public drug use? So what on sleeping in
the streets? So what on? On all all all the
burglaries and all the crime. Because these people get caught,
they don't spend much time in jail. Everything is so
what what's the big Okay, fine, we'll play game. So
what's the big deal? So they're rounding people up indiscriminately. Well,
you know, you can choose your laws to ignore, and
(18:07):
I'm gonna I'm gonna choose my laws to ignore. We
got more coming up about Gavin Newsom next. He is
a changing changing all his some of his policies on
the oil industry because he screwed himself, backed himself into
a corner, and has so severely damaged the oil industry.
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There may be very little gas and oil available in
this state very soon. We'll tell you about it coming up.
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Gavin Newsom is suddenly changing his policies on oil production
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because he's so screwed the state. He screwed the states
so badly that, as you know if you listen to
the show, there's two oil refineries closing, so we're going
to be down to six in the state we used
to have twenty five years ago, over twenty and the
oil industry is in ruins. It's possible that they're going
(19:26):
to shut down the main oil pipeline in California because
there's not enough oil to keep it functioning. And this
is at the hands of really one of the stupidest,
most arrogant men you will ever see in politics, Gavin Newsom.
I cannot explain to you. I cannot do justice with
(19:48):
the English language to explain how absurd his policies are,
how damaging and destructive and just stupid because the world,
and California is still part of the world, runs on
oil and gas. I know the fanatics wish otherwise, but
and it will for the rest of our lifetimes. It's
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never going to change, not in our lifetimes. And Gavin
Newsom has done everything he can to shut down the
industry and force us to pay way too much for gas.
Where were you showing me? Eric Jersey checked in with
two eighty seven a gallon? Yeah, two eighty seven a gallon,
(20:33):
And Jersey's no picnic to live in either. They got
progressives running that state, but you know, they're not quite
as stupid as Newsom is and not as destructive.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So now he's got these oil.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Refineries closing and we could be looking at gas six
seven eight dollars a gallon. So the boy is panicking.
He first, he first. First of all, almost every other
thing he says is a lie. Maybe everything he says
is a lie. Because Newsom said last month that refineries
all across the globe are struggling to try to explain
(21:11):
away what's happening here, that is completely false. Refineries are
not struggling all across the globe. On the one hand,
he claims that oil companies are gouging everyone and they
have record profits. On the other hand, they claim he's struggling.
He's just so full of stinking garbage. So now he's
(21:37):
trying to get buyers around the world to purchase one
of the closing oil refineries. Now he's offering incentives to
open up drilling. Current County, Bakersfield has a gigantic amount
of oil buried beneath it's land, a huge oil reservoir.
(22:03):
It's hard to explain. If I gave you numbers, it
wouldn't mean anything to you, but it's huge. It's one
of the largest in the country. Can't use any of it.
He doesn't allow drilling. So now he wants to open
up the drilling in the current County, the Bakersfield area.
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And because it's that's they're going to need to do
that to try to lower the price. We don't we
don't process our own oil very much here. We have
to get it imported from all over the world, which
adds to the excessive cost. Henry Stern is a state senator,
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a Democrat, and at a legislative hearing, Henry Stern said,
call me born again, but I've seen the light on
exactly what you're talking about. Current County should be unleashed.
He's saying this to Republican senators, current County should be unleashed,
and I'm there, and then he said, don't send that
(23:10):
to the White House please. So he does what he
used it as a political weapon against him. But he's
admitting that we're screwed because we haven't pumped oil for
so long. There's I listened to the environmental crowd. Bill
mcgavern is some wiener who's the policy director at the
(23:33):
Coalition for Clean Air. It seems like a lot of
our elected officials are driven, above all by a fear
that they'll be blamed for high gas prices. Yes, they
should be blamed because they're responsible. It's not just blame.
They're the cause of it. They're responsible for it. Newsom
took the action to drive gas prices way beyond reason.
