December 29, 2025 • 33 mins
Hour 2 of John filling in for Clay Travis & Buck Sexton on the Clay & Buck Show! Hour 2 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show dives deep into California politics and the national implications of Governor Gavin Newsom’s record as he positions himself as a leading Democratic presidential contender. Guest host John Kobylt from KFI Los Angeles warns listeners about Newsom’s policies and their disastrous impact on California. Joining the conversation is veteran journalist Katy Grimes from CaliforniaGlobe.com, who has chronicled Newsom’s tenure for years. This hour exposes massive government waste and corruption scandals, including: Billions lost in homelessness programs: At least $24–$37 billion vanished into nonprofits and NGOs with little accountability, while homelessness worsened. High-speed rail boondoggle: A project sold to voters as a $33 billion statewide bullet train now sits unfinished after 18 years and $17 billion spent—with no track laid and costs projected to soar past $130 billion. COVID-era unemployment fraud: Over $32 billion in taxpayer money was stolen through lax oversight, with funds even reaching death row inmates and overseas scammers. Former California labor chief Julie Su, tied to the scandal, later became Biden’s Acting Labor Secretary. Failed progressive mandates: Newsom’s electric vehicle mandate and climate-change-driven gas taxes have driven fuel prices sky-high (averaging $4.29 in California vs. $1.93 in Oklahoma), while the state lacks the infrastructure to support EV adoption. Katy Grimes also highlights California’s Democratic supermajority, media complicity, and why Newsom has never faced tough scrutiny at home—something that will change on the national stage. The discussion revisits his debate meltdown against Ron DeSantis, predicting similar outcomes if he faces GOP contenders like JD Vance or Marco Rubio. Listeners also hear personal stories illustrating California’s decline: skyrocketing crime, homelessness, and quality-of-life deterioration driving residents to flee the state. John Kobylt underscores how progressive policies have “disemboweled” California, turning paradise into chaos. Key SEO topics covered in Hour 2: Gavin Newsom presidential ambitions, California homelessness crisis, high-speed rail failure, unemployment fraud scandal, Julie Su controversy, electric car mandate, climate tax impact on gas prices, progressive policy failures, California exodus, Ron DeSantis vs. Newsom debate.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome everybody, the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobel, filling in for
Clay and Buck. I want to thank them for letting
me have this opportunity today as they enjoy the vacation,
enjoy the holidays off, and I want to continue. I'm
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from cafe in Los Angeles, and I've been talking a
lot about the governor here, Gavin Newsom, because he is
the leading presidential candidate on the Democratic side, and this
is a dire warning not to let this happen. And
I'm saying this to everybody, not just the Republicans listening,
but Democrats and independence You don't want this guy. He
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is a disaster with his policies. And I'll go through
more of that later, but I want you to see
a little a clip of his act here. Look, I mean,
he's absolutely running for president, already toured primary states, and
he's obviously taken on the job as being chief critic
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of Donald Trump, bizarrely by trying to imitate Trump's Twitter style,
and this is getting him a lot of attention. This
is what's boosted up in the polls. But just last month.
This is last month. He goes on NBC to meet
the press. It talks to the Kristen Welker, who asks
about why he wants to be president. Listen to this
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nonsense answer.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You said you'll make a decision about whether to run
for president after the midterms.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean why do you governor?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Let me ask you, why do you want to be president?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't. I'm not suggesting I am. I'm saying I
in response to someone talked about it. I hate when
I nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits
there and lies to you and we all just sit
there rolling our eyes. Go and give me a break.
So as it relates to that on the right, I'm
focused on Prop fifty. I'm focusing on fair, free elections
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and to the extent fate the future. There's an alignment.
You have a big enough why, you have a whate
and a how you meet a moment, and that moment
presents itself in a year, year and a half, we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What the hell did that mean? At the end there,
he says that he hates a politician sitting there and
lying to you, and were we roll our eyes while
he's lying to you, and we're rolling our eyes and
then he goes into this incomprehensible word salad that would
put Kamala Harris to shame. Ay. Yeah, Well, here's a
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woman who's got a lot of stamina because she's been
covering Gavin Newsom for many years, Katie Grimes, and she
writes for California Globe dot com Californiaglobe dot com. And
if you want to know what's going on in California
news and politics, this is where to go. Believe me.
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You may not have heard about this particular website, but
for me, it's replaced most of the regular media out here,
which simply doesn't cover anything. I don't think there is
one local reporter in Sacramento that covers state politics. And
there's nobody else in all of California. Nobody, Nobody from
the La Times, nobody from the San Francisco Chronicle, nobody
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from all the network affiliates ABC, NBC, CBS, all the
affiliates in all these cities, Nobody covers Sacramento. It's it's astonishing,
But Katie does Katie how are you welcome doing well?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
John, Good to be with you, Good.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
To have you on. Well, why don't you give because
we're you know, we're we're we're broadcast across the country
this time. What would you tell people about covering Gavin
Newsom for all these years?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, it's a it's a distasteful job, I must admit,
it's if anybody kind of is trying to understand who
Gavin Newsom is, which is difficult because every interview he
gives he's playing to whatever audience he thinks he's performing for.
But you have to think of like the worst of
Tim Waltz and the worst of Gretchen met Beer. But
just in a nice Italian suit, that's kind of Gavin Newsome.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The suits are nice, Are they nice? I think he's
he's you know, that's how he gets buy in life.
