August 11, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (08/11) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about whether or not Pres. Trump had the legal authority to send the National Guard to LA. A kitten was saved on the freeway. More on Gov. Newsom changing his tune towards the oil industry. More on ICE activity and the cooperation (or lack thereof) from certain states.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the podcast version. The Politico wrote a story today, but
the headline is anyone in charge of Los Angeles, national
political website, usually very sympathetic to left wing governments, is
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anyone in charge of Los Angeles? And this comes on
the heels of the La Times pointing out that Newsom
is in major trouble with his climate policies because twenty
percent of the oil refinery capacity is going to disappear
in about a year or less, so slowly. Now some
of the remaining media is wake it up. We'll talk
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about that coming up. So Trump took on Washington d
took over Washington dcat today some ways it's not a state.
So he decided the National Guard is going to set
up shop in DC. He's sent in FBI agents. He
wants the criminals gone, the homeless gone, and he's put
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himself in charge of the Metro Police Department in Washington. Meantime,
in La Trump said in the National Guard, as you know,
during June for the Ice riots, and it was never
fully decided whether what he did was legal and.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Constitutional or not.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The appeals court, the Ninth Circuit based here in California,
said well, you can keep the National Guard here for now,
but we need a trial. Well, today the trial is
supposed to start, and we're going to talk now with
Alex Stone to see if there was any progress made
in this. Alex, How are you hey there, John? Yeah,
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So the trial is underway right now, testimony is going on.
It's in San Francisco, and you know, an issue here,
a lot of politics, and then you have a lot
of people who say, yeah, California needs to be cleaned up,
or La needs to be cleaned up, so send in
the National Guard, send in the active duty Marines. But
was it actually legal under the Posse Comatatis Act to
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do that and the Constitution? You imagine if Biden had
sent in troops into a red state in to Texas
and took over areas around Dallas or something like that,
would it have been felt the same way among those
who were.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
In support of it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So it's the legality of all of this, and it's
in a Federal Courtroom in the Bay Area. The first
question the power of federalizing the California National Guard. Does
the president have that power to go around the governor
during civil unrest and to do that? In two, did
sending the National Guard and active duty Marines into La
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violate that posse Coomatatis Act, which forbids the military from
being used for domestic law enforcement on US soil unless
an insurrection has been declared, which President Trump did not declare.
So you remember during everything going on in June that
the President saying that he had to send them in.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
We didn't send in the National Guard quickly. Right now
Los Angeles would be burning to the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But in doing so, he federalized troops, taking a very
rare step taking control of the National Guard away from
a governor, the governor not wanting it. Not since nineteen
sixty five with Lyndon Johnson in Alabama when the National
Guard was sent in to protect the rights of protesters
has that been done. And as we all know, Governor Newsom,
Mayor Bass, even Chief McDonald had concerns about them coming
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in and that they weren't consulted and domestic police and
the military initially weren't on the same page as they
were coming in all of that, the newsom is set
over and over again, this was a violation of US law.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Must work under the constraints as a constitutional officer of
the Constitution of the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So John California sued judge. This judge that now is
holding the truck ruled it appeared on the surface that
initially and temporarily that the president, that Trump broke the
law and ordered that the troops be stopped. That was
two months ago. Now it went to the Ninth Circuit,
and the Ninth Circuit they heard these arguments and where
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the attorneys for Trump said that the troops were legal,
and that he has broad powers and can do however
he sees fit.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The import recognizes that when a statute is delegating broad
discretion to the.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
President, broad discretion to the president. That was during the
testimony at the Ninth Circuit. The lawyers from California said, no,
he can't do whatever he wants. He circummitted the governor
who did not receive the order and who certainly did
not issue it. And as you mentioned that, the Ninth
Circuit pretty much said, look, we don't know in this moment,
initially so quick as everything was going down in June,
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he does have broad powers.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
How broad are they?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And to second guests the president's powers in that moment
without a trial, they didn't want to do. So today
is at actual trial. Lawyers this morning began calling up
military commanders, testifying on the role the military played, how
the troops were trained, what their role was as they
were going in into the streets of la and then
as it became not just protecting the federal building downtown
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but going out on traffic stops and raids with ice
and whether that violates the Possecomatatis Act or they then
law enforcement in the streets of a US city. Federal
lawyers say, well, the president can deploy troops if federal
law enforcement is overwhelmed, and they say they were in
that moment. California lawyers are saying, no, that's totally wrong
under possecomatatis and they cannot be used for domestic law enforcement.
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So you know, the arguments will continue. This judge who
already said the president violated the law, very likely we'll
say that again. And then yeah, Circuit, I didn't realize
the trial was going back to the same judge who
ruled against Trump the first time. Yeah, now the judge
will have heard the arguments and seeing the evidence and whatnot.
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But then it'll probably go back to the Ninth Circuit
and then probably to the Supreme Court, and it'll be
up to the Supreme Court. But a question of not
just politically what you believe in this moment, but in
the powers of the president. Can he deploy the military
in this way? And that's going to be up to
the court. Well, a lot of this is a judgment
call whether you think the situation is serious enough to
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warrant it or not right, and how far the troops
went in doing what civilian police do in the regular
duties that they do every day. There is the issue
that insurrection was not declared, which then would have wiped
out possecomatatus and then they could have been law enforcement.
There's also the issue that if Governor Knewsom deployed them,
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they could have done law enforcement duties and had arrest
powers and whatnot. But because the president federalized them, that
then kicks in possecomatadis and they could not do that. So,
I mean, there theoretically was a moment where Newsom could
have deployed them and they could have had access to
do more out on the streets than those that were
deployed by the president and could not do it. It
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could have gotten very confusing. But it's a question of
just how much power does the president have and did
Trump go beyond what what the Yeah, well, I mean
what the design of the law is, right, But I
mean when you when you have governor doesn't doesn't doesn't
take action, can the president do what he needs to do?
I mean I saw, you know, we all saw the
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cement blocks crashing through the windows of those patrol cars.
