March 20, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/20) - Brad Garrett comes on the show to talk about the documents regarding the JFK assassination being declassified. More on Pres. Trump's legal battle regarding the deportation of violent criminal gang members who are illegal immigrants. We know more about what happened with that plane that flipped upside down during landing in Canada. Florida is considering getting rid of property taxes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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violent illegal alien gang members being deported without his permission.
And I'm gonna go through what trend dear Ragua is
about the history behind this Venezuelan gang. They are one
of the most vicious, nastiest gangs you'll find in the
Eastern in the Western hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Excuse me, today's happy spring, by the way, Happy spring. Yeah,
today's first day of spring. See I'm wearing pink. I'm
all uh, yes, you have bloomed today. I have bloom Yeah,
she's blossomed.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You know, the most famous murder of the twentieth century
was John Kennedy getting assassinated. And it is now, god
how many years later, it's sixty two years later, and
there are still a vast majority of people don't believe
it was just Lee Harvey Oswald. And there's been dozens
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of theories, many books, I've read quite a few of
them over the years, and now we have this eighty
thousand page document dump, and you know, if you're waiting
to get a definitive answer, I don't know if that's coming.
But there is interesting stuff in there about Lee Harvey
Oswald and the CIA's interest in Oswald for years before
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he committed the assassination. Let's talk to Brad Garrett, the
ABC News Crime and Terrorism analyst and see what he
has learned. Brad, how are you and I guess you've
read all eighty thousand pages already?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Huh, Well, I'm good and I have not read eighty
thousand pages. In the folks that are the experts on
this assassination, I think they're pretty consistently saying in their
preliminary review, in my preliminary review, there is no point
of phrase smoking gun. I do think as we go
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through this voluminous paperwork that there'll be nuggets of information,
particularly about aspects of the case. Now, are they relevant
to the assassination that may or may not be the case?
You brought up the situation with the CIA that you
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have Lee Harvey Olswell left active duty in the Marine
Corps in nineteen fifty nine. He had all sorts of
problems there, court martialed twice, was jailed by the Marines.
They finally released him as a private and then he
immediately moves to Russia, which you know, you think in
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context of any of us moving to Russia in nineteen
fifty nine, middle of the Cold War, that mey right,
there be wonder reason the CIA was keeping track of me.
I have no idea, but they supposedly tracked him from
fifty nine through the assassination, supposedly survailed him at times,
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supposedly monitored his communications, which I'm going to maybe gas
included wiretaps, since they were done pretty easily back then.
But be that wooded may. The CIA never came forward
to my knowledge, and there's nothing in the documents that
suggest that they came forward to let anybody know that
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they had been looking at Oswald for something I think
clearly unrelated to killing the president, but or planning to
kill the president. But you know, because they've been so secretive,
apparently wouldn't talk to anybody. I don't even think, and
I don't know this job that the Warrant Commission may
not even have known that the CIA had been tracking
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Oswald prior to the assassination. They certainly don't mention it,
and it may not be relevant to the actual assassination.
But the problem is, of course it doesn't. It doesn't
feel right. If you're a conspiracy theorist, you can play,
you can run with that, right, and and people will
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run with that well.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I mean, apparently James Angleton was the counterintelligence chief at
the time for the CIA, and he was personally monitoring
Oswald for four years up until the assassination. And Osweald
just happens to be the guy who kills John Kennedy.
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I mean, wow, that's a terrific coincidence, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, it certainly is. And again there's nothing to suggest
the CIA had an anything to do with the assassination.
But you know, there's another tidbit that could play into this,
at least from a conspiracy standpoint. There was a guy
by the name of John I'm sorry, Arthur Selestionnger that
worked for Kennedy. He was an aide, and there is
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a document apparently in this dump where he talks about
concerns that the CIA were affecting foreign policy because of
people they were recruiting in Allied countries around the world,
and apparently Kennedy didn't trust the CIA. Now you can
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also do make hay with that, but you know how
many presidents haven't trusted the CIA. There's going to be
more than JFK. But be that what it made. That's
another piece of how do how does this really play out?
When you lay it all down, and even throwing in
this odd travel of Oswald weeks before or the assassination
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where he traveled to Mexico City, I'm going to assume
the CIA monitored him. He went to the Russian embassy,
and he also went to the Cuban consulate. Like, okay,
what's that all about. We don't know. But if you're
a conspiracy theorist that you could run wild with that,
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well you know where the Russians involved.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, it's hard, it's hard to believe that all
this stuff is nothing like the one guy who killed Kennedy,
you know, goes to live in Russia, goes to the
Russian embassy, goes to uh uh, Mexico. I mean, you know,
the CIA is all over him for four years. I mean,
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I mean the CIA is also good at covering up
it's it's tracks, obviously, that's what that's their business. Whatever
they do, they don't leave any fingerprints.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
No, But because they have been so secretive about all
of this, and particularly that was driven by Angleton at
least until he got fired in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Four, that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know, it could clarify what we're talking about, or
yet also make it worse, I suppose, depending on what
the truth is. But yeah, it's another big piece of
this case. And if you look at only the evidence
John that's in front of us, the real evidence, you know,
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I think there's little doubt that Oswald was the shooter.
There is in some people's eyes, obviously, some doubt about
did somebody help him or motivate him or whatever, but
had a piece of having it done?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Was there anything about a possible second shooter, which has
been a centerpiece of many conspiracy theories, somebody on the yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Grass right now. I will tell you that a number
of pathologists and ballistics as experts have looked at this case.
