May 14, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/14) - John is joined by KFI’s Michael Monks to unpack the Menendez brothers’ shock resentencing, now making them eligible for parole. Then, John breaks down Governor Newsom’s budget press conference and mocks his latest audition for President. Later, NewsNation’s Laura Ingle calls in from New York with disturbing new testimony from the Diddy trial, and John closes the hour torching Jake Tapper for suddenly acknowledging Biden’s mental decline—after years of attacking those who questioned it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
I could probably spend a half hour just pivoting off
with Michael Schellenberger was talking about with me last half hour,
but we got too much stuff today, so we'll get
to it eventually sometime this week, because if you missed it.
First hour on the podcast posted after four o'clock, John
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Cobelt's show on demand and Schellenberger was on.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Since one thirty. But I want to get right.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Did I mention what this is John Cobelt's show, I
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We're stimulating talk radio. I did. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In the next segment, I want to play this Newsom rant.
So Eric, you characterize it as he's angry or he's
exasperated or impassioned. Impassioned okay, apparently angry angry. Also, yeah,
he's fed up, fed up, Okay. I think Newsom is
headed towards the nervous breakdown because he realized he cannot
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be elected president with current conditions and cal So we'll
play that. We got Laura Engele coming on after one
point thirty to talk about that disgusting Didty trial. But
first enough Michael Monks here he is covering the resentencing
of the Menendez brothers yesterday. It happened late in the
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day and I already talked about earlier in the show
how I feel about all this, but I wanted to
leave it to you to explain exactly how the process occurred.
Yesterday it led to the Menendez brothers getting an official
re sentencing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It was a pretty wild day in Van Nuys.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You know, we had all braced for what was reported
to be a couple of days of hearings, and and
then as the afternoon drug on and it got to
around five o'clock, we started to see some rapid movement like, oh,
this is gonna wrap up today and there's going to
be a decision. And not only is there going to
be a decision, the resentencing came all in like one
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fell swoop very late in the day. I was on
with Tim Conway and we reported about it as it happened,
and you came up, of course, because both of you, you,
you and Tim Conway have said some things about the
Menindez brothers in the past, and and so now he's
a little worried about his safety.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Are you worried about your safety.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, sure, they probably have radio.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, we're we're we're gonna have to hire security.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well, we're going to take those gun lessons off just
in case Eric shows up here. Yeah, they might and
make it look like a mob hit and you can
claim that for the next thirty years. But here's the thing.
They're not getting out right away. And that was a possibility. Yesterday.
Mark Erragos, their attorney, had asked the judge, let's reconsider
this not as a murder conviction, let's resentence resentence them
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on a manslaughter charge. And Hattie decided to do that.
They could have walked out of that San Diego prison immediately,
possibly right. But that's not what's going to happen. So
they've got a couple of things. Don't forget. There are
still three paths to freedom here. They've made significant progress
now on one of them by being re sentenced. They're
now eligible for parole right away. They already have a
hearing with the parole board coming up next month. That's
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not related to this. That is for the clemency requests
that they have before Governor Newsom. So this is Governor
Newsom asking for that, and of course their request for
a new trial is still out there as well, although
now it seems like they've contradicted the new trial requests
because they flat out said, yesterday we killed our parents,
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were sorry about it, and our parents had every right
to live. And so that was a bit They never
admitted that before that they did the killing. Oh well
they certainly, you know, were convicted of the killing. Right,
they were convicted. What they have been trying to.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do is to justify the killing. Oh they were victims.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
They just flat out said, yeah, we kill It was
pretty startling to read. Now, wasn't in the courtroom. You
can't be in the courtroom and report. They take all
of your devices from you. So I didn't see this firsthand.
Right reporting out of the courtroom where the two brothers
appeared by video finally got the chance to speak after
both sides made their arguments, that's where they said, yeah,
we murdered them and they had every right to live. Well,
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then they should be in prison forever. Then well, if
they had every right to live.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That that contradicts the idea that they were sexually victimized
and forced.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Into killing them.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That is an interesting analysis because that's kind of how
I felt when I first heard that, that was their
comment and now took away their right to live. And
not only are the Menindez brothers possibly getting out of prison,
here's how their attorney, Mark Geragos framed their behavior in
prison and how they may serve as an inspiration to
other prisoners.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
The judge commented today this is one of the most
remarkable and he used that term remarkable transformations. And he said,
while the crime was truly horrific and remarkable, the thirty
five years since what they have accomplished is remarkable in
with no hope, and we've said that since day one,
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and so with no hope this encourages people who are
incarcerated to make the right decisions, to take the right path.
So I couldn't be It's just a win win on
so many levels.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I can't taste that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
So that's what he's saying is that, look, there was many,
many years that they've been behind bars where they had
no possibility of getting out. Remember the original sentence was
life without the possibility of paroles.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, and they did. All of these antellit.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Laws have allowed them to reapply exactly because of the
age that they were at the time of the killing.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Now what happened. That wasn't what this was.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
The judge removed the special circumstance that was part of
that original conviction. And forgive me for not being a
legal expert, I don't know exactly what that means, but
the special circumstance was removed and that allowed them to
be resentenced them.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, usually it's the manner in which they filled. For example,
if you're lying in the premeditation. Yeah, the premeditation, that's
that sort of thing. Yeah, it justifies a life sentence
or a death penalty.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So kind of a defeat for for Nathan Hawkman, who
fought against this. He said that they were not ready. Obviously,
Mark Arragos disagreed. He says that they are ready. But
Nathan Hackman doesn't believe they're ready for parole either. So
he has spoken today and here's what he said about that.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
If and when they do come fully clean, I believe
that the parole board should very well consider them as
eligible for parole. I believe that the Menendez brothers has
started down the path of fully accepting responsibility for all
their actions.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I disagree with all these people, Hawkman, Garregos, the judge,
their psychopaths, They blew their parents' heads off, and the mom.
