August 28, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (08/28) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about how Newsom is getting tougher on crime. Pres. Trump and Newsom continue to verbally spar. Newsom doesn't believe there will be an election in 2028.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can'f I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt this week. Good
to have you along with US Governor Gavin Newsom today
announced the next phase of his crime fighting efforts. He's
now deploying a new CHP crime Suppression team to work
directly with local law enforcement in Los Angeles, also San Diego,
the Ie Central Valley, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So Newsom getting tough on crime.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Michael Monks from the KFI newsroom, He's been covering this, Michael,
what's going on here? A new revelation that there's a
crime problem in California.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Hey, good afternoon, Lou.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I think the governor would disagree with your characterization, and
he would also have anticipated this characterization. You could tell
he came prepared to counter any type of narratives that
may dispel or dispute what he is trying to present here.
What he's saying is this is not a new effort,
these crime suppression teams. He's saying that we started this
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last year. We've already tried these in three regions. Bakersfield,
San Bernardino, Oakland. He says that these crime suppression teams,
which is made up of California Highway Patrol officers who
work with local law enforcement agents, they've made nine thousand arrests,
fifty eight hundred stolen vehicles have been recovered, they've confiscated
a whole bunch of illegal firearms.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And now what he's saying is our crime stats.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Are down lou because of these efforts, but there's always
more work to do, and that's why he identified these
additional regions today.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And it's just a coincidence that it has coincided with
the President's decision to take over the Federal City under
his authority, not to the Federal City completely, but just
the police department.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And get tough on crime. That just is happening as
a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Why it's happening in relation to the President's policies, you
might have to leave that up to thement governor to explain,
but I think you're probably wise to acknowledge that yourself,
because we can all see with our own eyes that
Governor Newsom has become quite obsessed with countering the messaging
that's coming from the White House.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I mean, this is a rivalry that is only intensified.
Even by the hour.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You see a constant stream of social media posts from
this governor trying to counter or even aggressively troll what
the White House is saying. He came to this presentation
today with not just a message that he's already been
tough on crime and he's only getting tougher on it,
but to say, some of the folks like the President,
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like Speaker Mike Johnson, who are heavily critical of California
and its crime situation. They're presiding over areas or are
popular in areas that have higher crime rates.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Let's hear what the governor had to say, but.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I should note just on that if he is to
invest in crime suppression, I hope the President of States
would look at the facts just considered Speaker Johnson's state
and district. Just look at the murder rate that's nearly
four times higher than California's. In Louisiana, the Speaker Johnson
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four x higher. I'm just offering this again. You're not
seeing this on Fox News, so President may not be
familiar with these facts. So I want to present some
facts to the President United States and imagine this is
alarming to the President to learn these facts, particularly Speaker Johnson,
who's been such a strong partner an ally in these efforts.
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So the carnage in Louisiana as well, defined.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
The carnage in Louisiana, lou is what he highlighted today,
and I'll tell you this. The press release that came
out after the press conference goes even further. He lists
all of these states, most of them would be considered
red states because of the way they voted in the
last presidential election, in recent presidential election, and shows that
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their murder rates are significantly higher than California's according to
data that he cites from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You know, this is an interesting strategy that he has,
and you're right, there is a there's a one upsmanship
almost hourly between President Trump and Governor Gavin Newsom on
these things. But Newsom's also doing it with other governors.
Whenever another governor touts, you know, their their their state,
whatever whatever it is that they're touting, the Newsom press
team wants to go in there and challenge it. It's
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just do you know anybody that has left Louisiana because
it's just so crime ridden, and they move to East LA. Like,
is there anybody that has moved from New Orleans and
decided to move to San Francisco and leave their car unlocked?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I mean, it's just frankly unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
People are well aware, not just here in California, not
just in our major cities like Los Angeles, that we
have a crime problem. I never heard from anybody saying
we're getting the hell out of New Orleans because I'll
tell you what, we need to move to Franklin, Tennessee,
because I'm getting my car broken into all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Like, you just don't hear these stories.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And yet he's making it sound like, you know, it's
mogadishue down there in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, but I just don't know that it sells.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And what you're hearing from the critics of Newsom in
California more generally is that it's mogadishue here. And so
it's really a battle of narratives and choosing which statistics
are important. In this instance, the governor is citing the
homicide rate in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, South Carolina, Missouri, Georgia,
sec country. Basically he's taking aim at today saying that
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their murder rate is one, two, three, and four times
higher than what it is in California.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But then, on the other hand, it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Is statistically provable to say California is losing population. You
can look at polls that site people are leaving California
because of their concern about crime or taxation, which is
also statistically provable. That you can show that it is
more expensive to live, to do business, to breathe in
Los Angeles and in California more generally than it is
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in some of these other places. So regardless of which
side you fall on, there are statistics that can back
up your claims. And that's why we are seeing a
focus on narrative and that the narrative battle has gotten
to a point of of course, childishness. The President is
well known for his trolling online. Governor Newsom is just
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looking to meet him where he is and Lou that's
the state of our politics today, no.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Question about it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And as transparent as it looks to me, the reality
is and political analysts have confirmed this.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's working for Newsom. I mean, this is raising his star.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He now looks on par with respect to President Trumps
as a counter argument over public safety, a counter arguments
for crime. Now that it might fall flat for me
who live in southern California, but for the rest of
the nation, which I think Governor Newsom is talking to.
He's not talking to people in Los Angeles that got
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their car broken into last night. He's talking to people
in Iowa who are saved and are wondering, is it
really you know, maybe he's right. I mean, maybe crime
is four times higher in Baltimore, Maryland, or Birmingham, Alabama
than it is in San Francisco. And that narrative fight
I think works for Newsom because it elevates him.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think what's happening is anytime the political party, Democrats
or Republicans lose the White House, you have some disenchantment.