He's got nice suits, nice hair and a strong jawline.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And he travels with his own personal hairstylist.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah. And I mean, you know, some people swoon. I
mean I see him referred to as Governor McDreamy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And they don't connect him to the everything that's fallen
apart in the state.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, it's I believe it was Michael Savage who said
liberalism is a mental disorder, and then I think we're
seeing the fruition of that today after so many years
of Democrat super majority rule in California, and it got
really ugly during when Jerry Brown came back as governor's
second time around, which you know is so unfortunate for
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all of us who've lived here for decades, but it
was made worse by Gavin Newsom. I recently did an
update to my Top fifty disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has
ushered into California to twenty top fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Wait, I got to just stop in a second, Top
fifty disasters, right, and there's more.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I have people telling me, you know, people were writing
me saying, but you forgot this, and you forgot this,
and it's like we could have top five hundred. It
would take, you know, a twenty thousand word essay.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Let's talk about some of the biggest ones, because you know,
all the news is raging about Tim Watz and the
nine billion dollar Somali scandal, for the empty daycare centers
and the children's feeding programs that don't exist. But he's
got several here. You know that add up to about
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eighty billion dollars worth of fraud. Let's talk about the homelessness,
because he has admitted that twenty four billion dollars in
homeless money over the years has disappeared and is it
was spent, but nobody knows what it was spent on
and what if it did any good? And that's what
this one fascinated me because he actually admitted it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, well, he only admitted to twenty four billion. The
state legislative analyst uped it to thirty seven billion, and
that money disappeared into the black hole of newly created
nonprofits and NGOs non governmental organizations, and those people hired
you know, friends and family, and the CEO was making
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two fifty a year and they just would spend the
money as fast as humanly possible. I did an article
that posted today just highlighting one of these organizations in
San Francisco, which is supposed to be providing free shots
of alcohol to homeless alcohol and in five years, at
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sixteen sixteen million dollars a year, they've served fifty five clients.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
No, you're making that up. That's this is tax money
and ad buys free shots of booze to street drunks.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yes, yes, and it's been going on for a number
of years. It was it was an organization that already existed,
but they beefed it up during COVID ostensibly to keep
these homeless alcoholics out of emergency rooms. And you know
it's under the you know, we're kind of trying to
reduce harm to these people. And you know, as I said,
I'm sorry, giving alcohol to alcoholics is like giving crack
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to crack heads and heroin to heroin addicts. It doesn't
end it, it makes it worse.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, they're close to doing that too, because I know
in La I just saw a program that UCLA is
involved with where they hand out they hand out needles, Yeah,
and they hand out they hand out that like meth pipe.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, right exactly. They claim that this is a harm
reduction program when all you're doing is is the classic
codependent concept.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But they know this, don't they. Yes, And it's really
about funneling the money to friends and family. So everybody
has their own multimillion dollar empire, and everybody knows that
all this nutty stuff doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes, And in California with forty billion residents and a
legislature of the same size as New Jersey. It's very
easy to hide this.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And that's that's thirty seven billion right there. Yep. The
high speed rail, that's a seventeen billion dollar disaster. And
that's over an eighteen year period. Now, yes, and there
is not one inch of track laid down after seventeen
billion dollars in eighteen years. Not an inch of track.
(08:58):
Talk about that, No.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And that's exactly it. It's consultants that are getting paid.
It's union employees. This was supposed to be a big
boondoggle for the labor unions in the state, particularly the SEIU,
which is public employees. And all they're doing is spending money,
as I said, on consultants, on architects, on it's a
lot of make work, and it's a multi billion dollars
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of money just being funneled down the drain. And as
you say, there's no track, there's no trains, there's no
high speed there's no nothing. It's unbelievable that this is
going on. And I think it's even more unbelievable to
you and to me, John, that we have the Los
Angeles Times, which hasn't done a massive investigation on this
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because they have the resources to do it and expose
where the money's actually going.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Then another one, and this may be the biggest one
of them all. During COVID, the state started handing out
unemployment money to anybody who who claimed they were unemployed.
And they blew about at least thirty two billion dollars
and much of it went overseas. Yes, and at a
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state talk about that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
This was the most unbelievable scam I think our state
has ever seen. And unfortunately the perpetrators failed up into
the Biden administration. So what they did during COVID was
took off all of the security measures that are normally
in place when people apply for unemployment benefits in California.
And somehow the word got out pretty fast to every
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prisoner in every state prison in our state and other
states that there was this free money to be had.
We had bid prisoners on death row getting unemployment benefits fraudulently.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Scott Peterson, who killed his wife, Lazy Peterson was getting
unemployment benefits while sitting on death row.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yep, Yeah, Russians were Ukrainians were you know, people from
all over the world were applying and receiving California Unemployment
Benefits and the head of the agency, who should not
only have been fired but prosecuted, was hired by the
Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
She became the acting Labor Secretary Julie Sue Right, Yes
she did.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
She never got confirmed, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And then she forgave some of the debt California had
to the federal government. She created the debt while running
the California Labor Department, and then forgave her own debt
when she took over Biden's Labor Department.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Correct, And the remaining debt is now being paid by
California's business owners because Gavin Newsom will not repay the
debt to the federal government.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That's crazy. Can you hang on, Yes, We'll talk a
few more minutes here with Katie Grimes from California Globe
dot Com. So, I mean, you add all those three
scandals up and you get near eighty billion day. I mean,
I mean, Jim Waltz is a rookie compared to what
Gavin Newsom has done to the state. And by the way,
this is going on in a lot of states. It's
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not just Minnesota, in California. I mean this it is
a free for all now with local governments. We'll talk
more about this. John Cobelt from KFI filling in today
on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Welcome. This is the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
I'm John Cobel from KFI Radio in Los Angeles, filling
in today normally on in the afternoon in the LA area,
and we're talking now with Katie Grimes. We've devoted a
lot of time to Gavin Newsom, the governor of California,
who's the leading Democratic presidential candidate, and a lot of
people think that, you know, he's clearly got the best
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chance to being the Democratic nominee. Katie Grimes is with
us from California Globe dot Com and she's been chronicling
Newsome and the decline of the state over the last
seven years. Katie, you and I know what the record is,
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and he's going to be running against I don't know
six or eight ten other Democratic candidates right in the primaries.
Not to mention, if he made it through, it would
be the Republican nominee, whether it's JD. Vans or Marco
Rubio or whoever. Isn't he going to get viscerated in
about ten minutes or do you think he's got the
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ability to slime and slink his way out.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Of this.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well? In answer to your question, yes, he will be
eviscerated most definitely. Just think back to his disastrous debate
with Rond de Santis, Governor Rond dea Santis of Florida,
which was a squirming, uncomfortable experience to have to watch.
