February 2, 2026 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/02) - Vogue Magazine wrote a tongue bath of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Mayor Bass was all worked up about Don Lemon being arrested Friday. Inside Safe has been a massive failure.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't f I am six forty. You're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. I'm gonna lick you.
We have Gavin Newsom who's doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We have Risi Creddy, He'll go, come and de leone
Wendy Krew Because it is a team effort.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Governor Clomo has become a national.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Leader, garnering the nickname America's Governor. And a very very
special thank you to our governor no other than Gavin
use because it is this partnership with Joe Biden that
makes us come to reality.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
You spoke to National Guard troops today and assuring speech
that if I wasn't listening carefully, I thought you were
sending soldiers off to war.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm gonna get the Jimmy Gomez in a second.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
A good Christians find out, Hey you, yeah, you, it's
time for your tongue bath.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Rub a dub dub. I'm about to tell you about
the biggest tongue bath in the history of tongue baths.
This is a swimming pool sized tongue bath. Oh my god,
this woman's tongue must have fallen out by time she
was done. Camp I am six forty more stimulating talk
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Hour is available soon this hour. And that's the way
we're gonna do it from now on. All right, But
Gavin Newsom, since he's running for president, is on another
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media tour and he's got a book out now. The
book is its own set of segments. Right now, I'm
going to focus on an interview with Vogue magazine, which
was a fashion magazine, right, celebrity fashion. Sure, a lot
of women like it. Sometimes they've had a good interview
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in it. This one was written by Maya Singer. Now,
Maya Singer slobbers over Gavin Newsom in such an overt way,
I'm sure she thinks she's a journalist. Do you think
I'm exaggerating?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
All right, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
This is her writing. Let's get this out of the way.
He is embarrassingly handsome, embarrassingly his hair seasoned with silver,
at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his
final State of the State address. And then she quotes
(02:53):
him giving the address, saying things like secret police businesses,
rated windows, smash citizens, detained citizens, shot masked men snatching
people in broad daylight. And she writes his tone is temperate,
but the words echo through the state Capitol's Assembly chamber,
the August backdrop for his speech. Newsom shakes his head,
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seeming more mournful than angry, seeming yes, presidential. None of
this is normal. He says, embarrassingly handsome.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I've never heard of somebody being embarrassingly handsome or beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It must drive Trump nuts, She writes, Newsom life ardent, energetic,
a glimmer of optimism in his eye, Kennedy esque, where's
my vomit bag? I always have one here? Where is it?
Add to that his stunning wife and four horrible kids,
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and the executive strut of a self made millionaire who
has spent the past seven years at the helm of
a state, big complex and rich enough to be a
nation of its own. I'm only on paragraph too.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Is this an opinion writer?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Feature writer?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's built around his new memoir called young Man in
a Hurry, where he talks about kind of how stupid
he's been all his life in the low nine sixty
sat scores the ninety three. IQ couldn't really read as
a kid. Even his mother thought he was a dunce.
(04:46):
I'll get to that. Mothers know do you have enough kid? No,
If you have enough kids, you know which one is nuts,
which one's the dunce, which one in is trouble? She says.
The book sets him up, and I'm giving you just
a tiny excerpt. This is a thirteen page story if
(05:08):
you print it out. The book sets him up, sets
him up as someone who fights, someone who dreams big,
someone who sweats the details, someone with a desire to serve.
What the memoir does is reassure you that Gavin Newsom
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is a person with frailties and failings, a man who
had to search for himself. Where am I? I can't
find myself? Where'd I go to search for himself? I
made a bad mistake. I lost myself. Somebody helped me
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search for me. Because of his problems reading, he says,
when language eludes you, this is him. When language eludes you,
identity eludes you to you start trying on costumes to
see if they will fit. See. This is supposed to
explain why he's such a chameleon. And he has different
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views on different days depending who he talks to, because
he's always trying on identities. I tell this to somebody
the other day that if for some reason California was
a majority Republican state like it was thirty years ago,
forty years ago, Newsom would be a flat out Republican.
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He sells. He tries to sell whatever he thinks people
are going to buy in that moment, wherever he's standing,
I'm going to express my relationship to my truth. There
you go.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there
and lies to you.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, I'm sure. So you start trying on costumes to
see if they'll fit. He writes of his childhood struggles
with undiagnosed dyslexia, one source of his confusion about who
he was and where he fit in the world. So
he didn't know who he was, and he didn't know
where he was, and he didn't know how to speak
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about it. When I come back, I'll tell you what
his mother thought of him.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
She shall find him embarrassingly handsome.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, Maya Singer, this is what passes for journalism. Oh,
and I'll give you a list of things that Maya
Singer admits in the story she did not ask him
about She gotta be around for that too.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Are we keeping our lunch down? So far? We have
one of the largest tongue baths in history done by
Maya Singer Timity Tibbity too for Vogue, which is a
fashion magazine. Normally you'd have very attractive models on the
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cover of Vogue. Well, their big story is Gavin Newsom,
and I have to repeat the first line she writes,
Let's get this out of the way. He is embarrassingly handsome.
