October 15, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Koblyt Show Hour 2 (10/15) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Katie Porter makes it worse! Lou shares experience and why she is unable to be governor. Also, new menus in California!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't f I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John all this week. Thanks
for tuning in. Good to have you along with us
the Katie Porter Revival tour. I guess is what this is?
It doesn't seem like it's going too well. The answers
to the questions were not clear, and lots of props
to Nicko Lorenzo from Inside California Politics. She got the
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first interview, she asked the questions, she followed up twice
and still couldn't get a straight answer.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Can Hillers be confident that there won't be another one
of those videos that's going to come to life?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
What I do know is that I could have done
better on that.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Sue us on to know.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So is there potentially another video that we're going to see?
Speaker 6 (00:50):
So?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why doesn't she say? I don't know? There may very
well be. Why does it she say?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I know everything I've ever said, and I know every
single time I've had an outburst, and that was a
one off. When they can answer yes or no questions,
there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And I know spin when I hear it. I think
you do too.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
When someone asks you, are there any other videos out
there of you kicking your dog? And you come back
with what I can tell you is I have learned
my last answer the question.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You went on television to address this issue and you're
still avoiding the only thing that we want to know,
is this a pattern?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do you do this a lot? Are you going to
have you changed your ways?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Is this fifteen years ago or fifteen days ago? Because
we'll determine whether we want that in a candidate for
governor or a governor. And I think you know that
if there is a pattern, we don't want that. And
that's why you're not answering the question.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Be confident that there won't be another one of those
videos that's going to come to life.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
What I do know is that I could have done
better in that situe.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's on a no.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So, is there potentially another video that we're going to see?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah? Is there another video? Miss porter Nikki.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I'm going to be honest with you.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I know that that video and that video was several
years ago, as you know.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Here the condescension.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I love how all of a sudden now they're best friends, right,
she asked the question. She followed up pointing out that
you didn't say no, And now it's like, Nikki, I'm
going to be on it like like they're chums.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
She's the journalist, you're the subject. It's an interview.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
This is a career ending time for Katie Porter. It
is an opportunity to turn it around. There are turnarounds
that I've seen in politics. This ain't one of them. Also,
you don't in politics want to say you don't want
to start any statement with the phrase to tell you
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the truth. I know that it's just things that people say.
It's kind of like a mental stall. I gotta be
honest with you. But when you're in politics and we're
talking about whether or not there's going to be things
and whether or not there's not going to be things
on video, you don't want to get into the hole
to tell you the truth. I got to be honest
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with you, of course, because the implication is you're just
now being honest with me, or that there are occasions
where you don't want to tell me the truth.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Nikki, I'm going to be honest with you.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I know that that video, and that video was several
years ago, as you know, and I apologize to.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
The staffer that's super important.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
To me, and will continue to try to hold myself
to do better.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
That's what I can promise.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay, So we still don't know the answer to the question.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And I love that she's going to try and hold
herself to a higher standard. I should certainly hope. So
I don't know if Congress from importer knows this. We
all have to control ourselves, like that's what being an
adult is all about. And for those of you that
ever have ever been in this situation, and to remind
you of the situation, well there's two videos actually this
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four now, but there's two videos that really got her
in hot water. One when she teed off on the
reporter from CBS about whether or not she needs to
get the forty percent of California voters that voted for Trump,
and that just so off put her and she realized she.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Really couldn't say yes or couldn't say no.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And then there is now the more famous one where
she's I don't know if she's in a hotel room
or in her kitchen or where she is, but she's
in a room and she's with a senior staffer and
she's on a zoom call, a video call with the
Secretary of Energy, talking energy policy. And the Secretary of
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Energy is a cabinet member reports to the president, so
kind of an important call. There are four hundred and
thirty five members of the House of Representatives, Katie Porter
was one of them. While this call was taking place.
There's like a dozen cabinet members. So you don't want
to look like an idiot talking energy policy to the
Secretary of Energy, and you employ staffers to be up
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to speed on the latest policy changes on energy.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So here she is.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They're talking about electric cars in California and how it's
good and how it's reduced the smog so therefore fewer
people are dying because of the electric car mandate and
a baboop, and then it all goes sideways when a
staffer tries to educate her that her position is technically wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Here it is.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Bill in California's dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems,
and the state could lose.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're out of my.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Shot, corect.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It's not that it's elected vehicles.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's that I don't any climate word.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Okay, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Okay, you also were in my shop before that.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Stay out of my shot.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Okay, I'm gonna start again with that does not come
off becoming. That is unbecoming. We have all had bosses
like that. We all know people like that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I don't want to work for anybody like that. I
don't want anybody working for me with that demeanor and temperament.
And you don't want anybody like that in charge of you.
And she just couldn't find herself to say, Look, that
was a one off. It happened once, or it's happened
a couple of times and I've gone into anger management,
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or I thought deeply about it, or bingo, you caught me.
I am a class a b Oh, but that's gonna happen,
like give us something to work with you, but.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Not that there's not going to be any more videos,
because that's that's some people are wondering. Are we going
to see something else like that?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I can tell you what I've told you, which is
that I am taking responsibility for this situation.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Another short tip coming from somebody that worked on a
number of campaigns, don't tell the reporter. I can only
tell you what I told you, because by the very
nature of the follow up question, you've not answered the question.
So I can only tell you what I've told you.
