September 26, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (09/26) - Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about the James Comey indictment. Elex Michaelson comes on the show to talk about his interview with former CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger where Schwarzenegger was very against Prop 50. Rounds 1 and 2 of the Moist Line.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Let's go to Royal Oaks, ABC News the legal analyst.
We just have a few minutes available with him and
the FBI director James Comy got indicted yesterday the charge
making a false statement obstruction related to testimony before the
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Senate Judiciary Committee five years ago. Royal Are you there?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I am here. Yeah. This seems like ancient history to people,
but folks will remember there were all these arguments that
Donald Trump colluded with Russia in the twenty sixteen Hillary
election and SMBI director James Comy was involved in that event.
A few years later, he's up in front of the
US Senate and Ted Cruz is questioning him, and Cruz says, Hey,
when you were running that whole deal, did you authorize
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one of your FBI guys to anonymously speak to the
press to kind of bad mouth Trump? And Comy said, no,
I didn't do that. Well, the DJ Department of Justice
thinks they have the goods and they convinced the grand
jury to indict call me for lying to Congress. He
could go to prison for several years if he's convicted.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Just for that, Huh, just for denying he told somebody
to leak to the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, because it involves perjury when you're you take an oath,
you're in front of the US Senate, and it's just
like lying in a regular courtroom. If you lie, it
isn't just a fibb. It's perjury. And he could get
five years just to that. Plus they've added an obstruction
charge as well to him.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So this has this has nothing to do with all
his actions that that that led to this Russian hoax
story that went on for so many years. And this
is specifically a lie that he allegedly told in testimony,
But all the other actions he may have committed are
not on the table.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Here, That's right. I mean, the whole thing about Russia
collusion and whether it was a big scam and whether
people would just out to get Donald Trump, that substantive
issue really isn't at stake here. And of course there's
also at a controversy. As you've reported. John emy Till,
the US attorney there in Virginia, quit recently because apparently
he didn't think that the DOJ had the goods against
(02:19):
Combe and now President Trump's personal lawyer is taking his job,
and so people are saying that Trump is weaponizing the
legal system. But the fact of the matter is the
grand jury did vote to indict him, and if it's
an overcharge, if they don't have the goods, the judge
is free to dismiss or whittle down the charges. But
ultimately it may be up to a jury in Virginia
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as to whether Comy goes to prison or not.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
There's a lot of squealing, even from Republicans, that they're
not going to be able to prove this when it
finally goes to court, and maybe proving it is beside
the point. Maybe Trump just wants to make Comy squirm
for a few months or years.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, it's hard to know how much they do have because,
for example, John, we don't even know who it is
that call me allegedly whispered to saying, you know, anonymously,
speak to the Wall Street Journal of the New York
Times or something. We don't know what Comy wanted this
person to say. Now that will probably be revealed soon
when the government kind of tips its hand. Some people
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are speculating who was Andrew McCabe. He was an anti
Trump guy there in the Department of Justice, but we
don't really know, but yeah, it certainly feeds into the
idea that, you know, Trump is going after his political enemies,
and of course people are looking back and saying, well,
you know Trump was a well, separate indictments against him
in twenty twenty three. Boom boom, boom boom, one up
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to the other.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it is probably retaliation and revenge.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, you hammered him with all those indictments, and all
the criminal ones fell apart, and look what's going to
happen here?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So, John, I heard you talk about the of the
bus sting in Albuquerque and it reminded me. You probably
remember the story here in La seven years ago. Go
the cops set up an empty bus with an open
door on a street. They had a camera on it.
They staged a rear ending crash and the car drives off.
A dozen people who were on the street milling around
get on the death bus and sit there holding their necks,
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claiming to the cops that they were on when the
crash that happened. They were all arrested for insurance.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
For a US that's a great story to prevail, all right,
I know you.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Got to run Royal Thanks for having a few minutes
with us to explain that Royal Oaks with ABC News,
the legal analyst on the Coomy indictment. Coming up, we're
gonna have two rands of the moistline. We're also going
to have Alex Michaelson on now from CNN. He left
Fox eleven a few weeks back, and he's got a
new uh actually late well, it's going to be nine
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o'clock in the evening here on the West Coast, but
it's going to be midnight on the East Coast, and
it's going to be a West Coast based news and
interview show and Alex is going to host it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And uh, his.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
First warm up act was to interview Governor Schwarzeneger, and
he met Schwarzeneger in New York City at a conference
and Schwarzenegger came out very strongly against Prop fifty. And
I'm going to play the clips now so i'll have
more time to talk to Alex when he comes on
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at three thirty. Prop fifty is what we're going to
vote on real soon. I mean, in what six weeks
or less, and it would give the redistricting powers basically
to Governor Newsom. It's redrawing the district lines that he
and the legislature have agreed on, and it's going to
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turn California into a state with forty eight Democrats and
four Republicans representing in Congress forty eight to four, even
though forty percent of the public votes for Republicans. It's
it's an retaliation and for what Texas has done. And
Schwarzenegger here makes a powerful argument why this is just
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flat wrong, Like.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
What's your view in terms of what should happen nationwide
when it comes to redistricting.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Well vers of all in California, it's a big mistake
to go and to uh dismantle and to basically kind
of get rid of the Independent Registrict Green Commission under
the auspices of we got to have more power than
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the Republicans and we got to fight Trump because yes,
they are fixing the elections in Texas, but that does
not mean that California should fix the elections because of that.
Two wrongs don't make it right. It's that simple. And
whenever the politicians say that we're only doing this temporarily
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with the redistrict Green Commission, within independent one. There's no
such thing withers and temporarily. Have you ever seen the
tax that stopped. When they say this is just temporary,
it is permanent. I'm for the power of the people,
not the parties. And therefore I say wode no on
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proposition fifty because when I talk.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
To Governor Newsom about this and about your conversation with
him about this, he told me that he said to you,
if we are not successful this, that there will be
no more independent redistricting. The whole thing's over. He has
no faith in President Trump in order to do fair elections.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
If Republicans have all control.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
And he says that it is temporary, you just you
don't buy what Governor Knewso'm saying.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Of course no.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Look I've said down Sacramento, I've listened to the politicians
for seven years. They are not interested in giving any
power to the people. The only interest that they have
is to take power away from the people and grab
it themselves. So this gives them a great opportunity by saying, oh,
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we have to fight Trump, let's go and get rid
of our democratic principles. Imagine to fight for democracy and
to get rid of your democratic principles. It doesn't make
any sense. And plus, we have so many homeless people
in California and there they cannot do anything about it,
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but they're spending two hundred million dollars on a special election.