That was the Now. Maya Singer claims she's a journalist
and a filmmaker based in New York City. A contributing
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editor to Vogue, she has earned wide acclaim for her profiles. Okay, now,
when I left off, I'm just very very long article
he was She was quoting him. He's still suffering because
he had dyslexia as a child. And I've known a
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number of people with dyslexia, and people my friend went
through this and said, yeah, even his own parents thought
he had a stupid Certainly the teachers did, and other
kids because he can't read well. This apparently has had
a huge impact on little Gavin to the point where
he doesn't know who he is or where he is.
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When language eludes you, identity elludes you too. He's a
man who had to search for himself. And you start
trying on costumes to see if they'll fit, he says,
and he quotes Oscar Wilde, what's the quote? First you pose?
Then and his voice trails off. He's had to let
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some things go and writing the memoir, because that's what
this is based on. This memoir young man in a hurry,
which isn't out yet, but so he says, like, you
let some things go, like when my mother told me,
it's okay to be average. That's what mom said to him.
It's okay, Gavin to be average. L Worts. You're not
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that bright, you don't have much going for you. You just
accept it's not average. He's well below average, dude. Look
at this, Look at the state, look at it. Just
look around. When she told him it's okay to be average,
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I had so much resentment, so much hatred. This is
to his mom, and frankly, I was feeling that even
during the writing and then I began to understand. He says.
She was trying to let me know, Gavin, it's okay
to be you.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
What does this mean?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
These are actually his thoughts going on in his head.
Have you ever not known who you are?
Speaker 7 (11:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, every day you wake up and you know I'm Deborah, right,
I think?
Speaker 7 (11:10):
So?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Have you ever not known where you are? Did you
have to ever have to go look for yourself?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Don't take drugs?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Right? I mean I had a couple of nights you
know what I was twenty? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Really?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I didn't know where it was because you were you
were well? Drug maybe? Yes, yeah, well overdid it? But
I and not existentially, I always knew who and where
I was. Kevin did not have that. Now, listen to this.
He gestures to a photograph of Bobby Kennedy standing with
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his father, who, as we know, is very politically connected.
It's a family keepsake, and he says, so much of
my early consciousness is shaped by that photo, what politics
means and how it matters solving for ignorance, poverty, and disease. Yeah,
you were about poverty, and you charge every poor person
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in California an extra dollar fifty for a gallon of
gas with your stupid taxes. And now there's a mileage tax,
a driving tax that works well with people who are
in poverty, and in fact, twenty five percent of the
states in poverty.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
But he likes the French laundry.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, what is.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That the most expensive restaurant?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yes, it is. I've always wanted to look at that menu.
I never did.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I think it's a price fixed menu. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I've never been, uh, as he spoke, Now this is
the writer again, maya singer. The late summer sun slanted
in through the windows, bathing Newsom in an oh So
California Magic hour glow?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
John, are you jealous?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I want to bathe in a magic hour glow?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
My father, Uh used to have a word for Polish
word for when you when you his stomach was upset
and he felt like he was gonna throw up. It
was he'd say, I'm gonna jagatch my brother and I
got fixated on that word. I feel like I'm gonna
jagatch here, the my singer rights. I prepared for this
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sit down by consuming the spectacle of Gavin Newsom, consuming
his tweets, TV hits, interviews, umpteen episodes of his podcast
and was having a hard time taking in the man
in italics, hard time taking in the man his actual
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molecular reality. He's immaculate, fantastic a GAB like.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
A wind up doll, fantastic at GAB.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
She actually wrote that. Then he's immaculate and fantastic at
GAB and then she runs a lengthy quote of him
talking about taxes. Talks about how when Gavin Newsom was born, J.
Paul Getty was the richest man in the world and
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Gavin's dad was the best friend to J. Paul Getty's
son guarded Gordon, and Gordon bought or financed all Newsom's
early businesses. He had about ten or eleven wineries, restaurants,
things like that. And it's always bothered Gavin because at
some point he realized that he wasn't a self made man.
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He had a rich sugar daddy family that gave it
his start. Let me get to one more thing here, Oh,
what she didn't discuss with Gavin. Okay, may a singer,
Here's what she didn't discuss. I didn't get to. I'm
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sure it was on the list. I just ran out
of time. The la wildfires, homelessness, the contraction in Hollywood. No,
I didn't even make the short list of things that
(15:37):
I guess she wanted to get to. But somehow she
didn't get to the wildfires, didn't get to the homelessness,
didn't get to Hollywood going out of business as an
industry here. But he's embarrassingly handsome and immaculate.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And what was that other, uh, the gab?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic a gap that she got to. Okay,
all those things.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Are more important than the things that you just mentioned.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I know, I realized that I'm the one who's out
of touch. My values are inverted. We'll get to the
memoir one day this week. Well, we don't have it
out yet, we have excerpts, but I want to.
