February 12, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/12) - Elon Musk and DOGE are combing through all of the federal spending and finding where the fat can be trimmed. Elon Musk says that bureaucrats have been getting rich at the taxpayer's expense. DOGE investigated a limestone mine in Pennsylvania because the US government was using it as a processing center for retirement papers for federal workers. More on USAID paying for the college education for a terrorist who has a connection to the shooting at Fort Hood.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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we're on live till four, and we're on the podcast
after four o'clock. It seems like Elon Musk is the
only news story in America. Whatever he's doing, whatever he's saying,
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because you know what, in most people's lifetimes, I think
virtually everyone's lifetime, we've never seen anybody seriously try to
cut all the wasteful government spending, all the criminal fraud
that goes on. We all know what goes on, and
everybody always promises to do something about it. And I've
been hearing a lot of numbers in these various news stories,
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but you don't want that sticks in my mind. Every
three months, we add another trillion dollars in debt in
this country, federal debt, federal government a trillion dollars every
three months. And that's if everything's going right. There's no
economic recession that cuts tax revenues every three months. There's
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no like COVID lockdown that that screws up the economy.
So that's four trillion dollars a year. At the moment,
we have thirty six trillion in debt, and then by
the end of the year it'll be forty trillion, and
then the year after that forty four trillion. And you know,
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these things get bigger and bigger and bigger, and I
there's so much screaming going on over what Musk is doing.
Mostly it's the whack job progressives, but the media is
amplifying all the protests and very few are taking the
time to say, well, something's got to be done here, right.
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Do you know twenty percent of our budget goes to
pay for the interest on the debt. It's over a
trillion dollars. Over a trillion dollars of our tax money
just pays the interest on what we borrowed. I mean,
it's astonishingly bad management. And it's been going on for
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decades under both Republicans and Democrats, no matter who controlled Congress.
Or the Senate or the presidency. It's been, it's been.
They've all been just incompetent, irresponsible, stupid boobs. And now
we're finding out then nobody knows where the money went.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
They're trying to do an audit.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But as Musk said yesterday, it's like you look at
the line items as to let's say, you know, there
was a million dollars spent on a million dollar check
went out to some agency, some program, whatever. There's there's
there's supposed to be a second box where you put
in a code the.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Type of spending it is.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And I don't know exactly what the codes are and
what they represent, but you're supposed to have a code,
and people in government know what the code means.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There's no code.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
There's another box that's for a comment, and it's you
write down exactly what the what the check is for,
what the money transfer is for. Nobody wrote anything in
the comment. So here you have a million dollars out
the door, and they don't know who it went to
because it doesn't say they don't know what category of
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spending it is. It doesn't say, and it clicked yesterday.
It's like, okay, now I understand when Gavin Newsen says, hey,
we spend twenty four billion dollars in homelessness, but we
don't know what it went for and whether it worked.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's because nobody writes it down. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's it's like, you know, you probably have some friends
or family members who run up big credit card bills.
They don't really track the income in the outflow, right,
nobody writes anything down and you ask them a word,
all the money go? Then I don't know, because you
have to like physically track where money goes, especially when
you're spending I don't know, six seven trillion dollars a year,
somebody's got to write it down.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
They literally don't write it down.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I found this hard to believe, but it's true because
Musk said the same thing, and so.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Did the auditors for high speed Rail.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They said the same thing that when they got to
the paperwork, the paperwork was blank. There was money spent,
but it didn't say which consultants got the money or
which construction company got the micy just evaporate the same
thing here in LA with the all the homeless, all
the homeless nonprofit criminals, all these all these fake nonprofits
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that they's supposed to be administering help them. Almost most
of these are criminal operations. And I remember during COVID
when there was a lockdown, and we've talked about this
a lot. The state had said they would pay unemployment
to anybody who applied, and tons of fraudsters applied, and
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we blew fifty billion dollars, fifty billion dollars in tax
money to fraudsters, and they said later on, well, eighty
five percent of the fraudulent payments went to people overseas,
people in foreign countries. And I thought, my god, every
bad character in literally in the world knows what to
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do if California is shoveling money out like they know
how to access the websites, fill out the forms properly,
get the check, and get approval. And I'm thinking, well, now,
multiply this exponentially for the US government. Every fraudster in
the country and outside the country knows how to access
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the system and.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Get and get.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean, there's literally trillions of dollars that have been
flushed in the toilet. So we've got the first president
to address this, and even Trump did not take any
action on this the first time around. And you've got
Musk inexplicably a certain percentage of the country hates and
I really don't have no idea why. I mean, the
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guy just makes electric cars, and he makes space rockets,
and he's making implants to hopefully make paralyzed people walk.
He's got a social media site that is extremely popular.
I really do not understand except their you know, this
is increased. I've noticed throughout my life as people are
resentful of the successful, they get angry and hateful of
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successful people. Now he's got about five hundred billion dollars.
He doesn't need to do this. There's no point him
stealing any of this money because he's got five hundred
billion dollars. I think it just it just bugs him.
Since he's got to run several public companies, it bugs
him that there's so much waste going on. He is
seen in his companies what waste and fraud can do,
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and so he's doing They're just doing audits, by the way,
and if you find something, he presents it to Trump
and Trump's team and Trump will say, Okay, no more
of this, and he starts firing people.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well that's rational, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
If we're wasting trillions of dollars every year and you
find specifically what some of the fraud and waste is about, Well,
then yeah, you hold them accountable and you fire him
or you demote them whatever. Well, why is this so terrible?