You know, at that point it's like, yeah, I think
we need backup here. I think we need the National Guard.
But again it comes down to what the law is.
It can be thought of in any number of ways
of that that help was needed or not needed. You know,
there were many who did not think it was needed,
beyond local police and federal agents who were there. So,
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but at what point is it allowed under the law,
not just hey it would be nice to have them there,
or hey you have to wait till it gets really
bad and then you send to the National Guard. Now
there's steps that have to be taken like declaring an insurrection,
which you know he did not do. So it's going
to come down to the letter of the law of
how much does the president have the authority to do
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what he did? And the courts may come down, especially
with the Ninth Circuit, they already did come down in
favor of him. Definitely, the Supreme Court in the current
makeup may very much say that President Trump had every
ability under his broad powers to do what he did.
All right, Thank you very much, Alex Stone, You got it.
Thank John Alex Stone, ABC News. You know, most people
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want to live in a peaceful, crime free, vagrant free environment.
And at what point does somebody say our civil rights
are being violated here and I want some outside force,
even if it's the federal government or the National Guard
of the Marines.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
To put everything in order. I mean, I'm tired of
having my civil rights.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm tired of being afraid to walk down a sidewalk
with the tremendous amount of taxes that I pay, and
I can't walk to the ursery store some days because
of this disgusting crazy person who's been there for weeks
that nobody wants to pick up.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Now, Now do we have the right to walk.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Freely without fearing insane people killing us. Because it's not
just about the crime rate, it's about the fear rate.
And when you have lunatics in the street, why can't,
like in Washington, d c. Trump come in and clean
them all up? Why can't he do that? Aren't they
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as everybody's civil rights are getting violated here? Why do
we have to let the lunatics rule, the drug addicts,
the mental patience, the criminals rule. And these these progressive
idiot politicians, why do they get to control our life.
I'm so sick of people being scared of constantly looking
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at your shoulder. And you know, if Trump wants to
come in with the with the Marines, come in, just
clean it up, clean it up, then you go home.
Do more on this coming up.
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
The video you just sent me is nuts.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You don't think it's sweet? No, what do you mean? No?
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No?
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You have a cat?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Uh? There's a video KTLA has it on the website
of a woman trying to coax a cat off the
highway divider.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
A teeny teeny little.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Kitten Interstate fifteen cohone pass. So the kitten is sitting
on top of the cement divider. Yeah, well, because they
pulled over to the side of the road.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
She had a car full of.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Kids, yes, but the traffic was moving slowly.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And so she's offering the kitten some of her children's lunchable.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, because the kitten was scared, so she couldn't get
the kitten, so she had to bribe it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
How people get killed? Okay, parked on the shoulders along
the brig.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
You're going, if you're going kind of slow, there's not
a lot of traffic, and you see a teeny tiny
little kitten terrified and that you would just drive away.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
When traffic slows down, people start staring at their phones
and they'll veer off and slaughter you.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
But once your first instinct be oh my gosh, I've
got to go try and save that little kitten.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, not on a freeway.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I mean, I can understand.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I can't. You got a bunch of kids in the car,
and the husband's there too.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Well, the kids were filming her recording.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Of course, they're proud of mom. I admit it's very
very dangerous, Okay, but.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yes, right, your kids are small, you pull over to
the side of INTERT fifty probably would you probably would.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Look, I told you, I stopped in the middle of
the street coming home from my kids' school where my dog,
Lucky I named him Lucky, was zigzagging in traffic in
the middle of a very busy road, and I stopped
and I opened my car door and he jumped in
and the rest was history.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Did you see her pick up the cat it started
fighting her, well because she.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Didn't want to be rescued.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yes, she did, she did?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
She did? Or he did?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yes, and the lady fed the kit lunchable. Those things
are disgusting.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
But again, look, she could have just said, Okay, screw
you cat.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I am not stopping on a freeway for a cat. No,
a dog maybe.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Oh can you imagine if a little puppy was up there.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
They brought the animal to a vet who said the
cat had two types of worms and was covered in fleas. Well,
there's the kids are going to have worms and fleas.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Next, No, not necessarily, jeez.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, the husband was very supportive.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
See the biggest shout out to my husband, Matt, because
he was so kind and supportive when I went on
another one of my crazy adventures.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh, she's a kind human.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
This was his chance to drive off and he didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And he didn't because he respects his wife's love of animals.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
On a freeway.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
It was a slow day.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And how did the cat get up there and all
that traffic?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
I have no idea. It's somebody abandoned it somewhere.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Well, and it flees and worms. That's why.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Because it's living out on the streets.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
It was abandon It's not a house cat, obviously.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I just the cat really fought her pretty hard. Easily,
she easily could have lost control of it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And would it ended up in the.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yeah, but you know what, it didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We would have gotten the big splat. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I like that rat that you and Eric posted and
giggled about on Friday.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Did you post that? I retweeted the video.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Not everybody was happy, No, not everyone was. Yeah, they
were on my side.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
There was there was There was a bird chasing a
rat across a road and just as the just as
the rat was getting away, it got completely squished by
a truck.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
And John and Eric were cackling like crazy people about it.
And I said it's not funny, and some very smart
listeners at the John Cobelt Show agreed with me.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Would you rather get a slow, painful death being eaten
by a hawk or a quick painless one from a wheel?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I wouldn't want to see either.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He didn't know what was coming. He experienced no pain. There,
everything just went black just to split second. All right,
there's a there's story in Politico, which is usually kind
to left wing progressive politicians. Is anyone in charge of
(15:19):
Los Angeles as the city grapples with its post fire recovery. Yeah,
and pre Olympic planning, business and labor leaders had both
given up on working through city Hall. You get this,
business and labor leaders no longer working with Karen Bass,
and so they're both going to the ballot box in
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advance of the Olympics because the unions got thirty dollars
minimum wage policies passed here in Los Angeles. And now
the business community is saying, well, no, we can't do this.