I would rather give this money to the homeless people
that really need it rather than do the politicians. Let's
give the money to the people rather than the politicians.
This is what this is all about. That's why I'm
against Proposition fifty.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And he had one more thing to say at the
end of the interview.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Before you go and vote, you should know this is
a scam and vote no on Proposition fifty.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It is a scam. And one other aspect to this
that sports Thinger didn't mention is they drew the district
lines so that termed out Democrats in the legislature have
a new district that they could run in. Legislators who
are termed out next year can immediately run for Congress
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and win because a new district was drawn for them
where they live, where they have created a lopsided Democratic
majority of voters. These are districts where Republicans have served
those people for so long and now those towns have
been carved up into little pieces and spread among a
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number of districts, leaving a big majority of Democrats to
give these termed out Sacramento legislatures a soft, cushy landing
spot in Washington.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That was a big motivation for this.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
It is crooked, it is foul, it is wrong, it
is corrupt. You got to vote no. I mean sorry, yes,
you've got to vote no one Prop fifty. I want
to get that right. No one Prop fifty Newsome is
Prop fifty. And we're going to talk about all this
with Alex Michaelson coming up at just after three thirty
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News with Debra. Next segment, First round of the Moistline.
Two hot rounds of the Moistline Today.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well, it's time again for the Moistline jam pack today.
Here is round one. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Andy's Sean, thanks for calling the Moistline.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's about time.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
I just have to say that I'm just so disappointed
with everything that's going on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't even know where to start. So that'll set
the tone for.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Your moistline, Where the hell do we start with the
bad news?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yes on Prop fifty, Yes on Prop fifty, Yes on
Prop fifty. That's how I'll be voting.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
What should we just.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Stand by and let Trump decide who gets to control
Congress by stacking the deck in Texas?
Speaker 9 (11:03):
Since Trump is getting on the television companies because of
what they talk about him on these late night shows,
why doesn't he get on the governor over here in California.
He's always saying stuff about him, so why doesn't he
get on his case too. Huh hmm. Maybe he's afraid
of them.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
You want to know why people think they have free
speech on television and radio and incorporate settings because the
k through tell public school teachers and their Marxist unions
have failed to educate four generations of Americans. Their governor is.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
A piece of Why don't we just tell the iations
to wear COVID masks?
Speaker 12 (11:40):
I mean, the Dems can't say no to COVID masks, right, I.
Speaker 13 (11:43):
Think it's obvious. Kevin News some sign these laws about
the masks so that citizens will try and rip the
masks off the federal officers, causing chaos and cause a
lot of citizens to go to jail. He wants to
have Kayoss in the streets.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Who's paying for some trolley around the United States to
sell his campaign?
Speaker 13 (12:07):
Let me see, doesn't he have a job he's supposed
to be doing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
In California, So that comes out of their tax.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
To pay for him to go around the country submiticizing himself.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
The only reason they're doing the redistricting is.
Speaker 14 (12:22):
Because it's in a response to Texas that DJT ordered
them to do.
Speaker 15 (12:29):
So, I want to get this straight. Right after Charlie
Kirk was murdered over his political ideology, and right after
the attempted assassination of the ICE agents in Dallas, Newsom
goes out on Stephen Colbert's show talking about how he
feels in his soul.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That we're not going to have an election in twenty
twenty eight because of Trump.
Speaker 15 (12:47):
Are these people insane?
Speaker 11 (12:49):
Do they hear themselves?
Speaker 14 (12:51):
Since Gavin Newsom and Karen Bath don't want ICE to
wear a mask, I suggest that ICE gets masks that
look just like them.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Wouldn't that be hilarious? Every time isis film.
Speaker 14 (13:01):
They're getting photos and videos of Karen Bass and Gavin
Newsom taking in illegal aliens.
Speaker 16 (13:08):
Take a look at the moon some night through a
pair of binoculars, and you're going to see hundreds, if
not thousands of creators. The moon's been getting hit for
billions of years.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're going to be fine. I agree with you on
this one.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
The Mask bill and the signing of it, and the
appearance of what seemed like a grand standing for.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
A bill that you know and I know, and the
people that signed it knew the federal government is not
going to follow.
Speaker 17 (13:33):
Jimmy Kimmel is a big app.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Hey, new scum. You mentioned what other countries were not,
but you obviously failed social studies since the Soviet Union
collapsed in nineteen ninety two. For God to mention China
probably not wanting to piss off your Communist party connection press.
In the end, you're just a posturer and a weasel.
Speaker 18 (13:52):
John John John Quinn asking the question why Karen Vass
don'ds adhere to this ideology about the middle as the
homeless and the crazies on the street and the illegals
gets the money laundering racket. They just put that ideological
crop out there to fool people.
Speaker 19 (14:10):
He's never making it about oh, these districts then you're
going to be more represented or anything like that.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
He's simply saying we need to stop Trump.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
From stealing the election, and that's what people will vote
on their emotions, not back heights.
Speaker 16 (14:25):
Officer uniforms are not a matter of federal law or
the Constitution. They're a matter of department policies. Probably unlikely
that that law can be enforced.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
As a right, John, you would make directly if burning
you in some of the illegal criminal migrants.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
We'll be going somewhere even further by Dad, I mean
out of space, big beautiful new facility.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Elon's going to help build it. On Mark, get any
go out of space Alcatraz.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Thank you for leaving your message. Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right eight seven seven Boys eighty six eight seven seven
moist eighty six. That's for next week if you want
to get on. And we've got another round coming up
in about twenty minutes. One quickie before Debra does the news.