You have some disaffection from folks who are looking for
a new champion to move away from the person that
lost that election. They need somebody that can make them
feel good about themselves again. And so the old message
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that we had heard a lot from the Democratic Party,
when they go low, we go high, that is clearly
out the window now. And Governor Newsom has picked up
the baton and said, when they go low, let's go
lower until we hit rock bottom.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So rather than having somebody.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Who lives in Louisiana, for example, look at California and say,
they're also Americans, what can we do together to fix
whatever situation we see that is so bad for folks there,
And on the other hand, having Californians look at people
in Louisiana and say, this murder rate or other issues
are problems here.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What can we do as Americans to help one another?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It has become what I think you might have referenced
to either earlier today or yesterday, that there's this cold
civil war taking place and the rivalries extend now beyond
the president and governors to just everyday citizens that want
to do one upsmanship against each other.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
States Michael Monks from the KFI newsroom, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Appreciate you are giving us the update on the press
conference today. All right, the Crime Suppression Team chp LED
Crime Suppression Team will share with you more of the
details from the news and press conference earlier today. That's
coming up next. It's the John Cobbalt Show. Louke Penrose
sitting of a John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
You're listening to John cobelt Man from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
California governoravenusm getting tough on crime, but he says he's
always been tough on crime.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
This is just the next phase of his crime fighting efforts.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He said, crime is dropping statewide, so what I am
doing is very successful.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So I'm announcing today to.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That we are redoubling our efforts, deploying a new CHP
crime Suppression team to work directly with local law enforcement
in Los Angeles, San Diego, the Ie, Sacramento, San Francisco,
Central Valley, everywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
He wants to be the crime fighting governor.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
A building on the success that is now included over
nine thousand arrests statewide, an effort that will now take
shape on border division.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Border division.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Wait a minute, wait nine thousand arrests statewide? Like there's
been nine hundred arrests in the last two weeks since
President Trump brought in the National Guard in Washington, DC.
So nine thousand arrests since when, Like, since you've been
governor since you've been in public office. That's not very useful.
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It's a big number.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Or is it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Still a lot of crime out there? And what is this?
Now you're gonna work with.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
The border effort that will now take shape on border division.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Border division?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh my goodness, you mean to tell me that you
believe it's okay for the California Highway Patrol, which has
nothing to do with the border patrol.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Remember we were always told, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
The immigrations of national federal issue, immigrations of federal issue,
immigrations a federal issue. We don't have the resources that
it's the federal government. We shouldn't have to deal with
immigration status. We shouldn't have to deal with the legal
aliens and putting them in our jails. That's a federal issue.
And the only way to solve that issue is bi
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partisan immigration reform. Don't you know, a wall that's nothing,
not gonna stop anything. You need bipartisan immigration reform, and
we don't do immigration.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That's a federal issue.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Now he's announcing and deploying the CHP, which is highway
to work with the border and local police department.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I had no idea that law enforcement agencies could work together.
I thought that wasn't allowed. You know how, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement. So if CHP and the Border Patrol and
the local law enforcement in Los Angeles can work together
to fight crime, why can't Immigration and Customs Enforcement and
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the Los Angeles Police Department work together?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh, that's no good. Cant have that?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Can the National Guard protect the ICE agents around the
Federal building? No, that militarizes things. What's the difference. They're
just good guys with guns. It has to be this way.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Effort that will now take shape on border division down
in San Diego. We're going to advance this effort down
in LA to other parts of the central Valley, not
just limited to Bakersfield in San Bernardino.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Sounds like crime is everywhere?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Is it me?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Or does it sound like the entire state is crime ridden?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I mean it sounds like he's going everywhere up down sideways,
central Valley, all the way down.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I like how it's down to Los Angeles that speaks.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Volumes down in San Diego.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
We're going to advance this effort down in LA to
other parts of the central Valley, not just limited to Bakersfield.
In San Bernardino and we're going to expand this operation
in a collaborative that continues to include the cities and counties.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
All right, So city law enforcement, county law enforcement, state
law enforcement, with the.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
CHP Border Patrol.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Everybody's working together to fight crime. That's what crime fighter
Gaven Newsom is all about. Now, this was an interesting
question the reporter today, and I think that reporter annoyed
him because they wrapped it all up. I always, as
somebody that worked for elected officials and helped coordinate press conferences,
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there is a beginning, in a middle, and an end
to every press conference, and so you have to know
when enough's enough, and when really enough's enough, when all
the pertinent information has been.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Like distributed, either by virtue of.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The statements or by the Q and A, you don't
want to just go on and on and on about other things.
And then some reporters starts asking you about other stuff,
redistricting and auto Schwarzenegger, and it's like, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's enough, press conference over.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
But I don't think the press conference was ready to
be wrapped up when the reporter asked this question, and
it clearly annoyed Governor Newsom, And it was a pretty
simple question. The reporter asked, well, you're deploying all of
these special crime suppression teams all over the state, and
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it's a big state, and you're going everywhere. Do you
think crime is a problem in California? Or has crime
been solved in California? What's going on?
Speaker 9 (14:36):
Do you believe that crime is a problem in California
or not?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Do you believe crime is a problem in California or not?
Because he talks about redoubling the efforts on the already
nine thousand arrests, So like, there's never not going to
be crime.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I get that, just like how this never not going
to be unemployment?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
But we do use rules of thumb in macroeconomics. We
consider four percent unemployment to be full employment. Now, that
doesn't help you if you're out of a job, but
by and large, there is some working number that most
economists will use. Let's say, at any given time, somebody
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is out of the workforce because they're having a child.
At any given time, somebody's out of the workforce because
they stop to go back to school. Uh, they are
taking some time off, they are on sabbatical, they got fired,
and they're still looking for a job.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Living on their savings.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
At any given time, there's about four percent of Americans
that are in the workforce that are out of the
workforce that you know, that are that are that are
that want to be in the workforce, workforce participation any
given time, there's always gonna be a four percent of
of a churn. So therefore we consider they say four
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percent unemployment as full employment. All right, you could argue
it should be three percent, it should be five percent,
it's got to be zero percent, but they'll never not
be somebody in between jobs at any given time.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
But we're moving along a line here, so you have
to measure it. Same thing with crime. What's zero crime rate?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Nobody did anything wrong, including jaywalking at yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
No, obviously there's got to.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Be a number of crimes committed that is so low
that crime is not a problem. That we have a
manageable crime rate. And that really is a fair question.
Number one, Governor, what do you consider.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That Number two be?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Like in Washington, DC, they haven't had a homicide in
seven straight days and it's the first time that's happened
in like forever.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That sounds pretty good. Like zero homicides Now I get it.
DC is like seven hundred thousand people and we're like
thirty nine million people. But you know, you do one act,
which is bringing the National Guard, and the next thing,
you know, hamisad rate goes to zero.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's a that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
So it's a fair question, governor, what what do you
consider to be uh, we have a problem or not?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
You believe that crime is a problem in health when
you're not well?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
So, curious question.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
What's going on there? One Mississippi, two, Mississippi, three, Mississippi.