They're screaming, there's look, I heard today that there are
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so many politicians, senators and senators I don't even know
if they get paid two hundred thousand a year, but
many of them are worth tens of millions of dollars,
and they made this money after they got into office.
And I'm thinking, well, no, wonder they're out screaling, because
if they investigate all this stuff deep enough, we're going
to find out that a significant number of people in office,
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in the House and in the Senate were part of
these criminal operations, stealing money, having money, if not diverted
to them, directly diverted to their relatives and friends and
political donors nonprofits.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's what the game is.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And so now they're setting their hair on fire because
they're afraid that they're going to be discovered as being
thieves crooks, and maybe they'll be consequences, maybe they'll go
to prison. Wouldn't that be great? So I anybody who
objects the latter they squeal, the more I suspect they're
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in on the scam, that they have offited from the
scamp and they're afraid of getting caught.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm gonna play you a clip of exactly what I'm
talking about here. Musk was in the Trump's office yesterday.
He probably saw him. He's standing next to Trump. Trump's
at the desk. It's the longest I've ever seen Trump
on television and not speak. And Musk was talking about
all the bureaucrats who apparently are worth far more money
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than you'd think they'd be worth, considering their salaries.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So play that for you next.
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Speaker 1 (09:37):
All right, let me get to this.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Elon Musk standing in Trump's office yesterday in the Oval office,
and there are reporters around, and he talked for quite
a while. This this clip here has become, I guess,
the most popular clip with everything he said, because it
speaks to a suspicion that I think most intelligent, rational
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people have about this mess. Plate cut number four and
you mentioned some of the things that your team has found,
some of the crazy numbers including the woman that walked
away with about thirty million.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Right. Well, we often we do find it's sort of
rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few
people in the perocracy who have ostensibly a salary of
a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow managed to accrue
tens of millions of dollars in that worth while they
are in that position, which is, you know what happened
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to usaid, we're just curious as to where it came from.
Maybe they're very good at investing, birch case, we should
take their investment advice, perhaps, but just there seems to
be mysteriously they get wealthy and we've done why where
did they come from? And I think the reality is
that they're getting wealthy. Detach their expense, that's the honest.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Truth of it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
How does somebody working in government who is making six
figures and they shouldn't be making six figures, but put
that aside, they're making six figures and they end up
with tens of millions of dollars. And maybe this is
the answer to the question. Our taxes are really high.
My taxes are really high, and no matter how much
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money they collect, the debt gets bigger and bigger and bigger,
and I don't get anything back for it. I don't
think most people here in California get much back for
all their taxes. Right, You're in La. The school district
really danks. The roads are disgusting. LA only has half
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a fire department. They're thousands of officers short. I mean,
you know, you go back to the basics. What do
you want from a government here in California? You want police, fire, schools, roads,
and a few other things. And yet we've got trillions
of dollars being spent in Washington, hundreds of billions here
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in California, and we don't have anything.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Where'd the money go?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And you know, I used to think that since I
was probably a teenager, I thought, are they stealing it?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And yeah, they are, They're stealing it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
There's no way if you have a salary of a
couple hundred thousand dollars a year, you end up with
tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
There's no investment that gives you that unless you just
think it off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Steer money to a nonprofit that your family members are running,
and you make sure that every year a million dollars
or two million or five million gets allocated to this nonprofit.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And this nonprofit can you know, address.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Poverty, sick children, homeless people, drug addicts, you know any
of that, right, and the money never helps anyone. I
mean that's going on in La right. We got seventy
thousand people living in the streets in La County, forty
five thousand just in the city. And year after year
after year we put we spend billions of dollars and
there's more of them. Nobody gets treated for the mental
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health problems. Nobody gets treated for their their their drug addictions.
And the bodies keep piling up everywhere, and they're dying
in the street, and it's like, well, wait a second,
what's all the money was stolen? Suddenly it all makes sense.
This is not failed drug treatment, This is not failed
homeless services, failed the mental health clinic services. No, this
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is theft. The people in the government direct the money
to nonprofits that they and their friends and family members
benefit from.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They could get fat salaries, and.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They could also take the money at these nonprofits and
then disperse it to other related companies. But again, you
just don't you don't fill fill out the forms You
don't put what the money is going for, or even
what agency or what other nonprofit.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Is getting the money to begin with.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You just root it to a bank account, which roots
it to another one and another one. That's really what
they do. So I think that, Remember, we have three examples.
I keep repeating. We know billions in high speed rail
money disappeared, we have no rail. We know Newsom said
twenty four billion in state homeless money disappeared. We have
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we have more homeless than ever, same thing in La County,
billions of dollars, more homeless than ever. And nobody can
say where all the homeless billions went because they stole it.
It has to be that, right. What would be the
other reason? If I'm wrong? What's the other reason the
fifty billion dollars in COVID money for untemployment disappeared. They'll
admit that went overseas to fraudsters, But are how many
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people within the agency were connected to these fraudsters. So
I think what we have is we have a middle class,
white collar criminal element that works in these bureaucracies who
want to be rich, and they all collectively figured out
how to be rich and leave little to no evidence
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behind If I'm wrong, then what's the other story? If
Musk is wrong, what's the other story. He's looking at
people worth tens of millions of dollars who make a
couple of hundred thousand dollars. So how did they get there?
How do you get from A to B? I mean,
what's that investment?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I want to know that.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I don't think there's an investment. I think they steer
the money to mystery nonprofit charities just for starters. There's
probably fifteen hundred ways that they do it. But that's
what I think is really common. There's got to be
going on here in LA. It's got to be going
on in Sacramento, because if it isn't, then what's the explanation.
