November 13, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (11/13) - CA State Assemblyman James Gallagher comes on the show to talk about the investigation into Gov. Newsom's former Chief of Staff Dana Williamson who was arrested on corruption charges. More on Gov. Newsom's former Chief of Staff Dana Williamson who was arrested on corruption charges. More on the Senate hearing regarding the Palisades Fire today in Pacific Palisades led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).
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one day. Now I have further investigated with this is
the story of Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom's top aid for
two years chief of staff. She's charged by a federal
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grand jury with twenty three counts. By the way, for
those of you who have the knee jerk response, this
is just Trump glowing after Newsom.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
This started three years ago, the investigation during the Joe
Biden administration. Dana Williamson is legitimately a crook and she
was Newsome's top aid. And according to Williamson's attorney, they
wanted Williamson to tell them something incriminating about Newsom, and
she said she didn't have anything. And there's a line
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in the Time story that they wanted her to wear
a wire. I did clarify the Chanel fifteen dollars three
hundred and forty three dollars price tag. Oh, Chanell handbag.
Apparently a parrot earrings came with it. Yeah, the latest
reports added Chanel bag and earrings.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Okay, well that explains the high price type. And no,
I don't have Chanell earrings either. Well, you really are impoverished.
I really am. You're going wanting.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Let's get to James Gallagher, the Republican assemblyman in California,
And James, I got to start off by asking you
about this scandal. Dania Williamson, Newsom's chief of staff for
two years, has been around Fermento forever. She was in
the Jerry Brown administration, the Great Davis administration, and she's
been a lobbyist there, a fundraiser everything. What what's your
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reaction to this huge indictment of her and others?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Certainly shocking, but it's not surprising to me.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You know this, this woman was the same person under
Gavin Newsom who oversaw the Paneragate negotiations. You might remember
the fast food legislation that excluded Panera bread right in
those negotiations. Apparently people signed the NBA's so they could
shield this public legislation, you know, from the public. This
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is the same lady who tried to get Prop thirty
six pushed off the ballot using bullie tactics and the
governor's She may have also been doing these things on
the side.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The Panera scandal was that, uh, you had a minimum
wage law for fast food restaurants, but Panera was excluded,
and Newsome was getting donations from the Panera executive if
I remember correctly.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Uh. And so they had a friendship, you know, going
back many years. And you know it's kind of the
mo with Gavin is his friends seemed to get special
deals donors that got no bid contracts during COVID for example.
So you know, there's his administration has sort of been
mired in corrupt or underhanded tactics and Prop here is.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
The latest one.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And on Prop thirty six, she behind the scenes was
viciously trying was was working to get Prop thirty six
blocked from the ballot, trying to pull all kinds of
tricks to stop that, uh right, which.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean there were lead emails with her in the
DA's Association where you know, basically she was trying to
get them to take them as you're off the ballot.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know, they they designed these poison pill amendments to
try and you know, mess with uh about you know,
what would ltimately be a title in summary Uh, that
they would use to try and undermine property stakes. I
mean they did everything they could to have you know,
I would say, abused their power to make sure we
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wouldn't even have an opportunity to vote on the measure.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Uh do you do? Do you I wonder?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I mean not you probably wouldn't know. But there's some tantalizing.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Sentences in the I think I'm moving you a little
bit there. Go ahead and repeat that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There's some tantalizing sentences in the ALLA Time story on
Williamson's indictment where they asked her to wear a wire
and they wanted her to turn over information that she
knew about.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Knew some in a separate case. Have you heard anything
about this?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah? I did read about that. I thought I found
that very interesting. And you know, one of the things
we have, you know, I say that this is sort
of the tip of the iceberg, you know, the indictments happened,
but we already know there was co conspirators. We know
that there's people who have apparently taken plea deals, and
you know, what often happens in these federal investigations is that,
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you know, people start naming names and you know, obviously
we don't know all the details of that yet, but
it could be that this has greater you know, implications,
and that others could be you know, implicated in this
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Well, Williamson's co conspirator in this with Sean McCluskey, who
is the chief of staff for Javier Bsera. He's already
played guilty, so you have to wonder if he's now
flipping and naming names in order to get reduced since
since he made a plea deal already.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, I mean that is what we do see happen.
I mean, you know, none, no elected official has you know,
been named, you know or indicted in this investigation. But
you know that could it could prove that, you know,
more testimony leads to other other facts being uncovered, So
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we don't know. But the bottom line is this was
Gavin Newsom's top person in his office. We also know
that he put her on leave knowing that this investigation
was going on, and you know, it says a lot
about his judgment, you know that he puts someone like
this in place. And it's not just me saying, it's
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actually Democrats now coming out and talking about this and
talking about this woman's reputation, you know, and how she
has acted with others, and it wasn't even surprising to them,
all right.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You know, originally wanted to have you on to talk
about your proposal to put California into Can we do.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That another day?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Sure we could do that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Can we do that yet?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, well sometime in the next few days, why don't
you come back on and we'll devote more time to that.