If I'm the reporter at that point, I can only
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tell you what I've told you. The interview's over, and
it's not that out of a question the voters want
to know, can we expect to see more of this
eltse like that?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
I can tell you what I've told you, which is
that I am taking responsibility for this situation. And I'm
also not going to back down from fighting back for California,
from being tough.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Ooh, so that's clever. So I can only tell you
what I told you, which is nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I'm not going to answer the question of whether there
are more red hot videos out there of me being
a terrible person, a terrible boss, a terrible manager, and
a terrible leader. But she flipped it and said, I'm
not going to stop being tough. So she thinks this
is tough. She thinks this is a demonstration of maybe
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I was a little terse, but there is some good
in that, in that I am tough, and that is
I think that's the coup de grass I mean, I
think that's the end, because that isn't tough, that's absolutely
weak and small.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
All right, when we come back, let's go through the interview.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
There's more of it, and then you tell me if
you want this person representing you as dog catcher, let alone,
governor of California.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Lou Penrose Iva John cold Belt on the John Cobelt
Show talking about former Congresswoman Katie Porter, who still is
viewed as a front runner for the Democrat nomination for
governor of California and has decided to go back under
the lights with a reporter in this instance, it's inside
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California Politics host Niki Lorenzo, and convince those of us
that are watching and keep an eye on these kinds
of things that she is qualified to be governor, has
the temperament to be governor.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And that's the question that was continually asked.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Okaynfillers, be confident that there won't be another one of
those videos that's going to come to light.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
What I do know is that I could have done
better on that situe.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Us on to know.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So is there potentially another video that we're going to see?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
And three more times, and there was no confirmation that
there wasn't going to be another one of these.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
You stink to lose, get out of my shots.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh boy, I don't see how that little SoundBite isn't
involved in every campaign video to continue continuously remind voters,
at least Democrat voters that she's got a heck of
a temper.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Now she's trying to play this off as a strength,
and it's an interesting play. I don't know that it
works for her.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You tell me, but not that there's not going to
be any more videos, because that's that's what people are wondering.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Are we going to see something else like that?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I can tell you what I've told you, which is
that I am taking responsibility for this situation, and I'm
also not going to back down from fighting back for California,
from being tough, not back.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Down, fighting back, being tough. Those were chosen words. Somebody
on a.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Literally a communications disaster relief team had her put those
words practice with her tough strength, not backing down. So
this is going to be the narrative and we'll see
if it sticks. Let me give you a little bit
of an insight as to how this works. Having served
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as senior staff for three members of Congress. If whether
she's in a hotel room, it appears to be I
think I see a luggage carrier, so it appears to
be a hotel room. That wouldn't be unusual. Or maybe
it's her own home in DC or her home in
Orange County. And if there's a meeting with a cabinet member,
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then there's probably two people in that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Room with the congresswoman.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
There's probably the chief of staff and the legislative aid
that handles energy, and they're just with the boss making
sure everything is hooked up, or or the chief of
staff and the communications director. But it's not like there's
going to be some intern there that trips over the
wire and disconnects you. There's only going to be senior
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staff with you, because there's just no reason to overburden
the room. And this is what chiefs of staff do.
They manage the amount of people that around the boss
and these important meetings. And if you're on a conference
call with a cabinet secretary with the Secretary of Energy
talking energy policy, you better believe you want the boss
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to be prepared. And if the boss goes off script
and starts saying things that are just untrue or really inaccurate.
As a congressional staffer, it's your job to step in
and interrupt. Now, in this case, the conversation was being recorded,
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but the secretary was still live on the zoom call,
so it's not like it's in front of a live audience.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You would probably write a note and slip it to
the boss.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Or at a committee hearing you see on c SPAN
or on TV where they're all up in the committee
hearings and you see all these younger people whispering in
the ears of members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
They're correcting or advising, or otherwise supplying information that's not
at the fingertips of the member of Congress. That's your job,
and I don't think that's a whole lot different than
the regular world. If you're responsible to make sure that
your superior is prepared and they're on the spot, you've
got to get in there and you've got to say, hey, boss,
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that was incorrect, So here's what you should have said,
And then a good boss will be excuse me, Madam Secretary,
I was just informed that I had my facts wrong.
Let me correct myself and you know what, maybe in
the moment, the boss is going to scream at you,
why are you interrupting me? Can't you see them working?
Can't you see them in a comvers like that might
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happen because that's human nature. But a good boss will,
as soon as the call is over, as soon as
the lights are out, as soon as the meeting is adjourned,
as soon as they have a private moment with you,
will come to you directly, maybe even in front of
other staffers, and say and thank you for not making
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them look like a fool, and applaud your strength and courage,
and recognize your strength and courage, and reward your strength
and courage. That's what good management is. That's what good
bosses do because it's not easy to contradict the boss.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's certainly not easy to interrupt the boss in front
of important people, and like this, this is the perfect example.
This is textbook good staff work.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
If I was a chief of staff and that legislative
aid did that, I would go to my I would
make sure that more than just an apology, you have
to recognize the strength of the staffer to be able
to pull that off, and then a relationship bills right
with the boss.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So now when somebody interrupts you, you have experienced knowing that.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Okay, I must really be inaccurate, I must really be
setting myself up to look foolish because I have trust
that this person is not interrupting me for no reason.
I saw none of that in Katie Porter. I saw
none of that. Even in the moment. It wasn't like, Okay, well,
I appreciate that. It was just stay out of my shot.
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Let's roll through it again. And this is just a
side note, but it's always interesting to me when we're
talking energy. No matter what policy we're talking, when you're
dealing with Democrats, everything's death.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You're always dying.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Whether it's energy policy and smog emissions and clean vehicles.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's death.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
We avoided death by having more electric cars, whether it's
Department of Train Inspectation and widening off ramps on interstate
you for.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Democrats, it's death.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Death was avoided, agriculture death, Department of Interior debt, forest
rangers death. It's always death with these people. But you
hear it talking about the death that's being avoided.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
In Californian's dying prematurely, the air pollution and other problems.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
And the state could lose. You're out of my shot. Okay,
it does Okay, you also were in my shot before that.