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It's got to be an explanation. I don't think any
of this it went for homeless. Otherwise we wouldn't have
more and more and more and more. Something would have worked, right,
something You would have gotten somebody off drugs, somebody would
have gotten treated for the metal illness. Somebody would have
ended up in a shelter and made its way. No,
but they don't. They increased the number of people on
the streets. How do you do that? It's like a
magic trick. All right, we come back this one. Your
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hair is going to fall out. I don't even know
how I want to tease this.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I want it. What Musk found this out? Do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Do you know where the processing center is to pay
for to process federal workers retirement papers? Do you know
where it is? It's way underground in a limestone mine.
And everything they do in the limestone mine is paper
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and Manila folders. They process everything by hand. I will
give you this story just broke a couple of hours ago.
Musk announced it. A limestone mine in Pennsylvania is where
they have where they process all the federal workers retirement papers. Honestly,
you were this one. And if he's found this that quickly,
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what else is out there? We'll tell you more when
we come back.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
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Speaker 2 (17:29):
This story about the latest thing Musk and his doge
unit has found is one of the stories that I
looked at like twice three times. It's like, no, this
can't be. I look to see is this is this
a parody site? I stumbled onto. No, this is real,
Elon Musk said, that the Department of Government Efficiency is
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now investigating a limestone mine in Pennsylvania. Ten thousand federal employees.
Up to ten thousand can retire in a month. They
have a lot of old employees. What happens when you
retire is you have to fill out paperwork, right, so
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make sure you qualify for pensions and healthcare. Whatever the
perks are. Deadwood gets a lot of perks. Deadwood has
very comfortable retirements that can go on for forty plus years.
So they apparently what the setup is. It's a limestone
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mine in Pennsylvania, in Boyer's, Pennsylvania. It's sixty miles north
of Pittsburgh. There are seven hundred federal workers that operate
get this twenty two hundred and thirty feet underground, so
they're about twenty three stories underground to process ten thousand
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federal applications month. They're processed by hand using paper, and
then after the processing, they're stored in manila envelopes and
the envelopes are put into cardboard boxes. There's no computers,
there's no AI, there's no electronics storage of.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
The data of any kind.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And they have photos and the photos look like an
underground warehouse. The walls in the ceiling made of limestone,
and wouldn't you know it, there are shelves with cardboard
boxes inside the boxes or all these Manila folders, and
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it's stacked up one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine, about ten shelves high, and the aisles go
on forever. You ever seen photos of Amazon Amazon warehouses,
it's the same idea. So it's about ten shells high.
The aisle goes off into eternity, and it's cardboard boxes
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with Manila folders. And that is the entire federal retirement system.
Do you know how long, how slow, how inefficient that
must be? How many employees did I say they have?
I seven hundred of them. I'm just astonished by this
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in a limestone. The Washington Post did an article on
this over ten years ago, describing it as a sinkhole
of bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And at the time, we were.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Spending fifty five million dollars a year on this limestone mine.
They have tried, You're not gonna believe this for almost
forty years to digitize the system since nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
They never have.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Every attempt digitizing failed and was eventually scrapped. They spent
one hundred and thirty million dollars on failed efforts to
digitize these federal worker retirement applications.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
How could this be?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Musk says, the facility was opened in nineteen fifty five,
So this is the way they did business seventy years ago,
and it never advanced beyond nineteen fifty five Manila folders,
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manual processing, cardboard boxes.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Because it's so slow.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
If you retire, it can take any number of months
before they process your retirement. Do you know what else
limits the process? The speed it would which the mind
shaft elevator moves.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
How could this be?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And how fast the mind shaft elevator moves determines how
many people can retire from the federal government, said Musk.
And the elevator breaks down sometimes and then nobody can retire. Seriously,
So you have a job with the federal government, you're
entitled to retirement, you're entitled to the benefits. You can't retire.
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Why can't I retire? Well, the elevator in the mine
shaft broke down, so we can't process your claim. You
can't make this up. I saw these these these idiots
on CNN last night, saying, well, he's not providing any
prof of this, and he's not providing any do you
actually think they're making this up? I mean, there are
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photos of the of the limestone mine and the shelves.
This has got to be the most inefficient, least productive
system I've ever seen. And this is what all the
progressives are criticizing, screaming, not even making like our rational argument,
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having a civilized discussion on it.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
They are screaming.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They're in the street screaming, They're holding hearings and screaming.