Governor Desantus was fabulous and just like pummeled Governor Newsom
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on his record, on his lies, on you know, his exaggerations,
on his word salads. I mean just it just went
on and on. And can you imagine j d Vance
debating him or Marco Rubio, even any of the other
potential Democrat want to be candidates. I think other than
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Tim Walls, Gretchen Whitmer could just eat him for lunch.
I think it'll be entertaining to watch. It may make
a lot of people squirm though, when you when you
see him really put to.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The test, why do you think he survived here? He's
won every election twice for mayor, twice for lieutenant governor,
three times for governor because there was a recall. I mean,
that's a seven and zero record, Like, what's wrong with
people here?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Well, we are a Democrat majority state, super majority in
our legislature. We have some of the most liberal media
in the entire country, and as you correctly stated in
your opening, they just choose not to cover certain things.
And Gavin Newsome, for that very reason, has never been
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put to the test in California, not the way he
should have been. There's never really been. He hasn't had
to run a tough election, is the point. I think
that will change on the national stage.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
He is not really quick under pressure. No, every once
in a while a reporter gets a hold of him
and he becomes a blithering mess.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, and his first go to is to tell a
big fat lie, you know, as he encountered the mom
in Pacific Palisades or Kristen Welker in her interview. I
think he thinks he can shoot from the hip on
everything he does, and it just doesn't work on a
national stage. California media might give him a pass, but
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I don't think national media will now.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I mean, it's such a rich target environment Newsome's record
because I know a lot of people think he's going
to win in a breeze, and I always think you
have no idea how much baggage he carries. Katie Grimes,
I've got to go. Thank you for coming on with
us from californiaglobe dot com.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Thank you so much, Jonasan great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
All Right, we're going to talk more about the situation
out here in California on the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Thank you John Cobalt for hosting a Clay and Buck
and you and Katie Grimes so letting the world know
that California has gone from the land of melcon honey
to fruits and nuts, now to doom and gloom. I'm
a seventy seven year old native and it's I'm just
terribly depressed. So please, we cannot let newsom ruin our country.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, thank you very much, And this is the Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobelt from CAFI
in Los Angeles on every afternoon on the radio here
in southern California, and yes, I'm here to let the
world know just what a freaking disaster Gavin Newsom has
been to the state, and it's been destroyed right in
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front of our eyes. As I said in the opening
of the show, you know, I've been here over thirty years,
and when I was a little kid, this looked like
paradise on TV. I came here, and it actually was.
And it stayed that way for the first, you know,
twenty plus years or so, and then it's gone really downhill,
and it's it's almost entirely due to self inflicted bad
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democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader for any political party,
but I am telling you that this progressive movement over
the last ten years has utterly disemboweled the state. It
is terrible, and it's heartbreaking. It's very sad, and you know,
it's funny. I've got I've got three sons who are
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in their twenties and they all they all moved out,
and none of them want to come back to California,
And but we visit them around the country. And when
I go to other states, within a few hours, I
look around and I go, what happened? Like where are
the homeless people? You know, where are all of the
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low level criminals skulking about. Look at that gas price,
that's two eighty nine, that's two sixty nine a gallon.
It's I feel like I've broken out of Cuba, I mean,
or we're communist Russia. I really have that feeling. And
my sons used to hear my wife and I complain
and grumble all the time about various policies and taxes
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and just everything quality of life issues, and used to
roll their eyes at us until they moved out. And
so now they go out. And I have one son
of Wyoming, one in North Carolina, one in Louisiana going
to school or various early parts of their career. And
they come back and they go they're shocked. Now they're
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shocked by LA because they spend you know, three six
months in peace before they return for a visit, and
they go, you know, now, I know what you're talking about,
because they get so used to normal life, pleasant life.
I visited one of my sons in North Carolina over
the summer, and then we took a road trip. We
went through Savannah, Georgia, we went to Charleston, South Carolina.
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We ended up in Sarasota, where my wife grew up
a part of her childhood as a teenager and beyond
because her parents had moved. And so just seeing those
four cities, seeing Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Sarasota, and I'm looking around,
it's like, look at this, no bodies on the sidewalks.
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We're not looking at our shoulder. We're not afraid. And
that is the single thing that makes you crazy. In La.
We never know when somebody's gonna come flying at you,
because it happens. People get punched in the face, they
get stabbed. There is a girl that my sons went
to school with from the local school, and she'd gone
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to college and she was taken a job to earn money,
had to leave it a furniture store, homeless guy who
had been arrested, you know, many many, many times, walked
in one day and stabbed her to death right in
the furniture store. It's like, oh my god, you know what.
My sons knew that girl. I used to see her.
She used to work out at a park that I
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worked out at, and I remembered her. And this it
really hits home to a lot of people. I mean,
we know, we know dozens and dozens of people who
lost their homes in the fire. Because many of the
people in the Palisades went to the same schools my children,
and and and so the the pain is intense, The
pain is personal. You go from paradise to what we
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have now, and it makes you. Now a lot of
people have packed up and left, and I understand. And
people always say, well, why are you staying? Well, I
do have a good job, and and we do have
a lot of friends. You know, there are you do
spread roots, and I don't really want to go to
another state and not know anybody. That's That's just doesn't
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sound appealing. Let me, let me tell you about about
some of the fraud. And we went over with Katie
Grimes from California Globe dot Com. We're gonna have, oh,
next hour, we're gonna have from news Nation. Let me see,
uh uh, We're gonna have Joe Khalil from news Nation
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and he's going to talk about the Minnesota case with
Tim Waltz. And so I keep saying, if like you
think Waltz is something else with the fraud, just listen
to these guys newsom stories. And this week California dropped
its lawsuit four billion dollars in federal money was supposed
to come for high speed rail and Trump pulled it.
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And Trump has done a lot of damage to Newsom.
This is one example, four billion dollars of federal money.
Obama had originally appropriated some of it. And the first
thing that Newsom and the Attorney general in California does,
Rob Bonta, is they hold a press conference. We're suing Trump,
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big headlines in all the left wing papers. Newsom sues Trump,
Bonta sues Trump. Well, the follow up to that is
that Newsom and Vanta dropped their four billion dollar lawsuit.
They're not even going to try to get the four
billion back because guess what they did violate the loan
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agreement or were the grant agreement. They dismissed their own lawsuits.