We're good, We're going to go out of business. And
I know firsthand talking to some business owners who say
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thirty bucks were gone. We can't The math doesn't add up.
And the thing is, you have such bizarre fanatics who
are in who are math illiterates. They have been warned
repeatedly that you can't make a thirty dollars an hour
minimum wage. So then I want to do this before
the Olympics, especially in the hospitality industry hotels and restaurants.
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Greg Plumber runs a two hundred and fifty employee concessions
company at Lax and he says the business community worked
for nearly two years on this particular issue trying to
educate the city council members. They're as dumb as that
cat sitting on the sitting on the barrier, educating their
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council members, the staff, their business, and their legislative liaisons
on the impacts of what this minimum wage order would do.
A lot of those messages fell on deaf ears. This
is what's frustrating. They did vote city council and it
passed twelve to three to jack up the minimum wage
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to thirty bucks an hour. Twelve to three at one
the most destructive, most stupid. I mean, it's just basic math,
and you could have you could have a lot of
businesses in the hotels just refusing to participate in the Olympics.
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I think a group of hotels have already threatened that
the head of the union is something named Anton Farmby.
It's extremely difficult for someone to live here that's making
seventeen eighteen nineteen an hour. They represent airport workers. Yes,
I'm sure it is. But if you if you tax
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restaurants and hotels with thirty dollars an hour minimum wages,
they're simply going to go out of business or they're
simply going to move. You can't take a minimum wage
job and expect to earn a living for a family.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's impossible. That's absolutely impossible.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And by the way, if you're upset about the cost
of affordability, how about this one. Get Governor Newsom to
dismantle all his climate policies against the oil and gas
refinery companies. Get rid of all the gas taxes, go
back to go back to using the energy for electricity
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that's based on natural gas, nuclear power, stop with solar
and wind power. I looked up the electricity rates in California.
They are double double the national average. Double some states,
it's triple more than I went through all the states,
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and their cost per kill a lot hour so we
pay double the electricity, We pay almost double the gas
prices compared to some states. And that's a big reason
why things are unaffordable because that massive cost for energy,
oil and gas leaks into every product, every service business
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in the state, and all the environmental policies keep developers
from building homes. So that's why real estate costs so much.
Having millions of illegal aliens live here, that eats up
a lot of real estate space, that's a lot of
homes and apartments that could be lived in by American citizens.
That depresses the supply by billions, and then the developers
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can't build. The gas prices are almost double, the electricity
prices are in some cases triple.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That's who you go after.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You can't jack around the the restaurants and hotels anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
They're tapped out. Is anyone in charge of Los.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Angeles going to keep this thing on file because they're
they're afraid. They're afraid. Business owners are afraid. Obviously, even
the head of the Olympics here in l A. K. C.
Wasserman is afraid. That's why they called on Trump to
to weigh in and to try to run things. This
place is an out of control disaster. There's only the
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very stupid running things.
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Speaker 1 (20:40):
Let's get going. Let's be off to a strong start here.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's funny nonsense going on eight seven seven mois d
eaighty six. Or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio
app Last Hour I told you about about You know, finally,
now the media is turning on Gavin Newsom because they realize,
they realize the threat of extremely expensive gasoline is real.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
We were the first ones to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
We had Michael MChE On, the USA professor who tipped
us off to what was going on with a myriad
of reasons for a massive gas price increase. And you
know what the Newsomb administration, a bunch of arrogant bastards did.
They smeared Mische, They tried to smear and destroy his credibility,
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and it was.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
All lies and they were wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And now Mache's getting the last laugh because everything that
he said that he told us on the air when
we were the only media outlet covering it, the only
show has turned out to be true, and Newsom is
really embarrassed right now because because his plan worked. His
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plan was to destroy the oil and gas industry here
in California, regulate him to death with climate change policy, seas,
tax them to death, tax the gas at the pump
to death, and eventually the oil industry would crumble and
we'd be forced into electric cars.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We were mandated anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But if we resisted, well, the gas was going to
be you know, twelve to fifteen dollars a gallon or
there was just not going to be any gas available.
And we're gon we're getting closer and closer to that
in a state that used to have over forty refineries
and even twenty five years ago had over twenty refineries,
maybe down to six in a matter of months, and
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may be producing so little oil that our biggest oil
pipeline may shut down because there's not enough oil to
create pressure. This along with a low carbon fuel standard
from the idiots at the California Air Resources Board, the
pipeline shutting down, Two oil refineries shutting down, one in Benetia,
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one in Well. And now finally, everything that Michael mcchey
said turned out to be true. Everything that we talked
about turned out to be true, and Newsom is panicking.
Last hour, we told you about the La Times story
on it now.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The San Jose Mercury.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
News and says that the expected closures of two oil
refineries has newsome a global leader on climate action, acting
uncharacteristically friendly with the fossil fuel industry. Newsom wants to
prevent gasoline shortages and a higher prices at the pump.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
He wants to extract more oil. He wants to pump
more oil. He wants to invest in infrastructure at the ports.
He wants to import more refined gasoline. And they are
going to delay plans to strictly regulate refineries even further.
They also had the California Energy Commission was about to
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im implement a law that would limit the price the
profits that oil companies can earn. There was a twenty
twenty three law that Newsom inspired and signed that authorized
the California Energy Commission to set a cap on profits
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and penalize refiners if they exceed the limit.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Newson was a big champion of the law.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let me remind you again of the gas price disparity
in this country. I mean, I'm gonna go hold on
to the tab again. We are at four point fifty
a gallon. Mississippi's at two sixty nine. Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas,
South Carolina in the two seventies. Another one, two, three, four, five,
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eight states is in the two eighties, another set of
states in the two nineties. There's about thirty states that
are below three bucks a gallon. But you know what
Newsom said as recently as October, They're screwing you. They've
been screwing you for years and years and years. There's
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no other way to put it. He was blaming the
oil companies for the state's high gas prices, accusing them
of price gouging.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
They're screwing you. They've been screwing you for years.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
No, no, why would they pick only California, Mississippi's two
sixty nine. I'm gonna keep repeating this till I dropped
dead here. He is the worst.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He not only.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Instituted these policies which have led to extremely high gas
prices two bucks more than you'll find in some states,
two bucks more a gallon, extremely extremely restrictive climate change policies, useless, worthless,
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climate change policies has done nothing for the climate. Oil
companies give up and say, fine, we're closing this refinery,
are closing that refinery, will get out of here.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh wall wait wait wait, what a dummy, He's a
stupid man. Would you do this?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
He did not have an electrical grid in place to
replace oil and gas. How dumb is that he did
not have electric charging stations in place?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
How dumb is that.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
He drove Elon Musk out of the state when Musk
had the only popular electric car in the marketplace, and
most of do. Some supporters hate Musk and won't drive
his cars anymore and won't buy his cars anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, now what.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We're gonna have a shortage of oil, a shortage of gas,
no electric charging stations, no electric grid to supply the energy.