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option now. Karen Bass, Karen Bass, if you remember, I'm
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going to play a clip coming up in a couple
of minutes. Just it's my favorite Karen Bass clip because
she says nothing in it for a minute and a half.
And this is when her plane landed from Africa and
the fire had already been raging for over twenty four hours,
and the Palisades was on its way to obliteration. And
she comes off the plane and there is one British
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reporter chasing her, stalking her, trying to get her to
say something, and she refuses to didn't say a word
because she'd care. She was this all she was thinking
is oh, crap, how's this going to affect my Reelectioni's
zero interest in the lives of the Palisades residents. But
you know what she really cares about is ah Don Lemon, Like,
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what the hell is this? She went out of her
way to attend the hearing in the courtroom for Don Lemon,
who was arrested in Beverly Hills last week. And he
was arrested because in Minneapolis, he and a group of
anti ice wackos stormed a church and interrupted a service
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people were trying to practice their religion. And he was
part of the group, and he admitted it on camera
that he wasn't a journalist covering it. He became a
journalist after he got charged, because that's his defense. First
Amendment to the I was a journalist chronicling this event.
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It's like, well, no, you weren't. You said on the
video that you were part of the group chronicling the event.
And besides that, uh, just because you have a First
Amendment right does not allow you to infringe on someone
else's First Amendment right to worship. Bozo Now, he is
a clown, He has a joke. CNN fired him a
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long time ago because he did all kinds of stupid
things on air. But here, here's where Bass shows up
and she was going to about to give her remarks.
I guess she was just inside the courtroom and she'd
come out of the courtroom and listen to how she
was greeted them come.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Through right right there.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's f you Karen Bass. You can every care, everybody closer, Please.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Tell me, get everybody kills.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I don't know who the woman was, maybe a homeless
Palisade resident. She just kept yelling, F you Karen Bass
over and over again. Now, uh she best. Finally, I
guess gets to the microphone or gets to reporters, and
and she admits she's not a lawyer. Cut too, I
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am not.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
A lawyer, but I will tell you to listen to
this court proceedings. That made no sense at all. What
they described as his crime, from my perspective, a lay
person's perspective, was the work of a reporter. He went
into the church along with the protesters.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
He covered the story.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
He listened to what the people said who were in
the church. That is his crime. It made no sense
to me, And frankly that if I were the administration,
if I were the other side, I would be embarrassed
by that court proceeding that actually wanted to limit his
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movements so he could not go anywhere except for Minnesota
to New York, a journalist who travels the country.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Except he admitted he was part of the group protesting.
They thought the assistant pastor of this Minneapolis church was
somehow involved with ICE. I don't know if that's true
or not, or what the involvement was, but that was
the reason this group of anti Ice wackos barged into
the church, and he admitted on his own video he
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was part of the group. So she's either ignorant or
she's lying, and I'm sure she in line. Wait she
goes on. Listen to her. This is a cut number three.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So we have seen protesters under attack, We have seen
people being snatched off our street, and now all of
you are at risk, and this is just unacceptable. This
assault on our democracy has got to end. And you,
all journalists play such a critical role, and I just
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want you to know, and I.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Think I could speak on behalf of this crowd.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
We are all gonna fight every day for your ability
to tell the truth, for your ability to cover this
story and any other story.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We have to draw the.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Line in the sand and say we will not allow
for the dismantling of our democracy. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Wait, there's more. Somebody asked her about Don Lemon being
aware that the protesters want wanted to disrupt the church service,
because again he admitted he was part of the group,
not covering the group, and bess answers play cut four
plans on camera and a lesson to uct him. Was
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he aware of the protesters?
Speaker 7 (23:19):
He is?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I consider him a journalist. What all of the journalists
here would do who want to cover a story?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
He is a journalist. Why she's really agitated? Animated, angry.
Now let's take you back, let's take you back. I
guess this would be January eighth of twenty twenty five,
the day after the fire started. Her plane or military
plane lends from Ghana. She was in Africa and there
was one lone journalist. God forbid anybody from the LA
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Journalism Corps show up the greeter one day one Sky
News from Great Britain. Get a microphone interface and listen
to Karen Besh and listen to her anger, her animation,
her sorrow, her disappointment. Wait a quick do you.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Owe citizens and apology for being absent while their homes
were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget
by millions of dollars?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Madam? There? Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Alon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent? Are you considering
your position?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Madam Mayor?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Here dealing with this disaster? No apology for them? Do
you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this
was unfolding?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Back homes love?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, he's still chasing her, she's still walking away.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Aldam Mayor, let me ask you just again, have you
anything to say to the citizens today as you returned?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Maybe hold on one second.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Adam Mayor, just a few words for the citizens today
as you return to.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Do you a catastrophe? Do you take this down? How's over?