Stay out of my shot.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, that is a terrible look. That is unbecoming with politicians.
As I've said, it is not the fumble, it's the recovery.
They all will fumble, they all flobbed, they all make
mistakes because they're live all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But how do you recover? Katie Porter does not recover well,
Louke Penrose.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
If John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show on KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Oh, for heaven's sakes, Katie Porter is not being tough,
not bagging down.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
She's just being a full on Yeah, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So President Obama cut an ad now for PROMP fifty
ballots are out. There's some controversy in some counties. Some
ballots are odd in that there's a whole punched in
the ballot right where the no stamp is where you
fill out no. That's almost impossibly an accident. But Nevertheless,
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ballots are out and ballot turn ins are favoring Democrats.
Democrats are out performing voter registration, which means independence and
registered Republicans just don't have the motivation to turn in
their ballot. And the assumption is Republicans certainly, but at
least a portion of registered independents or what they call
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no party preference would vote no.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And they're just not doing it.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
But President Obama weighed in. Here's a bit of the
ad that he cut for the yes on Prop fifty California.
The whole nation is counting on you. Democracy is on
the ballot in November fourth.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to written
the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years.
PROMP fifty, you can stop Republicans in their trends.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So it does go on.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But that's the real that's the heavy press. And I
have to say I am disappointed. Former presidents are not
supposed to do this now can he absolutely does he
have a right to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Sure, he doesn't live in California, so I don't know
why he needs to do this.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
That he felt like he needed to do it tells
me that there is a chance that this could go down.
Right now, the ballots turned in are favoring Democrats, but
that might run out of steam, and then when all
Republicans and Independents turn in their ballots, this thing could
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go down to a solid note, which would be a
tremendous embarrassment to Governor Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
But again.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That part doesn't matter to me so much as the
really the breaking of the mold of the former presidents.
I liked it when former presidents just were elder statesmen
and the only time they would weigh in on policy
is when they could do some good for a charitable cause.
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And that is really the tradition that has been the
tradition for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
When you have former President George H. W.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Bush and former President Clinton getting together to go help
the disadvantage to Haiti.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Even though it didn't work, the goal was noble.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Here you have former presidents getting together to do what
they can to try and raise awareness and do some good.
Like that's the role President Jimmy Carter like he embraced
his elder statesman role very well, except for Trump. He
did take some shots at Trump, but Trump is like that.
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He's kind of a lightning rod to get people to
break with tradition. But this is unnecessary for Obama and
it is unbecoming in my opinion, it truly is.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
This is not what former presidents should be doing.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
And Obama is really kind of ending his elder statesman
career by enter of all races to get involved in.
You want to get involved in a close Senate race.
You want to get involved even in a presidential race.
You want to go to the Democrat National Committee and
speak on behalf of the nominee. You want to advance
a candidate in the primaries. Those are all fine things
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to do as an older statesman of the Democrat Party.
But to get involved in a state special election proposition
which is unnecessary, Like nothing is gonna happen if President
Trump holds the House of Representatives, like it'll just be
like it is today, So there's nothing like, there's no
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pressing concern. The saving of democracy.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Line is worn out. Man, Come up with some new words,
come up with a different script.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
How about coming up with some ideas, like public policy ideas,
lowering taxes, advancing freedom, deregulation.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I don't know anything. A chicken in every pot come
up with an idea instead of just stopping Trump. So
I looked at some path statistics, and.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
These are different times, so you really you can't rely
anymore on what traditionally has happened in American politics. But
that's all we got is contemporary American politics and the
history of it. It is not unusual for newly elected
presidents in their first mid term election to lose seats
in the House to the opposite party. It's more than
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not unusual, it's quite common. It almost always happens, and
it's usually their biggest loss. And it doesn't mean that
the newly elected president has so quickly fallen from favor.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It doesn't mean anything. It just seems to be the
way things go here in America.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We tend to elect a Republican president, and then two
years into the first midterm election, we elect a bunch
of Democrats into the House of Representatives, or vice versa.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
We elect a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
President, and two years go by and we elect a
bunch more Republicans into the House of Representatives. Now it
only works in the first did term election, so Congress
is elected every two years. Presidents are elected every four years.
So the president will get elected and then in two
years he will have his first mid term election. It's
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a little bit different now because President Trump has had
two non consecutive terms, so these rules might not apply.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
But going back nineteen.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Seventy two, Richard Nixon was elected in seventy four, he
lost forty.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Eight House seats to Democrats.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Carter was elected in seventy six and seventy eight, he
lost fifteen House seats to Republicans. Reagan, elected in eighty
eighty two, loses twenty six House seats to Democrats.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Clinton in ninety two.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
In ninety four, he loses fifty four House seats to Republicans,
ushering House Speaker New Gingrich.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
First time Republican controls the House in forty years.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Two thousand and two thousand and two was an anomaly
and we were at war. So Obama two thousand and
eight wins the election. Twenty ten loses sixty three House
seats to Republicans. Trump in twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen loses
forty one. I noticed that Trump didn't do as well
as Reagan, but did better than Obama with respect to coattails.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So my point is it would mean nothing. It wouldn't
mean that Trump is losing popular support, it wouldn't mean
the Republican Party is falling apart. It wouldn't mean Maga
is over.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
If Trump loses House seats to Democrats, it would be
quite usual.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So there's no need to rig it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You could just rely on history, or if you really
believe that you're right, go win over the voters with
your ideas in Republican districts. If Newsom is right, then
any Democrat candidate in a Republican district, in a Republican
congressional district in California ought to be able to go
directly through the voters of that district and make the.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Case that democracy is in peril.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And if you're right, then the voter will agree with
you and real democracy will happen.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
But that's not what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
They're literally rigging it on purpose, and Obama is going
along with it, and I think it is unbecoming of
a former president of the United States. Loup Penrose in
for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show on KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show.