The mom didn't commit any sexual abuse, and she was
crawling away. I mean, that's why you have to execute
him immediately.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right there in the courtroom.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
As soon as the jury says guilty, somebody pull out
a shotgum boom in the back of the head both
of them.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, you're not helping your case for getting them not
to come back after you. Should they be seeking vengeance.
I realized that, and we'll have to watch. Well up
watch the June thirteenth is the clemency hearing.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
We're always gonna sit there from now on every show.
It's always supporting characters like me that doing in these movies.
You're the hero. You will servid. I'm the one who
goes down.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You got another clip you center? No that okay?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
All right, well that's too much hearing Garrago's ladder wrong like.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That just upsets my stomach. All right, Thank you, Michael.
Always a plus.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Very good caf I news on the U possible uh
release of the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
They've been resentenced, how life in prison with.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That parole becomes they can go free, and even so
they're re sentenced to fifty years to life. Well, they
still only serve thirty five years. At least serve the
fifty for god's sakes. What a stupid system do you?
Who are you people voting for? All right, well, when
we come back, we'll play you one of the people
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you vote for. In some cases, people have voted for
this guy six times over the last twenty years. Gavin
Newsom suddenly he discovered all the homeless people rotting and
dying in the streets, and he's getting upset.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Really, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
If it seems like Governor Newsom is being talked about
a lot and there's a lot of news around him,
it's true there is. Partly it is because he's suddenly
speaking out on a lot of hot button issues that
he's been wrong on and he wants to somehow reposition
himself as he runs for president. Secondly, I think a
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lot of journalists I've realized he really is running for president,
and they're looking around and saying, I know we didn't
cover this much, but really he's running for president when
California is in this state, yikes. I know the pressures
on him he's one of these kids who I don't remember.
Years ago and Bill Clinton ran for president, there was
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a famous picture of him shaking John Kennedy's hands when
Clinton was thirteen years old, and it was like his
boyhood dreamed to be a president. Kennedy was his hero. Well,
Newsom's the same guy. Robert Kennedy was his hero, and
he sees his dream going up in smoke. And it
starts with all the dying and dead bodies laying in
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the streets by the thousands because of the Newsom's bad policies. Well,
he had some kind of a press conference today and
it was about the budget, and then Newsom went on
a bit of a rant. Remember his ordnance that he
proposed this week for cities and towns to ban homeless encampments.
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Everybody's got to get moved after three days. Well that's
what he's talking about here.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I'm not trying to point fingers, but my gosh, the
state has never done more in its history. We flooded
the zone. It's time to move on from the stale
talking points. Step up. There are counties that are doing
credible work. We applaud them. There are many cities doing
extraordinary work. I applaud them. There are many cities that
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are not, in many counties that are not. They just
have to do their job. And I am just on
behalf of the taxpayers of the state. In the spirit
of Ashley's question, I'm not interested. I'm just not as
a taxpayer, not just governing. I'm not interested in funding
failure anymore. I'm not. I won't time to do your job.
People are dying on their watch, dying on their watch.
(10:31):
How do people get re elected? Look at these encampments.
There are disgrace. They've been there years and years and
years and years. I've heard that same rhetoric for years.
People are dying, kids are being born overdoses. I met
a young man literally was out there doing Project Homeless Connect,
reaching out in the four or five freeway. I found
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out the next day he was dead in this name
of compassion. Because we had a notice, I could have
helped them. That night, I felt like a I felt
like I let him down. We got to be more aggressive.
I saw a young child, a young kid in San
Diego is with the Mayor of San Diego right before
his State of the state. This poor kid was addicted
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to meth. He was a wonderful kid, and he said,
I'm really glad you came. He goes, I'm struggling, and
they're in the tent with his wife was a newborn baby.
He said, thank you for coming.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
There's no compassion in denying what.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
The hell's going on in the streets and sidewalks. They
need to step up. Enough of the rhetoric. I'm serious,
enough of the rhetoric. People are dying in this state.
It is a disgrace. It is one of the principal
reasons people are so angry. They don't trust politicians, they
don't like what they see. I'm sorry to get so
intense about it. It's a moral issue. They need to
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do their job, and if they can't do it, let
me know, just say we give up, and then we'll intervene.
We'll come up with different strategies and different approaches. But
I'm sick and tired of all the barriers and all
the bs, all the excuses. So that's the spirit of
this model Ordnance and what this model Ordnance does and
what we're promoting, and so I hope people take a
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good look at it, and I hope they take me
very seriously. I got two more swings at the bat.
Not naive, but I'm done. I'm just done with the excuses.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Period. We'll stop.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Had he stopped, that's the first time he ever actually
stopped at the end of a period, full stop.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I don't know where to start with that.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
In the spirit of things, that's how you can start,
the spirit of the spirit of what he said, you
spirit a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And he also said, on behalf of the taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That's a first. I've never heard that before. On behalf
of the taxpayer?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Thank you. I'm how do how do people get re elected?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I tried to scribble a few things down. I can't
even read my own scroll. How do people get reelected?
Starting with you, how did you get reelected? On behalf
of the taxpayer? I had Michael Schellenberger on last hour.
He calculated that Newsom has spent thirty seven billion dollars
on homelessness in this state. Thirty seven billion. Newsom is
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admitted to twenty four billion and claims he doesn't know
where it went.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Well, I have a question.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Since six and a half years, let's go back to
twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
twenty three, twenty four. None of those years did he
stop and say, where't all money go? Why is homelessness worse?
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Homelessness is up since he took over by twenty four
percent thirty seven billion dollars and it went up twenty
four percent. Next thing, you know, he's going to be
saying this is unconscionable that high speed rail hasn't been
built yet.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Right, that's the next.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Then he's gonna tell us, you know, the taxes in
this state are way too high, and I can't believe
gas prices are going up to nine bucks a gallon.
He is psych He's like to Benendas brothers Hill, you know,
minus the murders. They don't care what they say, don't
say anything they have to say. That's sort of sociopathics.
Has no remorse, no feeling at all, No no no guilt.