And again you can find people that would disagree with
what I'm about to say, but you know they more
or less this one group more or less concluded that
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because of I don't want to get too graphic here
about people getting shot, but the president was shot first
in the neck and in the head. When he was
shot in the neck, it obviously torqued his body a
certain way, and there's a belief that that would be
simplistic here, but that that movement and then the second shot,
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that shot even had some I guess we're arguing that
it had to have come from two different directions. These
folks don't believe that that's the case, but we don't know.
I mean, clearly, no one else was found. There is
clear evidence that Oswald used alias. In fact, he had
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a fake Selective Service card with his picture on it
on his person when he was arrested with another name,
and he used that name to buy both weapons. He
bought a long gun and a handgun that were mailed
to him, and obviously he uses the rifle to kill
the president. But then you might recall he killed Dallas
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police officer and he used the handgun to do that.
So all that's on him. So with the existing evidence,
it's obviously still him and you know, whatever else you
was attached to.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Him, But you know what, did somebody hire him? I
guess that that is the well the hanging question. Did
he just this was his own bizarre obsession or did
somebody make it worthwhile for him to carry this out?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah? He really was seeking fame like a lot of shooters. Yeah,
do they want recognition. And my guess is based on
what I know of his personality, that certainly played into it.
Now you could play he could still have been hired.
All I'm saying is this was a day of glory
for him.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Right all right, Brad, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You're welcome. Take care.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
John Brad Garrett.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
ABC News Crime Terrors and analyst on the eighty thousand
pages that have been released by the Trump administration on
the Kennedy assassination. And everything is almost as murky now
as it was last week. So I thought this was
going to be it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
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Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
This trendy I wagaportation story is I find this fascinating
because I is there other than other than other.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Terrorists and anarchists.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Is there anybody who doesn't think that deporting two hundred
and sixty plus illegal alien violent gang members is a
good thing. Does anyone actually believe that it shouldn't be
done immediately? They used the Trump administration use an act
that you that they normally use in war time. And
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their argument is is that Trendi Ragua is like an
invasive army from Venezuela. I mean, they've come here and
they've raped and killed a number of people, and they're
here to smuggle drugs which have killed thousands of people,
and smuggle human beings and sell them in the sex trade.
There's it's all really awful stuff. And they're organized, and
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they came out of Venezuelan prisons. I mean, this gang
was founded in Venezuelan prison. I don't understand why this
judge is upset shocking that the ACLU filed a lawsuit
to try to keep these guys in the country. I mean,
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we really have subversive organizations in the country. They are
so far left, and we have judges that are so
far left. They're part of the movement, They're part of
the desire that we should have to live with violent
international terrorists. They've been designated terrorists by the US government.
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I don't understand a judge going after the Trump administration
as if they're the bad guys for deporting two hundred
and sixty terrorists between Trendyarragua. And they also have a
number of Marisavatrucia gang members from El Salvador. They got
shipped Tel Salvador. And you've probably heard the story now
if you've been keeping track of this. They were put
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on planes. The judge ordered them, basically ordered the planes
to come back to bring the prisoners back, and the
Trump administration pretended not to hear them, and they said, oh,
the planes are an international airspace.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
There's nothing we can do.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And they landed in El Salvadora and the l Salvadorian
president said, oopsie. Oh well, actually put that out on
social media.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Oopsie.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So today, this federal judge, and his name is James Boseburg,
he's come closer and this is through the New York Times,
so you have to adjust for the skew. They say
he's come closer to holding the Trump administration in contempt
for possibly violating an order he issued last week. Stopping
the deportation. Trump people said that he gave an oral
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order in court that he hadn't done the written order yet,
and by the time the written order came out it
was too late. They were off on the planes. The
Times writer claims in an angrily written order, the judge
told the administration to explain by Tuesday. Next Tuesday, why
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officials explain that they had not violated his instructions. It's like,
if you didn't violate my instructions, explained.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
To me what went on?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Because the Trump administration is not giving him any details,
he says, the Justice Department is stonewalling him.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He can't get information.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
He says, the government is evading its obligations, that the
recent filing is woefully insufficient, and.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He said, look, just tell me what the story is.
We'll put it under seal.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And the Trump people are might invoke a doctrine called
the State Secrets privilege to get out of turning over
the information. What is the judge fighting so hard about here?
If this is this is primarily used in wartime against
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alien soldiers who are out to do harm to the
United States, let me let me and this is this
is pretty close to what trendy Iarragua is about let's
just go by what they have into Wikipedia trendy Iragua
is a transnational criminal organization and a US designated foreign
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terrorist organization. Has over five thousand members from Venezuela and
the gang has expanded throughout Latin America and the United
States because of the Venezuelan refugee crisis. So because we
opened our southern border, we got thousands of criminal gang members.
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Due to the enormity of its crimes, combating the gang
has become a priority to many nations.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It's not just us. When the Tocoron Prison.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Was overtaken by Venezuelan security forces, the Torquuran Prison is
where this gang originated. The leadership escaped, and the gang
activities are currently ongoing. The primarily Venezuelan and it's the
first Venezuelan criminal organization to expand abroad. It's in Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama,
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Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.
It has a particularly dominant role in human trafficking and
human smuggling. They engage in a variety of criminal activities,
arms trafficking, bribery, drug trafficking, illegal mining, kidnappings for ransom,
and money laundering. Well, I don't understand what's the problem
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with with putting them on a plane as quickly as
possible and dumping in an El Salvador in prison. That's
what you want our federal government to do. This is
what Joe Biden would have done. This is what all
presidents ought to do. What do you have this kind
of threat and they were raping and killing people. I'm
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just James Boseburg wants to hold the Trump administration in
contempt and then what we are you gonna jail them?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
This is a baffling waste of time. Be happy that
they're all gone.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
What's the argument that they should stay. They're all here
illegally to begin with. So he put them on a
plane fast and found a foreign country to imprison them.