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
You believe that crime is a problem in health when
you're not.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
One one thousand, two, one thousand, three, one.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Thousand, curious question.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
I made the entire point that crime is an issue
and we want to tackle it, and we continue.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
To do more in that space, and we announced and
highlighted some of the expansion.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What is not contradictory, Yes, just really threw them off,
and then of course it's like all right, that's the
end of the press Commons. Everybody, thanks so much, Thanks
so much, everybody, Thank you, thank you, thank you. Lou
Penrose if John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
All this week, California Governor Gavenusen getting tough on crime,
announcing today the next phase of his crime fighting efforts,
which is partnership between agencies.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Imagine such a thing.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Come on, LUI, you know what the hell Gavin's doing.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
He's lying about numbers and anything news he wants to say.
I hear you well, our governor would know if you
can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh I'll
tell you what wasn't now Paul Don some time ago
talking about California, just stop calling the police.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They don't respond, So of course you're crown ray is
going to drop, but not really.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, but I think that was back in the boys
in the Hood days. I think people are calling the police.
I mean, I would urge you to call the police.
You're not going to get anything back, but at least
they can make a report. But I appreciate the call.
It is a NonStop back and forth as KFI News,
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as Michael Monks said, they are almost it was daily.
Now it's almost hourly that they're taking shots at each other,
back and forth and back and forth. Yesterday, Newsome was
part of a political discussion hosted by Politico Political oh,
which is an online political news organization that sends out emails,
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and they invited into.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Talk and he went tough on the President.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Because I seen the damage firsthand to communities, this economy,
our reputation, to our allies, the world we're trying to build.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
This is simply.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
The most destructive and damaging individual in my lifetime that
happens a the president of the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Wow, so they're not friends anymore. The political divorce has
taken place destructive to the world we're trying to build.
I would agree with that. I think the world, and
I think he means the country we're trying to build.
I don't know that Newsom is running for the president
of the UN, but you're correct. The American society that
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Newsom is trying to build, if you look at the
model here in California, is very different than the American
society that Trump is trying to build. Trump is trying
to build a society where there is zero homicides for
seven straight days. Newsom is telling you and again doubled down.
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He doubled down on it today that there are there's
no problem with crime in California. Uh and to prove
that on dispatching a CHP run crime suppression team and
dispatching them to San Diego, Los Angeles, the Ie, the
Central Valley, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area to
continue to have no crime to fight because crime is
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not a problem. Hit that reporter's question again, that was
really good. He had a hard time. He couldn't answer
that question because it would that's a very think about it.
It's a very difficult question for him to answer. He's
been saying how good our crime numbers are and what
a third world hell hole Louisiana is when it comes
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to murder. Everybody's getting murdered. There's so many people being
murdered in Louisiana. Why there's nobody left? I mean, if
the murder rate of Louisiana is four times out of California,
there's not going to be any people there, which means
I'm booking my tickets for Marti grob because Bourbon Street
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will be very, very open. Like it's frankly unbelievable that
the murder rate in Louisiana is four times that of
of California. If you don't, you know, play with numbers.
Now we know how this works. In the major cities
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that are often governed by democrats.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
In red states, you have higher crimes.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Now you have higher crimes where cities are because that's
where stuff is. It's no good for a criminal to
go out in the middle of a cornfield. It is
good for a criminal if they're going to steal stuff
to go to Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Same thing with Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
If you are an assailant or a carjacker, no fun
being out, you know, in the in the middle of
the swamps of Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You got to go to New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
So a red state will have a blue city and
that's where all the crime takes place. Alabama pretty safe place.
You don't want to be doing any breaking and entering
in Alabama, I'll.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Tell you what.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
But you go to Birmingham and the sun goes down,
you're lucky to make it the next day.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
A lot.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So that's what's happening. You have these red states with
blue cities with higher crime rates.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And the governor's trying to play with numbers.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So it's always fun when Trump reacts to Newsom when
he doesn't have to, always taking a swipe out of him.
Speaker 11 (23:19):
You have an incompetent governor in California.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, he's a guy.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
I know very well.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
He's in competence. He's a nice guy, looks good. Hi everybody,
how you doing. He's got some strange hand action going.
I don't know what the hell's problem. It's weird, to
be honest, it's little something shaking going on there. But
you know, PAULI has to just call me and saying,
we have the Olympics coming up.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
We want to make it really good and safe.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now, you gotta admit that's funny. That is funny because.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Newsom does have these weird hand and arm gestures when
he's sitting in a chair and he's on a podcast.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Which he always is these days.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
He's always on a post cast in a chair or
on a chair on a riser for some political forum
or appearing on somebody else's podcast, and he does this
weird thing where he puts his hands together, palm to palm,
like he's praying, but he's like digging with the with
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the two hands together, like digging.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Left and digging right.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
But he's got his elbows really close too, so almost
it's like from the tip of his fingers palm to palm,
all the way down to the elbows touching each other.
And like this, this double bone straight appendage is just
moving around.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You've seen it. If you haven't seen it, you're not
watching it. And that's the governor. Now.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I will say this, this strategy might work. This idea
that California is the safest place, way safer than Louisiana,
way safer than anywhere else, safest place in the world,
safer than the Texas, safer than Florida, better than everybody.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
This strategy might work if you're.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Running for president, because I remind you he's not talking
to you and me.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
We live here.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
We have had our cars broken into, We've had to
deal with homeless people stepping over hypodermic needles, right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
We've had to deal with this.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Most Americans have never visited California, and most Americans and
most American voters will never visit California. The only California
most Americans ever see they see on TV.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
They see in TV.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Shows and as you know, La looks great in sitcoms.
It looks great in dramas, it looks great on TV.
And when there are live shots of Los Angeles. The
only time that any other American sees LA is during
a Dodger game, and those long shots of Dodger Stadium
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looks fantastic. Los Angeles looks beautiful. It's a good look
at city. Same thing with the forty nine Ers game
Levi Stadium. My youngest, a huge forty nine Er fan,
got like four or five George Kittle jerseys, and you know,
we watched the forty nine Ers game and it looks
so great.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I've been there.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Like, if you pan out just five feet from the
entrance of Levi Stadium, you'll find sixteen homeless people go
into the restroom right by the entrance.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But they don't.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
They got these tight shots of the entry going into
Levi Stadium. Uh, we're gonna face off tonight against you know,
the next team. So most Americans see a very different
California than you and I live in, and that vision
of California will never be challenged in their mind because
they'll never ever be here. We could say, oh News,
I'm lying, man, it's really really bad on Hollywood Boulevard.