They've all got severe personality disorders. And I see this
articles like what are they against this?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
What was the benefit of keeping this? It must have
benefited somebody? And why can't they buy a Why is
it the government can't buy computer systems that make things
work efficiently? We don't have any in California either. Remember
the DMV had processing systems from the nineteen seventies, which
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is why up until recently we had ridiculously long lines
if you went to the DMV, because they were literally
fifty years behind the center of the technological universe is
in our state. And every time the issue comes up,
I always thought, it's like, we've got you know, I
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don't know, hundreds of thousands of musk like geniuses that
could fix this system, probably in a matter of weeks,
and they don't do it, and they never spend money
on it because they're stealing the money, that's why. And
if you have an electronic system that would detect the
fraud very quickly, wouldn't it. Oh, looks like I think
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we figured it out. The reason they don't update it
is it keeps the outside world from figuring out how
much money is being stolen. Because if you have to
get on a broken elevator and go twenty three stories
down into the earth in a mind shaft to inspect
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government records, and then you find out they're all in
cardboard boxes and Manila folders and there's no electronic records,
it's no computers at all. Well, how are you going
to find all the fraud? How are you going to
find who's stealing what?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You're not?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So anything can happen and the outside world will never
know because they can't physically get to the mind shaft
when the elevator breaks. I bet you the elevator breaks
a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I bet you.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Every time somebody wanted to investigate this, this particular department
of the elevator cable snapped. That's a limestone mine and
this has just got to be the beginning. Here's another
photo of it. Yeah, it's carved into what looks like
the cyb of a mountain. Seven hundred workers.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I think this is going to be the most entertaining
year we have ever had in this country because they've
only been in power for three weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
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we're going to talk with Joe Khalil. He's the Capitol
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Hill correspondent for a News nation. And they had a
committee hearing with the Government Efficiency Subcommittee, and this is
a subcommittee run by the Republicans in Congress and they partner,
they're like partners with Elon Musk and his DOGE agency,
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and I think they're supposed to be passing legislation that
might be necessary to clean up the disgusting, gross mess
that's going on in Washington that's being uncovered, like the
Limestone mine that's processing retirements manually two hundred and thirty
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feet below the surface of the earth. Stuff like that.
And we're also going to talk with Royal Oaks legal analyst.
And there's a group of federal inspector generals that Trump
fired and now they're suing the Trump administration claiming their
firings were illegal, And we're gonna talk to Royal Oak
about where looks about that issue. And just the you're
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hearing all this, all this arguing whether Trump and Musk
whether they have the right to do what they're doing.
You keep hearing phrases like constitutional crisis, and.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It seems to.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Me to my untrained legal mind, that it's just a
lot of hot air and nonsense because they can't do
anything to stop what's going on. So we'll get to
that coming up.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Another guy that Trump fired was the watchdog, the inspector
general for this agency that's in the news, US Agency
for International Development USAID. And remember we told you yesterday
that USAID had paid for the college education of a
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terrorist who had a strong connection to the Fort Hood
shooting in two thousand and nine in Texas. Remember when
thirteen thirteen people were shot dead by what was his name,
Nadel Hassan. He was the terrorist and his spiritual advisor
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was and we're Alacke. And yesterday we told you that
Alacke was born in this country. He was an American citizen,
but he lied on his application by claiming he was
born in Yemen.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Actually born in New Mexico. He was born in Yemen,
and he.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Did that to to get his tuition paid for by
the US government, and USAID paid the money. It was
worth more than twenty seven thousand dollars at the time.
It was nineteen ninety It was Colorado State University. And
he used his education and went on to recruit and
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groom terrorists for attacks on the US. He got a
bachelor's degree in civil engineering in nineteen ninety four, and
then he started teaching Islam at mosques around the country
and he would radicalize and recruit terrorists, including Nadal Hassan,
who went on to kill thirteen people at Fort Hood.
Now this story broke yesterday and they immediately fired the
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Inspector General named Paul Martin, and Martin was not given
a reason for his firing, and the White House would
comment on the termination. Now, I doubt he had anything
to do with Nadal with anwar al Alackey getting his
college paid for thirty five years ago. But maybe he
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didn't cooperate with the investigation. Maybe somehow he stonewalled. It's
just I mean, Alache was such a bad guy. He
really helped radicalize a lot of terrorists. In fact, he
even met two of the nine to eleven terrorists in
the year two thousand when he was preaching at a
mosque in San Diego. So he was like the spiritual
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glue for many of these guys at the height of
the al Qaeda attacks in this country. And to find
out that we paid for his education here is really galling.
Now if you remember, Obama actually droned this guy. Yeah,
drone strike turned Aloche into a bunch of molecules, I
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think at twenty eleven, after they had discovered his connections
to the Fort Hood shooting. But whatever happened in ninety uh,
this current Inspector general doesn't nobody else say why. But
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the atridity of this corruption has been going on for
decades and has been ignored or covered up, never investigated
by all the administrations and Congress and the Senate, and somebody.
This morning one of the news channels said, boy must
better have like the best personal security because he's going
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to create so many enemies here. You know, a lot
of this corruption is going to go back to federal
officials in various cabinets, maybe presidents and vice presidents, maybe
senators and congressmen. They have to be involved in this corruption,
certainly agency heads over the years. Somebody allowed this to
go on. Somebody knew this that they might have been
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profiting from it. When whever you look up the net worth,
I mean I heard I heard today like Elizabeth Warren, right,
she's always screaming about how consumers are getting screwed and
how the rich corporations and billionaires are taking advantage. Found
out today she's worth twelve million dollars and the US
Senate salary pays less than two hundred thousand. So how'd
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she get to twelve million? Why is she screaming about
other wealthy people? I mean, how do you get from
two hundred thousand dollars a year to twelve million dollars.
Maybe maybe she married into money. I don't know, but
the inheritance or you know, some of these people like no,
must be stealing it. But we'll find out. But yeah,
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Musk must better better watch himself. Do you think he's
wearing bullet clues bullet proof clothes all the time?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh? I would? I mean you look what happened to Epstein. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Anybody who's has that kind of that kind of information
that will destroy other people's lives, whether it's sexual information
or financial scandal information. People at this level they hire hitmen.
They take you out, they take you out, destroy the evidence,
and then you know, they save themselves. So I'm not
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these guys like Trump and Moss shouldn't worry about terrorists.
They should worry about the people they're working with right
now in Washington, DC, because those are the guys who
might do something, do something dramatic. All right, we come back.
We're going to talk with a reporter from News Nation.