I can't think of a bigger win. I mean, I've
wanted all my life for a president to take that
kind of action.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Don't you think both? I mean, the public was over
I think.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It was eighty three percent in favor of deporting criminal
illegal aliens. I bet you it's ninety percent in favor
of sending out illegal alien, violent gang members. But you
know there's always that ten percent, and I guess James Boseburg,
the judge, is one of them.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
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Speaker 2 (18:27):
After after three O'clockie Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com
is going to come on with us. There is a
new study out that has concluded this is kind of
from the obvious desk, that California's high gasoline prices are
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self imposed by state officials and politicians, that it's the
California government responsible. This is from USC a professor named
Michael Miche and that was obvious to be all this time,
because we have the highest gas taxes on the planet
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and that's why our gas sometimes is two dollars more
a gallon than many other states. Of course, Newsom blames
the greed of oil and gas companies. It's it's false.
He lies a lot. It is the government. And now
this USA report says, so we're also going to talk
about Tony Strickland, who's a seen assemblyman or state senator.
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He's he's a state senator from Huntington beach, and he
proposed a bill to defund high speed rail and use
that money to reduce the gas tax, because I remember
there's still a sixty five cent gas tax coming because
of the California A Resources Board. We'll go through all
this coming up after three o'clock. Well, it looks like
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we know to some extent. Why at a plane in
Canada flipped over while it was landing. You remember this,
I do, February seventeenth. Yes, the plane was. It was
Delta plane flying from Minneapolis to Toronto, and it had
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been snowing a lot, and at the moment that the
plane landed, there were high winds and very cold temperatures,
and the plane came and skidded and flipped over and
everybody was turned upside down.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Twenty one people were hurt, but nobody died.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And it turns out that when they landed and they
hit the ground too hard and they were going too fast,
which was very similar to that plane I was on
a couple of weeks ago, the same the fact when
the plane I was on landed and started skidding, you
could tell it had been going too fast and hit
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the ground too hard.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
First thing I thought of in my head. It was
the Delta plane that had gone upside down.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So it says the jets right main landing gear collapsed
after hitting the runway. It was it was going one
hundred and fifty five miles an hour. That is not
landing speed.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I don't think. I am not an aeron. I was
gonna say the same, but it just doesn't seem right.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yes, and I look, well, look at the conclusion. They
hit so hard that it bust. It just busted landing gear.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Don't they teach pilots that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well, that's what's funny because Delta's CEO Ed Bastian praised
the actions of the flight crew. This is what we
trained for. We trained for this continuously. Well, you trained
for what the plane flipping over?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well, because because the flight, the flight attendants, they handled
the emergency. They're talking about the pilot.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Right right, you're right, Yes, it was. It was the
whole fright flight group getting everybody out. Yes, the people
just had to climb out, right. I guess those those
landing those shoots don't really work when you're upside down. Yeah, yeah,
it's the Uh so what happened is when they hit
the ground that hard, Uh. The the landing gear folded
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into the retracted position, and part of the gear is
called the side stay, Well that was fractured. That is
that is attached to the main landing gear. So that fractured,
and the wing root fractured between the fuselage and the
landing gear, and the wing detached from the fuselage, and
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that released a cloud of jet fuel which caught fire.
You're following all this, We had a lot of fractures there.
It's said, just like if you fall out of a
window and you break your legs, right, you end up
with a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That's really what it was.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's it's like the plane fell out, fell off, fell
out of a window, and the exact sequence is still
to be determined.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
The Uh. I'd never seen a plane land and then
flip over. I have not either, And I'm really glad
I wasn't on that plane. Yeah, and I'm telling you, I, Uh,
same thing happened here to me. Although the plane didn't
flip over, John, you were just fine, just nervous.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
My plane didn't flip over, but it was skidding and
careening and squealing, and the passengers were howling. Were you howling?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I don't react when things like that happen. I don't
know why that's good. I just stare. You just stare,
you stay calm. Yeah, uh, well because I screaming doesn't
change things. Yeah, but you don't. You don't necessarily. Uh,
you don't make up your mind to scream. It just
sometimes it just never comes out. I never scream at anything.
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Do you ever cry? No? Almost never.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
When I was little, I cried a lot and then
I stopped.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You should have been me as a kid, right, But
then one day I stopped and I just ever did
it again because it doesn't do anything. Well, I've realized
nobody cares. I can cry and be upset, but nobody's
gonna care.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
But you know what, crying it is good for your eyes.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Maybe that's why my eyesight though it has been so bad. Well,
there you go, until I met doctor Manger, who was terrible.
So that's the story there. Now, I got a story
coming up next. H You know, Florida has been gaining
a lot of residents. In California has been losing tons
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of residents. It's going to affect the electoral college because
the more residents you get in a state, the more
congress people you get, and the more electoral votes you
get in a presidential election. If your state that's losing population,
you lose congressional seats, you lose electoral votes. In California
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has went down in the last cycle, Florida went up.
States like Texas and Florida are increasing in political power,
and if they stay Republican as a majority, then it's
going to be harder and harder for the Democrats to
win because their main power base is well New York, Illinois,
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New Jersey, California all losing residents, and Florida is dangling
possibly a beautiful lord to get more people to move.