But I've just got so much we got to get out,
with this corruption case and with the Palisades hearing going on,
and I don't want to give you short shrift. I
want a full airing. Okay, Sure, all right, James, thanks
very much. Similar, and James Gallagher asked, and when we
come back, we're going to play you a story from
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Ashley Zavala from CACRA Channel three in Sacramento, again the
only reporter that covers Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Uh, and she's got.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
She'll lay out the whole story about Dana Williamson, Newsom's
former chief of staff, who was asked when she was
approached by investigators.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
What does she have a Newsome?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
There might be a separate investigation, and La Times said
that Williamson's attorney indicated that she was asked to wear
a wire. She said, I don't have any information on
anything derogatory about Newsom, so but I am quite curious
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because there's so much corrupt activity that's affecting our lives,
from the sweetheart deals that PG and E and so
Cal Edison get, how they get to burn down entire
towns repeatedly and then we end up stuck with the
bill to pay for all the damages. We'll just start
with that these are bad people up in Sacka. I
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know we've got bad people in Los Angeles and it's
it's actually killing people and destroying lots of property, and
they're looting a lot of money. And Dana Williamson, I
agree with j James Gallery. This is just a tip
of the iceberg. So we'll give you a complete rundown
with a report from Ashley Zavala.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Next, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Gavin Newsom's right hand woman, Dana Williamson. She was chief
of staff for two years and she's involved in a
lot of the bad legislation that has made California such
a difficult place. While she got caught twenty three federal
corruption charges allegedly stealing campaign funds from Xavier Bisseera, the
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former attorney general who's running for.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Governor Jabber Bakaria, formerly in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
He had a couple hundred thousand dollars lining around account
and she punched it along with others. Here is a
good rundown from ZACHOMANOKCRAA Channel three reporter Ashley Zavalla.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Tonight, for the first time, we're learning Governor Gavin Newsom's
office says that Dana Williamson was put on leave as
soon as she informed them last year that she was
under criminal investigation. Dana Williamson is one of the most
powerful people in California's political system.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
She was arrested this.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Morning and released this afternoon on a five hundred thousand
dollars bond.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
She's accused of.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Conspiring with Javier Messeta's former chief of staff, Sean McCluskey,
to take two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from
Bessetta's political campaign account. Javid Messetta is the former US
Health and Human Services Secretary under President Joe Biden and
former California Attorney General. He is running for California governor
right now. Investigators say this happened between twenty twenty two
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and twenty twenty four, which started before but continued while
she was working for Governor Gavin Newsom. She faces twenty
three federal charges related to that, including wire fraud, bank fraud,
obstruction of justice, and false tax documents. Williamson pleaded not
guilty today in federal court. Her alleged co conspirators, Sean
McCluskey and well known Sacramento lobbyist Greg Campbell have plea deals,
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according to court documents. In a statement, JAVIERD. Massetta said, quote,
the news today of formal accusations of impropriety by a
long serving trusted advisor are a gut punch. I have
voluntarily cooperated with the US Department of Justice in their
investigation and will continue to do so. As California's former
attorney general. I fully comprehend the importance of allowing the
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investigation and legal process to run its course through the
justice system. Here's our exchange with Williamson and her attorney
when they came out of the courthouse. Would other California
officials and people involved in the government be concerned now
with this investigation underway?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Do you have any comment, Miss Williamson, You guys can
contact my attorney. Do you have anything to say at all?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Chris Williamson, do you have anything to say to Jabiota
Basata right now?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
He called this a gut punch living with prosecutors.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Miss Williams, And you have nothing to say with the
twenty three counts against you, alleging that you and co
conspirators funneled money to from baby's attorney stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I just said that you guys will contact my attorney
first day.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
You have nothing to say to the people of California,
Miss Williams, saying should governor get the news and be concerned?
Miss Williamson, governs, there's nothing nothing else with the twenty
two charges to other government officials in California. Other people
associated with the government be concerned here.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Sorry, I have no comment on that.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Thank you. This is this is a this is a
big case, sir. A lot of people could be involved.
Dana Williamson was a very powerful person in California's government.
There's there's nothing you can share at this moment. Can
you say when when we might have an update or
something from from you?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
So it won't be for me?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
Well she just referred. She just okay, so you won't
be her counsel.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
There's somebody about me.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Dana Williamson's next court date is scheduled for this December eleventh.
There are obviously a lot of conditions associated with her
release from custody today.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Again a blockbuster development here, and so a lot to
take in.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What are what are some area Democrats saying about it?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Excuse me?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Yeah, I've spent all day talking to lawmakers, people who
have worked with data, political consultants, all who are stunned
by this.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I was actually in a room full.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Of political consultants today as everyone was finding out at
the same time. So I'm wondering what more could come
from this investigation. Two questions I keep hearing moving forward
in all of this. One, how could this impact Governor
Gavin Newsom to how could this impact the candidate for governor,
Javetta Bassetta.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh, there was a room full of political consultants. You
mean like a room full of criminals. And you're telling
me they were shocked that you got arrested. Yeah, they
were a shocked that you did this. They were shocked
you got arrested. That's what the shock was. It's like
what they arrest for this stuff. Yeah, we're all in trouble.
That's nothing but a criminal operation going on in Sacramento.
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Let me tell you about part Another part of this
is that Williamson was also million dollars in COVID loans
and then she used them as business deductions for the
Chanel handbag.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And earrings and stop laughing. No burkin, no burkin.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Now, you know you can't get a burkin for fifteen thousand,
A new heating and air conditioning system, a luxury hotel
stay for Williamson's birthday, A ten thousand dollars cash gift
to a relative. Let me see what else here, Oh,
an eleven thousand dollars yacht rental in Mexico, the hotel
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stay for her birthday, one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars,
one hundred ten thousand dollars to a California theme park.