Coming up following the news at three, we'll get an
update from Zach Schoeffeldt. He's with the Hill on the
US Supreme Court hearing a redistricting case out of Louisiana
that might impact the outcome of a lot of this
redistricting talk that's happening not just in Texas and California,
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but a number of states that are looking to do
what califiate Cornia is doing and cheat and switch up
the lines for political purposes to increase the odds of
them getting one particular political party over another. Also, Gavin
Newsom went on a podcast and he coined a new phrase,
California to arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
We'll find out what that is, what he thinks it is,
and if he's right, Oh my god, you are the
biggest hypocrite.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
It's not okay, it's unbecoming for Obama to stump for
the redistricting in California, but it's absolutely becoming for Donald
Trump to actually call Texas and say, oh, I need
five more seats.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Get them for me, And that's what they went and
did you guys. Yeah, that is not what happened.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It is unbecoming, in my opinion, of a former president
of the United States to get involved in politics at
this level, particularly on this issue, which everyone agrees is
changing the rules of the game on purpose, just so
there's a better chance that Republicans don't hold the House
of Representatives.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Like, no one is being unclear that it's cheating.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Even Gavin Newsom, he doesn't say it's cheating, but it's
certainly cheating.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Now, is it legal? Yeah, you know why.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's going to go on the ballot, so the legislature
can put a special election together. The governor can spend
your money to hold a special election, and it's in
front of the voters, and the Democrats Secretary of State
can misword it to make it sound like it's protecting
democracy when it is certainly cheating. What is it when
you jerry mannder a congressional district mid census on purpose
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to give Democrats or Republicans a better chance at winning
the seat, specifically in this election, specifically because you're unhappy
that the president of the United States won all seven
battleground states and the popular vote and won two non
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consecutive presidential elections for the first time since the eighteen nineties.
Newsom and the.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Democrats and Sacramento are just sore losers. That's all that's
going on here. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Now, Can they be sore losers and play the game
in their state where they have complete control and try
and jerry rig this thing and trick the voters.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Sure they can. They can.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
It's not becoming, but they can, and they're doing it.
The Texas State Legislature decided to revisit the Texas districts.
Not the President of the United States and not the
members of Congress of the state of Texas, but the
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State House of Texas. Now, what they do in Texas
doesn't affect me here in California, and what Democrats are
trying to do in California is negated by what's going
on in Texas. That's the irony to all this is
that this can be a complete This could be a
complete blowout because if California cheats and you think Texas
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is cheating, then they cancel each other out, and then
every other Republican state or red state then they cheat
and it's a net gained for Republicans. And you said
in your call that Trump says he needs five more votes,
he doesn't. Republicans controlled the House of Representatives now he
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doesn't need five more votes. And in fact, Democrats are
pulling down going into the midterm election. They were doing okay,
And I just pointed out historically they ought to pick
up House seats. It's a slim majority, so it would
not be at all a political science major news story
if Democrats regained the House of Representatives in the first
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midterm election, it just really wouldn't be that big of
a deal. They'll make it out to be a big deal,
but historically speaking, is just not big of a deal.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But Trump doesn't need the House seats.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
It was never the plan to hold the House of
Representatives for all four years of the presidency.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
That's why he's moving so quickly.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
You only have a really a two year runway, in fact,
more like an eighteen month runway.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
And Trump knows that. So yeah, it's a not hypocrisy.
And Trump is not a former president, so he should
be involved in politics.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
To shine a little light on the fraud.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So of course fifty is favoring the Democrats.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
One of my best friends moved to Kawhai six years ago,
and last week she received a ballot for.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Fifty Yeah, happened to me too. Where I live.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
My niece, my brother's oldest daughter, was living working in California,
and during COVID they shut down where she worked and
she worked.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
She worked at a blowout place in.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Beverly, Glenn and the blowout people were the last ones
to get back to work. Remember, you could get a haircut,
but you couldn't have the blow dryer because that would
blow COVID on you.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So she came to live with me, and she lived
with me for a couple of years, and then eventually
he's just moved to Arizona and we still get her ballot.
I got it again. I constantly call the Registrar of
voters and they say, yeah, not a problem, just don't
worry about it. And I call her and say, your
ballots here, you want to mail it to you.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But it's been years since she has moved out of
the state of California.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
She is not registered to drive in California. She's registered
to drive in another state.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
She has a license a mutationian's license in another state,
and she continues to get at a ballot in California,
and I don't know if she's a registered Democrat or Republican.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
She won't tell me. But I don't know why this
can't be resolved.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I think that we need to really take this component
of the Registrar of voters. Most registrar of Voter's office, certainly.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Riverside does a good job. They've win awards. Orange County
wins awards. LA County.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I think has a strong registrar's office. I've worked with them.
But this thing, voter registration numbers. This needs to be
bifurcated and taken away from the Registrar Voter's office and
subcontracted out to people that handle data well, like Massive Card,
Visa and American Express.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Those people know how to handle data.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
You lose your If my wife loses her Nordstrom credit card,
it'll be overnighted to her. My niece continues to get
ballots to vote in elections in states that she doesn't
lived in four years.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Lou Penrose if of John Coblt on KFI AM six
forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
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You can always hear the show live on KFI Am
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John all this week. Thanks
for tuning in. Good to have you along with us
the Katie Porter Revival tour. I guess is what this is?