(23:57):
It's already, you know, at least a dollar fifty more
than most of the states, and it's two dollars more
than many states. That's on him and the legislature. They
did it their fault. Refineries are closing, pipeline getting shut down,
and on and on. All their fault and what's fascinating
is I always tell you that we've got a lot
(24:20):
of poverty in the state. About a quarter of the
state is in the poverty range. There's about a third
of the states on Medicaid, thirty five percent of the
state has to choose every month whether to pay bills
for food or for housing. And yet so many of
these people vote for Gavin Newsom. And what does he do.
(24:44):
He drives their gas prices up way beyond what any
other state is paying. And electricity prices in this state
are double the national average.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Double. Now you're struggling for money.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You can't pay your rent, you don't have enough food,
you can't afford the gas, you can't afford.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
The electrical bill every month.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Why do you keep voting for Gavin Newsom and the
legislators who keep driving up the cost Because there are
a bunch of religious fanatics about climate change, or they're
corrupt and they're taking money from those who are making
a windfall in the climate industry. One of the two,
probably both. There's one in the California Democratic campaign consultant
(25:34):
named Andrew Acosta. The reality is if those refineries closed
and we have increased gas prices, it's going to be
a problem for everybody, not just Gavin Newsom, but every
Democrat running for office.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Here is another.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Environmentalist, Caitlin Roadner's suitor, California director for the Environmental Defense Fund.
All Right, she says, I think that had sort of
failed to read the room, perhaps in a way that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Unfortunately Trump did. Why is it unfortunate?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
At least we got at least people who want normal
gas prices have somebody on their side. Why is that unfortunate?
Maybe it's unfortunate for Caitlin Roadner's suitor. If we're not
acknowledging people's day to day reality and the challenges they face,
it's hard for them to care about the existential threat
that is climate change. There's one phrase I just ought
(26:29):
to be banned from life, existential threat.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Shut up right, Oh, it would be that like the
polar ice caps are melting.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, right, the North Paul was supposed to be gone,
I think thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Existential threat.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
This is a racket, and they've gotten people like emotionally
whipped up, believing in nonsense, to the point now that
we're down to very few oil refineries, we're paying exorbitant
money for gas and oil. We're paying exorbitant money for
electrical prices for electrical energy and for what for what?
(27:07):
We have no effect on the climate. You're a complete ninni.
If you think the state of California has any effect
on the global climate, you are at absolute ninni, a
vegetable because we don't. No matter what we do, we don't.
But you've got it. Vote for different people. I mean,
this is just And now they're admitting it. Now the
(27:29):
Democratic legislators are admitting it. Newsom is admitting it, the
environmental activists are admitting it, the political consultants, everybody's now
admitting it. Oh well, thanks, do we get any of
our money back.
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Speaker 2 (27:58):
Royal Oaks is the ABC News legal analyst who comes
on frequently with us, and we've got we've got several
legal stories.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
One is.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
James Comer, who's the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Is issuing subpoena is like crazy. They want the complete
Jeffrey Epstein files from the Trump administration. Not only he's
going after the Trump administration, he's going after Bill and
Hillary Clinton. See what Bill was up to on those
plane flights.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Uh. And then a whole bunch.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Of Obama era officials like James Comey and Loretta Lynch
and Eric Holder and Merrick Garland and on and on
and on. And also other issue we're going to cover
is is well we'll talk about it's one of the
it's got to do with the Texas situation and that
that's coming.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Up next with the Royal Oaks here on.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Kfive the now, if I said the gift, would you say, oh,
I know where that is?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
No, that that's what makes me crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
The Gifford fire has eighty thousand plus acres No wait, yes,
eighty two thousand acres has been burning in Santa Barbara
County and San Luis Obispo County. And I bring this
up for a reason. And there's also a news story coincidentally,
but we were up in Lake Arrawhead over the weekend
and I went out on I got a little motor boat.