They are thinking about ditching their property tax. That you
could own a home in Florida which costs far less
than the home in California, and the weather's really.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Good, except you have alligators. You do have allocations in
the negative column.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, anyway, no property taxes on one side, alligatator. But
then you could afford to walk around with a big
stick to beat off the alligators. True, all right, so
we come back. I'll explain, because this is serious. Ron
DeSantis is behind it, and there's a number of bills
in the legislature because the property because they a lot
of property in Florida has has gone up in value dramatically.
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People are moving there, especially after COVID. So what happens
in most states is the higher the value of your property,
well as it as it increases, so does the tax.
And you could be sitting in your house, growing older,
minding your own business. Uh, you have a stable income,
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fixed income, but the cost of your property taxes forces
you out of the home.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Talk about this coming up.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
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moist eighty six. We're gonna talk about this next hour.
Definitely worth weighing in on on the moistlide. City of
Los Angeles is bankrupt, a billion dollar deficit. They're gonna
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lay off thousands of workers potentially. Wow, just like Elon
Musk did in Washington. Let's see if Karen Bass gets
the same kind of abuse. Are they going to be
burning cars in the streets when Carrien Bass lays off
thousands of government workers?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
We'll see in Florida they have got a radical idea.
I spend a lot of time in Florida. We have
a place there, not a lot of time, but sometime,
and it is a much better run state by far.
It's a much more rational state. Everybody's got problems, but
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it's how you deal with the problems. Florida doesn't have
an income tax, which is why a lot of celebrities,
a lot of athletes, they go to Florida. Why give
fourteen percent of your income to Gavin Newsom, I think,
say that out loud. I'm wealthy, I'm successful, I'm famous,
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and I'm gonna give fourteen percent of my income to
Gavin Newsom whatever he wants to do with it. Now,
as we learned yesterday, the state of California is broke
because they've blown over ten billion dollars on illegal alien healthcare.
Found out today the city of Los Angeles is broke
and they're gonna lay off thousands. Florida not only is
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no income tax, they are considering ditching their property tax.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
And because.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Older people in Florida, and you know, it's fundamentally unfair.
I grew up in New Jersey and this was an
issue in New Jersey Let's say you've paid for your house.
You're older, you're in your sixties or seventies or older
than that, and now you're on a smaller income, a
fixed income, and you have this huge property tax bill
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that gets bigger and bigger and swallows all your discretionary income.
You go bankrupt staying in your house. And I thought,
that's just fundamentally wrong. That is unfair. You work all
your life, you paid for your house, and now the
government drives you out of your house with this successive taxation.
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And again, where does the money go. It goes to
illegal aliens. It goes to these criminal homeless nonprofits. I'm
amazed people even pay their taxes anymore in this state.
I really do, because when you see what they're doing
with it. So Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, and what
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I like about him is he gets all kinds of
criticism from the wacko progressives and he just doesn't give
a crap.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
And that's how you have to treat them.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It's like, yeah, fine, keep the appen, he told the legislature,
and they got to do something about property taxes. And
so the legislators have filed dozens of bills. Including some
to end property taxes entirely because in Florida, insurance rates
similar to California, are very high because they've had those hurricanes,
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and because of the influx of new residents people fleeing
cold weather lockdown states like New York, New Jersey, Illinois,
and California. People poured into Florida between twenty twenty and
twenty twenty four, and so the property values have gone
up twenty seven percent. Now, Florida never had a Prop
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thirteen like we do here in California. In California, your
tax rate is suppressed, just goes up maybe two percent
a year, I think because of Prop thirteen. But there
is no such thing in Florida, and the taxes are
skyrocketing and insurance is skyrocketing. So Ron DeSantis what he
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sees people are suffering from overtaxation. His idea is, well,
let's cut the taxes. Maybe let's end that tax See
that's rational. Here in California, they punish you further. Now California,
Florida's tax rate ranked twenty eighth nationally property tax but
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as the real estate values surge, the total amount in
property tax money has doubled over the last decade, and
this really hurts for Tyrese.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They've got one couple here, Zoe Losada, and a year
after the purchase, she saw her property tax bill explode
from six thousand to almost eleven thousand dollars because the
value of her home was reassessed. Now, between the taxes
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and the insurance costs, she says, I can't I will
not be able to retire in this house. Her husband's retired,
he's in his eighties. I'm the only one working. We're
losing money every day. Imagine you're losing money just living
in your house. That's how fast the property taxes are
going up. But again, the Republican Legislature Ron De Santis says,
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this has to stop. We're either going to rework, We're
going to lower the property taxes, get rid of it entirely.
They'd have to raise their sales tax. But with a
sales tax increase, at least you can control how much
you're going to buy and what you're going to buy.
With a property tax, it goes up. You're just sitting there,
you're sleeping, and you're being forced out of your home
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by the government, which is just wrong. And back when
we had same people in California in nineteen seventy eight,
they passed Prop thirteen to limit that kind of damage.
And what have they been doing ever since in California
trying ways to get around Prop thirteen to repeal parts
at thirteen. That's what much of the government does day
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and night, think of ways to undo Prop thirteen. Because
they need money for illegal alien health care, because they
need money to fund a fake high speed rail. They
need money to give away to the criminals who have
the homeless nonprofits. And we're going to talk a lot
about that when we come back. We're going to have
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Katie Grimes on because you know, there's another sixty five
cent gas tax increase coming to California. I told you
about this a few months ago. It's coming and the
legislature refuses to stop it. And Katie had a story
in the California Globe dot com this week about they've
done a study at USC and for fifty years, the
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overwhelming reason that we have higher gas prices in California
is the California government is all their taxes and regulations
hasn't been in the oil and gas companies, says the
USC researcher. It's the government, which I thought was obvious,
but it's nice to have an academic back it up
with research. We'll tell you about it next Debra Mark
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violent illegal alien gang members being deported without his permission.