It doesn't seem like it's going too well. The answers
to the questions were not clear, and lots of props
to Nicko Lorenzo from Inside California Politics. She got the
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first interview, she asked the questions, she followed up twice
and still couldn't get a straight answer.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Can Hillers be confident that there won't be another one
of those videos that's going to come to life?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
What I do know is that I could have done
better on that.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Sue us on to know.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So is there potentially another video that we're going to see?
Speaker 6 (00:50):
So?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why doesn't she say? I don't know? There may very
well be. Why does it she say?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I know everything I've ever said, and I know every
single time I've had an outburst, and that was a
one off. When they can answer yes or no questions,
there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And I know spin when I hear it. I think
you do too.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
When someone asks you, are there any other videos out
there of you kicking your dog? And you come back
with what I can tell you is I have learned
my last answer the question.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You went on television to address this issue and you're
still avoiding the only thing that we want to know,
is this a pattern?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do you do this a lot? Are you going to
have you changed your ways?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Is this fifteen years ago or fifteen days ago? Because
we'll determine whether we want that in a candidate for
governor or a governor. And I think you know that
if there is a pattern, we don't want that. And
that's why you're not answering the question.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Be confident that there won't be another one of those
videos that's going to come to life.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
What I do know is that I could have done
better in that situe.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's on a no.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So, is there potentially another video that we're going to see?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah? Is there another video? Miss porter Nikki.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I'm going to be honest with you.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I know that that video and that video was several
years ago, as you know.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Here the condescension.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I love how all of a sudden now they're best friends, right,
she asked the question. She followed up pointing out that
you didn't say no, And now it's like, Nikki, I'm
going to be on it like like they're chums.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
She's the journalist, you're the subject. It's an interview.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
This is a career ending time for Katie Porter. It
is an opportunity to turn it around. There are turnarounds
that I've seen in politics. This ain't one of them. Also,
you don't in politics want to say you don't want
to start any statement with the phrase to tell you
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the truth. I know that it's just things that people say.
It's kind of like a mental stall. I gotta be
honest with you. But when you're in politics and we're
talking about whether or not there's going to be things
and whether or not there's not going to be things
on video, you don't want to get into the hole
to tell you the truth. I got to be honest
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with you, of course, because the implication is you're just
now being honest with me, or that there are occasions
where you don't want to tell me the truth.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Nikki, I'm going to be honest with you.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I know that that video, and that video was several
years ago, as you know, and I apologize to.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
The staffer that's super important.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
To me, and will continue to try to hold myself
to do better.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
That's what I can promise.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay, So we still don't know the answer to the question.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And I love that she's going to try and hold
herself to a higher standard. I should certainly hope. So
I don't know if Congress from importer knows this. We
all have to control ourselves, like that's what being an
adult is all about. And for those of you that
ever have ever been in this situation, and to remind
you of the situation, well there's two videos actually this
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four now, but there's two videos that really got her
in hot water. One when she teed off on the
reporter from CBS about whether or not she needs to
get the forty percent of California voters that voted for Trump,
and that just so off put her and she realized she.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Really couldn't say yes or couldn't say no.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And then there is now the more famous one where
she's I don't know if she's in a hotel room
or in her kitchen or where she is, but she's
in a room and she's with a senior staffer and
she's on a zoom call, a video call with the
Secretary of Energy, talking energy policy. And the Secretary of
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Energy is a cabinet member reports to the president, so
kind of an important call. There are four hundred and
thirty five members of the House of Representatives, Katie Porter
was one of them. While this call was taking place.
There's like a dozen cabinet members. So you don't want
to look like an idiot talking energy policy to the
Secretary of Energy, and you employ staffers to be up
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to speed on the latest policy changes on energy.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So here she is.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They're talking about electric cars in California and how it's
good and how it's reduced the smog so therefore fewer
people are dying because of the electric car mandate and
a baboop, and then it all goes sideways when a
staffer tries to educate her that her position is technically wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Here it is.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Bill in California's dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems,
and the state could lose.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're out of my.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Shot, corect.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It's not that it's elected vehicles.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's that I don't any climate word.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Okay, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Okay, you also were in my shop before that.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Stay out of my shot.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Okay, I'm gonna start again with that does not come
off becoming. That is unbecoming. We have all had bosses
like that. We all know people like that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I don't want to work for anybody like that. I
don't want anybody working for me with that demeanor and temperament.
And you don't want anybody like that in charge of you.
And she just couldn't find herself to say, Look, that
was a one off. It happened once, or it's happened
a couple of times and I've gone into anger management,
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or I thought deeply about it, or bingo, you caught me.
I am a class a b Oh, but that's gonna happen,
like give us something to work with you, but.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Not that there's not going to be any more videos,
because that's that's some people are wondering. Are we going
to see something else like that?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I can tell you what I've told you, which is
that I am taking responsibility for this situation.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Another short tip coming from somebody that worked on a
number of campaigns, don't tell the reporter. I can only
tell you what I told you, because by the very
nature of the follow up question, you've not answered the question.
So I can only tell you what I've told you.
