August 21, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (08/21) - The California State Assembly has passed Gov. Newsom's redistricting plan which would counter Texas' redistricting plans. More on Bed, Bath & Beyond saying they will not reopen any stores in California. Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about Pres. Trump's $500M civil penalty being thrown out. Part 2 of the Moist Line that got preempted last week for Putin and Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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as the entertaining interview we did with Stephen Klubek, the
(00:23):
Democratic businessman running for governor. Just had him on a
few minutes ago. And this hour we're going to have
Royal Oaks on for ABC News to explain this appeals
court decision in New York which threw out the five
hundred million dollar penalty against Donald Trump the civil fraud trial.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Remember the claim he was found liable for.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Fraud because when he was getting bank loans, he inflated
the worth of his properties. And there were no complaints
about how he made his case to the banks, how
he filled out the forums.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The banks didn't object.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They in fact, they nobody in court ever testified, ever
complained about what went on. The banks were entirely paid
back all their loan money. It was claimed that he
just jacked up the alleged value of the building Yons.
I never understood this case because, first of all, a bank,
(01:36):
I believe, sends an appraiser. I know that happened every
time we refinanced our mortgage. We got an appraiser at
the house to determine what the uh, what the value
of the house really was. I never ever thought they
were going to take our word for it, and it
never did. I can't believe a bank would take Donald
Trump's word for it, or maybe they didn't care, but
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they did business with him for decades.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Anyway, paid back the loans.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
This was all ginned up by that corrupt Letitia James,
the New York State Attorney General. And at the moment,
the fraud charge stands, but there's no penalty. The appeals
court throughout the entire penalty. It was originally about three
hundred and sixty million dollars, and with interest and other things,
it was five hundred million, half a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So at the moment, the way the case stands, it's like, well,
you did.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Something wrong, but there's absolutely no consequence. It was a
civil case.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No fine. Is this nuts?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Barrel Oaks is going to explain more coming up after
three point thirty end. We have one leftover from last
week and that's Thursday. But our Moistline round two got
preempted last Friday because Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were
having their summit and they suddenly came out to address
the world.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
They said nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
They wasted everybody's time, and I thought, well, the moistline
should live on. All those people went through the trouble
of leaving their message and will air them coming up
in the final segment.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I went through the trouble to edit them.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I should have added that, yes, and you went through
the trouble of editing them. We can't let anything go
to waste here. No, all right, here's the big news.
And this just came across minutes ago. The California State
Assembly has passed Newsom's redistricting plan. It's a set of
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three bills and they've passed all three. The state Senate
is still in the process. They've passed one of the three.
It turned out Newsom had lied. He said he was
only going to do it if Texas did it. Well,
they announced this morning they were doing it anyway, no
matter what Texas does. And Texas is passing those bills.
Now we now have a governor who has decided to
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take away Republican resident representation in five districts from voters
who are Republican or independent and want to vote that way.
They want to vote for a Republican congressperson. And now
they have stacked these five districts with so many Democratic
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voters it's impossible. So the number of Democratic Congressmen representing
California could go up to forty eight out of fifty
two states. Even though forty percent of voters vote for
Republican congressman, there's going to be less than ten percent
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actually in Congress.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Now, remember how this works.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We have a constitutional amendment passed in twenty ten, sixty
one to thirty nine that says only an independent outside
panel does this. So Newsom is trying to rig this.
This new referendum will go on the ballot.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's opposed by almost two to one, but he's putting
it on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And if it passed, there'd be no independent panel for
the next three election cycles. It would be basically Gavin
Newsom and the legislature for twenty twenty six, and then
whoever else becomes governor in twenty twenty eight. I this
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really is appalling. And I don't give a crap if
the Republicans in Texas did it, that they should not
do it. And that's the Texas voters problem. Our problem
here is we're already extremely overrepresented, but not just Democrats,
but left wing progressive whap jobs that have destroyed the state.
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And now our entire congressional delegation is going to be
over ninety percent left wing progressive whack jobs. And we
voted so this can't happen. We voted this way in
twenty ten. He ignores it. We'reight railroads right through it.
(06:17):
You know what else, the way he railroaded through the
death penalty. You remember, we passed three propositions affirming the
death penalty.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He canceled it anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And then the jackass stumbles around muttering about Trump being
a dictator.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It's pretty rich, But.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
He's a he's you know, he's a narcissistic psychopath, and
he's a compulsive liar. Says nothing he can do about it.
That's why his brain is wired. It can't help himself.
It's a pathological issue in the wiring of his brain.
He was born this way, and narcissistic psychopaths can do
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very well in politics and business because they have no conscience,
they have no remorse, they have no regret. And he
just is greasy, oily and shape shifts his way, and
he wants to be president and he wants to look
like a fighter. So he has no interest in what
in who people want to represent them in Congress.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
None. It's who he says should represent you.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So the narcissistic psychopath is going to get this thing
on the ballot. Oh and he's going to spend two
hundred million dollars of your tax money, two hundred million
dollars of your tax money as you rumble along and
on that busted highway you're driving on right now. And
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then there's this, And this is why Newsom doesn't want
publican or independent congress people being elected. Because the House
Committee on Oversight, run by Republicans, is now officially investigating
the high Speed rail project. A bipartisan congressional committee is
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investigating whether the High Speed Rail Authority knowingly misrepresented ridership projections,
knowingly misrepresented financial outlooks to secure federal funding. And the
letter sent to the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy the House
Committee on Oversight the chairman, James Comer from Kentucky, requested
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as staff briefing and all communications and records about federal
funding for the high speed rail project and any analysis
over the train's viability.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
James Comber wrote.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The authority's apparent repeated use of misleading writership projections despite
long standing warnings from experts, raises serious questions about whether
funds were allocated under false pretenses.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, we've been.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Screaming about that for fifteen years in the private sector.
This would be fraud and people would go to jail.
This would be criminal fraud. And who's been running the
system for the last seven years, narcissistic psychopath Gavin Newsom.