That's not possible. Now, what's the top Disneyland price?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I don't know, three hundred four hundred.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
How do you spend He spend ten thousand dollars at
a theme park, doesn't say which one.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So there's a lot of levels of corruption here. But
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
If you saw David Williamson, I think a lot went
to dinner and food purchases. John, She's not going hungry,
she's been eating well the last few years.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, she has the money. She's got the money. Yeah,
dakes lobster.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
She's not waiting for snap benefits to come in, not
looking for those food stamps.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No, And I can't get over.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But Sarah doesn't notice almost a quarter of a million
dollars missing from his campaign bank account.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
And I don't get that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And some of this went on while she was still
chief of staff for Newsom. They're trying to make it
at some stories like she was doing this while she
was in private practice. No, No, there's an overlap to
when she was chief of staff. She was running these operations.
And McCluskey, her partner, who was the chief of staff
for Xavier Besara. He's already pleaded guilty, so he's talking.
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This is gonna get good. And why did the Times
publish a line about her wanting they wanted the Feds
wanted her to wear a wire around Newsom, and they
wanted her to give details relating to another investigation. What's
that about? It's all skimmed over in a couple of lines.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Coming up after three o'clock. Here's another scandal. We're going
to have Bill A. Saley on the US Attorney for
the Central District here in Los Angeles, and the Justice
Department is filing a lawsuit against Gavin Newsom and the
Secretary of State Shirley Weber, saying this Prop fifty plan
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violates the US Constitution. It mandates racially jerrymandude congressional districts.
That violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
All these new districts that Newsom had drawn to benefit
the Democratic Party. Well, the Justice Department says this this
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violates the Constitution, uh specifically how it was done. Bill
Sale will explain to us. We also will next hour
do more on the UH on the federal case against
Newsom's chief of staff Dana Williamson and all the corruption
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charges against her, and again that started during the Biden administration,
twenty three charges others in government as well, including the
former chief of staff for Javier Sarah. So there's there,
they're there's They're getting a lot of the rats out.
But Sarah's former chief of staff has already pleaded guilty.
And there are rumors around Newsom that they asked Dana
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Williamson to wear a wire and that they wanted to
know if she knew anything the negative about Newsom there
might be a separate investigation.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
She said, no, I don't. We'll say Meantime, you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Had the US Senator Rick Scott from Florida, another US
Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin in town to investigate the
incompetence and absurdity of this Palisades fire, which never should
have happened.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
But between Newsom and Bass.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And the LA Fire Department everybody else in government, Palisades
gets wiped out, twelve people die, sixty eight hundred homes
are destroyed, and so it's Rick Scott and Rick Scott,
Ron Johnson came to town came to town to hold
a Senate hearing at the American Legion in Palisades. Let's
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play first cut seven, where Scott talks about how it
could have been prevented.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Natural disasters do not discriminate. It doesn't matter how old
you are, how much money you have, or how smart
you think you may be. If you aren't prepared, nothing
else matters. And while being prepared starts with you and
is vital for everyone, is also very important that your
local date and federal governments do all they can to
prevent disasters, and for those disasters that can't be prevented,
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they must be prepared to respond. I believe the Palastaates
fire was more than just a horrific tragedy. It was
an unacceptable failure of government to protect the lives and
property of its citizens. And we all know that this
fire hurt our seniors more than anyone else. Families in
this community deserve answers and accountability. Over the years, billions
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upon billions of federal tax dollars taxpayer dollars have been
directed to California to support fire management and disaster mitigation efforts.
Yet on the day of the Pacific Pali States fire,
reservoirs were empty, fire hirrants went dry and instant people,
including many Volmer seniors, perished, while thousands more lost their homes,
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businesses and everything they owned. While nothing can undo that
damage done by the Pacific Palistates fire, I am committed
to advocating for the victims, their families, and the community
to get answers and make sure this never happens anywhere
in our great country ever.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Again, this is really important, and I think Scott and
Johnson are going to push this to the limit. I
want to see. I want to see Bass being forced
to testify. She ought to be subpoened. Kristin Crowley should
be subpoenaed. Deenise Kinonez the d w P chief who
left the reservoir dry. Why is the reservoir dry? Why
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the hydrants do work? Why are we're like forty trucks busted?
Why don't we have mechanics? Why were the firefighters sent home?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Why? Why?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Why we waited for the after action investigations and they
were silent on a lot of these issues. It's all
been a whitewash and Bass is just bumbling along hoping
to get reelected, and all she cares about is standing
on stage for the Olympics. Let's play cut eight here.
This is Wisconsin Senator Republican Ron Johnson.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I think Spencer kind of asked the question, why do
we have senator from Wisconsin and the cenator from Florida
coming here to Palisades to open up a new investigation
on this. I want to tell the story because I
think it makes a couple important points. Santra Scott was
in the Philippines on a foreign trip and one of
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his staff members, who is too modest to be named,
was watching a podcast with Spencer Pratt when he was
describing all this, and because Sender Scott higher staff with
with the heart, with real compassion, that resonated with her,
she contacts Cender Scott, who she knew was going to
be flying back and stopping in Los Angeles and set
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up that meeting. So Santa Scott, who as you now know,
was Governor Florida and has dealt with disaster disaster, got
better at it, understands the problem. Toured the Palisades and
not like I've toured it shocked, I mean literally shocked me.