You have one of the largest oil reserves in the
country beneath the Bakersfield area. Nobody can drill it. Oil
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permits have dropped to almost nothing in this state. He
won't allow it, So we can't drill for the oil.
We can't refine the oil. There's no replacement. He tried
shutting down natural gas plants and had to reverse that.
He tried shutting down a nuclear reactor had to reverse that.
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Imagine this, no gas, no oil, no natural gas, no nuclear,
just wind and solar. But the hell, you can't run
a car on wind and solar. And he wants to
be president and some people are going to vote for
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him for president. Good lord, And finally, finally, the local
media is turning on his stupid ass. They're screwing you.
They've been screwing you for years and years and years. Yeah,
they only screw California drivers. Just look at the scoreboard. Okay,
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California four point fifty gallon.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Mississippi two sixty nine. That's the scoreboard.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Even the climate fanatics agree. These refineries closing is going
to lead to shortages of gasoline.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Newsom said they're looking for a buyer for the Valero plant.
They haven't found one yet. I have never seen such
aggressive destruction by anybody. And his approval rating is still
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higher than his disapproval rating. What does the guy have
to do? What does the guy have to do? Before
even a majority of the state says, boy, he's really
bad at this. They shouldn't let him anywhere near the presidency.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
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And thank you to all the people who have donated
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so please keep the money coming in if you can.
Tim will have plenty of details in just minutes. You
know you would think by following the news that California
(30:44):
had more arrest than any other state when it came
to rounding up illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Do you know we are.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Well behind well behind Texas and Florida. Funny you don't
hear about any protests or riots or controversies in Texas
and Florida. In fact, Texas had over twenty six thousand arrests.
That's almost a quarter of the entire nation. Florida had
(31:14):
about thirteen thousand. California a relatively small amount considering the
size of the state and the size of the illegal
alien population. In fact, I know for months it seemed
like nothing was going on here. So Texas had twenty
six thousand, Florida thirteen thousand, California eight thousand. Who's doing
(31:36):
all the bitching and complaining California When you factor in population,
California drops to twenty seventh in the nation two hundred
and seventeen arrests per million residents. That's a quarter of
Texas's rate, less than half of Florida, Arkansas, Utah, Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Nevada.
(31:59):
Nobody's complaining those states. There's no riots. You don't have
crazy mayores screaming at ice officials. You know how nuts
we look. Trump didn't have to call out the National
Guard or the marines for any of these other states.
Two of these states had way more in terms of numbers,
(32:21):
and many states had a much higher rate factoring in population.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
And so what you're going to see is a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
More ICE action in California, not less, because you get
Newsome and Bass screaming and whining like little babies when
he's only enforcing federal law. And part of the reason
that Texas and Florida have much higher arrest numbers as
(32:59):
they have Republican governors, and those governors and those governments
are cooperating, they work directly with ICE, And as one
professor at Syracuse says, what you're seeing is performative politics.
(33:20):
You have Bass in Newsom performing for the progressive interests
in their party. They're not actually having much of an effect.
We still had eighty four hundred arrests anyway. But this
is the way state officials should be reacting the officials
(33:41):
in other states. In Florida and Texas, the federal government
comes in and says, we have to enforce federal law.
Now are you going to help us? And they say yes, absolutely,
because this is what the citizens voted for, this is
what they want. This is a good policy that benefits Americans,
(34:02):
American taxpayers, and benefits American cities. Only California has made
this big, stupid, embarrassing ruckus and it's all gonna happen anyway.
They're just showing off to everybody's showing off the progressives.
(34:23):
And there's something called the Criminal Alien Program that requests
local law enforcement identify illegal aliens in prisons in jails.
Could be a federal state prison, it could be a
local jail, but the Criminal Alien Program is very important. See,
(34:47):
ICE can arrest them in prison, in jail. They don't
have to go out on the street. You don't have
to have these public incidents. Only seven percent of ICE
arrests made this year were made at the prisons in jails.
In Texas, it's fifty five percent of the arrests because
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the Texas Governor Greg Abbott is a rational person and
if you're going to arrest them anyway, arrest them in jail.
Forty six percent of the arrest in Florida in prisons
in jails. That's the smart way to do this. It's quiet,
it's peaceful. Instead, Newsoman Bass used tax money to fund
(35:35):
protest groups to create riot situations. You imagine this responsible
governors and mayors say, how can we help, Why don't
you come to our jails in prisons get a big
head start on this Newsoman Bass refused to help, and
they they use our money to incite the riot. Look
(35:58):
at Sherla. Look at Sherla and the thirty four million
dollars they have in state funding and their entire organization
is about right now, is about funding resistance, about inciting rioting.
That's the whole purpose of journer right now, and we
pay for it. Seventy five percent of ice arrest in Alabama,
(36:21):
seventy one percent in Indiana prisons, in jails.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
We're gonna have that here.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But we have we have idiots performative, the great word,
just play acting so the progressives can get pleasure. All right,
We've got Conway coming up in minutes. We'll be back
tomorrow and we have Michael Krozer live in the CAFI twenty.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Four our newsroom.