Ninety seconds? Right? A minute thirty eight? A minute thirty eight,
ninety eight seconds of silence. Let's play again number three.
She had she had nothing to say about being in
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Africa for the Palisades fire. She has a lot to
say about Don Lemon getting arrested.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Play cut three, So we have seen protesters under attack,
We have seen people being snatched off our street, and
now all of you are at risk and this is
just unacceptable. This assault on our democracy has got to end.
And you, all journalists play such a critical role and
(26:30):
I just want you to know, and I.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Think I could speak on behalf of this crowd.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
We are all gonna fight every day for your ability
to tell the truth, for your ability to cover this
story and any other story. We have to draw the
line in the sand and say we will not allow
for the dismantling of our democracy. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
This is a woman who's never told the truth and
never addressed the seven thousand homes that were destroyed in
the Palisades and those twelve people who burned to death
because of her incompetence and stupidity.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And glad I consider him a journalist.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
There you go, We come back inside Safe. Her homeless
program on Westside Current has a story about what a
massive failure it's been in a waste of money.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
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Speaker 1 (27:29):
Royal Oaks is coming on right after three o'clock. ABC
News Legal Analyst. You may have heard three billion pages
on the Epstein files, and there are some redaction errors.
Apparently some of the girls who got victimized by Epstein
and his buddies, their personal information got leaked out. We'll
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talk coming up with Royal Oaks. Okay, the great failure
that is Karen she is like it's almost an artwork.
She is so spectacularly awful at her job. Such a failure,
such a liar. Inside Safe. As soon as she took office,
she said, this program, I'm gonna get lots of homeless
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people off the streets. They're gonna be inside, they're gonna
be safe. We're gonna put them in motels and hotels,
and then we're gonna find them permanent housing. And this
is gonna have to make a big impact on homelessness. Well,
it's almost three full years into it and they have
spent three hundred and twenty two million dollars on Inside Safe.
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The Westside Current describes it as limited, uneven results. Inside
Safe And these are Karen Bass's numbers, and they lie
a lot, but let's roll with it. Inside Safe served
a little over five thousand people across one hundred and
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fourteen encampments, but out of the five thousand, one hundred
seventy nine people. Only twelve hundred and forty three are
in housing. Okay, fifty one hundred been served, Only twelve
hundred god housing the largest share. Twenty three hundred have
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exited the program. And then you asked the city, well,
what happened to them?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Who don't know?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We don't know. They don't write it down. See, shortly
after they started inside Safe, they realized, wow, this really
doesn't work. This is a cost of waste of money.
So they stopped. They stopped sharing the results with the media,
with the public, and of course the lazy ass media
here doesn't pursue it except Westside Current dot com, which
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is a local paper on the West Side. Yeah, twenty
three hundred people exited the program. Nobody knows where they are.
They're sixteen hundred in interim placements inside Safe. The spending
amounts to roughly two hundred and fifty nine thousand per
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person housed, So they only got twelve hundred housed at
of fifty one hundred, and it cost them two hundred
and fifty nine thousand dollars per first two hundred and
fifty nine thousand. I why not just give him that
check and see what happens. Give him that check and
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an airplane ticket and send them to some some what
other state. You know, there isn't another state in the
Union that puts up with this. You know, we have
we have almost half of the street homelessness in the
whole country. Seriously, we do almost half of the street homeless.
So you can can't send him anywhere. In the past
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four months alone, about two hundred and fifty Inside Safe
participants have returned to homelessness, and eighteen have died. Eighteen
have died, so eventually they get tossed back into the
street and they're dead. There's Karen Bass's compassion. It's like
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you see Mom Donnie. In New York City. They have
this ferocious cold snap. It's gotten down the near zero
and with the windshield it's been below zero in New
York City, and they have fourteen dead homeless people now fourteen.
Because Mom Donnie came in and he had a new policy.
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No one was going to be forced indoors. The old
mayor said, there's actually a law that says everyone is
entitled to shelter, and so they built shelters con mensurate
with the law. Donnie changed that like overrode the law
and said, now, if you want to stay outside, we're
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not forcing you. It's not a it's your right. Fourteen
died froze to death. You imagine fourteen dead frozen bodies. Now, mom,
Donnie has changed his policy. Here's another inside safe experiment
in Venice. Under Karen Bass, one hundred and seven people
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participated in an inside Safe operation Hampton Drive, Third Street,
Sunset Avenue in Venice. Fewer than half were housed. Five
died cost the city two point eight million dollars two
point eight million dollars for less than fifty ft away.
The city no longer provides detailed person by person numbers
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released well during the first year they did, then after
that they didn't because it's a failure. Three hundred and
twenty two million in the toilet Gone when we come back,
Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst about the women the
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Can't f I am six forty. You're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. I'm gonna lick you.