You know what Newsom did today?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What did Newsom do today?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
He signed a new climate deal between California and Kenya,
a bilateral meeting with the Kenyan delegation led by the
President William Rutto. A memory a memorandum of understanding at
Climate Week in New York.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I don't know what that exactly they're going to do.
They both pledged.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
To cut greenhouse gases together.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Kenyon, this is what he's doing. Number one in unemployment.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He's in New York with the Kenyan president signing a
climate deal. When we come back, Alex Michaelson, he was
in New York talking to Arles Schwarzenegger about the redistricting plan.
Schwarzenegger a strong no on it, and we just played
Schwarzenegger's reasoning. We'll talk to Alex now from CNN. He
(16:17):
switched from Fox loven to CNN and he's got a
new show.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Second round of the Moist Line coming up in the
next segment, with apparently a fair amount of reaction to
Lenna Negrettia's appearance as the Santa Monica Mayor. She is
the Santa Monica Mayor. She was our guest earlier this
week talking about how the place has gone to help
largely because of the mental patients and the drug addicts
(16:48):
that run a muck. Right now, though, we're going to
talk with Alex Michaelson, who has started his new role
at CNN. His show debuts. I think in just a
couple of weeks. It's going to be on at nine
o'clock here in on the West Coast midnight on the
East coast. We'll find out exactly what kind of show
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it's going to be. But he was already filing reports.
He was in New York. He talked with Schwarzenegger about
the redistricting plan. From Newsom we played to those Schwarzenegger
clips a little bit ago. Let's get Alex michaelsonon now
from CNN. How are you Alex?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Hey, hey, John, great to be with you.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
So when does the new show start?
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Still don't have the official date yet. Some of them
trying to figure out in terms of set construction and
all sorts of that, but late October is likely when
it's going to start. Hopefully we'll have an official date soon.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Do you have a name for it?
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Also, hopefully we'll have our official name.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So you need a name and a set.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yeh, yes, and then we're in business.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Do you need to go fund me? Some of the
listeners can help build this thing if you want.
Speaker 15 (17:57):
Well, probably.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
So in the meantime, they're sending you out about and
you were in New York interview with Schwarzeneger.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Yeah, I'm in New York now. Actually I'm still meeting
with folks here. Yes, so, Arold Schwarzenegger was at the
going for UN Climate Week. There's all these world leaders
have come to New York this week, and he did
an event with Tony Blair talking about climate issues. But
while there I also talked to him about Prop fifty.
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And it's really interesting that at this point, essentially Governor
Newsom has become the face of the ads in favor
of Prop fifty, this idea that Democrats need to redistrict
California to help Democrats, because Republicans of redistrict Texas to
help Republicans. And Governor Schwarzenegger, the former governor, has become
the face of the opposition. He didn't actually record ads
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for it. He did this event at USC recently and
the No On fifty people recorded it like a member
of the media, uh and took the USC logo off
of it, put their logo on it and are running
that as adds a million dollars a day. That Charles
Munger Junior, who is the son of one of Warren
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Buffett's former top advisors, is spending on this, and so
it's really the battle of the two governors, the two
most famous political figures in California.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, it was during Schwarzeneger's term that they passed a
proposition creating this redistricting commission that is supposed to draw
the lines more independently. So this this was part of
because Schwartzenker was big on these kind of reforms and
and and uh so he's got a lot of a
lot invested in this thing surviving.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Yeah, he sees everything. He's always said, I'm not about
the party, about the people. And we know that there
are things that he's in favor of Republican way, there's
things that he's in favor of the Democratic way. This
has been one of the causes of his career, this
idea of jerrymandering, that the way to make the system
make more sense is to have competitive elections where people
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are incentivized to go to the middle, not incentivized to
go to the extremes of both parties. And so he
has been in favor of this California system. He's traveled
the country and the world really trying to have it
replicated in other places. This idea that instead of having
party primaries, which encourages you to go to the extremes
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of your parties, we have everybody on the ballot. We
have open primaries, which is another thing that he's in
favor of that we have lines that are drawn by
nonpartisan folks to try to have competitive elections. And it's worked.
I mean, you think about it, California has most of
the competitive elections in the entire country in places like
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Orange County that we've seen, it's parts of La County,
other places, because the lines are drawn in a way
for the races to be close. Now, if this passes,
essentially everything's going to be a safe seat. There really
won't be competitive elections, and it's all going to be
likely about who wins the primary.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, and you're going to end up with forty eight
to four Democrats over Republicans in the congressional delegation. And
over forty percent of Californians vote for Republicans for Congress,
and you're going to end up with four people maybe
you know, six percent, eight percent of the of the delegation.
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And that just seems fundamentally unfair. I know that's one
that really bothered Schwarzenegger because Newsom is saying we got
to go fight Trump, and Schwartzinger is saying, it's like, well,
this is supposed to be about who's representing the people.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Right. And of course, the Newsom argument is, when I
interviewed him about it, is look, I like the idea
of independent redissecting. I backed it at the time when
it happened, but we've got it. In their words, fight
fire with fire. They feel like, look, the Republicans have
gained it, So why should we play by different rules
than them? Why should Republicans be allowed to gerrymander their states?
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Because Texas has a map that's really unfair to Democrats there.
There are a lot of areas where they're not being
represented where they traditionally have been. So why is it
fair that they do it and that we're so focused
on morality and integrity and doing things the right way
that we end up not being not being represented. I mean,
that's his perspective, arguing that that's well, you know, that's
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a democratic perspective.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
What I'd argue with him about is like, that's up
to the Texas voters. To fix something that's unfair, you know,
an unfair act being done to them. That doesn't mean
that California voters should be punished that forty percent of
California voters now suddenly can't get representation in Congress.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Right, And there's also an argument that strategically nationwide, it's
actually a really stupid thing for Democrats to do. This
is clearly something that helps Gavin Newsom himself if it
passes for his presidential campaign, because it gets a win
on the board, it makes him look strong, he gets
to fight Trump. The base loves it. It's good for
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Gavin Newsom. It might not actually be good for the
Democratic Party. Here's why Republicans have more states that they're
in control of than Democrats. So if we get into
a gerry mandering fight that every state starts doing this,
Republicans will win the House because they have more ability
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to do this in more places. So it may be
a short term political win for the California governor, but
a long term political loser for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
How long can he fight these national battles with Trump?