(26:53):
Most Americans think starlet's walk up and down Hollywood Boulevard.
You're gonna run into Jennifer Anison, You're going to run
into a Kardashian.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Now, what you're going to run into is a homeless person.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
So for Newsom, this strategy of perpetuating a false narrative
might just work.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
We'll see where he takes it next.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
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California Governor Gavin Newsom announcing today the next phase of
his crime fighting efforts. No question that he is reacting
to the surging poll numbers that President Trump is getting
on the issue of fighting crime, law and order.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
Gavin Newsom pretends to be tough on crime, that is
Lieutenant governor. In twenty fourteen, he supported Prop forty seven,
and last year was very vocal about defeating Prop thirty six.
Now that the voters who are sick of crime here
in California and yet past Prop thirty six. He's refusing
to defend it.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
He's a joker. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
There is no question that we are seeing successes with
respect to public safety in other parts of the country
and want it here. For California, the governor is out
there arguing with other governors who are seeing decreases in
crime rates and saying, you guys are terrible at fighting crime.
(28:29):
Everybody's getting murdered in your state. We're much safer here
in California. What are you talking about? And we here
are shaking our heads saying, who is he talking to?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Why? Even if he's right.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Let's say the statistics are absolutely right. It's not just
blue cities and red states. It's everywhere. In every corner
of Alabama, in every corner of Louisiana, there's just people
murdering everybody. There's nothing going on but murder, homicide, all day,
every day, not just in Birmingham, not just New Orleans,
just NonStop, NonStop murder. And nobody's getting murdered here.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's just not happening. Why doesn't it seem like it
Like when.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Was the last time you got up walked out of
your house or your apartment walked to your car and said, boy,
I've never felt safer.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
It's the same with these statistics about you.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Know, we're the fourth largest economy in the world, and
now I think we're the third. That I just read
today that we surpassed Japan. Eventually California will be the
largest economy in the world, like the best.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
We're the best business place.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Everybody's got a job, everybody's got so much money, salaries,
wages is going up, Inflation is under control, unbelievable. All
the companies are moving here, everybody's hiring, everybody's.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Got so much money. My goodness, California is the number
one GDP.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Like, eventually it'll get that at the rate we're going,
And I think, why doesn't it feel like it, Like
I see these pictures of Japan, and I don't see
any spray.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Paint in Tokyo. I don't see homeless people lying around.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
People seem to be busily going to work or busily
going home to their family. So we surpassed Japan as
the you know, I think from four to three.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But like, you know, it's still kind of a rough town.
But jeez, was that Gavin Newsom talking or RFK? I
don't know. Yeah, a little gravelly voice going on there
with Gavin.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
The governor does not care about crime, but he's forced
into this position to pretend he cares, because when we
all know he's closing prisons, letting prisoners out, avoiding you know,
propositions that will put criminals back in jail, he doesn't
act like that happens.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
He acts like it's all good.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
But when Trump just simply calls out the mistakes and
the blatant crime, he has to respond. He has no choice,
and then he does the bare minimum and acts like
he's a hero.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Well, I don't know that he's acting like a hero,
and I don't know that this is the bare minimum.
I don't know what the CHP Crime Suppression Team is
going to do if crime is under control in all
our major cities, Like it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Can't be both ways. He said that he's doubling down
on the success that we've had.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
A building on the success that is now included over
nine thousand arrests.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Nine thousand. That's great.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
So it's safe then to leave my car in San
Francisco as I run in, you know, to do you
know anybody that's renting a car in San Francisco. That
hasn't everybody I know knows somebody that rented a car
in San Francisco and had their windows smashed within hours.
Friend of mine had to go up there for a meeting,
(31:52):
rented a car, like, just had to run in for
a second, came out, laptop was stolen. Winnow was smashed,
laptop was stolen, brief case with stolen and everything else
in the car.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Took the rental car to a.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Window place a line of people that also just rented cars.
Like that's the reality that you and I know. And
the governor's just basically trying to gas land. There's no
question about it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Right now, he'll say whatever it takes every day, something
different to get elected president.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
He becomes a president in.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Twenty twenty eight, or any other Democrat, it'll be back
to Joe Biden two point zero.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No, I don't want that.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Speaking of running for president, he's also convinced. Now I
don't know if this is gas lighting. I don't know
if it is Trump arrangement syndrome. I don't know what's
going on. He's convinced that President Trump is running in
twenty twenty eight. Well, he said both yesterday at the
political conference, he said there won't be an election.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Now, who was the last part?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Was it Robert de Niro who said that if Trump
is president, there'll be no more elections. So now Newsom's
on the de Niro train that all the elections are
going to be over like, there's no more elections.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
And I don't know is that presidential elections? What the
House elections?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
The House are elected every two years, the president every
four years, and the Senate every six years. Then there's
you know, state and local elections, city council, board of supervisors,
school board which elections. No, no elections, And that Trump
is certainly going to run in twenty twenty eight because
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President Trump sent him a Trump twenty twenty eight hat.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I don't think Donald Trump wants another election.
Speaker 8 (33:41):
You think for a second you want I have two
dozen Trump twenty twenty eight hats.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
His folks keep sending me.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Now that's interesting. Is the crowd laughing at the governor?
Is he laughing at the governor's feigned outrage or is
it actual outraged. I can't tell. The governor goes from
goofing around being chummy with Trump, you know, respecting Trump,
to not respecting him hating him. He's a dictator. He's
(34:17):
gonna end all the elections. So when Trump sends him
a hat or his team and I guess they send
him a hat a dozen times, it sounds like he's
really mad about it.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
I have two dozen Trump twenty twenty eight hats. His
folks keep sending me.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, so that's bad comedy set up there.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I don't know if that was supposed to be a
laugh line because there's a long pause.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
His folks keep.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Sending me, and you think he's gonna run again.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
They don't give me. You know who spends two hundred
million dollars on a ballroom at their home and then
leaves the house.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
All right, So that's the rationale.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Because Trump has made some improvements to the Rose Garden
to put an outside co to be able to use
the space. That's proof that Trump's either running again or
never going.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
To leave the White House. There you go. That's the
latest from California Governor Avenue.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
So all right, when we get back, we'll get into
this CDC director, another federal a person, an employee who
got fired but still won't leave.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's the swamp that's coming up next.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Lou Penrose in for John Coblt on KFI AM six
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You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
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Speaker 3 (00:06):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt this week. Good
to have you along with US Governor Gavin Newsom today
announced the next phase of his crime fighting efforts. He's
now deploying a new CHP crime Suppression team to work
directly with local law enforcement in Los Angeles, also San Diego,
the Ie Central Valley, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So Newsom getting tough on crime.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Michael Monks from the KFI newsroom, He's been covering this, Michael,
what's going on here? A new revelation that there's a
crime problem in California.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Hey, good afternoon, Lou.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I think the governor would disagree with your characterization, and
he would also have anticipated this characterization. You could tell
he came prepared to counter any type of narratives that
may dispel or dispute what he is trying to present here.