Comer sent the letter also to the Representative Robert Garcia,
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the top Democrat of the committee, who is also skeptical
about the project and is not commenting. A High Speed
Reial Authority spokesperson said the investigation is another baseless attempt
to manufacture controversy. No, you guys are a bunch of
criminals who stole seventeen billion dollars. As you know, Trump
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pulled four billion dollars in federal funding and one of
the final lines in the story, the bullet train was
proposed decades ago as a way to connect Los Angeles
and San Francisco in less than three hours by twenty
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twenty for thirty three billion dollars total. That was the
promise that was on the referendum that people voted for.
It was all a big stinking lie. It's a fraudulent operation.
Billions have been looted, lots of people are getting rich,
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and this House committee is going to investigate it, and
Newsom knows what's going on and doesn't care. All right,
when we come back. I mentioned this briefly yesterday, but
this is really scandalous. Bed Beeth and Beyond is re reforming.
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It's a great housewares chain and they're going to be
opening up three hundred stores, three hundred stores across the country.
Zero will be opened in California. And the CEO explained
publicly yesterday why and got the most asinine, most stupid,
snarky response from the junior psychopaths who work in Governor
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Newsom's press office. And we'll go through that Royal Oakson
after three point thirty about Trump having his five hundred
million dollars civil fraud penalty thrown out. And we're also
going to have the final round of the moistline from
last week that was preempted by Trump and putin all
that ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's exciting, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
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Speaker 2 (11:48):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock,
and if you want to follow us on social media,
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to get to thirty five thousand dollars, thirty five thousand followers.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That's the next I'll take thirty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Eric will get a prize of thirty five thousand dollars
if we get there.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh, there we go. I don't know who's going to
pay it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But I pitched this briefly yesterday and this has really
turned into quite a battle. Marcus Lamonis he is executive
chairman of Beyond Incorporated. They owned bed, Bath and Beyond,
which I mentioned this yesterday was just the premiere houseware
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store where you could buy just about everything you need
for a home. My wife absolutely adored it. She's been
in Mourning for years because the whole chain closed down,
everything went bankrupt. Used to be in all the shopping
centers and all the strip more strip malls. It's home goods.
They used to have eighty stores in California. Eighty went
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out of business, became an online sub subcompany of overstock
dot Com. Well now it's coming back. And the executive chairman,
Marcus Lamonas announced yesterday that they're going to open three
hundred stores around the country.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
How many in California. Zero?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Three hundred stores across America. We've got twelve percent of
the population. Zero used to have eighty. Why would this
be well, Lamonas said yesterday, California has created one of
the most overregulated, expensive and risky environments for businesses. It's
a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder
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to keep doors open, harder to deliver value to customers.
And as you know, the owner of In and Out,
Lindsay Snyder NAXT, announced that she's leaving California, but the
corporate headquarters is going to remain here. But Chevron, Tesla,
SpaceX and Charles Schwab moved their headquarters. In fact, I
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have a chart in front of me which the Los
Angeles Times published. For the last ten years, more businesses
have left California than moved in every year. In twenty
twenty three, over five hundred companies.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Left the state.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Five hundred more companies left the state then moved in.
In twenty twenty two, almost seven hundred and fifty more
companies left the state than moving in. In twenty twenty one,
it was almost five hundred companies more. And it's been
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a loss of companies every year going back to twenty fifteen.
And of course the junior socio no way, what is it,
the junior narcissistic No, I upgraded it the narcissistics psychopaths
who work in Gavenusen's press office.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And I'm sure with his approval. So they wrote, after their.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Bankruptcy enclosure of every store, like most Americans, we thought
bed Beth and Beyond no longer existed. We wish them
well and their efforts to become relevant again. We wish
them well as they try to open their second store. Well,
they're going to open three hundred of them, three hundred
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of them, none.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Of them here.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And Marcus Lamonis, the CEO, went on television and said,
we want to be in markets where we can actually
make a profit.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
We don't want to wake up every morning wondering.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
If we're going to be sued by some class action
lawsuit or overregulated by a local government. I'd love to
see Gavin Newsom out of office. He says, the state
has policies and he's responsible for policies that make it
unlivable for companies and residents. Now, why wouldn't Governor news
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Them meet with Marcus Lamonas and say what can we do.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
To get you back in California?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
What can because it'll be millions of dollars in sales,
there be a lot of tax money there, There's be
a lot of property tax revenue for the local towns
and counties.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
There'll be jobs. If we had twelve.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Percent of those three hundred stores, that's about thirty five stores.
That's thousands of jobs. And they pay income tax too.
So if there's a major company it's come out of
bankruptcy and is going to open three hundred outlets, you're
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in the largest state in the Union with allegedly the
fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Would you be coming over.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The guy's house and saying, well, how can we make
it easier for you? Instead, we thought they no longer existed.
We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant. Again,
that is obnoxious, stupid. You're supposed to be creating a
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climate so people can work, so businesses can thrive, so
people can make money, and so residents can buy the
things that they want. You drive them out of business,
and then you brag about it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Off.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
They reopened their first door in Nashville earlier this month.
Did the governor of Tennessee say something like that, I
don't think so. He's busy work, gone redistricting so that
in over ninety percent of the districts people can only
have a Democratic congressman representing them.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
That's what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
People in California will have to go online to buy
a bed beeth and beyond. We might be the only
one out of the fifty states we come back. Worrel
Oaks on Donald Trump getting his five hundred million dollars
civil suit penalty thrown out.
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Speaker 1 (19:02):
It was a jam packed day.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And next up we're going to talk with well Oaks,
ABC News legal analyst. Because Donald Trump got his five
hundred million dollar civil fraud judgment thrown out of court today.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
This was the case.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Over whether he had inflated the value of his buildings
and his net worth in order to get to more
favorable loans, and a judge in New York had said
he did, and the damages totally up to five hundred
million dollars with interest, and now this appeals court says, well,
you don't have to pay anything.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Let's talk with Royle. How are you.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I'm doing great, John.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
It was good news for Donald Trump in the sense
that a huge chunk of the award was tossed out.
And you'll recall this was the deal a year or
two ago where the New York Attorney General said, hey,
Donald Trump lied, You lied to the tax folks. They said,
how much are you robbery's worth? Oh, they're not worth much.
Then he goes to get a loan from the bank.
How much are they worth? Oh, there worth worth much more.