If I'm the reporter at that point, I can only
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tell you what I've told you. The interview's over, and
it's not that out of a question the voters want
to know, can we expect to see more of this
eltse like that?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
I can tell you what I've told you, which is
that I am taking responsibility for this situation. And I'm
also not going to back down from fighting back for California,
from being tough.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Ooh, so that's clever. So I can only tell you
what I told you, which is nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I'm not going to answer the question of whether there
are more red hot videos out there of me being
a terrible person, a terrible boss, a terrible manager, and
a terrible leader. But she flipped it and said, I'm
not going to stop being tough. So she thinks this
is tough. She thinks this is a demonstration of maybe
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I was a little terse, but there is some good
in that, in that I am tough, and that is
I think that's the coup de grass I mean, I
think that's the end, because that isn't tough, that's absolutely
weak and small.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
All right, when we come back, let's go through the interview.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
There's more of it, and then you tell me if
you want this person representing you as dog catcher, let alone,
governor of California.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Lou Penrose Iva John cold Belt on the John Cobelt
Show talking about former Congresswoman Katie Porter, who still is
viewed as a front runner for the Democrat nomination for
governor of California and has decided to go back under
the lights with a reporter in this instance, it's inside
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California Politics host Niki Lorenzo, and convince those of us
that are watching and keep an eye on these kinds
of things that she is qualified to be governor, has
the temperament to be governor.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And that's the question that was continually asked.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Okaynfillers, be confident that there won't be another one of
those videos that's going to come to light.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
What I do know is that I could have done
better on that situe.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Us on to know.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So is there potentially another video that we're going to see?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
And three more times, and there was no confirmation that
there wasn't going to be another one of these.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
You stink to lose, get out of my shots.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh boy, I don't see how that little SoundBite isn't
involved in every campaign video to continue continuously remind voters,
at least Democrat voters that she's got a heck of
a temper.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Now she's trying to play this off as a strength,
and it's an interesting play. I don't know that it
works for her.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You tell me, but not that there's not going to
be any more videos, because that's that's what people are wondering.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Are we going to see something else like that?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I can tell you what I've told you, which is
that I am taking responsibility for this situation, and I'm
also not going to back down from fighting back for California,
from being tough, not back.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Down, fighting back, being tough. Those were chosen words. Somebody
on a.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Literally a communications disaster relief team had her put those
words practice with her tough strength, not backing down. So
this is going to be the narrative and we'll see
if it sticks. Let me give you a little bit
of an insight as to how this works. Having served
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as senior staff for three members of Congress. If whether
she's in a hotel room, it appears to be I
think I see a luggage carrier, so it appears to
be a hotel room. That wouldn't be unusual. Or maybe
it's her own home in DC or her home in
Orange County. And if there's a meeting with a cabinet member,
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then there's probably two people in that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Room with the congresswoman.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
There's probably the chief of staff and the legislative aid
that handles energy, and they're just with the boss making
sure everything is hooked up, or or the chief of
staff and the communications director. But it's not like there's
going to be some intern there that trips over the
wire and disconnects you. There's only going to be senior
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staff with you, because there's just no reason to overburden
the room. And this is what chiefs of staff do.
They manage the amount of people that around the boss
and these important meetings. And if you're on a conference
call with a cabinet secretary with the Secretary of Energy
talking energy policy, you better believe you want the boss
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to be prepared. And if the boss goes off script
and starts saying things that are just untrue or really inaccurate.
As a congressional staffer, it's your job to step in
and interrupt. Now, in this case, the conversation was being recorded,
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but the secretary was still live on the zoom call,
so it's not like it's in front of a live audience.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You would probably write a note and slip it to
the boss.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Or at a committee hearing you see on c SPAN
or on TV where they're all up in the committee
hearings and you see all these younger people whispering in
the ears of members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
They're correcting or advising, or otherwise supplying information that's not
at the fingertips of the member of Congress. That's your job,
and I don't think that's a whole lot different than
the regular world. If you're responsible to make sure that
your superior is prepared and they're on the spot, you've
got to get in there and you've got to say, hey, boss,
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that was incorrect, So here's what you should have said,
And then a good boss will be excuse me, Madam Secretary,
I was just informed that I had my facts wrong.
Let me correct myself and you know what, maybe in
the moment, the boss is going to scream at you,
why are you interrupting me? Can't you see them working?
Can't you see them in a comvers like that might
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happen because that's human nature. But a good boss will,
as soon as the call is over, as soon as
the lights are out, as soon as the meeting is adjourned,
as soon as they have a private moment with you,
will come to you directly, maybe even in front of
other staffers, and say and thank you for not making
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them look like a fool, and applaud your strength and courage,
and recognize your strength and courage, and reward your strength
and courage. That's what good management is. That's what good
bosses do because it's not easy to contradict the boss.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's certainly not easy to interrupt the boss in front
of important people, and like this, this is the perfect example.
This is textbook good staff work.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
If I was a chief of staff and that legislative
aid did that, I would go to my I would
make sure that more than just an apology, you have
to recognize the strength of the staffer to be able
to pull that off, and then a relationship bills right
with the boss.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So now when somebody interrupts you, you have experienced knowing that.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Okay, I must really be inaccurate, I must really be
setting myself up to look foolish because I have trust
that this person is not interrupting me for no reason.
I saw none of that in Katie Porter. I saw
none of that. Even in the moment. It wasn't like, Okay, well,
I appreciate that. It was just stay out of my shot.
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Let's roll through it again. And this is just a
side note, but it's always interesting to me when we're
talking energy. No matter what policy we're talking, when you're
dealing with Democrats, everything's death.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You're always dying.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Whether it's energy policy and smog emissions and clean vehicles.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's death.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
We avoided death by having more electric cars, whether it's
Department of Train Inspectation and widening off ramps on interstate
you for.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Democrats, it's death.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Death was avoided, agriculture death, Department of Interior debt, forest
rangers death. It's always death with these people. But you
hear it talking about the death that's being avoided.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
In Californian's dying prematurely, the air pollution and other problems.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
And the state could lose. You're out of my shot. Okay,
it does Okay, you also were in my shot before that.