(14:23):
But your your policies. Schellenberger laid it out in his story.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You know what after, I know, we got a couple
of people coming on. So we got we got all right,
because this is important. Yeah, we got Lori Angle coming
on next about the disgusting ditty case. Then state centertor
Tony Strickland is coming on after three o'clock because the
budget is way out of whack, and he's got a
lot to say about that. In fact, in his press
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release he has a long long list of what Newsom
is wasting money on. How do these people get reelected?
Says Gavin Newsom, that that is the question for all time,
how do these people get re elected? He is shameless,
He's like Garatus, just utterly shameless. Well, let me tell
you after Strickling comes on, I want to go through
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that whole clip again. I want to go line by
line through that clip. I may not leave the studio.
I may block Conway, I may take this place hostage.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
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Speaker 1 (15:32):
John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Here.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
One thing I want to get to next segment. We
got a compilation of Jake Tapper defending Joe Biden's brain
for four years and now I watch him. He drives
me crazy because he's on TV when I'm doing my show,
and you know he's pushing his book. You know that
he's discovered all the truth. Well, he was doing all
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the cover up for four years. We'll get to that.
We're going to have Tony Strickland on after three o'clock
about Newsome's whack job budget, and then we got a
discuss in detail. He knew some tape from today, which
is the most astonishing thing I've heard in a long time.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
But first for all that, Laura Engele is here. I'm
practically out of breath. Laura, how are you forgive the ranting?
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Yes, yes, I am good, but I am wow. All
I can say is wow, wow, wow. As I sit
outside of five hundred Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan, outside
of Federal Court, where we have just wrapped up day
two of Sean Colmbe's ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Cassandra Ventura,
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known as Cassie, just completed her direct testimony in his
sex trafficking federal trial.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I should mention Laura's with News Nation and she's covering
this trial and every time I read or watch a clip,
everything is so disgusting. So I'm going to let you
explain what went on today. What have you seen and heard?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Well, I can tell you that, first of all, Cassie
Ventura is very pregnant, very beautiful, and she when she
came in the courtroom today in one of the sessions
that I was in watching, she walked in and I
could see Sean Comb's turn around to see her twice,
like he turned around twice. She came from the back
of the courtroom, her eyes directed straight to the witness stands.
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She didn't look back at him, and she sat down
and proceeded to continue to tell the courtroom and jurors
about the ongoing eleven year what she called, you know,
sexually abusive freak offs. She was forced into performing multiple
sexual acts with multiple partners male escorts that were hired
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coming across state lines, which is where we're going to
get into the sex trafficking. Horrific, embarrassing, humiliating details of
the things that she was told to do at the
director of Sean Combs, who she said was not only
directing her what to do with these other men, but
also recording her doing them, and would use those videotapes
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to basically blackmail her, saying if you ever leave me,
if you ever tell on me, if you ever trying
to do anything, I've got these tapes and they're going
to come back to haunt you and your music career
is over, and he repeatedly she claims, beat her. The
jury today for the first time saw images of this
beautiful woman with a huge, fat lip, a big black eye,
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a dash over her eyebrow, and her right above one
of her eyes, in which she said she sustained a
terrible beatings. Anytime that she tried to kind of push
back on him, saying I don't want to do something,
or you're being mean to me, she would say that
he would repeatedly beat her, and she detailed one in
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cana where they were in an escalade leaving a party
and she said that he had said something mean to her,
and when they got in the car, she punched him,
and then he proceeded to beat the living life out
of her and stomping on her head and face until
she was so bloody and bruce she needed days to recover.
So sorry, we are on the mean streets of New
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York City right now, so as you hear the sirens
going by outside of the porthouse.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
This went on for eleven years.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
This went on for eleven years, he beating her, enforcing
her into these freak off sex orgies and.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
These freak offs. Yeah, and for the first time, John jurors,
not the public and not members of the gallery, just
the jurors. Cassie and Sean Colmes were shown on video
monitors skills of these freak offs. And for anybody who
doesn't know, these freak offs are basically these royalistic most
of the time. Shawn Colmes allegedly did participate in some
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of them, but he liked to watch. He wanted to
watch his girlfriend having sex with multiple male escorts covered
in baby oil, very rough sex that went on for days,
drug fueled. She was telling the jury how Seawan Colmebs
had her take drugs, how she was on She had
to medicate was booze and alcohol and with drugs to
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just get through all of this. And you remember this
started when she was nineteen years old. I mean she
was young. She was excited to be in the music industry.
Her boyfriend was Sean Colmbs. She got a ten record deal.
She thought she was going to have this huge and
she loved him. She said, I did a lot of
this because I just wanted to be with him. At
the end, I wanted to get over these freak offs
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and get him over with, so then I could just
kind of crawl into bed and just be with him and.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Really, wait a second, So seriously, after all those years,
not only getting beaten up, of being forced into all this,
the crazed sex with strangers, she still wanted to crawl
in bed and.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Cuddle with him.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
It's complicated, John, it is domestic violence. It's a domestic
violent situation. And she even in the way the things ended,
we go through this, I mean, I just got to say,
I mean, this is a roller coaster ride that we
were on today going through all of the horrific details,
and I really you really felt for And again she's
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nine months pregnant. So she's up there on a witness
stand looking beautiful with a tight sweater dress on, showing
her belly, talking about what she's been through. But at
the end of the testimony, and by the way, her husband,
Alex Fine, a personal trainer, was in the courtroom for
a lot of this. He had to get up and
leave at one point. We're not sure why he left.
But throughout the day the testimony is pretty brutal. But
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at the end she talked about how in twenty eighteen
they went to dinner in Malibu and to have kind
of this closure dinner, this dinner about talking about how
we're going to end the relationships. We're going to try
and end on a high note. He took her home
and then she claims that he raped her on the
floor of her living room in twenty eighteen, and she
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was devastated at how and she was crying throughout all
of this. But then John, she said that they did
have one more consensual sexual encounter after that, and the
prosecution said, why would you why would you go back
to him or why would you do something like that
after he had been so violent with you, And again
she said, it's a complicated issue. This is a you know,
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somebody who you love that's treating you badly. So we
really got, you know, a real behind the scenes curtain
look at that relationship through these last two days.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now, what he did to her personally is not part
of the charges that he's facing for this trial, right,
those are all about sex trafficking and racketeering and transportation
for prostitution.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I mean, it's like what she's saying today or not
specifically the charges, she's just setting the scene.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
She's setting the scene, and that's what the first two witnesses.