So it was a fraud determination, but the appeals court
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to them. By the way, all the judges in the
pell At court, they were appointed by Democrat governors. But
they said, you know, the vast majority of this gets
tossed out. And as a result, he still has this
fraud civil fraud on his record, and there are restrictions
about his ability and his son's ability to do business
in New York. But they're going to appeal that, just
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like Letitia James, the ag and attorney in New York
will appeal it. So no final decision, but definitely good
news for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We talked about this at the time.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I thought this was such a strange case because they
say he inflated the worth of his buildings.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I always thought when.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
A bank is issuing you a loan or a mortgage
and you're putting up the buildings right as collateral.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
They're going to do an appraisal.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Every time I got a mortgage refinanced, guy came to
the house and.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Did an appraisal.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And the bank never claimed that they were victims of
any kind of fraud. And nobody ever testified to being
a victim of a fraud, no person, no corporate entity.
And I mean, you talk about a victimless crime. I
know this was a civil case, but I just really
this whole thing seem invented.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You're writing, you're talking exactly the way the appellate panel
in New York was speaking. They zeroed in on the
fact that this gigantic, multi hundred million dollar penalty was
really unjustified, because even if you conclude that he did
commit fraud, and they agreed he did do a wrong thing,
they said, this is just way out of line. But
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as I say, you know, it's going to be appealed
on both sides. And you know, even if it's upheld
that Donald Trump and his sons can't run businesses directly,
I mean, let's face that. The reality is they could
have their friends and their surrogates be on the board
of directors and the president chairman and so on, and
they would probably be doing the bidding of the Trump family.
So it probably wouldn't be a big deal if they
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couldn't technically be running these New York businesses. But again,
you know that could get turned around when you go
to the highest appellate court in New York, and that
hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Right, So.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Obviously the penalty could be reinstated. But that you don't
think that seems likely from the way you're talking.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
No, I think it's I think it's unlikely. And as
I say, you know the fact that the judges who
voted for drunk Pier were appointed by Democrat governors in
New York by and large, it suggests that he's going
to be fined at the next repellate level as well.
You know, it's kind of sad, John that whether it's
a Democrat or a Republican situation, you can almost always
predict how judges or justices are going to rule in big,
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high profile cases with political implications. I mean, we've all
played this game where something was in front of the
Supreme Court and the first thing you do is you
start counting heads. Let's say three liberals, a point of
a Democrats, three conservatives, a point of our republicans three
also a point of our Republicans, but yeah, they kind
of vote with the liberals. Like, yeah, you can total
it up and you have a pretty good batting average
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guessing how they're going to rule. Which you said, because
you know lives are in the balance justice, you know, life, death, bankruptcy.
He shouldn't be based on trying to please the politician
that appointed you. Maybe we could change the system, but
that's the way it is at the federal level. You
think you got, the Senate has to approve Hi when
the President gets to appoint him.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You've been in the legal business far more than I'm
being paid attention to these kind of nuances. It didn't
used to be like this, did it, And judges were
considered more neutral, more moderate, actually reading the law, the
facts of the case, and that it wasn't politicized to
this extent.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
You're absolutely right, And I think the turning point was
in the eighties. You remember Robert Bork was a very
conservative guy, a professorial guy with a funny looking beard,
very conservative, and he was nominated and Ted Kennedy and
Joe Biden and some other senators just blasted him, and
they basically won. They prevented him from going on the court,
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and it sort of triggered a very political means spirited
by amen. Of course, in the nineties, Clarence Thomas comes along,
very conservative guy, and up comes Anita Hill and she
claims he was victim guilty of sexual harassment, and it's
sort of turbo charged the politicization of the judiciary, as
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you suggest, it's really sad, but I mean that's the
way it's been ever since. It's you know, as you've seen,
we've have a lot of close votes and it basically
boils down to the Democrats vote for the justice appointed
by the Democrats president and the same thing for the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And people have lost a lot of trust and respect
over the years from all sides because it's just an
extension of all the irritating political games that we have
to live with.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah, and if you read the public Opinion Service, whether
it's Galliper, Harris or whatever. A few decades ago, people
who loved the judiciary, they may not like their politicians,
but they trust the folks in the black robes. Now
the numbers are way down, and you know, it's just
a result of the fact that people have picked up
on the idea there's just too much mixture of law
and politics. You know. I think there should be like
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a Blue Ribbon commission consisting of exactly you know, the
same number on the left and the right, and you
send these guys or gals into a room and they
come up with really qualified people that both those on
the left and right life and send those names to
the president and the president they picked from them. That
would kind of cut down on it. But good luck.
You know, that's not in the constitution. The Constitution says
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those are the points Senate confirms. So I don't think
they're going to reform it like that. But it's a
real shame because they really should be above politics.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You know, the original judge in the case, Arthur anger On,
he presided over the trial.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
There was no jury.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
This was Angron's decision to find Trump liable for fraud.
And Angron's decision that the original verdict would be three
hundred and sixty plus million dollars plus intro. Now it's
over five hundred million. But I was I always marveled
that one guy could decide he tried to bankrupt Trump,
and it was hard not to think there was some
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very strong personal animosity involved.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah, there were a lot of factors that allowed you
to infer that. And as you say, there's a little
quirk of the law. Usually you're entitled to a jury trial.
The Constitution says you get a jury, but not always
if it's a specialized thing called equitable proceedings and injunction
stuff like that, you don't always get to jury. This
is one of the cases that fell through the cracks
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and nobody was entitled to you. Now, who knows, maybe
the jury would have been even bit harder on Trump
than Judge anger On, because you know, folks in New
York aren't big fans of Donald Trump. Donald Trump I
think lost ninety two to eight against Biden. But yeah, yeah,
once in a while, it's all up to the judge's decision,
and that's what happened here.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
All right, Well, Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst, thank you
again for coming on. You bet, thanks, We will have
Oh you're getting a bonus today. It's Thursday. Maybe you
don't get to listen ordinarily on Friday. You always miss
the moistline. Well, we have a special edition here. It
leftover from last Friday when Trump and Putin walked out
(27:14):
to announce that they were not going to end the world.