He's the Capitol Hill correspondent, Joe Khalil. That's next ever
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It's the podcast same as the radio show, and that
gets posted on the iHeart app after four o'clock. So
we're on live till four, and we're on the podcast
after four o'clock. It seems like Elon Musk is the
only news story in America. Whatever he's doing, whatever he's saying,
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because you know what, in most people's lifetimes, I think
virtually everyone's lifetime, we've never seen anybody seriously try to
cut all the wasteful government spending, all the criminal fraud
that goes on. We all know what goes on, and
everybody always promises to do something about it. And I've
been hearing a lot of numbers in these various news stories,
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but you don't want that sticks in my mind. Every
three months, we add another trillion dollars in debt in
this country, federal debt, federal government a trillion dollars every
three months. And that's if everything's going right. There's no
economic recession that cuts tax revenues every three months. There's
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no like COVID lockdown that that screws up the economy.
So that's four trillion dollars a year. At the moment,
we have thirty six trillion in debt, and then by
the end of the year it'll be forty trillion, and
then the year after that forty four trillion. And you know,
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these things get bigger and bigger and bigger, and I
there's so much screaming going on over what Musk is doing.
Mostly it's the whack job progressives, but the media is
amplifying all the protests and very few are taking the
time to say, well, something's got to be done here, right.
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Do you know twenty percent of our budget goes to
pay for the interest on the debt. It's over a
trillion dollars. Over a trillion dollars of our tax money
just pays the interest on what we borrowed. I mean,
it's astonishingly bad management. And it's been going on for
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decades under both Republicans and Democrats, no matter who controlled Congress.
Or the Senate or the presidency. It's been, it's been.
They've all been just incompetent, irresponsible, stupid boobs. And now
we're finding out then nobody knows where the money went.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
They're trying to do an audit.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But as Musk said yesterday, it's like you look at
the line items as to let's say, you know, there
was a million dollars spent on a million dollar check
went out to some agency, some program, whatever. There's there's
there's supposed to be a second box where you put
in a code the.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Type of spending it is.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And I don't know exactly what the codes are and
what they represent, but you're supposed to have a code,
and people in government know what the code means.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There's no code.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
There's another box that's for a comment, and it's you
write down exactly what the what the check is for,
what the money transfer is for. Nobody wrote anything in
the comment. So here you have a million dollars out
the door, and they don't know who it went to
because it doesn't say they don't know what category of
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spending it is. It doesn't say, and it clicked yesterday.
It's like, okay, now I understand when Gavin Newsen says, hey,
we spend twenty four billion dollars in homelessness, but we
don't know what it went for and whether it worked.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's because nobody writes it down. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's it's like, you know, you probably have some friends
or family members who run up big credit card bills.
They don't really track the income in the outflow, right,
nobody writes anything down and you ask them a word,
all the money go? Then I don't know, because you
have to like physically track where money goes, especially when
you're spending I don't know, six seven trillion dollars a year,
somebody's got to write it down.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
They literally don't write it down.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I found this hard to believe, but it's true because
Musk said the same thing, and so.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Did the auditors for high speed Rail.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They said the same thing that when they got to
the paperwork, the paperwork was blank. There was money spent,
but it didn't say which consultants got the money or
which construction company got the micy just evaporate the same
thing here in LA with the all the homeless, all
the homeless nonprofit criminals, all these all these fake nonprofits
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that they's supposed to be administering help them. Almost most
of these are criminal operations. And I remember during COVID
when there was a lockdown, and we've talked about this
a lot. The state had said they would pay unemployment
to anybody who applied, and tons of fraudsters applied, and
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we blew fifty billion dollars, fifty billion dollars in tax
money to fraudsters, and they said later on, well, eighty
five percent of the fraudulent payments went to people overseas,
people in foreign countries. And I thought, my god, every
bad character in literally in the world knows what to
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do if California is shoveling money out like they know
how to access the websites, fill out the forms properly,
get the check, and get approval. And I'm thinking, well, now,
multiply this exponentially for the US government. Every fraudster in
the country and outside the country knows how to access
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the system and.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Get and get.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean, there's literally trillions of dollars that have been
flushed in the toilet. So we've got the first president
to address this, and even Trump did not take any
action on this the first time around. And you've got
Musk inexplicably a certain percentage of the country hates and
I really don't have no idea why. I mean, the
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guy just makes electric cars, and he makes space rockets,
and he's making implants to hopefully make paralyzed people walk.
He's got a social media site that is extremely popular.
I really do not understand except their you know, this
is increased. I've noticed throughout my life as people are
resentful of the successful, they get angry and hateful of
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successful people. Now he's got about five hundred billion dollars.
He doesn't need to do this. There's no point him
stealing any of this money because he's got five hundred
billion dollars. I think it just it just bugs him.
Since he's got to run several public companies, it bugs
him that there's so much waste going on. He is
seen in his companies what waste and fraud can do,
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and so he's doing They're just doing audits, by the way,
and if you find something, he presents it to Trump
and Trump's team and Trump will say, Okay, no more
of this, and he starts firing people.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well that's rational, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
If we're wasting trillions of dollars every year and you
find specifically what some of the fraud and waste is about, Well,
then yeah, you hold them accountable and you fire him
or you demote them whatever. Well, why is this so terrible?
They're screaming, there's look, I heard today that there are
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so many politicians, senators and senators I don't even know
if they get paid two hundred thousand a year, but
many of them are worth tens of millions of dollars,
and they made this money after they got into office.