And I'm gonna go through what trend dear Ragua is
about the history behind this Venezuelan gang. They are one
of the most vicious, nastiest gangs you'll find in the
Eastern in the Western hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Excuse me, today's happy spring, by the way, Happy spring. Yeah,
today's first day of spring. See I'm wearing pink. I'm
all uh, yes, you have bloomed today. I have bloom Yeah,
she's blossomed.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You know, the most famous murder of the twentieth century
was John Kennedy getting assassinated. And it is now, god
how many years later, it's sixty two years later, and
there are still a vast majority of people don't believe
it was just Lee Harvey Oswald. And there's been dozens
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of theories, many books, I've read quite a few of
them over the years, and now we have this eighty
thousand page document dump, and you know, if you're waiting
to get a definitive answer, I don't know if that's coming.
But there is interesting stuff in there about Lee Harvey
Oswald and the CIA's interest in Oswald for years before
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he committed the assassination. Let's talk to Brad Garrett, the
ABC News Crime and Terrorism analyst and see what he
has learned. Brad, how are you and I guess you've
read all eighty thousand pages already?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Huh, Well, I'm good and I have not read eighty
thousand pages. In the folks that are the experts on
this assassination, I think they're pretty consistently saying in their
preliminary review, in my preliminary review, there is no point
of phrase smoking gun. I do think as we go
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through this voluminous paperwork that there'll be nuggets of information,
particularly about aspects of the case. Now, are they relevant
to the assassination that may or may not be the case?
You brought up the situation with the CIA that you
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have Lee Harvey Olswell left active duty in the Marine
Corps in nineteen fifty nine. He had all sorts of
problems there, court martialed twice, was jailed by the Marines.
They finally released him as a private and then he
immediately moves to Russia, which you know, you think in
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context of any of us moving to Russia in nineteen
fifty nine, middle of the Cold War, that mey right,
there be wonder reason the CIA was keeping track of me.
I have no idea, but they supposedly tracked him from
fifty nine through the assassination, supposedly survailed him at times,
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supposedly monitored his communications, which I'm going to maybe gas
included wiretaps, since they were done pretty easily back then.
But be that wooded may. The CIA never came forward
to my knowledge, and there's nothing in the documents that
suggest that they came forward to let anybody know that
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they had been looking at Oswald for something I think
clearly unrelated to killing the president, but or planning to
kill the president. But you know, because they've been so secretive,
apparently wouldn't talk to anybody. I don't even think, and
I don't know this job that the Warrant Commission may
not even have known that the CIA had been tracking
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Oswald prior to the assassination. They certainly don't mention it,
and it may not be relevant to the actual assassination.
But the problem is, of course it doesn't. It doesn't
feel right. If you're a conspiracy theorist, you can play,
you can run with that, right, and and people will
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run with that well.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I mean, apparently James Angleton was the counterintelligence chief at
the time for the CIA, and he was personally monitoring
Oswald for four years up until the assassination. And Osweald
just happens to be the guy who kills John Kennedy.
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I mean, wow, that's a terrific coincidence, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, it certainly is. And again there's nothing to suggest
the CIA had an anything to do with the assassination.
But you know, there's another tidbit that could play into this,
at least from a conspiracy standpoint. There was a guy
by the name of John I'm sorry, Arthur Selestionnger that
worked for Kennedy. He was an aide, and there is
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a document apparently in this dump where he talks about
concerns that the CIA were affecting foreign policy because of
people they were recruiting in Allied countries around the world,
and apparently Kennedy didn't trust the CIA. Now you can
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also do make hay with that, but you know how
many presidents haven't trusted the CIA. There's going to be
more than JFK. But be that what it made. That's
another piece of how do how does this really play out?
When you lay it all down, and even throwing in
this odd travel of Oswald weeks before or the assassination
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where he traveled to Mexico City, I'm going to assume
the CIA monitored him. He went to the Russian embassy,
and he also went to the Cuban consulate. Like, okay,
what's that all about. We don't know. But if you're
a conspiracy theorist that you could run wild with that,
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well you know where the Russians involved.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, it's hard, it's hard to believe that all
this stuff is nothing like the one guy who killed Kennedy,
you know, goes to live in Russia, goes to the
Russian embassy, goes to uh uh, Mexico. I mean, you know,
the CIA is all over him for four years. I mean,
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I mean the CIA is also good at covering up
it's it's tracks, obviously, that's what that's their business. Whatever
they do, they don't leave any fingerprints.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
No, But because they have been so secretive about all
of this, and particularly that was driven by Angleton at
least until he got fired in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Four, that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know, it could clarify what we're talking about, or
yet also make it worse, I suppose, depending on what
the truth is. But yeah, it's another big piece of
this case. And if you look at only the evidence
John that's in front of us, the real evidence, you know,
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I think there's little doubt that Oswald was the shooter.
There is in some people's eyes, obviously, some doubt about
did somebody help him or motivate him or whatever, but
had a piece of having it done?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Was there anything about a possible second shooter, which has
been a centerpiece of many conspiracy theories, somebody on the yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Grass right now. I will tell you that a number
of pathologists and ballistics as experts have looked at this case.
And again you can find people that would disagree with
what I'm about to say, but you know they more
or less this one group more or less concluded that
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because of I don't want to get too graphic here
about people getting shot, but the president was shot first
in the neck and in the head. When he was
shot in the neck, it obviously torqued his body a
certain way, and there's a belief that that would be
simplistic here, but that that movement and then the second shot,
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that shot even had some I guess we're arguing that
it had to have come from two different directions. These
folks don't believe that that's the case, but we don't know.