While I saw yesterday we're number one now in unemployment
in the country. We got the most homeless, we got
the most poverty, we got the highest gas prices, we
got the highest electricity prices. How long can he continue
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to make himself a name? Meantime is like the state's
going to hell and he's in New York and he's
today it was a story about he made a climate
agreement with the president of Uganda or no Kenya, of
all places.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I mean, well, well, this has got to catch up
with him at some point.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
But the longer that he does what you're saying, and
the longer that he's able to pick these fights effectively,
the longer he doesn't have to talk about what you
just said, He doesn't have to talk about homelessness and
crime and all the rest of it, because he gets
to focus on Trump. I mean, he's trying to frame
this thing as are you a Democrat? Do you want
to give Trump the middle finger? If so, vote yes
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on Prop fifty. And he's made the calculation that there
are enough Democrats that feel that way, and if you
look at just the flat out numbers, he may be
right and he may win this thing. But you do
not hear him spending a lot of time talking about
California issues. And we'll see if voters in South Carolina
and New Hampshire and some of these other states that
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will be early primary states, do they care about some
of these California issues that you're talking about. Would his
potential primary opponents be able to run the very easy
to understand ads of shots of skid Row and saying
do we want the California model to be the nationwide model?
Or will his fight against Trump be so effective for
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him and get him so much attention and help his
pull number and his fundraising as it is right now
that people just want to see a fighter and so
they vote for him.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Anyways, all right, Alex, thank you for coming on. And
when the show is ready to go and you've built
the set and you've come up with a name.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Well, well, part of what we want to do on
you know, our set is literally across the street from
your studio.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (25:55):
I can see your studio from the window. Yes, So
part of what I want to do on this show
have you be a regular part of this show. And
I'm really excited to be able to include your voice
in it and including some of our other friends from KFI.
Think there's a lot of opportunities for partnership.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
All right, well let me know I can cross the
street anytime you want.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Yes, I takes convenient for you as humanly possible.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, thank you for arranging that. Yes, all right, well
we'll talk soon.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Thanks John.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
All right, it's Alex Michaelson from CNN and his new
show starts soon.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty Moistline.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Now he's Jean. Thanks for calling the Moistline.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
About time the lady they head on from Santa Monica.
Speaker 17 (26:47):
She's like every government official who says, don't.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Believe you're lying eyes. Every city is super wonderful, super safe,
don't believe what you see.
Speaker 19 (26:56):
Mike, have a Santa Monica there, so you can't blame
her because you just got in offs in December. You're
telling me she can't clean up all that crime and
homelessness in nine months, which are really, really, really sad.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
I left California several years ago in part because I
knew that gavinism would soon be the governor. Now, as
he somehow wins the presidency, I'm going to have to
move to Mars.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
I learned that we're going to have elections like they
do in Russia.
Speaker 13 (27:24):
I guess that means in Russia they have elections that
last three months.
Speaker 11 (27:28):
You can mail in your ballots, you don't have to be.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
A citizen and ballot harvesting in Russia, and they're the
ones who decides what signatures get tossed out.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
She's trying to blame everybody else because she.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Was in there.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
She knew what it was like when she took this job.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
Now she's trying to make.
Speaker 16 (27:47):
A bunch of excuses to watch.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Her hands are tied and we shouldn't be speaking.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
The truth because she might not be able to get
elected next time.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
Oh me, a brick of my heart.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Mayor just sounds like every other mayor with all the rhetoric.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Pass it on to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They don't take responsibility. The mayor is the boss.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Don't pass it on to somebody else.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
Tell them to get off there are they get fired.
Speaker 20 (28:21):
The mayor of Santa Monica, she has no answers to
the climb the homelessness. You can't go on the promenade
or a palaces park.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
To be safe.
Speaker 11 (28:34):
As soon as.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
The mayor of Santa Monica goes with a bus and rounds.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Up all those bombs getting.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Off the last train of the night and takes them
to homeless shelters.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Those bombs are quit going to Santa.
Speaker 13 (28:47):
Monica, Va.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Grinson junkies and millions of illegals, street takeover weekends and
beaches filled with needles.
Speaker 12 (28:57):
LA won't be ready for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 16 (29:01):
These all the things that John coleberll.
Speaker 17 (29:04):
He So Gavin Newsom thinks there won't be an election
in twenty twenty eight. So that means that GAVINISSM won't
be elected president. I mean, okay, May'll take it.
Speaker 20 (29:15):
It's funny.
Speaker 10 (29:16):
Isn't twenty twenty eight going to be the most exciting
presidential election of all time? Because Gavin Newsom is going
to run for president. He's going to stand on a
debate stage with twelve other Democrats and they're going to
rip him apart. And this guy, you know, he has the.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Thinnest skin of any politicians.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
When Gavin Newsom was talking about his friends on Stephen
Colbert Show, he's talking about the friends of the wife
seed or was he talking about his friends he laid
out of prison that kept committing more and more crimes
or are the friends at the bread plays that he
didn't want him to pay the twenty dollars an hour
for the employees. Oh, he's got friends that got all
the money, the two billion, All that money disappeared.
Speaker 11 (29:58):
His friend's got that.
Speaker 19 (30:00):
Thank you for leaving your message, Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
How many calls about the mayor? Santa Monica lendin to
Gritte came on earlier this week? When'd she come on
two days ago?
Speaker 15 (30:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Wednesday? Yeah, Wednesday, Wednesday, three o'clock hour.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
If you missed that hour and you didn't know what
all the callers were referring to, you ought to listen
to that hour on the podcast. In fact, all this weekend,
you can listen to the hours from today, the hours
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four o'clock In just a few minutes. We've got Conway
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Let's go to Royal Oaks, ABC News the legal analyst.