(29:32):
So Sunday morning, I go out and I walk outside
and I smell smoke and I thought, oh, I was
a strong it's a strong smell of smoke. I started
burning right away. I felt it in my throat and
I went to my wife. I said, you smile it.
She goes outside, You go yeah. Called nine one one
and the lady on the phone goes, oh, that that's
(29:53):
the Gifford fire. My life goes, well, what's the Gifford fire? Well,
I don't know, Well where is it? Why know, we're
busy here, I don't have time to see where it is.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I think.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You know, if you said it was I don't know,
the Big Bear fire, right, or the San Bernardino fire,
the Helmet fire, the Studio city fire.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Right, then we know right away how far away it is,
because this was important.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Is it on top of us or is it smoke
blowing from one hundred miles away, which is what it was.
There must have been some strong westerly or easterly flow
from west to.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
East, and.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I I'm thinking, why do they insist on doing this?
I was fighting with people in the news department too.
They latch onto the official name of the fire, and
they name it after I don't know a local canyon
or a gully or a road.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
It's like, no, no, pick the town.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Because if I hear it's you know the uh, you know,
the Crestline fire, then I know, Oh my goodness, well
I'm an arrowhead. That's only a few miles away. I
got to get out of here, right here. It's a
Gifferd fires one hundred miles away. Do you what's wrong
with you? And then New York Times has a story
about this Gifford fire because now that it's fire season,
(31:17):
and it's always fire season in August right every year,
the usual suspects in the media are ask climate change,
and our studies are okay, sit down, it's that climate change.
Because the New York Times found out the fire began
Friday afternoon in the Santa Barbara County area. Started as
(31:38):
four smaller fires along a Highway one sixty six. Four
small fires merged and they were burning on both sides
of the road. Now, if you hear that there's four
small fires burning in the same area on both sides
of Highway one sixty six, what does that tell you?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Could be a crazy guy.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Could be a crazy guy, an arsonist who's starting the fires,
which has nothing to do with climate change. It has
to do with a crazy guy who probably has a
long record and was never put away for well, it
was not put away for a long enough time. If
there's a guy starting fires out there, people know that
(32:22):
he's nuts and he's probably done bad things in the past.
They usually this is a lifetime obsession they have, but
it was. It was eighty two thousand acres as of
yesterday morning, and it was threatening. Eight hundred structures went
through part of San Luis, Pispo and Santa Barbara counties.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But call it that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Called Highway one sixty six fires, just something so geographically
we could figure.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
This out.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And then stop putting in your climate change prayers at
every report, climate change does not start four small, separate
fires along a short distance of the same highway if.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You scroll down enough.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
In the New York Times article, they admit that ninety
percent of fires are started by humans. Ninety percent. That's
not climate change. That's stupid psychotic human beings who should
be put away.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
But we don't see.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You know, hundreds of years ago, before this deviant species
was wandering the planet, fires would mostly start around here
from lightning strikes, but now it's mostly US.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Says.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Fires that begin near roads are often caused by cars
or discarded cigarettes, or campfires or the arsonists, trailer chains
or if you have a junk car and your muffler's dragging,
that'll cause sparks, brakes that have worn thin, same thing
(34:09):
under inflated tires might cause cars to drive on exposed
wheel rims, so hot exhaust pipes, mufflers like I mentioned.
And I remember the one last year, and I think
it was an Orange county. They were doing some kind
(34:29):
of roadside construction project. They were picking up boulders and
moving them, and the scraping of the scooper, the metal
scraping of the scooper that started a huge fire. So
enough with the climate change, and enough with the absurd
names for the fires, so that you know immediately we
know if a fire is nearby or not. All right,
(34:50):
we come back. We're gonna have royal oaks. The House
Oversight Committee, James Comer is the chairman. He issued a
wide array of subpoenas members of the Trump administration, to
the Bill and Hillary Clinton, and it seems everybody in between.
It's coming up next. Steber Mark live in the CAFI
twenty for our newsroom.
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