At that moment, it preempted our moistlines. So we thought
we'd play it today just to honor all the people
who called, in honor Eric for putting it together.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
That's coming up next.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (27:35):
Our leftover moistline coming up in minute. Yeah, I know
it's Thursday. One more story. It's very important. We told
you a couple of weeks ago about the radioactive wasps
in I believe it was North Carolina. It looks like
some type of nuclear waste leaked and it got into
wasp nests and when they tested the nest, they found
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significant radioactivity. And presumably the wasps that lived in the
nests are now buzzing around, and I guess theoretically they
could sting you and inject you with radiation. Well here's
a new warning. Radioactive frozen raw shrimp. They're selling these
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in Walmart stores. Yeah, contamination with caesium one thirty seven,
which is a radioactive isotope. It was found in a
single shipment of imported frozen ship from an Indonesian company
and they have found they have found the isotope at
ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and Savannah.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
There was radioactive frozen shimp shrimp passing through LA. They
don't think it's an acute hazard, but you know, if
you ate radioactive shrimp every day, you'd probably get cancer.
The company the name is BMS Foods it's an Indonesia
based company. Yeah, I don't know raw frozen shrimp from Indonesia?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Did they really need a test to figure out that
Walmart had radioactive shrimp? Who is buying raw frozen shrimp
at Walmart? It's branded great value shrimp. That says it all.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Who would do that? All right, let's go to the
moistline from last week. We never got to play it.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
And Sean, thanks for calling the moistline. I'm so excited
to hear from you about time we the.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
People have that enough.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I can't stand that.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
That's what's wrong with you, California. Why do you keep complaining, whining,
and when you keep voting for people like Governor brill
Cream and Mayor Bet you vote for what you get
and then you move to another state like College.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Where are all the criminal charges against Karen Dass, Jennie Ken, you,
and Kristin Crowley. They should be indicted for gross negligence
or negligent homicides. They've got to go to jails.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Do you realize with one hundred percent of California being
run by Democrats that means California failure is one hundred
percent Democrats.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Fall so happy to see ICE agents at Newsman's press conference.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
The only thing I wish would have happened is they
would have taken him away too.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
Devin, stop trying out Trump Trump, You sound like even
a bigger idiot.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
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tax theremnos out of office. I can't stand and listen
to that most voice. Kevin news In is such a
line stunbag East California harder than his best friend's white.
If we rely on the rich people paying our taxes
here in California, why.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
They wouldn't be taking good.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Care of the people that lost their homes in the
Palace state.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
They're all going to move out, and who's going to
pay taxes?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I wouldn't underestimate the importance of that that I would
throwing me into IP agent may experience PTSD folks throwing
the sandwich disorder.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Just thinks how much better LA on the state of
California would be if these politicians would spend this much
time trying to get rid of criminals and get them
off the street instead of screaming about ICE taking other
criminals off the street.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Did you hear Karen bass Over exaggerating, Oh what are
they doing here?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
This is not a coincidence? Where Why are I thinks
in Pierre Claro?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
You know what?
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Me?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Or Bass?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
People in the places they need your help too. People
up in the eating fire area, they need your help.
Why don't you show and demonstrate that type of emotion
for them too. News in Bass should be arrested for
harboring fugitives. That's what legal owners are. They broke the
all for coming here. The only time Karen baskets outraged
is when somebody is arrested because they're breaking the law.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
So the governor says crime.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Rates are going down, But when they have riots, and
with those riots there's robberies, there's people getting hurt.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Is that in statistics?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
I bet you it's nuts making Los Angeles safer by
kidnapping one strawberry.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Man at a time. What hypocrisy lift handed Gavin Newsom,
Karen Bass, Adam SiZ Alex Padia.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
What a bunch of morons.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Oh my gosh, it's really hard living in California right now,
specifically southern California, La County.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Now, the Democrats don't like masks, huh.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
When they're taking away drug dealers.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
They don't like them.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Wearing masks.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
There are two types of people that think Gavin Newsom
is a great governor and would make a great president
people on his payroll, and absolute knitwiz.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I'd gladly pay ten dollars a gallon for gas if
it'll get these idiots to vote out all the paddle
Head Dems.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Well, thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Rough crowd, Rough crowd, I'm glad we played that. That's
a rough room that was that was left over from
last week. All right, that's a lot of a lot
of access to grind, a lot of hostility out there.
All right, that's the moist line, Mark Thompson, Yeah, in
for Conway.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
That's right, I've got my own moist line at last
three hours. Starting in just a couple of minutes, we'll
get to uh kind of a cavalcade of guests today.
Remember they used to say that a cavalcade of stars.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I was an old these right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
It was like a variety show thing in cavalcade is
that's like a it's a reference to I think horses, right,
or to like a I don't know what it is.
I think that from the cavalry, I think it's some
like that kind of Yeah. Anyway, we have a cavalcade
of guests today. I've got a doctor in the mixed
doctor Michael Daniel, Alex Michaelson is going to be through.
(33:56):
We'll talk about the redistricting in California now that Texas
has redistricted there, and Dean Sharp's gonna come through. It's
a pretty big show. That active shooter situation in Villanova
turns out it was a hoax. This is this is
the undoing of everything. What can I say to you, John,
I'm just happy to be on the air to see it. Well,
we get to preside over it. Yes, exactly, the undoing
(34:18):
of everything. I was sorry that yesterday when we visited
apparently it was a National radio day. Yeah, and we
didn't really reminisce, not that we'll do it now, but
I'm just saying one of the things that bonds us
is the love of great radio personalities.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
And that especially on the East Coast.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Yeah, because we grew up sort of with going up
to the same guys. Yea, And anyway, it's really it's
fun once in a while when somebody has like a
national radio day and you can go Yeah, those guys
who really shape, you know, part of who we are.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, well we were probably both the little kids.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeahs listening to transistor radios exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yes, it's all different now. They stream now on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Job, that's right, that's where you can hear Mark Thompson.