Stay out of my shot.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, that is a terrible look. That is unbecoming with politicians.
As I've said, it is not the fumble, it's the recovery.
They all will fumble, they all flobbed, they all make
mistakes because they're live all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But how do you recover? Katie Porter does not recover well,
Louke Penrose.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
If John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show on KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Oh, for heaven's sakes, Katie Porter is not being tough,
not bagging down.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
She's just being a full on Yeah, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So President Obama cut an ad now for PROMP fifty
ballots are out. There's some controversy in some counties. Some
ballots are odd in that there's a whole punched in
the ballot right where the no stamp is where you
fill out no. That's almost impossibly an accident. But Nevertheless,
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ballots are out and ballot turn ins are favoring Democrats.
Democrats are out performing voter registration, which means independence and
registered Republicans just don't have the motivation to turn in
their ballot. And the assumption is Republicans certainly, but at
least a portion of registered independents or what they call
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no party preference would vote no.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And they're just not doing it.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
But President Obama weighed in. Here's a bit of the
ad that he cut for the yes on Prop fifty California.
The whole nation is counting on you. Democracy is on
the ballot in November fourth.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to written
the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years.
PROMP fifty, you can stop Republicans in their trends.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So it does go on.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But that's the real that's the heavy press. And I
have to say I am disappointed. Former presidents are not
supposed to do this now can he absolutely does he
have a right to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Sure, he doesn't live in California, so I don't know
why he needs to do this.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
That he felt like he needed to do it tells
me that there is a chance that this could go down.
Right now, the ballots turned in are favoring Democrats, but
that might run out of steam, and then when all
Republicans and Independents turn in their ballots, this thing could
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go down to a solid note, which would be a
tremendous embarrassment to Governor Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
But again.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That part doesn't matter to me so much as the
really the breaking of the mold of the former presidents.
I liked it when former presidents just were elder statesmen
and the only time they would weigh in on policy
is when they could do some good for a charitable cause.
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And that is really the tradition that has been the
tradition for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
When you have former President George H. W.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Bush and former President Clinton getting together to go help
the disadvantage to Haiti.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Even though it didn't work, the goal was noble.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Here you have former presidents getting together to do what
they can to try and raise awareness and do some good.
Like that's the role President Jimmy Carter like he embraced
his elder statesman role very well, except for Trump. He
did take some shots at Trump, but Trump is like that.
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He's kind of a lightning rod to get people to
break with tradition. But this is unnecessary for Obama and
it is unbecoming in my opinion, it truly is.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
This is not what former presidents should be doing.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
And Obama is really kind of ending his elder statesman
career by enter of all races to get involved in.
You want to get involved in a close Senate race.
You want to get involved even in a presidential race.
You want to go to the Democrat National Committee and
speak on behalf of the nominee. You want to advance
a candidate in the primaries. Those are all fine things
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to do as an older statesman of the Democrat Party.
But to get involved in a state special election proposition
which is unnecessary, Like nothing is gonna happen if President
Trump holds the House of Representatives, like it'll just be
like it is today, So there's nothing like, there's no
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pressing concern. The saving of democracy.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Line is worn out. Man, Come up with some new words,
come up with a different script.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
How about coming up with some ideas, like public policy ideas,
lowering taxes, advancing freedom, deregulation.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I don't know anything. A chicken in every pot come
up with an idea instead of just stopping Trump. So
I looked at some path statistics, and.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
These are different times, so you really you can't rely
anymore on what traditionally has happened in American politics. But
that's all we got is contemporary American politics and the
history of it. It is not unusual for newly elected
presidents in their first mid term election to lose seats
in the House to the opposite party. It's more than
(22:26):
not unusual, it's quite common. It almost always happens, and
it's usually their biggest loss. And it doesn't mean that
the newly elected president has so quickly fallen from favor.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It doesn't mean anything. It just seems to be the
way things go here in America.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We tend to elect a Republican president, and then two
years into the first midterm election, we elect a bunch
of Democrats into the House of Representatives, or vice versa.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
We elect a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
President, and two years go by and we elect a
bunch more Republicans into the House of Representatives. Now it
only works in the first did term election, so Congress
is elected every two years. Presidents are elected every four years.
So the president will get elected and then in two
years he will have his first mid term election. It's
(23:12):
a little bit different now because President Trump has had
two non consecutive terms, so these rules might not apply.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
But going back nineteen.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Seventy two, Richard Nixon was elected in seventy four, he
lost forty.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Eight House seats to Democrats.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Carter was elected in seventy six and seventy eight, he
lost fifteen House seats to Republicans. Reagan, elected in eighty
eighty two, loses twenty six House seats to Democrats.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Clinton in ninety two.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
In ninety four, he loses fifty four House seats to Republicans,
ushering House Speaker New Gingrich.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
First time Republican controls the House in forty years.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Two thousand and two thousand and two was an anomaly
and we were at war. So Obama two thousand and
eight wins the election. Twenty ten loses sixty three House
seats to Republicans. Trump in twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen loses
forty one. I noticed that Trump didn't do as well
as Reagan, but did better than Obama with respect to coattails.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So my point is it would mean nothing. It wouldn't
mean that Trump is losing popular support, it wouldn't mean
the Republican Party is falling apart. It wouldn't mean Maga
is over.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
If Trump loses House seats to Democrats, it would be
quite usual.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So there's no need to rig it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You could just rely on history, or if you really
believe that you're right, go win over the voters with
your ideas in Republican districts. If Newsom is right, then
any Democrat candidate in a Republican district, in a Republican
congressional district in California ought to be able to go
directly through the voters of that district and make the.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Case that democracy is in peril.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And if you're right, then the voter will agree with
you and real democracy will happen.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
But that's not what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
They're literally rigging it on purpose, and Obama is going
along with it, and I think it is unbecoming of
a former president of the United States. Loup Penrose in
for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show on KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show.