What he's saying is this is not a new effort,
these crime suppression teams. He's saying that we started this
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last year. We've already tried these in three regions. Bakersfield,
San Bernardino, Oakland. He says that these crime suppression teams,
which is made up of California Highway Patrol officers who
work with local law enforcement agents, they've made nine thousand arrests,
fifty eight hundred stolen vehicles have been recovered, they've confiscated
a whole bunch of illegal firearms.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And now what he's saying is our crime stats.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Are down lou because of these efforts, but there's always
more work to do, and that's why he identified these
additional regions today.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And it's just a coincidence that it has coincided with
the President's decision to take over the Federal City under
his authority, not to the Federal City completely, but just
the police department.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And get tough on crime. That just is happening as
a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Why it's happening in relation to the President's policies, you
might have to leave that up to thement governor to explain,
but I think you're probably wise to acknowledge that yourself,
because we can all see with our own eyes that
Governor Newsom has become quite obsessed with countering the messaging
that's coming from the White House.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I mean, this is a rivalry that is only intensified.
Even by the hour.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You see a constant stream of social media posts from
this governor trying to counter or even aggressively troll what
the White House is saying. He came to this presentation
today with not just a message that he's already been
tough on crime and he's only getting tougher on it,
but to say, some of the folks like the President,
(02:37):
like Speaker Mike Johnson, who are heavily critical of California
and its crime situation. They're presiding over areas or are
popular in areas that have higher crime rates.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Let's hear what the governor had to say, but.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I should note just on that if he is to
invest in crime suppression, I hope the President of States
would look at the facts just considered Speaker Johnson's state
and district. Just look at the murder rate that's nearly
four times higher than California's. In Louisiana, the Speaker Johnson
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four x higher. I'm just offering this again. You're not
seeing this on Fox News, so President may not be
familiar with these facts. So I want to present some
facts to the President United States and imagine this is
alarming to the President to learn these facts, particularly Speaker Johnson,
who's been such a strong partner an ally in these efforts.
(03:37):
So the carnage in Louisiana as well, defined.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
The carnage in Louisiana, lou is what he highlighted today,
and I'll tell you this. The press release that came
out after the press conference goes even further. He lists
all of these states, most of them would be considered
red states because of the way they voted in the
last presidential election, in recent presidential election, and shows that
(04:01):
their murder rates are significantly higher than California's according to
data that he cites from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You know, this is an interesting strategy that he has,
and you're right, there is a there's a one upsmanship
almost hourly between President Trump and Governor Gavin Newsom on
these things. But Newsom's also doing it with other governors.
Whenever another governor touts, you know, their their their state,
whatever whatever it is that they're touting, the Newsom press
team wants to go in there and challenge it. It's
(04:31):
just do you know anybody that has left Louisiana because
it's just so crime ridden, and they move to East LA. Like,
is there anybody that has moved from New Orleans and
decided to move to San Francisco and leave their car unlocked?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I mean, it's just frankly unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
People are well aware, not just here in California, not
just in our major cities like Los Angeles, that we
have a crime problem. I never heard from anybody saying
we're getting the hell out of New Orleans because I'll
tell you what, we need to move to Franklin, Tennessee,
because I'm getting my car broken into all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Like, you just don't hear these stories.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And yet he's making it sound like, you know, it's
mogadishue down there in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, but I just don't know that it sells.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And what you're hearing from the critics of Newsom in
California more generally is that it's mogadishue here. And so
it's really a battle of narratives and choosing which statistics
are important. In this instance, the governor is citing the
homicide rate in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, South Carolina, Missouri, Georgia,
sec country. Basically he's taking aim at today saying that
(05:36):
their murder rate is one, two, three, and four times
higher than what it is in California.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But then, on the other hand, it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Is statistically provable to say California is losing population. You
can look at polls that site people are leaving California
because of their concern about crime or taxation, which is
also statistically provable. That you can show that it is
more expensive to live, to do business, to breathe in
Los Angeles and in California more generally than it is
(06:06):
in some of these other places. So regardless of which
side you fall on, there are statistics that can back
up your claims. And that's why we are seeing a
focus on narrative and that the narrative battle has gotten
to a point of of course, childishness. The President is
well known for his trolling online. Governor Newsom is just
(06:26):
looking to meet him where he is and Lou that's
the state of our politics today, no.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Question about it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And as transparent as it looks to me, the reality
is and political analysts have confirmed this.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's working for Newsom. I mean, this is raising his star.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He now looks on par with respect to President Trumps
as a counter argument over public safety, a counter arguments
for crime. Now that it might fall flat for me
who live in southern California, but for the rest of
the nation, which I think Governor Newsom is talking to.
He's not talking to people in Los Angeles that got
(07:04):
their car broken into last night. He's talking to people
in Iowa who are saved and are wondering, is it
really you know, maybe he's right. I mean, maybe crime
is four times higher in Baltimore, Maryland, or Birmingham, Alabama
than it is in San Francisco. And that narrative fight
I think works for Newsom because it elevates him.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think what's happening is anytime the political party, Democrats
or Republicans lose the White House, you have some disenchantment.