That's good at all and for Conway and we'll be
back tomorrow. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
If you missed any part of the show today, I
don't know what to tell you. You do the app
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as the entertaining interview we did with Stephen Klubek, the
(00:23):
Democratic businessman running for governor. Just had him on a
few minutes ago. And this hour we're going to have
Royal Oaks on for ABC News to explain this appeals
court decision in New York which threw out the five
hundred million dollar penalty against Donald Trump the civil fraud trial.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Remember the claim he was found liable for.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Fraud because when he was getting bank loans, he inflated
the worth of his properties. And there were no complaints
about how he made his case to the banks, how
he filled out the forums.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The banks didn't object.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They in fact, they nobody in court ever testified, ever
complained about what went on. The banks were entirely paid
back all their loan money. It was claimed that he
just jacked up the alleged value of the building Yons.
I never understood this case because, first of all, a bank,
(01:36):
I believe, sends an appraiser. I know that happened every
time we refinanced our mortgage. We got an appraiser at
the house to determine what the uh, what the value
of the house really was. I never ever thought they
were going to take our word for it, and it
never did. I can't believe a bank would take Donald
Trump's word for it, or maybe they didn't care, but
(01:57):
they did business with him for decades.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Anyway, paid back the loans.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
This was all ginned up by that corrupt Letitia James,
the New York State Attorney General. And at the moment,
the fraud charge stands, but there's no penalty. The appeals
court throughout the entire penalty. It was originally about three
hundred and sixty million dollars, and with interest and other things,
it was five hundred million, half a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So at the moment, the way the case stands, it's like, well,
you did.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Something wrong, but there's absolutely no consequence. It was a
civil case.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No fine. Is this nuts?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Barrel Oaks is going to explain more coming up after
three point thirty end. We have one leftover from last
week and that's Thursday. But our Moistline round two got
preempted last Friday because Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were
having their summit and they suddenly came out to address
the world.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
They said nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
They wasted everybody's time, and I thought, well, the moistline
should live on. All those people went through the trouble
of leaving their message and will air them coming up
in the final segment.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I went through the trouble to edit them.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I should have added that, yes, and you went through
the trouble of editing them. We can't let anything go
to waste here. No, all right, here's the big news.
And this just came across minutes ago. The California State
Assembly has passed Newsom's redistricting plan. It's a set of
(03:31):
three bills and they've passed all three. The state Senate
is still in the process. They've passed one of the three.
It turned out Newsom had lied. He said he was
only going to do it if Texas did it. Well,
they announced this morning they were doing it anyway, no
matter what Texas does. And Texas is passing those bills.
Now we now have a governor who has decided to
(03:56):
take away Republican resident representation in five districts from voters
who are Republican or independent and want to vote that way.
They want to vote for a Republican congressperson. And now
they have stacked these five districts with so many Democratic
(04:16):
voters it's impossible. So the number of Democratic Congressmen representing
California could go up to forty eight out of fifty
two states. Even though forty percent of voters vote for
Republican congressman, there's going to be less than ten percent
(04:40):
actually in Congress.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Now, remember how this works.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We have a constitutional amendment passed in twenty ten, sixty
one to thirty nine that says only an independent outside
panel does this. So Newsom is trying to rig this.
This new referendum will go on the ballot.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's opposed by almost two to one, but he's putting
it on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And if it passed, there'd be no independent panel for
the next three election cycles. It would be basically Gavin
Newsom and the legislature for twenty twenty six, and then
whoever else becomes governor in twenty twenty eight. I this
(05:32):
really is appalling. And I don't give a crap if
the Republicans in Texas did it, that they should not
do it. And that's the Texas voters problem. Our problem
here is we're already extremely overrepresented, but not just Democrats,
but left wing progressive whap jobs that have destroyed the state.
(05:55):
And now our entire congressional delegation is going to be
over ninety percent left wing progressive whack jobs. And we
voted so this can't happen. We voted this way in
twenty ten. He ignores it. We'reight railroads right through it.
(06:17):
You know what else, the way he railroaded through the
death penalty. You remember, we passed three propositions affirming the
death penalty.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
He canceled it anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And then the jackass stumbles around muttering about Trump being
a dictator.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It's pretty rich, But.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
He's a he's you know, he's a narcissistic psychopath, and
he's a compulsive liar. Says nothing he can do about it.
That's why his brain is wired. It can't help himself.
It's a pathological issue in the wiring of his brain.
He was born this way, and narcissistic psychopaths can do
(07:01):
very well in politics and business because they have no conscience,
they have no remorse, they have no regret. And he
just is greasy, oily and shape shifts his way, and
he wants to be president and he wants to look
like a fighter. So he has no interest in what
in who people want to represent them in Congress.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
None. It's who he says should represent you.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So the narcissistic psychopath is going to get this thing
on the ballot. Oh and he's going to spend two
hundred million dollars of your tax money, two hundred million
dollars of your tax money as you rumble along and
on that busted highway you're driving on right now. And
(07:51):
then there's this, And this is why Newsom doesn't want
publican or independent congress people being elected. Because the House
Committee on Oversight, run by Republicans, is now officially investigating
the high Speed rail project. A bipartisan congressional committee is
(08:15):
investigating whether the High Speed Rail Authority knowingly misrepresented ridership projections,
knowingly misrepresented financial outlooks to secure federal funding. And the
letter sent to the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy the House
Committee on Oversight the chairman, James Comer from Kentucky, requested
(08:38):
as staff briefing and all communications and records about federal
funding for the high speed rail project and any analysis
over the train's viability.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
James Comber wrote.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The authority's apparent repeated use of misleading writership projections despite
long standing warnings from experts, raises serious questions about whether
funds were allocated under false pretenses.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, we've been.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Screaming about that for fifteen years in the private sector.
This would be fraud and people would go to jail.
This would be criminal fraud. And who's been running the
system for the last seven years, narcissistic psychopath Gavin Newsom.
Comer sent the letter also to the Representative Robert Garcia,
(09:26):
the top Democrat of the committee, who is also skeptical
about the project and is not commenting. A High Speed
Reial Authority spokesperson said the investigation is another baseless attempt
to manufacture controversy. No, you guys are a bunch of
criminals who stole seventeen billion dollars. As you know, Trump
(09:52):
pulled four billion dollars in federal funding and one of
the final lines in the story, the bullet train was
proposed decades ago as a way to connect Los Angeles
and San Francisco in less than three hours by twenty
(10:12):
twenty for thirty three billion dollars total. That was the
promise that was on the referendum that people voted for.