The first witness that was called was a male escort
talking about the work he had done with Cassie and
how much sex they had in front of Sean Colmes.
We had an assistant go up there, and now we
have Cassie. And remember they kind of get to Cassie
Ventura pretty quickly because she looks like she's going to
go any time, and so that's why they're trying. They're
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kind of bouncing all over the place, going over all
of the different scenarios. I mean, she's talking about being
thrown against a bedpost where her eye gets slashed, and
Shawn Comb's coming at her another instance with a wine opener.
I mean, it sounds like he just about, according to her,
killed her multiple times. But wait a minute. But to
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the point, she's laying out all this stuff. So she's
having all of this sex with all these different male
escorts time and time again, many of which it's not
just New York, it's not just La it's Miami. It's
there are people that are crossing state lines. So she's
laying the foundation. Remember this is an eight week trial.
We're on eight three, and it's exhausting.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I say, I'm exhausted. You've been on about six minutes.
I'm exhausted. Well, And they did all this section in
front of crowds at parties, right, a.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Lot of them.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
You know, what she has described so far sounds like
a pretty small circle. But what we're going to hear,
and it sounds like in the coming days in weeks,
will be from the assistance from the people in the
inner circle. And that's where we're going to get into
the racketeering, all the people that knew about it. And
you know what, this reminds me of, John, Remember when
you and I and Ken were reporting on Michael Jackson. Yeah,
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we were doing the Michael Jackson trial. A lot of
this reminds me of that of how people in the
Inner Circle were accused of helping to facilitate all of
these dirty des of you know, turning the other eye
or just you know, booking the flights, getting the people
in the door, providing the bottles and bottles of baby oil,
and the drugs and the hotel rooms and the ivs
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and the hydration and the medical treatment that was needed
after everybody went through these ordeals. So she's laying the
foundation for all of the other witnesses that are coming
that we'll talk about, you know, the trafficking and the racketeuron.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
All right, well, good luck and through this one, Laura,
thank you for coming on. You're welcome, all right, Laura
Engele News Nation covering the Diddy trial, and Cassie Ventura,
his longtime girlfriend, was on the stand today explaining eleven
years of sexually abusive and physically abusive behavior which is
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impossible to comprehend. When we come back, I want to
I want to play this compilation we have of Jake Tapper.
There are so many frauds out there, and many of
them are on the show today. And Tapper spent a
lot of time anchoring his CNN show defending Biden's cognitive
(25:53):
abilities and occasionally attacking guests who would say something in
insulting about Biden actually would be accurate. And now he's
got a book that he's selling with a co author
exposing what was really going on and that yeah, Biden
was senile for much of his presidency.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm just sick of all the frauds and the liars
and just just the shamelessness of it all. We're going
to spend a lot of time in newsom next hour
speaking of frauds and liars. But CNN anchor Jake Tapper,
he spent the last four or five years defending Joe
Biden's diminished capabilities and occasionally getting angry with guests who
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said otherwise. And now he's got a book saying, hey.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
What do you know?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
He really was cnile the whole time he was in
the White House. Now he's going to make millions.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Of dollars giving us the truth.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, we've got a couple of minutes Eclipse here repeatedly
defending Biden's shall we say, cognitive abilities?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Roll the clip.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
How do you think it makes little kids with stutters
feel when they see you make a comment like that.
It is very clearly a cognitive decline, That's what I'm
referring to.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
You are no age. That's so amazing. It's so amazing to.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Me that trying figure out an answer cognitive declinegative. Biden
embraces his stutter talking about it, while Trump mock said,
exaggerates it.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
The littles it.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
He's sharp physically, I mean mentally, Yeah, I think the
question is physically right right or so right right?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
And the guy who's his chief.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Opponent is only three or four years younger than him. Ada,
I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fit, fitness,
ability to lead. Of those supporting Biden, you said, quote,
shame on all of you pretending everything is okay. You're
leading us and him into a disaster. Do you worry
that you damaged him at all? I don't doubt that
you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today and
maybe even publicly, some of them because they like you personally.
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But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about
you from your Democratic colleague.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I mean, just like, what is he thinking?
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Exercise in narcissism? I mean false claims to the Wall
Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's
eighty one and his memory. You know, it doesn't seem great.
It's not horrible, But I don't understand the outrage quote
behind closed doors Biden shows signs of slipping quotes.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The Wall Street Journal is.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Owned by NewsCorp, which is run by the Murdocks. Beyond
the headline, there is some critical nuance here. The article
is mostly based on observations of Republicans, with former Speaker
Kevin McCarthy the only one going on the record. They
do note in the article that most of the criticism
comes from Republicans. Have you heard any concerns from anyone
who has met with President Biden about seeming a little slower?
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Now the Russians are trying to do to make us
in the public not trust the our election integrity. Joe
Biden has to mention all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh, it was the Russians. He what a disaster he is.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I had no idea, And he's smug and condescending and
absolutely sure of himself, dismissive and obnoxious, and he was
lying the whole time. And now he wrote a book
exposing the cover up of Joe Biden's condition. Jake Tapper CNN,
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still on television, still making millions of dollars. This is
a great country. This is astounding, all right. Next, narcissistic sociopath.
We're going to talk about Gavin Newsom. It's like, is
everybody a mental patient? He's got a new budget out.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I mean, I'm looking at the headline in the La Times.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
California faces an additional twelve billion dollar budget deficit, says Newsom.
Yet you know why, because it costs almost exactly twelve
billion dollars to give free illegal alien health care. We're
gonna talk to Tony Strickland. He's the Republican state Senator
from Huntington Beach and he's going to discuss Newsom's budget next.