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Where's all the recovery, Where's all the construction, Where's all
the building. I will say that in terms of having
somebody in Congress in the Senate overseeing this investigation, this
is really his investigation, because he's got the expertise. You
could not find somebody better.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, to outsiders, to normal people on the outside, this
is so shocking and ridiculous and absurd, it's not to
be believed. And here, for some reason, I'm just going
to keep calling it battered voter syndrome. People have been
abused by our government repeatedly in really vicious, nasty ways
that nobody's even affected anymore. Even if you burned down
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a whole town, even if you have dozens of people die,
they just bumble along and vote the same bastards and
idiots in over and over again. Johnson talks about the
subpoena power he has. I want to get into this
when we come back. This is the Palisades Fire US
Senate hearing with Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Rick Scott
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from Florida, and I hope they go to the ends
of the earth to find out. And I want to
see Bass sweating. I want to see Bass and Kenonyez
and Crowley and all the city council members sweating having
to explain this consense.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI six.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
We have Built Saley coming on, the US Attorney for
the Central District here in California, and he's going to
talk to us about the Justice Department suing Gavin Newsom
for this Prop fifty redistricting plan. They say it's illegal, unconstitutional,
It violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
because it racially jerry manders. He will explain exactly the
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violations that the federal government is accusing Newsom of. Coming
up after three, and we will also have more on
Gavin Newsom's chief of staff, Dana Williamson, and others getting
indicted twenty three counts against Danny Williamson, chief of staff
for two years, doing some of the committing some of
the crimes while in the office next door to Newsom,
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stole a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And took out a phony COVID loan for a million.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
That's why she's got twenty three charges against her. And
she was very active in doing damage to California. She
tried to single handedly block Prop thirty six from reaching
the ballot last year. So she's a bad, bad person
and she's going to be getting hers now. And the
question is is Newsom involved?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
LA Times said they wanted her to wear a wire
around Newsom. Why would that be. We'll talk more with
Bill as Sale coming up. Let's now go back to
the other never ending scandal, which we are never going
to give up on here until there's consequences for Bass Newsom,
Quinonez Crowley. Today, the Senate had a hearing at the
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Palisades fire site in Pacific Palisades at the American Legion
Hall and played a number of clips. Ron Johnson, Republican
from Wisconsin, was there and he talked about subpoenas.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Play cut number nine.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I'm chairman of the PERMISLC investigation. I do have unlimited
subpoena power. I don't have to get votes or anything.
I just used this penis now we don't want to
do that. We're hoping for cooperation. But I've been investigating
now for better part of ten years. And let's face it,
government authorities are not particularly transparent. They'll turn you over documents,
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they'll give you tens of thousands of pages, but not
the good stuff. So I'm hoping you we don't have
to use that subpoena power. And we've gotten some productions,
but again nothing particularly revealing what we need.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
We need more people like Spencer.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
We need more people in the fire departments. I realize
they're concerned about retaliation, but we need whistleblowers. We need
people from the community coming forward and telling us what
they know. Documents text messages are incredibly important because if
we are forced to issue subpoenas, the fact that the
people that are supposed to comply with our subpoena is
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if they're thinking, well, somebody else may be sending them
this email, and it's going to look pretty bad if
I don't provide produce ad documents as well. Again, so
again I prefer not using those compulsory techniques, but I
think we're going to have to, and why because we
want to get to the bottom of this so we
can prevent disasters like this in the future.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And he talks about how the Palisades fire was due
to this incompetence, this negligence, and that it's never have happened.
Play cut number ten.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
This is completely unacceptable. What happened here, This is unacceptable
negligence after unacceptable negligence, lay it.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
On app for each other.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
The results in this there was an excellent article in
the Wall Street Journal by you remember of Congress time
of Clintock, and I could not even believe statistic. This
is shortly after the fires. Apparently in the late eighteen hundreds,
California was suffering for about four point five million acres
of fire, of acres being destroyed by fire. And this
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is the late eighteen hundreds, so they took care of it.
By the late nineteen hundreds, California is the only experiencing
about two hundred and fifty thousand acres being burned.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Then they abandoned all.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Those successful techniques, so you're back up to, you know,
a fire four point five million acres. Again, this is
there's no reason for it whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
One thing you have to remember is the Paradise fire
that killed eighty five people up in northern California a
few years ago, that was caused by PG and E.
The Altadena fire was caused by so Cal edison. The
Penal States fire was caused by an arsonists, and the
abandonment of the fire site by the LA Fire Department
had nothing to do with climate change. Newsom conveniently took
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this week off to go to Brazil and claim these
fires are from climate change. It's a complete lie. It's
total bulk crap. Meantime, all of a sudden, we've got
his chief of staff twenty three charges on corruption and
Newsom's been out of the country, stories that they wanted
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her to wear a wire against him. He's out of
the country claiming climate change for the fires that were
caused by his campaign downers or caused by an arsonist.
Not going to give up in any of this stuff.