Trump's Transportation Department said they did a compliance review and
found that California didn't meet federal grant requirements. There were
too many costly changes to the contracts, the ridership forecasts,
where bogus and on and on and on. Let me
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tell you when this thing passed in two thousand and eight,
what the voters were told. I think it passed fifty
two to forty eight. It was a statewide referendum, do
you want high speed rail? Here is what they sold
the public. I voted no. I knew it was a
bunch of lies. A lot of people went for it,
and I understand why because at the time, and this
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was a remnant of like the Schwarzenegger administration. They said,
you were going to have two hundred and twenty mile
an hour trains. Yeah, really two hundred and twenty mile
an hour trains, and they were going to run from
get This was going to run from Sacramento to San Francisco,
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then to Los Angeles, then to Anaheim, then to San Diego.
The whole state, all the major cities from north to
south would be connected by a single track. And we
were gonna build that in about I think it was
gonna be by within fifteen years, by twenty twenty, and
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the total price was going to be thirty three billion
dollars thirty three billion.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Dollars for the whole thing, Sacramento, San Francisco, La Anaheim,
San Diego, and the trains would go two hundred and
twenty miles an hour and you'd be able to order
from San.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Francisco to Los Angeles in like, I don't know, two
and a half hours and people got excited. Right, people love.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
It.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's science fiction, right, shiny bullet trains speeding you know,
through the California farm regions, connecting the cities. Everyone bought
into it. So now what have we got eighteen years later?
We have no track. What we have is scattered out
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in the California, the Central Valleys they call it. That's
a lot of farmland, right. Well, they tore up a
lot of farmland, and they have left these pillars. And
someday someone's going to come back to California and wonder
what these pillars are for because they're really high. They're
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like twenty thirty feet high. They're supposed to hold up
the railroad track, the overhead railroad track, except the railroad
track was never built. So you have these things and
it looks like Stonehenge out there. Like if you had,
i know, people from a foreign country come, they'd be
looking around. It's like this, this is the ancient civilization
that left behind. You know, where they tracking the sun? Here,
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where they plotting the stars? Do these cast shadows? Uh?
That's all we have are these Stonehenge pillars to hold
up track that's ever been built. They have reduced the
train to Bakersfield to Merced. Bakersfield is an oil town.
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Merced has a University of California campus there. Bakersfield's industrial.
It kind of looks like an oil town would. Merced
is just you know, a little suburb. You can't run
a train back and forth. There's no market there. There
are no commuters wanting to go from Bakersfield to Mercet.
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And even then, the train stops are outside Bakersfield and Mercette.
And that's the extent of the train they're trying to build.
It's gonna be one hundred and seventy one miles. There
is no Sacramento, there's no San Francisco. There's no Las Anels,
no Anaheim, no San Diego, there's nothing. There's Baker's Field
to Merceaid. And now they're estimating it's like, well, if
we ever built the whole thing, which we're not going to,
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it would cost you know, one hundred and thirty million dollars,
which means it would probably cost one hundred and thirty billion,
which means it would probably cost two hundred and fifty billion.
Remember what I said at the beginning, it's gonna be
thirty three billion, all five major cities. It's gonna be
done about twelve to fifteen years now. I but end
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when they did, they did several audits. And when the
auditors went in because somebody else says want they do
an audit, I don't do it forensic audit and track
down every penny. Well, when they do the audits, they
find out the money evaporated. It's it's not written down,
there's no paperwork. There's literally no paperwork. The money was withdrawn,
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tax money was withdrawn from accounts, and then it was gone.
We agreed to borrow ten billion dollars that we're now
paying back. They also said, well, we're going to get
private investors. Way back when Well and Newsoman Bonta dropped
this lawsuit this past week, somebody said, well, where are
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you going to get the money. Oh, we're going to
get private investor. There are no private investors in the world.
They've been trying for twenty five years to get private investors.
But it's a boondoggle. You know, when the private sector
says this thing is a scam, it's a scam. But
it keeps the unions employed who are busy building these
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Stonehenge pillars for no reason. It's it's it's astonishing. And
that that other thing that we talked about with Katie. Yeah,
death row inmates really got really got unemployment money. Scott
Peterson really got an unp boymancheck while sitting on death row.
You just can't make this stuff up. All right, We've
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got more coming up on. This is John Coblt from
KFI Radio on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Hey, John, this is Timothy in More, Oklahoma, formerly from
San Diego, California. Used to love the John and Ken
Show back then moved out here in twenty two, left
that hell hole California behind. And I just paid a
dollar ninety three from Leaded Gas here in Oklahoma. God
bless Mary Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
A dollar ninety three, he said. Huh, John Cobelt here
from CAFI, Los Angeles, filling in today on the Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And yeah, California gas is
I think the average four twenty nine right now, And
I don't know where the where the cheaper stations are
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but on the west side of Los Angeles where I am. Yeah,
I set a stoplight just yesterday. It was five oh
nine at the corner. So I don't know who's who's
paying the cheap gas to average get to that four
twenty nine average. But it's it's it just I look
at the gas prices every day and what the reason
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for the gas hike here is entirely taxes. We have
a dollar fifty in extra taxes and it's all climate
change nonsense, and it has had no effect on the climate.
The climate on Earth has not cooled by a single
one one millionth of a degree since they started charging us.
(30:50):
You know, the extra buck fifty. It's not just a
climate tax, it's all the different taxes. But this is
what really boosted the gas into the stratosphere, was the
climate change tax. The Earth is no cooler, California is
no cooler. The I mentioned the other they have. Trump
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has done a lot of damage earlier in the show
how Trump's done a lot of damage to Newsom, for example,
by with withdrawing the billions of dollars in high speed rail.
He also got rid of Newsom's electric car mandate starting
next week. Next week, thirty five percent of the cars
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in California were supposed to be electric, thirty five percent
of the cars sold, and it was going to ramp
up from there, and in less than ten years, one
hundred percent of the cars sold were supposed to be electric. Now,
a lot of the electric cars are difficult to deal with,
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as you know, which is why this has been a
bus Tesla's are great. I see Tesla's on the West Side.
There's a lot of rich people on the West Side.