You have some disaffection from folks who are looking for
a new champion to move away from the person that
lost that election. They need somebody that can make them
feel good about themselves again. And so the old message
(07:44):
that we had heard a lot from the Democratic Party,
when they go low, we go high, that is clearly
out the window now. And Governor Newsom has picked up
the baton and said, when they go low, let's go
lower until we hit rock bottom.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So rather than having somebody.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Who lives in Louisiana, for example, look at California and say,
they're also Americans, what can we do together to fix
whatever situation we see that is so bad for folks there,
And on the other hand, having Californians look at people
in Louisiana and say, this murder rate or other issues
are problems here.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What can we do as Americans to help one another?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It has become what I think you might have referenced
to either earlier today or yesterday, that there's this cold
civil war taking place and the rivalries extend now beyond
the president and governors to just everyday citizens that want
to do one upsmanship against each other.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
States Michael Monks from the KFI newsroom, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Appreciate you are giving us the update on the press
conference today. All right, the Crime Suppression Team chp LED
Crime Suppression Team will share with you more of the
details from the news and press conference earlier today. That's
coming up next. It's the John Cobbalt Show. Louke Penrose
sitting of a John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
You're listening to John cobelt Man from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
California governoravenusm getting tough on crime, but he says he's
always been tough on crime.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
This is just the next phase of his crime fighting efforts.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He said, crime is dropping statewide, so what I am
doing is very successful.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So I'm announcing today to.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That we are redoubling our efforts, deploying a new CHP
crime Suppression team to work directly with local law enforcement
in Los Angeles, San Diego, the Ie, Sacramento, San Francisco,
Central Valley, everywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
He wants to be the crime fighting governor.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
A building on the success that is now included over
nine thousand arrests statewide, an effort that will now take
shape on border division.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Border division.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Wait a minute, wait nine thousand arrests statewide? Like there's
been nine hundred arrests in the last two weeks since
President Trump brought in the National Guard in Washington, DC.
So nine thousand arrests since when, Like, since you've been
governor since you've been in public office. That's not very useful.
(10:21):
It's a big number.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Or is it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Still a lot of crime out there? And what is this?
Now you're gonna work with.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
The border effort that will now take shape on border division.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Border division?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh my goodness, you mean to tell me that you
believe it's okay for the California Highway Patrol, which has
nothing to do with the border patrol.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Remember we were always told, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
The immigrations of national federal issue, immigrations of federal issue,
immigrations a federal issue. We don't have the resources that
it's the federal government. We shouldn't have to deal with
immigration status. We shouldn't have to deal with the legal
aliens and putting them in our jails. That's a federal issue.
And the only way to solve that issue is bi
(11:12):
partisan immigration reform. Don't you know, a wall that's nothing,
not gonna stop anything. You need bipartisan immigration reform, and
we don't do immigration.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That's a federal issue.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Now he's announcing and deploying the CHP, which is highway
to work with the border and local police department.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I had no idea that law enforcement agencies could work together.
I thought that wasn't allowed. You know how, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement. So if CHP and the Border Patrol and
the local law enforcement in Los Angeles can work together
to fight crime, why can't Immigration and Customs Enforcement and
(11:57):
the Los Angeles Police Department work together?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh, that's no good. Cant have that?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Can the National Guard protect the ICE agents around the
Federal building? No, that militarizes things. What's the difference. They're
just good guys with guns. It has to be this way.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Effort that will now take shape on border division down
in San Diego. We're going to advance this effort down
in LA to other parts of the central Valley, not
just limited to Bakersfield in San Bernardino.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Sounds like crime is everywhere?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Is it me?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Or does it sound like the entire state is crime ridden?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I mean it sounds like he's going everywhere up down sideways,
central Valley, all the way down.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I like how it's down to Los Angeles that speaks.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Volumes down in San Diego.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
We're going to advance this effort down in LA to
other parts of the central Valley, not just limited to Bakersfield.
In San Bernardino and we're going to expand this operation
in a collaborative that continues to include the cities and counties.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
All right, So city law enforcement, county law enforcement, state
law enforcement, with the.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
CHP Border Patrol.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Everybody's working together to fight crime. That's what crime fighter
Gaven Newsom is all about. Now, this was an interesting
question the reporter today, and I think that reporter annoyed
him because they wrapped it all up. I always, as
somebody that worked for elected officials and helped coordinate press conferences,
(13:37):
there is a beginning, in a middle, and an end
to every press conference, and so you have to know
when enough's enough, and when really enough's enough, when all
the pertinent information has been.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Like distributed, either by virtue of.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The statements or by the Q and A, you don't
want to just go on and on and on about other things.
And then some reporters starts asking you about other stuff,
redistricting and auto Schwarzenegger, and it's like, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's enough, press conference over.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
But I don't think the press conference was ready to
be wrapped up when the reporter asked this question, and
it clearly annoyed Governor Newsom, And it was a pretty
simple question. The reporter asked, well, you're deploying all of
these special crime suppression teams all over the state, and
(14:26):
it's a big state, and you're going everywhere. Do you
think crime is a problem in California? Or has crime
been solved in California? What's going on?
Speaker 9 (14:36):
Do you believe that crime is a problem in California
or not?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Do you believe crime is a problem in California or not?
Because he talks about redoubling the efforts on the already
nine thousand arrests, So like, there's never not going to
be crime.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I get that, just like how this never not going
to be unemployment?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
But we do use rules of thumb in macroeconomics. We
consider four percent unemployment to be full employment. Now, that
doesn't help you if you're out of a job, but
by and large, there is some working number that most
economists will use. Let's say, at any given time, somebody
(15:18):
is out of the workforce because they're having a child.
At any given time, somebody's out of the workforce because
they stop to go back to school. Uh, they are
taking some time off, they are on sabbatical, they got fired,
and they're still looking for a job.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Living on their savings.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
At any given time, there's about four percent of Americans
that are in the workforce that are out of the
workforce that you know, that are that are that are
that want to be in the workforce, workforce participation any
given time, there's always gonna be a four percent of
of a churn. So therefore we consider they say four
(15:56):
percent unemployment as full employment. All right, you could argue
it should be three percent, it should be five percent,
it's got to be zero percent, but they'll never not
be somebody in between jobs at any given time.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
But we're moving along a line here, so you have
to measure it. Same thing with crime. What's zero crime rate?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Nobody did anything wrong, including jaywalking at yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
No, obviously there's got to.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Be a number of crimes committed that is so low
that crime is not a problem. That we have a
manageable crime rate. And that really is a fair question.
Number one, Governor, what do you consider.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That Number two be?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Like in Washington, DC, they haven't had a homicide in
seven straight days and it's the first time that's happened
in like forever.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That sounds pretty good. Like zero homicides Now I get it.
DC is like seven hundred thousand people and we're like
thirty nine million people. But you know, you do one act,
which is bringing the National Guard, and the next thing,
you know, hamisad rate goes to zero.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's a that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
So it's a fair question, governor, what what do you
consider to be uh, we have a problem or not?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
You believe that crime is a problem in health when
you're not well?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
So, curious question.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
What's going on there? One Mississippi, two, Mississippi, three, Mississippi.