I mean, clearly, no one else was found. There is
clear evidence that Oswald used alias. In fact, he had
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a fake Selective Service card with his picture on it
on his person when he was arrested with another name,
and he used that name to buy both weapons. He
bought a long gun and a handgun that were mailed
to him, and obviously he uses the rifle to kill
the president. But then you might recall he killed Dallas
(09:28):
police officer and he used the handgun to do that.
So all that's on him. So with the existing evidence,
it's obviously still him and you know, whatever else you
was attached to.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Him, But you know what, did somebody hire him? I
guess that that is the well the hanging question. Did
he just this was his own bizarre obsession or did
somebody make it worthwhile for him to carry this out?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah? He really was seeking fame like a lot of shooters. Yeah,
do they want recognition. And my guess is based on
what I know of his personality, that certainly played into it.
Now you could play he could still have been hired.
All I'm saying is this was a day of glory
for him.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Right all right, Brad, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You're welcome. Take care.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
John Brad Garrett.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
ABC News Crime Terrors and analyst on the eighty thousand
pages that have been released by the Trump administration on
the Kennedy assassination. And everything is almost as murky now
as it was last week. So I thought this was
going to be it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Baby.
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Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
This trendy I wagaportation story is I find this fascinating
because I is there other than other than other.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Terrorists and anarchists.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Is there anybody who doesn't think that deporting two hundred
and sixty plus illegal alien violent gang members is a
good thing. Does anyone actually believe that it shouldn't be
done immediately? They used the Trump administration use an act
that you that they normally use in war time. And
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their argument is is that Trendi Ragua is like an
invasive army from Venezuela. I mean, they've come here and
they've raped and killed a number of people, and they're
here to smuggle drugs which have killed thousands of people,
and smuggle human beings and sell them in the sex trade.
There's it's all really awful stuff. And they're organized, and
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they came out of Venezuelan prisons. I mean, this gang
was founded in Venezuelan prison. I don't understand why this
judge is upset shocking that the ACLU filed a lawsuit
to try to keep these guys in the country. I mean,
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we really have subversive organizations in the country. They are
so far left, and we have judges that are so
far left. They're part of the movement, They're part of
the desire that we should have to live with violent
international terrorists. They've been designated terrorists by the US government.
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I don't understand a judge going after the Trump administration
as if they're the bad guys for deporting two hundred
and sixty terrorists between Trendyarragua. And they also have a
number of Marisavatrucia gang members from El Salvador. They got
shipped Tel Salvador. And you've probably heard the story now
if you've been keeping track of this. They were put
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on planes. The judge ordered them, basically ordered the planes
to come back to bring the prisoners back, and the
Trump administration pretended not to hear them, and they said, oh,
the planes are an international airspace.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
There's nothing we can do.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And they landed in El Salvadora and the l Salvadorian
president said, oopsie. Oh well, actually put that out on
social media.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Oopsie.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So today, this federal judge, and his name is James Boseburg,
he's come closer and this is through the New York Times,
so you have to adjust for the skew. They say
he's come closer to holding the Trump administration in contempt
for possibly violating an order he issued last week. Stopping
the deportation. Trump people said that he gave an oral
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order in court that he hadn't done the written order yet,
and by the time the written order came out it
was too late. They were off on the planes. The
Times writer claims in an angrily written order, the judge
told the administration to explain by Tuesday. Next Tuesday, why
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officials explain that they had not violated his instructions. It's like,
if you didn't violate my instructions, explained.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
To me what went on?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Because the Trump administration is not giving him any details,
he says, the Justice Department is stonewalling him.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He can't get information.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
He says, the government is evading its obligations, that the
recent filing is woefully insufficient, and.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He said, look, just tell me what the story is.
We'll put it under seal.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And the Trump people are might invoke a doctrine called
the State Secrets privilege to get out of turning over
the information. What is the judge fighting so hard about here?
If this is this is primarily used in wartime against
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alien soldiers who are out to do harm to the
United States, let me let me and this is this
is pretty close to what trendy Iarragua is about let's
just go by what they have into Wikipedia trendy Iragua
is a transnational criminal organization and a US designated foreign
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terrorist organization. Has over five thousand members from Venezuela and
the gang has expanded throughout Latin America and the United
States because of the Venezuelan refugee crisis. So because we
opened our southern border, we got thousands of criminal gang members.
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Due to the enormity of its crimes, combating the gang
has become a priority to many nations.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It's not just us. When the Tocoron Prison.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Was overtaken by Venezuelan security forces, the Torquuran Prison is
where this gang originated. The leadership escaped, and the gang
activities are currently ongoing. The primarily Venezuelan and it's the
first Venezuelan criminal organization to expand abroad. It's in Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama,
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Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.
It has a particularly dominant role in human trafficking and
human smuggling. They engage in a variety of criminal activities,
arms trafficking, bribery, drug trafficking, illegal mining, kidnappings for ransom,
and money laundering. Well, I don't understand what's the problem
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with with putting them on a plane as quickly as
possible and dumping in an El Salvador in prison. That's
what you want our federal government to do. This is
what Joe Biden would have done. This is what all
presidents ought to do. What do you have this kind
of threat and they were raping and killing people. I'm
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just James Boseburg wants to hold the Trump administration in
contempt and then what we are you gonna jail them?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
This is a baffling waste of time. Be happy that
they're all gone.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
What's the argument that they should stay. They're all here
illegally to begin with. So he put them on a
plane fast and found a foreign country to imprison them.