Lot of guys it's their third cards, their weekend car,
and they could pay seventy five or one hundred thousand
or whatever those things cost. But again for the working class,
for the middle class, electric cars not feasible. For one thing,
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we don't have any charging stations. I mean we really don't,
and we don't have an electric grid to support the charging.
If we all switched to electric like Newsom was mandating,
there's absolutely no power source to provide the electricity. And
for years and years we've been talking about this, it's like, well,
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if we're going to do this, we need more power. Instead,
they were closing natural gas plants, they were closing a
nuclear plant, and then changed their mind at the last minute,
and then change their minds on the gas plant. They
were going to go all wind and solar. They didn't
build charging stations, they don't have a rid, but we
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were mandated to buy electric cars. That's part of the
insanity that we have. All Right, we come back Joe
Khalil and Joe's with News Nation and we're going to
switch to the Minnesota insanity, very similar and all the
fraud with the Somali community there. There's a new video
out that has shocked country one hundred million views and
(33:24):
that's coming up next on The Clay Travis and Buck
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I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome everybody, the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobel, filling in for
Clay and Buck. I want to thank them for letting
me have this opportunity today as they enjoy the vacation,
enjoy the holidays off, and I want to continue. I'm
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from cafe in Los Angeles, and I've been talking a
lot about the governor here, Gavin Newsom, because he is
the leading presidential candidate on the Democratic side, and this
is a dire warning not to let this happen. And
I'm saying this to everybody, not just the Republicans listening,
but Democrats and independence You don't want this guy. He
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is a disaster with his policies. And I'll go through
more of that later, but I want you to see
a little a clip of his act here. Look, I mean,
he's absolutely running for president, already toured primary states, and
he's obviously taken on the job as being chief critic
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of Donald Trump, bizarrely by trying to imitate Trump's Twitter style,
and this is getting him a lot of attention. This
is what's boosted up in the polls. But just last month.
This is last month. He goes on NBC to meet
the press. It talks to the Kristen Welker, who asks
about why he wants to be president. Listen to this
(01:30):
nonsense answer.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You said you'll make a decision about whether to run
for president after the midterms.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean why do you governor?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Let me ask you, why do you want to be president?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't. I'm not suggesting I am. I'm saying I
in response to someone talked about it. I hate when
I nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits
there and lies to you and we all just sit
there rolling our eyes. Go and give me a break.
So as it relates to that on the right, I'm
focused on Prop fifty. I'm focusing on fair, free elections
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and to the extent fate the future. There's an alignment.
You have a big enough why, you have a whate
and a how you meet a moment, and that moment
presents itself in a year, year and a half, we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What the hell did that mean? At the end there,
he says that he hates a politician sitting there and
lying to you, and were we roll our eyes while
he's lying to you, and we're rolling our eyes and
then he goes into this incomprehensible word salad that would
put Kamala Harris to shame. Ay. Yeah, Well, here's a
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woman who's got a lot of stamina because she's been
covering Gavin Newsom for many years, Katie Grimes, and she
writes for California Globe dot com Californiaglobe dot com. And
if you want to know what's going on in California
news and politics, this is where to go. Believe me.
(03:01):
You may not have heard about this particular website, but
for me, it's replaced most of the regular media out here,
which simply doesn't cover anything. I don't think there is
one local reporter in Sacramento that covers state politics. And
there's nobody else in all of California. Nobody, Nobody from
the La Times, nobody from the San Francisco Chronicle, nobody
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from all the network affiliates ABC, NBC, CBS, all the
affiliates in all these cities, Nobody covers Sacramento. It's it's astonishing,
But Katie does Katie how are you welcome doing well?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
John, Good to be with you, Good.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
To have you on. Well, why don't you give because
we're you know, we're we're we're broadcast across the country
this time. What would you tell people about covering Gavin
Newsom for all these years?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, it's a it's a distasteful job, I must admit,
it's if anybody kind of is trying to understand who
Gavin Newsom is, which is difficult because every interview he
gives he's playing to whatever audience he thinks he's performing for.
But you have to think of like the worst of
Tim Waltz and the worst of Gretchen met Beer. But
just in a nice Italian suit, that's kind of Gavin Newsome.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The suits are nice, Are they nice? I think he's
he's you know, that's how he gets buy in life.
He's got nice suits, nice hair and a strong jawline.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And he travels with his own personal hairstylist.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah. And I mean, you know, some people swoon. I
mean I see him referred to as Governor McDreamy.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And they don't connect him to the everything that's fallen
apart in the state.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, it's I believe it was Michael Savage who said
liberalism is a mental disorder, and then I think we're
seeing the fruition of that today after so many years
of Democrat super majority rule in California, and it got
really ugly during when Jerry Brown came back as governor's
second time around, which you know is so unfortunate for
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all of us who've lived here for decades, but it
was made worse by Gavin Newsom. I recently did an
update to my Top fifty disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has
ushered into California to twenty top fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Wait, I got to just stop in a second, Top
fifty disasters, right, and there's more.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I have people telling me, you know, people were writing
me saying, but you forgot this, and you forgot this,
and it's like we could have top five hundred. It
would take, you know, a twenty thousand word essay.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Let's talk about some of the biggest ones, because you know,
all the news is raging about Tim Watz and the
nine billion dollar Somali scandal, for the empty daycare centers
and the children's feeding programs that don't exist. But he's
got several here. You know that add up to about
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eighty billion dollars worth of fraud. Let's talk about the homelessness,
because he has admitted that twenty four billion dollars in
homeless money over the years has disappeared and is it
was spent, but nobody knows what it was spent on
and what if it did any good? And that's what
this one fascinated me because he actually admitted it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, well, he only admitted to twenty four billion. The
state legislative analyst uped it to thirty seven billion, and
that money disappeared into the black hole of newly created
nonprofits and NGOs non governmental organizations, and those people hired
you know, friends and family, and the CEO was making
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two fifty a year and they just would spend the
money as fast as humanly possible. I did an article
that posted today just highlighting one of these organizations in
San Francisco, which is supposed to be providing free shots
of alcohol to homeless alcohol and in five years, at
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sixteen sixteen million dollars a year, they've served fifty five clients.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
No, you're making that up. That's this is tax money
and ad buys free shots of booze to street drunks.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yes, yes, and it's been going on for a number
of years. It was it was an organization that already existed,
but they beefed it up during COVID ostensibly to keep
these homeless alcoholics out of emergency rooms. And you know
it's under the you know, we're kind of trying to
reduce harm to these people. And you know, as I said,
I'm sorry, giving alcohol to alcoholics is like giving crack
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to crack heads and heroin to heroin addicts. It doesn't
end it, it makes it worse.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, they're close to doing that too, because I know
in La I just saw a program that UCLA is
involved with where they hand out they hand out needles, Yeah,
and they hand out they hand out that like meth pipe.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, right exactly. They claim that this is a harm
reduction program when all you're doing is is the classic
codependent concept.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But they know this, don't they. Yes, And it's really
about funneling the money to friends and family. So everybody
has their own multimillion dollar empire, and everybody knows that
all this nutty stuff doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes, And in California with forty billion residents and a
legislature of the same size as New Jersey. It's very
easy to hide this.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And that's that's thirty seven billion right there. Yep. The
high speed rail, that's a seventeen billion dollar disaster. And
that's over an eighteen year period. Now, yes, and there
is not one inch of track laid down after seventeen
billion dollars in eighteen years. Not an inch of track.