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
You believe that crime is a problem in health when
you're not.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
One one thousand, two, one thousand, three, one.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Thousand, curious question.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
I made the entire point that crime is an issue
and we want to tackle it, and we continue.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
To do more in that space, and we announced and
highlighted some of the expansion.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What is not contradictory, Yes, just really threw them off,
and then of course it's like all right, that's the
end of the press Commons. Everybody, thanks so much, Thanks
so much, everybody, Thank you, thank you, thank you. Lou
Penrose if John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
All this week, California Governor Gavenusen getting tough on crime,
announcing today the next phase of his crime fighting efforts,
which is partnership between agencies.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Imagine such a thing.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Come on, LUI, you know what the hell Gavin's doing.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
He's lying about numbers and anything news he wants to say.
I hear you well, our governor would know if you
can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh I'll
tell you what wasn't now Paul Don some time ago
talking about California, just stop calling the police.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They don't respond, So of course you're crown ray is
going to drop, but not really.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, but I think that was back in the boys
in the Hood days. I think people are calling the police.
I mean, I would urge you to call the police.
You're not going to get anything back, but at least
they can make a report. But I appreciate the call.
It is a NonStop back and forth as KFI News,
(19:12):
as Michael Monks said, they are almost it was daily.
Now it's almost hourly that they're taking shots at each other,
back and forth and back and forth. Yesterday, Newsome was
part of a political discussion hosted by Politico Political oh,
which is an online political news organization that sends out emails,
(19:38):
and they invited into.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Talk and he went tough on the President.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Because I seen the damage firsthand to communities, this economy,
our reputation, to our allies, the world we're trying to build.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
This is simply.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
The most destructive and damaging individual in my lifetime that
happens a the president of the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Wow, so they're not friends anymore. The political divorce has
taken place destructive to the world we're trying to build.
I would agree with that. I think the world, and
I think he means the country we're trying to build.
I don't know that Newsom is running for the president
of the UN, but you're correct. The American society that
(20:24):
Newsom is trying to build, if you look at the
model here in California, is very different than the American
society that Trump is trying to build. Trump is trying
to build a society where there is zero homicides for
seven straight days. Newsom is telling you and again doubled down.
(20:44):
He doubled down on it today that there are there's
no problem with crime in California. Uh and to prove
that on dispatching a CHP run crime suppression team and
dispatching them to San Diego, Los Angeles, the Ie, the
Central Valley, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area to
continue to have no crime to fight because crime is
(21:07):
not a problem. Hit that reporter's question again, that was
really good. He had a hard time. He couldn't answer
that question because it would that's a very think about it.
It's a very difficult question for him to answer. He's
been saying how good our crime numbers are and what
a third world hell hole Louisiana is when it comes
(21:28):
to murder. Everybody's getting murdered. There's so many people being
murdered in Louisiana. Why there's nobody left? I mean, if
the murder rate of Louisiana is four times out of California,
there's not going to be any people there, which means
I'm booking my tickets for Marti grob because Bourbon Street
(21:49):
will be very, very open. Like it's frankly unbelievable that
the murder rate in Louisiana is four times that of
of California. If you don't, you know, play with numbers.
Now we know how this works. In the major cities
(22:09):
that are often governed by democrats.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
In red states, you have higher crimes.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Now you have higher crimes where cities are because that's
where stuff is. It's no good for a criminal to
go out in the middle of a cornfield. It is
good for a criminal if they're going to steal stuff
to go to Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Same thing with Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
If you are an assailant or a carjacker, no fun
being out, you know, in the in the middle of
the swamps of Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You got to go to New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
So a red state will have a blue city and
that's where all the crime takes place. Alabama pretty safe place.
You don't want to be doing any breaking and entering
in Alabama, I'll.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Tell you what.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
But you go to Birmingham and the sun goes down,
you're lucky to make it the next day.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
A lot.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So that's what's happening. You have these red states with
blue cities with higher crime rates.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And the governor's trying to play with numbers.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So it's always fun when Trump reacts to Newsom when
he doesn't have to, always taking a swipe out of him.
Speaker 11 (23:19):
You have an incompetent governor in California.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, he's a guy.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
I know very well.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
He's in competence. He's a nice guy, looks good. Hi everybody,
how you doing. He's got some strange hand action going.
I don't know what the hell's problem. It's weird, to
be honest, it's little something shaking going on there. But
you know, PAULI has to just call me and saying,
we have the Olympics coming up.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
We want to make it really good and safe.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now, you gotta admit that's funny. That is funny because.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Newsom does have these weird hand and arm gestures when
he's sitting in a chair and he's on a podcast.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Which he always is these days.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
He's always on a post cast in a chair or
on a chair on a riser for some political forum
or appearing on somebody else's podcast, and he does this
weird thing where he puts his hands together, palm to palm,
like he's praying, but he's like digging with the with
(24:19):
the two hands together, like digging.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Left and digging right.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
But he's got his elbows really close too, so almost
it's like from the tip of his fingers palm to palm,
all the way down to the elbows touching each other.
And like this, this double bone straight appendage is just
moving around.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You've seen it. If you haven't seen it, you're not
watching it. And that's the governor. Now.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I will say this, this strategy might work. This idea
that California is the safest place, way safer than Louisiana,
way safer than anywhere else, safest place in the world,
safer than the Texas, safer than Florida, better than everybody.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
This strategy might work if you're.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Running for president, because I remind you he's not talking
to you and me.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
We live here.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
We have had our cars broken into, We've had to
deal with homeless people stepping over hypodermic needles, right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
We've had to deal with this.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Most Americans have never visited California, and most Americans and
most American voters will never visit California. The only California
most Americans ever see they see on TV.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
They see in TV.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Shows and as you know, La looks great in sitcoms.
It looks great in dramas, it looks great on TV.
And when there are live shots of Los Angeles. The
only time that any other American sees LA is during
a Dodger game, and those long shots of Dodger Stadium
(25:57):
looks fantastic. Los Angeles looks beautiful. It's a good look
at city. Same thing with the forty nine Ers game
Levi Stadium. My youngest, a huge forty nine Er fan,
got like four or five George Kittle jerseys, and you know,
we watched the forty nine Ers game and it looks
so great.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I've been there.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Like, if you pan out just five feet from the
entrance of Levi Stadium, you'll find sixteen homeless people go
into the restroom right by the entrance.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But they don't.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
They got these tight shots of the entry going into
Levi Stadium. Uh, we're gonna face off tonight against you know,
the next team. So most Americans see a very different
California than you and I live in, and that vision
of California will never be challenged in their mind because
they'll never ever be here. We could say, oh News,
I'm lying, man, it's really really bad on Hollywood Boulevard.