And I'm thinking, well, no, wonder they're out screaling, because
if they investigate all this stuff deep enough, we're going
to find out that a significant number of people in office,
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in the House and in the Senate were part of
these criminal operations, stealing money, having money, if not diverted
to them, directly diverted to their relatives and friends and
political donors nonprofits.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's what the game is.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And so now they're setting their hair on fire because
they're afraid that they're going to be discovered as being
thieves crooks, and maybe they'll be consequences, maybe they'll go
to prison. Wouldn't that be great? So I anybody who
objects the latter they squeal, the more I suspect they're
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in on the scam, that they have offited from the
scamp and they're afraid of getting caught.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm gonna play you a clip of exactly what I'm
talking about here. Musk was in the Trump's office yesterday.
He probably saw him. He's standing next to Trump. Trump's
at the desk. It's the longest I've ever seen Trump
on television and not speak. And Musk was talking about
all the bureaucrats who apparently are worth far more money
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than you'd think they'd be worth, considering their salaries.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So play that for you next.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
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Speaker 1 (09:37):
All right, let me get to this.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Elon Musk standing in Trump's office yesterday in the Oval office,
and there are reporters around, and he talked for quite
a while. This this clip here has become, I guess,
the most popular clip with everything he said, because it
speaks to a suspicion that I think most intelligent, rational
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people have about this mess. Plate cut number four and
you mentioned some of the things that your team has found,
some of the crazy numbers including the woman that walked
away with about thirty million.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Right. Well, we often we do find it's sort of
rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few
people in the perocracy who have ostensibly a salary of
a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow managed to accrue
tens of millions of dollars in that worth while they
are in that position, which is, you know what happened
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to usaid, we're just curious as to where it came from.
Maybe they're very good at investing, birch case, we should
take their investment advice, perhaps, but just there seems to
be mysteriously they get wealthy and we've done why where
did they come from? And I think the reality is
that they're getting wealthy. Detach their expense, that's the honest.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Truth of it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
How does somebody working in government who is making six
figures and they shouldn't be making six figures, but put
that aside, they're making six figures and they end up
with tens of millions of dollars. And maybe this is
the answer to the question. Our taxes are really high.
My taxes are really high, and no matter how much
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money they collect, the debt gets bigger and bigger and bigger,
and I don't get anything back for it. I don't
think most people here in California get much back for
all their taxes. Right, You're in La. The school district
really danks. The roads are disgusting. LA only has half
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a fire department. They're thousands of officers short. I mean,
you know, you go back to the basics. What do
you want from a government here in California? You want police, fire, schools, roads,
and a few other things. And yet we've got trillions
of dollars being spent in Washington, hundreds of billions here
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in California, and we don't have anything.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Where'd the money go?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And you know, I used to think that since I
was probably a teenager, I thought, are they stealing it?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And yeah, they are, They're stealing it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
There's no way if you have a salary of a
couple hundred thousand dollars a year, you end up with
tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
There's no investment that gives you that unless you just
think it off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Steer money to a nonprofit that your family members are running,
and you make sure that every year a million dollars
or two million or five million gets allocated to this nonprofit.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And this nonprofit can you know, address.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Poverty, sick children, homeless people, drug addicts, you know any
of that, right, and the money never helps anyone. I
mean that's going on in La right. We got seventy
thousand people living in the streets in La County, forty
five thousand just in the city. And year after year
after year we put we spend billions of dollars and
there's more of them. Nobody gets treated for the mental
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health problems. Nobody gets treated for their their their drug addictions.
And the bodies keep piling up everywhere, and they're dying
in the street, and it's like, well, wait a second,
what's all the money was stolen? Suddenly it all makes sense.
This is not failed drug treatment, This is not failed
homeless services, failed the mental health clinic services. No, this
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is theft. The people in the government direct the money
to nonprofits that they and their friends and family members
benefit from.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They could get fat salaries, and.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They could also take the money at these nonprofits and
then disperse it to other related companies. But again, you
just don't you don't fill fill out the forms You
don't put what the money is going for, or even
what agency or what other nonprofit.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Is getting the money to begin with.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You just root it to a bank account, which roots
it to another one and another one. That's really what
they do. So I think that, Remember, we have three examples.
I keep repeating. We know billions in high speed rail
money disappeared, we have no rail. We know Newsom said
twenty four billion in state homeless money disappeared. We have
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we have more homeless than ever, same thing in La County,
billions of dollars, more homeless than ever. And nobody can
say where all the homeless billions went because they stole it.
It has to be that, right. What would be the
other reason? If I'm wrong? What's the other reason the
fifty billion dollars in COVID money for untemployment disappeared. They'll
admit that went overseas to fraudsters, But are how many
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people within the agency were connected to these fraudsters. So
I think what we have is we have a middle class,
white collar criminal element that works in these bureaucracies who
want to be rich, and they all collectively figured out
how to be rich and leave little to no evidence
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behind If I'm wrong, then what's the other story? If
Musk is wrong, what's the other story. He's looking at
people worth tens of millions of dollars who make a
couple of hundred thousand dollars. So how did they get there?
How do you get from A to B? I mean,
what's that investment?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I want to know that.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I don't think there's an investment. I think they steer
the money to mystery nonprofit charities just for starters. There's
probably fifteen hundred ways that they do it. But that's
what I think is really common. There's got to be
going on here in LA. It's got to be going
on in Sacramento, because if it isn't, then what's the explanation.