It was all a big stinking lie. It's a fraudulent operation.
Billions have been looted, lots of people are getting rich,
(10:36):
and this House committee is going to investigate it, and
Newsom knows what's going on and doesn't care. All right,
when we come back. I mentioned this briefly yesterday, but
this is really scandalous. Bed Beeth and Beyond is re reforming.
(10:57):
It's a great housewares chain and they're going to be
opening up three hundred stores, three hundred stores across the country.
Zero will be opened in California. And the CEO explained
publicly yesterday why and got the most asinine, most stupid,
snarky response from the junior psychopaths who work in Governor
(11:22):
Newsom's press office. And we'll go through that Royal Oakson
after three point thirty about Trump having his five hundred
million dollars civil fraud penalty thrown out. And we're also
going to have the final round of the moistline from
last week that was preempted by Trump and putin all
that ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's exciting, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
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Speaker 2 (11:48):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock,
and if you want to follow us on social media,
it's at John Coblt Radio at John Coblt Radio. Trying
to get to thirty five thousand dollars, thirty five thousand followers.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That's the next I'll take thirty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Eric will get a prize of thirty five thousand dollars
if we get there.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh, there we go. I don't know who's going to
pay it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But I pitched this briefly yesterday and this has really
turned into quite a battle. Marcus Lamonis he is executive
chairman of Beyond Incorporated. They owned bed, Bath and Beyond,
which I mentioned this yesterday was just the premiere houseware
(12:28):
store where you could buy just about everything you need
for a home. My wife absolutely adored it. She's been
in Mourning for years because the whole chain closed down,
everything went bankrupt. Used to be in all the shopping
centers and all the strip more strip malls. It's home goods.
They used to have eighty stores in California. Eighty went
(12:49):
out of business, became an online sub subcompany of overstock
dot Com. Well now it's coming back. And the executive chairman,
Marcus Lamonas announced yesterday that they're going to open three
hundred stores around the country.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
How many in California. Zero?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Three hundred stores across America. We've got twelve percent of
the population. Zero used to have eighty. Why would this
be well, Lamonas said yesterday, California has created one of
the most overregulated, expensive and risky environments for businesses. It's
a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder
(13:39):
to keep doors open, harder to deliver value to customers.
And as you know, the owner of In and Out,
Lindsay Snyder NAXT, announced that she's leaving California, but the
corporate headquarters is going to remain here. But Chevron, Tesla,
SpaceX and Charles Schwab moved their headquarters. In fact, I
(14:00):
have a chart in front of me which the Los
Angeles Times published. For the last ten years, more businesses
have left California than moved in every year. In twenty
twenty three, over five hundred companies.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Left the state.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Five hundred more companies left the state then moved in.
In twenty twenty two, almost seven hundred and fifty more
companies left the state than moving in. In twenty twenty one,
it was almost five hundred companies more. And it's been
(14:43):
a loss of companies every year going back to twenty fifteen.
And of course the junior socio no way, what is it,
the junior narcissistic No, I upgraded it the narcissistics psychopaths
who work in Gavenusen's press office.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And I'm sure with his approval. So they wrote, after their.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Bankruptcy enclosure of every store, like most Americans, we thought
bed Beth and Beyond no longer existed. We wish them
well and their efforts to become relevant again. We wish
them well as they try to open their second store. Well,
they're going to open three hundred of them, three hundred
(15:36):
of them, none.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Of them here.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And Marcus Lamonis, the CEO, went on television and said,
we want to be in markets where we can actually
make a profit.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
We don't want to wake up every morning wondering.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
If we're going to be sued by some class action
lawsuit or overregulated by a local government. I'd love to
see Gavin Newsom out of office. He says, the state
has policies and he's responsible for policies that make it
unlivable for companies and residents. Now, why wouldn't Governor news
(16:16):
Them meet with Marcus Lamonas and say what can we do.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
To get you back in California?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
What can because it'll be millions of dollars in sales,
there be a lot of tax money there, There's be
a lot of property tax revenue for the local towns
and counties.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
There'll be jobs. If we had twelve.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Percent of those three hundred stores, that's about thirty five stores.
That's thousands of jobs. And they pay income tax too.
So if there's a major company it's come out of
bankruptcy and is going to open three hundred outlets, you're
(17:05):
in the largest state in the Union with allegedly the
fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Would you be coming over.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The guy's house and saying, well, how can we make
it easier for you? Instead, we thought they no longer existed.
We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant. Again,
that is obnoxious, stupid. You're supposed to be creating a
(17:36):
climate so people can work, so businesses can thrive, so
people can make money, and so residents can buy the
things that they want. You drive them out of business,
and then you brag about it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Off.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
They reopened their first door in Nashville earlier this month.
Did the governor of Tennessee say something like that, I
don't think so. He's busy work, gone redistricting so that
in over ninety percent of the districts people can only
have a Democratic congressman representing them.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
That's what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
People in California will have to go online to buy
a bed beeth and beyond. We might be the only
one out of the fifty states we come back. Worrel
Oaks on Donald Trump getting his five hundred million dollars
civil suit penalty thrown out.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
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Speaker 1 (19:02):
It was a jam packed day.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And next up we're going to talk with well Oaks,
ABC News legal analyst. Because Donald Trump got his five
hundred million dollar civil fraud judgment thrown out of court today.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
This was the case.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Over whether he had inflated the value of his buildings
and his net worth in order to get to more
favorable loans, and a judge in New York had said
he did, and the damages totally up to five hundred
million dollars with interest, and now this appeals court says, well,
you don't have to pay anything.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Let's talk with Royle. How are you.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I'm doing great, John.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
It was good news for Donald Trump in the sense
that a huge chunk of the award was tossed out.
And you'll recall this was the deal a year or
two ago where the New York Attorney General said, hey,
Donald Trump lied, You lied to the tax folks. They said,
how much are you robbery's worth? Oh, they're not worth much.
Then he goes to get a loan from the bank.
How much are they worth? Oh, there worth worth much more.