We're going to have Bill saleon next. He is the
US Attorney for the Central District of California, and this
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next conversation is going to be about the Justice Department
suing Gavin Newsom over Prop fifty racial gerrymandering, which is
a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Equal
Protection Clause. All will be explained after Denver's news Deborah
Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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one day. Now I have further investigated with this is
the story of Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom's top aid for
two years chief of staff. She's charged by a federal
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grand jury with twenty three counts. By the way, for
those of you who have the knee jerk response, this
is just Trump glowing after Newsom.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
This started three years ago, the investigation during the Joe
Biden administration. Dana Williamson is legitimately a crook and she
was Newsome's top aid. And according to Williamson's attorney, they
wanted Williamson to tell them something incriminating about Newsom, and
she said she didn't have anything. And there's a line
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in the Time story that they wanted her to wear
a wire. I did clarify the Chanel fifteen dollars three
hundred and forty three dollars price tag. Oh, Chanell handbag.
Apparently a parrot earrings came with it. Yeah, the latest
reports added Chanel bag and earrings.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Okay, well that explains the high price type. And no,
I don't have Chanell earrings either. Well, you really are impoverished.
I really am. You're going wanting.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Let's get to James Gallagher, the Republican assemblyman in California,
And James, I got to start off by asking you
about this scandal. Dania Williamson, Newsom's chief of staff for
two years, has been around Fermento forever. She was in
the Jerry Brown administration, the Great Davis administration, and she's
been a lobbyist there, a fundraiser everything. What what's your
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reaction to this huge indictment of her and others?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Certainly shocking, but it's not surprising to me.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You know this, this woman was the same person under
Gavin Newsom who oversaw the Paneragate negotiations. You might remember
the fast food legislation that excluded Panera bread right in
those negotiations. Apparently people signed the NBA's so they could
shield this public legislation, you know, from the public. This
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is the same lady who tried to get Prop thirty
six pushed off the ballot using bullie tactics and the
governor's She may have also been doing these things on
the side.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The Panera scandal was that, uh, you had a minimum
wage law for fast food restaurants, but Panera was excluded,
and Newsome was getting donations from the Panera executive if
I remember correctly.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Uh. And so they had a friendship, you know, going
back many years. And you know it's kind of the
mo with Gavin is his friends seemed to get special
deals donors that got no bid contracts during COVID for example.
So you know, there's his administration has sort of been
mired in corrupt or underhanded tactics and Prop here is.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
The latest one.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And on Prop thirty six, she behind the scenes was
viciously trying was was working to get Prop thirty six
blocked from the ballot, trying to pull all kinds of
tricks to stop that, uh right, which.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean there were lead emails with her in the
DA's Association where you know, basically she was trying to
get them to take them as you're off the ballot.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know, they they designed these poison pill amendments to
try and you know, mess with uh about you know,
what would ltimately be a title in summary Uh, that
they would use to try and undermine property stakes. I
mean they did everything they could to have you know,
I would say, abused their power to make sure we
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wouldn't even have an opportunity to vote on the measure.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Uh do you do? Do you I wonder?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I mean not you probably wouldn't know. But there's some tantalizing.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Sentences in the I think I'm moving you a little
bit there. Go ahead and repeat that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There's some tantalizing sentences in the ALLA Time story on
Williamson's indictment where they asked her to wear a wire
and they wanted her to turn over information that she
knew about.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Knew some in a separate case. Have you heard anything
about this?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah? I did read about that. I thought I found
that very interesting. And you know, one of the things
we have, you know, I say that this is sort
of the tip of the iceberg, you know, the indictments happened,
but we already know there was co conspirators. We know
that there's people who have apparently taken plea deals, and
you know, what often happens in these federal investigations is that,
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you know, people start naming names and you know, obviously
we don't know all the details of that yet, but
it could be that this has greater you know, implications,
and that others could be you know, implicated in this
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Well, Williamson's co conspirator in this with Sean McCluskey, who
is the chief of staff for Javier Bsera. He's already
played guilty, so you have to wonder if he's now
flipping and naming names in order to get reduced since
since he made a plea deal already.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, I mean that is what we do see happen.
I mean, you know, none, no elected official has you know,
been named, you know or indicted in this investigation. But
you know that could it could prove that, you know,
more testimony leads to other other facts being uncovered, So
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we don't know. But the bottom line is this was
Gavin Newsom's top person in his office. We also know
that he put her on leave knowing that this investigation
was going on, and you know, it says a lot
about his judgment, you know that he puts someone like
this in place. And it's not just me saying, it's
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actually Democrats now coming out and talking about this and
talking about this woman's reputation, you know, and how she
has acted with others, and it wasn't even surprising to them,
all right.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You know, originally wanted to have you on to talk
about your proposal to put California into Can we do.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That another day?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Sure we could do that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Can we do that yet?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, well sometime in the next few days, why don't
you come back on and we'll devote more time to that.