We have Gavin Newsom who's doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We have Risi Creddy, He'll go, come and de leone
Wendy Krew Because it is a team effort.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Governor Clomo has become a national.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Leader, garnering the nickname America's Governor. And a very very
special thank you to our governor no other than Gavin
use because it is this partnership with Joe Biden that
makes us come to reality.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
You spoke to National Guard troops today and assuring speech
that if I wasn't listening carefully, I thought you were
sending soldiers off to war.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm gonna get the Jimmy Gomez in a second.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
A good Christians find out, Hey you, yeah, you, it's
time for your tongue bath.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Rub a dub dub. I'm about to tell you about
the biggest tongue bath in the history of tongue baths.
This is a swimming pool sized tongue bath. Oh my god,
this woman's tongue must have fallen out by time she
was done. Camp I am six forty more stimulating talk
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available in the next hour. Last hour is one o'clock.
Hour is available soon this hour. And that's the way
we're gonna do it from now on. All right, But
Gavin Newsom, since he's running for president, is on another
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media tour and he's got a book out now. The
book is its own set of segments. Right now, I'm
going to focus on an interview with Vogue magazine, which
was a fashion magazine, right, celebrity fashion. Sure, a lot
of women like it. Sometimes they've had a good interview
(02:04):
in it. This one was written by Maya Singer. Now,
Maya Singer slobbers over Gavin Newsom in such an overt way,
I'm sure she thinks she's a journalist. Do you think
I'm exaggerating?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
All right, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
This is her writing. Let's get this out of the way.
He is embarrassingly handsome, embarrassingly his hair seasoned with silver,
at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his
final State of the State address. And then she quotes
(02:53):
him giving the address, saying things like secret police businesses,
rated windows, smash citizens, detained citizens, shot masked men snatching
people in broad daylight. And she writes his tone is temperate,
but the words echo through the state Capitol's Assembly chamber,
the August backdrop for his speech. Newsom shakes his head,
(03:19):
seeming more mournful than angry, seeming yes, presidential. None of
this is normal. He says, embarrassingly handsome.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I've never heard of somebody being embarrassingly handsome or beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It must drive Trump nuts, She writes, Newsom life ardent, energetic,
a glimmer of optimism in his eye, Kennedy esque, where's
my vomit bag? I always have one here? Where is it?
Add to that his stunning wife and four horrible kids,
(04:01):
and the executive strut of a self made millionaire who
has spent the past seven years at the helm of
a state, big complex and rich enough to be a
nation of its own. I'm only on paragraph too.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Is this an opinion writer?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Feature writer?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's built around his new memoir called young Man in
a Hurry, where he talks about kind of how stupid
he's been all his life in the low nine sixty
sat scores the ninety three. IQ couldn't really read as
a kid. Even his mother thought he was a dunce.
(04:46):
I'll get to that. Mothers know do you have enough kid? No,
If you have enough kids, you know which one is nuts,
which one's the dunce, which one in is trouble? She says.
The book sets him up, and I'm giving you just
a tiny excerpt. This is a thirteen page story if
(05:08):
you print it out. The book sets him up, sets
him up as someone who fights, someone who dreams big,
someone who sweats the details, someone with a desire to serve.
What the memoir does is reassure you that Gavin Newsom
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is a person with frailties and failings, a man who
had to search for himself. Where am I? I can't
find myself? Where'd I go to search for himself? I
made a bad mistake. I lost myself. Somebody helped me
(05:54):
search for me. Because of his problems reading, he says,
when language eludes you, this is him. When language eludes you,
identity eludes you to you start trying on costumes to
see if they will fit. See. This is supposed to
explain why he's such a chameleon. And he has different
(06:20):
views on different days depending who he talks to, because
he's always trying on identities. I tell this to somebody
the other day that if for some reason California was
a majority Republican state like it was thirty years ago,
forty years ago, Newsom would be a flat out Republican.
(06:41):
He sells. He tries to sell whatever he thinks people
are going to buy in that moment, wherever he's standing,
I'm going to express my relationship to my truth. There
you go.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there
and lies to you.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, I'm sure. So you start trying on costumes to
see if they'll fit. He writes of his childhood struggles
with undiagnosed dyslexia, one source of his confusion about who
he was and where he fit in the world. So
he didn't know who he was, and he didn't know
where he was, and he didn't know how to speak
(07:24):
about it. When I come back, I'll tell you what
his mother thought of him.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
She shall find him embarrassingly handsome.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, Maya Singer, this is what passes for journalism. Oh,
and I'll give you a list of things that Maya
Singer admits in the story she did not ask him
about She gotta be around for that too.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Are we keeping our lunch down? So far? We have
one of the largest tongue baths in history done by
Maya Singer Timity Tibbity too for Vogue, which is a
fashion magazine. Normally you'd have very attractive models on the
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cover of Vogue. Well, their big story is Gavin Newsom,
and I have to repeat the first line she writes,
Let's get this out of the way. He is embarrassingly handsome.