I can't think of a bigger win. I mean, I've
wanted all my life for a president to take that
kind of action.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Don't you think both? I mean, the public was over
I think.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It was eighty three percent in favor of deporting criminal
illegal aliens. I bet you it's ninety percent in favor
of sending out illegal alien, violent gang members. But you
know there's always that ten percent, and I guess James Boseburg,
the judge, is one of them.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty coming up.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
After after three O'clockie Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com
is going to come on with us. There is a
new study out that has concluded this is kind of
from the obvious desk, that California's high gasoline prices are
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self imposed by state officials and politicians, that it's the
California government responsible. This is from USC a professor named
Michael Miche and that was obvious to be all this time,
because we have the highest gas taxes on the planet
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and that's why our gas sometimes is two dollars more
a gallon than many other states. Of course, Newsom blames
the greed of oil and gas companies. It's it's false.
He lies a lot. It is the government. And now
this USA report says, so we're also going to talk
about Tony Strickland, who's a seen assemblyman or state senator.
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He's he's a state senator from Huntington beach, and he
proposed a bill to defund high speed rail and use
that money to reduce the gas tax, because I remember
there's still a sixty five cent gas tax coming because
of the California A Resources Board. We'll go through all
this coming up after three o'clock. Well, it looks like
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we know to some extent. Why at a plane in
Canada flipped over while it was landing. You remember this,
I do, February seventeenth. Yes, the plane was. It was
Delta plane flying from Minneapolis to Toronto, and it had
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been snowing a lot, and at the moment that the
plane landed, there were high winds and very cold temperatures,
and the plane came and skidded and flipped over and
everybody was turned upside down.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Twenty one people were hurt, but nobody died.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And it turns out that when they landed and they
hit the ground too hard and they were going too fast,
which was very similar to that plane I was on
a couple of weeks ago, the same the fact when
the plane I was on landed and started skidding, you
could tell it had been going too fast and hit
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the ground too hard.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
First thing I thought of in my head. It was
the Delta plane that had gone upside down.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So it says the jets right main landing gear collapsed
after hitting the runway. It was it was going one
hundred and fifty five miles an hour. That is not
landing speed.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I don't think. I am not an aeron. I was
gonna say the same, but it just doesn't seem right.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yes, and I look, well, look at the conclusion. They
hit so hard that it bust. It just busted landing gear.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Don't they teach pilots that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well, that's what's funny because Delta's CEO Ed Bastian praised
the actions of the flight crew. This is what we
trained for. We trained for this continuously. Well, you trained
for what the plane flipping over?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well, because because the flight, the flight attendants, they handled
the emergency. They're talking about the pilot.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Right right, you're right, Yes, it was. It was the
whole fright flight group getting everybody out. Yes, the people
just had to climb out, right. I guess those those
landing those shoots don't really work when you're upside down. Yeah, yeah,
it's the Uh so what happened is when they hit
the ground that hard, Uh. The the landing gear folded
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into the retracted position, and part of the gear is
called the side stay, Well that was fractured. That is
that is attached to the main landing gear. So that fractured,
and the wing root fractured between the fuselage and the
landing gear, and the wing detached from the fuselage, and
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that released a cloud of jet fuel which caught fire.
You're following all this, We had a lot of fractures there.
It's said, just like if you fall out of a
window and you break your legs, right, you end up
with a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That's really what it was.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's it's like the plane fell out, fell off, fell
out of a window, and the exact sequence is still
to be determined.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
The Uh. I'd never seen a plane land and then
flip over. I have not either, And I'm really glad
I wasn't on that plane. Yeah, and I'm telling you, I, Uh,
same thing happened here to me. Although the plane didn't
flip over, John, you were just fine, just nervous.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
My plane didn't flip over, but it was skidding and
careening and squealing, and the passengers were howling. Were you howling?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I don't react when things like that happen. I don't
know why that's good. I just stare. You just stare,
you stay calm. Yeah, uh, well because I screaming doesn't
change things. Yeah, but you don't. You don't necessarily. Uh,
you don't make up your mind to scream. It just
sometimes it just never comes out. I never scream at anything.
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Do you ever cry? No? Almost never.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
When I was little, I cried a lot and then
I stopped.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You should have been me as a kid, right, But
then one day I stopped and I just ever did
it again because it doesn't do anything. Well, I've realized
nobody cares. I can cry and be upset, but nobody's
gonna care.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
But you know what, crying it is good for your eyes.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Maybe that's why my eyesight though it has been so bad. Well,
there you go, until I met doctor Manger, who was terrible.
So that's the story there. Now, I got a story
coming up next. H You know, Florida has been gaining
a lot of residents. In California has been losing tons
(24:46):
of residents. It's going to affect the electoral college because
the more residents you get in a state, the more
congress people you get, and the more electoral votes you
get in a presidential election. If your state that's losing population,
you lose congressional seats, you lose electoral votes. In California
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has went down in the last cycle, Florida went up.
States like Texas and Florida are increasing in political power,
and if they stay Republican as a majority, then it's
going to be harder and harder for the Democrats to
win because their main power base is well New York, Illinois,
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New Jersey, California all losing residents, and Florida is dangling
possibly a beautiful lord to get more people to move.
They are thinking about ditching their property tax. That you
could own a home in Florida which costs far less
than the home in California, and the weather's really.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Good, except you have alligators. You do have allocations in
the negative column.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, anyway, no property taxes on one side, alligatator. But
then you could afford to walk around with a big
stick to beat off the alligators. True, all right, so
we come back. I'll explain, because this is serious. Ron
DeSantis is behind it, and there's a number of bills
in the legislature because the property because they a lot
of property in Florida has has gone up in value dramatically.