But I've just got so much we got to get out,
with this corruption case and with the Palisades hearing going on,
and I don't want to give you short shrift. I
want a full airing. Okay, Sure, all right, James, thanks
very much. Similar, and James Gallagher asked, and when we
come back, we're going to play you a story from
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Ashley Zavala from CACRA Channel three in Sacramento, again the
only reporter that covers Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Uh, and she's got.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
She'll lay out the whole story about Dana Williamson, Newsom's
former chief of staff, who was asked when she was
approached by investigators.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
What does she have a Newsome?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
There might be a separate investigation, and La Times said
that Williamson's attorney indicated that she was asked to wear
a wire. She said, I don't have any information on
anything derogatory about Newsom, so but I am quite curious
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because there's so much corrupt activity that's affecting our lives,
from the sweetheart deals that PG and E and so
Cal Edison get, how they get to burn down entire
towns repeatedly and then we end up stuck with the
bill to pay for all the damages. We'll just start
with that these are bad people up in Sacka. I
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know we've got bad people in Los Angeles and it's
it's actually killing people and destroying lots of property, and
they're looting a lot of money. And Dana Williamson, I
agree with j James Gallery. This is just a tip
of the iceberg. So we'll give you a complete rundown
with a report from Ashley Zavala.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Next, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (08:57):
Gavin Newsom's right hand woman, Dana Williamson. She was chief
of staff for two years and she's involved in a
lot of the bad legislation that has made California such
a difficult place. While she got caught twenty three federal
corruption charges allegedly stealing campaign funds from Xavier Bisseera, the
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former attorney general who's running for.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Governor Jabber Bakaria, formerly in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
He had a couple hundred thousand dollars lining around account
and she punched it along with others. Here is a
good rundown from ZACHOMANOKCRAA Channel three reporter Ashley Zavalla.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Tonight, for the first time, we're learning Governor Gavin Newsom's
office says that Dana Williamson was put on leave as
soon as she informed them last year that she was
under criminal investigation. Dana Williamson is one of the most
powerful people in California's political system.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
She was arrested this.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Morning and released this afternoon on a five hundred thousand
dollars bond.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
She's accused of.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Conspiring with Javier Messeta's former chief of staff, Sean McCluskey,
to take two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from
Bessetta's political campaign account. Javid Messetta is the former US
Health and Human Services Secretary under President Joe Biden and
former California Attorney General. He is running for California governor
right now. Investigators say this happened between twenty twenty two
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and twenty twenty four, which started before but continued while
she was working for Governor Gavin Newsom. She faces twenty
three federal charges related to that, including wire fraud, bank fraud,
obstruction of justice, and false tax documents. Williamson pleaded not
guilty today in federal court. Her alleged co conspirators, Sean
McCluskey and well known Sacramento lobbyist Greg Campbell have plea deals,
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according to court documents. In a statement, JAVIERD. Massetta said, quote,
the news today of formal accusations of impropriety by a
long serving trusted advisor are a gut punch. I have
voluntarily cooperated with the US Department of Justice in their
investigation and will continue to do so. As California's former
attorney general. I fully comprehend the importance of allowing the
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investigation and legal process to run its course through the
justice system. Here's our exchange with Williamson and her attorney
when they came out of the courthouse. Would other California
officials and people involved in the government be concerned now
with this investigation underway?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Do you have any comment, Miss Williamson, You guys can
contact my attorney. Do you have anything to say at all?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Chris Williamson, do you have anything to say to Jabiota
Basata right now?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
He called this a gut punch living with prosecutors.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Miss Williams, And you have nothing to say with the
twenty three counts against you, alleging that you and co
conspirators funneled money to from baby's attorney stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I just said that you guys will contact my attorney
first day.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
You have nothing to say to the people of California,
Miss Williams, saying should governor get the news and be concerned?
Miss Williamson, governs, there's nothing nothing else with the twenty
two charges to other government officials in California. Other people
associated with the government be concerned here.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Sorry, I have no comment on that.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Thank you. This is this is a this is a
big case, sir. A lot of people could be involved.
Dana Williamson was a very powerful person in California's government.
There's there's nothing you can share at this moment. Can
you say when when we might have an update or
something from from you?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
So it won't be for me?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
Well she just referred. She just okay, so you won't
be her counsel.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
There's somebody about me.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Dana Williamson's next court date is scheduled for this December eleventh.
There are obviously a lot of conditions associated with her
release from custody today.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Again a blockbuster development here, and so a lot to
take in.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What are what are some area Democrats saying about it?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Excuse me?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Yeah, I've spent all day talking to lawmakers, people who
have worked with data, political consultants, all who are stunned
by this.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I was actually in a room full.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Of political consultants today as everyone was finding out at
the same time. So I'm wondering what more could come
from this investigation. Two questions I keep hearing moving forward
in all of this. One, how could this impact Governor
Gavin Newsom to how could this impact the candidate for governor,
Javetta Bassetta.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh, there was a room full of political consultants. You
mean like a room full of criminals. And you're telling
me they were shocked that you got arrested. Yeah, they
were a shocked that you did this. They were shocked
you got arrested. That's what the shock was. It's like
what they arrest for this stuff. Yeah, we're all in trouble.
That's nothing but a criminal operation going on in Sacramento.
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Let me tell you about part Another part of this
is that Williamson was also million dollars in COVID loans
and then she used them as business deductions for the
Chanel handbag.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And earrings and stop laughing. No burkin, no burkin.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Now, you know you can't get a burkin for fifteen thousand,
A new heating and air conditioning system, a luxury hotel
stay for Williamson's birthday, A ten thousand dollars cash gift
to a relative. Let me see what else here, Oh,
an eleven thousand dollars yacht rental in Mexico, the hotel
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stay for her birthday, one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars,
one hundred ten thousand dollars to a California theme park.