Ebor Mark Live KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
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You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
I could probably spend a half hour just pivoting off
with Michael Schellenberger was talking about with me last half hour,
but we got too much stuff today, so we'll get
to it eventually sometime this week, because if you missed it.
First hour on the podcast posted after four o'clock, John
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Cobelt's show on demand and Schellenberger was on.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Since one thirty. But I want to get right.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Did I mention what this is John Cobelt's show, I
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We're stimulating talk radio. I did. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In the next segment, I want to play this Newsom rant.
So Eric, you characterize it as he's angry or he's
exasperated or impassioned. Impassioned okay, apparently angry angry. Also, yeah,
he's fed up, fed up, Okay. I think Newsom is
headed towards the nervous breakdown because he realized he cannot
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be elected president with current conditions and cal So we'll
play that. We got Laura Engele coming on after one
point thirty to talk about that disgusting Didty trial. But
first enough Michael Monks here he is covering the resentencing
of the Menendez brothers yesterday. It happened late in the
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day and I already talked about earlier in the show
how I feel about all this, but I wanted to
leave it to you to explain exactly how the process occurred.
Yesterday it led to the Menendez brothers getting an official
re sentencing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It was a pretty wild day in Van Nuys.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You know, we had all braced for what was reported
to be a couple of days of hearings, and and
then as the afternoon drug on and it got to
around five o'clock, we started to see some rapid movement like, oh,
this is gonna wrap up today and there's going to
be a decision. And not only is there going to
be a decision, the resentencing came all in like one
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fell swoop very late in the day. I was on
with Tim Conway and we reported about it as it happened,
and you came up, of course, because both of you, you,
you and Tim Conway have said some things about the
Menindez brothers in the past, and and so now he's
a little worried about his safety.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Are you worried about your safety.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, sure, they probably have radio.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, we're we're we're gonna have to hire security.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well, we're going to take those gun lessons off just
in case Eric shows up here. Yeah, they might and
make it look like a mob hit and you can
claim that for the next thirty years. But here's the thing.
They're not getting out right away. And that was a possibility. Yesterday.
Mark Erragos, their attorney, had asked the judge, let's reconsider
this not as a murder conviction, let's resentence resentence them
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on a manslaughter charge. And Hattie decided to do that.
They could have walked out of that San Diego prison immediately,
possibly right. But that's not what's going to happen. So
they've got a couple of things. Don't forget. There are
still three paths to freedom here. They've made significant progress
now on one of them by being re sentenced. They're
now eligible for parole right away. They already have a
hearing with the parole board coming up next month. That's
(03:03):
not related to this. That is for the clemency requests
that they have before Governor Newsom. So this is Governor
Newsom asking for that, and of course their request for
a new trial is still out there as well, although
now it seems like they've contradicted the new trial requests
because they flat out said, yesterday we killed our parents,
(03:24):
were sorry about it, and our parents had every right
to live. And so that was a bit They never
admitted that before that they did the killing. Oh well
they certainly, you know, were convicted of the killing. Right,
they were convicted. What they have been trying to.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do is to justify the killing. Oh they were victims.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
They just flat out said, yeah, we kill It was
pretty startling to read. Now, wasn't in the courtroom. You
can't be in the courtroom and report. They take all
of your devices from you. So I didn't see this firsthand.
Right reporting out of the courtroom where the two brothers
appeared by video finally got the chance to speak after
both sides made their arguments, that's where they said, yeah,
we murdered them and they had every right to live. Well,
(04:06):
then they should be in prison forever. Then well, if
they had every right to live.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That that contradicts the idea that they were sexually victimized
and forced.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Into killing them.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That is an interesting analysis because that's kind of how
I felt when I first heard that, that was their
comment and now took away their right to live. And
not only are the Menindez brothers possibly getting out of prison,
here's how their attorney, Mark Geragos framed their behavior in
prison and how they may serve as an inspiration to
other prisoners.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
The judge commented today this is one of the most
remarkable and he used that term remarkable transformations. And he said,
while the crime was truly horrific and remarkable, the thirty
five years since what they have accomplished is remarkable in
with no hope, and we've said that since day one,
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and so with no hope this encourages people who are
incarcerated to make the right decisions, to take the right path.
So I couldn't be It's just a win win on
so many levels.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I can't taste that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
So that's what he's saying is that, look, there was many,
many years that they've been behind bars where they had
no possibility of getting out. Remember the original sentence was
life without the possibility of paroles.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, and they did. All of these antellit.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Laws have allowed them to reapply exactly because of the
age that they were at the time of the killing.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Now what happened. That wasn't what this was.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
The judge removed the special circumstance that was part of
that original conviction. And forgive me for not being a
legal expert, I don't know exactly what that means, but
the special circumstance was removed and that allowed them to
be resentenced them.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, usually it's the manner in which they filled. For example,
if you're lying in the premeditation. Yeah, the premeditation, that's
that sort of thing. Yeah, it justifies a life sentence
or a death penalty.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So kind of a defeat for for Nathan Hawkman, who
fought against this. He said that they were not ready. Obviously,
Mark Arragos disagreed. He says that they are ready. But
Nathan Hackman doesn't believe they're ready for parole either. So
he has spoken today and here's what he said about that.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
If and when they do come fully clean, I believe
that the parole board should very well consider them as
eligible for parole. I believe that the Menendez brothers has
started down the path of fully accepting responsibility for all
their actions.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I disagree with all these people, Hawkman, Garregos, the judge,
their psychopaths, They blew their parents' heads off, and the mom.
The mom didn't commit any sexual abuse, and she was
crawling away. I mean, that's why you have to execute
him immediately.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right there in the courtroom.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
As soon as the jury says guilty, somebody pull out
a shotgum boom in the back of the head both
of them.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, you're not helping your case for getting them not
to come back after you. Should they be seeking vengeance.
I realized that, and we'll have to watch. Well up
watch the June thirteenth is the clemency hearing.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
We're always gonna sit there from now on every show.