(08:58):
Talk about that, No.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And that's exactly it. It's consultants that are getting paid.
It's union employees. This was supposed to be a big
boondoggle for the labor unions in the state, particularly the SEIU,
which is public employees. And all they're doing is spending money,
as I said, on consultants, on architects, on it's a
lot of make work, and it's a multi billion dollars
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of money just being funneled down the drain. And as
you say, there's no track, there's no trains, there's no
high speed there's no nothing. It's unbelievable that this is
going on. And I think it's even more unbelievable to
you and to me, John, that we have the Los
Angeles Times, which hasn't done a massive investigation on this
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because they have the resources to do it and expose
where the money's actually going.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Then another one, and this may be the biggest one
of them all. During COVID, the state started handing out
unemployment money to anybody who who claimed they were unemployed.
And they blew about at least thirty two billion dollars
and much of it went overseas. Yes, and at a
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state talk about that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
This was the most unbelievable scam I think our state
has ever seen. And unfortunately the perpetrators failed up into
the Biden administration. So what they did during COVID was
took off all of the security measures that are normally
in place when people apply for unemployment benefits in California.
And somehow the word got out pretty fast to every
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prisoner in every state prison in our state and other
states that there was this free money to be had.
We had bid prisoners on death row getting unemployment benefits fraudulently.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Scott Peterson, who killed his wife, Lazy Peterson was getting
unemployment benefits while sitting on death row.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yep, Yeah, Russians were Ukrainians were you know, people from
all over the world were applying and receiving California Unemployment
Benefits and the head of the agency, who should not
only have been fired but prosecuted, was hired by the
Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
She became the acting Labor Secretary Julie Sue Right, Yes
she did.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
She never got confirmed, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And then she forgave some of the debt California had
to the federal government. She created the debt while running
the California Labor Department, and then forgave her own debt
when she took over Biden's Labor Department.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Correct, And the remaining debt is now being paid by
California's business owners because Gavin Newsom will not repay the
debt to the federal government.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That's crazy. Can you hang on, Yes, We'll talk a
few more minutes here with Katie Grimes from California Globe
dot Com. So, I mean, you add all those three
scandals up and you get near eighty billion day. I mean,
I mean, Jim Waltz is a rookie compared to what
Gavin Newsom has done to the state. And by the way,
this is going on in a lot of states. It's
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not just Minnesota, in California. I mean this it is
a free for all now with local governments. We'll talk
more about this. John Cobelt from KFI filling in today
on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Welcome. This is the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
I'm John Cobel from KFI Radio in Los Angeles, filling
in today normally on in the afternoon in the LA area,
and we're talking now with Katie Grimes. We've devoted a
lot of time to Gavin Newsom, the governor of California,
who's the leading Democratic presidential candidate, and a lot of
people think that, you know, he's clearly got the best
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chance to being the Democratic nominee. Katie Grimes is with
us from California Globe dot Com and she's been chronicling
Newsome and the decline of the state over the last
seven years. Katie, you and I know what the record is,
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and he's going to be running against I don't know
six or eight ten other Democratic candidates right in the primaries.
Not to mention, if he made it through, it would
be the Republican nominee, whether it's JD. Vans or Marco
Rubio or whoever. Isn't he going to get viscerated in
about ten minutes or do you think he's got the
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ability to slime and slink his way out.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Of this.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well? In answer to your question, yes, he will be
eviscerated most definitely. Just think back to his disastrous debate
with Rond de Santis, Governor Rond dea Santis of Florida,
which was a squirming, uncomfortable experience to have to watch.
Governor Desantus was fabulous and just like pummeled Governor Newsom
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on his record, on his lies, on you know, his exaggerations,
on his word salads. I mean just it just went
on and on. And can you imagine j d Vance
debating him or Marco Rubio, even any of the other
potential Democrat want to be candidates. I think other than
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Tim Walls, Gretchen Whitmer could just eat him for lunch.
I think it'll be entertaining to watch. It may make
a lot of people squirm though, when you when you
see him really put to.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The test, why do you think he survived here? He's
won every election twice for mayor, twice for lieutenant governor,
three times for governor because there was a recall. I mean,
that's a seven and zero record, Like, what's wrong with
people here?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Well, we are a Democrat majority state, super majority in
our legislature. We have some of the most liberal media
in the entire country, and as you correctly stated in
your opening, they just choose not to cover certain things.