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the podcast version. The Politico wrote a story today, but
the headline is anyone in charge of Los Angeles, national
political website, usually very sympathetic to left wing governments, is
(00:31):
anyone in charge of Los Angeles? And this comes on
the heels of the La Times pointing out that Newsom
is in major trouble with his climate policies because twenty
percent of the oil refinery capacity is going to disappear
in about a year or less, so slowly. Now some
of the remaining media is wake it up. We'll talk
(00:54):
about that coming up. So Trump took on Washington d
took over Washington dcat today some ways it's not a state.
So he decided the National Guard is going to set
up shop in DC. He's sent in FBI agents. He
wants the criminals gone, the homeless gone, and he's put
(01:15):
himself in charge of the Metro Police Department in Washington. Meantime,
in La Trump said in the National Guard, as you know,
during June for the Ice riots, and it was never
fully decided whether what he did was legal and.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Constitutional or not.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The appeals court, the Ninth Circuit based here in California,
said well, you can keep the National Guard here for now,
but we need a trial. Well, today the trial is
supposed to start, and we're going to talk now with
Alex Stone to see if there was any progress made
in this. Alex, How are you hey there, John? Yeah,
(01:54):
So the trial is underway right now, testimony is going on.
It's in San Francisco, and you know, an issue here,
a lot of politics, and then you have a lot
of people who say, yeah, California needs to be cleaned up,
or La needs to be cleaned up, so send in
the National Guard, send in the active duty Marines. But
was it actually legal under the Posse Comatatis Act to
(02:15):
do that and the Constitution? You imagine if Biden had
sent in troops into a red state in to Texas
and took over areas around Dallas or something like that,
would it have been felt the same way among those
who were.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
In support of it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So it's the legality of all of this, and it's
in a Federal Courtroom in the Bay Area. The first
question the power of federalizing the California National Guard. Does
the president have that power to go around the governor
during civil unrest and to do that? In two, did
sending the National Guard and active duty Marines into La
(02:53):
violate that posse Coomatatis Act, which forbids the military from
being used for domestic law enforcement on US soil unless
an insurrection has been declared, which President Trump did not declare.
So you remember during everything going on in June that
the President saying that he had to send them in.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
We didn't send in the National Guard quickly. Right now
Los Angeles would be burning to the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But in doing so, he federalized troops, taking a very
rare step taking control of the National Guard away from
a governor, the governor not wanting it. Not since nineteen
sixty five with Lyndon Johnson in Alabama when the National
Guard was sent in to protect the rights of protesters
has that been done. And as we all know, Governor Newsom,
Mayor Bass, even Chief McDonald had concerns about them coming
(03:38):
in and that they weren't consulted and domestic police and
the military initially weren't on the same page as they
were coming in all of that, the newsom is set
over and over again, this was a violation of US law.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Must work under the constraints as a constitutional officer of
the Constitution of the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So John California sued judge. This judge that now is
holding the truck ruled it appeared on the surface that
initially and temporarily that the president, that Trump broke the
law and ordered that the troops be stopped. That was
two months ago. Now it went to the Ninth Circuit,
and the Ninth Circuit they heard these arguments and where
(04:16):
the attorneys for Trump said that the troops were legal,
and that he has broad powers and can do however
he sees fit.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The import recognizes that when a statute is delegating broad
discretion to the.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
President, broad discretion to the president. That was during the
testimony at the Ninth Circuit. The lawyers from California said, no,
he can't do whatever he wants. He circummitted the governor
who did not receive the order and who certainly did
not issue it. And as you mentioned that, the Ninth
Circuit pretty much said, look, we don't know in this moment,
initially so quick as everything was going down in June,
(04:47):
he does have broad powers.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
How broad are they?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And to second guests the president's powers in that moment
without a trial, they didn't want to do. So today
is at actual trial. Lawyers this morning began calling up
military commanders, testifying on the role the military played, how
the troops were trained, what their role was as they
were going in into the streets of la and then
as it became not just protecting the federal building downtown
(05:12):
but going out on traffic stops and raids with ice
and whether that violates the Possecomatatis Act or they then
law enforcement in the streets of a US city. Federal
lawyers say, well, the president can deploy troops if federal
law enforcement is overwhelmed, and they say they were in
that moment. California lawyers are saying, no, that's totally wrong
under possecomatatis and they cannot be used for domestic law enforcement.
(05:34):
So you know, the arguments will continue. This judge who
already said the president violated the law, very likely we'll
say that again. And then yeah, Circuit, I didn't realize
the trial was going back to the same judge who
ruled against Trump the first time. Yeah, now the judge
will have heard the arguments and seeing the evidence and whatnot.
(05:54):
But then it'll probably go back to the Ninth Circuit
and then probably to the Supreme Court, and it'll be
up to the Supreme Court. But a question of not
just politically what you believe in this moment, but in
the powers of the president. Can he deploy the military
in this way? And that's going to be up to
the court. Well, a lot of this is a judgment
call whether you think the situation is serious enough to
(06:17):
warrant it or not right, and how far the troops
went in doing what civilian police do in the regular
duties that they do every day. There is the issue
that insurrection was not declared, which then would have wiped
out possecomatatus and then they could have been law enforcement.
There's also the issue that if Governor Knewsom deployed them,
(06:40):
they could have done law enforcement duties and had arrest
powers and whatnot. But because the president federalized them, that
then kicks in possecomatadis and they could not do that. So,
I mean, there theoretically was a moment where Newsom could
have deployed them and they could have had access to
do more out on the streets than those that were
deployed by the president and could not do it. It
(07:00):
could have gotten very confusing. But it's a question of
just how much power does the president have and did
Trump go beyond what what the Yeah, well, I mean
what the design of the law is, right, But I
mean when you when you have governor doesn't doesn't doesn't
take action, can the president do what he needs to do?
I mean I saw, you know, we all saw the
(07:22):
cement blocks crashing through the windows of those patrol cars.
You know, at that point it's like, yeah, I think
we need backup here. I think we need the National Guard.