It's always supporting characters like me that doing in these movies.
You're the hero. You will servid. I'm the one who
goes down.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You got another clip you center? No that okay?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
All right, well that's too much hearing Garrago's ladder wrong like.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That just upsets my stomach. All right, Thank you, Michael.
Always a plus.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Very good caf I news on the U possible uh
release of the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
They've been resentenced, how life in prison with.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That parole becomes they can go free, and even so
they're re sentenced to fifty years to life. Well, they
still only serve thirty five years. At least serve the
fifty for god's sakes. What a stupid system do you?
Who are you people voting for? All right, well, when
we come back, we'll play you one of the people
(07:55):
you vote for. In some cases, people have voted for
this guy six times over the last twenty years. Gavin
Newsom suddenly he discovered all the homeless people rotting and
dying in the streets, and he's getting upset.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Really, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
If it seems like Governor Newsom is being talked about
a lot and there's a lot of news around him,
it's true there is. Partly it is because he's suddenly
speaking out on a lot of hot button issues that
he's been wrong on and he wants to somehow reposition
himself as he runs for president. Secondly, I think a
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lot of journalists I've realized he really is running for president,
and they're looking around and saying, I know we didn't
cover this much, but really he's running for president when
California is in this state, yikes. I know the pressures
on him he's one of these kids who I don't remember.
Years ago and Bill Clinton ran for president, there was
(09:01):
a famous picture of him shaking John Kennedy's hands when
Clinton was thirteen years old, and it was like his
boyhood dreamed to be a president. Kennedy was his hero. Well,
Newsom's the same guy. Robert Kennedy was his hero, and
he sees his dream going up in smoke. And it
starts with all the dying and dead bodies laying in
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the streets by the thousands because of the Newsom's bad policies. Well,
he had some kind of a press conference today and
it was about the budget, and then Newsom went on
a bit of a rant. Remember his ordnance that he
proposed this week for cities and towns to ban homeless encampments.
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Everybody's got to get moved after three days. Well that's
what he's talking about here.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I'm not trying to point fingers, but my gosh, the
state has never done more in its history. We flooded
the zone. It's time to move on from the stale
talking points. Step up. There are counties that are doing
credible work. We applaud them. There are many cities doing
extraordinary work. I applaud them. There are many cities that
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are not, in many counties that are not. They just
have to do their job. And I am just on
behalf of the taxpayers of the state. In the spirit
of Ashley's question, I'm not interested. I'm just not as
a taxpayer, not just governing. I'm not interested in funding
failure anymore. I'm not. I won't time to do your job.
People are dying on their watch, dying on their watch.
(10:31):
How do people get re elected? Look at these encampments.
There are disgrace. They've been there years and years and
years and years. I've heard that same rhetoric for years.
People are dying, kids are being born overdoses. I met
a young man literally was out there doing Project Homeless Connect,
reaching out in the four or five freeway. I found
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out the next day he was dead in this name
of compassion. Because we had a notice, I could have
helped them. That night, I felt like a I felt
like I let him down. We got to be more aggressive.
I saw a young child, a young kid in San
Diego is with the Mayor of San Diego right before
his State of the state. This poor kid was addicted
(11:12):
to meth. He was a wonderful kid, and he said,
I'm really glad you came. He goes, I'm struggling, and
they're in the tent with his wife was a newborn baby.
He said, thank you for coming.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
There's no compassion in denying what.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
The hell's going on in the streets and sidewalks. They
need to step up. Enough of the rhetoric. I'm serious,
enough of the rhetoric. People are dying in this state.
It is a disgrace. It is one of the principal
reasons people are so angry. They don't trust politicians, they
don't like what they see. I'm sorry to get so
intense about it. It's a moral issue. They need to
(11:47):
do their job, and if they can't do it, let
me know, just say we give up, and then we'll intervene.
We'll come up with different strategies and different approaches. But
I'm sick and tired of all the barriers and all
the bs, all the excuses. So that's the spirit of
this model Ordnance and what this model Ordnance does and
what we're promoting, and so I hope people take a
(12:11):
good look at it, and I hope they take me
very seriously. I got two more swings at the bat.
Not naive, but I'm done. I'm just done with the excuses.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Period. We'll stop.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Had he stopped, that's the first time he ever actually
stopped at the end of a period, full stop.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I don't know where to start with that.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
In the spirit of things, that's how you can start,
the spirit of the spirit of what he said, you
spirit a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And he also said, on behalf of the taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That's a first. I've never heard that before. On behalf
of the taxpayer?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Thank you. I'm how do how do people get re elected?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I tried to scribble a few things down. I can't
even read my own scroll. How do people get reelected?
Starting with you, how did you get reelected? On behalf
of the taxpayer? I had Michael Schellenberger on last hour.
He calculated that Newsom has spent thirty seven billion dollars
on homelessness in this state. Thirty seven billion. Newsom is
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admitted to twenty four billion and claims he doesn't know
where it went.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Well, I have a question.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Since six and a half years, let's go back to
twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
twenty three, twenty four. None of those years did he
stop and say, where't all money go? Why is homelessness worse?
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Homelessness is up since he took over by twenty four
percent thirty seven billion dollars and it went up twenty
four percent. Next thing, you know, he's going to be
saying this is unconscionable that high speed rail hasn't been
built yet.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Right, that's the next.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Then he's gonna tell us, you know, the taxes in
this state are way too high, and I can't believe
gas prices are going up to nine bucks a gallon.
He is psych He's like to Benendas brothers Hill, you know,
minus the murders. They don't care what they say, don't
say anything they have to say. That's sort of sociopathics.
Has no remorse, no feeling at all, No no no guilt.
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But your your policies. Schellenberger laid it out in his story.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You know what after, I know, we got a couple
of people coming on. So we got we got all right,
because this is important. Yeah, we got Lori Angle coming
on next about the disgusting ditty case. Then state centertor
Tony Strickland is coming on after three o'clock because the
budget is way out of whack, and he's got a
lot to say about that. In fact, in his press
(14:52):
release he has a long long list of what Newsom
is wasting money on. How do these people get reelected?