Coming up following the news at three, we'll get an
update from Zach Schoeffeldt. He's with the Hill on the
US Supreme Court hearing a redistricting case out of Louisiana
that might impact the outcome of a lot of this
redistricting talk that's happening not just in Texas and California,
(25:56):
but a number of states that are looking to do
what califiate Cornia is doing and cheat and switch up
the lines for political purposes to increase the odds of
them getting one particular political party over another. Also, Gavin
Newsom went on a podcast and he coined a new phrase,
California to arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
We'll find out what that is, what he thinks it is,
and if he's right, Oh my god, you are the
biggest hypocrite.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
It's not okay, it's unbecoming for Obama to stump for
the redistricting in California, but it's absolutely becoming for Donald
Trump to actually call Texas and say, oh, I need
five more seats.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Get them for me, And that's what they went and
did you guys. Yeah, that is not what happened.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It is unbecoming, in my opinion, of a former president
of the United States to get involved in politics at
this level, particularly on this issue, which everyone agrees is
changing the rules of the game on purpose, just so
there's a better chance that Republicans don't hold the House
of Representatives.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Like, no one is being unclear that it's cheating.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Even Gavin Newsom, he doesn't say it's cheating, but it's
certainly cheating.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Now, is it legal? Yeah, you know why.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's going to go on the ballot, so the legislature
can put a special election together. The governor can spend
your money to hold a special election, and it's in
front of the voters, and the Democrats Secretary of State
can misword it to make it sound like it's protecting
democracy when it is certainly cheating. What is it when
you jerry mannder a congressional district mid census on purpose
(27:47):
to give Democrats or Republicans a better chance at winning
the seat, specifically in this election, specifically because you're unhappy
that the president of the United States won all seven
battleground states and the popular vote and won two non
(28:09):
consecutive presidential elections for the first time since the eighteen nineties.
Newsom and the.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Democrats and Sacramento are just sore losers. That's all that's
going on here. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Now, Can they be sore losers and play the game
in their state where they have complete control and try
and jerry rig this thing and trick the voters.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Sure they can. They can.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
It's not becoming, but they can, and they're doing it.
The Texas State Legislature decided to revisit the Texas districts.
Not the President of the United States and not the
members of Congress of the state of Texas, but the
(28:57):
State House of Texas. Now, what they do in Texas
doesn't affect me here in California, and what Democrats are
trying to do in California is negated by what's going
on in Texas. That's the irony to all this is
that this can be a complete This could be a
complete blowout because if California cheats and you think Texas
(29:23):
is cheating, then they cancel each other out, and then
every other Republican state or red state then they cheat
and it's a net gained for Republicans. And you said
in your call that Trump says he needs five more votes,
he doesn't. Republicans controlled the House of Representatives now he
(29:43):
doesn't need five more votes. And in fact, Democrats are
pulling down going into the midterm election. They were doing okay,
And I just pointed out historically they ought to pick
up House seats. It's a slim majority, so it would
not be at all a political science major news story
if Democrats regained the House of Representatives in the first
(30:04):
midterm election, it just really wouldn't be that big of
a deal. They'll make it out to be a big deal,
but historically speaking, is just not big of a deal.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But Trump doesn't need the House seats.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
It was never the plan to hold the House of
Representatives for all four years of the presidency.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
That's why he's moving so quickly.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
You only have a really a two year runway, in fact,
more like an eighteen month runway.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
And Trump knows that. So yeah, it's a not hypocrisy.
And Trump is not a former president, so he should
be involved in politics.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
To shine a little light on the fraud.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So of course fifty is favoring the Democrats.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
One of my best friends moved to Kawhai six years ago,
and last week she received a ballot for.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Fifty Yeah, happened to me too. Where I live.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
My niece, my brother's oldest daughter, was living working in California,
and during COVID they shut down where she worked and
she worked.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
She worked at a blowout place in.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Beverly, Glenn and the blowout people were the last ones
to get back to work. Remember, you could get a haircut,
but you couldn't have the blow dryer because that would
blow COVID on you.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So she came to live with me, and she lived
with me for a couple of years, and then eventually
he's just moved to Arizona and we still get her ballot.
I got it again. I constantly call the Registrar of
voters and they say, yeah, not a problem, just don't
worry about it. And I call her and say, your
ballots here, you want to mail it to you.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But it's been years since she has moved out of
the state of California.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
She is not registered to drive in California. She's registered
to drive in another state.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
She has a license a mutationian's license in another state,
and she continues to get at a ballot in California,
and I don't know if she's a registered Democrat or Republican.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
She won't tell me. But I don't know why this
can't be resolved.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I think that we need to really take this component
of the Registrar of voters. Most registrar of Voter's office, certainly.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Riverside does a good job. They've win awards. Orange County
wins awards. LA County.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I think has a strong registrar's office. I've worked with them.
But this thing, voter registration numbers. This needs to be
bifurcated and taken away from the Registrar Voter's office and
subcontracted out to people that handle data well, like Massive Card,
Visa and American Express.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Those people know how to handle data.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
You lose your If my wife loses her Nordstrom credit card,
it'll be overnighted to her. My niece continues to get
ballots to vote in elections in states that she doesn't
lived in four years.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
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