We just have a few minutes available with him and
the FBI director James Comy got indicted yesterday the charge
making a false statement obstruction related to testimony before the
(00:22):
Senate Judiciary Committee five years ago. Royal Are you there?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I am here. Yeah. This seems like ancient history to people,
but folks will remember there were all these arguments that
Donald Trump colluded with Russia in the twenty sixteen Hillary
election and SMBI director James Comy was involved in that event.
A few years later, he's up in front of the
US Senate and Ted Cruz is questioning him, and Cruz says, Hey,
when you were running that whole deal, did you authorize
(00:53):
one of your FBI guys to anonymously speak to the
press to kind of bad mouth Trump? And Comy said, no,
I didn't do that. Well, the DJ Department of Justice
thinks they have the goods and they convinced the grand
jury to indict call me for lying to Congress. He
could go to prison for several years if he's convicted.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Just for that, Huh, just for denying he told somebody
to leak to the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, because it involves perjury when you're you take an oath,
you're in front of the US Senate, and it's just
like lying in a regular courtroom. If you lie, it
isn't just a fibb. It's perjury. And he could get
five years just to that. Plus they've added an obstruction
charge as well to him.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So this has this has nothing to do with all
his actions that that that led to this Russian hoax
story that went on for so many years. And this
is specifically a lie that he allegedly told in testimony,
But all the other actions he may have committed are
not on the table.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Here, That's right. I mean, the whole thing about Russia
collusion and whether it was a big scam and whether
people would just out to get Donald Trump, that substantive
issue really isn't at stake here. And of course there's
also at a controversy. As you've reported. John emy Till,
the US attorney there in Virginia, quit recently because apparently
he didn't think that the DOJ had the goods against
(02:19):
Combe and now President Trump's personal lawyer is taking his job,
and so people are saying that Trump is weaponizing the
legal system. But the fact of the matter is the
grand jury did vote to indict him, and if it's
an overcharge, if they don't have the goods, the judge
is free to dismiss or whittle down the charges. But
ultimately it may be up to a jury in Virginia
(02:39):
as to whether Comy goes to prison or not.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
There's a lot of squealing, even from Republicans, that they're
not going to be able to prove this when it
finally goes to court, and maybe proving it is beside
the point. Maybe Trump just wants to make Comy squirm
for a few months or years.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, it's hard to know how much they do have because,
for example, John, we don't even know who it is
that call me allegedly whispered to saying, you know, anonymously,
speak to the Wall Street Journal of the New York
Times or something. We don't know what Comy wanted this
person to say. Now that will probably be revealed soon
when the government kind of tips its hand. Some people
(03:16):
are speculating who was Andrew McCabe. He was an anti
Trump guy there in the Department of Justice, but we
don't really know, but yeah, it certainly feeds into the
idea that, you know, Trump is going after his political enemies,
and of course people are looking back and saying, well,
you know Trump was a well, separate indictments against him
in twenty twenty three. Boom boom, boom boom, one up
(03:36):
to the other.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it is probably retaliation and revenge.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, you hammered him with all those indictments, and all
the criminal ones fell apart, and look what's going to
happen here?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So, John, I heard you talk about the of the
bus sting in Albuquerque and it reminded me. You probably
remember the story here in La seven years ago. Go
the cops set up an empty bus with an open
door on a street. They had a camera on it.
They staged a rear ending crash and the car drives off.
A dozen people who were on the street milling around
get on the death bus and sit there holding their necks,
(04:15):
claiming to the cops that they were on when the
crash that happened. They were all arrested for insurance.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
For a US that's a great story to prevail, all right,
I know you.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Got to run Royal Thanks for having a few minutes
with us to explain that Royal Oaks with ABC News,
the legal analyst on the Coomy indictment. Coming up, we're
gonna have two rands of the moistline. We're also going
to have Alex Michaelson on now from CNN. He left
Fox eleven a few weeks back, and he's got a
new uh actually late well, it's going to be nine
(04:49):
o'clock in the evening here on the West Coast, but
it's going to be midnight on the East Coast, and
it's going to be a West Coast based news and
interview show and Alex is going to host it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And uh, his.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
First warm up act was to interview Governor Schwarzeneger, and
he met Schwarzeneger in New York City at a conference
and Schwarzenegger came out very strongly against Prop fifty. And
I'm going to play the clips now so i'll have
more time to talk to Alex when he comes on
(05:20):
at three thirty. Prop fifty is what we're going to
vote on real soon. I mean, in what six weeks
or less, and it would give the redistricting powers basically
to Governor Newsom. It's redrawing the district lines that he
and the legislature have agreed on, and it's going to
(05:44):
turn California into a state with forty eight Democrats and
four Republicans representing in Congress forty eight to four, even
though forty percent of the public votes for Republicans. It's
it's an retaliation and for what Texas has done. And
Schwarzenegger here makes a powerful argument why this is just
(06:05):
flat wrong, Like.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
What's your view in terms of what should happen nationwide
when it comes to redistricting.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Well vers of all in California, it's a big mistake
to go and to uh dismantle and to basically kind
of get rid of the Independent Registrict Green Commission under
the auspices of we got to have more power than
(06:31):
the Republicans and we got to fight Trump because yes,
they are fixing the elections in Texas, but that does
not mean that California should fix the elections because of that.
Two wrongs don't make it right. It's that simple. And
whenever the politicians say that we're only doing this temporarily
(06:53):
with the redistrict Green Commission, within independent one. There's no
such thing withers and temporarily. Have you ever seen the
tax that stopped. When they say this is just temporary,
it is permanent. I'm for the power of the people,
not the parties. And therefore I say wode no on
(07:16):
proposition fifty because when I talk.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
To Governor Newsom about this and about your conversation with
him about this, he told me that he said to you,
if we are not successful this, that there will be
no more independent redistricting. The whole thing's over. He has
no faith in President Trump in order to do fair elections.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
If Republicans have all control.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
And he says that it is temporary, you just you
don't buy what Governor Knewso'm saying.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Of course no.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Look I've said down Sacramento, I've listened to the politicians
for seven years. They are not interested in giving any
power to the people. The only interest that they have
is to take power away from the people and grab
it themselves. So this gives them a great opportunity by saying, oh,
(08:01):
we have to fight Trump, let's go and get rid
of our democratic principles. Imagine to fight for democracy and
to get rid of your democratic principles. It doesn't make
any sense. And plus, we have so many homeless people
in California and there they cannot do anything about it,
(08:22):
but they're spending two hundred million dollars on a special election.