Says Gavin Newsom, that that is the question for all time,
how do these people get re elected? He is shameless,
He's like Garatus, just utterly shameless. Well, let me tell
you after Strickling comes on, I want to go through
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that whole clip again. I want to go line by
line through that clip. I may not leave the studio.
I may block Conway, I may take this place hostage.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
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Speaker 2 (15:33):
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One thing I want to get to next segment. We
got a compilation of Jake Tapper defending Joe Biden's brain
for four years and now I watch him. He drives
me crazy because he's on TV when I'm doing my show,
and you know he's pushing his book. You know that
he's discovered all the truth. Well, he was doing all
(15:55):
the cover up for four years. We'll get to that.
We're going to have Tony Strickland on after three o'clock
about Newsome's whack job budget, and then we got a
discuss in detail. He knew some tape from today, which
is the most astonishing thing I've heard in a long time.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
But first for all that, Laura Engele is here. I'm
practically out of breath. Laura, how are you forgive the ranting?
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Yes, yes, I am good, but I am wow. All
I can say is wow, wow, wow. As I sit
outside of five hundred Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan, outside
of Federal Court, where we have just wrapped up day
two of Sean Colmbe's ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Cassandra Ventura,
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known as Cassie, just completed her direct testimony in his
sex trafficking federal trial.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I should mention Laura's with News Nation and she's covering
this trial and every time I read or watch a clip,
everything is so disgusting. So I'm going to let you
explain what went on today. What have you seen and heard?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Well, I can tell you that, first of all, Cassie
Ventura is very pregnant, very beautiful, and she when she
came in the courtroom today in one of the sessions
that I was in watching, she walked in and I
could see Sean Comb's turn around to see her twice,
like he turned around twice. She came from the back
of the courtroom, her eyes directed straight to the witness stands.
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She didn't look back at him, and she sat down
and proceeded to continue to tell the courtroom and jurors
about the ongoing eleven year what she called, you know,
sexually abusive freak offs. She was forced into performing multiple
sexual acts with multiple partners male escorts that were hired
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coming across state lines, which is where we're going to
get into the sex trafficking. Horrific, embarrassing, humiliating details of
the things that she was told to do at the
director of Sean Combs, who she said was not only
directing her what to do with these other men, but
also recording her doing them, and would use those videotapes
(18:12):
to basically blackmail her, saying if you ever leave me,
if you ever tell on me, if you ever trying
to do anything, I've got these tapes and they're going
to come back to haunt you and your music career
is over, and he repeatedly she claims, beat her. The
jury today for the first time saw images of this
beautiful woman with a huge, fat lip, a big black eye,
(18:35):
a dash over her eyebrow, and her right above one
of her eyes, in which she said she sustained a
terrible beatings. Anytime that she tried to kind of push
back on him, saying I don't want to do something,
or you're being mean to me, she would say that
he would repeatedly beat her, and she detailed one in
(18:55):
cana where they were in an escalade leaving a party
and she said that he had said something mean to her,
and when they got in the car, she punched him,
and then he proceeded to beat the living life out
of her and stomping on her head and face until
she was so bloody and bruce she needed days to recover.
So sorry, we are on the mean streets of New
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York City right now, so as you hear the sirens
going by outside of the porthouse.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
This went on for eleven years.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
This went on for eleven years, he beating her, enforcing
her into these freak off sex orgies and.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
These freak offs. Yeah, and for the first time, John jurors,
not the public and not members of the gallery, just
the jurors. Cassie and Sean Colmes were shown on video
monitors skills of these freak offs. And for anybody who
doesn't know, these freak offs are basically these royalistic most
of the time. Shawn Colmes allegedly did participate in some
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of them, but he liked to watch. He wanted to
watch his girlfriend having sex with multiple male escorts covered
in baby oil, very rough sex that went on for days,
drug fueled. She was telling the jury how Seawan Colmebs
had her take drugs, how she was on She had
to medicate was booze and alcohol and with drugs to
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just get through all of this. And you remember this
started when she was nineteen years old. I mean she
was young. She was excited to be in the music industry.
Her boyfriend was Sean Colmbs. She got a ten record deal.
She thought she was going to have this huge and
she loved him. She said, I did a lot of
this because I just wanted to be with him. At
the end, I wanted to get over these freak offs
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and get him over with, so then I could just
kind of crawl into bed and just be with him and.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Really, wait a second, So seriously, after all those years,
not only getting beaten up, of being forced into all this,
the crazed sex with strangers, she still wanted to crawl
in bed and.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Cuddle with him.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
It's complicated, John, it is domestic violence. It's a domestic
violent situation. And she even in the way the things ended,
we go through this, I mean, I just got to say,
I mean, this is a roller coaster ride that we
were on today going through all of the horrific details,
and I really you really felt for And again she's
(21:19):
nine months pregnant. So she's up there on a witness
stand looking beautiful with a tight sweater dress on, showing
her belly, talking about what she's been through. But at
the end of the testimony, and by the way, her husband,
Alex Fine, a personal trainer, was in the courtroom for
a lot of this. He had to get up and
leave at one point. We're not sure why he left.
But throughout the day the testimony is pretty brutal. But
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at the end she talked about how in twenty eighteen
they went to dinner in Malibu and to have kind
of this closure dinner, this dinner about talking about how
we're going to end the relationships. We're going to try
and end on a high note. He took her home
and then she claims that he raped her on the
floor of her living room in twenty eighteen, and she
(22:02):
was devastated at how and she was crying throughout all
of this. But then John, she said that they did
have one more consensual sexual encounter after that, and the
prosecution said, why would you why would you go back
to him or why would you do something like that
after he had been so violent with you, And again
she said, it's a complicated issue. This is a you know,
(22:24):
somebody who you love that's treating you badly. So we
really got, you know, a real behind the scenes curtain
look at that relationship through these last two days.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now, what he did to her personally is not part
of the charges that he's facing for this trial, right,
those are all about sex trafficking and racketeering and transportation
for prostitution.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I mean, it's like what she's saying today or not
specifically the charges, she's just setting the scene.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
She's setting the scene, and that's what the first two witnesses.