But again it comes down to what the law is.
It can be thought of in any number of ways
of that that help was needed or not needed. You know,
there were many who did not think it was needed,
beyond local police and federal agents who were there. So,
(07:45):
but at what point is it allowed under the law,
not just hey it would be nice to have them there,
or hey you have to wait till it gets really
bad and then you send to the National Guard. Now
there's steps that have to be taken like declaring an insurrection,
which you know he did not do. So it's going
to come down to the letter of the law of
how much does the president have the authority to do
(08:07):
what he did? And the courts may come down, especially
with the Ninth Circuit, they already did come down in
favor of him. Definitely, the Supreme Court in the current
makeup may very much say that President Trump had every
ability under his broad powers to do what he did.
All right, Thank you very much, Alex Stone, You got it.
Thank John Alex Stone, ABC News. You know, most people
(08:30):
want to live in a peaceful, crime free, vagrant free environment.
And at what point does somebody say our civil rights
are being violated here and I want some outside force,
even if it's the federal government or the National Guard
of the Marines.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
To put everything in order. I mean, I'm tired of
having my civil rights.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm tired of being afraid to walk down a sidewalk
with the tremendous amount of taxes that I pay, and
I can't walk to the ursery store some days because
of this disgusting crazy person who's been there for weeks
that nobody wants to pick up.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Now, Now do we have the right to walk.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Freely without fearing insane people killing us. Because it's not
just about the crime rate, it's about the fear rate.
And when you have lunatics in the street, why can't,
like in Washington, d c. Trump come in and clean
them all up? Why can't he do that? Aren't they
(09:32):
as everybody's civil rights are getting violated here? Why do
we have to let the lunatics rule, the drug addicts,
the mental patience, the criminals rule. And these these progressive
idiot politicians, why do they get to control our life.
I'm so sick of people being scared of constantly looking
(09:54):
at your shoulder. And you know, if Trump wants to
come in with the with the Marines, come in, just
clean it up, clean it up, then you go home.
Do more on this coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The video you just sent me is nuts.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You don't think it's sweet? No, what do you mean? No?
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No?
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You have a cat?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Uh? There's a video KTLA has it on the website
of a woman trying to coax a cat off the
highway divider.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
A teeny teeny little.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Kitten Interstate fifteen cohone pass. So the kitten is sitting
on top of the cement divider. Yeah, well, because they
pulled over to the side of the road.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
She had a car full of.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Kids, yes, but the traffic was moving slowly.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And so she's offering the kitten some of her children's lunchable.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, because the kitten was scared, so she couldn't get
the kitten, so she had to bribe it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
How people get killed? Okay, parked on the shoulders along
the brig.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
You're going, if you're going kind of slow, there's not
a lot of traffic, and you see a teeny tiny
little kitten terrified and that you would just drive away.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
When traffic slows down, people start staring at their phones
and they'll veer off and slaughter you.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
But once your first instinct be oh my gosh, I've
got to go try and save that little kitten.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, not on a freeway.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I mean, I can understand.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I can't. You got a bunch of kids in the car,
and the husband's there too.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Well, the kids were filming her recording.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Of course, they're proud of mom. I admit it's very
very dangerous, Okay, but.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yes, right, your kids are small, you pull over to
the side of INTERT fifty probably would you probably would.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Look, I told you, I stopped in the middle of
the street coming home from my kids' school where my dog,
Lucky I named him Lucky, was zigzagging in traffic in
the middle of a very busy road, and I stopped
and I opened my car door and he jumped in
and the rest was history.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Did you see her pick up the cat it started
fighting her, well because she.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Didn't want to be rescued.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yes, she did, she did?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
She did? Or he did?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yes, and the lady fed the kit lunchable. Those things
are disgusting.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
But again, look, she could have just said, Okay, screw
you cat.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I am not stopping on a freeway for a cat. No,
a dog maybe.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Oh can you imagine if a little puppy was up there.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
They brought the animal to a vet who said the
cat had two types of worms and was covered in fleas. Well,
there's the kids are going to have worms and fleas.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Next, No, not necessarily, jeez.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well, the husband was very supportive.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
See the biggest shout out to my husband, Matt, because
he was so kind and supportive when I went on
another one of my crazy adventures.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh, she's a kind human.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
This was his chance to drive off and he didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
And he didn't because he respects his wife's love of animals.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
On a freeway.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
It was a slow day.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And how did the cat get up there and all
that traffic?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
I have no idea. It's somebody abandoned it somewhere.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Well, and it flees and worms. That's why.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Because it's living out on the streets.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
It was abandon It's not a house cat, obviously.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I just the cat really fought her pretty hard. Easily,
she easily could have lost control of it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And would it ended up in the.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yeah, but you know what, it didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We would have gotten the big splat. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I like that rat that you and Eric posted and
giggled about on Friday.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Did you post that? I retweeted the video.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Not everybody was happy, No, not everyone was. Yeah, they
were on my side.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
There was there was There was a bird chasing a
rat across a road and just as the just as
the rat was getting away, it got completely squished by
a truck.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
And John and Eric were cackling like crazy people about it.
And I said it's not funny, and some very smart
listeners at the John Cobelt Show agreed with me.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Would you rather get a slow, painful death being eaten
by a hawk or a quick painless one from a wheel?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I wouldn't want to see either.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He didn't know what was coming. He experienced no pain. There,
everything just went black just to split second. All right,
there's a there's story in Politico, which is usually kind
to left wing progressive politicians. Is anyone in charge of
(15:19):
Los Angeles as the city grapples with its post fire recovery. Yeah,
and pre Olympic planning, business and labor leaders had both
given up on working through city Hall. You get this,
business and labor leaders no longer working with Karen Bass,
and so they're both going to the ballot box in
(15:40):
advance of the Olympics because the unions got thirty dollars
minimum wage policies passed here in Los Angeles. And now
the business community is saying, well, no, we can't do this.