And Gavin Newsome, for that very reason, has never been
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put to the test in California, not the way he
should have been. There's never really been. He hasn't had
to run a tough election, is the point. I think
that will change on the national stage.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
He is not really quick under pressure. No, every once
in a while a reporter gets a hold of him
and he becomes a blithering mess.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, and his first go to is to tell a
big fat lie, you know, as he encountered the mom
in Pacific Palisades or Kristen Welker in her interview. I
think he thinks he can shoot from the hip on
everything he does, and it just doesn't work on a
national stage. California media might give him a pass, but
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I don't think national media will now.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I mean, it's such a rich target environment Newsome's record
because I know a lot of people think he's going
to win in a breeze, and I always think you
have no idea how much baggage he carries. Katie Grimes,
I've got to go. Thank you for coming on with
us from californiaglobe dot com.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Thank you so much, Jonasan great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
All Right, we're going to talk more about the situation
out here in California on the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Thank you John Cobalt for hosting a Clay and Buck
and you and Katie Grimes so letting the world know
that California has gone from the land of melcon honey
to fruits and nuts, now to doom and gloom. I'm
a seventy seven year old native and it's I'm just
terribly depressed. So please, we cannot let newsom ruin our country.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, thank you very much, And this is the Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobelt from CAFI
in Los Angeles on every afternoon on the radio here
in southern California, and yes, I'm here to let the
world know just what a freaking disaster Gavin Newsom has
been to the state, and it's been destroyed right in
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front of our eyes. As I said in the opening
of the show, you know, I've been here over thirty years,
and when I was a little kid, this looked like
paradise on TV. I came here, and it actually was.
And it stayed that way for the first, you know,
twenty plus years or so, and then it's gone really downhill,
and it's it's almost entirely due to self inflicted bad
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democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader for any political party,
but I am telling you that this progressive movement over
the last ten years has utterly disemboweled the state. It
is terrible, and it's heartbreaking. It's very sad, and you know,
it's funny. I've got I've got three sons who are
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in their twenties and they all they all moved out,
and none of them want to come back to California,
And but we visit them around the country. And when
I go to other states, within a few hours, I
look around and I go, what happened? Like where are
the homeless people? You know, where are all of the
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low level criminals skulking about. Look at that gas price,
that's two eighty nine, that's two sixty nine a gallon.
It's I feel like I've broken out of Cuba, I mean,
or we're communist Russia. I really have that feeling. And
my sons used to hear my wife and I complain
and grumble all the time about various policies and taxes
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and just everything quality of life issues, and used to
roll their eyes at us until they moved out. And
so now they go out. And I have one son
of Wyoming, one in North Carolina, one in Louisiana going
to school or various early parts of their career. And
they come back and they go they're shocked. Now they're
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shocked by LA because they spend you know, three six
months in peace before they return for a visit, and
they go, you know, now, I know what you're talking about,
because they get so used to normal life, pleasant life.
I visited one of my sons in North Carolina over
the summer, and then we took a road trip. We
went through Savannah, Georgia, we went to Charleston, South Carolina.
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We ended up in Sarasota, where my wife grew up
a part of her childhood as a teenager and beyond
because her parents had moved. And so just seeing those
four cities, seeing Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Sarasota, and I'm looking around,
it's like, look at this, no bodies on the sidewalks.
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We're not looking at our shoulder. We're not afraid. And
that is the single thing that makes you crazy. In La.
We never know when somebody's gonna come flying at you,
because it happens. People get punched in the face, they
get stabbed. There is a girl that my sons went
to school with from the local school, and she'd gone
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to college and she was taken a job to earn money,
had to leave it a furniture store, homeless guy who
had been arrested, you know, many many, many times, walked
in one day and stabbed her to death right in
the furniture store. It's like, oh my god, you know what.
My sons knew that girl. I used to see her.
She used to work out at a park that I
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worked out at, and I remembered her. And this it
really hits home to a lot of people. I mean,
we know, we know dozens and dozens of people who
lost their homes in the fire. Because many of the
people in the Palisades went to the same schools my children,
and and and so the the pain is intense, The
pain is personal. You go from paradise to what we
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have now, and it makes you. Now a lot of
people have packed up and left, and I understand. And
people always say, well, why are you staying? Well, I
do have a good job, and and we do have
a lot of friends. You know, there are you do
spread roots, and I don't really want to go to
another state and not know anybody. That's That's just doesn't
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sound appealing. Let me, let me tell you about about
some of the fraud. And we went over with Katie
Grimes from California Globe dot Com. We're gonna have, oh,
next hour, we're gonna have from news Nation. Let me see,
uh uh, We're gonna have Joe Khalil from news Nation
(21:52):
and he's going to talk about the Minnesota case with
Tim Waltz. And so I keep saying, if like you
think Waltz is something else with the fraud, just listen
to these guys newsom stories. And this week California dropped
its lawsuit four billion dollars in federal money was supposed
to come for high speed rail and Trump pulled it.
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And Trump has done a lot of damage to Newsom.
This is one example, four billion dollars of federal money.
Obama had originally appropriated some of it. And the first
thing that Newsom and the Attorney general in California does,
Rob Bonta, is they hold a press conference. We're suing Trump,
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big headlines in all the left wing papers. Newsom sues Trump,
Bonta sues Trump. Well, the follow up to that is
that Newsom and Vanta dropped their four billion dollar lawsuit.
They're not even going to try to get the four
billion back because guess what they did violate the loan
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agreement or were the grant agreement. They dismissed their own lawsuits.
Trump's Transportation Department said they did a compliance review and
found that California didn't meet federal grant requirements. There were
too many costly changes to the contracts, the ridership forecasts,
where bogus and on and on and on. Let me
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tell you when this thing passed in two thousand and eight,
what the voters were told. I think it passed fifty
two to forty eight. It was a statewide referendum, do
you want high speed rail? Here is what they sold
the public. I voted no. I knew it was a
bunch of lies. A lot of people went for it,
and I understand why because at the time, and this
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was a remnant of like the Schwarzenegger administration. They said,
you were going to have two hundred and twenty mile
an hour trains. Yeah, really two hundred and twenty mile
an hour trains, and they were going to run from
get This was going to run from Sacramento to San Francisco,
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then to Los Angeles, then to Anaheim, then to San Diego.
The whole state, all the major cities from north to
south would be connected by a single track. And we
were gonna build that in about I think it was
gonna be by within fifteen years, by twenty twenty, and
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the total price was going to be thirty three billion
dollars thirty three billion.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Dollars for the whole thing, Sacramento, San Francisco, La Anaheim,
San Diego, and the trains would go two hundred and
twenty miles an hour and you'd be able to order
from San.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Francisco to Los Angeles in like, I don't know, two
and a half hours and people got excited. Right, people love.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
It.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's science fiction, right, shiny bullet trains speeding you know,
through the California farm regions, connecting the cities. Everyone bought
into it. So now what have we got eighteen years later?