So it was a fraud determination, but the appeals court
(20:08):
to them. By the way, all the judges in the
pell At court, they were appointed by Democrat governors. But
they said, you know, the vast majority of this gets
tossed out. And as a result, he still has this
fraud civil fraud on his record, and there are restrictions
about his ability and his son's ability to do business
in New York. But they're going to appeal that, just
(20:29):
like Letitia James, the ag and attorney in New York
will appeal it. So no final decision, but definitely good
news for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We talked about this at the time.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I thought this was such a strange case because they
say he inflated the worth of his buildings.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I always thought when.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
A bank is issuing you a loan or a mortgage
and you're putting up the buildings right as collateral.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
They're going to do an appraisal.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Every time I got a mortgage refinanced, guy came to
the house and.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Did an appraisal.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And the bank never claimed that they were victims of
any kind of fraud. And nobody ever testified to being
a victim of a fraud, no person, no corporate entity.
And I mean, you talk about a victimless crime. I
know this was a civil case, but I just really
this whole thing seem invented.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You're writing, you're talking exactly the way the appellate panel
in New York was speaking. They zeroed in on the
fact that this gigantic, multi hundred million dollar penalty was
really unjustified, because even if you conclude that he did
commit fraud, and they agreed he did do a wrong thing,
they said, this is just way out of line. But
(21:38):
as I say, you know, it's going to be appealed
on both sides. And you know, even if it's upheld
that Donald Trump and his sons can't run businesses directly,
I mean, let's face that. The reality is they could
have their friends and their surrogates be on the board
of directors and the president chairman and so on, and
they would probably be doing the bidding of the Trump family.
So it probably wouldn't be a big deal if they
(21:59):
couldn't technically be running these New York businesses. But again,
you know that could get turned around when you go
to the highest appellate court in New York, and that
hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Right, So.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Obviously the penalty could be reinstated. But that you don't
think that seems likely from the way you're talking.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
No, I think it's I think it's unlikely. And as
I say, you know the fact that the judges who
voted for drunk Pier were appointed by Democrat governors in
New York by and large, it suggests that he's going
to be fined at the next repellate level as well.
You know, it's kind of sad, John that whether it's
a Democrat or a Republican situation, you can almost always
predict how judges or justices are going to rule in big,
(22:42):
high profile cases with political implications. I mean, we've all
played this game where something was in front of the
Supreme Court and the first thing you do is you
start counting heads. Let's say three liberals, a point of
a Democrats, three conservatives, a point of our republicans three
also a point of our Republicans, but yeah, they kind
of vote with the liberals. Like, yeah, you can total
it up and you have a pretty good batting average
(23:04):
guessing how they're going to rule. Which you said, because
you know lives are in the balance justice, you know, life, death, bankruptcy.
He shouldn't be based on trying to please the politician
that appointed you. Maybe we could change the system, but
that's the way it is at the federal level. You
think you got, the Senate has to approve Hi when
the President gets to appoint him.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You've been in the legal business far more than I'm
being paid attention to these kind of nuances. It didn't
used to be like this, did it, And judges were
considered more neutral, more moderate, actually reading the law, the
facts of the case, and that it wasn't politicized to
this extent.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
You're absolutely right, And I think the turning point was
in the eighties. You remember Robert Bork was a very
conservative guy, a professorial guy with a funny looking beard,
very conservative, and he was nominated and Ted Kennedy and
Joe Biden and some other senators just blasted him, and
they basically won. They prevented him from going on the court,
(24:01):
and it sort of triggered a very political means spirited
by amen. Of course, in the nineties, Clarence Thomas comes along,
very conservative guy, and up comes Anita Hill and she
claims he was victim guilty of sexual harassment, and it's
sort of turbo charged the politicization of the judiciary, as
(24:21):
you suggest, it's really sad, but I mean that's the
way it's been ever since. It's you know, as you've seen,
we've have a lot of close votes and it basically
boils down to the Democrats vote for the justice appointed
by the Democrats president and the same thing for the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And people have lost a lot of trust and respect
over the years from all sides because it's just an
extension of all the irritating political games that we have
to live with.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah, and if you read the public Opinion Service, whether
it's Galliper, Harris or whatever. A few decades ago, people
who loved the judiciary, they may not like their politicians,
but they trust the folks in the black robes. Now
the numbers are way down, and you know, it's just
a result of the fact that people have picked up
on the idea there's just too much mixture of law
and politics. You know. I think there should be like
(25:13):
a Blue Ribbon commission consisting of exactly you know, the
same number on the left and the right, and you
send these guys or gals into a room and they
come up with really qualified people that both those on
the left and right life and send those names to
the president and the president they picked from them. That
would kind of cut down on it. But good luck.
You know, that's not in the constitution. The Constitution says
(25:34):
those are the points Senate confirms. So I don't think
they're going to reform it like that. But it's a
real shame because they really should be above politics.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You know, the original judge in the case, Arthur anger On,
he presided over the trial.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
There was no jury.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
This was Angron's decision to find Trump liable for fraud.
And Angron's decision that the original verdict would be three
hundred and sixty plus million dollars plus intro. Now it's
over five hundred million. But I was I always marveled
that one guy could decide he tried to bankrupt Trump,
and it was hard not to think there was some
(26:11):
very strong personal animosity involved.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah, there were a lot of factors that allowed you
to infer that. And as you say, there's a little
quirk of the law. Usually you're entitled to a jury trial.
The Constitution says you get a jury, but not always
if it's a specialized thing called equitable proceedings and injunction
stuff like that, you don't always get to jury. This
is one of the cases that fell through the cracks
(26:35):
and nobody was entitled to you. Now, who knows, maybe
the jury would have been even bit harder on Trump
than Judge anger On, because you know, folks in New
York aren't big fans of Donald Trump. Donald Trump I
think lost ninety two to eight against Biden. But yeah, yeah,
once in a while, it's all up to the judge's decision,
and that's what happened here.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
All right, Well, Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst, thank you
again for coming on. You bet, thanks, We will have
Oh you're getting a bonus today. It's Thursday. Maybe you
don't get to listen ordinarily on Friday. You always miss
the moistline. Well, we have a special edition here. It
leftover from last Friday when Trump and Putin walked out
(27:14):
to announce that they were not going to end the world.