We're good, We're going to go out of business. And
I know firsthand talking to some business owners who say
(16:01):
thirty bucks were gone. We can't The math doesn't add up.
And the thing is, you have such bizarre fanatics who
are in who are math illiterates. They have been warned
repeatedly that you can't make a thirty dollars an hour
minimum wage. So then I want to do this before
the Olympics, especially in the hospitality industry hotels and restaurants.
(16:25):
Greg Plumber runs a two hundred and fifty employee concessions
company at Lax and he says the business community worked
for nearly two years on this particular issue trying to
educate the city council members. They're as dumb as that
cat sitting on the sitting on the barrier, educating their
(16:45):
council members, the staff, their business, and their legislative liaisons
on the impacts of what this minimum wage order would do.
A lot of those messages fell on deaf ears. This
is what's frustrating. They did vote city council and it
passed twelve to three to jack up the minimum wage
(17:06):
to thirty bucks an hour. Twelve to three at one
the most destructive, most stupid. I mean, it's just basic math,
and you could have you could have a lot of
businesses in the hotels just refusing to participate in the Olympics.
(17:30):
I think a group of hotels have already threatened that
the head of the union is something named Anton Farmby.
It's extremely difficult for someone to live here that's making
seventeen eighteen nineteen an hour. They represent airport workers. Yes,
I'm sure it is. But if you if you tax
(17:54):
restaurants and hotels with thirty dollars an hour minimum wages,
they're simply going to go out of business or they're
simply going to move. You can't take a minimum wage
job and expect to earn a living for a family.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's impossible. That's absolutely impossible.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And by the way, if you're upset about the cost
of affordability, how about this one. Get Governor Newsom to
dismantle all his climate policies against the oil and gas
refinery companies. Get rid of all the gas taxes, go
back to go back to using the energy for electricity
(18:39):
that's based on natural gas, nuclear power, stop with solar
and wind power. I looked up the electricity rates in California.
They are double double the national average. Double some states,
it's triple more than I went through all the states,
(19:02):
and their cost per kill a lot hour so we
pay double the electricity, We pay almost double the gas
prices compared to some states. And that's a big reason
why things are unaffordable because that massive cost for energy,
oil and gas leaks into every product, every service business
(19:25):
in the state, and all the environmental policies keep developers
from building homes. So that's why real estate costs so much.
Having millions of illegal aliens live here, that eats up
a lot of real estate space, that's a lot of
homes and apartments that could be lived in by American citizens.
That depresses the supply by billions, and then the developers
(19:50):
can't build. The gas prices are almost double, the electricity
prices are in some cases triple.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That's who you go after.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You can't jack around the the restaurants and hotels anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
They're tapped out. Is anyone in charge of Los.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Angeles going to keep this thing on file because they're
they're afraid. They're afraid. Business owners are afraid. Obviously, even
the head of the Olympics here in l A. K. C.
Wasserman is afraid. That's why they called on Trump to
to weigh in and to try to run things. This
place is an out of control disaster. There's only the
(20:29):
very stupid running things.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You're listening to. John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
Moistline for Friday, eight seven seven Moist eighty six.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Let's get going. Let's be off to a strong start here.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's funny nonsense going on eight seven seven mois d
eaighty six. Or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio
app Last Hour I told you about about You know, finally,
now the media is turning on Gavin Newsom because they realize,
they realize the threat of extremely expensive gasoline is real.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
We were the first ones to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
We had Michael MChE On, the USA professor who tipped
us off to what was going on with a myriad
of reasons for a massive gas price increase. And you
know what the Newsomb administration, a bunch of arrogant bastards did.
They smeared Mische, They tried to smear and destroy his credibility,
(21:26):
and it was.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
All lies and they were wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And now Mache's getting the last laugh because everything that
he said that he told us on the air when
we were the only media outlet covering it, the only
show has turned out to be true, and Newsom is
really embarrassed right now because because his plan worked. His
(21:52):
plan was to destroy the oil and gas industry here
in California, regulate him to death with climate change policy, seas,
tax them to death, tax the gas at the pump
to death, and eventually the oil industry would crumble and
we'd be forced into electric cars.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We were mandated anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But if we resisted, well, the gas was going to
be you know, twelve to fifteen dollars a gallon or
there was just not going to be any gas available.
And we're gon we're getting closer and closer to that
in a state that used to have over forty refineries
and even twenty five years ago had over twenty refineries,
maybe down to six in a matter of months, and
(22:38):
may be producing so little oil that our biggest oil
pipeline may shut down because there's not enough oil to
create pressure. This along with a low carbon fuel standard
from the idiots at the California Air Resources Board, the
pipeline shutting down, Two oil refineries shutting down, one in Benetia,
(22:59):
one in Well. And now finally, everything that Michael mcchey
said turned out to be true. Everything that we talked
about turned out to be true, and Newsom is panicking.
Last hour, we told you about the La Times story
on it now.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The San Jose Mercury.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
News and says that the expected closures of two oil
refineries has newsome a global leader on climate action, acting
uncharacteristically friendly with the fossil fuel industry. Newsom wants to
prevent gasoline shortages and a higher prices at the pump.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
He wants to extract more oil. He wants to pump
more oil. He wants to invest in infrastructure at the ports.
He wants to import more refined gasoline. And they are
going to delay plans to strictly regulate refineries even further.