The first witness that was called was a male escort
talking about the work he had done with Cassie and
how much sex they had in front of Sean Colmes.
We had an assistant go up there, and now we
have Cassie. And remember they kind of get to Cassie
Ventura pretty quickly because she looks like she's going to
go any time, and so that's why they're trying. They're
(23:16):
kind of bouncing all over the place, going over all
of the different scenarios. I mean, she's talking about being
thrown against a bedpost where her eye gets slashed, and
Shawn Comb's coming at her another instance with a wine opener.
I mean, it sounds like he just about, according to her,
killed her multiple times. But wait a minute. But to
(23:38):
the point, she's laying out all this stuff. So she's
having all of this sex with all these different male
escorts time and time again, many of which it's not
just New York, it's not just La it's Miami. It's
there are people that are crossing state lines. So she's
laying the foundation. Remember this is an eight week trial.
We're on eight three, and it's exhausting.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I say, I'm exhausted. You've been on about six minutes.
I'm exhausted. Well, And they did all this section in
front of crowds at parties, right, a.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Lot of them.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
You know, what she has described so far sounds like
a pretty small circle. But what we're going to hear,
and it sounds like in the coming days in weeks,
will be from the assistance from the people in the
inner circle. And that's where we're going to get into
the racketeering, all the people that knew about it. And
you know what, this reminds me of, John, Remember when
you and I and Ken were reporting on Michael Jackson. Yeah,
(24:31):
we were doing the Michael Jackson trial. A lot of
this reminds me of that of how people in the
Inner Circle were accused of helping to facilitate all of
these dirty des of you know, turning the other eye
or just you know, booking the flights, getting the people
in the door, providing the bottles and bottles of baby oil,
and the drugs and the hotel rooms and the ivs
(24:55):
and the hydration and the medical treatment that was needed
after everybody went through these ordeals. So she's laying the
foundation for all of the other witnesses that are coming
that we'll talk about, you know, the trafficking and the racketeuron.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
All right, well, good luck and through this one, Laura,
thank you for coming on. You're welcome, all right, Laura
Engele News Nation covering the Diddy trial, and Cassie Ventura,
his longtime girlfriend, was on the stand today explaining eleven
years of sexually abusive and physically abusive behavior which is
(25:30):
impossible to comprehend. When we come back, I want to
I want to play this compilation we have of Jake Tapper.
There are so many frauds out there, and many of
them are on the show today. And Tapper spent a
lot of time anchoring his CNN show defending Biden's cognitive
(25:53):
abilities and occasionally attacking guests who would say something in
insulting about Biden actually would be accurate. And now he's
got a book that he's selling with a co author
exposing what was really going on and that yeah, Biden
was senile for much of his presidency.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm just sick of all the frauds and the liars
and just just the shamelessness of it all. We're going
to spend a lot of time in newsom next hour
speaking of frauds and liars. But CNN anchor Jake Tapper,
he spent the last four or five years defending Joe
Biden's diminished capabilities and occasionally getting angry with guests who
(26:42):
said otherwise. And now he's got a book saying, hey.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
What do you know?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
He really was cnile the whole time he was in
the White House. Now he's going to make millions.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Of dollars giving us the truth.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, we've got a couple of minutes Eclipse here repeatedly
defending Biden's shall we say, cognitive abilities?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Roll the clip.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
How do you think it makes little kids with stutters
feel when they see you make a comment like that.
It is very clearly a cognitive decline, That's what I'm
referring to.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
You are no age. That's so amazing. It's so amazing to.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Me that trying figure out an answer cognitive declinegative. Biden
embraces his stutter talking about it, while Trump mock said,
exaggerates it.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
The littles it.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
He's sharp physically, I mean mentally, Yeah, I think the
question is physically right right or so right right?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
And the guy who's his chief.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Opponent is only three or four years younger than him. Ada,
I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fit, fitness,
ability to lead. Of those supporting Biden, you said, quote,
shame on all of you pretending everything is okay. You're
leading us and him into a disaster. Do you worry
that you damaged him at all? I don't doubt that
you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today and
maybe even publicly, some of them because they like you personally.
(27:58):
But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about
you from your Democratic colleague.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I mean, just like, what is he thinking?
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Exercise in narcissism? I mean false claims to the Wall
Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's
eighty one and his memory. You know, it doesn't seem great.
It's not horrible, But I don't understand the outrage quote
behind closed doors Biden shows signs of slipping quotes.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The Wall Street Journal is.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Owned by NewsCorp, which is run by the Murdocks. Beyond
the headline, there is some critical nuance here. The article
is mostly based on observations of Republicans, with former Speaker
Kevin McCarthy the only one going on the record. They
do note in the article that most of the criticism
comes from Republicans. Have you heard any concerns from anyone
who has met with President Biden about seeming a little slower?
(28:48):
Now the Russians are trying to do to make us
in the public not trust the our election integrity. Joe
Biden has to mention all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh, it was the Russians. He what a disaster he is.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I had no idea, And he's smug and condescending and
absolutely sure of himself, dismissive and obnoxious, and he was
lying the whole time. And now he wrote a book
exposing the cover up of Joe Biden's condition. Jake Tapper CNN,
(29:25):
still on television, still making millions of dollars. This is
a great country. This is astounding, all right. Next, narcissistic sociopath.
We're going to talk about Gavin Newsom. It's like, is
everybody a mental patient? He's got a new budget out.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I mean, I'm looking at the headline in the La Times.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
California faces an additional twelve billion dollar budget deficit, says Newsom.
Yet you know why, because it costs almost exactly twelve
billion dollars to give free illegal alien health care. We're
gonna talk to Tony Strickland. He's the Republican state Senator
from Huntington Beach and he's going to discuss Newsom's budget next.
Ebor Mark Live KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
(30:12):
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