That's not possible. Now, what's the top Disneyland price?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I don't know, three hundred four hundred.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
How do you spend He spend ten thousand dollars at
a theme park, doesn't say which one.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So there's a lot of levels of corruption here. But
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
If you saw David Williamson, I think a lot went
to dinner and food purchases. John, She's not going hungry,
she's been eating well the last few years.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, she has the money. She's got the money. Yeah,
dakes lobster.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
She's not waiting for snap benefits to come in, not
looking for those food stamps.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No, And I can't get over.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But Sarah doesn't notice almost a quarter of a million
dollars missing from his campaign bank account.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
And I don't get that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And some of this went on while she was still
chief of staff for Newsom. They're trying to make it
at some stories like she was doing this while she
was in private practice. No, No, there's an overlap to
when she was chief of staff. She was running these operations.
And McCluskey, her partner, who was the chief of staff
for Xavier Besara. He's already pleaded guilty, so he's talking.
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This is gonna get good. And why did the Times
publish a line about her wanting they wanted the Feds
wanted her to wear a wire around Newsom, and they
wanted her to give details relating to another investigation. What's
that about? It's all skimmed over in a couple of lines.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Coming up after three o'clock. Here's another scandal. We're going
to have Bill A. Saley on the US Attorney for
the Central District here in Los Angeles, and the Justice
Department is filing a lawsuit against Gavin Newsom and the
Secretary of State Shirley Weber, saying this Prop fifty plan
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violates the US Constitution. It mandates racially jerrymandude congressional districts.
That violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
All these new districts that Newsom had drawn to benefit
the Democratic Party. Well, the Justice Department says this this
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violates the Constitution, uh specifically how it was done. Bill
Sale will explain to us. We also will next hour
do more on the UH on the federal case against
Newsom's chief of staff Dana Williamson and all the corruption
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charges against her, and again that started during the Biden administration,
twenty three charges others in government as well, including the
former chief of staff for Javier Sarah. So there's there,
they're there's They're getting a lot of the rats out.
But Sarah's former chief of staff has already pleaded guilty.
And there are rumors around Newsom that they asked Dana
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Williamson to wear a wire and that they wanted to
know if she knew anything the negative about Newsom there
might be a separate investigation.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
She said, no, I don't. We'll say Meantime, you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Had the US Senator Rick Scott from Florida, another US
Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin in town to investigate the
incompetence and absurdity of this Palisades fire, which never should
have happened.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
But between Newsom and Bass.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And the LA Fire Department everybody else in government, Palisades
gets wiped out, twelve people die, sixty eight hundred homes
are destroyed, and so it's Rick Scott and Rick Scott,
Ron Johnson came to town came to town to hold
a Senate hearing at the American Legion in Palisades. Let's
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play first cut seven, where Scott talks about how it
could have been prevented.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Natural disasters do not discriminate. It doesn't matter how old
you are, how much money you have, or how smart
you think you may be. If you aren't prepared, nothing
else matters. And while being prepared starts with you and
is vital for everyone, is also very important that your
local date and federal governments do all they can to
prevent disasters, and for those disasters that can't be prevented,
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they must be prepared to respond. I believe the Palastaates
fire was more than just a horrific tragedy. It was
an unacceptable failure of government to protect the lives and
property of its citizens. And we all know that this
fire hurt our seniors more than anyone else. Families in
this community deserve answers and accountability. Over the years, billions
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upon billions of federal tax dollars taxpayer dollars have been
directed to California to support fire management and disaster mitigation efforts.
Yet on the day of the Pacific Pali States fire,
reservoirs were empty, fire hirrants went dry and instant people,
including many Volmer seniors, perished, while thousands more lost their homes,
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businesses and everything they owned. While nothing can undo that
damage done by the Pacific Palistates fire, I am committed
to advocating for the victims, their families, and the community
to get answers and make sure this never happens anywhere
in our great country ever.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Again, this is really important, and I think Scott and
Johnson are going to push this to the limit. I
want to see. I want to see Bass being forced
to testify. She ought to be subpoened. Kristin Crowley should
be subpoenaed. Deenise Kinonez the d w P chief who
left the reservoir dry. Why is the reservoir dry? Why
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the hydrants do work? Why are we're like forty trucks busted?
Why don't we have mechanics? Why were the firefighters sent home?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Why? Why?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Why we waited for the after action investigations and they
were silent on a lot of these issues. It's all
been a whitewash and Bass is just bumbling along hoping
to get reelected, and all she cares about is standing
on stage for the Olympics. Let's play cut eight here.
This is Wisconsin Senator Republican Ron Johnson.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I think Spencer kind of asked the question, why do
we have senator from Wisconsin and the cenator from Florida
coming here to Palisades to open up a new investigation
on this. I want to tell the story because I
think it makes a couple important points. Santra Scott was
in the Philippines on a foreign trip and one of
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his staff members, who is too modest to be named,
was watching a podcast with Spencer Pratt when he was
describing all this, and because Sender Scott higher staff with
with the heart, with real compassion, that resonated with her,
she contacts Cender Scott, who she knew was going to
be flying back and stopping in Los Angeles and set
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up that meeting. So Santa Scott, who as you now know,
was Governor Florida and has dealt with disaster disaster, got
better at it, understands the problem. Toured the Palisades and
not like I've toured it shocked, I mean literally shocked me.