(26:53):
Most Americans think starlet's walk up and down Hollywood Boulevard.
You're gonna run into Jennifer Anison, You're going to run
into a Kardashian.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Now, what you're going to run into is a homeless person.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
So for Newsom, this strategy of perpetuating a false narrative
might just work.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
We'll see where he takes it next.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
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Speaker 6 (27:19):
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California Governor Gavin Newsom announcing today the next phase of
his crime fighting efforts. No question that he is reacting
to the surging poll numbers that President Trump is getting
on the issue of fighting crime, law and order.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
Gavin Newsom pretends to be tough on crime, that is
Lieutenant governor. In twenty fourteen, he supported Prop forty seven,
and last year was very vocal about defeating Prop thirty six.
Now that the voters who are sick of crime here
in California and yet past Prop thirty six. He's refusing
to defend it.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
He's a joker. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
There is no question that we are seeing successes with
respect to public safety in other parts of the country
and want it here. For California, the governor is out
there arguing with other governors who are seeing decreases in
crime rates and saying, you guys are terrible at fighting crime.
(28:29):
Everybody's getting murdered in your state. We're much safer here
in California. What are you talking about? And we here
are shaking our heads saying, who is he talking to?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Why? Even if he's right.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Let's say the statistics are absolutely right. It's not just
blue cities and red states. It's everywhere. In every corner
of Alabama, in every corner of Louisiana, there's just people
murdering everybody. There's nothing going on but murder, homicide, all day,
every day, not just in Birmingham, not just New Orleans,
just NonStop, NonStop murder. And nobody's getting murdered here.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's just not happening. Why doesn't it seem like it
Like when.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Was the last time you got up walked out of
your house or your apartment walked to your car and said, boy,
I've never felt safer.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
It's the same with these statistics about you.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Know, we're the fourth largest economy in the world, and
now I think we're the third. That I just read
today that we surpassed Japan. Eventually California will be the
largest economy in the world, like the best.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
We're the best business place.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Everybody's got a job, everybody's got so much money, salaries,
wages is going up, Inflation is under control, unbelievable. All
the companies are moving here, everybody's hiring, everybody's.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Got so much money. My goodness, California is the number
one GDP.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Like, eventually it'll get that at the rate we're going,
And I think, why doesn't it feel like it, Like
I see these pictures of Japan, and I don't see
any spray.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Paint in Tokyo. I don't see homeless people lying around.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
People seem to be busily going to work or busily
going home to their family. So we surpassed Japan as
the you know, I think from four to three.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But like, you know, it's still kind of a rough town.
But jeez, was that Gavin Newsom talking or RFK? I
don't know. Yeah, a little gravelly voice going on there
with Gavin.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
The governor does not care about crime, but he's forced
into this position to pretend he cares, because when we
all know he's closing prisons, letting prisoners out, avoiding you know,
propositions that will put criminals back in jail, he doesn't
act like that happens.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
He acts like it's all good.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
But when Trump just simply calls out the mistakes and
the blatant crime, he has to respond. He has no choice,
and then he does the bare minimum and acts like
he's a hero.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Well, I don't know that he's acting like a hero,
and I don't know that this is the bare minimum.
I don't know what the CHP Crime Suppression Team is
going to do if crime is under control in all
our major cities, Like it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Can't be both ways. He said that he's doubling down
on the success that we've had.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
A building on the success that is now included over
nine thousand arrests.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Nine thousand. That's great.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
So it's safe then to leave my car in San
Francisco as I run in, you know, to do you
know anybody that's renting a car in San Francisco. That
hasn't everybody I know knows somebody that rented a car
in San Francisco and had their windows smashed within hours.
Friend of mine had to go up there for a meeting,
(31:52):
rented a car, like, just had to run in for
a second, came out, laptop was stolen. Winnow was smashed,
laptop was stolen, brief case with stolen and everything else
in the car.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Took the rental car to a.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Window place a line of people that also just rented cars.
Like that's the reality that you and I know. And
the governor's just basically trying to gas land. There's no
question about it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Right now, he'll say whatever it takes every day, something
different to get elected president.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
He becomes a president in.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Twenty twenty eight, or any other Democrat, it'll be back
to Joe Biden two point zero.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No, I don't want that.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Speaking of running for president, he's also convinced. Now I
don't know if this is gas lighting. I don't know
if it is Trump arrangement syndrome. I don't know what's
going on. He's convinced that President Trump is running in
twenty twenty eight. Well, he said both yesterday at the
political conference, he said there won't be an election.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Now, who was the last part?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Was it Robert de Niro who said that if Trump
is president, there'll be no more elections. So now Newsom's
on the de Niro train that all the elections are
going to be over like, there's no more elections.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
And I don't know is that presidential elections? What the
House elections?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
The House are elected every two years, the president every
four years, and the Senate every six years. Then there's
you know, state and local elections, city council, board of supervisors,
school board which elections. No, no elections, And that Trump
is certainly going to run in twenty twenty eight because
(33:33):
President Trump sent him a Trump twenty twenty eight hat.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I don't think Donald Trump wants another election.
Speaker 8 (33:41):
You think for a second you want I have two
dozen Trump twenty twenty eight hats.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
His folks keep sending me.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Now that's interesting. Is the crowd laughing at the governor?
Is he laughing at the governor's feigned outrage or is
it actual outraged. I can't tell. The governor goes from
goofing around being chummy with Trump, you know, respecting Trump,
to not respecting him hating him. He's a dictator. He's
(34:17):
gonna end all the elections. So when Trump sends him
a hat or his team and I guess they send
him a hat a dozen times, it sounds like he's
really mad about it.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
I have two dozen Trump twenty twenty eight hats. His
folks keep sending me.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, so that's bad comedy set up there.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I don't know if that was supposed to be a
laugh line because there's a long pause.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
His folks keep.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Sending me, and you think he's gonna run again.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
They don't give me. You know who spends two hundred
million dollars on a ballroom at their home and then
leaves the house.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
All right, So that's the rationale.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Because Trump has made some improvements to the Rose Garden
to put an outside co to be able to use
the space. That's proof that Trump's either running again or
never going.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
To leave the White House. There you go. That's the
latest from California Governor Avenue.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
So all right, when we get back, we'll get into
this CDC director, another federal a person, an employee who
got fired but still won't leave.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's the swamp that's coming up next.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
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