That was the Now. Maya Singer claims she's a journalist
and a filmmaker based in New York City. A contributing
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editor to Vogue, she has earned wide acclaim for her profiles. Okay, now,
when I left off, I'm just very very long article
he was She was quoting him. He's still suffering because
he had dyslexia as a child. And I've known a
(09:06):
number of people with dyslexia, and people my friend went
through this and said, yeah, even his own parents thought
he had a stupid Certainly the teachers did, and other
kids because he can't read well. This apparently has had
a huge impact on little Gavin to the point where
he doesn't know who he is or where he is.
(09:28):
When language eludes you, identity elludes you too. He's a
man who had to search for himself. And you start
trying on costumes to see if they'll fit, he says,
and he quotes Oscar Wilde, what's the quote? First you pose?
Then and his voice trails off. He's had to let
(09:54):
some things go and writing the memoir, because that's what
this is based on. This memoir young man in a hurry,
which isn't out yet, but so he says, like, you
let some things go, like when my mother told me,
it's okay to be average. That's what mom said to him.
It's okay, Gavin to be average. L Worts. You're not
(10:17):
that bright, you don't have much going for you. You just
accept it's not average. He's well below average, dude. Look
at this, Look at the state, look at it. Just
look around. When she told him it's okay to be average,
(10:40):
I had so much resentment, so much hatred. This is
to his mom, and frankly, I was feeling that even
during the writing and then I began to understand. He says.
She was trying to let me know, Gavin, it's okay
to be you.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
What does this mean?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
These are actually his thoughts going on in his head.
Have you ever not known who you are?
Speaker 7 (11:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, every day you wake up and you know I'm Deborah, right,
I think?
Speaker 7 (11:10):
So?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Have you ever not known where you are? Did you
have to ever have to go look for yourself?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Don't take drugs?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Right? I mean I had a couple of nights you
know what I was twenty? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Really?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I didn't know where it was because you were you
were well? Drug maybe? Yes, yeah, well overdid it? But
I and not existentially, I always knew who and where
I was. Kevin did not have that. Now, listen to this.
He gestures to a photograph of Bobby Kennedy standing with
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his father, who, as we know, is very politically connected.
It's a family keepsake, and he says, so much of
my early consciousness is shaped by that photo, what politics
means and how it matters solving for ignorance, poverty, and disease. Yeah,
you were about poverty, and you charge every poor person
(12:03):
in California an extra dollar fifty for a gallon of
gas with your stupid taxes. And now there's a mileage tax,
a driving tax that works well with people who are
in poverty, and in fact, twenty five percent of the
states in poverty.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
But he likes the French laundry.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, what is.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That the most expensive restaurant?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yes, it is. I've always wanted to look at that menu.
I never did.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I think it's a price fixed menu. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I've never been, uh, as he spoke, Now this is
the writer again, maya singer. The late summer sun slanted
in through the windows, bathing Newsom in an oh So
California Magic hour glow?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
John, are you jealous?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I want to bathe in a magic hour glow?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
My father, Uh used to have a word for Polish
word for when you when you his stomach was upset
and he felt like he was gonna throw up. It
was he'd say, I'm gonna jagatch my brother and I
got fixated on that word. I feel like I'm gonna
jagatch here, the my singer rights. I prepared for this
(13:24):
sit down by consuming the spectacle of Gavin Newsom, consuming
his tweets, TV hits, interviews, umpteen episodes of his podcast
and was having a hard time taking in the man
in italics, hard time taking in the man his actual
(13:51):
molecular reality. He's immaculate, fantastic a GAB like.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
A wind up doll, fantastic at GAB.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
She actually wrote that. Then he's immaculate and fantastic at
GAB and then she runs a lengthy quote of him
talking about taxes. Talks about how when Gavin Newsom was born, J.
Paul Getty was the richest man in the world and
(14:32):
Gavin's dad was the best friend to J. Paul Getty's
son guarded Gordon, and Gordon bought or financed all Newsom's
early businesses. He had about ten or eleven wineries, restaurants,
things like that. And it's always bothered Gavin because at
some point he realized that he wasn't a self made man.
(14:56):
He had a rich sugar daddy family that gave it
his start. Let me get to one more thing here, Oh,
what she didn't discuss with Gavin. Okay, may a singer,
Here's what she didn't discuss. I didn't get to. I'm
(15:17):
sure it was on the list. I just ran out
of time. The la wildfires, homelessness, the contraction in Hollywood. No,
I didn't even make the short list of things that
(15:37):
I guess she wanted to get to. But somehow she
didn't get to the wildfires, didn't get to the homelessness,
didn't get to Hollywood going out of business as an
industry here. But he's embarrassingly handsome and immaculate.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And what was that other, uh, the gab?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic a gap that she got to. Okay,
all those things.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Are more important than the things that you just mentioned.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I know, I realized that I'm the one who's out
of touch. My values are inverted. We'll get to the
memoir one day this week. Well, we don't have it
out yet, we have excerpts, but I want to.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
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You could listen to you could listen to us at
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know how much you'd retain that way, but certainly an
option now. Karen Bass, Karen Bass, if you remember, I'm
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going to play a clip coming up in a couple
of minutes. Just it's my favorite Karen Bass clip because
she says nothing in it for a minute and a half.