I would rather give this money to the homeless people
that really need it rather than do the politicians. Let's
give the money to the people rather than the politicians.
This is what this is all about. That's why I'm
against Proposition fifty.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And he had one more thing to say at the
end of the interview.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Before you go and vote, you should know this is
a scam and vote no on Proposition fifty.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It is a scam. And one other aspect to this
that sports Thinger didn't mention is they drew the district
lines so that termed out Democrats in the legislature have
a new district that they could run in. Legislators who
are termed out next year can immediately run for Congress
(09:15):
and win because a new district was drawn for them
where they live, where they have created a lopsided Democratic
majority of voters. These are districts where Republicans have served
those people for so long and now those towns have
been carved up into little pieces and spread among a
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number of districts, leaving a big majority of Democrats to
give these termed out Sacramento legislatures a soft, cushy landing
spot in Washington.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That was a big motivation for this.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
It is crooked, it is foul, it is wrong, it
is corrupt. You got to vote no. I mean sorry, yes,
you've got to vote no one Prop fifty. I want
to get that right. No one Prop fifty Newsome is
Prop fifty. And we're going to talk about all this
with Alex Michaelson coming up at just after three thirty
(10:14):
News with Debra. Next segment, First round of the Moistline.
Two hot rounds of the Moistline Today.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well, it's time again for the Moistline jam pack today.
Here is round one. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Andy's Sean, thanks for calling the Moistline.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's about time.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
I just have to say that I'm just so disappointed
with everything that's going on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't even know where to start. So that'll set
the tone for.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Your moistline, Where the hell do we start with the
bad news?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yes on Prop fifty, Yes on Prop fifty, Yes on
Prop fifty. That's how I'll be voting.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
What should we just.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Stand by and let Trump decide who gets to control
Congress by stacking the deck in Texas?
Speaker 9 (11:03):
Since Trump is getting on the television companies because of
what they talk about him on these late night shows,
why doesn't he get on the governor over here in California.
He's always saying stuff about him, so why doesn't he
get on his case too. Huh hmm. Maybe he's afraid
of them.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
You want to know why people think they have free
speech on television and radio and incorporate settings because the
k through tell public school teachers and their Marxist unions
have failed to educate four generations of Americans. Their governor is.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
A piece of Why don't we just tell the iations
to wear COVID masks?
Speaker 12 (11:40):
I mean, the Dems can't say no to COVID masks, right, I.
Speaker 13 (11:43):
Think it's obvious. Kevin News some sign these laws about
the masks so that citizens will try and rip the
masks off the federal officers, causing chaos and cause a
lot of citizens to go to jail. He wants to
have Kayoss in the streets.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Who's paying for some trolley around the United States to
sell his campaign?
Speaker 13 (12:07):
Let me see, doesn't he have a job he's supposed
to be doing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
In California, So that comes out of their tax.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
To pay for him to go around the country submiticizing himself.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
The only reason they're doing the redistricting is.
Speaker 14 (12:22):
Because it's in a response to Texas that DJT ordered
them to do.
Speaker 15 (12:29):
So, I want to get this straight. Right after Charlie
Kirk was murdered over his political ideology, and right after
the attempted assassination of the ICE agents in Dallas, Newsom
goes out on Stephen Colbert's show talking about how he
feels in his soul.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That we're not going to have an election in twenty
twenty eight because of Trump.
Speaker 15 (12:47):
Are these people insane?
Speaker 11 (12:49):
Do they hear themselves?
Speaker 14 (12:51):
Since Gavin Newsom and Karen Bath don't want ICE to
wear a mask, I suggest that ICE gets masks that
look just like them.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Wouldn't that be hilarious? Every time isis film.
Speaker 14 (13:01):
They're getting photos and videos of Karen Bass and Gavin
Newsom taking in illegal aliens.
Speaker 16 (13:08):
Take a look at the moon some night through a
pair of binoculars, and you're going to see hundreds, if
not thousands of creators. The moon's been getting hit for
billions of years.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're going to be fine. I agree with you on
this one.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
The Mask bill and the signing of it, and the
appearance of what seemed like a grand standing for.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
A bill that you know and I know, and the
people that signed it knew the federal government is not
going to follow.
Speaker 17 (13:33):
Jimmy Kimmel is a big app.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Hey, new scum. You mentioned what other countries were not,
but you obviously failed social studies since the Soviet Union
collapsed in nineteen ninety two. For God to mention China
probably not wanting to piss off your Communist party connection press.
In the end, you're just a posturer and a weasel.
Speaker 18 (13:52):
John John John Quinn asking the question why Karen Vass
don'ds adhere to this ideology about the middle as the
homeless and the crazies on the street and the illegals
gets the money laundering racket. They just put that ideological
crop out there to fool people.
Speaker 19 (14:10):
He's never making it about oh, these districts then you're
going to be more represented or anything like that.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
He's simply saying we need to stop Trump.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
From stealing the election, and that's what people will vote
on their emotions, not back heights.
Speaker 16 (14:25):
Officer uniforms are not a matter of federal law or
the Constitution. They're a matter of department policies. Probably unlikely
that that law can be enforced.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
As a right, John, you would make directly if burning
you in some of the illegal criminal migrants.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
We'll be going somewhere even further by Dad, I mean
out of space, big beautiful new facility.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Elon's going to help build it. On Mark, get any
go out of space Alcatraz.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Thank you for leaving your message. Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right eight seven seven Boys eighty six eight seven seven
moist eighty six. That's for next week if you want
to get on. And we've got another round coming up
in about twenty minutes. One quickie before Debra does the news.
You know what Newsom did today?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What did Newsom do today?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
He signed a new climate deal between California and Kenya,
a bilateral meeting with the Kenyan delegation led by the
President William Rutto. A memory a memorandum of understanding at
Climate Week in New York.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I don't know what that exactly they're going to do.