We have no track. What we have is scattered out
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in the California, the Central Valleys they call it. That's
a lot of farmland, right. Well, they tore up a
lot of farmland, and they have left these pillars. And
someday someone's going to come back to California and wonder
what these pillars are for because they're really high. They're
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like twenty thirty feet high. They're supposed to hold up
the railroad track, the overhead railroad track, except the railroad
track was never built. So you have these things and
it looks like Stonehenge out there. Like if you had,
i know, people from a foreign country come, they'd be
looking around. It's like this, this is the ancient civilization
that left behind. You know, where they tracking the sun? Here,
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where they plotting the stars? Do these cast shadows? Uh?
That's all we have are these Stonehenge pillars to hold
up track that's ever been built. They have reduced the
train to Bakersfield to Merced. Bakersfield is an oil town.
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Merced has a University of California campus there. Bakersfield's industrial.
It kind of looks like an oil town would. Merced
is just you know, a little suburb. You can't run
a train back and forth. There's no market there. There
are no commuters wanting to go from Bakersfield to Mercet.
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And even then, the train stops are outside Bakersfield and Mercette.
And that's the extent of the train they're trying to build.
It's gonna be one hundred and seventy one miles. There
is no Sacramento, there's no San Francisco. There's no Las Anels,
no Anaheim, no San Diego, there's nothing. There's Baker's Field
to Merceaid. And now they're estimating it's like, well, if
we ever built the whole thing, which we're not going to,
(27:12):
it would cost you know, one hundred and thirty million dollars,
which means it would probably cost one hundred and thirty billion,
which means it would probably cost two hundred and fifty billion.
Remember what I said at the beginning, it's gonna be
thirty three billion, all five major cities. It's gonna be
done about twelve to fifteen years now. I but end
(27:35):
when they did, they did several audits. And when the
auditors went in because somebody else says want they do
an audit, I don't do it forensic audit and track
down every penny. Well, when they do the audits, they
find out the money evaporated. It's it's not written down,
there's no paperwork. There's literally no paperwork. The money was withdrawn,
(27:57):
tax money was withdrawn from accounts, and then it was gone.
We agreed to borrow ten billion dollars that we're now
paying back. They also said, well, we're going to get
private investors. Way back when Well and Newsoman Bonta dropped
this lawsuit this past week, somebody said, well, where are
(28:19):
you going to get the money. Oh, we're going to
get private investor. There are no private investors in the world.
They've been trying for twenty five years to get private investors.
But it's a boondoggle. You know, when the private sector
says this thing is a scam, it's a scam. But
it keeps the unions employed who are busy building these
(28:42):
Stonehenge pillars for no reason. It's it's it's astonishing. And
that that other thing that we talked about with Katie. Yeah,
death row inmates really got really got unemployment money. Scott
Peterson really got an unp boymancheck while sitting on death row.
You just can't make this stuff up. All right, We've
(29:05):
got more coming up on. This is John Coblt from
KFI Radio on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Hey, John, this is Timothy in More, Oklahoma, formerly from
San Diego, California. Used to love the John and Ken
Show back then moved out here in twenty two, left
that hell hole California behind. And I just paid a
dollar ninety three from Leaded Gas here in Oklahoma. God
bless Mary Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
A dollar ninety three, he said. Huh, John Cobelt here
from CAFI, Los Angeles, filling in today on the Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And yeah, California gas is
I think the average four twenty nine right now, And
I don't know where the where the cheaper stations are
(30:04):
but on the west side of Los Angeles where I am. Yeah,
I set a stoplight just yesterday. It was five oh
nine at the corner. So I don't know who's who's
paying the cheap gas to average get to that four
twenty nine average. But it's it's it just I look
at the gas prices every day and what the reason
(30:26):
for the gas hike here is entirely taxes. We have
a dollar fifty in extra taxes and it's all climate
change nonsense, and it has had no effect on the climate.
The climate on Earth has not cooled by a single
one one millionth of a degree since they started charging us.
(30:50):
You know, the extra buck fifty. It's not just a
climate tax, it's all the different taxes. But this is
what really boosted the gas into the stratosphere, was the
climate change tax. The Earth is no cooler, California is
no cooler. The I mentioned the other they have. Trump
(31:11):
has done a lot of damage earlier in the show
how Trump's done a lot of damage to Newsom, for example,
by with withdrawing the billions of dollars in high speed rail.
He also got rid of Newsom's electric car mandate starting
next week. Next week, thirty five percent of the cars
(31:32):
in California were supposed to be electric, thirty five percent
of the cars sold, and it was going to ramp
up from there, and in less than ten years, one
hundred percent of the cars sold were supposed to be electric. Now,
a lot of the electric cars are difficult to deal with,
(31:52):
as you know, which is why this has been a
bus Tesla's are great. I see Tesla's on the West Side.
There's a lot of rich people on the West Side.
Lot of guys it's their third cards, their weekend car,
and they could pay seventy five or one hundred thousand
or whatever those things cost. But again for the working class,
for the middle class, electric cars not feasible. For one thing,
(32:15):
we don't have any charging stations. I mean we really don't,
and we don't have an electric grid to support the charging.
If we all switched to electric like Newsom was mandating,
there's absolutely no power source to provide the electricity. And
for years and years we've been talking about this, it's like, well,
(32:38):
if we're going to do this, we need more power. Instead,
they were closing natural gas plants, they were closing a
nuclear plant, and then changed their mind at the last minute,
and then change their minds on the gas plant. They
were going to go all wind and solar. They didn't
build charging stations, they don't have a rid, but we
(33:00):
were mandated to buy electric cars. That's part of the
insanity that we have. All Right, we come back Joe
Khalil and Joe's with News Nation and we're going to
switch to the Minnesota insanity, very similar and all the
fraud with the Somali community there. There's a new video
out that has shocked country one hundred million views and
(33:24):
that's coming up next on The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
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