And this is when her plane landed from Africa and
the fire had already been raging for over twenty four hours,
and the Palisades was on its way to obliteration. And
she comes off the plane and there is one British
(17:52):
reporter chasing her, stalking her, trying to get her to
say something, and she refuses to didn't say a word
because she'd care. She was this all she was thinking
is oh, crap, how's this going to affect my Reelectioni's
zero interest in the lives of the Palisades residents. But
you know what she really cares about is ah Don Lemon, Like,
(18:18):
what the hell is this? She went out of her
way to attend the hearing in the courtroom for Don Lemon,
who was arrested in Beverly Hills last week. And he
was arrested because in Minneapolis, he and a group of
anti ice wackos stormed a church and interrupted a service
(18:42):
people were trying to practice their religion. And he was
part of the group, and he admitted it on camera
that he wasn't a journalist covering it. He became a
journalist after he got charged, because that's his defense. First
Amendment to the I was a journalist chronicling this event.
(19:03):
It's like, well, no, you weren't. You said on the
video that you were part of the group chronicling the event.
And besides that, uh, just because you have a First
Amendment right does not allow you to infringe on someone
else's First Amendment right to worship. Bozo Now, he is
a clown, He has a joke. CNN fired him a
(19:24):
long time ago because he did all kinds of stupid
things on air. But here, here's where Bass shows up
and she was going to about to give her remarks.
I guess she was just inside the courtroom and she'd
come out of the courtroom and listen to how she
was greeted them come.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Through right right there.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's f you Karen Bass. You can every care, everybody closer, Please.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Tell me, get everybody kills.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I don't know who the woman was, maybe a homeless
Palisade resident. She just kept yelling, F you Karen Bass
over and over again. Now, uh she best. Finally, I
guess gets to the microphone or gets to reporters, and
and she admits she's not a lawyer. Cut too, I
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am not.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
A lawyer, but I will tell you to listen to
this court proceedings. That made no sense at all. What
they described as his crime, from my perspective, a lay
person's perspective, was the work of a reporter. He went
into the church along with the protesters.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
He covered the story.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
He listened to what the people said who were in
the church. That is his crime. It made no sense
to me, And frankly that if I were the administration,
if I were the other side, I would be embarrassed
by that court proceeding that actually wanted to limit his
(21:24):
movements so he could not go anywhere except for Minnesota
to New York, a journalist who travels the country.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Except he admitted he was part of the group protesting.
They thought the assistant pastor of this Minneapolis church was
somehow involved with ICE. I don't know if that's true
or not, or what the involvement was, but that was
the reason this group of anti Ice wackos barged into
the church, and he admitted on his own video he
(21:54):
was part of the group. So she's either ignorant or
she's lying, and I'm sure she in line. Wait she
goes on. Listen to her. This is a cut number three.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So we have seen protesters under attack, We have seen
people being snatched off our street, and now all of
you are at risk, and this is just unacceptable. This
assault on our democracy has got to end. And you,
all journalists play such a critical role, and I just
(22:28):
want you to know, and I.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Think I could speak on behalf of this crowd.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
We are all gonna fight every day for your ability
to tell the truth, for your ability to cover this
story and any other story.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We have to draw the.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Line in the sand and say we will not allow
for the dismantling of our democracy. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Wait, there's more. Somebody asked her about Don Lemon being
aware that the protesters want wanted to disrupt the church service,
because again he admitted he was part of the group,
not covering the group, and bess answers play cut four
plans on camera and a lesson to uct him. Was
(23:16):
he aware of the protesters?
Speaker 7 (23:19):
He is?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I consider him a journalist. What all of the journalists
here would do who want to cover a story?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
He is a journalist. Why she's really agitated? Animated, angry.
Now let's take you back, let's take you back. I
guess this would be January eighth of twenty twenty five,
the day after the fire started. Her plane or military
plane lends from Ghana. She was in Africa and there
was one lone journalist. God forbid anybody from the LA
(23:54):
Journalism Corps show up the greeter one day one Sky
News from Great Britain. Get a microphone interface and listen
to Karen Besh and listen to her anger, her animation,
her sorrow, her disappointment. Wait a quick do you.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Owe citizens and apology for being absent while their homes
were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget
by millions of dollars?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Madam? There? Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Alon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent? Are you considering
your position?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Madam Mayor?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Here dealing with this disaster? No apology for them? Do
you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this
was unfolding?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Back homes love?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, he's still chasing her, she's still walking away.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Aldam Mayor, let me ask you just again, have you
anything to say to the citizens today as you returned?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Maybe hold on one second.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Adam Mayor, just a few words for the citizens today
as you return to.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Do you a catastrophe? Do you take this down? How's over?