At that moment, it preempted our moistlines. So we thought
we'd play it today just to honor all the people
who called, in honor Eric for putting it together.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
That's coming up next.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Our leftover moistline coming up in minute. Yeah, I know
it's Thursday. One more story. It's very important. We told
you a couple of weeks ago about the radioactive wasps
in I believe it was North Carolina. It looks like
some type of nuclear waste leaked and it got into
wasp nests and when they tested the nest, they found
(28:02):
significant radioactivity. And presumably the wasps that lived in the
nests are now buzzing around, and I guess theoretically they
could sting you and inject you with radiation. Well here's
a new warning. Radioactive frozen raw shrimp. They're selling these
(28:25):
in Walmart stores. Yeah, contamination with caesium one thirty seven,
which is a radioactive isotope. It was found in a
single shipment of imported frozen ship from an Indonesian company
and they have found they have found the isotope at
ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and Savannah.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
There was radioactive frozen shimp shrimp passing through LA. They
don't think it's an acute hazard, but you know, if
you ate radioactive shrimp every day, you'd probably get cancer.
The company the name is BMS Foods it's an Indonesia
based company. Yeah, I don't know raw frozen shrimp from Indonesia?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Did they really need a test to figure out that
Walmart had radioactive shrimp? Who is buying raw frozen shrimp
at Walmart? It's branded great value shrimp. That says it all.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Who would do that? All right, let's go to the
moistline from last week. We never got to play it.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
And Sean, thanks for calling the moistline. I'm so excited
to hear from you about time we the.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
People have that enough.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I can't stand that.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
That's what's wrong with you, California. Why do you keep complaining, whining,
and when you keep voting for people like Governor brill
Cream and Mayor Bet you vote for what you get
and then you move to another state like College.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Where are all the criminal charges against Karen Dass, Jennie Ken, you,
and Kristin Crowley. They should be indicted for gross negligence
or negligent homicides. They've got to go to jails.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Do you realize with one hundred percent of California being
run by Democrats that means California failure is one hundred
percent Democrats.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Fall so happy to see ICE agents at Newsman's press conference.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
The only thing I wish would have happened is they
would have taken him away too.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
Devin, stop trying out Trump Trump, You sound like even
a bigger idiot.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Happis were not good seven of the steps there and
tax theremnos out of office. I can't stand and listen
to that most voice. Kevin news In is such a
line stunbag East California harder than his best friend's white.
If we rely on the rich people paying our taxes
here in California, why.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
They wouldn't be taking good.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Care of the people that lost their homes in the
Palace state.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
They're all going to move out, and who's going to
pay taxes?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I wouldn't underestimate the importance of that that I would
throwing me into IP agent may experience PTSD folks throwing
the sandwich disorder.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Just thinks how much better LA on the state of
California would be if these politicians would spend this much
time trying to get rid of criminals and get them
off the street instead of screaming about ICE taking other
criminals off the street.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Did you hear Karen bass Over exaggerating, Oh what are
they doing here?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
This is not a coincidence? Where Why are I thinks
in Pierre Claro?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
You know what?
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Me?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Or Bass?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
People in the places they need your help too. People
up in the eating fire area, they need your help.
Why don't you show and demonstrate that type of emotion
for them too. News in Bass should be arrested for
harboring fugitives. That's what legal owners are. They broke the
all for coming here. The only time Karen baskets outraged
is when somebody is arrested because they're breaking the law.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
So the governor says crime.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Rates are going down, But when they have riots, and
with those riots there's robberies, there's people getting hurt.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Is that in statistics?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
I bet you it's nuts making Los Angeles safer by
kidnapping one strawberry.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Man at a time. What hypocrisy lift handed Gavin Newsom,
Karen Bass, Adam SiZ Alex Padia.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
What a bunch of morons.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Oh my gosh, it's really hard living in California right now,
specifically southern California, La County.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Now, the Democrats don't like masks, huh.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
When they're taking away drug dealers.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
They don't like them.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Wearing masks.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
There are two types of people that think Gavin Newsom
is a great governor and would make a great president
people on his payroll, and absolute knitwiz.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I'd gladly pay ten dollars a gallon for gas if
it'll get these idiots to vote out all the paddle
Head Dems.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Well, thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Rough crowd, Rough crowd, I'm glad we played that. That's
a rough room that was that was left over from
last week. All right, that's a lot of a lot
of access to grind, a lot of hostility out there.
All right, that's the moist line, Mark Thompson, Yeah, in
for Conway.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
That's right, I've got my own moist line at last
three hours. Starting in just a couple of minutes, we'll
get to uh kind of a cavalcade of guests today.
Remember they used to say that a cavalcade of stars.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I was an old these right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
It was like a variety show thing in cavalcade is
that's like a it's a reference to I think horses, right,
or to like a I don't know what it is.
I think that from the cavalry, I think it's some
like that kind of Yeah. Anyway, we have a cavalcade
of guests today. I've got a doctor in the mixed
doctor Michael Daniel, Alex Michaelson is going to be through.
(33:56):
We'll talk about the redistricting in California now that Texas
has redistricted there, and Dean Sharp's gonna come through. It's
a pretty big show. That active shooter situation in Villanova
turns out it was a hoax. This is this is
the undoing of everything. What can I say to you, John,
I'm just happy to be on the air to see it. Well,
we get to preside over it. Yes, exactly, the undoing
(34:18):
of everything. I was sorry that yesterday when we visited
apparently it was a National radio day. Yeah, and we
didn't really reminisce, not that we'll do it now, but
I'm just saying one of the things that bonds us
is the love of great radio personalities.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
And that especially on the East Coast.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Yeah, because we grew up sort of with going up
to the same guys. Yea, And anyway, it's really it's
fun once in a while when somebody has like a
national radio day and you can go Yeah, those guys
who really shape, you know, part of who we are.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, well we were probably both the little kids.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeahs listening to transistor radios exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yes, it's all different now. They stream now on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Job, that's right, that's where you can hear Mark Thompson.
That's good at all and for Conway and we'll be
back tomorrow. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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