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It's got to be an explanation. I don't think any
of this it went for homeless. Otherwise we wouldn't have
more and more and more and more. Something would have worked, right,
something You would have gotten somebody off drugs, somebody would
have gotten treated for the metal illness. Somebody would have
ended up in a shelter and made its way. No,
but they don't. They increased the number of people on
the streets. How do you do that? It's like a
magic trick. All right, we come back this one. Your
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hair is going to fall out. I don't even know
how I want to tease this.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I want it. What Musk found this out? Do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Do you know where the processing center is to pay
for to process federal workers retirement papers? Do you know
where it is? It's way underground in a limestone mine.
And everything they do in the limestone mine is paper
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and Manila folders. They process everything by hand. I will
give you this story just broke a couple of hours ago.
Musk announced it. A limestone mine in Pennsylvania is where
they have where they process all the federal workers retirement papers. Honestly,
you were this one. And if he's found this that quickly,
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what else is out there? We'll tell you more when
we come back.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
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Speaker 2 (17:29):
This story about the latest thing Musk and his doge
unit has found is one of the stories that I
looked at like twice three times. It's like, no, this
can't be. I look to see is this is this
a parody site? I stumbled onto. No, this is real,
Elon Musk said, that the Department of Government Efficiency is
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now investigating a limestone mine in Pennsylvania. Ten thousand federal employees.
Up to ten thousand can retire in a month. They
have a lot of old employees. What happens when you
retire is you have to fill out paperwork, right, so
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make sure you qualify for pensions and healthcare. Whatever the
perks are. Deadwood gets a lot of perks. Deadwood has
very comfortable retirements that can go on for forty plus years.
So they apparently what the setup is. It's a limestone
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mine in Pennsylvania, in Boyer's, Pennsylvania. It's sixty miles north
of Pittsburgh. There are seven hundred federal workers that operate
get this twenty two hundred and thirty feet underground, so
they're about twenty three stories underground to process ten thousand
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federal applications month. They're processed by hand using paper, and
then after the processing, they're stored in manila envelopes and
the envelopes are put into cardboard boxes. There's no computers,
there's no AI, there's no electronics storage of.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
The data of any kind.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And they have photos and the photos look like an
underground warehouse. The walls in the ceiling made of limestone,
and wouldn't you know it, there are shelves with cardboard
boxes inside the boxes or all these Manila folders, and
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it's stacked up one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine, about ten shelves high, and the aisles go
on forever. You ever seen photos of Amazon Amazon warehouses,
it's the same idea. So it's about ten shells high.
The aisle goes off into eternity, and it's cardboard boxes
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with Manila folders. And that is the entire federal retirement system.
Do you know how long, how slow, how inefficient that
must be? How many employees did I say they have?
I seven hundred of them. I'm just astonished by this
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in a limestone. The Washington Post did an article on
this over ten years ago, describing it as a sinkhole
of bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And at the time, we were.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Spending fifty five million dollars a year on this limestone mine.
They have tried, You're not gonna believe this for almost
forty years to digitize the system since nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
They never have.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Every attempt digitizing failed and was eventually scrapped. They spent
one hundred and thirty million dollars on failed efforts to
digitize these federal worker retirement applications.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
How could this be?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Musk says, the facility was opened in nineteen fifty five,
So this is the way they did business seventy years ago,
and it never advanced beyond nineteen fifty five Manila folders,
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manual processing, cardboard boxes.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Because it's so slow.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
If you retire, it can take any number of months
before they process your retirement. Do you know what else
limits the process? The speed it would which the mind
shaft elevator moves.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
How could this be?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And how fast the mind shaft elevator moves determines how
many people can retire from the federal government, said Musk.
And the elevator breaks down sometimes and then nobody can retire. Seriously,
So you have a job with the federal government, you're
entitled to retirement, you're entitled to the benefits. You can't retire.
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Why can't I retire? Well, the elevator in the mine
shaft broke down, so we can't process your claim. You
can't make this up. I saw these these these idiots
on CNN last night, saying, well, he's not providing any
prof of this, and he's not providing any do you
actually think they're making this up? I mean, there are
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photos of the of the limestone mine and the shelves.
This has got to be the most inefficient, least productive
system I've ever seen. And this is what all the
progressives are criticizing, screaming, not even making like our rational argument,
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having a civilized discussion on it.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
They are screaming.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They're in the street screaming, They're holding hearings and screaming.
They've all got severe personality disorders. And I see this
articles like what are they against this?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
What was the benefit of keeping this? It must have
benefited somebody? And why can't they buy a Why is
it the government can't buy computer systems that make things
work efficiently? We don't have any in California either. Remember
the DMV had processing systems from the nineteen seventies, which
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is why up until recently we had ridiculously long lines
if you went to the DMV, because they were literally
fifty years behind the center of the technological universe is
in our state. And every time the issue comes up,
I always thought, it's like, we've got you know, I
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don't know, hundreds of thousands of musk like geniuses that
could fix this system, probably in a matter of weeks,
and they don't do it, and they never spend money
on it because they're stealing the money, that's why. And
if you have an electronic system that would detect the
fraud very quickly, wouldn't it. Oh, looks like I think
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we figured it out. The reason they don't update it
is it keeps the outside world from figuring out how
much money is being stolen. Because if you have to
get on a broken elevator and go twenty three stories
down into the earth in a mind shaft to inspect
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government records, and then you find out they're all in
cardboard boxes and Manila folders and there's no electronic records,
it's no computers at all. Well, how are you going
to find all the fraud? How are you going to
find who's stealing what?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You're not?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
So anything can happen and the outside world will never
know because they can't physically get to the mind shaft
when the elevator breaks. I bet you the elevator breaks
a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I bet you.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Every time somebody wanted to investigate this, this particular department
of the elevator cable snapped. That's a limestone mine and
this has just got to be the beginning. Here's another
photo of it. Yeah, it's carved into what looks like
the cyb of a mountain. Seven hundred workers.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I think this is going to be the most entertaining
year we have ever had in this country because they've
only been in power for three weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
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Speaker 2 (26:02):
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we're going to talk with Joe Khalil. He's the Capitol
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Hill correspondent for a News nation. And they had a
committee hearing with the Government Efficiency Subcommittee, and this is
a subcommittee run by the Republicans in Congress and they partner,
they're like partners with Elon Musk and his DOGE agency,
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and I think they're supposed to be passing legislation that
might be necessary to clean up the disgusting, gross mess
that's going on in Washington that's being uncovered, like the
Limestone mine that's processing retirements manually two hundred and thirty
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feet below the surface of the earth. Stuff like that.