They both pledged.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
To cut greenhouse gases together.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Kenyon, this is what he's doing. Number one in unemployment.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He's in New York with the Kenyan president signing a
climate deal. When we come back, Alex Michaelson, he was
in New York talking to Arles Schwarzenegger about the redistricting plan.
Schwarzenegger a strong no on it, and we just played
Schwarzenegger's reasoning. We'll talk to Alex now from CNN. He
(16:17):
switched from Fox loven to CNN and he's got a
new show.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Second round of the Moist Line coming up in the
next segment, with apparently a fair amount of reaction to
Lenna Negrettia's appearance as the Santa Monica Mayor. She is
the Santa Monica Mayor. She was our guest earlier this
week talking about how the place has gone to help
largely because of the mental patients and the drug addicts
(16:48):
that run a muck. Right now, though, we're going to
talk with Alex Michaelson, who has started his new role
at CNN. His show debuts. I think in just a
couple of weeks. It's going to be on at nine
o'clock here in on the West Coast midnight on the
East coast. We'll find out exactly what kind of show
(17:09):
it's going to be. But he was already filing reports.
He was in New York. He talked with Schwarzenegger about
the redistricting plan. From Newsom we played to those Schwarzenegger
clips a little bit ago. Let's get Alex michaelsonon now
from CNN. How are you Alex?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Hey, hey, John, great to be with you.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
So when does the new show start?
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Still don't have the official date yet. Some of them
trying to figure out in terms of set construction and
all sorts of that, but late October is likely when
it's going to start. Hopefully we'll have an official date soon.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Do you have a name for it?
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Also, hopefully we'll have our official name.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So you need a name and a set.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yeh, yes, and then we're in business.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Do you need to go fund me? Some of the
listeners can help build this thing if you want.
Speaker 15 (17:57):
Well, probably.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
So in the meantime, they're sending you out about and
you were in New York interview with Schwarzeneger.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Yeah, I'm in New York now. Actually I'm still meeting
with folks here. Yes, so, Arold Schwarzenegger was at the
going for UN Climate Week. There's all these world leaders
have come to New York this week, and he did
an event with Tony Blair talking about climate issues. But
while there I also talked to him about Prop fifty.
(18:29):
And it's really interesting that at this point, essentially Governor
Newsom has become the face of the ads in favor
of Prop fifty, this idea that Democrats need to redistrict
California to help Democrats, because Republicans of redistrict Texas to
help Republicans. And Governor Schwarzenegger, the former governor, has become
the face of the opposition. He didn't actually record ads
(18:52):
for it. He did this event at USC recently and
the No On fifty people recorded it like a member
of the media, uh and took the USC logo off
of it, put their logo on it and are running
that as adds a million dollars a day. That Charles
Munger Junior, who is the son of one of Warren
(19:14):
Buffett's former top advisors, is spending on this, and so
it's really the battle of the two governors, the two
most famous political figures in California.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, it was during Schwarzeneger's term that they passed a
proposition creating this redistricting commission that is supposed to draw
the lines more independently. So this this was part of
because Schwartzenker was big on these kind of reforms and
and and uh so he's got a lot of a
lot invested in this thing surviving.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Yeah, he sees everything. He's always said, I'm not about
the party, about the people. And we know that there
are things that he's in favor of Republican way, there's
things that he's in favor of the Democratic way. This
has been one of the causes of his career, this
idea of jerrymandering, that the way to make the system
make more sense is to have competitive elections where people
(20:08):
are incentivized to go to the middle, not incentivized to
go to the extremes of both parties. And so he
has been in favor of this California system. He's traveled
the country and the world really trying to have it
replicated in other places. This idea that instead of having
party primaries, which encourages you to go to the extremes
(20:29):
of your parties, we have everybody on the ballot. We
have open primaries, which is another thing that he's in
favor of that we have lines that are drawn by
nonpartisan folks to try to have competitive elections. And it's worked.
I mean, you think about it, California has most of
the competitive elections in the entire country in places like
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Orange County that we've seen, it's parts of La County,
other places, because the lines are drawn in a way
for the races to be close. Now, if this passes,
essentially everything's going to be a safe seat. There really
won't be competitive elections, and it's all going to be
likely about who wins the primary.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, and you're going to end up with forty eight
to four Democrats over Republicans in the congressional delegation. And
over forty percent of Californians vote for Republicans for Congress,
and you're going to end up with four people maybe
you know, six percent, eight percent of the of the delegation.
(21:31):
And that just seems fundamentally unfair. I know that's one
that really bothered Schwarzenegger because Newsom is saying we got
to go fight Trump, and Schwartzinger is saying, it's like, well,
this is supposed to be about who's representing the people.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Right. And of course, the Newsom argument is, when I
interviewed him about it, is look, I like the idea
of independent redissecting. I backed it at the time when
it happened, but we've got it. In their words, fight
fire with fire. They feel like, look, the Republicans have
gained it, So why should we play by different rules
than them? Why should Republicans be allowed to gerrymander their states?
(22:10):
Because Texas has a map that's really unfair to Democrats there.
There are a lot of areas where they're not being
represented where they traditionally have been. So why is it
fair that they do it and that we're so focused
on morality and integrity and doing things the right way
that we end up not being not being represented. I mean,
that's his perspective, arguing that that's well, you know, that's
(22:32):
a democratic perspective.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
What I'd argue with him about is like, that's up
to the Texas voters. To fix something that's unfair, you know,
an unfair act being done to them. That doesn't mean
that California voters should be punished that forty percent of
California voters now suddenly can't get representation in Congress.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Right, And there's also an argument that strategically nationwide, it's
actually a really stupid thing for Democrats to do. This
is clearly something that helps Gavin Newsom himself if it
passes for his presidential campaign, because it gets a win
on the board, it makes him look strong, he gets
to fight Trump. The base loves it. It's good for
(23:14):
Gavin Newsom. It might not actually be good for the
Democratic Party. Here's why Republicans have more states that they're
in control of than Democrats. So if we get into
a gerry mandering fight that every state starts doing this,
Republicans will win the House because they have more ability
(23:34):
to do this in more places. So it may be
a short term political win for the California governor, but
a long term political loser for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
How long can he fight these national battles with Trump?