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People are moving there, especially after COVID. So what happens
in most states is the higher the value of your property,
well as it as it increases, so does the tax.
And you could be sitting in your house, growing older,
minding your own business. Uh, you have a stable income,
(26:49):
fixed income, but the cost of your property taxes forces
you out of the home.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Talk about this coming up.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
You're listening to John cobbels Man from KFI A six
the moistline. We have room on the moistline eight seven
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moist eighty six. We're gonna talk about this next hour.
Definitely worth weighing in on on the moistlide. City of
Los Angeles is bankrupt, a billion dollar deficit. They're gonna
(27:20):
lay off thousands of workers potentially. Wow, just like Elon
Musk did in Washington. Let's see if Karen Bass gets
the same kind of abuse. Are they going to be
burning cars in the streets when Carrien Bass lays off
thousands of government workers?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
We'll see in Florida they have got a radical idea.
I spend a lot of time in Florida. We have
a place there, not a lot of time, but sometime,
and it is a much better run state by far.
It's a much more rational state. Everybody's got problems, but
(28:03):
it's how you deal with the problems. Florida doesn't have
an income tax, which is why a lot of celebrities,
a lot of athletes, they go to Florida. Why give
fourteen percent of your income to Gavin Newsom, I think,
say that out loud. I'm wealthy, I'm successful, I'm famous,
(28:28):
and I'm gonna give fourteen percent of my income to
Gavin Newsom whatever he wants to do with it. Now,
as we learned yesterday, the state of California is broke
because they've blown over ten billion dollars on illegal alien healthcare.
Found out today the city of Los Angeles is broke
and they're gonna lay off thousands. Florida not only is
(28:52):
no income tax, they are considering ditching their property tax.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
And because.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Older people in Florida, and you know, it's fundamentally unfair.
I grew up in New Jersey and this was an
issue in New Jersey Let's say you've paid for your house.
You're older, you're in your sixties or seventies or older
than that, and now you're on a smaller income, a
fixed income, and you have this huge property tax bill
(29:25):
that gets bigger and bigger and swallows all your discretionary income.
You go bankrupt staying in your house. And I thought,
that's just fundamentally wrong. That is unfair. You work all
your life, you paid for your house, and now the
government drives you out of your house with this successive taxation.
(29:50):
And again, where does the money go. It goes to
illegal aliens. It goes to these criminal homeless nonprofits. I'm
amazed people even pay their taxes anymore in this state.
I really do, because when you see what they're doing
with it. So Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, and what
(30:15):
I like about him is he gets all kinds of
criticism from the wacko progressives and he just doesn't give
a crap.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
And that's how you have to treat them.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It's like, yeah, fine, keep the appen, he told the legislature,
and they got to do something about property taxes. And
so the legislators have filed dozens of bills. Including some
to end property taxes entirely because in Florida, insurance rates
similar to California, are very high because they've had those hurricanes,
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and because of the influx of new residents people fleeing
cold weather lockdown states like New York, New Jersey, Illinois,
and California. People poured into Florida between twenty twenty and
twenty twenty four, and so the property values have gone
up twenty seven percent. Now, Florida never had a Prop
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thirteen like we do here in California. In California, your
tax rate is suppressed, just goes up maybe two percent
a year, I think because of Prop thirteen. But there
is no such thing in Florida, and the taxes are
skyrocketing and insurance is skyrocketing. So Ron DeSantis what he
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sees people are suffering from overtaxation. His idea is, well,
let's cut the taxes. Maybe let's end that tax See
that's rational. Here in California, they punish you further. Now California,
Florida's tax rate ranked twenty eighth nationally property tax but
(32:01):
as the real estate values surge, the total amount in
property tax money has doubled over the last decade, and
this really hurts for Tyrese.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They've got one couple here, Zoe Losada, and a year
after the purchase, she saw her property tax bill explode
from six thousand to almost eleven thousand dollars because the
value of her home was reassessed. Now, between the taxes
(32:41):
and the insurance costs, she says, I can't I will
not be able to retire in this house. Her husband's retired,
he's in his eighties. I'm the only one working. We're
losing money every day. Imagine you're losing money just living
in your house. That's how fast the property taxes are
going up. But again, the Republican Legislature Ron De Santis says,
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this has to stop. We're either going to rework, We're
going to lower the property taxes, get rid of it entirely.
They'd have to raise their sales tax. But with a
sales tax increase, at least you can control how much
you're going to buy and what you're going to buy.
With a property tax, it goes up. You're just sitting there,
you're sleeping, and you're being forced out of your home
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by the government, which is just wrong. And back when
we had same people in California in nineteen seventy eight,
they passed Prop thirteen to limit that kind of damage.
And what have they been doing ever since in California
trying ways to get around Prop thirteen to repeal parts
at thirteen. That's what much of the government does day
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and night, think of ways to undo Prop thirteen. Because
they need money for illegal alien health care, because they
need money to fund a fake high speed rail. They
need money to give away to the criminals who have
the homeless nonprofits. And we're going to talk a lot
about that when we come back. We're going to have
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Katie Grimes on because you know, there's another sixty five
cent gas tax increase coming to California. I told you
about this a few months ago. It's coming and the
legislature refuses to stop it. And Katie had a story
in the California Globe dot com this week about they've
done a study at USC and for fifty years, the
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overwhelming reason that we have higher gas prices in California
is the California government is all their taxes and regulations
hasn't been in the oil and gas companies, says the
USC researcher. It's the government, which I thought was obvious,
but it's nice to have an academic back it up
with research. We'll tell you about it next Debra Mark
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