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Where's all the recovery, Where's all the construction, Where's all
the building. I will say that in terms of having
somebody in Congress in the Senate overseeing this investigation, this
is really his investigation, because he's got the expertise. You
could not find somebody better.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, to outsiders, to normal people on the outside, this
is so shocking and ridiculous and absurd, it's not to
be believed. And here, for some reason, I'm just going
to keep calling it battered voter syndrome. People have been
abused by our government repeatedly in really vicious, nasty ways
that nobody's even affected anymore. Even if you burned down
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a whole town, even if you have dozens of people die,
they just bumble along and vote the same bastards and
idiots in over and over again. Johnson talks about the
subpoena power he has. I want to get into this
when we come back. This is the Palisades Fire US
Senate hearing with Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Rick Scott
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from Florida, and I hope they go to the ends
of the earth to find out. And I want to
see Bass sweating. I want to see Bass and Kenonyez
and Crowley and all the city council members sweating having
to explain this consense.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI six.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
We have Built Saley coming on, the US Attorney for
the Central District here in California, and he's going to
talk to us about the Justice Department suing Gavin Newsom
for this Prop fifty redistricting plan. They say it's illegal, unconstitutional,
It violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
because it racially jerry manders. He will explain exactly the
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violations that the federal government is accusing Newsom of. Coming
up after three, and we will also have more on
Gavin Newsom's chief of staff, Dana Williamson, and others getting
indicted twenty three counts against Danny Williamson, chief of staff
for two years, doing some of the committing some of
the crimes while in the office next door to Newsom,
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stole a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And took out a phony COVID loan for a million.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
That's why she's got twenty three charges against her. And
she was very active in doing damage to California. She
tried to single handedly block Prop thirty six from reaching
the ballot last year. So she's a bad, bad person
and she's going to be getting hers now. And the
question is is Newsom involved?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
LA Times said they wanted her to wear a wire
around Newsom. Why would that be. We'll talk more with
Bill as Sale coming up. Let's now go back to
the other never ending scandal, which we are never going
to give up on here until there's consequences for Bass Newsom,
Quinonez Crowley. Today, the Senate had a hearing at the
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Palisades fire site in Pacific Palisades at the American Legion
Hall and played a number of clips. Ron Johnson, Republican
from Wisconsin, was there and he talked about subpoenas.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Play cut number nine.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I'm chairman of the PERMISLC investigation. I do have unlimited
subpoena power. I don't have to get votes or anything.
I just used this penis now we don't want to
do that. We're hoping for cooperation. But I've been investigating
now for better part of ten years. And let's face it,
government authorities are not particularly transparent. They'll turn you over documents,
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they'll give you tens of thousands of pages, but not
the good stuff. So I'm hoping you we don't have
to use that subpoena power. And we've gotten some productions,
but again nothing particularly revealing what we need.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
We need more people like Spencer.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
We need more people in the fire departments. I realize
they're concerned about retaliation, but we need whistleblowers. We need
people from the community coming forward and telling us what
they know. Documents text messages are incredibly important because if
we are forced to issue subpoenas, the fact that the
people that are supposed to comply with our subpoena is
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if they're thinking, well, somebody else may be sending them
this email, and it's going to look pretty bad if
I don't provide produce ad documents as well. Again, so
again I prefer not using those compulsory techniques, but I
think we're going to have to, and why because we
want to get to the bottom of this so we
can prevent disasters like this in the future.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And he talks about how the Palisades fire was due
to this incompetence, this negligence, and that it's never have happened.
Play cut number ten.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
This is completely unacceptable. What happened here, This is unacceptable
negligence after unacceptable negligence, lay it.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
On app for each other.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
The results in this there was an excellent article in
the Wall Street Journal by you remember of Congress time
of Clintock, and I could not even believe statistic. This
is shortly after the fires. Apparently in the late eighteen hundreds,
California was suffering for about four point five million acres
of fire, of acres being destroyed by fire. And this
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is the late eighteen hundreds, so they took care of it.
By the late nineteen hundreds, California is the only experiencing
about two hundred and fifty thousand acres being burned.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Then they abandoned all.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Those successful techniques, so you're back up to, you know,
a fire four point five million acres. Again, this is
there's no reason for it whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
One thing you have to remember is the Paradise fire
that killed eighty five people up in northern California a
few years ago, that was caused by PG and E.
The Altadena fire was caused by so Cal edison. The
Penal States fire was caused by an arsonists, and the
abandonment of the fire site by the LA Fire Department
had nothing to do with climate change. Newsom conveniently took
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this week off to go to Brazil and claim these
fires are from climate change. It's a complete lie. It's
total bulk crap. Meantime, all of a sudden, we've got
his chief of staff twenty three charges on corruption and
Newsom's been out of the country, stories that they wanted
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her to wear a wire against him. He's out of
the country claiming climate change for the fires that were
caused by his campaign downers or caused by an arsonist.
Not going to give up in any of this stuff.
We're going to have Bill saleon next. He is the
US Attorney for the Central District of California, and this
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next conversation is going to be about the Justice Department
suing Gavin Newsom over Prop fifty racial gerrymandering, which is
a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Equal
Protection Clause. All will be explained after Denver's news Deborah
Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Ruthie's Table 4
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.