While I saw yesterday we're number one now in unemployment
in the country. We got the most homeless, we got
the most poverty, we got the highest gas prices, we
got the highest electricity prices. How long can he continue
(24:05):
to make himself a name? Meantime is like the state's
going to hell and he's in New York and he's
today it was a story about he made a climate
agreement with the president of Uganda or no Kenya, of
all places.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I mean, well, well, this has got to catch up
with him at some point.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
But the longer that he does what you're saying, and
the longer that he's able to pick these fights effectively,
the longer he doesn't have to talk about what you
just said, He doesn't have to talk about homelessness and
crime and all the rest of it, because he gets
to focus on Trump. I mean, he's trying to frame
this thing as are you a Democrat? Do you want
to give Trump the middle finger? If so, vote yes
(24:47):
on Prop fifty. And he's made the calculation that there
are enough Democrats that feel that way, and if you
look at just the flat out numbers, he may be
right and he may win this thing. But you do
not hear him spending a lot of time talking about
California issues. And we'll see if voters in South Carolina
and New Hampshire and some of these other states that
(25:10):
will be early primary states, do they care about some
of these California issues that you're talking about. Would his
potential primary opponents be able to run the very easy
to understand ads of shots of skid Row and saying
do we want the California model to be the nationwide model?
Or will his fight against Trump be so effective for
(25:30):
him and get him so much attention and help his
pull number and his fundraising as it is right now
that people just want to see a fighter and so
they vote for him.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Anyways, all right, Alex, thank you for coming on. And
when the show is ready to go and you've built
the set and you've come up with a name.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Well, well, part of what we want to do on
you know, our set is literally across the street from
your studio.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (25:55):
I can see your studio from the window. Yes, So
part of what I want to do on this show
have you be a regular part of this show. And
I'm really excited to be able to include your voice
in it and including some of our other friends from KFI.
Think there's a lot of opportunities for partnership.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
All right, well let me know I can cross the
street anytime you want.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Yes, I takes convenient for you as humanly possible.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, thank you for arranging that. Yes, all right, well
we'll talk soon.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Thanks John.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
All right, it's Alex Michaelson from CNN and his new
show starts soon.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty Moistline.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Now he's Jean. Thanks for calling the Moistline.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
About time the lady they head on from Santa Monica.
Speaker 17 (26:47):
She's like every government official who says, don't.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Believe you're lying eyes. Every city is super wonderful, super safe,
don't believe what you see.
Speaker 19 (26:56):
Mike, have a Santa Monica there, so you can't blame
her because you just got in offs in December. You're
telling me she can't clean up all that crime and
homelessness in nine months, which are really, really, really sad.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
I left California several years ago in part because I
knew that gavinism would soon be the governor. Now, as
he somehow wins the presidency, I'm going to have to
move to Mars.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
I learned that we're going to have elections like they
do in Russia.
Speaker 13 (27:24):
I guess that means in Russia they have elections that
last three months.
Speaker 11 (27:28):
You can mail in your ballots, you don't have to be.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
A citizen and ballot harvesting in Russia, and they're the
ones who decides what signatures get tossed out.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
She's trying to blame everybody else because she.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Was in there.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
She knew what it was like when she took this job.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
Now she's trying to make.
Speaker 16 (27:47):
A bunch of excuses to watch.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Her hands are tied and we shouldn't be speaking.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
The truth because she might not be able to get
elected next time.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
Oh me, a brick of my heart.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Mayor just sounds like every other mayor with all the rhetoric.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Pass it on to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They don't take responsibility. The mayor is the boss.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Don't pass it on to somebody else.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
Tell them to get off there are they get fired.
Speaker 20 (28:21):
The mayor of Santa Monica, she has no answers to
the climb the homelessness. You can't go on the promenade
or a palaces park.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
To be safe.
Speaker 11 (28:34):
As soon as.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
The mayor of Santa Monica goes with a bus and rounds.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Up all those bombs getting.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Off the last train of the night and takes them
to homeless shelters.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Those bombs are quit going to Santa.
Speaker 13 (28:47):
Monica, Va.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Grinson junkies and millions of illegals, street takeover weekends and
beaches filled with needles.
Speaker 12 (28:57):
LA won't be ready for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 16 (29:01):
These all the things that John coleberll.
Speaker 17 (29:04):
He So Gavin Newsom thinks there won't be an election
in twenty twenty eight. So that means that GAVINISSM won't
be elected president. I mean, okay, May'll take it.
Speaker 20 (29:15):
It's funny.
Speaker 10 (29:16):
Isn't twenty twenty eight going to be the most exciting
presidential election of all time? Because Gavin Newsom is going
to run for president. He's going to stand on a
debate stage with twelve other Democrats and they're going to
rip him apart. And this guy, you know, he has the.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Thinnest skin of any politicians.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
When Gavin Newsom was talking about his friends on Stephen
Colbert Show, he's talking about the friends of the wife
seed or was he talking about his friends he laid
out of prison that kept committing more and more crimes
or are the friends at the bread plays that he
didn't want him to pay the twenty dollars an hour
for the employees. Oh, he's got friends that got all
the money, the two billion, All that money disappeared.
Speaker 11 (29:58):
His friend's got that.
Speaker 19 (30:00):
Thank you for leaving your message, Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
How many calls about the mayor? Santa Monica lendin to
Gritte came on earlier this week? When'd she come on
two days ago?
Speaker 15 (30:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Wednesday? Yeah, Wednesday, Wednesday, three o'clock hour.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
If you missed that hour and you didn't know what
all the callers were referring to, you ought to listen
to that hour on the podcast. In fact, all this weekend,
you can listen to the hours from today, the hours
from all week long John Cobelt's show on demand on
the iHeart app, and today's show will be posted after
four o'clock In just a few minutes. We've got Conway
(30:34):
up next, and Michael Kurzer has the news live in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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