Ninety seconds? Right? A minute thirty eight? A minute thirty eight,
ninety eight seconds of silence. Let's play again number three.
She had she had nothing to say about being in
(26:03):
Africa for the Palisades fire. She has a lot to
say about Don Lemon getting arrested.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Play cut three, So we have seen protesters under attack,
We have seen people being snatched off our street, and
now all of you are at risk and this is
just unacceptable. This assault on our democracy has got to end.
And you, all journalists play such a critical role and
(26:30):
I just want you to know, and I.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Think I could speak on behalf of this crowd.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
We are all gonna fight every day for your ability
to tell the truth, for your ability to cover this
story and any other story. We have to draw the
line in the sand and say we will not allow
for the dismantling of our democracy. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
This is a woman who's never told the truth and
never addressed the seven thousand homes that were destroyed in
the Palisades and those twelve people who burned to death
because of her incompetence and stupidity.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And glad I consider him a journalist.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
There you go, We come back inside Safe. Her homeless
program on Westside Current has a story about what a
massive failure it's been in a waste of money.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI six.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Royal Oaks is coming on right after three o'clock. ABC
News Legal Analyst. You may have heard three billion pages
on the Epstein files, and there are some redaction errors.
Apparently some of the girls who got victimized by Epstein
and his buddies, their personal information got leaked out. We'll
(27:54):
talk coming up with Royal Oaks. Okay, the great failure
that is Karen she is like it's almost an artwork.
She is so spectacularly awful at her job. Such a failure,
such a liar. Inside Safe. As soon as she took office,
she said, this program, I'm gonna get lots of homeless
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people off the streets. They're gonna be inside, they're gonna
be safe. We're gonna put them in motels and hotels,
and then we're gonna find them permanent housing. And this
is gonna have to make a big impact on homelessness. Well,
it's almost three full years into it and they have
spent three hundred and twenty two million dollars on Inside Safe.
(28:41):
The Westside Current describes it as limited, uneven results. Inside
Safe And these are Karen Bass's numbers, and they lie
a lot, but let's roll with it. Inside Safe served
a little over five thousand people across one hundred and
(29:01):
fourteen encampments, but out of the five thousand, one hundred
seventy nine people. Only twelve hundred and forty three are
in housing. Okay, fifty one hundred been served, Only twelve
hundred god housing the largest share. Twenty three hundred have
(29:25):
exited the program. And then you asked the city, well,
what happened to them?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Who don't know?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We don't know. They don't write it down. See, shortly
after they started inside Safe, they realized, wow, this really
doesn't work. This is a cost of waste of money.
So they stopped. They stopped sharing the results with the media,
with the public, and of course the lazy ass media
here doesn't pursue it except Westside Current dot com, which
(29:57):
is a local paper on the West Side. Yeah, twenty
three hundred people exited the program. Nobody knows where they are.
They're sixteen hundred in interim placements inside Safe. The spending
amounts to roughly two hundred and fifty nine thousand per
(30:20):
person housed, So they only got twelve hundred housed at
of fifty one hundred, and it cost them two hundred
and fifty nine thousand dollars per first two hundred and
fifty nine thousand. I why not just give him that
check and see what happens. Give him that check and
(30:42):
an airplane ticket and send them to some some what
other state. You know, there isn't another state in the
Union that puts up with this. You know, we have
we have almost half of the street homelessness in the
whole country. Seriously, we do almost half of the street homeless.
So you can can't send him anywhere. In the past
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four months alone, about two hundred and fifty Inside Safe
participants have returned to homelessness, and eighteen have died. Eighteen
have died, so eventually they get tossed back into the
street and they're dead. There's Karen Bass's compassion. It's like
(31:27):
you see Mom Donnie. In New York City. They have
this ferocious cold snap. It's gotten down the near zero
and with the windshield it's been below zero in New
York City, and they have fourteen dead homeless people now fourteen.
Because Mom Donnie came in and he had a new policy.
(31:48):
No one was going to be forced indoors. The old
mayor said, there's actually a law that says everyone is
entitled to shelter, and so they built shelters con mensurate
with the law. Donnie changed that like overrode the law
and said, now, if you want to stay outside, we're
(32:08):
not forcing you. It's not a it's your right. Fourteen
died froze to death. You imagine fourteen dead frozen bodies. Now, mom,
Donnie has changed his policy. Here's another inside safe experiment
in Venice. Under Karen Bass, one hundred and seven people
(32:30):
participated in an inside Safe operation Hampton Drive, Third Street,
Sunset Avenue in Venice. Fewer than half were housed. Five
died cost the city two point eight million dollars two
point eight million dollars for less than fifty ft away.
The city no longer provides detailed person by person numbers
(32:54):
released well during the first year they did, then after
that they didn't because it's a failure. Three hundred and
twenty two million in the toilet Gone when we come back,
Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst about the women the
(33:15):
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file release. Step remark Live KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
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