And we're also going to talk with Royal Oaks legal analyst.
And there's a group of federal inspector generals that Trump
fired and now they're suing the Trump administration claiming their
firings were illegal, And we're gonna talk to Royal Oak
about where looks about that issue. And just the you're
(27:30):
hearing all this, all this arguing whether Trump and Musk
whether they have the right to do what they're doing.
You keep hearing phrases like constitutional crisis, and.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It seems to.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Me to my untrained legal mind, that it's just a
lot of hot air and nonsense because they can't do
anything to stop what's going on. So we'll get to
that coming up.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Another guy that Trump fired was the watchdog, the inspector
general for this agency that's in the news, US Agency
for International Development USAID. And remember we told you yesterday
that USAID had paid for the college education of a
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terrorist who had a strong connection to the Fort Hood
shooting in two thousand and nine in Texas. Remember when
thirteen thirteen people were shot dead by what was his name,
Nadel Hassan. He was the terrorist and his spiritual advisor
(28:41):
was and we're Alacke. And yesterday we told you that
Alacke was born in this country. He was an American citizen,
but he lied on his application by claiming he was
born in Yemen.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Actually born in New Mexico. He was born in Yemen,
and he.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Did that to to get his tuition paid for by
the US government, and USAID paid the money. It was
worth more than twenty seven thousand dollars at the time.
It was nineteen ninety It was Colorado State University. And
he used his education and went on to recruit and
(29:19):
groom terrorists for attacks on the US. He got a
bachelor's degree in civil engineering in nineteen ninety four, and
then he started teaching Islam at mosques around the country
and he would radicalize and recruit terrorists, including Nadal Hassan,
who went on to kill thirteen people at Fort Hood.
Now this story broke yesterday and they immediately fired the
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Inspector General named Paul Martin, and Martin was not given
a reason for his firing, and the White House would
comment on the termination. Now, I doubt he had anything
to do with Nadal with anwar al Alackey getting his
college paid for thirty five years ago. But maybe he
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didn't cooperate with the investigation. Maybe somehow he stonewalled. It's
just I mean, Alache was such a bad guy. He
really helped radicalize a lot of terrorists. In fact, he
even met two of the nine to eleven terrorists in
the year two thousand when he was preaching at a
mosque in San Diego. So he was like the spiritual
(30:29):
glue for many of these guys at the height of
the al Qaeda attacks in this country. And to find
out that we paid for his education here is really galling.
Now if you remember, Obama actually droned this guy. Yeah,
drone strike turned Aloche into a bunch of molecules, I
(30:51):
think at twenty eleven, after they had discovered his connections
to the Fort Hood shooting. But whatever happened in ninety uh,
this current Inspector general doesn't nobody else say why. But
(31:12):
the atridity of this corruption has been going on for
decades and has been ignored or covered up, never investigated
by all the administrations and Congress and the Senate, and somebody.
This morning one of the news channels said, boy must
better have like the best personal security because he's going
(31:34):
to create so many enemies here. You know, a lot
of this corruption is going to go back to federal
officials in various cabinets, maybe presidents and vice presidents, maybe
senators and congressmen. They have to be involved in this corruption,
certainly agency heads over the years. Somebody allowed this to
go on. Somebody knew this that they might have been
(31:54):
profiting from it. When whever you look up the net worth,
I mean I heard I heard today like Elizabeth Warren, right,
she's always screaming about how consumers are getting screwed and
how the rich corporations and billionaires are taking advantage. Found
out today she's worth twelve million dollars and the US
Senate salary pays less than two hundred thousand. So how'd
(32:16):
she get to twelve million? Why is she screaming about
other wealthy people? I mean, how do you get from
two hundred thousand dollars a year to twelve million dollars.
Maybe maybe she married into money. I don't know, but
the inheritance or you know, some of these people like no,
must be stealing it. But we'll find out. But yeah,
(32:38):
Musk must better better watch himself. Do you think he's
wearing bullet clues bullet proof clothes all the time?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh? I would? I mean you look what happened to Epstein. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Anybody who's has that kind of that kind of information
that will destroy other people's lives, whether it's sexual information
or financial scandal information. People at this level they hire hitmen.
They take you out, they take you out, destroy the evidence,
and then you know, they save themselves. So I'm not
(33:14):
these guys like Trump and Moss shouldn't worry about terrorists.
They should worry about the people they're working with right
now in Washington, DC, because those are the guys who
might do something, do something dramatic. All right, we come back.
We're going to talk with a reporter from News Nation.
He's the Capitol Hill correspondent, Joe Khalil. That's next ever
(33:34):
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