They also had the California Energy Commission was about to
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im implement a law that would limit the price the
profits that oil companies can earn. There was a twenty
twenty three law that Newsom inspired and signed that authorized
the California Energy Commission to set a cap on profits
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and penalize refiners if they exceed the limit.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Newson was a big champion of the law.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let me remind you again of the gas price disparity
in this country. I mean, I'm gonna go hold on
to the tab again. We are at four point fifty
a gallon. Mississippi's at two sixty nine. Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas,
South Carolina in the two seventies. Another one, two, three, four, five,
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eight states is in the two eighties, another set of
states in the two nineties. There's about thirty states that
are below three bucks a gallon. But you know what
Newsom said as recently as October, They're screwing you. They've
been screwing you for years and years and years. There's
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no other way to put it. He was blaming the
oil companies for the state's high gas prices, accusing them
of price gouging.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
They're screwing you. They've been screwing you for years.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
No, no, why would they pick only California, Mississippi's two
sixty nine. I'm gonna keep repeating this till I dropped
dead here. He is the worst.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He not only.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Instituted these policies which have led to extremely high gas
prices two bucks more than you'll find in some states,
two bucks more a gallon, extremely extremely restrictive climate change policies, useless, worthless,
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climate change policies has done nothing for the climate. Oil
companies give up and say, fine, we're closing this refinery,
are closing that refinery, will get out of here.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh wall wait wait wait, what a dummy, He's a
stupid man. Would you do this?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
He did not have an electrical grid in place to
replace oil and gas. How dumb is that he did
not have electric charging stations in place?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
How dumb is that.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
He drove Elon Musk out of the state when Musk
had the only popular electric car in the marketplace, and
most of do. Some supporters hate Musk and won't drive
his cars anymore and won't buy his cars anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, now what.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We're gonna have a shortage of oil, a shortage of gas,
no electric charging stations, no electric grid to supply the energy.
You have one of the largest oil reserves in the
country beneath the Bakersfield area. Nobody can drill it. Oil
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permits have dropped to almost nothing in this state. He
won't allow it, So we can't drill for the oil.
We can't refine the oil. There's no replacement. He tried
shutting down natural gas plants and had to reverse that.
He tried shutting down a nuclear reactor had to reverse that.
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Imagine this, no gas, no oil, no natural gas, no nuclear,
just wind and solar. But the hell, you can't run
a car on wind and solar. And he wants to
be president and some people are going to vote for
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him for president. Good lord, And finally, finally, the local
media is turning on his stupid ass. They're screwing you.
They've been screwing you for years and years and years. Yeah,
they only screw California drivers. Just look at the scoreboard. Okay,
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California four point fifty gallon.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Mississippi two sixty nine. That's the scoreboard.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Even the climate fanatics agree. These refineries closing is going
to lead to shortages of gasoline.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Newsom said they're looking for a buyer for the Valero plant.
They haven't found one yet. I have never seen such
aggressive destruction by anybody. And his approval rating is still
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higher than his disapproval rating. What does the guy have
to do? What does the guy have to do? Before
even a majority of the state says, boy, he's really
bad at this. They shouldn't let him anywhere near the presidency.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
More coming up.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
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know you would think by following the news that California
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had more arrest than any other state when it came
to rounding up illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Do you know we are.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Well behind well behind Texas and Florida. Funny you don't
hear about any protests or riots or controversies in Texas
and Florida. In fact, Texas had over twenty six thousand arrests.
That's almost a quarter of the entire nation. Florida had
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about thirteen thousand. California a relatively small amount considering the
size of the state and the size of the illegal
alien population. In fact, I know for months it seemed
like nothing was going on here. So Texas had twenty
six thousand, Florida thirteen thousand, California eight thousand. Who's doing
(31:36):
all the bitching and complaining California When you factor in population,
California drops to twenty seventh in the nation two hundred
and seventeen arrests per million residents. That's a quarter of
Texas's rate, less than half of Florida, Arkansas, Utah, Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Nevada.
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Nobody's complaining those states. There's no riots. You don't have
crazy mayores screaming at ice officials. You know how nuts
we look. Trump didn't have to call out the National
Guard or the marines for any of these other states.
Two of these states had way more in terms of numbers,
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and many states had a much higher rate factoring in population.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
And so what you're going to see is a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
More ICE action in California, not less, because you get
Newsome and Bass screaming and whining like little babies when
he's only enforcing federal law. And part of the reason
that Texas and Florida have much higher arrest numbers as
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they have Republican governors, and those governors and those governments
are cooperating, they work directly with ICE, And as one
professor at Syracuse says, what you're seeing is performative politics.
(33:20):
You have Bass in Newsom performing for the progressive interests
in their party. They're not actually having much of an effect.
We still had eighty four hundred arrests anyway. But this
is the way state officials should be reacting the officials
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in other states. In Florida and Texas, the federal government
comes in and says, we have to enforce federal law.
Now are you going to help us? And they say yes, absolutely,
because this is what the citizens voted for, this is
what they want. This is a good policy that benefits Americans,
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American taxpayers, and benefits American cities. Only California has made
this big, stupid, embarrassing ruckus and it's all gonna happen anyway.
They're just showing off to everybody's showing off the progressives.
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And there's something called the Criminal Alien Program that requests
local law enforcement identify illegal aliens in prisons in jails.
Could be a federal state prison, it could be a
local jail, but the Criminal Alien Program is very important. See,
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ICE can arrest them in prison, in jail. They don't
have to go out on the street. You don't have
to have these public incidents. Only seven percent of ICE
arrests made this year were made at the prisons in jails.
In Texas, it's fifty five percent of the arrests because
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the Texas Governor Greg Abbott is a rational person and
if you're going to arrest them anyway, arrest them in jail.
Forty six percent of the arrest in Florida in prisons
in jails. That's the smart way to do this. It's quiet,
it's peaceful. Instead, Newsoman Bass used tax money to fund
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protest groups to create riot situations. You imagine this responsible
governors and mayors say, how can we help, Why don't
you come to our jails in prisons get a big
head start on this Newsoman Bass refused to help, and
they they use our money to incite the riot. Look
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at Sherla. Look at Sherla and the thirty four million
dollars they have in state funding and their entire organization
is about right now, is about funding resistance, about inciting rioting.
That's the whole purpose of journer right now, and we
pay for it. Seventy five percent of ice arrest in Alabama,
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seventy one percent in Indiana prisons, in jails.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
We're gonna have that here.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
But we have we have idiots performative, the great word,
just play acting so the progressives can get pleasure. All right,
We've got Conway coming up in minutes. We'll be back
tomorrow and we have Michael Krozer live in the CAFI twenty.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
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